vdare--2020-10-07--NYT Speaks Treason: "America May Need International Intervention"

From the New York Times opinion page : Even Democrats may find it hard to imagine , but the “ leader of the free world ” would benefit from United Nations oversight .
President Trump at the United Nations in 2017 .
If Mr. Trump refused to accept the election results , Joe Biden may need to appeal to international watchdogs .
…For many Americans — raised to see the United States as the natural leader of the “ free world ” — it may be hard to imagine requesting foreign intervention against tyranny in our own land .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anderson have detailed , there ’ s a long history of Black Americans doing exactly that .
… 1964 , Malcolm X beseeched Africa ’ s newly independent governments to “ recommend an immediate investigation ” into American racism by the U.N. Human Rights Council .
This June , relatives of George Floyd , Breonna Taylor , Philando Castile and Michael Brown endorsed a letter calling on the council “ to urgently convene a special session on the situation of human rights in the United States.
” Joe Biden is not W.E.B .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But the party he leads now faces chronic racist disenfranchisement .
The more the Democratic Party becomes a vehicle for Black political empowerment , the less its votes count .
… That ’ s why Du Bois ’ s appeal to the world remains so relevant .
By impeding Black voters , the United States still violates the democratic principles it has helped enshrine into international law .
After observing America ’ s 2018 midterm elections , a team from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe cataloged a long list @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of former prisoners to the District of Columbia ’ s lack of congressional representation to discriminatory voter identification laws , and concluded that , in critical ways , American elections “ contravene O.S.C.E .
commitments and international standards with regard to universal and equal suffrage.
” … Then , if Mr. Trump and his allies halt the counting of ballots , or disregard them altogether , Democrats should use the O.S.C.E ’ s report as evidence in an appeal to the same body where Ms. Tikhanovskaya made hers : the U.N. Human Rights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ complaint with the Organization of American States , a regional organization that has pledged “ to respond rapidly and collectively in defense of democracy , ” and which in 2009 used that mandate to suspend Honduras after its government carried out a coup .
… Peter Beinart ( @ PeterBeinart ) , a professor of journalism and political science at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York , is the editor at large of Jewish Currents and a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace .

From the New York Times opinion page:
America May Need International Intervention
Even Democrats may find it hard to imagine, but the “leader of the free world” would benefit from United Nations oversight.
By Peter Beinart
Contributing Opinion Writer
Oct. 6, 2020
President Trump at the United Nations in 2017. If Mr. Trump refused to accept the election results, Joe Biden may need to appeal to international watchdogs.
…For many Americans — raised to see the United States as the natural leader of the “free world” — it may be hard to imagine requesting foreign intervention against tyranny in our own land. But as historians like Gerald Horne and Carol Anderson have detailed, there’s a long history of Black Americans doing exactly that.
… 1964, Malcolm X beseeched Africa’s newly independent governments to “recommend an immediate investigation” into American racism by the U.N. Human Rights Council.
This June, relatives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile and Michael Brown endorsed a letter calling on the council “to urgently convene a special session on the situation of human rights in the United States.”
Joe Biden is not W.E.B. Du Bois, let alone Malcolm X. But the party he leads now faces chronic racist disenfranchisement. The more the Democratic Party becomes a vehicle for Black political empowerment, the less its votes count. …
That’s why Du Bois’s appeal to the world remains so relevant. By impeding Black voters, the United States still violates the democratic principles it has helped enshrine into international law. After observing America’s 2018 midterm elections, a team from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe cataloged a long list of undemocratic practices, from the disenfranchisement of former prisoners to the District of Columbia’s lack of congressional representation to discriminatory voter identification laws, and concluded that, in critical ways, American elections “contravene O.S.C.E. commitments and international standards with regard to universal and equal suffrage.”
… Then, if Mr. Trump and his allies halt the counting of ballots, or disregard them altogether, Democrats should use the O.S.C.E’s report as evidence in an appeal to the same body where Ms. Tikhanovskaya made hers: the U.N. Human Rights Council.
They should also lodge a complaint with the Organization of American States, a regional organization that has pledged “to respond rapidly and collectively in defense of democracy,” and which in 2009 used that mandate to suspend Honduras after its government carried out a coup. …
Peter Beinart (@PeterBeinart), a professor of journalism and political science at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, is the editor at large of Jewish Currents and a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace.


vdare--2020-10-05--An Australian Reader Says Angry Woke (White) Australian Citizens Would Fail Australia’s New Citizens

An Australian Reader Says Angry Woke (White) Australian Citizens Would Fail Australia’s New Citizenship Test–And Deservedly So

Australia ’ s citizenship test has just been revised to include an applicant ’ s understanding and acceptance of “ national values ” , and the woke left is , naturally , having a fainting fit at the very concept of national values which , according to the logic of anti-Western , anti-White “ global citizens ” , must be xenophobic and aimed at the “ government ’ s use of citizenship as a mechanism of exclusion .
of marginalized colored peoples from a wickedly white Australia .
[ The new Australian citizenship test : can you really test ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Alex Reilly , The Conversation , September 22 , 2020 ] In what is basically a policy sop to the populist masses who don ’ t think that Australian citizenships should be handed out like confetti , the new test bar hasn ’ t exactly been raised to Olympic heights .
The newly-added questions on national values are multiple-choice and they are all no-brainers such as the importance of voting and the importance of speaking English , whether violence is justified in response to perceived offence or political disagreement and whether a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wife if she has disobeyed or disrespected him , the importance of “ mateship ” ( “ we help each other in times of need ” ) and whether the lawful actions of the police should be supported , and whether freedom of speech should be respected .
Just in case the correct answer doesn ’ t stick out like a dog ’ s hind leg , the government has helpfully provided a “ resource booklet “ and online practice tests with the correct type of answer .
Those who still struggle with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immigration advocates or their ethnic kin who know the ropes .
So citizen-hopefuls from certain countries and cultures ( think Nigeria , not Norway , for example ) will simply lie on the values test whilst continuing to retain their backward , illiberal , anti-democratic and un-Australian beliefs and cultural ways .
There is , however , one group of people who would fail the new citizenship test – angry woke white Australians .
As VDARE.com ’ s Lance Welton has valuably documented from the scientific literature ( here , here and here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ counterparts , particularly the young female variety , the “ aggressive , virtue-signaling , emotionally-incontinent woke liberal ” often develops the clinical symptoms of a real politico-psychological disorder .
Full of moral self-righteousness and militant denunciation of blasphemy against the “ social justice ” catechism , the angry woke liberal ’ s default mode of discourse is profanity-laced rage derived from political resentment whilst their tactical debating armory in the Culture Wars is based on their preferred weapons of mass silencing—Big Tech censorship , cancel culture and no-platforming .
When faced with , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ angry woke liberal , based on their actual political behavior and culture wars practice , may be torn between the two incorrect answers ( b and c ) but they should definitely rule out the correct answer ( a ) and would thus fail the citizenship test .
As a nation giveth citizenship ( as a privilege , hard-earned ) so , too , should it be able to taketh away .
The angry woke liberal should be high on the latter list of candidates .
See earlier letters from Phil Shannon , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a latter-day VDARE.om supporter

From: Phil Shannon [Email him]
Australia’s citizenship test has just been revised to include an applicant’s understanding and acceptance of “national values,” and the woke left is, naturally, having a fainting fit at the very concept of national values which, according to the logic of anti-Western, anti-White “global citizens,” must be xenophobic and aimed at the “government’s use of citizenship as a mechanism of exclusion of marginalized colored peoples from a wickedly white Australia [The new Australian citizenship test: can you really test ‘values’ via multiple choice?, by Alex Reilly, The Conversation, September 22, 2020].
In what is basically a policy sop to the populist masses who don’t think that Australian citizenships should be handed out like confetti, the new test bar hasn’t exactly been raised to Olympic heights. The newly added questions on national values are multiple-choice and they are all no-brainers such as the importance of voting and the importance of speaking English, whether violence is justified in response to perceived offense or political disagreement and whether a husband is entitled to physically punish his wife if she has disobeyed or disrespected him, the importance of “mateship” (“we help each other in times of need”) and whether the lawful actions of the police should be supported, and whether freedom of speech should be respected.
Just in case the correct answer doesn’t stick out like a dog’s hind leg, the government has helpfully provided a “resource booklet“ and online practice tests with the correct type of answer. Those who still struggle with the test will presumably be coached by immigration advocates or their ethnic kin who know the ropes. So citizen-hopefuls from certain countries and cultures (think Nigeria, not Norway, for example) will simply lie on the values test whilst continuing to retain their backward, illiberal, anti-democratic and un-Australian beliefs and cultural ways.
There is, however, one group of people who would fail the new citizenship test—angry woke white Australians. As VDARE.com’s Lance Welton has valuably documented from the scientific literature (here, here and here, for example) concerning their American counterparts, particularly the young female variety, the “aggressive, virtue-signaling, emotionally-incontinent woke liberal” often develops the clinical symptoms of a real politico-psychological disorder. Full of moral self-righteousness and militant denunciation of blasphemy against the “social justice” catechism, the angry woke liberal’s default mode of discourse is profanity-laced rage derived from political resentment whilst their tactical debating armory in the Culture Wars is based on their preferred weapons of mass silencing—Big Tech censorship, cancel culture and no-platforming.
When faced with, for example, the question:
Which of these statements best demonstrates Australian values about freedom of expression? a) everyone can peacefully express their opinions within the law, b) people with different views from me need to keep quiet, c) only approved topics can be discussed,
the angry woke liberal, based on their actual political behavior and culture wars practice, may be torn between the two incorrect answers (b and c) but they should definitely rule out the correct answer (a) and would thus fail the citizenship test.
As a nation giveth citizenship (as a privilege, hard-earned) so, too, should it be able to taketh away. The angry woke liberal should be high on the latter list of candidates.
See earlier letters from Phil Shannon, a veteran Australian working class socialist and a latter-day VDARE.om supporter


vdare--2020-10-07--Radio Derb Transcript Up For October 2: Second-Rate Debate, No Trump Bump, What IS White Supremacy?

