vdare--2020-10-26--Putin: Bidens Are Not Corrupt (By Putin's Standards)

MOSCOW ( Reuters ) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that he saw nothing criminal in Hunter Biden ’ s past business ties with Ukraine or Russia , marking out his disagreement with one of Donald Trump ’ s attack lines in the U.S. presidential election .
Putin was responding to comments made by Trump during televised debates with Democratic challenger Joe Biden ahead of the Nov. 3 election .
Trump , who is trailing in opinion polls , has used the debates to make accusations that Biden and his son Hunter engaged in unethical practices in Ukraine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ support the allegations , and Joe Biden has called them false and discredited .
Putin , who has praised Trump in the past for saying he wanted better ties with Moscow , has said Russia will work with any U.S. leader , while noting what he called Joe Biden ’ s “ sharp anti-Russian rhetoric ” .
Putin appeared less friendly towards Trump in remarks broadcast by Russian state TV on Sunday .
In what may be seen by some analysts as an attempt to try to curry favour with the Biden camp @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down what he made clear he regarded as false allegations from Trump about the Bidens .
“ Yes , in Ukraine he ( Hunter Biden ) had or maybe still has a business , I don ’ t know .
It doesn ’ t concern us .
It concerns the Americans and the Ukrainians , ” said Putin .
“ But well yes he had at least one company , which he practically headed up , and judging from everything he made good money .
I don ’ t see anything criminal about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t know anything about this ( being criminal ) .
” Putin also reacted with visible irritation when asked about comments Trump has made concerning Putin ’ s ties to the former mayor of Moscow , and to an alleged payment made to Hunter Biden by the ex-mayor ’ s widow .
Putin said he knew nothing about the existence of any commercial relationship between Hunter and the woman .
Joe Biden says the accusation about his son is not true .
U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia tried to interfere in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contest in Trump ’ s favour , an allegation Moscow has denied .
Russia has also dismissed accusations by U.S. intelligence agencies of trying to interfere with this year ’ s election too .

From Reuters:
Putin rejects Donald Trump’s criticism of Biden family business
By Andrew Osborn
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that he saw nothing criminal in Hunter Biden’s past business ties with Ukraine or Russia, marking out his disagreement with one of Donald Trump’s attack lines in the U.S. presidential election.
Putin was responding to comments made by Trump during televised debates with Democratic challenger Joe Biden ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
Trump, who is trailing in opinion polls, has used the debates to make accusations that Biden and his son Hunter engaged in unethical practices in Ukraine. No evidence has been verified to support the allegations, and Joe Biden has called them false and discredited.
Putin, who has praised Trump in the past for saying he wanted better ties with Moscow, has said Russia will work with any U.S. leader, while noting what he called Joe Biden’s “sharp anti-Russian rhetoric”.
Putin appeared less friendly towards Trump in remarks broadcast by Russian state TV on Sunday. In what may be seen by some analysts as an attempt to try to curry favour with the Biden camp, he took the time to knock down what he made clear he regarded as false allegations from Trump about the Bidens.
“Yes, in Ukraine he (Hunter Biden) had or maybe still has a business, I don’t know. It doesn’t concern us. It concerns the Americans and the Ukrainians,” said Putin.
“But well yes he had at least one company, which he practically headed up, and judging from everything he made good money. I don’t see anything criminal about this, at least we don’t know anything about this (being criminal).”
Putin also reacted with visible irritation when asked about comments Trump has made concerning Putin’s ties to the former mayor of Moscow, and to an alleged payment made to Hunter Biden by the ex-mayor’s widow. Putin said he knew nothing about the existence of any commercial relationship between Hunter and the woman. Joe Biden says the accusation about his son is not true.
U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia tried to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to tilt the contest in Trump’s favour, an allegation Moscow has denied. Russia has also dismissed accusations by U.S. intelligence agencies of trying to interfere with this year’s election too.


vdare--2020-10-26--JFK, Mayor Daley, And The Joy of Counting Your Votes Last

Famous political reporter Theodore White didn ’ t include the following story in his romanticized bestseller The Making of the President celebrating the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 , but he did put it in his 1978 autobiography In Search of History : Even in the most corrupt states of the Union , one can not steal more than one or two percent of the vote… The AP was pressing its reporters for returns , and the reporters were trying to gouge out of the Republican and Democratic machines their vote-stealing , precinct by precinct totals .
… @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cook County ( Democratic ) , and the bosses , holding back totals from key precincts , were playing out their concealed cards under pressure of publicity as in a giant game of blackjack .
… the AP ticker chattered its keys once more and reported : ‘ With all downstate precincts now reported in , and only Cook County precincts unreported , Richard Nixon has surged into the lead by 3,000 votes.
’ I was dismayed , for if Nixon really carried Illinois , the game was all but over .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dismay by the outburst of jubilation from young Dick Donahue , who yelped , ‘ He ’ s got them !
Daley made them go first !
He ’ s still holding back — watch him play his hand now.
” I was baffled , they were elated .
But they knew the counting game better than I , and as if in response to Donahue ’ s yelp , the ticker , having stuttered along for several minutes with other results , announced : ‘ With the last precincts of Cook County @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lead of 8,000 votes to carry Illinois ’ s 27 electoral votes.
’ Later that evening , Kennedy told his friend Ben Bradlee of an early call from Daley , when all seemed in doubt .
‘ With a little bit of luck and the help of a few close friends , ’ Daley had assured Kennedy before the AP had pushed out the count , ‘ you ’ re going to carry Illinois .
’

Famous political reporter Theodore White didn’t include the following story in his romanticized bestseller The Making of the President, celebrating the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960, but he did put it in his 1978 autobiography In Search of History:
Even in the most corrupt states of the Union, one cannot steal more than one or two percent of the vote… The AP was pressing its reporters for returns, and the reporters were trying to gouge out of the Republican and Democratic machines their vote-stealing, precinct by precinct totals. … It was downstate (Republican) versus Cook County (Democratic), and the bosses, holding back totals from key precincts, were playing out their concealed cards under pressure of publicity as in a giant game of blackjack.
… the AP ticker chattered its keys once more and reported: "With all downstate precincts now reported in, and only Cook County precincts unreported, Richard Nixon has surged into the lead by 3,000 votes.’
I was dismayed, for if Nixon really carried Illinois, the game was all but over. And at this point I was jabbed from dismay by the outburst of jubilation from young Dick Donahue, who yelped, ‘He’s got them! Daley made them go first! He’s still holding back — watch him play his hand now.” I was baffled, they were elated. But they knew the counting game better than I, and as if in response to Donahue’s yelp, the ticker, having stuttered along for several minutes with other results, announced: ‘With the last precincts of Cook County now in, Senator Kennedy has won a lead of 8,000 votes to carry Illinois’s 27 electoral votes.’
Later that evening, Kennedy told his friend Ben Bradlee of an early call from Daley, when all seemed in doubt. ‘With a little bit of luck and the help of a few close friends,’ Daley had assured Kennedy before the AP had pushed out the count, ‘you’re going to carry Illinois.’


vdare--2020-10-25--Trump On Immigration In Lumberton, NC: Biden Would Trigger "Tsunami " Of Illegal Immigration,  "Wall

Trump On Immigration In Lumberton, NC: Biden Would Trigger "Tsunami " Of Illegal Immigration,  "Walls Are Not Obsolete"

From Factba.se , here 's what Trump was saying in Lumberton : If Joe and Kamala are elected , it will trigger a tsunami of illegal immigration from every corner of the world .
Tens of billions of people will flood into our country .
You 're not going to be too happy in North Carolina .
... For the last half a century , Joe Biden 's been outsourcing your jobs , opening your borders , and sacrificing American blood and treasure and endless and ridiculous foreign wars .
I fight for the middle class and Biden and his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ serve the donor class , believe it or not .
Now , in all fairness to donor class , I would be the greatest in history .
Under my leadership we achieved the most secure border in US history , our southern border , and we 're finishing the wall .
400 miles plus , already built .
Think of that .
400 miles .
You know what 400 miles is ?
That 's a lot .
We 'll be finished very shortly and it 's exactly what they wanted .
This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , `` Give me your best , give me -- just give it . ''
I figured it would be a nice concrete plank .
Boom , boom , boom , right ?
Precast .
That was my business .
I was really good at that business .
So I looked -- I sort of saw a concrete plank , boom .
And it turned out , they do n't want that .
They want steel and concrete , and they want vision , and they want all sorts of things .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I wanted to give them what -- we 're doing it , we might as well do it right .
More expensive , but we might as well do it right .
So we gave them a wall that is not penetrable , and its got hook ups to every form of commun -- of computer known to man , right ?
Remember when they said the wall , the wall is a wall , it 's obsolete .
I said , `` No , walls are not obsolete . ''
Two things @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never be obsolete .

