Steve Sailer: A Debate Over the Dodgers’ Iranian-Japanese Pitcher Yu Darvish

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: First fan: Darvish should do the honorable thing and remove himself from the game by committing seppuku on the mound.

Second fan: Or at least he could flog himself Shi’ite style on his way to the showers.

Japanese athletes had a lot of pressure on them in the 20th Century in international competitions, such as the Japanese marathoner who was supposed to win the golf in Tokyo in 1964 but committed suicide.

The Japanese underachieved for awhile in the Olympics, quite possibly due to the stifling pressure of representing the nation.

But in the 21st Century, Japanese have done pretty well in the Olympics, so maybe they’ve learned better how to deal with the pressure.

I don’t know about Kershaw and his post-season problems, but here’s an analogy.

Bill James wrote about how Craig Biggio was a Hall of Famer during the regular season, but was pretty mediocre in the postseason. He speculated that Biggio, a smallish man for a big time athlete, may have feasted on #5 starters but got outgunned by all the aces he had to face in the postseason.

Unfortunately, Baseball References splits page don’t let you check that. What I did notice about Biggio was that his regular season hitting fell off pretty badly in September, the sixth and last month of the regular season. My guess would be that he worked out very hard in the offseason, started the season in great shape, and then started to wear down from minor injuries (second basemen get beat up a lot by runners trying to break up the double play) and fatigue in the last month of the season and this carried through into the postseason.

Another possibility is that the Astros are just a historically strong hitting team. No they are probably not as good as the 1927 Yankees other than the Yankees didn’t have a DH. But if the OPS+ figure is correct, they are considerably stronger hitters than, say, the famous 1982 Milwaukee Brewers or the zillion dollar Yankee teams of the Rodriguez-Jeter-Cano era.

COMMENTS:

* Has an Asian athlete ever had a Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Tom Brady moment. It seems that they always crumble in high stakes moments where there is not a lot of time for preparation. Just asking?

* Tony Castro: Sadaharu Oh. Hideki Matsui was the 2009 World Series MVP for the Yankees hitting .615 (8 for 13) with 3 home runs and 8 RBI. Hideo Nomo Nomo is one of only five players that have ever pitched a no-hitter game in both the National League and American League in Major League Baseball history. He has pitched the only no-hitters at Coors Field and Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Ichiro Suzuki was MVP and Rookie of the Year in 2001, 10 time All Star, had 10 200 hit season and holds the record for most hits in a season, joined the 3,000-Hit Club… all this after playing his first nine season in the Japanese leagues.

I wonder if the real question about the Dodgers’ loss that you should be asking has nothing to do with Darvish and more to do with the person making the decision to have him pitch that game when the team’s best pitcher was healthy enough to start. Or, if you wanted to make a point about an Asian heritage athlete NOT having a Magic-Bird-Brady moment when the stakes were high, you more accurately could have singled out Dodger Manager Dave Roberts, who clearly showed himself to be a small-time manager with a big-time team in a major league moment — and failing.
If the only reason Dave Roberts is manager of the Dodgers is his role in the 2004 Boston World Series championship, then perhaps the Dodgers should have hired Terry Francona, who was the manager of that team and of the 2007 World Series champs as well.

* The Yakuza way is to cut off the finger. In this case, cut off his entire hand.

* Hideki Masui was 2009 World Series MVP batting in 6 runs in the decisive 6th game.

* Maybe, Yu Darvish was too traumatized by Yuli Gurriel’s micro-aggressions to pitch effectively.

* True enough, Darvish was just horrible. He was scared to death, as he was his first start of the WS.

But in fact, it was Dodger manager Roberts who really hurt the Dodgers.

– 1. By starting Darvish a second time. He had the previously very effective lefty Alex Wood ready to go.

– 2. Not only did Roberts start Darvish twice, but Roberts made blunder after blunder throughout the series.

Astros manager Hinch clearly out managed Roberts in every way.

I’m a Dodgers fan and it was embarrassing.

* Even though Kershaw is a multimillionaire superstar, I sometimes can’t help but feel a bit sorry for him. There may be something about his pitching style that doesn’t translate that well to the postseason, but he’s been pretty unlucky as well.

This year, for example, no one is going to remember his postseason performance as being dominant, because the Dodgers didn’t win the World Series, and because he got shelled in the infamous WS Game 5.

But if you look at his overall stats for this postseason, they’re (almost) uniformly excellent.

He went 3-0, to please the saber-hater traditionalists.

He gave up just 21 hits in 33 innings, and his opponents hit just .179 against him, as compared with .212 in the regular season.

