vdare--2020-06-19--Portland: Anti-American Mob Topples George Washington Statue Draped With Burning Flag. Do Americans

Portland: Anti-American Mob Topples George Washington Statue Draped With Burning Flag. Do Americans Care Anymore? Maybe Not.

When is this madness going to end and how far will it go ?
Maybe a better question to ask is , Why Do We Allow It ?
It 's obvious these people hate our country .
But could they build a better one ?
President Trump seems unable to do anything except tweet .
I guess he 's not really an `` authoritarian '' after all .
Most GOP lawmakers seem afraid to speak out against it .
I guess we 've just got to decide if our country is worth saving or not .
The article includes a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ngo and a photo of how the statue looked before it was attacked by an America-hating mob .
`` Secured the area '' after the damage was done .
That 's like closing the barn door after the horse gets out .
Amazing that nobody gets arrested for this .
Makes you wonder if there are n't orders from headquarters not to do so .
These revolutionaries care .
So I guess they 'll be making the decisions from here on out .
I guess it 's a good thing the mayor lives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Washington statue attack , see this Breitbart article here and this Newsweek article here .
America , you had a good run while it lasted .
Today 's Americans just do n't care anymore .

When is this madness going to end and how far will it go? Maybe a better question to ask is, Why Do We Allow It?
It's obvious these people hate our country. But could they build a better one?
President Trump seems unable to do anything except tweet. I guess he's not really an "authoritarian" after all.
Most GOP lawmakers seem afraid to speak out against it.
I guess we've just got to decide if our country is worth saving or not.
From Portland, Oregon:
Activists in Portland have torn down a statue of George Washington after covering its head with a flaming US flag during the latest night of protests sweeping the city. At roughly 11pm local time on Thursday, a group of some 30 to 40 protesters initially vandalized the statue, located on the lawn of the German American Society in Northeast Portland, with graffiti which read: “You’re on native land.” They called the first president of the US a “genocidal colonist.” The group later brought the statue down with ropes. [WATCH: Portland protesters tear down statue of George Washington, drape it with burning US flag, RT.com, June 19, 2020]
The article includes a short video taken by the courageous Andy Ngo and a photo of how the statue looked before it was attacked by an America-hating mob.
The nearly 100-year-old statue of George Washington in NE Portland has been pulled down. There are no police in the area. #antifa #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/qdiY1Y0Zo8 — Andy Ngô 🏳🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) June 19, 2020
One protester spray-painted the words “Big Floyd” in honor of George Floyd, who was killed by Minneapolis police at the end of May, an event which sparked the current spate of anti-racism and anti-police-brutality protests across the US and elsewhere in the world. Those responsible for felling the statue fled the scene and police have secured the area.
"Secured the area" after the damage was done. That's like closing the barn door after the horse gets out.
Meanwhile, another group of a few hundred protesters gathered at the Justice Center downtown, where there have been multiple clashes with police during almost three weeks of protests. According to police, the group reportedly threw projectiles at the center, including hotdogs. Local authorities confirmed that no arrests were made in connection with the incident, nor with any of Thursday night’s demonstrations.
Amazing that nobody gets arrested for this. Makes you wonder if there aren't orders from headquarters not to do so.
Some commenters online wondered aloud when a more tangible backlash against the desecration of historical statues and monuments would come, with some warning that armed ‘patriots’ could only take so much. However, so far at least, there have been limited outbreaks of violence between opposing groups of protesters and armed militias.
Maybe Americans just don't care anymore.
These revolutionaries care. So I guess they'll be making the decisions from here on out.
There have been multiple failed attempts to establish an autonomous zone in Portland, similar to the CHAZ in Seattle, but each time police have successfully retaken the areas, including the neighborhood where City Mayor Ted Wheeler lives.
I guess it's a good thing the mayor lives there.
For more photos of the Washington statue attack, see this Breitbart article here , this Gateway Pundit article here and this Newsweek article here.
America, you had a good run while it lasted. Today's Americans just don't care anymore.


vdare--2020-06-19--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015: Europe Faces Summer of Invasion

In the first three months of 2015 , Europe saw the arrival of 185,000 illegal aliens , a big uptick from last year ’ s numbers .
The increase is not surprising , because who among the one billion Africans wouldn ’ t like a better life in first-world Europe with its generous welfare policies ?
Word has gotten out that if you claim to be a refugee fleeing some war or privation , you may win the asylum sweepstakes .
Nobody is punished for engaging in refugee fraud , so they keep coming .
Europe should be defending its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is too mentally weakened to understand the national security threat posed by open borders to African and Middle Eastern migrants .
Of course , there are real refugees fleeing brutal wars in Syria and Iraq , but most photos don ’ t show families but instead reveal boats crowded with young African men .
Europe is struggling with unemployment for its own people , so the Africans won ’ t find the streets paved in gold they desire : anger and social unrest may well result .
Plus the chaos allows easy entry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ murder European infidels .
A report from Le Figaro this week said over 1700 suicide bombers are ready to attack France .
So Europe doesn ’ t need to import any more trouble than it already has .
Below , African men disembark from an Italian Navy rescue boat onto the battered island of Lampedusa in late May .
Unsurprisingly , many people don ’ t want the invasion .
In a recent British poll , only 34 per cent said they would welcome refugees , which fell to 29 per cent when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Many Brits think the Australians have the right policy by turning migrant boats away before reaching land .
But instead of facing the demographic tsunami honestly and taking steps to stop the invasion , European leaders squabble over how many thousand each country should take .
They should be planning defensive measures but have been too lulled by decades of easy living and diversity propaganda from the left to understand that war is upon them .
New immigrant crisis on the way : 185,000 migrants flood into Europe in just three months @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 19 , 2015 ASYLUM claims from migrants reaching the EU have nearly doubled in a year , figures released yesterday show .
In the first three months of this year alone , 185,000 immigrants have sought refuge in Europe .
The number is 86 per cent up on last year and underlines the migration crisis threatening Britain .
Home Office staff accepted 7,300 applications from asylum seekers at a rate of 81 every day , taking the number housed in this country while their claims are assessed to 30,000 .
The statistics come @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of migrants heading across the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece .
But despite cries from the two cash-strapped countries that they are being overwhelmed by the influx , they accepted just 18,000 applications between them .
The number underlines fears that Greek and Italian border officials are allowing migrants to pass unhindered so they can move on to the UK and other countries to claim asylum .
Alp Mehmet , of MigrationWatch , said : “ This huge number doesn ’ t surprise me .
The official figures are catching up with what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ massively .
This is why each country simply taking in a few is not going to work .
It is the tip of the iceberg and the more we take in the more the iceberg will grow .
“ We have really got to think about how we stem the tide.
” Gerard Batten , of Ukip , said : “ This massive increase shows that there is a never-ending supply of migrants , whether they are genuine refugees or just economic immigrants coming to the EU .
“ Italy and Greece appear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to more attractive parts of Europe , including Britain .
“ The only way to tackle this flood is to stop them at the EU ’ s borders .
If they are allowed to cross into Europe it will serve to encourage many more to come.
” The figures , published by the EU ’ s statistical wing Eurostat , revealed that 184,815 first-time asylum seekers arrived in the first three months of 2015 – more than 2,000 for each of the 90 days .
It is a massive increase on the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ came .
The jump is doubly surprising coming during winter months when most overland and sea routes are hit by bad weather .
The biggest group of new arrivals were the 48,900 Kosovans fleeing their homeland .
Nine out of 10 of those went to just two countries – Germany and Hungary .
The remainder went to Austria or Finland .
Although they are all likely to be refused asylum they are still being housed and fed at taxpayers ’ expense while their claims are assessed .
The next largest contingents of would-be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Britain ’ s 7,335 applications lodged between January and March this year represents a four per cent annual rise and is more than 16 other EU countries combined .
Foreign nationals most likely to claim asylum in Britain came from Pakistan , Eritrea and Syria , according to Eurostat .
Germany accepted the most with more than 73,000 , followed by Hungary with 33,000 .
Both countries took in around 22,000 Kosovans each .
Italy , which has had at least 50,000 migrants land on its southern shores this year , came @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , revealing just how many are leaving the country before lodging asylum applications .
Greece , which also claims to be struggling under the weight of a similar sized influx , had less than the UK with 2,610 .
EU rules state that refugees have to lodge their claims in the first EU country they reach .
Conditions in Greece are so bad that the UK has had to suspend transferring asylum seekers back and now assesses their claims here because Euro judges have ruled doing so would breach their human rights .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Britain last year granted refuge to more than 14,000 people – the fifth largest number in the EU .
David Cameron and Angela Merkel will wrestle over how to cope with Europe ’ s biggest immigrant influx since the early 1990s at an EU leaders summit in Brussels next week .
Mr Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May have said they will oppose any attempt by the EU impose a quota on the UK .

