vdare--2020-08-17--Patrick J. Buchanan: The Progressive Racial Socialism of the Ivy League

Earlier : DOJ Tells Yale to Stop Discriminating Against Asians and Whites , and from 2017 : Trump/Sessions Take On ANTI-WHITE Discrimination In Colleges—That 's Different !
If the definition of racism is deliberate discrimination based on race , color or national origin , Yale University appears to be a textbook case of `` systemic racism . ''
And , so , the Department of Justice contends .
`` Yale discriminates based on race ... in its undergraduate admissions process and race is the determinative factor in hundreds of admissions decisions each year .
`` Asian Americans and whites have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of admission as African American applicants with comparable academic credentials ... `` Yale uses race at multiple steps of its admissions process resulting in a multiplied effect of race on an applicant 's likelihood of admission .
Yale defends this admissions policy by claiming it considers the `` whole person '' —leadership , a likelihood students `` will contribute to the Yale Community and the world , '' and , says Yale President Peter Salovey [ Email him ] `` a student body whose diversity is a mark of its excellence . ''
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ factors are considered , the higher-scoring Asian and white students invariably come up short , because the racial composition of Yale 's incoming classes remains roughly the same every year .
The Justice Department refused to wave its big stick—a threat to cut off tax dollars that go yearly to Yale .
Incidentally , Yale sits on an endowment of some $ 30 billion—second only to Harvard 's .
A court case alleging that Harvard emulates Yale , or vice versa , and admits Black and brown students whose test scores would instantly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the Supreme Court .
At the heart of this dispute over diversity are basic questions , the resolution of which will affect the long-term unity of the American nation .
Is discrimination against white students infavor of Black students with far lower test scores morally acceptable if done to advance racial `` diversity '' ?
And , if so , for how long ?
Forever ?
Is it praiseworthy to advance Hispanic applicants over Asian applicants with far higher test scores and academic achievements ?
Why ?
What did these Chinese , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seniors do to deserve discrimination in the country to which their parents came where , supposedly , `` All men are created equal '' ?
President Lyndon Johnson first formally introduced this notion of benevolent racial discrimination .
Addressing D.C. 's Howard University in 1965 , LBJ said in a speech written by Richard Goodwin , `` We seek ... not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result . ''
But what if equality of opportunity , an equal chance at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of results ?
What if Black Americans dominate America 's most richly rewarded sports such as the NBA and NFL , while Asians and whites excel in academic pursuits and on admissions exams at Yale and Harvard ?
Why is it right to discriminate against working-class white kids from Middle America in favor of urban and middle-class Black kids in admissions to prestige colleges ?
If so , what does social justice mean ?
Who defines it ?
In California , the state legislature has put on the ballot a measure to overturn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discrimination that was voted into California 's Constitution in Proposition 209 in 1996 .
`` The state shall not discriminate against , or grant preferential treatment to , any individual or group on the basis of race , sex , color , ethnicity , or national origin in the operation of public employment , public education , or public contracting . ''
What Californians said in 1996 was : No discrimination means no discrimination .
Civil rights activist Ward Connerly , who is fighting the repeal of Prop 209 , argues that while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , West Coast liberals are tearing down the principle of equality .
It is the character of the republic that is at issue here .
If Asian Americans , outnumbered 5 to 1 by Black and Hispanic Americans , can be indefinitely discriminated against , this would appear to be the very definition of `` un-American . ''
And if white Americans , the shrinking majority of the nation and a minority in our most populous states , can indefinitely be discriminated against in favor of people of color , they will eventually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ identity that would risk the breakup of the union , as is happening in Europe and around the world .
The taproot of progressive racism is LBJ 's Executive Order 11246 .
This altered the meaning of `` affirmative action '' from guaranteeing the equality of opportunity to bringing about an equality of `` results . ''
President Donald Trump , before or after Nov. 3 , should convene with Ward Connerly and ask him to redefine `` affirmative action '' to mean exactly what its original author , JFK , intended it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other Ivy League universities , it is an indictment of conservatives who have held executive power often in the past 50 years that they have not chopped federal funding for these bastions of progressive racism .
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of a Superpower : Will America Survive to 2025 ?
are available from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “ The Greatest Comeback : How Richard Nixon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Majority .
His latest book , published May , 2018 , is “ Nixon ’ s White House Wars : The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
” See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

Earlier: DOJ Tells Yale to Stop Discriminating Against Asians and Whites, and from 2017: Trump/Sessions Take On ANTI-WHITE Discrimination In Colleges—That's Different!
If the definition of racism is deliberate discrimination based on race, color or national origin, Yale University appears to be a textbook case of "systemic racism."
And, so, the Department of Justice contends.
Last week, Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband charged,
"Yale discriminates based on race... in its undergraduate admissions process and race is the determinative factor in hundreds of admissions decisions each year. "Asian Americans and whites have only one-tenth to one-fourth of the likelihood of admission as African American applicants with comparable academic credentials... "Yale uses race at multiple steps of its admissions process resulting in a multiplied effect of race on an applicant's likelihood of admission. "Yale racially balances its classes."[Notice Letter, PDF]
Yale defends this admissions policy by claiming it considers the "whole person"—leadership, a likelihood students "will contribute to the Yale Community and the world," and, says Yale President Peter Salovey [Email him] "a student body whose diversity is a mark of its excellence."
Yet, somehow, when all these factors are considered, the higher-scoring Asian and white students invariably come up short, because the racial composition of Yale's incoming classes remains roughly the same every year.
The Justice Department refused to wave its big stick—a threat to cut off tax dollars that go yearly to Yale. Incidentally, Yale sits on an endowment of some $30 billion—second only to Harvard's.
A court case alleging that Harvard emulates Yale, or vice versa, and admits Black and brown students whose test scores would instantly disqualify white and Asian students is headed for the Supreme Court.
At the heart of this dispute over diversity are basic questions, the resolution of which will affect the long-term unity of the American nation.
Is discrimination against white students infavor of Black students with far lower test scores morally acceptable if done to advance racial "diversity"?
And, if so, for how long? Forever?
Is it praiseworthy to advance Hispanic applicants over Asian applicants with far higher test scores and academic achievements?
Why? What did these Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Vietnamese high school seniors do to deserve discrimination in the country to which their parents came where, supposedly, "All men are created equal"?
President Lyndon Johnson first formally introduced this notion of benevolent racial discrimination. Addressing D.C.'s Howard University in 1965, LBJ said in a speech written by Richard Goodwin, "We seek... not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result."
But what if equality of opportunity, an equal chance at the starting line, fails to produce equality of results?
What if Black Americans dominate America's most richly rewarded sports such as the NBA and NFL, while Asians and whites excel in academic pursuits and on admissions exams at Yale and Harvard?
Why is it right to discriminate against working-class white kids from Middle America in favor of urban and middle-class Black kids in admissions to prestige colleges?
If so, what does social justice mean? Who defines it?
In California, the state legislature has put on the ballot a measure to overturn the ban on all racial and ethnic discrimination that was voted into California's Constitution in Proposition 209 in 1996.
That prohibition reads:
"The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting."
What Californians said in 1996 was: No discrimination means no discrimination.
Civil rights activist Ward Connerly, who is fighting the repeal of Prop 209, argues that while street mobs may be tearing down statues, West Coast liberals are tearing down the principle of equality.
It is the character of the republic that is at issue here.
If Asian Americans, outnumbered 5 to 1 by Black and Hispanic Americans, can be indefinitely discriminated against, this would appear to be the very definition of "un-American."
And if white Americans, the shrinking majority of the nation and a minority in our most populous states, can indefinitely be discriminated against in favor of people of color, they will eventually embrace the tribal politics of race and identity that would risk the breakup of the union, as is happening in Europe and around the world.
The taproot of progressive racism is LBJ's Executive Order 11246. This altered the meaning of "affirmative action" from guaranteeing the equality of opportunity to bringing about an equality of "results."
President Donald Trump, before or after Nov. 3, should convene with Ward Connerly and ask him to redefine "affirmative action" to mean exactly what its original author, JFK, intended it to mean.
As for Yale and other Ivy League universities, it is an indictment of conservatives who have held executive power often in the past 50 years that they have not chopped federal funding for these bastions of progressive racism.
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-08-17--What Tucker Carlson Can't Say, But We Must—Whites Have Two Choices: Submission Or Rebellion.

