vdare--2020-06-13--Lawrence Auster's First Law of Majority-Minority Relations

From the late Lawrence Auster’s View From the Right in 2002:
The worse any designated minority or alien group behaves in a liberal society, the bigger become the lies of Political Correctness in covering up for that group. …
That last point leads us to the first corollary of Auster’s First Law of Majority/Minority Relations in Liberal Society: The more egregiously any non-Western or non-white group behaves, the more evil whites are made to appear for noticing and drawing rational conclusions about that group’s bad behavior.
The First Law and its corollary are intrinsic to liberalism. Once the equality of all human groups is accepted as a given, any facts that make a minority or foreign group seem worse than the majority native group must be either covered up or blamed on the majority.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 01, 2002 01:16 AM


vdare--2020-06-13--Jean Raspail Dies At 94: Lived Long Enough To Say "I Told You So"

Nigel Farage just lost his radio show after comparing the Black Lives Matter to the Taliban .
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Jean Raspail, author of The Camp Of The Saints, a 1973 novel about mass migration destroying France and the West, has died at age 94. So far it seems to have only been reported in the French media, with headlines like Mort de Jean Raspail, écrivain et explorateur, auteur du «Camp des Saints», by Michaël Naulin, Le Figaro, July 13, 2020. [Google Translate]
At the moment, when search Google News for "Raspail," you get French death notices, and New York Times story, illustrated with a picture of presidential aide Stephen Miller, titled A Racist Book’s Malign and Lingering Influence, by Elian Peltier and Nicholas Kulish, NYT, November 22, 2019.
Miller and GOP Congressman Steve King are alleged to have read Raspail's book, and to have pointed out—correctly—that it was prophetic, and that's a bad thing, according to the NYT, which is in the business of deciding what's not fit to print, and suppressing it. (Their story is in the "news," rather than Opinion section of the paper.)
We have been covering Raspail and his prophesies since we began here at VDARE.com.
See Truth Follows Fiction: Camp Of The Saints begins in France, by Paul Craig Roberts, February 20, 2001.
See also:
I'll add that VDARE.com has a large number of copies of the physical book, The Camp of The Saints, in English translation.
It's not up on our book page at the moment, but we used it in a promotion for an earlier appeal for funds—see The Book They Don't Want You To Read—Now Available On VDARE.com.
Email assistant@vdare.com if you want to buy one—they may be the last physical copies on the North American Continent.
UPDATE: July 2023—It is now available to order on our book page
To quote another controversial Frenchman:


vdare--2020-06-12--Never Kneel To  Propaganda—Help America First Media Survive

Nigel Farage just lost his radio show after comparing Black Lives Matter to the Taliban.
The Main Stream Media is more concerned with political correctness than they are with honest coverage of the torching and pillaging of our proud history by domestic terrorists.
At the New York Times, editor James Bennet was forced to resign after publishing an evenhanded article from sitting Senator Tom Cotton.
They’re more concerned with silencing dissent than with the murder of American cops, or the hostile takeover of American cities.
And Stan Wischnowski of the Philadelpha Inquirer just resigned because his headline “Buildings Matter, Too” accompanied a story about the destruction caused by violent rioting in the city.
Flippancy toward the radical left is more offensive to them than the pandemonium that has made a mockery of quarantine and exacerbated the cruel economic effects of the coronavirus lock down.
In a media landscape filled with lies and complicity, VDARE.com is the unflinching voice of the Historic American Nation. We will never kneel.
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vdare--2020-06-12--And if There Is Hope, It Lies in the Police Unions: Chicago Police Union Boss Says Those Who Kneel W

And if There Is Hope, It Lies in the Police Unions: Chicago Police Union Boss Says Those Who Kneel Will be Booted from Fraternal Order of Police

Never kneel.
Rise.
Get off your knees.
Never submit to the terror and emasculation of Black Lives Matter.
And if there is hope, it lies in the police unions of major U.S. cities. They will provide the pushback and the courage to turn the tide.
The head of Chicago’s powerful police union said any cop in the city who takes a knee during George Floyd protests will be booted, according to a report.
John Catanzara, the new president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, said the gesture, seen throughout the nation during protests over Floyd’s death in police custody in Minneapolis, is tantamount to betrayal of the uniform, he told Fox32 Chicago.
“I don’t believe it’s the time or place to be doing that,” Catanzara told the station. “If you kneel, you’ll be risking being brought up on charges and thrown out of the lodge.”
“Specifically this weekend,” he said. “This was about defunding and abolishing the police officers. And you’re going to take a knee for that? It’s ridiculous.”
Floyd’s May 25 death sparked worldwide calls for racial justice and denouncing police brutality, and has spawned a strong “defund the police” movement over two weeks of clashes between police and protestors.
Last week, one NYPD lieutenant issued an apology to the rank and file over his “horrible decision” to take a knee during the protests.
Asked about Catanzara’s comments, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she wouldn’t “dignify” it with a response.
“I don’t really think that we should credit those kinds of really unfortunate comments, and I’m not going to dignify them with any further response,” she said.
Cops in the Second City who are kicked out of the union can still remain on the job, but will not be guaranteed the contractual benefits negotiated between the city and the fraternal order, Fox32 said.
Catanzara, who took heat in 2017 for posting a Facebook photo in uniform with a sign supporting President Donald Trump and gun rights, said cops now kneeling for protestors are doing the same thing — just on the other end of the political spectrum.
“Well that’s a political stance,” he told the station. “I want to see what happens on the department level. I’m going to guess nothing because the mayor supports this kind of stuff.”


vdare--2020-06-12--How Long Until Joe Biden Gets Himself Canceled?

Biden to George Floyd's daughter Gianna via video message: “You are so brave... I know you have a lot of questions, honey. No child should have to ask questions that too many black children have had to ask for generations — why, why is Daddy gone?” https://t.co/bQsoh2b52k pic.twitter.com/rAwK8tMNMo — CBS News (@CBSNews) June 9, 2020
From ChildTrends:
It was brave of Joe to bring up the important but sensitive problem that 57% of black children (49% Mother Only plus 8% Living With No Parent) do not live with their fathers.
I expect any day now for Biden to give an interview in which he refers to “George Floyd” as “George Foreman,” then corrects himself and calls Floyd “Floyd Patterson.”
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-11--World War Hair Victory: Walmart Won't Lock Up Black Beauty Products

From the New York Times news section:
Walmart Says It Will No Longer Lock Up African-American Beauty Products
The policy had been the subject of a racial discrimination lawsuit that was dropped last year, but the practice had come under renewed scrutiny.
By Neil Vigdor and Elisha Brown
June 10, 2020
Walmart will end its practice of locking up African-American beauty care products in glass cases, the retail giant said on Wednesday after a fresh round of criticism that the policy was a form of racial discrimination.
Hair care and beauty products sold predominantly to black people could be accessed at certain stores only by getting a Walmart employee to unlock the cases, some of which featured additional anti-theft measures.
At some stores, the cases were across the aisle from shelves of generic beauty products that were not locked up and included shampoo and conditioner.
Critics of the practice, which had been the subject of a federal discrimination lawsuit that was dropped last year, said that it implied that black people were more likely to shoplift. Walmart had previously said that certain products were locked up because they were more likely to be stolen.


vdare--2020-06-09--John Derbyshire Asks:  What's Wrong With White Women?

Earlier: JOHN DERBYSHIRE: I Will Not Genuflect To This Church Of Antiracism
There was a preponderance of white women at the Bethesda gathering I wrote about above, where GoodWhites worshipped at the new "Church Of Antiracism"
Leaders are talking about how parents need to commit to making sure their teaching their children a better way. #Blacklivesmatter @wusa9 pic.twitter.com/kF9rajT5Si — Ariane Datil (@arianedatil) June 2, 2020
White women have been much in evidence at all the protests, and it calls for some kind of explanation.
I should probably say single white women. As Steve Sailer has noted, and as Ed West covers in his new book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: How To Be A Modern Conservative, which I recommend to your attention, quote from Ed:
The marriage rate among white women remains one of the most reliable variables for predicting the Republican Party's support in any state.
All right, so, single white women: What are they doing, filling the pews at the Church of Antiracism—whose gospel is, let's be blunt about it, anti-white?
I don't know the answer, but whenever this comes up on a Dissident Right human-sciences thread, there's always someone arguing that it's a matter of evolutionary psychology. He argues—and yes, of course it's always a he—that white women are dissatisfied with the weakness of white men, and keen to submit to some more forceful conqueror.
So is the anti-whiteness of single white women the fault of white men somehow? I don't see why it shouldn't be; everything else is.


vdare--2020-06-13--John Derbyshire: I Have A Dream—That This Is The Darkness Before The Race-Realist Dawn

