December 29, 2016 WP: ‘The Asian American ‘advantage’ that is actually an illusion’ Luke Ford No sacred cows.

WP: ‘The Asian American ‘advantage’ that is actually an illusion’

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

Washington Post:

For decades, the data on median household incomes have shown the same, persistent racial disparities: Asians beating out whites at the top, while Hispanics and blacks hover near the bottom.
Asian Americans seem to offer proof that minorities can prosper — and even leapfrog whites — if they work hard and jump through the right hoops. For that reason, Asian Americans have often been invoked as a way to excuse the income gaps between whites and blacks or whites and Hispanics.
But why do typical Asian American households outearn typical white households? Like many statistics showing an Asian American advantage, this fact proves illusory upon closer examination. A common explanation is that Asian Americans are better educated. While that’s true, there’s another factor that can completely account for the income gap between Asians and whites.
It has to do with where people reside.
Prices and rents vary wildly in different parts of the country. The cost of living near Jonesboro, Ark., for instance, is about 18 percent below the national average, while the cost of living near San Francisco is about 21 percent above the national average.
White and African Americans are more likely to live in cheaper locales, while Asian and Hispanic Americans are more likely to live in pricier ones. The contrast between whites and Asians is particularly stark. Nearly 1 in 5 white Americans reside in rural counties, where a dollar goes a lot further. But 97 percent of Asian Americans live in or near a major city, where the cost of living is higher.

This is silly. East Asians around the world on average are better educated, more affluent and have stronger families and longer life spans than whites just as around the world whites on average are better educated, more affluent and have stronger families and longer life spans than blacks.

South-East Asians do not out-excel whites on average in education and income. Different groups of whites do better than other groups of whites. For instance, whites of Northern European origin tend to be better educated, more intelligent and more prosperous than white non-Jews of Eastern European and Southern European origins.

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NYT: ‘Germany Grapples With Its Genocide Past in Africa’

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

New York Times: “Tens of thousands of Namibians were killed between 1904 and 1908 in events that foreshadowed Nazi ideology and the Holocaust. Germany is finally close to recognizing the killings as genocide.”

How come we never have these stories about Jews coming to terms with Jews who served as Stalin’s Willing Executioners?

Sever Plocker writes for YNET:

An Israeli student finishes high school without ever hearing the name “Genrikh Yagoda,” the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century, the GPU’s deputy commander and the founder and commander of the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin’s collectivization orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people. His Jewish deputies established and managed the Gulag system. After Stalin no longer viewed him favorably, Yagoda was demoted and executed, and was replaced as chief hangman in 1936 by Yezhov, the “bloodthirsty dwarf.”
Yezhov was not Jewish but was blessed with an active Jewish wife. In his Book “Stalin: Court of the Red Star”, Jewish historian Sebag Montefiore writes that during the darkest period of terror, when the Communist killing machine worked in full force, Stalin was surrounded by beautiful, young Jewish women.
Stalin’s close associates and loyalists included member of the Central Committee and Politburo Lazar Kaganovich. Montefiore characterizes him as the “first Stalinist” and adds that those starving to death in Ukraine, an unparalleled tragedy in the history of human kind aside from the Nazi horrors and Mao’s terror in China, did not move Kaganovich.
Many Jews sold their soul to the devil of the Communist revolution and have blood on their hands for eternity. We’ll mention just one more: Leonid Reichman, head of the NKVD’s special department and the organization’s chief interrogator, who was a particularly cruel sadist.
In 1934, according to published statistics, 38.5 percent of those holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were of Jewish origin. They too, of course, were gradually eliminated in the next purges. In a fascinating lecture at a Tel Aviv University convention this week, Dr. Halfin described the waves of soviet terror as a “carnival of mass murder,” “fantasy of purges”, and “essianism of evil.” Turns out that Jews too, when they become captivated by messianic ideology, can become great murderers, among the greatest known by modern history.
The Jews active in official communist terror apparatuses (In the Soviet Union and abroad) and who at times led them, did not do this, obviously, as Jews, but rather, as Stalinists, communists, and “Soviet people.” Therefore, we find it easy to ignore their origin and “play dumb”: What do we have to do with them? But let’s not forget them. My own view is different. I find it unacceptable that a person will be considered a member of the Jewish people when he does great things, but not considered part of our people when he does amazingly despicable things.
Even if we deny it, we cannot escape the Jewishness of “our hangmen,” who served the Red Terror with loyalty and dedication from its establishment. After all, others will always remind us of their origin.