His WHIP in the postseason — 0.94 — was actually lower than in the regular season, when it was 0.95.

He had 33 strikeouts in those 33 innings, an excellent one-per-inning average. Admittedly, this is not quite as good as he was in the regular season, but it’s close enough to be statistically meaningless, and again, it’s against better competition, including one of the best-hitting teams of all time in the Astros.

The problem, as you say, was the home run. Kershaw gave up 8 in the 2017 postseason, leading very directly to an ERA of 3.82, compared to 2.21 in the regular season.

He had some problems with the long ball in the regular season this year as well, as he gave up 23, which is his worst season in this regard by quite a margin. But 8 in 33 innings is really bad compared with 23 in 175 regular-season innings — much less the 11 in 236 innings he gave up back in 2013.

So this again makes one think. All things considered, Kershaw seems better than ever — except for the gopher balls. So either he’s held steady or even improved in all aspects of his pitching except for suddenly and inexplicably grooving occasional pitches in a way he didn’t in the past, or else we’re back to wondering about the ball again.

* According to some guys on sportsball radio this morning, the Astros picked up a tell in Darvish’s pitching. When he held the ball still in his glove, a fastball was coming. If his pitching hand was moving around getting a grip on the ball, a slider was coming. So they hitters knew just what to expect.

The radio guys also noted that the Dodgers pitching coach should have picked this up as well and warned Darvish, but apparently that didn’t happen.

* His slider was a cement mixer as well, for Houston it was like hitting the ball from a T.

Even Fox broadcaster hall of famer Smoltz stated that this is what happens when a pitcher is nervous and cannot bring his nerves under control. He get’s under the ball, he aims, is tight with his breaking pitches, etc, etc.

Darvish was not ready for the big moments and it clearly showed. His eyes even had the look of fear.

Yet the not too smart Dave Roberts started him a 2nd time with the same results as the 1st when he had the previously effective Alex Woods ready to go.

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A Goy Is Going To Run The Fed! Oy Gevalt!

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Luke Ford

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Richard Spencer On The Jewish Question

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Luke Ford

Richard Spencer appears on this October 28, 2017 podcast.

Eighty nine minutes in, a host says: “I want to give you a chance to clear the air. I notice that a fair amount of people criticize you for being weak on the JQ. I’ve heard you describe ideologues you don’t like as having a Jewish hearth. I’ve heard you talk in depth about the extent of Jewish influence and I’ve heard you juxtapose Jewish philosophy with that of our people. What do you have to say to your critics? Is there something about your style that people don’t get?”

Richard: “It’s a question of style. And also it’s a strategic choice. There are people who I consider friends and colleagues such as Andrew Joyce, I’m working on his manuscript which is a book on the Jewish Question [Talmud and Taboo], and Kevin MacDonald, who’s spoken at the last four NPI conferences… They’ve done an amazing job deconstructing the Jewish mind and seriously considering the Jewish Question. It is probably my role to focus on other areas and to look at ourselves and to remind us that Jews do have power because we allow them to. They aren’t just this outside entity, like Israel that controls American foreign policy, but they’re in our heads. They’ve been able to inform how we understand ourselves and how we understand the world.”

“That’s kinda a meme from 2016 that I’m pro-Jewish or want to avoid this question. I don’t know how anyone can say that now. I’ll never live down [his joke that homosexuals are the last stand of implicit white identity]… That is obviously a serious misunderstanding of how I see the world and what I believe.”

Host: “I’ve been asked many times — what is it with you and the Jews. I say, you misunderstand the fundamental point of my opposition. These things that I see as damaging and degenerative to my society just happen to coincide with the Jews. Is it a Jewish thing? I don’t know. I’m railing against things that I see as destructive in my society. I can’t help but notice. But is it motivated by the Jews? No. They’re a symptom of the larger problem that needs to be addressed.”

Richard: “I agree with that to a large extent. The problem to a large extent is in ourselves. I’m not sure that Jewish power, to the degree to which they have it right now, can function outside the white race. If the white race were to end, I’m not sure the Jews could control the Chinese in the way they control us. They don’t just control us merely through political power, they control us through moral power. We think that they are sacred, that they are’t just another people. The Jewish Question ultimately has to be a question about us. How do they have such a hold over our minds that their history is sacred. Their schema in creating culture has had such a hold over our minds. The JQ is ultimately a WQ (White Question).”

Host: “As a father of children that if they whine loud and long enough, I’ve been known to give in. Fundamentally, white people seem to be conflict averse. If you will just stop your kvetching, hush.”

