vdare--2020-01-24--Hysteria Goes Viral, Great 2nd Amendment Rally, South Sudan Basket Case, And Canada's Mini-SPLC, Etc

Hysteria Goes Viral, Great 2nd Amendment Rally, South Sudan Basket Case, And Canada's Mini-SPLC, Etc.

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00m46s Hysteria goes viral. (The coronavirus panic.)
14m52s Canada's SPLC knock-off. (Entrepreneurship up north.)
24m08s That great 2nd Amendment rally. (But where was the NRA?)
26m05s The South Sudan basket case. (Lions worst affected.)
28m54s In praise of faggots. (I love them!)
30m09s Living 1,000 years in 8½ hours. (Senators pioneered the trick.)
32m37s San Francisco's new D.A. (Red-diaper baby Chesa Boudin.)
36m33s Endangered symbols. (My 2¢.)
38m18s Signoff. (With Robbie Burns.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your symbolically genial host John Derbyshire, here with news from far and wide.
My lady here has been having anxious phone calls and WeChat exchanges with friends and relatives in China. What's that all about? Let's take a look.
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02—Hysteria goes viral. Screaming headlines all over.
Drudge Report: OUTBREAK OVERWHELMS … DOCTORS COLLAPSE … LOCKDOWN TOO LATE? …
New York Post: VIDEOS SHOW "DIRE" SITUATIONS AT CHINESE HOSPITALS AMID CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK. That's the online version. My print edition says: A STATE OF WAR vs. VIRUS.
Daily Mail Online: CHINA IN LOCKDOWN.
Guardian: LIFE UNDER LOCKDOWN IN CHINA: HOSPITAL QUEUES AND EMPTY STREETS.
New York Times: CHINA'S TRAVEL LIMITS NOW COVER 35 MILLION PEOPLE.
Los Angeles Times: YOU'VE REACHED YOUR FREE ARTICLE LIMIT. Ah, the hell with these paywalls.
So what is the body count here? Twenty-six as I speak; so far as I can gather, all of them in China, all or most in or near the central city of Wuhan.
Twenty-six dead? In a nation of 1.4 billion? It's too bad for the loved ones of those twenty-six, of course. Send not to know For whom the bell tolls. There but for the grace of God, … and so on. Proper sympathy and respect. But … twenty-six? In Communist China? Prison guards in Tibet probably clubbed twenty-six Buddhist nuns to death over the same span of time.
So what accounts for all the hysteria? A number of things.
First of course there is the folk memory of great plagues in the past: the Black Death in 14th-century Europe, the Plague of Justinian eight hundred years earlier, which seems to have been even worse, and recurring similar but lesser events down into quite modern times — the great influenza pandemic that followed World War One, and killed more people than the war had.
Bear in mind, too, that "modern times" came later in China than in the West. My wife's home town in Manchuria was the epicenter of the greatest-ever outbreak of pneumonic plague, a close relative of the Black Death. Tens of thousands died. That was in 1911. There must be people my age in that town who heard all about it from their parents.
All right, all right; but with today's understandings of disease transmission, and today's standards of public hygiene—yes, even in China, although perhaps not in San Francisco—is all the hysteria really justified?
My guess would be not. Michael Fumento, who knows this territory better than anyone—he's the guy who debunked the myth of heterosexual AIDS in a book with that title thirty years ago—has a good scoff piece in today's New York Post.
So, dim folk memories aside, why the hysteria? I think that so far as the Western world is concerned, we have caught it from China. The Chinese are hysterical about it and hysteria, like influenza, is contagious. That's especially true in an age like ours: a hysterical age, with public media hungry for sensation, and the old human fascination for tales of world-wide catastrophe still strong—think of global warming.
But that just pushes the question back one square. Why are the Chinese so hysterical about it?
For clues, look back to the SARS panic of seventeen years ago. I got an interesting perspective on that event from reading a novel about it by Chinese dissident writer Hu Fayun. I not only read the novel, I reviewed it: You can read my review at johnderbyshire.com under Reviews, Fiction. Here's a quote from my review:
SARS was much more a political than a medical event. Only a few hundred people died from the disease. As a character in the novel asks rhetorically: "With all the hundreds of millions of people in China, can you name a cause of death that doesn't kill more people than SARS?" As that character also points out, though, the management of public panic over SARS offered both great dangers and great career opportunities to government officials, and that was always the aspect of the matter foremost in their minds.
End quote.
You have to hear that in the context of medical care in China, which is different from medical care in Western countries in important ways.
The one great truth about medical care everywhere is that supply can never meet demand. In the West we do our best to square the circle with pricing, waiting lists, taxes on employers, government-subsidized bogus "insurance" schemes, and so on—all pretty open, and as annoying and irrational as they are, everyone's used to them.
The Chinese health-care system is more … Chinese. There are I am sure many kind and humane doctors in China doing their best for their patients. There are a lot of the other kind, too, though.
I have spent very little time in China these past twenty years, but the little time I've spent was enough to hear ordinary citizens express angry dislike of the medical profession on three or four occasions. Something like: "Doctors, those bastards …" Corruption is certainly quite common. The doctor will see you now … for a price—in cash, please.
Layered on top of this is the huge rise in expectations that has come up this past thirty years as a side consequence of China's amazing economic advance. From a poor, cramped society up against Malthusian limits, with an unresponsive economy, China has quite suddenly been transformed into a more-or-less modern, Western-style consumer paradise, where middle-class people can buy all they need in free markets … except, of course, for the aforementioned reasons of supply and demand, in the matter of health-care.
So a widespread medical emergency gets citizens talking and thinking about one of the more unpopular features of their social and political system. That spooks the authorities. To re-quote from my review of Hu Fayun's novel:
The management of public panic over SARS offered both great dangers and great career opportunities to government officials.
End re-quote.
Hence all these strenuous efforts by the authorities to show how capably they can handle a crisis.
The totalitarian nature of Chinese society also promotes hysteria. China is not as totalitarian as it was thirty years ago; but news media are still firmly controlled by the Party, and old habits—habits of both the rulers and the ruled—die hard. Just as a bouncing ball ricochets faster and more energetically in a small space than in a large one, fears, panics, and hysteria bounce around in a closed or partly-closed society more than in an open one.
It's unfortunate, too, that this outbreak has happened in the run-up to Chinese New Year, when huge numbers of Chinese people are on the move to spend the New Year holiday with relatives in distant places. If you are Chinese, this is the time of year more than any other when you find yourself jammed in great crowds of strangers trying to get on trains, or buy tickets. Imagine being stuck in one of those throngs when some stranger an arm's length away emits a loud sneeze. The Chinese word for "stampede," in case you're wondering, is 惊 逃.
And then I have darker suspicions. You don't hear much about biological warfare research, and there is supposed to be a worldwide ban on it. I would not be astounded to learn, though, that the major powers have projects ongoing under deep secrecy.
I would especially be un-astounded to learn that China is doing bioweapons research. There is somewhat more awareness of the topic in China than here. ChiCom propaganda says that when Japan occupied northeast China back in the 1930s and 1940s, the Japs did biological warfare experiments on Chinese subjects. I have no idea whether this is true, though it might be; the point is that everyone in China has heard about it many many times.
If the ChiComs are doing biological warfare research and something nasty were to escape from one of their labs, they would be seriously embarrassed. They don't like being embarrassed.
Stretching my suspicions a wee bit further, I wonder if perhaps someone in the Inner Party has read Irwin Shaw's 1967 short story The Mannichon Solution.
If you read my monthly diaries you'll recall that in the story, an industrial chemist accidentally discovers a substance that is instantly lethal to living creatures, but only yellow ones. One of the guy's colleagues is Japanese. The story ends with this colleague placing an order with his lab supplier for a thousand white mice.
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03—Canada's SPLC knock-off. Speaking of contagions, I am sorry to see that our neighbors up there in the Friendly Giant to the North have acquired their very own Southern Poverty Law Center.
This Canadian version of the SPLC is of course not called "Southern" anything. The SPLC branded themselves that way so as to key in to Northern liberals' fantasies about leering, sneering Good Ol' Boys down South beating up on cringing, defenseless Negroes. That was in furtherance of the SPLC's entire business model, originally thought up by SPLC founder Morris Dees, which is to monetize Northern liberals' conviction of their moral superiority over Hillbillies and hicks.
In a Canadian context, "Southern" wouldn't make much sense, as practically all Canadians live in the South of their big, wonderful, picturesque country. The small numbers who don't are either Eskimos or else white people considerably less liberal than the inhabitants of Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg, or Vancouver.
So this Canadian knock-off of SPLC is not called "Southern" anything. It's actually called CAHN, C-A-H-N, which stands for "Canadian Anti-Hate Network." Quote from an excellent piece of long-form journalism by John Klein at the web magazine C2C Journal, January 22nd, edited quote:
CAHN began operations in early 2018, billing itself as an "independent, nonprofit organization made up of Canada's leading experts and researchers on hate groups and hate crimes." … It makes no bones about the inspiration for its domestic anti-hate crusade. In a letter to a House of Commons committee introducing itself to Canadian parliamentarians last April, CAHN claimed to be "modelled after, and supported by, the esteemed Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in the United States." The letter was delivered several weeks after the no-longer-esteemed [Morris] Dees was fired for allegations of sexual and racial misconduct.
End quote.
CAHN are not having things all their own way up there in the Dominion. Another thing that happened in 2018 was the founding of the People's Party of Canada, an anti-elitist and mildly—although by Canadian standards radically—immigration-patriotic party.
The PPC wants, for example, to restrict chain migration, and to end obstetric tourism. I'm not clear if they want to end birthright citizenship. If they do, and they succeed, that will be a major victory for immigration sanity. Of advanced nations outside Latin America, only the U.S.A. and Canada currently grant birthright citizenship. If the Canadians dump it, we'll be all alone in the birthright-citizenship club with Cuba, Brazil, and some others down there south of the border.
The People's Party of Canada is led by the smart, photogenic, and French-English-bilingual politician Maxime Bernier. Bernier has been scathing about this CAHN outfit, tweeting yesterday that it is, tweet, "a far left outfit allied with Antifa thugs," end tweet.
My earlier theme of hysteria is relevant here, too. In order to accomplish their goal—which is, of course, to make a huge bundle of money—CAHN needs to whip up hysteria about "hate" spreading across the Canadian tundra like an outbreak of coronavirus.
No such thing is happening, of course; as one of the commenters at Bernier's tweet observed, CAHN is a solution looking for a problem. But as the success of the SPLC showed, there is a widespread hunger among gullible white liberals and media types to believe in an epidemic of "hate," and that hunger can be monetized very profitably.
