vdare--2020-05-15--A "Random" Act Of Violence, Coordinated AND Inauthentic, Pathological Moralization, And The War Agai

A "Random" Act Of Violence, Coordinated AND Inauthentic, Pathological Moralization, And The War Against The Past, Etc

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03m13s A random act of violence. (Strange paucity of news reports.)
09m29s Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior. (Facebook bans Unz Review.)
20m13s Pathological moralization. (Immigration today, immigration tomorrow, immigration forever.)
26m38s The war against the past. (The un-personing of Nathan Bedford Forrest.)
32m39s Virtue signalling from Congress. (Couldn't they go on pilgrimage instead?)
34m43s Coronavirus unknowns, cont. (The case for epistemic humility.)
38m00s Heather Mac visits Yale. (The Woke Spa.)
40m46s Signoff. (RIP Little Richard.)
01— Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, ladies and gents, from your aesthetically genial host John Derbyshire, here to bring you VDARE.com's weekly roundup of news from far and wide.
Commentating is a strange kind of business. You labor to work up erudite thousand-word articles on matters of public concern, and three emails come in as response, one of them intended for a different recipient. Then you throw off a couple of hundred words about your dog, and the emails pour in like the Red Sea on Pharaoh's chariots.
I actually like this, in a philosophical way. Public affairs are dominated by bores and monomaniacs. Normal people give over their thoughts and feelings mostly to private life: to family, work, and hobbies.
I've never been able to take the phrase "low-information voter" altogether seriously as an insult. Yes, we should keep ourselves decently well-informed about what our government is doing; but if we have to devote big chunks of our time to political participation, that's a sign we have way too much government. Which, alas, we currently have.
I touched on this theme in my "Social Distancing" vidcast with Peter Brimelow this week. What's been coming back at me confirms my happiest beliefs about my fellow men. A high proportion of incoming emails have been in praise of Basil, the Derb family puppy. He's cute, people want to tell me. Well, yes he is, and he thanks you for noticing.
In response to several queries, Basil is a mix of schnauzer and rat terrier, with small contributions from other breeds. He has a web page of his own at johnderbyshire.com, under "Family Album."
OK, on to public affairs— to "great matters under Heaven," as Chinese people say. What's been going on?
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02— A random act of violence. Pretty much every morning, weather permitting, Paul and Lidia Marino, an elderly Italian-American couple from Elkton, Maryland, would drive the five miles to Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery, just across the border in, of course, Delaware. They would visit the grave of their son Anthony, who died three years ago at age 54.
Anthony was not himself a veteran. His Dad Paul was, though, and the cemetery rules allow disabled adult children of veterans to take a plot. Anthony had been born with cerebral palsy and suffered wretched health all his life. Paul and Lidia, both in their mid-eighties, married more than sixty years, had cared for Anthony until he died in 2017. They were helped by their older twin sons, Paul Junior and Ray.
Paul Senior worked in the printing industry for decades before retiring in 1994. Lidia was what we used to call a home-maker: cooking, shopping, minding the kids, keeping the house clean. She and Paul were both hobbyists: Lidia, like my own Mum, loved needlework, Paul painted and played guitar.
It's a touching little bit of Americana: a close, busy, loving family, like a dozen you and I know, minding their business and facing life's misfortunes with courage, humanity, and grit.
So there was this couple, he 86 and she 85, crossing the cemetery on their way to Anthony's grave on the morning of May 8th as they had done hundreds of times before.
Twenty-nine-year-old Sheldon Francis, a black man dressed entirely in black, with a black face mask, came up behind them and shot them both with a handgun. Lidia was shot first, and died at the scene. Paul was shot in the head, presumably after just seeing his wife shot; he died later in hospital.
The killer, Sheldon Francis, ran off into some nearby woods. He had a good-quality rifle with him and plenty of ammo, which suggests some planning beforehand. There was a standoff with police and a firefight. When Francis had been silent for a while, cops went into the woods and found him dead of a gunshot wound. Whether the wound was self-inflicted or the result of police shooting, we don't know.
A horrible end to two lives well lived, and a third that would have been better not lived at all. Plainly a homicide, though, so we're naturally curious to know the motive.
Let's see: Italian Americans— is there a mob connection? Given what we know about the couple's life, and about the killer, it seems highly improbable. Was Sheldon Francis a disgruntled employee or contractor? Again, that's a bit of a stretch, given what we know.
We don't know much, though. About Sheldon Francis, we know almost nothing. I have been doggedly googling all week and still can't find out anything about him. He must have some kind of rap sheet; the news pictures of him are obvious law-enforcement mugshots. What does the rap sheet say? Was he married or single? How did he make a living?
Google … Google … Google … nothing. I just tried again, putting a filter on the Google search for "past week." There's a flurry of "Gunman Identified" items from four or five days ago, no new details. I changed the filter to "past 24 hours": twelve hits on Sheldon Francis, but still no new information. We're no wiser about possible motives.
Hm. Let's try a different shooter: Travis McMichael, the white guy who shot a black guy in Brunswick, Georgia, news of which came out just the day before the Marinos were killed. Filter to "past week": hoo boy, "about 210,000 results" says Google. Let's change the filter to "past 24 hours." "About 32,000," says Google.
That Travis McMichael is some media star: nearly three thousand times bigger than Sheldon Francis.
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03— Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior. This website, VDARE.com, is of course focused on immigration. We try to move the public discussion of immigration policy in the direction of more restrictive laws and better enforcement of current laws: most hopefully, in the current dire economic situation, to a moratorium, with of course a few thousand obvious exceptions per annum— spouse and minor children of U.S. citizens, and some others.
Our problem is that immigration policy has been moralized, in fact hyper-moralized. If you hold this view of immigration, you are a good person; if you hold that view, you are a bad person, a very bad person.
To a lot of us, this seems nuts. Immigration is just a policy, like farm price supports or how many aircraft carriers to have. We should argue the pros and cons in our public spaces and come to some kind of conclusion as to what's the best policy for us as a nation, for Americans.
This cold, practical approach is common among immigrants, like myself and Peter Brimelow. We know, because we've been through it, that immigration is just a process, like getting a driver's license or finding a job. There are forms to be filled out, interviews, a house moving, … all a bit of a chore, but worth it to improve your life, with the other party's consent of course.
To a lot of native citizens, people who haven't been through the process, the topic of immigration dwells in a cloudy realm of myth and magic: a moralized realm, where Good is at war with Evil.
Native citizens know nothing about the process. Why should they? I know nothing about the process of getting a license to sell liquor. I've never wanted to sell liquor. We only have so much room in our heads for things to bother about. Other things are just aery wisps and fantasies, susceptible to moralistic coloring.
For example: I wasn't much surprised to see the other day that Texas Representative Dan Crenshaw did not know about the 1965 Immigration Act. He didn't just not know the details, he seems not to have heard of the Act at all.
Congressman Crenshaw is actually not American-born. He was born in Scotland; but to American parents, and came back to the states when an infant, a citizen from birth, so has had no real engagement with the immigration process. Why should he know about the 1965 Act?
There is all kinds of legislation I don't know about. Those farm price supports, for instance: Was there some key federal law passed sixty years ago that totally changed the whole process? Don't ask me, I've never been a farmer.
You may say that as a congressman with a master's degree in public administration, Rep. Crenshaw ought to be better informed. Well, yeah, he really ought to be; but Rep. Crenshaw's a young guy, and congressfolk, like the rest of us, only have so much room in their heads. I'll cut him some slack … not much, but some.
And then, the fact of immigration policy having been so intensely moralized deters a lot of people from engaging with it. If you want a quiet life, there are zones of public discussion best avoided. Immigration is not a respectable subject.
The other day I was reading Ron Unz's column about his website, The Unz Review, getting banned from Facebook. Why was it banned? Ron did some digging and turned up a report out of Facebook itself, title: April 2020 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report.
What, according to Facebook, is Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior? Quote:
Coordinated campaigns that seek to manipulate public debate.
End quote.
Eh? Doesn't every kind of opinion outlet seek to "manipulate public debate"? Isn't that what opinion outlets are for?
Is it the "coordinated" that brings down the wrath of Facebook? So if Joe and Sally put their heads together offline, then go to their Facebook accounts and post similar opinions, Facebook will shut them both down? Really? And does that apply to all opinions about public policy, or only certain particular opinions?
The Facebook report provides an answer to that last question. There are only two references to The Unz Review, both identically worded, referring to a "network" that Facebook claims to have identified, a network that is carrying out, quote, "suspected coordinated inauthentic behavior ahead of the 2020 election in the U.S.," end quote.
The precise references read as follows, quote:
Our investigation linked this network to VDARE, a website known for posting anti-immigration content, and individuals associated with a similar website The Unz Review.
End quote.
"Coordinated inauthentic behavior," eh? As a contributor to VDARE.com across twenty years, whose posts are frequently cross-posted to The Unz Review, I object strongly to my contributions being tagged "inauthentic." I am sometimes wrong, like any other opinionator, but I have always written and said what I believe to be true, based on such evidence as I can muster. How are my posts "inauthentic," Zuck?
"Coordinated" I suppose means that before putting finger to keyboard or voice to mike, I check with Party Center to be sure I have the correct "line" for this week. I wouldn't want to get caught out saying we're at war with Eurasia when, according to the Center, we have always been at war with Eastasia.
Of course I do no such thing. The only people who think in those terms and make those accusations are people who themselves are in thrall to a totalitarian ideology— people who cannot believe, cannot even imagine, that free-thinking human beings might reasonably disagree with what the ideology dictates. People like Mark Zuckerberg, or whichever one of his minions composed this report.
But just go back to that last actual reference in the Facebook report. Re-quote:
Our investigation linked this network to VDARE, a website known for posting anti-immigration content, and individuals associated with a similar website The Unz Review.
End quote.
We are "a website known for posting anti-immigration content." And that is wrong. We are bad people.
Immigration is not a topic on which different opinions can reasonably be held, pro and con. If you're pro (as, in fact, Ron Unz himself is) you are a good person, and welcome to the public forum. If you are con, or if you run a website that cross-posts "anti-immigration content," then you are a limb of Satan, to be cast into the pit.
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04— Pathological moralization. This hyper-moralization of the immigration issue has major consequences for national policy. Here are a couple of examples: one from the U.S.A., the second from Britain.
As you've probably heard, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives is today, Friday, considering a bill to tackle the massive economic dislocations caused by all the shutdowns and lockdowns we've been going through. The bill is heavy on pro-immigration measures.
Doctors on non-immigrant visas— guest workers— will be given permanent residence without the usual wait of several years.
Healthcare workers in foreign countries applying for guest-worker visas will have their applications expedited.
Guest workers facing filing deadlines for permanent residence will have their deadlines extended.
