vdare--2020-09-18--Woke Capital, Bring The Troops Home, Gingrich Vs. Soros, And J. K. Rowling Offends, Etc.

01m09s A peek into woke capitalism .
( Bend the knee and bow the head . )
16m49s Newt steps @ @ @ @ @ Long pauses at Fox News . )
33m48s J.K. Rowling gives offense .
( Too @ @ @ @ @ Canceling Darwin .
( His defenders have plenty of practice . )
38m48s Where the @ @ @ @ @ real issue .
( Not the U.S.A. ) 42m46s Kim 's new rocket .
( @ @ @ @ @ ? )

01m09s A peek into woke capitalism. (Bend the knee and bow the head.)
10m44s Defund the military! (Continued, with a Gedankenexperiment.)
16m49s Newt steps on third rail. (Long pauses at Fox News.)
22m39s Solipsism Lit. (Winning a prize for fiction.)
33m48s J.K. Rowling gives offense. (Too much imagination.)
36m25s Canceling Darwin. (His defenders have plenty of practice.)
38m48s Where the legacy of slavery is a real issue. (Not the U.S.A.)
41m28s Health advice from a politician. (Don't listen!)
42m46s Kim's new rocket. (Can he nuke De Blasio?)
44m44s Signoff. (With Kipling.)
01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Welcome to the podcast, ladies and gentlemen. That was a snippet of Haydn's Derbyshire March No. 2, and this is of course your extravagantly genial host John Derbyshire with commentary on the passing charivari.
Still counting down to the election: six weeks this coming Tuesday. I don't have much to say about the outcome that I haven't already said, so having noted where we are in the countdown, I shall pass on to other things, mainly things about our society and culture outside the Washington D.C. beltway.
First, the onward march of woke capitalism.
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02 — A peek into woke capitalism. I shall tread carefully in this segment. I am working from inside information, and I don't want anyone to lose his job for being associated with an outlet as hatefully hateful as VDARE.com.
The particular corner of capitalism featured in this story is the fine old financial-services firm of Goldman Sachs. You may recall Goldman Sachs signalling their virtue to the world back in January when they announced that they'd only do business with firms that had at least one diverse board member, which I think means not a straight white male.
Well, a friend of mine is employed at Goldman Sachs, and he's been passing stuff on to me: stuff like this, which I reproduce with my friend's permission, some names redacted
It's a memo that was prominently featured on the main page of the internal Goldman Sachs website August 27th, for the edification of all employees. The title of the memo is: Why Language Can Be One of Our Biggest Allies at Goldman Sachs. The main text is over seven hundred words, too long for me to read out in its entirety, so I'll just cherry-pick a few representative quotes.
Quote: As a firm, we made the decision to capitalize the "B" in Black consistently in all communications … on June 5, weeks before the Associated Press officially changed its writing style on June 19.
End quote. I guess you could say that at least the competitive spirit of capitalism is visible there. Gotta be better than the next guy; gotta stay ahead of the market; hey, look — we did the capital-"B" thing two weeks before AP!
Quote: In Engineering, our colleagues … [have] collaborated with others in the financial services industry to address racially insensitive terminology in computer security terms. This work included eliminating the use of "blacklist" and "whitelist," as well as of "master" and "slave," when describing the relationship between hardware components.
End quote. Perhaps the use of those words "master" and "slave" in the computer department just gets people thinking a bit too much about the power relation between the Indian project manager and his legacy-American subordinate who's being kept on for three months to train his replacement, an H-1B also from India — in fact the project manager's nephew.
Quote: Another example of a phrase that can have harmful impact is "All Lives Matter." … The death of George Floyd, and, as recently as this week, the shooting of Jacob Blake multiple times in the back, demonstrate that until the deadly violent acts against unarmed Black people subside, all lives will not matter until Black Lives Matter.
End quote. You didn't think we were going to get through this without a reference to the Holy Blessed Martyr Floyd, did you?
Although I'll give a smidgen of credit here to Goldman Sachs: They merely wrote "the death of George Floyd." It's routine in mainstream media outlets now to see "the killing of George Floyd," or even "the murder of George Floyd." The Economist, for example, has used both in straight reportage. It has of course not yet been established to any good evidentiary standard that Floyd was killed, let alone murdered.
Quote: It's … not accurate to refer to someone's "sexual preference," which would imply a choice that can be changed, instead we refer to an individual's "sexual orientation."
End quote. That's a bit hair-splitty, isn't it? A bit dubious, actually. An orientation may be voluntary, mayn't it? I can orient myself to the north, south, east, or west, according to my … preference.
Goldman Sachs doesn't just rely on memos to keep its workforce up-to-date on the Party line. Conversations! — gotta have conversations.
To give employees the right idea, the firm records the kind of conversations it wants them to have and puts them on YouTube so they can watch at home. I'm not sure what the rule is for watching in office hours, but I'd guess it's OK … ah, heck, probably compulsory.
Here's a wee clip of one of those conversations from early June. The speaker here is Frederick Baba, a Managing Director in the Global Markets division of the firm. Mr Baba is black. In fact he's an immigrant from Nigeria, came here as a youngster thirty years ago. Hearken to his pain.
[Clip: I think for me personally and for a lot of the members of the black community here at Goldman Sachs, these things are just extremely difficult for us to process. And so you'll be here trying to show up, trying to be your best work self, and then at times you don't even know if it matters, right? You're sitting in a Zoom call-in, you're talking about the thing you're talking about, you're trying to service your clients, but then … There's this backdrop and this, like, cloud hanging over you about all of the other things that are happening in the world, and you just don't know if you really care about bonds at that moment in time.]
That's just a snippet. The thing drones on for half an hour. And yes, there's another participant in the conversation; but he's white, so of course he defers to Mr Baba.
So there's a glimpse into the heart of woke capitalism. It makes the point that this poisonous gibberish is now universal among our ruling elites. I mean, it makes the point because if a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs doesn't belong to the ruling elite, nobody does.
It's like this throughout the Establishment: Wall Street, Big Tech, Hollywood, the universities, … this is the reigning ideology. White supremacy and systemic racism are in the air we breathe, tormenting the soul even of a Wall Street MD on a high six-figure salary and a seven-figure annual bonus. And no, I didn't make those numbers up. In the matter of executive compensation, there is nothing niggardly about Goldman Sachs.
This is the reigning ideology. Yes, it's crazy and stupid and bears no relation to any actual facts in the world. You'd better pretend to believe it, though. Bend the knee and bow the head, or you'll get nowhere in life. Certainly not at Goldman Sachs.
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03 — Defund the military! (Cont.) Last week's podcast included a segment titled "Defund the military!" In that segment I argued for a zero-based approach to our colossal military budget: What do we need to be doing, and how much should we spend on doing it?
I got some good argumentative emails back on that. I also, I should say, got a couple from that mighty cohort of citizens whose skills in listening or reading comprehension are seriously deficient. No, I don't want to get rid of the military altogether, and no-one who listened with attention to what I was saying could think so. Quote from self: "I think we should considerably defund it."
A couple of friends who know my circumstances charged me with hypocrisy. My son served in the U.S. Army, returning to civilian life in 2017. He has spent the last three years, and will spend one more, attending college on the GI Bill, which is wonderfully generous. So I'm arguing against interest, my friends said; or, to phrase it in proper military fashion, I am calling down fire on my own position.
To which I say: So what? Arguing against interest is honorable. A patriotic citizen should take positions that, as best he can figure, will benefit the nation at large. If they have negative impact on him personally, he should grin and bear it. I have in any case no way to stop Junior from cashing his government checks. I suppose I could try to persuade him, but … that probably would not go well.
And then one sly Radio Derb listener spotted this headline at the National Pulse website, run by National Conservative pundit Raheem Kassam. Headline: Chinese Communist Party Floats "Defund The U.S. Military" Campaign For U.S. Left To Adopt.
The story is about an op-ed in a ChiCom media outlet urging American comrades to add "Defund the military" to their list of slogans, along with "Defund the police." Their argument is that our military is a huge polluter, so defunding it would slow or stop climate change.
The ChiComs have a lot of nerve making that argument, given that, as the National Pulse story points out, China "overwhelmingly dominates the world in its pollution of air and water." That didn't stop my sly listener from chiding me for lining up with the Maoists. Again, not guilty. It's a coincidence of headlines, that's all.
Another listener wasn't clear how Zero-Based Budgeting would actually work. OK, let me explain. I'll take our fifty-five thousand troops currently in Japan for an example.
My April Diary included a mini-review of the 2019 Brit-flick Yesterday. Quote from self:
It's an alternate-world story: there's a hiccup in the spacetime continuum causing the lead character, a penniless and unknown guitarist, to find himself in a world identical to his own in almost every way except that on his new world-line the Beatles never existed and no-one knows any of their songs.
End quote.
Taking a hint from that, let's do a thought experiment, a Gedankenexperiment. Imagine, please, that like the hero of that movie you slip through a crevice into an alternate universe. Everything in your new universe is precisely as it is here except for just one thing: there are no U.S. troops stationed in Japan.
Now please argue the case to me for us putting fifty-five thousand soldiers, sailors, and airpersons in Japan.
That's Zero-Based Budgeting; and that, I do believe, is the right way to do it.
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04 — Newt steps on third rail. I'm not a big fan of Newt Gingrich. That's putting it nicely: I'm not even a small fan of Newt, and have even said unkind things about him in the past.
Well, all is forgiven, Newt. Wednesday this week the former Speaker of the House was on some talking-heads show at Fox News, via a Zoom link. Three of the Fox anchorettes were asking him about the recent rioting and looting. Here's how it went.
[Clip:
Harris Faulkner: Speaker Gingrich, I know you have a final thought for us.
Newt: Yeah. Look: The Number One problem in almost all these cities is George-Soros-Elected left-wing anti-police pro-criminal District Attorneys who refuse to keep people locked up. Just yesterday they put somebody back on the street who's wanted for two different murders in New York City. Ah, you cannot solve this problem; and both Harris and Biden have talked very proudly about what they call "progressive District Attorneys." Progressive District Attorneys are anti-police, pro-criminal, and overwhelmingly elected with George Soros's money and they're a major cause of the violence we're seeing because they keep putting the violent criminals back on the street.
(Longish pause.)
Melissa Francis: I'm not sure we need to bring George Soros into this.
(Longish pause.) HF: (Nervous laugh.) I was going to say … (Nervous laugh.)
Newt: He paid for it. He, he paid for it. I mean, why can't we discuss that fact that millions of dollars …
Marie Harf: No we can't. I agree with Melissa. George Soros doesn't need to be a part of this conversation. (Longish pause.)
Newt: OK.
(Longish pause.)
Newt: So it's verboten.
(VERY long pause.)
HF: OK, we're going to move on. A historic day at the White House …]
And this was on Fox News, mind. If it had been any other TV channel the gals would have alerted the FBI to break down Newt's door and drag him away. Although, to be perfectly fair to them, Michelle Malkin has surmised that those long pauses were not, or not only, dumb-foundedness on their part; they were likely listening via their earpieces to instructions from the show producers.
The lesson here is: The left rules. They set the terms. In the case of Soros, who is Jewish, the left have issued an edict declaring that anyone who criticizes him or his organizations is motivated not by disagreement with Soros' goals and beliefs, but by antisemitism.
That's nuts; but the media bubbleheads have all internalized it. To contradict it is not just verboten, Newt; it's streng verboten.
What's the truth of the matter, though? If Soros dollars are being shoveled into District Attorney campaigns, that would be foreign interference in our elections, wouldn't it? Which, according to Establishment propaganda, is absolutely the worst thing in the world, isn't it?
So are Soros dollars being fed into District Attorney election campaigns? Sure they are. It's been reported all over.
Here's a news story from July 30th this year, headline: DAs backed by Soros, other liberal activists join fray in clash with police. Sub-heading: "Under-the-radar political investments made by progressive groups in recent years may be paying off."
