I opened Twitter recently and saw 20+ notifications. Most of the time that means the new generation of white nationalist Twitter trolls are filling my feed with racist and anti-Semitic cartoons. It was the trolls, but this was different. They were celebrating my use of the word “anti-white” in a tweet. They saw it as a victory that a “mainstream conservative” was using this term that for so long has been their calling card.
They had a point. Until recently I would have been unlikely to use the term. Not because I didn’t believe some people harbored animosity towards whites, but because that was a fringe attitude removed from power, which represented little real threat. That is no longer the case. Progressive rhetoric on race has turned an ugly corner and the existence of “anti-white” attitudes can no longer be ignored.
In the past year, all of the following headlines have appeared, in well-read publications:
What is new is the direct indictment of white people as a race. This happened through a strange rhetorical transformation over the past few years. At first, “white men are our greatest threat” postings tended to be ironic, a way of putting the racist shoe on the other foot. They were meant to show that blaming an entire race for the harmful actions of a few individuals is senseless.
Then the tenor changed. What started as irony turned into an actual belief that white people, specifically white men, are more dangerous and immoral than any other people. Loosely backed up by historical inequities and disparities in mass shootings, this position has begun to take a serious foothold.
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White people are being asked–or pushed–to take stock of their whiteness and identify with it more. This is a remarkably bad idea. The last thing our society needs is for white people to feel more tribal. The result of this tribalism will not be a catharsis of white identity, improving equality for non-whites. It will be resentment towards being the only tribe not given the special treatment bestowed by victimhood.
A big part of the reason white Americans have been willing to go along with policies that are prejudicial on their face, such as affirmative action, is that they do not view themselves as a tribe. Given the inequality of resources favoring whites in our society, it is a good thing that white people view themselves as the ones without an accent. Should that change, white privilege (whatever one views that to be) will not be eviscerated–it will be entrenched.
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All of this comes at a time when the last immigrants from the great wave of white immigration from 1850-1920 have died off. In the past, most whites identified with their European ethnicity: Irish, Italian, German, etc. As white people gravitate away from such identities, many see themselves as a neutral, “non racial” population. The Left criticizes this refusal to see themselves as “white,” but it is far preferable to the alternative: an American white population that views itself as a special-interest group.
The recurring, tired refrain that we should have a white history month if there is a black history month, or white student unions on campuses, is unintentionally being given new life by the Left. Celebrations or organizations of whiteness do not exist because we don’t need them. White people do not face the same kinds of systemic discrimination that people of color do. But progressives are doing a very good job of convincing white people that they do.
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It surprises many people that an increasing number of white Americans over the past decade believe whites face more discrimination than blacks. Obviously this feeling is inconsistent with economic data. Many have argued that a white fear of losing the dominant economic place in society is behind this belief. But what if the discrimination that white people are feeling and expressing is not primarily economic in nature?
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One of the key components to the success of this racism is the almost-daily parade of silly micro-aggressions and triggers, specifically on college campuses. Conservative media seize upon disputes over the cultural appropriation of taco night or banning hoopskirts as evidence that minority racial grievance has gotten unhinged.
In emerging white nationalist journals such as Radix, this constant drumbeat of attack against white insensitivity is viewed gravely. What results is a belief among a growing number of whites in the concepts of “white genocide” and “racial realism.”
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Young white men, reacting to social and educational constructs that paint them as the embodiment of historical evil, are fertile ground for white supremacists. They are very aware of the dichotomy between non-white culture, which must be valued at all times (even in the midst of terror attacks), and white culture, which must be criticized and devalued. They don’t like it.
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The result of these societal double standards is for many a desire to lash out against it. For every white college student who dutifully accepts his privilege, many more resent the idea and wish to fight it. The sharpest arrow in their quiver is to be offensive.
This desire to be offensive has given rise to the “alt right.” Supporters of this loosely assembled white nationalist movement understand a playful aspect to its use of slurs. But just as the Left shifted from using anti-white rhetoric as an ironic device to an actual indictment of white culture, so has the alt right come to believe much of its troubling rhetoric.
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For both groups the central theme is identity. That theme quickly calcifies into attitudes too brittle to hold up serious discourse. In reducing all phenomena to a question of race, both the alt right and the progressive left ensure the dominance of racial resentment as the lynchpin of our society.
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LINK: We make use of a new data source – matched birth records and longitudinal student records in Florida – to study the degree to which student outcomes differ across successive immigrant generations. Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic immigrants in Florida perform differently on reading and mathematics tests, and whether they are differentially likely to get into serious trouble in school, to be truant from school, to graduate from high school, or to be ready for college upon high school graduation. We find evidence suggesting that early-arriving first generation immigrants perform better than do second generation immigrants, and second generation immigrants perform better than third generation immigrants. Among first generation immigrants, the earlier the arrival, the better the students tend to perform. These patterns of findings hold for both Asian and Hispanic students, and suggest a general pattern of successively reduced achievement – beyond a transitional period for recent immigrants – in the generations following the generation that immigrated to the United States.
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* If this Guardian piece was an intentional parody a la Onion, i.e. someone saying “the recipe for a happy U.S. is a place with 88% whites and 1% blacks”, everyone would be screaming from the top of their lungs that you can’t be so racist, oblivious and insensitive. But apparently if you are the Guardian you can be as oblivious as you like, so long as you take snipes at the Donald.
* This is hilarious. Boulder is absurdly expensive, rabidly leftist/socialist, and looney bin crazy. You can stroll the main pedestrian shopping drag downtown, buy a $500 ski parka, then catch a $500 fine if you spark up a cigarette (but not a joint) outside (or even in your own car). Trustafarians abound (like in Vail). Traffic is horrible. Not too long ago you could swiftly escape to a more authentic hippie culture up the canyon in Nederland, but lately that too has become increasingly trustafarian. Every other storefront is selling wildly overpriced “art” or crystals and related new age crap from white people in dreadlocks.
From my perspective, the only redemption comes from ripping down the canyon with no opposing traffic in a sports car (i.e. Left Hand Canyon), but Boulder is far from the only place in the Colorado Rockies where there are spectacular enthusiast driving roads. That pretty much leaves us with the overwhelmingly white and low crime population and springtime rafting.
* Boulder IS awesome – even if you don’t subscribe to the left wing politics of the place, it’s got nature in spades, safety, lots of smart people, and decent culture and dining. Of course as Steve points out, the author glaringly omits the key characteristics of who lives there and who doesn’t, because readers might accidentally think that high concentrations of educated white people tend to result in really high quality of all around living as opposed to vibrant diversity all over the place being the highest good.
I’d probably toss Madison, Wisconsin in there as well – love it and could live there even as a huge political outlier because everything else about it is pretty great.
* It has 100K people, with a university that enrolls 30K students. Probably half the city is either attending the university or employed by it.
In other words, they don’t have to actually produce anything, and are completely subsidized by the government and rich parents sending money to their kids. Of course it’s a nice place to live.
