vdare--2020-10-12--What Sort Of Man Was Columbus?

What Sort Of Man Was Columbus?

See , earlier : Columbus Day 2020 : “ The Columbian Exchange ” —Columbus Did Nothing Wrong , The Geneva Convention Says So !
What sort of man was Christopher Columbus ?
Why did he cross the Atlantic and what did he do in the New World ?
The fashion is to despise him as a greedy , genocidal racist and slave driver , but Prof. Carol Delaney of Brown University refutes these charges [ Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem , Free Press , 2012 ] .
His motives were almost entirely—even fanatically—Christian , and he was kind to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evil reputation he has acquired .
As Prof. Delaney explains , it is impossible to understand Columbus without understanding what committed Catholics thought in the 15th century .
Most believed Christianity was the one true faith and that unbelievers went to hell .
Evangelism was a duty .
Many Christians were millenarians and believed that the End Times and the return of Christ—as described in Revelation—were coming soon .
A series of catastrophes intensified this belief and prompted Christians to action .
According to Revelation , Christ could not return until Jerusalem was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Holy Land in 1099 was a gigantic step forward , but its loss to Saladin in 1187 shocked all Christendom .
Then in 1347 , the Black Plague killed an estimated 25 million Europeans and up to three-quarters of the people in parts of Italy and Spain .
Another sign of the coming End Times was the Great Schism of 1378 to 1417 , during which there were two competing Popes , but even worse was the fall of the Constantinople—the Eastern capital of Christianity—to the Turks in 1453 .
That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; he grew up at a time when Catholics were desperately trying to understand how God could have permitted these horrors—loss of Jerusalem , plague , schism , fall of Constantinople—and were determined to win back lost ground .
Columbus ’ most fervent wish his entire life was to recapture the holy city of Jerusalem .
Prof. Delaney explains that Columbus was convinced he could help retake the Holy Land by sailing to China across the Atlantic .
First , he would bring back gold , which was supposed to be plentiful in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new crusade .
Second , he could avoid the Silk Road land route to China , which was blocked after the fall of Constantinople .
Third , he would meet the Chinese ruler , the Great Khan , convert him to Christianity , and persuade the Christian Chinese to attack from the East and help liberate Jerusalem .
Fantastic as it now sounds , the idea of enlisting the Chinese to help bring on the Second Coming dated back to the time of Marco Polo and the publication of his Travels in 1300 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Travels and made many notes in the margins .
It was unusual for lay people to read the Bible , but Columbus read it diligently .
His contemporaries wrote of his passionate Christianity , and he was strongly influenced by the Franciscans , who thought Christians should not wait passively for the End Times but work to bring them on .
Columbus also took very seriously the duty to convert heathen peoples and save their souls .
Columbus was an Italian who grew up in Genoa .
He was nine years old when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crusade , a sight that must have made a deep impression .
When he was 14 , he was apprenticed to the sea , and he got his first taste of the Atlantic on a voyage to England in 1476 when he was 25 .
In 1481 or ’ 82 , he sailed to what is now Ghana , and stopped in the Canary Islands .
He was a gifted navigator , with a widely admired talent for dead reckoning ( navigation without instruments ) .
Columbus didn ’ t care which Christian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He met with King João II of Portugal , but the Portuguese were exploring the route around Africa , and were not interested .
Columbus approached the British and the French , but it was the Spanish under Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand who showed the most interest .
Still , it took 13 years from Columbus ’ first audience with the queen until his first voyage in 1492 .
She put him off until the Moors were finally driven out of Spain , but even after the Reconquista , she hesitated .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s advisors tried to dissuade her , but she finally agreed to pay for three small ships and a crew of 90 .
Columbus kept a detailed diary of which only abridged versions survive , but they still tell us a great deal .
After 31 days of sailing , so many of the crew insisted on turning back that Columbus promised that if they didn ’ t sight land in three days , he would give up and return to Spain .
Two days later , the ships made landfall on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bahamas .
There , Columbus found naked people , whom he thought handsome and intelligent .
He gave them trade trinkets “ in which they took so much pleasure and became so much our friends that it was a marvel.
” Columbus believed he was in the Indies , so he called the Arawaks Indios , or Indians .
The Arawaks did not appear to have any kind of religion , and since they would not have to unlearn a pagan faith , Columbus thought they could be easily converted to Christianity .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ They should be treated courteously because they are the best and most gentle people in the world , and especially , because I have much hope in Our Lord that Your Highnesses will make all of them Christian.
” Columbus had much more trouble with his own men .
As the ships sailed from island to island , the natives were always gentle , but some ran away , and Columbus had to restrain his men from looting .
In his diary , he wrote of his dissatisfaction with his men , especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believe that in the world there are no better people or a better land .
They love their neighbors as themselves , and they have the sweetest speech in the world and they are gentle and always laughing.
” Columbus was entranced by the beauty of the islands , the vegetation , the birds and fishes .
The natives slept in hammocks , which were then unknown in Europe , and soon all European sailors were sleeping in hammocks rather than on deck .
One of his captains , Martin Pinzon , disappeared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
When he rejoined the fleet , Columbus learned his crew had captured men and women ; he ordered them freed and returned .
Columbus kept hoping to find someone who could lead him to the Great Khan so he could present letters of greeting from Ferdinand and Isabella and teach him Christianity .
Columbus persuaded six Arawaks to go back to Spain with him ; they would prove he had reached India , and he wanted them to learn Spanish and Christianity so they could come back as missionaries .
The Santa @ @ @ @ @ @ @ day .
The crew set up a camp called Navidad , and Columbus left behind 40 men with instructions to be kind to the Indians .
On the way back , the ships stopped at what is now the Dominican Republic and found a war-like tribe , very different from the Arawaks .
In their first skirmish with Indians , his crew wounded several men with swords and crossbows .
The Arawaks told Columbus these “ Caribs ” were cannibals and took slaves .
Columbus ’ ships sailed back across the Atlantic and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days after they had initially set out .
Columbus was a hero , and proudly presented his Indians to the queen , along with several gold pieces he had found .
He promised her as many slaves as she might want , but only from among the man-eating Caribs .
This was in accordance with Papal rules that permitted slavery only of savages who resisted Christianity and practiced vile habits such as sodomy or cannibalism .
Isabella never had much interest in slaves ; she wanted Indians converted where they were .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : 17 ships and 1,200 men .
They were to build a trading station for business with the Chinese , and Columbus was to receive one tenth of the profits .
The queen commanded the settlers to treat the Indians “ very well and lovingly.
” When the fleet returned to Navidad , Columbus found everyone dead .
Friendly Indians told him the men had defied his orders and gone raping and looting .
This angered a neighboring chief who attacked and slaughtered them .
Columbus , who had had only good relations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , well aware that the Spaniards could have deserved what they got , but many of the newcomers mistrusted the Indians and wanted revenge .
Columbus managed to restrain them , and the fleet found a different site on Hispaniola for a new settlement .
Columbus was a genius at sea , but Prof. Delaney writes that he was a bad administrator .
He thought men of different classes could work well together , but the high-ranking hidalgos who had come on the voyage refused to work and expected easy riches .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the local food—which Columbus and others enjoyed—and wrote letters back to Spain complaining about Columbus .
When Columbus went on further voyages of discovery looking for gold and the Khan , men he left behind went into the interior to rape and plunder .
Columbus put his brother Bartholomew in charge of the settlement and went back to Spain .
He arrived dressed in the coarse , brown habit of a Franciscan , which he wore for the rest of his life .
Prof. Delaney suspects this was a reaction to the greed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thought the settlers were bad missionaries .
When he saw the queen , he asked for better friars than the ones she had sent on the second voyage .
They thought baptism was enough to turn anyone Christian , but Columbus thought Indians should get careful instruction in the faith .
For the rest of his life , he stressed the importance of missionaries who could speak Indian languages .
Columbus was in Spain for two years between his second and third voyages , and this time set out with just 330 people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Prof. Delaney says it is not clear whether they were wives , servants , or prostitutes who were supposed to keep the Spaniards from raping Indians .
When Columbus got back to the settlement , he found that dissidents had up risen up against Bartholomew ’ s strict government .
Columbus did his best to end what was a low-level civil war and restore order .
He was furious at continuing reports of Spaniards who had mistreated Indians , and hanged the worst offenders .
He never permitted enslavement of Indians but , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Indians to be paid in crops or in gold .
Some hidalgos defied Columbus ’ authority , so he wrote to the queen , asking her to send an arbitrator to back up his authority .
Prof. Delaney writes that it is now known why Isabella chose Francisco de Bobadilla , whose mind was already poisoned against Columbus by men who had returned to Spain .
He sided with the insurgents and sent Columbus back to Spain in chains .
The settlers far preferred Bobadilla , who let them exploit and even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his return , but he kept the chains for the rest of his life as a reminder of his humiliation .
Christopher Columbus chained on his ship , pl .
33 , after p. 474 ( vol .
2 ) , Credit : Album / quintlox While in Spain , Columbus wrote what is called the Book of Prophecies , a long theological justification of his life and travels .
He saw his discoveries as an important part of a great cosmological drama that was to culminate in the End Times .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voyages were divinely inspired and fulfilled Biblical prophecy .
It explains why he was so conscious of the meaning of his first name , Christopher , which means the Christ-bearer .
He believed he was carrying Christ to the East .
Prof. Delaney notes that most Columbus scholars are shocked by the Book of Prophecies and try to ignore it .
Whatever they think of him , they don ’ t like to think he was a religious nut , and the book was not translated into English until 1992 .
It is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his motives .
Columbus set out on his last voyage in 1502 .
He had orders only to explore ; the colonies had several thousand inhabitants , and the queen took administration out of his hands .
He made more discoveries , especially in Central America , but suffered a series of mishaps that included a shipwreck that left him marooned on Jamaica for a year and five days .
Shortly after his return to Spain , Isabella died .
Ferdinand never had much faith in Columbus and financed no more voyages .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ obscurity but never regained anything like the glory he won after his first voyage .
“ The last moments of Christopher Columbus , ” by Claude Jacquand .
Credit : Album / Fine Art Images Prof. Delaney is baffled by Columbus ’ bad reputation .
She notes that , by contrast , Bartolomé de Las Casas—who knew and admired Columbus—is now considered a hero because he defended the rights of Indians at the Valladolid debate of 1550–1551 .
Las Casas insisted that Indians be recognized as free men with the same rights as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Las Casas is remembered only for his defense of the Indian ; what is forgotten is that he owned slaves and endorsed and operated encomiendas [ plantations on which Indians were serfs ] while Columbus , who never owned slaves , is reviled and blamed for everything that went wrong in the Indies.
” Academics may consider Las Casas a humanitarian , but the people now pulling down statues of Columbus have probably never heard of him .
Nor would they care if someone told them Columbus was kind to Indians and hanged @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crime is to have come here ; he brought white people to the New World .
He used to be honored for this , but today , that makes him a villain .
Jared Taylor [ Email him ] is the editor of American Renaissance .
You can follow him on Parler and Gab .

