vdare--2020-08-20--IT’S EVEN MORE OFFICIAL: Leftist Virtue-Signalers Are Nuts—Display “Dark Triad” Personality Traits

See also : It ’ s Official !
Young White Leftist Females Are Nuts .
and IT ’ S OFFICIAL ( AGAIN ) : Leftists , Particularly Leftist Women , Are Nuts and It ’ s Official ( Again ) : Social Justice Warriors ARE Mentally Ill—AND THEY ’ RE CONTAGIOUS White Black Lives Matter protestors are notoriously defined by “ virtue-signaling.
” They are attempting , without actually doing anything genuinely virtuous , to stress how moral and caring they are .
Hence the virtue-signaling “ arms race ” —a competition to outdo each other that culminates in lying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ boots of blacks .
A fascinating recent study has now revealed the malevolent personality traits that predict virtue-signaling are those known in psychology as the Dark Triad : narcissism , Machiavellianism , and psychopathy .
So white BLMers really are nasty , self-righteous types who think they are superior and hold most people in contempt…just as you thought , The study , “ Signaling Virtuous Victimhood as Indicators of Dark Triad Personalities ” by Ekin Ok et .
al , was published in July 2020 in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virtue-signaling from the perspective of evolutionary competition .
They argue that it can be reduced down to an attempt to persuade others to transfer their resources to you .
Western societies have become extremely focused on egalitarian values—on equality and on the alleviation of suffering—to such an extent that they trump all other values .
This is a fertile environment for “ victim signalers ” who openly and intentionally express how oppressed , disadvantaged and otherwise limited they are to showcase the extent to which they are “ victims ” and so elicit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This would seem to be a particular motive in the case of wealthy blacks , who insist they are “ victims ” because they are black .
This will often be allied with virtue signaling .
Virtue signalers symbolically indicate their solidarity with these supposed victims so that favorable moral judgements are made about the virtue-signalers as well as the victim-signalers , and resources are transferred towards them too .
The virtue-signalers are thus parasitic on both the victim signalers and upon normal people who are adapted to be impressed by displays of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the virtue-signalers are self-interested liars who are taking advantage of peoples ’ once-adaptive desires to create a relatively equal , and thus harmonious , society and to favor those who appear to be moral .
Accordingly , the authors hypothesized that both activities would be associated with Dark Triad personality traits .
These traits , to quote the authors , lead to “ self-promotion , emotional callousness , duplicity , and [ the ] tendency to take advantage of others.
” According to the authors , Such people combine a Machiavellian obsession @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a psychopathic absence of guilt about their manipulative behavior .
Thus , the authors hypothesized , it is exactly these kinds of people that would be prepared to pursue strategies to attain non-reciprocal benefits from others via victim-signaling and virtue-signaling .
The authors tested their theories using a number of different samples , drawn from students and from the general population .
• In one study , they found that people were more likely to want to help somebody if they believed that the person had previously engaged in “ virtuous ” activity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ event organized to raise money for the disabled , than if that person had not .
• In a second study , the authors found that people were more likely to donate money to a GoFundMe page if a person made a point of stressing their difficult life and emphasizing their virtue .
• A third study found that these same tactics—stressing victimhood and virtuousness—help to extract resources even from people we know personally , raising the question of what kind of people would pursue such a strategy .
 The authors then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the extent to which subjects virtue-signaled or victim-signaled and the extent to which they displayed Dark Triad traits , such as a propensity to cheat , to be self-entitled , and to manipulate others .
Victim-signaling was tapped into by asking participants to rate the frequency with which they did things like “ expressed how people like me are under-represented in the media and leadership.
” Virtue-signaling was tapped into simply by asking about the frequency with which people signal their virtuous character .
The results of these investigations were just as the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dark Triad traits correlated with victim signaling at 0.35 .
In another study , the propensity to cheat correlated with victim signaling at 0.42 , while virtue-signaling correlated with a sense of entitlement at 0.28 .
And in all of the various studies , it was clear that both virtue-signaling and victim-signaling are associated with Dark Triad traits .
In other words , as is obvious just from observing a BLM march , Whites who scream that “ Black Lives Matter ” are power-obsessed , psychopathic Narcissists and a series of experiments , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just proven this .
I have recently reported ( here and here and here ) a growing body of evidence that self-identified extreme liberals are both extremely unhappy and very high in mental illness , especially depression , while those who self-identify as extremely conservative are the most mentally stable .
So , if we take these findings on mental illness together with the findings on virtue-signaling and Dark Triad traits , it is reasonable to conclude that the BLM mob is substantially composed of seriously mentally unstable Narcissists , psychopaths and power-obsessed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Western culture is being dictated to by a mob that in previous generations would have been confined to psychiatric institutions .

See also: It’s Official! Young White Leftist Females Are Nuts. and IT’S OFFICIAL (AGAIN): Leftists, Particularly Leftist Women, Are Nuts and It’s Official (Again): Social Justice Warriors ARE Mentally Ill—AND THEY’RE CONTAGIOUS
White Black Lives Matter protestors are notoriously defined by “virtue-signaling.” They are attempting, without actually doing anything genuinely virtuous, to stress how moral and caring they are. Hence the virtue-signaling “arms race”—a competition to outdo each other that culminates in lying prostrate on the ground or kissing the boots of blacks. A fascinating recent study has now revealed the malevolent personality traits that predict virtue-signaling are those known in psychology as the Dark Triad: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. So white BLMers really are nasty, self-righteous types who think they are superior and hold most people in contempt…just as you thought.
The study, “Signaling Virtuous Victimhood as Indicators of Dark Triad Personalities” by Ekin Ok et. al., was published in July 2020 in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [PDF]
The authors approach virtue-signaling from the perspective of evolutionary competition. They argue that it can be reduced down to an attempt to persuade others to transfer their resources to you. Western societies have become extremely focused on egalitarian values—on equality and on the alleviation of suffering—to such an extent that they trump all other values.
This is a fertile environment for “victim-signalers,” who openly and intentionally express how oppressed, disadvantaged and otherwise limited they are to showcase the extent to which they are “victims” and so elicit guilt-ridden resource transfers in their direction. This would seem to be a particular motive in the case of wealthy blacks, who insist they are “victims” because they are black.
This will often be allied with virtue-signaling. Virtue signalers symbolically indicate their solidarity with these supposed victims so that favorable moral judgements are made about the virtue-signalers as well as the victim-signalers, and resources are transferred towards them too.
The virtue-signalers are thus parasitic on both the victim-signalers and upon normal people who are adapted to be impressed by displays of morality.
Ultimately, both the victim-signalers and the virtue-signalers are self-interested liars who are taking advantage of peoples’ once-adaptive desires to create a relatively equal, and thus harmonious, society and to favor those who appear to be moral.
Accordingly, the authors hypothesized that both activities would be associated with Dark Triad personality traits. These traits, to quote the authors, lead to “self-promotion, emotional callousness, duplicity, and [the] tendency to take advantage of others.”
According to the authors,
…these traits can also be evolutionarily adaptive when accompanied by the ability to display superficial charm and highly developed impression management skills.
Such people combine a Machiavellian obsession with power, a Narcissistic self-grandiosity and a psychopathic absence of guilt about their manipulative behavior. Thus, the authors hypothesized, it is exactly these kinds of people that would be prepared to pursue strategies to attain non-reciprocal benefits from others via victim-signaling and virtue-signaling.
The authors tested their theories using a number of different samples, drawn from students and from the general population.
In one study, they found that people were more likely to want to help somebody if they believed that the person had previously engaged in “virtuous” activity, specifically helping out at a sports event organized to raise money for the disabled, than if that person had not.
In a second study, the authors found that people were more likely to donate money to a GoFundMe page if a person made a point of stressing their difficult life and emphasizing their virtue.
A third study found that these same tactics—stressing victimhood and virtuousness—help to extract resources even from people we know personally, raising the question of what kind of people would pursue such a strategy.
The authors then organized a series of studies that explored the extent to which subjects virtue-signaled or victim-signaled and the extent to which they displayed Dark Triad traits, such as a propensity to cheat, to be self-entitled, and to manipulate others.
Victim-signaling was tapped into by asking participants to rate the frequency with which they did things like “expressed how people like me are under-represented in the media and leadership.” Virtue-signaling was tapped into simply by asking about the frequency with which people signal their virtuous character.
The results of these investigations were just as the authors predicted. In one study, Dark Triad traits correlated with victim-signaling at 0.35. In another study, the propensity to cheat correlated with victim-signaling at 0.42, while virtue-signaling correlated with a sense of entitlement at 0.28.
And in all of the various studies, it was clear that both virtue-signaling and victim-signaling are associated with Dark Triad traits.
In other words, as is obvious just from observing a BLM march, Whites who scream that “Black Lives Matter” are power-obsessed, psychopathic Narcissists, and a series of experiments, published in a reputable journal, has just proven this.
I have recently reported (here and here and here) a growing body of evidence that self-identified extreme liberals are both extremely unhappy and very high in mental illness, especially depression, while those who self-identify as extremely conservative are the most mentally stable.
So, if we take these findings on mental illness together with the findings on virtue-signaling and Dark Triad traits, it is reasonable to conclude that the BLM mob is substantially composed of seriously mentally unstable Narcissists, psychopaths and power-obsessed manipulators.
To put it another way, Western culture is being dictated to by a mob that in previous generations would have been confined to psychiatric institutions.


vdare--2020-08-21--Pharrell Williams: Man Who Lives in $17M Glass House Throws Rhetorical Stones Demanding "Economic Ju

Pharrell Williams: Man Who Lives in $17M Glass House Throws Rhetorical Stones Demanding "Economic Justice"