From Factba.se, here's what Trump was saying in Lumberton:
If Joe and Kamala are elected, it will trigger a tsunami of illegal immigration from every corner of the world. Tens of billions of people will flood into our country. You're not going to be too happy in North Carolina.
...For the last half a century, Joe Biden's been outsourcing your jobs, opening your borders, and sacrificing American blood and treasure and endless and ridiculous foreign wars. I fight for the middle class and Biden and his cronies serve only one class. They serve the donor class, believe it or not. Now, in all fairness to donor class, I would be the greatest in history.
...
Under my leadership we achieved the most secure border in US history, our southern border, and we're finishing the wall. 400 miles plus, already built. Think of that. 400 miles. You know what 400 miles is? That's a lot. We'll be finished very shortly and it's exactly what they wanted. This is -- I said to the Border Patrol, "Give me your best, give me -- just give it." I figured it would be a nice concrete plank.
Boom, boom, boom, right? Precast. That was my business. I was really good at that business. So I looked -- I sort of saw a concrete plank, boom. And it turned out, they don't want that. They want steel and concrete, and they want vision, and they want all sorts of things. But in the end they were right, I wanted to give them what -- we're doing it, we might as well do it right. More expensive, but we might as well do it right. So we gave them a wall that is not penetrable, and its got hook ups to every form of commun -- of computer known to man, right? Remember when they said the wall, the wall is a wall, it's obsolete. I said, "No, walls are not obsolete." Two things, right? Walls and wheels will never be obsolete.
Speech: Donald Trump Delivers Remarks in Lumberton, North Carolina - October 24, 2020


vdare--2020-10-25--Kamala Harris: Racism Begins At Home

Kamala Harris: Racism Begins At Home

During an early Democrat Presidential candidates ’ debate , Kamala Harris painted an ugly picture of American racism , recounting her alleged experience as a young student on a school bus in progressive Berkeley , CA ’ s public-school integration program .
But the fact is , racism ran deep in her Indian mother ’ s Hinduism and its race-based caste system .
It ’ s likely plays a part in Kamala ’ s obsession with race .
As her Indian-born Hindu mother , the late Shyamala Gopalan , said “ In Indian society we go by birth…We are Brahmins @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Please do not confuse this with class , which is only about money .
For Brahmins , the bloodline is the most important .
My family , named Gopalan , goes back more than 1,000 years.
” [ Kamala 's Karma She 's smart , she 's experienced , and she 's running for DA .
But she 's Willie Brown 's ex-girlfriend , and her opponents are trying to crucify her for that , by Peter Byrne , San Francisco Weekly , September 24 , 2003 .
Emphasis added . ]
Yet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ marriage ” in 1963 and had children with a mixed-race Jamaican student she met while studying a UC Berkeley , she tainted her family ’ s carefully reserved bloodline .
The couple had two daughters , the eldest “ Devi Kamala , ” named for the Hindu Goddess of Lotus , because “ A culture that worships goddesses produces strong women.
” The marriage collapsed when Kamala was five and , after a contentious divorce , her mother took charge of raising her daughters .
Perhaps it was when young Kamala sprouted an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would never pass for Brahmins and would face harsh racial discrimination in her native India .
Her fears were confirmed when a Head-Start worker noted Kamala tested high in intelligence , suggesting she might go to college .
Gopalan found the worker ’ s comments patronizing , but understood he had assumed Kamala was a Black from the ghetto , “ not a privileged child of foreign graduate students at the UC Berkeley.
” [ From the Archives : In Search of Elusive Justice , by Scott Duke Harris , Oct. 24 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a conscious decision to abandon racist India and raise her daughters as Blacks in far more tolerant North America .
When Kamala was 12 , the three moved to Quebec , Canada , where Gopalan ’ s sister lived , returning to the US six years later after Kamala graduated from a Canadian high school in the Anglo enclave of Westmount in Montreal .
Given the brutal racial realities of the Hindu caste system , it is surprising that Kamala continues to embrace the religion .
While running for California Attorney General in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ India to smash 108 coconuts for a blessing at the local Hindu temple in her grandparent ’ s upscale seaside neighborhood of Besant Nagar .
Winning the race by a slim margin , Kamala told her aunt that , “ For every coconut you broke , I got 1,000 votes ” [ Deep Chennai roots : When Kamala thanked aunt for breaking coconuts at Adyar temple , DTNext , India , Aug 13,2020 ] .
Her 2014 wedding to L.A. lawyer Douglas Emhoff combined Jewish and Hindu ceremonies including the traditional Varmala garland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no mention of Christian rites in her wedding despite Kamala ’ s claim to be a Baptist .
Of the Jamaican-born father , Prof. Donald Harris , who provided her Black identity , Kalama says , “ [ He ] is a good guy , but we are not close.
” Her father has actively disengaged from her campaign after he publicly chastised Kamala for insulting his Jamaican family by implying they all smoked dope like she did [ Harris ’ dad slams his daughter ’ s use of 'identity politics ' , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] .
In recent years , Kamala has created a narrative that portrays her privileged Brahmin relatives as mainstream Progressives , including characterizing her mother as a “ civil rights activist . ''
In her 2019 memoir , The Truths We Hold , she wrote that her grandfather PV Gopalan was deeply involved in Indian ’ s movement against colonial rule , a claim disputed by family members who said there was no record of him being anything more than a diligent civil servant who , had he openly advocated an end to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ Fact Check : Are Some Of Kamala Harris ’ Claims About Her Indian Grandfather False ?
Swarajya , August 21 , 2020 ] .
She called her grandmother “ a feminist ” for expressing concern that the servants who did her laundry might be victims of domestic abuse .
As with other first-generation Americans descended from non-White foreigners who chose to emigrate to the US ( the most notable being President Obama ) , Kamala and her sister Maya ( Hindi for Illusion ) have made “ American racism ” i.e .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ expanding African-American descendants-of-slaves ’ issues to include themselves , “ People of Color , ” even if they have just arrived in the US .
In a recent interview with an Indian publication , Harris linked the problems of people of South Asian origin with those of US minorities [ Kamala Harris : Lessons on Democracy on Besant Nagar Beach , by Ambassador T P Sreenivasan , August 18 , 2020 ] .
Since 80 percent of US voters of Indian origin voted for Hillary in the last election , that may be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that , in Brecht ’ s famous words , our uniparty government is dissolving the American people and electing a new one .
Angie Saxon [ Email her ] is a California patriot .
See letters she has written to VDARE.com here .

Earlier: Kamala Harris—A Barely-Black ”Immigrant American”?
During an early Democrat Presidential candidates’ debate, Kamala Harris painted an ugly picture of American racism, recounting her alleged experience as a young student on a school bus in progressive Berkeley, CA’s public-school integration program.
There was a little girl in California who was bussed to school. That little girl was me. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/XKm2xP1MDH — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 28, 2019
But the fact is, racism ran deep in her Indian mother’s Hinduism and its race-based caste system. It’s likely plays a part in Kamala’s obsession with race.
As her Indian-born Hindu mother, the late Shyamala Gopalan, said
“In Indian society we go by birth…We are Brahmins, that is the top caste. Please do not confuse this with class, which is only about money. For Brahmins, the bloodline is the most important. My family, named Gopalan, goes back more than 1,000 years.” [Kamala's Karma She's smart, she's experienced, and she's running for DA. But she's Willie Brown's ex-girlfriend, and her opponents are trying to crucify her for that, by Peter Byrne, San Francisco Weekly, September 24, 2003. Emphasis added.]
Yet, when Gopalan entered a “love marriage” in 1963 and had children with a mixed-race Jamaican student she met while studying a UC Berkeley, she tainted her family’s carefully reserved bloodline. The couple had two daughters, the eldest “Devi Kamala,” named for the Hindu Goddess of Lotus, because “A culture that worships goddesses produces strong women.”
A 2004 profile of Kamala Harris, incl this re her mom Dr. Gopalan: "Shyamala insisted on giving her daughters names derived from Indian mythology, in part to help preserve their cultural identity. 'A culture that worships goddesses produces strong women'"https://t.co/wvujdopT9P — Tanvi Madan (@tanvi_madan) August 13, 2020
The marriage collapsed when Kamala was five and, after a contentious divorce, her mother took charge of raising her daughters.
Perhaps it was when young Kamala sprouted an Afro that Gopalan first understood her daughters would never pass for Brahmins and would face harsh racial discrimination in her native India. Her fears were confirmed when a Head-Start worker noted Kamala tested high in intelligence, suggesting she might go to college. Gopalan found the worker’s comments patronizing, but understood he had assumed Kamala was a Black from the ghetto, “not a privileged child of foreign graduate students at the UC Berkeley.” [ From the Archives: In Search of Elusive Justice, by Scott Duke Harris, Oct. 24, 2004]
Read this piece and you know why many Indians in the US are casteist. some lines in it "Tamil Brahmins like Shyamala Gopalan fled identity politics and socialism for the U.S." calls "tamil brahmins marginlised" and reservations "reverse discrimination." https://t.co/UOMpEpvlsO — T M Krishna (@tmkrishna) August 22, 2020
To protect them—and herself—she made a conscious decision to abandon racist India and raise her daughters as Blacks in far more tolerant North America. When Kamala was 12, the three moved to Quebec, Canada, where Gopalan’s sister lived, returning to the US six years later after Kamala graduated from a Canadian high school in the Anglo enclave of Westmount in Montreal.
Given the brutal racial realities of the Hindu caste system, it is surprising that Kamala continues to embrace the religion. While running for California Attorney General in 2010, she asked her aunt in India to smash 108 coconuts for a blessing at the local Hindu temple in her grandparent’s upscale seaside neighborhood of Besant Nagar. Winning the race by a slim margin, Kamala told her aunt that, “For every coconut you broke, I got 1,000 votes” [Deep Chennai roots: When Kamala thanked aunt for breaking coconuts at Adyar temple, DTNext, India, Aug 13,2020]. Her 2014 wedding to L.A. lawyer Douglas Emhoff combined Jewish and Hindu ceremonies including the traditional Varmala garland exchange and mangala sutra. There is no mention of Christian rites in her wedding despite Kamala’s claim to be a Baptist.
Of the Jamaican-born father, Prof. Donald Harris, who provided her Black identity, Kalama says, “[He] is a good guy, but we are not close.” Her father has actively disengaged from her campaign after he publicly chastised Kamala for insulting his Jamaican family by implying they all smoked dope like she did [Harris’ dad slams his daughter’s use of 'identity politics', Fox News, February 21, 2020].
In recent years, Kamala has created a narrative that portrays her privileged Brahmin relatives as mainstream Progressives, including characterizing her mother as a “civil rights activist." In her 2019 memoir, The Truths We Hold, she wrote that her grandfather PV Gopalan was deeply involved in Indian’s movement against colonial rule, a claim disputed by family members who said there was no record of him being anything more than a diligent civil servant who, had he openly advocated an end to British rule, would have been fired [Fact Check: Are Some Of Kamala Harris’ Claims About Her Indian Grandfather False? Swarajya, August 21, 2020]. She called her grandmother “a feminist” for expressing concern that the servants who did her laundry might be victims of domestic abuse.
As with other first-generation Americans descended from non-White foreigners who chose to emigrate to the US (the most notable being President Obama), Kamala and her sister Maya (Hindi for Illusion) have made “American racism” i.e. anti-white, agitation their central cause by expanding African-American descendants-of-slaves’ issues to include themselves, “People of Color,” even if they have just arrived in the US.
In a recent interview with an Indian publication, Harris linked the problems of people of South Asian origin with those of US minorities [Kamala Harris: Lessons on Democracy on Besant Nagar Beach, by Ambassador T P Sreenivasan, August 18, 2020]. Since 80 percent of US voters of Indian origin voted for Hillary in the last election, that may be a winning strategy.
Just further evidence that, in Brecht’s famous words, our uniparty government is dissolving the American people and electing a new one.
Angie Saxon [Email her] is a California patriot. See letters she has written to VDARE.com here.


vdare--2020-10-25--SLATE: Beethoven Has A First Name

SLATE: Beethoven Has A First Name

Earlier : Are They Going to Come for Beethoven Too ?
and NEW YORKER : White People Must Start To Realize That Beethoven , Mozart , Bach , Wagner , Verdi , Debussy , And Strauss Were All White The cultural commissars are increasingly worried that the upcoming 250th birthday of Beethoven in December might distract from celebrating all things black .
Thus from Slate : Beethoven Has a First Name It ’ s time to “ fullname ” all composers in classical music .
By CHRIS WHITE OCT 24 , 20206:00 AM There will be a time when we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We will buy our tickets , shuffle shoulder to shoulder down the aisle , and find our seats .
The lights will dim , and the conductor will walk onto the stage to introduce the program .
They might talk about Beethoven , Schumann , and Bartók .
And they might talk about Alma Mahler , Florence Price , Henry Burleigh , and Caroline Shaw .
Many of us , used to the conventions of classical performance , will hardly notice the difference : “ traditional ” white male composers being introduced with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ else , especially women and composers of color .
It ’ s almost as if more people have heard of Beethoven than of Dávone Tines or Igee Dieudonne ( who is a white guy ) .
And it ’ s almost as if the Eroica Symphony is “ better ” than this 3 minute composition by Davóne Tines and Igee Dieudonné .
Terence Blanchard ’ s depressing movie scores have pretty much destroyed Spike Lee ’ s career since he fired his dad , who scored Lee ’ s first few movies back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ turn into somebody good .
Encouraging as it is , this trend is butting headlong into the Western European musical canon .
For a lot of intersecting reasons , music critics , academics , consumers , and performers in the mid-19th through early 20th centuries thought about music history as the story of a few great men producing great works of art .
( Of course , this tactic is very common in how we tell our histories in many domains . )
Tied up in the respect and ubiquity afforded to these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ single word sufficing for a person ’ s whole name .
These canonized demigods became so ensconced in elite musical society ’ s collective consciousness that only one word was needed to evoke their awesome specter .
Mouthfuls of full names became truncated to terse sets of universally recognized syllables : Mozart .
Beethoven .
Bach .
If you want to argue that referring to the classical giants like Mozart , Beethoven , and Bach by one name is unfair , you ought to start with the Other Bachs , Johann Sebastian ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ although influential upon his peers such as Mozart and Beethoven , fell out of public popularity for almost 80 years following his death in 1750 , during which some of his sons were more famous composers .
Finally , in 1829 , the 20-year-old Felix Mendelssohn arranged and conducted a famous performance of the St. Matthew ’ s Passion in Berlin , and the elder Bach has been a huge figure ever since .
On the one hand , then , initiatives toward diversity and inclusion are placing new names on concert programs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ names that might not have been there 10 or 20 years ago—or even last year .
But these names are appearing next to those that have been drilled deep into our brains by the forces of the inherited canon .
This collision between increasing diversity and the mononyms of music history has created a hierarchical system that , whether or not you find it useful , can now only be seen as outdated and harmful .
As we usher wider arrays of composers into our concerts and classrooms , this dual approach only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and nonmale composers in the first place .
When we say , “ Tonight , you ’ ll be hearing symphonies by Brahms and Edmond Dédé , ” we ’ re linguistically treating the former as being on a different plane than the latter , a difference originally created by centuries of systematic prejudice , exclusion , sexism , and racism .
( Dédé was a freeborn Creole composer whose music packed concert halls in Europe and America in the mid-19th century . )
Edmond Dédé was a black guy from New Orleans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conducting side in France in the late 19th Century , although it ’ s misleading to say he packed concert halls as a composer .
It ’ s more like every few decades somebody in New Orleans would put on a concert of his pieces as a show of civic pride by the creole of color community .
More to the point , interest in Dédé at present seems negligible .
I can ’ t find a YouTube video about him or of his music with even 2,000 views .
There are countless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but who are forgotten today .
In contrast , the most popular Brahms video on YouTube has 7 million views .
I would imagine Dede felt Brahms was a much better composer than him .
The hierarchy of classical music composers isn ’ t actually a conspiracy , it ’ s based on who the greats think was great .
As I wrote in my 2003 review of Charles Murray ’ s Human Accomplishment : Going forward , we need to “ fullname ” all composers when we write , talk , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ place composers in a canonical pantheon , fullnaming never places them there to begin with .
When we say , “ Tonight , you ’ ll be hearing symphonies by Johannes Brahms and Edmond Dédé , ” we ’ re linguistically treating both composers as being equally worthy of attention .
And while fullnaming might seem like a small act in the face of centuries of harm and injustice , by adopting a stance of referential egalitarianism , fullnaming at least does no more harm .
… But by using everyone ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on their music rather than on the past cultural practices that elevated straight white men at the expense of everyone else .
Musicians , academics , and teachers have a lot of work ahead to confront the racist and sexist history of classical music .
Fullnaming composers , especially those who have been elevated to mononymic status by this complicated history , will challenge us to at the very least afford the same respect to all of the individuals whose music we talk and write about .
When we do return to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to concerts that play Ludwig Beethoven alongside Florence Price , and Edmond Dédé alongside Johannes Brahms .
Sorry , but Beethoven ’ s full name isn ’ t “ Ludwig Beethoven , ” it ’ s Ludwig van Beethoven : Amusingly , saying the long names of the Big Three—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Johann Sebastian Bach , and Ludwig van Beethoven—just makes them sound even more awesome than saying only their last names .
I ’ m looking forward to Professor Chris White ’ s essay about how referring to “ Marx , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” is racist and sexist , especially considering how unjust that is to “ Adam Smith .
”