I think the world needs more museums dedicated to the victims of communism.

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NYT: ‘A Bullet Could Hit Me and My Kids Anytime’

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

New York Times: “It has been a violent year in Chicago, and for thousands of children, just walking to school can be dangerous. More than a thousand workers line up along Safe Passage routes to help.”

It’s the same way in most Jewish and Japanese neighborhoods too but nobody ever writes about that. Jews and Japanese are notorious for their gun crime but all the media wants to talk about is stuff that makes blacks look bad. Sad! Must apologize!

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Jamie Kirchick: ‘Ivanka Trump is not going to save us’

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

Mr. Kirchick has a knack for answering the questions most on my mind. I had always assumed that Ivanka Trump would save us. Now I know better.

Jamie writes: “It’s easy to be seduced by Ivanka — she really is smooth, not to mention beautiful — but keep your guard up: This is a trap. Ivanka is nothing more than pretty window dressing to the explicitly authoritarian, racially divisive, conflict-of-interest-laden presidential campaign (soon-to-be administration) of her father.”

Wow, just wow.

“Mariela’s purpose is not improving the livelihood of her LGBT countrymen so much as it’s fooling credulous Western progressives into thinking that Cuba is anything other than a one-party state run by a mafia clan. Mariela Castro and Ivanka Trump are what happen when privileged entitlement meets political depravity.”

Sad! Must apologize!

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Regarding Russian Interference In America’s Election

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

I expect every nation to act in its self-interest and that will usually involve spying and interference in other countries. So if Russia or Israel tries to influence our elections, or China hacks our government and private websites to gain an advantage, I’m not surprised or outraged. I assume that America does similar things. I assume that it is America’s responsibility to protect itself from outside interference and that if the interference occurs and damages America, that is the fault of America’s government for not protecting us.

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Sometimes Jews & Non-Jews Get On Great

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

Sometimes differences are fantastic for a relationship and sometimes they make a relationship impossible.

According to Wikipedia:

The Jewish question is the name given to a wide-ranging debate in European society pertaining to the appropriate status and treatment of Jews in society. The debate was similar to other so-called “national questions” and dealt with the civil, legal, national and political status of Jews as a minority within society, particularly in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The debate started within societies, politicians and writers in western and central Europe influenced by the Age of Enlightenment and the ideals of the French Revolution. The issues included the legal and economic Jewish disabilities (e.g. Jewish quotas and segregation), Jewish assimilation, Jewish emancipation and Jewish Enlightenment.
The expression has been used by antisemitic movements from the 1880s onwards, culminating in the Nazi phrase “the Final Solution to the Jewish Question”. Similarly, the expression was used by proponents for and opponents of the establishment of an autonomous Jewish homeland or a sovereign Jewish state.

Since the 1950s, there’s been little public discussion of The Jewish Question. Most citizens of the United States, Canada, Australia, England, France and Germany do not question granting their Jews the same rights as everyone else. Prior to the 20th Century, however, most Europeans nations were not down with this.

With the rise of the Alt Right in the past year, there’s been a renewed interest among a few thousand people (my guess) about The Jewish Question.

Alt Right Jewish philosopher “Ari Ben Canaan” tweets: “I support the eventual end of the Jewish diaspora. We belong in Israel, where our home is.”

