vdare--2020-06-15--Patrick J. Buchanan: Cancel the White Men—And What's Left?

"Can we all just get along?"
That was the plea of Rodney King after a Simi Valley jury failed to convict any of the four cops who beat him into submission after a 100-mile-an-hour chase on an LA freeway.
King's plea came after the 1992 LA riots, the worst since the New York City draft riots in 1863 when Lincoln had to send in federal troops.
In the aftermath of today's protests and riots after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, we hear similar calls. President Donald Trump must "reach out" and "unify the nation."
But how?
Many of these calls for unity come from the same elites who are all-in on tearing us apart by pulling down statues of the famous men of American history whom they most detest.
A second war on the Confederacy is underway, to disgrace and dishonor all who fought for Southern independence in the war of 1861-65. A second Reconstruction is being readied.
The St. Andrew's Cross, the battle flag of the Confederate army, though seen as a banner of heroism and honor to millions, is henceforth to be treated like the Nazi swastika. It has been already been banned at Nascar races, where it has been widely popular.
Liberals will fight for the right of Marxist radicals to burn the American flag to show their hatred of it but cannot tolerate working folks flying the battle flag of the Confederacy to show their love of it.
A second front in the campaign to cancel history is the renaming of U.S. army bases in Southern states that bear the names of Confederate generals, such as Forts Benning and Bragg. Trump has pledged to veto any defense appropriation bill that contains such a provision.
Third is the drive led by Nancy Pelosi and her allies to remove statues in the Capitol of any of those men of "violent bigotry" who were connected to the Confederacy.
First among them is General Robert E. Lee.
Gen. David Petraeus has put succinctly the crime of which Lee is guilty. Though "West Point honors Robert E. Lee with a gate, a road, an entire housing area, and a barracks," writes Petraeus, "Lee... committed treason."
The goal here is to impose the one-sided view of American history that is now ascendant, as official truth—that the cause of Southern secession was unlike the cause of American secession from Britain. It was an act of treason rooted in the ideology of white supremacy.
To have that sole acceptable view predominate, our elites believe they must remove from public display the statues of any associated with the cause of Southern independence and stigmatize them all as traitors.
They have, however, a problem: Where do the elites stop when the radicals demand more?
If support of slavery disqualifies one from the company of decent men, does it disqualify George Washington, who owned slaves his entire life? What Washington fought for, independence, was what Lee fought for.
Lee did not challenge Lincoln's election. He did not seek to overthrow the government Lincoln headed. He resigned from the U.S. army to go home and defend the people among whom he had been raised from an invasion to force-march them back into a Union the state's chosen rulers had voted to leave.
Not only does our national capital, Washington, bear the name of a lifelong slave owner, so does the capital of Missouri, Jefferson City. So does the capital of Mississippi, Jackson. So does the capital of Wisconsin, Madison. The capital of Ohio is Columbus. The capital of South Carolina is Columbia. Both are named for now-vilified Christopher Columbus whose statue still stands outside D.C.'s Union Station.
None of these men appears, from how they lived their lives, to have shared modernity's belief in democracy, diversity or social equality. Yet, it was they who cobbled together the United States of America.
Washington led us to independence and ownership of all the land from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Jefferson negotiated the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the size of the U.S. Andrew Jackson added Florida. James K. Polk added the Southwest and California. Slave owner Sam Houston won Texas' War of independence and brought his Republic of Texas into the Union in 1845.
Two of the three greatest Senate statesmen of the 19th century, Henry Clay of Kentucky and John Calhoun of South Carolina, were slave owners. Both have statues in the Capitol. Do they go, too?
The newest bridge over the Potomac, like the premier dam in the TVA, is named for Woodrow Wilson, who resegregated the government.
These were among the decisive figures of American history. If all are dishonored, with their statues pulled down and their names taken off cities, counties, towns, rivers, canals, bridges, buildings, highways, roads, streets and dams, then what is left?
Detest all those white men if you will, but they were the ones who created the nation we inherited.
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.
COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-06-15--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2016: NYT: Why You Republicans Are Guilty of Murdering All Those Peop

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2016: NYT: Why You Republicans Are Guilty of Murdering All Those People in Orlando

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A new New York Times editorial:
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD JUNE 15, 2016
… Omar Mateen shattered the tenuous, hard-fought sense of personal safety that many gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans have begun to feel as the movement for equality has made significant gains in recent years. His bullets and the blood he left behind that early morning were a reminder that in many corners of the country, gay and transgender people are still regarded as sinners and second-class citizens who should be scorned.
While the precise motivation for the rampage remains unclear, it is evident that Mr. Mateen was driven by hatred toward gays and lesbians. Hate crimes don’t happen in a vacuum. They occur where bigotry is allowed to fester, where minorities are vilified and where people are scapegoated for political gain. Tragically, this is the state of American politics, driven too often by Republican politicians who see prejudice as something to exploit, not extinguish.


vdare--2020-06-15--It's An Attack On White America's Past, Present, And Future: "Racist" Pioneer Statues Torn Down On U

It's An Attack On White America's Past, Present, And Future: "Racist" Pioneer Statues Torn Down On University Of Oregon Campus

Earlier: In 1914, White Baltimore Children Collected Pennies For Monument To 100th Anniversary Of Star Spangled Banner; In 2018, Monument Defaced In Now 70% Black City
Manifest Destiny devolves to this.
Pioneer statues toppled amid protests at University of Oregon, by K. Rambo, Oregon Live, June 14, 2020
Protesters on Saturday toppled two long-standing pioneer statues on the University of Oregon.
The statues have a history tied to the celebration of white conquest, and some students had renewed calls for their removal against a backdrop of international protests against racism and police brutality.
The Register-Guard reports a small group of protesters knocked the statues off their pedestals. One was dragged to the steps of Johnson Hall, the university administration building.
In a statement, the university said the statue’s future should be determined “through an inclusive and deliberative process, not a unilateral act of destruction.”
“These are obviously turbulent times. While we support peaceful protest and vigorous expression of ideas, we do not condone acts of vandalism,” the school said. “Our country, state and campus are coming to terms with historic and pervasive racism that we must address, but it is unfortunate that someone chose to deface and tear down these statues.”
The university also said a campus committee had been asked to look into whether the statues and other monuments should be removed, adding the statues will be placed in storage during the process.
The Pioneer was the first statue on the University of Oregon campus, according to the university website. During the 1919 ceremony in which it was dedicated, the president of the Oregon Historical Society gave a speech lauding the “Anglo-Saxon race,” according to a Hidden History article on the university’s library website.
The Pioneer Mother, erected in 1932, was the other statue removed by protesters. Researcher Brenda Frink told The Register-Guard in 2012 that similar pioneer mother statues celebrated “the expansion of American territory and the expansion of white occupation of that land.”
Frink noted the statue at the UO campus may not have the same intended meaning as other “pioneer mother” statues. The “pioneer mother” was also used by women’s rights activists of the early 20th century to reference equal strength to men, and used by conservatives to show a “preferable alternative to suffragists, flappers and New Women,” Frink said in the interview.
Both of the statues have faced a resurgence in calls for removal in the wake of a national movement addressing racism, white supremacy and police brutality following the police killing of George Floyd last month. The removal of the statues was part of a list of demands from the Black Student Collective on a petition with more than 2,600 signatures, as reported by the Daily Emerald.
Also on the list was a renaming of Deady Hall, named after Matthew Deady, the racist judge who founded the University of Oregon law school. Deady was a noted proponent of slavery and said only “pure white” men should be allowed to vote, according to a report commissioned by university President Michael Schill in 2016.
Schill has since recommended that the school’s board of trustees remove Deady’s name from the oldest building on UO’s campus.
Other statues commemorating imperialist and racist figures have seen removal in recent weeks across the United States, including multiple statues of Jefferson Davis and Christopher Columbus.


vdare--2020-06-15--Yes, It's Legal To Shoot An Armed Fleeing Felon, Whichever Side The Bullet Goes In

In the Atlanta case where a man too drunk to drive resisted arrest, attacked cops, and got shot (leading to more riots, and the burning of a Wendy's) one of the complaints is that the late Rayshard Brooks was "shot in the back" as he was trying to flee.
11:23 p.m. The two officers have been at the scene for 27 minutes. When the breath test is complete, Officer Rolfe tells Mr. Brooks he “has had too much drink to be driving,” and begins to handcuff him. Less than a minute later, Mr. Brooks is shot. Police footage and video filmed by a witness, Tiachelle Brown, shows Mr. Brooks grappling with the officers on the ground. Officer Rolfe says, “Stop that. Stop fighting, stop fighting,” and Officer Brosnan shouts, “You’re going to get Tased.” Mr. Brooks says “Mr. Rolfe, come on man. Mr. Rolfe.” He seizes a Taser from Officer Brosnan, stands up and punches Officer Rolfe. Officer Rolfe fires his Taser gun. The darts hit Mr. Brooks, and Officer Rolfe continues trying to stun him. Mr. Brooks runs away, holding Officer Brosnan’s Taser gun. Officer Rolfe gives chase, and continues to try to stun Mr. Brooks. The security camera footage filmed at Wendy’s shows Officer Rolfe chasing Mr. Brooks. In seconds, Officer Rolfe passes his Taser from his right hand to his left hand, and reaches for his handgun. While being chased, and in full stride, Mr. Brooks looks behind him, points the Taser he is holding in Officer Rolfe’s direction, and fires it. The flash of the Taser suggests that Mr. Brooks did not fire it with any real accuracy. Officer Rolfe discards the Taser he is carrying, draws his handgun and fires it three times at Mr. Brooks as he is running away. Mr. Brooks falls to the ground. How Rayshard Brooks Was Fatally Shot by the Atlanta Police, by Malachy Browne, Christina Kelso and Barbara Marcolini, NYT, June 14, 2020
This is the same thing that we saw in the Michael Slager / Walter Scott case, where the black suspect also tried to grab the officer's Taser, and where the white officer was sent to jail for shooting him as he was fleeing. (A 1985 case called Tennessee v. Garner held that an officer couldn't use deadly force against "an apparently unarmed, nondangerous fleeing suspect; such force may not be used unless necessary to prevent the escape and the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others.")
A law enforcement professional explained here that this doesn't apply once the arrestee is in custody.
But once the arrest decision is made and the officer makes physical contact with Scott, a seizure has occurred. The fact a seizure has legally occurred, once the officer tells Scott he is under arrest and makes physical contact, changes the entire nature of the shooting. The officer is not shooting a fleeing felon and the shooting is not a Garner seizure. The seizure occurred already, and Scott is actually escaping from custody, which makes him a shoot-on-sight subject. Persons escaping from custody can be shot. We do not know exactly what happened with the Taser. But we do know this much, Scott resisted arrest at least three times. Twice he fought with the officer and then he ran from the officer. We know the officer attempted to use less-than-lethal force, first by attempting muscling techniques at least on two occasions and then escalated to a Taser and only used the firearm after Scott fought with him, disarmed him and was escaping custody.
Of course, once he's attacked, physically, two armed policemen, and grabbed what is referred to as a "less-lethal" (not non-lethal) weapon, then the "fleeing felon" thing is less important, in my view. At that point the police are trying to protect themselves and the public.


vdare--2020-06-15--VDARE.com Noticed It First. Yes, the Emancipation Proclamation Statue in Boston Is Condescending.

