What’s hot on newsstands in Tokyo this month? Believe it or not, a 200-page Japanese magazine about life in Los Angeles — reprinted from 1976.
Twenty-seven pages are devoted to life at UCLA during the Gerald Ford administration, including a campus map and photos of dorm life and Ackerman Student Union (complete with state-of-the-art amenities like pinball machines and a “ride-sharing bulletin board”). The Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-led Lakers (who played at the Forum, where pretzels were 30 cents) are featured on five pages.
Flip to Page 53 and you’ll find an illustrated spread headlined “How to Jog” (complete with helpful tips like keep an upright posture, and use a heel-to-toe stride).
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In the months leading up to the release of the “Ghostbusters” reboot, the film’s female stars have been the targets of criticism from online trolls who feel immense loyalty to the 1984 original.
Now that the movie has hit theaters — debuting with over $46 million in box-office receipts last weekend — the hatred hasn’t stopped. In fact, it has perhaps only gotten worse.
On Monday, actress and “Saturday Night Live” member Leslie Jones — who stars in the new “Ghostbusters” alongside Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Kristen Wiig — began retweeting disturbing personal attacks being sent her way on Twitter. The majority of the comments had to do with her race, referring to her as an “ape” and a “savage.”
They ain’t afraid of no ghosts, but they might just be afraid of Milo. The Breitbart Tech editor has been blocked and reported on Twitter by Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones.
Following Jones’ complaints about the messages she was receiving on Twitter and other social media platforms following the release of Ghostbusters, Milo had this to say:
If at first you don't succeed (because your work is terrible), play the victim.
Jones did not take kindly to this, tweeting that not only had she blocked Milo (despite tweeting a mere three hours earlier that she was no longer going to be blocking people) but she had also reported his account.
@Nero you have been reported I hope the lock your Acct
When asked for official comment on his blocking by Jones this is what Milo said: “She must have read my review! Honestly, this is why I say feminism is cancer. She used to be funny but being involved in a social justice dumpster fire like Ghostbusters has reduced her to the status of just another frothing loon on Twitter.”
Further ridiculing Jones, Milo said, “Imagine it: the star of a Hollywood blockbuster sitting at home reporting random people on social media for saying her movie sucked. Sad!”
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I don’t see many asians coaching in the NFL. How come nobody in the MSM is worried about that? I don’t see many Orthodox Jews coaching in the NFL. Is the reason anti-Semitism?
I don’t see many whites playing cornerback in the NFL. Is that racism? Blacks are a disproportionate number of the players in the NFL and the NBA. Is that racism? Generally speaking, it makes no more sense to select a black to coach your NFL team than it does to select a white to start at cornerback on your NFL team.
THE NFL HAS sponsored programs, implemented the Rooney Rule, counseled team owners and convened committees to address its diversity problem in the coaching ranks. None of it is working. Minority coaches are frustrated. The numbers explain why — emphatically.
Teams have taken a chance on 21 first-time white head coaches and only one first-time minority head coach, Todd Bowles, over the past five hiring cycles (2012-16). The gap was an identical 21-1 nearly two decades ago, when the New York Jets made Herm Edwards the only first-time minority hire from 1997 to 2001.
It’s as though team owners have reverted to previous form, undoing the historic gains driven by Tony Dungy and his coaching tree in the early 2000s.
“Remember the old thing [where they said] you can’t win with a black quarterback?” a minority assistant coach asked. “It is almost like that for the coaches.”
Various league initiatives — led by the Rooney Rule, which required teams to interview at least one minority candidate when searching for a new head coach — continue to address the symptoms, not the underlying issues:
80 of the NFL’s current 85 offensive coordinators, quarterbacks coaches and offensive quality control coaches are white, including all 37 with the word “quarterback” in their titles.
23 of 32 defensive coordinators are white.
Those are crushing numbers for minorities considering how the hiring game is played: 94 percent of head coaches hired over the past 20 years (133 of 141) had been NFL coordinators, pro head coaches (including interim) or college head coaches previously.
The path to becoming an NFL head coach is clear. It is also largely unavailable to minorities, especially with Dungy in retirement. Dungy and his former assistants accounted for 43 percent of minority head-coaching hires over the past two decades and 39 percent since the Rooney Rule took effect.
Do different peoples have different gifts? That seems obvious to me. It was obvious to black NFL star and Christian preacher Reggie White as well.
