vdare--2020-12-23--Ann Coulter: Is There A Vaccine Against Pandering To Black Anti-Vaxxers?

Earlier: Charles Blow In The NYT: Blacks Tend To Be Anti-Vaxxers, White Men At Fault
It now appears that the greatest threat to black Americans isn’t COVID, it’s being pandered to death.
As the distribution of vaccines got underway last week, the Centers for Disease Control was trying to ensure that black people would get the vaccine before the elderly (too white!), while the media were focused on rationalizing black people’s opposition to taking the vaccine at all.
NPR Weekend Edition:
Scott Simon: “Help us understand why many black Americans may be skeptical of a vaccine.”
Liz Walker: [Pictured right] “Well, Scott, you know, black people have been traumatized by a betrayal of the system forever for generations. … We have all now talked about the experiment that used people with syphilis in Tuskegee. We all know about Henrietta Lacks.”
“Help us understand why many black Americans may be skeptical of a vaccine.” [Pictured right] “Well, Scott, you know, black people have been traumatized by a betrayal of the system forever for generations. … We have all now talked about the experiment that used people with syphilis in Tuskegee. We all know about Henrietta Lacks.” ABC’s Good Morning America:
Zachary Kiesch (voiceover): “From the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, where scientists deliberately infected men and withheld treatments, to Henrietta Lacks, a young black mother of five who, in 1951, unknowingly had cells taken from her that biomedical research led to breakthrough cancer treatment.”
(voiceover): “From the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, where scientists to Henrietta Lacks, a young black mother of five who, in 1951, unknowingly had cells taken from her that biomedical research led to breakthrough cancer treatment.” MSNBC The Reidout:
Joy Reid: “And then the other piece is, when it comes, particularly in our community, black people, they might be like, I don’t trust science, the science. We—Tuskegee experiments, etc. There’s just not a lot of trust. And it was developed during the Trump era.”
Yes, because black people have a long track record of trusting the government …
A New York Times/WCBS-TV poll found that 70% of African Americans believed that “the government deliberately makes sure that drugs are easily available in poor black neighborhoods to harm black people.”
A CNN/Essence poll found that 88% of African Americans think the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. was part of a “larger plot.”
A survey of more than 1,000 black church members by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference showed that 35% believed that AIDS was a form of genocide, and another 30% were unsure.
Although vaccines are one of Western medicine’s greatest inventions, I think people should be free to refuse to take the COVID vaccine for any reason, such as, off the top of my head, they’re young and healthy.
But liberals don’t! Anti-vaxxers are one of the media’s most despised groups—provided they’re affluent white women.
When people like Jessica Biel and Jenny McCarthy opposed mandatory vaccinations, they were universally reviled for hawking scientific nonsense. Los Angeles Times: “Jenny McCarthy: anti-vaxxer, public menace.” The New York Times headline: “When Did We Start Taking Famous People Seriously?” Even Saturday Night Live ridiculed McCarthy for her anti-vaccine stance.
But now that it’s African Americans who are reluctant to take the COVID vaccine, they’re treated like children. Who can blame them? It’s because of Tuskegee and Henrietta Lacks!
I know about Tuskegee, but what did the bad white doctors do to Henrietta Lacks? Answer: Johns Hopkins Medical School provided this poor black woman with the most advanced treatment available for her aggressive cervical cancer—gratis.
Her rapidly reproducing tumor cells were then studied around the globe, advancing cancer research by leaps and bounds. But apparently, it was a violation of Mrs. Lacks’ “black body” for her cancer cells to be used to benefit mankind. Maybe she wanted to display them on her mantle!
But the runaway winner for patronizing black people is … director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci! This media darling recently announced: “So, the first thing you might want to say to my African American brothers and sisters is that the vaccine that you’re going to be taking was developed by an African American woman. And that is just a fact.”
Wha …? So far, we’ve got vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, and soon may have one from AstraZeneca.
Pfizer’s CEO is a Greek businessman. The company has no black women in its executive leadership.
Moderna’s chief executive is Frenchman Stephane Bancel. The president of the company is the translucently white Dr. Stephen Hoge.
AstraZeneca hasn’t had its vaccine approved yet, but it’s a British-Swedish company, and the chief executive is Frenchman Pascal Soriot.
Each one of these companies had hundreds of people working on a vaccine, so who’s the “African American woman” who single-handedly “developed” it?
She’s a government bureaucrat with the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett. The NIH, you see, “worked with” Moderna during the vaccine approval process. Corbett made the invaluable contribution of accusing doctors of allowing black people to die of COVID, calling the pandemic a black “genocide” and condemning “systematic oppression” of black people. Among the oppressors was one … Anthony Fauci, whom she directed to “check” his “privilege.”
How could we ever have come up with a vaccine without her?
First, it was racist not to put black Americans at the head of the line for the vaccine. Once again, black people have to go to the back of the bus!
Then the CDC decided minorities would get it first, before the elderly. True, those over 70 make up the lion’s share of COVID deaths, but they’re mostly white, so screw them. Oh wait—black people are getting the vaccine first? You see! They’re using us as guinea pigs!
Just tell me when black people get the vaccine, so I’ll know what the explanation is.
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vdare--2020-12-23--Remembering Band-Aid’s 1984 “Do They Know It’s Christmas”—Would They SAY It's Christmas Today?

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Every Christmas, the radio replays the 1984 song “Do They Know It’s Christmas” by Band-Aid.
For those who may not recall, during the early 1980s, the Western media featured many tearful stories about the Ethiopian famine (though they neglected to point out that such mass starvation was not accidental, but was, in fact, a deliberate political policy as it often is in parts of Africa). In due course, a who’s who of British musicians, led by Bob Geldof, got together to write a Christmas song to raise money to help alleviate the famine. Their efforts were widely celebrated (Geldof earned an honorary knighthood) but I could find no evidence that they made any difference to the suffering in Ethiopia.
Although “Do They Know It’s Christmas” was surely written and composed in haste, the lyrics reflect a remarkable ignorance of the African continent.
“And there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmastime,”
Actually, it does snow in parts of Africa (skiing too).
“Where nothing ever grows, no rain or rivers flow”
Actually, some regions in Africa experience significant rainfall and are incredibly fertile. In fact, prior to the advent of Mugabe-like raids on white farmers, African farms were among the most productive in the world. Africa also has many flowing rivers, including the Nile, which is the longest river in the world.
The former Smiths lead singer, Morrissey, who is, incidentally, a vocal immigration patriot, [Morrissey blames immigration for 'disappearance' of British identity, by Oliver Duff, The Independent, November 29, 2007], said of Band-Aid. “It was an awful record considering the mass of talent involved. And it wasn't done shyly. It was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.”
It’s hard to argue with that.
Nevertheless, “Do They Know It’s Christmas” was a smash hit, so much so that American pop stars felt strong pressure to put out a corollary “We Are The World” which you never hear on the radio anymore and for good reason. It was brutal.
The important thing to remember is that Band-Aid was a cause célèbre about feeding people in Africa. There was no talk of importing refugees from Africa to Britain.
More importantly, “Do They Know It’s Christmas” contains, by my count, 15 mentions of “Christmas” or “Christmastime”.
Can you imagine a bunch of pop stars getting together today to compose an original song that unabashedly mentions Christmas 15 times? It would never happen. We’ve fallen that far.


Let's Match Switzerland!

I’m delighted to share that we met the Matching Challenge from “6 Year Donor From South Carolina” in just a day and a half – and not only that, but several more individuals were so moved by his patriotic statements that they have stepped up to offer further challenges!
The next patriot Matching Challenger has offered $1,500 all the way from Switzerland.
VDARE.com’s mission regarding the National Question, while centered on immigration policy in the United States, is important for any country experiencing the pressures of globalism. The entire West is fighting the same fight, and Switzerland has a number of enlightened policies that we could all afford to adopt:
Switzerland does NOT have Birthright Citizenship.
Switzerland allows towns to approve or disapprove foreigners who apply for Swiss citizenship.
Citizenship is voted on by the residents of town where the alien lives, because the locals know the applicant as a neighbor more intimately than a bureaucracy ever can. There are cases of applications being denied because the immigrants are annoying, disrespectful of traditions, unfriendly or ignorant of local geography. Or simply because the town is full.
Part of the reason the Swiss are able to defend their country arises from an elegantly simple technique: Non-Swiss make up 20% of the population, some reportedly third generation residents. This is actually a much higher proportion than in the U.S. but they can’t vote.
It’s an inspiration! Or, as John Derbyshire once put it, why isn’t everywhere Switzerland?
Every donation that comes in starting now, will be doubled in value up to $1,500 thanks to our Swiss friend, who has been donating since 2013!
Donate today and help VDARE.com make the United States a little more like Switzerland, at least when it comes to immigration policy!


vdare--2020-12-23--Trump Pardons Border Patrol Agents Ramos And Compean—Something VDARE.com Called For 13 Years Ago

