vdare--2020-09-11--Trump Vs Generals, Defund The Military, And Underincarceration, Etc.

09m14s Trump and his generals .
( The what complex ? )
23m33s The bad , the mad , the @ @ @ @ @ institutionalize . )
30m45s Dame Cressida goes to Parliament .
( Britain 's racial crime @ @ @ @ @ ) 37m21s Race , movies , and the ChiComs .
( Can Hollywood square the @ @ @ @ @ border wall 's going up .
( And wo n't come down . )
41m03s @ @ @ @ @ how it might be reported today . )

00m54s Soldiers and civilians. (Some background social psychology.)
09m14s Trump and his generals. (The what complex?)
14m58s Defund the military! (Apply zero-based budgeting.)
23m33s The bad, the mad, the sad. (Let's institutionalize.)
30m45s Dame Cressida goes to Parliament. (Britain's racial crime gaps strangely like ours.)
37m21s Race, movies, and the ChiComs. (Can Hollywood square the circle?)
39m45s That border wall's going up. (And won't come down.)
41m03s Remembering 9/11. (And how it might be reported today.)
42m00s A linguistic conundrum. (Knowing a language you can't speak.)
45m20s Signoff. (From Africa.)
01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your combatively genial host John Derbyshire, here to bring you commentary on the week's news from a National Conservative point of view.
Things military — things and people military, I should say — have been in the news this week. Let's begin with a close look at all that.
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02 — Soldiers and civilians. A great deal of noise was made, but not much light was shed, by a story first reported in The Atlantic magazine that President Trump had made disparaging remarks about U.S. dead interred in French war cemeteries being "suckers" and "losers." That story generated a flurry of secondary accusations about Trump having made similar remarks concerning our troops in other wars.
My own first thought, reading these stories, was: "I wouldn't be surprised." Trump has a crass, boorish side to him, and sometimes a loose tongue. Is this news?
Trump is also a man proud of his success in life — justifiably proud, when you consider the difficulty of rising in this world.
Doctor Johnson told Boswell that, quote: "The insolence of wealth will creep out." End quote. Johnson was speaking of Mrs Thrale, a friend and benefactor of his, a person he liked and admired. Mrs Thrale was rich, though, and Johnson was poor; and she occasionally, thoughtlessly, dropped a disparaging remark about his poverty.
It's the same with any kind of success in life. Every winner, except perhaps a tiny number of the most saintly, every winner has moments — brief, occasional moments he later regrets — when he looks on the rest of us as worthless losers.
So, I thought these particular accusations might be true; although I never thought they were consequential. If true, they didn't add anything to our knowledge of the President.
As the days went on, though, and the sources for these remarks remained resolutely anonymous, and more and more testimonies came in of Trump behaving with utmost respect towards servicepeople and veterans, it looked increasingly probable that these stories were made up as pre-election red meat for Trump-haters.
I suppose some factual support for them might yet emerge; but at the time of going to tape here, the parsimonious explanation has to be that they are propaganda lies.
Stepping back from these particular stories, the larger zone we are in here is the way civilians and military people feel about each other.
That's a big territory that's been drawing commentary from both sides for many centuries. I am sure that many, many Ph.D. theses on it have been submitted by social psychologists. I bet every one of them includes, for example, the old saying from Imperial China that 好鐵不當釘、好兒不當兵: "You don't use good iron to make nails; a good son does not become a soldier."
Early 20th-century Brits were of the same mind as the Mandarins, according to George Orwell. In his childhood before WW1, Orwell tells us through a character in one of his novels, if a young man in a working-class neighborhood joined the services — "gone for a soldier," as the saying was — local people spoke of it in just the same tones they'd speak of a girl who'd become a prostitute.
The great World Wars and mass conscription changed that. The 1950s, in which John Derbyshire, Peter Brimelow, and Donald Trump all spent their childhoods, were militarized societies in both Britain and America. Conscription was in full force. Most adult men, including my Dad, were veterans. My brother was a career soldier. The older brother of my best friend, drafted into the army, was in a truck that ran over a mine in Malaya. He survived, but with injuries.
The military were everywhere. Radio and TV sitcoms about the military were widely popular. In my secondary school I did six years of part-time military training. Donald Trump's secondary school was an actual military academy.
I'd like to tell listeners of later generations that all that mother's-milk immersion in things military turned round the older attitudes and generated unqualified reverence for the services. It's a bit more complicated than that, though.
We grew up seeing soldiering as an ordinary, everyday thing, not something far apart from the routine business of life. Like the rest of life, although in different measure, it had episodes of heroism and glory; but it also, like the rest of life, had proportions of sleaze, folly, cruelty, stupidity, and lies.
Sure, we gave proper honor and respect to courage in battle, and on Remembrance Day we sang the hymn O Valiant Hearts with full feeling. We did not, though, we did not automatically assume that anyone in uniform was a hero, actual or potential. We knew, from close personal acquaintance, how many Ernie Bilkos and Milo Minderbinders fit into those uniforms.
Familiarity doesn't necessarily breed contempt, but it does encourage a measure of rational skepticism. No man is a hero to his valet.
That's some of the psychological background to Trump's dealings with the military. Let me just dig a bit deeper into the political aspect.
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03 — Trump and his generals. To accompany those editorial slanders on the President, The Atlantic magazine ran anti-Trump articles by former Defense Secretary James Mattis and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen.
Headlines, respectively: Mattis, James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes him as a Threat to the Constitution. Mullen, I Cannot Remain Silent. The main thing he can't remain silent about, says Mullen, is his fear that Trump will co-opt the military for control of Antifa and BLM protestors.
Mattis is a retired Marines general; Mullen is a retired admiral; so there's plenty of gold braid here. What on earth is the matter with these guys? Are they really so woke? Why do they hate Trump so much?
I'd guess that one factor here is the psychological aspect I explored in the previous segment. Trump, a fifties kid like myself, comes at the senior military with some skepticism about their motives and abilities. They don't get the full measure of deference they expect from him. The situation is likely complicated, in ways I can't figure, by their awareness — and his — that Trump dodged the draft.
And yes, they are woke. Once you get up to the general and admiral level, you're in the political realm, looking for approval from congressreptiles and federal bureaucrats. The atmosphere up there is thick with political correctness, and you better conform. The nation got a good look at this eleven years ago when General George Casey, following the Fort Hood killings, told us that, quote:
As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse.
End quote.
That was slightly prior to the Great Awokening of 2013-14, to be sure; but it was in the Obama administration's first year, and Casey knew what was expected of him. Eleven years further on — including seven years when Obama had the opportunity to purge generals with views to the right of Casey — they all know, and they have all internalized the proper slogans.
You have to consider, too, how all-encompassing our state ideology now is. Both the Academy and Big Business are firmly in its grip, we all know that by now. Neither sphere will accept you unless you are thoroughly woke.
How does that play here? Well, on retirement from the senior military you're probably not that old. You'll be looking for some well-remunerated position with not-too-demanding duties attached where you can run out the clock to your late seventies.
Where will you look? Why: the Academy and Big Business. Mike Mullen, aged 73, is a visiting professor at Princeton; Jim Mattis, aged 70, is on the board of big aerospace contractor General Dynamics.
President Eisenhower, in his farewell speech, famously warned that, quote:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
End quote.
That was before the Social Justice crowd infiltrated and corrupted our universities. If he were making that speech today, Ike would likely have said "military-industrial-academic complex."
So: Put the pressure for ideological conformity together with that element of cold self-interest, and I think you have an explanation for most of what's been going on here between Trump and his generals.
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04 — Defund the military! We're all wearily familiar now with the woke slogan: Defund the Police! I'd like to propose a corresponding slogan for the based side of the national argument: Defund the military!
I'm not being facetious here. Whether the police need defunding to any degree at all, I doubt; but I'll leave that to another time. In the case of the military, however, I think we should considerably defund it. Our military is way over-funded. Some major defunding is definitely called for. What's more, I have a way to do it.
Back in the 1970s as a mainframe-programming grunt, I coded up a General Ledger and Budgeting system for a national corporation. At that time there was a fad in business-management circles for Zero-Based Budgeting. I liked the idea so much, I still like it 45 years and several changes of business-management fashion later.
The usual way to do budgeting was, to tweak this year's budget. You look at the budget the company is currently working from, add a percent or two here, subtract a percent or two there, and bingo! you have next year's budget.
With Zero-Based Budgeting you throw this year's budget in the trash and start clean. What resources does this department need for this function, and this one, and this one? How much will each cost, based on our best guess about next year's business environment?
Once you got into that zero-based frame of mind, it was amazing how many functions — sometimes entire departments — turned out to be superfluous, requiring no budget at all.
I'd like to see Zero-Based Budgeting applied to the U.S. military. How much of what it's doing really needs doing?
Some of it does, for sure. There are crazy dictatorships with nuclear weapons and missile delivery systems. The only known way to prevent them annihilating our nation is to have lots of nukes and missiles ourselves. Given the depths of human folly, I doubt deterrence will be forever infallible, but's it's all we have, and it's worked all through my lifetime. So: lots of nukes, and delivery systems, and service personnel who can work those systems.
As a commercial republic, we need to be able to defend our trade routes, our sea lanes and airways, so some modest naval and air defenses are in order. No quarrel with that.
Our territory needs defending from invasion, too. This is much less of an issue for us than it is for most nations. To our east and west we have broad oceans; to our north, a friendly cultural cousin; to our south, a bunch of militarily insignificant narco-states. Still, it's not inconceivable that some rogue Asian power might try to seize Hawaii, or that Russia might try to recover Alaska. It needs to be clear that we'll defend our territory; and we need trained troops to do the defending.
Is there some conceivable Man in the High Castle scenario of invasion and occupation of the U.S.A. by foreign powers? I can't see it. The biggest, craziest foreign powers — Russia and China — are both swirling down the demographic toilet. They don't have the population to colonize on that scale — certainly not to colonize a nation with millions of armed citizens.
Invasion and occupation by disorganized hordes from poop-hole countries is of course a possibility — in fact it's an ongoing actuality — but that's an issue of law enforcement and immigration control, not really military. Wait, let me rephrase that: It's legitimate to use our military for the purpose, but unnecessary if we have sensible immigration laws robustly enforced.
So: good strong nuclear forces, sea and air defenses for our trade routes, territorial defense for some outlying regions, and … that's about it, far as I can see.
It's meager compared with our current colossal military establishment. Fifty-five thousand troops in Japan? Twelve thousand in Italy?
And those are non-combat areas. Afghanistan? I don't know precise numbers, but current policy is to reduce them below 5,000 by the end of November. Iraq? Currently 5,200, with a promise from the administration just this week to reduce them to 3,000. I don't know the date for that.
And as U.S. troop deployment numbers go, those figures for Afghanistan and Iraq are just the tip of the Middle East iceberg. Quote from the New York Times, September 9th:
At any given time, 45,000 to 65,000 American troops are in the region, spread out between Jordan and Oman, assigned to operate airfields, run key headquarters, sail warships and fly warplanes, and stage for deployments to places such as Iraq and Afghanistan. The numbers change substantially depending on the presence of an aircraft carrier strike group or two in the region, and whether a large group of Marines is afloat in those waters.
End quote.
Oh yeah, aircraft carriers: we have twenty of those, five times as many as the next nation.
For heaven's sake, what business is it of ours if Jordan wants to drop a bomb on Oman? How many Americans could even locate Oman on a map? Oh, man … I mean: C'mon, man. Defund the military!