* It’s worth noting that almost all of the non-whites in the Boulder census are students obtained by U. Colo. diversity incentives. I’ve never seen a nonwhite outside of the campus, or Pearl Street mall. And when I’ve seen them, they are surrounded by crowds of adoring dreadlocked trust fund millennials who appear desperate to have some of that cool blackness rub off on them.
* “It has been voted the US’s brainiest city, its happiest city, the country’s foodiest place and the number one city for health.”
Why is Boulder more brainy, happy, & healthy than Ferguson and San Bernardino for example? Isn’t diversity suppose to be our strength?
* I’ve always felt like the best place in the world to live would be a liberal city inside a conservative state & country. Like Boulder, or Austin.
In a small, concentrated group, lefties can really contribute to quality of life: They tend to produce good food, coffee shops, music scenes, a literary element, etc…
The trouble is when they get to be in charge of the larger society. Then they ruin everything.
* Boulder is also the home of Soldier of Fortune magazine and Paladin Press, publisher of such titles as Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors.
* Jim Goad has said that whenever White Liberals call him a racist, he responds by saying he lives in 75 percent Black Stone Mountain, Georgia and than he asks them what percentage of their neighborhood or suburb that they live in is Black?
Stone Mountain would scare the shit out of most White Liberals, especially since most Blacks in Stone Mountain are lot less Whitewashed than Obama in how they speak and dress. Stone Mountain has a lot of World Star Hip Hop culture.
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NEWS: Disturbing news out of South Fort Myers High School in Lee County, Fla., has parents stunned and sad.
Police have been notified of a bathroom incident that was supposedly recorded and distributed on Snapchat in which a 15-year-old girl had sex with multiple male students after school — and it could have been as many as 25.
This was the number of students who were identified as going into the bathroom at the time the incident took place,FOX 4 reported.
The girl has admitted to having sex with multiple guys.
Parents and students alike relayed their shock. Eric Struble, a father to two 15-year-old girls, could only muster four words.
“Shock. Disbelief. Concern. Sad,” he said.
Petislin Cadeau, an 18-year-old student, asked a particularly pertinent question during an interview with FOX 4.
“Like, how did it happen? Like, where was everybody at?” he said. “I heard a video was around, but I never really saw it or anything. It just like circulated around.”
He said he’d heard members of the football team were involved.
MORE: Shortly after the story broke, an Instagram video surfaced that appears to be edited with real and fake coverage of the story (though nobody has confirmed if it’s real, fake or something in between) and features alleged members of the community saying that the 15-year-old girl in question is not the only member of her family to engage in similar acts.
One interviewee in the video claims, “Her momma did it, her grandma did it.” Adding, “Nasty, they all got caught f***ing in classrooms.”
The video appears to be a fake, but the slut shaming of a 15-year-old and the women in her family — while holding the two dozen boys involved in the incident to no responsibility — is very real. See the viral video that has the internet LOLing over this sad story:
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Chaim Amalek writes: “To be fair, it is not as though non-orthodox rabbis are the only clerics in the West who have embraced this cause. There are plenty of Christian pastors who have as well, and the sympathy of the RC clergy for men who have sex with men (and boys) is well known.”
“Is it proper for white males to exclude migrant penises from their rectums? I say it is not, that such exclusionis but a form of homophobia from which springs every other sort of hatred in the world. Also, if you won’t happily let a Somali immigrant fuck your 12 year old daughter, you are a racist.”
“Asians are going to beat the pants off of the Jews in the next generation. Like orthodox Jews, they embrace family and race, but also secular learning and hard work. None of this liberal Jewish racial nonsense for them. In terms of competing for the best that goymerica still has to offer, they represent the best of both orthodox and secular Judaism, without the impediment of Torah and rabbis to slow them down.”
As Jews our responsibility is to embrace the gender identity of each individual not only in our communities but in society at large. That means repealing transphobic legislation like North Carolina’s HB2.
North Carolina’s controversial “Bathroom Law”, which stipulates that in government buildings, individuals may only use the restroom that corresponds to the gender on their birth certificates, continues to make headlines. Proponents of the law, known officially as HB2 “The Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act,” claim that it is about safety, preventing men from “claiming to be transgender” just so that they can enter a women’s bathroom and invade their privacy. But over 200 local, state, and national organizations that work with assault victims claim that there is nothing to support the fears of these lawmakers. And none of the 18 states that have nondiscrimination laws that protect transgender rights has seen an increase in public safety issues because of these laws.
The fight over the law hit a tipping point when the Department of Justice determined that HB2 violates the Federal Civil Rights Act and gave North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory an ultimatum to ensure that the state would not comply with the law. North Carolina didn’t budge, and instead sued the government. The Justice Department responded with a lawsuit of their own, with Attorney General Loretta Lynch describing the battle over this law as the civil rights struggle of this era.
But the fight over HB2 is more than a civil rights struggle; it’s a human rights struggle. And as Jews, we have a particular imperative to treat it as such.
As Jews, we have an obligation to see each individual as made in God’s image. Each individual is unique and created differently. We are not God, and therefore, it is not for us to put parameters on the divine nature or image of another person. Rather, we should honor each individual as divine, regardless of one’s gender identity. Even the rabbis of the Talmud understood that we do not live in a gender binary system. We find six different gender identities in the Talmud. This Talmudic precedent suggests that we should not only acknowledge one’s gender identity, but also celebrate it.
Some Jewish institutions are starting to implement policies in line with this thinking. Last year, the Union for Reform Judaism passed a resolution that “affirms the right[s] of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals” and “urges the adoption and implementation of legislation and policies that prevent discrimination based on gender identity and expression.” Similarly, the Conservative Movement’s Rabbinical Assembly is in the process of voting on a resolution that affirms its commitment to fully welcoming, accepting and including people of all gender identities in Jewish life and general society. These statements understand our commitment as Jews to honor each individual. Last June, I wrote that ensuring that all can use the bathroom in our institutions “is as integral to the sacred nature of the building as is creating a transcendent prayer space.”
These statements reflect an understanding of the importance of making sure that our sacred communities and sacred spaces are welcoming of everyone. But our obligation as Jews to embrace the gender identity of each individual does not end with our institutional buildings and programs. We have an obligation as Jews to build a society that is just as inclusive and accepting as the communities we set out to create.
Judaism teaches that pikuach nefesh, saving a life, supersedes everything else in Jewish law. A study by the Williams Institute think tank shows that 41 percent of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals have attempted suicide. This number is substantially greater than the overall suicide rate of 4.6 percent in the United States. The way society has treated transgender individuals makes them feel as if there is no place for them in this world. Denying them the basic human right of going to the bathroom, as North Carolina has attempted to do, only reinforces this feeling.
But embracing all and creating inclusive communities can have the opposite effect. A recent study out of the University of Washington suggests that transgender youth that are supported and accepted by family, friends, teachers, clergy, and society as a whole are no more anxious or depressed than other children their age.
