The Best Of Nathan Cofnas

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Luke Ford

Here’s a selection of his recent tweets:

* Jews tried to be white nationalists. E.g., 40% of the speakers at the first AmRen conference were Jews. But they got chased away by Kevin MacDonald fans. It’s ironic: MacDonald predicts there won’t be white nationalist Jews, and there aren’t that many because of MacDonald.

* As soon as a non-anti-Semitic white nationalist organization was created, Jews showed up and said “We’re here to help.” White nationalists told them to piss off, now complain that Jews don’t support them.

* If white nationalism weren’t anti-Semitic, I think Jews were be intensely involved.

* [Jared] Taylor recently strongly endorsed Identity Evropa, which prohibits Jews from being members. He would never endorse a white nationalist organization that excluded Slavs (or other gentile whites). Jews are now de facto second-class citizens in AmRen even if Taylor says otherwise.

* He did make some more ambiguous statements, too. In any case it’s clear that he’s willing to be allied with open anti-Semites who say Jews should be excluded from white nationalism.

* Jared Taylor never took a clear public stand on Jews. He didn’t expel anti-Semites from AmRen, so it got Nazified.

* I’ve heard several stories about Jews who used to attend but stopped because other attendees were confronting them with Jewish conspiracy theories. Seems clear that they are much less represented among speakers, though I haven’t collected the data on that.

* Also, suppose nannying hurts the majority because the majority doesn’t need it (I agree). What about the minority that does need it? Shouldn’t their suffering also be part of the moral equation?

* I’m sympathetic to libertarianism. But I don’t see why an IQ=80 obese person who can’t understand how to treat his diabetes is better off with unlimited freedom.

* People who subscribe to [Charles] Murray’s position are debating on Twitter but not on television, in major newspapers, in any sociology journals, etc.

Friends writes:

* 1) ‘Excludes jews’ isn’t closed under the ‘endorses’ relation. Not if you have a moral commitment to freedom of association.

2) If there are exclusively Jewish organizations, advocacy groups, etc. it’s not morally legitimate for there to be exclusively gentile advocacy groups?

Sean Last and The Alt Hype made two of their worst videos ever this week.

There were a number of soft spots in Sean and Ryan’s videos that’d be easy to press on. Among them, that there didn’t seem to be a statistically significant difference in the views of Jews and Gentile college educated whites regarding affirmative action as an anti-white policy. It was observably true on the data he was reading off of…but he felt like the better comparison to make would be between Jews and the white average.

Basically everything is interpreted incorrectly. He wasn’t controlling for education, SES, and geography. He needs to do that jointly to test the DH. It’s an hour and a half jam-packed with problems. It would be a big undertaking to go through all of it.

He also didn’t look at Jewish representation in hard Vs soft sciences

Ryan basically says Jews run the cushy science programs like sociology at the end of his video and that they gravitate toward those fields

But we’d have to see how Jewish overrreresentetion in, say, chemistry compares to overrepresentation in gender studies

In order to determine if this is a “Jews gravitate toward subversive soft sciences” thing or just a “Jews are over-represented in all science in general” thing.

Noah Carl writes:

It is often asserted that, when it comes to taboo topics like race, genes and IQ, scholars should be held to higher evidentiary standards or even censored entirely because of the harm that might result if their findings became widely known. There is held to be an asymmetry whereby the societal costs of discussing certain topics inevitably outweigh any benefits from doing so. This paper argues that no such asymmetry has been empirically demonstrated, and that stifling debate around taboo topics can itself do active harm. To the extent that the paper’s argument has force, it cannot simply be taken for granted that, when in doubt, stifling debate around taboo topics is the ethical thing to do.

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Styxhexenhammer666 Interview (4-29-18)

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Luke Ford

MP3.

Styxhexenhammer666 is my guest today.

Styx is a prolific Youtube personality with a recent video on this: “Any significant criminal enterprise has the cash needed to pay scientists to replicate DNA in order to plant false evidence. The government could easily craft false evidence to jail dissidents.”

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A Time Of Tribalism

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Luke Ford

Rod Dreher writes:

The book starts by talking about how Americans’ blindness to tribalism as a social and anthropological fact has been disastrous for us overseas. She quotes President Woodrow Wilson saying that “America does not consist of groups” — a statement that was bonkers on its face in a time of legal segregation, among other things. But that was the myth that Wilson wanted us to believe, and that many white Americans wanted to believe. Chua doesn’t say this, but it seems to me clear that in the same way that many liberals today conceal their own racism, and racist policies, from themselves by framing their worldview as “inclusive” and “diverse,” many in the ruling white establishment in Wilson’s day (I don’t think “liberal” or “conservative” in the way we understand the terms makes sense applied back then) told themselves that “America does not consist of groups” as a way to conceal from themselves the ugly facts of discrimination against marginalized Americans.

