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High Sexual Market Value Chicks Dig Mass Murderers

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

Any beta males reading this post ought to grab a Kleenex, because there is no God and your romantic ideals are laughable.

James Holmes, the creepy-looking mass murderer who killed 12 and injured 70 in an Aurora, CO movie theater three years ago, has a veritable harem of gushing (heh) distaff admirers on his cell wall.

…Many supposed “red pillers” and even some field-tested PUAs refuse to believe that chicks dig the worst sorts of jerks. But the evidence that they do is everywhere. Not all chicks dig mass murderers (NACDMM), of course, but many more are aroused by killers than would be presumed if the addiction was a rare, exotic psychological disorder. And that quite often these death row groupies are attractive, psychologically normal women who simply reside on the far right of an asshole-loving bell curve. You know, the kinds of good-looking thin women most law-abiding beta males would wife up in an instant and ask questions later.

Our society condemns all sorts of male weirdos for their sexual predilections, why can’t we equally condemn these female killer groupies for their sexual predilection? Or is it only men’s sexual preferences that qualify for opprobrium by the feminist industrial simplex? Rhetorical.

PS You don’t have to be a mass murderer to win the love of cute girls, but the sexual attention that killers like the not-handsome Holmes receive from scores of women should clue you in that integrating a little of that jerkboy charisma into your personality will richly reward you in the dating market.

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Help Women Imagine You’re The Killer They Want You To Be

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the Chateau: Chicks dig jerks.

Chicks deeply dig stone cold killer jerks.

Chicks secretly want you to be the killer of their sexual fantasies.

Reader Dirty Old Man provides context,

I got a shit test from a 20 something woman who found me intriguing and needed to imagine me as “dangerous.” She asked, “Have you ever killed anyone?”
I thought it through and responded, “I have never killed anyone that did not deserve it or that would be missed.”
“GREAT answer,” she said.
The fact that this sort of thing happens as often as it does is interesting. I have had young girls say to me on more than one occasion something to the effect, “You are kind of a bad-ass, aren’t you?’
I am 5’8” bald, 50, a buck-‘fiddy’, and generally unarmed. They see what they need to see to make their attraction make sense.

“generally unarmed”. heh. That coda is the heart of the matter. Women want to be seduced by a powerful alpha male, and they will be complicit in their own seduction.

Comments:

* During the time the television show Dexter was big I was chatting with a few co-workers. Generally, I am a quiet individual and the woman I was chatting with came up with this thought that, because I was a quiet individual, perhaps I was a “Dexter” type of individual. She was very excited about it when she thought of it. Like there were some tingles going on.

* The less you say, the more her imagination can run wild. And that’s more powerful than ANYTHING you can come up with.

* CM, it needs the right body language to go with it. No nervous mannerisms, no squeaky voice, no furtive eyes. Instead, relax, breath deeply from your diaphragm, force your voice to be as deep and as sonorous as possible, speak slowly, and when you reward her with eye contact, stare forcefully into her eyes.

* I convinced German au pair girlfriend that I killed a leftwing communist with rat poisoning when I was living in the city that I met her in. I obviously didn’t do it, but she thinks I did.

Her: “You shouldn’t have told me that. I can’t be with you.”

You: “You’re just going to have to deal with it, babe. He deserved it.”

And then everything was absolutely back to normal between us. Imagine that.

* Tiny drops, and I mean tiny drops of red wine (mere flecks) on your shirt and women will notice.

And ask if its blood. And won’t believe you when you tell them that its wine (or even better “grape juice”).

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Readin’, Ritin’, ’Rithmetic — After Waves of Immigration, Millions of Americans Lack Basic Skills

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

Reihan Salam writes for National Review: How have decades of immigration transformed America? Shedding light on this, the Pew Research Center has released a fascinating new report, which finds that the current foreign-born share of the U.S. population (13.9 percent) is very close to the peak of 14.8 percent that it reached in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Assuming current levels of immigration continue, the foreign-born share will reach 17.7 percent in 2065. But this number understates the impact of immigration on the U.S. population, as it does not capture the role played by the children and grandchildren of immigrants. Pew estimates that when we factor in the second- and third-generation offspring of immigrants, the post-1965 immigration wave has added 72 million people to the U.S. population. To put this number in perspective, France has a total population of 67 million, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo has a population of 77 million. Suffice it to say, this post-1965 wave has had profound effects on U.S. society. Most obviously, this wave has changed the ethno-racial composition of the U.S. population quite dramatically.

In the absence of the post-1965 wave, Pew estimates that the non-Hispanic white and black populations would be larger shares of the total U.S. population while the Hispanic and Asian shares would be much smaller. This ethno-racial transformation has attracted a great deal of attention, for obvious reasons. Among immigration advocates, there is a widespread belief that opposition to immigration, including opposition to less-skilled immigration, is driven largely by racial animus against non-whites.

I would argue that a far more consequential effect of the post-1965 wave has been the increase in the number of U.S. residents with low levels of literacy and numeracy. This increase has occurred just as global economic integration and automation have put the wages of less-skilled workers under intense pressure, and as the family lives of college-educated and non-college-educated adults and their children have sharply diverged. Had the post-1965 immigration wave consisted of people with higher-than-average levels of literacy and numeracy, its effect on U.S. society would probably have been markedly different, even if it had been of exactly the same size and ethno-racial composition. One of Pew’s more noteworthy findings is that today’s immigrants have a higher level of educational attainment than those who arrived in 1965.

Specifically, Pew reports that while only half of newly arrived immigrants in 1970 had at least a high-school diploma, by 2013 that share had increased to over three-quarters. And while only a fifth of immigrants had graduated from college in 1970, 41 percent had done so in 2013. Immigration advocates often point to this fact as cause for optimism, particularly when conservatives in particular express concern over the skill levels of immigrants. Are the immigration optimists right: Are the skills of recent immigrants actually quite strong, and are conservative concerns about skills really just a smokescreen for bigotry? To answer this question, we need a better sense of the extent to which years of schooling translate into cognitive skills.

