June 13, 2016 NYT: To Beat Anti-Semitic Trolls Online, Some Co-Opt Their Weapons and Mock Them Luke Ford No sacred cows.

NYT: To Beat Anti-Semitic Trolls Online, Some Co-Opt Their Weapons and Mock Them

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

Now, a wide swath of Twitter users, both Jews and gentiles, has also adopted the parentheses, hoping to spread awareness of the issue and make it more difficult to target individuals. In an interview, Mr. Rosenberg said it would also allow more people to see the parentheses and ask what they’re all about, turning anyone into a potential educator on anti-Semitism.
He said the typical cycle of exposing bigotry — someone says a dumb thing, the target retweets it, other people get outraged — is a bit of a downer, and typically reaches people who are already aware that bigotry is bad. Instead, he prefers to mock the vile attacks he receives, hoping humor will help him find a wider audience and increase awareness.
“The only thing you can do is mock it, and show these people: ‘You are outside our discourse,’ ” he said.

Gentile Professor says: “It’s so bizarre. Do they realize that the alt-righters think Jews and NYT writers are ‘bigots’? Do they really think that anyone in our world today doesn’t realize that ‘bigotry is bad’? When you’ve been outside the mainstream discourse for long enough it becomes very hard to understand what these people are thinking (or pretending to think). What is ‘bigotry’ for them? It’s ‘bigotry’ to say that Jews are powerful and ethnocentric and over-represented in various fields, but it’s not ‘bigotry’ to say similar things about whites. So what is it? Just whatever claims elite Jews or liberals or minorities don’t like? Their discourse seems so irrational that it becomes hard to believe that _they_ really believe what they’re saying. And yet, it really does seem that they believe it, or that lots of them do anyway. E.g., that ‘principled conservatives’ really do believe their gas about the constitution or individual rights or whatnot, while at the same time they think it’s best to align themselves with BLM and Hilary Clinton rather than Trump.”

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Should We Import More Muslims Like Omar Mateen?

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

Feb. 7, 2016: The rabbi who rallies American Jews for the global refugee cause

People like HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) and its HIAS vice president, Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, want to flood your community with poisonous snakes like Islamic Orlando killer Omar Mateen.

The Times of Israel:

The Syrian refugee crisis keeps Rabbi Jennie Rosenn up at night. However for her, the worry goes beyond personal concern to professional responsibility. As the relatively new vice president for community engagement at the refugee assistance organization HIAS, she is tasked with mobilizing the American Jewish community in the face of the world’s largest refugee situation since World War II.
Before arriving at HIAS in 2014, Rosenn, 47, played a leading role in the field of Jewish service as the director of the Jewish Life and Values Program at the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
“I moved to HIAS and refugees because I sought to get closer to the ground on a real issue,” Rosenn said in a recent interview with The Times of Israel.
The timing was auspicious, as the global refugee crisis could not be more urgent than it is right now, with the events of the last months having made Rosenn’s job easier — and also much harder.
On one hand, Americans’ attention was captured by media coverage last year of more than a million Syrian and other Middle Eastern migrants and refugees making perilous sea journeys to reach European shores, and flooding across borders on foot. And after photos of drowned three-year-old Kobani-born Alan Kurdi were shared widely on social media, sympathy grew further for the refugees.

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Who Wants More Muslims In The West?

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

Dec. 23, 2015: British Jewish organizations lay groundwork for influx of Syrian refugees

The Times of Israel:

British Jewry is vowing to not stand idly by as restrictive British asylum policy prevents all but a tiny trickle of today’s refugees to legally reach the shores of the United Kingdom.
Earlier this month, during Hanukkah, three of Britain’s Jewish religious movements released a video announcing the launch of a campaign to reinstate private sponsorship for refugees, a mechanism that disappeared after WWII.
Like the private sponsorship of refugees currently underway by Canadian Jews, the British scheme would involve synagogues, community organizations and individuals taking responsibility for resettling Syrian families fleeing the four-year-old civil war in their country.
“One of the things that has united the Jewish communities here is the refugee crisis. Religious and lay leaders are speaking out. Nothing has been as deeply resonant for us,” said Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, a senior British Reform rabbi.

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Why Not Have Borders?

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Why do the wealthy live in gated communities and walled compounds? They want to live within borders and boundaries. Also the Secret Service is going to be increasing the height of the fence (border) around the White House.

* They also want to take away your right to secure the space around yourself.

While they go around protected by Praetorian guards.

It’s a global empire.

* DNC to Build a Wall for Security During National Convention in Philadelphia

* Worth bearing in mind that the latest islamist terrorist’s parents would not have been in the US at all were it not for the US regime’s choice to use jihadism as a tool of its own interventionist policy in Afghanistan, and he is also on record as feeling (entirely understandable) resentment about US behaviour in Afghanistan.

* Here’s the reality:

I lived in pre-1965 America. There was no airport security, no railway security, no X-ray machines, no Government goons pawing through our luggage, no Moslems in hijabs wanding our grandmas or absconding to foreign countries to wage jihad. Our country and our countrymen were high-trust – because we Americans were then One People.