That was the American ideal, though not the American reality. Chua doesn’t use that to slam America as hypocritical, though. She says that this sentiment represents America “at both its best and its worst.” That is, America aspires to be a nation where loyalty to ideals and principles trumps group loyalty — that is America at its best — but is also a nation where the better angels of our nature are so comely that the cause us to overlook our demons.

A friend says:

It’s funny to read this and realize how ignorant Dreher actually is about real world things. I don’t just mean in terms of looking at things through a racial or tribal lens (which once you do it explains a lot more things about the real world including the voting on the Voice) but on factual things, such as not knowing that Chinese dominated commerce in Vietnam and were resented by the Vietnamese or that Chinese dominate almost all the economies of southeast asia and that gives rise to things like the Malaysian “pogroms” against Chinese merchants a few years back. Of course he fails to pick up on the fact that Amy Chua is herself a descendant of the Chinese diaspora (I think her parents were born in Malaysia) and that she is married to a Jew. Both ethnicities are tribal to an extreme. I don’t know if you read Sailer yesterday, but multiculturalism has brought the caste system along with Indian immigrants, where the Dalits or untouchables are facing very real harassment and discrimination from higher caste Indians in the United States.

One of the things about Dreher is that I like him and I think that he is very open and honest about what he writes. I know that Paul Gottfried for one things his thinking is puerile and has no respect for Dreher. The problem with this post is that it triggers in me the insight attributed to the great physicist Murray Gell-Mann (sometimes called the Gell-Mann effect.) Gell-Man was reading the paper one day and realized the person who was writing the science article knew nothing about what he was writing and was wrong on every point. Gell-Man then extrapolated from this that he shouldn’t trust anything he read in the paper, especially the articles about which he knew nothing since he had no way of judging how right or wrong (or true or false) the article was. So since Dreher considers himself a social commentator, to see how badly he misunderstands both immediate historical events (such as the war in Vietnam; my recollection he was very enthusiastic about Ken Burns’ recent documentary) and what drives competing ethnicities, races, groups etc, it makes me question the wisdom and insight on other things, including his pet project the Benedict Option, or his conclusions about the problems facing the church.

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A Celebration Of The Jewish People

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Luke Ford

Sean Last’s essay:

I am going to empirically document the following claims:

Jews are vastly overrepresented in positions of power and cultural influence
Jewish elites are far to the left of gentile elites and have moved shifted the distribution of political opinion among American elites from centrism to leftism
Jewish leftism and success can partly be explained by their mean IQs, living in large cities, personality traits, and possibly certain cultural values, but ethnocentrism also plays an important role that should not be ignored.

Sean seems to have his statistics correct but he seems to lack common sense knowledge about Jews. He writes: “Higher than average ethnocentrism is also evidenced by Jewish patterns of marriage. Jewish people make up only 2% of the US population, but most Jewish people are married to fellow Jews.”

There are many groups with lower out-marriage rates than Jews (who have a 60% out-marriage rate) and hence one would expect Last to put alleged Jewish ethnocentrism in a context. I don’t see how a group that marries out at more than 60% is ethnocentric.

Last writes: “It is also worth noting that NYC is both the biggest city in America and the largest city with the most Jews. Yet, Jews vote democrat by smaller margins in NYC than they do nationally, making the claim that living in large cities explains Jewish leftism even more implausible (Heilman 2016).”

The moderation of the politics of New York Jews is due to a third of them being Orthodox, a far higher percentage than in other American cities.

Last does not mention that Jews from Western Europe (where Jews generally got along with their fellow citizens) are more moderate politically than Jews from Eastern Europe (where they lived for centuries in an atmosphere of mutual hatred).

The Alternative Hypothesis bases his video in large part on the debunked statistics of Ron Unz.

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Jim Goad On White Privilege Vs Jewish Privilege

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Luke Ford

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I’ll Be Cohosting With JF Gariepy Monday At 8:15 pm EST For A News & Politics Show

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Luke Ford

Check out JF Gariepy’s Youtube channel. He’s a neuro-scientist who did post-doc work at Duke University.

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Politico: Jackson troubles shine light on a fact of Washington life: Sleeping pills

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Luke Ford

From Politico:

Ronny Jackson, the White House physician who is battling to save his nomination to be the secretary of veterans affairs, regularly handed out the sleep drug Ambien and the alertness drug Provigil to West Wing officials traveling on overseas flights.