The SPLC's assets are now over half a billion dollars. Once you know that, it's surprising that it's taken Canada so long to produce a domestic imitator. It seems to me that any nation in which white ethnomasochism is a major feature of the social landscape ought to have produced an SPLC knock-off by now. What's happened to the spirit of entrepreneurship?
As a footnote here, let me just vent briefly about the commandeering of the perfectly good English word "hate" to refer to any kind of departure from ruling-class ideology.
To recycle my favorite example: I am strongly opposed to mass settlement of Muslims in Western countries. I think it's a simply terrible idea. So I hate Islam, right?
Not at all. I respect Islam as an old and worthy religion that provides consolation and structure for the lives of many millions. It's not for me; but then, I'm not a religious person.
There are, though, fifty-odd majority-Muslim nations, some of them very prosperous, most with pleasant climates. There is no necessity for millions of Muslims to move to Western nations, and their doing so brings stresses and discord we don't need.
I wish joy, happiness, long life, and prosperity to Muslims everywhere. I just don't think they mix well in Western societies. As we say here on the Dissident Right: That's what separate countries are for.
If those sentiments are a form of "hate," then something very strange has happened to the meaning of words.
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04—Miscellany. If you don't mind, listeners, I shall depart from the usual Radio Derb template and proceed straight to my miscellany of brief items. In any given week there are topics I want to air at length, and other topics where I have only a half-dozen sentences to say. The proportion of the first kind of topics to the second varies. This week the brief items predominate; so here they are.
Imprimis: Uplifting event of the week was undoubtedly the rally for Second Amendment rights in Richmond, Virginia on Monday. Our own correspondent Jack Dalton gave good stirring coverage to the event, and I won't try to improve on his post.
I was, though, struck by Jack's noting that, quote:
Strangely, the National Rifle Association (NRA) had virtually no presence at all and barely participated in this amazing grassroots event.
End quote.
I wasn't at the rally myself, so I'll take Jack's word on it. Speaking as an NRA life member, though, I'm disappointed in them for not having taken the lead here. Yes, I'm aware the NRA has been going through some troubles recently. The inside information I've heard is that Wayne LaPierre is decent and dedicated but prone to personnel problems. Hey, just like a certain President I can think of …
Whatever the facts there, I hope the NRA sorts itself out and comes to the forefront again as our nation's voice for responsible gun ownership. When I'm through with the podcast I shall send them a modest check; although, I'm sorry guys, $300 to upgrade to an Endowment Life Membership is way outside my budget, even with the gift of a complimentary jacket.
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Item: I don't have a Wall Street Journal subscription, so I hit another paywall trying to read this story. The headline was encouraging, though.
Headline: U.S. Goes From Support to Sanctions for African Ally. Subhead: "Washington punishes South Sudan after giving it billions, as political deadlock prolongs conflict and raises famine risk."
From the little bit I could read it seems that South Sudan, a new country that broke away from the rest of Sudan nine years ago, is a total failure, with no economy worth speaking of and corrupt leaders whose main activities are fighting among themselves for access to the billions of dollars they get in aid from the civilized world.
Has the Trump administration actually stopped our aid to South Sudan, though? I really hope so, speaking as a firm believer in the late Lord Bauer's apothegm that foreign aid is the transfer of wealth from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
I can't find any confirmation in other news outlets, though; and the pessimist in me says that Deep State bureaucrats in America or any other civilized country would pluck out their own eyeballs rather than cut their foreign aid budgets.
Casting around there for news about South Sudan, in fact, what I was mainly getting was pictures of starving lions in the Khartoum zoo. The poor lions are very seriously undernourished; you can count their ribs.
Given what I can reasonably surmise about the quality of political leadership in South Sudan, I have a suggestion for the people of that country as to how they might improve that quality and fatten up the lions all in one move. If South Sudan citizens groups will get in touch with me via VDARE.com, I'll be glad to pass on my suggestion. No charge!
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Item: How do you feel about faggots, listener? Personally, as a working-class English lad with relatives in the Northwest and West Midlands, I'm very fond of faggots. I love to chow down on a nice faggot smothered in gravy. Delicious!
Here's another faggot-fancier: Paul Lynch from Morriston in South Wales. Mr Lynch's local butcher supplies an especially delectable faggot, so much so that Mr Lynch put up a post on Facebook, urging readers to patronize the butcher and his faggots.
That got Mr Lynch banned from Facebook for hate speech. Mr Lynch asked them to review their decision, but they just confirmed the ban. Apparently none of Mark Zuckerberg's commissars owns a dictionary or has access to Wikipedia.
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Item: Here's a glimpse of things to come, if ever I glimpsed one.
Rebecca Roache is a philosopher—I mean, a real academic philosopher, in fact a research philosopher, at the University of London. Dr Roache lists among her research interests: Metaphysics (especially philosophy of time, free will, personal identity), and philosophy of mind.
One thing the future may have in store for us, according to Dr Roache, is biotechnology to trick our minds into thinking time is passing more slowly than it actually is. I'm guessing that a metaphysician like Dr Roache would want quotes around the word "actually" there … whatever.
Dr Roache is particularly keen on uploading human minds to computers to speed up the rate at which the mind works. What use would that be? Well, says the good doctor, we could save a bundle of money on incarceration costs. Quote from her:
Uploading the mind of a convicted criminal and running it a million times faster than normal would enable the uploaded criminal to serve a thousand-year sentence in eight-and-a-half hours. This would, obviously, be much cheaper for the taxpayer than extending criminals' lifespans to enable them to serve a thousand years in real time.
Well, yes, I guess it would. Although I must say, to judge from proceedings in the U.S. Senate this week, the trick to making an actual eight and a half hours seem like a thousand years has already been mastered.
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Item: Last November Chesa Boudin was elected District Attorney for San Francisco. Who he? He a red-diaper baby, son of communist terrorists Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert.
That's not idle abuse I'm offering there: Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert were both arrested, tried, and convicted for the murders of two police officers and a security guard in 1981, when Chesa was one year old. Gilbert is still in jail; Kathy Boudin was let out on parole in 2003.
Chesa was raised by two other crazy leftists, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Ayers and Dohrn avoided lengthy prison sentences and settled to comfortable well-paid careers in, of course, the academy.
None of that is Chesa Boudin's fault, but it might as well be: He's a crazy radical himself. CBS San Francisco tells us that he, quote,
ran a progressive campaign that included working to end mass incarcerations and racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
If you have followed my commentary on the stupid, innumerate, and pernicious Disparate Impact doctrine, you'll have heard me argue that those racial disparities in the criminal justice system are a straightforward consequence of the fact that some races are way more criminal than others. And in the matter of mass incarceration, you may also have heard me argue that we're not putting enough black men in prison.
Chesa Boudin begs to differ. As soon as he took office on January 8th he set about fulfilling his campaign promises. What he did was, he fired six of the D.A. office's prosecutors, in the homicide, felony and gang units. This is not usual behavior in an incoming D.A. People get moved around, sometimes demoted, but not often just fired.
I suppose Chesa Boudin's actions are not surprising. What did surprise me, in fact shocked me, was that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor sent him a gushing video of congratulation when he took office, praising his, quote, "strength of character and moral composure" and calling him, quote, "a great beacon to many."
I understand, of course, that the notion that U.S. Supreme Court justices dwell in a lofty realm of jurisprudential philosophizing high above the grubby politicking of the other two branches, that this notion is just a polite fiction; but aren't the justices supposed to pretend?
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Item: Speaking as a diehard reactionary, I'm unhappy when we lose words or expressions out of the language, or when useful words with a clear straightforward meaning, like "hate," get kidnapped by the Social Justice fanatics and made to serve purposes they were never designed for.
In the same spirit I am sad at the loss of useful symbols. I therefore mourn, and urge fellow reactionaries to mourn with me, the loss of the humble, innocuous cent sign. Come on: When was the last time you saw one?
I thought I remembered that manual typewriters used to have a key with the cent symbol on it. Hoping to perform my due diligence, I went up to the attic and dug out my own old manual typewriter. I'd forgotten, however, that it is a British model, so my effort was in vain.
I can tell you, though, that if you want to help me keep the cent sign in circulation, you can produce it on a standard computer keyboard by holding down the Alt key and typing "155" on the numeric keypad at your right.
Please do this at every opportunity. The cent symbol thanks you.
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05—Signoff. That's all for this week, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your time and attention.
As mentioned in last week's podcast, tomorrow, January 25th, is the first day of the Chinese New Year. This new year is a Year of the Rat, the first year in a twelve-year cycle, so I guess that's double auspicious. These twelve-year cycles are parceled up five at a time into sixty-year cycles; so for total auspiciousness—auspiciosity, whatever—you want the first day of a sixty-year cycle. That won't happen until January 30th 2044, though, so don't hold your breath.
Sorry: I have a mild recurring obsession with matters calendrical. I must try to keep it in check.
A very Happy New Year to my Chinese friends and relatives!
And tomorrow night is also Burns Night, so best wishes are also due to Scottish listeners.
Putting the two things together, double best wishes are due to inhabitants of the greatest of all Sino-Caledonian joint enterprises, the city of Hong Kong, whose modern prosperity was first established by Scotsmen then brought to fullness by the efforts of Chinese people. Well done there, Hong Kongers, and I wish you all the luck in the world keeping the ChiComs at bay.
After all that, I don't know whether I should sign out with something Chinese or something Scottish. I think this year I'll go with the Scots; in fact with Robbie Burns himself. This poem has been set to music more than once; but I prefer a plain reading by a good strong Scottish voice, in this case the voice of actor Donald Douglas—still with us, at age 86.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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[Music clip: Donald Douglas reading "A Red, Red Rose."]