Earlier , by Peter Brimelow : Trump Should Be Tweeting About Cannon Hinnant , Because The MSM Is STILL Not Covering His Murder It 's very sad that Tucker Carlson , whom I admire and watch every night , is in a virtual straightjacket and is hobbled by what he can not say on his show .
When he talks about anti-white hate crime , he 's not allowed to say the killer was black .
When he says the Chinese love their country , despite the repression , he 's not allowed to say it 's because they are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us are in the same boat .
Whites are forbidden to speak the truth .
Whites are forced to feel hate , shame and guilt for their own actions and their own being .
Anyone who has eyes to see can readily identify the profound differences between whites and blacks .
The general population accepts many material physical differences , but somehow these differences stop at the brain .
How can that be ?
It doesn ’ t !
The `` inequities '' are not due to racism , but to nature .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ see for yourself .
There ’ s overwhelming evidence that blacks do not perform well , currently or historically , in any country where they live , whether it be a predominantly white or black society .
But there exists an overwhelming ideological tenet and a and a hope and a prayer that this can not be true .
A moral imperative that people who question this truism are morally defective .
Any attempt to even open up this discussion results in massive pathological and irrational behavior for tens of millions of people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This leads to a tortuous and violent road for those of all races and overwhelming bigotry and hatred .
Each failure over decades , attempting to bring about and indoctrinate ourselves and our children with this erroneous concept of `` equality '' has failed and each failure has brought about more hysterical measures that lead to more tyrannical and pathological `` solutions . ''
Every failure increases frustration and desperation .
This results in an even deeper belief that racism is so prevalent and insidious that it permeates every institution .
It brings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to solve this problem is via tyranny and the destruction of every cultural , political and financial institution in the west It is rarely looked upon as whites trying to do the right thing .
They must be taught to hate themselves more , for what else could be causing these failures to achieve the desired results .
All of these attempts for equality are hopeless because it is based upon a lie .
Perhaps , the final result will be a Marxist dictatorship with white enslavement and acceptance of their fate .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ rebellion .

Earlier, by Peter Brimelow: Trump Should Be Tweeting About Cannon Hinnant, Because The MSM Is STILL Not Covering His Murder
It's very sad that Tucker Carlson, whom I admire and watch every night, is in a virtual straightjacket and is hobbled by what he cannot say on his show. When he talks about anti-white hate crime, he's not allowed to say the killer was black.
Even Tucker not allowed to mention Cannon’s, killer’s race, you’re supposed to tell from pics https://t.co/yKdmWBI2bZ — Peter Brimelow (@peterbrimelow) August 14, 2020
When he says the Chinese love their country, despite the repression, he's not allowed to say it's because they are mostly all Han Chinese.
All of us are in the same boat. Whites are forbidden to speak the truth. Whites are forced to feel hate, shame and guilt for their own actions and their own being.
Anyone who has eyes to see can readily identify the profound differences between whites and blacks. The general population accepts many material physical differences, but somehow these differences stop at the brain. How can that be? It doesn’t!
The "inequities" are not due to racism, but to nature. If you have eyes, you can see for yourself. There’s overwhelming evidence that blacks do not perform well, currently or historically, in any country where they live, whether it be a predominantly white or black society. But there exists an overwhelming ideological tenet and a hope and a prayer that this cannot be true. A moral imperative that people who question this truism are morally defective.
Any attempt to even open up this discussion results in massive pathological and irrational behavior for tens of millions of people, including huge numbers of whites. This leads to a tortuous and violent road for those of all races and overwhelming bigotry and hatred. Attempting to bring about and indoctrinate ourselves and our children with this erroneous concept of "equality" has failed and each failure has brought about more hysterical measures that lead to more tyrannical and pathological "solutions." Every failure increases frustration and desperation.
This results in an even deeper belief that racism is so prevalent and insidious that it permeates every institution. It brings about the idea that the only way to solve this problem is via tyranny and the destruction of every cultural, political and financial institution in the West. It is rarely looked upon as whites trying to do the right thing. They must be taught to hate themselves more, for what else could be causing these failures to achieve the desired results. All of these attempts for equality are hopeless because it is based upon a lie. Perhaps, the final result will be a Marxist dictatorship with white enslavement and acceptance of their fate.
Whites have two choices: submission or rebellion.


vdare--2020-08-17--Tenured Psychology Professor Gets Struggle Sessioned for Retweeting Sailer Tweet

Samantha K. Harris , a campus disciplinary attorney , is representing Professor Negy in his investigation by UCF .
I ’ m an attorney representing a professor at the University of Central Florida who is being subjected by the university to what can only be called an inquisition after expressing opinions on Twitter that led to widespread calls for his firing .
UCF is a public institution—an instrument of the state—and is now bringing its full power to bear against a man who dared to question the prevailing orthodoxy that has quickly descended over so many of this country ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ witness to what the university is doing to this man without speaking out against it .
If we do not challenge this egregious abuse of power , things will only get worse .
Professor Charles Negy is a wonderfully eccentric man , someone who teaches extraordinarily controversial subjects—Cross-Cultural Psychology and Sexual Behavior—with bluntness and humor .
He is exactly the kind of professor you want in college : someone who is passionate about his subject , who will challenge your deeply-held assumptions , and who encourages free and open discussion in the classroom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ruffled feathers over the years , but throughout his 22-year career at UCF he has received consistently superior performance reviews .
For the past four years , for example , he has received an evaluation rating of “ Outstanding ” for his instruction and advising .
In June , however , things changed overnight for Negy after he posted a characteristically blunt tweet to his personal Twitter account :

From Quillette:
The Floridian Inquisition
written by Samantha Harris
Samantha K. Harris, a campus disciplinary attorney, is representing Professor Negy in his investigation by UCF.
Published on August 13, 2020
I’m an attorney representing a professor at the University of Central Florida who is being subjected by the university to what can only be called an inquisition after expressing opinions on Twitter that led to widespread calls for his firing. UCF is a public institution—an instrument of the state—and is now bringing its full power to bear against a man who dared to question the prevailing orthodoxy that has quickly descended over so many of this country’s institutions. I cannot bear witness to what the university is doing to this man without speaking out against it. If we do not challenge this egregious abuse of power, things will only get worse.
Professor Charles Negy is a wonderfully eccentric man, someone who teaches extraordinarily controversial subjects—Cross-Cultural Psychology and Sexual Behavior—with bluntness and humor. He is exactly the kind of professor you want in college: someone who is passionate about his subject, who will challenge your deeply-held assumptions, and who encourages free and open discussion in the classroom. Negy’s bluntness has occasionally ruffled feathers over the years, but throughout his 22-year career at UCF he has received consistently superior performance reviews. For the past four years, for example, he has received an evaluation rating of “Outstanding” for his instruction and advising.
In June, however, things changed overnight for Negy after he posted a characteristically blunt tweet to his personal Twitter account:


vdare--2020-08-17--Minnesota Nice, Democratic Party 2020 Style: "F*** Your Motherf***ing Peace, White Racist Motherf***

Minnesota Nice, Democratic Party 2020 Style: "F*** Your Motherf***ing Peace, White Racist Motherf***ers!”