Richard: “The myth of the Holocaust is far more powerful than the fact of the Holocaust. There was a tremendous amount of suffering. We don’t have to talk about numbers. There is a tremendous amount of suffering in the world. History is a slaughter bench. The Rape of Nanking is not sacred to white people in the way the Holocaust does.”

“Why is their history sacred? I think a lot of it has to do with that we are worshiping their God.”

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Alt Right Is Often More Polite Than Conservatives

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Luke Ford

Richard Spencer says in this October 28, 2017 podcast: “Conservatives have been race baiting for decades.”

Richard Spencer wrote in 2013:

Who, really, can be surprised by National Review ‘s firing of John Derbyshire on April 6, 2012, for the sin of practicing anthropology without a license? Who can be surprised, as well, by the reaction of the “conservative movement,” whose partisans, seemingly without exception, took the opportunity to dance on The Derb’s grave?

The real shocker is that John lasted as long as he did.

Perhaps his secret was that he would always lace race realism with irony and humor, lighting the mood while stalking the big taboos.

Take, for instance, this passages from the Derb Canon, one of my favorites:

In September 2006, political scientist Robert Putnam was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize, one of the most prestigious in his field. The prize is awarded in Uppsala, Sweden, by a Scandinavian scholarly association. (Skytte was a seventeenth-century Swedish grandee.)

As usual with such events in the academic world, Putnum presented a research paper to commemorate the event. The paper is titled “E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century.” [ . . . ]

The paper has a very curious structure. After a brief introduction (two pages), there are three main sections, headed as follows:

+ The Prospects and Benefits of Immigration and Ethnic Diversity (three pages)
+ Immigration and Diversity Foster Social Isolation (nineteen pages)
+ Becoming Comffortable with Diveristy (seven pages)

I’ve had some mild amusement here at my desk trying to think up imaginary research papers similarly structured. One for publication in a health journal, perhaps, with three sections titled

+ Health benefits of drinking green tea
+ Green tea causes intestinal cancer
+ Making the switch to green tea!

Derbyshire’s offending article at Takimag, “The Talk: Non-Black Version,” was, no doubt, a little too frank. People recognized exactly what Derbyshire had in mind—not only regarding the natural behavior of Black people but the lie of “equality” at the heart of contemporary “conservatism.”

But it’s worth dwelling on this question “What took NR so long?”

A plausible answer is offered by The Atlantic’s Elspeth Reeve:

The truth about intellectual magazines is that not all of their readers are as enlightened and forward-thinking and clear-eyed as the people who produce them imagine themselves to be. So the trick to pull off is how to give what those less enlightened readers want — and thereby secure their money either through subscriptions or contributions — while still maintaining an air of respectability. Think of how your PBS station always trots out the stars-of-the-1970s concerts and River Dance whenever pledge drive comes around. That’s where Derbyshire comes in.

You’re probably familiar with the phrase, “No offense, but…” which always precedes something offensive wrapped in an “I’m just telling it like it is” attitude. In certain parts of the country, there’s a similar use of the phrase, “I’m not racist, but…” which always signifies that the speaker is about to say something racist. Derbyshire’s specialty is the fancy-pants version of “I’m not racist, but…”

Reeve, of course, always wanted Derb to be fired. He’d much prefer conservatives who are “enlightened and forward-thinking” (that is, neutered)—people like Rich Lowry, who agree with liberals on the essentials and only want to argue about details.

In this way, Reeve hints at a basic asymmetry between the American Left and Right—with both, the constituents are to the right of the leadership.

The Left gains support from the public by appearing normal: they care about the trees and the children and are trying to create jobs with benefits and pensions. The actual leaders are far more radical and far more dedicated to dispossessing and replacing the middle-of-the-road White people who support them.

With the Right, on the other hand, the conservative base is, in its guts, “racist”. I don’t doubt that most self-described conservatives grasp what is really happening to their country. They have sour memories of their (re-)educated children scoffing at the “talks” they’ve given to them about Black people over the years. They’ve spent a great deal of their incomes isolating themselves and their families from “Diversity.”

In other words, the conservative base supports its “enlightened and forward-thinking” leaders despite what they say and do (and how they look). The base supports its leaders because it views them, rightly or wrongly—for the most part, quite wrongly—as on the side of the “home team.”

Derbyshire might have offended some NR readers with his scientific worldview, but it was always clear to them that he was in their corner racially and culturally.

Those who truly walk a tightrope, or who “dance around these issues” (in Lowry’s words) are not the John Derbyshires of the movement (if any still remain) but the Rich Lowrys. It is they who must ensure that White anxiety, anger, and hope is safely and effectively channelled into the quarantine of the Republican Party and “conservative movement.”

