vdare--2020-03-04--White St. Louis Woman Robbed, Beaten, And Stabbed By Somali Migrant Teen—Not Punished Because He Has

White St. Louis Woman Robbed, Beaten, And Stabbed By Somali Migrant Teen—Not Punished Because He Has An IQ Of 49

A refugee from Somalia attacks a white woman in St. Louis , nearly killing her .
This black teenager attacked her twice , the second time while she was on the phone with police .
And guess what ?
The juvenile court let her Somalian refugee go without any charges because he has an IQ of 49 .
No , this is not a made up story .
Sure , it was posted on The Gateway Pundit f or sensational purposes , but it is 100 percent true .
It ’ s quite simple : a white woman was attacked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neighbor , and the courts let him off because he has an IQ of 49 .
‘ I ’ ve been failed by the system ’ | Teen walks free after neighbor says he broke her nose , left her in bruises : “ He comes back with a weapon .
He is on top of me .
There was blood everywhere .
I was literally fighting for my life at that point , ” she told 5 On Your Side , KSDK.com , February 24 , 2020 ST. LOUIS — A St. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ failed her , after she said her teenage neighbor attacked her and walked away free .
Alicia Clarke said exactly a week ago she went for a quick run outside her south city home .
When she came back , she noticed her shoes had been moved to a different spot and her cell phone was gone .
From there , she used Find My iPhone to search for it .
The location said it was on her property grid .
She used her work phone to call it .
“ I open @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I hear it in my neighbor ’ s backyard behind me , ” Clarke said .
Clarke said she hopped the fence to get it and jumped back over to her yard .
Another neighbor yelled out to her and said , “ Hey , I told him , ‘ I know you did this and I ’ m calling the police ! '
” Clarke said that ’ s when the 6-foot teen jumped the fence and tackled her .
“ He knocked me down , pulling my hair , kicking , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ off , she said he grabbed her personal cell phone again .
She used her work phone to call police .
“ I am on the phone with St. Louis police dispatch , making my way to my backdoor , when he comes back with a weapon .
He is on top of me .
There was blood everywhere .
I was literally fighting for my life at that point , ” she told 5 On Your Side .
Clarke said as he was on her back , he stabbed her in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
She was able to get the weapon out of his hand and ran inside .
He ran away again , taking her second cell phone this time .
Police arrested the teen on charges of first-degree robbery , second-degree burglary and third-degree assault .
Clarke thought the fight was over .
But when she went to juvenile court a few days later , she learned his case was dismissed .
“ The most hurtful thing of all of this , is the dropped charges .
That was much more hurtful than the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A juvenile court official said a staff attorney dropped the case before even going to the judge .
The courts weren ’ t able to comment specifically on this incident , since it involves a juvenile .
Clarke said she was told her accused attacker was found incompetent to aid in his own defense because he has an IQ of 49 .
A spokeswoman said in general , circumstances like these leave the court with few options when it comes to a criminal case .
“ In those instances , we work with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ services outside the court system , ” 5 On Your Side was told .
As for the victim , they said they offer victim services .
“ It ’ s not feeling safe and honestly feeling like I ’ ve been failed by the system , ” Clarke said .
She believes there needs to be a change .
“ This is going to happen again , and that ’ s my number one priority that it doesn ’ t , ” she said .
Another neighbor who didn ’ t want to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also broken into her home and believes he needs to be held accountable .
Clarke said the teen has broken into her car three times , but this has been the worst of it .
She has a great support system , so she isn ’ t forced to continue living where she said she was attacked .
But she wants to help others and send a message to the city that more needs to be done .

A refugee from Somalia attacks a white woman in St. Louis, nearly killing her. This black teenager attacked her twice, the second time while she was on the phone with police. And guess what? The juvenile court let her Somalian refugee go without any charges because he has an IQ of 49.
No, this is not a made up story. Sure, it was posted on The Gateway Pundit for sensational purposes, but it is 100 percent true.
It’s quite simple: a white woman was attacked multiple times by her black Somalian refugee neighbor, and the courts let him off because he has an IQ of 49.
‘I’ve been failed by the system’ | Teen walks free after neighbor says he broke her nose, left her in bruises: “He comes back with a weapon. He is on top of me. There was blood everywhere. I was literally fighting for my life at that point,” she told 5 On Your Side, KSDK.com, February 24, 2020
ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis woman feels like the judicial system failed her, after she said her teenage neighbor attacked her and walked away free.
Alicia Clarke said exactly a week ago she went for a quick run outside her south city home. When she came back, she noticed her shoes had been moved to a different spot and her cell phone was gone.
From there, she used Find My iPhone to search for it. The location said it was on her property grid. She used her work phone to call it.
“I open my back door to call it and I hear it in my neighbor’s backyard behind me,” Clarke said.
Clarke said she hopped the fence to get it and jumped back over to her yard. Another neighbor yelled out to her and said, “Hey, I told him, ‘I know you did this and I’m calling the police!'”
Clarke said that’s when the 6-foot teen jumped the fence and tackled her.
“He knocked me down, pulling my hair, kicking,” she recalled.
Before he ran off, she said he grabbed her personal cell phone again. She used her work phone to call police.
“I am on the phone with St. Louis police dispatch, making my way to my backdoor, when he comes back with a weapon. He is on top of me. There was blood everywhere. I was literally fighting for my life at that point,” she told 5 On Your Side.
Clarke said as he was on her back, he stabbed her in the head and face with a metal rod.
She was able to get the weapon out of his hand and ran inside. He ran away again, taking her second cell phone this time.
Police arrested the teen on charges of first-degree robbery, second-degree burglary and third-degree assault.
Clarke thought the fight was over. But when she went to juvenile court a few days later, she learned his case was dismissed.
“The most hurtful thing of all of this, is the dropped charges. That was much more hurtful than the physical assault,” Clarke said.
A juvenile court official said a staff attorney dropped the case before even going to the judge. The courts weren’t able to comment specifically on this incident, since it involves a juvenile. Clarke said she was told her accused attacker was found incompetent to aid in his own defense because he has an IQ of 49.
A spokeswoman said in general, circumstances like these leave the court with few options when it comes to a criminal case.
“In those instances, we work with child guardian and agencies to help with services outside the court system,” 5 On Your Side was told.
As for the victim, they said they offer victim services.
“It’s not feeling safe and honestly feeling like I’ve been failed by the system,” Clarke said.
She believes there needs to be a change.
“This is going to happen again, and that’s my number one priority that it doesn’t,” she said.
Another neighbor who didn’t want to go on camera said the teen has also broken into her home and believes he needs to be held accountable.
Clarke said the teen has broken into her car three times, but this has been the worst of it. She has a great support system, so she isn’t forced to continue living where she said she was attacked.
But she wants to help others and send a message to the city that more needs to be done.


vdare--2020-03-04--Sailer In TAKIMAG: Should The United States Break Up?

From my new book review in Taki ’ s Magazine : Frank H. Buckley ’ s highbrow yet quick and lively new book American Secession comes with the foreboding subtitle The Looming Threat of a National Breakup , but the conservative George Mason U. law professor and Trump family adviser is sanguine .
In Buckley ’ s view , a Trump reelection combined with Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’ s death might trigger a Calexit movement by aggrieved Californians ( a state where Hillary won by 4.3 million votes , while she lost by 1.5 million in the other 49 states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country with Trump voters .
Or perhaps the deplorables , offended by the Democrats ’ smug “ that ’ s not who we are ” rhetoric , will call a new Constitutional Convention ( which would require only 34 state legislatures ) at which who knows what might happen… The last one , in 1787 , tore up the existing Articles of Confederation and invented a federal system .
And would the U.S. breaking into two or more chunks be so bad ?
Buckley writes : We ’ re overly big , one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Smaller countries are happier and less corrupt .
They ’ re less inclined to throw their weight around militarily , and they ’ re freer .
If there are advantages to bigness , the costs exceed the benefits .
Bigness is badness .

From my new book review in Taki’s Magazine:
Secession Studies
Steve Sailer
March 04, 2020
Frank H. Buckley’s highbrow yet quick and lively new book American Secession comes with the foreboding subtitle The Looming Threat of a National Breakup, but the conservative George Mason U. law professor and Trump family adviser is sanguine.
In Buckley’s view, a Trump reelection combined with Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death might trigger a Calexit movement by aggrieved Californians (a state where Hillary won by 4.3 million votes, while she lost by 1.5 million in the other 49 states) enraged at having to share a country with Trump voters.
Or perhaps the deplorables, offended by the Democrats’ smug “that’s not who we are” rhetoric, will call a new Constitutional Convention (which would require only 34 state legislatures) at which who knows what might happen… The last one, in 1787, tore up the existing Articles of Confederation and invented a federal system.
And would the U.S. breaking into two or more chunks be so bad? Buckley writes:
We’re overly big, one of the biggest countries in the world. Smaller countries are happier and less corrupt. They’re less inclined to throw their weight around militarily, and they’re freer. If there are advantages to bigness, the costs exceed the benefits. Bigness is badness.


vdare--2020-03-04--WASHINGTON POST’S Creepy Exit Poll Bar Chart And Racial Voting Patterns

It ’ s possible that the Hispanic plurality for Bernie is largely a function of Latino voters being younger , because the generation gap among Democrats is huge : Clearly , blacks are voting in a racially distinctive manner , but it could be that Hispanics are mostly voting like young non-college Democrats .
Biden ’ s coalition of blacks and older centrist whites is unusual .
One predecessor might be the 2001 mayoral election in Los Angeles when Westside white liberals decided it was time for a Latino mayor , Antonio Villaraigosa .
Blacks and the more moderate/conservative whites @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t like the sound of what the Westside had cooking , so they united behind a white liberal , Jim Hahn , whose father Kenneth Hahn had been very popular among South-Central blacks .
This white-black coalition worked , electing Hahn .
But it soon came apart over whether to give the black LAPD police chief another term .
Mayor Hahn decided to let him go and instead hire Giuliani ’ s old brilliant top cop Bill Bratton , which did a lot of good for the crime rate in L.A .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the short-lived white-black coalition , with the blacks deserting for Villaraigosa in the rematch in 2005 .
So Biden ’ s current coalition isn ’ t unprecedented , but it also has natural fault lines .
We ’ re seeing something similar in the LA District Attorney election , where the anti-crime black lady incumbent Jackie Lacey is trying to get 50 % +1 in the 3 person primary to avoid a runoff , probably with the Soros backed George Gascon .
She ’ s currently at 51.7 % but final vote counts @ @ @ @ @