See, earlier: Columbus Day 2020: “The Columbian Exchange”—Columbus Did Nothing Wrong, The Geneva Convention Says So!
Crossposted from American Renaissance.
What sort of man was Christopher Columbus? Why did he cross the Atlantic and what did he do in the New World? The fashion is to despise him as a greedy, genocidal racist and slave driver, but Prof. Carol Delaney of Brown University refutes these charges [Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem, Free Press, 2012]. His motives were almost entirely—even fanatically—Christian, and he was kind to Indians. She is mystified by the evil reputation he has acquired.
As Prof. Delaney explains, it is impossible to understand Columbus without understanding what committed Catholics thought in the 15th century. Most believed Christianity was the one true faith and that unbelievers went to hell. Evangelism was a duty. Many Christians were millenarians and believed that the End Times and the return of Christ—as described in Revelation—were coming soon. A series of catastrophes intensified this belief and prompted Christians to action.
According to Revelation, Christ could not return until Jerusalem was in Christian hands. The Crusader conquest of the Holy Land in 1099 was a gigantic step forward, but its loss to Saladin in 1187 shocked all Christendom. Then in 1347, the Black Plague killed an estimated 25 million Europeans and up to three-quarters of the people in parts of Italy and Spain. Another sign of the coming End Times was the Great Schism of 1378 to 1417, during which there were two competing Popes, but even worse was the fall of the Constantinople—the Eastern capital of Christianity—to the Turks in 1453. That year, Columbus was two years old; he grew up at a time when Catholics were desperately trying to understand how God could have permitted these horrors—loss of Jerusalem, plague, schism, fall of Constantinople—and were determined to win back lost ground. Columbus’ most fervent wish his entire life was to recapture the holy city of Jerusalem.
Prof. Delaney explains that Columbus was convinced he could help retake the Holy Land by sailing to China across the Atlantic. First, he would bring back gold, which was supposed to be plentiful in China, and this would finance a new crusade. Second, he could avoid the Silk Road land route to China, which was blocked after the fall of Constantinople. Third, he would meet the Chinese ruler, the Great Khan, convert him to Christianity, and persuade the Christian Chinese to attack from the East and help liberate Jerusalem. Fantastic as it now sounds, the idea of enlisting the Chinese to help bring on the Second Coming dated back to the time of Marco Polo and the publication of his Travels in 1300. Columbus owned a copy of the Travels and made many notes in the margins.
It was unusual for lay people to read the Bible, but Columbus read it diligently. His contemporaries wrote of his passionate Christianity, and he was strongly influenced by the Franciscans, who thought Christians should not wait passively for the End Times but work to bring them on. Columbus also took very seriously the duty to convert heathen peoples and save their souls.
Before the voyage
Columbus was an Italian who grew up in Genoa. He was nine years old when ships sailed from Genoa on a failed crusade, a sight that must have made a deep impression. When he was 14, he was apprenticed to the sea, and he got his first taste of the Atlantic on a voyage to England in 1476 when he was 25. In 1481 or ’82, he sailed to what is now Ghana, and stopped in the Canary Islands. He was a gifted navigator, with a widely admired talent for dead reckoning (navigation without instruments).
Columbus didn’t care which Christian sovereign financed his voyage to China. He met with King João II of Portugal, but the Portuguese were exploring the route around Africa, and were not interested. Columbus approached the British and the French, but it was the Spanish under Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand who showed the most interest. Still, it took 13 years from Columbus’ first audience with the queen until his first voyage in 1492. She put him off until the Moors were finally driven out of Spain, but even after the Reconquista, she hesitated. Ferdinand always doubted Columbus, and Isabella’s advisors tried to dissuade her, but she finally agreed to pay for three small ships and a crew of 90.
Discovery
Columbus kept a detailed diary of which only abridged versions survive, but they still tell us a great deal. After 31 days of sailing, so many of the crew insisted on turning back that Columbus promised that if they didn’t sight land in three days, he would give up and return to Spain. Two days later, the ships made landfall on what is now Watling Island in the Bahamas. There, Columbus found naked people, whom he thought handsome and intelligent. He gave them trade trinkets “in which they took so much pleasure and became so much our friends that it was a marvel.” Columbus believed he was in the Indies, so he called the Arawaks Indios, or Indians.
The Arawaks did not appear to have any kind of religion, and since they would not have to unlearn a pagan faith, Columbus thought they could be easily converted to Christianity. He wrote to his patrons: “They should be treated courteously because they are the best and most gentle people in the world, and especially, because I have much hope in Our Lord that Your Highnesses will make all of them Christian.”
Columbus had much more trouble with his own men. As the ships sailed from island to island, the natives were always gentle, but some ran away, and Columbus had to restrain his men from looting. In his diary, he wrote of his dissatisfaction with his men, especially compared to the natives: “I believe that in the world there are no better people or a better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and they have the sweetest speech in the world and they are gentle and always laughing.” Columbus was entranced by the beauty of the islands, the vegetation, the birds and fishes. The natives slept in hammocks, which were then unknown in Europe, and soon all European sailors were sleeping in hammocks rather than on deck.
“First Tribute to Christopher Columbus,” José Garnelo, 1892. Credit: Album / Oronoz
One of his captains, Martin Pinzon, disappeared for six weeks, looking for gold. When he rejoined the fleet, Columbus learned his crew had captured men and women; he ordered them freed and returned. Columbus kept hoping to find someone who could lead him to the Great Khan so he could present letters of greeting from Ferdinand and Isabella and teach him Christianity. Columbus persuaded six Arawaks to go back to Spain with him; they would prove he had reached India, and he wanted them to learn Spanish and Christianity so they could come back as missionaries.