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Daily Mail: Man featured in Time cover story on immigration reform is sentenced to 15 years in prison for child porn and sexually exploiting boy with brain cancer
Roy Naim, 32, was featured in 2012 story ‘We are Americans’
Federal agents found porn depicting boys as young as 9 on his computer
He also admitted to viewing and downloading porn for multiple years
Naim was found out after the arrest of a Louisiana child porn producer who fooled boys into thinking they were video conferencing with teen girls
One of the victims was a teen boy with a brain tumor who attended a summer camp for children with cancer, where Naim was a counselor
A New York man who was once featured in a Time magazine cover story about immigration reform has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for possession of child pornography.
Roy Naim, 32, who was featured in the 2012 story titled ‘We are Americans…just not legally’, was also convicted in 2014 for attempted exploitation.
Federal agents found porn that depicted boys as young as nine years old performing sexual acts on Naim’s computer. He admitted to viewing and downloading the porn for multiple years.
They were led to his Brooklyn home after arresting suspected child porn producer Johnathan Johnson, who fooled underage boys into thinking they were video conferencing with teenage girls and then recorded the acts.
The videos were posted on a website called and was sent to others through email, according to New York Daily News.
One of the victims was a teenage boy who was suffering from a brain tumor. He had attended a camp for children with cancer, where Naim worked as a counselor.
Johnson was sentenced to 21 years in prison.
Naim, who immigrated to the US with his family when he was three years old, was named the ‘Jewish face of the immigration reform struggle’ after he appeared in the Time story.
It was the first time Naim made his undocumented status publicly known.
‘My being public protects me because America loves stories,’ he told The Forward in 2013.
‘And when we hear about a good person — a person who is nice, who cares — we don’t want him deported; we want him in this country.’
Naim will be deported to Israel after completing his sentence.
‘I failed as a human being,’ Naim said in court. ‘The pain of this young victim and his family…I cannot imagine what they’re going through and I’m the cause of all this.’
Naim had been molested by an older cousin when he was 11 years old and struggled with his ‘urges’ in the Orthodox Jewish community, court papers revealed.
He later became the only member of his family not to gain citizenship in the US.
Both were brought up during Naim’s sentencing by Brooklyn federal judge Nicholas Garaufis.
‘He lives in a community where his urges, his needs, sexually, are more than frowned upon. Maybe some of the people in this room could have helped him and should look in the mirror. You know who you are,’ Garaufis said.
‘His entire family was naturalized but he was left out,’ he added. ‘People should look in the mirror about that.’
Naim faced life in prison without the possibility of parole under his charges, which Garaufis called ‘incredibly excessive and irrational’.
Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence Naim to at least 20 years behind bars.
Instead the judge sentenced Naim to the mandatory minimum time he was required to spend in prison, and said he believed Naim was ‘truly remorseful’.
‘But you have to do more than that,’ he told Naim. ‘You have to come to grips with your evil angels.’
The Jewish Face of the Immigration Reform Struggle
For 25 years, Roy Naim, an undocumented immigrant, led a secretive life. Having no identification papers, he could not drive, rent an apartment or be legally employed. Worst of all, he constantly feared being deported from his home and family. All he did was try to lie low, and somehow get by.
Naim is still undocumented. But in the past year he has been doing anything but lying low. Since June 2012, the young man, who spent his entire adult life in the shadow of society, has appeared on the cover of Time magazine, was featured in a documentary and was interviewed by the New York Daily News. He is constantly on Twitter and Facebook, promoting a new immigration bill that would secure his future as an American.
Naim, 29, an Israeli-born Orthodox Jew, has become the Jewish face of activism for immigration reform.
In many ways he’s an unusual figure among immigrant activists. Three-quarters of the nation’s unauthorized immigrants are Hispanic, along with 11% from Asia, according to a 2009 Pew Research Study. Less than 2% are from the Middle East.
The New York Legal Assistance Group, an organization that offers free legal services, has received 342 applications on behalf of Jewish undocumented immigrants. Many others apply through private attorneys.
“We know there are thousands of undocumented Jews presently residing in New York City,” said Yisroel Schulman, who founded NYLAG in 1990, adding that it works with a network of 150 Jewish, community-based organizations.
Clear data on the number of Jewish illegal immigrants in the United States is not available because most are doing what Naim did for 25 years: living in the shadows of society.
Two Orthodox groups that aid disabled children are downplaying their ties to a prominent undocumented immigration activist who has been accused of downloading child pornography.
Roy Naim was accused on September 18 in federal court in Brooklyn with admitting to agents during a search of his house that he had child pornography on his laptop. According to the criminal complaint, Naim, who was profiled in a June 2012 Time magazine cover story on undocumented illegal immigrants, said that he had been viewing and downloading child pornography for years. He was released September 19, on a $250,000 bond.
In online profiles, Naim claimed he had worked from 2003 through 2008 at Camp Simcha, a camp for ill Orthodox children that was run by the group Chai Lifeline. The profiles said Naim was a “division head” at the camp. Naim also claimed to have worked as a running coach at the Hebrew Academy for Special Children, a network of Orthodox schools for disabled people, and as a motivational running coach at Yachad, an Orthodox service agency for disabled people.
Hank Sheinkopf, an external spokesman for Camp Simcha, said that the camp is in the process of deciding whether to contact people whose children may have been in contact with Naim about his indictment.
“Camp Simcha has had no contact or involvement with this individual for more than five years,” Sheinkopf said of Naim.
Naim has dozens of friends on the social networking site Facebook who describe themselves as having formerly worked at Camp Simcha.
Mayer Fertig, a spokesman for the Orthodox Union, of which Yachad is a constituent agency, said that, to the best of his knowledge, Naim’s interaction with Yachad was restricted to one 48-hour period in January 2010, when he volunteered at a fundraising program.
“This guy, on this one occasion, had a role as a motivational coach,” Fertig said. He added that Naim likely interacted with adults, and not children, during that fundraiser. “We’ve not heard of any problems. We have alerted our staff; our staff is aware of it. If anything were to come to our attention, we’d take any appropriate measure.”
Naim, who is partially deaf, moved to the United States from Israel with his family when he was 4. The Naims overstayed their visas and settled in the country. He remains an undocumented immigrant. Naim was the subject
of a Forward profile earlier this year when he emerged as a high-profile advocate for undocumented immigrants. The profile described Naim as “the Jewish face of the immigration reform struggle.”
Naim did media rounds in June promoting a game
created by the website DoSomething.org
, meant to dramatize the plight of undocumented immigrants.
Richard A. Finkel, Naim’s attorney, did not respond to a request for comment.
