vdare--2020-07-08--Anarcho-Tyranny: White Couple Charged WIth "Hate Crime" Over Painting Over BLM Graffiti On Street

Can you define Anarcho-Tyranny ?
At a time when monuments and statues to Dead White Males are being pulled down/vandalized/set on fire and utilized as a forum for public art ( the most vile graffiti messages imaginable , ranging from calling for the murder of police to “ f*ck whitey ” ) , and the police/elected officials do nothing to stop this lawlessness , a white couple daring to paint over a “ Black Lives Matter ” message have been charged with a hate crime .
Oh , and to make it even better , the DA charging the white @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Soros supported in her race for the office .
This is how you define Anarcho-Tyranny : A white California couple has been charged with a hate crime after they were seen on video defacing a Black Lives Matter mural , according to a statement from the Contra Costa District Attorney 's office .
Two people , identified by the district attorney as Nicole Anderson , 42 , and David Nelson , 53 , were seen on July 4 painting over the B and L in the word `` Black , '' which had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paint .
In the video , the man identified as Nelson can be heard saying , `` There is no racism .
It 's a leftist lie , '' and , `` No one wants Black Lives Matter here . ''
When a woman could be heard asking , `` What 's wrong with you ? ''
the man replied , `` We 're sick of this narrative , that 's what 's wrong .
The narrative of police brutality , the narrative of oppression , the narrative of racism .
It 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump 2020 garb and yelled `` Make America Great Again . ''
Anderson was the one seen painting over the letters , while Nelson stood alongside her and at one point fetched another can of paint from a car .
Calls to Anderson and Nelson seeking comment were not immediately returned .
It 's unclear whether they 've obtained legal representation .
A California couple are seen defacing a Black Lives Matter mural in a video shared by the City of Martinez police seeking community assistance in identifying the couple .
A California @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Matter mural in a video shared by the City of Martinez police seeking community assistance in identifying the couple.undefined City of Martinez Police via YouTube The mural , in downtown Martinez in front of the Wakefield Taylor Courthouse , was approved through a permit on July 1 , according to the district attorney 's statement issued Tuesday .
It was completed on July 4 .
Other murals like it have been seen in cities across the U.S. in the wake of protests against police brutality .
The Martinez police said in a statement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ come to the mural `` with cans of paint and a roller with the specific purpose of vandalizing over the mural . ''
`` The community spent a considerable amount of time putting the mural together only to have it painted over in a hateful and senseless manner , '' police said .
Police included a link to the video with the statement in the hopes of identifying the suspects , who , three days later , were charged .
In addition to the hate crime , Anderson and Nelson also face charges @ @ @ @ @ @ @ commit vandalism or graffiti .
If convicted , each could receive up to a year in county jail .
`` We must address the root and byproduct of systemic racism in our country .
The Black Lives Matter movement is an important civil rights cause that deserves all of our attention , '' Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton said .
`` The mural completed last weekend was a peaceful and powerful way to communicate the importance of Black lives in Contra Costa County and the country .
`` [ California couple @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Black Lives Matter mural : In video of the incident , a man said , `` No wants Black Lives Matter here .
`` , ABC News , July 8 , 2020 ]

Can you define Anarcho-Tyranny? At a time when monuments and statues to Dead White Males are being pulled down/vandalized/set on fire and utilized as a forum for public art (the most vile graffiti messages imaginable, ranging from calling for the murder of police to “f*ck whitey”), and the police/elected officials do nothing to stop this lawlessness, a white couple daring to paint over a “Black Lives Matter” message has been charged with a hate crime.
Oh, and to make it even better, the DA charging the white couple—Diana Becton—is a black woman who George Soros supported in her race for the office.
This is how you define Anarcho-Tyranny:
A white California couple has been charged with a hate crime after they were seen on video defacing a Black Lives Matter mural, according to a statement from the Contra Costa District Attorney's office.
Two people, identified by the district attorney as Nicole Anderson, 42, and David Nelson, 53, were seen on July 4 painting over the B and L in the word "Black," which had been painted in yellow, with black paint.
In the video, the man identified as Nelson can be heard saying, "There is no racism. It's a leftist lie," and, "No one wants Black Lives Matter here."
When a woman could be heard asking, "What's wrong with you?" the man replied, "We're sick of this narrative, that's what's wrong. The narrative of police brutality, the narrative of oppression, the narrative of racism. It's a lie."
He was wearing Trump 2020 garb and yelled "Make America Great Again."
Anderson was the one seen painting over the letters, while Nelson stood alongside her and at one point fetched another can of paint from a car.
Calls to Anderson and Nelson seeking comment were not immediately returned. It's unclear whether they've obtained legal representation.
A California couple are seen defacing a Black Lives Matter mural in a video shared by the City of Martinez police seeking community assistance in identifying the couple.
The mural, in downtown Martinez in front of the Wakefield Taylor Courthouse, was approved through a permit on July 1, according to the district attorney's statement issued Tuesday. It was completed on July 4.
Other murals like it have been seen in cities across the U.S. in the wake of protests against police brutality.
The Martinez police said in a statement Sunday that the couple appeared to have come to the mural "with cans of paint and a roller with the specific purpose of vandalizing over the mural."
"The community spent a considerable amount of time putting the mural together only to have it painted over in a hateful and senseless manner," police said.
Police included a link to the video with the statement in the hopes of identifying the suspects, who, three days later, were charged.
In addition to the hate crime, Anderson and Nelson also face charges of vandalism and possession of tools to commit vandalism or graffiti.
If convicted, each could receive up to a year in county jail.
"We must address the root and byproduct of systemic racism in our country. The Black Lives Matter movement is an important civil rights cause that deserves all of our attention," Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton said. "The mural completed last weekend was a peaceful and powerful way to communicate the importance of Black lives in Contra Costa County and the country."
[California couple charged with hate crime for allegedly vandalizing Black Lives Matter mural: In video of the incident, a man said, "No wants Black Lives Matter here," ABC News, July 8, 2020]


vdare--2020-07-06--Physicist Luis Alvarez: The Anglo As Identity-Politics Hero For Hispanics

Recently in a VDARE.com blog post , Steve Sailer speculated about luminaries who might warrant being included in a National Garden of American Heroes , proposed by President Trump .
Here 's one of Steve 's suggestions : The father and son are , respectively , Physics Nobel Laureate ( 1968 ) Luis W. Alvarez and geologist Walter Alvarez .
And here are the first two sentences from Luis [ pronounced like `` Louie '' ] Alvarez 's 1987 autobiography Alvarez—Adventures of a Physicist : His mother had grown up in China , daughter of American missionaries .
His Harvard-trained @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Francisco , whose summer breaks involved multi-week hikes on the Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada , an outing that included Luis when he was 12 .
( These details are taken from the cited autobiography . )
In his highly productive career as an experimental physicist , Luis was effectively `` establishment '' all the way : Undergrad and grad student at the University of Chicago under the tutelage of Physics Nobelist Arthur Compton , protege at the University of California - Berkeley of Physics Nobelist-to-be Ernest O. Lawrence , colleague on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of chemist George Kistiakowsky and polymath Physics Nobelist Enrico Fermi , and postwar leader of a particle-physics research group at Berkeley , enroute to his own Nobel .
And yet , as Steve Sailer proposed , in this era of identity-politics-uber-alles , the very Anglo-establishment physicist Luis Alvarez is likely regarded as one of their own by most ethnicity-focused Hispanic Americans who 've heard of him .
How do I know ?
That goes back three decades , to when I was a physics professor at New Mexico State University in approximately 50-percent-Hispanic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the physics teacher at Las Cruces High School taught an Advanced Placement [ AP ] course ( along with several sections of the ordinary physics course ) .
One assignment for his AP students every year was to write a several-page biography of some famous physicist of their individual choice .
He told me that Alvarez was the subject of an overwhelming fraction of those papers !
So that was an early and relatively benign manifestation of the Western world 's descent into identity politics , in this case the perverse notion that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them . ''
For a famous counterexample , consider Indian-born theoretical astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , who had a long , brilliant career at the University of Chicago .
In the 1940s , Chandra was based at the university 's observatory in Williams Bay , Wisconsin—on the north shore of Lake Geneva—about 100 miles from the main campus in Chicago 's Hyde Park neighborhood .
Late in that decade he drove to Hyde Park each week to teach a course to Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang , a pair of physics grad students from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ goes , that effort expended on a mere two students** paid off big-time : In 1957 , the whole class won the Physics Nobel Prize for their work on parity non-conservation !
( Chandra himself went on to share in the 1983 Physics Nobel for his research on stellar structure and evolution . )
** See Kameshwar C. Wali , Chandra : A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar ( University of Chicago Press , 1992 ) , p. 17 .