In the first three months of 2015, Europe saw the arrival of 185,000 illegal aliens, a big uptick from last year’s numbers. The increase is not surprising, because who among the one billion Africans wouldn’t like a better life in first-world Europe with its generous welfare policies? Word has gotten out that if you claim to be a refugee fleeing some war or privation, you may win the asylum sweepstakes. Nobody is punished for engaging in refugee fraud, so they keep coming.
Europe should be defending its people from a true invasion, but is too mentally weakened to understand the national security threat posed by open borders to African and Middle Eastern migrants.
Of course, there are real refugees fleeing brutal wars in Syria and Iraq, but most photos don’t show families but instead reveal boats crowded with young African men. Europe is struggling with unemployment for its own people, so the Africans won’t find the streets paved in gold they desire: anger and social unrest may well result.
Plus the chaos allows easy entry of jihadist Muslims who want to mass murder European infidels. A report from Le Figaro this week said over 1700 suicide bombers are ready to attack France. So Europe doesn’t need to import any more trouble than it already has.
Below, African men disembark from an Italian Navy rescue boat onto the battered island of Lampedusa in late May.
Unsurprisingly, many people don’t want the invasion. In a recent British poll, only 34 per cent said they would welcome refugees, which fell to 29 per cent when asked about refugees from the Middle East. Many Brits think the Australians have the right policy by turning migrant boats away before reaching land.
But instead of facing the demographic tsunami honestly and taking steps to stop the invasion, European leaders squabble over how many thousand each country should take. They should be planning defensive measures but have been too lulled by decades of easy living and diversity propaganda from the left to understand that war is upon them.


vdare--2020-06-19--Alabama's AL.com Stops Publishing Mugshots Because Of Too Many Black Faces

Earlier : ORLANDO SENTINEL Stops Publishing Mugshots Because Too Many Of Them Are Black and TAMPA BAY TIMES Stops Publishing Mugshots Because They `` Disproportionately Show Black and Brown Faces '' Which `` Further Negative Stereotypes '' It ’ s happening across the nation .
Newspapers have decided concealing the faces/images of those who break the law and commit crime in the communities they purportedly serve is a greater public good than publishing those images .
Why ?
Because too many non-whites are committing crime , and this serves “ little journalistic value ” and continues to “ reinforced negative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ People of Color and criminality .
Interestingly , this is all being done in states once comprising the Confederacy .
AL.com to end publishing most mugshots in stories : Here ’ s why , AL.com , June 18 , 2020 Beginning today , AL.com will no longer publish mugshots as part of its crime and justice coverage , with a few exceptions .
Exceptions can include when a suspect is arrested and accused of committing capital murder , corruption by public officials or crimes involving a breach of public trust .
And , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ search is ongoing after a violent crime or in unusual instances when the mugshot is of compelling public interest .
I ’ m certain there are occasions we haven ’ t yet imagined where we might deem a mugshot necessary to our reporting , and when those instances arise , we ’ ll explain why we chose to publish the image .
This is a first step in reimagining our coverage of crime and justice .
In November , a group of Alabama Media Group reporters and editors began discussing how to make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for our digital readers .
Here are some of the problems we see with publishing mugshots with crime stories : • Access to mugshots varies throughout the state .
The photograph of someone accused of the same crime may be readily available in one city or county , but not in a nearby jurisdiction .
City , state and federal agencies differ on whether the pictures are made available at all .
• Although we previously used almost all mugshots that were made available to us by law enforcement agencies , many readers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of our company ’ s view of their community ; our hope is to eradicate that perception .
• Mugshots are typically provided in relation to arrests .
Yet criminal proceedings typically reach conclusion months and years later , so the suspect ’ s guilt or innocence — the rest of the story — is not part of the initial report .
Meanwhile , the mugshot will often still be viewed when an individual ’ s name or case is searched .
• Social media sites and digital templates display images in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the image and story than intended .
And , mugshots are often perceived as analogous to guilt , which is unfair given that our judicial system is based on the premise of “ innocent until proven guilty.
” The only way the public can evaluate the functioning of its legal system is to observe its activities , to study how police and prosecutors and elected judges go about their jobs .
To that end , we will continue to review mugshots regularly and believe they should remain a matter of public record .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ mugshots used in past coverage .
We have yet to make a decision about how to handle archived material .
We have much work to do in developing an approach that helps Alabamians understand how our state ’ s criminal justice system works , how it impacts us and how we can all work toward improving it .
The decision to limit use of mugshots is a first step in what will be a transparent process to help us reshape coverage of the criminal justice system in our state .
In the coming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ details about how you can join our conversation , ask the questions you have about the criminal justice system and help us understand your expectations .
Truth , it seems , has a well known racial bias .
To quote one of the prophets of the 21st century , “ punishment must be unusual or it serves no purpose.
” Those who break the law should have their photos published in local papers , for shame serves as a great deterrent to repeat offending .
The community should be made aware of those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racial patterns emerge , then society can pass laws based on this information to protect the law-abiding .
For remember : in a multiracial society , social policy shouldn ’ t be based on individuals .
And once stereotypes are confirmed to have firm basis in racial truth , social policy will immediately be crafted from these observations .
Interesting to think our ancestors long ago operated under this same protocol…

Earlier: ORLANDO SENTINEL Stops Publishing Mugshots Because Too Many Of Them Are Black and TAMPA BAY TIMES Stops Publishing Mugshots Because They "Disproportionately Show Black and Brown Faces" Which "Further Negative Stereotypes"
It’s happening across the nation. Newspapers have decided concealing the faces/images of those who break the law and commit crime in the communities they purportedly serve is a greater public good than publishing those images.
Why? Because too many non-whites are committing crime, and this serves “little journalistic value” and continues to “reinforced negative stereotypes” white people have established regarding People of Color and criminality.
Interestingly, this is all being done in states once comprising the Confederacy.
Even sweet home Alabama.
AL.com to end publishing most mugshots in stories: Here’s why, AL.com, June 18, 2020 By Beginning today, AL.com will no longer publish mugshots as part of its crime and justice coverage, with a few exceptions. Exceptions can include when a suspect is arrested and accused of committing capital murder, corruption by public officials or crimes involving a breach of public trust. And, we’ll use them when a search is ongoing after a violent crime or in unusual instances when the mugshot is of compelling public interest. I’m certain there are occasions we haven’t yet imagined where we might deem a mugshot necessary to our reporting, and when those instances arise, we’ll explain why we chose to publish the image . This is a first step in reimagining our coverage of crime and justice. In November, a group of Alabama Media Group reporters and editors began discussing how to make our crime and justice coverage more meaningful for our digital readers. Here are some of the problems we see with publishing mugshots with crime stories: Access to mugshots varies throughout the state. The photograph of someone accused of the same crime may be readily available in one city or county, but not in a nearby jurisdiction. City, state and federal agencies differ on whether the pictures are made available at all.
Although we previously used almost all mugshots that were made available to us by law enforcement agencies, many readers viewed our use of them as symbolic of our company’s view of their community; our hope is to eradicate that perception.
Mugshots are typically provided in relation to arrests. Yet criminal proceedings typically reach conclusion months and years later, so the suspect’s guilt or innocence — the rest of the story — is not part of the initial report. Meanwhile, the mugshot will often still be viewed when an individual’s name or case is searched.
Social media sites and digital templates display images in a way that often lends more significance to the image and story than intended. And, mugshots are often perceived as analogous to guilt, which is unfair given that our judicial system is based on the premise of “innocent until proven guilty.” The only way the public can evaluate the functioning of its legal system is to observe its activities, to study how police and prosecutors and elected judges go about their jobs. To that end, we will continue to review mugshots regularly and believe they should remain a matter of public record. Some of you might have questions about mugshots used in past coverage. We have yet to make a decision about how to handle archived material. We have much work to do in developing an approach that helps Alabamians understand how our state’s criminal justice system works, how it impacts us and how we can all work toward improving it. The decision to limit use of mugshots is a first step in what will be a transparent process to help us reshape coverage of the criminal justice system in our state. In the coming weeks, I hope to share more details about how you can join our conversation, ask the questions you have about the criminal justice system and help us understand your expectations.
Truth, it seems, has a well-known racial bias.
To quote one of the prophets of the 21st century, “punishment must be unusual or it serves no purpose.”
Those who break the law should have their photos published in local papers, for shame serves as a great deterrent to repeat offending. The community should be made aware of those who break the law, and if racial patterns emerge, then society can pass laws based on this information to protect the law-abiding.
For remember: in a multiracial society, social policy shouldn’t be based on individuals.
And once stereotypes are confirmed to have firm basis in racial truth, social policy will immediately be crafted from these observations.
Interesting to think our ancestors long ago operated under this same protocol…
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-19--Once Again, Twitter, MSM REFUSE To Get Trump's Joke, Label It A Lie

From the New York Times : It was the first time that Twitter had used that tag on one of the president ’ s messages .
OAKLAND , Calif. — Twitter added a warning to a post from President Trump about a racist baby on Thursday , saying it contained manipulated media designed to mislead people .
Mr. Trump ’ s tweet , which he posted earlier on Thursday , featured a video of two toddlers running down a sidewalk .
The video had been altered to appear as if CNN had broadcast it , along with a fake chyron @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Trump voter.
” The video went on to accuse “ fake news ” of stoking misinformation .
Mr. Trump sourced the video from a popular pro-Trump meme creator who goes by the name CarpeDonktum .
Twitter added the warning later on Thursday after the tweet had been viewed nearly four million times , tagging it with an exclamation mark and the words “ manipulated media.
” The company ’ s policies prohibit sharing videos , photos or audio that “ have been deceptively altered or fabricated ” to trick viewers and have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was the first time Twitter used that particular label on one of Mr. Trump ’ s posts .
The move is likely to reignite tensions between Mr. Trump and the social media service , which the president uses multiple times a day to broadcast messages to his more than 82 million followers .
While Twitter for years took a hands-off approach to Mr. Trump ’ s tweets , it adopted a more activist position last month by adding labels disputing the accuracy of some of the president ’ s messages and by cautioning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ actions provoked Mr. Trump , who last month signed an executive order designed to chip away at legal protections for Twitter and other internet companies that shield them from liability for what their users post .
The back-and-forth has fueled a debate about the responsibilities that social media companies have for what is posted on their sites .
Facebook has also been under pressure to remove some of Mr. Trump ’ s posts but has said that it will not do so because it is not an arbiter of speech .
Mr. Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two toddlers on his Facebook page on Thursday .
Even as Facebook has said it values free speech , it also has policies against hateful iconography .
Earlier on Thursday , the social network removed ads posted on its platform from the Trump re-election campaign that prominently featured a symbol used by Nazis to classify political prisoners during World War II .

