Steve Sailer: The Darwinian Advantages of Sprinting vs. Endurance Running: Marcus Vick Edition

Posted on August 17, 2016 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: Speaking of Darwinian selection pressures in sprinting vs. distance running abilities, commenter “mourning in america” sends along cop body camera footage of a very serious footrace between Marcus Vick, former Virginia Tech quarterback and the younger brother of NFL star Michael Vick, and some policemen who can’t match his time in the 40. Marcus was never as fast as Michael, but his 4.47 second time in the 40 yard dash is a lot faster than the average policeman’s.

Like I was saying, sprinting ability is most useful with moderately complex ground cover into which the superior sprinter can effectively disappear. In more open terrain, the better distance runner is likely to be able to track down the tired sprinter.

COMMENTS:

* In what kind of environment would this strategy work?

So you run off into the trees…..and then what? Live in the jungle for the rest of your life? Hope that the people in the village or whatever forget about you?

It’s hard to see how the be-a-jackass-and-then-sprint-away strategy would work. The villagers would be on the lookout for the jackass, and would probably kill him the next time he showed up.

* In general, particularly in 21st century, it would be insane to run from the cops. In his case, though, since we’re talking about running, if they didn’t already know who he was, and were it not for the cameras, helicopters, etc. there is a decent chance he could’ve gotten away. Even though he had stopped and sat down, he was clearly less winded for his run than the cops, so I don’t buy into the ideas that the cops could’ve outdistanced him, particularly if he shook the trail. People here are also thinking about 1 run and done sprinters when they should be thinking about a Michael Vick type QB who has to sprint, dodge, jump, and sprint some more, again and again over the course of a few hours. Just because he’s good at sprinting, doesn’t mean he’s below “normals” at distance running. He likely excels there, too, but not as much so as he does at sprinting. Most people, probably most cops included, are gonna tire out more from a half mile or mile run than he would.

As you said earlier, a few twists and turns could be all it would take to slip away. In terms of simply looking for a black guy matching his description, probably quite a few black guys his age around town match to a first approximation for most people, and if he had any sense at all, he’d switch up his appearance at the first opportunity after a stunt like that.

* I think a lot of football and basketball players start to develop a bit of a God Complex in middle and high school, especially if they were as good as these two at their sport. For blacks its probably a double whammy as many whites are bending over backwards looking for a reason to shower praise on them.

Universities will really roll out the red carpet for talented football players, overlook all sorts of infractions, hot girls will cling to them constantly, etc. Its probably easy for them to start to feel like they can do whatever they want whenever they want, and get into all kinds of trouble.

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White supremacists using Twitter mentions to organize, recruit, and unify

Posted on August 17, 2016 by Luke Ford

Sociologist Philip Cohen writes for the Southern Policy Law Center: These are commented excerpts from a Twitter conversation I had with a bunch of Trump-supporting racists on August 15.

It started with my complaining to Jesse Singal about a table he posted, of an analysis of body camera effects on police killings. The content isn't really important.

The response from @JohnRiversToo was a pretty random, and very typical, racist tweet about how Blacks have low IQs and commit more crime.

It’s typical and racist because it takes two disparate things – which each have their own whole set of issues and debates – and uses them to draw the obvious racist conclusion they started with in the first place: Blacks are dumb and violent. (If you don’t then “refute” these assertions then you can’t handle the truth – and if you try to respond you go down a rabbit hole of racist memes.) There is no point in arguing substance with someone who starts like this.
I didn’t even realize what JRT was responding to – I assumed it was about my latest blog post, which was about civility in cross-racial interactions at Hershey Park:

“This post combines my love of vacations (context), my habit of taking pictures of people in public places (data)*, and my sociological tendency to invent big conclusions from minor events (theory). As with last year’s selfie post , I hope you don’t take from this that I don’t really love vacations.”