The sacred texts of Judaism debate this question. Some texts argue that Jews belong in Israel. Other texts say Jews have valuable work to do in the diaspora shining the light of Torah.

From an objective perspective, it seems to me that no people has permanent friends or enemies. In some circumstances, Jews and Muslims, for example, have common interests, and in other circumstances, they have conflicting interests. In some circumstances, gentile countries will find the presence of Jews in their interest and in other circumstances, they will find the presence of Jews a problem. It does not make sense to me that in all times and places outside of Israel, gentile nations will always find Jewish citizens more of a hassle than a blessing. I sure hope that is true because the odds that Israel survives another 50 years as a Jewish state are probably no greater than 50%. If Israel is destroyed and gentile nations start kicking Jews out, Jews will be in big trouble a la WWII.

Like all peoples, Jews have strengths and weaknesses. Jewish strengths include intelligence, industry, energy and a commitment to education. Jews have started disproportionate number of businesses in the West, and they’ve paid, I suspect, a disproportionate amount of tax compared to the public services they’ve used. Most Orthodox Jews, for example, send their children to private Jewish schools while paying considerable taxes to maintain public schools.

If Jews leave the diaspora, who will represent God among the nations? If God wanted goyim to have own countries, He would have given them the brains to defend them. If Jews leave the diaspora, who will teach the goyim how to be multicultural? If Jews leave the diaspora, who will teach the goyim the lessons of the Holocaust?

James M points out: “White people were nothing until the Jews came from the desert & created our civilizations.”

Richard Spencer has some interesting tweets:

When thinking of nationalism it helps to understand Latin. You are born into a nation. The word nation comes from the word for birth. You don’t choose a nation anymore than you choose a mother. This is why “civic” nationalism or “economic” nationalism is contradictory. “Civic” nationalism comes from civis, which means citizen. Citizenship had to be earned, not just believed really hard. It was difficult. And came with duties and that was why people wanted to be citizens. “Civic nationalism” defines citizenship down. Steve Bannon’s economic nationalism is also absurd. “Economics” comes from Greek word for household and its management. Economic nationalism then is either redundant or misleading about who is in the household. You can’t have many mothers in one house. You can’t have many peoples in one nation. Sooner or later one will dominate the other & there goes “economic nationalism.”
Ask yourself why it is that our country spends more time talking about and thinking about Israeli politics rather than Mexican politics.
In a way, Trumpism–as the last gasp of “Americanism”–has to fail for the #AltRight to fully emerge.
Let me make one thing clear: I’m a bit black-pilled about Trump; I’m enthused by the Alt Right.
The entire govt. and civil service will be aligned against him, and Trump’s appeasing Cucks, who don’t really have his back.
“Trumpism” will fail because it offers nothing but a cult of personality. Trump is our leader only so long as he is for our people.

I fear that Richard hasn’t learned the lessons of the Holocaust.

Have Jews learned the lessons of the Holocaust? Jews are not a great fit for every nation on earth at all times. For instance, once Germany became a Nazi state, Jews were a bad fit. Nations that regarded themselves as exclusively Roman Catholic were not a good for Jews. Any gentile nation that principally organizes itself around race or religion is not likely to be a good fit for Jews (unless the race is people of Northern European origins and the religion is Protestantism). Jews have done best in WASP countries because people of Northern European extraction who are of Protestant origins tend to see people as individuals rather than as representatives of groups, and a collective strategy will usually out-compete an individualist one.

Protestants nations have never committed genocide against Jews.

Judaism regards Jews as a blessing to the world, but one can believe in God and Torah and understand that in some circumstances, Jews are not a great fit for a particular nation (such as Nazi Germany).

My understanding of Orthodox Judaism is that God’s primary demand of Jews is that they obey the Torah, which would theoretically make them a safe choice for almost any nation. History shows, however, that whenever Jews have had a choice, they have chosen to not be Orthodox and to not be observant of Jewish law.

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‘Hitler actually wasn’t that bad’: How Neo-Nazis are using attractive young women to boost their movement

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Luke Ford

National Post: In one of her online videos from her suburban Toronto bedroom, 19-year-old Veronica Bouchard slouches before the camera in a low-cut dress and a choker, lamenting the Jewish conspiracy to control society by corrupting minds with degenerate inter-racial pornography.

In another, she offers cupcakes decorated with swastikas to a portrait of Adolf Hitler, as she sings him Happy Birthday.

“Hitler actually wasn’t that bad. He wasn’t evil at all. And he’s one of my favourite people of all time,” she says.

Petite and pretty, she speaks variously in an over-acted breathy whisper, or a treacly, girlish singsong, sometimes blatantly trying to force tears about the supposed genocide of white people. At other times, she is vulgar, smug, sarcastic, agitated and angry, swearing at the suggestion she is uneducated and ignorant.

Ignore what she says, and she could be any other petulant teenager talking to her phone. But Bouchard, known as Evalion, is fast becoming a leading star of neo-Nazism, and her runaway popularity threatens to upend the nearly unbroken tradition of male dominance in white supremacy.

Tagged online as “Future Queen of the Fourth Reich,” she is a prime example — the latest, not the first — of how young women can become the hot new thing in racist subcultures almost overnight, far easier than sieg-heiling, black-costumed, tattooed male skinheads.

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Steve Sailer: When Did the EU Become Europhobic?

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments:

* The EU is a recreation of Christendom without the Christianity. Soon enough to be Europe without the Europeans.

* It’s a very obvious but rarely spoken fact, that the main role of the EU is the integration of Germany into Europe, or in other words, the prevention of a German nationalism. This is the real meaning of the often mentioned goal of “preventing war in Europe”. France has been sidelined by events much like after Versailles. When German re-unified, peacefully, rather than through wars of restoration like last time, there was little that France could do to oppose it, even morally. German leadership knew how sensitive this issue was, so it pushed for the Maastricht treaty, firmly binding Germany to a new liberal institutional order, which became the basis of the new EU. So France became stuck in an impossible quagmire: it could not oppose German hegemony through war, but also not through peace. A more robust EU would eventually be dominated by Germany and France could do nothing to help it.

* Visualizing Values Mismatch in the European Union

http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/visualizing-values-mismatch-in-the-european-union/

In my July 1 post, Brexit as Destructive Creation, I argued that one significant cause for the European dysfunction was the choice made by the European elites to expand the union too fast too far. Why do I think this was a mistake? […]
The pattern is so striking it almost doesn’t require commentary, but let’s spell it out anyway. The original six (“Core Europe”) group together very closely. There are only two other countries that are part of the same cluster, Austria and Switzerland. Remarkably, the modern territories of both of these countries were encompassed by the boundaries of the Carolingian empire (see Is this the Beginning of the End for the European Union?). It looks like the “ghost” of the Charlemagne’s empire has more influence on today’s cultural values than such later distinctions as Catholicism versus Protestantism.
The current 28 members of the European Union, on the other hand, don’t cluster at all. On the contrary, they span three-quarters of world variation in values. Only African-Islamic countries and central America end up outside the ellipse that encompasses all 28 EU members.

EUROPE’S NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE—A STUBBORN CHASM

http://www.europeaninstitute.org/index.php/ei-blog/155-european-affairs/ea-august-2012/1614-europes-north-south-dividea-stubborn-chasm

Proponents of the cultural explanation for the North-South divide, like Tino Sanandaji from the Institute of Industrial Economics, are returning to a certain extent to the ideas of 19th century German sociologist Max Weber. The latter had suggested that Protestant countries in Northern Europe outperformed the rest of the continent because of their superior work ethic, because they were thriftier and because they possessed more effective social capital, that is to say the efficacy of social networks. Following in Weber’s footsteps, Sanandaji argues that the current gap in economic outcomes between North and South cannot be explained by differing policies, since both display roughly comparable levels of social expenditures, taxation rates and government sizes. Instead, similar policies are resulting in different outcomes because the latter are ‘mediated through the deeper structures of society’, such as culture, norms, or social capital.

Cognitive emotion regulation and psychopathology across cultures: A comparison between six European countries

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886916302756

Most notably, there were differences on strategies that have been linked to symptoms of psychopathology; overall northern European countries (Germany and Netherlands) made less use of strategies such as rumination, catastrophizing, and other-blame, when compared to southern and eastern European countries (Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Hungary).

* The EU was Europhobic in its origins. The first President of the Paneuropean Union, elected in 1923, was Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi. He envisioned the destruction of the existing European races through admixture with Africans. The new mixed race was to be ruled over by a new, primarily Jewish, aristocracy. From his book Practical Idealism written in 1925 (i.e. prior to the rise of National Socialism in Germany):

The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today’s races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals …
Instead of destroying European Jewry, Europe, against its own will, refined and educated this people into a future leader-nation through this artificial selection process. No wonder that this people, that escaped Ghetto-Prison, developed into a spiritual nobility of Europe. Therefore a gracious Providence provided Europe with a new race of nobility by the Grace of Spirit. This happened at the moment when Europe’s feudal aristocracy became dilapidated, and thanks to Jewish emancipation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi

The Paneuropean Union is the oldest European unification movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paneuropean_Union

The Coudenhove-Kalergi Foundation awarded its European Prize t0 Angela Merkel in 2010.

https://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/ContentArchiv/EN/Archiv17/Artikel/_2011/01/2011-01-13-merkel-europapreis_en.html

* Juncker seems to be very similar to Yeltsin. The more his project falls apart, the more he drinks. He drinks to avoid the reality of what he has created.

Trump is of course a teetotaller. I wonder if he will impose some of that philosophy on, for instance, the white women and Native Americans who are drowning in drink?

* It is interesting to note the impact of Muslim immigration on Germans. Having lived there for four years in the 1970s and visiting often, it was without question one of the safest places on earth. I’ve found myself in the Red Light districts of many German cities at night before immigration (no aspersions please :-), noting in surprise the number of women walking alone (including little old ladies with canes) and young mothers pushing baby carriages … something you would not dare to do in the United States.

From the news, many German girls and women today find it too dangerous to venture out of their homes to visit the town square during the day or leave their homes at night without male escorts. What a contrast as German cities areas start to reflect the seedier aspects of decaying urban ghettos in the United States and the generally degenerate conditions in underdeveloped countries.

It is difficult to comprehend the argument that the solution to the social decay in Germany caused by Third World immigration is more Third World immigration. “Quick, my house is on fire … quick, more fuel for the fire!”

* How did the US go from being a country founded by slave owners, to a country willing to send 600,000 to their deaths to end slavery? How did the UK Liberal party go from wanting to abolish the income tax in 1882 to introducing the welfare state in 1906? How did the Israeli Labour party go from “There’s no such thing as the Palestinians” in 1969 to Oslo in 1993? The list goes on and on. The basic point seems to be that liberalism should not be understood as a set of beliefs, but as a process, the telos of which is always receding into the future. The best work on unwrapping this remains Moldbug, but, of course, he never systemized his observations. Part of the problem is that much of basic mental equipment we use to understand politics itself comes out of the liberal tradition and is thus delusory. More recently, the blogger doing the most to carve out something like an explanation is the recently defunct Reactionary Future, but I’m not sure if he’s insane or not. It’s hard to tell when you lose your bearings.

In the specific case of the EU, though, it’s worth noting that it was constructed by liars – Leftist radicals working with the State Dept – who at every stage dissembled about their true intentions. It’s basic purpose has always been to destroy pre-WW2 conservative Europe.

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“California’s Birthrate Falls to Its Lowest Level on Record”

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* I have relatives in an affluent West Los Angeles neighborhood. Twenty-five years ago, Halloween was a significant neighborhood event, with regular trick-or-treating, Halloween parties, and the like. According to my relatives, this year, they had exactly one trick-or-treater the entire night. Prime neighborhoods in the area are graying as people hang on to their houses until they die (California’s Proposition 13, which caps increases on property taxes until the house is sold, is a big factor), and few households can afford both children and a house in these neighborhoods.

* The Roma are typical of a small tribe of low-trust people who have grafted onto a larger, high-trust society for sustenance. This has occurred throughout world history. Unfortunately for them, because of their natural sociopathy/low-trust tendencies make it impossible for them to run their own nation. When such people do get ahold of their own nation, the nation quickly falls into internal squabbling/strife/civil war as the various low-trust members stab each other in the back and ally with foreigners over their own countrymen.

* If you want to take this full-circle to the California example, you can. You have two very different models of immigration, exemplified well by the Bay Area versus LA. In the Bay Area, the tech industry draws (relatively) high-education/high-skilled people mostly from East or South Asia. There are issues with this type of immigration, in particular that they’re effectively indentured servants of the companies sponsoring their visas and they keep wages down for native workers doing the same work. But well educated and skilled people with an incentive to keep a steady job and not rock the boat make for relatively placid immigrants.

Los Angeles is the alternative. There, yes, you have a continual stream of Latin-American illegal immigration feeding the local labor economy. Problematic in a few respects, but hardly the worst category of immigrants you can find locally. That distinction belongs very much to immigrants from low-trust societies in the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, Central Asia, and (to a lesser extent) some parts of South and East Asia. The “Silk Road people,” as I call them. You find these folks very well represented in dodgy and often questionably-legal small businesses, if not running outright scams or involved in organized and white-collar crime. Many of them have figured out how to rig the game to a tee – a perverse version of the immigrant success story – insinuating themselves in apparently legitimate activities like charitable organizations and politics, and making use of ethnic affinity links to find victims as well as co-conspirators (e.g., shady professionals in various fields, like lawyers, doctors, or real estate brokers who are in positions to facilitate various fraudulent schemes).

* We lived in Southern California as a family in the mid-1980s and returned again in the 1990s. By the late 1990s, I thought we were living in Mexico. By 1996, we were refugees en route to Oklahoma. California wasn’t safe for adults or children. I felt my choice was either to buy a gun or leave; we left.

Our take was the the social contract in California was breaking down — wide-spread crime as the “have nots” looted the “have” communities at night, violent gangs with shootouts and carjackings, and extremely low-performing PC schools proselytizing multiculturalism, feminism, and other relativist anarchy. My perception was that the schools were psychologically damaging the kids, not educating them. Our recourse was private schools.

Almost every gringo we knew at the time was plotting an exit strategy. Those who did leave fueled real estate bubbles in Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, and Colorado as people realized they could sell their four-bedroom ranchers in LA for “mcmansions” outside the state and still put a couple of hundred grand in the bank.

California — a safe environment for raising children? You’ve got to be kidding! We still have family there. We avoid visiting on their turf. We encourage them to fly and “Great Flyover” and visit us on the East Coast.

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Amazing Racist

Posted on December 27, 2016 by Luke Ford

These skits are racist enough to be funny, but not too racist so that you feel uncomfortable, because the star is Ari Shaffir, who’s Jewish, and as an oppressed person of color, the Jew cannot be racist.

According to Wikipedia: “Shaffir was born in New York City, and was raised as an Orthodox Jew.[1] His father and grandmother were holocaust survivors.[2][3] Soon after his birth, his family moved to North Carolina, followed by Maryland.[4][5] He attended high school in Rockville, Maryland, followed by time at Yeshiva University in New York City,[6] where he accepted to study abroad in seminary in Israel for around three-and-a-half years. He added: “There was no test, there was nothing to memorize, so I just poured myself into it … one day I realized I didn’t really believe any of that stuff, so I stopped it.”

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