vdare--2020-08-17--Immigration Patriotism In Congress: Who's On Next?

Kris Kobach ’ s defeat in the Kansas Senate primary was a brutal blow to the cause of immigration patriotism and a stealth triumph for Conservatism Inc. which had already taken out Iowa ’ s Rep. Steve King and immigration hero Jeff Sessions of Alabama .
And of course , it ’ s appalling that President Donald J. Trump is making no effort to institutionalize the National Conservative impulse that brought him to power .
But that impulse continues , and new leaders are emerging in Congress .
Even hostile observers concede that President Trump ’ s nationalist campaign has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Times neocon David Brooks , perhaps the most Establishment of any professional token “ conservative , ” says As well , average Republicans broadly support limiting legal immigration and eliminating illegal immigration .
A new NPR-Ipsos poll shows that roughly 75 percent of Republicans want immigration shut down entirely in response to the Chinese Virus .
The poll also found majorities of Republicans also support a border wall and want permanent limits to immigration [ Americans Back Trump On Immigration — But Only To Stop COVID-19 , Poll Finds , by Joel Rose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] .
Other recent surveys report that most Republicans are nationalists on immigration ; one found that 74 percent of Republicans believe immigrants are a burden , and not , as the GOP ’ s Treason Lobby asserts , an asset .
Two further factors are Fox ’ s Tucker Carlson—and Trump himself .
Carlson is an unapologetic immigration patriot .
The Congressional GOP often takes its cues from talk radio and Fox News .
If Tucker ’ s message is what GOP legislators hear the most , they ’ ll adapt to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to support allies in GOP primaries , Trump has advanced his immigration policies on several fronts .
Immigration has declined significantly in the last three years and his revised moratorium , ordered in response to the Flu Manchu , is his best move on the issue in several years .
While leaving much to be desired , his rhetoric has pushed the GOP in the right direction .
Few Republicans openly claim they want more immigrants or an amnesty .
Even better , four GOP senators and eight congressmen signed letters in May @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his temporary immigration moratorium .
Of the 12 signatories , the most promising six , though all have their faults , are these .
Since entering the Senate in 2015 , the 43-year-old has proven to be one of the best lawmakers on the issue .
He sponsored the RAISE Act that would have halved legal immigration , and sternly opposed attempts to legalize illegal aliens .
Unlike others who only vote the right way on immigration , Cotton has made it a polemical priority [ Sen. Tom Cotton ’ s Next Mission @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Siobhan Hughes , Wall Street Journal , June 7 , 2020 ] .
Sources tell VDARE.com that Cotton is really serious about immigration and realizes it ’ s a major problem for America .
Cotton has distinguished himself , by the way , by being by one of the few Republicans to stand against Javanka ’ s disastrous criminal justice reform [ Fate of criminal justice reform bill hinges on Cotton amendments , by Marianne Levine , Politico , December 17 , 2018 ] .
And Cotton has even urged the deployment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Matter riots , provoking the ludicrous Stalin-style purging of New York Times Op-Ed editor James Bennet .
( Do it again , Senator ! )
Cotton ’ s main drawback : he ’ s a neocon Hawk , which could hinder his leading on immigration and building trust among non-interventionist immigration patriots .
It ’ s possible he might tone down his strong support for secure borders if he thinks it will help win legislative support for foreign military adventures .
Cotton also supports the awful Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allow Indians to dominate our immigration system .
That has to change .
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley is another 2024 hopeful who also strong on immigration…at least on paper .
He co-sponsored the RAISE Act and signed the Senate letter demanding an expanded immigration moratorium .
In past speeches , he ’ s warned about the threat mass immigration poses to American workers .
He ’ s great on tech censorship .
And , on a possibly related issue , he is far less hawkish on foreign policy than Cotton .
But the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immigration .
He ’ s tweeted about it only one time since 2019 .
Meanwhile , he ’ s tweeted about democracy in Hong Kong at least 30 times .
Hawley spends most of his time on China and industrial policy , and he seems to think hitting the immigration issue harms his image among the smart set of journalists inside the Beltway .
Hawley demonstrates promise as a populist , but he squanders his public platform on meaningless fights and pandering to pundits .
He ’ s much less interesting than he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still correct his course and start fighting in 2020 .
We have to hope he does .
Cruz , 49 , is one of the biggest names in the GOP .
He was a top contender for the conservative vote against Trump in the 2016 primaries , he regularly appears on TV , his opinion can make or break legislation , and his tweets reach millions .
He ’ s bigger than Cotton or anyone else on this list .
And fortunately , he mostly uses his power and influence for good on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ senator to publicly disagree with Trump ’ s initial moratorium Executive Order ’ s not covering most Guest Workers .
• Cruz rebuked Trump for suggesting a path to citizenship for illegal aliens covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program [ Ted Cruz Slams Trump ’ s ‘ Road to Citizenship ’ Claim for Pending DACA Executive Order , by Tobias Hoonhout , National Review , July 10 , 2020 ] .
• Cruz would eliminate birthright citizenship [ Ted Cruz supports end to birthright citizenship , but sees 'open question @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by James Barragán and Todd J. Gillman , The Dallas Morning News , October 30 , 2018 ] .
• Cruz led the fight against the White House ’ s terrible DACA ideas in 2018 .
And , earlier , fought against the Gang of Eight Amnesty in 2013 .
Cruz isn ’ t afraid to challenge the GOP Establishment .
He can count on a strong base of support within the grassroots and in conservative media for any battle .
Problem is…he ’ s too obviously an opportunist who sticks his finger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been inconsistent on immigration for instance , in 2015 suggesting he was open to legal status for illegal immigrants [ Ted Cruz Wo n't Rule Out Legalization for 11 Million in U.S .
Illegally , by Zeke Miller , Time , November 20 , 2015 ] .
He once supported a massive increase in foreign guest workers , before flip-flopping and calling for a serious reduction during the 2016 campaign [ Ted Cruz Turns on Legal Immigration , by Benji Sarlin , NBC News , November 13 , 2015 ] .
And he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In other words , the question about Cruz : Is he trustworthy ?
Gaetz , 38 , is a rising GOP star .
He ’ s a Fox News regular with close ties to Trump and he regularly stirs up trouble in Congress .
He was a leader against Trump ’ s impeachment , which solidified his reputation among his peers .
He is also a tough immigration patriot .
He co-sponsored the House version of the RAISE Act and regularly discusses the threat of unbridled illegal immigration .
Like Trump , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Incorrect statements and he deploys populist bluster effectively .
He could be a serious contender in 2024 and will be a leader in the years to come .
That gives him the power to advance good legislation on immigration and Big Tech .
Yet he too voted for the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act .
Sources say that in fact Gaetz isn ’ t particularly committed to immigration patriotism and instead cynically views the issue as good politics , i.e.
, red meat for the base .
Which is better than nothing… .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ leaves Congress , Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar , 61 , will arguably be the staunchest immigration patriot in the House .
He co-sponsored the RAISE Act in the House and was the first congressman to criticize Trump ’ s initial immigration moratorium because it failed to exclude most guest workers .
He helped organize the letter demanding an expansion to the moratorium .
He regularly tweets about immigration and even implicitly supported last fall ’ s Groyper War .
Like Gaetz and Cotton , Gosar is also a stalwart on tech censorship .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ force the tech giants to protect political speech on social media .
In fact , Gosar is better on immigration than Gaetz and Cotton .
But he lacks their stature .
Both drive public debate with strong statements and legislation .
They appear on Fox News regularly and are seen as party leaders .
Gosar doesn ’ t have that cachet , which limits his becoming the next great leader of America ’ s immigration patriots .
Solution : More time on Fox , and a better publicity machine .
Lance Gooden , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ promising new recruit .
He was one of the first lawmakers to criticize Trump ’ s initial immigration order .
He routinely tweets about immigration and the dangers it poses to American workers .
No congressman besides Gosar or King comments on immigration more than Gooden .
He also supported a tough response to the riots .
Gooden , 37 , is telegenic , doesn ’ t come off as a wingnut , and could well become a conservative media mainstay or even a star if his career goes well .
Two notable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ David Perdue and Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks .
Despite sponsoring the RAISE Act , Perdue is now effectively MIA on immigration .
He didn ’ t sign the Senate letter demanding an expanded moratorium .
Instead , he signed letters demanding more guest workers .
Perdue is still better than the average Republican , but he can ’ t be trusted to be a leader .
At 70 , he ’ s running for re-election .
But he needs to do better .
Brooks has been one of the best voices on immigration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had a bout with prostate cancer .
His voice is always welcome .
But , tragically , he may not be able to provide much further leadership on the immigration issue .
The immigration issue is driven by demographic change , which is itself the product of public policy .
However much the Ruling Class strikes down opposition , new opposition will recur , as long as the Historic American Nation has life .

