vdare--2020-10-09--No Debate On Immigration, Portland Votes Antifa, Nobel Prize For NoPoetry, Etc.

00m52s You ca n't debate that !
( Biden , Harris , and unmentionables . )
08m21s Portland votes Antifa @ @ @ @ @ stupider than New Yorkers . )
14m27s A poetry Nobel for America .
( She @ @ @ @ @ Longfellow . )
20m03s Crapping on the altar of math .
( Girls take over @ @ @ @ @ the material world .
( But drifting into dreamland . )
37m21s Strict governess saved @ @ @ @ @ was it a `` militia '' ? )
39m01s A new cohort of governesses .
@ @ @ @ @ . )

00m52s You can't debate that! (Biden, Harris, and unmentionables.)
08m21s Portland votes Antifa. (They're even stupider than New Yorkers.)
14m27s A poetry Nobel for America. (She doesn't want to be Longfellow.)
20m03s Crapping on the altar of math. (Girls take over.)
29m05s Living in the material world. (But drifting into dreamland.)
35m20s Dolly's two Playboy covers. (42 years apart.)
37m21s Strict governess saved from kidnap. (But was it a "militia"?)
39m01s A new cohort of governesses. (Mary Poppins is back.)
40m42s Signoff. (Remembering John Lennon.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your really genial host John Derbyshire.
Some hifalutin topics this week, ladies and gents. I have poetry; I have philosophy; I have math. A feast for the intellect!
First, though, I have politics. [Boo, hiss.]
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02—You can't debate that! Political event of the week was the Vice-Presidential debate, Mike Pence up against Kamala Harris.
I did my best with this, but it came at the end of a long day mostly spent doing heavy garden work. Then an excellent dinner, with two, or it may have been three, glasses of wine. I fell asleep about a third of the way into the debate, slept for half an hour, then woke and watched the last third. Sorry: I did my best, and that was my best.
Fortunately the excellent news-aggregation website Revolver has published a full transcript, so by the miracle of Ctrl-F I can pick out key topics and see what the two candidates had to say about them.
Let's see: Crtl-F "i-m-m-i-g-r." No hits. Hmm.
Let's try: Ctrl-F "border." Just one hit, Mike Pence saying, quote:
Everybody knows that NAFTA costs literally thousands of American factories to close. We saw automotive jobs go South of the border.
End quote.
How about Ctrl-F "e-verify." No hits.
Pence talks a good game about, actual quote, "American jobs and American workers first." All right, Mr Vice President, how about you help American workers by coming down hard on businesses that prefer cheaper foreign workers?
It's a good patriotic position to take, and your opponent here has no come-back. Her party wants open borders. It's an easy win for you, a hundred-dollar bill lying right there on the sidewalk—look!
Ah, but what does Mike Pence's party want? We all know the answer to that. Begins with "d-o-n," ends with "o-r-s." So, strategic silence.
Ctrl-F "birthright," as in "birthright citizenship"? No hits.
Ctrl-F "chain," as in "chain migration"? Zero.
How strange. Immigration was the one issue more than any other that got Trump and Pence elected in 2016. An hour and a half of babbling, and … nothing? Nada? Nichts? Niente? Rien? [Clip: Edith Piaf, "Non, rien de rien …"] Yes, thank you, Edith; we'll call you.
Let's try something else. Another big 2016 issue that worked for Trump was the endless, fruitless wars we've been fighting the past twenty years, and the Cold War posture we're still in, with troops stationed all over, thirty years after the Cold War ended. How about that?
So let's try Ctrl-F "a-f-g-h-a-n." No hits.
Ctrl-F "N-A-T-O" gets a lot of hits because the word "Senator" is Ms Harris' job title. There are three actual references to NATO-the-organization, though, one from each of the participants.
Moderator, addressing Harris: "We've seen strains with our traditional allies in NATO and elsewhere. What is your definition of the role of American leadership in 2020?"
Harris, responding: "You look at our friends at NATO, [Trump] has walked away from agreements."
Pence, responding: "NATO is now contributing more to our common defense than ever before thanks to President Trump's leadership."
End quotes.
So I guess everyone's fine with NATO, coming up to thirty years after the disbanding of the Warsaw Pact.
The what pact? listeners under forty want to know.
Never mind, kids. To our ruling class it's always 1960. Gotta help the European countries rebuild from the devastation of war. Gotta keep close watch on the Fulda Gap.
These weren't even the biggest of the unmentionables. The biggest of all, the Unmentionable above all other Unmentionables, is the stupendous disparity in crime rates, black compared with nonblack. For homicide the black rate is more than eight times the nonblack rate. Any mention of that?
Ctrl-F "homicide." One hit, just Kamala Harris boasting about all the types of crimes she's prosecuted.
You get the picture. There were of course some worthy topics raised, topics they were right to debate: jobs, China, health care, the Supreme Court, the pandemic. Nothing at all surprising was said, though.
To us cynical dissidents, the main interest of the debate was as an illustration of how very, very good the ruling class has gotten at excluding from the public arena things it doesn't want us talking about.
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03—Portland votes Antifa. [Clip: Norman Blake & Tony Rice, "… from Portland east to Portland west …"]
I have been to Portland east, that is to say Portland, Maine—nice little town. I've never been to Portland, Oregon, though. The more I read about the place, the more I hope I never shall have to go there.
On the basis of this past few days' news, for example, Portland, Oregon must have the most demoralized police force in the civilized world. Here's what happened.
Last Sunday around half past nine in the morning, a police officer in Portland was sitting in his patrol car filling out some paperwork when a man smashed one of the car windows, pepper-sprayed the officer, then fled in a vehicle of his own.
The officer called for assistance, giving a description of the attacker's vehicle. Other officers spotted the vehicle six blocks away and arrested the driver, a 41-year-old white man named John B. Russell. I can't discover whether Russell has a rap sheet, but it seems probable. From the police report, quote:
Inside the vehicle, officers found window punch tools, pepper spray, throwing knives, a laser pointer, a slingshot, rocks, and more.
End quote.
Not the kind of stuff you'd take to a church social.
Punch line here: Russell was taken to the station house and charged with assaulting a public safety officer, aggravated harassment, and first-degree criminal mischief. Then … wait for it … he was released without bail.
I guess they asked if he was a member of the Proud Boys and he said no.
And then, there's an election for Mayor of Portland coming up in November. The current mayor is a chap named Ted Wheeler, a left-liberal girly-man type out of the same mould as Gavin Newsom over in California.
He seems to be politically incompetent: he's alienated both the municipal police and the anarchist mobs who've been trashing his city all summer. For a trifecta, he's also alienated the feds by complaining when they deployed federal agents to protect federal property.
As CultMarx-compliant as Wheeler is, though, it's not enough for Portlanders. His opponent, fortyish Sarah Iannarone, has a strong lead in the polls, and she's even further out in left field than Wheeler.
Iannarone doesn't just smile indulgently on the Antifa goons as they trash the place, she declares she is one of them. So at any rate she tweeted in January last year, when Antifa control of Portland's streets was already an issue. Tweet:
To those who say Antifa are violent thugs: I am not a violent thug and I am Antifa.
I am Antifa because the Red Hats are coming after brown & black people, after Jews, after queer & trans people, and more.
They are coming after our democracy.
End tweet.
The other day a photograph appeared, date uncertain, of Ms Iannarone wearing a skirt decorated with pictures of communist mass-murderers: Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, and Che Guavara. I guess she couldn't find a picture of Pol Pot for the full set.
And this commie-kissing lunatic is eleven points ahead of Wheeler in election polling!
What on earth is the matter with voters over there in Portland west? Do they enjoy seeing their city trashed?
I thought New York City voters were the nation's stupidest. New Yorkers watched for four years as Mayor Bill De Blasio made unmistakably clear what a lazy, incompetent buffoon he is; then they gave him four more years!
In the stupidity stakes, though, I think New Yorkers have met their match in Portland.
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04—A poetry Nobel for America. New York Times, October 8th, quote:
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Louise Glück, one of America's most celebrated poets, for writing [inner quote] that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal. [End inner quote.]
The award was announced at a news conference in Stockholm.
End quote.
Well, that's great, and congratulations to Ms Glück. I confess I'd never heard of her, though.
That's a bit odd. I read a lot, fiction and nonfiction, and I love poetry. The poetry I love trails off in the later twentieth century, though: Betjeman, Larkin, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wilbur. I read a current poem now and then—the ones in Chronicles or The New Criterion—but nothing ever sticks.
Am I just past the age at which poetry sticks? Possibly: but nothing current sticks with the larger public, either. Here's a thing I wrote twenty years ago, quote from self:
Whenever you actually hear someone quote poetry, it is always something old. I feel sure that whole days go by when no mouth anywhere in the United States spontaneously, in a non-pedagogical context, quotes any line from any American poem later than Frost's "Stopping by Woods" (1923). Ask any well-educated, but not particularly literary, friend to quote four lines by a living poet. Now ask your dentist, your mechanic, your plumber. You will be lucky to get anything but blank looks and shrugs.
End quote.
That was from an essay about Longfellow. As it happens, Louise Glück has things to say about Longfellow. In an interview with the New York Times, also published October 8th, she said this, quote:
When I'm told I have a large readership, I think, "Oh great, I'm going to turn out to be Longfellow": someone easy to understand, easy to like, the kind of diluted experience available to many. And I don't want to be Longfellow. Sorry, Henry, but I don't.
End quote.
Reading that, I found it incredible. How could anyone writing poetry not want to be Longfellow: read, quoted, loved and appreciated by great masses of ordinary people?
But that's what poetry is now: A niche interest for tiny cliques talking only to each other. Popular poetry by living poets is long gone.
Which is odd. Every human culture there has been, from hunter-gatherers in the savannah to the heights of civilization in classical Greece and Rome, medieval China, Renaissance Italy, Victorian Britain—in every one there has been a widespread appreciation for stories told or feelings expressed in a clever, familiarly rhythmic but non-musical way.
Somehow we have lost the ability to create that kind of verse. Perhaps we have lost the ability to create altogether. Ross Douthat, in his recent book The Decadent Society, notes how so many movies nowadays come with numbers attached or implied: Mission Impossible 6, Fast and Furious 9, Star Wars 9 … Which number James Bond movie are we up to? Wikipedia lists 25. It's like we've run out of original ideas.
Perhaps poetry was just a leading indicator—the first creative form to die.
Decadent, yeah. Like the scions of a rich old family, we've ceased any kind of useful work. We're just living off our inheritance.
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05—Crapping on the altar of math. Posting on the contents of my email bag earlier in the week, I mentioned that many, many listeners and readers had directed my attention to the October 2nd statement by a committee of the Mathematical Association of America, the MAA, urging, quote, "all members of our profession," end quote—so I guess that means mathematicians—to embrace social-justice activism. I promised to pass comment in this podcast.
Before I do so, let me just clarify my own approach to math. I can pretty much do this in my sleep, as I've been doing it for seventeen years, since I published the first of my two books about math.