vdare--2020-01-24--Yale Art History Department to Stop Teaching Famous Intro Course Because White Men Painted Too Many

Yale Art History Department to Stop Teaching Famous Intro Course Because White Men Painted Too Many Great Pictures

Yale will stop teaching a storied introductory survey course in art history , citing the impossibility of adequately covering the entire field — and its varied cultural backgrounds — in one course .
Decades old and once taught by famous Yale professors like Vincent Scully , “ Introduction to Art History : Renaissance to the Present ” was once touted to be one of Yale College ’ s quintessential classes .
But this change is the latest response to student uneasiness over an idealized Western “ canon ” — a product of an overwhelmingly white , straight , European and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the final rendition of the course will seek to question the idea of Western art itself — a marked difference from the course ’ s focus at its inception .
Art history department chair and the course ’ s instructor Tim Barringer told the News that he plans to demonstrate that a class about the history of art does not just mean Western art .
Rather , when there are so many other regions , genres and traditions — all “ equally deserving of study ” — putting European art on a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said .
… While concerns about the class ’ s singular focus in Western art has led to its cancellation , student enrollment in Barringer ’ s course skyrocketed this semester after the department ’ s plan was announced .
Over 400 students shopped the class last week , though the course is capped at 300 due to constraints in the number of sections that the YUAG can host .
… According to Barringer , the class will still cover Western art chronologically from 1300 to the present and hopscotch across European art @ @ @ @ @ @ @ University Art Gallery .
Students in sections will still examine objects directly from Yale ’ s vast collections .
In his syllabus note to potential students on Canvas , an online course management tool , Barringer wrote that the emphasis would be placed on the relationship between European art and other world traditions .
The class will also consider art in relation to “ questions of gender , class and ‘ race ’ ” and discuss its involvement with Western capitalism , Barringer wrote .
Its relationship with climate change will be a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Barringer has also focused attention on the course ’ s written assignments .
He said that he will invite students to write an essay nominating a work of art that has been left out of the course ’ s curriculum or its textbook .
Like the changes to the course itself , this essay is designed to challenge long-held views of art history .
Hopefully , Women of Color will nominate their own selfies entitled “ Me and My Hair.
” … “ My biggest critique of the decision is that it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Mahlon Sorensen ’ 22 said .
“ If you get rid of that one , all-encompassing course , then to understand the Western canon of art , students are going to have to take multiple art history courses .
Which is all well and good for the art history major , but it sucks for the rest of us , which , I would say , make up the vast majority of the people who are taking [ HSAR 115 ] .
” The decision to get rid of this survey art @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s move to “ decolonize ” its degree requirements in 2017 .
At the time , the department made a sequence titled “ Major English Poets ” optional for majors .
For years , the Directed Studies program — a six-credit sequence for first-year students focusing on philosophy , literature and political philosophy — has also fielded criticisms about its exclusive focus on the Western canon .
The fundamental problem is that Western man came up with more ideas worth studying than any other identity group .
After such knowledge , what forgiveness @

From the Yale Daily News:
Art History Department to scrap survey course
MARGARET HEDEMAN & MATT KRISTOFFERSEN 12:31 AM, JAN 24, 2020 Yale will stop teaching a storied introductory survey course in art history, citing the impossibility of adequately covering the entire field — and its varied cultural backgrounds — in one course. Decades old and once taught by famous Yale professors like Vincent Scully, “Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to the Present” was once touted to be one of Yale College’s quintessential classes. But this change is the latest response to student uneasiness over an idealized Western “canon” — a product of an overwhelmingly white, straight, European and male cadre of artists.
Straight? Leonardo, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Sargent, Hockney, etc. etc. …
This spring, the final rendition of the course will seek to question the idea of Western art itself — a marked difference from the course’s focus at its inception. Art history department chair and the course’s instructor Tim Barringer told the News that he plans to demonstrate that a class about the history of art does not just mean Western art. Rather, when there are so many other regions, genres and traditions — all “equally deserving of study” — putting European art on a pedestal is “problematic,” he said. … While concerns about the class’s singular focus in Western art has led to its cancellation, student enrollment in Barringer’s course skyrocketed this semester after the department’s plan was announced. Over 400 students shopped the class last week, though the course is capped at 300 due to constraints in the number of sections that the YUAG can host. … According to Barringer, the class will still cover Western art chronologically from 1300 to the present and hopscotch across European art movements under the roof of the Yale University Art Gallery. Students in sections will still examine objects directly from Yale’s vast collections. In his syllabus note to potential students on Canvas, an online course management tool, Barringer wrote that the emphasis would be placed on the relationship between European art and other world traditions. The class will also consider art in relation to “questions of gender, class and ‘race’” and discuss its involvement with Western capitalism, Barringer wrote. Its relationship with climate change will be a “key theme,” he wrote.
Now that’s funny.
Barringer has also focused attention on the course’s written assignments. He said that he will invite students to write an essay nominating a work of art that has been left out of the course’s curriculum or its textbook. Like the changes to the course itself, this essay is designed to challenge long-held views of art history.
“I’m really looking forward to seeing what works the students come up with to counteract or undermine my own narratives,” he wrote.
Hopefully, Women of Color will nominate their own selfies entitled “Me and My Hair.”
… “My biggest critique of the decision is that it’s a disservice to undergrads,” Mahlon Sorensen ’22 said. “If you get rid of that one, all-encompassing course, then to understand the Western canon of art, students are going to have to take multiple art history courses. Which is all well and good for the art history major, but it sucks for the rest of us, which, I would say, make up the vast majority of the people who are taking [HSAR 115].” The decision to get rid of this survey art history course resembles the English Department’s move to “decolonize” its degree requirements in 2017. At the time, the department made a sequence titled “Major English Poets” optional for majors. For years, the Directed Studies program — a six-credit sequence for first-year students focusing on philosophy, literature and political philosophy — has also fielded criticisms about its exclusive focus on the Western canon.
The fundamental problem is that Western man came up with more ideas worth studying than any other identity group.
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-01-24--John Derbyshire: America Catches Coronavirus Panic