I miss pre-1965 America because Open Borders Perpetual Mass Third World Imminvasion destroyed that America – destroyed that Great America. Today I don’t even recognize this country as America, because it’s full of and continues to fill up with people who are not American and who never will be American.

Those never-will-be-Americans are why we Americans are now subjects under a police-surveillance-security regime – and those never-will-be-Americans are why today, at every place we Americans go to in what is supposed to be our country, we are now also subjected to private security of every description and level of stringency.

So, yes: let’s have a border, and let’s police it, let’s defend it, let’s keep the global hordes of never-will-be-Americans the hell out of OUR country.

It is that simple.

* On the CBS News tonight they tried to do a tribute to what wonderful people were lost. De mortuis nil nisi bonum (of the dead speak only well) but to be honest, it was a very unimpressive group of (mostly) Hispanics. There were no Feynmans or Hawkings lost in that group. We have been lucky that for every violent Muslim we let in there are a hundred Dominican telemarketers and Mexican Disneyland ride operators but honestly what the hell have we been doing for the last 50 years? The next flying car or interplanetary space ship is not coming from this bunch. We could have done so, so much better but we didn’t even try. It probably wasn’t really a great idea to totally transform the ethnic composition of America to begin with but if we were going to do so anyway, couldn’t we have made it more like Seoul or Singapore and less like Mexico City?

* There are plenty of borders and plenty of border enforcement in a borderless world. They surround and protect the growing increasingly filthy rich increasingly disconnected increasingly bubble-fied international elite.

* In other words, in order to be blessed with the “liberation” of open borders we have to accept authoritarianism within those borders. That might be a bargain people living outside of those borders are thrilled to accept, but why should someone who is already a U.S. citizen accept that “bargain”?

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Men Work Harder Than Women

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

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WP: Trump’s ‘Pocahontas’ attack leaves GOP squirming again

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

Yeah, your average American will be just so upset by this kind of language.

Washington Post: “The real estate developer has repeatedly invoked the 17th-century Native American figure to refer to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, alarming some Republican lawmakers just as the furor over his assaults on a Latino judge was beginning to subside.”

The other big story on the site right now is: “At Malia Obama’s graduation, the president turns into ‘just a total dad’”

Fair and balanced.

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To Beat Anti-Semitic Trolls Online, Some Co-Opt Their Weapons and Mock Them

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

The Alt Right was devastated by this response. Absolutely devastated.

The New York Times does not bother to hear from the Alt Right on this story.

New York Times: The internet is full of bad people. This is not breaking news.

But in the past week, the anti-Semitic corners of social media have received increased attention because of sustained harassment campaigns against journalists and other public figures and a highly visible effort to combat them by Twitter users.

Jonathan Weisman, the deputy Washington editor at The New York Times, created a stir when he said Wednesday he would quit Twitter, where he had almost 35,000 followers. He was fatigued by a month’s worth of anti-Semitic messages and photos sent his way, an experience he wrote about in May.

Mr. Weisman said Thursday that he had left Twitter because he was frustrated that it allowed people to spew their hate anonymously and that jousting with the bigots had taken up too much of his time.

“But I did feel like it should be brought to the public consciousness,” he said. “People should know this kind of hate is out there.”

Mr. Weisman said Twitter suspended about 30 accounts shortly after he tweeted that he would be leaving.

The anti-Semitic strain of trolls gained renewed attention after Mic, a news site, reported last week that neo-Nazis were using parentheses as a way to target social media users for harassment campaigns. When they suspected that a Twitter user was Jewish, they put parentheses around the target’s name, essentially inviting other anti-Semites to attack them.

Soon afterward in a countercampaign, Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, added the parentheses to his own name. That inspired Yair Rosenberg, a senior writer for Tablet Magazine, to suggest others do the same.

Now, a wide swath of Twitter users, both Jews and gentiles, has also adopted the parentheses, hoping to spread awareness of the issue and make it more difficult to target individuals. In an interview, Mr. Rosenberg said it would also allow more people to see the parentheses and ask what they’re all about, turning anyone into a potential educator on anti-Semitism.

He said the typical cycle of exposing bigotry — someone says a dumb thing, the target retweets it, other people get outraged — is a bit of a downer, and typically reaches people who are already aware that bigotry is bad. Instead, he prefers to mock the vile attacks he receives, hoping humor will help him find a wider audience and increase awareness.

“The only thing you can do is mock it, and show these people: ‘You are outside our discourse,’ ” he said.

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Here Are 10 More Examples of Google Search Results Favorable to Hillary

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

Washington Beacon: “Crime” and “indictment” are not the only terms Google is keeping hidden from searches of Hillary Clinton, a Washington Free Beacon analysis finds.

Common search terms associated with Clinton appear to have been scrubbed from Google as the tech giant has been accused of manipulating its autocomplete results to favor the Democratic presidential candidate.