If you write books about math, you get regular emails—I'm still getting them—from people who want you to read and pass opinions about their eighteen-page paper on Chebyshev polynomials or Morse Theory (which, trust me, has nothing whatever to do with dots and dashes).
My boilerplate reply is: "I am not a mathematician, only a journalist with a math degree. Please contact the math department of your nearest university."
There's a bit more to be said than that. I love math, but it's a unrequited love. Math doesn't love me. I'm not much good at it. I discovered that when I took my degree.
Still the old affection lingers. I belong to both of the professional associations in math, the MAA and the AMS. I mingle with real mathematicians any chance I get.
I still love math, although math still doesn't love me back. I moon about in the street under her balcony, hoping for a glimpse, occasionally playing a mournful love song on my lute.
That's how I feel about math. So now, this October 2nd statement from the MAA Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics. Title: Anti-Science Policy and the Censure of Discourse on Race and Racism.
Members of the stone-kicker fraternity—people like me, I mean, who scoff at race denialism, critical theory, and the rest of the CultMarx flim-flam—people of our persuasion might respond positively to that heading.
"The Censure of Discourse on Race and Racism" Hey, maybe the MAA is taking a stand against the suppression and outlawing of race realism! "Anti-Science Policy"? Yay, let's have more respect for careful empirical inquiry, no matter where it leads.
You might object that math is a rational inquiry, not an empirical one; and that there is no need for the MAA to take any position at all on race realism. Sure, yeah, but the heading as it stands is open to a positive interpretation.
Alas! Vain are the hopes of man! In fact the statement is mainly an angry denunciation of the Trump administration's bans on the anti-white indoctrination of the federal workforce.
I'll just quote the last paragraph to give you the flavor. Quote:
It is time for all members of our profession to acknowledge that mathematics is created by humans and therefore inherently carries human biases. Until this occurs, our community and our students cannot reach full potential. Reaching this potential in mathematics relies upon the academy and higher education engaging in critical, challenging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the detrimental effects of race and racism on our community. The time is now to move mathematics and education forward in pursuit of justice.
End quote.
"Community" … "critical" … "conversations" … "racism" … "justice" … I don't think they've omitted a single buzzword from the CultMarx lexicon.
And is it actually true that "mathematics is created by humans"? If the human race were to be wiped out by a rogue asteroid next Tuesday, would two plus two still be equal to four? If two stars in our galaxy went supernova, and then two more, would that be four supernovas altogether, without us around to observe them?
Some very smart people indeed have been ruminating on such matters for a couple of thousand years. They still are: If you want to take up the topic, I recommend starting with Lakoff and Núñez's 2001 book Where Mathematics Comes From.
One thing that is indisputably the case is that the math we have today was created by, or stands on foundations created by, persons of white-European or West Asian stock, well-nigh all of them male. I don't think …
Sounds of screaming.
Sorry, sorry, sorry. Never mind.
So how do I feel about this MAA statement? For a person like me, who reveres math, it is crapping on the altar.
Or to revert to my original metaphor: Here I am in the street under the balcony of my one true love, playing a melancholy ballad on my lute in hopes of touching her heart. And there she is in her chamber with a dirty ignorant hippie doped up on meth, some lowlife she picked up in a bar, and they are making the Beast with Two Backs.
That's how I feel. I am seriously contemplating canceling my MAA subscription.
A footnote to the preceding: A friend to whom I showed the MAA statement spotted a thing I'd missed. Of the eighteen signatories to the statement, twelve are female. (It looks like thirteen at first glance, but "Kamuela" is a male name, from Hawaiian.) Twelve out of eighteen: A little math tells me that is precisely two-thirds. Draw your own conclusions.
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06—Living in the material world. At the risk of wading in way past my depth here, I'm going to venture some metaphysical speculations. If you don't like metaphysics, take a couple of minutes away and make yourself a sandwich or something.
In Philosophy 101 we learn that there are two extreme positions you can take on the nature of reality: materialism and idealism. Materialism says that everything is matter, mind is only an illusion. Idealism says the opposite: the material world is an illusion, a realm of shadows. Nothing is real: nothing except our private thoughts.
Bertrand Russell's grandmother thought philosophy was all nonsense. She used to tease him by saying: "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." I think most of us end up at that point after half an hour's grappling with the issue.
Really pure materialism and pure idealism are not philosophically respectable, but some thinkers have gotten close. The middle of the last century saw the school of Australian Materialism, whose leading propagandist had the wonderfully reductive name Jack Smart. This school taught that our thoughts, beliefs, and imaginings were just as solidly real as bricks, trees, and I guess kangaroos.
The nearest you get to pure idealism is in the theological outskirts of philosophy proper, among the schools of Buddhism and Hinduism that teach all is illusion. They then have to figure a way to tell you that you should behave properly towards your fellow human beings, even though they are only figments of your imagination.
Speaking very generally, I think that pure idealism looks nuttier, to an impartial observer, than pure materialism. We have a deep conviction, derived from our senses, that we are living in the material world; to think that it's all a dream is, for most of us, just an occasional passing fancy.
Pure materialism, on the other hand, seems cold and heartless, and leaves key human impulses unsatisfied; but it's still less preposterous than the tales about everything being dream-stuff.
If that's right, then the generality of people will move from the materialist side of the ledger to the idealist side more reluctantly than vice versa, and only under some extreme psychic pressure.
Yet that's the direction we have been moving these past few decades. We are in flight from simple, obvious material facts about the world: that men and women are biologically different, and the major human races likewise. For all of history these elementary facts were taken for granted by everyone: now we are fleeing from them, into a magical world of vapors, influences, and illusions. Why?
I don't have a comprehensive answer, but the failure of the race-equality project is surely a big piece of it. Sixty years ago we embraced full egalitarianism. If unjust laws were struck down and racist attitudes socially outlawed, soon blacks and whites would have the same social outcomes: the same crime rates, the same academic scores, the same levels of success and dysfunction.
That hasn't happened. There was some slight closing of the academic gaps in the 1970s, but nothing since. As I mentioned before, blacks commit homicide at more than eight times the white rate; Asians score average 290 points higher on the SAT than blacks.
We could respond by dropping the egalitarian idea, but that wouldn't be human. The human response is to retreat into fantasies of "supremacy," "privilege," "oppression," "hate," and the rest. So that's what we've done.
We are living in the material world; but when it offends our sensibilities, we declare it to be an illusion. We retreat into metaphysical idealism. We can't help it; it's our nature, our human nature.
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07—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: From the sublime to the ridiculous, I give you … Dolly Parton.
Forty-two years ago in October 1978 Dolly appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine in a bunny suit.
Well, last Saturday she told the Daily Mail that she is in talks with the management at Playboy to appear on the cover again.
Wait, you're thinking: Isn't Dolly a bit … vintage to be doing photo shoots for Playboy?
That's kind of the point. The lady will turn 75 in January, and this will be a birthday gift to Dolly from Playboy, which has spent decades trading on the kinds of assets for which Ms Parton is secondarily famous.
Perhaps it will also be a gift of some kind to the Boomers, whose tastes and interests—whatever you may think of them—were the foundation of the Playboy empire. Boomers are generally defined as people born from 1946 to 1964; so Dolly, born in January '46, is one of the very first Boomers.
I wish nothing but good health and continuing success to Dolly, but I'll pass on the January Playboy. It seems to me, in fact, that the real news story here is that Playboy is still in business. Who knew?
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Item: I had a bit of fun a few months ago with Gretchen Whitmer, the Governor of Michigan. I referred to her as "Michigan's strict governess," and suggested connotations to a certain genre of salacious fiction in which strict governesses feature considerably.
This week we learn that the FBI has foiled a plot by what all the stories are calling a "militia," a plot to kidnap the strict governess.
A militia, huh? I guess we're supposed to read that as meaning some anti-black group with sworn allegiance to Donald Trump. Perhaps that's what they are.
There is, however, a picture going round on Twitter showing one of the alleged plotters, Brandon Caserta, in front of an Antifa flag. The picture comes from Caserta's YouTube channel, a video where he's bad-mouthing the police.
I confess I can't make much sense of this. I'm just wondering whether, supposing the kidnappers turn out to be an anarchist/Antifa offshoot, the media will continue calling them a "militia."
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Item: Speaking of governesses, they are very much in demand right now. The New York Times, October 8th, quotes the principal of a domestic staffing agency, quote:
For the past six or eight weeks we've been slammed with educator and governess requests, from all over the country … During the pandemic, we've done very well.
End quote.
Then the Times quotes a different lady in the same line of business telling them they've had a huge increase in calls for a governess or a nanny with a background in education. The ideal is a young woman, quote, "generally willing to live in the home for an indefinite period and equipped to instruct their charges in subjects that may vary from math to table manners to a faultless command of Mandarin verbs." End quote.
So we may be looking at a whole new cohort of Jane Eyres and Mary Poppinses serving upper-middle-class families. Well, perhaps it'll soak up those legions of women graduating from college with degrees in useless subjects.
I just hope they're strict.
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08—Signoff. That's the portion for this week, ladies and gents. Thank you for listening, and I hope you are enjoying these cool autumn evenings as much as we are here on Long Island's North Shore.
Boomer listeners will have noticed a couple of sly Beatles allusions back there. They were not accidental. Today, October 9th, is—or would be, if he were among us—the 80th birthday of John Lennon.
Yes, I know: some ambivalence is appropriate here. Lennon in person could be obnoxious, and some of his later songs were silly. I squirm just as much as you do when I hear "Imagine." Taken just as a singer-songwriter, though, Lennon at his best was very good indeed; and he was at his best an extraordinarily large portion of the time.
If you're a YouTube addict, there's a very touching, positive, and entirely nonmusical, little tribute to Lennon in the 2019 movie Yesterday, which I did a mini-review of in my April Diary. Just go to YouTube and put the words "yesterday john lennon scene" into the search box.
And here he is to sing us out.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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[Music clip: The Beatles, "Strawberry Fields Forever."]