Adapted from the latest Radio Derb , available exclusively at VDARE.com Health hysteria goes viral .
There are screaming headlines all over .
• New York Post : VIDEOS SHOW `` DIRE '' SITUATIONS AT CHINESE HOSPITALS AMID CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK .
That 's the online version .
My print edition says : A STATE OF WAR vs .
VIRUS .
• Guardian : LIFE UNDER LOCKDOWN IN CHINA : HOSPITAL QUEUES AND EMPTY STREETS .
• Los Angeles Times : YOU 'VE REACHED YOUR FREE ARTICLE LIMIT .
Ah , the hell with these paywalls .
So what is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ write this ; so far as I can gather , all of them in China , all or most in or near the central city of Wuhan .
Twenty-six dead ?
In a nation of 1.4 billion ?
It 's too bad for the loved ones of those twenty-six , of course .
Send not to know For whom the bell tolls .
There but for the grace of God , … and so on .
Proper sympathy and respect .
But … twenty-six ?
In Communist China ?
Prison guards in Tibet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over the same span of time .
So what accounts for all the hysteria ?
A number of things .
First of course there is the folk memory of great plagues in the past : the Black Death in 14th-century Europe , the Plague of Justinian eight hundred years earlier , which seems to have been even worse , and recurring similar but lesser events down into quite modern times —the great influenza pandemic that followed World War One , and killed more people than the war had .
Bear in mind , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ came later in China than in the West .
My wife 's home town in Manchuria was the epicenter of the greatest-ever outbreak of pneumonic plague , a close relative of the Black Death .
Tens of thousands died .
That was in 1911 .
There must be people my age in that town who heard all about it from their parents .
All right , all right ; but with today 's understandings of disease transmission , and today 's standards of public hygiene—yes , even in China , although perhaps not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ justified ?
My guess would be not .
Michael Fumento , who knows this territory better than anyone—he 's the guy who debunked the myth of heterosexual AIDS in a book with that title thirty years ago—has in today 's New York Post .
[ Don ’ t buy the media hype over the new China virus , January 23 , 2020 ] So , dim folk memories aside , why the hysteria ?
I think that so far as the Western world is concerned , we have caught it from China .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ hysteria , like influenza , is contagious .
That 's especially true in an age like ours : a hysterical age , with public media hungry for sensation , and the old human fascination for tales of world-wide catastrophe still strong—think of global warming .
But that just pushes the question back one square .
Why are the Chinese so hysterical about it ?
For clues , look back to the SARS panic of seventeen years ago .
I got an interesting perspective on that event from reading a novel about it by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not only read the novel , I reviewed it .
Here 's a quote from my review : You have to read that in the context of medical care in China , which is different from medical care in Western countries in important ways .
The one great truth about medical care everywhere is that supply can never meet demand .
In the West we do our best to square the circle with pricing , waiting lists , taxes on employers , government-subsidized bogus `` insurance '' schemes , and so on—all pretty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as they are , everyone 's used to them .
The Chinese health-care system is more … Chinese .
There are I am sure many kind and humane doctors in China doing their best for their patients .
There are a lot of the other kind , too , though .
I have spent very little time in China these past twenty years , but the little time I 've spent was enough to hear ordinary citizens express angry dislike of the medical profession on three or four occasions .
Something like : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Corruption is certainly quite common .
The doctor will see you now … for a price—in cash , please .
Layered on top of this is the huge rise in expectations that has come up this past thirty years as a side consequence of China 's amazing economic advance .
From a poor , cramped society up against Malthusian limits , with an unresponsive economy , China has quite suddenly been transformed into a more-or-less modern , Western-style consumer paradise , where middle-class people can buy all they need in free markets … @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aforementioned reasons of supply and demand , in the matter of health-care .
So a widespread medical emergency gets citizens talking and thinking about one of the more unpopular features of their social and political system .
That spooks the authorities .
To re-quote from my review of Hu Fayun 's novel : Hence all these strenuous efforts by the authorities to show how capably they can handle a crisis .
The totalitarian nature of Chinese society also promotes hysteria .
China is not as totalitarian as it was thirty years ago ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the Party , and old habits—habits of both the rulers and the ruled—die hard .
Just as a bouncing ball ricochets faster and more energetically in a small space than in a large one , fears , panics , and hysteria bounce around in a closed or partly-closed society more than in an open one .
It 's unfortunate , too , that this outbreak has happened in the run-up to Chinese New Year , when huge numbers of Chinese people are on the move to spend the New Year holiday with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are Chinese , this is the time of year more than any other when you find yourself jammed in great crowds of strangers trying to get on trains , or buy tickets .
Imagine being stuck in one of those throngs when some stranger an arm 's length away emits a loud sneeze .
The Chinese word for `` stampede , '' in case you 're wondering , is 惊 逃 .
And then I have darker suspicions .
You do n't hear much about biological warfare research , and there is supposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I would not be astounded to learn , though , that the major powers have projects ongoing under deep secrecy .
I would especially be un-astounded to learn that China is doing bioweapons research .
There is somewhat more awareness of the topic in China than here .
ChiCom propaganda says that when Japan occupied northeast China back in the 1930s and 1940s , the Japs did biological warfare experiments on Chinese subjects .
I have no idea whether this is true , though it might be ; the point is that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many many times .
If the ChiComs are doing biological warfare research and something nasty were to escape from one of their labs , they would be seriously embarrassed .
They do n't like being embarrassed .
Stretching my suspicions a wee bit further , I wonder if perhaps someone in the Inner Party has read Irwin Shaw 's 1967 short story The Mannichon Solution .
If you read my monthly diaries you 'll recall that in the story , an industrial chemist accidentally discovers a substance that is instantly lethal to living @ @ @ @ @ @ @ One of the guy 's colleagues is Japanese .
The story ends with this colleague placing an order with his lab supplier for a thousand white mice .
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Health hysteria goes viral. There are screaming headlines all over.
So what is the body count here? Twenty-six as I write this; so far as I can gather, all of them in China, all or most in or near the central city of Wuhan.
Twenty-six dead? In a nation of 1.4 billion? It's too bad for the loved ones of those twenty-six, of course. Send not to know For whom the bell tolls. There but for the grace of God, … and so on. Proper sympathy and respect. But … twenty-six? In Communist China? Prison guards in Tibet probably clubbed twenty-six Buddhist nuns to death over the same span of time.
So what accounts for all the hysteria? A number of things.
First of course there is the folk memory of great plagues in the past: the Black Death in 14th-century Europe, the Plague of Justinian eight hundred years earlier, which seems to have been even worse, and recurring similar but lesser events down into quite modern times—the great influenza pandemic that followed World War One, and killed more people than the war had.
Bear in mind, too, that "modern times" came later in China than in the West. My wife's home town in Manchuria was the epicenter of the greatest-ever outbreak of pneumonic plague, a close relative of the Black Death. Tens of thousands died. That was in 1911. There must be people my age in that town who heard all about it from their parents.
All right, all right; but with today's understandings of disease transmission, and today's standards of public hygiene—yes, even in China, although perhaps not in San Francisco—is all the hysteria really justified?
My guess would be not. Michael Fumento, who knows this territory better than anyone—he's the guy who debunked the myth of heterosexual AIDS in a book with that title thirty years ago—has a good scoff piece in today's New York Post. [Don’t buy the media hype over the new China virus, January 23, 2020]
So, dim folk memories aside, why the hysteria? I think that so far as the Western world is concerned, we have caught it from China. The Chinese are hysterical about it and hysteria, like influenza, is contagious. That's especially true in an age like ours: a hysterical age, with public media hungry for sensation, and the old human fascination for tales of worldwide catastrophe still strong—think of global warming.
But that just pushes the question back one square. Why are the Chinese so hysterical about it?
For clues, look back to the SARS panic of seventeen years ago. I got an interesting perspective on that event from reading a novel about it by Chinese dissident writer Hu Fayun. I not only read the novel, I reviewed it. Here's a quote from my review:
SARS was much more a political than a medical event. Only a few hundred people died from the disease. As a character in the novel asks rhetorically: "With all the hundreds of millions of people in China, can you name a cause of death that doesn't kill more people than SARS?" As that character also points out, though, the management of public panic over SARS offered both great dangers and great career opportunities to government officials, and that was always the aspect of the matter foremost in their minds.
You have to read that in the context of medical care in China, which is different from medical care in Western countries in important ways.
The one great truth about medical care everywhere is that supply can never meet demand. In the West we do our best to square the circle with pricing, waiting lists, taxes on employers, government-subsidized bogus "insurance" schemes, and so on—all pretty open, and as annoying and irrational as they are, everyone's used to them.
The Chinese health-care system is more … Chinese. There are I am sure many kind and humane doctors in China doing their best for their patients. There are a lot of the other kind, too, though.
I have spent very little time in China these past twenty years, but the little time I've spent was enough to hear ordinary citizens express angry dislike of the medical profession on three or four occasions. Something like: "Doctors, those bastards …" Corruption is certainly quite common. The doctor will see you now … for a price—in cash, please.
Layered on top of this is the huge rise in expectations that has come up this past thirty years as a side consequence of China's amazing economic advance. From a poor, cramped society up against Malthusian limits, with an unresponsive economy, China has quite suddenly been transformed into a more-or-less modern, Western-style consumer paradise, where middle-class people can buy all they need in free markets … except, of course, for the aforementioned reasons of supply and demand, in the matter of healthcare.
So a widespread medical emergency gets citizens talking and thinking about one of the more unpopular features of their social and political system. That spooks the authorities. To re-quote from my review of Hu Fayun's novel:
The management of public panic over SARS offered both great dangers and great career opportunities to government officials.
Hence all these strenuous efforts by the authorities to show how capably they can handle a crisis.
The totalitarian nature of Chinese society also promotes hysteria. China is not as totalitarian as it was thirty years ago; but news media are still firmly controlled by the Party, and old habits—habits of both the rulers and the ruled—die hard. Just as a bouncing ball ricochets faster and more energetically in a small space than in a large one, fears, panics, and hysteria bounce around in a closed or partly closed society more than in an open one.
It's unfortunate, too, that this outbreak has happened in the run-up to Chinese New Year, when huge numbers of Chinese people are on the move to spend the New Year holiday with relatives in distant places. If you are Chinese, this is the time of year more than any other when you find yourself jammed in great crowds of strangers trying to get on trains, or buy tickets. Imagine being stuck in one of those throngs when some stranger an arm's length away emits a loud sneeze. The Chinese word for "stampede," in case you're wondering, is 惊 逃.
And then I have darker suspicions. You don't hear much about biological warfare research, and there is supposed to be a worldwide ban on it. I would not be astounded to learn, though, that the major powers have projects ongoing under deep secrecy.
I would especially be un-astounded to learn that China is doing bioweapons research. There is somewhat more awareness of the topic in China than here. ChiCom propaganda says that when Japan occupied northeast China back in the 1930s and 1940s, the Japs did biological warfare experiments on Chinese subjects. I have no idea whether this is true, though it might be; the point is that everyone in China has heard about it many many times.
If the ChiComs are doing biological warfare research and something nasty were to escape from one of their labs, they would be seriously embarrassed. They don't like being embarrassed.
Stretching my suspicions a wee bit further, I wonder if perhaps someone in the Inner Party has read Irwin Shaw's 1967 short story The Mannichon Solution.
If you read my monthly diaries you'll recall that in the story, an industrial chemist accidentally discovers a substance that is instantly lethal to living creatures, but only yellow ones. One of the guy's colleagues is Japanese. The story ends with this colleague placing an order with his lab supplier for a thousand white mice.
John Derbyshire [ email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
For years he’s been podcasting at Radio Derb, now available at VDARE.com for no charge. His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.
Readers who wish to donate (tax deductible) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire's writings at VDARE.com can do so here.


vdare--2020-01-24--The Latest Crisis ..."Swastikas Found" In Boston College Dorm

Swastikas found in Emerson College dormitory The college will hold a community vigil Thursday at 4 p.m. January 23 , 2020 Four swastikas were found drawn in stairwells in an Emerson College dormitory Tuesday night , according to an e-mail sent to students .
The Nazi symbol was discovered in Piano Row , a residence hall , Emerson College President Lee Pelton [ Email him ] said in the e-mail .
Emerson College was founded in 1880 as the Boston Conservatory of Elocution , Oratory , and Dramatic Art .
It was obscure until not long ago , when it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for its emphasis on screenwriting and the like .
This is reminiscent of the finding of swastikas right after Trump ’ s election in the womyn ’ s dorm at the New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village .
There seems to be a negative correlation between the likelihood of a swastika showing up in a locked dorm and the number of actual neo-Nazis who are aware of the existence of that educational institution .
So far , this story hasn ’ t gone national , being restricted to the Boston outlets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media , after decades of credulously promoting fake news Hate Hoaxes has gotten a little less gullible in the year since Covington and Jussie ?

