vdare--2020-08-06--Patrick J. Buchanan: Basement-Bunker Biden's Plan: Say Nothing, Run Out The Clock!

When Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascended to the presidency on the death of Warren Harding in 1923 , a wag remarked that Silent Cal 's career had exhibited unmistakable signs of celestial intervention .
Governor Coolidge vaulted to national attention during the Boston police strike of 1919 , where , in a stinging letter to Sam Gompers of the AFL , he thundered : `` There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody , anywhere , any time . ''
If Joe Biden becomes president , celestial intervention , once again , can not be ruled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 2020 in Iowa , Biden , though the clear front-runner in the national polls , ran a humiliating fourth .
In New Hampshire , a week later , he ran fifth .
In Nevada , Joe was crushed again by Bernie Sanders but edged out Sens .
Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar thanks to his loyal African American base .
Came then South Carolina where the Black vote , 60 % of the total , gave Biden a triumph—and the momentum that propelled him to a sweeping victory on Super Tuesday .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was virtually impossible for Sanders to overcome .
That March , however , which had begun with the resurrection of Biden 's campaign , was also the month the COVID-19 pandemic hit in full fury , sinking the exuberant economy that had been Donald Trump 's ticket to reelection .
At that point , Biden went to earth .
Through the spring of 2020 and this summer , he has socially distanced himself from the press and the public and sheltered in place in a basement bunker as the worst pandemic in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in decades to Depression-era levels .
The last quarter alone saw a 9 % plunge in our gross domestic product .
If Biden wins in November , then his `` basement bunker '' campaign will be studied by historians alongside the `` front porch '' campaign of Harding that led to the 1920 landslide victory over Democrat James M. Cox .
Yet , several scheduled events could still upend Biden 's take-no-risks-and-run-out-the-clock strategy .
The first is his choice of a vice presidential nominee , which Biden has promised will be a woman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ choice to a Black woman , as some have insisted , he eliminates from consideration every governor and senator in the party save Kamala Harris .
And if all the media attention given to Harris and other VP candidates fails to produce that Black woman , in this hour of renewed demands for racial equality , Biden will have some serious explaining to do to the core constituency that saved his bacon in South Carolina .
There is another danger in Biden 's choice .
When General Eisenhower chose Richard Nixon in 1952 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ story about a `` secret Nixon slush fund , '' so intense that Ike was almost stampeded into dropping his running mate .
In 1972 , Sen. George McGovern 's campaign failed in its due diligence on his vice presidential choice , and McGovern was forced to drop Sen. Tom Eagleton from his ticket and replace him with Sargent Shriver .
Moreover , given Biden 's age—he would be the oldest president ever inaugurated by eight full years—his choice will have to be seen by the nation as a credible president .
A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accepting the Democratic nomination .
The country would be watching intently to see if the Biden of August 2020 had lost the mental and communication skills he once had .
But Biden 's advisers bypassed that hurdle this week by declaring that the pandemic prevents Biden from traveling to the Milwaukee convention .
This leaves the three presently scheduled debates as perhaps the last major hurdles between Biden and the presidency .
Since 1960 , when John F. Kennedy established himself as a credible challenger to Vice President Nixon in the first of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proven critical .
In 1976 , President Gerald Ford severely damaged his chances of holding onto the office he had inherited from Nixon when he insisted during his debate with Jimmy Carter that Poland , then under Soviet control , was a free nation .
Ronald Reagan used his 1980 debate with Carter to show with his wit and demeanor that he was anything but the reactionary of the major media 's depiction .
For Trump to regain lost ground , he must convince the country that not only is he the right @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the health crisis , economic crisis and racial crisis that were none of his doing , but that Biden has lost the physical rigor and mental capacity to cope with the triple crisis .
And the best , and perhaps last , place to do that is in the debates .
The left understands this , which is why we are suddenly seeing media suggestions that Biden should cancel the debates .
A terrified left wants Joe Biden to coast to victory , and many on that side share a belief that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gets there .
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of a Superpower : Will America Survive to 2025 ?
are available from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “ The Greatest Comeback : How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority .
His latest book , published May , 2018 , is “ Nixon ’ s White House Wars : The Battles That Made and Broke @ @ @ @ @ @ @ See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

When Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascended to the presidency on the death of Warren Harding in 1923, a wag remarked that Silent Cal's career had exhibited unmistakable signs of celestial intervention.
Governor Coolidge vaulted to national attention during the Boston police strike of 1919, where, in a stinging letter to Sam Gompers of the AFL, he thundered: "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time."
If Joe Biden becomes president, celestial intervention, once again, cannot be ruled out.
Consider.
In the first Democratic contest in 2020 in Iowa, Biden, though the clear front-runner in the national polls, ran a humiliating fourth. In New Hampshire, a week later, he ran fifth. In Nevada, Joe was crushed again by Bernie Sanders but edged out Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar thanks to his loyal African American base.
Came then South Carolina where the Black vote, 60% of the total, gave Biden a triumph—and the momentum that propelled him to a sweeping victory on Super Tuesday. Biden's delegate count became so large it was virtually impossible for Sanders to overcome.
That March, however, which had begun with the resurrection of Biden's campaign, was also the month the COVID-19 pandemic hit in full fury, sinking the exuberant economy that had been Donald Trump's ticket to reelection.
At that point, Biden went to earth. Through the spring of 2020 and this summer, he has socially distanced himself from the press and the public and sheltered in place in a basement bunker as the worst pandemic in a century drove down the best economy in decades to Depression-era levels. The last quarter alone saw a 9% plunge in our gross domestic product.
If Biden wins in November, then his "basement bunker" campaign will be studied by historians alongside the "front porch" campaign of Harding that led to the 1920 landslide victory over Democrat James M. Cox.
Yet, several scheduled events could still upend Biden's take-no-risks-and-run-out-the-clock strategy. The first is his choice of a vice presidential nominee, which Biden has promised will be a woman.
However, if Biden restricts his choice to a Black woman, as some have insisted, he eliminates from consideration every governor and senator in the party save Kamala Harris.
And if all the media attention given to Harris and other VP candidates fails to produce that Black woman, in this hour of renewed demands for racial equality, Biden will have some serious explaining to do to the core constituency that saved his bacon in South Carolina.
There is another danger in Biden's choice.
When General Eisenhower chose Richard Nixon in 1952, the liberal press ginned up a story about a "secret Nixon slush fund," so intense that Ike was almost stampeded into dropping his running mate.
In 1972, Sen. George McGovern's campaign failed in its due diligence on his vice presidential choice, and McGovern was forced to drop Sen. Tom Eagleton from his ticket and replace him with Sargent Shriver.
Moreover, given Biden's age—he would be the oldest president ever inaugurated by eight full years—his choice will have to be seen by the nation as a credible president.
A second hurdle for Biden is his speech accepting the Democratic nomination.
The country would be watching intently to see if the Biden of August 2020 had lost the mental and communication skills he once had.
But Biden's advisers bypassed that hurdle this week by declaring that the pandemic prevents Biden from traveling to the Milwaukee convention.
This leaves the three presently scheduled debates as perhaps the last major hurdles between Biden and the presidency.
Since 1960, when John F. Kennedy established himself as a credible challenger to Vice President Nixon in the first of four debates, these confrontations have often proven critical.
In 1976, President Gerald Ford severely damaged his chances of holding onto the office he had inherited from Nixon when he insisted during his debate with Jimmy Carter that Poland, then under Soviet control, was a free nation.
Ronald Reagan used his 1980 debate with Carter to show with his wit and demeanor that he was anything but the reactionary of the major media's depiction.
For Trump to regain lost ground, he must convince the country that not only is he the right man to manage America's way out of the health crisis, economic crisis and racial crisis that were none of his doing, but that Biden has lost the physical rigor and mental capacity to cope with the triple crisis. And the best, and perhaps last, place to do that is in the debates.
The left understands this, which is why we are suddenly seeing media suggestions that Biden should cancel the debates.
A terrified left wants Joe Biden to coast to victory, and many on that side share a belief that this may be the only way he gets there.
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-08-06--"Miracle Of Deliverance"—Remembering The American Technological Miracle At Hiroshima That Won WWII,

"Miracle Of Deliverance"—Remembering The American Technological Miracle At Hiroshima That Won WWII, And Saved Millions Of Lives

It 's the anniversary of the Hiroshima Bombing that helped end the War in the Pacific .
On June 30 , 1945 , the NYT headlined Hiroshima was the answer to that .
Miracle of Deliverance : The Case for the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , by Stephen Harper ( not the Canadian PM ) said that the bombing , along with then Nagasaki Bombing , anniversary in three days , saved up to a million Allied lives , and up to seven million Japanese lives .
This is the subject of much guilt and apologies by Americans , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are some previous posts we 've done on the subject .
• The Hiroshima Anniversary , by James Fulford on 08/06/2011 • Reverend Wright And Hiroshima—How Many Lives Did Hiroshima Save ?
, by James Fulford on 03/19/2008 • Obama Apology Tour to Visit Hiroshima , by Brenda Walker on 08/06/2010 • Another Reader Comments On Japan , Pearl Harbor , And Hiroshima , by VDARE.com Reader on 09/27/2012 • World War Two And The Japanese Surrender , by Steve Sailer on 08/21/2011 • `` And Even More Carefully If We Do Wish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fulford on 02/06/2011 • Pearl Harbor And Your Father 's America , by James Fulford on 12/07/2016

It's the anniversary of the Hiroshima Bombing that helped end the War in the Pacific. On June 30, 1945, the NYT headlined
Hiroshima was the answer to that. Miracle of Deliverance: The Case for the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by Stephen Harper (not the Canadian PM), said that the bombing, along with then Nagasaki Bombing, anniversary in three days, saved up to a million Allied lives, and up to seven million Japanese lives.
This is the subject of much guilt and apologies by Americans, but it shouldn't be.
Here are some previous posts we've done on the subject.


vdare--2020-08-06--Heather Mac Donald on the Truth About Crime, Race, and Policing in America

Earlier : Heather Mac Donald 's Speech Censored By YouTube In Spite Of Her Careful Non-Race Realism A couple of @ @ @ @ @ was based on non-proprietary standards with very few centralized chokepoints .
Now it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ can squeeze out anybody they feel like .