White said that homosexuality is ”one of the biggest sins” in the Bible and said that he was ”offended” by gay and lesbian groups that compare their struggle for civil rights to the struggles of African-Americans.
”In the process of history, homosexuals have never been castrated,” as enslaved blacks were, he said. ”Millions of them never died. Homosexuality is a decision. It’s not a race.”
In his effort to promote racial harmony, the Packer player, who is black, said that each racial and ethnic group has its own ”gifts,” that, when taken together, form ”a complete image of God.”
But in describing those gifts, White said that blacks ”like to sing and dance,” while whites ”know how to tap into money.” He said that Hispanic people ”are gifted at family structure. You can see a Hispanic person and he can put 20 or 30 people in one home.”
Asians, he said, know how to ”turn a television into a watch.” American Indians, he said, ”have been very gifted” in ”spirituality.”
He also said that early Americans chose to enslave blacks, rather than Indians, ”because Indians knew the territory, and knew how to sneak up on people.”
Darryl Dawkins has never worried about being politically correct. Ever since he made headlines in 1975 when he became the first schoolboy to be drafted into the NBA (Philadelphia—fifth pick overall), Dawkins was never shy about speaking his mind.
According to Dawkins, the outcome of the upcoming Olympic basketball tournament hinges on a subject no one else dares to fully address—the racial components that define basketball as we know it.
“The game is the same,” says Dawkins. “The object is for the good guys to score and to keep the bad guys from scoring. But there’s a big difference between black basketball and white basketball.”
Growing up poor (but happy) near Orlando, Fla., Dawkins learned the former before he learned the latter. “Black basketball is much more individualistic,” he says. “With so many other opportunities closed to young black kids, the basketball court in the playground or the schoolyard is one of the few places where they can assert themselves in a positive way. So if somebody makes you look bad with a shake-and-bake move, then you’ve got to come right back at him with something better, something more stylish. And if someone fouls you hard, you’ve got to foul him even harder. It’s all about honor, pride, and establishing yourself as a man.”
Once the black game moves indoors and becomes more organized, the pressure to establish bona fides increases. “Now you’re talking about high school hoops,” says Dawkins. “So if you’re not scoring beaucoup points, if your picture isn’t in the papers, if you don’t have a trophy, then you ain’t the man and you ain’t nothing. Being second-best is just as bad as being last. And if a teammate hits nine shots in a row, the black attitude is, ‘Screw him. Now it’s my turn to get it on.’“
If young black players usually cherish untrammeled creativity, white hooplings mostly value more team-oriented concepts. “White basketball means passing the hell out of the ball,” says Dawkins. “White guys are more willing to do something when somebody else has the ball—setting picks, boxing out, cutting just to clear a space for a teammate, making the pass that leads to an assist pass. In white basketball, there’s a more of a sense of discipline, of running set plays and only taking wide open shots. If a guy gets hot, he’ll get the ball until he cools off.”
Why is white basketball so structured and team-oriented?
“Because the white culture places more of a premium on winning,” Dawkins believes, “and less on self-indulgent preening and chest-beating. That’s because there are so many other situations in the white culture where a young kid can express himself.”
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. When Dawkins and the Sixers squared off against the Portland Trail Blazers for the NBA championship in 1977, Philadelphia’s most dynamic players were Julius Erving, George McGinnis, World B. Free, and Dawkins.
“They beat us in six games,” Dawkins recalls, “and the series marked the most blatant example of the racial difference in NBA game plans. We were much more flamboyant than Portland, and certainly more talented. We had more individual moves, more off-balance shots, more fancy passes, more dunks, and more entertaining stuff. But everybody wanted to shoot and be a star (including me), and nobody was willing to do the behind-the-scenes dirty work.”
Meanwhile, the white players at the core of Portland’s eventual success were Dave Twardzik, Bobby Gross, Larry Steele and Bill Walton. Dawkins notes that “Even the black guys like Lionel Hollins, Mo Lucas, Johnny Davis, Lloyd Neal played disciplined, unselfish white basketball. Credit their coach, Jack Ramsay, for getting everybody on the same page.”
