vdare--2020-08-09--NATIONAL DATA: Immigrant Workforce Population Falls For ELEVENTH STRAIGHT MONTH. But Displacement Ri

NATIONAL DATA: Immigrant Workforce Population Falls For ELEVENTH STRAIGHT MONTH. But Displacement Rises—Immigration Moratorium Must Be Made Permanent

July ’ s job data showed the U.S. economy continuing to recover , albeit more slowly than in June .
Key news for immigration patriots : for the eleventh straight month , the Immigrant Workforce Population has declined .
But immigrant displacement of American workers has ticked up after a 6-month plunge , although still far below the peak reached in April 2018 .
By further flushing out immigrants , COVID-19 seems to have accentuated an America-First trend already underway for some time—but it ’ s possible that immigrants may be about to return .
Unemployed Americans need protecting by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ administrative immigration moratorium .
The economy added 1.8 million new jobs in July , a slowdown in hiring after a resurgence in coronavirus cases halted the return of many workers to their jobs , but the third straight month third of job gains following a loss of 20 million in April .
The unemployment rate fell to 10.2 % from 11.1 % in June , well below the peak of 14.7 % in April But there are still about 15 million fewer jobs in July than in February , before the pandemic forced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the “ other ” employment survey , of Households rather than businesses , found a slightly less robust picture : total employment jumped by 1.4 million .
More ominously , unlike other months in the pandemic , immigrants gained more jobs than native-born Americans .
• Immigrants ( legal and illegal , government data does not distinguish ) gained 700,000 jobs , a 3.0 % increase from June • VDARE.com ’ s immigrant employment index , set at 100.0 in January 2009 , rose to 109.9 from June ’ s 106.7 , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American employment index rose to 99.3 from 98.8 in June , a gain of 0.5 % .
At 99.3 , the July index indicates that 0.7 % fewer native-born American workers held jobs last month than at the same point in 2016 , Obama ’ s last year in office .
Accordingly , the New VDARE American Worker Displacement Index ( NVDAWDI ) , our name for the ratio of immigrant to native-born American employment growth indexes since Jan. 2009 , rose—to 110.6 in July from 108.0 in June .
This displacement level @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Not since July 2014 has VDARE.com ’ s Displacement Index been this low in normal—i.e.
, non-pandemic—times .
Until now displacement declined in the pandemic because the immigrant working age population was falling , and those that remained were losing jobs even faster than native-born workers .
The first part of that equation is still intact .
The second part is not , at least not in July .
Indeed , July might be the canary in the coal mine—a sign that the fragile recovery is benefiting sectors like hotels and construction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jobs .
July notwithstanding , in percentage terms job losses suffered by native-born American workers during Trump ’ s tenure are significantly less than those endured by immigrants .
From January 2017 through July 2020 native-born Americans lost 6.3 million jobs , a 5.0 % decline , while immigrants lost 2.2 million , an 8.5 % reduction .
Thanks , in part , to Trump ’ s ( relatively ) hard line on immigration , expressed basically via administrative measures , the Trump years saw a labor market where native-born Americans lost relatively @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not quite what Trump supporters had in mind in November 2016 .
But it ’ s something .
When July ’ s 1.4 million new jobs are added to June ’ s 4.9 million and May ’ s 3.8 million , about 10 million jobs lost during the pandemic have already been restored .
If monthly job gains continue at this rate , we still will recover all the pandemic-related job losses within 6 months .
Admittedly , this outcome depends on some very big “ ifs ” : for example , renewed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perceived renewed Coronavirus threat ; delayed school openings , making it hard for parents to juggle work and child care responsibilities .
Another way of measuring displacement : the immigrant share of total employment .
Our analysis of the July report shows the immigrant share rose to 16.57 % , up slightly from 16.24 % in June .
As discussed above , it had been falling steadily the pandemic started .
In February 2020 immigrants held 17.53 % of all jobs .
Each 1 % decline in immigrant employment share represents a transfer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to native-born workers .
July also saw another decline in the foreign-born working-age population ( 16 years+ ) .
It fell by 636,000 from July 2019—the eleventh straight month of year-over-year decline .
This contraction follows a protracted slowing of immigrant workforce growth that can be traced back to early 2018 .
This current immigrant workforce decline is more than double that seen in the 2008 Great Recession .
Back then immigrants were leaving at the rate of 300,000 to 400,000 a month , year-over-year .
And it exceeds the “ Trump Effect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the administration , when illegals apparently self-deported out of fear .
This process was underway well before the pandemic hit .
It has to be counted as a significant Trump achievement—a “ Trump Triumph , ” as we label it on our featured chart .
But the decline may be slowing—in July it was about one-third below June ’ s reduction , and about half the March loss , when the immigrant working age population fell 1.24 million , Y-O-Y .
How have American workers fared vis-à-vis immigrants year-over-year ?
A detailed picture @ @ @ @ @ @ @ monthly BLS Report : • The native-born American working-age population grew by 1.785 million , a gain of 0.82 % ; the corresponding immigrant population fell by 636,000—a 1.5 % decline .
The 11th consecutive month in which the working age immigrant population declined , year-over-year .
But the decline may be slowing .
• Both native-born Americans and immigrants suffered large job losses ; Native-born lost 10.7 million positions , an 8.2 % reduction ; foreign-born workers were hit harder , losing 3.2 million jobs , a 11.8 % loss .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ better in July 2020 than in June , i.e.
, their percentage job losses were significantly lower .
While some may see this as “ good news , ” it is also evidence that an IMMIGRATION MORATORIUM is needed to preserve job gains for native-born workers .
• The immigrant labor force ( working or looking for work ) fell by 633,000 , a 2.3 % decline ; the native-born labor force fell by 2.9 million , a 2.1 % drop .
• Unemployment rates skyrocketed for both immigrants and native-born .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from 4.2 % last July to 10.1 % in July 2020 ) while the immigrant unemployment rate rose 313 % ( from 3.0 % to 12.4 % . )
• The data also show that 13.5 million native-born and 3.4 million immigrants were unemployed in July , but since last July the number of unemployed immigrants rose by 304 % , while the number of native-born jobless rose by “ only ” 136 % .
• Labor force Participation Rates declined for both immigrants and native-born Americans , with the native-born LPR falling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or 3.0 % , versus a 0.5 point , or 0.8 % , decline for immigrants .
The strong rebound in hotel , health care , and construction jobs—sectors that employ above-average numbers of foreign-born—undoubtedly softened the Y-O-Y decline in immigrant LPRs .
The fall in the unemployment rate by nearly a full percentage point in July to 10.2 % percent might seem to be unalloyed good news , a sign that job-seekers may soon be able to find a position .
But even as employers added 1.8 million jobs last month , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1.2 million workers filed initial claims for state unemployment benefits .
It was the 20th week in a row that the figure topped one million .
“ The rate of churn in the labor market remains incredibly high , ” concluded Morgan Stanley ’ s economics team .
[ U.S. Added 1.8 Million Jobs in July , NYT , August 7 , 2020 ] In plain English , this means millions of workers are finding jobs only to be fired soon afterward , or being let go permanently after assuming a layoff was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anti-unemployment immigration moratorium must be permanently enacted .
In normal times about 300,000 working-age immigrants leave the country voluntarily .
With immigrant job loses high in the pandemic , this number is undoubtedly larger today—but as economic recovery takes hold , they will try to return .
This presents Donald Trump with a great opportunity : he can lock in the recovery ’ s benefits for the American worker—and stem recent immigration ’ s damage to the GOP—if he acts on his instincts and imposes an immigration moratorium .
Edwin S. Rubenstein ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Research Economic Consultants .

edwin@esrresearch.com (Edwin S. Rubenstein)

