vdare--2020-09-03--Biden Kowtows In Kenosha—But What About The Black-On-White Femicides In August?

Democrat Presidential nominee Joe Biden was kowtowing to the family of accused felon Jacob Blake in Kenosha WI today .
Blake isn ’ t even dead .
But just in August , 2020 , we stumbled upon nine cases of white females ( and one white stepfather ) who were actually allegedly murdered by black males .
Maybe Biden , and the national media , would like to pay them some attention too ?
And why are self-purported advocates of women 's rights silent ?
Why are violent crimes committed by black males against white women ignored ?
There appears @ @ @ @ @ @ @ offenses .
Racism tops sexism .
Therefore , when black males abuse white women , no protests are forthcoming lest the protesters encourage racist sentiments .
Call it Black Supremacism .
• 11-year-old Krissy Geiger died seven years ago when her throat was slashed by a home invader .
Krissy 's mother , Tina , was also found slashed to death in their apartment .
It was n't until August of this year that an arrest was made .
The suspect has been identified as 40-year-old Tony James Johnson .
Johnson was initially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thanks to fingerprint identification technology , he was linked to the double homicides .
News reports claimed the little girl and her mom were developmentally disabled , making them susceptible to abuse .
No news reports that I saw mentioned the victims were white .
Nor was there any notations that the suspect , below , is black .
Photographs provide racial profiles .
[ Man charged in 2013 double murder of mom and daughter in Clinton Township , Fox2Detroit , August 2 , 2020 ] • 21-year-old Laura Ashley Anderson was fatally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ County , South Carolina .
The crime occurred August 24 , 2020 .
It appears Anderson was in the process of moving into her first home .
Helping make the transition was her stepfather , Charles Nicholas Wall .
He was also shot dead .
[ ‘ It ’ s just devastating ’ : Mother deals with tragedy after husband , daughter shot , killed in Georgetown Co. , by Ian Klein , WISTV , August 25 , 2020 ] Imagine the wife of Charles and mother of Laura hearing this devastating news @ @ @ @ @ @ @ love you when you leave because something might happen , '' Kimberly Wall recalled her daughter saying .
Arrested for the murders is 23-year-old Tysheem Walters III , below .
Reports say Walters shot a third person who survived .
Walters is black , the homicide victims were white .
• 17-year-old Veronica Lee Baker was found dead in her vehicle outside a Bojangles restaurant in Raleigh , North Carolina .
A black male was arrested Baker 's murder .
As reported in The Raleigh News & Observer : '' Arrest warrants were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 19 , Nezyiha Zamir Collins , 19 , and Tyreek Qumay Rogers , 18 , with felony accessory after the fact to murder , '' reported WBTV.com All four suspects , below , are black .
The victim was white .
Veronica graduated from Garner Magnet High School last spring and planned to start online sociology classes at WakeTech , reports say .
That 's obviously not going to happen .
• On August 17 , 2020 , Trey Mahone Mahone allegedly shot 27-year-old Megan McNeil , a registered nurse her , then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man was identified as Trey Mahone by a friend…Mahone had reportedly started living with his girlfriend after she moved to the Huntington Avenue home a few months ago .
Over the last few years , [ Trey ] Mahone has faced 13 charges , including an assault and battery charge from January .
He had been ordered to wear a GPS bracelet , according to Boston 25 .
He was a father of five and worked in construction.
” Mahone was found dead at the scene .
McNeil died August 21 .
[ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in attempted murder-suicide in Worcester , police say , by Arianna MacNeill , Boston.com , August 18 , 2020 ] Left behind is the victim 's young daughter , Ayla Ansah .
Feminists are silent • August 16 , 2020 , in Worcester , Mass : 44-year-old attorney Erin Hartigan is allegedly confronted in her home at about 4:30 a.m. and stabbed to death .