From the New York Times:
Twitter Labels Trump Tweet About ‘Racist Baby’ as Manipulated Media
It was the first time that Twitter had used that tag on one of the president’s messages.
By Kate Conger
June 18, 2020
OAKLAND, Calif. — Twitter added a warning to a post from President Trump about a racist baby on Thursday, saying it contained manipulated media designed to mislead people.
Mr. Trump’s tweet, which he posted earlier on Thursday, featured a video of two toddlers running down a sidewalk. The video had been altered to appear as if CNN had broadcast it, along with a fake chyron that claimed, “Racist baby probably a Trump voter.” The video went on to accuse “fake news” of stoking misinformation.
Mr. Trump sourced the video from a popular pro-Trump meme creator who goes by the name CarpeDonktum.
Twitter added the warning later on Thursday after the tweet had been viewed nearly four million times, tagging it with an exclamation mark and the words “manipulated media.” The company’s policies prohibit sharing videos, photos or audio that “have been deceptively altered or fabricated” to trick viewers and have the potential to cause harm. It was the first time Twitter used that particular label on one of Mr. Trump’s posts.
The move is likely to reignite tensions between Mr. Trump and the social media service, which the president uses multiple times a day to broadcast messages to his more than 82 million followers. While Twitter for years took a hands-off approach to Mr. Trump’s tweets, it adopted a more activist position last month by adding labels disputing the accuracy of some of the president’s messages and by cautioning that his posts glorified violence.
The actions provoked Mr. Trump, who last month signed an executive order designed to chip away at legal protections for Twitter and other internet companies that shield them from liability for what their users post.
The back-and-forth has fueled a debate about the responsibilities that social media companies have for what is posted on their sites. Facebook has also been under pressure to remove some of Mr. Trump’s posts but has said that it will not do so because it is not an arbiter of speech. Mr. Trump also shared the altered video of the two toddlers on his Facebook page on Thursday.
Even as Facebook has said it values free speech, it also has policies against hateful iconography. Earlier on Thursday, the social network removed ads posted on its platform from the Trump re-election campaign that prominently featured a symbol used by Nazis to classify political prisoners during World War II.


vdare--2020-06-19--Do Progressives Actually Know HateStats About Black Crime?

Earlier : FBI Data : Blacks , Who Are Only 13.4 % of the Population , Were 54.9 % of Known Murder Offenders in 2018 iSteve commenter Mr. Blank says in response to my posting official FBI crime statistics showing that blacks are 7.9 times as likely as the rest of the population to be a murder offender in 2018 : From time to time , I ’ ve been tempted to post figures like this in response to some of the crazier stuff my lefty friends have been putting on social media lately .
Because the way they ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like they really are completely ignorant of all this stuff .
But I always stop myself , because I think about it for a moment and realize , “ of course they know this stuff.
” The way they conduct themselves and order their lives testifies to the fact that they are perfectly aware of these facts .
( Though one occasionally runs across a true believer who REALLY IS completely unaware of the facts , those people tend to have pretty short lifespans . )
When I was growing up , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stuff , but it was considered poor taste to mention it publicly .
But everybody — black , white , liberal , conservative — knew the facts .
It wasn ’ t talked about , but nobody pretended it wasn ’ t true .
But now we have to navigate an additional level of protective stupidity , where not only are we not supposed to mention the truth , but we are supposed to make a great show of being utterly ignorant of it — while simultaneously retaining enough awareness of the truth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I don ’ t know how people can live this way without going crazy .
I look at my lefty friends , and they seem so normal and well-adjusted .
I don ’ t know how they can keep all those plates spinning in their heads without eventually suffering a nervous breakdown .
But then again , maybe that explains what we ’ re seeing now… Has anybody ever studied these questions ?
One reason I pay attention to government crime statistics and the like is because I don ’ t have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ m not good at tacit knowledge .
To know something , I usually need to articulate it .
I ’ m especially not good at doublethink .
I only have room for one set of truths in my head .
A lot of people seem more functional than I am .
The know these hatestats when buying a house in a fashionable neighborhood .
But they don ’ t know these stats if any were so gauche as to mention the numbers .
But on the other hand , we are watching our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s doublethink capabilities are breaking down under the long assault on Implicit Bias and the like .

Earlier: FBI Data: Blacks, Who Are Only 13.4% of the Population, Were 54.9% of Known Murder Offenders in 2018
iSteve commenter Mr. Blank says in response to my posting official FBI crime statistics showing that blacks are 7.9 times as likely as the rest of the population to be a murder offender in 2018:
From time to time, I’ve been tempted to post figures like this in response to some of the crazier stuff my lefty friends have been putting on social media lately. Because the way they’ve been talking lately, it seems like they really are completely ignorant of all this stuff. But I always stop myself, because I think about it for a moment and realize, “of course they know this stuff.” The way they conduct themselves and order their lives testifies to the fact that they are perfectly aware of these facts. (Though one occasionally runs across a true believer who REALLY IS completely unaware of the facts, those people tend to have pretty short lifespans.) When I was growing up, it used to be that everybody knew this stuff, but it was considered poor taste to mention it publicly. But everybody — black, white, liberal, conservative — knew the facts. It wasn’t talked about, but nobody pretended it wasn’t true. But now we have to navigate an additional level of protective stupidity, where not only are we not supposed to mention the truth, but we are supposed to make a great show of being utterly ignorant of it — while simultaneously retaining enough awareness of the truth to behave in ways conducive to self-preservation. I don’t know how people can live this way without going crazy. I look at my lefty friends, and they seem so normal and well-adjusted. I don’t know how they can keep all those plates spinning in their heads without eventually suffering a nervous breakdown. But then again, maybe that explains what we’re seeing now…
Has anybody ever studied these questions?
One reason I pay attention to government crime statistics and the like is because I don’t have particularly adept natural instincts. I’m not good at tacit knowledge. To know something, I usually need to articulate it. I’m especially not good at doublethink. I only have room for one set of truths in my head.
A lot of people seem more functional than I am. The know these HateStats when buying a house in a fashionable neighborhood. But they don’t know these stats if any were so gauche as to mention the numbers. But on the other hand, we are watching our society plunge into dysfunction because people’s doublethink capabilities are breaking down under the long assault on Implicit Bias and the like.


vdare--2020-06-20--Revolution From Above, Practicing Disappointment , GWTW,And Punishing Cops’ Relatives, Etc.

03m01s Why not `` Daz '' ?
( And why `` Chop '' ? )
09m24s Not a dinner party @ @ @ @ @ Man . )
23m42s It 's that movie again .
( Fiddle-de-dee . )
30m48s @ @ @ @ @ ( The future comes apace . )