The story under those headings is well-researched and detailed. It names names — the names, that is, of D.A.s whose election campaigns took Soros' cash: Kim Gardner in St Louis, Kim Foxx in Chicago, Chesa Boudin and Diana Becton in San Francisco, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, Rachael Rollins in Boston, Marilyn Mosby in Baltimore, Mike Schmidt in Portland, Oregon, … the list goes on, and on, and on.
Where did I find that story? In some tacky anti-semitic neo-Nazi outlet? No, that was from FoxNews.com, July 30th this year.
Perhaps those three ladies who were stunned into long pauses by Newt's remarks, perhaps they — or, as Michelle Malkin surmised, their producers — should read their employer's own website.
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05 — Solipsism Lit. I've done so much book reviewing this past forty years, it seems like a violation of the natural order to pay for books. So the other day, chatting with a friend who has just had a new book brought out by a respectable publisher, I asked my friend if I could have a review copy. "Sure," he said, "I'll have them send you a PDF file."
Could I get a hard copy? I asked. I already spend far more time than I like reading stuff off screens.
My friend shook his head sadly. "Publishers don't do that any more," he said. "Review copies are all PDF now."
That little exchange confirmed my suspicion that the printed word is gradually, little by little, slipping away from us. Printed with ink on paper, I mean. Plainly it's still with us on these damn screens; but it's reasonable to wonder how much longer that will be the case for long-form writing.
Fiction leads the way here, the way down into the pit. The short story is pretty much dead; and there's already something antique about writing a novel, like owning a landline phone. Sure, people are doing it: with the advent of cheap and easy self-publishing, in fact, more people than ever are doing it. Who's reading them, though?
The last current novel about which you could be sure of getting some conversation going round the office water cooler was Bonfire of the Vanities, 1987. I guess a few people will go on reading current novels, just as some people kept riding horses after the automobile came up; but it'll be a niche thing, a quaint thing.
And if technology doesn't kill off imaginative written fiction, political correctness will. The word "imaginative" in that context is already … what's the word? … oh yes: problematic.
In the stiffening totalitarianism of our cultural life, imagination is suspect. We have gone from "write about what you know" to "don't even think of writing about anything outside your own immediate personal experience." Fiction editors at the big publishing houses want solipsism. Their ideal novel would be a transsexual black dwarf writing a story about being a transsexual black dwarf.
Consider for example the Booker Prize, which used to be the most prestigious award in British fiction. There are six finalists on the shortlist for this year's prize.
The first thing you notice is, not one of the six is British. They changed the rules six years ago. Now any writer writing in English and published in Britain is eligible. Five of the writers on this year's shortlist are American; the sixth is from Rhodesia.
That's more than averagely annoying to me. When I published my Coolidge novel here in New York in 1996, it was considered for the National Book Award. I actually got a phone call from them. Was I an American citizen? they wanted to know. I confessed that I wasn't, not yet. Oh, sorry, they said, that means you're not eligible. I was vexed, of course, but I didn't feel any injustice had been done. Rules are rules, and this rule was a fair one.
This new Booker Prize rule is not fair to British authors. They are a small minority worldwide among people writing in English. Their contributions are just getting swamped. Hilary Mantel, for instance, brought out the third volume of her Wolf Hall trilogy about Thomas Cromwell this spring — a best-seller for sure. It's not on the Booker Prize shortlist.
Why would the Booker people perpetrate such an injustice against British authors? Diversity, that's why. Worldwide, the tally of people who (a) can write English, and (b) have literary ambitions includes not only Americans but millions of Africans, Indians, Pakistanis, Caribbeans, and such. Why restrict the prize to boring white-bread Brits when there is all that vibrancy on tap?
Hence the lady from Rhodesia, who is of course black. Two of the other five are also black: one an Ethiopian-American gal, one an American black guy from Alabama. Along with the three blacks, there's an Indian-American lady and two whites, one male, one female. The white male is a homosexual (as also, by the way, is the black guy from Alabama).
The white female, incredible to say, has a husband and two kids. She looks quite normal. I'm calling tokenism on that one.
I haven't read any of these six finalist novels, and I don't intend to. Reading about them, "imaginative" is not the first word that comes to mind. That black homosexual from Alabama studied biochemistry in the Midwest. His novel is about, quote from the New York Times, "one pivotal weekend in the life of Wallace, a black gay biochemistry Ph.D. student in the Midwest." End quote.
The other homosexual on the Booker shirt-lift … Oh dear, I beg your pardon: I meant to say "short-list." The other homosexual, the white one, grew up in the Glasgow slums. He describes himself as, quote, "the queer son of a single mother who lost her battle to addiction." His novel is about a young boy growing up in Glasgow in the 1980s with a mother who is struggling with alcoholism. "A powerful, heartbreaking yet beautifully written account of poverty, homophobia and addiction," says this Scottish newspaper I'm reading.
The author now lives in New York. Would it be presumptuous of me to guess that his next novel will be about a Scottish homosexual living in New York? Probably.
Even when they're not totally self-referential, these books lean heavily to the left. The one by our token straight white lady, for example, quote, "explores a mother-daughter relationship in a world ravaged by climate change and overpopulation." End quote.
The white Scottish homosexual, talking about his book to an interviewer, said, quote, "so many people suffered through a difficult time under Thatcher in the 1980s." End quote. British lefties have an everlasting angry grudge against Maggie, parallel to the one our own commies have against Reagan.
The Alabama guy's novel, says one reviewer, quote:
crackles with the painful comedy of privilege and prejudice … His supposedly benign white friends … view him as a mirror in which to assess their own lives, often in self-congratulatory fashion.
End quote. And so on and so on. This is what gets fiction prizes in 2020. Be progressive, be transgressive, and write about yourself, yourself, yourself. After all, what else is real? Thomas Cromwell, some 16th-century dude? Why would anyone want to write about him? He probably owned slaves.
Evelyn Waugh would not be shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020.
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06 — Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: As a kind of footnote to that last segment, here's some J.K. Rowling news. This is the lady who wrote the Harry Potter series of books, thereby going from being a jobless divorced single mother on welfare to, according to Forbes magazine, the world's first billionaire author.
Rowling writes adult fiction too. Her latest in this line was published on Tuesday. It's a private-eye thriller about a murderer who wears women's clothes and a wig when murdering. That's a bit cheeky of Rowling. She's been in trouble all this year for uttering heresies about transgenderism. She actually seems to doubt that men can menstruate. Good grief!
This new book adds a further offense against woke sensibilities. One of the characters is a working-class Englishwoman. When speaking she drops her aitches, as working-class English people often do. Rowling records this on the page. Sample: "Well, 'e 'ad these 'ead pains and 'e was def'nitley nervous." End sample.
That, said the wokesters, is patronizing and snobbish. Believing that men can't menstruate is outrageous enough; believing also that English proles drop their aitches — this lady seriously needs canceling.
I suspect Rowling's real crime is too much imagination. What's all this magic and private eye stuff? Why isn't she writing about the challenges of being a fifty-something billionairess? They just can't figure it out.
Footnote to the footnote: If transcribed speech with the aitches dropped is hurtful to you, stay well away from Kipling.
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Item: That the loathsome plague of wokeness has infected college administrators, fiction publishers, Wall Street MDs, corporate Human Resources managers, and showbiz airheads is bad enough, but just about bearable. What I find really hard to take is the degradation of science and math by this low-grade witch-doctoring.
So this story in the Daily Mail set my teeth a-grinding. It's about the Natural History Museum in London. Says the news story, quote:
Museum staff were told that as a result of the Black Lives Matter protests, the museum would undertake a review of room names, statues and collections that [inner quote] "could potentially cause offence." [End inner quote.]
End quote.
They're paying special attention to Charles Darwin and the various collections they have relating to him. The voyage of the ship HMS Beagle to South America and the Pacific, the wokeness commissars are telling the museum staff, was a, quote, "colonialist scientific expedition" whose purposes included enabling greater British control of those areas.
So it looks as though Darwin's on the list to be canceled. There is irony here. Twenty years ago we conservative science geeks were defending Darwin against religious Creationists. Now we're going to have to defend him all over again against the atheist CultMarx mob. Well, at least we've had plenty of practice.
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Item: Here's a sad story about the legacy of slavery.
A couple of lovers, aged early thirties, wished to get married. As wedding preparations were under way, however, the family of one of the couple — it's not clear which one — discovered that the other was descended from slaves. They promptly vetoed the wedding. The couple killed themselves in despair.
See, in their society you inherit social status from your ancestors. If your ancestors were slaves, you are low-class — even though slavery was abolished in your society 120 years ago. You are considered inferior, and excluded from many kinds of social participation.
Pretty grim, huh? But who are these benighted people, treating each other so cruelly because of their ancestors' misfortune? Well, they are the Igbo people of Nigeria. The British abolished slavery among them back in colonial times, in 1900, but the stigma still lingers.
Perhaps Frederick Baba could spare a few minutes from agonizing over his own sufferings at Goldman Sachs to give thanks for having gotten away from Nigeria, where the legacy of slavery is a real issue.
And I can't forbear noting from the BBC News story about this what must surely be a leading candidate for the title Clumsiest Acronym Ever. I'll just quote the relevant sentence, quote:
In 2017, 44-year-old Oge Maduagwu founded the Initiative for the Eradication of Traditional and Cultural Stigmatisation in our Society (Ifetacsios).
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Item: Some coronavirus news, this from India.
A month ago a politician of that nation, name of Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria, Member of Parliament from the state of Rajasthan, uploaded a video to his Facebook page in which he could be seen sitting shirtless in a pool of mud, blowing a conch shell and munching on some leaves. Doing thus, he told us — the whole deal: mud, shirtless, conch shell, leaves — doing thus would make you immune to COVID-19.
Alas: On Monday this week Mr Jaunapuria, along with other Members of India's Parliament, was tested for the virus. His test came up positive.
Moral of the story: Don't take health advice from politicians.
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Item: This one I'm a wee bit ashamed of, but confession is good for the soul, so I'll confess. I record my sin here for that purpose, and also to show how deep a kindly, humane, gentle, patriotic soul like me is now sunk in fed-upness over the sorry state of our once-great cities.
I live in the outer-outer suburbs of New York City, and I rarely go in nowadays. I take the New York Post to read over breakfast, though, so I'm up to date on city news — which, under communist Mayor Bill De Blasio, is uniformly terrible.
So I was reading my Post this morning, and on page nine I saw a small news item about North Korea. Kim Jong-un, according to this story, has developed a powerful new missile that may — opinions differ — be able to deliver a nuclear warhead to anywhere in the U.S.A.
The headline, which was of course the first thing I saw, right under a picture of Kim, said, quote: Can Kim's new rocket hit NYC?
That's where I sinned. The thought that flashed across my mind unbidden was: I hope so.
May I be forgiven.
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07 — Signoff. And that's it, ladies and gents. Thank you for listening, and for your many suggestions, comments, criticisms, and donations.
Let's have some signoff music. I mentioned Kipling back there, and I see from my Radio Derb spreadsheet that it's been a couple of years since I signed off with something from him. Here's a favorite of my Dad's: "Danny Deever."
If you don't know the poem, it's about a military execution. There's a page about it on my website telling you everything you could possibly want to know, and with an audio clip of me reading the poem. For signoff here, though, we'll hear it sung by the great Australian baritone Peter Dawson.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-09-18--Justice Ginsburg Dies: "My Most Fervent Wish Is That I Will Not Be Replaced Until A New President Is