In Time , black musician Pharrell demands equity for his people , your equity : Pharrell Williams : America ’ s Past and Present Are Racist .
We Deserve a Black Future America was founded on a dream of a land where all men were created equal , that contained the promise of liberty and justice for all .
But all has never meant Black people .
Like most Black Americans , I understand that all exists only in the augmented-reality goggles available to shareholders , power brokers and those lucky enough to get in on the initial public offering @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and accountability that have overtaken cities across the nation have made me feel something new that I can only describe with one word : American .
The desperate longing for economic justice that spurred unrest in the streets of Minneapolis after George Floyd ’ s murder reminds me of the same fire that burned in the veins of the Sons of Liberty when they dumped 342 chests of tea into the sea at Griffin ’ s Wharf .
( Now we call that incident “ the Boston Tea Party ” —which is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” ) … Amid so much injury , how do we begin to heal ?
Given this country ’ s inescapable legacy , I wondered if it was even possible to convince people that—even if we can not escape it—we can overcome our past .
But if we are ever to hold this nation accountable , we must force it to construct a future that offers us the same opportunities for wealth , prosperity and success as the ground-floor profiteers who built an empire with our free labor .
We deserve the interest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white Southerners still living high on the hog from their chests full of Confederate dollars still earning interest ?
and the refund of our tax dollars handed out to our white brothers and sisters in the New Deal while our neighborhoods were redlined .
We want the return on our investment from when our local tax dollars funded schools our children couldn ’ t attend .
We want actual liberty and justice not just for some Americans , but for all .
So , in assembling this project , I asked some of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ every field—from Angela Davis Prof. Angela Davis ’ s expertise includes what kind of firearm should you buy to blow a judge ’ s head off .
to Tyler , the Creator , to Representative Barbara Lee—to talk with us , and with one another , about the way forward .
I wanted to convey a vision of a future filled with the artists , creators and entrepreneurs who can fulfill the promise of this country ’ s principles .
For more than 400 years , the only path to the American Dream @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Black Americans have never been free to harvest the fruit of America ’ s bounty , even though we were forced to do the field work .
Ensuring that every citizen has the same opportunity to succeed and flourish—regardless of class , gender or skin color—is as patriotic a principle as declaring “ no taxation without representation.
” It is the only way to guarantee life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness .
The activists who tossed chests of tea into the ocean to protest economic injustice were patriots .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ extend the freedoms for which they fought to everyone .
America ’ s wealth was built on the slave labor of Black people : this is our past .
To live up to America ’ s ideals , we must trust in a Black vision of the future .
“ Black Americans have never been free to harvest the fruit of America ’ s bounty ” — just think of how once “ economic justice ” arrives , Pharrell will finally be able to afford a house in the Hollywood Hills that looks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conference center : Pharrell bought this charming , cozy cottage from Tyler Perry for $ 15.6 million .
I don ’ t know about you but I take comfort in that .
It ’ s good knowin ’ he ’ s up there .
Pharrell .
Keepin ’ an eye on the systemic racism of all us sinners down below .

In Time, black musician Pharrell demands equity for his people, your equity:
Pharrell Williams: America’s Past and Present Are Racist. We Deserve a Black Future Pharrell Williams with Michael Harriot
Time•August 20, 2020 America was founded on a dream of a land where all men were created equal, that contained the promise of liberty and justice for all. But all has never meant Black people. Like most Black Americans, I understand that all exists only in the augmented-reality goggles available to shareholders, power brokers and those lucky enough to get in on the initial public offering. But the ongoing protests for equity and accountability that have overtaken cities across the nation have made me feel something new that I can only describe with one word: American. The desperate longing for economic justice that spurred unrest in the streets of Minneapolis after George Floyd’s murder reminds me of the same fire that burned in the veins of the Sons of Liberty when they dumped 342 chests of tea into the sea at Griffin’s Wharf. (Now we call that incident “the Boston Tea Party”—which is a poetic way to describe a “riot.”) … Amid so much injury, how do we begin to heal? Given this country’s inescapable legacy, I wondered if it was even possible to convince people that—even if we cannot escape it—we can overcome our past. But if we are ever to hold this nation accountable, we must force it to construct a future that offers us the same opportunities for wealth, prosperity and success as the ground-floor profiteers who built an empire with our free labor. We deserve the interest earned from those Confederate dollars
Why are white Southerners still living high on the hog from their chests full of Confederate dollars still earning interest?
and the refund of our tax dollars handed out to our white brothers and sisters in the New Deal while our neighborhoods were redlined. We want the return on our investment from when our local tax dollars funded schools our children couldn’t attend. We want actual liberty and justice not just for some Americans, but for all. So, in assembling this project, I asked some of the most qualified people I know in every field—from Angela Davis
Prof. Angela Davis’s expertise includes what kind of firearm should you buy to blow a judge’s head off.
to Tyler, the Creator, to Representative Barbara Lee—to talk with us, and with one another, about the way forward. I wanted to convey a vision of a future filled with the artists, creators and entrepreneurs who can fulfill the promise of this country’s principles. For more than 400 years, the only path to the American Dream was an access-restricted, privately owned road. Black Americans have never been free to harvest the fruit of America’s bounty, even though we were forced to do the field work. Ensuring that every citizen has the same opportunity to succeed and flourish—regardless of class, gender or skin color—is as patriotic a principle as declaring “no taxation without representation.” It is the only way to guarantee life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The activists who tossed chests of tea into the ocean to protest economic injustice were patriots. But they were also oppressors, unwilling to extend the freedoms for which they fought to everyone. America’s wealth was built on the slave labor of Black people: this is our past. To live up to America’s ideals, we must trust in a Black vision of the future.
“Black Americans have never been free to harvest the fruit of America’s bounty” — just think of how once “economic justice” arrives, Pharrell will finally be able to afford a house in the Hollywood Hills that looks like a home rather than a corporate conference center:
Pharrell bought this charming, cozy cottage from Tyler Perry for $15.6 million.
A friend writes:
Pharrell needs a glass house this large high in Beverly Hills, overlooking the city, so he could be better able to survey all the injustices and white supremacy going on below him.
Pharrell abides.
I don’t know about you but I take comfort in that. It’s good knowin’ he’s up there. Pharrell. Keepin’ an eye on the systemic racism of all us sinners down below.


vdare--2020-08-21--Reparations Now, Reparations Tomorrow, Reparations Forever! (But In Confederate Money)

We are increasingly hearing rhetoric in the mainstream media asserting that America ’ s wealth today is due to the @ @ @ @ @ cotton , which therefore justifies “ Reparations now , reparations tomorrow , reparations forever !
@ @ @ @ @ responds with an excellent idea for how to pay reparations : Of all the stupid @ @ @ @ @ today , “ America ’ s wealth was built on the slave labor of Black @ @ @ @ @ the dumbest and most easily debunked .
The percentage of American wealth that was created @ @ @ @ @ is minuscule .
I fully support all reparations being paid in Confederate dollars .

We are increasingly hearing rhetoric in the mainstream media asserting that America’s wealth today is due to the unpaid labor of slaves picking cotton, which therefore justifies “Reparations now, reparations tomorrow, reparations forever!”
iSteve commenter commenter Barnard responds with an excellent idea for how to pay reparations:
Of all the stupid ideas taught about American history today, “America’s wealth was built on the slave labor of Black people” has to be the dumbest and most easily debunked. The percentage of American wealth that was created by agricultural based slave labor is minuscule. I fully support all reparations being paid in Confederate dollars.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-21--Congratulations To Our September Winner!

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vdare--2020-08-21--Radio Derb Transcript Up For August 14:  Kamala Controversies, United States Of Antifa, And Totalita

Radio Derb Transcript Up For August 14:  Kamala Controversies, United States Of Antifa, And Totalitarianism Lite, Etc.

The Radio Derb transcript is up for August 14 .
Go here to read or listen .
20m22s Convergence to @ @ @ @ @ life for an old theory . )
28m52s Word of the Week .
( I @ @ @ @ @ … what ? )
32m43s Belarus gals wo n't you come out tonight ?
( @ @ @ @ @ ) 35m56s Cancel culture scrapes the barrel .
( Running out of presidents . )
@ @ @ @ @ feel about it .
( Woke math . )
40m55s Illinois should stop teaching history @ @ @ @ @ . )

The Radio Derb transcript is up for August 14. Go here to read or listen.
01m41s Kamala Harris: controversies. (The nation is convulsed.)
08m17s Kamala Harris: some grudging respect. (A skillful political athlete.)
16m29s United States of Antifa. (Charlottesville remembered.)
20m22s Convergence to totalitarianism lite. (New life for an old theory.)
28m52s Word of the Week. (I will make you fishers of … what?)
30m30s Phrase of the Week. (PC porkers?)
32m43s Belarus gals won't you come out tonight? (Where are the babushkas?)
35m56s Cancel culture scrapes the barrel. (Running out of presidents.)
37m16s "An unsophisticated dullard"? (Slandering a great man.)
38m58s 2+2=... however you feel about it. (Woke math.)
40m55s Illinois should stop teaching history. (It needs rewriting.)
42m30s Signoff. (With the blues.)


vdare--2020-08-19--A Reader Says Ben Shapiro, Before Condemning "Identity Politics," Said Amnestied Illegals Wouldn't V

A Reader Says Ben Shapiro, Before Condemning "Identity Politics," Said Amnestied Illegals Wouldn't Vote Republican—Because Of Their Identity

Re : Peter Brimelow 's BRIMELOW vs. NEW YORK TIMES : We Respond To Motion To Dismiss—And Find Out The @ @ @ @ @ the New York Times noted in its motion to dismiss VDARE 's lawsuit , Conservatism @ @ @ @ @ accused VDare of being a `` white-supremacist site . ''
He does not explain his @ @ @ @ @ but I think it can be inferred from a speech he made last year at @ @ @ @ @ that there is no link between race and political preference , that `` voters are @ @ @ @ @ anyone who thinks otherwise is `` identical to the identity politics left . ''
I @ @ @ @ @ when he made a video espousing those exact views he now decries as white supremacist @ @ @ @ @ it has not been removed from YouTube .

