vdare--2020-02-07--His Name Is Joseph Bullock: White Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Murdered By Black Male Angry Over H

His Name Is Joseph Bullock: White Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Murdered By Black Male Angry Over His Car Being Towed

Outside of local media and family , friends , and perhaps members of his church , no one will ever read about or hear the name Joseph Bullock .
He ’ s just another white cop murdered by a black criminal ( remember , we are told white cops targeting innocent black bodies represents a national crisis ) .
The Martin County Sheriff ’ s Office has identified the man who shot and killed a Florida Highway Patrol trooper on Wednesday as 30-year-old Franklin Reed III of Palm Bay in Central Florida .
FHP said Trooper Joseph Bullock was assisting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ northbound lanes of I-95 in Martin County , when Reed suddenly opened fire , killing Trooper Bullock .
Witnesses said Reed was angry at having to pay to tow his car , and that ’ s why he shot the trooper .
According to FHP , a Riviera Beach police officer who was passing by engaged the suspect and fatally shot him .
Trooper Bullock spent his entire 19-year career with FHP ’ s Troop L in Fort Pierce , and was also a veteran of the U.S. Air Force .
Flags are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of flowers and balloons is growing on Thursday outside the Florida Highway Patrol ’ s headquarters in Fort Pierce to honor the trooper .
Funeral plans have not been announced yet .

Outside of local media and family, friends, and perhaps members of his church, no one will ever read about or hear the name Joseph Bullock. He’s just another white cop murdered by a black criminal (remember, we are told white cops targeting innocent black bodies represents a national crisis).
MCSO: Man who shot and killed FHP trooper identified, WFLX.com, February 6, 2020
The Martin County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man who shot and killed a Florida Highway Patrol trooper on Wednesday as 30-year-old Franklin Reed III of Palm Bay in Central Florida.
FHP said Trooper Joseph Bullock was assisting a disabled vehicle on Wednesday in the northbound lanes of I-95 in Martin County, when Reed suddenly opened fire, killing Trooper Bullock.
Witnesses said Reed was angry at having to pay to tow his car, and that’s why he shot the trooper.
According to FHP, a Riviera Beach police officer who was passing by engaged the suspect and fatally shot him.
Trooper Bullock spent his entire 19-year career with FHP’s Troop L in Fort Pierce, and was also a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.
Flags are at half staff and a small memorial of flowers and balloons is growing on Thursday outside the Florida Highway Patrol’s headquarters in Fort Pierce to honor the trooper.
Funeral plans have not been announced yet.


vdare--2020-02-06--Immigration Patriots And Vaccine Skeptics—A Natural Alliance?

See , earlier , by Michelle Malkin : Fight for the Freedom to Question Vaccines and Vaccine Skeptics Under Siege By Tech Totalitarians If GOP strategists really think the party is having trouble with suburban white women because they of what they wrongly believe to be a nasty anti-immigrant racial animus , here ’ s an idea : seek common cause with the very many suburban moms worried about mandatory vaccination—and make sure they know that Open Borders and mass immigration isn ’ t helping their cause or the health of their children .
Unvaccinated “ migrants ” from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some of them fatal .
You can ’ t fight the statist push for more and more childhood vaccinations if a disease-bearing horde is crossing the border every day .
Disclaimer : VDARE.com takes no position on the mandatory vaccination controversy or on anything else not directly related to the National Question .
But these issues clearly overlap .
Vaccine skeptics who want to decide what health measures are best for their kids are an implicit white community .
Yes , Orthodox Jews and other groups oppose compulsory vaccination , but most skeptics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ To Convince Orthodox Jews To Vaccinate , New York Messes Up The Yiddish , by Elizabeth Cohen , CNN , May 22 , 2019 ] .
• Rich , White , And Refusing Vaccinations , by Nicholas Bakalar , New York Times , December 24 , 2015 Those headlines suggest that our cultural civil war has never been between whites and minorities , contrary to the Main Stream Media stereotype , but between Good Whites and Bad Whites .
Problem is , white people who work together to exercise their sovereign rights are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grievous Thought Crime .
This explains the MSM ’ s frequent Two Minutes Hate against “ anti-vaxxers.
” The Washington Post ’ s Juliette Kayyem has argued that parents who decline to vaccinate their children should be arrested and prosecuted [ Antivaxxers are dangerous .
Make them face isolation , fines , arrests , April 30 , 2019 ] .
Scribes at The Boston Herald think parents who decline vaccinations should be hanged [ Preying on Parents ’ Fear , May 8 , 2017 ] That ’ s quite something given that Massachusetts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yet beyond the obvious racial aspect of the Left ’ s campaign against white anti-vaxxers is the statist impulse behind it .
The Left is pathologically devoted to socialized medicine and healthcare mandates for the obvious reason that if the government can control the public ’ s healthcare , they can control the public that depends on it .
Similarly , undermining the family unit removes an obstacle to the Left ’ s collectivist ambitions [ The Left ’ s War on the Family , by Thomas S. Garlinghouse , American Thinker , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ better way to undermine the family than to seize control of medical decisions for children ?
Thus , virtually every state has proposed legislation to make all childhood vaccinations 100 percent compulsory—a drive that began ( where else ? )
in California , a political harbinger for the rest of the country .
Here , on the dysfunctional Left Coast , we experience most every public policy disaster before the nationwide rollout .
In 2015 , state Senator Richard Pan , a white-loathing Asian , successfully championed legislation that eliminated religious exemptions from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opposition [ California Vaccination Bill 277 Signed By Governor , Becomes Law , by Tara Haelle , Forbes , June 30 , 2015 ] .
Pan promised , of course , that the new legislation would safeguard all medical exemptions , but that turned out to be a lie [ Senator Richard Pan - HERO OR LIAR ?
, by Parents For Healthcare Rights , YouTube , May 5 , 2017 ] .
In 2019 on Facebook , Pan labeled medical exemptions a form of “ white privilege ” and passed legislation to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in California would need state OK under new bill , by Alex Koseff , San Francisco Chronicle , March 26 , 2019 ] .
Now even if your child has suffered a serious vaccine injury , he will almost certainly have to be vaccinated again .
Unfortunately , this political virus recently spread to New York state , which eliminated virtually all religious and medical exemptions in one day [ Get Vaccinated or Leave School : 26,000 N.Y. Children Face a Choice , Sharon Otterman , New York Times , September 3 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vulnerable to this tyranny .
A little history helps explain why : Vaccination policy was born in the darkest depths of the Deep State swamp .
The two costliest mistakes of Ronald Reagan ’ s presidency occurred in 1986 : the signing of the Immigration Reform and Control Act ( for obvious reasons ) and the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act .
Because the pharmaceutical industry was hemorrhaging money over vaccine injury lawsuits , the legislation indemnified the vaccine business .
So the only product in America for which there is zero liability @ @ @ @ @ @ @ damages or even kills your child , you can not sue the manufacturer , or the doctor who prescribed the vaccine .
“ I have serious reservations , ” said Reagan at the signing ( who had similar reservations about the ‘ 86 amnesty that he also failed to heed ) [ Reagan Signs Bill On Drug Exports and Payment For Vaccine Injuries , by Robert Pear , New York Times , November 15 , 1986 ] .
It is surely no coincidence that as soon as childhood vaccination acquired zero liability , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The legislation also shifted compensation for vaccine injury from the pharmaceutical companies onto taxpayers through the establishment of a Vaccine Injury Court , which has paid out over $ 4 billion to the families of vaccine-injured children .
If vaccines are really as safe and effective as our elites claim , then why all the hefty settlements ?
You ’ re never going to see any of this on the evening news , of course , because Big Pharma spends more on lobbying than any other industry and is the second-largest buyer of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Seeing More Drug Ads on TV ?
You Are , and Here ’ s Why , by Joanne Kaufman , New York Times , December 24 , 2017 ] .
And here ’ s something else you won ’ t see on the evening news that would show where vaccinations and immigration policy meet : Big Pharma also aggressively lobbies for Open Borders and foreign workers .
[ Big Pharma Depends On Immigrants , It Kept Quiet About Trump ’ s Travel Ban , by Carolyn Y. Johnson , Washington Post , February @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t you know it , those who most vocally denounce vaccine skepticism routinely applaud mass immigration and are untroubled by the horde of illegal aliens swarming over the border with an incalculable number of diseases [ Illegals Show Up At Border With Rotting Feet , Disease , Fevers , by Amber Athey , The Daily Caller , March 5 , 2019 ] .
Indeed , a pro-immigration editor at Time Magazine , Jeffrey Kluger , has called for Facebook to ban all groups that question vaccination policy [ Facebook Must Shutdown the Anti-Vaxxers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] .
Rep. Adam Schiff ( NumbersUSA F- ) —architect of the impeachment to remove President Trump , which would end any hope for a border wall—has formally asked all the Big Tech CEOs to do the same [ Schiff Sends Letter to Amazon CEO Regarding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation , Schiff.House.gov , March 1 , 2019 ] .
So mandatory vaccination and Open Borders are both classic expressions of anarcho-tyranny .
Which explains why vaccine skepticism has , like patriotic immigration reform , found itself in the crosshairs of Big Tech ’ s Deplatforming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would cripple the information flow to those parents—most of them suburban Moms— who rely on social media to educate themselves on vaccine safety and who work together to oppose mandates .
And that provides an opportunity for immigration patriots not only to help the GOP with suburban Moms but also move those Moms to support a halt to mass immigration , particularly the unvaccinated illegal aliens surging across the border at a rate of 40,000 a month .
Traditionally the GOP has done relatively poorly with suburban white women because they are especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immigrant sob stories .
But vaccine skeptics are invariably white women—Moms—recently mugged by reality .
In California at least , these women understand that increasing mandatory vaccination is a direct result of the Third Worldization of the state .
They have begun to acknowledge the world as it really is—or more exactly as they always knew it was but would not admit it is because of the aggressive socialization and assimilation required to be an accepted suburban Mom .
They now seem to understand what the GOP and Conservative Inc. do not : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more social distrust exists within it , and the less we work together to exercise our sovereign rights .
A nation of strangers can not defend itself against the encroachments of the state , particularly when many of the strangers are Third World immigrants who don ’ t mind the encroachments , and in fact invite them because they come with free money .
Vaccine skeptics get it .
And they are , helpfully , a highly effective grassroots army , just like the immigration patriots who continually pressure their representatives with well-informed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ office visits [ Genial Force Behind Bitter Immigration Overhaul , by Julie Hirschfeld Davis , The New York Times , December 3 , 2014 ] .
This the vaccine skeptics have won impressive victories in Leftist strongholds like New Jersey and Massachusetts simply because they understand the power of an organized citizenry speaking with one voice [ Strict Vaccine Law Stumbles in N.J. Legislature , by Sharon Otterman and Tracey Tully , New York Times , December 16 , 2019 ] .
Donald Trump directly appealed to this constituency in 2016 and even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election .
But he has yet to deliver [ Bill Gates convinced Trump to drop his anti-vaccine commission , by Stephen Neidenbach , Medium , May 18 , 2018 ] .
Immigration patriots and vaccine skeptics , then , aren ’ t the proverbial strange bedfellows one would think .
In some sense , we ’ re sailing into battle against a common enemy—the Ruling Class elites who want to deny parents their traditional rights , and concomitantly flood the country to replace the Historic American Nation .
We are , as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
We must all grab an oar and start rowing together if we are to defeat our common enemy .
Matthew Richer ( email him ) is a writer living in Massachusetts .
He is the former American Editor of Right NOW magazine .