Justice Ginsburg Dies: "My Most Fervent Wish Is That I Will Not Be Replaced Until A New President Is Installed."

I don ’ t know as much about the ins-and-outs of the Constitution as the late Justice Ginsburg did , but I could swear the Constitution does not grant Supreme Court Justices their own Dying Wish … I guess lockdown is over for the duration of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg funeral orgies .
It will be interesting to see how extravagant , prolonged , and shameless they will be : Ginsburg , who was 87 , had been in bad health for years .
She served a little over 27 years on the Supreme Court , which is 50 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sensible system in which Supreme Court Justices get a single 18-year-term .
Under that system , Gisburg would have served from age 6o to 78 .
This system would also mean that each Presidential Administration would get two nominees per four years in office : one in the new President ’ s first year , another in the third year .
In the long run , this system would create a stable Supreme Court of 9 Justices .
Transition would be a problem , but the simplest solution would be to allow the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if they so choose , while adding new Justices in each odd-numbered year .
This would cause the total number of Justices on the Supreme Court to be higher than 9 for a number of years , but so what ?
It doesn ’ t violate the Constitution , which doesn ’ t specify the number of judges on the Supreme Court .
The Court has gotten by with only 8 Justices , so having 10 or 13 or whatever for a few years wouldn ’ t be so bad either , except @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
By the way , here ’ s the opening of my March 4 , 2020 book review of Frank H. Buckley ’ s American Secession .
Buckley predicted Ginsburg ’ s death , especially combined with Trump ’ s re-election , might be profoundly destabilizing : Frank H. Buckley ’ s highbrow yet quick and lively new book American Secession comes with the foreboding subtitle The Looming Threat of a National Breakup , but the conservative George Mason U. law professor and Trump family adviser is sanguine .
In Buckley ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’ s death might trigger a Calexit movement by aggrieved Californians ( a state where Hillary won by 4.3 million votes , while she lost by 1.5 million in the other 49 states ) enraged at having to share a country with Trump voters .

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I don’t know as much about the ins-and-outs of the Constitution as the late Justice Ginsburg did, but I could swear the Constitution does not grant Supreme Court Justices their own Dying Wish …
I guess lockdown is over for the duration of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg funeral orgies.
It will be interesting to see how extravagant, prolonged, and shameless they will be:
John McCain-level?
John Lewis-level?
Or thermonuclear George Floyd-level?
Ginsburg, who was 87, had been in bad health for years. She served a little over 27 years on the Supreme Court, which is 50% longer than she would have under a sensible system in which Supreme Court Justices get a single 18-year-term. Under that system, Gisburg would have served from age 60 to 78.
This system would also mean that each presidential administration would get two nominees per four years in office: one in the new President’s first year, another in the third year.
In the long run, this system would create a stable Supreme Court of 9 Justices. Transition would be a problem, but the simplest solution would be to allow the current Justices to finish their life terms if they so choose, while adding new Justices in each odd-numbered year. This would cause the total number of Justices on the Supreme Court to be higher than 9 for a number of years, but so what? It doesn’t violate the Constitution, which doesn’t specify the number of judges on the Supreme Court. The Court has gotten by with only 8 Justices, so having 10 or 13 or whatever for a few years wouldn’t be so bad either, except for a tighter fit for office space.
By the way, here’s the opening of my March 4, 2020 book review of Frank H. Buckley’s American Secession. Buckley predicted Ginsburg’s death, especially combined with Trump’s re-election, might be profoundly destabilizing:
Frank H. Buckley’s highbrow yet quick and lively new book American Secession comes with the foreboding subtitle The Looming Threat of a National Breakup, but the conservative George Mason U. law professor and Trump family adviser is sanguine. In Buckley’s view, a Trump reelection combined with Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death might trigger a Calexit movement by aggrieved Californians (a state where Hillary won by 4.3 million votes, while she lost by 1.5 million in the other 49 states) enraged at having to share a country with Trump voters.
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vdare--2020-09-18--John Derbyshire: Woke Capitalism (And A Nigerian Immigrant) At Goldman Sachs

[ Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb , now available exclusively through VDARE.com ] Here ’ s a peek into Woke Capitalism .
I shall tread carefully in this segment .
I am working from inside information , and I do n't want anyone to lose his job for being associated with an outlet as hatefully hateful as VDARE.com .
The particular corner of capitalism featured in this story is the fine old financial-services firm of Goldman Sachs .
You may recall Goldman Sachs signaling their virtue to the world back in in January when they announced that they 'd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at least one diverse board member , which I think means not a straight white male .
Well , a friend of mine is employed at Goldman Sachs , and he 's been passing stuff on to me : stuff like this , which I reproduce with my friend 's permission , some names redacted It 's a memo that was prominently featured on the main page of the internal Goldman Sachs web site August 27th , for the edification of all employees .
The title of the memo is : Why Language @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at Goldman Sachs .
The main text is over seven hundred words , too long for me to read out in its entirety , so I 'll just cherry-pick a few representative quotes , with links added .
• As a firm , we made the decision to capitalize the `` B '' in Black consistently in all communications…on June 5 , weeks before the Associated Press officially changed its writing style on June 19 .
I guess you could say that at least the competitive spirit of capitalism is visible there .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ guy ; got ta stay ahead of the market ; hey , look—we did the capital- '' B '' thing two weeks before AP !
• In Engineering , our colleagues… [ have ] collaborated with others in the financial services industry to address racially insensitive terminology in computer security terms .
This work included eliminating the use of `` blacklist '' and `` whitelist , '' as well as of `` master '' and `` slave , '' when describing the relationship between hardware components .
Perhaps the use of those words @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the computer department just get people thinking a bit too much about the power relation between the Indian project manager and his legacy-American subordinate who 's being kept on for three months to train his replacement , an H-1B also from India—in fact the project manager 's nephew .
• Another example of a phrase that can have harmful impact is `` All Lives Matter .
`` …The death of George Floyd , and , as recently as this week , the shooting of Jacob Blake multiple times in the back , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against unarmed Black people subside , all lives will not matter until Black Lives Matter .
You did n't think we were going to get through this without a reference to the Holy Blessed Martyr Floyd , did you ?
Although I 'll give a smidgen of credit here to Goldman Sachs : They merely wrote `` the death of George Floyd . ''
It 's routine in Mainstream media outlets now to see `` the killing of George Floyd , '' or even `` the murder of George Floyd . ''
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both in straight reportage .
It has of course not yet been established to any good evidentiary standard that Floyd was killed , let alone murdered .
• It 's … not accurate to refer to someone 's `` sexual preference , '' which would imply a choice that can be changed , instead we refer to an individual 's `` sexual orientation . ''
That 's a bit hair-splitty , is n't it ?
A bit dubious , actually .
An orientation may be voluntary , may n't it ?
I can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , east , or west , according to my…preference .
Goldman Sachs does n't just rely on memos to keep its workforce up-to-date on the Party line .
Conversations !
— got ta have conversations .
To give employees the right idea , the firm records the kind of conversations it wants them to have and puts them on YouTube so they can watch at home .
I 'm not sure what the rule is for watching in office hours , but I 'd guess it 's OK…ah , heck , probably compulsory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of those conversations from early June .
The speaker here is Frederick Baba , a Managing Director in the Global Markets division of the firm .
Mr. Baba is black .
In fact he 's an immigrant from Nigeria , dragged here in chains across the Middle Passage as a youngster thirty years ago .
Hearken to his pain : I think for me personally and for a lot of the members of the black community here at Goldman Sachs , these things are just extremely difficult for us to process .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to show up , trying to be your best work self , and then at times you do n't even know if it matters , right ?
You 're sitting in a Zoom call-in , you 're talking about the thing you 're talking about , you 're trying to service your clients , but then … There 's this backdrop and this , like , cloud hanging over you about all of the other things that are happening in the world , and you just do n't know if you really care @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
A Goldman Executive Has Advice for His White Colleagues Expressions of solidarity are appreciated—Here ’ s what I would appreciate more .
That 's just a snippet .
The thing drones on for half an hour .
And yes , there 's another participant in the conversation ; but he 's white , so of course he defers to Mr. Baba .
So there 's a glimpse into the heart of Woke Capitalism .
It makes the point that this poisonous gibberish is now universal among our ruling elites .
I mean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs does n't belong to the ruling elite , nobody does .
It 's like this throughout the Establishment : Wall Street , Big Tech , Hollywood , the universities…this is the reigning ideology .
White Supremacy and Systemic Racism are in the air we breathe , tormenting the soul even of a Wall Street MD on a high six-figure salary and a seven-figure annual bonus .
And no , I did n't make those numbers up .
In the matter of executive compensation , there is nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Goldman Sachs .
This is the reigning ideology .
Yes , it 's crazy and stupid and bears no relation to any actual facts in the world .
You 'd better pretend to believe it , though .
Bend the knee and bow the head , or you 'll get nowhere in life .
Certainly not at Goldman Sachs .
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
Here’s a peek into Woke Capitalism. I shall tread carefully in this segment. I am working from inside information, and I don't want anyone to lose his job for being associated with an outlet as hatefully hateful as VDARE.com.
The particular corner of capitalism featured in this story is the fine old financial-services firm of Goldman Sachs. You may recall Goldman Sachs signaling their virtue to the world back in in January when they announced that they'd only do business with firms that had at least one diverse board member, which I think means not a straight white male.
Well, a friend of mine is employed at Goldman Sachs, and he's been passing stuff on to me: stuff like this, which I reproduce with my friend's permission, some names redacted
It's a memo that was prominently featured on the main page of the internal Goldman Sachs web site August 27th, for the edification of all employees. The title of the memo is: Why Language Can Be One of Our Biggest Allies at Goldman Sachs. The main text is over seven hundred words, too long for me to read out in its entirety, so I'll just cherry-pick a few representative quotes, with links added.
I guess you could say that at least the competitive spirit of capitalism is visible there. Gotta be better than the next guy; gotta stay ahead of the market; hey, look—we did the capital-"B" thing two weeks before AP!
In Engineering, our colleagues…[have] collaborated with others in the financial services industry to address racially insensitive terminology in computer security terms. This work included eliminating the use of "blacklist" and "whitelist," as well as of "master" and "slave," when describing the relationship between hardware components.
Perhaps the use of those words "master" and "slave" in the computer department just get people thinking a bit too much about the power relation between the Indian project manager and his legacy-American subordinate who's being kept on for three months to train his replacement, an H-1B also from India—in fact the project manager's nephew.
Another example of a phrase that can have harmful impact is "All Lives Matter."…The death of George Floyd, and, as recently as this week, the shooting of Jacob Blake multiple times in the back, demonstrate that until the deadly violent acts against unarmed Black people subside, all lives will not matter until Black Lives Matter.
You didn't think we were going to get through this without a reference to the Holy Blessed Martyr Floyd, did you?
Although I'll give a smidgen of credit here to Goldman Sachs: They merely wrote "the death of George Floyd." It's routine in Mainstream media outlets now to see "the killing of George Floyd," or even "the murder of George Floyd." The Economist, for example, has used both in straight reportage. It has of course not yet been established to any good evidentiary standard that Floyd was killed, let alone murdered.
It's … not accurate to refer to someone's "sexual preference," which would imply a choice that can be changed, instead we refer to an individual's "sexual orientation."
That's a bit hair-splitty, isn't it? A bit dubious, actually. An orientation may be voluntary, mayn't it? I can orient myself to the north, south, east, or west, according to my…preference.
Goldman Sachs doesn't just rely on memos to keep its workforce up-to-date on the Party line. Conversations!—gotta have conversations. To give employees the right idea, the firm records the kind of conversations it wants them to have and puts them on YouTube so they can watch at home.
I'm not sure what the rule is for watching in office hours, but I'd guess it's OK…ah, heck, probably compulsory.
Here's a wee clip of one of those conversations from early June. The speaker here is Frederick Baba, a Managing Director in the Global Markets division of the firm. Mr. Baba is black. In fact he's an immigrant from Nigeria, dragged here in chains across the Middle Passage as a youngster thirty years ago. Hearken to his pain:
I think for me personally and for a lot of the members of the black community here at Goldman Sachs, these things are just extremely difficult for us to process. And so you'll be here trying to show up, trying to be your best work self, and then at times you don't even know if it matters, right? You're sitting in a Zoom call-in, you're talking about the thing you're talking about, you're trying to service your clients, but then … There's this backdrop and this, like, cloud hanging over you about all of the other things that are happening in the world, and you just don't know if you really care about bonds at that moment in time. A Goldman Executive Has Advice for His White Colleagues Expressions of solidarity are appreciated—Here’s what I would appreciate more. By Frederick Baba, Bloomberg News, June 4, 2020
That's just a snippet. The thing drones on for half an hour. And yes, there's another participant in the conversation; but he's white, so of course he defers to Mr. Baba.
So there's a glimpse into the heart of Woke Capitalism. It makes the point that this poisonous gibberish is now universal among our ruling elites. I mean, it makes the point because if a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs doesn't belong to the ruling elite, nobody does.
It's like this throughout the Establishment: Wall Street, Big Tech, Hollywood, the universities…this is the reigning ideology. White Supremacy and Systemic Racism are in the air we breathe, tormenting the soul even of a Wall Street MD on a high six-figure salary and a seven-figure annual bonus.
And no, I didn't make those numbers up. In the matter of executive compensation, there is nothing niggardly (so to speak) about Goldman Sachs.
This is the reigning ideology. Yes, it's crazy and stupid and bears no relation to any actual facts in the world. You'd better pretend to believe it, though. Bend the knee and bow the head, or you'll get nowhere in life.
Certainly not at Goldman Sachs.
John Derbyshire [ email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
For years he’s been podcasting at Radio Derb, now available at VDARE.com for no charge. His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.
Readers who wish to donate (tax deductible) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire's writings at VDARE.com can do so here.


vdare--2020-09-18--Drudge, Bloomberg, Scare With 200K Covid Milestone, But Ignore The Fact That The Curve HAS Flattened

Drudge, Bloomberg, Scare With 200K Covid Milestone, But Ignore The Fact That The Curve HAS Flattened.

Earlier : Peter Brimelow On The Importance Of Charts ( Border Crossings , Covid ) As of this moment , @ @ @ @ @ the upcoming milestone of the number of deaths attributed to Covid-19 to 200 , 000 @ @ @ @ @ link to Bloomberg 's story today U.S .
Stands on Verge of Dark New Milestone @ @ @ @ @ by Emma Court .
Drudge is reportedly sinking into Trump Derangement Syndrome , and Bloomberg @ @ @ @ @ so these figures are designed to make the Administration look bad .
On that score @ @ @ @ @ Welton wrote here recently : As Peter Brimelow pointed out ( see above ) , @ @ @ @ @ , and look at the log chart of deaths and case fatalities , you see @ @ @ @ @ flattened .
The death total increase nowadays is typically between zero and one percent a @ @ @ @ @ off .