The suspect is identified as William Franklin , 33 , below , a black male who earlier went missing from a nearby hospital .
He has an extensive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Man accused of killing Orlando attorney ‘ obviously experiencing effects ’ of drugs before going missing from hospital , police say , by Sarah Wilson , WFTV.com , August 17 , 2020 ] • Nichole Merrell , 30 , white , was holding a child when she was fatally shot at a market in Earlington , Kentucky .
32-year-old Dennis Stone , black , was arrested after the crime that occurred August 14 , 2020 .
[ Man accused of killing Earlington , Kentucky , woman arrested in Tennessee , by Leanne Fuller @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] • Another white woman , 62-year-old Jerrie Lyn Ross , was shot dead by a stray bullet as she stood in her front yard .
Ross was a business woman who `` was a real estate and property manager who owned and operated Homes By Ross in Topeka ” [ Arrest made in stray-bullet shooting death of Kansas woman , CBS19 , August 10 , 2020 ] • 36-year-old Ashley Marie Bennett was fatally strangled in her apartment in Muncie , Indiana .
Arrested is David Earl Bond Jr. , 40 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 19 , was fatally shot August 9 , 2020 , in a Fort Wayne , Indiana motel .
A person of interest was identified as `` Thomas Jermaine Jackson , 40 , male/black , 5 ' 8 165 lbs.
, '' by FortWaynesNBC.com .
[ CORONER : 19-year-old killed in Rodeway Inn shooting , by Jazlynn Bebout , August 10 , 2020 ] Joe Biden has not yet commented on these murders .
But then , he ’ s not commented on the apparently random murders , by a black man , of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emerged from his basement to lay a Memorial Day wreath at the same cemetery where they were killed visiting their son ’ s grave .
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Democrat Presidential nominee Joe Biden was kowtowing to the family of accused felon Jacob Blake in Kenosha WI today. Blake isn’t even dead. But just in August 2020, we stumbled upon nine cases of white females (and one white stepfather) who were actually allegedly murdered by black males. Maybe Biden, and the national media, would like to pay them some attention too?
And why are self-purported advocates of women's rights silent? Why are violent crimes committed by black males against white women ignored?
There appears to be a hierarchy of social justice offenses. Racism tops sexism. Therefore, when black males abuse white women, no protests are forthcoming lest the protesters encourage racist sentiments. Call it Black Supremacism.
To begin:
11-year-old Krissy Geiger died seven years ago when her throat was slashed by a home invader. Krissy's mother, Tina, was also found slashed to death in their apartment.
It wasn't until August of this year that an arrest was made. The suspect has been identified as 40-year-old Tony James Johnson. Johnson was initially arrested for an unrelated crime but, thanks to fingerprint identification technology, he was linked to the double homicides.
News reports claimed the little girl and her mom were developmentally disabled, making them susceptible to abuse.
No news reports that I saw mentioned the victims were white. Nor was there any notations that the suspect, below, is black.
Photographs provide racial profiles [Man charged in 2013 double murder of mom and daughter in Clinton Township, Fox2Detroit, August 2, 2020].
The national media remained silent.
21-year-old Laura Ashley Anderson was fatally shot after a traffic accident in Georgetown County, South Carolina. The crime occurred August 24, 2020. It appears Anderson was in the process of moving into her first home.
Helping make the transition was her stepfather, Charles Nicholas Wall. He was also shot dead [‘It’s just devastating’: Mother deals with tragedy after husband, daughter shot, killed in Georgetown Co., by Ian Klein, WISTV, August 25, 2020].
Imagine the wife of Charles and mother of Laura hearing this devastating news. "You should always say I love you when you leave because something might happen," Kimberly Wall recalled her daughter saying.
Arrested for the murders is 23-year-old Tysheem Walters III, below.
Reports say Walters shot a third person who survived. Walters is black, the homicide victims were white.