Earlier: Heather Mac Donald's Speech Censored By YouTube In Spite Of Her Careful Non-Race Realism
A couple of decades ago, the Internet was based on non-proprietary standards with very few centralized chokepoints. Now it’s dominated by profit-making monopolists who can squeeze out anybody they feel like.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-06--Racist Genes: If "Racism" Is A Genetic Trait, Does That Mean It's Illegal To Discriminate Against Ra

Racist Genes: If "Racism" Is A Genetic Trait, Does That Mean It's Illegal To Discriminate Against Racists?

A press release from the U. of Oslo : New research suggests racism could be a genetic trait Black Lives Matter ( BLM ) is an anti-racist movement in the United States , founded as a reaction to many incidents of racism and brutal police violence against black people .
The movement got widespread international support in 2020 after the police murder on the Afro-american George Floyd .
The murder set off a chain of demonstrations all over the world .
The death of U.S. citizen George Floyd caused demonstrations all over the world .
Still , police violence against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
How can racist attitudes and practices have survived so many generations ?
According to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ) , beliefs that some groups are superior to others are deeply influenced by genetics .
The researchers looked into why some attitudes tend to appear simultaneously .
This may for example apply to the perception of some groups being better than others , or to the perception that certain ethnic and cultural groups are more capable of making decisions in society .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ often appear together , and that the environment only rarely shapes them .
Could it be that we are born with predispositions to certain political opinions ?
According to the findings , the answer is yes .
“ People who share the same sets of attitudes also appear to share the same genes , ” said Thomas Haarklau Kleppestø , Ph.D. fellow at the Department of Psychology , University of Oslo .
Around 2,000 adult Norwegian twins , identical and non-identical , answered a questionnaire to measure their social dominance orientation ( SDO @ @ @ @ @ @ @ high score indicates a preference of a societal hierarchy .
Former research has liked this trait to political attitudes .
A high score increases the possibility for support to items such as “ Some groups of people must be kept in their place , ” and “ Some groups of people are inferior to other groups.
” The participants were to state their opinions on eight political proposals , such as strict immigration control and deportation of Romani people .
Former research has found these proposals to correlate with SDO .
The researchers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opinions of identical twins were more alike than among non-identical , the reason would be genetic .
Identical twins share 100 percent of their genes , while non-identical share 50 percent .
… As expected , the researchers found a link between SDO and political attitudes .
E.g.
, those who favored a hierarchical structure in society often wished for stricter immigration control and reduced foreign aid .
However , the findings also revealed that peoples ’ SDO had a genetic connection to all the eight measured political attitudes .
According to Kleppestø @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between the political attitudes .
“ We do not believe that our genome directly controls our political attitudes .
However , we speculate that we are born with a predisposition that is strengthened over time , for example when we find friends with similar preferences , ” Kleppestø said .
The researchers believe that you may be born with a personality trait that could lead you into environments where it is enforced .
So-called active gene-environment-correlation is well-known phenomenon in behavioral genetics .

A press release from the U. of Oslo:
New research suggests racism could be a genetic trait
by University of Oslo, AUGUST 4, 2020
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an anti-racist movement in the United States, founded as a reaction to many incidents of racism and brutal police violence against black people. The movement got widespread international support in 2020 after the police murder on the Afro-american George Floyd. The murder set off a chain of demonstrations all over the world.
The death of U.S. citizen George Floyd caused demonstrations all over the world. Still, police violence against vulnerable groups and minorities is nothing new. How can racist attitudes and practices have survived so many generations?
According to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), beliefs that some groups are superior to others are deeply influenced by genetics.
Racist Genes
The researchers looked into why some attitudes tend to appear simultaneously. This may for example apply to the perception of some groups being better than others, or to the perception that certain ethnic and cultural groups are more capable of making decisions in society.
Previous research has suggested that such opinions often appear together, and that the environment only rarely shapes them.
Could it be that we are born with predispositions to certain political opinions? According to the findings, the answer is yes.
“People who share the same sets of attitudes also appear to share the same genes,” said Thomas Haarklau Kleppestø, Ph.D. fellow at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo.
Political Attitudes
Around 2,000 adult Norwegian twins, identical and non-identical, answered a questionnaire to measure their social dominance orientation (SDO), a personality trait where a high score indicates a preference of a societal hierarchy.
Former research has liked this trait to political attitudes. A high score increases the possibility for support to items such as “Some groups of people must be kept in their place,” and “Some groups of people are inferior to other groups.”
The participants were to state their opinions on eight political proposals, such as strict immigration control and deportation of Romani people. Former research has found these proposals to correlate with SDO.
The researchers reasoned as follows: If the political opinions of identical twins were more alike than among non-identical, the reason would be genetic. Identical twins share 100 percent of their genes, while non-identical share 50 percent. …
Fellowship of Genes
As expected, the researchers found a link between SDO and political attitudes. E.g., those who favored a hierarchical structure in society often wished for stricter immigration control and reduced foreign aid.
However, the findings also revealed that peoples’ SDO had a genetic connection to all the eight measured political attitudes. According to Kleppestø, this could partly explain the link between the political attitudes.
“We do not believe that our genome directly controls our political attitudes. However, we speculate that we are born with a predisposition that is strengthened over time, for example when we find friends with similar preferences,” Kleppestø said.
The researchers believe that you may be born with a personality trait that could lead you into environments where it is enforced. So-called active gene-environment-correlation is well-known phenomenon in behavioral genetics.


vdare--2020-08-06--This May be the Stupidest Op-Ed in the History of the New York Times