I’m not an iconoclast and do not support the current trend of toppling statues. However, I actually sympathize with the BLM complaints about the Emancipation Proclamation Statue in Boston. [Petition calling for removal of statue in Boston’s Lincoln Square, by Natalie Rubino, FOXNEWS, June 15, 2020]
In fact, I made much the same point in a 2011 VDARE article where I argued that the statue is really a good example of the Massachusetts White Savior Complex, which is condescending toward blacks. [Doing The Wrong Thing: Does Bill Russell Really Deserve A Statue In Boston, by Matthew Richer, , March 1, 2011]
Who can doubt that this statue will be pulled down this summer, and others will follow?


vdare--2020-06-15--NATIONAL DATA: Covid Crash Flushes Out Immigrants, Gives Trump Great Opportunity—If Locked In With I

NATIONAL DATA: Covid Crash Flushes Out Immigrants, Gives Trump Great Opportunity—If Locked In With Immigration Moratorium

edwin@esrresearch.com (Edwin S. Rubenstein)

It’s an ill crash that blows no-one any good. The U.S. job market unexpectedly sprang to life in May as employers added 2.5 million jobs and the unemployment rate plummeted. It was, by a gigantic margin, the biggest payroll surprise in history. But even more significantly from VDARE.com’s point of view, the immigrant workforce population has continued to fall, and immigrant displacement of American workers is back down to levels not seen since way back in the Obama Administration. This presents Donald Trump with a great opportunity: he can lock in the recovery’s benefits for the American worker — and stem recent immigration’s damage to the GOP — if he acts on his instincts and imposes an immigration moratorium.
Our analysis of the “other” employment survey, of Households rather than businesses, uncovers an even more robust picture: Total Household employment jumped by 3.8 million in May. If monthly job gains continue at this rate, we will recover all the pandemic-related job losses within 6 months.
In May
Immigrants (legal and illegal, government data does not distinguish) gained 425,000 jobs, a 1.9% increase from April.
Native-born Americans gained 3.414 million jobs, a 3.1% rise.
VDARE.com’s immigrant employment index, set at 100.0 in January 2009, rose to 103.5 from April’s 101.5, a 1.9% gain.
The native-born American employment index rose to 95.2 from 92.4 in April, a gain of 3.1%. At 95.2, the American employment index indicates that 4.8% fewer native-born workers held jobs in May than in Obama’s last year in office.
Accordingly, the New VDARE American Worker Displacement Index (NVDAWDI), our name for the ratio of immigrant to native-born American employment growth indexes since Jan. 2009, fell to 108.6 in May, a decline of 1.1% from April’s 109.8.
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Not since July 2013 has VDARE.com’s Displacement Index been this low.
Displacement is down partly because immigrants are leaving in record numbers, and because those who remain are losing jobs at even faster rates than native-born Americans.
A bittersweet benefit of Covid-19 catastrophe: In percentage terms, job losses suffered by native-born workers during Trump’s tenure are now less than those endured by immigrants. From January 2017 through May 2020 native-born Americans lost 11.25 million jobs, an 8.9% decline, while immigrants lost 3.59 million, a 13.8% reduction.
Thanks, in part, to his (relatively) hard line on immigration, expressed basically via administrative measures, the Trump years saw a labor market where native-born Americans lost relatively fewer jobs than immigrants.
This is not quite what Trump supporters had in mind in November 2016. But it’s something.
Another way of measuring displacement: the immigrant share of total employment. Our analysis of the May BLS report shows the immigrant share fell to 16.32%, its lowest level since July 2013. In March 2020 immigrants held 17.06% of all jobs.
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Each 1% decline in immigrant employment share represents a transfer of about 1.4 million jobs from immigrants to native-born workers.
May also saw another near record year-over-year decline in the foreign-born working-age population (16 years+). It fell by 912,000 from May 2019—the ninth straight month of year-over-year decline. This contraction follows a protracted slowing of immigrant workforce growth that can be traced back to early 2018.
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This current immigrant workforce decline is more than double that seen in the 2008 Great Recession. Back then immigrants were leaving at the rate of 300,000 to 400,000 a month, year-over-year. And it exceeds the “Trump Effect” seen in the early months of the administration, when illegals apparently self-deported out of fear.
This process was underway well before the pandemic hit. It has to be counted as a significant Trump achievement—a “Trump Triumph,” as we label it on our featured chart.
A detailed picture of how American workers have fared vis-à-vis immigrants over the past year is published in Table A-7 of the monthly BLS Report:
Employment Status by Nativity, May 2019-May 2020 (numbers in 1000s; not seasonally adjusted) May-19 May-20 Change % Change Foreign born, 16 years and older Civilian population 43,408 42,496 -912 -2.10% Civilian labor force 28,473 26,622 -1,851 -6.50% Participation rate (%) 65.6 62.6 -3.0 pts. -4.57% Employed 27,678 22,434 -5,244 -18.95% Employment/population (%) 63.8 52.8 -11.0pts -17.24% Unemployed 795 4,188 3,393 426.79% Unemployment rate (%) 2.8 15.7 12.9pts. 460.71% Not in labor force 14,935 15,874 939 6.29% Native born, 16 years and older Civilian population 215,453 217,551 2,098 0.97% Civilian labor force 134,182 131,353 -2,829 -2.11% Participation rate (%) 62.3 60.4 -1.9 pts. -3.05% Employed 129,474 115,027 -14,447 -11.16% Employment/population (%) 60.1 52.9 -7.2 pts. -11.98% Unemployed 4,707 16,326 11,619 246.85% Unemployment rate (%) 3.5 12.4 8.9 pts. 254.29% Not in labor force 81,271 86,198 4,927 6.06% Source: BLS, The Employment Situation, May 2020. Table A-7, June 5, 2020. PDF
From May 2019 to May 2020:
The native-born American working-age population grew by 2.098 million, a gain of 0.97%; the corresponding immigrant population fell by 912,000— the third largest decline since the government started publishing this figure in 2007. For the ninth consecutive month, the number of working age immigrants declined, year-over-year.
Both native-born American and immigrants suffered large job losses; Native-born lost 14.45 million positions, an 11.2% job reduction; foreign-born workers were hit harder, losing 5.2 million jobs, a 19% loss. On a year-over-year basis, both groups did better in May than in April, i.e., their percentage job losses were significantly lower.
The immigrant work force (working or looking for work) fell by 1.9 million, a 6.5% decline; the native-born American labor force fell by 2.8 million, a 2.1% drop . Advantage native-born Americans.
Unemployment rates skyrocketed for both immigrants and native-born. But the native-born rate rose 254.3% (from 3.5% last year to 12.4%) while the immigrant unemployment rate rose 460.7% (from 2.8% to 15.7%.) Advantage native-born Americans .
The data also show that 16.3 million native-born and 4.2 million immigrants were unemployed in May, but over the last year the number of unemployed immigrants rose by 426.8%, while the number of native-born jobless rose by “only” 246.9%. Advantage native-born Americans .
Labor force Participation Rates declined for both immigrants and native-born Americans, with the immigrant LPR falling by 4.6% vs. a 3.0% decline in the native-born American LPR. Immigrant LPRs remain above that of natives, although, unlike the case in good times, this factoid reflects an immigrant labor force that is contracting three-times faster than that of native-born Americans rather than increased confidence in the job market.
President Trump displayed his usual humility: “This is better than a V,” he proclaimed. “This is a rocket ship!” “We’ll go back to having the greatest economy anywhere in the world,” he said from the Rose Garden [Unexpected Drop in U.S. Unemployment Helps Markets Rally, NYT, June 5, 2020 Updated June 8, 2020].
Warning to DT: The benefits of that “greatest economy anywhere in the world” will go to immigrants from everywhere in the world, as in the rebound from the 2008 Great Recession, unless they are channeled to American workers via an immigration moratorium NOW.
More evidence: illegal immigration on the southern border has started to pick up:
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To be fair, our chart puts some alarmist headlines ( Illegal immigration rose nearly 40% amid coronavirus reopenings, Washington Times, June 15, 2020) in perspective. Border crossings are still very low in absolute terms.
But it’s all the more reason for a moratorium on legal immigration — and, of course, a wall.
Edwin S. Rubenstein (email him) is President of ESR Research Economic Consultants


vdare--2020-06-15--Tucker Carlson Abandoned By Some Advertisers, But Not Mike Lindell Of MyPillow