Illegal aliens in "essential" occupations— health workers, farm work, food-preparation, construction, and many others— the list runs to sixteen pages— will be protected from deportation. This is basically an indefinite amnesty for wellnigh all illegal aliens.
Employers of these illegal aliens will be protected from prosecution.
Illegal aliens in ICE custody will be released if not a threat to public safety.
Further limits will be imposed on the degree to which the federal government can punish sanctuary cities.
Yes: While north of thirty million Americans are out of work, Congress is busy making it easier for foreign guest workers to come in, for existing guest workers to advance to permanent residence, and for illegal aliens to avoid deportation.
This is a simply astonishing position for a national legislature to take: a brazen, shameless, criticize-us-if-you-dare preference for the interests of foreigners over the interests of citizens. And of course very few persons in positions of respectable authority will dare to criticize it. To do so would be "anti-immigration," and that would be evil, hateful, xenophobic. Facebook says so.
I said in the previous segment that the immigration topic has been hyper-moralized. This bill is so crazy, it seems to me we have now passed beyond that, into a zone of pathological moralization.
Over to Britain, where the Office of National Statistics has released a report on population change in the year from mid-2018 to mid-2019.
Headline figure: The population increased by 361,000. That's more than half a percent in just one year.
The report breaks down the numbers. Thirty-five percent of the increase, 129,000, is natural increase, which is to say, births minus deaths. The rest, 231,000, came from net migration— immigrants minus emigrants. Non-EU immigrants, a high proportion of them blacks and Muslims, clocked up 250,000 immigrants, the highest level since 2004.
Bottom line here: After decades— at least five decades— of British people, when polled, saying they want less immigration, the Third Worlders continue to pour in. There have been elections, successions of Prime Ministers of various stripes; there have been economic expansions and recessions; there have been wars and terrorism; and through it all the immigrants have been pouring in, as if immigration were a force of nature no government can control.
From 2001 to the middle of last year, population density in the U.K. went from 632 per square mile to 712. That's a 14 percent increase in a small, crowded country across eighteen years. In London the increase was 22 percent.
Nobody wanted this and nobody much likes it, except of course the immigrant foreigners. It just happens, like the weather. Politicians are helpless. There's no way they can control who comes to settle in their island. No way! It's impossible!
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05— The war against the past. Seven years ago I published a piece at Taki's Magazine about Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest. I'd been binge-reading about the Civil War and someone directed my attention to Andrew Lytle's biography of the man, published in 1931.
Forrest really gets your attention. A rough-and-ready fighting man in the old frontier tradition, he was not only fearless but also fear-some: not a man you'd want to mess with one on one, and a brilliant field commander.
As I noted in my article, Forrest took, quote:
a leadership position in the Ku Klux Klan right after the war, when the Klan was founded as a resistance movement against the lawlessness of Reconstruction. When, by 1869, Klan groups had descended into terrorism, Forrest was instrumental in disbanding them. In his final years— he died in 1877— he got religion and spoke for racial reconciliation.
End quote.
There used to be a park in Memphis, Tennessee named after Forrest. It contained a big equestrian statue of the commander; he and his wife were buried right by the statue. The monument was dedicated just 115 years ago tomorrow: May 16th, 1905.
In the 21st century, as our Cultural Revolution got seriously under way, there was agitation to un-person Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest Park was renamed Health Sciences Park in 2013. In 2015 the Memphis City Council voted to remove the Forrest monument from the park. The move was, however, blocked by the Tennessee Historical Commission.
In 2017, when the Cold Civil War got warmer following the police-assisted Antifa riot in Charlottesville, Virginia, Memphis City Council sold the park to Memphis Greenspace, a non-profit outfit created to, quote, "promote parkland … in Tennessee." Memphis Greenspace is headed up by an activist black attorney named Van Turner, Jr.
The sale of the cemetery, at the strikingly low price of one thousand dollars, took place on December 20th 2017. Forrest's statue was moved out that very evening. It is "currently in the possession of the Sons of Confederate Veterans," according to Wikipedia, but I don't know how they acquired it.
This week we learned that the bodies of Forrest and his wife will also be removed from the park. This follows litigation between the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the SCV, and Memphis Greenspace. Apparently the SCV has in mind to install both monument and corpses in a new Forrest Park, details not yet final.
The litigation that has brought about this result seems to have been conducted in a collegial and gentlemanly way, as you'd expect from the South. We don't live in a collegial and gentlemanly age, though. How are the SCV going to protect monument and graves from Antifa vandalizers in their new park, and park visitors from assault by crazed Cultural Marxists? Presumably they have some kind of security in mind. I hope it's good.
The title of my Taki's Magazine piece, the piece I started out by mentioning, was: "The War Against the Past." That's what we have here: the wanton obliteration of our nation's history, in service of a brutal and ignorant ideology.
As our VDARE.com tweetmaster tweeted out on Wednesday, tweet:
How long until this mindset forces Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and other Founding Fathers to be exhumed?
End tweet.
If patriots don't join forces to stamp out this vandalism, we shall find out.
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06— Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: In virtue-signalling news, I omitted to note back in February that the House of Representatives passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, a bill to make lynching a federal crime.
This is the umpteenth attempt to get a federal anti-lynching law on the books, the first back in 1900, but it seems to have a better chance than previous efforts. The Senate has yet to consider it; but they voted approval of a similar measure last year, so hopes are high.
You may find yourself thinking: "Wait a minute— isn't homicide a crime in every jurisdiction? Why do we need a federal law against some ill-defined subset of homicides? What happened to the old Anglo-Saxon prohibition on double jeopardy?"
If you do find yourself thinking that, you are badly out of date. A prohibition on double jeopardy? That ship sailed long ago, when the bogus, illogical, and unconstitutional concept of "hate crime" slithered onto the statute books.
Our national life would be much improved if the congressweasels could find a way to signal their virtue to us by some other method than passing unnecessary and obnoxious new laws. Perhaps we could bring back the old custom of making long pilgrimages to foreign shores and distant shrines. The more distant, the better, would be my hope.
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Item: I guess I should include some virus news. This item isn't actually news so much as thoughtful commentary that fits into my theme about the deep state of ignorance we're still in regarding this new virus.
The commentator here is Jacob Sullum, writing at Reason magazine. The title of his piece is 8 Possible Reasons for the Huge International Differences in COVID-19 Deaths. The sub-title is, "For each plausible theory, there are puzzling counterexamples."
Indeed there are. For example, as Radio Derb has noted, Africa seems to be getting off lightly. Why?
Two obvious possibilities are the age structure of the population— Africa has very low median age, around 20— and climate, the coronaviruses seeming not to like warmth and humidity.
Hoo-kay, says Sullum: But age-wise, what about Iran, median age 32, and Ecuador, median age 28? Both those numbers are way lower than hard-hit places like Japan (48) and Europe (around 43). Yet both are major crisis spots for COVID-19.
Climate? Quote:
Some of the worst outbreaks in the developing world have been in places like the Amazonas region of Brazil, as tropical a place as any.
End quote.
Population density, with New York City as Exhibit A? Sullum again, quote:
Densely populated cities such as Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Bangkok, New Delhi, and Lagos have not seen anything like the cases and deaths reported in New York.
End quote.
Yep, there's a great deal we don't yet understand here. That's not at all surprising: You don't get to know all there is to know about a new virus in three months.
I hope our understanding will improve; I hope that, with all the intense research that must be going on world-wide, there'll be a vaccine in record time. In the meantime, the posture that gets most respect from me is one of epistemic humility.
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Item: Here's one of my favorite commentators: Heather Mac Donald, who can hardly write a dull word.
Heather is writing in the Spring issue of City Journal on the topic, title of her column, The Therapeutic Campus.
She is writing mainly about the Good Life Center, GLC for short, at Yale University. Quote:
Call it the college woke spa, though its official title is the Good Life Center. Featuring a sandbox, essential oils, massage, and mental-health workshops, the center unites the most powerful forces in higher education today: the feminization of the university, therapeutic culture, identity politics, and the vast student-services bureaucracy.
End quote.
This is one of those pieces where I hesitate to extract short quotes because the whole darn thing is quotable. Just one more, quote:
Underneath the essential oils and yoga mats, the woke spa mental-wellness crusade is accomplishing an even more profound transformation of university life. The assumption that emotional threat and danger lie just beyond the spa is the product of an increasingly female-dominated student body, faculty, and administration. That assumption is undermining traditional academic values of rational discourse, argumentation, and free speech.
End quote.
Read it and weep. Then join with me in hoping for a Henry the Eighth to come along, disestablish these horrible places, and force the inhabitants to do something with their lives more useful to themselves and their fellow citizens than playing sandboxes and obsessing about their feelings, wo wo wo feelings.
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07— Signoff. That's all I can offer you this week, ladies and gents. Thank you for listening, and thanks as always for your emails and contributions.
Halfway through May, this is not shaping up as a good month for aging pop singers whose names are suggestive of diminutive stature. Last week I noted the May 5th passing of Millie Small. Four days later we lost Little Richard, a great favorite of my pre-teen and early-teen years.
Here I shall borrow the words of Nik Cohn, who is just a few months younger than I am, quote:
The first record I ever bought was by Little Richard and, at one throw, it taught me everything I need to know about pop.
The message went [inner quote]: "Tutti frutti all rootie, tutti frutti all rootie, tutti frutti all rootie, awopbopaloobop alopbamboom!" [End inner quote.] As a summing-up of what rock'n'roll was really all about, this was nothing but masterly.
End quote.
I've taken that from Cohn's 1969 book about the golden age of rock. The book actually bears the title Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom— my favorite book title, I think.
I can in fact boast of a wider-than-average acquaintance with the literature on Little Richard. I once read Charles White's 1985 biography of the man, title The Quasar of Rock, which has … interesting things to say about the origins of the song "Tutti Frutti." I'll leave youse to investigate that for yourselves.
I'm entirely on board with Nik Cohn's argument that those immortal words "awopbopaloobop alopbamboom" encapsulate the true spirit, the deep inner meaning of rock'n'roll, in the days of rock's first fine careless rapture, before self-consciousness and computerized keyboards took over. Computerized keyboards? Little Richard used to play the piano with his foot.
Even so, "awopbopaloobop alopbamboom" is not my favorite bit of Little Richard phrasing. My favorite is in the song "I'll Never Let You Go" where he sings "boo hoo hoo hoo" with a shriek in between each syllable.
The thirteen-year-old Derb so wanted to be able to do that, and I must have spent hours trying, but it's not as easy as Little Richard made it sound. Artistic masterpieces are like that: vita brevis, ars longa. RIP Little Richard.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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[Music clip: Little Richard, "I'll Never Let You Go."]