As everybody knows , from 1946 into the 1970s was a golden age for broad-based middle class and working class prosperity in the U.S..
Since then … not so much .
But it ’ s been a golden age for the rich .
Why ?
There are many good explanations for the post war prosperity , such as cheap energy and demand from abroad by rebuilding economies .
But what about the class breadth of the good times ?
The most obvious explanations for the broadness of the postwar prosperity have been : • Limited supply of labor due to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ work taking care of the Baby Boom generation • Favorable political attitudes ( e.g.
, a lack of environmentalist concern ) toward smokestack industries that paid working men well • Attitudes that favored the working man and disfavored capitalist attempts to boost the labor supply to reduce wages ( e.g.
, there ’ s a funny scene in Mad Men in 1960 in which the clock at the ad agency strikes 5:15 so all the white collar workers pack up and go home ) And so forth … Then , the social revolution @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 1970s , and the golden age of the American working man was clearly over .
Much of this was due to macro-changes such as the energy crisis and policies that encouraged financialization and deindustrialization ( globalist , environmentalism , and so forth .
But quite a bit was due to changes that increased the labor supply , such as the feminist revolution , broadly supported by corporations , and increased immigration .
But , then again , judging from this op-ed by an economics reporter , not everybody knows that .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a New York Times reporter sums up his new book , in which he appears to be wholly ignorant of how supply and demand works .
The Real Reason the American Economy Boomed After World War II How expanding opportunity for women , immigrants and nonwhite workers helped everyone — and why we need to do so again .
By Jim Tankersley Mr. Tankersley covers economic policy in the Washington bureau of The Times .
The United States long reserved its most lucrative occupations for an elite class of white men .
Those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a myth : The biggest threat to workers like you are workers who do not look like you .
Again and again , they told working-class white men that they were losing out on good jobs to women , nonwhite men and immigrants .
As we all know , billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg , Michael Bloomberg , and Bill Gates are constantly demanding less immigration so their companies would have to pay higher wages .
They also have banned employing women .
It was , and remains , a politically potent lie .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of how America engineered its Golden Era of shared prosperity — the great middle-class expansion in the decades after World War II .
Americans deserve to know the truth about that Golden Era , which was not the whitewashed , “ Leave It to Beaver ” tale that so many people have been led to believe .
They deserve to know who built the middle class and can actually rebuild it , for all workers , no matter their race or gender or hometown .
We need to hear it now , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recession and a summer of protests demanding equality , and as American workers struggle to shake off decades of sluggish wage growth .
We need to hear it because it is a beacon of hope in a bleak time for our economy , but more important , because the lies that elite white men peddle about workers in conflict have made the economy worse for everyone , for far too long .
The Wall Street Journal is constantly running editorials entitled “ Working Men of America , Unite !
” The hopeful truth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ force open the gates of opportunity for women , for Black men , for the groups that have long been oppressed in our economy , everyone gets ahead .
I have spent my career as an economics reporter consumed by the questions of how America might revive the Golden Era of the middle class that boomed after World War II .
… The old jobs are not coming back .
What I have learned over time is that our best hope to create a new wave of good ones is to invest in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the success of our economy at the time it worked best for working people .
The economy thrived after World War II in large part because America made it easier for people who had been previously shut out of economic opportunity — women , minority groups , immigrants — to enter the work force and climb the economic ladder , to make better use of their talents and potential .
In 1960 , cutting-edge research from economists at the University of Chicago and Stanford University has documented , more than half of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , freight handlers or something similar .
Only 2 percent of women and Black men worked in what economists call “ high-skill ” jobs that pay high wages , like engineering or law .
Ninety-four percent of doctors in the United States were white men .
That disparity was by design .
It protected white male elites .
Who exactly is a “ white male elite ” in this portrait of 1960 ?
The CEO of General Motors or a GM assembly line worker ?
Basically , in Tankersley ’ s very Present @ @ @ @ @ @ @ males , so they were both elite and both evil .
Everyone else was barred entry to top professions by overt discrimination , inequality of schooling , social convention and , often , the law itself .
They were devalued as humans and as workers .
… Women and nonwhite men gradually chipped away at those barriers , in fits and starts .
They seized opportunities , like a war effort creating a need for workers to replace the men being sent abroad to fight .
They protested and bled and died for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ victories , it wasn ’ t just for them , or even for people like them .
They generated economic gains that helped everyone .
The Chicago and Stanford economists calculated that the simple , radical act of reducing discrimination against those groups was responsible for more than 40 percent of the country ’ s per-worker economic growth after 1960 .
It ’ s the reason the country could sustain rapid growth with low unemployment , yielding rising wages for everyone , including white men without college degrees .
America ’ s ruling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The aggressive expansion of opportunity that had driven economic gains was choked off by a backlash to social progress in the 1970s and ’ 80s .
Who can forget when Justice Sandra Day O ’ Connor wrote the majority decision upholding the Reagan Administration ’ s controversial Barefoot , Pregnant , and in the Kitchen Act of 1982 that fired all the women workers in the country ?
And that ’ s why Silicon Valley is such a desolate wasteland of empty office building and tumbleweeds blowing through the abandoned Tesla dealerships @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also show opportunity .
If America can once again tear down barriers to advancement , it can tap a geyser of entrepreneurship , productivity and talent , which could by itself produce the strong growth and low unemployment that historically drive up wages for the working class , including working-class white men .
If you want to know where the new good jobs will come from — those that will help millions of Americans climb back into the middle class — this is where you should look , to the great untapped talent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its Black men , of the highly skilled immigrants that study after study show to be catalysts of innovation and job creation .
That is not the appeal that populist politicians make to working-class white men , who have been rocked by globalization and automation and the greed of the governing class .
But it should be .
All Americans have a stake in the protests for equality they see every night on the news .
Working-class white men , like the guys I went to high school with , have a bond @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the women of all races who have taken to the streets .
The real story of America today is this : If you want to restore the greatness of an economy that doesn ’ t work for you or your children the way that it used to , those women and men are your best shot at salvation .
Their progress will lift you up .
Jim Tankersley covers economic policy in the Washington bureau of The Times .
He is the author of “ The Riches of This Land : The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s Middle Class , ” from which this essay is adapted .
This is the kind of dumbing-down we see in our public discourse as elite opinions come to be based on childish thinking about who are the Good Guys and who are the Bad Guys .

As everybody knows, from 1946 into the 1970s was a golden age for broad-based middle class and working class prosperity in the U.S.. Since then … not so much. But it’s been a golden age for the rich.
Why? There are many good explanations for the post war prosperity, such as cheap energy and demand from abroad by rebuilding economies. But what about the class breadth of the good times? The most obvious explanations for the broadness of the postwar prosperity have been:
Union power
Limited supply of labor due to immigration restrictions
Limited supply of labor due to so many women being out of the work taking care of the Baby Boom generation
Favorable political attitudes (e.g., a lack of environmentalist concern) toward smokestack industries that paid working men well
Attitudes that favored the working man and disfavored capitalist attempts to boost the labor supply to reduce wages (e.g., there’s a funny scene in Mad Men in 1960 in which the clock at the ad agency strikes 5:15 so all the white collar workers pack up and go home)
And so forth …
Then, the social revolution of the 1960s permeated our institutions throughout the 1970s, and the golden age of the American working man was clearly over. Much of this was due to macro-changes such as the energy crisis and policies that encouraged financialization and deindustrialization (globalist, environmentalism, and so forth). But quite a bit was due to changes that increased the labor supply, such as the feminist revolution, broadly supported by corporations, and increased immigration.
But, then again, judging from this op-ed by an economics reporter, not everybody knows that. On the New York Times opinion page, a New York Times reporter sums up his new book, in which he appears to be wholly ignorant of how supply and demand works.
The Real Reason the American Economy Boomed After World War II How expanding opportunity for women, immigrants and nonwhite workers helped everyone — and why we need to do so again. By Jim Tankersley
Mr. Tankersley covers economic policy in the Washington bureau of The Times. Aug. 6, 2020 The United States long reserved its most lucrative occupations for an elite class of white men. Those men held power by selling everyone else a myth: The biggest threat to workers like you are workers who do not look like you. Again and again, they told working-class white men that they were losing out on good jobs to women, nonwhite men and immigrants.
As we all know, billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Bloomberg, and Bill Gates are constantly demanding less immigration so their companies would have to pay higher wages. They also have banned employing women.
It was, and remains, a politically potent lie. It is undercut by the real story of how America engineered its Golden Era of shared prosperity — the great middle-class expansion in the decades after World War II. Americans deserve to know the truth about that Golden Era, which was not the whitewashed, “Leave It to Beaver” tale that so many people have been led to believe. They deserve to know who built the middle class and can actually rebuild it, for all workers, no matter their race or gender or hometown. We need to hear it now, as our nation is immersed in a pandemic recession and a summer of protests demanding equality, and as American workers struggle to shake off decades of sluggish wage growth. We need to hear it because it is a beacon of hope in a bleak time for our economy, but more important, because the lies that elite white men peddle about workers in conflict have made the economy worse for everyone, for far too long.
The Wall Street Journal is constantly running editorials entitled “Working Men of America, Unite!”
The hopeful truth is that when Americans band together to force open the gates of opportunity for women, for Black men, for the groups that have long been oppressed in our economy, everyone gets ahead. I have spent my career as an economics reporter consumed by the questions of how America might revive the Golden Era of the middle class that boomed after World War II. … The old jobs are not coming back. What I have learned over time is that our best hope to create a new wave of good ones is to invest in the groups of Americans who were responsible for the success of our economy at the time it worked best for working people. The economy thrived after World War II in large part because America made it easier for people who had been previously shut out of economic opportunity — women, minority groups, immigrants — to enter the work force and climb the economic ladder, to make better use of their talents and potential. In 1960, cutting-edge research from economists at the University of Chicago and Stanford University has documented, more than half of Black men in America worked as janitors, freight handlers or something similar. Only 2 percent of women and Black men worked in what economists call “high-skill” jobs that pay high wages, like engineering or law. Ninety-four percent of doctors in the United States were white men. That disparity was by design. It protected white male elites.
Who exactly is a “white male elite” in this portrait of 1960? The CEO of General Motors or a GM assembly line worker?
Basically, in Tankersley’s very Present Day worldview, they were both white males, so they were both elite and both evil.
Everyone else was barred entry to top professions by overt discrimination, inequality of schooling, social convention and, often, the law itself. They were devalued as humans and as workers. … Women and nonwhite men gradually chipped away at those barriers, in fits and starts. They seized opportunities, like a war effort creating a need for workers to replace the men being sent abroad to fight. They protested and bled and died for civil rights. And when they won victories, it wasn’t just for them, or even for people like them. They generated economic gains that helped everyone. The Chicago and Stanford economists calculated that the simple, radical act of reducing discrimination against those groups was responsible for more than 40 percent of the country’s per-worker economic growth after 1960. It’s the reason the country could sustain rapid growth with low unemployment, yielding rising wages for everyone, including white men without college degrees. America’s ruling elites did not learn from that success. The aggressive expansion of opportunity that had driven economic gains was choked off by a backlash to social progress in the 1970s and ’80s.
Who can forget when Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote the majority decision upholding the Reagan Administration’s controversial Barefoot, Pregnant, and in the Kitchen Act of 1982 that fired all the women workers in the country?
The white men who ran the country declared victory over discrimination far too early, consigning the economy to slower growth. Sustained shared prosperity was replaced by widening inequality, lost jobs and decades of disappointing income growth for workers of all races. … Take Silicon Valley. In 2018, venture capitalists in the United States distributed $131 billion to start-up businesses, hoping to seed the next Google or Tesla. That money went to nearly 9,000 companies. Just over 2 percent of them were founded entirely by women. Another 12 percent had at least one female founder. The rest, 86 percent, were founded entirely by men.
And that’s why Silicon Valley is such a desolate wasteland of empty office buildings and tumbleweeds blowing through the abandoned Tesla dealerships.
The statistics show tragedy. They also show opportunity. If America can once again tear down barriers to advancement, it can tap a geyser of entrepreneurship, productivity and talent, which could by itself produce the strong growth and low unemployment that historically drive up wages for the working class, including working-class white men. If you want to know where the new good jobs will come from — those that will help millions of Americans climb back into the middle class — this is where you should look, to the great untapped talent of America’s women, of its Black men, of the highly skilled immigrants that study after study show to be catalysts of innovation and job creation. That is not the appeal that populist politicians make to working-class white men, who have been rocked by globalization and automation and the greed of the governing class. But it should be. All Americans have a stake in the protests for equality they see every night on the news. Working-class white men, like the guys I went to high school with, have a bond with the Black men, the immigrants and the women of all races who have taken to the streets. The real story of America today is this: If you want to restore the greatness of an economy that doesn’t work for you or your children the way that it used to, those women and men are your best shot at salvation. Their progress will lift you up. Jim Tankersley covers economic policy in the Washington bureau of The Times. He is the author of “The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America’s Middle Class,” from which this essay is adapted.
This is the kind of dumbing-down we see in our public discourse as elite opinions come to be based on childish thinking about who are the Good Guys and who are the Bad Guys.