Recently in a VDARE.com blog post, Steve Sailer speculated about luminaries who might warrant being included in a National Garden of American Heroes, proposed by President Trump. Here's one of Steve's suggestions:
For Hispanic American heroes, how about the Alvarezes, father and son,[pictured above] who figured out what killed the dinosaurs? You want monuments that kids can get into, and the scientists who figured out that a comet wiped out the dinosaurs is guaranteed to appeal to children.
The father and son are, respectively, Physics Nobel Laureate (1968) Luis W. Alvarez and geologist Walter Alvarez. And here are the first two sentences from Luis [pronounced like "Louie"] Alvarez's 1987 autobiography Alvarez—Adventures of a Physicist:
People have sometimes been surprised that a tall, ruddy blond should bear the name Luis Alvarez. Although my paternal grandfather was born in northern Spain, my mother's father came from Ireland.
His mother had grown up in China, daughter of American missionaries. His Harvard-trained father was a prominent physician in San Francisco, whose summer breaks involved multi-week hikes on the Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada, an outing that included Luis when he was 12. (These details are taken from the cited autobiography.)
In his highly productive career as an experimental physicist, Luis was effectively "establishment" all the way: Undergrad and grad student at the University of Chicago under the tutelage of Physics Nobelist Arthur Compton, protege at the University of California - Berkeley of Physics Nobelist-to-be Ernest O. Lawrence, colleague on the wartime Manhattan Project at Los Alamos of chemist George Kistiakowsky and polymath Physics Nobelist Enrico Fermi, and postwar leader of a particle-physics research group at Berkeley, en route to his own Nobel.
And yet, as Steve Sailer proposed, in this era of identity-politics-uber-alles, the very Anglo-establishment physicist Luis Alvarez is likely regarded as one of their own by most ethnicity-focused Hispanic Americans who've heard of him.
How do I know? That goes back three decades, to when I was a physics professor at New Mexico State University in approximately 50-percent-Hispanic Las Cruces. A friend who was the physics teacher at Las Cruces High School taught an Advanced Placement [AP] course (along with several sections of the ordinary physics course). One assignment for his AP students every year was to write a several-page biography of some famous physicist of their individual choice. He told me that Alvarez was the subject of an overwhelming fraction of those papers!
So that was an early and relatively benign manifestation of the Western world's descent into identity politics, in this case the perverse notion that people need teachers "who look like them."
For a famous counterexample, consider Indian-born theoretical astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who had a long, brilliant career at the University of Chicago. In the 1940s, Chandra was based at the university's observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin—on the north shore of Lake Geneva—about 100 miles from the main campus in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. Late in that decade he drove to Hyde Park each week to teach a course to Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang, a pair of physics grad students from China. And, as the story goes, that effort expended on a mere two students** paid off big-time: In 1957, the whole class won the Physics Nobel Prize for their work on parity non-conservation! (Chandra himself went on to share in the 1983 Physics Nobel for his research on stellar structure and evolution.)
** See Kameshwar C. Wali, Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar (University of Chicago Press, 1992), p. 17.


vdare--2020-07-08--Ann Coulter: I’m A Direct Descendant Of 13 Revolutionary Patriots. Deport Lucian Truscott.

See , earlier : Jared Taylor Patiently Educates Lucian K. Truscott IV ( ! )
About `` White Supremacy '' And Thomas Jefferson Fascinating news from The New York Times this week !
Reviewing its op-ed titled “ I ’ m a Direct Descendant of Thomas Jefferson .
Take Down His Memorial , ” I gather we now weigh Americans ’ opinions based on who their ancestors are .
I ’ m not sure that ’ s a good idea , but the rules are the rules .
Otherwise , why would the Times consider it so important to publish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , at all ?
Obviously , we ’ re going to need a list of Whose Opinion Matters .
Here ’ s my first stab at it : Descendants of John Adams will have their views count the most .
Adams was a giant of the Revolution , our second president , and never owned slaves .
Descendants of George Washington will come next .
Some will bicker with this , inasmuch as he is the father of our country , but based on our new standards , he gets demerits for owning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he freed them on his death .
( This is a freebie : Washington ’ s only child was the United States of America . )
Someone else can fill in the middle range in the Whose Opinion Matters ranking—this is taking a while .
Toward the bottom of the list will be descendants of slave traders , then of slave owners , and below that , descendants of slave owners who pretend to be embarrassed about that fact , but are just bragging , like Truscott .
[ Tweet him ] • @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I Think Colleges Should Drop the SAT .
• I ’ m an Olympic Gold Medalist .
I Think We Should Ban the Olympics .
• I ’ m Totally Hot .
I Think Men Should Stop Hitting on Hot Girls .
Next in the Eminence Ranking will be immigrants ( themselves often descendants of slave owners , murderers and rapists ) .
In fact , immigrants may as well not say anything .
Their opinions will amount to only about one one-trillionth of a foundational American ’ s .
Dead last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anarchists , such as the grandchildren of the hundreds of Soviet spies infiltrating our government during the Cold War , especially any heirs of Alger Hiss , the Weathermen and their children .
That wipes out half of our college professors .
I ’ m surprised at the Times adopting a blood test , but you can ’ t go around publishing some blowhard demanding we take down a monument based on his ancestry and then drop the ancestry advantage for everyone else .
Speaking as the direct descendant of 13 patriots of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Soldiers and several strict Presbyterian abolitionists , it ’ s obvious that my opinion carries vastly more weight than the blood relation of a slave owner , like Truscott .
With full knowledge of the responsibility that comes with that , I say we keep the Jefferson Memorial .
Obviously , I don ’ t need any reasons beyond the fact that my ancestors are better than Truscott ’ s .
But if you ’ d care to hear my arguments , they are that Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence ; he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to war with the Barbary pirates , who kidnapped more than a million Europeans and forced them into slavery ; the monument is a work of art ; and—most important—removing the Jefferson Memorial would deprive me of a reason to write periodic columns saying … We know from the DNA that Jefferson couldn ’ t have fathered Hemings ’ firstborn , Tom .
Only her lastborn son , Eston , had the DNA from some Jefferson male , of which there were at least a half-dozen living at or near Monticello when Eston @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down to Eston .
There is zero evidence that Jefferson fathered him and boatloads of evidence that he didn ’ t .
• Five years before Eston was born , a muckraking journalist , James Callender , furious with Jefferson for not making him a postmaster , started the rumor the president had fathered Hemings ’ son Tom , which , again , the DNA proves he did not .
So the theory is : Five years after being falsely accused of fathering children with Hemings , Jefferson went out and fathered a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ born in 1808 , when Thomas Jefferson was 64 years old and in his second term as president .
His brother Randolph was 52 , recently widowed and unmarried .
After Randolph remarried , Hemings had no more children .
• Randolph ’ s five sons , aged 17 to 24 , were also frequent visitors to Monticello when Eston was conceived .
• While Jefferson was entertaining diplomats in the main house , Randolph would typically retire to the slave quarters for the evening .
One slave , Isaac Granger Jefferson , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ Old Master ’ s brother , Mass Randall , was a mighty simple man : used to come out among black people , play the fiddle and dance half the night.
” • There is not a single account of Thomas Jefferson visiting the slave quarters .
• Nor did Jefferson take any interest in Hemings ’ children .
Randolph did , teaching all of Hemings ’ sons to play the fiddle .
• None of the private correspondence from anyone living at Monticello credited the rumor about Jefferson and Hemings—but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ private letters , Jefferson denied Callender ’ s claim , while admitting to a sexual indiscretion that would have been more shameful at the time : his seduction of a friend ’ s wife .
• Jefferson ’ s private papers reveal his extremely negative views of miscegenation in terms so brutal they will not be repeated here .
Suffice it to say that the idea of his fathering a child with Hemings is inconceivable .
• Jefferson did not free Hemings in his will , despite freeing several other slaves .
• @ @ @ @ @ @ @ children originated in the brains of feminists .
At first , historians strenuously objected , but eventually decided the better part of valor was to cower under their desks and pray no one accused them of “ racism.
” To every cloud there is a silver lining , and the one to the Times ’ Ancestry Test for Political Relevance is that we ’ ll never again have to hear from a professor or student at Yale , a school whose namesake—currently , right now , in 2020—is Elihu Yale , slave trader @ @ @ @ @ @ @ THIRTEEN New York Times bestsellers—collect them here .
Her book , ¡Adios America !
The Left ’ s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hell Hole , was released on June 1 , 2015 .
Her latest book , Resistance Is Futile !
: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind , was released on August 21 , 2018 .

