vdare--2020-05-22--China’s Totalitarian Theater, Economic Pincers, AndSputnik Moment, Etc

10m34s Land of the Lie .
( It 's what commies do . )
33m15s Who you calling `` morbidly @ @ @ @ @ got it wrong . )
36m53s Neil Munro hits one out of the park .
@ @ @ @ @ ) 37m44s The false azure in the window-pane .
( Avicide in Manhattan . )

01m28s Totalitarian theater. (China's "legislature" assembles.)
06m16s China's economic pincer. (An end to blithe rope-selling.)
10m34s Land of the Lie. (It's what commies do.)
14m11s A Sputnik Moment? (A nation sufficiently united.)
22m29s Blackety-black news. (The depths of Goodwhite denial.)
33m15s Who you calling "morbidly obese"? (I got it wrong.)
35m21s Joe Biden's Veep pick. (Take my advice, Joe.)
36m53s Neil Munro hits one out of the park. (The H-1B scam.)
37m44s The false azure in the windowpane. (Avicide in Manhattan.)
40m29s Signoff. (With some Bluegrass.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your quotably genial host John Derbyshire.
Rather a lot of this week's podcast—around 45 percent, I think—concerns China. I didn't set out intending that; but once I got under way, I just had more and more to say, and I was up at the 20-minute mark in no time. And in justification, much of what happens in China is directly relevant to us Americans and our concerns … as we have learned this past few weeks.
There is other stuff in the podcast, too, though: a round-up of blackety-black news, some insults, some politics, some Eng. Lit. references, and some ornithology, all topped off with a little Bluegrass.
Let's get started.
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02—Totalitarian theater. One thing that, it seems to me, is much more apparent than it was three months ago is that we are living in a bipolar world, or soon shall be.
I know a bipolar world when I see one. I spent my first 45 years in one: the world of the Cold War, dominated by the USA and the USSR.
That bipolar world ended twenty-nine years ago. For a while thereafter the USA stood supreme, economically and militarily. We still do, actually, on indices like per capita GDP and forces deployed overseas. Communist China's been coming up fast, though. It's plain they are aiming for parity with us, regional—I mean, in Asia—if not global. Perhaps they are aiming for global dominance.
Whether they are or not, we are heading into a bipolar world once again. People are waking up fast to this. The coronavirus pandemic has us thinking and talking about China in a way that we weren't before, not in the public realm at any rate. Some sour-faced skeptics and grouches on the commentarial fringes, like your acerbically genial host here, were talking that way; now it's wellnigh universal.
As I come to the mike today, China's national legislature, the National People's Congress, has just completed the first day of its 2020 annual session. Here are a couple of headliners from this first day:
For the first time in thirty years, there will be no announced target for GDP growth this year—that's Gross Domestic Product, a key economic indicator.
There will be revisions to the Basic Law that defines the status of Hong Kong. The point of the revisions will be to, quote: "safeguard national security in Hong Kong," end quote.
What does any of this mean, and why should Americans care?
To take the first part of that question first: What it means is that these are some of the decisions worked out by the ChiCom Party bosses in secret meetings these past weeks. The words "some of" in that sentence indicate that these are decisions the Party bosses want to make public. For sure there are many more they don't want made public.
The NPC is not really a legislature in any dictionary sense. It's totalitarian theater. There is very occasionally—two or three times per decade—some muffled resistance to edicts from the Politburo; but even those have had a staged quality about them, and were probably just a theatrical way of settling some minor power struggle at the top.
Still, the NPC is not without value for outside observers. The things that are announced, like the two items I have noted being announced in Friday's opening session, give clues as to what the Party bosses are thinking. Carefully scrutinized and sensibly interpreted, they can give us the lie of the land.
Those two Friday announcements illustrate the point. I'll give over a segment to each.
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03—China's economic pincer. From the first of my bullet points there, about there being no GDP growth target this year, we can deduce that the ChiComs are seriously worried about China's economy.
Like our economy and everyone else's, China's economy has taken a big hit from the pandemic and the measures taken to slow or contain it. There have been huge employment losses in both manufacturing and services, in a nation with much less of a social safety net than ours. The thought of a couple hundred million hungry, angry, unemployed workers gives ChiCom bosses the heebie-jeebies.
And this couldn't be happening at a worse time for China's economy, which is looking at a pincer trap. I'll describe the two arms of the pincer in turn as the Past Arm and the Future Arm.
The past thirty years have been a sensational boom time for China, with living standards rising faster, I think, than anywhere else, ever, in modern history. By the end of the 2010s, though, the low-hanging fruit had all been picked, and the rate of improvement was slowing. That is one arm of the economic pincer—call it the Past Arm.
And now there is widespread anger and suspicion towards China among its former trading partners—the nations that, by opening their markets and exporting their factories, made the Chinese economic miracle possible. The developed nations of North America, Western Europe, and Australasia are waking to the fact that we have sold the Chinese Communist Party a whole lot of rope with a gift card attached saying "Please Hang Us." They are backing off from China.
There is even talk of boycotts. In a poll done mid-May, forty percent of Americans said they won't buy products made in China.
It's the same all over. Some headline-writer at the London Daily Mail has taken up Radio Derb's Godfather theme: headline, May 22nd: PM "moves to end UK's reliance on China for essential supplies and manufacturing" amid fury at its coronavirus "cover-up" as Beijing hawk MP accuses regime of acting like the "Mafia". End headline.
So looking forward, the era of Western nations blithely helping the ChiComs to consolidate their power, domestic popularity, and international influence by jacking up their economy, are over. That's the other arm of the pincer—call it the Future Arm.
The Past Arm: no more low-hanging fruit. The Future Arm: no more illusions about the regime we've been enabling this past thirty years.
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04—Land of the Lie. On to my second NPC bullet point from today's NPC session, about the status of Hong Kong. What the ChiComs are proposing here reinforces the Future Arm of the economic pincer.
Under the agreement with Britain that handed the city back to China 23 years ago, the ChiComs promised that Hong Kongers would enjoy British levels of social and political freedom, or at least something closer to them than the mainland dictatorship, until 2047.
Well, that promise will no longer be operative. It was just a convenient lie assented to by the ChiComs while they pumped up their economy.
I spoke of the NPC giving us clues about the lie of the land behind the closed doors of ChiCom deliberating. Lie of the land? Politically, China is the Land of the Lie. Strategic lying is not just an occasional aberration in their diplomacy, it is all of it.
Given the feisty spirit shown by the Hong Kong demonstrators this past year, it's not likely that bringing the city back into the warm embrace of the Motherland can be accomplished without highly visible repression, possibly on the scale of Tiananmen Square in 1989, but much more amply recorded in this age of the cellphone camera.
That will just further reinforce the ChiComs' image as a thuggish gangster clique, fortifying the Future Arm of the pincer, shredding any illusions Western populations still have about the nature of the ChiCom regime.
Did I mention Tiananmen Square? Eh: just a few antisocial trouble-makers in need of stern law enforcement. Tibet, Taiwan, and Eastern Turkestan? Integral parts of China since ancient times. Fifty years of autonomy for Hong Kong? Absolutely!—where do we sign? If we are admitted to the World Trade Organization, shall we observe the rules? Of course we shall! COVID-19 originated in China? Certainly not; it was brought in by visiting U.S. soldiers.
Land of the Lie. The world is awakening from its dream of China as a trustworthy commercial nation whose public declarations mean what they say. Communist China is the Land of the Lie.
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05—A Sputnik Moment? So … this coming new bipolar world is nothing to worry about, right? The ChiComs are going to get crushed in that economic pincer I've been describing, right? And Uncle Sam will sail on forward into the middle 21st century as the dominant world power, right?
Well, there are many possible futures, and that is one of them. It's by no means the most probable one, though. China has advantages, and we have dis-advantages, that could shape the future in a Chinese direction.
I'd list China's main advantages as three:
Despotism, which makes it easier to get some things done.
A big Smart Fraction. Smart Fraction Theory argues that "national wealth is determined by the fraction of workers with IQ equal to or greater than some minimum value."
Demographic homogeneity; low levels of ethnic diversity and ethnomasochism.
To the first point there, the one about despotism: Look, I really don't want to live under the ChiComs; and I speak as a person who did live under them for a year. There is no denying, though, that despotism has its advantages, especially in technological development. Exhibit A: China's high-speed rail system. Where is ours?
The second point, about a big Smart Fraction, has a link with the first. The name of the link is "eugenics," both positive and negative.
Positive eugenics means encouraging people with positive heritable traits to breed; negative eugenics means dis-couraging—or actually forbidding—people with negative traits to do so. The despotic power of course gets to decide the definitions of "positive" and "negative" and the degree of coercion.
Are the ChiComs interested in eugenics? Oh yeah. I had things to say about this in my November Diary last year, to which I refer you if you're interested.
It's the third point that most powerfully addresses American weakness. China has some ethnic diversity, but it's mostly out at the territorial fringes, in occupied Tibet, Mongolia, and Eastern Turkestan. The great majority of China's population—and an overwhelming supermajority in metropolitan China, away from those fringes—is of a single ethny. If the Chinese withdrew from those occupied fringes, China would be the world's most homogenous big nation.
This spares China from all the rancors and disorders that sap so much of our social and political energy.
Not only are China's minority ethnies proportionally much smaller than ours, the Han Chinese supermajority is not split down the middle as our own white just-barely-majority is.
It is not the case that one half of the Han Chinese loathes and despises the other half. No Chinese politician ever sought advantage by describing half of his fellow Chinese as "deplorables." No public intellectual in China ever wrote that "The yellow race is the cancer of human history" as Susan Sontag wrote of the white race to which she herself belonged. Ethnomasochism is a white pathology.
And as social dogma, quite a recent one. Susan Sontag wrote her words in 1967. You can take them as the beginning of the rise of white ethomasochism to its present position as a major social dogma.
There is a line of American commentary on China, argued most clearly and persistently by David Goldman at Asia Times (now apparently with Gordon Chang also on board) telling us that we Americans should consider ourselves to be in a Sputnik Moment: a moment in history where, if we don't stop the fruitless squabbling and begin engaging in some serious, co-ordinated national effort, the ChiComs will eat our lunch, breezing past us in key technologies like artificial intelligence, big data, microchip fabrication, and quantum computing.
The problem with that prescription is that the original Sputnik Moment, to which America reacted with such spectacular success, occurred in 1957, a whole decade B.S.—"Before Sontag." White ethnomasochism was not entirely unknown in 1957, but it was restricted to tiny cliques of urban intellectuals.
