vdare--2020-08-21--Disney's Upcoming "Right Stuff" Remake—Where's The Diversity Going To Come From?

How are Disney and National Geographic going to get their Minimum Daily Requirements of diversity !
out of a remake of Tom Wolfe ’ s The Right Stuff , the ultimate White Guys Doing White Guy Stuff story ?
By the way , this is a good example of a regression-toward-the-mean reason why remakes are generally worse than originals .
I haven ’ t watched Philip Kaufman 1983 adaptation in decades so I don ’ t know how it holds up ( I suspect all the zoom-zoom MTV quick cuts to show how they ’ re flying really , really @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was a heckuva movie at the time .
I paid to see it in theaters three times , which is probably as many time as I ’ ve ever left the house to see a movie .
So , the odds are that this new version won ’ t be as good as the old one .
In contrast , Brian de Palma ’ s 1990 version of Wolfe ’ s Bonfire of the Vanities was a notorious disaster .
One problem , among many , is the book is too overstuffed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a theatrical film ’ s length .
( The Right Stuff is too , but they let it go 3 hours and 13 minutes , which contributed to it earning only $ 21 million at the domestic box office — but it won 4 Oscars and probably did well on video .
And the new version appears to cut out Chuck Yeager and just go with the Mercury astronauts ) .
So , even if a miniseries length TV version of Bonfire of the Vanities turns out to be not all that special @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % chance of being better than the Tom Hanks – Bruce Willis version .
So , which Tom Wolfe book do they remake ?
The one that needs to be remade or the one that doesn ’ t ?
Well , of course , they remake the good movie , not the bad movie .
And then they will act surprised when it ’ s not quite as good as the original adaptation .

What does it take to be first? The Right Stuff, an all-new scripted Original Series from @NatGeo, is coming Oct. 9 exclusively to #DisneyPlus. #TheRightStuffSeries pic.twitter.com/5eIEdj7tny — Disney+ (@DisneyPlus) August 20, 2020
How are Disney and National Geographic going to get their Minimum Daily Requirements of diversity! out of a remake of Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff, the ultimate White Guys Doing White Guy Stuff story?
By the way, this is a good example of a regression-toward-the-mean reason why remakes are generally worse than originals. I haven’t watched Philip Kaufman 1983 adaptation in decades so I don’t know how it holds up (I suspect all the zoom-zoom MTV quick cuts to show how they’re flying really, really FAST don’t), but it was a heckuva movie at the time. I paid to see it in theaters three times, which is probably as many times as I’ve ever left the house to see a movie. So, the odds are that this new version won’t be as good as the old one.
In contrast, Brian de Palma’s 1990 version of Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities was a notorious disaster. One problem, among many, is the book is too overstuffed with characters and plot to fit within a theatrical film’s length. (The Right Stuff is too, but they let it go 3 hours and 13 minutes, which contributed to it earning only $21 million at the domestic box office — but it won 4 Oscars and probably did well on video. And the new version appears to cut out Chuck Yeager and just go with the Mercury astronauts.) So, even if a miniseries-length TV version of Bonfire of the Vanities turns out to be not all that special, it still would have a 95% chance of being better than the Tom Hanks–Bruce Willis version.
So, which Tom Wolfe book do they remake? The one that needs to be remade or the one that doesn’t?
Well, of course, they remake the good movie, not the bad movie. And then they will act surprised when it’s not quite as good as the original adaptation.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-21--John Derbyshire: GOP Has The National Anthem. Democrats Have The National Lie.

[ Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb , now available exclusively through VDARE.com ] There was n't actually as much WhoWeAre-ism at this week 's Democratic National Convention as I anticipated .
Incredibly , Barack Obama got through a whole 19-minute speech without a single Who We Are .
His lady Michelle made up for it with three Who We Ares in her speech , while the nominee himself , Joe Biden , emitted just one .
A Hollywood bimbo named Kerry Washington ( who is black ) matched Michelle 's three .
Hakeem Jeffries , a black congressman from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with just two Who We Ares [ Transcript : Rep. Hakeem Jeffries , Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Rep. Karen Bass , Washington Post , August 20 2020 ] .
Pete Buttigieg could only manage one [ Transcript : Pete Buttigieg 's DNC remarks , CNN , August 20 , 2020 ] But by way of compensation for a falling-off in Who We Ares , we got a glimpse of the new-rising cliché among progressive Leftists : `` The Work . ''
• Kerry Washington again : `` The Work must continue . ''
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] has shown no interest in putting in The Work . ''
• Congressman Jeffries told us we must `` put in The Work to end our long national nightmare . ''
• Joe Biden : `` it will be The Work of the next president to restore the promise of America to everyone .
• Kamala Harris `` We 've got ta do The Work to fulfill that promise of equal justice under law . ''
And so on .
They make it all sound very strenuous , do n't they ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ I do n't have much taste for the gassy , whiny style of political rhetoric that today 's Democrats go in for .
And there were sins here of both Commission and Omission .
• None The Sins of Commission were lies .
Battered , rusty old lies that have been exposed so often , anyone who pays much attention must know they are lies by now .
Yet speakers here brought them out as if they were shiny and new , to make us gasp and shriek .
Their great favorite is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mrs. Obama dragged this one out too : Hoo-kay .
One more time , with weary resignation : Next up behind the Fine People lie was the Children in Cages lie , another old favorite .
( Briefly , Obama put kids ( unaccompanied teenagers during a border surge in 2014 ) in cages , which the Associated Press , in its most recent of many fact-checks called `` chain-link enclosures inside border facilities where migrants were temporarily housed , separated by sex and age '' i.e , to prevent rape and child @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And then , the events of this past few months have given them yet another lie to pad out their speeches with and excite the indignation of the faithful : the Peaceful Protest lie .
Yeah , peaceful protestors .
We saw those peaceful protestors on the YouTube clips , Michelle : smashing , burning , looting , assaulting .
How stupid do you think we are ?
Which brings us to the The little pork pies were bad enough ; but where was any mention of the utter breakdown of public order @ @ @ @ @ @ @ totally dominated by the party whose convention we were watching ?
That omission is itself rooted in a lie—the biggest lie of all , what I think of privately as our National Lie .
Yes : Just as we have a National Flag , a National Anthem , a National Capital , and a National Father , we have a National Lie—a great big brazen whopper that no-one who wants a career in the public realm dares deny .
Certainly , no-one of any public influence does deny it : no politician , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , not even Tucker Carlson .
The lie is that different outcomes by race are caused by something other than biology .
What , exactly , is the “ something other ” ?
That depends who you ask .
The viewpoint represented at this week 's Democratic Party convention is that the something-else causing chronic academic failure and antisocial behavior among American blacks is racism—malice , conscious or unconscious , on the part of whites .
An alternative view—call it the Tucker Carlson view—is that yes , there may be some malicious white @ @ @ @ @ @ @ account for the chronic , intractable , unfixable quality of black dysfunction—not to mention the superiority of East Asians over whites in educational attainment and law-abiding sociality .
So what accounts for these things ?
Culture !
Some people do n't behave right , because … culture .
They need to get their thinking straight .
I do n't myself see much difference between these two alternative supports for the National Lie .
In the imaginations of those who take these positions , both “ white racism ” and “ culture ” belong @ @ @ @ @ @ @ magic .
They are invisible vapors seeping up out of the soil , fogging our vision and muddling our brains .
They are the phlogiston , the luminiferous æther , of modern social science .
Get their thinking straight ?
Thinking happens in the brain , which is an organ , a biological object , with an ontogeny and a phylogeny .
I 'm an old-line British empiricist .
Race is real , and it makes a difference .
Not always at the individual level : plenty of black Americans are smarter and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ population of millions is under discussion , though , the law of averages kicks in , and you get…Well , we all know what you get .
As an old friend of mine is wont to say when the social dysfunction of black Americans comes up : `` It 's a different critter . ''
Another old friend , a retired academic , in an email exchange with me the other day , said the following thing , which I think is wise and true : Wise words , but of course flagrantly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And that great big National Lie breeds lesser lies .
Most in evidence at this convention was the lesser lie that whites are dangerous to blacks .
Mrs. Obama again : Well , yes .
It meets with derision for perfectly good reasons , again to do with the law of averages .
Whatever happened to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor , the statistics show that by far the greatest danger to the lives of American blacks comes from other American blacks ; AND that blacks are ten , twenty , thirty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ versa , depending on the style of interpersonal violence we 're talking about .
We 've presented those statistics many , many times over here at VDARE.com ; other investigators have reported them elsewhere—Heather Mac Donald for example at City Journal ; and Jared Taylor has a concise and characteristically eloquent presentation of them on his current BitChute video ( YouTube having suppressed him just as it has suppressed VDARE TV ) link here .
Yet facts , statistics , and empirical inquiry ca n't leave a bruise on the National Lie , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us from this week 's Democratic National Convention .
For them , our National Lie is too precious to discard—more precious to them than the National Flag or the National Anthem , for sure .
The more the National Lie is challenged ( to the degree anyone dares challenge it ) , the tighter our elites clutch it .
Hence the Church of Antiracism .
Being essentially a metaphysical doctrine indifferent to empirical verification , Antiracism has naturally assumed some of the aspects of a religion .
That is to say , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to believers that religions do .
To say that Antiracism is a religion , or at any rate an ersatz religion , is by now a cliché .
Certainly you 've heard it from me before ; and as before , if you want to read a good brief argument for Antiracism 's religious nature , I recommend John McWhorter 's article at the Daily Beast , posted July 2015 , updated April 2017 : `` Antiracism , Our Flawed New Religion . ''
This religious aspect came to mind when I saw @ @ @ @ @ @ @ co-founder and CEO of Twitter , donating ten million dollars to something called the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University .
Hey , I thought , that 's just like some grandee aristocrat in medieval Europe donating a cartload of silver coin , or a patch of good farming land , to a monastery .
Dorsey is worth billions , so ten million dollars is just dinner and a movie to him .
The donation is pretty impressive none the less .
What is this Center for Antiracist Research ?
What kind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Now my imagination is drifting towards Academy of Lagado in Book Three of Gulliver 's Travels , where scholars occupied themselves with such projects as extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers .
That is unkind of me , though—probably racist , in fact .
Let 's take a closer look .
The Center seems to be the brainchild of professional black guy Ibram X. Kendi , author of the Number Two antiracist bestseller How to Be an Antiracist .
Number One is of course professional white ethnomasochist Robin DiAngelo 's White Fragility .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outsold the Bible , but they are headed that way .
No , I have n't read Mr. Kendi 's book , and do n't plan to .
Three hundred and twenty pages of magical-thinking woo would be several hours out of my life , and I do n't have all that many hours left .
I did read Coleman Hughes ' withering review of the book in City Journal [ How to Be an Anti-Intellectual A lauded book about antiracism is wrong on its facts and in its assumptions , October 27 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ writing : Given that Jack Dorsey acquired his billions by sheer capitalist enterprise , you have to wonder whether he 's read Kendi 's book .
But I guess if you can hate your own race as much as these white ethnomasochists do , hating your own path to a colossal fortune comes easily .
Kendi also wants an anti-racist amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the establishment of a federal Department of Anti-racism empowered with As Coleman Hughes says : `` Kendi 's goals are openly totalitarian . ''
Some unkind spirits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ predicted that Dorsey 's ten million dollars will go the way money generally goes when it falls into the hands of black grifters : on bling , dope , fancy hookers , rowdy parties where someone gets shot , and bribes to public officials .
I hope they 're right .
At least that way , the money will do no serious social harm .
Bringing up the website of the Center for Antiracist Research , I saw that one of their projects is a National Antiracist Book Festival .
Apparently Ibram Kendi @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ones cashing in on the Antiracism cult .
There are enough antiracist books on the market for an entire festival : That mention of “ leading book editors and literary agents , ” if not bogus , suggests that the market for antiracist literature is still not saturated .
There is still gold in them thar hills !
It looks , in fact , as though Antiracism is not one of those sackcloth and ashes kinds of religion , with a strict rule of poverty and obedience .
It more closely resembles Al @ @ @ @ @ @ @ right up to the point where Rev 'm Al whispers to his helpers that `` this is where we eece-flay the ongregation-cay . ''
If this is your kind of thing , though , listeners , by all means go to the website of the Center for Antiracist Research and get a ticket for the National Antiracist Book Festival , to be held in Washington DC next April 24th .
An all-access ticket , with which you can attend all those vibrant discussions and workshops , costs only $ 250 , and you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ copy of Mr. Kendi 's book !
Hard to resist , eh ?
Go for it , true believers !
You may come home financially poorer , but you will be spiritually richer .
And—who knows ?
—perhaps Jack Dorsey will show up to add some billionaire glamor to the event .
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
There wasn't actually as much WhoWeAre-ism at this week's Democratic National Convention as I anticipated. Incredibly, Barack Obama got through a whole 19-minute speech without a single Who We Are. His lady Michelle made up for it with three Who We Ares in her speech, while the nominee himself, Joe Biden, emitted just one. A Hollywood bimbo named Kerry Washington (who is black) matched Michelle's three. Hakeem Jeffries, a black congressman from New York City, did his best with just two Who We Ares [Transcript: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Rep. Karen Bass, Washington Post, August 20 2020]. Pete Buttigieg could only manage one [Transcript: Pete Buttigieg's DNC remarks, CNN, August 20, 2020]
But by way of compensation for a falling-off in Who We Ares, we got a glimpse of the new-rising cliché among progressive Leftists: "The Work."
Kerry Washington again: "The Work must continue."
Barack Obama: "[Trump] has shown no interest in putting in The Work."
Congressman Jeffries told us we must "put in The Work to end our long national nightmare."
Joe Biden: "it will be The Work of the next president to restore the promise of America to everyone."
Kamala Harris "We've gotta do The Work to fulfill that promise of equal justice under law."
And so on. They make it all sound very strenuous, don't they?
Or maybe it's just me. I don't have much taste for the gassy, whiny style of political rhetoric that today's Democrats go in for. And there were sins here of both Commission and Omission.
The Sins of Commission were lies.
Battered, rusty old lies that have been exposed so often, anyone who pays much attention must know they are lies by now. Yet speakers here brought them out as if they were shiny and new, to make us gasp and shriek.
Their great favorite is of course the Fine People lie.
Clip of Joe Biden speaking: Just a week ago yesterday was the third anniversary of the events in Charlottesville … Remember the violent clash that ensued between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it? Remember what the president said? There were, quote, "very fine people on both sides."
Mrs. Obama dragged this one out too:
Clip of Michelle speaking: Kids in this country … see our leaders labeling fellow citizens enemies of the state while emboldening torch-bearing white supremacists.
Hoo-kay. One more time, with weary resignation:
Clip of Trump speaking: You had people—and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally—but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly …
Next up behind the Fine People lie was the Children in Cages lie, another old favorite. (Briefly, Obama put kids [unaccompanied teenagers during a border surge in 2014] in cages, which the Associated Press, in its most recent of many fact-checks called "chain-link enclosures inside border facilities where migrants were temporarily housed, separated by sex and age," i.e, to prevent rape and child molestation by older male teens.)
And then, the events of this past few months have given them yet another lie to pad out their speeches with and excite the indignation of the faithful: the Peaceful Protest lie.
Mrs. Obama packed both lies into a single sentence:
Clip of Michelle speaking: They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages, and pepper spray and rubber bullets are used on peaceful protestors for a photo-op.
Yeah, peaceful protestors. We saw those peaceful protestors on the YouTube clips, Michelle: smashing, burning, looting, assaulting. How stupid do you think we are?
Which brings us to the
Sin of Omission.
The little pork pies were bad enough; but where was any mention of the utter breakdown of public order in big cities—big cities whose politics is totally dominated by the party whose convention we were watching?
That omission is itself rooted in a lie—the biggest lie of all, what I think of privately as our National Lie.
Yes: Just as we have a National Flag, a National Anthem, a National Capital, and a National Father, we have a National Lie—a great big brazen whopper that no one who wants a career in the public realm dares deny.
Certainly, no one of any public influence does deny it: no politician, no celebrity, no TV talking head—no, not even Tucker Carlson.
The lie is that different outcomes by race are caused by something other than biology.
What, exactly, is the “something other”? That depends who you ask.
The viewpoint represented at this week's Democratic Party convention is that the something-else causing chronic academic failure and antisocial behavior among American blacks is racism—malice, conscious or unconscious, on the part of whites.
An alternative view—call it the Tucker Carlson view—is that yes, there may be some malicious white racists around, but not enough to account for the chronic, intractable, unfixable quality of black dysfunction—not to mention the superiority of East Asians over whites in educational attainment and law-abiding sociality.
So what accounts for these things? Culture! Some people don't behave right, because … culture. They need to get their thinking straight.
I don't myself see much difference between these two alternative supports for the National Lie. In the imaginations of those who take these positions, both “white racism” and “culture” belong, metaphysically, in the realm of magic. They are invisible vapors seeping up out of the soil, fogging our vision and muddling our brains. They are the phlogiston, the luminiferous æther, of modern social science.
Get their thinking straight? Thinking happens in the brain, which is an organ, a biological object, with an ontogeny and a phylogeny.
I'm an old-line British empiricist. Race is real, and it makes a difference. Not always at the individual level: Plenty of black Americans are smarter and better socialized than me. When a population of millions is under discussion, though, the law of averages kicks in, and you get…Well, we all know what you get.
As an old friend of mine is wont to say when the social dysfunction of black Americans comes up: "It's a different critter."
Another old friend, a retired academic, in an email exchange with me the other day, said the following thing, which I think is wise and true:
The entire civil rights movement has evolved from passing laws to prescribing totalitarian schemes for transforming blacks into whites, and this has been a disaster for both races. Let them be who they naturally are.
Wise words, but of course flagrantly, shockingly disrespectful of the National Lie.
And that great big National Lie breeds lesser lies. Most in evidence at this convention was the lesser lie that whites are dangerous to blacks. Mrs. Obama again:
[Clip of Michelle speaking: And here at home, as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and a never-ending list of innocent people of color continue to be murdered, stating the simple fact that a Black life matters is still met with derision from the nation's highest office.]
Well, yes. It meets with derision for perfectly good reasons, again to do with the law of averages. Whatever happened to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the statistics show that by far the greatest danger to the lives of American blacks comes from other American blacks; AND that blacks are ten, twenty, thirty times more dangerous to whites than vice versa, depending on the style of interpersonal violence we're talking about.
We've presented those statistics many, many times over here at VDARE.com; other investigators have reported them elsewhere—Heather Mac Donald for example at City Journal; and Jared Taylor has a concise and characteristically eloquent presentation of them on his current BitChute video (YouTube having suppressed him just as it has suppressed VDARE TV)—link here.
Yet facts, statistics, and empirical inquiry can't leave a bruise on the National Lie, certainly not for the people speaking to us from this week's Democratic National Convention.
For them, our National Lie is too precious to discard—more precious to them than the National Flag or the National Anthem, for sure. The more the National Lie is challenged (to the degree anyone dares challenge it), the tighter our elites clutch it.
Hence the Church of Antiracism.
Being essentially a metaphysical doctrine indifferent to empirical verification, Antiracism has naturally assumed some of the aspects of a religion. That is to say, it delivers some of the same psychological rewards to believers that religions do.
To say that Antiracism is a religion, or at any rate an ersatz religion, is by now a cliché. Certainly you've heard it from me before; and as before, if you want to read a good brief argument for Antiracism's religious nature, I recommend John McWhorter's article at the Daily Beast, posted July 2015, updated April 2017: "Antiracism, Our Flawed New Religion."
This religious aspect came to mind when I saw the news item about Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter, donating ten million dollars to something called the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University.
Hey, I thought, that's just like some grandee aristocrat in medieval Europe donating a cartload of silver coin, or a patch of good farming land, to a monastery.
Dorsey is worth billions, so ten million dollars is just dinner and a movie to him. The donation is pretty impressive none the less. What is this Center for Antiracist Research? What kind of research will they actually do?
Now my imagination is drifting towards the Academy of Lagado in Book Three of Gulliver's Travels, where scholars occupied themselves with such projects as extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers.
That is unkind of me, though—probably racist, in fact. Let's take a closer look.
The Center seems to be the brainchild of professional black guy Ibram X. Kendi, author of the Number Two antiracist bestseller How to Be an Antiracist.
Number One is of course professional white ethnomasochist Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility. I don't think either title has yet outsold the Bible, but they are headed that way.
No, I haven't read Mr. Kendi's book, and don't plan to. Three hundred and twenty pages of magical-thinking woo would be several hours out of my life, and I don't have all that many hours left. I did read Coleman Hughes' withering review of the book in City Journal [How to Be an Anti-Intellectual: A lauded book about antiracism is wrong on its facts and in its assumptions, October 27, 2019]. He quotes Kendi as writing:
Capitalism is essentially racist and racism is essentially capitalist.
Given that Jack Dorsey acquired his billions by sheer capitalist enterprise, you have to wonder whether he's read Kendi's book.
But I guess if you can hate your own race as much as these white ethnomasochists do, hating your own path to a colossal fortune comes easily.
Kendi also wants an anti-racist amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the establishment of a federal Department of Anti-racism empowered with
…disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas.
As Coleman Hughes says: "Kendi's goals are openly totalitarian."
Some unkind spirits on Steve Sailer's comment thread have predicted that Dorsey's ten million dollars will go the way money generally goes when it falls into the hands of black grifters: on bling, dope, fancy hookers, rowdy parties where someone gets shot, and bribes to public officials.
I hope they're right. At least that way, the money will do no serious social harm.
FOOTNOTE:
Bringing up the website of the Center for Antiracist Research, I saw that one of their projects is a National Antiracist Book Festival. Apparently Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo are not the only ones cashing in on the Antiracism cult. There are enough antiracist books on the market for an entire festival:
The festival assembles a day full of author panels and editorial workshops. A vibrant crowd of authors and attendees engage in antiracist dialogue that will challenge, inspire, and mobilize. Workshops bring together leading book editors and literary agents to provide insight and guidance for aspiring writers.
“Vibrant”!
That mention of “leading book editors and literary agents,” if not bogus, suggests that the market for antiracist literature is still not saturated. There is still gold in them thar hills!
It looks, in fact, as though Antiracism is not one of those sackcloth and ashes kinds of religion, with a strict rule of poverty and obedience. It more closely resembles Al Bundy's Church of NO MA'AM, right up to the point where Rev'm Al whispers to his helpers that "this is where we eece-flay the ongregation-cay."
If this is your kind of thing, though, listeners, by all means go to the website of the Center for Antiracist Research and get a ticket for the National Antiracist Book Festival, to be held in Washington DC next April 24th.
An all-access ticket, with which you can attend all those vibrant discussions and workshops, costs only $250, and you get a free tote bag and a copy of Mr. Kendi's book!
Hard to resist, eh? Go for it, true believers! You may come home financially poorer, but you will be spiritually richer.
And—who knows?—perhaps Jack Dorsey will show up to add some billionaire glamor to the event.
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--2020-08-22--The Great Awokening Leading To The Great Retraction—And A New Dark Age For Science