The guy yelling and cursing at neighborhood children and neighbors of police union leader Bob Kroll is John Thompson , a Dem candidate for the MN House of Representatives .
He has been endorsed by Rep. Ilhan Omar , MN Gov .
Tim Walz , and MN AG Keith Ellison .
pic.twitter.com/A1IcVAguzX Democratic State House candidate suggests Minnesota suburb be burned down : ‘ I didn ’ t come here to be peaceful ’ The situation got intense at a Black Lives Matter protest at the head of the Minneapolis police union ’ s home John Thompson , a Democrat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ launched into a fiery diatribe during a Black Lives Matter protest outside the home of Minneapolis Police Federation President Bob Kroll on Saturday .
During the vitriolic tirade , Thompson hinted that the town of Hugo be burned down , which is where Kroll lives… .
One of the most blunt and unreserved speakers during the hours-long protest was Thompson , who won the Democratic primary for the Minnesota House of Representatives District 67A last week .
… “ Why the f*** is we so peaceful in this [ homophobic slur removed ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ F*** your motherf***ing peace , white racist motherf***ers !
” One of the neighbors was holding a Blue Lives Matter flag and Thompson told him to “ stick it up his a**.
” Thompson suggested to the crowd that the entire town should be burned down .
“ This whole god***n state burned down for $ 20 goddamn dollars , you think we give a f*** about burning Hugo down ?
” “ Blue lives don ’ t mean s*** to black people , ” Thompson said .
“ F*** Hugo , Minnesota @ @ @ @ @ @ @ known John for years His fierce advocacy and commitment to his community is exactly what ’ s needed in the state legislature right now , ” Walz said .
“ I look forward to working with him as the next State Representative for 67A .
”

The guy yelling and cursing at neighborhood children and neighbors of police union leader Bob Kroll is John Thompson, a Dem candidate for the MN House of Representatives. He has been endorsed by Rep. Ilhan Omar, MN Gov. Tim Walz, and MN AG Keith Ellison. pic.twitter.com/A1IcVAguzX
Democratic State House candidate suggests Minnesota suburb be burned down: ‘I didn’t come here to be peaceful’
The situation got intense at a Black Lives Matter protest at the head of the Minneapolis police union’s home
PAUL SACCA
AUGUST 16, 2020
John Thompson, a Democrat campaigning for State House in Minnesota, launched into a fiery diatribe during a Black Lives Matter protest outside the home of Minneapolis Police Federation President Bob Kroll on Saturday. During the vitriolic tirade, Thompson hinted that the town of Hugo be burned down, which is where Kroll lives….
One of the most blunt and unreserved speakers during the hours-long protest was Thompson, who won the Democratic primary for the Minnesota House of Representatives District 67A last week. …
“Why the f*** is we so peaceful in this [homophobic slur removed] neighborhood,” Thompson shouted. “F*** your motherf***ing peace, white racist motherf***ers!”
One of the neighbors was holding a Blue Lives Matter flag and Thompson told him to “stick it up his a**.”
Thompson suggested to the crowd that the entire town should be burned down. “This whole god***n state burned down for $20 goddamn dollars, you think we give a f*** about burning Hugo down?”
“Blue lives don’t mean s*** to black people,” Thompson said. “F*** Hugo, Minnesota!” …
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) endorsed Thompson in June.
“I’ve known John for years His fierce advocacy and commitment to his community is exactly what’s needed in the state legislature right now,” Walz said. “I look forward to working with him as the next State Representative for 67A.”


vdare--2020-08-17--Not A Parody: White Walking Man Signal Icons Are Racist

David Kaufman is an American journalist who writes for several influential publications , including the Financial Times , The New York Times , Details , New York and some of the premiere international publications , including Time International .
[ 1 ] He appears regularly on the Fox News business network .
[ 2 ] He wrote the Wallpaper* guide to Tel Aviv that was published by Phaidon Press .
[ 3 ] Kaufman ’ s mother is Jewish and of European ancestry and his father was African-American .
He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in sociology and Near Eastern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s degree in journalism from New York University .
He lives in New York City and is openly gay .
… But what about the far more subtle streams of everyday racism that course through our homes , our workplaces , and the outside world ?
These instances may be far subtler than a mascot or an offensive term , but are no less pervasive — and no less deserving of cultural reckoning .
For me , this reckoning begins with traffic signals .
A few months back , before Covid-19 kept @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made us take to the streets , I was walking with a friend , her daughter , and my twin sons .
My friend is White and I ’ m not — something I ’ d never given a second thought until we reached a crosswalk .
“ Remember , honey , ” she said to her daughter as we waited for the light to turn green , “ we need to wait for the little White man to appear before we can cross the street.
” I realize that White people like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ does , I thought , but since when did this literally include trying to cross the street ?
Part of my surprise here was a function of age .
My boys are a few months younger than her daughter and we hadn ’ t yet tackled the “ crossing the street ” component of basic toddler training .
But as a Black dad , I was struck by the language at play .
How is it possible that well into the 21st century , parents all over Manhattan — well-meaning , # BLM-marching @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ask “ little White men ” for permission to cross the street ?
And why doesn ’ t this seem to bother them ?
It certainly bothered me — so much so that I began to dig deep into my fortysomething consciousness to try and remember if I was raised asking a little White guy to let me cross the street .
Were these the words my progressive White mother used to teach her little Brown children the fundamentals of pedestrian safety ?
Turns out , I wasn ’ t raised this way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were you .
Back when most of us were kids , stop lights and traffic signals across the U.S. typically relied on words , rather than images , to let folks know when to walk or wait or stop or cross .
Go comb through photos of “ historic traffic signals ” on Google Images , and you ’ ll see archival photos of traffic signs you might remember from childhood : Boxy black consoles that lit up with words like “ walk ” or “ don ’ t walk ” in imposing @ @ @

Self-published on Medium:
From Wikipedia:
David Kaufman is an American journalist who writes for several influential publications, including the Financial Times, The New York Times, Details, New York and some of the premiere international publications, including Time International.[1] He appears regularly on the Fox News business network.[2] He wrote the Wallpaper* guide to Tel Aviv that was published by Phaidon Press.[3] Kaufman’s mother is Jewish and of European ancestry and his father was African-American. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in sociology and Near Eastern studies from Brandeis University and his Master’s degree in journalism from New York University. He lives in New York City and is openly gay.
Back to Mr. Kaufman’s essay:
… But what about the far more subtle streams of everyday racism that course through our homes, our workplaces, and the outside world? These instances may be far subtler than a mascot or an offensive term, but are no less pervasive — and no less deserving of cultural reckoning.
For me, this reckoning begins with traffic signals.
A few months back, before Covid-19 kept us in our homes and George Floyd made us take to the streets, I was walking with a friend, her daughter, and my twin sons. My friend is White and I’m not — something I’d never given a second thought until we reached a crosswalk. “Remember, honey,” she said to her daughter as we waited for the light to turn green, “we need to wait for the little White man to appear before we can cross the street.”
I realize that White people like to exert control over nearly everything everyone does, I thought, but since when did this literally include trying to cross the street?
Part of my surprise here was a function of age. My boys are a few months younger than her daughter and we hadn’t yet tackled the “crossing the street” component of basic toddler training. But as a Black dad, I was struck by the language at play. How is it possible that well into the 21st century, parents all over Manhattan — well-meaning, #BLM-marching parents — are teaching their children to ask “little White men” for permission to cross the street? And why doesn’t this seem to bother them?
It certainly bothered me — so much so that I began to dig deep into my fortysomething consciousness to try and remember if I was raised asking a little White guy to let me cross the street. Were these the words my progressive White mother used to teach her little Brown children the fundamentals of pedestrian safety? Turns out, I wasn’t raised this way — and neither, most likely, were you.
Back when most of us were kids, stop lights and traffic signals across the U.S. typically relied on words, rather than images, to let folks know when to walk or wait or stop or cross. Go comb through photos of “historic traffic signals” on Google Images, and you’ll see archival photos of traffic signs you might remember from childhood: Boxy black consoles that lit up with words like “walk” or “don’t walk” in imposing all-caps lettering.


vdare--2020-08-15--John Derbyshire: United States of Antifa Converging On People's Republic Of China?