The Washington Post’s creepy exit poll bar chart:
It’s possible that the Hispanic plurality for Bernie is largely a function of Latino voters being younger, because the generation gap among Democrats is huge:
Clearly, blacks are voting in a racially distinctive manner, but it could be that Hispanics are mostly voting like young non-college Democrats.
Biden’s coalition of blacks and older centrist whites is unusual. One predecessor might be the 2001 mayoral election in Los Angeles when Westside white liberals decided it was time for a Latino mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa. Blacks and the more moderate/conservative whites in the San Fernando Valley didn’t like the sound of what the Westside had cooking, so they united behind a white liberal, Jim Hahn, whose father Kenneth Hahn had been very popular among South-Central blacks.
This white-black coalition worked, electing Hahn. But it soon came apart over whether to give the black LAPD police chief another term. Mayor Hahn decided to let him go and instead hire Giuliani’s old brilliant top cop Bill Bratton, which did a lot of good for the crime rate in L.A. But Hahn’s courageous decision smashed up the short-lived white-black coalition, with the blacks deserting for Villaraigosa in the rematch in 2005.
So Biden’s current coalition isn’t unprecedented, but it also has natural fault lines.
We’re seeing something similar in the LA District Attorney election, where the anti-crime black lady incumbent Jackie Lacey is trying to get 50%+1 in the 3 person primary to avoid a runoff, probably with the Soros backed George Gascon. She’s currently at 51.7% but final vote counts in California take weeks.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-03-04--Michelle Malkin: What Part of 'NO AMNESTY' Doesn't DC Understand?

The rumblings from the Beltway are ominous , my fellow Americans .
As the U.S Supreme Court prepares to rule on President Donald Trump 's termination of the Obama administration amnesty and work permits for 800,000 young illegal immigrants sometime between now and June 2020 , all the usual open-borders special interests are lobbying for a `` DACA deal '' in Congress .
I am hearing that Big Business and Big Tech are pressuring the White House to attach a mass illegal immigrant pardon to Jared Kushner 's so-called immigration reform plan , which would tinker here and there with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even increase ) the yearly allotment of 1 million annual green cards to satisfy the Chamber of Commerce and Mick Mulvaney 's insatiable appetite for more cheap foreign workers .
Let me make this crystal clear : An amnesty for DREAMERs is a total nonstarter .
This is not just a deal killer .
It 's a reelection killer .
Whoever is whispering in Trump 's ear needs to be shoved aside , tied to an anvil and dumped in the Potomac .
The libertarian Koch-funded LIBRE Initiative , Americans for Prosperity and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forefront of pushing the DACA deal .
Supposedly , conservative members of Congress are also cooking up ways to allow Obama 's DACA recipients to stay , including GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley , whose Secure and Succeed Act promises a `` pathway to citizenship '' for those 800,000 immigrants here illegally .
It 's backed by 39 other Republicans .
Enough is enough .
I will repeat what I 've repeated over the past two decades of amnesty betrayals of the American people : Since the Reagan administration , there have been seven @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1986 : • The 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act blanket amnesty for an estimated 2.7 million illegal immigrants .
• 1997 : The Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act for nearly one million illegal immigrants from Central America .
• 1998 : The Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act amnesty for 125,000 illegal immigrants from Haiti .
• 2000 : Extension of amnesty for some 400,000 illegal immigrants who claimed eligibility under the 1986 act .
• 2000 : The Legal Immigration Family Equity Act , which included a restoration of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for 900,000 illegal immigrants .
And , of course , most recently , the Trump administration buried an amnesty for thousands of Liberian illegal immigrants in the latest 2020 National Defense Authorization Act—championed by Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar .
Not one of those amnesties was associated with a decline in illegal immigration .
On the contrary , the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. has tripled since President Reagan signed the first amnesty in 1986 .
The total effect of the amnesties was even larger because relatives later joined amnesty recipients , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unknown number of children born to amnesty recipients who then acquired automatic U.S. citizenship .
All of these amnesties , on top of uncontrolled mass migration of legal immigrant , are n't just turning California and Virginia and Texas blue .
They are turning all of America blue .
Every American should be seeing red about it and raising their voice against the coming , unforgivable betrayal of the MAGA doctrine .
This is n't making American great again .
It 's making America disappear .
What part of `` NO AMNESTY '' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ Email her ] is the author of Invasion : How America Still Welcomes Terrorists , Criminals , and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores .
Click here for Peter Brimelow ’ s review .
Click here for Michelle Malkin 's website .
Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged : Exposing Liberals Gone Wild , Culture of Corruption : Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats , Crooks & Cronies , , Who Built That : Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs , and Sold Out : How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ & Brightest Workers .
Malkin is author of the book , `` Open Borders , Inc. : Who 's Funding America 's Destruction , '' available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover .
To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists , visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com .

The rumblings from the Beltway are ominous, my fellow Americans. As the U.S Supreme Court prepares to rule on President Donald Trump's termination of the Obama administration amnesty and work permits for 800,000 young illegal immigrants sometime between now and June 2020, all the usual open-borders special interests are lobbying for a "DACA deal" in Congress.
I am hearing that Big Business and Big Tech are pressuring the White House to attach a mass illegal immigrant pardon to Jared Kushner's so-called immigration reform plan, which would tinker here and there with tighter enforcement but ultimately maintain (or even increase) the yearly allotment of 1 million annual green cards to satisfy the Chamber of Commerce and Mick Mulvaney's insatiable appetite for more cheap foreign workers.
Let me make this crystal clear: An amnesty for DREAMERs is a total nonstarter. This is not just a deal killer. It's a reelection killer. Whoever is whispering in Trump's ear needs to be shoved aside, tied to an anvil and dumped in the Potomac.
The libertarian Koch-funded LIBRE Initiative, Americans for Prosperity and Apple CEO Tim Cook are at the forefront of pushing the DACA deal. Supposedly, conservative members of Congress are also cooking up ways to allow Obama's DACA recipients to stay, including GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, whose Secure and Succeed Act promises a "pathway to citizenship" for those 800,000 immigrants here illegally. It's backed by 39 other Republicans.
Enough is enough. I will repeat what I've repeated over the past two decades of amnesty betrayals of the American people:
Amnesty begets more amnesty.
Since the Reagan administration, there have been seven illegal immigrant amnesties passed into law since 1986:
And, of course, most recently, the Trump administration buried an amnesty for thousands of Liberian illegal immigrants in the latest 2020 National Defense Authorization Act—championed by Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Not one of those amnesties was associated with a decline in illegal immigration. On the contrary, the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. has tripled since President Reagan signed the first amnesty in 1986. The total effect of the amnesties was even larger because relatives later joined amnesty recipients, and this number was multiplied by an unknown number of children born to amnesty recipients who then acquired automatic U.S. citizenship.
All of these amnesties, on top of uncontrolled mass migration of legal immigrant, aren't just turning California and Virginia and Texas blue. They are turning all of America blue. Every American should be seeing red about it and raising their voice against the coming, unforgivable betrayal of the MAGA doctrine. This isn't making American great again. It's making America disappear.
What part of "NO AMNESTY" doesn't D.C. understand?
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Michelle Malkin [Email her] is the author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website. Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies, ,Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs, and Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers.
Malkin is author of the book, "Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction," available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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vdare--2020-03-04--Is Trump Ready To Endorse Tuberville Against Sessions?

Immigration patriot Jeff Sessions is set for a runoff in Alabama ’ s Republican Senate primary .
The former senator and attorney general finished in a disappointing second in the race last night , following close behind former college football coach Tommy Tuberville .
With 97 % of the vote in , Tuberville leads 32.2 percent to Sessions ’ s 31.1 percent .
U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne finished at third with just under 27 percent .
Former GOP senate nominee Roy Moore didn ’ t even crack 10 percent .
The results are alarming .
The first polls in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the race and was within striking distance of the 50 percent threshold needed to win outright .
On primary day , that lead slipped to second place .
But the worst news is that President Trump looks ready to endorse Tuberville .
Trump reiterated his contempt for Sessions in a Wednesday morning tweet : Trump has not forgotten Sessions ’ s recusal from the Russia investigation .
Even though the former senator was one of the first lawmakers to endorse Trump in 2016 , nothing can make the president forgive this offense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the president attacking Sessions during the Senate primary .
This was always the greatest threat to Sessions ’ s campaign .
Trump ’ s influence over GOP voters is tremendous and his criticism can sink any candidate .
The tweet indicates Trump may endorse Tuberville just to spite Sessions .
Tuberville hired immigration boosters to advise his campaign and can not be trusted on immigration .
He led the effort to ban the Confederate flag from the University of Missippi ’ s football stadium when he coached there .
He is no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America First agenda .
Tuesday ’ s results prove that Sessions needs Trump to at least stay out of the race , if not an endorsement .
Trump ’ s tweet shows the president has no interest in endorsing his former attorney general .
Sessions can still win if Trump doesn ’ t endorse anyone , but he will surely lose if Tuberville receives the coveted endorsement .