vdare--2020-10-09--John Derbyshire: The Mathematical Association of America Defiles The Altar Of Math

See also : “ They Might As Well Put Bones Through Their Noses ” — John Derbyshire On The Corruption Of Scientific America Posting on the contents of my email bag earlier in the week , I mentioned that many , many listeners and readers had directed my attention to the October 2nd statement by a committee of the Mathematical Association of America , the MAA , urging `` all members of our profession '' —so I guess that means mathematicians—to embrace social-justice activism .
I promised to pass comment .
Let me just clarify my own approach to math @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in my sleep , as I 've been doing it for seventeen years , since I published the first of my two books about math .
If you write books about math , you get regular emails—I 'm still getting them—from people who want you to read and pass opinions about their eighteen-page paper on Chebyshev polynomials or Morse Theory ( which , trust me , has nothing whatever to do with dots and dashes ) .
My boilerplate reply is : `` I am not a mathematician , only journalist a with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ math department of your nearest university . ''
There 's a bit more to be said than that .
I love math , but it 's an unrequited love .
Math does n't love me .
I 'm not much good at it .
I discovered that when I took my degree .
Still the old affection lingers .
I belong to both of the professional associations in Math , the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society .
I mingle with real mathematicians any chance I get .
I still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ n't love me back .
I moon about in the street under her balcony , hoping for a glimpse , occasionally playing a mournful love song on my lute .
That 's how I feel about math .
So now , this October 2nd statement from the MAA Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics .
Title : Anti-Science Policy and the Censure of Discourse on Race and Racism .
Members of the stone-kicker fraternity might respond positively to that heading .
`` The Censure of Discourse on Race and Racism '' Hey , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against the suppression and outlawing of race realism !
`` Anti-Science Policy '' ?
Yay , let 's have more respect for careful empirical inquiry , no matter where it leads .
You might object that math is a rational inquiry , not an empirical one ; and that there is no need for the MAA to take any position at all on race realism .
Sure , yeah , but the heading as it stands is open to a positive interpretation .
Vain are the hopes of man !
In fact , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Trump administration 's bans on the anti-white indoctrination of the federal workforce .
I 'll just quote the last paragraph to give you the flavor : '' Community '' … `` critical '' … `` conversations '' … `` racism '' … `` justice '' … I do n't think they 've omitted a single buzzword from the CultMarx lexicon .
And is it actually true that `` mathematics is created by humans '' ?
If the human race were to be wiped out by a rogue solar flare next Tuesday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ equal to four ?
If two stars in our galaxy went supernova , and then two more , would that be four supernovas altogether ?
Some very smart people indeed have been ruminating on such matters for a couple of thousand years .
They still are : If you want to take up the topic , I recommend starting with Lakoff and Núñez 's 2001 book Where Mathematics Comes From .
One thing that is indisputably the case is that the math we have today was created by , or stands on foundations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ West Asian stock , well-nigh all of them male .
I do n't think … Sorry , sorry , sorry .
Never mind .
So how do I feel about this MAA statement ?
For a person like me , who reveres math , it is crapping on the altar .
Or to revert to my original metaphor : Here I am in the street under the balcony of my one true love , playing a melancholy ballad on my lute in hopes of touching her heart .
And there she is in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doped up on meth , some lowlife she picked up in a bar , and they are making the Beast with Two Backs .
That 's how I feel .
I am seriously contemplating canceling my MAA subscription .
A footnote to the preceding : A friend to whom I showed the MAA statement spotted a thing I 'd missed .
Of the eighteen signatories to the statement , twelve are female .
( It looks like thirteen at first glance , but `` Kamuela '' is a male name , from Hawaiian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A little math tells me that is precisely two-thirds .
Draw your own conclusions .
More demographic info on the signers So the only people on this list who would actually qualify as minority are Kamuela Yong , the Hawaiian , and Omayra Ortega—unless you ’ re unaware that many white people in Spain , Italy , and South America have vowels on the ends of their names .
Yun Kang , from Mainland China , is a minority in the US general population , but not an underrepresented minority in math , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ currently 1,439,323,776 people in China .
James A. M. Álvarez [ Pictured right ] has a story of historical discrimination on his MAA page : What it amounts to is Alvarez ’ family has been in America since the 19th century , they owned their own farm , both his parents were teachers , and you ca n't tell from his picture he 's Mexican .
The MAA Congress Minority Interests people need to try harder .
email him ] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ National Review , whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him . )
He is the author of We Are Doomed : Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books .
He has had two books published by VDARE.com com : FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT ( also available in Kindle ) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II : ESSAYS 2013 .
For years he ’ s been podcasting at Radio Derb , now available at VDARE.com for no charge .
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See also: “They Might As Well Put Bones Through Their Noses”— John Derbyshire On The Corruption Of Scientific America
Posting on the contents of my email bag earlier in the week, I mentioned that many, many listeners and readers had directed my attention to the October 2nd statement by a committee of the Mathematical Association of America, the MAA, urging "all members of our profession"—so I guess that means mathematicians—to embrace social-justice activism. I promised to pass comment.
Let me just clarify my own approach to math. I can pretty much do this in my sleep, as I've been doing it for seventeen years, since I published the first of my two books about math.
If you write books about math, you get regular emails—I'm still getting them—from people who want you to read and pass opinions about their eighteen-page paper on Chebyshev polynomials or Morse Theory (which, trust me, has nothing whatever to do with dots and dashes).
My boilerplate reply is: "I am not a mathematician, only a journalist with a math degree. Please contact the math department of your nearest university."
There's a bit more to be said than that. I love math, but it's an unrequited love. Math doesn't love me. I'm not much good at it. I discovered that when I took my degree.
Still the old affection lingers. I belong to both of the professional associations in Math, the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society. I mingle with real mathematicians any chance I get.
I still love math, although math still doesn't love me back. I moon about in the street under her balcony, hoping for a glimpse, occasionally playing a mournful love song on my lute.
That's how I feel about math. So now, this October 2nd statement from the MAA Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics. Title: Anti-Science Policy and the Censure of Discourse on Race and Racism.
Members of the stone-kicker fraternity might respond positively to that heading. "The Censure of Discourse on Race and Racism." Hey, maybe the MAA is taking a stand against the suppression and outlawing of race realism! "Anti-Science Policy"? Yay, let's have more respect for careful empirical inquiry, no matter where it leads.
You might object that math is a rational inquiry, not an empirical one; and that there is no need for the MAA to take any position at all on race realism. Sure, yeah, but the heading as it stands is open to a positive interpretation.
Vain are the hopes of man! In fact, the statement is mainly an angry denunciation of the Trump administration's bans on the anti-white indoctrination of the federal workforce.
I'll just quote the last paragraph to give you the flavor:
It is time for all members of our profession to acknowledge that mathematics is created by humans and therefore inherently carries human biases. Until this occurs, our community and our students cannot reach full potential. Reaching this potential in mathematics relies upon the academy and higher education engaging in critical, challenging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the detrimental effects of race and racism on our community. The time is now to move mathematics and education forward in pursuit of justice.
"Community" … "critical" … "conversations" … "racism" … "justice" … I don't think they've omitted a single buzzword from the CultMarx lexicon.
And is it actually true that "mathematics is created by humans"? If the human race were to be wiped out by a rogue solar flare next Tuesday, would two plus two still be equal to four? If two stars in our galaxy went supernova, and then two more, would that be four supernovas altogether?
Some very smart people indeed have been ruminating on such matters for a couple of thousand years.
They still are: If you want to take up the topic, I recommend starting with Lakoff and Núñez's 2001 book Where Mathematics Comes From.
One thing that is indisputably the case is that the math we have today was created by, or stands on foundations created by, persons of white-European or West Asian stock, well-nigh all of them male. I don't think …
Sounds of screaming.
Sorry, sorry, sorry. Never mind.
So how do I feel about this MAA statement? For a person like me, who reveres math, it is crapping on the altar.
Or to revert to my original metaphor: Here I am in the street under the balcony of my one true love, playing a melancholy ballad on my lute in hopes of touching her heart.
And there she is in her chamber with a dirty ignorant hippie doped up on meth, some lowlife she picked up in a bar, and they are making the Beast with Two Backs.
That's how I feel. I am seriously contemplating canceling my MAA subscription.
A footnote to the preceding: A friend to whom I showed the MAA statement spotted a thing I'd missed. Of the eighteen signatories to the statement, twelve are female. (It looks like thirteen at first glance, but "Kamuela" is a male name, from Hawaiian.) Twelve out of eighteen: a little math tells me that is precisely two-thirds. Draw your own conclusions.
More demographic info on the signers
So the only people on this list who would actually qualify as minority are Kamuela Yong, the Hawaiian, and Omayra Ortega—unless you’re unaware that many white people in Spain, Italy, and South America have vowels on the ends of their names. Yun Kang, from Mainland China, is a minority in the U.S. general population, but not an underrepresented minority in math, or in the world: there are currently 1,439,323,776 people in China.
James A. M. Álvarez, [Pictured right], has a story of historical discrimination on his MAA page:
James A. M. Alvarez was born in San Antonio, Texas. He grew up near Saspamco, Texas, on a farm originally purchased by his great grandparents after they immigrated to Texas in 1890 from Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. His pursuit of higher education was encouraged by his parents, in particular by his mother Olga Mendoza Alvarez and his father Jonas Alvarez. His mother grew up in an era of intense discrimination against Mexican Americans, but managed to graduate from high school at the age of fifteen, eventually receive both a bachelor's and a master's degree, and teach elementary school for forty years. His father, who immigrated to the United States in 1963, is also a teacher.
What it amounts to is that Alvarez’s family has been in America since the 19th century, they owned their own farm, both his parents were teachers, and you can't tell from his picture he's Mexican.
The MAA Congress Minority Interests people need to try harder.
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vdare--2020-10-10--Sam Dickson Responds To Anonymous Attorney On De Tocqueville's "Shrewd Observations Of America"

