Steve Sailer: ‘Asian man’s 2014 memoir moaning about racist white girls not dating him forgot to mention his family kept a slave’

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* “Slave running. Slave mastering. Just another case of immigrants doing the jobs that Americans won’t do.”

* You gotta admit that immigrants edging American-born blacks out of the slavery business is pretty funny. Is there nothing these Asians don’t excel at?

* He was the first son in a prominent family. To let him walk would disgrace the family.

This was in a country where upper-class women’s feet were deliberately crippled to serve as a status marker. Kind of like Ivy League brains today.

* “[My mother] cooperated when my siblings and I set out to change Lola’s TNT status. Ronald Reagan’s landmark immigration bill of 1986 made millions of illegal immigrants eligible for amnesty. It was a long process, but Lola became a citizen in October 1998 … ”

How touching! They assuaged their guilt and proved their true love and affection for their slave by getting her a passport just in time to dump her on the US taxpayer. We Americans will gladly support all your used-up, burned-out, destitute ex-slaves once you are finished with them!

I was unaware that “Reagan’s landmark immigration bill” included amnesty for slavemasters as well as illegal aliens, but I might have guessed.

* But then he says the rise of Jeremy Lin changed all that and now things are much better, bedroom wise, for those plucky slave holding Asians!

* A weird and creepy story. Of course, the author crafts his own role as complicit, yet somehow remorseful and even moral, using his culture and upbringing as an explanation of why things were the way they were. Southern whites don’t currently have that social advantage when describing slavery that existed in the South.

But slavery often was/is a much more complex relationship than the social “thinkers” of today want to make it. My guess is that as Africa moves towards it’s peak 4 billion population later this century, slavery within the continent will make a huge comeback. It wasn’t really outlawed in central Africa until about 15 years ago, and still happens frequently, though illegally…which illustrates the complexity. Among those who experience it, being sold into slavery might just be preferable to starving to death, and with 4 billion Africans, there’s gonna be a whole lot of starving to death.

I can just hear the open borders leftist do-gooders of 2087 now, arguing that we shouldn’t be so judgmental of the cultural traditions of the billion or so Africans who want to come to the US…traditions like serfdom and slavery. If it weren’t for the looming tragedy for what remains of the US by that time, the irony would be delicious.

* Every so often there are stories of Asian immigrants to America whose maids are held in near human bondage. Many sex workers in (US) Asian Massage Parlors are thought to be slaves. There have been many stories of wealthy Arabs who come to America with servants who are slaves in everything but name.

VS Naipaul in his 1971 Booker prize winner ‘In A free State” describes an Indian who is brought to DC as the servant of young Indian diplomat. He sleeps in the walk in closet of his master’s apartment. He cooks cleans and does assorted tasks for his master unpaid. In fact he is told that he owes the cost of the plane ticket that brought him to America. When he runs away to be a cook in an Indian restaurant his master tracks him down shocked and hurt that he could be so heartless as to escape.

It’s not just third worlder’s either.

In 19th Century and early 20th century Europe there was a custom wherein a wealthy family would take in a peasant girl to do light housework. By custom the girl would also be sexually available to the young men of the family so that they wouldn’t have to risk going to prostitutes.

* Surprisingly the comments at the Atlantic and elsewhere are critical of Tizon’s behavoir.

What’s surprising is that so many are praising a vile hypocrite for finally taking her to see what remained of her family when she was in her eighties, after a lifetime of condoning her enslavement. Celebrating him for being humane enough to feel kinda sad about the whole thing and for having some writing talent.

One funny one takes him to task for questioning his elderly slave about her sex life. Oh the patriarchy!

Hilarious. Especially in the context of his parents’ actions costing this woman a life of her own and an opportunity to have and raise her own children. And the probability that at least one of the men in his family who’d owned her abused her sexually as well. Not surprising that Tizon wouldn’t care about rubbing salt in the wound, though… His slave’s 2011 obituary reads like the work of a sociopath. The cultural excuse is irrelevant in his case. He said it himself, insisted on it throughout his hypocritical, hate-filled career – he and his siblings were Americans.

* Asian slavery is a benign form of slavery in which slaves become ersatz members of the family and household. The same is true in the continuing traditions of slavery in subSaharan Africa and Haiti … caring for those who cannot care for themselves as it were.

