vdare--2020-02-29--Gun Control And Demographics: Immigrants Vote Against American Gun Rights

Earlier by Jack Dalton : Latino Voters All-In For Gun Control ... Our New Country Is Going To Be Great So Virginia gun owners just dodged a legislative bullet in the form of a proposed ban on so-called assault weapons .
But a demographic bullet is still aimed right where it can do the most damage : the ballot box .
The Great Replacement that Leftists celebrate—even as they call it a racist conspiracy theory—is the primary reason gun rights are in the crosshairs in Virginia and throughout the country .
Immigration has consequences , meaning foreign-origin voters , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that out soon , gun rights will go the way of Confederate statues , along with other American rights currently undreamt of .
Consider the most recent near miss : Four moderate Democrats sided with Republicans in Virginia ’ s Senate to block a ban on semi-automatic sporting rifles such as the AR-15 .
Magazines of more than 12 rounds were targeted , too .
This provoked some eloquent opposition .
“ The people of Virginia are demanding that someone , anybody that is in power , please stand up and defend the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chase , a gun-rights champion and GOP gubernatorial candidate .
“ If I am going to continue to do the law-abiding work of the people I am going to have to arm myself , so I went through all the training , got the licensing and all that and I will just tell you—I won ’ t miss ” [ ‘ We do n't need weapons of war ’ : Va. Gov .
Northam reacts to failed assault weapons ban , by Tim Barber , WJLA.com , February 18 , 2020 ] .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ are indeed demanding that someone defend their rights , as the massive gun-rights rally on January 20 surely showed .
But the last election results showed something else : Non-white Third World immigrants in Richmond and Northern Virginia who put the Democrats in power last election are doing their best to take those rights away .
“ The 2020 legislative session kicked off shortly after noon with several history-making firsts as women and people of color assumed leadership roles previously held only by white men for the last 400 years , ” gloated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ House ’ s first acts was to elect Del .
Eileen Filler-Corn as the new speaker , the first woman to serve in that role .
She is also the first Jewish speaker .
Her top deputy , House Majority Leader Charniele Herring , is the first black woman to hold that role , and the House elected Suzette Denslow to be the first ever female clerk .
Ghazala Hashmi , who unseated a Republican incumbent to help Democrats flip the Senate , became that chamber ’ s first Muslim female member .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ separate articles that celebrate the immigrant-driven demographic displacement of white Virginians and what it means for those who still “ cling to their guns or religion , ” as the presidential scion of a Kenyan immigrant famously put it .
“ Guns , that is the most pressing issue for me , ” Indian engineer Vijay Katkuri told the Times of his vote for a Democrat .
“ There are lots of other issues , but you can only fix them if you are alive.
” Enthused the NYT , “ once the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now the land of Indian grocery stores , Korean churches and Diwali festivals ” [ How Voters Turned Virginia From Deep Red to Solid Blue , by Sabrina Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff , November 9 , 2019 ] .
The paper gleefully noted that 10 percent of Virginian voters are foreign-born , up from 3.6 percent in 1990 , and that the white population in Katkuris ’ district has plummeted from 91 percent to 64 percent .
Such is the shift , the New York Times reported in its second tribute to The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ born in India , Ghazal Hashmi , defeated an incumbent Republican in suburban Richmond : Of course , the GOP didn ’ t help its cause last year by leaving 33 General Assembly races uncontested—10 in House , 23 in the Senate—particularly given that Democrats control the House by a slim two votes and the Senate by 11 .
Nor can one ignore Michael Bloomberg ’ s 90-caliber shot at gun rights : $ 2.5 million that overwhelmed the National Rifle Association ’ s popgun [ Mike Bloomberg ’ s gun-control group just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ win in Virginia , by Lauren Hirsch , CNBC , November 6 , 2019 ] .
But demographics are what mattered in the election and will matter long term , as MSNBC ’ s Joe Scarborough cheerily explained .
And more than gun rights are at stake , thanks to The Great Replacement taking place before our very eyes .
The General Assembly quickly passed the Equal Rights Amendment , canceled the “ Speaker ’ s Bible Study ” for an “ interfaith devotional , ” and scrubbed “ militia ” from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Not only does the House have its first woman Speaker , blacks are running half the chamber ’ s 14 standing committees , including Appropriations [ This is what a blue state looks like : Rapid change roils Virginia Republicans , by Gregory Schneider The Washington Post , January 27 , 2020 ] .
“ The upshot is that white men from red parts of Virginia hold less power this year than any time since Reconstruction , ” WaPo ’ s Schneider cheered .
That , of course , is why the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ erodes the political power of conservative , middle-American whites who defend traditional American rights such as free speech and gun ownership .
“ We can replace them , ” as the Times ’ s Michelle Goldberg proclaimed in her walk-up to 2018 ’ s gubernatorial election in Georgia .
Worst thing is , few Republicans will admit this means doom not only for the party but also the Historic American Nation .
Never forget what Never Trumper Ben Shapiro tweeted about The Great Replacement : “ And by the way , I don @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the so-called ‘ browning of America.
’ Color doesn ’ t matter .
Ideology does.
” That remark invited this rejoinder : “ Of course you don ’ t give a damn .
You have the option to jump ship and move to Israel.
” Exactly .
The rest of us can ’ t jump ship and have nowhere to go , which is why Virginia ’ s Republicans and the party had better line up behind State Senator Amanda Chase and fight for gun rights .
But more than guns are at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must recognize what the left admits and crows about : “ Demography is destiny , ” The Great Replacement is underway , and the Historic American Nation is under assault .
If the GOP doesn ’ t fight it , Virginia—and the rest of the country—are doomed .
Jack Dalton [ Email him ] is a recovering conservative in the South .

Earlier by Jack Dalton: Latino Voters All-In For Gun Control...Our New Country Is Going To Be Great
So Virginia gun owners just dodged a legislative bullet in the form of a proposed ban on so-called assault weapons. But a demographic bullet is still aimed right where it can do the most damage: the ballot box. The Great Replacement that Leftists celebrate—even as they call it a racist conspiracy theory—is the primary reason gun rights are in the crosshairs in Virginia and throughout the country. Immigration has consequences, meaning foreign-origin voters, and if the GOP doesn’t figure that out soon, gun rights will go the way of Confederate statues, along with other American rights currently undreamt of.
Consider the most recent near miss: Four moderate Democrats sided with Republicans in Virginia’s Senate to block a ban on semi-automatic sporting rifles such as the AR-15. Magazines of more than 12 rounds were targeted, too.
This provoked some eloquent opposition. “The people of Virginia are demanding that someone, anybody that is in power, please stand up and defend the Second Amendment,” said Sen. Amanda Chase, a gun-rights champion and GOP gubernatorial candidate. “If I am going to continue to do the law-abiding work of the people I am going to have to arm myself, so I went through all the training, got the licensing and all that and I will just tell you—I won’t miss” [‘We don't need weapons of war’: Va. Gov. Northam reacts to failed assault weapons ban, by Tim Barber, WJLA.com, February 18, 2020].
Senator Chase was right: Real Virginians are indeed demanding that someone defend their rights, as the massive gun-rights rally on January 20 surely showed. But the last election results showed something else: Non-white Third World immigrants in Richmond and Northern Virginia who put the Democrats in power last election are doing their best to take those rights away.
“The 2020 legislative session kicked off shortly after noon with several history-making firsts as women and people of color assumed leadership roles previously held only by white men for the last 400 years,” gloated the Associated Press:
One of the House’s first acts was to elect Del. Eileen Filler-Corn as the new speaker, the first woman to serve in that role. She is also the first Jewish speaker. Her top deputy, House Majority Leader Charniele Herring, is the first black woman to hold that role, and the House elected Suzette Denslow to be the first ever female clerk. Ghazala Hashmi, who unseated a Republican incumbent to help Democrats flip the Senate, became that chamber’s first Muslim female member. [Newly empowered Virginia Democrats promise action, by Alan Suderman and Sarah Rankin, January 8, 2020]
The New York Times has published two separate articles that celebrate the immigrant-driven demographic displacement of white Virginians and what it means for those who still “cling to their guns or religion,” as the presidential scion of a Kenyan immigrant famously put it.
“Guns, that is the most pressing issue for me,” Indian engineer Vijay Katkuri told the Times of his vote for a Democrat. “There are lots of other issues, but you can only fix them if you are alive.” Enthused the NYT, “once the heart of the confederacy, Virginia is now the land of Indian grocery stores, Korean churches and Diwali festivals” [How Voters Turned Virginia From Deep Red to Solid Blue, by Sabrina Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff, November 9, 2019].
The paper gleefully noted that 10 percent of Virginian voters are foreign-born, up from 3.6 percent in 1990, and that the white population in Katkuris’ district has plummeted from 91 percent to 64 percent.
Such is the shift, the New York Times reported in its second tribute to The Great Replacement, that a Muslim woman born in India, Ghazal Hashmi, defeated an incumbent Republican in suburban Richmond:
At the root of this district’s—and Virginia’s—political transition is a slow-moving demographic change, a new kind of suburbanization that is sweeping through national politics. From Atlanta to Houston, this pattern is repeating itself—suburban housing developments gobbling up rural areas and farmland and lifting Democrats to power. [What Made Virginia Change Its Mind on Guns? by Timothy Williams, January 30, 2020]
Of course, the GOP didn’t help its cause last year by leaving 33 General Assembly races uncontested—10 in the House, 23 in the Senate—particularly given that Democrats control the House by a slim two votes and the Senate by 11. Nor can one ignore Michael Bloomberg’s 90-caliber shot at gun rights: $2.5 million that overwhelmed the National Rifle Association’s popgun [Mike Bloomberg’s gun-control group just vastly outspent the NRA to help Democrats win in Virginia, by Lauren Hirsch, CNBC, November 6, 2019].
But demographics are what mattered in the election and will matter long term, as MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough cheerily explained.
Tweeted the ex-conservative:
Democrats have won the popular vote 6 of the last 7 elections.
They won a record landslide in 2018. Demographics are a freight train carrying them into the future. The GOPs actions will accelerate their collapse. The future belongs to Democrats if they work hard & focus on 2020. https://t.co/Rrvm39xi4n — Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) February 10, 2020
And more than gun rights are at stake, thanks to The Great Replacement taking place before our very eyes.
The General Assembly quickly passed the Equal Rights Amendment, canceled the “Speaker’s Bible Study” for an “interfaith devotional,” and scrubbed “militia” from the name of the House Public Safety Committee. Not only does the House have its first woman Speaker, blacks are running half the chamber’s 14 standing committees, including Appropriations [This is what a blue state looks like: Rapid change roils Virginia Republicans, by Gregory Schneider, Washington Post, January 27, 2020].
“The upshot is that white men from red parts of Virginia hold less power this year than any time since Reconstruction,” WaPo’s Schneider cheered.
That, of course, is why the Left wants Third World immigration. It erodes the political power of conservative, middle-American whites who defend traditional American rights such as free speech and gun ownership. “We can replace them,” as the Times’s Michelle Goldberg proclaimed in her walk-up to 2018’s gubernatorial election in Georgia.
Worst thing is, few Republicans will admit this means doom not only for the party but also the Historic American Nation.
Never forget what Never Trumper Ben Shapiro tweeted about The Great Replacement: “And by the way, I don’t give a good damn about the so-called ‘browning of America.’ Color doesn’t matter. Ideology does.”
That remark invited this rejoinder: “Of course you don’t give a damn. You have the option to jump ship and move to Israel.”
Exactly. The rest of us can’t jump ship and have nowhere to go, which is why Virginia’s Republicans and the party had better line up behind State Senator Amanda Chase and fight for gun rights.
But more than guns are at stake. Beyond that, the GOP must recognize what the left admits and crows about: “Demography is destiny,” The Great Replacement is underway, and the Historic American Nation is under assault.
If the GOP doesn’t fight it, Virginia—and the rest of the country—are doomed.
Jack Dalton [Email him] is a recovering conservative in the South.