Earlier : Charlottesville After Three Years : Dress Rehearsal For 2020 's Nation-Wide Communist Coup Last week marked the third anniversary of the ambushing of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville VA .
The organizers of that rally—a lawful , peaceful demonstration for which the organizers had obtained a permit—were attacked by the anarchist mob , who had no intention of being lawful or peaceful and no permit .
The city police , under political direction , abdicated their duty to keep order , and mayhem ensued .
VDARE.com , has run some illuminating articles by Unite the Right @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from those accounts that , in the eloquent words of that participant , August 12th 2017 was , The events of 2020 have made the accuracy of this analysis all too clear .
Quite large parts of the U.S.A. are effectively under the control of Antifa today .
I 'm not just talking about the streets of our big old cities , where Antifa rule is plain to see .
The takeover has been institutional .
The judiciary , the academy , the media and the social media , the big corporations—all are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus pandemic has made things easier for the insurrectionists , at least on the judicial front .
`` We ca n't have proper court proceedings with social distancing ! ''
squeal the DAs and prosecutors , as they pocket the big fat envelopes full of cash from George Soros .
`` Case dismissed ! ''
And then : `` Jails are breeding grounds for the virus , '' they tell us .
`` Got ta let prisoners go free ! ''
Of course , if you have the impertinence to stand and fight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ windows , you 'll be cuffed , tried , convicted , sentenced , and jailed before you can say `` due process . ''
But wait : Do n't we have a National Conservative in the White House ?
Does n't he have authority over the Justice Department , to right some of these injustices ?
Does n't he have a Secretary of Education to address the totalitarian CultMarx dominance in our universities ?
A Commerce Secretary to rein in the power of the tech monopolies ?
If the Tsar only knew !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ three years ago , my eye was caught by a segment in my December 22nd podcast of that year .
In that segment I mulled over the theories of convergence that had some currency in the early 1960s—convergence , that is , between American capitalism , as it then was , and Soviet communism , as it then was .
I said : Those ideas were n't new in the early 1960s , of course .
James Burnham had aired them twenty years before in his book The Managerial Revolution , which so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pondering these things was last week 's news items about the ChiCom crackdown on Hong Kong , particularly the arrest of newspaper publisher and democracy advocate Jimmy Lai .
[ Hong Kong Arrests Jimmy Lai , Media Mogul , Under National Security Law , by Austin Ramzy and Tiffany May , NY Times , August 10 , 2020 ] .
This was of course a deplorable business , cops taking Mr. Lai away in handcuffs and looting his offices .
Several other people were likewise arrested , including one of Jimmy Lai 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the newspaper business .
After forty hours in custody , though , Jimmy Lai was released on $ 65,000 bail .
He 's at home now , and has been giving interviews to the media [ Hong Kong media tycoon says 'the fight has to go on ' after 'symbolic ' arrest under new law , by Will Ripley and Jenni Marsh , CNN Business , August 14 , 2020 ] .
I was struck by the lightness of touch there .
In Mao Tse-tung 's China , Jimmy Lai would just have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or just shot out of hand .
There are of course some restraining circumstances to be noted .
Hong Kong is still a key hub for China 's business with the rest of the world .
To keep up appearances , the ChiComs do n't want to thoroughly mainlandize the place , to go full totalitarian on it all at once .
They want to keep up a decent facade of legality while shutting down dissent one voice at a time .
Jimmy Lai could never have published his newspaper in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way more harshly than he has been .
Also acting as a restraint on the natural brutishness of ChiCom rule has been their preoccupation with other problems : the coronavirus pandemic ; the loss of international face arising therefrom , with consequent trade issues [ China ’ s Huawei , ZTE Set To Be Shut Out of India ’ s 5G Trials , Bloomberg Business , August 13 , 2020 ] ; the severe floods that have been afflicting their country ; possibly some insecurities at the top , with Xi Jinping trying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the apparatus .
All things considered , though , today 's China is not your father 's totalitarianism .
Visiting China last year , I found the table-talk among ordinary citizens way more open and relaxed than it was in the early 1980s .
That 's where the theory of convergence came back to me .
China is heading into totalitarianism lite from one side ; perhaps we 're heading to the same destination from the other side .
The ChiComs have eased up on the pettier kinds of social control while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also while quietly setting up a panopticon of data on what citizens are saying , doing , earning , and buying .
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A few days ago there came out those video clips of Chinese Uighurs handcuffed and blindfolded , being herded into cattle wagons .
Apparently they were leaked by someone with access to the drone footage .
I watched them with a friend .
He observed that if we 'd had that kind of footage of Stalin 's slave-labor camps eighty years ago , it would have been harder for Soviet sympathizers to deny the reality of communism .
The coronavirus pandemic has also been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which relies heavily on facial recognition software .
What I hear from people working in this field is that—-amazingly , it seems to me—facial recognition can work with people wearing masks … but only in small populations .
So if you have , say , a company workforce of five thousand people , all wearing masks , the software can tell you which employee you 're looking at .
With populations bigger than a few thousand , though , a given image of one masked individual can return multiple matches .
Possibly technology @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that limit state power , pulling us back to Nineteen Eighty-Four-style `` hard '' totalitarianism .
I think a convergence to `` soft '' totalitarianism—totalitarianism Lite—is more probable , though .
It used to be a standard classroom exercise for high-school seniors to read both Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley 's Brave New World , then write an essay on which was the more probable future .
The way things are now trending , both in China and the U.S.A. , we shall end up with something of both dystopias : the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Orwell 's managerial panopticon .
We could do worse , I guess ; but I shall mourn the loss of our old liberties .
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 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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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Earlier: Charlottesville After Three Years: Dress Rehearsal For 2020's Nation-Wide Communist Coup
Last week marked the third anniversary of the ambushing of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville VA. The organizers of that rally—a lawful, peaceful demonstration for which the organizers had obtained a permit—were attacked by the anarchist mob, who had no intention of being lawful or peaceful and no permit. The city police, under political direction, abdicated their duty to keep order, and mayhem ensued.
VDARE.com, has run some illuminating articles by Unite the Right participants and organizers. It's clear from those accounts that, in the eloquent words of that participant, August 12th 2017 was,
… a dress rehearsal for the anarcho-tyrannical nation-wide insurrection now taking place: Antifa violence; official complicity; police paralysis (unless arresting anyone trying to resist); all protected by tightly controlled Narrative of Legacy Media lies … It looks like Charlottesville 2017 was the beginning of a successful Communist coup against America.
The events of 2020 have made the accuracy of this analysis all too clear. Quite large parts of the U.S.A. are effectively under the control of Antifa today. I'm not just talking about the streets of our big old cities, where Antifa rule is plain to see. The takeover has been institutional. The judiciary, the academy, the media and the social media, the big corporations—all are dancing to the Antifa tune.
The coronavirus pandemic has made things easier for the insurrectionists, at least on the judicial front. "We can't have proper court proceedings with social distancing!" squeal the DAs and prosecutors, as they pocket the big fat envelopes full of cash from George Soros. "Case dismissed!"
And then: "Jails are breeding grounds for the virus," they tell us. "Gotta let prisoners go free!"
Of course, if you have the impertinence to stand and fight when Antifa come round to break your windows, you'll be cuffed, tried, convicted, sentenced, and jailed before you can say "due process."
But wait: Don't we have a National Conservative in the White House? Doesn't he have authority over the Justice Department, to right some of these injustices? Doesn't he have a Secretary of Education to address the totalitarian CultMarx dominance in our universities? A Commerce Secretary to rein in the power of the tech monopolies?
If the Tsar only knew!
Looking back over my own commentaries of three years ago, my eye was caught by a segment in my December 22nd podcast of that year. In that segment I mulled over the theories of convergence that had some currency in the early 1960s—convergence, that is, between American capitalism, as it then was, and Soviet communism, as it then was. I said:
The rough idea was that the USSR would allow more and more private-sector activity while government power in the West would expand, leading eventually to a situation is which the two systems were indistinguishable. They'd have converged to a common political-economic mean.
Those ideas weren't new in the early 1960s, of course. James Burnham had aired them twenty years before in his book The Managerial Revolution, which so fascinated George Orwell.
What set me pondering these things was last week's news items about the ChiCom crackdown on Hong Kong, particularly the arrest of newspaper publisher and democracy advocate Jimmy Lai. [Hong Kong Arrests Jimmy Lai, Media Mogul, Under National Security Law, by Austin Ramzy and Tiffany May, NY Times, August 10, 2020].
This was of course a deplorable business, cops taking Mr. Lai away in handcuffs and looting his offices. Several other people were likewise arrested, including one of Jimmy Lai's sons, who has no connection with the newspaper business.
After forty hours in custody, though, Jimmy Lai was released on $65,000 bail. He's at home now, and has been giving interviews to the media [Hong Kong media tycoon says 'the fight has to go on' after 'symbolic' arrest under new law, by Will Ripley and Jenni Marsh, CNN Business, August 14, 2020].
I was struck by the lightness of touch there. In Mao Tse-tung's China, Jimmy Lai would just have disappeared—been given twenty-five years in a camp, or just shot out of hand.
There are of course some restraining circumstances to be noted. Hong Kong is still a key hub for China's business with the rest of the world. To keep up appearances, the ChiComs don't want to thoroughly mainlandize the place, to go full totalitarian on it all at once. They want to keep up a decent facade of legality while shutting down dissent one voice at a time.
Jimmy Lai could never have published his newspaper in the mainland, and mainland dissidents are treated way more harshly than he has been.
Also acting as a restraint on the natural brutishness of ChiCom rule has been their preoccupation with other problems: the coronavirus pandemic; the loss of international face arising therefrom, with consequent trade issues [China’s Huawei, ZTE Set To Be Shut Out of India’s 5G Trials, Bloomberg Business, August 13, 2020]; the severe floods that have been afflicting their country; possibly some insecurities at the top, with Xi Jinping trying to stay on his feet against rivals in the apparatus.
All things considered, though, today's China is not your father's totalitarianism. Visiting China last year, I found the table-talk among ordinary citizens way more open and relaxed than it was in the early 1980s.
That's where the theory of convergence came back to me. China is heading into totalitarianism lite from one side; perhaps we're heading to the same destination from the other side.
The ChiComs have eased up on the pettier kinds of social control while continuing to punish open dissent, and also while quietly setting up a panopticon of data on what citizens are saying, doing, earning, and buying.
Meanwhile we are firming up on those lesser social controls—on what may be said and done in private exchanges, for example between bird-watchers and dog-walkers—while tightening the screws on open dissent.
We're not as far along the road to a panopticon yet, but the trend is in that direction. Not much happens in public nowadays that isn't recorded by security cameras or someone's smartphone.
And there are some features of the modern world that work against hard totalitarianism. A few days ago there came out those video clips of Chinese Uighurs handcuffed and blindfolded, being herded into cattle wagons. Apparently they were leaked by someone with access to the drone footage.
I watched them with a friend. He observed that if we'd had that kind of footage of Stalin's slave-labor camps eighty years ago, it would have been harder for Soviet sympathizers to deny the reality of communism.
The coronavirus pandemic has also been a setback for the panopticon project, which relies heavily on facial recognition software.
What I hear from people working in this field is that—-amazingly, it seems to me—facial recognition can work with people wearing masks … but only in small populations. So if you have, say, a company workforce of five thousand people, all wearing masks, the software can tell you which employee you're looking at. With populations bigger than a few thousand, though, a given image of one masked individual can return multiple matches.
Possibly technology will conquer these issues and all others that limit state power, pulling us back to Nineteen Eighty-Four-style "hard" totalitarianism. I think a convergence to "soft" totalitarianism—totalitarianism Lite—is more probable, though.
It used to be a standard classroom exercise for high-school seniors to read both Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World, then write an essay on which was the more probable future.
The way things are now trending, both in China and the U.S.A., we shall end up with something of both dystopias: the nihilistic all-wants-supplied hedonism of Huxley's joined to Orwell's managerial panopticon.
We could do worse, I guess; but I shall mourn the loss of our old liberties.
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--2020-08-14--Kamala Controversies, United States Of Antifa, And Totalitarianism Lite, Etc.

