vdare--2020-09-25--White Pill at the Right Time: Trump Expands Ban on Anti-White Critical Race Theory to Federal Contra

White Pill at the Right Time: Trump Expands Ban on Anti-White Critical Race Theory to Federal Contractors (As Well as Executive Branch Agencies)

“ The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
” It was never going to be easy .
In reality , we were never supposed to even have a chance of winning , turning back the hands of time and standing up to the madness overwhelming civilization .
But with simple steps , the evil dominating all aspects of our lives is exposed .
And if just one person of influence understands and comprehends the enormity of what has been exposed , hope blossoms .
Trump expands ban on critical race theory to federal contractors , New York @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump signed an executive order expanding a ban on government agencies receiving sensitivity training involving critical race theory to federal contractors .
“ A few weeks ago , I BANNED efforts to indoctrinate government employees with divisive and harmful sex and race-based ideologies , ” the president announced on Twitter on Tuesday .
“ Today , I ’ ve expanded that ban to people and companies that do business with our Country , the United States Military , Government Contractors , and Grantees .
Americans should be taught to take PRIDE in our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t , there ’ s nothing in it for you !
” he said in a second post .
The executive order says the government has prohibited federal contractors from “ engaging in race or sex discrimination and required contractors to take affirmative action to ensure such discrimination does not occur.
” It says contractors ’ workers who participate in training that “ promotes race or sex-stereotyping or scapegoating similarly undermines efficiency in federal contracting , ” adding that it promotes divisiveness and distracts from the “ pursuit of excellence.
” “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the United States not to promote race or sex-stereotyping or scapegoating in the Federal workforce or in the Uniformed Services , and not to allow grant funds to be used for these purposes .
In addition , Federal contractors will not be permitted to inculcate such views in their employees , ” the order said .
It builds on an order issued earlier this month that instructs federal agencies to end diversity training programs that teach about “ white privilege ” and critical race theory .
Office of Management and Budget Director @ @ @ @ @ @ @ memo .
“ The President has directed me to ensure that Federal agencies cease and desist from using taxpayer dollars to fund these divisive , un-American propaganda training sessions , ” Vought wrote .
“ Executive Branch agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to date ‘ training ’ government workers to believe divisive , anti-American propaganda.
” “ For example , according to press reports , employees across the Executive Branch have been required to attend trainings where they are told that ‘ virtually all White people contribute to racism ’ or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they ‘ benefit from racism , ’ ” the memo continued .
“ We can not accept our employees receiving training that seeks to undercut our core values as Americans and drive division within our workforce.
” Don ’ t stop moving forward .
You never know who you will influence .

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
It was never going to be easy.
In reality, we were never supposed to even have a chance of winning, turning back the hands of time and standing up to the madness overwhelming civilization.
Our civilization.
But with simple steps, the evil dominating all aspects of our lives is exposed. And if just one person of influence understands and comprehends the enormity of what has been exposed, hope blossoms.
Trump expands ban on critical race theory to federal contractors, New York Post, September 23, 2020 President Trump signed an executive order expanding a ban on government agencies receiving sensitivity training involving critical race theory to federal contractors. “A few weeks ago, I BANNED efforts to indoctrinate government employees with divisive and harmful sex and race-based ideologies,” the president announced on Twitter on Tuesday. “Today, I’ve expanded that ban to people and companies that do business with our Country, the United States Military, Government Contractors, and Grantees. Americans should be taught to take PRIDE in our Great Country, and if you don’t, there’s nothing in it for you!” he said in a second post. The executive order says the government has prohibited federal contractors from “engaging in race or sex discrimination and required contractors to take affirmative action to ensure such discrimination does not occur.” It says contractors’ workers who participate in training that “promotes race or sex-stereotyping or scapegoating similarly undermines efficiency in federal contracting,” adding that it promotes divisiveness and distracts from the “pursuit of excellence.” “Therefore, it shall be the policy of the United States not to promote race or sex-stereotyping or scapegoating in the Federal workforce or in the Uniformed Services, and not to allow grant funds to be used for these purposes. In addition, Federal contractors will not be permitted to inculcate such views in their employees,” the order said. It builds on an order issued earlier this month that instructs federal agencies to end diversity training programs that teach about “white privilege” and critical race theory. Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought outlined the directive in a memo. “The President has directed me to ensure that Federal agencies cease and desist from using taxpayer dollars to fund these divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions,” Vought wrote. “Executive Branch agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to date ‘training’ government workers to believe divisive, anti-American propaganda.” “For example, according to press reports, employees across the Executive Branch have been required to attend trainings where they are told that ‘virtually all White people contribute to racism’ or where they are required to say that they ‘benefit from racism,’” the memo continued. “We cannot accept our employees receiving training that seeks to undercut our core values as Americans and drive division within our workforce.”
Don’t stop moving forward. You never know who you will influence.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-09-25--RBG RIP, Are Whites Below The Law?, The New Justice, And The Corruption Of American Science, Etc.

02m26s RBG RIP .
( To change the law , run for Congress . )
08m15s The new justice .
@ @ @ @ @ the Court ? )
19m22s Below the law .
( Who ?
Whom ? )
@ @ @ @ @ science .
( Ideology takes over . )
33m26s An erratum .
( But why @ @ @ @ @ ) 41m23s The decline of SOAS , cont .
( No more Hittite . )
@ @ @ @ @ stand for civilized values .
( No .
2 is a subway line . )