John Derbyshire got off script.

* * *

In the 24-to-48 hours since Derbyshire’s firing, NR writers, and especially those at more popular websites like Breitbart and the Daily Caller, have been falling over themselves denouncing Derb and claiming that they lack all sympathy for his plight.

For the past few weeks, however, these same sites have been dedicated to documenting, meticulously, exactly what Derbyshire was warning about.

Ever since President Obama symbolically adopted Trayvon Martin, the Daily Caller has been posting stories on the not-so-innocent life of the murder victim, revealing his “No Limit Nigga” Twitter account, the thuggish photos, and not-so-flattering aspects of his record.

Much of this is, of course, legitimate investigation into a national story. But in a very real sense, sites like the Daily Caller are doing exactly what the Left says they are doing—race-baiting. They’re pushing buttons, dropping hints, “Trayvon’s really a nigga,” wink-wink . . . (Colin Liddell has termed this “sub-racism.”)

Glenn Beck and the late Andrew Breitbart are (and were) Grand Masters of the race-baiting game. Breitbart rose to national awareness publishing videos of James O’Keefe, dressed as a ‘70s Black pimp, entering a Black-run ACORN office in search of government funding for his “ho.” Breitbart later warned conservatives of the dangers of Black Nationalists in the Department of Agriculture. His posthumous coup (which ultimately fell flat) was to hint that the President himself isn’t what he seems . . . . He’s no liberal backed by Wall Street, no; he’s a closet Black Nationalist! Analogously, Glenn Beck’s upward trajectory began when he announced, on Fox and Friends, that Barack Obama “has a deep seated hatred of White people or the White culture.”

The Blaze and Breitbart (Beck’s and Breitbart’s answers to the Huffington Post) have filled their webpages with salacious stories of various flash-mob attacks and general Black misbehavior. As I write (Sunday, April 8), the top story on The Blaze is about the New Black Panther Party’s call for a “race war.” On the same night that Breitbart declared John Derbyshire to be a non-person, its best-read story was one on a unsuspecting White Man who ventured into Black Baltimore and was attacked and stripped of all clothes and possessions by a feral gang.

When Andrew Breitbart explicitly talked about his political philosophy, one got the impression that he was some kind of universalistic libertarian. Beck outdoes him in genuflecting to the myth of Martin Luther King. But what they signal to their readers is quite different. 

Owing to the decline of the “gate keeper” media, at no point in the past half-century has implicit racism been more intense. And at at no point have explicit racists, like Derb, been more furiously denounced.

The new wave of conservatives, represented by Breitbart and Beck, have peddled implicit racism; they’ve made a great deal of money off implicit racism. But the trick only works if they shun and condemn anything approaching actual nationalism.

With race-baiting, racism remains just that—bait. The ultimate object is for Whites to continue voting Republican, and to view this as resolving their fears and anxieties and fulfilling their hopes. The moment racism ceases to be a short-circuit in the minds of the American Majority, it must be censored furiously.

Derbyshire’s real crime was that he refused to race-bait. He instead told the truth.

* * *

Though I rooted on Republicans in middle and high school, never in my adult life was I part of the “movement,” whose foreign policy and basic worldview—defined by George W. Bush, neocons, and various FOX celebrities—repulsed me. After meeting the persons who populate official “conservatism” in the Beltway, I recognized that my instincts had been sound.

Since I’ve always been on the “alt” side of the Right, I’ve befriended many for whom the NR and movement “purges” have taken on a kind mythical status. (Paul Gottfried, for one, has allowed his (justified) hatred of neocons to color almost everything he writes and says publicly.) I, on the other hand, never understood why intelligent people would complain about being pushed out into cleaner air. (Needless to say, making a living has much to do with it, and the various movement purges have hit many good people where it hurts.)

It is, of course, NR’s prerogative whom it hires and fires, and it doesn’t ultimately surprise me that the magazine has, over the decades, attacked Ayn Rand and Pat Buchanan and “purged” from its ranks Revilo Oliver, Murray Rothbard, and Sam Francis. All of these figures were too radical and too interesting, in their own ways, to support NR’s quest for “respectability.”

That said, it’s hard to mistake the trajectory of official “conservatism” as anything other than a gradual degeneration and dumbing-down. NR has gone from James Burnham and Russell Kirk to Kathryn Jean Lopez and various man-children spouting human-rights doctrines.

