REPORT: Scientists from King’s College London have used a new genetic scoring technique to predict academic achievement from DNA alone. This is the strongest prediction from DNA of a behavioural measure to date.
The research shows that a genetic score comprising 20,000 DNA variants explains almost 10 per cent of the differences between children’s educational attainment at the age of 16. DNA alone therefore provides a much better prediction of academic achievement than gender or even ‘grit’, a personality trait thought to measure perseverance and passion for long-term goals.
Published today in Molecular Psychiatry, these findings mark a ‘tipping point’ in predicting academic achievement and could help with identifying children who are at greater risk of having learning difficulties.
Previous research on twin studies has found that 60 per cent of differences between individuals’ educational achievement are due to differences in DNA. Whilst this may seem far from the 10 per cent predicted in this study, the authors note that twin studies examine the sum total of all genetic effects, including common and rare variants, interactions between genes, and gene-environment interactions. Twin studies can therefore tell us the overall genetic influence on a trait in a population.
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But what about Hitler and Stalin? That’s the rejoinder one usually gets when you praise white Western civilization. My answer: Every people produce genocidal tyrants, only the West has pioneered advanced civilization (much of it adopted by East Asia in the past 60 years).
Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, questioned the historical contributions of nonwhite “subgroups” during an appearance on MSNBC on Monday, igniting swift backlash online.
Mr. King spoke during a panel discussion, led by the MSNBC host Chris Hayes, about the racial makeup of the Republican Party on the first day of the party’s convention.
“If you’re really optimistic, you can say this was the last time that old white people would command the Republican Party’s attention, its platform, its public face,” Charles P. Pierce, a writer at large at Esquire magazine, said during the panel discussion.
In response, Mr. King said: “This whole ‘old white people’ business does get a little tired, Charlie. I’d ask you to go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you are talking about? Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?”
“Than white people?” Mr. Hayes asked.
Mr. King responded: “Than Western civilization itself that’s rooted in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the United States of America, and every place where the footprint of Christianity settled the world. That’s all of Western civilization.”
Frantic yelling ensued, with the panelists speaking over one another. “What about Africa? What about Asia?” April Ryan, a reporter on the panel, said.
This is one of those Emperor’s New Clothes moments. As anthropologists Robin Fox and Lionel Tiger pointed out, a mob that was bullied into believing they’d lose their jobs if they admitted the truth isn’t going to listen dispassionately to somebody tell the truth. Instead, they’d get very, very angry at the one who dares to say the obvious.
Here, of course, we see three professional talkers who can only sputter with mindless rage at Rep. King.
Of course, Rep. King’s statement has been scientifically tested in Charles Murray’s Human Accomplishment. In my 2003 review, I wrote:
Dead white European males dominate his inventories, despite Murray reserving eight of his 21 categories (including Arabic literature, Indian philosophy, and Chinese visual art) for non-Western arts. Murray, who was a Peace Corp volunteer in Thailand and has half-Asian children, began this project wanting to devote even more attention to Asian accomplishments but found he couldn’t justify his predisposition.
In the sciences, 97 percent of the significant figures and events turned out to be Western. Is this merely Eurocentric bias? Of the 36 science reference books he drew upon, 28 were published after 1980, by which time historians were desperately searching for non-Westerners to praise. Only in this decade has the most advanced non-Western country, Japan, begun to win science Nobels regularly.
The irony is that modern progress over the last 600 years has been overwhelmingly the achievement of the hate object of modern progressives: dead white European males. Most other great civilizations were stuck in conservative stasis even before the European gunboats showed. Only Japan was making a modest degree of progress.
COMMENTS AT STEVE SAILER:
* Whenever I hear someone say some bold statement like this, I always get very very worried. Worried that they will apologize. Which almost always follows the bold statement, unfortunately.
I usually find it difficult to talk to a voicemail or answering machine, I need to prepare what I’ll say in advance, otherwise it sounds pretty incoherent.
* King can be a badass sometimes… I remember reading Robert Novak a dozen years back on the Iowa re-gerrymander, who described it as a “Frankenstein” district inadvertently created by shoring up the state’s Democrats. The downside of the invincible right-wing boroughs is you get pols who are a bit outré for taking out into primetime like Todd Akin or Michele Bachmann. It’s a double standard since congresscritters from Oakland CA or Seattle can act bonkers all week without “exemplifying” Democrats– oh well, in a polyglot party does speaking in tongues even matter?
* They were also going nuts about how King keeps a miniature Confederate Flag on his desk. King really knows how to trigger SJW’s/leftists/Obama’s coalition of the fringes. Is it too late to make him Trump’s VP?
* I love the obvious lameness of the “counterexamples” thrown out to refute King.
As dumb as his attackers are, they can’t be so dumb as not to be embarrassed that that’s the best they can do.
* That took a lot of guts to say. I know he’s on msnbc in this instance to provoke liberal outrage but damn, he dropped a nuke on ‘em. The black female panelist was clearly the most upset by it. Her behavior shows, once again, that blacks really believe the crap cynical liberals tell them about themselves.
* I found that clip pretty hilarious. King is not all that articulate, but Charles Pierce is so odious and hopelessly self-loathing he was dumbstruck.
* I wondered how long it would take the media to blame the latest black cop killer’s actions on badwhites: “The former Marine who killed three Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police officers identified with a growing movement that originated among white supremacists…
* You bring up a good point about him not being articulate. There appear to be no pols with alt right leanings that are good speakers except for Trump. That’s a problem. If I said what King said to some of my conservative relatives and friends they would think it’s racist too. The reason is we just don’t have good speakers who can get these ideas across, or in this case just get facts across.