Earlier: Peter Brimelow On The Importance Of Charts (Border Crossings, Covid)
As of this moment, the Drudge Report is highlighting the upcoming milestone of the number of deaths attributed to Covid-19 to 200,000.
That comes with a link to Bloomberg's story today: U.S. Stands on Verge of Dark New Milestone: 200,000 Virus Deaths, by Emma Court.
Drudge is reportedly sinking into Trump Derangement Syndrome, and Bloomberg has always been anti-Trump, so these figures are designed to make the Administration look bad.
On that score, here's what Lance Welton wrote here recently:
It is a Democrat campaign talking point that the U.S. may have the most deaths of any developed country. But this is to be expected when about 40% of the U.S. population are non-whites and these are genetically much more likely to die of Covid-19 than are whites. To criticize the Trump Administration on this basis, as the Democrats are doing, is akin to bemoaning high crime rates in the U.S. without taking into account that blacks are a significant minority in the U.S. and commit crime at roughly the same high rates they do in black-majority countries.
As Peter Brimelow pointed out (see above), if you go to Infection2020.com, and look at the log chart of deaths and case fatalities, you see that the curve actually has flattened. The death total increase nowadays is typically between zero and one percent a day, because they round off.


vdare--2020-09-18--Ed Buck Says  Like Jeffrey Dahmer, He Loves Black Males To Death, But The NYT Says He's "Racist"

Ed Buck is a white , rich , gay Democrat , who apparently likes having black male prostitutes visit him at all hours and use drugs with him .
Two of them died in his Los Angeles house after drug overdoses , and a third had a near death experience , leading to his arrest .
• Great White Defendant Found : Gay Democrat Donor Has SECOND Dead Black Male Prostitute Found In House Blacks protested in front of his house when he was n't charged before , and the New York Times , insisting that he 's not that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the deaths are n't about sexual perversion and Democratic corruption , they 're about white privilege : Buck has pleaded not guilty to all charges .
From his cell in a federal jail last fall , he retained as his lead defense lawyer Christopher Darden , the former deputy district attorney who made O.J .
Simpson try on the glove .
In a letter that Buck wrote from jail , which Darden shared with me in part , Buck said he was misunderstood : “ Someone told me that if somebody proclaims he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is .
But when I hear the charge directed at me , it is too ludicrous to ignore.
” The presence of Darden , the races of the defendant and the victims and the claims of a political snow job all suggest that Buck ’ s will be the kind of high-current trial that occasionally convulses Los Angeles .
What Happened Inside Ed Buck ’ s Apartment ?
Two men died of meth overdoses at the home of a West Hollywood political donor .
Dark conspiracy theories abounded— but the truth is even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ York Times , September 16 , 2020 The weird thing about Buck 's denial of racism is that he 's a racial fetishist , like Jeffrey Dahmer .
Dahmer , a gay serial killer and cannibal , victimized mostly young men of color .
Responding to the SPLC 's repeated charges of `` racism '' at CIS , Mark Krikorian said on a panel in 2010 that : '' The accusation of racism is the most serious charge you can make against someone in modern America , comparable to accusations in the past @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or a communist .
The charge of racism is so incendiary that even mass murderer Jeffrey Dahmer felt it necessary to deny that his crimes were motivated by it .
This man , a cannibalistic , necrophiliac killer , went to great lengths to assure a relative of one of his victims that , in her words , quote , 'He was not a prejudiced person .
It was n't out of race that he killed these young men , ' unquote .
`` [ Links added ] Of course , the point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was that he liked young men of color , and had a racial fetish for them , and if he had n't been a cannibalistic , necrophiliac killer , that would have been fine , because homosexuality , no matter how perverse , is now an uncriticizable , sacred , protected category .
In the same way , it would be fine , presumably , for Buck to invite strange young , sometimes homeless , black men to his home , have sex with them , and give them drugs , if they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not only had sex with these young men , and killed them—he also has a record of saying `` racist '' , insensitive , or `` objectifying '' things .
More from the New York Time 's Barron , with emphasese added : There 's more , but I repeat , when Barron said in his subhead above `` Dark conspiracy theories abounded— but the truth is even darker '' the `` even darker '' was the horror that is white privilege—nothing to do with sexual perversion at all .

Ed Buck is a white, rich, gay Democrat, who apparently likes having black male prostitutes visit him at all hours and use drugs with him. Two of them died in his Los Angeles house after drug overdoses, and a third had a near death experience, leading to his arrest.
Earlier VDARE.com coverage of Ed Buck:
Blacks protested in front of his house when he wasn't charged before, and the New York Times, insisting that he's not that connected to the Democrats, says that the deaths aren't about sexual perversion and Democratic corruption, they're about white privilege:
Buck has pleaded not guilty to all charges. From his cell in a federal jail last fall, he retained as his lead defense lawyer Christopher Darden, the former deputy district attorney who made O.J. Simpson try on the glove. In a letter that Buck wrote from jail, which Darden shared with me in part, Buck said he was misunderstood: “Someone told me that if somebody proclaims he is not a racist, he probably is. But when I hear the charge directed at me, it is too ludicrous to ignore.” The presence of Darden, the races of the defendant and the victims and the claims of a political snow job all suggest that Buck’s will be the kind of high-current trial that occasionally convulses Los Angeles. What Happened Inside Ed Buck’s Apartment? Two men died of meth overdoses at the home of a West Hollywood political donor. Dark conspiracy theories abounded—but the truth is even darker, by Jesse Barron, New York Times, September 16, 2020
The weird thing about Buck's denial of racism is that he's a racial fetishist, like Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer, a gay serial killer and cannibal, victimized mostly young men of color.
Responding to the SPLC's repeated charges of "racism" at CIS, Mark Krikorian said on a panel in 2010 that:
"The accusation of racism is the most serious charge you can make against someone in modern America, comparable to accusations in the past of being a leper, a witch or a communist. The charge of racism is so incendiary that even mass murderer Jeffrey Dahmer felt it necessary to deny that his crimes were motivated by it. This man, a cannibalistic, necrophiliac killer, went to great lengths to assure a relative of one of his victims that, in her words, quote, 'He was not a prejudiced person. It wasn't out of race that he killed these young men,' unquote." [Links added]
Of course, the point of Jeffrey Dahmer's choice of victims was that he liked young men of color, and had a racial fetish for them, and if he hadn't been a cannibalistic, necrophiliac killer, that would have been fine, because homosexuality, no matter how perverse, is now an uncriticizable, sacred, protected category.
In the same way, it would be fine, presumably, for Buck to invite strange young, sometimes homeless, black men to his home, have sex with them, and give them drugs, if they didn't keep dying.
But Buck not only had sex with these young men, and killed them—he also has a record of saying "racist," insensitive, or "objectifying" things. More from the New York Time's Barron, with emphasis added:
A meth addiction can’t be concealed once it advances past a certain point. As Duran said, the physical symptoms are obvious. Everyone close to Buck knew he had become an addict. But Buck’s racial fetishism, theoretically easier to keep behind the bedroom door, was an open secret too. Buck’s interest in Black men went back at least to his early 20s. “Buck always had a penchant for Black guys,” said Charlie Harrison, a sometime restaurateur and real estate agent who was Buck’s close friend in the 1970s and ’80s in Phoenix. “He liked Black guys sexually. There was one guy he spent a lot of time with, but back then it was, as Buck said, mostly ‘meaningful relationships by the hour.’” Harrison was talking to me because he wanted to balance the media’s portrayal of his friend. “I’m just devastated by this whole thing,” he said. He remembered Buck the AIDS activist, the amateur political player. But when the conversation turned to race, Harrison offered up a story that seemed to accomplish the opposite of what he intended. In the 1980s, Harrison explained, Gov. Evan Mecham said in a radio interview that he always thought the word “pickaninny” was a term of endearment for Black children. This affront came on the heels of another, the rescinding of a state holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In response, Buck began a successful charge to unseat Mecham via a recall election. On his way to the statehouse to deliver the petitions that would trigger the recall, Buck was asked by the chief of the Capitol Police, who was Black, to use another entrance. “Get out of my way, you [expletive] baboon,” Buck said, according to Harrison. A local reporter published the quotation, telling Buck it was racist. Buck told her, “That’s [expletive] ridiculous. I’ve been to bed with more Black men than you’ve ever shaken hands with.” Continue reading the main story I told Harrison it did sound racist. “No one on the planet, except Martin Luther King, put their 100 percent behind fighting bigotry more than Buck,” he said. “It’s equivalent to calling Martin Luther King prejudiced.” Black men who crossed Buck’s path socially in West Hollywood recalled similar experiences. Ryan Gierach, the journalist who broke the story in WeHo Times, suggested that I talk to his ex-husband, M., who spoke on the condition that I not print his name. He had left Los Angeles for the Midwest, where he had a new job; his new colleagues didn’t know about the drugs in his past. M. and Gierach lived around the corner from Buck for many years, and M. knew Buck as one of his husband’s political friends, “outspoken, charming, attractive,” and also a drug user with an objectifying streak. “The first time I ever met Buck, we walked into his apartment together, and Buck said to Ryan: ‘That’s a nice-looking Black man you’ve got on your arm.’” Buck would sometimes offend M., but then he’d smooth things over with cash. He’d give M. “walking-around money” on occasions when he visited the apartment, sometimes several thousand dollars at once. M. knew that Buck would go cruising on Santa Monica Boulevard to find Black men to take home, but this wasn’t in itself a red flag. They were all consenting adults. “When Gemmel died, I genuinely thought it was an accident,” M. said. But when Dean died, M. felt that something was wrong. He started remembering other incidents, ones that made him feel Buck’s preference for Black men had an ugly, dehumanizing quality to it. Once, out with Buck in West Hollywood, M. pointed to a young Black man and joked, “Ed, that’s your type.” Buck said: “Yeah, but I like ’em stupid.”
There's more, but I repeat, when Barron said in his subhead above "Dark conspiracy theories abounded—but the truth is even darker," the "even darker" was the horror that is white privilege—nothing to do with sexual perversion at all.


vdare--2020-09-18--In 2020, 95% of Homicide Victims And 75% of Covid-19 Deaths Are Non-White in Chicago... Obviously Wh

In 2020, 95% of Homicide Victims And 75% of Covid-19 Deaths Are Non-White in Chicago... Obviously White Racism Is to Blame

Somehow , this is all the fault of white people .
CHICAGO – The nation ’ s second-largest county has recorded more homicides this year than in all of 2019 , the majority of which – 95 % – were people of color , the Cook County Medical Examiner ’ s Office announced this week .
Chicago accounts for most of the deaths , with much of the violence occurring in a handful of neighborhoods on the city ’ s south and west sides .
The Windy City – like others across the country – has seen an uptick in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic , mass layoffs and nationwide unrest .
Murders and shootings are up 52 % from the same time last year , according to police data , and dozens of children under 10 years old have been shot , some fatally .
In July , the city saw its largest mass shooting in recent memory , when 15 people were shot at a funeral on the city ’ s South Side .
“ Facing illnesses , facing deaths , facing also the higher rates of unemployment and loss of income in our communities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ role in the levels of violence we ’ ve seen throughout the year , ” Katya Nuques , executive director of a community organization in the predominantly Latino Little Village neighborhood , said during a press conference Wednesday .
“ The pandemic really has highlighted the vulnerabilities our communities already faced.
” Thousands of Chicagoans have lost their jobs amid the pandemic , which has disproportionately affected people of color in the city .
There have been more than 75,000 cases of COVID-19 in Chicago , and nearly 3,000 people have died , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who are Black or Latinx , according to city data Tuesday .
Demeatreas Whatley , a violence interrupter with the organization Cure Violence in the South Side neighborhood of Grand Crossing , which has historically seen high rates of shootings , said that his community feels “ on edge ” this year .