A part of me, a demonic part of me, is thus quite happy that The Derb was next on the list. It makes the mainstream Right much stupider . . . more defined by the Goldbergs, Ponnurus, Lowrys, and Lopezes of the world . . . and more obviously a racket and dead-end.

The conservative movement deserves to die. And it must be fully de-legitimized before we can build something new in its place. The firing of John Derbyshire brought us a step closer.

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Jewishness Is Whiteness From A Muslim Perspective

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Luke Ford

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Is Hollywood Different After Harvey Weinstein?

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Luke Ford

Danielle Berrin writes for the Jewish Journal:

Last week, I had dinner with two high-level film producers, both male, and two women who worked for one of them. The only thing we discussed for three hours was Harvey Weinstein and the sexual politics of the entertainment industry.

And let me tell you something: The only sea change I detected at this gathering was the fish of the day.

Both male producers agreed that Harvey Weinstein is an “ugly, pock-marked, smelly bully.” But a rapist? Not so much.

“Most of the women accusing Harvey made a deal with the devil,” one of them said. “If you go to a man’s room at 11 at night, you know what you’re in for. And believe me, I stayed down the hall from him at the Hotel du Cap in Cannes, so I saw the processional of actresses who knocked on his door at all hours.”

So, I guess sexual assault is permissible if it occurs after 11 p.m.?

Next, I was told “the vast majority” of women accusing Weinstein of sexual impropriety really were trading sex for career advancement.

If that’s true, I asked, shouldn’t more of his accusers be movie stars?

When I puzzled over the fact that so many women would claim abuse if they had made “deals” with Weinstein, I was told their confessionals were born of shame for having prostituted themselves early on.

I brought up the actress Annabella Sciorra, who told The New Yorker that Weinstein violently raped her in the early 1990s.

“I’ve known Annabella Sciorra for many years,” one of the producers said, going on to offer a preposterous claim intended to disparage her.

“If you don’t want sex,” the other admonished, “why would you open the door to a man in the middle of the night?”

Actually, “It wasn’t that late,” Sciorra told The New Yorker. “Like, it wasn’t the middle of the night, so I opened the door a crack to see who it was. And [Weinstein] pushed the door open.”

I also asked about Rose McGowan, who suggested Weinstein raped her in 1997. She, too, was callously dismissed.

And when the subject turned to other infamous Hollywood abusers, I was lectured on how “each year, 2,000 young actresses come to L.A. and they will do anything — anything — to be famous.”

I got the feeling these producers feel like victims themselves, since so many young women must use them for parts.

“It’s called ambition,” one of them said.

“Decades ago, I was desperate to sell a TV show and I slept with the female executive who could give it the green light. So I closed my eyes during the act and fantasized about someone else. We do what we must.”

Consensual sex is the sort of ordeal that afflicts men in power.

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ADL: ‘U.S. Representative Brings Holocaust Denier to Meeting on Capitol Hill’

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Luke Ford

From the ADL:

U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) brought Holocaust denier and high-profile alt right troll Charles C. Johnson to a meeting at the U.S. Capitol in early October. Rohrabacher and Johnson were reportedly on the Hill to discuss Wikipedia founder Julian Assange with U.S. Sen Rand Paul (R-KY). This comes after Johnson arranged an August meeting in London between Rohrabacher and Assange.
Johnson bolstered his credentials as a Holocaust denier back in January during an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit. Asked for his opinion on the Holocaust and the “Jewish Question,” Johnson responded, “I do not and never have believed the six million figure,” adding that he agreed with well-known Holocaust denier David Cole “about Auschwitz and the gas chambers not being real.” In a fashion typical of Holocaust deniers, Johnson recast the Nazi war effort as a defensive action against the spread of communism, and wrote that “German fears of [their own] extermination were not misplaced.”

The AMA was posted in the “Altright” subreddit, a white nationalist online community rife with anti-Semitism, racism, and Holocaust denial. Reddit has since deleted the subreddit, but Johnson’s AMA was preserved by a third party archive site.

Johnson is best known as an alt right blogger and internet troll. He has been criticized for making unfounded accusations against public figures, for racially charged comments and for doxxing people (publishing reporters’ and others’ private information online). He was banned from Twitter after soliciting for donations on the platform to “take out” a Black Lives Matter activist, though Johnson claims his tweets were misunderstood.