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

Immigration patriot Jeff Sessions is set for a runoff in Alabama’s Republican Senate primary. The former senator and attorney general finished in a disappointing second in the race last night, following close behind former college football coach Tommy Tuberville. With 97% of the vote in, Tuberville leads 32.2 percent to Sessions’s 31.1 percent. U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne finished at third with just under 27 percent. Former GOP senate nominee Roy Moore didn’t even crack 10 percent.
The results are alarming. The first polls in the race showed Sessions with a commanding lead in the race and was within striking distance of the 50 percent threshold needed to win outright. On primary day, that lead slipped to second place.
But the worst news is that President Trump looks ready to endorse Tuberville. Trump reiterated his contempt for Sessions in a Wednesday morning tweet:
This is what happens to someone who loyally gets appointed Attorney General of the United States & then doesn’t have the wisdom or courage to stare down & end the phony Russia Witch Hunt. Recuses himself on FIRST DAY in office, and the Mueller Scam begins! https://t.co/2jGnRgOS6h — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2020
Trump has not forgotten Sessions’s recusal from the Russia investigation. Even though the former senator was one of the first lawmakers to endorse Trump in 2016, nothing can make the president forgive this offense. The tweet is the first case of the president attacking Sessions during the Senate primary. This was always the greatest threat to Sessions’s campaign. Trump’s influence over GOP voters is tremendous and his criticism can sink any candidate.
The tweet indicates Trump may endorse Tuberville just to spite Sessions. Tuberville hired immigration boosters to advise his campaign and cannot be trusted on immigration. He led the effort to ban the Confederate flag from the University of Missippi’s football stadium when he coached there. He is no patriot and he does not represent the America First agenda.
Sessions does.
Tuesday’s results prove that Sessions needs Trump to at least stay out of the race, if not an endorsement. Trump’s tweet shows the president has no interest in endorsing his former attorney general. Sessions can still win if Trump doesn’t endorse anyone, but he will surely lose if Tuberville receives the coveted endorsement.


vdare--2020-03-03--Derb's February Diary: Adam Rutherford's "Racist Myths,"  Basil's Namesakes, Fury vs. Wilder, Etc. (

Derb's February Diary: Adam Rutherford's "Racist Myths,"  Basil's Namesakes, Fury vs. Wilder, Etc. (12 ITEMS)

Our dumb ruling class .
In discussions of our ongoing Cold Civil War between the goodwhite Tutsi ruling class and us badwhite Hutu deplorables , it 's often observed that we understand them much better that they understand us .
Of course we do : We perforce live in their mental world , while they only cast occasional disapproving glances at ours .
This came to mind when I was reading about Tutsi propagandist Adam Rutherford , who has a new book out this month .
The book 's title is How to Argue With a Racist .
Rutherford , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to know that there is No Such Thing As Race ( NOSTAR ) .
It 's all a fig newton of your imagination !
I read Steve Sailer 's February 19th review of Rutherford 's book over at Taki 's Magazine .
That did n't stir my interest sufficiently to make me want to read the book itself , but I did do some idle browsing around in related topics .
Among the websites my eye fell on was one belonging to BBC Radio , promoting some talks Rutherford is giving about his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Racist Myths Well And Truly Debunked '' by Dr. Rutherford .
OK , what are these racist myths that we benighted Hutus lug around in our tiny blood-starved brains , that Dr. Rutherford has `` well and truly debunked '' ?
Say what ?
`` Completely different '' like the DNA of an elephant and a slime mold ?
Is there a literate human being anywhere who believes that ?
That 's a big thing with the NOSTAR crowd .
We Hutus are obsessed with the notion of racial purity , they believe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ possibility that there are people thus obsessed .
Human beings nurse all kinds of odd obsessions .
I will testify , though , that after twenty years of hanging out with fellow race-realist Hutus—reading their blogs , joining their online discussion groups , reviewing their books , attending their conferences , sometimes addressing those conferences , I ca n't recall a single conversation or talk about racial purity .
To the best of my awareness , it 's not a thing on the Dissident Right .
So being invaded—having foreign people enter your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ displacing those currently resident , frequently killing off their menfolk and taking their women—this is natural , inevitable , and not to be resisted ?
The hell you say .
Which black people ?
Surely not the 300-lb Momma who snarled at me across the DMV counter the other week .
We race realists prefer to express statistical truths in properly statistical language , not in airy generalizations .
We have several decades-worth of statistics on this topic now , from the Olympics and other athletic competitions .
Do the numbers support my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ covers this in his review , and elsewhere . )
For a tribe that occupies all the commanding heights of our culture and civilization , goodwhite Tutsis often seem kind of dumb .
Martial arts .
How many adult Americans can name the world heavyweight boxing champion , I wonder ?
I read somewhere that in the years before World War Two the most popular spectator sports in America were boxing and horse-racing .
Neither sport has much purchase on the public imagination nowadays .
They exist , of course , and have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ newsworthy .
The February 22nd heavyweight championship fight between Briton ( yes ! )
Tyson Fury and American Deontay Wilder got basically no coverage in my print edition of the New York Post .
I had to go to the online version to read about it .
It seems to have been a nice little earner for the pay-per-view companies ( whose customers apparently include our President ) , but back in the day it would have been the sporting event of the year .
Eh , times change , I guess .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ I 'm not really much of a sports fan , anyway .
Sure , throwing a ball through a hoop from twenty yards away is kind of impressive , and so is whacking a hockey puck past a guy on ice skates .
For sporting spectacle , though , watching two very large guys punch each other in the head until one of them falls down , is hard to beat .
In my opinion .
Gulled at the opera .
I 'm an opera fan .
I ca n't afford a Met @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can , and they get tickets for dress rehearsals .
These dress rehearsals take place in the midday hours when most people have to work ; so my friends often ca n't use their tickets , and generously gift them to me .
I 'm glad to get them .
A dress rehearsal is very little different from the real thing .
If the conductor finds some fault , he 'll stop the show and make them do it over .
This does n't happen much , though .
Also , singers—especially older @ @ @ @ @ @ @ n't sing full voice at a dress rehearsal , saving their best for the full performance .
On the whole , though , a dress rehearsal is nearly as good as an actual performance .
And hey , the price is right .
So it was that around ten o'clock on the morning of February 3rd I was striding across the Lincoln Center plaza bearing two tickets for the dress rehearsal of Handel 's Agrippina , superstar soprano Joyce DiDonato in the title role .
These tickets always come in twos , for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to me thus .
I 'd invited a friend to join me , but at the last minute he could n't make it .
Halfway across the plaza I was approached by a very sweet-looking old lady—tiny , wrinkled , silver hair , heavy Slavic accent—who begged to know if I perchance had a spare ticket for the dress rehearsal .
I said I did , and was so charmed by her and by her touching desire to worship at the altar of Handel , I just gave her my spare ticket .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ on my way glowing with charitable righteousness .
Taking my seat , I of course expected to see the object of my charity take the seat next to me .
No : It was taken by a much larger , much younger lady .
I suppose—I did n't ask—granny had sold my ticket forward for a profit .
Telling the story to my wife and son over dinner that evening , I got a mocking blast from Mrs. Derbyshire , who has the Third Worlder 's scorn for rich-world gulls .
My son @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that my sweet little old lady was probably part of a gang run out of Moscow .
Things I want to know .
Since the Chinese word for `` saliva '' is 口水 kou-shui , literally `` mouth-water , '' why is n't the Chinese word for `` snot '' 鼻水 bi-shui , literally `` nose-water '' ?
Instead it is 鼻涕 bi-ti , `` nose-tears . ''
Finding the Mindy .
It 's a complex world we live in : So complex , it has generated a whole category of situations that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heading : `` Find the Mindy . ''
Mindy ( which is not her real name : which does not in fact have a single letter in common with her real name ) is a middle-aged lady who works at my local chain-store pharmacy .
She knows all the innumerable loops , tangles , and anfractuosities of retail pharmaceutics .
Mrs. Derbyshire was going into the village to do some shopping .
I asked her to pick up a prescription I 'd phoned in .
I gave her a magic card that Mindy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ identifying me as a member of something called the Janssen CarePath Savings Program .
`` Just show them this , '' I told the Mrs. `` Then it 'll only be a ten-dollar co-pay . ''
She came home with no medications .
`` They wanted fifty dollars co-pay , '' she said .
Me : `` Did you show them the card ? ''
She : `` Of course .
They insisted it was fifty dollars . ''
Me : `` Was Mindy there ? ''
I went down to the pharmacy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were two young women on duty , Mindy not to be seen .
`` We looked you up on the computer , '' one young woman told me .
`` It 's fifty dollars . ''
What about the card ?
`` It does n't apply .
We looked it up .
Fifty dollars ! ''
If it was ten dollars last month and ten dollars the month before , how come it 's suddenly fifty dollars ?
`` I do n't know .
That 's what the computer says . ''
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ got snippier .
Next day I drove down there mid-morning .
No Mindy .
I went down again mid-afternoon .
Still no Mindy .
At half past four I tried again—Mindy was on duty !
I explained the situation and showed Mindy the card .
She rolled her eyes and fiddled with her computers .
`` Yes , '' she said at last , `` ten dollars is right .
I 've added a note to your record so in future they 'll know . ''
Moral of the story : A great @ @ @ @ @ @ @ complex for middling-IQ drones working from a one-page script .
To get things done properly , you have to find the Mindy—the one person who knows how the system works .
I do n't engage much nowadays with other spheres of complexity , but my guess would be that Finding the Mindy is especially necessary in healthcare .
Basilolatry .
So how is the new puppy settling in ?
readers want to know .
Just fine , is the answer : happy , healthy , and affectionate .
He 's not totally house-trained @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for his occasional delinquencies , and when the warm weather comes so we can open the doggy door , we are sure he 'll practice proper discipline .
I 'm still surprised at how many people I meet who do n't know that Basil is a guy 's name .
It seems to be even more Brit-specific than `` Nigel . ''
When people do know , Basil Rathbone is the only one they can come up with .
I have been idly , unsystematically collecting other Basils to offer to people in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ feature of British children 's TV for many years .
I think he 's a squirrel .
• Basil Milbank in P.G .
Wodehouse 's 1920 novel The Coming of Bill .
`` It was not so long ago , she reflected with pride , that she had induced Ruth to refuse to marry Basil Milbank—a considerable feat , he being a young man of remarkable personal attractions and a great match in every way .
Mrs. Porter 's objection to him was that his father had died believing to the last that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is nothing evil or degrading in believing oneself a teapot , but it argues a certain inaccuracy of the thought processes ; and Mrs. Porter had used all her influence with Ruth to make her reject Basil . ''
• The first-person protagonist of Wilkie Collins ' novel Basil .
We do n't know his surname .
`` Circumstances which will appear hereafter , have forced me to abandon my father 's name .
I have been obliged in honour to resign it ; and in honour I abstain from mentioning it here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pleased to have uncovered was a real one : Mick Jagger 's dad .
The 10,000-th Spectator .
Highbrow print journalism is not dead yet .
The London Spectator is still with us , and coming up to its ten-thousandth issue .
That 's a heck of a run for a magazine .
David Butterfield has written a commemorative book : 10,000 Not Out : The History of The Spectator 1828-2020 .
The book does n't appear until April 23rd , which I think is the date of the magazine 's ten-thousandth issue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Amazon .
When , sixty years ago , I started paying attention to such things , the Spectator was in serious disfavor among the cool crowd of postulant intellectuals .
It was , we were told—I never deigned to check—a periodical for elderly Anglican clergymen in remote village parsonages .
As a young lefty , I read the New Statesman instead .
By my thirties , more mature and of course more conservative , I found the Spectator now suited my taste , and I kept up a subscription for many years .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ recorded my marriage in the pages of the Spectator .
However , the last piece they commissioned from me was rejected by Boris Johnson , then the editor , in 2005 .
I dropped my subscription soon afterwards .
No hard feelings , guys .
Congratulations to the Speccie on its upcoming ten-thousandth !
Onwards and upwards to issue number one million , round about September of a.d. 20993 .
Remembering Bertrand Russell .
I mentioned teapots back there somewhere .
The most famous teapot in philosophy belonged to Bertrand Russell .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leave you to make up your own mind about Russell 's teapot .
I would , though , like to note—if only because no one else seems to have noted it—that February 2nd was the 50th anniversary of Russell 's death , from influenza , at age 97 .
That was shortly after the publication of his autobiography , in three volumes , 1967-69 .
I was then in my early twenties , still a lefty , an avid reader , and primed by having had to engage with Whitehead and Russell 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course at university .
I loved the autobiography , and still quote it—I quoted the incident with Gladstone to a friend just the other day .
Now , looking back , I can see that Russell was sometimes silly , sometimes vain , and sometimes wrong .
I have never been able to dislike the guy , though .
After that university course , some of my classmates cooked up a vague plan to go and visit Russell at his home in Penrhyndeudraeth .
He was known to be hospitable to young admirers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scheme fell through for some reason .
I have always regretted it .
Bernie Sanders explained .
Also fifty years ago this month , I bought my first house , in London .
To be precise , I and my then-girlfriend co-bought it .
It was a three-bedroom row-house in a quiet street , with a garden out back .
We easily got a mortgage .
We were two working-class kids not long out of college .
( We 'd both graduated in 1967 . )
Our two families had a combined net @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bought a house—in London !
The asking price was three times my annual salary as a young cube jockey .
An equivalent property today will set you back about £450,000 .
That 's three times £150,000 .
Do young data professionals two years out of college make £150,000 a year in London today ?
In their dreams !
Corresponding figures apply in America .
Right there you have an explanation for the radicalism of young adults and the `` OK , Boomer '' sourness .
Things I have n't done .
Yes , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forty years as a freelance writer , if I have anything to say that anyone wants to hear , I expect to get paid for it .
But like the rest of youse , I ca n't resist browsing the fool thing in idle moments .
For once I 'm glad I did .
This was bouncing around—or `` twouncing , '' whatever the verb is .
I scored just two ( 6 , 14 ) .
Judging by other people 's responses , assuming they are responding honestly , that puts me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Occasionally I get depressed thinking what a humdrum affair my life has been .
I 've never swum the Hellespont , dated a movie star , rescued a child from a burning building , commanded men in battle , written a good poem , won a thousand dollars at poker , taken tea with Bertrand Russell , or had a mathematical theorem named after me .
But hey , just two !
Looks like I 've lived a little after all .
Fiction of the month .
Novelist Charles Portis died February 17th @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heard of the guy , but an acquaintance of mine turns out to be a huge Portis fan .
He enthused at length about Portis 's writerly prowess .
Always ready to try good fiction , I bought a copy of Portis 's best-known novel , True Grit ( 1968 ) .
Yes , it 's good .
From the afterword by Donna Tartt in my Overlook Press edition : Now I have to see the John Wayne movie , which somehow I never did .
Math Corner .
Returning , by steps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ segment , I note for the umpteenth time how wearying it is to engage in Adam Rutherford-type discussions about race differences with people who are statistically illiterate .
( Rutherford probably is n't , but to judge from Steve 's review he might as well be . )
An astonishing number of people do n't understand words like `` average '' or `` outlier , '' or even ( I 'm sometimes driven to thinking ) the difference in meaning between the words `` some , '' `` many , '' and `` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as PostTenureTourettes voiced similar frustrations a couple of years ago in a post headed Latent Variable Fallacy .
PTT offers the following brainteaser .
The answer to the easy part is actually in the post I just linked to .
And now , to close the Rutherford circle , here are the top scorers in the 2019 Putnam Mathematical Competition for undergraduates in the U.S.A. and Canada , held December 7th .
Top five scorers , surname only , alphabetic order : All together now , repeat after me : THERE IS NO @ @ @ @ @