03m01s Why not "Daz"? (And why "Chop"?)
09m24s Not a dinner party. (You are The Man.)
15m43s Practicing disappointment. (GOP, Trump, justices; all our bubbles burst.)
23m42s It's that movie again. (Fiddle-de-dee.)
26m07s Punishing dissidents' relatives. (America's very own Article 58.)
30m48s Renaming our capital city? (The future comes apace.)
32m00s Signoff. (With Dame Vera.)
01—Intro. And Radio Free Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your independently genial host John Derbyshire, reporting to you from the free republic of Derbistan, here on Long Island's north shore.
I know you're all keen to know how our little experiment in secession is going. Not bad, is the answer, although there hasn't been much worthy of report this week.
My lady is still toiling away at a constitution for our republic, apparently heedless of Napoleon Buonaparte's wise advice that, quote from Boney: "A constitution should be short and vague." Missy had a nice design for a flag worked out, and we all liked it; but it contained a triangle, and we have learned just this week that triangles are hateful—not who we are! Missy has started over with quadrilaterals; we'll see how that goes.
Junior has been doing sterling work guarding the borders of the republic. He has gotten used to the Lee Enfield at last, and not a moment too soon; Mrs Bernstein's cat was down to the last one of his nine lives. Actual death toll on border jumpers so far: four squirrels, two rabbits, and a big mean old raccoon.
I did get some puzzled queries from listeners about our naming of the republic. The brave spirits of Seattle, these listeners noted, had named their new country Chaz, for Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Since that was the inspiration for our secession, why didn't we just follow suit and call ourselves Daz, for Derb Autonomous Zone? It's a lot snappier than Derbistan.
We did actually consider Daz, but decided against it at last. I shall enlarge upon the reasons in my next two segments.
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02—Why not "Daz"? As I mentioned in my introductory segment, we decided against renaming our new republic. There were three reasons for this decision and here they are.
Daz, an expat British friend reminded me, D-A-Z "Daz," is a popular brand of laundry detergent over there in the United Cuckdom. "Bright whites & colours," promise the ads. That has a nice multicultural lilt to it, and don't think I wasn't tempted, but … a laundry detergent? Leaving aside the possibility of an international lawsuit by Procter & Gamble, "Daz" just doesn't have the soaring atriotic appeal a nation's name ought to have.
Concurrently with those deliberations, we have been working on the need for alliances with other countries, for trade and mutual defense. It is one of the oldest, deepest truths of statecraft that a small, underpopulated nation needs a bigger, stronger, more populous ally.
Our thoughts naturally turned to Radio Derb's longtime friend and supporter, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov of Turkmenistan. We figured our appeal would have more force if we retained the "-stan" at the end of our name.
So far this seems to have been a good move. We are in active negotiation with Turkmenistan. Our hopes are that, (a) Turkmenistan will be the first nation formally to recognize Derbistan, with exchange of ambassadors; and (b) that we shall sign a treaty of mutual assistance, so that if some hostile power were to attack either of our nations, armed forces from the other would mobilize against the aggressor.
A state visit by President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov for the treaty signing would be a lovely cherry on the top of this cupcake. However, we are not hoping for too much at present. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is a very busy man, attending tirelessly to the welfare of his people, and we don't want to impose unnecessarily.
Just as all that was in play we learned that Chaz has renamed itself to Chop, the Capitol Hill Organized Protest. Why? I asked around.
Apparently the authorities in Chaz were immensely flattered to see themselves being compared to French revolutionaries. Now, a thing everyone knows about the French Revolution—even, I guess, the drug-addled, low-IQ, miseducated rabble running Chaz—a thing everyone knows is that the revolutionaries chopped off the heads of the former ruling class, including the king and queen, with the guillotine. "That's what we'll do!" the Seattle mob is telling us by renaming themselves Chop.
Since the teaching of history collapsed into anti-white sermonizing forty years ago, nobody much younger than sixty knows that a couple of years after that wonderful, laudable chopping-off of aristocratic and counter-revolutionary heads in France, the original radical revolutionaries themselves faced the blade. Danton got chopped [Clip: Guillotine sound]; so did Robespierre [Clip: Guillotine sound]; so did Desmoulins [Clip: Guillotine sound]; so did Saint-Just [Clip: Guillotine sound]; and so on.
And every other radical revolution has followed the same path. Russia? There is a mighty host of Old Bolsheviks lined up in the Afterlife to tell you all about it: Kamenev, Zinoviev, Bukharin, Trotsky, …
China? Look up Wang Shiwei, Liu Shaoqi, Peng Dehuai, and several million others. Mao didn't do things by halves.
And if comparing the Seattle mob to French revolutionaries is in the air, I can't resist laying on you once again the line—I know I've used it before—the line Ramzpaul delivered to the protestors outside the 2014 American Renaissance conference, quote:
Do you really imagine you're sticking it to the Man? You are the Man! Just so. Permit me to enlarge upon that.
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03—Not a dinner party. Ramzpaul was making the point that today's revolutionaries fancy, in their fevered, historically-ignorant imaginations, they fancy that they will cast down the mighty from their seats of power and exalt the meek and lowly. Whereas in point of actual fact, the mighty are comfortably and securely ensconced in their seats of power, looking on with approval and, I am sure, mirth at the anarchists.
For the mighty—the big corporations, the prestigious colleges, the media, the Uniparty that has a stranglehold on our politics, our woke judiciary that has an even tighter death-grip on our jurisprudence—for them, for the mighty in their seats of power, these riots and lootings and vandalism and silencings are all gravy.
And like trained puppies, the mighty know what to do without being told. When the anti-white shakedowns started in earnest forty years ago, when white Americans still had a few vertebrae and a smidgen of testosterone, the shakers—Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Michelle Obama—had to put in a bit of effort to squeeze some blood from the Establishment stone.
They had to actually show up at the corporate headquarters, with a dozen or so mean-looking retainers alongside, and make veiled threats to bring the company's operations to a standstill if they didn't pony up a million or two to Rev'm Al's National Action Network, Rev'm Jesse's Rainbow Push, or Michelle's Public Allies. Nice little hospital you have here. Be a shame if your workers marched off the job to protest discrimination …
No more of that! Now that the mighty know which side of the who-whom game it's the most profitable and the most trouble-free to be on, and which side wins the most media applause—think free advertising—and which side best preserves their power, status, and wealth; now that's all clear, the shakedown artists don't have to do anything. The money flows in automatically, overnight, while Al, Jesse, Michelle, and whoever runs Black Lives Matter are all sleeping—or whatever it is these bloodsuckers do at night.
"You are the Man!" At any rate, the Man has no problem with you, nor any major point of ideological disagreement. The eople they do have a problem with are the harassed, underpaid, overtaxed, disillusioned and dispirited, mocked and humiliated, scorned and silenced white middle class.
Will the worm turn at some point? Will middle-class whites discover those missing vertebrae?
I wouldn't bet on it. I'm going to come straight out and confess my darkest, most uncharitable thoughts, though. Here they are. Listeners of tender sensibilities might want to skip the next 1m53s.
If a miracle happens, and middle-class white Americans stand up and start yelling back at the mob, and take charge of things once again, I would look forward to seeing Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai—that's the CEO of Google—Jeff Zucker, Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Don Lemon, Bill de Blasio, Dean Baquet, Jay Inslee, Lindsey Graham, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, … How many is that? Am I up to a tumbril-full? This is just the first batch, mind.
If such a miracle were to happen, I'd be thrilled to watch these Establishment parasites headed down Pennsylvania Aveue on a big old tumbril for an appointment with Madame la Guillotine on the White House lawn. Thrilled? I'd stand on line all night to get a front row seat, with the tricoteuses. Sure, I might get blood splashed on my shirt; but a cupfull of Daz easily takes care of that.
That would be revolution—real revolution, not the self-indulgent play-acting of pampered pets.
Jack, Mark, Jeff, Chuck, Nancy: come on, get aboard that tumbril! It only hurts for an instant if it's done right. [Clip: Guillotine sound]
Hey, I told you it was mean-spirited. You didn't have to listen
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04—Practicing disappointment. One of my favorite stories from antiquity concerns the philosopher Diogenes, floruit fourth century b.c.
One of Diogenes' friends was crossing the public square one day when he saw the philosopher apparently trying to have a conversation with a stone statue. The friend went over. As he got closer and could hear Diogenes' words, he realised that Diogenes, who was chronically poor, was actually begging from the statue.
The friend tapped Diogenes on the shoulder. "What on earth are you doing?" he asked. "It's a stone statue. You won't get any alms from that."
Replied Diogenes: "I am practicing disappointment."
That's pretty much what we National Conservatives have been doing these past few decades: practicing disappointment.
Long long ago there was a thing called The Republican Party, widely thought to be on the National Conservative side—our side—of the ideological spectrum. "Yes!" Republican candidates promised, "We shall roll back the almighty federal state! We'll reverse the leftward drift of the judiciary! We'll restore proper respect for our beloved nation's sovereignty and borders! Once again, as before, there will be plenty of room in the middle class for any citizen willing to take in as much education as he can, work hard, get married and stay married, raise children with love for their parents and their nation, obey the people's laws enacted in our democratic assemblies, and strive for self-support, for independence."
We, we National Conservatives, liked all that. We voted for these Republican candidates. What did we get in return? Nothing.
After many years of this there came along a maverick Republican. This man swore he would do all the things previous Republicans, in Congress and the White House, had left undone. Patriotic immigration reform! No more world policeman! A firm hand with crime and disorder! Conservative justices in federal courts!
We were thrilled. We watched him on the debating stage with the limp-wristed, spineless girly-men from the traditional Republican Party. We chuckled with glee at the angry fumings of David Brooks, Bret Stephens, the National Review crowd, and all the rest of the squealing, "by all means beat me with this steel rod, but for pity's sake don't call me 'racist'!" fake conservatives.
So thrilled were we, we voted this maverick Republican through the 2016 Republican primaries, the winner in a large field. Then we voted for him in the general. He won, and went to the White House. We voted for his party too; they kept control of both houses of Congress for two years.
What did we get in return? Nothing. All right, a tax cut, and some inconsequential fiddling around the edges of the immigration issue, easily swatted down by federal courts.
The tax cut barely left a scratch on my personal finances, but Republican Party donors seemed to like it. They liked a whole lot more that the President did nothing to cut off their supply of cheap indentured foreign labor.
Okay; at this point the disappointment is really starting to bite. We had one more shred of hope, though: those conservative justices the resident promised us. Another Scalia on the Supreme Court! Another Thomas!
Now that bubble is well and truly burst. We didn't get a new Scalia or a new Thomas from President Trump; we got a new David Souter, to go with the new Anthony Kennedy we got from George W. Bush.
Last week these learned gentlemen decided that the drafters of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, when banning employment discrimination on grounds of sex, intended the word "sex" to encompass every kind of sexual eccentricity. Ladies and gents, I was around and sentient in 1964. I can assure you with absolute certainty, they intended no such thing.
Then this week we got a ruling on the President's attempt to end the so-called DACA program, under which illegal aliens brought here as infants—more precisely, illegal aliens who claim to have been brought here as infants, with supporting fake documents you can have made up for forty bucks in downtown Los Angeles—these illegals have the right to work, attend public schools, and access social services.
The swing vote here was John Roberts, the George W. Bush appointee. His argument was that it made him cry to think of these poor illegals being sent back where they belong. Something like that.
The DACA decision didn't actually say it was wrong of President Trump to end the program; he just didn't do it right, said the Court majority. So now he has to start over, traipsing through another three or four years of litigation, assuming he survives November's election.
Functionally, the Court might as well have ruled that the President has no power to do what he did. The DACA moochers will be middle-aged by the time anything is definitively decided here.
As Michelle Malkin says: It ain't over until the illegal alien wins.
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05—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: Here is a follow-up to my remarks in last week's podcast about the movie Gone With The Wind.
Back in the late 1980s there was a comedy show on British TV called French and Saunders. The principals were two female comedians, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. The quality of the sketches was variable, but they hit a few out of the park.
One sketch I thought was absolutely hilarious was a spoof of that scene in Gone With The Wind where Mammy is strapping Scarlett O'Hara into her corset. I liked that sketch so much, across the years I have several times emailed a link to the YouTube clip of it to friends when Gone With The Wind has come up in our exchanges.
The sketch is not racially indelicate or insulting in any way I can detect. Most of the humor in it is based on the efforts of these two very British comediennes to speak with Southern accents.
Well, the movie came up the other day in an email exchange, and I went to YouTube for the link so I could email it to my counterparty. I couldn't find it. I tried every search string I could think of—no luck. YouTube has scrubbed it.
Not a major loss in the grand scheme of things; but so petty. The big tech companies now all employ legions of vinegary, rune-faced schoolmarms who come to work every day, nine to five, and sit there searching for and flagging for removal anything that might offend narrow-minded, humorless, crabbed, puritanical zealots like themselves.
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Item: Anyone who is well-read in the great totalitarian despotisms of the recent past knows about Article 58 of Stalin's criminal code. That article spelled out the punishment to be inflicted on wives and children of Enemies of the People.
If you were found to be an Enemy of the People, you would of course be shot, or shipped off to a forced-labor camp in the remote Arctic to die more slowly of hunger, malnutrition, and overwork. Article 58 decreed that your family members should also be punished: your wife sent to a special category of labor camp, your children to special orphanages.
This wasn't a totally new idea. In the old Germanic societies, including the Anglo-Saxons, the principle of weregild said that if I am murdered or seriously injured by you, the murderer owes blood money to my family; and if he can't pay it, his whole family is liable for the debt. In medieval Germany this lingered on as the system of Sippenhaft, collective punishment.
In imperial China a dissident's whole family would be put to death: "nine generations slain," was the expression, meaning everyone in the generation of the dissident himself—brothers and sisters—along with the four generations older—parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents—and the corresponding four generations younger. It sounds complicated; but what happened in practice was that soldiers would go to the dissident's home district and just kill everybody.
Our current cultural revolution seems to have adopted some similar principle.
This week's Emmett Till re-enactment, as I'm sure you know, concerned the shooting of a black psychopath in Atlanta by a white cop. Rayshard Brooks, who of course has a rap sheet longer than the Book of Jeremiah was passed out in his car stone drunk when police tried to arrest him. He came to life, wrestled himself out of the cops' control, grabbed one of their tasers, and ran, shooting at them over his shoulder with the taser. Officer Garrett Rolfe reacted by shooting the gentle giant dead.
Officer Rolfe faces a charge of felony murder. More to my point here, his stepmother, a lady named Melissa Rolfe, was fired from her job as the human resources director of a mortgage firm.
What did Ms Rolfe do to get herself fired? Her employer claims that she made posts on social media that caused fellow employees to feel "uncomfortable."
Strangely, no-one has been able to produce any of the offending social media posts. Unless and until someone can, the strong suspicion must be that this is a case of Article 58, American version. Ms Rolfe is related to an Enemy of the People. In America today, that'll get you fired. Five or ten years from now, it'll get you a spell in a labor camp on the Aleutian Islands.
I am just glad to know that if the Thought Police come for me, Mrs Derbyshire has the wits and resources to escape to the comparative openness and security of Communist China.
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Item: It seems like just yesterday that we could mock the current fad for rewriting history by jeering: "Hey, what are you going to do? Rename our nation's capital? Washington was a slave owner, you know. Ha ha ha ha!"
Mock no more, listeners. We're getting there by leaps and bounds. New York Post, June 16th, headline: 2 CA Schools named for Washington, Jefferson getting renamed after BLM push.
Yes: Wednesday this week the school board of Berkeley Unified School District unanimously endorsed a measure to rename two elementary schools named for those founding fathers.
We don't yet know what new names are under consideration, but you have to bet that George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks are high on the list.
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06—Signoff. That's all I have for you this week, ladies and gents. Short measure, I'm afraid. I've been a tad under the weather: nothing serious, but it seems to take me twice as long to do everything. Thank you for listening, and a happy Father's Day to Dads everywhere.
It was a sad week for Brits, and for expats like your genial host. On Thursday we lost Dame Vera Lynn at the splendid age of 103. Dame Vera's voice was part of the background music of my English childhood. Sixty years later, in 2009, an album of her greatest hits reached Number One on Britain's Top 20 album chart, making her the oldest living artist to attain that distinction.
Dame Vera was a lady, a loving wife and mother, and a fearless patriot. So far as I know, no breath of shame or scandal ever touched her.
Against all the advice of her handlers, in 1944 she went out to Burma, one of the nastiest and most dangerous theaters of the war, and spent three months there entertaining Bill Slim's 14th Army, who were fighting Japan's imperial forces in the jungle. This was the campaign memorialized by George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman books, in his lively and sometimes funny, but mostly grim autobiographical work Quartered Safe Out Here.
I memorialized Dame Vera three years ago, on the occasion of her hundredth birthday. For my signout music back then I played what I think is her loveliest, most evocative song. I shall not apologize for playing it again here today.
Goodnight, sweet lady, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
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vdare--2020-06-19--John Derbyshire: Look On The Bright Side—BLM "Revolution" May Eat Its Parents Too, Starting With Mar