The “ Great Awokening ” —the Maoist Cultural Revolution we are living through—is impacting academia heavily [ The Great Awokening and the Second American Revolution , by Eric Kaufmann , Quillette , June 22 , 2020 ] .
We ’ ve seen the closing of the London Conference on Intelligence in 2018 and the firing of researcher Noah Carl by Cambridge University partly for attending the London Conference on Intelligence .
But also in 2018 , a mathematics journal retracted and then deleted all evidence of a study that drew allegedly sexist conclusions ( it supported the thesis that male @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said at the time that Political Correctness was finally invading hard science and that this would lead to a new , anti-rational Dark Age .
Since then , evidence is mounting that the Great Awokening is indeed leading to a Great Retraction which—exactly as Mao urged—puts politics in command .
This Cultural Revolution , taken to new extremes of insanity in the aftermath the death of the violent criminal George Floyd , has always been Orwellian—the Multiculturalist Party knows best ( especially with regard to scientific research ) ; language must be constantly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with “ Silence is Violence ” the usual meaning of words is turned on its head .
Orwell ’ s eerily prescient novel Nineteen Eighty-Four also gave us the concept of the “ Memory Hole.
” Party functionaries would rewrite history as it suited the Party and cast information that did not suit them into the darkness by making it no longer part of the official record .
The fear of mobbing experienced by the more cowardly scientists—reliant for the livelihoods on institutions that are in the grip of Black Lives Matter Fanatics—has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ research down the Memory Hole .
Research is even being forcibly retracted by academic journals—in one case of particularly disgraceful case , the research of two scientists who are now dead and therefore can not sue .
Just recently , the publisher Springer Nature retracted a paper “ Poverty and Culture ” by Lawrence Mead of New York University , from the journal Society [ Society , 2020 ] .
Mead ’ s crime : simply arguing that black culture differs from white culture and this may be a contributory factor to greater @ @ @ @ @ @ @ provoked the Woke mob and publisher caved , overturned the careful peer-review system in the process [ Springer Nature retracts paper that hundreds called “ overtly racist ” , Retraction Watch , August 6 , 2020 ] .
An even more disturbing case occurred back in June .
American psychologist Cory Jane Clark is an assistant professor of psychology at Durham University , in the northeast of England .
She is also “ Director Academic Engagement ” at the Heterodox Academy , which claims to promote “ diverse viewpoints ” and be “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ learning.
” She has even published an article demonstrating that “ Liberals ” are more biased , and resistant to evidence that questions their biases , than non-Liberals [ Equalitarianism : A source of liberal bias , By Bo Winegard et al.
, SSRN , 2018 ] .
But Woke pressure is now so strong on academics that even those who have previously been inclined to question its dogmas are feeling the need to conform .
Consequently , Clark tweeted , that she and her colleagues had decided to withdraw one of their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this basis , the authors have retracted the study “ Declines in Religiosity Predicted Increases in Violent Crime—But Not Among Countries with Relatively High Average IQ ” [ By Cory Clark et al.
, Psychological Science , 2020 ] .
And they also appear to be withdrawing from the entire discussion of group differences in IQ .
The study had found that religiosity seems to suppress violent behavior in low-IQ societies to a greater extent than it does in high IQ societies .
This actually makes a great deal of sense : Intelligence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , meaning that intelligent people are less criminal .
( This is discussed in Arthur Jensen ’ s 1998 book The g Factor ) .
Religiousness also tends to preach moral behavior .
But in a more intelligent society , it will be less necessary because intelligence will do that job for it .
According to a report on the website Retraction Watch , which tends to gloat over some of the retractions it reports , the authors were clearly under intense pressure from ideological academics over this study and , seemingly to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They did so despite the fact that—as they imply—the criticisms of it were nothing more than the normal “ limitations ” inherent in a study which uses the best available data , such as that some of the sources could be questioned or had low levels of reliability .
Peer-review is meant to be the scientific Gold Standard .
But now , increasingly , if something passes peer-review it is “ science ” —unless it offends against Leftist orthodoxy .
Then it must also pass “ post-publication review , ” a test @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sufficient courage to stand up to the fanatical , anti-science bullies who call themselves in “ Liberals ” and , in some cases , “ scientists.
” And Clark and her colleagues are not the only case of this memory-holing .
At around the same time , Elsevier withdrew an eight year-old study by J. Philippe Rushton ( 1943-2012 ) and Donald Templer ( 1938-2016 ) entitled “ Do pigmentation and the melanocortin system modulate aggression and sexuality in humans as they do in other animals ?
” which had been published in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 2012 .
The Rushton-Templer study had been a “ review article ” which had merely hypothesized that as aggression was linked to darker pigmentation in individuals then this might be the case when comparing sub-species , such as different sub-species of human .
It had passed peer-review in the usual way .
But in November 2019 this study was criticized , by , it seems , an anonymous SJW keyboard warrior called Evopsychgoogle who faulted it because of The SJW also criticized the paper for citing a much-criticized study , also published @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Richard Lynn on race differences in psychopathic personality ( that has not been withdrawn ) [ Racial and ethnic differences in psychopathic personality , 2002 ] and studies by Hans Eysenck .
Usually , science deals with these problems—with the exception of the allegation of a conflict of interest—via other scientists writing a critique of the study .
The claim that a study is being “ weaponized ” by outside groups would be irrelevant to its scientific validity .
In addition , retracting a study is a very serious issue .
It implies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientists tend to avoid doing it .
Nevertheless , Rushton ’ s study was withdrawn and the journal ’ s editor , one Donald Saklofske [ Email him ] a former colleague of Rushton ’ s at the University of Western Ontario , implied that the journal was looking into papers it had published by Hans Eysenck ( 1916-1997 ) , one of the founders of the journal .
But Eysenck ’ s papers have not been yet withdrawn , perhaps this is because Eysenck was such a huge figure in psychology and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ Elsevier journal to retract 2012 paper widely derided as racist , Retraction Watch , June 17 , 2020 ] But apparently not the study by the 90-year-old Richard Lynn , cited in Rushton ’ s 2012 paper .
Lynn is still alive ( and has just published an autobiography ) .
Dead men can not sue .
So Personality and Individual Differences journal can appease the Woke Mob , with no consequences , by withdrawing , on spurious grounds , studies by dead men that are unpopular with this Woke mob .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Memory Hole ” perfectly acceptable scientific research , which would not be withdrawn if it reached opposite , Politically Correct conclusions even with the same limitations .
And now the anti-science mob has helped to get two other papers withdrawn and has a third in its sights .
The first showed that endometriosis correlates with attractiveness .
The authors have requested a retraction because a student wrote to them saying that the paper might cause a Woke backlash .
The second presented measured criticisms of Affirmative Action .
This was widely condemned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ third argues that fat people are dishonest compared to thin people .
The mob have not yet successfully pressured the authors into withdrawing this piece of ( empirically accurate ) “ fat shaming ” [ A retraction and a retraction request as Twitter users call out sexism , fat-shaming , and racism , Retraction Watch , August 6 , 2020 ] .
These cases illustrate an important lesson .
Science involves the fearless pursuit of truth .
But too many professional scientists appear to be in it for the money and prestige .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ prone to cowardice when faced with anti-science bullies .
This can only undermine science at universities , deter those who excel in science from going into academia , and contribute the decline of the university .
As I said two years ago , we are entering a new Dark Age .