The Santa Maria grounded and was wrecked on Christmas day. The crew set up a camp called Navidad, and Columbus left behind 40 men with instructions to be kind to the Indians. On the way back, the ships stopped at what is now the Dominican Republic and found a war-like tribe, very different from the Arawaks. In their first skirmish with Indians, his crew wounded several men with swords and crossbows. The Arawaks told Columbus these “Caribs” were cannibals and took slaves.
Columbus’ ships sailed back across the Atlantic and limped into port seven months and 11 days after they had initially set out. Columbus was a hero, and proudly presented his Indians to the queen, along with several gold pieces he had found. He promised her as many slaves as she might want, but only from among the man-eating Caribs. This was in accordance with Papal rules that permitted slavery only of savages who resisted Christianity and practiced vile habits such as sodomy or cannibalism. Isabella never had much interest in slaves; she wanted Indians converted where they were.
The queen financed a much larger second voyage: 17 ships and 1,200 men. They were to build a trading station for business with the Chinese, and Columbus was to receive one tenth of the profits. The queen commanded the settlers to treat the Indians “very well and lovingly.”
When the fleet returned to Navidad, Columbus found everyone dead. Friendly Indians told him the men had defied his orders and gone raping and looting. This angered a neighboring chief who attacked and slaughtered them. Columbus, who had had only good relations with these Indians, believed this account, well aware that the Spaniards could have deserved what they got, but many of the newcomers mistrusted the Indians and wanted revenge. Columbus managed to restrain them, and the fleet found a different site on Hispaniola for a new settlement.
Failure
Columbus was a genius at sea, but Prof. Delaney writes that he was a bad administrator. He thought men of different classes could work well together, but the high-ranking hidalgos who had come on the voyage refused to work and expected easy riches. They would not farm, would not eat the local food—which Columbus and others enjoyed—and wrote letters back to Spain complaining about Columbus. When Columbus went on further voyages of discovery looking for gold and the Khan, men he left behind went into the interior to rape and plunder.
Columbus put his brother Bartholomew in charge of the settlement and went back to Spain. He arrived dressed in the coarse, brown habit of a Franciscan, which he wore for the rest of his life. Prof. Delaney suspects this was a reaction to the greed and cruelty of the Spanish. Columbus thought the settlers were bad missionaries. When he saw the queen, he asked for better friars than the ones she had sent on the second voyage. They thought baptism was enough to turn anyone Christian, but Columbus thought Indians should get careful instruction in the faith. For the rest of his life, he stressed the importance of missionaries who could speak Indian languages.
Columbus was in Spain for two years between his second and third voyages, and this time set out with just 330 people, of which 30 were women. Prof. Delaney says it is not clear whether they were wives, servants, or prostitutes who were supposed to keep the Spaniards from raping Indians. When Columbus got back to the settlement, he found that dissidents had up risen up against Bartholomew’s strict government. Columbus did his best to end what was a low-level civil war and restore order. He was furious at continuing reports of Spaniards who had mistreated Indians, and hanged the worst offenders. He never permitted enslavement of Indians but, under pressure, he imposed a tax on Indians to be paid in crops or in gold.
Some hidalgos defied Columbus’ authority, so he wrote to the queen, asking her to send an arbitrator to back up his authority. Prof. Delaney writes that it is now known why Isabella chose Francisco de Bobadilla, whose mind was already poisoned against Columbus by men who had returned to Spain. He sided with the insurgents and sent Columbus back to Spain in chains. The settlers far preferred Bobadilla, who let them exploit and even murder Indians. Isabella freed Columbus after his return, but he kept the chains for the rest of his life as a reminder of his humiliation.
Christopher Columbus chained on his ship, pl. 33, after p. 474 (vol. 2), Credit: Album / quintlox
While in Spain, Columbus wrote what is called the Book of Prophecies, a long theological justification of his life and travels. He saw his discoveries as an important part of a great cosmological drama that was to culminate in the End Times. The book quotes scripture to claim that his voyages were divinely inspired and fulfilled Biblical prophecy. It explains why he was so conscious of the meaning of his first name, Christopher, which means the Christ-bearer. He believed he was carrying Christ to the East.
Prof. Delaney notes that most Columbus scholars are shocked by the Book of Prophecies and try to ignore it. Whatever they think of him, they don’t like to think he was a religious nut, and the book was not translated into English until 1992. It is, however, a clear statement of his motives.
Columbus set out on his last voyage in 1502. He had orders only to explore; the colonies had several thousand inhabitants, and the queen took administration out of his hands. He made more discoveries, especially in Central America, but suffered a series of mishaps that included a shipwreck that left him marooned on Jamaica for a year and five days.
Shortly after his return to Spain, Isabella died. Ferdinand never had much faith in Columbus and financed no more voyages. Columbus did not live in poverty or obscurity but never regained anything like the glory he won after his first voyage.
“The last moments of Christopher Columbus,” by Claude Jacquand. Credit: Album / Fine Art Images
Prof. Delaney is baffled by Columbus’ bad reputation. She notes that, by contrast, Bartolomé de Las Casas—who knew and admired Columbus—is now considered a hero because he defended the rights of Indians at the Valladolid debate of 1550–1551. Las Casas insisted that Indians be recognized as free men with the same rights as Spaniards. Prof. Delaney writes: “Las Casas is remembered only for his defense of the Indian; what is forgotten is that he owned slaves and endorsed and operated encomiendas [plantations on which Indians were serfs] while Columbus, who never owned slaves, is reviled and blamed for everything that went wrong in the Indies.”
Academics may consider Las Casas a humanitarian, but the people now pulling down statues of Columbus have probably never heard of him. Nor would they care if someone told them Columbus was kind to Indians and hanged Spaniards who mistreated them. Columbus’ crime is to have come here; he brought white people to the New World. He used to be honored for this, but today, that makes him a villain.
Jared Taylor [Email him] is the editor of American Renaissance. You can follow him on Parler and Gab.


vdare--2020-10-11--The Woke Are Reversing The Compartmentalization Of Science From Faith

Yeah , well , that was then , but this is now .
From the Los Angeles Times : … The machine in Strevens ’ s title has scientists pursuing their work relentlessly while also abiding by certain rules of the game , allowing even the most vehement partisans to talk with one another .
So modern science began , accruing its enormous power through what Strevens calls “ the iron rule of explanation , ” requiring scientists to settle arguments by empirical testing , imposing on them a common language “ regardless of their intellectual predilections , cultural biases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believe whatever they want to believe , and their individual modes of reasoning can be creative and even wild , but in order to communicate with one another , in scientific journals , they have to abide by this rule .
The motto of England ’ s Royal Society , founded in 1660 , is “ Nullius in verba ” : “ Take nobody ’ s word for it.
” If you admire , say , Francis Galton for inventing the silent dog whistle , the correlation coefficient , the weather map , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fingerprints in criminal investigations , that means you favor eugenics as well .
In fact , we aren ’ t so sure about dog whistles , correlations , and criminal investigations either .
But now we have a rising new religion , Wokeness , that tolerates no dissent .
How dare you compartmentalize your view of scientists ?
This is a pretty standard explanation : after the Thirty Years War of 1618–1648 , Europeans were sick of wars of religion , so they tried to be more tolerant of each other ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ common ground , such as science , in which they could productively work together .
… According to “ The Knowledge Machine , ” it took a cataclysm to disrupt the longstanding way of looking at the world in terms of an integrated whole .
The Thirty Years ’ War in Europe — which started over religion and ended , after killing millions , with a system of nation-states — made compartmentalization look good .
Religious identity would be private ; political identity would be public .
Not that this partition was complete @ @ @ @ @ @ @ says it opened up the previously unfathomable possibility of sequestering science .
The timing also happened to coincide with the life of Isaac Newton , who became known for his groundbreaking work in mathematics and physics .
Even though Newton was an ardent alchemist with a side interest in biblical prophecy , he supported his scientific findings with empirical inquiry ; he was , Strevens argues , “ a natural intellectual compartmentalizer ” who arrived at a fortuitous time .
… But human civilization has existed for millenniums , and modern science — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or so-called natural philosophy — has only been around for a few hundred years .
What took so long ?
… “ The Knowledge Machine , ” a provocative and fascinating book by the philosopher Michael Strevens that mostly enthralled me , even as a couple of parts set my teeth on edge .
Modern Science Didn ’ t Appear Until the 17th Century .
What Took So Long ?
By Jennifer Szalai Oct. 7 , 2020 From a New York Times book review that provides a useful way to think about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” of science from the Woke faith ( “ All races and genders are created equal , but some are more equal than others ” ) that is threatening scientists and thus science .
At first blush , the California Institute of Technology seemed to respond promptly and well to the uproar sparked this summer over its apparent complicity with the racist eugenics movement of a century ago .
Caltech , one of the nation ’ s leading scientific research institutions , took steps to increase diversity in its undergraduate and graduate programs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ levels from faculty appointments to undergrads , and improve its institutional response to discriminatory behavior .
The Pasadena university also established a task force to examine its policies on naming campus buildings .
This was aimed directly at the disclosure that its venerated former president , Robert A. Millikan , had been an officer of the pro-eugenics Human Betterment Foundation , which promoted forced sterilization and racial segregation .
A petition seeking to remove the name of Millikan and others associated with the foundation from campus buildings and programs has been signed by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ according to its organizer , Michael Chwe , a UCLA faculty member and Caltech alumnus .
But Caltech ’ s effort to come to terms with racism in its past has run into a snag .
The so-called Naming Task Force has been rattled by the resignation of one of its members , Sarah Sam .
She says she is black .
A doctoral student in neurobiology who is president of Black Scientists and Engineers of Caltech , Sam was the only Black student on the 15-member task force , which comprises faculty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sam announced her resignation on Sept. 28 with a broadside in which she asserted that “ the membership of this committee neither has the background nor is willing to address institutional racism at Caltech.
” She suggested that some committee members seemed intent on minimizing the impact of eugenics and the Human Betterment Foundation on the victims of sterilization .
Some even tried to rationalize eugenics as standard intellectual thinking in Millikan ’ s era and compulsory sterilization as “ an artifact of limited scientific understanding during the early 20th century , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ several committee members are eugenics apologists , ” though she didn ’ t identify them .
“ Many of our meetings have centered around the question , ‘ To what extent is eugenics wrong/racist ?
’ ” — a question that one would think had long been settled by the eugenics movement ’ s role in racial policies of the Nazi regime in Germany .
… Few figures have as towering a reputation at their academic institutions as Robert A. Millikan does at Caltech .
Millikan , who died in 1953 , served @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years , longer than anyone else .
A Nobel laureate in physics , Millikan helped establish the school ’ s worldwide reputation .
During his lifetime , he was also a leading public intellectual ; his name still adorns schools and streets around the Southland .
… But archival research , much of it associated with the renaming issue , points to overt racism on Millikan ’ s part .
In a speech he delivered in 1924 , four years into his tenure as Caltech ’ s president , he stated that “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Nordic civilization .
The problem of the relations of our race to the Asiatic races is the big race problem of the future .
California must inevitably contribute largely to the solution of that problem.
” In a 1951 letter written during a visit to Mississippi , he told his wife , Greta : “ More than half of the population in this state is made up of negroes — a very serious situation .
For it means that under universal suffrage they could control the state now — an unthinkable disaster @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they now are.
” … Millikan wrote that in a private letter to his wife , so who knows what even more horrible thoughts he might have been thinking inside his own head but didn ’ t dare express ?
How can such a possibility be tolerated ?
Of course , that might have something to do with the Test Score gap .
You can always count on the Unitarian Universalists to have your back when you get into a jam and need a friend .
It ’ s almost as if the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grad student understand better than her that the history of science is testimony to the wisdom of not burning scientists at the stake when they disagree with you on questions of religious faith .
You may find their opinions offensive , but the principle of compartmentalization means you are supposed to set your feelings aside and deal with questions of science rather than with your personal religion of race .
It ’ s not like they want Caltech to cancel the Linus Pauling lectures just because he was a fellow traveler and eugenicist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and we can forgive Pauling ’ s eugenics advocacy because he was a Person of Leftness .
They just want to cancel the scientists they personally hate , not the ones they don ’ t personally hate .
Individuals of the preferred race , gender , ethnicity , etc .
( a.k.a.
, People of Power ) will provide you with lists of who they hate at the appropriate times .

Yeah, well, that was then, but this is now. From the Los Angeles Times:
… The machine in Strevens’s title has scientists pursuing their work relentlessly while also abiding by certain rules of the game, allowing even the most vehement partisans to talk with one another.
So modern science began, accruing its enormous power through what Strevens calls “the iron rule of explanation,” requiring scientists to settle arguments by empirical testing, imposing on them a common language “regardless of their intellectual predilections, cultural biases or narrow ambitions.” Individual scientists can believe whatever they want to believe, and their individual modes of reasoning can be creative and even wild, but in order to communicate with one another, in scientific journals, they have to abide by this rule. The motto of England’s Royal Society, founded in 1660, is “Nullius in verba”: “Take nobody’s word for it.”
If you admire, say, Francis Galton for inventing the silent dog whistle, the correlation coefficient, the weather map, and the first effective way to use fingerprints in criminal investigations, that means you favor eugenics as well. In fact, we aren’t so sure about dog whistles, correlations, and criminal investigations either.
But now we have a rising new religion, Wokeness, that tolerates no dissent. How dare you compartmentalize your view of scientists?
This is a pretty standard explanation: after the Thirty Years War of 1618–1648, Europeans were sick of wars of religion, so they tried to be more tolerant of each other’s views on faith and instead look for common ground, such as science, in which they could productively work together.
… According to “The Knowledge Machine,” it took a cataclysm to disrupt the longstanding way of looking at the world in terms of an integrated whole. The Thirty Years’ War in Europe — which started over religion and ended, after killing millions, with a system of nation-states — made compartmentalization look good. Religious identity would be private; political identity would be public. Not that this partition was complete in the 17th century, but Strevens says it opened up the previously unfathomable possibility of sequestering science. The timing also happened to coincide with the life of Isaac Newton, who became known for his groundbreaking work in mathematics and physics. Even though Newton was an ardent alchemist with a side interest in biblical prophecy, he supported his scientific findings with empirical inquiry; he was, Strevens argues, “a natural intellectual compartmentalizer” who arrived at a fortuitous time.
… But human civilization has existed for millenniums, and modern science — as distinct from ancient and medieval science, or so-called natural philosophy — has only been around for a few hundred years. What took so long?
… “The Knowledge Machine,” a provocative and fascinating book by the philosopher Michael Strevens that mostly enthralled me, even as a couple of parts set my teeth on edge.
Modern Science Didn’t Appear Until the 17th Century. What Took So Long? By Jennifer Szalai Oct. 7, 2020
From a New York Times book review that provides a useful way to think about the Great Awokening’s “de-compartmentalization” of science from the Woke faith (“All races and genders are created equal, but some are more equal than others”) that is threatening scientists and thus science.
Column: Caltech’s effort to confront its racist past hits a snag By MICHAEL HILTZIK BUSINESS COLUMNIST
OCT. 7, 202012:55 PM At first blush, the California Institute of Technology seemed to respond promptly and well to the uproar sparked this summer over its apparent complicity with the racist eugenics movement of a century ago. Caltech, one of the nation’s leading scientific research institutions, took steps to increase diversity in its undergraduate and graduate programs, publish data on diversity at all levels from faculty appointments to undergrads, and improve its institutional response to discriminatory behavior. The Pasadena university also established a task force to examine its policies on naming campus buildings. This was aimed directly at the disclosure that its venerated former president, Robert A. Millikan, had been an officer of the pro-eugenics Human Betterment Foundation, which promoted forced sterilization and racial segregation. A petition seeking to remove the name of Millikan and others associated with the foundation from campus buildings and programs has been signed by 1,083 members of the Caltech community, according to its organizer, Michael Chwe, a UCLA faculty member and Caltech alumnus. But Caltech’s effort to come to terms with racism in its past has run into a snag. The so-called Naming Task Force has been rattled by the resignation of one of its members, Sarah Sam.
She says she is black.
A doctoral student in neurobiology who is president of Black Scientists and Engineers of Caltech, Sam was the only Black student on the 15-member task force, which comprises faculty, alumni, students and administrators. Sam announced her resignation on Sept. 28 with a broadside in which she asserted that “the membership of this committee neither has the background nor is willing to address institutional racism at Caltech.” She suggested that some committee members seemed intent on minimizing the impact of eugenics and the Human Betterment Foundation on the victims of sterilization. Some even tried to rationalize eugenics as standard intellectual thinking in Millikan’s era and compulsory sterilization as “an artifact of limited scientific understanding during the early 20th century,” she said. Sam alleged that “several committee members are eugenics apologists,” though she didn’t identify them. “Many of our meetings have centered around the question, ‘To what extent is eugenics wrong/racist?’” — a question that one would think had long been settled by the eugenics movement’s role in racial policies of the Nazi regime in Germany. … Few figures have as towering a reputation at their academic institutions as Robert A. Millikan does at Caltech. Millikan, who died in 1953, served as Caltech’s president for 24 years, longer than anyone else. A Nobel laureate in physics, Millikan helped establish the school’s worldwide reputation. During his lifetime, he was also a leading public intellectual; his name still adorns schools and streets around the Southland. … But archival research, much of it associated with the renaming issue, points to overt racism on Millikan’s part. In a speech he delivered in 1924, four years into his tenure as Caltech’s president, he stated that “California is today … the westernmost outpost of Nordic civilization. The problem of the relations of our race to the Asiatic races is the big race problem of the future. California must inevitably contribute largely to the solution of that problem.” In a 1951 letter written during a visit to Mississippi, he told his wife, Greta: “More than half of the population in this state is made up of negroes — a very serious situation. For it means that under universal suffrage they could control the state now — an unthinkable disaster in view of the sort of people they now are.” …
Millikan wrote that in a private letter to his wife, so who knows what even more horrible thoughts he might have been thinking inside his own head but didn’t dare express? How can such a possibility be tolerated?
Caltech hasn’t progressed far enough from its history of discrimination, the Black Scientists and Engineers asserted in a June 25 statement that helped to prompt the institution’s stock-taking; of 1,299 graduate students, only 11 were Black, the organization stated.
Of course, that might have something to do with the Test Score gap.
…The Palo Alto school district has voted to take Terman’s name off a middle school. Pasadena’s Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, which Millikan co-founded, last year removed his name from a room in its building.
You can always count on the Unitarian Universalists to have your back when you get into a jam and need a friend.
At Caltech, Sam says that while she was on the renaming committee, it was still grappling with such fundamental questions as, “How do we separate the scientist from the man?”
Decompartmentalization.
She says her conviction that one could not distinguish a person’s career from his or her character “was not shared by my fellow members.”
It’s almost as if the major scientists on the committee with this grad student understand better than her that the history of science is testimony to the wisdom of not burning scientists at the stake when they disagree with you on questions of religious faith. You may find their opinions offensive, but the principle of compartmentalization means you are supposed to set your feelings aside and deal with questions of science rather than with your personal religion of race.
Some would ask, “Are we going to rename a building every time we disagree with their politics?” she says. “The implication there was that eugenics ideology and committing crimes against humanity was simply a matter of politics, not ethical standards.”
It’s not like they want Caltech to cancel the Linus Pauling lectures just because he was a fellow traveler and eugenicist. Being sympathetic to Communists is A-OK, and we can forgive Pauling’s eugenics advocacy because he was a Person of Leftness.
They just want to cancel the scientists they personally hate, not the ones they don’t personally hate. Individuals of the preferred race, gender, ethnicity, etc. (a.k.a., People of Power) will provide you with lists of who they hate at the appropriate times.


vdare--2020-10-11--WaPo: Of Course Trump's Dog-Whistles Are Racist: The Dog-Whistle Was Invented By Sir Francis Galton!

Earlier : `` They 'll Think You 're Signaling '' !
Dog-Whistles From Goldwater To Reagan To Palin The term “ racist dog whistle ” is not new .
But President Trump may represent the perfection of “ dog-whistle politics , ” using phrases , symbols and tweets to create plausible deniability whenever his policies seem too overtly racist .
By Adam R. Shapiro Adam R. Shapiro is a historian of science and technology .
He ’ s the author of “ Trying Biology : The Scopes Trial Textbooks , and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools.
” August 21 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , with his perfect 800 on the SAT Verbal test , is obviously a verbal genius who precisely calibrates every utterance that comes out of his mouth so his followers know exactly what he is implying but his enemies can never quite prove it , but they just know .
Or something like that … … The device we now think of as a dog whistle was designed by Francis Galton , whose most famous work was inventing the term “ eugenics ” and creating a science of racial differences and race “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ original “ dog whistles ” was shaped by racial dynamics in the United States .
Hunting dogs didn ’ t just pursue foxes or birds .
Before the Civil War , they were frequently used to track enslaved Black people .
Dogs trained to hunt humans were highly prized among enslavers and the slave catchers they employed .
It was not until about 1940 that the dog whistle , a tool for signaling and training hunting dogs , and Galton ’ s ultrasonic whistle — mainstay of the psychology lab — were combined @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patent was filed for a dog whistle “ of [ sufficiently ] high frequency so that it may be heard by a dog but not heard by the human ear.
” The “ silent ” dog whistle changed which kinds of dogs were being whistle-trained .
No longer were whistles primarily a tool for hunting over long distances .
They were for suburban dogs — an increasingly salient feature of the racially segregated and suburbanizing American landscape .
As ads for Purina whistles promised , these couldn ’ t disturb your neighbors .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ for training police dogs .
Though connections between dogs and policing in America go back to the days of slave catchers , the role of dogs in modern policing gained wider use in the 1950s .
According to one 1961 study , “ the public has fully accepted the canine corps .
There were only three complaints reported , one not described and the other two stemming from the feeling among Negroes that dogs are used in their areas disproportionately to the need for them.
” The overpolicing of Black neighborhoods — including @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about criminality , race and intelligence and morals that go straight back to Galton and the psychologists he influenced .
The introduction of dogs to modern policing took hold just in time for the animals to feature in iconic and violent images of the struggle for civil rights , including police dogs attacking peaceful Black protesters in Birmingham , Ala. , in 1963 .
President Trump evoked this scene earlier this year when he threatened Black Lives Matter protesters with “ vicious dogs , ” a comment that only avoided the “ racist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seemed obvious .
It was in this context that the silent dog whistle , an invention that unified racist scientific equipment with racist cultures of dog hunting , became a technology that facilitated violent opposition to civil rights .
… Morin ’ s column was written just weeks after the broadcast of the infamous Willie Horton campaign ad , perhaps the clearest example of a racist dog whistle in American politics before Trump .

Earlier: "They'll Think You're Signaling"! Dog-Whistles From Goldwater To Reagan To Palin
From the Washington Post, a “Perspective”:
The term “ racist dog whistle ” is not new. But President Trump may represent the perfection of “dog-whistle politics,” using phrases , symbols and tweets to create plausible deniability whenever his policies seem too overtly racist.
By Adam R. Shapiro Adam R. Shapiro is a historian of science and technology. He’s the author of “Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools.” August 21, 2020 at 3:00 a.m.
Because Trump, with his perfect 800 on the SAT Verbal test, is obviously a verbal genius who precisely calibrates every utterance that comes out of his mouth so his followers know exactly what he is implying but his enemies can never quite prove it, but they just know. Or something like that …
… The device we now think of as a dog whistle was designed by Francis Galton, whose most famous work was inventing the term “eugenics” and creating a science of racial differences and race “improvement.”
… The use of the original “dog whistles” was shaped by racial dynamics in the United States. Hunting dogs didn’t just pursue foxes or birds. Before the Civil War, they were frequently used to track enslaved Black people. Dogs trained to hunt humans were highly prized among enslavers and the slave catchers they employed.
Even after slavery’s abolition, dogs continued to reinforce the racial politics of the Jim Crow South. Trained dog packs, used in activities like fox hunting, became a manifestation of White Southern elites’ pretensions toward aristocracy and nostalgia for the era of slavery.
It was not until about 1940 that the dog whistle, a tool for signaling and training hunting dogs, and Galton’s ultrasonic whistle — mainstay of the psychology lab — were combined into a single technology. The first patent was filed for a dog whistle “of [sufficiently] high frequency so that it may be heard by a dog but not heard by the human ear.”
The “silent” dog whistle changed which kinds of dogs were being whistle-trained. No longer were whistles primarily a tool for hunting over long distances. They were for suburban dogs — an increasingly salient feature of the racially segregated and suburbanizing American landscape. As ads for Purina whistles promised, these couldn’t disturb your neighbors.
Silent dog whistles also became a tool for training police dogs. Though connections between dogs and policing in America go back to the days of slave catchers, the role of dogs in modern policing gained wider use in the 1950s. According to one 1961 study, “the public has fully accepted the canine corps. There were only three complaints reported, one not described and the other two stemming from the feeling among Negroes that dogs are used in their areas disproportionately to the need for them.” The overpolicing of Black neighborhoods — including with dogs — was rooted in ideas about criminality, race and intelligence and morals that go straight back to Galton and the psychologists he influenced.
The introduction of dogs to modern policing took hold just in time for the animals to feature in iconic and violent images of the struggle for civil rights, including police dogs attacking peaceful Black protesters in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963. President Trump evoked this scene earlier this year when he threatened Black Lives Matter protesters with “vicious dogs,” a comment that only avoided the “racist dog whistle” label because its motives seemed obvious.
It was in this context that the silent dog whistle, an invention that unified racist scientific equipment with racist cultures of dog hunting, became a technology that facilitated violent opposition to civil rights.
… Morin’s column was written just weeks after the broadcast of the infamous Willie Horton campaign ad, perhaps the clearest example of a racist dog whistle in American politics before Trump.


vdare--2020-10-10--You’re Next! If Biden/ Harris Win, A Crackdown On Whites Is Coming

See , earlier : Biden Officially Announces He ’ s Running Against Charlottesville—With `` Black Lives Matter '' Kamala By His Side Two recent events show us that a victory for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on November 3 will unleash a war on whites .
First was the alleged “ white supremacist ” plot , inspired by President Trump ’ s “ rhetoric , ” to kidnap the tyrannical leftist governor of Michigan , Gretchen Whitmer .
Second is Twitter ’ s suspension of Lauren Witzke , the anti-immigration , America First candidate who has already won the GOP @ @ @ @ @ @ @ criticizing mass Third World immigration .
Consider Bloomberg ’ s blatantly false claim about the plot against Witch Whitmer : Michigan is a hotbed of nationalist , extremist and white supremacist hate groups , with more than two dozen active organizations , according to the Southern Poverty Law Center .
During the early stages of the pandemic , it was also among the places where the president urged supporters to resist lockdown measures , with a tweet on April 17 urging people to `` liberate '' the state [ Thirteen Charged in Plot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chris Dolmetsch , Christian Berthelsen , and David Welch , October 8 , 2020 ] This is a Gadarene Swine-style Rush To Judgement .
Truth is , Brandon Caserta , leader of the group , is a NeverTrump , anti-cop anarchist .
“ Trump is not your friend , ” he says .
“ He ’ s shown over and over and over again that he ’ s a tyrant .
Every single person that works for government is your enemy.
” Yet somehow that man is acting on Trump ’ s orders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s what we ’ re told by people who want to suppress Trump and his supporters .
Witzke ’ s crime : telling an obvious truth .
Import Third World immigrants and you ’ ll soon be living in the Third World .
“ Let ’ s be clear , mass migration absolutely destroyed Europe , ” she tweeted .
“ Italy , France , Sweden and Germany took in tons of migrants who never assimilated .
Rapes , murders , and other heinous crimes abound .
I will end ALL immigration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Twitter , incredibly , adjudged that demonstrably true statement “ hateful conduct ” and locked down her account—an in-kind contribution to her opponent , Leftist Chris Coons ( Numbers USA Rating , F-minus ) [ Twitter Censors Senate Candidate Lauren Witzke ’ s Immigration Views as ‘ Hateful Conduct , ’ by Alum Bokhari , Breitbart , October 10 , 2020 ] .
Further , the Ruling Class wants us to believe , amid the most fanatical and extreme Leftist violence since the 1960s , that “ white supremacy ” is the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United States [ Homeland Threat Assessment , DHS.gov , October 2020 ] .
That ridiculous claim echoes FBI Director Chris Wray , who implied that whites were to blame for most domestic terrorism without saying it [ Wray : Racially motivated violent extremism makes up most of FBI 's domestic terrorism cases , by Olivia Beavers , The Hill , Sept. 17 , 2020 ] .
Thus is the federal government serving as armed enforcement force for Anti-Defamation League and $ PLC , while the radical Left and its GOP enablers are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ terrifying Domestic Terrorism Penalties Act , which would legally attack rightist dissidents as never before .
The political prosecutions have already begun : • Steve Stockman languishes in federal prison on a bogus fundraising conviction because he criticized the head of the Internal Revenue Service .
• A grand jury indicted Mark and Patricia McCloskey for daring to defend themselves against Black Lives Matters goons with weapons .
• Former Marine Jake Gardner committed suicide rather than face trial for killing the BLM thug who attacked him .
• Prosecutors in Kenosha are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he shot and killed two “ protesters ” and wounded one when they attacked him during a Blake-Hoax riot .
One of the dead “ victims ” was a convicted child rapist ; another was a convicted domestic abuser .
• Roger Stone and Michael Flynn are more obvious examples .
“ Crimes ” are often manufactured from whole cloth , like the hundreds of hate crime hoaxes that ostensibly attest to the latent “ right-wing fascism ” that pervades American life .
And Leftist prosecutors now free the guilty and prosecute the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the land .
These false flags will accelerate .
Leftist political assassination and terrorism will continue unabated , excused or roundly ignored by the hate-Trump , hate whitey MSM , and more and more white bogeymen will be sacrificed to the narrative .
Tucker Carlson was right in predicting that school curricula will teach that “ white supremacists ” were responsible for 9/11 .
The Daily Stormer ’ s Andrew Anglin was the first dissident to be deplatformed .
( Let the record show that VDARE.com defended his right to publish . )
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ correctly thought they would be easy prey , that the rest of the bovine herd would move on without protest .
Facebook and Twitter now censor POTUS .
Do you think they won ’ t censor you ?
Remember : their violence is speech , while our speech is violence .
The coalition of the damned can gleefully wish for Trump to die of the Chinese Virus , but immigration patriotism like Witzke ’ s is labeled “ hateful conduct.
” Cocktail conservatives bemoan the Chinese government and its social credit scheme , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the panopticon—a digital gulag that will soon leave cyberspace and enter our physical world .
Today , it is less damaging to one ’ s social standing to be labeled a pedophile than a white nationalist .
Enter the cashless society , and we might not be able to travel , have bank accounts , get financial or legal services , travel , or participate in the economy at all .
How far a step is it from Twitter ’ s censoring a “ white nationalist ” to Verizon ’ s refusing that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white nationalists ” even be able to call 911 ?
In England , doctors can deny medical treatment to “ racists ” [ UK : National Health Service to Deny Treatment for ‘ Racist or Sexist Language , Gestures , Behavior , ’ by Jack Montgomery , Breitbart , Nov. 4 , 2019 ] .
And Yelp will now tar and feather “ racist ” businesses , meaning those that are insufficiently ethnomasochist .
Connect the dots .
Put the pieces together .
The image is clear .
The bipartisan , anti-white , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a regime of ruthless , totalitarian suppression of white dissidents—the real dissidents , not the egalitarian Red Guards serving as handmaidens to Wall Street while flying the standard of the “ Counterculture.
” We , the people of Middle America , are the counterculture .
Make no mistake .
Republicans , Democrats and the Main Stream Media have all declared “ war ” on “ white supremacy ” —which really just means whites as a people .
In other words … you .
How long until Dissident Right websites disappear , or until @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we are arrested ?
Or worse ?
Petty tyrants now brutalizing ordinary Americans over their refusal to wear The Mask as the sign of obedience .
Cops tased a woman at a football game for not wearing a mask .
These people will be thrilled to lock us up in the Gulag and throw away the key .
Across the West , nationalist political parties are already being declared “ criminal organizations ” [ Greek Government Convicts Nationalist Party 's Elected Officials of Being a Criminal Organization Over 2013 `` Antifa '' Member @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Unz.com , Oct. 7 , 2020 ] .
I would not be surprised to learn that I ’ m on a watchlist .
If you ’ re reading this , you probably are too .
The conspiracy to destroy the Historic American Nation goes far beyond the effort to depose Trump , which his own appointees are deliberately obfuscating [ Donald Trump : ‘ Very Disappointed ’ that ‘ Obamagate ’ Investigation Won ’ t Be Released Before Election , by Charlie Spiering , Breitbart , Oct. 9 , 2020 ] .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Historic American Nation .
Trump must purge the departments of Justice and Homeland Security , replace the traitors with patriots , use his very real power to take action against the real threat to our nation .
As Gregory Hood has written , we have lived in an occupied country for some time -- but it ’ s an occupation we can not contemplate and need not permit [ On Faith and Purpose , American Renaissance , Nov. 22 , 2019 ] .
But why does the Ruling Class resort to repression @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enjoys uninhibited freedom of association and expression , we win .
And in that world , we will not be replaced .
White America does not have to die .
The duty is ours , and ours alone , to carry her fire and save it from being utterly extinguished forevermore .
Neil Kumar [ Email him ] is a law student who lives in the Arkansas Ozarks .
He is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and Sons of the American Revolution , with blood that has been Southern since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also be found at the Abbeville Institute , American Renaissance , Clyde Wilson ’ s Reckonin ’ , Identity Dixie , and Truth to Power .