* It’s very hard. Actual political views/speech content aside, you need someone who’s quick-witted (i.e. who can recognize and seize opportunities); who’s articulate (i.e. who speaks in complete sentences, with a bit of subtlety and cunning); and who can keep his cool and/or use anger tactically and effectively in the face of sputtering outrage and ad hominem attacks coming at him from all sides, especially from the ‘neutral’ moderator who holds the metaphorical mic and can cut him off. And then he’s got to have the perseverence/endurance to come back and do this again and again and again without slipping up.
Mark Steyn has all the rhetorical skills I’ve set out above, but there are few like him around.
* It is perhaps unfortunate that the computer industry developed during an era when terms and nomenclature became acronyms or bland academic jargon instead of being given the name of the discoverer or developer. This is in contrast to an earlier era where old white men like Volta, Watt and Ohm were honored by having their names used to describe the fundamentals of the fields they pioneered.
Had the previous method been used it would be impossible for the anti white male legions to reference computers technology and software without having to mention the names of the old white men who created the field.
* Normally, leftists are able to muster some sort of frenzied counterargument, even if it’s just viciously denouncing their foes. In this case, they’re practically speechless. Truly amazing.
* That’s why Hayes immediately cut off the conversation. On any other controversial topic or supposed gaffe by a conservative, MSNBC’s mouths would water . But there can’t be a conversation (oh, the irony) b/c it’s there is absolutely no contest as to who wins the argument.
* Pat Buchanan was fantastic on MSNBC and his earlier TV gigs when he talked about immigration and race but the conversations almost never went in that direction. Even so he was still too dangerous and got booted off. “No platform” indeed.
* Peter DeVry: Rep. Steve King shouldn’t be allowed to use any inventions created by people who are not white. No elevators, no microphones, no pacemakers.
* Elisha Otis, a White man, invented the elevator.
Wilson Greatbatch, a White man, invented the pacemaker.
In 1962, after nearly a century of invention and improvement by White men, Gerhard Sessler, a White man, and his sidekick James West, a quadroon, developed a new type of microphone at Bell Labs.
Pretty slender reed, Mr DeVry.
* The most in demand microphones are still the Neumann/Telefunken U-47, U-87, and similar variants thereof, and the 1930s and 1940s RCA ribbon mics such as the 44 and 77.
All designed by white guys.
* Steve Sailer: Steyn’s hugely gifted, but he lives in New Hampshire so he can’t do big time TV all that regularly. You pretty much have to live in New York or Washington (or Atlanta if you are on CNN) or L.A. (if you are more entertainment than news).
A long time ago I was counting up how many times I’d been on TV and I came up with around ten. I estimated back then then I’d need to be on TV at least 100 times to make any progress toward being recognizable, and I now think that was an underestimate.
And TV appearances generally don’t pay.
* More seriously, the Steve King clip reveals the utter inability of most panelists in these TV discussions in our country to think on their feet or reply with a zinger, however flimsy.
I’ve been watching quite a bit of the British Parliament’s question hour lately thanks to Brexit events, and I must say that the art of debate, wit and repartee has withered significantly in a generation on this side of the Atlantic.
We were never a match for the Brits in my living memory, and in any case it was never fully our style, but we used to be better, a lot better.
In terms of verbal skills, most intellectuals and public figures these days are dull plodders, with neither wit nor whimsy at their command. I blame management speak and focus group processed political press release language for this, at least in the political arena.
And in these talk shows, a babble of semi-coherent outraged noises are the usual answer to something like Steve King’s statement. That figures. Outrage is what is taught in our fine, fine liberal arts universities these days, not the arts of rhetoric.
* Imagine human life on Earth ends tomorrow. A Martian historian lands and takes preliminary notes on a study of Earthling life. I know I’m setting up a very crude, surely biased straw man here, but how could a Martian historian not notice that peoples in the following continental groupings share common characteristics and are distinguishable from peoples of other continents.
Group #1 – Australia, North America, South America, Europe, Antarctica
Group #2 – Asia
Group #3 – Africa
My point, of course, is that Western civilization (or Western Christendom), is something of an 800 lb. gorilla. No one in his right mind can ignore it and its good influences. Even the ability of TV personalities to trash “dead White European males” without risking death or banishment is something of a Western innovation in how people ought to live together. Even Black Americans who openly despise Whites seem to not want to hop a jet for a new life in Africa.
By Western civilization, I do include the peoples who’ve become part of that civilization by various assimilative processes. I. e., American Indians, Africans, Western Asians (think Imperial Rome).
Put more crudely: how do you not give the White guys (mostly) credit where it’s due?
* Representative Steve King could’ve said something very simple but effective, for example, “You take away trains, planes, automobiles, refrigerators, radio, television, movies, computers, telephones, microscopes, telescopes, rockets, antibiotics, washing machines, etc – all invented by white men – and what have you got? Not much.”
* Do you remember the viral video of Rand Paul running away from the collegiate (illegal) immigration activists at in Okijoba, IA in 2015?
The guy who stuck around to clean up Rand’s mess was Steve MF’ing King.
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Watching Melania Trump speak, it was hard for me to imagine that anyone would leave her address feeling anything but more favorably inclined toward her husband. That’s a big win for Team Trump. [Update: Or at least, it was a big win for the brief stretch between that genuine convention speech and the moment much of the internet realized they’d heard a good chunk of that same genuine convention speech before. Eight years before, to be precise.]
* Rudy Giuliani: Sure, the former New York City mayor shouted most of his speech. But I found him to be a very effective advocate for Trump; he talked about Trump’s anonymous charitable giving, he talked about Trump as a father and a friend. Giuliani’s broadside against the threat posed by terrorism and the need for Trump’s strength had the crowd eating out of the palm of his hand. In what was a generally sleepy night, Giuliani brought it.