July’s job data showed the U.S. economy continuing to recover, albeit more slowly than in June. Key news for immigration patriots: For the eleventh straight month, the Immigrant Workforce Population has declined. But immigrant displacement of American workers has ticked up after a 6-month plunge, although still far below the peak reached in April 2018. By further flushing out immigrants, COVID-19 seems to have accentuated an America-First trend already underway for some time—but it’s possible that immigrants may be about to return. Unemployed Americans need protecting by the institutionalization of President Trump’s administrative immigration moratorium.
The economy added 1.8 million new jobs in July, a slowdown in hiring after a resurgence in coronavirus cases halted the return of many workers to their jobs, but the third straight month of job gains following a loss of 20 million in April. The unemployment rate fell to 10.2% from 11.1% in June, well below the peak of 14.7% in April. But there are still about 15 million fewer jobs in July than in February, before the pandemic forced businesses to close.
Our analysis of the “other” employment survey, of Households rather than businesses, found a slightly less robust picture: Total employment jumped by 1.4 million. More ominously, unlike other months in the pandemic, immigrants gained more jobs than native-born Americans.
In July:
Immigrants (legal and illegal, government data does not distinguish) gained 700,000 jobs, a 3.0% increase from June
Native-born Americans gained 650,000 jobs, a 0.6% rise from June.
VDARE.com’s immigrant employment index, set at 100.0 in January 2009, rose to 109.9 from June’s 106.7, a 3.0% gain.
The native-born American employment index rose to 99.3 from 98.8 in June, a gain of 0.5%. At 99.3, the July index indicates that 0.7% fewer native-born American workers held jobs last month than at the same point in 2016, Obama’s last year in office.
Accordingly, the New VDARE American Worker Displacement Index (NVDAWDI), our name for the ratio of immigrant to native-born American employment growth indexes since Jan. 2009, rose—to 110.6 in July from 108.0 in June.
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This displacement level is still quite low by historical standards. Not since July 2014 has VDARE.com’s Displacement Index been this low in normal—i.e., non-pandemic—times.
Until now displacement declined in the pandemic because the immigrant working age population was falling, and those that remained were losing jobs even faster than native-born workers. The first part of that equation is still intact. The second part is not, at least not in July.
Indeed, July might be the canary in the coal mine—a sign that the fragile recovery is benefiting sectors like hotels and construction where immigrants hold a disproportionate number of jobs.
July notwithstanding, in percentage terms job losses suffered by native-born American workers during Trump’s tenure are significantly less than those endured by immigrants. From January 2017 through July 2020 native-born Americans lost 6.3 million jobs, a 5.0% decline, while immigrants lost 2.2 million, an 8.5% reduction.
Thanks, in part, to Trump’s (relatively) hard line on immigration, expressed basically via administrative measures, the Trump years saw a labor market where native-born Americans lost relatively fewer jobs than immigrants.
This is not quite what Trump supporters had in mind in November 2016. But it’s something.
When July’s 1.4 million new jobs are added to June’s 4.9 million and May’s 3.8 million, about 10 million jobs lost during the pandemic have already been restored. If monthly job gains continue at this rate, we still will recover all the pandemic-related job losses within 6 months.
Admittedly, this outcome depends on some very big “ifs”: for example, renewed business closings because of a real or perceived renewed Coronavirus threat; delayed school openings, making it hard for parents to juggle work and child care responsibilities.
Another way of measuring displacement: the immigrant share of total employment.
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Our analysis of the July report shows the immigrant share rose to 16.57%, up slightly from 16.24% in June. As discussed above, it had been falling steadily before the pandemic started. In February 2020 immigrants held 17.53% of all jobs.
Each 1% decline in immigrant employment share represents a transfer of about 1.4 million jobs from immigrants to native-born workers.
July also saw another decline in the foreign-born working-age population (16 years+). It fell by 636,000 from July 2019—the eleventh straight month of year-over-year decline. This contraction follows a protracted slowing of immigrant workforce growth that can be traced back to early 2018.
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This current immigrant workforce decline is more than double that seen in the 2008 Great Recession. Back then immigrants were leaving at the rate of 300,000 to 400,000 a month, year-over-year. And it exceeds the “Trump Effect” seen in the early months of the administration, when illegals apparently self-deported out of fear.
This process was underway well before the pandemic hit. It has to be counted as a significant Trump achievement—a “Trump Triumph,” as we label it on our featured chart.
But the decline may be slowing—in July it was about one-third below June’s reduction, and about half the March loss, when the immigrant working age population fell 1.24 million, Y-O-Y.
How have American workers fared vis-à-vis immigrants year-over-year? A detailed picture is published in Table A-7 of the monthly BLS Report:
Employment Status by Nativity, July 2019-July 2020 (numbers in 1000s; not seasonally adjusted) Jul-19 Jul-20 Change % Change Foreign born, 16 years and older Civilian population 42,715 42,079 -636 -1.49% Civilian labor force 27,982 27,349 -633 -2.26% Participation rate (%) 65.5 65.0 -0.5pts. -0.76% Employed 27,140 23,946 -3,194 -11.77% Employment/population (%) 63.5 56.9 -6.6pts. -10.39% Unemployed 842 3,404 2,562 304.28% Unemployment rate (%) 3.0 12.4 9.4pts. 313.33% Not in labor force 14,733 14,730 -3 -0.02% Native born, 16 years and older Civilian population 216,509 218,294 1,785 0.82% Civilian labor force 136,959 134,025 -2,934 -2.14% Participation rate (%) 63.3 61.4 -1.9pts. -3.00% Employed 131,245 120,546 -10,699 -8.15% Employment/population (%) 60.6 55.2 -5.4pts. -8.91% Unemployed 5,714 13,479 7,765 135.89% Unemployment rate (%) 4.2 10.1 5.9pts. 140.48% Not in labor force 79,550 84,269 4,719 5.93% Source: BLS, The Employment Situation, July 2020. Table A-7, August 7, 2020. PDF
From July 2019 to July 2020:
The native-born American working-age population grew by 1.785 million, a gain of 0.82%; the corresponding immigrant population fell by 636,000—a 1.5% decline. The 11 th consecutive month in which the working age immigrant population declined, year-over-year. But the decline may be slowing.
Both native-born Americans and immigrants suffered large job losses; native-born lost 10.7 million positions, an 8.2% reduction; foreign-born workers were hit harder, losing 3.2 million jobs, a 11.8% loss. On a year-over-year basis, both groups did better in July 2020 than in June, i.e., their percentage job losses were significantly lower. While some may see this as “good news,” it is also evidence that an IMMIGRATION MORATORIUM is needed to preserve job gains for native-born workers.
The immigrant labor force (working or looking for work) fell by 633,000, a 2.3% decline; the native-born labor force fell by 2.9 million, a 2.1% drop. Advantage native-born Americans.
Unemployment rates skyrocketed for both immigrants and native-born. But the native-born rate rose 140.5% (from 4.2% last July to 10.1% in July 2020) while the immigrant unemployment rate rose 313% (from 3.0% to 12.4%). Advantage native-born Americans .
The data also show that 13.5 million native-born and 3.4 million immigrants were unemployed in July, but since last July the number of unemployed immigrants rose by 304%, while the number of native-born jobless rose by “only” 136%. Advantage native-born Americans .
Labor force Participation Rates declined for both immigrants and native-born Americans, with the native-born LPR falling significantly more: down 1.9 points, or 3.0%, versus a 0.5 point, or 0.8%, decline for immigrants. The strong rebound in hotel, health care, and construction jobs—sectors that employ above-average numbers of foreign-born—undoubtedly softened the Y-O-Y decline in immigrant LPRs. Advantage immigrants.
The fall in the unemployment rate by nearly a full percentage point in July to 10.2% percent might seem to be unalloyed good news, a sign that job-seekers may soon be able to find a position.
But even as employers added 1.8 million jobs last month, the Labor Department reported Thursday that nearly 1.2 million workers filed initial claims for state unemployment benefits. It was the 20th week in a row that the figure topped one million.
“The rate of churn in the labor market remains incredibly high,” concluded Morgan Stanley’s economics team [U.S. Added 1.8 Million Jobs in July, NYT, August 7, 2020]. In plain English, this means millions of workers are finding jobs only to be fired soon afterward, or being let go permanently after assuming a layoff was temporary.
This uncertainty is why an anti-unemployment immigration moratorium must be permanently enacted.
In normal times about 300,000 working-age immigrants leave the country voluntarily. With immigrant job loses high in the pandemic, this number is undoubtedly larger today—but as economic recovery takes hold, they will try to return. This presents Donald Trump with a great opportunity: He can lock in the recovery’s benefits for the American worker—and stem recent immigration’s damage to the GOP—if he acts on his instincts and imposes an immigration moratorium.
Edwin S. Rubenstein (email him) is President of ESR Research Economic Consultants.


vdare--2020-08-10--23-Year-Old White Woman Boasted of Black Baby Daddy on Facebook.  Then He Shot Her in the Head.

Sydney Parmalee , a young white woman living in Cumberland County , Pennsylvania , wanted to let the world know @ @ @ @ @ proud she was to be the mother of a bi-racial child .
The 2014 graduate @ @ @ @ @ three hearts to a post featuring a biracial girl holding a sign that read : @ @ @ @ @ `` daddy '' , for Sydney Parmalee , was one Davon Unique Anderson .
You @ @ @ @ @ Jan. 11 profile picture update .
Other posts : black daddies are great , `` @ @ @ @ @ dumb , and black males are loyal to their women .

Sydney Parmelee, a young white woman living in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, wanted to let the world know, via Facebook , how proud she was to be the mother of a bi-racial child.
The 2014 graduate of Carlisle High School awarded three hearts to a post featuring a biracial girl holding a sign that read:
My daddy is black
My mommy is white
You mess with him
She gone fight
The "daddy", for Sydney Parmelee, was one Davon Unique Anderson. You can see him in the Jan. 11 profile picture update.
Other posts: black daddies are great, "white lives matter" is dumb , and black males are loyal to their women.


vdare--2020-08-10--YouTube Election Meddlers Suddenly Ban VDARE.com’s Channel—Everyone Must Move to Bitchute!

Just like so many channels before us , the VDARE YouTube page has been terminated without warning for “ hate speech , ” an offence unknown to American law , i.e .
we have been purged for daring to ask inconvenient questions regarding the future of the American Republic .
Of course , we are appealing this move .
But we know that we have to find—in fact , possibly expensively build—alternatives .
The VDARE.com YouTube channel had many unique videos and more than 12,000 subscribers .
It was , to put it mildly , by no means as large @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( American Renaissance , InfoWars , Stefan Molyneux , Nick Fuentes or RedIce , to name just a few digitally exterminated with a click of the button by an anonymous Google employee ) .
But it was growing quickly with “ Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow , ” livestreams and other content , including exclusive videos from Faith Goldy .
( It also contained uploads of Peter ’ s many Main Stream Media interviews after the 1995 publication of Alien Nation , including his NBC Today confrontation with Bryant Gumbel , something that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This YouTube atrocity is yet another reminder that the forces behind Donald Trump ’ s improbable 2015-2016 rise to the White House—remember , he literally ran and won on the patriotic immigration reform platform that VDARE.com has long advocated–are being repressed , in a clear and conscious campaign of election interference by the Tech Totalitarians .
You can still find our video content at Bitchute ( subscribe to our channel now ! )
, including interviews with key patriot leaders like Colin Flaherty , Jared Taylor , Michelle Malkin , Cassandra Fairbanks , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Diana West , and Gavin Wax .
And we will work hard to expand our footprint on this growing video platform .
But YouTube still effectively monopolizes video uploads .
Its flagrant political censorship brings home the Tech Totalitarians ’ determination to defeat President Trump and to anathematize any all discussion of patriotic immigration reform and the National Question : whether or not the U.S. can survive as a nation-state , the political expression of a particular people .
We urge you to make your views known to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Alphabet ’ s CEO Sundar Pichai .
[ Tweet him ] Support VDARE.com at Bitchute and through your tax-deductible donations—and keep in touch by signing up for our e-bulletin and for our hard copy VDARE Quarterly ( we don ’ t think USPS will ban us for a while ) .
We need you now more than ever .
A native Texan , Lydia Brimelow [ email her ] graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 2006 .
She is fundraiser and office manager , lion tamer , fire extinguisher and miscellany handler at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2007 and have three daughters together .