Radio Derb Transcript Up For October 2: Second-Rate Debate, No Trump Bump, What IS White Supremacy? And Execution In Indiana, Etc.

The Radio Derb transcript is up for October 2 .
Go here to read or listen .
14m08s What is @ @ @ @ @ thought they ca n't think . )
19m33s More on meritocracy .
( Kaus takes @ @ @ @ @ ) 26m34s First Couple get the virus .
( A politicians ' disease . )
@ @ @ @ @ ( What took so long ? )
31m24s The Twitter killer .
( Pity he @ @ @ @ @ . )
33m25s Small war in the Caucasus .
( Not many dead . )
@ @ @ @ @ Nigeria !
( And good luck for 60 more . )

The Radio Derb transcript is up for October 2. Go here to read or listen.
Playlist:
01m07s Second-rate debate. (It was a chore.)
07m01s No Trump bump. ("Fine people"? Really?)
11m36s Democracy's balloon. (Shavian cynicism.)
14m08s What is white supremacy? (A thought they can't think.)
19m33s More on meritocracy. (Kaus takes a bite at it.)
26m34s First Couple get the virus. (A politicians' disease.)
29m03s Execution in Indiana. (What took so long?)
31m24s The Twitter killer. (Pity he didn't kill the app.)
33m25s Small war in the Caucasus. (Not many dead.)
34m31s Happy 60th birthday, Nigeria! (And good luck for 60 more.)
36m46s Signoff. (With Gracie.)


vdare--2020-10-07--PROGRESS: Trump Admin Changes H-1B Rules To Protect American Workers

The Trump administration announced new rules this week that should make it harder for employers to replace high-skilled Americans with foreigners .
The Department of Labor and the Department of Homeland Security increased the requirements for H-1B visa holders in a bid to dissuade businesses from hiring them .
The new rules mandate higher wages for H-1B holders , shorten their length of stay , and require foreign candidates to have a degree in the specific field they ’ re applying for .
Under the new rules , H-1B visa holders can only stay in the country for one year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ regulations .
They would also be barred from working at companies that did not hire them .
[ Trump Administration Announces Overhaul of H-1B Visa Program , by Michelle Hackman , Wall Street Journal , October 6 , 2020 ] .
The move drew the typical bleating from the cheap labor lobby .
“ [ T ] hese rules have the potential to inflict serious harm upon many American companies , ” cried U.S. Chamber of Commerce immigration director Jon Baselice to the Wall Street Journal .
The Trump administration defended its policy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ America ’ s immigration laws should put American workers first , ” Labor deputy secretary Patrick Pizzella said .
“ The result is U.S. workers are being ousted from good-paying , middle-class jobs and being replaced by foreign workers.
” The change shows the administration continues to do great work on immigration through executive actions .
The administration has already made it harder to receive an H-1b visa , with over 15 % of applicants being rejected last year .
Only 6 % were rejected in the final year of Barack @ @ @ @ @ @ @ challenged in court .
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White ( a Bush II appointee ) last week struck down parts of Trump ’ s moratorium that banned companies from hiring H-1B workers .
It ’ s essential Trump gets more immigration patriots in the judiciary to defend sensible immigration policy .
The courts shouldn ’ t rule in favor of the cheap labor lobby over American workers .

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

The Trump administration announced new rules this week that should make it harder for employers to replace high-skilled Americans with foreigners. The Department of Labor and the Department of Homeland Security increased the requirements for H-1B visa holders in a bid to dissuade businesses from hiring them.
The new rules mandate higher wages for H-1B holders, shorten their length of stay, and require foreign candidates to have a degree in the specific field they’re applying for. Under the new rules, H-1B visa holders can only stay in the country for one year rather than three years under the old regulations. They would also be barred from working at companies that did not hire them [Trump Administration Announces Overhaul of H-1B Visa Program, by Michelle Hackman, Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2020].
The move drew the typical bleating from the cheap labor lobby. “[T]hese rules have the potential to inflict serious harm upon many American companies,” cried U.S. Chamber of Commerce immigration director Jon Baselice to the Wall Street Journal.
The Trump administration defended its policy with a firm, America First argument. “America’s immigration laws should put American workers first,” Labor deputy secretary Patrick Pizzella said. “The result is U.S. workers are being ousted from good-paying, middle-class jobs and being replaced by foreign workers.”
The change shows the administration continues to do great work on immigration through executive actions. The administration has already made it harder to receive an H-1b visa, with over 15% of applicants being rejected last year. Only 6% were rejected in the final year of Barack Obama.
This move will likely be challenged in court. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White (a Bush II appointee) last week struck down parts of Trump’s moratorium that banned companies from hiring H-1B workers.
It’s essential Trump gets more immigration patriots in the judiciary to defend sensible immigration policy. The courts shouldn’t rule in favor of the cheap labor lobby over American workers.


vdare--2020-10-07--Interracial Homicide Offender and Victimization Rates by Race, US 2019

In the previous post on interracial and intersexual homicide distributions in the US , Kratoklastes and Buzz Mohawk point out @ @ @ @ @ numbers , not rates .
By rate , blacks are 11.4 times more likely to @ @ @ @ @ are , and others–a mishmash category including Asians , American Indians , and many people @ @ @ @ @ more likely than whites to do so : Conversely , though , blacks are 2.5 @ @ @ @ @ are to be the victims of interracial murder .
Others are 1.2 times more likely @ @ @ @ @ , this concerns a small fraction , 15.7 % , of all homicides in the @ @ @ @ @ ( s ) of both victim and offender are known .
The vast majority of @ @ @ @ @ occurs between members of the same race , broadly defined .

In the previous post on interracial and intersexual homicide distributions in the US, Kratoklastes and Buzz Mohawk point out these distributions deal with absolute numbers, not rates.
By rate, blacks are 11.4 times more likely to perpetrate interracial homicide than whites are, and others—a mishmash category including Asians, American Indians, and many people of mixed race—are 1.9 times more likely than whites to do so:
Conversely, though, blacks are 2.5 times more likely than whites are to be the victims of interracial murder. Others are 1.2 times more likely to be so:
Again, this concerns a small fraction, 15.7%, of all homicides in the US for which the race(s) of both victim and offender are known. The vast majority of homicide, 84.3%, occurs between members of the same race, broadly defined.


vdare--2020-10-05--NYT Attacks Lauren Witzke For Being Interviewed By Us, Doesn't Link

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See also In Biden’s Home State, Republican Centrism Gives Way to the Fringe, by , NYT, October 4, 2020.


vdare--2020-10-07--Ann Coulter: Debate Tip For MSM/Dem Hack Moderator—Remember To Ask About White Supremacy!

Previously : Biden , Wallace , Media Rout Trump With “ White Supremacy ” Bogeyman—Helped By His Own Appointees .
It ’ s His Fault , For Quarrelling With Ann Coulter Unfortunately , this week ’ s vice presidential debate—occurring after this column goes out—is unlikely to be something you ’ d see in the Turkish parliament , like we had last week .
But I expect one similarity : There will be ZERO questions about any major issues , like crime , immigration , globalism , the endless riots , our insane foreign policy or what Wall Street is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ question is about transgender adoption .
And of course , Vice President Mike Pence will be asked to “ condemn ” white supremacy .
Redeeming America from the bogeyman of “ white supremacy ” is apparently the media ’ s main argument against Trump .
Earlier this summer on “ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert , ” the Democrats ’ vice presidential candidate , Kamala Harris , cheered on the protests that have been creating havoc since May : But Harris won ’ t be asked about that .
According to USA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never said any such thing .
The newspaper rated the claim that Harris supported the destructive protests—which , again , is on video— “ PARTLY FALSE ” on the grounds that Harris referred to “ protests , not “ riots.
” Why are we required to pretend the Black Lives Matter “ protests ” are lovely little afternoon teas , while the antifa riots that inevitably follow are the problem ?
( If there is a problem at all , which there can ’ t be , because “ antifa ” doesn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” but if they do , it ’ s white supremacists doing them ! )
I ’ m open to the argument that an organization is not responsible for the things people do in its name—but that ’ s not the media ’ s position .
Even if it were true that the BLM “ protests ” were peaceful ( and it ’ s not ) , then why do the media always hector Trump to denounce “ white supremacists ” on the grounds that they certainly regard him as their leader @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they spray-paint “ BLM ” on walls , chant BLM slogans , vilify the police and scream about “ black lives.
” Quite obviously , they think they ’ re committing vandalism , assault and arson to help BLM .
At the very least , BLM is not doing much to police their sworn allies .
Even taking BLM “ peaceful protests ” on their own , they are not what most people regard as peaceful , like the anti-nuke protests in the 1980s , featuring singing , dancing , balloons and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protest , with no bells and whistles , involves angry marchers screaming , “ F–k the police !
” “ Fry like bacon !
” “ I know you got a gun , but so do I !
” “ Your mother ’ s umbilical cord should have wrapped around your neck and choked you just the way you choked George Floyd , you filthy animal.
” ( Floyd died of a heart attack , not strangulation . )
They nearly always include chants of the 100 % proved lie about the shooting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
Don ’ t Shoot !
” BLM protesters block traffic , stop cars and demand the drivers swear allegiance to BLM .
They invade restaurants and shout in patrons ’ faces .
And let ’ s not forget the looting .
Most people consider that , at the very least , obnoxious .
But instead of asking either of the Democratic candidates about their enthusiasm for BLM and antifa riots—I mean “ protests ” —the media insist on endlessly chewing over a worldwide threat that exists exclusively in their imaginations : WHITE @ @ @ @ @ @ @ me before the presidential debate last week , What if someone brings up the media ’ s “ fine people , on both sides ” lie about Trump ?
I ’ d have said : Nah , he clearly denounced “ white supremacists ” in that very statement ; no one would be that stupid .
Chris Wallace is !
I thought he was stealing a 4-year-old , hacky idea from CNN ’ s Jake Tapper , but it turns out Wallace himself asked Trump this exact same question about condemning “ white @ @ @ @ @ @ @ March 2016 .
Journalists are like 2-year-olds who won ’ t stop asking why the sky is blue or how high is “ up.
” ( Or a similarly unanswerable question : Why on earth doesn ’ t Trump keep an MP3 file in his pocket of him saying , “ … and I ’ m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists , because they should be condemned totally.
” ) Inasmuch as the media are never going to stop demanding that Trump “ condemn ” white supremacy—and seeing as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about turning it around and demanding that Biden denounce NAMBLA ?
The question is more than legitimate : 1 ) Unlike “ white supremacists , ” the North American Man-Boy Love Association actually exists ; and 2 ) while NAMBLA may not have officially endorsed Biden-Harris yet , we know they support him , as much as the media know “ white supremacists ” support Trump .
Ann Coulter is the author of THIRTEEN New York Times bestsellers—collect them here .
Her book , ¡Adios America !
The Left ’ s Plan To @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hell Hole , was released on June 1 , 2015 .
Her latest book , Resistance Is Futile !
: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind , was released on August 21 , 2018 .