02m26s RBG RIP. (To change the law, run for Congress.)
08m15s The new justice. (A seventh Catholic on the Court?)
13m58s A riot and a robbery. (A suicide and a pink slip.)
19m22s Below the law. (Who? Whom?)
25m49s The corruption of American science. (Ideology takes over.)
33m26s An erratum. (But why is dual citizenship legal?)
34m40s Princeton confesses to racism. (A toast to Betsy DeVos.)
37m23s DoJ confronts "anarchist jurisdictions." (No more federal funds!)
38m28s NY cop is a ChiCom mole. (Watching Tibetans.)
41m23s The decline of SOAS, cont. (No more Hittite.)
44m39s New York takes a stand for civilized values. (No. 2 is a subway line.)
45m41s Signoff. (With something soothing.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your meritocratically genial host John Derbyshire, here with highlights from the week's news.
Five weeks next Tuesday to election day; although it looks as though this election will be smeared out across several weeks while mail-in ballots are accepted, counted, forged, trashed, mutilated, duplicated, and litigated over. With luck we should have some kind of result by midsummer 2021.
Also next Tuesday, the first debate between President Trump and challenger Joe Biden. I can't shake off the suspicion that Joe has been playing a deep, long game: faking cognitive decline all these months so he can come out on Tuesday all pepped up with Adderall and cut Trump to pieces. We shall see.
OK, to the past week's news.
The news cycle is not always fair to us weekly commentators. The item that's generated most headlines this past seven days was the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which came just too late for last week's podcast. By now, a week later, everything that can be said about the lady has been said. The best I can do is to pass comment on the commentary, so let's have a go at that.
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02—RBG RIP. Looking for RBG commentary, my first port of call was the Z-man's blog. I didn't know what Z would say about Mrs Ginsburg's passing, but I was confident it would be unrestrainedly vituperative.
The Z-man did not disappoint. Headline: Do Goblins Go To Hell? Opening sentence: "After years of false promises, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg [sic] has finally made the world a better place by exiting from it."
I love you, brother.
Z makes all the points I would have made, and that other Dissident Right observers have made. Justice Ginsburg did her country no good at all by remaining on the court for years when she was in seriously ill health, under medication regimes we do not know in detail, but surely unable to function mentally at anything like full capacity. She was too much of a narcissist to remove herself.
Congress could have removed her, but that is to laugh. Congress is no more interested in the good of the nation than Ginsburg was. What Congress is interested in is:
Staying on the right side of the special interests who keep the feeding trough well filled, and Not getting on the wrong side of the ideologues who control the media, Big Tech, the Academy, and all the other commanding heights of our society.
And the utter worthlessness of Congress is the reason for the exaggerated importance of critters like Ruth Ginsburg. Somebody has to make big decisions about contentious social issues. Since the congressweasels are too cowardly to do so, it falls to judges. Z has words to say about this that are worth quoting. Quote:
Rule by robed masters with lifetime appointments is not only un-American, it is anti-Western. Rule by wise man or holy man is an oriental import that no occidental people should embrace. Judges and courts are for administering the laws that are written by the people's rulers. Whether it is a representative body or a monarch, the laws are written by the sovereign, not the courts.
End quote.
Runner-up in my list of commentators on Ginsburg's passing was my old smoking buddy at National Review, Kevin Williamson. Another pithy headline, headline: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Didn't Understand Her Job.
Kevin quotes one of Ginsburg's admirers to the effect that the late Justice wanted, quote: "To make America fairer, to make justice bigger," end quote. People who want to do that, says Kevin correctly, should run for Congress. If Americans want unrestricted abortion rights, or homosexual marriage, or open borders, they should vote for congressional candidates who promise to enact those things. It's not for unelected judges to enact them, or to enact anything.
Money quote from Kevin:
Justice Ginsburg's using her position to try to impose a feminist vision on federal policy ought to be recognized for what it was: an abuse of power. If you want to rewrite the law along feminist lines, that's a perfectly honorable project—run for Congress.
End quote.
As I pointed out above, though, the Ginsburgs in the judiciary get away with their abuse of power because Congress, which could restrain them, won't. Life is much easier for congressfolk if all the contentious stuff is decided by judges; and who doesn't want an easy life? The feeding trough's over there, guys. Soo-ee! [Pig noises.]
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03—The ninth justice. Radio Derb goes on the air around Friday midnight. President Trump has told us he'll announce his nominee to replace Justice Ginsburg on Saturday, so that whoever he picks, Radio Derb will be commenting on it a week late again. Sorry about that.
The President has told us that his nominee will, quote, "most likely" be a woman. I don't know why he felt impelled to say that. I guess even Presidents of a nationalist inclination are vulnerable to identitarian fever.
It would have been more interesting if he'd gone the whole identitarian hog and said "a non-Hispanic white woman." But then of course the Earth would have stopped in its orbit and fallen into the Sun and we'd all have been incinerated.
The names we've mostly been hearing as being at the head of his list are Amy Coney Barrett and Barbara Lagoa. Age-wise, both ladies are in the right zone: Barrett 48, Lagoa 52. We could get fifteen or twenty good years of service from either lady before Congress instructed her to step down, if Congress could raise its snout from the trough for long enough to do so.
Also in their favor, both women are pleasantly philoprogenitive: Barrett seven kids, Lagoa three. So, not cat ladies. (Neither, to be perfectly fair here, was Justice Ginsburg, mother of two.)
Both are quite serious Roman Catholics. What's up with that? Prior to Mrs Ginsburg's death the Supreme Court had three Jews and six Catholics. So either a Justice Barrett or a Justice Lagoa would give us two Jews and seven Catholics. What are we Protestants, chopped communion wafers?
And yes, I know: Neil Gorsuch attends Episcopalian services. That's Catholic, too, though; just not Roman Catholic. As any good Anglican will confirm for you, when Episcopalians recite the Nicene Creed in their Sunday services, they aver that, quote:
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
End quote.
The Derbs, just for the record here, belong to a Baptist congregation. There hasn't been a Baptist Supreme since Hugo Black, who retired in 1971. There are around fifty million of us in the U.S.A., according to Wikipedia, almost one in six of the population. That's around three times the number of Jews, depending on how you do the counting. Supreme-Court-wise, we are an under-represented minority!
I'm a bit wary of both these ladies. There's a whiff of Conservatism, Inc. about them—a whiff of yesterday's conservatism, the conservatism of Reagan and the Bushes, of invade-the-world, invite-the-world conservatism. Out here on the Dissident Right we don't want to invade the world, we don't want to invite the world, and we don't think abortion is the most pressing issue facing the republic.
The VDARE.com correspondent who calls himself "Washington Watcher" is of the same mind. Barbara Lagoa, who comes from an immigrant Cuban family, is, he says, all too probably a squish on immigration. Judge Barrett is probably better; but her apparently intense attachment to the Roman Catholic Church in all its present cuckery does not bode well.
Washington Watcher boosts Judge Bridget Bade of Arizona. She is, he says, solid on immigration, law and order, and gun rights. I haven't been able to discover what religious denomination she belongs to, if any.
We can hope. By the time you're hearing this, we shall probably know.
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04—A riot, a robbery. Here's a couple of stories—one really awful, one only somewhat suspect—that got me thinking about a phrase that ought to be in our news vocabulary but isn't.
First story: the suicide of Jake Gardner in Omaha, Nebraska. Ann Coulter gave full details in her September 23rd column here at VDARE.com. In very brief: Thirty-eight-year-old Gardner, an Iraq War veteran, owned two bars in Omaha. May 30th, following the death of George Floyd, anarchists rioted and looted in Omaha. One of Gardner's bars was attacked and his 69-year-old father knocked down by the mob.
Defending his dad, Jake Gardner was himself knocked down by the mob. One looter, 22-year-old James Scurlock, a black man with a long rap sheet, got him in a choke hold. Firing a handgun over his shoulder, Gardner killed Scurlock. An autopsy showed Scurlock was high on meth and coke.
A full investigation by the DA and police found that Gardner had acted in self-defense. That fired up a new mob, who marched on the DA's neighborhood. The DA reversed himself. He called a grand jury and a special prosecutor—black, of course—who promptly indicted Gardner on spurious charges.
The landlord of Gardner's bars canceled his leases, leaving Gardner with no income. Friends tried to set up a legal defense fund at GoFundMe, but GoFundMe wouldn't let them, although there's a big fat GoFundMe account for the black junkie rioter that Gardner shot. With no income and facing a rigged trial, Gardner shot himself September 20th.
Second story: The principal here is 20-year-old Amir Shedyak, an employee of the Hannaford supermarket in Essex, Vermont. He seems to have been a good reliable worker. He was employed at the supermarket for four years, and this March was named Employee of the Month.
One day in August, just after Shedyak had started his shift, a customer told him that an old woman had just been robbed—had her purse stolen. Shedyak ran outside, spotted the thief running with the purse in his hand, and took after him. He caught up, grabbed the thief from behind and held him down before calling the police. The suspect struggled free and got away, but Shedyak was able to return the purse.
For this he was fired. His employer says they feared liability lawsuits, but I wonder. Shedyak, an Arab-American, looks white. What color was the thief? A white guy tackling a black thief, bringing him down and recovering the stolen item, would obviously be an act of racial bigotry.
The thief was later apprehended. His name is Adrian Moore, 29 years old. I can't discover his race. "Adrian" is not a noticeably black name, and the Vermont township where this happened is only 1.5 percent black, so perhaps I'm being over-suspicious, but I can't help wondering. It seems awfully severe to fire a good employee for apprehending a robber. Liability issues? Eh, maybe.
Well, I started off this segment saying that these stories got me thinking about a phrase that ought to be in our news vocabulary but isn't. So what's the phrase? Next segment.
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05—Below the law. The phrase I have in mind is: "below the law." Let me explain what I mean.
You've certainly heard the phrase "above the law." It's a great favorite with Progressives. Whenever some new allegation comes up of President Trump having violated some petty regulation in his past business dealings, out comes Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer to honk that, "Nobody's above the law!"
Yet of course all sorts of people are above the law, well-nigh all of them pets of the Progressive establishment. Illegal aliens are above the law, to name the most obvious case. So are the people and firms that harbor and employ them. Antifa and BLM are above the law, as we've been seeing all too plainly this past few weeks in our cities and towns.
Complementary to these multitudes of people who plainly are above the law, there is a category of people who are below the law.
The textbook case here is the rumble in New York City two years ago between an Antifa gang and Gavin McInnes's Proud Boys. Antifa were of course looking for trouble, and the Proud Boys gave it them in what sounds like an even match. No serious injuries resulted and Antifa refused to co-operate with law enforcement. Two of the Proud Boys got four years jail each; no Antifa were charged with anything.
See? Antifa: above the law. Proud Boys: below the law.
It's the same with the Jake Gardner story. The rioting, looting, drug-crazed thug who attacked Gardner was black, so he was above the law. Gardner himself was white, and so below the law.
In the Vermont case the law seems not to have gotten much involved; but Amir Shedyak is white enough to be below the law. If the robber he brought down was black, he would be above the law, like the black muggers in New York City who only actually get locked up after their 175th arrest.
It's all too easy to come up with instances of people, usually white, treated harshly by the courts because they were found to be below the law. Five years ago Charleston police officer Michael Slager, who is white, shot dead fleeing prisoner Walter Scott—no, not the author of Waverley but a lowlife petty criminal, who was black.