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05 — The bad, the mad, the sad. This headline from The Spectator, August 29th, naturally caught my eye. Headline: If anything, America has an under-incarceration problem. The byline is Pedro L. Gonzalez, a name not otherwise known to me; but if Pedro is ever out Long Island way, I'll be glad to buy him a drink.
He takes us through some recent cases you've probably read about. There was the 59-year-old white man beaten to death at Maryland State Fair last year by two young black brothers — I mean, they are actual brothers — aged 16 and 15. Motions to try them as adults were denied. The older brother got probation; the younger is in a juvenile detention facility until he's completed a behavioral modification program.
Then Pedro tells the horrible story of five-year-old white child Cannon Hinnant, shot dead while riding his bike in his front yard by 25-year-old Darius Sessoms, who is black. That was just last month so there's no result from the courts yet; but we have learned that Sessoms is a felon with a long rap sheet.
And then, Joel Francisco, who got early release from jail last year under Jared Kushner's First Step Act. Shortly after his release, he stabbed a man to death.
And so on. This kind of thing is all too common. If you pay attention to your local news, you don't have to pay attention for long before you read about someone on early release, or probation, or with outstanding warrants — someone who should really be locked up — who's committed some new felony.
Pedro Gonzalez crunches the numbers and makes a good case. Just one short quote from him, quote:
Most of what Americans have been told about mass incarceration is untrue, or takes half-truths and tortures them into whole lies.
End quote.
A lot of that lying is in support of race denialism, our great National Lie. The stupendous differences in criminality between blacks and nonblacks must at all costs be kept hidden from the peasants, or else we'd be marching on the palace with pitchforks.
I once, in a scholarly discussion group with some quantitative social scientists, posed the question: Suppose we locked up black people at higher and higher rates until the level of black crime in society outside prisons and jails was equal to the nonblack rate? What proportion of incarcerated people would be black? I couldn't get an answer out of them, and wasn't invited back to the group.
There is also, though, a larger systemic failure. Society does not uniformly improve as time goes on. In some ways, it gets worse — less capable. That has happened across the past few decades in America with institutionalization. We used to institutionalize a lot, and were reasonably good at it. Now we don't want to do it that much; and when we do it, we do it badly.
This isn't true only for the institutionalization of criminals, but also for lunatics. A high proportion of homeless people — forty percent, according to my mnemonic — are crazy. They shouldn't be on the streets; they should be in institutions, but we don't do that any more, not on anything like the scale we should.
Some of this collapse of institutionalization was driven by popular culture. The 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a lethal blow to the institutionalization of crazy people, although I've been told it only accelerated a trend already under way; The Shawshank Redemption twenty years later did something similar to criminal incarceration.
I don't know the current state of affairs in our jails; but I suspect the fate of Jeffrey Epstein offers a clue.
A lot of people need institutionalizing, for the protection of the rest of us. The old catch-phrase for the inmates of a jail is apt here, although I think it can be interpreted to include mental patients, too: The sad, the bad, and the mad.
A modern society ought to be able to figure out who they are; and it ought to be able to provide humane, secure institutionalization without seriously infringing on general liberties. Is this really beyond our collective wits, with all our spiffy computers and Artificial Intelligence systems and university departments of psychology and neurology? It looks as though it is.
Did we used to do much better in this zone? My impression, based on reading prison memoirs and some brief observations of my town asylum in England sixty and then forty years ago, is that we did. Surely we could at least try harder.
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06 — Dame Cressida goes to Parliament. I have mentioned one Dick in this podcast, indirectly. That was Philip K. Dick, author of the original 1962 novel The Man in the High Castle. Well, here's another Dick: Dame Cressida Dick, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police over there in London.
The title "Dame" there, I should explain, comes from the lady having been elevated to a senior rank in the Order of the British Empire. That's equivalent to being knighted; so if you are male you become Sir So-and-so, if female, Dame So-and-so. I don't know how it works with transsexuals; The College of Arms is still working on that. Dame Cressida is in any case not transsexual; although she is, according to her Wikipedia article, quote, "the highest-ranked lesbian officer in British police history," end quote.
So what's up with Dame Cressida Dick? Well, this July she gave testimony before the Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee. That's equivalent to an American big-city police chief testifying to a congressional justice committee.
Eye-stopping quote, from James Thompson's excellent coverage of this story over at Unz.com, quote:
Dame Cressida Dick fielded questions about how the police were dealing with the lockdown, and with knife crime and crime generally, with a focus on racial differences, particularly on the numbers of people stopped and searched.
End quote.
Yes: Incredibly, Dame Cressida was open and forthcoming about race differences in crime. She wasn't as open and forthcoming as we are here at VDARE.com, needless to say; but for a person in her position, in a nation as thoroughly race-cucked as Britain, she was remarkably frank. Sample quote from her testimony:
You are four times more likely to be a victim of homicide if you are black and eight times more likely to be a perpetrator.
End quote.
If, in defiance of all the efforts of mainstream media to keep the facts hidden from you, if you know American crime statistics, that eight times figure for homicide will be familiar. It's more or less the same as the corresponding figure for us.
James Thompson says it better than I can. Another quote from him:
The figure is roughly the same as that for homicide for African Americans, despite their different histories. US Police and UK Police differ considerably, in that the latter are not usually armed. That does not appear to make a difference in the ratio of black to white offenders. Black British were originally from the West Indies, and after 70 years in the UK, whatever their experiences, they were not subjected to possibly 500 years of life in the US. It is either a coincidence that both homicide rates are equally raised, or it suggests that the US experiences are not a unique cause of Black homicide rates.
End quote.
In at least one crime statistic the British black-white disparity is actually greater than ours. Quote from the far-left British newspaper The Guardian, September 7th 2017. Here they are reporting on a speech by a black socialist Member of Parliament, David Lammy, complaining about what he says is anti-black bias in the criminal justice system. Quote:
The MP highlighted the fact that there was "greater disproportionality" in the number of black people in prisons in England and Wales than in the US. Black people make up 3 percent of population in England and Wales and 12 percent of the prison population, compared with 13 percent and 35 percent respectively, in the US.
End quote.
So on those numbers from three years ago, British blacks are imprisoned at four times the nonblack rate, while in America it's only 2.7 times.
Ah, these racial gaps: When shall we ever see the end of them? Fix the schools! Defund the police! No justice, no peace! …
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07 — Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: There have been three stories in the news recently that, if you put them together, mutually annihilate each other in a flash of gamma rays, like matter meeting antimatter.
First story: The movie Academy, the one that awards the Oscars, has imposed race quotas on films to be eligible for the Best Picture award. Strictly speaking they are diversity quotas embracing LGBTs, women, the disabled, etc.; but race is of course the main driver here. As Steve Sailer wrote, commenting on this, quote: "Diversity means: black is best and white is worst." End quote.
Second story: The Disney company is in trouble for kowtowing to the ChiComs. The end credits of Disney's live-action Mulan remake thank the police department of a city that runs a concentration camp for Uyghur Muslims. This is routine. China's a big market for Hollywood movies, so the movie-makers strive to follow the party line, to keep the ChiComs happy.
Third story: Chinese audiences strongly prefer to see light-skinned actors in their movies. So, quote from the New York Post, September 8th, quote:
Hollywood is casting more light-skinned actors for major roles in movies to appeal to Chinese audiences following the Communist Party allowing more foreign films in the country.
End quote.
Ftssss! Watch out for those gamma rays!
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Item: A dear friend of mine who is much more of a Trump supporter than I am has taken it upon himself, in a spirit of missionary endeavor, to lift me up from the darkness of my Trump Disappointment Syndrome.
The other day, for example, he emailed me to tell me that the official border wall tally has passed 300 miles, with double wall in some places. He includes a link to supporting information from CBP, Customs and Border Patrol.
My friend does this quite often, and I wouldn't mention it but that this particular email included a signoff that made me laugh. Thus, quote from him:
And don't worry, the wall will never be torn down. When the next Democrat is elected president, the wall will be fortified to keep people from escaping.
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Item: While I'm going through my emails, here's one on a slightly more macabre note. I'm going to tape here on Friday, September 11th, which is of course the 19th anniversary of the assault on our nation by crazy Muslims.
Here is a different friend, quote:
I don't know if you're doing anything 9/11-ish today, but, if you're comparing that spirit to the current one, Google confirms that the phrase "mostly peaceful aviation" is unclaimed.
End quote.
Ah, my friends. God bless them all!
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Item: Here's an interesting question for some scholar of linguistics — John McWhorter, perhaps — to take up: How much can you know of a language without being able to speak it?
My touchstone here is the great and wonderfully prolific British sinologist Arthur Waley, who made famous, and often beautiful translations of Chinese poetry and classic Chinese and Japanese novels. David Honey, in his 2001 survey of famous sinologists, gives twenty fulsome pages to Waley and his translations; yet he notes, on the second of those pages, that, quote:
Waley never visited Asia or learned to speak modern Mandarin or Japanese.
End quote.
Well, here's another data point for this strange little graph: New Zealander Nigel Richards, age 53. Nigel is a Scrabble player, in fact a Scrabble great-grandmaster. He was the Scrabble World Champion in 2007, and again in 2011, 2013, 2018, and 2019.
That's sufficiently impressive; but what really got my attention was the fact that he won the 2015 French-language Scrabble World Championships in spite of not being able to speak French. He basically just memorized a very large French dictionary.
French Scrabble, the NPR report tells us, French Scrabble has 386,000 words — almost twice as many as North American Scrabble. That's interesting in itself: I didn't know the French were that wordy. Zut alors!
I'd like to work my way back to sinology somehow, but I can't. There is a Chinese version of Scrabble, and I commend it to Nigel Richard's attention. It uses the pinyin transcription of Mandarin, though, which is kind of cheating. Real Chinese, written with Chinese characters, is not Scrabbleable.
Is that a word, "Scrabbleable"? "Scrabble-acious," perhaps? "Scrabblesome"? I bet Nigel Richards knows. Heck, he probably knows it in French.
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08 — Signoff. That's all I have for you, ladies and gents. Thank you for listening; and thank you for your many informative and clever emails, like the two I've just quoted. Forgive me please if I didn't answer your email; I get way more than I can acknowledge. The rule remains, as always: Everything non-abusive gets read, pondered, and, where suitable, plagiarized.
OK; some music to see us out. This one needs a bit of explaining.
Keen readers of VDARE.com will know that on Sunday last I blogged about our family rifle, a Lee-Enfield .303 bolt-action antique that is the same age as myself. In that blog was a link to some reminiscing about my schooldays when, in the Combined Cadet Force, I trained on the Lee-Enfield.
In among that reminiscing is a mention of the 1968 movie If …, which includes some scenes of British schoolboys on a CCF field exercise, the kind of thing we used to do with our Lee-Enfields. I wouldn't actually recommend the movie. It's a period piece now, and aside from that is one of the very few cultural productions that I think can be unambiguously described as Nihilist. It does, though, include in its background music some of the Missa Luba.
What's that? It's a setting of the Roman Catholic Latin mass to traditional music from Africa, actually from the Congo. This was the brainchild of a Belgian cleric, who got it recorded in the 1950s by an ensemble called King Baudoin's Troubadours. Here is the Sanctus, which is the piece they played in that movie.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-09-11--John Derbyshire: The U.S. Needs MORE Incarceration. The U.K., Surprisingly, May Already Have It.

[ Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb , now available exclusively through VDARE.com ] This headline from The Spectator , August 29th , naturally caught my eye : If anything , America has an under-incarceration problem .
The byline is Pedro L. Gonzalez , a name not otherwise known to me .
[ VDARE.com Note : Read Pedro L. Gonzalez atAmerican Greatness and follow him on Twitter at @ emeriticus ] but if Pedro is ever out Long Island way , I 'll be glad to buy him a drink .
He takes us through some recent cases : John @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beaten to death at Maryland State Fair last year by two young black brothers—I mean , they are actual brothers—aged 16 and 15 .
Motions to try them as adults were denied .
The older brother got probation ; the younger is in a juvenile detention facility until he 's completed a behavioral modification program .
[ Teen charged in deadly Great Frederick Fair assault to serve probation , by Jeremy Arias , Frederick News-Post , August 12 , 2020 ] Then Pedro tells the horrible story of five-year-old white child Cannon Hinnant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in his front yard by 25-year-old Darius Sessoms , who is black .
That was just last month so there 's no result from the courts yet ; but we have learned that Sessoms is a felon with a long rap sheet .
And then , Joel Francisco , below , who got early release from jail last year under Jared Kushner 's First Step Act .
Shortly after his release , he stabbed a man to death .
[ He was released early from prison in February .
Now he ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Providence Journal , Oct 4 , 2019 ] And so on .
This kind of thing is all too common .
If you pay attention to your local news , you do n't have to pay attention for long before you read about someone on early release , or probation , or with outstanding warrants—someone who should really be locked up—who 's committed some new felony .
Pedro Gonzalez crunches the numbers and makes a good case .
Just one short quote : A lot of that lying is in support of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The stupendous differences in criminality between blacks and non-blacks must at all costs be kept hidden from the peasants , or else we 'd be marching on the palace with pitchforks .
I once , in a scholarly discussion group with some quantitative social scientists , posed the question : Suppose we locked up black people at higher and higher rates until the level of black crime in society outside prisons and jails was equal to the nonblack rate ?
What proportion of incarcerated people would be black ?
I could n't @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and was n't invited back to the group .
Now for the situation in the U.K .
It has some similarities—and some differences .
Dame Cressida Dick , Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London , gave testimony this July before the Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee .
That 's equivalent to an American big-city police chief testifying to a congressional justice committee .
Eye-stopping quote , from psychologist James Thompson 's excellent coverage of this story : Yes !
Incredibly , Dame Cressida was open and forthcoming about race differences in crime !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ as we are here at VDARE.com , needless to say ; but for a person in her position , in a country as thoroughly race-cucked as Britain , she was remarkably frank : If , in defiance of all the efforts of the U.S. Main Stream Media to keep the facts hidden from you , if you know American crime statistics , that eight times figure for homicide will be familiar .
It 's more or less the same as the corresponding figure for us .
James Thompson says it better than I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one crime statistic the British black-white disparity is actually greater than ours .
Here ’ s the far-left British newspaper The Guardian reporting on a speech by a black socialist Member of parliament , David Lammy , complaining about what he says is anti-black bias in the criminal justice system .
So on those numbers from three years ago , British blacks are imprisoned at four times the nonblack rate , while in America it 's only 2.7 times .
And that was before Javanka got to work .
Ah , these racial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the end of them ?
Fix the schools !
Defund the police !
No justice , no peace !
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
Earlier, by Ann Coulter: Mass Incarceration Saved Black America
This headline from The Spectator, August 29th, naturally caught my eye: If anything, America has an under-incarceration problem. The byline is Pedro L. Gonzalez, a name not otherwise known to me; [VDARE.com Note: Read Pedro L. Gonzalez at American Greatness and follow him on Twitter at @emeriticus] but if Pedro is ever out Long Island way, I'll be glad to buy him a drink.
He takes us through some recent cases: John Marvin Weed, the 59-year-old white man beaten to death at Maryland State Fair last year by two young black brothers—I mean, they are actual brothers—aged 16 and 15.
The attack was caught on video. pic.twitter.com/WibDYumQln — David Pinsen (@dpinsen) August 16, 2020
Motions to try them as adults were denied. The older brother got probation; the younger is in a juvenile detention facility until he's completed a behavioral modification program [Teen charged in deadly Great Frederick Fair assault to serve probation, by Jeremy Arias, Frederick News-Post, August 12, 2020].
Then Pedro tells the horrible story of five-year-old white child Cannon Hinnant, shot dead while riding his bike in his front yard by 25-year-old Darius Sessoms, who is black.
That was just last month so there's no result from the courts yet; but we have learned that Sessoms is a felon with a long rap sheet.
And then, Joel Francisco, below, who got early release from jail last year under Jared Kushner's First Step Act.
Shortly after his release, he stabbed a man to death [He was released early from prison in February. Now he’s wanted for a murder on Federal Hill. Providence Journal, Oct 4, 2019].
And so on. This kind of thing is all too common. If you pay attention to your local news, you don't have to pay attention for long before you read about someone on early release, or probation, or with outstanding warrants—someone who should really be locked up—who's committed some new felony.
Pedro Gonzalez crunches the numbers and makes a good case. Just one short quote:
Most of what Americans have been told about mass incarceration is untrue, or takes half-truths and tortures them into whole lies.
A lot of that lying is in support of race denialism, our great National Lie. The stupendous differences in criminality between blacks and non-blacks must at all costs be kept hidden from the peasants, or else we'd be marching on the palace with pitchforks.
I once, in a scholarly discussion group with some quantitative social scientists, posed the question: Suppose we locked up black people at higher and higher rates until the level of black crime in society outside prisons and jails was equal to the nonblack rate? What proportion of incarcerated people would be black?
I couldn't get an answer out of them, and wasn't invited back to the group.
Now for the situation in the U.K. It has some similarities—and some differences.
Dame Cressida Dick, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London, gave testimony this July before the Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee. That's equivalent to an American big-city police chief testifying to a congressional justice committee. Eye-stopping quote, from psychologist James Thompson's excellent coverage of this story:
Dame Cressida Dick fielded questions about how the police were dealing with the lockdown, and with knife crime and crime generally, with a focus on racial differences, particularly on the numbers of people stopped and searched. British Justice, British Version, Unz.com, September 9, 2020
What—what?
Yes! Incredibly, Dame Cressida was open and forthcoming about race differences in crime!
She wasn't as open and forthcoming as we are here at VDARE.com, needless to say; but for a person in her position, in a country as thoroughly race-cucked as Britain, she was remarkably frank:
You are four times more likely to be a victim of homicide if you are black and eight times more likely to be a perpetrator.[PDF]
If, in defiance of all the efforts of the U.S. Main Stream Media to keep the facts hidden from you, if you know American crime statistics, that eight times figure for homicide will be familiar. It's more or less the same as the corresponding figure for us.
How odd.
James Thompson says it better than I can:
The figure is roughly the same as that for homicide for African Americans, despite their different histories. US Police and UK Police differ considerably, in that the latter are not usually armed. That does not appear to make a difference in the ratio of black to white offenders. Black British were originally from the West Indies, and after 70 years in the UK, whatever their experiences, they were not subjected to possibly 500 years of life in the US. It is either a coincidence that both homicide rates are equally raised, or it suggests that the US experiences are not a unique cause of Black homicide rates.
Surprisingly, in at least one crime statistic the British black-white disparity is actually greater than ours. Here’s the far-left British newspaper The Guardian reporting on a speech by a black socialist Member of parliament, David Lammy, complaining about what he says is anti-black bias in the criminal justice system.
The MP highlighted the fact that there was "greater disproportionality" in the number of black people in prisons in England and Wales than in the US. Black people make up 3 percent of population in England and Wales and 12 percent of the prison population, compared with 13 percent and 35 percent respectively, in the US. Exposed: ‘racial bias’ in England and Wales criminal justice system , September 7th, 2017.
So on those numbers from three years ago, British blacks are imprisoned at four times the nonblack rate, while in America it's only 2.7 times.
And that was before Javanka got to work.
Ah, these racial gaps: When shall we ever see the end of them? Fix the schools! Defund the police! No justice, no peace! …
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vdare--2020-09-12--David Hume, a Notorious Confederate General, Gets Canceled

From an official webpage of the U. of Edinburgh : The work of the University ’ s Equality & Diversity @ @ @ @ @ and Anti-Racist Sub-committee has continued over the summer .
It has been further energised following @ @ @ @ @ George Floyd and the ongoing campaigning by the Black Lives Matter movement .
Our Race @ @ @ @ @ is accelerating and amplifying our efforts .
… From the start of the new academic @ @ @ @ @ will be known as 40 George Square .
… The interim decision has been taken @ @ @ @ @ asking students to use a building named after the 18th century philosopher whose comments on @ @ @ @ @ not uncommon at the time , rightly cause distress today .