The “Great Awokening”—the Maoist Cultural Revolution we are living through—is impacting academia heavily [The Great Awokening and the Second American Revolution, by Eric Kaufmann, Quillette, June 22, 2020]. We’ve seen the closing of the London Conference on Intelligence in 2018 and the firing of researcher Noah Carl by Cambridge University partly for attending the London Conference on Intelligence. But also in 2018, a mathematics journal retracted and then deleted all evidence of a study that drew allegedly sexist conclusions (it supported the thesis that male intelligence has greater variability). I said at the time that Political Correctness was finally invading hard science and that this would lead to a new, anti-rational Dark Age. Since then, evidence is mounting that the Great Awokening is indeed leading to a Great Retraction which—exactly as Mao urged—puts politics in command.
This Cultural Revolution, taken to new extremes of insanity in the aftermath the death of the violent criminal George Floyd, has always been Orwellian—the Multiculturalist Party knows best (especially with regard to scientific research); language must be constantly policed and changed; and, as with “Silence is Violence” the usual meaning of words is turned on its head.
Orwell’s eerily prescient novel Nineteen Eighty-Four also gave us the concept of the “Memory Hole.” Party functionaries would rewrite history as it suited the Party and cast information that did not suit them into the darkness by making it no longer part of the official record.
The fear of mobbing experienced by the more cowardly scientists—reliant for the livelihoods on institutions that are in the grip of Black Lives Matter Fanatics—has led to some to put their own research down the Memory Hole. Research is even being forcibly retracted by academic journals—in one case of particularly disgraceful case, the research of two scientists who are now dead and therefore cannot sue.
Just recently, the publisher Springer Nature retracted a paper “Poverty and Culture” by Lawrence Mead of New York University, from the journal Society [Society, 2020]. Mead’s crime: simply arguing that black culture differs from white culture and this may be a contributory factor to greater black poverty in the U.S. This provoked the Woke mob and publisher caved, overturned the careful peer review system in the process [Springer Nature retracts paper that hundreds called “overtly racist,” Retraction Watch, August 6, 2020].
An even more disturbing case occurred back in June. American psychologist Cory Jane Clark is an assistant professor of psychology at Durham University, in the northeast of England. She is also “Director Academic Engagement” at the Heterodox Academy, which claims to promote “diverse viewpoints” and be “open inquiry are critical to research & learning.” She has even published an article demonstrating that “Liberals” are more biased, and resistant to evidence that questions their biases, than non-Liberals [Equalitarianism: A source of liberal bias, By Bo Winegard et al., SSRN, 2018].
But Woke pressure is now so strong on academics that even those who have previously been inclined to question its dogmas are feeling the need to conform.
Consequently, Clark tweeted, that she and her colleagues had decided to withdraw one of their scientific studies. They wrote:
Over the past weeks, we have heard considerable concern and scrutiny over our recent article on religion, violence, and IQ in Psychological Science. In particular, papers by Karis et al. (2015; pointed out by Fearon and Eisner) and by Dickins et al. (2017; pointed out by Sear) have prompted us to spend much of the last week digging deeper into the research behind our measures—a level of vetting we should have done before submitting the paper. As a result, we no longer have confidence in our findings. Because of imputation for many countries, the homicide data have limitations that call our conclusions into question. The IQ data, however, have much more serious issues. The persistence of these highly questionable data sources in the psychological literature has convinced us that research with certain kinds of flaws should be pulled from the record as its existence steers us further from the truth rather than closer to it. We now believe our paper falls into that category and are retracting it immediately
On this basis, the authors have retracted the study “Declines in Religiosity Predicted Increases in Violent Crime—But Not Among Countries with Relatively High Average IQ” [by Cory Clark et al., Psychological Science, 2020]. And they also appear to be withdrawing from the entire discussion of group differences in IQ.
The study had found that religiosity seems to suppress violent behavior in low-IQ societies to a greater extent than it does in high IQ societies. This actually makes a great deal of sense: Intelligence is associated with empathy and impulse control, meaning that intelligent people are less criminal. (This is discussed in Arthur Jensen’s 1998 book The g Factor.) Religiousness also tends to preach moral behavior. But in a more intelligent society, it will be less necessary because intelligence will do that job for it.
According to a report on the website Retraction Watch, which tends to gloat over some of the retractions it reports, the authors were clearly under intense pressure from ideological academics over this study and, seemingly to avoid any further fuss, retracted it. They did so despite the fact that—as they imply—the criticisms of it were nothing more than the normal “limitations” inherent in a study which uses the best available data, such as that some of the sources could be questioned or had low levels of reliability.
Peer review is meant to be the scientific Gold Standard. But now, increasingly, if something passes peer review it is “science”—unless it offends against Leftist orthodoxy. Then it must also pass “post-publication review,” a test of whether the authors and journal have sufficient courage to stand up to the fanatical, anti-science bullies who call themselves in “Liberals” and, in some cases, “scientists.”
And Clark and her colleagues are not the only case of this memory-holing. At around the same time, Elsevier withdrew an eight year-old study by J. Philippe Rushton (1943-2012) and Donald Templer (1938-2016) entitled “Do pigmentation and the melanocortin system modulate aggression and sexuality in humans as they do in other animals?,” which had been published in the psychology journal Personality and Individual Differences in 2012.
The Rushton-Templer study had been a “review article” which had merely hypothesized that as aggression was linked to darker pigmentation in individuals then this might be the case when comparing sub-species, such as different sub-species of human. It had passed peer review in the usual way.
But in November 2019 this study was criticized, by, it seems, an anonymous SJW keyboard warrior called Evopsychgoogle who faulted it because of
…misrepresentation of research on pleiotropy, misrepresentation of the authors’ sources, cherry-picked citations which misrepresent the state of the literature, and no disclosure of the authors’ conflict-of-interest. Far from being a simple hypothesis, this article is a source of misinformation, which is being weaponized by White supremacists. [A critique of Rushton and Templer’s 2012 paper, Medium.com, November 19, 2019]
The SJW also criticized the paper for citing a much-criticized study, also published in Personality and Individual Differences, by Richard Lynn on race differences in psychopathic personality (that has not been withdrawn) [Racial and ethnic differences in psychopathic personality, 2002] and studies by Hans Eysenck.
Usually, science deals with these problems—with the exception of the allegation of a conflict of interest—via other scientists writing a critique of the study. The claim that a study is being “weaponized” by outside groups would be irrelevant to its scientific validity.
In addition, retracting a study is a very serious issue. It implies that you may be incompetent. Thus scientists tend to avoid doing it.
Nevertheless, Rushton’s study was withdrawn and the journal’s editor, one Donald Saklofske [Email him], a former colleague of Rushton’s at the University of Western Ontario, implied that the journal was looking into papers it had published by Hans Eysenck (1916-1997), one of the founders of the journal. But Eysenck’s papers have not been yet withdrawn, perhaps because Eysenck was such a huge figure in psychology and has so many supporters even now [Elsevier journal to retract 2012 paper widely derided as racist, Retraction Watch, June 17, 2020].
But apparently not the study by the 90-year-old Richard Lynn, cited in Rushton’s 2012 paper. Lynn is still alive (and has just published an autobiography). Dead men cannot sue.
So Personality and Individual Differences journal can appease the Woke Mob, with no consequences, by withdrawing, on spurious grounds, studies by dead men that are unpopular with this Woke mob. It can, in so doing, “Memory Hole” perfectly acceptable scientific research, which would not be withdrawn if it reached opposite, Politically Correct conclusions even with the same limitations.
And now the anti-science mob has helped to get two other papers withdrawn and has a third in its sights.
The first showed that endometriosis correlates with attractiveness. The authors have requested a retraction because a student wrote to them saying that the paper might cause a Woke backlash. The second presented measured criticisms of Affirmative Action. This was widely condemned on Twitter and voluntarily withdrawn. The third argues that fat people are dishonest compared to thin people. The mob have not yet successfully pressured the authors into withdrawing this piece of (empirically accurate) “fat shaming” [A retraction and a retraction request as Twitter users call out sexism, fat-shaming, and racism,Retraction Watch, August 6, 2020].
These cases illustrate an important lesson. Science involves the fearless pursuit of truth. But too many professional scientists appear to be in it for the money and prestige. Such scientists can, therefore, be prone to cowardice when faced with anti-science bullies.
This can only undermine science at universities, deter those who excel in science from going into academia, and contribute the decline of the university.
As I said two years ago, we are entering a new Dark Age.


vdare--2020-08-22--Blacks Are Keeping The Democratic Party From Abandoning God Entirely

Michael S suggests rather than an electorally unified and active black population directing the Democrat party , the DNC tells blacks what to believe and they believe it : Have you considered that causation might , at least sometimes , run in the other direction ?
That is , it ’ s not necessarily blacks dictating what the Democratic party wants , but rather blacks believing whatever the Democratic party tells them to believe and supporting whatever they ’ re told to support .
I ’ m sure the arrow points in both directions , depending on where and what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ analogy white conservatives love hearing non-Democrat blacks talk about .
There could be some truth to it , though as Michael allows it doesn ’ t apply to every issue .
Religion is one such issue .
The DNC would be happy to jettison God from the party and the platform–separation of church and state !
–but blacks make that impossible : Some party functionaries may want to cut “ under God ” from the pledge of allegiance , but Barack Obama mentioned God once , Kamala Harris mentioned Him twice , Michelle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ times in their respective convention speeches .
Bernie Sanders ’ irreligiosity didn ’ t do him many favors in South Carolina .
While Sanders beat Biden among voters who never attend religious services , 36 % -24 % , Biden crushed Sanders among those who do , 52 % -17 % .
Blacks are the most churchgoing race in America , and churchgoing blacks are more likely to vote than blacks who don ’ t go .
Parenthetically , this is another example of Thomas Sowell ’ s Black Rednecks and White Liberals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for their perceived superstitious religiosity but won ’ t criticize blacks for their presumably even more superstitious religiosity–because blacks are sacred objects , of course !