vdare--2020-02-29--Race And Ethnicity In The South Carolina Democrat Presidential Primary Debate

A few remarks after having scrolled through the transcript .
This is a perfect opportunity for good whites to be the change while simultaneously taking advantage of an astounding market failing .
These good whites , stuck in stultifyingly overpriced white neighborhoods , can enjoy diversity without having to shell out anything extra for it .
To the contrary , they ’ ll be able to save a lot of money without having to give up any house in return .
Gain diversity , save money , and dismantle institutional racism in one fell swoop , and all white leftists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ say they want to do .
So easy we should have it solved by yesterday !
Sanders only mentioned whites twice , in a line repeated with only slight variation : Here ’ s hoping Sanders finds a stiff spine .
He ’ s going to need it .
He is a man of the left seeking power who is , in his heart of hearts , devoid of a desire for racial vengeance running for president in a party increasingly motivated by it .
Speaking of , Buttigieg has internalized that motivation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bloomberg ’ s crime policies as mayor of New York City were racist , he answered : Oh , so he ’ s saying it was racist because it disproportionately targeted whites ?
Rhetorical , of course .
It was especially racist because Bloomberg actually had the audacity to assert that whites could be on the receiving end of the negative consequences of racial inequity .
On account of this impropriety , his policies were doubleplus bad .
Black students consistently score worse than white students do in every single state in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the reason South Carolina ranks near the bottom of NAEP rankings is because the state ’ s student body is among the nation ’ s blackest .
We can argue as to why the white-black gap ( or , going in the other direction , why the Asian-white gap ) so consistently and persistently manifests across the country , but insinuating that this is somehow unique to South Carolina is mendacious .
Southerners are used to being dumped on by the corporate media like this .
Still , it shouldn ’ t go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Barack Obama had been fully white instead of just half so .
Merely being twice-elected president of the United States of America ?
Pfft , he ’ d have been elevated to Galactic Overlord for life by now !
Mr. Mayor , would your success have been “ a lot harder to achieve ” had you have been a white gentile instead of a white Jew ?
Statistically , the differences in life outcomes between white Jews and white gentiles are quite similar to the differences in life outcomes between white gentiles and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nuanced topics .
Bloomberg is pre-boomer .
He made his way at a time when being black probably would ’ ve been a handicap for him .
Was that the case when Obama was coming up ?
Is it the case today ?
Fully understanding and productively addressing these questions requires an intellectual approach more sophisticated than white equals bad and non-white equals good .

A few remarks after having scrolled through the transcript.
Biden:
Look, right now if you live in a black neighborhood and you have the same exact house as the guy across the street in a white neighborhood has, your house is valued significantly less than the white, the same exact house. We’ve got to deal with the institutional racism.
This is a perfect opportunity for good whites to be the change while simultaneously taking advantage of an astounding market failing. These good whites, stuck in stultifyingly overpriced white neighborhoods, can enjoy diversity without having to shell out anything extra for it. To the contrary, they’ll be able to save a lot of money without having to give up any house in return.
Gain diversity, save money, and dismantle institutional racism in one fell swoop, and all white leftists have to do is do what they say they want to do. So easy we should have it solved by yesterday!
Sanders only mentioned whites twice, in a line repeated with only slight variation:
If we can bring working people together, black and white and Latino, we can create a nation where all people have a good standard of living.
Here’s hoping Sanders finds a stiff spine. He’s going to need it. He is a man of the left seeking power who is, in his heart of hearts, devoid of a desire for racial vengeance running for president in a party increasingly motivated by it.
Speaking of, Buttigieg has internalized that motivation well. Responding to whether or not Bloomberg’s crime policies as mayor of New York City were racist, he answered:
Yes, in effect, it was. Because it was about profiling people based on their race. And the mayor even said that they disproportionately stopped white people too often and minorities too little.
Oh, so he’s saying it was racist because it disproportionately targeted whites?
Rhetorical, of course. It was especially racist because Bloomberg actually had the audacity to assert that whites could be on the receiving end of the negative consequences of racial inequity. On account of this impropriety, his policies were doubleplus bad.
In framing a question, moderator Bill Whitaker casually smears the Palmetto state:
Let’s talk about education. South Carolina’s schools score in the bottom half of the national assessment. Black students here consistently score worse than white students.
Black students consistently score worse than white students do in every single state in the country. To a first approximation, the reason South Carolina ranks near the bottom of NAEP rankings is because the state’s student body is among the nation’s blackest.
We can argue as to why the white-black gap (or, going in the other direction, why the Asian-white gap) so consistently and persistently manifests across the country, but insinuating that this is somehow unique to South Carolina is mendacious. Southerners are used to being dumped on by the corporate media like this. Still, it shouldn’t go unnoticed by everyone else.
Bloomberg:
I know that if I were black, my success would have been a lot harder to achieve. And I know a lot of black people that if they were white it would have been a lot easier for them. That’s just a fact, and we’ve got to do something about it than rather just demagogue about it.
Imagine if Barack Obama had been fully white instead of just half so. Merely being twice-elected president of the United States of America? Pfft, he’d have been elevated to Galactic Overlord for life by now!
Mr. Mayor, would your success have been “a lot harder to achieve” had you have been a white gentile instead of a white Jew? Statistically, the differences in life outcomes between white Jews and white gentiles are quite similar to the differences in life outcomes between white gentiles and blacks, after all.
These are nuanced topics. Bloomberg is pre-boomer. He made his way at a time when being black probably would’ve been a handicap for him. Was that the case when Obama was coming up? Is it the case today? Fully understanding and productively addressing these questions requires an intellectual approach more sophisticated than white equals bad and non-white equals good.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-02-29--Affirmative Action's Invisible Victims: Liberals Increasingly Deny Whites Hurt By Affirmative Action

Earlier , by Peter Brimelow : Invisible Victims : White Males and the Crisis of Affirmative Action Revisited The percentages of non-Hispanic whites , by political orientation , who think it is “ not very likely ” that whites suffer negative consequences like lost job opportunities from affirmative action policies : Twenty years ago , only one-in-three whites across the political spectrum deemed it unlikely for whites to pay a price for affirmative action policies aimed at benefiting non-whites .
The sentiments of white moderates and white conservatives haven ’ t changed much in the intervening decades , but those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This meshes with other characteristics of The Great Awokening , but the shift preceded it .
The ( hope and ) change really got going with president Obama ’ s election .
Magnanimously , perhaps the thinking is that while individual whites may suffer from being passed over in favor of less qualified non-whites for jobs or promotions , the end result is a society in which systemic oppression of racially-informed old boy networks has been dismantled and everyone is ultimately better off .
But for this to be realized , companies and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and promotional decisions that hurt the bottom line .
So much for profits-before-people .
Parenthetically , my read is that companies and institutions are increasingly making irrational hiring and promotional decisions that hurt the bottom line , but the errors are directionally the same as the ones that affirmative action policies facilitate , and that the decisions those errors result from do not need de jure support to have their de facto effects .