Anyway, didn’t matter. He has 10,000 followers, and he summoned them with a couple common memes. One shows high Asian incomes, supposed to show that “white privilege is a lie”:

And one claiming “diversity” is about White genocide.

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Women Need To Be Protected

Posted on August 17, 2016 by Luke Ford

Martin Van Creveld writes: Delicate souls that they are, women need to be protected against “’objectification” and “verbal abuse.” Women need to be protected against cunning pimps who first promise them the earth and then enslave them. Women need to be protected against photographers who promise to turn them into models but do not deliver. Women need to be protected against having their naked pics published on the Net (I hereby formally grant permission to anybody who has a pic of mine to do so; I shall even be happy to provide him or her with one).

Women need to be protected against “economic terrorism.” Women need to be protected against wicked, but charismatic and clever, men who first promise them marriage and then disappear with their, the women’s, money, or turn out to be married already, or both. Women need to be protected against male physicians, psychologists, gurus, university professors, teachers, coaches, and masseurs, all of whom, which God forbid, first cause them to become “dependent” on themselves and then try to “exploit them by having sex with them.

Women need to be protected against their own preference for convicted male criminals (as shown by the fact that such criminals tend to have more offspring than average, mostly because they have more partners). Women need to be protected against the possible consequences of their taste in dress and comportment (they are, it seems, too dumb to understand those consequences on their own). So stupid are some women that they only understand that they have been “raped” years after the event, and often after some lawyer tells them they can make money by suing. Once they do, they have to be protected from confronting their alleged attackers in court and also from having their own names revealed. Women need to be protected against “offensive” speech, including, no doubt, this essay. So numerous are the things women must be protected against that I found it impossible to put them in any kind of logical order. In short, women are seen—and, what is much worse, see themselves—as complete idiots incapable of looking after themselves.

However, there is a catch. Men are physically stronger than women. As the fact that they commit most violent crimes shows, men also tend to be considerably more aggressive and more assertive on the average. By some accounts, this is likely to remain the case not only in our world but even in one where our place is taken by computers. That is why, when the chips are down, only men can protect women against other men; also why, throughout history, countless men have died to protect women whereas the opposite has rarely ever been the case. The more protection women demand and receive, the more dependent on their protectors and the less equal and free they become.

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Steve Sailer: Mexicans like keeping Mexico Mexican

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: You are often told that if you look at a map, you can see that it’s a law of nature that the United States of America must fill up with Mexicans. You almost never hear anybody suggest that the map implies that Mexico must fill up with Americans, which would seem more likely a priori.

How do the Mexicans keep the gringos from inundating Mexico? Some of its by law, some of its by violent lawlessness, but a lot is by a sort of passive-aggressive cruddiness: nobody is too sure who owns what land, the streets are dangerous to cross if you aren’t young and nimble, the hospitals are kind of inept, and so forth and so on.

Former foreign secretary Jorge Castaneda suggested that if Mexico were to try to make the country more appealing to American retirees, they’d find they had made the country better for Mexicans. But that idea hasn’t proven popular.

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Why Milwaukee Burns – Black social breakdown and anti-cop ideology put another American city to the torch

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Luke Ford

A friend says: “MacDonald writes about the rioting promoted by BLM as an attack on “White” society and civilization. I believe she is correct. The logical consequences of this are that, if this succeeds, it will force any black police officers, elected officials and perhaps even members of the military to either be considered collaborators (in the same sense that our Afghan allies are considered by the Taliban, or that Quislings were considered in the lands under Nazi occupation during WW2). This is actually much worse than the old epithet directed to Blacks as Uncle Toms, since this presumes that BLM is in fact a liberation movement, not just to empower blacks and curb perceived and actual racism, but one that seeks to overthrow the existing order since it is in their belief inherently racist and has nothing redeeming about it.”