From an official webpage of the U. of Edinburgh:
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – an update
The work of the University’s Equality & Diversity Committee and its Race Equality and Anti-Racist Sub-committee has continued over the summer. It has been further energised following the killing in May of George Floyd and the ongoing campaigning by the Black Lives Matter movement. Our Race Equality and Anti-Racist Action Plan is accelerating and amplifying our efforts.
… From the start of the new academic year the David Hume Tower will be known as 40 George Square.
… The interim decision has been taken because of the sensitivities around asking students to use a building named after the 18th century philosopher whose comments on matters of race, though not uncommon at the time, rightly cause distress today.


vdare--2020-09-12--Fall Is Coming, So Somali Refugees in Icy Minnesota Are Getting Ready for Their Annual Taxpayer-Subs

Fall Is Coming, So Somali Refugees in Icy Minnesota Are Getting Ready for Their Annual Taxpayer-Subsidized Winter Vacations in Sunny Somalia

If only Somalis in Somalia were as nationalistic about protecting the national interests of Somalia as Somali politicians serving in United States offices are nationalistic about Somalia … One little discussed fact about refugees and asylees ( don ’ t ask me to remember the difference ) is how frequently they take long vacations back home in the Mother Country where their lives are supposedly in danger .
Breitbart recounts a paywalled Minneapolis Star-Tribune article ( it ’ s a measure of the madness of the times that the local newspapers high on my priority list to finally pony up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in formerly boring close-to-the-Canadian border states like Minneapolis and Wisconsin ) : “ Public housing residents in Minneapolis will no longer need to pay their normal monthly rent when travel abroad erases their income , a change particularly sought by East African immigrants , ” the Star Tribune reports : The board of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority approved this week reverting to its previous policy of collecting only minimal rent during extended absences .
The change takes effect once approved by federal housing officials , which is expected by year ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Council member , told the board that the policy in place for the past five years works a particular hardship on elderly East Africans who must save for long periods if they want to visit their homelands .
He said that many receive federal Supplemental Security Income , which is halted when the recipient is outside the United States .
Yet the policy required people to keep paying rent , which is income-based .
Travelers gone for 30 to 90 days could apply for a hardship , which meant that they paid the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ absence , but were required to make up the difference between that and their normal rent over the next year or two .
The change will mean that residents will pay only the $ 75 minimum per month , assuming they apply for the hardship status .
A number of Somali refugees living in Minneapolis Public Housing Authority apartments paid for by the taxpayers apparently take such extended overseas trips regularly .
“ From 50 to 75 public housing residents report such absences annually , according to Mary Boler , an agency manager @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change will be less than $ 50,000 .
The agency found that the paperwork burden of tracking repayment was higher than anticipated , ” the Star Tribune notes .
, , , “ This was brought up to us again and again and again in every building we visited in our ward .
Everybody was afraid to leave the country , ” Warsame told the Star Tribune : He said common reasons for travel abroad include visiting families left behind or participating in the hajj , the pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The agency allows a maximum absence of 90 days , after which it takes steps to terminate a lease .
… “ Virtually all Somalis who live in the US came here ( we are told ) as poor refugees , ” Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch writes .
“ So how persecuted and fearful of returning home are they if many travel back and forth to Africa and the taxpayers of Minneapolis cover most of their rent while they are gone , ” Corcoran asks , a question Minnesota voters may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sure , back in 1991 , tempers were high toward Rep. Omar ’ s powerful clan , including her late father , Nur Omar Mohamed , who was a colonel in the Somali army of overthrown dictator Siad Barre during the 1987-1989 Isaaq Genocide .
But now … From Colonel Nur ’ s obituary in Sahan Journal : Similarly , I have always had a hard time taking seriously the common idea that Iran is a genocidal threat to Jews because so many Persian Jewish refugees in Beverly Hills take annual trips home @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to business deals .
But , at least , few of them live in public housing .

ICE is set to deport dozens of individuals from my district to Somalia, risking the spread of COVID.
ICE’s actions will not only put these individuals at risk, but could have far-reaching consequences for Somalia.
This week, I sent a letter to ICE to get answers. — Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) September 12, 2020
If only Somalis in Somalia were as nationalistic about protecting the national interests of Somalia as Somali politicians serving in United States offices are nationalistic about Somalia …
One little discussed fact about refugees and asylees (don’t ask me to remember the difference) is how frequently they take long vacations back home in the Mother Country where their lives are supposedly in danger.
Breitbart recounts a paywalled Minneapolis Star-Tribune article (it’s a measure of the madness of the times that the local newspapers high on my priority list to finally pony up to subscribe to tend to be located in formerly boring close-to-the-Canadian border states like Minneapolis and Wisconsin):
Minneapolis Subsidizes Somalis’ Vacations in Africa MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY 2 Oct 2016 “Public housing residents in Minneapolis will no longer need to pay their normal monthly rent when travel abroad erases their income, a change particularly sought by East African immigrants,” the Star Tribune reports: The board of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority approved this week reverting to its previous policy of collecting only minimal rent during extended absences. The change takes effect once approved by federal housing officials, which is expected by year’s end. Abdi Warsame, a City Council member, told the board that the policy in place for the past five years works a particular hardship on elderly East Africans who must save for long periods if they want to visit their homelands. He said that many receive federal Supplemental Security Income, which is halted when the recipient is outside the United States. Yet the policy required people to keep paying rent, which is income-based. Travelers gone for 30 to 90 days could apply for a hardship, which meant that they paid the minimum $75 monthly rent during their absence, but were required to make up the difference between that and their normal rent over the next year or two. The change will mean that residents will pay only the $75 minimum per month, assuming they apply for the hardship status. A number of Somali refugees living in Minneapolis Public Housing Authority apartments paid for by the taxpayers apparently take such extended overseas trips regularly. “From 50 to 75 public housing residents report such absences annually, according to Mary Boler, an agency manager. She said the cost of the change will be less than $50,000. The agency found that the paperwork burden of tracking repayment was higher than anticipated,” the Star Tribune notes. ,,, “This was brought up to us again and again and again in every building we visited in our ward. Everybody was afraid to leave the country,” Warsame told the Star Tribune: He said common reasons for travel abroad include visiting families left behind or participating in the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims are expected to make at least once. The agency allows a maximum absence of 90 days, after which it takes steps to terminate a lease. … “Virtually all Somalis who live in the US came here (we are told) as poor refugees,” Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch writes. “So how persecuted and fearful of returning home are they if many travel back and forth to Africa and the taxpayers of Minneapolis cover most of their rent while they are gone,” Corcoran asks, a question Minnesota voters may have on their mind in November.
Sure, back in 1991, tempers were high toward Rep. Omar’s powerful clan, including her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, who was a colonel in the Somali army of overthrown dictator Siad Barre during the 1987-1989 Isaaq Genocide. But now … From Colonel Nur’s obituary in Sahan Journal:
It wasn’t just his daughter for whom Nur cheered. In 2018, when Osman ran for a seat in the state Legislature, Nur messaged him from Somalia, where he was visiting.
Similarly, I have always had a hard time taking seriously the common idea that Iran is a genocidal threat to Jews because so many Persian Jewish refugees in Beverly Hills take annual trips home to Tehran to visit relatives and tend to business deals. But, at least, few of them live in public housing.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-09-12--Are These Antifa/ BLM Riots A Jewish Coup?