vdare--2020-05-15--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015: Illegals In The Military As Mediated Through Hispanic Republica

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015: Illegals In The Military As Mediated Through Hispanic Republicans, Hispanic Reporters, And Hispanic "Conservatives"

Origingally published here On VDARE.com on this day in 2015 .
Brenda Walker notes below in Illegal Alien Military Amnesty Amendment Defeated in House Vote that '' the result was 221-202 , so 20 Republicans voted in favor of allowing illegal aliens to take citizens ’ places in the military .
The House has 245 Republicans and 188 Democrats . ''
A Hispanic reporter on The Hill has the story Divided GOP rejects allowing illegal immigrants in military The House on Thursday voted to strip a provision from the annual defense bill that edged toward allowing young illegal immigrants to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ardent GOP opponents of illegal immigration and vulnerable Republicans who represent districts with large Hispanic constituencies flared in the 221-202 vote .
Twenty Republicans voted with all Democrats in opposition of the amendment from Rep. Mo Brooks ( R-Ala. ) that killed the immigration language .
[ More ] There 's a list of the 20 Republicans , but I 'll get to that in a minute .
Breitbart has the same story , headed “ 20 Traitors : Republicans Who Voted To Gut America ’ s Military Using Amnestied Illegal Aliens ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( Not a Hispanic . )
Boyle notes that the language allowing illegals in the military was `` inserted during the Armed Services Committee markup by Rep. Ruben Gallego ( D-AZ ) —a freshman liberal Democrat who wants to amnesty all the illegal aliens in America '' .
Rep. Gallego is Hispanic .
Breitbart has the list of the Republicans who voted to let illegals in the military , with Conservative Review ratings , but I 'll use the one from The Hill : Several of the Republicans who voted for this thing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were added by me .
Mike Coffman is a special case—not Hispanic himself , but has been learning Spanish and speaking it to his Colorado Hispanic constituents .
All this has inspired a teary , angry piece on The Federalist : Only Traitors Want To Let Illegal Immigrants Join The Military .
Right ?
, By Ben Domenech , May 15 , 2015 .
Domenech quotes representative Mo Brook 's statement on this mini-victory for Americans : I asked my colleagues to consider how much American families are struggling in an anemic job @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gallego amendment makes job and income prospects for Americans even worse .
It makes no sense to me that , at the same time the Army is downsizing and issuing pink slips to American soldiers serving in Afghanistan , there are Congressmen who seek to help illegal aliens deprive American citizens and lawful immigrants of military service opportunities.
” That wage and income stuff is , of course , untrue .
[ This is a link to a Ramesh Ponnuru ( ! )
piece on Bloomberg News , titled Do n't Blame Immigrants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never mind that .
The important thing is that Breitbart goes on to name and shame the twenty Republican “ traitors ” who voted to allow such illegal immigrants to serve .
That would be illegal immigrants like Silvestre Santana Herrera .
If you will permit a lengthy quote : No , I wo n't .
What Domenech is describing is a World War II era `` Dreamer '' ( not called that at the time ) who found out when he was drafted that the people he knew as his parents were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 'd been lying to him all his life ) and that he 'd been born in Camargo , Mexico .
Although his adoptive parents were presumably Mexican-Americans themselves , their own loyalty to the US seems to have been limited .
That 's because he 'd been brought up as an American , in American schools that emphasized patriotism .
We do n't get that anymore , especially in the Southwest .
Herrera earned the Medal of Honor in France , and lost his legs in the process .
He also became an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his goals when he entered the military .
But that 's what Steve Sailer calls `` The New Antiquarianism '' —going back 50 or a 100 years for your examples .
Okay , I accept that Herrera was a patriotic American .
I do not accept that Republican congresspersons Carlos Curbelo , Mario Diaz-Balart , Jaime Herrera Beutler , Ileana Ros-Lehtinen , and David Valadao are .
What about Hispanic Conservatism Inc drone Ben Domenech—who 's sort of a Puerto Rican ?
Email him and ask .

Originally published here On VDARE.com on this day in 2015.
Brenda Walker notes below in Illegal Alien Military Amnesty Amendment Defeated in House Vote that "the result was 221-202, so 20 Republicans voted in favor of allowing illegal aliens to take citizens’ places in the military. The House has 245 Republicans and 188 Democrats."
A Hispanic reporter on The Hill has the story:
Divided GOP rejects allowing illegal immigrants in military By Cristina Marcos, May 14, 2015 The House on Thursday voted to strip a provision from the annual defense bill that edged toward allowing young illegal immigrants to enlist in the military. Divisions between ardent GOP opponents of illegal immigration and vulnerable Republicans who represent districts with large Hispanic constituencies flared in the 221-202 vote. Twenty Republicans voted with all Democrats in opposition of the amendment from Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) that killed the immigration language. [More]
There's a list of the 20 Republicans, but I'll get to that in a minute. Breitbart has the same story, headed “20 Traitors: Republicans Who Voted To Gut America’s Military Using Amnestied Illegal Aliens.” It's by Matthew Boyle. (Not a Hispanic.) Boyle notes that the language allowing illegals in the military was "inserted during the Armed Services Committee markup by Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)—a freshman liberal Democrat who wants to amnesty all the illegal aliens in America." Rep. Gallego is Hispanic. Breitbart has the list of the Republicans who voted to let illegals in the military, with Conservative Review ratings, but I'll use the one from The Hill:
The 20 Republicans who voted against the measure were Reps. Mike Coffman (Colo.), Carlos Curbelo (Fla.), Jeff Denham (Calif.), Charlie Dent (Pa.), Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.), Bob Dold (Ill.), Chris Gibson (N.Y.), Richard Hanna (N.Y.), Jaime Herrera Beutler (Wash.), John Katko (N.Y.), Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), Frank LoBiondo (N.J.), Tom MacArthur (N.J.), Martha McSally (Ariz.), Dan Newhouse (Wash.), Dave Reichert (Wash.), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.), Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), Fred Upton (Mich.) and David Valadao (Calif.).
Several of the Republicans who voted for this thing are also Hispanic Republicans. The emphases were added by me. Mike Coffman is a special case—not Hispanic himself, but has been learning Spanish and speaking it to his Colorado Hispanic constituents.
All this has inspired a teary, angry piece on The Federalist: Only Traitors Want To Let Illegal Immigrants Join The Military. Right?, by Ben Domenech, May 15, 2015.
Domenech quotes representative Mo Brooks' statement on this mini-victory for Americans:
No, I won't. What Domenech is describing is a World War II era "Dreamer" (not called that at the time) who found out when he was drafted that the people he knew as his parents were actually his uncle and aunt (they'd been lying to him all his life) and that he'd been born in Camargo, Mexico. Although his adoptive parents were presumably Mexican-Americans themselves, their own loyalty to the US seems to have been limited.
“That is when the man Herrera had believed to be his father gave him the stunning news of his Mexican birth, and said, “Son, you don’t have to go, they can’t draft you…you aren’t an American citizen.” Even in the face of these multiple shocks, and a perfect opportunity to dodge the war, Herrera was unswayed. As he later related, “I thought, I’m going anyway. I didn’t want anybody to die in my place… I felt that I had my adopted country that had been so nice to me.”
That's because he'd been brought up as an American, in American schools that emphasized patriotism. We don't get that anymore, especially in the Southwest. Herrera earned the Medal of Honor in France, and lost his legs in the process. He also became an American citizen, which was one of his goals when he entered the military. But that's what Steve Sailer calls "The New Antiquarianism"—going back 50 or a 100 years for your examples.
Okay, I accept that Herrera was a patriotic American. I do not accept that Republican congresspersons Carlos Curbelo, Mario Diaz-Balart, Jaime Herrera Beutler, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and David Valadao are. What about Hispanic Conservatism Inc drone Ben Domenech—who's sort of a Puerto Rican? Email him and ask.


vdare--2020-05-15--Why Is The US Attorney's Office Hiring Cartel Connected Mexicans With No Background Check?