Just like so many channels before us, the VDARE YouTube page has been terminated without warning for “hate speech,” an offence unknown to American law, i.e., we have been purged for daring to ask inconvenient questions regarding the future of the American Republic. Of course, we are appealing this move. But we know that we have to find—in fact, possibly expensively build—alternatives.
The VDARE.com YouTube channel had many unique videos and more than 12,000 subscribers. It was, to put it mildly, by no means as large as other channels that have been purged (American Renaissance, InfoWars, Stefan Molyneux, Nick Fuentes or RedIce, to name just a few digitally exterminated with a click of the button by an anonymous Google employee). But it was growing quickly with “Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow,” livestreams and other content, including exclusive videos from Faith Goldy. (It also contained uploads of Peter’s many Main Stream Media interviews after the 1995 publication of Alien Nation, including his NBC Today confrontation with Bryant Gumbel, something that would never be allowed today.)
This YouTube atrocity is yet another reminder that the forces behind Donald Trump’s improbable 2015-2016 rise to the White House—remember, he literally ran and won on the patriotic immigration reform platform that VDARE.com has long advocated—are being repressed, in a clear and conscious campaign of election interference by the Tech Totalitarians.
You can still find our video content at Bitchute (subscribe to our channel now!), including interviews with key patriot leaders like Colin Flaherty, Jared Taylor, Michelle Malkin, Cassandra Fairbanks, Jim Hoft, Jesse Lee Peterson, Diana West, and Gavin Wax. And we will work hard to expand our footprint on this growing video platform.
But YouTube still effectively monopolizes video uploads. Its flagrant political censorship brings home the Tech Totalitarians’ determination to defeat President Trump and to anathematize any and all discussion of patriotic immigration reform and the National Question: whether or not the U.S. can survive as a nation-state, the political expression of a particular people.
We urge you to make your views known to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki [Tweet her] and to parent company Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai. [Tweet him]
Support VDARE.com at Bitchute and through your tax-deductible donations—and keep in touch by signing up for our e-bulletin and for our hard copy VDARE Quarterly (we don’t think USPS will ban us for a while).
We need you now more than ever.


vdare--2020-08-10--Patrick J. Buchanan: The Real World Reasserts Itself

Since the death of George Floyd beneath the knee of a cop in Minneapolis on Memorial Day , the nation has been instructed by its cultural elites that this is the daily reality that a racist America has too long ignored Our nation , it was shouted in our faces , is a place where white cops harass , brutalize , assault and kill Black Americans regularly and with impunity .
`` Defund the police ! ''
the Black Lives Matter demand went out , to be echoed and re-echoed by BLM 's amen corner of progressive elites .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this weekend reintroduced us to the old familiar world .
In Washington , D.C. , about midnight Saturday , at a block party in the Southeast sector of the city , three shooters fired 100 rounds , wounded 20 , killed a teenager and left a female police officer in critical condition .
It appears to have been an attempted massacre , a slaughter .
`` More than 115 people have been slain in the District this year , a 17 percent increase over this time in 2019 , which ended the year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Washington Post .
D.C. 's numbers , however , pale by comparison to Chicago , where this weekend recorded 32 more people shot , with three dead .
According to the Sun-Times , there were 106 homicides in the city in July , a single-month body count almost equal to the toll D.C. has piled up in all of the first seven months of 2020 .
A disproportionate number of the dead and wounded are Black Americans , and a disproportionate number of the shooters and killers are Black men .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lives Matter ?
Rarely in these stories of shootings and killings does one read that the dead were the victims of rogue cops or white supremacists .
Indeed , the front page of Monday 's New York Times gave voice to the city 's Black and Hispanic leaders who are objecting to a proposed $ 1 billion cut in the police budget .
The people in high-crime precincts , for whom these leaders speak , want more , not fewer , cops on the beat .
Even Portland , Oregon , which has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of George Floyd , seems to be awakening to the real world .
When the Department of Homeland Security pulled its agents out of Portland and handed the defense of the Mark Hatfield federal courthouse to the state police , the `` peaceful protesters '' shifted their attention to the city 's buildings and Portland Police Bureau 's East Precinct .
With police personnel corralled inside , the East Precinct was barricaded with cars and wooden planks , and an attempt was made to set it afire by throwing flaming objects into the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ted Wheeler seems to have belatedly awakened to the character of the protesters he has been coddling : '' When you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that is occupied by people whom you have intentionally trapped inside , you are not demonstrating , you are attempting to commit murder . ''
Equally problematic : `` You will be creating the B-roll film that will be used in ads nationally to help Donald Trump during his campaign . ''
Portland police union president Daryl Turner was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` I am disgusted that our City has come to this , '' said Turner .
`` If it is acceptable for rioters to ... try and burn down occupied buildings , and if this conduct is allowed to continue , then Portland is lost . ''
Wheeler , having gotten the message the rioters have been trying to deliver , finally ordered his city 's police to do `` what is necessary '' to quell the rioting , even if it means using tear gas .
What has happened in Portland , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ predictable , and predicted .
First , the progressives tolerate and even celebrate civil disobedience , because the cause is just and noble .
Then , to hold onto public attention , the protesters march and block traffic .
Next comes the cursing of cops , the throwing of trash , water bottles and rocks .
Then there 's the smashing of store windows , looting and arson , and Molotov cocktails .
Finally , there 's instigating violence with cops to get footage of police fighting back so the law enforcement officers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as stormtroopers and the Gestapo .
In Portland , we reached the point where `` peaceful protesters '' tried to set a building ablaze with cops barricaded inside .
This , as the mayor said , is attempted murder .
Today , people watch their leaders in city after city fail to keep the peace and restore order as protesters riot at will , and they make plans to move out .
In the suburbs and country , they quietly observe the inability of cops to quell the violence , and they buy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's stand for law and order , the ultimate battle here may be between liberal Democrats elected to , and failing to , run the cities , and the radical left and Marxists who welcome their failure as they intend to kick the liberals down the stairs .
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of a Superpower : Will America Survive to 2025 ?
are available from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Comeback : How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority .
His latest book , published May , 2018 , is “ Nixon ’ s White House Wars : The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
” See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

Since the death of George Floyd beneath the knee of a cop in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, the nation has been instructed by its cultural elites that this is the daily reality that a racist America has too long ignored
Our nation, it was shouted in our faces, is a place where white cops harass, brutalize, assault and kill Black Americans regularly and with impunity.
"Defund the police!" the Black Lives Matter demand went out, to be echoed and re-echoed by BLM's amen corner of progressive elites.
The pendulum may be swinging back, for this weekend reintroduced us to the old familiar world.
In Washington, D.C., about midnight Saturday, at a block party in the Southeast sector of the city, three shooters fired 100 rounds, wounded 20, killed a teenager and left a female police officer in critical condition.
It appears to have been an attempted massacre, a slaughter.
"More than 115 people have been slain in the District this year, a 17 percent increase over this time in 2019, which ended the year with a decade high," reports the Washington Post.
D.C.'s numbers, however, pale by comparison to Chicago, where this weekend recorded 32 more people shot, with three dead.
According to the Sun-Times, there were 106 homicides in the city in July, a single-month body count almost equal to the toll D.C. has piled up in all of the first seven months of 2020.
A disproportionate number of the dead and wounded are Black Americans, and a disproportionate number of the shooters and killers are Black men.
If black lives matter, where is Black Lives Matter?
Rarely in these stories of shootings and killings does one read that the dead were the victims of rogue cops or white supremacists.
Indeed, the front page of Monday's New York Times gave voice to the city's Black and Hispanic leaders who are objecting to a proposed $1 billion cut in the police budget. The people in high-crime precincts, for whom these leaders speak, want more, not fewer, cops on the beat.
Even Portland, Oregon, which has been indulging nightly protests since the killing of George Floyd, seems to be awakening to the real world.
When the Department of Homeland Security pulled its agents out of Portland and handed the defense of the Mark Hatfield federal courthouse to the state police, the "peaceful protesters" shifted their attention to the city's buildings and Portland Police Bureau's East Precinct.
With police personnel corralled inside, the East Precinct was barricaded with cars and wooden planks, and an attempt was made to set it afire by throwing flaming objects into the building.
Mugged by reality, Mayor Ted Wheeler seems to have belatedly awakened to the character of the protesters he has been coddling:
"When you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that is occupied by people whom you have intentionally trapped inside, you are not demonstrating, you are attempting to commit murder."
Equally problematic: "You will be creating the B-roll film that will be used in ads nationally to help Donald Trump during his campaign."
Portland police union president Daryl Turner was enraged at what he had seen. "I am disgusted that our City has come to this," said Turner. "If it is acceptable for rioters to... try and burn down occupied buildings, and if this conduct is allowed to continue, then Portland is lost."
Wheeler, having gotten the message the rioters have been trying to deliver, finally ordered his city's police to do "what is necessary" to quell the rioting, even if it means using tear gas.
What has happened in Portland, and across much of America, was predictable, and predicted.
First, the progressives tolerate and even celebrate civil disobedience, because the cause is just and noble. Then, to hold onto public attention, the protesters march and block traffic. Next comes the cursing of cops, the throwing of trash, water bottles and rocks. Then there's the smashing of store windows, looting and arson, and Molotov cocktails. Finally, there's instigating violence with cops to get footage of police fighting back so the law enforcement officers can be painted by the progressive press as stormtroopers and the Gestapo.
In Portland, we reached the point where "peaceful protesters" tried to set a building ablaze with cops barricaded inside.
This, as the mayor said, is attempted murder.
Today, people watch their leaders in city after city fail to keep the peace and restore order as protesters riot at will, and they make plans to move out. In the suburbs and country, they quietly observe the inability of cops to quell the violence, and they buy guns.
While the right backs Trump's stand for law and order, the ultimate battle here may be between liberal Democrats elected to, and failing to, run the cities, and the radical left and Marxists who welcome their failure as they intend to kick the liberals down the stairs.
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vdare--2020-08-10--Chicago Is Being Looted: Do Democrats Think This Will Just STOP After November?