Re : Anonymous Attorney 's article Time For Separation ?
De Tocqueville Right , Harvey Mansfield And Wife Wrong—Blacks And @ @ @ @ @ All Get Along De Tocqueville made so many shrewd observations of America .
One of @ @ @ @ @ in America the elites would get out in front of the masses in the leftward @ @ @ @ @ said that in a country in which a large percentage of the country votes , @ @ @ @ @ leftist ( he did n't use that word ) than the masses themselves .
This @ @ @ @ @ .
One wonders why—if they really believe what they say—Blacks would not welcome escaping from @ @ @ @ @ the truth is the average Black has a greater awareness of the real than the @ @ @ @ @ by abstract thinking and formal education .
My belief is that overwhelmingly Blacks are aware @ @ @ @ @ Whites and that the narrative is a lie .
Sam Dickson ( email him ) @ @ @ @ @ .

Re: Anonymous Attorney's article Time For Separation? De Tocqueville Right, Harvey Mansfield And Wife Wrong—Blacks And Whites Just Can’t All Get Along
From: Sam Dickson [Email him]
De Tocqueville made so many shrewd observations of America.
One of these was his prediction that in America the elites would get out in front of the masses in the leftward, egalitarian movement.
He said that in a country in which a large percentage of the country votes, the elites will become more leftist (he didn't use that word) than the masses themselves.
This has certainly been the case.
One wonders why—if they really believe what they say—Blacks would not welcome escaping from the horrible Whites.
But the truth is the average Black has a greater awareness of the real than the average White who is misled by abstract thinking and formal education.
My belief is that overwhelmingly Blacks are aware of how they are conning Whites and that the narrative is a lie.
Sam Dickson (email him) is a lawyer and activist.


vdare--2020-10-10--Another White Pill From Trump Administration:  Labor Department Targets "Diversity Hiring" (Aka Anti

Another White Pill From Trump Administration:  Labor Department Targets "Diversity Hiring" (Aka Anti-White Discrimination) By Contractors

Earlier : White Pill At The Right Time : Trump Expands Ban On Anti-White Critical Race Theory To Federal Contractors ( As Well As Executive Branch Agencies ) In the end , it was always just about the assertion of equal protection under the law .
Freedom of Association would be the ultimate resurrection of liberty in the USA , but as long as the Federal Government just demands private companies and public institutions not enact hiring practices based on race , equal protection under the law is guaranteed .
And that means all diversity efforts to augment the number @ @ @ @ @ @ @ company equates to discrimination against whites .
And that ’ s where we find ourselves at the end of 2020 : it turns out diversity is just another word for being anti-white .
American companies promising to hire more Black employees in leadership roles and teach their workforce about racism are getting a message from President Donald Trump ’ s administration : Watch your step if you want to keep doing business with the federal government .
Trump ’ s Labor Department is using a 55-year-old presidential order spurred by the Civil Rights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wells Fargo over their public commitments to diversity .
Government letters sent last week warned both companies against using “ discriminatory practices ” to meet their goals .
Microsoft has brushed off the warnings , publicly disclosing the government inquiry and defending its plan to boost Black leadership .
But advocates for corporate diversity initiatives worry that more cautious executives will halt or scale back efforts to make their workplaces more inclusive out of fear that a wrong step could jeopardize lucrative public contracts .
The agency has oversight over the hiring practices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ roughly a quarter of all American workers .
“ For tech companies that don ’ t care about these issues , the pronouncements are a dog whistle that they can carry on discriminating the way they already have , ” said Laszlo Bock , an executive who ran Google ’ s human resources division for more than a decade and now leads software startup Humu .
Bock said those who do care , however , will see Trump ’ s actions as political “ sound and fury ” that will be hard to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at all illegal to strive to have a workforce that reflects the makeup of your nation , ” Bock said .
Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson ’ s 1965 order was designed to “ adjust the imbalances of hiring that are a legacy of our racist past , ” said employment attorney and public contracting expert Daniel Abrahams .
“ Trump is turning it around into an instrument of white grievances , ” he added .
The president has also ordered the Labor Department to set up a new hotline to investigate complaints @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called “ anti-American ” and “ blame-focused.
” The order signed last month calls attention to discussions of deep-seated racism and privilege that could make white workers feel “ discomfort ” or guilt .
Trade groups representing the tech and pharmaceutical industries are protesting Trump ’ s new order , saying it would restrict free speech and interfere with private sector efforts to combat systemic racism .
Trump ’ s executive order is a twist on Johnson ’ s 1965 directive and amendments that followed that set rules banning discriminatory practices at companies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It requires contractors to take “ affirmative action ” to open the doors to hiring minorities and women .
But the Labor Department is raising questions about the specificity of commitments made by executives addressing racial injustice in response to the wave of Black Lives Matter protests that followed May ’ s police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis .
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in June that the tech company would double the number of Black and African American managers , senior individual contributors and senior leaders by 2025 .
Wells Fargo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in June to doubling Black leadership over the next five years .
Abrahams said he doubts that the Labor Department has much of a case against companies that are trying to boost diversity , though “ there ’ s some discrimination against white people that ’ s probably actionable , ” and courts have danced around the question of what happens when employers set “ inflexible ” targets for racial quotas .
But he said it ’ s more likely the Trump administration is using the move as a political tactic ahead of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ workplace training that he says is based on critical race theory , or the idea that racism is systemic in the U.S .
Dozens of companies have ramped up their efforts to bring more Black and other minority employees into their ranks since the protests over Floyd ’ s death shook the country and triggered a national reckoning over racism .
Many have announced initiatives specifically targeting the African American community .
It ’ s too bad President Trump and his administration are finally getting around to doing positive actions at the end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is no obvious path to a second term .
But that ’ s not the point : it would only take a few simple acts to restore sanity to America .
Nothing dramatic , nothing outlandish , just simple acts to restore the rule of law and equal protection of all people… even whites .

Earlier: White Pill At The Right Time: Trump Expands Ban On Anti-White Critical Race Theory To Federal Contractors (As Well As Executive Branch Agencies)
In the end, it was always just about the assertion of equal protection under the law.
Freedom of Association would be the ultimate resurrection of liberty in the USA, but as long as the Federal Government just demands private companies and public institutions not enact hiring practices based on race, equal protection under the law is guaranteed.
And that means all diversity efforts to augment the number of non-whites employed within a given private company equates to discrimination against whites.
And that’s where we find ourselves at the end of 2020: it turns out diversity is just another word for being anti-white.
Trump administration targets diversity hiring by contractors, KSAT.com, October 9, 2020
American companies promising to hire more Black employees in leadership roles and teach their workforce about racism are getting a message from President Donald Trump’s administration: watch your step if you want to keep doing business with the federal government. Trump’s Labor Department is using a 55-year-old presidential order spurred by the Civil Rights Movement to scrutinize companies like Microsoft and Wells Fargo over their public commitments to diversity. Government letters sent last week warned both companies against using “discriminatory practices” to meet their goals. Microsoft has brushed off the warnings, publicly disclosing the government inquiry and defending its plan to boost Black leadership. But advocates for corporate diversity initiatives worry that more cautious executives will halt or scale back efforts to make their workplaces more inclusive out of fear that a wrong step could jeopardize lucrative public contracts. The agency has oversight over the hiring practices of thousands of federal contractors that employ roughly a quarter of all American workers. “For tech companies that don’t care about these issues, the pronouncements are a dog whistle that they can carry on discriminating the way they already have,” said Laszlo Bock, an executive who ran Google’s human resources division for more than a decade and now leads software startup Humu. Bock said those who do care, however, will see Trump’s actions as political “sound and fury” that will be hard to enforce. “It’s not at all illegal to strive to have a workforce that reflects the makeup of your nation,” Bock said. Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 order was designed to “adjust the imbalances of hiring that are a legacy of our racist past,” said employment attorney and public contracting expert Daniel Abrahams. “Trump is turning it around into an instrument of white grievances,” he added. The president has also ordered the Labor Department to set up a new hotline to investigate complaints about anti-racism training sessions that Trump has called “anti-American” and “blame-focused.” The order signed last month calls attention to discussions of deep-seated racism and privilege that could make white workers feel “discomfort” or guilt. Trade groups representing the tech and pharmaceutical industries are protesting Trump’s new order, saying it would restrict free speech and interfere with private sector efforts to combat systemic racism. Trump’s executive order is a twist on Johnson’s 1965 directive and amendments that followed that set rules banning discriminatory practices at companies that contract with the federal government. It requires contractors to take “affirmative action” to open the doors to hiring minorities and women. But the Labor Department is raising questions about the specificity of commitments made by executives addressing racial injustice in response to the wave of Black Lives Matter protests that followed May’s police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in June that the tech company would double the number of Black and African American managers, senior individual contributors and senior leaders by 2025. Wells Fargo CEO Charles Scharf made a similar commitment in June to doubling Black leadership over the next five years.
Abrahams said he doubts that the Labor Department has much of a case against companies that are trying to boost diversity, though “there’s some discrimination against white people that’s probably actionable,” and courts have danced around the question of what happens when employers set “inflexible” targets for racial quotas. But he said it’s more likely the Trump administration is using the move as a political tactic ahead of the presidential election. Trump has criticized workplace training that he says is based on critical race theory, or the idea that racism is systemic in the U.S. Dozens of companies have ramped up their efforts to bring more Black and other minority employees into their ranks since the protests over Floyd’s death shook the country and triggered a national reckoning over racism. Many have announced initiatives specifically targeting the African American community.
It’s too bad President Trump and his administration are finally getting around to doing positive actions at the end of his first term, because there is no obvious path to a second term.
But that’s not the point: it would only take a few simple acts to restore sanity to America. Nothing dramatic, nothing outlandish, just simple acts to restore the rule of law and equal protection of all people… even whites.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-10-10--WASHINGTON POST Wields Occam's Butterknife to Attribute Murder Surge to Lifting Lockdowns (Rather Th