Earlier by Kevin MacDonald : The Trump Impeachment : A Clash Between America ’ s Competing Elites ?
It was always obvious to those of us on campus in the Vietnam years that if you fired at random into a mob of student protestors you would hit a lot of Jews , and that is exactly what happened at Kent State in 1970 ( three out of the four dead ) [ Remembering the Jews of Kent State , 45 Years Later , by Anne Cohen , The Forward , May 4 , 2015 ] .
Subsequently , Stanley Rothman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New Left in his definitive 1982 study Roots of Radicalism : Jews , Christians , and the New Left .
Similarly , at least one ( Joseph Rosenbaum ) and possibly two ( Anthony W. Huber ) of the Antifa shot in self-defense by Kenosha WI lifeguard Kyle Rittenhouse appear to have been Jews .
( In a now-deleted post , the Jewish Chronicle tried to downplay Rosenbaum by saying he was “ non-practicing.
” ) [ Rosenbaum , not Jewish but targeted by antisemitism after death during unrest , by Rob Golub @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Will scholars eventually find that the Black Lives Matter moral panic that has convulsed the U.S. in 2020 also had a substantial Jewish component—that it is , in fact , a Color Revolution-style attempted Jewish coup ?
I raised a similar question during the bizarre ( because obviously doomed to failure ) impeachment hearings in January : This summer of riots and statue-toppling , like the late-winter impeachment farce , should not be seen as a one-off event .
I believe it is part of the struggle between our new , Jewish-dominated elite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Great Wave of immigration , and the traditional white Christian majority of America , significantly derived from pre-Revolutionary colonial stock but augmented by subsequent white Christian immigration , from which America ’ s historic so-called WASP elite was derived .
Of course , the people on the street are poor Blacks looting athletic shoes and TV sets , aided and abetted by young Whites playing hooky from their jobs at Starbucks .
But the Great 2020 Black Lives Matter Moral Panic is still an elite project .
Otherwise the elite Main Stream Media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ violence resulting from what they label “ mainly peaceful ” protests ; and they wouldn ’ t be ignoring the huge upsurge in shootings and crimes [ Kids Getting Caught in Crossfire as US Gun Violence Surges , by Don Babwin , AP , August 3 , 2020 ] .
And money wouldn ’ t be flowing into BLM-linked organizations from major corporations like Apple , Nike , Facebook , Coca Cola , and YouTube .
[ Want to know where all those corporate donations for # BLM are going ?
Here 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NBC , June 5 , 2020 ] In other words , the political class in the big cities run by Democrats ( i.e.
, all of them ) , the lion ’ s share of the elite media and corporate America , the entire academic Establishment , and both major political parties are complicit .
So how did we come to this ?
It ’ s been a long process .
But one thing that it is not : a reflection of the objective situation of American blacks .
Since the 1960s , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ programs to erase the gaps in income and wealth between the races .
Affirmative Action created a Black middle class—according to a Brookings Institute study , roughly 71 % of Blacks are middle- or upper-class [ The Black middle class needs political attention , too , Andre M. Perry and Carl Romer , February 27 , 2020 ] ) .
Billions were thrown into Head Start and other programs , like busing students .
Colleges bent over backwards to recruit Black students .
Private corporations—and even more so the government—hired Black workers .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ president on a wave of optimism on race relations .
Of course , it wasn ’ t enough .
A recent study replicated Rushton and Jensen ’ s 2005 conclusion that 50–70 percent of the IQ difference between Blacks and Whites is genetic .
[ Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability by Jordan Lasker , Bryan J. Pesta , John G. R. Fuerst and Emil O. W. Kirkegaard , Psych , August 30 , 2019 ] .
So all these programs could never erase the racial gaps in the genetically-influenced traits needed for success @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arguably the welfare system and the sexual revolution—both progressive causes—was especially hard on the Black family : The markers of family dysfunction skyrocketed in the 1960s for Blacks and Whites alike , but much worse for Blacks—e.g.
, around 70 percent of Black babies are now born out of wedlock , over 80 percent for Blacks with a high school education or less [ Dramatic increase in the proportion of births outside of marriage in the United States from 1990 to 2016 , by Elizabeth Wildsmith , Jennifer Manlove , Elizabeth Cook , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Thus the chart below , from Charles Murray ’ s Coming Apart , show the continuing cultural deterioration since the 1960s : The proportion of out-of-wedlock births among whites in 2016 is around twice the percentage for blacks back in 1960—but blacks have suffered worse .
Significantly , however , the leadership of Black Lives Matter opposes the “ Western nuclear family ” despite family breakdown ’ s many correlations with poor outcomes for children .
Other Blacks see this paradox ( and note Marcellus Wiley ’ s comments on “ white @ @ @ @ @ @ @ video ) : The reason for BLM ’ s apparently perverse attitude : its leaders are self-proclaimed Marxists—i.e .
part of the elite political class .
[ Black Lives Matter co-founder describes herself as ‘ trained Marxist ’ , by Yaron Steinbuch , New York Post , June 25 , 2020 ] Note that BLM co-founder Alicia Garza identifies as Jewish .
So how to conceptualize Jewish involvement ?
As documented in my book The Culture of Critique , Jews have been the backbone of the American Left since they arrived in America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that emerged in the counterculture of the 1960s .
The Frankfurt School , largely shaped by Jewish refugees from Hitler , reconceptualized anti-Semitism as resulting , not from class conflict as orthodox Marxism had claimed , but from ethnic conflict .
Similarly , Jewish activism in the post-World-War-II U.S. focused on importing non-Whites as allies of Jews in opposition to the traditional White American majority .
Hence the critical role of Jews and Jewish organizations in the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act .
Jews and Jewish organizations have allied themselves with Blacks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ founding of the NAACP .
And , despite a substantial history of Black anti-Semitism ( e.g.
, Louis Farrakhan , the recent spate of attacks on Orthodox Jews in New York , anti-Jewish statements by Black media figures like Nick Cannon—who also thinks Blacks are superior to White people but only apologized to Jews ) , this alliance continues into the present .
( But the Cannon incident shows brings into focus that there are limits to Cancel Culture .
Steve Sailer has pointed out that previous black insurrections have been stopped when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he thinks is happening now ) .
Some Jews have taken the opportunity of recent developments in Cancel Culture to put forth their own continuing grievances against the West .
Hence the Jewish campaign to remove the statue of French king Louis IX ( Saint Louis ) from a park in his namesake city of St. Louis .
[ Should St. Louis take down the statue of its anti-Semitic namesake ?
Activists say yes.
, by Ben Sales , Jewish Telegraphic Agency , June 26 , 2020 ] In this spirit , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a list of 8 “ anti-Semites ” who still have memorials in the U.S. : Charles Lindbergh ( who correctly identified Jews as one pressure group attempting to get the U.S. into World War II ) , Gen. George S. Patton ( who was unsympathetic to the post-World War II treatment of Germans and Jews ) , Henry Ford ( publisher of The International Jew ) , Peter Stuyvesant ( who tried to prevent Jews from settling in New York ) , Martin Luther ( author of On the Jews and Their Lies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who issued an order expelling Jewish cotton speculators from areas under his command during the Civil War ) , Mary Elizabeth Lease ( who linked Jews with banking as part of her populism ) , and Thomas E. Watson ( who led a campaign against Jewish accused murderer Leo Frank ) .
[ 8 American monuments celebrating anti-Semites , June 23 , 2020 ] How long before they too are Cancelled ?
But the major new development in this summer ’ s Cultural Revolution : cleansing the internet of material the Left doesn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Left appears to have figured out a way around the First Amendment , by co-opting the private sector .
Jews and Jewish organizations have been heavily involved .
It wasn ’ t long ago that the tech nerds who developed the internet had a strong ideology of free speech .
This gave rise to an online flourishing of dissident ideas , with outlets such as VDARE.com and my own Occidental Observer .
But Jewish organizations , which had loudly favored free speech when Leftists were being blacklisted in the 1950s , had decided @ @ @ @ @ @ @ represented a threat to their interests .
Already by 1999 the Jewish enforcer group the Anti-Defamation League had published Poisoning the Web : Hate Online : An ADL Report on Internet Hate , Bigotry , and Violence .
( “ Hate , ” remember , is simply speech that the Left in general and Jews in particular dislike .
Thus Jewish intellectual Susan Sontag ’ s saying “ the white race is the cancer of human history ” is OK ) .
More recently , Andrew Joyce has documented that , in Europe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Security Trust , a Jewish organization , and the European Jewish Congress have taken the lead in banning speech on Facebook , Microsoft , Twitter , YouTube , Instagram , Google+ , Snapchat , Dailymotion , and Jeuxvideo.com .
Similarly in the U.S. , the ADL has been deeply involved with social media companies .
While most companies have been completely compliant , the ADL resorted to organizing a campaign against Facebook regarding messages on the Holocaust .
They presented a Facebook is certainly not principled in its opposition to the ADL demands @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on an earnings call … that the company agreed with the goal of the boycott , to have Facebook be hate-free.
” [ Facebook : increased ad revenue even as ADL-led boycott reduced spending , by Marcy Oster/JTA , Jerusalem Post , August 3 , 2020 ] And Facebook has just announced a ban on all political advertising in the seven days before the November 3 Presidential election .
This obviously hurts the Trump campaign , which has relied heavily on social media advertising to get around Leftist control of the corporate media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Leftists , who simply want Facebook to suppress the Right while allowing the Left free rein .
Facebook appears desperate to avoid this , probably because making blatant editorial decisions would strengthen forces who want to remove the liability protection it currently enjoys as a supposedly neutral platform .
[ Facing immense pressure , Facebook had no choice but to ban new political ads week before election , by Jon Swartz , MarketWatch , September 4 , 2020 ] It goes without saying that the giants of internet advertising are Jewish-dominated : Facebook @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Google ( founded by Sergei Brin and Larry Page ) .
Censorship is also rampant at PayPal whose CEO is Dan Schulman .
[ National Justice Exclusive : Leaked Images From PayPal Seminar Reveals Explicit Racial Bias Against White Customers , Eric Striker , National-Justice.com , July 4 , 2020 ] PayPal , which dominates the internet payment market , has begun to refuse to service accounts linked to White advocacy—or even criticism of mass immigration , although that ’ s the issue that won Trump the 2016 election .
Given the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Hate Speech , ” including their recent involvement , in collaboration with BLM-linked Al Sharpton , in censoring the internet , we could well see all dissident sites on the right—particularly those linked to White identity and interests—cancelled [ Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt Joins Al Sharpton to Promote Boycott of ‘ Hate ’ ] The only saving grace : this is a group that has a long record of going too far .
Earlier this year , considering the question of why Jewish legislators and media figures were expending so much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had no chance of success , I answered : Because they can ’ t help themselves .
And , indeed , impeachment did fail .
Similarly , Antifa and the Tech Totalitarians will go too far .
It may be the unprovoked murder of a Trump supporter on the streets of Portland or Facebook ’ s subsequent outrageous blocking the pages of the very group to which this innocent victim belonged .
It may be the national MSM ’ s complete repression of the news that , after a memorial service for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ran over and nearly killed Proud Boy member—obviously because of the embarrassing parallel to Charlottesville .
It ’ s impossible to say .
But history says an overreach will happen .
Kevin MacDonald [ email him ] is emeritus professor of psychology at California State University–Long Beach .
His research has focused on developing evolutionary perspectives in developmental psychology , personality theory , Western culture , and ethnic relations ( group evolutionary strategies ) .
He edits and is a frequent contributor to The Occidental Observer and The Occidental Quarterly .
For his @ @ @ @ @