See, earlier, by Michelle Malkin: Fight for the Freedom to Question Vaccines and Vaccine Skeptics Under Siege By Tech Totalitarians
If GOP strategists really think the party is having trouble with suburban white women because they of what they wrongly believe to be a nasty anti-immigrant racial animus, here’s an idea: seek common cause with the very many suburban moms worried about mandatory vaccination—and make sure they know that Open Borders and mass immigration isn’t helping their cause or the health of their children. Unvaccinated “migrants” from the Third World bring Third World diseases, some of them fatal. You can’t fight the statist push for more and more childhood vaccinations if a disease-bearing horde is crossing the border every day.
Disclaimer: VDARE.com takes no position on the mandatory vaccination controversy or on anything else not directly related to the National Question. But these issues clearly overlap.
Vaccine skeptics who want to decide what health measures are best for their kids are an implicit white community. Yes, Orthodox Jews and other groups oppose compulsory vaccination, but most skeptics are middle- and upper-class whites [Trying To Convince Orthodox Jews To Vaccinate, New York Messes Up The Yiddish, by Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, May 22, 2019].
Consider these headlines:
Those headlines suggest that our cultural civil war has never been between whites and minorities, contrary to the Main Stream Media stereotype, but between Good Whites and Bad Whites.
Problem is, white people who work together to exercise their sovereign rights are, these days, guilty of a grievous Thought Crime. This explains the MSM’s frequent Two Minutes Hate against “anti-vaxxers.” The Washington Post’s Juliette Kayyem has argued that parents who decline to vaccinate their children should be arrested and prosecuted [Antivaxxers are dangerous. Make them face isolation, fines, arrests, April 30, 2019]. Scribes at the Boston Herald think parents who decline vaccinations should be hanged [Preying on Parents’ Fear, May 8, 2017]. That’s quite something given that Massachusetts doesn’t execute cop killers.
Yet beyond the obvious racial aspect of the Left’s campaign against white anti-vaxxers is the statist impulse behind it. The Left is pathologically devoted to socialized medicine and healthcare mandates for the obvious reason that if the government can control the public’s healthcare, they can control the public that depends on it.
Similarly, undermining the family unit removes an obstacle to the Left’s collectivist ambitions [The Left’s War on the Family, by Thomas S. Garlinghouse, American Thinker, February 24, 2004]. What better way to undermine the family than to seize control of medical decisions for children?
Thus, virtually every state has proposed legislation to make all childhood vaccinations 100 percent compulsory—a drive that began (where else?) in California, a political harbinger for the rest of the country. Here, on the dysfunctional Left Coast, we experience most every public policy disaster before the nationwide rollout.
In 2015, state Senator Richard Pan, a white-loathing Asian, successfully championed legislation that eliminated religious exemptions from childhood vaccination, despite extremely vocal public opposition [California Vaccination Bill 277 Signed By Governor, Becomes Law, by Tara Haelle, Forbes, June 30, 2015]. Pan promised, of course, that the new legislation would safeguard all medical exemptions, but that turned out to be a lie [Senator Richard Pan — HERO OR LIAR?, by Parents For Healthcare Rights, YouTube, May 5, 2017].
In 2019 on Facebook, Pan labeled medical exemptions a form of “white privilege” and passed legislation to effectively eliminate them [Childhood vaccine exemptions in California would need state OK under new bill, by Alex Koseff, San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 2019].
Now even if your child has suffered a serious vaccine injury, he will almost certainly have to be vaccinated again.
Unfortunately, this political virus recently spread to New York state, which eliminated virtually all religious and medical exemptions in one day [Get Vaccinated or Leave School: 26,000 N.Y. Children Face a Choice, Sharon Otterman, New York Times, September 3, 2019].
Every state is now vulnerable to this tyranny. A little history helps explain why: Vaccination policy was born in the darkest depths of the Deep State swamp.
The two costliest mistakes of Ronald Reagan’s presidency occurred in 1986: the signing of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (for obvious reasons) and the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.
Because the pharmaceutical industry was hemorrhaging money over vaccine injury lawsuits, the legislation indemnified the vaccine business. So the only product in America for which there is zero liability are childhood vaccines. If a vaccine damages or even kills your child, you cannot sue the manufacturer, or the doctor who prescribed the vaccine.
“I have serious reservations,” said Reagan at the signing (who had similar reservations about the ‘86 amnesty that he also failed to heed) [Reagan Signs Bill On Drug Exports and Payment For Vaccine Injuries, by Robert Pear, New York Times, November 15, 1986].
It is surely no coincidence that as soon as childhood vaccination acquired zero liability, the number of required vaccines skyrocketed.
The legislation also shifted compensation for vaccine injury from the pharmaceutical companies onto taxpayers through the establishment of a Vaccine Injury Court, which has paid out over $4 billion to the families of vaccine-injured children.
If vaccines are really as safe and effective as our elites claim, then why all the hefty settlements?
You’re never going to see any of this on the evening news, of course, because Big Pharma spends more on lobbying than any other industry and is the second-largest buyer of media advertising [Think You’re Seeing More Drug Ads on TV? You Are, and Here’s Why, by Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, December 24, 2017].
And here’s something else you won’t see on the evening news that would show where vaccinations and immigration policy meet: Big Pharma also aggressively lobbies for Open Borders and foreign workers [Big Pharma Depends On Immigrants, It Kept Quiet About Trump’s Travel Ban, by Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, February 1, 2017].
And wouldn’t you know it, those who most vocally denounce vaccine skepticism routinely applaud mass immigration and are untroubled by the horde of illegal aliens swarming over the border with an incalculable number of diseases [Illegals Show Up At Border With Rotting Feet, Disease, Fevers, by Amber Athey, The Daily Caller, March 5, 2019].
Indeed, a pro-immigration editor at Time Magazine, Jeffrey Kluger, has called for Facebook to ban all groups that question vaccination policy [Facebook Must Shutdown the Anti-Vaxxers, Time, February 19, 2015]. Rep. Adam Schiff (NumbersUSA F-)—architect of the impeachment to remove President Trump, which would end any hope for a border wall—has formally asked all the Big Tech CEOs to do the same [Schiff Sends Letter to Amazon CEO Regarding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation, Schiff.House.gov, March 1, 2019].
So mandatory vaccination and Open Borders are both classic expressions of anarcho-tyranny. Which explains why vaccine skepticism has, like patriotic immigration reform, found itself in the crosshairs of Big Tech’s Deplatforming marksmen.
That, of course, would cripple the information flow to those parents—most of them suburban moms—who rely on social media to educate themselves on vaccine safety and who work together to oppose mandates.
And that provides an opportunity for immigration patriots not only to help the GOP with suburban Moms but also move those Moms to support a halt to mass immigration, particularly the unvaccinated illegal aliens surging across the border at a rate of 40,000 a month.
Traditionally the GOP has done relatively poorly with suburban white women because they are especially susceptible to emotional appeals, such as immigrant sob stories.
But vaccine skeptics are invariably white women—Moms—recently mugged by reality. In California at least, these women understand that increasing mandatory vaccination is a direct result of the Third Worldization of the state. They have begun to acknowledge the world as it really is—or more exactly as they always knew it was but would not admit it is because of the aggressive socialization and assimilation required to be an accepted suburban Mom.
They now seem to understand what the GOP and Conservative Inc. do not: the more diverse the population, the more social distrust exists within it, and the less we work together to exercise our sovereign rights.
A nation of strangers cannot defend itself against the encroachments of the state, particularly when many of the strangers are Third World immigrants who don’t mind the encroachments, and in fact invite them because they come with free money.
Vaccine skeptics get it. And they are, helpfully, a highly effective grassroots army, just like the immigration patriots who continually pressure their representatives with well-informed faxes, phone calls, and district office visits [Genial Force Behind Bitter Immigration Overhaul, by Julie Hirschfeld Davis, New York Times, December 3, 2014].
Thus the vaccine skeptics have won impressive victories in Leftist strongholds like New Jersey and Massachusetts simply because they understand the power of an organized citizenry speaking with one voice [Strict Vaccine Law Stumbles in N.J. Legislature, by Sharon Otterman and Tracey Tully, New York Times, December 16, 2019].
Donald Trump directly appealed to this constituency in 2016 and even promised to investigate vaccine safety after the election. But he has yet to deliver [Bill Gates convinced Trump to drop his anti-vaccine commission, by Stephen Neidenbach, Medium, May 18, 2018].
Immigration patriots and vaccine skeptics, then, aren’t the proverbial strange bedfellows one would think. In some sense, we’re sailing into battle against a common enemy—the Ruling Class elites who want to deny parents their traditional rights, and concomitantly flood the country to replace the Historic American Nation.
We are, as a practical matter, in the same boat. We must all grab an oar and start rowing together if we are to defeat our common enemy.
Matthew Richer (email him) is a writer living in Massachusetts. He is the former American Editor of Right NOW magazine.