Previously: Biden, Wallace, Media Rout Trump With “White Supremacy” Bogeyman—Helped By His Own Appointees. It’s His Fault, For Quarrelling With Ann Coulter
Unfortunately, this week’s vice presidential debate—occurring after this column goes out—is unlikely to be something you’d see in the Turkish parliament, like we had last week. But I expect one similarity: There will be ZERO questions about any major issues, like crime, immigration, globalism, the endless riots, our insane foreign policy or what Wall Street is doing.
More like: Our next question is about transgender adoption.
And of course, Vice President Mike Pence will be asked to “condemn” white supremacy. Redeeming America from the bogeyman of “white supremacy” is apparently the media’s main argument against Trump.
Earlier this summer on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” the Democrats’ vice presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, cheered on the protests that have been creating havoc since May:
“They’re not gonna stop. They’re not gonna stop, and this is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not gonna stop, and everyone beware, because they’re not gonna stop. They’re not gonna stop before Election Day in November, and they’re not gonna stop after Election Day. Everyone should take note of that, on both levels, that they’re not going to let up—and they should not. And we should not.”
But Harris won’t be asked about that. According to USA Today’s fact check, she never said any such thing. The newspaper rated the claim that Harris supported the destructive protests—which, again, is on video—“PARTLY FALSE” on the grounds that Harris referred to “protests, not “riots.”
Those were “peaceful protests”!
Why are we required to pretend the Black Lives Matter “protests” are lovely little afternoon teas, while the antifa riots that inevitably follow are the problem? (If there is a problem at all, which there can’t be, because “antifa” doesn’t exist, nor do “riots,” but if they do, it’s white supremacists doing them!)
I’m open to the argument that an organization is not responsible for the things people do in its name—but that’s not the media’s position. Even if it were true that the BLM “protests” were peaceful (and it’s not), then why do the media always hector Trump to denounce “white supremacists” on the grounds that they certainly regard him as their leader!?
Whenever and wherever antifa riot, they spray-paint “BLM” on walls, chant BLM slogans, vilify the police and scream about “black lives.” Quite obviously, they think they’re committing vandalism, assault and arson to help BLM. At the very least, BLM is not doing much to police their sworn allies.
Even taking BLM “peaceful protests” on their own, they are not what most people regard as peaceful, like the anti-nuke protests in the 1980s, featuring singing, dancing, balloons and jugglers.
The basic, factory-issue BLM protest, with no bells and whistles, involves angry marchers screaming, “F–k the police!” “Fry like bacon!” “I know you got a gun, but so do I!” “Your mother’s umbilical cord should have wrapped around your neck and choked you just the way you choked George Floyd, you filthy animal.” (Floyd died of a heart attack, not strangulation.) They nearly always include chants of the 100% proved lie about the shooting of Mike Brown, “Hands up! Don’t Shoot!” BLM protesters block traffic, stop cars and demand the drivers swear allegiance to BLM. They invade restaurants and shout in patrons’ faces. And let’s not forget the looting.
Most people consider that, at the very least, obnoxious.
But instead of asking either of the Democratic candidates about their enthusiasm for BLM and antifa riots—I mean “protests”—the media insist on endlessly chewing over a worldwide threat that exists exclusively in their imaginations: WHITE SUPREMACY!
If you’d asked me before the presidential debate last week, What if someone brings up the media’s “fine people, on both sides” lie about Trump? I’d have said: Nah, he clearly denounced “white supremacists” in that very statement; no one would be that stupid.
Chris Wallace is! I thought he was stealing a 4-year-old, hacky idea from CNN’s Jake Tapper, but it turns out Wallace himself asked Trump this exact same question about condemning “white supremacy” during a primary debate in March 2016. Journalists are like 2-year-olds who won’t stop asking why the sky is blue or how high is “up.” (Or a similarly unanswerable question: Why on earth doesn’t Trump keep an MP3 file in his pocket of him saying, “… and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.”)
Inasmuch as the media are never going to stop demanding that Trump “condemn” white supremacy—and seeing as Trump refuses to just play the tape—how about turning it around and demanding that Biden denounce NAMBLA?
I am calling on my opponent to condemn NAMBLA right here and right now. Do you, Mr. Biden, admit that a grown man having anal sex with a 10-year-old is wrong? Will you tell your supporters this right now? Pederasts certainly think you support them. They vote for you, they don’t vote for me!
The question is more than legitimate: 1) Unlike “white supremacists,” the North American Man-Boy Love Association actually exists; and 2) while NAMBLA may not have officially endorsed Biden-Harris yet, we know they support him, as much as the media know “white supremacists” support Trump.
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Ann Coulter is the author of THIRTEEN New York Times bestsellers—collect them here.
Her book, ¡Adios America! The Left’s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hell Hole, was released on June 1, 2015.
Her latest book, Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind, was released on August 21, 2018.


vdare--2020-10-07--DHS Doubles Down On "White Supremacy" Delusions

Previously : Biden , Wallace , Media Rout Trump With “ White Supremacy ” Bogeyman—Helped By His Own Appointees .
It ’ s His Fault , For Quarrelling With Ann Coulter The press continues to rip into President Trump for his alleged enabling of “ white supremacist ” terrorism -- and his own administration continues to fortify these dubious claims .
The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday white supremacists present “ the most persistent and lethal ” threat to the nation in its latest threat assessment [ DHS : White supremacists are the most lethal domestic extremist threat , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Washington Times , October 6 , 2020 ] .
This line directly contradicts what Trump said in the presidential debate last week and the obvious facts on the ground .
White supremacists aren ’ t the ones burning down Portland , Seattle , Minneapolis , and Kenosha .
It ’ s Antifa and Black Lives Matter .
Even crooked FBI director Christopher Wray recently admitted the majority of political violence in 2020 comes from “ anti-government extremists ” -- the government ’ s deceptive label for most left-wing terrorists .
The DHS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anarchists , ” but it still considers white supremacists a bigger problem .
“ I am particularly concerned about white supremacist violent extremists who have been exceptionally lethal in their abhorrent , targeted attacks in recent years , ” DHS acting secretary Chad Wolf said in the report .
Wolf is Trump ’ s nominee to become permanent agency director , a move that seems extremely unwise considering this stupid report .
On top of this insulting threat assessment , DHS announced over the weekend it would be giving millions away to left-wing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wing extremists .
Fortunately , none of the money goes to the $ PLC or the Anti-Defamation League , but the smaller nonprofits who receive the government largesse aren ’ t necessarily better [ Homeland Security to Grant Millions to Groups to Combat White Supremacists and Other Extremists , Rachael Levy and Dan Frosch , Wall Street Journal , October 3 , 2020 ] .
I wrote in my latest article that Trump must pull Wolf ’ s nomination and find someone who can focus on the real national threat .
These latest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wolf does not become permanent DHS secretary .

Previously: Biden, Wallace, Media Rout Trump With “White Supremacy” Bogeyman—Helped By His Own Appointees. It’s His Fault, For Quarrelling With Ann Coulter
The press continues to rip into President Trump for his alleged enabling of “white supremacist” terrorism--and his own administration continues to fortify these dubious claims.
The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday white supremacists present “the most persistent and lethal” threat to the nation in its latest threat assessment [DHS: White supremacists are the most lethal domestic extremist threat, by Bill Gerts and Stephen Dinan, Washington Times, October 6, 2020]. This line directly contradicts what Trump said in the presidential debate last week and the obvious facts on the ground. White supremacists aren’t the ones burning down Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Kenosha. It’s Antifa and Black Lives Matter. Even crooked FBI director Christopher Wray recently admitted the majority of political violence in 2020 comes from “anti-government extremists”--the government’s deceptive label for most left-wing terrorists.
The DHS report does mention the threat from “anarchists,” but it still considers white supremacists a bigger problem. “I am particularly concerned about white supremacist violent extremists who have been exceptionally lethal in their abhorrent, targeted attacks in recent years,” DHS acting secretary Chad Wolf said in the report.
Wolf is Trump’s nominee to become permanent agency director, a move that seems extremely unwise considering this stupid report.
On top of this insulting threat assessment, DHS announced over the weekend it would be giving millions away to left-wing nonprofits who “track” so-called right wing extremists. Fortunately, none of the money goes to the $PLC or the Anti-Defamation League, but the smaller nonprofits who receive the government largesse aren’t necessarily better [Homeland Security to Grant Millions to Groups to Combat White Supremacists and Other Extremists, Rachael Levy and Dan Frosch, Wall Street Journal, October 3, 2020].
I wrote in my latest article that Trump must pull Wolf’s nomination and find someone who can focus on the real national threat. These latest actions prove how essential it is that Wolf does not become permanent DHS secretary.