Earlier, by Peter Brimelow: Invisible Victims: White Males and the Crisis of Affirmative Action Revisited
The percentages of non-Hispanic whites, by political orientation, who think it is “not very likely” that whites suffer negative consequences like lost job opportunities from affirmative action policies:
Twenty years ago, only one-in-three whites across the political spectrum deemed it unlikely for whites to pay a price for affirmative action policies aimed at benefiting non-whites. The sentiments of white moderates and white conservatives haven’t changed much in the intervening decades, but those of white liberals have shifted dramatically. This meshes with other characteristics of The Great Awokening, but the shift preceded it. The (hope and) change really got going with president Obama’s election.
Magnanimously, perhaps the thinking is that while individual whites may suffer from being passed over in favor of less qualified non-whites for jobs or promotions, the end result is a society in which systemic oppression of racially informed old boy networks has been dismantled and everyone is ultimately better off. But for this to be realized, companies and institutions must currently be making irrational hiring and promotional decisions that hurt the bottom line. So much for profits-before-people.
Parenthetically, my read is that companies and institutions are increasingly making irrational hiring and promotional decisions that hurt the bottom line, but the errors are directionally the same as the ones that affirmative action policies facilitate, and that the decisions those errors result from do not need de jure support to have their de facto effects.
General Social Survey variables used: DISCAFF(3), YEAR, POLVIEWS(1-3)(4)(5-7), RACECEN1(1), HISPANIC(1)
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-02-29--Trump Campaign Joins VDARE.com In Suing NEW YORK TIMES For Libel—Press Clinging (Bitterly) To Its Ri

Trump Campaign Joins VDARE.com In Suing NEW YORK TIMES For Libel—Press Clinging (Bitterly) To Its Right To Lie

Earlier : Instapundit On Peter Brimelow 's $ 5M Lawsuit Against The NYT— '' I Would Have Added A Zero To The Claim '' See LIBEL : Trump Campaign Sues New York Times Over Article Claiming an 'Overarching Deal ' With Russia , by Tyler O'Neil , PJMedia , February 26 , 2020 .
What 's going on here is that the press gained the right to lie in the case of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan , ( 1964 ) to lie about public officials like Donald Trump or Steve King .
Later this was expanded to give @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ordinary people—like Nick Sandmann of Covington Catholic , or opinion journalists like us—if they can be called public figures .
See my NY TIMES Vs. Sullivan And The Law Of Libel : Press Clings To Its Right To Lie and EDWARDS vs. DETROIT NEWS—Court Ends Libel Protection For Whites .
Because a Southern public official named Sullivan was libelled by a black Civil Rights committee in the pages of the New York Times , the court said that libel laws could n't be launched by public figures unless `` actual malice '' —knowledge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disregard of the truth—is alleged and proved . ''
In 2017 , I wrote that I did n't necessarily want an activist conservative court to revisit '' the arguably unconstitutional Sullivan vs. New York Times , granting the media a broad right to libel public figures—because I like that .
( Under First Amendment law , I have the same protection against libel suits as the NYT . )
However , I can see where President Trump , one of the most comprehensively libelled public figures in modern history , might feel differently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` comprehensively libelled '' public figure , seems to feel differently , too .
[ Clarence Thomas is right : Here 's why Supreme Court should revisit libel law overreach , by Glenn Harlan Reynolds , USA Today , February 28 , 2019 ] Imagine how Brett Kavanagh must feel about this !
However , the Supreme Court does n't have to change any standards for both Trump and VDARE.com to win libel suits against the New York Times .
Their `` reckless disregard '' and `` actual malice '' is palpable .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump campaign does n't , is money .
Click here to donate to our Legal Defense Fund .

Earlier: Instapundit On Peter Brimelow's $5M Lawsuit Against The NYT—"I Would Have Added A Zero To The Claim"
VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow Tweeted this:
2/2 Underlying problem: SCOTUS' disastrous 1964 SULLIVAN decision has come to mean that U.S. MSM (unlike in any other common law jurisdiction) has a license to lie. Justice Thomas right to note recently that this can't go on https://t.co/2IbOsY8bcg — Peter Brimelow (@peterbrimelow) February 26, 2020
See LIBEL: Trump Campaign Sues New York Times Over Article Claiming an 'Overarching Deal' With Russia, by Tyler O'Neil, PJMedia, February 26, 2020.
What's going on here is that the press gained the right to lie in the case of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964), to lie about public officials like Donald Trump or Steve King. Later this was expanded to give them the the right to lie about ordinary people—like Nick Sandmann of Covington Catholic, or opinion journalists like us—if they can be called public figures.
See my NY TIMES Vs. Sullivan And The Law Of Libel: Press Clings To Its Right To Lie and EDWARDS vs. DETROIT NEWS—Court Ends Libel Protection For Whites.
Because a Southern public official named Sullivan was libelled by a black Civil Rights committee in the pages of the New York Times, the court said that libel laws couldn't be launched by public figures unless "actual malice"—knowledge that statements are false or in reckless disregard of the truth—"is alleged and proved."
In 2017, I wrote that I didn't necessarily want an activist conservative court to revisit
"the arguably unconstitutional Sullivan vs. New York Times, granting the media a broad right to libel public figures—because I like that. (Under First Amendment law, I have the same protection against libel suits as the NYT.) However, I can see where President Trump, one of the most comprehensively libelled public figures in modern history, might feel differently."
Justice Clarence Thomas, another "comprehensively libelled" public figure, seems to feel differently, too. [Clarence Thomas is right: Here's why Supreme Court should revisit libel law overreach, by Glenn Harlan Reynolds, USA Today, February 28, 2019]
Imagine how Brett Kavanaugh must feel about this! However, the Supreme Court doesn't have to change any standards for both Trump and VDARE.com to win libel suits against the New York Times. Their "reckless disregard" and "actual malice" is palpable.
What we do need, that the Trump campaign doesn't, is money.
Click here to donate to our Legal Defense Fund.


vdare--2020-02-29--COVID-19: Accelerationism or Decelerationism? ("Go Medieval on It")

From the New York Times “ news analysis ” section : By Donald G. McNeil Jr. Mr. McNeil is a science reporter for The New York Times and has covered epidemics since 2002 .
To Take On the Coronavirus , Go Medieval on It Quarantines and restrictive measures served a purpose in the old days .
They can now , too .
I ’ ve asked this before , so the answer is , I guess , that Donald G. McNeil , the NYT ’ s epidemics reporter , is not related to William H. McNeill , author of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Peoples .
There are two ways to fight epidemics : the medieval and the modern .
The modern way is to surrender to the power of the pathogens : Acknowledge that they are unstoppable and to try to soften the blow with 20th-century inventions , including new vaccines , antibiotics , hospital ventilators and thermal cameras searching for people with fevers .
The medieval way , inherited from the era of the Black Death , is brutal : Close the borders , quarantine the ships , pen terrified citizens up inside their poisoned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than a century , the world has chosen to confront a new and terrifying virus with the iron fist instead of the latex glove .
At least for a while , it worked , and it might still serve a purpose .
The Chinese leader , Xi Jinping , was able to seal off the city of Wuhan , where the Covid-19 outbreak began , because China is a place where a leader can ask himself , “ What would Mao do ?
” and just do it .
The bureaucracy will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ committees that bar anyone returning from Wuhan from entering their own homes , even if it means sleeping in the streets .
The White House , in defiance of recent American history , also opted to go medieval by aggressive measures like barring entry to non-Americans who were recently in China and advising Americans not to go to China or South Korea .
… This has led to much consternation among other public health experts , who argue that travel restrictions can cause more panic , misery and death than they prevent .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ infection rate .
Closed borders can cut off vital medications like insulin .
Factory and shop closings mean lost wages , hardships and possibly recession .
Officially , the World Health Organization opposes travel and trade restrictions .
It reiterated that even as it declared the epidemic a global emergency on Jan. 30 .
But it now admits that they helped .
The head of the W.H.O .
team that visited China said this week that China “ took one of the most ancient strategies and rolled out one of the most ambitious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ history.
” The W.H.O.
’ s epidemic-modeling teams concluded that travel restrictions had slowed the spread of the virus outside China by two to three weeks .
… Harsh measures horrify civil libertarians , but they often save lives , especially when they are imposed in the early days .
The best-known modern example is Cuba ’ s AIDS epidemic .
… Meanwhile , the United States took a pro-legal-rights approach .
Even offering an H.I.V .
test was made illegal without a separate counseling session , which scared many away from testing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ transmission , there were long divisive fights over closing them .
After triple therapy was developed in the mid-1990s , most Cuban camps closed .
But the difference in lives saved by choosing brutality over freedom was stark : Cuba ’ s H.I.V .
infection rate was for decades about one-sixth that of the American one .
New York City and Cuba have roughly the same population .
In the epidemic ’ s first 30 years , fewer than 2,500 Cubans died of AIDS .
Over 78,000 New Yorkers — mostly gay men @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1919 , as the Spanish influenza swept across the country in waves , various cities reacted in their own ways .
Cities like St. Louis that reacted quickly — canceling parades and ballgames , shutting schools , transit systems and government offices , ordering the sick to stay home — ultimately had fewer deaths .
In cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh , which were paralyzed by political feuds or pressure from local businesses to avoid shutdowns , many more ultimately died .

From the New York Times “news analysis” section:
By Donald G. McNeil Jr. Mr. McNeil is a science reporter for The New York Times and has covered epidemics since 2002.
To Take On the Coronavirus, Go Medieval on It Quarantines and restrictive measures served a purpose in the old days. They can now, too.
I’ve asked this before, so the answer is, I guess, that Donald G. McNeil, the NYT’s epidemics reporter, is not related to William H. McNeill, author of the highly influential 1976 history book Plagues and Peoples.
Feb. 28, 2020
There are two ways to fight epidemics: the medieval and the modern.
The modern way is to surrender to the power of the pathogens: Acknowledge that they are unstoppable and to try to soften the blow with 20th-century inventions, including new vaccines, antibiotics, hospital ventilators and thermal cameras searching for people with fevers.
The medieval way, inherited from the era of the Black Death, is brutal: Close the borders, quarantine the ships, pen terrified citizens up inside their poisoned cities.
For the first time in more than a century, the world has chosen to confront a new and terrifying virus with the iron fist instead of the latex glove.
At least for a while, it worked, and it might still serve a purpose.
The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, was able to seal off the city of Wuhan, where the Covid-19 outbreak began, because China is a place where a leader can ask himself, “What would Mao do?” and just do it. The bureaucracy will comply, right down to the neighborhood committees that bar anyone returning from Wuhan from entering their own homes, even if it means sleeping in the streets.
The White House, in defiance of recent American history, also opted to go medieval by aggressive measures like barring entry to non-Americans who were recently in China and advising Americans not to go to China or South Korea. …
This has led to much consternation among other public health experts, who argue that travel restrictions can cause more panic, misery and death than they prevent. Crowds may besiege hospitals, supercharging the infection rate. Closed borders can cut off vital medications like insulin. Factory and shop closings mean lost wages, hardships and possibly recession.
Also, quarantines feed racism and stigma.
Officially, the World Health Organization opposes travel and trade restrictions. It reiterated that even as it declared the epidemic a global emergency on Jan. 30.
But it now admits that they helped. The head of the W.H.O. team that visited China said this week that China “took one of the most ancient strategies and rolled out one of the most ambitious, agile and aggressive disease-containment efforts in history.”
The W.H.O.’s epidemic-modeling teams concluded that travel restrictions had slowed the spread of the virus outside China by two to three weeks. …
Harsh measures horrify civil libertarians, but they often save lives, especially when they are imposed in the early days.
The best-known modern example is Cuba’s AIDS epidemic. …
Meanwhile, the United States took a pro-legal-rights approach. Even offering an H.I.V. test was made illegal without a separate counseling session, which scared many away from testing. Although gay bathhouses were epicenters of transmission, there were long divisive fights over closing them.
After triple therapy was developed in the mid-1990s, most Cuban camps closed.
But the difference in lives saved by choosing brutality over freedom was stark: Cuba’s H.I.V. infection rate was for decades about one-sixth that of the American one. New York City and Cuba have roughly the same population. In the epidemic’s first 30 years, fewer than 2,500 Cubans died of AIDS. Over 78,000 New Yorkers — mostly gay men — did. …
In 1918 and 1919, as the Spanish influenza swept across the country in waves, various cities reacted in their own ways.
Cities like St. Louis that reacted quickly — canceling parades and ballgames, shutting schools, transit systems and government offices, ordering the sick to stay home — ultimately had fewer deaths.
In cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, which were paralyzed by political feuds or pressure from local businesses to avoid shutdowns, many more ultimately died.


