Steve Sailer comments: Holder could look outside the mainstream of Anglo-Saxon formal jurisprudence to more informal community-based systems of legal reasoning, such as lynch law.
Trial by Twitter would be one reform that deserves serious consideration.
Another reform would be to remove pedantic technicalities about the white male malefactor needing to actually exist, thus allowing the Obama Administration to indict Haven Monahan.
From the New York Times, 1989:
When the astronauts landed on the moon, Mr. Gill writes, illustrating what he alleges to be Campbell’s private anti-Semitism, ”Joe made the repellent jest” that ”the moon would be a good place to put the Jews.” Mr. Gill says the remark was heard by a member of his family who was a student at Sarah Lawrence. ‘Biases Against Much of Mankind’
Others who knew Campbell have supported the allegation of bigotry. Carol Wallace Orr, another contributor to The New York Review exchange, said she worked closely with Campbell on his book ”Mythic Image.” Campbell harbored ”mean spirited and seemingly unexamined biases against much of mankind,” she said.
”In addition to anti-Semitism, I remember in particular his vexation over blacks being admitted to Sarah Lawrence,” she writes. In a recent telephone interview, she said she did not remember Mr. Campbell’s other comments, but she said she was ”shocked at the time that there was this side to his personality that didn’t appear in his writing.”
Roy Finch, a professor emeritus of philosophy who knew Campbell for 20 years at Sarah Lawrence, said Campbell was ”a cryptofascist” who ”could be reckless in expressing his views.” These remarks are in a letter he wrote to The New York Review.
In a telephone interview, Professor Finch tried to put Campbell into an intellectual context necessary, he said, to understand him. Campbell, he said, was an admirer of figures like Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler and Ezra Pound, all of whom contended that Western civilization was threatened with the rot of decadence. Western civilization, Campbell said, needed to be reinvigorated by what he might have called the heroic values he associated with the heritage of the ancients, pre-classical Greeks, the Hindus, the Druids or the Celts, all subjects of his mythological investigations. ‘Tended to Lump People’
Professor Finch said Campbell’s ire came out of his preoccupation with Western decadence and included many people both past and present -Christians, Communists, liberals, Jews, even such Greek philosophers as Plato and Aristotle whom Campbell charged with sapping the Greek spirit of preclassical heroic virtue.
”Joe tended to lump people together,” Professor Finch said. ”So, for example, if he’s criticizing Communists, he might be inclined to lump them together with Jews. He thought the left-wing, liberal, Jewish, Communist point of view was part of the degeneration that was going on in our society, and his comments were in that context.”
A bachelor tells me: “I live in the big city, and yet socialize less and less. There’s a certain despair that grows as you stay single and age. I see it in your posts as well. I sometimes think the answer is to marry an ugly fat girl but I can’t do that like I did before.”
Luke: Oh yeah. I love to blog. I just never run out of topics. I can listen to a shiur (Torah talk) and boom! Not sure if I am making recruits, but I am certainly gathering like-minded souls.
Every day I do some mitzvahs, I do something for my people, I write some blogs, and I try to improve in some way. I just love speaking my mind. Nobody even bothers to try to intimidate me these days. Maybe I have low testosterone, but I rarely get horny these days, except to blog.
Bachelor: “At some point, a man realizes that the only women who might be interested in him whom he might find attractive at least physically are the mentally ill. And that is a grim day.”
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is calling for the cancellation of a program that glorifies a notorious World War II‐era Hungarian writer and Nazi collaborator.
Mark Weitzman, the Wiesenthal Center’s Director of Government Affairs said that the program—scheduled for later this week at the Hungarian House in New York – will, “celebrate Albert Wass, who has been described by prominent historian and Holocaust survivor Professor Randolph Brahama, as a ‘notorious anti‐Semite’ who collaborated with the Hungarian fascist regime during World War II’.”
Wass, who received an Iron Cross, fled with the Nazis at the end of the War. Today, his writings can be found on a major neo‐Nazi website.
“Although the Hungarian government has denied any connection with this program, the fact that Hungary is the incoming Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) makes it all the more important for the Hungarian government to officially repudiate any glorification of a writer so closely linked with anti‐Semitism and the persecution of Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust,” added Weitzman, who is the chair of the IHRA’s Committee on Anti‐Semitism and Holocaust Denial.
“This is an opportunity for Hungary to forcefully demonstrate that it is totally aligned with the IHRA’s goals and that it denounces intentional efforts to excuse or minimize the impact of the Holocaust or its principal elements, including collaborators and allies of Nazi Germany,” Weitzman concluded.
Should Jews fight Hungarian desire to honor one of their major writers, just because he fought on the side of the Nazis in WWII? This strikes me as Jewish over-reach and it won’t redound to our benefit in the long run.
If the Simon Wiesenthal Center is similarly occupied in fighting celebrations of Jews who were communists, I can find no evidence of that, even though communism slaughtered far more people than Nazism. But hey, most of those people communism killed weren’t Jews, so I guess they had it coming.
According to Wikipedia on Albert Wass: He is popular among the Hungarian minority in Romania[2] and has a growing popularity in Hungary. In 2005 in a public assessment (Nagy Könyv), he was found to be one of the most popular Hungarian authors: his book “A funtineli boszorkány” (The Witch of Funtinel) was named the 12th most popular book; two more books were named in the top 50 ranking, including the family saga “Kard és kasza” (Sword and Scythe)…
Romanian authorities tried several times to extradite him to Romania, however in 1979, after several revisions, the U.S. Department of Justice refused the petition due to lack of evidence. This was confirmed even after the Wiesenthal Center denounced him, as he was among the people who were accused of killing Jews. After the analysis of the case, the U.S. dropped the charges against him. Wass continued to insist that he had nothing to do with the killings, and claimed he was the victim of a “Zionist-Romanian” conspiracy.
REPORT: An Arizona State University professor has received death threats from white supremacists and neo-Nazis after a Fox News report about the class he teaches on “the problem of whiteness.”
Conservative bloggers have harshly criticized Lee Bebout, an associate professor of English, for the class on U.S. race theory — which was first publicized last month on the right-wing CampusReform website and then promoted by Fox & Friends host Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
Then came the white supremacists, who distributed leaflets in Bebout’s neighborhood that show his photo and label him as “anti-white,” reported the Phoenix New Times.
Bebout’s 400-level literature course, in which 18 students are enrolled, suggests that whiteness – in the context of slavery, genocide, and Jim Crow laws – might still influence American social and political life.
“In the books for this course – ‘Critical Race Theory,’ ‘Everyday Language of Racism,’ amongst others — all of the books have a disturbing trend, and that’s pointing to all white people as the root cause of social injustices for this country,” said CampusReform correspondent Lauren Clark on Fox News.
Many of the conservative websites that covered the issue linked to Bedout’s university contact information, and the newspaper reported that the professor had received numerous threats by phone and email.
The white supremacist National Youth Front, a racist splinter group that has been trying to recruit college students, posted a YouTube video and handed out fliers at ASU that promise right-wing “resistance” to so-called reverse racism.
“No longer will we have our identity destroyed and our people defamed,” the NYF said on its website. “This week, several of National Youth Front’s members went to ASU to raise awareness that we will no longer tolerate this antiwhite agenda. Over four hundred fliers were delivered over several days to both Lee Bebout’s neighborhood and ASU.”
Photos of Bebout and his mixed-race family have been shared on neo-Nazi and white supremacist message boards, such as Stormfront and The Daily Stormer, along with contact information for his wife – also an ASU professor.
Right-wing extremists in the Phoenix area have posted lengthy rants about Bebout online, promising to force ASU to remove the course from its catalog or otherwise make “a bold statement to the militant Left that their anti-White agenda will not go unchallenged.”
Robert Poe, a PhD candidate who teaches courses at ASU’s School of Social Transformation, offered an impromptu discussion about the course last week on campus, where he was confronted by a white supremacist citing the controversial “Bell Curve” book on race and intelligence.
The man recorded video of the debate, which has been widely shared on white supremacist and neo-Nazi websites.
From the Brisbane Times down under:
When Mariam Veiszadeh expressed her relief that a relentless campaign of online anti-Islamic hate was behind her a week ago, little did she know the worst was yet to come.
Yet it set in motion a string of events that would bring her to the brink of tears in realising just how accepting of Muslims the vast majority of Australians are.
The prominent Muslim human rights activist was subjected to a torrent of online abuse from early January, when the unashamedly anti-Islam Australian Defence League seized some of her tweets and used them to inflame bigotry among its 5000 Facebook followers.
Last week, one of the worst alleged offenders, a 22-year-old Ipswich woman, was charged with harassment but in telling her story to Fairfax Media, Ms Veiszadeh could not have envisaged it would ignite the most vitriolic hate campaign against her yet.
The article was seized on by the United States anti-Islam site The Daily Stormer, which urged its vast readership to virtually harass her.
“Be as vulgar, hateful, hurtful, extreme and offensive as possible,” the blog advised its readers.
“As Americans, we still have freedom of speech and we still have the sacred right to call this creature exactly what she is: an ugly, worthless, disgusting, parasitical, rat-faced hadji piece of subhuman sewage who needs to be immediately deported right back to Afghanistan.”
The floodgates of online abuse opened again, making that delivered by the Australian Defence League post pale into insignificance.
Among the abuse hurled her way was five death threats.
But the Canberra-based lawyer is determined not to cave to the haters.
Who started the conflict? Mariam Veiszadeh with a campaign against an Australian singlet carrying a popular Australian message.
The Guardian: “The Brisbane Times reported the online abuse was allegedly sparked when Veiszadeh wrote about her dismay that a Woolworths store in far north Queensland was selling an singlet with an offensive message. It featured the Australian flag and the words “if you don’t love it, leave”.”
If the government won’t protect the nation from its enemies, individual citizens will take up the fight to preserve their people and their way of life.
I can’t think of any examples of the past 200 years where a nation has become more Muslim and more free. Islam and the West are at odds. They have a conflict of interest. There is no way to square the circle. The presence of Muslims in the West will always cause conflict.
One may not agree with the methods of the Australian Defence League, just as one may not agree with the Charlie Hebdo massacre, but one has to admire groups standing up for their interests.
Adam Mercer of the Australian Defence League posted these instructions online:
1. Catch public transport and sit behind a Muzzie.
2. Remain seated quietly for 15 minutes.
3. Lean forward and quietly whisper in their ear: “We are coming for you. We know where you live.”
4. As they start screaming and crying, quietly stand up and walk away from the mad woman and find another seat.
5. No witnesses to anything that was said or done. No possibility of blame or prosecution as it is your word against her’s.
Sam Vaknin: The narcissist has a sense of humor but he rarely engages in self-deprecating humor. If he does, he expects to be rebuffed by his listeners. He expects to be commended for his courage and wit. His sense of humor is deployed in the terminal pursuit for narcissistic supply.
When you wake up, do you look forward to your day? If you do, you’re happy. If you don’t, you’re not happy.
By this definition, I’m happy 90% of the time.
Sam Vaknin: To the narcissist, the internet is an alluring playground and hunting ground. It is a gathering place for numerous potential sources for narcissistic supply. It is beyond the strictures of civilized conduct. It’s true paradise.
Narcissists end up at the instantly gratifying epicenter of a cult of fans, stalkers, erotomaniacs and nuts. The quasi-celebrity feed the grandiose fantasies of the narcissist.
Narcissists are prone to internet addiction.
He is not keen on expanding his horizons, developing real relationships. He filters everything through his narrow lens of addiction to narcissistic supply. He values people depending on how useful they can be sources of narcissistic supply.
The narcissist will either try to monopolize a discussion or, if failing that, disrupt a discussion.
But the internet may be the closest the narcissist gets to psychodynamic therapy. By interacting with these unpredictable entities, the narcissist is compelled to project on to others his own experiences and hopes. He uses other people to look in the mirror and be reflective. Transference and counter-transference are common.
The therapeutic process is set in motion by the brutally honest reactions to the narcissist’s repertory. People give feedback to the narcissist when he parades his delusions. No matter how painful this feedback, it provokes the narcissist into thinking, it gives him insight. The narcissist is not accustomed to such resistance.
Some narcissists confine themselves to the company of adoring sycophants, but a long exposure to the culture of the net, which is irreverent, usually exerts a beneficial effect on the staunchest narcissist. Some narcissists mellow and begin to listen to others.
Sam Vaknin: Narcissists (about 1% of the population) are concentrated in certain professions, in teaching, clergy, show business, management, medicine, military, law enforcement, politics, sports…
Narcissists are addicted to a drug called narcissistic supply. They seek attention, adulation, affirmation, applause, obedience, notoriety, being feared. They need this input to regulate their sense of self-worth, to build their self-confidence.
Narcissists seek to interact with people from a position of advantage. The cerebral narcissist is likely to emphasize intellectual prowess and accomplishment, whether real or imaginary, to solicit supply from awestruck students, voters, patients…
Narcissists seek to create the pathological narcissistic space… They navigate towards certain professions to create spaces where they are divine figures and have a coterie of fans.
Narcissists are liars. They misrepresent their credentials, knowledge, talents, achievements. The narcissist doctor would rather let his patients die than expose his mistakes. The narcissistic therapist often traumatizes his clients with his acting out. Narcissistic businessmen ruin their firms, and often engage in scams.
The narcissist’s relationship with his sychophants is often abusive. He perceives others as objects, mere instruments of gratification. He treats them as dispensable and interchangeable instruments. Being an addict, he seeks an ever larger dose of narcissistic supply, gradually losing what is left of his moral constraints.
When the narcissist’s sources become wary, amused, bored, by his excessive dependence and antics, when they get frightened by his OCD behaviors, when his acolytes leave him, the narcissist resorts to emotional blackmail, distortion, criminal conduct, or he discards the people he cherished a short while before.
Narcissists don’t know how to collaborate and to accept their place. They’re not deterred by possible punishment. They have a sense of entitlement and superiority.