vdare--2020-10-07--NYT: Trump Is Wrong! Crime Is Down! (Except for Homicides, Which Are Up 28%)

From the New York Times ’ Upshot section : The Pandemic Has Hindered Many of the Best Ideas for Reducing Violence By Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui Oct. 6 , 2020 Reported crime of nearly every kind has declined this year amid the pandemic .
The exception to that has been stark and puzzling : Shootings and homicides are up in cities around the country , perplexing experts who normally expect these patterns to trend together .
Eyeballing this NYT graph , it sure looks to me like the homicide rate across 37 cities has gone up since George Floyd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between one-fourth and one-third .
Indeed , the NYT ’ s Jeff Asher reported recently than in a sample of 49 cities , murders were up 28 % year-to-date .
The pandemic appears irrelevant to the homicide rate : 2020 ’ s homicide rate was running a little higher back in the winter and stayed a little higher in the spring during the lockdowns and then went through the roof during The Summer of Peaceful Protests ( and Not Quite So Peaceful Shootings ) .
( Note that the homicide rate is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and others have blamed protests and unrest , the changing tactics of police , and even the partisan politics of mayors .
But at least part of the puzzle may lie in sources that are harder to see ( and politicize ) : The pandemic has frayed all kinds of institutions and infrastructure that hold communities together , that watch over streets , that mediate conflicts , that simply give young people something to do .
Schools , libraries , recreation centers and public pools have closed .
Nonprofits , churches and sports @ @ @ @ @ @ @ social workers and counselors have been hampered by social distancing .
I thought one of the more clever explanations of why shootings have doubled in New York City this year is that with few riding the subways , people in bad neighborhoods had to hang around with their bad neighbors rather than go off to some nice neighborhood to get away from their not nice neighbors .
Not surprisingly , in some neighborhoods , the more time people spend with each other , the more they shoot each other .
Perhaps .
Or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for all the black killings blacks since May 25 is that the media , led by the New York Times , spent the summer telling blacks they should be ANGRY .
It ’ s all that history that is driving people to shoot each other .
Or , vehicle theft is the best quantified crime besides murder because victims have an incentive to report it to the police for insurance purposes , whereas somebody stealing an Amazon package off your porch is the kind of thing you might have gotten worked up over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police but in 2020 , everybody is slacking .
Or maybe dead bodies get counted more diligently than minor crimes ?
“ Any theory that ’ s really going to be convincing has to explain this unusual pattern , ” said David Abrams , a professor at the University of Pennsylvania law school who has been tracking crime trends this year .
The behavior of the police has certainly changed .
Early in the spring , officers pulled back on their interactions amid social distancing .
Later in the spring and summer they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reacted to those protests with slowdowns .
But Mr. Abrams said the effect of any policing changes wouldn ’ t be limited to homicides and shootings .
Rosenfeld was much quoted in 2015 in various debunkings of the Ferguson Effect , for his Not Ferguson Effect : He has looked at a similar rise in violence around the protests against police brutality in 2015 .
And he suspects that police legitimacy deteriorates in these moments , even in neighborhoods where trust in law enforcement is already low .
“ When confidence in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one gets a rise in so-called street justice , in people taking matters into their own hands to settle disputes , ” Mr. Rosenfeld said .
“ That contributes to a rise in violence.
” Viewed that way , the police themselves are another institution that ’ s fraying , at a time when alternative mediators and authority figures are especially absent .
The media ’ s campaign of blood libels against the police has had nothing to do with all subsequent murders .
Like I ’ ve been pointing out , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Police was that municipalities are going broke , so non-police government workers have been hoping to raid police budgets to preserve their own pay .
It ’ s a perfectly logical reaction .
Just too bad about all the dead bodies .

From the New York Times’ Upshot section:
The Pandemic Has Hindered Many of the Best Ideas for Reducing Violence
By Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui Oct. 6, 2020 Reported crime of nearly every kind has declined this year amid the pandemic. The exception to that has been stark and puzzling: Shootings and homicides are up in cities around the country, perplexing experts who normally expect these patterns to trend together.
Eyeballing this NYT graph, it sure looks to me like the homicide rate across 37 cities has gone up since George Floyd’s death on Memorial Day by between one-fourth and one-third. Indeed, the NYT’s Jeff Asher reported recently that in a sample of 49 cities, murders were up 28% year-to-date.
The pandemic appears irrelevant to the homicide rate: 2020’s homicide rate was running a little higher back in the winter and stayed a little higher in the spring during the lockdowns and then went through the roof during The Summer of Peaceful Protests (and Not Quite So Peaceful Shootings). (Note that the homicide rate is a 4-week moving average.)
The president and others have blamed protests and unrest, the changing tactics of police, and even the partisan politics of mayors. But at least part of the puzzle may lie in sources that are harder to see (and politicize): The pandemic has frayed all kinds of institutions and infrastructure that hold communities together, that watch over streets, that mediate conflicts, that simply give young people something to do. Schools, libraries, recreation centers and public pools have closed. Nonprofits, churches and sports leagues have scaled back. Mentors, social workers and counselors have been hampered by social distancing.
I thought one of the more clever explanations of why shootings have doubled in New York City this year is that with few riding the subways, people in bad neighborhoods had to hang around with their bad neighbors rather than go off to some nice neighborhood to get away from their not nice neighbors. Not surprisingly, in some neighborhoods, the more time people spend with each other, the more they shoot each other.
And programs devised to reduce gun violence — and that have proved effective in studies — have been upended by the pandemic. Summer jobs programs were cut this year. Violence intervention workers were barred from hospitals. Group behavioral therapy programs meant to be intimate and in-person have moved, often haltingly, online.
Perhaps. Or it could be that the bigger cause for all the black killings blacks since May 25 is that the media, led by the New York Times, spent the summer telling blacks they should be ANGRY.
And they listened.
Without jobs, activities or support, many people have also been stuck at home in neighborhoods with histories of violence and continuing conflicts.
It’s all that history that is driving people to shoot each other.
… It’s impossible to say how much this dynamic has contributed to violence this year. Crime is hard to explain even in normal times. Some of the trends this year are relatively straightforward: Residential robberies declined with people spending more time at home. Shoplifting declined when businesses closed. Stolen cars increased in some cities as novice delivery drivers started leaving their running cars in the road.
Or, vehicle theft is the best quantified crime besides murder because victims have an incentive to report it to the police for insurance purposes, whereas somebody stealing an Amazon package off your porch is the kind of thing you might have gotten worked up over in 2019 enough to report to the police but in 2020, everybody is slacking.
But violence is harder to grapple with. And that is especially true this year because it diverges so drastically from other crime.
Or maybe dead bodies get counted more diligently than minor crimes?
“Any theory that’s really going to be convincing has to explain this unusual pattern,” said David Abrams, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania law school who has been tracking crime trends this year. The behavior of the police has certainly changed. Early in the spring, officers pulled back on their interactions amid social distancing. Later in the spring and summer they faced mass protests — and may have reacted to those protests with slowdowns. But Mr. Abrams said the effect of any policing changes wouldn’t be limited to homicides and shootings.
The rise in violence in cities around the country coincided in late May and early June with mass protests after the death of George Floyd in police custody. But that’s not necessarily because of a police pullback, or because the protests themselves led to violence (although looting did create an abrupt spike in nonresidential burglaries), said Richard Rosenfeld, a criminologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Rosenfeld was much quoted in 2015 in various debunkings of the Ferguson Effect, for his Not Ferguson Effect:
He has looked at a similar rise in violence around the protests against police brutality in 2015. And he suspects that police legitimacy deteriorates in these moments, even in neighborhoods where trust in law enforcement is already low. “When confidence in the police wanes and drops sufficiently, then one gets a rise in so-called street justice, in people taking matters into their own hands to settle disputes,” Mr. Rosenfeld said. “That contributes to a rise in violence.” Viewed that way, the police themselves are another institution that’s fraying, at a time when alternative mediators and authority figures are especially absent.
The media’s campaign of blood libels against the police has had nothing to do with all subsequent murders.
Like I’ve been pointing out, a lot of the motivation behind Defund the Police was that municipalities are going broke, so non-police government workers have been hoping to raid police budgets to preserve their own pay. It’s a perfectly logical reaction. Just too bad about all the dead bodies.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-10-07--Sailer In TakiMag: "Asian Supremacy" In The SATs

From my new column in Taki ’ s Magazine : Of course , the Asian-black gaps on the SAT college @ @ @ @ @ with only 1 percent of blacks scoring 1400 or above compared to 24 percent of @ @ @ @ @ there are about 20 high-scoring ( > = 1400 ) Asians for every high-scoring black @ @ @ @ @ only go up as Asians continue to immigrate .
Asians scored 290 points higher on @ @ @ @ @ The average Asian score would rank in the top 10 percent of blacks .

From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
Asian Supremacy
Steve Sailer
October 07, 2020
Of course, the Asian-black gaps on the SAT college admission exam are immense, with only 1 percent of blacks scoring 1400 or above compared to 24 percent of Asians. At present, there are about 20 high-scoring (>= 1400) Asians for every high-scoring black, and this ratio will only go up as Asians continue to immigrate. Asians scored 290 points higher on average than did blacks. The average Asian score would rank in the top 10 percent of blacks.


vdare--2020-10-07--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2014: Netanyahu Acts To Protect Israelis From Treasonous High Court:

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2014: Netanyahu Acts To Protect Israelis From Treasonous High Court: GOP Should Do So For Americans!