Re: Peter Brimelow's BRIMELOW vs. NEW YORK TIMES: We Respond To Motion To Dismiss—And Find Out The Use Of Ben Shapiro
From: Milkshake Duck [Email him]
As the New York Times noted in its motion to dismiss VDARE's lawsuit, Conservatism Inc. darling Ben Shapiro has accused VDare of being a "white-supremacist site." He does not explain his reasoning for this claim, but I think it can be inferred from a speech he made last year at Stanford in which he claimed that there is no link between race and political preference, that "voters are malleable," and that anyone who thinks otherwise is "identical to the identity politics left."
I remember back in 2014, when he made a video espousing those exact views he now decries as white supremacist. To my surprise, it has not been removed from YouTube.


vdare--2020-08-18--Huntington’s WHO ARE WE? Redeemed, Repudiated Almost 20 Years Later

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On Virginia Dare ’ s birthday , we should reexamine Samuel Huntington ’ s 2004 Who Are We : The Challenges to America ’ s National Identity , simultaneously perhaps the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ book on immigration from the last 20 years .
Huntington accurately observed that America was not a nation of immigrants , was at least partially defined by white racial identity , and faces an existential challenge from unchecked mass immigration .
However , he underestimated the continuing challenge presented by the original American Dilemma : blacks and their unassimilability by the American nation-state .
Furthermore , Huntington ’ s suggested answer for American renewal , a revitalized Anglo-Protestantism , appears less likely than ever .
Huntington showed us that there is an American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ answers about how ( or if ) it can be saved .
Despite this , Huntington ’ s book remains valuable simply because he proves we ’ re more than the profusion of errant flesh we see on display at the DNC .
Critically , Huntington argued that the core American identity is not “ white ” or even Northern European .
“ America is a founded society created by seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century settlers almost all of whom came from the British Isles , ” he wrote .
Though he did not use the term @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that America was shaped by “ Anglo privilege.
” Drawing on Wilbur Zelinsky ’ s “ Doctrine of First Effective Settlement , ” Huntington argued that the relatively small groups of British settlers who settled the future United States had a larger impact “ than the contributions of tens of thousands of new immigrants a few generations later.
” Thus , America did not begin in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence , much less in 1619 with blacks , or in 1492 with Columbus , or around 1000 with Snorri Thorfinnsson .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1790 Naturalization Act showed the Founding Fathers had white racial consciousness , they didn ’ t think of America as an extension of Europe .
They thought of it as an extinction of Britain , with minor exceptions that men like Hamilton and Franklin eyed suspiciously .
Thomas Jefferson ’ s original draft of the Declaration of Independence reads like a breakup letter , telling the British that “ we might have been a free & great people together.
” Instead of Noel Ignatiev ’ s disingenuous vitriol about “ the Irish becoming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really about the Irish , Germans , Italians , and other European peoples conforming to a core Anglo-Protestant culture , and the American Creed which grew out of it .
Thus , memorializing Virginia Dare in 1933 , Franklin Roosevelt could refer to “ our British cousins ” before a presumably multiethnic American audience , without anyone thinking this strange .
Indeed , Huntington argued that , for the astonishingly long period 1607-1940 , American identity was united in ethnic , racial , and cultural terms , with political separation occurring twice , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American Revolution and the War Between the States .
When mass non-British immigration did begin , especially after 1880 , private organizations and then the government consciously undertook “ Americanization , ” especially in public schools .
“ The schools insisted on the immigrants accepting ‘ Anglo-American Protestant traditions and values , ’ ” wrote Huntington .
Schools deliberately undermined migrants ’ “ native cultures ” and indoctrinated them into an American civic identity .
Even the Catholic school system , which arose partly in resistance to this “ Americanization ” campaign , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ propagation of American values and American nationalism , ” probably to prove their loyalty .
During World War I , the U.S. government waged an unrelenting “ Americanization ” campaign against German-Americans , then the largest non-English speaking minority group [ During World War I , U.S. Government Propaganda Erased German Culture , NPR , April 7 , 2017 ] .
Thus , even with immigration pauses and a monoracial identity , maintaining an American nation required strong ethnic consciousness by WASPs , cultural power , and government action .
Huntington argued that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rights , legal equality , popular sovereignty , and limited government had its origins in dissenting Protestantism .
The only real indigenous opposition to this creed : The brief effort by nineteenth century Southerners like John C. Calhoun to defend slavery as a positive good .
This “ American Creed ” was broadly shared by Americans when the country was overwhelmingly white .
North-South reconciliation ( symbolized by joint Union-Confederate commemorations ) was key in forming American patriotism in the early 20th century .
But obviously , one group was left out of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the phrase “ the American Creed ” was “ popularized by Gunnar Myrdal in The [ sic ] American Dilemma , ” the book that arguably paved the way for civil rights , racial integration , and , ultimately , the theory of the “ proposition ” or “ universal ” nation .
Beginning with the Civil Rights movement , Huntington argued , American identity became unmoored from even implicit white racial consciousness .
However , at least in theory , it didn ’ t require a cultural unmooring : “ The Civil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rights Act of 1965 were expressly designed to make American reality reflect American principles , ” Huntington wrote .
There was nothing inherent in “ The Creed ” that couldn ’ t be spread to other groups—there was no reason we couldn ’ t just all be “ American.
” At least in theory .
But in practice , cultural disintegration followed soon afterward .
Anticipating Christopher Caldwell ’ s 2020 Age of Entitlement , Huntington noted that Like Caldwell , Huntington blamed federal administrators and judges for interpreting laws “ to mean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through these interpretations launch [ ing ] a frontal assault on the Creed ’ s principle of equal rights for all that had made the new laws possible.
” Thus , judges demanded that congressional districts be drawn up to guarantee minority representation ; laws were thrown out to avoid any “ disparate impact ” even if there was no evidence of racial intent ; and special benefits were created for minority groups .
Not surprisingly , we now see the government , especially the public schools , “ Deconstructing America , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to this project is multiculturalism , which Huntington said rightly “ is in its essence anti-European civilization.
” Huntington paid a great deal of attention to the challenge of mass Mexican immigration , which he saw as a unique challenge because Mexicans can and do “ assert a historical claim to American territory.
” Huntington argued that Mexicans persist in retaining Spanish , lag in educational performance , retain their citizenship , and do not identify as “ American.
” He added that there could form a Hispanic “ enclave ” in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , linguistically , and economically distinct from the rest of the country .
He identified Miami , Florida as a place that has already been transformed “ from a normal American city into a Cuban-led Hispanic city.
” Huntington forcefully claimed there is no “ Americano ” dream but just “ the American dream created by an Anglo-Protestant society.
” He said Mexican-Americans “ will share in that dream and in that society only if they dream in English.
” However , here we see some problems in Huntington ’ s analysis .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ becoming heavily Mexican , the problem is not simply Mexican Instead , we have Hispanic enclaves all around the country , with those on the East Coast created by Central American migrants .
Mexico is now our unlikely partner in border enforcement against this invasion .
Instead of a singular region dominated by one group of cultural and linguistic foreigners , we ’ re seeing the Third World colonization of the entire country .
• Secondly , Huntington underestimated the importance of race , especially the difference between blacks and whites .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he wrote , “ but not necessarily to the same degree or with the same significance that they have had in the past.
” Here , he was simply wrong .
America has had its first black president , but race has become more important .
Black Lives Matter is the key racial movement of our time , not Chicano revanchism ( yet ) .
Intermarriage , which Huntington suggested could make government attempts to classify people by race obsolete , is furthering racial obsessions .
Nikole Hannah-Jones , Shaun King , Kamala @ @ @ @ @ @ @ politicians opportunistically adopt whatever racial identity is most advantageous .
As the Rachel Dolezal farce and other cases of “ flight from white ” show , social , economic , and legal privileges for non-whites encourage as many people as possible to de-assimilate and claim victimhood .
Of course , their actions refute their own claims about the power of white privilege , but who ’ s going to point that out ?
• Thirdly , though Huntington admitted the possibility of a resurgent “ white nativism , ” he suggested that “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sustain America ’ s distinct identity .
However , the exceptional nature of America as a modern Western democracy with a high rate of Christian belief seems to be fading fast [ In U.S. , Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace , Pew Research Center , October 17 , 2019 ] .
America increasingly resembles just another Western European country in its atheism ( unless we count Black Lives Matter as a faith ) .
Huntington ’ s analysis of the Christian Coalition , the Religious Right , and the role evangelicals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t just dated , but completely irrelevant in the age of Drag Queen Story Hour and Black Trans Lives Matter rallies .
Meanwhile , “ Anglo-Protestantism ” specifically seems to have utterly vanished as a cultural force , with the Church of England and its Episcopalian American branches having beliefs and functions no different than a contributor to Vice or Teen Vogue .
Huntington referred several times to the surge of patriotism following the September 11 , 2001 terrorist attacks .
But these led to no real changes beyond disastrous Middle Eastern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to launch anyway .
To the contrary , Islam is more powerful in American life than it was before the Twin Towers fell .
And insofar as there is a reactionary Christian movement in the United States , it ’ s coming from Traditionalist Catholics , a group which explicitly opposes “ Anglo-Protestantism ” and which sometimes even appears to want to reimagine the American founding as a Hispanic endeavor .
“ Americans generally may be returning to the self-image prevalent for three centuries that they are a Christian people , ” Huntington @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just hasn ’ t happened .
The truth is that the American “ Creed ” survived as long as it did because WASP ethnic consciousness , white racial consciousness , and a lack of mass non-white immigration kept Americans from having to deal with the contradictions between the American “ Culture ” and American “ Creed.
” The Historic American Nation fought Indians , conquered the West , and developed the greatest industrial power on Earth .
However , when its elites naively or maliciously tried to extend the classical liberal “ Creed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ within two generations .
It ’ s questionable whether this is even a process unique to America .
The late Jean Raspail argued the same universalism destroyed France in the process he called “ The Fatherland Betrayed By The Republic.
” This raises what VDARE.com calls “ The National Question ” —whether the U.S. can survive as a nation-state , the political expression of a particular people .
On current trends , would-be American nationalists will soon lose control their nation-state and become a dispossessed people like the Afrikaners or the Kurds .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” But the question of “ who is or is not an American ” is being answered for us in the streets , as statues of Union and Confederate leaders , the Founders , heroic presidents like Teddy Roosevelt , and other symbols of the American identity are destroyed and defiled .
Stripped of ethnic , racial , and cultural unity , it may be only a short time until occupied America demands separation from its occupiers .
If that does not occur , “ America ” will cease to be anything more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We then ?
Consumers , tax slaves in the case of the whites , and nothing more .