Blacks mobs are ransacking expensive stores in the Loop and on the Magnificent Mile .
The rationalization was some black @ @ @ @ @ cops on the South Side .
Has anybody ever asked Joe Biden what his plan @ @ @ @ @ of thing won ’ t go on throughout his term ?
What exactly are the @ @ @ @ @ assume all this rioting and looting is just part of their plot to depose Trump @ @ @ @ @ he is gone , the rioters and looters will go home ?
Or do they @ @ @ @ @ they control the media , nobody will notice all the boarded up windows on Michigan @ @ @ @ @ shopping street between the coasts ?
Are the Democrats just counting on cold weather to @ @ @ @ @

Black mobs are ransacking expensive stores in the Loop and on the Magnificent Mile.
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The rationalization was some black criminal getting shot by the cops on the South Side.
Has anybody ever asked Joe Biden what his plan is for why this kind of thing won’t go on throughout his term?
What exactly are the Democrats thinking? Do they assume all this rioting and looting is just part of their plot to depose Trump, so as soon as he is gone, the rioters and looters will go home? Or do they figure that as long as they control the media, nobody will notice all the boarded-up windows on Michigan Avenue, the most expensive shopping street between the coasts?
Are the Democrats just counting on cold weather to make this stuff stop?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-09--Inheriting the Ivy League: The Market for Educated Egg and Sperm Donors

Egg and sperm banks like to open offices near famous colleges in order to conveniently harvest the gametes of students most in-demand by their customers .
This may sound like the Pseudoscience of eugenics , but , well , you aren ’ t supposed to think about that .
From the Harvard Crimson , a long , informative article that details how much Harvard students can make as egg and sperm donors .
Inheriting the Ivy League : The Market for Educated Egg and Sperm Donors … The premium some intending parents place on elite education has great import in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a great extent is governed solely by the demands of the free market — a stark contrast to the situations in other countries , like Canada , where it is illegal to compensate egg and sperm donors beyond reimbursing any expenses they incur .
On their websites , American sperm and egg banks tout as badges of honor the names of their donors ’ prestigious colleges and universities — including , in nearly all instances , Harvard ’ s .
Intending parents , meanwhile , are willing to pay .
While it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the U.S. , compensation for gamete donation is legally taxable income .
Five-digit compensation sums for egg donors with specific traits , like extensive or brand-name educational backgrounds , are fairly established practice , with some compensation values edging up and above $ 100,000 .
Sperm donors , who often donate continuously over several months , are usually compensated by-donation and can earn $ 1,000 or more per month .

Egg and sperm banks like to open offices near famous colleges in order to conveniently harvest the gametes of students most in-demand by their customers. This may sound like the Pseudoscience of eugenics, but, well, you aren’t supposed to think about that.
From the Harvard Crimson, a long, informative article that details how much Harvard students can make as egg and sperm donors.
Inheriting the Ivy League: The Market for Educated Egg and Sperm Donors BY SONIA F. EPSTEIN AND POLINA N. WHITEHOUSE, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
APRIL 30, 2020 … The premium some intending parents place on elite education has great import in the U.S. fertility industry, which to a great extent is governed solely by the demands of the free market — a stark contrast to the situations in other countries, like Canada, where it is illegal to compensate egg and sperm donors beyond reimbursing any expenses they incur. On their websites, American sperm and egg banks tout as badges of honor the names of their donors’ prestigious colleges and universities — including, in nearly all instances, Harvard’s. Intending parents, meanwhile, are willing to pay. While it’s illegal to sell human tissue in the U.S., compensation for gamete donation is legally taxable income. Five-digit compensation sums for egg donors with specific traits, like extensive or brand-name educational backgrounds, are fairly established practice, with some compensation values edging up and above $100,000. Sperm donors, who often donate continuously over several months, are usually compensated by-donation and can earn $1,000 or more per month.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-09--George Floyd And The Dunbar Number: Are Elites Dealing With It Better Than Normal People?

Jul 14 , 2020 With the collapse of the private sphere , potent private emotions collide with public affairs Martin Gurri , Visiting Research Fellow An unconquerable anger has gripped the democratic world .
The public seethes with feelings of grievance and seems ready to wreak havoc at any provocation .
The spasm of fury that swept the United States after the death of George Floyd cost 19 additional lives and $ 400 million in property damage .
… Many books and articles have tried to explain this surge in anger .
… The Harvard Gazette ’ s recent “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Racist Roots ” can stand in for an Amazonian stream of similar articles .
Anger is a huge story and thus a fat analytical target .
Most of these explanations have some merit to them .
However , all take it for granted that the anger is justified—the analyst ’ s job is simply to discover a cause commensurate with its enormity .
… Arnold Kling , to my knowledge , stands virtually alone in suggesting that the tide of political anger need not have matching political causes .
He has wondered , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been diverted by the web into the public sphere .
Kling brings up an interesting number : 150 .
Roughly speaking , that is how many persons you can remember before names , faces , and situations begin to get fuzzy .
It ’ s often called the “ Dunbar number , ” after British anthropologist Robin Dunbar , who first identified this cognitive boundary in a 1992 paper , and it probably represents the hard-wiring in our minds of some maximum hunter-gatherer band size .
Has this Dunbar number theory ever been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but I mostly see it used in an “ As everybody knows ” sense .
Each of us carries along , in our everyday activities , a band of 150 people whom we can identify with fair accuracy .
This humble Dunbar world provides the stage for the drama of most human lives and is the source of the most authentic human emotions .
From ancestral times , the pursuit of happiness has played out almost entirely within this domain .
Kling has noted a strange development : the shock of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the verge of collapse .
Historically , he writes , the “ sub-Dunbar ” public concerned itself mostly with “ family , friends , and co-workers.
” Elites in the “ super-Dunbar ” world ran the “ government and large organizations.
” He goes on : But new media have caused the two spheres to collide .
The public feels itself on the same playing field as the elites .
Anyone can comment on Twitter .
So people who never used to think much about the super-Dunbar world are now trying to take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concludes , “ you feel a lot more sense of ownership of what ’ s going on in public life , and you care about it a lot more.
” Strong personal feelings have been torn loose from the private sphere and become attached to the distant world of events .
Or , perhaps , the opposite has happened as well : Elites in the “ super-Dunbar ” got exposed to criticism when they went on Twitter , and thus went crazy .
For example , the insanity in the mainstream media of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supposedly posed by the Alt-Right ( compared to the complete lack of attention to the much larger Antifa ) may be largely due to journalists being laughed at on Twitter .
A lot of people can ’ t deal well with criticism .
They feel like they are about to be attacked by a mob and murdered when they get a few dozen tweets making fun of them .
I think that ’ s a better application of this Dunbar Number : If people get 76 negative responses on social media , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the majority of my tribe of 150 has spoken out against me !
I will be made an outcast and forced to wander alone in the wilderness.
” The Floyd protests fit into this pattern .
The terrible events in Powderhorn Park , Minneapolis , were local and fleeting but took place before a battery of cell phone cameras—and at once became global and searchable .
The public experienced a digital murder .
Because it was visual , it felt personal .
Because it felt personal , the most violent emotions were aroused @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one ’ s private circle : an idealized friend .
Because his death was searchable , it turned into a recurring nightmare , a wound that could not heal .
Social media rage , which feeds on itself , soon forgot the actual events and demanded cosmic and abstract judgments .
This was not about George Floyd after all .
This was about a monstrous injustice called “ systemic racism.
” OK , but once again , is there any evidence that elites of the “ Super-Dunbar ” dealt more rationally with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them came out and said : “ Look , there are 20,000,000 black guys in America .
That ’ s a huge number .
There is always one of that 20,000,000 doing something knuckleheaded and winding up dead .
You can ’ t let yourself go insane over some drugged-up bouncer in Minnesota .
We may feel emotionally like we live in a tribe of 150 , but we don ’ t .
It ’ s actually a huge country , so restrain your out-of-control emotions and think sensibly .
It ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make you believe that George Floyd or Emmett Till is representative .
Don ’ t fall for the statistically nonsensical Narrative.
” I sure haven ’ t heard many elites from the “ super-Dunbar ” pointing that out .