Heather Mac Donald writes: The war on cops, ideological and sometimes lethal, may be expanding into a broader race war, in which only one side fights. The thugs who torched businesses and police cars, assaulted cops, and shot at firemen in northwestern Milwaukee on Saturday night went after “white bitches,” among other targets. (The riots were inspired by the fatal police shooting of Sylville K. Smith, a black man. Smith, who had an extensive arrest record, including for a shooting, fled from officers after a traffic stop while carrying a stolen handgun; he refused commands to drop the gun. Wisconsin governor Scott Walker has activated the state’s National Guard and declared a state of emergency, but violence continued into Sunday night, with four officers injured, three squad cars damaged, and multiple businesses burned down.) The Black Lives Matter-inspired assassin who murdered five police officers in Dallas in July 2016 said that he wanted to kill white people, as well as white cops. The vitriol that officers working in urban areas now encounter on a daily basis is inflected with racism.
And if the war on cops escalates into more frequent attacks on whites and their perceived interests, the elite establishment will bear much of the blame. For the last two years, President Barack Obama has seized every opportunity to advise blacks that they are the victims of a racist criminal justice system. We should not be surprised when that belief, so constantly inflamed, erupts into violence. Even in his remarks at the memorial service for the five murdered Dallas cops, Obama had the gall to trot out his usual racial vendetta against the police, even though he was fully on notice that cops were being killed because of it:
“When African-Americans from all walks of life, from different communities across the country, voice a growing despair over what they perceive to be unequal treatment; when study after study shows that whites and people of color experience the criminal justice system differently, so that if you’re black, you’re more likely to be pulled over or searched or arrested, more likely to get longer sentences, more likely to get the death penalty for the same crime; when mothers and fathers raise their kids right and have “the talk” about how to respond if stopped by a police officer—“yes, sir,” “no, sir”—but still fear that something terrible may happen when their child walks out the door, still fear that kids being stupid and not quite doing things right might end in tragedy—when all this takes place more than 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, we cannot simply turn away and dismiss those in peaceful protest as troublemakers or paranoid.”
Obama’s indictment ignored, as usual, the astronomically higher rates of black crime that fully explain racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Meanwhile, Obama hasn’t uttered a word in condemnation of the lawless behavior in Milwaukee, two days into the events.
Hillary Clinton has been just as quick to enflame black hatred of cops and, by inevitable extension, of “white” society. She said during a January 2016 Democratic presidential debate that it was “reality” that police officers see black lives as “cheap,” adding that “there needs to be a concerted effort to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.” (In fact, there is no government agency more dedicated to the proposition that black lives matter than the police; tens of thousands of black lives have been saved thanks to data-driven, proactive policing.) The July 2016 cop assassinations had no more deterrent effect on Clinton’s determination to keep anti-cop tensions at a boil than they did on President Obama. Speaking at the NAACP after the Baton Rouge assassinations, which followed the Dallas massacre, Clinton said that “we cannot rest until we root out implicit bias and stop the killings of African-Americans.” Showing herself to be as statistically challenged as Obama, she continued: “Let’s admit it, there is clear evidence that African-Americans are disproportionately killed in police incidents compared to any other group.” (Blacks are actually killed at a lower rate than their crime rates would predict. And at least four studies this year have shown that police officers are less likely to shoot blacks than whites, whether armed or unarmed.)
Last week, the Justice Department emitted yet another mendacious indictment of alleged cop racism, declaring the Baltimore Police Department guilty of a pattern or practice of systemic civil rights abuses. Baltimore officers accost and arrest blacks in Baltimore at higher rates than their proportion in the population, the Justice Department’s civil rights division wrote, carefully avoiding any notice of the crime that brings cops to black neighborhoods. The Justice Department report was ecstatically received in the media, and no doubt word of the confirmed racism of Baltimore police—and by extension, all police—trickled down into northwestern Milwaukee.
These nonstop rhetorical sorties against police officers and the criminal justice system inevitably expand into a broader indictment of the society that the criminal justice system defends. The Black Lives Matter riots of the last two years are inseparable from a hatred of what is perceived to be “white” society and civilization.

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What Will It Take for the U.S. Jewish Establishment to Break Its Silence on Trump?

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Luke Ford

Benjy Cannon writes:

American Jews overwhelmingly oppose Donald Trump. From the 72% overall who view him unfavorably to the prominent Republicans Jews who have loudly criticized him, there’s a broad American Jewish consensus that he should not be president. So why won’t certain elements of the American Jewish establishment to break their disturbing silence on his candidacy?
It’s difficult for major, powerful Jewish organizations to take certain political stances, even if they have widespread support. As someone who spent time in college encouraging leaders in the American Jewish community to take a stronger stand for a two-state solution and against the occupation in my capacity as J Street U president, I can attest to that first hand.
Many American Jewish organizations stake their power on claiming to represent consensus positions in American Jewry. It’s no secret that on Israel, parts of the Jewish establishment are out of touch with the majority of American Jews. For years, umbrella Jewish organizations such as the Conference of Presidents have purported to represent American Jews while repeatedly refusing to take a stance on issues like settlements, which most American Jews oppose.
And yet, I’ve often met with communal leaders who understand how our community’s politics on Israel are changing, but their aversion to controversy has left them unable to tackle thorny issues such as settlement construction and Palestinian human rights. They fear donor pressure, charges of partisanship and headaches from longtime supporters. That fear makes adapting to rapidly shifting politics a struggle.
That same fear and paralysis might explain their silence on Trump. But it does not excuse it.
Many groups have done incredible work. The Anti-Defamation League, the Union for Reform Judaism and Bend the Arc have consistently challenged Trump’s racist and reckless invective. 28 American Jewish organizations signed a letter condemning racism and anti-Semitism in the 2016 campaign. But other groups – AIPAC,  the JFNA and the Conference of Presidents in particular – have remained absolutely silent.
That Trump has gotten this far should constitute a national emergency for all American Jewish organizations. Trump’s racist rhetoric and policy prescriptions threaten Muslims and Hispanic Americans, he lashes out at his critics with threats of violence and his frightening foreign policy would create a far more dangerous world.
These reasons alone should be enough for the American Jewish establishment to make every effort to stop him getting into the White House. But there are issues that speak even more directly to American Jews.
Trump directs much of his hatred toward migrants and refugees. As descendants of refugees ourselves, Jewish organizations, such as the Joint Distribution Committee – a partner of JFNA – have a proud history of welcoming the stranger and refugee resettlement.
Trump’s advisers and the GOP under him are moving away from a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a position at odds with the overwhelming majority of American Jews and the entire Jewish establishment.
Many of Trump’s vocal supporters are notorious anti-Semites. He waffled when asked to disavow David Duke – the former KKK grand wizard.  His Twitter account has re-tweeted neo-Nazis and a flagrantly anti-Semitic meme, juxtaposing Clinton, piles of money and a Star of David. There is nothing ambiguous about the vicious Jew-hatred that surrounds his campaign.
Growing up, I constantly heard that when racism of any kind gains traction, anti-Semitism is never far behind. For many of Trump’s supporters, it’s already here. Trump is the type of candidate who I assumed would have sent the entire organized American Jewish community into a tailspin.
Some groups have hidden behind their non-profit 501(c)(3) status, claiming it makes it impossible for them to speak out against Trump. That’s false. While they may not be able to endorse candidates they have every right to criticize Trump’s dangerous and outrageous statements and policy proposals. In fact, as JTA pointed out, there are some Jewish (c)(3)s who have loudly done so.
Take the American Jewish Committee (AJC), for example. They put out a strong statement in November criticizing Trump’s proposed-Muslim ban. In the months since, they have been silent, other than an op-ed from AJC Executive Director David Harris extolling the fact that both Trump and Hillary Clinton would be “firsts” for American Jews because they would bring Jewish families into the oval office.

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Trump Changed His Mind On German Leader Angela Merkel

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: “So, we see that Trump — what an idiot! — changed his opinion of Merkel when she changed her policy in late August 2015 and invited in her Million Muslim Mob.

“Here’s the transcript of Trump’s anti-Invade/Invite speech today.”

Comments:

* He has said that he changed his mind on Merkel. I watch lots of Trump speeches & interviews on Conservative Treehouse and Trump recently made a point that he used to think Merkel was great but she has created a disaster with the refugees. But, of course anyone who changes their opinions in the face of overwhelming evidence is completely unfit for the presidency. We need a consistent blockhead like W, Hillary, or Obama.

* Trump has excellent instincts. I have learned from him, changed my views on a few issues. Birth right citizenship for one. That the US can have friendly relations with Russia. He was right to fault the migrants for not fighting for the homelands. Excellent that he speaks to the problems of young people in rural parts of the country. And of course trade with China.

* Critics called for Trump to ramp it down a few notches, and act “presidential.”
His latest speech took care of that. Brilliant. I might say “Reaganesque,” with a spoonful of Patton sauce.
CNN squawking heads have gone mad.
It’s kind of eerie. The fact that they’ve been in control, done so much damage for so long.

* Trump’s speech was his best yet. It’s a game changer. Amazing.

* It’s interesting to note you didn’t mention Hillary’s far more formidable challenges, which are:

1) Not having a seizure or stroke before the election.

2) Keeping Billy Joe’s sociopath mouth shut

3) Dealing with even more disastrous email reveals, and you KNOW they’re coming.

4) Billy’s rape victims coming alive and screaming at the press. Does Monica have some new information to add? Now’s the time to stick it to Hillary, and boy, she’ll want to. This is a gal who was labelled by Hillary as an unhinged stalker back in the day. Once in a lifetime payback opportunity for Monica. Either she’s got nothing, or she’s got something horrendously timed for Hillary.

5) Barely discussed so far, “Pedophile Island,” and Billy’s operative role there. Trump hasn’t delved into that yet, and he will. Hopefully at the debates.

6) Weiner. I can’t help but think there’s more stories about that sex addict that’s waiting in the wings. Remember if Hillary wins, Weiner will have White House access. Also, unfortunately named Weiner will provide ample blackmail opportunities thanks to his unmitigatable pervert ways. I believe that will be brought up in the debates also, in the interests of National Security.

7) Speaking against a major international policy you were once a proponent of is quite bizarre. If anyone is in danger of having the “loose-cannon” yolk around their neck going forward, it will be “American Merkel” and her delusional lame-duck, “International Mulatto” elf.

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Celebrity Big Brother’s raciest star Chloe Khan ‘started to convert to Islam in 2012 after marrying her convicted killer husband’

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Luke Ford

Women sure love dangerous men. Shocking that these men often end up killing them.

Islam attracts low-IQ types.

Daily Mail: Celebrity Big Brother star Chloe Khan studied to convert to Islam, it has been revealed.
The 25-year-old mother-of-one, who was evicted from the Channel 5 reality TV show last week, revealed to a follower on Facebook in 2012 that she was learning Arabic and eating halal food.
The Daily Star reports that she posted: ‘iv been studying islam for last 2 years and learning arabic ect n.iv only ever eaten halal all my life nt just since I gt marrid (sic)’.

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And it was revealed that she also changed her name to Safia – an Islamic name meaning ‘pure’.

…It was reported earlier this week that Chloe’s estranged husband Mohammad Imran Khan is a convicted killer.
It has been claimed Khan was sentenced to four years imprisonment in 2013 after ‘killing a cyclist during an illegal street race’.
A 25-year-old man of the same name was jailed after killing Latvian Vitalijs Rozenbergs, 22, when he was struck by a blue Audi RS3 in Bradford.

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Oscar Morel Arrested For Murdering Imam, Yet Somehow Donald Trump Is To Blame

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Luke Ford

Non-Muslims don’t tend to like Muslims. Why? Because they have fundamental conflicts of interest. The growth of Islam in the West is always bad news for non-Muslims who want to preserve their first-world way of life.

