WP: ‘The Asian American ‘advantage’ that is actually an illusion’

Washington Post:

For decades, the data on median household incomes have shown the same, persistent racial disparities: Asians beating out whites at the top, while Hispanics and blacks hover near the bottom.

Asian Americans seem to offer proof that minorities can prosper — and even leapfrog whites — if they work hard and jump through the right hoops. For that reason, Asian Americans have often been invoked as a way to excuse the income gaps between whites and blacks or whites and Hispanics.

But why do typical Asian American households outearn typical white households? Like many statistics showing an Asian American advantage, this fact proves illusory upon closer examination. A common explanation is that Asian Americans are better educated. While that’s true, there’s another factor that can completely account for the income gap between Asians and whites.

It has to do with where people reside.

Prices and rents vary wildly in different parts of the country. The cost of living near Jonesboro, Ark., for instance, is about 18 percent below the national average, while the cost of living near San Francisco is about 21 percent above the national average.

White and African Americans are more likely to live in cheaper locales, while Asian and Hispanic Americans are more likely to live in pricier ones. The contrast between whites and Asians is particularly stark. Nearly 1 in 5 white Americans reside in rural counties, where a dollar goes a lot further. But 97 percent of Asian Americans live in or near a major city, where the cost of living is higher.

This is silly. East Asians around the world on average are better educated, more affluent and have stronger families and longer life spans than whites just as around the world whites on average are better educated, more affluent and have stronger families and longer life spans than blacks.

South-East Asians do not out-excel whites on average in education and income. Different groups of whites do better than other groups of whites. For instance, whites of Northern European origin tend to be better educated, more intelligent and more prosperous than white non-Jews of Eastern European and Southern European origins.

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NYT: ‘Germany Grapples With Its Genocide Past in Africa’

New York Times: “Tens of thousands of Namibians were killed between 1904 and 1908 in events that foreshadowed Nazi ideology and the Holocaust. Germany is finally close to recognizing the killings as genocide.”

How come we never have these stories about Jews coming to terms with Jews who served as Stalin’s Willing Executioners?

Sever Plocker writes for YNET:

An Israeli student finishes high school without ever hearing the name “Genrikh Yagoda,” the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century, the GPU’s deputy commander and the founder and commander of the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin’s collectivization orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people. His Jewish deputies established and managed the Gulag system. After Stalin no longer viewed him favorably, Yagoda was demoted and executed, and was replaced as chief hangman in 1936 by Yezhov, the “bloodthirsty dwarf.”

Yezhov was not Jewish but was blessed with an active Jewish wife. In his Book “Stalin: Court of the Red Star”, Jewish historian Sebag Montefiore writes that during the darkest period of terror, when the Communist killing machine worked in full force, Stalin was surrounded by beautiful, young Jewish women.

Stalin’s close associates and loyalists included member of the Central Committee and Politburo Lazar Kaganovich. Montefiore characterizes him as the “first Stalinist” and adds that those starving to death in Ukraine, an unparalleled tragedy in the history of human kind aside from the Nazi horrors and Mao’s terror in China, did not move Kaganovich.

Many Jews sold their soul to the devil of the Communist revolution and have blood on their hands for eternity. We’ll mention just one more: Leonid Reichman, head of the NKVD’s special department and the organization’s chief interrogator, who was a particularly cruel sadist.

In 1934, according to published statistics, 38.5 percent of those holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were of Jewish origin. They too, of course, were gradually eliminated in the next purges. In a fascinating lecture at a Tel Aviv University convention this week, Dr. Halfin described the waves of soviet terror as a “carnival of mass murder,” “fantasy of purges”, and “essianism of evil.” Turns out that Jews too, when they become captivated by messianic ideology, can become great murderers, among the greatest known by modern history.

The Jews active in official communist terror apparatuses (In the Soviet Union and abroad) and who at times led them, did not do this, obviously, as Jews, but rather, as Stalinists, communists, and “Soviet people.” Therefore, we find it easy to ignore their origin and “play dumb”: What do we have to do with them? But let’s not forget them. My own view is different. I find it unacceptable that a person will be considered a member of the Jewish people when he does great things, but not considered part of our people when he does amazingly despicable things.

Even if we deny it, we cannot escape the Jewishness of “our hangmen,” who served the Red Terror with loyalty and dedication from its establishment. After all, others will always remind us of their origin.

I think the world needs more museums dedicated to the victims of communism.

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NYT: ‘A Bullet Could Hit Me and My Kids Anytime’

New York Times: “It has been a violent year in Chicago, and for thousands of children, just walking to school can be dangerous. More than a thousand workers line up along Safe Passage routes to help.”

It’s the same way in most Jewish and Japanese neighborhoods too but nobody ever writes about that. Jews and Japanese are notorious for their gun crime but all the media wants to talk about is stuff that makes blacks look bad. Sad! Must apologize!

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Jamie Kirchick: ‘Ivanka Trump is not going to save us’

Mr. Kirchick has a knack for answering the questions most on my mind. I had always assumed that Ivanka Trump would save us. Now I know better.

Jamie writes: “It’s easy to be seduced by Ivanka — she really is smooth, not to mention beautiful — but keep your guard up: This is a trap. Ivanka is nothing more than pretty window dressing to the explicitly authoritarian, racially divisive, conflict-of-interest-laden presidential campaign (soon-to-be administration) of her father.”

Wow, just wow.

“Mariela’s purpose is not improving the livelihood of her LGBT countrymen so much as it’s fooling credulous Western progressives into thinking that Cuba is anything other than a one-party state run by a mafia clan. Mariela Castro and Ivanka Trump are what happen when privileged entitlement meets political depravity.”

Sad! Must apologize!

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Regarding Russian Interference In America’s Election

I expect every nation to act in its self-interest and that will usually involve spying and interference in other countries. So if Russia or Israel tries to influence our elections, or China hacks our government and private websites to gain an advantage, I’m not surprised or outraged. I assume that America does similar things. I assume that it is America’s responsibility to protect itself from outside interference and that if the interference occurs and damages America, that is the fault of America’s government for not protecting us.

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