Tucker Carlson has been having some great broadcasts of late, refusing to bow down to the so-called “Black Lives Matter” hysteria. Good for him.
Of course, Tucker is under attack and some sponsors are abandoning him.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson is losing more advertisers in the wake of his controversial comments about the Black Lives Matter movement. Walt Disney Co., Papa John’s International Inc. and T-Mobile US Inc. said this week they would no longer advertise on his show after he sparked an uproar in addressing the global protests over police brutality and racial inequality. “This may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through,” he said Monday on his Fox News show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “But it is definitely not about black lives and remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will” [Tucker Carlson Advertisers Depart After ‘Black Lives’ Comment, by Gerry Smith, Bloomberg, June 11, 2020].
The details:
Disney: “A spokesperson for Disney’s ABC told the publication Deadline that ads for its shows were placed on Carlson’s program without the network’s knowledge by a third-party ad buyer.” Acting like they didn’t even know it was on Tucker. T-Mobile: “On Tuesday [June 9], T-Mobile Chief Executive Officer Mike Sievert replied to several tweets asking about the mobile-phone carrier’s advertising relationship with Carlson’s show and whether it backed the host’s message. To one Twitter poster who said he would no longer watch Carlson’s show and called the comments “vile,” Sievert replied, “Same. We aren’t running ads on that show and we won’t be running ads on that show in the future. Bye-bye, Tucker Carlson!” Papa John’s: “Papa John’s will no longer advertise on any opinion-based programming, it said in an emailed statement Thursday, “Placement of advertising is not intended to be an endorsement of any specific programming or commentary,” the pizza company said.”
Overall, Fox isn’t losing revenue, as a spokesperson said “all national ads and revenue from Carlson’s show have moved to other programs and Fox News hasn’t lost any revenue overall.”
So it’s specifically against Tucker’s show.
Online activists have targeted Fox News advertisers as part of an ongoing campaign to damage the profits of companies that they believe promote bigotry and sexism. The protests following the death of George Floyd have also pressured media companies to step up their support for racial equality.
The so-called “Black Lives Matter” movement is getting big bucks from Corporate America.
So who’s left supporting Tucker Carlson?
According to Alphonso, a TV measurement company, the brands still advertising on Carlson’s show include MyPillow; Relaxium, a sleep aid; LeafFilter, a gutter protector; and KardiaMobile, a heart monitor.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell plans to continue supporting Tucker .
Several major advertisers, including T-Mobile, Disney and Papa John’s, have pulled their financial support for “Tucker Carlson Tonight” following the host’s criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement. However, one of the biggest advertisers on Fox News has no plans to follow suit. In a statement to Newsweek, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a vocal Trump supporter and Minnesota chairman of his reelection campaign, said the ads would continue [MyPillow CEO won’t pull ads from Tucker Carlson TV show, says ‘all lives matter,’ by David Matthews, New York Daily News, June 11, 2020].
Good for Lindell.
"MyPillow is not changing its advertising. I make all my advertising decisions based on what is best for my customers and my employees. MyPillow believes all lives matter and values all our employees and customers, treating them like family.”
This country needs more CEOs like Mike Lindell.


vdare--2020-06-14--Gone with the Wendy's: A New Burning Of Atlanta

Gone With the Wind, with its famous scenes of the Burning of Atlanta, is being canceled … but we can just watch the news instead.
Sir, this is a Wendy's. pic.twitter.com/rXDyAVLEdo — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 14, 2020
But CBS News wants you to know “the protests were largely peaceful:”
Protesters in Atlanta on Saturday shut down an interstate highway in both directions and set fire to a Wendy’s where police shot and killed a black man the night before. Earlier Saturday, Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields stepped down down from the role as tensions mounted over the shooting. The fire appeared to be contained shortly before midnight. And the protests were largely peaceful with no reported clashes with police in riot gear, according to CBS Atlanta affiliate WGCL-TV
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If so, it reinforces the pattern seen since Minneapolis that black rioters have mostly been gleefully stealing, while white rioters have mostly been doing the arson.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-16--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015: Trump Announces Run for President, Slammed By THINK PROGRESS Fo

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015: Trump Announces Run for President, Slammed By THINK PROGRESS For Mentioning Immigration

This fateful post was published here on VDARE.com on this day in 2015. See also, two months earlier, For Better Or Worse, Donald Trump May Be The Only Immigration Patriot Running For President.
After years of teasing the press, Donald Trump is officially running for President, exactly as VDARE.com's Matthew Richer bravely predicted. One can't help but think The Donald thought his announcement would be greeted by rapturous applause. Instead, there's been barely concealed fury from the Main Stream Media.
Some people say he's not a serious candidate. But the argument over "seriousness" is one I can't take seriously. Hillary Clinton is widely favored to be the next President and I have yet to find anyone who can name one actual accomplishment of her time as First Lady, Senator, or as Secretary of State.
Some say he's just a shallow salesman. But I'd rather a salesman than someone like Paul Ryan, who cynically and shamelessly lies to his own supporters.
Yet the MSM seems angriest because Trump mentioned immigration. I take great joy in quoting from Think Progress below:
“When do we beat Mexico at the border?” Trump asked the crowd at his announcement at his namesake Trump Tower in New York City. “They are not our friend, believe me…The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems…When Mexico sends its people, they are not sending their best. They are not sending you. They are sending people that have lots of problems, and they are bringing those problems to us. They are bringing drugs and they are bringing crime, and they’re rapists.” “Some, I assume are good people. But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we are getting,” Trump continued. “They are not sending us the right people. It’s coming all over South and Latin America and it’s coming probably from the Middle East. But we don’t know because we have no protection and we have no competence. We don’t know what is happening and it has got to stop and it has to stop fast.” Trump also indicated that he would build a “great, great wall on the southern border” and that he would undo the president’s executive action known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. [Watch Donald Trump Go Full Nativist, by Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, June 16, 2015]
Would it be better if more "mainstream" Republican candidates were making these arguments? Well, yes. But such is donor control over the Republican Party that only someone with his own source of funding can say these kinds of things. And it will be fun to watch him criticize the other Republican candidates.
Besides, who is the Beltway Right to complain? Trump has been given speaking slots at CPAC (even as conservative intellectuals are chased away), has partnered with conservative movement organizations like Americans for Limited Government, and regularly appears on Fox News. Any conservative whining that Trump is not "serious" has to explain why he was apparently "serious" enough to be used as a source of media attention and funding in the past.
And who actually is a "serious" Republican candidate with well thought out positions? Jeb Bush?


vdare--2020-06-15--Awful Gorsuch (!) Decision On Gay "Civil Rights" Says 1964 Law MEANT To Protect People Who Had Gay S

Awful Gorsuch (!) Decision On Gay "Civil Rights" Says 1964 Law MEANT To Protect People Who Had Gay Sex (Which Was Illegal)

A decision by the Supreme Court held that the 1964 Civil Rights act, which prohibits discrimination on account of sex, i.e. male and female, also prohibits discrimination on account of gayness, i. e., sexual activity, or what the lawmakers of 1964 would have called "sexual perversion." (At that time gay sex was more or less illegal in every state in the Union.) The worst thing about this decision is that it was written by Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch, who claims it's a "textual" decision.
See Supreme Court, per Neil Gorsuch, invents new LGBT rights, by Paul Mirengoff, PowerLine, June 15, 2020.
Carrie Severino, who co-wrote a book on the Kavanaugh nomination, writes:
Justice Scalia would be disappointed that his successor has bungled textualism so badly today, for the sake of appealing to college campuses and editorial boards. This was not judging, this was legislating—a brute force attack on our constitutional system. (1/x) While the question of whether to amend Title VII to add more categories may be a difficult one as a matter of policy, the question of the Court’s role on this issue was an easy one: Allow the people to decide the issue through their elected representatives. (2/x)
Carrie Severino Today six judges acting as advocates opted to rewrite the statute themselves, short-circuiting the legislative process and in the process denying the people a decision that should be theirs to make on a major issue.
Have no doubts about what happened today: This was the hijacking of textualism. You can't redefine the meaning of words themselves and still be doing textualism. This is an ominous sign for anyone concerned about the future of representative democracy. (end)
When Gorsuch was nominated, John Reid was dubious here at VDARE.com.
I pointed out the good side: Neil Gorsuch: Trump Picks White Male Old Stock American For Supreme Court, by James Fulford on 01/31/2017.
This is still the good side: Trump Appoints Normal Judges, Washington State Appoints Disabled Black Lesbian From Trinidad by John Derbyshire on 04/26/2020.
Gorsuch has done some good on the Supreme Court, but this is pretty awful.


vdare--2020-06-16--War On White America's Past, Present, And Future Intensifies: Statue Of John Sutter—19th Century Eur

War On White America's Past, Present, And Future Intensifies: Statue Of John Sutter—19th Century European Colonizer Of California—Removed In Sacramento

It’s happening so fast few dare speak out, because no one has the words to accurately articulate the scope of the devastation.
Manifest Destiny has been supplanted. The rule of Black-Run America (BRA) is washing away the civilization our ancestors built out of the wilderness on this continent.
Statue of pioneer linked to California Gold Rush is removed from outside Sacramento hospital KTLA.com, June 15, 2020
A statue honoring a colonizer who laid claim to the land where the discovery of shiny flakes of gold sparked the California Gold Rush was removed Monday outside a hospital bearing his name in the state capital.
Several dozen people cheered as a work crew lifted the statue of John Sutter — a 19th century European colonizer of California who enslaved Native Americans — off its pedestal outside Sutter Medical Center in the latest reckoning of historical figures being removed from public display.
Across the U.S. and Europe, statues of Confederate officers and colonial figures are being toppled, sometimes forcibly by protesters, as the uproar over racism spreads after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
“OK, he’s Sutter, but he’s a real son of a b——,” said Frank Condon, a playwright who was walking to a doctor’s appointment. He had marveled hours earlier that it was still standing and wondered why it hadn’t been taken down.
Sutter, a European immigrant who had built a fort in Sacramento in the mid-1800s, had laid claim to land on the American River in Coloma about 35 miles (56 kilometers) away in the Sierra foothills. James Marshall, a carpenter, was building a mill there for Sutter when he discovered gold in 1848.
The two tried to keep it a secret, but word got out and men flocked to the foothills in search of their fortune.
In addition to the replica fort in downtown Sacramento that still bears his name across from the hospital, there is a county and several schools and streets named for Sutter across California.
“Out of respect for some community members’ viewpoints, and in the interest of public safety for our patients and staff, we are removing the John Sutter statue that was originally donated to Sutter General Hospital,” a Sutter Health spokesman said in a statement.
Sutter Health did not say whether it was considering removing Sutter’s name from the nonprofit hospital system.
Ashwut Rodriguez, a California Indian from Sacramento, spit on the statue of Sutter after it was loaded onto a flatbed and tied down.
“This is only a Band Aid on a broken arm, but we can’t celebrate or consider anything until you stop celebrating these evil people,” said Rodriguez, 42, who came out with his family and young children to watch.
The statue will be kept in storage until a decision is made where it will go, Sutter Health spokesman Gary Zavoral said.
Sutter himself did not benefit from the gold rush and his empire crumbled after the discovery was made.


