\nDead white European males dominate his inventories, despite Murray reserving eight of his 21 categories (including Arabic literature, Indian philosophy, and Chinese visual art) for non-Western arts. Murray, who was a Peace Corp volunteer in Thailand and has half-Asian children, began this project wanting to devote even more attention to Asian accomplishments but found he couldn\u2019t justify his predisposition.<\/p>\n
In the sciences, 97 percent of the significant figures and events turned out to be Western. Is this merely Eurocentric bias? Of the 36 science reference books he drew upon, 28 were published after 1980, by which time historians were desperately searching for non-Westerners to praise. Only in this decade has the most advanced non-Western country, Japan, begun to win science Nobels regularly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The irony is that modern progress over the last 600 years has been overwhelmingly the achievement of the hate object of modern progressives: dead white European males. Most other great civilizations were stuck in conservative stasis even before the European gunboats showed. Only Japan was making a modest degree of progress.<\/p>\n
COMMENTS AT STEVE SAILER:<\/p>\n
* Whenever I hear someone say some bold statement like this, I always get very very worried. Worried that they will apologize. Which almost always follows the bold statement, unfortunately.<\/p>\n
I usually find it difficult to talk to a voicemail or answering machine, I need to prepare what I\u2019ll say in advance, otherwise it sounds pretty incoherent.<\/p>\n
* King can be a badass sometimes\u2026 I remember reading Robert Novak a dozen years back on the Iowa re-gerrymander, who described it as a \u201cFrankenstein\u201d district inadvertently created by shoring up the state\u2019s Democrats. The downside of the invincible right-wing boroughs is you get pols who are a bit outr\u00e9 for taking out into primetime like Todd Akin or Michele Bachmann. It\u2019s a double standard since congresscritters from Oakland CA or Seattle can act bonkers all week without \u201cexemplifying\u201d Democrats\u2013 oh well, in a polyglot party does speaking in tongues even matter?<\/p>\n
* They were also going nuts about how King keeps a miniature Confederate Flag on his desk. King really knows how to trigger SJW\u2019s\/leftists\/Obama\u2019s coalition of the fringes. Is it too late to make him Trump\u2019s VP?<\/p>\n
* I love the obvious lameness of the \u201ccounterexamples\u201d thrown out to refute King.<\/p>\n
As dumb as his attackers are, they can\u2019t be so dumb as not to be embarrassed that that\u2019s the best they can do.<\/p>\n
* That took a lot of guts to say. I know he\u2019s on msnbc in this instance to provoke liberal outrage but damn, he dropped a nuke on \u2018em. The black female panelist was clearly the most upset by it. Her behavior shows, once again, that blacks really believe the crap cynical liberals tell them about themselves.<\/p>\n
* I found that clip pretty hilarious. King is not all that articulate, but Charles Pierce is so odious and hopelessly self-loathing he was dumbstruck.<\/p>\n
* I wondered how long it would take the media to blame the latest black cop killer\u2019s actions on badwhites: \u201cThe former Marine who killed three Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police officers identified with a growing movement that originated among white supremacists\u2026<\/p>\n
* You bring up a good point about him not being articulate. There appear to be no pols with alt right leanings that are good speakers except for Trump. That\u2019s a problem. If I said what King said to some of my conservative relatives and friends they would think it\u2019s racist too. The reason is we just don\u2019t have good speakers who can get these ideas across, or in this case just get facts across.<\/p>\n
* It\u2019s very hard. Actual political views\/speech content aside, you need someone who\u2019s quick-witted (i.e. who can recognize and seize opportunities); who\u2019s articulate (i.e. who speaks in complete sentences, with a bit of subtlety and cunning); and who can keep his cool and\/or use anger tactically and effectively in the face of sputtering outrage and ad hominem attacks coming at him from all sides, especially from the \u2018neutral\u2019 moderator who holds the metaphorical mic and can cut him off. And then he\u2019s got to have the perseverence\/endurance to come back and do this again and again and again without slipping up.<\/p>\n
Mark Steyn has all the rhetorical skills I\u2019ve set out above, but there are few like him around.<\/p>\n
* It is perhaps unfortunate that the computer industry developed during an era when terms and nomenclature became acronyms or bland academic jargon instead of being given the name of the discoverer or developer. This is in contrast to an earlier era where old white men like Volta, Watt and Ohm were honored by having their names used to describe the fundamentals of the fields they pioneered.<\/p>\n
Had the previous method been used it would be impossible for the anti white male legions to reference computers technology and software without having to mention the names of the old white men who created the field.<\/p>\n