* Donald Trump’s entrance: I have always wished that politics was more like pro wrestling. Increasingly, I am getting my wish. Trump’s entrance into the Republican convention — he offered a brief introduction for Melania — was epic. Backlit. Fog/smoke machine. “We are the champions” blaring through the speakers. It had everything.
* Marcus Luttrell: The former Navy SEAL — and subject of the book and film “Lone Survivor” — delivered an impassioned and raw appeal to patriotism during the first hour of the nighttime program. It’s hard to command a room at that hour — people are shuffling around and just getting settled in for the night — but Luttrell did it.
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The stronger your in-group identity, such as black, the more likely you are to have negative feelings about out-groups. Strongly identifying blacks are bound to have ambivalence about the United States of America and any white-majority or non-black majority country. It’s basic social development theory.
In order to increase our self-image we enhance the status of the group to which we belong. For example, England is the best country in the world! We can also increase our self-image by discriminating and holding prejudice views against the out group (the group we don’t belong to). For example, the Americans, French etc. are a bunch of losers!
Therefore, we divided the world into “them” and “us” based through a process of social categorization (i.e. we put people into social groups).
This is known as in-group (us) and out-group (them). Social identity theory states that the in-group will discriminate against the out-group to enhance their self-image.
The central hypothesis of social identity theory is that group members of an in-group will seek to find negative aspects of an out-group, thus enhancing their self-image.
Prejudiced views between cultures may result in racism; in its extreme forms, racism may result in genocide, such as occurred in Germany with the Jews, in Rwanda between the Hutus and Tutsis and, more recently, in the former Yugoslavia between the Bosnians and Serbs.
Henri Tajfel proposed that stereotyping (i.e. putting people into groups and categories) is based on a normal cognitive process: the tendency to group things together. In doing so we tend to exaggerate:
1. the differences between groups
2. the similarities of things in the same group.
We categorize people in the same way. We see the group to which we belong (the in-group) as being different from the others (the out-group), and members of the same group as being more similar than they are. Social categorization is one explanation for prejudice attitudes (i.e. “them” and “us” mentality) which leads to in-groups and out-groups.
The succession of high-profile killings of black men by the police in recent years — in Ferguson, Mo.; North Charleston, S.C.; Baltimore; New York City; and most recently in Baton Rouge and Falcon Heights — has touched off protests across the nation and given growing prominence to a movement, Black Lives Matter, dedicated to addressing inequities and discrimination in the criminal justice system.
The movement’s often boisterous denunciations of police violence have prompted a backlash from police unions, politicians and some rank-and-file officers, who accuse it of sowing hatred against men and women in uniform. Some have even blamed the movement for inspiring the gunmen in Dallas and Baton Rouge.
It is the same sentiment that slowed the movement’s campaign in New York City after two police officers were killed in an ambush in December 2014 by a mentally ill black man. The man, who killed himself shortly after killing the officers, had cited on social media the deaths of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man killed by the police in July 2014, and Michael Brown, the man killed in Ferguson in August 2014.
Black police officers said that when the topic was race and policing, they often sidestepped talking in public, and even talking with their co-workers.
In downtown Cleveland, where Republican convention-goers frequently cheered officers patrolling in groups on Monday, an eight-year veteran of the city’s transit police said the strain around race and policing had become so great, he had taken to completely avoiding the subject at work.
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Vox Day tweets: “It is glorious how Progressives, Blacks, and Jews are belatedly learning that calling whites names no longer dissuades them from anything.”
“It is no surprise that the media hates Melania Trump. Even at her age, she is hotter than every single female journalist covering her.”
Social media exploded Monday night after Rep. Steve King, speaking of western civilization, asked: “Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?”
King’s comments came during an appearance on MSNBC, when Esquire Magazine’s Charles Pierce expressed joy over the fact that “old white people” would play less of a role in American politics in the future.
“If you’re really optimistic, you can say that this is the last time that old white people will command the Republican party’s attention, its platform, its public face,” Pierce said. “That hall is wired by loud, unhappy, dissatisfied white people.”
“This ‘old white people’ business does get a little tired, Charlie,” King replied. “I’d ask you to go back through history and figure out, where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you’re talking about, where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?”
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From political power brokers to the entire island of Manhattan, a varied cast of taunting insiders has inadvertently driven Donald Trump’s lifelong revenge march toward the White House. This is what it’s like to be one of them.
Donald Trump stood on a debate stage in downtown Detroit, surrounded by haters he was determined to dispatch: Liddle Marco to his right, Lyin’ Ted to his left, Megyn Kelly at the moderator’s table straight ahead, and — somewhere out there, in a darkened living room 1,500 miles away — me.
About 30 minutes into the debate, Kelly asked Trump to respond to a recent BuzzFeed News report about his position on immigration.
“First of all, BuzzFeed?” Trump said, waving an index finger in the air. “They were the ones that said under no circumstances will I run for president — and were they wrong.” My phone lit up with a frenzied flurry of tweets, texts, and emails, each one carrying variations of the same message: This is all your fault.
Trump was referring to a profile I’d written two years earlier in which I chronicled a couple of days spent inside the billionaire’s bubble and confidently concluded that his long-stated presidential aspirations were a sham. He had tweeted about me frequently in the weeks following its publication — often at odd hours, sometimes multiple times a day — denouncing me as a “dishonest slob” and “true garbage with no credibility.” Breitbart published an “EXCLUSIVE” with Trump and his employees claiming I’d boorishly harassed various women during my brief stay at his Palm Beach estate Mar-a-Lago. (“I don’t know how to say it — he was looking at me like I was yummy,” complained one hostess named “Bianka Pop.”) There were a lot of things about Trump’s wrathful, wounded reaction that seemed weird at the time, but in retrospect, the weirdest was that it never really ended; for two years, Trump continued to rant about how I’m a scumbag or a loser or “just another phony guy.”