vdare--2020-06-16--What Lunatic Is Running This Floyd Hoax Madhouse? My Bet: The DNC

Earlier: Minneapolis Burning: This Happened Because Antifa Weren't Punished After Charlottesville And Inaugural Riots
My June 1 phone call with a Leftist relative revealed just how powerful is what Steve Sailer calls the Megaphone—the Main Stream Media when it acts in unison. My relative, whom I will call MR, really believes that Antifa is a fiction, that “Trump made it up,” and that the riots are not the work of Antifa and its Black Lives Matter allies, but instead are a “white-supremacist” false-flag operation. That’s the exactly the narrative the Mainstream Media has been blaring. But who came up with the script?
MR described a recent march from Barclays Center basketball arena, where the Nets play, down Eastern Parkway to MR’s neighborhood. MR said that a white man was in the lead, exhorting the marchers to riot.
MR also recalled marching with blacks after the 2014 death of Gentle Giant Eric Garner, who had, like Gentle Giant George Floyd, resisted arrest. There, too, MR averred, a white man sought to get the crowd to smash the windows at a bank. But the black marchers restrained him.
Of course, MR has no proof these men were anything other than white Leftists.
But his belief in the white-supremacist fairy tale comports with a dispatch at Just Security, a publication based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. On May 30, guest writer Mia Bloom [Tweet her] claimed video from the riots “challenge our beliefs about who is really protesting and for what reason.” The attack on CNN on May 29, for instance, was likely the work of “right wing extremists and accelerationists”:
The demographics of a largely white, young, and destructive group fit more with a movement known as accelerationists than Black Lives Matter. The accelerationists, if you have never heard the term, are an extreme subset of white nationalism whose goal is to bring about chaos and destruction. [Far-Right Infiltrators and Agitators in George Floyd Protests: Indicators of White Supremacists.]
Two days later, The Nation offered a similar assessment with purported documents from the FBI, which supposedly had zero intelligence that Antifa was behind the Floyd-Hoax riots on May 31 [The FBI Finds ‘No Intel Indicating Antifa Involvement’ in Sunday’s Violence, by Ken Klippenstein, June 2, 2020]. Instead, Klippenstein reported, the FBI was fretting about a “far-right social group [that]called for far-right provocateurs to attack federal agents, use automatic weapons against protesters.”
Of course, that was May 31. What about the riots, arson, looting, and vandalism since then? Are “far-right provocateurs” responsible for those, too. For toppled statues? Murdered cops? Blocking highways and trying to murder motorists?
One video after another has clearly shown blacks’ operating freely and independently as they invaded, wrecked, and torched stores.
Forget all that, Buzzfeed tells us, because Antifa’s just a figment of our imagination: How The Antifa Fantasy Spread In Small Towns Across The US, by Anne Helen Peterson, June 9, 2020].
But, despite MR’s credulity and what the Ruling-Class elitists at Just Security would have us believe, Antifa is real. It is not a group of earnest, if misguided and sometimes overzealous youngsters, who simply want peace and justice and occasionally go a little too far. It’s a communist goon squad modeled on Antifaschistische Aktion, itself a communist front that supposedly opposed the Nazi takeover of Germany in the early 1930s. Antifa’s flag is nearly identical to that of its predecessor, a look that signals the group’s intent and guiding ideology.
When I lived in West Germany (1980-1985), Communist terrorists sought to rationalize their campaign of slaughter by asserting that if only more people had been like them, the Nazis would never have taken over. Thus, instead of a totalitarian, genocidal, Nazi dictatorship, Germany would have been under the thumb of a totalitarian, genocidal, Communist dictatorship!
James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas recently released multiple videos, shot by undercover reporters, of Antifa’s hand-to-hand combat training sessions at which “instructors” tell the “trainees” to gouge eyes, break ribs, and punch vital organs.
Even more alarming is Antifa’s affiliated, heavily-armed militia, Redneck Revolt, which breaks down into John Brown Gun Clubs and practices with semi-automatic rifles.
“[The attack on the 2017 Unite The Right Rally at] Charlottesville was comprised of your typical Antifa black-bloc measures,” a Project Veritas reporter said. “There were multiple chapters of Redneck Revolt that went to Charlottesville and acted as the militia wing of the anti-fascist movement.”
And Project Veritas has also released video of operatives for RefuseFa, an Antifa affiliate, bragging about contacts with high-tech tycoon Steve Wozniak’s Electronic Frontier Foundation, billionaire leftist and failed presidential candidate Tom Steyer, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign operatives.
Hearing MR’s talking points reminded me of Robert Reich, [Email him], economics professor at University California, Berkeley and Bill Clinton’s Labor Secretary. In 2017, recall, Reich suggested that the rioters who tried to stop a speech at Berkeley by Milo Yiannopoulos weren’t Antifa thugs, but instead Trump supporters in cahoots with Yiannopoulos and Breitbart.com.
Our Ruling Class has effortlessly adapted that crackpot idea to the Floyd-Hoax riots. MR even provided links to MSM articles that say Twitter chieftain Jack Dorsey is the source for the claims.
White instigators to blame for mayhem in some protests, local officials say, by Isaac Stanley-Becker, June 1, 2020
This notion, whereby white rioters were all “white supremacists,” rather than Antifa, came seemingly from nowhere, to become ubiquitous from elected Democrat politicians’ mouths, fake news articles, comments by Leftists on comment threads—just as suddenly and ubiquitously as the propaganda, beginning on April 5, whereby black suffering from the China Virus was somehow due to “White Supremacism” [Amid coronavirus pandemic, black mistrust of medicine looms, by Aaron Morrison and Jay Reeves, The Associated Press, April 5]. This was itself an extension of the demand for white racial reparations payable to blacks and Hispanics made two days earlier by Cong. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and which was immediately echoed in countless virtually identical op-eds and fake news stories [AOC wants coronavirus reparations for minorities: ‘Inequality is a comorbidity,’ by Jessica Chasmar, The Washington Times, April 3, 2020].
Twitter’s Dorsey has a history going back to the Brown-Hoax Riots in Ferguson of supporting anti-white, anti-cop rioters:
And don’t forget what Dorsey did after BLM, MSM, Antifa, and the Democrats—call them BMAD?—engineered the Big Riot in Charlottesville, Va., when a rifle-toting professor from the University of North Carolina, a black supremacist police chief, and their flame-throwing shock troops caused the death of Heather Heyer: He suppressed so-called “Alt-Right” groups who disputed the Narrative [Twitter’s new rules could result in a major purge of alt-right accounts, by Tony Tomm, Vox, December 18, 2017].
Fact is, not a single white rioter thus far arrested has been a “white supremacist,” “white instigator,” or “white accelerationist.”
You might call that a “debunked conspiracy theory,” a favorite MSM psywar label for stories it doesn’t like.
When one recalls Reich’s false flag hoax from January 2017, one realizes that the new hoax is a recycled version of it.
But where did the hoax come from in January 2017, and again in late May 2020?
It is clear to me that there is now a much broader conspiracy involved than in the notorious case of Journolist, the secret listserv group of elite journalists that in 2008 electronically bodyguarded Barack Obama all the way to the White House. For while Journolist was just an MSM operatives’ conspiracy, the source of the current hoax joins media operatives, non-media activists, academics, even corporate executives.
My hunch: the Democratic National Committee is Hoax Central.
Recall that its former deputy chairman, leftist Muslim Keith Ellison, now attorney general of Minnesota, tweeted his support for Antifa in 2018 [DNC deputy chair Keith Ellison signals support for Antifa, by Samuel Chamberlain, Fox News, January 3, 2018]. As well, a top Antifa thug in Washington, D.C., Joseph Alcoff, worked for a liberal think tank and had access to top Democrats. Tim Kaine's son was arrested for a violent attack on a Trump rally—it took three cops and pepper spray to get him in handcuffs.
There is every reason to believe that Antifa operatives and sympathizers have penetrated the highest reaches of the Democratic Party as thoroughly as the Reds penetrated the United States Government decades ago.
Author and blogger James Kunstler recently wrote:
[H]ow much of the response to the public killing of one George Floyd has been an engineered operation by the Democratic Party and its allies in the propaganda industry? I’d say, an awful lot…
From the Democrat-orchestrated Russia Hoax to the Democrat-orchestrated Floyd Hoax is but a single step.
Nicholas Stix [email him] is a New York City-based journalist and researcher, much of whose work focuses on the nexus of race, crime, and education. He spent much of the 1990s teaching college in New York and New Jersey. His work has appeared in Chronicles, The New York Post, Weekly Standard, Daily News, New York Newsday, American Renaissance, Academic Questions, Ideas on Liberty and many other publications. Stix was the project director and principal author of the NPI report, The State of White America-2007. He blogs at Nicholas Stix, Uncensored.


vdare--2020-06-16--Michelle Malkin: The White Supremacist Lynching Hoax

If you type "#HoustonLynching" in Twitter's search engine, hundreds and hundreds of tweets appear. Thousands more appear under the hashtags "#Lynchings" and "#Lynched." Social media activists supporting the Black Lives Matter movement have spread a terrifying story: Evil racists are hanging black men from trees across the country.
In the wake of the George Floyd incident in Minnesota and three weeks of riots, America is in the grips of a purported epidemic of white supremacist violence that harkens back to the Jim Crow era with noose-wielding Klansman lurking on every corner.
Except that it's all a big fat lie.
Actress Deborah Brooks exclaimed: "Their (sic) LYNCHING our Black men and no one is screaming like hell! So I will, the white racists are LYNCHING OUR BLACK MEN! California, Houston Chicago."
Ray McClusky, whose Twitter bio sports #EndRacism and #VeteransResist identifiers, fumed: "There's no way they are suicide or coincidence. I think they are all connected & are serial murders by lynching. White supremacists are terrorizing the black community."
Self-described "foundational Black American" Tariq Nasheed raged that "cops are working with white supremacists" to cover up the "lynchings."
Rebecca Smirnov: "Why isn't the press reporting on these lynchings ... How many more must die before the press connects the deaths? Who is investigating the #Lynchings?"
A BLM activist who calls himself "SJPeace" posited: "It can't be a coincidence. There is no reason to rule out that these were racial terror lynchings! BLACK LIVES MATTER!"
Just a few teeny, tiny problems.
The "black man" in the Houston suburb of Shady Acres who was allegedly a "lynching" victim was, in fact, a Hispanic adult male "whose family said he was suicidal," according to local authorities.
Moreover, of the other four alleged lynching victims lumped together by social justice propagandists:
Bronx native Dominique Alexander was found on June 9 in a Manhattan Park. His death was ruled a suicide. The family has declined to comment publicly except to disclose that they are grieving and loved Alexander.
Robert Fuller of Palmdale, California, had been the subject of a missing persons flyer describing him as having a "history of mental illness" before his body was discovered June 10 hanging from a tree.
Malcolm Harsch of Victorville, California, was found hung from a tree in his homeless encampment 10 days before Fuller on May 31. His death was initially reported to police by his girlfriend who lived with him in a tent. Law enforcement authorities did not recover any evidence from the scene suggesting foul play. Family members who have stirred conspiracy theories in the media live across the country in Ohio. Harsch reportedly had both a long-distance wife and the girlfriend.
TeTe Otis Gulley was a black, transgender homeless person who was found hanging from a tree in a park on May 27. He had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The suicide rate for transgenders, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, is nearly 10 times the national average. More than 40% of transgender men and women in the U.S. have attempted to take their own life.
Fact: On average, one person dies by suicide every 11 minutes in the U.S.
Fact: In 2014, according to the American Association of Suicidology, "2,421 African Americans died by suicide in the U.S. ... The overall suicide rate per 100,000 was 5.46."
Fact: Hangings accounted for 26% of suicides in 2010, up from 19% at the start of the decade, according to a Johns Hopkins study published just last fall.
But let's not let facts, or the utter lack of them, get in the way of expedient narratives to paint our country as irredeemably bigoted and unsafe for non-whites. Mainstream outlets from Voice of America to National Public Radio to the New York Times and CBS have all failed to tamp down the lynching hysteria. Prominent, Twitter-verified influencers are fueling this Mother of All Hate Crime Hoaxes, too.
Left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer baldly asserted: "Black people are literally still being lynched in this country."
Liberal writer and "comedian" Tony Posnanski tossed his echo into the chamber: "Five African Americans were lynched this week."
And Democratic Rep. Joe Kennedy III lamented: "These horrifying deaths of Black men conjure up the worst racist sins of our nation's past."
Here's the ultimate truth: Fear-mongering opportunists and anarchy vultures don't care about the dead black men they are using to advance their America-smearing agenda. Instead of confronting the nation's suicide, homelessness and pandemic crises, we have callous race hustlers connecting random dots of real tragedies and conjuring up invisible hangmen to stir more hatred and division.
Somehow, all these conspiracy theorists have escaped the increasingly authoritarian regime of Silicon Valley thought policing, "moderation" tools or algorithmic discrimination directed at any who dare criticizes BLM. On Tuesday, NBC News pressured Google to demonetize The Federalist and ZeroHedge websites because liberal activist reporters didn't like the rival media outlets' coverage of BLM violence. There's only thing hanging from the end of the rope at the hands of an out-of-control lynch mob:
The credibility of American journalism is swinging in the wind. R.I.P.
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Michelle Malkin [Email her] is the author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website. Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies, ,Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs, and Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers.
Malkin is author of the book, "Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction," available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM


vdare--2020-06-17--Ann Coulter: Instead Of Enabling Attacks On  Dead Confederates, GOP Should Defund Elite Institutions

Ann Coulter: Instead Of Enabling Attacks On  Dead Confederates, GOP Should Defund Elite Institutions Like Yale

See earlier , by Ann Coulter : Mass Immigration—Why You No Longer Recognize Your Country The Democratic Party is being forced into taking ridiculous positions by its insane base .
Defund the police !
Dishonor the flag !
Throw Christopher Columbus in a lake !
What a wonderful gift !
All Republicans have to do is take the other side .
Make themselves the alternative to madness .
Instead , Trump and the Republicans have decided they ’ re going to be “ Democrats Lite.
” I ’ ll let others berate Republicans for doing nothing about the rioting , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corporate and social media canceling .
This column will address the GOP ’ s moronitude in response to the attacks on Confederate monuments .
Works of art are being destroyed by Maoist vandals who have no idea what they ’ re doing .
Quick !
Who was Fort Bragg named after ?
What did he do ?
Do you even know his first name ?
When you have to Google the guy on a statue to figure out who he is , maybe it ’ s not really the daily humiliation you claim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the military bases are famous in their own right .
No one hears “ Fort Hood ” and thinks of Gen. John Bell Hood .
Fort Bragg , home of the 82nd Airborne , is many orders of magnitude more famous than Gen. Braxton Bragg .
It would be like demanding President John F. Kennedy change his name because his namesake , John Fitzgerald , was a corrupt Boston mayor .
Most obviously , the Democratic Party is going to have to change its name .
You want an institution that represents slavery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democrats created Jim Crow , and the founder of the party was a slave holder .
( The Republican Party was founded to end slavery . )
Speaking of repellant Democrats , Sen. Tim Kaine , D-Va. , said on the Senate floor this week that the United States “ didn ’ t inherit slavery from anybody .
We created it.
” This is the most ignorant statement ever made on the Senate floor .
( And that ’ s saying something ! )
Every society has had slavery ; it existed long @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Indians ( though they preferred torturing their captives to death , inasmuch as few of the natives farmed or built things ) .
At least a million Europeans were kidnapped by African Muslims and forced into slavery .
The vast majority were starved or beaten to death .
In fact , unless we ’ re counting the Democrats ’ wearing kente cloth last week , slavery is the only African institution ever adopted by this country .
Portuguese—not Americans—brought the first slaves to Jamestown in 1619 ( The New York Times ’ favorite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We , are , however , the only country that fought a war to end slavery .
Isn ’ t slavery bad enough ?
No , Kaine has to make it extra bad by calling slavery an American invention .
A U.S. senator committed a blood libel against his own country .
Anything to say , Republicans ?
Even Obama would have corrected this boob .
The BLM fanboys complain that other countries don ’ t honor the losing side in their civil wars .
Yes , exactly—that ’ s why their wars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a civil war since 1948 .
Israel ’ s been fighting Palestinians since 1948 .
The Kurds and Turks have been fighting for half a century .
At last count , there are two civil wars going on in the Philippines , and at least three in India .
America concluded its civil war by dominating and subjugating the losers , but also honoring their bravery .
Even before the war , the South was eons behind the North in industrial development .
If the entire country had been the South , America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most advanced nation on Earth .
( And that ’ s how slaves built America ! )
After the war , it was like a third world country .
On the other hand , Southerners could take justifiable pride in what everyone agrees was a better class of general and soldier .
At Appomattox , Gen. Ulysses S. Grant allowed Gen. Robert E. Lee to keep his sword .
As Lee mounted his horse to leave , Grant saluted him .
After announcing the South ’ s surrender at the White House , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Dixie.
” It was an amazing way to end a civil war .
My ancestors were abolitionists who fought for the Union , but you don ’ t have to be a Southerner to care about Confederate monuments .
I can ’ t help but notice that the people trying to obliterate our history are not part of that history .
Not that long ago , nearly all Americans had pre-Civil War ancestors .
Not anymore !
Recent immigrants , by which I mean people who arrived after 1865 , think the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it hilarious to destroy anything that happened before they got here .
What about the black Revolutionary heroes , like Crispus Attucks and Phillis Wheatley ?
Nope , you can forget about foundational black Americans , too .
The first two centuries of our nation ’ s history are canceled .
Why would that interest someone from Pune , India , Mogadishu , Somalia , or Bangkok , Thailand ?
( That would be Kshama Sawant , socialist Seattle city council member , Democrat ; Rep. Ilhan Omar , Democrat ; U.S. Sen. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plunderers , globalists , the wolf of Wall Street , 8 million “ diversity ” jobs ( that go to Indians , not the descendants of American slaves , as intended ) —that ’ s the America they revere .
The new arrivals are fine with Red Guards going into cemeteries , ripping up symbols of our heritage .
Just don ’ t dare lay a finger on their privately owned Rothkos !
What do the Republicans say ?
No problem !
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell says he ’ s “ OK ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Trump tweets narcissistic bluster .
How about a bill withholding all federal funds from Yale University until it changes its name ?
The school ’ s namesake , Elihu Yale , was not only a slave owner , but a slave trader .
Quite a dilemma for the little snots who attend and teach there !
It will be tremendously damaging to their brand .
After all , true sublimity for a Social Justice Warrior is virtue signaling and advertising their high SAT scores at the same time .
If you refuse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t you at least want to have some fun ?
Ann Coulter is the author of THIRTEEN New York Times bestsellers—collect them here .
Her book , ¡Adios America !
The Left ’ s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hell Hole , was released on June 1 , 2015 .
Her latest book , Resistance Is Futile !
: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind , was released on August 21 , 2018 .

See earlier, by Ann Coulter: Mass Immigration—Why You No Longer Recognize Your Country
The Democratic Party is being forced into taking ridiculous positions by its insane base. Defund the police! Dishonor the flag! Throw Christopher Columbus in a lake!
What a wonderful gift! All Republicans have to do is take the other side. Make themselves the alternative to madness.
Instead, Trump and the Republicans have decided they’re going to be “Democrats Lite.”
I’ll let others berate Republicans for doing nothing about the rioting, the arsons, the beatings, the corporate and social media canceling. This column will address the GOP’s moronitude in response to the attacks on Confederate monuments. Works of art are being destroyed by Maoist vandals who have no idea what they’re doing.
Literally no idea.
Quick! Who was Fort Bragg named after? What did he do? Do you even know his first name? When you have to Google the guy on a statue to figure out who he is, maybe it’s not really the daily humiliation you claim it is.
At this point, the military bases are famous in their own right. No one hears “Fort Hood” and thinks of Gen. John Bell Hood. Fort Bragg, home of the 82nd Airborne, is many orders of magnitude more famous than Gen. Braxton Bragg. It would be like demanding President John F. Kennedy change his name because his namesake, John Fitzgerald, was a corrupt Boston mayor.
Most obviously, the Democratic Party is going to have to change its name. You want an institution that represents slavery? Confederate politicians were all Democrats, Democrats created Jim Crow, and the founder of the party was a slave holder. (The Republican Party was founded to end slavery.)
Speaking of repellant Democrats, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said on the Senate floor this week that the United States “didn’t inherit slavery from anybody. We created it.”
This is the most ignorant statement ever made on the Senate floor. (And that’s saying something!)
Every society has had slavery; it existed long before America did, including by American Indians (though they preferred torturing their captives to death, inasmuch as few of the natives farmed or built things). At least a million Europeans were kidnapped by African Muslims and forced into slavery. The vast majority were starved or beaten to death.
In fact, unless we’re counting the Democrats’ wearing kente cloth last week, slavery is the only African institution ever adopted by this country. Portuguese—not Americans—brought the first slaves to Jamestown in 1619 (The New York Times’ favorite episode of American history!). We, are, however, the only country that fought a war to end slavery.
Isn’t slavery bad enough? No, Kaine has to make it extra bad by calling slavery an American invention. A U.S. senator committed a blood libel against his own country.
Anything to say, Republicans? Even Obama would have corrected this boob.
The BLM fanboys complain that other countries don’t honor the losing side in their civil wars. Yes, exactly—that’s why their wars never end.
Myanmar has been in a civil war since 1948. Israel’s been fighting Palestinians since 1948. The Kurds and Turks have been fighting for half a century. At last count, there are two civil wars going on in the Philippines, and at least three in India.
America concluded its civil war by dominating and subjugating the losers, but also honoring their bravery.
Even before the war, the South was eons behind the North in industrial development. If the entire country had been the South, America never would have become the richest, most advanced nation on Earth. (And that’s how slaves built America!) After the war, it was like a third world country.
On the other hand, Southerners could take justifiable pride in what everyone agrees was a better class of general and soldier.
At Appomattox, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant allowed Gen. Robert E. Lee to keep his sword. As Lee mounted his horse to leave, Grant saluted him. After announcing the South’s surrender at the White House, President Lincoln ordered the band to play “Dixie.”
It was an amazing way to end a civil war.
My ancestors were abolitionists who fought for the Union, but you don’t have to be a Southerner to care about Confederate monuments. I can’t help but notice that the people trying to obliterate our history are not part of that history.
Not that long ago, nearly all Americans had pre-Civil War ancestors. Not anymore! Recent immigrants, by which I mean people who arrived after 1865, think the country started with them. They find it hilarious to destroy anything that happened before they got here.
Talk about cultural imperialism!
What about the black Revolutionary heroes, like Crispus Attucks and Phillis Wheatley? Nope, you can forget about foundational black Americans, too. The first two centuries of our nation’s history are canceled. Why would that interest someone from Pune, India, Mogadishu, Somalia, or Bangkok, Thailand? (That would be Kshama Sawant, socialist Seattle city council member, Democrat; Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat; U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Democrat.)
Corporate plunderers, globalists, the wolf of Wall Street, 8 million “diversity” jobs (that go to Indians, not the descendants of American slaves, as intended)—that’s the America they revere.
The new arrivals are fine with Red Guards going into cemeteries, ripping up symbols of our heritage. Just don’t dare lay a finger on their privately owned Rothkos!
What do the Republicans say? No problem! Senate Leader Mitch McConnell says he’s “OK” with changing the names of military bases. Trump tweets narcissistic bluster.
How about a bill withholding all federal funds from Yale University until it changes its name? The school’s namesake, Elihu Yale, was not only a slave owner, but a slave trader.
Quite a dilemma for the little snots who attend and teach there! It will be tremendously damaging to their brand. After all, true sublimity for a Social Justice Warrior is virtue signaling and advertising their high SAT scores at the same time.
If you refuse to fight, Republicans, don’t you at least want to have some fun?
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vdare--2020-06-17--TAMPA BAY TIMES Stops Publishing Mugshots Because They "Disproportionately Show Black and Brown Face

TAMPA BAY TIMES Stops Publishing Mugshots Because They "Disproportionately Show Black and Brown Faces" Which "Further Negative Stereotypes"

See , earlier : WRAL ( Raleigh , NC ) , Scripps Media And HOUSTON CHRONICLE Stop Publishing Mugshots Because They 're `` Reinforcing Or Creating Stereotypes '' ... Too Many Non-White Faces Because too many black and brown people get arrested , the Tampa Bay Times has suspended publishing a mugshot gallery of those arrested in Tampa Bay to stop “ further ( ing ) negative stereotypes.
” Enabling citizens of Tampa Bay to engage in pattern recognition when it comes to who is committing the crime in the area ( black and brown people ) “ serve little @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mugshot galleries : The Times will no longer publish the galleries of people arrested in the Tampa Bay area.
, Tampa Bay Times , June 15 , 2020 The Tampa Bay Times effective today will no longer publish the mugshot galleries of those arrested around parts of Tampa Bay .
The galleries , which had been accessible on the tampabay.com homepage , included photos of every person arrested in Hillsborough , Pinellas , Pasco and Manatee counties .
Several news organizations have discontinued such galleries amid criticism that they disproportionately show black and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ publicly available on law enforcement websites .
“ The galleries lack context and further negative stereotypes , ” said Mark Katches , executive editor of the Times .
“ We think the data is an important resource that our newsroom will continue to analyze and watch carefully , but the galleries alone serve little journalistic purpose.
” The decision doesn ’ t diminish the Times ’ commitment to covering significant crime news and publishing booking mugs with crime stories of those arrested , Katches said .
There ’ s no need to reinvent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , has a well known racial bias .
To quote one of the prophets of the 21st century , “ punishment must be unusual or it serves no purpose.
” Those who break the law should have their photos published in local papers , for shame serves as a great deterrent to repeat offending .
The community should be made aware of those who break the law , and if racial patterns emerge , then society can pass laws based on this information to protect the law-abiding .
For remember : in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t be based on individuals .
And once stereotypes are confirmed to have firm basis in racial truth , social policy will immediately be crafted from these observations .
Interesting to think our ancestors long ago operated under this same protocol…

See, earlier: WRAL (Raleigh, NC), Scripps Media And HOUSTON CHRONICLE Stop Publishing Mugshots Because They're "Reinforcing Or Creating Stereotypes"...Too Many Non-White Faces
Because too many black and brown people get arrested, the Tampa Bay Times has suspended publishing a mugshot gallery of those arrested in Tampa Bay to stop “further(ing) negative stereotypes.”
Enabling citizens of Tampa Bay to engage in pattern recognition when it comes to who is committing the crime in the area (black and brown people) “serve[s] little journalistic purpose.”
Tampa Bay Times drops mugshot galleries: The Times will no longer publish the galleries of people arrested in the Tampa Bay area., Tampa Bay Times, June 15, 2020 The Tampa Bay Times effective today will no longer publish the mugshot galleries of those arrested around parts of Tampa Bay. The galleries, which had been accessible on the tampabay.com homepage, included photos of every person arrested in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Manatee counties. Several news organizations have discontinued such galleries amid criticism that they disproportionately show black and brown faces. The arrest information is publicly available on law enforcement websites. “The galleries lack context and further negative stereotypes,” said Mark Katches, executive editor of the Times . “We think the data is an important resource that our newsroom will continue to analyze and watch carefully, but the galleries alone serve little journalistic purpose.” The decision doesn’t diminish the Times’ commitment to covering significant crime news and publishing booking mugs with crime stories of those arrested, Katches said.
There’s no need to reinvent the wheel.
Truth, it seems, has a well known racial bias.
To quote one of the prophets of the 21st century, “punishment must be unusual or it serves no purpose.”
Those who break the law should have their photos published in local papers, for shame serves as a great deterrent to repeat offending. The community should be made aware of those who break the law, and if racial patterns emerge, then society can pass laws based on this information to protect the law-abiding.
For remember: in a multiracial society, social policy shouldn’t be based on individuals.
And once stereotypes are confirmed to have firm basis in racial truth, social policy will immediately be crafted from these observations.
Interesting to think our ancestors long ago operated under this same protocol…
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-17--Social Distancing with John Derbyshire Joined By Colin Flaherty, TODAY, 3 p.m. EST

Join us HERE ( from a safe digital distance ) for our happy hour with John Derbyshire and Colin Flaherty this Wednesday at 3 p.m. EST !
We ’ ll be streaming LIVE on our YouTube channel !
Be sure to click here to subscribe to our channel and reserve your seat for the premiere !
Colin Flaherty is an award-winning writer whose work has been published in more than 1000 places around the globe , including the New York Times , Los Angeles Times , Boston Globe , Miami Herald , Washington Post , Bloomberg Business Week , Time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the author of the Amazon # 1 Best Seller : White Girl Bleed a Lot : The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It as well as Do n't Make the Black Kids Angry : The Hoax of Black Victimization and Those Who Enable It .
Unfortunately , the latter book was banned by Amazon by Tech Totalitarians , and five seperate channels on YouTube Mr. Flaherty created were also deleted .
It could be argued Mr. Flaherty was one of the first targets of digital deletion by our tech @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Thinker at the time of his final ban : “ As with all my videos , there is no racism , no rancor , no apologies .
Neither is there obscenity or vulgarity of any kind .
No matter : that video came down .
And , once again , YouTube dropped me like a pile of hot rocks .
Over the last few years , my videos have become `` a thing , '' garnering more than 100 million views , mostly from people who are as skeptical as you and me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ videos that are not true .
And if they are not true , it should be the easiest thing in the world to show .
Instead , the dominant reaction from the trolls is 1 ) that is not happening ; 2 ) white people do it , too ; 3 ) white people deserve it ; and 4 ) let 's hammer YouTube until Colin is removed.
” Thomas Sowell praised Flaherty , as he said , `` Reading Colin Flaherty 's book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discovered from my own research .
He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities . ''
Watch our past episodes of “ Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow ” :

Join us HERE (from a safe digital distance) for our happy hour with John Derbyshire and Colin Flaherty this Wednesday at 3 p.m. EST! We’ll be streaming LIVE on our YouTube channel!
Be sure to click here to subscribe to our channel and reserve your seat for the premiere!
Watch the latest video at bitchute.com
Colin Flaherty is an award-winning writer whose work has been published in more than 1000 places around the globe, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Bloomberg Business Week, Time magazine, and others.
He is the author of the Amazon #1 Best Seller: White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It as well as Don't Make the Black Kids Angry: The Hoax of Black Victimization and Those Who Enable It. Unfortunately, the latter book was banned by Amazon by Tech Totalitarians, and five separate channels on YouTube Mr. Flaherty created were also deleted. It could be argued Mr. Flaherty was one of the first targets of digital deletion by our tech totalitarians.
As Flaherty wrote at American Thinker at the time of his final ban:
“As with all my videos, there is no racism, no rancor, no apologies. Neither is there obscenity or vulgarity of any kind. No matter: that video came down. And, once again, YouTube dropped me like a pile of hot rocks. Over the last few years, my videos have become "a thing," garnering more than 100 million views, mostly from people who are as skeptical as you and me. No one has time to watch videos that are not true. And if they are not true, it should be the easiest thing in the world to show. Instead, the dominant reaction from the trolls is 1) that is not happening; 2) white people do it, too; 3) white people deserve it; and 4) let's hammer YouTube until Colin is removed.”
Thomas Sowell praised Flaherty, as he said, "Reading Colin Flaherty's book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of this problem is greater than I had discovered from my own research. He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities."
Watch our past episodes of “Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow”:


vdare--2020-06-17--Radio Derb  Transcript Up For June 12: Revolutionary Spasms, Derb Has A Dream, And The Smack Of Firm

Radio Derb  Transcript Up For June 12: Revolutionary Spasms, Derb Has A Dream, And The Smack Of Firm Government (Not Likely!) Etc.

The Radio Derb transcript is up for July 12 .
Go here to read or listen .
02m32s Revolutionary spasms @ @ @ @ @ , they tighten the vise . )
07m47s I have a dream .
( Not @ @ @ @ @ . )
13m50s The smack of firm government .
( I yearn to hear it @ @ @ @ @ proposal to consider .
( In the Halls of Uselessness . )
29m54s Ironies great @ @ @ @ @ from a different cultural revolution . )
33m54s London 's `` Commission for Diversity in @ @ @ @ @ ( As Orwellian as it sounds . )
36m12s Japan not yet woke .
( @ @ @ @ @ hang of our racial protocols . )

The Radio Derb transcript is up for June 12. Go here to read or listen.
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.)


vdare--2020-06-17--Sailer In TakiMag: The End of Gentrification

Earlier : What Happened the Last Time Liberals Were in Charge of Public Safety From my new column in Taki @ @ @ @ @ happens to America ’ s big blue cities when The Establishment switches sides from the @ @ @ @ @ Our elites appear intent on trying that experiment once again , although we have been @ @ @ @ @ relevant historical examples that they ought to recall first .
Read the whole thing there @

Earlier: What Happened the Last Time Liberals Were in Charge of Public Safety
From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
The End of Gentrification
Steve Sailer June 17, 2020 What happens to America’s big blue cities when The Establishment switches sides from the cops to the blacks? Our elites appear intent on trying that experiment once again, although we have been through a couple of highly relevant historical examples that they ought to recall first.
Read the whole thing there.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-17--The New Childishness: “Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’)”

It ’ s mildly amusing reading the rationalizations for capitalizing Black but not white , when in reality they come down to the middle school concept that Blacks rule , whites drool .
That ’ s why elite journalism suddenly looks like a middle school term paper .
Why we capitalize ‘ Black ’ ( and not ‘ white ’ ) By Mike Laws JUNE 16 , 2020 AT THE COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW , we capitalize Black , and not white , when referring to racial groups .
Black is an ethnic designation ; white merely describes the skin color @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much difficulty , trace their ethnic origins back to a handful of European countries .
Note that these pathetic white people have a term that is not an ethnic description ; white merely describes the skin color of people who can , usually without much difficulty , trace their ethnic origins back to a handful of European countries .
Be clear on this fact : white people do not come from a plethora of European countries , but a mere handful .
What losers !
… Per this understanding , it is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ B : to do so is to perpetuate the iniquity of an institution that uprooted people from the most ethnically diverse place on the planet Unlike whites , who only come from a handful of countries and thus can ’ t be considered diverse .

Earlier: Childishness with a Capital "B"
From the Columbia Journalism Review:
At CJR, we capitalize Black, and not white, when referring to racial groups. Black is an ethnic designation; white merely describes the skin color of people who can trace their ethnic origins back to a handful of European countries.https://t.co/oNCmf3ASUT — CJR (@CJR) June 16, 2020
It’s mildly amusing reading the rationalizations for capitalizing Black but not white, when in reality they come down to the middle school concept that Blacks rule, whites drool.
That’s why elite journalism suddenly looks like a middle school term paper.
Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’)
By Mike Laws
JUNE 16, 2020 AT THE COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW, we capitalize Black, and not white, when referring to racial groups. Black is an ethnic designation; white merely describes the skin color of people who can, usually without much difficulty, trace their ethnic origins back to a handful of European countries.
Note that these pathetic white people have a term that is not an ethnic description; white merely describes the skin color of people who can, usually without much difficulty, trace their ethnic origins back to a handful of European countries. Be clear on this fact: white people do not come from a plethora of European countries, but a mere handful. What losers!
… Per this understanding, it is a kind of orthographic injustice to lowercase the B: to do so is to perpetuate the iniquity of an institution that uprooted people from the most ethnically diverse place on the planet
Unlike whites, who only come from a handful of countries and thus can’t be considered diverse.
[Comment at Unz.com]


Magic: the Cancelling

Is there anything Wokeness won ’ t spoil ?
Rhetorical : We will be changing the multiverse ID and removing the Gatherer card image for the card Invoke Prejudice , originally printed in 1994 .
The card is racist and made even worse by the multiverse ID it was unfortunately codified with years ago .
There ’ s no place for racism in our game , nor anywhere else .
But to that point , it should never have been published nor placed in the Gatherer .
And for that we are sorry .
The events of the past weeks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can better support people of color have caused us to examine ourselves , our actions , and our inactions .
We appreciate everyone helping us to recognize when we fall short .
We should have been better , we can be better , and we will be better .
To that end , we will be removing a number of images from our database that are racist or culturally offensive , including : Invoke Prejudice Cleanse Stone-Throwing Devils Pradesh Gypsies Jihad Imprison Crusade Replacing those card images will be the following statement : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from our database due to its racist depiction , text , or combination thereof .
Racism in any form is unacceptable and has no place in our games , nor anywhere else.
” The subsequent pieces of art will all be replaced online with this : With Wokeness there can be no art , no humor , no beauty , no aspiration .
Just a grayed out rigid conformity , the only emotions permitted being resentment and snark .
Cleanse got the boot because of its field text , which reads “ destroy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a specific black creature , in contrast , is still okay–for now : Pfft , sadly no one cares about black-on-black crime , that ’ s the only reason Dark Betrayal gets a pass .
For heaven ’ s sake , look at the flavor text : “ You ’ re just like me ; ruthless , cunning , and ambitious .
Obviously you ’ re a threat.
” Dialogue ripped right off the streets of South Chicago !
Oh yeah ?
Then explain how this cleric who specializes in destroying black creatures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s only a matter of time before Mass Calcify gets uncarded : Because whites can tolerate massive calcium dumps , you see .
Milk does a Euro body good !
Hispanics , Asians , and other non-white non-blacks need to get complaining , pronto .
Or their self-appointed white allies need to , anyway !
Subsequent reprints of the card replaced real world historical references with generic fantasy depictions .
As is always the case when Woke mobs have something in their sights , though , no amount of appeasing deterred them from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ These exiled cards are , on top of being digitally deleted , now officially banned from sanctioned play : The uncarded cards aren ’ t competitive , so it ’ s an empty gesture .
In the case of Crusade , Honor of the Pure–a name that must itself be problematic–is strictly better : Imprison is banished because it ’ s a black card that includes the word “ prison ” and appears to depict a black or possibly north African man in a tight spot .
The card game is rife with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suffering , though the overwhelming majority of the victims ( and the perpetrators ) appear to be of European ancestry : Invoke Prejudice is the most triggering card of the crop .
The figures depicted in the artwork look like what Dali painting klan geists might .
That the artwork is hardly flattering provides no apology .
Remember what happened to the Papa John ’ s guy for uttering the N-word in the context of how horribly offensive it is ?
He got the Invoke Prejudice treatment , too .
Parenthetically , Invoke @ @ @ @ @ @ @ game ’ s five-color scheme doesn ’ t have any correspondence to differences among human races .
It does , in proper Tolkienesque-fashion , have something to do with different humanoid species , but even those boundaries aren ’ t hard and fast .
Sorin and Liliana are depicted as racially white–but they are black cards : While Teferi the protector is a black man of the dual colors white and blue : Wizards of the Coast threw out Crusade on account of the alleged racist nature of the card ( good grief @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and say in this day and age of stultifying intellectual totalitarianism ) .
It also tossed Jihad for a presumably similar reason : For those unfamiliar with the game , the insinuation from the card text is that the “ Jihadis ” are white ( by card color ) .
So both Crusade and Jihad are white cards–to oversimplify , they ’ re on the same team–and both are being banned for putative racism .
Racist against who exactly is unclear .
I guess the world ’ s two largest religions , both @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Africa than anywhere else , are racial in their essence .
Who knew ?
The next one is kind of funny .
These gypsies steal the power of the opposing side ’ s forces : The bigger insult to the noble Roma people is how crappy the card is .
Even in the olden tymes , before the great creature power inflation and corresponding spell deflation occurred , this card was bad .
Is “ stone-throwing devils ” a slur of some kind ?
It ’ s genuinely hard to even figure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ look like pink-hued devils .
Is the thinking this could be construed as a derogatory depiction of American Indians ?
That seems absurd even in this hysterical context .
Parenthetically , card names , artwork , and flavor text have no bearing on actual game play .
They are aesthetic enhancements that provide the experience flair and vivacity .
But in terms of actual mechanics , everything about Magic is strictly rules-based .
The cards could be called A1 , A2 , A3 … ZZZ212 , ZZZ213 , ZZZ214 and nothing about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not like Dungeons and Dragons , where players make things up as they go along .
To analogize , Magic is to Poker what Chess is to Checkers .
If by “ evolve ” we mean card burning , then yes , yes indeed .
Wokeism , like its spiritual predecessor Puritanism , is mortified by the idea that some people , somewhere might be enjoying themselves .