We could make a united national response to Sputnik sixty years ago because we were a sufficiently united nation. You need that qualifying word "sufficiently" there because there was what people of the time called "the Negro Problem."
White Americans didn't think about black Americans any more than they absolutely had to, though, and the race issue didn't split whites down the middle as clearly and angrily as in what I call today's Cold Civil War. Sputnik-wise, we were a sufficiently united nation—sufficiently to co-operate in a colossal national effort with a minimum of bickering.
If we had been at today's level of social rancor back in 1957, would we have been able to get to a Moon landing in just twelve years? Of course not. It would have taken us twelve years just to figure out and litigate, appeal, re-litigate, and re-appeal the affirmative-action protocols for staffing Mission Control.
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06—Blackety-black news. Ah, the Negro Problem. Every once in a while—quite a long while; I need to be in a certain mood—I go to the Southern Poverty Law Center website and read their entry on me.
This is not from vanity, although I'll admit to being a little flattered at having been noticed by the anti-white witch-hunters of Montgomery. No; it's more to remind myself of the depth of denial and delusion that prevails among Goodwhites.
The task they set for whichever SPLC lower-echelon flunky got assigned to composing my page was to find the most damning possible quote from my writing: something so snarlingly, frothingly hate-filled, so preposterously, inconceivably unreasonable as to put me for ever beyond the bounds of civilized discourse. So what did they come up with?
I'll quote you the relevant paragraph from the SPLC web page. Most of the quote is me speaking—actually writing, of course—so I'll tag that main part with "inner quotes." Quote:
[Inner quote.] "A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us," [end inner quote] Derbyshire wrote. [Continuing inner quote.] "They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming." [End inner quote.]
End quote.
The first thing to note is that they have edited my words so that the second of those two sentences makes no sense. In what I actually wrote, there is a sentence in between those two that the SPLC-bot omitted, whether from lazy incompetence or from malice, I don't know. There is plenty of both at the SPLC website.
Here is what I actually wrote, with the omitted sentence included. Quote:
A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. A much larger cohort of blacks—around half—will go along passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.
End quote.
So that pronoun "they" starting off the third sentence refers not to the five percent, as the SPLC mis-quote implies, but to the fifty percent identified in my second sentence—the sentence they left out.
That's by the by. My main point here, and the reason I get satisfaction from re-reading my words, even in the mangled form presented on the SPLC page, is the perfectly obvious truth of what I expressed in that first sentence. Re-quote:
A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us.
End quote.
Is there really anyone who does not know this? Really? Are there really such dark depths of Goodwhite denial?
You might, of course, argue with my estimate of five percent. When that column was first published I got a great many emails from people who did so argue. "Five percent?" they scoffed. "You kidding, Derb?" Then the emailer would proceed to offer his estimate, which was always higher, often much higher, than five percent.
(And to be perfectly truthful I dialed down my estimate to five percent from somewhat higher in hopes of making allowance for my implicit bias. I was trying hard to be nice. See where it gets you!)
All that came to mind yesterday when I saw that video clip of a black orderly beating up a frail old man in a Michigan care facility. I'd read out a link for you so you could see the clip for yourself; but Twitter and the other social media censors—BitChute so far an honorable exception—are deleting it as fast as they can.
Tucker Carlson said in last night's show that he's going to cover the incident this evening, Friday. Tucker, though, while a worthy fellow in many ways, is a pussy about race, so he may back out.
If you can find the clip and watch it all the way through, and still tell me that the thing I'm quoted as saying in the SPLC web page on me is untrue; well, then, you are a very good person indeed, a paragon of race denial.
In other race news—I may as well bundle these together—a site search on the New York Times for Paul Marino, the 86-year-old gent murdered along with his 85-year-old wife in a Delaware cemetery by a black man on May 8th … my site search yielded no references for the past week. I tried the Washington Post, too: same result.
A couple more from the same bucket, this one relating to the February shooting in Brunswick, Georgia of a black guy by Travis McMichael, a white guy. Travis and his father Greg, who accompanied him, were arrested and charged with murder May 7th, as reported on Radio Derb that week.
Well, this week William Bryan, who followed the McMichaels in his own truck and shot the famous video of the fatal encounter, William Bryan was also arrested this week and likewise charged with murder—in fact with "felony murder," according to my New York Post. Presumably there are jurisdictions in which murder is not a felony, don't ask me.
William Bryan had made the video public in hope of showing that the McMichaels behaved reasonably, as a District Attorney had concluded. So much for trying to be a good neighbor.
In further related news on the Brunswick shooting, state police and the FBI are hunting for Travis McMichael's high-school home-room teacher, who they think may have communicated incorrect ideas about race to the younger Travis. The McMichael family dentist has been arrested and interrogated for having recently filled one of Greg McMichael's teeth. A Starbucks employee who served the McMichaels with coffee just two weeks before the shooting has also been taken in for questioning …
The Brunswick shooting, by the way, now has its own Wikipedia page, and it's a big one. I logged the main narrative part of the text—not counting headings, references, and footings—as nearly five thousand words. The Fall of Constantinople, by way of comparison, has somewhat over six thousand.
The killing of Paul and Lidia Marino has no Wikipedia page that I can find. No doubt the good Wikifolk are working on it, though. I'm sure they are.
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07—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: When you do as much browsing of news sites as I do, and have a mind as fuddled with age and liquor as mine is, fragments of news blur together in your mind.
So it was this week. I noted in passing not very attentively through media output that some politician X had referred to some other politician Y as, quote, "morbidly obese."
A day or so later I was browsing again, and for some reason there was a whole lot about Stacey Abrams. I'd forgotten who she was, so I brought up an image. Oh, right: that must have been what politician X had been referring to.
Accurate enough, but not very kind. Perhaps the poor lady has some kind of medical condition.
Only later, in conversation with a person more attentive than myself, did I realise my error. Politician X was Nancy Pelosi; politician Y, who she called "morbidly obese," was President Trump, not Stacey Abrams.
Having opened a can of appearance bias there on Stacey Abrams, albeit in error, I may as well draw attention to that gap in her front teeth. It reminds me of an old English belief that such a gap indicates lustfulness. The Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was thus endowed, Chaucer's way of explaining her five marriages.
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Item: The reason for all the coverage of Stacey Abrams is, that she is being promoted—most vigorously by herself—as a possible running mate for Joe Biden.
Don't buy it, Joe. Amy Klobuchar is the right pick. Radio Derb advised you way back in mid-January that, quote from me:
I think a Biden-Klobuchar ticket would be the sweet spot for the Democrats in November. It's dull as all get-out—the anti-weird ticket.
End quote.
Joe Biden has all the blackety-blackness he needs from eight years of tongue-polishing Barack Obama's loafers. He doesn't need crazy Kamala Harris, Mulatto Mafia Susan Rice, or the Wife of Bath to pull in the black vote.
As for white possibilities: Well, there is Michigan's strict governess, but … I don't think so. The nation is not that far gone in masochism.
If Joe Biden has half a brain he'll pick Amy Klobuchar. Wait … what did I just say?
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Item: As I sometimes do, I'm going to direct your attention to a really really good, out-of-the-park column by another opinionator.
The opinionator here is Neil Munro over at Breitbart, May 20th. Neil's topic is the H-1B visa scam, and he leaves no stone unturned.
It's a long piece, but well worth your time. There is some overlap with the 2015 book Sold Out by Michelle Malkin and John Miano; and in fact Neil interviewed John Miano for the column, and quotes him several times.
Beautifully done, Neil. Thank you!
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Item: If you are well-read in 20th-century American fiction you may recognize this couplet:
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the window-pane …
Those are the opening lines of the second section in Vladimir Nabokov's strange 1962 novel Pale Fire. That second section is all in verse: nine hundred and ninety-nine lines.
The waxwing is a kind of small bird, although the one in Pale Fire is of a fictitious species. Nabokov's waxwing has mistaken the reflection of sky in a window-pane for actual sky, flown into it at full speed, and died.
What has this got to do with anything? With a news story, of course. Would I hit you with some empty literary whimsy totally unrelated to the news? Me? Come on!
So, New York Post, May 19th, headline: Deathtrap NYC condo killed 28 birds in one day.
See, there is this big 11-storey condo building right on the edge of Central Park in Manhattan, fronted with dozens of big glass windows, built three years ago. Migrating birds see the park's reflection in the glass and think it's the actual park. Thump!—dead birds, as many as 28 in a single day.
Are any of them waxwings? I don't know, and couldn't tell from the pictures given in the Post.
"There is no question that this is a problem now," local resident and bird-watcher Terence Zahner told the Post. I'm sure he's right; but New York City has rather a lot of problems right now, and I doubt this one's going to get much attention.
I'll file this under "Life Imitates Art."
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08—Signoff. That's it, ladies and gentlemen, for this Memorial Day weekend. Thank you for listening, and may all be well with you and yours.
Take some time over the weekend to quietly remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of our nation. Then, take some other time to relax with loved ones and friends, to enjoy the life that those heroes, by their sacrifice, gifted to us. It's what they would have wanted.
In the matter of signoff music, I recently received a rather impertinent email from a reader. Not a listener, a reader: some people prefer to wait until Wednesday and read the transcript. Here's what this reader said, edited quote.
Mr Derbyshire:
I enjoy reading the transcripts of your weekly podcast. At the end of the transcript I always click on the link so I can watch the YouTube clip of your signout music.
I have noticed that when you sign out with a country-music clip, the performance always features a comely young female. This was the case most recently in your podcasts on November 29th, April 3rd, and April 24th.
Are you practicing appearance bias in your selections?
End quote.
The answer is: absolutely not! Radio Derb is known worldwide as a sober, serious, and family-friendly news outlet. We would never stoop so low as to use crude sex appeal in choosing our sign-out clips. The sole criterion is musical quality. Shame on this reader for suggesting otherwise.
So much for that very unseemly insinuation. Now to this week's signout music. How about something on the banjo? Here's a little snippet in the bluegrass style, played by Willow Osborne. I don't know the name of it, but it sure got my attention.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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[Music clip: Willow Osborne, unnamed piece.]


vdare--2020-05-22--McSally Debacle Discrediting GOP’s Women Strategy—Just Campaign On Immigration Moratorium!