vdare--2020-08-07--Indian Green Card Giveaway Bill Hits New Snag, Fortunately

Previously : Will Treason Lobby ’ s Asian Overclass Importation / Ag Amnesty Bills Be Slipped Through Senate Next Week ?
There ’ s a new push to pass the deceptively-titled Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act in Congress , but one surprising Republican just blocked it : Florida Sen. Rick Scott , a moderate .
Scott didn ’ t block it for the best reasons -- he wants the bill to continue allowing in a large number of Hispanic immigrants .
But he did say the White House agreed with his skepticism , saying : “ I ’ ve also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agree we need more time to study the proposal and to understand its impact on our immigration system ” [ Rick Scott Blocks Mike Lee ’ s S.386 Outsourcing Bill , Says Trump Admin Wants Closer Scrutiny , by Neil Munro , Breitbart , August 5 , 2020 ] .
The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act ( S. 386 ) would eliminate country caps on immigrant visas and allow Indians to receive the vast majority of green cards .
The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that Indians will receive more than 90 percent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ next 10 years under S. 386 .
The bill ’ s proponents say the erasure of country caps are needed to clear the immigration backlog .
Indians make up the lion ’ s share of the backlog .
The House of Representatives passed the bill by an overwhelming majority in 2019 ; only 57 Republicans voted against it .
Whatever his reasons , Scott drew the ire of the Indian lobby .
It compared Scott to a Klansman for blocking the bill ’ s passage .
Immigration Voice , an Indian-controlled pressure group @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bill , shared an image of Scott in a Klan hood in a since-deleted tweet .
The tweet said he “ will go down in history with segregationists Bull Connor and George Wallace.
” ( The tweet has since been deleted ) .
Patriotic immigration groups such as Numbers USA and the U.S. Tech Workers lobby are fighting tooth and nail against the bill .
But what would really help the effort is if President Trump announces his opposition to it .
GOP senators would obviously be less inclined to support it if @ @ @ @ @

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

Previously: Will Treason Lobby’s Asian Overclass Importation / Ag Amnesty Bills Be Slipped Through Senate Next Week?
There’s a new push to pass the deceptively-titled Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act in Congress, but one surprising Republican just blocked it: Florida Sen. Rick Scott, a moderate. Scott didn’t block it for the best reasons--he wants the bill to continue allowing in a large number of Hispanic immigrants. But he did say the White House agreed with his skepticism, saying: “I’ve also spoken to the White House, and agree we need more time to study the proposal and to understand its impact on our immigration system”
[Rick Scott Blocks Mike Lee’s S.386 Outsourcing Bill, Says Trump Admin Wants Closer Scrutiny, by Neil Munro, Breitbart, August 5, 2020].
The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act (S. 386) would eliminate country caps on immigrant visas and allow Indians to receive the vast majority of green cards. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that Indians will receive more than 90 percent of professional employment green cards for the next 10 years under S. 386. The bill’s proponents say the erasure of country caps are needed to clear the immigration backlog. Indians make up the lion’s share of the backlog.
The House of Representatives passed the bill by an overwhelming majority in 2019; only 57 Republicans voted against it.
Whatever his reasons, Scott drew the ire of the Indian lobby. It compared Scott to a Klansman for blocking the bill’s passage. Immigration Voice, an Indian-controlled pressure group that is one primary advocates of the bill, shared an image of Scott in a Klan hood. The tweet said he “will go down in history with segregationists Bull Connor and George Wallace.”
(The tweet has since been deleted.)
Patriotic immigration groups such as Numbers USA and the U.S. Tech Workers lobby are fighting tooth and nail against the bill. But what would really help the effort is if President Trump announces his opposition to it. GOP senators would obviously be less inclined to support it if their commander-in-chief condemned it.


vdare--2020-08-07--NYC: the 1970s Are Back, Without the Cool Movies

This stabbing took place at lunchtime at 72nd and Broadway , which is in the heart of the very expensive @ @ @ @ @ Side of Manhattan ( prototypical native : Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim ) .

🚨WANTED for ASSAULT:
On 8/6, at 11:57AM, an unidentified male individual stabbed a 40-year-old female victim in her back while exiting the W 72nd St & Broadway station in Manhattan. Any info on him call/DM @NYPDTips at 800-577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/mvC5DEFWzS — NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) August 7, 2020
This stabbing took place at lunchtime at 72nd and Broadway, which is in the heart of the very expensive, very peaceful Upper West Side of Manhattan (prototypical native: Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim).
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-07--Congratulations to Dr. Angela Davis on the 50th Anniversary of Her Getting Away with Murder

Black Canary is an op-ed column sounding the alarm against enduring injustice in America .
… With distance and time , we often come to look at protesters like Williams as freedom fighters and understand that while their actions may seem drastic , they were prompted by something that was worse .
While Angela Davis may be everyone ’ s favorite leftist now , she was on the FBI ’ s most wanted list and charged for aggravated kidnapping and first-degree murder in connection to a shoot-out that took place in a San Rafael courthouse in California in 1970 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Davis was eventually acquitted and is now a celebrated professor , author , activist , and speaker .
On August 7 , 17-year-old Jonathan P. Jackson attempted to coerce the release of the Soledad Brothers ( including his older brother George ) by kidnapping Superior Court judge Harold Haley from the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael , California .
The resulting shootout left four men dead , including both Jackson and Judge Haley .
Two others were wounded .
The event received intense media coverage , as did the subsequent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an ousted professor from UCLA with connections to George and Jonathan Jackson , and the Black Panthers .
Davis owned the weapons used in the incident .
… Two days before the kidnapping , former UCLA instructor Angela Davis had bought a shotgun from a pawn shop in San Francisco .
After Davis paid for the shotgun , its barrel was sawed off so as to be concealable .
… On June 4 , 1972 , after 13 hours of deliberations , [ 31 ] the all-white jury returned a verdict of not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that she owned the guns used in the crime was judged insufficient to establish her role in the plot .
She was represented by Leo Branton Jr. , who hired psychologists to help the defense determine who in the jury pool might favor their arguments , a technique that has since become more common .
He hired experts to discredit the reliability of eyewitness accounts .
[ 43 ] Dr. Davis is currently available for public speaking engagements through the APB agency .
She also is employed as a Visiting Distinguished Professor : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be the Ena H. Thompson Distinguished Lecturer for Pomona College ’ s History Department , welcoming her back after 45 years .
[ 65 ] Davis was a Professor of Ethnic Studies at the San Francisco State University from at least 1980 to 1984 .
[ 66 ] She was a professor in the History of Consciousness and the Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California , Santa Cruz and Rutgers University from 1991 to 2008 .
[ 67 ] Since then , she has been Distinguished Professor Emerita .
[ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Professor at Syracuse University in Spring 1992 and October 2010 , and was the Randolph Visiting Distinguished Professor of philosophy at Vassar College in 1995 .
[ 69 ] [ 70 ] In 2014 , Davis returned to UCLA as a Regents ’ Lecturer .
She delivered a public lecture on May 8 in Royce Hall , where she had given her first lecture 45 years earlier .
[ 71 ] On May 22 , 2016 , Davis was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in Healing and Social Justice from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Francisco during its 48th annual commencement ceremony .
[ 72 ]

From Teen Vogue:
Black Lives Matter Uprisings Lead to Charges for Young Protesters Black Canary is an op-ed column sounding the alarm against enduring injustice in America. BY KANDIST MALLETT AUGUST 6, 2020 … With distance and time, we often come to look at protesters like Williams as freedom fighters and understand that while their actions may seem drastic, they were prompted by something that was worse. While Angela Davis may be everyone’s favorite leftist now, she was on the FBI’s most wanted list and charged for aggravated kidnapping and first-degree murder in connection to a shoot-out that took place in a San Rafael courthouse in California in 1970. Many people reviled her at the time. Davis was eventually acquitted and is now a celebrated professor, author, activist, and speaker.
From Wikipedia:
On August 7, 17-year-old Jonathan P. Jackson attempted to coerce the release of the Soledad Brothers (including his older brother George) by kidnapping Superior Court judge Harold Haley from the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, California. The resulting shootout left four men dead, including both Jackson and Judge Haley. Two others were wounded. The event received intense media coverage, as did the subsequent manhunt and trial of Angela Davis, an ousted professor from UCLA with connections to George and Jonathan Jackson, and the Black Panthers. Davis owned the weapons used in the incident. … Two days before the kidnapping, former UCLA instructor Angela Davis had bought a shotgun from a pawn shop in San Francisco. After Davis paid for the shotgun, its barrel was sawed off so as to be concealable. … On June 4, 1972, after 13 hours of deliberations,[31] the all-white jury returned a verdict of not guilty.[42] The fact that she owned the guns used in the crime was judged insufficient to establish her role in the plot. She was represented by Leo Branton Jr., who hired psychologists to help the defense determine who in the jury pool might favor their arguments, a technique that has since become more common. He hired experts to discredit the reliability of eyewitness accounts.[43]
Dr. Davis is currently available for public speaking engagements through the APB agency. She also is employed as a Visiting Distinguished Professor:
In 2020 it was announced that Davis would be the Ena H. Thompson Distinguished Lecturer for Pomona College’s History Department, welcoming her back after 45 years.[65] Davis was a Professor of Ethnic Studies at the San Francisco State University from at least 1980 to 1984.[66] She was a professor in the History of Consciousness and the Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Rutgers University from 1991 to 2008.[67] Since then, she has been Distinguished Professor Emerita.[68] Davis was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Syracuse University in Spring 1992 and October 2010, and was the Randolph Visiting Distinguished Professor of philosophy at Vassar College in 1995.[69][70] In 2014, Davis returned to UCLA as a Regents’ Lecturer. She delivered a public lecture on May 8 in Royce Hall, where she had given her first lecture 45 years earlier.[71] On May 22, 2016, Davis was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in Healing and Social Justice from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco during its 48th annual commencement ceremony.[72]
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-07--Black Judge Releases Arab Rapist Who Then MURDERS Venezuelan Accuser