Earlier: A Christmas Miracle—President Trump Commutes Steve Stockman's Sentence and Flynn Just The Start—Trump Can Hit Back At The Ruling Class By Pardoning Stockman, Snowden, And Assange
President Trump has pardoned Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, which is something we've been calling for since the Bush Administration, when they were sent to jail on the basis that drug smugglers must not be injured while resisting arrest.
From a 2006 Joe Guzzardi article:
Why were Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean prosecuted with such ferocity for doing their jobs that they now face up to 20 years in prison? As Ramos and Compean await their fate, drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila received immunity. As a free man living in Mexico, Aldrete-Davila plans to sue the Border Patrol for $5 million for alleged violations of his civil rights suffered while transporting 743 pounds of marijuana across the border. Briefly, Ramos and Compean were charged for firing at Aldrete-Davila as he fled back across the border and not reporting the incident.
Aldrete-Davila wasn't killed, by the way, he was injured in the rear end, without major negative effects, as far as I can tell--see Butt-shot Career Drug Smuggler Aldrete-Davila Indicted by Brenda Walker.
The official announcement from the Trump White House said;
Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean – Today, President Trump granted full pardons to Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. These former Border Patrol Agents have been supported by one hundred members of Congress, including Rep. Louie Gohmert, Rep. Steve King, Rep. Ted Poe, Rep. Paul Gosar, Rep. Brian Babin, as well as the U.S. Border Control Foundation and the Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund. Mr. Ramos participates in numerous community activities and charities, and Mr. Compean is active in his local church. Both men served as Border Patrol Agents and put themselves in harm’s way to help secure our southern border with Mexico. On one such occasion in 2005, they stopped an illegal alien trafficking 700 pounds of marijuana. When the illegal alien—who was thought to be armed—resisted arrest, Mr. Ramos shot the suspect, who fled back across the border. For this, Mr. Ramos and Mr. Compean were charged and convicted of assault, using a firearm during a crime of violence, and deprivation of civil rights. After they were sentenced to 11 and 12 years imprisonment, respectively, their case gained widespread attention. One hundred members of Congress, as well as the organizations above, supported Mr. Ramos’ and Mr. Compean’s release from prison. The Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on the excessive sentence imposed on the former agents. And President George W. Bush ultimately commuted these sentences with strong bipartisan support.
While many conservatives objected to the Bush Administration's railroading of Ramos and Compean, National Review's former Federal Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy was all in favor of it:
The Border-Patrol Two Deserve Jail Law enforcement defends its honor, despite the “hero” propaganda By Andrew C. McCarthy, January 29, 2007
So was immigration enthusiast John J. Miller in National Review's Corner blog. We wrote at the time (2007) that "John Derbyshire, predictably, has more normal reactions."
Also predictably, he was fired from National Review in 2012—for having normal reactions.


vdare--2020-12-23--Va. Judge Rules Black Defendant Can’t Get A Fair Trial In Courtroom Largely Featuring Portraits Of W

Va. Judge Rules Black Defendant Can’t Get A Fair Trial In Courtroom Largely Featuring Portraits Of White Judges

From the Washington Post news section:
Va. judge rules Black defendant can’t get a fair trial in courtroom largely featuring portraits of White judges
By Justin Jouvenal
Dec. 22, 2020 at 12:26 p.m. PST
A Fairfax County judge has ruled that a Black defendant can’t get a fair trial in a courtroom decorated overwhelmingly with portraits of White judges and has ordered the paintings to be removed for the man’s upcoming legal proceeding.
Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David Bernhard [Right] wrote in an opinion issued late Monday that the portraits of past judges from the Fairfax County Circuit Court could create the impression that the court is biased. Bernhard wrote that he won’t allow any portraits to be on display for any trial he presides over.
“The Court is concerned the portraits may serve as unintended but implicit symbols that suggest the courtroom may be a place historically administered by whites for whites, and that thus others are of a lesser standing in the dispensing of justice,” Bernhard wrote. “The Defendant’s constitutional right to a fair jury trial stands paramount over the countervailing interest of paying homage to the tradition of adorning courtrooms with portraits that honor past jurists.”
Bernhard’s ruling came in response to a request to remove the portraits contained in a motion from Terrance Shipp Jr., who is scheduled to stand trial Jan. 4 on charges of eluding police, assault on a law enforcement officer and other counts.


vdare--2020-12-23--In  L.A. County, Hispanics 70x As Likely As Whites To Be In ICU For Covid

Earlier by Lance Welton: WuFlu Hitting U.S. Hispanics Harder Than Whites—Because Of Genetic Vitamin D Deficiencies?
Huge Los Angeles County, after being bypassed by the pandemic almost completely in spring and getting moderately hit in the summer, is finally getting its time in the barrel. This graph from December 12 shows that hospitalizations dues to Covid in L.A. County are overwhelmingly concentrated among Hispanics, with whites, Asians, and even blacks under-represented.
My impression is that the vastly publicized over-representation of blacks has faded over the course of 2020, while Hispanics continue to be hammered.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-12-21--A Reader Sends Non-Specific Hate Mail To Peter Brimelow, Won't Tell Us Wherein

Re: ?
From: Steve Beckman [Email him]
Hey douchebag, I'm 7 different nationalities, 6 of them being european, mostly german and a quarter japanese. Who the f--- are you to decide? This country is based on immigration. I have an idea, go play on your local highway, stupid s---.
Let's meet up somewhere clown, so I could re-arrange your clown face, how does that sound ya piece of s---?
James Fulford writes: This reminds me of the story I read once of a certain minister who was fired summarily by his board of deacons, and put up a powerful protest. "Didn't I argufy?" he demanded. "Didn't I magnify? Didn't I glorify?" "Yes," admitted the deacons, "You argufied, you magnified, and you glorified real good, but you never told us wherein. And we're out to get us a preacher who will tell us wherein."
I think the dialect involved makes this a "racist" story, although none of the versions I've seen specify the race of the preacher, but my point is that Mr. Beckmans, addressing ths communication to Peter Brimelow would't say what article or position he was responding to.
When writing to this website, please specify "wherein" we are douchebags or whatever, or we'll have no basis for conversation.


vdare--2020-12-21--"Three Men" Who Fired Off Assault Rifle When Strip Club Required Masks Are Hispanic

Above: Edgar Nava-Ayala, Daniel Juvenal Ocampo, and Juan Jose Acosta-Soto
Earlier: Three Blacks Charged With Murdering Black Family Dollar Security Guard, After He Asked Black Customer To Wear A Mask
It is an MSM stereotype that "anti-maskers" are right-wing white lunatics, and another that people who shoot off assault rifles are right-wing and white. It's true that an elderly white man can "go viral" after "ranting" about masks, but violence over masks is more of minority thing...without going viral, of course. (See here and here.)
The same is true about the MSM stereotype about white gunmen. If whites engage in "open carry" of rifles, or self-defense, it's the worst thing ever. When a member of a minority group gets his hands on an assault rifle, much worse things happen, but it's forgotten the next day.
So when you see three guys who weren't allowed into a strip club because they weren't wearing masks, and then came back with an assault rifle, you need to know that this isn't a MAGA phenomenon, nor yet a Gun Culture 2.0 phenomenon, it's a Hispanic criminal subculture of Orange County, CA phenomenon.
Three men were charged for their role in a drive-by shooting that left four people wounded inside an Anaheim strip club on Halloween, officials announced Monday. The men, all residents of Anaheim, were at the Sahara Theatre strip club, located at 1210 State College Blvd., in the early hours of Oct. 31, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. After being physically removed from the club for failing to wear face masks, they shot at the strip club with an AK-47 assault rifle, authorities said. Edgar Nava-Ayala, Daniel Juvenal Ocampo, and Juan Jose Acosta-Soto — who all pleaded not guilty — are accused of driving back to the club after they were removed, with a loaded AK-47. Nava-Ayala is accused of shooting at least 15 rounds into the business, injuring two employees and a customer. There were about 30 people inside the club at the time, police said. The three victims sustained gunshot wounds to the upper body. One of them had to undergo surgery and another suffered a shattered left scapula, prosecutors said. Although the DA’s office says three people were shot, Anaheim police investigators said four people suffered wounds ranging from minor to moderate in severity. 3 men charged for shooting at Anaheim strip club after they were removed for failure to wear masks: OCDA, by Sareen Habeshian, KTLA, December 21, 2020
The Sahara Theatre strip club has, apparently no license to serve drinks, and not a particularly savory reputation in the first place. They have "lap dances" , and that means it's more like a "massage parlor" than a night-club
The Google reviews, many by people with Spanish names and some actually in Spanish, say things like:
It was probably one of the worst bars of that type that I have been to in 25 years.
This place is terrible. I have been to numerous gentlemen’s clubs and this is by far the worst. Atmosphere reminds me of my aunts basement. Please do not waste your money ($20 admission) by coming here. They don’t sell alcohol here. It would help the dancers look better.
This place is terrible. I have been to numerous gentlemen’s clubs and this is by far the worst. Atmosphere reminds me of my aunts basement. Please do not waste your money ($20 admission) by coming here. They don’t sell alcohol here. It would help the dancers look better. Force you to buy a drink which is fine but ten dollars for a damn soda? There's maybe 2 girls that are remotely attractive there, bar tender asks you to buy drink for the stripper who's giving you a lap dance. I'm already giving you guys my money haha. Have some decency about it. There's better strip clubs. Will be sticking to imperial girls lol . Sahara thanks but no thanks
Really bad at it is is sex and drugs. Very dirty and rude staff
(Translated by Google) She's not very good at ladies and they are very gross
(Original) No está muy buen de damas y son muy brutas
So can we definitely not blame this one on Trump, and the "right-wing"? These guys are what he ran against in 2016.


vdare--2020-12-20--Thanks, Trump Administration: The Great Reset Comes For The Military

