Natives In The Military

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Anyone who’s served in the Army and Marines has met dozens of Natives. Modern Native culture is *INCREDIBLY* “little c” conservative. It’s almost amazing, it feels like you’re talking to a character reenactor “playing a 1950s guy”. They join the armed forces in vastly disproportionate numbers, they are genteel and polite to an almost fault, they still hold on to lofty American values almost everyone else abandoned. Every one, to a man, I met did an amazing job of simultaneously holding two identities, Tribal and American, without cognitive dissonance or (((loyalty problems))). And all of them, uniformly, believed that The White Man’s Science could co-exist with Native ways where possible but that deference should be afforded to White Man’s Science when they conflicted.

* From what I have read, the upper tier Indians left the reservations and rapidly dispersed into the larger population. I have one modern anecdote to support this. Back in the 1980s I had a co-worker who was born on a Mohawk reservation in New York. She was smart and socially aware enough to observe that all the girls got raped after puberty. So when she hit puberty she ran away from home and made her way to a social services office and got in foster care. She married a white guy and has a good life.

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NYT: ‘Australia Grapples With Campus Assaults, and Reprisals Against Victims’

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Luke Ford

New York Times: “A January report by the advocacy group End Rape on Campus Australia found that universities had frequently failed to support victims of sexual assault and harassment.”

Why should universities support those who make claims to being victims? Why is that the university’s mandate? I thought the university’s mandate was fostering scholarship.

About 15 years ago, an acquaintance of mine, the journalist David Hoffman, moved to Europe to fight sex trafficking and to get laid. He ended up in jail for six months and came back to the States and committed suicide.

New York Times: “But many students question the universities’ commitment. They say that it is still common for complaints to linger without a university response; for men accused of, say, rating women’s bodies on social media to receive little punishment; and for there to be little coordination at a national level.”

Why should there be punishment for men rating women’s bodies on social media?

NYT: “The activists say their demands are reasonable: a university hotline that offers help from a trained trauma professional, required sexual consent training and a clear and transparent system for adjudicating complaints.”

I think these activists need to read F. Roger Devlin’s book Sexual Utopia in Power.

NYT: “In the most recent scandal, a student at St. Paul’s, an elite residential college, posted a screed on Facebook comparing sex with large women to “harpooning a whale” and offering advice on how to “get rid of some chick” after “rooting” her.”

Why is that a scandal?

The New York Times does not include one skeptical perspective about these activists. The article concludes:

Then the personal photos that decorated her dorm door started disappearing, one a day.

“What hurt so much was the fact that people I lived with, whom I had come to think of as my family, would purposely try to make me feel like scum,” she said. “They were trying, albeit in a pretty pathetic and cowardly way, to run me out of my home.”

Finally, when there was only one picture left, Ms. Landis-Hanley took it down herself.

As she wrote on Facebook, “I was taken to hospital that night for being suicidal.”

It sounds like many of these sheilas are bonkers.

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NYT: ‘There Goes the Gayborhood’

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Luke Ford

If gays and blacks and and Jews and latinos own their own neighborhoods, and try to keep others out, then do whites get own their own neighborhoods too?

New York Times:

SAN FRANCISCO — The artist John Criscitello of Seattle first became angry a few years ago about the changes in his beloved neighborhood, Capitol Hill, historically the city’s enclave for gay men and lesbians. The area had become decidedly more straight and, in his view, infuriatingly obnoxious.

“On Friday and Saturday nights, it’s like Mardi Gras,” Mr. Criscitello said. He called the area “a puke-and-leave drinking destination” for the city’s young heterosexuals, who seemingly have little regard for, and some hostility toward, the gay people who have lived there since the 1960s.

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LAT: ‘Lyft Shuttle: Another Silicon Valley effort to shelter the well-off from those pesky poor people’

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Luke Ford

It sounds to me like a service to help non-blacks get away from blacks.

For people who ride public transport, all the low-lifes, transients, parolees and welfare users on board make the experience miserable, and a disproportionate number of these low-performers are black. Non-blacks will not use public transport with large numbers of lower class blacks, if they have a choice. Non-blacks don’t like to live around lower class blacks and do all they can to avoid black neighborhoods and large numbers of blacks in almost any context.

Given the astronomical black crime rate, this might be a rational choice, even if many individual blacks are wonderful.

Los Angeles Times:

According to Pew Research Center data, “Americans who are lower-income, black or Hispanic, immigrants or under 50 are especially likely to use public transportation on a regular basis.” Meanwhile ride-hailing apps, reports Pew, are especially popular among college grads with incomes above $75,000 a year. You don’t need a route map to see where this is going.

Lyft, for its part, has carefully avoided the word “bus.” But whatever we call it, Lyft Shuttle is just another way that wealthier Americans are paying for reliable and convenient services rather than demanding improvements to existing public goods.

Services like Lyft are also giving customers the ability to live insulated from those who have less money. That’s a time-honored tradition. To take just a few examples:

The Los Angeles Country Club: A park without poor people. Do you love to socialize outdoors but shudder at the thought of a less-than-pristine restroom situation, a raucous barbecue nearby, or a germy drinking fountain? Try this innovative, membership-based solution.

Carbon Beach: A beach without poor people. Ok, so technically it’s a public beach, but with confusing signage and a hostile attitude toward strangers who happen to venture onto the sand, it’s effectively private. Sunbathe without ever having to worry about bumping into a weird old stoner dude or a picnicking family again!

Postmates: Meals on Wheels without poor people. Sure, you are physically and financially able to go to the grocery store, but your time is valuable. Just get dinner delivered, plate it at home, and it’s almost like you’ve got a private chef. You’ll never have to cross paths with someone using food stamps again! If you’re a real DIY type, try a meal-kit service like Blue Apron for a similar effect.

Private jets: Air travel without poor people. Sick of sneezing seatmates and crammed overhead bins? Hate the looks that fellow travelers give you as they file back to economy class, where they’ve paid $60 for an additional four inches of legroom? There’s a better way!

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LAT: ‘An LAPD officer needs a bone marrow transplant. His ethnicity limits his chances of getting one’

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Luke Ford

I thought race was a social construct? But this story claims that race is real and your life might depend on racial compatibility.

Los Angeles Times:

Matthew Medina’s doctors diagnosed him with a rare blood disease a few months ago and told him he would probably die without a bone marrow transplant.

With that prognosis came another: The 40-year-old Los Angeles police officer had a less than 50% chance of finding a donor because he is not white.

Most successful matches for bone marrow transplants involve a donor and patient of the same ethnicity. But the majority of the 25 million registered donors nationwide are white, and Medina is Filipino. So far, no match has been found.

“You’re basically looking for a genetic twin,” said Athena Mari Asklipiadis, who runs Mixed Marrow, an L.A.-based organization that is trying to increase diversity in the bone marrow donor registry. “It’s not like we have more of a chance we would get a disease, or that we’re harder to match, it’s just that there’s not representation in the national registry.”

It’s a familiar problem for any nonwhite person who has needed a bone marrow transplant.

A white American of European descent has a 75% chance of finding a perfect match in the national donor registry, compared with a 40% chance for Filipinos. Few Filipinos in the U.S. have signed up as potential donors, and there is no registry in the Philippines.

I wonder why Filipinos are not signing up to donate blood marrow? I wonder why whites donate in large numbers?

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