20m22s Convergence to totalitarianism lite .
( New life for an old theory . )
28m52s Word of the Week @ @ @ @ @ you fishers of … what ? )
32m43s Belarus gals wo n't you come out @ @ @ @ @ the babushkas ? )
35m56s Cancel culture scrapes the barrel .
( Running out of @ @ @ @ @ ... however you feel about it .
( Woke math . )
40m55s Illinois should @ @ @ @ @ It needs rewriting . )

01m41s Kamala Harris: controversies. (The nation is convulsed.)
08m17s Kamala Harris: some grudging respect. (A skillful political athlete.)
16m29s United States of Antifa. (Charlottesville remembered.)
20m22s Convergence to totalitarianism lite. (New life for an old theory.)
28m52s Word of the Week. (I will make you fishers of … what?)
30m30s Phrase of the Week. (PC porkers?)
32m43s Belarus gals won't you come out tonight? (Where are the babushkas?)
35m56s Cancel culture scrapes the barrel. (Running out of presidents.)
37m16s "An unsophisticated dullard"? (Slandering a great man.)
38m58s 2+2=... however you feel about it. (Woke math.)
40m55s Illinois should stop teaching history. (It needs rewriting.)
42m30s Signoff. (With the blues.)
01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the summer air! What you just heard, courtesy of a Radio Derb fan, was what he describes as, quote, "a sort of languid summer blues interpretation of the Derbyshire March," end quote.
I think it's lovely — thank you, Sir! I speak here as a fan of the blues from long ago. I collected all their LPs back in the day: Leadbelly, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Lemon Jefferson, his buddy Deaf Orange Watson, … I knew 'em all.
There is actually more to that interpretation than I just played, but I'll save the rest for my signoff music. I don't want youse all falling asleep before I've got properly started.
So … Greetings, listeners, from your ataractically genial host John Derbyshire with this week's edition of Radio Derb — some key items from the week's news delivered with a Dissident Right spin. Off we go!
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02 — Kamala Harris: controversies. Headliner of the week was the decision by Joe Biden, or whoever programs the very lifelike Joe Biden hologram, to pick California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, and so as the U.S.A.'s possible next Vice President — and thence, by logic we are all familiar with by now, likely President.
Controversy erupted immediately. The most acutely controversial issues were: (1) How black is she? and (2) How do you pronounce her Christian name? The nation was convulsed.
To the first issue there, Senator Harris is one of those exotic nonwhites that white American progressives swoon over — a female Barack Obama. Her dad is a white-black mix — a quadroon, would be my guess — from Jamaica. Like Obama's dad, he didn't stick around very long. He's a retired academic, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Stanford. Senator Harris's mother, who passed away in 2009, was a Tamil-speaking Hindu from Madras, a high-level medical researcher.
So … an octoroon, half South Indian, from a family of academics. Not as black as Obama, but black enough to trade on it: black enough to tell, with a straight face, unconfirmable stories about indignities she suffered as a child back in the Jim Crow days around 1970, black enough to get into law school via affirmative action, black enough to sneer at me for my white privilege I'm sure, and plainly black enough to tick the "black-enough" box on Joe Biden's list of V.P. hopefuls.
Is it impertinent of me to wonder how black she seems to a black American descended from eight enslaved black great-grandparents? I think it probably is.
Our own correspondent Lance Welton has much more to say about Senator Harris's blackness in an article that just came up on VDARE.com. He thinks the senator is a quadroon, not an octoroon, and so blacker than I've been estimating here. If it weren't for that Indian mother Lance and I could compromise and call her a high yaller.
To the second issue, the proper pronunciation of her forename, Wikipedia gives /'kɑːmələ/. Eh, OK; but I think that to the eye of a native English-speaker, /kəm'ɑːlə/ comes more naturally, and I'll guess with strong confidence that the lady has been hearing it said that way all her life, just as I've been hearing my surname mispronounced all the years I've been in the U.S.A.
Which I am fine with. I couldn't care less whether people call me "DAH-bi-shuh" or "DER-bi-shire," so long as they call me [drum-cymbals sound]. My guess is that Senator Harris is of the same kidney. People who make a fuss about the precisely proper pronunciations of their names are high up on everyone's list of insufferable pains in the bottom. If you have an ambiguously-pronouncable name, and any social awareness at all, you know that.
I'm saying "Kamala" the Wikipedia way just because I looked it up for this podcast, that's what it said, and I'd think I was being childish if I deliberately mispronounced it.
Why did I take the trouble to look it up? Because it's become an issue. Tucker Carlson pronounced it the natural way, /kəm'ɑːlə/, on his show the other night, causing Social Justice Warriors nationwide to sputter and shriek and denounce Tucker as a hate-filled racist misogynist filled with hate hate hate.
Curious to see if I have mispronounced it that same way in the past, I scanned the Radio Derb archives. Sure enough, here I was on April 17th this year, at 3m22s into that week's podcast.
[Pips.]
[Clip: Biden has already promised to put a Gyno-American on the ticket. If he believed he was coming up short on blackety-blackness, he'd feel pressured to pick some crazy white-hating Negress like Stacey Abrams or a mulatto-exotic Obama clone like Kamala Harris.]
[Pips.]
That pronunciation, I repeat, is the one that comes naturally to the eye of a native English-speaker who has better things to do than delve into the minutiae of Tamil phonetics.
This may be especially the case for those of us who did The Aeneid in school, or who follow the affairs of Britain's Royal Family. Virgil's great epic has a character named Camilla and Prince Charles married one. Camilla, Kamala, hey.
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03 — Kamala Harris: some grudging respect. Those two nation-roiling issues aside, what's to be said about Senator Harris as a Vice-Presidential candidate and possible President?
Well, the lady promotes herself, and speaks and writes, as a left-liberal. That rules her out as a person who'd get my vote for any political office at all. Sorry, Senator.
On immigration she is simply terrible: amnesty, sanctuary cities, free healthcare for illegals, open borders, ICE is no better than the Ku Klux Klan, the whole package. She is of course an eager shill for the tech oligarchs and other cheap-labor lobbies. To make the indictment here as damning as I know how to make it: On immigration issues, Kamala Harris is even worse than the Republican Party.
That said, I find it hard to dislike Senator Harris at a personal level, and will even confess to some grudging respect. She's smart, capable, and energetic — a skilled political athlete and definitely a cut above most of the other names Joe's been pondering.
The political case against her, in fact, from a National Conservative point of view, is that, while any occupant of the White House from today's Democratic Party will be a Left authoritarian, Kamala Harris would be a more-than-averagely effective and energetic Left authoritarian.
Wait, though. If, as I just said, Harris is a skilled political athlete, why did she fall flat on her face in last years' Democratic primaries? She was running strong for a while at first; then poll numbers and donations fell off a cliff. Why?
There's not much disagreement about the answer. Back when Harris was a DA and state Attorney General she was a tad too enthusiastic about prosecuting criminals. Once that came out, the DNC suits and primary voters dropped her.
Punishing lawbreakers goes entirely against the ethos of today's Democratic Party, whose banner reads: Open Borders, Open Jails!
(Although, in the matter of jails, Democrats don't want them totally open. Jails are just the right place for white supremacists and other enemies of the people — the Charlottesville Six, for example, or the Proud Boys. They are just not the right place for drug dealers, street hoodlums, muggers, rapists, robbers, looters, and gang-bangers. Those people shouldn't be in jail. They're just trying to put food on their families.)
Kamala Harris, to judge by her record as a prosecutor, disagreed. She favored locking criminals up: real criminals, who rob and wound, not patriots who make a stand against communist street thugs financed by foreign troublemakers. If locking up criminals is really what she favored, that is not something that bothers me at all.
Now of course she is singing a different tune. She learned to sing it with remarkable speed and tunefulness. This suggests that she is not much of an ideologue.
So is she merely a ruthless cynic, saying stuff she doesn't believe just to advance herself? I don't think so. Here you get down into the weeds of what politicians think, what they're willing to say, how much they are willing to bend to the political winds.
I bet Kamala Harris does believe that the poor average social outcomes for blacks are caused by white racism, that women earn less than men for the same work, that the Second Amendment is a deplorable 18th-century relic, and so on down the social justice catechism.
These things she believes at some level because everyone she knows, and has ever known, believes them, and she doesn't have the critical, curious, open kind of mind that goes against her peer group in matters of belief. She believes them and you won't change her mind on them. However, the degree of severity to apply when punishing lawbreakers? Eh, that's trade-able.
Her beliefs are not deep, strong, driving convictions. There is nothing of the dissident or martyr about her. Saint Felicity she ain't. There is a lot of psychological territory between cold, ruthless cynicism and intense, passionate belief.
In a free and democratic society, politics must always be to some degree transactional: a matter of open argument, persuasion, negotiation, and compromise. With a true believer in charge — a Lenin or a Mao — freedom and democracy are not possible. Politics is then a matter of identifying opponents and killing them, for the greater good. Can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, you know.
We don't, thank goodness, live in a country where true believers like that can work their wills. Kamala Harris's instincts are Left-authoritarian, no doubt. The politics she has to practice, however, is transactional. She is not a Lenin, not a Mao; and as leftist politicians go, not being a Lenin, not being a Mao, is as good as you can hope for. I could never vote for Kamala Harris for any position; but there are worse critters out there in the jungle.
In the situation Senator Harris is in now, where mouthing today's social-justice platitudes might lift her to the nation's highest political office, she will mouth them with a full, and not entirely false, appearance of perfect conviction. Just watch …
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04 — United States of Antifa. Having mentioned Charlottesville back there, it is only proper to note that this week marks the third anniversary of the ambushing of the Unite the Right rally in that city.
The organizers of that rally — a lawful, peaceful demonstration for which the organizers had obtained a permit — were attacked by the anarchist mob, who had no intention of being lawful or peaceful and no permit. The city police, under political direction, abdicated their duty to keep order, and mayhem ensued.
Our website here, VDARE.com, has run some illuminating articles by Unite the Right participants and organizers. It's clear from those accounts that, in the eloquent words of that participant, August 12th 2017 was, quote:
… a dress rehearsal for the anarcho-tyrannical nation-wide insurrection now taking place: Antifa violence; official complicity; police paralysis (unless arresting anyone trying to resist); all protected by tightly controlled Narrative of Legacy Media lies … It looks like Charlottesville 2017 was the beginning of a successful Communist coup against America.
End quote.
The events of 2020 have made the accuracy of this analysis all too clear. Quite large parts of the U.S.A. are effectively under the control of Antifa today. I'm not just talking about the streets of our big old cities, where Antifa rule is plain to see. The takeover has been institutional. The judiciary, the academy, the media and the social media, the big corporations — all are dancing to the Antifa tune.
The coronavirus pandemic has made things easier for the insurrectionists, at least on the judicial front. "We can't have proper court proceedings with social distancing!" squeal the DAs and prosecutors, as they trouser the big fat envelopes full of cash from George Soros. "Case dismissed!"
And then: "Jails are breeding grounds for the virus," they tell us. "Gotta let prisoners go free!"
Of course, if you have the impertinence to stand and fight when Antifa come round to break your windows, you'll be cuffed, tried, convicted, sentenced, and jailed before you can say "due process."
But wait: Don't we have a National Conservative in the White House? Doesn't he have authority over the Justice Department, to right some of these injustices? Doesn't he have a Secretary of Education to address the totalitarian CultMarx dominance in our universities? A Commerce Secretary to rein in the power of the tech monopolies?