WASHINGTON POST Wields Occam's Butterknife to Attribute Murder Surge to Lifting Lockdowns (Rather Than to BLM)

In other words , lifting stay-at-home orders was racist against blacks , causing gun violence to racistly descend upon black neighborhoods more than gun violence descended upon white neighborhoods .
While crime remained stable in White-majority areas , it peaked in Black-majority neighborhoods during the summer months after stay-at-home orders were lifted .
At least 17 children have died violently in St. Louis this year , a tally that has shocked residents and underscored a widening racial crime disparity in that city and others amid the coronavirus pandemic .
As the upward trajectory of crime continues , the gulf between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ White communities widened by 106 percent in the nation ’ s largest cities .
A Washington Post analysis of 27 cities showed the rolling rate [ they are using a 21 day rolling average ] of violent crime in majority-White neighborhoods fell by 30 percent while stay-at-home orders were in effect , dipping to its lowest point in two years .
Once the orders were lifted , violent crime in those neighborhoods returned to pre-pandemic levels , but stayed below average when compared with 2018 and 2019 .
In majority-Black neighborhoods , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stay-at-home orders were in effect , but rose dramatically after orders were lifted , peaking at 133 crimes per 100,000 residents in July , the highest level in the past three years .
Seriously , as I ’ ve been saying , the media demanding from the death of George Floyd ( Rest in Power ) on Memorial Day onward that blacks get extremely enraged in the name of Black Lives Matter appears to have helped induce enraged blacks to shoot each other over the summer in vast numbers .
But you aren @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Occam ’ s Razor explanation , so the media is putting in a lot of effort into various Occam ’ s Butterknife narratives to explain away their complicity in black violence since May 25 .
And murder rates , the traditional gold standard for well-counted crimes , are up way more , with interestingly shootings up even more due to a proliferation of black-on-black mass shootings at funerals , block parties , and the like , which leave lots of wounded .
They keep depicting the lockdowns on their graphs , which didn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on crime rates , but they refuse to show on their graph the May 25th death of George Floyd , so as to push their explanation that the rise in black on black violence was due to the end of lockdowns , not the rise of BLM .
But , who can remember such an obscure event as the death of George Floyd now that the message has gone out from Narrative Central that it ’ s better for the Biden campaign to talk about COVID rather than about George Floyd ?
Murder @ @ @ @ @ @ @ since the BLM riot over Freddie Gray on 4/25/2015 , so Baltimore has been like the whole country in 2020 after BLM ’ s triumph in 2015 .
At the time of this analysis , data for Nashville was only available through early August .
… The crimes analyzed include homicide , sexual assault and rape , robbery , aggravated assault , arson , burglary , theft , auto theft and thefts from vehicles .
The analysis shows crime rates dropped in March after stay-at-home orders were imposed to combat the pandemic .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ orders began to lift in May , violent crime rose in majority-Black neighborhoods , surging past levels in 2018 and 2019 .
The Post ’ s findings come as debate rages over policing , crime and unrest in the nation ’ s cities .
President Trump and some Republicans have seized upon violence and occasional looting that followed the shooting of a Black man by Kenosha , Wis. , police and the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis officers to portray cities as dangerously chaotic and Democratic leaders as ineffectual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ linked a rise in homicides in a number of big cities to the Floyd protests and activists ’ efforts to cut funding for police departments , a contention for which criminologists say there is little evidence .
In July , the president deployed federal agents to nine cities affected by crime increases , often over the objections of local officials .
St. Louis was one of them .
“ There ’ s not just one pattern that ’ s really leading to divergent trends in cities , ” said Patrick Sharkey , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ You have the lockdowns and then you have the response to the George Floyd incident and the proliferation of demonstrations against police brutality and racial justice , and the resulting response from police departments.
” No , actually , looking at the data collected by the Post , Occam ’ s Razor says that it ’ s obvious that the pandemic had little impact on crime , but the George Floyd Black Lives Matter excitement had a huge incitement effect on blacks to commit more crimes , but not on everybody else .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ have pushed for shifting funds away from police departments to services like mental health and drug treatment , arguing that minority communities have been overpoliced for too long and that social services are a better way to address the root causes of crime .
… Children with gunshot wounds are arriving in unprecedented numbers at St. Louis Children ’ s Hospital , carried by wailing ambulances or cradled in the arms of desperate parents .
The hospital has already treated 114 children through Oct. 8 — more than all of 2019 — and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ amid a surging murder rate .
Lindsay Clukies , co-director of emergency medical services at the hospital , said the average age of victims is dropping and that more are arriving with high-caliber gunshot wounds .
In July , she treated an infant hit by a bullet .
More than 90 percent of the victims this year have been Black .
The young victims are the tragic edge of a wave of violence in the city .
While serious crime is down slightly overall , through mid-August homicides were up 34 percent compared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police .
But the toll has fallen unevenly across the city .
In mid-March , ahead of stay-at-home orders in the city , majority-Black neighborhoods were averaging about one homicide every four days .
By the end of July , those same neighborhoods were averaging about two homicides a day .
Meanwhile , the rate of homicides in White-majority neighborhoods in St. Louis held stable , at about one every seven days .
It ’ s almost as if this article ’ s obsession with the pandemic is intended to distract from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ orgy of blacks shooting blacks , which is the media promoting the BLM Narrative .
Uh , I realize the pandemic was and is the Biggest Story in the History of the World this year , but I also remember that from Memorial Day through George Floyd ’ s burial on July 9 , the Biggest Story in the History of the World was George Floyd ’ s MURDER by White Racism .
As part of its analysis , The Post analyzed crime in 2018 and 2019 to see how current trends compare @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the disparity between violent crime in White and Black neighborhoods is wider than it ’ s been at any time during that period .
Criminologists and police officials said pinpointing the causes of the divergence is difficult given the complexity of the forces driving crime , especially in a year of unprecedented upheaval .
Still , they offered a range of theories .
Richard B. Rosenfeld , a criminologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis , said the rise in crime in Black neighborhoods is concerning , but the largely unchanged numbers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s argument that crime is rampant and out of control in cities .
He said it ’ s possible that trends that emerged during the pandemic and after Floyd ’ s killing may have converged to leave Black neighborhoods more exposed to crime .
First , he said , minority communities may have suffered more from a decrease in proactive efforts to fight crime as police departments shifted to battling the pandemic , instituted social distancing and quarantined sick officers .
Rosenfeld surmised that Floyd ’ s death might also have led Black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less in investigations , leaving problems to fester .
“ Those are communities that have already had a fraught relationship with police , and the alienation seems to have grown even more , ” Rosenfeld said .
Other experts said Black neighborhoods could be home to more essential workers who were out and about , making them more vulnerable to street crime during the pandemic .
White neighborhoods could have more office workers who are working from home , leaving them safer and making their homes less enticing targets for crime .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only 3 % in black neighborhoods during the lockdown .
In Chicago , police spokesman Howard Ludwig said officers were told to limit contact with the public and focus on violent offenders to slow the spread of the virus .
According to the department , the three police districts with the most criminal complaints are within predominantly minority communities on the city ’ s south and west sides .
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said it makes sense that public safety problems that arrived with the pandemic would fall most heavily on already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effects of the coronavirus did .
“ [ When people have ] lost their jobs , and when people , you know , lose hope , that ’ s when we start seeing the increase in assaults because people are just on pins and needles , ” he said .
“ It ’ s an unprecedented era in modern history .
You put all that together — that ’ s a lot for society to deal with .
And I think when you add it all up , that ’ s [ why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” It ’ s been about six months since much of the nation was forced to stay home , with residents urged to distance themselves amid a pandemic linked to more than 7.5 million infections and more than 212,000 deaths in the United States .
Amid ongoing conversations about reforming policing in light of Floyd ’ s death , experts say the pandemic shows that no single action can universally affect crime across jurisdictions .
Actually , we have seen that a single action — the media falling hook line and sinker for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — can severely boost crime rates among blacks .
As jurisdictions have reopened , most cities ’ crime rates have rebounded at or above pre-pandemic levels , based on The Post ’ s analysis .
Several of the nation ’ s largest cities have experienced increased bloodshed , although experts aren ’ t sure of the cause .
It ’ s also too early to know how the pandemic could affect crime in the long term , experts said .
The pandemic is an exceptionally rare instance of entire societies being simultaneously shuttered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ criminologists to study .
Matthew Ashby , a criminologist at University College London who has studied crime in the United States during the pandemic , said future studies using data still being collected could lead police departments and criminologists to understand how smaller-scale events — such as floods , hurricanes and protests — affect crime levels .
“ It ’ s really hard to come up with national solutions or even statewide solutions for crime problems that are inherently very local , ” he said .
“ Preventing crime is always about being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and being local.
” But in the Summer of George , we had a nationwide crime phenomena : angry blacks shooting blacks .
A national solution might be for the national media not to hype Black Rage 24×7 , like they did this summer .
Finally , thousands of words into this article , the Post reveals the truth for the handful of readers still reading : But don ’ t Say His Name .
Kriesmann said it ’ s likely that the uptick in crime that came during the summer was partially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
She said officers were also pulled away from their regular beats to work protests and guard shops during that period .
Kriesmann said she hasn ’ t seen any change in how willing Black communities are to report crime in the wake of Floyd ’ s killing .
She said the number of children killed in St. Louis could be tied to more of them being home during the pandemic , as well as the suspension of programs to help at-risk youth and traditional activities that keep kids busy , such as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Washington Post began collecting crime data from several cities in mid-March .
The Post selected 27 cities to create an aggregate rate of major crimes , which includes aggravated assault , rape , robbery , homicide , burglary , auto theft and thefts from vehicles .
Data for this analysis is current as of Sept. 5 , 2020 .
The data was collected via open web portals from each city .
It was standardized using the statistical program R and UCR definitions to categorize violent and property crimes .
More than 800,000 reported @ @ @ @ @ @ @ additional 2.2 million crimes were collected for 2018 and 2019 to compare trends and create a yearly average .
The crimes were geocoded to Census tracts and merged with data on demographics .
A rolling 21-day average was calculated by dividing the total crimes in neighborhoods with a majority Asian , Black , Latino or White population by the sum population of those Census tracts .
The location of some crimes like sexual assaults or homicides were suppressed to protect a victim ’ s privacy or because the crime was still under investigation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
John D. Harden is a metro data reporter for The Washington Post .
He joined The Post after four years working for the Houston Chronicle as a data and breaking news reporter .
Justin Jouvenal covers courts and policing in Fairfax County and across the nation .