Our dumb ruling class. In discussions of our ongoing Cold Civil War between the goodwhite Tutsi ruling class and us badwhite Hutu deplorables, it's often observed that we understand them much better that they understand us. Of course we do: We perforce live in their mental world, while they only cast occasional disapproving glances at ours.
This came to mind when I was reading about Tutsi propagandist Adam Rutherford, who has a new book out this month. The book's title is How to Argue With a Racist. Rutherford, a geneticist, is keen for us to know that there is No Such Thing As Race (NOSTAR). It's all a fig newton of your imagination!
I read Steve Sailer's February 19th review of Rutherford's book over at Taki's Magazine. That didn't stir my interest sufficiently to make me want to read the book itself, but I did do some idle browsing around in related topics. Among the websites my eye fell on was one belonging to BBC Radio, promoting some talks Rutherford is giving about his book. The website lists "Five Racist Myths Well And Truly Debunked" by Dr. Rutherford.
OK, what are these racist myths that we benighted Hutus lug around in our tiny blood-starved brains, that Dr. Rutherford has "well and truly debunked"?
1. The DNA of white and black people is completely different.
Say what? "Completely different" like the DNA of an elephant and a slime mold? Is there a literate human being anywhere who believes that?
2. There is such a thing as "racial purity."
That's a big thing with the NOSTAR crowd. We Hutus are obsessed with the notion of racial purity, they believe.
I wouldn't rule out the possibility that there are people thus obsessed. Human beings nurse all kinds of odd obsessions. I will testify, though, that after twenty years of hanging out with fellow race-realist Hutus—reading their blogs, joining their online discussion groups, reviewing their books, attending their conferences, sometimes addressing those conferences, I can't recall a single conversation or talk about racial purity. To the best of my awareness, it's not a thing on the Dissident Right.
3. England is for the English.
"In truth, Britain has been steadily invaded throughout its history and has become home to migrants since it became an island around 7,500 years ago!"
So being invaded—having foreign people enter your nation in quantity and settle there, displacing those currently resident, frequently killing off their menfolk and taking their women—this is natural, inevitable, and not to be resisted? The hell you say.
4. A genealogy test can prove someone is 100 percent white.
See number 2 above.
5. Black people are better at running than white people.
Which black people? Surely not the 300-lb Momma who snarled at me across the DMV counter the other week. We race realists prefer to express statistical truths in properly statistical language, not in airy generalizations.
Derb's restatement of Rutherford's racist myth number 5.
At the furthest right tails of the running-ability distributions—both for sprinting and for distance running—runners of sub-Saharan black ancestry are strongly over-represented.
We have several decades-worth of statistics on this topic now, from the Olympics and other athletic competitions. Do the numbers support my restatement, or not? (Steve covers this in his review, and elsewhere.)
For a tribe that occupies all the commanding heights of our culture and civilization, goodwhite Tutsis often seem kind of dumb.
(Also illiterate. From that same BBC Radio website: "Two people from different tribes in Southern Africa will be more genetically different from each other than a Britain, a Sri Lankan and a Maori." Uh, there are three people in that last clause, not two; and "Britain" should be "Briton." Are there really people writing copy for the British Broadcasting Corporation who have never sung "Rule Britannia"? Of course there are!)
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Martial arts. How many adult Americans can name the world heavyweight boxing champion, I wonder?
I read somewhere that in the years before World War Two the most popular spectator sports in America were boxing and horse-racing. Neither sport has much purchase on the public imagination nowadays. They exist, of course, and have their devotees, but they're rarely newsworthy.
The February 22nd heavyweight championship fight between Briton (yes!) Tyson Fury and American Deontay Wilder got basically no coverage in my print edition of the New York Post. I had to go to the online version to read about it. It seems to have been a nice little earner for the pay-per-view companies (whose customers apparently include our President), but back in the day it would have been the sporting event of the year.
Eh, times change, I guess. My sentimental fondness for boxing aside, I'm not really much of a sports fan, anyway. Sure, throwing a ball through a hoop from twenty yards away is kind of impressive, and so is whacking a hockey puck past a guy on ice skates. For sporting spectacle, though, watching two very large guys punch each other in the head until one of them falls down, is hard to beat. In my opinion.
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Gulled at the opera. I'm an opera fan. I can't afford a Met membership, but I have friends who can, and they get tickets for dress rehearsals. These dress rehearsals take place in the midday hours when most people have to work; so my friends often can't use their tickets, and generously gift them to me.
I'm glad to get them. A dress rehearsal is very little different from the real thing. If the conductor finds some fault, he'll stop the show and make them do it over. This doesn't happen much, though. Also, singers—especially older ones, who have learned caution—often don't sing full voice at a dress rehearsal, saving their best for the full performance. On the whole, though, a dress rehearsal is nearly as good as an actual performance. And hey, the price is right.
So it was that around ten o'clock on the morning of February 3rd I was striding across the Lincoln Center plaza bearing two tickets for the dress rehearsal of Handel's Agrippina, superstar soprano Joyce DiDonato in the title role. These tickets always come in twos, for adjacent seats, and had been gifted to me thus. I'd invited a friend to join me, but at the last minute he couldn't make it.
Halfway across the plaza I was approached by a very sweet-looking old lady—tiny, wrinkled, silver hair, heavy Slavic accent—who begged to know if I perchance had a spare ticket for the dress rehearsal. I said I did, and was so charmed by her and by her touching desire to worship at the altar of Handel, I just gave her my spare ticket. She was effusively grateful. I continued on my way glowing with charitable righteousness.
Taking my seat, I of course expected to see the object of my charity take the seat next to me. No: It was taken by a much larger, much younger lady. I suppose—I didn't ask—granny had sold my ticket forward for a profit.
Telling the story to my wife and son over dinner that evening, I got a mocking blast from Mrs. Derbyshire, who has the Third Worlder's scorn for rich-world gulls. My son, who is a cynic, said that my sweet little old lady was probably part of a gang run out of Moscow.
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Things I want to know. Since the Chinese word for "saliva" is 口水 kou-shui, literally "mouth-water," why isn't the Chinese word for "snot" 鼻水 bi-shui, literally "nose-water"? Instead it is 鼻涕 bi-ti, "nose-tears."
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Finding the Mindy. It's a complex world we live in: So complex, it has generated a whole category of situations that I think of to myself under the heading: "Find the Mindy."
Mindy (which is not her real name: which does not in fact have a single letter in common with her real name) is a middle-aged lady who works at my local chain-store pharmacy. She knows all the innumerable loops, tangles, and anfractuosities of retail pharmaceutics.
Mrs. Derbyshire was going into the village to do some shopping. I asked her to pick up a prescription I'd phoned in. I gave her a magic card that Mindy had told me about, a card identifying me as a member of something called the Janssen CarePath Savings Program. "Just show them this," I told the Mrs. "Then it'll only be a ten-dollar co-pay."
She came home with no medications. "They wanted fifty dollars co-pay," she said.
Me: "Did you show them the card?"
She: "Of course. They insisted it was fifty dollars."
Me: "Was Mindy there?"
She: "No."
I went down to the pharmacy to argue with them anyway. There were two young women on duty, Mindy not to be seen. "We looked you up on the computer," one young woman told me. "It's fifty dollars." What about the card? "It doesn't apply. We looked it up. Fifty dollars!" If it was ten dollars last month and ten dollars the month before, how come it's suddenly fifty dollars? "I don't know. That's what the computer says." I tried to remonstrate, but they just got snippier.
Next day I drove down there mid-morning. No Mindy. I went down again mid-afternoon. Still no Mindy. At half past four I tried again—Mindy was on duty!
I explained the situation and showed Mindy the card. She rolled her eyes and fiddled with her computers. "Yes," she said at last, "ten dollars is right. I've added a note to your record so in future they'll know."
Moral of the story: A great many situations in our world are too complex for middling-IQ drones working from a one-page script. To get things done properly, you have to find the Mindy—the one person who knows how the system works.
I don't engage much nowadays with other spheres of complexity, but my guess would be that Finding the Mindy is especially necessary in healthcare.
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Basilolatry. So how is the new puppy settling in? readers want to know.
Just fine, is the answer: happy, healthy, and affectionate. He's not totally house-trained yet, but he shows proper remorse for his occasional delinquencies, and when the warm weather comes so we can open the doggy door, we are sure he'll practice proper discipline.
I'm still surprised at how many people I meet who don't know that Basil is a guy's name. It seems to be even more Brit-specific than "Nigel." When people do know, Basil Rathbone is the only one they can come up with.
I have been idly, unsystematically collecting other Basils to offer to people in evidence.
Fictional Basils:
Basil Fawlty, of course.
Basil Brush, a feature of British children's TV for many years. I think he's a squirrel.
Basil Milbank in P.G. Wodehouse's 1920 novel The Coming of Bill.
"It was not so long ago, she reflected with pride, that she had induced Ruth to refuse to marry Basil Milbank—a considerable feat, he being a young man of remarkable personal attractions and a great match in every way. Mrs. Porter's objection to him was that his father had died believing to the last that he was a teapot.
"There is nothing evil or degrading in believing oneself a teapot, but it argues a certain inaccuracy of the thought processes; and Mrs. Porter had used all her influence with Ruth to make her reject Basil."
Basil Milbank in P.G. Wodehouse's 1920 novel The Coming of Bill. "It was not so long ago, she reflected with pride, that she had induced Ruth to refuse to marry Basil Milbank—a considerable feat, he being a young man of remarkable personal attractions and a great match in every way. Mrs. Porter's objection to him was that his father had died believing to the last that he was a teapot. "There is nothing evil or degrading in believing oneself a teapot, but it argues a certain inaccuracy of the thought processes; and Mrs. Porter had used all her influence with Ruth to make her reject Basil." The first-person protagonist of Wilkie Collins' novel Basil. We don't know his surname.
"Circumstances which will appear hereafter, have forced me to abandon my father's name. I have been obliged in honour to resign it; and in honour I abstain from mentioning it here …"
Real Basils:
The Basil I am most pleased to have uncovered was a real one: Mick Jagger's dad.
(The European name Basil derives from Greek βασιλειος, "royal." A friend who knows Arabic, however, tells me that basil means "lion" in that language, and is used as a male forename. The best-known recent example was Basil (spelled "Bassel" on Wikipedia) al-Assad, elder son of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria 1971-2000. Basil died in a car crash, 1994. His brother Bashar got the dictator job, and still has it.)
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The 10,000-th Spectator. Highbrow print journalism is not dead yet. The London Spectator is still with us, and coming up to its ten-thousandth issue. That's a heck of a run for a magazine.
David Butterfield has written a commemorative book: 10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator 1828-2020. The book doesn't appear until April 23rd, which I think is the date of the magazine's ten-thousandth issue, but you can pre-order it from Amazon.
When, sixty years ago, I started paying attention to such things, the Spectator was in serious disfavor among the cool crowd of postulant intellectuals. It was, we were told—I never deigned to check—a periodical for elderly Anglican clergymen in remote village parsonages. As a young lefty, I read the New Statesman instead.
By my thirties, more mature and of course more conservative, I found the Spectator now suited my taste, and I kept up a subscription for many years. I became an occasional contributor: I recorded my marriage in the pages of the Spectator. However, the last piece they commissioned from me was rejected by Boris Johnson, then the editor, in 2005. I dropped my subscription soon afterwards.
No hard feelings, guys. Congratulations to the Speccie on its upcoming ten-thousandth! Onwards and upwards to issue number one million, round about September of a.d. 20993.
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Remembering Bertrand Russell. I mentioned teapots back there somewhere. The most famous teapot in philosophy belonged to Bertrand Russell.
If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense.
I have no head for academic philosophy and leave you to make up your own mind about Russell's teapot. I would, though, like to note—if only because no one else seems to have noted it—that February 2nd was the 50th anniversary of Russell's death, from influenza, at age 97.
That was shortly after the publication of his autobiography, in three volumes, 1967-69. I was then in my early twenties, still a lefty, an avid reader, and primed by having had to engage with Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica in my Foundations of Mathematics course at university. I loved the autobiography, and still quote it—I quoted the incident with Gladstone to a friend just the other day.
Now, looking back, I can see that Russell was sometimes silly, sometimes vain, and sometimes wrong. I have never been able to dislike the guy, though. After that university course, some of my classmates cooked up a vague plan to go and visit Russell at his home in Penrhyndeudraeth. He was known to be hospitable to young admirers, if given fair notice. The scheme fell through for some reason. I have always regretted it.
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Bernie Sanders explained. Also fifty years ago this month, I bought my first house, in London. To be precise, I and my then-girlfriend co-bought it. It was a three-bedroom row-house in a quiet street, with a garden out back. We easily got a mortgage.
We were two working-class kids not long out of college. (We'd both graduated in 1967.) Our two families had a combined net worth of … zero. And we bought a house—in London! The asking price was three times my annual salary as a young cube jockey.
An equivalent property today will set you back about £450,000. That's three times £150,000. Do young data professionals two years out of college make £150,000 a year in London today? In their dreams!
Corresponding figures apply in America. Right there you have an explanation for the radicalism of young adults and the "OK, Boomer" sourness.
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Things I haven't done. Yes, I hate Twitter, too. After forty years as a freelance writer, if I have anything to say that anyone wants to hear, I expect to get paid for it.
But like the rest of youse, I can't resist browsing the fool thing in idle moments. For once I'm glad I did.
This was bouncing around—or "twouncing," whatever the verb is.
NEVER HAVE I EVER
Give yourself one point for each thing you haven't done
1. Skipped school.
2. Broken a bone.
3. Fired a gun.
4. Done drugs.
5. Been in a limo.
6. Gotten a tattoo.
7. Ridden a horse.
8. Sung karaoke.
9. Gotten a ticket.
10. Been arrested.
11. Gone ziplining.
12. Been on TV.
13. Been on a cruise.
14. Gotten a piercing.
15. Smoked.
16. Met a celeb.
17. Been skydiving.
18. Had a 1-night stand.
19. Skinny-dipped.
20. Been drunk.
I scored just two (6, 14). Judging by other people's responses, assuming they are responding honestly, that puts me way down at some low percentile.
Occasionally I get depressed thinking what a humdrum affair my life has been. I've never swum the Hellespont, dated a movie star, rescued a child from a burning building, commanded men in battle, written a good poem, won a thousand dollars at poker, taken tea with Bertrand Russell, or had a mathematical theorem named after me.
But hey, just two! Looks like I've lived a little after all.
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Fiction of the month. Novelist Charles Portis died February 17th at age 86. I'd never heard of the guy, but an acquaintance of mine turns out to be a huge Portis fan. He enthused at length about Portis's writerly prowess.
Always ready to try good fiction, I bought a copy of Portis's best-known novel, True Grit (1968). Yes, it's good. From the afterword by Donna Tartt in my Overlook Press edition:
Portis is such a genius of a literary mimic that the book reads less like a novel than a first-hand account: the Wild West of the 1870s, as recollected in a spinster's memory and filtered through the sedate sepia tones of the early 1900s. [The first-person protagonist's] narrative tone is naïve, didactic, hard-headed, and completely lacking in self-consciousness—and, at times, unintentionally hilarious …
Now I have to see the John Wayne movie, which somehow I never did.
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Math Corner. Returning, by steps, to the theme of my opening segment, I note for the umpteenth time how wearying it is to engage in Adam Rutherford-type discussions about race differences with people who are statistically illiterate. (Rutherford probably isn't, but to judge from Steve's review he might as well be.) An astonishing number of people don't understand words like "average" or "outlier," or even (I'm sometimes driven to thinking) the difference in meaning between the words "some," "many," and "all."
My pal who blogs as PostTenureTourettes voiced similar frustrations a couple of years ago in a post headed Latent Variable Fallacy.
The latent variable fallacy ignores possible hidden variables controlling (apparently) causally unrelated surface features. Fringe claims of melanin directly causing criminality notwithstanding, the HBD argument for racial disparities on behavioral traits holds up perfectly well without direct causation. All you need is a latent variable (genes) controlling both melanin and aggression levels.
PTT offers the following brainteaser. The answer to the easy part is actually in the post I just linked to.
Arnold and Barney are two doctors who have never met or communicated in any way. Miraculously, they manage to agree on 99 percent of all of their patient diagnoses! [For the purpose of this puzzle, each patient is two-sided coin that lands on HEALTHY or SICK with some probability—not necessarily with fair odds, or even the same odds for each patient. The patients are statistically independent, and each patient gets diagnosed once by each doctor.]
1. (easy) How do they manage such a high rate of agreement without any communication?
2. (trickier) Given the information above, what quantitative conclusion can you draw about Arnold and Barney's diagnostic abilities?
And now, to close the Rutherford circle, here are the top scorers in the 2019 Putnam Mathematical Competition for undergraduates in the U.S.A. and Canada, held December 7th. Top five scorers, surname only, alphabetic order:
Sah, Sun, Yao, Zhang, Zhu.
Next eleven:
Ardeishar, Bhattacharya, Gu, Lin, Liu, Peng, Ren, Schildkraut, Singhal, Yao, Zhao.
Next twelve:
Gao, Kim, Kim, Lin, Liu, Liu, Nichani, Ren, Rong, Tang, Wang, Zhang.
All together now, repeat after me: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS RACE!
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Disgruntled Minority Massacre, 2006: Joe Jackson, "Inventor," Killed Three In Patent Attorney's Office

A reader forwarded this , which did n't make national news that I can recall .
Angry , misspelled words and rambling sentences , scrawled by the hand of the man who last week killed three and tore a downtown law firm apart with gunfire , sketch a rough-edged portrait of a frustrated , fragile mind that would eventually break .
Joe Jackson , a would-be inventor with a plan for a tractor-trailer toilet , believed a patent attorney had stolen his idea .
`` I feel with no uncertainty that he sold or stole my project , '' Jackson @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
`` He has destroy my life after he sign a confidenitally a vow of secrecy that he would n't betray me . ''
On Friday , consumed by his obsession , Jackson gunned down patent attorney Michael McKenna and two others on the 38th floor of a West Loop high-rise before he was shot and killed by police .
The sad motive behind a seemingly inexplicable tragedy comes clear in Jackson 's words .
`` I need help because I am very upset , '' he wrote .
`` I paid my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Pleased help me .
He took this because of greed .
`` [ More ] Jackson , pictured above right , was apparently not very bright .
He shot McKenna , pictured right , and three other white people , two of them fatally , because he thought that the lawyer had stolen his idea , which was very basic , limited , and unoriginal .
Survivors won a lot of money from the firm that provided security for the building because they 'd seen Jackson looking suspicious and done nothing .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a supicious looking black man in Chicago , and both federal and local Civil Rights enforcers would also have sued the company for rousting him . )
His pastor , Rev .
C.L .
Sparks , had accompanied him to the lawyer 's office in the past .
[ Family saw anger build , by Andrew L. Wang and Matt O'Connor , Chicago Tribune , December 11 , 2006 . ]
The same pastor preached the funeral , in a way that seems to say Jackson was justified in his resentment .
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or to put it another way , a neighborhood paper in an all-black neighborhood ) Bishop Sparks began his eulogy singing `` God 's Unchanging Hands . ''
He said he appreciated Joe 's family giving honor to the other families whose loved ones were lost and in no way is he trying to justify what happened .
He told the family they did not know how Sunday after Sunday Jackson met the pastor at the altar and commented on how he could not find one lawyer to represent him in his claim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where did this come from , what caused this type of fear Joe claimed ?
`` Today is liberation day , '' Sparks said .
`` Today is the day we put everything in the Lord 's hand .
There are some [ questions ] we ca n't answer .
I went with Joe to the initial visit of the patent attorney .
They were trying to say he was a Looney-Tune until we produced those documents .
I 've already been in touch with the attorney general 's office , and Lisa @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get to the bottom of this matter . ''
Bishop Sparks said many will leave the services still wondering why .
`` Well , some stuff we just wo n't know until by and by .
I want this family to know this will not be solved until we get to the bottom of it , and you need not be ashamed .
We 're going to pursue every effort because there are living family members left behind who want to know . ''
Sparks ending , saying , `` We thank you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to let his memory continue to flow in our lives .
That we may remember him as a upstanding man , as a man who feared God , who walked in church every Sunday with his Bible .
God , we ask you to forgive him his sins , his shortcomings and his ways .
On Judgment Day , you know his heart and you know the situation .
We asked that you be the wind beneath his family wings , and let them know that earth has no sorrow that heaven can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mainstream print or electronic media were present for the services and the photo used by the media did not look much like the person lying in state .
Bishop Sparks cancelled the press conference he had scheduled for Dec. 18 and said he is awaiting legal counsel as this matter is further investigated .
Bishop Sparks remembers Joe Jackson | Man who killed three in law office is laid to rest , Austin Weekly , December 20th , 2006 .
And if you 're wondering why you 've never heard of this , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ n't fit the narrative , and ( b ) it happened in Chicago , which has for the entire 21st century ( and parts of the previous century ) had casualty levels comparable to a war zone .

A reader forwarded this, which didn't make national news that I can recall.
Letter reveals shooter's anger By Tonya Maxwell, Tribune staff reporter. CHICAGO TRIBUNE, December 12, 2006 Angry, misspelled words and rambling sentences, scrawled by the hand of the man who last week killed three and tore a downtown law firm apart with gunfire, sketch a rough-edged portrait of a frustrated, fragile mind that would eventually break. Joe Jackson, a would-be inventor with a plan for a tractor-trailer toilet, believed a patent attorney had stolen his idea. "I feel with no uncertainty that he sold or stole my project," Jackson wrote in a document dated February 2003. "He has destroy my life after he sign a confidenitally a vow of secrecy that he wouldn't betray me." On Friday, consumed by his obsession, Jackson gunned down patent attorney Michael McKenna and two others on the 38th floor of a West Loop high-rise before he was shot and killed by police. The sad motive behind a seemingly inexplicable tragedy comes clear in Jackson's words. "I need help because I am very upset," he wrote. "I paid my hard earn money to a unmoral man. Pleased help me. He took this because of greed."[More]
Jackson, pictured above right, was apparently not very bright. He shot McKenna, pictured right, and three other white people, two of them fatally, because he thought that the lawyer had stolen his idea, which was very basic, limited, and unoriginal.
Material provided by Rev. C.L. Sparks, Jackson's pastor at New Pleasant Valley International Cathedral, includes Jackson's handwritten letter documenting his interaction with McKenna as well as a rough sketch—nothing more than a doodle—of the portable truck-cab toilet.
Survivors won a lot of money from the firm that provided security for the building because they'd seen Jackson looking suspicious and done nothing. (A huge Catch-22: Jackson was a supicious looking black man in Chicago, and both federal and local Civil Rights enforcers would also have sued the company for rousting him.)
His pastor, Rev. C.L. Sparks, had accompanied him to the lawyer's office in the past. [Family saw anger build, by Andrew L. Wang and Matt O'Connor, Chicago Tribune, December 11, 2006.]
The same pastor preached the funeral, in a way that seems to say Jackson was justified in his resentment.
As reported in a local black paper (or to put it another way, a neighborhood paper in an all-black neighborhood)
Bishop Sparks began his eulogy singing "God's Unchanging Hands." He said he appreciated Joe's family giving honor to the other families whose loved ones were lost and in no way is he trying to justify what happened. He told the family they did not know how Sunday after Sunday Jackson met the pastor at the altar and commented on how he could not find one lawyer to represent him in his claim against the patent attorney. Sparks asked where did this come from, what caused this type of fear Joe claimed? "Today is liberation day," Sparks said. "Today is the day we put everything in the Lord's hand. There are some [questions] we can't answer. I went with Joe to the initial visit of the patent attorney. They were trying to say he was a Looney-Tune until we produced those documents. I've already been in touch with the attorney general's office, and Lisa Madigan called me herself and promised to get to the bottom of this matter." Bishop Sparks said many will leave the services still wondering why. "Well, some stuff we just won't know until by and by. I want this family to know this will not be solved until we get to the bottom of it, and you need not be ashamed. We're going to pursue every effort because there are living family members left behind who want to know." Sparks ending, saying, "We thank you, God, that you allow us to let his memory continue to flow in our lives. That we may remember him as a upstanding man, as a man who feared God, who walked in church every Sunday with his Bible. God, we ask you to forgive him his sins, his shortcomings and his ways. On Judgment Day, you know his heart and you know the situation. We asked that you be the wind beneath his family wings, and let them know that earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal." None of the mainstream print or electronic media were present for the services and the photo used by the media did not look much like the person lying in state. Bishop Sparks cancelled the press conference he had scheduled for Dec. 18 and said he is awaiting legal counsel as this matter is further investigated. Bishop Sparks remembers Joe Jackson | Man who killed three in law office is laid to rest, Austin Weekly, December 20th, 2006.
And if you're wondering why you've never heard of this, well, (a) it doesn't fit the narrative, and (b) it happened in Chicago, which has for the entire 21st century (and parts of the previous century) had casualty levels comparable to a war zone.


vdare--2020-03-03--An Australian Reader On The A (Asparagus), B (Broccoli) And C (Cheap Labor) Of Illegal Immigration

Earlier : An Australian Reader Says Australia , Guarded By Unwadeable Seas , Needs To Up Its Airport Screening Game Who dotes on illegal immigrants more than woke liberals do ?
Avaricious employers on the lookout for cheap labor , that ’ s who .
Australia 's largest grower of asparagus and broccoli , Vizzari Farms in the state of Victoria , is currently on trial for hiring dozens of illegal immigrants at illegally low wages as vegetable packers .
Back in 2016 , Australian Border Force officers raided Vizzari Farms and discovered 61 immigrants ( from Indonesia , Cambodia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ unlawful non-citizens ” ( i.e.
, illegal immigrants such as visa overstayers ) and a further 28 legal immigrants who were intentionally breaching their holiday visa conditions by working on the company ’ s farms .
Recruited through word-of-mouth , and in full knowledge of the immigration illegality involved , the foreign workers were being paid well below the legally mandated rate of pay .
[ Victorian vegetable grower paid 'vast amounts of cash ' for illegal workers , Melbourne court told , by Karen Percy , Australian Broadcasting Corporation , February @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the largest supplier of asparagus and broccoli to Australia ’ s two biggest supermarkets , where over half of all Australians buy their fruit and veg .
Vizzari Farms ’ multi-million-dollar business model of using cheap foreign labor is crucial to their highly profitable market dominance in the supermarket supply chain .
The supermarket giants also benefit from the grower ’ s cheap foreign labor racket through buying cheaper veg and outcompeting rival retail outlets on price .
Vizzari Farms sits atop what is likely to be a very big iceberg of cheap @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2019 , for example , the National Union of Workers investigated some 650 temporary migrant farm workers ( mostly from south-east Asia and the Pacific ) in Sunraysia and the Goulburn Valley in Victoria , finding that two-thirds of the workers were being paid below the legal pay rate ( then $ 23.66 an hour ) with some paid as little as $ 4.60 an hour .
Two-thirds of the foreign workers did not hold a valid work visa .
It ’ s out in the heat and the dust of Australia ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ broken visa system can best be viewed .
That ’ s where the cheap , exploitable , often illegal labour is picking and packing the fruit and vegetables that end up on the shelves of Coles and Woolworths , where over 50 % of Australians buy their fresh produce .
These two giant retailers have perfected the art of delivering consumers with produce at “ low , low prices ” — and what ’ s not to like about low prices ?
Plenty , as far as some suppliers and farm workers are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intimidated and even killed on Australian farms | Australia 's supermarket duopoly sits at the head of a production chain that holds labourers in slave-like conditions , putting them at risk of serious injury or death , by David Hardaker and Chris Woods , July 23 , 2019 The woke left ’ s reflexive , “ anti-racist ” prostration before saintly , non-white immigrants makes it an ally of law-breaking , a facilitator of corporate profiteering , and an obstacle to jobs and proper wages for Australian workers .
No wonder the traditional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contemporary left .
The wages of wokeness is political death .
Phil Shannon is a veteran Australian working class socialist and , since 2016 , a VDARE.com supporter .
See earlier letters from him here .

Earlier: An Australian Reader Says Australia, Guarded By Unwadeable Seas, Needs To Up Its Airport Screening Game
From: Phil Shannon [Email him]
Who dotes on illegal immigrants more than woke liberals do? Avaricious employers on the lookout for cheap labor, that’s who.
Australia's largest grower of asparagus and broccoli, Vizzari Farms in the state of Victoria, is currently on trial for hiring dozens of illegal immigrants at illegally low wages as vegetable packers. Back in 2016, Australian Border Force officers raided Vizzari Farms and discovered 61 immigrants (from Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand) who were “unlawful non-citizens” (i.e., illegal immigrants such as visa overstayers) and a further 28 legal immigrants who were intentionally breaching their holiday visa conditions by working on the company’s farms.
Recruited through word-of-mouth, and in full knowledge of the immigration illegality involved, the foreign workers were being paid well below the legally mandated rate of pay. [Victorian vegetable grower paid 'vast amounts of cash' for illegal workers, Melbourne court told, by Karen Percy, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, February 27, 2020]
Vizzari Farms is the largest supplier of asparagus and broccoli to Australia’s two biggest supermarkets, where over half of all Australians buy their fruit and veg. Vizzari Farms’ multi-million-dollar business model of using cheap foreign labor is crucial to their highly profitable market dominance in the supermarket supply chain. The supermarket giants also benefit from the grower’s cheap foreign labor racket through buying cheaper veg and outcompeting rival retail outlets on price.
Vizzari Farms sits atop what is likely to be a very big iceberg of cheap foreign labor in Australian agriculture. In 2019, for example, the National Union of Workers investigated some 650 temporary migrant farm workers (mostly from south-east Asia and the Pacific) in Sunraysia and the Goulburn Valley in Victoria, finding that two-thirds of the workers were being paid below the legal pay rate (then $23.66 an hour) with some paid as little as $4.60 an hour. Two-thirds of the foreign workers did not hold a valid work visa.
It’s out in the heat and the dust of Australia’s farms that this country’s broken visa system can best be viewed. That’s where the cheap, exploitable, often illegal labour is picking and packing the fruit and vegetables that end up on the shelves of Coles and Woolworths, where over 50% of Australians buy their fresh produce. These two giant retailers have perfected the art of delivering consumers with produce at “low, low prices”— and what’s not to like about low prices? Plenty, as far as some suppliers and farm workers are concerned. Migrant workers are overworked, intimidated and even killed on Australian farms | Australia's supermarket duopoly sits at the head of a production chain that holds labourers in slave-like conditions, putting them at risk of serious injury or death, by David Hardaker and Chris Woods, July 23, 2019
The woke left’s reflexive, “anti-racist” prostration before saintly, non-white immigrants makes it an ally of law-breaking, a facilitator of corporate profiteering, and an obstacle to jobs and proper wages for Australian workers. No wonder the traditional, white working class is deserting the contemporary left. The wages of wokeness is political death.
Phil Shannon is a veteran Australian working class socialist and, since 2016, a VDARE.com supporter. See earlier letters from him here.


vdare--2020-03-04--IT’S OFFICIAL: Chinese Scientists Find Genetic Explanation For Coronavirus Discriminating By Race

Sir Humphrey Appleby , the Machiavellian senior civil servant in the hit 1980s British sitcom Yes , Minister once famously commented that one should “ never believe anything until it ’ s been officially denied.
” Which meant we could be fairly confident that racial and ethnic differences in susceptibility to Coronavirus exist , because our race-denying Ruling Class so dogmatically refused to consider the evidence .
Now that ’ s over : a study by a Chinese research group has emerged that offers concrete proof of race differences in susceptibility to Corona virus are very real .
The study—a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entitled Single-cell RNA expression profiling of ACE2 , the putative receptor of Wuhan 2019-nCov , By Yu Zhao et al.
, bioRxiv , 2020 ] and is authored by a group of medical scientists based at Tongji University in Shanghai The authors explain that “ 2019-nCov was reported to share the same receptor , Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 ( ACE2 ) ” as the SARS disease , an outbreak of which in 2003 seemed almost exclusively to kill Northeast Asians .
Based on “ the public database and the state-of-the-art single-cell RNA-Seq technique ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ RNA expression profile in the normal human lungs.
” Crucially , they further found ( in a comparison of eight individual samples ) that the “ Asian male one has an extremely large number of ACE2-expressing cells in the lung ” in comparison to other races .
( The database was based on analysis of eight normal human lung transplant donors of different races . )
As they put it : So , there you have it : scientific evidence of how there are , indeed , genetic differences underling the empirical evidence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that there are racial differences in susceptibility to the Coronavirus ( now widely known as COVID-19 ) .
• Do You Know All Coronavirus Victims Appear To Be Chinese ?
Thought Not !
• STILL No Non-Chinese Deaths From Coronavirus , But The WASHINGTON POST Wants You To Rat Out Your Neighbors Anyway • STILL No Non-East Asian Deaths From Corona—But CNN ’ s Sanjay Gupta Won ’ t Admit It • Coronavirus STILL Hasn ’ t Killed Any Whites ( Not Counting Iranians ) .
NEW YORK TIMES Ignores , But Concedes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Still Discriminating—Reaches Italy , But Italians Also Vulnerable In 1918 Pandemic And this finding comes as more and more people are beginning notice the racial dimension to Corona virus .
According to Woke Wisdom—which declares that “ race ” is only skin deep—the Corona Virus should be ravaging Africa by now .
After all , Africa is poor , poor health compromises the immune system , and access to medical care is , for most Africans , extremely limited .
Surely , Africa should be worse affected that any other continent in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But , consistent with the findings of the Chinese scientists , this is not the case : Whether it 's a matter of faulty detection , climatic factors or simple fluke , the remarkably low rate of coronavirus infection in African countries , with their fragile health systems , continues to puzzle – and worry – experts .
To date , only three cases of infection have been officially recorded in Africa , one in Egypt , one in Algeria and one in Nigeria , with no deaths .
This is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nearly 1.3 billion inhabitants , and barely a drop in the ocean of more than 86,000 cases and nearly 3,000 deaths recorded in some 60 countries worldwide .
[ With only three official cases , Africa 's low coronavirus rate puzzles health experts , France 24 , March 2nd , 2020 ] .
Does this low infection rate worry “ experts ” precisely because it raises the possibility—which I discussed last week—of blacks having a relatively high immunity due to many of them being adapted to a hot and wet ecology which , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much of Europe , is high in flu and thus selects for flu resistance ?
The report then presents a number of hypotheses .
Has there been a lack of travel between China and Africa ?
No .
Could it be to do with the climate ?
France-24 produced a senior medic to reject this one : Professor Adam also used his interview as an opportunity to cast doubt on the race hypothesis : It ’ s not obvious why Professor Adam felt obliged to offer this opinion , since France 24 does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But note that , significantly , he concedes that “ for certain infections there may be genetic differences in susceptibility… ” Of course , this is known to everyone in medicine ( see : Tay-Sachs Disease ; Sickle-Cell Anemia ) .
But for some reason , we ’ re not allowed to ask about it with COVID-19 .
And there is “ current evidence.
” It has not yet passed “ peer-review , ” it has not yet been critiqued by other scientists , but there is certainly evidence—beyond the circumstantial—that genetic differences @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reaction to the Corona virus .
The African media have noticed the surprising lack of deaths as well .
Recently , a series of African news outlets reported that “ the African Blood Genes ” may permit resistance to Corona .
In response , the Nigeria-based Centre for Democracy and Development ( a democracy-promoting NGO , not a scientific organization ) has asserted on its blog that : “ experts have said claims that black people were resistant to the virus were ‘ false information.
’ ” A UK-based specialist in infectious diseases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ DW [ Africa has been spared so far from coronavirus .
Why ?
, February 14 , 2020 ] that the absence of Covid-19 on the continent maybe largely due to luck .
There is nothing special about Africa not having seen a case other than pure chance at the moment… “ I doubt we will see a big outbreak in Africa , Droplet diseases don ’ t seem to be as big an issue in Africa , ” he said , adding that SARS , a respiratory disease that is also a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2003 but failed to gain a hold in Africa .
From scientific evidence , there is no medical proof that African blood is resistant to the Coronavirus [ Is the African Blood Resistant to Coronavirus ?
CDD West Africa , February 17 , 2020 ] .
Perhaps not .
But there is now scientific evidence that Africans ( and Whites ) are more resistant to it than Asians and that this is for genetic reasons .
Lance Welton [ email him ] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New @ @

Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Machiavellian senior civil servant in the hit 1980s British sitcom Yes, Minister, once famously commented that one should “never believe anything until it’s been officially denied.” Which meant we could be fairly confident that racial and ethnic differences in susceptibility to Coronavirus exist, because our race-denying Ruling Class so dogmatically refused to consider the evidence. Now that’s over: A study by a Chinese research group has emerged that offers concrete proof of race differences in susceptibility to Corona virus are very real.
The study—a preprint that has not yet been peer-reviewed—is entitled Single-cell RNA expression profiling of ACE2, the putative receptor of Wuhan 2019-nCov, by Yu Zhao et al., bioRxiv, 2020] and is authored by a group of medical scientists based at Tongji University in Shanghai.
The authors explain that “2019-nCov was reported to share the same receptor, Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2)” as the SARS disease, an outbreak of which in 2003 seemed almost exclusively to kill Northeast Asians.
Based on “the public database and the state-of-the-art single-cell RNA-Seq technique” the Chinese scientists “analyzed the ACE2 RNA expression profile in the normal human lungs.” Crucially, they further found (in a comparison of eight individual samples) that the “Asian male one has an extremely large number of ACE2-expressing cells in the lung” in comparison to other races. (The database was based on analysis of eight normal human lung transplant donors of different races.)
As they put it:
We also noticed that the only Asian donor (male) has a much higher ACE2-expressing cell ratio than white and African American donors (2.50% vs. 0.47% of all cells). This might explain the observation that the new Coronavirus pandemic and previous SARS-Cov pandemic are concentrated in the Asian area.
So, there you have it: scientific evidence of how there are, indeed, genetic differences underlying the empirical evidence that I have been presenting for weeks that there are racial differences in susceptibility to the Coronavirus (now widely known as COVID-19).
See:
And this finding comes as more and more people are beginning notice the racial dimension to Corona virus. According to Woke Wisdom—which declares that “race” is only skin deep—the Corona Virus should be ravaging Africa by now. After all, Africa is poor, poor health compromises the immune system, and access to medical care is, for most Africans, extremely limited. Surely, Africa should be worse affected that any other continent in the world—as should black minorities within white countries. But, consistent with the findings of the Chinese scientists, this is not the case:
Whether it's a matter of faulty detection, climatic factors or simple fluke, the remarkably low rate of coronavirus infection in African countries, with their fragile health systems, continues to puzzle – and worry – experts. To date, only three cases of infection have been officially recorded in Africa, one in Egypt, one in Algeria and one in Nigeria, with no deaths. This is a remarkably small number for a continent with nearly 1.3 billion inhabitants, and barely a drop in the ocean of more than 86,000 cases and nearly 3,000 deaths recorded in some 60 countries worldwide. [With only three official cases, Africa's low coronavirus rate puzzles health experts, France-24, March 2nd, 2020].
Does this low infection rate worry “experts” precisely because it raises the possibility—which I discussed last week—of blacks having a relatively high immunity due to many of them being adapted to a hot and wet ecology which, like the cold and wet ecology of much of Europe, is high in flu and thus selects for flu resistance?
The report then presents a number of hypotheses. Has there been a lack of travel between China and Africa? No. Could it be to do with the climate? France-24 produced a senior medic to reject this one:
“This hypothesis was rejected by Professor Rodney Adam, who heads the infection control task force at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. ‘There is no current evidence to indicate that climate affects transmission,’” he said.
Professor Adam also used his interview as an opportunity to cast doubt on the race hypothesis:
“While it is true that for certain infections there may be genetic differences in susceptibility…there is no current evidence to that effect for Covid-19.” [Emphasis added, ellipses in original]
It’s not obvious why Professor Adam felt obliged to offer this opinion, since France 24 does not directly raise the race hypothesis.
But note that, significantly, he concedes that “for certain infections there may be genetic differences in susceptibility…” Of course, this is known to everyone in medicine (see: Tay-Sachs Disease; Sickle-Cell Anemia). But for some reason, we’re not allowed to ask about it with COVID-19.
And there is “current evidence.” It has not yet passed “peer-review,” it has not yet been critiqued by other scientists, but there is certainly evidence—beyond the circumstantial—that genetic differences seem to explain race differences in the reaction to the Corona virus.
The African media have noticed the surprising lack of deaths as well. Recently, a series of African news outlets reported that “the African Blood Genes” may permit resistance to Corona. In response, the Nigeria-based Centre for Democracy and Development (a democracy-promoting NGO, not a scientific organization) has asserted on its blog that: “experts have said claims that black people were resistant to the virus were ‘false information.’”
It added:
A UK-based specialist in infectious diseases and epidemics, Paul Hunter, told DW [Africa has been spared so far from coronavirus. Why?, February 14, 2020] that the absence of Covid-19 on the continent may be largely due to luck. There is nothing special about Africa not having seen a case other than pure chance at the moment… “I doubt we will see a big outbreak in Africa, Droplet diseases don’t seem to be as big an issue in Africa,” he said, adding that SARS, a respiratory disease that is also a coronavirus, spread through 26 countries in 2003 but failed to gain a hold in Africa. From scientific evidence, there is no medical proof that African blood is resistant to the Coronavirus [Is the African Blood Resistant to Coronavirus? CDD West Africa, February 17, 2020].
Perhaps not. But there is now scientific evidence that Africans (and Whites) are more resistant to it than Asians and that this is for genetic reasons.
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.


vdare--2020-03-03--A Reader Has Thoughts On Intermarriage And The "Flight From White"

Fabrizio Evola 's thesis is that the US population will eventually stabilize with a majority of people identifying as white , regardless of actual genetic composition .
This assumes eventual success in controlling the border and immigration , legal and illegal .
It assumes the white birth rate will not collapse further and minority birthrates will continue to collapse .
The biggest problem with this is birthright citizenship .
There is a large group of immigrant children in the US whose parents came illegally but the children were born here .
They can vote as soon as they come of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through generations for immigrants .
The national elections are already finely balanced .
Chances are , a pro-immigration Democrat will have a huge chance to be elected President in 2024 , even if Trump wins 2020 and actually continues anti-immigration policies .
Obama , who was half-white ( Steve Sailer called him America 's Half-Blood Prince ) instituted policies designed to discourage assortative mating among whites : his policies forced welfare minorities on working-class suburbs , penalized policing based on actual criminal activity , and discouraged merit-based educational practices .
Even if half-white @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , will they institute freedom-of-association policies , or will they continue and expand intrusive policies designed to further devastate assortative mating choice and objectivity-based based policing and education ?
As Steve kind of pointed out , there is a Gresham 's Law of Immigration : the bad drives out the good , when both are equally valued .
The low-IQ reservoirs of Africa and indigenous Central and South American Indians provide a huge immigration pressure unless there is a committed and effective control on all immigration .
James Fulford writes : People with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disappear into the white population .
With Affirmative Action , not being white is worth money ( as Elizabeth Warren could tell you ) and now we have what Steve Sailer calls the `` Flight From White '' .

Re: A Patriot Lawyer Wonders If Intermarriage Will Postpone "White Minority Status"; Steve Sailer Answers
From: RonaldB [Email him]
Fabrizio Evola's thesis is that the US population will eventually stabilize with a majority of people identifying as white, regardless of actual genetic composition.
This assumes eventual success in controlling the border and immigration, legal and illegal. It assumes the white birth rate will not collapse further and minority birthrates will continue to collapse.
The biggest problem with this is birthright citizenship. There is a large group of immigrant children in the US whose parents came illegally but the children were born here. They can vote as soon as they come of age. Leftist voting patterns are stable through generations for immigrants. The national elections are already finely balanced. Chances are, a pro-immigration Democrat will have a huge chance to be elected President in 2024, even if Trump wins 2020 and actually continues anti-immigration policies.
Obama, who was half-white (Steve Sailer called him America's Half-Blood Prince) instituted policies designed to discourage assortative mating among whites: his policies forced welfare minorities on working-class suburbs, penalized policing based on actual criminal activity, and discouraged merit-based educational practices. Even if half-white officials are the wave of the future, will they institute freedom-of-association policies, or will they continue and expand intrusive policies designed to further devastate assortative mating choice and objectivity-based based policing and education?
As Steve kind of pointed out, there is a Gresham's Law of Immigration: the bad drives out the good, when both are equally valued. The low-IQ reservoirs of Africa and indigenous Central and South American Indians provide a huge immigration pressure unless there is a committed and effective control on all immigration.
James Fulford writes: People with small amounts of non-white ancestry used to disappear into the white population. With Affirmative Action, not being white is worth money (as Elizabeth Warren could tell you) and now we have what Steve Sailer calls the "Flight From White".


vdare--2020-03-04--Radio Derb Transcript Up For February 28: Coronavirus—The Prognosis, The Science, The Prospects (Inc

Radio Derb Transcript Up For February 28: Coronavirus—The Prognosis, The Science, The Prospects (Including Political), Etc.

The Radio Derb transcript is up for February 28 .
Go here to read or listen .
05m38s Virus news @ @ @ @ @ What the heck is R ? )
20m39s Democrats debate again .
( Not a @ @ @ @ @ Year of the locusts .
( China has a solution . )
28m37s The end @ @ @ @ @ we 're too proud to bow . )
33m33s Trayvon Martin Day ?
( No @ @ @ @ @ ) 36m09s Signoff .
( With the appropriate song . )

The Radio Derb transcript is up for February 28. Go here to read or listen.
Playlist:
01m11s Virus news: the prognosis. (How bad?)
05m38s Virus news: the science. (What the heck is R 0 ?)
14m43s Virus prospects: social, economic, political. (KBO, America!)
20m39s Democrats debate again. (Not a serious country.)
26m16s Year of the locusts. (China has a solution.)
28m37s The end of handshaking? (But we're too proud to bow.)
30m14s Verdict on Weinstein. (End of a show trial.)
32m17s Seeing the judge. (Dorky white guy.)
33m33s Trayvon Martin Day? (No demand even among Goodwhites.)
35m11s Remembering Pancake Day. (Derb nostalgia trip.)
36m09s Signoff. (With the appropriate song.)