See also : Yes , Virginia ( Dare ) , There IS A GOP War On Women !
—Campaign Consultants Prey On Naive Millionairesses Like Terri Lynn Land Every poll shows Arizona Senator Martha McSally ( R.-AZ ) losing to Democratic opponent Mark Kelly .
Which raises the question of why the GOP keeps backing women like her .
Answer : just as Stupid Party consultants thinks pandering to blacks will win the black vote , they believe nominating female candidates will win among “ suburban women.
” And so the party routinely picks terrible candidates , who just happen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the GOP ruling class elites—such as Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler , another creation of the GOP Brain Trust .
Problem : It doesn ’ t work .
Campaigning on an immigration moratorium will .
McSally looked good on paper .
A 22-year Air Force veteran with a Masters from Harvard , she was the “ first woman combat pilot.
” ( A product of Affirmative Action , of course , she is not to be confused with Robin Olds or Steve Ritchie ) .
She represented AZ-2 in Congress , now presents herself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and has even moved right on immigration .
But McSally must pose as a Trump supporter to win rural Arizonans who didn ’ t vote in 2018 .
Her act doesn ’ t fool anyone , except perhaps Jared Kushner [ The fighter pilot takes on the astronaut : McSally ’ s 2020 Arizona mission , by James Arkin , Politico , March 1 , 2020 ] .
She ’ s an empty Establishment suit in a skirt and high heels .
That ’ s exactly why the Establishment picked her to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ temporarily filled John McCain ’ s vacant seat—after her defeat in the general election for Arizona ’ s other Senate seat in 2018 .
If McSally were in the dock facing an America First prosecutor , this would be his indictment : • She has a dismal F- from NumbersUSA and supports permanent legalization for illegal aliens who came to the U.S. as minors .
• She refused to endorse Trump in 2016 [ McSally embraces Trump ahead of Arizona Senate run , by Maggie Severns , Politico , November 29 , 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ loss on Brett Kavanaugh ’ s confirmation fight , which any given Bush would certainly have abandoned , but was in fact one of President Trump ’ s finest moments [ Arizona Republican ’ s campaign postmortem contains bad news for Trump , by Aaron Rupar , Vox , November 28 , 2018 ] .
• She opposes Trump ’ s America First trade policy [ Senators say tariffs wrong way to handle China trade issues , by Bob Christie and Jonathan J. Cooper , Associated Press , May 17 , 2019 ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Middle East [ Sinema , McSally both oppose Trump on pulling troops from Middle East , by Alexis Egeland , The Arizona Republic , January 31 , 2019 ] .
Funny thing is , Sen. Kyrsten Sinema , the kooky bisexual who defeated McSally in 2018 , can claim to be more Trumpian than McSally .
Last summer , Sinema about an effort to accelerate deportations and strengthen the border .
Even Republicans and conservative commentators liked the move .
[ Kyrsten Sinema hits a home run with immigration plan , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] McSally has done nothing similar .
About the only way McSally tries to emulate Trump is by fighting with reporters .
In January , the Conservative Inc. media praised her courage in calling CNN reporter Manu Raju a “ liberal hack ” [ Martha McSally insults reporter ’ s integrity , reaps windfall , by Erik Wemple , The Washington Post , January 17 , 2020 ] .
Yet , incredibly , McSally is the candidate the strategic planners at GOP Central Command think will beat Kelly , a popular and personable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ married to Gabby Giffords , the former congresswoman nearly killed in a 2011 shooting that the Leftist media tried to blame on Sarah Palin ( and , then , even more dishonestly , on American Renaissance ’ s Jared Taylor .
In some sense , the Giffords shooting was the beginning of the Ruling Class drive to suppress the Dissident Right and prevent it from defending itself against false charges , which became frantic after Trump ’ s election .
Significantly , Fox ’ s original libel of Taylor is still—as of 5/22/2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Suspected Gunman Passed FBI Background Check , by Jana Winter , January 9 , 2011 . )
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Kelly has plenty of centrist appeal , and will , of course , get sympathy votes .
But , of course he ’ s just like every other Democrat : • He supports strong gun control [ In Arizona 's Competitive Senate Race , Gun Control Is A Major Issue , by Brad Jaspers , NPR , September 10 , 2019 ] .
• He apologized for quoting Winston Churchill because “ racism ” [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ praising Winston Churchill , by Daniel Chaitin , Washington Examiner , October 7 , 2018 ] .
• He has dubious ties to Chinese businesses [ Mark Kelly Silent on Firm 's Windfall From Chinese Tech Giant , by Susan Crabtree , Real Clear Politics , May 13 , 2020 ] .
• He supports the DREAM amnesty for illegal aliens—just like McSally [ Border Security and Immigration , MarkKelly.com ] .
But those sins haven ’ t yet dulled Kelly ’ s spaceman credentials , as his 13-point lead over McSally well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ McSally losing ground to Mark Kelly and that 's not even the bad news , by Laurie Roberts , The Arizona Republic , May 19 , 2020 ] .
Here ’ s the thing .
Kelly is crushing McSally but the Real Clear Politics average of polling data puts Sleepy Joe Biden just 4 points ahead of Trump , .
It appears that Arizonans prefer the populist vulgarian to the “ first woman combat pilot ” and former habitué of Harvard Yard .
More data : When McSally lost by nearly three points @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Doug Ducey won re-election by 14 points .
Trump won the state by nearly four points in 2016 .
In other words , Arizona is not a state where a Republican should lose by double digits .
So why would Mitch McConnell and other GOP leaders insist on running a proven loser in 2020 instead of a stronger candidate such as Paul Gosar or Andy Biggs—both with an A+ from NumbersUSA.
?
The alleged answer : She is woman and she is strong .
“ The road back to the majority is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through the suburbs is going to be with strong female candidates , ” National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Tom Emmer last year .
The NRCC approached nearly 200 women to run for Congress in 2020 [ GOP amps up efforts to recruit women candidates , by Juliegrace Brufke , The Hill , May 25 , 2019 ] .
Bunk .
Apparently , Emmer didn ’ t notice that McSally , who told “ Washington Republicans to grow a pair of ovaries and get the job done , ” in a campaign ad lost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , by 12 points .
And , for that matter , Arizona Republican Establishment had another woman it could have appointed in 2018 : Kelli Ward , who heroically challenged John McCain in 2016 and lost in the primary to McSally in 2018 .
But Ward is an immigration patriot .
( She has been rewarded with the plum position of Chair of the Arizona GOP ) .
That same rationale is behind Georgia Gov .
Brian Kemp ’ s appointment of no-name Kelly Loeffler to the Senate .
Like McSally , Loeffler @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s a good-looking successful businesswoman thanks to her wealthy husband , New York Stock Exchange chairman Jeffrey Sprecher , and didn ’ t carry any heavy baggage .
But she has even less charisma and political skill than McSally .
Nevertheless , ignoring her lack of experience , Kemp selected her over the much more qualified and more conservative Doug Collins , whom she faces in November because no primary will be held this year .
She , too , would win those much-touted “ suburban women , ” the GOP thought .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ have to drop out of the race because she dumped a lot of stock after a secret Senate briefing on the Chinese Virus [ Loeffler ’ s campaign hoped for a reset .
But senator ’ s stocks came under new scrutiny , by Francesca Chambers , McClatchyDC , May 15 , 2020 ] .
And that might be a smart move .
Collins has a 22-point lead in the latest poll [ Georgia Senate poll : Top Dems , Perdue essentially tied , Loeffler trails Collins , by Greg Bluestein , Atlanta @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And those are only two of the many terrible woman candidates with which the GOP is as enamored as it is with conservative blacks .
The odious Nikki Haley has long been considered a replacement running mate for Trump because she , too , will impress “ suburban women ” [ No , Donald Trump is ( probably ) not dumping Mike Pence for Nikki Haley , by Chris Cillizza , CNN , March 3 , 2020 ] .
Of course , that ignores Haley ’ s rejection of Trump in 2016 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Roof [ Nikki Haley links Trump 's rhetoric to Charleston church shooting , by Jesse Byrnes , The Hill , June 3 , 2016 ] .
But the cuckservatives who want a neocon woman on the ticket still love her .
Similarly , the GOP consultant Establishment strongly backed Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman , candidates for governor and senator in California in 2010 .
Both pandered to Hispanics with Leftist immigration policies ; both lost by double digits .
One failure was enough for Whitman , but Fiorina continued to embarrass herself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was , to put it charitably as possible , laughable , despite support from the Keystone Cops who run the GOP and Beltway Right .
For the record , not all women GOP candidates are bad .
Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn is good on immigration and Big Tech [ Rep. Marsha Blackburn : Social media is censoring conservative speech , by Michael Collins , The Tennessean , April 26 , 2018 ] .
She easily won in 2018 with an America First message that did not tout her sex .