Trump’s performative character assassination led to plenty of teasing from friends and colleagues about how I had inadvertently goaded Trump into running. But as his campaign gained traction, the tone started to curdle into something more…hostile. Once, after discussing Trump’s latest outrage on cable news, the host grumbled to me, “Won’t it be great when Donald Trump becomes president because you wrote a fucking BuzzFeed article daring him to run? I mean, won’t that be fucking fantastic?” I mentioned to former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett that Trump’s candidacy had me yearning for a new beat. “So, wait a second, you get all of us into this, and now you decide it’s beneath you?” he demanded. “No, you stay ‘til it’s fucking over. The whole thing. You stay here with the rest of us until it’s done.”
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* “My parents were the kind of polite conservatives who would have been appalled by this year’s Republican presidential campaign. They belonged to that stuffy but understated class of Eastern WASPs who were gently mocked by the late satirist William Hamilton in the New Yorker.”
That’s complete BS. She can’t even write a piece about good, old-time values without taking shots at what she sees as the enemy. She ditched her parents’ values. Her enemy would have wanted her to keep them. If her parents where polite conservative WASPs who would have been appalled by this year’s GOP, they would have had heart attacks if they witnessed the democrats tranny-rights express. The whole country is messed up and it is boomers like this author who rejected her parents’ values that hold a disproportionate share of the blame. Passing it off on Trump and the people who want to restore some semblance of normalcy is disingenuous.
* Just read an article on Trump I found very illuminating, even though the author mostly does his damnedest to make Trump look ridiculous.
It gives you a good sense of the sorts of ill treatments that might have fueled Trump’s ambitions, financial, social, and political, across his life. One really has to say: the elites dismissed him with the same contemptuous ridicule and snobbery they accord to the rednecks they so obviously despise. This certainly explains much about the ease with which Trump has won over the sympathies of working class whites.
If Trump were, say, Jewish, and fighting his way into the snooty establishment, he’d be lionized by the media for his chutzpah. He’d be the hero Matthew Weiner might only dream about.
But what he is, you see, is a Vulgarian. A real, unabashed, honest to God, Vulgarian! Ugh! Yuck! Sniff!
The author is of course too deep into his cocoon to see the positive in his own portrayal, and to grasp the other angles from which the same events and character traits might be perceived.
* I went to the Django SAG screening. Most of the actors from the movie were there, to answer questions afterwards. My friend had asked me if I wanted to go to a movie at the last minute, and I said “sure,” and didn’t inquire about anything but the title, which meant nothing to me.
When the opening credits rolled, and I saw “Quintin Tarantino,” I turned to my friend and said, “you fucking asshole!” He whispers, “what’s the problem?” I whisper, “you didn’t tell me this was a Tarantino movie. Now I have to watch some stupid, crazy bullshit for at least the next two HOURS!”
As the movie progressed, I whispered to my friend, “why would you invite me to a movie in which a white person is executed about every two fucking minutes? what am I to glean from this? what am I rooting for, here?” My friend says, “just think of them as ‘the bad guys.’”
Then I noticed a white millennial, sitting by himself in front of us. I noticed that quite often, when a white person was executed, he clapped, and cheered. When the white southern belle of Candy Land was executed in such a way as she left her feet, he bounced up and down in his seat, laughing and cheering.
I said to my friend, “what do you make of a white kid cheering every time a white guy is killed? Not a particular white guy. Any white guy?” My liberal friend said, “he’s just enjoying the movie.”
So the ending credits roll, my friend jokingly asks, “so how’d you like the movie?” I say, “It’s going to get a lot of black people killed.” My liberal friend is incredulous. “What the hell are you talking about?!” I say, “this movie will empower the dumbest of the black folks. They’ll be watching it on their flat-screens at home, over and over. Their kids with no dads will be watching it all day, because their mom’s don’t give a shit, so we’ll have a bunch of indoctrinated black asshats, wandering the streets, using every police encounter as their personal, as-yet-unwritten-scene from Django.” My friend says, “you’r crazy.”
So then the actors come out, and the question-answer session begins. All the audience members who volunteered questions agreed that Django was Tarantino’s best movie since Pulp Fiction. The actors carry on about how Quintin Tarantino’s words are sacrosanct, like “reading words from the bible,” according to one.
Then the lead actress went on about her rape scene, and how it was hard for her to do, and she finally acquiesced because she felt she was doing a service to black people to “show it like it was.”
At this I stifled an unintentional laugh. Nothing anyone would notice–except James Remar. He looked over at me from the stage, and began glaring with intent. I broke eye contact with him, figuring it was a coincidence that he was looking my way with a concentrated furrowed brow. I looked back to him about 10 seconds later, and he was still glaring directly at me. I glared back directly at him.
His glare clearly implied, “I’d like to beat your ass.” My glare, I hoped he inferred, communicated, “I’d love to beat the shit out of YOU, ya chicken-shit ex-junkie.” As I was doing this, I was vividly imagining punching him square in the jaw. To this day, whenever I’m feeling low, I imagine punching James Remar in the face at the Django Question and Answer Session, and it always seems to lighten my load a bit. Because he’s a chicken-shit ex-junkie, who needs it.
This glare contest went on for at least half a minute. Very strange, but it happened. Any other time, I just go to SAG screenings, watch the movie, and leave.