Officer Slager was given to understand that if he pleaded guilty to a federal charge the state charges would be dropped and his case would be dealt with more professionally, so he did that. Nyah nyah, fooled ya! The feds gave him twenty years. His earliest release date: August 2033. Officer Slager was below the law, you see.
James Fields, currently serving sentences of more than four hundred years for indirectly causing the death of an anarchist rioter in Charlottesville three years ago, James Fields is seriously below the law. Not only is he white and male, he has wrong opinions. That puts him way below the law: hence the absurdly extravagant sentences.
Who thinks that if James Fields had been black and Heather Heyer a Unite the Right marcher, there would have been any criminal conviction at all? Not me. Fields would then have been above the law, Heyer below it. Who, whom.
You'll hear people grumble that we live in a lawless society. I take their point, but "lawless" is not exactly right. The law applies all right, often with great severity, but only to those who are below the law. If you belong to a group that's above the law—you belong to a designated victim group, or just hold all the right opinions—chances are you'll skate. Who, whom.
If you're below the law, the law will crush you like a bug. Ask those Proud Boys; ask Michael Slager; ask James Fields; I'd say to ask Jake Gardner, but of course you can't—he's dead. If you're above the law: Party on!
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06—The corruption of American science. Back in my September 4th podcast I had things to say about wokeness at the fine old magazine Scientific American. Their September issue had run a long article headlined Reckoning with Our Mistakes in which the editors groveled, rent their garments, heaped ashes on their heads, and flagellated themselves with guilt over shamefully un-woke things the magazine had published back in the 19th century.
All that was bad enough—distressing enough, I should say, for an old science geek who, in his youth, looked to Scientific American for instruction and amusement on science and math topics, delivered in a spirit of objective enquiry.
Now here came the October issue. For the first time ever in the magazine's 175-year history the editors have endorsed a Presidential candidate. Can you guess which one? Of course you can! Quote:
The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the U.S. and its people—because he rejects evidence and science.
End quote.
There follow several hundred words about how ineptly the administration has coped with the COVID-19 pandemic, with some supplementary remarks on healthcare in general and environmental issues. Then this concluding paragraph, quote:
Although Trump and his allies have tried to create obstacles that prevent people from casting ballots safely in November, either by mail or in person, it is crucial that we surmount them and vote. It's time to move Trump out and elect Biden, who has a record of following the data and being guided by science.
End quote.
What exactly are those obstacles to voting that Trump has tried to create? The online version of this Scientific American editorial has a link there to a Chicago Tribune story headlined Cook County GOP Sues to Block State's Enhanced Vote-by-Mail Efforts. Back in June, you see, the Governor of Illinois signed a law to expand mail-in voting, which of course means expanding opportunities to corrupt November's election. A conservative legal group has tried to block the law.
The Scientific American editorial is, in short, just cut'n'pasted from Biden campaign talking points.
For more on the ongoing corruption of American science by ideology, see Heather Mac Donald's article titled Conformity to a lie in the summer issue of City Journal.
Heather quotes the revolting statements of self-abasement issuing from college presidents and faculty heads about how they must strive harder to purge their institutions of "systemic racism" and "white privilege."
Some science-relevant extracts from Heather's article. There are a lot of inner quotes here that I really should mark as I speak, but for once I'll skip that and just read right through Heather's text. Quotes:
The dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, pronounced himself "absolutely dedicated" to turning the engineering school into an "anti-racist organization." Doing so "crucially includes unconscious bias work we must do within ourselves," he added. How that work will interact with research on nanoparticles and viral transmission, say, was unspecified.
The chairman of the earth and planetary sciences department at the University of California at Davis announced an "anti-racist reading group" for faculty and students. The group's purpose was to confront the "structural racism that pervades" the field of geology. Such structural racism in the study of igneous rocks is apparently so obvious that the chair did not bother to elaborate further.
The American Astronomical Society held color-coded Zoom meetings, one for white astronomers to "discuss direct actions to support Black astronomers," one for black astronomers to "talk, vent, connect, and hold space for each other," and one for "non-Black people of color to discuss direct actions to support Black astronomers."
End quotes.
To my mind, nothing is worse than this corruption of science. Objective, reasoned scientific inquiry is the crowning glory of Western civilization. These solemn declarations of guilt and repentance are a regression to what came before: superstition and witch-doctoring. These so-called academics might as well put bones through their noses.
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07—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: First, I should do a little groveling. In last week's show I said the following thing, quote from me:
If [George] Soros' dollars are being shoveled into District Attorney campaigns, that would be foreign interference in our elections, wouldn't it? Which, according to Establishment propaganda, is absolutely the worst thing in the world, isn't it?
End quote.
A reader tells me, and Wikipedia confirms, that Soros holds dual citizenship, U.S.A. and Hungary, so Soros spending money to get DAs elected is not foreign interference.
I confess my error, with the rider that, while I understand that dual citizenship is legal, I can't see why the hell it should be.
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Item: Further to my last main segment, let's raise a glass to Betsy DeVos over at the Department of Education.
In that piece by Heather Mac Donald that I mentioned, one of the college presidents confessing his institution's sinful racism is Christopher Eisgruber, President of Princeton University. President Eisgruber has, Heather tells us, quote:
ordered the school's top faculty and administrators to submit plans on how they will [inner quote] "combat systemic racism within and beyond the University." [end inner quote]. Every aspect of Princeton will be reexamined with a [inner quote] "bias toward action," [end inner quote] Eisgruber said.
End quote.
So Princeton University is, according to its president, addled with "systemic racism." That caught the eye of Betsy DeVos, or one of her underlings.
The Department of Education has sent a letter to Eisgruber reminding him that Princeton has received more than $75 million in federal aid during his seven years as president on the understanding, repeatedly confirmed by Princeton, that Princeton complies with the 1964 Civil Rights Act by being scrupulously non-discriminatory.
How, the Department wants to know, can that square with those confessions of "systemic racism within … the University"? They have opened an investigation.
Yesssss! The weasel is caught in its own trap! Here's a toast to Secretary DeVos! And please, let's see more of this.
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Item: Here's another along the same lines—a federal government department going head to head with the wokesters.
This time it's the Department of Justice. Sunday last the DoJ announced it has designated Seattle, New York City, and Portland, Oregon, as "anarchist jurisdictions" for failing to control riots while simultaneously defunding their police departments. These cities will, the Department says, lose federal funding.
So let's raise another toast, this one to our Attorney General Bill Barr. Although in this case I think it's fair to ask the A-G, four months into the George Floyd riots: What took you so long?
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Item: As, I am pretty sure, the only VDARE.com contributor who's actually met His Holiness the Dalai Lama, I can never pass up a Tibet news item. This one is also a New York City news item, as it happens.
There is a little nest of Tibetan exiles in south-central Manhattan. I had some intercourse with them when I myself lived there in the 1980s. There was—and, I see, still is—a restaurant, Tibetan Kitchen, down there on Third Avenue at 31st Street, and the exiles had an office nearby that put out newsletters and such.
I'm not the only one who noticed that. The ChiComs noticed, too. Their army has been occupying Tibet for the past sixty years, with the same ferocious intolerance you've read about in regard to the Uighurs of Xinjiang, with the aim of annihilating Tibet's language, religion, and culture.
Thirty-three-year-old Baimadajie Angwang, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Tibetan origins, was hired by the New York Police Department in 2016. He has since spent his time, both on- and off-duty, gathering intelligence on Tibetan exile activities in the city and passing them on to a handler in the Chinese Consulate here.
It's been a nice little earner for Officer Angwang. He has, according to the New York Post, been getting regular five-digit money transfers wired over from China. For reasons not clear to me, he holds a "secret"-level security clearance from the Defense Department, which surely helped.
Now the rat is under arrest, charged with illegally acting as an agent of a foreign government, making false statements, wire fraud and obstruction of an official proceeding. Maximum possible tariff here: 55 years in prison.
I hope he gets every one of the 55, although it's more likely he'll end up at one end of a spy swap after a nominal year or two of jail time.
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Item: Back in my January 31st podcast I had a sad item about the decline of SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, whose marvellous library I frequented back around 1980. Back then SOAS was, I said, quote, "multicultural in a genuine and positive way, full of young English people curious to learn about cultures very different from their own." End quote.
Nowadays, as I reported, the place is being wrecked by woke agitators. The very word "oriental" in the school's name is indicative of thoughtcrime—patronizing, privileged, and … oh, I don't know, probably hurtful. SOAS is in financial difficulties, with falling student enrolments.
Well, the news just gets sadder. Mark Weeden, who lectures at SOAS, has just told us that the Hittite language will no longer be taught there. There have been classes in Hittite at SOAS since 1965. No longer. SOAS is shutting down almost all its cuneiform-related courses, although there will be some classes in Akkadian and Sumerian for a year or two longer.
The Hittites were a mighty civilized power in the second millennium B.C., located in present-day Turkey and Syria. They get numerous mentions in the Old Testament. They were swept away in the great Bronze Age collapse around 1200 B.C. In the preceding four hundred years or so, millions of Hittites lived and loved, debated and fought, wrote and read — in cuneiform script, of course—carved and painted, fished and farmed. Now, if you want to engage with their words, there is one less place where you can do so.
Well, well: Civilizations rise and fall. Reading about the decline of SOAS, and the follies and self-abasements at our own universities recorded by Heather Mac Donald, I think I know which part of the cycle Western civilization is in.
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Item: That's too gloomy a note to end on, so let me offer some uplift.
Yes, there is resistance to the decline. Yes, there are citizens struggling to uphold civilized standards. We are not altogether bereft of hope.
In a meeting on Wednesday this week, the board of New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted to ban defecation on buses and subway trains. Or, as the New York Post reported in its own inimitable style, quote:
The only No. 2 allowed on the MTA is the train line.
End quote.
Let's be thankful for small mercies.
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08—Signoff. With that, ladies and gentlemen, I take my leave. Thank you for your time and attention; and, if you live in a district as bosky as mine, get ready to start raking those leaves.
There is so much shrieking lunacy all around, I thought something soothing would be good to sign out with—a lullaby. What is more soothing than a lullaby? Here is the most beautiful of them all: Brahms' Wiegenlied, sung here by Ernestine Schumann-Heink. Thanks to the listener who sent me this.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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[Music clip: Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Brahms' Wiegenlied.]


vdare--2020-09-25--“They Might As Well Put Bones Through Their Noses”— John Derbyshire On The Corruption Of Scientific

“They Might As Well Put Bones Through Their Noses”— John Derbyshire On The Corruption Of Scientific America

Earlier : It ’ s Official : Even Hard Science Entering New Dark Age [ Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb , now available exclusively through VDARE.com ] Recently I had things to say about wokeness at the fine old magazine Scientific American .
Their September issue had run a long article , headlined Reckoning With Our Mistakes , in which the editors groveled , rent their garments , heaped ashes on their heads , and flagellated themselves with guilt over shamefully un-Woke things the magazine had published back in the 19th century .
All that was bad enough—distressing enough @ @ @ @ @ @ @ old science geek like myself who , in his youth , looked to Scientific American for instruction and amusement on science and math topics , delivered in a spirit of objective enquiry .
Now here came the October issue .
For the first time ever in the magazine 's 175-year history the editors [ Editor in Chief Laura Helmuth—Tweet her ] have endorsed a Presidential candidate .
[ Scientific American Endorses Joe Biden | We ’ ve never backed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now , October , 2020 ] Can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you can !
Quote : There follow several hundred words about how ineptly the Administration has coped with the COVID-19 pandemic , with some supplementary remarks on healthcare in general and environmental issues .
Then this concluding paragraph : What exactly are those obstacles to voting that Trump has tried to create ?
The online version of this Scientific American editorial has a link to a Chicago Tribune story headlined Cook County GOP Sues to Block State 's Enhanced Vote-by-Mail Efforts , by Rick Pearson , August 10 , 2020 .
Back in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Illinois signed a law to expand mail-in voting .
Of course , this meant expanding opportunities to corrupt November 's election [ Confessions of a voter fraud : I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots , by Jon Levine , NY Post , August 29 , 2020 ] .
A conservative legal group , the Liberty Justice Center , has tried to block the law .
The Scientific American editorial is , in short , just cut ' n'pasted from Biden campaign talking points .
For more on the ongoing corruption @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Heather Mac Donald 's article Conformity To A Lie in the summer issue of City Journal .
Heather quotes the revolting statements of self-abasement issuing from college presidents and faculty heads about how they must strive harder to purge their institutions of `` systemic racism '' and `` white privilege . ''
• The dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California , San Diego , Albert ( `` Al '' ) P. Pisano [ Email him ] pronounced himself `` absolutely dedicated '' to turning the engineering school @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Doing so `` crucially includes unconscious bias work we must do within ourselves , '' he added .
How that work will interact with research on nanoparticles and viral transmission , say , was unspecified .
• The chairman of the earth and planetary sciences department at the University of California at Davis , announced an `` anti-racist reading group '' for faculty and students .
The group 's purpose was to confront the `` structural racism that pervades '' the field of geology .
Such structural racism in the study of igneous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chair did not bother to elaborate further .
• The American Astronomical Society held color-coded Zoom meetings , one for white astronomers to `` discuss direct actions to support Black astronomers , '' one for black astronomers to `` talk , vent , connect , and hold space for each other , '' and one for `` non-Black people of color to discuss direct actions to support Black astronomers . ''
See AAS Endorses # ShutDownSTEM , # ShutDownAcademia & # Strike4BlackLives , AAS website , June 9 , This kind of thing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Welton to say , repeatedly , that science is entering a new Dark Age : • The Great Awokening Leading To The Great Retraction—And A New Dark Age For Science • The New Dark Age Comes For Climate Science • It ’ s Official : Even Hard Science Entering New Dark Age To my mind , nothing is worse than this corruption of science .
Objective , reasoned scientific inquiry is the crowning glory of Western civilization .
These solemn declarations of guilt and repentance are a regression to what came before : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ might as well put bones through their noses .
FOOTNOTE : But let 's raise a glass to Betsy DeVos over at the Department of Education .
In that piece by Heather Mac Donald that I mentioned , one of the college presidents confessing his institution 's sinful racism is Christopher Eisgruber , President of Princeton University .
President Eisgruber [ Email him ] has , Heather tells us , So Princeton University is , according to its president , addled with `` systemic racism . ''
That caught the eye of Betsy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The Department of Education has sent a letter to Eisgruber reminding him that Princeton has received more than $ 75 million in federal aid during his seven years as president on the understanding , repeatedly confirmed by Princeton , that Princeton complies with the 1964 Civil Rights Act by being scrupulously non-discriminatory .
[ Princeton ’ s “ systemic racism ” captures the government ’ s attention , By Paul Mirengoff , PowerLineBlog , September 17 , 2020 ] How , the Department wants to know , can that square with those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the University '' ?
They have opened an investigation .
Yesssss !
The weasel is caught in its own trap !
Here 's a toast to Secretary DeVos !
And please , let 's see more of this .
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Earlier: It’s Official: Even Hard Science Entering New Dark Age
[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
Recently I had things to say about wokeness at the fine old magazine Scientific American. Their September issue had run a long article, headlined Reckoning With Our Mistakes, in which the editors groveled, rent their garments, heaped ashes on their heads, and flagellated themselves with guilt over shamefully un-Woke things the magazine had published back in the 19th century.
All that was bad enough—distressing enough, I should say, for an old science geek like myself who, in his youth, looked to Scientific American for instruction and amusement on science and math topics, delivered in a spirit of objective enquiry.
Now here came the October issue. For the first time ever in the magazine's 175-year history the editors [Editor in Chief Laura Helmuth—Tweet her]have endorsed a Presidential candidate. [Scientific American Endorses Joe Biden | We’ve never backed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now, October, 2020]
Can you guess which one? Of course you can! Quote:
The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the U.S. and its people—because he rejects evidence and science.
There follow several hundred words about how ineptly the Administration has coped with the COVID-19 pandemic, with some supplementary remarks on healthcare in general and environmental issues. Then this concluding paragraph:
Although Trump and his allies have tried to create obstacles that prevent people from casting ballots safely in November, either by mail or in person, it is crucial that we surmount them and vote. It's time to move Trump out and elect Biden, who has a record of following the data and being guided by science.
What exactly are those obstacles to voting that Trump has tried to create? The online version of this Scientific American editorial has a link to a Chicago Tribune story headlined Cook County GOP Sues to Block State's Enhanced Vote-by-Mail Efforts ,by Rick Pearson, August 10, 2020. Back in June, you see, the Governor of Illinois signed a law to expand mail-in voting. Of course, this meant expanding opportunities to corrupt November's election [Confessions of a voter fraud: I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots, by Jon Levine, NY Post, August 29, 2020]. A conservative legal group, the Liberty Justice Center, has tried to block the law.
The Scientific American editorial is, in short, just cut'n'pasted from Biden campaign talking points.
For more on the ongoing corruption of American science by ideology, see Heather Mac Donald's article Conformity To A Lie in the summer issue of City Journal.
Heather quotes the revolting statements of self-abasement issuing from college presidents and faculty heads about how they must strive harder to purge their institutions of "systemic racism" and "white privilege."
Some science-relevant extracts from Heather's article:
The dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, Albert ("Al") P. Pisano [Email him] pronounced himself "absolutely dedicated" to turning the engineering school into an "anti-racist organization." Doing so "crucially includes unconscious bias work we must do within ourselves," he added. How that work will interact with research on nanoparticles and viral transmission, say, was unspecified.
The chairman of the earth and planetary sciences department at the University of California at Davis, announced an "anti-racist reading group" for faculty and students. The group's purpose was to confront the "structural racism that pervades" the field of geology. Such structural racism in the study of igneous rocks is apparently so obvious that the chair did not bother to elaborate further.
The American Astronomical Society held color-coded Zoom meetings, one for white astronomers to "discuss direct actions to support Black astronomers," one for black astronomers to "talk, vent, connect, and hold space for each other," and one for "non-Black people of color to discuss direct actions to support Black astronomers." See AAS Endorses #ShutDownSTEM, #ShutDownAcademia & #Strike4BlackLives, AAS website, June 9,
This kind of thing is what has led VDARE.com's Lance Welton to say, repeatedly, that science is entering a new Dark Age:
To my mind, nothing is worse than this corruption of science.
Objective, reasoned scientific inquiry is the crowning glory of Western civilization.
These solemn declarations of guilt and repentance are a regression to what came before: superstition and witch-doctoring.
These so-called academics might as well put bones through their noses.
FOOTNOTE: But let's raise a glass to Betsy DeVos over at the Department of Education.
In that piece by Heather Mac Donald that I mentioned, one of the college presidents confessing his institution's sinful racism is Christopher Eisgruber, President of Princeton University. President Eisgruber [Email him] has, Heather tells us,
ordered the school's top faculty and administrators to submit plans on how they will "combat systemic racism within and beyond the University." Every aspect of Princeton will be reexamined with a "bias toward action," Eisgruber said.
So Princeton University is, according to its president, addled with "systemic racism."
That caught the eye of Betsy DeVos, or one of her underlings.
The Department of Education has sent a letter to Eisgruber reminding him that Princeton has received more than $75 million in federal aid during his seven years as president on the understanding, repeatedly confirmed by Princeton, that Princeton complies with the 1964 Civil Rights Act by being scrupulously non-discriminatory. [Princeton’s “systemic racism” captures the government’s attention, By Paul Mirengoff, PowerLineBlog, September 17, 2020]
How, the Department wants to know, can that square with those confessions of "systemic racism within … the University"?
They have opened an investigation.
Yesssss! The weasel is caught in its own trap!
Here's a toast to Secretary DeVos! And please, let's see more of this.
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For years he’s been podcasting at Radio Derb, now available at VDARE.com for no charge. His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.
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vdare--2020-09-26--Louisville Cop Shootings Logical Consequence Of BLM Blood Libel

There ’ s been barely any news surrounding the shooting of two cops ( one white and one black ) in Louisville by a Black Lives Matter-supporting black male .
It happened on the night after the Breonna Taylor indictments failed to provide the necessary scalps to satiate the terrorist movement holding our nation hostage over the entire summer and into the fall of 2020 : The man accused in the shootings of two Louisville Metro police officers last night has been identified .
Larynzo D. Johnson , 26 , of Louisville , is charged with two counts of assault @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of wanton endangerment of a police officer .
The officers were shot around 8:40 p.m. Wednesday while conducting crowd control at Brook St. and Broadway after a large crowd had set fires , damaged property and failed to disperse after being warned .
The crowd was protesting the grand jury decision of the officers in the March shooting death of Breonna Taylor .
His arrest report says Johnson used a handgun to fire at police multiple times before fleeing .
A witness pointed Johnson out to police who took him into custody at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Broadway .
Metro police say they have obtained video showing Johnson firing at police .
Johnson is being held at Louisville Metro Corrections and is scheduled to be arraigned Friday morning .
[ Suspect charged in shooting of LMPD officers , by Charles Gazaway , WAVE3.com , September 24 , 2020 ] Never forget : the Black Lives Matter movement is a Blood Libel against White America .
Black in America have been taught by the corporate media , academia , black clergy , black sports stars and Democrat politicians that they are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exist to promote white supremacy , white privilege , and implicit bias .
It ’ s only logical this would lead to Black Lives Matter supporters shooting cops , as a means to rectify centuries of perceived injustice .
This is the type of story President Trump must Tweet out to remind his base exactly what the Black Lives Matter movement is all about , because the corporate media will continue to offer nothing more than public relations for this terrorist movement .