See, earlier: Jared Taylor Patiently Educates Lucian K. Truscott IV (!) About "White Supremacy" And Thomas Jefferson
Fascinating news from the New York Times this week! Reviewing its op-ed titled “I’m a Direct Descendant of Thomas Jefferson. Take Down His Memorial,” I gather we now weigh Americans’ opinions based on who their ancestors are.
I’m not sure that’s a good idea, but the rules are the rules. Otherwise, why would the Times consider it so important to publish Lucian Truscott, a great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Jefferson, at all?
Blut über alles!
Obviously, we’re going to need a list of Whose Opinion Matters. Here’s my first stab at it:
Descendants of John Adams will have their views count the most. Adams was a giant of the Revolution, our second president, and never owned slaves.
Descendants of George Washington will come next. Some will bicker with this, inasmuch as he is the father of our country, but based on our new standards, he gets demerits for owning slaves—though, unlike Jefferson, at least he freed them on his death. (This is a freebie: Washington’s only child was the United States of America.)
Someone else can fill in the middle range in the Whose Opinion Matters ranking—this is taking a while.
Toward the bottom of the list will be descendants of slave traders, then of slave owners, and below that, descendants of slave owners who pretend to be embarrassed about that fact, but are just bragging, like Truscott. [Tweet him]
I Got Double 800s on the SATs. I Think Colleges Should Drop the SAT.
I’m an Olympic Gold Medalist. I Think We Should Ban the Olympics.
I’m Totally Hot. I Think Men Should Stop Hitting on Hot Girls.
Next in the Eminence Ranking will be immigrants (themselves often descendants of slave owners, murderers and rapists). In fact, immigrants may as well not say anything. Their opinions will amount to only about one one-trillionth of a foundational American’s.
Dead last are the blood relations of traitors and anarchists, such as the grandchildren of the hundreds of Soviet spies infiltrating our government during the Cold War, especially any heirs of Alger Hiss, the Weathermen and their children. That wipes out half of our college professors.
I’m surprised at the Times adopting a blood test, but you can’t go around publishing some blowhard demanding we take down a monument based on his ancestry and then drop the ancestry advantage for everyone else.
Speaking as the direct descendant of 13 patriots of the American Revolution, a few Union Soldiers and several strict Presbyterian abolitionists, it’s obvious that my opinion carries vastly more weight than the blood relation of a slave owner, like Truscott.
With full knowledge of the responsibility that comes with that, I say we keep the Jefferson Memorial.
Obviously, I don’t need any reasons beyond the fact that my ancestors are better than Truscott’s. But if you’d care to hear my arguments, they are that Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; he was our third president; he went to war with the Barbary pirates, who kidnapped more than a million Europeans and forced them into slavery; the monument is a work of art; and—most important—removing the Jefferson Memorial would deprive me of a reason to write periodic columns saying …
… Thomas Jefferson fathered none of Sally Hemings’ children.
Here’s the Clip-and-Save version:
We know from the DNA that Jefferson couldn’t have fathered Hemings’ firstborn, Tom. Only her lastborn son, Eston, had the DNA from some Jefferson male, of which there were at least a half-dozen living at or near Monticello when Eston was conceived.
So it all comes down to Eston. There is zero evidence that Jefferson fathered him and boatloads of evidence that he didn’t.
Five years before Eston was born, a muckraking journalist, James Callender, furious with Jefferson for not making him a postmaster, started the rumor the president had fathered Hemings’ son Tom, which, again, the DNA proves he did not. So the theory is: Five years after being falsely accused of fathering children with Hemings, Jefferson went out and fathered a child with Hemings.
Eston was born in 1808, when Thomas Jefferson was 64 years old and in his second term as president. His brother Randolph was 52, recently widowed and unmarried. After Randolph remarried, Hemings had no more children.
Randolph’s five sons, aged 17 to 24, were also frequent visitors to Monticello when Eston was conceived.
While Jefferson was entertaining diplomats in the main house, Randolph would typically retire to the slave quarters for the evening. One slave, Isaac Granger Jefferson, described Randolph in his dictated memoirs thus: “Old Master’s brother, Mass Randall, was a mighty simple man: used to come out among black people, play the fiddle and dance half the night.”
There is not a single account of Thomas Jefferson visiting the slave quarters.
Nor did Jefferson take any interest in Hemings’ children. Randolph did, teaching all of Hemings’ sons to play the fiddle.
None of the private correspondence from anyone living at Monticello credited the rumor about Jefferson and Hemings—but several pointed to Randolph.
In private letters, Jefferson denied Callender’s claim, while admitting to a sexual indiscretion that would have been more shameful at the time: his seduction of a friend’s wife.
Jefferson’s private papers reveal his extremely negative views of miscegenation in terms so brutal they will not be repeated here. Suffice it to say that the idea of his fathering a child with Hemings is inconceivable.
Jefferson did not free Hemings in his will, despite freeing several other slaves.
The claim that Jefferson fathered Hemings’ children originated in the brains of feminists. At first, historians strenuously objected, but eventually decided the better part of valor was to cower under their desks and pray no one accused them of “racism.”
To every cloud there is a silver lining, and the one to the Times’ Ancestry Test for Political Relevance is that we’ll never again have to hear from a professor or student at Yale, a school whose namesake—currently, right now, in 2020—is Elihu Yale, slave trader.
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Ann Coulter is the author of THIRTEEN New York Times bestsellers—collect them here.
Her book, ¡Adios America! The Left’s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hell Hole, was released on June 1, 2015.
Her latest book, Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind, was released on August 21, 2018.


vdare--2020-07-07--Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow, Joined By Gavin Wax, Thursday, 3 p.m. EST

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vdare--2020-07-08--Michelle Malkin: Stand with Steven Baca

Michelle Malkin: Stand with Steven Baca

Earlier : Progressive Antiquarianism : Hating Riot Victims Because Of Their Ancestors ' Past If you support the Second Amendment , oppose mob anarchy and reject the monumental madness gripping America , then you stand with Steven Baca .
If you have been outraged by the persecution and prosecution of brave patriots across the country defending their homes , their families , our downtowns , our national heritage and history—like the armed St. Louis couple , or the armed pregnant Michigan mom , or the armed citizens in the Fishtown suburb of Philadelphia , Boise , Idaho , and Provo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of civil order , then you stand with Steven Baca .
On June 15 , Steven and several other friends and neighbors gathered peacefully at Tiguex Park in Albuquerque , New Mexico , to protect a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Onate targeted by agitators identified as Black Lives Matter protesters .
What does Onate have to do with St. George Floyd or any of the other clients of race hustler Benjamin Crump ?
Nothing .
The coordinated violence and chaos unleashed by a toxic convergence of BLM , antifa , jobless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to do with black lives .
Or with `` justice . ''
Or police brutality .
Or equality .
It 's all about making money , securing power and reimagining this nation by eradicating every vestige of the settlers , pioneers , colonizers and founders who made America America .
Esther Rivera , a 14th-generation mixed Hispanic and Native American grandmother from Albuquerque , showed up to guard the memorial .
`` I was n't there to protest , '' she told me : `` I was there to pray for peace and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of historical art ...
If we start pulling these down and renaming buildings and burning books , that 's fascism . ''
During the melee at Tiguex Park , as agitators wielded pickaxes and strapped chains to the Onate statue , several belligerent women verbally assaulted Rivera .
Some screamed falsely that she was a cop , stirring anger among the cop-hating BLM mobsters .
In several videos of the toppling of the Onate statue , at least two of the thuggish protesters can be seen laying hands on Rivera .
She told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ phone .
As she was pushed to the ground , Baca tried to rescue her .
A swarm of women blocked Baca and multiple videos show him trying to peel the women off of him and Rivera .
He was a defender , not an aggressor .
Then the scene turned uglier .
As the savages ripped the statue from its pedestal , unidentified assailants screamed falsely that Baca was a cop .
`` I 'm gon na f -- -ing kill you , '' another yelled .
Baca can be seen retreating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
He ran into the street , where several rioters beat him in the head and body with a large longboard and other unidentified objects .
At least one video appears to show an assailant wielding a switchblade or knife .
That is when Baca drew his weapon and fired several shots at his attackers .
Initially charged with felony aggravated battery with a deadly weapon , Baca was held in jail for a week before the Bernalillo County district attorney Raul Torrez dropped that charge .
Baca 's justified self-defense is plain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ videos .
Here 's the thing : This story is far from over .
Baca still faces potential reintroduction of the felony weapons charge , as well as aggravated battery charges involving three women—none of whom have come forward , none of whom the D.A .
has located and all of whom can be seen on camera laying hands on Baca and Rivera first .
Here 's another thing you need to know : Torrez is not just any run-of-the-mill D.A .
He 's one of dozens of George Soros-subsidized subversives who could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ justice .
A Soros front group called the `` New Mexico Safety & Justice '' PAC—pro-criminal , pro-rioter , anti-cop , anti-Second Amendment—dumped more than $ 107,000 into Torrez 's campaign in 2016 .
Tim Keller , the Albuquerque mayor who has spent the past eight weeks pandering to BLM , defamed Baca as the agitator .
The head of the police union , however , condemned city leaders for creating an `` operations plan '' that tied the hands of cops , who were `` spat upon '' and had rocks thrown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the riot and crime scene .
I had the privilege of meeting Steven this Independence Day weekend .
He is a gentle soul , overwhelmed by his predicament but grateful for the outpouring of grassroots support .
`` We now have to wait for the district attorney to complete the investigation .
We do not know how long this will take , '' he told me .
`` I stand ready to have my conduct and the conduct of others at the protest fully and thoroughly reviewed . ''
If you stand with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crowdfunding campaign that you can donate to at : https : //fundly.com/stand-with-steven-baca .
This is n't just one statue and one armed American 's freedom at stake .
If you believe in the sacred right of self-defense and the sovereignty of our nation , then we are all Steven Baca now .
Michelle Malkin [ Email her ] is the author of Invasion : How America Still Welcomes Terrorists , Criminals , and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores .
Click here for Peter Brimelow ’ s review .
Click here for Michelle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also the author of Unhinged : Exposing Liberals Gone Wild , Culture of Corruption : Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats , Crooks & Cronies , , Who Built That : Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs , and Sold Out : How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America 's Best & Brightest Workers .
Malkin is author of the book , `` Open Borders , Inc. : Who 's Funding America 's Destruction , '' available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover .
To find out more about Michelle Malkin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ writers and cartoonists , visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com .
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Earlier: Progressive Antiquarianism: Hating Riot Victims Because Of Their Ancestors' Past
If you support the Second Amendment, oppose mob anarchy and reject the monumental madness gripping America, then you stand with Steven Baca.
If you have been outraged by the persecution and prosecution of brave patriots across the country defending their homes, their families, our downtowns, our national heritage and history—like the armed St. Louis couple, or the armed pregnant Michigan mom, or the armed citizens in the Fishtown suburb of Philadelphia, Boise, Idaho, and Provo, Utah, facing down the saboteurs of civil order, then you stand with Steven Baca.
On June 15, Steven and several other friends and neighbors gathered peacefully at Tiguex Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to protect a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Onate targeted by agitators identified as Black Lives Matter protesters. What does Onate have to do with St. George Floyd or any of the other clients of race hustler Benjamin Crump? Nothing. The coordinated violence and chaos unleashed by a toxic convergence of BLM, antifa, jobless college students and garden-variety cop-haters have nothing to do with black lives. Or with "justice." Or police brutality. Or equality.
It's all about making money, securing power and reimagining this nation by eradicating every vestige of the settlers, pioneers, colonizers and founders who made America America.
Esther Rivera, a 14th-generation mixed Hispanic and Native American grandmother from Albuquerque, showed up to guard the memorial. "I wasn't there to protest," she told me: "I was there to pray for peace and the preservation of these statues and preservation of historical art... If we start pulling these down and renaming buildings and burning books, that's fascism."
During the melee at Tiguex Park, as agitators wielded pickaxes and strapped chains to the Onate statue, several belligerent women verbally assaulted Rivera. Some screamed falsely that she was a cop, stirring anger among the cop-hating BLM mobsters. In several videos of the toppling of the Onate statue, at least two of the thuggish protesters can be seen laying hands on Rivera. She told me one woman tried to steal her phone. As she was pushed to the ground, Baca tried to rescue her. A swarm of women blocked Baca and multiple videos show him trying to peel the women off of him and Rivera. He was a defender, not an aggressor.
Then the scene turned uglier. As the savages ripped the statue from its pedestal, unidentified assailants screamed falsely that Baca was a cop. "I'm gonna f---ing kill you," another yelled. Baca can be seen retreating from the crowd, separated from Rivera. He ran into the street, where several rioters beat him in the head and body with a large longboard and other unidentified objects. At least one video appears to show an assailant wielding a switchblade or knife.
That is when Baca drew his weapon and fired several shots at his attackers. Initially charged with felony aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, Baca was held in jail for a week before the Bernalillo County district attorney Raul Torrez dropped that charge.
Baca's justified self-defense is plain as day to anyone who watches the videos.
Here's the thing: This story is far from over. Baca still faces potential reintroduction of the felony weapons charge, as well as aggravated battery charges involving three women—none of whom have come forward, none of whom the D.A. has located and all of whom can be seen on camera laying hands on Baca and Rivera first.
Here's another thing you need to know: Torrez is not just any run-of-the-mill D.A. He's one of dozens of George Soros-subsidized subversives who could put "social justice" above equal justice. A Soros front group called the "New Mexico Safety & Justice" PAC—pro-criminal, pro-rioter, anti-cop, anti-Second Amendment—dumped more than $107,000 into Torrez's campaign in 2016.
Tim Keller, the Albuquerque mayor who has spent the past eight weeks pandering to BLM, defamed Baca as the agitator. The head of the police union, however, condemned city leaders for creating an "operations plan" that tied the hands of cops, who were "spat upon" and had rocks thrown at them as they tried to secure the riot and crime scene.
I had the privilege of meeting Steven this Independence Day weekend. He is a gentle soul, overwhelmed by his predicament but grateful for the outpouring of grassroots support. "We now have to wait for the district attorney to complete the investigation. We do not know how long this will take," he told me. "I stand ready to have my conduct and the conduct of others at the protest fully and thoroughly reviewed."
If you stand with Steven Baca, I have created a crowdfunding campaign that you can donate to at: https://fundly.com/stand-with-steven-baca.
This isn't just one statue and one armed American's freedom at stake. If you believe in the sacred right of self-defense and the sovereignty of our nation, then we are all Steven Baca now.
COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM
Michelle Malkin [Email her] is the author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website. Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies, ,Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs, and Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers.
Malkin is author of the book, "Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction," available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM


vdare--2020-07-08--“Hamilton“: the Obama Administration on Stage

From my new review in Taki ’ s Magazine : Before I finally watched Hamilton , Lin-Manuel Miranda ’ s colossally popular Broadway musical depicting the Founding Fathers as rapping Men of Color , I had never heard that it ’ s so childish .
I don ’ t know how to judge hip-hop , but after a while the endless rhymes about the Constitutional Convention started sounding less like Eminem and more like Dr. Seuss .
Hamilton is like if The Butter Battle Book took two hours and 45 minutes to recite .
My guess is that Miranda originally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ niche for parents who don ’ t want their sons to ruin the family ’ s costly evening out at the theater by constant eye-rolling .
While girls naturally adore musicals , there ’ s normally barely anything on Broadway that boys would want to sit through .
So why not invent a musical about a boyish hero rising through war and politics only to die in a duel , a true story about the ambitious young man whose face is on the ten-dollar bill ?
( Granted , judging by that portrait @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sharp it could carve roast beef , was just about the whitest man ever .
But who cares about racial reality ? )
In an age when Disney Princesses are vastly monetized on Broadway , why not a Disney Prince story about the first Treasury secretary ?
So , Miranda left out of his musical most of that girly stuff like melody and harmony , and retold the rivalry of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr as a Tupac vs. Biggie beef about New York City not being big enough for the two of @ @

From my new review in Taki’s Magazine:
‘Hamilton’: The Obama Administration on Stage
Steve Sailer
July 08, 2020
Before I finally watched Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s colossally popular Broadway musical depicting the Founding Fathers as rapping Men of Color, I had never heard that it’s so childish. I don’t know how to judge hip-hop, but after a while the endless rhymes about the Constitutional Convention started sounding less like Eminem and more like Dr. Seuss. Hamilton is like if The Butter Battle Book took two hours and 45 minutes to recite.
My guess is that Miranda originally conceived of Hamilton as filling a market niche for parents who don’t want their sons to ruin the family’s costly evening out at the theater by constant eye-rolling. While girls naturally adore musicals, there’s normally barely anything on Broadway that boys would want to sit through.
So why not invent a musical about a boyish hero rising through war and politics only to die in a duel, a true story about the ambitious young man whose face is on the ten-dollar bill? (Granted, judging by that portrait, Hamilton, with his nose so sharp it could carve roast beef, was just about the whitest man ever. But who cares about racial reality?) In an age when Disney Princesses are vastly monetized on Broadway, why not a Disney Prince story about the first Treasury secretary?
So, Miranda left out of his musical most of that girly stuff like melody and harmony, and retold the rivalry of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr as a Tupac vs. Biggie beef about New York City not being big enough for the two of them.


vdare--2020-07-09--GOP Establishment Pours Millions Into Backstabbing Kris Kobach

A shady PAC plans to run a $ 3 million ad campaign against Kansas Senate candidate Kris Kobach .
The newly formed Plains PAC [ Email them ] is putting out ads that claim Kobach is a “ white nationalist ” and a failed candidate [ Kobach target of ‘ white nationalist ’ Senate ads , by Korinne Griffth , KSN , July 8 , 2020 ] .
Its executive director is CJ Grover [ Tweet him ] a long-time aide to establishment Republicans .
Kobach calls the PAC an attack dog for the Republican establishment .
“ Mitch McConnell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lies and dark money out of the Kansas Senate race , ” Kobach spokeswoman Danedri Herbert said in a statement .
The Kobach campaign also attacked Grover for potentially violating federal election law .
“ We are equally disgusted that Plains PAC has also likely broken the law .
The PAC ’ s executive director was a Kansas state employee in the Attorney General ’ s office until yesterday .
The group formed on July 1 , and the ads and media planning were in process before the executive director left state employment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ law can ’ t be trusted.
” This PAC ’ s efforts beg the question : why is the GOP establishment pouring millions into defeating Kobach , the frontrunner in the Kansas Senate primary ?
There are two reasons : one , they think Kobach is unelectable—even though he previously won two statewide races .
This argument is further invalidated by the establishment backing poorly polling candidates in other Senate races .
Arizona Sen. Martha McSally and Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler both look to lose their respective races , yet no one in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Second , they hate his immigration patriotism , which the establishment characterizes as “ white nationalism.
” “ Kansas Republicans support President Trump and his positive vision for America , but not Kobach 's consistent affiliation with a toxic ideology explicitly rejected by the President and Kansans of all stripes , ” Grover told CNN [ GOP group to launch multimillion-dollar ad campaign to stop Kobach in Kansas Senate primary , by Alex Rogers and Manu Raju , CNN , July 7 , 2020 ] .
Trump won on Kobach ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s agenda , which is represented by Kobach ’ s chief rival Rep. Roger Marshall , was soundly defeated in 2016 .
Establishment pressure continues to be exerted on Trump to ditch one of his most loyal supporters .
The president reportedly told the Club for Growth in June to stop running anti-Marshall ads .
The conservative group complied [ GOP establishment boosting Kansas congressman ’ s Senate bid , by John Hanna , Associated Press , July 8 , 2020 ] .
Kobach can still win the primary and the general election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take him defeating the craven establishment .

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

A shady PAC plans to run a $3 million ad campaign against Kansas Senate candidate Kris Kobach. The newly formed Plains PAC [Email them] is putting out ads that claim Kobach is a “white nationalist” and a failed candidate [Kobach target of ‘white nationalist’ Senate ads, by Korinne Griffith, KSN, July 8, 2020].
Its executive director is CJ Grover [Tweet him], a long-time aide to establishment Republicans. Kobach calls the PAC an attack dog for the Republican establishment. “Mitch McConnell and his DC cronies should keep their lies and dark money out of the Kansas Senate race,” Kobach spokeswoman Danedri Herbert said in a statement.
The Kobach campaign also attacked Grover for potentially violating federal election law.
“We are equally disgusted that Plains PAC has also likely broken the law. The PAC’s executive director was a Kansas state employee in the Attorney General’s office until yesterday. The group formed on July 1, and the ads and media planning were in process before the executive director left state employment. Groups that lie and break the law can’t be trusted.”
This PAC’s efforts beg the question: Why is the GOP establishment pouring millions into defeating Kobach, the frontrunner in the Kansas Senate primary?
There are two reasons: one, they think Kobach is unelectable—even though he previously won two statewide races. This argument is further invalidated by the establishment backing poorly polling candidates in other Senate races. Arizona Sen. Martha McSally and Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler both look to lose their respective races, yet no one in the establishment seems concerned by their electability.
Second, they hate his immigration patriotism, which the establishment characterizes as “white nationalism.” “Kansas Republicans support President Trump and his positive vision for America, but not Kobach's consistent affiliation with a toxic ideology explicitly rejected by the President and Kansans of all stripes,” Grover told CNN [GOP group to launch multimillion-dollar ad campaign to stop Kobach in Kansas Senate primary, by Alex Rogers and Manu Raju, CNN, July 7, 2020].
Trump won on Kobach’s agenda in 2016. The establishment’s agenda, which is represented by Kobach’s chief rival Rep. Roger Marshall, was soundly defeated in 2016. Establishment pressure continues to be exerted on Trump to ditch one of his most loyal supporters. The president reportedly told the Club for Growth in June to stop running anti-Marshall ads. The conservative group complied [GOP establishment boosting Kansas congressman’s Senate bid, by John Hanna, Associated Press, July 8, 2020].
Kobach can still win the primary and the general election. It’s just gonna take him defeating the craven establishment.