If the Tsar only knew!
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05 — Convergence to totalitarianism lite. Looking back over my own commentaries of three years ago, my eye was caught by a segment in my December 22nd podcast of that year. In that segment I mulled over the theories of convergence that had some currency in the early 1960s — convergence, that is, between American capitalism, as then was, and Soviet communism, as then was.
Sample quote:
The rough idea was that the USSR would allow more and more private-sector activity while government power in the West would expand, leading eventually to a situation is which the two systems were indistinguishable. They'd have converged to a common political-economic mean.
End quote.
Those ideas weren't new in the early 1960s, of course. James Burnham had aired them twenty years before in his book The Managerial Revolution, which so fascinated George Orwell.
What set me pondering these things was this week's news items about the ChiCom crackdown on Hong Kong, particularly the arrest of newspaper publisher and democracy advocate Jimmy Lai on Monday.
This was of course a deplorable business, cops taking Mr Lai away in handcuffs and looting his offices. Several other people were likewise arrested, including one of Jimmy Lai's sons, who has no connection with the newspaper business.
After forty hours in custody, though, Jimmy Lai was released on $65,000 bail. He's at home now, and has been giving interviews to the media.
I was struck by the lightness of touch there. In Mao Tse-tung's China Jimmy Lai would just have disappeared — been given twenty-five years in a camp, or just shot out of hand.
There are of course some restraining circumstances to be noted. Hong Kong is still a key hub for China's business with the rest of the world. To keep up appearances, the ChiComs don't want to thoroughly mainlandize the place, to go full totalitarian on it all at once. They want to keep up a decent facade of legality while shutting down dissent one voice at a time. Jimmy Lai could never have published his newspaper in the mainland, and mainland dissidents are treated way more harshly than he has been.
Also acting as a restraint on the natural brutishness of ChiCom rule has been their preoccupation with other problems: the coronavirus pandemic; the loss of international face arising therefrom, with consequent trade issues; the severe floods that have been afflicting their country; possibly some insecurities at the top, with Xi Jinping trying to stay on his feet against rivals in the apparatus.
All things considered, though, today's China is not your father's totalitarianism. Visiting China last year, I found the table-talk among ordinary citizens way more open and relaxed than it was in the early 1980s.
That's where the theory of convergence came back to me. China is heading into totalitarianism lite from one side; perhaps we're heading to the same destination from the other side.
The ChiComs have eased up on the pettier kinds of social control while continuing to punish open dissent, and also while quietly setting up a panopticon of data on what citizens are saying, doing, earning, and buying.
Meanwhile we are firming up on those lesser social controls — on what may be said and done in private exchanges, for example between bird-watchers and dog-walkers — while tightening the screws on open dissent. We're not as far along the road to a panopticon yet, but the trend is in that direction. Not much happens in public nowadays that isn't recorded by security cameras or someone's smartphone.
And there are some features of the modern world that work against hard totalitarianism. A few days ago there came out those video clips of Chinese Uighurs handcuffed and blindfolded, being herded into cattle wagons. Apparently they were leaked by someone with access to the drone footage. I watched them with a friend. He observed that if we'd had that kind of footage of Stalin's slave-labor camps eighty years ago, it would have been harder for Soviet sympathizers to deny the reality of communism.
The coronavirus pandemic has also been a setback for the panopticon project, which relies heavily on facial recognition software. What I hear from people working in this field is that — amazingly, it seems to me — facial recognition can work with people wearing masks … but only in small populations. So if you have, say, a company workforce of five thousand people, all wearing masks, the software can tell you which employee you're looking at. With populations bigger than a few thousand, though, a given image of one masked individual can return multiple matches.
Possibly technology will conquer these issues and all others that limit state power, pulling us back to Nineteen Eighty-Four-style "hard" totalitarianism. I think a convergence to "soft" totalitarianism — totalitarianism lite — is more probable, though.
It used to be a standard classroom exercise for high-school seniors to read both Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World, then write an essay on which was the more probable future.
The way things are now trending, both in China and the U.S.A., we shall end up with something of both dystopias: the nihilistic all-wants-supplied hedonism of Huxley's joined to Orwell's managerial panopticon. We could do worse, I guess; but I shall mourn the loss of our old liberties.
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06 — Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: My Word of the Week: "wokefishing." This one I really like.
Here's what it means, according to British journalist Guy Birchall at RT.com, July 29th, quote:
Wokefishing is the act of pretending to have ultra right-on opinions in an effort to get social justice warriors into bed.
End quote.
There is apparently a serious demographic imbalance haunting the dating scene. Far more young women than young men are woke. The solution, for a lot of enterprising young men, is to pretend to be woke in order to lure social justice warriorettes into a sexual relationship. That's "wokefishing."
I enquired of a single twentysomething male I know whether he'd heard this term, "wokefishing." He hadn't, so I explained it. He: "Why would anyone want to have a chick like that around?"
He has a point, one illustrated by my next item.
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Item: If "wokefishing" is my Word of the Week, here is my quite-closely-related Phrase of the Week: "Mad Sow Disease."
This phrase was coined, so far as I know, by Chris Roberts over at American Renaissance. Chris, last Sunday, was chewing over a topic I have taken a bite at myself once or twice: What's the matter with white women?
Chris didn't actually chew much; he just posted thirty or so pictures of women demonstrating on behalf of Black Lives Matter. Then he posted a link to that on Twitter under the heading "Mad Sow Disease." Then, in a later tweet that same day, Chris observed that, tweet:
This appears to now be the most commented on post in the history of AmRen.
End tweet.
I'm not surprised. There's nothing like a clever turn of phrase to get people's attention.
I must say, though, with all proper respect to Chris, who is doing God's work over there at AmRen, I must say that the women in those thirty-odd pictures at the AmRen post are, for the most part, not unattractive. Their figures are trim and their features, so far as you can tell with all the masks, pleasant and regular.
It's true that the more porcine demographic has certainly been on display at recent protests. On Chris's evidence, though — and again, absolutely no offense, bro — there are also many, many worthy opportunities for wokefishing.
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Item: Continuing this rather regrettable theme for just one more item, allow me to comment on the recent ructions in Belarus.
Belarus, yes. Do you know anything about Belarus, listener? Me neither. Seeking enlightenment, I brought up the BBC News website headlined Belarus: Five things you may not know about the country.
"Belarus was the hardest hit country proportionately during World War Two." That I kind of did know. When Hitler's army has marched across your territory, then been chased out by Stalin's, there won't be many daisies left un-trampled.
"The president is Europe's longest serving ruler." That's Lukashenko, who just won an election on an obviously rigged vote. The DNC has people over there hoping to pick up tips.
"Lee Harvey Oswald lived in Minsk." Yeah, I remember that now. I read the KGB transcripts from the bugs in his apartment. His wife complained a lot about his farting.
"About 70 percent of the radioactive fallout from Chernobyl landed in Belarus." The Wehrmacht, the Red Army, Chernobyl … Note to self: Stay well out of Belarus.
"Victoria Azarenka is the country's most successful tennis player." Why is that worth knowing? Doesn't every country — Laos, Chad, Albania — have a most successful tennis player? Scraping the barrel there, guys.
OK; thanks to the Beeb, we are now all wiser.
To the main point, though: I've been watching video clips of the women's protests in Belarus. Far as I can see, there are no sows at all. The women are all slender and healthy-looking, most of them pretty.
What happened to the classic Slavic babushka, the one with the rectangular figure and the hairy wart on her nose?
Perhaps I'll take a trip to Belarus after all.
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Item: Talk about scraping the barrel: The passion of Social Justice Warriors for denouncing historical figures has been running so strong in recent months, there is no-one of any significance left to denounce.
That, at any rate, is my reading of the controversy that's been raging up in Buffalo, New York. The University up there has decided to expunge from its facilities the name of … Millard Filmore.
Ol' Millard is generally agreed to be the least significant of all American Presidents. Only the most ardent of history buffs can tell you anything at all about him. The Buffalo Gals are going to take him down none the less.
Surely that exhausts the U.S. Presidents as targets for the woke mob. Now they'll have to start in on Vice Presidents. Elbridge Gerry, Hannibal Hamlin, Garret Hobart, watch out!
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Item: All great men have to endure the mockery of lesser mortals, and Radio Derb's dear friend President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov of Turkmenistan is no exception.
A very egregious example of such mockery was posted at UnHerd.com on August 13th. The article was by Daniel Kalder, author of the recnt book Dictator Literature: A History of Despots Through Their Writing.
The article's title, which I blush to say out loud: Is this the worlds worst dictator? Subtitle: "Turkmen citizens are condemned to live in a repressive police state run by an unsophisticated dullard."
Yes, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's enemies are legion, and they will stop at nothing to belittle and insult him.
Down with these vile slanderers! We know where you live, Daniel Kalder.
[Clip: Turkmen national anthem.]
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Item: A couple of items from the world of EdBiz — which, as readers of my narrative-sundering bestseller We Are Doomed will recall, is, quote from self, "a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist logrolling."
First item: Laurie Rubel, who is Professor of Math Education at Brooklyn College, tweeted on August 3rd that, tweet:
The idea that math is culturally neutral or in any way objective is a MYTH.
End tweet.
Professor Rubel went on to tell us that saying math is neutral because two plus two equals four, quote, "reeks of white supremacist patriarchy," end quote.
I tried to follow the ensuing Twitter debate, but the sheer silliness of it soon repelled me. I kept thinking of the late Martin Gardner's famous question: When two dinosaurs wandered to the water hole back in the Jurassic Period and met another pair of dinosaurs happily sloshing, were there then four dinosaurs at the water hole?
What, in Professor Rubel's opinion, is the correct answer? Or is the notion of "correct answer" just another hateful legacy of the white supremacist patriarchy?
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Item: Second EdBiz item. An Illinois State Representative, name of LaShawn K. Ford, issued a news release on August 2nd with the compelling title: "Rep. Ford Today in Evanston to Call for the Abolishment of History Classes in Illinois Schools."
That's the title of the news release. It's actually somewhat misleading, although presumably Rep. Ford approved it. He doesn't want a permanent end to the teaching of history in Illinois schools, only a suspension of all teaching until a more woke curriculum can be authorized and implemented.
Perhaps — who knows? — a curriculum that introduces students to the word "abolition."
Current history teachings, said the legislator at a news conference, lead to a racist society and overlook the contributions of women and minorities.
I guess I'm OK with Rep. Ford's suggested reforms, just so long as they don't drop Millard Filmore altogether.
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07 — Signoff. That's it, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for listening, and thanks once again to the follower who turned Haydn's Derbyshire March No. 2 into a blues lullaby. Here's the rest of it.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-08-14--Kamala Harris's Birth Certificate? (Identifies Mom As "Caucasian," Dad As "Jamaican")