John Derbyshire: Look On The Bright Side—BLM "Revolution" May Eat Its Parents Too, Starting With Mark Zuckerberg

[ Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb , now available exclusively through VDARE.com ] The brave spirits of Seattle originally named their new country Chaz , for Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone .
Just as all that was in play , we learned that Chaz has renamed itself to Chop , the Capitol Hill Organized Protest .
Why ?
I asked around .
Apparently the authorities in Chaz were immensely flattered to see themselves being compared to French Revolutionaries .
Now , a thing everyone knows about the French Revolution—even , I guess , the drug-addled , low-IQ , miseducated rabble @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the revolutionaries chopped off the heads of the former ruling class , including the king and queen , with the guillotine .
`` That 's what we 'll do ! ''
the Seattle mob is telling us by renaming themselves Chop .
[ They 're already joking about guillotines in CHAZ/CHOP By Thomas Lifson , American Thinker , June 16 , 2020 ] But , since the teaching of history collapsed into anti-white sermonizing forty years ago , nobody much younger than sixty knows that a couple of years after that wonderful , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in France , the original radical revolutionaries themselves faced the blade .
Danton got chopped ; so did Robespierre ; so did Desmoulins ; so did Saint-Just ; and so on .
And every other radical revolution has followed the same path .
Russia ?
There is a mighty host of Old Bolsheviks lined up in the Afterlife to tell you all about it : Kamenev , Zinoviev , Bukharin , Trotsky , … China ?
Look up Wang Shiwei , Liu Shaoqi , Peng Dehuai , and several million others .
Mao @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And if comparing the Seattle mob to French revolutionaries is in the air , I ca n't resist laying on you once again the line—I know I 've used it before—the line from Ramzpaul to the protestors outside the 2014 American Renaissance conference , quote : For the Mighty—the big corporations , the prestigious colleges , the media , the Uniparty that has a stranglehold on our politics , our Woke judiciary that has an even tighter death-grip on our jurisprudence—for them , for the mighty in their seats of power , these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are all gravy .
And like trained puppies , the Mighty know what to do without being told .
When the anti-white shakedowns started in earnest forty years ago , when white Americans still had a few vertebrae and a smidgen of testosterone , the shakers—Al Sharpton , Jesse Jackson , and Michelle Obama—had to put in a bit of effort to squeeze some blood from the Establishment stone .
They had to actually show up at the corporate headquarters , with a dozen or so mean-looking retainers alongside , and make veiled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a standstill if they did n't pony up a million or two to Rev 'm Al 's National Action Network , Rev 'm Jesse 's Rainbow Push , or Michelle 's Public Allies .
Nice little hospital you have here .
Be a shame if your workers marched off the job to protest discrimination … No more of that !
Now that the Mighty know which side of the who-whom game it 's the most profitable and the most trouble-free to be on , and which side wins the most media applause—think @ @ @ @ @ @ @ preserves their power , status , and wealth ; now that 's all clear , the shakedown artists do n't have to do anything .
The money flows in automatically , overnight , while Al , Jesse , Michelle , and whoever runs Black Lives Matter are all sleeping—or whatever it is these bloodsuckers do at night .
`` You are the Man ! ''
At any rate , the Man has no problem with you , nor any major point of ideological disagreement .
The people they do have a problem with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , disillusioned and dispirited , mocked and humiliated , scorned and silenced white middle class .
Will the worm turn at some point ?
Will middle-class whites discover those missing vertebrae ?
I would n't bet on it .
I 'm going to come straight out and confess my darkest , most uncharitable thoughts , though .
Here they are .
Listeners of tender sensibilities might want to skip .
If a miracle happens , and middle-class white Americans stand up and start yelling back at the mob , and take charge of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forward to seeing Jack Dorsey , Mark Zuckerberg , Jeff Bezos , Sundar Pichai—that 's the CEO of Google—Jeff Zucker , Rachel Maddow , Chris Hayes , Don Lemon , Bill de Blasio , Dean Baquet , Jay Inslee , Lindsey Graham , Nancy Pelosi , Chuck Schumer , … How many is that ?
Am I up to a tumbril-full ?
This is just the first batch , mind .
If such a miracle were to happen , I 'd be thrilled to watch these Establishment parasites headed down Pennsylvania Avenue on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Madame la Guillotine on the White House lawn .
Thrilled ?
I 'd stand on line all night to get a front row seat , with the tricoteuses .
That would be revolution—real revolution , not the self-indulgent play-acting of pampered pets .
Jack , Mark , Jeff , Chuck , Nancy : come on , get aboard that tumbril .
It only hurts for an instant if it 's done right .
email him ] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets .
( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him . )
He is the author of We Are Doomed : Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books .
He has had two books published by VDARE.com com : FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT ( also available in Kindle ) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II : ESSAYS 2013 .
For years he ’ s been podcasting at Radio Derb , now available at VDARE.com for no charge .
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Readers who wish to donate ( tax deductible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's writings at VDARE.com can do so here .