Diversity and proximity always create conflict and tragedy.

How on earth is someone named “Oscar Morel” called a “Brooklyn man”?

If Muslims don’t feel safe in America, then perhaps they should move to a Muslim country. Few Americans will mourn their departure.

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New York Times:

Two days after an imam and his assistant were gunned down after afternoon prayers in Queens, the police said late Monday that a man they had in custody had been charged in the killings.

The man, Oscar Morel of Brooklyn, 35, who was taken into custody late Sunday after the police connected him to a hit and run that occurred about a mile away from the fatal attack, faces two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, the police said.

A police official said investigators had found what they believe was the murder weapon in the man’s home as well as clothes matching the description of what the gunman had been wearing during the shootings. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the gun was found inside a wall in his apartment, on Miller Avenue in the East New York neighborhood, in a cavity that had apparently been cut open and resealed.

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* “I don’t feel safe anymore,” Mr. Hossain said.

Easy solution, go back to Pakistan/Arabia/wherever. Nobody will hate you for being a muslim there.

* Hilarious that a Muslim is rebuking us Americans with “I don’t feel safe anymore.”

* The MUSLIM community is on edge?!

Try having to go to work above the 10th floor at the new Freedom Tower, you delusional POS!

* Just a quick run-down of all the names appearing in the article: Rojas, Robbins, Remnick, Rashbaum, Morel, Hossain, Trump, Bin Laden, Goldstein.

* So that’s the face of the White Hispanic Oscar Morel who murdered 2 Muslim People Of Color. Now that law enforcement has captured him, that’s one less Islamophobic White supremacist terrorizing Queens, New York.

* Since the GOP decided to run the Sailer Strategy in 2016, I would have thought there would be a landslide (for Trump I mean, not Hillary). What happened? Maybe white people outside the South don’t vote like whites there? Seems like even white people in GA & NC aren’t voting like white people in the South. Or are there shy Trumpistas like shy Brexiteers? Is this the reverse Bradley effect? Please, I am dying to hear your thoughts.

* The execution is not quite what one would hope. If you read this blog regularly, you’ll know that while most people here are enthusiastic about the idea of Trump, we’re dismayed at the man himself.

Gotta hand it to the Dems, they knew better than to nominate Al Sharpton for our first black president.

* My guess is this shooting will go down the memory hole fast. They might try to blame Trump, but it could escalate and cause part of the democrat coalition to fight one another as the hispanics tell us the story of why this guy retaliated in the first place.

BTW, recall a month ago the black guy being shot by cops near Miami. The guy had his hands up, but a hispanic Barney Fife shot him in the leg. That should have been a genuine black lives matter moment. A legit, innocent black guy with his hands up getting popped by a cop. But because the cop was hispanic, the media and BLM dropped it like a hot potato.

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LAT: Infertile man accused of cutting off wife’s hands as punishment for not bearing him children

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Luke Ford

Los Angeles Times:

Mwende, of Machakos, 35 miles southeast of the capital, Nairobi, is the face of domestic violence in Kenya. Her husband has been charged in an alleged marital assault that shocked the nation. According to Mwende, her husband, Stephen Ngila, 35, attacked her with a machete, slashing her face and hacking off her hands, enraged because she hadn’t produced children in nearly five years of marriage.

“I saw him, and he told me: ‘Today is your last day,’” she says. “I never thought something like this would happen to me.”

Ngila is in police custody, awaiting trial over the attack. Members of his family told Kenyan media recently that Mwende was a woman of loose morals who may have been attacked by a business rival. They claim Ngila wasn’t at home when the attack happened.

Wearing a white hospital gown at Presbyterian Church of East Africa Kikuyu Hospital, Mwende, 27, weeps softly as she tells the story of how she fell in love with Ngila, married him in a white church wedding and watched as the relationship gradually went sour.

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