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

Kris Kobach’s defeat in the Kansas Senate primary was a brutal blow to the cause of immigration patriotism and a stealth triumph for Conservatism Inc., which had already taken out Iowa’s Rep. Steve King and immigration hero Jeff Sessions of Alabama. And of course, it’s appalling that President Donald J. Trump is making no effort to institutionalize the National Conservative impulse that brought him to power. But that impulse continues, and new leaders are emerging in Congress.
Even hostile observers concede that President Trump’s nationalist campaign has remade the party. The New York Times neocon David Brooks, perhaps the most Establishment of any professional token “conservative,” says
The basic Trump worldview — on immigration, trade, foreign policy, etc. — will shape the G.O.P. for decades, the way the basic Reagan worldview did for decades. A thousand smarter conservatives will be building a new party after 2020, but one that builds from the framework Trump established. [Where Do Republicans Go From Here?, August 7, 2020]
As well, average Republicans broadly support limiting legal immigration and eliminating illegal immigration. A new NPR-Ipsos poll shows that roughly 75 percent of Republicans want immigration shut down entirely in response to the Chinese Virus. The poll also found majorities of Republicans also support a border wall and want permanent limits to immigration [Americans Back Trump On Immigration — But Only To Stop COVID-19, Poll Finds, by Joel Rose, NPR, August 5, 2020].
Other recent surveys report that most Republicans are nationalists on immigration; one found that 74 percent of Republicans believe immigrants are a burden, and not, as the GOP’s Treason Lobby asserts, an asset.
Two further factors are Fox’s Tucker Carlson — and Trump himself.
Carlson is an unapologetic immigration patriot. The Congressional GOP often takes its cues from talk radio and Fox News. If Tucker’s message is what GOP legislators hear the most, they’ll adapt to it.
And, despite his failure to support allies in GOP primaries, Trump has advanced his immigration policies on several fronts. Immigration has declined significantly in the last three years and his revised moratorium, ordered in response to the Flu Manchu, is his best move on the issue in several years. While leaving much to be desired, his rhetoric has pushed the GOP in the right direction. Few Republicans openly claim they want more immigrants or an amnesty.
Even better, four GOP senators and eight congressmen signed letters in May to demand that Trump extend and expand his temporary immigration moratorium.
Of the 12 signatories, the most promising six, though all have their faults, are these.
In the Senate ...
Tom Cotton (R.-Arkansas)
Since entering the Senate in 2015, the 43-year-old has proven to be one of the best lawmakers on the issue. He sponsored the RAISE Act that would have halved legal immigration, and sternly opposed attempts to legalize illegal aliens. Unlike others who only vote the right way on immigration, Cotton has made it a polemical priority [Sen. Tom Cotton’s Next Mission: Carrying Trump Banner After Trump, by Siobhan Hughes, Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2020]. Sources tell VDARE.com that Cotton is really serious about immigration and realizes it’s a major problem for America.
Cotton has distinguished himself, by the way, by being by one of the few Republicans to stand against Javanka’s disastrous criminal justice reform [Fate of criminal justice reform bill hinges on Cotton amendments, by Marianne Levine, Politico, December 17, 2018]. And Cotton has even urged the deployment of federal troops against the Black Lives Matter riots, provoking the ludicrous Stalin-style purging of New York Times Op-Ed editor James Bennet. (Do it again, Senator!)
Cotton’s main drawback: he’s a neocon Hawk, which could hinder his leading on immigration and building trust among non-interventionist immigration patriots. It’s possible he might tone down his strong support for secure borders if he thinks it will help win legislative support for foreign military adventures.
Cotton also supports the awful Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, which would scrap country caps on visas and allow Indians to dominate our immigration system.
That has to change.
Josh Hawley (R.-Missouri)
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley is another 2024 hopeful who is also strong on immigration…at least on paper. He co-sponsored the RAISE Act and signed the Senate letter demanding an expanded immigration moratorium. In past speeches, he’s warned about the threat mass immigration poses to American workers. He’s great on tech censorship. And, on a possibly related issue, he is far less hawkish on foreign policy than Cotton.
But the 40-year-old Show-Me-Stater barely and rarely actually discusses immigration. He’s tweeted about it only one time since 2019. Meanwhile, he’s tweeted about democracy in Hong Kong at least 30 times.
Hawley spends most of his time on China and industrial policy, and he seems to think hitting the immigration issue harms his image among the smart set of journalists inside the Beltway.
Hawley demonstrates promise as a populist, but he squanders his public platform on meaningless fights and pandering to pundits. He’s much less interesting than he thinks he is.
But he can still correct his course and start fighting in 2020. We have to hope he does.
Ted Cruz (R.-TX)
Cruz, 49, is one of the biggest names in the GOP. He was a top contender for the conservative vote against Trump in the 2016 primaries, he regularly appears on TV, his opinion can make or break legislation, and his tweets reach millions. He’s bigger than Cotton or anyone else on this list.
And fortunately, he mostly uses his power and influence for good on immigration:
Cruz isn’t afraid to challenge the GOP Establishment. He can count on a strong base of support within the grassroots and in conservative media for any battle.
Problem is…he’s too obviously an opportunist who sticks his finger in the wind. He’s been inconsistent on immigration, for instance, in 2015 suggesting he was open to legal status for illegal immigrants [Ted Cruz Won't Rule Out Legalization for 11 Million in U.S. Illegally, by Zeke Miller, Time, November 20, 2015]. He once supported a massive increase in foreign guest workers, before flip-flopping and calling for a serious reduction during the 2016 campaign [Ted Cruz Turns on Legal Immigration, by Benji Sarlin, NBC News, November 13, 2015]. And he didn’t co-sponsor the RAISE Act.
In other words, the question about Cruz: Is he trustworthy?
In the House ...
Matt Gaetz (R.-FL)
Gaetz, 38, is a rising GOP star. He’s a Fox News regular with close ties to Trump and he regularly stirs up trouble in Congress. He was a leader against Trump’s impeachment, which solidified his reputation among his peers.
He is also a tough immigration patriot. He co-sponsored the House version of the RAISE Act and regularly discusses the threat of unbridled illegal immigration. Like Trump, he doesn’t apologize for Politically Incorrect statements and he deploys populist bluster effectively. He could be a serious contender in 2024 and will be a leader in the years to come. That gives him the power to advance good legislation on immigration and Big Tech.
Yet he too voted for the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act.
Sources say that in fact Gaetz isn’t particularly committed to immigration patriotism and instead cynically views the issue as good politics, i.e., red meat for the base. Which is better than nothing…. but not good enough.
Paul Gosar (R-AZ)
When Steve King leaves Congress, Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, 61, will arguably be the staunchest immigration patriot in the House. He co-sponsored the RAISE Act in the House and was the first congressman to criticize Trump’s initial immigration moratorium because it failed to exclude most guest workers. He helped organize the letter demanding an expansion to the moratorium. He regularly tweets about immigration and even implicitly supported last fall’s Groyper War.
Like Gaetz and Cotton, Gosar is also a stalwart on tech censorship. He recently re-introduced a bill that would force the tech giants to protect political speech on social media.
In fact, Gosar is better on immigration than Gaetz and Cotton. But he lacks their stature. Both drive public debate with strong statements and legislation. They appear on Fox News regularly and are seen as party leaders. Gosar doesn’t have that cachet, which limits his becoming the next great leader of America’s immigration patriots. Solution: more time on Fox, and a better publicity machine.
Lance Gooden (R.-TX)
Lance Gooden, first elected in 2018, is a promising new recruit. He was one of the first lawmakers to criticize Trump’s initial immigration order. He routinely tweets about immigration and the dangers it poses to American workers. No congressman besides Gosar or King comments on immigration more than Gooden. He also supported a tough response to the riots.
Weak local response to these riots has fostered escalation.
LAW & ORDER NOW!!!pic.twitter.com/dpmkQKN9Y7 — Lance Gooden (@Lancegooden) May 31, 2020
And he supports curbing tech censorship.
Gooden, 37, is telegenic, doesn’t come off as a wingnut, and could well become a conservative media mainstay or even a star if his career goes well.
Two notable absences from my list: Georgia Sen. David Perdue and Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks.
Despite sponsoring the RAISE Act, Perdue is now effectively MIA on immigration. He didn’t sign the Senate letter demanding an expanded moratorium. Instead, he signed letters demanding more guest workers. Perdue is still better than the average Republican, but he can’t be trusted to be a leader. At 70, he’s running for re-election. But he needs to do better.
Brooks has been one of the best voices on immigration. But he is 66 and has had a bout with prostate cancer. His voice is always welcome. But, tragically, he may not be able to provide much further leadership on the immigration issue.
The immigration issue is driven by demographic change, which is itself the product of public policy. However much the Ruling Class strikes down opposition, new opposition will recur, as long as the Historic American Nation has life.


vdare--2020-08-17--Doctors Support BLM by Ditching White for Black Coats

The point of wearing light-colored scrubs is to make body fluids easy to see so you know when to change @ @ @ @ @ our ever more childish society where My Favorite Color logic is becoming dominant , woke @ @ @ @ @ scrubs .

The point of wearing light-colored scrubs is to make body fluids easy to see so you know when to change them.
But, in our ever more childish society where My Favorite Color logic is becoming dominant, woke doctors are switching to black scrubs.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-17--A Reader Insists That Kamala's Bar Exam Fail Was Pretty Bad

Harris flunked the California State Bar exam in 1989 , when the pass rate was nearly 60 percent .
[ California ’ s Bar Exam Passage Rate Reaches 32-Year Low , by Staci Zaretsky , Above The Law , November 21 , 2016 ] ( She passed on her second try . )
We ’ ll probably never know where in the ranking of losers her failing score put her , but in politics a 40/60 spread would mean she lost by a landslide .
That Harris chose UC Hastings College of Law , now ranked # 59 in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sits at # 104 , means her earlier academic achievements and test scores were mediocre at best .
By contrast , her parents—India-born Shyamala Gopalan and Jamaica-born Donald J. Harris , in the US on foreign-student visas—both earned PhDs at the then well respected UC Berkeley .
But the dirty little secret mainstream media won ’ t report is that foreigners like her parents who qualified as racial minorities ( aka People of Color ) in the 1960s and ‘ 70s often displaced home-grown African-Americans so that universities could technically comply with affirmative-action @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to those Americans whom those policies were supposed to help .
James Fulford writes : We 're familiar with immigrant displacement of black Americans in places like Harvard .
Recenlty , in a blog post called Kamala Harris Vs. Descendants Of American Slaves , Steve Sailer wrote Lani Guinier , the light-skinned child of a Jamaican Communist immigrant , is herself an example of what she was talking about .
Henry Louis Gates , on the other hand , is the son of a West Virginia millworker .
Apparently the Democrats feel that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` first black female vice president '' is a job regular American blacks wo n't do .

Harris flunked the California State Bar exam in 1989, when the pass rate was nearly 60 percent [California’s Bar Exam Passage Rate Reaches 32-Year Low, by Staci Zaretsky, Above The Law, November 21, 2016]. (She passed on her second try.) We’ll probably never know where in the ranking of losers her failing score put her, but in politics a 40/60 spread would mean she lost by a landslide.
That Harris chose UC Hastings College of Law, now ranked #59 in the nation, and Howard University, which sits at #104, means her earlier academic achievements and test scores were mediocre at best. By contrast, her parents—India-born Shyamala Gopalan and Jamaica-born Donald J. Harris, in the US on foreign-student visas—both earned PhDs at the then well respected UC Berkeley. But the dirty little secret mainstream media won’t report is that foreigners like her parents who qualified as racial minorities (aka People of Color) in the 1960s and ‘70s often displaced home-grown African-Americans so that universities could technically comply with affirmative-action policies then in place while denying entry to those Americans whom those policies were supposed to help.
James Fulford writes: We're familiar with immigrant displacement of black Americans in places like Harvard. Recently, in a blog post called Kamala Harris Vs. Descendants Of American Slaves, Steve Sailer wrote
When Harvard professors Henry Louis Gates and Lani Guinier pointed out in 2004 that Harvard’s affirmative action system especially privileged people with some claim to be black but less claim to be descendants of American slaves, they soon had to shut up because of the rise that summer of Obama, a hilariously perfect example of their thesis.


vdare--2020-08-18--Immigration Patriot Laura Loomer Wins GOP Mar-A-Lago  Primary, Annoying Conservatism Inc.

The Daily Dot has a disgruntled story about immigration patriot Laura Loomer winning the GOP primary in the Florida district @ @ @ @ @ 's famous home from home .
Their sniffy description of her `` bizarre stunts '' @ @ @ @ @ the stage in Central Park to protest a Shakespeare play featuring the assassination of Donald @ @ @ @ @ To Be Wrong '' Department : Protesters Rush JULIUS CAESAR Stage At the time , @ @ @ @ @ normalization of political violence against the right '' .
As a reminder , that was @ @ @ @ @ shot .
• Michelle Malkin : Is Biden-Loving Comcast Meddling in Loomer 's Campaign ?
@ @ @ @ @ To Twitter 's Front Door In Real Life You can see a VDARE TV video @ @ @ @ @ .

The Daily Dot has a disgruntled story about immigration patriot Laura Loomer winning the GOP primary in the Florida district that contains Mar-A-Lago, Trump's famous home away from home.
Their sniffy description of her "bizarre stunts" omits the time she rushed the stage in Central Park to protest a Shakespeare play featuring the assassination of Donald Trump. See "Glad To Be Wrong" Department: Protesters Rush JULIUS CAESAR Stage
At the time, she shouted "Stop the normalization of political violence against the right." As a reminder, that was just after Steve Scalise was shot.
See also
You can see a VDARE TV video of Loomer on Bitchute here.


vdare--2020-08-18--Michelle Malkin: Give Them Hugs and Let Them Play

I still ca n't get over the creepy spectacle of Dr. Marc Siegel , a New York University professor of medicine , vehemently hawking `` No Hugs Please '' buttons for all schoolchildren last week .
`` Let 's give our kids all of these pins , 'No Hugs Please , ' '' Dr. Siegel urged Fox News host Tucker Carlson .
`` Let 's show our kids courage .
They 're looking to parents for leadership , '' he insisted .
`` Vaccines are gon na emerge , we 're gon na beat this thing , and then this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ badge— '' goes in the garbage ! ''
Such fanaticism is neither `` courage '' nor `` leadership . ''
It 's pure pandemic porn—and it 's making our children sick .
`` No Vaccine , No Touch , No School '' is a recipe for inducing and exacerbating generational anxiety , desolation , depression , obsessive-compulsive disorder , existential angst , self-harm and suicide on an unprecedented scale .
The Hug Patrol have no scientific leg to stand on when it comes to promoting draconian no-contact regimes for students .
Empirical data @ @ @ @ @ @ @ settings are scarce , as a Lancet study published last week acknowledged .
Australian researchers reported extremely low transmission rates in schools and day cares , concluding that the data `` suggest children are unlikely to initiate , or propagate , outbreaks . ''
Moreover , the Aussie team noted , `` Studies from multiple countries have consistently shown lower rates of COVID-19 and mild disease in children compared with adults , even in settings with much higher population-based disease rates than Australia . ''
Greek and Swiss researchers arrived at similar conclusions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ child-to-adult transmissions .
The Greek study , published in the Journal of Medical Virology , also reported on the higher frequency of mild symptoms or asymptomatic response in infected children versus infected adults .
A separate review of 16 studies involving children and the coronavirus published in the Journal of Global Health last month `` identified only two studies reporting outbreaks of COVID-19 in school settings , '' with `` data from population-based studies in Iceland , Italy , South Korea , Netherlands , California and a hospital-based study in the UK suggest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ likely to be infected . ''
Shutting kids out of a normal existence is infecting them with toxic worry , loneliness and panic .
The Centers for Disease Control released new stats last week showing nearly 41 % of survey respondents with `` at least one adverse mental or behavioral health condition , '' including `` symptoms of anxiety disorder or depressive disorder ( 30.9 % ) , symptoms of a trauma- and stressor-related disorder related to the pandemic ( 26.3 % ) . ''
Among 18-24-year-olds , more than 1 in 4 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days .
Previous CDC reports have identified suicide as the second leading cause of death for pre-teens and teens .
Mask hysteria , selective social distancing theater , dystopian online learning arrangements and the cancellation of the activities kids hold near and dear to them are not helping .
Fear-mongers , power-grabbers and data-miners are denying students vital sunshine , fresh air , exercise , friendship , hugs and high-fives .
( Meanwhile , back in Wuhan , China , the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak , youths have returned to class and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ parks . )
The University of Wisconsin released a study in July that found that nearly 70 % of American high school athletes who received news this year about canceled sports are experiencing anxiety and depression `` at levels that would typically require medical intervention '' —up 37 % from past studies .
In Ohio , where parents and children have protested school cancellations with heart-breaking signs reading `` LET US PLAY ! ''
Lt. Gov Jon Husted tweeted : School music programs in Ohio , Montana and Kentucky have been similarly decimated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the competitive marching band season .
At my Colorado Springs high school son 's school district , some sports have resumed , but his musical theater productions were banned and his comedy improv troupe was canceled .
In the age of COVID-19 , child `` safety '' means no jokes allowed !
Most youth choirs are now virtual , with education officials citing a single COVID-19 outbreak involving an adult choir in Skagit County , Washington , back in March .
More than 75 % of those singers severely affected were age 65 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pay .
Science , biology and common sense are clear : A contactless world is a miserable world .
If ever a cure were worse than the disease , the prolonged pandemic lockdown of our young people is it .
Adult courage and leadership mean rising up against the control freaks for our children 's health , sanity and futures .
Give them hugs .
Let them play .
Restore their lives before we isolate them all to death .
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I still can't get over the creepy spectacle of Dr. Marc Siegel, a New York University professor of medicine, vehemently hawking "No Hugs Please" buttons for all schoolchildren last week.
"Let's give our kids all of these pins, 'No Hugs Please,'" Dr. Siegel urged Fox News host Tucker Carlson. "Let's show our kids courage. They're looking to parents for leadership," he insisted. "Vaccines are gonna emerge, we're gonna beat this thing, and then this"—Dr. Siegel waved his yellow badge—"goes in the garbage!"
Such fanaticism is neither "courage" nor "leadership." It's pure pandemic porn—and it's making our children sick. "No Vaccine, No Touch, No School" is a recipe for inducing and exacerbating generational anxiety, desolation, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, existential angst, self-harm and suicide on an unprecedented scale.
The Hug Patrol has no scientific leg to stand on when it comes to promoting draconian no-contact regimes for students. Empirical data on COVID-19 transmission among children in educational settings are scarce, as a Lancet study published last week acknowledged. Australian researchers reported extremely low transmission rates in schools and day cares, concluding that the data "suggest children are unlikely to initiate, or propagate, outbreaks."
Moreover, the Aussie team noted, "Studies from multiple countries have consistently shown lower rates of COVID-19 and mild disease in children compared with adults, even in settings with much higher population-based disease rates than Australia." Greek and Swiss researchers arrived at similar conclusions regarding the low risk of child-to-child and child-to-adult transmissions. The Greek study, published in The Journal of Medical Virology, also reported on the higher frequency of mild symptoms or asymptomatic response in infected children versus infected adults.
A separate review of 16 studies involving children and the coronavirus published in The Journal of Global Health last month "identified only two studies reporting outbreaks of COVID-19 in school settings," with "data from population-based studies in Iceland, Italy, South Korea, Netherlands, California and a hospital-based study in the UK suggest(ing) children may be less likely to be infected."
Shutting kids out of a normal existence is infecting them with toxic worry, loneliness and panic. The Centers for Disease Control released new stats last week showing nearly 41% of survey respondents with "at least one adverse mental or behavioral health condition," including "symptoms of anxiety disorder or depressive disorder (30.9%), symptoms of a trauma- and stressor-related disorder related to the pandemic (26.3%)." Among 18-24-year-olds, more than 1 in 4 had contemplated suicide on the last 30 days. Previous CDC reports have identified suicide as the second leading cause of death for pre-teens and teens.
Mask hysteria, selective social distancing theater, dystopian online learning arrangements and the cancellation of the activities kids hold near and dear to them are not helping. Fear-mongers, power-grabbers and data-miners are denying students vital sunshine, fresh air, exercise, friendship, hugs and high-fives. (Meanwhile, back in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, youths have returned to class and are partying at music festivals and water parks.)
The University of Wisconsin released a study in July that found that nearly 70% of American high school athletes who received news this year about canceled sports are experiencing anxiety and depression "at levels that would typically require medical intervention"—up 37% from past studies. In Ohio, where parents and children have protested school cancellations with heart-breaking signs reading "LET US PLAY!" Lt. Gov Jon Husted tweeted:
"What's the greater risk to people under age 25, canceling in-person learning & extracurriculars (sports) to protect them from COVID or leaving it to chance how they'll fill this time?"
School music programs in Ohio, Montana and Kentucky have been similarly decimated. Indiana's state music association canceled the competitive marching band season. At my Colorado Springs high school son's school district, some sports have resumed, but his musical theater productions were banned and his comedy improv troupe was canceled. In the age of COVID-19, child "safety" means no jokes allowed!
Most youth choirs are now virtual, with education officials citing a single COVID-19 outbreak involving an adult choir in Skagit County, Washington, back in March. More than 75% of those singers severely affected were age 65 or older. But the children must pay.
Science, biology and common sense are clear: A contactless world is a miserable world. If ever a cure were worse than the disease, the prolonged pandemic lockdown of our young people is it. Adult courage and leadership mean rising up against the control freaks for our children's health, sanity and futures. Give them hugs. Let them play. Restore their lives before we isolate them all to death.
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vdare--2020-08-18--Happy 433rd Birthday to Virginia Dare!

Happy 433rd Birthday to Virginia Dare!

Three years later , we ’ ve reported on that communist mob ( now explicitly supported by Democrat politicians ) which is tearing down statues and occupying American soil .
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Incredibly, [Virginia Dare’s] 350th birthday was celebrated by a speech from Democratic Party hero President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who also personally helped design the commemorative stamp. But on present form, it may seem that her statue won’t even be in Roanoke’s Elizabethan Gardens in on her 450th birthday in 2037—it will have been torn down by a Communist mob tacitly supported by Democrat politicians (probably related) and replaced with a statue of Malia Obama. VDARE.com’s message: Stay the course. The Lost Colony ended in utter disaster, but Virginia Dare’s memory was sacred when America rose to rule the world.
Three years later, we’ve reported on that communist mob (now explicitly supported by Democrat politicians) which is tearing down statues and occupying American soil.
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In the last three years, we were:
But despite each challenge, VDARE.com has fought back, with your help—and succeeded. As we said earlier this spring, we will Never Kneel.
We’ve upturned each of these challenges and created opportunities to overturn legal precedent, strengthen our infrastructure, and secure a meeting space (We Got the Keys to the Castle!). Much to Media Matters’ dismay, we more than doubled our typical year end goal in 2019.
This year, more brand new readers and donors are coming to VDARE.com because they see the feeble attempt by the Mainstream Media to distort the reality that a multicultural America just doesn’t work.
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vdare--2020-08-18--Cringe-Inducing First Day Of DNC: Speakers Endorse Open Borders And Kneeling For The Anthem

The first night of the Democratic National Convention was a painful thing to watch for any ordinary American .
The @ @ @ @ @ night were “ systemic racism ” and defending the Postal Service from fantasy threats .
@ @ @ @ @ the bizarre musical performance by gay black singer Billy Williams .
There were plenty of @ @ @ @ @ the Democrats ’ anti-American worldview .
Black pastor Frederick Haynes spoke during a “ faith @ @ @ @ @ day .
During his remarks , he condemned border wall supporters to hell .
Another @ @ @ @ @ for the playing of the national anthem .
It ’ s only just the first @ @ @ @ @ already too much to bear .
It ’ s going to be a long week @ @ @ @ @ performances .

The first night of the Democratic National Convention was a painful thing to watch for any ordinary American. The most important topics of the night were “systemic racism” and defending the Postal Service from fantasy threats.
The most cringe-inducing moment was the bizarre musical performance by gay black singer Billy Williams.
Thanks @theebillyporter + Steven Stills for helping us close night one of the #DemConvention! 🎵
So much more to come! Come back tomorrow ⬇https://t.co/NEJtNqxFPV pic.twitter.com/vqXfLCUVfk — 2024 Democratic National Convention (@DemConvention) August 18, 2020
There were plenty of other cringe-inducing moments that demonstrated the Democrats’ anti-American worldview.
Black pastor Frederick Haynes spoke during a “faith” section of the first day. During his remarks, he condemned border wall supporters to hell.
“You [President Trump] had the nerve to build a wall while at the same time you have in the harbor there in New York a Statue of Liberty saying, 'Give me your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,' Jesus will say, 'America, if you don't get your act together, you can—you may well go to hell," he said. "Why? Because in as much as you do it to the least of these, my sisters and brothers, you are also doing it unto me."
Pastor at the virtual Democratic National Convention says America “may well go to hell” if we don’t have open bordershttps://t.co/PE4ICW2Umg pic.twitter.com/9H01ZY3xau — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 17, 2020
Another speaker asked viewers to kneel for the playing of the national anthem.
DNC encourages people to kneel for the National Anthem pic.twitter.com/5OlXm2UYvZ — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 17, 2020
It’s only just the first day and the DNC is already too much to bear. It’s going to be a long week of left-wing radicalism and humiliating performances.


vdare--2020-08-18--Trevor Noah On The Murderous Miners Of Marikana

Trevor Noah is a half black ( Xhosa ) half-Jewish South African comedian , whose biography Born A Crime references the fact that under Apartheid , his parents ' marriage would have been illegal .
When he was tapped to replace Jon Stewart in the Daily Show , he got in trouble for having made `` insensitive '' jokes on Twitter , including Jewish jokes , which he feels he 's entitled to make , since ( a ) his father is Jewish , and ( b ) he 's literally named Noah .
In this clip , he 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dead black miners of Marikana , who were shot eight years ago .
( Partial transcript here . )
He goes off on the fake news providers , who claimed that the miners were shot for dancing , which is untrue .
( They were shot , by black South African police , because they were armed rioters , who could have massacred the police if they 'd been given the chance . )
Saying that local people were saying `` Why didn ’ t they use rubber bullets , why didn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ answers He adds an anecdote about his black grandmother , age 85 , using an Apartheid-era teargas canister in Soweto to kill cockroaches .
For the humor-impaired , this is not a joke , but the part about the black South African police feeling that they had to use live ammo , because `` those guys '' ( the miners ) had weapons is meant seriously .
Below , in a screenshot of what Time wrote at the time , you can see mobs armed with pangas ( South African machetes ) knobkerries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the end ) , and fighting sticks , like a 1970s billy club , but in pairs .
In the last of those , I discussed the “ Sharpeville massacre ” of 1960 , which killed 69 unarmed African rioters charging police ( out of 5-7,000 rioters present . )
You probably heard about it in school .
It was preceded , two months earlier by the Cato Manor massacre of which you have , I am reasonably confident , never heard .

Trevor Noah is a half black (Xhosa) half-Jewish South African comedian, whose biography Born A Crime references the fact that under Apartheid, his parents' marriage would have been illegal. When he was tapped to replace Jon Stewart in the Daily Show, he got in trouble for having made "insensitive" jokes on Twitter, including Jewish jokes, which he feels he's entitled to make, since (a) his father is Jewish, and (b) he's literally named Noah.
In this clip, he's being "insensitive" about the dead black miners of Marikana, who were shot eight years ago. (Partial transcript here.)
I’m a connoisseur of how Trevor Noah secretly sucks, but never in my wildest dreams did I expect him doing a lengthy bit about how the cops shooting striking mine workers was good, Actually https://t.co/I5fXxjVR1E — Tom Gara (@tomgara) August 18, 2020
He goes off on the fake news providers, who claimed that the miners were shot for dancing, which is untrue. (They were shot, by black South African police, because they were armed rioters, who could have massacred the police if they'd been given the chance.)
Saying that local people were saying "Why didn’t they use rubber bullets, why didn’t they use teargas?" Noah answers
"Cause those things don’t work anymore, they used it the whole week, but it didn’t work so they had to use ammunition. Those guys had weapons. Plus teargas is a waste of time. Which strike have you ever heard ended with teargas?"
He adds an anecdote about his black grandmother, age 85, using an Apartheid-era teargas canister in Soweto to kill cockroaches. For the humor-impaired, this is a joke, but the part about the black South African police feeling that they had to use live ammo, because "those guys"(the miners) had weapons is meant seriously.
Below, in a screenshot of what Time wrote at the time, you can see mobs armed with pangas (South African machetes) knobkerries (three-foot sticks with head-smashing knob on the end), and fighting sticks, like a 1970s billy club, but in pairs.
In the last of those, I discussed the “Sharpeville massacre” of 1960, which killed 69 unarmed African rioters charging police (out of 5-7,000 rioters present.) You probably heard about it in school. It was preceded, two months earlier by the Cato Manor massacre of which you have, I am reasonably confident, never heard.


vdare--2020-08-18--Murder Offenders Per Capita: Ratio of Blacks to Nonblacks Is Even Larger Than Men to Women

One of the crazier findings in my recent Taki ’ s Magazine column that conveniently collects federal crime statistics is @ @ @ @ @ Uniform Crime Reporting summary of all the cleared murder cases in the country for 2018 @ @ @ @ @ to female murder offenders per capita was lower than the ratio of black to nonblack @ @ @ @ @ s a screenshot : And here ’ s my spreadsheet showing how I do the @ @ @ @ @ justice system , after a half-century , still hasn ’ t gotten its crime statistics @ @ @ @ @ for how to deal with Hispanics , I just lump the entire U.S. population into @ @ @ @ @ nonblack .
So , men were murder offenders 7.37 times as often per capita as @ @ @ @ @ cases .
But blacks were murder offenders 7.86 times as often per capita as nonblacks @

One of the crazier findings in my recent Taki’s Magazine column that conveniently collects federal crime statistics is in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting summary of all the cleared murder cases in the country for 2018: The ratio of male to female murder offenders per capita was lower than the ratio of black to nonblack murder offenders. Here’s a screenshot:
And here’s my spreadsheet showing how I do the calculation. Because the criminal justice system, after a half-century, still hasn’t gotten its crime statistics all on the same page for how to deal with Hispanics, I just lump the entire U.S. population into two categories: black and nonblack.
So, men were murder offenders 7.37 times as often per capita as women in 2018 for cleared cases. But blacks were murder offenders 7.86 times as often per capita as nonblacks.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-18--NY TIMES Graph: Corona Cases Down 24% Since July 25

According to this New York Times graph , the 7-day average number of new reported coronavirus cases has fallen 24 % from the peak on July 25 .
Deaths are down 14 % since the second hump ’ s peak on August 1 , and are at about half the number of the deaths per day in April .
Basically , the first hump in March and April appears to have been in northern cities where it was too cold to hang around outside or open a window .
Then hot states like Arizona got hit in summer because it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or open a window .
There are still states that haven ’ t been hit much at all , like Vermont or just mildly like Ohio , so there will likely be a third national hump when it gets to them .
A major question is how badly will places that have already been over their hump get re-hit .
For example , cases are on the rise again in Illinois , but downstate , not in Cook County , which was already hit moderately hard in the spring .
Then how hard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ winter cold-flu season before vaccines can start to have an impact ?
The big worry back in March of overwhelming hospitals looks like a non-issue for the next three ( ? )
months until winter comes around .

According to this New York Times graph, the 7-day average number of new reported coronavirus cases has fallen 24% from the peak on July 25. Deaths are down 14% since the second hump’s peak on August 1, and are at about half the number of the deaths per day in April.
Basically, the first hump in March and April appears to have been in northern cities where it was too cold to hang around outside or open a window. Then hot states like Arizona got hit in summer because it was too hot to hang around outside or open a window.
There are still states that haven’t been hit much at all, like Vermont, or just mildly like Ohio, so there will likely be a third national hump when it gets to them.
A major question is how badly will places that have already been over their hump get re-hit. For example, cases are on the rise again in Illinois, but downstate, not in Cook County, which was already hit moderately hard in the spring.
Then how hard will it come back during the traditional winter cold-flu season before vaccines can start to have an impact?
The big worry back in March of overwhelming hospitals looks like a non-issue for the next three (?) months until winter comes around.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-18--Democratic Convention Reassures White Baby Boomers That Gay Blacks Love Buffalo Springfield

It ’ s not easy putting together a Democratic Convention , especially when you don ’ t have a balloon @ @ @ @ @ guy … My guess is that Joe Biden didn ’ t much listen to “ @ @ @ @ @ Worth ” when it was on the kids ’ radio stations in 1967 .
Remember @ @ @ @ @ born in 1942 , is not a Baby Boomer .
Joe ’ s favorite song @ @ @ @ @ Valli ’ s comeback hit “ Can ’ t Take My Eyes Off of You @ @ @ @ @ the late 1960s were not a good era in pop culture for American Catholics like @ @ @ @ @ dominated popular music in the Crosby-Sinatra eras , but then …

It’s not easy putting together a Democratic Convention, especially when you don’t have a balloon drop. Still, this guy …
My guess is that Joe Biden didn’t much listen to “For What It’s Worth” when it was on the kids’ radio stations in 1967. Remember, Joe, who was born in 1942, is not a Baby Boomer. Joe’s favorite song of 1967 was probably Frankie Valli’s comeback hit “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You”:
In general, the late 1960s were not a good era in pop culture for American Catholics like Biden. They’d dominated popular music in the Crosby-Sinatra eras, but then …


vdare--2020-08-19--Q. Why Does the US Have a High Murder Rate? A. Lots of Guns and Lots of Blacks

Guns and blacks , especially blacks marinated in the African-American culture of taking offense , are not a good combination .
Blacks tend to be more “ into the moment ” than other races .
It ’ s a big part of why they are so mediagenic on average compared to other people .
A downside of being into the moment is the moment can last the rest of your life if there are guns around .
Are the Democrats going to run on any issues this year other than hatred for Emmanuel Trumpenstein ?
Hillary was into gun control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t help her in the Deer Hunter states like Pennsylvania , Michigan , and Wisconsin .
As I wrote in 2016 : The problem for the Democrats that they always run into when they get excited about gun control is that : – They want to take handguns away from dangerous urban minorities .
– They will never ever admit that ’ s what they want to do .
So whenever the Democrats start talking about gun control , they end up going on and on about how the real threat is all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scary rifles .
They just can ’ t help themselves .
And then they lose the election .
Joe Biden , age 77 , isn ’ t the sharpest nominee in the toolshed , but he ’ s probably not as stupid as Hillary in 2016 .

Guns and blacks, especially blacks marinated in the African-American culture of taking offense, are not a good combination.
Blacks tend to be more “into the moment” than other races. It’s a big part of why they are so mediagenic on average compared to other people. A downside of being into the moment is the moment can last the rest of your life if there are guns around.
Are the Democrats going to run on any issues this year other than hatred for Emmanuel Trumpenstein? Hillary was into gun control last time, which definitely didn’t help her in the Deer Hunter states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. As I wrote in 2016:
The problem for the Democrats that they always run into when they get excited about gun control is that: – They want to take handguns away from dangerous urban minorities. – They will never ever admit that’s what they want to do. So whenever the Democrats start talking about gun control, they end up going on and on about how the real threat is all those evil redneck white males with their scary rifles. They just can’t help themselves. And then they lose the election.
Joe Biden, age 77, isn’t the sharpest nominee in the toolshed, but he’s probably not as stupid as Hillary in 2016.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-18--Huntington’s WHO ARE WE? Redeemed, Repudiated Almost 20 Years Later.

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On Virginia Dare ’ s birthday , we should reexamine Samuel Huntington ’ s 2004 Who Are We : The Challenges to America ’ s National Identity , simultaneously perhaps the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ book on immigration from the last 20 years .
Huntington accurately observed that America was not a nation of immigrants , was at least partially defined by white racial identity , and faces an existential challenge from unchecked mass immigration .
However , he underestimated the continuing challenge presented by the original American Dilemma : blacks and their unassimilability by the American nation-state .
Furthermore , Huntington ’ s suggested answer for American renewal , a revitalized Anglo-Protestantism , appears less likely than ever .
Huntington showed us that there is an American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ answers about how ( or if ) it can be saved .
Despite this , Huntington ’ s book remains valuable simply because he proves we ’ re more than the profusion of errant flesh we see on display at the DNC .
Critically , Huntington argued that the core American identity is not “ white ” or even Northern European .
“ America is a founded society created by seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century settlers almost all of whom came from the British Isles , ” he wrote .
Though he did not use the term @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that America was shaped by “ Anglo privilege.
” Drawing on Wilbur Zelinsky ’ s “ Doctrine of First Effective Settlement , ” Huntington argued that the relatively small groups of British settlers who settled the future United States had a larger impact “ than the contributions of tens of thousands of new immigrants a few generations later.
” Thus , America did not begin in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence , much less in 1619 with blacks , or in 1492 with Columbus , or around 1000 with Snorri Thorfinnsson .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1790 Naturalization Act showed the Founding Fathers had white racial consciousness , they didn ’ t think of America as an extension of Europe .
They thought of it as an extinction of Britain , with minor exceptions that men like Hamilton and Franklin eyed suspiciously .
Thomas Jefferson ’ s original draft of the Declaration of Independence reads like a breakup letter , telling the British that “ we might have been a free & great people together.
” Instead of Noel Ignatiev ’ s disingenuous vitriol about “ the Irish becoming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really about the Irish , Germans , Italians , and other European peoples conforming to a core Anglo-Protestant culture , and the American Creed which grew out of it .
Thus , memorializing Virginia Dare in 1933 , Franklin Roosevelt could refer to “ our British cousins ” before a presumably multiethnic American audience , without anyone thinking this strange .
Indeed , Huntington argued that , for the astonishingly long period 1607-1940 , American identity was united in ethnic , racial , and cultural terms , with political separation occurring twice , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American Revolution and the War Between the States .
When mass non-British immigration did begin , especially after 1880 , private organizations and then the government consciously undertook “ Americanization , ” especially in public schools .
“ The schools insisted on the immigrants accepting ‘ Anglo-American Protestant traditions and values , ’ ” wrote Huntington .
Schools deliberately undermined migrants ’ “ native cultures ” and indoctrinated them into an American civic identity .
Even the Catholic school system , which arose partly in resistance to this “ Americanization ” campaign , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ propagation of American values and American nationalism , ” probably to prove their loyalty .
During World War I , the U.S. government waged an unrelenting “ Americanization ” campaign against German-Americans , then the largest non-English speaking minority group [ During World War I , U.S. Government Propaganda Erased German Culture , NPR , April 7 , 2017 ] .
Thus , even with immigration pauses and a monoracial identity , maintaining an American nation required strong ethnic consciousness by WASPs , cultural power , and government action .
Huntington argued that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rights , legal equality , popular sovereignty , and limited government had its origins in dissenting Protestantism .
The only real indigenous opposition to this creed : the brief effort by nineteenth century Southerners like John C. Calhoun to defend slavery as a positive good .
This “ American Creed ” was broadly shared by Americans when the country was overwhelmingly white .
North-South reconciliation ( symbolized by joint Union-Confederate commemorations ) was key in forming American patriotism in the early 20th century .
But obviously , one group was left out of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the phrase “ the American Creed ” was “ popularized by Gunnar Myrdal in The [ sic ] American Dilemma , ” the book that arguably paved the way for civil rights , racial integration , and , ultimately , the theory of the “ proposition ” or “ universal ” nation .
Beginning with the Civil Rights movement , Huntington argued , American identity became unmoored from even implicit white racial consciousness .
However , at least in theory , it didn ’ t require a cultural unmooring : “ The Civil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rights Act of 1965 were expressly designed to make American reality reflect American principles , ” Huntington wrote .
There was nothing inherent in “ The Creed ” that couldn ’ t be spread to other groups–there was no reason we couldn ’ t just all be “ American.
” At least in theory .
But in practice , cultural disintegration followed soon afterward .
Anticipating Christopher Caldwell ’ s 2020 Age of Entitlement , Huntington noted that Like Caldwell , Huntington blamed federal administrators and judges for interpreting laws “ to mean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through these interpretations launch [ ing ] a frontal assault on the Creed ’ s principle of equal rights for all that had made the new laws possible.
” Thus , judges demanded that congressional districts be drawn up to guarantee minority representation ; laws were thrown out to avoid any “ disparate impact ” even if there was no evidence of racial intent ; and special benefits were created for minority groups .
Not surprisingly , we now see the government , especially the public schools , “ Deconstructing America , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to this project is multiculturalism , which Huntington said rightly “ is in its essence anti-European civilization.
” Huntington paid a great deal of attention to the challenge of mass Mexican immigration , which he saw as a unique challenge because Mexicans can and do “ assert a historical claim to American territory.
” Huntington argued that Mexicans persist in retaining Spanish , lag in educational performance , retain their citizenship , and do not identify as “ American.
” He added that there could form a Hispanic “ enclave ” in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , linguistically , and economically distinct from the rest of the country .
He identified Miami , Florida as a place that has already been transformed “ from a normal American city into a Cuban-led Hispanic city.
” Huntington forcefully claimed there is no “ Americano ” dream but just “ the American dream created by an Anglo-Protestant society.
” He said Mexican-Americans “ will share in that dream and in that society only if they dream in English.
” However , here we see some problems in Huntington ’ s analysis .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ becoming heavily Mexican , the problem is not simply Mexican Instead , we have Hispanic enclaves all around the country , with those on the East Coast created by Central American migrants .
Mexico is now our unlikely partner in border enforcement against this invasion .
Instead of a singular region dominated by one group of cultural and linguistic foreigners , we ’ re seeing the Third World colonization of the entire country .
• Secondly , Huntington underestimated the importance of race , especially the difference between blacks and whites .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he wrote , “ but not necessarily to the same degree or with the same significance that they have had in the past.
” Here , he was simply wrong .
America has had its first black president , but race has become more important .
Black Lives Matter is the key racial movement of our time , not Chicano revanchism ( yet ) .
Intermarriage , which Huntington suggested could make government attempts to classify people by race obsolete , is furthering racial obsessions .
Nikole Hannah-Jones , Shaun King , Kamala @ @ @ @ @ @ @ politicians opportunistically adopt whatever racial identity is most advantageous .
As the Rachel Dolezal farce and other cases of “ flight from white ” show , social , economic , and legal privileges for non-whites encourage as many people as possible to de-assimilate and claim victimhood .
Of course , their actions refute their own claims about the power of white privilege , but who ’ s going to point that out ?
• Thirdly , though Huntington admitted the possibility of a resurgent “ white nativism , ” he suggested that “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sustain America ’ s distinct identity .
However , the exceptional nature of America as a modern Western democracy with a high rate of Christian belief seems to be fading fast [ In U.S. , Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace , Pew Research Center , October 17 , 2019 ] .
America increasingly resembles just another Western European country in its atheism ( unless we count Black Lives Matter as a faith ) .
Huntington ’ s analysis of the Christian Coalition , the Religious Right , and the role evangelicals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t just dated , but completely irrelevant in the age of Drag Queen Story Hour and Black Trans Lives Matter rallies .
Meanwhile , “ Anglo-Protestantism ” specifically seems to have utterly vanished as a cultural force , with the Church of England and its Episcopalian American branches having beliefs and functions no different than a contributor at Vice or Teen Vogue .
Huntington referred several times to the surge of patriotism following the September 11 , 2001 terrorist attacks .
But these led to no real changes beyond disastrous Middle Eastern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to launch anyway .
To the contrary , Islam is more powerful in American life than it was before the Twin Towers fell .
And insofar as there is a reactionary Christian movement in the United States , it ’ s coming from Traditionalist Catholics , a group which explicitly opposes “ Anglo-Protestantism ” and which sometimes even appears to want to reimagine the American founding as a Hispanic endeavor .
“ Americans generally may be returning to the self-image prevalent for three centuries that they are a Christian people , ” Huntington @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just hasn ’ t happened .
The truth is that the American “ Creed ” survived as long as it did because WASP ethnic consciousness , white racial consciousness , and a lack of mass non-white immigration kept Americans from having to deal with the contradictions between the American “ Culture ” and American “ Creed.
” The Historic American Nation fought Indians , conquered the West , and developed the greatest industrial power on Earth .
However , when its elites naively or maliciously tried to extend the classical liberal “ Creed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ within two generations .
It ’ s questionable whether this is even a process unique to America .
The late Jean Raspail argued the same universalism destroyed France in the process he called “ The Fatherland Betrayed By The Republic.
” This raises what VDARE.com calls “ The National Question ” —whether the U.S. can survive as a nation-state , the political expression of a particular people .
On current trends , would-be American nationalists will soon lose control their nation-state and become a dispossessed people like the Afrikaners or the Kurds .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” But the question of “ who is or is not an American ” is being answered for us in the streets , as statues of Union and Confederate leaders , the Founders , heroic presidents like Teddy Roosevelt , and other symbols of the American identity are destroyed and defiled .
Stripped of ethnic , racial , and cultural unity , it may be only a short time until occupied America demands separation from its occupiers .
If that does not occur , “ America ” will cease to be anything more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We then ?
Consumers , tax slaves in the case of the whites , and nothing more .

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On Virginia Dare’s birthday, we should reexamine Samuel Huntington’s 2004 Who Are We: The Challenges to America’s National Identity, simultaneously perhaps the most prescient and most “overtaken-by-events” book on immigration from the last 20 years.
Huntington accurately observed that America was not a nation of immigrants, was at least partially defined by white racial identity, and faces an existential challenge from unchecked mass immigration. However, he underestimated the continuing challenge presented by the original American Dilemma: blacks and their unassimilability by the American nation-state. Furthermore, Huntington’s suggested answer for American renewal, a revitalized Anglo-Protestantism, appears less likely than ever. Huntington showed us that there is an American nation—but didn’t give us any answers about how (or if) it can be saved.
Despite this, Huntington’s book remains valuable simply because he proves we’re more than the profusion of errant flesh we see on display at the DNC. Critically, Huntington argued that the core American identity is not “white” or even Northern European. “America is a founded society created by seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century settlers almost all of whom came from the British Isles,” he wrote. Though he did not use the term, one could say that Huntington argues that America was shaped by “Anglo privilege.” Drawing on Wilbur Zelinsky’s “Doctrine of First Effective Settlement,” Huntington argued that the relatively small groups of British settlers who settled the future United States had a larger impact “than the contributions of tens of thousands of new immigrants a few generations later.” Thus, America did not begin in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence, much less in 1619 with blacks, or in 1492 with Columbus, or around 1000 with Snorri Thorfinnsson. Instead, Huntington argued,
It began with the first [British] settler communities of 1607, 1620, and 1630. What happened in the 1770s and 1780s was rooted in and a product of the Anglo-American Protestant society and culture that had developed over the intervening one and a half centuries.
While the 1790 Naturalization Act showed the Founding Fathers had white racial consciousness, they didn’t think of America as an extension of Europe. They thought of it as an extinction of Britain, with minor exceptions that men like Hamilton and Franklin eyed suspiciously. Thomas Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence reads like a breakup letter, telling the British that “we might have been a free & great people together.”
Instead of Noel Ignatiev’s disingenuous vitriol about “the Irish becoming white,” the American story is really about the Irish, Germans, Italians, and other European peoples conforming to a core Anglo-Protestant culture, and the American Creed which grew out of it.
Thus, memorializing Virginia Dare in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt could refer to “our British cousins” before a presumably multiethnic American audience, without anyone thinking this strange.
Indeed, Huntington argued that, for the astonishingly long period 1607-1940, American identity was united in ethnic, racial, and cultural terms, with political separation occurring twice, in the Cousins’ Wars of the American Revolution and the War Between the States.
When mass non-British immigration did begin, especially after 1880, private organizations and then the government consciously undertook “Americanization,” especially in public schools. “The schools insisted on the immigrants accepting ‘Anglo-American Protestant traditions and values,’” wrote Huntington. Schools deliberately undermined migrants’ “native cultures” and indoctrinated them into an American civic identity.
Even the Catholic school system, which arose partly in resistance to this “Americanization” campaign, also “became a channel for the propagation of American values and American nationalism,” probably to prove their loyalty. During World War I, the U.S. government waged an unrelenting “Americanization” campaign against German-Americans, then the largest non-English speaking minority group [During World War I, U.S. Government Propaganda Erased German Culture, NPR, April 7, 2017].
Thus, even with immigration pauses and a monoracial identity, maintaining an American nation required strong ethnic consciousness by WASPs, cultural power, and government action.
Huntington argued that “The American Creed” of individual rights, legal equality, popular sovereignty, and limited government had its origins in dissenting Protestantism. The only real indigenous opposition to this creed: The brief effort by nineteenth century Southerners like John C. Calhoun to defend slavery as a positive good. This “American Creed” was broadly shared by Americans when the country was overwhelmingly white. North-South reconciliation (symbolized by joint Union-Confederate commemorations) was key in forming American patriotism in the early 20th century.
But obviously, one group was left out of this united people–African-Americans.
Huntington noted that the phrase “the American Creed” was “popularized by Gunnar Myrdal in The [sic] American Dilemma,” the book that arguably paved the way for civil rights, racial integration, and, ultimately, the theory of the “proposition” or “universal” nation. Beginning with the Civil Rights movement, Huntington argued, American identity became unmoored from even implicit white racial consciousness. However, at least in theory, it didn’t require a cultural unmooring: “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were expressly designed to make American reality reflect American principles,” Huntington wrote. There was nothing inherent in “The Creed” that couldn’t be spread to other groups—there was no reason we couldn’t just all be “American.”
At least in theory. But in practice, cultural disintegration followed soon afterward. Anticipating Christopher Caldwell’s 2020 Age of Entitlement, Huntington noted that
…as soon as the Civil Rights Act was passed, black leaders such as Bayard Rustin stopped demanding rights common to all American citizens and instead began demanding governmental programs to provide material benefits as a distinct racial group.
Like Caldwell, Huntington blamed federal administrators and judges for interpreting laws “to mean the opposite of what they said and through these interpretations launch[ing] a frontal assault on the Creed’s principle of equal rights for all that had made the new laws possible.” Thus, judges demanded that congressional districts be drawn up to guarantee minority representation; laws were thrown out to avoid any “disparate impact” even if there was no evidence of racial intent; and special benefits were created for minority groups.
Not surprisingly, we now see the government, especially the public schools, “Deconstructing America,” as Huntington entitled one chapter. Central to this project is multiculturalism, which Huntington said rightly “is in its essence anti-European civilization.”
Huntington paid a great deal of attention to the challenge of mass Mexican immigration, which he saw as a unique challenge because Mexicans can and do “assert a historical claim to American territory.” Huntington argued that Mexicans persist in retaining Spanish, lag in educational performance, retain their citizenship, and do not identify as “American.” He added that there could form a Hispanic “enclave” in the Southwest that would be politically, ethnically, linguistically, and economically distinct from the rest of the country.
He identified Miami, Florida as a place that has already been transformed “from a normal American city into a Cuban-led Hispanic city.” Huntington forcefully claimed there is no “Americano” dream but just “the American dream created by an Anglo-Protestant society.” He said Mexican-Americans “will share in that dream and in that society only if they dream in English.”
However, here we see some problems in Huntington’s analysis.
First, while the southwest is becoming heavily Mexican, the problem is not simply Mexican
Instead, we have Hispanic enclaves all around the country, with those on the East Coast created by Central American migrants. Mexico is now our unlikely partner in border enforcement against this invasion. Instead of a singular region dominated by one group of cultural and linguistic foreigners, we’re seeing the Third World colonization of the entire country.
Secondly, Huntington underestimated the importance of race, especially the difference between blacks and whites.
“Races will continue to exist,” he wrote, “but not necessarily to the same degree or with the same significance that they have had in the past.” Here, he was simply wrong.
America has had its first black president, but race has become more important. Black Lives Matter is the key racial movement of our time, not Chicano revanchism (yet). Intermarriage, which Huntington suggested could make government attempts to classify people by race obsolete, is furthering racial obsessions. Nikole Hannah-Jones, Shaun King, Kamala Harris, and countless other activists and politicians opportunistically adopt whatever racial identity is most advantageous.
As the Rachel Dolezal farce and other cases of “flight from white” show, social, economic, and legal privileges for non-whites encourage as many people as possible to de-assimilate and claim victimhood. Of course, their actions refute their own claims about the power of white privilege, but who’s going to point that out?
Thirdly, though Huntington admitted the possibility of a resurgent “white nativism,” he suggested that “Anglo-Protestant culture and its religiosity” could sustain America’s distinct identity.
However, the exceptional nature of America as a modern Western democracy with a high rate of Christian belief seems to be fading fast [In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace, Pew Research Center, October 17, 2019]. America increasingly resembles just another Western European country in its atheism (unless we count Black Lives Matter as a faith). Huntington’s analysis of the Christian Coalition, the Religious Right, and the role evangelicals played in the 2000 election, aren’t just dated, but completely irrelevant in the age of Drag Queen Story Hour and Black Trans Lives Matter rallies.
Meanwhile, “Anglo-Protestantism” specifically seems to have utterly vanished as a cultural force, with the Church of England and its Episcopalian American branches having beliefs and functions no different than a contributor to Vice or Teen Vogue.
Huntington referred several times to the surge of patriotism following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But these led to no real changes beyond disastrous Middle Eastern wars for Israel that the neoconservatives wanted to launch anyway. To the contrary, Islam is more powerful in American life than it was before the Twin Towers fell. And insofar as there is a reactionary Christian movement in the United States, it’s coming from Traditionalist Catholics, a group which explicitly opposes “Anglo-Protestantism” and which sometimes even appears to want to reimagine the American founding as a Hispanic endeavor.
“Americans generally may be returning to the self-image prevalent for three centuries that they are a Christian people,” Huntington wrote early in the book. This just hasn’t happened.
The truth is that the American “Creed” survived as long as it did because WASP ethnic consciousness, white racial consciousness, and a lack of mass non-white immigration kept Americans from having to deal with the contradictions between the American “Culture” and American “Creed.”
The Historic American Nation fought Indians, conquered the West, and developed the greatest industrial power on Earth. However, when its elites naively or maliciously tried to extend the classical liberal “Creed” to everyone, America destroyed itself within two generations.
It’s questionable whether this is even a process unique to America. The late Jean Raspail argued the same universalism destroyed France in the process he called “The Fatherland Betrayed By The Republic.”
This raises what VDARE.com calls “The National Question”—whether the U.S. can survive as a nation-state, the political expression of a particular people. On current trends, would-be American nationalists will soon lose control their nation-state and become a dispossessed people like the Afrikaners or the Kurds.
Huntington wrote that “identity requires differentiation.” But the question of “who is or is not an American” is being answered for us in the streets, as statues of Union and Confederate leaders, the Founders, heroic presidents like Teddy Roosevelt, and other symbols of the American identity are destroyed and defiled.
Stripped of ethnic, racial, and cultural unity, it may be only a short time until occupied America demands separation from its occupiers.
If that does not occur, “America” will cease to be anything more than a geographic expression. Who Are We then? Consumers, tax slaves in the case of the whites, and nothing more.


vdare--2020-08-19--A Reader Says Ben Shapiro, Before Condemning "Identity Politics", Said Amnestied Illegals Wouldn't V

A Reader Says Ben Shapiro, Before Condemning "Identity Politics", Said Amnestied Illegals Wouldn't Vote Republican—Because Of Their Identity

Re : Peter Brimelow 's BRIMELOW vs. NEW YORK TIMES : We Respond To Motion To Dismiss—And Find Out The @ @ @ @ @ The New York Times noted in their motion to dismiss VDare 's lawsuit , Conservatism @ @ @ @ @ accused VDare of being a `` white-supremacist site . ''
He does not explain his @ @ @ @ @ but I think it can be inferred from a speech he made last year at @ @ @ @ @ that there is no link between race and political preference , that `` voters are @ @ @ @ @ anyone who thinks otherwise is `` identical to the identity politics left . ''
I @ @ @ @ @ when he made a video espousing those exact views he now decries as white supremacist @ @ @ @ @ it has not been removed from YouTube .

Re: Peter Brimelow's BRIMELOW vs. NEW YORK TIMES: We Respond To Motion To Dismiss—And Find Out The Use Of Ben Shapiro
From: Milkshake Duck [Email him]
As the New York Times noted in its motion to dismiss VDARE's lawsuit, Conservatism Inc. darling Ben Shapiro has accused VDare of being a "white-supremacist site." He does not explain his reasoning for this claim, but I think it can be inferred from a speech he made last year at Stanford in which he claimed that there is no link between race and political preference, that "voters are malleable," and that anyone who thinks otherwise is "identical to the identity politics left."
I remember back in 2014, when he made a video espousing those exact views he now decries as white supremacist. To my surprise, it has not been removed from YouTube.


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Join us in the VDARE.com Book Club for a chance to win September 's pick : The Perils of Diversity : Immigration and Human Nature by Byron M. Roth !
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And on Tuesday , September 1st , we will be posting discussion questions written by the author himself .
As Byron Roth writes in the acknowledgements , `` I have dedicated this book to my [ seven ] grandchildren in recognition that they must deal with the consequences of the decisions made by those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will not judge us harshly . ''
This is a striking , but perhaps unconscious , echo of Enoch Powell 's famous 1968 speech on immigration : `` The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils… the discussion of future grave but , with effort now , avoidable evils is the most unpopular and at the same time the most necessary occupation for the politician .
Those who knowingly shirk it , deserve , and not infrequently receive , the curses of those who come after . ''
Alas , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ posterity seems what is likely to happen .
Although immigration ought to be a topic of fascination for all public intellectuals , most elite discourse on the subject is vacuous and kitschy .
As Roth observes : `` That discussion , however , has taken place uninformed , largely , by empirical data and theoretical perspectives from the social and biological sciences '' .
So , Byron Roth comes to the rescue !
He fills the scientific perspective gap and more .
According to John Derbyshire in his own review , `` If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the blithe vacuities of TV talking heads and newspaper pundits bought and sold by the cheap-labor racketeers , Prof. Roth ’ s book is essential reading : a comprehensive , well-documented survey of all the issues . ''
But Roth not only addresses the scientific argument against multiculturalism : Come study with us !
For ourselves and our posterity !

Join us in the VDARE.com Book Club for a chance to win September's pick: The Perils of Diversity: Immigration and Human Nature by Byron M. Roth!
On Friday, August 21st at noon, we will announce the winner—sign up here! And on Tuesday, September 1st, we will be posting discussion questions written by the author himself.
As Byron Roth writes in the acknowledgements, "I have dedicated this book to my [seven] grandchildren in recognition that they must deal with the consequences of the decisions made by those who came before. I hope they will not judge us harshly."
Steve Sailer reviews:
This is a striking, but perhaps unconscious, echo of Enoch Powell's famous 1968 speech on immigration: "The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils… the discussion of future grave but, with effort now, avoidable evils is the most unpopular and at the same time the most necessary occupation for the politician. Those who knowingly shirk it, deserve, and not infrequently receive, the curses of those who come after." Alas, the harsh judgment and even curses of posterity seems what is likely to happen. Although immigration ought to be a topic of fascination for all public intellectuals, most elite discourse on the subject is vacuous and kitschy. As Roth observes: "That discussion, however, has taken place uninformed, largely, by empirical data and theoretical perspectives from the social and biological sciences".
So, Byron Roth comes to the rescue! He fills the scientific perspective gap and more.
According to John Derbyshire in his own review, "If all you know about the National Question is the blithe vacuities of TV talking heads and newspaper pundits bought and sold by the cheap-labor racketeers, Prof. Roth’s book is essential reading: a comprehensive, well-documented survey of all the issues."
But Roth not only addresses the scientific argument against multiculturalism:
Roth addresses the disturbingly undemocratic nature of the regime of mass immigration imposed by authorities on the citizens of all western nations in defiance of their clearly expressed wishes. He shows that the chasm between elite views and public opinion is so deep that current policies can only be maintained by an increasingly totalitarian suppression of dissent that undermines the very foundations of western democracy. — Read more here...
Come study with us! For ourselves and our posterity!