{"id":80630,"date":"2015-11-28T18:31:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T02:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=80630"},"modified":"2015-11-28T18:55:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T02:55:17","slug":"the-race-protests-at-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=80630","title":{"rendered":"The Race Protests At Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* Based on the blog post from whence the picture was posted, the Harvard deal is run by a Ghanian Muslim, an Arab Muslim who hates dogs, let it be known I hate Muslims, and a gay White Texan with a thing for Black men.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it. That\u2019s who is running it. They sense weakness and are seeking to run the whole place. Their classmates seem terrified to step in. Do anything. Future masters of America bum rushed by two Muslims and a gay.<\/p>\n

Weakness has a price. This is it.<\/p>\n

* I graduated from an Ivy League school a decade ago, and back then there was a group of black radicals on campus that was protesting basically the same exact things as all these black protesters in the news this year. But they were more or less ignored by the vast majority of people on campus. For all practical purposes, they didn\u2019t exist. This was before social media was a big deal \u2013 when Facebook and Youtube had just started and before Twitter came along. This campus \u201ccrisis\u201d this year seems to be a completely social media driven phenomenon. A small group of black radicals who would have gone unnoticed before social media, now has their antics shared and broadcast across the entire country by blacks and others on social media, This then gets picked up by the mainstream media and becomes big news, and the process feeds upon itself endlessly.<\/p>\n

* I remember back in the 90s, a study group of Black students at Columbia Law decided to take action. They decided to go out side and document taxi bigotry.<\/p>\n

Except, the taxi drivers stopped and picked them up. So, they moved further away from campus and still got picked up. And the drivers agreed to take them to places like the bad parts of Brooklyn. They were perplexed. How could this be?<\/p>\n

Finally, it hit them. They were dressed for law class. They put on their urbanwear (or whatever it\u2019s called these days), and bam! The cab drivers began to act as they expected, refusing to stop for them. Fortunately, as one wag from NR (IIRC) put it, it didn\u2019t start an urban craze for wearing Ivy League sportswear \u2026<\/p>\n

* The blond girl slightly right of center is holding an \u2018Amandla\u2019 sign. \u2018Amandla\u2019 is Zulu for \u2018Power\u2019, and back during the Apartheid protest days in South Africa, the leader of a group would repeatedly call \u2018Amandla!\u2019 and the rest of the crowd would yell, \u2018Awethu!\u2019 (\u2018to us\u2019). So the equivalent in English in \u201cPower!\u201d \u2013 \u201cTo The People!\u201d \u2013 \u201cPower!\u201d \u2013 \u201cTo The People!\u201d, etc.<\/p>\n

Like you often ask: aren\u2019t people embarrassed by anything anymore? One would hope that analogy stretching and exaggeration to this degree \u2013 \u201can ongoing holocaust!\u201d \u2013 would finally break through any reasonable person\u2019s absurdity shields, but alas it is not the case. There really is no level of grievance that is so trivial that it isn\u2019t susceptible to \u2018affront recalibration\u2019 if the high prestige press pretends to take it seriously and won\u2019t call them out on it.<\/p>\n

* It\u2019s driven by social media. Everyone wants to be seen & become famous. I was at a social event last night & most of the people in their 20s & 30s were glued to their phones. Whole tables of people typing away not engaged in any meaningful conversations with the people they\u2019re seated with. Strange times.<\/p>\n

* I might add that my personal observation of multiple protests around the world is that crowd numbers are almost invariable exaggerated. The instigators, the police, the media, often the authorities, have different reasons for bigging them up.<\/p>\n

Canny protest leaders try to pick their sites to enhance the crowdedness of the scene; ignorant observers also contribute by guessing wildly rather than calculating numbers carefully (there are ways to do it).<\/p>\n

The Yugoslavian Otpor people were masters at this.<\/p>\n

The current situation seems comically to have extended this to the point where great institutions quivver at the anger of a \u201ccrowd\u201d of 10.<\/p>\n

* I too see this phenomenon at professional conferences and trade expositions where networking is a key explicit raison d\u2019\u00eatre. During breaks and lunches, tables which in years past would have been engaged in lively discussion are today silent. The same thing happens within corporations where the primary goal of a cafeteria on-site was to promote cross-silo communication. Today the cafeterias are largely silent (except for the always noisy Africans) and one wonders if the revolution in personal communications has only sent everyone everywhere into virtual silos of the like-minded.<\/p>\n

* Black chick is holding a sign: \u201cBuilt From Slavery\u201d<\/p>\n

I thought Harvard was built by the Puritans circa 1636 or something.<\/p>\n

Besides if slavery led to great prosperity Africa would be one of the wealthiest places in the world and Mauritania would be one of the wealthiest countries in the world.<\/p>\n

* What needs to catch fire is a social network site that attacks the non-professionalism of \u201cjournalists\u201d and the media, with just such pictures of \u201cmovements.\u201d<\/p>\n

* How do you read (black law prof) Randy Kennedy\u2019s op-ed<\/a> on the subject? As trying to signal, furtively, that the whole thing is bullshit? And if so, what does it say that he needs to write in code?<\/p>\n

* Simple English translation of Harvard law Prof Op Ed: There\u2019s no reason to believe that the taping incident was done by a white racist, and even that was the case, it\u2019s pretty meaningless, but it has gotten us to talk about race, and that\u2019s always good.<\/p>\n

Talking about race is always good, because we don\u2019t talk about race enough. Over to you, Starbucks.<\/p>\n

* I somehow got the impression from reading that link at the other thread that the guy from Ghana is an \u201caffirmative action\u201d student at HLS. Now, I think \u201caffirmative action\u201d is a complete abomination and contrary to the \u201cequal protection\u201d clause of the U.S. Constitution and should have been ruled unconstitutional back in 2003 instead of upheld by a 5-4 vote (courtesy of Sandra Day O\u2019Connor). But to extend that dubious principle to a man from Ghana is totally preposterous, since there is no way he could be said to have been harmed by the institution of slavery and later segregation in the U.S. I don\u2019t think being black is a disadvantage in Ghana. And to think an American student lost a spot at one of the top law schools in the country because someone thought this idiot should be admitted to HLS boggles the mind.<\/p>\n

* I don\u2019t hate Muslims. Most of the ones I know are fine (of course, they practice an immensely watered-down form of the religion.) I don\u2019t think we should import millions of them into our country right now, but I don\u2019t hate them.<\/p>\n

Immigration should be a matter of public policy and of what\u2019s best for the country.<\/p>\n

* The pictured group looks like a coalition of the socially poor and lonely. A sort of Social Marxism if you will.<\/p>\n

* I rarely go out anymore to social events outside of in a business context. I went to an adult neighborhood Halloween party with my wife this year. Most of the hausfraus spent most of their time at the party taking and posting pictures to Facebook. It was ludicrous. Nobody knows how to converse anymore.<\/p>\n

* Any black man can get a taxi ride if he dresses like a Mormon missionary: black pants, white shirt, and a cheesy polyester tie. Unfortunately, he will also get the sh!t stomped out of him at his ghetto destination for not \u201ckeepin\u2019 it real\u201d.<\/p>\n

* Maurice Howie, star quarterback at Buffalo\u2019s South park HS was convicted (2014) of second degree murder in the shooting death of a Buffalo cab driver. Howie, still in HS, and a friend decided to rob a taxi driver as an easy mark, after the robbery they forced the driver into the backseat of the cab and shot him to death. I am sure all Buffalo cabbies shook this aberration off and went cruising for young, black, male fares.<\/p>\n

* They obviously don\u2019t teach the basics at Harvard \u2013 eg fat lasses shouldn\u2019t wear skinny jeans.<\/p>\n

* The original NYT reporter\u2019s article on the subject sent a semi-coded message that The Narrative couldn\u2019t be trusted on this case. Now they are doing it again via the op-ed page.<\/p>\n

* Social media may well be driving an increase in Protest about Nothing groups on campus, but 90% of HLS students are study machines with no time for social activism. Many look visibly aged by constant sleep deprivation. An atmosphere of panic is palpable in Hilles Library during all hours throughout the semester. The kind of students with time for lame SJW campaigns are the same ones who stroll into the library, dump a big pile of books and crap on a table, and then walk away almost immediately for water, bathroom, food, and chat breaks. Maybe they peek into one or two books for a few minutes now and again. Obviously, they like the idea of receiving a prestigious law degree but they have neither the heart nor talent to earn it.<\/p>\n

* Once again, Hussein Obama is announcing his intention of grabbing for assault weapons, and not handguns, because (in no particular order):<\/p>\n

1. The vast majority of shootings in this country are perpetrated by young urban black males (against other young urban black males), a tiny fraction of the population, using handguns\u2026and handguns are not \u201cassault weapons.\u201d
\n2. Only a tiny number of murders are committed every year with \u201cassault weapons.\u201d \u201cMass shooters\u201d with \u201cassault weapons\u201d kill under 100 people a year.
\n3. The press ignores 1.
\n4. The press trumpets 2.
\n5. Yuppie white owners buy handguns, and not \u201cassault weapons,\u201d to protect themselves from 1.
\n6. Hussein Obama has been the greatest salesman for \u201cassault weapon\u201d vendors in history, so why should he stop now?
\n7. While Hussein\u2019s political allies favor handguns, which are used in the vast majority of gun crime, his political enemies, suburban and rural white Republicans and independents love to buy \u201cassault weapons,\u201d and commit very few crimes with them.
\n8. He loves getting his ass kicked by the gun lobby.
\n9. Hussein agrees with the media that Black Lives Don\u2019t Matter.
\n10. Etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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