vdare--2020-02-29--February in Paris, Fire At The Gare De Lyon As Congolese Riot

Police evacuated Paris ’ s Gare de Lyon station after protesters started a fire to try to disrupt a concert @ @ @ @ @ Democratic Republic of Congo is Big Congo , the one that used to be Zaire @ @ @ @ @ de Lyon is Paris ’ s big train station for lines going to Lyon and @ @ @ @ @ to parked scooters , motorcycles and bins and blocked firefighters from tackling the blaze .
@ @ @ @ @ of being too close to the Congolese government .
… Victoria Williams from the UK @ @ @ @ @ Lyon at the time .
“ There was big thick smoke .
People were surging @ @ @ @ @ , ” she said .
“ It just seemed to get very ugly , very @ @ @ @ @ in every direction , it was pandemonium .
“ The protesters were throwing anything they @ @ @ @ @ fire brigade who were just trying to do their job .
They were just setting @ @ @ @ @ and fighting with each other.
” …

From BBC:
Police evacuated Paris’s Gare de Lyon station after protesters started a fire to try to disrupt a concert by a Congolese singer.
Democratic Republic of Congo is Big Congo, the one that used to be Zaire for a while. The Gare de Lyon is Paris’s big train station for lines going to Lyon and the Riviera.
set fire to parked scooters, motorcycles and bins and blocked firefighters from tackling the blaze.
They accuse singer Fally Ipupa of being too close to the Congolese government. …
Victoria Williams from the UK was in the Gare de Lyon at the time.
“There was big thick smoke. People were surging and setting fire to things,” she said. “It just seemed to get very ugly, very quickly. Traffic was gridlocked in every direction, it was pandemonium.
“The protesters were throwing anything they could at the police and fire brigade who were just trying to do their job. They were just setting fire to anything they could and fighting with each other.” …


vdare--2020-02-29--NYT: My Daughter Passes for White

NYT: My Daughter Passes for White

Here ’ s the umpty-umpth New York Times op-ed by a Woman of Color rehearing how oppressed she was by mean whites ( i.e.
, girls ) in , yes , middle school .
But this one takes the anti-white cliches to a weird new level of sounding like she resents her own 3-year-old daughter for looking white .
My Daughter Passes for White She belongs in a way I never could .
I ’ m comforted — and worried .
By Seema Jilani Ms. Jilani is a pediatrician and humanitarian aid worker .
I stand in the aisle of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ graders snicker and block me from sitting next to them , as they have for the entire school year .
Taking my seat next to the bus driver , I look out to the road with resignation .
My great-aunt , adorned in a colorful sari , waves goodbye to me while the entire school bus looks on .
I want to disappear into the dingy brown vinyl bus seats .
With the newfound cruelty of adolescence , I scoff and loudly tell my classmates , “ That crazy lady is just my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how I treated my great-aunt .
I also know it was a form of preteen self-preservation .
I desperately wanted what so many other children that age do : to be as bland and vanilla as possible , just so that I could get through the day without being ostracized .
I now find myself in a mixed marriage This Talking Headsish verb choice doesn ’ t bode well for her marriage .
Did I mention that my daughter has fair skin ( not wheatish , fair ) , auburn hair and light @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at her Pakistani background .
… When I went to school , I would toss my chicken tikka sandwiches , lovingly made by my mother , in the trash , so as not to infuse the school with the odor of cumin and suffer my classmates ’ incessant jokes .
… A few years later , those glorious Manhattan pillars of American might crumbled .
Though I did not know what the world held in store for us in the coming years — the threats , the insults , the judgmental looks — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were already tried , convicted and sentenced before we even knew what our crime was .
… But I didn ’ t pass .
As I sat in large leather chairs at medical school interviews all over the country , with sweaty palms peeking through a navy business suit , I was asked whether I would wear a burqa as a doctor .
( I have never worn a head scarf . )
I was told that my religion was the reason Nigerian women were stoned every day , and was asked whether @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make bombs in our garage .
Luckily I came armed with Norman-Rockwellian-Americana stories filled with glorious tales of the grateful immigrant : hardworking and nonthreatening .
I became a caricature of what they wanted .
This is the tumultuous conflict that my daughter will never have to know .
I only wish it was because cultural attitudes had shifted , rather than because she has less melanin than I do .
Her skin color has given her a sense of belonging As my three year old said to me yesterday , “ Mother @ @ @ @ @ @ @ given me a sense of belong , a feeling of white privilege , that you , with your disparaged intersectionality , never enjoyed.
” , something I never had .
Instead , I worry whether she will be the one snickering , not allowing her classmate to sit next to her on the bus .
After all , my bullies in school all looked like the daughter I have now .
… I have had to fight for this identity in a way my daughter , who easily passes for white , never @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of choice , or of not choosing race at all ; her default is white , and the power dynamic is in her favor .
She will have a seat reserved for her on the school bus before she even gets on .
However , I ’ ve found myself worried that she will internalize what the world tells her about her mother — that because of my darker skin , I am worth less .
I remain terrified of the day that she tosses her kebab sandwich in the garbage and jeers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mother waving goodbye to her — and loudly tells her classmates , “ She ’ s my nanny.
” Good luck , little girl .
With your drama mama , you ’ re going to need it .
She sounds like the kind of high maintenance mother who is jealous of your looks and will flirt with your prom date .

Here’s the umpty-umpth New York Times op-ed by a Woman of Color rehearing how oppressed she was by mean whites (i.e., girls) in, yes, middle school. But this one takes the anti-white cliches to a weird new level of sounding like she resents her own 3-year-old daughter for looking white.
My Daughter Passes for White
She belongs in a way I never could. I’m comforted — and worried. By Seema Jilani
Ms. Jilani is a pediatrician and humanitarian aid worker. Feb. 28, 2020 I stand in the aisle of the school bus while the other seventh graders snicker and block me from sitting next to them, as they have for the entire school year. Taking my seat next to the bus driver, I look out to the road with resignation. My great-aunt, adorned in a colorful sari, waves goodbye to me while the entire school bus looks on. I want to disappear into the dingy brown vinyl bus seats. With the newfound cruelty of adolescence, I scoff and loudly tell my classmates, “That crazy lady is just my maid.” I am still ashamed of how I treated my great-aunt. I also know it was a form of preteen self-preservation. I desperately wanted what so many other children that age do: to be as bland and vanilla as possible, just so that I could get through the day without being ostracized. I now find myself in a mixed marriage
This Talking Headsish verb choice doesn’t bode well for her marriage.
, mother to a 3-year-old mixed-race girl who easily passes for white. Her fair skin, auburn hair and light brown eyes
Did I mention that my daughter has fair skin (not wheatish, fair), auburn hair and light brown eyes?
do not even hint at her Pakistani background. … When I went to school, I would toss my chicken tikka sandwiches, lovingly made by my mother, in the trash, so as not to infuse the school with the odor of cumin and suffer my classmates’ incessant jokes. … A few years later, those glorious Manhattan pillars of American might crumbled. Though I did not know what the world held in store for us in the coming years — the threats, the insults, the judgmental looks — what I did know was that we were already tried, convicted and sentenced before we even knew what our crime was. … But I didn’t pass. As I sat in large leather chairs at medical school interviews all over the country, with sweaty palms peeking through a navy business suit, I was asked whether I would wear a burqa as a doctor. (I have never worn a head scarf.) I was told that my religion was the reason Nigerian women were stoned every day, and was asked whether my father had taught me how to make bombs in our garage.
Sure …
Luckily I came armed with Norman-Rockwellian-Americana stories filled with glorious tales of the grateful immigrant: hardworking and nonthreatening. I became a caricature of what they wanted. This is the tumultuous conflict that my daughter will never have to know. I only wish it was because cultural attitudes had shifted, rather than because she has less melanin than I do. Her skin color has given her a sense of belonging
As my three year old said to me yesterday, “Mother, my non-wheatish level of melanin has given me a sense of belong, a feeling of white privilege, that you, with your disparaged intersectionality, never enjoyed.”
, something I never had. Instead, I worry whether she will be the one snickering, not allowing her classmate to sit next to her on the bus. After all, my bullies in school all looked like the daughter I have now. … I have had to fight for this identity in a way my daughter, who easily passes for white, never will. My daughter has the privilege of choice, or of not choosing race at all; her default is white, and the power dynamic is in her favor. She will have a seat reserved for her on the school bus before she even gets on. However, I’ve found myself worried that she will internalize what the world tells her about her mother — that because of my darker skin, I am worth less. I remain terrified of the day that she tosses her kebab sandwich in the garbage and jeers at me — her brown-skinned, Urdu-speaking mother waving goodbye to her — and loudly tells her classmates, “She’s my nanny.”
Good luck, little girl. With your drama mama, you’re going to need it. She sounds like the kind of high maintenance mother who is jealous of your looks and will flirt with your prom date.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-02-28--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2012: Zombie Muhammad Judge vs. Free Speech