According to a criminal complaint filed in United States District Court in Brooklyn on Sept. 18, investigators with an arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security pursuing child exploitation cases found Naim by tracing an email address that had received child pornography from a person in Louisiana. That email address, [email protected]
, was traced to Naim’s home. Officers from DHS and the New York Police Department searched Naim’s house September 16, according to the complaint. That day, Naim posted two public messages on his Twitter account. At 2:04 p.m., Naim Tweeted: “Sometimes you try so hard and still get slapped harder. Sometimes you just wanna give it up. It is painful. It hurts.” Four minutes, later Naim wrote: “Giving it up….”
* Not All Jewish Faces For Immigration Reform Are Like That.
* When did “immigration reform” become a euphemism for “let everybody in”?
* When a member of the tribe is facing hard time, they collectively sweep into action. As reported in the Jewish Daily Forward, Sheldon Silver was sentenced in May to 12 years for, “collecting millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks.” The judge received a pile of letters begging for leniency. I wouldn’t be surprised if phone calls are also made – some using a carrot, some threatening a stick.
I wonder what calls were made for the pedo, esp. after appearing on the cover of Time.
* ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ was an awakening movie. IT is about all this.
AS usual the Telegraph is censoring comments.
This is ONLY a child tragedy.
No thinking on race, immigration, invasion, the tribe or other such matters allowed.
* When it comes to #immigration or taking up any cause, the Hebrew words #hineni, I am here, should come to mind.
* It is hard to be a lone visionary, wanting to bring change to a community when the seniors try to bring you down. Yet, you keep pushing.
* One of the most urgent questions to ask daily is “what can I do for someone?”
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A military affairs commentator interrupts his broadcast to deliver a monolog: I’m alarmed by what’s happening in Israel, he says, I think my children should leave.
Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak warns of “the seeds of fascism.” Moshe Arens, who served as defense minister three times, sees it as a turning point in Israeli politics and expects it to cause a “political earthquake.”
The past five days have produced tumult in Israeli politics, since conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unexpectedly turned his back on a deal to bring the center-left into his coalition and instead joined hands with far-right nationalist Avigdor Lieberman, one of his most virulent critics.
Lieberman, a West Bank settler, wants to be defense minister. So on Friday, Netanyahu’s former ally and confidant, Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon, resigned and quit Netanyahu’s Likud party in disgust.
After a weekend to digest the developments, which are expected to be finalized in an agreement between Netanyahu and Lieberman on Monday to form the most right-wing government in Israel’s 68-year-old history, commentators have tried to put it in perspective and found themselves alarmed.
Arens, who has served as defense minister, foreign minister and ambassador to the United States, and is one of Netanyahu’s early political mentors, said the machinations would have far-reaching repercussions.
“Yaalon’s ouster is likely to be a turning point in Israel’s political history,” he wrote in the left-leaning Haaretz newspaper. “A political earthquake is in the offing. It may take a little time, but it is coming. The law of unforeseen consequences is at work.”
The decision to jettison Yaalon in favor of Lieberman was all too much for Roni Daniel, a veteran military affairs commentator on Channel 2.
“I cannot urge my children to stay here, because it is a place that is not nice to be in,” he said in his monolog, going on to name a number of far-right politicians.
Having recently completed a book on fascism, the career of a concept, it seems that all my efforts to lessen the abuse of my key term may go for naught. Fascism will likely live on, not as a resurgent interwar European movement but as a freely bandied about epithet that can be applied to whatever journalists don’t like. The unsuspecting reader of our partisan media will go on being be made to believe that fascists are one or more of the following villains: anti-American jihadists, outspoken opponents of immigration here and in Western Europe, Democratic presidential candidates, Israeli soldiers, homophobic Christians, foreign-policy isolationists, or the nationalist governments of Viktor Orban in Hungary and Vladimir Putin in Russia. This “fascist” list continues to grow—a comprehensive one would be at least twice as long.
Almost all attempts to apply “fascist” as a dirty word entail comparisons that have little or no historical basis but evoke all too predictable responses. Put most simply, we are made to think “Fascism equals Hitler.” By associating what the speaker doesn’t like with the f-word or by making this association by indirection, one links the hated object of one’s attack to Nazi genocide. In his book Liberal Fascism, Jonah Goldberg does not even rely on this implicit equation of bad guys with Nazis. He just plunges ahead and makes the argumentum ad Hitlerum when he compares Hillary Clinton’s economic planning to the policies of Hitler and the Nazi Minister of Labor Robert Ley. We are thereby made to believe that the Democratic Party has turned Hitlerian, and any fool knows what that means.
Someone who should know better than to abuse the term, the Israeli Francophone historian Zev Sternhell, is undoubtedly the world’s greatest authority on French fascism. In an interview with Haaretz last August, Sternhell lashed out against the Israeli bombing of Gaza, which he compared to the behavior of interwar fascists. He asserted that the fascist danger “reached a new peak in Israel during the Gaza operation” and that Israel is now fraught with fascist thinking of the kind that permeated France when Hitler’s armies invaded in 1940. These comparisons are inexcusable for two reasons. One, whatever one may think of the Israeli military operation, those carrying it out were not “fascists”—one may disapprove of the violence unleashed by these soldiers without having to reach for the emotive, ill-fitting f-word. Moreover, France fell in 1940 because the Germans outmaneuvered French armies militarily. The country was not overthrown from within by fascists, and the group that collaborated with the enemy most blatantly during the invasion was the French Communists, who were taking orders from Hitler’s Soviet allies.
Mentioning these facts in response to Sternhell’s abuse of historical parallels seems redundant, given that the writer in question knows the history far better than I. This is what renders his rant all the more remarkable. We are talking about a distinguished historian of fascism who writes brilliantly about his subject when he is not wearing his political hat. Sternhell introduces a sober thought when he reminds us that “there are worse things than fascism.” The Italian fascist regime before it was taken over by Nazi Germany killed “no more than a few dozen” opponents, and those were mostly assassinations that occurred outside Italy, probably without Mussolini’s knowledge. (One might note that while the partisan use of “fascism” has grown exponentially in recent decades, the scholarship on this topic has not degenerated in the same way.)
Attempts to give fascism a presentist focus range from the serious and scholarly to the crassly opportunistic or abysmally ignorant. The historian A. James Gregor at the University of California, Berkeley, may be the most learned of those who treat fascism as a continuing problem, which Gregor identifies with the revolutionary left. According to this view, the influence of Italian fascism is still reflected in developing-world dictatorships that feature national solidarity, a socialist economy, and an authoritarian regime. These Third World regimes also exploit resentment against “plutocratic” Western states with corrupt parliamentary systems, a form of rhetoric that made an appearance in Latin fascist oratory of the 1920s.
The problem with this continuity thesis is that it makes too much of chance parallels, without noticing the radical differences in the societies that gave birth to the regimes compared. Gregor also makes too much of the selective borrowing engaged in by Third World developmental dictatorships that adorn their rule with Western ideological regalia. This borrowing does not mean that non-Western governments are becoming the same as the state or society from whence the borrowing comes. One may even challenge the ascription of the specifically Western reference points “right” and “left” to Third World political entities.