vdare--2020-07-09--Patrick J. Buchanan:  The New "Systemic Racism" That Is Coming

Earlier , by Steve Sailer : Biden Vows To Rip Out Roots Of Systemic Racism , i.e .
Seize The Equity In Your Home Before our Black Lives Matter moment , one had not thought of NBCUniversal as shot through with “ systemic racism.
” Yet , what other explanation is there for this week ’ s draconian personnel decision of NBCUniversal chairman Cesar Conde .
According to Conde , the white share of NBC ’ s workforce , now 74 % and divided evenly between men and women , will be chopped to 50 % .
Persons of color—Blacks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and multiracial folks—are to rise from the present 26 % of NBCUniversal ’ s workforce to 50 % .
What does this mean ?
White men will be slashed as a share of NBCUniversal ’ s employees from the present 38 % to 25 % , —a cut of one-third—and then capped to ensure that people of color and women reach and remain at 50 % .
White men can fall below one-fourth of the workforce , but their numbers will not be permitted to go any higher .
To impose racial and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at NBCUniversal—half women , half persons of color—would seem to trample all over the spirit , if not the letter , of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 .
Why is Conde doing this ?
“ ( W ) e have a unique responsibility to look like and reflect all of the people of the country we serve , ” he says .
But whence comes this responsibility , the realization of which means active discrimination against new employees because they are the wrong gender or race : i.e , they are unwanted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a meritocracy where excellence was rewarded , be it in athletics or academics .
Our Olympic teams have triumphed when we send the best we had in every event .
This egalitarian and ideological revolt against excellence is also arising in Fairfax County , Virginia , at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology which , concedes The Washington Post , “ often ranks as the top public high school in the United States.
” Why does TJ have a problem ?
Writes the Post reporter , the school is “ notorious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ students.
” Does TJ discriminate in its admissions against Blacks and Hispanics ?
Is the school a throwback to the old days of “ massive resistance ” ?
Of 486 students in the freshman class this fall at the school , the number of Black students is tiny , smaller even than the 3 % of the class that is Hispanic .
Is this yet another example of “ white privilege ” at work ?
Hardly .
Whites make up only 17 % of TJ ’ s incoming class .
The problem , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Asian Americans .
Three in 4 members of the fall freshman class at TJ are of Asian heritage .
Why do Asian American kids predominate ?
Are they being admitted on the basis of their race or ethnicity ?
No , again .
Asians are 73 % of the incoming class because they excelled on the admissions tests in math , reading and science , and on the essay-writing assignment .
They won admission to TJ not based on their ethnicity or race but their academic excellence as demonstrated in standardized tests taken @ @ @ @ @ @ @ countries .
Thomas Jefferson principal Ann Bonitatibus [ Tweet her ] says of her school , “ We do not reflect the racial composition ” of the Fairfax County Public School System .
No , it does not .
But so what , if Thomas Jefferson ranks among the top STEM schools in the entire United States ?
Is it possible to reflect the “ racial composition ” of Fairfax Country and to remain “ the top public high school In the United States ” ?
A related issue is up in California @ @ @ @ @ @ @ referendum , Californians voted 55-45 to embed a colorblind amendment in their state constitution : The Democratic legislature , however , wants to be rid of this amendment as it outlaws the kind of racial and ethnic discrimination in which Sacramento wishes to engage .
An amendment is on the November ballot to repeal the colorblind amendment and allow California to start discriminating again—in favor of African Americans and Hispanics and against Asians and white men—to alter the present racial balance in state university admissions and the awarding of state contracts .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with lower test scores will be admitted to elite state schools like UCLA and the University of California , Berkeley , based on race , and fewer Asians and whites .
Practices that were regarded as race discrimination and supposedly outlawed in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 will henceforth be seen as commendable and mandatory .
There will be racial and ethnic discrimination , as in the days of segregation .
Only the color of the beneficiaries and the color of the victims will be reversed .
And that is the meaning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be encapsulated : “ It ’ s our turn now !
” Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of a Superpower : Will America Survive to 2025 ?
are available from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “ The Greatest Comeback : How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority .
His latest book , published May , 2018 , is “ Nixon ’ s White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
” See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

Earlier, by Steve Sailer: Biden Vows To Rip Out Roots Of Systemic Racism, i.e. Seize The Equity In Your Home
Before our Black Lives Matter moment, one had not thought of NBCUniversal as shot through with “systemic racism.”
Yet, what other explanation is there for this week’s draconian personnel decision of NBCUniversal chairman Cesar Conde.
According to Conde, the white share of NBC’s workforce, now 74% and divided evenly between men and women, will be chopped to 50%.
Persons of color—Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans and multiracial folks—are to rise from the present 26% of NBCUniversal’s workforce to 50%.
What does this mean?
White men will be slashed as a share of NBCUniversal’s employees from the present 38% to 25%—a cut of one-third—and then capped to ensure that people of color and women reach and remain at 50%.
White men can fall below one-fourth of the workforce, but their numbers will not be permitted to go any higher.
To impose racial and gender quotas like this on the workforce at NBCUniversal—half women, half persons of color—would seem to trample all over the spirit, if not the letter, of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Why is Conde doing this?
“(W)e have a unique responsibility to look like and reflect all of the people of the country we serve,” he says.
But whence comes this responsibility, the realization of which means active discrimination against new employees because they are the wrong gender or race: i.e., they are unwanted white men?
America has succeeded as a meritocracy where excellence was rewarded, be it in athletics or academics. Our Olympic teams have triumphed when we send the best we had in every event.
This egalitarian and ideological revolt against excellence is also arising in Fairfax County, Virginia, at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology which, concedes the Washington Post, “often ranks as the top public high school in the United States.”
Why does TJ have a problem? Writes the Post reporter, the school is “notorious for failing to admit black and Latino students.”
Does TJ discriminate in its admissions against Blacks and Hispanics? Is the school a throwback to the old days of “massive resistance”?
Of 486 students in the freshman class this fall at the school, the number of Black students is tiny, smaller even than the 3% of the class that is Hispanic. Is this yet another example of “white privilege” at work?
Hardly. Whites make up only 17% of TJ’s incoming class.
The problem, if it is a problem, is Asian Americans. Three in 4 members of the fall freshman class at TJ are of Asian heritage.
Why do Asian American kids predominate? Are they being admitted on the basis of their race or ethnicity?
No, again. Asians are 73% of the incoming class because they excelled on the admissions tests in math, reading and science, and on the essay-writing assignment.
They won admission to TJ not based on their ethnicity or race but their academic excellence as demonstrated in standardized tests taken by students all over Fairfax and surrounding countries.
Thomas Jefferson principal Ann Bonitatibus [Tweet her] says of her school, “We do not reflect the racial composition” of the Fairfax County Public School System.
No, it does not. But so what, if Thomas Jefferson ranks among the top STEM schools in the entire United States?
And Bonitatibus’ comment raises a legitimate question:
Is it possible to reflect the “racial composition” of Fairfax Country and to remain “the top public high school In the United States”?
A related issue is up in California. In 1996, in a state referendum, Californians voted 55-45 to embed a colorblind amendment in their state constitution:
“The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”
Clear, coherent and colorblind.
The Democratic legislature, however, wants to be rid of this amendment as it outlaws the kind of racial and ethnic discrimination in which Sacramento wishes to engage.
An amendment is on the November ballot to repeal the colorblind amendment and allow California to start discriminating again—in favor of African Americans and Hispanics and against Asians and white men—to alter the present racial balance in state university admissions and the awarding of state contracts.
If this passes, more Hispanics and Blacks with lower test scores will be admitted to elite state schools like UCLA and the University of California, Berkeley, based on race, and fewer Asians and whites. Practices that were regarded as race discrimination and supposedly outlawed in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 will henceforth be seen as commendable and mandatory.
There will be racial and ethnic discrimination, as in the days of segregation. Only the color of the beneficiaries and the color of the victims will be reversed.
And that is the meaning of the BLM revolution, which might be encapsulated: “It’s our turn now!”
COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-07-09--Radio Derb Transcript Up For July 3:  Pandemic Report, The Caucasity Of Hope, War On Policing, And B

Radio Derb Transcript Up For July 3:  Pandemic Report, The Caucasity Of Hope, War On Policing, And Betting On Trump, Etc.