Earlier: US Special Operations Chief To Black Officers' Group: "Diversity And Inclusion" A Major Priority
From Defense.gov:
Acting Secretary Accepts Inclusion Board’s 15 Recommendations
DEC. 18, 2020 | BY JIM GARAMONE, DOD NEWS Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller has accepted all 15 recommendations proposed by the Diversity and Inclusion Board chartered by former Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper in July. Miller signed a memo entitled “Actions to Improve Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Inclusion in the U.S. Military” that examined the culture of the military following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. … The first recommendation is for military recruiting content to reflect the current and future racial, ethnic and gender demographics of the United States.
It’s almost as if the friends of Tiger Woods in the Navy Seals are about as white as the PGA tour:
The second recommendation deals with the dearth of diversity at the higher levels of the military. The recommendation calls for the department to develop a data-driven accessions and retention strategy. The deadline for the DOD to develop this strategy is March 31. The third recommendation looks to increase the diversity of the officer corps itself. It recommends the DOD expand sponsorship of programs and initiatives to increase the available pool of qualified applicants for ROTC enrollments, scholarships and commissions from students enrolled at minority-serving institutions. These institutions include historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, tribal colleges and universities, and institutions serving Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The board calls for a thorough review of DOD aptitude tests to ensure they do not adversely impact diversity. The DOD will develop plans for a rigorous and thorough assessment of all aptitude tests currently administered. The goal of this assessment will be to analyze, identify and remove — as applicable — “barriers that adversely impact diversity while retaining rigorous screening processes necessary to access a high-quality force,” the board recommendation states.
Uh-oh… Congress banned the military from enlisting very low IQ individuals in 1952. The military has twice tried letting low IQ people in, during the McNamara’s Moron’s fiasco of the 1960s and the Stripes era fiasco of the late 1970s, when either accidentally or on purpose the military let in low test-score applicants until Senator Sam Nunn kept pestering the Pentagon about what drill instructors told him that the new recruits of the Volunteer Army weren’t all quite right in the brain. Finally, the Pentagon admitted that they’d screwed up on grading the AFQT test (whether accidentally or intentionally remains a mystery) and then Reagan raised pay for enlisted men, leading to the kick-ass military that crushed Saddam in 1991.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-12-19--Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Actually Has a Special Attorney Dedicated To Keeping Illegals In Phill

Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Actually Has a Special Attorney Dedicated To Keeping Illegals In Philly

Earlier: Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's Gun Violence Counselor Shoots Male Prostitute
Here's a heartwarming tale from the Soros DA Files:
20 years ago, a young left-wing protestor from Colorado currently going as "Caleb U. Arnold" (preferred pronouns are "they" and "their") travels to Philadelphia to protest the RNC convention.
"They" are arrested, and stepping in gallantly to represent "them" is Larry Krasner, who's now DA.
Fast forward 18 years, and Krasner appoints "them" to the made-up position of "Immigration Counsel."
DA Larry Krasner Hires Staffer to Protect Immigrants’ Rights Among other things, Krasner said the new position will prevent deportation or other "collateral consequences" that threaten immigrants accused of minor crimes. By Claire Sasko, Phillymag.com, January 25, 2018,
What Krasner wants to do is frame—or drop—charges that put illegal aliens at risk of deportation.
"Caleb U. Arnold" is the point person for this, presumably at taxpayer expense.
Normal Americans, of course, might think it's perfectly reasonable to deport someone who had the gall to break into the country and then commit crimes on top of that.
Not Krasner.
Come January 21, it could get much worse.
Now FAIR is trying to get records on the details of this outrage.
See the Pennsylvania Public Records Request here.
They're asking for, among other things:
Patriots shouldn't forget that America's freedom of information laws (FOIA at the national level, and many states have their own) are a powerful weapon for getting information on the dirty deeds of the government.


vdare--2020-12-19--ATLANTIC: Women And BIPOC Scientists Fail To Contribute Their Share During Covid Fight

Earlier: NATURE Magazine: Coronavirus Crisis Will Cause Science to Concentrate on the Competent Rather Than the Diverse, and That's BAD and (in May) Shouldn't They Just Make the Movie About How Kizzmekia Corbett Will Invent the Vaccine Right Now?
From The Atlantic:
How Science Beat the Virus
And what it lost in the process
Story by Ed Yong
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 ISSUE
This article was published online on December 14, 2020.
1.
in fall of 2019, exactly zero scientists were studying COVID‑19, because no one knew the disease existed. The coronavirus that causes it, SARS‑CoV‑2, had only recently jumped into humans and had been neither identified nor named. But by the end of March 2020, it had spread to more than 170 countries, sickened more than 750,000 people, and triggered the biggest pivot in the history of modern science. Thousands of researchers dropped whatever intellectual puzzles had previously consumed their curiosity and began working on the pandemic instead. In mere months, science became thoroughly COVID-ized.
As of this writing, the biomedical library PubMed lists more than 74,000 COVID-related scientific papers—more than twice as many as there are about polio, measles, cholera, dengue, or other diseases that have plagued humanity for centuries. …
But the COVID‑19 pivot has also revealed the all-too-human frailties of the scientific enterprise. … Racial and gender inequalities in the scientific field widened. …
Among scientists, as in other fields, women do more child care, domestic work, and teaching than men, and are more often asked for emotional support by their students. These burdens increased as the pandemic took hold, leaving women scientists “less able to commit their time to learning about a new area of study, and less able to start a whole new research project,” says Molly M. King, a sociologist at Santa Clara University. Women’s research hours fell by nine percentage points more than did men’s because of the pressures of COVID‑19. And when COVID‑19 created new opportunities, men grabbed them more quickly. In the spring, the proportion of papers with women as first authors fell almost 44 percent in the preprint repository medRxiv, relative to 2019. And published COVID‑19 papers had 19 percent fewer women as first authors compared with papers from the same journals in the previous year. Men led more than 80 percent of national COVID‑19 task forces in 87 countries. Male scientists were quoted four times as frequently as female scientists in American news stories about the pandemic.
American scientists of color also found it harder to pivot than their white peers, because of unique challenges that sapped their time and energy. Black, Latino, and Indigenous scientists were most likely to have lost loved ones, adding mourning to their list of duties. Many grieved, too, after the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and others. They often faced questions from relatives who were mistrustful of the medical system, or were experiencing discriminatory care. They were suddenly tasked with helping their predominantly white institutions fight racism. Neil Lewis Jr. at Cornell, who studies racial health disparities, told me that many psychologists had long deemed his work irrelevant. “All of a sudden my inbox is drowning,” he said, while some of his own relatives have become ill and one has died.
Science suffers from the so-called Matthew effect, whereby small successes snowball into ever greater advantages, irrespective of merit. Similarly, early hindrances linger. Young researchers who could not pivot because they were too busy caring or grieving for others might suffer lasting consequences from an unproductive year. COVID‑19 “has really put the clock back in terms of closing the gap for women and underrepresented minorities,” Yale’s Akiko Iwasaki says. “Once we’re over the pandemic, we’ll need to fix it all again.”


vdare--2020-12-24--Biden: This Country Is Doomed

Biden: This Country Is Doomed

CCZ transcribes:
His words just before he says “…this country is doomed” are key and the full sentence is basically typical diversity, inclusion, equity Biden. Full text with no editing begins at 1:14:25
“If we cannot make significant progress on racial equity, this country is doomed. It is doomed. Not just because of African-Americans, but because by 2040 [sic] this country is going to be minority white European. You hear me? Minority white European, and you guys are going to have to start working more with Hispanics, who make up a larger portion of the population than y’all do.”


vdare--2020-12-24--Merry Christmas From VDARE.com!

Merry Christmas From VDARE.com!

VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow writes : In recent years , I ’ ve illustrated our Christmas greetings to our readers with encouraging pictures of my citizen children posterity .
But this year , I want to show that we are absolutely ready to defend immigration patriotism and the Historic American Nation from behind our castle walls in Berkeley Springs WV , with the aid of the dragon that has become a tradition here .
I want to thank our wonderful donors who have made this possible , and our wonderful readers .
Together you are the hope of America , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I toast you in the video below ( you can see a framed picture of Rosa Pelham Suit , the young bride for whom the castle was built in 1885 ) , and I read out these kind words from the great Patrick J. Buchanan as our 20th anniversary year draws to a close : Congratulations and Happy Anniversary to Editor Peter Brimelow , wife Lydia , and the staff at VDARE.com on the 20th birthday of the website that has worked so tirelessly and bravely to alert the country we love to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ All the best , Pat Buchanan Merry Christmas to Pat and Shelley , and to the entire VDARE.com family .
God bless you , every one .
2018 Merry Christmas From Peter And Lydia ( Plus Victoria Beauregard , Redhead ; Felicity , Blonde ; Karia , Brunette ) !
2017 Merry Christmas From Peter , Lydia And The VDARE.com Family !
2016 Merry Christmas From Peter And Lydia And The VDARE.com Family !
By Peter Brimelow 2011 VDARE.com Remembers Christmas Eves Past , Broods About The Future By Peter Brimelow 2010 : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bless Us , Every One !
By James Fulford 2006 : Diversity Is Strength !
It 's Also…War Against Christmas By Tom Piatak 2005 : Resistance Rampant , Whether National Review Likes It Or Not !
By Tom Piatak 2003 : From The Lawns Of Iowa To The Sands Of Iraq By James Fulford 2002 : Christ , The “ Other ” , And Counterfeit Citizens By John Zmirak 2001 : A Christmas Meditation : St. Augustine on the National Question By Chilton Williamson Jr. 1999 : How the HUD Stole Christmas by @ @

VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow writes: In recent years, I’ve illustrated our Christmas greetings to our readers with encouraging pictures of my citizen children posterity. But this year, I want to show that we are absolutely ready to defend immigration patriotism and the Historic American Nation from behind our castle walls in Berkeley Springs WV, with the aid of the dragon that has become a tradition here.
I want to thank our wonderful donors who have made this possible, and our wonderful readers. Together you are the hope of America, and the of West.
Lydia and I toast you in the video below (you can see a framed picture of Rosa Pelham Suit, the young bride for whom the castle was built in 1885), and I read out these kind words from the great Patrick J. Buchanan as our 20th anniversary year draws to a close:
Congratulations and Happy Anniversary to Editor Peter Brimelow, wife Lydia, and the staff at VDARE.com on the 20th birthday of the website that has worked so tirelessly and bravely to alert the country we love to the perils of uncontrolled mass migration. All the best, Pat Buchanan
Merry Christmas to Pat and Shelley, and to the entire VDARE.com family. God bless you, every one.
Watch the latest video at bitchute.com
VDARE.com’s Christmas Eves Past
2019 Merry Christmas To All!
2018 Merry Christmas From Peter And Lydia (Plus Victoria Beauregard, Redhead; Felicity, Blonde; Karia, Brunette)!
2017 Merry Christmas From Peter, Lydia And The VDARE.com Family!
2016 Merry Christmas From Peter And Lydia And The VDARE.com Family! By Peter Brimelow
2015 Merry Christmas From VDARE.com By Peter Brimelow
2014 Merry Christmas 2014 From VDARE.com By James Fulford
2013 Merry Christmas From VDARE.com By Peter Brimelow
2012 Merry Christmas From VDARE.com! By James Fulford
2011 VDARE.com Remembers Christmas Eves Past, Broods About The Future By Peter Brimelow
2010: The War Against Christmas 2010: God Bless Us, Every One! By James Fulford
2009: Christians Against Christmas? By Tom Piatak
2008: A Nebraska Atheist Wishes VDARE.COM A Merry Christmas!
2007: Merry Christmas From VDARE.COM! By James Fulford
2006: Diversity Is Strength! It's Also…War Against Christmas By Tom Piatak
2005: Resistance Rampant, Whether National Review Likes It Or Not! By Tom Piatak
2004: Merry Christmas By Peter Brimelow
2003: From The Lawns Of Iowa To The Sands Of Iraq By James Fulford
2002: Christ, The “Other”, And Counterfeit Citizens By John Zmirak
2001: A Christmas Meditation: St. Augustine on the National Question By Chilton Williamson Jr.
2000: Merry Christmas From VDARE! By Peter Brimelow
1999: How the HUD Stole Christmas by Peter Brimelow


vdare--2020-12-24--Radio Derb Transcript Up For December 18: Congress Vs Workers, Deplatforming At Eton, Blackening Up

Radio Derb Transcript Up For December 18: Congress Vs Workers, Deplatforming At Eton, Blackening Up History, And Ray Wolters, RIP

The Radio Derb transcript is up for December 18 .
Go here to read or listen .
Note : Radio @ @ @ @ @ Day .
30m14s Back to the garret .
( Toil , envy , want , @ @ @ @ @ . )
43m09s One more thing to worry about .
( A rogue iceberg .
@ @ @ @ @ With Beethoven , of course . )

The Radio Derb transcript is up for December 18. Go here to read or listen. Note: Radio Derb WILL publish on Christmas Day.
Playlist
02m05s Congress versus American white-collar workers. (The continuing saga.)
14m32s Jolly woke boating weather. (Deplatforming at Eton.)
23m36s Worst casting decision of 2020. (Blackening up history.)
30m14s Back to the garret. (Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.)
39m37s A friend passes. (Ray Wolters, RIP.)
40m55s So does a psychometrist … (James Flynn, RIP.)
41m41s … and a novelist. (John Le Carré, RIP.)
43m09s One more thing to worry about. (A rogue iceberg.)
45m00s War of the generations. (Die, white geezers!)
49m04s Headline of the week. (Strigicide avenged.)
50m54s Signoff. (With Beethoven, of course.)


vdare--2020-12-24--Asset Manager BlackRock Says Down With White Male Board Members

Earlier : War On Whiteness : NASDAQ Wants EVERY Company On Their Exchange To Have A Minority , Female Or LGBTQ Director If racial diversity in a workforce was so valuable , then why do the F.A.A.N.G ’ s ( Facebook , Apple , Amazon , Netflix , and Google ) have so few non-Asian minorities employees ?
These companies are some of the best for equity holders to own in their investing portfolios , but they have a paucity of black faces working for them .
Big Tech seems to be thriving , despite a lack of contributions from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they have no problem staying in the black financially , and producing huge returns for stock holders .
BlackRock Inc. , the world ’ s largest asset manager , plans to next year push companies for greater ethnic and gender diversity for their boards and workforces , and says it will vote against directors who fail to act .
The money manager , which oversees more than $ 7.8 trillion of assets , is asking U.S. companies to disclose the racial , ethnic and gender makeup of their employees — data known @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they ’ re taking to advance diversity and inclusion , according to a stewardship report released Thursday .
“ We are raising our expectations , ” New York-based BlackRock said in the report .
“ An inclusive , diverse and engaged workforce contributes to business continuity , innovation , and long-term value creation.
” Companies are under increasing pressure from investors and advocates to address diversity .
State Street Global Advisors , which manages about $ 3 trillion for clients , has said it will ask companies about their metrics and goals to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while Nasdaq Inc. announced that most companies listed on its U.S. exchange will have to include at least one director who identifies as female and one who identifies as an underrepresented minority or LGBTQ .
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has said the firm will no longer take a company public in the U.S. and Europe if it lacks a director who is either female or diverse .
BlackRock states , without providing any evidence , “ An inclusive , diverse and engaged workforce contributes to business continuity , innovation , and long-term value @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the F.A.A.N.G ’ s and all Big Tech companies thrive despite lacking much diversity in their workforces save white and Asian employees , show this claim of inclusion and diversity leading to innovation and long-term value creation to be a huge lie ?
But it doesn ’ t matter .
The more lies you tell in advancement of the cause of racial progressivism , the better .
To engage in pattern recognition is the greatest sin in 2020 America , meaning we must applaud BlackRock ’ s actions as the highest moral good @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is simply this : by championing diversity , they advance the cause of The Great Replacement for boards and workforces .

Earlier: War On Whiteness: NASDAQ Wants EVERY Company On Their Exchange To Have A Minority, Female Or LGBTQ Director
If racial diversity in a workforce was so valuable, then why do the F.A.A.N.G’s (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) have so few non-Asian minorities employees? These companies are some of the best for equity holders to own in their investing portfolios, but they have a paucity of black faces working for them. Big Tech seems to be thriving, despite a lack of contributions from blacks… though these companies struggle with diversity, they have no problem staying in the black financially, and producing huge returns for stock holders.
Curious, isn’t it?
BlackRock to Push Companies on Racial Diversity in 2021, Bloomberg.com, December 11, 2020
BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, plans to next year push companies for greater ethnic and gender diversity for their boards and workforces, and says it will vote against directors who fail to act. The money manager, which oversees more than $7.8 trillion of assets, is asking U.S. companies to disclose the racial, ethnic and gender makeup of their employees — data known as EEO-1 — as well as measures they’re taking to advance diversity and inclusion, according to a stewardship report released Thursday. “We are raising our expectations,” New York-based BlackRock said in the report. “An inclusive, diverse and engaged workforce contributes to business continuity, innovation, and long-term value creation.” Companies are under increasing pressure from investors and advocates to address diversity. State Street Global Advisors, which manages about $3 trillion for clients, has said it will ask companies about their metrics and goals to boost racial diversity within their ranks, while Nasdaq Inc. announced that most companies listed on its U.S. exchange will have to include at least one director who identifies as female and one who identifies as an underrepresented minority or LGBTQ. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has said the firm will no longer take a company public in the U.S. and Europe if it lacks a director who is either female or diverse.
BlackRock states, without providing any evidence, “An inclusive, diverse and engaged workforce contributes to business continuity, innovation, and long-term value creation.”
Doesn’t the fact the F.A.A.N.G’s and all Big Tech companies thrive despite lacking much diversity in their workforces save white and Asian employees, show this claim of inclusion and diversity leading to innovation and long-term value creation to be a huge lie?
But it doesn’t matter. The more lies you tell in advancement of the cause of racial progressivism, the better. To engage in pattern recognition is the greatest sin in 2020 America, meaning we must applaud BlackRock’s actions as the highest moral good.
But what BlackRock means to do is simply this: by championing diversity, they advance the cause of The Great Replacement for boards and workforces.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-12-24--Another Affirmative Action Fake, This Time A Canadian Fake Indian

The Canadian film and television industry has been rocked following allegations that prominent filmmaker and “ Inconvenient Indian ” director Michelle Latimer is not Indigenous , as she has claimed to be for the past 20 years .
The hurt and anger from the Indigenous filmmaking community that followed on social media has been palpable , drawing further attention to the need for systemic change as awards bodies and the funding arms Latimer has benefited from begin conversations about where to go next .
In an investigative piece published on Dec. 17 , CBC News revealed Kitigan Zibi members refute @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Algonquin , Métis and French heritage , from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg ( Maniwaki ) , Quebec.
” The news outlet also examined census records showing that Latimer ’ s grandfather was not Indigenous or Métis as she previously claimed , but French-Canadian .
And a genealogist and researcher with an expertise in French-Canadian families independently examined Latimer ’ s heritage to reveal she has only two Indigenous ancestors — Marguerite Pigarouiche and Euphrosine-Madeleine Nicolet , who lived in the 17th century .
All other family members were “ easily identifiable as French @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other words , Michelle Latimer is white .
She ’ s about as Indian as Elizabeth Warren .
What are the rules , anyway ?
Nobody seems to know .
Here we are 50 years into the Affirmative Action Era and nobody seems to be sure how exactly it all works .
“ This is something that our Indigenous communities have been dealing with for a long time , ” said Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs , a Mohawk actor from Kahnawake , Que .
whose detailed response to the Latimer expose on Twitter has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if a person needs a genealogist to tell them they have a small amount of “ Native blood ” then they are simply not Indigenous .
… “ When I walk into native spaces , if you claim a nation , generally , we just believe you because so rarely has there ever been a benefit to claiming native , ” she continues .
This is one of the few articles about affirmative action fakers that points out that times have changed and it now pays to be a minority : “ Whereas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many grants and there are so many different forms of reparation , so there ’ s a lot of people coming out of the woodwork who have a small amount of ancestry [ but ] who ’ ve never grown up with the experience of being an Indigenous person , who are seizing these opportunities for their own personal gain .
And I fundamentally believe that ’ s wrong.
” Jacobs advises that , going forward , funding bodies should ask applicants to distinguish whether they are Indigenous or if they have Indigenous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back ( and verify those claims ) ; and hire more Indigenous people to work on the production side .
It ’ s also important , she adds , to make space for honesty and ensure no one is above question or criticism .
Why not a published DNA test to be entitled to affirmative action benefits ?
Who looks like a cross between Mickey Rourke and Matthew Broderick .
“ There are so many perspectives .
So many amazing government grants or funding agencies have a thing where you check off a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and people can check it off without having accurate representation or proof , ” adds Hayden Taylor .
“ Whereas on the other side , being asked to constantly prove you ’ re native is also equally reprehensible and insulting .
It ’ s this weird dichotomy.
” Latimer ’ s trailer , with its rapper in blackbody , looks stupid .
But still … fake Indian documentary director Michelle Latimer should move from Canada to Australia and declare herself an Aboriginal .
The Aussies are so ardent for white people who claim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ give her $ 100 million to direct Mad Max 5 .
By the way , there is a strong Eskimo-made movie , Atanarjuat : The Fast Runner , which I reviewed here .
The director , Zacharias Kunuk , who was born on Baffin Island , looks like an authentic Inuit .
Although if you told me he was Japanese , I ’ d believe you too .