* Normally, leftists are able to muster some sort of frenzied counterargument, even if it\u2019s just viciously denouncing their foes. In this case, they\u2019re practically speechless. Truly amazing.<\/p>\n
* That\u2019s why Hayes immediately cut off the conversation. On any other controversial topic or supposed gaffe by a conservative, MSNBC\u2019s mouths would water . But there can\u2019t be a conversation (oh, the irony) b\/c it\u2019s there is absolutely no contest as to who wins the argument.<\/p>\n
* Pat Buchanan was fantastic on MSNBC and his earlier TV gigs when he talked about immigration and race but the conversations almost never went in that direction. Even so he was still too dangerous and got booted off. \u201cNo platform\u201d indeed.<\/p>\n
* Peter DeVry: Rep. Steve King shouldn\u2019t be allowed to use any inventions created by people who are not white. No elevators, no microphones, no pacemakers.<\/p>\n
* Elisha Otis, a White man, invented the elevator.<\/p>\n
Wilson Greatbatch, a White man, invented the pacemaker.<\/p>\n
In 1962, after nearly a century of invention and improvement by White men, Gerhard Sessler, a White man, and his sidekick James West, a quadroon, developed a new type of microphone at Bell Labs.<\/p>\n
Pretty slender reed, Mr DeVry.<\/p>\n
* The most in demand microphones are still the Neumann\/Telefunken U-47, U-87, and similar variants thereof, and the 1930s and 1940s RCA ribbon mics such as the 44 and 77.<\/p>\n
All designed by white guys.<\/p>\n
* Steve Sailer: Steyn\u2019s hugely gifted, but he lives in New Hampshire so he can\u2019t do big time TV all that regularly. You pretty much have to live in New York or Washington (or Atlanta if you are on CNN) or L.A. (if you are more entertainment than news).<\/p>\n
A long time ago I was counting up how many times I\u2019d been on TV and I came up with around ten. I estimated back then then I\u2019d need to be on TV at least 100 times to make any progress toward being recognizable, and I now think that was an underestimate.<\/p>\n
And TV appearances generally don\u2019t pay.<\/p>\n
* More seriously, the Steve King clip reveals the utter inability of most panelists in these TV discussions in our country to think on their feet or reply with a zinger, however flimsy.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been watching quite a bit of the British Parliament\u2019s question hour lately thanks to Brexit events, and I must say that the art of debate, wit and repartee has withered significantly in a generation on this side of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n
We were never a match for the Brits in my living memory, and in any case it was never fully our style, but we used to be better, a lot better.<\/p>\n
In terms of verbal skills, most intellectuals and public figures these days are dull plodders, with neither wit nor whimsy at their command. I blame management speak and focus group processed political press release language for this, at least in the political arena.<\/p>\n
And in these talk shows, a babble of semi-coherent outraged noises are the usual answer to something like Steve King\u2019s statement. That figures. Outrage is what is taught in our fine, fine liberal arts universities these days, not the arts of rhetoric.<\/p>\n
* Imagine human life on Earth ends tomorrow. A Martian historian lands and takes preliminary notes on a study of Earthling life. I know I\u2019m setting up a very crude, surely biased straw man here, but how could a Martian historian not notice that peoples in the following continental groupings share common characteristics and are distinguishable from peoples of other continents.<\/p>\n
Group #1 \u2013 Australia, North America, South America, Europe, Antarctica<\/p>\n
Group #2 \u2013 Asia<\/p>\n
Group #3 \u2013 Africa<\/p>\n
My point, of course, is that Western civilization (or Western Christendom), is something of an 800 lb. gorilla. No one in his right mind can ignore it and its good influences. Even the ability of TV personalities to trash \u201cdead White European males\u201d without risking death or banishment is something of a Western innovation in how people ought to live together. Even Black Americans who openly despise Whites seem to not want to hop a jet for a new life in Africa.<\/p>\n
By Western civilization, I do include the peoples who\u2019ve become part of that civilization by various assimilative processes. I. e., American Indians, Africans, Western Asians (think Imperial Rome).<\/p>\n
Put more crudely: how do you not give the White guys (mostly) credit where it\u2019s due?<\/p>\n
* Representative Steve King could\u2019ve said something very simple but effective, for example, \u201cYou take away trains, planes, automobiles, refrigerators, radio, television, movies, computers, telephones, microscopes, telescopes, rockets, antibiotics, washing machines, etc \u2013 all invented by white men \u2013 and what have you got? Not much.\u201d<\/p>\n
* Do you remember the viral video of Rand Paul running away from the collegiate (illegal) immigration activists at in Okijoba, IA in 2015?<\/p>\n
The guy who stuck around to clean up Rand\u2019s mess was Steve MF\u2019ing King.<\/p>\n