As much as Dawkins respected Portland’s game plan, however, he was never crazy about Walton. “The guy was a good player who could really pass and had a nice jump hook,” Dawkins opines. “What made Walton so effective was that he was surrounded by talented players who wanted to win and weren’t concerned with being stars. Personally, I think that Walton was, and still is, full of baloney. Back then, he had this mountain-man image, he smoked lots of pot, and I don’t think he bathed regularly. And the league let him play with a red bandana tied around his head. To say nothing of his involvement with Patty Hearst.
“If a black player ever tried any of that kind of stuff he would’ve been banished from the NBA in a heartbeat. Yet in spite of all the messed up things Walton did as a player, now that he’s a TV announcer all he does is tear down everybody else. The guy still ticks me off.”
During his 15-year tenure in the NBA, Dawkins’ signature move was bulldozing to the basket and smashing the Plexiglas backboard to smithereens. He was brash, outlandish, funny, and irresistible. He called himself “Chocolate Thunder,” claimed to be from the planet Lovetron, and devised names for his more awesome dunks—among the most noteworthy were In Your Face Disgrace, Cover Yo Damn Head, Sexophonic Turbo Delight, and his classic If You Ain’t Groovin’ Best Get Movin’-Chocolate Thunder Flyin’-Robinzine Cryin’-Teeth Shakin’-Glass Breakin’-Rump Roastin’-Bun Toastin’-Glass Still Flyin’ Wham-Bam-I-Am Jam!
For the past four years, the 6-foot-11, 285-pound Dawkins has been coaching the Pennsylvania Valley Dawgs in the summertime United States Basketball League. In so doing, he’s won two championships (2002 and 2004) and distinguished himself as a superior motivator and big man coach, as well as the kind of on- and off-court teacher who can help transform wild young hooplings into mature gamers. As a by-product of his own maturation, Dawkins can also see the pluses and minuses of both black and white basketball.
“The black game by itself,” he says, “is too chaotic and much too selfish. No one player is good enough to beat five opponents on a consistent basis. The black style also creates animosities among the players because everybody ends up arguing about who’s shooting too much and who’s not shooting enough.”
But the white game also has its drawbacks: “It can get too predictable and even too cautious because guys can be afraid to take risks and make mistakes.”
Dawkins believes that the best NBA teams combine the best of both. “In basketball and in civilian life,” Dawkins says, “freedom without structure winds up being chaotic and destructive. Only when it operates within a system can freedom create something worthwhile.”
And, according to Dawkins, this is the most difficult task at hand for Larry Brown. “Only Tim Duncan and Carlos Boozer are willing to play white basketball. All the other guys on Team USA really want to go off on their own.
“Unless Brown can bleach some of the selfish funk from their game, they’ll be lucky to win the bronze.”
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A study of 2016 NFL coaching staffs shows that white coaches overwhelmingly fill the offensive positions associated with advancement to the head-coaching ranks, compromising the Rooney Rule’s efforts to reverse a recent trend.
Eighty of NFL’s current 85 offensive coordinators, quarterbacks coaches and offensive-quality-control coaches are white, including all 37 with the word “quarterback” in their job descriptions. Minorities comprise one-third of NFL coaches overall, but they dominate positions less associated with advancement. This revelation comes after NFL teams hired 21 first-time white head coaches and one first-time minority head coach (Todd Bowles by the Jets) since 2012, a period of five hiring cycles.
Gee, why would whites be over-represented in a profession about constructing something? Steve Sailer wrote last week:
blacks do best in sports roles that put a premium on disruption and destruction. In football, for example, players on defense are actually more on the offensive, extemporizing search-and-destroy missions against the nominal offense, which attempts to defend its preconceived plans.
Whites in the NFL are concentrated at the positions that specialize in executing preplanned routines, such as placekicker, punter, quarterback, and offensive lineman, especially center.
Not surprisingly, while professional football overall is 68 percent black, defensive platoons are even blacker than that. The position of cornerback, the pass defenders who must react with instant violence to the planned routes run by receivers, is extraordinarily racially segregated. No white man has played regularly at any of the 64 cornerback positions in the NFL since Jason Sehorn retired more than a dozen years ago.
As you might expect, NFL players tend to get arrested now and then. The San Diego Union-Tribune keeps an eye-opening database of NFL arrests.
And who knows how many football heroes skate out of trouble with the police?
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* I believe it was last August when Trump introduced the father of the slain youth, and he made a very moving speech outlining the facts of his talented son’s death and his endorsement of Donald Trump. Clips from that video were incorporated into a powerful TV ad of about 30 seconds to a minute. I expected to see it aired before the Florida primary, but I guess it was too difficult for blacks to change registrations in order to vote in the closed Republican primary so the ad did not make many appearances as far as I know. But, with the general election campaign about to start, I think that commercial will start seeing a lot of air time. IMO it is a very powerful TV ad and holds out the prospect of bringing upward of 20+% of the black vote to Trump.
* Blacks have been ethnically cleansed from south central, San Pedro, and Compton, to name a few areas. If the Rodney King beating happened today, there would be no mass riots in South Central because there aren’t enough blacks to do it. Violent crime has dropped significantly in the noted areas as a result. Crime drops where blacks aren’t.
In this instance, I can say “thanks Obama,” without a trace of irony. Without his immigration scheme, we’d have never cleansed Compton, and it would still be a fountain of black tears today. Compton has returned to being a city again, instead of a de facto low security prison yard for black losers.
* Ron Unz: I’d guess that the rate at which blacks kill totally innocent Hispanic immigrants is something like 10x, 20x, perhaps even 30x greater than the other way round.
Personally, I think that the Jamiel Shaw is basically the “Emmett Till” of silly rightwing anti-immigration activists. The main reason they’re still citing him eight years after the murder it that it’s so difficult for them to find another example of anything similar. C’mon, haven’t there been over 100,000 murders in America since 2008, and they’re *still* citing that same case?
From what I vaguely remember reading at the time, the blacks in South Central had been going around for quite a while robbing, beating, and even sometimes randomly killing lots of the local Hispanics, so some young Hispanics got angry and shot that young Jamiel in retaliation.
Citing poor, poor Jamiel Shaw from 2008 is also a way the quasi-WN types attempt to convince the MSM that they’re not really “raciss”…but it doesn’t work and they’re not fooling anyone…
Cupertino’s not too far away from me, and back in 2011 some black guy got agitated and shot ten of his Hispanic co-workers for no reason, killing three of them:
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_19046357
That’s one incident in one town near where I live, and my entire region is only 3% black. Personally, I’d bet you’d have a pretty hard time finding the names of even three innocent blacks killed by Hispanics across the entire country since 2008. I’m sure it’s possible, but it would probably take a good lot of effort.
After all, I read VDare pretty regularly, and I think the only black victim they’ve ever managed to locate was Jamiel Shaw, which is why they feature him so regularly.
* So, basically Multicultural or Multiracial societies will always have strife. This seems like a pretty good argument against admitting unlimited immigrants that can’t assimilate.
Sure plenty of Hispanics are great people. They deserve to have a great life in one of the many Latin American nations.
* Bob Dole reminds many older voters of a better time in US history, when there was more decency and less Narrative.
* You’re missing the point Ron. It is true that the media spend very, very scarce time on inter-racial violence, and even less time on Hispanic-on-Black crime. Yes, the rate of murder for blacks is far higher, but this just goes to the point of those “quasi-WN” types who are calling for less immigration. We don’t want inter-racial violence in the US. We don’t need it, and it costs our country money, lives, and police/court resources. Why should Americans have to foot the bill for mass gang wars between blacks and Hispanics? This isn’t the America the Founding Fathers envisioned, nor is it the America that working class people all over this country want to live in. Mass immigration restrictions and a focus on white American cultural values and traditions is the only way to save this country.
* Steve, you’ve got to check out Iowa Congressman Steve King’s comment on MSNBC today.
He got sick of Charles Pierce blathering about “angry white people” and asked him point blank: what subgroup of people have contributed more to civilization? It was stunning. Chris Hayes (or Rachel Maddow, I get them confused) started wowjustwowwing and quickly invoked Hitler. Some black woman of questionable credentials muttered something about Africa and Asia and “the history of this country.” They had to dump to commercial amid triggered laughter.
Later, on Periscope, Joy Ann Reid interviewed Chris and the black woman for 8 minutes. She got around to refuting Rep. King with:
1) uh… slavery!
2) have you even heard for the traffic light? and some types of whiskey?
It went downhill from there.
* According to stats in “The Color of Crime,” blacks and Hispanics were the victims of violent crime in about the same numbers — about a million victims per group.
Hispanics were responsible for about five percent of the black victims, or about 50,000 crimes.
Blacks committed about 20% percent of the violent crimes against Hispanics, or approximately 200,000 crimes.
These stats are from 2012-13.
Look for “Table 10.”
* Steve’s real point is to give those of his readers with actual influence on the public consciousness, like Trump campaign people and Breitbart writers, additional ammunition to support Trump’s use of the Shaw killing to drive a wedge between the blacks and their fans and the illegals and their descendants.
Not only was Shaw murdered in a racial cleansing, but illegals and their anchor babies were firebombing blacks as well!
Keep in mind that blacks’ grievances, resulting from their being kidnapped and brought here and enslaved, retain legitimacy despite blacks’ intrinsic violence and dimness. Illegals and anchor babies, who are only here because somebody wanted to usurp the awesomeness created by founding stock Americans, neither receive nor deserve the sympathy accorded American blacks.
* The issue is that Trump doesn’t have a campaign in the traditional sense. Does anyone think they have a high-paid professional speechwriter on staff?
My guess is that Melania’s speech was written by some 25 year old kid who googled “first lady speeches,” stitched something together, and hoped no one would notice.
90% of what political campaigns do is totally worthless and doesn’t sway any votes, and it’s sort of refreshing to see a candidate refuse to play that game, but Trump failing to have the basics of basics down is going to be a problem.
The most revolting writer in America is Charles Pierce.
Bernard Goldberg writes: It’s a safe bet, I think, that most of you have never heard of Charles Pierce. If you haven’t, consider yourself lucky. Charles Pierce, technically, is an opinion journalist. But mostly he’s an angry liberal partisan who revels in showing off his nastiness. Something terrible must have happened to Charlie along the way, perhaps when he was a small defenseless child, because no one could turn out to be so vile by mere bad luck alone. In fairness, he’s not always nasty. Sometimes he’s only ridiculous.
Like the time he wrote a magazine piece about one of his liberal heroes, Senator Ted Kennedy. Here’s a line from it that would be funny, in a dark way, if he weren’t serious. “If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”
Priceless! Teddy Kennedy would have brought comfort to Mary Jo if only she had reached her 60s, but she didn’t because Kennedy drove off a bridge and left her to die a horrible death in his car while he swam to shore trying to figure out how the crime he had just committed wouldn’t derail his political career.
Congratulations, Charlie. Your homage to Senator Kennedy may include the stupidest paragraph ever written in the English language.
Now, Charlie is at it again. This time he has Donald Trump – and everyone who doesn’t think Donald Trump is Hitler – in his sights.
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REPORT: Scientists from King’s College London have used a new genetic scoring technique to predict academic achievement from DNA alone. This is the strongest prediction from DNA of a behavioural measure to date.
The research shows that a genetic score comprising 20,000 DNA variants explains almost 10 per cent of the differences between children’s educational attainment at the age of 16. DNA alone therefore provides a much better prediction of academic achievement than gender or even ‘grit’, a personality trait thought to measure perseverance and passion for long-term goals.
Published today in Molecular Psychiatry, these findings mark a ‘tipping point’ in predicting academic achievement and could help with identifying children who are at greater risk of having learning difficulties.
Previous research on twin studies has found that 60 per cent of differences between individuals’ educational achievement are due to differences in DNA. Whilst this may seem far from the 10 per cent predicted in this study, the authors note that twin studies examine the sum total of all genetic effects, including common and rare variants, interactions between genes, and gene-environment interactions. Twin studies can therefore tell us the overall genetic influence on a trait in a population.
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But what about Hitler and Stalin? That’s the rejoinder one usually gets when you praise white Western civilization. My answer: Every people produce genocidal tyrants, only the West has pioneered advanced civilization (much of it adopted by East Asia in the past 60 years).
Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, questioned the historical contributions of nonwhite “subgroups” during an appearance on MSNBC on Monday, igniting swift backlash online.
Mr. King spoke during a panel discussion, led by the MSNBC host Chris Hayes, about the racial makeup of the Republican Party on the first day of the party’s convention.
“If you’re really optimistic, you can say this was the last time that old white people would command the Republican Party’s attention, its platform, its public face,” Charles P. Pierce, a writer at large at Esquire magazine, said during the panel discussion.
In response, Mr. King said: “This whole ‘old white people’ business does get a little tired, Charlie. I’d ask you to go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you are talking about? Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?”
“Than white people?” Mr. Hayes asked.
Mr. King responded: “Than Western civilization itself that’s rooted in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the United States of America, and every place where the footprint of Christianity settled the world. That’s all of Western civilization.”
Frantic yelling ensued, with the panelists speaking over one another. “What about Africa? What about Asia?” April Ryan, a reporter on the panel, said.
This is one of those Emperor’s New Clothes moments. As anthropologists Robin Fox and Lionel Tiger pointed out, a mob that was bullied into believing they’d lose their jobs if they admitted the truth isn’t going to listen dispassionately to somebody tell the truth. Instead, they’d get very, very angry at the one who dares to say the obvious.
Here, of course, we see three professional talkers who can only sputter with mindless rage at Rep. King.
Of course, Rep. King’s statement has been scientifically tested in Charles Murray’s Human Accomplishment. In my 2003 review, I wrote:
Dead white European males dominate his inventories, despite Murray reserving eight of his 21 categories (including Arabic literature, Indian philosophy, and Chinese visual art) for non-Western arts. Murray, who was a Peace Corp volunteer in Thailand and has half-Asian children, began this project wanting to devote even more attention to Asian accomplishments but found he couldn’t justify his predisposition.
In the sciences, 97 percent of the significant figures and events turned out to be Western. Is this merely Eurocentric bias? Of the 36 science reference books he drew upon, 28 were published after 1980, by which time historians were desperately searching for non-Westerners to praise. Only in this decade has the most advanced non-Western country, Japan, begun to win science Nobels regularly.
The irony is that modern progress over the last 600 years has been overwhelmingly the achievement of the hate object of modern progressives: dead white European males. Most other great civilizations were stuck in conservative stasis even before the European gunboats showed. Only Japan was making a modest degree of progress.
COMMENTS AT STEVE SAILER:
* Whenever I hear someone say some bold statement like this, I always get very very worried. Worried that they will apologize. Which almost always follows the bold statement, unfortunately.
I usually find it difficult to talk to a voicemail or answering machine, I need to prepare what I’ll say in advance, otherwise it sounds pretty incoherent.
* King can be a badass sometimes… I remember reading Robert Novak a dozen years back on the Iowa re-gerrymander, who described it as a “Frankenstein” district inadvertently created by shoring up the state’s Democrats. The downside of the invincible right-wing boroughs is you get pols who are a bit outré for taking out into primetime like Todd Akin or Michele Bachmann. It’s a double standard since congresscritters from Oakland CA or Seattle can act bonkers all week without “exemplifying” Democrats– oh well, in a polyglot party does speaking in tongues even matter?
* They were also going nuts about how King keeps a miniature Confederate Flag on his desk. King really knows how to trigger SJW’s/leftists/Obama’s coalition of the fringes. Is it too late to make him Trump’s VP?
* I love the obvious lameness of the “counterexamples” thrown out to refute King.
As dumb as his attackers are, they can’t be so dumb as not to be embarrassed that that’s the best they can do.
* That took a lot of guts to say. I know he’s on msnbc in this instance to provoke liberal outrage but damn, he dropped a nuke on ‘em. The black female panelist was clearly the most upset by it. Her behavior shows, once again, that blacks really believe the crap cynical liberals tell them about themselves.
* I found that clip pretty hilarious. King is not all that articulate, but Charles Pierce is so odious and hopelessly self-loathing he was dumbstruck.
* I wondered how long it would take the media to blame the latest black cop killer’s actions on badwhites: “The former Marine who killed three Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police officers identified with a growing movement that originated among white supremacists…
* You bring up a good point about him not being articulate. There appear to be no pols with alt right leanings that are good speakers except for Trump. That’s a problem. If I said what King said to some of my conservative relatives and friends they would think it’s racist too. The reason is we just don’t have good speakers who can get these ideas across, or in this case just get facts across.
* It’s very hard. Actual political views/speech content aside, you need someone who’s quick-witted (i.e. who can recognize and seize opportunities); who’s articulate (i.e. who speaks in complete sentences, with a bit of subtlety and cunning); and who can keep his cool and/or use anger tactically and effectively in the face of sputtering outrage and ad hominem attacks coming at him from all sides, especially from the ‘neutral’ moderator who holds the metaphorical mic and can cut him off. And then he’s got to have the perseverence/endurance to come back and do this again and again and again without slipping up.