According to the Washington Times , a Mexican-American ( or possibly an actual Mexican ) paralegal named Jennifer Loya was a spy for the cartels in the US Attorney ’ s office : Feds say Mexican cartels had mole inside U.S. attorney 's office in Texas , by Stephen Dinan , May 14 , 2020 Does anyone believe the cartels have moles inside only one U.S. attorney ’ s office , given the explosion in the U.S. Mexican population and the way Mexicans are preferred in affirmative-action federal hiring ?
And where is President Trump on birthright citizenship and taxing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Loya ’ s sister and brother-in-law are drug traffickers connected with CDN-Los Zetas in Monterrey , Mexico and Laredo , Texas .
Laredo serves as a critical CDN trafficking point to U.S. underground markets .
[ emphasis added ] Loya reportedly had access to phone taps , investigators ’ notes , and intelligence briefs about street gang and cartel operations between San Antonio and Mexico .
In May 2019 , DEA agents arrested a cartel-connected gang leader identified as Frankie Martinez .
During the arrest , Martinez reportedly told agents he knew @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a search warrant in the case , agents found that drugs were moved overnight before raids .
Months later , agents spoke with suspects who revealed that one of the dealers had an inside source in the federal prosecutor ’ s office .
During the investigation , agents learned Loya allegedly printed restricted documents like search warrants and court petitions for phone taps , despite the fact that her typical duties would never require such actions .
Yet the U.S. government hired Loya and gave her access to what must be highly classified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Makes one wonder if the government did a background check—as is required—and , if so , whether whoever reviewed it simply , as the Diversity Imperative trumps security risks , passed Loya through the system anyway .

hemcculloch@yahoo.com (Henry Eustace McCulloch)

According to the Washington Times, a Mexican-American (or possibly an actual Mexican) paralegal named Jennifer Loya was a spy for the cartels in the US Attorney’s office: Feds say Mexican cartels had mole inside U.S. attorney's office in Texas, by Stephen Dinan, May 14, 2020
Does anyone believe the cartels have moles inside only one U.S. attorney’s office, given the explosion in the U.S. Mexican population and the way Mexicans are preferred in affirmative-action federal hiring?
The Mesoamericanising of America proceeds apace…
And where is President Trump on birthright citizenship and taxing remittances?
Breitbart has more:
According to a criminal complaint, Loya’s sister and brother-in-law are drug traffickers connected with CDN-Los Zetas in Monterrey, Mexico and Laredo, Texas. Laredo serves as a critical CDN trafficking point to U.S. underground markets.[emphasis added] Loya reportedly had access to phone taps, investigators’ notes, and intelligence briefs about street gang and cartel operations between San Antonio and Mexico. In May 2019, DEA agents arrested a cartel-connected gang leader identified as Frankie Martinez. During the arrest, Martinez reportedly told agents he knew the arrest was forthcoming. While serving a search warrant in the case, agents found that drugs were moved overnight before raids. Months later, agents spoke with suspects who revealed that one of the dealers had an inside source in the federal prosecutor’s office. During the investigation, agents learned Loya allegedly printed restricted documents like search warrants and court petitions for phone taps, despite the fact that her typical duties would never require such actions.
Yet the U.S. government hired Loya and gave her access to what must be highly classified information—about Mexican drug trafficking, no less. Makes one wonder if the government did a background check—as is required—and, if so, whether whoever reviewed it simply, as the Diversity Imperative trumps security risks, passed Loya through the system anyway.


vdare--2020-05-16--Kritarch Royce Lamberth Strikes Again, "Banning" US Marshalls From Arresting Illegals

The kritarchy is enraged that illegal aliens are being arrested and deported .
They don ’ t like this policy of immigration enforcement , so they will do and say anything to aid illegal aliens to remain in the United States , from orders to release illegal aliens to allowing illegal aliens into the United States , to prohibiting the arrest of illegal aliens .
One of these crazed and obsessed kritarchs is Royce C. Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia .
Kritarch Lamberth was once of considerable accomplishment in the legal field , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a dictator obsessed with certain outcomes , rather than upholding the integrity of the legal process .
His current obsession is protecting illegal aliens from arrest and deportation .
Two years ago at the height of the zerg rush at the border , Kritarch Lamberth led a charge by a group of kritarchs against the criminal prosecution of illegal aliens for illegal entry , Title 8 United States Code , Section 1325 , Improper Entry By An Alien , and illegal reentry after deportation , 8 USC 1326 , Reentry Of Removed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are separate from the administrative deportation process .
Kritarch Lamberth and others decided that they would start granting release to those aliens arrested and charged with criminal offenses related to illegal entry , e.g .
entry without inspection and admission by an immigration officer , the only manner in which an alien may enter the United States .
This was not the first time some Treason Bar shyster tried this route , and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) was on the ball though on this and took immediate custody of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ DHS Form I-247A , Immigration Detainer-Notice Of Action , placed on the aliens with the holding agency , in this case the U.S .
Marshals Service ( USMS ) who take custody of federal arrestees before conviction .
Judges in the nation ’ s federal criminal courts increasingly are balking at what they call unlawful efforts by U.S. immigration authorities to continue to detain people charged with entering the country illegally , even after they have been granted bail .
The rulings complicate the Trump administration ’ s “ zero tolerance ” crackdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crossing the border but whom judges have determined do not pose a flight or safety risk .
The decisions force prosecutors to make a choice — charge defendants with illegal entry or reentry and risk that a federal judge releases them pending trial , or keep suspects locked up in civil detention pending deportation proceedings and forgo criminal prosecution .
A recent ruling by a federal judge in Washington highlights the human and legal issues at stake , the case of a dishwasher from El Salvador who has a wife and two children @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after two deportations… In the District , one rejection of the tougher tactics came from U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth , a 1987 appointee of President Ronald Reagan .
On Sept. 26 .
Lamberth said the government can not have it both ways — asking federal courts to deny bail to defendants awaiting criminal trial and then , if a judge disagrees , holding them anyway in the immigration system .
The decision came in the case of Jaime Omar Vasquez-Benitez , 38 , who court papers say was picking food up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police stopped him for suspected gang activity and turned him over to ICE .
Federal public defenders say Vasquez-Benitez had quit a gang and fears for his life if he is deported .
[ U.S .
Judges Balk At ICE Detention Of Defendants Granted Bail Under Trump ‘ Zero Tolerance ’ Push , by Spencer Hsu , WaPo , October 11 , 2018 ] Kritarch Lamberth was enraged by the very legal , and quite skilled Bureaucrat Game , that thwarted his own Lamberth Amnesty .
Detainers are the process by which ICE @ @ @ @ @ @ @ going through the criminal process , if that alien is released before trial , ICE takes custody of that alien , and will present that alien for the criminal process if required .
No problem there .
The only problem , for Kritarch Lamberth and the alien , is that the illegal alien is not given the opportunity to flee the immigration and criminal consequences of his behavior .
And that is what they do .
Illegal aliens in the criminal process , and especially illegal aliens with prior deportations , don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or immigration process .
They ignore their court dates and flee .
And that is precisely what Kritarch Lamberth and other kritarchs want , more illegal aliens in the United States as part of their electing a new people .
And it continues .
Kritarch Lamberth has decided that the USMS can not take illegal aliens into custody and turn them over to ICE as part of their management of the District of Colombia Superior Courts pre-trial detention system .
Forgive the use below of the court decision , all media reports are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has access to either of these sites , please contact me : U.S .
Marshals Lack Authority to Make Civil Immigration Arrests Bloomberg Lawand Marshals Barred From Making ICE Arrests At DC Courthouse Law360 . )
Based on the foregoing , the Court will GRANT plaintiff ’ s motion for a preliminary injunction ( ECF No .
4 ) .
Defendant and defendant ’ s agents , subordinates , and employees will be preliminarily ENJOINED from seizing individuals for suspected civil immigration violations .
It will be ORDERED that this preliminary injunction shall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effect pending final resolution of this matter .
The Court will GRANT plaintiff ’ s motion for class certification ( ECF No .
5 ) and certify the following class : All indigent criminal defendants in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia : ( 1 ) who were , are , or will be detained by officers of the United States Marshals Service for suspected civil immigration violations , and ( 2 ) as to whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement has not effectuated a warrant of removal/deportation ( a form I-205 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of deportation or removal .
[ N.S .
v. HUGHES , No .
1:2020cv00101 – Document 39 ( D.D.C .
2020 ) , Justia US Law , May 7 , 2020 ] Basically , Kritarch Lamberth , enraged that illegal aliens are being briefly detained by the USMS and handed over to ICE , has determined that a Deputy United States Marshal ( DUSM ) may not take custody of an illegal alien despite the fact that a DUSM is a Federal law enforcement agency and empowered to execute any writ or order @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which includes detaining for arrest an illegal alien who violated Federal law .
The best reaction of the USMS would be to ignore this order .
All Federal judges know that their lives are protected by DUSMs and merely issuing such an order , much less ordering another DUSM to arrest another DUSM for violating this order would likely make a DUSM unlikely to take a bullet to protect a Federal judge .
Moreover , as punishment , the Director of the USMS should order his subordinates to ignore this order and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kritarch Lamberth know who holds the guns .
Kritarch Lamberth holds no guns , as Alexander Hamilton stated in Federalist No .
78 : The judiciary has “ no influence over either the sword or the purse , …It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL , but merely judgment.
” Time to go Andrew Jackson on the corpulent Kritarch Lamberth .
But I tire of pointing this out .
Time for action this day to defeat the kritarchy .