In the Covid-19 pandemic , there have been repeated calls to release detained criminals and illegal aliens , on the theory that close quarters are dangerous to them .
Of course the reason they 're being detained is that they 're a danger to the public .
The story of Ibrahm E. Bouiachi llustrates this : Rape suspect who was freed due to coronavirus kills his accuser in Alexandria , police say Ibrahm E. Bouiachi was indicted on rape charges last year .
After being released due to the pandemic , police say he shot and killed his accuser .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ was Venezuelan immigrant Karla Dominguez , now deceased : The Washington Post has the longest story , may be behind paywall : Ibrahim E. Bouaichi ’ s lawyers argued that the virus was a danger to both inmates and their attorneys , and that Bouaichi should be freed awaiting trial .
On April 9 , over the objections of an Alexandria prosecutor , Circuit Court Judge Nolan Dawkins released Bouaichi on $ 25,000 bond , with the condition that he only leave his Maryland home to meet with his lawyers or pretrial services @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police say , Bouaichi , 33 , returned to Alexandria and shot and killed Dominguez outside her apartment in the city ’ s West End .
When police couldn ’ t find Bouaichi after the slaying , they issued a video news release asking for the public ’ s help in locating him , declaring him “ armed and dangerous.
” Then on Wednesday morning , federal marshals and Alexandria police spotted Bouaichi in Prince George ’ s County and pursued him , causing Bouaichi to crash , authorities said .
When the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ found he had apparently shot himself .
He was reported to be in grave condition Thursday .
Bouaichi ’ s release from jail and the slaying of Dominguez represent a tragic side effect of the pandemic .
As the coronavirus erupted in America , civil liberties advocates called for the release of large numbers of prisoners from jails and prisons in order to keep them from being infected and possibly dying in necessarily confined spaces .
If you ask me , it shows the tragic side effect of civil liberties advocates , who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anyhow , when we hear that a Judge has done something lethal and dangerous , we always ask `` What KIND of Judge ? ''
It turns out that the Judge who did this is path-breaking `` First Black '' Alexandria Circuit Court Judge Nolan Dawkins , pictured below :

In the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been repeated calls to release detained criminals and illegal aliens, on the theory that close quarters are dangerous to them. Of course the reason they're being detained is that they're a danger to the public.
The story of Ibrahm E. Bouaichi llustrates this:
Rape suspect who was freed due to coronavirus kills his accuser in Alexandria, police say Ibrahm E. Bouiachi [sic] was indicted on rape charges last year. After being released due to the pandemic, police say he shot and killed his accuser. Associated Press, WUSA9, August 7, 2020
The woman who accused Bouaichi of rape was Venezuelan immigrant Karla Dominguez, now deceased:
The Washington Post has the longest story, may be behind paywall:
Ibrahim E. Bouaichi’s lawyers argued that the virus was a danger to both inmates and their attorneys, and that Bouaichi should be freed awaiting trial. On April 9, over the objections of an Alexandria prosecutor, Circuit Court Judge Nolan Dawkins released Bouaichi on $25,000 bond, with the condition that he only leave his Maryland home to meet with his lawyers or pretrial services officials. On July 29, Alexandria police say, Bouaichi, 33, returned to Alexandria and shot and killed Dominguez outside her apartment in the city’s West End. When police couldn’t find Bouaichi after the slaying, they issued a video news release asking for the public’s help in locating him, declaring him “armed and dangerous.” Then on Wednesday morning, federal marshals and Alexandria police spotted Bouaichi in Prince George’s County and pursued him, causing Bouaichi to crash, authorities said. When the police went to arrest Bouaichi, they found he had apparently shot himself. He was reported to be in grave condition Thursday. Bouaichi’s release from jail and the slaying of Dominguez represent a tragic side effect of the pandemic. As the coronavirus erupted in America, civil liberties advocates called for the release of large numbers of prisoners from jails and prisons in order to keep them from being infected and possibly dying in necessarily confined spaces.
If you ask me, it shows the tragic side effect of civil liberties advocates, who never seem to care about victims. Anyhow, when we hear that a Judge has done something lethal and dangerous, we always ask "What KIND of Judge?"
It turns out that the Judge who did this is path-breaking "First Black" Alexandria Circuit Court Judge Nolan Dawkins, pictured below:


vdare--2020-08-07--Not From The BABYLON BEE: "NASA To Reexamine Nicknames For Cosmic Objects"

Distant cosmic objects such as planets , galaxies , and nebulae are sometimes referred to by the scientific community with unofficial nicknames .
As the scientific community works to identify and address systemic discrimination and inequality in all aspects of the field , it has become clear that certain cosmic nicknames are not only insensitive , but can be actively harmful .
… As an initial step , NASA will no longer refer to planetary nebula NGC 2392 , the glowing remains of a Sun-like star that is blowing off its outer layers at the end of its life , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Eskimo ” is widely viewed as a colonial term with a racist history , imposed on the indigenous people of Arctic regions .
Most official documents have moved away from its use .
NASA will also no longer use the term “ Siamese Twins Galaxy ” to refer to NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 , a pair of spiral galaxies found in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster .
Moving forward , NASA will use only the official , International Astronomical Union designations in cases where nicknames are inappropriate .
… Nicknames are often more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cosmic objects , such as Barnard 33 , whose nickname “ the Horsehead Nebula ” invokes its appearance .
But often seemingly innocuous nicknames can be harmful and detract from the science .
The Agency will be working with diversity , inclusion , and equity experts in the astronomical and physical sciences to provide guidance and recommendations for other nicknames and terms for review .

A press release from NASA:
NASA to Reexamine Nicknames for Cosmic Objects
Aug. 5, 2020
Distant cosmic objects such as planets, galaxies, and nebulae are sometimes referred to by the scientific community with unofficial nicknames. As the scientific community works to identify and address systemic discrimination and inequality in all aspects of the field, it has become clear that certain cosmic nicknames are not only insensitive, but can be actively harmful. …
As an initial step, NASA will no longer refer to planetary nebula NGC 2392, the glowing remains of a Sun-like star that is blowing off its outer layers at the end of its life, as the “Eskimo Nebula.” “Eskimo” is widely viewed as a colonial term with a racist history, imposed on the indigenous people of Arctic regions. Most official documents have moved away from its use. NASA will also no longer use the term “Siamese Twins Galaxy” to refer to NGC 4567 and NGC 4568, a pair of spiral galaxies found in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Moving forward, NASA will use only the official, International Astronomical Union designations in cases where nicknames are inappropriate.
… Nicknames are often more approachable and public-friendly than official names for cosmic objects, such as Barnard 33, whose nickname “the Horsehead Nebula” invokes its appearance. But often seemingly innocuous nicknames can be harmful and detract from the science.
The Agency will be working with diversity, inclusion, and equity experts in the astronomical and physical sciences to provide guidance and recommendations for other nicknames and terms for review.


vdare--2020-08-07--The Future of US Politics: PoC vs. Zionist

Back in 2015 , I pointed out that on California campuses , such as UCLA , student government politics offer an interesting foreshadowing of future American politics , with the dividing line often coming down to PoC vs. Zionist .
This summer at USC , the student body president , Truman Fritz , a white guy who looks like a less butch Neil Patrick Harris , was forced out for , as far as I can tell , being white .
And now his VP Rose Ritch is out , claiming anti-Semitic harassment : I have been harassed and pressured @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they opposed one of my identities .
It is not because I am a woman , nor because I identify as queer , femme , or cisgender .
“ Queer , femme , [ and ] cisgender ” Rose looks like a LUG : Lesbian Until Graduation , after which she ’ ll briefly lose 15 pounds , find a nice entertainment lawyer to marry , and move to Calabasas for the Good Schools for their two kids , Joshua and Hannah .
All of these identities qualified me as electable when the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because I also openly identify as a Zionist , a supporter of Israel ’ s right to exist as a Jewish state , I have been accused by a group of students of being unsuitable as a student leader .
I have been told that my support for Israel has made me complicit in racism , and that , by association , I am racist .
Students launched an aggressive social media campaign to “ impeach [ my ] Zionist a**.
” This is antisemitism , and can not be tolerated at a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ environment of mutual respect and tolerance ” .
I suspect that Schumer , Brin , Bloomberg , and Zuckerberg assume that on the morning of November 4 , 2020 , they will get on the phone with Soros , Sulzberger , and Zucker , declare “ Mission Accomplished , ” and persuade them to cut off all funding and publicity to the crazies , and everything will be back to normal by November 6 at the latest .
The future shall be full of interest .