Matt Lieberman of SourceFed released a video showing examples of Google skewing its autocomplete results for Clinton, while other search engines simply display the most searched terms.

“While researching for a wrap-up on the June 7 Presidential Primaries, we discovered evidence that Google may be manipulating autocomplete recommendations in favor of Hillary Clinton,” SourceFed wrote. “If true, this would mean that Google Searches aren’t objectively reflecting what the majority of Internet searches are actually looking for, possibly violating Google’s algorithm.”

For example, when searching Hillary Clinton “cri,” Google finishes the phrase as “crime reform.” On Yahoo, the result is “criminal charges.” On Google’s own trend website, there were not enough searches for Hillary Clinton and “crime reform” to build a graph of the results.

Typing Hillary Clinton and “ind” gives Google users results on Hillary Clinton and Indiana. On Microsoft’s Bing search engine, a user gets Hillary Clinton and “indictment,” yielding results for the FBI investigation into Clinton’s private email server.

Just putting the name “Hillary Clinton” into Google, you are directed towards searches for her “twitter,” “email,” “age,” and “speech.”

Julian Assange: Google Is In Bed With Hillary’s Campaign

Speaking at a European journalism summit on Tuesday, Julian Assange claimed that through several outlets, Google has been working to put Hillary Clinton in the White House.

According to the International Business Times, the WikiLeaks founder told attendees at the “New Era of Journalism: Farewell to Mainstream” conference that “Google is directly engaged with Hillary Clinton’s campaign.”

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American-Jewish Banker Elected President Of Peru With 50.1% Of The Vote

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comment: Is being president “a job Peruvians won’t / can’t do?”

According to Wikipedia: Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾo ˈpaβlo kukˈʃiŋski ɣoˈðaɾð]; born October 3, 1938), better known simply as PPK, is a Peruvian economist, politician and public administrator who was elected as President of Peru in 2016.[1] He served as Prime Minister of Peru from 2005 to 2006.

Kuczynski worked in the United States before entering Peruvian politics.[2] He held positions at both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund before being designated as general manager of Peru’s Central Reserve Bank. He later served as Minister of Energy and Mines in the early 1980s under President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, and as Minister of Economy and Finance and Prime Minister under President Alejandro Toledo in the 2000s.[3]

Kuczynski was a presidential candidate in the 2011 presidential election, placing third. His opponents Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori went on to the June 5, 2011 runoff election, in which Humala was elected.[4] Kuczynski went on to stand in the 2016 election, where he defeated Keiko Fujimori in the second round.[5]

Kuczynski was born at the Clínica Delgado in Lima, Peru, the son of Madeleine Godard, who was of Swiss-French descent, and German immigrant Maxime Hans Kuczynski, who was born near Poznań and was one of the earliest public health leaders in Peru.[6][7][8] His parents, who were Jewish, fled Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazis.[9] He received his early education at Markham College in Lima, Peru, and Rossall School in Lancashire, England where he was a pupil in Maltese Cross House between 1953 and 1956. He won a foundation scholarship to study at Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated with a degree in politics, philosophy and economics in 1960. Later, he received the John Parker Compton fellowship to study public affairs at Princeton University in the United States, where he received a master’s degree in 1961. He began his career at the World Bank in 1961 as a regional economist for six countries in Central America, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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There Is No Exception in Islam

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

Razib Khan writes:

Several years ago there was a famous exchange between Ben Affleck and Bill Maher & Sam Harris on the nature of Islam. In response I published a post titled “ISIS’ Willing Executioners”. The overall point was that Affleck’s comments were not informed by the nature of Islam or Muslims, but broader political currents. As for his interlocutors, Bill Maher and Sam Harris, I think they were making a better faith effort to engage with the facts, though they too came up short. The primary reason that I give them more credit than Affleck is that I think to some extent their anti-Islamic talking points were counter-narrative toward their preferred ideology, which was on the Left-liberal end of the spectrum. Though a general contempt or disdain for religion is not necessarily a problem among American Left-liberals, for various reasons Muslims have become a “protected class” subject to prejudice from the ideological opponents of Maher and Harris’ normal fellow travelers…

Sam Harris would probably respond that these people don’t take Islam seriously on its own merits, and that Islam is fundamentally and constitutively at odds with tolerance of gay people and a liberal attitude toward the rights of women. Though I disagree in the firmness and definitiveness of Harris’ conclusions, I do agree that people like Ben Affleck, and frankly most Left-liberals who might fall back on the term Islamophobia, don’t actually take Islam, or religion generally, seriously. This explains the rapid and strident recourse toward a racial analogy for Islamic identity, as that is a framework that modern Left-liberals and progressives have internalized and mastered. The problem with this is that Islam is not a racial or ethnic identity, it is a set of beliefs and practices. Being a Muslim is not about being who you are in a passive sense, but it is a proactive expression of a set of ideas about the world and your behavior within the world. This category error renders much of Left-liberal and progressive analysis of Islam superficial, and likely wrong.

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