But here ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It supports McSally , who has lost once and appears to be headed for a loss again , but it won ’ t support Kris Kobach , a dynamic populist who , unlike McSally , has twice won a statewide election .
Yet Kobach , not McSally , is supposedly “ unelectable ” according to the GOP Establishment .
The real problem : The GOP Establishment , and the consultants , just don ’ t want an immigration patriot champion in the Senate ( or the House ) who might upset the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other words , the GOP Establishment learned nothing from Trump ’ s victory in 2016 .
It ’ s almost as if Trump never ran .
Our advice : The sex of the candidate is unimportant .
An America First platform is what counts .
Trump should campaign on his original brilliant April 20 immigration moratorium tweet ( no matter what Javanka says ) .
And Martha McSally will fall in line .
She ’ s career military , isn ’ t she ?
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See also: Yes, Virginia (Dare), There IS A GOP War On Women!—Campaign Consultants Prey On Naive Millionairesses Like Terri Lynn Land
Every poll shows Arizona Senator Martha McSally (R-AZ) losing to Democratic opponent Mark Kelly. Which raises the question of why the GOP keeps backing women like her. Answer: Just as Stupid Party consultants think pandering to blacks will win the black vote, they believe nominating female candidates will win among “suburban women.” And so the party routinely picks terrible candidates, who just happen to be tight as a tick with the GOP ruling class elites—such as Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler, another creation of the GOP Brain Trust. Problem: It doesn’t work. Campaigning on an immigration moratorium will.
McSally looked good on paper. A 22-year Air Force veteran with a Masters from Harvard, she was the “first woman combat pilot.” (A product of Affirmative Action, of course, she is not to be confused with Robin Olds or Steve Ritchie.) She represented AZ-2 in Congress, now presents herself as a strong supporter of Donald Trump, and has even moved right on immigration.
But McSally must pose as a Trump supporter to win rural Arizonans who didn’t vote in 2018. Her act doesn’t fool anyone, except perhaps Jared Kushner [The fighter pilot takes on the astronaut: McSally’s 2020 Arizona mission, by James Arkin, Politico, March 1, 2020]. She’s an empty Establishment suit in a skirt and high heels. That’s exactly why the Establishment picked her to succeed Jon Kyl—the longtime Arizona senator who temporarily filled John McCain’s vacant seat—after her defeat in the general election for Arizona’s other Senate seat in 2018.
If McSally were in the dock facing an America First prosecutor, this would be his indictment:
Funny thing is, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the kooky bisexual who defeated McSally in 2018, can claim to be more Trumpian than McSally. Last summer, Sinema boasted about an effort to accelerate deportations and strengthen the border. Even Republicans and conservative commentators liked the move [Kyrsten Sinema hits a home run with immigration plan, Arizona Republic, July 23, 2019]. McSally has done nothing similar.
About the only way McSally tries to emulate Trump is by fighting with reporters. In January, the Conservative Inc. media praised her courage in calling CNN reporter Manu Raju a “liberal hack” [Martha McSally insults reporter’s integrity, reaps windfall, by Erik Wemple, Washington Post, January 17, 2020].
Yet, incredibly, McSally is the candidate the strategic planners at GOP Central Command think will beat Kelly, a popular and personable former astronaut and Navy aviator who is married to Gabby Giffords, the former congresswoman nearly killed in a 2011 shooting that the Leftist media tried to blame on Sarah Palin (and, then, even more dishonestly, on American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor. In some sense, the Giffords shooting was the beginning of the Ruling Class drive to suppress the Dissident Right and prevent it from defending itself against false charges, which became frantic after Trump’s election. Significantly, Fox’s original libel of Taylor is still—as of 5/22/2020, 6 p.m.—on its website: Arizona Suspected Gunman Passed FBI Background Check, by Jana Winter, January 9, 2011.)
Kelly has plenty of centrist appeal, and will, of course, get sympathy votes. But, of course he’s just like every other Democrat:
But those sins haven’t yet dulled Kelly’s spaceman credentials, as his 13-point lead over McSally well shows [New poll shows Sen. Martha McSally losing ground to Mark Kelly and that's not even the bad news, by Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic, May 19, 2020].
Here’s the thing. Kelly is crushing McSally but the Real Clear Politics average of polling data puts Sleepy Joe Biden just 4 points ahead of Trump. It appears that Arizonans prefer the populist vulgarian to the “first woman combat pilot” and former habitué of Harvard Yard.
More data: When McSally lost by nearly three points to Sinema in 2018, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey won re-election by 14 points. Trump won the state by nearly four points in 2016.
In other words, Arizona is not a state where a Republican should lose by double digits.
So why would Mitch McConnell and other GOP leaders insist on running a proven loser in 2020 instead of a stronger candidate such as Paul Gosar or Andy Biggs—both with an A+ from NumbersUSA?
The alleged answer: She is woman and she is strong. “The road back to the majority is through the suburbs, and the road through the suburbs is going to be with strong female candidates,” National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Tom Emmer proclaimed last year. The NRCC approached nearly 200 women to run for Congress in 2020 [GOP amps up efforts to recruit women candidates, by Juliegrace Brufke, The Hill, May 25, 2019].
Bunk. Apparently, Emmer didn’t notice that McSally, who told “Washington Republicans to grow a pair of ovaries and get the job done,” in a campaign ad, lost her target demographic, college-educated white women, by 12 points.
And, for that matter, Arizona Republican Establishment had another woman it could have appointed in 2018: Kelli Ward, who heroically challenged John McCain in 2016 and lost in the primary to McSally in 2018. But Ward is an immigration patriot. (She has been rewarded with the plum position of Chair of the Arizona GOP.)
That same rationale is behind Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s appointment of no-name Kelly Loeffler to the Senate. Like McSally, Loeffler looked great on paper. She’s a good-looking successful businesswoman thanks to her wealthy husband, New York Stock Exchange chairman Jeffrey Sprecher, and didn’t carry any heavy baggage. But she has even less charisma and political skill than McSally.
Nevertheless, ignoring her lack of experience, Kemp selected her over the much more qualified and more conservative Doug Collins, whom she faces in November because no primary will be held this year. She, too, would win those much-touted “suburban women,” the GOP thought. But it now looks like Loeffler might have to drop out of the race because she dumped a lot of stock after a secret Senate briefing on the Chinese Virus [Loeffler’s campaign hoped for a reset. But senator’s stocks came under new scrutiny, by Francesca Chambers, McClatchyDC, May 15, 2020].
And that might be a smart move. Collins has a 22-point lead in the latest poll [Georgia Senate poll: Top Dems, Perdue essentially tied, Loeffler trails Collins, by Greg Bluestein, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 19, 2020].
And those are only two of the many terrible woman candidates with which the GOP is as enamored as it is with conservative blacks.
The odious Nikki Haley has long been considered a replacement running mate for Trump because she, too, will impress “suburban women” [No, Donald Trump is (probably) not dumping Mike Pence for Nikki Haley, by Chris Cillizza, CNN, March 3, 2020]. Of course, that ignores Haley’s rejection of Trump in 2016 and comparing him to mass shooter Dylann Roof [Nikki Haley links Trump's rhetoric to Charleston church shooting, by Jesse Byrnes, The Hill, June 3, 2016]. But the cuckservatives who want a neocon woman on the ticket still love her.
Similarly, the GOP consultant Establishment strongly backed Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman, candidates for governor and senator in California in 2010. Both pandered to Hispanics with Leftist immigration policies; both lost by double digits.
One failure was enough for Whitman, but Fiorina continued to embarrass herself. Her GOP presidential candidacy in 2016 was, to put it as charitably as possible, laughable, despite support from the Keystone Cops who run the GOP and Beltway Right.
For the record, not all women GOP candidates are bad. Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn is good on immigration and Big Tech [Rep. Marsha Blackburn: Social media is censoring conservative speech, by Michael Collins, The Tennessean, April 26, 2018]. She easily won in 2018 with an America First message that did not tout her sex.
But here’s how stupid the Stupid Party is. It supports McSally, who has lost once and appears to be headed for a loss again, but it won’t support Kris Kobach, a dynamic populist who, unlike McSally, has twice won a statewide election. Yet Kobach, not McSally, is supposedly “unelectable” according to the GOP Establishment.
The real problem: The GOP Establishment, and the consultants, just don’t want an immigration patriot champion in the Senate (or the House) who might upset the Chamber of Commerce donor class.
In other words, the GOP Establishment learned nothing from Trump’s victory in 2016. It’s almost as if Trump never ran.
Our advice: The sex of the candidate is unimportant. An America First platform is what counts.
Trump should campaign on his original brilliant April 20 immigration moratorium tweet (no matter what Javanka says).
And Martha McSally will fall in line. She’s career military, isn’t she?
Washington Watcher II [Email him] is an anonymous DC insider.