The Radio Derb transcript is up for July 3 .
Go here to read or listen .
10m35s Herman Cain @ @ @ @ @ I was impressed and charmed . )
12m24s The caucasity of hope .
( One @ @ @ @ @ ) 17m37s The war on policing .
( Cops vs .
prosecutors . )
22m43s @ @ @ @ @ ( The price of hair . )
27m05s ChiCom population policy .
( Gangsters , @ @ @ @ @ . )
32m15s Betting on Trump .
( A lot of people are . )
@ @ @ @ @ .
( Ethiopia 's and ours . )

The Radio Derb transcript is up for July 3. Go here to read or listen.
Playlist:
05m10s Pandemic report. (Fatalism, insouciance, and the 2nd Amendment.)
10m35s Herman Cain gets the virus. (I was impressed and charmed.)
12m24s The caucasity of hope. (One of theirs gets stomped.)
17m37s The war on policing. (Cops vs. prosecutors.)
22m43s News from Central Asia. (The price of hair.)
27m05s ChiCom population policy. (Gangsters, but at least not hypocrites.)
32m15s Betting on Trump. (A lot of people are.)
34m24s The curse of diversity. (Ethiopia's and ours.)
37m40s Signoff. (Happy Fourth!)


vdare--2020-07-07--Social Distancing with John Derbyshire, Joined By Gavin Wax, TODAY, 3 p.m. EST

On Thursday at 3 p.m. EST , our latest episode of “ Social Distancing with John Derbyshire will livestream .
@ @ @ @ @ rising America First leader Gavin Wax !
Gavin Wax is President of the New York @ @ @ @ @ Associate Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research , and a conservative columnist whose @ @ @ @ @ , Human Events , Newsmax , and elsewhere .
They will talk about the censorship @ @ @ @ @ it is so important for people with convictions to stand defend America ... because no @ @ @ @ @ us !
Be sure to click here to subscribe to our channel and tune in @ @ @ @ @ You can join the conversation between Brimelow and Wax here .
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vdare--2020-07-09--Old-Fashioned Liberals Finally Speak Out Against Cancel Culture

Thomas Chatterton Williams , a sensible young part-black man of letters , has organized an open letter in Harper ’ s by old-fashioned center-left liberals against cancel culture .
The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine ’ s October issue .
We welcome responses at letters @ harpers.org Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial .
Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform , along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society , not least in higher education , journalism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity .
As we applaud the first development , we also raise our voices against the second .
The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump , who represents a real threat to democracy .
But resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The democratic inclusion we want can be achieved only if we speak out against the intolerant climate that has set in on all sides .
The free exchange of information and ideas , the lifeblood of a liberal society , is daily becoming more constricted .
While we have come to expect this on the radical right , censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture : an intolerance of opposing views , a vogue for public shaming and ostracism , and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters .
But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought .
More troubling still , institutional leaders , in a spirit of panicked damage control , are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms .
Editors are fired for running controversial pieces ; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity ; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics ; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study ; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes .
Whatever the arguments around each particular incident , the result has been to steadily narrow the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal .
We are already paying the price in greater risk aversion among writers , artists , and journalists who fear for their livelihoods if they depart from the consensus , or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement .
This stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The restriction of debate , whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society , invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation .
The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure , argument , and persuasion , not by trying to silence or wish them away .
We refuse any false choice between justice and freedom , which can not exist without each other .
As writers we need a culture that leaves us room for experimentation , risk taking , and even mistakes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of good-faith disagreement without dire professional consequences .
If we won ’ t defend the very thing on which our work depends , we shouldn ’ t expect the public or the state to defend it for us .
Elliot Ackerman Saladin Ambar , Rutgers University Martin Amis Anne Applebaum Marie Arana , author Margaret Atwood John Banville Mia Bay , historian Louis Begley , writer Roger Berkowitz , Bard College Paul Berman , writer Sheri Berman , Barnard College Reginald Dwayne Betts , poet Neil Blair , agent David W. Blight , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – RETRACTED David Bromwich David Brooks , columnist Ian Buruma , Bard College Lea Carpenter Noam Chomsky , MIT ( emeritus ) Nicholas A. Christakis , Yale University Roger Cohen , writer Ambassador Frances D. Cook , ret .
Drucilla Cornell , Founder , uBuntu Project Kamel Daoud Meghan Daum , writer Gerald Early , Washington University-St. Louis Jeffrey Eugenides , writer Dexter Filkins Federico Finchelstein , The New School Caitlin Flanagan Richard T. Ford , Stanford Law School Kmele Foster David Frum , journalist Francis Fukuyama , Stanford University Atul Gawande , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kim Ghattas Malcolm Gladwell Michelle Goldberg , columnist Rebecca Goldstein , writer Anthony Grafton , Princeton University David Greenberg , Rutgers University Linda Greenhouse Rinne B. Groff , playwright Sarah Haider , activist Jonathan Haidt , NYU-Stern Roya Hakakian , writer Shadi Hamid , Brookings Institution Jeet Heer , The Nation Katie Herzog , podcast host Susannah Heschel , Dartmouth College Adam Hochschild , author Arlie Russell Hochschild , author Eva Hoffman , writer Coleman Hughes , writer/Manhattan Institute Hussein Ibish , Arab Gulf States Institute Michael Ignatieff Zaid Jilani , journalist Bill @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wendy Kaminer , writer Matthew Karp , Princeton University Garry Kasparov , Renew Democracy Initiative Daniel Kehlmann , writer Randall Kennedy Khaled Khalifa , writer Parag Khanna , author Laura Kipnis , Northwestern University Frances Kissling , Center for Health , Ethics , Social Policy Enrique Krauze , historian Anthony Kronman , Yale University Joy Ladin , Yeshiva University Nicholas Lemann , Columbia University Mark Lilla , Columbia University Susie Linfield , New York University Damon Linker , writer Dahlia Lithwick , Slate Steven Lukes , New York University John R. MacArthur , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Phoebe Maltz Bovy , writer Greil Marcus Wynton Marsalis , Jazz at Lincoln Center Kati Marton , author Debra Mashek , scholar Deirdre McCloskey , University of Illinois at Chicago John McWhorter , Columbia University Uday Mehta , City University of New York Andrew Moravcsik , Princeton University Yascha Mounk , Persuasion Samuel Moyn , Yale University Meera Nanda , writer and teacher Cary Nelson , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Olivia Nuzzi , New York Magazine Mark Oppenheimer , Yale University Dael Orlandersmith , writer/performer George Packer Nell Irvin Painter , Princeton @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rutgers University – Camden Orlando Patterson , Harvard University Steven Pinker , Harvard University Letty Cottin Pogrebin Katha Pollitt , writer Claire Bond Potter , The New School Taufiq Rahim , New America Foundation Zia Haider Rahman , writer Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen , University of Wisconsin Jonathan Rauch , Brookings Institution/The Atlantic Neil Roberts , political theorist Melvin Rogers , Brown University Kat Rosenfield , writer Loretta J. Ross , Smith College J.K. Rowling Salman Rushdie , New York University Karim Sadjadpour , Carnegie Endowment Daryl Michael Scott , Howard University Diana Senechal , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Judith Shulevitz , writer Jesse Singal , journalist Anne-Marie Slaughter Andrew Solomon , writer Deborah Solomon , critic and biographer Allison Stanger , Middlebury College Paul Starr , American Prospect/Princeton University Wendell Steavenson , writer Gloria Steinem , writer and activist Nadine Strossen , New York Law School Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. , Harvard Law School Kian Tajbakhsh , Columbia University Zephyr Teachout , Fordham University Cynthia Tucker , University of South Alabama Adaner Usmani , Harvard University Chloe Valdary Lucía Martínez Valdivia , Reed College Helen Vendler , Harvard University Judy B.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ historian Caroline Weber , historian Randi Weingarten , American Federation of Teachers Bari Weiss Sean Wilentz , Princeton University Garry Wills Thomas Chatterton Williams , writer Robert F. Worth , journalist and author Molly Worthen , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Matthew Yglesias Emily Yoffe , journalist Cathy Young , journalist Fareed Zakaria Intellectuals not on the list of signatories who are actual victims of cancellation and/or physical assault include Charles Murray , James D. Watson , Larry Summers , Gregg Easterbrook , J. Michael Bailey , Jason Richwine , James @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mac Donald .
Allison Stanger , who was beat up by the Woke ski bum mob at Middlebury , while trying to have a dialogue with Murray , is on the list , however .
It would be interesting to know who was invited but didn ’ t sign and who would have signed but wasn ’ t invited .
Other signatories of note : Matt Yglesias but not his friend/boss Ezra Klein .
The inclusion of J.K. Rowling , author of the Harry Potter series , who has expressed doubts about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , seems to be attracting the most hatred from the Woke .
As I ’ ve said many times here we are losing the battle on free speech because its defenders are making the same rhetorical mistakes over and over again and nowhere is this better illustrated than in the weak and desperate pleading of this letterhttps : //t.co/HZs3ZaQ6uu — Lomez ( @ L0m3z ) July 8 , 2020 The mistake is two-fold : first it is to placate the would-be censors by conceding the substantive grounds of the debate , in this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the censors ; then second to say BUT we still need free speech to convince the knuckle draggers we ’ re right Lomez @ L0m3z · 7h The problem is that once you concede the substantive ground—once you say that the Woke scolds are right on the underlying political goals—it ’ s just then an empirical question of whether free speech or hard censorship achieves those goals more effectively… Lomez @ L0m3z · 7h The mealy-mouthed centrists here want to insist that “ sunlight is the best disinfectant ” but there is absolutely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The fact is , hard censorship works extremely well to induce political outcomes in your favor .
That ’ s why powerful groups use it .
Lomez @ L0m3z · 7h And anyway that ’ s not the point of free speech .
What they should be saying is that free speech is good because the woke scolds might be wrong .
We might be wrong .
We might be errant in our political judgments and moral assumptions and we need dissenting speech as a corrective Lomez @ L0m3z · 6h There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s easy enough to make the argument that in the service of personal liberty it is a good unto itself that ought not be stifled in principle .
That ’ s an even better argument… Lomez @ L0m3z · 6h But at least as a utilitarian matter , free speech merely as a tool of persuasion , especially in the context of conceding the merits of the debate to whomever controls the mic , is a lame argument and a sure loser .