The kritarchy is enraged that illegal aliens are being arrested and deported. They don’t like this policy of immigration enforcement, so they will do and say anything to aid illegal aliens to remain in the United States, from orders to release illegal aliens to allowing illegal aliens into the United States, to prohibiting the arrest of illegal aliens. One of these crazed and obsessed kritarchs is Royce C. Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Kritarch Lamberth was once of considerable accomplishment in the legal field, but in his twilight years has transformed to a dictator obsessed with certain outcomes, rather than upholding the integrity of the legal process. His current obsession is protecting illegal aliens from arrest and deportation.
Two years ago, at the height of the zerg rush at the border, Kritarch Lamberth led a charge by a group of kritarchs against the criminal prosecution of illegal aliens for illegal entry, Title 8 United States Code, Section 1325, Improper Entry By An Alien, and illegal reentry after deportation, 8 USC 1326, Reentry Of Removed Aliens. Both are criminal offenses that are separate from the administrative deportation process. Kritarch Lamberth and others decided that they would start granting release to those aliens arrested and charged with criminal offenses related to illegal entry, e.g., entry without inspection and admission by an immigration officer, the only manner in which an alien may enter the United States.
This was not the first time some Treason Bar shyster tried this route, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was on the ball though on this and took immediate custody of these aliens based on immigration detainers, DHS Form I-247A, Immigration Detainer-Notice Of Action, placed on the aliens with the holding agency, in this case the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), who take custody of federal arrestees before conviction.
Judges in the nation’s federal criminal courts increasingly are balking at what they call unlawful efforts by U.S. immigration authorities to continue to detain people charged with entering the country illegally, even after they have been granted bail. The rulings complicate the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” crackdown on defendants who are charged with illegally crossing the border but whom judges have determined do not pose a flight or safety risk. The decisions force prosecutors to make a choice — charge defendants with illegal entry or reentry and risk that a federal judge releases them pending trial, or keep suspects locked up in civil detention pending deportation proceedings and forgo criminal prosecution. A recent ruling by a federal judge in Washington highlights the human and legal issues at stake, the case of a dishwasher from El Salvador who has a wife and two children in the District, where he returned after two deportations… In the District, one rejection of the tougher tactics came from U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, a 1987 appointee of President Ronald Reagan. On Sept. 26. Lamberth said the government cannot have it both ways — asking federal courts to deny bail to defendants awaiting criminal trial and then, if a judge disagrees, holding them anyway in the immigration system. The decision came in the case of Jaime Omar Vasquez-Benitez, 38, who court papers say was picking food up at a restaurant in July when D.C. police stopped him for suspected gang activity and turned him over to ICE. Federal public defenders say Vasquez-Benitez had quit a gang and fears for his life if he is deported. [U.S. Judges Balk At ICE Detention Of Defendants Granted Bail Under Trump ‘Zero Tolerance’ Push, by Spencer Hsu, WaPo, October 11, 2018]
Kritarch Lamberth was enraged by the very legal, and quite skilled Bureaucrat Game, that thwarted his own Lamberth Amnesty. Detainers are the process by which ICE maintains custody of an alien who is going through the criminal process, if that alien is released before trial, ICE takes custody of that alien, and will present that alien for the criminal process if required. No problem there. The only problem, for Kritarch Lamberth and the alien, is that the illegal alien is not given the opportunity to flee the immigration and criminal consequences of his behavior. And that is what they do. Illegal aliens in the criminal process, and especially illegal aliens with prior deportations, don’t stick around for either the criminal or immigration process. They ignore their court dates and flee. And that is precisely what Kritarch Lamberth and other kritarchs want, more illegal aliens in the United States as part of their electing a new people.
And it continues. Kritarch Lamberth has decided that the USMS cannot take illegal aliens into custody and turn them over to ICE as part of their management of the District of Colombia Superior Courts pre-trial detention system. Forgive the use below of the court decision, all media reports are behind paywalls. (If a reader has access to either of these sites, please contact me: U.S. Marshals Lack Authority to Make Civil Immigration Arrests, Bloomberg Law and Marshals Barred From Making ICE Arrests At DC Courthouse, Law360.)
Buffoonishly Obese Kritarch Royce Lamberth
Based on the foregoing, the Court will GRANT plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction (ECF No. 4). Defendant and defendant’s agents, subordinates, and employees will be preliminarily ENJOINED from seizing individuals for suspected civil immigration violations. It will be ORDERED that this preliminary injunction shall take effect immediately and shall remain in effect pending final resolution of this matter.
The Court will GRANT plaintiff’s motion for class certification (ECF No. 5) and certify the following class: All indigent criminal defendants in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia: (1) who were, are, or will be detained by officers of the United States Marshals Service for suspected civil immigration violations, and (2) as to whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement has not effectuated a warrant of removal/deportation (a form I-205) and/or has not obtained an order of deportation or removal. [N.S. v. HUGHES, No. 1:2020cv00101 – Document 39 (D.D.C. 2020),Justia US Law, May 7, 2020]
Basically, Kritarch Lamberth, enraged that illegal aliens are being briefly detained by the USMS and handed over to ICE, has determined that a Deputy United States Marshal (DUSM) may not take custody of an illegal alien despite the fact that a DUSM is a Federal law enforcement agent and empowered to execute any writ or order under the authority of the United States, which includes detaining for arrest an illegal alien who violated Federal law.
The best reaction of the USMS would be to ignore this order. All Federal judges know that their lives are protected by DUSMs and merely issuing such an order, much less ordering another DUSM to arrest another DUSM for violating this order would likely make a DUSM unlikely to take a bullet to protect a Federal judge. Moreover, as punishment, the Director of the USMS should order his subordinates to ignore this order and provoke a confrontation over this. Let Kritarch Lamberth know who holds the guns. Kritarch Lamberth holds no guns, as Alexander Hamilton stated in Federalist No. 78: The judiciary has “no influence over either the sword or the purse, …It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment.”
Time to go Andrew Jackson on the corpulent Kritarch Lamberth. But I tire of pointing this out. Time for action this day to defeat the kritarchy.


vdare--2020-05-15--White America Blamed For Blacks Dying "Disproportionately" From Coronavirus AND For Increased Black

White America Blamed For Blacks Dying "Disproportionately" From Coronavirus AND For Increased Black Gun Violence

Spend your time with this article .
Read it a few times .
And , if you ’ re a white American , understand everything you are reading is your fault .
Emergency room visits have been cut in half during the coronavirus pandemic .
But there ’ s still a reason for some people to get medical help other than the virus .
More people have been shot so far this year than in years previous , and Milwaukee is no exception .
During the same period , other crimes have decreased , according to an analysis of Gun @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a nonprofit newsroom that focuses on gun issues .
The Trace was unable to run a full analysis of Milwaukee ’ s data since records of gun violence in the area are difficult to obtain in real-time .
But other sources , including observations from violence prevention groups , have suggested that Milwaukee ’ s situation compares to Philadelphia , Nashville , Chicago , and other cities where the rise of COVID-19 has correlated with a severe spike in gun violence .
Unlike in Philadelphia , where funding for violence prevention has waned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fully funded .
But safer-at-home orders have meant that in-person interventions have become more difficult to stage .
“ When it ’ s a police officer and an intervention worker from the same background and the same city sitting in the same room , and they ’ re both telling you , ‘ We care about you .
We want you to do well , so please stay out of this and drop this conflict ’ … that has a powerful effect , ” said Champe Barton , one of the authors of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have to reach out by Facebook , or you have to try and call a family member to call the person … the work just becomes less effective.
” It ’ s difficult to tell for certain why gun violence has spiked , as there is little research into gun violence prevention .
It ’ s also difficult to study prevention strategies in a scientific manner since that would require a control group that would be left to fend for itself — an ethical violation .
Champe says the coronavirus pandemic has provided @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the factors that clearly have an effect on gun violence .
Some psychologists have cited boredom as a catalyst for violence .
With most work , school , and recreation currently closed , there are fewer activities to keep people distracted from taking up a gun .
“ Those sorts of interruptions to someone ’ s daily life really do hurt their chances of being away from violence , because we at least know that while you ’ re at work , while you ’ re at school , it ’ s difficult @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” said Barton .
Despite the rise in gun violence , Barton said he ’ s wary of some politicians ’ claims that the “ cure is worse than the disease ” — the belief that virus prevention measures might lead to more death than the virus itself .
It ’ s possible that ’ s because the same majority-black communities that have seen rises in gun violence are also those that have seen the most fatalities from COVID-19 .
“ In my reporting , I have not heard anyone who is anxious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus , ” said Barton .
“ The loss of life as a result of the coronavirus outstrips anything from people staying at home and getting involved with violence as a result … It would be unfair to look at that as a binary when there are ways that cities can intervene .
”