This is said to be Kamala Harris ’ s birth certificate .
I can ’ t say that it ’ s authentic , but it looks plausible .
From Tariq Nasheed ’ s twitter account : For “ Color or Race of Mother , ” Kamala ’ s South Asian mother put “ Caucasian , ” which was a standard term in the 1960s ( see the LAPD cop show Adam-12 for where most people in L.A. were described by the radio dispatcher as Caucasian ) .
In the 1970s , South Asians got jealous of “ Oriental ” businessmen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ privileges while they were stuck with worthless Caucasian Privilege , so they had themselves regrouped with Orientals as “ Asians ” for the 1980 Census .
Her father , the economist , put himself down for Color or Race of Father as “ Jamaican.
” Back home he ’ s a middle-class mulatto , a status that isn ’ t really recognized in the U.S. outside of Louisiana .
The Spanish ruled Jamaica from 1494 to 1655 , when the English conquered it , so Jamaica still uses the Latin color continuum rather @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So describing himself as “ Jamaican ” is a reasonable way for Dr. Harris to fill in a small space with a simple answer that Americans would grasp .
As I said , no proof that this is real , but it seems pretty likely .
Move over , Orange .
TamJam is the new Black .
Indian-Americans self-identifying as “ Caucasian ” has a rich history starting with “ United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind ” ( 1923 ) , when Thind , a founding member of Ghadar party , argued “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arguing that he was a member of the Caucasian race .
Thind argued using “ a number of anthropological texts ” that people in Punjab and other Northwestern Indian states belonged to the “ Aryan race ” , and Thind cited scientific authorities such as Johann Friedrich Blumenbach as classifying Aryans as belonging to the Caucasian race .
Thind argued that , although some racial mixing did indeed occur between the Indian castes , the caste system had largely succeeded in India at preventing race-mixing .
Thind argued that by being a “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he was a “ Caucasian ” according to the anthropological definitions of his day.
” “ As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court decision finding that no person of Indian origin could become a naturalized American , the first person from the Indian subcontinent to become an American citizen , A. K. Mozumdar , had his citizenship revoked.
” Indians had to wait until Luce–Celler Act ( 1946 ) which “ reversed the Thind decision by explicitly extending racial eligibility for naturalization to natives of India , and set a token quota @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” And Shyamala could legally self-identify as “ Caucasian ” .
Now that “ Asians ” are becoming elite , at least from a university admission officer ’ s perspective , it might be worthwhile to reclaim “ Caucasian ” status and rehash Thind ’ s argument .
Unless of course you are half Jam .
On Jamaica Global Online , Donald Harris wrote eloquently about his mulatto heritage – “ My roots go back , within my lifetime , to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy ( née Christiana Brown , descendant of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown ’ s Town ) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris ( née Iris Finegan , farmer and educator , from Aenon Town and Inverness , ancestry unknown to me ) .
” And then dissociated himself from his daughter ’ s Marijuana smoking joke – “ Half my family ’ s from Jamaica .
Are you kidding me ?
” – by commenting on the same Jamaican portal – “ My dear departed grandmothers ( whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as my deceased parents , must be turning in their grave right now to see their family ’ s name , reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected , in any way , jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics .
Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family , we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.
” This second page , however , is now 404 and can only be retrieved from Google cache .
That also is @ @