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On Virginia Dare’s birthday, we should reexamine Samuel Huntington’s 2004 Who Are We: The Challenges to America’s National Identity, simultaneously perhaps the most prescient and most “overtaken-by-events” book on immigration from the last 20 years.
Huntington accurately observed that America was not a nation of immigrants, was at least partially defined by white racial identity, and faces an existential challenge from unchecked mass immigration. However, he underestimated the continuing challenge presented by the original American Dilemma: blacks and their unassimilability by the American nation-state. Furthermore, Huntington’s suggested answer for American renewal, a revitalized Anglo-Protestantism, appears less likely than ever. Huntington showed us that there is an American nation—but didn’t give us any answers about how (or if) it can be saved.
Despite this, Huntington’s book remains valuable simply because he proves we’re more than the profusion of errant flesh we see on display at the DNC. Critically, Huntington argued that the core American identity is not “white” or even Northern European. “America is a founded society created by seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century settlers almost all of whom came from the British Isles,” he wrote. Though he did not use the term, one could say that Huntington argues that America was shaped by “Anglo privilege.” Drawing on Wilbur Zelinsky’s “Doctrine of First Effective Settlement,” Huntington argued that the relatively small groups of British settlers who settled the future United States had a larger impact “than the contributions of tens of thousands of new immigrants a few generations later.” Thus, America did not begin in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence, much less in 1619 with blacks, or in 1492 with Columbus, or around 1000 with Snorri Thorfinnsson. Instead, Huntington argued,
It began with the first [British] settler communities of 1607, 1620, and 1630. What happened in the 1770s and 1780s was rooted in and a product of the Anglo-American Protestant society and culture that had developed over the intervening one and a half centuries.
While the 1790 Naturalization Act showed the Founding Fathers had white racial consciousness, they didn’t think of America as an extension of Europe. They thought of it as an extinction of Britain, with minor exceptions that men like Hamilton and Franklin eyed suspiciously. Thomas Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence reads like a breakup letter, telling the British that “we might have been a free & great people together.”
Instead of Noel Ignatiev’s disingenuous vitriol about “the Irish becoming white,” the American story is really about the Irish, Germans, Italians, and other European peoples conforming to a core Anglo-Protestant culture, and the American Creed which grew out of it.
Thus, memorializing Virginia Dare in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt could refer to “our British cousins” before a presumably multiethnic American audience, without anyone thinking this strange.
Indeed, Huntington argued that, for the astonishingly long period 1607-1940, American identity was united in ethnic, racial, and cultural terms, with political separation occurring twice, in the Cousins’ Wars of the American Revolution and the War Between the States.
When mass non-British immigration did begin, especially after 1880, private organizations and then the government consciously undertook “Americanization,” especially in public schools. “The schools insisted on the immigrants accepting ‘Anglo-American Protestant traditions and values,’” wrote Huntington. Schools deliberately undermined migrants’ “native cultures” and indoctrinated them into an American civic identity.
Even the Catholic school system, which arose partly in resistance to this “Americanization” campaign, also “became a channel for the propagation of American values and American nationalism,” probably to prove their loyalty. During World War I, the U.S. government waged an unrelenting “Americanization” campaign against German-Americans, then the largest non-English speaking minority group [During World War I, U.S. Government Propaganda Erased German Culture, NPR, April 7, 2017].
Thus, even with immigration pauses and a monoracial identity, maintaining an American nation required strong ethnic consciousness by WASPs, cultural power, and government action.
Huntington argued that “The American Creed” of individual rights, legal equality, popular sovereignty, and limited government had its origins in dissenting Protestantism. The only real indigenous opposition to this creed: The brief effort by nineteenth century Southerners like John C. Calhoun to defend slavery as a positive good. This “American Creed” was broadly shared by Americans when the country was overwhelmingly white. North-South reconciliation (symbolized by joint Union-Confederate commemorations) was key in forming American patriotism in the early 20th century.
But obviously, one group was left out of this united people–African-Americans.
Huntington noted that the phrase “the American Creed” was “popularized by Gunnar Myrdal in The [sic] American Dilemma,” the book that arguably paved the way for civil rights, racial integration, and, ultimately, the theory of the “proposition” or “universal” nation. Beginning with the Civil Rights movement, Huntington argued, American identity became unmoored from even implicit white racial consciousness. However, at least in theory, it didn’t require a cultural unmooring: “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were expressly designed to make American reality reflect American principles,” Huntington wrote. There was nothing inherent in “The Creed” that couldn’t be spread to other groups—there was no reason we couldn’t just all be “American.”
At least in theory. But in practice, cultural disintegration followed soon afterward. Anticipating Christopher Caldwell’s 2020 Age of Entitlement, Huntington noted that
…as soon as the Civil Rights Act was passed, black leaders such as Bayard Rustin stopped demanding rights common to all American citizens and instead began demanding governmental programs to provide material benefits as a distinct racial group.
Like Caldwell, Huntington blamed federal administrators and judges for interpreting laws “to mean the opposite of what they said and through these interpretations launch[ing] a frontal assault on the Creed’s principle of equal rights for all that had made the new laws possible.” Thus, judges demanded that congressional districts be drawn up to guarantee minority representation; laws were thrown out to avoid any “disparate impact” even if there was no evidence of racial intent; and special benefits were created for minority groups.
Not surprisingly, we now see the government, especially the public schools, “Deconstructing America,” as Huntington entitled one chapter. Central to this project is multiculturalism, which Huntington said rightly “is in its essence anti-European civilization.”
Huntington paid a great deal of attention to the challenge of mass Mexican immigration, which he saw as a unique challenge because Mexicans can and do “assert a historical claim to American territory.” Huntington argued that Mexicans persist in retaining Spanish, lag in educational performance, retain their citizenship, and do not identify as “American.” He added that there could form a Hispanic “enclave” in the Southwest that would be politically, ethnically, linguistically, and economically distinct from the rest of the country.
He identified Miami, Florida as a place that has already been transformed “from a normal American city into a Cuban-led Hispanic city.” Huntington forcefully claimed there is no “Americano” dream but just “the American dream created by an Anglo-Protestant society.” He said Mexican-Americans “will share in that dream and in that society only if they dream in English.”
However, here we see some problems in Huntington’s analysis.
First, while the southwest is becoming heavily Mexican, the problem is not simply Mexican
Instead, we have Hispanic enclaves all around the country, with those on the East Coast created by Central American migrants. Mexico is now our unlikely partner in border enforcement against this invasion. Instead of a singular region dominated by one group of cultural and linguistic foreigners, we’re seeing the Third World colonization of the entire country.
Secondly, Huntington underestimated the importance of race, especially the difference between blacks and whites.
“Races will continue to exist,” he wrote, “but not necessarily to the same degree or with the same significance that they have had in the past.” Here, he was simply wrong.
America has had its first black president, but race has become more important. Black Lives Matter is the key racial movement of our time, not Chicano revanchism (yet). Intermarriage, which Huntington suggested could make government attempts to classify people by race obsolete, is furthering racial obsessions. Nikole Hannah-Jones, Shaun King, Kamala Harris, and countless other activists and politicians opportunistically adopt whatever racial identity is most advantageous.
As the Rachel Dolezal farce and other cases of “flight from white” show, social, economic, and legal privileges for non-whites encourage as many people as possible to de-assimilate and claim victimhood. Of course, their actions refute their own claims about the power of white privilege, but who’s going to point that out?
Thirdly, though Huntington admitted the possibility of a resurgent “white nativism,” he suggested that “Anglo-Protestant culture and its religiosity” could sustain America’s distinct identity.
However, the exceptional nature of America as a modern Western democracy with a high rate of Christian belief seems to be fading fast [In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace, Pew Research Center, October 17, 2019]. America increasingly resembles just another Western European country in its atheism (unless we count Black Lives Matter as a faith). Huntington’s analysis of the Christian Coalition, the Religious Right, and the role evangelicals played in the 2000 election, aren’t just dated, but completely irrelevant in the age of Drag Queen Story Hour and Black Trans Lives Matter rallies.
Meanwhile, “Anglo-Protestantism” specifically seems to have utterly vanished as a cultural force, with the Church of England and its Episcopalian American branches having beliefs and functions no different than a contributor to Vice or Teen Vogue.
Huntington referred several times to the surge of patriotism following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But these led to no real changes beyond disastrous Middle Eastern wars for Israel that the neoconservatives wanted to launch anyway. To the contrary, Islam is more powerful in American life than it was before the Twin Towers fell. And insofar as there is a reactionary Christian movement in the United States, it’s coming from Traditionalist Catholics, a group which explicitly opposes “Anglo-Protestantism” and which sometimes even appears to want to reimagine the American founding as a Hispanic endeavor.
“Americans generally may be returning to the self-image prevalent for three centuries that they are a Christian people,” Huntington wrote early in the book. This just hasn’t happened.
The truth is that the American “Creed” survived as long as it did because WASP ethnic consciousness, white racial consciousness, and a lack of mass non-white immigration kept Americans from having to deal with the contradictions between the American “Culture” and American “Creed.”
The Historic American Nation fought Indians, conquered the West, and developed the greatest industrial power on Earth. However, when its elites naively or maliciously tried to extend the classical liberal “Creed” to everyone, America destroyed itself within two generations.
It’s questionable whether this is even a process unique to America. The late Jean Raspail argued the same universalism destroyed France in the process he called “The Fatherland Betrayed By The Republic.”
This raises what VDARE.com calls “The National Question”—whether the U.S. can survive as a nation-state, the political expression of a particular people. On current trends, would-be American nationalists will soon lose control their nation-state and become a dispossessed people like the Afrikaners or the Kurds.
Huntington wrote that “identity requires differentiation.” But the question of “who is or is not an American” is being answered for us in the streets, as statues of Union and Confederate leaders, the Founders, heroic presidents like Teddy Roosevelt, and other symbols of the American identity are destroyed and defiled.
Stripped of ethnic, racial, and cultural unity, it may be only a short time until occupied America demands separation from its occupiers.
If that does not occur, “America” will cease to be anything more than a geographic expression. Who Are We then? Consumers, tax slaves in the case of the whites, and nothing more.