Earlier: Are They Going to Come for Beethoven Too? and NEW YORKER: White People Must Start To Realize That Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Wagner, Verdi, Debussy, And Strauss Were All White
The cultural commissars are increasingly worried that the upcoming 250th birthday of Beethoven in December might distract from celebrating all things black. Thus from Slate:
Beethoven Has a First Name
It’s time to “fullname” all composers in classical music.
By CHRIS WHITE
OCT 24, 20206:00 AM There will be a time when we’ll go to concerts again. We will buy our tickets, shuffle shoulder to shoulder down the aisle, and find our seats. The lights will dim, and the conductor will walk onto the stage to introduce the program. They might talk about Beethoven, Schumann, and Bartók. And they might talk about Alma Mahler, Florence Price, Henry Burleigh, and Caroline Shaw. Many of us, used to the conventions of classical performance, will hardly notice the difference: “traditional” white male composers being introduced with only surnames, full names for everyone else, especially women and composers of color.
The habitual, two-tiered way we talk about classical composers is ubiquitous. For instance, coverage of an early October livestream by the Louisville Orchestra praised the ensemble’s performance of a “Beethoven” symphony, and the debut of a composition memorializing Breonna Taylor by “Davóne Tines” and “Igee Dieudonné.”
It’s almost as if more people have heard of Beethoven than of Dávone Tines or Igee Dieudonne (who is a white guy). And it’s almost as if the Eroica Symphony is “better” than this 3 minute composition by Davóne Tines and Igee Dieudonné.
If you’re a music teacher who’s been demonstrating some concept with a piece by Ludwig van Beethoven or Wolfgang Mozart, these resources will guide you to an alternative piece of music by, say, Elizabeth Cotten (the guitarist responsible for the “Cotten picking” performance style).
Similar dynamics are increasingly evident within other musical fields, including music performance. The Metropolitan Opera, upon canceling its 2020–21 season, also announced that it would begin its next season with Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, the first opera by a Black composer to appear on the Met’s stage.
Terence Blanchard’s depressing movie scores have pretty much destroyed Spike Lee’s career since he fired his dad, who scored Lee’s first few movies back when everybody thought he was going to turn into somebody good.
Encouraging as it is, this trend is butting headlong into the Western European musical canon. For a lot of intersecting reasons, music critics, academics, consumers, and performers in the mid-19th through early 20th centuries thought about music history as the story of a few great men producing great works of art. (Of course, this tactic is very common in how we tell our histories in many domains.) Tied up in the respect and ubiquity afforded to these men is the mononym, or a single word sufficing for a person’s whole name. These canonized demigods became so ensconced in elite musical society’s collective consciousness that only one word was needed to evoke their awesome specter. Mouthfuls of full names became truncated to terse sets of universally recognized syllables: Mozart. Beethoven. Bach.
If you want to argue that referring to the classical giants like Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach by one name is unfair, you ought to start with the Other Bachs, Johann Sebastian’s sons. J.S. Bach, although influential upon his peers such as Mozart and Beethoven, fell out of public popularity for almost 80 years following his death in 1750, during which some of his sons were more famous composers. Finally, in 1829, the 20-year-old Felix Mendelssohn arranged and conducted a famous performance of the St. Matthew’s Passion in Berlin, and the elder Bach has been a huge figure ever since.
On the one hand, then, initiatives toward diversity and inclusion are placing new names on concert programs, syllabi, and research papers, names that might not have been there 10 or 20 years ago—or even last year. But these names are appearing next to those that have been drilled deep into our brains by the forces of the inherited canon. This collision between increasing diversity and the mononyms of music history has created a hierarchical system that, whether or not you find it useful, can now only be seen as outdated and harmful. As we usher wider arrays of composers into our concerts and classrooms, this dual approach only exacerbates the exclusionary practices that suppressed nonwhite and nonmale composers in the first place. When we say, “Tonight, you’ll be hearing symphonies by Brahms and Edmond Dédé,” we’re linguistically treating the former as being on a different plane than the latter, a difference originally created by centuries of systematic prejudice, exclusion, sexism, and racism. (Dédé was a freeborn Creole composer whose music packed concert halls in Europe and America in the mid-19th century.)
Edmond Dédé was a black guy from New Orleans who enjoyed a reasonable career on the conducting side in France in the late 19th Century, although it’s misleading to say he packed concert halls as a composer. It’s more like every few decades somebody in New Orleans would put on a concert of his pieces as a show of civic pride by the creole of color community.
More to the point, interest in Dédé at present seems negligible. I can’t find a YouTube video about him or of his music with even 2,000 views. There are countless 19th century composers who were fine talents but who are forgotten today.
In contrast, the most popular Brahms video on YouTube has 7 million views.
I would imagine Dede felt Brahms was a much better composer than him.
The hierarchy of classical music composers isn’t actually a conspiracy, it’s based on who the greats think was great. As I wrote in my 2003 review of Charles Murray’s Human Accomplishment:
The best single confirmation of Beethoven’s greatness might be Brahms’s explanation of why he spent decades fussing before finally unveiling his First Symphony: “You have no idea how it feels for someone like me to hear behind him the tramp of a giant like Beethoven.”
Back to Slate:
Going forward, we need to “fullname” all composers when we write, talk, and teach about music. If mononyms linguistically place composers in a canonical pantheon, fullnaming never places them there to begin with. When we say, “Tonight, you’ll be hearing symphonies by Johannes Brahms and Edmond Dédé,” we’re linguistically treating both composers as being equally worthy of attention. And while fullnaming might seem like a small act in the face of centuries of harm and injustice, by adopting a stance of referential egalitarianism, fullnaming at least does no more harm. …
But by using everyone’s full names, we can focus more on their music rather than on the past cultural practices that elevated straight white men at the expense of everyone else. Musicians, academics, and teachers have a lot of work ahead to confront the racist and sexist history of classical music. Fullnaming composers, especially those who have been elevated to mononymic status by this complicated history, will challenge us to at the very least afford the same respect to all of the individuals whose music we talk and write about. When we do return to the concert halls, let’s return to concerts that play Ludwig Beethoven alongside Florence Price, and Edmond Dédé alongside Johannes Brahms.
Sorry, but Beethoven’s full name isn’t “Ludwig Beethoven,” it’s Ludwig van Beethoven:
Amusingly, saying the long names of the Big Three—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Ludwig van Beethoven—just makes them sound even more awesome than saying only their last names.
I’m looking forward to Professor Chris White’s essay about how referring to “Marx,” “Foucault” and “Derrida” is racist and sexist, especially considering how unjust that is to “Adam Smith.”
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-10-26--Kamala Harris: Working Girl Makes Good

Kamala Harris: Working Girl Makes Good

Kamala Harris ’ mid-1990s affair at age 29 with married California politician Willie Brown , then age 60 , is common knowledge .
But Brown ’ s publicly subsidized payments to Harris have been largely ignored by national media .
Quentin Kopp , a retired judge and former State Senator and San Francisco Supervisor , details Harris ’ booty from her side-hustle with Brown in an op-ed published in the San Francisco Richmond Review , a neighborhood newspaper , including : • Brown ’ s appointing 29-year-old Harris to a part-time $ 97,000-per year position on California ’ s Unemployment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 100,000 per year as a full-time Alameda County employee , and • Brown ’ s subsequently appointing then 30-year-old Harris to the more lucrative , also part-time California Medical Assistance Commission , where in 1998 she made $ 99,000 a year overseeing 15 staff members despite having no experience in the field .
At the time , Brown also gave Harris a new BMW .
Kopp also suggests Harris got special treatment twice for violating political campaign ethics laws : • In 2000 , Harris was investigated by the San Francisco Ethics Commission @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for a San Francisco Supervisor ’ s race , she failed to comply with notification deadlines for political mailings , with no consequences .
• In 2003 , Harris was charged with violating her promise to spend no more than $ 211,000 on her own district attorney ’ s campaign , but the Ethics Commission fined her a mere $ 34,000 rather than the maximum penalty of $ 275,000 and chose not to disqualify her from the race as the law permitted .
( As the SFProgressive.com wrote at the time , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be the city ’ s district attorney.
” ) At the time , Harris called Brown “ An albatross hanging around my neck ” in a September 24 , 2003 San Francisco Weekly article entitled “ Kamala ’ s Karma ” , adding that , “ His career is over .
I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years .
I do not owe him a thing.
” In fact , the still-kicking , powerful Brown was the wind beneath the wings of this highly ambitious , calculating woman .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ mother—Indian-born Shyamala Gopalan—supported her daughter ’ s controversial public tryst with Brown , saying , “ Why shouldn ’ t she have gone out with Willie Brown ?
He was a player .
And what could Willie Brown expect from her in the future ?
He has not much life left.
” It ’ s worth mentioning that Harris also seems to have suffered no political consequences when taxpayers in 2018 shelled out $ 400,000 to settle a harassment suit against a top-aide in her US Senate office .
Like Joe Biden , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ public trough her entire career .
But perhaps her smartest career decision was to ride Willie Brown .
As Kopp says , “ Pity the poor tax payer .
”

Kamala Harris’ mid-1990s affair at age 29 with married California politician Willie Brown, then age 60, is common knowledge. But Brown’s publicly subsidized payments to Harris have been largely ignored by national media.
Quentin Kopp, a retired judge and former State Senator and San Francisco Supervisor, details Harris’ booty from her side-hustle with Brown in an op-ed published in the San Francisco Richmond Review, a neighborhood newspaper, including:
Brown’s appointing 29-year-old Harris to a part-time $97,000-per year position on California’s Unemployment Insurance Appeals job while being paid $100,000 per year as a full-time Alameda County employee, and
Brown’s subsequently appointing then 30-year-old Harris to the more lucrative, also part-time California Medical Assistance Commission, where in 1998 she made $99,000 a year overseeing 15 staff members despite having no experience in the field.
Legislators are ‘special,’ by Quentin Kopp, January 5, 2019
At the time, Brown also gave Harris a new BMW.
Kopp also suggests Harris got special treatment twice for violating political campaign ethics laws:
In 2000, Harris was investigated by the San Francisco Ethics Commission when, as a paid campaign manager for a San Francisco Supervisor’s race, she failed to comply with notification deadlines for political mailings, with no consequences.
In 2003, Harris was charged with violating her promise to spend no more than $211,000 on her own district attorney’s campaign, but the Ethics Commission fined her a mere $34,000 rather than the maximum penalty of $275,000 and chose not to disqualify her from the race as the law permitted. (As the SFProgressive.com wrote at the time, “By law, Harris should not even be the city’s district attorney.”)
At the time, Harris called Brown “An albatross hanging around my neck” in a September 24, 2003 San Francisco Weekly article entitled “Kamala’s Karma,” adding that, “His career is over. I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years. I do not owe him a thing.” In fact, the still-kicking, powerful Brown was the wind beneath the wings of this highly ambitious, calculating woman.
Her role model, Harris’ late mother—Indian-born Shyamala Gopalan—supported her daughter’s controversial public tryst with Brown, saying, “Why shouldn’t she have gone out with Willie Brown? He was a player. And what could Willie Brown expect from her in the future? He has not much life left.”
It’s worth mentioning that Harris also seems to have suffered no political consequences when taxpayers in 2018 shelled out $400,000 to settle a harassment suit against a top-aide in her US Senate office.
Like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris has been feeding at the public trough her entire career. But perhaps her smartest career decision was to ride Willie Brown. As Kopp says, “Pity the poor tax payer.”


vdare--2020-10-27--Half-Blood Royalty: Steve Sailer On Barack Obama, Kamala Harris And The Post-American Elite

The lives of President Barack Obama and Vice-Presidential nominee Kamala Harris have striking similarities .
Both came from relatively privileged backgrounds .
Both fit the needs of the Democratic Party ’ s new coalition .
Both are “ black ” but via foreign parents : neither share the experience of African-Americans descended from slaves .
And both support and symbolize “ The Great Awokening , ” the American Left ’ s dramatic recent shift from liberal to Cultural Marxist values , which apparently makes affluent whites feel good about themselves but is reaping a terrible toll on the very people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the movement claims to be defending .
On Monday , Steve Sailer joined me for a discussion of his 2016 book America ’ s Half-Blood Prince : Barack Obama ’ s ‘ Story of Race and Inheritance ' , which is the latest selection in the VDARE Book Club .
What struck me most throughout our discussion is the feeling that we have been through this before .
After all , it was the urban riots and anti-police rhetoric of Obama ’ s second term that helped Donald Trump win the White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after the 2016 Dallas Black Lives Matter shooting that took the lives of five police officers and is accordingly now memory-holed , he thought to himself : “ So Donald Trump is going to be the next President of the United States.
” Will President Trump be re-elected by a country fed up with riots and violence ?
Of course , there are some differences this time around .
Monday night ’ s looting and attacks on police in Philadelphia barely made the Main Stream Media .
Digital deplatforming and anarcho-tyranny have made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to mobilize against the neo-Jacobins in the streets .
President Donald Trump was elected because his opponents underestimated both him and the power of his nationalist message .
But rather than rethinking their campaign of hatred against the Historic American Nation , the lesson that MSM journalists and the Ruling Class as a whole took from 2016 was that repression needs to be intensified .
Perhaps they are right that this was the best tactic .
Either way , Kamala Harris would certainly be willing to put the power of the state behind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ best to silence us .
Joe Biden himself is hardly a factor .
He is simply a harmless face to fool naïve white Americans into thinking that Ol ’ Joe will bring things back to “ normal ” so they can enjoy sitcoms and professional sports again .
But instead , as Sailer noted in our discussion , Biden will be the Hindenburg of 21st century America , a comforting face for normies who will prove unable or unwilling to control the radicals that “ his ” government will put in power .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the short-term .
Personally , unlike some of my VDARE.com colleagues , I don ’ t see President Trump repeating his 2016 performance , mostly because I don ’ t see the Left taking victory for granted .
I also think that many white Americans are simply exhausted with the politics of the last few years .
A vote for Biden is a vote for cultural surrender , a plea for one last generation of Americans to be allowed just to enjoy their comforts before the country descends entirely into the Third @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as Steve and I agreed last night , an ever-increasing demonization of white males is necessary to keep the Democrats ’ unruly coalition from turning into a circular firing squad .
Democrats will be happy to take white suburban votes on Election Day , but those whites ( especially women ) will be surprised when the campaign of hatred intensifies , rather than declines , after a Biden victory .
Still , even if the Trump Administration is coming to an end , it doesn ’ t mean it was a loss .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ see the System for what it is .
The iron fist of tyranny can now longer be concealed within the velvet glove of “ democracy.
” Modern journalism consists almost entirely of campaigning for deplatforming political foes , concealing unwelcome news , or simply magnifying personal neuroses .
The “ Deep State ” is now longer a conspiracy theory but something that exists and is openly defended by journalists .
The CIA , which the Left once claimed was symbol of all that was evil about the American system , is now part @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is bravely working as part of the # Resistance to President Donald Trump .
It is important that these illusions are shattered if we are ever able to make real progress .
There is no way out but through .
Steve Sailer is , as I think the “ mainstream ” journos reading this will agree , the most influential writer of our times that you aren ’ t allowed to mention .
His book ( inspiring which , Peter Brimelow far too modestly said , would be his own legacy ) revealed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ live under .
It showed how a man like Barack Obama could serve as a plausible front for the System – but also how the dream of a united , colorblind America would ultimately prove impossible .
With Obama campaigning for his former subordinate , Steve ’ s book is arguably more relevant now than it was when first written .
The stakes in 2008 or 2012 don ’ t even compare to the existential national crisis of 2020 , the new normal of lockdowns , riots , and censorship .
For that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a second ( or first ) look .
And I hope you enjoy our wide-ranging discussion on what has led up to this critical time in our history .
And thank you to our readers and donors who make all this possible .
As long as you ’ re with us , we ’ ll keep fighting .
James Kirkpatrick [ Email him |Tweet him @ VDAREJamesK ] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His latest book is Conservatism Inc. : The Battle for the American Right .
Read @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

The lives of President Barack Obama and Vice-Presidential nominee Kamala Harris have striking similarities. Both came from relatively privileged backgrounds. Both fit the needs of the Democratic Party’s new coalition. Both are “black” but via foreign parents: neither shares the experience of African-Americans descended from slaves. And both support and symbolize “The Great Awokening,” the American Left’s dramatic recent shift from liberal to Cultural Marxist values, which apparently makes affluent whites feel good about themselves but is reaping a terrible toll on the very people (poor blacks in inner cities) that the movement claims to be defending.
On Monday, Steve Sailer joined me for a discussion of his 2016 book America’s Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama’s ‘Story of Race and Inheritance,' which is the latest selection in the VDARE Book Club. What struck me most throughout our discussion is the feeling that we have been through this before. After all, it was the urban riots and anti-police rhetoric of Obama’s second term that helped Donald Trump win the White House. As Steve said yesterday, after the 2016 Dallas Black Lives Matter shooting that took the lives of five police officers and is accordingly now memory-holed, he thought to himself: “So Donald Trump is going to be the next President of the United States.” Will President Trump be re-elected by a country fed up with riots and violence?
Of course, there are some differences this time around. Monday night’s looting and attacks on police in Philadelphia barely made the Main Stream Media. Digital deplatforming and anarcho-tyranny have made it far more difficult for any opposition to mobilize against the neo-Jacobins in the streets.
President Donald Trump was elected because his opponents underestimated both him and the power of his nationalist message. But rather than rethinking their campaign of hatred against the Historic American Nation, the lesson that MSM journalists and the Ruling Class as a whole took from 2016 was that repression needs to be intensified.
Perhaps they are right that this was the best tactic. Either way, Kamala Harris would certainly be willing to put the power of the state behind the oligarchs who are already doing their best to silence us.
Joe Biden himself is hardly a factor. He is simply a harmless face to fool naïve white Americans into thinking that Ol’ Joe will bring things back to “normal” so they can enjoy sitcoms and professional sports again.
But instead, as Sailer noted in our discussion, Biden will be the Hindenburg of the 21st century America, a comforting face for normies who will prove unable or unwilling to control the radicals that “his” government will put in power.
I’m a notorious pessimist—at least in the short-term. Personally, unlike some of my VDARE.com colleagues, I don’t see President Trump repeating his 2016 performance, mostly because I don’t see the Left taking victory for granted.
I also think that many white Americans are simply exhausted with the politics of the last few years. A vote for Biden is a vote for cultural surrender, a plea for one last generation of Americans to be allowed just to enjoy their comforts before the country descends entirely into the Third World.
But unfortunately for them, as Steve and I agreed last night, an ever-increasing demonization of white males is necessary to keep the Democrats’ unruly coalition from turning into a circular firing squad. Democrats will be happy to take white suburban votes on Election Day, but those whites (especially women) will be surprised when the campaign of hatred intensifies, rather than declines, after a Biden victory.
Still, even if the Trump Administration is coming to an end, it doesn’t mean it was a loss. More than ever, ordinary Americans can see the System for what it is. The iron fist of tyranny can now longer be concealed within the velvet glove of “democracy.”
Modern journalism consists almost entirely of campaigning for deplatforming political foes, concealing unwelcome news, or simply magnifying personal neuroses. The “Deep State” is now longer a conspiracy theory but something that exists and is openly defended by journalists. The CIA, which the Left once claimed was symbol of all that was evil about the American system, is now part of the “Intelligence Community,” which is bravely working as part of the #Resistance to President Donald Trump.
It is important that these illusions are shattered if we are ever able to make real progress. There is no way out but through.
Steve Sailer is, as I think the “mainstream” journos reading this will agree, the most influential writer of our times that you aren’t allowed to mention. His book (inspiring which, Peter Brimelow far too modestly said, would be his own legacy) revealed a great deal about the System we live under. It showed how a man like Barack Obama could serve as a plausible front for the System—but also how the dream of a united, colorblind America would ultimately prove impossible.
With Obama campaigning for his former subordinate, Steve’s book is arguably more relevant now than it was when first written. The stakes in 2008 or 2012 don’t even compare to the existential national crisis of 2020, the new normal of lockdowns, riots, and censorship.
For that reason, give Steve’s book a second (or first) look. And I hope you enjoy our wide-ranging discussion on what has led up to this critical time in our history.
And thank you to our readers and donors who make all this possible.
As long as you’re with us, we’ll keep fighting.
Watch the latest video at bitchute.com
James Kirkpatrick [Email him |Tweet him @VDAREJamesK] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His latest book is Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the American Right. Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow's Preface here.


vdare--2020-10-27--Michelle Malkin: The Mob Is Being Mobilized To Steal The Election From Trump

Earlier , 2017 : `` It Will Come To Blood '' —Reflections On The Left 's Anti-Trump Inauguration Tantrum and It Has Come To Blood : Riots Are Getting More Dangerous Every Day Ready or not , here they come .
The ground troops of the anti-Donald Trump resistance are n't just biding their time until Election Day for Hidin ' Joe Biden .
Hell no .
They 're making their direct action checklists and checking them twice .
They 're training for instigating .
No matter the outcome at the ballot box , the left-wing mob is prepared to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of preserving `` democracy . ''
Four weeks ago , I exposed the pot-bangers and lawn-crashers of the Sunrise Movement .
That 's the constantly morphing , full-time front group for the Sierra Club that nurtures rent-a-rioters to agitate for everything from the `` Green New Deal , '' to Black Lives Matter and the `` defund the police '' movement , to the attacks at private homes of Senate Republicans—who just delivered the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett .
Another key social justice player , ShutDown D.C. , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mobilize students , community organizers and even federal employees to take to the streets on Nov. 3 .
ShutDown D.C. anticipates that 10,000 protesters from a motley assortment of affinity groups will converge at Black Lives Matter Plaza to engage in `` civil resistance '' if President Trump tries to `` steal the election . ''
A `` Flying Bike Squad '' is `` coming together as a rapid response team , '' according to organizers .
If it 's anything like the skateboard squads and soup can squads who 've used everyday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , look for more blood to spill in the name of `` peaceful protest . ''
Mass disruptions are planned at train stations and airports , on highways and in residential neighborhoods for at least the first full week after Election Day .
`` We 'll keep it going until Trump concedes , '' ShutDown D.C. threatens in its outline of a `` No More Business As Usual '' blockade across the country .
`` We could be in the streets throughout the fall and into the winter—maybe as lots of rolling waves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ major tsunamis !
In other parts of the country , as vote counts conclude , our focus will turn from protecting the vote counts to themselves being ungovernable . ''
Here 's what has me especially concerned : The `` deep state '' Trump-haters are openly gearing up to do everything they can from inside the federal government to assist the resistance .
ShutDown D.C. is conducting online training this week with public employees in the nation 's capital to undermine election integrity and the day-to-day work of the Trump administration .
A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worker groups as key partners : Takoma Park Mobilization , Alt National Park Service , Alt Ed , AltFDA , Alternative NOAA , Alt U.S. Forest Service , AltEPA and BadHombreLands National Park Service .
The ShutDown D.C. crew is schooling its forces in intentional slowdowns to `` reduce the pace '' of activities they oppose ideologically and on how to participate in `` nonviolent direct action protests/rallies '' ( which serve as cover for violent riots and assaults by antifa and Black Lives Matter brethren ) .
Another tactic : `` Fed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to `` coordinate sick days across workforces . ''
More `` tools in the toolbox '' of `` Never Trumpers '' employed in federal police enforcement , research and development , the U.S. Armed forces , administrative management and political appointments : Are federal authorities as locked and loaded as are these shutdown infiltrators ?
Is the Trump administration ready to purge these infiltrators from the bowels of the federal bureaucracy before it 's too late ?
I 'll repeat my warning from four weeks ago : They may look and sound like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tantrums in black pajamas ( and three-piece suits ) .
But these professionally organized punks provide obstructionist boots on the ground for globalist Democratic billionaires and strategic cover for their violent antifa and Black Lives Matter comrades .
Wake up , smell the manufactured chaos and vote to put these `` deep state '' moles and trolls out to pasture .
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 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists , visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com .
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Earlier, 2017: "It Will Come To Blood"—Reflections On The Left's Anti-Trump Inauguration Tantrum and It Has Come To Blood: Riots Are Getting More Dangerous Every Day
Ready or not, here they come. The ground troops of the anti-Donald Trump resistance aren't just biding their time until Election Day for Hidin' Joe Biden. Hell no. They're making their direct action checklists and checking them twice. They're training for instigating.
No matter the outcome at the ballot box, the left-wing mob is prepared to disrupt and destroy nationwide in the name of preserving "democracy."
Four weeks ago, I exposed the pot-bangers and lawn-crashers of the Sunrise Movement. That's the constantly morphing, full-time front group for the Sierra Club that nurtures rent-a-rioters to agitate for everything from the "Green New Deal," to Black Lives Matter and the "defund the police" movement, to the attacks at private homes of Senate Republicans—who just delivered the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Another key social justice player, ShutDown D.C., is teaming with Sunrise Movement guerilla warriors to mobilize students, community organizers and even federal employees to take to the streets on Nov. 3.
ShutDown D.C. anticipates that 10,000 protesters from a motley assortment of affinity groups will converge at Black Lives Matter Plaza to engage in "civil resistance" if President Trump tries to "steal the election." A "Flying Bike Squad" is "coming together as a rapid response team," according to organizers. If it's anything like the skateboard squads and soup can squads who've used everyday items as weapons to beat Trump supporters, look for more blood to spill in the name of "peaceful protest." Mass disruptions are planned at train stations and airports, on highways and in residential neighborhoods for at least the first full week after Election Day.
"We'll keep it going until Trump concedes," ShutDown D.C. threatens in its outline of a "No More Business As Usual" blockade across the country. "We could be in the streets throughout the fall and into the winter—maybe as lots of rolling waves of action or possibly as a few major tsunamis! In other parts of the country, as vote counts conclude, our focus will turn from protecting the vote counts to themselves being ungovernable."
Here's what has me especially concerned: the "deep state" Trump-haters are openly gearing up to do everything they can from inside the federal government to assist the resistance. ShutDown D.C. is conducting online training this week with public employees in the nation's capital to undermine election integrity and the day-to-day work of the Trump administration. A protest guide lists the following subversive federal worker groups as key partners: Takoma Park Mobilization, Alt National Park Service, Alt Ed, AltFDA, Alternative NOAA, Alt U.S. Forest Service, AltEPA and BadHombreLands National Park Service.
The ShutDown D.C. crew is schooling its forces in intentional slowdowns to "reduce the pace" of activities they oppose ideologically and on how to participate in "nonviolent direct action protests/rallies" (which serve as cover for violent riots and assaults by antifa and Black Lives Matter brethren). Another tactic: "Fed Flu" actions by U.S. government workers to "coordinate sick days across workforces." More "tools in the toolbox" of "Never Trumpers" employed in federal police enforcement, research and development, the U.S. Armed Forces, administrative management and political appointments:
Refuse orders.
Strike in coalition.
Slow-walk enforcement and gum up bureaucratic processes.
Publicly denounce "attacks on democracy."
Leak information.
Publicly resign.
Are federal authorities as locked and loaded as are these shutdown infiltrators? Is the Trump administration ready to purge these infiltrators from the bowels of the federal bureaucracy before it's too late?
I'll repeat my warning from four weeks ago: they may look and sound like pesky, snot-nosed toddlers having harmless temper tantrums in black pajamas (and three-piece suits). But these professionally organized punks provide obstructionist boots on the ground for globalist Democratic billionaires and strategic cover for their violent antifa and Black Lives Matter comrades. Wake up, smell the manufactured chaos and vote to put these "deep state" moles and trolls out to pasture.
COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM
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--2020-10-27--Notes on the Trans-Antifa Connection: They're Selling Baseball Bats, Axes,  And Sledgehammers In Tra

Notes on the Trans-Antifa Connection: They're Selling Baseball Bats, Axes,  And Sledgehammers In Trans Colors

Earlier by Steve Sailer : What Percentage of AntiFa Are Trans ?
Steve Sailer has observed that trans people seem to be quite overrepresented in antifa groups , but that precise numbers on the subject don ’ t exist .
[ What Percentage of AntiFa Are Trans ?
, July 24 , 2020 ] While I ’ m not privy to any studies on the matter , there is a group that promotes both : The Degenderettes .
Its website describes the group as , “ A friendly international genderqueer agitprop club* ” —the asterisk at the end glibly linking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Play Two Truths , One Lie.
” In an undated interview with Mask magazine , one of its founders , “ Scout , ” said : The Degenderette website sells tons of pro-trans swag , including a wide variety of “ pronoun patches ” and “ all gender restroom ” stickers : The Degenderettes must see a tie between their “ gender queer ” ideology and antifa , because they sell pro-antifa patches as well : One of which comes in the trans tricolor : For those who don ’ t know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shown on their flag , are blue , white , and pink—the two most “ gendered ” colors and the white to symbolize the transition between them : In 2017 , the San Francisco chapter of the Degenderettes hosted an art show literally called “ Degenderettes Antifa Art Exhibition ” , largely in response to Milo Yiannopoulos ’ s speaking event at the University of Berkeley the same year .
The Degenderettes also sell “ baseball equipment.
” The plethora of baseball bats they sell are all resplendently decorated , but in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has any other baseball gear , or even athletic clothing .
And if you scroll to the bottom of the “ baseball equipment ” page , you find , well : The labrys is the double-headed ax of Greek Mythology , pictured above are American double-bitted axes and hatchets as used by lumberjacks .
Perhaps this “ messy network of folks involved in gender stuff ” knows more about baseball than I do , because I could swear that sledge hammers and axes had no role in the game .
Or maybe , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s a lot of overlap between the rise of antifa and “ World War T .
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Earlier by Steve Sailer: What Percentage of AntiFa Are Trans?
Steve Sailer has observed that trans people seem to be quite overrepresented in antifa groups, but that precise numbers on the subject don’t exist. [What Percentage of AntiFa Are Trans?, July 24, 2020]
While I’m not privy to any studies on the matter, there is a group that promotes both: The Degenderettes.
Its website describes the group as, “A friendly international genderqueer agitprop club*”—the asterisk at the end glibly linking to the WikiHow page, “How to Play Two Truths, One Lie.” In an undated interview with Mask magazine, one of its founders, “Scout,” said:
We’re a messy network of folks involved in gender stuff. Officially we’re an art collective, but that’s too broad. It’s easier to describe us by what we’re not: there are lots of beautiful feminist and LGBT 501(c)(3)s out there doing great work in gender activism, but there are certain activities they can’t touch because they don’t want to upset their funders, or jeopardize their legal status. (emphasis added) [Degenderettes, by Randon Rosenbohm]
The Degenderette website sells tons of pro-trans swag, including a wide variety of “pronoun patches” and “all gender restroom” stickers:
The Degenderettes must see a tie between their “gender queer” ideology and antifa, because they sell pro-antifa patches as well:
One of which comes in the trans tricolor:
For those who don’t know, the official trans colors, as shown on their flag, are blue, white, and pink—the two most “gendered” colors and the white to symbolize the transition between them:
In 2017, the San Francisco chapter of the Degenderettes hosted an art show literally called “Degenderettes Antifa Art Exhibition,” largely in response to Milo Yiannopoulos’s speaking event at the University of Berkeley the same year.
The Degenderettes also sell “baseball equipment.” The plethora of baseball bats they sell are all resplendently decorated, but in the promotional photos for them, no model has any other baseball gear, or even athletic clothing.
And if you scroll to the bottom of the “baseball equipment” page, you find, well:
The labrys is the double-headed ax of Greek Mythology, pictured above are American double-bitted axes and hatchets as used by lumberjacks.
Perhaps this “messy network of folks involved in gender stuff” knows more about baseball than I do, because I could swear that sledge hammers and axes had no role in the game.
Or maybe, as Steve Sailer suggested, there’s a lot of overlap between the rise of antifa and “World War T.”


vdare--2020-10-27--Peter Brimelow On Trump And The Sailer Strategy:  Trump Has Plenty Of Room To Grow His White Share

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Biden has the lead, but @realDonaldTrump just cleared a key voter threshold – @IBD_ECarson & @alissacoram break down the latest #IBDTIPP presidential tracking poll results with one week to go in #Election2020. Check out https://t.co/BHmiYvugAi for details! pic.twitter.com/ETe86fKsVk


vdare--2020-10-27--Here We Go Again: Undocumented Shoppers in Philadelphia

It will be interesting to see if the media goes all in on pushing this police shooting in Philadelphia like they did in Minneapolis , Atlanta , and Kenosha , or whether ever since Kenosha the word has been out to keep BLM rioting on the QT until after the election : Obviously , a nightmare scenario for Democrats ’ is — at the last moment — a blue city in the key swing state of Pennsylvania being sacked over a routine black-crazy-man-with-a-knife shooting .
At 11pm EDT in Philadelphia it ’ s a pleasant 61 degrees F and not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( when Antifa normally arrives ) , and even through Wednesday the weather is likely to be not bad .
Then it ’ s going to pour rain on Thursday .
Joe probably feels like it ’ s his duty to America to go on national TV tomorrow and announce his One Point Plan for Ending Police Killings : “ When an unarmed person comes at him with a knife or something , shoot him in the leg instead of the heart.
” Even though Biden has at least twice in 2020 made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recently as 2010 he beat me to my joke about the idea coming from unrealistic cowboy shows .
From the New York Post in 2010 : Is the Old Biden still in there somewhere under the silly New Biden ?

#Philadelphia
BREAKING
A large black pick-up truck just sped through the area striking at least two police officers. Multiple officers down, requesting back up immediately.https://t.co/oEvn2Cb40o — Shane B. Murphy (@shanermurph) October 27, 2020
It will be interesting to see if the media goes all in on pushing this police shooting in Philadelphia like they did in Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Kenosha, or whether ever since Kenosha the word has been out to keep BLM rioting on the QT until after the election:
Philadelphia is rioting over the shooting death of a man who charged police officers with a knife.
Black Lives Matter activists are throwing bricks at police officers, at least several of whom have been reportedly injured (per the police scanner). https://t.co/aZfAz6OAUU — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 27, 2020
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Obviously, a nightmare scenario for Democrats’ is—at the last moment—a blue city in the key swing state of Pennsylvania being sacked over a routine black-crazy-man-with-a-knife shooting.
At 11pm EDT in Philadelphia it’s a pleasant 61 degrees F and not much chance of rain before Tuesday night (when Antifa normally arrives), and even through Wednesday the weather is likely to be not bad. Then it’s going to pour rain on Thursday.
Joe probably feels like it’s his duty to America to go on national TV tomorrow and announce his One Point Plan for Ending Police Killings: “When an unarmed person comes at him with a knife or something, shoot him in the leg instead of the heart.”
Even though Biden has at least twice in 2020 made his Shoot-‘Em-In-The-Leg suggestion, as recently as 2010 he beat me to my joke about the idea coming from unrealistic cowboy shows. From the New York Post in 2010:
Cops furious at ‘don’t-kill’ bill
May 25, 2010 | 4:00am … Paladino, whose association represents 5,100 investigators, said he showed the bill last week to Vice President Joe Biden, who scoffed and suggested it be dubbed “The John Wayne Bill” because it demands sharp-shooting skills of the kind only seen in movies.
Is the Old Biden still in there somewhere under the silly New Biden?
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vdare--2020-10-20--Halloween Stream 2020 With Authors Of THE SACRED FURY! [See Review By John Derbyshire]

The VDARE.com Book Club presents ... Halloween Stream 2020 with Dr. Barton Cockey and Elizabeth Cockey , authors of The @ @ @ @ @ refreshing supernatural novel set in a dystopian future bearing a disconcerting resemblence to our present @ @ @ @ @ is available for a limited time at VDARE.com here ! )
Unlike former exclusive podcasts @ @ @ @ @ publicly available !
Readers are encouraged to send in their questions for the authors to @ @ @ @ @ by John Derbyshire .
Originally published on Amazon.com ( now that 's scary ! )
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The VDARE.com Book Club presents... Halloween Stream 2020 with Dr. Barton Cockey and Elizabeth Cockey, authors of The Sacred Fury, a politically refreshing supernatural novel set in a dystopian future bearing a disconcerting resemblence to our present. (The Sacred Fury is available for a limited time at VDARE.com here!)
Unlike former exclusive podcasts, this edition will be publicly available! Readers are encouraged to send in their questions for the authors to assistant@vdare.com.
Happy Halloween!
Reviewed by John Derbyshire. Originally published on Amazon.com (now that's scary!):
Current fiction lists are not, to put it very mildly indeed, over-burdened with novels taking a disrespectfully satirical view of the West's current ideological Narrative — all the idiot cant of "privilege," "oppression," "triggering," "hate," "Nazis," and so on.
Barton and Elizabeth Cockey's The Sacred Fury takes just such a view. One of the principals, a college teacher of English, is suspended from her job for telling her students to discriminate between facts and opinions. Discriminate — eeeek! (I would not be the least bit surprised to learn that this incident is taken from life.)
Elsewhere in town — the town is actually present-day Baltimore — a statue of Babe Ruth has been vandalized as representative of "a white man's sport." In reaction, defenders of the statue "amazingly had managed to obtain a permit to hold a vigil on Opening Day [i.e. at the ball park] with prayers and speeches." This demonstration ends with violence:
"A large number of policemen were standing by with shields, channeling the demonstrators into a column of twos, through a gauntlet of what later news reports would describe as counter-protestors … Curiously, the riot police did not arrest a single counter-protestor."
Bring anything to mind? Those counter-protestors are in the service of an organization called Global Outreach Organizing for Diversity (G.O.O.D.), the brainchild of "megalomaniac currency speculator and destroyer of economies" Klaus Pyknos. The Cockeys' fictional world is not very distant from our own.
All this politically-incorrect fun is in service of a mystery-supernatural tale centered on Edgar Allan Poe, who died in Baltimore in 1849 and is buried there. The circumstances leading up to Poe's death are a real mystery, so there is plenty for the authors to play with here.
And that mystery-supernatural tale, which carries the main narrative thread of the story, rests on a just-visible metaphysical theme about the conquest of death, a theme that Poe himself touched on in his deeply weird 1848 "prose poem" Eureka, and that is also of compelling interest to Klaus Pyknos.
To describe the story any further would give too much away. Try The Sacred Fury for yourself.


vdare--2020-10-23--New Opportunity! Participate In VDARE's Podcast With Steve Sailer!

See earlier : Steve Sailer : Send in Questions for My Book Club Podcast .
Despite the excellent help of our technical coordinator , no one can escape the occasional Boomer Tech Catastrophe .
After recording a full podcast where Steve Sailer and James Kirkpatrick answered your reader questions about America 's Half Blood Prince : Obama 's Story of Race and Inheritance , the worst occurred—and all was lost .
What does this mean for you ?
You have a second chance !
All previous questions sent will be answered , but if you had been kicking yourself for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to ask !
Email assistant @ vdare.com with any additions before 5pm EST Monday , October 26th for inclusion .
While our previous podcasts have been exclusive to Book Club members only , we simply could not keep this content under wraps ( is it time for Halloween puns yet ? )
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So we will be releasing this episode for all ears !
Stay tuned on Tuesday October 27th to finally hear everything you wanted to know about Obama according to Steve Sailer .
We 're giving you a second chance to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Blood Prince : Obama 's Story of Race and Inheritance !
We 're holding a second raffle where one lucky VDARE.com Book Club member will win a copy of Steve Sailer 's book .
So sign up here by Monday at 5pm Eastern to make sure you 're in the running !

See earlier: Steve Sailer: Send in Questions for My Book Club Podcast.
Despite the excellent help of our technical coordinator, no one can escape the occasional Boomer Tech Catastrophe. After recording a full podcast where Steve Sailer and James Kirkpatrick answered your reader questions about America's Half Blood Prince: Obama's Story of Race and Inheritance, the worst occurred—and all was lost.
What does this mean for you?
You have a second chance! All previous questions sent will be answered, but if you had been kicking yourself for forgetting something, now is your opportunity to ask! Email assistant@vdare.com with any additions before 5pm EST Monday, October 26th for inclusion.
Even better...
While our previous podcasts have been exclusive to Book Club members only, we simply could not keep this content under wraps (is it time for Halloween puns yet?). So we will be releasing this episode for all ears! Stay tuned on Tuesday October 27th to finally hear everything you wanted to know about Obama according to Steve Sailer.
Even better x 2...
We're giving you a second chance to win a copy of America's Half Blood Prince: Obama's Story of Race and Inheritance! We're holding a second raffle where one lucky VDARE.com Book Club member will win a copy of Steve Sailer's book. So sign up here by Monday at 5pm Eastern to make sure you're in the running!


vdare--2020-10-25--Feds: In 2018, Blacks Violently Victimized Asians 275+ Times as Often As Asians Violently Victimized

Feds: In 2018, Blacks Violently Victimized Asians 275+ Times as Often As Asians Violently Victimized Blacks

As well as collecting crime statistics from local law enforcement agencies , the federal government ’ s National Crime Victimization Survey annually interviews 160,000 individuals about their experience , if any , with being the victim of a crime over the last year .
One of the more astonishing results in recent years has been that in 2018 , black victims of “ violent incidents ” reported in the survey that less than 0.1 % of their victimizers were Asian .
In contrast , Asian victims of violent incidents reported that 27.5 % of their victimizers were black , for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 275 to one .
From the Bureau of Justice Statistics ’ publication Criminal Victimization , 2018 : Note that the BJS warned that the cell showing that less than 0.1 % of victimizers of blacks were reported by blacks to be Asian : If you don ’ t believe me , here ’ s the screenshot : For the next report , last month ’ s Criminal Victimization , 2019 , the feds solved their small sample size / embarrassing results problem by simply dropping Asians from the left-handed column of victims : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can ’ t hurt you .
Well , actually , ignorance can hurt you when we are talking about your likelihood of violent victimization .
But that ’ s not the point , the point is that the highest priority of the federal government must be to make Ibram X. Kendi ’ s career smoother for him by suppressing all inconvenient knowledge .
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As well as collecting crime statistics from local law enforcement agencies, the federal government’s National Crime Victimization Survey annually interviews 160,000 individuals about their experience, if any, with being the victim of a crime over the last year.
One of the more astonishing results in recent years has been that in 2018, black victims of “violent incidents” reported in the survey that less than 0.1% of their victimizers were Asian. In contrast, Asian victims of violent incidents reported that 27.5% of their victimizers were black, for a black-Asian interracial violence ratio of over 275 to one.
From the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ publication Criminal Victimization, 2018:
Note that the BJS warned that the cell showing that less than 0.1% of victimizers of blacks were reported by blacks to be Asian:
! Interpret with caution. Estimate is based on 10 or fewer sample cases, or coefficient of variation is greater than 50%.
If you don’t believe me, here’s the screenshot:
For the next report, last month’s Criminal Victimization, 2019, the feds solved their small sample size / embarrassing results problem by simply dropping Asians from the left-handed column of victims:
Problem solved!
What you don’t know, can’t hurt you. Well, actually, ignorance can hurt you when we are talking about your likelihood of violent victimization. But that’s not the point, the point is that the highest priority of the federal government must be to make Ibram X. Kendi’s career smoother for him by suppressing all inconvenient knowledge.
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vdare--2020-10-23--INDEPENDENT: Sacha Baron Cohen Survived 'Cancel Culture' By Evolving Instead Of Moaning (I.E He REAL

INDEPENDENT: Sacha Baron Cohen Survived 'Cancel Culture' By Evolving Instead Of Moaning (I.E He REALLY Loves Big Brother)

From The Independent in the UK , a good example of my long-running theme about how discourse in English-speaking world is deteriorating toward a child ’ s view of Good Guys vs. Bad Guys based on identity Pokemon Points and partisanship .
The leftist critic says that , while you might think Sacha Baron Cohen deserves cancelation , not that cancelation exists , for making fun of hip-hop fans , Muslims , and gays , but unlike Bad Guy comedians like Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle , SBC has saved himself from cancelation ( which is a right-wing myth ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( i.e.
, making fun of Republican voters ) and demanding that the little people be censored by social media monopolies under the guidance of the ADL : Borat 2 : Sacha Baron Cohen survived ‘ cancel culture ’ by evolving instead of moaning While his peers fret about being unable to tell jokes anymore , Sacha Baron Cohen has carefully avoided so-called ‘ cancellation ’ despite a dubious track record with race and stereotyping , writes Adam White The “ cancel culture ” narrative promoted by the right-wing , if it existed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sacha Baron Cohen ’ s downfall .
The British comic became a household name playing Ali G , a white , middle-class male appropriating black culture and hip-hop vernacular .
It was a satire at the expense of men like Ali G , individuals trying on a persona they had no real right to adopt , but was also criticised for making hip-hop culture the butt of the joke , too – whether deliberately or inadvertently .
Much of the same criticism trailed his later creations , the antisemitic , xenophobic Kazakh journalist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bruno , both of whom have been accused of contributing to racism and homophobia as much as exposing them .
And yet , for all his apparent sins , Baron Cohen is still here .
This week marks the release of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm , a belated sequel to the first Borat movie that is just as perceptive , cringeworthy and crude .
That its arrival hasn ’ t been serenaded by controversy or “ cancellation ” , the perceived ruining that occurs in the wake of Twitter backlash , speaks to how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
His approach has always tended to punch up – exposing the hypocrisy , ignorance and hatred in those wielding power , and expressing sympathy towards those lower down the social ladder haplessly parroting them… .
Last year , Baron Cohen condemned Google , Facebook , YouTube and Twitter for “ deliberately amplifying … stories that appeal to our baser instincts and that trigger outrage and fear ” via their algorithms .
It was a rare act of celebrity activism directly targeting platforms usually off-limits for criticism , but also got to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Here is a comedian able to see the world from outside of himself , who is aware of politics , corruption and what truly matters , and then slips it all into his work .
While it ’ s easy to be distracted by the absurdity of Republican politicians being tricked into advocating for three-year-olds owning guns ( as South Carolina representative Joe Wilson did in Baron Cohen ’ s Who Is America ?
series last year ) , truth and horror always bubble under the surface .
That few high-profile stars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been truly “ cancelled ” is a mere technicality – JK Rowling ’ s books are still bestsellers , Woody Allen ’ s still getting his films financed , and many of us will have seen more of Laurence Fox ’ s face this year than we have our own .
Yet so many comedians seem to be fretting about it , even while remaining gainfully employed , injecting every interview with claims that they can ’ t tell jokes anymore .
Baron Cohen , meanwhile , seemingly spends his downtime in between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sitting in an expensive house getting increasingly pissed off about non-existent things .
… In effect , Baron Cohen subverted 2020 “ cancellation ” and the apparent extinction of outrageous comedy not by rejecting it or complaining about what a victim he has become , but by evolving and maturing .
OK , based on the gleeful cringe of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm , maybe just the former .

From The Independent in the UK, a good example of my long-running theme about how discourse in English-speaking world is deteriorating toward a child’s view of Good Guys vs. Bad Guys based on identity Pokemon Points and partisanship. The leftist critic says that, while you might think Sacha Baron Cohen deserves cancelation, not that cancelation exists, for making fun of hip-hop fans, Muslims, and gays, but unlike Bad Guy comedians like Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle, SBC has saved himself from cancelation (which is a right-wing myth) by “evolving” by Punching Up (i.e., making fun of Republican voters) and demanding that the little people be censored by social media monopolies under the guidance of the ADL:
Borat 2: Sacha Baron Cohen survived ‘cancel culture’ by evolving instead of moaning
While his peers fret about being unable to tell jokes anymore, Sacha Baron Cohen has carefully avoided so-called ‘cancellation’ despite a dubious track record with race and stereotyping, writes Adam White
16 hours ago
The “cancel culture” narrative promoted by the right-wing, if it existed, should have long ago led to Sacha Baron Cohen’s downfall. The British comic became a household name playing Ali G, a white, middle-class male appropriating black culture and hip-hop vernacular. It was a satire at the expense of men like Ali G, individuals trying on a persona they had no real right to adopt, but was also criticised for making hip-hop culture the butt of the joke, too – whether deliberately or inadvertently. Much of the same criticism trailed his later creations, the antisemitic, xenophobic Kazakh journalist Borat and the flamboyant gay fashion designer Bruno, both of whom have been accused of contributing to racism and homophobia as much as exposing them. And yet, for all his apparent sins, Baron Cohen is still here.
This week marks the release of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, a belated sequel to the first Borat movie that is just as perceptive, cringeworthy and crude. That its arrival hasn’t been serenaded by controversy or “cancellation”, the perceived ruining that occurs in the wake of Twitter backlash, speaks to how successfully Baron Cohen has navigated treacherous waters. His approach has always tended to punch up – exposing the hypocrisy, ignorance and hatred in those wielding power, and expressing sympathy towards those lower down the social ladder haplessly parroting them….
Last year, Baron Cohen condemned Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for “deliberately amplifying … stories that appeal to our baser instincts and that trigger outrage and fear” via their algorithms. It was a rare act of celebrity activism directly targeting platforms usually off-limits for criticism, but also got to the root of Baron Cohen’s survival. Here is a comedian able to see the world from outside of himself, who is aware of politics, corruption and what truly matters, and then slips it all into his work. While it’s easy to be distracted by the absurdity of Republican politicians being tricked into advocating for three-year-olds owning guns (as South Carolina representative Joe Wilson did in Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? series last year), truth and horror always bubble under the surface.
That few high-profile stars engulfed in recent social media storms have been truly “cancelled” is a mere technicality – JK Rowling’s books are still bestsellers, Woody Allen’s still getting his films financed, and many of us will have seen more of Laurence Fox’s face this year than we have our own. Yet so many comedians seem to be fretting about it, even while remaining gainfully employed, injecting every interview with claims that they can’t tell jokes anymore. Baron Cohen, meanwhile, seemingly spends his downtime in between projects reading and learning, rather than sitting in an expensive house getting increasingly pissed off about non-existent things.
… In effect, Baron Cohen subverted 2020 “cancellation” and the apparent extinction of outrageous comedy not by rejecting it or complaining about what a victim he has become, but by evolving and maturing. OK, based on the gleeful cringe of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, maybe just the former.