Somehow, this is all the fault of white people.
CHICAGO – The nation’s second-largest county has recorded more homicides this year than in all of 2019, the majority of which – 95% – were people of color, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office announced this week.
Chicago accounts for most of the deaths, with much of the violence occurring in a handful of neighborhoods on the city’s south and west sides.
The Windy City – like others across the country – has seen an uptick in violent crimes this summer amid the coronavirus pandemic, mass layoffs and nationwide unrest. Murders and shootings are up 52% from the same time last year, according to police data, and dozens of children under 10 years old have been shot, some fatally.
In July, the city saw its largest mass shooting in recent memory, when 15 people were shot at a funeral on the city’s South Side.
“Facing illnesses, facing deaths, facing also the higher rates of unemployment and loss of income in our communities has also, unfortunately, played a role in the levels of violence we’ve seen throughout the year,” Katya Nuques, executive director of a community organization in the predominantly Latino Little Village neighborhood, said during a press conference Wednesday.
“The pandemic really has highlighted the vulnerabilities our communities already faced.”
Thousands of Chicagoans have lost their jobs amid the pandemic, which has disproportionately affected people of color in the city. There have been more than 75,000 cases of COVID-19 in Chicago, and nearly 3,000 people have died, with three in four deaths among people who are Black or Latinx, according to city data Tuesday.
Demeatreas Whatley, a violence interrupter with the organization Cure Violence in the South Side neighborhood of Grand Crossing, which has historically seen high rates of shootings, said that his community feels “on edge” this year.


vdare--2020-09-18--Thomas Jefferson High Schoo In VA: Whites Use George Floyd To Combat Asian Supremacy In STEM

Earlier : Democrats ' Coalition of the Fringes Comes Unglued Over Stuyvesant HS Much like Stuyvesant High School in NYC , Thomas Jefferson STEM HS in the DC suburbs of Virginia has test only admissions and its student body is 73 % Asian and only 17 % white .
Whites are using the Summer of George to deal with the rising tide of Asian Supremacy .
Thomas Jefferson High School Could Switch to a “ Merit Lottery ” for Admission A proposal aims to diversify the elite STEM school by eliminating the admissions test and $ 100 application fee .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ School for Science and Technology needs to change its admissions policy , according to Fairfax County Public Schools superintendent Scott Brabrand .
In a proposal he submitted to the county school board on Tuesday , Brabrand shared a vision for a transformed admissions process that he hopes will increase diversity at the competitive high school .
The new system would eliminate the admissions test and $ 100 application fee and introduce a “ merit lottery ” process .
This proposal comes after a recent outcry from alumni about the demographic breakdown of students @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Fewer than ten Black students were offered admission , a number so low that it wasn ’ t included in the FCPS news release reporting class statistics .
One thing to keep in mind : As with Stuyvesant , if you are black and smart enough to get into Thomas Jefferson , you will probably be offered a scholarship to go to St. Alban ’ s or Sidwell Friends with the children and grandchildren of the national super-elite .
Why would you instead want to go to Thomas Jefferson and make friends @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to know the scions of Senators ?
Like many years before , the majority admitted this year are Asian students , who make up 73 percent of the incoming class .
TJ is consistently ranked as a top school in the country and the competition is brutal : This year , the admissions rate was about 19 percent .
Parents bend over backwards for their child ’ s potential admission , moving families across the state to fulfill residency requirements and enrolling their kids in after-school programs to prepare them for the TJ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as early as third grade , ” Washingtonian reported in 2017 ) .
But this process tends to benefit privileged families in the area , creating a homogenous student population that doesn ’ t come close to fairly representing the six diverse districts in Northern Virginia that the school serves .

Earlier: Democrats' Coalition of the Fringes Comes Unglued Over Stuyvesant HS
Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia, rated as the best in the nation, plans to scrap their admissions testing and overhaul their curriculum to embrace critical race theory. @stockes76 https://t.co/tIV7hmsIKm — National File (@NationalFile) September 17, 2020
Much like Stuyvesant High School in NYC, Thomas Jefferson STEM HS in the DC suburbs of Virginia has test only admissions and its student body is 73% Asian and only 17% white.
Whites are using the Summer of George to deal with the rising tide of Asian Supremacy.
From the Washingtonian:
Thomas Jefferson High School Could Switch to a “Merit Lottery” for Admission
A proposal aims to diversify the elite STEM school by eliminating the admissions test and $100 application fee.
WRITTEN BY ROSA CARTAGENA Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology needs to change its admissions policy, according to Fairfax County Public Schools superintendent Scott Brabrand. In a proposal he submitted to the county school board on Tuesday, Brabrand shared a vision for a transformed admissions process that he hopes will increase diversity at the competitive high school. The new system would eliminate the admissions test and $100 application fee and introduce a “merit lottery” process. This proposal comes after a recent outcry from alumni about the demographic breakdown of students in the incoming freshman class of 2024. Fewer than ten Black students were offered admission, a number so low that it wasn’t included in the FCPS news release reporting class statistics.
One thing to keep in mind: as with Stuyvesant, if you are black and smart enough to get into Thomas Jefferson, you will probably be offered a scholarship to go to St. Alban’s or Sidwell Friends with the children and grandchildren of the national super-elite. Why would you instead want to go to Thomas Jefferson and make friends with Asian grinds when you can get to know the scions of Senators?
Like many years before, the majority admitted this year are Asian students, who make up 73 percent of the incoming class. TJ is consistently ranked as a top school in the country and the competition is brutal: This year, the admissions rate was about 19 percent. Parents bend over backwards for their child’s potential admission, moving families across the state to fulfill residency requirements and enrolling their kids in after-school programs to prepare them for the TJ admissions test (with “some starting as early as third grade,” Washingtonian reported in 2017). But this process tends to benefit privileged families in the area, creating a homogenous student population that doesn’t come close to fairly representing the six diverse districts in Northern Virginia that the school serves.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-09-19--More Black on Black Funeral Shootings

More Black on Black Funeral Shootings

Here are a couple of funeral shootings with a few hours drive of me .
From the Fox 11 News in Los Angeles : And from the Bakersfield Californian : A deadly shooting outside Basham Funeral Care on Thursday left virtually everyone in attendance traumatized .
“ There ’ s so many feelings that you have that you can ’ t explain , ” said John Basham , owner of the establishment located at 3312 Niles St. “ We felt like we were being attacked.
” At 11:55 a.m. the Kern County Sheriff ’ s Office received reports of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in east Bakersfield .
Shortly after , they located a 28-year-old man shot dead in the parking lot .
A funeral that the victim was going to attend was occurring at the time .
Basham said that the shooting had “ nothing to do ” with the family they were serving .
He explained that the service was just a “ normal , everyday funeral ” and that due to COVID-19 restrictions , only 25 percent capacity was allowed inside while about 100 people congregated in the parking lot .
Basham said he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about five to six gunshots , followed by nearly all of the people outside of the building running inside to take cover .
He said there was an individual who suffered a seizure during all the hysteria .
“ The family ( we were serving ) is traumatized , the people who were here have been traumatized by this and my employees have been traumatized , ” Basham said .
“ A funeral home or cemetery are kind of sacred grounds and these kinds of things don ’ t take place there , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course , these were black funerals .
In my recent Taki ’ s Magazine column “ Just Knock It Off ” I wrote : My guess is that there are some low-hanging fruit in contemporary African-American culture—absurdly dysfunctional tendencies—that should and could be made taboo .
For example , there should be a cultural proscription on the disgraceful practice of shooting up funerals and other memorial services .
Self-respecting criminals should be ashamed to do that .
… Mayors and governors could help blunt the current spike in black-on-black carnage by announcing that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the pandemic apply to black funerals , too .
But , as we saw with the immense George Floyd and John Lewis funeral orgies , those rules don ’ t seem to apply to blacks .
… Instead , however , our society has been pushing in the opposite direction , promoting in blacks an ever-growing sense of megalomania and impunity .
How ’ s that working out for us ?