Thomas Chatterton Williams, a sensible young part-black man of letters, has organized an open letter in Harper’s by old-fashioned center-left liberals against cancel culture.
A Letter on Justice and Open Debate
July 7, 2020
The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine’s October issue. We welcome responses at letters@harpers.org
Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts. But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second. The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump, who represents a real threat to democracy. But resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion—which right-wing demagogues are already exploiting. The democratic inclusion we want can be achieved only if we speak out against the intolerant climate that has set in on all sides.
The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes. Whatever the arguments around each particular incident, the result has been to steadily narrow the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal. We are already paying the price in greater risk aversion among writers, artists, and journalists who fear for their livelihoods if they depart from the consensus, or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement.
This stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of our time. The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation. The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away. We refuse any false choice between justice and freedom, which cannot exist without each other. As writers we need a culture that leaves us room for experimentation, risk taking, and even mistakes. We need to preserve the possibility of good-faith disagreement without dire professional consequences. If we won’t defend the very thing on which our work depends, we shouldn’t expect the public or the state to defend it for us.
Elliot Ackerman
Saladin Ambar, Rutgers University
Martin Amis
Anne Applebaum
Marie Arana, author
Margaret Atwood
John Banville
Mia Bay, historian
Louis Begley, writer
Roger Berkowitz, Bard College
Paul Berman, writer
Sheri Berman, Barnard College
Reginald Dwayne Betts, poet
Neil Blair, agent
David W. Blight, Yale University
Jennifer Finney Boylan, author – RETRACTED
David Bromwich
David Brooks, columnist
Ian Buruma, Bard College
Lea Carpenter
Noam Chomsky, MIT (emeritus)
Nicholas A. Christakis, Yale University
Roger Cohen, writer
Ambassador Frances D. Cook, ret.
Drucilla Cornell, Founder, uBuntu Project
Kamel Daoud
Meghan Daum, writer
Gerald Early, Washington University-St. Louis
Jeffrey Eugenides, writer
Dexter Filkins
Federico Finchelstein, The New School
Caitlin Flanagan
Richard T. Ford, Stanford Law School
Kmele Foster
David Frum, journalist
Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University
Atul Gawande, Harvard University
Todd Gitlin, Columbia University
Kim Ghattas
Malcolm Gladwell
Michelle Goldberg, columnist
Rebecca Goldstein, writer
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
David Greenberg, Rutgers University
Linda Greenhouse
Rinne B. Groff, playwright
Sarah Haider, activist
Jonathan Haidt, NYU-Stern
Roya Hakakian, writer
Shadi Hamid, Brookings Institution
Jeet Heer, The Nation
Katie Herzog, podcast host
Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College
Adam Hochschild, author
Arlie Russell Hochschild, author
Eva Hoffman, writer
Coleman Hughes, writer/Manhattan Institute
Hussein Ibish, Arab Gulf States Institute
Michael Ignatieff
Zaid Jilani, journalist
Bill T. Jones, New York Live Arts
Wendy Kaminer, writer
Matthew Karp, Princeton University
Garry Kasparov, Renew Democracy Initiative
Daniel Kehlmann, writer
Randall Kennedy
Khaled Khalifa, writer
Parag Khanna, author
Laura Kipnis, Northwestern University
Frances Kissling, Center for Health, Ethics, Social Policy
Enrique Krauze, historian
Anthony Kronman, Yale University
Joy Ladin, Yeshiva University
Nicholas Lemann, Columbia University
Mark Lilla, Columbia University
Susie Linfield, New York University
Damon Linker, writer
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
Steven Lukes, New York University
John R. MacArthur, publisher, writer
Susan Madrak, writer
Phoebe Maltz Bovy, writer
Greil Marcus
Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Kati Marton, author
Debra Mashek, scholar
Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago
John McWhorter, Columbia University
Uday Mehta, City University of New York
Andrew Moravcsik, Princeton University
Yascha Mounk, Persuasion
Samuel Moyn, Yale University
Meera Nanda, writer and teacher
Cary Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Olivia Nuzzi, New York Magazine
Mark Oppenheimer, Yale University
Dael Orlandersmith, writer/performer
George Packer
Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University (emerita)
Greg Pardlo, Rutgers University – Camden
Orlando Patterson, Harvard University
Steven Pinker, Harvard University
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Katha Pollitt, writer
Claire Bond Potter, The New School
Taufiq Rahim, New America Foundation
Zia Haider Rahman, writer
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin
Jonathan Rauch, Brookings Institution/The Atlantic
Neil Roberts, political theorist
Melvin Rogers, Brown University
Kat Rosenfield, writer
Loretta J. Ross, Smith College
J.K. Rowling
Salman Rushdie, New York University
Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endowment
Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University
Diana Senechal, teacher and writer
Jennifer Senior, columnist
Judith Shulevitz, writer
Jesse Singal, journalist
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Andrew Solomon, writer
Deborah Solomon, critic and biographer
Allison Stanger, Middlebury College
Paul Starr, American Prospect/Princeton University
Wendell Steavenson, writer
Gloria Steinem, writer and activist
Nadine Strossen, New York Law School
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., Harvard Law School
Kian Tajbakhsh, Columbia University
Zephyr Teachout, Fordham University
Cynthia Tucker, University of South Alabama
Adaner Usmani, Harvard University
Chloe Valdary
Lucía Martínez Valdivia, Reed College
Helen Vendler, Harvard University
Judy B. Walzer
Michael Walzer
Eric K. Washington, historian
Caroline Weber, historian
Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers
Bari Weiss
Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
Garry Wills
Thomas Chatterton Williams, writer
Robert F. Worth, journalist and author
Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Matthew Yglesias
Emily Yoffe, journalist
Cathy Young, journalist
Fareed Zakaria


vdare--2020-07-09--AP: "Experts Say the Spike in Violence Defies Easy Explanation"

Still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and protests over the George Floyd killing , cities around the nation are facing another challenge : a surge in shootings that has left dozens dead .
Experts say the spike in violence defies easy explanation .
https : //t.co/YhOc15Jp47 That ’ s what we pay experts for : To say that the spike in violence since , roughly , May 24 , 2020 defies easy explanation : Tracie Keesee , a longtime police official in Denver and New York who co-founded the Center for Policing Equity , said it ’ s important to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crime , whether it ’ s drugs , domestic violence or poverty .
She cautioned against broad-stroke generalizations .
“ You have to get into the numbers , ” she said .
Reform advocates say blaming a spike on the necessary push for police reform ignores the root causes of crime and the progress of the movement .
Government officials need to “ be thoughtful and nuanced and contextual about these things , ” liberal New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson told radio station WNYC this week .
To link the shootings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ an inaccurate picture of what criminal justice reform is about and is just demonizing the moment that we ’ re in and not talking about what brought us here today .
”

Still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and protests over the George Floyd killing, cities around the nation are facing another challenge: a surge in shootings that has left dozens dead. Experts say the spike in violence defies easy explanation. https://t.co/YhOc15Jp47
That’s what we pay experts for: To say that the spike in violence since, roughly, May 24, 2020 defies easy explanation:
Tracie Keesee, a longtime police official in Denver and New York who co-founded the Center for Policing Equity, said it’s important to get answers on what is driving the crime, whether it’s drugs, domestic violence or poverty. She cautioned against broad-stroke generalizations.
“You have to get into the numbers,” she said.
Reform advocates say blaming a spike on the necessary push for police reform ignores the root causes of crime and the progress of the movement.
Government officials need to “be thoughtful and nuanced and contextual about these things,” liberal New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson told radio station WNYC this week.
To link the shootings to reforms, Johnson added, gives “an inaccurate picture of what criminal justice reform is about and is just demonizing the moment that we’re in and not talking about what brought us here today.”


vdare--2020-07-07--New York Puts Up A Strong Fight For "Most Shootings," But Chicago Wins The Weekend Again

Earlier : Who Will Have More Shootings Over The 4th Of July Weekend : Veteran Chicago Or New Contender New York ?
From the New York Times : Note , this video is something you may not want to see : … The city surpassed 400 shootings in the first half of the year for the first time since 2016 , with 528 by the end of last month ; the 205 shootings in June were the highest for that month since 1996 , the police said .
Other cities have seen similar spikes in shootings , most notably Chicago @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has the city poised to near its record high of 778 set in 2016 .
Chicago had 336 murders as of July 2 ; New York , with nearly three times the population , had 181 at the end of June — compared to 147 at the same time last year but a far cry from the homicide totals that exceeded 2,000 in 1990 and 1991 .
We have so many security cameras and such good facial recognition software that it ’ s nuts that there are any premeditated homicides these days .

Earlier: Who Will Have More Shootings Over The 4th Of July Weekend: Veteran Chicago Or New Contender New York?
From the New York Times:
64 Shot, 10 Dead: Spike in Gun Violence Alarms an On-Edge N.Y.C. The victims included a young father who was shot while holding hands with his 6-year-old daughter in the Bronx.
Note, this video is something you may not want to see:
On Sunday, July 5th, police officers from the 44th Precinct responded to a 911 call for a male shot at Sheridan Avenue and East 170th Street. pic.twitter.com/kiEmmJfuEW — NYPD Chief of Department (@NYPDChiefOfDept) July 6, 2020
… The city surpassed 400 shootings in the first half of the year for the first time since 2016, with 528 by the end of last month; the 205 shootings in June were the highest for that month since 1996, the police said. Other cities have seen similar spikes in shootings, most notably Chicago, where the current pace of homicides has the city poised to near its record high of 778 set in 2016. Chicago had 336 murders as of July 2; New York, with nearly three times the population, had 181 at the end of June — compared to 147 at the same time last year but a far cry from the homicide totals that exceeded 2,000 in 1990 and 1991.
We have so many security cameras and such good facial recognition software that it’s nuts that there are any premeditated homicides these days.
But from ABC 7 Chicago:
87 shot, 17 fatally, in Chicago July 4th weekend violence, police say By Jessica D’Onofrio and Craig Wall
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vdare--2020-07-09--NEW YORKER: Monstrous People (Like, Say, Steve Sailer) Object To NYT's Plan To Dox Scott Alexander