There’s been barely any news surrounding the shooting of two cops (one white and one black) in Louisville by a Black Lives Matter–supporting black male. It happened on the night after the Breonna Taylor indictments failed to provide the necessary scalps to satiate the terrorist movement holding our nation hostage over the entire summer and into the fall of 2020:
The man accused in the shootings of two Louisville Metro police officers last night has been identified. Larynzo D. Johnson, 26, of Louisville, is charged with two counts of assault on a police officer and 14 counts of wanton endangerment of a police officer. The officers were shot around 8:40 p.m. Wednesday while conducting crowd control at Brook St. and Broadway after a large crowd had set fires, damaged property and failed to disperse after being warned. The crowd was protesting the grand jury decision of the officers in the March shooting death of Breonna Taylor. His arrest report says Johnson used a handgun to fire at police multiple times before fleeing. A witness pointed Johnson out to police who took him into custody at the Thornton’s at 100 W. Broadway. Metro police say they have obtained video showing Johnson firing at police. Johnson is being held at Louisville Metro Corrections and is scheduled to be arraigned Friday morning. [Suspect charged in shooting of LMPD officers, by Charles Gazaway, WAVE3.com, September 24, 2020]
Never forget: the Black Lives Matter movement is a Blood Libel against White America. Black in America have been taught by the corporate media, academia, black clergy, black sports stars and Democrat politicians that they are being targeted by racist police, who exist to promote white supremacy, white privilege, and implicit bias.
It’s only logical this would lead to Black Lives Matter supporters shooting cops, as a means to rectify centuries of perceived injustice.
This is the type of story President Trump must Tweet out to remind his base exactly what the Black Lives Matter movement is all about, because the corporate media will continue to offer nothing more than public relations for this terrorist movement.


vdare--2020-09-26--His Name Is Andy Banks: White Male Trying to Sell Range Rover Murdered by Black Man in "Craigslist T

His Name Is Andy Banks: White Male Trying to Sell Range Rover Murdered by Black Man in "Craigslist Transaction Gone Wrong"

Previously by Paul Kersey : His Name Is Joshua Grey : Young White Male Murdered by Two Black Teenagers in Richmond for His IPhone Social capital and diversity : the latter negates the former .
His name is Andy Banks .
He was just trying to sell his 2011 Range Rover Sport .
There was evidence of foul play in Banks ’ disappearance , and police said they were investigating the case as a homicide on Wednesday .
The body of Banks was found in Chatham , Va. , on Thursday by the Pittsylvania County Sheriff ’ s Office was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Va. , for an autopsy and positive identification , police said .
Before Banks ’ body was identified , however , Raleigh police filed a first-degree murder charge Thursday evening against Justin Fernando Merritt , 34 , of Danville , Va. District Judge Ned Mangum ordered that Merritt be held without bond and set his next court date for Oct. 7 .
After finding Banks ’ cellphone along Interstate 40 in Raleigh on Sunday , investigators traced the Craigslist buyer ’ s phone to Danville .
Danville police found Banks ’ SUV under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in town on Monday , according to an application for a search warrant .
Merritt , who lives a few doors down from where the vehicle was found , according to the warrant application , was arrested Tuesday on charges of robbery with a dangerous weapon , larceny of a motor vehicle and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in connection with the stolen vehicle .
Chatham is about 20 miles north of Danville .
In the K & W parking lot on Friday night , close friends and families held @ @ @ @ @ @ @ life.People gathered in a circle and held candles in the parking lot and shared stories about Banks ’ life .
Cliff Cash , who has known Banks since kindergarten , said his friend frequently used Craigslist to sell things and that he knew how to protect himself .
“ This was the middle of the day on Saturday .
There ’ s people walking by on foot .
There ’ s cars everywhere .
He probably picked that place because it was the ideal place to meet , ” Cash said .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him during a test drive .
Who knows , maybe they overpowered him as soon as they got there .
Maybe they tased him or whatever.
” Banks was a real-life Ferris Bueller , his friend said , referring to the character in a 1980s movie for whom everything always works out well .
“ [ He ’ s ] fun-loving and clever and can find his way out of situations , ” Cash said .
“ In this situation , he would have done absolutely anything he could have to talk his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have gladly given them the vehicle .
He would have tried to give them money .
He would have done anything for them not to hurt him.
” During a search of Merritt ’ s home , police seized a handgun , some ammunition , a knife , three phones , a pair of cargo pants and other items , according to the search warrant .
Merritt waived extradition and was returned to Wake County on Wednesday .

Previously by Paul Kersey: His Name Is Joshua Grey: Young White Male Murdered by Two Black Teenagers in Richmond for His IPhone
Social capital and diversity: the latter negates the former.
His name is Andy Banks. He was just trying to sell his 2011 Range Rover Sport.
There was evidence of foul play in Banks’ disappearance, and police said they were investigating the case as a homicide on Wednesday.
The body of Banks was found in Chatham, Va., on Thursday by the Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office was sent to a coroner in Roanoke, Va., for an autopsy and positive identification, police said.
Before Banks’ body was identified, however, Raleigh police filed a first-degree murder charge Thursday evening against Justin Fernando Merritt, 34, of Danville, Va.
District Judge Ned Mangum ordered that Merritt be held without bond and set his next court date for Oct. 7.
After finding Banks’ cellphone along Interstate 40 in Raleigh on Sunday, investigators traced the Craigslist buyer’s phone to Danville.
Danville police found Banks’ SUV under a tarp parked behind a vacant building in town on Monday, according to an application for a search warrant.
Merritt, who lives a few doors down from where the vehicle was found, according to the warrant application, was arrested Tuesday on charges of robbery with a dangerous weapon, larceny of a motor vehicle and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in connection with the stolen vehicle.
Chatham is about 20 miles north of Danville.
In the K&W parking lot on Friday night, close friends and families held a vigil for Banks and celebrated his life.People gathered in a circle and held candles in the parking lot and shared stories about Banks’ life.
Cliff Cash, who has known Banks since kindergarten, said his friend frequently used Craigslist to sell things and that he knew how to protect himself.
“This was the middle of the day on Saturday. There’s people walking by on foot. There’s cars everywhere. He probably picked that place because it was the ideal place to meet,” Cash said. “All I can think is they overpowered him during a test drive. Who knows, maybe they overpowered him as soon as they got there. Maybe they tased him or whatever.”
Banks was a real-life Ferris Bueller, his friend said, referring to the character in a 1980s movie for whom everything always works out well.


vdare--2020-09-26--CNN: Jacob Blake Case Really Just a Messed-Up Domestic Dispute (Like Steve Sailer Said)

Earlier : Jacob Blake 's Open Felony Warrant and Kenosha Police Union Statement : Blake Had A Knife , Put Officer In Headlock From CNN , a report on the Kenosha Kase validating my surmise back in August that it was the usual type of domestic dispute that gets more than a few ex-boyfriends shot by the cops each year ( but when they are white , nobody cares ) : Lawyer says cop shot Jacob Blake after hearing a mother ’ s desperate plea : ‘ He ’ s got my kid .
He ’ s got my keys @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sheskey has told investigators that it wasn ’ t just his life he was defending when he fired his weapon seven times at Jacob Blake last month in Kenosha , Wisconsin .
He said he used deadly force during the chaotic encounter because he was afraid Blake , while attempting to flee the scene , was trying to kidnap a child in the backseat of the vehicle .
“ He ’ s got my kid .
He ’ s got my keys , ” Sheskey heard a woman say , according to attorney @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officer .
If Sheskey had allowed Blake to drive away and something happened to the child “ the question would have been ‘ why didn ’ t you do something ? '
” Matthews said .
That explanation , provided in an exclusive interview with CNN , offers the most detailed rationale to date for Sheskey ’ s highly scrutinized decision to shoot Blake , who is Black , as he leaned into an SUV with his children inside it on August 23 .
… Matthews directly disputed assertions by Blake ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and posed no threat to the officers .
At the time Sheskey opened fire , the lawyer said , Blake held a knife in his hand and twisted his body toward the officer .
That action is not visible in the video widely circulating on the internet , in which the view of Blake ’ s body is partially obscured by the driver ’ s side door of the SUV .
Matthews said a second officer at the scene , whom he also represents , provided investigators with a similar account of Blake @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his hand immediately prior to the shooting .
That officer said he too would have opened fire but did not have a clear angle , according to the lawyer .
… The shooting occurred minutes after Sheskey and fellow officers responded to a call of “ family trouble ” in a neighborhood a couple of miles northwest of downtown Kenosha .
According to a dispatch log , a woman reported to police that Blake had taken her keys and would not give them back .
Blake ’ s family members later said he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for one of his kids .
Once at the scene , Sheskey watched Blake put one child in the car as he arrived but was unaware that two more children were already in the vehicle , Matthews said .
Another officer heard a woman yelling that Blake had her children , he said , but did not see the kids in the car .
Some of what officers say happened next was described in a press release issued by the police association last month .