Michael S suggests rather than an electorally unified and active black population directing the Democrat party, the DNC tells blacks what to believe and they believe it:
Have you considered that causation might, at least sometimes, run in the other direction? That is, it’s not necessarily blacks dictating what the Democratic party wants, but rather blacks believing whatever the Democratic party tells them to believe and supporting whatever they’re told to support. … I’m sure the arrow points in both directions, depending on where and what.
It brings to mind the plantation analogy white conservatives love hearing non-Democrat blacks talk about. There could be some truth to it, though as Michael allows it doesn’t apply to every issue. Religion is one such issue. The DNC would be happy to jettison God from the party and the platform—separation of church and state!—but blacks make that impossible:
Some party functionaries may want to cut “under God” from the pledge of allegiance, but Barack Obama mentioned God once, Kamala Harris mentioned Him twice, Michelle Obama thrice, and Joe Biden five times in their respective convention speeches. Bernie Sanders’ irreligiosity didn’t do him many favors in South Carolina. While Sanders beat Biden among voters who never attend religious services, 36%-24%, Biden crushed Sanders among those who do, 52%-17%. Blacks are the most churchgoing race in America, and churchgoing blacks are more likely to vote than blacks who don’t go.
Parenthetically, this is another example of Thomas Sowell’s Black Rednecks and White Liberals in action. White leftists mock Republicans for their perceived superstitious religiosity but won’t criticize blacks for their presumably even more superstitious religiosity—because blacks are sacred objects, of course!
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-22--It's Okay To Remember Cannon Hinnant

It's Okay To Remember Cannon Hinnant

Earlier : His Name Is Cannon Hinnant : Five-Year Old White Boy Shot and Murdered Execution-Style by Black Neighbor ... @ @ @ @ @ His Lawn His family members aren ’ t going to be featured at the convention @ @ @ @ @ party , there won ’ t be any streets or schools named after him , @ @ @ @ @ be the impetus for any kind of cultural or political movement , but we won @ @ @ @ @ forgotten .

Earlier: His Name Is Cannon Hinnant: Five-Year Old White Boy Shot and Murdered Execution-Style by Black Neighbor... for Riding His Bike in His Lawn
His family members aren’t going to be featured at the convention of a major American political party, there won’t be any streets or schools named after him, and he won’t be the impetus for any kind of cultural or political movement, but we won’t let him be forgotten.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-22--Seth Smith, Seth Rich, Nobody Much Cares When Seths Get Murdered...Because They're White

Earlier : Seth Smith , RIP—Was He Murdered For `` Walking While White '' ?
and Was Seth Rich Murdered @ @ @ @ @ Democratic Elite , or the Democratic Base ?
Berkeley police make arrest in fatal shooting @ @ @ @ @ detectives have arrested a local man in connection with the fatal shooting of a Cal @ @ @ @ @ Dwight Way in West Berkeley in June .
To the surprise of nobody , the @ @ @ @ @ turns out to have been murdered by a black guy who happens to have a @ @ @ @ @ way back to 1982 .
Did this have anything to do with the George Floyd @ @ @ @ @ latest Seth didn ’ t have a Black Body , so who cares ?
Don @ @ @ @ @ as a murder , think of it as a White Privilegectomy .

Earlier: Seth Smith, RIP—Was He Murdered For "Walking While White"? and Was Seth Rich Murdered by the Russians, the Democratic Elite, or the Democratic Base?
From Berkeleyside:
Berkeley police make arrest in fatal shooting of Cal student
Berkeley police detectives have arrested a local man in connection with the fatal shooting of a Cal student who was walking on Dwight Way in West Berkeley in June. By Emilie Raguso
Aug. 21, 2020, 3:31 p.m.
To the surprise of nobody, the brilliant white kid Seth Smith turns out to have been murdered by a black guy who happens to have a criminal record going all the way back to 1982. Did this have anything to do with the George Floyd Mourning? Well, the latest Seth didn’t have a Black Body, so who cares?
Don’t think of it as a murder, think of it as a White Privilegectomy.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-21--A Jewish Reader Comments On Trevor Noah's Identity Crisis

Re : James Fulford 's blog post Trevor Noah On The Murderous Miners Of Marikana Just a slight correction : Noah 's father is Swiss , gentile so far as I can tell .
His mother is African Xhosa .
The Xhosa were the ones who took over the country after Apartheid , which may also explain why Noah is n't too critical of the government .
( One wonders if tribal affiliation is a factor in these latest events . )
I do recall Noah mocking the previous president , who to be honest was kind of mockable , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he was a Zulu .
Well then .
The Jewish part seems to come from his mother , who he claims converted to Judaism when he was 10 or 11 .
( He did not convert . )
I have a more-than-sneaking suspicion that this was one of those , `` Oh , I feel kind of Jewish today '' phases for her .
Or to be really cynical , there was a phone call : `` Mom , I made some anti-Semitic remarks .
If anyone asks you , tell them you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you point out , makes a big deal about his parents ' marriage being illegal and how that shaped his youth .
Except : • By the time Noah was born , the miscegenation laws were on the way out .
• They were entirely repealed by the time he was about a year old , so he 'd have no memory of them at all .
• His father seems to have walked out possibly even before then , but certainly very early on , and at the most Noah seems to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ relationship with him .
• Mandela was out of jail when Noah was six years old and the blacks were fully in charge when he was ten .
Take that all into account , and a big part of Noah 's appeal and shtick ( which to be honest can be funny ) disappears .
He 's just another dude from Africa .
See previous letters from the same reader .

Re: James Fulford's blog post Trevor Noah On The Murderous Miners Of Marikana
From: Norm [Email him]
James Fulford wrote:
Trevor Noah is a half black (Xhosa) half-Jewish South African comedian, whose biography Born A Crime references the fact that under Apartheid, his parents' marriage would have been illegal. When he was tapped to replace Jon Stewart in the Daily Show, he got in trouble for having made "insensitive" jokes on Twitter, including Jewish jokes, which he feels he's entitled to make, since (a) his father is Jewish, and (b) he's literally named Noah.
Just a slight correction: Noah's father is Swiss, gentile so far as I can tell. His mother is African Xhosa. The Xhosa were the ones who took over the country after Apartheid, which may also explain why Noah isn't too critical of the government. (One wonders if tribal affiliation is a factor in these latest events.) I do recall Noah mocking the previous president, who to be honest was kind of mockable, and so looked him up...and he was a Zulu. Well then.
The Jewish part seems to come from his mother, who he claims converted to Judaism when he was 10 or 11. (He did not convert.) I have a more-than-sneaking suspicion that this was one of those, "Oh, I feel kind of Jewish today" phases for her. Or to be really cynical, there was a phone call: "Mom, I made some anti-Semitic remarks. If anyone asks you, tell them you're Jewish."
Noah, as you point out, makes a big deal about his parents' marriage being illegal and how that shaped his youth. Except:
By the time Noah was born, the miscegenation laws were on the way out.
They were entirely repealed by the time he was about a year old, so he'd have no memory of them at all.
His father seems to have walked out possibly even before then, but certainly very early on, and at the most Noah seems to barely have ever had much of a relationship with him.
Mandela was out of jail when Noah was six years old and the blacks were fully in charge when he was ten.
Take that all into account, and a big part of Noah's appeal and shtick (which to be honest can be funny) disappears. He's just another dude from Africa.
See previous letters from the same reader.


vdare--2020-08-22--"They're (Still) Bringing Drugs"—Huge Santa Barbara Drug Bust Nets 3200 POUNDS Of Meth Coming In Fro

"They're (Still) Bringing Drugs"—Huge Santa Barbara Drug Bust Nets 3200 POUNDS Of Meth Coming In From Mexico By Boat, 30+ Hispanic Smugglers, No MSM Interest

One of the biggest meth busts in nation 's history gets no news Who are the meth dealers ?
California `` residents '' .
The suspects are Southern California residents according to an article in a Santa Barbara local paper .
Their names are all Hispanic .
The panga boat originated in Mexico and the list of law enforcement agencies involved in the meth bust suggest that many or most of the smugglers are not U.S. citizens .
Panga boat seizures are not uncommon along the coast in Santa Barbara County and they almost always involve Mexican smugglers who `` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Arrested in Panga Pot-Smuggling Bust , by Bianca Garcia , Independent.com , May 14 , 2018 .
( Arroyo Quemada Beach is 250 miles from Tijuana by road , and about the same by water . )
According to a spokesperson from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff 's Office , this is `` one of the largest methamphetamine seizures in the nation 's history '' .
Where are the details about the drug operations originating in Mexico and the citizenship of the smugglers ?
Searching the Web results in no news about this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ methamphetamine seizures in the nation 's history '' .
These are not good people , neither the smugglers nor the media moguls who do not report the ongoing drug smuggling Mexican operations .