Django was special to me, because I was sure it was going to get a lot of people shot, black and white. I didn’t want it to happen to either side. But I felt it was inevitable. I was the only one in the theater, apparently, who believed this. Everyone else was in victory mode.
I’m not happy to see exactly what I said would happen transpire exactly as I said it would. It just makes the world a little more shitty, and boring to me. I prefer pleasant surprises.
I guess I should have stood up during the Q&A, and asked a question. I had plenty I could have asked. I just wasn’t interested in casting myself as the focal point of an angry, aimless shitshow, as if I mattered in that context.
* Here’s what his childhood was:
In a recent interview promoting his new film “Django Unchained,” Tarantino revealed that his mom dated the NBA great and let it slip that she was one of the many notches on the Big Dipper’s bedpost.
“It was the ’70s and I was living with these three hip single ladies, all always going out on dates all the time, dating football players and basketball players,” Tarantino told Terry Gross of NPR’s “Fresh Air.”
“Professional ones,” Gross asked.
“Oh yeah, my mom, she dated Wilt Chamberlain. She was one of the 1,000,” Tarantino quipped about his mom, who split with his dad, Tony Tarantino, before he was born.
The filmmaker, of course, short-changed Chamberlain, whose self-proclaimed conquests in the bedroom are the stuff of legend.
He’s proud that his mother was batting practice for assorted jocks. This guy is f’ed up
* It has been 22 years, and (after multiple viewings) I still have no idea why anyone likes Pulp Fiction. It is ugly on so many levels.
I found myself sitting though it several times because it was popular with my coevals. More depressing to me than the movie was the enthusiasm that people had for it.
The first time I saw it was at a late-night showing in Richmond, California. Parents had brought their children to see it. I felt sorry for the children. The adults thought it was hilarious.
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* Well what I mean by NWO is that there are policies put in place (not voted on) by the puppeteers of our government which are destroying the black communities and all of the other communities outside the top 2 percent.
Black rage should be focused on “the program”:
A. Mass low skill immigration
B. Unfair trade agreements
C. Govt attacks on Christianity/family/fatherhood
D. Second Amendment curtailment in inner cities
This program is the problem for blacks. This program should be the focus of the rage. Instead the focus is “da crackas” ……..
Btw There aren’t any prominent black activists protesting The Program because there’s no money in it! Soros won’t give you a dime unless you shut up about these issues.
* The problem is that your planks are still standard Conservatism Inc. boilerplate.
-Blacks dislike immigration, but are far more invested into resenting YT
-The shooter was probably a Muslim, or at the very least a fellow traveler
-The problem with black crime has little to do with gun control. Blacks in Toronto are also disproportionately violent. As are South African blacks.
For a black person to adopt even run-of-the mill conservatism, they are turning their back on 90% of their community. For one of them to become sympathetic to the ethnic continuity of white conservatives, is about as likely as either of us becoming Alawis in Bashar Assad’s army.
You are correct at BLM being a Soros directed movement, but you don’t see the resentment that is fueling it. It existed before any of us heard of Trayvon Martin or Ferguson, Missouri.
* He also published books with uniform sloppily written 5 star reviews (aka nobody read them).
His Amazon author page:
After completing an Associate’s degree in General Studies at Central Texas College, Cosmo then attended Clark Atlanta University to further his education. After a year and a half at Clark Atlanta as a dean’s list student, he had a spiritual revelation that resulted in him dropping out of college, selling his two cars, giving away all of his material possessions, packing two suitcases and journeying to Africa—his ancestral homeland.
While in Africa, Cosmo’s spiritual journey took him across Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Egypt, Ghana and Burkina Faso. During that time he frequented the highly treasured and revered mountainous regions of Africa and was taught by Africa’s native spiritual practitioners and elder holistic healers.
* Hatred of whiteness is the only acceptable prejudice in today’s society – once mostly the province of chin-stroking academics it has been given tacit legitimacy by the Administration and its officials over the past 7 years through repeatedly implying that disparities in incarceration rates down to school discipline are evidence of systemic racism, promoting the false narratives of Ferguson, and giving legitimacy to BLM and its leaders.
Essentially the president and others in positions of power have given the green light for race-based acting out, and given the higher than average rates of violence in everyday life for this group, it’s inevitable that it gets turned on totems of law and order. I think Obama is starting to realize what he unleashed (and I don’t think he thought it would got this far) but he’s also too invested in the the myths of black oppression to have the courage to actually try and calm things down beyond is self-serving pleas against division.
* A few observations here:
1. This affirms that in newspeak , a conversation (convo) 100% means “listen while I lecture to you”. You can’t have an actual conversation on YouTube, but you can present a lecture.
2. Not all blacks who still wear dashikis are cop killers, but all recent cop killers wear dashikis.
3. Another 3 byline special by the NYT, and yet between the 3 of them, they can’t even guess at a motive. Maybe they can get the reporters who wrote the stories about Dylan Roof – they had no problem reach a conclusion on even less information.
4. “The attack’s motive was unclear” – a new low. They couldn’t say “a rifle rampages in Baton Rouge”. Attacks don’t have motives. Attackers have motives.
5. Once again, the most dangerous Negroes are the mixed race type. Smart enough to THINK that they understand what is going on, but not actually smart enough to do so.
6. Too bad about Genius T. Coates. Better luck next time.
7. This “everything is spinning out of control” state of affairs DOES NOT help Hillary. Despite the media’s best efforts to portray these incidents as having nothing to do with nothing, people can see that the Obama/Hillary approach to terrorism, domestic and foreign, is totally ineffective at best (at worst, they are encouraging it) so that a vote for Hillary means 4 (or 8) more years of this with no end in sight.