Image via Patriot Post.
From the Boston Globe…
Swastikas found in Emerson College dormitory
The college will hold a community vigil Thursday at 4 p.m. January 23, 2020
Four swastikas were found drawn in stairwells in an Emerson College dormitory Tuesday night, according to an e-mail sent to students. The Nazi symbol was discovered in Piano Row, a residence hall, Emerson College President Lee Pelton [Email him] said in the e-mail.
Emerson College was founded in 1880 as the Boston Conservatory of Elocution, Oratory, and Dramatic Art. It was obscure until not long ago, when it became fashionable among wealthy high school students for its emphasis on screenwriting and the like.
This is reminiscent of the finding of swastikas right after Trump’s election in the womyn’s dorm at the New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village.
There seems to be a negative correlation between the likelihood of a swastika showing up in a locked dorm and the number of actual neo-Nazis who are aware of the existence of that educational institution.
So far, this story hasn’t gone national, being restricted to the Boston outlets. Is this suggestive that the national media, after decades of credulously promoting fake news Hate Hoaxes, has gotten a little less gullible in the year since Covington and Jussie?


vdare--2020-01-24--PROFILES IN CORRUPTION: How The Biden Family Got Rich

Earlier : There Is No Way Hunter And Joe Biden Are n't Corrupt and Michelle Malkin : Beltway Bidenspawn-Ship Has Its Privileges Author Peter Schweizer has been making the media rounds doing interviews on his new book Profiles in Corruption : Abuse of Power by America ’ s Progressive Elite , and his attention focused on the crooked Biden family is beginning to have an effect .
Friday ’ s New York Times front page included an article with the newsprint title Facing Queries About His Son , Biden Is by Turns Calm or Curt ( reprinted by MSN.com ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is pulling back its support for the 2020 candidate .
What ’ s notable about the Biden clan is how many family members rode the gravy train to riches on the basis of the name and influence .
Schweizer has dug up people beyond Hunter that most Americans have never heard of .
Below , the Biden family alleged crooks include ( left to right ) Joe ’ s brother James , son Hunter , son-in-law Howard Krein , brother Frank and sister Valerie Biden Owens .
Lou Dobbs recently interviewed the author @ @ @ @ @ @ @ family business .
Dobbs seemed amazed and almost amused by the brazen arrogance of the clan .
Schweizer noted how atypical it is for so many family members to be engaged in corruption-based crime : “ It ’ s remarkable .
I mean the Biden family , you ’ ve got five family members involved .
I call them the Biden Five ; they ’ re like the Jackson Five but they don ’ t sing , it ’ s corruption , and I ’ ve never seen this before .
You know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lou , on your show about corruption involving Democrats , Republicans .
Maybe there ’ s one family member , maybe there ’ s two .
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I ’ ve never run across one that has five , and on top of the fact that there are five involved , it ’ s like a corrupt United Nations .
You ’ ve got Hunter Biden doing deals in Ukraine , doing deals in China with state actors , corrupt old guards ; you got the brother James who ’ s with this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by a family friend .
They get the contract to build a hundred thousand homes in Iraq they get contracts to do work for the State Department ’ s .
Then you ’ ve got this other brother Frank meeting with the Costa Rican president for these energy deals , and of course he has no background in energy .
It just goes on and on.
” For more details on the family members , see Schweizer ’ s New York Post article , How five members of Joe Biden ’ s family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ book ranked # 1 on Amazon 10 days before release , surely based on Schweizer ’ s reputation as a thorough investigator .
It won ’ t help Joe Biden ’ s faltering campaign , that ’ s for sure .
Other Democrats get criticism as well : the table of contents shows chapters on Bernie Sanders , Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar .

Earlier: There Is No Way Hunter And Joe Biden Aren't Corrupt and Michelle Malkin: Beltway Bidenspawn-Ship Has Its Privileges
Author Peter Schweizer has been making the media rounds doing interviews on his new book Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite, and his attention focused on the crooked Biden family is beginning to have an effect.
Friday’s New York Times front page included an article with the newsprint title Facing Queries About His Son, Biden Is by Turns Calm or Curt (reprinted by MSN.com). So it appears the elite media is pulling back its support for the 2020 candidate.
What’s notable about the Biden clan is how many family members rode the gravy train to riches on the basis of the name and influence. Schweizer has dug up people beyond Hunter that most Americans have never heard of.
Below, the Biden family alleged crooks include (left to right) Joe’s brother James, son Hunter, son-in-law Howard Krein, brother Frank and sister Valerie Biden Owens.
Lou Dobbs recently interviewed the author to get a taste of the Biden family business. Dobbs seemed amazed and almost amused by the brazen arrogance of the clan.
Schweizer noted how atypical it is for so many family members to be engaged in corruption-based crime:
“It’s remarkable. I mean the Biden family, you’ve got five family members involved. I call them the Biden Five; they’re like the Jackson Five but they don’t sing, it’s corruption, and I’ve never seen this before. You know we’ve talked many times, Lou, on your show about corruption involving Democrats, Republicans. Maybe there’s one family member, maybe there’s two. . . I’ve never run across one that has five, and on top of the fact that there are five involved, it’s like a corrupt United Nations. You’ve got Hunter Biden doing deals in Ukraine, doing deals in China with state actors, corrupt old guards; you got the brother James who’s with this construction firm that’s set up by a family friend. They get the contract to build a hundred thousand homes in Iraq they get contracts to do work for the State Department’s. Then you’ve got this other brother Frank meeting with the Costa Rican president for these energy deals, and of course he has no background in energy. It just goes on and on.”
For more details on the family members, see Schweizer’s New York Post article, How five members of Joe Biden’s family got rich through his connections.
The book ranked #1 on Amazon 10 days before release, surely based on Schweizer’s reputation as a thorough investigator. It won’t help Joe Biden’s faltering campaign, that’s for sure. Other Democrats get criticism as well: the table of contents shows chapters on Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar.


vdare--2020-01-23--"America First" Candidates That "AngryWhitemen.org" Doesn't Like...I.E. Patriots Who Want An Immigra

"America First" Candidates That "AngryWhitemen.org" Doesn't Like...I.E. Patriots Who Want An Immigration Moratorium

The website AngryWhitemen.org is not run by angry white men , but by people who are angry at white men , and people enraged that any white people at all should dare to be angry at , say , people who hate them , or people who are invading their country .
In a recent effusion of hate [ Meet The Extremist ‘ America First ’ Candidates Running For Congress In 2020 , January 19 , 2020 ] which mentions us , they attack various patriots with the usual `` guilt-by-association '' tactics .
One of them is Joshua Foxworth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Texas 's 14th District .
He 's being attacked for being interviewed by the wrong people , having tweeted “ I am still seeking interviews with any legitimate media – especially @ StefanMolyneux and similar podcasts where we can get into the issues.
” None of that is ludicrous—the Left boasts of this when they 're not decrying it as conspiracy theory : see We Can Replace Them by Michelle Goldberg , NYT , October 29 , 2018 or see Foxworth 's own article Make No Mistake : The GOP is Losing Texas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2019 .
And listen to the show here , or below , because AngryWhiteMen.org did n't provide a link .
There 's more on Foxworth .
They 've got links to archived Twitter posts , and an archived link ( did they think we were going to delete it , or are they just trying to deny us traffic ? )
to Joshua Foxworth : Time to End Affirmative Actionhere on VDARE.com .
But Foxworth is n't the only one they hate , and not all their targets are white and male .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ her ] is running for Senate in Connecticut against Chris Coons .
Her heart is obviously in the right place , see below , but she 's white and female .
James Tulp [ Tweet him ] is running in Missippi , he is both white and male , and here 's what they say about him .
James Tulp is a far-right talk radio host running in Mississippi ’ s 3rd congressional district .
Like Joshua Foxworth , Tulp made an appearance on white nationalist Vincent Foxx ’ s YouTube show where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tulp said he was inspired to run by recent ICE raids in Mississippi and the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act .
He vowed to put an end to so-called “ chain migration , ” which he said is bringing in “ unskilled ” and “ illiterate ” immigrants from “ Third World countries.
” And he demanded to know where the right-wing equivalent of the Democrats ’ “ Green New Deal ” was .
“ Where ’ s our ‘ Green New Deal ’ ?
Where ’ s our end to birthright citizenship @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good to me , but obviously not to these `` Angry '' people .
Then there 's Jarome Bell [ Tweet him ] of Virginia 's 2nd District , who 's male but not white .
Jarome Bell gets it that immigrants are bad for blacks .
AngryWhitemen.org does n't think he should think that .
And they really do n't think he should have Tweeted this : So basically , anyone that AngryWhitemen.org does n't like is probably a good person .