Earlier this year, the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) released a detailed analysis of data from 2012 Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), a comparative study of the cognitive skills of 16- to 65-year-olds in the countries that make up the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). According to PIAAC, immigrants represent 33 percent of adults with low levels of literacy and 24 percent of adults with low levels of numeracy, despite the fact that the foreign-born share of the working-age population is only 15 percent. Even more discouraging is the fact that although native-born U.S. adults outperformed immigrants, both groups are well below the OECD average. In theory, the U.S. could use its immigration system to raise its average skill level by recruiting immigrants with higher levels of literacy and numeracy than the native-born population. Instead, U.S. immigration policy appears to have had a modestly negative effect on the average skill level in the U.S., even though younger immigrants have somewhat stronger skills than their older counterparts.

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Cheerios ad sparks racist comments

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

Published on Jun 3, 2013: “An adorable Cheerios commercial featuring an interracial couple and their daughter generated such a strong racist backlash on YouTube that the comments section had to be closed.”

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NPR: In Houston’s Gifted Program, Critics Say Blacks And Latinos Are Overlooked

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

NPR:

Ford found that both Hispanic and black students are underrepresented in gifted programs and that black students are missing out the most. She also found that about half the seats in those programs go to higher-income students, even though the majority of the district is poor.
Ford calls it “a waste of a huge number of students’ gifts and talents.”
Ford says Houston’s entire process is laced with problems. She’s seen this in other districts and has ideas on how to improve it, starting with the test.
Houston uses an exam that some educators consider culturally biased, so it may fail to identify a student like Isaac as gifted.
Also, teacher recommendations carry a lot of weight, but can be subjective.
And Ford worries that because the whole selection process is point-based, some families can strategize to get their kids in the program. “Knowing the system, working the system, using that social capital, it does advantage you,” she says.

Comments to NPR:

* I liked that ‘along with Asians’ casually inserted in the course of the usual crude lumping together of all ‘white’ students. The obvious super-achieving of Asian-American kids is routinely ascribed to cultural values by that group. But the poor outcomes for African-American and Hispanic Americans (lumped together, again with crudity) are not. Must be ‘racism’.

The vacuity of this line of thinking is the catch-all ‘white’ category. A Jewish kid from Brooklyn is the same as a Cajun kid from Louisiana is the same as an Appalachian kid from eastern Kentucky is the same as a generically affluent Anglo-Saxon kid from the Chicago suburbs. And on and on. News coverage of ‘race’ seems to be almost willfully, stupefyingly ignorant of subtleties in language, habits, values, etc., that account for differing outcomes. Instead, they stick to a narrative that froze up around 1977, like classic rock radio formats, for cynical political reasons. When their social-engineering brainstorms don’t work, they blame ‘white racism’ and seek even more power from vain and foolish judges and bureaucrats.

* I attribute all of this to Asian and white privilege. I mean how dare those Asians parents teach their kids self discipline, personal responsibility, demand they study, demand they focus and work hard.
They are giving their kids unfair advantages. They should be required by law to teach their kids they are victims and oppressed.

* For a while my kids were at an 80% black school. The turnout at the parent-teacher meetings was 60% white.

* For one reason or another, some parents can’t or won’t prioritize their children’s education. Other factors which could potentially lead to this “underrepresentation” are environmental surroundings (e.g., growing up in economically deprived communities), lacking the drive for higher academic achievement, and – quite frankly (but only in my opinion) – genes. Some of us are just not born with or have access to the brain power to fly in upper academic strata. For those of us who don’t (myself included), we should make every effort to exploit our strengths, curiosities, passions, etc. to make our contribution to and our living from society.

* Entry into gifted programs is not based on educational achievement. It is based on IQ, which is something that blacks and latinos lack in the numbers necessary proportionally to be represented in gifted programs. You can’t teach someone to have a high IQ. Sorry.

* And these people claim they’re coming here for a “better life”. Just who did they think was gonna hand them that “better life”? Did they want it on a silver platter or a gold one?

* If you want to send your children to public schools that are filled with kids who will not or cannot do the work, one solution is to sort them into segregated classes inside the schools. Advanced Placement (AP) classes do that in high schools, when it is much clearer which students are superior. I doubt you will ever meet a first grader who isn’t “gifted,” if you ask his parents. Plus, we have the belief that all children can become gifted if we only expose them to excellent educational programs. Unfortunately, science tells us this isn’t true — most of what we call “giftedness” (where the hell did we get that term) is inherited.

* I posted an article from the Dallas Morning News a few days ago that detailed how poor illegals were flooding the Texas school system and straining it beyond its ability to cope. That article was from 2010 and it’s gotten even worse since then. It explained that forty percent of recent immigrants not only didn’t speak English, they were illiterate even in Spanish. In urban districts here in Texas where up to ninety five percent of the kids are non-English speaking Hispanics, that can cause real problems. We really, really wish we could hand some of that problem off to the states that complain about education in Texas.

California is having an even worse problem than Texas in trying to educate immigrant kids. They used to have one of the best primary educational reputations in the country but they’ve declined drastically in the last decade in the face of the onslaught.

* Flood the country with poor uneducated people and watch things like schools get harder and harder to find. The tax base in Houston to pay for the schools is too often these sprawling hives of low rent apartments that pump kids into the schools. It doesn’t work and then we own the failure and it makes the country worse off.

* Culturally or racially biased questions are the excuse almost universally given to explain the lower performance of blacks and latinos on IQ tests. The truth CANNOT be that there is a difference in IQ among the races, even though the science tells us quite clearly that there is.