From the Washington Post:
From the Washington Post news pages:
In other words, lifting stay-at-home orders was racist against blacks, causing gun violence to racistly descend upon black neighborhoods more than gun violence descended upon white neighborhoods.
While crime remained stable in White-majority areas, it peaked in Black-majority neighborhoods during the summer months after stay-at-home orders were lifted. By John D. Harden and Justin Jouvenal
Oct. 9, 2020 At least 17 children have died violently in St. Louis this year, a tally that has shocked residents and underscored a widening racial crime disparity in that city and others amid the coronavirus pandemic. As the upward trajectory of crime continues, the gulf between the rates of violence in Black and White communities widened by 106 percent in the nation’s largest cities. A Washington Post analysis of 27 cities showed the rolling rate [they are using a 21 day rolling average] of violent crime in majority-White neighborhoods fell by 30 percent while stay-at-home orders were in effect, dipping to its lowest point in two years. Once the orders were lifted, violent crime in those neighborhoods returned to pre-pandemic levels, but stayed below average when compared with 2018 and 2019. In majority-Black neighborhoods, the rate of violence remained relatively steady while stay-at-home orders were in effect, but rose dramatically after orders were lifted, peaking at 133 crimes per 100,000 residents in July, the highest level in the past three years.
Seriously, as I’ve been saying, the media demanding from the death of George Floyd (Rest in Power) on Memorial Day onward that blacks get extremely enraged in the name of Black Lives Matter appears to have helped induce enraged blacks to shoot each other over the summer in vast numbers. But you aren’t supposed to go for the Occam’s Razor explanation, so the media is putting in a lot of effort into various Occam’s Butterknife narratives to explain away their complicity in black violence since May 25.
Crime in White and Black neighborhoods fluctuates month-to-month, historically spiking in summer. But this year, the rate of increase in Black neighborhoods has been most dramatic, peaking higher than in 2018 and 2019 by about 10 and 8 percent, respectively.
And murder rates, the traditional gold standard for well-counted crimes, are up way more, with interestingly shootings up even more due to a proliferation of black-on-black mass shootings at funerals, block parties, and the like, which leave lots of wounded.
Meanwhile, violent crime rates in predominantly Asian, Hispanic and White neighborhoods have fluttered beneath their recent summer peaks.
They keep depicting the lockdowns on their graphs, which didn’t seem to have much effect on crime rates, but they refuse to show on their graph the May 25th death of George Floyd, so as to push their explanation that the rise in black on black violence was due to the end of lockdowns, not the rise of BLM. But, who can remember such an obscure event as the death of George Floyd now that the message has gone out from Narrative Central that it’s better for the Biden campaign to talk about COVID rather than about George Floyd?
In most cities, the violent crime rate in Black-majority areas was above average throughout the summer, while crime rates in White-majority areas remained relatively stable. There were exceptions though. In Baltimore, there is still a wide gap between Black and White neighborhoods, but crime rates overall are down this year.
Murder rates in Baltimore have been skyhigh ever since the BLM riot over Freddie Gray on 4/25/2015, so Baltimore has been like the whole country in 2020 after BLM’s triumph in 2015.
At the time of this analysis, data for Nashville was only available through early August. … The crimes analyzed include homicide, sexual assault and rape, robbery, aggravated assault, arson, burglary, theft, auto theft and thefts from vehicles. The analysis shows crime rates dropped in March after stay-at-home orders were imposed to combat the pandemic. Rates flattened in April, but when orders began to lift in May, violent crime rose in majority-Black neighborhoods, surging past levels in 2018 and 2019. The Post’s findings come as debate rages over policing, crime and unrest in the nation’s cities. President Trump and some Republicans have seized upon violence and occasional looting that followed the shooting of a Black man by Kenosha, Wis., police and the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis officers to portray cities as dangerously chaotic and Democratic leaders as ineffectual at restoring order. Trump has also linked a rise in homicides in a number of big cities to the Floyd protests and activists’ efforts to cut funding for police departments, a contention for which criminologists say there is little evidence. In July, the president deployed federal agents to nine cities affected by crime increases, often over the objections of local officials. St. Louis was one of them. “There’s not just one pattern that’s really leading to divergent trends in cities,” said Patrick Sharkey, a Princeton University professor and criminologist. “You have the lockdowns and then you have the response to the George Floyd incident and the proliferation of demonstrations against police brutality and racial justice, and the resulting response from police departments.”
No, actually, looking at the data collected by the Post, Occam’s Razor says that it’s obvious that the pandemic had little impact on crime, but the George Floyd Black Lives Matter excitement had a huge incitement effect on blacks to commit more crimes, but not on everybody else.
Meanwhile, protesters and some big-city leaders have pushed for shifting funds away from police departments to services like mental health and drug treatment, arguing that minority communities have been overpoliced for too long and that social services are a better way to address the root causes of crime. … Children with gunshot wounds are arriving in unprecedented numbers at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, carried by wailing ambulances or cradled in the arms of desperate parents. The hospital has already treated 114 children through Oct. 8 — more than all of 2019 — and the onslaught shows no sign of slowing amid a surging murder rate. Lindsay Clukies, co-director of emergency medical services at the hospital, said the average age of victims is dropping and that more are arriving with high-caliber gunshot wounds. In July, she treated an infant hit by a bullet. More than 90 percent of the victims this year have been Black. The young victims are the tragic edge of a wave of violence in the city. While serious crime is down slightly overall, through mid-August homicides were up 34 percent compared with 2019, according to St. Louis police. But the toll has fallen unevenly across the city. In mid-March, ahead of stay-at-home orders in the city, majority-Black neighborhoods were averaging about one homicide every four days. By the end of July, those same neighborhoods were averaging about two homicides a day. Meanwhile, the rate of homicides in White-majority neighborhoods in St. Louis held stable, at about one every seven days.
It’s almost as if this article’s obsession with the pandemic is intended to distract from the real cause of the post George Floyd orgy of blacks shooting blacks, which is the media promoting the BLM Narrative.
The trend is similar in several cities examined by The Post. The Post’s analysis of the 27 cities showed that the rolling rate of violent crime in majority-White neighborhoods fell from 31 crimes per 100,000 residents in mid-March to 21 in early May, when stay-at-home orders were in effect. Crime in majority-Black neighborhoods increased slightly during that time, from 62 to 64 incidents. But as stay-at-home orders were lifted, crime rates began to rise.
Uh, I realize the pandemic was and is the Biggest Story in the History of the World this year, but I also remember that from Memorial Day through George Floyd’s burial on July 9, the Biggest Story in the History of the World was George Floyd’s MURDER by White Racism.
Theories for crime divergence As part of its analysis, The Post analyzed crime in 2018 and 2019 to see how current trends compare with recent years. The analysis found that the disparity between violent crime in White and Black neighborhoods is wider than it’s been at any time during that period. Criminologists and police officials said pinpointing the causes of the divergence is difficult given the complexity of the forces driving crime, especially in a year of unprecedented upheaval. Still, they offered a range of theories. Richard B. Rosenfeld, a criminologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, said the rise in crime in Black neighborhoods is concerning, but the largely unchanged numbers in White neighborhoods nationwide undercut Trump’s argument that crime is rampant and out of control in cities. He said it’s possible that trends that emerged during the pandemic and after Floyd’s killing may have converged to leave Black neighborhoods more exposed to crime. First, he said, minority communities may have suffered more from a decrease in proactive efforts to fight crime as police departments shifted to battling the pandemic, instituted social distancing and quarantined sick officers. Rosenfeld surmised that Floyd’s death might also have led Black communities to report fewer crimes and participate less in investigations, leaving problems to fester. “Those are communities that have already had a fraught relationship with police, and the alienation seems to have grown even more,” Rosenfeld said. Other experts said Black neighborhoods could be home to more essential workers who were out and about, making them more vulnerable to street crime during the pandemic. White neighborhoods could have more office workers who are working from home, leaving them safer and making their homes less enticing targets for crime.
But you just said that crime was up only 3% in black neighborhoods during the lockdown.
In Chicago, police spokesman Howard Ludwig said officers were told to limit contact with the public and focus on violent offenders to slow the spread of the virus. According to the department, the three police districts with the most criminal complaints are within predominantly minority communities on the city’s south and west sides. Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said it makes sense that public safety problems that arrived with the pandemic would fall most heavily on already struggling communities, just as the health effects of the coronavirus did. “[When people have] lost their jobs, and when people, you know, lose hope, that’s when we start seeing the increase in assaults because people are just on pins and needles,” he said. “It’s an unprecedented era in modern history. You put all that together — that’s a lot for society to deal with. And I think when you add it all up, that’s [why] we’re seeing an increase.” It’s been about six months since much of the nation was forced to stay home, with residents urged to distance themselves amid a pandemic linked to more than 7.5 million infections and more than 212,000 deaths in the United States. Amid ongoing conversations about reforming policing in light of Floyd’s death, experts say the pandemic shows that no single action can universally affect crime across jurisdictions.
Actually, we have seen that a single action—the media falling hook line and sinker for BLM’s anti-white blood libel narrative—can severely boost crime rates among blacks.
As jurisdictions have reopened, most cities’ crime rates have rebounded at or above pre-pandemic levels, based on The Post’s analysis. Several of the nation’s largest cities have experienced increased bloodshed, although experts aren’t sure of the cause. It’s also too early to know how the pandemic could affect crime in the long term, experts said. The pandemic is an exceptionally rare instance of entire societies being simultaneously shuttered, a scenario with little precedent for criminologists to study. Matthew Ashby, a criminologist at University College London who has studied crime in the United States during the pandemic, said future studies using data still being collected could lead police departments and criminologists to understand how smaller-scale events — such as floods, hurricanes and protests — affect crime levels. “It’s really hard to come up with national solutions or even statewide solutions for crime problems that are inherently very local,” he said. “Preventing crime is always about being specific about a particular type of crime and being local.”
But in the Summer of George, we had a nationwide crime phenomena: angry blacks shooting blacks. A national solution might be for the national media not to hype Black Rage 24×7, like they did this summer.
Finally, thousands of words into this article, the Post reveals the truth for the handful of readers still reading:
… St. Louis police Capt. Renee Kriesmann said the pandemic, protests and unrest that followed Floyd’s killing fundamentally reshaped policing and crime in the city. “We went for a two- or three-month period on what we considered no self-initiated activity, trying to keep the workforce safe and trying to keep the community safe,” Kriesmann said of the period that ended in early August. She said that may have been one factor driving the increase in homicides in the city. Kriesmann said the drop in crime after the pandemic was noticeable, but she called violence that erupted following the Floyd protests on June 1 a “turning point.” Early the next morning, four police officers were shot and dozens of businesses were looted.
E.g., David Dorn.
But don’t Say His Name.