Once we leave the Ivy Tower, any attempt to demonstrate a continuing fascist threat plummets into the absurd. Thus we find parallels drawn between Obama and Hitler because both did favors for their friends, extended comparisons between the Nazis and the American Democrats because both advanced affirmative-action programs, and a juxtaposing of opponents of gay rights and the amnestying of illegals here and in Europe with the Third Reich.
A few facts about what fascism was may help explain what it wasn’t and isn’t. Fascist movements developed on the European continent between the two wars and were a reaction primarily to the revolutionary left but also to the perceived failure of liberal parliamentary governments to respond adequately to a devastating challenge from leftists. Fascist politics seems to have developed most naturally in Latin Catholic countries and drew on corporatist economic concepts that were extracted quite selectively from papal and neo-scholastic documents, as well as from Roman ideas about hierarchy and authority. Not surprisingly, fascist ideas did not resonate well in Protestant individualist societies, a fact that was related not only to the persistence in these places of orderly constitutional governments but also to certain obvious cultural differences. As the British Union of Fascists and its leader, Oswald Mosley, learned in the 1930s, marching around in London in Black Shirts singing the Italian fascist anthem with English lyrics while enjoying Mussolini’s subsidies created more of a curiosity than a powerful national movement.
Despite attempts by the Italian government to generate a fascist internationalism, their movements did not travel well. The fact that fascists stressed an organic national identity limited the outreach of a movement that aimed at the self-assertion of particular states. Unlike the communists and the current brand of American liberal democracy, fascism was never a truly international force. And its development in nations like Italy and Spain, which lagged industrially, made it even less appealing outside of places that claimed a great past but revealed a rather modest present. The idea that advanced nations such as the U.S. erected welfare states because fascist Italy did so borders on the hallucinatory. For better or worse, modern Western democracies tend of their own accord to give birth to huge bureaucratic states that dole out social programs. There is no reason to assume that those who built and expanded such enterprises were dependent on a Latin fascist model.
Nor does the organic nationhood preached by the fascists have anything in common with the appeals to American nationhood and an American global mission that now issue from Republican and neoconservative sources. Unlike American hawks, fascists did not appeal to human rights, nor did they associate their sense of solidarity with any kind of propositional nationhood. Mussolini invoked “Latinity” as the essence of Italian national identity, and to whatever extent he hoped to recreate an Italian empire, he saw himself returning to the Roman past. This effort to return to ancient greatness was a recurrent fascist theme, together with the reconstruction of a social hierarchy that would be adapted to present needs. By contrast, our advocates of American outreach justify their politics as helping to liberate backwards societies from the shackles of tradition. They wish to make other peoples more like late modern Americans—consumerist, individualist, and free of sexism. This distinction is not an attempt to justify either sense of nationhood or the expansionist foreign policy to which it could lead. It simply calls attention to unlike things.
The historian John Lukacs has made the observation that any comparison between German Nazism and Latin fascism should prove definitively that there was no generic fascism. Lukacs’s statement is half true. There was a veritable gulf between Nazism and the tradition of Latin authoritarianism into which fascism fitted as a counterrevolutionary movement pretending to be a radical revolutionary force. Despite the eventual conversion of some Latin fascists to Hitler’s murderous totalitarian ventures, the two were not the same, and most Nazi collaborators in occupied countries were not convinced fascists but opportunistic politicians or military governments that were willing to cooperate with the Third Reich as long as it was winning. Yet there was a generic fascism, and it was Latin, corporatist, and authoritarian and featured a mystical idea of the nation. This fascism was far less radical and less expansive than German Nazism, a movement and regime that borrowed from fascist organizational models but also from the socialist experiment then being tried in Stalin’s Russia.
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From the Chateau: Three “power brokers” with their hands in pockets, and one doing the fig leaf over his crotch. Classic beta male body language tells. Trump, meanwhile, is the only man in the room with his hands out, gesticulating a commanding presence. Keep in mind that Trump is the man in this meeting who hasn’t yet been elected to any high office. Alpha is Attitude.
Nearly every photo of Trump is a master class in alpha male body language. For we teachers of the crimson arts, the Trumpening is gift from Eros, a walking Powerpoint on the successful traits, mannerisms, and habits of the alpha male who is beloved by feminine women and admired by masculine men.
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Over all, though, nearly three-fourths of victims and suspected assailants whose race could be identified were black. Some experts suggest that helps explain why the drumbeat of dead and wounded does not inspire more outrage. “Clearly, if it’s black-on-black, we don’t get the same attention because most people don’t identify with that. Most Americans are white,” said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston. “People think, ‘That’s not my world. That’s not going to happen to me.’”
* Normally I tend to blow off suggestions that mass media (music, movies,video games) amplifies violence but I have a hard time doing that now, particularly with rap music. Despite the left’s attempts to portray most of this genre as subtle and brilliant art, a huge percentage of it revolves around crude boasts about money, drugs/drinking, promiscuity, and violence.
It appears to me that lots of young black men and boys essentially model their behavior after the archetypical character in a rap song. In fact, it’s common too see some young black guy with headphones on walking down the street or standing at the bus stop rapping along with his favorite song complete with the gestures and expressions of the rapper in the music video, as if he’s trying to be that character. I don’t see white hipsters doing that while listening to the latest Wilco or even high schoolers play-acting to the soundtrack of teen pop music.
Obviously, the way people dress or act can be a reflection of their cultural influences of the moment, and I just as often silently laugh at the white kids who spend hours cultivating a look that is supposed to look careless, but guys with greasy hair, beards, and retro clothing or messenger bags style aren’t going to get wound up about some perceived slight and start shooting at a party or bar. In contrast, those that consciously mimic rap culture very well might.
* Most shootings with four deaths or injuries are invisible outside their communities. And most of the lives they scar are black.
Maybe the New York Times could explain why those who might want to read about black-on-black and black-on-white crime have to read the Daily Mail.
BTW, 2Kevins w/ Grace & Steele did good in-depth takedown of Jill Leovy’s book in the latter half of episode 36 0f their podcast. Leovy describes how appalling things are in the black “community,” but in the end assigns all responsibility for dealing with it to whites.
* Black people don’t kill black people because of racism, poverty, economic inequality, lack of opportunity. Rather those things are symptoms, not causes; they occur for the SAME REASON as black violence: low IQ, low impulse control, low concept of future, low grasp of cause and effect, low investment in family and society, low character and, oh yes, low IQ. To make it worse, they’ve been told by liberal fools and scoundrels for two generations that nothing is their fault, it’s all The System. Did I mention low IQ?
* This reminds me of Ta-Genius Coates’ appearance at an Aspen panel. When someone pointed out that far more African-Americans are killed in intra-black violence than police shootings, he said “yeah, but it feels different [when you hear someone is killed by the police].”