Earlier: Jacob Blake's Open Felony Warrant and Kenosha Police Union Statement: Blake Had A Knife, Put Officer In Headlock
From CNN, a report on the Kenosha Kase validating my surmise back in August that it was the usual type of domestic dispute that gets more than a few ex-boyfriends shot by the cops each year (but when they are white, nobody cares):
Lawyer says cop shot Jacob Blake after hearing a mother’s desperate plea: ‘He’s got my kid. He’s got my keys’
By Scott Glover
Updated 4:30 PM ET, Fri September 25, 2020
(CNN) Police Officer Rusten Sheskey has told investigators that it wasn’t just his life he was defending when he fired his weapon seven times at Jacob Blake last month in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He said he used deadly force during the chaotic encounter because he was afraid Blake, while attempting to flee the scene, was trying to kidnap a child in the backseat of the vehicle.
“He’s got my kid. He’s got my keys,” Sheskey heard a woman say, according to attorney Brendan Matthews, who is representing the officer. If Sheskey had allowed Blake to drive away and something happened to the child “the question would have been ‘why didn’t you do something?'” Matthews said.
That explanation, provided in an exclusive interview with CNN, offers the most detailed rationale to date for Sheskey’s highly scrutinized decision to shoot Blake, who is Black, as he leaned into an SUV with his children inside it on August 23.
… Matthews directly disputed assertions by Blake’s family and lawyers that he was unarmed and posed no threat to the officers.
At the time Sheskey opened fire, the lawyer said, Blake held a knife in his hand and twisted his body toward the officer. That action is not visible in the video widely circulating on the internet, in which the view of Blake’s body is partially obscured by the driver’s side door of the SUV.
Matthews said a second officer at the scene, whom he also represents, provided investigators with a similar account of Blake turning toward Sheskey with a knife in his hand immediately prior to the shooting. That officer said he too would have opened fire but did not have a clear angle, according to the lawyer.
… The shooting occurred minutes after Sheskey and fellow officers responded to a call of “family trouble” in a neighborhood a couple of miles northwest of downtown Kenosha. According to a dispatch log, a woman reported to police that Blake had taken her keys and would not give them back. Blake’s family members later said he’d been attending a birthday party for one of his kids.
Once at the scene, Sheskey watched Blake put one child in the car as he arrived but was unaware that two more children were already in the vehicle, Matthews said. Another officer heard a woman yelling that Blake had her children, he said, but did not see the kids in the car.
Some of what officers say happened next was described in a press release issued by the police association last month.


vdare--2020-09-26--NYT: Louisville Protest at Which Two Policemen Were Shot Was Over 99% Peaceful

Earlier : Take That , Trump : A Study Finds That Peaceful Protesters Have Rioted Fewer Than 617 Times in @ @ @ @ @ From the New York Times : One would-be cop killer out of hundreds of peaceful @ @ @ @ @ percent unpeaceful .
Think about it this way : if there were over 200 protesters @ @ @ @ @ who shot any cops rounds down to 0 % .
Why are you making a @ @ @ @ @ % Peaceful Protest ?

Earlier: Take That, Trump: A Study Finds That Peaceful Protesters Have Rioted Fewer Than 617 Times in Not Quite 220 Cities!
From the New York Times:
Videos Show Gunman Firing at Police During Louisville Protest One man among hundreds of peaceful protesters fired a handgun at police officers in Louisville, Ky. Witnesses caught him on camera.
One would-be cop killer out of hundreds of peaceful protesters is way under one percent unpeaceful. Think about it this way: if there were over 200 protesters there, then the percent who shot any cops rounds down to 0%. Why are you making a big deal about a 100% Peaceful Protest?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-09-26--Biden to Troops: Clap for That, You Stupid Bastard

Earlier : Today 's Moment of WTF with Joe Biden : Tells Of Black Veteran Who Ran Over , Raped , And Murdered Elderly White Woman , Says `` End The Stigma '' The weird thing about the media promoting Joe Biden as the Anti-Trump , the Return to Normalcy , the negation of all things Trump , is that Joe , with his vanity , competitiveness , and lack of a filter is the second most Trump-like man in America .
Biden is # 2 only to Trump in number of “ I can ’ t believe he just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s “ I can ’ t believe he just said that ” quotes tend to be either obviously not true ( salesman ’ s puffery or egomania ) or obviously true ( but mildly politically incorrect and thus unmentionable in polite society ) .
In contrast , Biden delivers more “ Huh , well , I did not see that one coming ” bits of pure zaniness .
For example , after talking to Jacob Blake ’ s dad in Kenosha , Joe announced that Thomas Edison did not invent the light @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and that fact must be taught in our schools .
Who knew that Joe Biden was Hotep-pilled on the Light Bulb Question ?
Indeed , Joe probably didn ’ t know that himself until he heard himself say it .

Earlier: Today's Moment of WTF with Joe Biden: Tells Of Black Veteran Who Ran Over, Raped, And Murdered Elderly White Woman, Says "End The Stigma"
The weird thing about the media promoting Joe Biden as the Anti-Trump, the Return to Normalcy, the negation of all things Trump, is that Joe, with his vanity, competitiveness, and lack of a filter is the second most Trump-like man in America.
Biden is #2 only to Trump in number of “I can’t believe he just said that” moments.
And Trump’s “I can’t believe he just said that” quotes tend to be either obviously not true (salesman’s puffery or egomania) or obviously true (but mildly politically incorrect and thus unmentionable in polite society).
In contrast, Biden delivers more “Huh, well, I did not see that one coming” bits of pure zaniness. For example, after talking to Jacob Blake’s dad in Kenosha, Joe announced that Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb, a black man did, and that fact must be taught in our schools.
Who knew that Joe Biden was Hotep-pilled on the Light Bulb Question? Indeed, Joe probably didn’t know that himself until he heard himself say it.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-09-26--At Least Meghan Markle Will Have Althea Bernstein's Vote

Earlier : The Duke and Duchess of Sussex to Comfort Purported Hate Crime Victim Althea Bernstein Just as Bill Clinton @ @ @ @ @ Quigley prophesied , South African zillionaire Cecil Rhodes ’ conspiracy to reunite America with Britain @ @ @ @ @ ’ s nothing new on the Althea Bernstein front since she gave a speech at @ @ @ @ @ four “ classic Wisconsin frat boys ” who set her on fire during a BLM/Antifa @ @ @ @ @ up from the law with Haven Monahan and Jussie Smollett ’ s MAGA attackers , @ @ @ @

Earlier: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex to Comfort Purported Hate Crime Victim Althea Bernstein
Meghan Markle reportedly has serious ambitions to run for president https://t.co/fDjpLho1hP pic.twitter.com/tLxg5FCJKz — New York Post (@nypost) September 25, 2020
Just as Bill Clinton’s favorite professor Carroll Quigley prophesied, South African zillionaire Cecil Rhodes’ conspiracy to reunite America with Britain is coming true.
There’s nothing new on the Althea Bernstein front since she gave a speech at another BLM rally. The four “classic Wisconsin frat boys” who set her on fire during a BLM/Antifa riot appear to have holed up from the law with Haven Monahan and Jussie Smollett’s MAGA attackers, probably in Russia.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-09-26--Firefox Issues With Derb's Web Page Easily Fixed

Users of the Firefox browser are getting a security warning when they try to bring up www.johnderbyshire.com .
When you @ @ @ @ @ a web page , it goes first to a cache of recent instances of your @ @ @ @ @ there are any ) .
It 's faster than bringing the page in new all @ @ @ @ @ .
My security certificate expired yesterday morning .
I quickly noticed & renewed it .
@ @ @ @ @ However , for reasons I do n't understand , Firefox cached the un-secured page for @ @ @ @ @ .
This will have no dire effects ; it will only slow down a few @ @ @ @ @ amount , one time .

Users of the Firefox browser are getting a security warning when they try to bring up www.johnderbyshire.com.
When you ask Firefox to bring up a web page, it goes first to a cache of recent instances of your accessing that page (if there are any). It's faster than bringing the page in new all the way from the internet.
My security certificate expired yesterday morning. I quickly noticed & renewed it. Now it's fine. However, for reasons I don't understand, Firefox cached the un-secured page for some users in the interval.
Solution: Clear the Firefox page cache.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-clear-firefox-cache
This will have no dire effects; it will only slow down a few page loads by a teeny amount, one time.


vdare--2020-09-26--The Graveyards Are Full of Indispensable Men

But Ruth Bader Ginsburg seemed to think that old saying was more sexist than wise .
There may be no @ @ @ @ @ was the Indispensable Woman !
So , when Obama hinted she ought to retire and @ @ @ @ @ , she paid no heed .
Now , Trump is said to be about to @ @ @ @ @ the Supreme Court as Ginsburg ’ s replacement .
It ’ s almost as if @ @ @ @ @ The Notorious RBG went to her aged head and made her think she was indispensable @ @ @ @ @ is a wonderful weapon for Democrats , except when they shoot themselves in the foot @ @ @ @ @ do .

But Ruth Bader Ginsburg seemed to think that old saying was more sexist than wise. There may be no indispensable men, but she was the Indispensable Woman! So, when Obama hinted she ought to retire and let him nominate her successor, she paid no heed.
Now, Trump is said to be about to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court as Ginsburg’s replacement.
It’s almost as if all the media hoopla about The Notorious RBG went to her aged head and made her think she was indispensable.
Control of the media is a wonderful weapon for Democrats, except when they shoot themselves in the foot, as they so often do.
[Commment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-09-26--One Billion Americans—Or One Billion Consumers? Fundamental Questions For Matt Yglesias Before We Ca

One Billion Americans—Or One Billion Consumers? Fundamental Questions For Matt Yglesias Before We Can Review His Book