Spend your time with this article. Read it a few times.
And, if you’re a white American, understand everything you are reading is your fault.
Emergency room visits have been cut in half during the coronavirus pandemic. But there’s still a reason for some people to get medical help other than the virus.
More people have been shot so far this year than in years previous, and Milwaukee is no exception. During the same period, other crimes have decreased, according to an analysis of Gun Violence Archive data by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom that focuses on gun issues.
The Trace was unable to run a full analysis of Milwaukee’s data since records of gun violence in the area are difficult to obtain in real-time. But other sources, including observations from violence prevention groups, have suggested that Milwaukee’s situation compares to Philadelphia, Nashville, Chicago, and other cities where the rise of COVID-19 has correlated with a severe spike in gun violence.
Unlike in Philadelphia, where funding for violence prevention has waned, groups like 414Life in Milwaukee remain fully funded. But safer-at-home orders have meant that in-person interventions have become more difficult to stage.
“When it’s a police officer and an intervention worker from the same background and the same city sitting in the same room, and they’re both telling you, ‘We care about you. We want you to do well, so please stay out of this and drop this conflict’ … that has a powerful effect,” said Champe Barton, one of the authors of The Trace report.
“When you have to reach out by Facebook, or you have to try and call a family member to call the person … the work just becomes less effective.”
It’s difficult to tell for certain why gun violence has spiked, as there is little research into gun violence prevention. It’s also difficult to study prevention strategies in a scientific manner since that would require a control group that would be left to fend for itself — an ethical violation. Champe says the coronavirus pandemic has provided an unintended case study into some of the factors that clearly have an effect on gun violence.
Some psychologists have cited boredom as a catalyst for violence. With most work, school, and recreation currently closed, there are fewer activities to keep people distracted from taking up a gun.
“Those sorts of interruptions to someone’s daily life really do hurt their chances of being away from violence, because we at least know that while you’re at work, while you’re at school, it’s difficult to also be shooting a gun,” said Barton.
Despite the rise in gun violence, Barton said he’s wary of some politicians’ claims that the “cure is worse than the disease” — the belief that virus prevention measures might lead to more death than the virus itself. It’s possible that’s because the same majority-black communities that have seen rises in gun violence are also those that have seen the most fatalities from COVID-19.
“In my reporting, I have not heard anyone who is anxious to reopen as a result of the coronavirus,” said Barton. “The loss of life as a result of the coronavirus outstrips anything from people staying at home and getting involved with violence as a result … It would be unfair to look at that as a binary when there are ways that cities can intervene.”


vdare--2020-05-16--John Derbyshire: Why Hasn’t The NEW YORK TIMES Reported The Murder Of Paul And Lydia Marino?

[ Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb , now available exclusively through VDARE.com ] Pretty much every morning , weather permitting , Paul and Lidia Marino , an elderly Italian-American couple from Elkton , Maryland , would drive the five miles to Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery , just across the border in , of course , Delaware .
They would visit the grave of their son Anthony , who died three years ago at age 54 .
Anthony was not himself a veteran .
His Dad Paul was , though , and the cemetery rules allow disabled adult children of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had been born with cerebral palsy and suffered wretched health all his life .
Paul and Lidia , both in their mid-eighties , married more than sixty years , had cared for Anthony until he died in 2017 .
They were helped by their older twin sons , Paul Junior and Ray .
Paul Senior worked in the printing industry for decades before retiring in 1994 .
Lidia was what we used to call a home-maker : cooking , shopping , minding the kids , keeping the house clean .
She and Paul @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my own Mum , loved needlework , Paul painted and played guitar .
It 's a touching little bit of Americana : a close , busy , loving family , like a dozen you and I know , minding their business and facing life 's misfortunes with courage , humanity , and grit .
So there was this couple , he 86 and she 85 , crossing the cemetery on their way to Anthony 's grave on the morning of May 8th as they had done hundreds of times before .
Twenty-nine-year-old Sheldon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in black , with a black face mask , came up behind them and shot them both with a handgun .
[ For couple slain in veterans cemetery , visiting son ’ s grave was a daily ritual , Carl Hamilton , Newark ( Maryland ) Post , May 14 , 2020 ] Lidia was shot first , and died at the scene .
Paul was shot in the head , presumably after just seeing his wife shot ; he died later in hospital .
The killer , Sheldon Francis , ran off @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a good-quality rifle with him and plenty of ammo , which suggests some planning beforehand .
There was a standoff with police and a firefight .
When Francis had been silent for a while , cops went into the woods and found him dead of a gunshot wound .
Whether the wound was self-inflicted or the result of police shooting , we do n't know .
A horrible end to two lives well lived , and a third that would have been better not lived at all .
Plainly a homicide , though @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know the motive .
Let 's see : Italian Americans— is there a mob connection ?
Given what we know about the couple 's life , and about the killer , it seems highly improbable .
Was Sheldon Francis a disgruntled employee or contractor ?
Again , that 's a bit of a stretch , given what we know .
We do n't know much , though .
About Sheldon Francis , we know almost nothing .
I have been doggedly googling all week and still ca n't find out anything about him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rap sheet ; the news pictures of him ( right ) are obvious law-enforcement mugshots .
What does the rap sheet say ?
Was he married or single ?
How did he make a living ?
Google … Google … Google … nothing .
I just tried again , putting a filter on the Google search for `` past week . ''
There 's a flurry of `` Gunman Identified '' items from four or five days ago , no new details .
I changed the filter to `` past 24 hours '' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but still no new information .
We 're no wiser about possible motives .
( The New York Times has nothing on either Francis or the Marinos , but a search for “ Veterans ’ Cemetery ” brought up two AP stories [ May 8 , May 9 ] about the shooting , in which both victims and shooter were nameless and raceless . )
Hm .
Let 's try a different shooter : Travis McMichael , the white guy who shot a black guy in Brunswick , Georgia , news of which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Marinos were killed .
Filter to `` past week '' : hoo boy , `` about 210,000 results '' says Google .
Let 's change the filter to `` past 24 hours . ''
`` About 32,000 , '' says Google .
That Travis McMichael is some media star : nearly three thousand times bigger than Sheldon Francis .
As of 7 PM , May 16 , eight days later , there has still been no mention of the murders of Paul and Lidia Marino in the national Main Stream Media , led @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
What are they waiting for ?
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
See, earlier, by Faith Goldy: Black Lies Don’t Count—And White Lives Don’t Matter
Pretty much every morning, weather permitting, Paul and Lidia Marino, an elderly Italian-American couple from Elkton, Maryland, would drive the five miles to Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery, just across the border in, of course, Delaware. They would visit the grave of their son Anthony, who died three years ago at age 54.
Anthony was not himself a veteran. His Dad Paul was, though, and the cemetery rules allow disabled adult children of veterans to take a plot. Anthony had been born with cerebral palsy and suffered wretched health all his life. Paul and Lidia, both in their mid-eighties, married more than sixty years, had cared for Anthony until he died in 2017. They were helped by their older twin sons, Paul Junior and Ray.
Paul Senior worked in the printing industry for decades before retiring in 1994. Lidia was what we used to call a home-maker: cooking, shopping, minding the kids, keeping the house clean. She and Paul were both hobbyists: Lidia, like my own Mum, loved needlework, Paul painted and played guitar.
It's a touching little bit of Americana: a close, busy, loving family, like a dozen you and I know, minding their business and facing life's misfortunes with courage, humanity, and grit.
So there was this couple, he 86 and she 85, crossing the cemetery on their way to Anthony's grave on the morning of May 8th as they had done hundreds of times before.
Twenty-nine-year-old Sheldon Francis, a black man dressed entirely in black, with a black face mask, came up behind them and shot them both with a handgun. [For couple slain in veterans cemetery, visiting son’s grave was a daily ritual, Carl Hamilton, Newark (Maryland) Post, May 14, 2020] Lidia was shot first, and died at the scene. Paul was shot in the head, presumably after just seeing his wife shot; he died later in hospital.
The killer, Sheldon Francis, ran off into some nearby woods. He had a good-quality rifle with him and plenty of ammo, which suggests some planning beforehand. There was a standoff with police and a firefight. When Francis had been silent for a while, cops went into the woods and found him dead of a gunshot wound. Whether the wound was self-inflicted or the result of police shooting, we don't know.
A horrible end to two lives well lived, and a third that would have been better not lived at all. Plainly a homicide, though, so we're naturally curious to know the motive.
Let's see: Italian Americans— is there a mob connection? Given what we know about the couple's life, and about the killer, it seems highly improbable. Was Sheldon Francis a disgruntled employee or contractor? Again, that's a bit of a stretch, given what we know.
We don't know much, though. About Sheldon Francis, we know almost nothing. I have been doggedly googling all week and still can't find out anything about him. He must have some kind of rap sheet; the news pictures of him (right) are obvious law-enforcement mugshots. What does the rap sheet say? Was he married or single? How did he make a living?
Google … Google … Google … nothing. I just tried again, putting a filter on the Google search for "past week." There's a flurry of "Gunman Identified" items from four or five days ago, no new details. I changed the filter to "past 24 hours": twelve hits on Sheldon Francis, but still no new information. We're no wiser about possible motives. (The New York Times has nothing on either Francis or the Marinos, but a search for “Veterans’ Cemetery” brought up two AP stories [May 8, May 9] about the shooting, in which both victims and shooter were nameless and raceless. )
Hm. Let's try a different shooter: Travis McMichael, the white guy who shot a black guy in Brunswick, Georgia, news of which came out just the day before the Marinos were killed. Filter to "past week": hoo boy, "about 210,000 results" says Google. Let's change the filter to "past 24 hours." "About 32,000," says Google.
That Travis McMichael is some media star: nearly three thousand times bigger than Sheldon Francis.
As of 7 PM, May 16, eight days later, there has still been no mention of the murders of Paul and Lidia Marino in the national Main Stream Media, led of course by the New York Times.
What are they waiting for?
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vdare--2020-05-16--Twitter Deleted Michelle Malkin Clip After It Was Retweeted By Donald Trump—As DOJ Moves To Investig