Diversity and free speech are often diametrically opposed values .
The phenomenon was neatly displayed in the recent Pennsylvania case involving an atheist protestor , an enraged Muslim and a lower court judge who apparently believes that the sensibilities of violent Islam trump the First Amendment .
[ Judge in 'Zombie Muhammad ' case , faced with threats , moves from Mechanicsburg to Carlisle office , By Matthew Kemeny , The Patriot-News , February 29 , 2012 ] The atheist , Ernest Perce V , decided last year to dress up as `` Zombie Muhammad '' for the Mechanicsburg Halloween @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what followed was worse .
Talaag Elbayomy , er , a local Muslim , rushed out and assaulted Pence .
But Mark Martin , a `` district justice '' ( lower court judges who decide if there 's enough evidence for a case to go forward ) , dismissed the charge .
He turned his anger not on the defendant , but the victim .
He apparently suggested that in a Muslim country , Pence would suffer a far worse fate .
Obvious problem : this is the United States .
We are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we have a First Amendment that protects one of our most cherished values , free speech .
Even for snotty atheists .
“ David Hume ” over at Secular Right picks up the report that the defendant thought it was , in America , a crime to disparage Muhammad .
But for me this is the most important point : “ According to ABC 27 , Elbayomy thought it was a crime to depict Muhammad and had joined Perce in calling police.
” How is it that we allow immigrants into this country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ importance of free speech in American society ?
Secondarily , how is it that , even if the judge did not have enough evidence to support the allegations of assault , did not lecture the alleged attacker that in his adopted nation free speech is close to inviolable ?
[ Respecting the law of the land ] But with judges like Mark Martin on the bench , he could be forgiven .
The uneven application is pretty obvious , of course : imagine an anti-immigration activist physically assaulting a marcher in an illegal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opposed to affirmative action attacking a black person demonstrating for it .
Judge Martin , I am sure , would think differently of those scenarios .
Here 's one judge who gets it .

Diversity and free speech are often diametrically opposed values. The phenomenon was neatly displayed in the recent Pennsylvania case involving an atheist protestor, an enraged Muslim and a lower court judge who apparently believes that the sensibilities of violent Islam trump the First Amendment. [Judge in 'Zombie Muhammad' case, faced with threats, moves from Mechanicsburg to Carlisle office, By Matthew Kemeny, Patriot-News, February 29, 2012]
The atheist, Ernest Perce V, decided last year to dress up as "Zombie Muhammad" for the Mechanicsburg Halloween Parade. Tasteless, perhaps, but what followed was worse. Talaag Elbayomy, er, a local Muslim, rushed out and assaulted Pence.
Charges were filed.
But Mark Martin, a "district justice" (lower court judges who decide if there's enough evidence for a case to go forward), dismissed the charge. He turned his anger not on the defendant, but the victim. He apparently suggested that in a Muslim country, Pence would suffer a far worse fate.
Obvious problem: This is the United States. We are not a Muslim country. Moreover, we have a First Amendment that protects one of our most cherished values, free speech. Even for snotty atheists.
“David Hume” over at Secular Right picks up the report that the defendant thought it was, in America, a crime to disparage Muhammad.
But for me this is the most important point: “According to ABC 27, Elbayomy thought it was a crime to depict Muhammad and had joined Perce in calling police.” How is it that we allow immigrants into this country who don’t even understand the importance of free speech in American society? Secondarily, how is it that, even if the judge did not have enough evidence to support the allegations of assault, did not lecture the alleged attacker that in his adopted nation free speech is close to inviolable?[Respecting the law of the land]
But with judges like Mark Martin on the bench, he could be forgiven.
The uneven application is pretty obvious, of course: Imagine an anti-immigration activist physically assaulting a marcher in an illegal alien parade. Or a white person opposed to affirmative action attacking a black person demonstrating for it. Judge Martin, I am sure, would think differently of those scenarios.
Here's one judge who gets it.


vdare--2020-02-28--Coronavirus—The Prognosis, The Science, The Prospects (Including Political), Etc.

05m38s Virus news : the science .
( What the heck is R ? )
20m39s Democrats debate again .
@ @ @ @ @ . )
26m16s Year of the locusts .
( China has a solution . )
@ @ @ @ @ ?
( But we 're too proud to bow . )
33m33s Trayvon Martin Day @ @ @ @ @ among Goodwhites . )
36m09s Signoff .
( With the appropriate song . )