See also : No , Peter Brimelow , I Am Not Reviewing Jonah [ Expletive Deleted ] Goldberg 's New Book VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow wants me to review Matthew Yglesias ’ s One Billion Americans : The Case for Thinking Bigger But I have some fundamental questions before I do so .
First , what does “ American ” even mean if we import more than 600 million migrants , utterly swamping the already floundering Historic American Nation ?
Second , how will this huge population help us “ compete with China ” when there have been numerous cases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , why would any immigrant want to defend a country which systemically incentivizes non-assimilation ?
If we must have an empire to compete with China ’ s civilization-state , it would make more sense for the West to consolidate as a racial , cultural , and spiritual entity than to import millions of people who are more likely to destroy us than save us .
Reviewers I respect give me no hope that Yglesias , a lunatic immigration enthusiast so rabid that he has blocked VDARE.com on Twitter , address these questions Indeed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America can maintain its identity even with the current demographic balance .
Ygeslias ’ s premise is already moot because there ’ s now no consensus about what “ America ” even means .
We are in the midst of a Cultural Revolution , with America ’ s history , heroes , and heritage under attack .
Even after centuries in this country , many African-Americans simply do not identify with the United States , which is why they are now kneeling in protest for the Star-Spangled Banner , demanding we honor their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ burning the American flag .
Rather than standing against this behavior , President Trump just rewarded it with another payoff , a $ 500 billion “ Platinum Plan ” for black America , including their own pseudo-Independence Day , “ Juneteenth ” [ President Trump Releases The Platinum Plan For Black Americans : Opportunity , Security , Prosperity , And Fairness , Donaldjtrump.com , September 25 , 2020 ] .
It won ’ t help him politically and once again , white workers get the bill .
Antifa rioters , many white/ Jewish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arguing that “ America was never great ” and leading attacks on police , conservatives , and any random white people who happen to be nearby .
Antifa ’ s expressed , clear desire is to completely tear down American society using violence and intimidation .
Despite tough talk , Attorney General William Barr is not cracking down on such groups .
Instead , the wrath of the federal government is saved for people like Julian Assange [ Here ’ s How Bill Barr Can Win the War Against Antifa and BLM Without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ September 25 , 2020 ] .
How would importing more people who don ’ t identify with Heritage America somehow make us stronger in the midst of such chaos ?
Furthermore , the rot in academia has spread to all American institutions .
Andrew Sullivan said it best : “ We all live on campus now.
” [ We All Live on Campus Now , New York , February 9 , 2018 ] .
In fairness , the Trump Administration has acted here .
The president banned Critical Race Theory in executive branch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s talking about ( but hasn ’ t yet imposed ) patriotic education in schools ( which historically was one of the main reasons public schools were created in the first place [ Trump Announces ‘ Patriotic Education ’ Commission , A Largely Political Move , by Alana Wise , NPR , September 17 , 2020 ] .
The Department of Justice is preventing Yale from discriminating against whites and Asians in admissions .
Unfortunately , far more must be done , including banning the root cause of this rot , Affirmative Action @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sovereignty – such as making English the official language , enforcing immigration laws , banning Birthright Citizenship , and imposing an immigration moratorium – must be imposed .
Until then , it ’ s absurd to speak about America being a serious country , or a country at all .
The cases of Ilhan Omar , Luis Gutierrez , and Jorge Ramos show us that crossing the border and holding an American passport does not make you a real American .
It might just make you an invader .
This is an especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been countless cases of Chinese acting as patriots for their real homeland : • Just a few days ago , naturalized U.S. citizen and NYPD officer Baimadajie Angwang was charged with spying on American supporters of Tibetan independence .
• Chinese immigrant and former CIA officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee released names of covert CIA agents and intelligence sources to his real country .
• Several professors and students have been charged with recruiting intelligence assets or stealing information from American universities • Senator Dianne Feinstein had a Chinese spy working on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump Administration expelled thousands of Chinese graduate students for their ties to Chinse military schools • Entire spy rings of Chinese-Americans that penetrated defense contractors and NASA have been exposed .
Consider the truly breathtaking statement from FBI Director Chris Wray that he considers the “ whole of Chinese society ” to be a security threat [ The director of the FBI says the whole of Chinese society is a threat to the US–and that Americans must step up to defend themselves , by Michal Kranz , Business Insider , February 13 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Chinese threat to American institutions in a speech just a few months ago [ The Threat Posed by the Chinese Government and the Chinese Communist Party to the Economic and National Security of the United States , FBI , July 7 , 2020 ] .
Now , this is the same FBI Director whose agency was spying on President Trump and who warned not long ago that fighting “ racist violence ” is an equal priority to foreign terrorism .
I don ’ t think he means Black Lives Matter [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Equal Priority To Foreign Terrorism , by Hannah Allam , NPR , February 10 , 2020 ] .
However , Yglesias clearly takes the Chinese threat seriously .
Indeed , the whole premise of the book , stated in the very beginning , is that we need to have a larger population to defeat China , which will be our “ shared national purpose.
” Yet the policy he advocates won ’ t make America stronger ; it will just mean importing more hostile foreigners who are given rewards by our own government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as hostile foreigners .
Does the Left celebrate patriotic non-whites who stand up for America like Michelle Malkin , Jesse Lee Peterson , or the late Herman Cain ?
Of course not – they despise them and freely use racial and sexual slurs against them .
Look what ’ s happening to black police officers .
This immense social pressure ensures such brave people remain a handful .
China , a serious nation , clearly knows diversity is a weakness .
China ’ s military leaders worry that in a conflict with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ within the Middle Kingdom to cause chaos .
The Chinese government fears separatism deeply – and , it should be noted , it already thinks Taiwan is part of its country [ The Chinese Communist Party ’ s Biggest Fears Are Separatism And An Economic Crisis , by Joshua Ball , Global Security Review , April 10 , 2020 ] .
Seen from that perspective , the Chinese government ’ s campaigns to demographically dispossess Uighurs and Tibetans is an effective yet morally abhorrent policy .
It is creating an assertive civilization state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unchallengeable Han ethnic majority [ The irresistible rise of the civilization-state , by Aris Roussinos , UnHerd , August 6 , 2020 ] .
Few would suggest China would somehow become stronger if the number of Uighurs and Tibetans magically tripled .
Instead , Beijing would probably have powerful separatist movements to deal with .
Yet somehow , Yglesias wants us to believe that importing foreigners will somehow make America stronger or that the Chinese couldn ’ t exploit our own weaknesses .
He wants us to believe this even though we can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deal with now .
He also wants us to believe this even though the Chinese and other groups are already subverting American institutions .
Indeed , the reason Washington DC is so obsessed with “ Russian manipulation ” is because Russia has essentially no influence .
If you do name the lobbies which have influence in “ our ” government , such as those of Mexico , Saudi Arabia , and Israel , your political career will end very quickly .
The truth is that Yglesias is advocating Chinese-style demographic dispossession—and we ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tearing our country apart .
The U.S. was recently compared to the Holy Roman Empire because it has archaic institutions [ America is the Holy Roman Empire of the 21st century , by Ryan Cooper , The Week , September 24 , 2020 ] The metaphor is apt , but for different reasons than the author intended .
“ America ” has become a vague legal concept rather than a nation-state or even an empire .
We are several nations lumped together .
The central government treats the core European-Americans who built the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is no “ Platinum Plan ” – or much of anything else – coming from this supposedly “ white nationalist ” administration .
Those who ultimately sustain the state are those who receive the least benefits .
As in the Holy Roman Empire ’ s successor state , the Austro-Hungarian empire , efforts to recognize “ diversity ” and provide concessions to different groups are simply accelerating the breakup of the country [ Ethnic boxes : the unintended consequences of Hapsburg bureaucratic classification , by Rok Stergar and Tamara Scheer , Nationalities Papers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If we truly must build an empire of our own to compete against China , it would make more sense to unify the West under a spiritual , cultural , and racial identity .
That great dream of Western unity would be something to strive for .
That would be a “ shared national purpose ” not just for Americans , but for all of us who hail from the great European fatherland .
And , though such a civilization-state would necessarily have a white supermajority , it wouldn ’ t need to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to destroy ethnic minorities .
Of course , barring revolutionary change , we can ’ t build anything like that .
Those who rule Europe imported race problems of their own and are being torn apart from within .
Europeans will be minorities within their own countries if current trends continue .
The institutions of culture have been utterly subverted and now are breaking down our civilizational achievements instead of forging new ones .
We ’ ve been so thoroughly deconstructed that if post-Western “ civilization state ” confronted China , it would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It would be bound by a consumerist anti-culture featuring overweight bugmen watching superhero movies and hysterical women having emotional meltdowns over whatever journalists are calling racist today .
Still , I don ’ t even concede the point that we must have some gigantic population or civilization-uniting Imperium in order to check China .
An America of 300 million with a white supermajority and a united culture could maintain its superpower status against China easily .
We might need to form alliances with Pacific powers , especially India , Japan , and Russia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Chinese migration into Siberia .
Unfortunately , a Russian-American alliance is impossible now , mostly due to the ethnic grievances of journalists , activists and politicians who are still mad at the Tsar .
Thus , the neuroses of the American Ruling Class has reversed President Nixon ’ s diplomatic achievement and has forced Moscow and Beijing into an unnatural alliance .
And if a President Kamala Harris , er , Joe Biden gets America into a war against such adversaries , there are good reasons to believe the United States won @ @ @ @ @ @ @ III ‘ wargames ’ show US forces crushed by Russia and China , by James Rogers , Fox News , March 12 , 2019 ] .
Of course , this is just further proof that importing foreigners doesn ’ t automatically make your country stronger .
It just turns what used to be your country into a prize to be captured by hostile out-groups .
These groups then simply use “ your ” government to enact their own tribal obsessions .
I suspect Yglesias [ Tweet him ] knows this .
James Burnham @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ formal meaning ” of a book and the “ real meaning , ” the intended consequence in the real world .
The real meaning of Yglesias ’ s book is not to create a strong America .
It ’ s to displace the Historic American Nation altogether , replacing it with a continent-wide favela not worth fighting for , or even living in .
This glorified shopping mall will be ruled by those who have no connection or loyalty to our country .
Yglesias might be content with such a dystopia .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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 .