* Well, it could not possibly be that there are genetic differences between different groups could it? Such a politically inexpedient fact is simply impossible, because after all, it is the world that must adapt to our expectations and not the other way around. And why is it that the wealthy people are “over-represented”? could it be the same reason why they are wealthy to begin with? The pains NPR took to avoid mentioning the Asian presence is adorable, as was the quick and mumbled cadence the one time it was mentioned. The lack of scientific rigor in these “debates” is getting too embarrassing to even look at.

* 30 years after Charles Murray’s book, The Bell Curve, a peer reviewed, statistically driven explanation of racial diversity. Is the earth flat NPR? We are a product of both nature and nurture. Each of us has our academic limits. If you’re going to follow statistics for climate change, then follow the statistics for everything, including things that may not fit the PC culture. People will be better served to hear the truth.

* “The Bell Curve” should be mandatory reading for all these people. Murray and his work are controversial exactly because the science CANNOT be correct, since the entire liberal world view would crumble if it were. The left only respects science when they think it supports their biases.

* Whites are underrepresented in the NBA and I blame it on not getting enough instruction on basketball fundamentals at home.

* Blacks represent about 17% of the population yet commit about 50% of the violent crime in America. Other groups of poor people don’t commit violence at this rate. In fact, NO other ethnic group commits violence at this rate. It’s a culture of violence not a result of poverty.

* I just heard this story on the radio. It was interesting that the radio hosts, through their vocal patterns, noticeably tried to downplay that ASIANS are also disproportionately represented in students identified as gifted and talented. Guess that doesn’t fit their racism narrative.

* Cultural Marxists need to explain to us three very glaring paradoxes in their victim ideology.

The first:

Black and Hispanic children from the wealthiest families have mean SAT scores lower than white children from families below the poverty line.

The second:

Black and Hispanic children of parents with graduate degrees have lower SAT scores than white children of parents with a high-school diploma or less.

The third:

Cultural Marxists have failed to disprove Spearman’s hypothesis.

* The story is a disgraceful example of the erosion of the meritocracy America was. In our current culture where everyone gets a trophy or as Garrison Keillor might say “everyone’s above average” we are dumbing down accomplishment. Stop with the racist whining. More and more NPR lends its megaphone to people who would destroy effort and accomplishment in the name of fairness.

* I can see how a test could be culturally biases against immigrants, but for children whose families have been in the US for more than one generation, they should have assimilated enough to be part of the general culture.
Also, in the mid-70s, my family sponsored a Vietnamese refugee family who came to the US not speaking English and with just the clothes on their back. By the end of the school year, the kids spoke English and were on the honor roll.

* Another example of NPR’s PC bias. Actually it goes beyond bias. It’s dogma. Educators have defined seven types of intelligence. NPR will occasionally acknowledge that Blacks excel disproportionately in musical intelligence and physical intelligence (athletics). They may even acknowledge that Asians excel disproportionately in math or verbal intelligence. But they are not willing to acknowledge that Blacks and Hispanics do not excel, as an aggregate and in proportion to their numbers, in intellectual abilities. Jensen and Shockley demonstrated this decades ago and for their trouble were drummed out of academia. Lysenkoism was not confined to the Stalin era USSR. It’s alive and well at NPR. NPR needs to have the fortitude to address facts and ideas and conclusions that some people – even designated victim-entitlement groups – may not want to hear.

* James Watson, the twentieth century’s most important biologist, was also drummed out of academics a few years ago for the same observation. We will continue to tie ourselves into knots over racial disparities until we finally face up to what the data have been saying for decades – on average, different ethnic groups have quite different cognitive abilities. Which is not to say that any individuals should be prejudged, but we must recognize reality and stop expecting equal outcomes.

* The big problem here with this news piece is it ASSUMES that the gifted rate should be equal for all racial groups. Until such is PROVEN (and I expect that the results are probably pretty close to equal among racial groups when tested via mechanisms where cultural dynamics are excluded) the authors need to stop making such base statements as they are making regarding the assumed racism.

* “I think it’s a clear case of segregation, gifted education being segregated by race and income.”

If you’re a cultural marxist, that is a religious belief. But it’s simply not true.

At least four major studies have been conducted with remarkably consistent results. They find about 70% of the variance in IQ is associated with genetic variation. Bouchard et al, Science, Oct 12, 1990, present an excellent review of these studies. We can look to the clever experiment of Charles Murray (Income Inequality and IQ, AEI Press, 1998). Murray studied biological sibling pairs selected such that the siblings in each pair differed significantly in IQ, but were reared in the same home by the same parents. Controlling thus for environmental factors, Murray found earnings stratified conspicuously by IQ.

There is much more, but two nails are sufficient to fix the direction of a one-way sign. The arrow of cause points from IQ to income, and not the other way round.

* Houston is swimming in poor immigrants many of whom have parents with minimal education. Over 90% of district students are “Title I”, 80% get free lunch and 30% have limited English skills. Just paying for the schools is a challenge with so many parents producing so little in taxes from their slum apartments (which is where you live when your 8th grade education lands you a job washing dishes). So, combine ultra low sophistication parents with a funding crisis brought on by immigration and there you have it. Yeah, a real shocker.

* U.S. IQ:
Asian 104
White 99
Latino 87
Black 85
End of story.

* Attention NPR: “Hispanic” is not a racial category; it is a cultural-linguistic category, so why are you juxtaposing it with the terms “Asian,” “white,” and “African-American” which denote ancestry? There are white Hispanics (e.g., Ted Cruz and Cameron Diaz), black Hispanics (e.g., Sammy Sosa) and even Asian Hispanics (e.g., former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori).

The word you’re looking for here is “mestizo.”