Twitter Deleted Michelle Malkin Clip After It Was Retweeted By Donald Trump—As DOJ Moves To Investigate Silicon Valley For Antitrust

This tweet by Donald Trump is about Tech Totalitarian censorship : The clip with Michelle Malkin speaking was deleted by Twitter : American First Clips retweeted it again ( I 'm embedding these Tweets , rather than screenshotting , so you can interact but they may be deleted . )
This is a frankly shocking exercise of Twitter 's censorship .
In a related note , the Justice Department is moving on Silicon Valley : The people cautioned that neither the department nor the state AGs have made any decisions about filing such a case , which would be the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dominant technology company since the Clinton administration 's pursuit of Microsoft in the 1990s .
But the DOJ 's antitrust inquiries into Google , Facebook and other Silicon Valley powers has become a priority for Attorney General William Barr , who has asserted greater control of the probes and has said he wants to make a decision on Google by the summer .
Google could face antitrust suits by summer as DOJ , states move toward decisions , by Leah Nylen , POLITICO , May 15 , 2020 By the way , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Michelle 's speech at AFPAC .
It 's not , it 's from Western Conservative Summit 2019 , which is impeccably Conservativism , Inc , not a fringe organization at all .

This tweet by Donald Trump is about Tech Totalitarian censorship:
The clip with Michelle Malkin speaking was deleted by Twitter:
Thank you @realdonaldtrump - @Twitter has DELETED the video clip you RT'ed of my remarks against Silicon Valley censorship this morning! OUT OF CONTROL. The situation must be remedied ASAP.https://t.co/97CBshuHOF@twitter @jack @vijaya @TwitterSafety — Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) May 16, 2020
American First Clips retweeted it again (I'm embedding these Tweets, rather than screenshotting, so you can interact but they may be deleted.)
This is a frankly shocking exercise of Twitter's censorship.
In a related note, the Justice Department is moving on Silicon Valley:
The people cautioned that neither the department nor the state AGs have made any decisions about filing such a case, which would be the first major U.S. antitrust action against a dominant technology company since the Clinton administration's pursuit of Microsoft in the 1990s. But the DOJ's antitrust inquiries into Google, Facebook and other Silicon Valley powers has become a priority for Attorney General William Barr, who has asserted greater control of the probes and has said he wants to make a decision on Google by the summer. Google could face antitrust suits by summer as DOJ, states move toward decisions, by Leah Nylen, POLITICO, May 15, 2020
By the way, it's being suggested that this clip was from Michelle's speech at AFPAC. It's not, it's from Western Conservative Summit 2019, which is impeccably Conservativism, Inc, not a fringe organization at all.


vdare--2020-05-16--Her Name Is Heather Perry: White Woman Murdered in Denver by Black Male Released from Jail Early Bec

Her Name Is Heather Perry: White Woman Murdered in Denver by Black Male Released from Jail Early Because of Coronavirus Concerns

Step one : release black criminal , who was in jail for armed robbery , early because of concerns over the Coronavirus .
Step two : arrest this same black criminal for the murder of a 21-year-old white woman in Denver , Colorado less than a month after he was released from jail because of concerns surrounding the Coronavirus .
Ladies and gentlemen , we call this Anarcho-Tyranny .
Parolee Released Early Due To Coronavirus Accused Of Murdering Woman In Denver , CBS Denver , May 15 , 2020 A parolee who was recently released from prison due to coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 21-year-old woman in Denver .
Cornelius Haney is accused of murdering Heather Perry less than a month after his release .
Perry ’ s body was discovered in an alleyway in east Denver on May 9 .
Police used surveillance video to track Haney back to the crime scene .
Haney was released early from his seven year sentence after pleading guilty to armed robbery in Arapahoe County in June of 2016 .
Though qualified for parole , Haney ’ s mandatory release date wasn ’ t scheduled until August of 2020 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ s Dillon Thomas , the Department of Corrections said : “ Mr .
Haney has been eligible for parole since 2017 .
His case was reviewed by the Parole Board , and he was approved for release .
He was released on 4-15-2020 .
Mr. Haney had a mandatory release date of 8-22-2020 and would have been required to be released at that time regardless of the Parole Board decision .
“ Mr .
Haney was released due to special needs parole criteria .
When looking at special needs parole criteria , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ offenders for risk factors related to COVID as documented by the Centers for Disease Control ( CDC ) .
The clinical team reviews the inmate ’ s medical records to individually confirm the existence of conditions and their severity .
The Department also reviews information related to their crime of incarceration and behavior inside the facility .
Once the medical and parole team has made a recommendation , the packet is forwarded to the Parole Board for review .
The Parole Board reviews the application packet and renders a decision.
” Gov .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ released under an executive order he issued , but said the parole board could not have held Haney much longer .
“ He would have had mandatory parole granted in August of this year , ” Polis stated .
“ He has been up for parole since 2017.
” Polis said the parole board has a tough job .
“ In making those decisions , they are taking into account the safety of prison guards and others , but no prisoner who is a danger to society should be released early in any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And of course , nobody on that parole board thought that this person was going to do what they allegedly did , but they couldn ’ t have held them much longer under the law.
” “ They ’ re doing their best to make the best informed decisions they can to keep Coloradans safe , as they decide within the legal parameters , ” Polis stated .
“ Nobody should be released simply because of COVID-19 , of course.
” Not much is known about Heather Perry , save she was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Was ” being the operative word in the sentence .
We might never learn much more about Ms. Perry , for the corporate media has no interest in pursuing any story in great detail when the racial angle of a black-on-white crime is the primary cause for the who-what-when-where-why-how .
When such a murder transpires , it immediately sets in motion a series of events requiring the white victim ’ s picture to rarely accompany any story in local network affiliate ( ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX ) reporting , and absolutely no racial descriptions in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , revert back to the interesting revelations from above : Step one : release black criminal , who was in jail for armed robbery , early because of concerns over the Coronavirus .
Step two : arrest this same black criminal for the murder of a 21-year-old white woman in Denver , Colorado less than a month after he was released from jail because of concerns surrounding the Coronavirus .
Her name is Heather Perry .
A sane society would have protected her from a criminal like Cornelius Haney .
The leaders of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jail because of the fear of the Coronavirus impacting those who had forfeited their right to freedom because they broke the law was greater than protecting the law-abiding citizens of Colorado .

“And that was the soft spot which destroyed what was in many ways an admirable culture. The junior hoodlums who roamed their streets were symptoms of a greater sickness; their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of ‘rights’ … and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure.” – Starship Troopers
Step one: release black criminal, who was in jail for armed robbery, early because of concerns over the Coronavirus.
Step two: arrest this same black criminal for the murder of a 21-year-old white woman in Denver, Colorado less than a month after he was released from jail because of concerns surrounding the Coronavirus.
Ladies and gentlemen, we call this Anarcho-Tyranny.
Parolee Released Early Due To Coronavirus Accused Of Murdering Woman In Denver, CBS Denver, May 15, 2020 A parolee who was recently released from prison due to coronavirus concerns is now accused of murdering a 21-year-old woman in Denver. Cornelius Haney is accused of murdering Heather Perry less than a month after his release. Perry’s body was discovered in an alleyway in east Denver on May 9. Police used surveillance video to track Haney back to the crime scene. Haney was released early from his seven year sentence after pleading guilty to armed robbery in Arapahoe County in June of 2016. Though qualified for parole, Haney’s mandatory release date wasn’t scheduled until August of 2020. In a statement issued to CBS4’s Dillon Thomas, the Department of Corrections said: “Mr. Haney has been eligible for parole since 2017. His case was reviewed by the Parole Board, and he was approved for release. He was released on 4-15-2020. Mr. Haney had a mandatory release date of 8-22-2020 and would have been required to be released at that time regardless of the Parole Board decision. “Mr. Haney was released due to special needs parole criteria. When looking at special needs parole criteria, the Department of Corrections’ medical staff reviews offenders for risk factors related to COVID as documented by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The clinical team reviews the inmate’s medical records to individually confirm the existence of conditions and their severity. The Department also reviews information related to their crime of incarceration and behavior inside the facility. Once the medical and parole team has made a recommendation, the packet is forwarded to the Parole Board for review. The Parole Board reviews the application packet and renders a decision.” Gov. Jared Polis acknowledged Friday that Haney was released under an executive order he issued, but said the parole board could not have held Haney much longer. “He would have had mandatory parole granted in August of this year,” Polis stated. “He has been up for parole since 2017.” Polis said the parole board has a tough job. “In making those decisions, they are taking into account the safety of prison guards and others, but no prisoner who is a danger to society should be released early in any situation,” Polis stated. “And of course, nobody on that parole board thought that this person was going to do what they allegedly did, but they couldn’t have held them much longer under the law.” “They’re doing their best to make the best informed decisions they can to keep Coloradans safe, as they decide within the legal parameters,” Polis stated. “Nobody should be released simply because of COVID-19, of course.”
Not much is known about Heather Perry, save she was a 21-year-old white female living in Denver.
“Was” being the operative word in the sentence.
We might never learn much more about Ms. Perry, for the corporate media has no interest in pursuing any story in great detail when the racial angle of a black-on-white crime is the primary cause for the who-what-when-where-why-how.
When such a murder transpires, it immediately sets in motion a series of events requiring the white victim’s picture to rarely accompany any story in local network affiliate (ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX) reporting, and absolutely no racial descriptions in the prose.
But in this case, revert back to the interesting revelations from above:
Step one: release black criminal, who was in jail for armed robbery, early because of concerns over the Coronavirus.
Step two: arrest this same black criminal for the murder of a 21-year-old white woman in Denver, Colorado less than a month after he was released from jail because of concerns surrounding the Coronavirus.
Her name is Heather Perry. A sane society would have protected her from a criminal like Cornelius Haney. The leaders of our society decided to release him from jail because of the fear of the Coronavirus impacting those who had forfeited their right to freedom because they broke the law was greater than protecting the law-abiding citizens of Colorado.
Their Lives Matter Too.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-16--Happy Days Are Here Again: Another Korean Woman Writer Tries to Get Mileage Out of Purported Anti-Ch