17-year-old Veronica Lee Baker was found dead in her vehicle outside a Bojangles restaurant in Raleigh, North Carolina. A black male was arrested Baker's murder.
As reported in The Raleigh News & Observer:
The 17-year-old found dead inside her car at a Bojangles in Raleigh Saturday night went to school with Devin Cordell Jones, also 17, who is charged with murder, her father Jim Baker said in a phone interview with The News & Observer. [Father of Veronica Lee Baker says his daughter knew her accused killer, by Ashad Hasela, August 22, 2020]
"Arrest warrants were also obtained charging Keyshara Michelle Deans, 19, Nezyiha Zamir Collins, 19, and Tyreek Qumay Rogers, 18, with felony accessory after the fact to murder," reported WBTV.com
All four suspects, below, are black. The victim was white.
Veronica graduated from Garner Magnet High School last spring and planned to start online sociology classes at WakeTech, reports say.
That's obviously not going to happen.
On August 17, 2020, Trey Mahone allegedly shot 27-year-old Megan McNeil, a registered nurse, then turned the gun on himself.
The man was identified as Trey Mahone by a friend…Mahone had reportedly started living with his girlfriend after she moved to the Huntington Avenue home a few months ago. Over the last few years, [Trey] Mahone has faced 13 charges, including an assault and battery charge from January. He had been ordered to wear a GPS bracelet, according to Boston 25. He was a father of five and worked in construction. Mahone was found dead at the scene. McNeil died August 21. [Man dead, woman ‘critical’ in attempted murder-suicide in Worcester, police say, by Arianna MacNeill, Boston.com, August 18, 2020]
Mahone was black. McNeill was white.
Left behind is the victim's young daughter, Ayla Ansah. Feminists are silent
August 16, 2020, in Orlando, Florida: 44-year-old attorney Erin Hartigan is allegedly confronted in her home at about 4:30 a.m. and stabbed to death.
The suspect is identified as William Franklin, 33, below, a black male who earlier went missing from a nearby hospital. He has an extensive criminal record, reports say.
Hartigan was white.
[Man accused of killing Orlando attorney ‘obviously experiencing effects’ of drugs before going missing from hospital, police say, by Sarah Wilson, WFTV.com, August 17, 2020]
Nichole Merrell, 30, white, was holding a child when she was fatally shot at a market in Earlington, Kentucky.
32-year-old Dennis Stone, black, was arrested after the crime that occurred August 14, 2020 [Man accused of killing Earlington, Kentucky, woman arrested in Tennessee, by Leanne Fuller, WPSD6, August 15, 2020].
Another white woman, 62-year-old Jerrie Lyn Ross, was shot dead by a stray bullet as she stood in her front yard.
Arrested is 29-year-old Tony Reece Dante Baird, below.
Ross was a business woman who "was a real estate and property manager who owned and operated Homes By Ross in Topeka” [Arrest made in stray-bullet shooting death of Kansas woman, CBS19, August 10, 2020].
36-year-old Ashley Marie Bennett was fatally strangled in her apartment in Muncie, Indiana. Arrested is David Earl Bond Jr., 40, right.
Bennett was white.
Bennett's mother, Lori Craft, on Friday expressed frustration Bond had been free despite a lengthy criminal record and several charges already pending in local courts. "The court system's got to step up and start doing its job," she said [Muncie man arrested in murder investigation, by Douglas Walker, Muncie Star Press, August 7, 2020].
Angel May Carter, 19, was fatally shot August 9, 2020, in a Fort Wayne, Indiana motel. A person of interest was identified as "Thomas Jermaine Jackson, 40, male/black, 5'8 165 lbs.," by FortWaynesNBC.com [CORONER: 19-year-old killed in Rodeway Inn shooting , by Jazlynn Bebout, August 10, 2020].
Joe Biden has not yet commented on these murders. But then, he’s not commented on the apparently random murders, by a black man, of Paul and Lidia Marino, although he emerged from his basement to lay a Memorial Day wreath at the same cemetery where they were killed visiting their son’s grave.
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vdare--2020-09-03--Joe Biden: A Black Man Invented the Light Bulb, Not a White Guy Named Edison