[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
It is allegedly always darkest before the dawn.
Here’s some darkness: the symphony orchestra of Austin, Texas has fired their lead trombonist. This is a white lady named Brenda Sansig Salas, 51 years old and a U.S. Army veteran. Austin Symphony Trombonist Fired Over Racist Comments, The Violin Channel, June 1, 2020 She'd been posting comments on social media. The comment that precipitated her firing was apparently this one:
The BLACKS are looting and destroying their environment. They deserve what they get.
Symphony orchestra spokes-critter Anthony Corroa [Email him]announced the firing of Ms. Salas in the dreary schoolmarmish jargon of corporate wokeness: This language is not reflective of who we are as an organization." And "there is no place for hate within our organization."
So if you can work that trombone to orchestral standard, there's a vacancy in Austin. And our Cultural Revolution rumbles on.
When it is over, the range of opinion allowed to be expressed by anyone employed in any kind of respectable job—or even, as the case of that soccer player illustrates, by the spouse of anyone so employed—will be even narrower than it was before the beatification of the Holy Blessed Martyr George Floyd, peace be upon him.[ LA Galaxy dumps soccer player after wife’s ‘racist and violent’ posts about George Floyd protesters By Nancy Dillon New York Daily News, June 05, 2020]
That, of course, is the point. The goal here is totalitarian thought control. Only one set of opinions will be permitted in the public sphere. Every opinion not approved by the Thought Police will be a species of hate.
It will not be who we are.
But now the dawn: I have an announcement to make.
I have a dream today, brothers and sisters. I have a dream.
My dream is of an America that has embraced race realism.
Yes, I have a dream that one day race differences in educational success will be as calmly, dispassionately accepted as race differences in athletic success; that race differences in criminal arrest and incarceration rates will be regarded with no more anger or alarm than sex differences in those same rates; that different social outcomes by race will be understood as caused not by the malice of our fellow citizens, but by ordinary processes of nature.
I have a dream that one day we shall discard magical thinking about race; that the notion of an invisible vapor or miasma called "racism" permeating the atmosphere and intoxicating our minds will seem as quaintly absurd as the Four Humors Theory of ancient medicine or the Luminiferous Æther of 19th-century physics.
I have a dream that one day, poor white children will not have to endure being lectured about their "privilege" by rich black adults.
I have a dream that one day soon, after sixty years of futile efforts to change what cannot, in the nature of things, be changed, sixty years of twisting our constitution and our jurisprudence into knots to pretend that different statistics by race can only be caused by white people's ill will, sixty years of vast public expenditures on educational and social programs that deliver no benefits at all (other than to those who pocket the expenditures); that one day soon, after sixty years of futility and waste, we shall accept race differences as calmly and as prudently as we accept the laws of thermodynamics.
I have a dream that with the black homicide rate at eight times the white rate, and with discrepancies of a similar size having existed since reliable records began a hundred and eighty years ago, an organization calling itself Black Lives Matter will address itself to bringing black homicide numbers down to the white level—better yet, to the Asian level—or else be laughed out of the public square.
I have a dream that race differences in outcomes, which are mere statistical abstractions remote from our everyday dealings, will one day matter as little to us as personal differences in outcomes. I shall never be a skilled violinist, a good tennis player, or a creative mathematician; not because of malice, "racism," or "privilege" on the part of my fellow citizens, but because of my own abilities and inclinations—which, like almost everyone else's, are middling and un-spectacular. I do not lose sleep over this. I absolutely do not take it as an occasion to insult and berate my fellow-citizens, or deprive them of their rights.
I have a dream that our nation's past will one day be cherished for having made possible our present security and prosperity; that the ignorance and misdeeds of that past be kept in sight on a shelf, accessible to all, but never dominating our view of what our ancestors were, the heroism they displayed in defense of our civilization, and the great good things they did.
I have a dream that one day freedom of association, which picks no man's pocket and breaks no man's leg, will be restored to us.
I have a dream that the evil and divisive doctrines of "disparate impact" and "affirmative action" will be scrubbed from our jurisprudence; that hiring into civil-service work—including police work and firefighting—will be strictly meritocratic; and that young black Americans will no longer, just to satisfy the whims of smug college admissions officers and innumerate jurists, will no longer be pushed into academic college programs they can't cope with and will drop out from.
I have a dream that my two beautiful children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character…
(With apologies—well, actually, with no apologies—to Dr. Martin Luther King).
John Derbyshire [ email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
For years he’s been podcasting at Radio Derb, now available at VDARE.com for no charge. His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.
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vdare--2020-06-14--Statues Desecrated In Richmond, Va: "The Worst Treatment—Short Of Tearing It Down—Was Reserved For T

Statues Desecrated In Richmond, Va: "The Worst Treatment—Short Of Tearing It Down—Was Reserved For The Robert E. Lee Monument."

See, earlier: A Richmond, VA Reader Says Black Lives Matter Is Celebrating The Latest Riots By Desecrating Confederate Monuments
Jared Taylor at American Renaissance has a photoessay called Richmond Has Fallen, on the desecration of Confederate memorials."The worst treatment—short of tearing it down—was reserved for the Robert E. Lee monument." (Close-up of the base, above.)
This, of course, it a hate crime, the way desecrating a church, a synagogue, or a cemetery is. That argument wouldn't bother the desecrators—they've already desecrated, officially, at least one Confederate cemetery. See Pro-Castro Madison Mayor Desecrates Cemetery Memorial To Confederate POWs Who Died Due to Union Neglect.
Here's a small sample of Jared's photo essay:
The general is still astride Traveller, but the state of Virginia, which holds title to the monument is determined to take him down.
Monument Avenue is a majestic boulevard, lined with lovely houses. The people who live in them are overwhelmingly white, but many houses displayed “Black Lives Matter” signs. This mansion on what is still called (Jefferson) Davis Avenue, had a huge banner hanging from the balcony.
It had a smaller sign at a side entrance.
Are these signs sincere expressions of capitulation or a cynical appeal to the mob: “Please don’t touch our lily-white Doric columns”? I fear it was the former. It was a beautiful day, and someone had hired a black gospel band to give a concert at the base of the Lee memorial. The crowd was almost entirely white, and the mood was festive. There was no menace in the air—but whites still proclaimed their emasculation.


vdare--2020-06-14--Steve Sailer: Jean Raspail, Author of "The Camp of the Saints," RIP

From The Atlantic a long time ago:
Connelly is now a professor of history at Columbia U., while Kennedy is a professor of history at Yale.
“Now, stretching over that empty sea, aground some fifty yards out, [lay] the incredible fleet from the other side of the globe, the rusty, creaking fleet that the old professor had been eyeing since morning. . . . He pressed his eye to the glass, and the first things he saw were arms. . . . Then he started to count. Calm and unhurried. But it was like trying to count all the trees in the forest, those arms raised high in the air, waving and shaking together, all outstretched toward the nearby shore. Scraggy branches, brown and black, quickened by a breath of hope. All bare, those fleshless Gandhi-arms. . . . thirty thousand creatures on a single ship!”
—The Camp of the Saints
Welcome to the 300-page narrative of Jean Raspail’s disturbing, chilling, futuristic novel The Camp of the Saints, first published in Paris twenty-one years ago and translated into English a short while later. Set at some vague time–perhaps fifteen or twenty years–in the future, the novel describes the pilgrimage of a million desperate Indians who, forsaking the ghastly conditions of downtown Calcutta and surrounding villages, commandeer an armada of decrepit ships and set off for the French Riviera. The catalyst for this irruption is simple enough. Moved by accounts of widespread famine across an Indian subcontinent collapsing under the sheer weight of its fast-growing population, the Belgian government has decided to admit and adopt a number of young children; but the policy is reversed when tens of thousands of mothers begin to push their babies against the Belgian consul general’s gates in Calcutta. After mobbing the building in disgust at Belgium’s change of mind, the crowd is further inflamed by a messianic speech from one of their number, an untouchable, a gaunt, eye-catching “turd eater,” who calls for the poor and wretched of the world to advance upon the Western paradise: “The nations are rising from the four corners of the earth,” Raspail has the man say, “and their number is like the sand of the sea. They will march up over the broad earth and surround the camp of the saints and the beloved city. . . .” Storming on board every ship within range, the crowds force the crews to take them on a lengthy, horrific voyage, around Africa and through the Strait of Gibraltar to the southern shores of France.
But it is not the huddled mass of Indians, with their “fleshless Gandhi-arms,” that is the focus of Raspail’s attention so much as the varied responses of the French and the other privileged members of “the camp of the saints” as they debate how to deal with the inexorably advancing multitude. Raspail is particularly effective here in capturing the platitudes of official announcements, the voices of ordinary people, the tone of statements by concerned bishops, and so on. The book also seems realistic in its recounting of the crumbling away of resolve by French sailors and soldiers when they are given the order to repel physically–to shoot or torpedo–this armada of helpless yet menacing people. It would be much easier, clearly, to confront a military foe, such as a Warsaw Pact nation. The fifty-one (short) chapters are skillfully arranged so that the reader’s attention is switched back and forth, within a two-month time frame, between the anxious debates in Paris and events attending the slow and grisly voyage of the Calcutta masses. The denouement, with the French population fleeing their southern regions and army units deserting in droves, is especially dramatic.
The Voyage of the Golden Venture
Why revisit this controversial and nowadays hard-to-obtain novel? The recovery of this neglected work helps us to call attention to the key global problem of the final years of the twentieth century: unbalanced wealth and resources, unbalanced demographic trends, and the relationship between the two. Many members of the more prosperous economies are beginning to agree with Raspail’s vision: a world of two “camps,” North and South, separate and unequal, in which the rich will have to fight and the poor will have to die if mass migration is not to overwhelm us all. Migration is the third part of the problem. If we do not act now to counteract tendencies toward global apartheid, they will only hurry the day when we may indeed see Raspail’s vision made real.
One of us (Kennedy) first heard The Camp of the Saints referred to at various times during discussions of illegal migration. One such occasion was in the summer of 1991, following media reports about the thousands of desperate Albanians who commandeered ships to take them to the Italian ports of Bari and Brindisi, where they were locked in soccer stadiums by the local police before being forcibly returned to a homeland so poor that it is one of the few parts of Europe sometimes categorized as “developing” countries. Apparently, one reason for this exodus was that the Albanians had been watching Italian television–including commercials for consumer goods, cat food shown being served on a silver platter, and the like. More than a few colleagues mentioned that the incident struck them as a small-scale version of Raspail’s grim scenario. …
The Doom of the White Race
Jean Raspail, born in 1925, has been writing works of travel and fiction since the 1950s. Many of his books recount his experiences in Alaska, the Caribbean, the Andes; he is not ignorant of foreign lands and cultures. Raspail won prizes from the Academie Francaise, and last year only narrowly failed to be elected to that august body. The Camp of the Saints is different from his other writings. In the preface, written a decade after the book, he states that one morning in 1972, at home by the shore of the Mediterranean, he had this vision: “A million poor wretches, armed only with their weakness and their numbers, overwhelmed by misery, encumbered with starving brown and black children, ready to disembark on our soil, the vanguard of the multitudes pressing hard against every part of the tired and overfed West. I literally saw them, saw the major problem they presented, a problem absolutely insoluble by our present moral standards. To let them in would destroy us. To reject them would destroy them.”
“During the ten months I spent writing this book, the vision never left me. That is why The Camp of the Saints, with all its imperfections, was a kind of emotional outpouring.”
Is this simply a work of imagination or, as Raspail’s critics charge, a racist tract dressed up as fiction? In some parts of the novel Raspail appears to be resigned, fatalistic, not taking sides: “The Good are at war with the Bad, true enough,” he says at one point. “But one man’s ‘Bad’ is another man’s ‘Good,’ and vice versa. It’s a question of sides.” And he has the President of France, puzzling over the question of inequality among races, attribute to the Grand Mufti of Paris the idea that it is “just a question of rotation,” with “different ones on top at different times”–as if to imply that it is quite natural for Europe, having expanded outward for the past 500 years, to be overwhelmed in turn by non-Western peoples. …
The message is clear: race, not class or ideology, determines everything, and the wretched of the earth will see no distinction between unfriendly, fascistic Frenchmen on the one hand and liberal-minded bishops and yuppies on the other. All have enjoyed too large a share of the world’s wealth for too long, and their common fate is now at hand.
It is not just the people of France who suffer that fate. Near the end of Raspail’s novel the mayor of New York is made to share Gracie Mansion with three families from Harlem, the Queen of England must marry her son to a Pakistani, and just one drunken Russian general stands in the way of the Chinese as they swarm into Siberia. “In the Philippines, in all the stifling Third World ports–Jakarta, Karachi, Conakry, and again in Calcutta–other huge armadas were ready to weigh anchor, bound for Australia, New Zealand, Europe. . . . Many a civilization, victim of the selfsame fate, sits tucked in our museums, under glass, neatly labeled.”
To describe The Camp of the Saints as an apocalyptic novel would be a truism. The very title of the book comes, of course, from Saint John’s Apocalypse, the lines of which are uttered almost exactly by the messianic untouchable early on in the book. The work is studded with references to much earlier clashes between “the West” and “the Rest”: to Charles Martel, to the fall of Constantinople, to Don John of Austria, to Kitchener at Omdurman–all to fortify the suggestion that what is unfolding is just part of a millennium-old international Kulturkampf that is always resolved by power and numbers. When Europe dominated the globe, the Caucasian race’s relative share of world population achieved its high point; as the proportion shrinks, Raspail argues, so the race dooms itself. In his 1982 preface he spells it out again: “Our hypersensitive and totally blind West . . . has not yet understood that whites, in a world become too small for its inhabitants, are now a minority and that the proliferation of other races dooms our race, my race, irretrievably to extinction in the century to come, if we hold fast to our present moral principles.”
“Not Since Genghis Khan”
When The Camp of the Saints first appeared, in 1973, it was, to put it mildly, not well received. Sixties radicalism still prevailed in Paris; a century of capitalist imperialism was blamed for the problems of the Third World, though the feeling was that Africans and Asians now at least had control of their own destinies; and French intellectuals and bureaucrats believed that they had a special rapport with non-European cultures, unlike the insensitive Anglo-Saxons. Besides being shocking in its contents, Raspail’s book was also offensive: it insulted almost everything that Sorbonne professors held dear. The Camp was swiftly dismissed as a racist tract. As for Raspail, he went off to write other novels and travel books. But in late 1985 he offended again, by joining forces with the demographer Gerard Dumont to write an article in Le Figaro Magazine claiming that the fast-growing non-European immigrant component of France’s population would endanger the survival of traditional French culture, values, and identity. By this time the immigration issue had become much more contentious in French politics, and only a year earlier Jacques Chirac, then the mayor of Paris, had publicly warned, “When you compare Europe with the other continents, it’s terrifying. In demographic terms, Europe is disappearing. Twenty or so years from now our countries will be empty, and no matter what our technological power, we shall be incapable of putting it to use.” The Raspail-Dumont article was highly embarrassing to the French Socialist government, which, though pledged to crack down on illegal immigrants, was deeply disturbed by the potential political fallout from such a controversial piece. No fewer than three Cabinet Ministers, including Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, attacked it as “racist propaganda” and “reminiscent of the wildest Nazi theories.”


vdare--2020-06-14--Atlanta's White Lesbian Police Chief Finds She Has Insufficient Intersectional Pokemon Points

Earlier: Two Black Cops Fired For Enforcing The Law Against Black Students By Black Mayor And White (Lesbian) Police Chief In Atlanta
From Gateway Pundit:
Atlanta Police Chief Resigns After Deadly Police Shooting of Black Man Resisting Arrest at Wendy’s Drive-Thru
By Kristinn Taylor
Published June 13, 2020 at 5:56pm
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms announced the resignation of police Chief Erika Shields Saturday afternoon after the deadly police shooting of Rayshard Brooks, 27, as he resisted arrest Friday night. Shields was appointed chief in December 2016 by then Mayor Kasim Reed after serving 21 years on the force. Shields was the first openly gay Atlanta police chief.
Police were called to a Wendy’s where they reportedly found Brooks passed out in his car in the drive-thru lane. Brooks allegedly failed a sobriety test and was seen on video resisting arrest by two officers who wrestled with him and lost control.
Brooks stole a Taser off one officer, was shot with another Taser as he fled but was fatally shot when he pointed the stolen Taser at a pursuing officer.


vdare--2020-06-14--Jiang Qing, Lead Player In CHINA's Cultural Cultural Revolution, Loved GONE WITH THE WIND

Earlier: Before It's Banned, Check Out What GONE WITH THE WIND Said About Northern Women And Southern Blacks During Reconstruction
The last few days have been rich with ironies.
The Mayorette of Seattle tweets "It is unconstitutional and illegal to send the military to Seattle," when you just know, if you were to ask her, she totally supports the Union having taken up arms against the Confederate States.
Or how about the anarchists of Chaz enacting strict controls on who comes in and out. No open borders there!—and you better have good i.d. on you, just like at a polling place … There's nothing anarchists are more keen on than personal i.d. cards.
Here is another irony, one that, so far as I'm aware, nobody but me has noticed, though I'll allow it's a very small and obscure one.
HBO Max has announced they are withdrawing the movie Gone with the Wind from their lists, although only temporarily. The movie, a company spokesreptile explained, quote, "will return with a discussion of its historical context and a denouncement of those very depictions."
In other words, whereas you used to get just a movie, now you get a movie prefaced with a lecture telling you the correct opinion to have about it.
In the coming Utopia of righteous thinking there will be no such thing as just sitting down to be entertained. You will first have to have your attitude properly adjusted.
All right, Derb, all right, so where's the irony?
Here it comes; and as I said, it's a very little one.
We are of course undergoing a cultural revolution. The archetype and template for all cultural revolutions in our time is the one that convulsed Communist China from 1966 to 1976.
A lead player in that cultural revolution was Jiang Qing, the much-younger fourth wife of Mao Tse-tung. This lady distinguished herself as one of the loudest, shrillest, busiest, cruellest, most vindictive of all the propagandists and persecutors through all the most violent and terroristic phases of that cultural revolution.
Before marrying Mao, Jiang Qing had had a brief career as a minor movie actress in 1930s Shanghai. She fancied herself a connoisseur of the performing arts, and was particularly fond of Hollywood movies. Once Mao had taken power and she could get anything she wanted, she spent a lot of time watching movies. (As, by the way, did Stalin.)
Do you know what Jiang Qing's favorite Hollywood movie was? See if you can guess.


vdare--2020-06-14--Great Moments in Google: Winston Churchill Is Blacked Out

I wonder what went on at Google to lead to this? African-Americans don’t hate Churchill, so far as I can tell. Of course, even if they did, Google allows very, very few African-Americans to touch the code. The main Churchillphobes are Asian Indians, of whom a lot work at Google.
iSteve commenter Mr. Anon riffs:
We shall kneel on the beaches, we shall kneel on the landing grounds, we shall kneel in the fields and in the streets, we shall kneel in the hills; we shall always surrender.
As I pointed out in 2016, Google has long been promoting hilariously woke lists of “American inventors,” “American mathematicians,” and “American scientists.” For example, here are “American mathematicians” right now:
Strangely, however, Google’s list of “American scientists” has been somewhat de-wokeified at the moment:
I have no idea who #4 Brian Hayes is or why he shares Winston Churchill’s ignominy.
But this is a new phase because previously Google was just engaging in hyping minor black worthies rather than deleting the pictures of white heroes.
Also, Google is memory-holing the immensely popular 1939 movie Gone With the Wind:
The childishness of the Purges is striking, highly reminiscent of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in its adolescent attitudes. But the Red Guards at least had the excuse of being actual adolescents, while Google only employs grown-ups.


vdare--2020-06-13--The Goal Is to Destroy the Police as a Conservative Institution

Earlier: NYT: Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
From iSteve commenter JSQ:
Let’s be clear about one thing: even if we “abolish” the police, we will still have police. They will still have a monopoly on violence. They will still make arrests and help prosecutors build cases. They may call themselves something else (“Community Response Team,” say) but they will functionally be the police. The purpose of this movement isn’t to abolish the police or to enact Catalonia-style anarchy (which I might actually be in favor of), but to destroy the police as a conservative institution. The police are one of the last large, significant conservative institutions in the US; ergo, they must be destroyed. Get rid of the 105 IQ ex-jocks with crew cuts. Bring in the underemployed liberal-arts graduates.
For example, as I’ve been pointing out for years, almost all of the time when the national media falls for a hate hoax, such as Jussie Smollett’s, the local cops keep their wits about them.
That kind of sensible skepticism must end.


vdare--2020-06-12--Revolutionary Spasms, Derb Has A Dream, And The Smack Of Firm Government (Not Likely!) Etc.

02m32s Revolutionary spasms. (With each one, they tighten the vise.)
07m47s I have a dream. (Not that different from the original.)
13m50s The smack of firm government. (I yearn to hear it.)
22m36s Crafting a proposal to consider. (In the Halls of Uselessness.)
29m54s Ironies great and small. (One from a different cultural revolution.)
33m54s London's "Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm." (As Orwellian as it sounds.)
36m12s Japan not yet woke. (They can't get the hang of our racial protocols.)
37m59s Coronavirus in Britain. (Marmite-lovers hardest hit.)
39m35s Signoff. (With a military trombone.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from the Autonomous Republic of Derbistan.
Yes: Inspired by the communards of central Seattle and their establishment of Chaz, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, my family and I have decided to secede from the Union. The Derbyshire estates here on Long Island are now a new nation.
We began in the manner of a traditional coup d'état by seizing the radio station. That was easy; and now Radio Derb is the flagship broadcast medium of Derbistan. Tenders for advertising spots will be evaluated in the order they are received.
We shall trade on friendly terms with all other nations—including of course Chaz—and shall issue visas to visitors and guest workers, after proper scrutiny of their credentials, of course; but we shall no longer be bound by the laws of New York State or the U.S.A.
It's all been a bit impulsive, I'll admit. There are some details to be worked out. Mrs Derbyshire is hard at work drafting a constitution, our daughter is designing a colorful flag, and our son is out patrolling the Derbistan borders to discourage any illegal immigration. I shall give fuller reports in future Radio Derb podcasts.
So: this is your autonomously genial host John Derbyshire welcoming you to the new, independent Radio Derb! Let's review the week's news.
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02—Revolutionary spasms. I see that the symphony orchestra of Austin, Texas has fired their lead trombonist. This is a white lady named Brenda Sansig Salas, 51 years old and a U.S. Army veteran. She'd been posting comments on social media. The comment that precipitated her firing was apparently this one, quote:
The BLACKS [capitalized] are looting and destroying their environment. They deserve what they get.
End quote.
Some spokes-critter for the symphony orchestra announced the firing of Ms Salas in the dreary schoolmarmish jargon of corporate wokeness. Quote: "This language is not reflective of who we are as an organization." And, quote: "there is no place for hate within our organization."
So if you can work that trombone to orchestral standard, there's a vacancy in Austin. And our cultural revolution rumbles on.
It doesn't proceed at a smooth regular pace, but in spasms. There is this one we're currently going through, the Minneapolis Spasm. Before that, three years ago there was the Charlottesville spasm that followed the Antifa triumph in that Virginia city, where local politicians stood down their police force so that Antifa could assault a lawful, peaceful demonstration.
Five years before that there was the Trayvon Martin spasm. That was just a warm-up, though. The forces of militant wokeness were not yet properly mobilized. It was an election year; Barack Obama looked strong for re-election, the Republican candidate was an obvious no-hoper, so another four years of black supremacy—black President, black Attorney General, black Homeland Security Secretary, and so on — was pretty well assured. No need to alarm people with any major disturbances.
With Donald Trump's election, the political temperature went up forty degrees. These last two revolutionary spasms have been in earnest.
Following the 2017 one, after Charlottesville, there was a serious campaign of de-platforming against dissident outlets like this one and American Renaissance. The totalitarian left barked "JUMP!" Their corporate poodles like PayPal and Amazon squealed back: "How high?" and overnight there life got a lot more difficult for us patriots and skeptics.
Now here's the second great spasm of the Trump era. The enforcers of goodthink, emboldened by their successes last time around, are getting people fired all over: New York Times editors, sports announcers, soccer players, data analysts, trombonists, …
When the dust has settled, the range of opinion allowed to be expressed by anyone employed in any kind of respectable job—or even, as the case of that soccer player illustrates, by the spouse of anyone so employed—will be even narrower than it was before the beatification of the Holy Blessed Martyr George Floyd, peace be upon him.
That, of course, is the point. The goal here is totalitarian thought control. After two or three more of these spasms, only one set of opinions will be permitted in the public sphere. Every opinion not approved by the Thought Police will be a species of hate. It will not be who we are.
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03—I have a dream. I have a dream today, brothers and sisters. I have a dream. My dream is of an America that has embraced race realism.
Yes, I have a dream that one day race differences in educational success will be as calmly, dispassionately accepted as race differences in athletic success; that race differences in criminal arrest and incarceration rates will be regarded with no more anger or alarm than sex differences in those same rates; that different social outcomes by race will be understood as caused not by the malice of our fellow citizens, but by ordinary processes of nature.
I have a dream that one day we shall discard magical thinking about race; that the notion of an invisible vapor or miasma called "racism" permeating the atmosphere and intoxicating our minds will seem as quaintly absurd as the Four Humors Theory of ancient medicine or the Luminiferous Æther of 19th-century physics.
I have a dream that one day, poor white children will not have to endure being lectured about their "privilege" by rich black adults.
I have a dream that one day soon, after sixty years of futile efforts to change what cannot, in the nature of things, be changed, sixty years of twisting our constitution and our jurisprudence into knots to pretend that different statistics by race can only be caused by white people's ill will, sixty years of vast public expenditures on educational and social programs that deliver no benefits at all (other than to those who pocket the expenditures); that one day soon, after sixty years of futility and waste, we shall accept race differences as calmly and as prudently as we accept the laws of thermodynamics.
I have a dream that with the black homicide rate at eight times the white rate, and with discrepancies of a similar size having existed since reliable records began a hundred and eighty years ago, an organization calling itself Black Lives Matter will address itself to bringing black homicide numbers down to the white level—better yet, to the Asian level—or else be laughed out of the public square.
I have a dream that race differences in outcomes, which are mere statistical abstractions remote from our everyday dealings, will one day matter as little to us as personal differences in outcomes. I shall never be a skilled violinist, a good tennis player, or a creative mathematician; not because of malice, "racism," or "privilege" on the part of my fellow citizens, but because of my own abilities and inclinations—which, like almost everyone else's, are middling and un-spectacular. I do not lose sleep over this. I absolutely do not take it as an occasion to insult and berate my fellow-citizens, or deprive them of their rights.
I have a dream that our nation's past will one day be cherished for having made possible our present security and prosperity; that the ignorance and misdeeds of that past be kept in sight on a shelf, accessible to all, but never dominating our view of what our ancestors were, the heroism they displayed in defense of our civilization, and the great good things they did.
I have a dream that one day freedom of association, which picks no man's pocket and breaks no man's leg, will be restored to us.
I have a dream that the evil and divisive doctrines of "disparate impact" and "affirmative action" will be scrubbed from our jurisprudence; that hiring into civil-service work—including police work and firefighting—will be strictly meritocratic; and that young black Americans will no longer, just to satisfy the whims of smug college admissions officers and innumerate jurists, will no longer be pushed into academic college programs they can't cope with and will drop out from.
I have a dream that my two beautiful children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character …
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04—The smack of firm government. The phrase "the smack of firm government" seems to have originated in a political report by journalist Donald Maclachlan at my old employer, the London Daily Telegraph.
That was 64 years ago—long before my time at the Telegraph, I hasten to add—when Britain was in the throes of the Suez Canal Crisis. The Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, was thought by colleagues in his party, the Conservative Party, to be not handling the crisis very well. Quote from Donald Maclachlan in the Telegraph, a conservative newspaper, January 3rd 1956, quote:
Why are Conservatives around the country restive, and Ministers and backbenchers unenraptured with their leader? There is a favorite gesture of the Prime Minister's which is sometimes recalled to illustrate this sense of disappointment. To emphasize a point, he will clench one fist to smack the open palm of the other hand—but the smack is seldom heard. Most Conservatives, and almost certainly some of the wiser trade union leaders, are waiting to hear the smack of firm Government.
End quote.
I know the feeling. Watching coverage of the anarchist takeover in Seattle, I am yearning to hear the smack of firm government.
I doubt we shall be getting that from the Governor of Washington State, a jellyfish named Jay Inslee. The last time Governor Inslee earned the attention of Radio Derb was back in April when we noted his having appointed to the state Supreme Court a disabled black lesbian immigrant from Trinidad. Disabled, black, female, homosexual, and an immigrant: How woke is that!
We further noted Governor Inslee's previous two appointments to his state's highest judicial authority: a Jewish Native American, and another lesbian advertised as "Asian-American-Latina." Either they are plumb out of able-bodied native-born white Anglo heterosexual males up there in the Pacific Northwest, or else the Governor is so overwhelmed with shame at being one such himself, he is determined there shall be no others in the seats of power.
When, two days into the anarchist takeover in his state's largest city, Governor Jellyfish was asked about it at a news conference, he replied, flapping his tentacles, quote: "Well that's news to me … I have not heard anything about that." End quote. Too busy ingesting plankton, perhaps.
The Mayorette of Seattle, an Irish-American lesbian—boy, they really are running out of normal people up there, aren't they?—at her presser on Thursday described the anarchists of Chaz as, quote, "patriotic." Well, yes, I guess they are, in their own sweet way. They are patriotic Chazians.
The only other Washington State authority figure to express an opinion was Seattle police chief Carmen Best.
I didn't know anything about Chief Best, so I went googling. I saw that she is a short, trim black lady; physically, not a figure who'd fill you with confident hope if you saw her running to your assistance when you were getting mugged in the street by two George Floyd-size villains. Uh-oh, I thought, another affirmative action hire.
My opinion of the Chief was not improved after the Monday surrender of Seattle's central district to the anarchist mob and the evacuation of the precinct station house. "This is an exercise in trust and de-escalation," said the Chief.
Ri-ight. Failing generals in war-time have a whole lexicon of euphemisms for retreat: "regrouping to the rear," "phased withdrawal," "strategic repositioning," and so on. Well, I thought, here's another one: "trust and de-escalation."
As the week progressed, though, my opinion of Chief Best did improve somewhat. I'd guess she'd been hearing plain talk from rank and file cops and had been revising her attitude accordingly.
At her Thursday address to the force, where she mentioned the abandonment of that station house, Chief Best actually showed some spine—not a thing we've been seeing much of anywhere this past couple of weeks.