Residents of working class Tel Aviv expressed their anguish and anger Sunday following the High Court decision striking down the Infiltrator Law , by marching with black flags .
Organizer May Golan said that the residents are taking down the Israeli flag and flying the black flag in protest of the dictatorship of “ bagatz ” – the Hebrew acronym for the High Court for Justice…a week after the High Court controversially shot down the so-called `` Infiltrator Law '' , which sought to tackle the problem of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa residing in Israel I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the bearded gentlemen at 1:04 .
He said that “ Bagatz ” is more dangerous to Israel than ISIS and Hamas because it was not letting the Government deal with the problem of illegal immigration and was destroying the country from inside .
Americans , after U.S. Federal Court interventions to destroy democratic attempts to protect communities by State and local ordinances – to say nothing of the catastrophic Plyler vs Doe decree–will applaud this response : The High Court 's decision was widely condemned by legislators , who saw it as an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an unelected institution notorious for judicial activism in favor of `` left-wing '' causes .
Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar noted that the decision marked the second time in a single year that the High Court intervened in legislation regarding infiltrators , which was approved by large majorities in two different Knessets .
The previous Infiltrator Law was completely annulled by the High Court .
Following this , a new law was passed , and now the court has effectively annulled it as well .
But ( unlike Americans ) Israelis have statesmen willing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , fresh from stomping on an American questioner who dared query his policies as I reported in Israel ’ s Netanyahu : “ We Don ’ t Have To Open Our Doors To Be Swamped ” has drawn his sword : Any new policy toward illegal migrants must include jail time , Interior Minister Gideon Sa ’ ar said Monday , calling to limit the High Court ’ s ability to overturn laws… “ We need to see the big picture , ” he said .
“ Does Israel want to keep its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Does it want to protect its borders ?
Then we need to be clear on this matter.
” But the question remains : U.S. Amnesties Illegals , Israel Deports .
Why The Difference ?

Black Flag Protest against High Court Infiltrator Ruling, By Yoni Kempinski, Gil Ronen, Arutz Sheva, October 5, 2014
This story continues:
Residents of working class Tel Aviv expressed their anguish and anger Sunday following the High Court decision striking down the Infiltrator Law, by marching with black flags. Organizer May Golan said that the residents are taking down the Israeli flag and flying the black flag in protest of the dictatorship of “bagatz” – the Hebrew acronym for the High Court for Justice…a week after the High Court controversially shot down the so-called "Infiltrator Law," which sought to tackle the problem of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa residing in Israel
I particularly sympathized with the opinion expressed by the bearded gentlemen at 1:04. He said that “Bagatz” is more dangerous to Israel than ISIS and Hamas because it was not letting the Government deal with the problem of illegal immigration and was destroying the country from inside.
Americans, after U.S. Federal Court interventions to destroy democratic attempts to protect communities by State and local ordinances—to say nothing of the catastrophic Plyler vs Doe decree—will applaud this response:
The High Court's decision was widely condemned by legislators, who saw it as an infringement on Israel's democratically-elected leadership by an unelected institution notorious for judicial activism in favor of "left-wing" causes. Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar noted that the decision marked the second time in a single year that the High Court intervened in legislation regarding infiltrators, which was approved by large majorities in two different Knessets. The previous Infiltrator Law was completely annulled by the High Court. Following this, a new law was passed, and now the court has effectively annulled it as well.
Judicial Imperialism and Kritarchy are not just American problems it seems.
But (unlike Americans) Israelis have statesmen willing to defend them. Prime Minister Netanyahu, fresh from stomping on an American questioner who dared query his policies, as I reported in Israel’s Netanyahu: “We Don’t Have To Open Our Doors To Be Swamped,” has drawn his sword:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered ministers on Tuesday to draft new legislation to tackle illegal immigrants after the High Court overturned a law allowing their extended detention without trial…. "It is in the highest national interest to prevent the entry of new infiltrators to Israel and to encourage the departure of those who are in Israel and that is what we shall do," the statement quoted Netanyahu as telling Tuesday's meeting [Israel PM orders new legislation against illegal immigrants AFP Tuesday, October 7, 2014].


vdare--2020-10-06--From Derb's Email Bag: Books, Including MINE WERE OF TROUBLE, Guns, Black/White Incarceration Rates,

From Derb's Email Bag: Books, Including MINE WERE OF TROUBLE, Guns, Black/White Incarceration Rates, Etc. [7 Items!]

( 1 ) New Yorkish .
In my September Diary I mentioned the common query `` Jeet ? ''
used when you want to know whether the counterparty has taken nourishment recently .
Several readers reminded me of the related first person plural imperative form : `` Squeet ! ''
( 2 ) Brainteaser solution .
( From that same diary . )
There is a worked solution here .
( 3 ) MAA goes full woke .
Everybody and his brother—and his brother 's dentist , and his brother 's dentist 's plumber 's landscaper 's assistant—has directed my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a committee of the Mathematical Association of America urging `` all members of our profession '' ( i.e.
, mathematicians ) to embrace social-justice activism .
I shall pass comment in my October 9th Radio Derb podcast .
( 4 ) Mine Were of Trouble .
Twelve years ago in my monthly diary I had a passing reference to Peter Kemp : In conversation with some friends I mentioned Peter Kemp , the young Englishman who went off to fight for Franco in the Spanish Civil War and wrote a fine book about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trouble .
In spite of being badly wounded in Spain—half his jaw was blown off by a hand grenade ; his comrades anesthetized him with brandy—Kemp went on to be a war lover , seeking out danger anywhere he could find it .
This remarkable man seems to have sunk without trace .
So has his book .
I read it twenty years ago , but in a library copy .
Thinking I 'd like to read it again , I went to Abebooks.com , which has everything .
The only copy of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Spanish translation .
When I next checked eight years later I have just heard from a reader that a small press reprinted Mine Were of Trouble earlier this year : See here .
He adds : `` There seems to be some criticism for the reprint 's sloppy proofreading and omission of the original ’ s maps . ''
Alas , that is the norm nowadays .
The art of proofreading is dead .
We are in a lull between the age of good proofreading and the time , ten or twenty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ takes over and does the job properly .
As for the absence of maps : One more instance of this and I shall be in the mood to make it a capital felony .
( 5 ) Sholokhov math .
That same reader reminds me of the controversy—brought to the attention of English-language readers in 1974 by Solzhenitsyn—over Sholokhov having possibly plagiarized And Quiet Flows the Don from a Cossack or White Russian writer killed in the Civil War .
Much more recently , Norwegian mathematician Nils Lid Hjort conducted a thorough statistical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concluding that : I ca n't judge how dispositive that is ; and the way these controversies proceed , I have no doubt there are last-ditch defenders of the plagiarism hypothesis out there warming up to send me 1200-word rebuttals of Prof. Hjort .
Life is short : I shall not read them .
( 6 ) Gun pics .
A reader chides me for having shown my Lee-Enfield with its bolt cocked .
For photographic purposes , he says , the bolt should be open .
So it should .
I am @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course the gun was not loaded .
I had only been easing the spring .
( 7 ) Black/white incarceration rates .
An old friend ( of mine , and of this website ) takes issue with some math I committed in my September 11th podcast .
I 'd commented on a speech by black socialist member of Britain 's parliament David Lammy , complaining about what he says is anti-black bias in the criminal justice system over there .
Quoting official statistics , Lammy noted that black people make up 3 percent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but 12 percent of the prison population , compared with 13 percent and 35 percent respectively , in the USA .
I then said : My friend rebuked me thus : It is not correct simply to divide 12 by 3 and get 4 , and then to divide 35 by 13 and get 2.7 .
To do so ignores the fact that every increase in crime rates by blacks , as expressed as a larger percentage of the prison population as compared to the percentage in the population reduces the corresponding rate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US .
The correct calculation is ( 35/13 ) / ( 65/87 ) , and the result is 3.6 , not 2.7 — which is the answer you give .
Your calculation is , in effect ( 35/13 ) / ( 87/87 ) , which is incorrect .
You can think of 35/13 as a calculation of disproportionality .
13 percent of the population accounts for 35 percent of prisoners .
But that means you also have to calculate 65/87 , because 87 percent of the population accounts only for 65 percent of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do not mean what you think they mean .
You have to divide the larger by the smaller to get the correct multiple .
The correct multiple for the black/white incarceration rate for Britain is , using the same calculation , 4.6 rather than 4 .
The tedious way to get the same result would be to take actual population and incarceration figures , and calculate an incarceration rate in terms of jailbirds per 100,000 population .
Then you have the same denominators ( 100,000 ) , so dividing the larger numerator by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ multiple .
This is how you can check my method if you are skeptical .
My friend is quite right .
To salve my self-esteem , I shall write this off as a linguistic fault , not an arithmetic one .
I should have written something like `` The proportion of blacks as prison inmates is four times their proportion in the nation 's population … ''