Johnson continues to foment controversy with WeSeachr, a website he founded which, among other things, serves as a crowd-funding nexus for members of the alt right and alt lite. A recent WeSearchr campaign solicited cash to support an alt lite rally in Berkeley, CA, and another raised more than $85,000 for the legal defense of Kyle Chapman (aka “Based Stickman”), an alt lite “hero” who was charged in August with felony weapons possession. The site also spearheaded a a legal defense fund to support Andrew Anglin, editor of the notorious neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, who is currently being sued by a Jewish woman for allegedly orchestrating a campaign of anti-Semitic harassment against her.

Rather than asking — how do they deny the Holocaust, we should ask — why do they deny the Holocaust. “Holocaust denial” or “Holocaust revisionism” isn’t really about body counts. It is denial that the Jews were 100% innocent.

It’s weird to take someone’s opinion on a part of history and then boil him down to “Holocaust denier.” These dismissals are a common tactic by some Jews and Leftists to remove enemies from the conversation.

As for my own opinions on the Holocaust, they are entirely conventional. I accept whatever is the scholarly consensus. I believe that somewhere around six million Jews were killed in Europe in World War II and I believe there were gas chambers and other forms of mass killing of Jews and non-Jews. I don’t think people should be put in prison or ex-communicated from polite society for challenging the conventional Holocaust narrative, however.

Orange County Register Aug. 25, 2017:

Johnson’s presence at the meeting helped fuel the criticism because he’s been associated with the alt right. Johnson, who runs GotNews.com, was banned from Twitter for life after a 2015 tweet soliciting donations to “take out” African American civil-rights activist DeRay McKesson.

A new website launched by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to attack Rohrabacher, dubbed “The Rohrabacher Conspiracy,” calls Johnson a “white supremacist” and “Holocaust denier,” citing research by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Johnson dismissed the DCCC site as “disgusting and underhanded.” He said he has “no reason to discount” consensus that Nazis killed 6 million Jews and “I am not a white-power fanatic.” He said online quotes attributed him that indicate otherwise have been doctored or taken out of context.

However, he did acknowledge his belief that there are intellectual differences between the races.

“There are some groups that are smarter than others, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t respect them,” Johnson told me in comments I read back to ensure their accuracy. “While it may be true that Jews may be smarter than whites and whites may be smarter than blacks, that doesn’t mean we should dehumanize anybody because of that.

“You should never use this to discriminate in hiring or in general.”

Chuck Johnson did this Reddit AMA about a year ago. Here are excerpts:

* I’m of the view that Donald Trump is an economic, cultural and political figure.
I supported him after he forced Obama to reveal his fake birth certificate. I wouldn’t say we are terribly close but I did watch all of the Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice and I’ve come around to him as a political figure.
I placed a bet on him and Ted Cruz in London but I honestly never expected the Republican Establishment to be as weak as it wound up being.

* From a macroeconomic perspective Trump is the return of the alpha male. Whenever you see societies that are collapsing you’ll see a return of alpha males. That’s why people like Mike Cernovich are coming to dominate the Twitterverse and why people like Ben Shapiro and the other cucks are starting to fall apart.

* One day the country will know what I know about Barack Obama.
Yes, he’s gay (not that I care), and yes, his second daughter isn’t his. And yes, his father is Frank Marshall Davis. And if you want to work on this, you should email me.
For the record Obama was born in Hawaii but he’s told two different stories about which hospital. He’s also told three different stories about how he met his wife.
Oh, and have a look at his hands in this photo.
And while we’re on the topic check out the moles on Obama’s face. That’s a trait only common among West African blacks (think Morgan Freeman!).
Oh, and another thing. I went to this bridge and I can’t get the angle on the shot they did. It’s in Central Park across from the Plaza Hotel.
Prove it’s fake and I’ve got some other fun projects for you.

* I’m wearing my Make America Great Again hat right now. One day the public will know all that I did behind the scenes but it is not today. My wife gets mad at me for running around the house yelling “MAGA” in sheer joy.
When BuzzFeed made up Donald Trump leaving Roy Cohn because he had AIDS that pissed me off. It wasn’t true. Cohn was being investigated by the feds.
When BuzzFeed — that cat porn site — attacked Donald Trump for backing Mike Tyson — who was wrongly put in prison for rape — I knew he was a great man and that I had to do everything I could to tell the truth about him and his supporters.

* Don’t tell anyone but Ben Garrison is a great man.

* Jesus or Socrates or Galileo was the troll I always wanted to be.

* >When did you first realize you were a glorious shitlord?

I started (((noticing))) things and read the Bell Curve. I legit hid it under my mattress. Steve Sailer was a huge influence. I used to work in a computer lab in high school and I would read him and delete my history lest anyone found out.