“Houston uses an exam that some educators consider culturally biased…”

The leftists at NPR are so committed to a certain egalitarian view of human ability (often referred to as “cultural Marxism”) that they lack the cognitive tools to think clearly about and to discuss honestly racial differences. They think that all talents and abilities are equally distributed across the various branches of the human family even though the scientific evidence tells us that that simply is not the case. The evidence gathered from more than 100 years of psychometrics shows quite clearly that the average African-American IQ is one standard deviation below the average European-American IQ. NPR’s response? The tests – all of them – must be “culturally biased” against blacks and mestizos since the data conflict with their dogma. Are those very same tests somehow biased in favor of Asians since their average score is higher than whites? Is there some invisible “Asian privilege”?

People afraid of science will fabricate excuses all day long in order to stay in denial, but the truth is out there despite the best efforts by the forces of political correctness to squelch an honest discussion.
See J.P. Rushton and A.R.Jensen, “Thirty Years Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability,” Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2005, Vol. 11, No. 2, 235–294.

* See also “Scientists identify gene linking brain structure to intelligence,” 11/02/2014, Kings College of London.

* The president is black, the attorneys general is black, a supreme justice is black, a senator from the south is black, many congressmen and women are black, there was just a black governor of Massachusetts, there are black big city mayors, heads of Fortune 500 companies are black, brain surgeons are black. The list goes on and on, being black is not an excuse anymore- anyone can do anything in this country.

* Could this instead have correlation to IQ scores across the races? All reliable studies show that Latinos and Blacks as an aggregate score below Asians and Whites on IQ tests. And with a sizable Asian community in this country, wouldn’t the same test being blamed for “cultural biases” be culturally biased against Asians as well? We have to stop making excuses for different groups, we need to address the fundamental issues and not drag down the quality or thresholds for gifted programs for these programs benefit the truly gifted. Let us not lose sight of helping those that will be societies great contributors.

* Another typical race bait BS. It is GIFTED AND TALENTED PROGRAM! You don’t have the gift and talent, you don’t get it. Simple as that. Latinos and African Americans have the same equal rights to receive education (or more, by AA), but it doesn’t mean you can legislate GIFT AND TALENT. You can’t say Africans and Latinos don’t get a lot of Nobel prize because of racism. You can’t say NBA players are over 90% African American because of racism. Stupid is what stupid does. Not because of discrimination.

* Why do people assume that all racial groups must have equal outcomes? The very same people that slam the political right for being anti-science become religious zealots when they insist that all human population groups possess an equal proportion of talents. I wish Isaac well, I hope he becomes the next Neil Degrasse Tyson. But can we please let go of this progressive version of creationism. Disparate outcomes are not evidence of injustice.

* I’m black and Latino. As a child I was an extremely talented student. I started reading and writing before I started kindergarten. By the time I was in elementary school I was reading and writing at a “college level”, whatever that means. School work was usually review for me since I’d skip ahead whenever I finished my assignments and sat bored in class. When my test scores came back I was placed in the gifted program. My family moved to an all white suburb for a couple of years. Records don’t travel that fast. At least they didn’t 20 years ago. Assumptions were made. The teachers and administrators knew I was different, academically from the other students. They knew I shouldn’t be in the same class as the majority of other students. I was placed in remedial classes for all subjects. The teachers were insulting and openly racist to my face. My favorite teacher, the one who I thought was on my side, made jokes about me listening to gangsta rap and likened it to admiring serial killers. She randomly called me to her desk one day and asked what racial term I preferred to be called. I told her it’s best she call me by my name and walked away. I was proud to have been able to say something slightly witty and brave enough to do so to a teacher at 11 years old. I walked home that day crying the entire time. I took the long way home so I could get it all out. Eventually we moved back to the inner city, where failing schools and a different kind of racism awaited me.

* No kidding, flooding the schools with poor ESL students is a bad idea and creates obvious funding problems and poor outcomes. Shocking, huh?

* The U.S. Government has spent $23 TRILLION on anti-poverty programs since 1965 (more than the spending for all wars since the Revolutionary War). The poverty rate is the same today as it was in 1965.

SUCCESS!

* This entire article distills to one single fact and that is that liberals, progressives and Democrats will NEVER accept that genetics plays any role in determining an individuals intellectual acuity and of course that it is impossible that there could be any differences between racial groups. Liberals, progressives and Democrats “feel” that intelligence is solely due to the environment but the fact is that there is never equality, even after the moment of conception. Unfortunately for all of us this argument will never end no matter how much empirical and statistical evidence is amassed. To accept a role for genetics means that the Liberals, progressives and Democrats will have to abandon their quest for a utopia where everyone is equal. Detroit, Baltimore and Chicago are all perfect examples of the utopias that have come in to existence and collapsed under the thought control and management of these groups.

* For LAUSD, the criteria for gifted if different in “minority and lower income” children. This is a total discrimination to any other groups and income level families. Test should be fair and equal for all races and level of income.
I am tired of hearing “equality” when the means to get some of their ethnic groups to qualify gifted is not fair.
Asian is such a big and diverse group that it is to unfair to treat them as one. Indians and Hmong are two total different groups of people and cultures.
We should strive to provide quality teachers to all children. Those kids who are disruptive and have behavior problems should be provided help and counseling and placed at a level of education that they can handle.

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Urban Deliverance

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* I’ve commented before about the seeming uptick in heinous incest cases among blacks in Georgia. Incest is big among those weird Nuwabian cultists. I remember reading in the AJC — buried in the Metro section — last year a story about a Nuwabian guy and his wife who imprisoned, starved and sexually abused their daughter. His wife was his other daughter. Not the first time I’ve come across such a story. You can always count an exorcism-gone-wrong case now and then as well. Very urban Deliverance and occupying no mental space among SJWs who are always ready to vilify Southern whites with insults of incest and superstition.