Earlier by Kevin MacDonald: The Trump Impeachment: A Clash Between America’s Competing Elites?
It was always obvious to those of us on campus in the Vietnam years that if you fired at random into a mob of student protestors you would hit a lot of Jews, and that is exactly what happened at Kent State in 1970 (three out of the four dead) [Remembering the Jews of Kent State, 45 Years Later, by Anne Cohen, The Forward, May 4, 2015]. Subsequently, Stanley Rothman documented the key Jewish role in the New Left in his definitive 1982 study Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians, and the New Left. Similarly, at least one (Joseph Rosenbaum) and possibly two (Anthony W. Huber) of the Antifa shot in self-defense by Kenosha WI lifeguard Kyle Rittenhouse appear to have been Jews. (In a now-deleted post, the Jewish Chronicle tried to downplay Rosenbaum by saying he was “non-practicing.”) [Rosenbaum, not Jewish but targeted by antisemitism after death during unrest, by Rob Golub, August 27, 2020]. Will scholars eventually find that the Black Lives Matter moral panic that has convulsed the U.S. in 2020 also had a substantial Jewish component—that it is, in fact, a Color Revolution-style attempted Jewish coup?
I raised a similar question during the bizarre (because obviously doomed to failure) impeachment hearings in January:
Is the Trump impeachment a Jewish coup? It’s a dangerous question even to ask… But undeniably, Jews have taken very prominent, very public roles in impeachment…In effect, impeachment is a project of the numerically dominant Jewish Democrat-voting Left, with the Jewish counsels for the Democrats questioning Jewish witnesses in House committees headed by Jewish representatives, and covered with breathless enthusiasm by Jewish-owned media outlets like MSNBC, CNN, and The New York Times. The only surprise: that the Jewish role has been so public.
This summer of riots and statue-toppling, like the late-winter impeachment farce, should not be seen as a one-off event. I believe it is part of the struggle between our new, Jewish-dominated elite, mostly stemming from the 1880–1920 First Great Wave of immigration, and the traditional white Christian majority of America, significantly derived from pre-Revolutionary colonial stock but augmented by subsequent white Christian immigration, from which America’s historic so-called WASP elite was derived.
Of course, the people on the street are poor Blacks looting athletic shoes and TV sets, aided and abetted by young Whites playing hooky from their jobs at Starbucks. But the Great 2020 Black Lives Matter Moral Panic is still an elite project. Otherwise the elite Main Stream Media wouldn’t be systematically downplaying the violence resulting from what they label “mainly peaceful” protests; and they wouldn’t be ignoring the huge upsurge in shootings and crimes [Kids Getting Caught in Crossfire as US Gun Violence Surges, by Don Babwin, AP, August 3, 2020]. And money wouldn’t be flowing into BLM-linked organizations from major corporations like Apple, Nike, Facebook, Coca Cola, and YouTube. [Want to know where all those corporate donations for #BLM are going? Here's the list, by James Wellemyer, NBC, June 5, 2020]
In other words, the political class in the big cities run by Democrats (i.e., all of them), the lion’s share of the elite media and corporate America, the entire academic Establishment, and both major political parties are complicit.
So how did we come to this? It’s been a long process. But one thing that it is not: a reflection of the objective situation of American blacks.
Since the 1960s, the Ruling Class instituted a variety of programs to erase the gaps in income and wealth between the races. Affirmative Action created a Black middle class—according to a Brookings Institute study, roughly 71% of Blacks are middle- or upper-class [The Black middle class needs political attention, too, Andre M. Perry and Carl Romer, February 27, 2020]). Billions were thrown into Head Start and other programs, like busing students. Colleges bent over backwards to recruit Black students. Private corporations—and even more so the government—hired Black workers. And in 2008 Barack Obama was elected president on a wave of optimism on race relations.
Of course, it wasn’t enough. A recent study replicated Rushton and Jensen’s 2005 conclusion that 50–70 percent of the IQ difference between Blacks and Whites is genetic. [Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability by Jordan Lasker, Bryan J. Pesta, John G. R. Fuerst and Emil O. W. Kirkegaard, Psych, August 30, 2019]. So all these programs could never erase the racial gaps in the genetically-influenced traits needed for success in a 21st-century economy. Indeed, arguably the welfare system and the sexual revolution—both progressive causes—was especially hard on the Black family: The markers of family dysfunction skyrocketed in the 1960s for Blacks and Whites alike, but much worse for Blacks—e.g., around 70 percent of Black babies are now born out of wedlock, over 80 percent for Blacks with a high school education or less [Dramatic increase in the proportion of births outside of marriage in the United States from 1990 to 2016, by Elizabeth Wildsmith, Jennifer Manlove, Elizabeth Cook, ChildTrends.org, August 08, 2018].
Thus the chart below, presenting data of the sort found in Charles Murray’s Coming Apart, show the continuing cultural deterioration since the 1960s: The proportion of out-of-wedlock births among whites in 2016 is around twice the percentage for blacks back in 1960—but blacks have suffered worse.
[Source]
Significantly, however, the leadership of Black Lives Matter opposes the “Western nuclear family” despite family breakdown’s many correlations with poor outcomes for children. Other Blacks see this paradox (and note Marcellus Wiley’s comments on “white supremacy” at the end of this video):
.@MarcellusWiley breaks down why the NBA’s plan to paint ‘Black Lives Matter’ on courts is a bad idea. pic.twitter.com/EoCJNf7ho1 — Speak (@SpeakOnFS1) June 30, 2020
The reason for BLM’s apparently perverse attitude: its leaders are self-proclaimed Marxists—i.e. part of the elite political class. [ Black Lives Matter co-founder describes herself as ‘trained Marxist’, by Yaron Steinbuch, New York Post, June 25, 2020] Note that BLM co-founder Alicia Garza identifies as Jewish.
So how to conceptualize Jewish involvement? As documented in my book The Culture of Critique, Jews have been the backbone of the American Left since they arrived in America and are central to the new elite that emerged in the counterculture of the 1960s. The Frankfurt School, largely shaped by Jewish refugees from Hitler, reconceptualized anti-Semitism as resulting, not from class conflict as orthodox Marxism had claimed, but from ethnic conflict. Similarly, Jewish activism in the post-World-War-II U.S. focused on importing non-Whites as allies of Jews in opposition to the traditional White American majority. Hence the critical role of Jews and Jewish organizations in the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act.
Jews and Jewish organizations have allied themselves with Blacks since the early twentieth Century with the founding of the NAACP. And, despite a substantial history of Black anti-Semitism (e.g., Louis Farrakhan, the recent spate of attacks on Orthodox Jews in New York, anti-Jewish statements by Black media figures like Nick Cannon—who also thinks Blacks are superior to White people but only apologized to Jews), this alliance continues into the present.
(But the Cannon incident shows brings into focus that there are limits to Cancel Culture. Steve Sailer has pointed out that previous black insurrections have been stopped when they begin to criticize Jews, which he thinks is happening now).
Some Jews have taken the opportunity of recent developments in Cancel Culture to put forth their own continuing grievances against the West. Hence the Jewish campaign to remove the statue of French king Louis IX (Saint Louis) from a park in his namesake city of St. Louis. [Should St. Louis take down the statue of its anti-Semitic namesake? Activists say yes., by Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, June 26, 2020]
In this spirit, the Forward’s Aiden Pink helpfully supplied a list of 8 “anti-Semites” who still have memorials in the U.S.: Charles Lindbergh (who correctly identified Jews as one pressure group attempting to get the U.S. into World War II), Gen. George S. Patton (who was unsympathetic to the post-World War II treatment of Germans and Jews), Henry Ford (publisher of The International Jew), Peter Stuyvesant (who tried to prevent Jews from settling in New York), Martin Luther (author of On the Jews and Their Lies), President Ulysses S. Grant (who issued an order expelling Jewish cotton speculators from areas under his command during the Civil War), Mary Elizabeth Lease (who linked Jews with banking as part of her populism), and Thomas E. Watson (who led a campaign against Jewish accused murderer Leo Frank). [8 American monuments celebrating anti-Semites, June 23, 2020]
How long before they too are Cancelled?
But the major new development in this summer’s Cultural Revolution: cleansing the internet of material the Left doesn’t like. Essentially, the Left appears to have figured out a way around the First Amendment, by co-opting the private sector. Jews and Jewish organizations have been heavily involved.
It wasn’t long ago that the tech nerds who developed the internet had a strong ideology of free speech. This gave rise to an online flourishing of dissident ideas, with outlets such as VDARE.com and my own Occidental Observer.
But Jewish organizations, which had loudly favored free speech when Leftists were being blacklisted in the 1950s, had decided even twenty years ago that the internet represented a threat to their interests. Already by 1999 the Jewish enforcer group the Anti-Defamation League had published Poisoning the Web: Hate Online: An ADL Report on Internet Hate, Bigotry, and Violence.
(“Hate,” remember, is simply speech that the Left in general and Jews in particular dislike. Thus Jewish intellectual Susan Sontag’s saying “the white race is the cancer of human history” is OK).
More recently, Andrew Joyce has documented that, in Europe, organizations like Britain’s Community Security Trust, a Jewish organization, and the European Jewish Congress have taken the lead in banning speech on Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Google+, Snapchat, Dailymotion, and Jeuxvideo.com.
Similarly in the U.S., the ADL has been deeply involved with social media companies. While most companies have been completely compliant, the ADL resorted to organizing a campaign against Facebook regarding messages on the Holocaust. They presented a
series of demands to drop the boycott [that] include the granting of high-level access to ‘civil rights’ (i.e., ADL) officials who will perform regular, independent audits” of “hate” on the platform (which would allow them to engage in intelligence gathering, the collection of IP addresses etc.), immediate removal of “thousands” of White advocacy groups, and the use of Facebook software to “target” “neo-Nazis and White supremacists. [“Secure Tolerance”: The Jewish Plan to Permanently Silence the West, Part 3 of 3, by Andrew Joyce, Occidental Observer, July 15, 2020]
Facebook is certainly not principled in its opposition to the ADL demands. Recently Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said on an earnings call … that the company agreed with the goal of the boycott, to have Facebook be hate-free.” [Facebook: increased ad revenue even as ADL-led boycott reduced spending, by Marcy Oster/JTA, Jerusalem Post, August 3, 2020]
And Facebook has just announced a ban on all political advertising in the seven days before the November 3 Presidential election. This obviously hurts the Trump campaign, which has relied heavily on social media advertising to get around Leftist control of the corporate media. But it hasn’t satisfied Leftists, who simply want Facebook to suppress the Right while allowing the Left free rein. Facebook appears desperate to avoid this, probably because making blatant editorial decisions would strengthen forces who want to remove the liability protection it currently enjoys as a supposedly neutral platform. [ Facing immense pressure, Facebook had no choice but to ban new political ads week before election , by Jon Swartz, MarketWatch, September 4, 2020]
It goes without saying that the giants of internet advertising are Jewish-dominated: Facebook (Sandberg and CEO Mark Zuckerberg) and Google (founded by Sergei Brin and Larry Page).
Censorship is also rampant at PayPal whose CEO is Dan Schulman. [National Justice Exclusive: Leaked Images From PayPal Seminar Reveals Explicit Racial Bias Against White Customers, Eric Striker, National-Justice.com, July 4, 2020] PayPal, which dominates the internet payment market, has begun to refuse to service accounts linked to White advocacy—or even criticism of mass immigration, although that’s the issue that won Trump the 2016 election.
Given the long involvement of Jewish organizations in suppressing “Hate Speech,” including their recent involvement, in collaboration with BLM-linked Al Sharpton, in censoring the internet, we could well see all dissident sites on the right—particularly those linked to White identity and interests—cancelled [Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt Joins Al Sharpton to Promote Boycott of ‘Hate’]
The only saving grace: this is a group that has a long record of going too far.
Earlier this year, considering the question of why Jewish legislators and media figures were expending so much energy on a far-fetched impeachment theory that had no chance of success, I answered: Because they can’t help themselves.
And, indeed, impeachment did fail.
Similarly, Antifa and the Tech Totalitarians will go too far. It may be the unprovoked murder of a Trump supporter on the streets of Portland or Facebook’s subsequent outrageous blocking the pages of the very group to which this innocent victim belonged. It may be the national MSM’s complete repression of the news that, after a memorial service for the murdered Trump supporter, an Antifa militant ran over and nearly killed Proud Boy member—obviously because of the embarrassing parallel to Charlottesville.
It’s impossible to say. But history says an overreach will happen.
Kevin MacDonald [email him] is emeritus professor of psychology at California State University–Long Beach. His research has focused on developing evolutionary perspectives in developmental psychology, personality theory, Western culture, and ethnic relations (group evolutionary strategies). He edits and is a frequent contributor to The Occidental Observer and The Occidental Quarterly. For his website, click here.