vdare--2020-02-09--The Science Of Racing: All 143 Men Who Have Run 100 Meters in Under 10 Seconds by Race and Country

Adam Rutherford : taking on racism with the help of genetics Despite its tainted origins , genetics provides many of the essential tools for challenging racist thinking , argues UCL fellow and science broadcaster There were several reasons why geneticist Adam Rutherford , an honorary research fellow at UCL , felt the time was right to publish a book titled How to Argue with a Racist .
… Furthermore , “ a huge recent rise in genetics ancestry kits has had the effect of reinforcing some ideas about biological essentialism which we were trying to erase from genetics ” , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appearances include his position as presenter of BBC Radio 4 ’ s Inside Science .
… Genetics , in Dr Rutherford ’ s view , has now fortunately put its past behind it and is indeed a crucial tool in the battle against racism .
“ There is now a vanishingly small number of geneticists and evolutionary biologists who [ dispute ] that genetics has clearly demonstrated that race is not a biologically meaningful categorisation , ” he said .
…Yet , as someone who constantly engages with the public , Dr Rutherford @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disconnect between what we are saying within the walls of the academy and what people think ” .
His book is designed to provide ammunition to challenge the views not only of hard-line white supremacists , but also “ your slightly racist uncle ” and even “ basically well-intentioned people who say black people are better at sport or Jews are better at intellectual pursuits ” .
… Yet it remained true , Dr Rutherford admitted , that “ nobody has seen a white man in the final of the 100-metre sprint in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what could be said to people who point to such facts and claim that they reveal , as Dr Rutherford put it , “ a natural ability among those descended from the enslaved to be good at explosive-energy sports ” ?
If that argument was right , he said , “ where are such people in sprint cycling or swimming , which has featured one African American in the history of the Olympics ?
” Similar arguments could be used against those who attributed the striking presence of Jews among composers and performers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while ignoring cultural factors and other genres such as hip hop and jazz .
Even when such notions were seemingly used in a positive sense , Dr Rutherford went on , we must keep in mind links to a long history of offensive stereotyping .
He pointed , for example , to “ a study looking at several thousand comments in the media about elite athletic success .
These referred to innate physical abilities for a black athlete – and hard work , intelligence and industriousness for a white elite athlete .
Such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Rutherford gives me the excuse to count up some more 100 meter dash statistics that I ’ ve never seen before .
As I ’ ve been pointing out to the Race Does Not Exist dogmatists for a very , very long time going back to the 1990s , the 100 meter dash provides some interesting data to the contrary .
Famously , the last 72 male finalists in the Olympics going back through 1984 have been at least half-sub-Saharan .
However , a couple of other metrics are not quite so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So it ’ s a bit of a fluke that 72 out of 72 in the Olympics have been black and the streak could well be broken in Tokyo in 2020 .
At the World Championships held in between Olympics , one non-black has qualified into the finals in each of the last five championships .
And out of the 143 men in history to have run 100 meters in 9.99 seconds or less , a number have been non-black .
The 10 second barrier has been broken by 988 times by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Times are speeding up recently , so a number of leading Olympic countries such as France , Italy , Japan , and China have come up with indigenous sprinters who have run under 10 seconds .
I count two indigenous European whites ( Christophe Lemaitre of France and more recently Fillipo Tortu of Italy of Sardinian ancestry ) , two Chinese , and two full-blooded Japanese to run under 10 seconds .
Japan also has a half-black sprinter under 10 seconds .
The first non-black under 10 seconds in the world was Patrick @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white and Aboriginal ancestry .
( Polish track fans contend that a Pole ran a 9.997 that was rounded up to 10.00 during the Cold War . )
Turkey is represented by a Caucasian from neighboring Azerbaijan , Ramil Guliyev .
Britain has a guy named Adam Gemili who is of Moroccan and Persian background who has run 9.97 .
He too thinks his ancestry is pretty weird for a sprinter .
One of the five South Africans to run under 10 seconds is Wayde van Niekerk , the world record holder in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cape Coloured origins : they are usually a combination of white , black , Bushman , and Malay .
If you saw him on a New York street , you ’ d probably guess he was , say , Puerto Rican .
On the other hand , nobody who isn ’ t at least half black has run the 100 meters in under 9.91 seconds .
Usain Bolt holds the world record at 9.58 seconds .
The fastest 39 men of all time have been at least half black .
Out of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ least 134 have been at least roughly half black , 135 if you count van Niekerk as half black .
Here are men under 10 seconds by country .
It ’ s often argued by Rutherford et al that Nigeria is underrepresented in the 100 meters , which is true compared to Jamaica or Trinidad , but they are still tied with Britain for third most under 10 men in the world , and would be all alone in third if counting the two additional Nigerians who did running for rich Qatar .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ sprinters from other West African countries ( Ghana and Ivory Coast ) .
There are now 8 sprinters from southern Africa ( South Africa , Zimbabwe , and Namibia back in the 1990s ) .
Southern Africa might be the coming thing in sprinting .
• None USA 57 ( all black , I believe ; high school senior Matthew Boling ’ s 9.98 last year was wind-aided )

From Times Higher Education in UK:
Adam Rutherford: taking on racism with the help of genetics
Despite its tainted origins, genetics provides many of the essential tools for challenging racist thinking, argues UCL fellow and science broadcaster February 5, 2020
By Matthew Reisz There were several reasons why geneticist Adam Rutherford, an honorary research fellow at UCL, felt the time was right to publish a book titled How to Argue with a Racist. … Furthermore, “a huge recent rise in genetics ancestry kits has had the effect of reinforcing some ideas about biological essentialism which we were trying to erase from genetics”, added the science broadcaster, whose media appearances include his position as presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science. … Genetics, in Dr Rutherford’s view, has now fortunately put its past behind it and is indeed a crucial tool in the battle against racism. “There is now a vanishingly small number of geneticists and evolutionary biologists who [dispute] that genetics has clearly demonstrated that race is not a biologically meaningful categorisation,” he said. …Yet, as someone who constantly engages with the public, Dr Rutherford was well aware “of a massive disconnect between what we are saying within the walls of the academy and what people think”. His book is designed to provide ammunition to challenge the views not only of hard-line white supremacists, but also “your slightly racist uncle” and even “basically well-intentioned people who say black people are better at sport or Jews are better at intellectual pursuits”. … Yet it remained true, Dr Rutherford admitted, that “nobody has seen a white man in the final of the 100-metre sprint in the Olympics since 1980”. So what could be said to people who point to such facts and claim that they reveal, as Dr Rutherford put it, “a natural ability among those descended from the enslaved to be good at explosive-energy sports”? If that argument was right, he said, “where are such people in sprint cycling or swimming, which has featured one African American in the history of the Olympics?” Similar arguments could be used against those who attributed the striking presence of Jews among composers and performers of classical music to innate talent, while ignoring cultural factors and other genres such as hip hop and jazz. Even when such notions were seemingly used in a positive sense, Dr Rutherford went on, we must keep in mind links to a long history of offensive stereotyping. He pointed, for example, to “a study looking at several thousand comments in the media about elite athletic success. These referred to innate physical abilities for a black athlete – and hard work, intelligence and industriousness for a white elite athlete. Such stereotypes are just baked into our culture.”
Rutherford gives me the excuse to count up some more 100 meter dash statistics that I’ve never seen before.
As I’ve been pointing out to the Race Does Not Exist dogmatists for a very, very long time going back to the 1990s, the 100 meter dash provides some interesting data to the contrary. Famously, the last 72 male finalists in the Olympics going back through 1984 have been at least half-sub-Saharan.
However, a couple of other metrics are not quite so racially imbalanced, with more racial diversity. So it’s a bit of a fluke that 72 out of 72 in the Olympics have been black and the streak could well be broken in Tokyo in 2020.
At the World Championships held in between Olympics, one non-black has qualified into the finals in each of the last five championships.
And out of the 143 men in history to have run 100 meters in 9.99 seconds or less, a number have been non-black.
The 10 second barrier has been broken by 988 times by 143 guys as of late 2019.
Times are speeding up recently, so a number of leading Olympic countries such as France, Italy, Japan, and China have come up with indigenous sprinters who have run under 10 seconds.
I count two indigenous European whites (Christophe Lemaitre of France and more recently Fillipo Tortu of Italy of Sardinian ancestry), two Chinese, and two full-blooded Japanese to run under 10 seconds. Japan also has a half-black sprinter under 10 seconds.
The first non-black under 10 seconds in the world was Patrick Johnson of Australia, who is of white and Aboriginal ancestry. (Polish track fans contend that a Pole ran a 9.997 that was rounded up to 10.00 during the Cold War.)
Turkey is represented by a Caucasian from neighboring Azerbaijan, Ramil Guliyev. Britain has a guy named Adam Gemili who is of Moroccan and Persian background who has run 9.97. He too thinks his ancestry is pretty weird for a sprinter.
One of the five South Africans to run under 10 seconds is Wayde van Niekerk, the world record holder in the 400 meters, who is of Cape Coloured origins: They are usually a combination of white, black, Bushman, and Malay. If you saw him on a New York street, you’d probably guess he was, say, Puerto Rican.
On the other hand, nobody who isn’t at least half black has run the 100 meters in under 9.91 seconds. Usain Bolt holds the world record at 9.58 seconds.
The fastest 39 men of all time have been at least half black. Out of the 143 men under 10 seconds, at least 134 have been at least roughly half black, 135 if you count van Niekerk as half black.
Here are men under 10 seconds by country. It’s often argued by Rutherford et. al. that Nigeria is underrepresented in the 100 meters, which is true compared to Jamaica or Trinidad, but they are still tied with Britain for third most under 10 men in the world, and would be all alone in third if counting the two additional Nigerians who did running for rich Qatar.
There have also been four under 10 sprinters from other West African countries (Ghana and Ivory Coast). There are now 8 sprinters from southern Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Namibia back in the 1990s). Southern Africa might be the coming thing in sprinting.
USA 57 (all black, I believe; high school senior Matthew Boling’s 9.98 last year was wind-aided)
Jamaica 19
Nigeria 10 (Actually, 12 including 2 running for Qatar)
UK 10 (8 black, 1 mulatto, 1 Moroccan-Persian: Adam Gemili
Trinidad 6
South Africa 5 (4 black, 1 Cape Coloured [black, white, Bushman, and Malay]: Wayde van Niekirk)
Canada 4 (all black)
France 3 (1 black, 1 mixed, 1 white: Christophe Lemaitre)
Japan 3 (2 Japanese, 1 half-black)
Barbados 2
China 2 (both Chinese)
Ivory Coast 2
Cuba 2 (both black)
Ghana 2
Qatar 2 (both Nigerian imports)
Turkey 2 (1 Jamaican, 1 an Azerbaijani Caucasian)
Zimbabwe 2 (black)
Curacao 1
Antigua 1
Australia 1 (half white, half Aboriginal)
Bahamas 1
Cayman Island 1
Italy 1 (white)
Namibia 1
Norway 1 (black)
Oman 1 (black native of Oman)
St. Kitts 1
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-02-08--STILL No Non-Chinese Deaths From Coronavirus, But The WASHINGTON POST Wants You To Rat Out Your Neig