vdare--2020-05-22--A Reader Tries To Find A Confederate Flag Mask To Wear, Finds Them Banned By Amazon

I thought I would buy a mask that had the Confederate Flag on the front .
I Googled it and @ @ @ @ @ thousands ? )
of references to `` Michigan State Senator apologizes—is asked to resign '' @ @ @ @ @ is ridiculous .
I saw two ads for them ; Amazon and one other place @ @ @ @ @ got a 404 page does not exist .
James Fulford writes : A possible substitute @ @ @ @ @ String Bikini '' from Rebel Nation Outfitters , which sells all kind of Confederate merchandise @ @ @ @ @ The pieces are about the right size .
Of course , it looks better in @ @ @ @ @ , Amazon banned the Confederate Flag from its store after Dylann Roof 's mass murder @ @ @ @ @ masks are `` covered '' by that policy .

From: A Confederate-American Reader [Email him]
I thought I would buy a mask that had the Confederate Flag on the front. I Googled it and I literally got hundreds (thousands?) of references to "Michigan State Senator apologizes—is asked to resign" for wearing one.
Perhaps those with such errors in judgment should not be elected to represent the people. Michigan state senator Dale Zorn apologizes for wearing Confederate flag face mask to Senate coronavirus session - The Washington Post https://t.co/aXbwkaLaRR — E B Wilson-Oyelaran (@wilsonoy) April 26, 2020
This is ridiculous. I saw two ads for them; Amazon and one other place; when I clicked I got a 404 page does not exist.
James Fulford writes: A possible substitute would be the "Rebel String Bikini" from Rebel Nation Outfitters, which sells all kind of Confederate merchandise, not through Amazon.
The pieces are about the right size. Of course, it looks better in its original use.
Seriously, Amazon banned the Confederate Flag from its store after Dylann Roof's mass murder, so I suppose these masks are "covered" by that policy.


vdare--2020-05-23--His Name Is Roman Kichigin: White 15-Year-old Immigrant Murdered in Charlotte by 18-Year-old Black M

His Name Is Roman Kichigin: White 15-Year-old Immigrant Murdered in Charlotte by 18-Year-old Black Male in "Car Transaction Gone Wrong"

Roman died on Monday evening after being shot in an apartment complex parking lot on Briarhill Drive in northeast Charlotte , according to police .
Koval said his family believes Roman was killed during an attempted armed robbery .
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said officers arrested 18-year-old Clifton Stanfill on Tuesday .
He ’ s been charged with murder , robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon , CMPD officials said .
CMPD says the investigation is ongoing .
Loved ones of Roman said that he was a caring , strong-spirited , brave Christian and looking forward to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 10th grade at Union County Early College and had been hoping to get baptized after the coronavirus pandemic abated .
When the family moved to Charlotte from Semey , Kazakhstan in 2014 , Roman — who was just 12 years old — helped out by taking care of his three younger siblings .
“ Nobody asked him to do it but he would just cook something up if his parents were busy , ” Koval said .
Koval met the Kichigin family when they first moved and helped them find an apartment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s been close to the family and their relatives ever since , he said .
After the family moved , Roman bought his first BMW for $ 800 , said his cousin Alex Kichigin , 19 .
It would be the first in a string of four BMWs that he would own and work on .
Roman ’ s father , an auto body specialist , taught him how to work with cars in the garage , Koval said .
Roman ’ s obsession with BMW cars is a family one , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the only brand family members will own and at church , the family parks their BMWs in a line , he said .
Alex Kichigin says he and his younger cousin were inseparable .
It didn ’ t matter if they were racing Go Karts , going out for food , long boarding or going to car shows , they just wanted to be together , his cousin said .
“ We trusted each other with everything , ” Alex Kichigin said .
” … I don ’ t know anyone like that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been working and intending to sell was a black-on-black BMW with “ full bolts on ” and the most expensive tires around , his cousin said .
“ We threw a lot of money into our cars , ” he said .
“ We didn ’ t mess around.
” The day Roman died , he was hoping to sell his car and made an appointment at the DMV , Koval said .
Then , Roman had lunch with his father at his work place .
After , Roman and his mother went @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said .
They were meeting the seller , he said , and parked their car at the apartments on Briarhill .
Before he got out of the car to look at the phone , Roman gave his wallet to his mother , Koval said .
His mother told Koval later there were two men in the parking lot waiting to meet Roman .
Shortly after , Koval said , Roman was shot .
He attempted to drive away with his mother in the car , Koval said , and CMPD confirmed Roman was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had come to a stop on the side of the road .
Roman ’ s mom , who was a pediatrician in Kazakhstan , attempted CPR before paramedics arrived , according to Koval .
Roman died later at the hospital , CMPD officials said .

Roman died on Monday evening after being shot in an apartment complex parking lot on Briarhill Drive in northeast Charlotte, according to police. Koval said his family believes Roman was killed during an attempted armed robbery.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said officers arrested 18-year-old Clifton Stanfill on Tuesday. He’s been charged with murder, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon, CMPD officials said. CMPD says the investigation is ongoing.
A car enthusiast and friend
Loved ones of Roman said that he was a caring, strong-spirited, brave Christian and looking forward to the rest of his life. He was in 10th grade at Union County Early College and had been hoping to get baptized after the coronavirus pandemic abated.
When the family moved to Charlotte from Semey, Kazakhstan in 2014, Roman — who was just 12 years old — helped out by taking care of his three younger siblings.
“Nobody asked him to do it but he would just cook something up if his parents were busy,” Koval said.
Koval met the Kichigin family when they first moved and helped them find an apartment and work out legal documents. He’s been close to the family and their relatives ever since, he said.
After the family moved, Roman bought his first BMW for $800, said his cousin Alex Kichigin, 19. It would be the first in a string of four BMWs that he would own and work on. Roman’s father, an auto body specialist, taught him how to work with cars in the garage, Koval said.
Roman’s obsession with BMW cars is a family one, his cousin said. It’s the only brand family members will own and at church, the family parks their BMWs in a line, he said.
Alex Kichigin says he and his younger cousin were inseparable.
It didn’t matter if they were racing Go Karts, going out for food, long boarding or going to car shows, they just wanted to be together, his cousin said.
“We trusted each other with everything,” Alex Kichigin said. ” … I don’t know anyone like that anymore”
Shooting in parking lot
The last car Roman had been working and intending to sell was a black-on-black BMW with “full bolts on” and the most expensive tires around, his cousin said.
“We threw a lot of money into our cars,” he said. “We didn’t mess around.”
The day Roman died, he was hoping to sell his car and made an appointment at the DMV, Koval said. Then, Roman had lunch with his father at his work place.
After, Roman and his mother went together to buy a phone, Koval said. They were meeting the seller, he said, and parked their car at the apartments on Briarhill.
Before he got out of the car to look at the phone, Roman gave his wallet to his mother, Koval said. His mother told Koval later there were two men in the parking lot waiting to meet Roman.
Shortly after, Koval said, Roman was shot. He attempted to drive away with his mother in the car, Koval said, and CMPD confirmed Roman was found injured inside the car, which had come to a stop on the side of the road. Roman’s mom, who was a pediatrician in Kazakhstan, attempted CPR before paramedics arrived, according to Koval.
Roman died later at the hospital, CMPD officials said.


vdare--2020-05-23--Noah Carl Vindicated!—WuFlu Varies By Race (As Leftist Enforcer  Adam Rutherford Just Found Out)

Our Ruling Class in Britain and America recently decreed that is now acceptable to report race differences in the incidence of Covid-19 , partly because minorities seem to be hardest hit and it sees a chance to blame whites .
This is something of a pyrrhic victory for a young British sociologist called Dr. Noah Carl , right , who was fired last year from Cambridge University for “ problematic work ” on “ race and intelligence ” which might “ legitimise racist stereotypes ” and which hurt the feelings of some of the college ’ s students [ Cambridge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ right , By Richard Adams , The Guardian , May 1 , 2019 ] .
Carl ’ s “ problematic ” work included an academic journal article [ How Stifling Debate Around Race , Genes and IQ Can Do Harm , Evolutionary Psychological Science , 2018 ] in which he had the temerity to suggest that suppressing the concept of “ race ” might lead to just as many social problems as not doing so—one of which would be ignoring race differences in the ability to fight off different diseases .
This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ part of the academic and journalistic mobbing that pressured Cambridge University into firing Carl , Carl ’ s article on this subject was specifically highlighted , in the leftist Guardian newspaper , who subtly presented it as evidence of Carl ’ s wickedness : “ …he has previously defended his work on race and genetics by arguing that ‘ stifling debate around taboo topics can itself do active harm ’ ” [ Cambridge gives role to academic accused of racist stereotyping , By Richard Adams , The Guardian , December 7 , 2018 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as part of my coverage on the mounting Leftist War On Science More recently , Carl has penned a careful and detailed article arguing , in the most systematic way I have yet seen , that genetically-caused race differences in Vitamin D deficiency is the most parsimonious explanation of the race differences in fatality from Covid-19 [ Why Are Non-White Britons More Likely to Die of COVID-19 ?
, By Noah Carl , Medium , May 17 , 2020 ] Carl by citing an academic study for evidence that , in Britain : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Carl then explores the possible causes , suggesting that geographical factors are the most obvious .
Presenting official statistics in each case , he explains that Non-Whites are more urban , more likely to live in multi-generational households ( where an asymptomatic child will pass Covid-19 to a grandparent ) , more likely to work for the National Health Service or in some other “ key work ” where you can not stay at home , and more likely to live in poverty .
Displaying the analytic mind which got him fired @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Carl then explores why these are not complete explanations .
• Firstly , some of the comparisons go in the wrong direction : key workers are more likely to be white than Pakistani and whites are more likely to live in poverty than Indians .
• Secondly , Carl shows that when you control for all of these factors—using data from Britain ’ s Office of National Statistics—Non-Whites are still more likely to die of Covid-19 than whites .
• Thirdly , Carl provides evidence that even among NHS staff , non-whites @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid-19 .
Non-Whites comprise 21 % of NHS staff but 63 % of NHS staff deaths from Covid-19 .
They also make up 94 % of the doctors and dentists who have died from Covid-19 .
With geographical and social factors dispatched , Carl then asks what the medical reason can be for the race disparity .
One possibility : differences in pre-existing medical conditions that make you vulnerable to Corona .
But the analyses that Carl draws upon , which control for sociological factors , also control for these .
And when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more likely to die .
Thus , Carl finds , we are left with one serious explanation : As I reported a few weeks ago , and as Carl notes , this Vitamin D possibility has been suggested in the pages of the British Medical Journal .
Carl further presents evidenced that Vitamin D deficiency elevates the likelihood of dying not just from Covid-19 but any respiratory tract infection .
And he cites a study on Black deaths from Covid-19 in America which controls for sociological factors and concludes that one plausible explanation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
[ Multivariate Analysis of Factors Affecting COVID-19 Case and Death Rate in U.S .
Counties : The Significant Effects of Black Race and Temperature , by Adam Li et all , medRxiv , April 24 , 2020 ] This means that Leftist ideologues dressed up as “ scientists , ” such as Guardian writer Dr. Adam Rutherford , are , through their illogical race denialism , risking the lives of ethnic minorities .
Rutherford has recently published a book called How to Argue With a Racist , in which he insists that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ construct , ” only biological to the extent that it involves differences in skin color , and that these are superficial and unimportant .
He also effectively argues that , even if you accept the reality of race differences because , in your view , that is what makes sense of the data , then you still “ racist.
” This is implicit in the fact that he fails to show that such views are scientifically unreasonable but still claims they are “ racist.
” Rutherford was all over the U.K. newspapers condemning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ views on race when it was revealed , in 2018 , that they had attended the “ London Conference on Intelligence ” at University College London .
Attendance at this conference was one of the factors in Carl being fired .
But Rutherford ’ s suppression of “ race ” is indirectly responsible for disproportionate ethnic minority Covid-19 deaths including , ironically , his own near-death [ Scientist Adam Rutherford : Coronavirus and pneumonia almost killed me , Evening Express , March 27 , 2020 ] .
This is unsurprising .
Rutherford is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to synthesise sunlight into Vitamin D and more likely to be Vitamin D deficient .
This only goes to show the madness of Rutherford allowing his need to virtue-signal to trump the science .
I have been ending these articles with a warning of the perils of denying the biological reality of race when it comes to Covid-19—never more apposite than in this case .
• If Covid-19 is not an Equal Opportunity disease , that means our race-denying Ruling Class is frightening most people too much—and not warning some people enough .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ will cost lives .
But this time let ’ s leave the last word to Dr Noah Carl : Given the low costs associated with vitamin D supplementation , recommending this for at-risk groups such as non-white people and the elderly would seem to be a top priority for Western governments.
” His hyperlink is to a tweet from science writer Matt Ridley ( aka 5th Viscount Ridley , FRSL , FMedSci ) : Lance Welton [ email him ] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York .