* As if killing street cops was going to scare anyone with real power.
Harold Covington’s novels deal with the prospect of revolutionaries, serious revolutionaries, having to deal with the police in a far more serious matter. If you’re really going to have a revolution, the same people are going to be cops before as after. The only difference is who is going to sign their pay checks. While it might be necessary to get rid of an occasional bad actor, you do it discreetly and one on one, and you make every move considering that when it’s over the victorious revolutionaries and the cops have to live with each other. Murdering random cops is the worst possible move. Plus, and the bigger key, YOU HAVE TO GET AWAY WITH, and BE SEEN TO have gotten away with, whatever sanctions you take. If you kill two or three people only to be blown up, shot down, or arrested, tried and put in the slammer or get the needle, the system has won that skirmish. None of these dopes have figured that out.
* To the residents of Baton Rouge:
Sucks to be White and You.
Being a pussy has a price: Fear.
The “vomit in your mouth a little” kind of fear too many white folks have never known:
I’d like to recognize the folks who say, “why do you need a semi-automatic rifle, when our founding fathers have single-shot flintlocks, and never imagined semi-automatic rifles? Why can’t we just have single-loading weapons as our forefathers intended?”
One answer is, because back then, blacks weren’t free.
Now they are. How’s that been working out?
Twenty-five years from now, when our population has doubled, the stress on resources doubled–at least–do you think, pending any food or gas shortages, relations with blacks and everybody else, including blacks, will be better, the same, or not as good?
The rational conclusion might lead you to get your fanny to a gun range, and ask to join a class on weapons handling and shooting. When they approve of your skill, purchase a semi-automatic weapon, keep it in the bedroom closet, and thank me later.
If the fellows in the video had one in their closet, the look on their faces would be of semi-bemusement, instead of fear, not to mention they could have shot the moron in the head right then and there, and been the rock stars of their Neighborhood Watch group.
And isn’t that a good thing?
* The lying media went for a whole day with their “the motives are unclear” when one of his Youtube videos pretty explicitly went to discuss Dallas killings and how he “knew, knew long before that” the truth of what police does to black males in this uber racist country. A real mystery!
His account is now deleted but the cause of deletion is mis-stated:
“I Am Cosmo has been terminated because we received multiple third-party claims of copyright infringement regarding material the user posted.”
* The Narrative is no backlash allowed when the aggressor isn’t a WCM (White Christian Male).
When an aggressor is found with the slightest tendency to be a WCM:
(OKC-McVeigh, not religious),
(Norway, Breivik, not religious)
(Atlanta, Olympic bombing, questionable),
(Tucson, shooter was a mentally deranged “anarchist”)
(Charleston, shooter despised average conservatives,the victims were Christian)
* Comedian Chris Rock has said White people need to “own up” to their past and have more $guilt. He tweeted all about the Black guys that got shot recently.
Yet he is totally silent about the massacre of cops currently going on. Weird how that works.
* An (average) review of The Bonfire of the Vanities I saw on Goodreads.
At the time I read this book I was very ignorant about the politics of race in the USA, and reading it introduced me to my whiteness; it thoroughly decentred me and I never thought of myself as the universal again. Subsequently I tried to read some of Wolfe’s work on politics and architecture and I couldn’t, it was horrendous, and that reminded me that I don’t clearly remember the point of The Bonfire, I only remember the dynamics of race and class privilege being played out in a New York I had never imagined, and fractured in the body & mind of the protagonist.
A few years later I went to New York and was completely blown away and overwhelmed every moment by it. In some ways what I saw the reflection of this book; I was primed by it to see employment/class division on racial lines, groups maintaining their distinct identities. I want to add that I don’t see the latter as a bad thing at all – my perspective, formed in the UK, is that an ‘immigrant’ group in a ‘host’ culture should be able to maintain and celebrate their culture of origin and also be able to create and enjoy and celebrate identities as members of the welcoming, inclusive ‘host’ culture. But this model of immigrants and hosts, which is, now I think about it, pretty supremacist and hierarchical, is meaningless racist ignorance in New York, and Wolfe shows that it is meaningless racist ignorance. That’s why I think this is worth reading.
* The Baton Rouge murderer appears to have been fairly intelligent guy: he had wide interests, had some creative skills, and could write fairly well. It’s too bad he went down this road.
As noted, the posts have a narcissistic element which usually means that he actually was insecure and attempting to claim for himself all the things that he did not in fact have. Something of a black nerd, and the reference to Elliot Roger seems apt.
The whole masculine/mastery thing comes across as compensatory talk for not getting laid, so the 2.5 years of celibacy is no surprise. Sexual rejection is demonic when you are young. It’s not a surprise that #5 on his reading list was a bio of Barry White. (The reference to Smoove B was also very apt, those columns should be read with the Barry White voice in your head.)
I am less inclined to think that #BLM caused this than to think that #BLM provided this Black Raskolnikov with a target of opportunity. If not police officers, he probably would have shot some women who represented his rejections, a la Roger.
I also read the T. Genius article. Unfortunately, anytime he writes an article that modifies a statement of police officer murders with a “however” in the next sentence it comes across as a validation of those murders, and while I don’t think he means it that way he still has to work on his rhetoric. With regard to TNC, he totally lost it in the past two years, arguing (in his book) that Michael Brown was “murdered”, which isn’t accurate, and then with his repeated statements that he thinks all violent felons should be released from prison (along with other felons.) I mean at this point he has totally lost it.