vdare--2020-08-18--Immigration Patriot Laura Loomer Wins GOP Mar-A-Lago Primary, Annoying Conservatism Inc.

The Daily Dot has a disgruntled story about immigration patriot Laura Loomer winning the GOP primary in the Florida district @ @ @ @ @ 's famous home away from home .
Their sniffy description of her `` bizarre stunts @ @ @ @ @ rushed the stage in Central Park to protest a Shakespeare play featuring the assassination of @ @ @ @ @ Glad To Be Wrong '' Department : Protesters Rush JULIUS CAESAR Stage At the time @ @ @ @ @ the normalization of political violence against the right . ''
As a reminder , that @ @ @ @ @ was shot .
• Michelle Malkin : Is Biden-Loving Comcast Meddling in Loomer 's Campaign @ @ @ @ @ Herself To Twitter 's Front Door In Real Life You can see a VDARE TV @ @ @ @ @ here .

The Daily Dot has a disgruntled story about immigration patriot Laura Loomer winning the GOP primary in the Florida district that contains Mar-A-Lago, Trump's famous home away from home.
Their sniffy description of her "bizarre stunts" omits the time she rushed the stage in Central Park to protest a Shakespeare play featuring the assassination of Donald Trump. See "Glad To Be Wrong" Department: Protesters Rush JULIUS CAESAR Stage
At the time, she shouted "Stop the normalization of political violence against the right." As a reminder, that was just after Steve Scalise was shot.
See also
You can see a VDARE TV video of Loomer on Bitchute here.


vdare--2020-08-22--How to Solve Your Racial Inequity Disparity

Australia has solved its Racial Inequity problem by decreeing that any white public intellectual who feels like it can declare himself an Aboriginal and the court system will come down like a ton of bricks on anybody who scoffs .
This actually seems like a pretty good solution for America .
Why not let a bunch of WASPs like former Republican congressman Bob Barr , a near identical double for Obama spiritual adviser Rev .
Jeremiah Wright , declare themselves to be undeniably black and thus spiritually superior ?
In the New York Times , Kevin Spacey-lookalike Damien Cave , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a human being , extrapolates on Bruce Pascoe ’ s Carlos Castaneda-like fantasy about Australian Aborigines : He Wants to Save the Present With the Indigenous Past Bruce Pascoe ’ s book “ Dark Emu ” sparked a reconsideration of Australian history .
Now he hopes to use his writing to revive Aboriginal community .
WALLAGARAUGH , Australia — Bruce Pascoe stood near the ancient crops he has written about for years and discussed the day ’ s plans with a handful of workers… .
“ What happened in Australia was a real @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he said .
“ We need to go back there.
” Writing , he added , can only do so much .
“ Dark Emu ” is where he laid out his case .
Published in 2014 and reissued four years later , the book sparked a national reconsideration of Australian history by arguing that the continent ’ s first peoples were sophisticated farmers , not roaming nomads .
Australia ’ s education system tended to emphasize the struggle and pluck of settlers .
“ Dark Emu ” shifted the gaze , pointing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by European aggression and cattle grazing .
In a nation of 25 million people , the book has sold more than 260,000 copies… .
Critics , including Andrew Bolt , a conservative commentator for News Corp Australia , have accused Pascoe of seeking attention and wealth by falsely claiming to be Aboriginal while peddling what they call an “ anti-Western fantasy.
” Asked by email why he ’ s focused on Pascoe in around a dozen newspaper columns since November , Bolt replied : “ Have fun talking to white man and congratulating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believe him black.
” Pascoe said “ Bolty ” is obsessed with him and struggles with nuance .
He ’ s offered to buy him a beer , discuss it at the pub and thank him : “ Dark Emu ” sales have doubled since Bolt ’ s campaign against Pascoe intensified .
His fans argue that kind of banter exemplifies why he and his book have succeeded .
His voice , honed over decades of teaching , writing fiction and poetry — and telling stories over beers — is neither that of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s a lyrical essayist , informative and sly .
Pascoe ’ s big rediscovery is that , according to some Australian explorers , some Aborigines lived in huts .
Bruce Pascoe ’ s Whoppers : In a Class of Their Own 27th May 2020 Comments ( 22 ) ‘ When you ’ re on a good thing , stick to it ’ .
Like most kids growing up in the Fifties and Sixties , Bruce Pascoe would have learned that adage .
And it has stood him in good stead , certainly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he has managed to parlay the extraordinary success of his fictional history Dark Emu into a children ’ s version , countless speaking gigs and media appearances , a two-part ABC documentary to be screened later this year and a digibook on the ABC ’ s Education Webpage .
The same could be said of his Aboriginality .
Why claim to be only Yuin , or Burnurong , or a Tasmanian Aborigine when you could be all three ?
A member of not just one but three mobs !
You can ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wouldn ’ t have thought .
But that ’ s another story .
When I embarked on the Bitter Harvest project , I did so because both Keith Windschuttle and I were horrified at the idea that Pascoe ’ s faux history would establish itself in our classrooms .
That was our prime motivation in exposing Dark Emu .
Keith knew , from bitter personal experience , that facts don ’ t matter when it comes to much of what passes for history these days .
But it certainly shocked me when , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has vigorously promoted Pascoe , simply ignored even the existence of my expose let alone any arguments I presented .
But , undeterred , we soldier on and now take a look at Pascoe ’ s ABC Education presence , which can be found here .
It comprises a prologue and 14 four-minute video clips on various topics such as Sturt ’ s encounter with a large tribe of Aborigines at Coopers Creek .
This is a short summary of an episode described in Dark Emu where Pascoe claims , untruthfully , that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that Sturt and his party were dying and that the Aborigines rescued them .
In another one he covers Aboriginal housing wherein he first sets up a strawman along the lines that white people think Aborigines lived under a piece of bark leant up against a tree ( many of them did , in fact ) .
He then quotes from Sturt and Mitchell to show that the Aborigines built huts of varying styles and sizes , somewhat undermining his basic premise of white ignorance .
He describes these dwellings as ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not , at least not in the way we would think of a house .
He seems to think that the fact they built shelters for themselves ( an activity at the bottom of Maslow ’ s hierarchy of needs ) is somehow significant .