It’s bad to be worried about Islamic terrorism or black-on-white crime, because, hey, it’s a country of >300 million people, of course you can drudge up some examples if all you do is worry about it. Clearly, objective perusal of the data shows that those are relatively small risks to the ordinary American. Fears about them are exaggerated, due to racial/cultural hysteria against the perpetrators. But it’s good to be extremely worried about white police officers—or, sorry, police officers Who Must Believe They Are White—shooting black suspected criminals—or, sorry, Innocent Black Baby Bodies—because even if it’s a rounding error compared to heart disease, black-on-black crime or auto accidents it’s the principle of the thing, not the actual risk, that counts.
In all seriousness, it’s somewhat hilarious that after being attacked by black criminals, Matt Yglesias and Brian Beutler shrug it off as Shit Happens, but egg on blacks to tell everyone how they constantly fear their Black Bodies being destroyed because they once had a tense encounter with the cops.
As Steve would say, it comes down to “Who is overtaking whom?”
* It is much safer to live around poor whites than middle and upper class blacks.
For instance:
Prince George’s County, MD
Median household income $72,052
Median home value $247,600
Black Non-Hispanic Alone (63.5%)
Hispanic or Latino (14.9%)
White Non-Hispanic Alone (14.9%)
Asian alone (4.0%)
Murder Rate 146
Kanawha County, West Virginia
Median Household Income $46,325
Median Home Value $107,000
White Non-Hispanic Alone (88.6%)
Black Non-Hispanic Alone (7.2%)
Asian alone (1.0%)
Murder Rate 18
* My gf & I went to Target last night. Only two registers were open and there was about ten people waiting in a single line. Thus in the very from register no one was directly waiting. This young black girl with her daughter walks up feigns like she is asking if the register is available. As she is doing this another cashier opens up their register & she pounces. Seeing this I called her out. She calls me a “fag**t” & that she’ll meet me outside. I respond that’s how you talk in front of your daughter?
They have little couth, civility or self-control and when they’re in the ghetto incidents like these happen routinely & end in violence. The underclass blacks really do need a firm hand guiding their every move. They aren’t fit for modern society.
* I have been involved in competitive shooting for 20 years, and shot in national events for the last twelve. Among the thousands and thousands of shooters I have encountered over that period of time, I can literally count the number of blacks on one hand.
Competitive shooting is, above all else, a game of extreme, Zen-like mental focus. It requires a significant attention to detail in terms of equipment and environmental conditions. I would liken the attitude of the competitive shooter to that of a professional pilot — all business, which includes a positively anal emphasis on safety.
Blacks do not generally possess these traits. Consequently, the competitive shooting community is 99.9+ percent white. I believe that blacks are genetically hard-wired to have less impulse control than whites, and that this attribute explains black success in pursuits that require spontaneous behavior, like basketball and bebop jazz, but it also explains a LOT of senseless black criminality and the ease with which blacks routinely just grab a gun and shoot wildly after the slightest provocation.
Competitive shooters, many of whom have fired hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition, would never do anything like that.
The problem with impulsive black shootings is that they are being used politically to justify infringements on the freedoms of millions of sober, responsible, self-sufficient whites. Perhaps the Founders were right — all of them believed that blacks were incapable of functioning in a free society, and that blacks would be better off if they were emancipated and then repatriated to Africa.
* The Constitution and the 2nd Amendment was written for white people. A different sort of government may work better for black people. But I don’t want to change the Constitution to make it more suitable for black people (generally speaking) but less suitable for white people (again generally speaking).
* Not trending on Fakebook.
BlackLiesMatter – Activist Group Leader Arrested For Sex Trafficking,
The Daily Caller obtained a police report stating that Wade was picked up in a College Park police sting after cops responded to a backpage.com ad from a woman who claimed to be 23, offering sexual services at an area Howard Johnson hotel.
When police arrived and confronted the woman, who turned out to be 17, she identified Wade, who had been watching from the parking lot, as her “manager” named “CJ.” The police then arrested Wade who, according to the report, had rented the hotel room and was carrying three cell phones.
According to the police report, the woman told police that “CJ” knew she was underage and “wasn’t worried” because she’d turn 18 in a few months. She told investigators that she provided CJ with all of the money she made in her endeavors.
* Seems like there is a huge potential competitive advantage for a gang that invests even a tiny amount of time and money in teaching its shooters how to shoot. Not sure whether it’s a good or bad thing that none of them have figured this out.
* Attributing black gun violence to early 90′s “gangsta” rap is fundamentally wrongheaded, for a couple of reasons:
1. “Gangsta” rap doesn’t happen in a vaccuum. It’s an aesthetic incarnation of a thing that’s happening previous to its pop-cultural incarnation (i.e., Biggie isn’t putting something in a song because it happened in another song he heard, it’s par for the course in an already extant cultural environment).
2. Black youth in 2016 ain’t listening to ’90′s shit. Popular rap today is in a much different state than it was in the ’90′s and even the early 2000′s (which is peak moron in the history of hip hop (though it produced some really enjoyable, although admittedly retarded, music)). There’s a Chicago rap scene that’s broadly representative of the violent environs of the city but popular rap (read: rap that young black people actually listen to) is more in line with Drake/Kanye abstraction than Wu-Tang or Geto Boys street violence.
* There is literally nothing to be done about Black on Black murders. Nothing. They have always been appallingly high as even WEB Dubois noted in his “The Philadelphia Negro” which covered Black criminal behavior in Philly from 1800-1898. Written as a response to George Washington Carver, Dubois argues that Black people were innately more criminal even than the most deprived and criminal White immigrants in the same city and thus unable to win political power and equal rights under Segregation through economic advancement as Carver favored. Thus the Talented Tenth would agitate for White concessions and of course, pocket the majority of the goodies.
Still the data in Dubois book is compelling. Leovy in her book conveniently overlooks the historical record in places like Philly, and the underlying dynamic which is sexual reproduction. Simply put Black women demand even greater A hole levels in their men, killers best of all. Every ghetto shooting of a baby, grandma, or other innocent gets the shooter laid that night. And thereafter.
Fundamentally Black people don’t WANT the violence to be greatly reduced — it would greatly reduce their fertility.
* Newspaper articles used to cover violence among blacks with a certain sardonic amusement.
Dallas Morning News
December 29, 1891
BLOOD LETTING
Razor and Fence Paling Used.
PARIS, Tex., Dec. 28. There was a lively free fight among the colored barbers in the quarter known as Boardtown in which fence palings, walking canes and razors played a conspicuous part. Saturday night a negro named Brown who shaves colored people, picks a banjo and fights on very little provocation had a row with Silas Washington, who shaves white folks and wears good clothes. The thing passed off without loss of blood. Yesterday afternoon Silas and another barber named Jim Garnett were walking along the street that runs through Boardtown when they were met by Brown, who renewed the hostilities. A three-cornered fight ensued. Garnett had a cane, Washington had a paling and Brown a razor. After being thumped a few times by Garnett and Washington, Brown got in his work with his trusty razor and slashed Washington across the forehead, making an ugly gash, and cutting Garnett across the left wrist, cutting the leaders and arteries and inflicting a dangerous wound. Brown was arrested.