UPDATE: See Accused "Fake Indian" Michelle Latimer Innocent Of Being Pure White, Has Native Ancestry After All, May 12, 2021
From Variety:
Michelle Latimer’s Identity Crisis Is Raising Impossible Questions for Canada’s Indigenous Filmmakers By Amber Dowling The Canadian film and television industry has been rocked following allegations that prominent filmmaker and “Inconvenient Indian” director Michelle Latimer is not Indigenous, as she has claimed to be for the past 20 years. The hurt and anger from the Indigenous filmmaking community that followed on social media has been palpable, drawing further attention to the need for systemic change as awards bodies and the funding arms Latimer has benefited from begin conversations about where to go next. In an investigative piece published on Dec. 17, CBC News revealed Kitigan Zibi members refute Latimer’s claims to be of “Algonquin, Métis and French heritage, from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (Maniwaki), Quebec.” The news outlet also examined census records showing that Latimer’s grandfather was not Indigenous or Métis as she previously claimed, but French-Canadian. And a genealogist and researcher with an expertise in French-Canadian families independently examined Latimer’s heritage to reveal she has only two Indigenous ancestors — Marguerite Pigarouiche and Euphrosine-Madeleine Nicolet, who lived in the 17th century. All other family members were “easily identifiable as French Canadians, Irish, Scottish.” In other words, Michelle Latimer is white.
She’s about as Indian as Elizabeth Warren.
What are the rules, anyway? Nobody seems to know. Here we are 50 years into the Affirmative Action Era and nobody seems to be sure how exactly it all works.
“This is something that our Indigenous communities have been dealing with for a long time,” said Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, a Mohawk actor from Kahnawake, Que. whose detailed response to the Latimer expose on Twitter has since gone viral. Jacobs argued that if a person needs a genealogist to tell them they have a small amount of “Native blood” then they are simply not Indigenous. … “When I walk into native spaces, if you claim a nation, generally, we just believe you because so rarely has there ever been a benefit to claiming native,” she continues.
This is one of the few articles about affirmative action fakers that points out that times have changed and it now pays to be a minority:
“Whereas now in Canada, there are so many grants and there are so many different forms of reparation, so there’s a lot of people coming out of the woodwork who have a small amount of ancestry [but] who’ve never grown up with the experience of being an Indigenous person, who are seizing these opportunities for their own personal gain. And I fundamentally believe that’s wrong.” Jacobs advises that, going forward, funding bodies should ask applicants to distinguish whether they are Indigenous or if they have Indigenous ancestry; question which community claims them back (and verify those claims); and hire more Indigenous people to work on the production side. It’s also important, she adds, to make space for honesty and ensure no one is above question or criticism.
Why not a published DNA test to be entitled to affirmative action benefits?
… “It’s really a double-edged sword,” says Drew Hayden Taylor, an Anishnawbe playwright, novelist, writer and documentary filmmaker who worked with Latimer when she appeared in one of his plays in Thunder Bay, Ont.
Who looks like a cross between Mickey Rourke and Matthew Broderick.
“There are so many perspectives. So many amazing government grants or funding agencies have a thing where you check off a box and say what you are, and people can check it off without having accurate representation or proof,” adds Hayden Taylor. “Whereas on the other side, being asked to constantly prove you’re native is also equally reprehensible and insulting. It’s this weird dichotomy.”
Latimer’s trailer, with its rapper in blackbody, looks stupid.
But still … fake Indian documentary director Michelle Latimer should move from Canada to Australia and declare herself an Aboriginal. The Aussies are so ardent for white people who claim to be Aboriginal that they would probably give her $100 million to direct Mad Max 5.
By the way, there is a strong Eskimo-made movie, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, which I reviewed here.
The director, Zacharias Kunuk, who was born on Baffin Island, looks like an authentic Inuit.
Although if you told me he was Japanese, I’d believe you too.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-12-23--Why Don't Chimps Ever Progress?

Why Don't Chimps Ever Progress?

Chimpanzees are famously good at aping , yet they never seem to make any cultural progress .
Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures ?
Invention and social information use in a cumulative task Humans are distinctive in their dependence upon products of culture for survival , products that have evolved cumulatively over generations such that many can not now be created by a single individual .
Why the cultural capacity of humans appears unrivalled in the animal kingdom is a topic of ongoing debate .
Here we explore whether innovation and/or social learning propensities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our closest living relatives , chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) , to master an extractive foraging and tool-use task designed to afford opportunities for cumulative culture to develop .
We further explore the potential demographic characteristics associated with novel task solutions .
Chimpanzees ( N = 53 ) were inventive , flexibly exploring the novel task , albeit complex inventions were rare and shaped by prior individual experience with similar tool-use tasks .
However , they displayed no evidence of cumulative cultural learning .
Communities displayed richer behavioral repertoires and had greater task @ @ @ @ @ @ @ control condition , but their solution complexity did not surpass what individuals invented .
The lack of social transmission of complex and beneficial solutions in contexts like those we studied provides one explanation for the limited cumulative culture observed in this species .

Chimpanzees are famously good at aping, yet they never seem to make any cultural progress.
From Evolution and Human Behavior:
Available online 16 December 2020
Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task
Humans are distinctive in their dependence upon products of culture for survival, products that have evolved cumulatively over generations such that many cannot now be created by a single individual. Why the cultural capacity of humans appears unrivalled in the animal kingdom is a topic of ongoing debate. Here we explore whether innovation and/or social learning propensities may constrain the ability of one of our closest living relatives, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), to master an extractive foraging and tool-use task designed to afford opportunities for cumulative culture to develop. We further explore the potential demographic characteristics associated with novel task solutions. Chimpanzees (N = 53) were inventive, flexibly exploring the novel task, albeit complex inventions were rare and shaped by prior individual experience with similar tool-use tasks. However, they displayed no evidence of cumulative cultural learning. Communities displayed richer behavioral repertoires and had greater task success than chimpanzees tested in an asocial control condition, but their solution complexity did not surpass what individuals invented. The lack of social transmission of complex and beneficial solutions in contexts like those we studied provides one explanation for the limited cumulative culture observed in this species.


vdare--2020-12-25--Congress at “Work”, Immigration News, Australia Shows the Way!, And Imaginary Racism, Etc

01m46s Our legislators at work .
( The omnibus bill . )
08m33s Immigration : could be worse .
( @ @ @ @ @ collars hit . )
14m10s Australia shows the way !
( Their illegals are now @ @ @ @ @ , the patriarchy , and Rushton 's Rule of Three .
( Only one is @ @ @ @ @ the 2020s roar ?
( The Human Nature Lab predicts . )
32m44s The worst @ @ @ @ @ ( Life imitates comedy . )

01m46s Our legislators at work. (The omnibus bill.)
08m33s Immigration: could be worse. (White collars OK but blue collars hit.)
11m37s Frog-boiling for dummies. (Slowly, slowly.)
14m10s Australia shows the way! (Their illegals are now ours.)
17m32s Racism, the patriarchy, and Rushton's Rule of Three. (Only one is real.)
24m44s Will the 2020s roar? (The Human Nature Lab predicts.)
26m54s A book on cancel culture gets … canceled! (Revolution eats children.)
29m52s Anarcho-tyranny watch. (Who?-Whom? in Washington State.)
32m44s The worst job you never had. (Life imitates comedy.)
34m32s Signout. (It's still Christmas!)


vdare--2020-12-25--Speaking Of Victory In The War On Christmas, 31 State Capitols Had Nativity Scenes—AFTER An Intense

Speaking Of Victory In The War On Christmas, 31 State Capitols Had Nativity Scenes—AFTER An Intense Legal Battle

At least 31 of the nation ’ s 50 state capitols will have Nativity Scenes of Christ ’ s birth in December 2020 and one of the attorneys behind the legal campaign defending such religious expression in the public square is confident the day is coming soon when every state will have such exhibits .
“ The nativities are going up in more than half of the states and it ’ s based on a free-speech rationale that is very hard to defeat , ” Thomas More Society Founder Thomas Brejcha told HillFaith Friday .
“ Even the American Civil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Texas publicly said we were totally justified in doing so.
” Brejcha said he has no doubt at all that within a few years there will be Nativity Scene displays in the capitol rotundas of all 50 states .
“ I don ’ t have the slightest doubt about it .
We may have a fight or two , but my response is ‘ bring it on , ’ ” he said .
DID YOU KNOW : Majority Of State Capitols Will Have Nativity Scene Displays In 2020 ; More To Come @ @ @ @ @ @ @

From a report last month:
At least 31 of the nation’s 50 state capitols will have Nativity Scenes of Christ’s birth in December 2020 and one of the attorneys behind the legal campaign defending such religious expression in the public square is confident the day is coming soon when every state will have such exhibits.
“The nativities are going up in more than half of the states and it’s based on a free-speech rationale that is very hard to defeat,” Thomas More Society Founder Thomas Brejcha told HillFaith Friday. “Even the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Illinois and Texas publicly said we were totally justified in doing so.”
Brejcha said he has no doubt at all that within a few years there will be Nativity Scene displays in the capitol rotundas of all 50 states.
“I don’t have the slightest doubt about it. We may have a fight or two, but my response is ‘bring it on,’” he said.
DID YOU KNOW: Majority Of State Capitols Will Have Nativity Scene Displays In 2020; More To Come, HillFaith, November 21, 2020


vdare--2020-12-25--Merry Christmas—Make American Buildings Beautiful Again!