Earlier: Kamala Harris—A Barely-Black ”Immigrant American”?
This is said to be Kamala Harris’s birth certificate. I can’t say that it’s authentic, but it looks plausible. From Tariq Nasheed’s twitter account:
For “Color or Race of Mother,” Kamala’s South Asian mother put “Caucasian,” which was a standard term in the 1960s (see the LAPD cop show Adam-12 for where most people in L.A. were described by the radio dispatcher as Caucasian). In the 1970s, South Asians got jealous of “Oriental” businessmen getting low interest loans and government contracting privileges while they were stuck with worthless Caucasian Privilege, so they had themselves regrouped with Orientals as “Asians” for the 1980 Census.
Her father, the economist, put himself down for Color or Race of Father as “Jamaican.”
Back home he’s a middle-class mulatto, a status that isn’t really recognized in the U.S. outside of Louisiana.
The Spanish ruled Jamaica from 1494 to 1655, when the English conquered it, so Jamaica still uses the Latin color continuum rather than the North American color line.
So describing himself as “Jamaican” is a reasonable way for Dr. Harris to fill in a small space with a simple answer that Americans would grasp.
As I said, no proof that this is real, but it seems pretty likely.
iSteve commenter TamJam writes:
Move over, Orange. TamJam is the new Black. Both self-identifications are curious. First the TamBram half. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_Thind Indian-Americans self-identifying as “Caucasian” has a rich history starting with “United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind” (1923), when Thind, a founding member of Ghadar party, argued “that he was a white person by arguing that he was a member of the Caucasian race. Thind argued using “a number of anthropological texts” that people in Punjab and other Northwestern Indian states belonged to the “Aryan race”, and Thind cited scientific authorities such as Johann Friedrich Blumenbach as classifying Aryans as belonging to the Caucasian race. Thind argued that, although some racial mixing did indeed occur between the Indian castes, the caste system had largely succeeded in India at preventing race-mixing. Thind argued that by being a “high-caste, of full Indian blood” he was a “Caucasian” according to the anthropological definitions of his day.” He lost. “As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court decision finding that no person of Indian origin could become a naturalized American, the first person from the Indian subcontinent to become an American citizen, A. K. Mozumdar, had his citizenship revoked.” Indians had to wait until Luce–Celler Act (1946) which “reversed the Thind decision by explicitly extending racial eligibility for naturalization to natives of India, and set a token quota for their immigration at 100 per year.” And Shyamala could legally self-identify as “Caucasian”. Now that “Asians” are becoming elite, at least from a university admission officer’s perspective, it might be worthwhile to reclaim “Caucasian” status and rehash Thind’s argument. Unless of course you are half Jam. On Jamaica Global Online, Donald Harris wrote eloquently about his mulatto heritage – “My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (née Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me).” https://tinyurl.com/y5oorugz And then dissociated himself from his daughter’s Marijuana smoking joke – “Half my family’s from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?” – by commenting on the same Jamaican portal – “My dear departed grandmothers (whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents , must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.” https://tinyurl.com/y6qamh2t This second page, however, is now 404 and can only be retrieved from Google cache. That also is curious.
[Comment at Unz.com]