* Why it’s hard to be a black in America: a) because you look different from everybody else; and (b), people who look like you murder at seven times the rate of everybody else, have an average IQ of 85, and in way too many cases are unable to function as responsible, self-supporting, law-abiding members of a modern Western-style democratic society.
Admit it. If you woke up one morning and discovered you would black, you would know instantly that life wasn’t going to be so easy going forward. You would have to be on your very best behavior and hope to dear heaven that you were born way above average.
* As physically repulsive as he [TNC] is, I dont really blame him for his endless rage at the world although I wish he’d stop directing it at whitey. Blacks don’t like faces as hideous as his, and that has nothing to do with “white beauty standards”; it evolutionarily predates the MRCAs of all living humans.
I place the blame for the atrocity of his influence firmly on his bosses’ shoulders. Out of the millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands of blacks more intelligent than he, they chose to give him the megaphone.
* The shooter is a Tragic Mulatto.
Listen to the first few minutes of his video in which he hands out his book to a couple of backyard bruthas.
Like some revival preacher, he desperately pitches them on his Good Book, giving it away free. He doesn’t even know the dudes he is talking to. He talks down to them, referring to them as “you darker bruthas” and tries to create solidarity and belongingness by saying he “knows” the suffering and oppression they “go through”. (And, by implication, confesses that he does NOT experience.)
Like Obama, the shooter needed to feel he is a part of something, loved by someone, looked up to by someone, for something … ANYthing.
One of the tragedies of WEB Dubois’ Talented Tenth ideology is the racial alienation and guilt it produces in some intelligent (read: “mixed race”) black folks. Dubois teaches smart black folks to separate themselves, leave the ghetto, go off and get an education. And, like Obama’s wife, they do so with a sigh of relief. Why relief? Because they like living in safety, comfort, and being around smarter, higher motivated people. And that is where they get stuck, particularly if they wind up attending a white college in a white community. Alienated and separated from regular, everyday black folks, yet too different to really be a part of white society. Neither fish nor fowl.
If the shooter had stayed in the black community, if he had gone to Howard and made intelligent black friends, there’s a good chance he would have bonded with similar “strivers” and found a middle class, educated, Talented Tenth community in which to live (Atlanta?), instead of trolling the ghetto and handing out self-improvement books to guys who don’t even read, and ultimately shooting some cops to prove he was “down wif da hood”.
* Don’t you know that a black guy openly proclaiming on video that he is going to shoot white cops no more establishes motives for his shooting of white cops than an organization labeling itself “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” means it’s Islamic?
* For lone wolf attacks like this, I think the best model is that there’s a susceptible population of messed up people out there, and your movement can sometimes capture their imagination, so that when they crack, they do it in a particular direction. ISIS and Al Qaida actively try to get lone wolf types to do this. BLM doesn’t, but their pool of susceptible people is a lot larger in the US.
The way the prestige media cover mass shootings (and these are a specific kind of mass shooting) is like a set of step by step instructions for the next crazy person who wants to go out in a blaze of glory. You kill a few strangers, and suddenly you’ll be posthumously famous and strangers will read your manifesto and know your name. We reward exactly what we don’t want.
* You could tie together a lot of the discussion on ISteve into single theme: the collapse of opportunity and direction for 95-105 IQ men in general, or the Hollowing Out of the (Bell Curve ) Hump. That’s what the “hollowing out of the economy” is: the end of jobs for that large demographic, and that filters down to how our schools are structured. The entire educational system clusters its focus on the tails. That’s demographically the “coalition of the fringes”-the tails.
And do our social myths. The dignity of the skilled common man has gone as well- partially papered over by elites who deride the post-WWII prosperity boom under that countaer-narrative of the 1950′s being some kind of fascist hellhole.
* As is now abundantly clear, giving in to blacks only empowers their sense of racial grievance.
* The narrative wins and we all lose. Every single NYT comment in the article is about gun control. Because we live amongst wild savages we need guns. But those same savages are savage and kill each other. Therefore, to protect them from themselves they cannot have guns and by proxy we cannot have guns.
* On Drudge today, a headline: “Obama: Police Can ‘Make the Job of Being a Cop a Lot Safer’ by Admitting Their Failures.”
What unmitigated gall! Here’s how Obama responds when others point out his failures:
Earlier, during the event, Mr. Obama became visibly cross and responded tartly after Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas questioned whether the president was doing enough to support law enforcement. Mr. Patrick admonished him to “consider being careful” with his words after police confrontations so that he does not reflexively blame the officers.
“Words matter — your words matter,” Mr. Patrick said. “Put on the blue lights,” he added, noting that the president had bathed the White House in colorful lights in the past to honor other groups.
“I have been unequivocal in condemning any rhetoric directed at police officers,” Mr. Obama said, offering to send Mr. Patrick copies of his comments on the subject. “I appreciate the sentiment; I think it’s already being expressed.”
Obama loves apologizing for the sins of pre-Obama America. C.S. Lewis called this “the sin of detraction masquerading as the virtue of contrition.” Obama will never apologize for anything he’s personally responsible for.
* You almost wonder if at some point the media need to adopt the policy of TV networks with regard to people who run on the field during sporting events: Don’t show them.
(I know this isn’t practical and is likely impossible, but it conceptually interesting).
* It is going to get worse. Up until now they have been going after the hard targets, cops.
Wait until they start going after non-hard targets, like random whites.
Of course, there has been a low-level race war going on for quite some time already, but I suspect they are going to get more serious from now on.
Of course, given their general lack of competence, especially in the thinking department, it will not turn out well for them.