Australia has solved its Racial Inequity problem by decreeing that any white public intellectual who feels like it can declare himself an Aboriginal and the court system will come down like a ton of bricks on anybody who scoffs.
This actually seems like a pretty good solution for America. Why not let a bunch of WASPs like former Republican congressman Bob Barr, a near identical double for Obama spiritual adviser Rev. Jeremiah Wright, declare themselves to be undeniably black and thus spiritually superior?
In the New York Times, Kevin Spacey-lookalike Damien Cave, who is a truly terrible excuse for a human being, extrapolates on Bruce Pascoe’s Carlos Castaneda-like fantasy about Australian Aborigines:
He Wants to Save the Present With the Indigenous Past Bruce Pascoe’s book “Dark Emu” sparked a reconsideration of Australian history. Now he hopes to use his writing to revive Aboriginal community. By Damien Cave
Aug. 20, 2020 WALLAGARAUGH, Australia — Bruce Pascoe stood near the ancient crops he has written about for years and discussed the day’s plans with a handful of workers…. “What happened in Australia was a real high point in human development,” he said. “We need to go back there.” Writing, he added, can only do so much. “Dark Emu” is where he laid out his case. Published in 2014 and reissued four years later, the book sparked a national reconsideration of Australian history by arguing that the continent’s first peoples were sophisticated farmers, not roaming nomads. Australia’s education system tended to emphasize the struggle and pluck of settlers. “Dark Emu” shifted the gaze, pointing to peaceful towns and well-tended land devastated by European aggression and cattle grazing. In a nation of 25 million people, the book has sold more than 260,000 copies…. Critics, including Andrew Bolt, a conservative commentator for News Corp Australia, have accused Pascoe of seeking attention and wealth by falsely claiming to be Aboriginal while peddling what they call an “anti-Western fantasy.” Asked by email why he’s focused on Pascoe in around a dozen newspaper columns since November, Bolt replied: “Have fun talking to white man and congratulating yourself on being so broad-minded as to believe him black.” Pascoe said “Bolty” is obsessed with him and struggles with nuance. He’s offered to buy him a beer, discuss it at the pub and thank him: “Dark Emu” sales have doubled since Bolt’s campaign against Pascoe intensified. His fans argue that kind of banter exemplifies why he and his book have succeeded. His voice, honed over decades of teaching, writing fiction and poetry — and telling stories over beers — is neither that of an academic nor a radical. He’s a lyrical essayist, informative and sly.
Pascoe’s big rediscovery is that, according to some Australian explorers, some Aborigines lived in huts.
From Quadrant:
Bruce Pascoe’s Whoppers: In a Class of Their Own
27th May 2020 Comments (22) Peter O’Brien ‘When you’re on a good thing, stick to it’. Like most kids growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, Bruce Pascoe would have learned that adage. And it has stood him in good stead, certainly in recent years. On that principle he has managed to parlay the extraordinary success of his fictional history Dark Emu into a children’s version, countless speaking gigs and media appearances, a two-part ABC documentary to be screened later this year and a digibook on the ABC’s Education Webpage. The same could be said of his Aboriginality. Why claim to be only Yuin, or Burnurong, or a Tasmanian Aborigine when you could be all three? A member of not just one but three mobs! You can’t get more Aboriginal than that, I wouldn’t have thought. But that’s another story. When I embarked on the Bitter Harvest project, I did so because both Keith Windschuttle and I were horrified at the idea that Pascoe’s faux history would establish itself in our classrooms. That was our prime motivation in exposing Dark Emu. Keith knew, from bitter personal experience, that facts don’t matter when it comes to much of what passes for history these days. But it certainly shocked me when, amongst others, the ABC, which has vigorously promoted Pascoe, simply ignored even the existence of my expose let alone any arguments I presented. But, undeterred, we soldier on and now take a look at Pascoe’s ABC Education presence, which can be found here. It comprises a prologue and 14 four-minute video clips on various topics such as Sturt’s encounter with a large tribe of Aborigines at Coopers Creek. This is a short summary of an episode described in Dark Emu where Pascoe claims, untruthfully, that this encounter took place in the desert, that Sturt and his party were dying and that the Aborigines rescued them. In another one he covers Aboriginal housing wherein he first sets up a strawman along the lines that white people think Aborigines lived under a piece of bark leant up against a tree (many of them did, in fact). He then quotes from Sturt and Mitchell to show that the Aborigines built huts of varying styles and sizes, somewhat undermining his basic premise of white ignorance. He describes these dwellings as ‘houses’, which they clearly are not, at least not in the way we would think of a house. He seems to think that the fact they built shelters for themselves (an activity at the bottom of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs) is somehow significant.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-21--Is Big Tech Committing Election Interference Against Laura Loomer?

Previously : Michelle Malkin : Is Biden-Loving Comcast Meddling in Loomer 's Campaign ?
and GOP Finally Recognizing Tech Censorship Problem—But Still Far From Acting Laura Loomer won the Republican primary in Florida ’ s 21st congressional district last week but she ’ s still not allowed on any of the major social media platforms .
`` The account owner you referenced was permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules , and we do not plan to reverse that enforcement action , '' Twitter said in a statement explaining why Loomer won ’ t get her account back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Loomer , by Steven Overly , Politico , August 19 , 2020 ] .
With that announcement , Twitter made it clear that it will censor serious contenders for office if they feel like it .
This same standard could be applied to a whole swath of candidates—including President Trump .
Tech companies blocking the party ’ s nominee for a congressional seat would count as election interference .
Unfortunately , there are no solid rules yet on how tech platforms should handle campaigns .
We ’ ve seen quite a lot of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ year and it ’ s only going to get worse as November approaches .
There are existing rules that could be applied to social media , however .
The Federal Communications Commission prohibits broadcast media from banning campaign ads and has some “ no censorship ” rules when it comes to political candidates .
Social media could fall under the same standards , especially when most Americans now get their news and information from the internet .
Lawmakers need to update the rules to include social media .
This should be a priority @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s happening to Loomer right now could just as easily happen to them .
All it takes is for journalists to raise a fuss over one tweet and you can be gone .
Your elected office can ’ t protect you -- not even if you ’ re the President of the United States .

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

Previously: Michelle Malkin: Is Biden-Loving Comcast Meddling in Loomer's Campaign? and GOP Finally Recognizing Tech Censorship Problem—But Still Far From Acting
Laura Loomer won the Republican primary in Florida’s 21st congressional district last week but she’s still not allowed on any of the major social media platforms.
"The account owner you referenced was permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules, and we do not plan to reverse that enforcement action," Twitter said in a statement explaining why Loomer won’t get her account back [Twitter maintains ban on candidate Laura Loomer, by Steven Overly, Politico, August 19, 2020].
With that announcement, Twitter made it clear that it will censor serious contenders for office if they feel like it. This same standard could be applied to a whole swath of candidates—including President Trump.
Tech companies blocking the party’s nominee for a congressional seat would count as election interference. Unfortunately, there are no solid rules yet on how tech platforms should handle campaigns. We’ve seen quite a lot of Big Tech election interference against Trump this year and it’s only going to get worse as November approaches.
There are existing rules that could be applied to social media, however. The Federal Communications Commission prohibits broadcast media from banning campaign ads and has some “no censorship” rules when it comes to political candidates. Social media could fall under the same standards, especially when most Americans now get their news and information from the internet.
Lawmakers need to update the rules to include social media. This should be a priority for Trump and Republicans. What’s happening to Loomer right now could just as easily happen to them. All it takes is for journalists to raise a fuss over one tweet and you can be gone. Your elected office can’t protect you—not even if you’re the President of the United States.


vdare--2020-08-21--WhoWeAre-ism At The DNC, The National Lie, And The Church Of Antiracism, Etc.

01m59s WhoWeAre-ism .
( Giving way to The Work . )
07m37s The National Lie .
( In the realm @ @ @ @ @ Who is a danger to whom ?
( Justified derision . )
20m50s Where we @ @ @ @ @ Buy a ticket now ! )
23m57s Slo-mo Camp of the Saints .
( The @ @ @ @ @ 30m46s The Golden State goes green .
( Leading to blackouts . )
36m13s Small @ @ @ @ @ Not many dead . )
36m25s Capitalism 2020 .
( Why is the stock market @ @ @