[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
The brave spirits of Seattle originally named their new country Chaz, for Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Just as all that was in play, we learned that Chaz has renamed itself to Chop, the Capitol Hill Organized Protest. Why? I asked around.
Apparently the authorities in Chaz were immensely flattered to see themselves being compared to French Revolutionaries. Now, a thing everyone knows about the French Revolution—even, I guess, the drug-addled, low-IQ, miseducated rabble running Chaz—a thing everyone knows is that the revolutionaries chopped off the heads of the former ruling class, including the king and queen, with the guillotine.
"That's what we'll do!" the Seattle mob is telling us by renaming themselves Chop.[They're already joking about guillotines in CHAZ/CHOP by Thomas Lifson, American Thinker, June 16, 2020 ]
But, since the teaching of history collapsed into anti-white sermonizing forty years ago, nobody much younger than sixty knows that a couple of years after that wonderful, laudable chopping-off of aristocratic and counter-revolutionary heads in France, the original radical revolutionaries themselves faced the blade. Danton got chopped; so did Robespierre; so did Desmoulins; so did Saint-Just; and so on.
And every other radical revolution has followed the same path. Russia? There is a mighty host of Old Bolsheviks lined up in the Afterlife to tell you all about it: Kamenev, Zinoviev, Bukharin, Trotsky, …
China? Look up Wang Shiwei, Liu Shaoqi, Peng Dehuai, and several million others. Mao didn't do things by halves.
And if comparing the Seattle mob to French revolutionaries is in the air, I can't resist laying on you once again the line—I know I've used it before—the line from Ramzpaul to the protestors outside the 2014 American Renaissance conference, quote:
Do you really imagine you're sticking it to the Man? You are the Man!
For the Mighty—the big corporations, the prestigious colleges, the media, the Uniparty that has a stranglehold on our politics, our Woke judiciary that has an even tighter death-grip on our jurisprudence—for them, for the mighty in their seats of power, these riots and lootings and vandalism and silencings are all gravy.
And like trained puppies, the Mighty know what to do without being told. When the anti-white shakedowns started in earnest forty years ago, when white Americans still had a few vertebrae and a smidgen of testosterone, the shakers—Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Michelle Obama—had to put in a bit of effort to squeeze some blood from the Establishment stone.
They had to actually show up at the corporate headquarters, with a dozen or so mean-looking retainers alongside, and make veiled threats to bring the company's operations to a standstill if they didn't pony up a million or two to Rev'm Al's National Action Network, Rev'm Jesse's Rainbow Push, or Michelle's Public Allies.
Nice little hospital you have here. Be a shame if your workers marched off the job to protest discrimination …
No more of that! Now that the Mighty know which side of the who-whom game it's the most profitable and the most trouble-free to be on, and which side wins the most media applause—think positive free advertising —and which side best preserves their power, status, and wealth; now that's all clear, the shakedown artists don't have to do anything.
The money flows in automatically, overnight, while Al, Jesse, Michelle, and whoever runs Black Lives Matter are all sleeping—or whatever it is these bloodsuckers do at night.
"You are the Man!" At any rate, the Man has no problem with you, nor any major point of ideological disagreement. The people they do have a problem with are the harassed, underpaid, overtaxed, disillusioned and dispirited, mocked and humiliated, scorned and silenced white middle class.
Will the worm turn at some point? Will middle-class whites discover those missing vertebrae?
I wouldn't bet on it. I'm going to come straight out and confess my darkest, most uncharitable thoughts, though. Here they are. Listeners of tender sensibilities might want to skip.
If a miracle happens, and middle-class white Americans stand up and start yelling back at the mob, and take charge of things once again, I would look forward to seeing Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai—that's the CEO of Google—Jeff Zucker, Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Don Lemon, Bill de Blasio, Dean Baquet, Jay Inslee, Lindsey Graham, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, … How many is that? Am I up to a tumbril-full? This is just the first batch, mind.
If such a miracle were to happen, I'd be thrilled to watch these Establishment parasites headed down Pennsylvania Avenue on a big old tumbril for an appointment with Madame la Guillotine on the White House lawn. Thrilled? I'd stand on line all night to get a front row seat, with the tricoteuses.
That would be revolution—real revolution, not the self-indulgent play-acting of pampered pets.
Jack, Mark, Jeff, Chuck, Nancy: Come on, get aboard that tumbril. It only hurts for an instant if it's done right.
John Derbyshire [ email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
For years he’s been podcasting at Radio Derb, now available at VDARE.com for no charge. His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.
Readers who wish to donate (tax deductible) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire's writings at VDARE.com can do so here.


vdare--2020-06-19--A Hispanic Was Beaten To Death By Blacks In An Austin Car Crash Lynching On Juneteenth, 2007

See , earlier : “ Black Lives Matter ” —Unless It ’ s Just Another Car Crash Lynching , April 13 , 2015 Unlike a lot of normal white people , I was n't `` today years old '' when I heard about `` Juneteenth '' .
It was the title of a Ralph Ellison book in 1999 , and reviews at the time explained what it was : the day when slaves were officially announced to be free in Texas in 1865 .
We mentioned it in 2007 when there was a lot of violence , including what I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in which a mob of blacks gather around the driver in an auto accident and beat him to death , or in some cases half to death .
In the case of David Rivas Morales , it was `` to death .
Steve Sailer did a post about Juneteenth called Not Related .
Do You Hear Me ?
Not Related !
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Police , Officials Insist Attacks on Drivers Not Related to Juneteenth Celebrations Police and organizers of Juneteenth events in two cities are insisting that attacks against drivers – one of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man dead – have nothing to do with the crowds attending the celebrations .
On Tuesday , 40-year-old Austin resident David Rivas Morales was beaten to death in an attack near a Juneteenth celebration after the driver of the car he was riding in struck and injured a little girl .
In Milwaukee , police responded in riot gear to disperse the crowd at that city 's celebration on Tuesday after a man was pulled from a car and beaten and an officer was injured trying to break up a fight .
`` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hate crime .
It really seems to be a spontaneous act resulting from that collision with that child , '' said Austin Police Department Commander Harold Piatt .
`` We do n't know if there were any words exchanged between the driver and the men to start with that escalated this to the assault . ''
`` You just had a group of individuals that decided that they wanted to do something entirely different , '' said McArthur Weddle , president of Milwaukee 's Juneteenth Day .
`` It 's just sad that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out of hand . ''
Video from a local news chopper , however , showed dozens of people immediately moving from the event to an attack on a car that left a 33-year-old man beaten .
I also referred , in another post , to a WND story that said Charged as an adult—with manslaughter , not murder—was `` budding boxer '' Kurtiss Colvin below .
He was alleged to have struck the fatal blow , but Morales , the victim , was being mobbed by several people .
Police have said as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a crowd gathered after a car bumped a 2-year-old boy .
Morales , a passenger in the vehicle , had come to the defense of the driver after members of the crowd assaulted him .
The toddler was not seriously hurt .
Colvin 's arrest Tuesday was the first of several to come , police predicted .
Austin officials have downplayed any official connection between Morales ' beating death and a nearby Juneteenth celebration sponsored by the city to celebrate the day Texas slaves learned they 'd been freed .
But , when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the housing project where Morales lived and suffered deadly blows to his head , they found a `` large crowd surrounding the victim who was lying on the pavement , '' according to an arrest-warrant affidavit filed Thursday at the Travis County Courthouse .
Residents at the Booker T. Washington Terraces housing project told the Houston Chronicle last month that the parking lot and nearby streets were jammed with cars and people who apparently were returning from the nearby festival .
A group ranging from five to 20 people was involved `` at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ driver , Victor Medel , as well as the fatal assault on Morales , the arrest-warrant affidavit said .
Several witnesses identified Colvin as the man they saw punch Morales with a left hook to the face , apparently so hard it knocked him to the pavement , perhaps unconscious .
Three men who said Colvin was in a car with them at the scene of the crime told investigators they were among many who witnessed Colvin 's assault .
One of them , Charles Bernard Davis , said a female approached their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being struck and reported that the driver , Medel , was trying to flee .
Austin police make first arrest in the Juneteenth death of Hispanic house painter Kurtiss Colvin was n't convicted of manslaughter , but assault .
A 16-year old named Samuel Byrd was convicted of manslaughter in juvenile court .
( I 've noted that any new `` anti-lynching '' law will hit blacks harder than whites , if enforced . )
Of course , Byrd and Colvin are presumably out again .
So remember , drive carefully on Juneteenth @ @ @ @ @