The website AngryWhitemen.org is not run by angry white men, but by people who are angry at white men, and people enraged that any white people at all should dare to be angry at, say, people who hate them, or people who are invading their country. In a recent effusion of hate [Meet The Extremist ‘America First’ Candidates Running For Congress In 2020, January 19, 2020], which mentions us, they attack various patriots with the usual "guilt-by-association" tactics.
One of them is Joshua Foxworth, who's running for Congress in Texas's 14th District. He's being attacked for being interviewed by the wrong people, having tweeted “I am still seeking interviews with any legitimate media – especially @StefanMolyneux and similar podcasts where we can get into the issues.”
On December 28th their interview, titled “Immigration Flipping Texas!?!,” aired on Molyneux’s Freedomain Radio channel. During the interview Molyneux ludicrously claimed that “states are flippin’, counties are flipping because, you know, mass migration is a form of gerrymandering.”
None of that is ludicrous—the Left boasts of this when they're not decrying it as conspiracy theory: See We Can Replace Them by Michelle Goldberg, NYT, October 29, 2018 or see Foxworth's own article Make No Mistake: The GOP is Losing Texas, American Thinker, September 13, 2019.
And listen to the show here, or below, because AngryWhiteMen.org didn't provide a link.
There's more on Foxworth.
They've got links to archived Twitter posts, and an archived link (did they think we were going to delete it, or are they just trying to deny us traffic?) to Joshua Foxworth: Time to End Affirmative Actionhere on VDARE.com.
But Foxworth isn't the only one they hate, and not all their targets are white and male.
For example, Lauren Witzke [Tweet her] is running for Senate in Connecticut against Chris Coons. Her heart is obviously in the right place, see below, but she's white and female.
James Tulp [Tweet him] is running in Mississppi, he is both white and male, and here's what they say about him.
James Tulp is a far-right talk radio host running in Mississippi’s 3rd congressional district. Like Joshua Foxworth, Tulp made an appearance on white nationalist Vincent Foxx’s YouTube show where he touted his anti-immigrant bona fides. Tulp said he was inspired to run by recent ICE raids in Mississippi and the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act. He vowed to put an end to so-called “chain migration,” which he said is bringing in “unskilled” and “illiterate” immigrants from “Third World countries.” And he demanded to know where the right-wing equivalent of the Democrats’ “Green New Deal” was. “Where’s our ‘Green New Deal’? Where’s our end to birthright citizenship plan?” he asked.
Sounds good to me, but obviously not to these "Angry" people.
Then there's Jarome Bell [Tweet him] of Virginia's 2nd District, who's male but not white.
Jarome Bell gets it that immigrants are bad for blacks. AngryWhitemen.org doesn't think he should think that.
And they really don't think he should have Tweeted this:
Can't load tweet https://twitter.com/JaromeBellVA/status/1217157279146967044: Sorry, you are not authorized to see this status.
So basically, anyone that AngryWhitemen.org doesn't like is probably a good person.


vdare--2020-01-25--Biden Responds to Joe Rogan's Endorsement of Bernie Sanders (I Think)

If ex-men getting to shower in the women ’ s locker room is “ the civil rights issue of our @ @ @ @ @ rights is pretty much done and over .
Which it is , of course .
@ @ @ @ @ movement looking for increasingly absurd justifications to not declare victory and close up shop .

Let’s be clear: Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time. There is no room for compromise when it comes to basic human rights. — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 25, 2020
If ex-men getting to shower in the women’s locker room is “the civil rights issue of our time,” then civil rights is pretty much done and over.
Which it is, of course. Civil rights is a zombie movement looking for increasingly absurd justifications to not declare victory and close up shop.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-01-25--Just Make It Illegal To Give Blacks A Ticket: lllinois Reinstates 55,000 Suspended Licenses For Unpa

Just Make It Illegal To Give Blacks A Ticket: lllinois Reinstates 55,000 Suspended Licenses For Unpaid Parking Tickets Because Of "Disparate Impact" On Blacks

See earlier by John Derbyshire : “ Disparate Impact ” —Key Lie In Our Ruling Class Ideology What does it mean to be a racial minority in America ( non-white and non-Asian ) ?
Freedom from Responsibility .
Illinois to reinstate 55,000 driver ’ s licenses suspended over unpaid parking tickets , by Dan Petrella , Chicago Tribune , January 17 , 2020 Illinois will no longer suspend the licenses of drivers who fail to pay parking tickets and other fines beginning July 1 under a measure Gov .
J.B. Pritzker signed into law Friday .
The secretary of state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the driving privileges of roughly 55,000 people who ’ ve had their licenses suspended over unpaid fines and fees unrelated to moving violations .
“ Right now , tens of thousands of Illinoisans lose their licenses each year for reasons that have nothing to do with their ability to drive , ” Pritzker said at a bill-signing event in Chicago ’ s Homan Square neighborhood .
The suspensions disproportionately affect low-income drivers who need their cars to get to work and earn the money to pay their fines , the governor said .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ or near the poverty line and you ’ re looking at a choice between your unpaid parking tickets or your kid ’ s medicine or your family ’ s next meal , well , that ’ s no choice at all , ” he said .
While his choice wasn ’ t quite that stark , Rodney Shelton said he nearly lost his job as a Chicago firefighter when his license was suspended in April 2015 over $ 18,000 unpaid parking tickets .
Shelton , who spoke at the bill signing , said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days on a car he ’ d parked on a private lot .
He ended up filing for bankruptcy , which helped him retain his license and his job as a firefighter , which pays $ 99,324 annually , according to city records .
He also began driving for Uber to help pay down his debts , he said .
“ This is a domino effect ; it affects my family at home , ” said Shelton , who choked up when talking about the impact of drivers license suspension in neighborhoods like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up and works .
“ Most people are not fortunate , ” he said .
The legislation was sponsored by state Rep. Carol Ammons of Urbana and Sen. Omar Aquino of Chicago , both Democrats , and approved with bipartisan support in the House and Senate .
Both Ammons and Aquino credited an investigation from ProPublica Illinois and WBEZ on the disproportionate impact of license suspensions on drivers in low-income , predominantly black neighborhoods in the city and suburbs .
The change to the state law comes after the City Council voted in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ license suspensions over unpaid tickets .
“ Suspending someone ’ s license really suspends their entire life , ” Ammons said .

See earlier by John Derbyshire: “Disparate Impact”—Key Lie In Our Ruling Class Ideology
What does it mean to be a racial minority in America (non-white and non-Asian)? Freedom from Responsibility.
Or, more accurately, black privilege defined.
Illinois to reinstate 55,000 driver’s licenses suspended over unpaid parking tickets, by Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, January 17, 2020
Illinois will no longer suspend the licenses of drivers who fail to pay parking tickets and other fines beginning July 1 under a measure Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Friday.
The secretary of state’s office also will automatically reinstate the driving privileges of roughly 55,000 people who’ve had their licenses suspended over unpaid fines and fees unrelated to moving violations.
“Right now, tens of thousands of Illinoisans lose their licenses each year for reasons that have nothing to do with their ability to drive,” Pritzker said at a bill-signing event in Chicago’s Homan Square neighborhood.
The suspensions disproportionately affect low-income drivers who need their cars to get to work and earn the money to pay their fines, the governor said.
“If you’re living below or near the poverty line and you’re looking at a choice between your unpaid parking tickets or your kid’s medicine or your family’s next meal, well, that’s no choice at all,” he said.
While his choice wasn’t quite that stark, Rodney Shelton said he nearly lost his job as a Chicago firefighter when his license was suspended in April 2015 over $18,000 unpaid parking tickets. Shelton, who spoke at the bill signing, said he racked up 77 tickets in 90 days on a car he’d parked on a private lot.
He ended up filing for bankruptcy, which helped him retain his license and his job as a firefighter, which pays $99,324 annually, according to city records. He also began driving for Uber to help pay down his debts, he said.
“This is a domino effect; it affects my family at home,” said Shelton, who choked up when talking about the impact of drivers license suspension in neighborhoods like West Garfield Park, where he grew up and works.
“Most people are not fortunate,” he said.
The legislation was sponsored by state Rep. Carol Ammons of Urbana and Sen. Omar Aquino of Chicago, both Democrats, and approved with bipartisan support in the House and Senate.
Both Ammons and Aquino credited an investigation from ProPublica Illinois and WBEZ on the disproportionate impact of license suspensions on drivers in low-income, predominantly black neighborhoods in the city and suburbs.
The change to the state law comes after the City Council voted in September to end the practice of seeking license suspensions over unpaid tickets.
“Suspending someone’s license really suspends their entire life,” Ammons said.


vdare--2020-01-25--Black Woman Gets Angry At A Becky, Blames It On Trump

On the New York Times opinion page , a pundit explains that her anti-white rage at the receptionist at the vet is Trump ’ s fault : Erin Aubry Kaplan , a contributing opinion writer , teaches writing at Antioch University , Los Angeles , and is the author of “ Black Talk , Blue Thoughts , and Walking the Color Line ” and “ I Heart Obama.
” My Piece of the American Id Does equality in the age of Trump mean I can be irrationally angry , too ?
She was the Los Angeles Times ’ long-time black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ freewheeling racism , emanating year after year from the top of the American political order , has made me more hostile toward white folks and whiteness than I ’ ve ever been in my life .
Despite the fact that I ’ ve written provocatively ( so I ’ m told ) about racial matters for years , this hostility is new — and I ’ m increasingly unafraid to express it .
Like all people of color , I ’ ve been on the receiving end of racial microaggressions for as long @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the perpetrator of this sort of macroaggression is a new and alarming phenomenon .
It ’ s unsettling mostly because it is addictive , like a drug that unlocks a kind of emotional freedom I ’ ve never been allowed to explore before .
A couple of weeks ago , my dog woke up with a nasty ear infection , and I found myself at the reception desk of a specialty vet practice ’ s emergency room , filling out forms to check her in .
As usual , I was the only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the forms , the receptionist — a young white woman — turned to me and said , pointing a finger , “ Go sit down.
” Her voice was flat , with none of the cheer or empathy she ’ d just shown a white pet owner .
Say what ?
Instantly , I was indignant .
“ I ’ m sorry ?
Sit down ?
” She didn ’ t respond , which made me more indignant — oh , now she was ignoring me ?
“ Why should I sit down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there a problem ?
” My voice was louder than it needed to be , and scornful .
I wasn ’ t having it .
I was not going to sit down .
Over the top ?
Maybe .
But the new , alarming truth is that I didn ’ t care .
At all .
I suppose this was inevitable in the age of Donald Trump .
… I feel — again — that Malcolm X was right , black people are wasting their time trying to win over white people when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being won over .
The fact that our fates are intertwined — something even Malcolm eventually realized — makes me not hopeful , as it once did , but angrier .
I feel stuck in a terrible , lopsided marriage .
The least I should be able to do in this dysfunctional relationship is to vent my anger , not on paper or newsprint , but in the real world , in real time .
… But she didn ’ t accept my apology .
She looked away from me with a kind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pained her .
Or it made her angry .
In any case , she didn ’ t respond , just as she hadn ’ t responded to my salvo a half-hour earlier .
I don ’ t know if it was because I ’ d been a jerk , or because I ’ m black , or because I was more of a jerk in her eyes for being black .
I walked off deeply unsatisfied for not having an answer .
I ’ d had my say — twice — and things @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no more equal .