01m11s Virus news: the prognosis. (How bad?)
05m38s Virus news: the science. (What the heck is R 0 ?)
14m43s Virus prospects: social, economic, political. (KBO, America!)
20m39s Democrats debate again. (Not a serious country.)
26m16s Year of the locusts. (China has a solution.)
28m37s The end of handshaking? (But we're too proud to bow.)
30m14s Verdict on Weinstein. (End of a show trial.)
32m17s Seeing the judge. (Dorky white guy.)
33m33s Trayvon Martin Day? (No demand even among Goodwhites.)
35m11s Remembering Pancake Day. (Derb nostalgia trip.)
36m09s Signoff. (With the appropriate song.)
01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, one and all, from your feverishly genial host John Derbyshire.
Major news of the week has been the coronavirus outbreak. I shall give over three long segments to that. Then I'll have some observations on the political state of play coming up to the South Carolina primary. Then I shall package up my other items in the closing miscellany.
You must excuse some extraneous sounds in the background here. I am at a friend's house with a lively dinner party going on in an adjacent room.
So how are we doing with this coronavirus? What's the prognosis?
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02 — Virus news: the prognosis. Two weeks ago Radio Derb offered you the two ends of the spectrum of speculation by credentialed professionals, the optimistic end and the pessimistic end.
At the optimistic end was coronavirus expert Professor John Nicholls at the University of Hong Kong, approximate quote from him: "It's a cold. Wash your hands." At the other end I quoted geneticist Greg Cochran, who thought that, worst case, down at the ten percent probability, fifty million people could die worldwide.
Professor Nicholls was coming at the issue from his work in the two previous coronavirus outbreaks: SARS in 2002-2003 and MERS, which has been bouncing around since 2012. Both of those had way higher fatality rates than this current outbreak, so Professor Nicholls' optimism was understandable. In more recent interviews he seems to be taking this latest outbreak a bit more seriously.
Greg Cochran is still over at the Chicken Little end of the spectrum. Quote from him last Sunday:
The natural course if you do nothing is, it infects something like half the people and it might kill, what? — a million, two million, three million people in the United States if you do nothing at all. [At 28m45s here.]
So there is still a good span of uncertainty here for the U.S.A.
Scenario A: Several thousand infections reported. Several dozen people die. When warmer weather comes the virus fades away, like SARS.
Scenario Z: Half the population gets infected. Two or three million die. When warmer weather comes the virus pulls back and regroups for next winter.
What will actually happen will be somewhere between Scenario A and Scenario Z. Around the midway point — say Scenario M — here's a different expert. I'm going to read off a quote from an excellent article in The Atlantic this week. It contains an inner quote from Harvard epidemiologist Professor Marc Lipsitch. Quote:
Lipsitch predicts that within the coming year, some 40 to 70 percent of people around the world will be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. But, he clarifies emphatically, this does not mean that all will have severe illnesses. [Inner quote.] "It's likely that many will have mild disease, or may be asymptomatic," he said. [End inner quote.] As with influenza, which is often life-threatening to people with chronic health conditions and of older age, most cases pass without medical care. (Overall, about 14 percent of people with influenza have no symptoms.) [You're Likely to Get the Coronavirus by James Hamblin; The Atlantic, February 24th 2020.]
End quote.
Now you know as much as I do, or as anyone does, about the immediate prospects. For better understanding, it helps to get a handle on some of the underlying science. I've been trying to do this the past few days, and I'll pass on some of what I've picked up.
03 — Virus news: the science. The first thing to be said here is that I'm not a credentialed expert, only a scientifically-literate layman. Once you start digging around in this topic, you soon find yourself feeling humbled by the complexity of the phenomenon you're looking at. Virology and epidemiology are not for amateurs. And yes: In this field, I'm an amateur.
And when I said you find yourself feeling humbled, that only applies if you are a person capable of humility, which not everyone is. I've observed a number of major crises in my time, and it's been amazing how many non-credentialed non-experts come out of the woodwork, babbling fluently in the relevant jargon. So there's a string of plane crashes, and suddenly everyone seems to have an opinion about metal fatigue or Clear Air Turbulence.
Same here. Had you ever heard of R 0 before last week? Me neither; now perfect strangers try to get me into a conversation about R 0 in the supermarket line.
(If you haven't been to the supermarket lately, R 0 is a term of art in epidemiology. Quote from the Healthline website:
R 0 tells you the average number of people who will catch a disease from one contagious person. It specifically applies to a population of people who were previously free of infection and haven't been vaccinated. If a disease has an R 0 of 18, a person who has the disease will transmit it to an average of 18 other people, as long as no one has been vaccinated against it or is already immune to it in their community.
End quote. See, you're smarter now than you were five minutes ago, thanks to Radio Derb. You're welcome!)
After all those disclaimers, what useful things can I tell you from my reading?
Well, to start with, let's get our terminology precise. I mentioned SARS and MERS, the outbreaks Professor Nicholls cut his teeth on, both being caused by coronaviruses. "Coronavirus," you see, is the name of a family of related viruses. This outbreak we're going through right now is properly called COVID-19, to distinguish it from the others in the family.
What's the death rate for COVID-19? If you want to get jargony: What's the CFR, the Case Fatality Rate?
That is much disputed, with serious authority figures giving numbers from less than one percent to more than three percent. That's pretty bad, but nothing like as bad as SARS, death rate around ten percent, or MERS, 36 percent. For the great Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 the CFR is thought to have been in the range ten to twenty percent, comparable to or somewhat worse than SARS. Regular, familiar flu, the kind you're liable to get any winter season, has a CFR less than 0.1 percent, that's one in a thousand.
To put it the other way round, rough approximations: COVID-19 is an order of magnitude more deadly than ordinary flu, but SARS and the Spanish Flu are an order of magnitude worse still than COVID-19. MERS, known to its friends as Camel Flu — and yes, that "M-E" stands for "Middle East" — is off the charts, exceptionally lethal, much worse than SARS.
So why haven't we been having worldwide panics about MERS or SARS? Well, one reason is the different life strategies of different viruses. A virus may be too lethal for its own good. If a virus causes you to get really sick really fast, and then kills you, well, plainly that's suboptimal for you, but it's also bad for the virus. It's stuck in a dead, decomposing host without having had time to spread itself around. SARS, MERS, and the Bird Flu we started hearing about twenty years ago, are all of this kind. They're really nasty if you get them, but they have trouble spreading.
A smart virus, on the other hand, lodges itself in you, making you feel unwell for a while — perhaps even making you feel nothing very much, leaving you asymptomatic — so you can walk around spreading it to other people before eventually taking to your bed. COVID-19 seems to be smart like this.
And then there's the issue of whether one infection immunizes you against future infections, as with those childhood diseases that, once you've had them, you'll probably never get them again — chickenpox, for example. Your system develops antibodies that can recognize future infections and fight them off. With coronaviruses, our systems don't seem very good at this. There's a report from China that one in seven of patients who've had COVID-19 and recovered, get infected again.
Another complication is the age issue. Fifty years ago this month the philosopher Bertrand Russell died of the ordinary flu; but hey, he was 97 years old. As it happens, I recall that I was recovering from a bout of flu myself when the news of Russell's death came through. He died: I'd taken a couple of days off work. There's the difference between being 97 with the flu and being 24 with the flu.
When we got the news earlier this week that there had been COVID-19 deaths in Italy, I went looking for details. As of Tuesday there had been seven deaths in Italy. Ages of the deceased: 77, 77, 68, 84, 88, 80, 62. Two of those people were younger than me, so I'm not smiling here. And sure, much younger people have died, like Dr Li Wenliang, who tried to sound the alarm in China back in December. Still, if you're a healthy young person, you can be forgiven for not being in much of a panic about COVID-19 on your own account, though that shouldn't stop you worrying about elderly loved ones.
That's as much science as I can offer you. There is of course plenty more on the internet. I hope I've at least given you pointers to some issues worth exploring.
What about the social, economic, and political aspects of this outbreak? One more segment.
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04 — Virus prospects: social, economic, political. As uncertain as things are, I can say with good confidence that we're not looking at an Earth Abides scenario. That was the brilliant 1949 novel about a plague that killed off all but a scattered handful of human beings.
It's not even likely we're facing a somewhat lesser social catastrophe, like the one in your favorite pandemic movie, whatever it is: Wikipedia lists 43 of them.
Strangely, it seems to me, no-one ever made a movie of Earth Abides. Why not? It's a lovely novel, a great favorite of mine in my teen years. The closing pages, where Ish — the Last American — is dying in extreme old age on the Golden Gate Bridge, decades after the Great Disaster, in the care of young men armed with spears, bows and arrows … that closing scene brought tears to my eyes. Forgive me: I can't resist giving you the book's last paragraph. Quote:
Then, though his sight was now very dim, he looked again at the young men. "They will commit me to the earth," he thought. "Yet I also commit them to the earth. There is nothing else by which men live. Men come and go, but earth abides."
End quote.
I'd guess we'll have some moderate social disruption — more international travel bans, some schools and workplaces closed, lots of overtime for doctors and nurses — but if you've been stockpiling canned food and ammunition, you've been over-reacting.
The economic consequences will hit harder than the social ones. The securities markets are in free fall; if you have any kind of investment portfolio you know all about it. Will this be as bad as 2008-2009? I'd guess it could be. We survived that, though, and we'll survive this.
Here in America the politics of COVID-19 could get interesting. It's happening in an election year, of course, under a President who'd like to get a second term. Expect lots of reassuring talk from Washington that the federal government is totally on top of the situation.
That in fact is what we got on Wednesday when President Trump gave a news conference about the outbreak, telling us that the feds are, quote, "very, very ready" for whatever develops. Trump spoiled the effect somewhat by comparing COVID-19 to regular flu when, as I've pointed out, COVID-19 is at least ten times more lethal than flu, so if the same number of people get this as get that, there'll be ten times as many deaths.
Trump blamed the stock market dive on, quote, "the Democratic candidates standing on that stage making fools out of themselves," end quote. That was a seriously dumb thing to say. You don't need any expertise in the financial markets to know that the downturn is caused by fears about supply chains, airlines, hotels, anything to do with movement of goods and people.
Peggy Noonan nailed it in the Wall Street Journal Thursday, quote:
It would be extremely reassuring if a temporary armistice were called in the cold war between the White House and congressional Democrats. If the virus is as serious as I think it is, no one will look back kindly on anyone who acted small.
End quote.
That's right. And regardless of how anyone acts, if America takes a big hit — down at the Greg Cochran end of the spectrum — a great many Americans will blame the administration, making Trump's chance for re-election even slimmer than, according to me, it already is.
With that rather unsatisfactory summary, I leave you. As I said, I'm an amateur here. This is a tough topic to report on, with many difficulties and uncertainties.
I'll just close with my recommendation for the proper personal approach to any big disruptive crisis, if that's what this turns out to be. My recommendation is that you practice defiant normality under Sir Winston Churchill's great precept: "KBO" — Keep buggering on!
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05 — Democrats debate. I missed watching Wednesday night's debate among the Democratic Party hopefuls, so I'm working from the transcript.
Let's see. Ctrl-F "virus" … 13 hits. Hey, at least they're talking about it. What do they say?
Bloomberg says President Trump fired the administration's pandemic specialist two years ago. I didn't know we had one. What did he fire him for? A lot of federal bureaucrats need firing. Not an impressive point, Mr Mayor.
Bloomberg again, quote:
Some of the biggest threats that we face are not only things like counter-terrorism but issues like global health security and the coronavirus, that rely on the ability to listen to scientists, listen to your own intelligence and coordinate with an international community that this President has alienated because his idea of a security strategy is a big wall.
End quote.
Bloomberg's idea of a security strategy is to throw the borders wide open and take away our guns. I'd prefer Trump's wall, if he'd only get on with building the darn thing.
Then one of the moderators asked Amy Klobuchar if she would, quote, "close the borders to Americans who have been exposed to the coronavirus in order to prevent an outbreak here in this country?" End quote. That doesn't make much sense. Close the borders to Americans? Although yeah, the way the Democrats are trending, probably they'll be on board with closing the borders to Americans but opening them to everyone else.
Bernie Sanders and Tom Steyer both extruded some boilerplate about the need for international co-operation against pandemics, and — yes! — global warming, but that was it where viruses are concerned.
I should say, having mentioned Tom Steyer, who up to now has barely registered with me, I should say that I am now as enthusiastic about him as I could possibly be about a Democrat — which is not saying a lot, but it's saying something — since he told us that, quote:
I am for term limits of 12 years for every congressperson and senator.
End quote.
Yesssss! I doubt we shall ever get congressional term limits, as the congressroaches themselves would have to vote for them — which is to say, vote against their own power and privileges, a thing that history offers basically zero examples of. Still, it's good to hear term limits mentioned, although I think 12 years is too generous. Two years would be my choice.
Ctrl-F on "immigration" got three hits, none of them saying anything substantive. On this most important issue of all, that will shape the country our children and grandchildren inherit, none of these big Democratic players, in two hours of air time, had anything significant to say.
My overall impression from the transcript was in fact that I am not living in a very serious country. Bernie Sanders wants to help blacks and Latinos sell marijuana. Elizabeth Warren is obsessed with Bloomberg's office banter from thirty years ago. Joe Biden wrote all our laws. Uh-huh, uh-huh.
Not a serious country. Perhaps this just isn't a very serious world. It was a serious world, back in the Cold War, and before that in WW2 — so from 1941 to 1991. For fifty years there things were really serious, with some real existential threats. Since '91 we've retreated back into the playpen: MeToo, Black Lives Matter, women in submarines, rights for illegal aliens, transgender bathrooms …
"Life must be filled up," said the sage. With nothing of pressing urgency to occupy us, we fill up our lives with petty squabbling and children's games. Perhaps COVID-19 will awaken us.
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06 — Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: If COVID-19 by itself is not enough of a sign that the End Times are approaching, note that it is coming upon us accompanied by a plague of locusts.
This is really serious. The photographs and videos of the locust swarms in East Africa are terrifying. The countries afflicted are the poorest in the world, with of course some of the highest fertility rates in the world. For the food economies of these nations, the locust swarms are a catastrophe.
It's not just Africa. The swarms have been spreading into West and South Asia. Pakistan and India are already affected.
That's got the Chinese worried. They've come up with a plan to counter the locust swarms. The plan is: ducks. Quote from MSN News:
At least 100,000 ducks are expected to be sent to Pakistan as early as the second half of this year to combat a desert locust outbreak, according to Lu Lizhi, a senior researcher with the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The ducks are "biological weapons" and can be more effective than pesticide, said Lu, who is in charge of the project in tandem with a university in Pakistan.
"One duck is able to eat more than 200 locusts a day," Lu said in a telephone interview on Thursday.
End quote.
All the duck … sorry: all the luck in the world with that, comrade. My understanding of ecology is no better than for epidemiology, but I have to wonder: What happens when the ducks have eaten all the locusts? What will they eat then?
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Item: Will COVID-19 turn us all into germophobes? It might. I've already seen scattered references on Twitter about how unhygienic it is to shake hands.
Well, yes, it is. A Japanese bow or a traditional Chinese bai greeting — one hand folded over the other in front, elbows out, slight bend from the waist — these are much healthier.
We don't have much common sense in these things, though. I have always wondered why I'm supposed to wash my hands after using the urinal. I take a full shower every morning. At an average moment on an average day, I'm sure there are way more germs on my hands than there are on my generative organ; so it would make more sense to wash the organ after doing the business. I dutifully wash my hands anyway, just in case anyone's looking.
I doubt we'll take up oriental practices, though. The bowing and bending is a bit too submissive for us Western individualists. We'll probably switch to fist-bumps. The losers here will be Freemasons, who will have to figure out some new way to communicate their presence to each other.
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Item: We got a verdict in the Harvey Weinstein show trial on Monday this week. The movie mogul was found guilty on two of the five charges against him. Of the two charges, one dates from 2006, the other from 2013.
The essence of the first charge is that Weinstein performed cunnilingus on the plaintiff against her will in his Manhattan apartment. The essence of the second is that Weinstein raped this different plaintiff in a Manhattan hotel room.
Apparently neither plaintiff had the presence of mind to whack Weinstein upside the head with a table lamp. More fatal to their cases, I should have thought, neither plaintiff made any report of the offense at the time; and both had cordial relations, including consensual sexual relations, with Weinstein after the alleged outrages, accompanied by friendly email exchanges.
In the who-whom narrative of oppressors and victims that has taken over our culture, reason and evidence count for nothing. Weinstein is a rich old white guy; the plaintiffs are sobbing, emoting women. Guilty!
Sentencing will be March 11th. Weinstein could get 29 years for these imaginary offenses. That's about twenty years more than DeShawn would get for a genuine knife-at-the-throat act of rape. This is what passes for justice in today's America.
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Item: Reporting on the Weinstein case two weeks ago, I grumbled that I couldn't find a picture of the judge in the case, New York State Supreme Court Judge James Burke. It's unusual to not be able to find a picture of someone that distinguished.
An appreciative shout-out, therefore to the listener — she knows who she is — who located a picture of the judge for me. He is, as my listener comments, "a rather dorky-looking white man with glasses." He's a trustee of the Altman Foundation, which does good works around New York City. My listener found Judge Burke's picture on their website.
Whether the works the Foundation does really are good, or whether, like so many other philanthropic foundations, the thing has been taken over by Social Justice Warriors hostile to everything normal, customary, and patriotic, I am in absolutely no position to judge.
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Item: Wednesday this week was Trayvon Martin Day. Well, it would have been, if the petition by CultMarx anti-white website change.org had got any traction. Alas, it didn't. When you go to the page for that particular petition, it says:
Petition Closed
This petition had 54 supporters
Only 54, huh? How does that compare with other change.org petitions. Let's see …
Stop the sale of guns at WalMart stores: 157,374 signatures.
Ban female genital mutilation in Massachusetts: 323,257 signatures.
Make Kobe Bryant the new NBA logo: 3,197,468 signatures.
And Trayvon Martin only got 54? So I guess that even among the ethnomasochist goodwhites who patronize change.org, sympathy for violent teenage thugs with backpacks full of burglary tools is limited. Good to know.
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Item: Finally, permit me a wee nostalgia trip. Tuesday this week was Shrove Tuesday, known to us all in my English childhood as Pancake Day. That was the one day in the year our mothers made pancakes.
These were not the thick fluffy pancakes you get in an American diner, served with maple syrup. Pancake Day pancakes were broad but thin, served rolled up after being dosed with sugar and lemon juice. My mouth's watering just remembering them.
Do they still have Pancake Day over there? Or has it been banned for violating Sharia Law, or some directive from the Ministry of Multicultural Sensitivity? I'd rather not know.
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07 — Signoff. That's it, ladies and gents. I've gone and depressed myself with that last item there. Pancake Day, eh … Thank you for listening, though, and remember the Order of the Day: KBO!
After all that stuff about COVID-19 there is only one song proper to see us out.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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[Music clip: Peggy Lee, "Fever."]