Our Ruling Class in Britain and America recently decreed that is now acceptable to report race differences in the incidence of Covid-19, partly because minorities seem to be hardest hit and it sees a chance to blame whites. This is something of a pyrrhic victory for a young British sociologist called Dr. Noah Carl, right, who was fired last year from Cambridge University for “problematic work” on “race and intelligence” which might “legitimise racist stereotypes” and which hurt the feelings of some of the college’s students [Cambridge college sacks researcher over links with far right, by Richard Adams, The Guardian, May 1, 2019]. Carl’s “problematic” work included an academic journal article [How Stifling Debate Around Race, Genes and IQ Can Do Harm, Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2018] in which he had the temerity to suggest that suppressing the concept of “race” might lead to just as many social problems as not doing so—one of which would be ignoring race differences in the ability to fight off different diseases. This is exactly what has now happened.
As part of the academic and journalistic mobbing that pressured Cambridge University into firing Carl, Carl’s article on this subject was specifically highlighted, in the leftist Guardian newspaper, who subtly presented it as evidence of Carl’s wickedness: “…he has previously defended his work on race and genetics by arguing that ‘stifling debate around taboo topics can itself do active harm’” [Cambridge gives role to academic accused of racist stereotyping, By Richard Adams, The Guardian, December 7, 2018]. I reported on this here as part of my coverage on the mounting Leftist War On Science.
More recently, Carl has penned a careful and detailed article arguing, in the most systematic way I have yet seen, that genetically-caused race differences in Vitamin D deficiency is the most parsimonious explanation of the race differences in fatality from Covid-19 [Why Are Non-White Britons More Likely to Die of COVID-19?, by Noah Carl, Medium, May 17, 2020]
Carl by citing an academic study for evidence that, in Britain:
Compared to the general population, the age-adjusted risk of death was 4 times higher for Pakistanis, 4 times higher for Bangladeshis, 2.6 times higher for Indians, 5.7 times higher for black Africans and 3.7 times higher for black Caribbeans [Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups in England are at increased risk of death from COVID-19: indirect standardisation of NHS mortality data, Robert Aldridge et al., Welcome Open Research, May 6, 2020].
So, non-whites are clearly heavily over-represented. Carl then explores the possible causes, suggesting that geographical factors are the most obvious. Presenting official statistics in each case, he explains that non-Whites are more urban, more likely to live in multi-generational households (where an asymptomatic child will pass Covid-19 to a grandparent), more likely to work for the National Health Service or in some other “key work” where you cannot stay at home, and more likely to live in poverty.
Displaying the analytic mind which got him fired from Cambridge University in the first place, Carl then explores why these are not complete explanations.
Firstly, some of the comparisons go in the wrong direction: Key workers are more likely to be white than Pakistani and whites are more likely to live in poverty than Indians.
Secondly, Carl shows that when you control for all of these factors—using data from Britain’s Office of National Statistics—non-Whites are still more likely to die of Covid-19 than whites.
Thirdly, Carl provides evidence that even among NHS staff, non-whites are much more likely to die of Covid-19.
Non-Whites comprise 21% of NHS staff but 63% of NHS staff deaths from Covid-19. They also make up 94% of the doctors and dentists who have died from Covid-19.
With geographical and social factors dispatched, Carl then asks what the medical reason can be for the race disparity. One possibility: differences in pre-existing medical conditions that make you vulnerable to Corona. But the analyses that Carl draws upon, which control for sociological factors, also control for these. And when you do so, non-whites are still more likely to die.
Thus, Carl finds, we are left with one serious explanation:
One possible explanation for the remaining gap—which has been suggested by a number of commentators—is higher prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in non-whites (specifically blacks and South Asians). Exposure of the skin to UVB rays promotes vitamin D synthesis, but pigmentation is believed to interfere with this process. UVB intensity is lower at northern latitudes, meaning that people with dark skin obtain less vitamin D via photoproduction. (Whatever the precise mechanism, it is a fact that black and South Asian Britons are much more likely to be vitamin D deficient). [Links in original]
As I reported a few weeks ago, and as Carl notes, this Vitamin D possibility has been suggested in the pages of the British Medical Journal. Carl further presents evidenced that Vitamin D deficiency elevates the likelihood of dying not just from Covid-19 but any respiratory tract infection. And he cites a study on Black deaths from Covid-19 in America which controls for sociological factors and concludes that one plausible explanation would be Vitamin D deficiency among Blacks. [Multivariate Analysis of Factors Affecting COVID-19 Case and Death Rate in U.S. Counties: The Significant Effects of Black Race and Temperature, by Adam Li et al., medRxiv, April 24, 2020]
Carl concludes, albeit with scholarly caution, that:
…evidence suggests that geographic and socio-economic factors are not sufficient to explain non-white Britons’ elevated risk of death from COVID-19, and that taking into account pre-existing conditions may not fully explain the gap. The most plausible explanation for the remaining gap is vitamin D deficiency.
This means that Leftist ideologues dressed up as “scientists,” such as Guardian writer Dr. Adam Rutherford, are, through their illogical race denialism, risking the lives of ethnic minorities.
Rutherford has recently published a book called How to Argue With a Racist, in which he insists that “race” is a “social construct,” only biological to the extent that it involves differences in skin color, and that these are superficial and unimportant. He also effectively argues that, even if you accept the reality of race differences because, in your view, that is what makes sense of the data, then you still “racist.” This is implicit in the fact that he fails to show that such views are scientifically unreasonable but still claims they are “racist.”
Rutherford was all over the U.K. newspapers condemning Noah Carl and his colleagues for their views on race when it was revealed, in 2018, that they had attended the “London Conference on Intelligence” at University College London. Attendance at this conference was one of the factors in Carl being fired.
But Rutherford’s suppression of “race” is indirectly responsible for disproportionate ethnic minority Covid-19 deaths including, ironically, his own near-death [Scientist Adam Rutherford: Coronavirus and pneumonia almost killed me, Evening Express, March 27, 2020]. This is unsurprising. Rutherford is half-Indian and, therefore, less able to synthesise sunlight into Vitamin D and more likely to be Vitamin D deficient.
This only goes to show the madness of Rutherford in allowing his need to virtue-signal to trump the science.
I have been ending these articles with a warning of the perils of denying the biological reality of race when it comes to Covid-19—never more apposite than in this case.
If Covid-19 is not an Equal Opportunity disease, that means our race-denying Ruling Class is frightening most people too much—and not warning some people enough. This will not merely cause unnecessary chaos—it will cost lives.
But this time let’s leave the last word to Dr Noah Carl:
"Given the low costs associated with vitamin D supplementation, recommending this for at-risk groups such as non-white people and the elderly would seem to be a top priority for Western governments.”
His hyperlink is to a tweet from science writer Matt Ridley (aka 5th Viscount Ridley, FRSL, FMedSci):
The data are even stronger than I wrote. I've now seen preliminary evidence from a larger sample of Covid patients in Indonesia: they are 19 times more likely to die if deficient in vitamin D. Please can the authorities advise vitamin D supplements, @JimBethell, @MattHancock? https://t.co/DhMupisRce — Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) May 5, 2020
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.


vdare--2020-05-23--NYT: To Make Up for Centuries of White Privilege, White Men Should Romance Black Women

In the New York Times TV section , veteran iSteve Content Generator Salamishah Tillet , professor of African-American and African studies and creative writing at Rutgers University , Newark where she teaches a class on “ Black Rage , ” brings us up to date on the important cultural trend in her favorite romance shows : Interracial Romance , With Black Women as the Stars In “ Insecure , ” “ Love Is Blind ” and “ The Lovebirds , ” these leading ladies are pushing back against dating bias in the real world .
… The Molly-Andrew relationship is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which black women , especially those of medium-to-dark-brown complexions — long positioned at the bottom of the aesthetic and social hierarchy in the United States because of racist standards — are increasingly appearing as leading ladies and romantic ideals in interracial relationships onscreen .
In some cases , these are works created by black women themselves , like Rae ’ s “ Insecure.
” … Ultimately , none of these interracial narratives can make up for our country ’ s violent racial past or the way that history continues to plague us .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ black women still on the lowest rung of the socio-economic ladder .
Every once in a while , however , these fictionalized romances and reality show couples give us something to cheer for : a happily ever after in which the male partner acknowledges and begins to unravel his own racial privilege , not just out of love , but because it is the right thing to do .