Just a few.
(1) New Yorkish. In my September Diary I mentioned the common query "Jeet?" used when you want to know whether the counterparty has taken nourishment recently. Several readers reminded me of the related first person plural imperative form: "Squeet!"
(2) Brainteaser solution. (From that same diary.) There is a worked solution here.
(3) MAA goes full woke. Everybody and his brother—and his brother's dentist, and his brother's dentist's plumber's landscaper's assistant—has directed my attention to the October 2nd statement by a committee of the Mathematical Association of America urging "all members of our profession" (i.e., mathematicians) to embrace social-justice activism. I shall pass comment in my October 9th Radio Derb podcast.
(4) Mine Were of Trouble. Twelve years ago in my monthly diary I had a passing reference to Peter Kemp:
In conversation with some friends I mentioned Peter Kemp, the young Englishman who went off to fight for Franco in the Spanish Civil War and wrote a fine book about the experience, title Mine Were of Trouble. In spite of being badly wounded in Spain—half his jaw was blown off by a hand grenade; his comrades anesthetized him with brandy—Kemp went on to be a war lover, seeking out danger anywhere he could find it. This remarkable man seems to have sunk without trace. So has his book. I read it twenty years ago, but in a library copy. Thinking I'd like to read it again, I went to Abebooks.com, which has everything. The only copy of Mine Were of Trouble on Abebooks was a Spanish translation.
When I next checked eight years later
Amazon has no copies available. Abebooks had just one when I looked in late December, priced $269.95, "a darn nice ex-library copy." Darn nice? For that darn price, I should darn well hope so.
I have just heard from a reader that a small press reprinted Mine Were of Trouble earlier this year: See here. He adds: "There seems to be some criticism for the reprint's sloppy proofreading and omission of the original’s maps."
Alas, that is the norm nowadays. The art of proofreading is dead. We are in a lull between the age of good proofreading and the time, ten or twenty years from now, when Artificial Intelligence takes over and does the job properly.
As for the absence of maps:
Who the hell publishes a book about a major military campaign without including a single map? … This should be a felony. [From my August Diary.]
One more instance of this and I shall be in the mood to make it a capital felony.
(5) Sholokhov math. That same reader reminds me of the controversy—brought to the attention of English-language readers in 1974 by Solzhenitsyn—over Sholokhov having possibly plagiarized And Quiet Flows the Don from a Cossack or White Russian writer killed in the Civil War.
Much more recently, Norwegian mathematician Nils Lid Hjort conducted a thorough statistical analysis of the original Russian text, concluding that:
We may conclude that the sentence length data speak very strongly in Sholokhov’s favour, and dismiss D*'s allegations as speculations: the Stalin Prize in Literature 1941 went to the right person.
I can't judge how dispositive that is; and the way these controversies proceed, I have no doubt there are last-ditch defenders of the plagiarism hypothesis out there warming up to send me 1200-word rebuttals of Prof. Hjort. Life is short: I shall not read them.
(6) Gun pics. A reader chides me for having shown my Lee-Enfield with its bolt cocked. For photographic purposes, he says, the bolt should be open.
So it should. I am well chidden. But no, of course the gun was not loaded. I had only been easing the spring.
(7) Black/white incarceration rates. An old friend (of mine, and of this website) takes issue with some math I committed in my September 11th podcast.
I'd commented on a speech by black socialist member of Britain's parliament David Lammy, complaining about what he says is anti-black bias in the criminal justice system over there. Quoting official statistics, Lammy noted that black people make up 3 percent of the population of England and Wales but 12 percent of the prison population, compared with 13 percent and 35 percent respectively, in the USA. I then said:
So on those numbers from three years ago, British blacks are imprisoned at four times the nonblack rate, while in America it's only 2.7 times.
My friend rebuked me thus:
It is not correct simply to divide 12 by 3 and get 4, and then to divide 35 by 13 and get 2.7. To do so ignores the fact that every increase in crime rates by blacks, as expressed as a larger percentage of the prison population as compared to the percentage in the population reduces the corresponding rate for non-blacks. Let's consider the US. The correct calculation is (35/13)/(65/87), and the result is 3.6, not 2.7 — which is the answer you give. Your calculation is, in effect (35/13)/(87/87), which is incorrect. You can think of 35/13 as a calculation of disproportionality. 13 percent of the population accounts for 35 percent of prisoners. But that means you also have to calculate 65/87, because 87 percent of the population accounts only for 65 percent of prisoners. The resulting figures by themselves do not mean what you think they mean. You have to divide the larger by the smaller to get the correct multiple. The correct multiple for the black/white incarceration rate for Britain is, using the same calculation, 4.6 rather than 4. The tedious way to get the same result would be to take actual population and incarceration figures, and calculate an incarceration rate in terms of jailbirds per 100,000 population. Then you have the same denominators (100,000), so dividing the larger numerator by the smaller will give you the correct multiple. This is how you can check my method if you are skeptical.
My friend is quite right. To salve my self-esteem, I shall write this off as a linguistic fault, not an arithmetic one. I should have written something like "The proportion of blacks as prison inmates is four times their proportion in the nation's population …"


vdare--2020-10-06--What Year Does Biden Remember Better? 1960 Or 2020?

Joe Biden is always announcing that we need these innovative new programs , like Sensitivity Training for police , that would have been cutting edge when he was 18 in 1960 , but by 2020 have already been in place for generations .
I actually think Joe Biden ’ s heart is in the right place , but I worry that when his young staffers tell him their demented 2020 ideas about race , rather than saying “ That ’ s crazy ” and firing them , he translates their nuttiness into his sensible Kennedyesque reformer mindset : We should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new-fangled Sensitivity Training !
I fear Joe remembers 1960 better than he remembers 2020 .
But doesn ’ t everybody these days ?
This is what makes it so hard to predict what a Biden Administration would be like .
I really don ’ t think Biden wants to do again to American cities what liberals did to them in the 1960s , but does he have the strength left in him to resist his own staff ?
Will President Biden be able to get it across to his staffers that he doesn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ amok in America ’ s cities like it did the last time liberals got control of the criminal justice system ?
And if he does , will they have him canceled for saying things like : Joe apparently thinks that Critical Race Theory training for cops must be useful street-smart stuff like telling them cadets not to insult a black perp ’ s mother because even bad dudes like Corn Pop are surprisingly sensitive about that kind of thing and therefore likely to go ape on you , rather than being nonstop White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have a lot of Millennial women staffers working in the West Wing ?
What if they declare on Instagram that they don ’ t feel safe around him sniffing their hair and telling them rambling “ racially charged ” anecdotes about Corn Pop ?
Seriously , I can imagine poor Joe getting into a personnel spiral where first , say , three black women staffers complain about how he has made them feel Unsafe , so then he has to promote them and hire more black women , who listen for even more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , so he has to hire even more black women .
Then the gays and Asians and Latinx all try to get their own empire-building punched up by complaining about something Biden had said , and so forth and so on .
Joe would need a ruthless bastard chief of staff like Malcolm Tucker on The Thick of It or he ’ s going to get eaten alive by his own junior underlings .

Joe Biden says that police officers should have "sensitivity training." pic.twitter.com/LQO0IHwxLW — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 6, 2020
Joe Biden is always announcing that we need these innovative new programs, like Sensitivity Training for police, that would have been cutting edge when he was 18 in 1960, but by 2020 have already been in place for generations.
I actually think Joe Biden’s heart is in the right place, but I worry that when his young staffers tell him their demented 2020 ideas about race, rather than saying “That’s crazy” and firing them, he translates their nuttiness into his sensible Kennedyesque reformer mindset: We should sign cops up for some of this new-fangled Sensitivity Training!
I fear Joe remembers 1960 better than he remembers 2020.
But doesn’t everybody these days?
This is what makes it so hard to predict what a Biden Administration would be like. I really don’t think Biden wants to do again to American cities what liberals did to them in the 1960s, but does he have the strength left in him to resist his own staff?
Will President Biden be able to get it across to his staffers that he doesn’t actually want crime to run amok in America’s cities like it did the last time liberals got control of the criminal justice system?
And if he does, will they have him canceled for saying things like:
“Understanding other cultures, know what people are like, what they’re thinking about. How they act, what is consistent with the culture that they’re from… make sure cops are trained… to know what to expect in a community.”
Joe apparently thinks that Critical Race Theory training for cops must be useful street-smart stuff like telling them cadets not to insult a black perp’s mother because even bad dudes like Corn Pop are surprisingly sensitive about that kind of thing and therefore likely to go ape on you, rather than being nonstop White Man Bad.
Is Joe going to have a lot of Millennial women staffers working in the West Wing? What if they declare on Instagram that they don’t feel safe around him sniffing their hair and telling them rambling “racially charged” anecdotes about Corn Pop?
Seriously, I can imagine poor Joe getting into a personnel spiral where first, say, three black women staffers complain about how he has made them feel Unsafe, so then he has to promote them and hire more black women, who listen for even more implicit crimethink on Joe’s part, so he has to hire even more black women. Then the gays and Asians and Latinx all try to get their own empire-building punched up by complaining about something Biden had said, and so forth and so on.
Joe would need a ruthless bastard chief of staff like Malcolm Tucker on The Thick of It or he’s going to get eaten alive by his own junior underlings.
[Comment at Unz.com]


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vdare--2020-10-08--The Road Not Taken: A Reasonable Case for Defund the Police...Based On Good Behavior

Protesters want to defund police .
Homicides and violence are spiking .
In Oakland , ideology and practicality collide .
By Scott Wilson and Holly Bailey Oct. 7 , 2020 at 4:23 p.m. PDT Are we sure it ’ s just a “ spike ?
” Maybe it ’ s plateauing or still ramping up .
, a troubled police department is reeling from street demonstrations seeking racial justice and accountability , and the city budget is ravaged by the coronavirus economy .
The push to reshape police departments is occurring in cities across the country , but it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Oakland , where veteran activists want to sharply reduce the police budget but much of the broader community is struggling with what that could mean .
In a place that for the past decade has been dedicated to rethinking how it polices its people , the argument for a smaller force and larger social service agencies has gained momentum since George Floyd ’ s police killing in Minneapolis in May .
Floyd ’ s face and words — “ I can ’ t breathe ” — almost instantly became part of Oakland ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ve often pointed out , one reason for how strong violent black radicalism is in Oakland is because Oakland might be the nicest city to live in in the U.S. ( you can see the fog roll in over San Francisco from sunnier Oakland ) … if all the poor blacks were gentrified out to Stockton or wherever .
Hence , Oakland blacks see crime and riots as defending their turf .
The nearly immediate calls for cuts of up to half of the police department ’ s $ 300 million budget were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ municipal police force in a large city has proved highly complex at a time when the economic slowdown caused by the pandemic has greatly reduced the amount of public money to go around and crime has spiked .
Oakland has seen a surge in shootings and homicides , which in the second quarter of this year had more than doubled from the previous one .
Violence and vandalism that have come with some of the street protests have rattled a business community that supports , in principle , a more preventive approach to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ often argued , much of the the mainstream support for cutting police budgets is coming from other government employees and contractors who , like Russian peasants in a sleigh pursued by wolves want to throw the police budget overboard first .
Let me try to offer a reasonable case for a moderate Defund the Police stance : In these pandemic-induced hard times to come , we are all going to have to make financial sacrifices , and that includes police budgets .
I have confidence that our urban communities will respond to any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ best behavior , which will demonstrate that even after the economic crisis is over , our cities can be policed with a lighter touch .
Okay , but instead , the Establishment glommed on to two disastrously contradictory talking points : Not surprisingly , the interaction of the two themes has been catastrophic .