Did you see the reaction of Nice residents to that loser they call their PM:
Extraordinary. French PM and politicians BOOED by memorial crowds here b4 minute's silence. Visceral anger in #Nicepic.twitter.com/uUtHhx052Z
I bring it up because I think fundamentally, while all of us are predisposed to religion as human beings, some people and groups are more predisposed; until recently, blacks spend far more time in religious services than other groups (http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/racial-and-ethnic-composition/black/ )
My sense, however, is that church attendance for black men has fallen off a cliff (my wife and I intermittently attend a predominantly black church and it looks to be 6:1 female to male everywhere but the pulpit and the choir.) My guess is that for people like the Baton Rouge killer, the seductions of other manias- whether BLM, or alpha/beta silliness, or Africana pilgrimages, or “I’m a modern-day Budokan warrior” stuff- is much greater now that that old time religion has been displaced from regular life.
I also of course think that the abandonment of civic religion- call it citizenism or patriotism or just “all lives matter”- is a dangerous thing as well, leaving far too much room for other garbage to creep in to our civic space. (This is something I wrote about Christian rhetoric and civic/bourgeois identity in the civil rights movement and its aftermath: https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/the-beloved-community-and-the-bourgeois-society/)
* What we need right now is something to calm the brothers down like, oh I don’t know, a Nat Turner biopic.
* A brief perusal of his “CWC” website gives the impression that he’s a bit of a meglomaniac: a faux-intellectual (yeah – he read some books – wow!) Alpha-male, entrepreneur, life-coach, spiritual-guide. I guess when he realized that nobody wanted to buy his books or talk to him on the phone for $140 an hour or that no woman (apparently) wanted to go out with him, he blew a gasket and did his afro-jihad thing.
* It does seem odd. Riling up the black population against the regime when your own side is already the regime. Not just in the sense that Steve has often talked about – the progressives being the establishment for decades. But in the literal incumbent black Democrat President sense.
If these people are going to be fired up to vote for Hillary, to put things right – at last! Who they hell do they think has been in charge for the last eight years?
* The progressives want the central government to become ever larger with even more authority. Even though they have the presidency, they don’t have Congress. They don’t exercise control over the nation’s police departments, which are the largest decentralized police force in the world. They don’t exercise control over all the state legislatures and governors’ mansions. They don’t exercise full control over the nation’s school districts. The list goes on and on.
Progressives would like to have a highly centralized government so that one only needs to capture the heights of the presidency to exercise total control. They’ve already used the Ferguson unrest to get the Justice Department to insert itself into several police forces. They will use the current round of conflict to get even more control over our decentralized police.
* Damn, Gavin Long’s voracious reading puts me to shame. Clearly a very intelligent guy. The rapid 80-lb weight loss caught my attention. There is a link between rapid weight loss and depression and identity issues (among other mental problems). If I had to guess I would say this is less about BLM and more about one guy’s untreated mental issues.
* “If you woke up one morning and discovered you would black, you would know instantly that life wasn’t going to be so easy going forward. You would have to be on your very best behavior and hope to dear heaven that you were born way above average.”
I think if you have an IQ of 85, you don’t have the capability for insight like that. The gap in understanding and shared experience between people separated by one standard deviation in IQ is marked; people across a gulf of two or three might as well be from different planets. You have profoundly different reality tunnels.
The hallmark of average or below average blacks is a profound absence of mind. Police procedural TV shows are absurd because the perps, especially the black perps, reason through everything just like you would. An antidote to this, as many other commenters have pointed out, is The First 48 where you can see this almost alien (un)reasoning in (in)action.
One of the few times the public has ever purposely had their attention drawn to the reasoning faculties of a sub-85 IQ black was the testimony of Rachael Jeantel during the Zimmerman trial. The media did their best to rehabilitate her but it was too late. What everyone saw was someone so dishonest, hostile and stupid that it was almost amazing.
One begins to wonder how laws could apply to someone like Rachael Jeantel at all if she could barely understand them, could barely understand what “law” is. And then they have to remember that understanding and be able to intuitively apply — that’s just not gonna happen.
Let’s spell it out: a huge swathe of blacks are functionally retarded without having a biological syndrome.
* Lunatics, for all their lunacy, have an uncanny ability to pick up what is “in the air” and connect it to their delusions. Before the space age, no nutcase ever claimed to have been abducted by aliens and then suddenly there were thousands of UFO sightings (these seem to have died back down as people have moved on to other obsessions).
The media and political leaders and movements have the ability to shape the narrative and the sick receive these messages and hear them in their own twisted way. So when the BLM says that black people have legitimate grievances against the police, Cosmo receives the message as “kill the pigs”.
When conservatives supposedly send these subliminal messages to their followers , they are instantly (and in most cases totally falsely) accused of “dog whistling” but apparently leftists (according to the media narrative) don’t own any dog whistles so that when Cosmo explodes he’s just a crazy guy who had nothing to do with anything and certainly not with speeches that Obama has made blaming the police for persecuting blacks.
* Beergate “worked” in the sense that Obama learned his lesson and largely kept his mouth shut on racial issues up until recently (and now that he has opened his mouth again, the foot went right back in). Obama is a lame duck who doesn’t care but secretly the Hillary people must be apoplectic – all she wanted was black people just riled enough to come out and vote for her, not this, which is going to cost her more white votes than she is going to gain in black votes.
* It’s not about black lives. It’s about non-blacks killing blacks, period. I really cannot fault them for this. Their behavior is normal. It is white and European behavior that is abnormal. Watch the local news sometime when a white family member is interviewed after their loved one has been killed by a black. They go out of their way to show their family doesn’t have a hateful bone in their body. Or watch the reaction of white officials in a place like Rotherham. They go out of their way to ignore what is happening, lest they bring too much attention to the fact that the offenders were non-white.
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