Happy Days Are Here Again: Another Korean Woman Writer Tries to Get Mileage Out of Purported Anti-Chinese Discrimination

Earlier : In Today 's Edition of `` Asian-American Women Writers on the Make Frontlashing Whites Over Coronavirus '' —Cathy Park Hong From the New York Times opinion page : Why I ’ ve Stopped Telling People I ’ m Not Chinese When confronted with racism toward anyone , our instinct should be indignation , not deflection .
Euny Hong ( @ euny ) is the author of “ The Birth of Korean Cool ” and “ The Power of Nunchi : The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success.
” Mid-February , when the world was starting to go pear-shaped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ area where I ’ d previously experienced anti-Asian sentiment .
So a few days before the trip , I emailed my ( white ) hairdresser frantically : “ I know this sounds crazy but can you can make me blonde ?
I ’ m traveling next week and I ’ m worried about being mistaken for Chinese and blamed for the coronavirus.
” Let ’ s skip the ridiculousness of the idea for a second to focus on the important bit : Why had I worded my request so offensively ?
I could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ xenophobia .
Why was I throwing people of Chinese descent under the bus ?
It ’ s like that old joke about the two people running away from a bear : You don ’ t have to outrun the bear , you just have to outrun the other guy .
Except in this case : You don ’ t have to deal with racism ; you just have to make people racist at someone else .
My panic was a humbling reminder that I should never be overly confident that I would do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fear .
Sure , wanting to avoid racial profiling is a survival instinct .
But survival instincts are often amoral and , if unchecked , can easily turn ugly .
… This impulse isn ’ t exactly new , even if the pandemic has brought out its most sinister form .
I ’ ve been doing it since I was a child .
Worse , I was taught to do it .
When I was a kid in late-1970s suburban Chicago , anti-Chinese taunts were a daily occurrence .
It was a frequent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ place we clapped eyes on other Koreans outside our own homes .
Our parents and Sunday school teachers told us that the correct response was , “ I ’ m not Chinese ; I ’ m Korean.
” … I had a Korean guy working for me who moved to the Chicago suburbs in the 1970s .
He wasn ’ t anti-Chinese , he just loathed the Japanese .
He was a friendly guy on all topics except the vileness of the Japanese .
Last month , a Chinese-American friend of mine posted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ad that had outraged her .
In the wake of Covid-19 , some clothing vendor saw a business opportunity : a series of T-shirts with slogans like , “ I ’ m Asian but I ’ m not Chinese , ” “ I ’ m not Chinese , I ’ m Korean , ” “ I ’ m not Chinese , I ’ m Malaysian , ” etc .
Her friends ’ comments under her post were equally indignant .
( So much for predictive algorithms , by the way . )
My @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we ’ d had these shirts when I was a kid.
” And then I stopped myself , horrified .
By way of context — not justification — Asians have been siccing people on other Asians for ages .
In World War II-era America , some Asian-owned businesses posted signs in their windows specifying that they were not Japanese .
I have even met a few Asians of that generation who currently believe that it made political sense for Franklin D. Roosevelt to put Japanese-Americans in internment camps .
Just the Japanese .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Koreans , and Filipinos in the U.S. had reasons for hating the Japanese during WWII that were not just sucking up to white racism .
Coming up : a Vincent Chin reference !
Vincent Chin is the Emmett Till of Asian-Americans , except nobody other than Asian-American activists can remember him : Which is not to say that mislabeling isn ’ t dangerous ; it can even be deadly .
In Highland Park , Mich. , in 1982 , there was an incident that all Asian-Americans of a certain age remember vividly : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a strip club by two white autoworkers who assumed he was Japanese — one of the people who , they believed , had destroyed the American auto industry .
It was a tragic case of mistaken identity .
But to respond to that horrific incident with “ Vincent Chin wasn ’ t even Japanese !
” is to create a dangerous distraction from the core issue : It is never OK to attack anyone based on their race .
You mean murder is never OK ?
Who knew ?
For as long @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ve bristled at the Asian-American label .
I found it frustratingly meaningless , lumping together diverse groups under one heading in a way that promoted precisely the kind of generalizations we want to prevent .
“ You all look the same , ” or , “ I bet you love Excel and bad driving.
” But what I ’ ve come to realize over the past few weeks is that even if I don ’ t identify with that designation and find it overly broad , like it or not , it shapes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ path forward for any of us requires a united front .
Against whites .
Asians need their unifying KKKrazy Glue too .

Earlier: In Today's Edition of "Asian-American Women Writers on the Make Frontlashing Whites Over Coronavirus"—Cathy Park Hong
From the New York Times opinion page:
Why I’ve Stopped Telling People I’m Not Chinese
When confronted with racism toward anyone, our instinct should be indignation, not deflection. By Euny Hong
Euny Hong (@euny) is the author of “The Birth of Korean Cool” and “The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success.” May 15, 2020 Mid-February, when the world was starting to go pear-shaped, I had to travel to an area where I’d previously experienced anti-Asian sentiment. So a few days before the trip, I emailed my (white) hairdresser frantically: “I know this sounds crazy but can you can make me blonde? I’m traveling next week and I’m worried about being mistaken for Chinese and blamed for the coronavirus.” Let’s skip the ridiculousness of the idea for a second to focus on the important bit: Why had I worded my request so offensively? I could have just said I was worried about xenophobia. Why was I throwing people of Chinese descent under the bus? It’s like that old joke about the two people running away from a bear: You don’t have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun the other guy. Except in this case: You don’t have to deal with racism; you just have to make people racist at someone else. My panic was a humbling reminder that I should never be overly confident that I would do the right thing in the face of fear. Sure, wanting to avoid racial profiling is a survival instinct. But survival instincts are often amoral and, if unchecked, can easily turn ugly. … This impulse isn’t exactly new, even if the pandemic has brought out its most sinister form. I’ve been doing it since I was a child. Worse, I was taught to do it. When I was a kid in late-1970s suburban Chicago, anti-Chinese taunts were a daily occurrence. It was a frequent topic at Korean church — the only place we clapped eyes on other Koreans outside our own homes. Our parents and Sunday school teachers told us that the correct response was, “I’m not Chinese; I’m Korean.” …
I had a Korean guy working for me who moved to the Chicago suburbs in the 1970s. He wasn’t anti-Chinese, he just loathed the Japanese. He was a friendly guy on all topics except the vileness of the Japanese.
Last month, a Chinese-American friend of mine posted on social media about a targeted internet ad that had outraged her. In the wake of Covid-19, some clothing vendor saw a business opportunity: a series of T-shirts with slogans like, “I’m Asian but I’m not Chinese,” “I’m not Chinese, I’m Korean,” “I’m not Chinese, I’m Malaysian,” etc. Her friends’ comments under her post were equally indignant. (So much for predictive algorithms, by the way.) My first thought was, “I wish we’d had these shirts when I was a kid.” And then I stopped myself, horrified. By way of context — not justification — Asians have been siccing people on other Asians for ages. In World War II-era America, some Asian-owned businesses posted signs in their windows specifying that they were not Japanese. I have even met a few Asians of that generation who currently believe that it made political sense for Franklin D. Roosevelt to put Japanese-Americans in internment camps. Just the Japanese.
Uh, you know, Chinese, Koreans, and Filipinos in the U.S. had reasons for hating the Japanese during WWII that were not just sucking up to white racism.
Coming up: a Vincent Chin reference! Vincent Chin is the Emmett Till of Asian-Americans, except nobody other than Asian-American activists can remember him:
Which is not to say that mislabeling isn’t dangerous; it can even be deadly. In Highland Park, Mich., in 1982, there was an incident that all Asian-Americans of a certain age remember vividly: A Chinese-American named Vincent Chin was murdered in a strip club by two white autoworkers who assumed he was Japanese — one of the people who, they believed, had destroyed the American auto industry. It was a tragic case of mistaken identity. But to respond to that horrific incident with “Vincent Chin wasn’t even Japanese!” is to create a dangerous distraction from the core issue: It is never OK to attack anyone based on their race.
You mean murder is never OK? Who knew?
For as long as I can remember, I’ve bristled at the Asian-American label. I found it frustratingly meaningless, lumping together diverse groups under one heading in a way that promoted precisely the kind of generalizations we want to prevent. “You all look the same,” or, “I bet you love Excel and bad driving.” But what I’ve come to realize over the past few weeks is that even if I don’t identify with that designation and find it overly broad, like it or not, it shapes how people see me. The only path forward for any of us requires a united front.
Against whites. Asians need their unifying KKKrazy Glue too.
If someone says, “You Chinese are killing us,” I am in that moment Chinese.
Racial solidarity uber alles.
[Comment at Unz.com]