“ I can not guarantee everything gets solved in four years , but I guarantee you one thing , it will be a whole heck of a lot better , ” he promised about his planned presidency .
“ We will move a lot further down the road , ” he urged , citing for example : “ Why in God ’ s name don ’ t we teach history in history classes ?
A black man invented the light bulb .
not a white guy named Edison .
Okay ?
There ’ s so much .
Did anybody know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hard to educate Americans about Lewis Howard Latimer , ranking him third all-time when you search for “ American inventors.
” What did the Wright Brothers ever do ?
Eight of the top ten American inventors , according to Google , are black and Alexander Graham Bell looks from his portrait like he might be black : But Edison is still # 1 , so we all have more work to do to abolish the system of White Supremacy in which Thomas Edison is considered America ’ s most important inventor , such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ word yet on whether Biden condemned Brussels Sprouts or said the King of Belgium was worse than Hitler after being Sproutpilled during his meeting today with notorious anti-Sproutite Jacob Blake Sr .
Strikingly , if you go to Google.MX , Google ’ s Spanish-language Mexican subsidiary and search for “ inventores Americanos , ” you get … ten white guys !

From Real Clear Politics:
“I cannot guarantee everything gets solved in four years, but I guarantee you one thing, it will be a whole heck of a lot better,” he promised about his planned presidency. “We will move a lot further down the road,” he urged, citing for example: “Why in God’s name don’t we teach history in history classes? A black man invented the light bulb. not a white guy named Edison. Okay? There’s so much. Did anybody know?”
Scrappy underdog Google is working hard to educate Americans about Lewis Howard Latimer, ranking him third all-time when you search for “American inventors.” What did the Wright Brothers ever do? Eight of the top ten American inventors, according to Google, are black and Alexander Graham Bell looks from his portrait like he might be black:
But Edison is still #1, so we all have more work to do to abolish the system of White Supremacy in which Thomas Edison is considered America’s most important inventor, such as by voting for Joe.
No word yet on whether Biden condemned Brussels Sprouts or said the King of Belgium was worse than Hitler after being Sproutpilled during his meeting today with notorious anti-Sproutite Jacob Blake Sr.
Strikingly, if you go to Google.MX, Google’s Spanish-language Mexican subsidiary and search for “inventores Americanos,” you get … ten white guys!


vdare--2020-09-04--24 Hours Later, Who Has Reported That Biden Is Hotep-Pilled on the Light Bulb Question?

24 hours later , news coverage of Joe Biden ’ s assertion , after talking to Jacob Blake Sr. , at a Kenosha campaign event that , “ A black man invented the light bulb , not a white guy named Edison ” remains spotty , divided by class and partisanship .
If you were in the news media business to make money , this story would be an obvious click-magnet : the Democratic candidate for President has been Hotep-pilled on the light bulb question !
On the other hand , if your chief priority were to drive Donald Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saying anything remotely interesting about Biden , you ’ d try to bury the light bulb story .
Hence , the London tabloids are all over the story , as is the tabloid New York Post , and the pro-Republican opinion press .
But I haven ’ t found any mention yet in the New York Times , Washington Post , Guardian , or other broadsheets .
Nor in NPR or the broadcast network news websites other than Fox .
The AP doesn ’ t seem to have covered it .
It ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

24 hours later, news coverage of Joe Biden’s assertion, after talking to Jacob Blake Sr., at a Kenosha campaign event that, “A black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison” remains spotty, divided by class and partisanship.
Video: pic.twitter.com/GePbtYuQId — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 3, 2020
If you were in the news media business to make money, this story would be an obvious click-magnet: The Democratic candidate for President has been Hotep-pilled on the light bulb question!
On the other hand, if your chief priority were to drive Donald Trump from office, in part by not saying anything remotely interesting about Biden, you’d try to bury the light bulb story.
Hence, the London tabloids are all over the story, as is the tabloid New York Post, and the pro-Republican opinion press.
But I haven’t found any mention yet in the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, or other broadsheets. Nor in NPR or the broadcast network news websites other than Fox. The AP doesn’t seem to have covered it.
It’s almost as if it never happened.


vdare--2020-09-04--Black Lives Matter-Inspired Racial Attack on White Male in Columbus, Georgia—Suspect “Felt The Need

Black Lives Matter-Inspired Racial Attack on White Male in Columbus, Georgia—Suspect “Felt The Need To Find A White Male To Kill"

Earlier : Tyler O'Neil At PJMedia Thinks Autozone Hate Crime Story `` Sounds Outlandish '' —We 've Been Covering These For Years What do you think are the consequences of the endless promotion of the Black Lives Matter canard ?
Even those lacking the quality of perspicacity can see it coming from a mile away .
If white people are responsible for the state and quality of life for non-white people , logically then all white people must be punished for this sin .
The suspect in the Aug. 25 AutoZone stabbing on 32nd Street made his first appearance in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime .
Hatchett faces these charges for a stabbing he allegedly committed on Aug. 25 around 8:36 a.m. at the AutoZone .
Police said he stabbed a store employee in an unprovoked attack .
Columbus Police Sgt .
R.S .
Mills gave testimony in court about the case .
Mills told the court that when he Hatchett why he stabbed the AutoZone employee , Hatchett said he “ felt the need to find a white male to kill @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happening across the country .
Hatchett is being held without bond at the Muscogee County Jail until his case goes to Superior Court .