vdare--2020-02-28--India Stripping Illegals’ Children of Citizenship—Hope Trump Noticed!

India ’ s massive welcome for President Donald J. Trump last week showed it will remain a real nation-state into the next century—while America probably won ’ t [ India rolls out the MAGA carpet for Trump , by Anita Kumar , Politico , February 24 , 2020 ] .
Prime Minister Narendra Modi ’ s government is implementing common-sense citizenship laws to protect India ’ s national identity .
Much like China , India is consolidating itself as an empire with a solid ethno-religious core .
Its laws provide a model for how a nationalist American government could undo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decades of out-of-control immigration .
But rather than imitating them , Trump is using the visit to make an identity-politics appeal to Indian-American voters who will never support him anyway .
The welcome was impressive , with over 100,000 Indians cheering “ Namaste Trump !
” and 46 million watching on Indian TV .
Maybe this is what Donald Trump thought being president would be like : huge adulatory crowds , displays of patriotism , and traditional cultural celebrations [ For a President Who Loves Crowd Size , India Aims to Deliver , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , February 23 , 2020 ] .
There was also a serious purpose in consolidating the U.S.-India alliance to check China [ The global significance of Trump ’ s India Visit , by Brahma Chellany , The Globe and Mail , February 27 , 2020 ] .
Yet the U.S. media provided mostly sneering coverage .
Partly this is because , since September 11 , 2001 , journalists have become paradoxically eager to defend Muslims .
And Prime Minister Modi ’ s governing BJP party can fairly be called a Hindu nationalist party @ @ @ @ @ @ @ smeared as cozying up a “ strongman ” —meaning a democratically-elected leader that Leftist journalists don ’ t like ( Salvini , Bolsonaro , Orban , etc ) : • Trump in India : Anti-Muslim prime minister puts on a big show , bamboozles our president , by Heather Digby Parton , Salon , February 26 , 2020 • Trump Speaks to Massive Indian Crowd , Mispronounces Almost Everything , by Jamie Ross , The Daily Beast , February 24 , 2020 Yet while President Trump and Prime Minister Modi didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ secure a major arms sale , consolidating the military alliance that ’ s been slowly taking shape since the George W. Bush Administration [ After raucous welcome in India , Trump clinches $ 3 billion military equipment sale , by Steve Holland , Aftab Ahmed , Reuters , February 25 , 2020 ] .
And for a man who is constantly accused of being a clumsy fool , President Trump adroitly dodged Gotcha questions about India ’ s new citizenship laws , saying that such domestic matters are “ up to India ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump evades questions about Muslim-excluding citizenship law , by Anita Kumar , Politico , February 25 , 2020 ] .
Apparently , journalists genuinely believed Trump should spark a major diplomatic incident by attacking India ’ s citizenship policies .
After all , they cheer on Mexicans meddling with our immigration policies .
India ’ s policies are hardly offensive .
The Citizenship Amendment Act ( CAA ) gives a fast-track to citizenship to non-Muslim “ undocumented migrants ” from Muslim majority countries who entered India before December 31 , 2014 [ Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ position on controversial Indian citizenship law , by Courtney Subramanian , USA Today , February 25 , 2020 ] .
If anything this is too soft , as it is effectively Amnesty for illegals .
Why , after all , should Muslims need “ refugee ” status from Muslim majority countries ?
Excluding a group that doesn ’ t need real protection is common sense .
Pakistan exists for a reason .
The other law is the National Register of Citizens ( NRC ) .
Though it is being implemented in just one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government will eventually spread it out across the entire country .
It requires residents to prove they or their ancestors are citizens of India— rather than “ infiltrators ” ( using the same term that Israel does for illegal aliens—can we adopt this too , please ? )
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If they can ’ t , they will be stripped of citizenship [ India ’ s Citizenship Law , In Tandem With National Registry , Could Make BJP ’ s Discriminatory Targeting of Muslims Easier , by Soumya Shankar , The Intercept , January @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this appears like common sense .
Why shouldn ’ t a country be able to determine who is a legal resident and who is not ?
And why should it allow the children of illegals to benefit from their parents ’ law-breaking ?
The children of burglars don ’ t get to keep stolen property .
There have been recent violent clashes between Hindus and Muslims over the citizenship laws [ At least 32 dead in riots over Indian citizenship laws , RTE , February 27 , 2020 ] .
But this basically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Why should it want a hostile , undocumented Muslim population in the country when there is a neighboring country , explicitly created for Muslims ?
If these riots show anything , it ’ s that diversity is not a strength .
Leftist journalists are also angry about India ’ s removal of Kashmir ’ s special administrative status .
But again , this seems like an unsurprising policy .
If India is a sovereign country , why should it tolerate a special region in its country where locals have special rights over fellow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ All the latest updates , Al Jazeera , October 27 , 2019 ] .
As American Renaissance ’ s Jared Taylor has noted , suddenly Leftists seem to understand questions about demographics and political power as long as whites aren ’ t involved .
In contrast , they certainly didn ’ t seem to like “ states ’ rights ” in the U.S.. America should be looking to India for inspiration on these matters .
Under a real American nationalist government , residents of the U.S. who are unable to prove their parents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should be stripped of citizenship and deported .
This would undo a vast amount of the damage done by the disastrous refusal to repeal birthright citizenship .
VDARE.com does not have the vast influence within the Trump Administration the Main Stream Media claims to believe , otherwise Birthright Citizenship would have been repealed a long time ago .
However , India is showing that immigration and demographic changes are not things that just happen—they are the result of policies , policies that can be changed if there is a political leader with sufficient @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Unfortunately , rather than taking inspiration from PM Modi ’ s laws , President Trump and his advisers apparently just see an opportunity to win the Indian-American vote .
“ [ B ] ack home , Trump hasn ’ t polled well with Indian Americans , ” reports Politico .
“ Still , the group represents a growing voting bloc that registers and votes at high rates , making it a desirable target.
” [ Trump campaign ads target a new audience : Indian Americans , by Anita Kumar , February 27 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ poll that finds almost two-thirds of Indian-Americans disapprove of President Trump ’ s job performance .
This GOP pandering effort seems to include importing Indian-Americans on H1B visas , although they will vote overwhelmingly for Democrats .
The Indian government reportedly pushed for more H1B visas during Trump ’ s trip—which suggest that , like the Chinese and Mexican governments , it views its diaspora as a way to expand its influence [ Trump told Modi he was asked by Imran Khan to mediate but doesn ’ t intend to , by Shubhajit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 28 , 2020 ] .
This is the same combination of liberalism abroad and nationalism at home we see with other hyphenated American communities .
Israel is an explicit ethnostate that the ADL energetically defends , even while it lobbies for Open Borders and political repression against Americans .
Mexico claims sovereignty over its citizens within American territory with policies that border on revanchism , even while it complains about American immigration policies This entire spectacle is sickening for those of us who don ’ t have another country to go to than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not just the place we work .
Yet even under an “ America First ” president , we see the same tired attempts to build coalitions of various ethnic tribes to deliver a Republican victory , even though whites are the only group that consistently deliver for Republican candidates .
Instead of having a country of our own , we ’ re a playground for foreign interests .
The people hurt the most are the American workers that President Trump promised to defend in 2016 .
Indian-American workers won ’ t vote for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ workers ?
James Kirkpatrick [ Email him |Tweet him @ VDAREJamesK ] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His latest book is Conservatism Inc. : The Battle for the American Right .
Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow 's Preface here .