See, earlier: Biden Officially Announces He’s Running Against Charlottesville—With "Black Lives Matter" Kamala By His Side
Two recent events show us that a victory for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on November 3 will unleash a war on whites. First was the alleged “white supremacist” plot, inspired by President Trump’s “rhetoric,” to kidnap the tyrannical leftist governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer. Second is Twitter’s suspension of Lauren Witzke, the anti-immigration, America First candidate who has already won the GOP Senate nomination in Delaware, merely for criticizing mass Third World immigration.
Consider Bloomberg’s blatantly false claim about the plot against Witch Whitmer:
Michigan is a hotbed of nationalist, extremist and white supremacist hate groups, with more than two dozen active organizations, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. During the early stages of the pandemic, it was also among the places where the president urged supporters to resist lockdown measures, with a tweet on April 17 urging people to "liberate" the state [Thirteen Charged in Plot to Seize Michigan, Kidnap Governor, Chris Dolmetsch, Christian Berthelsen, and David Welch, October 8, 2020]
This is a Gadarene Swine-style Rush To Judgement. Truth is, Brandon Caserta, leader of the group, is a NeverTrump, anti-cop anarchist.
“Trump is not your friend,” he says. “He’s shown over and over and over again that he’s a tyrant. Every single person that works for government is your enemy.”
Yet somehow that man is acting on Trump’s orders?! Ridiculous yes, but that’s what we’re told by people who want to suppress Trump and his supporters.
Witzke’s crime: telling an obvious truth. Import Third World immigrants and you’ll soon be living in the Third World.
“Let’s be clear, mass migration absolutely destroyed Europe,” she tweeted. “Italy, France, Sweden and Germany took in tons of migrants who never assimilated. Rapes, murders, and other heinous crimes abound. I will end ALL immigration into the US for ten years.”
Twitter, incredibly, adjudged that demonstrably true statement “hateful conduct” and locked down her account—an in-kind contribution to her opponent, Leftist Chris Coons (Numbers USA Rating, F-minus) [Twitter Censors Senate Candidate Lauren Witzke’s Immigration Views as ‘Hateful Conduct,’ by Alum Bokhari, Breitbart, October 10, 2020].
Further, the Ruling Class wants us to believe, amid the most fanatical and extreme Leftist violence since the 1960s, that “white supremacy” is the “most persistent and lethal threat” in the United States [Homeland Threat Assessment, DHS.gov, October 2020]. That ridiculous claim echoes FBI Director Chris Wray, who implied that whites were to blame for most domestic terrorism without saying it [Wray: Racially motivated violent extremism makes up most of FBI's domestic terrorism cases, by Olivia Beavers, The Hill, Sept. 17, 2020].
Thus is the federal government serving as armed enforcement force for Anti-Defamation League and $PLC, while the radical Left and its GOP enablers are hard at work trying to enact the terrifying Domestic Terrorism Penalties Act, which would legally attack rightist dissidents as never before.
The political prosecutions have already begun:
Steve Stockman languishes in federal prison on a bogus fundraising conviction because he criticized the head of the Internal Revenue Service.
A grand jury indicted Mark and Patricia McCloskey for daring to defend themselves against Black Lives Matters goons with weapons.
Former Marine Jake Gardner committed suicide rather than face trial for killing the BLM thug who attacked him.
Prosecutors in Kenosha are trying to railroad 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse because he shot and killed two “protesters” and wounded one when they attacked him during a Blake-Hoax riot. One of the dead “victims” was a convicted child rapist; another was a convicted domestic abuser.
Roger Stone and Michael Flynn are more obvious examples.
“Crimes” are often manufactured from whole cloth, like the hundreds of hate crime hoaxes that ostensibly attest to the latent “right-wing fascism” that pervades American life.
And Leftist prosecutors now free the guilty and prosecute the innocent. Anarcho-tyranny is the law of the land.
These false flags will accelerate. Leftist political assassination and terrorism will continue unabated, excused or roundly ignored by the hate-Trump, hate whitey MSM, and more and more white bogeymen will be sacrificed to the narrative.
Tucker Carlson was right in predicting that school curricula will teach that “white supremacists” were responsible for 9/11.
The Daily Stormer’s Andrew Anglin was the first dissident to be deplatformed. (Let the record show that VDARE.com defended his right to publish.) Alex Jones was next. Big Tech correctly thought they would be easy prey, that the rest of the bovine herd would move on without protest.
Facebook and Twitter now censor POTUS. Do you think they won’t censor you? Remember: their violence is speech, while our speech is violence. The coalition of the damned can gleefully wish for Trump to die of the Chinese Virus, but immigration patriotism like Witzke’s is labeled “hateful conduct.”
"I hope he dies"
- Former National Spokeswoman for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, Obama White House staffer Zara Rahim
This isn’t some random Twitter troll. Zara worked with Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama. Disturbed, evil Democrats are cheering tonight. https://t.co/f2d5mZKLiq — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 2, 2020
Cocktail conservatives bemoan the Chinese government and its social credit scheme, without noticing that we already live inside the panopticon—a digital gulag that will soon leave cyberspace and enter our physical world.
Today, it is less damaging to one’s social standing to be labeled a pedophile than a white nationalist. Enter the cashless society, and we might not be able to travel, have bank accounts, get financial or legal services, travel, or participate in the economy at all.
How far a step is it from Twitter’s censoring a “white nationalist” to Verizon’s refusing that same person a landline? Will “white nationalists” even be able to call 911? In England, doctors can deny medical treatment to “racists” [UK: National Health Service to Deny Treatment for ‘Racist or Sexist Language, Gestures, Behavior,’ by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, Nov. 4, 2019]. And Yelp will now tar and feather “racist” businesses, meaning those that are insufficiently ethnomasochist.
Today, we’re announcing a new consumer alert to stand against racism. In the last few months, we’ve seen that there is a clear need to warn consumers about businesses associated with egregious, racially-charged actions to help people make more informed spending decisions. — Yelp (@Yelp) October 8, 2020
Connect the dots. Put the pieces together. The image is clear.
The bipartisan, anti-white, anti-American Establishment is laying the groundwork for a regime of ruthless, totalitarian suppression of white dissidents—the real dissidents, not the egalitarian Red Guards serving as handmaidens to Wall Street while flying the standard of the “Counterculture.” We, the people of Middle America, are the counterculture.
Make no mistake. Republicans, Democrats and the Main Stream Media have all declared “war” on “white supremacy”—which really just means whites as a people.
In other words … you.
How long until Dissident Right websites disappear, or until VDARE.com goes dark? How long before we are arrested? Or worse?
Petty tyrants now brutalizing ordinary Americans over their refusal to wear The Mask as the sign of obedience. Cops tased a woman at a football game for not wearing a mask.
These people will be thrilled to lock us up in the Gulag and throw away the key.
Across the West, nationalist political parties are already being declared “criminal organizations” [Greek Government Convicts Nationalist Party's Elected Officials of Being a Criminal Organization Over 2013 "Antifa" Member's Death, by Eric Striker, Unz.com, Oct. 7, 2020].
What’s next?
I would not be surprised to learn that I’m on a watchlist. If you’re reading this, you probably are too.
The conspiracy to destroy the Historic American Nation goes far beyond the effort to depose Trump, which his own appointees are deliberately obfuscating [Donald Trump: ‘Very Disappointed’ that ‘Obamagate’ Investigation Won’t Be Released Before Election, by Charlie Spiering, Breitbart, Oct. 9, 2020]. It is a coup to dispossess and replace the Historic American Nation.
Trump must purge the departments of Justice and Homeland Security, replace the traitors with patriots, use his very real power to take action against the real threat to our nation.
As Gregory Hood has written, we have lived in an occupied country for some time--but it’s an occupation we cannot contemplate and need not permit [On Faith and Purpose, American Renaissance, Nov. 22, 2019].
But why does the Ruling Class resort to repression? Because in a free society that enjoys uninhibited freedom of association and expression, we win.
And in that world, we will not be replaced. White America does not have to die. The duty is ours, and ours alone, to carry her fire and save it from being utterly extinguished forevermore.
Let’s roll.
Neil Kumar [Email him] is a law student who lives in the Arkansas Ozarks. He is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and Sons of the American Revolution, with blood that has been Southern since the seventeenth century. His work can also be found at the Abbeville Institute, American Renaissance, Clyde Wilson’s Reckonin’, Identity Dixie, and Truth to Power.


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

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

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

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