In the New York Times TV section, veteran iSteve Content Generator Salamishah Tillet, professor of African-American and African studies and creative writing at Rutgers University, Newark where she teaches a class on “Black Rage,” brings us up to date on the important cultural trend in her favorite romance shows:
Interracial Romance, With Black Women as the Stars
In “Insecure,” “Love Is Blind” and “The Lovebirds,” these leading ladies are pushing back against dating bias in the real world.
By Salamishah Tillet
May 22, 2020
Updated 1:34 p.m. ET
… The Molly-Andrew relationship is part of a larger cultural trend in which black women, especially those of medium-to-dark-brown complexions — long positioned at the bottom of the aesthetic and social hierarchy in the United States because of racist standards — are increasingly appearing as leading ladies and romantic ideals in interracial relationships onscreen. In some cases, these are works created by black women themselves, like Rae’s “Insecure.” …
Ultimately, none of these interracial narratives can make up for our country’s violent racial past or the way that history continues to plague us. The trend remains mostly symbolic, with black women still on the lowest rung of the socio-economic ladder. Every once in a while, however, these fictionalized romances and reality show couples give us something to cheer for: a happily ever after in which the male partner acknowledges and begins to unravel his own racial privilege, not just out of love, but because it is the right thing to do.


vdare--2020-05-23--Two NYT Articles About Nursing Homes: Guess Which Words Are Missing from One?

Earlier : The Future for White Boomers : Black Man Beats Elderly White Nursing Home Patients and Posts Video on Social Media From the New York Times news section : This article is a collaboration , with reporting by : Robert Gebeloff , Danielle Ivory , Matt Richtel , Mitch Smith and Karen Yourish of The New York Times ; Scott Dance of The Baltimore Sun ; Jackie Fortiér and Elly Yu of KPCC/LAist ; and Molly Parker of The Southern Illinoisan .
The Striking Racial Divide in How Covid-19 Has Hit Nursing Homes Homes with a significant number of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as likely to be hit by the coronavirus as those where the population is overwhelmingly white .
But also from the NYT news section : Detroit Police Arrest Man in Connection With Nursing Home Assault Both the 20-year-old man who was arrested and the 75-year-old victim were patients of the facility , the police said .
The Detroit police on Thursday arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with a viral video that showed an assault on a patient at a nursing home , the authorities said .
The 90-second video , which circulated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shows a young man punching a much older man dozens of times , leaving him battered and bleeding .
The police did not identify either person in the case , but said on Friday that both the younger man and the victim , 75 , were patients at a facility on Detroit ’ s west side .
The incident occurred on May 15 , the police said , and the victim was taken to a hospital where he was treated for injuries that were not life threatening .
The person arrested was taken @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was transported to the Detroit Detention Center , the police said .
It was not immediately clear whether the victim had returned to the nursing home or whether charges would be filed in the case .
Chief James Craig of the Detroit police said in a news conference on Thursday that the nursing home was not aware of the assault until it saw the video .
The case remains under investigation , Chief Craig said .
Local news outlets identified the facility as the Westwood Nursing Center .
Saif Kasmikha , the managing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ firm representing the home , said in a statement on Friday that the man who was arrested was not a long-term resident of the facility .
“ He was recently admitted for recovery and rehabilitation purposes on a temporary stay , ” Mr. Kasmikha said .
The facility is conducting its own investigation and has been cooperating with the police , he said , adding that the “ safety , health , and well-being ” of residents remained a top priority for Westwood .
The video also appeared to catch President Trump ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
He tweeted , “ Is this even possible to believe ?
Can this be for real ?
Where is this nursing home , how is the victim doing ?
”

Earlier: The Future for White Boomers: Black Man Beats Elderly White Nursing Home Patients and Posts Video on Social Media
From the New York Times news section:
This article is a collaboration, with reporting by: Robert Gebeloff, Danielle Ivory, Matt Richtel, Mitch Smith and Karen Yourish of The New York Times; Scott Dance of The Baltimore Sun; Jackie Fortiér and Elly Yu of KPCC/LAist; and Molly Parker of The Southern Illinoisan.
The Striking Racial Divide in How Covid-19 Has Hit Nursing Homes Homes with a significant number of black and Latino residents have been twice as likely to be hit by the coronavirus as those where the population is overwhelmingly white.
Word counts:
White = 11
Black = 32
Latino = 26
But also from the NYT news section:
Detroit Police Arrest Man in Connection With Nursing Home Assault
Both the 20-year-old man who was arrested and the 75-year-old victim were patients of the facility, the police said.
By Derrick Bryson Taylor
May 22, 2020, 12:59 p.m. ET
The Detroit police on Thursday arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with a viral video that showed an assault on a patient at a nursing home, the authorities said.
The 90-second video, which circulated widely on social media this week, shows a young man punching a much older man dozens of times, leaving him battered and bleeding.
The police did not identify either person in the case, but said on Friday that both the younger man and the victim, 75, were patients at a facility on Detroit’s west side.
The incident occurred on May 15, the police said, and the victim was taken to a hospital where he was treated for injuries that were not life threatening.
The person arrested was taken into custody at the nursing home and was transported to the Detroit Detention Center, the police said. It was not immediately clear whether the victim had returned to the nursing home or whether charges would be filed in the case.
Chief James Craig of the Detroit police said in a news conference on Thursday that the nursing home was not aware of the assault until it saw the video. The case remains under investigation, Chief Craig said.
Local news outlets identified the facility as the Westwood Nursing Center. Saif Kasmikha, the managing attorney for Midwest Legal Partners, the firm representing the home, said in a statement on Friday that the man who was arrested was not a long-term resident of the facility.
“He was recently admitted for recovery and rehabilitation purposes on a temporary stay,” Mr. Kasmikha said.
The facility is conducting its own investigation and has been cooperating with the police, he said, adding that the “safety, health, and well-being” of residents remained a top priority for Westwood.
The video also appeared to catch President Trump’s attention as it spread Thursday night. He tweeted, “Is this even possible to believe? Can this be for real? Where is this nursing home, how is the victim doing?”


vdare--2020-05-23--Jia Lynn Yang's Disloyalty: Concept of "Citizenism" Has Not Exactly Caught on

Battles over borders in ‘ One Mighty and Irresistible Tide ’ By David M. Shribman Globe Correspondent , Updated May 14 , 2020 , 2:30 p.m. For more than four decades beginning in 1924 the United States , for generations the great nation of immigrants and the dream destination for the oppressed , turned from its fabled past , virtually shutting off immigration in a period when vast changes swept through Europe , Asia , and Latin America .
The tired and poor were largely kept from our shores by a law that basically locked the American doors to many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ changed with the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act , which helped shape the America we now inhabit by transforming the demographics of the country even as the country confronted its exclusionary past during the civil rights era .
One of the beneficiaries was the family of Jia Lynn Yang , [ Tweet her ] whose mother from Taiwan and father from Shanghai found a home in the United States and whose devotion and diligence have produced a masterly study of political struggle .
Yang ’ s “ One Mighty and Irresistible Tide ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and it is a uniquely American story , one to celebrate in this period when immigration once again is on the American agenda and when immigrants are targeted as criminals and coronavirus carriers .
This is a story of how Irish Catholic leaders like John , Robert , and Edward Kennedy worked with Jewish political figures like Emanuel Celler and Herbert Lehman and others in what Yang called a “ coalition of the powerful and the powerless.
” Together they produced a landmark immigration bill that was signed by a Protestant president , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his early years teaching Mexican-American schoolchildren in Texas .
The 1924 law was an expression of xenophobia and paranoia ,

From the Boston Globe book review section:
Battles over borders in ‘One Mighty and Irresistible Tide’
By David M. Shribman Globe Correspondent, Updated May 14, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
For more than four decades beginning in 1924 the United States, for generations the great nation of immigrants and the dream destination for the oppressed, turned from its fabled past, virtually shutting off immigration in a period when vast changes swept through Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The tired and poor were largely kept from our shores by a law that basically locked the American doors to many yearning to breathe free.
All that changed with the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which helped shape the America we now inhabit by transforming the demographics of the country even as the country confronted its exclusionary past during the civil rights era. One of the beneficiaries was the family of Jia Lynn Yang, [Tweet her] whose mother from Taiwan and father from Shanghai found a home in the United States and whose devotion and diligence have produced a masterly study of political struggle.
Yang’s “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide” is at base a political story, and it is a uniquely American story, one to celebrate in this period when immigration once again is on the American agenda and when immigrants are targeted as criminals and coronavirus carriers.
This is a story of how Irish Catholic leaders like John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy worked with Jewish political figures like Emanuel Celler and Herbert Lehman and others in what Yang called a “coalition of the powerful and the powerless.” Together they produced a landmark immigration bill that was signed by a Protestant president, Lyndon Johnson, himself marked deeply by his early years teaching Mexican-American schoolchildren in Texas.
The 1924 law was an expression of xenophobia and paranoia,


vdare--2020-05-23--Catfight: LA Times's Lorraine Ali Vs. Lana Del Rey And Alison Roman

Lana Del Rey and Alison Roman flaunted white women ’ s privilege .
But they ’ re not alone Lana Del Rey found herself embroiled in controversy this week after an Instagram post in which she appeared to criticize other women , mostly women of color , for the sexual nature of their hit songs .
Lorraine Ali is television critic of the Los Angeles Times .
Previously , she was a senior writer for the Calendar section where she covered culture at large , entertainment and American Muslim issues .
Ali is an award-winning journalist and Los Angeles native @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the New York Times to Rolling Stone and GQ .
She was formerly The Times ’ music editor and before that , a senior writer and music critic with Newsweek magazine .
MAY 22 , 20204:34 PM Forget # MeToo for a minute .
Right now , it ’ s all about # WhiteWomenBehavingBadly .
Callous comments from two famous white women about other female celebrities of color have hit multiple progressive triggers in recent weeks , causing cancel culture to wrest the upper hand back from COVID-19 on social media .
Woke @ @ @ @ @ @ @ energized by something familiar to rage around : racism , mean-girl dragging , white entitlement , good vs. bad feminism , sexism , cultural appropriation and cutting boards ( seriously ) .
Singer Lana Del Rey and chef Alison Roman incited firestorms when , in separate incidents , they complained bitterly about the success of female peers , almost all of them women of color .
Earlier this month , in an interview with the New Consumer , New York Times food columnist Roman flippantly called Netflix star Marie Kondo a “ bitch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chrissy Teigen ’ s brand omnipresence was “ horrifying.
” You are probably wondering : Who are all these people ?
Alison Roman is a cookbook author famous for her recipe for chocolate chip cookies made with salted butter , brown sugar , and chocolate chunks , which sounds tasty but not actually all that ingenious : if you start with salt , butter , brown sugar , and chocolate , it ’ s not that hard to end up with something people like .
Marie Kondo is the Japanese de-cluttering lady who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to ask yourself when trying to make up your mind what to throw away : “ Does this spark joy ?
” But now she has gotten into selling her fans more stuff , because , while you can make decent money helping rich ladies throw stuff away , you can make a huge amount of money selling not-rich ladies more stuff , such as this $ 58 brass cookbook stand , which , now that I was trying to make up something to say that was bad about it , I realize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ although I don ’ t recall ever having successfully used a cookbook to cook anything in my life .
Kondo is about as progressive as a kamikaze pilot , and has had the good taste to not to get involved in this race card spat , unlike : Chrissie Teigen , who is a Norwegian-Thai Sports Illustrated swimsuit model who has become a cookbook author so that you too can eat your way to being a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model .
Lana del Rey is a good-looking singer , a throwback in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Spanish surname stage name , she ’ s a Scottish American from Lake Placid , NY , so she ’ s a villainess in this : Beyonce is of course above all criticism , according to all the mulatto hairdresser guys in America .
It ’ s a national tragedy that she has only won 22 Grammys .
On Wednesday , Del Rey dropped a lengthy Instagram manifesto addressing age-old criticisms that her work is anti-feminist but that those same detractors give artists such as Beyoncé and Cardi B a pass .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being sexy , wearing no clothes , [ having sex ] , cheating… ” she wrote .
There ’ s more to their conversation and complaints , which were reckless and entitled at best , but the reaction was predictable .
Women attacked Roman and Del Rey for attacking other women , as if there wasn ’ t enough scorn , shame and judgment to go around .
The two were accused of making racist statements and flaunting their white privilege , and Del Rey was asked by half of Instagram why she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as Taylor Swift .
( Del Rey defended her original post on Thursday , writing , “ Don ’ t … call me racist ” ; Roman had her New York Times column suspended , a decision of which Teigen did not approve . )
The solution , of course , is — just as all PoC ’ s must unite against whites — for all women to unite against all men : … In music , for instance , there ’ s been so little space at the top for women , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that artists like Del Rey fall prey to measuring themselves , and other women , against standards instituted by sexist dudes who ran ( and still run ) the game .
Women who ’ ve spent even a fraction of their life in a traditional workplace know that it ’ s exhausting navigating a system that wasn ’ t meant for you , or worse , that was specifically designed to keep you out .
For example , think how hard Chrissie Teigen had to work to shatter the stereotype that only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
We ’ re held to higher criteria for lower pay , given the grunt work while our male peers are given promotions .
The lopsided playing field is no surprise .
Our moms warned us that to get ahead we ’ d have to work harder , be better and complain less than the guys , at least until we were running things .
Then all bets were off .
Though they hoped the world might change by the time their daughters entered the workforce , it ’ s still a man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bears out in study after study .
We fight it , work around it , slog through it — and still we persist .
Along the way , however , expectations for how female colleagues deal with one another have been built on the belief that women generally behave better than men , and that we ’ re all part of the same gender underclass .
Surely we ’ d all pull in the same upward direction , toward a more equitable tomorrow .
What a lovely idea — if not for racial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disparity and everything else that ’ s part and parcel of a capitalist empire .

From the Los Angeles Times:
Lana Del Rey and Alison Roman flaunted white women’s privilege. But they’re not alone Lana Del Rey found herself embroiled in controversy this week after an Instagram post in which she appeared to criticize other women, mostly women of color, for the sexual nature of their hit songs. By LORRAINE ALI TELEVISION CRITIC Lorraine Ali is television critic of the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she was a senior writer for the Calendar section where she covered culture at large, entertainment and American Muslim issues. Ali is an award-winning journalist and Los Angeles native who has written in publications ranging from the New York Times to Rolling Stone and GQ. She was formerly The Times’ music editor and before that, a senior writer and music critic with Newsweek magazine.
MAY 22, 20204:34 PM Forget #MeToo for a minute. Right now, it’s all about #WhiteWomenBehavingBadly. Callous comments from two famous white women about other female celebrities of color have hit multiple progressive triggers in recent weeks, causing cancel culture to wrest the upper hand back from COVID-19 on social media. Woke Twitter emerged from quarantine, sleepy-eyed but energized by something familiar to rage around: racism, mean-girl dragging, white entitlement, good vs. bad feminism, sexism, cultural appropriation and cutting boards (seriously). Singer Lana Del Rey and chef Alison Roman incited firestorms when, in separate incidents, they complained bitterly about the success of female peers, almost all of them women of color. Earlier this month, in an interview with the New Consumer, New York Times food columnist Roman flippantly called Netflix star Marie Kondo a “bitch” and “sellout” and said Chrissy Teigen’s brand omnipresence was “horrifying.”
You are probably wondering: Who are all these people?
Alison Roman is a cookbook author famous for her recipe for chocolate chip cookies made with salted butter, brown sugar, and chocolate chunks, which sounds tasty but not actually all that ingenious: if you start with salt, butter, brown sugar, and chocolate, it’s not that hard to end up with something people like.
Marie Kondo is the Japanese de-cluttering lady who came up with a good Shinto-Minimalist question to ask yourself when trying to make up your mind what to throw away: “Does this spark joy?”
But now she has gotten into selling her fans more stuff, because, while you can make decent money helping rich ladies throw stuff away, you can make a huge amount of money selling not-rich ladies more stuff, such as this $58 brass cookbook stand, which, now that I was trying to make up something to say that was bad about it, I realize I kind of really want one, although I don’t recall ever having successfully used a cookbook to cook anything in my life.
Kondo is about as progressive as a kamikaze pilot, and has had the good taste to not to get involved in this race card spat, unlike:
Chrissie Teigen, who is a Norwegian-Thai Sports Illustrated swimsuit model who has become a cookbook author so that you too can eat your way to being a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model.
Lana del Rey is a good-looking singer, a throwback in the postwar torch singer/chanteuse mode.
Despite her Spanish surname stage name, she’s a Scottish American from Lake Placid, NY, so she’s a villainess in this:
Beyoncé is of course above all criticism, according to all the mulatto hairdresser guys in America. It’s a national tragedy that she has only won 22 Grammys.
Cardi B is a stripper-rapper.
On Wednesday, Del Rey dropped a lengthy Instagram manifesto addressing age-old criticisms that her work is anti-feminist but that those same detractors give artists such as Beyoncé and Cardi B a pass. They have “number ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, [having sex], cheating…” she wrote. There’s more to their conversation and complaints, which were reckless and entitled at best, but the reaction was predictable. Women attacked Roman and Del Rey for attacking other women, as if there wasn’t enough scorn, shame and judgment to go around. The two were accused of making racist statements and flaunting their white privilege, and Del Rey was asked by half of Instagram why she hadn’t gone after artists such as Taylor Swift. (Del Rey defended her original post on Thursday, writing, “Don’t … call me racist”; Roman had her New York Times column suspended, a decision of which Teigen did not approve.)
The solution, of course, is — just as all PoC’s must unite against whites — for all women to unite against all men:
… In music, for instance, there’s been so little space at the top for women, and such a dearth of shared power, that artists like Del Rey fall prey to measuring themselves, and other women, against standards instituted by sexist dudes who ran (and still run) the game. Women who’ve spent even a fraction of their life in a traditional workplace know that it’s exhausting navigating a system that wasn’t meant for you, or worse, that was specifically designed to keep you out.
For example, think how hard Chrissie Teigen had to work to shatter the stereotype that only men could be Sports Illustrated swimsuit models.
We’re held to higher criteria for lower pay, given the grunt work while our male peers are given promotions. The lopsided playing field is no surprise. Our moms warned us that to get ahead we’d have to work harder, be better and complain less than the guys, at least until we were running things. Then all bets were off. Though they hoped the world might change by the time their daughters entered the workforce, it’s still a man’s world, a reality that bears out in study after study. We fight it, work around it, slog through it — and still we persist. Along the way, however, expectations for how female colleagues deal with one another have been built on the belief that women generally behave better than men, and that we’re all part of the same gender underclass. Surely we’d all pull in the same upward direction, toward a more equitable tomorrow. What a lovely idea — if not for racial discrimination, ambition, greed, socioeconomic disparity and everything else that’s part and parcel of a capitalist empire.
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