* I’m not really sure if I’m an Alt Right figure. Okay, fine. I probably am. I did a podcast on the Alt Right awhile back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBvq0kUpHio
I think I was GamerGate before there was a GamerGate. I used to play an absurd amount of StarCraft, Halo, Gears of War, Call of Duty, Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Rainbow Six, and then I got married and had to make money and shit so I stopped playing video games but then I realized Twitter is kind of a video game. So is the news media. Real life has become my video game.
You should read Steve Sailer and Mike Cernovich and Razib Khan at Unz Review.
You should also go to my website and see all the books. You should join my researcher slack where we have a reading list.
You should read the 10,000 Year Explosion; Albion’s Seed; The German War; and, of course, The Blank Slate.
You should buy these books but if you are cheap you should get them at bookzz.org.

* I think it’s odd that we haven’t seen more political assassinations. You usually expect to see them in economic downturns and perhaps we are due. I think Trump probably has a 5-10% chance of being assassinated. I think oftentimes about what America would look like afterwards.

* If you want to join us, go over to Gotnews.com and we’ll teach you how to become a better consumer of news and ultimately a producer.
The most important thing everyone can do is “not live by lies.”
Don’t teach the SJW bullshit to your children. Don’t pretend you believe it to get laid. Don’t say it to get promoted, etc.
Just walk away from the lies. It’ll be hard at first but then you’ll feel so good about yourself that you won’t want to stop.
Oh, and read this essay which I sort of plagiarized from just as second ago there. www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/SolhenitsynLies.php
Also read this one by Paul Graham to discover when you’re being sold a moral fashion. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Work very hard to make your life anti-fragile too so that no SJW mob can come try and lynch you. And if you can’t do that, send me some stories and I’ll write them for you.

* Part of the reason I did a research project on Deray McKesson is that I’m acutely aware of how Silicon Valley fascism teamed up with Black Lives Matter and Obama to try to push this fiction that white cops kill blacks disproportionately. That’s why I fought it so hard and that’s why I will continue to fight to expose those relationships. It’s why I’m so friendly with George Zimmerman.
McKesson is Jack Dorsey’s boyfriend. (Not a joke).
Yes, I got suspended from Twitter because I insulted a man’s secret boyfriend. It’s fucked up.
Mckesson is finished. When someone bothers to look into his time at Bowdoin College they’ll find what I found and it’ll all be over.
Oh, and remember, Donald Trump crushed McKesson when he was running for Mayor of Baltimore.

* >What inspired you to start up GotNews?

It kind of started as a joke, like, “Got Milk?” but then moved into something more serious.
I started as a researcher for Alan Dershowitz, who is still a good friend and I paid my way through college researching things for corporations, individuals, etc. and playing poker of course.
I realized that the way the social justice warriors maintain power is through the narrative and that news — and the way the human brain focuses on novelty — was how they maintained control. You could blow up those narratives and they would be left scrambling. Social justice warriors always lie! And I soon realized that people would come out of the woodwork and give you money to cause trouble. And they still do. gotnews.com/donate.
Shameless plug out of the way!

* >What fact angers the most people in your experience?

The IQ differential between racial populations.

* It’s weird how much weed and video games have emasculated some men. I think it’s all about making you become a part of the matrix.

>What are your personal thoughts on the whole Michelle Fields thing?
Do you think it was a deliberate smear attempt due to her feeling like she was not pampered enough by the campaign, or do you think she’s just so spoiled rotten and entitled that she convinced herself she was truly assaulted?
Also if you can’t comfortably answer that – alternate question, what do you think about how Trumps campaign handled the incident and do you feel it was recovered from?

It was an effort by Michelle Fields to get the limelight once again. She worked with her very rich boyfriend (((Jamie Weinstein))) to hijack the national discourse to promote herself and later her book. I think she is actually mentally ill. I don’t mean that in a derogatory way. I just think she is. I think it’s quite revealing that Jamie hasn’t made an honest woman of her yet.
The Trump campaign should have shared more of my articles. You’ll note that when they did the whole story changed. I don’t get why people don’t share my articles more often but I know that they read them. I’m sort of like a Steve Sailer for news! Megyn Kelly — when she wasn’t busy cheating with Brit Hume — even called my website discredited or some such. Naughty, naughty!