See also: No, Peter Brimelow, I Am Not Reviewing Jonah [Expletive Deleted] Goldberg's New Book
VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow wants me to review Matthew Yglesias’s One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger. But I have some fundamental questions before I do so. First, what does “American” even mean if we import more than 600 million migrants, utterly swamping the already floundering Historic American Nation? Second, how will this huge population help us “compete with China” when there have been numerous cases of migrants spying for China? Finally, why would any immigrant want to defend a country which systemically incentivizes non-assimilation? If we must have an empire to compete with China’s civilization-state, it would make more sense for the West to consolidate as a racial, cultural, and spiritual entity than to import millions of people who are more likely to destroy us than save us. Reviewers I respect give me no hope that Yglesias, a lunatic immigration enthusiast so rabid that he has blocked VDARE.com on Twitter, will address these questions.
Indeed, it’s not certain that America can maintain its identity even with the current demographic balance. Ygeslias’s premise is already moot because there’s now no consensus about what “America” even means. We are in the midst of a Cultural Revolution, with America’s history, heroes, and heritage under attack. Even after centuries in this country, many African-Americans simply do not identify with the United States, which is why they are now kneeling in protest for the Star-Spangled Banner, demanding we honor their own “National Anthem,” and burning the American flag.
Rather than standing against this behavior, President Trump just rewarded it with another payoff, a $500 billion “Platinum Plan” for black America, including their own pseudo-Independence Day, “Juneteenth” [President Trump Releases The Platinum Plan For Black Americans: Opportunity, Security, Prosperity, And Fairness, Donaldjtrump.com, September 25, 2020]. It won’t help him politically and once again, white workers get the bill.
Antifa rioters, many white/Jewish, are also spearheading this movement, arguing that “America was never great” and leading attacks on police, conservatives, and any random white people who happen to be nearby. Antifa’s expressed, clear desire is to completely tear down American society using violence and intimidation. Despite tough talk, Attorney General William Barr is not cracking down on such groups. Instead, the wrath of the federal government is saved for people like Julian Assange [Here’s How Bill Barr Can Win the War Against Antifa and BLM Without Firing A Single Shot, Revolver, September 25, 2020]. How would importing more people who don’t identify with Heritage America somehow make us stronger in the midst of such chaos?
Furthermore, the rot in academia has spread to all American institutions. Andrew Sullivan said it best: “We all live on campus now.” [We All Live on Campus Now, New York, February 9, 2018].
In fairness, the Trump Administration has acted here. The president banned Critical Race Theory in executive branch agencies and government contractors. He’s talking about (but hasn’t yet imposed) patriotic education in schools (which historically was one of the main reasons public schools were created in the first place ) [Trump Announces ‘Patriotic Education’ Commission, A Largely Political Move, by Alana Wise, NPR, September 17, 2020]. The Department of Justice is preventing Yale from discriminating against whites and Asians in admissions.
Unfortunately, far more must be done, including banning the root cause of this rot, Affirmative Action. Basic pillars of American identity and sovereignty—such as making English the official language, enforcing immigration laws, banning Birthright Citizenship, and imposing an immigration moratorium—must be imposed. Until then, it’s absurd to speak about America being a serious country, or a country at all. The cases of Ilhan Omar, Luis Gutierrez, and Jorge Ramos show us that crossing the border and holding an American passport does not make you a real American. It might just make you an invader.
This is an especially serious possibility when confronting China. There have been countless cases of Chinese acting as patriots for their real homeland:
Just a few days ago, naturalized U.S. citizen and NYPD officer Baimadajie Angwang was charged with spying on American supporters of Tibetan independence.
Chinese immigrant and former CIA officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee released names of covert CIA agents and intelligence sources to his real country.
Several professors and students have been charged with recruiting intelligence assets or stealing information from American universities
Senator Dianne Feinstein had a Chinese spy working on her staff for decades.
The Trump Administration expelled thousands of Chinese graduate students for their ties to Chinse military schools
Entire spy rings of Chinese-Americans that penetrated defense contractors and NASA have been exposed.
Consider the truly breathtaking statement from FBI Director Chris Wray that he considers the “whole of Chinese society” to be a security threat [The director of the FBI says the whole of Chinese society is a threat to the US–and that Americans must step up to defend themselves, by Michal Kranz, Business Insider, February 13, 2018]. He repeated the extent of the Chinese threat to American institutions in a speech just a few months ago [The Threat Posed by the Chinese Government and the Chinese Communist Party to the Economic and National Security of the United States, FBI, July 7, 2020].
Now, this is the same FBI Director whose agency was spying on President Trump and who warned not long ago that fighting “racist violence” is an equal priority to foreign terrorism. I don’t think he means Black Lives Matter [FBI Announces That Racist Violence Is Now Equal Priority To Foreign Terrorism, by Hannah Allam, NPR, February 10, 2020]. However, Yglesias's clearly takes the Chinese threat seriously. Indeed, the whole premise of the book, stated in the very beginning, is that we need to have a larger population to defeat China, which will be our “shared national purpose.”
Yet the policy he advocates won’t make America stronger; it will just mean importing more hostile foreigners who are given rewards by our own government if they continue to think of themselves as hostile foreigners.
Does the Left celebrate patriotic non-whites who stand up for America like Michelle Malkin, Jesse Lee Peterson, or the late Herman Cain? Of course not – they despise them and freely use racial and sexual slurs against them. Look what’s happening to black police officers.
This is how “protesters” are treating our police officers. This is absolutely disgraceful. https://t.co/zX6wRBDiaE — Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 24, 2020
This immense social pressure ensures such brave people remain a handful. China, a serious nation, clearly knows diversity is a weakness. China’s military leaders worry that in a conflict with the U.S., we could arm minority populations within the Middle Kingdom to cause chaos.
In 2009, Dai Xu, a Senior PLA Airforce Colonel & Professor at #PLA National Defense University delivered a lecture on #China’s National Defense Strategy against #America. He highlighted the #CCP’s fears regarding #EastTurkistan & praised #BinLaden for keeping America distracted. pic.twitter.com/3SI3UZakXv — Salih Hudayar (سالىھ خۇدايار) (@SalihHudayar) May 23, 2020
The Chinese government fears separatism deeply—and, it should be noted, it already thinks Taiwan is part of its country [The Chinese Communist Party’s Biggest Fears Are Separatism And An Economic Crisis, by Joshua Ball, Global Security Review, April 10, 2020]. Seen from that perspective, the Chinese government’s campaigns to demographically dispossess Uighurs and Tibetans is an effective yet morally abhorrent policy. It is creating an assertive civilization state built upon deep cultural roots and an unchallengeable Han ethnic majority [The irresistible rise of the civilization-state, by Aris Roussinos, UnHerd, August 6, 2020]. Few would suggest China would somehow become stronger if the number of Uighurs and Tibetans magically tripled. Instead, Beijing would probably have powerful separatist movements to deal with.
Yet somehow, Yglesias wants us to believe that importing foreigners will somehow make America stronger or that the Chinese couldn’t exploit our own weaknesses. He wants us to believe this even though we can’t assimilate those we have to deal with now. He also wants us to believe this even though the Chinese and other groups are already subverting American institutions.
Indeed, the reason Washington DC is so obsessed with “Russian manipulation” is because Russia has essentially no influence. If you do name the lobbies which have influence in “our” government, such as those of Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, your political career will end very quickly.
The truth is that Yglesias is advocating Chinese-style demographic dispossession—and we’re the Tibetans. Diversity is already tearing our country apart. The U.S. was recently compared to the Holy Roman Empire because it has archaic institutions [America is the Holy Roman Empire of the 21st century, by Ryan Cooper, The Week, September 24, 2020] The metaphor is apt, but for different reasons than the author intended. “America” has become a vague legal concept rather than a nation-state or even an empire.
We are several nations lumped together. The central government treats the core European-Americans who built the country as almost an enemy. There is no “Platinum Plan”—or much of anything else—coming from this supposedly “white nationalist” administration. Those who ultimately sustain the state are those who receive the least benefits. As in the Holy Roman Empire’s successor state, the Austro-Hungarian empire, efforts to recognize “diversity” and provide concessions to different groups are simply accelerating the breakup of the country [Ethnic boxes: the unintended consequences of Hapsburg bureaucratic classification, by Rok Stergar and Tamara Scheer, Nationalities Papers, June 1, 2018].
If we truly must build an empire of our own to compete against China, it would make more sense to unify the West under a spiritual, cultural, and racial identity. That great dream of Western unity would be something to strive for. That would be a “shared national purpose” not just for Americans, but for all of us who hail from the great European fatherland.
And, though such a civilization-state would necessarily have a white supermajority, it wouldn’t need to revert to Chinese-style concentration camps or try to destroy ethnic minorities.
Of course, barring revolutionary change, we can’t build anything like that. Those who rule Europe imported race problems of their own and are being torn apart from within. Europeans will be minorities within their own countries if current trends continue. The institutions of culture have been utterly subverted and now are breaking down our civilizational achievements instead of forging new ones. We’ve been so thoroughly deconstructed that if post-Western “civilization state” confronted China, it would be a kind of super EU. It would be bound by a consumerist anti-culture featuring overweight bugmen watching superhero movies and hysterical women having emotional meltdowns over whatever journalists are calling racist today.
Still, I don’t even concede the point that we must have some gigantic population or civilization-uniting Imperium in order to check China. An America of 300 million with a white supermajority and a united culture could maintain its superpower status against China easily. We might need to form alliances with Pacific powers, especially India, Japan, and Russia. The latter has much to lose from Chinese migration into Siberia.
Unfortunately, a Russian-American alliance is impossible now, mostly due to the ethnic grievances of journalists, activists and politicians who are still mad at the Tsar. Thus, the neuroses of the American Ruling Class have reversed President Nixon’s diplomatic achievement and have forced Moscow and Beijing into an unnatural alliance.
And if a President Kamala Harris, er, Joe Biden gets America into a war against such adversaries, there are good reasons to believe the United States won’t win [Chilling World War III ‘wargames’ show US forces crushed by Russia and China, by James Rogers, Fox News, March 12, 2019].
Of course, this is just further proof that importing foreigners doesn’t automatically make your country stronger. It just turns what used to be your country into a prize to be captured by hostile out-groups. These groups then simply use “your” government to enact their own tribal obsessions.
I suspect Yglesias [Tweet him] knows this. James Burnham always stressed knowing the difference between the “formal meaning” of a book and the “real meaning,” the intended consequence in the real world. The real meaning of Yglesias’s book is not to create a strong America. It’s to displace the Historic American Nation altogether, replacing it with a continent-wide favela not worth fighting for, or even living in. This glorified shopping mall will be ruled by those who have no connection or loyalty to our country.
Yglesias might be content with such a dystopia. But we aren’t.
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.