From the Washington Post news section:
Protesters want to defund police. Homicides and violence are spiking. In Oakland, ideology and practicality collide. By Scott Wilson and Holly Bailey
Oct. 7, 2020 at 4:23 p.m. PDT OAKLAND, Calif. — The homicide rate is spiking
Are we sure it’s just a “spike?” Maybe it’s plateauing or still ramping up.
, a troubled police department is reeling from street demonstrations seeking racial justice and accountability, and the city budget is ravaged by the coronavirus economy. The push to reshape police departments is occurring in cities across the country, but it is perhaps nowhere more evident than here in Oakland, where veteran activists want to sharply reduce the police budget but much of the broader community is struggling with what that could mean. In a place that for the past decade has been dedicated to rethinking how it polices its people, the argument for a smaller force and larger social service agencies has gained momentum since George Floyd’s police killing in Minneapolis in May. Floyd’s face and words — “I can’t breathe” — almost instantly became part of Oakland’s much-muraled streetscape.
As I’ve often pointed out, one reason for how strong violent black radicalism is in Oakland is because Oakland might be the nicest city to live in in the U.S. (you can see the fog roll in over San Francisco from sunnier Oakland) … if all the poor blacks were gentrified out to Stockton or wherever.
Hence, Oakland blacks see crime and riots as defending their turf.
The nearly immediate calls for cuts of up to half of the police department’s $300 million budget were popular among protesters. But cutting a municipal police force in a large city has proved highly complex at a time when the economic slowdown caused by the pandemic has greatly reduced the amount of public money to go around and crime has spiked. Oakland has seen a surge in shootings and homicides, which in the second quarter of this year had more than doubled from the previous one. Violence and vandalism that have come with some of the street protests have rattled a business community that supports, in principle, a more preventive approach to addressing crime.
As I’ve often argued, much of the mainstream support for cutting police budgets is coming from other government employees and contractors who, like Russian peasants in a sleigh pursued by wolves want to throw the police budget overboard first.
Let me try to offer a reasonable case for a moderate Defund the Police stance:
In these pandemic-induced hard times to come, we are all going to have to make financial sacrifices, and that includes police budgets. I have confidence that our urban communities will respond to any cuts in policing by being on their best behavior, which will demonstrate that even after the economic crisis is over, our cities can be policed with a lighter touch.
Okay, but instead, the Establishment glommed on to two disastrously contradictory talking points:
Cut police budgets
Blacks ought to be ANGRY
Not surprisingly, the interaction of the two themes has been catastrophic.


vdare--2020-10-08--Another (Implicitly) White Pill: Trump Denounces 1619 Project at White House Conference on American

Another (Implicitly) White Pill: Trump Denounces 1619 Project at White House Conference on American History,

See earlier : White Pill At The Right Time : Trump Expands Ban On Anti-White Critical Race Theory To Federal Contractors ( As Well As Executive Branch Agencies ) Lost in the insanity of endless stories this summer about the horror of Covid-19 and the seemingly perpetual lockdowns we are forced to endure was a powerful speech by President Trump about the need to reject the 1619 Project and embrace American history ( Steve Sailer noted that the 1619 Project was the New York Times “ Plan B ” for overthrowing Trump ) .
Looking at it , there ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pill .
Though he isn ’ t capable of truly articulating the anti-white nature of the 1619 Project and the implications of this hatchet job on American history ( to slice and dice every moment and every hero/heroine into just another example of the perpetuation of white privilege/systemic racism/implicit bias/structural inequality/white supremacy ) , this speech from President Trump does represent an important milestone in laying the groundwork to resurrect and ultimately protect our history on this continent .
After all , President Trump was just the bridge to the next era of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you very much .
Thank you , Mike .
A great Vice President .
I am truly honored to be here at the very first White House Conference on American History .
So important .
Our mission is to defend the legacy of America ’ s founding , the virtue of America ’ s heroes , and the nobility of the American character .
We must clear away the twisted web of lies in our schools and classrooms , and teach our children the magnificent truth about our country .
We want our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are the citizens of the most exceptional nation in the history of the world .
( Applause . )
To grow up in America is to live in a land where anything is possible , where anyone can rise , and where any dream can come true — all because of the immortal principles our nation ’ s founders inscribed nearly two and a half centuries ago .
That ’ s why we have come to the National Archives , the sacred home of our national memory .
In this great chamber , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Declaration of Independence , the Constitution , the Bill of Rights .
On this very day in 1787 , our Founding Fathers signed the Constitution at Independence Hall in Philadelphia .
It was the fulfillment of a thousand years of Western civilization .
Our Constitution was the product of centuries of tradition , wisdom , and experience .
No political document has done more to advance the human condition or propel the engine of progress .
Yet , as we gather this afternoon , a radical movement is attempting to demolish this treasured @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t let that happen .
( Applause . )
Left-wing mobs have torn down statues of our founders , desecrated our memorials , and carried out a campaign of violence and anarchy .
Far-left demonstrators have chanted the words “ America was never great.
” The left has launched a vicious and violent assault on law enforcement — the universal symbol of the rule of law in America .
These radicals have been aided and abetted by liberal politicians , establishment media , and even large corporations .
Whether it is the mob @ @ @ @ @ @ @ culture in the boardroom , the goal is the same : to silence dissent , to scare you out of speaking the truth , and to bully Americans into abandoning their values , their heritage , and their very way of life .
We are here today to declare that we will never submit to tyranny .
We will reclaim our history and our country for citizens of every race , color , religion , and creed .
The radicals burning American flags want to burn down the principles enshrined in our founding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ equal justice under law .
In order to radically transform America , they must first cause Americans to lose confidence in who we are , where we came from , and what we believe .
As I said at Mount Rushmore — which they would love to rip down and it rip it down fast , and that ’ s never going to happen — two months ago , the left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution .
As many of you testified today , the left-wing rioting and mayhem @ @ @ @ @ @ @ left-wing indoctrination in our schools .
It ’ s gone on far too long .
Our children are instructed from propaganda tracts , like those of Howard Zinn , that try to make students ashamed of their own history .
The left has warped , distorted , and defiled the American story with deceptions , falsehoods , and lies .
There is no better example than the New York Times ’ totally discredited 1619 Project .
This project rewrites American history to teach our children that we were founded on the principle of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be further from the truth .
America ’ s founding set in motion the unstoppable chain of events that abolished slavery , secured civil rights , defeated communism and fascism , and built the most fair , equal , and prosperous nation in human history .
( Applause . )
The narratives about America being pushed by the far-left and being chanted in the streets bear a striking resemblance to the anti-American propaganda of our adversaries — because both groups want to see America weakened , derided , and totally diminished .
Students @ @ @ @ @ @ @ race theory .
This is a Marxist doctrine holding that America is a wicked and racist nation , that even young children are complicit in oppression , and that our entire society must be radically transformed .
Critical race theory is being forced into our children ’ s schools , it ’ s being imposed into workplace trainings , and it ’ s being deployed to rip apart friends , neighbors , and families .
A perfect example of critical race theory was recently published by the Smithsonian Institution .
This document alleged @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rational thinking , the nuclear family , and belief in God were not values that unite all Americans , but were instead aspects of “ whiteness.
” This is offensive and outrageous to Americans of every ethnicity , and it is especially harmful to children of minority backgrounds who should be uplifted , not disparaged .
Teaching this horrible doctrine to our children is a form of child abuse in the truest sense of those words .
For many years now , the radicals have mistaken Americans ’ silence for weakness .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no more powerful force than a parent ’ s love for their children .
And patriotic moms and dads are going to demand that their children are no longer fed hateful lies about this country .
American parents are not going to accept indoctrination in our schools , cancel culture at our work , or the repression of traditional faith , culture , and values in the public square .
Not anymore .
( Applause . )
Thank you .
Thank you .
Thank you very much .
We embrace the vision of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character .
The left is attempting to destroy that beautiful vision and divide Americans by race in the service of political power .
By viewing every issue through the lens of race , they want to impose a new segregation , and we must not allow that to happen .
Critical race theory , the 1619 Project , and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda , ideological poison that , if not removed , will dissolve the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It will destroy our country .
That is why I recently banned trainings in this prejudiced ideology from the federal government and banned it in the strongest manner possible .
( Applause . )
The only path to national unity is through our shared identity as Americans .
That is why it is so urgent that we finally restore patriotic education to our schools .
Under our leadership , the National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant to support the development of a pro-American curriculum that celebrates the truth about our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Applause . )
We are joined by some of the respected scholars involved in this project , including Professor Wilfred McClay .
Wilfred , please .
Thank you very much .
Welcome .
( Applause . )
Thank you .
Dr. Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars .
Dr. Peter .
( Applause . )
Thank you .
Thank you .
And Ted Rebarber .
Thank you , Ted .
( Applause . )
Thank you very much , Ted .
Today , I am also pleased to announce that I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a national commission to promote patriotic education .
It will be called the “ 1776 Commission.
” ( Applause . )
Thank you .
Thank you .
It will encourage our educators to teach our children about the miracle of American history and make plans to honor the 250th anniversary of our founding .
Think of that — 250 years .
Recently , I also signed an executive order to establish the National Garden of American Heroes , a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans who have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ announcing a new name for inclusion .
One of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence was a patriot from Delaware .
In July of 1776 , the Continental Congress was deadlocked during the debate over independence .
The delegation from Delaware was divided .
Caesar Rodney was called upon to break the tie .
Even though he was suffering from very advanced cancer — he was deathly ill — Rodney rode 80 miles through the night , through a severe thunderstorm , from Dover to Philadelphia to cast his vote for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a statue of one of Delaware ’ s most beloved citizens stood in Rodney Square , right in the heart of Wilmington .
But this past June , Caesar Rodney ’ s statue was ordered removed by the mayor and local politicians as part of a radical purge of America ’ s founding generation .
Today , because of an order I signed , if you demolish a statue without permission , you immediately get 10 years in prison .
( Applause . )
And there have been no statues demolished for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the time I signed that act .
Joe Biden said nothing as to his home state ’ s history and the fact that it was dismantled and dismembered .
And a Founding Father ’ s statue was removed .
Today , America will give this Founding Father , this very brave man , who was so horribly treated , the place of honor he deserves .
I am announcing that a statue of Caesar Rodney will be added to the National Garden of American Heroes .
( Applause . )
From Washington to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America has been home to some of the most incredible people who have ever lived .
With the help of everyone here today , the legacy of 1776 will never be erased .
Our heroes will never be forgotten .
Our youth will be taught to love America with all of their heart and all of their soul .
We will save this cherished inheritance for our children , for their children , and for every generation to come .
This is a very important day .
Thank you all once again for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Constitution Day Proclamation .
God Bless You .
And God Bless America .
Thank you very much .
( Applause . )
Thank you .