Dallas Morning News
September 2, 1888
SERIOUS CUTTING AFFRAY
Two Brothers, Negroes, Carve and Slash Each Other.
Denton, Tex., Aug. 31. A serious difficulty occurred three miles northeast of the city last night at a negro dance, in which two darkies, John and Ed Crawford, were seriously carved with the old proverbial negro razor. It seems that Ed and John were brothers, but full of whisky, and, being rivals for the same damsel, a difficulty occurred, in which John drew his razor and cut his brother a fearful gash, almost severing one of his ribs; whereupon another darky named Bob Hagman, being possessed of a razor also, made a stroke at John and with tonsorial dexterity inflicted a gash across his face and throat about eight inches long. Both the carvers are lodged in the county jail and the two carved negroes are doing as well as could be expected. It is thought that both will recover.
* The Washington herald., January 14, 1908, Page 6, Image 6
…
A mob of North Carolina negroes lynched the proprietor of a negro theatrical outfit because his show did not come up to the advance agent’s promises. Theoretically, this idea may be sound, but its general adoption would soon put the advance agent business all to the bad.
* Seems like the same garbage “music” of black guys screaming about how they are so awesome violent and rich as 25 years ago.
Here are the lyrics to the current #1 rap single:
[Intro – Kyla & Wizkid:]
Baby, I like your style
[Verse 1 – Drake:]
Grips on your waist
Front way, back way
You know that I don’t play
Streets not safe
But I never run away
Even when I’m away
Oti, oti, there’s never much love when we go, oti
I pray to make it back in one piece
I pray, I pray
[Hook – Drake:]
That’s why I need a one dance
Got a Hennessy in my hand
One more time ‘fore I go
Higher powers taking a hold on me
I need a one dance
Got a Hennessy in my hand
One more time ‘fore I go
Higher powers taking a hold on me
[Bridge – Kyla & Wizkid:]
Baby, I like your style
[Verse 2 – Drake:]
Strength and guidance
All that I’m wishing for my friends
Nobody makes it from my ends
I had to bust up the silence
You know you gotta stick by me
Soon as you see the text, reply me
I don’t wanna spend time fighting
We’ve got no time
Here’s the immediately prior #1 rap song:
Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda
Panda, Panda…
I got broads in Atlanta
Twisting dope, lean, and the Fanta
Credit cards and the scammers
Hitting off licks in the bando
Black X6, Phantom
White X6 looks like a panda
Going out like I’m Montana
Hundred killers, hundred hammers
Black X6, Phantom
White X6, panda
Pockets swole, Danny
Selling bar, candy
Man I’m the macho like Randy
The choppa go Oscar for Grammy
Bitch nigga pull up ya panty
Hope you killas understand me
* An Australian woman is drugged and raped in South Korea. We learn at the very end of the article, after tut-tuts about Korean rape culture and indifference to sexual assault, that the rapist was Nigerian.
* One incident I recall from last summer was a retaliation-style mass shooting in Detroit in which a dozen people were shot, one fatally, at a park.
Twelve people were shot, one fatally, during a block party on a basketball court on Dexter and Webb St. on Detroit’s west side. Over 400 people were estimated to be in attendance at the Saturday night block party including children. The victims ranged from 19 to 47 years old. Forty-seven shots were fired from at least three guns during what is being called a retaliation-style mass shooting,
Police are looking for two suspects. One is described as a black male with light complexion in his twenties, and the other is described as a black male in his twenties with medium complexion…
Police believe Jones, the deceased, might have been expecting a gun fight Saturday night. Why he would have placed himself at a party with hundreds of people, including children, in attendance was unclear, [black Detroit Police Chief James Craig] said…
According to Craig, even those who were shot last night aren’t helping police track anyone down…
A woman claiming to be Jones’s sister stood across Dexter Avenue for most of Craig’s news conference. When a police officer crossed the street to speak with the woman, who had been talking to a reporter, the woman began yelling expletives and cursing the police.
“(expletive) the police,” the woman screamed from across the street. She then began to walk quickly down the street, swearing and cursing the police the entire way.
There is some disagreement in the black community about who should be held responsible:
Detroit Police Chief James Craig agitated activists by calling those involved in shooting a dozen people Saturday, one who died, “urban terrorists.”
“We want to make it very much known that the young people who are causing the violence in our community are not terrorists,” said the Rev. Charles Williams, president of the Detroit National Action Network, a civil rights group founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton. “They are not urban terrorists, they are the products of bad urban policy.
“They are products of bad education policy, where our young people are used as products, versus being educated. They are products of the fact that you are dealing with a city with high poverty numbers, so to relate these young people as terrorists is wrong.”
* Those of my generation who saw the Japanese soldiers in the flesh cannot forget their almost inhuman attitude to death in battle. They were not afraid to die. They made fearsome enemies and needed so little to keep going – the tin containers on their belts carried only rice, some soya beans and salt fish. Throughout the occupation, a common sight was of Japanese soldiers at bayonet practice on open fields. Their war cries as they stabbed their gunny-sack dummies were bloodcurdling.
Had the British re-invaded and fought their way down Malaya into Singapore, there would have been immense devastation.
After seeing them at close quarters, I was sure that for sheer fighting spirit, they were among the world’s finest. But they also showed a meanness and viciousness towards their enemies equal to the Huns’. Genghis Khan and his hordes could not have been more merciless. I have no doubts about whether the two atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary. Without them, hundreds of thousands of civilians in Malaya and Singapore, and millions in Japan itself, would have perished.
What made them such warriors? The Japanese call it bushido, the code of the samurai, or Nippon seishin, the spirit of Nippon. I believe it was systematic indoctrination in the cult of emperor worship, and in their racial superiority as a chosen people who could conquer all. They were convinced that to die in battle for the emperor meant they would ascend to heaven and become gods, while their ashes were preserved at the Yasukuni Shrine in the suburbs of Tokyo
Kuan Yew Lee – The Singapore Story Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, Vol. 1-Times Editions (1998)
* I always say, if you’re interested in an era of history, try to find first person accounts of people who were there. Often they will provide insight that won’t be supplied by historians, particularly if some of the events differ from commonly accepted precepts. Better than news articles are personal diaries, and the like.
In any case, there’s a wealth of first-person slave narratives available at the library of congress website. I spent a few hours perusing them, and it wasn’t what I had expected. I assumed it would be a lot of horror stories about black slave life, and while there were some, there were many stories of Blacks who were fairly content with the lifestyle. It seemed the culture from one plantation to the next could vary wildly. Some were shitholes to be sure, some were got great, but not bad, and some were run like a commune, with slaves voting for whatever issues were important to them, and basically running the show as far as their work days were concerned, and how day-to-day problems were solved, with the plantation owner very light-handed, when he was around at all. The slaves who had it going well were particularly upset when they were freed. They knew even if they ran their own farms, life was going to be a lot harder.