Back in 2015, I pointed out that on California campuses, such as UCLA, student government politics offer an interesting foreshadowing of future American politics, with the dividing line often coming down to PoC vs. Zionist.
This summer at USC, the student body president, Truman Fritz, a white guy who looks like a less butch Neil Patrick Harris, was forced out for, as far as I can tell, being white. And now his VP Rose Ritch is out, claiming anti-Semitic harassment:
I have been harassed and pressured for weeks by my fellow students because they opposed one of my identities. It is not because I am a woman, nor because I identify as queer, femme, or cisgender.
“Queer, femme, [and] cisgender” Rose looks like a LUG: Lesbian Until Graduation, after which she’ll briefly lose 15 pounds, find a nice entertainment lawyer to marry, and move to Calabasas for the Good Schools for their two kids, Joshua and Hannah.
All of these identities qualified me as electable when the student body voted last February. But because I also openly identify as a Zionist, a supporter of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, I have been accused by a group of students of being unsuitable as a student leader. I have been told that my support for Israel has made me complicit in racism, and that, by association, I am racist. Students launched an aggressive social media campaign to “impeach [my] Zionist a**.” This is antisemitism, and cannot be tolerated at a University that proclaims to “nurture an environment of mutual respect and tolerance”.
I suspect that Schumer, Brin, Bloomberg, and Zuckerberg assume that on the morning of November 4, 2020, they will get on the phone with Soros, Sulzberger, and Zucker, declare “Mission Accomplished,” and persuade them to cut off all funding and publicity to the crazies, and everything will be back to normal by November 6 at the latest.
Well, maybe.
Time will tell.
The future shall be full of interest.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-07--Biden Points Out African-Americans Are Less Diverse Than Hispanics

One problem with being as old as Joe Biden is that you remember what words used to mean , not what they mean today .
When Joe was building his vocabulary , “ diverse ” meant “ showing a great deal of variety.
” So , Joe thinks , Hispanics are really diverse : some arrived in the U.S. yesterday , some have had ancestors in New Mexico for 400 years ; some are white , some black , some that other thing ; some speak only Spanish , some speak only English .
In contrast , African Americans ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have a pretty homogeneous culture .
Ergo , in the U.S. , Hispanics are more diverse than blacks on the whole .
Poor Joe doesn ’ t grasp that “ diverse ” doesn ’ t mean variety anymore , it means holiness .
And blacks are the holiest in the new religion of “ Black is best and white is worst.
” So of course blacks aren ’ t going to put up with Joe saying they are less diverse than Hispanics .
Throughout my career I 've witnessed the diversity of thought @ @ @ @ @ @ @ African American community .
It 's this diversity that makes our workplaces , communities , and country a better place .
— Joe Biden ( @ JoeBiden ) August 7 , 2020 At the moment , the media won ’ t give any fuel to Joe ’ s regular Kinsley Gaffes in which he blurts out various truths for fear of helping Trump .
But what is Biden ’ s life going to be like if he beats Trump and becomes America ’ s number one Cishet White Male ?

.@JoeBiden: “Unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community" pic.twitter.com/CFO4Q40jEI — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 6, 2020
One problem with being as old as Joe Biden is that you remember what words used to mean, not what they mean today. When Joe was building his vocabulary, “diverse” meant “showing a great deal of variety.”
So, Joe thinks, Hispanics are really diverse: some arrived in the U.S. yesterday, some have had ancestors in New Mexico for 400 years; some are white, some black, some that other thing; some speak only Spanish, some speak only English. In contrast, African Americans (with the exception of immigrant blacks) have a pretty homogeneous culture. Ergo, in the U.S., Hispanics are more diverse than blacks on the whole.
Poor Joe doesn’t grasp that “diverse” doesn’t mean variety anymore, it means holiness. And blacks are the holiest in the new religion of “Black is best and white is worst.” So of course blacks aren’t going to put up with Joe saying they are less diverse than Hispanics.
Throughout my career I've witnessed the diversity of thought, background, and sentiment within the African American community. It's this diversity that makes our workplaces, communities, and country a better place. — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 7, 2020
At the moment, the media won’t give any fuel to Joe’s regular Kinsley Gaffes in which he blurts out various truths for fear of helping Trump. But what is Biden’s life going to be like if he beats Trump and becomes America’s number one Cishet White Male?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-07--More Reckonings: “Cakewalk”, “Sold Down The River,”“Grandfathering”, Etc.

A reckoning has emerged on American English , rife with words and phrases with racist origins or connotations By Deanna Pan , Globe Staff , Updated August 6 , 2020 , 5:33 p.m. American English is riddled with words and phrases with racist origins or undertones .
Since the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis and the flurry of protests his and other Black Americans ’ deaths have inspired , a growing number of public and private institutions are reevaluating their reliance on language with racist connotations or history .
… In Rhode Island , Governor Gina M. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to drop “ Providence Plantations ” from the state ’ s official name — Rhode Island and Providence Plantations — in state documents , agency websites , and employee pay stubs because of its associations with slavery .
Elsewhere , realtors are reconsidering “ master bedroom ” and “ master bathroom ” in housing listings .
“ People have always been aware of the power of language to discriminate , to dominate , but also to liberate , ” said Michel DeGraff [ Email him ] a self-described “ activist linguist ” and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it can only make for a better world if we become aware of the way that language has an impact on our society.
” Even seemingly innocuous words and phrases , used without malice , can offend or exclude , DeGraff said .
He recalled an incident three years ago at MIT ’ s faculty lunch room in which he overheard another faculty member using the word “ voodoo ” while speaking about a complicated mathematical equation .
“ For him , it was not racialized and I can not say he was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but by using the term .
.
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he has the power to make others like myself feel unwelcome and uncomfortable .
Literally , I could not swallow my food , ” DeGraff said .
“ It had an impact on me .
”

From the Boston Globe:
A reckoning has emerged on American English, rife with words and phrases with racist origins or connotations
By Deanna Pan, Globe Staff,Updated August 6, 2020, 5:33 p.m.
American English is riddled with words and phrases with racist origins or undertones. Since the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis and the flurry of protests his and other Black Americans’ deaths have inspired, a growing number of public and private institutions are reevaluating their reliance on language with racist connotations or history. …
“Cakewalk”
“sold down the river,”
“master and slave,”
“grandfathering”
In Rhode Island, Governor Gina M. Raimondo signed an executive order this summer to drop “Providence Plantations” from the state’s official name — Rhode Island and Providence Plantations — in state documents, agency websites, and employee pay stubs because of its associations with slavery.
Elsewhere, realtors are reconsidering “master bedroom” and “master bathroom” in housing listings.
“People have always been aware of the power of language to discriminate, to dominate, but also to liberate,” said Michel DeGraff [Email him], a self-described “activist linguist” and professor at MIT. “I think it can only make for a better world if we become aware of the way that language has an impact on our society.”
Even seemingly innocuous words and phrases, used without malice, can offend or exclude, DeGraff said. He recalled an incident three years ago at MIT’s faculty lunch room in which he overheard another faculty member using the word “voodoo” while speaking about a complicated mathematical equation.
“For him, it was not racialized and I cannot say he was being racist by using that term, but by using the term . . . he has the power to make others like myself feel unwelcome and uncomfortable. Literally, I could not swallow my food,” DeGraff said. “It had an impact on me.”


vdare--2020-08-08--IT’S OFFICIAL (AGAIN): Leftists, Particularly Leftist Women, Are Nuts