Is there anything Wokeness won’t spoil? Rhetorical:
We will be changing the multiverse ID and removing the Gatherer card image for the card Invoke Prejudice, originally printed in 1994. The card is racist and made even worse by the multiverse ID it was unfortunately codified with years ago. There’s no place for racism in our game, nor anywhere else. But to that point, it should never have been published nor placed in the Gatherer. And for that we are sorry. The events of the past weeks and the ongoing conversation about how we can better support people of color have caused us to examine ourselves, our actions, and our inactions. We appreciate everyone helping us to recognize when we fall short. We should have been better, we can be better, and we will be better. To that end, we will be removing a number of images from our database that are racist or culturally offensive, including: Invoke Prejudice
Cleanse
Stone-Throwing Devils
Pradesh Gypsies
Jihad
Imprison
Crusade
Replacing those card images will be the following statement: “We have removed this card image from our database due to its racist depiction, text, or combination thereof. Racism in any form is unacceptable and has no place in our games, nor anywhere else.”
The subsequent pieces of art will all be replaced online with this:
With Wokeness there can be no art, no humor, no beauty, no aspiration. Just a grayed-out rigid conformity, the only emotions permitted being resentment and snark.
Cleanse got the boot because of its field text, which reads “destroy all black creatures.” Hunting down a specific black creature, in contrast, is still okay–for now:
Pfft, sadly no one cares about black-on-black crime, that’s the only reason Dark Betrayal gets a pass. For heaven’s sake, look at the flavor text: “You’re just like me; ruthless, cunning, and ambitious. Obviously you’re a threat.” Dialogue ripped right off the streets of South Chicago!
Oh yeah? Then explain how this cleric who specializes in destroying black creatures still has a job.
It’s only a matter of time before Mass Calcify gets uncarded:
Because whites can tolerate massive calcium dumps, you see. Milk does a Euro body good! Hispanics, Asians, and other non-white non-blacks need to get complaining, pronto. Or their self-appointed white allies need to, anyway!
Crusade gets the Jacques de Molay treatment:
Subsequent reprints of the card replaced real world historical references with generic fantasy depictions. As is always the case when Woke mobs have something in their sights, though, no amount of appeasing deterred them from destroying the target of their wrath.
These exiled cards are, on top of being digitally deleted, now officially banned from sanctioned play:
Additionally, these cards will be banned in all sanctioned tournament play.
The uncarded cards aren’t competitive, so it’s an empty gesture. In the case of Crusade, Honor of the Pure—a name that must itself be problematic—is strictly better:
Imprison is banished because it’s a black card that includes the word “prison” and appears to depict a black or possibly north African man in a tight spot.
The card game is rife with brutal depictions of people of all races suffering, though the overwhelming majority of the victims (and the perpetrators) appear to be of European ancestry:
Invoke Prejudice is the most triggering card of the crop. The figures depicted in the artwork look like what Dali painting klan geists might. That the artwork is hardly flattering provides no apology. Remember what happened to the Papa John’s guy for uttering the N-word in the context of how horribly offensive it is? He got the Invoke Prejudice treatment, too.
Parenthetically, Invoke Prejudice is a blue card. The game’s five-color scheme doesn’t have any correspondence to differences among human races. It does, in proper Tolkienesque-fashion, have something to do with different humanoid species, but even those boundaries aren’t hard and fast. Sorin and Liliana are depicted as racially white—but they are black cards:
While Teferi the protector is a black man of the dual colors white and blue:
Wizards of the Coast threw out Crusade on account of the alleged racist nature of the card (good grief, the things we have to write and say in this day and age of stultifying intellectual totalitarianism). It also tossed Jihad for a presumably similar reason:
For those unfamiliar with the game, the insinuation from the card text is that the “Jihadis” are white (by card color). So both Crusade and Jihad are white cards—to oversimplify, they’re on the same team—and both are being banned for putative racism. Racist against who exactly is unclear. I guess the world’s two largest religions, both of which are gaining more new converts in Africa than anywhere else, are racial in their essence. Who knew?
The next one is kind of funny. These gypsies steal the power of the opposing side’s forces:
The bigger insult to the noble Roma people is how crappy the card is. Even in the olden tymes, before the great creature power inflation and corresponding spell deflation occurred, this card was bad.
Is “stone-throwing devils” a slur of some kind? It’s genuinely hard to even figure out a pretense otherwise:
The creatures look like pink-hued devils. Is the thinking this could be construed as a derogatory depiction of American Indians? That seems absurd even in this hysterical context.
Parenthetically, card names, artwork, and flavor text have no bearing on actual game play. They are aesthetic enhancements that provide the experience flair and vivacity. But in terms of actual mechanics, everything about Magic is strictly rules-based. The cards could be called A1, A2, A3 … ZZZ212, ZZZ213, ZZZ214 and nothing about the game play itself would change. Magic is not like Dungeons and Dragons, where players make things up as they go along. To analogize, Magic is to Poker what Chess is to Checkers.
The release concludes with:
There’s much more work to be done as we continue to make our games, communities, and company more inclusive. Know that we work every day to be better and that we hear you. We look forward to sharing more of our plans with you as our games and organization evolve.
If by “evolve” we mean card burning, then yes, yes indeed.
Wokeism, like its spiritual predecessor Puritanism, is mortified by the idea that some people, somewhere might be enjoying themselves.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-16--Social Distancing with John Derbyshire Joined By Colin Flaherty, Wednesday, 3 p.m. EST

Join us HERE (from a safe digital distance) for our happy hour with John Derbyshire and Colin Flaherty this Wednesday at 3 p.m. EST! We’ll be streaming LIVE on our YouTube channel!
Be sure to click here to subscribe to our channel and reserve your seat for the premiere!
Colin Flaherty is an award-winning writer whose work has been published in more than 1000 places around the globe, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Bloomberg Business Week, Time magazine, and others.
He is the author of the Amazon #1 Best Seller: White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It as well as Don't Make the Black Kids Angry: The Hoax of Black Victimization and Those Who Enable It. Unfortunately, the latter book was banned by Amazon by Tech Totalitarians, and five seperate channels on YouTube Mr. Flaherty created were also deleted. It could be argued Mr. Flaherty was one of the first targets of digital deletion by our tech totalitarians.
As Flaherty wrote at American Thinker at the time of his final ban:
“As with all my videos, there is no racism, no rancor, no apologies. Neither is there obscenity or vulgarity of any kind. No matter: that video came down. And, once again, YouTube dropped me like a pile of hot rocks. Over the last few years, my videos have become "a thing," garnering more than 100 million views, mostly from people who are as skeptical as you and me. No one has time to watch videos that are not true. And if they are not true, it should be the easiest thing in the world to show. Instead, the dominant reaction from the trolls is 1) that is not happening; 2) white people do it, too; 3) white people deserve it; and 4) let's hammer YouTube until Colin is removed.”
Thomas Sowell praised Flaherty, as he said, "Reading Colin Flaherty's book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of this problem is greater than I had discovered from my own research. He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities."
Watch our past episodes of “Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow”:


vdare--2020-06-16--Chechens Vs. Algerians in Dijon: the Revolution Will be Tik-Tokked

Chechens have utilized the Black Lives Matter chaos to invade Dijon in Burgundy in eastern France to wreak vengeance on @ @ @ @ @ .
Do blacks really think they are going to come out on top in chaotic @ @ @ @ @ any inkling that there are scarier guys out there than them , for example , @ @ @ @ @ columns of Russian Army armor on New Year ’ s Eve 1994 ?
Or are @ @ @ @ @ hip-hop boasting and so ignorant of history that they think all they need to do @ @ @ @ @ then the age of black supremacy will automatically ensue ?

Chechens have utilized the Black Lives Matter chaos to invade Dijon in Burgundy in eastern France to wreak vengeance on Algerians over something or other.
Do blacks really think they are going to come out on top in chaotic times? Do they have any inkling that there are scarier guys out there than them, for example, guys whose fathers defeated four columns of Russian Army armor on New Year’s Eve 1994? Or are blacks so brainwashed by their hip-hop boasting and so ignorant of history that they think all they need to do is defund the police and then the age of black supremacy will automatically ensue?
[Comment at Unz.com]