>Confirm some things about Obama.
Is he gay? Is his wife really a man/tranny? Is he really muslim? Is he Kenyan or Hawaiian or other? What are his real political views, since he had close dealings with communism/socialism in college and while growing up

Yes, he’s gay and had gay relationships.
I’m pretty sure she’s a woman but that she has high levels of testerone which is not uncommon for black women.
He was registered as a Muslim at a Catholic school he attended and I visited in Indonesia.
He is not Kenyan. Frank Marshall Davis is his father.
Frank Marshall Davis is a card-carrying Communist who is called Uncle Frank in “Obama’s book”. He was openly gay in Chicago and joined the gay club in 1979 at Occidental College. His boyfriend and he traveled to Pakistan in the 1980s. He’s a leftist, atheist gay guy who got married to a connected black woman to have a political career. He wanted to be mayor of Chicago.

>what are your thoughts on the Holocaust, WW2, and the JQ in general?

I do not and never have believed the six million figure which I think is still up for some historical debate. There were a number of sources that disputed the six million figure and I find myself in that camp reluctantly. Of course you can’t really discuss any of this stuff without being called a Holocaust denier which I am not. I think Jews were killed in the war, particularly in the Eastern occupied provinces. I think the Red Cross numbers of 250,000 dead in the camps from typhus are more realistic but I confess to having complicated views on the subject. I think the Allied bombings of Germany were a war crime. I agree with David Cole about Auschwitz and the gas chambers not being real. Why were their swimming pools there if it was a death camp? I support decriminalizing Holocaust inquiry. I read the German War (highly recommend), Bloodlands, Mein Kampf, and all of David Irving. I’m more or less of the view that the war was an outgrowth of the efforts of communism to spread itself throughout the world. I also believe that the fears of German extermination were not misplaced, especially in light of the Ukrainian famine. But I support Israel as a Jewish state and Zionism as a concept. I’m pro-ethno state, generally. I understand why and how Hitler rose to power but think too much of our focus on World War II is spent trying to understand Hitler and not enough is spent trying to understand Weimar. Mecius Moldbug, aka Curtis Yarvin, is right. America is a communist country.

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‘Trying the Feldenkrais Method for Chronic Pain’

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Luke Ford

New York Times: After two hourlong sessions focused first on body awareness and then on movement retraining at the Feldenkrais Institute of New York, I understood what it meant to experience an incredible lightness of being. Having, temporarily at least, released the muscle tension that aggravates my back and hip pain, I felt like I was walking on air.

I had long refrained from writing about this method of countering pain because I thought it was some sort of New Age gobbledygook with no scientific basis. Boy, was I wrong!

The Feldenkrais method is one of several increasingly popular movement techniques, similar to the Alexander technique, that attempt to better integrate the connections between mind and body. By becoming aware of how one’s body interacts with its surroundings and learning how to behave in less stressful ways, it becomes possible to relinquish habitual movement patterns that cause or contribute to chronic pain.

The method was developed by Moshe Feldenkrais, an Israeli physicist, mechanical engineer and expert in martial arts, after a knee injury threatened to leave him unable to walk. Relying on his expert knowledge of gravity and the mechanics of motion, he developed exercises to help teach the body easier, more efficient ways to move.

I went to the institute at the urging of Cathryn Jakobson Ramin, author of the recently published book “Crooked” that details the nature and results of virtually every current approach to treating back pain, a problem that has plagued me on and off (now mostly on) for decades. Having benefited from Feldenkrais lessons herself, Ms. Ramin had good reason to believe they would help me.

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LAT: ‘Six women accuse filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct’

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Luke Ford

Danielle Berrin told us all about Brett Ratner years ago. And she says she took it easy on him. I assume that means he masturbated in front of her. What’s with all these Jewish guys who like to corner women and whack off? Harvey Weinstein, James Toback, Dov Charney, Leon Wieseltier, Brett Ratner…

Los Angeles Times:

In interviews with the Los Angeles Times, Henstridge and five other women accused Ratner of a range of sexual harassment and misconduct that allegedly took place in private homes, on movie sets or at industry events.

As is often the case, none of the women reported the allegations to the police…

Olivia Munn said that while visiting the set of the 2004 Ratner-directed “After the Sunset” when she was still an aspiring actress, he masturbated in front of her in his trailer when she went to deliver a meal. Munn wrote about the incident in her 2010 collection of essays without naming Ratner. On a television show a year later, Ratner identified himself as the director, and claimed that he had “banged” her, something he later said was not true. The same year her book was published, Munn ran into Ratner at a party thrown by Creative Artists Agency and he boasted of ejaculating on magazine covers featuring her image, she told The Times.

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How To Spot A Liar

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Luke Ford

I generally despise TED talks, but this is a good one:

Truth #1: “Lying is a cooperative act.”

Truth #2. Everyone is willing to give you something for what they’re hungry for. Lying is an attempt to bridge that gap between who we wish we were and what we are really like.

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