See also : The Democratic Party Has Tipped , To Minorities , Women , Gays—Expect More Kavanaugh-Type Hysteria in the Future .
“ Young White Leftist Females Are Nuts.
” I reported this finding in April , based on an analysis of Pew Research Center data which had found almost half of self-reported “ White Liberals ” ( and the majority of White Liberal females ) aged 18 to 29 had been diagnosed with a mental illness .
Moderates were more mentally stable than Liberals but less so than Conservatives .
This is only one analysis , and of course @ @ @ @ @ @ @ science .
But a new study by Danish social scientist Emil Kirkegaard ( right ) has replicated the Pew Research findings with a vengeance , revealing that , in a huge dataset and on multiple different measures , being Left-wing predicts being mentally ill while being Right-wing is associated with sound mental health [ Mental Illness and the Left , by Emil Kirkegaard , Mankind Quarterly , 2020 ] .
Kirkegaard begins by showing that many studies have found that self-identified liberals are more likely to have poor mental health than are self-identified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which strongly crosses-over with conservatism , correlates with mental health , while atheism is associated with the opposite .
Kirkegaard also discusses the Slate Star Codex Reader Survey—with a sample of 8000—which found a clear linear relationship between political viewpoint and mental health .
Of those who were classified , based on their views , as the most “ far Left , ” 32 % had been formally diagnosed with either depression , bipolar disorder is schizophrenia .
Of those who were the most “ far Right , ” only 11.8 % had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conditions .
( Strikingly , this result was in fact the lowest for all the ten political classifications ) .
However , Kirkegaard allows that this survey may not be representative , as it was taken by followers of a particular blog , who are likely to be highly educated and intelligent .
Accordingly , Kirkegaard chose to use America ’ s General Social Survey ( GSS ) , which has questioned representative samples of Americans between 1972 and 2018 , and has surveyed over 64,000 Americans in total .
Subsamples of between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mental health such that they could be correlated with political viewpoint .
Kirkegaard ’ s results—especially considering the current influence of far-Left groups such as Black Lives Matter—are sobering .
On every single measure of mental health , mental health seems to get worse the more Leftist you are .
And among the far Left , mental health is perilous .
For example , Kirkegaard finds that 45 % of “ extremely liberal ” females have “ ever had a mental health problem ” ( as opposed around 18 % for “ extremely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ liberal ” females , this falls to just 15 % and among “ extremely conservative ” females , it is less than 10 % .
As the emotionally incontinent BLM marches attest—with young white girls lying on the ground in submission to the New Multicultural Cult—extremely liberal females have serious mental health problems .
Whether the GSS asks about having had counselling in the last year , days in poor health , or having a “ mental or emotional disability , ” the direction of the results is always the same : the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more mentally ill ; the more Right wing—often including “ far Right ” —the more mentally healthy .
This contrasts with a recent article in Quillette [ The Woke Left v. the Alt-Right : A New Study Shows They ’ re More Alike Than Either Side Realizes , By Zaid Jilani , Quillette , August 3 , 2020 ] arguing that there are considerable psychological similarities between the far Left and the far Right .
But Kirkegaard ’ s research shows that on one crucial issue there is a huge difference .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ far Right are , on many measures—such as “ ever had a mental health problem , ” or “ days in poor health ” —the mentally healthiest of all political gradations .
Kirkegaard found the same relationship when controlling for age and sex .
The only change : mental health scores for “ Conservatives ” were , on some measures , fractionally better than for “ Extreme Conservatives.
” However , both were still dramatically healthier than Liberals , with Extreme Liberals being conspicuous outliers in terms of terrible mental health .
Kierkegaard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voting patterns .
In general , the most mentally ill people are those who strongly identify as Democrat and the least mentally ill are those who strongly identify as Republican .
There is a roughly linear decline in mental ill health as you move from “ Strongly Democrat ” to “ Strongly Republican.
” But Kierkegaard ’ s incredibly in-depth analysis then does something very novel .
It reverses the question , exploring how “ happy ” people of different political viewpoints rate themselves , as mentally healthy people tend to be of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are various anomalies which Kirkegaard puts down to sampling errors .
But , overall , people appear to be happier the more conservative they are .
Kirkegaard is cautious about making sense of the causes of this relationship between Leftism and mental illness .
He notes that academics tend to be very Left-wing and that there are reports of increasing levels of mental illness among PhD students : But Kirkegaard also observes that both mental illness and political viewpoint are strongly genetic .
So , an explanation that would fit better : being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of thinking that would have been adaptive under the harsh conditions to which human populations were subject until the Industrial Revolution .
Mental health would also have been adaptive .
Accordingly , both would have been selected for together -- meaning we would expect the two to go together for genetic reasons .
Similarly , as selection pressures have hugely weakened , deviations from these evolutionarily-adaptive thought patterns would also go together .
And we would expect the “ far Left ” —with their notions of it being good not to have children @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ethnic group to be wiped out—to be acutely mentally ill , just as Kirkegaard finds .
It is these kinds of extremists , he notes , that tend to become politically active .
In other words , in the BLM Era , Kirkegaard ’ s study clearly shows that Western societies are actually being held to ransom , pressurized and generally intimidated by a mob of people who are , in fact , very seriously mentally ill .
They should , in many cases , be in psychiatric hospitals rather than marching through @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lance Welton [ email him ] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York .

See also: The Democratic Party Has Tipped, To Minorities, Women, Gays—Expect More Kavanaugh-Type Hysteria in the Future.
“Young White Leftist Females Are Nuts.” I reported this finding in April, based on an analysis of Pew Research Center data which had found almost half of self-reported “White Liberals” (and the majority of White Liberal females) aged 18 to 29 had been diagnosed with a mental illness. Moderates were more mentally stable than Liberals but less so than Conservatives. This is only one analysis, and of course there is a replication crisis in social science. But a new study by Danish social scientist Emil Kirkegaard (right) has replicated the Pew Research findings with a vengeance, revealing that, in a huge dataset and on multiple different measures, being Left-wing predicts being mentally ill while being Right-wing is associated with sound mental health [Mental Illness and the Left, by Emil Kirkegaard, Mankind Quarterly, 2020].
Kirkegaard begins by showing that many studies have found that self-identified liberals are more likely to have poor mental health than are self-identified conservatives and also that traditional religiousness, which strongly crosses over with conservatism, correlates with mental health, while atheism is associated with the opposite.
Kirkegaard also discusses the Slate Star Codex Reader Survey—with a sample of 8000—which found a clear linear relationship between political viewpoint and mental health. Of those who were classified, based on their views, as the most “far Left,” 32% had been formally diagnosed with either depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. Of those who were the most “far Right,” only 11.8% had been formally diagnosed with one of these conditions. (Strikingly, this result was in fact the lowest for all the ten political classifications).
However, Kirkegaard allows that this survey may not be representative, as it was taken by followers of a particular blog, who are likely to be highly educated and intelligent. Accordingly, Kirkegaard chose to use America’s General Social Survey (GSS), which has questioned representative samples of Americans between 1972 and 2018, and has surveyed over 64,000 Americans in total. Subsamples of between 1,053 and 11,338 were asked questions about mental health such that they could be correlated with political viewpoint.
Kirkegaard’s results—especially considering the current influence of far-Left groups such as Black Lives Matter—are sobering.
On every single measure of mental health, mental health seems to get worse the more Leftist you are. And among the far Left, mental health is perilous. For example, Kirkegaard finds that 45% of “extremely liberal” females have “ever had a mental health problem” (as opposed around 18% for “extremely liberal” males). Among “liberal” females, this falls to just 15% and among “extremely conservative” females, it is less than 10%.
As the emotionally incontinent BLM marches attest—with young white girls lying on the ground in submission to the New Multicultural Cult—extremely liberal females have serious mental health problems.
Whether the GSS asks about having had counselling in the last year, days in poor health, or having a “mental or emotional disability,” the direction of the results is always the same: the more Left-wing you are, the more mentally ill; the more Right-wing—often including “far Right”—the more mentally healthy.
This contrasts with a recent article in Quillette [The Woke Left v. the Alt-Right: A New Study Shows They’re More Alike Than Either Side Realizes, by Zaid Jilani, Quillette, August 3, 2020] arguing that there are considerable psychological similarities between the far Left and the far Right. But Kirkegaard’s research shows that on one crucial issue there is a huge difference. The far Left are mentally ill. The far Right are, on many measures—such as “ever had a mental health problem,” or “days in poor health”—the mentally healthiest of all political gradations.
Kirkegaard found the same relationship when controlling for age and sex. The only change: Mental health scores for “Conservatives” were, on some measures, fractionally better than for “Extreme Conservatives.” However, both were still dramatically healthier than Liberals, with Extreme Liberals being conspicuous outliers in terms of terrible mental health.
Kierkegaard even finds the same relationship in American voting patterns. In general, the most mentally ill people are those who strongly identify as Democrat and the least mentally ill are those who strongly identify as Republican. There is a roughly linear decline in mental ill health as you move from “Strongly Democrat” to “Strongly Republican.”
But Kierkegaard’s incredibly in-depth analysis then does something very novel. It reverses the question, exploring how “happy” people of different political viewpoints rate themselves, as mentally healthy people tend to be of a “happy” disposition. There are various anomalies which Kirkegaard puts down to sampling errors. But, overall, people appear to be happier the more conservative they are.
Kirkegaard is cautious about making sense of the causes of this relationship between Leftism and mental illness. He notes that academics tend to be very Left-wing and that there are reports of increasing levels of mental illness among PhD students:
This suggests that there is perhaps something about being in university that is causal for mental illness and probably also encourages people with poor mental health to self-select into it.
But Kirkegaard also observes that both mental illness and political viewpoint are strongly genetic. So, an explanation that would fit better: Being “Conservative” is associated with ways of thinking that would have been adaptive under the harsh conditions to which human populations were subject until the Industrial Revolution. Mental health would also have been adaptive. Accordingly, both would have been selected for together—meaning we would expect the two to go together for genetic reasons.
Similarly, as selection pressures have hugely weakened, deviations from these evolutionarily adaptive thought patterns would also go together.
And we would expect the “far Left”—with their notions of it being good not to have children or moral to allow one’s ethnic group to be wiped out—to be acutely mentally ill, just as Kirkegaard finds. It is these kinds of extremists, he notes, that tend to become politically active.
In other words, in the BLM Era, Kirkegaard’s study clearly shows that Western societies are actually being held to ransom, pressurized and generally intimidated by a mob of people who are, in fact, very seriously mentally ill. They should, in many cases, be in psychiatric hospitals rather than marching through the streets for “racial justice.”
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.


vdare--2020-08-08--Court Upholds Black Kritarch's Attack On Trump's Public Charge Rule

A federal appeals court has upheld a decision last October by a local kritarch on non-citizen use of public benefits .
The issue here was a new rule , brought in earlier this year by the Department of Homeland Security , denying green cards—that 's permanent resident-alien status—to aliens who use Medicaid , food stamps , and other types of public assistance .
So this is part of the larger `` public charge '' issue .
Should a foreigner who is going to be a charge on the public fisc be given permanent-residence status ?
The common-sense reply to that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on earth would a country want to import welfare cases ?
The kritarch , a Clinton-appointed black judge named George B. Daniels , begged to differ , and this week 's ruling from the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals supports him .
This new DHS rule , said the court , has already had an irreparable chilling effect on noncitizen use of public benefits .
My dictionary defines the word `` irreparable '' as `` can not be repaired or mended . ''
Without thinking very hard at all I can rather easily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that would mend that chilling effect once and for all , and save taxpaying citizens a ton of money into the bargain .
I guess I 'm not cut out to be an appeals court judge .