STILL No Non-Chinese Deaths From Coronavirus, But The WASHINGTON POST Wants You To Rat Out Your Neighbors Anyway

Earlier by Lance Welton : Do You Know All Coronavirus Victims Appear To Be Chinese ?
Thought Not !
I have previously reported the case of Dr Noah Carl , a young Cambridge University political scientist whom the once-august university fired for publishing peer-reviewed research on the subject of “ race ” and for collaborating with like-minded academics .
One paper of Carl ’ s particularly upset the Woking Classes because it turned one of their many fallacious arguments against the biological concept of “ race ” on its head : it argued , in effect , that the Truth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This is directly relevant to the current panic over the Coronavirus , where we see the negative consequences of Race Denialism playing out all too clearly , and even possibly dangerously .
In 2018 , Carl published an article in the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science entitled “ How Stifling Debate Around Race , Genes and IQ Can Do Harm ” , April 28 , 2018.Whereas Leftists insist that we shouldn ’ t discuss “ race ” because the “ harm ” that this might do—in terms of encouraging “ racism , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” groups , and challenging “ equality ” —Carl countered that not discussing it can potentially have worse consequences than acknowledging “ race ” • Firstly , if you believe in the Blank Slate view , then you may make Soviet-like attempts to improve humanity , which only make things worse because “ human nature ” is strongly genetic .
• Secondly , if we are all genetically equal in our intellectual capacities then the the only way that a group , such as Ashkenazi Jews , could have been so successful would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with an incentive to persecute them .
• Thirdly , if you don ’ t acknowledge race and do not research medical conditions suffered from disproportionally by specific races , and you do not take race differences in medicine-responsiveness or alcohol or disease resistance into account , this can actually lead to needless deaths .
• Fourthly , if you suppress the discussion of “ race , ” you might find that , for example , fear of being accused of “ racism ” caused officials in Rotherham in northern England turn a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up , the fact of gangs of Muslim South Asian youths grooming and raping teenage white girls .
[ The grooming gang cover-up is Britain ’ s real racism scandal , By Alison Pearson , Telegraph , January 21 , 2020 ] .
Similarly , Carl notes that when parents in Oxfordshire , where there were also Pakistani grooming and rape of white underage girls , asked why no arrests had been made .
the police actually said frankly that they were under pressure not to arrest Pakistanis in case it looked “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ harm—repeatedly .
Of course , there ’ s another consequence of suppressing the truth about “ race : ” it can cause people to be more racist .
What if there were a deadly virus spreading around the world that had started with a particular race ?
Inevitably , rational people would do everything they possibly could to avoid that race .
You wouldn ’ t socialize with people of that race .
You wouldn ’ t shake hands with people from that race .
Indeed , you ’ d cross the road @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what ’ s happening , so we are told , with regard to Chinese people and other East Asians , due to the fact that the Coronavirus started in China .
The Ruling Class ’ s response : this rational reaction must be stamped out .
The Washington Post recently posted an extraordinary Stalinist invitation for readers to inform on their neighbors : Have you seen or experienced any discrimination , racism or xenophobia connected to the ongoing Coronavirus epidemic ?
Share your story.
, February 4 , 2019 Punishing whites may well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ruling Class .
But the fact is this particular outbreak of “ racism ” could be stopped cold if we would only calmly and openly discuss the issue of “ race.
” It is still the case that only Chinese people have died of this virus .
This implies that other races may be more resistant to it , as I discussed last week .
This week , a handful of “ Germans ” working in a car factory have reportedly contracted Corona from a Chinese colleague .
Of course they too could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been the case when this disease has occurred outside China—the media won ’ t say .
But their symptoms are reported to be extremely “ mild ” [ New coronavirus can spread before symptoms start , German case suggests , By Rachael Rettner , Live Science , February 3 , 2020 ] .
Similarly , whites did catch the 1982 SARS disease , but suffered less from it .
This is in line with the finding , reported in the journal PLOS Pathogens , that viruses that jump the species barrier , such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virulent as they spread away from the place where the “ jump ” was made [ The Causes and Consequences of Changes in Virulence following Pathogen Host Shifts , By Ben Longdon et al.
, 2015 ] .
Indeed , I can only find two proven cases of whites catching Corona virus as of Saturday , February 8 , U.S. Eastern Time .
One was a British man on a ship quarantined off Japan .
But his situation does not appear to serious either [ Coronavirus : British man on his honeymoon among @ @ @ @ @ @ @ By David Mercer , Sky News , February 7 , 2020 ] .
The other was also British .
Connor Reed , below , caught it in Wuhan , the disease ’ s epicentre where it is presumably most dangerous , refused antibiotics , treated himself with hot whisky and honey , and survived [ Coronavirus : British man who caught virus ‘ beat flu with glass of hot whisky ’ , by Bradley Jolly , MirrorOnline , February 3 , 2020 ] Why is our Ruling Class suppressing the truth ?
Their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reason .
But the deeper motive : a fanatical determination to maintain the myth that “ race is a social construct.
” As British Indian journalist Angela Saini claimed in her widely-touted 2019 book Superior : The Return of Race Science [ p.123 ] , “ race ” is not a biological reality , beyond supposedly “ superficial ” traits such as skin color and morphology .
Thus in Saini World it is impossible for there to be race differences in disease prevalence , because that might imply that “ race ” was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that all races are not “ equal.
” But we are all equal .
And if you don ’ t agree , then you ’ re a bad person like President Trump .
And in “ Saini World , ” whites can die of the Coronavirus .
Which means they will avoid Chinese people .
And you end up with Woke headlines of unparalleled virtue-signalling dementedness , like this from a Philadelphia Inquirer editorial : “ Coronavirus : racism and exclusion can hurt as much as a virus.
” January 30 , 2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Racism and discrimination are as painful as having a very serious form of flu that you may well die of .
My point : there ’ s no rational reason to “ discriminate ” against the Chinese , and so inflict on them a pain worse than nearly dying .
You ’ re most unlikely to catch Corona and , if you do , the symptoms will be mild .
The “ racism ” that Corona Virus has allegedly unleashed ( despite “ race ” being entirely a social construct , so how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Asian is unclear ) is entirely a consequence of the failure of the Ruling Class to ( openly ) accept and discuss the biological reality of “ race ” —including race differences in disease prevalence .
Their actions have caused “ racism.
” If any Chinese person is discriminated against or worse attacked because of Corona in the coming months , then that person will know who to blame : Angela Saini and Ruling Class science-deniers like her .
Lance Welton [ email him ] is the pen name of a freelance journalist @ @ @ @ @

Earlier by Lance Welton: Do You Know All Coronavirus Victims Appear To Be Chinese? Thought Not!
I have previously reported the case of Dr. Noah Carl, a young Cambridge University political scientist whom the once august university fired for publishing peer-reviewed research on the subject of “race” and for collaborating with like-minded academics. One paper of Carl’s particularly upset the Woking Classes because it turned one of their many fallacious arguments against the biological concept of “race” on its head: it argued, in effect, that the Truth about race will actually Set Us Free. This is directly relevant to the current panic over the Coronavirus, where we see the negative consequences of Race Denialism playing out all too clearly, and even possibly dangerously.
In 2018, Carl published an article in the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science entitled “How Stifling Debate Around Race, Genes and IQ Can Do Harm”, April 28, 2018.Whereas Leftists insist that we shouldn’t discuss “race” because the “harm” that this might do—in terms of encouraging “racism,” giving “fuel” to “racist” groups, and challenging “equality”—Carl countered that not discussing it can potentially have worse consequences than acknowledging “race”
Of course, there’s another consequence of suppressing the truth about “race:” it can cause people to be more racist.
What if there were a deadly virus spreading around the world that had started with a particular race? Inevitably, rational people would do everything they possibly could to avoid that race. You wouldn’t socialize with people of that race. You wouldn’t shake hands with people from that race. Indeed, you’d cross the road to avoid them.
This is exactly what’s happening, so we are told, with regard to Chinese people and other East Asians, due to the fact that the Coronavirus started in China.
The Ruling Class’s response: This rational reaction must be stamped out. The Washington Post recently posted an extraordinary Stalinist invitation for readers to inform on their neighbors:
Have you seen or experienced any discrimination, racism or xenophobia connected to the ongoing Coronavirus epidemic? Share your story, February 4, 2019
Punishing whites may well be an end in itself for the Ruling Class. But the fact is this particular outbreak of “racism” could be stopped cold if we would only calmly and openly discuss the issue of “race.”
It is still the case that only Chinese people have died of this virus. This implies that other races may be more resistant to it, as I discussed last week.
This week, a handful of “Germans” working in a car factory have reportedly contracted Corona from a Chinese colleague. Of course they too could be ethnically Chinese, as has generally been the case when this disease has occurred outside China—the media won’t say. But their symptoms are reported to be extremely “mild” [New coronavirus can spread before symptoms start, German case suggests, by Rachael Rettner, Live Science, February 3, 2020]. Similarly, whites did catch the 2002 SARS disease, but suffered less from it.
This is in line with the finding, reported in the journal PLOS Pathogens, that viruses that jump the species barrier, such as Corona, become less and less virulent as they spread away from the place where the “jump” was made [The Causes and Consequences of Changes in Virulence following Pathogen Host Shifts, by Ben Longdon et al., 2015].
Indeed, I can only find two proven cases of whites catching Corona virus as of Saturday, February 8, U.S. Eastern Time. One was a British man on a ship quarantined off Japan. But his situation does not appear to serious either [Coronavirus: British man on his honeymoon among 61 confirmed cases on cruise ship, by David Mercer, Sky News, February 7, 2020]. The other was also British. Connor Reed, below, caught it in Wuhan, the disease’s epicenter where it is presumably most dangerous, refused antibiotics, treated himself with hot whisky and honey, and survived [Coronavirus: British man who caught virus ‘beat flu with glass of hot whisky’, by Bradley Jolly, MirrorOnline, February 3, 2020].
Why is our Ruling Class suppressing the truth? Their desire to punish whites is certainly one reason. But the deeper motive: a fanatical determination to maintain the myth that “race is a social construct.”
As British Indian journalist Angela Saini claimed in her widely-touted 2019 book Superior: The Return of Race Science [p.123], “race” is not a biological reality, beyond supposedly “superficial” traits such as skin color and morphology.
Thus in Saini World it is impossible for there to be race differences in disease prevalence, because that might imply that “race” was a biological reality and that might imply that all races are not “equal.” But we are all equal. And if you don’t agree, then you’re a bad person like President Trump.
And in “Saini World,” whites can die of the Coronavirus. Which means they will avoid Chinese people. And you end up with Woke headlines of unparalleled virtue-signalling dementedness, like this from a Philadelphia Inquirer editorial: “Coronavirus: racism and exclusion can hurt as much as a virus,” January 30, 2020.
That’s right folks. Racism and discrimination are as painful as having a very serious form of flu that you may well die of.
My point: There’s no rational reason to “discriminate” against the Chinese, and so inflict on them a pain worse than nearly dying. You’re most unlikely to catch Corona and, if you do, the symptoms will be mild.
The “racism” that Corona Virus has allegedly unleashed (despite “race” being entirely a social construct, so how we even identify people as being East Asian is unclear) is entirely a consequence of the failure of the Ruling Class to (openly) accept and discuss the biological reality of “race”—including race differences in disease prevalence.
Their actions have caused “racism.” If any Chinese person is discriminated against, or worse, attacked because of Corona in the coming months, then that person will know who to blame:
Angela Saini and Ruling Class science-deniers like her.
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.


vdare--2020-02-08--Pete Buttigieg  Believes In "Systemic Racism"—And The Automatic Guilt Of White Cops Who Shoot Maniac

Pete Buttigieg  Believes In "Systemic Racism"—And The Automatic Guilt Of White Cops Who Shoot Maniacs Armed With Knives

This is from the debate : 11:05 p.m. Buttigieg stopped by the spin room Chief National Affairs Correspondent Tom Llamas sits down with Buttigieg post-debate and asks him to address South Bend residents who asked the then-mayor before primary voting began if he cared about back people .
`` We had a really tough situation when we had a police shooting in our city , '' Buttigieg said , referring to last year 's fatal shooting of a black citizen by a white police officer .
`` I do n't get the luxury of just calling for good things to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ When you 're a mayor on the ground , you have to deal with these things , '' Buttigieg said , also pitching his experience as a Washington outsider .
`` Of course we did not fix systemic racism in eight years in South Bend , but they 're only telling part of the story if somebody is pointing to the challenges we face . ''
ABC News Democratic debate showcases hits on ascendant Buttigieg ; strong performance by KlobucharBy Kendall Karson , Meg Cunningham , Libby Cathey , Mychael Schnell and Ella @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emphasis added .
Here 's what happened in South Bend , according to official police reports , which are , of course , being investigated by a special prosecutor .
Police Sgt .
Ryan O ’ Neill was investigating burglary reports of someone breaking into cars downtown when he saw 54-year old Eric Logan leaning in the window a car and asked him if he owned the car .
Logan threatened Sgt .
O ’ Neill with a knife , which he refused to drop as he advanced on O ’ Neill .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ over response to police shooting of black man by Paul Steinhauser , Andres del Aguila , Fox News , June 25 , 2019 .
ABC 's version : `` [ L ] ast year 's fatal shooting of a black citizen by a white police officer . ''
In the dark morning hours of 3:30 AM on Sunday , June 16 , Sergeant Ryan O ’ Neill , a 19-year veteran of the department , received a call about a man breaking into cars at an apartment complex near downtown .
Sgt .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and observed a man , later identified as Eric Logan , with only his legs sticking out from the front seat of a car .
Thinking the man may be the car ’ s owner , Sgt .
O ’ Neill got out of his patrol car and asked the man if this was his car .
The man claimed it was .
However , when the man stood up , Sgt .
O ’ Neill observed that his hand was bleeding , and a woman ’ s purse was halfway stuck in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ Neill asked him about the purse , the six-foot-two suspect stood up and raised an eight inch hunting knife over his head and began moving directly toward the officer .
Sgt .
O ’ Neill immediately began backing up and loudly ordered the suspect the drop the knife , three separate times .
Instead of dropping the knife , the suspect continued to move toward Sgt .
O ’ Neill .
When Sgt .
O ’ Neill ran out of room to retreat , he fired his duty weapon twice , hitting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suspect hurled the hunting knife at him .
The blade hit Sgt .
O ’ Neill , causing minor injuries to his forearm .
The suspect remained standing but never answered any questions from the officer as to whether he ’ d been shot .
The suspect ’ s erratic behavior throughout the entire incident appeared be the result of drug intoxication .
Sgt .
O ’ Neill coordinated the medical response and worked with other officers , who rather than wait for EMS , rushed the suspect to the hospital in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Police are taught to treat a knife as a deadly weapon , because a suspect armed with a knife within 21-feet of an officer is as much of a deadly threat as a suspect with a gun .
In this case , the suspect armed with an eight-inch hunting knife was less than 10 feet from the officer and refused multiple commands to drop the weapon .
In light of self-defense law and police training , this shooting was completely justified.
” According to official court records available to the public , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had an active felony warrant for violating his probation at the time of the shooting and likely faced being returned to prison for the remaining seven years of a previous prison sentence if Sgt .
O ’ Neill had arrested him .
The suspect also had several previous criminal convictions on his record , including drug and weapons offenses .
[ Emphasis added . ]
That makes the proposal by a local citizen , reported by John Derbyshire , at a Buttigieg campaign event sound more reasonable : Buttigieg , of course , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you prefer , had a hissy fit ) saying , falsely , that `` a black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime '' and this was evidence for the `` systemic racism '' he believes in .
[ Buttigieg Rebukes Man at Campaign Event for Insisting He Tell Black People to 'Stop Committing Crime and Doing Drugs ' , NewsWeek , July 4 , 2019 ] Wrong !
The black population of South Bend has systemic crime .
Around the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a South Bend police officer for surviving a knife attack , there was `` mass shooting '' at Kelly 's Bar in South Bend .
It was a black mass shooting , which means that it killed one , and injured ten .
The person of interest sought in this case is Tyler Crawford , below .
Does Mayor Pete think that was caused by systemic racism ?

Earlier by John Derbyshire: Buttigieg On Black Crime: No Facts, No Logic
This is from the debate:
11:05 p.m. Buttigieg stopped by the spin room Chief National Affairs Correspondent Tom Llamas sits down with Buttigieg post-debate and asks him to address South Bend residents who asked the then-mayor before primary voting began if he cared about back people. "We had a really tough situation when we had a police shooting in our city," Buttigieg said, referring to last year's fatal shooting of a black citizen by a white police officer. "I don't get the luxury of just calling for good things to happen or taking votes on them. When you're a mayor on the ground, you have to deal with these things," Buttigieg said, also pitching his experience as a Washington outsider. "Of course we did not fix systemic racism in eight years in South Bend, but they're only telling part of the story if somebody is pointing to the challenges we face." ABC News Democratic debate showcases hits on ascendant Buttigieg; strong performance by Klobuchar, by Kendall Karson , Meg Cunningham, Libby Cathey, Mychael Schnell and Ella Torres, February 8, 2020, emphasis added.
Here's what happened in South Bend, according to official police reports, which are, of course, being investigated by a special prosecutor.
Police Sgt. Ryan O’Neill was investigating burglary reports of someone breaking into cars downtown when he saw 54-year old Eric Logan leaning in the window a car and asked him if he owned the car. Logan threatened Sgt. O’Neill with a knife, which he refused to drop as he advanced on O’Neill.
See South Bend police union slams Buttigieg over response to police shooting of black man, by Paul Steinhauser, Andres del Aguila, Fox News, June 25, 2019.
ABC's version: "[L]ast year's fatal shooting of a black citizen by a white police officer."
The South Bend Police Union's version:
In the dark morning hours of 3:30 AM on Sunday, June 16, Sergeant Ryan O’Neill, a 19-year veteran of the department, received a call about a man breaking into cars at an apartment complex near downtown. Sgt. O’Neill drove to the scene and observed a man, later identified as Eric Logan, with only his legs sticking out from the front seat of a car. Thinking the man may be the car’s owner, Sgt. O’Neill got out of his patrol car and asked the man if this was his car. The man claimed it was. However, when the man stood up, Sgt. O’Neill observed that his hand was bleeding, and a woman’s purse was halfway stuck in his clothing. When Sgt. O’Neill asked him about the purse, the six-foot-two suspect stood up and raised an eight inch hunting knife over his head and began moving directly toward the officer. Sgt. O’Neill immediately began backing up and loudly ordered the suspect the drop the knife, three separate times. Instead of dropping the knife, the suspect continued to move toward Sgt. O’Neill. When Sgt. O’Neill ran out of room to retreat, he fired his duty weapon twice, hitting the suspect once -- just as the suspect hurled the hunting knife at him. The blade hit Sgt. O’Neill, causing minor injuries to his forearm. The suspect remained standing but never answered any questions from the officer as to whether he’d been shot. The suspect’s erratic behavior throughout the entire incident appeared be the result of drug intoxication. Sgt. O’Neill coordinated the medical response and worked with other officers, who rather than wait for EMS, rushed the suspect to the hospital in a police car. Mills continued, “Police are taught to treat a knife as a deadly weapon, because a suspect armed with a knife within 21-feet of an officer is as much of a deadly threat as a suspect with a gun. In this case, the suspect armed with an eight-inch hunting knife was less than 10 feet from the officer and refused multiple commands to drop the weapon. In light of self-defense law and police training, this shooting was completely justified.” According to official court records available to the public, the suspect armed with the eight-inch hunting knife had an active felony warrant for violating his probation at the time of the shooting and likely faced being returned to prison for the remaining seven years of a previous prison sentence if Sgt. O’Neill had arrested him. The suspect also had several previous criminal convictions on his record, including drug and weapons offenses. [Emphasis added.]
That makes the proposal by a local citizen, reported by John Derbyshire, at a Buttigieg campaign event sound more reasonable:
Mayor Pete, there has been some controversy in South Bend between the police and the black community, and I have a solution for you, and I'd like you to make a comment on my proposal. Just tell the black people of South Bend to stop committing crime and doing drugs.
Buttigieg, of course, responded with outrage (or, if you prefer, had a hissy fit) saying, falsely, that "a black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime" and this was evidence for the "systemic racism" he believes in. [Buttigieg Rebukes Man at Campaign Event for Insisting He Tell Black People to 'Stop Committing Crime and Doing Drugs', NewsWeek, July 4, 2019]
Wrong! The black population of South Bend has systemic crime. Around the same time Buttigieg was calling for the investigation of a South Bend police officer for surviving a knife attack, there was "mass shooting" at Kelly's Bar in South Bend.
It was a black mass shooting, which means that it killed one, and injured ten. The person of interest sought in this case is Tyler Crawford, below.
Does Mayor Pete think that was caused by systemic racism?


vdare--2020-02-08--Some Questions Just AREN'T That Complicated, Such As: Is Antonio Banderas a Person of Color?(No.)

No , it ’ s not .
The answer , by the way , is “ No.
” The actor @ @ @ @ @ and raised in Europe .
If Antonio Banderas wins the Academy Award on Sunday for @ @ @ @ @ Pedro Almodóvar film “ Pain and Glory , ” would it count as a win @ @ @ @ @ The question might have sounded puzzling even a year ago , but with ever-explosive debates @ @ @ @ @ popular culture ( see the publishing industry scandal over “ American Dirt ” ) , @ @ @ @ @ proper demographic designation became relevant with the arrival of the 2020 Academy Awards .
When @ @ @ @ @ Jan. 13 , some news outlets initially declared that Banderas was a “ person of @ @ @ @ @ actress and original song nominee Cynthia Erivo ( “ Harriet ” ) , perhaps in @ @ @ @ @ to the dismally monochrome slate of acting nominations .
Banderas ’ demo was called into @ @ @ @ @ who pointed out that the actor was born and raised in Spain .

From the Los Angeles Times:
No, it’s not. The answer, by the way, is “No.” The actor is a white man born and raised in Europe.
By DANIEL HERNANDEZ STAFF WRITER
FEB. 7, 2020 9:53 AM
If Antonio Banderas wins the Academy Award on Sunday for his leading performance in the Pedro Almodóvar film “Pain and Glory,” would it count as a win for people of color?
The question might have sounded puzzling even a year ago, but with ever-explosive debates on identity and authorship in popular culture (see the publishing industry scandal over “American Dirt”), the question of Banderas’ proper demographic designation became relevant with the arrival of the 2020 Academy Awards.
When the nominations were announced on Jan. 13, some news outlets initially declared that Banderas was a “person of color” along with lead actress and original song nominee Cynthia Erivo (“Harriet”), perhaps in search of a silver lining to the dismally monochrome slate of acting nominations. Banderas’ demo was called into question almost immediately by those who pointed out that the actor was born and raised in Spain.


vdare--2020-02-08--NYT: Stop Blaming History for Your All-White, All-Male Movie

From the New York Times movie section : Movies like “ 1917 , ” “ The Irishman , ” and “ Ford v Ferrari ” have all used their historical settings as a shield to deflect diversity critiques .
But the past had people of color and women , too .
By Aisha Harris Ms. Harris is an Op-Ed staff editor and writer .
… When it comes to filmmakers guarding themselves against critiques for telling the same-old stories about white men , history is a powerful shield .
A quick glance at the best picture nominees reveals just how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nine films in this category , all but two spend the majority of their running times at least 39 years in the past .
Each of these period pieces is overwhelmingly homogeneous when it comes to race , gender or both ; the fact that they are set firmly in the past seemingly allows them to exist without much pushback .
“ Ford v Ferarri , ” for instance , is based on the true story of the rivalry between the rugged American car manufacturing behemoth and the Italian luxury carmaker during the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white “ dad movie ” — guys racing cars , guys talking about cars , guys arguing over cars .
… And in the comments section for a Newsweek article critical of Ms. Elliott ’ s “ Ford v Ferrari ” review , a reader snarkily wondered what she makes of NASA during the John F. Kennedy era .
“ Our walking on the moon , the space race should all be forgotten because there were no women or people of color , ” they wrote .
Indeed — Katherine Johnson , Dorothy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ engineers who worked at NASA during the height of the space race , yet it wasn ’ t until the 2016 release of the aptly titled movie dramatization of their lives , “ Hidden Figures , ” that the women were given their due onscreen .
There are countless other examples of women , people of color and L.G.B.T.Q .
people being erased or sidelined from historically based films .
… All-white period dramas set in Tudor England overshadow the scholarly research that has in recent years uncovered a significant African presence and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
( And they were not all enslaved . )
… Instead , the root of the criticisms of “ The Irishman , ” “ 1917 ” and the others like them for being so white and male seems to be a sense of weariness and boredom .
Why do the same stories about the same types of people keep getting made ?

From the New York Times movie section:
Stop Blaming History for Your All-White, All-Male Movie
Movies like “1917,” “The Irishman,” and “Ford v Ferrari” [sic] have all used their historical settings as a shield to deflect diversity critiques. But the past had people of color and women, too.
By Aisha Harris
Ms. Harris is an Op-Ed staff editor and writer.
Feb. 6, 2020
… When it comes to filmmakers guarding themselves against critiques for telling the same-old stories about white men, history is a powerful shield.
A quick glance at the best picture nominees reveals just how impenetrable that armor is: Of the nine films in this category, all but two spend the majority of their running times at least 39 years in the past. Each of these period pieces is overwhelmingly homogeneous when it comes to race, gender or both; the fact that they are set firmly in the past seemingly allows them to exist without much pushback.
“Ford v Ferarri,” for instance, is based on the true story of the rivalry between the rugged American car manufacturing behemoth and the Italian luxury carmaker during the 1960s. It’s the quintessential white “dad movie” — guys racing cars, guys talking about cars, guys arguing over cars. …
And in the comments section for a Newsweek article critical of Ms. Elliott’s “Ford v Ferrari” review, a reader snarkily wondered what she makes of NASA during the John F. Kennedy era. “Our walking on the moon, the space race should all be forgotten because there were no women or people of color,” they wrote.
“Wrong. Black females put men into outer space,” someone responded.
Indeed — Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson were mathematicians and engineers who worked at NASA during the height of the space race, yet it wasn’t until the 2016 release of the aptly titled movie dramatization of their lives, “Hidden Figures,” that the women were given their due onscreen.
There are countless other examples of women, people of color and L.G.B.T.Q. people being erased or sidelined from historically based films.
… All-white period dramas set in Tudor England overshadow the scholarly research that has in recent years uncovered a significant African presence and integration into English life during this era. (And they were not all enslaved.)
… Instead, the root of the criticisms of “The Irishman,” “1917” and the others like them for being so white and male seems to be a sense of weariness and boredom.
Why do the same stories about the same types of people keep getting made?


vdare--2020-02-07--DNC’s Bad Week,  China’s Bad Health,  and Ireland’s Bad Politics, Etc.

01m08s The DNC 's really bad week .
( Who can stop the Limousine Leninist ? )
15m29s Discontent stirs @ @ @ @ @ home with the Derbs . )
25m07s The price of stupidity .
( Race denialism @ @ @ @ @ 28m55s The most interesting place in the world .
( Ireland 's election . )
@ @ @ @ @ ( If Rush , why not Pat ? )
36m55s No more Queen 's English @ @ @ @ @ They 'll be after replacing it . )

01m08s The DNC's really bad week. (Who can stop the Limousine Leninist?)
08m13s Stalinesque extravaganza, cont. (Another SOTU, no-o-o-o...)
15m29s Discontent stirs in China. (At home with the Derbs.)
25m07s The price of stupidity. (Race denialism might kill us.)
28m55s The most interesting place in the world. (Ireland's election.)
35m02s Honoring our heroes. (If Rush, why not Pat?)
36m55s No more Queen's English in the EU. (They'll be after replacing it.)
38m22s Keef quits. (The indestructible Stone.)
38m44s Signoff. (With Boris Pasternak.)
01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings once again, listeners. This is of course your unimpeachably genial host John Derbyshire, with news from all over — mainly this week from the domestic front, as that's where the big political action has been. Later, though, we shall visit the land of chopsticks and bat soup, then the land of hurley sticks and cabbage stew.
Enough of these preliminaries: On with the motley!
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02 — The DNC's really bad week. I begin this week's podcast with a public service announcement.
The headquarters of the Democratic National Committee are located at 430 South Capitol Street Southeast, Washington, DC 20003. If you happen to be walking along South Capitol Street Southeast any time this weekend, I advise you to cross to the other side of the road, as DNC staffers are hurling themselves from the roof of number 430. It's only a three-storey building, I know, but some of those DNC staffers are pretty well-upholstered, and having one landing on top of you could seriously spoil your weekend.
End of public service announcement.
Yes, it's been a bad week for the Party of the Little Guy. Monday's Iowa caucuses did not go well for the Democrat Party bosses. Their dream of a Joe Biden / Amy Klobuchar ticket is dwindling fast in the rear-view mirror. Mayor Peter Buttigieg and Senator Bernie Sanders swept the field in Iowa, with Elizabeth Warren a sad third, Biden a distant fourth, and Klobuchar a far-distant fifth.
From the point of view of the DNC suits, this is not good. Blacks in the generality don't like homosexuals, so Buttigieg could lose the party a lot of votes there. Limousine Leninist Bernie Sanders fires up the college radical crowd nicely; but there is still a big cohort of Americans who remember the U.S.S.R. with no affection at all, and won't be happy when the Trump campaign airs — as they surely will — clips of young Bernie yukking it up with his KGB minders.
And come to think of it, I'm going to withdraw the word "young" from that sentence. Bernie was 46 at the time, old enough to know who he was schmoozing with.
Now he's 78. Eight months into his first term he'll turn 80. Don't expect the Trump campaign to keep quiet about that, either.
Sure, the matter of age will need some careful handling; Trump himself is only five years younger than Bernie. Numbers have a shape and a resonance all their own, though, above and beyond their quantitative significance. Eighty. Roll it around on your tongue a couple of time: eighty.
Bernie's vulnerable on the class issue, too. Although not in the Donald Trump, Michael Bloomberg league, nor even anywhere close to it, he coins upward of a million dollars a year, owns three houses, and lives pretty large.
Writing about Uruguay in my January Diary I mentioned former president of that country José Mujica and called him, quote, "a sort of honest version of Bernie Sanders." Mujica lived frugally on a small farm and drove a beat-up old car. When he retired from public life in 2018 he refused to take a pension. He was a lefty — a radical socialist — but an honest one. He lived his beliefs, wacky as they were.
Sanders is not an honest man. He may not be a billionaire, but he's got enough moolah to remind voters that the Democratic Party is the bread in our political sandwich: the top and the bottom in league against the middle.
And in the matter of honesty, there is that awkward video clip of Sanders in 2015 telling Ezra Klein that:
[Clip: Open borders? That's a Koch brothers proposal … That's a right-wing proposal that says, essentially, there is no United States …]
Open borders is of course cast-iron dogma in today's Democratic Party while nationalism is poison. Sooner or later Bernie's going to be confronted with that video clip. I suppose he'll claim to have had some sudden flash of insight, like St Paul on the road to Damascus … but it's going to be hard to make that convincing.
Some number of those new Democrat voters that both our big parties have been busily importing this past thirty years will take umbrage at Bernie having once wanted to exclude them.
So the DNC has to know that Sanders is not a good prospect for the general, and Buttigieg is very little better.
If Sanders and Buttigieg keep piling up the delegates, though, while Biden and Klobuchar sink below the quicksand, then, as Pat Buchanan wrote yesterday, the only thing standing in the way of a Sanders/Buttigieg ticket would be Michael Bloomberg's billions.
Hey, watch out there — here comes another DNC staffer. [Scream, falling body sound.]
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03 — Stalinesque extravaganza (cont.). Oh no, not another State of the Union spectacle. Don't make me report the damn thing, please. For pity's sake, don't make me watch it. I promise … [Phone ringing.] Excuse me … Hello? … Yes … Oh, hi … What's that? You'll pay me time and a half? … No, even for time and a half I won't watch it … Double time? … Deal … Okay … thanks. [Hangup.]
Right. So. The State of the Union.
If you've listened to Radio Derb for a year or more you will know my invariable line on this. It starts with a sentence that includes the phrase "Stalinesque extravaganza." I go on to wonder aloud what the justices of the Supreme Court and the Joint Chiefs are doing there, when our Constitution only says "He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union."
Then I jeer at the congresscritters standing to applaud at every punctuation mark; or else, if they are not of the President's party, ostentatiously scowling and sitting on their hands.
Finally I roll my eyes at the parade of Lenny Skutniks planted in the public gallery for our admiration and emulation, like Model Workers in a Soviet factory; although I add some qualifying remarks about them being worthy persons in themselves, but, to quote my actual words from last year, quote:
I'm only regretting that they don't see what I believe I see: the utterly un-republican — small "r" — nature of the spectacle as it's developed.
I wrap up by pledging my sacred honor and undying loyalty to any candidate of any party who will return to the pre-Woodrow-Wilson style — a properly modest republican style — of just having the address typed up and mailed to Congress, sparing us the Busby Berkeley spectacular put on by people who can't sing, dance, or even act worth a damn.
Of course I am hopelessly behind the times with all that. We are an empire now, not a republic; and the God-Emperor is expected to put on a show. Watching the State of the Union in that spirit, and setting aside my own absurd hankering for republican modesty among those in power, how was it?
I must say, I thought it went rather well. Trump was Trump, confident and unapologetic, pleased with things he has done and with the state of the nation's economy, which is indeed humming along nicely.
Was there some empty bluster in the claims and statistics he was throwing out? I bet there was some, but estimating how much is above my pay grade.
The Washington Post did a lengthy fact-checking piece, pooh-poohing most of the President's claims; but then David Harsanyi over at National Review did a fact-check of the fact-check, arguing that the Washington Post was just spinning it all to make Obama look good. Take your pick.
Our own Ed Rubinstein, who has been crunching the numbers, reports month-on-month declines in the immigrant workforce since last September. In December, Ed tells us, immigrants lost 357,000 jobs, while native-born Americans gained 567,000.
Sample quote from Ed:
End quote.
That's all good. Sure, a blanket moratorium would be better, along with universal compulsory E-verify, a tax on remittances, an end to birthright citizenship and the Green Card lottery, … You know the wish list.
And a proper wall for crying out loud; one that doesn't blow down in high winds, as a newly-built California section of wall did on January 29th. And can someone please explain to the President what legal immigration is doing to the fortunes and career choices of our college graduates and tech workers?
Still, Ed's numbers are very encouraging, and we'll take what we can get. With those numbers in mind, I won't begrudge the President his imperial triumph on Tuesday — made all the sweeter, of course, by the wormwood and gall that Nancy Pelosi was obviously trying to digest as he spoke, and then on Wednesday by the end of the impeachment farce.
Not forgetting, also, Trump's sensational victory in the Iowa caucuses for his party. The President won 97 percent of the vote against some gentry Republicans whose names I can't be bothered to remember.
So, from Radio Derb for once: Well done, Mr President!
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04 — Discontent stirs in China. For this segment I'm going to bring you right in to the Derb household, actually Tuesday evening in the quiet lull after dinner.
Mrs Derbyshire is sitting in her favorite armchair fiddling with her smartphone. She has an account at WeChat, which is a mainland-Chinese social medium. Her relatives in China, and her high-school and college classmates, now middle-class or retired fifty- and sixty-somethings, are all on WeChat. She likes to keep up with them.
I'm in the adjacent study with my door open, sitting at my computer trying to catch up on email.
Mrs D calls out to me: "I'm sending you a link by email. Would you print it out for me right away, please?"
I leap to obey. For reasons I have never inquired into, my lady's smartphone can't send stuff to our printer. I open the email, click on the link, and print. The durn thing is 13 pages, all in Chinese. To spare myself a brain aneurism trying to read the Chinese, I hit the Google "translate" button. Headline:
Professor Tsinghua Xu Zhangrun posts: Angry people are no longer afraid.
A little shaky on the word order there, Google, but I get the idea. Xu Zhangrun — surname first, of course — is a law professor at Tsinghua University, a big and prestigious institution in Peking. These 13 pages are an essay he's just published; a long angry diatribe against the ChiCom system of government and media control. Samples, quote:
The political system has collapsed under the tyranny, and a governance system [made up] of bureaucrats, which has taken [the party] more than 30 years to build has floundered … The mess in Hubei [that's the center of the coronavirus outbreak] is only the tip of the iceberg and it's the same with every province … All chances of public discussions have been smothered, and so was the original alarm mechanism in society … The anger of the people has erupted like a volcano, and the angry people will no longer be afraid.
End quotes.
I lifted the English there from the South China Morning Post, an English-language newspaper in Hong Kong. I don't agree with "floundered" as a translation of 终结. I suppose they mean "foundered," but I don't even agree with that. 终结 just means "come to an end" … all right, I'm being pedantic.
Professor Xu is a brave man. He was suspended from teaching at his university back in 2018, after he publicly criticized Xi Jinping's move to make himself President-for-Life. A law professor having classes suspended for political incorrectness — Amy Wax at U. Penn. might have a comment on that.
With all proper respect to Prof. Wax, though, the political environment in China is still somewhat harsher than ours. Along with losing his classes, Prof. Xu was forbidden to leave China. Now, after this latest essay, his friends fear he will be disappeared.
Oh, I forgot to explain why Mrs Derbyshire was in such a hurry to get the essay printed off. Dissident opinions like that on Chinese-language outlets get taken down as soon as the ChiCom authorities notice them. The editors at YouTube and Twitter could explain how it's done.
Prof. Xu's essay, as it happens, was published on an overseas-Chinese platform, so it's harder for the censors to put the screws on, although they generally manage to sooner or later by making threats. "Nice little offshore website you've got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it …"
Well, that was Tuesday. Forward to Thursday. We're in the Derb family living-room after dinner again. I'm crossing the room to get something from the kitchen. Passing Mrs Derb in her armchair, from her smartphone I hear a bagpipe band playing "Amazing Grace."
"What's that," I ask, "a cop funeral?"
No, says my lady, it's someone on WeChat mourning the death of Li Wenliang, the doctor in Wuhan who sounded the alarm over coronavirus back in December. He was arrested for his trouble and forced to sign a statement confessing he had made "false comments" that "disturbed the social order."
Dr Li died on Wednesday or Thursday from exposure to the coronavirus. He leaves behind a pregnant wife and a young child. He is being mourned extravagantly on social media sites, faster than the censors can scrub them. There have even been demands he be given a state funeral.
That bagpipe band playing "Amazing Grace" that I heard while crossing my living-room was a popular nonverbal way to mourn. The censors rely on keywords in text; it takes them longer to figure out nonverbal protests.
So there is real, widespread public anger in China against the authorities. Will it come to anything? I wish it would. I'm bound to say, though, as I enter my sixth decade of amateur China-watching, I doubt it.
VDARE.com is not a neoliberal website; so when I quote The Economist magazine at you, please understand that I read the damn thing so you don't have to.
Even neoliberals get things right once in a while, though. In this case I agree with The Economist's pseudonymous China correspondent "Chaguan." Longish quote from him in the February 1st edition:
Mr Xi's China is two things at once. It is a secretive, techno-authoritarian one-party state, ruled by grey men in unaccountable councils and secretive committees. It also claims to be a nation-sized family headed by a patriarch of unique wisdom and virtue, in a secular, 21st-century version of the mandate of Heaven. If forced to choose between those competing models, bet on cold, bureaucratic control to win out. For Mr Xi and his team learned their own lesson from the Soviet Union's fall, five years after the Chernobyl disaster. Expressions of public love for Mr Xi, the "People's Leader", are all very well. But keeping power is what counts.
End quote.
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05 — The price of stupidity. As a footnote to that, let me direct your attention to our own Lance Welton's very striking article here at VDARE.com last weekend, putting some race-realist spin on the coronavirus scare.
Lance notes that so far as he could tell at that point, all the victims of the virus were East Asian — including the cases outside China. From the point of view of evolutionary biology, it is entirely possible that the coronavirus is race-specific. As Lance writes, quote:
Because [different races] were exposed to different pathogens in prehistory, there are very likely to be race differences in susceptibility to the pathogens and in how well the immune system can fight them.
End quote.
The no-such-thing-as-race crowd are all swooning and clutching their pearls at that, but Lance references serious studies, and there is nothing scientifically implausible in what he's saying.
Lance admits of course that he doesn't know the virus is race-specific, and it may well not be. The Black Death, back in the 14th century, had no trouble crossing from Asia to Europe. His main point is only that our absurd neurosis about race — our refusal to admit that such an obvious feature of the natural world is real — hinders us from thinking about coronavirus in ways that might help us deal with it … Or with the next new infection that comes along. Wilful stupidity has a price.
As a thoughtful race realist, well-educated in the sciences, and with a Chinese spouse, am I worried about coronavirus?
I can't say so. It is of course difficult to know the numbers in China. The ChiComs have been putting out lots of numbers, to be sure; but given that every word they say is a lie, including "and" and "the," their numbers mean nothing.
So far as I can judge from the on-site stories coming through Mrs Derbyshire's WeChat account, this is more a phenomenon of mass hysteria than of mass infection — more a social crisis than an epidemiological one. Much of the hysteria has, as Prof. Xu says in his essay, been caused by the cack-handed responses and clumsy misinformation of the ChiCom authorities.
That could be all wrong, though. Mother Nature is not mocked, and she has some nasty tricks up her sleeves. There is a nonzero possibility, down at the ten percent level as best I can judge, that we are facing a worldwide medical crisis. I have bought a pack of surgical face masks in case the stores run out.
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06 — The most interesting place in the world. Tomorrow, Saturday, they are having an election in the Republic of Ireland.
I've been writing about Ireland for 20 years. In one early piece, back in 2002, I asserted that, quote from myself:
I believe Ireland to be the most interesting place in the world right now, and … I think we should all be wiser, better informed, healthier and more attractive to potential romantic partners if we paid more attention to Irish matters.
End quote.
Well, I may have gotten a little carried away there, but for nationalists, Ireland is very interesting.
For decades there through the middle of the 20th century, we all knew what Irish nationalism was. It was deeply conservative, profoundly religious, a nationalism of the countryside not the cities, a nationalism that scorned engagement with other countries and stayed resolutely neutral in WW2.
That was the Ireland of Éamon de Valera, which I once described as, quote: "a stagnant rustic theocracy with little appeal to anyone whose aspirations rose to anything higher than sitting around a peat fire discussing the Council of Trent in Gaelic." End quote.
Then quite suddenly (it seems to me, glancing back across the decades) that Ireland was swept away, replaced by something utterly different — the most woke country in Europe. The current Taoiseach — i.e. Prime Minister — is an open homosexual whose father is an Indian from Bombay. Heaven only knows what de Valera would say.
It has been the most dramatic national transformation since Japan turned itself from a feudal rice-farming society into a military and industrial giant across a similar short span of time, a hundred years previously. The Japanese held on to their nationhood, though; the Irish are discarding theirs.
In particular, Ireland has gone from being a nation of e-migration to one of mass imm-igration, to the degree that demographers are now predicting that native Irish people will be a minority in their country by mid-century.
Is there resistance to this? You bet there is; although it labors under the same disadvantages as National Conservatism everywhere.
The hostility of the media, for example. Here is a clip from a speech made by an Irish patriot a year and a half ago to an organization for Irexit — that is, seeking to get Ireland out of the EU, restore her sovereignty, and protect her national culture. The entire speech is 26 minutes long: I have just extracted this clip because it gets the loudest, most prolonged applause of the whole speech.
[Clip: We have a real problem. Yes, freedom is there, but our leadership stands between us and freedom. We have to remove them; and in order to remove them we need to have a conversation, which means we have to remove the media, because they will not permit us to have a conversation. (Loud, prolonged applause.)]
That's what Irish patriots think of their media — pretty much what you and I think of our media.
The speaker there is Irish author and playwright John Waters. He is a thoughtful, literate, very well-read man who deplores Ireland's loss of nationhood. He deplores it so much that he is standing as an independent candidate in tomorrow's election in Dún Laoghaire outside Dublin, just about the most woke place in the country — a sort of Irish equivalent of Portland, Oregon.
If you want to hear more from John Waters, and to learn about Irish politics and tomorrow's election from a National Conservative viewpoint, I urge you to read John's February 4th essay at the First Things website. The essay's title is Irish Politics Plays Musical Chairs. You can find it at firstthings.com.
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07 — Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: I quoted Pat Buchanan back there. That reminds me that back in March of 2016, when Donald Trump was racking up delegates for that year's election, I suggested on Radio Derb that if Trump were to make it all the way to the White House in 2016, he should find some way to honor Pat.
Quote from me:
Trumpism is just Buchananism. Like Pat, the Donald thinks the first priority of the U.S. government is to mind the interests of Americans … All through those years, Pat Buchanan's voice was one of the firmest, most consistent, most per-sistent in speaking up for we, the people.
End quote.
Watching the First Lady put the Medal of Freedom on Rush Limbaugh Tuesday evening I found myself thinking again, with no prejudice whatsoever to Rush, that Pat is at least as worthy of that honor, which is in the President's gift.
If we truly are looking at a new birth of National Conservatism, and President Trump is its embodiment, the President should do the right thing by Pat, whose voice has been clear and unwavering all these years — decades. Over to you, Mr President.
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Item: Returning to Ireland for a moment, this news story caused somewhat of a stir around the internet last week. Headline: Irish English replaces British English as EU working language.
The gist of it was, that now Britain has departed from the European Union, the biggest English-speaking country there is now the Republic of Ireland; so it's only fair that Irish English replace British English in EU councils, so it is, to be sure.
European Commission president Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen was after saying, quote:
Starting today, all of youse will switch to Hiberno-English for all meetings and the drafting of documents, translations, and the like.
End quote.
It was, alas, all a spoof. Thousands were taken in, though. As a columnist at the Irish Post remarked, quote:
Sure look, didn't we have a bit of craic all the same.
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Item: Finally, from the world of show business: Rolling Stone Keith Richards has given up smoking cigarettes.
Who among us will ever forget where he was and what he was doing when he heard the news?
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08 — Signoff. That's it, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for listening, and I hope February is going well for you.
Ah yes, February. There's St Valentine's Day, a bright spot right there in the middle of the month. That aside, I don't think February is anybody's favorite month.
It sure wasn't the favorite month of Russian poet Boris Pasternak. He wrote a poem about February in the fine Russian tradition of gloomy hopelessness. You can practically hear some Solzhenitsyn character in the background wailing, "Our lives are not worth a kopek!"
I confess I didn't know this poem of Pasternak's until I read that essay I mentioned back in my China segment, the one by law professor Xu Zhangrun. Professor Xu actually starts off his essay with the first stanza of Pasternak's poem, in a Chinese translation. Here are the lines, in the best English translation I can find.
February. Get ink, start crying!
Start crying over February.
The dirt, as loud as rumbling thunder
Burns in the blackness of the spring.
That's the first stanza, and it goes downhill from there. Hard to believe, but true — this is a real wrist-slitter. So I guess we know where Professor Xu's mood was at when he set out to write his essay.
It's always a bit unfair to present poetry in translation, of course. The old Italian quip applies. "Translated poems are like women: The beautiful ones are not faithful, the faithful ones are not beautiful." So to play us out we'll hear Pasternak's lines in the original. No, don't panic, I'm not going to inflict my Russian on you. This is Michael Sayamov reading Pasternak's "February."
There will be more from Radio Derb next week … if we are still alive.
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[Clip: Michael Sayamov reading Pasternak's "Февраль."]