From The New Yorker : Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley ’ s War Against the Media How a controversial rationalist blogger became a mascot and martyr in a struggle against the New York Times .
On June 22nd , visitors to Slate Star Codex , a long-standing blog of considerable influence , discovered that the site ’ s cerulean banner and graying WordPress design scheme had been superseded by a barren white layout .
In the place of its usual catalogue of several million words of fiction , book reviews , essays , and miscellanea , as well as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reader commentary , was a single post of atypical brevity .
“ So , ” it began , “ I kind of deleted the blog .
Sorry .
Here ’ s my explanation.
” The farewell post was attributed , like virtually all of the blog ’ s entries since its inception , in 2013 , to Scott Alexander , the pseudonym of a Bay Area psychiatrist—the title “ Slate Star Codex ” is an imperfect anagram of the alias—and it put forth a rationale for this online self-immolation .
“ Last week @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technology reporter who was planning to write a story on Slate Star Codex , ” the post continued .
“ He told me it would be a mostly positive piece about how we were an interesting gathering place for people in tech , and how we were ahead of the curve on some aspects of the coronavirus situation.
” … The final post went on , “ It probably would have been a very nice article .
Unfortunately , he told me he had discovered my real name and would reveal it in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Alexander explained that he has a variety of reasons to prefer that his real name , which can be ascertained with minimal investigation , be left out of the paper of record .
As a psychiatrist , he suspects that his relationships with his patients could be compromised if they were made aware of his “ personal ” blog , which gets six hundred thousand monthly page views .
That ’ s less than iSteve , although SSC ’ s pages are likely considerably longer .
… Many rationalist exchanges involve lively if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the most famous , and funniest , example , from LessWrong , led inexorably to the conclusion that anyone who read the post and did not immediately set to work to create a superintelligent A.I .
would one day be subject to its torture .
Others reflect a near-pathological commitment to the reinvention of the wheel , using the language of game theory to explain , with mathematical rigor , some fact of social life that anyone trained in the humanities would likely accept as a given .
A minority address issues that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ These conversations , about race and genetic or biological differences between the sexes , have rightfully drawn criticism from outsiders .
Rationalists usually point out that these debates represent a tiny fraction of the community ’ s total activity , and that they are overrepresented in the comments section of S.C.C .
by a small but loud and persistent cohort—one that includes , for example , Steve Sailer , a peddler of “ scientific racism.
” Alexander has long fretted over the likelihood that the presence of these fringe figures could tarnish the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In late 2013 , he published “ The Anti-Reactionary FAQ , ” a thirty-thousand-word post now regarded as one of his first major contributions to the rationalist canon .
The post describes the world view of a group , centered around a figure called Curtis Yarvin , also known as Mencius Moldbug , whose “ neoreactionary ” views—including an open desire for the restoration of feudalism and racial hierarchy—contributed to the intellectual normalization of what became known as the alt-right .
Alexander could have banned neoreactionaries from his comments section , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that vile ideas should be countenanced and refuted rather than left to accrue the status of forbidden knowledge , he took their arguments seriously and at almost comical length—even at the risk that he might lend them legitimacy .
Ultimately , he circumscribed or curtailed certain “ culture war ” threads .
Still , the rationalists ’ general willingness to pursue orderly exchanges on objectionable topics , often with monstrous people , remains not only a point of pride but a constitutive part of the subculture ’ s self-understanding .
They have given @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and controversial opinions have not been limited to the comments .
It was widely surmised within the S.S.C .
community , for example , that the arguments in the engineer James Damore ’ s infamous Google memo , for which he was fired , were drawn directly from an S.S.C .
post in which Alexander explored and upheld research into innate biological differences between men and women .
( As it turned out , the Damore memo was written before the post , but there was a noticeable overlap between them .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ his blog not because he thought it would force Metz ’ s hand but because he feared that a Times reporter wouldn ’ t have to poke around for very long to turn up a creditable reason for negative coverage .
One of Alexander ’ s particularly controversial posts , written shortly after Donald Trump ’ s election , took up the question of whether it was accurate to call the President ’ s racism “ overt.
” Alexander , despite his unambiguous distaste for the President and endorsement ( in swing states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the semantic claim that Trump ’ s actions did not qualify as “ overt ” racism .
( Alexander is conscientious in his efforts to , as the community likes to put it , “ update his priors , ” and , since that post , he has not minced words about the President . )
In 2017 , Alexander identified himself as a member of the “ hereditarian left , ” defined as the ability to believe , on the one hand , that genetic differences play a determining role in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that we ought to act as though they don ’ t .
Often nothing at all appears to turn on such arguments .
The rationalists regularly fail to reckon with power as it is practiced , or history as it has been experienced , and they indulge themselves in such contests with the freedom of those who have largely escaped discrimination .
… Gideon Lewis-Kraus is a staff writer at The New Yorker .
He is the author of the memoir “ A Sense of Direction ” and the Kindle Single “ @ @ @ @

From the New Yorker:
Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media How a controversial rationalist blogger became a mascot and martyr in a struggle against the New York Times. By Gideon Lewis-Kraus July 9, 2020 On June 22nd, visitors to Slate Star Codex, a long-standing blog of considerable influence, discovered that the site’s cerulean banner and graying WordPress design scheme had been superseded by a barren white layout. In the place of its usual catalogue of several million words of fiction, book reviews, essays, and miscellanea, as well as at least as voluminous an archive of reader commentary, was a single post of atypical brevity. “So,” it began, “I kind of deleted the blog. Sorry. Here’s my explanation.” The farewell post was attributed, like virtually all of the blog’s entries since its inception, in 2013, to Scott Alexander, the pseudonym of a Bay Area psychiatrist—the title “Slate Star Codex” is an imperfect anagram of the alias—and it put forth a rationale for this online self-immolation. “Last week I talked to a New York Times technology reporter who was planning to write a story on Slate Star Codex,” the post continued. “He told me it would be a mostly positive piece about how we were an interesting gathering place for people in tech, and how we were ahead of the curve on some aspects of the coronavirus situation.” … The final post went on, “It probably would have been a very nice article. Unfortunately, he told me he had discovered my real name and would reveal it in the article, ie doxx me.” Alexander explained that he has a variety of reasons to prefer that his real name, which can be ascertained with minimal investigation, be left out of the paper of record. As a psychiatrist, he suspects that his relationships with his patients could be compromised if they were made aware of his “personal” blog, which gets six hundred thousand monthly page views.
That’s less than iSteve, although SSC’s pages are likely considerably longer.
… Many rationalist exchanges involve lively if donnish arguments about abstruse thought experiments; the most famous, and funniest, example, from LessWrong, led inexorably to the conclusion that anyone who read the post and did not immediately set to work to create a superintelligent A.I. would one day be subject to its torture. Others reflect a near-pathological commitment to the reinvention of the wheel, using the language of game theory to explain, with mathematical rigor, some fact of social life that anyone trained in the humanities would likely accept as a given. A minority address issues that are contentious and at times offensive. These conversations, about race and genetic or biological differences between the sexes, have rightfully drawn criticism from outsiders. Rationalists usually point out that these debates represent a tiny fraction of the community’s total activity, and that they are overrepresented in the comments section of S.C.C. by a small but loud and persistent cohort—one that includes, for example, Steve Sailer, a peddler of “scientific racism.” Alexander has long fretted over the likelihood that the presence of these fringe figures could tarnish the reputation of the blog and its community. In late 2013, he published “The Anti-Reactionary FAQ,” a thirty-thousand-word post now regarded as one of his first major contributions to the rationalist canon. The post describes the world view of a group, centered around a figure called Curtis Yarvin, also known as Mencius Moldbug, whose “neoreactionary” views—including an open desire for the restoration of feudalism and racial hierarchy—contributed to the intellectual normalization of what became known as the alt-right. Alexander could have banned neoreactionaries from his comments section, but, on the basis of the view that vile ideas should be countenanced and refuted rather than left to accrue the status of forbidden knowledge, he took their arguments seriously and at almost comical length—even at the risk that he might lend them legitimacy. Ultimately, he circumscribed or curtailed certain “culture war” threads. Still, the rationalists’ general willingness to pursue orderly exchanges on objectionable topics, often with monstrous people, remains not only a point of pride but a constitutive part of the subculture’s self-understanding.
Monstrous, monstrous, I tell you!
They have given safe harbor to some genuinely egregious ideas, and controversial opinions have not been limited to the comments. It was widely surmised within the S.S.C. community, for example, that the arguments in the engineer James Damore’s infamous Google memo, for which he was fired, were drawn directly from an S.S.C. post in which Alexander explored and upheld research into innate biological differences between men and women. (As it turned out, the Damore memo was written before the post, but there was a noticeable overlap between them.) It remains possible that Alexander vaporized his blog not because he thought it would force Metz’s hand but because he feared that a Times reporter wouldn’t have to poke around for very long to turn up a creditable reason for negative coverage. One of Alexander’s particularly controversial posts, written shortly after Donald Trump’s election, took up the question of whether it was accurate to call the President’s racism “overt.” Alexander, despite his unambiguous distaste for the President and endorsement (in swing states) of Hillary Clinton, presented evidence for the semantic claim that Trump’s actions did not qualify as “overt” racism. (Alexander is conscientious in his efforts to, as the community likes to put it, “update his priors,” and, since that post, he has not minced words about the President.) In 2017, Alexander identified himself as a member of the “hereditarian left,” defined as the ability to believe, on the one hand, that genetic differences play a determining role in human affairs and, on the other, that we ought to act as though they don’t. Often nothing at all appears to turn on such arguments. The rationalists regularly fail to reckon with power as it is practiced, or history as it has been experienced
Did I mention redlining?
, and they indulge themselves in such contests with the freedom of those who have largely escaped discrimination. … Gideon Lewis-Kraus is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of the memoir “A Sense of Direction” and the Kindle Single “No Exit.”
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