From the Mercatus Center:
Looking-Glass Politics Jul 14, 2020
With the collapse of the private sphere, potent private emotions collide with public affairs
Martin Gurri, Visiting Research Fellow An unconquerable anger has gripped the democratic world. The public seethes with feelings of grievance and seems ready to wreak havoc at any provocation. The spasm of fury that swept the United States after the death of George Floyd cost 19 additional lives and $400 million in property damage. … Many books and articles have tried to explain this surge in anger. … The Harvard Gazette’s recent “Why America Can’t Escape Its Racist Roots” can stand in for an Amazonian stream of similar articles. Anger is a huge story and thus a fat analytical target. Most of these explanations have some merit to them. However, all take it for granted that the anger is justified—the analyst’s job is simply to discover a cause commensurate with its enormity. … Arnold Kling, to my knowledge, stands virtually alone in suggesting that the tide of political anger need not have matching political causes. He has wondered, instead, whether extreme private emotions have been diverted by the web into the public sphere. Kling brings up an interesting number: 150. Roughly speaking, that is how many persons you can remember before names, faces, and situations begin to get fuzzy. It’s often called the “Dunbar number,” after British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who first identified this cognitive boundary in a 1992 paper, and it probably represents the hard-wiring in our minds of some maximum hunter-gatherer band size.
Has this Dunbar number theory ever been tested? It’s quite popular, but I mostly see it used in an “As everybody knows” sense.
Each of us carries along, in our everyday activities, a band of 150 people whom we can identify with fair accuracy. This humble Dunbar world provides the stage for the drama of most human lives and is the source of the most authentic human emotions. From ancestral times, the pursuit of happiness has played out almost entirely within this domain. Kling has noted a strange development: the shock of the digital has brought the Dunbar world to the verge of collapse. Historically, he writes, the “sub-Dunbar” public concerned itself mostly with “family, friends, and co-workers.” Elites in the “super-Dunbar” world ran the “government and large organizations.” He goes on: But new media have caused the two spheres to collide. The public feels itself on the same playing field as the elites. Anyone can comment on Twitter. So people who never used to think much about the super-Dunbar world are now trying to take part in it. Ultimately, Kling concludes, “you feel a lot more sense of ownership of what’s going on in public life, and you care about it a lot more.” Strong personal feelings have been torn loose from the private sphere and become attached to the distant world of events.
Or, perhaps, the opposite has happened as well: Elites in the “super-Dunbar” got exposed to criticism when they went on Twitter, and thus went crazy. For example, the insanity in the mainstream media of the last 4 years about the threat supposedly posed by the Alt-Right (compared to the complete lack of attention to the much larger Antifa) may be largely due to journalists being laughed at on Twitter.
A lot of people can’t deal well with criticism. They feel like they are about to be attacked by a mob and murdered when they get a few dozen tweets making fun of them. I think that’s a better application of this Dunbar Number: If people get 76 negative responses on social media, they worry, “Oh, no, the majority of my tribe of 150 has spoken out against me! I will be made an outcast and forced to wander alone in the wilderness.”
The Floyd protests fit into this pattern. The terrible events in Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis, were local and fleeting but took place before a battery of cell phone cameras—and at once became global and searchable. The public experienced a digital murder. Because it was visual, it felt personal. Because it felt personal, the most violent emotions were aroused. Floyd seemed like a member of one’s private circle: an idealized friend. Because his death was searchable, it turned into a recurring nightmare, a wound that could not heal. Social media rage, which feeds on itself, soon forgot the actual events and demanded cosmic and abstract judgments. This was not about George Floyd after all. This was about a monstrous injustice called “systemic racism.”
OK, but once again, is there any evidence that elites of the “Super-Dunbar” dealt more rationally with the George Floyd whoop-tee-doo? How many of them came out and said:
“Look, there are 20,000,000 black guys in America. That’s a huge number. There is always one of that 20,000,000 doing something knuckleheaded and winding up dead. You can’t let yourself go insane over some drugged-up bouncer in Minnesota. We may feel emotionally like we live in a tribe of 150, but we don’t. It’s actually a huge country, so restrain your out-of-control emotions and think sensibly. It’s just the power of The Megaphone to make you believe that George Floyd or Emmett Till is representative. Don’t fall for the statistically nonsensical Narrative.”
I sure haven’t heard many elites from the “super-Dunbar” pointing that out.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-08--Our Last Election?, Kris Kobach, Remembering The Bomb, Etc.