Earlier: How to Cut Down on Black-On-Black Shootings: Enforce Ban on Funerals/Memorials for Black Murder Victims
Here are a couple of funeral shootings within a few hours drive of me.
From the Fox 11 News in Los Angeles:
Mother pleads for answers after son is killed leaving South LA funeral
By Koco McAboy Published 1 day ago South Los Angeles FOX 11 LOS ANGELES – A mother is pleading for answers after her son was shot and killed while leaving a funeral in South LA on September 11.
And from the Bakersfield Californian:
Attendees, employees, owner left reeling after deadly shooting at Basham Funeral Care
By QUNN WILSON qwilson@bakersfield.com Sep 17, 2020 9 A deadly shooting outside Basham Funeral Care on Thursday left virtually everyone in attendance traumatized. “There’s so many feelings that you have that you can’t explain,” said John Basham, owner of the establishment located at 3312 Niles St. “We felt like we were being attacked.” At 11:55 a.m. the Kern County Sheriff’s Office received reports of a possible active shooter at the funeral home in east Bakersfield. Shortly after, they located a 28-year-old man shot dead in the parking lot. A funeral that the victim was going to attend was occurring at the time. Basham said that the shooting had “nothing to do” with the family they were serving. He explained that the service was just a “normal, everyday funeral” and that due to COVID-19 restrictions, only 25 percent capacity was allowed inside while about 100 people congregated in the parking lot. Basham said he was busy making photocopies when he heard about five to six gunshots, followed by nearly all of the people outside of the building running inside to take cover. He said there was an individual who suffered a seizure during all the hysteria. “The family (we were serving) is traumatized, the people who were here have been traumatized by this and my employees have been traumatized,” Basham said. “A funeral home or cemetery are kind of sacred grounds and these kinds of things don’t take place there, so it was totally unexpected.”
Of course, these were black funerals.
In my recent Taki’s Magazine column “Just Knock It Off” I wrote:
My guess is that there are some low-hanging fruit in contemporary African-American culture—absurdly dysfunctional tendencies—that should and could be made taboo. For example, there should be a cultural proscription on the disgraceful practice of shooting up funerals and other memorial services. Self-respecting criminals should be ashamed to do that. … Mayors and governors could help blunt the current spike in black-on-black carnage by announcing that the bans on large gatherings due to the pandemic apply to black funerals, too. But, as we saw with the immense George Floyd and John Lewis funeral orgies, those rules don’t seem to apply to blacks. … Instead, however, our society has been pushing in the opposite direction, promoting in blacks an ever-growing sense of megalomania and impunity. How’s that working out for us?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-09-18--As of 2018, the Late Ruth Bader Ginsburg Had Hired Only One Black Clerk in 38 Years on the Bench

One of the impressive things about the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was her lack of Wokeness by 2020 standards .
For example , she refused to saddle herself with an affirmative action law clerk .
As a Supreme Court justice from 1993-2020 , she had 119 clerks .
In 2018 , the Washington Post reported that only one had been black .
Before her elevation to the Supreme Court , she had no black law clerks during her 13 years as a judge on the prestigious D.C .
Circuit of the US Court of Appeals .
Ruth Bader Ginsburg @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Butler is the Albert Brick professor in law at Georgetown University Law Center .
… Ginsburg , on the other hand , has hired only one African American law clerk in her 25 years on the Supreme Court .
This is an improvement from her 13-year tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit , when Ginsburg never had any black clerks .
When this issue was raised during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1993 , Ginsburg said : “ If you confirm me for this job @ @ @ @ @ @ @ going to improve.
” This remains a promise unfulfilled .
Apparently , Justice Ginsburg didn ’ t find many young black law graduates up to her high standards .
She was apparently arguing in 1993 that her being on the second highest court in the land meant that she was losing all the satisfactory black law clerks to the highest court .
My vague impression is that Justice Ginsburg ’ s finding that there were very , very few black law school grads competent enough to clerk for her seldom interfered with her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ affirmative action .
But the kind of old-fashioned liberal hypocrisy had a whiff of sanity about it , which is sadly missing in 2020 .
Here ’ s another example of RBG ’ s lack of Wokeness : from her 2002 speech to the Jewish Council for Public Affairs on Jewish legal prodigies , such as Judah P. Benjamin , who served as Attorney General , Secretary of War , and Secretary of State in the Confederacy , before fleeing to England to avoid arrest for treason : … [ Judah P. ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Senate and in the Confederacy were bracketed by two discrete but equally remarkable legal careers , the first in New Orleans , the second in Britain .
… Benjamin came to New Orleans in 1832 and was called to the bar that same year .
Although he struggled initially , his fame and fortune quickly grew large after the publication , in 1834 … Benjamin ’ s book treated comprehensively for the first time Louisiana ’ s uniquely cosmopolitan and complex legal system , derived from Roman , Spanish , French , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ practice and the public attention he garnered helped to propel his election by the Louisiana legislature to the United States Senate .
… Benjamin ’ s fortune plummeted with the defeat of the Confederacy .
He arrived in England with little money and most of his property lost or confiscated .
His wife and daughter settled in Paris , where they anticipated support from Benjamin in the comfortable style to which they were accustomed .
He nevertheless turned down a promising business opportunity in the French capital , preferring to devote himself again @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time as a British barrister .
He opted for a second career at the bar notwithstanding the requirement that he start over by enrolling as a student at an Inn of Court and completing a mandatory three-year apprenticeship before qualifying as a barrister .
This , Benjamin ’ s contemporaries reported , he did cheerfully , although he was doubtless relieved when the Inn of Court to which he belonged , Lincoln ’ s Inn , determined to waive some of its requirements and admit him early .
Benjamin became a British barrister @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that mature stage of life closely paralleled conditions of his youth .
He was a newly-minted lawyer , with a struggling practice , but , he wrote to a friend , “ as much interested in my profession as when I first commenced as a boy.
” Repeating his Louisiana progress , Benjamin made his reputation among his new peers by publication .
Drawing on the knowledge of civilian systems gained during his practice in Louisiana , Benjamin produced a volume in England that came to be known as Benjamin on Sales .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Its author was much praised , and Benjamin passed the remainder of his days as a top earning , highly esteemed , mainly appel-late advocate .
His voice was often heard in appeals to the House of Lords and the Privy Council .
Benjamin ’ s biographer tells us that , “ [ h ] owever desperate his case , Benjamin habitually addressed the court as if it were impossible for him to lose.
” This in-domitable cast of mind characterized both Benjamin ’ s courtroom advocacy and his response to fortune ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ top of the legal profession twice in one lifetime , on two continents , beginning his first ascent as a raw youth and his second as a fugitive minister of a vanquished power .
The London Times , in an obituary , described Judah Benjamin as a man with “ that elastic resistance to evil fortune which preserved [ his ] ancestors through a succession of exiles and plunder-ings .
”

One of the impressive things about the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was her lack of Wokeness by 2020 standards. For example, she refused to saddle herself with an affirmative action law clerk. As a Supreme Court justice from 1993–2020, she had 119 clerks. In 2018, the Washington Post reported that only one had been black. Before her elevation to the Supreme Court, she had no black law clerks during her 13 years as a judge on the prestigious D.C. Circuit of the US Court of Appeals.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg can learn something from Brett Kavanaugh Opinion by Paul Butler
Oct. 15, 2018 at 12:53 p.m. PDT Paul Butler is the Albert Brick professor in law at Georgetown University Law Center. … Ginsburg, on the other hand, has hired only one African American law clerk in her 25 years on the Supreme Court. This is an improvement from her 13-year tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, when Ginsburg never had any black clerks. When this issue was raised during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1993, Ginsburg said: “If you confirm me for this job, my attractiveness to black candidates is going to improve.” This remains a promise unfulfilled.
Apparently, Justice Ginsburg didn’t find many young black law graduates up to her high standards. She was apparently arguing in 1993 that her being on the second highest court in the land meant that she was losing all the satisfactory black law clerks to the highest court.
My vague impression is that Justice Ginsburg’s finding that there were very, very few black law school grads competent enough to clerk for her seldom interfered with her ordering the rest of us to endure affirmative action. But the kind of old-fashioned liberal hypocrisy had a whiff of sanity about it, which is sadly missing in 2020.
Here’s another example of RBG’s lack of Wokeness: from her 2002 speech to the Jewish Council for Public Affairs on Jewish legal prodigies, such as Judah P. Benjamin, who served as Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State in the Confederacy, before fleeing to England to avoid arrest for treason:
… [Judah P.] Benjamin’s political ventures in the Senate and in the Confederacy were bracketed by two discrete but equally remarkable legal careers, the first in New Orleans, the second in Britain. … Benjamin came to New Orleans in 1832 and was called to the bar that same year. Although he struggled initially, his fame and fortune quickly grew large after the publication, in 1834 … Benjamin’s book treated comprehensively for the first time Louisiana’s uniquely cosmopolitan and complex legal system, derived from Roman, Spanish, French, and English sources. Benjamin’s flourishing practice and the public attention he garnered helped to propel his election by the Louisiana legislature to the United States Senate. … Benjamin’s fortune plummeted with the defeat of the Confederacy. He arrived in England with little money and most of his property lost or confiscated. His wife and daughter settled in Paris, where they anticipated support from Benjamin in the comfortable style to which they were accustomed. He nevertheless turned down a promising business opportunity in the French capital, preferring to devote himself again to the practice of law, this time as a British barrister. He opted for a second career at the bar notwithstanding the requirement that he start over by enrolling as a student at an Inn of Court and completing a mandatory three-year apprenticeship before qualifying as a barrister. This, Benjamin’s contemporaries reported, he did cheerfully, although he was doubtless relieved when the Inn of Court to which he belonged, Lincoln’s Inn, determined to waive some of its requirements and admit him early. Benjamin became a British barrister at age 55. His situation at that mature stage of life closely paralleled conditions of his youth. He was a newly-minted lawyer, with a struggling practice, but, he wrote to a friend, “as much interested in my profession as when I first commenced as a boy.” Repeating his Louisiana progress, Benjamin made his reputation among his new peers by publication. Drawing on the knowledge of civilian systems gained during his practice in Louisiana, Benjamin produced a volume in England that came to be known as Benjamin on Sales. The book was a near-instant classic. Its author was much praised, and Benjamin passed the remainder of his days as a top earning, highly esteemed, mainly appellate advocate. His voice was often heard in appeals to the House of Lords and the Privy Council. Benjamin’s biographer tells us that, “[h]owever desperate his case, Benjamin habitually addressed the court as if it were impossible for him to lose.” This indomitable cast of mind characterized both Benjamin’s courtroom advocacy and his response to fortune’s vicissitudes. He rose to the top of the legal profession twice in one lifetime, on two continents, beginning his first ascent as a raw youth and his second as a fugitive minister of a vanquished power. The London Times, in an obituary, described Judah Benjamin as a man with “that elastic resistance to evil fortune which preserved [his] ancestors through a succession of exiles and plunderings.”
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-09-19--Ruth Bader Ginsburg Roundup: Reasons She Was "Notorious"