* Europeans, especially northern and northwestern Europeans, have been avoiding cousin marriages for many CENTURIES, over a thousand years in core NW Europe. Meanwhile, cousin marriage at the level seen among Muslims causes a noticeably lower IQ, in proportion to the degree of inbreeding.

* Family unification and chain migration must go. We are always being told today’s immigrants are no different than yesterday’s European ones. Well if that is the case then let’s get rid of family unification. My immigrant predecessor was only allowed to bring his white body into the USA. If any of his family members wanted to come, they had to apply on their on merit and were not green-lighted a visa. It’s only fair that immigrants of today get no advantages over immigrants of the past.

Speaking of which, we should also end all welfare type payments for today’s immigrants. My immigrant predecessor had to prove he would not become a ward of the state before he was allowed entry. The same should happen today. Immigrants are supposed to be hardy, self-reliant individuals. Getting welfare is cheating.

I would also add any immigrant granted citizenship must vote in English. My immigrant predecessor was never offered a ballot or driver’s license exam in his native tongue.

For people who talk so much about equal treatment, today’s immigrants and their supporters sure seem to want special privileges that previous immigrants didn’t receive.

* My daughter (white) and her (mostly white) friends at a college in England were great friends with a muslim lad by the name of Iqbal. Iqbal was a pleasant young man but his family insisted that he should regard his cousins — of which there were many — as more important than any ‘casual’ friendships he might make. When Iqbal’s cousin Ahmed ever entered the college refectory Iqbal was required to leave whatever he was doing and go and shake hands with Ahmed.

Iqbal disliked this, partly because he wanted his own life but mostly because cousin Ahmed was a nasty and unpleasant creature. Family ties mattered so much however that Iqbal had to obey the rule. Privately he would say he hated his cousin, but such was family ‘law’ in his people that Ahmed had to matter more than anyone else. What he knew was that if Ahmed wanted to make trouble anytime, Iqbal would have to back him up.

So there we have one of the unspoken aspects of the Pakistani/muslim obsession with cousins: they all have to follow whatever happens, which may explain why any potential (dare I say) threat to security is magnified by any family ties.

* Back in the early 90′s, I dated a divorced Lebanese-American woman who had been born in the Detroit area. She was not only a Muslim, but a Shiite! I learned from her that she had been sent to Lebanon when she was 15 to marry a man who was her first cousin. The idea was that they were not to consummate the marriage, return to the U.S. so he could get admitted, and then, after a certain period of time, they were to divorce. The best laid plans, as the expression goes. She got pregnant before returning to the States, so they had to remain married and ultimately had three children together.

* Back when I was attending public high school in Washington, D.C., we had something called the “Track System.” Students were assigned to one of four tracks: Track I (Honors track for the gifted student), Track II (Academic track for students planning to go to college), Track III (General track for students not planning to go to college) and Track IV (Basic track for the less academically gifted). Sometime in the early 60′s, a local black civil rights activist named Julius Hobson started filing various lawsuits, one of which challenged the Track System as discriminatory against black students. He was ultimately successful in winning his court case sometime in the mid to late 60′s and the Track System bit the dust. The Honors Track generally had the best students taking courses limited just to like students who were taught by better teachers, and classes tended to be much smaller than normal. In my experience, the Track System seemed to work pretty well, since students who were less than serious were segregated away from more serious students.

* NPR story “In Houston’s Gifted Program, Critics Say Blacks And Latinos Are Overlooked”

Yes — but look through the over 500 comments provoked by that Blank Slate/White Privilege fable. Of the subset of listeners who wrote in, probably 90% aren’t buying what the reporter is selling.

NPR seems to have suspended their policy of aggressive moderation. I expect that the clampdown on ungoodthink will return with a vengeance.

* Americans are extremely weirded out by first cousins marrying, whereas respectable Europeans like Darwin and Einstein married their cousins. I think eugenicists made cousin marriage disreputable among Americans, but maybe it goes back earlier.

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Jews & Whites

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* I think you have to distinguish between hatred of white nationalists and hatred of white people in general. Your average Scardsale orthodontist doesn’t have much dislike of the WASP family next door, but would get uncomfortably very quickly if the White Students Union showed up.

Remember, the elite has to convince Jews not to intermarriage or their clout shrinks. So they try to play up Jewish identity.

* Belloc was remarkably prescient about the Muslims, writing that they would one day be a far greater threat to Western Civilization than either Nazism or Communism. Given when this was written (right before WW2), people must have thought he was insane.

* “What one needs to understand about Jews is that their shell game is all based on identity.”

 Replace “Jews” with “ethnic groups” and you are spot on. Listen, why should anyone be surprised regarding identity politics? The coalition of the fringes from both sides of the aisle have been upping the ante for the past two decades.

“The Jewish identity is *one big country club* based on identity. That’s the irony. That’s why they get their shit so torn up on the subject and why they go to great lengths to destroy everyone else’s.”

As opposed to any other group who also engages in similar tactics. There’s no irony, here.

“All their rituals are self-reinforcing markers for in-group identity.”

As are the Christians, the Muslims, the white nationalists, the black nationalists, etc.

“They aren’t a race, they aren’t a religion, they aren’t a culture.”  

Actually, Jews are all three, just like whites and blacks and Hispanics are all three.

“They are a mutually serving, externally exploiting, self-identifying in-group of parasites. That’s all that they are.”

Jews? Really? Not any other group?

“Have you not noticed that *everything*, and I mean *everything* these days is about identity?”  

American history has demonstrated that it ALWAYS has been about identity. Where have you been?

* Right, a commenter pointed out that a boxing analogy applies: you want to get the government to arrange the affirmative action categories so that your family comes in at the top of your assigned weight class, not at the bottom.

For example, the government used to lump Asians and Pacific Islanders together, but for the 2000 Census, Hawaiian activists got Pacific Islanders broken out separately because it wasn’t doing them any good in terms of affirmative action to have to compete with Chinese and Indians.

It would be disastrous for Jews to be administratively broken out from whites in a separate category, because they tend to weigh in near the top of the white weight class. Jewish organizations have vetoed all attempts to have a “Jewish” category, even where it would be obviously applicable, even on the “Ancestry” question where whites are asked to pick a single ancestral nationality, such as German, English, or Scots-Irish. There are no affirmative action benefits tied to Ancestry figures, but you are still not allowed to pick Jewish.

On the other hand, for cultural/psychological/guilt-induction purposes, there are obvious advantages from getting out from under the straight white male bogeyman category.

* When Jews fill out college, job and other applications, do 99.99% put down white? Yes.

If you stop a random Jew on the street and ask him, does he say he’s white? 99.99% of the time yes.

Even when jews know they will suffer from affirmative action in admission and employment, 99.99% say they are white.

But no, let’s highlight the 1 in a million (maybe at most 1 in 10,000) Jew who thinks he’s not white because as a liberal he doesn’t believe races exist since not even he believes that Jews cluster with blacks or Orientals.

Genetically Jews are a different ethnicity from Swedes or Germans, but racially clearly cluster as part of one white race. That an ethnic group differs is always the case which is why the Poles look Polish, not Irish. The Jews are, however, part of the same haplogroup as other Meds: Italians, Greeks, etc. All of them are J-haplogroup, which is part of the white cluster of haplogroups.

Jews look white because they are in fact white. That’s why blacks and Orientals don’t look white even if they are 75% white and only 25% another race. But a jew can be 100% Jewish and in some cases you can’t tell (just look at all the people Jew watch got wrong).

* When Germany was strong (before 1914), most Jews tried to become “good Germans” (undoubtedly “in good faith”); but after Germany had become weak (1918), most Jews were much less interested in being German (even if the Kaiser had been removed).
I suppose, in this case – as in so many others – Jews were only the precursors of a modern tendency: investing in national identity according to the capital (reputation, opportunities) which comes with this identity.

* Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad and the main diamond merchant from Snatch pretend to be Jews. Interestingly, the former does so to trick gentiles into believing that he is a smart Jewish lawyer while the latter does so to integrate with the Jewish diamond trading community.

Indeed, it seems like a minor trope in Hollywood and big budget TV; which makes sense considering how disproportionately Jewish that industry is. Gentile writers and directors, like the British quasi aristocrat Guy Ritchie, seem to have almost considered passing. Then again, the fact that you can joke about it probably means that it is not very important.

* The point about pretending to be a Jew is that no-one would know that you were pretending. I suspect that the only thing you would find is that you have the same level of instant bond with Jews as if you were from the same home town or supported the same football team. Which is significant and useful but not life-changing.

The level of bonding would also be highly dependent on the other person. I benefit from a similar asabbiyah, as I went to boarding school, so I think that I get it. Essentially by just going to boarding school you share a reasonable number of experiences and that creates group feeling and trust with all other boarders not just those at the same school…but not that much! (It’s an easy and fun opening topic of conversation with its own jokes.)

* It is always risky to look for one cause for things, but the book “Resentment Against Achievement” by Robert Sheaffer, comes very close. (I realize that others, like von Mises in “The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality” have made similar arguments).

It explains both black anger and white guilt pretty well.

And the beauty of Sheaffer’s theory is that it does not need to take either race or IQ for its explanatory power.

* How does it work? Show up at your local Reform temple and tell them you’re interested in the religion. They’re pretty lax about it (they’re lax about everything). Even the Orthodox will let you in if you pester them enough. You’ll have to waste a lot of time reading arcane religious texts though.

* My best friend’s dad was in the garment business in L.A. He wound up with an accent just like Milton Berle’s, though he had been Irish Catholic who dropped out of Yale on 12.8.41 to join the Army.

* On the one hand, it’s true that people (not just Jews) tend to tout their experiences, no matter how lame, to prove their in-group membership. My father was a concentration camp survivor – one of those guys you see in the documentaries with the striped uniform and their ribs showing). When he first came to the US, one of his first jobs was in a kosher butcher shop. One day one of his customers said to him something like, “You know, we didn’t have it easy here either during the war – we had ration cards and you could only get chicken once per week.” This to a man who had spent four years living on watery turnip soup (he never ate a turnip again in his life). He wanted to say to her, “Lady, you have no f-ing idea”, but he held his tongue.

On the other hand, one should not gloss over the pervasiveness and effect of anti-Semitism in America in its heyday (’20 thru ’50s) and which persisted in some respects into the 1970s. Compared to Europe and compared to the treatment of blacks in America (or Japanese Americans during WWII) , American Jews were certainly lucky, but that just means that instead of being atrocious, their treatment was just nasty. The “country club” thing is just one aspect of pervasive anti-Semitism that meant Jews were excluded (sometimes except for small quotas) from top universities, jobs in big business and major law firms, living in certain neighborhoods, staying at certain hotels, etc. Of course American Jews were able to create their own “separate but equal” institutions, but being a 2nd class citizen in a country that was, according to its founding documents, non-sectarian, was no small thing and it is right that we not sweep this history under the rug or poo-poo it as no big deal.

* A lot of Jewish pundits who criticize European Americans, aka, “whites,” as a group (Frank Rich for example) and celebrate its passing as the majority (fill in the blank) certainly act like they don’t consider themselves white. These columns somehow comes across as being more about “them” than “us.” Similarly, when the alpha male economist Paul Samuelson advocated for NAFTA and free trade with low-wage Goliaths like China, it seemed that he had already calculated in the back of his mind, perhaps unconsciously, that none of the people he knew, including his relatives, would be adversely affected. This is an argument for selecting our elites, as in Ivy League admissions, to better reflect the ethnic and geographical and, yes, the socio-economic diversity of America. In other words, affirmative action for all! Though it is largely forgotten, Charles Murray touches on this theme — in fact it is the theme — in his book, The Bell Curve. Ethnic and racial diversity is a bitch. A meritocracy in an ethnically and racially diverse society is even bitchier.

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Latin America’s Flight From Black

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

Dennis Prager was thrilled the day his son David told him that he wanted to grow up to be black.

Comment: Latin America has the reverse situation of North America and that is the flight from Blackness. Among Latin Americans who have some Sub Saharan African admixture, the majority of them do not self identify themselves as Black.

The percentage of people in The Dominican Republic for example who self identify themselves as Black is actually lower than the percentage of people in The U.S who self identify themselves as Black. In the U.S it is 13 percent and in The Dominican Republic it is only 10 percent.

And I am sure that 10 percent of Dominicans who self identify themselves as Black includes a lot of people with Haitian ancestry. If you exclude them, than the percentage of Dominicans who self identify themselves as Black is even lower than 10 percent it will be in the single digits.

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Steve Sailer: Putin Garners Strange, New Respect by Dropping Bombs on the Middle East

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: “That’s just what a respectable country does: it drops bombs on the Middle East. So if the Russians are bombing some country in the the Middle East, then they must be, when you stop and think about it, okay after all. I mean, bombing isn’t like being against gay marriage.”

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Is this a sign that the American foreign policy commentariat is embarrassed about being completely wrong about the Syrian revolt?

Back in 2011 the overwhelming narrative was that secular liberal Syrians were fed up with the oppressive Assad regime, and that the threat of Islamist extremism was just a red herring to distract from ordinary democracy-loving Syrians rising up against Assad’s oppression.

Today, after ISIS established a caliphate and the US government spent $500 million to locate the 5 actual moderate Syrian rebels in the country, it’s hard to pound that narrative quite as strongly.

Putin’s the guy who will do the brutal necessary work to bring Syria back from the precipice, and can conveniently later be denounced as a crazy Islamophobic homophobe. It’s very convenient.

* The weird thing is that Putin seems to be bombing mostly US-backed (also & especially Gulf Arab/Turkey backed) rebel groups, and getting away with it!

Putin screwed up a bit in Ukraine having been taken by surprise by the depth of US mendacity, and he got a bit angry. But when he has time to plan a move he seems to get it right.

* Israel is prosperous and well-armed (inc. nukes) and quite comfortable now having stable secular Arab governments on its borders, whose leaders rationally calculate that a war with Israel gets them certainly banged up a bit and with the possibility of a calamitous loss leading to instability and a coup. Israel’s borders with Syria and Egypt and especially Jordan have not been an issue.

Israel’s problem is *precisely* “various rival militia and terrorist groups” whose leaders either think that poking the infidel raises\preserves their big-man leader status or honestly feel a duty from Allah to attack and harass the infidel Jew and drive him from Jerusalem, even though Israeli retaliation always results in death and destruction for their own people.

Here’s the scorecard of the last 40 years:
– “stable secular governments” — Egypt, Jordan, Syria — no troubles
– “various rival militia and terrorist groups” — in Palestine and Lebanon — semi-continual rocket and terrorist attacks on Israel and semi-continual Israeli counter strikes all generating not just dead Israelis and even more dead Arabs but bad press and political difficulty for Israel. And during this time Israel has removed itself from occupation of Gaza … what i’d call an un-theft of land.

I have no particular love for Israel beyond a general belief that all peoples should have their own nations–not my people, and the slavish pandering to Israel is foul, un-American and highly annoying.

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The Double Standard On Immigrant Killers

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comment: Today Salvadorian immigrant serial killer Alfredo Prieto was executed by Virginia.

I just read about 10 MSM articles about him. When white people kill, the MSM always wants to discuss how this proves white people are collectively evil. When mestizo retard immigrants kill, the media spares us basic details like legal status, time of entry, program that allowed entry if legal, race of victims, and so on.

Sometimes the only way you can figure this out is reading the actual appeal court decisions. From the Virginia appeal, where his defenses included that he was retarded:

Prieto was indicted for capital murder based on the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of Rachael A. Raver in the commission of or subsequent to rape. Prieto also was indicted for capital murder based on the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of Raver and Warren H. Fulton III, as part of the same act or transaction. In addition, Prieto was indicted for the rape of Raver, the felonious use of a firearm while committing the murder of Raver, the felonious use of a firearm while committing the murder of Fulton, and grand larceny of Raver’s automobile.

From the California case, where he was sentenced to death, but was able to overturn the sentence on appeal to life:

Unbeknownst to the three women, they had interrupted a robbery. Just before their arrival, some men had grabbed Rangel from a van in the driveway and rifled through his wallet. One man wielded a knife; another had a gun. When the three women arrived, the men left Rangel, who fled.
The men then turned their attention to the new arrivals. Upon reaching Emily D.’s car, Vincent Lopez put a knife to her throat and demanded her car keys and money. She complied. Meanwhile, defendant —identified by a large “PNS” tattoo on his neck—and Danny Sorian walked toward Lisa H.’s car. Sorian approached Woodruff, while defendant pointed a gun at Lisa H.’s head, threatened to “blow” her “fucking head off,” and demanded her car keys and money. She complied, and defendant and Sorian herded her and Woodruff into the backseat. Soon after, Lopez forced Emily D. at knifepoint into the backseat with the other women. The three men then got into the front seat. After Lisa H. identified the correct key, defendant started the car and drove away.
When they stopped for gas, defendant and Estrada got out. Pointing a gun, Sorian reassured the women they would not be hurt if they did what they were told. When defendant and Estrada returned, they drove off again. After getting stuck in the mud once, the three men and their victims reached a dark and isolated field in the City of Ontario.
At the field, each man took charge of a victim. Sorian took Emily D. Defendant initially chose Lisa H. But when she pulled away, he pulled Woodruff, struggling and resisting, from the car and dragged her toward some trees. Estrada then took Lisa H.
Sorian raped Emily D., while Estrada raped Lisa H. During the rape, Emily D. saw Woodruff on the ground struggling with someone on top of her and heard her scream. She also saw Lisa H. on the ground with someone on top of her and heard Lisa H. cry and scream out for her. Meanwhile, as she was being raped, Lisa H. saw Woodruffs legs and heard Woodruff say, “Emily, please get him off of me. Emily, he’s hurting me.”
After raping Emily D., Sorian told her to put her clothes back on, pulled a knife out and told her not to tell anybody about “what happened out” here or he would “come back and finish” them “off.” He then said he didn’t “like how these guys are acting, and that he’s just going to have to go and take care of them” and walked away. When Estrada finished with Lisa H., Sorian ordered her to put her clothes back on and took her to her mother, where the two women hugged each other. While embracing, they heard a gunshot, and Lisa H. saw a man walk away from Woodruff. She knew the man was not Sorian or Estrada because she could see them standing inside a building.
After the gunshot, Emily D. and Lisa H. were separated. Estrada repeatedly stabbed Lisa H. in the neck and hands and broke his knife blade on her knuckle. After being stabbed and kicked, Lisa H. lay on the ground and pretended she was dead. At the same time, Sorian was stabbing Emily D. When Sorian stopped, Emily D. called out to Lisa H. and asked her if she was all right. Sorian then screamed, “I thought I told you to keep your fucking mouth shut” and stabbed her again, causing Emily D. to lose consciousness.
When she heard the car drive off, Lisa H. ran to Emily D. and helped her up. Together, they went to help Woodruff, but Woodruff did not respond. Emily D. and Lisa H. then ran for help. … An autopsy established that Woodruff had died of a gunshot wound to the head.
Sandra Figueroa, defendant’s former wife, testified that defendant once threw their daughter at her after she asked him to hand the child over. Although Figueroa failed to catch their daughter, the child was not injured. Defendant subsequently threatened Figueroa in connection with this incident and others.
Figueroa also testified that defendant hit and slapped her on several occasions and forced her to have sex with him. During some of these incidents, defendant threatened Figueroa. On another occasion, defendant hit Figueroa with an extension cord and forced her to have sex with him. Figueroa also described an incident where defendant pointed a gun at her head. When Figueroa bent down to pick something up, the gun went off and the bullet hit a frame behind her. Finally, Figueroa testified that defendant once twisted her arm and pushed a knife into her back.
Elias Vera and Mario Naranjo testified about a 1984 shooting incident involving defendant. According to Naranjo, defendant drove by his house and shot at him, his girlfriend, Mercedes Salazar, and Vera while they were standing in his front yard. Defendant hit Naranjo and Vera in the legs.
Stella Quinones testified that defendant drove up to her, her husband, her sister, and her brother-in-law five days after Woodruffs murder and pointed a gun at her husband. Defendant demanded to know where they were from. When someone called for defendant, he left.
Sandra Figueroa, defendant’s former wife, testified that defendant once threw their daughter at her after she asked him to hand the child over. Although Figueroa failed to catch their daughter, the child was not injured. Defendant subsequently threatened Figueroa in connection with this incident and others.
Figueroa also testified that defendant hit and slapped her on several occasions and forced her to have sex with him. During some of these incidents, defendant threatened Figueroa. On another occasion, defendant hit Figueroa with an extension cord and forced her to have sex with him. Figueroa also described an incident where defendant pointed a gun at her head. When Figueroa bent down to pick something up, the gun went off and the bullet hit a frame behind her. Finally, Figueroa testified that defendant once twisted her arm and pushed a knife into her back.
Elias Vera and Mario Naranjo testified about a 1984 shooting incident involving defendant. According to Naranjo, defendant drove by his house and shot at him, his girlfriend, Mercedes Salazar, and Vera while they were standing in his front yard. Defendant hit Naranjo and Vera in the legs.
Stella Quinones testified that defendant drove up to her, her husband, her sister, and her brother-in-law five days after Woodruffs murder and pointed a gun at her husband. Defendant demanded to know where they were from. When someone called for defendant, he left.
Teodora Alvarado, defendant’s mother, testified that she came to the United States in 1975 and left her children, including defendant, with her father in El Salvador. According to Alvarado, El Salvador was “very bad” when defendant was living there. She returned to El Salvador in 1981 after her father was murdered and brought her children to the United States.
Alvarado further testified that Sandra Figueroa was a gang member and a liar and introduced defendant to gangs. Before he met Figueroa, defendant had been doing well in school. Finally, Alvarado stated that defendant was always kind to children and was never abusive toward Figueroa.
Yolanda Loucel, defendant’s sister, testified that their childhood in El Salvador was marked by constant warfare and killing. Their father used to beat their mother, and guerillas murdered their grandfather in front of defendant. According to Yolanda, defendant joined a gang after he married Figueroa, who was a gang member. She also claimed that defendant was a good father.
Guillermo Prieto, defendant’s brother, testified that their father had a drinking problem and abused their mother. According to Guillermo, El Salvador was a violent place, with bullets flying and dead bodies everywhere. He, defendant, and their other siblings left El Salvador with their mother after guerillas murdered their grandfather.
Guillermo also testified that he dated Figueroa before she married defendant. Figueroa was a gang member who introduced him and defendant to gangs. He claimed defendant joined a gang to impress Figueroa and that she wanted to get revenge on defendant because he left her. He also believed that Figueroa had been cheating on defendant with Naranjo during their marriage. Finally, Guillermo testified that defendant was not abusive to Figueroa and took good care of their daughter.

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