vdare--2020-10-10--Peter Brimelow On The James Edwards Radio Show 8 PM Eastern Time

TONIGHT ON TPC : Two indefatigable champions of the West , @ PeterBrimelow and Jared Taylor , return to the @ @ @ @ @ events and political trends as we race towards Election Day .
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vdare--2020-10-10--Did the SPLC's 2019 Scandals Sap Its Vast Hoard of Lucre?

Earlier : NYT : Morris Dees Was Fired by SPLC for What Joe Biden Does During His Average Prayer Breakfast 2019 was a year of shame and tumult for the Southern Poverty Law Center , America ’ s most lucrative hate group and conspiracy theorists , as it fired its legendary co-founder Morris Dees in March of that year .
Morris , who was on his 6th wife at last count , is the junk mail genius who got the SPLC started in 1971 by picking an acronym easily confused with the late Martin Luther King ’ s SCLC and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the SPLC fired Morris and its veteran president Richard Cohen suddenly resigned , the SPLC hired Michelle Obama ’ s chief of staff Tina Tchen ( the Democratic Party insider who put the call into to Cook County state ’ s attorney Kim Foxx to let Jussie Smollett off the hook ) to issue a report on what is going on inside the SPLC .
But more than a year and a half later , nothing has been publicly released .
You might think that such a bad 2019 might put a dent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ finances .
But the 2019 financial report has been released , and as of October 31 , 2019 ( more than 7 months after the scandals ) … the SPLC has smashed the half-billion dollar barrier , adding over $ 50 million in net assets despite the bad publicity :

Earlier: NYT: Morris Dees Was Fired by SPLC for What Joe Biden Does During His Average Prayer Breakfast
2019 was a year of shame and tumult for the Southern Poverty Law Center, America’s most lucrative hate group and conspiracy theorists, as it fired its legendary co-founder Morris Dees in March of that year. Morris, who was on his 6th wife at last count, is the junk mail genius who got the SPLC started in 1971 by picking an acronym easily confused with the late Martin Luther King’s SCLC and John Lewis’s SNCC.
After the SPLC fired Morris and its veteran president Richard Cohen suddenly resigned, the SPLC hired Michelle Obama’s chief of staff Tina Tchen (the Democratic Party insider who put the call in to to Cook County state’s attorney Kim Foxx to let Jussie Smollett off the hook) to issue a report on what is going on inside the SPLC. But more than a year and a half later, nothing has been publicly released.
You might think that such a bad 2019 might put a dent in the SPLC’s famously lavish finances. But the 2019 financial report has been released, and as of October 31, 2019 (more than 7 months after the scandals) … the SPLC has smashed the half-billion dollar barrier, adding over $50 million in net assets despite the bad publicity:
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vdare--2020-10-10--Asian-Americans Also Pulling Away on ACT Test

Earlier : Judge Bans U. of California from Using SAT/ACT Tests Because Racism Less famous than the SAT college admissions test , but comparably popular is the ACT .
The SAT is concocted in Princeton , New Jersey while the ACT is from Iowa City , Iowa .
Both have become considerably more national in recent decades , but retain to some extent their regional biases : the SAT is more popular on the coasts , the ACT in middle America .
But Asian dominance is growing on both the SAT and ACT .
In this graph from ACT.org ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Asians averaged 23.6 while whites averaged 22.4 for an Asian advantage of 1.2 points .
( The ACT is scored on a 12 to 36 scale with a mean for all races in 2019 of 20.7 with a standard deviation between 5 and 6 points ) .
I ’ m using 2011 rather than 2010 as the starting point because Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders were lumped in with Asians t hrough 2010 . )
By 2019 ( the latest year available until later this month ) , Asians had grown 1.2 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fallen 0.2 points to 22.1 .
The Asian-white gap had grown from 1.2 points to 2.5 points in just eight years .

Earlier: Judge Bans U. of California from Using SAT/ACT Tests Because Racism
Less famous than the SAT college admissions test, but comparably popular is the ACT. The SAT is concocted in Princeton, New Jersey while the ACT is from Iowa City, Iowa. Both have become considerably more national in recent decades, but retain to some extent their regional biases: the SAT is more popular on the coasts, the ACT in middle America. But Asian dominance is growing on both the SAT and ACT.
In this graph from ACT.org’s data visualization tool, in 2011 Asians averaged 23.6 while whites averaged 22.4 for an Asian advantage of 1.2 points. (The ACT is scored on a 12 to 36 scale with a mean for all races in 2019 of 20.7 with a standard deviation between 5 and 6 points.) I’m using 2011 rather than 2010 as the starting point because Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders were lumped in with Asians through 2010.)
By 2019 (the latest year available until later this month), Asians had grown 1.2 points to 24.6, while whites had fallen 0.2 points to 22.1.
The Asian-white gap had grown from 1.2 points to 2.5 points in just eight years.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-10-10--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2016: NEW YORKER: "Clinton's Coming Struggle with Trump Supporters"—P

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2016: NEW YORKER: "Clinton's Coming Struggle with Trump Supporters"—Plotting Revenge On The Deplorables!

Originally published on VDARE.com on this day in 2016 .
From The New Yorker : That might turn out to be an important emperor-has-no-clothes line .
It ’ s almost as if the Establishment hates a large chunk of the citizenry .
This has been part of the news of the past month .
If Trump is incapable of turning away from his base , Clinton , who is very capable of compromise and moderation , has more quietly chosen not to turn away from hers .
“ The most progressive campaign in American history , ” Elizabeth Warren called @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Warren could have pointed to Clinton ’ s policies as evidence—the push toward debt-free college , for instance—but she just as easily could have spoken about the rhetoric of her campaign .
When the race drew close in September , Clinton dispatched Warren , and Bernie Sanders—and the Mothers of the Movement , whose children died as a result of police actions—to swing states .
She dropped the moderate language about police shootings of African-Americans that she ’ d emphasized during the Convention and spoke more forthrightly about “ implicit bias.
” … @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her reckoning with those voters who tried to deny her Her Precious , but not until she gets the full might of the government under her control .