Here is a roundup of our coverage over the years of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg .
In speech to the Jewish Council for Public Affairs , which had given her an award , Justice Ginsburg said Preparing some years ago for a lecture on the Jewish Justices who preceded Justice Breyer and me , I learned that Louis D. Brandeis was not the first Jewish nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court .
I have since read more about the man who might have been first , and thought perhaps you would find his life as intriguing as I did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brandeis hailed from Louisiana .
His name was Judah Benjamin .
He was intensely involved in public affairs , though you and I would agree that he chose the wrong side .
In 1853 , Benjamin declined the nomination of President Millard Fillmore to become an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court .
Just elected U.S .
Senator from Louisiana , Benjamin preferred to retain his First Branch post .
His choice suggests that the U.S. Supreme Court had not yet become the co-equal Branch it is today .
Me , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Not To Tear Down Peace Cross , 7-2 ... Because Hillary Lost Me in 2018 : Supreme Court Upholds Travel Ban , Shows Various Judges Who Attacked It WERE Crazy The decision upholding the ban on travellers and immigrants from terrorist countries was upheld 6-3 ; Ginsburg was one of the 3 .
Me in 2017 : Supreme Court Clerks Still Mostly Hired On Merit ( Except By Sotomayor ) As Steve Sailer noted recently , Ginsburg only ever hired one ( 1 ) black clerk .
( In order bring her total @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had to count Asians and Hispanics .
Asians are smarter than whites , and many Hispanics are white Ted Cruz was a Supreme Court clerk . )
Pat Buchanan in 2016 : Trump Vs. Ginsburg : Why Did The GOP Confirm Her In The First Place ?
Ginsburg , injudiciously , and very much unjudicially , inserted herself into the 2016 for President : It all began with an interview last week when the justice was asked for her thoughts on a Trump presidency .
Ginsburg went on a tear .
`` I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Supreme Court ) would be—I ca n't imagine what the country would be—with Donald Trump as our president .
For the country , it could be four years .
For the court , it could be—I do n't even want to contemplate that . ''
[ Ruth Bader Ginsburg , No Fan of Donald Trump , Critiques Latest Term , By Adam Liptak , NYT , July 10 , 2016 ] Yet she had contemplated the horror of it all , as she quoted her late husband as saying of such a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us to move to New Zealand . ''
`` Trump is a faker , '' she vented in chambers on Monday , `` He has no consistency about him .
He says whatever comes into his head .
...
He really has an ego .
... How has he gotten away with not turning over his tax returns ?
The press seems to be very gentle with him on that . ''
Having said all that , of course , she was ethically obliged to recuse herself in all cases involving Trump or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ n't actually recuse herself , I just said she was ethically obliged .
Ann Coulter , 2015 : Coulter On Cruz 's Ineligibility : `` We 're All Ruth Bader Ginsburg Now '' This is really about Canadian-American , Cuban-American , or if you like Irish-American Senator Ted Cruz 's eligibility to be President , but it includes this phrase at the end : Patrick Cleburne , July 2015 : Cliff Kincaid : Impeach Justices Ginsburg And ( Lesbian ) Kagan For Non-Recusal On Gay Marriage Kagan 's private life aside , Ginsburg @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recused herself over officiating at gay weddings : Me in 2012 : Not Just Breyer—Three ( ! )
Supreme Court Justices Attacked By Men Of No Particular Color As a white female resident of the District , Justice Ginsburg was a target of black crime , and actually a crime victim .
It does n't seem to have affected her pro-criminal jurisprudence .
Finally , the oldest item we have on Ruth Bader Ginsburg is from 1981 , which is an article VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow published in Harpers Magazine , which is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ :

Here is a roundup of our coverage over the years of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Steve Sailer, last month: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Fandom Represents White Privilege
To sum up [white female NYT writer] Amanda Hess’s logic, the problem with celebrating Ruth Bader Ginsburg is because it takes time away from celebrating George Floyd or Breonna Taylor, who are not white.
Steve Sailer, earlier: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Confederate Judah P. Benjamin
In speech to the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, which had given her an award, Justice Ginsburg said
Preparing some years ago for a lecture on the Jewish Justices who preceded Justice Breyer and me, I learned that Louis D. Brandeis was not the first Jewish nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. I have since read more about the man who might have been first, and thought perhaps you would find his life as intriguing as I did. The person who might have preceded Brandeis hailed from Louisiana. His name was Judah Benjamin. He was intensely involved in public affairs, though you and I would agree that he chose the wrong side. In 1853, Benjamin declined the nomination of President Millard Fillmore to become an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Just elected U.S. Senator from Louisiana, Benjamin preferred to retain his First Branch post. His choice suggests that the U.S. Supreme Court had not yet become the co-equal Branch it is today.
Me, in July, 2019: Court Votes Not To Tear Down Peace Cross, 7-2...Because Hillary Lost
The Washington Post says Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor really wanted to see this cross, which memorializes the First World War dead, torn down. None of the other seven justices did. What would a case look like if Hillary had won?
Me in 2018: Supreme Court Upholds Travel Ban, Shows Various Judges Who Attacked It WERE Crazy
The decision upholding the ban on travellers and immigrants from terrorist countries was upheld 5-4; Ginsburg was one of the 4.
In a dissent she summarized in court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said, “History will not look kindly on the court’s misguided decision today, nor should it.” Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan also dissented
Me in 2017: Supreme Court Clerks Still Mostly Hired On Merit (Except By Sotomayor)
As Steve Sailer noted recently, Ginsburg only ever hired one (1) black clerk. (In order bring her total up to 12 percent minority, they had to count Asians and Hispanics. Asians are smarter than whites, and many Hispanics are white Ted Cruz was a Supreme Court clerk.)
Pat Buchanan in 2016: Trump Vs. Ginsburg: Why Did The GOP Confirm Her In The First Place?
Ginsburg, injudiciously, and very much unjudicially, inserted herself into the 2016 for President:
It all began with an interview last week when the justice was asked for her thoughts on a Trump presidency. Ginsburg went on a tear. "I can't imagine what this place (the Supreme Court) would be—I can't imagine what the country would be—with Donald Trump as our president. For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be—I don't even want to contemplate that." [Ruth Bader Ginsburg, No Fan of Donald Trump, Critiques Latest Term, by Adam Liptak, NYT, July 10, 2016] Yet she had contemplated the horror of it all, as she quoted her late husband as saying of such a catastrophe, "It's time for us to move to New Zealand." This week, Ginsburg doubled down. "Trump is a faker," she vented in chambers on Monday, "He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head. ... He really has an ego. ... How has he gotten away with not turning over his tax returns? The press seems to be very gentle with him on that."
Having said all that, of course, she was ethically obliged to recuse herself in all cases involving Trump or the Trump Adminstration's actions. She didn't actually recuse herself, I just said she was ethically obliged.
Ann Coulter, 2015: Coulter On Cruz's Ineligibility: "We're All Ruth Bader Ginsburg Now"
This is really about Canadian-American, Cuban-American, or if you like Irish-American Senator Ted Cruz's eligibility to be President, but it includes this phrase at the end:
Unless we're all Ruth Bader Ginsburg now, and interpret the Constitution to mean whatever we want it to mean, Cruz is not a "natural born citizen."
Patrick Cleburne, July 2015: Cliff Kincaid: Impeach Justices Ginsburg And (Lesbian) Kagan For Non-Recusal On Gay Marriage
Kagan's private life aside, Ginsburg, a heterosexual, ought to have recused herself over officiating at gay weddings:
Justices Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg had both officiated at gay weddings…Matthew Kidd, executive director of the Foundation for Moral Law, told Accuracy in Media that the failure by Kagan and Ginsburg to withdraw from the case leaves them open to impeachment and removal from the bench.
Thomas Martel, February, 2015: Feminist Resentment And The Open Borders Agenda
Immigration patriots are going to have to confront the reality that their opponents are being driven by free-floating resentment, and, as Ginsburg suggests, will not be satisfied with anything less than total domination.
Me in 2012: Not Just Breyer—Three (!) Supreme Court Justices Attacked By Men Of No Particular Color
As a white female resident of the District, Justice Ginsburg was a target of black crime, and actually a crime victim. It doesn't seem to have affected her pro-criminal jurisprudence.
I looked up the contemporary descriptions of the attacks, and what do you know, they were victimized by men of no particular color as well! Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a victim of a downtown purse snatching—no description given:
Justice Ginsburg Is Robbed NYT, November 9, 1996 Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's purse was snatched while she was out walking with her husband and daughter, but she was not injured, police said Friday. Justice Ginsburg, 63, and her family were near the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts when a man snatched her purse on Thursday night, said District of Columbia police detective J.C. Stamps. Her purse had a small amount of cash, credit cards and keys.
Finally, the oldest item we have on Ruth Bader Ginsburg is from 1981, which is an article VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow published in Harper's Magazine, which is very relevant in the era of Trump: