vdare--2020-07-06--Reagan On Columbus: "Columbus Challenged The Unknown When He Sailed Westward In 1492"

Pat Buchanan 's column today notes that a Baltimore Little Italy statue of Christopher Columbus that was thrown in the Inner Harbor , was originally dedicated by Ronald Reagan in 1984 .
Here are his remarks that day .
Thank you .
Thank you very much .
And thank you , Mayor Schaefer , Commissioner Battaglia , members of the committee , and distinguished guests .
I 'm pleased to be here in `` Little Italy ” with you to honor a man who reminds all Americans that we must always strive for the best , to push to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ descent have given a great deal to this country .
Their contribution began 492 years ago when Christopher Columbus , the son of a Genoa weaver , set forth on a voyage of discovery that changed the world .
The ideals which many successive Italian immigrants brought with them are at the very heart of America .
I 'm speaking of hard work , love of family , patriotism , and respect for God .
[ Applause ] Thank you .
Columbus challenged the unknown when he sailed westward in 1492 .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an opportunity , set down a plan , and then worked diligently to carry it forth .
Contrary to what you may have heard in the last 24 hours , I do have a plan .
I 'd like to think that we 're continuing on that initial course of discovery that he set for us so many years ago .
We turned a vast wilderness , the most undeveloped land imaginable , into an economic dynamo , because we encouraged individuals with dreams to make those dreams come alive .
Looking out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you 've accomplished here in recent years , I know that 's the kind of spirit that you have in Baltimore .
You have n't been afraid to aim high , to chart a new course , and to change the future .
You were n't satisfied to sit and wait or to be put off by those who kept discouraging you with all the reasons why you should n't go forward .
With an eye for excellence , your architects and landscape designers , your contractors and working people have set out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beauty .
Well , I think all of you can be proud of what you 've accomplished .
The optimism I sense here , this optimism is something I 've felt all over this country .
America has quit listening to the gloom-and-doomers .
We 've left self-doubt and pessimism aside .
We 've reclaimed our heritage , personified by individuals like Christopher Columbus .
America has always been a vision of opportunity , a place where an individual could , with hard work , go as far as his own talents or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And a few years ago , there were those who said that this vision of opportunity and freedom was dead , that we were a nation in decline , that we should lower our expectations .
Murderous inflation and economic stagnation were the order of the day .
Well , last night I thought back to another night 4 years ago when I came to Baltimore for the first debate of the fall campaign .
Well , as demonstrated in yesterday 's debate , the central issue in this election is whether we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ go back .
Audience .
4 more years !
4 more years !
4 more years !
The President .
All right .
Thank you .
Thank you very much .
America , like Baltimore , has made a new beginning , and we are n't going back .
The American people are enjoying the fruits of economic expansion and low inflation .
They put this country back together and have a right to feel good about what they 've accomplished .
Baltimore 's own H.L .
Mencken had a description of Puritans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pessimists who ca n't bring themselves to admit America is back on the right track .
Mencken said they have `` .
.
.
the haunting fear that someone , somewhere , may be happy.
” [ Laughter ] Well , those who have never broken free from the mentality of tax-and-tax and spend-and-spend still think increasing taxes is the best way to solve America 's problems .
The President .
We need a tax policy that offers incentives for people to work , save , and invest—all the things that will keep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
We need a basic tax reform that will permit us to bring everybody 's tax rates down .
And if we 're to have progress , we must be willing to break from the past and use forward-looking , innovative ideas .
One such idea is designating depressed areas of our country as enterprise zones—to encourage investment and to channel the strength of our free enterprise system to those areas and to those people who need it most .
Baltimore 's Mayor Schaefer , who took me on a tour of your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been a strong supporter of this concept .
For more than 2 years , we 've been trying to get Federal enterprise zone legislation enacted , but the liberals who control the House of Representatives have bottled it up .
Instead of focusing on raising taxes , I hope those who keep trying to impress us all with their use of the word `` compassion ” would help us free up the enterprise zone bill that is now tied up in the House .
Let 's quit talking taxation and start providing jobs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hope .
The old welfare state did n't work ; America needs new approaches .
We do n't need the failed Federal programs that create dependency and leave people in despair .
Last year we replaced the old liberal CETA program with a Job Training Partnership Act .
During its 9 years , CETA cost the taxpayers nearly $ 60 billion— $ 10 billion in 1979 alone .
Only 18 cents out of every one of those dollars actually went to training , and only about one-third of the enrollees landed jobs .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ overall costs have been reduced , and 70 percent of the money goes directly to training .
And working with the private sector , we 've provided tens of thousands of the hardcore unemployed with the skills they need to find and keep a job .
And during the first 6 months of this program , which ended in March , 70 percent of those enrolled found jobs .
The way to a better life for the less fortunate is not found in raising taxes and increasing spending .
I say the best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their lot is a meaningful , productive job .
And over 6 million new jobs have been created in the 21 months since the recovery started .
In Europe they called it the `` American miracle.
” Well , it 's no miracle .
It 's not due to an uncontrollable cycle .
It 's due to our return to sensible and responsible Federal tax and spending policies , policies that encourage economic growth .
Our country needs leadership that can see beyond the demands of the special interest groups and prepare America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there is an issue which the people of Baltimore are particularly concerned about , and it 's a concern that I share .
We 've taken steps , with the strong support of your Senator Mac Mathias , to make certain that the new—or the next generation has a healthy and thriving Chesapeake Bay .
It 's a national treasure , and we 're not going to lose it .
Helen Bentley , a former Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission , has been very supportive of our efforts .
She 's also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to see to it that Baltimore 's Harbor is dredged .
Well , Helen , thanks to you for all that you 've done .
Representative Marjorie Holt is with us today .
She is a strong voice for responsible government , and you can be proud of the job that she 's doing in Washington .
What we 're all working for is a strong , united , prosperous , and free America—the kind of country that God intended the United States to be .
When Columbus discovered America , he set @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world had ever known .
People came here from every corner of the planet to be free and to improve their lot and that of their family .
Well , we got off course a few years ago , but now we 've set the good ship Columbia back sailing in the right direction .
And I thank you for letting me be here to help you honor the man who started it all , Christopher Columbus .
The President .
So , good luck , and God bless you , and God @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Christopher Columbus .
Thank you all very much .
Thank you .
Audience .
4 more years !
4 more years !
4 more years !
The President .
Thank you very much .
Note : The President spoke at 3:56 p.m. at President Street and Eastern Avenue , the gateway to `` Little Italy , ” the heart of Baltimore 's Italian-American community .
The statue was dedicated to the city of Baltimore by the Italian American Organization United and the Italian-American community of Baltimore .
Following the ceremony , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @

Earlier, by Peter Brimelow: In Memoriam: Ronald W. Reagan
Pat Buchanan's column today notes that a Baltimore Little Italy statue of Christopher Columbus that was thrown in the Inner Harbor, was originally dedicated by Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Here are his remarks that day.
October 8, 1984
Thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you, Mayor Schaefer, Commissioner Battaglia, members of the committee, and distinguished guests.
I'm pleased to be here in "Little Italy” with you to honor a man who reminds all Americans that we must always strive for the best, to push to the limits and beyond.
Americans of Italian descent have given a great deal to this country. Their contribution began 492 years ago when Christopher Columbus, the son of a Genoa weaver, set forth on a voyage of discovery that changed the world. The ideals which many successive Italian immigrants brought with them are at the very heart of America. I'm speaking of hard work, love of family, patriotism, and respect for God. [Applause] Thank you.
Columbus challenged the unknown when he sailed westward in 1492. He was a man of vision who saw an opportunity, set down a plan, and then worked diligently to carry it forth. Contrary to what you may have heard in the last 24 hours, I do have a plan. I'd like to think that we're continuing on that initial course of discovery that he set for us so many years ago. We turned a vast wilderness, the most undeveloped land imaginable, into an economic dynamo, because we encouraged individuals with dreams to make those dreams come alive.
Looking out over the Inner Harbor, all that you've accomplished here in recent years, I know that's the kind of spirit that you have in Baltimore. You haven't been afraid to aim high, to chart a new course, and to change the future. You weren't satisfied to sit and wait or to be put off by those who kept discouraging you with all the reasons why you shouldn't go forward. With an eye for excellence, your architects and landscape designers, your contractors and working people have set out to create a place of commerce and beauty. Well, I think all of you can be proud of what you've accomplished.
The optimism I sense here, this optimism is something I've felt all over this country. America has quit listening to the gloom-and-doomers. We've left self-doubt and pessimism aside. We've reclaimed our heritage, personified by individuals like Christopher Columbus.
America has always been a vision of opportunity, a place where an individual could, with hard work, go as far as his own talents or her own talents would take them. And a few years ago, there were those who said that this vision of opportunity and freedom was dead, that we were a nation in decline, that we should lower our expectations. Murderous inflation and economic stagnation were the order of the day.
Well, last night I thought back to another night 4 years ago when I came to Baltimore for the first debate of the fall campaign. Well, as demonstrated in yesterday's debate, the central issue in this election is whether we're going to keep moving forward or go back.
Audience. 4 more years! 4 more years! 4 more years!
The President. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much.
America, like Baltimore, has made a new beginning, and we aren't going back. The American people are enjoying the fruits of economic expansion and low inflation. They put this country back together and have a right to feel good about what they've accomplished.
Baltimore's own H.L. Mencken had a description of Puritans which reminds me a bit of certain pessimists who can't bring themselves to admit America is back on the right track. Mencken said they have ". . . the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” [Laughter]
Well, those who have never broken free from the mentality of tax-and-tax and spend-and-spend still think increasing taxes is the best way to solve America's problems.
Audience. No!
The President. We need a tax policy that offers incentives for people to work, save, and invest—all the things that will keep our economy growing and improve our well-being. We need a basic tax reform that will permit us to bring everybody's tax rates down.
And if we're to have progress, we must be willing to break from the past and use forward-looking, innovative ideas. One such idea is designating depressed areas of our country as enterprise zones—to encourage investment and to channel the strength of our free enterprise system to those areas and to those people who need it most.
Baltimore's Mayor Schaefer, who took me on a tour of your renewal areas 2 years ago, has been a strong supporter of this concept. For more than 2 years, we've been trying to get Federal enterprise zone legislation enacted, but the liberals who control the House of Representatives have bottled it up. Instead of focusing on raising taxes, I hope those who keep trying to impress us all with their use of the word ``compassion” would help us free up the enterprise zone bill that is now tied up in the House.
Let's quit talking taxation and start providing jobs and opportunity to people who need new hope. The old welfare state didn't work; America needs new approaches. We don't need the failed Federal programs that create dependency and leave people in despair. Last year we replaced the old liberal CETA program with a Job Training Partnership Act. During its 9 years, CETA cost the taxpayers nearly $60 billion—$10 billion in 1979 alone. Only 18 cents out of every one of those dollars actually went to training, and only about one-third of the enrollees landed jobs.
Well, in our new program, overall costs have been reduced, and 70 percent of the money goes directly to training. And working with the private sector, we've provided tens of thousands of the hardcore unemployed with the skills they need to find and keep a job. And during the first 6 months of this program, which ended in March, 70 percent of those enrolled found jobs. The way to a better life for the less fortunate is not found in raising taxes and increasing spending. I say the best program to help those struggling to improve their lot is a meaningful, productive job.
And over 6 million new jobs have been created in the 21 months since the recovery started. In Europe they called it the ``American miracle.” Well, it's no miracle. It's not due to an uncontrollable cycle. It's due to our return to sensible and responsible Federal tax and spending policies, policies that encourage economic growth.
Our country needs leadership that can see beyond the demands of the special interest groups and prepare America for a better tomorrow.
I know there is an issue which the people of Baltimore are particularly concerned about, and it's a concern that I share. We've taken steps, with the strong support of your Senator Mac Mathias, to make certain that the new—or the next generation has a healthy and thriving Chesapeake Bay. It's a national treasure, and we're not going to lose it.
Helen Bentley, a former Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, has been very supportive of our efforts. She's also been in the forefront of the fight to see to it that Baltimore's Harbor is dredged. Well, Helen, thanks to you for all that you've done.
Representative Marjorie Holt is with us today. She is a strong voice for responsible government, and you can be proud of the job that she's doing in Washington.
What we're all working for is a strong, united, prosperous, and free America—the kind of country that God intended the United States to be.
When Columbus discovered America, he set in force a motion mightier than the world had ever known. People came here from every corner of the planet to be free and to improve their lot and that of their family. Well, we got off course a few years ago, but now we've set the good ship Columbia back sailing in the right direction. And I thank you for letting me be here to help you honor the man who started it all, Christopher Columbus.
Audience. Thank you!
The President. So, good luck, and God bless you, and God bless this precious land of ours found by Christopher Columbus. Thank you all very much. Thank you.
Audience. 4 more years! 4 more years! 4 more years!
The President. Thank you very much.
Note: The President spoke at 3:56 p.m. at President Street and Eastern Avenue, the gateway to ``Little Italy,” the heart of Baltimore's Italian-American community. The statue was dedicated to the city of Baltimore by the Italian American Organization United and the Italian-American community of Baltimore.
Following the ceremony, the President returned to Washington, DC.


vdare--2020-07-06--Patrick J. Buchanan: A Culture War Battle Trump Can Win

Earlier , by Steve Sailer : Trump 's Speech Hated By People Who Hate America Speaking at Mount Rushmore on Friday , and from the White House lawn on Saturday , July 4 , Donald Trump recast the presidential race .
He seized upon an issue that can turn his fortunes around , and the wounded howls of the media testify to the power of his message .
Standing beneath the mammoth carved images of Presidents Washington , Jefferson , Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt , Trump declared : `` Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities . ''
These mobs are made up of Marxists , criminals and anarchists .
Their cause is a cultural revolution .
`` Their goal is not a better America .
Their goal is the end of America . ''
After reciting the achievements of his four predecessors , Trump added : `` No movement that seeks to dismantle these treasured American legacies can possibly have a love of America at its heart . ''
Then he put it right into the basement hideaway @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who remains quiet at the destruction of this resplendent heritage can possibly lead us to a better future . ''
Trump is calling out Biden 's silence in the face of an onslaught against our heroes and history as manifest political cowardice that makes Biden a moral accomplice of the mobs .
One day , Basement Boy is going to have to speak out .
Where was Biden when Trump was standing up for America on Independence Day ?
As his Party tweeted that Trump 's trip to Mount Rushmore was aimed at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was wailing about the need `` to rip the roots of systemic racism '' out of America .
Does that sound like Harry Truman or JFK ?
So the lines are drawn for 2020 .
On one side are those who believe America is a good country , the greatest the world has ever seen , and that the men who created this miracle should be respected , revered and remembered .
That is not the view of the left wing of the Democratic Party .
For even as the fireworks were exploding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was tearing down , smashing up and dumping into the Inner Harbor a landmark statue of Christopher Columbus .
That statue stood next to the Baltimore neighborhood of Little Italy and had been dedicated in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan .
Do the haters of Columbus think that destroying Columbus ' statues across America will not anger and alienate Americans of Italian descent who revere the explorer ?
Does Biden think Italian-Americans will reward a candidate and party that will not renounce the mob that did this ?
As the left wing of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the police '' movement , how long will it hold onto voters who are today watching murder rates climb to new records ?
During Independence Day weekend in Chicago , 80 people were shot , and 17 of them killed .
In New York City , the number of shooting victims has risen this year by 50 % .
In June , there were 250 shootings , an increase of 150 over June 2019 .
Mayor Bill de Blasio 's response : cutting $ 1 billion from the NYPD budget .
Over July @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the reopening of the Stone Mountain monument in Georgia , which features huge carved images of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson .
They want its destruction .
Trump is charged with `` dividing the nation . ''
But it is not Trump trashing cops or providing cover for `` protests '' marked by looting and arson .
Nor is it Trump tearing down memorials and monuments to the great Americans of the past .
Where the Democratic Party has been a portrait in indecisiveness , Trump has been clear .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through a hellish six weeks .
He stands against defacing statues and destroying monuments .
He has denounced the rioting , looting and arson that have accompanied protests the media never cease to describe as `` peaceful . ''
It is not Trump who is dividing America .
He has pledged to resist the rampages with all the weapons in his presidential arsenal .
There are four months until November 's election , 18 weeks until America decides : Do we want to continue an era of protests that revert to rioting , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to see police departments further constricted and trashed as neo-fascist ?
Do we wish to see statues of presidents from Washington , Jefferson , Jackson , Lincoln and Grant to Teddy Roosevelt trashed by mobs that hate America , hate her heroes and hate her history ?
Trump 's stand for tradition and against mob rule is the only stand the president can take .
And it is a necessary stand .
For this culture war is going to last long after this presidency .
And it is going to determine what kind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it be the great and glorious republic of the past or the social and cultural Marxist hellhole that is the promise of the mobs ?
Trump just played the patriotism card , the correct card to play , and it may just work for his reelection .
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of a Superpower : Will America Survive to 2025 ?
are available from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority .
His latest book , published May , 2018 , is “ Nixon ’ s White House Wars : The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
” See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

Earlier, by Steve Sailer: Trump's Speech Hated By People Who Hate America
Speaking at Mount Rushmore on Friday, and from the White House lawn on Saturday, July 4, Donald Trump recast the presidential race.
He seized upon an issue that can turn his fortunes around, and the wounded howls of the media testify to the power of his message.
Standing beneath the mammoth carved images of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, Trump declared: "Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities."
These mobs are made up of Marxists, criminals and anarchists. Their cause is a cultural revolution. "Their goal is not a better America. Their goal is the end of America."
After reciting the achievements of his four predecessors, Trump added: "No movement that seeks to dismantle these treasured American legacies can possibly have a love of America at its heart."
Then he put it right into the basement hideaway of Joe Biden: "No person who remains quiet at the destruction of this resplendent heritage can possibly lead us to a better future."
Trump is calling out Biden's silence in the face of an onslaught against our heroes and history as manifest political cowardice that makes Biden a moral accomplice of the mobs.
One day, Basement Boy is going to have to speak out.
Where was Biden when Trump was standing up for America on Independence Day?
As his Party tweeted that Trump's trip to Mount Rushmore was aimed at "glorifying white supremacy," Biden was wailing about the need "to rip the roots of systemic racism" out of America.
Does that sound like Harry Truman or JFK?
So the lines are drawn for 2020.
On one side are those who believe America is a good country, the greatest the world has ever seen, and that the men who created this miracle should be respected, revered and remembered.
That is not the view of the left wing of the Democratic Party.
For even as the fireworks were exploding on the Mall, a Baltimore mob was tearing down, smashing up and dumping into the Inner Harbor a landmark statue of Christopher Columbus.
That statue stood next to the Baltimore neighborhood of Little Italy and had been dedicated in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan.
Do the haters of Columbus think that destroying Columbus' statues across America will not anger and alienate Americans of Italian descent who revere the explorer? Does Biden think Italian-Americans will reward a candidate and party that will not renounce the mob that did this?
As the left wing of the Democratic Party embraces the "defund the police" movement, how long will it hold onto voters who are today watching murder rates climb to new records?
During Independence Day weekend in Chicago, 80 people were shot, and 17 of them killed.
In New York City, the number of shooting victims has risen this year by 50%. In June, there were 250 shootings, an increase of 150 over June 2019. Mayor Bill de Blasio's response: cutting $1 billion from the NYPD budget.
Over July 4, an armed Black militia arrived at the reopening of the Stone Mountain monument in Georgia, which features huge carved images of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. They want its destruction.
Trump is charged with "dividing the nation."
But it is not Trump trashing cops or providing cover for "protests" marked by looting and arson. Nor is it Trump tearing down memorials and monuments to the great Americans of the past.
Where the Democratic Party has been a portrait in indecisiveness, Trump has been clear. He stands with the cops who have gone through a hellish six weeks. He stands against defacing statues and destroying monuments. He has denounced the rioting, looting and arson that have accompanied protests the media never cease to describe as "peaceful."
It is not Trump who is dividing America. He has pledged to resist the rampages with all the weapons in his presidential arsenal.
There are four months until November's election, 18 weeks until America decides: Do we want to continue an era of protests that revert to rioting, looting and arson? Do we want to see police departments further constricted and trashed as neo-fascist?
Do we wish to see statues of presidents from Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and Grant to Teddy Roosevelt trashed by mobs that hate America, hate her heroes and hate her history?
Trump's stand for tradition and against mob rule is the only stand the president can take. And it is a necessary stand. For this culture war is going to last long after this presidency. And it is going to determine what kind of country we shall become.
Will it be the great and glorious republic of the past or the social and cultural Marxist hellhole that is the promise of the mobs?
Trump just played the patriotism card, the correct card to play, and it may just work for his reelection.
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-07-06--Cancelling William Fulbright: A White Southern Democrat Who Betrayed Vietnam...And Brought Peter Bri

Cancelling William Fulbright: A White Southern Democrat Who Betrayed Vietnam...And Brought Peter Brimelow To America

The latest statue menaced is one of Arkansas Senator ( and Bill Clinton mentor ) J. William Fulbright .
Fulbright was a segregationist and an opponent of Brown v. Board , because he was a white Southern Democrat of the old school , and that 's what his constituents elected him to do .
( He was born in 1905 . )
What made him different from most conservative Senators is that he was effectively pro-Communist .
Wikipedia puts that last part this way : That put him , like Bill Clinton , on the winning side of the Vietnam @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the losing side of Arkansas politics—Arkansas was full of people who supported the American side in international politics , and Fulbright was defeated in the Democratic primary .
Two quotes about Fulbright from An American Amnesia : How the US Congress Forced the Surrenders of South Vietnam and Cambodia , by Bruce Herschensohn : Internationalist Fulbright was also one of the few white Southern Democrats to vote for the Immigration Act of 1965 .
The thing he 's most famous for these days is the Fulbright Scholarships , an exchange student program that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America .
And this is where immigration has unexpected consequences : one of the students brought to America on the Fulbright Scholarship program was a young man named Peter Brimelow , from England 's University of Sussex .
When the University of Arkansas students picture above learn that , I 'm sure they 'll feel better about Fulbright .

The latest statue menaced is one of Arkansas Senator (and Bill Clinton mentor) J. William Fulbright.
U of Arkansas petition aims to bring down Fulbright statue
by Maria Copeland,Campus Reform, July 3, 2020 Students at the University of Arkansas are calling for the removal of a statue of J. William Fulbright.
Fulbright is accused of being a segregationist and opposing Brown v. Board of Education.
Fulbright was a segregationist and an opponent of Brown v. Board, because he was a white Southern Democrat of the old school, and that's what his constituents elected him to do. (He was born in 1905.)
What made him different from most conservative Senators is that he was effectively pro-Communist.
Wikipedia puts that last part this way:
a staunch multilateralist he supported the creation of the United Nations. Fulbright opposed McCarthyism and the House Un-American Activities Committee and later became known for his opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War. [VDARE links substituted for Wikipedia links]
That put him, like Bill Clinton, on the winning side of the Vietnam War. It also put him on the losing side of Arkansas politics—Arkansas was full of people who supported the American side in international politics, and Fulbright was defeated in the Democratic primary.
Two quotes about Fulbright from An American Amnesia: How the US Congress Forced the Surrenders of South Vietnam and Cambodia, by Bruce Herschensohn:
The night of the surrender of South Vietnam to North Vietnam, former Senator J. William Fulbright announced that he was “no more depressed than I would be about Arkansas losing a football game to Texas.”
A THIRD WIFE OF A PRISONER OF WAR: “In one of my most recent letters to Senator Fulbright I said, ‘Last summer I wrote to you asking for an appointment with you and expressing the idea that the most vociferous critics of the war had probably lengthened the war and thus had a detrimental effect on the possibility of release for prisoners. At that time, you refused to see me on the grounds that my idea was so preposterous,’ and that was his phrase, ‘that visiting with me would serve no purpose.’
Internationalist Fulbright was also one of the few white Southern Democrats to vote for the Immigration Act of 1965.
The thing he's most famous for these days is the Fulbright Scholarships, an exchange student program that brings a lot of foreign students to America.
And this is where immigration has unexpected consequences: one of the students brought to America on the Fulbright Scholarship program was a young man named Peter Brimelow, from England's University of Sussex.
When the University of Arkansas students picture above learn that, I'm sure they'll feel better about Fulbright.


vdare--2020-07-06--Unnoticed, The Dems Are Recreating  the GOP's AntiTax Doomsday Weapon

I 've repeatedly argued e.g .
here that for technical reasons tax cuts are no longer the Doomsday Weapon for @ @ @ @ @ in 1980 .
But opposing tax increases is quite another matter , yet that is @ @ @ @ @ seem determined to give the Trump campaign .
Below , a brief Twitter thread , @ @ @ @ @ of being banned off Twitter .
The story linked to is Pitchfork-wielding protesters descend on @ @ @ @ @ Tamar Lapin , NY Post , July 1 , 2020 .
My conversation with Jim @ @ @ @

I've repeatedly argued, e.g. here that for technical reasons tax cuts are no longer the Doomsday Weapon for the GOP that they were in 1980. But opposing tax increases is quite another matter, yet that is exactly the gift the Dems seem determined to give the Trump campaign. Below, a brief Twitter thread, screenshotted to preserve in case of being banned off Twitter. The story linked to is Pitchfork-wielding protesters descend on wealthy Hamptons estates, by Tamar Lapin, NY Post, July 1, 2020. My conversation with Jim Goad is here.


vdare--2020-07-06--Czechs Have Only Uncancellable National Hero: Jára Cimrman

Czechoslovakia has solved the problem of having a national hero with mortal flaws .
In a 2005 poll to find The Greatest Czech , the top vote-getter was the polymath Jára Cimrman ( born Zimmerman , but he changed the spelling of his name as an act of Czech nationalism ) .
According to Wikipedia , he was “ one of the greatest Czech playwrights , poets , composers , teachers , travellers , philosophers , inventors , detectives , mathematicians , and sportsmen of the 19th and early 20th century.
” Cimrman , also known as the Master , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ put on by surreptitious dissidents as a joke so arcane and/or inane that the stupid ruling Communists and their Soviet masters would never figure it out .
He became a national hero , and the custom was to never admit he wasn ’ t real .
The Greatest Czech poll was inspired by the 2002 BBC ’ s Greatest Briton poll , which was won by Winston Churchill barely edging out 19th Century engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel .
Online surveys of the Greatest This or That have a tendency to be hijacked by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ University students .
But British history features so many great individuals that even the beneficiary of the hijacking , Brunel , was awesome .
The clean-up hitters 4 thru 6 in the line-up are hard to argue with : As recently as 2002 you can see that Brits interested in British history didn ’ t care at all about Diversity .
The least white person in the top 100 is , I ’ m guessing , Freddie Mercury , a Parsi whom few in the 1970s noticed wasn ’ t European .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perhaps too heavy on scientists/technologists and pop singing stars relative to poets , guitarists , and actors ( # 96 is Richard Burton , but it ’ s uncertain whether voters voted for the actor or the explorer ) , but impressively lacking in 2020-style Diversity Cringe .

Czechoslovakia has solved the problem of having a national hero with mortal flaws. In a 2005 poll to find The Greatest Czech, the top vote-getter was the polymath Jára Cimrman (born Zimmerman, but he changed the spelling of his name as an act of Czech nationalism). According to Wikipedia, he was “one of the greatest Czech playwrights, poets, composers, teachers, travellers, philosophers, inventors, detectives, mathematicians, and sportsmen of the 19th and early 20th century.”
Cimrman, also known as the Master, was invented in a 1966 radio program put on by surreptitious dissidents as a joke so arcane and/or inane that the stupid ruling Communists and their Soviet masters would never figure it out. He became a national hero, and the custom was to never admit he wasn’t real.
The Greatest Czech poll was inspired by the 2002 BBC’s Greatest Briton poll, which was won by Winston Churchill barely edging out 19th Century engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Online surveys of the Greatest This or That have a tendency to be hijacked by interest groups, in this case Brunel University students. But British history features so many great individuals that even the beneficiary of the hijacking, Brunel, was awesome.
The Top 25:
Sir Winston Churchill
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Diana, Princess of Wales
The clean-up hitters 4 thru 6 in the line-up are hard to argue with:
Charles Darwin
William Shakespeare
Sir Isaac Newton Elizabeth I
John Lennon
Horatio Nelson
Oliver Cromwell
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Captain James Cook
Robert Baden-Powell
Alfred the Great
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Margaret Thatcher
Michael Crawford
Queen Victoria
Sir Paul McCartney
Sir Alexander Fleming
Alan Turing
Michael Faraday
Owain Glyndŵr (Welsh rebel Hotspur in Henry IV, Part 1)
Elizabeth II
Stephen Hawking
As recently as 2002 you can see that Brits interested in British history didn’t care at all about Diversity. The least white person in the top 100 is, I’m guessing, Freddie Mercury, a Parsi whom few in the 1970s noticed wasn’t European.
It’s a pretty good list, perhaps too heavy on scientists/technologists and pop singing stars relative to poets, guitarists, and actors (#96 is Richard Burton, but it’s uncertain whether voters voted for the actor or the explorer), but impressively lacking in 2020-style Diversity Cringe.
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vdare--2020-07-05--Biden Vows To Rip Out Roots Of Systemic Racism i.e. Seize The Equity In Your Home

Biden vows to uproot systemic racism in Fourth of July message Former Vice President Joe Biden vowed Saturday to “ rip the roots of systemic racism out of this country ” in a Fourth of July message that contrasted sharply with President Trump ’ s warning at a Mt .
Rushmore fireworks display that “ angry mobs ” at protests against racism were assaulting America ’ s history and culture .
… … “ We have a chance now to give the marginalized , the demonized , the isolated , the oppressed , a full share of the American dream.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ after Trump told a crowd of mainly white supporters Friday night at Mt .
Rushmore that America was facing a growing danger from anti-racism protesters ’ “ merciless campaign to wipe out our history , defame our heroes , erase our values and indoctrinate our children.
” He accused them of promoting what he labeled a “ new far-left fascism.
” Biden said he would restore democratic values in part by reversing Trump ’ s “ cruel and counterproductive ” immigration policies , including the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexican border .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ racism from every area of society it infects — from unfairly administered COVID-19 recovery funds , to laws that perpetuate racial wealth gaps , to health disparities , to housing policy , to policing , to our justice system and everywhere in between .
”

From the Los Angeles Times:
Biden vows to uproot systemic racism in Fourth of July message
By MICHAEL FINNEGANS TAFF WRITER
JULY 4, 20206 PM
Former Vice President Joe Biden vowed Saturday to “rip the roots of systemic racism out of this country” in a Fourth of July message that contrasted sharply with President Trump’s warning at a Mt. Rushmore fireworks display that “angry mobs” at protests against racism were assaulting America’s history and culture. …
… “We have a chance now to give the marginalized, the demonized, the isolated, the oppressed, a full share of the American dream.”
Biden’s remarks came hours after Trump told a crowd of mainly white supporters Friday night at Mt. Rushmore that America was facing a growing danger from anti-racism protesters’ “merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children.” He accused them of promoting what he labeled a “new far-left fascism.”
Biden said he would restore democratic values in part by reversing Trump’s “cruel and counterproductive” immigration policies, including the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexican border.
He also vowed to eradicate “systemic racism from every area of society it infects — from unfairly administered COVID-19 recovery funds, to laws that perpetuate racial wealth gaps, to health disparities, to housing policy, to policing, to our justice system and everywhere in between.”


vdare--2020-07-07--An Australian Reader Says "Aboriginal" Politician Wants To Rename States Of Victoria (And Queensland

An Australian Reader Says "Aboriginal" Politician Wants To Rename States Of Victoria (And Queensland) Because Queen Victoria Was White

John Derbyshire ’ s Radio Derb ( 26 June ) had an interesting piece on “ renaming places with white-supremacist connotations ” , with an example of this particular species of woke weirdness fresh from Australia concerning the state of Victoria which a former Victorian state parliamentarian and female Aborigine ( Lidia Thorpe ) wants to rename because it takes the moniker of Queen Victoria “ who 's caused harm or murdered people ” .
Well , the “ Gunai Gunditjmara woman ” has now extended her political remit to a national level , courtesy of her back-channels elevation to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ duly nominated another state , Queensland ( for obvious reasons ) , for rebadging .
Rather than being the victims of White Privilege , Australian blacks , like American ones , as John also notes in his June Diary , have been “ accumulating favoritism , preferences , and privileges … Black nonentities are wafted up effortlessly into positions of authority on thermals of white guilt ” .
White guilt blows particularly hot in the Australian Greens Party and Ms. Thorpe , trading on her Aboriginality , has soared on it to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was the Greens ’ “ affirmative political action ” nominee for a trendy , inner-Melbourne state parliament seat in 2017 and won the eight-decade Labor Party electoral fiefdom in an atypical by-election where the conservatives , to save their nomination deposit , didn ’ t stand because they didn ’ t have a snowball ’ s chance .
Ms. Thorpe promptly lost the seat in a normal general election less than a year later because of her narrow , aggressive and divisive race-based politics ( does she have any other kind ? )
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ privileged feet by being chosen , as a double shoe-in in these BLM times , by the Greens to replace their former national leader and Senator in federal Parliament from August this year [ Incoming senator who 'DOES N'T identify as Australian ' is slammed as she backtracks and declares she WILL pledge allegiance to the Queen to collect her $ 211,250 salary , Daily Mail , June 23 , 2020 ] .
There are only 76 federal Senators and the lucky Ms. Thorpe will be one of them .
She now has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her renaming crusade along with every other Aboriginal Grievance issue she goes off like a firecracker on ( such as ) .
So here we have an unelected ( and , indeed , unelectable under normal circumstances ) black person , who says she “ doesn ’ t identify as Australian ” ( because of white colonial genocide , etc . )
, sitting in an Australian house of parliament making laws for white Australians ( 97 % of Australians are non-black ) whilst being paid a cool AUD $ 211,250 ( equivalent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a six-year term , by white Australian taxpayers .
What was that about “ White Privilege ” ?
James Fulford has recently noted that , in the US , “ many blacks are not loyal to the United States of America because the Historic American Nation is white ” .
Ms. Thorpe is of the same disloyal mind concerning Australia .
Her “ nation ” of choice is the literally Pre-Historic Aboriginal Australia , which for 60,000 years of anthropological prehistory ( their period of occupation of Terra Australis ) , remained stuck @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and she quite detests the Historic Australian Nation i.e .
the nation that was discovered , settled and developed by Western European civilization and is , unforgivably to the likes of Ms. Thorpe , white .
Phil Shannon is a veteran working class socialist and latter-day VDARE.com supporter .
See earlier letters from him here .

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John Derbyshire’s Radio Derb (26 June) had an interesting piece on “renaming places with white-supremacist connotations,” with an example of this particular species of woke weirdness fresh from Australia concerning the state of Victoria which a former Victorian state parliamentarian and female Aborigine (Lidia Thorpe) wants to rename because it takes the moniker of Queen Victoria “who's caused harm or murdered people.” Well, the “Gunai Gunditjmara woman” has now extended her political remit to a national level, courtesy of her back-channels elevation to Australia’s Senate, and has duly nominated another state, Queensland (for obvious reasons), for rebadging.
Rather than being the victims of White Privilege, Australian blacks, like American ones, as John also notes in his June Diary, have been “accumulating favoritism, preferences, and privileges … Black nonentities are wafted up effortlessly into positions of authority on thermals of white guilt.” White guilt blows particularly hot in the Australian Greens Party and Ms. Thorpe, trading on her Aboriginality, has soared on it to a prestigious position of power.
Ms. Thorpe was the Greens’ “affirmative political action” nominee for a trendy, inner-Melbourne state parliament seat in 2017 and won the eight-decade Labor Party electoral fiefdom in an atypical by-election where the conservatives, to save their nomination deposit, didn’t stand because they didn’t have a snowball’s chance. Ms. Thorpe promptly lost the seat in a normal general election less than a year later because of her narrow, aggressive and divisive race-based politics (does she have any other kind?). She has now landed on her privileged feet by being chosen, as a double shoe-in in these BLM times, by the Greens to replace their former national leader and Senator in federal Parliament from August this year [Incoming senator who 'DOESN'T identify as Australian' is slammed as she backtracks and declares she WILL pledge allegiance to the Queen to collect her $211,250 salary, Daily Mail, June 23, 2020].
There are only 76 federal Senators and the lucky Ms. Thorpe will be one of them. She now has a national platform where she can pursue her renaming crusade along with every other Aboriginal Grievance issue she goes off like a firecracker on (such as “Aboriginal sovereignty” ).
So here we have an unelected (and, indeed, unelectable under normal circumstances) black person, who says she “doesn’t identify as Australian” (because of white colonial genocide, etc.), sitting in an Australian house of parliament making laws for white Australians (97% of Australians are non-black) whilst being paid a cool AUD$211,250 (equivalent to $ 146,740) every year for a six-year term, by white Australian taxpayers. What was that about “White Privilege”?
James Fulford has recently noted that, in the US, “many blacks are not loyal to the United States of America because the Historic American Nation is white.” Ms. Thorpe is of the same disloyal mind concerning Australia. Her “nation” of choice is the literally Pre-Historic Aboriginal Australia, which for 60,000 years of anthropological prehistory (their period of occupation of Terra Australis), remained stuck in the barbarous and uncivilized Stone Age, and she quite detests the Historic Australian Nation i.e., the nation that was discovered, settled and developed by Western European civilization and is, unforgivably to the likes of Ms. Thorpe, white.
Phil Shannon is a veteran working class socialist and latter-day VDARE.com supporter. See earlier letters from him here.


vdare--2020-07-07--Why The Eritrean Immigrant Who Hit White Female ("Non-binary") Protesters Was In America: Refugee Re

Why The Eritrean Immigrant Who Hit White Female ("Non-binary") Protesters Was In America: Refugee Resettlement

Earlier : Why Was Eritrean Who Ran Down Two White Female BLM Protesters In The US ?
and The Eritrean `` Refugee '' Scam—Eritrea Is Not That Bad After a week of spotty news about the driver who struck two BLM protesters in a group blocking Interstate 5 in Seattle , more details are trickling out about the whole incident .
Dawit Kelete , the driver of the Jaguar sedan in the Interstate 5 incident , is from `` originally from '' Eritrea and is a US citizen .
[ $ 1.2 million bail for driver that hit 2 Seattle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Press , July 7 , 2020 ] The expression `` originally from '' in a story like this is a way of not saying `` immigrant '' , and whenever a naturalized immigrant kills someone , the MSM announces his American citizenship with great speed .
See `` Kneejerk MSM Reaction # 4 : `` Syed Rizwan Farook , A 28-Year-Old American Citizen '' from the San Bernardino immigrant mass murder .
The people he struck were white Transgenders and had been part of a BLM group blocking the main north-south Interstate for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Seattle ?
Seattle is a center for Eritreans in the U.S .
Most came as refugees between 1989 and 1993 to escape fighting between the Ethiopians and Eritreans .
The refugees were followed by their family members being `` reunited '' with their families in America .
Back in Africa , the Ethiopians and Eritreans continued fighting for years and now seem to have achieved peace since 2018. Who knows how long the peace will last ?
In Seattle , there are some important questions about this BLM event and the ensuing death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ State Patrol and Governor Inslee allow BLM protesters to block the main north-south Interstate in Washington for 19 days ?
It took a death to finally stop the idiocy .
Governor Inslee did not stop it .
The State Patrol stopped it .
The Governor has done nothing and said nothing .
And more questions .
.
.Why did America move thousands of Eritreans to our country ?
Why did America move thousands of Ethiopians to our country ?
Were our politicians trying to save them from each other ?
Because of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ halted .
What will happen after the virus passes ?
Will America continue to try to save the world by moving millions more here ?
The last questions : Have Eritrea and Ethiopia been saved ?
What will it take to stop the refugee salvation idiocy ?

Earlier: Why Was Eritrean Who Ran Down Two White Female BLM Protesters In The US? and The Eritrean "Refugee" Scam—Eritrea Is Not That Bad
After a week of spotty news about the driver who struck two BLM protesters in a group blocking Interstate 5 in Seattle, more details are trickling out about the whole incident.
Dawit Kelete, the driver of the Jaguar sedan in the Interstate 5 incident, is from "originally from" Eritrea and is a US citizen [$1.2 million bail for driver that hit 2 Seattle protesters, by Martha Bellisle, Associated Press, July 7, 2020]. The expression "originally from" in a story like this is a way of not saying "immigrant," and whenever a naturalized immigrant kills someone, the MSM announces his American citizenship with great speed. See "Kneejerk MSM Reaction #4: "Syed Rizwan Farook, A 28-Year-Old American Citizen" from the San Bernardino immigrant mass murder.
The people he struck were white Transgenders and had been part of a BLM group blocking the main north-south Interstate for 19 days.
Why are Eritreans in Seattle? Seattle is a center for Eritreans in the U.S. Most came as refugees between 1989 and 1993 to escape fighting between the Ethiopians and Eritreans. The refugees were followed by their family members being "reunited" with their families in America.
Back in Africa, the Ethiopians and Eritreans continued fighting for years and now seem to have achieved peace since 2018. Who knows how long the peace will last?
In Seattle, there are some important questions about this BLM event and the ensuing death of a protester. Why did the State Patrol and Governor Inslee allow BLM protesters to block the main north-south Interstate in Washington for 19 days? It took a death to finally stop the idiocy.
Governor Inslee did not stop it. The State Patrol stopped it. The Governor has done nothing and said nothing.
And more questions. . .Why did America move thousands of Eritreans to our country? Why did America move thousands of Ethiopians to our country? Were our politicians trying to save them from each other?
Because of the coronavirus, refugee resettlement has been temporarily halted. What will happen after the virus passes? Will America continue to try to save the world by moving millions more here?
The last questions: Have Eritrea and Ethiopia been saved? What will it take to stop the refugee salvation idiocy?


vdare--2020-07-07--New York Puts Up A Strong Fight For "Most Shootings", But Chicago Wins The Weekend Again

Earlier : Who Will Have More Shootings Over The 4th Of July Weekend : Veteran Chicago Or New Contender New York ?
From the New York Times : Note , this video is something you may not want to see : … The city surpassed 400 shootings in the first half of the year for the first time since 2016 , with 528 by the end of last month ; the 205 shootings in June were the highest for that month since 1996 , the police said .
Other cities have seen similar spikes in shootings , most notably Chicago @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has the city poised to near its record high of 778 set in 2016 .
Chicago had 336 murders as of July 2 ; New York , with nearly three times the population , had 181 at the end of June — compared to 147 at the same time last year but a far cry from the homicide totals that exceeded 2,000 in 1990 and 1991 .
We have so many security cameras and such good facial recognition software that it ’ s nuts that there are any premeditated homicides these days .

Earlier: Who Will Have More Shootings Over The 4th Of July Weekend: Veteran Chicago Or New Contender New York?
From the New York Times:
64 Shot, 10 Dead: Spike in Gun Violence Alarms an On-Edge N.Y.C. The victims included a young father who was shot while holding hands with his 6-year-old daughter in the Bronx.
Note, this video is something you may not want to see:
On Sunday, July 5th, police officers from the 44th Precinct responded to a 911 call for a male shot at Sheridan Avenue and East 170th Street. pic.twitter.com/kiEmmJfuEW — NYPD Chief of Department (@NYPDChiefOfDept) July 6, 2020
… The city surpassed 400 shootings in the first half of the year for the first time since 2016, with 528 by the end of last month; the 205 shootings in June were the highest for that month since 1996, the police said. Other cities have seen similar spikes in shootings, most notably Chicago, where the current pace of homicides has the city poised to near its record high of 778 set in 2016. Chicago had 336 murders as of July 2; New York, with nearly three times the population, had 181 at the end of June — compared to 147 at the same time last year but a far cry from the homicide totals that exceeded 2,000 in 1990 and 1991.
We have so many security cameras and such good facial recognition software that it’s nuts that there are any premeditated homicides these days.
But from ABC 7 Chicago:
87 shot, 17 fatally, in Chicago July 4th weekend violence, police say By Jessica D’Onofrio and Craig Wall
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vdare--2020-07-07--Scientific Study of Police Shootings Retracted Because "Bad" People Like Heather Mac Donald Cite It

Earlier : FBI Data : Blacks , Who Are Only 13.4 % of the Population , Were 54.9 % of Known Murder Offenders in 2018 An important 2018 study by Cesario , Johnson , and Terrill raised an unasked question : Why do cops shoot whites so much more than their murder rates would indicate ?
Is There Evidence of Racial Disparity in Police Use of Deadly Force ?
Analyses of Officer-Involved Fatal Shootings in 2015–2016 Is there evidence of a Black–White disparity in death by police gunfire in the United States ?
This is commonly answered by comparing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Whites , with odds benchmarked against each group ’ s population proportion .
However , adjusting for population values has questionable assumptions given the context of deadly force decisions .
We benchmark 2 years of fatal shooting data on 16 crime rate estimates .
When adjusting for crime , we find no systematic evidence of anti-Black disparities in fatal shootings , fatal shootings of unarmed citizens , or fatal shootings involving misidentification of harmless objects .
Multiverse analyses showed only one significant anti-Black disparity of 144 possible tests .
Exposure to police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the higher per capita rate of fatal police shootings for Blacks , at least when analyzing all shootings .
For unarmed shootings or misidentification shootings , data are too uncertain to be conclusive .
… … When fatal police shootings are benchmarked against crime data rather than population proportions , a different picture emerges .
Figure 1 presents the odds of being fatally shot by police given homicide ( left panel ) , violent crime ( center panel ) , and weapons violation ( right panel ) rates for Blacks and Whites .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the number of murder/nonnegligent manslaughter reports and arrests , the odds ratio obtained when benchmarking against population proportions flips completely .
The odds were 2.7 times higher for Whites to be killed by police gunfire relative to Blacks given each group ’ s SRS homicide reports , 2.6 times higher for Whites given each group ’ s SRS homicide arrests , 2.9 times higher for Whites given each group ’ s NIBRS homicide reports , 3.9 times higher for Whites given each group ’ s NIBRS homicide arrests , and 2.5 times higher @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CDC death by assault data .
A similar pattern emerges when we benchmark fatal police shooting data by violent crime arrests , with Whites ( mostly ) more likely to be killed .
Odds were 1.3 times higher for Whites to be killed given SRS violent crime arrests , 4.8 times higher for Whites given NIBRS violent crime reports ( on the more severe definition ) , 2.7 times higher for Whites given NIBRS violent crime arrests ( more severe definition ) , and 1.4 times higher for Whites given NIBRS violent crime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ For NIBRS violent crime arrests ( less severe definition ) , odds were 1.02 times higher for Blacks .
Regarding the NCVS data , according to the more severe violent crime definition , odds were 1.03 times higher for Whites , but according to the less severe definition odds were 1.2 times higher for Blacks .
Finally , a consistent anti-White pattern exists when benchmarking on weapons violation data .
Here , given each group ’ s violation of weapons laws , odds were 1.5 times higher for Whites given SRS weapons violation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ given NIBRS incident reports , 1.6 times higher for Whites given NIBRS arrests , and 1.1 times higher for Whites given NCVS weapon reports .
In sum , in nearly every case , Whites were either more likely to be fatally shot by police or police showed no significant disparity in either direction .
Although Blacks have greater odds of being fatally shot given population proportions , Whites overall were more likely to be fatally shot given each group ’ s involvement in those situations where the police may be more likely to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Retraction Watch : Authors of study on race and police killings ask for its retraction , citing “ continued misuse ” in the media The authors of a controversial paper on race and police shootings say they are retracting the article , which became a flashpoint in the debate over killings by police , and now amid protests following the murder of George Floyd .
The 2019 article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ) , titled “ Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings , and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers.
” It has been cited 14 times , according to Clarivate Analytics ’ Web of Science , earning it a “ hot paper ” designation .
Joseph Cesario , a researcher at Michigan State University , told Retraction Watch that he and David Johnson , of the University of Maryland , College Park and a co-author , have submitted a request for retraction to PNAS .
In the request , they write @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inferences that could be made from our data .
This led to the misuse of our article to support the position that the probability of being shot by police did not differ between Black and White Americans ( MacDonald , 2019 ) .
To be clear , our work does not speak to this issue and should not be used to support such statements .
We accordingly issued a correction to rectify this statement ( Johnson & Cesario , 2020 ) .
Although our data and statistical approach were valid to estimate the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of civilians fatally shot by police ) , given continued misuse of the article ( e.g.
, MacDonald , 2020 ) we felt the right decision was to retract the article rather than publish further corrections .
We take full responsibility for not being careful enough with the inferences made in our original article , as this directly led to the misunderstanding of our research .
By the way , the name is “ Mac Donald ” with a space in the middle .
Is Mummulo an African like his name makes him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rare Italian surname ?
Dr. Mummulo should retract his name and take full responsibility for not being careful enough with the inferences as this directly led to the misunderstanding of his name .

Earlier: FBI Data: Blacks, Who Are Only 13.4% of the Population, Were 54.9% of Known Murder Offenders in 2018
An important 2018 study by Cesario, Johnson, and Terrill raised an unasked question: Why do cops shoot whites so much more than their murder rates would indicate?
Is There Evidence of Racial Disparity in Police Use of Deadly Force? Analyses of Officer-Involved Fatal Shootings in 2015–2016 Is there evidence of a Black–White disparity in death by police gunfire in the United States? This is commonly answered by comparing the odds of being fatally shot for Blacks and Whites, with odds benchmarked against each group’s population proportion. However, adjusting for population values has questionable assumptions given the context of deadly force decisions. We benchmark 2 years of fatal shooting data on 16 crime rate estimates. When adjusting for crime, we find no systematic evidence of anti-Black disparities in fatal shootings, fatal shootings of unarmed citizens, or fatal shootings involving misidentification of harmless objects. Multiverse analyses showed only one significant anti-Black disparity of 144 possible tests. Exposure to police given crime rate differences likely accounts for the higher per capita rate of fatal police shootings for Blacks, at least when analyzing all shootings. For unarmed shootings or misidentification shootings, data are too uncertain to be conclusive. … … When fatal police shootings are benchmarked against crime data rather than population proportions, a different picture emerges. Figure 1 presents the odds of being fatally shot by police given homicide (left panel), violent crime (center panel), and weapons violation (right panel) rates for Blacks and Whites. When fatal shooting data are benchmarked against the number of murder/nonnegligent manslaughter reports and arrests, the odds ratio obtained when benchmarking against population proportions flips completely. The odds were 2.7 times higher for Whites to be killed by police gunfire relative to Blacks given each group’s SRS homicide reports, 2.6 times higher for Whites given each group’s SRS homicide arrests, 2.9 times higher for Whites given each group’s NIBRS homicide reports, 3.9 times higher for Whites given each group’s NIBRS homicide arrests, and 2.5 times higher for Whites given each group’s CDC death by assault data. A similar pattern emerges when we benchmark fatal police shooting data by violent crime arrests, with Whites (mostly) more likely to be killed. Odds were 1.3 times higher for Whites to be killed given SRS violent crime arrests, 4.8 times higher for Whites given NIBRS violent crime reports (on the more severe definition), 2.7 times higher for Whites given NIBRS violent crime arrests (more severe definition), and 1.4 times higher for Whites given NIBRS violent crime reports (less severe definition). For NIBRS violent crime arrests (less severe definition), odds were 1.02 times higher
for Blacks. Regarding the NCVS data, according to the more severe violent crime definition, odds were 1.03 times higher for Whites, but according to the less severe definition odds were 1.2 times higher for Blacks. Finally, a consistent anti-White pattern exists when benchmarking on weapons violation data. Here, given each group’s violation of weapons laws, odds were 1.5 times higher for Whites given SRS weapons violation arrests, 1.7 times higher for Whites given NIBRS incident reports, 1.6 times higher for Whites given NIBRS arrests, and 1.1 times higher for Whites given NCVS weapon reports. In sum, in nearly every case, Whites were either more likely to be fatally shot by police or police showed no significant disparity in either direction. Although Blacks have greater odds of being fatally shot given population proportions, Whites overall were more likely to be fatally shot given each group’s involvement in those situations where the police may be more likely to use deadly force.
But now, from Retraction Watch:
Authors of study on race and police killings ask for its retraction, citing “continued misuse” in the media The authors of a controversial paper on race and police shootings say they are retracting the article, which became a flashpoint in the debate over killings by police, and now amid protests following the murder of George Floyd. The 2019 article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), titled “Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings,” found “no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings, and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers.” It has been cited 14 times, according to Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science, earning it a “hot paper” designation. Joseph Cesario, a researcher at Michigan State University, told Retraction Watch that he and David Johnson, of the University of Maryland, College Park and a co-author, have submitted a request for retraction to PNAS. In the request, they write: We were careless when describing the inferences that could be made from our data. This led to the misuse of our article to support the position that the probability of being shot by police did not differ between Black and White Americans (MacDonald, 2019). To be clear, our work does not speak to this issue and should not be used to support such statements. We accordingly issued a correction to rectify this statement (Johnson & Cesario, 2020). Although our data and statistical approach were valid to estimate the question we actually tested (the race of civilians fatally shot by police), given continued misuse of the article (e.g., MacDonald, 2020) we felt the right decision was to retract the article rather than publish further corrections. We take full responsibility for not being careful enough with the inferences made in our original article, as this directly led to the misunderstanding of our research.
By the way, the name is “Mac Donald” with a space in the middle.
… At the time, Jonathan Mummulo and Dean Knox, both of Princeton, called the correction an “opaque half-measure.” Today, Mummolo and Knox told Retraction Watch: We appreciate the authors’ willingness to take this action. We hope readers and policymakers will now cease relying on this paper when considering the critical issue of racial bias in policing.
Is Mummulo an African like his name makes him sound?
Or is it just some rare Italian surname?
Dr. Mummulo should retract his name and take full responsibility for not being careful enough with the inferences as this directly led to the misunderstanding of his name.


vdare--2020-07-05--Biden Vows To Rip Out Roots Of Systemic Racism, i.e. Seize The Equity In Your Home


vdare--2020-07-07--A West Texas Reader Says "Low-Code Tech" May Eliminate The Need For Immigrant Programmers

Re : Brenda Walker 's blog posts Automation : AI-enhanced Smart Machines and Software Will Endanger White-Collar Jobs and Automation : Smart Warehouse Robots Will Eventually Replace Most Human Workers While reviewing several fine Brenda Walker articles on automation debunking the immigration-zealots tired cliché claims that `` we need immigrants to fill jobs '' , I also ran across a huge paradigm shift in software development , `` Low-Code Tech . ''
Employers have been cutting operating costs every conceivable way .
One way to cut costs is `` Low-Code Tech . ''
Low-Code Tech has been around a while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recently enjoying a surge in implementation .
Here is one example : Oil Major ConocoPhillips Deploys Low-Code Tech to Boost Bottom Line , by Julia Payne , Reuters , June 30 , 2020 .
That technology `` allows companies to create in-house systems without hiring outside developers as minimal or no coding knowledge is required . ''
Also : “ On average , a low-code platform takes up just 10 % -20 % of the cost and time you would take to develop a solution from scratch.
” Software that , with modest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ software .
All the tech giants have similar Low-Code Tech products on the market—Microsoft , Google , Amazon , and others .
Without question we do not need to import tens of thousands of cheap-labor mediocre immigrant programmers through H-1B visas .
Or through any of the other numerous visa programs that have sprouted and multiplied like weeds choking a neglected garden .
Just call them all `` cheap-labor visas . ''
We already have seen robots that repair other robots , and so on .
Now yet another way that automation will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ next decade .
Both white collar and blue collar jobs are being automated out of existence .
The net job loss that is already underway has an obvious implication to public policy : the correct number of immigrants is zero .
Immigration is just another public policy , no more sacred than , say , billboard zoning codes , bingo hall regulations , or the closing time for bars .
In this case , it 's closing time , the cheap-labor party 's over .
See earlier letters from the same reader .

Re: Brenda Walker's blog posts Automation: AI-enhanced Smart Machines and Software Will Endanger White-Collar Jobs and Automation: Smart Warehouse Robots Will Eventually Replace Most Human Workers
From: A West Texas Reader [Email him]
While reviewing several fine Brenda Walker articles on automation debunking the immigration-zealots' tired cliché claims that "we need immigrants to fill jobs," I also ran across a huge paradigm shift in software development, "Low-Code Tech."
Employers have been cutting operating costs every conceivable way. One way to cut costs is "Low-Code Tech." Low-Code Tech has been around a while but the new, advanced versions are recently enjoying a surge in implementation. Here is one example: Oil Major ConocoPhillips Deploys Low-Code Tech to Boost Bottom Line, by Julia Payne, Reuters, June 30, 2020.
That technology "allows companies to create in-house systems without hiring outside developers as minimal or no coding knowledge is required."
Also: “On average, a low-code platform takes up just 10%-20% of the cost and time you would take to develop a solution from scratch.”
Wow.
Software that, with modest input from the end users, develops software.
All the tech giants have similar Low-Code Tech products on the market—Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and others.
Learn to code, indeed.
Without question we do not need to import tens of thousands of cheap-labor mediocre immigrant programmers through H-1B visas. Or through any of the other numerous visa programs that have sprouted and multiplied like weeds choking a neglected garden. Just call them all "cheap-labor visas."
We already have seen robots that repair other robots, and so on.
Now yet another way that automation will cause a net job loss over the next decade. Both white collar and blue collar jobs are being automated out of existence.
The net job loss that is already underway has an obvious implication to public policy: The correct number of immigrants is zero.
Immigration is just another public policy, no more sacred than, say, billboard zoning codes, bingo hall regulations, or the closing time for bars.
In this case, it's closing time, the cheap-labor party's over.
See earlier letters from the same reader.


vdare--2020-07-08--Dear White Women: The Establishment Hates You And Wants Terrible Things To Happen To You.

Earlier : Black Writer In NYT : I Have Not Missed the Amy Coopers of the World The Establishment hates you and wants terrible things to happen to you .
How the ‘ Karen Meme ’ Confronts the Violent History of White Womanhood When you look up the hashtag # Karen on Instagram , a search that yields over 773,000 posts , the featured image on the page is a screenshot of a white woman staring intensely into the camera , pursing her lips into a smile as she touches a finger to her chin , a movement that ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The woman ’ s name is Lisa Alexander , but on the Internet , she ’ s most recognized as the “ San Francisco Karen , ” after a clip went viral of her last week , in which she demands to know if James Juanillo , who was stenciling “ Black Lives Matter ” in chalk on the front of his own home , was defacing private property .
… The video of Alexander is one of a myriad of other videos , images and memes that have emerged in the last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a slang term for middle-aged white women ( which seems to have stemmed from the popular “ Can I speak to a manager ?
” meme , ) who have become infamous online for their shameless displays of entitlement , privilege , and racism — and their tendency to call the police when they don ’ t get what they want .
I suspect white women are pretty clueless about this kind of racist anti-white women backstabbing by women of other races who want to take their men .

Earlier: Black Writer In NYT: I Have Not Missed the Amy Coopers of the World
Visuals of Karens exploiting their privilege when things don’t go their way have become Internet shorthand for a particular kind of racial violence white women have instigated for centuries https://t.co/kA8VDYe4TE — TIME (@TIME) July 7, 2020
Dear white women:
The Establishment hates you and wants terrible things to happen to you.
How the ‘Karen Meme’ Confronts the Violent History of White Womanhood BY CADY LANG
UPDATED: JULY 6, 2020 4:11 PM EDT | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: JUNE 25, 2020 12:53 PM EDT When you look up the hashtag #Karen on Instagram, a search that yields over 773,000 posts, the featured image on the page is a screenshot of a white woman staring intensely into the camera, pursing her lips into a smile as she touches a finger to her chin, a movement that’s at once condescending and cloying. The woman’s name is Lisa Alexander, but on the Internet, she’s most recognized as the “San Francisco Karen,” after a clip went viral of her last week, in which she demands to know if James Juanillo, who was stenciling “Black Lives Matter” in chalk on the front of his own home, was defacing private property. …
The video of Alexander is one of a myriad of other videos, images and memes that have emerged in the last few months of “Karens,” a slang term for middle-aged white women (which seems to have stemmed from the popular “Can I speak to a manager?” meme,) who have become infamous online for their shameless displays of entitlement, privilege, and racism — and their tendency to call the police when they don’t get what they want.
Etcetera etcetera …
I suspect white women are pretty clueless about this kind of racist anti-white women backstabbing by women of other races who want to take their men.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-07-08--Trump’s Path To Victory: Affirmative Action Abolition; Immigration Restriction; Economic Populism

Earlier : Trump 's Speech Hated By People Who Hate America and A Culture War Battle Trump Can Win President Trump made a start towards recasting the presidential race on July 4 , but he needs to match his words with actions .
The unhinged Main Stream Media response to what would have been considered patriotic banalities from any other president shows he has an opening to rally America against JournoFa and in defense of our heroes , history , and identity .
But American identity is fragmenting because people are given specific incentives to disassociate from it .
My @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a civic nationalist platform with three essential components : ending Affirmative Action racial privileges ; immigration restriction ; economic populism .
A symbolic Culture War just won ’ t be enough .
Trump didn ’ t say anything revolutionary or especially right-wing in his July 4 address .
It shows how beaten down American patriots are that so many reacted to it like a man in the desert would react to an oasis [ Trump ’ s Independence Day Speech Was Not ‘ Dark ’ Or ‘ Divisive , ’ It Was American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , July 6 , 2020 ] .
But contrast the way leading newspapers covered it : • At Mount Rushmore , Trump Digs Deeper Into Nation ’ s Divisions , New York Times , July 4 , 2020 • At Mount Rushmore , Trump exploits social divisions , warns of ‘ left-wing cultural revolution ’ in dark speech ahead of Independence Day , by David Nakamura , Ashley Parker , Colby Itkowitz , and Maria Sacchetti , Washington Post , July 4 , 2020 • At Mt .
Rushmore , Trump uses Fourth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war , by Noah Bierman , Los Angeles Times , July 3 , 2020 What was so “ dark ” and “ warlike ” about Trump ’ s speech ?
Nothing .
Brit Hume at Fox News has proclaimed it “ utterly mystifying ” that America ’ s leading newspapers and journalists found the speech so troubling .
“ I have rarely seen such biased and misleading coverage and such extravagant opinion reaction to this than I saw this weekend , ” he said [ Brit Hume : Why biased coverage of Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be a turning point , ’ by Talia Kaplan , Fox News , July 7 , 2020 ] .
Of course , this isn ’ t “ mystifying ” at all to us .
There is a vast Diversity Industry that incentivizes people to not associate themselves with American history and identity .
Consider Colin Kaepernick .
He denounced July 4 as a “ white supremacist ” celebration .
This was completely different from what he was tweeting just a few years ago [ Colin Kaepernick mocked for tweet calling 4th of July @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , July 6 2020 ] .
Has Kaepernick paid a price for this ?
No , he has not .
Instead , he ’ s getting a fawning documentary from Disney , once the most mainstream “ Americana ” company that could possibly exist [ Colin Kaepernick , Disney announce partnership deal , ESPN , July 6 , 2020 ] .
Conservatives can say that Americans need to stand up to Political Correctness or boycott companies that engage in such activities .
However , the truth is that an individual boycott is going @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more importantly , any overt opposition to Black Lives Matter could endanger your job and even your physical safety .
Unlike murderers in Chicago and New York , or rioters who occupy police stations , white dissidents will feel the wrath of law enforcement if they as much as dare post an unapproved flyer in public .
Ronald Reagan famously described the government ’ s view of the economy .
“ If it moves , tax it , ” he said .
“ If it keeps moving , regulate it .
And if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In other words , conservatives understand that the state can create perverse incentives for destructive economic behavior through its policies .
But they should also realize the same is true about cultural policies .
What is at the root of the destructive anti-American , anti-Christian , and anti-white movement rotting our country ?
State-sponsored discrimination against whites , i.e .
Affirmative Action .
Government has created a powerful incentive for people to claim oppression .
The reason we get Rachel Dolezal , Elizabeth Warren , and ( possibly ) Shaun King claiming at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they derive economic and social benefits from doing so .
As Scott Greer pointed out in No Campus for White Men , Affirmative Action creates a vast market on college campuses for various ethnic studies programs which produce a huge supply of professional victims armed with an ideology of grievance .
This has burst from the universities into the media and entertainment industry and now into the culture at large .
Affirmative Action is already a major issue this November .
A constitutional amendment that will restore racial discrimination in hiring will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Action Amendment Narrowly Passed by Senate , by Evan Symon , California Globe , June 25 , 2020 ] .
President Trump has never opposed Affirmative Action explicitly .
Yet he is clearly aware it exists .
For example , back in 1989 , he noted entirely correctly that a “ well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of job market.
” If conservatives are serious about defending a common American civic identity , they must be serious about removing racial privilege in American law .
Otherwise , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people are reacting rationally in response to clear incentives .
What Steve Sailer has called the “ Flight From White ” is simply self-interest in action .
If Republicans really oppose this , they need to act -- especially since it will be an election issue no matter what they do .
It may even allow them to make inroads into the Asian vote .
I ’ m only half joking when I say that if the GOP can ’ t summon the will to do anything about this , I ’ d @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lessons , identify as Hispanic ( which can be any race , according to the census ) , and bring the whole thing down via malicious compliance .
Let ’ s hope President Trump and the Republicans give us a more honorable option .
The second step , of course : immigration restriction .
While it ’ s easy to bash President Trump , he has taken a number of actions here recently .
• He ’ s tightened the regulations for migrants to claim asylum .
• He ’ s reportedly refiling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to refile paperwork to end DACA this week , by Brett Samuels , The Hill , July 6 , 2020 ] Many ( including me ) are very critical of President Trump for not doing enough .
Still , this isn ’ t nothing .
And no other Republican would have done these things .
These are changes that will help ( and are helping ) American workers now .
However , incredibly , inexplicably , President Trump is still leaving his greatest weapon on the table—a remittance tax that would pay for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ president has just pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization during the pandemic , some America First action when it comes to immigration seems like far less to ask .
Finally , speaking of the pandemic , there ’ s the issue of Universal Basic Income , or a “ Citizens Dividend.
” The U.S. has already implemented this policy to some extent with the $ 1,200 checks that most Americans received a few months ago , and it seems possible that another stimulus is on the way .
However , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ failure if the next stimulus is funneled through politically-connected businesses and Wall Street firms instead of going straight to Americans .
Trump ’ s instincts are sound .
He was right to make sure that his signature was on the first check that Americans received .
Now he needs to do it again , but not just for Americans who make less than $ 40,000 [ Second stimulus check : Trump says to expect more checks ‘ soon , ’ 10WAVY , July 7 , 2020 ] .
Middle-class Americans , including those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are being crushed by the pandemic economy and need a bailout , especially when they are already excluded from many welfare programs for supposedly making too much money .
If President Trump can ’ t stand up middle class voters , the very “ Middle American Radicals ” his 2016 campaign represented , why should they turn out for him again ?
A nation isn ’ t simply a static collection of people .
It is also something that can be made or unmade by leaders .
Our nation was created by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those who wish to deconstruct it are toppling their monuments .
If President Trump doesn ’ t want to go down in history as America ’ s Romulus Augustus , he needs to change the incentives so people have an interest in identifying with and fighting for the Historic American Nation .
Abolish internal racial divisions by law ; strengthen immigration restriction ; bail out the middle class -- historically the backbone of any nationalist movement .
If Trump can ’ t do those things , America will fragment .
And then it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tribe , for themselves .
James Kirkpatrick [ Email him |Tweet him @ VDAREJamesK ] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His latest book is Conservatism Inc. : The Battle for the American Right .
Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow 's Preface here .

Earlier: Trump's Speech Hated By People Who Hate America and A Culture War Battle Trump Can Win
President Trump made a start towards recasting the presidential race on July 4, but he needs to match his words with actions. The unhinged Main Stream Media response to what would have been considered patriotic banalities from any other president shows he has an opening to rally America against JournoFa and in defense of our heroes, history, and identity. But American identity is fragmenting because people are given specific incentives to disassociate from it. My view: Trump needs to run on a civic nationalist platform with three essential components: ending Affirmative Action racial privileges; immigration restriction; economic populism. A symbolic Culture War just won’t be enough.
Trump didn’t say anything revolutionary or especially right-wing in his July 4 address. It shows how beaten down American patriots are that so many reacted to it like a man in the desert would react to an oasis [Trump’s Independence Day Speech Was Not ‘Dark’ Or ‘Divisive,’ It Was American, by Margot Cleveland, The Federalist, July 6, 2020]. But contrast the way leading newspapers covered it:
What was so “dark” and “warlike” about Trump’s speech? Nothing. Brit Hume at Fox News has proclaimed it “utterly mystifying” that America’s leading newspapers and journalists found the speech so troubling. “I have rarely seen such biased and misleading coverage and such extravagant opinion reaction to this than I saw this weekend,” he said [Brit Hume: Why biased coverage of Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech ‘could be a turning point,’ by Talia Kaplan, Fox News, July 7, 2020].
Of course, this isn’t “mystifying” at all to us. There is a vast Diversity Industry that incentivizes people to not associate themselves with American history and identity. Consider Colin Kaepernick. He denounced July 4 as a “white supremacist” celebration. This was completely different from what he was tweeting just a few years ago [Colin Kaepernick mocked for tweet calling 4th of July ‘celebration of white supremacy, Fox6, July 6 2020].
Has Kaepernick paid a price for this? No, he has not. Instead, he’s getting a fawning documentary from Disney, once the most mainstream “Americana” company that could possibly exist [Colin Kaepernick, Disney announce partnership deal, ESPN, July 6, 2020].
Conservatives can say that Americans need to stand up to Political Correctness or boycott companies that engage in such activities. However, the truth is that an individual boycott is going to make little difference. And, more important, any overt opposition to Black Lives Matter could endanger your job and even your physical safety.
Unlike murderers in Chicago and New York, or rioters who occupy police stations, white dissidents will feel the wrath of law enforcement if they as much as dare post an unapproved flyer in public.
Ronald Reagan famously described the government’s view of the economy. “If it moves, tax it,” he said. “If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” In other words, conservatives understand that the state can create perverse incentives for destructive economic behavior through its policies.
But they should also realize the same is true about cultural policies. What is at the root of the destructive anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-white movement rotting our country? State-sponsored discrimination against whites, i.e., Affirmative Action.
Government has created a powerful incentive for people to claim oppression. The reason we get Rachel Dolezal, Elizabeth Warren, and (possibly) Shaun King claiming at various points to be non-white is because they derive economic and social benefits from doing so. As Scott Greer pointed out in No Campus for White Men, Affirmative Action creates a vast market on college campuses for various ethnic studies programs which produce a huge supply of professional victims armed with an ideology of grievance. This has burst from the universities into the media and entertainment industry and now into the culture at large.
Affirmative Action is already a major issue this November. A constitutional amendment that will restore racial discrimination in hiring will be on the ballot in California [Affirmative Action Amendment Narrowly Passed by Senate, by Evan Symon, California Globe, June 25, 2020].
President Trump has never opposed Affirmative Action explicitly. Yet he is clearly aware it exists. For example, back in 1989, he noted entirely correctly that a “well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of job market.”
In 1989, Trump told Bryant Gumbel, "a well educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well educated white in terms of job market."
"Sometimes a black may think they don't have the advantage..." Then he says if he were starting out he'd like to be a "well educated black" pic.twitter.com/JFSDkRGWBb — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 14, 2018
If conservatives are serious about defending a common American civic identity, they must be serious about removing racial privilege in American law. Otherwise, they can’t act surprised that people are reacting rationally in response to clear incentives.
What Steve Sailer has called the “Flight From White” is simply self-interest in action. If Republicans really oppose this, they need to act—especially since it will be an election issue no matter what they do. It may even allow them to make inroads into the Asian vote.
I’m only half joking when I say that if the GOP can’t summon the will to do anything about this, I’d encourage all readers to take some Duolingo lessons, identify as Hispanic (which can be any race, according to the census), and bring the whole thing down via malicious compliance. Let’s hope President Trump and the Republicans give us a more honorable option.
The second step, of course: immigration restriction. While it’s easy to bash President Trump, he has taken a number of actions here recently.
Many (including me) are very critical of President Trump for not doing enough. Still, this isn’t nothing. And no other Republican would have done these things. These are changes that will help (and are helping) American workers now.
However, incredibly, inexplicably, President Trump is still leaving his greatest weapon on the table—a remittance tax that would pay for the border wall. Given that the president has just pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization during the pandemic, some America First action when it comes to immigration seems like far less to ask.
Finally, speaking of the pandemic, there’s the issue of Universal Basic Income, or a “Citizens Dividend.” The U.S. has already implemented this policy to some extent with the $1,200 checks that most Americans received a few months ago, and it seems possible that another stimulus is on the way.
However, Trump is setting himself up for political failure if the next stimulus is funneled through politically connected businesses and Wall Street firms instead of going straight to Americans.
Trump’s instincts are sound. He was right to make sure that his signature was on the first check that Americans received. Now he needs to do it again, but not just for Americans who make less than $40,000 [Second stimulus check: Trump says to expect more checks ‘soon,’ 10WAVY, July 7, 2020]. Middle-class Americans, including those who make more than $40,000, are being crushed by the pandemic economy and need a bailout, especially when they are already excluded from many welfare programs for supposedly making too much money.
If President Trump can’t stand up for middle class voters, the very “Middle American Radicals” his 2016 campaign represented, why should they turn out for him again?
A nation isn’t simply a static collection of people. It is also something that can be made or unmade by leaders. Our nation was created by the Founders and it is no accident that those who wish to deconstruct it are toppling their monuments.
If President Trump doesn’t want to go down in history as America’s Romulus Augustulus, he needs to change the incentives so people have an interest in identifying with and fighting for the Historic American Nation.
Abolish internal racial divisions by law; strengthen immigration restriction; bail out the middle class—historically the backbone of any nationalist movement.
If Trump can’t do those things, America will fragment. And then it’s every man, and every tribe, for themselves.
James Kirkpatrick [Email him |Tweet him @VDAREJamesK] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His latest book is Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the American Right. Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow's Preface here.


vdare--2020-07-07--White Pill: Trump Refiling DACA Shutdown, Sending Foreign Students Home

Previously : Trump ’ s Immigration Moratorium A Huge Win For America—Now He MUST Campaign On It The Trump administration looks to make two positive changes to immigration policy this week .
It was reported Monday that President Trump is expected to refile his executive order scrapping the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ( DACA ) amnesty sometime this week .
The Obama-enacted program legalizes tens of thousands of illegal aliens who came to America as minors .
Last month , the Supreme Court struck down Trump ’ s previous DACA repeal because it allegedly didn ’ t follow proper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to end DACA this week , by Brett Samuels , The Hill , July 6 , 2020 ] .
The new DACA recission will meet the Court ’ s standard and shows that Trump is not backing down on this matter .
Additionally , on Monday , Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced foreign students who attend colleges that plan to go fully online in the fall have to go home .
`` Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures , such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ instruction to remain in lawful status , '' read a release from ICE 's Student and Exchange Visitor Program .
`` If not , they may face immigration consequences including , but not limited to , the initiation of removal proceedings . ''
[ ICE : Foreign Students Must Leave The U.S .
If Their Colleges Go Online-Only This Fall , by Rachel Treisman , NPR , July 6 , 2020 ] .
There are an estimated over one million foreign students in America .
Eight percent of American universities have announced they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; another 8.5 percent are weighing that option This is a common sense idea that shouldn ’ t offend any well-meaning American .
Why should foreigners receive visas for schools where they do all their coursework online ?
They can do that in their home country .
Only Foreigner First Leftists have a problem with it .
[ Liberals Lose It Over Trump 's Decision to Revoke Student Visas for Remote Learning , by Alex Corey , July 07 , 2020 ] The two policies show that Trump wants to campaign as an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the expanded immigration moratorium and decreasing migration , it ’ s clear the president is making dramatic changes to immigration policy—for the better .
Trump looks poised to run as an immigration patriot this election and he has the results to show for it .
He just needs to remember to talk about it more than criminal justice reform .

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

Previously: Trump’s Immigration Moratorium A Huge Win For America—Now He MUST Campaign On It
The Trump administration looks to make two positive changes to immigration policy this week.
It was reported Monday that President Trump is expected to refile his executive order scrapping the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty sometime this week. The Obama-enacted program legalizes tens of thousands of illegal aliens who came to America as minors. Last month, the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s previous DACA repeal because it allegedly didn’t follow proper procedures [Trump expected to refile paperwork to end DACA this week, by Brett Samuels, The Hill, July 6, 2020].
The new DACA recission will meet the Court’s standard and shows that Trump is not backing down on this matter.
Additionally, on Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced foreign students who attend colleges that plan to go fully online in the fall have to go home.
"Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status," read a release from ICE's Student and Exchange Visitor Program. "If not, they may face immigration consequences including, but not limited to, the initiation of removal proceedings." [ICE: Foreign Students Must Leave The U.S. If Their Colleges Go Online-Only This Fall, by Rachel Treisman, NPR, July 6, 2020].
There are an estimated over one million foreign students in America. Eight percent of American universities have announced they will operate primarily online in the fall; another 8.5 percent are weighing that option
This is a common-sense idea that shouldn’t offend any well-meaning American. Why should foreigners receive visas for schools where they do all their coursework online? They can do that in their home country. Only Foreigner First Leftists have a problem with it [Liberals Lose It Over Trump's Decision to Revoke Student Visas for Remote Learning, by Alex Corey, Townhall, July 07, 2020].
The two policies show that Trump wants to campaign as an immigration patriot this year. Along with the expanded immigration moratorium and decreasing migration, it’s clear the president is making dramatic changes to immigration policy—for the better.
Trump looks poised to run as an immigration patriot this election and he has the results to show for it. He just needs to remember to talk about it more than criminal justice reform.