Jackson’s nomination has inadvertently exposed the widespread use of sleep and alertness drugs among government officials from the White House and State Department to the Pentagon and Congress itself…

Medical experts sounded the same warnings about Provigil, which was hailed by many as a miracle drug for its ability to keep people awake without many of the side effects, like jitteriness, of other substances like caffeine…

Schwartz said use of Provigil to help people stay awake in stressful situations or after long travel is not an FDA-approved use. Doctors can legally prescribe medicines for unapproved uses, but she said there aren’t a lot of studies to inform physicians and patients of the benefits and safety risks of using Provigil in these situations…

Provigil has addiction potential, so caution should be taken in prescribing it, she added. Because it’s a stimulant, doctors also need to carefully consider whether patients have heart problems or anxiety — conditions that could be exacerbated by use of the drug.

This is an ignorant article by Politico. Here’s a smarter piece by Wikipedia on modafinil (provigil):

The addiction and dependence liabilities of modafinil are very low.[1][2][26] It shares biochemical mechanisms with addictive stimulant drugs, and some studies have reported it to have similar mood-elevating properties, although to a lesser degree.[26] Monkeys will self-administer modafinil if they have previously been trained to self-administer cocaine.[26] Although modafinil does not produce reinforcing effects in mice at doses that are equivalent to those used therapeutically in humans, it does do so at higher doses.[27][28] In accordance, although very rare, case reports of modafinil abuse exist…

Modafinil has been described as an “atypical” DAT inhibitor, and shows a profile of effects that is very different from those of other dopaminergic stimulants.[49][50] For instance, modafinil produces wakefulness reportedly without the need for compensatory sleep, and shows a relatively low, if any,[51] potential for abuse.[46][49][50] Aside from modafinil, examples of other atypical DAT inhibitors include vanoxerine and benztropine, which have a relatively low abuse potential similarly to modafinil.

… “[the] neurochemical effects [of modafinil] and anatomical pattern of brain area activation differ from typical psychostimulants and are consistent with its beneficial effects on cognitive performance processes such as attention, learning, and memory”,[51] and a study found that modafinil-induced increased locomotor activity in animals was dependent on histamine release and could be abolished by depletion of neuronal histamine, whereas those of methylphenidate were not and could not be.

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I Get Mail

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Luke Ford

Here are some emails I’ve received lately:

* I resolved to return to 12-step today, a much-needed development I have been mulling for several months. (I used to attend AA but gave up giving up.) I have a lot in common with many in the alt-right, despite being a patrilineal Jew. My social and financial capital is extremely limited; I have spent many years procrastinating and avoiding; and I was already marginalised and interested in fringe ideas from the outset. You are right to emphasise the dangers of the red pill: in some ways the alt-right made me even more marginalised and, coupled with a fondness for alcohol, I put myself in a few situations where my readiness to talk about our ideas nearly got me in trouble. My brother, whom I previously got on very well with, has all but disowned me (and I have barely even spoken about the alt-right with him. He can simply sense a dangerous change.)

In other ways, however, the alt-right has been positive. For the first time ever I feel in touch with reality; I think my delusions are fewer; I have been forced to face up to the future and my culpability in failing to build an adequate life for myself. I began saving money for the first time, and while my professional life is still very unsatisfying, I am more positive about my ability to effect some change. Whether I will ever get there I don’t know but I have at least accepted I have a duty to try. I haven’t wanted to try before, not really. Life was too much of a struggle – I preferred dreaming/drinking.

I found the recent stream (‘Under Earning’) highly enjoyable. It was notable that the presence of the older man triggered many under-earning responses in the young Australian. He became needlessly confrontational in a way that illustrated the point you were making. I don’t think he was aware of that though. Rodney, to his credit, handled him very well.

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Why The Rise In Jewish Private Schooling In Los Angeles?

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: A number of years ago during a Boy Scout event, I was surprised to find in my neighborhood a quite large Jewish private elementary school that had so many students that it had 23 Cub Scouts moving up to join the Boy Scouts in one year. This wasn’t an Orthodox school, just normal Jews who went to public school when were were kids before busing came to LAUSD in 1978.

The school is hidden away behind large hedges. The huge increase in Jewish private schools in Los Angeles over the last 40 years is almost never discussed in the mass media.

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White nationalist Chris Cantwell, known for role in Charlottesville riots, arrested in Leesburg

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Luke Ford

Christopher Cantwell blogs:

You may have heard I was recently featured on Warski Live. The video was taken down immediately after the stream, which I did not hold against them since the show airs from Canada and YouTube censorship has been out of control.

What I did hold against them, was when Warski went on Kumite the next day and completely misled his sizeable audience about what had happened.

I have attached an audio recording to this blog post illustrating the deception.

UPDATE: Andy Warski continues his deceptions

Warski completely misrepresented my complaint on a recent stream. I explicitly said I had no problem with them removing the episode from YouTube, but he pretends this is the complaint anyway. I am not making a “free speech” complaint here. I am complaining that he lied on Kumite by claiming I was plotting a literal murder of a specific individual based on his ethnicity, when I had explicitly stated that what I talked about was fictional and hyperbolic.

Oh, and for those of you who have asked, they have not offered me a penny of the thousands of dollars in Super Chats which they repeatedly remarked were the highest ever in the history of the channel.

From Loudon Times Mirror:

Christopher Charles Cantwell, a self-described white nationalist and alt-right activist, was arrested on March 31 in Leesburg for public swearing and intoxication, according to the Leesburg Police Department.

Leesburg police officers observed Cantwell trying to cross the street in the 500 block of Market Street, according to LPD spokesman Sam Shenouda.

“When they made contact with him, he did show signs of drunkenness. He smelled of alcohol, couldn’t keep his balance,” Shenouda told the Times-Mirror. “At that point, we’re responsible for the person’s safety, so he was taken into custody and held until sober.”

Cantwell was later released on his own recognizance.

Cantwell is originally from New Hampshire. Shenouda told the Times-Mirror there was no further investigation as to what he was doing in Leesburg.

Shenouda also told the Times-Mirror that Cantwell was not investigated in relation to KKK literature that has been distributed throughout Loudoun County over the past year.

Additionally, Cantwell’s arrest was not listed in the LDP’s weekly arrest reports. Shenouda said Wednesday he was looking into why Cantwell was not included in the reports.

NBC 29 in Charlottesville first reported the Leesburg arrest in a story about Cantwell’s legal troubles in Albermarle County. Cantwell is currently out on bond after he was arrested for illegal use of tear gas in Albermarle County during a torch-lit white nationalist rally at the University of Virginia on Aug. 11, 2017.

After Albermarle officials announced they had warrants out for Cantwell’s arrest after the Charlottesville riots last August, Cantwell posted a video to YouTube, where he choked back tears and shared a phone number that he said the authorities could use to contact him. The video went viral, earning him the nickname “Crying Nazi.”

Cantwell was featured in a Peabody Award winning Vice News report on the Unite the Right rally. In it, Cantwell tells Vice reporter Elle Reeve that he “got into the racial stuff” and “the radical agenda” after Trayvon Martin was killed.

“Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and all these things happen, every single case it’s some little black [expletive] behaving like a savage,” Cantwell told Reeve. “Whatever problems I might have with my fellow white people, they generally are not inclined to such behavior and you got to take that into consideration when you’re thinking about how to organize your society.”

A friend says:

“Luke did you see the drama that was on cantwell’s show? Cantwell has been attacking people left and right…Attacked Ricky, then Warski, and Anglin, and now this.”

“Suggestion — nobody with a criminal record is allowed to step in front of a camera and represent the AltRight, White Nationalism, anything like that. Cantwell has a record from before Charlottesville. Did some time, even. There’s plenty of things you can never, ever, do again if you’ve got a record. One of them should be right wing activism.”

From Chris Cantwell:

Just over a year ago, we had Simon Roche on the pogrom to discuss his efforts to build an emergency plan initiative to prepare a Protestant Christian South African Minority for a coming violent revolution. Even back then, he had good reason to fear such a conflict. The leader of the EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) party there has said “We are not calling for the slaughter of white people‚ at least for now… The rightful owners of the land are black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in SA and whole of the African continent”.

Things in that part of the world have only gotten worse since. A movement to strip white landowners of their property without compensation, parading as “land reform,” is gaining steam by the day. Murders and rapes of white South Africans by blacks is becoming normalized. Things have gotten so bad that Australia considered granting priority refugee status to white South Africans, but that was predictably called racist. Some persecuted minorities are more minor than others, it seems.

So Simon got to work raising money for his cause. He traveled around the United States and spoke to people like me, Jared Taylor, Mike Cernovich, Alex Jones, Stefan Molyneux, and others. Some of you probably gave him money.

Some people think that probably wasn’t such a great idea.

Simon contacted me to say that his reputation was under assault, and asked if I’d provide him with a platform to clear the air. Having been the target of liars myself a few times, I sympathized with his plight, and invited him to join us for this Friday’s show.

When I announced that he would be on the show via Gab.ai, an alarming number of you alerted me to suspicions of his motives, character, and even his ethnicity.

Is Simon a Jew? Has Suidlanders been ripping off donors? Are his dealings legal? Is this money helping white South Africans, or just fueling his lifestyle?

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