On the New York Times opinion page, a pundit explains that her anti-white rage at the receptionist at the vet is Trump’s fault:
Erin Aubry Kaplan, a contributing opinion writer, teaches writing at Antioch University, Los Angeles, and is the author of “Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line” and “I Heart Obama.”
My Piece of the American Id Does equality in the age of Trump mean I can be irrationally angry, too?
She was the Los Angeles Times’ long-time black woman columnist.
Jan. 24, 2020, 8:00 p.m. ET
The president’s freewheeling racism, emanating year after year from the top of the American political order, has made me more hostile toward white folks and whiteness than I’ve ever been in my life. Despite the fact that I’ve written provocatively (so I’m told) about racial matters for years, this hostility is new — and I’m increasingly unafraid to express it.
Like all people of color, I’ve been on the receiving end of racial microaggressions for as long as I can remember, but being the perpetrator of this sort of macroaggression is a new and alarming phenomenon. It’s unsettling mostly because it is addictive, like a drug that unlocks a kind of emotional freedom I’ve never been allowed to explore before.
A couple of weeks ago, my dog woke up with a nasty ear infection, and I found myself at the reception desk of a specialty vet practice’s emergency room, filling out forms to check her in. As usual, I was the only black person there. As I completed the forms, the receptionist — a young white woman — turned to me and said, pointing a finger, “Go sit down.” Her voice was flat, with none of the cheer or empathy she’d just shown a white pet owner.
Say what? Instantly, I was indignant. “I’m sorry? Sit down?”
She didn’t respond, which made me more indignant — oh, now she was ignoring me? “Why should I sit down? Am I bothering you? Is there a problem?” My voice was louder than it needed to be, and scornful. I wasn’t having it. I was not going to sit down.
Over the top? Maybe. But the new, alarming truth is that I didn’t care. At all.
I suppose this was inevitable in the age of Donald Trump.
… I feel — again — that Malcolm X was right, black people are wasting their time trying to win over white people when they so clearly have no interest in being won over.
The fact that our fates are intertwined — something even Malcolm eventually realized — makes me not hopeful, as it once did, but angrier. I feel stuck in a terrible, lopsided marriage. The least I should be able to do in this dysfunctional relationship is to vent my anger, not on paper or newsprint, but in the real world, in real time. …
But she didn’t accept my apology. She looked away from me with a kind of wince, as if my contrition pained her. Or it made her angry. In any case, she didn’t respond, just as she hadn’t responded to my salvo a half-hour earlier. I don’t know if it was because I’d been a jerk, or because I’m black, or because I was more of a jerk in her eyes for being black. I walked off deeply unsatisfied for not having an answer. I’d had my say — twice — and things were no clearer. They were certainly no more equal.


vdare--2020-01-25--The Global Future Of "Civil Rights": China, India Crushing Free Speech In America

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India is an avowed student of the Chinese experiment .
Is it so far-fetched to @ @ @ @ @ to create comparable pressures on speech for institutions doing business with India ?
The more @ @ @ @ @ , the more likely it is to spread .
Modi has not shied away from @ @ @ @ @ , so the domestic pressure to follow the Chinese model could be quite strong .
@ @ @ @ @ Chinese see any Western criticism of the government of China as a violation of their @ @ @ @ @ rights being understood in the Current Year mode as meaning that all nonwhites have the @ @ @ @ @ put up with any impertinence from whites .

Tyler Cowen writes in Bloomberg’s opinion section:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India is an avowed student of the Chinese experiment. Is it so far-fetched to imagine that he would help to create comparable pressures on speech for institutions doing business with India? The more China’s strategy succeeds, the more likely it is to spread. Modi has not shied away from controversy in making Indian policy, so the domestic pressure to follow the Chinese model could be quite strong.
My impression is that many Chinese see any Western criticism of the government of China as a violation of their civil rights, with civil rights being understood in the Current Year mode as meaning that all nonwhites have the right to never have to put up with any impertinence from whites.


vdare--2020-01-25--Consumer DNA Testing Hits Down Market—Most People Know "Who They Are"

23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline , CEO says she was ‘ surprised ’ to see @ @ @ @ @ laying off 100 people , as consumer DNA tests are down .
– CEO Anne @ @ @ @ @ a clear explanation for that , but cited a variety of factors , including both @ @ @ @ @ .
– Wojcicki said she anticipated that DNA testing would explode when she co-founded the @ @ @ @ @ is now looking ahead to a retracting market .
Home DNA-testing company 23andMe is laying @ @ @ @ @ or 14 % of its staff , on Thursday , in the wake of declining @ @ @ @ @ Wojcicki told CNBC she ’ s been “ surprised ” to see the market starting @ @ @ @ @ theories , but she doesn ’ t have clear proof for why consumers are shying @ @ @ @ @ reveal their percentage of Irish heritage , propensity for a favorite ice cream flavor , @ @ @ @ @ limited set of variants that are associated with breast cancer .

From CNBC:
23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline, CEO says she was ‘surprised’ to see market turn
PUBLISHED THU, JAN 23 20201:15 PM ESTUPDATED THU, JAN 23 20205:54 PM EST
Christina Farr
– 23andMe is laying off 100 people, as consumer DNA tests are down.
– CEO Anne Wojcicki didn’t have a clear explanation for that, but cited a variety of factors, including both recession fears and privacy concerns.
– Wojcicki said she anticipated that DNA testing would explode when she co-founded the business in 2007, but is now looking ahead to a retracting market.
Home DNA-testing company 23andMe is laying off about 100 people, or 14% of its staff, on Thursday, in the wake of declining sales.
… CEO Anne Wojcicki told CNBC she’s been “surprised” to see the market starting to turn.
Wojcicki has theories, but she doesn’t have clear proof for why consumers are shying away from getting tests that reveal their percentage of Irish heritage, propensity for a favorite ice cream flavor, or whether they have a limited set of variants that are associated with breast cancer.


vdare--2020-01-25--Pete Buttigieg And Psychology—Commander In Chief-Worthy Or Not?

See also : The Democratic Party Has Tipped , To Minorities , Women , Gays—Expect More Kavanaugh-Type Hysteria in the Future .
Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg is the first openly homosexual man ever to run to be President of the United States .
He ’ s even married to junior high school teacher Chasten Glezman ( who , interestingly has taken Buttigieg ’ s surname [ Pete Buttigieg ’ s Husband Chasten Has an Incredible Backstory , By Emma Dibdin , O : The Oprah Magazine , July 31 , 2019 ] ) .
The Mainstream Media can hardly contain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who is only 37 , is doing so well : He is one of the “ Top 4 ” contenders for the Democratic nomination [ Democratic debates : Snoozefest has top 4 running in place as other 6 feebly jab , By Melissa Schultz & Aaron Fels , New York Post , November 21 , 2019 ] .
It almost seems impolite to point out that gays , like women , are systematically more prone to certain personality traits that , while obviously not disqualifying , are problematic in political leaders .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ he is a “ gay Christian.
” This allows him to try to “ square the circle ” for more conservative potential voters : Gay ?
Yes .
But also a traditionalist Christian .
Raised Roman Catholic , he became an Anglican while studying at Oxford University [ Pete Buttigieg : Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate , By Nataly Pak et al.
, ABC News , September 13 , 2019 ] .
Oxford , almost exclusively male until at least World War II , has long had a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ single-sex “ public schools ” ( prestigious private boarding schools ) such as Eton and then went on to study at university , at single-sex colleges .
This was famously if tactfully portrayed in Evelyn Waugh ’ s novel Brideshead Revisited , in which , in 1923 , two Oxford undergraduate public school boys—Charles Ryder and Lord Sebastian Flyte—become rather more than just rowing buddies .
Twenty years later , Charles returns to Brideshead , a stately home , “ homeless , childless , middle-aged and loveless.
” Deeply unhappy , he takes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
You see , it must be remembered that gay men are not very happy people .
And this would have to be borne in mind if Buttigieg were ever to become Commander in Chief .
Homosexuality presents a conundrum for evolutionary theory : it should have been bred out .
One explanation , according to human sexuality researcher Ray Blanchard : homosexuality is an example of “ developmental instability ” .
It is a manifestation of something having gone wrong , usually early in development , due to mutant genes , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in utero due to the mother producing too much or too little of various hormones ) or combinations of the two factors [ Review and theory of handedness , birth order , and homosexuality in men , By Ray Blanchard , Laterality , 2008 ] .
A key reason why a male fetus might end up homosexual that is not directly a matter of genes , argues Blanchard : the mother ’ s immune system reacts to male hormones , emitted by the male fetus , by producing female hormones .
If her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much , or the fetus has a weak immune system , then this will “ feminize ” the male fetus , sometimes to the point of it being homosexual .
Hence the established fact that the more older brothers a boy has , the more likely he is to be homosexual -- because the female ’ s immune system will react more strongly every time .
Each older brother a boy has increases his odds of being homosexual by 33 % .
Blanchard argues that homosexuality , which is about 0.4 heritable in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reduce inter-male violence over females .
It means that , as the male population rises , a portion of males won ’ t be interested in the females .
They may instead invest their resources in their nieces and nephews , keeping a propensity for homosexuality in the population .
Blanchard observes that homosexuals are psychologically and physically more feminine than heterosexual men , including even in their intelligence profile : higher in linguistic skills , low in spatial intelligence .
According to a study in the Journal for the Scientific Study of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ religious that heterosexual men .
This is seemingly because religiousness is predicted by the personality trait “ Agreeableness ” and women are higher in this than man and , therefore , women are more religious than men .
Thus , as feminized men , gay men are more religious than heterosexual men [ Sexuality and religious commitment in the United States : An empirical examination , By Darren Sharkat , Journal for the Scientiﬁc Study of Religion , 2002 ] .
But , even so , homosexuality is an example of developmental instability @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other such examples .
Blanchard argues that we are generally supposed to be right-handed .
Left-handedness , thus , implies that we haven ’ t been able to develop a symmetrical brain—due to developmental instability—causing us to overuse the right side of the brain .
There is , therefore , slightly elevated left-handedness in homosexual males .
Pete Buttigieg , being a southpaw , exemplifies this tendency .
Blanchard suggests that such an atypical brain might lead to people becoming sexually interested in atypical things , such as members of the same sex @ @ @ @ @ @ @ found among fetishists .
But might Buttigieg exemplify the other forms of developmental instability that are statistically associated with homosexuality ?
Homosexuality is associated with the mind having developed sub-optimally , resulting in strongly elevated levels of depression and thinking about suicide .
According to one large study , 60 % of homosexual youth report symptoms of depression compared to 26 % of heterosexual youth .
43 % of gay youths contemplate suicide as against 15 % of straight youths .
29 % of young gays attempted suicide , compared to 6 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , sex of sexual contacts and health-related behaviors among students in grades 9–12 –United States and selected sites , By L. Kann et al.
, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report , 2016 ] .
Pete Buttigieg , as it happens , has admitted that he has suffered from depression , just as the published research would predict [ Exclusive : Buttigieg says he suffered depression on return from Afghanistan , By Mike Allen , Axios , June 17 , 2019 ] .
Leftists might put this homosexuality-depression correlation down to “ discrimination.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of why homosexuality also correlates with left-handedness and why , as Blanchard notes , left-handedness is , itself , correlated with poor mental health as well as with autoimmune disorders , such as allergies and asthma .
Homosexuals are more likely to suffer from asthma than are heterosexuals , according to a study in the American Journal of Public Health [ Sexual Orientation Differences in Asthma Correlates in a Population-Based Sample of Adults , By Stewart Landers et al.
, American Journal of Public Health , 2011 ] .
Blanchard found that homosexuals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disorders .
Thus , the simplest explanation for poor mental health among gay men is that they are , in part , a manifestation of this developmental instability .
It follows that if the Democrats nominate a homosexual presidential candidate , and if the American people elect such a candidate , they are more likely , than if this person were heterosexual , to electing somebody who is more prone to being mentally ill and physically ill. Of course there are individual exceptions .
Any anyway most professional politicians are probably psychologically odd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , is surely , something that the American people should take very seriously , considering the importance of the decisions that our Commander in Chief has to make .
Lance Welton [ email him ] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York .