vdare--2020-09-12--Trump Should Refuse The Nobel Peace Prize If He Gets It: He's Not An Affirmative Action Case

Trump has been brokering peace deals both in Kosovo and in the Middle East , and he has been much less likely to start wars than any predecessor since Ronald Reagan so two separate people have nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize .
This has led Graeme Wood , right , in the Atlantic to call for cancelling peace forever , as it 's tainted by Trump .
Wood [ Tweet him ] writes Now the first thing you need to know about nominations for the Nobel Prize is that they 're literally meaningless .
The Prize allows nominations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , any social science professor , which is how Death Row cop-killer Stanley `` Tookie '' Williams got nominated for some post-conviction apparent repentance and activism .
( He leant his name to a lot of children 's books saying `` do n't join gangs '' but was executed anyway . )
But Wood is right that the Nobel Peace Prize is generally worthless .
A typical Leftist , he hates it that Kissinger got the Nobel in for ending the Vietnam War .
He does n't mention that Kissinger shared it with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one who violated the Peace Accords by invading and occupying South Vietnam .
Years ago when John Derbyshire pointed out that the science , literature , and economics Nobel winners were an `` Ice People Club '' i. e. whites and Asians , with no black winners at all , I wrote that even before the age of diversity ( which gave Barack Obama an Affirmative Action Nobel on his election ) the Nobel Peace Prize has always been the Special Olympics of the Nobel World .
You don ’ t have to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mean well .
Both prizes awarded for , basically , preventing the First World War , which went ahead and happened anyhow All those prizes were for actions tending to prevent the Second World War , which went ahead and happened anyhow .
Closer to our own time , we read that Shared a prize for making peace in Vietnam .
Two years later , North Vietnam , deploying Soviet arms and Democratic congressmen , invaded and conquered South Vietnam .
Shared a prize for bringing peace to Northern Ireland , which peace @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Agreement of 1998 , ( basically a surrender ) after some more violence George Bush brought peace to Northern Ireland once more in 2007 and in 2009 , when I wrote this Hillary Clinton was in Belfast bringing it yet again .
As of 2020 , the Guardian had a headline saying `` Ireland accuses Boris Johnson of trying to sabotage peace process just yesterday .
Shared a prize for bringing peace to South Africa—which is not notably peaceful .
Solved the problems of the Middle East .
No comment .
One I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Luther King , Jr .
He got the Nobel in 1964 to celebrate his attempts to bring racial peace and justice to the US .
Look out your window—if it 's not boarded up—and see if that worked .
So , I said in 2009 , if Obama doesn ’ t deserve the Nobel , and he doesn ’ t , he ’ s not the first .
And in 2011 , when Michael Moore demanded Obama give back the Nobel Prize because of his Prize for making war on Libya , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he should , nobody else ever does . ''
So here 's my suggestion : Trump should thank the people who nominated him , but tell the Nobel Peace Prize people he does n't want their prize .
He does n't need the money , and he can tell them he does n't want the approval of the kind of people who vote for , or get these prizes .
For added effect , he could also say he does n't want to be associated with failure , and mention Obama by name @

Trump has been brokering peace deals both in Kosovo and in the Middle East, and he has been much less likely to start wars than any predecessor since Ronald Reagan, so two separate people have nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
This has led Graeme Wood, right, in the Atlantic to call for cancelling peace forever, as it's tainted by Trump. Wood [Tweet him] writes
Giving the peace prize to no one at all is a tradition the Nobel Committee should revive, perhaps on a permanent basis. The record of achievement of the peace laureates is so spotty, and the rationales for their awards so eclectic, that the committee should take a long break to consider whether peace is a category coherent enough to be worth recognizing. Peace had its chance, and blew it. The Trump nomination—one of hundreds, including this second from a Swede—helps show why.
"The record of achievement of the peace laureates is so spotty, and the rationales for their awards so eclectic, that the committee should take a long break to consider whether peace is a category coherent enough to be worth recognizing," @gcaw writes: https://t.co/kMGZGzTaki — The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 11, 2020
Now the first thing you need to know about nominations for the Nobel Prize is that they're literally meaningless. The Prize allows nominations to come from, among other categories, any social science professor, which is how Death Row cop-killer Stanley "Tookie" Williams got nominated for some post-conviction apparent repentance and activism. (He leant his name to a lot of children's books saying "don't join gangs" but was executed anyway.)
But Wood is right that the Nobel Peace Prize is generally worthless. A typical Leftist, he hates it that Kissinger got the Nobel in for ending the Vietnam War. He doesn't mention that Kissinger shared it with Le Duc Tho, who was the one who violated the Peace Accords by invading and occupying South Vietnam.
Years ago when John Derbyshire pointed out that the science, literature, and economics Nobel winners were an "Ice People Club" i.e., whites and Asians, with no black winners at all, I wrote that even before the age of diversity (which gave Barack Obama an Affirmative Action Nobel on his election) the Nobel Peace Prize has always been the Special Olympics of the Nobel World. You don’t have to achieve peace, you just have to mean well.
Here's my list:
1910 - Permanent International Peace Bureau
1913 - Henri La Fontaine
Both prizes awarded for, basically, preventing the First World War, which went ahead and happened anyhow.
All those prizes were for actions tending to prevent the Second World War, which went ahead and happened anyhow.
Closer to our own time, we read that
Shared a prize for making peace in Vietnam. Two years later, North Vietnam, deploying Soviet arms and Democratic congressmen, invaded and conquered South Vietnam.
Shared a prize for bringing peace to Northern Ireland, which peace was brought again in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, (basically a surrender). After some more violence, George Bush brought peace to Northern Ireland once more in 2007, and in 2009, when I wrote this Hillary Clinton was in Belfast, bringing it yet again. As of 2020, the Guardian had a headline saying "Ireland accuses Boris Johnson of trying to sabotage peace process" just yesterday.
Shared a prize for bringing peace to South Africa—which is not notably peaceful.
Solved the problems of the Middle East. No comment.
One I left out at the time: Martin Luther King, Jr. He got the Nobel in 1964 to celebrate his attempts to bring racial peace and justice to the US. Look out your window—if it's not boarded up—and see if that worked.
So, I said in 2009, if Obama doesn’t deserve the Nobel, and he doesn’t, he’s not the first. And in 2011, when Michael Moore demanded Obama give back the Nobel Prize because of his Prize for making war on Libya, I wrote "I don't see why he should, nobody else ever does."
So here's my suggestion: Trump should thank the people who nominated him, but tell the Nobel Peace Prize people he doesn't want their prize. He doesn't need the money, and he can tell them he doesn't want the approval of the kind of people who vote for, or get these prizes.
For added effect, he could also say he doesn't want to be associated with failure, and mention Obama by name.


vdare--2020-09-12--Rocky Personalities: Over A Century Since The Frontier Closed, The Pioneer Spirit Is Still There