One of the biggest meth busts in nation's history gets no news
Who are the meth dealers? California "residents."
Panga Boat Landing at Arroyo Quemada Beach West of Santa Barbara Leads to Big Drug Bust Law enforcement officers seize nearly 3,200 pounds of meth and arrest 33 suspects, including 15 people who live in Santa Barbara or Goleta, by Janeane Scully, Nooshawk.com, August 19, 2020
Over one and a half tons of methamphetamine and 33 suspects were seized on a panga boat caught landing at Arroyo Quemada Beach, west of Santa Barbara, California, this week.
The suspects are Southern California residents according to an article in a Santa Barbara local paper. Their names are all Hispanic.
The panga boat originated in Mexico and the list of law enforcement agencies involved in the meth bust suggest that many or most of the smugglers are not U.S. citizens.
Panga boat seizures are not uncommon along the coast in Santa Barbara County and they almost always involve Mexican smugglers who "reside" in California. See 18 Arrested in Panga Pot-Smuggling Bust , by Bianca Garcia, Independent.com, May 14, 2018. ( Arroyo Quemada Beach is 250 miles from Tijuana by road, and about the same by water.)
According to a spokesperson from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, this is "one of the largest methamphetamine seizures in the nation's history."
Where are the details about the drug operations originating in Mexico and the citizenship of the smugglers? Searching the Web results in no news about this event, "one of the largest methamphetamine seizures in the nation's history."
These are not good people, neither the smugglers nor the media moguls who do not report the ongoing drug smuggling Mexican operations.


vdare--2020-08-23--R-Nought for Funerals for Blacks Shot by Other Blacks Is Approaching 1.0

Earlier : How to Cut Down on Black-On-Black Shootings : Enforce Ban on Funerals/Memorials for Black Murder Victims The government @ @ @ @ @ , only virtual Zoom memorial services for guys with records who got shot .
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Earlier: How to Cut Down on Black-On-Black Shootings: Enforce Ban on Funerals/Memorials for Black Murder Victims
R0 seems perilously close to 1.0 — Wilbur Hassenfus & the Idle Speculators (@lbsasquatch) August 23, 2020
The government should say, “Sorry, only virtual Zoom memorial services for guys with records who got shot.”
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-23--A Tale of Two Cities: Detroit and Portland

Earlier : WASHINGTON POST : Small News From Portland ( A Mostly Peaceful Police Station On Fire ) Why has Detroit been so calm during the Summer of George while Portland has been so riotous ?
Detroit is the blackest big city , while Portland is the whitest .
Assume for the sake of simplicity that there are two types of Not-So-Peaceful Protestors : BLM looters and Antifa rioters .
The former are disproportionately black and the latter disproportionately white .
The former break store windows to steal the merchandise inside , while the latter break store windows to break @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that there isn ’ t too much left to loot in Detroit after all these decades ( 2020 looting in places like Fifth Avenue and Melrose Boulevard has been unprecedentedly covetous and ambitious ) .
And Detroit is too scary for Antifa , who , while they aren ’ t scared of the police , are scared of black criminals .
Plus , Detroit serves as a sort of giant object lesson that the conventional wisdom of 2020 is stupid .
In contrast , Portland , because of its tiny number of blacks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ extreme versions of Establishment thought among whites .

Earlier: WASHINGTON POST: Small News From Portland (A Mostly Peaceful Police Station On Fire)
Why has Detroit been so calm during the Summer of George while Portland has been so riotous?
Detroit is the blackest big city, while Portland is the whitest.
Assume for the sake of simplicity that there are two types of Not-So-Peaceful Protestors: BLM looters and Antifa rioters. The former are disproportionately black and the latter disproportionately white. The former break store windows to steal the merchandise inside, while the latter break store windows to break store windows.
My guess would be that there isn’t too much left to loot in Detroit after all these decades (2020 looting in places like Fifth Avenue and Melrose Boulevard has been unprecedentedly covetous and ambitious). And Detroit is too scary for Antifa, who, while they aren’t scared of the police, are scared of black criminals. Plus, Detroit serves as a sort of giant object lesson that the conventional wisdom of 2020 is stupid.
In contrast, Portland, because of its tiny number of blacks, is ideal for incubating the most extreme versions of Establishment thought among whites.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-23--"Black People Used To Live Here" Sailer's Real-Estate Based Conspiracy Theory Of The Obama Administr

"Black People Used To Live Here" Sailer's Real-Estate Based Conspiracy Theory Of The Obama Administration

Earlier : An Old White Lefty 's View Of Where Obama Is Coming From My conspiracy theory is that the Obama Administration was a giant outgrowth of a successful conspiracy of around 1989 by Chicago Democratic insiders , such as Valerie Jarrett ( Obama consigliere ) , Rahm Emanuel ( Obama ’ s first chief of staff ) , William Daley ( Obama ’ s second chief of staff ) , and Penny Pritzker ( Secretary of Commerce ) , to demolish the black housing projects near Chicago ’ s Loop and gentrify the neighborhoods .
The plan was literally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the convenient areas near downtown to the far edges of Chicago , much as in Paris blacks were traditionally relegated to inconvenient banlieues .
Mayor Richie Daley frequently vacationed in Paris and loudly trumpeted ideas he brought back from Paris , such as the pleasing one of shining spotlights on Chicago River bridges at night .
But nobody seems to have noticed the biggest idea he saw in Paris : that the central city should be for the bourgeois , not the underclass .
It turned out to be reasonably successful and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years ( 1989-2011 ) , even longer than his famous father Richard J. Daley .
The downside has been that these population transfers of underclass blacks appear to be one of the causes for the fairly high levels of black murderousness in Chicago over the last decade .
Chicago got through the Crack Era 30 years ago without NY or LA levels of killing , but in recent years it appears to have been plagued by the discombobulation of gang relations caused by the demolitions of the housing projects .
To pull off @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needed black faces , such as Jarrett , whose grandfather Robert Taylor had been chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority from 1943-1950 and was honored ( ? )
by having the giant Robert Taylor Homes near Comiskey Field named after him .
Meanwhile , the husband of a Daley staffer hired by Jarrett when she worked for the Mayor became a favorite of the Chicago powerbrokers , with the Daley family happy to encourage his state and national ambitions to keep him from running for Mayor , where he ’ d be more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than the usual crooked and/or radical black aldermen who ran against Hizzoner .
This is not to say that Obama was propelled to the White House by a seamless web of Chicago insiders .
These powerbrokers often had their problems with each other : e.g.
, Penny Pritzker spent much of the 2000s being sued by her brother J.B. , now the governor of Illinois , over family business .
I didn ’ t invent this conspiracy theory .
As far as I can tell , it was first fully articulated in November @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York real estate developers named Robert Fitch .
[ The Change They Believe In , Speech for Harlem Tenants Association , November 14 , 2008 ] Have I proved my conspiracy theory ?
No .
To do that would require somebody to go through lots of boring documents , like Robert Caro with Robert Moses .
So far , extraordinarily few professional historians have shown much interest at all in the machinations behind the rise of Barack Obama .
It ’ s almost as if Obama remains a relatively young and well-connected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inquiry into his emergence from Chicago politics .
But my conspiracy theory is plausible .
Here ’ s an interesting thing about plausible conspiracy theories : they ’ re boring .
Virtually nobody find this idea interesting , despite all the ironic light in shines on the first black President .

Earlier: An Old White Lefty's View Of Where Obama Is Coming From
ALARMING: #BLM is marching through resedential neighborhoods in Chicago pointing at “white people” in their residences
Yelling at them to come down then getting the crowd to scream at them
They are also blasting loud music,
Referencing burning down the gentrified buildings pic.twitter.com/0vXFKgmPA7 — E (@ElijahSchaffer) August 23, 2020
Can't load tweet https://twitter.com/caroljeanne11ty/status/1297343788956831745: Sorry, that page does not exist
My conspiracy theory is that the Obama Administration was a giant outgrowth of a successful conspiracy of around 1989 by Chicago Democratic insiders, such as Valerie Jarrett (Obama consigliere), Rahm Emanuel (Obama’s first chief of staff), William Daley (Obama’s second chief of staff), and Penny Pritzker (Secretary of Commerce), to demolish the black housing projects near Chicago’s Loop and gentrify the neighborhoods.
The plan was literally to marginalize blacks by moving them out of the convenient areas near downtown to the far edges of Chicago, much as in Paris blacks were traditionally relegated to inconvenient banlieues. Mayor Richie Daley frequently vacationed in Paris and loudly trumpeted ideas he brought back from Paris, such as the pleasing one of shining spotlights on Chicago River bridges at night.
But nobody seems to have noticed the biggest idea he saw in Paris: that the central city should be for the bourgeois, not the underclass. It turned out to be reasonably successful and Richard M. Daley ruled Chicago for 22 years (1989-2011), even longer than his famous father Richard J. Daley.
The downside has been that these population transfers of underclass blacks appear to be one of the causes for the fairly high levels of black murderousness in Chicago over the last decade. Chicago got through the Crack Era 30 years ago without NY or LA levels of killing, but in recent years it appears to have been plagued by the discombobulation of gang relations caused by the demolitions of the housing projects.
To pull off this plan to marginalize blacks, they needed black faces, such as Jarrett, whose grandfather Robert Taylor had been chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority from 1943-1950 and was honored (?) by having the giant Robert Taylor Homes near Comiskey Park named after him.
Meanwhile, the husband of a Daley staffer hired by Jarrett when she worked for the Mayor became a favorite of the Chicago powerbrokers, with the Daley family happy to encourage his state and national ambitions to keep him from running for Mayor, where he’d be more likely to win white and Hispanic votes than the usual crooked and/or radical black aldermen who ran against Hizzoner.
This is not to say that Obama was propelled to the White House by a seamless web of Chicago insiders. These powerbrokers often had their problems with each other: e.g., Penny Pritzker spent much of the 2000s being sued by her brother J.B., now the governor of Illinois, over family business.
I didn’t invent this conspiracy theory. As far as I can tell, it was first fully articulated in November 2008 by an old leftist critic of New York real estate developers named Robert Fitch [The Change They Believe In, Speech for Harlem Tenants Association, November 14, 2008].
Have I proved my conspiracy theory? No. To do that would require somebody to go through lots of boring documents, like Robert Caro with Robert Moses.
So far, extraordinarily few professional historians have shown much interest at all in the machinations behind the rise of Barack Obama. It’s almost as if Obama remains a relatively young and well connected enough of a personage to discourage much inquiry into his emergence from Chicago politics.
But my conspiracy theory is plausible.
Here’s an interesting thing about plausible conspiracy theories: They’re boring. Virtually nobody find this idea interesting, despite all the ironic light that shines on the first black President.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-23--Convention Conundrum: Democrats Want To Dodge Immigration Bullet. But Why Is GOP Helping Them?

Previously : Trump ’ s Immigration Moratorium A Huge Win For America—Now He MUST Campaign On It During the snoozefest they called a convention , Democrats tried to paint themselves as moderates who will restore normalcy to America .
And they ignored immigration , other than discussing “ kids in cages ” and damning Border Wall supporters to hell .
You can see why : their Open Borders agenda is massively unpopular .
But , incredibly , the GOP apparently intends to ignore immigration too .
Almost none of the top speakers at this week ’ s Republican Convention are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arguably—ask Ann Coulter ! )
of President Donald J. Trump himself .
Does Javanka just want to lose gracefully and go home to Manhattan ?
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are not , as they tried to convince those who stayed awake long enough to listen , moderates on immigration .
Here , for instance , is Biden ’ s plan : Harris would even decriminalize jumping the border , just as her primary opponents said they would .
Biden has been reluctant to support this crazy idea , but the hard-Left Treason @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him in that direction .
He would also provide taxpayer-financed health care to illegals and he backs a freeze on deporting them .
[ Biden commits to moratorium on deportations of immigrants , by Melissa Gomez , Los Angeles Times , March 15 , 2020 ] .
Of course , the Democrats hate and oppose Trump ’ s wildly popular temporary immigration moratorium .
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries called Trump the “ xenophobe-in-chief ” when he announced it in April [ ‘ Xenophobe .
In .
Chief.
’ : Democrats blast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. , by Rebecca Shabad , NBC News , April 21 , 2020 ] .
Significantly , however , Democrats have been quiet since then .
They know that 58 to 80 percent of Americans support a temporary halt to all immigration in response to the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting unemployment .
Those numbers have been holding steady , a recent USA Today poll shows , with 62 percent of Americans in favor .
Even 49 percent of Democrats support it [ Poll shows growing disconnect over Trump 's hard-line immigration policies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , August 12 , 2020 ] .
Only 27 percent of Americans say decriminalizing illegal immigration is a good idea ; 66 percent think it ’ s a bad one .
[ NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll , July 17 , 2019 ] In other words , the temporary immigration moratorium issue is a winner for Trump .
That ’ s likely why David Shor , a well-respected Democratic analyst who was recently the victim of one of those hilarious intra-Left heresy hunts , warns that his party ’ s position alienates working-class voters and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He says : But , in an amazing stroke of luck for the Democrats , Republicans seem not to want to talk about immigration , either .
They haven ’ t discussed the moratorium much since Trump announced it four months ago , nor after he expanded it in June .
The GOP Establishment , as usual , wants Trump just to focus on the economy [ Trump , GOP place big bet on economy for 2020 , by Jordain Carney , The Hill , June 21 , 2020 ] .
One rationale @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surveys shows voters worry less about immigration now in the wake of the Chinese Virus .
A July NPR poll found voters ranked immigration near the bottom of issues they ’ re concerned about [ Americans Back Trump On Immigration—But Only To Stop COVID-19 , Poll Finds , by Joel Rose , NPR , August 5 , 2020 ] .
But in fact , of course , there is an immigration dimension—and solution—to practically every problem that America faces .
And that is especially true today , as Reuters ’ Chris Kahn explains @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overall message is the President has built the world ’ s best economy once and he ’ s in the process of doing it again , ” a Trump campaign official told Time [ How Trump Plans to Counter the Democrats ' Convention Message of Hope , by Brian Bennett , Time , August 21 , 2020 ] .
But if the GOP wants to show Trump is rebuilding the economy , they should add that he ’ s protecting more than half-a-million American jobs with the temporary moratorium at a time when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The moratorium reinforces Trump ’ s “ Buy American , Hire American ” order and encourages companies to shake their dependency on cheap foreign labor .
The administration saw that in April , when Trump blocked some new arrivals .
But for whatever reason , that message has more recently been MIA .
There are signs are that Trump and his campaign people might be recovering their senses .
Illegal immigration seems to be an advertising priority .
In one ad released in battleground states , viewers learn that Biden ’ s support @ @ @ @ @ @ @ millions of Americans .
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller told Reuters ( above ) that the emphasis on immigration would show Biden ’ s “ massive political vulnerability.
” Of course , the ads on immigration deeply irritate Establishment GOP consultants .
“ If he ’ s not talking about the pandemic or the economy , he is not talking about what Americans are most concerned about , ” former Marco Rubio adviser Alex Conant told Reuters ’ Hesson and Chris Kahn .
But Inside-The-Beltway hacks just don ’ t get it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump must listen to voter Anne Rone , not Little Marco ’ s factotum .
Trump has also been resurrecting 2016 ’ s hard-hitting message on illegal-alien crime .
In Pennsylvania last week , after walloping Biden and Harris for supporting “ deadly Sanctuary Cities that have been so bad for you and everybody else , ” he said : It was trademark Trump—and 2016 ’ s winning message .
Trump would be a fool not to stick with it and show himself to be the man America elected in 2016 : pro-worker @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump ’ s top priority : Controlling his campaign message not only at the convention but also through Nov. 3 .
The Treason Lobbyists inside the GOP must be shut down .
His re-election depends upon it .
Washington Watcher II [ Email him ] is an anonymous DC insider .

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

Previously: Trump’s Immigration Moratorium A Huge Win For America—Now He MUST Campaign On It
During the snoozefest they called a convention, Democrats tried to paint themselves as moderates who will restore normalcy to America. And they ignored immigration, other than discussing “kids in cages” and damning Border Wall supporters to hell. You can see why: Their Open Borders agenda is massively unpopular. But, incredibly, the GOP apparently intends to ignore immigration too. Almost none of the top speakers at this week’s Republican Convention are immigration patriots, with the exception (arguably—ask Ann Coulter!) of President Donald J. Trump himself. Does Javanka just want to lose gracefully and go home to Manhattan?
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are not, as they tried to convince those who stayed awake long enough to listen, moderates on immigration. Here, for instance, is Biden’s plan:
Halt border wall construction;
Amnesty for illegals;
Increase immigration overall;
End “discriminatory” travel restrictions;
Erase Trump’s positive reforms;
Fast track citizenship for guest workers;
Legal status for DACA recipients.
[Biden’s immigration plan: Cancel Trump orders, seek bill in Congress, by Tanvi Misra, Roll Call, August 20, 2020]
Harris would even decriminalize jumping the border, just as her primary opponents said they would. Biden has been reluctant to support this crazy idea, but the hard-Left Treason Lobby and its corporate allies will push him in that direction. He would also provide taxpayer-financed health care to illegals and he backs a freeze on deporting them [Biden commits to moratorium on deportations of immigrants, by Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, March 15, 2020].
Of course, the Democrats hate and oppose Trump’s wildly popular temporary immigration moratorium. House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries called Trump the “xenophobe-in-chief” when he announced it in April [‘Xenophobe. In. Chief.’: Democrats blast Trump's plan to suspend immigration to U.S., by Rebecca Shabad, NBC News, April 21, 2020].
Significantly, however, Democrats have been quiet since then. They know that 58 to 80 percent of Americans support a temporary halt to all immigration in response to the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting unemployment. Those numbers have been holding steady, a recent USA Today poll shows, with 62 percent of Americans in favor. Even 49 percent of Democrats support it [Poll shows growing disconnect over Trump's hard-line immigration policies, by Alan Gomez, USA Today, August 12, 2020]. Only 27 percent of Americans say decriminalizing illegal immigration is a good idea; 66 percent think it’s a bad one [NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll, July 17, 2019].
In other words, the temporary immigration moratorium issue is a winner for Trump.
That’s likely why David Shor, a well-respected Democratic analyst who was recently the victim of one of those hilarious intra-Left heresy hunts, warns that his party’s position alienates working-class voters and provides ammunition to the other side. He says:
Non-college-educated whites, on average, have very conservative views on immigration, and generally conservative racial attitudes. But they have center-left views on economics; they support universal health care and minimum-wage increases. So I think Democrats need to talk about the issues they are with us on, and try really hard not to talk about the issues where we disagree. Which, in practice, means not talking about immigration. [David Shor’s Unified Theory of American Politics, by Eric Levitz, New York, July 17, 2020. Emphasis added].
But, in an amazing stroke of luck for the Democrats, Republicans seem not to want to talk about immigration, either. They haven’t discussed the moratorium much since Trump announced it four months ago, nor after he expanded it in June.
The GOP Establishment, as usual, wants Trump just to focus on the economy [Trump, GOP place big bet on economy for 2020, by Jordain Carney, The Hill, June 21, 2020]. One rationale for this cosmically stupid advice: Some surveys show voters worry less about immigration now in the wake of the Chinese Virus. A July NPR poll found voters ranked immigration near the bottom of issues they’re concerned about [Americans Back Trump On Immigration—But Only To Stop COVID-19, Poll Finds, by Joel Rose, NPR, August 5, 2020].
But in fact, of course, there is an immigration dimension—and solution—to practically every problem that America faces. And that is especially true today, as Reuters’ Chris Kahn explains in this twitter thread:
Yes, Trump’s hardline anti-immigrant policies may help him win in 2020. https://t.co/dvU1OTdbaR
…but only if he talks about immigration in a different way. Stick with me, I’ll explain.@ReutersPolitics @IpsosNewsPolls — Chris Kahn (@Cmkahn) August 14, 2020
(The underling Reuters article, with a typically disingenuous MSM headline, is Trump pushes anti-immigrant message even as coronavirus dominates campaign, by Ted Hesson and Chris Kahn, August 14, 2020.)
“The overall message is the President has built the world’s best economy once and he’s in the process of doing it again,” a Trump campaign official told Time [How Trump Plans to Counter the Democrats' Convention Message of Hope, by Brian Bennett, Time, August 21, 2020].
But if the GOP wants to show Trump is rebuilding the economy, they should add that he’s protecting more than half-a-million American jobs with the temporary moratorium at a time when unemployment is more than 10 percent. The moratorium reinforces Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” order and encourages companies to shake their dependency on cheap foreign labor.
The administration saw that in April, when Trump blocked some new arrivals.
President Trump is committed to protecting the health and economic well-being of American citizens as we face unprecedented times,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said. “As President Trump has said, ‘Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers.’ At a time when Americans are looking to get back to work, action is necessary. [Trump's surprise immigration ban expected to include major exemption, by Anita Kumar, Liz Crampton and Matthew Choi, Politico, April 21, 2020].
But for whatever reason, that message has more recently been MIA.
There are signs are that Trump and his campaign people might be recovering their senses. Illegal immigration seems to be an advertising priority. In one ad released in battleground states, viewers learn that Biden’s support for Amnesty would threaten the jobs of millions of Americans.
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller told Reuters (above) that the emphasis on immigration would show Biden’s “massive political vulnerability.” Of course, the ads on immigration deeply irritate Establishment GOP consultants. “If he’s not talking about the pandemic or the economy, he is not talking about what Americans are most concerned about,” former Marco Rubio adviser Alex Conant told Reuters’ Hesson and Chris Kahn.
But Inside-The-Beltway hacks just don’t get it, as Hesson and Kahn reported:
Ann Rone, a 49-year-old radiology technologist in Missouri, is an undecided voter who supports legal immigration but agrees that it should be paused during the pandemic to free up jobs for Americans. “They may not be the best paying jobs, or what we want, but they’re jobs,” she said. Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said the campaign’s focus on immigration taps into Americans’ concerns about the economy and public safety. “Voters want a president who will protect American workers and our borders,” Murtaugh said. “And you do that by enforcing immigration laws.”
Trump must listen to voter Anne Rone, not Little Marco’s factotum.
Trump has also been resurrecting 2016’s hard-hitting message on illegal-alien crime. In Pennsylvania last week, after walloping Biden and Harris for supporting “deadly Sanctuary Cities that have been so bad for you and everybody else,” he said:
It was trademark Trump—and 2016’s winning message. Trump would be a fool not to stick with it and show himself to be the man America elected in 2016: pro-worker, pro law-and-order, pro-America First.
Trump’s top priority: Controlling his campaign message not only at the convention but also through Nov. 3. The Treason Lobbyists inside the GOP must be shut down.
His re-election depends upon it.
Washington Watcher II [Email him] is an anonymous DC insider.