[Clip: Leaving the precinct was not my decision. You fought for days to protect it. I asked you to stand on that line day in and day out: to be pelted with projectiles, to be screamed at, threatened and in some cases hurt. Then to have a change of course nearly two weeks in, it seems like an insult to you and our community. Ultimately the city had other plans for the building and relented [sic] to severe public pressure. I'm angry about how this all came about. I understand that my comments in this message may be leaked to the public, but I'm not concerned about that. I stand by what I'm saying.]
By this point I found myself thinking that Chief Best may be the only player in this dismal melodrama with anything like a normal person's approach to events. I bet she could administer the smack of firm government if the mayor and governor would let her, but of course they won't.
My own ideas about dealing with the Seattle Commune at first ran to flamethrowers, helicopter gunships, and mass bayonet charges, with tactical nuclear weapons for backup. On reflection, though, I realised that may not be politically optimal.
OK; how about a siege? Federal troops stationed at all access points to the zone, under strict orders to let no-one in, and to let out only infants, invalids, and infirm old people. Let's see how long the Chazians can feed themselves. Personally, I'd let it run all the way to cannibalism; but again, I appreciate that might not play well politically.
Federal troops, yes … federal … Shall we hear the smack of firm government from Washington, D.C.? Next segment.
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05—Crafting a proposal to consider. I had to restrain myself from adding a laughter clip at the end of that previous segment. The smack of firm government, from this administration? From our lazy, inattentive, blustering, putty-in-the-hands-of-Deep-State tweeter-in-chief? In our dreams.
To be fair to the President, though, he's in something of a bind here. For one thing, he has no support from his congressional party, who hate him.
Consider for example Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the most powerful Republican on Capitol Hill. What's he doing as the country goes up in flames? Quote from Roll Call, June 9th, quote:
Senate Republicans, led by South Carolina's Tim Scott, are putting together their own policing legislation and say they hope to find common ground with Democrats on issues like body cameras, data collection on use of force and training practices to emphasize de-escalation. …
Interrupting quote. "De-escalation," right. That word's kind of in the air right now, isn't it? Gotta de-escalate!
Where gangs of thugs looting and burning our city centers are concerned, I personally would like to see law enforcement try a little escalating. But hey, that's me.
Tim Scott, by the way, is the only black Republican in the Senate; so, a perfectly random choice to head up the project. Remember the old quip: "Q: What do you call the one black guy at a Republican conference? A: Mr Chairman."
Continuing the quote:
The Kentucky Republican [that's McConnell] said he's asked Scott, the only black GOP senator, to lead a working group in crafting a proposal for the conference to consider.
Pretty bold stuff! Senator Scott will lead a working group in crafting a proposal for the conference to consider. Perhaps when they have fully considered it they will bring forth provisional plans to form a subcommittee to produce a report for deliberation by the full committee so that, in the fulness of time, draft legislation can be prepared for consultation with the relevant departments … The spirit of Sir Humphrey lives!
Wait, though: Isn't the President also Commander-in-Chief of our nation's armed forces? Couldn't he just send in troops to restore order, as Eisenhower did with Little Rock in 1957, as Kennedy did in Oxford, Mississippi five years later, as Poppy Bush did in the L.A. riots thirty years after that?
Eh, he could, but it's not easily done. It helps to have some local authority figure—a mayor or a governor — ask for federal troops. The mayors and the governors here, in Minneapolis and Seattle, hate Trump and would cut their own throats rather than invite him to launch what might be a successful law-enforcement operation.
And then there are the military chiefs. In case it's escaped your attention, the most senior ranks of our military are thoroughly pozzed.
The name George Casey mean anything? General George Casey? General George Casey of the following famous quote, after the mass killing by a crazy Islamist at Fort Hood back in 2009? Famous quote:
As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse.
End quote.
And that was eleven years ago, before the Great Awokening really got airborne. By this point, eleven years further on, the Chiefs of our General Staff would be right at home on the faculty of Williams College.
My own occasional reports from the enlisted ranks tell me that the wokeness of the General Staff does not extend very far down the chain of command. If that's right, an attempted Pentagon coup against Trump to put some black lesbian Muslim in the White House might not work out exactly as intended. Don't think the brass wouldn't like to try it, though.
And even if Trump could get civilian cover for sending in troops, and even if our woke generals didn't resign en masse or try to stage a coup, the politics of the thing—looking forward, I mean, to November's election—are dicey.
Too many things could go wrong, with too many powerful people in the military, the bureaucracy, and the media, wanting them to go wrong—wanting to scupper Trump's chances in November.
It would be a heck of a gamble for Trump. Is he that much of a gambler? We may find out.
Although I should have said: Is he still that much of a gambler? You don't have a career like Donald Trump's without having rolled a lot of dice. The President is coming up to 74 years old now, though—this Sunday, in fact—and you can take it from me: the dice-rolling urge falls off after seventy.
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06—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: The last few days have been rich with ironies.
The Mayorette of Seattle tweets that, tweet: "It is unconstitutional and illegal to send the military to Seattle," when you just know, if you were to ask her, she totally supports the Union having taken up arms against the Confederate States.
Or how about the anarchists of Chaz enacting strict controls on who comes in and out. No open borders there!—and you better have good i.d. on you, just like at a polling place … There's nothing anarchists are more keen on than personal i.d. cards.
Here is another irony, one that, so far as I'm aware, nobody but me has noticed, though I'll allow it's a very small and obscure one.
HBO Max has announced they are withdrawing the movie Gone with the Wind from their lists, although only temporarily. The movie, a company spokesreptile explained, quote, "will return with a discussion of its historical context and a denouncement of those very depictions." End quote.
In other words, whereas you used to get just a movie, now you get a movie prefaced with a lecture telling you the correct opinion to have about it.
In the coming Utopia of righteous thinking there will be no such thing as just sitting down to be entertained. You will first have to have your attitude properly adjusted.
All right, Derb, all right, so where's the irony?
Here it comes; and as I said, it's a very little one.
We are of course undergoing a cultural revolution. The archetype and template for all cultural revolutions in our time is the one that convulsed Communist China from 1966 to 1976.
A lead player in that cultural revolution was Jiang Qing, the much-younger fourth wife of Mao Tse-tung. This lady distinguished herself as one of the loudest, shrillest, busiest, cruellest, most vindictive of all the propagandists and persecutors through all the most violent and terroristic phases of that cultural revolution.
Before marrying Mao, Jiang Qing had had a brief career as a minor movie actress in 1930s Shanghai. She fancied herself a connoisseur of the performing arts, and was particularly fond of Hollywood movies. Once Mao had taken power and she could get anything she wanted, she spent a lot of time watching movies. (As, by the way, did Stalin.)
Do you know what Jiang Qing's favorite Hollywood movie was? See if you can guess.
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Item: Our cultural revolution has spread abroad, with marches and protest demonstrations in several European cities.
Britain has been especially badly afflicted. Particularly strong over there have been the revolutionaries' iconoclastic passions. Perhaps you have seen pictures of Sir Winston Churchill's statue in Parliament Square, first defaced by the rioters, now boarded up for protection.
I would tell you more, but haven't the heart. I feel about Britain the way you might feel about a beloved elderly relative thrashing and howling in dementia. I grew up there; I remember Britain when it was still a country, before the great national suicide got under way. It was a lovely country; I remember it very fondly.
Now gone, all gone. The Mayor of London, a Pakistani Muslim who knows nothing and cares less about what was once a nation, has announced a Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, which is just as Orwellian as it sounds. London's statues, street names, and commemorative plaques largely reflect Victorian Britain, says the mayor, and that must be changed to reflect Britain's new, vibrant diversity.
Of course it must! I wonder what new name they will give to Parliament Square. Slay-the-Infidel Square, perhaps? Wakanda Square? Nelson Mandela Square? Osama bin Laden Square? …
I'm sorry, I have to turn my eyes away. It hurts too much.
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Item: It's not just white countries that are infected by this latest spasm of the cultural revolution. I was surprised to read in the South China Morning Post this Tuesday that in Japan, quote:
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Tokyo and Osaka last weekend in support of the Black Lives Matter protests.
End quote.
That was, however, at the tail end of a story about how the Japanese TV network NHK had aired a minute-and-a-half animation clip of wild-looking blacks looting stores.
Sample quote:
One black man with an Afro carries what appears to be a burning electrical appliance as if he has been engaged in looting while another—also powerfully built—strums a guitar while seated on a fire hydrant. Other black protesters march in outrage in the background.
End quote.
NHK, the Japanese network, has groveled and apologized. Still, it warms my heart to know that the fine old East Asian total indifference to Western racial protocols, at any rate where blacks are concerned, is still alive and laughing.
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Item: Back to the place formerly known as Britain. The news from over there just gets worse and worse.
Headline from the Daily Mail, June 10th: Marmite limits sales due to shortage of brewers' yeast during coronavirus lockdown.
Yes, this story is about Marmite, that lovely savory spread that has been sustaining and energizing Britons since 1902.
A fundamental constituent of Marmite is repurposed brewer's yeast. With the pubs closed by the coronavirus pandemic, however, brewers have been slowing down their production of yeast. The Marmite company has had to stop producing their larger jars of the stuff. Now you can only buy the teeny nine-ounce jar.
Here come the tears again. First they gave up their Empire; then they threw open the borders to all the criminals, moochers, parasites, and religious fanatics of the Third World. Now the Brits are cutting back on Marmite. I weep, I weep.
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07—Signoff. That's all I have, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your time and attention; and Mr President, if you're listening: Happy Birthday! And yes, that's sincere. I don't think much of you, but, dammit, you're all that stands between Americans and President Stacey Abrams. Stay well … please.
OK, I'd better sign off. I'm due to take over from my son at border patrol duty five minutes from now, and I don't want to show up late. You know how punctilious these ex-military types are.
And to be perfectly frank with you, I'm a bit nervous with him out there in full combat fatigues, carrying my trusty old Lee Enfield. It's a British rifle, one he's not used to; and in night-time conditions like now, a shot could easily go wide. In a suburban neighborhood like ours, a miss can do as much harm as a hit. I think in fact …
[Sound of gunshot.]
What the hell …? Wait a minute … [Calls out.] Son, that was Mrs Bernstein's cat from number 27! For goodness' sake be careful! [Normal voice.] Good thing that cat's an agile little critter. I guess they really do have nine lives. I'd better wind up here, though.
For signout music, let's end where we began: with a U.S. Army trombonist. Here's Staff Sergeant Carmen Russo with the United States Army Field Band playing Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-06-12--Memo From Middle America: NASCAR Cucks On Battle Flag—Will Fans Continue To Flee?

See earlier by Paul Kersey: Thought For The Daytona 500: Will Diversity Kill NASCAR?
It appears the answer to Paul Kersey’s 2012 question above is yes. Diversity might well kill NASCAR, or at least send its patriotic, middle-class, Trump-loving fans to look elsewhere for big-time racing. A few days ago, NASCAR not only banned the Confederate battle flag beloved of its fans but also dropped the requirement to stand for the National Anthem. And why was that? Because winless black driver Bubba Wallace said it had to.
What’s happened to NASCAR? Corporate cowardice and kowtowing to Black Lives Matter, that’s what. So yet another American institution has betrayed its fans in exchange for the approval of the leftist Mainstream Media, ruling class elites and their black proxy warriors who want to exterminate the Historic American Nation.
Whether Historic American Nation fans go along remains to be seen. But given that NASCAR is a Southern invention, its drivers mostly white men, and its fans mostly white men and women, the anti-white, anti-American, anti-Southern move might not work out too well.
NASCAR races always open with a prayer and salute to the American flag, and events are festooned liberally with the St. Andrew’s Cross that Confederate fighting men carried into battle. Despite events of the past few years, the racing outfit was holding its own against the larger, anti-white diversity movement and cancel culture.
As President Trump tweeted on Sep. 25, 2017: “So proud of NASCAR and its supporters and fans. They won't put up with disrespecting our Country or our Flag — they said it loud and clear!”
So proud of NASCAR and its supporters and fans. They won't put up with disrespecting our Country or our Flag - they said it loud and clear! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 25, 2017
Several NASCAR team owners agreed. Said Team owner Richard Petty, “Anybody that don’t stand up for that ought to be out of the country. Period. If they don’t appreciate where they’re at … what got them where they’re at? The United States” [NASCAR owners side with Trump, take firm stance against anthem protests, by Brant James, USA Today, Sep. 24, 2017].
On April 30, 2019, Trump invited 2018 NASCAR Champ Joey Logano, his wife, team owner and his Ford Fusion #22 to the White House. In February, the Trumps attended the Daytona 500. Trump was Grand Marshall. The race was completed the following day, with the president absent, but he tweeted his support for an injured driver.
Then came the George Floyd riots and NASCAR’s surrender on the flag and anthem, which was probably inevitable not only because of the riots and ensuing moral panic but also NASCAR’s race to prove its diversity bona fides with Drive for Diversity, a quota program launched in 2004 to bring in non-white and women drivers.
The results are underwhelming:
Booted from NASCAR after the usual apology, Larson is driving well in the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series.
In other words, Larson aside, Drive for Diversity is a sputtering jalopy that hasn’t done much except embolden those who hate NASCAR fans and the Historic American Nation they represent.
Enter Wallace, the MSM’s new hero, not for winning a race but instead for becoming a Social Justice warrior.
On June 7 at a race in Atlanta, after a week of BLM-inspired arson, looting, rioting, and murder, Kirk Price, a black technical inspector, knelt during the anthem and raised a fist salute [NASCAR official opens up about taking a knee for national anthem, prayer by Michelle R. Martinelli, USA Today, June 8, 2020].
At the same race, Wallace showed up wearing a shirt reading “I Can’t Breathe—Black Lives Matter.”
Bubba Wallace, driver of the #43 McDonald's Chevrolet, wears a "I Can't Breath - Black Lives Matter" T-shirt during the national anthem prior to a NASCAR event in Hampton, Georgia. https://t.co/yE190Yy6Ov pic.twitter.com/TCRcB1YKDg — ABC News (@ABC) June 9, 2020
On June 8, CNN’s Don Lemon gave Wallace his chance to bash the Confederate battle flag with an introductory video of white drivers in a Maoist Struggle Session.
Said the race-car driver who’s never won a race:
We are trying to figure out next steps and my next step would be to get rid of all Confederate flags. There should be no individual that is uncomfortable showing up to our events to have a good time with their family, that feels some type of way about something they have seen, an object they have seen flying. No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race. So it starts with Confederate flags, get them out of here, they have no place.
Of course, no one was uncomfortable, including Wallace, who admitted the flag didn’t bother him until he was “educated:”
But diving into it and educating myself, people feel uncomfortable with that. People will talk about that. That’s the first thing they will bring up. So there’s gonna be a lot of angry people that carry those flags proudly. It’s time for a change. We have to change that. ... That’s just the start of what we need to do. Bubba Wallace full interview with Don Lemon, YouTube, June 8, 2020
“Just the start” sounds rather ominous, but anyway, NASCAR received the message from its new master loud and clear and made this statement:
The presence of the Confederate flag at NASCAR events runs contrary to our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all fans, our competitors and our industry. Bringing people together around a love for racing and the community that it creates is what makes our fans and sport special. The display of the confederate flag will be prohibited from all NASCAR events and properties. [NASCAR statement on confederate flag , NASCAR.com June 10, 2020]
NASCAR wasn't using the flag officially. Fans bring them, and they were a fixture in the RV parks that are a large part of the NASCAR experience.
Like most Americans with an affection for the battle flag, most NASCAR fans are patriots who love the Star Spangled Banner, flag and song, which means they won’t cotton to this news, either: “NASCAR has removed guidelines that team members must stand for the national anthem, opening the way for peaceful protests during pre-race ceremonies” [NASCAR to allow peaceful protests during national anthem, by Dustin Long, NBC Sports, June 10, 2020].
NASCAR very quietly ditched that rule in Atlanta on June 7. Handouts traditionally distributed to drivers and pit crews before each race had included the respect-the-flag rule. But on June 7 the respect-the-flag rule wasn't included. So Price took a knee and raised his fist.
On June 10, the same day NASCAR announced its battle-flag ban, Wallace was the big star in Martinsville, Virginia—but again, not because he won the race. Rather, he appeared with a Black Lives Matter car and his “I Can’t Breathe” shirt. It was an historic night, we were informed, because NASCAR had finally banned the dreaded flag [Martin Truex Jr. wins Martinsville Cup race on historic night for NASCAR, by The Associated Press, USA Today, June 11, 2020].
So now, NASCAR, formerly somewhat apart from corporate-controlled professional sports, has joined the long line of those groveling before Black Lives Matter. So, too, did Richard Petty Motorsports on Twitter:
The Lemon-Wallace interview was possibly a set-up to push NASCAR across the BLM finish line, but anyway, NASCAR has been having engine trouble for some time in declining ticket sales and sponsorships [Why Americans have fallen out of love with NASCAR, by MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, May 27, 2018].
On June 10, the stands were empty thanks to the Chinese Virus. But what happens when the stands open again?
Will NASCAR search fans for contraband flags? Ransack RVs? Eject refuseniks who don’t like the new rule?
Whatever happens, just like Corporate America, NASCAR has betrayed its fan base and the Historic American Nation. Whatever the PR people say, that isn’t likely to halt its decline.
Those who run NASCAR deserve whatever economic harm comes from their kneeling before BLM and its fake “systemic racism” narrative. It's too bad for the fans though.
American citizen Allan Wall (email him) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico. Allan's wife is Mexican, and their two sons are bilingual. In 2005, Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard. His VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here; his News With Views columns are archived here; and his website is here.


vdare--2020-06-12--NYT: Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police

From the New York Times opinion section:
Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
Because reform won’t happen. By Mariame Kaba Mariame Kaba (@prisonculture) is the director of Project NIA, a grass-roots group that works to end youth incarceration, and an anti-criminalization organizer. June 12, 2020 …Congressional Democrats want to make it easier to identify and prosecute police misconduct; Joe Biden wants to give police departments $300 million. But efforts to solve police violence through liberal reforms like these have failed for nearly a century. Enough. We can’t reform the police. The only way to diminish police violence is to reduce contact between the public and the police. … So when you see a police officer pressing his knee into a black man’s neck until he dies, that’s the logical result of policing in America. When a police officer brutalizes a black person, he is doing what he sees as his job. Now two weeks of nationwide protests have led some to call for defunding the police, while others argue that doing so would make us less safe. … We can’t simply change their job descriptions to focus on the worst of the worst criminals. That’s not what they are set up to do. Second, a “safe” world is not one in which the police keep black and other marginalized people in check through threats of arrest, incarceration, violence and death.
The concept of the state having a monopoly on violence is so over.
Also, we need Gun Control Now.
I’ve been advocating the abolition of the police for years. Regardless of your view on police power — whether you want to get rid of the police or simply to make them less violent — here’s an immediate demand we can all make: Cut the number of police in half and cut their budget in half. Fewer police officers equals fewer opportunities for them to brutalize and kill people. The idea is gaining traction in Minneapolis, Dallas, Los Angeles and other cities. … The surest way of reducing police violence is to reduce the power of the police, by cutting budgets and the number of officers. But don’t get me wrong. We are not abandoning our communities to violence. We don’t want to just close police departments. We want to make them unnecessary. We should redirect the billions that now go to police departments toward providing health care, housing, education and good jobs. If we did this, there would be less need for the police in the first place.
Of course. Why hasn’t this idea ever been tried? I’ve studied American history closely up to the most recent event of any importance — the death of Emmett Till — and have never heard of the government spending money on health care, housing, education and good jobs. How do we know it won’t work until we try it?


vdare--2020-06-12--Childishness with a Capital "B"

Childishness with a Capital "B"

From MetroTimes:
Major outlets that spell ‘Black’ with a capital B now include ‘LA Times,’ ‘BuzzFeed News,’ and MSNBC
Posted By Lee DeVito on Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 2:17 pm
The Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed News, NBC News, and MSNBC are among the latest publications to change their style guides to capitalize “Black” when referring to people of the African diaspora — something that industry leaders the Associated Press and New York Times have still not yet called for.
On Thursday, Sarah Glover, the former president of the National Association for Black Journalists, said “the time has come for all news media to capitalize the B in Black” in an open letter calling on The Associated Press to update its style guide. …
Los Angeles Times journalist Erin B. Logan made the announcement that their newsroom was making the change on Tuesday, referring to a memo sent from the paper’s executive editor Norman Pearlstine. “The conversation taking place at The Los Angeles Times and across the country reflects a necessary and long overdue shift in thinking about racism,” he wrote. “Without exception The Times is opposed to racism.”
… On Friday, Erik Wemple, who reports on media for The Washington Post, tweeted that NBC News and MSNBC would also make the change. …
“This step is a good first step to affirm the significance of being Black in America,” Glover wrote in her open letter. “This matters. It’s to bring humanity to a group of people who have experienced forms of oppression and discrimination since they first came to the United States 401 years ago as enslaved people.”…


vdare--2020-06-12--The Statue of the Future: Churchill In A Box

The statue of the future https://t.co/76knwZS94W — Jasper Gregory (@jaspergregory) June 12, 2020
Is this a picture of the new 2001ish box around Churchill’s statue or the Cenotaph, Edward Luyten’s revered memorial for the dead of World War I?
From the Daily Mail:
He vowed never to surrender to the Nazis but now Churchill and the Cenotaph are hidden in boxes after London mayor Sadiq Khan boards up monuments to protect them from protesters – as BLM cancels rally over ‘threats from many hate groups’
Scaffolding sprung up around Churchill’s statue at Parliament Square and nearby Cenotaph late on Thursday
The monument of Britain’s war-time leader was covered in graffiti saying ‘Churchill was a racist’ last weekend
It comes amid fears of a clash between Black Lives Matters activists and far-right thugs in the capital city
The covering of British historical monuments prompted outrage from a number of Tory MPs last night
The protests has ignited a discussion about Britain’s imperial past and figures associated with slavery
Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals revealed statue of Thomas Guy would be removed following public pressure
By JOE MIDDLETON and JEMMA CARR and MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 20:48 EDT, 11 June 2020 | UPDATED: 06:09 EDT, 12 June 2020
In the background is Churchill’s senior partner in the great Liberal government of roughly 1906-1919, David Lloyd-George, victor in the Great War.
In other news, perhaps the greatest high point of the sitcom art, the “Don’t Mention the War” episode of John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers has been canceled from the BBC streaming service. The early part of the episode is less funny than most Fawlty Towers episodes, but it builds to a peerless climax: “You started it. You invaded Poland!”
An old social media favourite, but worth resharing. A comedy script editor's memo to BBC television’s head of comedy and light entertainment, 1974 #fawltytowers pic.twitter.com/fJkYTUr7ry — Ed West (@edwest) June 12, 2020
The BBC Comedy Script Editor who rejected the pilot screenplay for Fawlty Towers in 1974 wasn’t behind the times, he was 46 years in advance of his times.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-12--Defund the Thought Police

Defund the Thought Police

From Black Enterprise:
BLACK LIVES MATTER: CORPORATE AMERICA HAS PLEDGED $1.678 BILLION SO FAR
by William Michael Cunningham June 10, 20203781
What exactly are the people funded with this corporate largesse going to do, other than try to get independent thinkers cancelled? Corporate America has just funded a dagger aimed at the spirit of the First Amendment.


vdare--2020-06-11--A Reader Comments On Thomas Jefferson's Prophecy That "The Two Races, Equally Free, Cannot Live In T

A Reader Comments On Thomas Jefferson's Prophecy That "The Two Races, Equally Free, Cannot Live In The Same Government"

Re: James Fulford's blog post Jefferson's Prophecy, The Rest Of The Story: "The Two Races, Equally Free, Cannot Live In The Same Government"
From: An Anonymous PhD. [Email him]
I read with interest James Fulford's post on the "selective editing" of Jefferson's words on his memorial in Washington, D.C. You are absolutely correct to point out Jefferson's true views on the races. However, Jefferson wrote much, much more on the subject.
Perhaps his most detailed discussion of race is to be found in Query XIV in "Notes on the State of Virginia." (1785) Jefferson discusses a proposal, offered in the Virginia colonial legislature, to emancipate, then deport slaves, and follows with this astonishingly prescient prediction:
'It will probably be asked, Why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the state, and thus save the expence of supplying, by importation of white settlers, the vacancies they will leave? Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race."
Jefferson further discusses the characteristics of the Negro—the polite word at the time—with extraordinary accuracy:
"They seem to require less sleep. A black, after hard labour through the day, will be induced by the slightest amusements to sit up till midnight, or later, though knowing he must be out with the first dawn of the morning.
They are at least as brave, and more adventuresome. But this may perhaps proceed from a want of forethought, which prevents their seeing a danger till it be present. When present, they do not go through it with more coolness or steadiness than the whites. They are more ardent after their female: but love seems with them to be more an eager desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation. Their griefs are transient. Those numberless afflictions, which render it doubtful whether heaven has given life to us in mercy or in wrath, are less felt, and sooner forgotten with them. In general, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection. To this must be ascribed their disposition to sleep when abstracted from their diversions, and unemployed in labour. An animal whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous."
I highly recommend Merrill Peterson's "The Portable Jefferson." a standard college text for decades, if you are interested in reading more of Jefferson's views on the subject.
James Fulford writes: You can also read all of Thomas Jefferson's writings on WikiSource. The point is that Jefferson was a believer in human liberty, including that of blacks, but he was also a Southern planter who knew blacks personally, so had no illusions about them.


vdare--2020-06-14--I Told You So! Antifa’s Cultural Revolution Enabled By Conservativism Inc’s Stupidity, Cowardice Aft

I Told You So! Antifa’s Cultural Revolution Enabled By Conservativism Inc’s Stupidity, Cowardice After Charlottesville

See also: Charlottesville After Two Years: An Alt-History Of What Should Have Happened and Minneapolis Burning: This Happened Because Antifa Weren't Punished After Charlottesville And Inaugural Riots
The Floyd Hoax riots erupting across the U.S., including in Atlanta tonight, are a direct result of the American Conservative Movement™’s stupidity and cowardice after the 2017 Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville VA. In that case, Democrat state and local officials not only failed to prevent the Antifa attack on peaceful protestors (who really were peaceful protestors, unlike Main Stream Media-coddled Floyd Hoax rioters) but actively facilitated it. However, no one was punished and Conservatism Inc. cheered on the persecution of patriot activists in the aftermath. Now far more people have died than the one (probably accidental) fatality at Charlottesville, and a full-scale Maoist-style Cultural Revolution is rolling across the country. Yet Conservatism Inc. is still sounding retreat. What’s left of the Historic American Nation will have to look elsewhere for its defenders.
I know what happened at Charlottesville because I was there. But, regardless of your politics, no one can look to Charlottesville as an example of how to manage a protest. An independent report, ordered by the city itself, found that then-Charlottesville Police Department Chief Al Thomas, who is black, ordered his officers to “let them [demonstrators] fight” because it would make it “easier to declare an unlawful assembly.”
I find the current “Defund The Police” movement pushed by Leftists particularly ironic because, had there been no police in Charlottesville that day, everyone would have been safer. Patriot demonstrators had created a stable perimeter around the park and were blocking Leftist attacks and flying projectiles with shields. Things only spiraled out of control when the police, who had actually been cheered by the patriot demonstrators who assumed they were coming to secure freedom of speech, launched tear gas and literally drove them into the ranks of Antifa, sparking a wild street brawl. These facts are now not disputed by anyone, Left or Right, although (thanks to the Lying Press) they took time to emerge [Independent Review of the 2017 Protest Events In Charlottesville, Virginia, Hunton & Williams].
However, far from being held responsible, then-Mayor Michael Singer and then-Governor Terry McAuliffe are dining out on their malfeasance. Singer is giving interviews on public radio promoting his new book [In ‘Cry Havoc,’ Former Charlottesville Mayor Details A Tragic Day, by Michel Martin, OPB, June 6, 2020]. McAuliffe has his own book out, Beyond Charlottesville: Taking A Stand Against White Nationalism.
One would think that the Trump Justice Department would have investigated whether the city and Commonwealth’s political leaders made decisions that contributed to injuries and deaths for demonstrators, counter-demonstrators, and spectators. But it has done nothing of the kind. Instead, astonishingly, it worked directly with Antifa to persecute members of the Rise Above Movement, a group that fought back against Antifa.
Even worse, a New York State court sentenced members of the Proud Boys to four years in prison for defending themselves against Antifa in New York City in a fight that lasted just a few seconds. Antifa members refused to work with the police in any way, so there were no “victims” demanding justice. Nonetheless, defying all Leftist political theory I’ve ever read, the forces of statist repression swiftly moved to defend the anarchists against their nationalist foes. Conservatism Inc. cheered this on, with Rich Lowry condemning the “poisonous allure of right-wing violence,” instead telling the movement to rely on “patriotic suburban dads” who will sit at home and watch television. [The Poisonous Allure of Right-Wing Violence, by Rich Lowry, Politico, October 17, 2018]
Republicans who think conservatism is consumerism must now grapple with the fact that almost every major company in America is providing funding to far-Left activists. “Patriotic suburban dads” are now having to conduct armed patrols of their own neighborhoods lest their property be destroyed.
The same journalists and politicians who want to defund the police and praise “peaceful protests” as buildings burn in the background are suddenly worried about “vigilantes.”
Well, if you get rid of the police, what do you think will happen?
There have been a few times over the past few years when various conservatives made noise about investigating Antifa. Ted Cruz called for a federal criminal investigation after Andy Ngo was attacked in Portland. Newsmax said the Department of Justice was going to go after Antifa last August (no follow-up).
Most recently, President Donald Trump said he would declare “Antifa” a terrorist organization [President Trump says US will designate Antifa as a terrorist organization, KOCO5, May 31, 2020].
It’s unclear whether Trump can actually do this, because the U.S. has no “domestic terrorism” law. Of course, until about a month ago, journalists and nonprofits were demanding the government create one so they could arrest people with the wrong political views [White-Supremacist Violence Is Terrorism, by John Allen, The Atlantic, February 24, 2020]. Just as public protests went from “deadly” to “necessary” when the Narrative switched from COVID-19 to Black Lives Matter, I expect the MSM will go back to supporting a domestic terrorism law when they are confident it won’t be used against their Antifa comrades.
But such a law isn’t really needed to go after Antifa. Federal officers and soldiers kneeling doesn’t quite capture the full-scale refusal of the government to defend its own personnel. Consider:
Simply enforcing existing law would be enough (as with illegal immigration). Yet President Trump is again showing weakness.
The War Between The States began with a Southern attack on Federal property, at Fort Sumter. The anti-Trump cuckservative group The Lincoln Project attacks the president for not being like The Great Emancipator. Well, Old Abe would have called up 75,000 men by now.
The American government is apparently indifferent to destruction of its property, desecration of its symbols, and humiliation of its personnel. So why should American patriots rally to defend it when it has abandoned the Historic American Nation?
More than anything else, that nation needs leadership. But Conservatism Inc. is still sounding retreat. From just the last few days at National Review:
At this point it’s simply insane for Cuckservative Review to maintain this uproar is about police brutality, Confederate statues, or whether “Democrats are the real racists.” This Floyd Hoax movement is against white people, full stop. That’s why it’s so swiftly progressed from Confederate generals, to the Founding Fathers, to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi, to (significantly) the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution. [Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier Of The American Revolution Vandalized In Philadelphia’s Washington Square, CBS3 Philadelphia, June 12, 2020]
Yet Conservatism Inc. still can’t summon up the willpower to do anything but surrender—including by destroying one of the few institutions (police unions) that haven’t been entirely co-opted by the left.
“True conservatives” like the appalling Mitt Romney are marching along with the Floyd Hoax movement, apparently oblivious that his own church will soon become a target.
When there was a movement that could effectively oppose what’s happening, even in the streets—the Alt Right—Conservatism Inc. cheered as it became a victim of government repression, thus making current events inevitable.
It’s more than ever clear that the Beltway Right’s purpose is to lose. Worse than that, it’s to prevent nationalists from winning. From the Inauguration on, we’ve been telling Conservatism Inc. what was coming, and they ignored us. One cannot exaggerate their contempt for their own voters.
But perhaps that contempt is justified, given grassroots conservatives’ continued support for elected officials who hate and want to replace them. And unfortunately, because of MSM opposition, creating a viable Third Party may be practically impossible. Many feel, not without reason, that they have no choice but to hold their nose and vote Republican.
Still, after more than a half century of failure, a different approach is needed. Perhaps it’s time what remains of the Historic American Nation to start building an “autonomous zone” of its own.
Of course, once that starts happening, I suspect the timid, knee-taking forces of the state will once again feel free to deploy the iron fist.
It happened to us in Charlottesville. And the Beltway Right cheered.
Now that the anarchy is coming for it too, it’s trying to cut a separate peace. It won’t be successful.
There are answers to the current crisis. But they won’t come from the GOP, Conservatism Inc., or, alas—unless something changes—from the administration of President Donald J. Trump.
Charlottesville Survivor [Email him] is a white man who voted for Trump. The Left hates all white men who voted for Trump, whether they were in Charlottesville or not.


vdare--2020-06-13--Not From the Babylon Bee: “Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant Voice Support for Black Lives Matter”

From CNet:
Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant voice support for Black Lives Matter
Ben Fox Rubin/CNET
Tech companies like Amazon, Apple and Google have pledged donations to racial justice in the wake of George Floyd’s death, and are also using their voice assistants to spread awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement. They also respond to “all lives matter,” a phrase often associated with criticism of the BLM movement. …
Using the phrase “all lives matter” won’t get a response from Alexa, but asking it as a question — “Do all lives matter?” — does.
“All lives matter. However, black lives are disproportionately in danger in the fight against systemic racism and injustice,” it says, with the same links.
When Apple’s Siri is prompted with “Black Lives Matter,” the answer is “Yes, they absolutely do” with a link to the site. Saying “all lives matter” results in the assistant telling you that that the phrase is a common response to Black Lives Matter, “but it does not represent the same concerns” followed by the link.
Google Assistant responds to “Black Lives Matter” with an explanation of the movement’s message.
“Black people deserve the same freedoms afforded to everyone in this country, and recognizing the injustice they face is the first step towards fixing it,” it says.
Asking the search giant’s assistant if “all lives matter” prompts it to offer a counter argument.
“Saying ‘Black Lives Matter’ doesn’t mean that all lives don’t. It means black lives are at risk in ways others are not.”


vdare--2020-06-12--Looters: Are They Peaceful Protesters? Antifa? White Supremacists? George Floyd's Grieving Mourners?

DO YOU KNOW THEM? The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help identifying approximately 200 looters who broke into a Tampa Walmart and stole more than $100,000 worth of merchandise. DETAILS: https://t.co/p0nEI0LwPb pic.twitter.com/lxKFhDTodM — FOX 13 Tampa Bay (@FOX13News) June 11, 2020
Police estimate 200 looters stole $116,000, or $580 each.
Does anybody remember the grocery store looting TV game show that debuted after the Watts Riots of 1965? You ran through the store loading your shopping cart for 90 seconds and the crew that grabbed the most dollar value of loot won.
Supermarket Sweep it was called. It premiered in December 1965.
It was pretty fascinating to us 7-year-olds. As I recall, the winning strategy was to go for the liquor aisle and load up on bottles, but a lot of people instead seemed to go for whatever they wanted and wasted a lot of time moving around in the store.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-11--TV’s COPS Cancelled As Celebration Of Black Criminal George Floyd Continues Remaking America In Imag

TV’s COPS Cancelled As Celebration Of Black Criminal George Floyd Continues Remaking America In Image Of Lawlessness

Even though the show’s creator admitted to working hard to dispel stereotypes of criminals (by showing more white people as criminals), Cops was cancelled. All in the name of a black criminal named George Floyd, who once put a gun into the belly of a pregnant woman during a home invasion.
Shot.
Unbowed by the taboo, Ben Shapiro confronts both race and political correctness in his new book, Primetime Propaganda . Ben has provided another short clip exclusively to Townhall, this time featuring an interview he conducted with John Langley, the creator of the long-running FOX program, COPS. Langley says he’s irked by some media critics who accuse the show of perpetuating stereotypes about “people of color” by depicting a disproportionate percentage of minority suspects. Au Contraire, Langley protests, he intentionally shows an inordinate number of white suspects in order to side-step the facts. “I show more white people than, statistically, what the truth is.”
Chaser.
‘Cops’ Canceled at Paramount Network, Hollywood Reporter, June 9, 2020
The move follows the ViacomCBS cable network’s decision to pull episodes of the show in the wake of protests against police brutality.
Paramount Network has pulled the plug on Cops for good.
The ViacomCBS-owned cabler had removed the long-running show from its schedule in the wake of nationwide protests following the police-involved death of George Floyd on May 25. Now, the network says it’s dropping the show altogether.
“Cops is not on the Paramount Network and we don’t have any current or future plans for it to return,” a network spokesperson said.
Paramount Network’s forerunner, Spike TV, picked up Cops in 2013 after it ended a 25-season run on Fox. The series continued following the 2018 rebranding of the channel as Paramount Network, which also had syndication rights to many past seasons.
Old episodes of Cops currently air on WGN America and the ViacomCBS-owned streaming service Pluto TV. WGN America’s commitment to the show expires at the end of June and the cable network, owned by Nexstar, doesn’t plan to renew it, sources told The Hollywood Reporter. The Pluto TV channel remains active, however.