A federal appeals court has upheld a decision last October by a local kritarch on non-citizen use of public benefits.
The issue here was a new rule, brought in earlier this year by the Department of Homeland Security, denying green cards—that's permanent resident-alien status—to aliens who use Medicaid, food stamps, and other types of public assistance. So this is part of the larger "public charge" issue. Should a foreigner who is going to be a charge on the public fisc be given permanent-residence status?
The common-sense reply to that is: Of course not. Why on earth would a country want to import welfare cases?
The kritarch, a Clinton-appointed black judge named George B. Daniels, begged to differ, and this week's ruling from the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals supports him. This new DHS rule, said the court, has already had an irreparable chilling effect on noncitizen use of public benefits.
My dictionary defines the word "irreparable" as "cannot be repaired or mended." Without thinking very hard at all I can rather easily come up with a course of action that would mend that chilling effect once and for all, and save taxpaying citizens a ton of money into the bargain. I guess I'm not cut out to be an appeals court judge.


vdare--2020-08-08--Homicides In St. Louis: From the Ferguson Effect to the Floyd Effect

Homicide statistics in St. Louis , next door to Ferguson , MO , were perhaps the first fairly big city to reflect the Ferguson Effect of rising homicide numbers in the First BLM Era .
If you stare closely at this graph of homicides in the city of St. Louis , you can that homicides were notably more frequent from late 2014 through spring of 2020 than in the half decade before BLM debuted at Ferguson ( August 2014 ) .
But in St. Louis , the Ferguson Effect is dwarfed by the Floyd Effect in June ( 33 homicides @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 .
ST. LOUIS — A controversial federal initiative targeting violent crime will bring 50 federal investigators and a $ 1 million grant to St. Louis , U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen said Thursday .
Jimmie Edwards , St. Louis public safety director , said he sought federal help after a surge in homicides and other shootings in St. Louis in the last two months .
Edwards said there were 32 homicides in June and 53 in July , and an understaffed police department had a backlog of suspects being sought for those crimes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dozen more being pursued for crimes “ just as heinous , ” he said .
“ Violent crime in St. Louis is intolerable lately , ” Jensen said at a news conference Thursday .
Jensen said that the federal investigators will be supplemented by Missouri Highway Patrol staffers , and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt will lend two prosecutors to handle cases .
Jensen said Operation Legend will target violent offenders , gangs , so-called “ active shooters ” and fugitives .
There will also be additional resources to respond to shooting scenes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the program will last , saying he didn ’ t want people to wait out the enhanced federal presence .
Responding to criticism of the program elsewhere , Jensen said the investigators will not be protecting federal property or responding to protests .
Operation Legend is not “ protection of federal buildings , protection of federal properties , ” he said .
“ It ’ s not riot police .
It ’ s not officers wearing fatigues .
This is purely a violent crime effort .
An effort to reduce the terrible murder @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have questioned the legality of the federal response to protests in Portland , Oregon , and said it led to more violence .
Who is backed by George Soros ’ s money .
said in a statement that she is “ concerned about bringing more federal agents to the City of St. Louis given their recent behavior in Portland , Oregon , where officers stopped people without probable cause and interrupted peaceful protesters without warning .
My office will hold law enforcement agencies accountable if they violate the rights of people who live @ @ @ @ @ @ @ announcement was not related to Gardner ’ s victory in the Democratic primary Tuesday , which essentially guarantees her reelection in the heavily Democratic city .
He said the plan was in the works for some time .
… After the news conference , Parson , Krewson and other officials exited through the front doors of headquarters where no protesters were gathered and ducked into cars that sped away .
Protesters ran into the street in front of police headquarters moments later and blocked traffic .
Protesters attempted to block another car they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ minutes later a line of police officers on bicycles pushed protesters back to let the car pass .
St. Louis is one of eight cities where the operation has been announced .
The operation was first launched July 8 in Kansas City .
Sometimes referred to as Operation LeGend , it was named in honor of 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro , who was fatally shot in June while asleep in his Kansas City home .
Officials announced July 22 it would be expanded to Chicago and Albuquerque .
Cleveland , Detroit and Milwaukee were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Memphis then was added along with St. Louis .
… Critics say that federal and state officials , including Parson and President Donald Trump , are trying to shift the public ’ s focus to violent crime instead of an economy devastated by the coronavirus pandemic and a series of failures to adequately contain the spread of the disease .

Homicide statistics in St. Louis, next door to Ferguson, MO, were perhaps the first fairly big city to reflect the Ferguson Effect of rising homicide numbers in the First BLM Era. If you stare closely at this graph of homicides in the city of St. Louis, you can see that homicides were notably more frequent from late 2014 through spring of 2020 than in the half decade before BLM debuted at Ferguson (August 2014).
But in St. Louis, the Ferguson Effect is dwarfed by the Floyd Effect in June (33 homicides) and July (54) of 2020.
From St. Louis Today:
Feds launch St. Louis anti-crime initiative as homicide rate climbs Robert Patrick , Rachel Rice Aug 7, 2020 ST. LOUIS — A controversial federal initiative targeting violent crime will bring 50 federal investigators and a $1 million grant to St. Louis, U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen said Thursday. Jimmie Edwards, St. Louis public safety director, said he sought federal help after a surge in homicides and other shootings in St. Louis in the last two months. Edwards said there were 32 homicides in June and 53 in July, and an understaffed police department had a backlog of suspects being sought for those crimes, including 20 homicide suspects and several dozen more being pursued for crimes “just as heinous,” he said. “Violent crime in St. Louis is intolerable lately,” Jensen said at a news conference Thursday. Jensen said that the federal investigators will be supplemented by Missouri Highway Patrol staffers, and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt will lend two prosecutors to handle cases. Jensen said Operation Legend will target violent offenders, gangs, so-called “active shooters” and fugitives. There will also be additional resources to respond to shooting scenes. He declined to say how long the program will last, saying he didn’t want people to wait out the enhanced federal presence. Responding to criticism of the program elsewhere, Jensen said the investigators will not be protecting federal property or responding to protests. Operation Legend is not “protection of federal buildings, protection of federal properties,” he said. “It’s not riot police. It’s not officers wearing fatigues. This is purely a violent crime effort. An effort to reduce the terrible murder rate we have seen lately.” Critics have questioned the legality of the federal response to protests in Portland, Oregon, and said it led to more violence. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner
Who is backed by George Soros’s money.
said in a statement that she is “concerned about bringing more federal agents to the City of St. Louis given their recent behavior in Portland, Oregon, where officers stopped people without probable cause and interrupted peaceful protesters without warning. My office will hold law enforcement agencies accountable if they violate the rights of people who live in our community.” Jensen said the announcement was not related to Gardner’s victory in the Democratic primary Tuesday, which essentially guarantees her reelection in the heavily Democratic city. He said the plan was in the works for some time. … After the news conference, Parson, Krewson and other officials exited through the front doors of headquarters where no protesters were gathered and ducked into cars that sped away. Protesters ran into the street in front of police headquarters moments later and blocked traffic. Protesters attempted to block another car they mistakenly thought was carrying Jensen, but minutes later a line of police officers on bicycles pushed protesters back to let the car pass. St. Louis is one of eight cities where the operation has been announced. The operation was first launched July 8 in Kansas City. Sometimes referred to as Operation LeGend, it was named in honor of 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was fatally shot in June while asleep in his Kansas City home. Officials announced July 22 it would be expanded to Chicago and Albuquerque. Cleveland, Detroit and Milwaukee were added to the list July 29. Memphis then was added along with St. Louis. … Critics say that federal and state officials, including Parson and President Donald Trump, are trying to shift the public’s focus to violent crime instead of an economy devastated by the coronavirus pandemic and a series of failures to adequately contain the spread of the disease.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-08--If Black Is Capitalized But Not White, Shouldn't Woman be Capitalized But Not Man?

The American news media has recently engaged in what Bible translators call “ reverential capitalization ” when it comes to @ @ @ @ @ in order to show which caste is highest ranking .
But what about sex ?
@ @ @ @ @ demanded reverential capitalization for Women ?
Joe Biden ’ s potential vice presidential nominees include @ @ @ @ @ , and Kamala Harris , who are Black Women , and Elizabeth Warren , a @ @ @ @ @ like Pete Buttigieg , a Gay white man , and even Sherrod Brown , a @ @ @ @

The American news media has recently engaged in what Bible translators call “reverential capitalization” when it comes to Blacks but not to whites in order to show which caste is highest ranking. But what about sex? How come nobody has yet demanded reverential capitalization for Women?
A newspaper article might soon read:
Joe Biden’s potential vice presidential nominees include Susan Rice, Karen Bass, and Kamala Harris, who are Black Women, and Elizabeth Warren, a white Woman, plus longshots like Pete Buttigieg, a Gay white man, and even Sherrod Brown, a straight white man.
[Comment at Unz.com]