01m59s WhoWeAre-ism. (Giving way to The Work.)
07m37s The National Lie. (In the realm of magic.)
12m27s Who is a danger to whom? (Justified derision.)
15m24s The Church of Antiracism. (Twitter ♥ a totalitarian.)
20m50s Where we eece-flay the ongregation-cay. (Buy a ticket now!)
23m57s Slo-mo Camp of the Saints. (The problem with CANZUK.)
30m46s The Golden State goes green. (Leading to blackouts.)
31m57s Erratum. (The mot juste.)
32m21s Mayoral privilege. (In Chicago.)
34m14s Mayoral-spousal privilege. (In New York.)
36m13s Small coup in Mali. (Not many dead.)
36m25s Capitalism 2020. (Why is the stock market high?)
38m13s Signoff. (Tribute to a Canadian hero.)
01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! No adventures with the intro music this week, listeners: That was Haydn's Derbyshire March No. 2 played by organist Peter Gould on the fine old organ of Derby Cathedral. This is of course your conservatively genial host John Derbyshire with another edition of Radio Derb.
Headliner this week was the Democratic Party's nominating convention. The thing wound up on Thursday night; I put my thoughts together for Radio Derb on Friday morning; so the timing there was good. I mean, I'm not trying to report a newsy event in medias res, before the outcome's been decided.
The downside is that everything sharp and interesting that can be said about the show has already been said, so I am the guy with the dustpan and brush following along behind the Lord Mayor's procession.
Well, well, let's make the best of it. My commentary here will be of the second-order type: not commentary about what was said and what happened so much as commentary on what the words and deeds tell us about … about, er, … Oh, right: about Who We Are.
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02 — WhoWeAre-ism. Who We Are, yes. There wasn't actually as much WhoWeAre-ism at this week's convention as I anticipated. Incredibly, Barack Obama got through a whole 19-minute speech without a single Who We Are. His lady Michelle made up for it with three Who We Ares in her speech, while the nominee himself, Joe Biden, emitted just one.
A Hollywood bimbo named Kerry Washington matched Michelle's three. Hakeem Jeffries, a congressman from New York City, did his best with just two Who We Ares; Pete Buttigieg could only manage one.
By way of compensation for a falling-off in Who We Ares, we got a glimpse of the new-rising cliché among progressive leftists: "the work."
Kerry Washington again: "The work must continue."
Barack Obama: "[Trump] has shown no interest in putting in the work."
Congressman Jeffries told us we must "put in the work to end our long national nightmare."
Joe Biden: "it will be the work of the next president to restore the promise of America to everyone."
Kamala Harris "We've gotta do the work to fulfill that promise of equal justice under law."
And so on. They make it all sound very strenuous, don't they?
Or maybe it's just me. I don't have much taste for the gassy, whiny style of political rhetoric that today's Democrats go in for. And there were sins here of both commission and omission.
The sins of commission were lies: battered, rusty old lies that have been exposed so often, anyone who pays much attention must know they are lies by now. Yet speakers here brought them out as if they were shiny and new, to make us gasp and shriek. Their great favorite is of course the Fine People lie.
[Clip of Joe Biden speaking: Just a week ago yesterday was the third anniversary of the events in Charlottesville … Remember the violent clash that ensued between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it? Remember what the president said when asked? There were, quote, "very fine people on both sides."]
Mrs Obama dragged this one out too:
[Clip of Michelle speaking: Kids in this country … see our leaders labeling fellow citizens enemies of the state while emboldening torch-bearing white supremacists.]
Hoo-kay. One more time, with weary resignation:
[Clip of Trump speaking: You had people — and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally — but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly …]
Next up behind the Fine People lie was the Children in Cages lie, another old favorite. And then, the events of this past few weeks have given them yet another lie to pad out their speeches with and excite the indignation of the faithful: the Peaceful Protest lie.
Mrs Obama packed both lies into a single sentence:
[Clip of Michelle speaking: They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages, and pepper spray and rubber bullets are used on peaceful protestors for a photo-op.]
Yeah, peaceful protestors. We saw those peaceful protestors on the YouTube clips, Michelle: smashing, burning, looting, assaulting. How stupid do you think we are?
Which brings us to the sin of o-mission. The little pork pies were bad enough; but where was any mention of the utter breakdown of public order in big cities — big cities whose politics is totally dominated by the party whose convention we were watching?
That omission is itself rooted in a lie — the biggest lie of all, what I think of privately as our National Lie.
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03 — The National Lie. Yes: Just as we have a National Flag, a National Anthem, a National Capital, and a National Father, we have a National Lie — a great big brazen whopper that no-one who wants a career in the public realm dares deny. Certainly no-one of any public influence does deny it: no politician, no celebrity, no TV talking head — no, not even Tucker Carlson.
The lie is that different outcomes by race are caused by something other than biology.
What, exactly, is the something other? That depends who you ask.
The viewpoint represented at this week's Democratic Party convention is that the something-else causing chronic academic failure and antisocial behavior among American blacks is racism — malice, conscious or unconscious, on the part of whites.
An alternative view — call it the Tucker Carlson view — is that yes, there may be some malicious white racists around, but not enough to account for the chronic, intractable, unfixable quality of black dysfunction — not to mention the superiority of East Asians over whites in educational attainment and law-abiding sociality.
So what accounts for these things? Culture! Some people don't behave right, because … culture. They need to get their thinking straight.
I don't myself see much difference between these two alternative supports for the National Lie. In the imaginations of those who take these positions, both "white racism" and "culture" belong, metaphysically, in the realm of magic. They are invisible vapors seeping up out of the soil, fogging our vision and muddling our brains. They are the phlogiston, the luminiferous æther, of modern social science.
Get their thinking straight? Thinking happens in the brain, which is an organ, a biological object, with an ontogeny and a phylogeny.
I'm an old-line British empiricist. Race is real, and it makes a difference. Not always at the individual level: plenty of black Americans are smarter and better socialized than me. When a population of millions is under discussion, though, the law of averages kicks in, and you get … Well, we all know what you get.
As an old friend of mine is wont to say when the social dysfunction of black Americans comes up, quote: "It's a different critter." End quote. Another old friend, a retired academic, in an email exchange with me the other day, said the following thing, which I think is wise and true, quote:
The entire civil rights movement has evolved from passing laws to prescribing totalitarian schemes for transforming blacks into whites, and this has been a disaster for both races. Let them be who they naturally are.
End quote.
Wise words, but of course flagrantly, shockingly disrespectful of the National Lie.
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04 — Who is a danger to whom? And that great big National Lie breeds lesser lies. Most in evidence at this convention was the lesser lie that whites are dangerous to blacks. Mrs Obama again:
[Clip of Michelle speaking: And here at home, as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and a never-ending list of innocent people of color continue to be murdered, stating the simple fact that a Black life matters is still met with derision from the nation's highest office.]
Well, yes. It meets with derision for perfectly good reasons, again to do with the law of averages.
Whatever happened to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the statistics show that by far the greatest danger to the lives of American blacks comes from other American blacks; and that blacks are ten, twenty, thirty times more dangerous to whites than vice versa, depending on the style of interpersonal violence we're talking about.
We've presented those statistics many, many times over here at VDARE.com; other investigators have reported them elsewhere — Heather Mac Donald for example at City Journal; and Jared Taylor has a concise and characteristically eloquent presentation of them on his current BitChute video, link here.
Yet facts, statistics, and empirical inquiry can't leave a bruise on the National Lie, certainly not for the people speaking to us from this week's convention. For them, our National Lie is too precious to discard — more precious to them than the National Flag or the National Anthem, for sure. The more the National Lie is challenged (to the degree anyone dares challenge it), the tighter our elites clutch it.
My friend's wise words again:
The entire civil rights movement has evolved from passing laws to prescribing totalitarian schemes for transforming blacks into whites, and this has been a disaster for both races. Let them be who they naturally are.
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05 — The Church of Antiracism. Thence to the Church of Antiracism.
Being essentially a metaphysical doctrine indifferent to empirical verification, antiracism has naturally assumed some of the aspects of a religion. That is to say, it delivers some of the same psychological rewards to believers that religions do.
To say that antiracism is a religion, or at any rate an ersatz religion, is by now a cliché. Certainly you've heard it from me before; and as before, if you want to read a good brief argument for antiracism's religious nature, I recommend John McWhorter's article at the Daily Beast, posted July 2015, updated April 2017, title: "Antiracism, Our Flawed New Religion."
This religious aspect came to mind when I saw the news item about Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter, donating ten million dollars to something called the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University. Hey, I thought, that's just like some grandee aristocrat in medieval Europe donating a cartload of silver coin, or a patch of good farming land, to a monastery.
Dorsey is worth billions, so ten million dollars is just dinner and a movie to him. The donation is pretty impressive none the less. What is this Center for Antiracist Research? What kind of research will they actually do?
Now my imagination is drifting towards the Academy of Lagado in Book Three of Gulliver's Travels, where scholars occupied themselves with such projects as extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers. That is unkind of me, though — probably racist, in fact. Let's take a closer look.
The Center seems to be the brainchild of professional black guy Ibram X. Kendi, author of the Number Two antiracist bestseller How to Be an Antiracist. Number One is of course professional white ethnomasochist Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility. I don't think either title has yet outsold the Bible, but they are headed that way.
No, I haven't read Mr Kendi's book, and don't plan to. Three hundred and twenty pages of magical-thinking woo would be several hours out of my life, and I don't have all that many hours left. I did read Coleman Hughes' withering review of the book in City Journal. He quotes Kendi as writing, quote:
Capitalism is essentially racist and racism is essentially capitalist.
End quote.
Given that Jack Dorsey acquired his billions by sheer capitalist enterprise, you have to wonder whether he's read Kendi's book. But I guess if you can hate your own race as much as these white ethnomasochists do, hating your own path to a colossal fortune comes easily.
Kendi also wants an antiracist amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the establishment of a federal Department of Antiracism empowered with, quote:
disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas.
End quote.
As Coleman Hughes says: "Kendi's goals are openly totalitarian."
Some unkind spirits on Steve Sailer's comment thread have predicted that Dorsey's ten million dollars will go the way money generally goes when it falls into the hands of black grifters: on bling, dope, fancy hookers, rowdy parties where someone gets shot, and bribes to public officials.
I hope they're right. At least that way, the money will do no serious social harm.
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06 — Where we eece-flay the ongregation-cay. Just a footnote to that last segment.
Bringing up the website of the Center for Antiracist Research, I saw that one of their projects is a National Antiracist Book Festival. Apparently Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo are not the only ones cashing in on the antiracism cult. There are enough antiracist books on the market for an entire festival.
Quote from the website:
The festival assembles a day full of author panels and editorial workshops. A vibrant crowd of authors and attendees engage in antiracist dialogue that will challenge, inspire, and mobilize. Workshops bring together leading book editors and literary agents to provide insight and guidance for aspiring writers.
End quote.
Vibrant!
That mention of book editors and literary agents, if not bogus, suggests that the market for antiracist literature is still not saturated. There is still gold in them thar hills!
It looks, in fact, as though antiracism is not one of those sack-cloth and ashes kinds of religion, with a strict rule of poverty and obedience. It more closely resembles Al Bundy's Church of NO MA'AM, right up to the point where Rev'm Al whispers to his helpers that "this is where we eece-flay the ongregation-cay."
If this is your kind of thing, though, listeners, by all means go to the website of the Center for Antiracist Research and get a ticket for the National Antiracist Book Festival, to be held in Washington DC next April 24th. An all-access ticket, with which you can attend all those vibrant discussions and workshops, costs only $250, and you get a free tote bag and a copy of Mr Kendi's book!
Hard to resist, eh? Go for it, true believers! You may come home financially poorer, but you will be spiritually richer. And — who knows? — perhaps Jack Dorsey will show up to add some billionaire glamor to the event.
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07 — Slo-mo Camp of the Saints. For a year and a half now I've made occasional references to the CANZUK idea. Quote from my original mention, back in January last year, quote:
[Pips.]
It stands for "Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the U.K." The idea, which seems to be a spin-off from the Brexit debate, is for free trade and freedom of movement between the CANZUK nations.
The promoters of CANZUK — which by the way has a Facebook group — insist firmly that they do not want political union or a common currency. They only want free trade and free immigration among themselves.
[Pips.]
Well, here's an update. Actually a short video, six minutes, put out in May this year by the CANZUK promoters. They've done some polling and claim to have learned that CANZUK is remarkably popular among its member nations. Approval percentages, they say, are:
Britain, 64
Australia 72
New Zealand 81
Canada 77
And even
Quebec 67
That's a good showing. It needs some qualifying, though.
The qualification is related to the argument made by British journalist Ed West, as noted here last month: the argument that the Anglosphere nations are too suicidally multicultural to survive in any form.
That's not so much the case with Australia and New Zealand, which maintain fairly sensible policies on immigration — as they can easily afford to, being far, far away from Africa and West Asia, where live the hundreds of millions of people who are desperate to go live somewhere else.
Canada and Britain not so much. Canada is almost as reckless about mass immigration as we are: Britain is even recklesser. A running story in the British press this year has been the boat people pouring in from France and Belgium, crossing the English Channel in just-barely-seaworthy small boats and rubber dinghies.
These are not, of course, natives of France and Belgium. They come from dysfunctional countries further south: mainly West Asians and Africans, with a seasoning of Albanians. The numbers arrived in Britain this year, at the time I speak, are given as 5,103 — five times the figure for the same period last year. It's the Camp of the Saints in slow motion — slow, but accelerating.
A poll from last week shows that almost three-quarters of Brits, 73 percent, now think that illegal migration is a serious problem. Of those, 45 per cent checked "very serious." Among voters who support the ruling Conservative Party, the number checking "serious" is ninety-seven percent.
Given that Britain's current ruling party is the Conservative Party, you might suppose that they'd be all over the issue. No: they seem unconcerned. The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is a globalist multiculturalist who seems to think there is nothing wrong with thousands of Africans, Middle Easterners, and Albanians settling in his country uninvited. Very few of those who arrive are ever deported. Sound familiar?
The Tories are perfectly shameless about it all. Their party manifestos for both the 2010 and 2015 general elections included promises to reduce immigration. A few weeks ago George Osborne, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer — that's like Treasury Secretary — under Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron for both those elections, admitted in a newspaper op-ed that those promises were never intended to be kept. They were, to put it in the blunt American style, just boob bait for the bubbas. Again: Sound familiar?
So my advice to the Aussies and Kiwis would be: If you want the Anglosphere to stay Anglo-Saxon, keep Britain out of it. Canada's not beyond hope; they at least have immigration controls over who enters their country. The Brits have no will to do what needs to be done to keep out the surging numbers. Ten thousand this year, fifty thousand next year … Which year will it be a million, I wonder?
Poor old Britain. Poor, poor old Britain.
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08 — Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: The Green New Deal got good coverage at the Democrats' national convention. Joe Biden has promised to eliminate carbon emissions from the U.S. electric sector altogether by 2035.
I wonder how well that's playing in California right now. They're having a heat wave over there and it's causing rolling blackouts. A power plant fueled by natural gas failed, and there was not enough wind or solar power to make up the difference.
The whole of the West may be heating up. Last Sunday the temperature in California's Death Valley clocked 130 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest temperature recorded anywhere on earth since 1913.
But hey, it's California, right? So they can always just head for the beach, do a little surfing. No worries.
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Item: The August 7th podcast included a segment about penguin poop. A listener emailed in to chide me for not using the scientifically correct term: penguano. Yeah, sorry about that.
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Item: In this week of Democratic Party triumphalism, here are two items about Democratic mayors of big cities.
First mayoral item: When those Antifa peaceful protestors object to a public official on some grounds or other, it's getting to be a thing for them to go and fill the street outside that official's house or apartment and shriek obscenities at the windows.
Well, that won't be happening to the mayor of Chicago. That city's police department, who seem to have done little to prevent the looting of Chicago's downtown stores on August 10th, the police department has been ordered not to allow any peaceful protestors into her street.
Says the mayor, a Person of Color named Lori Lightfoot, quote:
I think that residents of this city, understanding the nature of the threats that we are receiving on a daily basis, understand I have a right to make sure that my home is secure.
End quote.
Madame Mayor: You don't just have a right, you have a duty to make sure that all the citizens of Chicago are secure from mob assault, including downtown business owners.
In any case, as several commenters asked in the comment threads, why should the mayor feel her security threatened by peaceful protestors?
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Item: Second mayoral item: This one is not a mayor, only a mayor's wife. The name is Chirlane McCray, wife of New York City's communist mayor Bill de Blasio.
The Big Apple is in dire straits. Businesses and residents are fleeing. Moving companies have so much business, they're turning customers away. Crime is through the roof, lunatics and junkies are camped out on the streets in midtown Manhattan, trash is piling up uncollected, the subway cars are empty, and guesses about the city budget shortfall this year due to unpaid taxes start at a billion dollars.
And here is Ms McCray, the mayor's wife, with no skills or talents anyone has been able to detect, elected by no-one at all. We learned this week that the lady has a staff of fourteen, all on the public payroll of course, with salaries from $62,000 to $237,000, median $116,000, total two million dollars.
McCray is, like her husband, a communist. They took their honeymoon in Fidel Castro's Cuba, remember. An unelected communist with two million dollars-worth of staff on her payroll. Today's America.
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Item: There has been a coup in Mali. Mali.
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Item: Because I put in fifteen years working in the back offices of a Wall Street firm, Mrs Derbyshire looks to me as a gushing fount of knowledge about things financial. I try to explain that I was merely a managing director's cup-bearer — making his coffee, sharpening his pencils, and programming the occasional computer — but her faith remains unshaken.
Thus it was that she asked me the other day why, with the nation going to hell in a handbasket, millions out of work, and stores and businesses shuttered all over, where they haven't been burned out or looted by peaceful protestors, why is the stock market doing so well?
I feigned a disabling attack of hiccups, ran to my study, and looked it up on the internet. Why is the stock market doing so well?
Best I can figure from fifteen minutes browsing is: those shuttered restaurants, those unemployed people, none of them are listed on the exchanges. The names that are listed are names like Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Google. They're all at record highs.
This is capitalism 2020. Perhaps Ibram Kendi could explain it to my wife. If not, maybe I'll try Ms McCray.
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09 — Signoff. That's all I can offer you this week, ladies and gents. Thank you for your time and attention, and of course for your emails and donations.
Was I too dismissive back there of the CANZUK idea? Possibly so. By way of making amends, for my signout music I'll reach into Canadian history.
I intend no disrespect to the other CANZUK nations. You hear plenty from me about poor old Britain, including in this podcast. Australia has also been amply covered: doing a site search on the Radio Derb archives, I got 170 hits for "Australia" against only 113 for "Canada." For "New Zealand" there were only 66; but hey, the place is small and remote, I once wrote the definitive long-form article about it, and there are only so many sheep jokes.
So, Canada, Friendly Giant to the North. We weren't always friends. There was a hard-fought battle between American and Canadian forces at the very beginning of the War of 1812, the Battle of Queenston Heights.
Strictly speaking the Canadians weren't Canadians at this point, just colonial British; and the main part of their forces were British Army regulars under the command of a British Major-General, Isaac Brock. They were outnumbered two to one by the Americans, but they won the battle anyway.
Brock died in the fighting. There is a colossal monument to him at the battle site, and a university named after him nearby. His ADC, Lieutenant Colonel John MacDonnell, took over command and fought heroically until he too was killed.
Canadian folk singer-songwriter Stan Rogers apparently thought that MacDonell's heroism had been unfairly lost in the glare of General Brock's, so he wrote a fine stirring song to redress the balance. Here it is: "MacDonnell on the Heights."
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-08-21--Watch Out, Chicago! New Yorkers Are Warming Up for a Big Weekend Of Gunfire

Earlier : NYT : Murder Rate Rose 31 % More from May to June vs. Last Year , But Only Trump Thinks That Had Anything to Do with the Peaceful Protests Excitement has been mounting throughout the Summer of George over the chances that long sleepy New York City could once again compete head to head with traditionally formidable Chicago in the Weekend Shootings Count .
The underdog New Yorkers seems to be gearing up for a late summer push .
From the Daily Mail : New York is being turned into a ‘ shooting gallery ’ as three are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in just one night – as cops release horrifying footage of broad-daylight drive-by that killed an 18-year-old ( and the weekend is just about to start ) New York City saw 11 shootings overnight on Thursday , with three people dead … Shootings in the city were up 177 % in July from the same month last year Three people are dead and 12 are wounded after a night of shooting mayhem across New York City , where violent crime continues to surge out of control .
Overnight Thursday into Friday morning , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ incidents spanning Brooklyn and the Bronx , where terrified residents have seen soaring violence in recent months .
It follows the release of surveillance footage showing a brazen broad-daylight drive-by shooting in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn , which left an 18-year-old man dead in an area residents describe as a ‘ shooting gallery.
’ I stayed in Flatbush , on the far side of Prospect Park from Park Slope , a couple of years ago .
It looked like it was gentrifying in an unusual way : instead of white gays and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ couples , followed by white families , it looked like it was being gentrified by white girls who like black boys : a high number of black man-white woman couples .

Earlier: NYT: Murder Rate Rose 31% More from May to June vs. Last Year, But Only Trump Thinks That Had Anything to Do with the Peaceful Protests
Excitement has been mounting throughout the Summer of George over the chances that long sleepy New York City could once again compete head to head with traditionally formidable Chicago in the Weekend Shootings Count. The underdog New Yorkers seem to be gearing up for a late summer push. From the Daily Mail:
New York is being turned into a ‘shooting gallery’ as three are killed and 12 are injured in shootings in just one night – as cops release horrifying footage of broad-daylight drive-by that killed an 18-year-old (and the weekend is just about to start) New York City saw 11 shootings overnight on Thursday, with three people dead …
Shootings in the city were up 177% in July from the same month last year By KEITH GRIFFITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM, PUBLISHED: 17:16 EDT, 21 August 2020 Three people are dead and 12 are wounded after a night of shooting mayhem across New York City, where violent crime continues to surge out of control. Overnight Thursday into Friday morning, there were at least 11 separate shooting incidents spanning Brooklyn and the Bronx, where terrified residents have seen soaring violence in recent months. It follows the release of surveillance footage showing a brazen broad-daylight drive-by shooting in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, which left an 18-year-old man dead in an area residents describe as a ‘shooting gallery.’
I stayed in Flatbush, on the far side of Prospect Park from Park Slope, a couple of years ago. It looked like it was gentrifying in an unusual way: instead of white gays and artists moving in, followed by white couples, followed by white families, it looked like it was being gentrified by white girls who like black boys: a high number of black man-white woman couples.
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