India’s massive welcome for President Donald J. Trump last week showed it will remain a real nation-state into the next century—while America probably won’t [India rolls out the MAGA carpet for Trump, by Anita Kumar, Politico, February 24, 2020]. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is implementing common-sense citizenship laws to protect India’s national identity. Much like China, India is consolidating itself as an empire with a solid ethno-religious core. Its laws provide a model for how a nationalist American government could undo at least some of the damage from decades of out-of-control immigration. But rather than imitating them, Trump is using the visit to make an identity-politics appeal to Indian-American voters who will never support him anyway.
The welcome was impressive, with over 100,000 Indians cheering “Namaste Trump!” and 46 million watching on Indian TV. Maybe this is what Donald Trump thought being president would be like: huge adulatory crowds, displays of patriotism, and traditional cultural celebrations [For a President Who Loves Crowd Size, India Aims to Deliver, by Peter Baker, New York Times, February 23, 2020]. There was also a serious purpose in consolidating the U.S.-India alliance to check China [The global significance of Trump’s India Visit, by Brahma Chellany, The Globe and Mail, February 27, 2020].
Yet the U.S. media provided mostly sneering coverage. Partly this is because, since September 11, 2001, journalists have become paradoxically eager to defend Muslims. And Prime Minister Modi’s governing BJP party can fairly be called a Hindu nationalist party. Thus, President Trump could be smeared as cozying up to a “strongman”—meaning a democratically-elected leader that Leftist journalists don’t like (Salvini, Bolsonaro, Orban, etc):
Yet while President Trump and Prime Minister Modi didn’t agree on trade, the president did secure a major arms sale, consolidating the military alliance that’s been slowly taking shape since the George W. Bush Administration [After raucous welcome in India, Trump clinches $3 billion military equipment sale, by Steve Holland, Aftab Ahmed, Reuters, February 25, 2020].
And for a man who is constantly accused of being a clumsy fool, President Trump adroitly dodged Gotcha questions about India’s new citizenship laws, saying that such domestic matters are “up to India” [‘Up to India’: Trump evades questions about Muslim-excluding citizenship law, by Anita Kumar, Politico, February 25, 2020]. Apparently, journalists genuinely believed Trump should spark a major diplomatic incident by attacking India’s citizenship policies. After all, they cheer on Mexicans meddling with our immigration policies.
India’s policies are hardly offensive. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) gives a fast-track to citizenship to non-Muslim “undocumented migrants” from Muslim majority countries who entered India before December 31, 2014 [Trump defends Modi but doesn’t take position on controversial Indian citizenship law, by Courtney Subramanian, USA Today, February 25, 2020]. If anything this is too soft, as it is effectively Amnesty for illegals. Why, after all, should Muslims need “refugee” status from Muslim majority countries? Excluding a group that doesn’t need real protection is common sense. Pakistan exists for a reason.
The other law is the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Though it is being implemented in just one region of India to start, the government will eventually spread it out across the entire country. It requires residents to prove they or their ancestors are citizens of India—rather than “infiltrators” (using the same term that Israel does for illegal aliens—can we adopt this too, please?). If they can’t, they will be stripped of citizenship [India’s Citizenship Law, In Tandem With National Registry, Could Make BJP’s Discriminatory Targeting of Muslims Easier, by Soumya Shankar, The Intercept, January 30, 2020].
Again, this appears like common sense. Why shouldn’t a country be able to determine who is a legal resident and who is not? And why should it allow the children of illegals to benefit from their parents’ law-breaking? The children of burglars don’t get to keep stolen property.
There have been recent violent clashes between Hindus and Muslims over the citizenship laws [At least 32 dead in riots over Indian citizenship laws, RTE, February 27, 2020]. But this basically proves the government’s point: Why should it want a hostile, undocumented Muslim population in the country when there is a neighboring country, explicitly created for Muslims? If these riots show anything, it’s that diversity is not a strength.
Leftist journalists are also angry about India’s removal of Kashmir’s special administrative status. But again, this seems like an unsurprising policy. If India is a sovereign country, why should it tolerate a special region in its country where locals have special rights over fellow citizens? [Kashmir under lockdown: All the latest updates, Al Jazeera, October 27, 2019].
As American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor has noted, suddenly Leftists seem to understand questions about demographics and political power as long as whites aren’t involved.
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In contrast, they certainly didn’t seem to like “states’ rights” in the U.S.
America should be looking to India for inspiration on these matters. Under a real American nationalist government, residents of the U.S. who are unable to prove their parents came to the country legally could and should be stripped of citizenship and deported. This would undo a vast amount of the damage done by the disastrous refusal to repeal birthright citizenship.
VDARE.com does not have the vast influence within the Trump Administration the Main Stream Media claims to believe, otherwise Birthright Citizenship would have been repealed a long time ago.
(On the other hand, the Muslim Advocates lobby group believes that in 2013 VDARE.com “paved the way for the Muslim Ban by saying after the Boston Marathon bombing, that: “We should stop allowing entry of people from Muslim countries.”’!)
VDARE’s ideas are fringe but influential.
In 2013, the website paved the way for the Muslim Ban when it published that: “We should stop allowing entry of people from Muslim countries.” — Muslim Advocates (@MuslimAdvocates) February 26, 2020
However, India is showing that immigration and demographic changes are not things that just happen—they are the result of policies, policies that can be changed if there is a political leader with sufficient dedication and willpower to see it through.
Unfortunately, rather than taking inspiration from PM Modi’s laws, President Trump and his advisers apparently just see an opportunity to win the Indian-American vote. “[B]ack home, Trump hasn’t polled well with Indian Americans,” reports Politico. “Still, the group represents a growing voting bloc that registers and votes at high rates, making it a desirable target” [Trump campaign ads target a new audience: Indian Americans, by Anita Kumar, February 27, 2020]. Yet Politico cites a poll that finds almost two-thirds of Indian-Americans disapprove of President Trump’s job performance.
This GOP pandering effort seems to include importing Indian-Americans on H1B visas , although they will vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. The Indian government reportedly pushed for more H1B visas during Trump’s trip—which suggests that, like the Chinese and Mexican governments, it views its diaspora as a way to expand its influence [Trump told Modi he was asked by Imran Khan to mediate but doesn’t intend to, by Shubhajit Roy, Indian Express, February 28, 2020].
This is the same combination of liberalism abroad and nationalism at home we see with other hyphenated American communities. Israel is an explicit ethnostate that the ADL energetically defends, even while it lobbies for Open Borders and political repression against Americans. Mexico claims sovereignty over its citizens within American territory with policies that border on revanchism, even while it complains about American immigration policies.
This entire spectacle is sickening for those of us who don’t have another country to go to than America. America is our home, not just the place we work.
Yet even under an “America First” president, we see the same tired attempts to build coalitions of various ethnic tribes to deliver a Republican victory, even though whites are the only group that consistently deliver for Republican candidates. Instead of having a country of our own, we’re a playground for foreign interests. The people hurt the most are the American workers that President Trump promised to defend in 2016.
Indian-American workers won’t vote for President Trump in 2020. Will American workers?
James Kirkpatrick [Email him |Tweet him @VDAREJamesK] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His latest book is Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the American Right. Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow's Preface here.


vdare--2020-02-28--Down With CPAC, Up With AFPAC!

Down With CPAC, Up With AFPAC!

CPAC has a serious challenger this year that promises to call out Conservative Inc. ’ s cowardice and failure to @ @ @ @ @ The America First Political Action Conference is set to place tonight in Washington D.C .
@ @ @ @ @ from Michelle Malkin , Nick Fuentes , former Daily Caller editor Scott Greer , and @ @ @ @ @ Casey .
Even if you can ’ t make it to the event , you @ @ @ @ @ on Nick Fuentes ’ DLive channel .
The speeches are set to start around 8 @ @ @ @ @ happening among the youth .
They seem to be no longer placated by the failures @ @ @ @

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

CPAC has a serious challenger this year that promises to call out Conservative Inc.’s cowardice and failure to address the important issues. The America First Political Action Conference is set to place tonight in Washington D.C.
The event will feature speeches from Michelle Malkin, Nick Fuentes, former Daily Caller editor Scott Greer, and American Identity Movement leader Patrick Casey. Even if you can’t make it to the event, you can watch the speeches live on Nick Fuentes’ DLive channel. The speeches are set to start around 8 PM.
After covering @CPAC on Friday Feb. 28th, I will be speaking at the very first AFPAC - America First Political Action Conference in DC. It will be livestreamed. It's time. #AmericaFirst
Registration info ==> pic.twitter.com/YhlVwiuooe — Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) January 31, 2020
Exciting things are happening among the youth. They seem to be no longer placated by the failures of Conservative Inc.