Mark Steyn has all the rhetorical skills I’ve set out above, but there are few like him around.
* It is perhaps unfortunate that the computer industry developed during an era when terms and nomenclature became acronyms or bland academic jargon instead of being given the name of the discoverer or developer. This is in contrast to an earlier era where old white men like Volta, Watt and Ohm were honored by having their names used to describe the fundamentals of the fields they pioneered.
Had the previous method been used it would be impossible for the anti white male legions to reference computers technology and software without having to mention the names of the old white men who created the field.
* Normally, leftists are able to muster some sort of frenzied counterargument, even if it’s just viciously denouncing their foes. In this case, they’re practically speechless. Truly amazing.
* That’s why Hayes immediately cut off the conversation. On any other controversial topic or supposed gaffe by a conservative, MSNBC’s mouths would water . But there can’t be a conversation (oh, the irony) b/c it’s there is absolutely no contest as to who wins the argument.
* Pat Buchanan was fantastic on MSNBC and his earlier TV gigs when he talked about immigration and race but the conversations almost never went in that direction. Even so he was still too dangerous and got booted off. “No platform” indeed.
* Peter DeVry: Rep. Steve King shouldn’t be allowed to use any inventions created by people who are not white. No elevators, no microphones, no pacemakers.
* Elisha Otis, a White man, invented the elevator.
Wilson Greatbatch, a White man, invented the pacemaker.
In 1962, after nearly a century of invention and improvement by White men, Gerhard Sessler, a White man, and his sidekick James West, a quadroon, developed a new type of microphone at Bell Labs.
Pretty slender reed, Mr DeVry.
* The most in demand microphones are still the Neumann/Telefunken U-47, U-87, and similar variants thereof, and the 1930s and 1940s RCA ribbon mics such as the 44 and 77.
All designed by white guys.
* Steve Sailer: Steyn’s hugely gifted, but he lives in New Hampshire so he can’t do big time TV all that regularly. You pretty much have to live in New York or Washington (or Atlanta if you are on CNN) or L.A. (if you are more entertainment than news).
A long time ago I was counting up how many times I’d been on TV and I came up with around ten. I estimated back then then I’d need to be on TV at least 100 times to make any progress toward being recognizable, and I now think that was an underestimate.
And TV appearances generally don’t pay.
* More seriously, the Steve King clip reveals the utter inability of most panelists in these TV discussions in our country to think on their feet or reply with a zinger, however flimsy.
I’ve been watching quite a bit of the British Parliament’s question hour lately thanks to Brexit events, and I must say that the art of debate, wit and repartee has withered significantly in a generation on this side of the Atlantic.
We were never a match for the Brits in my living memory, and in any case it was never fully our style, but we used to be better, a lot better.
In terms of verbal skills, most intellectuals and public figures these days are dull plodders, with neither wit nor whimsy at their command. I blame management speak and focus group processed political press release language for this, at least in the political arena.
And in these talk shows, a babble of semi-coherent outraged noises are the usual answer to something like Steve King’s statement. That figures. Outrage is what is taught in our fine, fine liberal arts universities these days, not the arts of rhetoric.
* Imagine human life on Earth ends tomorrow. A Martian historian lands and takes preliminary notes on a study of Earthling life. I know I’m setting up a very crude, surely biased straw man here, but how could a Martian historian not notice that peoples in the following continental groupings share common characteristics and are distinguishable from peoples of other continents.
Group #1 – Australia, North America, South America, Europe, Antarctica
Group #2 – Asia
Group #3 – Africa
My point, of course, is that Western civilization (or Western Christendom), is something of an 800 lb. gorilla. No one in his right mind can ignore it and its good influences. Even the ability of TV personalities to trash “dead White European males” without risking death or banishment is something of a Western innovation in how people ought to live together. Even Black Americans who openly despise Whites seem to not want to hop a jet for a new life in Africa.
By Western civilization, I do include the peoples who’ve become part of that civilization by various assimilative processes. I. e., American Indians, Africans, Western Asians (think Imperial Rome).
Put more crudely: how do you not give the White guys (mostly) credit where it’s due?
* Representative Steve King could’ve said something very simple but effective, for example, “You take away trains, planes, automobiles, refrigerators, radio, television, movies, computers, telephones, microscopes, telescopes, rockets, antibiotics, washing machines, etc – all invented by white men – and what have you got? Not much.”
* Do you remember the viral video of Rand Paul running away from the collegiate (illegal) immigration activists at in Okijoba, IA in 2015?
The guy who stuck around to clean up Rand’s mess was Steve MF’ing King.
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Watching Melania Trump speak, it was hard for me to imagine that anyone would leave her address feeling anything but more favorably inclined toward her husband. That’s a big win for Team Trump. [Update: Or at least, it was a big win for the brief stretch between that genuine convention speech and the moment much of the internet realized they’d heard a good chunk of that same genuine convention speech before. Eight years before, to be precise.]
* Rudy Giuliani: Sure, the former New York City mayor shouted most of his speech. But I found him to be a very effective advocate for Trump; he talked about Trump’s anonymous charitable giving, he talked about Trump as a father and a friend. Giuliani’s broadside against the threat posed by terrorism and the need for Trump’s strength had the crowd eating out of the palm of his hand. In what was a generally sleepy night, Giuliani brought it.
* Donald Trump’s entrance: I have always wished that politics was more like pro wrestling. Increasingly, I am getting my wish. Trump’s entrance into the Republican convention — he offered a brief introduction for Melania — was epic. Backlit. Fog/smoke machine. “We are the champions” blaring through the speakers. It had everything.
* Marcus Luttrell: The former Navy SEAL — and subject of the book and film “Lone Survivor” — delivered an impassioned and raw appeal to patriotism during the first hour of the nighttime program. It’s hard to command a room at that hour — people are shuffling around and just getting settled in for the night — but Luttrell did it.
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The stronger your in-group identity, such as black, the more likely you are to have negative feelings about out-groups. Strongly identifying blacks are bound to have ambivalence about the United States of America and any white-majority or non-black majority country. It’s basic social development theory.
In order to increase our self-image we enhance the status of the group to which we belong. For example, England is the best country in the world! We can also increase our self-image by discriminating and holding prejudice views against the out group (the group we don’t belong to). For example, the Americans, French etc. are a bunch of losers!
Therefore, we divided the world into “them” and “us” based through a process of social categorization (i.e. we put people into social groups).
This is known as in-group (us) and out-group (them). Social identity theory states that the in-group will discriminate against the out-group to enhance their self-image.
The central hypothesis of social identity theory is that group members of an in-group will seek to find negative aspects of an out-group, thus enhancing their self-image.
Prejudiced views between cultures may result in racism; in its extreme forms, racism may result in genocide, such as occurred in Germany with the Jews, in Rwanda between the Hutus and Tutsis and, more recently, in the former Yugoslavia between the Bosnians and Serbs.
Henri Tajfel proposed that stereotyping (i.e. putting people into groups and categories) is based on a normal cognitive process: the tendency to group things together. In doing so we tend to exaggerate:
1. the differences between groups
2. the similarities of things in the same group.
We categorize people in the same way. We see the group to which we belong (the in-group) as being different from the others (the out-group), and members of the same group as being more similar than they are. Social categorization is one explanation for prejudice attitudes (i.e. “them” and “us” mentality) which leads to in-groups and out-groups.
The succession of high-profile killings of black men by the police in recent years — in Ferguson, Mo.; North Charleston, S.C.; Baltimore; New York City; and most recently in Baton Rouge and Falcon Heights — has touched off protests across the nation and given growing prominence to a movement, Black Lives Matter, dedicated to addressing inequities and discrimination in the criminal justice system.
The movement’s often boisterous denunciations of police violence have prompted a backlash from police unions, politicians and some rank-and-file officers, who accuse it of sowing hatred against men and women in uniform. Some have even blamed the movement for inspiring the gunmen in Dallas and Baton Rouge.
It is the same sentiment that slowed the movement’s campaign in New York City after two police officers were killed in an ambush in December 2014 by a mentally ill black man. The man, who killed himself shortly after killing the officers, had cited on social media the deaths of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man killed by the police in July 2014, and Michael Brown, the man killed in Ferguson in August 2014.
Black police officers said that when the topic was race and policing, they often sidestepped talking in public, and even talking with their co-workers.
In downtown Cleveland, where Republican convention-goers frequently cheered officers patrolling in groups on Monday, an eight-year veteran of the city’s transit police said the strain around race and policing had become so great, he had taken to completely avoiding the subject at work.
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