vdare--2020-08-23--Despite NEWSWEEK Hysteria, Border Apprehensions Still Way Below 2019 Numbers. But They Are Creeping

Despite NEWSWEEK Hysteria, Border Apprehensions Still Way Below 2019 Numbers. But They Are Creeping Up

Newsweek hysterically headlines the latest border numbers report Border Patrol Arrests More Than Doubled Since April , With Illegal Crossings Surging to 38,000 By Benjamin Fearnow , August 17 , 2020 .
One factor cited in the recent increase : There is indeed an uptick on the our chart of the Border Apprehensions , last month , below .
But in context ( this is why we like charts ) , the influx is still low .
The Monitor , a border paper published in McAllen , TX , says : As for the enforcement data for July , CBP @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adults , families and unaccompanied children around ports of entry and another 2,399 were denied entry into the country at a port of entry after being declared “ inadmissible , ” the numbers show .
That ’ s a more than 50 % decrease over the FY19 July numbers when CBP reported more than 81,000 encounters , also made up of single adults , families and unaccompanied children .
For the Rio Grande Valley sector , there was a more than 40 % drop in unaccompanied minors encountered at the border , while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ year in July — with more than 42,000 families arriving last July to nearly 2,000 families this July , the data shows .
[ CBP : 10 have died from COVID , by Lorenzo Zazueta-Castro , The Monitor , August 7 , 2020 ] Coronavirus lockdowns are still on in America , although Texas is opening somewhat , but not so much in Mexico .
The Border Patrol says that ten of their officers have died in the line of duty from the China Virus , and Mexico 's response to the virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has reported .
One problem with both Mexico 's response to the virus , and America 's problem with contagious Mexican illegals : Mexico 's lower-class , illiterate population either does not understand , or refuses to believe , the Germ Theory of disease .
• Salmonella In Mexican Papayas Because Mexican Workers Do n't Understand What `` Germs '' Are • E. Coli And Immigration—Your Lettuce Is Picked By People Who Do n't Know What A Germ Is , And Wo n't Learn

Newsweek hysterically headlines the latest border numbers report Border Patrol Arrests More Than Doubled Since April, With Illegal Crossings Surging to 38,000 by Benjamin Fearnow, August 17, 2020. One factor cited in the recent increase:
Before the pandemic, single adults who were charged with illegally entering the U.S. faced criminal prosecution and potential jail time. But now, amid coronavirus concerns, only migrants with major criminal histories or who are believed to pose a national security threat are held in detention before deportation.
There is indeed an uptick on the our chart of the Border Apprehensions, last month, below. But in context (this is why we like charts), the influx is still low.
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The Monitor, a border paper published in McAllen, TX, says:
As for the enforcement data for July, CBP reported it made contact with 38,347 single adults, families and unaccompanied children around ports of entry and another 2,399 were denied entry into the country at a port of entry after being declared “inadmissible,” the numbers show. That’s a more than 50% decrease over the FY19 July numbers when CBP reported more than 81,000 encounters, also made up of single adults, families and unaccompanied children. For the Rio Grande Valley sector, there was a more than 40% drop in unaccompanied minors encountered at the border, while the encounters of families dropped year over year in July — with more than 42,000 families arriving last July to nearly 2,000 families this July, the data shows. [CBP: 10 have died from COVID, by Lorenzo Zazueta-Castro, McAllen Monitor, August 7, 2020]
Coronavirus lockdowns are still on in America, although Texas is opening somewhat, but not so much in Mexico. The Border Patrol says that ten of their officers have died in the line of duty from the China Virus, and Mexico's response to the virus has been lame, as Allan Wall has reported.
One problem with both Mexico's response to the virus, and America's problem with contagious Mexican illegals: Mexico's lower-class, illiterate population either does not understand, or refuses to believe, the Germ Theory of disease.
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vdare--2020-08-24--Patriots Rout Black Lives Matter in Berkeley Springs WV!

On Friday August 21st , The Berkeley Springs Allies , a local Leftist organization , scheduled a Black Lives Matter rally to “ support community members of color ” .
[ County to close courthouse early Friday amid plans for downtown rallies , Morgan Messenger , August 24 , 2020 ] .
Interestingly , the town of Berkeley Springs WV is only 0.82 % black .
Members of the community quickly voiced their concerns online of rioting and looting in the town , as seen for the last three months across America .
But unlike Portland , Chicago , or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ County didn ’ t sit by as Marxist insurgents took over the town .
The Mountaineer Warrior Alliance , a motorcycle club , called upon all local patriots , motorcyclists , and Back the Blue supporters to defend the American Flag from public desecration .
Approximately 500 protesters flooded Berkeley Springs State Park .
The overwhelming majority ( as in 90 % ) attended to counter-protest Black Lives Matter .
One BLM activist and local nuisance , Ted Stein , took to Twitter after the protest to smear VDARE.com as the counter-protest organizers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he offered no evidence .
Though VDARE.com has nothing whatever to do with any aspect of the events that night , we did send a video crew to capture what went on and gather interviews .
What did we see ?
There was no violence .
But as soon as the Black Lives Matter rally began , counter-protesters successfully drowned out their speeches with chants of “ USA !
USA !
.
” “ All Lives Matter ” and the National Anthem played over a loudspeaker .
Eventually , BLM gave up and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Berkeley Springs WV !
Noah Arnold [ email him ] is a full time video producer working with deplatformed personalities across the dissident right .

On Friday August 21st, the Berkeley Springs Allies, a local Leftist organization, scheduled a Black Lives Matter rally to “support community members of color” [County to close courthouse early Friday amid plans for downtown rallies, Morgan Messenger, August 24, 2020].
Interestingly, the town of Berkeley Springs WV is only 0.82% black.
Members of the community quickly voiced their concerns online of rioting and looting in the town, as seen for the last three months across America. But unlike Portland, Chicago, or New York City, locals across Morgan County didn’t sit by as Marxist insurgents took over the town. The Mountaineer Warrior Alliance, a motorcycle club, called upon all local patriots, motorcyclists, and Back the Blue supporters to defend the American Flag from public desecration. Approximately 500 protesters flooded Berkeley Springs State Park. The overwhelming majority (as in 90%) attended to counter-protest Black Lives Matter.
One BLM activist and local nuisance, Ted Stein, took to Twitter after the protest to smear VDARE.com as the counter-protest organizers, a lie for which of course he offered no evidence.
Though VDARE.com has nothing whatever to do with any aspect of the events that night, we did send a video crew to capture what went on and gather interviews. What did we see?
There was no violence. But as soon as the Black Lives Matter rally began, counter-protesters successfully drowned out their speeches with chants of “USA! USA!,” “All Lives Matter” and the National Anthem played over a loudspeaker.
Eventually, BLM gave up and went home.
Anarcho-Tyranny has been routed in Berkeley Springs WV!
Watch below:
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[Originally a YouTube video, but now, since YouTube banned us, on Bitchute.]
Noah Arnold [email him] is a full time video producer working with deplatformed personalities across the dissident right.