See earlier: White Pill At The Right Time: Trump Expands Ban On Anti-White Critical Race Theory To Federal Contractors (As Well As Executive Branch Agencies)
Lost in the insanity of endless stories this summer about the horror of Covid-19 and the seemingly perpetual lockdowns we are forced to endure was a powerful speech by President Trump about the need to reject the 1619 Project and embrace American history (Steve Sailer noted that the 1619 Project was the New York Times' “Plan B” for overthrowing Trump).
Looking at it, there’s no doubt it represents a white pill. Though he isn’t capable of truly articulating the anti-white nature of the 1619 Project and the implications of this hatchet job on American history (to slice and dice every moment and every hero/heroine into just another example of the perpetuation of white privilege/systemic racism/implicit bias/structural inequality/white supremacy), this speech from President Trump does represent an important milestone in laying the groundwork to resurrect and ultimately protect our history on this continent.
After all, President Trump was just the bridge to the next era of Western Civilization.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Thank you, Mike. A great Vice President. I am truly honored to be here at the very first White House Conference on American History. So important.
Our mission is to defend the legacy of America’s founding, the virtue of America’s heroes, and the nobility of the American character. We must clear away the twisted web of lies in our schools and classrooms, and teach our children the magnificent truth about our country. We want our sons and daughters to know that they are the citizens of the most exceptional nation in the history of the world. (Applause.)
To grow up in America is to live in a land where anything is possible, where anyone can rise, and where any dream can come true — all because of the immortal principles our nation’s founders inscribed nearly two and a half centuries ago.
That’s why we have come to the National Archives, the sacred home of our national memory. In this great chamber, we preserve our glorious inheritance: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.
On this very day in 1787, our Founding Fathers signed the Constitution at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. It was the fulfillment of a thousand years of Western civilization. Our Constitution was the product of centuries of tradition, wisdom, and experience. No political document has done more to advance the human condition or propel the engine of progress.
Yet, as we gather this afternoon, a radical movement is attempting to demolish this treasured and precious inheritance. We can’t let that happen. (Applause.) Left-wing mobs have torn down statues of our founders, desecrated our memorials, and carried out a campaign of violence and anarchy. Far-left demonstrators have chanted the words “America was never great.” The left has launched a vicious and violent assault on law enforcement — the universal symbol of the rule of law in America. These radicals have been aided and abetted by liberal politicians, establishment media, and even large corporations.
Whether it is the mob on the street, or the cancel culture in the boardroom, the goal is the same: to silence dissent, to scare you out of speaking the truth, and to bully Americans into abandoning their values, their heritage, and their very way of life.
We are here today to declare that we will never submit to tyranny. We will reclaim our history and our country for citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed.
The radicals burning American flags want to burn down the principles enshrined in our founding documents, including the bedrock principle of equal justice under law. In order to radically transform America, they must first cause Americans to lose confidence in who we are, where we came from, and what we believe. As I said at Mount Rushmore — which they would love to rip down and it rip it down fast, and that’s never going to happen — two months ago, the left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution.
As many of you testified today, the left-wing rioting and mayhem are the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools. It’s gone on far too long. Our children are instructed from propaganda tracts, like those of Howard Zinn, that try to make students ashamed of their own history.
The left has warped, distorted, and defiled the American story with deceptions, falsehoods, and lies. There is no better example than the New York Times’ totally discredited 1619 Project. This project rewrites American history to teach our children that we were founded on the principle of oppression, not freedom.
Nothing could be further from the truth. America’s founding set in motion the unstoppable chain of events that abolished slavery, secured civil rights, defeated communism and fascism, and built the most fair, equal, and prosperous nation in human history. (Applause.)
The narratives about America being pushed by the far-left and being chanted in the streets bear a striking resemblance to the anti-American propaganda of our adversaries — because both groups want to see America weakened, derided, and totally diminished.
Students in our universities are inundated with critical race theory. This is a Marxist doctrine holding that America is a wicked and racist nation, that even young children are complicit in oppression, and that our entire society must be radically transformed. Critical race theory is being forced into our children’s schools, it’s being imposed into workplace trainings, and it’s being deployed to rip apart friends, neighbors, and families.
A perfect example of critical race theory was recently published by the Smithsonian Institution. This document alleged that concepts such as hard work, rational thinking, the nuclear family, and belief in God were not values that unite all Americans, but were instead aspects of “whiteness.” This is offensive and outrageous to Americans of every ethnicity, and it is especially harmful to children of minority backgrounds who should be uplifted, not disparaged.
Teaching this horrible doctrine to our children is a form of child abuse in the truest sense of those words. For many years now, the radicals have mistaken Americans’ silence for weakness. But they’re wrong.
There is no more powerful force than a parent’s love for their children. And patriotic moms and dads are going to demand that their children are no longer fed hateful lies about this country. American parents are not going to accept indoctrination in our schools, cancel culture at our work, or the repression of traditional faith, culture, and values in the public square. Not anymore. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.
We embrace the vision of Martin Luther King, where children are not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
The left is attempting to destroy that beautiful vision and divide Americans by race in the service of political power. By viewing every issue through the lens of race, they want to impose a new segregation, and we must not allow that to happen.
Critical race theory, the 1619 Project, and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda, ideological poison that, if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together. It will destroy our country.
That is why I recently banned trainings in this prejudiced ideology from the federal government and banned it in the strongest manner possible. (Applause.)
The only path to national unity is through our shared identity as Americans. That is why it is so urgent that we finally restore patriotic education to our schools.
Under our leadership, the National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant to support the development of a pro-American curriculum that celebrates the truth about our nation’s great history. (Applause.)
We are joined by some of the respected scholars involved in this project, including Professor Wilfred McClay. Wilfred, please. Thank you very much. Welcome. (Applause.) Thank you. Dr. Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars. Dr. Peter. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. And Ted Rebarber. Thank you, Ted. (Applause.) Thank you very much, Ted.
Today, I am also pleased to announce that I will soon sign an Executive Order establishing a national commission to promote patriotic education. It will be called the “1776 Commission.” (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. It will encourage our educators to teach our children about the miracle of American history and make plans to honor the 250th anniversary of our founding. Think of that — 250 years.
Recently, I also signed an executive order to establish the National Garden of American Heroes, a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans who have ever lived.
Today, I am announcing a new name for inclusion.
One of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence was a patriot from Delaware. In July of 1776, the Continental Congress was deadlocked during the debate over independence. The delegation from Delaware was divided. Caesar Rodney was called upon to break the tie.
Even though he was suffering from very advanced cancer — he was deathly ill — Rodney rode 80 miles through the night, through a severe thunderstorm, from Dover to Philadelphia to cast his vote for independence.
For nearly a century, a statue of one of Delaware’s most beloved citizens stood in Rodney Square, right in the heart of Wilmington.
But this past June, Caesar Rodney’s statue was ordered removed by the mayor and local politicians as part of a radical purge of America’s founding generation.
Today, because of an order I signed, if you demolish a statue without permission, you immediately get 10 years in prison. (Applause.) And there have been no statues demolished for the last four months, incredibly, since the time I signed that act.
Joe Biden said nothing as to his home state’s history and the fact that it was dismantled and dismembered. And a Founding Father’s statue was removed.
Today, America will give this Founding Father, this very brave man, who was so horribly treated, the place of honor he deserves. I am announcing that a statue of Caesar Rodney will be added to the National Garden of American Heroes. (Applause.)
From Washington to Lincoln, from Jefferson to King, America has been home to some of the most incredible people who have ever lived. With the help of everyone here today, the legacy of 1776 will never be erased. Our heroes will never be forgotten. Our youth will be taught to love America with all of their heart and all of their soul.
We will save this cherished inheritance for our children, for their children, and for every generation to come. This is a very important day.
Thank you all once again for being here. Now I will sign the Constitution Day Proclamation. God Bless You. And God Bless America. Thank you very much. (Applause.) Thank you.
(The proclamation is signed.) (Applause.)
END