Originally published on VDARE.com on this day in 2016.
From The New Yorker:
CLINTON’S COMING STRUGGLE WITH TRUMP SUPPORTERS By Benjamin Wallace-Wells, OCTOBER 10, 2016 “My argument is not with his supporters. It’s with him,” Hillary Clinton said last night at the Presidential debate in St. Louis, gesturing toward her opponent, Donald Trump. Clinton had been asked about her comment, at a private fund-raiser last month, that half of Trump’s supporters belonged to a “basket of deplorables,” and that some were “irredeemable”—including racists and white nationalists. (She later retracted the “half,” but stood by the general description.) Trump got a chance to vent a little bit. “She has hate in her heart,” he said.
That might turn out to be an important emperor-has-no-clothes line.
“When she said they’re irredeemable, to me that might have been even worse.” Clinton said she had apologized for the remarks, then denounced Trump’s “hateful and divisive” campaign, the “inciting of violence at his rallies,” and the “very brutal campaign” of words against minority groups, and one majority group, women. But she did not offer a new description of how many of Trump’s supporters fit into that basket of deplorables—if it wasn’t half, how many was it? And she didn’t say that they could be redeemed.
Everyone had been furious at Donald Trump during the three days before the debate—the leaders of his own party as much as anyone.
It’s almost as if the Establishment hates a large chunk of the citizenry.
The consensus is that Trump’s supporters are a problem for Republicans. On MSNBC, Chuck Todd said after the debate that Trump’s supporters would come with “pitchforks” for any Republican who backed away from him. But, as it has grown more likely that Hillary Clinton will become the next President, those voters have become a problem for her, too.
But she also did not move to the center.
This has been part of the news of the past month. If Trump is incapable of turning away from his base, Clinton, who is very capable of compromise and moderation, has more quietly chosen not to turn away from hers. “The most progressive campaign in American history,” Elizabeth Warren called Clinton’s candidacy last week. Warren could have pointed to Clinton’s policies as evidence—the push toward debt-free college, for instance—but she just as easily could have spoken about the rhetoric of her campaign. When the race drew close in September, Clinton dispatched Warren, and Bernie Sanders—and the Mothers of the Movement, whose children died as a result of police actions—to swing states. She dropped the moderate language about police shootings of African-Americans that she’d emphasized during the Convention and spoke more forthrightly about “implicit bias.” …
The nativism and darkness of Trump’s movement—the tens of millions of voters who still stand enthusiastically behind the candidate—are the major new force in American politics, and still haven’t been worked into the major parties’ politics. A hard turn against globalization, a more explicit racism and xenophobia, the weight of economic and cultural grievances: none of this is part of the Democrats or Republicans’ scheme. During the past few days, Republicans have been working to blame the election on Trump personally, convinced that Trumpism is a fever that has moved through their electorate but should pass quickly. If Clinton had a different disposition—Obama’s, say, or her husband’s—she might have used the question about “the basket of deplorables” as a way to cleave Trump from his supporters, to empathize with their alienation and sense of loss. She might have offered conciliation. But Clinton does not seem to think that Trumpism is a passing fever, however much elected Republicans wish it so. Last night, Clinton said that her quarrel was with Trump rather than his supporters. In a month, that may no longer be true.
In other words, Hillary shall have her reckoning with those voters who tried to deny her Her Precious, but not until she gets the full might of the government under her control.
Charming.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-10-10--WaPo: Smirking Is Black Women's Superpower

Earlier : Jessica Valenti Ca n't Stop Thinking About That Awful Smug MAGA Boy and His Smirk In other words , the headline was inadvertently racist in implying that black women have one superpower .
In reality , Black Women have multiple innate superpowers .
… Black women have elevated the “ Mama don ’ t take no mess ” expression to a form of high art — a narrowing of the eye , a lift of the eyebrow , a tilt of the head .
Sometimes there is a sideways arch of the neck , a molasses-slow movement of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ You ’ ve got exactly 10 seconds to pick up your feet and run for the hills.
” Some of this is the stuff of caricature .
The kind of thing that leads Black women to be called sassy , volatile , aggressive or angry .
All of that is an effort to dismiss or demean .
But that attempted erasure is the very reason Black women — indeed , most women — have some version of The Look in their arsenal .
Women often can ’ t get a word @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , really , any place where they share a room with men .
This phenomenon is universal and documented in a large body of research .
… This unfortunate reality knows no boundaries .
There is actually a whole lexicon for it : Mansplaining : When a man feels the need to explain something to a woman , often despite her obvious expertise or experience .
( Case in point : Pence explains systemic racism to Harris . )
Bropropiation : When a woman introduces a concept or idea that a man subsequently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how men interrupt women repeatedly and unnecessarily .
A study by Brigham Young and Princeton universities found that men dominate 75 percent of the conversation in board meetings .
When men control the discourse , they control the decision-making — unless women figure out how to break through .
But , of course , a smirk is the Worst Thing Ever when the wrong sort of people do it .
From the New York Times news pages a “ news analysis : ” As the Law of Intersectionality states : Obviously , because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact that she is a woman , black , a Brahmin , and the child of immigrants , she therefore deserves to be Vice President and , in the fullness of time , President more than practically anybody else does .
The only reason her 2019 campaign was such an ignominious disaster , not even getting her to the Iowa Caucus , was due to her oppression .
, but also unleashed a steady drip of racism and sexism .
… Her selection as Mr. Biden ’ s running mate thrilled many Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presidential campaign for the first time .
It also unleashed a steady drip of racism and sexism , underscoring not only the double standards women and people of color face , but what happens when multiple identities meet : a Black woman , an Indian-American woman , a woman whose parents were immigrants .
One of the oldest racist tropes is that of the “ angry Black woman.
” … These caricatures and double standards have been accompanied by sexualization , common against women of all races but especially those who are Black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the promiscuous , hypersexual “ Jezebel.
” After Mr. Biden chose Ms. Harris , the right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh suggested falsely , quoting from a conservative website , that she had “ slept her way up.
” Clearly , the Vice Presidential nominee has been the victim of extraordinarily complex discrimination over the course of her career .
If not for all the disadvantages she has suffered due to her races and sex , her talents would have taken her far further than where she is now .

Earlier: Jessica Valenti Can't Stop Thinking About That Awful Smug MAGA Boy and His Smirk
From the Washington Post Opinion section:
Harris won’t stop her ‘smirk.’ Nor should she. It’s Black women’s superpower. Opinion by Michele L. Norris
Opinions contributor and consultant
Oct. 8, 2020 at 3:41 p.m. PDT People who are telling Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala D. Harris to stop smiling or “smirking” or making allegedly exaggerated facial expressions should save their breath. The California senator is not going to stop — nor should she. Why would she relinquish one of her innate superpowers?
In other words, the headline was inadvertently racist in implying that black women have one superpower. In reality, Black Women have multiple innate superpowers.
… Black women have elevated the “Mama don’t take no mess” expression to a form of high art — a narrowing of the eye, a lift of the eyebrow, a tilt of the head. Sometimes there is a sideways arch of the neck, a molasses-slow movement of the jaw that says, without speaking, “You’ve got exactly 10 seconds to pick up your feet and run for the hills.” Some of this is the stuff of caricature. The kind of thing that leads Black women to be called sassy, volatile, aggressive or angry. All of that is an effort to dismiss or demean. But that attempted erasure is the very reason Black women — indeed, most women — have some version of The Look in their arsenal. Women often can’t get a word in edgewise in the workplace — or, really, any place where they share a room with men. This phenomenon is universal and documented in a large body of research. … This unfortunate reality knows no boundaries. There is actually a whole lexicon for it: Mansplaining: When a man feels the need to explain something to a woman, often despite her obvious expertise or experience. (Case in point: Pence explains systemic racism to Harris.) Bropropiation: When a woman introduces a concept or idea that a man subsequently takes credit for. Manterruption: Describing how men interrupt women repeatedly and unnecessarily. A study by Brigham Young and Princeton universities found that men dominate 75 percent of the conversation in board meetings. When men control the discourse, they control the decision-making — unless women figure out how to break through.
But, of course, a smirk is the Worst Thing Ever when the wrong sort of people do it.
Interesting the perspectives WaPo gives voice to. @N1ckSandmann. pic.twitter.com/nCkYWqa09N — Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) October 9, 2020
From the New York Times news pages a “news analysis:”
As the Law of Intersectionality states:
Reactions to her debate performance show not only the bias that women and people of color face, but the fact that for women of color, that bias is more than the sum of its parts.
Obviously, because Kamala Harris is so oppressed by the fact that she is a woman, black, a Brahmin, and the child of immigrants, she therefore deserves to be Vice President and, in the fullness of time, President more than practically anybody else does. The only reason her 2019 campaign was such an ignominious disaster, not even getting her to the Iowa Caucus, was due to her oppression.
The selection of Senator Kamala Harris as a running mate for Joseph R. Biden Jr. thrilled many Americans
Really?
, but also unleashed a steady drip of racism and sexism. By Maggie Astor
Oct. 9, 2020, 3:06 p.m. ET … Her selection as Mr. Biden’s running mate thrilled many Americans who saw themselves represented in a major presidential campaign for the first time. It also unleashed a steady drip of racism and sexism, underscoring not only the double standards women and people of color face, but what happens when multiple identities meet: a Black woman, an Indian-American woman, a woman whose parents were immigrants. One of the oldest racist tropes is that of the “angry Black woman.” … These caricatures and double standards have been accompanied by sexualization, common against women of all races but especially those who are Black. This is another racist trope, the promiscuous, hypersexual “Jezebel.” After Mr. Biden chose Ms. Harris, the right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh suggested falsely, quoting from a conservative website, that she had “slept her way up.”
Suggested falsely!
… The lawyer and civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced the term “intersectionality” three decades ago to describe how various identities can overlap to produce discrimination more complex than just, for instance, racism plus sexism. Experts said Ms. Harris’s experience was a prime example.
Clearly, the Vice Presidential nominee has been the victim of extraordinarily complex discrimination over the course of her career. If not for all the disadvantages she has suffered due to her races and sex, her talents would have taken her far further than where she is now.
[Comment at Unz.com]