I had the same surprise regarding lynchings. I didn’t come close to reading all the narratives, but many that I did read, the lynchings were done after some major hell had broken loose, rather than a black guy whistling at a white girl. From what I could tell, you had to work hard to qualify for a lynching. You had to pull some major crazy, and get caught in the act, or have a ton of circumstantial evidence working against you.
One story I recall was a few years after the civil war. One segregated community seemed to be doing all right. Blacks and whites got along well, cooperated with one another. No major problems. One night, a house caught on fire, killing a woman and her two children. It was determined that the woman’s husband, who wanted a divorce because he’d found a new girl, became livid when his wife wouldn’t grant him one, so set his house on fire at 1 AM, and ran off, killing his entire family. Since the house was on fire, and he was gone, as well as the other circumstances that were known, it was determined the husband was the culprit. This enraged the white folks, as well as the black folks. The white folks organized a search party, and they caught the black guy hiding in some nearby woods, who readily admitted that he’d set the fire. He was strung up that night, by white folks, with blacks looking on, to the applause of whites and blacks alike. Everyone agreed justice was served.
I thought to myself, “now that’s a story we’re not going to see in a Quentin Tarantino move.”
Anyway, I urge anyone who wants to know just what black people who don’t know much about their own history are complaining about, to check out the slave narratives at the library of congress website. I think you might come up with different conclusions than what historians would have you believe.
That is, our american history is not all “black and white.”
Sure a lot of it was shitty, but unless you were rich, most of american life back then was a slow-motion crash for everyone, regardless of race. There weren’t a lot of happy endings. I wouldn’t have wanted to live in that era. When you delve in to people’s diaries who lived in that era, it reads like Gothic Noir. Humorless, passionate, dark, and crazy. Not many clear heads anywhere.
* Lot’s of unmentioned racial/HBD aspects to this review:
* “Some researchers say the single strongest predictor of gun homicide rates is the proportion of an area’s population that is black. But race, they say, is merely a proxy for poverty, joblessness and other socio-economic disadvantages that help breed violence.”
Looking at R squared values, its actually the opposite. Poverty, joblessness, credit etc are all decent indicators of blackness.
* Black-on-Black violence and drug addiction are not new. Years ago my wife picked up a few worn volumes from a library “giveaway” cart. They were a partial set of a Princeton “History of the United States” written in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One volume written in the 1890s caught my attention. It described wide-spread Black-on-Black violence and cocaine use in the Black communities in the South.
In the late 1990s, I had to commute past a Black public housing project on the way to work. It was not unusual to see Black males in fist fights. One day I saw a Black male pounding on another Black male with a 2×4.
At what point is it reasonable to conclude that violence is a persistent characteristic of Black culture rather than a “proxy for poverty ….”?
* Doesn’t all of this fall under the category of “This is why we have separate countries.”
I mean, everyone (including many here) keep wringing their hands about how blacks aren’t acting like whites. Maybe, just maybe, it’s because they aren’t white. As Steve has noted many times, blacks like being black. While repugnant to whites, the violence in black neighborhoods seems to be something that blacks accept, even embrace to an extent.
Fine. Let them create a culture and society that works for them. We’ll have our culture and society someplace else.
The hubris of whites (certainly liberal whites) always amazes me. We think that we’re the pinnacle of human evolution, that any variance from our norms and behaviors is wrong. Even when other groups outperform us in something that we care about, we feel that its wrong. (NE Asians study too much.) To whites (again, especially, liberal whites), diversity just means people with different skin color acting just like liberal whites.
* The media is effectively the nervous system of the body politic so if the media won’t tell the truth about a problem then it can’t be fixed and the media won’t tell the truth about this because it messes up their anti-white narrative.
* In Leovy’s book Ghettocide, the detectives refer to the constant violence between blacks as “the Monster.” Clever detectives! They know that to attach any moral opprobrium to the perpetrators in front of a reporter would end their careers.
* Fertility rate or average number of children per woman: white 1.8, black 2.1, Hispanic 2.4. LINK.
When you hear a stat that 70 percent of black children are born out of wedlock, it actually means that 70 percent of black women have children out of wedlock. The CDC looks at the mother’s race not the child’s nor the father’s. LINK.Studies on interracial births are simply ignored. I didn’t know about this 2015 study until I decided to respond to your post. “92% of biracial children with African American fathers are born out of wedlock and 82% end up on government assistance.”Be sure to save the study immediately or view privately with your ip address hidden otherwise you may get blocked from viewing a second or third time due to ”overuse”: LINK. Short article on the study: LINK.Slightly related, for decades the percentage of children in foster care who were black hovered around 40 percent. By 2014, the black percentage dropped to 24 percent. This is due mostly to the new biracial category in which 10 percent of children fall. Three percent of children are classified as unknown. LINK.
* A few years ago, Buffalo had the “City Grill Massacre” where an unwanted guest, Riccardo McCrea returned to an anniversary party and opened fire with a large caliber handgun. Four were killed and four grievously wounded, including one who will live out his life in a vegative state. McCrea actually “executed” two of his victims, one a wounded male who he held down with his foot while he finished him off and a young women, who he shot, point blank in the neck, while she cowered in a doorway. Last year a Buffalo man celebrated his 29th birthday with a party that attracted at least 100 “guests.” The party ended when an uninvited guest opened fire on the crowd. The birthday boy lost his life and left behind, if my memory serves me right, six or seven daughters, with nary a former, ex or otherwise wife in sight. He did, however, leave behind a grieving “fiancée”. There is a thread that runs through both stories, seven of the eight City Grille victims and the deceased birthday boy all had prior criminal records. McCrea also had priors. So, not only is it black on black, but mostly black criminal on black criminal. One other point, a middle aged Chicago city employee was shot and killed last week while she was exiting a Starbucks within walking distance of Police HQ. Don’t know if there was any message about “race” on her coffee cup but she was described as an unintended victim, also frequently described as being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and yes she was black.
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There is a right-wing, nationalist electoral trend both in Europe and in America. But in real-life terms the left-wing trend continues – the number of third-worlders in Western countries keeps growing, WWG and WWT were resounding successes, feminism marches on.
What happens when two opposing forces run up against each other? A collision, sometimes an explosion. It’s like two accelerating trains running towards each other on the same track.
What would an explosion look like in the modern West? Military coups, terrorist campaigns that are not motivated by Islam. That stuff could come back.
In most countries most military and police officers are politically conservative, but that doesn’t mean that there won’t be any left-wing coups. In fact it is the right that’s doing better and better at the polls now. So the left would have an incentive to counter that with violence. And there HAVE been left-wing military coups in the past.
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