With Donald Trump issuing his executive order calling for future federal buildings to be “ beautiful , ” I extended my Twitter thread contrasting comparable buildings from before and after WWII , such as upscale municipalities ’ city halls , other government buildings , public libraries and the like .
The order is pretty rambling , but people seemed to like it .
One reason for the dichotomy is that Beverly Hills in 1932 saw a spectacular city hall as good advertising for attracting newcomers to Beverly Hills to buy up its empty lots .
In contrast , modern Malibu @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Its civic motto is “ Get out of Malibu , Lebowski !
” Not surprisingly , construction began a month before the stock market crash of October 1929 .
That ’ s just a joke .
Mayne is a leftist .
He doesn ’ t hate bureaucrats in particular , he hates everybody .
“ You people , you like domes , right ?
Okay , okay , we ’ ll build you a dome out in the front of city hall for your tacky weddings and proms .
But we ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the actual San Jose city hall by including a dome in the main building .
”

With Donald Trump issuing his executive order calling for future federal buildings to be “beautiful,” I extended my Twitter thread contrasting comparable buildings from before and after WWII, such as upscale municipalities’ city halls, other government buildings, public libraries and the like. The order is pretty rambling, but people seemed to like it.
In contrast to the many pictures online of the 1932 Beverly Hills City Hall, here is the only picture I can find of the Malibu City Hall: pic.twitter.com/oDmu9bnYwL — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) February 10, 2020
One reason for the dichotomy is that Beverly Hills in 1932 saw a spectacular city hall as good advertising for attracting newcomers to Beverly Hills to buy up its empty lots. In contrast, modern Malibu doesn’t want more residents. Its civic motto is “Get out of Malibu, Lebowski!”
In contrast, the 1963 Orange Government Center in Goshen, NY by Paul Rudolph: Tentacle Porn Brutalism pic.twitter.com/nCOOnTH3Yd — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 22, 2020
Buffalo City Hall, 1931: looks like where Superman would fight bad guys. pic.twitter.com/MM7EhHqg3x — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 22, 2020
And win.
Not surprisingly, construction began a month before the stock market crash of October 1929.
Thom Mayne's 2005 federal building in San Francisco. Starchitect Mayne is secretly an anti-government extremist who designs ugly and misanthropic government buildings because he hates bureaucrats and wants them to suffer from 9 to 5 every day of the work week. pic.twitter.com/WO54TIaAgj — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 22, 2020
That’s just a joke. Mayne is a leftist. He doesn’t hate bureaucrats in particular, he hates everybody.
The 7 Ugliest Government Buildings In Washington, D.C.https://t.co/dvk44EIQqK via @bennyjohnson — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 22, 2020
Many of the best buildings in America were commissioned during the Roaring Twenties, when money, high spirits, and (surprisingly) good taste, were abundant, although some, like Buffalo's stupendous city hall, weren't finished until after the Crash of 1929. — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 22, 2020
St. Francis de Sales, the 1959 Danish Modern Roman Catholic church in Sherman Oaks, CA: pic.twitter.com/y7fxuZYrSO — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 22, 2020
Here's a rare transitional city hall from between the stock market crash of 1929 and 1945: Santa Monica's from 1938. It's far more austere than Roaring 20s city halls like Pasadena's and Beverly Hills', but it's still dignified and nicely detailed. pic.twitter.com/Hh7W8yD8xy — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 23, 2020
But in 1963, De Gaulle's Culture Minister Andre Malraux had grimy Notre Dame blasted with high pressure hoses ... and it came out looking wonderful.
Over time people started to appreciate more their once again sparkling old buildings. — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 23, 2020
Palm Springs City Hall, 1952. It's celebrated for coming up with a few Modernist adaptations suitable for a hot climate, although the Spanish and Arabs had done it better centuries before: pic.twitter.com/XIeGTEOpm3 — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 23, 2020
San Diego has been talking for a decade about replacing its boring 1964 modernist skyscraper city hall. Here's one high-budget plan: a lot of Thom Mayne random folderol, but the basic idea of making it the shape of a sailboat's sail is pleasant, at least from the outside. pic.twitter.com/dUJxrhqv6p — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 23, 2020
All this isn't to say that it's impossible for a talented-enough architect to create something beautiful in just about any style. But the headwinds began blowing against achieving beauty with the 1929 stock market crash and turned into a gale by 1945. — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 24, 2020
“You people, you like domes, right? Okay, okay, we’ll build you a dome out in the front of city hall for your tacky weddings and proms. But we’re not going to taint the architectural integrity of the actual San Jose city hall by including a dome in the main building.”
For example, here's Richard Meier's 2016 San Jose, CA city hall, which has been Thom Mayneized-Richard Gehryized with what looks like lots of chain link fencing attached at random to the outside: pic.twitter.com/CPNjr0ZaCD — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 24, 2020
But I'm guessing that San Jose's 2016 po-mo City Hall lags behind San Francisco's astonishing 1915 beaux arts city hall for wedding photography: pic.twitter.com/hVXvKnv2BP — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 24, 2020
Here's Tom Wolfe's 1970 description of the interior of the San Francisco City Hall from "Mau-Mauing the Flak-Catchers:" pic.twitter.com/aZC9SDqQUY — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 24, 2020
Tourists like to hang out on the steps in front of the New York Public Library: pic.twitter.com/kzdFP23b1J — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 24, 2020
The New Zealand parliament has altruistically soldiered on with their 1897 Parliamentary Library: pic.twitter.com/52PG9AcgF6 — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 24, 2020
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-12-26--Kamala's Childhood Kwanzaa Celebration: Pics Or It Didn't Happen

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See, earlier, by Ann Coulter: Happy Kwanzaa! The Holiday Brought to You by the FBI
Our Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories. The whole family would gather around across multiple generations and we’d tell stories and light the candles.
Whether you’re celebrating this year with those you live with or over Zoom, happy Kwanzaa! pic.twitter.com/21bzGHZpYe — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) December 26, 2020
Unlike Kamala Harris, I didn’t celebrate Kwanzaa as a young Baby Boomer. Instead, I celebrated the Feast of the Spoiled Only Child Who Gets More Toys than His Friends from Big Families.
Here’s Ann Coulter’s annual late December tradition: Gather round and hear the story of how the Deep State paid for the invention of Kwanzaa.
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vdare--2020-12-26--John Derbyshire On “Systemic Racism,” The Patriarchy, And Rushton's Rule of Three.

[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
Earlier by Steve Sailer: Biden Vows To Rip Out Roots Of Systemic Racism, i.e. Seize The Equity In Your Home
You have surely heard the phrase "Systemic Racism" recently. What is it, though?
A friend has directed my attention to a speech by Derrick Johnson, [Tweet him] President of the NAACP, back in June in the heat of the George Floyd riots … I beg your pardon: the George Floyd mostly peaceful protests.
Mr. Johnson (pictured right) defined Systemic Racism as
systems and structures that have procedures or processes that disadvantage African Americans. What is systemic racism? Here's what it means and how you can help dismantle it By N'dea Yancey-Bragg USA Today, June 18, 2020
If that's Systemic Racism, then I guess all the "systems and structures that have procedures or processes that advantage African Americans"—Affirmative Action, government set-asides, huge over-representation in advertising and show business, endless excuse-making for black failure, rewriting of history to make white Americans the villains—must be "Systemic Anti-Racism."
Why don't we hear that phrase more often?
In the same news story another respondent, Glenn Harris [Email him] president of something called Race Forward, offered his definition:
…the complex interaction of culture, policy and institutions that holds in place the outcomes we see in our lives … Systemic Racism is naming the process of White Supremacy.
If you can make any sense of those, you're smarter than I am. I think Razib Khan got much closer to the truth in a December 23rd tweet:
That's right. Systemic Racism is a metaphysical principle, universal and all-explanatory.
There are some problems with it, though. Why is it only blacks getting disadvantaged? I'm looking here at a long piece on the Quillette website, A Peculiar Kind of Racist Patriarchy, December 22nd, by Rav Arora. He notes that newly released statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor for the third quarter of 2020 show that Asian women have now have higher weekly earnings than white men: median figures $1,224 for Asian women working full-time against $1,122 for white men. That puts the Asian gals ahead by nine percent.
As the author points out, that doesn't raise issues just about the "Systemic Racism" narrative, but also about the so-called "patriarchy." If whites are so maliciously oppressing other races, and men likewise oppressing women, how do we get numbers like these?
Arora has some nifty tables with numbers for economic success by ancestry group. Here's one from the American Community Survey showing ancestry groups with median household income higher than white Americans: Indian, Taiwanese, Filipino, Indonesian, Pakistani, Iranian, Lebanese, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Israeli, Korean, Syrian, Vietnamese.
Here's another table: Median earnings by full-time year-round female workers, so this is ladies only, again by ancestry group. In descending order of earnings: Taiwanese, Indian, Turkish, Iranian, Chinese, Lebanese, Japanese, Korean.
The lowest figure there, for female Korean-Americans, is a tad over sixty thousand dollars. White male Americans? A tad over fifty-seven thousand.
That's a lot of people doing better than us white folk. How does Systemic Racism make that happen? What happened to our White Supremacy?
I wondered if Mr. Arora would venture into race realism, but of course he didn't.
It's culture, you see, just culture—a concept hardly any more substantial, far as I can see, than "Systemic Racism."
If you subtract out the effect of recent and highly selective immigration, which accounts for the Indians, Turks, and Israelis—and also, come to think of it, for recent black African immigrants, who also do well—you're left with Rushton's Rule of Three: the principle stated by the late John Philippe Rushton that on a whole host of physical, psychological, and behavioral traits, you can rate East Asians, whites, and blacks as high, middling and low.
I don't think Rushton's Rule of Three rises to the level of metaphysics. But as a close description of what the human world is actually like, it is way better than "Systemic Racism," and much more interesting.
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vdare--2020-12-26--Aussies In US Try To Import Refugees Rejected By Australia To US—Send Them ALL Home

And one final point on immigration. You may recall that seven years ago Australia, fed up with illegal aliens arriving by sea, launched Operation Sovereign Borders. The boat people were returned to their country of origin; or, when this couldn't be done, interned in grungy camps on remote islands until they got fed up and repatriated themselves.
Then in 2016, as one of his final flourishes of virtue signaling, Barack Obama cut a deal with the Australians to import 1,250 of these illegals languishing in island camps into the U.S.A. They would be counted as "refugees," placed quietly in U.S. towns and cities, and put on welfare. These are mostly young Muslim men from Afghanistan and the Middle East.
The indefatigable Ann Corcoran at her Refugee Resettlement Watch website has been doggedly tracking this issue. Posting on December 14th, Ann reveals that, believe it or not, these bogus refugees have a lobby in the U.S.A.
It's called Ads-Up (for Aussie Diaspora Steps Up) and of course it has a website, ads-up.org. Ads-Up was co-founded by two activists, one based in New York and the other in Washington, DC. On the website they boast that, quote:
We've recruited over 300 Australian supporters in the United States to help hundreds of refugees from Manus and Nauru who are starting new lives in a new country. Manus and Nauru are two of those islands where the Australian government parks illegals.
Here's my suggestion. The U.S.A. has all the love-the-world gentry progressive busybodies we can use. We don't need to be importing more, like those 300 Australian supporters the Ads-Up website boasts about. They should all be sent back home to Australia to improve the quality of social justice down there.
Or, if they don't want to go, we have plenty of remote and inhospitable islands of our own—in the Aleutians, for example—where we could intern them until they change their minds.
Australia shows the way!


vdare--2020-12-26--Boxing Day: If We're Going To Import Foreign Holidays, Why Not Import A British/Canadian One, And Gi

Boxing Day: If We're Going To Import Foreign Holidays, Why Not Import A British/Canadian One, And Give Americans A Day Off! [2020 UPDATE]

James Fulford writes: Christmas Day is still a Federal holiday, and Donald Trump has made Christmas Eve a holiday (this year) for Federal employees. Britain's traditional December 26 holiday of Boxing Day (also celebrated in Canada and Australia) has not caught on, perhaps because Americans are traditionaly such hard workers. Mark Steyn, born in Canada and educated in England, points out that it's hard to make Americans take off the days that they're entitled to.
In rural states, most Federal holidays—Presidents Day, Martin Luther King Day, etc—go unobserved except by banks and government agencies. It's all I can do to persuade my assistant not to come in on Christmas Day—"just for a couple of hours in the morning in case there's anything urgent," she says pleading Happy Christmas Bank Holiday Thursday!, by Mark Steyn, December 26, 2015
Meanwhile, the Google Doodle for today, illustrated with pictures of Christmas Lights, is a search for "December Global Holidays".
Well, as Peter Brimelow says below (and has been saying here since 2015) why not import a global holiday like Boxing Day, instead of Kwanzaa or Festivus?
Part of what the French call "The Great Replacement" of the white nations is the imposition of alien celebrations. The most obvious is Cinco de Mayo, lovingly chronicled by VDARE.com here, exposed as a Hanukkah-style fake by our Allan Wall here.
In this spirit, I (on behalf my fellow immigrants from Britain and the former British Empire) want to propose the importation of Boxing Day, December 26, the day after Christmas Day, equally recognized with Christmas Day as a public holiday in Britain, Canada, Australia etc. Unlike Cinco De Mayo, this would actually be a useful holiday, for example for the millions of trypotophan-trashed Americans faced with the prospect of struggling back to work after Christmas Day.
In Britain in the 1970s, crippled by high marginal tax-rates before the supply-side revolution, Boxing Day gave the British additional opportunity to trade income for leisure. With any luck, depending on the calendar, they could stop work from Christmas Eve or earlier until the New Year or later, in effect unilaterally reinstating a version of the Twelve Days Of Christmas.
Of course, it helps that the dark British winter, with super-short days (it’s in the latitude of Labrador) and constant overcast skies, inspires hibernation.
To see how it works, note that Christmas this year fell on a Wednesday, so Boxing Day is on a Thursday. The British would conclude that there’s hardly any point in working on the Monday before Christmas Eve or for that matter going back to work just for Friday December 27. Similarly, what's the point of working Monday December 30, when all civilized people take off December 31, New Year's Eve? Plus, of course, New Year's Day.
This means that many in Britain would be off work from Saturday December 21 until Thursday January 2.
Given that Democrats like Bernie Sanders have obviously forgotten the lessons of the 1970s and propose reimposing high marginal tax rates on income, Americans will need this Boxing Day opportunity too.
Furthermore, it's been obvious since the Supreme Court's cowardly 2007 wimp-out in Skoros that Congress will have to legislate to protect the Historic American Nation's Christmas from its fanatical foes.
Reinforcing Christmas Day—still specified in law as a federal holiday—will bring home that it really is a day "different from all others."
Merry Boxing Day!
Peter Brimelow [Email him] is the editor of VDARE.com. His best-selling book, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster, is now available in Kindle format.


vdare--2020-12-26--Polish Government Proposes Law To Fine Tech Companies For Censorship

Big Tech is one of the biggest threats to free speech today. Just look at the recent election. Most Republican politicans don't seem interested in the issue, even though it hurts their own party.
The government of Poland is planning to do something about tech company censorship in Poland.
From Breitbart:
Poland’s national conservative government has detailed a new law protecting free speech online against Big Tech censorship, backed by a new court and big fines. Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro has announced the draft ‘Act for the Freedom to Express One’s Views and Obtain and Disseminate Information on the Internet’ will give social media users a statutory right to appeal bans and content removals on social media platforms such as Facebook on [probably should read "or"] Twitter, which they will be able to escalate to a new Court for the Protection of Freedom of Speech in a streamlined, all-digital process. [Poland to Pass Law Protecting Online Free Speech Against Big Tech Censorship , by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, December 26, 2020]
This new law would involve fining tech companies which censor.
If the new court rules that the tech censors have removed accounts or deleted posts for speech which is legal under Polish law, they must be restored — or the social media firms involved will face fines of as much as 1.8 million euros, enforced by the Slavic country’s Office of Electronic Communications, according to reports.
The Polish government doesn't want Poland to go the way of Germany.
“In Germany, the Minister of Justice may arbitrarily decide what content needs to be eliminated from the Internet. This is the introduction of censorship. We want to balance the freedom of public debate,” Ziobro explained of the planned legislation recently. “We want to regulate the relationship between social media users and their owners… It is primarily about censorship when expressing opinions that are consistent with Polish law”, added deputy minister Sebastian Kaleta elsewhere.
Then the article quotes the Anglosphere Conservatism Inc. argument about "the government getting involved".
Many on the right in the United Kingdom and the United States have suggested that, while they are not happy with what Ziobro has described as “ideological censorship” by tech giants, they prefer the status quo to “the government getting involved” in the affairs of private businesses.
The government is already heavily involved in the business world. Look at discrimination law, for example. In a U.S. context, why is Big Tech allowed to censor when it's not treated as a publisher?
From the Polish government’s perspective, however, such so-called interference is a constitutional duty: “The Constitution… guarantees full freedom of expression… Therefore, any manifestations of limiting it must meet with the reaction of the state to enable protection against interference with this freedom,” Kaleta insisted. “The Left tries to define any fundamental criticism of its views or ideology as ‘hate speech’, and then expects such content to be censored or even punished… the left is trying to consistently implement its anti-democratic aspirations,” he added. “This law is a response to what they are trying to impose on us as legal norms, that is, forcing us to censor with political correctness and refrain from expressing one’s opinion.”
We need to defend free speech, and conservatives who don't look beyond the "government intervention" angle need to come up with better arguments.
In the meantime, the Polish government is trying to do something about it.
Click here to see the Polish language source article, with a comments section.


vdare--2020-12-26--Richard Dawkins's Evolution On The War On Christmas

Earlier: Richard Dawkins Wonders: Is There Life After Cancellation?
A "how it started, how it's going" Tweet about British scientist, atheist, and controversialist Richard Dawkins alerted me to Dawkins's evolution on the War On Christmas:
Dawkins, Christmas Eve, 2016:
Dawkins, Christmas Eve, 2018:
His link goes to an Independent article about the War on Christmas, and the only "equally foolish rival faith" mentioned is Islam...which has gotten Dawkins in trouble before.
Dawkins, December 23, and Christmas Eve, 2020
Apparently Dawkins has too much intellectual honesty to ignore the evidence of his own eyes on the modern War On Christmas.
More "War On Christmas" Tweets from Dawkins


vdare--2020-12-27--“Doomed”? That’s Why VDARE Has Bought A Castle!

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President-per-media Joe Biden says America is “doomed” if it can’t make progress on race, but things look certain to get worse. The consequences of Black Lives Matter have been soaring murder rates in cities and a massive wealth transfer to those who have an interest in fostering racial division. Without exception, every major economic, cultural and political institution in America is pushing for an anti-white racial caste system while simultaneously encouraging mass Third World immigration. The debacle over the recent COVID-19 stimulus payments shows that America is something of an afterthought to our own government, even in a time of national crisis. Enoch Powell warned about a nation “busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre” but we are beyond that. The fire burned out in the 2020 election. We are standing in the ashes, looking for a way forward. And the only way forward is us.
Biden’s talk of “unity” simply can’t square with a permanent Cultural Revolution against the Historic American Nation’s history, heroes, and culture. Biden now says “give each other a chance” and end “this grim era of demonization in America” [As President-Elect Joe Biden Doubles Down On Calls For Unity, Supporters Have Doubts, NPR, November 26, 2020]. But he began his campaign with the Charlottesville Hoax, claiming President Trump sided with “white supremacists,” who were of course responsible for all the violence.
It’s also worth noting that President Trump was mocked back then for warning that the removal of Robert E. Lee would lead to the removal of the Founding Fathers [Trump equates Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson with George Washington in bizarre press conference, by Sonam Smith, Business Insider, August 15, 2017]. Now, of course, we’re way past that—even Lincoln is on the chopping block.
Maybe Biden’s bumbling, mumbling, “Slow Joe” operation is what many Americans want. He’s the goofy, harmless old white man the Main Stream Media has been promoting for decades. He’s a comforting face who can calmly preside over American decline while still paying tribute to vague sense of national unity.
However, I doubt this can last even with nigh-unanimous MSM support. Biden said that President Trump was more like “George Wallace than George Washington” [More George Wallace Than George Washington, News18, July 21, 2019]. He’s right, but not in the way he thinks. Wallace actually developed a certain rapport with blacks, winning elections in Alabama well after the end of desegregation. Was George Washington a racial egalitarian? If not, doesn’t it follow his monuments have to come down too?
At 78, Biden doesn’t understand the era he lives in. His own career was well underway when Wallace was still a powerful political figure. Like many liberals of his generation, Biden assumes he can save the Founders and the traditional symbols of the country while keeping anti-racism as our foremost moral value. Of course, given the Founders' true beliefs on race, culture and immigration, such an effort is as doomed as trying to re-invent Martin Luther King as a conservative icon.
With the 1619 Project being taught in schools, books about white privilege topping the best-seller lists, and corporate America pushing diversity quotas, America is radicalizing its own elite into hating the country, its history, its people, and its institutions. Does anyone believe Biden, whom Steve Sailer has compared to the ailing Hindenburg, can check this radicalism?
The key problem is that no one in the Ruling Class has an interest in stopping social collapse. Because of mass demographic transformation and the concrete incentives created by Affirmative Action, U.S. elites and aspiring elites have no reason to identify with men like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln or even Teddy Roosevelt. Indeed, Franklin Roosevelt, because of his “redlining,” is probably next on the list [A ‘Forgotten History’ Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America, by Terry Gross, NPR, May 3, 2017].
The path to power is seeking out things to be offended by and using state and media power to punish foes.
Conservatives who argue that America is not racist, or has been relatively non-racist compared to other countries, miss the point. This isn’t about history, but power.
Republicans should remember that what Ronald Reagan said about economics applies equally to culture: “If you want more of something, subsidize it.” Not surprisingly, if you subsidize grievances, you’ll get more of it, until we get to the point where the system can no longer function.
Thus, we can’t have normal courtroom procedures because now we are told, by a Jewish immigrant judge, that blacks can’t get a fair trial in a courtroom that has white portraits. We can’t stick with the Constitution or even “one-man, one-vote” elections, because blacks are held back and their votes should count for more [The Votes of Black Americans Should Count Twice, by Brandon Hasbrouck, The Nation, December 17, 2020]. Even the military, the ultimate bedrock of state authority, must prioritize diversity over effectiveness. When China is pursuing greatness while post-America is pursuing “equity,” it’s easy to see how this is all going to end [China has done human testing to create biologically enhanced super soldiers, says top U.S. official, by Ken Dilanian, NBC News, December 3, 2020].
Even elite schools now teach the wealthy elites how to exploit intersectionality for power, in the same way boarding schools once taught young aristocrats etiquette, dancing, and intrigue. The goal is the same, it’s just the methods have changed. The fact that the government discriminates against whites and that whites don’t enjoy some privileged exemption from illness or death means nothing. The purpose of a ruling ideology is to provide cover for the Ruling Class, not to fit reality. Peter Brimelow once said that America may be destined to fall the same way the Soviet Union fell, and for the same reason: the political myth of the state is too far detached from reality for us to continue to operate.
President Trump is being accused of “sedition” for questioning the election results [NY Attorney General Letitia James Torches ‘Loser’ Trump Over Martial Law Meeting: ‘This is an Act of Sedition,’ by Tommy Christopher, Mediaite, December 23, 2020]. So much, needless to say, for the Russia Hoax.
But one must ask: sedition against what? Treason against what? With tens of millions of illegal immigrants occupying American soil, to even speak about the rule of law is an obscenity. America can’t simultaneously be the land of our forefathers for which we must give our all and be a racist abomination on “stolen land” that shouldn’t exist.
Even the lowest definition of national identity, having the correct paperwork that makes you a citizen, is too much for our government. We saw this most clearly with the failed effort to pass a COVID-19 stimulus bill, complete with $2,000 survival checks for struggling Americans. Of course, if President Trump and Republicans had dropped everything and campaigned purely on this issue before the election, I have no doubt they would have won. (If you are among those who think President Trump did win and was cheated, I have no doubt he would have won by enough that the Dems wouldn’t have been able to fake it.)
Yet even now, when Republican control of the Senate majority is on the line, Republicans are muttering vaguely about fiscal conservatism and refusing to deliver direct aid to Americans [GOP blocks House Democrats’ attempt to pass $2,000 stimulus checks, by Jacob Pramuk and Tucker Higgins, CNBC, December 24, 2020]. They’re doing this even after President Trump called them out [Trump calls on Congress to approve $2,000 stimulus checks, hinting he might not sign relief bill without changes, by Rachel Siegel, Josh Dawsey, and Mike DeBonis, Washington Post, December 22, 2020].
President Trump would be in a different place if he had governed as a third force between standard Republicans and Democrats and he’s disappointed many by acting the way he did.
Amazingly though, he’s still the best we have. Certainly, the Democrats are no better. They are refusing to allow a straight up-and-down vote on direct stimulus payments because they won’t give up millions of dollars for foreign aid programs, the Refugee Resettlement racket, and “democracy programs” [How Congress Can Give Americans $2K relief checks and cut omnibus pork to pay for it, by Rebecca Mansour, John Binder, and John Carney, Breitbart, December 24, 2020].
How is this possible? More than three-quarters of American voters think the checks should be at least $1,000, yet neither party seems willing to do what is necessary to deliver it [43% of Americans Agree With Trump, Say Stimulus Checks Should Be $2,000 or More: Poll, by Matthew Impelli, Time, December 24, 2020].
Even “fiscal conservatives” should know that federal spending will increase far more dramatically under a Democratic majority in the Senate than if the GOP can save the Georgia seats. Nonetheless, Mitch McConnell apparently can’t see that taking an unpopular stand against his president and the de facto leader of his party will lead to catastrophe. (As we go to digital press, the Trump seems to have been forced by GOP treachery to sign the thing: 'GOOD NEWS Trump teases Covid stimulus deal after he refused to sign bill causing millions to lose unemployment benefits, The Sun, UK, December 27, 2020 and Trump signs coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law after lengthy delay, CNN, December 27, 2020.)
It’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that Establishment Republicans prefer defeat to a populist victory. They are so corrupt and/or cowed by the Main Stream Media that sheer political self-interest isn’t enough.
My view: what America needs is not extreme or unpopular. It involves abolishing racial distinctions in law, enforcing immigration control, establishing English as the official language, and giving ordinary Americans a stake in the social order by rebuilding the middle class with populist economic policies.
Most of all, the government would need to stop incentivizing racial grievances politics.
It doesn’t sound like much, but even as I write it, I know no Republican who would do it. Rather than trying to escape to civic nationalism, we have to figure out how to survive in a world defined by identity politics, rather than pretending it doesn’t exist [Dangerous Escapism, TheZMan, December 23, 2020].
Right now, what is keeping America going is white guilt and the shameful reluctance of conservatives to challenge institutions that are fundamentally hostile to them.
In short, we’re saving the system from itself. However, there simply aren’t enough white people to keep this system stumbling along. I don’t foresee civil war or secession, though we’ll probably get the occasional nihilistic murders from broken people spat out by a broken society. What we’ll get is the increasingly absurd “flight from white,” more cynical claims of victimization, more irrationality, more atomization, and more desperate people.
The VDARE Foundation’s choice to invest in a castle in West Virginia wasn’t just aesthetic or practical, but political. Perhaps even poetic.
Our job is to build a place of safety, physically, economically, and intellectually, for Americans who have been dispossessed from their birthright.
Our Ruling Class has a vested interest in making our country worse. In response, we have to stand up for the Historic American Nation.
After President Trump is gone, it doesn’t look like anyone else will.
James Kirkpatrick [Email him |Tweet him @VDAREJamesK] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His latest book is Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the American Right. Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow's Preface here.