See also: The Democratic Party Has Tipped, To Minorities, Women, Gays—Expect More Kavanaugh-Type Hysteria in the Future.
Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg is the first openly homosexual man ever to run to be President of the United States. He’s even married to junior high school teacher Chasten Glezman (who, interestingly has taken Buttigieg’s surname [Pete Buttigieg’s Husband Chasten Has an Incredible Backstory, by Emma Dibdin, O: The Oprah Magazine, July 31, 2019]). The Mainstream Media can hardly contain its delight at the fact that Buttigieg, who is only 37, is doing so well: He is one of the top four contenders for the Democratic nomination [Democratic debates: Snoozefest has top 4 running in place as other 6 feebly jab, by Melissa Schultz & Aaron Fels, New York Post, November 21, 2019]. It almost seems impolite to point out that gays, like women, are systematically more prone to certain personality traits that, while obviously not disqualifying, are problematic in political leaders.
Not only is Buttigieg gay, but he is a “gay Christian.” This allows him to try to “square the circle” for more conservative potential voters: Gay? Yes. But also a traditionalist Christian. Raised Roman Catholic, he became an Anglican while studying at Oxford University [Pete Buttigieg: Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate, by Nataly Pak et al., ABC News, September 13, 2019].
Oxford, almost exclusively male until at least World War II, has long had a homosexual subculture. English upper-class boys attended single-sex “public schools” (prestigious private boarding schools) such as Eton and then went on to study at university, at single-sex colleges. This was famously if tactfully portrayed in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited, in which, in 1923, two Oxford undergraduate public school boys—Charles Ryder and Lord Sebastian Flyte—become rather more than just rowing buddies. Twenty years later, Charles returns to Brideshead, a stately home, “homeless, childless, middle-aged and loveless.” Deeply unhappy, he takes a great deal of solace in religion.
You see, it must be remembered that gay men are not very happy people. And this would have to be borne in mind if Buttigieg were ever to become Commander in Chief.
Homosexuality presents a conundrum for evolutionary theory: It should have been bred out. One explanation, according to human sexuality researcher Ray Blanchard: Homosexuality is an example of “developmental instability”. It is a manifestation of something having gone wrong, usually early in development, due to mutant genes, a sub-optimal environment (including a sub-optimal environment in utero due to the mother producing too much or too little of various hormones) or combinations of the two factors [Review and theory of handedness, birth order, and homosexuality in men, by Ray Blanchard, Laterality, 2008].
A key reason why a male fetus might end up homosexual that is not directly a matter of genes, argues Blanchard: The mother’s immune system reacts to male hormones, emitted by the male fetus, by producing female hormones. If her suboptimal genetics mean that she produces too much, or the fetus has a weak immune system, then this will “feminize” the male fetus, sometimes to the point of it being homosexual.
Hence the established fact that the more older brothers a boy has, the more likely he is to be homosexual—because the female’s immune system will react more strongly every time. Each older brother a boy has increases his odds of being homosexual by 33%.
Blanchard argues that homosexuality, which is about 0.4 heritable in males, may be an adaptation to reduce inter-male violence over females. It means that, as the male population rises, a portion of males won’t be interested in the females. They may instead invest their resources in their nieces and nephews, keeping a propensity for homosexuality in the population.
Blanchard observes that homosexuals are psychologically and physically more feminine than heterosexual men, including even in their intelligence profile: higher in linguistic skills, low in spatial intelligence. According to a study in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, gay men are also more religious that heterosexual men. This is seemingly because religiousness is predicted by the personality trait “Agreeableness”; and women are higher in this than man and, therefore, women are more religious than men. Thus, as feminized men, gay men are more religious than heterosexual men [Sexuality and religious commitment in the United States: An empirical examination, by Darren Sharkat, Journal for the Scientiﬁc Study of Religion, 2002].
But, even so, homosexuality is an example of developmental instability and, therefore, it correlates with other such examples.
Blanchard argues that we are generally supposed to be right-handed. Left-handedness, thus, implies that we haven’t been able to develop a symmetrical brain—due to developmental instability—causing us to overuse the right side of the brain. There is, therefore, slightly elevated left-handedness in homosexual males. Pete Buttigieg, being a southpaw, exemplifies this tendency.
Blanchard suggests that such an atypical brain might lead to people becoming sexually interested in atypical things, such as members of the same sex or even in objects, as is found among fetishists.
But might Buttigieg exemplify the other forms of developmental instability that are statistically associated with homosexuality?
Homosexuality is associated with the mind having developed sub-optimally, resulting in strongly elevated levels of depression and thinking about suicide. According to one large study, 60% of homosexual youth report symptoms of depression compared to 26% of heterosexual youth. 43% of gay youths contemplate suicide as against 15% of straight youths. 29% of young gays attempted suicide, compared to 6% of heterosexual young people [Sexual identity, sex of sexual contacts and health-related behaviors among students in grades 9–12 –United States and selected sites, by L. Kann et al., Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2016].
Pete Buttigieg, as it happens, has admitted that he has suffered from depression, just as the published research would predict [Exclusive: Buttigieg says he suffered depression on return from Afghanistan, by Mike Allen, Axios, June 17, 2019].
Leftists might put this homosexuality-depression correlation down to “discrimination.” But this wouldn’t make sense of why homosexuality also correlates with left-handedness and why, as Blanchard notes, left-handedness is, itself, correlated with poor mental health as well as with autoimmune disorders, such as allergies and asthma. Homosexuals are more likely to suffer from asthma than are heterosexuals, according to a study in the American Journal of Public Health [Sexual Orientation Differences in Asthma Correlates in a Population-Based Sample of Adults, by Stewart Landers et al., American Journal of Public Health, 2011].
Blanchard found that homosexuals are more likely to have various immune disorders. Thus, the simplest explanation for poor mental health among gay men is that they are, in part, a manifestation of this developmental instability.
It follows that if the Democrats nominate a homosexual presidential candidate, and if the American people elect such a candidate, they are more likely, than if this person were heterosexual, to elect somebody who is more prone to being mentally ill and physically ill.
Of course there are individual exceptions. And anyway most professional politicians are probably psychologically odd.
But Pete Buttigieg’s personality, is surely, something that the American people should take very seriously, considering the importance of the decisions that our Commander in Chief has to make.
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.


vdare--2020-01-25--"A Pile Of White Dudes"—The Growth of Racist Headlines

One striking media trend of recent years has been headlines that exhibit flat-out racist animus .
For example , from @ @ @ @ @ news section : Long hours and ‘ a pile of white dudes ’ : Annual @ @ @ @ @ working conditions The state of the game industry is … transitional .
Developers regularly work @ @ @ @ @ week ; attempts to unionize aren ’ t getting traction ; and it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ a game studio isn ’ t simply “ a pile of white dudes , ” @ @ @ @ @ in a newly released survey by the Game Developers Conference , the interactive entertainment industry @ @ @ @ @ .

One striking media trend of recent years has been headlines that exhibit flat-out racist animus. For example, from the Los Angeles Times entertainment news section:
Long hours and ‘a pile of white dudes’: Annual survey looks at game industry working conditions
By TODD MARTENS, GAME CRITIC
JAN. 24, 2020 4:29 PM
The state of the game industry is … transitional.
Developers regularly work more than 40 hours a week; attempts to unionize aren’t getting traction; and it’s still an effort to ensure a game studio isn’t simply “a pile of white dudes,” as one developer put it in a newly released survey by the Game Developers Conference, the interactive entertainment industry’s largest professional gathering.