See, earlier: “Black Lives Matter”—Unless It’s Just Another Car Crash Lynching, April 13, 2015
Unlike a lot of normal white people, I wasn't "today years old" when I heard about "Juneteenth." It was the title of a Ralph Ellison book in 1999, and reviews at the time explained what it was: the day when slaves were officially announced to be free in Texas in 1865.
We mentioned it in 2007 when there was a lot of violence, including what I call a "car crash lynching," in which a mob of blacks gather around the driver in an auto accident and beat him to death, or in some cases half to death.
In the case of David Rivas Morales, it was "to death."
Steve Sailer did a post about Juneteenth called Not Related. Do You Hear Me? Not Related!
Police, Officials Insist Attacks on Drivers Not Related to Juneteenth Celebrations Police and organizers of Juneteenth events in two cities are insisting that attacks against drivers – one of which left an Austin, Texas, man dead – have nothing to do with the crowds attending the celebrations. On Tuesday, 40-year-old Austin resident David Rivas Morales was beaten to death in an attack near a Juneteenth celebration after the driver of the car he was riding in struck and injured a little girl. In Milwaukee, police responded in riot gear to disperse the crowd at that city's celebration on Tuesday after a man was pulled from a car and beaten and an officer was injured trying to break up a fight. "It doesn't seem to be a hate crime. It really seems to be a spontaneous act resulting from that collision with that child," said Austin Police Department Commander Harold Piatt. "We don't know if there were any words exchanged between the driver and the men to start with that escalated this to the assault." "You just had a group of individuals that decided that they wanted to do something entirely different," said McArthur Weddle, president of Milwaukee's Juneteenth Day. "It's just sad that you have a few fools that got out of hand." Video from a local news chopper, however, showed dozens of people immediately moving from the event to an attack on a car that left a 33-year-old man beaten. [More]
Steve wrote
To decode this lengthy article, which doesn't mention the words "black" or "African-American," you need to know that "Juneteenth" is a black pride celebration of June 19th, 1865 when the victorious Union Army declared Emancipation in Texas.
I also referred, in another post, to a WND story that said
Police reported stabbings, shootings and beatings – including the fatal mob beating of a Hispanic man – at festivals commemorating the black holiday in Milwaukee, Wis.; Austin, Texas; Syracuse, N.Y.; and other cities.
Charged as an adult—with manslaughter, not murder—was "budding boxer" Kurtiss Colvin below. He was alleged to have struck the fatal blow, but Morales, the victim, was being mobbed by several people.
Police have said as many as five men attacked Morales when a crowd gathered after a car bumped a 2-year-old boy. Morales, a passenger in the vehicle, had come to the defense of the driver after members of the crowd assaulted him. The toddler was not seriously hurt. Colvin's arrest Tuesday was the first of several to come, police predicted. Austin officials have downplayed any official connection between Morales' beating death and a nearby Juneteenth celebration sponsored by the city to celebrate the day Texas slaves learned they'd been freed. But, when police responded to a 911 call from the housing project where Morales lived and suffered deadly blows to his head, they found a "large crowd surrounding the victim who was lying on the pavement," according to an arrest-warrant affidavit filed Thursday at the Travis County Courthouse. Residents at the Booker T. Washington Terraces housing project told the Houston Chronicle last month that the parking lot and nearby streets were jammed with cars and people who apparently were returning from the nearby festival. A group ranging from five to 20 people was involved "at various times" in assaults on the driver, Victor Medel, as well as the fatal assault on Morales, the arrest-warrant affidavit said. Several witnesses identified Colvin as the man they saw punch Morales with a left hook to the face, apparently so hard it knocked him to the pavement, perhaps unconscious. Three men who said Colvin was in a car with them at the scene of the crime told investigators they were among many who witnessed Colvin's assault. One of them, Charles Bernard Davis, said a female approached their car, told them about the toddler being struck and reported that the driver, Medel, was trying to flee. Budding boxer charged in fatal Austin beating Austin police make first arrest in the Juneteenth death of Hispanic house painter By POLLY ROSS HUGHES, Houston Chronicle, July 6, 2007
Kurtiss Colvin wasn't convicted of manslaughter, but assault. A 16-year old named Samuel Byrd was convicted of manslaughter in juvenile court. (I've noted that any new "anti-lynching" law will hit blacks harder than whites, if enforced.) Of course, Byrd and Colvin are presumably out again. So remember, drive carefully on Juneteenth...or stay home.


vdare--2020-06-19--A Scottish-American Reader Says OF COURSE Robert The Bruce Wasn't "Racist"—NO BLACKS IN SCOTLAND IN

A Scottish-American Reader Says OF COURSE Robert The Bruce Wasn't "Racist"—NO BLACKS IN SCOTLAND IN 1274!

While I understand some aspects of the BLM movement in the USA , and the protests and demonstrations that have taken place elsewhere in the world in support of the American activists—perhaps some of these countries should look inward at their own racism—sometimes it just gets a little bit silly .
A case in point .
A couple of days ago in Stirling , Scotland , vandals applied slogans to a statue there , including `` BLM '' and `` racist king '' among other things .
Graffiti vandals attack Robert the Bruce statue in Scotland branding him a 'racist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other than Robert the Bruce , King of the Scots from 1306 to 1329 .
Now I am no historian , but I do recall that the first European to round the Cape of Good Hope and thus make contact with Africans in that region was Bartolomeu Dias—in 1488 .
I can find no reference to any Africans being present in Scotland during Robert the Bruce 's reign .
( Today , Black Scots—as they call themselves—account for only 0.7 % of Scotland 's population . )
Robert spent most of his energies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black at the time , either .
Of course , maybe the vandals had the Great Crusades in mind ( usually taken to span the years 1096 to about 1270 ) , but Robert was n't born until 1274 and was n't a participant in those Middle East campaigns against the Muslims .
Hey statue defacers : Maybe read a history book first .
But Whoa !
The Stirling vandals were probably a gang of English soccer fans still angry about the outcome at Bannockburn !
The reader 's Scottish father emigrated to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's Scottish mother ) before the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 , when National Origins quotas favored people who were related to the Historic American Natioin .

From: A Scottish-American Reader [Email him]
While I understand some aspects of the BLM movement in the USA, and the protests and demonstrations that have taken place elsewhere in the world in support of the American activists—perhaps some of these countries should look inward at their own racism—sometimes it just gets a little bit silly.
A case in point. A couple of days ago in Stirling, Scotland, vandals applied slogans to a statue there, including "BLM" and "racist king" among other things.
Graffiti vandals attack Robert the Bruce statue in Scotland branding him a 'racist king'
Which king was this? None other than Robert the Bruce, King of the Scots from 1306 to 1329. Now I am no historian, but I do recall that the first European to round the Cape of Good Hope and thus make contact with Africans in that region was Bartolomeu Dias—in 1488. I can find no reference to any Africans being present in Scotland during Robert the Bruce's reign. (Today, Black Scots—as they call themselves—account for only 0.7% of Scotland's population.) Robert spent most of his energies battling the English, who weren't black at the time, either. Of course, maybe the vandals had the Great Crusades in mind (usually taken to span the years 1096 to about 1270), but Robert wasn't born until 1274 and wasn't a participant in those Middle East campaigns against the Muslims.
Hey statue defacers: Maybe read a history book first. But Whoa! The Stirling vandals were probably a gang of English soccer fans still angry about the outcome at Bannockburn!
The reader's Scottish father emigrated to the United States (like Donald Trump's Scottish mother) before the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, when National Origins quotas favored people who were related to the Historic American Nation.


vdare--2020-06-20--Immigrant Mass Murder In England: Libyan Stabs Five, 3 Dead, Two Wounded

In Britain there 's been a mass stabbing , apparently by a Libyan .
Police have arrested a man at @ @ @ @ @ Reading in which three people were killed and two are in critical care in hospital @ @ @ @ @ were seen entering a block of flats in Basingstoke Road and counter-terrorism police are at @ @ @ @ @ man , who is understood to be Libyan , was detained at the scene and @ @ @ @ @ of murder .
A source told the Telegraph there were three individuals declared dead at @ @ @ @ @ to the emergency department of Royal Berkshire Hospital , where they are receiving resuscitation .
@ @ @ @ @ `` A number of people sustained injuries and were taken to hospital .
A police @ @ @ @ @ Forbury Gardens as officers investigate .
We are asking the public to avoid the area @ @ @ @ @ Live Reading stabbings : Man arrested after three killed in Forbury Gardens attack - latest @ @ @ @ @ 20 , 202