White slavery, on the other hand, was a thing apart. It was an especially vile form of slavery that exploited the slaves to a degree that motivated the Whites themselves to force a violent end to it in the 19th Century. Indeed, the plight of the White-owned slaves was so odious that it continues to justify special social and economic privileges and reparations for their descendants down to the sixth generation.

* This Alex Tizon piece is an example of a genre of PC humblebragging pioneered by the loathesome Belle Waring of Crooked Timber blog, who is always managing to work in ways of simultaneously boasting about her aristocratic South Carolina background while apologizing for being the descendant of slaveowners.

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WP: ‘Yale dean once championed cultural sensitivity. Then she called people ‘white trash’ on Yelp.’

Washington Post:

As the dean of Yale University’s Pierson College, June Chu is responsible for advising about 500 students and fostering “a familiar, comfortable living environment” in keeping with the university’s residential college system.

Chu’s biography states she has a PhD in social psychology and touts a long career in which she has “sought to help students not only succeed academically but to support their holistic academic experience and multifaceted identities.”

But the administrator’s seemingly supportive and culturally sensitive persona has been marred since Yale students came across her Yelp account. Images of Chu’s controversial Yelp reviews began circulating among Pierson students in recent months and were published by the Yale Daily News on Saturday.

The problem wasn’t so much what she said about the New Haven eateries and businesses she reviewed but rather her comments on the people who frequented them.

The posts, published over the course of the last few years, referred to customers as “white trash” and “low class folks” and to some employees as “barely educated morons.”

“If you are white trash, this is the perfect night out for you!” Chu wrote in a review about a Japanese restaurant, which she said lacked authenticity but was perfect for “those low class folks who believe this is a real night out.”

“Side note: employees are Chinese, not Japanese,” added Chu, who identifies in one review as Chinese American. In another restaurant review she said, “I guess if you were a white person who has no clue what mochi is, this would be fine for you.”

In a 2015 review, she called a movie cinema’s employees “barely educated morons trying to manage snack orders for the obese and also try to add $7 plus $7.”

…Others on Twitter pointed out an article Chu wrote for Inside Higher Ed regarding the importance of cultural sensitivity. One Twitter user said reading the article was “satisfyingly ironic.”

“When we advise students about their academic pathways, we must understand diverse students’ practical concerns as well as their distinct cultural value systems,” Chu wrote.

“Many studies continue to indicate differences between white American college students and those from ethnic minority groups,” Chu wrote. “Thus, when we as advisers only advocate following one’s passion, we should ask of ourselves if we are microaggressors, telling students that is the only right way to engage in education.”

Article from 2011:

A typical day for June Chu consists of waking up early in the morning to teach a spinning class at Pottruck Fitness Center, advising students on their majors and staying up late to answer their emails.

After seven years at Penn, Chu — the director of the Pan-Asian American Community House — will be leaving her post to become the assistant dean of Undergraduate Advising at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Context is everything. I imagine that lots of white Yalies have the same attitudes towards the same types of whites she is referring too – though if they posted similar comments online no one is going to bother to go poring through them.

Kind of imagine Ms. Chu is unlikeable on a personal level. Anyway.

What is interesting though, is that it would be entirely reasonable for Asians (the Korean/Japanese/Chinese we actually mean when we use this word) have similar attitudes towards whites as whites have to blacks.

Or maybe not. Whites are more prone to … bad behavior than Asians are, but it isn’t the same wide gulf you get between Sub-Saharan Blacks and everyone else.

And that, more than the IQ gap, is the crux of the whole thing. When whites go to hell, you get West Virginia. When blacks go to hell you get Detroit. Or Birmingham. Or Gary, Indiana.

Anyway, if I met an Asian who had a contemptuous attitude towards me due to the color of my skin… I’d be tickled pink (literally I guess). Masses of Chinese in suburbs across California with thinking the same way? Blase about it.

It’s when these Chinese get into positions of power, whether governmental, Wall Street or the like, where they might affect my present or my future that I start getting mad.

If it is any consolation I feel the same way about white Yalies.

I know my tribe. I have Assabiyah. Whether we are dumb as rocks, deserve nothing, it doesn’t matter. Whether Germanic nice whites from the Midwest or Mormons are in my tribe? Doesn’t matter. We are my tribe. And that is all that matters. The sentiments in Horatio At The Gate matter; The Bell Curve doesn’t.

I know the first law: It’s one for all, and all on one.

Now maybe it’s that Dunning-Kruger effect. But I sit by my keyboard and think of all kinds of interesting things and strategies. Maybe we aren’t so dumb when push comes to shove. Dunno.

HBD is well and good. Whatever. But if you don’t understand things at a basic level, like the fact that even the most stupid, illiterate moron in your tribe is worth more than the sum total of all educated elite college grads… then you understand nothing.

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Tabletmag: Daf Yomi: Interpreters of ancient Jewish law ‘often give the impression of doing whatever needs to be done to make the Bible mean what they want it to mean’

No constitution can cover ever exigency. Survival must preempt fidelity to text. A Torah is not a death warrant. The sovereign is he who decides the state of exception, notes Carl Schmitt. In Orthodox Judaism, the leading rabbis of the day wish to be the sovereign.

Adam Kirsch writes: In general, one might say that the Talmud exists because of the shortcomings of the Torah; to put it in traditional terms, the Oral Law was given to explain and supplement the Written Law. Biblical laws tend to be terse and generalized, and they seldom cover all the contingencies that might arise in life. The Torah prohibits labor on Shabbat; but what exactly constitutes labor? The Torah prohibits Jews from exploiting one another in commercial transactions; but how do you measure exploitation? The Mishna, the digest of the Oral Law, is needed to fill these gaps. In turn, the Gemara is needed to resolve ambiguities in the Mishna.

At the same time, however, the rabbis are always at pains to show that what might seem like new laws, which go beyond and sometimes even contradict the laws of the Bible, are in fact in harmony with the Bible. To do this, they are compelled to read against the grain of the biblical text, in ways that strike the uninitiated reader as highly counterintuitive. They will, for instance, make important deductions based on the presence of a prefix or suffix of a single letter; or they will look for other uses of a given word elsewhere in the Bible, and draw conclusions based on the context of those seemingly unrelated usages. The rabbis’ hermeneutics are far from lawless—they have a rigorous method for making deductions from the text—but they often give the impression of doing whatever needs to be done to make the Bible mean what they want it to mean.

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THE POEM THAT ENDED NORWAY’S CONSTITUTIONAL BAN ON JEWS

From Tabletmag.com: “Like many others in Norway, he saw this with the religious eyes of the day: Banning Jews from Norway was nothing less than a Christian necessity. His son believed the opposite: How could a so-called Christian society behave in such an unloving and discriminatory manner? Had Jews not been created also by the hand of a loving God? How could it be that we cast them from our midst and condemned them to vilification?”

Torah makes no provision for non-Jewish citizenship in the Jewish state. Why should Christian states be different? The mere presence of Jews, let alone Jews thriving, denies the religious claims of Christianity.

“Highly romantic though it was, and designed to make Christmas eyes weep, Wergeland’s purpose was clear, which was to awaken his people to the reality of the asp in the heart of their newfound and hard-won constitution. They had to see that the clause went against the whole spirit of the constitution, and the very character of the Norwegian people.”

The very character of the Norwegian people is to welcome strangers? As Mark Twain noted, the Jew is everywhere a stranger and not even angels like strangers.

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Yair Rosenberg: ‘WHY BEING PRO-ISRAEL AND BACKING DONALD TRUMP ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE POSITIONS’

From Tabletmag in May of 2016: “That’s because what is good for America is good for Israel and what is bad for America is bad for Israel. The United States is Israel’s greatest benefactor—it is the Jewish state’s guarantor through security aid, and its diplomatic shield in hostile international forums like the United Nations. A world led by an empowered America with a thriving economy and an outward-looking foreign policy is a good world for Israel. By contrast, a world in which the United States has turned inward, sabotaged its own economy through protectionism, and withdrawn from global leadership is a world in which anti-Israel regimes and actors would have free rein to pursue their malicious agenda.”

I understand the argument that massive American aid and support is good for Israel, but is it good for America? Does that matter?

Comment: “Basically a Jewish jounalist [is] saying that [it] is the American Empire that keeps Israel alive and Trump is a threat to the Empire’s well being. It might explain what is happening right now.”

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