A press release from the U. of Cambridge : Distinct psychological mix associated with mountain populations is consistent with the theory that harsh frontiers attracted certain personalities .
When historian Frederick Jackson Turner presented his famous thesis on the US frontier in 1893 , he described the “ coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and acquisitiveness ” it had forged in the American character .
Now , well into the 21st century , and researchers led by the University of Cambridge have detected remnants of the pioneer personality in US populations of once inhospitable mountainous territory , particularly in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigated how landscape shapes psychology .
They analysed links between the anonymised results of an online personality test completed by over 3.3 million Americans , and the “ topography ” of 37,227 US postal – or ZIP – codes .
The researchers found that living at both a higher altitude and an elevation relative to the surrounding region – indicating “ hilliness ” – is associated with a distinct blend of personality traits that fits with “ frontier settlement theory ” .
“ The harsh and remote environment of mountainous frontier regions historically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sense of freedom , ” said researcher Friedrich Götz , from Cambridge ’ s Department of Psychology .
“ Such rugged terrain likely favoured those who closely guarded their resources and distrusted strangers , as well as those who engaged in risky explorations to secure food and territory.
” “ These traits may have distilled over time into an individualism characterised by toughness and self-reliance that lies at the heart of the American frontier ethos ” said Götz , lead author of the study .
“ When we look at personality across the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mountainous residents are more likely to have psychological characteristics indicative of this frontier mentality.
” The research uses the “ Big Five ” personality model , standard in social psychology , with simple online tests providing high-to-low scores for five fundamental personality traits of millions of Americans .
The mix of characteristics uncovered by study ’ s authors consists of low levels of “ agreeableness ” , suggesting mountainous residents are less trusting and forgiving – traits that benefit “ territorial , self-focused survival strategies ” .
Low levels of “ extraversion ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in secluded areas , and a low level of “ conscientiousness ” lends itself to rebelliousness and indifference to rules , say researchers .
“ Neuroticism ” is also lower , suggesting an emotional stability and assertiveness suited to frontier living .
However , “ openness to experience ” is much higher , and the most pronounced personality trait in mountain dwellers .
“ Openness is a strong predictor of residential mobility , ” said Götz .
“ A willingness to move your life in pursuit of goals such as economic affluence and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ frontier settlers .
”

A press release from the U. of Cambridge:
‘Wild West’ mentality lingers in US mountain regions
Distinct psychological mix associated with mountain populations is consistent with the theory that harsh frontiers attracted certain personalities.
Friedrich Götz
When historian Frederick Jackson Turner presented his famous thesis on the US frontier in 1893, he described the “coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and acquisitiveness” it had forged in the American character.
Now, well into the 21st century, and researchers led by the University of Cambridge have detected remnants of the pioneer personality in US populations of once inhospitable mountainous territory, particularly in the West.
A team of scientists algorithmically investigated how landscape shapes psychology. They analysed links between the anonymised results of an online personality test completed by over 3.3 million Americans, and the “topography” of 37,227 US postal – or ZIP – codes.
The researchers found that living at both a higher altitude and an elevation relative to the surrounding region – indicating “hilliness” – is associated with a distinct blend of personality traits that fits with “frontier settlement theory”.
“The harsh and remote environment of mountainous frontier regions historically attracted nonconformist settlers strongly motivated by a sense of freedom,” said researcher Friedrich Götz, from Cambridge’s Department of Psychology.
“Such rugged terrain likely favoured those who closely guarded their resources and distrusted strangers, as well as those who engaged in risky explorations to secure food and territory.”
“These traits may have distilled over time into an individualism characterised by toughness and self-reliance that lies at the heart of the American frontier ethos” said Götz, lead author of the study.
“When we look at personality across the whole United States, we find that mountainous residents are more likely to have psychological characteristics indicative of this frontier mentality.”
The research uses the “Big Five” personality model, standard in social psychology, with simple online tests providing high-to-low scores for five fundamental personality traits of millions of Americans.
The mix of characteristics uncovered by study’s authors consists of low levels of “agreeableness”, suggesting mountainous residents are less trusting and forgiving – traits that benefit “territorial, self-focused survival strategies”.
Low levels of “extraversion” reflect the introverted self-reliance required to thrive in secluded areas, and a low level of “conscientiousness” lends itself to rebelliousness and indifference to rules, say researchers.
“Neuroticism” is also lower, suggesting an emotional stability and assertiveness suited to frontier living. However, “openness to experience” is much higher, and the most pronounced personality trait in mountain dwellers.
“Openness is a strong predictor of residential mobility,” said Götz. “A willingness to move your life in pursuit of goals such as economic affluence and personal freedom drove many original North American frontier settlers.”


vdare--2020-09-12--Dueling Search Engines: Was Kamala Harris an Anchor Baby? Not If You Ask Google!

Kamala Harris was born an anchor baby : neither of her parents were a United States citizen when she was @ @ @ @ @ .
It ’ s interesting to look at how the two main search engines respond @ @ @ @ @ fact :

Earlier: Kamala Harris's Birth Certificate? (Identifies Mom As "Caucasian," Dad As "Jamaican")
Kamala Harris was born an anchor baby: neither of her parents was a United States citizen when she was born in California in 1964. It’s interesting to look at how the two main search engines respond to a search for this fact:


vdare--2020-09-13--Which NFL Players Will Put Althea Bernstein's Name on Their Helmets?

List of approved names for placement on helmet bumper includes David Dorn Mike Florio 2 days ago When word emerged that the NFL will allow players to display on their rear helmet bumpers the names of victims of police violence and systemic racism , many asked whether David Dorn ’ s name would be eligible for use .
… Dorn , a retired police officer , was fatally shot in St. Louis during looting that occurred in connection with the protests that emerged following the murder of George Floyd .
… This is the current list of approved names for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as provided by the NFL to PFT : Ahmaud Arbery , Althea Bernstein , La ’ Vante Biggs , Jacob Blake , Emantic “ EJ ” Bradford , Rayshard Brooks , Kalief Browder , Jim Brown , Michael Brown , Dennis “ Ballie ” Browning Jr. , Miriam Carey , Philando Castile , William L. Champman II , Kenneth Clark Sr. , Sharonda Coleman-Singleton , John Crawford III , Tymar Crawford , Emerson Crayton , Jordan Davis , Amadou Diallo , David Dorn , Manuel Ellis , Curtis Flowers , George Floyd , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Garner , Tank Goodman , Oscar Grant , Freddie Gray , Ronald Greene , Vanessa Guillén , Akai Gurley , DJ Henry , Botham Jean , Atatiana Jefferson , Dion Johnson , Jamee Johnson , Joshua Johnson , Kendrick Johnson , Bettie Jones , Corey Jones , Julius Jones , India Kager , Rodney King , Cameron Lamb , John Lewis , Shaheen Mackey , Marcus Malone , Trayvon Martin , Elijah McClain , Markeis McGlockton , Lyric McHenry , Davon McNeal , Marion Motley , Dante Parker , Fritz Pollard , Dreasjon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Craig Rodgers , Deravis Caine Rogers , Antwon Rose Jr. , Aura Rosser , Charles Roundtree , Jon Russell , Yusef Salaam , John Sanders , Raymond Santana , Antronie Scott , Walter Scott , James Scurlock , Sha-Asia Semple , Yvette Smith , Jason St. Julien , Eurie Stamps Sr. , Aiyana Stanley-Jones , Alton Sterling , Enosa “ EJ ” Strickland , Willie Sturgis Jr. , Darius Tarver , Breonna Taylor , Christian Taylor , Emmett Till , Denmark Vesey , Taiesha Watkins , and Alteria Woods .
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From MSN:
List of approved names for placement on helmet bumper includes David Dorn
Mike Florio 2 days ago
When word emerged that the NFL will allow players to display on their rear helmet bumpers the names of victims of police violence and systemic racism, many asked whether David Dorn’s name would be eligible for use. …
Dorn, a retired police officer, was fatally shot in St. Louis during looting that occurred in connection with the protests that emerged following the murder of George Floyd. …
This is the current list of approved names for placement on the player helmet bumpers, as provided by the NFL to PFT: Ahmaud Arbery, Althea Bernstein, La’Vante Biggs, Jacob Blake, Emantic “EJ” Bradford, Rayshard Brooks, Kalief Browder, Jim Brown, Michael Brown, Dennis “Ballie” Browning Jr., Miriam Carey, Philando Castile, William L. Champman II, Kenneth Clark Sr., Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, John Crawford III, Tymar Crawford, Emerson Crayton, Jordan Davis, Amadou Diallo, David Dorn, Manuel Ellis, Curtis Flowers, George Floyd, Janisha Fonville, Cornelius Fredericks, Eric Garner, Tank Goodman, Oscar Grant, Freddie Gray, Ronald Greene, Vanessa Guillén, Akai Gurley, DJ Henry, Botham Jean, Atatiana Jefferson, Dion Johnson, Jamee Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Kendrick Johnson, Bettie Jones, Corey Jones, Julius Jones, India Kager, Rodney King, Cameron Lamb, John Lewis, Shaheen Mackey, Marcus Malone, Trayvon Martin, Elijah McClain, Markeis McGlockton, Lyric McHenry, Davon McNeal, Marion Motley, Dante Parker, Fritz Pollard, Dreasjon Reed, Kevin Richardson, Jemel Roberson, Craig Rodgers, Deravis Caine Rogers, Antwon Rose Jr., Aura Rosser, Charles Roundtree, Jon Russell, Yusef Salaam, John Sanders, Raymond Santana, Antronie Scott, Walter Scott, James Scurlock, Sha-Asia Semple, Yvette Smith, Jason St. Julien, Eurie Stamps Sr., Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Alton Sterling, Enosa “EJ” Strickland, Willie Sturgis Jr., Darius Tarver, Breonna Taylor, Christian Taylor, Emmett Till, Denmark Vesey, Taiesha Watkins, and Alteria Woods. [Links added]


vdare--2020-09-13--White Pill: Trump Has 'Literally Shut Down Legal Immigration To United States"—Immigration Lawyer

Earlier : Trump ’ s Immigration Moratorium A Huge Win For America—Now He MUST Campaign On It A brief Twitter @ @ @ @ @ it from Twitter deletion .
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The plunge @ @ @ @ @ , by Stef W. Kight , Axios , September 12 , 2020

Earlier: Trump’s Immigration Moratorium A Huge Win For America—Now He MUST Campaign On It
A brief Twitter thread, screenshotted to protect it from Twitter deletion. Click images to go directly to articles.
The plunge in highly skilled work visas, by Stef W. Kight, Axios, September 12, 2020