Earlier: "What Is Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome?"
In Britain there's been a mass stabbing, apparently by a Libyan.
Police have arrested a man at the scene of stabbings in Reading in which three people were killed and two are in critical care in hospital.
Armed police carrying shields were seen entering a block of flats in Basingstoke Road and counter-terrorism police are at the scene.
A 25-year-old man, who is understood to be Libyan, was detained at the scene and has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
A source told the Telegraph there were three individuals declared dead at the scene and two transferred to the emergency department of Royal Berkshire Hospital, where they are receiving resuscitation.
Thames Valley Police said: "A number of people sustained injuries and were taken to hospital. A police cordon is in place in Forbury Gardens as officers investigate. We are asking the public to avoid the area at this time."
Live Reading stabbings: Man arrested after three killed in Forbury Gardens attack — latest news, Telegraph, June 20, 202


vdare--2020-06-20--Video: How It Came to This

Video: How It Came to This

Jared Taylor of American Renaissance has a great video called `` How It Came To This '' .
What is the source of this madness ?
How did it come to this ?
And by “ this ” I mean not just the 10 days of rioting after the death of George Floyd , but the psychological collapse of whites that followed .
Billions of dollars in riot damage can be repaired ; the psychological damage is more serious .
Consider this .
[ 0:00 – 0:30 ] This young couples agreed to lick the boots of blacks .
[ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the same .
[ [ 00:42 – 1:02 ] I don ’ t believe there has ever been a time in the history of the world when a black person could persuade a white person — just passing by — to get on her knees , right on the side walk .
There was a similar , maybe not quite so degrading ceremony in Congress .
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Charles Schumer stayed on their knees for nine minutes to honor George Floyd .
They wore African kinte cloth and bowed their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a long record .
If American senators and congresswomen have ever knelt like this to honor another American , I haven ’ t heard of it .
Not George Washington , not John Kennedy , not anybody .
Have they ever even knelt on the cold , hard floors of Congress to worship God ?
I doubt it .
When a nation is defeated , it pays tribute .
America has been defeated .
Looters pillaged Apple stores all over the country .
Apple ’ s reaction ?
It promised $ 100 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blacks looting ritzy stores in Beverly Hills and Santa Monica .
I ’ m sure that like virtually every major corporation in America they have also promised to pay tribute .
Do you think that after the race riots of the 1960s or even the LA riots of 1992 , businesses rewarded the people who sacked their stores .
No .
This is a new era .
[ 0:30 – 0:56 ] What is behind this unprecedented surrender ?
A delusion — I would even call it a kind of madness .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ States is viciously racist .
“ Here is a headline from the Guardian : “ In America , Black Deaths Are Not a Flaw in the System .
They Are the System.
” It ’ s now common on the left to think that blacks are treated so horribly that they are justified in rioting , and that anyone who opposes looting and arson is a racist .
Joyce Kenner has been the principal of Whitney Young High School in Chicago for 25 years and worked for Al Sharpton before that .
Here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a school event .
When she urged her students to demonstrate but stay away from violence and looting , “ disappointed alumni ” got up more than 800 petitions calling for her to resign .
David Shor was a data analyst for Civis Analytics .
His job was to try to help Democrats win elections .
He tweeted a reference to a paper that found that in 1968 , when there were race riots , it raised the Republican share of the vote .
He was worried that the George Floyd riots might @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Work colleagues and clients said this was anti-black and “ threatened their safety.
” Mr. Shor apologized , but “ Civis Analytics undertook a review of the episode .
A few days later , Shor was fired.
” This is new .
A certified anti-racist was fired for pointing out that looting and arson might hurt Democrats .

Jared Taylor of American Renaissance has a great video called "How It Came To This".
See it on Bitchute.
The text begins:
What is the source of this madness?
How did it come to this? And by “this” I mean not just the 10 days of rioting after the death of George Floyd, but the psychological collapse of whites that followed. Billions of dollars in riot damage can be repaired; the psychological damage is more serious. Consider this. [0:00 – 0:30] This young couples agreed to lick the boots of blacks. [0:00 – 0:18] This woman does the same. [[00:42 – 1:02] I don’t believe there has ever been a time in the history of the world when a black person could persuade a white person — just passing by — to get on her knees, right on the side walk.
There was a similar, maybe not quite so degrading ceremony in Congress. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Charles Schumer stayed on their knees for nine minutes to honor George Floyd. They wore African kinte cloth and bowed their heads. George Floyd was a criminal with a long record. If American senators and congresswomen have ever knelt like this to honor another American, I haven’t heard of it. Not George Washington, not John Kennedy, not anybody. Have they ever even knelt on the cold, hard floors of Congress to worship God? I doubt it.
When a nation is defeated, it pays tribute. America has been defeated. Looters pillaged Apple stores all over the country. Apple’s reaction? It promised $100 million for black causes. Here are blacks looting ritzy stores in Beverly Hills and Santa Monica. I’m sure that like virtually every major corporation in America they have also promised to pay tribute. Do you think that after the race riots of the 1960s or even the LA riots of 1992, businesses rewarded the people who sacked their stores. No. This is a new era. [0:30 – 0:56]
What is behind this unprecedented surrender? A delusion — I would even call it a kind of madness. It’s the belief that the United States is viciously racist. “Here is a headline from the Guardian: “In America, Black Deaths Are Not a Flaw in the System. They Are the System.” It’s now common on the left to think that blacks are treated so horribly that they are justified in rioting, and that anyone who opposes looting and arson is a racist. Joyce Kenner has been the principal of Whitney Young High School in Chicago for 25 years and worked for Al Sharpton before that. Here she is with her arm raised at a school event. When she urged her students to demonstrate but stay away from violence and looting, “disappointed alumni” got up more than 800 petitions calling for her to resign.
David Shor was a data analyst for Civis Analytics. His job was to try to help Democrats win elections. He tweeted a reference to a paper that found that in 1968, when there were race riots, it raised the Republican share of the vote. He was worried that the George Floyd riots might make people vote Republican this year. Work colleagues and clients said this was anti-black and “threatened their safety.” Mr. Shor apologized, but “Civis Analytics undertook a review of the episode. A few days later, Shor was fired.”
This is new. A certified anti-racist was fired for pointing out that looting and arson might hurt Democrats.


vdare--2020-06-20--Has Judah P. Benjamin Been Canceled or Memory-Holed?

Earlier : Judah P. Benjamin : The Gay Jewish Confederate Leader Without a Statue to Tear Down Actually , Judah P. Benjamin ( who served as U.S .
Senator from Louisiana from 1853-1861 , then served as the Confederate government ’ s ministers of war , state , and attorney-general ) was not the first ethnically Jewish U.S. senator .
His cousin David Levy Yulee served as Florida ’ s U.S .
Senator on and off from 1845-1861 .
Benjamin was not canceled , he has instead been largely memory-holed as part of Jews ’ desire to not reckon with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ played the South in the time of slavery , the Confederacy , and the Jim Crow Era .
For example , here is a monument to him in Charlotte , NC : Here is a memorial to him in Florida : Welcome to Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park This antebellum mansion was home to Major Robert Gamble and headquarters of an extensive sugar plantation .
It is the only surviving plantation house in South Florida .
It is believed that Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Confederacy until his safe passage to England could be secured .
In 1925 , the house and 16 acres were saved by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and donated to the state .
Today , the mansion is furnished in the style of a successful mid-19th century plantation .
Guided tours of the house are given six times a day , Thursday through Monday , and there are picnic tables on the grounds .
The Judah P. Benjamin memorial is a simple granite tablestone with a flat arch top standing about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the inscription .
Although the inscription says the marker was erected by the J.E.B .
Stuart Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy ( U.D.C . )
it was actually paid for and presented to the U.D.C .
by the Fayetteville B ’ nai B ’ rith Lodge .
In 1865 , Benjamin , rather than risk imprisonment , fled into exile in Britain .
There he rebuilt his prosperous career as a lawyer and wrote a famous law textbook that was used for generations .
In contrast , his kinsman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nine months in federal prison , was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson , and got back to work building railroads in underdeveloped Florida .
President Grant paid a visit to Levy Yulee ’ s estate as a gesture of national reconciliation .
Levy-Yulee is maybe the last Confederate ever to be honored with a statue in the U.S. , with a life-sized bronze piece unveiled in 2014 in Florida .

Earlier: Judah P. Benjamin: The Gay Jewish Confederate Leader Without a Statue to Tear Down
Actually, Judah P. Benjamin (who served as U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1853-1861, then served as the Confederate government’s ministers of war, state, and attorney-general) was not the first ethnically Jewish U.S. senator. His cousin David Levy Yulee served as Florida’s U.S. Senator on and off from 1845-1861.
Benjamin was not canceled, he has instead been largely memory-holed as part of Jews’ desire to not reckon with the sizable and popular role that Jews played the South in the time of slavery, the Confederacy, and the Jim Crow Era.
For example, here is a monument to him in Charlotte, NC:
Here is a memorial to him in Florida:
Welcome to Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park This antebellum mansion was home to Major Robert Gamble and headquarters of an extensive sugar plantation. It is the only surviving plantation house in South Florida. It is believed that Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin took refuge here after the fall of the Confederacy until his safe passage to England could be secured. In 1925, the house and 16 acres were saved by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and donated to the state. Today, the mansion is furnished in the style of a successful mid-19th century plantation. Guided tours of the house are given six times a day, Thursday through Monday, and there are picnic tables on the grounds.
Here’s a memorial in Fayetteville, North Carolina:
The Judah P. Benjamin memorial is a simple granite tablestone with a flat arch top standing about 3-feet tall. It is unadorned aside from the inscription. Although the inscription says the marker was erected by the J.E.B. Stuart Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (U.D.C.) it was actually paid for and presented to the U.D.C. by the Fayetteville B’nai B’rith Lodge.
Here’s the Judah P. Benjamin monument in Louisiana:
In 1865, Benjamin, rather than risk imprisonment, fled into exile in Britain. There he rebuilt his prosperous career as a lawyer and wrote a famous law textbook that was used for generations.
In contrast, his kinsman Levy-Yulee accepted punishment for treason, served nine months in federal prison, was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson, and got back to work building railroads in underdeveloped Florida.
President Grant paid a visit to Levy Yulee’s estate as a gesture of national reconciliation.
Levy-Yulee is maybe the last Confederate ever to be honored with a statue in the U.S., with a life-sized bronze piece unveiled in 2014 in Florida.
[Comment at Unz.com]