03m16s Our last election ?
( Victory , defeat , or chaos ? )
26m51s The rudest you can be @ @ @ @ @ Brit lefty lets fly . )
32m02s Signoff .
( With an old favorite .
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03m16s Our last election? (Victory, defeat, or chaos?)
10m53s What's the matter with Kansas? (Kris Kobach falls.)
15m37s Immigration follies. (Public charge rule no, foreign doctors yes.)
22m21s Remembering the Bomb. (A reading recommendation.)
25m06s New frontiers in space exploration. (A poop scoop.)
26m51s The rudest you can be about suburbia. (Old Brit lefty lets fly.)
29m15s A win for the Boston Bomber. (Kritarchs strike.)
32m02s Signoff. (With an old favorite.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! But only just, listeners, only just.
Radio Derb, as regular listeners will know, comes to you from the outer-outer eastern suburbs of New York City, from the bosky environs of northern Long Island. The Derbs like it here. We have no wish to live anywhere else.
There is, however, a downside to boskiness … boskitude … boscagity … boscaciousness … whatever; there's a downside. The downside is, that when a storm with 60-mile-an-hour winds comes through, it creates havoc with the boscage. Big heavy branches from the trees come down; here and there the trees themselves come down.
When the boscage comes down it brings down with it the utility wires that, in defiance of the warning in my April Diary, are strung high along every street. Sometimes when the wires come down they bring the nearest utility pole down with them. Whether they do or not, you've lost power and cable service for however long it takes the utility repair guys to max out their overtime.
So it was on Tuesday this week as Hurricane Isaias paid a visit. I powered up my portable generator (that's the background hum you may be able to hear); but we get internet service from the cable company, along with TV and landline phone, and cable service was also down.
So, nothing much about the world outside coming into my house since Tuesday. For news this week my sole sources have been my daily delivery of the New York Post, car radio, and some scraps via my wife's & son's smartphones, which seem to work intermittently.
My apologies therefore that this won't be a full Radio Derb, even if I can file it on schedule, which is iffy as at early Friday evening, still with no power or internet service. We're doing our best here.
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02—Our last election? I'm starting to worry about this November's election.
I'm still guessing it'll be a win for the Democrats: either a total win, Senate and White House both, or a partial win, one or the other but not both—what we logicians call an "exclusive 'or'," and what we Latinists call an aut, not a vel.
A total win looks more likely, based on the polls and the fact that twice as many Republican Senators as Democrats are up for re-election. The least likely outcome seems to be complete Democrat defeat, Trump holding the White House and the GOP holding the Senate. That's my best guess right now.
All that is worrying enough, Heaven knows: some angry negress as Vice President, Attorney General Beto O'Rourke, Alexandra What's-her-name with the scary lipstick as Secretary of State, Bernie Sanders at Treasury, Surgeon General Marianne Williamson, … It's a nightmare, all right.
A Democratic win, total or partial, is my Number Two Worry, though. Number One is chaos.
Unless there is some really major change in the national mood, this will be a close election. It's also likely to be one with widespread mail-in voting. Put those two things together and the result in November may be no result—none that the nation can agree on.
Mail-in voting works like this. State election officials mail out a ballot to every registered voter. The mailer includes a pre-stamped return envelope. The voter marks up the ballot, signs it, puts it in the return envelope, and mails it back. When it hits the post office, they stamp it with a postmark that includes the date, then deliver it.
For the vote to be valid, that postmark has to be no later than Election Day. There is also some time limit—typically seven days—within which the ballot has to be received by the vote-counters.
You can already see possible problems. Check your last few items of mail. I dug out five; I could read the postmark date on four of them but the postmark on the fifth was too faint and smudged. And that was private correspondence from individuals: pre-stamped return envelopes from government offices often don't get postmarked at all.
As for a seven-day limit on the ballot being checked in at election HQ, that's dependent on (a) USPS and (b) the efficiency of state workers.
You see where I'm heading with this? To chaos, that's where.
This is no fevered worst-case fantasy, either. Here in New York we've been living with these issues since our Democratic primaries back on June 23rd. Mail-in voting was allowed. Thousands of those ballots have been disqualified—as many as a quarter in some precincts. Quote from the New York Post, August 5th, quote:
Some lacked a postmark or a signature or arrived late, even though voters mailed them with sufficient time.
End quote.
This week a federal judge ordered a re-count of those thousands. So now, as with everything else in our public life today, it ends up in the courts. Further quote from the Post, quote:
The laws … are technical, complex, and hard to comply with, no matter how good the bureaucrats or how experienced the voters are with the system.
End quote.
So six weeks after the vote, results are still up in the air. And this has just been one party's primary for a handful of congressional seats. Imagine this nationwide, in a full general election.
To assist your imagination, recall if you can the fuss over Florida's Presidential vote in the 2000 election. The phrase "hanging chads" mean anything? That dragged on for five weeks as I recall, and had to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court at last.
And there was just one result in one state at issue there. And that was twenty years ago, before the old WASP virtues of honor and forbearance were denounced as "toxic masculinity," before reasoned discourse in the public square gave way to screeching hysteria and statue-smashing.
Twenty years ago: back when a decent seasoning of conservatives could still be found in college and law-school faculties, in media outlets, federal bureaucracies, and corporate boardrooms. Cracks were visible twenty years ago, but we were still a grown-up nation, which is no longer the case.
If there is widespread mail-in voting and the race is close, there will be chaos: not just in Florida this time, and not for any puny five weeks. The nation's business will grind to a halt, probably for months.
At the end of it all, shall we still be a nation? Shall we still have a constitution? Will this be our last election?
I'm starting to worry.
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03—What's the matter with Kansas? The New York Post, though handy to skim through while I eat my breakfast, is still a tabloid, with not much deep detail about politics, or about anything. I therefore wasn't very surprised that they didn't run any news about Tuesday's GOP Senate primary in Kansas.
The interest here for National Conservatives was that Kris Kobach was running, in a tight race with an establishment Republican. Kris is one of us, so I had my fingers crossed for him.
My son checked for me in one of his smartphone's lucid moments on Wednesday. No, he reported: Kris Kobach lost.
That's a blow. Of course, holding National Conservative positions, especially on immigration, Kris was up against the entire GOP establishment and their financiers in the cheap-labor lobbies. Kris is smart, capable, and personable: but with all that donor money thrown into defeating him, it was an unequal contest.
What has happened here, though? Four years ago in the GOP Presidential primary, sixteen shills for the GOP establishment went up against one maverick saying National Conservative things—just the things Kris Kobach says. Republican primary voters gave a collective finger to the establishment bots and went for the maverick. Now they're voting establishment again, at least in Kansas.
The thing people were saying was, with control of the Senate on a knife-edge, Kobach as a candidate for Senator in the general would be too much of a risk. Primary voters would go with the safer choice, as apparently the Kansas primary voters did.
But why didn't that logic apply to the Presidential vote four years ago? Why weren't GOP primary voters back then muttering: "I like Trump and the things he says, but he's not going to win over any Democrats. Best stick with the RINOs." They weren't muttering that; they took a chance. Kansas GOP primary voters this week declined to take that same chance.
Why? Because the danger is greater this time, the Democrats crazier? Well, they are, for sure. Hillary Clinton is a model of good sense and sober judgment by comparison with any of the swivel-eyed opportunists and fanatics on Joe Biden's Veep list. By comparison with Biden himself, Hillary is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Or was 2016 some kind of aberration? Is the old GOP, the GOP of George W. Bush, John McCain and Paul Ryan, the GOP of endless inconclusive wars, open borders, and trillion-dollar no-hoper social programs like No Child Left Behind, is that GOP back in style? Have the disturbances and distortions of the last few months—the pandemic, the Anrifa riots—left GOP voters yearning for earlier times, for what the great Warren Harding called "normalcy"?
I don't know the answer. I do know, however, that a nation that has no place in its legislatures for a smart, honest, principled patriot like Kris Kobach is a nation with some deep systemic problems.
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04—Immigration follies. Here's a couple of immigration topics from the Post.
First, a federal appeals court has upheld a decision last October by a local kritarch on non-citizen use of public benefits.
The issue here was a new rule, brought in earlier this year by the Department of Homeland Security, denying green cards—that's permanent resident-alien status—to aliens who use Medicaid, food stamps, and other types of public assistance. So this is part of the larger "public charge" issue. Should a foreigner who is going to be a charge on the public fisc be given permanent-residence status?
The common-sense reply to that is: Of course not. Why on earth would a country want to import welfare cases?
The kritarch, name of George B. Daniels, begged to differ, and this week's ruling from the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals supports him. This new DHS rule, said the court, has already had an irreparable chilling effect on noncitizen use of public benefits.
My dictionary defines the word "irreparable" as "cannot be repaired or mended." Without thinking very hard at all I can rather easily come up with a course of action that would mend that chilling effect once and for all, and save taxpaying citizens a ton of money into the bargain. I guess I'm not cut out to be an appeals court judge.
And then, in the August 6th Post, there is a good op-ed by someone named Esther Raja, bylined as, quote:
A graduate of Xavier University School of Medicine and an advocate for America's unmatched medical graduates.
End quote.
The word "unmatched" there refers to people who have graduated medical school but can't find jobs. You wouldn't think there could be such people, but there are—more than six and a half thousand of them, according to Ms Raja—2,000 new ones this year alone.
The wrinkle here is, that before you can practice medicine in the U.S.A. you have to complete a residency—basically a form of postgraduate on-the-job supervised training, usually in a hospital. Those thousands of Americans Ms Raja is writing about completed medical school, got their MD, but can't find a residency so they can go ahead and become practicing physicians.
Meanwhile, guess what? Yes: Residencies are being handed out to foreigners on guest-worker J-1 visas: more than four thousand this year alone.
Why? Well, there are financial incentives for hospitals to take foreign doctors in as residents. Some foreign governments, the Saudis for instance, pay hospitals the cost of the residency. That's pure gravy for the hospitals
And then, to get his J-1 visa, the foreigner must also pay fat exam and certification fees to something called the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. That outfit took in almost $90 million in 2018.
And then there's a sort of chain-migration effect. A lot of the administrators of hospital residency programs originally came in themselves on J-1 visas, and they favor their fellow-countrymen. What are the main offending countries here? See if you can guess.
The remedy for the second of these two styles of immigration-abuse is straightforward: Stop issuing J-1 visas to foreign MDs seeking residencies.
The remedy for the first—for the judicial nullifying of the "public charge" rule—is for Congress to pass some firm legislation on the issue. Since there is zero hope of Congress doing that, or of impeaching any of these out-of-control kritarchs, the only fallback is for the Executive, in this case DHS, to go full Andy Jackson and just ignore the damn judges.
I suppose there would be mighty constitutional ructions if the Executive did that, but this may be what it takes. With Congress sunk in uselessness, the legislators all bought and paid for by special interests, the battle for our rights and liberties is between Executive and Judiciary. I'm rooting for the Executive.
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05—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: August 6th is of course Hiroshima day. Seventy-five years ago we dropped the big one on that city. Three days later we dropped another on Nagasaki. The Japs folded; the war ended.
The dropping of those bombs is one of those issues where there's a wide range of opinions held by highly argumentative people; not just opinions about the rightness or wrongness of the bombings, but even about their utility. Were they necessary to end the war? Some said, and still say, that they weren't; that continued conventional bombing, together with a good blockade, would have done the job eventually.
Others argue that it wasn't the atom bombs that pushed the Japanese to surrender; it was Stalin's declaration of war against Japan on August 8th that really scared them.
And so on. If you have what you believe to be an original theory to do with the dropping of those bombs, I can guarantee that some scholar came up with your theory, and probably wrote a book about it, at some point in the last 75 years. Please don't email in and challenge me on that; I'm pretty sure I've had all the theories argued at me one time or another.
If you want to brief yourself on the major points of view, I recommend the August issue of that excellent magazine Chronicles, now under the editorship of the learned and wonderfully opinionated Professor Paul Gottfried. This issue runs four good-length articles by four different writers, each stating a different point of view on the dropping of the atom bombs.
Where am I on this? The one of those four articles I found closest to my own view was number three, by Michael Scheuer. What's his position? Read the August issue of Chronicles and find out. Better still, take out a subscription; it's a very worthy magazine.
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Item: What, actually, is the point of space exploration? people still sometimes ask. I'm happy to supply at least part of the answer. Here it is: penguin poop.
See, there has been an erroneous assumption about the number of emperor-penguin colonies in Antarctica. It had been supposed, based on reports from ground level, that the number was fifty.
Wrong! A European satellite called Sentinel-2 has been scanning Antarctica for tell-tale smudges on the ice that would indicate large amounts of penguin poop. They found those smudges for the fifty known colonies, and also for eleven more.
So the bottom line here, so to speak, is that there are in fact 61 emperor-penguin colonies.
I am quite sure that in more than sixteen years of reporting on the world's affairs, that is the first time Radio Derb has ever done a story about penguin poop. I just wish we could have gotten to it before the New York Post did. Then we would have had a scoop: a poop scoop. [Groan.]
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Item: In last week's podcast I passed some comments about suburbia, and about the fad among 1960s lefties like Pete Seeger for mocking the dullness and conformity of suburban life. A friend, an ex-Brit like myself, emailed in to remind me of one of the strongest expressions of this sentiment. It comes from either the 1930s or 1940s, so the speaker was way ahead of his time.
This was Aneurin Bevan, one of the fiercest British socialists of that period—a Member of Parliament and the architect of Britain's National Health Service.
In 1952 Bevan published a book titled In Place of Fear, stating his political beliefs at length, with many quotes from his own speeches and writings. Historian David Kynaston, in Chapter Four of his book Family Britain 1951-1957, notes the following, quote:
One particularly striking pre-1945 passage—attacking suburbia as [inner quote] "an aesthetic monstrosity, an ethical crime, an economic nightmare, and a physical treadmill" [end inner quote] was in the event dropped from the book.
End quote.
"An aesthetic monstrosity, an ethical crime, an economic nightmare, and a physical treadmill." If any higher level of vituperation than that has ever been aimed against suburbia, I'd be interested to hear of it.
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Item: One more case of kritarchs run wild, this one concerning the Boston Marathon bomber, 27-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
You remember the story: the worst domestic terror attack since 9/11. This was at the Boston Marathon in April 2013. Two brothers, immigrants from Chechnya, let off home-made bombs near the finish line, killing three people and mutilating over two hundred others. When cops chased them down, the brothers threw pipe bombs at the cops, and shot one MIT campus security guy dead.
The older brother died in a police shoot-out. The younger was arrested, tried, found guilty on all charges, and sentenced to death in 2015.
Well, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has just thrown out the death sentence along with three of the other charges this vermin was convicted on. The grounds for their doing so were nit-picky and technical—so much so, it took them two hundred and twenty-four pages to justify their ruling.
The bomber will stay in jail on life sentences from charges that weren't vacated, assuming those charges don't get annulled by some other panel of equally compassionate and punctilious jurists.
Tsarnaev's parents came here as tourists in 2002. They applied for asylum and were granted it, although subsequent inquiries have found no evidence they were under any danger of religious or political persecution where they came from.
I'd like to see Dzhokhar Tsarnaev executed. If that can't be managed, though—and under the present kritarchy it plainly can't—can we at least levy some penalty, not necessarily capital, against the damn fool federal employee who granted asylum to his parents?
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06—Signoff. I'm afraid that's all I can manage in my present straitened circumstances, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for listening; and should you hear of any 60-mile-an-hour winds headed your way, mind where you park your car. A neighbor of mine in the next street over had a tree fall on his.
I hate to grumble—you know I do—but I must say, so far I am not liking 2020. Riots; pandemic; a hurricane; and that worrisome election coming up.
I find myself at last in a mood of weary resignation; and of course I have just the song to go with that mood. Over to you, Carson.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-08-07--More Reckonings: “Cakewalk”, “Sold Down The River,”“Grandfathering,” Etc.

A reckoning has emerged on American English , rife with words and phrases with racist origins or connotations By Deanna Pan , Globe Staff , Updated August 6 , 2020 , 5:33 p.m. American English is riddled with words and phrases with racist origins or undertones .
Since the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis and the flurry of protests his and other Black Americans ’ deaths have inspired , a growing number of public and private institutions are reevaluating their reliance on language with racist connotations or history .
… In Rhode Island , Governor Gina M. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to drop “ Providence Plantations ” from the state ’ s official name — Rhode Island and Providence Plantations — in state documents , agency websites , and employee pay stubs because of its associations with slavery .
Elsewhere , realtors are reconsidering “ master bedroom ” and “ master bathroom ” in housing listings .
“ People have always been aware of the power of language to discriminate , to dominate , but also to liberate , ” said Michel DeGraff [ Email him ] , a self-described “ activist linguist ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ think it can only make for a better world if we become aware of the way that language has an impact on our society.
” Even seemingly innocuous words and phrases , used without malice , can offend or exclude , DeGraff said .
He recalled an incident three years ago at MIT ’ s faculty lunch room in which he overheard another faculty member using the word “ voodoo ” while speaking about a complicated mathematical equation .
“ For him , it was not racialized and I can not say he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but by using the term .
.
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he has the power to make others like myself feel unwelcome and uncomfortable .
Literally , I could not swallow my food , ” DeGraff said .
“ It had an impact on me .
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From the Boston Globe:
A reckoning has emerged on American English, rife with words and phrases with racist origins or connotations
By Deanna Pan, Globe Staff,Updated August 6, 2020, 5:33 p.m.
American English is riddled with words and phrases with racist origins or undertones. Since the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis and the flurry of protests his and other Black Americans’ deaths have inspired, a growing number of public and private institutions are reevaluating their reliance on language with racist connotations or history. …
“Cakewalk”
“sold down the river,”
“master and slave,”
“grandfathering”
In Rhode Island, Governor Gina M. Raimondo signed an executive order this summer to drop “Providence Plantations” from the state’s official name — Rhode Island and Providence Plantations — in state documents, agency websites, and employee pay stubs because of its associations with slavery.
Elsewhere, realtors are reconsidering “master bedroom” and “master bathroom” in housing listings.
“People have always been aware of the power of language to discriminate, to dominate, but also to liberate,” said Michel DeGraff [Email him], a self-described “activist linguist” and professor at MIT. “I think it can only make for a better world if we become aware of the way that language has an impact on our society.”
Even seemingly innocuous words and phrases, used without malice, can offend or exclude, DeGraff said. He recalled an incident three years ago at MIT’s faculty lunch room in which he overheard another faculty member using the word “voodoo” while speaking about a complicated mathematical equation.
“For him, it was not racialized and I cannot say he was being racist by using that term, but by using the term . . . he has the power to make others like myself feel unwelcome and uncomfortable. Literally, I could not swallow my food,” DeGraff said. “It had an impact on me.”


vdare--2020-08-06--Philadelphia Hate Crime Story: Race Of Asian Victim  Specified,  Race Of Hateful Attacker UNspecifie

Philadelphia Hate Crime Story: Race Of Asian Victim  Specified,  Race Of Hateful Attacker UNspecified

`` Not mentioning race '' is one of the larger categories of diversity-related nonsense out there , but Pennsylvania media are taking this one to the next level .
A Chinese woman reported being accosted by another women who sprayed her with water , called her a `` Chinese bitch , '' and then punched her in the face , even after she pled pregnancy [ 'She punched me on my face ' : Asian-American pregnant mother attacked in Philadelphia , by Christie Ileto , ABC6 , August 6 , 2020 ] .
Police think the attacker 's name is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not announce her race ?
• the police certainly know the attacker 's race • there 's an arrest warrant , which surely has the race • the victim certainly knows the attacker 's race ( the black reporter could have asked on camera , but did n't ) • the race may have been mentioned in `` WeChat '' , the Chinese social media—why not get a translation ?
• the Asian community experts probably know , but were n't asked To add insult to injury , the Philadelphia District Attorney 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do n't have the evidence that this was ethnically motivated .
How much more evidence do you need ?
Number one , blacks hate Asians .
I have witnessed them verbally harass Asians on the New York City subway system with full-throated racial hatred .
The docile nature of many Asians makes them easy targets .
Number two , the bold style of the attack and flippant `` so ? ''
when it was announced the victim was pregnant tells me `` black . ''
You can just imagine a crazy black panhandler @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if `` Delores Marte '' were white , we 'd be hearing about it from everyone .

"Not mentioning race" is one of the larger categories of diversity-related nonsense out there, but Pennsylvania media are taking this one to the next level.
A Chinese woman reported being accosted by another women who sprayed her with water, called her a "Chinese bitch," and then punched her in the face, even after she pled pregnancy [ 'She punched me on my face': Asian-American pregnant mother attacked in Philadelphia, by Christie Ileto, ABC6, August 6, 2020].
Police think the attacker's name is "Delores Marte", so why not announce her race?
the police certainly know the attacker's race
there's an arrest warrant, which surely has the race
the victim certainly knows the attacker's race (the black reporter could have asked on camera, but didn't)
the race may have been mentioned in "WeChat", the Chinese social media—why not get a translation?
the Asian community experts probably know, but weren't asked
Etc.
To add insult to injury, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office—led by the odious Larry Krasner—says they don't have the evidence that this was ethnically motivated. How much more evidence do you need?
"Delores Marte" fits a pattern that says "black."
Number one, blacks hate Asians. I have witnessed them verbally harass Asians on the New York City subway system with full-throated racial hatred. The docile nature of many Asians makes them easy targets.
Number two, the bold style of the attack and flippant "so?" when it was announced the victim was pregnant tells me "black." You can just imagine a crazy black panhandler lady doing that.
Number three, if "Delores Marte" were white, we'd be hearing about it from everyone.


vdare--2020-08-11--Not The Replication Crisis: American Heart Association Withdraws Paper "Concluding INCORRECTLY That

Not The Replication Crisis: American Heart Association Withdraws Paper "Concluding INCORRECTLY That Black And Hispanic Trainees In Medicine Are Less Qualified"

According to the NYT story featured by Steve Sailer below And here 's the full story of the retraction : DALLAS – Aug. 5 , 2020 – A March 2020 paper published in the Journal of the American Heart Association ( JAHA ) has recently become the subject of significant discourse and warranted concern .
The paper , by Norman C. Wang , MD , MS ( Diversity , Inclusion , and Equity : Evolution of Race and Ethnicity Considerations for the Cardiology Workforce in the United States of America From 1969 to 2019 ” - J Am Heart Assoc @ @ @ @ @ @ @ DOI : 10.1161/JAHA.120.015959 ) , advocates for ending racial and ethnic preferences for undergraduate and medical school admissions and against affirmative action initiatives , concluding incorrectly that Black and Hispanic trainees in medicine are less qualified than White and Asian trainees .
Wang paper is wrong : Diversity , equity and inclusiveness in medicine and cardiology are important and necessary : UPDATED statement from the American Heart Association , August 6 , 2020 This retraction is not due to the replication crisis .
A paper showing blacks and Hispanics are less qualified than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Affirmative action acts for blacks and Hispanics , against Asians and whites .
Anti-affirmative action activist Vijay Chokal-Ingam proved this : when he was Asian , he was n't good enough to get into med school .
But as a dark-skinned native-born American , he could pass for an African-American , and bingo !
The medical school doors opened , and the trumpets sounded on the other side .
And here he is in medical school : So of course blacks and Hispanics are less qualified than whites and Asians—the affirmative action @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white or Asian and working side by side with an affirmative action-eligible trainee , he 's not as qualified as you are , because if he were , he 'd be training at a better hospital or school .
Only if you 're at Harvard is the affirmative action-eligible guy next to you as qualified as you are .
Why do cases like Chokal-Ingam and similar transracialists ( Elizabeth Warren , Rachel Dolezal , the guy in the movie Soul Man ) make people angry ?
Because they 're members of groups who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people who ca n't pass tests .
But no one wants to say that .

According to the NYT story featured by Steve Sailer below
Discussions about lack of diversity in medicine resurfaced in early August, when the Journal of the American Heart Association retracted a paper that argued against affirmative action initiatives in the field and said that Black and Hispanic trainees were less qualified than their white and Asian counterparts.
And here's the full story of the retraction:
DALLAS – Aug. 5, 2020 – A March 2020 paper published in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) has recently become the subject of significant discourse and warranted concern. The paper, by Norman C. Wang, MD, MS ("Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity: Evolution of Race and Ethnicity Considerations for the Cardiology Workforce in the United States of America From 1969 to 2019” - J Am Heart Assoc. 2020;9:e015959. DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.120.015959), advocates for ending racial and ethnic preferences for undergraduate and medical school admissions and against affirmative action initiatives, concluding incorrectly that Black and Hispanic trainees in medicine are less qualified than White and Asian trainees. Wang paper is wrong: Diversity, equity and inclusiveness in medicine and cardiology are important and necessary: UPDATED statement from the American Heart Association, August 6, 2020
This retraction is not due to the replication crisis. A paper showing blacks and Hispanics are less qualified than Asians and whites would replicate pretty good. Affirmative action acts for blacks and Hispanics, against Asians and whites.
Anti-affirmative action activist Vijay Chokal-Ingam proved this: When he was Asian, he wasn't good enough to get into med school. But as a dark-skinned native-born American, he could pass for an African-American, and bingo! The medical school doors opened, and the trumpets sounded on the other side.
From his website:
And here he is in medical school:
So of course blacks and Hispanics are less qualified than whites and Asians—the affirmative action system requires it. If you're white or Asian and working side by side with an affirmative action-eligible trainee, he's not as qualified as you are, because if he were, he'd be training at a better hospital or school.
Only if you're at Harvard is the affirmative action-eligible guy next to you as qualified as you are.
Why do cases like Chokal-Ingam and similar transracialists (Elizabeth Warren, Rachel Dolezal, the guy in the movie Soul Man) make people angry? Because they're members of groups who can pass tests taking preferences meant for people who can't pass tests. But no one wants to say that.


vdare--2020-08-11--NYT: The Psychological Subtexts of Hospital Emergency Rooms Are Rife with Microaggressions

From the New York Times news section : For Doctors of Color , Microaggressions Are All Too Familiar By Emma Goldberg Aug. 11 , 2020 , 2:30 a.m .
ET When Dr. Onyeka Otugo was doing her training in emergency medicine , in Cleveland and Chicago , she was often mistaken for a janitor or food services worker even after introducing herself as a doctor .
She realized early on that her white male counterparts were not experiencing similar mix-ups .
… After years of training in predominantly white emergency departments , Dr. Otugo has experienced many such microaggressions .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Dr. Chester Pierce , a psychiatrist , refers to “ subtle , stunning , often automatic , and nonverbal exchanges which are ‘ put downs ’ ” of Black people and members of other minority groups ; “ micro ” refers to their routine frequency , not the scale of their impact .
Dr. Otugo said the encounters sometimes made her wonder whether she was a qualified and competent medical practitioner , because others did not see her that way .
Other Black women doctors , across specialties , said that such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kimberly Manning , an internal medicine doctor at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta , recalled countless microaggressions in clinical settings .
“ People might not realize you ’ re offended , but it ’ s like death by a thousand paper cuts , ” Dr. Manning said .
“ It can cause you to shrink.
” As I ’ ve been mentioning , America ’ s highest priority has become boosting the self-esteem of blacks , even thought studies suggest that blacks average higher self-esteem than anybody else .
If only white males @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientific medicine in Europe in the later 19th Century .
Think how much better the self-esteem of black women would be .
The field of medicine has long skewed white and male .
Only 5 percent of the American physician work force is African-American , and roughly 2 percent are Black women .
Emergency medicine is even more predominantly white , with just 3 percent of physicians identifying as Black .
The pipeline is also part of the problem ; at American medical schools , just 7 percent of the student population is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ physicians , making it into the field is only the first of many challenges .
More than a dozen Black women interviewed said that they frequently heard comments from colleagues and patients questioning their credibility and undermining their authority while on the job .
These experiences damaged their sense of confidence and sometimes hampered teamwork , they said , creating tensions that cost precious time during emergency procedures .
Some physicians said they found the microaggressions particularly frustrating knowing that , as Black doctors , they brought an invaluable perspective to the care @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bring an invaluable perspective to the care they offer .
A 2018 study showed that Black patients had improved outcomes when seen by Black doctors , and were more likely to agree to preventive care measures like diabetes screenings and cholesterol tests .
In May , four female physicians of color published a paper in Annals of Emergency Medicine on microaggressions .
The authors , Dr. Melanie Molina , Dr. Adaira Landry , Dr. Anita Chary and Dr. Sherri-Ann Burnett-Bowie , said they hoped that , by shining a spotlight on the problem @ @ @ @ @ @ @ isolation that Black female physicians experience and compel their white colleagues to take specific steps toward eliminating conscious and unconscious bias .
Discussions about lack of diversity in medicine resurfaced in early August , when the Journal of the American Heart Association retracted a paper that argued against affirmative action initiatives in the field and said that Black and Hispanic trainees were less qualified than their white and Asian counterparts .
Dr. Phindile Chowa , 33 , an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Emory University , was in her second year of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her department mistook her for an electrocardiogram technician , even though she had previously worked with him on rotations .
She approached him to give a report on her patients , and he wordlessly put out his hand , expecting her to hand over an electrocardiogram scan .
“ He never apologized , ” Dr. Chowa said .
“ He did not think he did a single thing wrong that day .
I was the only Black resident in my class .
How could he not know who I am ?
” The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have referred to her as “ sweetie ” or “ honey.
” She recalled one patient who asked repeatedly who she was over the course of a hospital visit , while quickly learning the name of her white male attending physician .
Confused patients are racist and deserve to die .
Well , she did , a big one , but you aren ’ t supposed to mention that .
Such comments can create an environment of fear for Black women .
Dr. Otugo recalled overhearing her Black female colleagues in Chicago discuss @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hair for their clerkships .
Many of them worried that if they wore their hair naturally , instead of straightening it or even changing it to lighter colors , their grades and performance evaluations from white physicians might suffer .
Dr. Sheryl Heron , a Black professor of emergency medicine at Emory University School of Medicine , who has worked in the field for more than two decades , said microaggressions can exact a long-lasting toll .
“ After the twelve-thousandth time , it starts to impede your ability to be successful , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to go into scenarios about your self-worth .
It ’ s a head trip.
” This comes on top of the stresses that are already pervasive in emergency departments .
A 2018 survey of more than 1,500 early-career doctors in emergency medicine found that 76 percent were experiencing symptoms of burnout .
I ’ m not an expert on emergency care , but my impression from watching MASH is that it helps to have a rather callous personality that is not easily bruised .

From the New York Times news section:
For Doctors of Color, Microaggressions Are All Too Familiar By Emma Goldberg
Aug. 11, 2020, 2:30 a.m. ET When Dr. Onyeka Otugo was doing her training in emergency medicine, in Cleveland and Chicago, she was often mistaken for a janitor or food services worker even after introducing herself as a doctor. She realized early on that her white male counterparts were not experiencing similar mix-ups. … After years of training in predominantly white emergency departments, Dr. Otugo has experienced many such microaggressions. The term, coined in the 1970s by Dr. Chester Pierce, a psychiatrist, refers to “subtle, stunning, often automatic, and nonverbal exchanges which are ‘put downs’” of Black people and members of other minority groups; “micro” refers to their routine frequency, not the scale of their impact.
They’re mega-aggressions!
Dr. Otugo said the encounters sometimes made her wonder whether she was a qualified and competent medical practitioner, because others did not see her that way. Other Black women doctors, across specialties, said that such experiences were all too common. Dr. Kimberly Manning, an internal medicine doctor at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, recalled countless microaggressions in clinical settings. “People might not realize you’re offended, but it’s like death by a thousand paper cuts,” Dr. Manning said. “It can cause you to shrink.”
As I’ve been mentioning, America’s highest priority has become boosting the self-esteem of blacks, even though studies suggest that blacks average higher self-esteem than anybody else.
The field of medicine has long skewed white and male.
Assuming you count Asian women as white men.
If only white males had not had the impertinence to invent scientific medicine in Europe in the later 19th Century. Think how much better the self-esteem of black women would be.
The field of medicine has long skewed white and male. Only 5 percent of the American physician work force is African-American, and roughly 2 percent are Black women. Emergency medicine is even more predominantly white, with just 3 percent of physicians identifying as Black. The pipeline is also part of the problem; at American medical schools, just 7 percent of the student population is now Black. But for Black female physicians, making it into the field is only the first of many challenges. More than a dozen Black women interviewed said that they frequently heard comments from colleagues and patients questioning their credibility and undermining their authority while on the job. These experiences damaged their sense of confidence and sometimes hampered teamwork, they said, creating tensions that cost precious time during emergency procedures. Some physicians said they found the microaggressions particularly frustrating knowing that, as Black doctors, they brought an invaluable perspective to the care they offer.
Science Proves that they bring an invaluable perspective to the care they offer.
A 2018 study showed that Black patients had improved outcomes when seen by Black doctors, and were more likely to agree to preventive care measures like diabetes screenings and cholesterol tests. In May, four female physicians of color published a paper in Annals of Emergency Medicine on microaggressions. The authors, Dr. Melanie Molina, Dr. Adaira Landry, Dr. Anita Chary and Dr. Sherri-Ann Burnett-Bowie, said they hoped that, by shining a spotlight on the problem, they might reduce the sense of isolation that Black female physicians experience and compel their white colleagues to take specific steps toward eliminating conscious and unconscious bias. Discussions about lack of diversity in medicine resurfaced in early August, when the Journal of the American Heart Association retracted a paper that argued against affirmative action initiatives in the field and said that Black and Hispanic trainees were less qualified than their white and Asian counterparts. Dr. Phindile Chowa, 33, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Emory University, was in her second year of an emergency-medicine residency when an attending in her department mistook her for an electrocardiogram technician, even though she had previously worked with him on rotations. She approached him to give a report on her patients, and he wordlessly put out his hand, expecting her to hand over an electrocardiogram scan. “He never apologized,” Dr. Chowa said. “He did not think he did a single thing wrong that day. I was the only Black resident in my class. How could he not know who I am?” The derogatory encounters continued from there. Colleagues have referred to her as “sweetie” or “honey.” She recalled one patient who asked repeatedly who she was over the course of a hospital visit, while quickly learning the name of her white male attending physician.
Confused patients are racist and deserve to die.
When she was first admitted to her residency, at Harvard, a medical school classmate suggested that she had had an “edge” in the selection process because of her race.
Well, she did, a big one, but you aren’t supposed to mention that.
Such comments can create an environment of fear for Black women. Dr. Otugo recalled overhearing her Black female colleagues in Chicago discuss how they were going to style their hair for their clerkships. Many of them worried that if they wore their hair naturally, instead of straightening it or even changing it to lighter colors, their grades and performance evaluations from white physicians might suffer. Dr. Sheryl Heron, a Black professor of emergency medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, who has worked in the field for more than two decades, said microaggressions can exact a long-lasting toll. “After the twelve-thousandth time, it starts to impede your ability to be successful,” she said. “You start to go into scenarios about your self-worth. It’s a head trip.” This comes on top of the stresses that are already pervasive in emergency departments. A 2018 survey of more than 1,500 early-career doctors in emergency medicine found that 76 percent were experiencing symptoms of burnout.
I’m not an expert on emergency care, but my impression from watching MASH is that it helps to have a rather callous personality that is not easily bruised.
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