Earlier: Tyler O'Neil At PJMedia Thinks Autozone Hate Crime Story "Sounds Outlandish"—We've Been Covering These For Years
What do you think are the consequences of the endless promotion of the Black Lives Matter canard? Even those lacking the quality of perspicacity can see it coming from a mile away. If white people are responsible for the state and quality of life for non-white people, logically then all white people must be punished for this sin.
Right?
Because ultimately the phrase “Black Lives Matter” logically means “White Lives Don’t Matter.”
The suspect in the Aug. 25 AutoZone stabbing on 32nd Street made his first appearance in court.
Jayvon Hatchett, 19, is charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime.
Hatchett faces these charges for a stabbing he allegedly committed on Aug. 25 around 8:36 a.m. at the AutoZone. Police said he stabbed a store employee in an unprovoked attack.
Columbus Police Sgt. R.S. Mills gave testimony in court about the case.
Mills told the court that when he Hatchett why he stabbed the AutoZone employee, Hatchett said he “felt the need to find a white male to kill” after watching videos of police brutality happening across the country.
Hatchett is being held without bond at the Muscogee County Jail until his case goes to Superior Court.


vdare--2020-09-04--Hillary Clinton Beat Donald Trump 2-to-1 Among Tiny Number of Self-reported Non-Citizen Voters

Earlier : What Will Amnesty Do For The Tens Of Thousands Of Illegals Who Don ’ t Even Know They ’ re Aliens—And Will They Be Allowed To Vote ?
Of the 45,848 people surveyed by the Cooperative Congressional Election Study concerning who they voted for in the 2016 US presidential election , just 59 were non-citizens .
That comes to a little over 0.1 % of the electorate , or 1 in 777 active participants .
The survey does employ seven methods to validate that a self-reported voter is actually eligible to vote .
Here are the variables : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Beats me .
Each of the seven variables only partially covers the entire pool of self-reported voters though many non-citizens are listed as being validated by at least one of the processes .
Non-citizens are allowed to vote in non-federal elections in a handful of jurisdictions .
This survey primarily concerns the 2018 mid-terms , so it makes sense that non-citizens were included in states like California and Maryland , where some non-citizen voting is allowed .
Multiple states also automatically register people to vote upon their attaining a driver ’ s license @ @ @ @ @ @ @ available to non-citizens–including illegal aliens–in several states .
This method is likely the more substantial source of fraudulent votes .
When one of these auto-registers shows up on election day and requests a ballot , how often is he given one ?
How often are those votes marked as provisional and then thrown out ?
Again , beats me .
I suspect the number is trivial but not zero .
Parenthetically , of those 59 self-reported non-citizen presidential votes , 34 went to Hillary Clinton , 16 to Donald Trump , and 9 @ @ @ @ @

Earlier: What Will Amnesty Do For The Tens Of Thousands Of Illegals Who Don’t Even Know They’re Aliens—And Will They Be Allowed To Vote?
Non-citizen voters? But that’s fraud!
Of the 45,848 people surveyed by the Cooperative Congressional Election Study concerning who they voted for in the 2016 US presidential election, just 59 were non-citizens. That comes to a little over 0.1% of the electorate, or 1 in 777 active participants. The survey does employ seven methods to validate that a self-reported voter is actually eligible to vote. Here are the variables:
How rigorous are these validation measures? Beats me. Each of the seven variables only partially covers the entire pool of self-reported voters though many non-citizens are listed as being validated by at least one of the processes. Non-citizens are allowed to vote in non-federal elections in a handful of jurisdictions. This survey primarily concerns the 2018 mid-terms, so it makes sense that non-citizens were included in states like California and Maryland, where some non-citizen voting is allowed.
Multiple states also automatically register people to vote upon their attaining a driver’s license, and driver’s licenses are available to non-citizens–including illegal aliens–in several states. This method is likely the more substantial source of fraudulent votes. When one of these auto-registers shows up on election day and requests a ballot, how often is he given one? How often are those votes marked as provisional and then thrown out? Again, beats me. I suspect the number is trivial but not zero.
Parenthetically, of those 59 self-reported non-citizen presidential votes, 34 went to Hillary Clinton, 16 to Donald Trump, and 9 to a third party.
CCES variables used: CC18_317(1-3), CIT1


vdare--2020-09-04--Max Nordau: the Portland Shooter's Arrest Was Mostly Peaceful

The Antifa guy who shot the pro-Trump guy in Portland is dead .
Judging from what little I ’ ve read about the shooter , mostly from his sister , he was your basic Trouble-With-A-Capital-T type : e.g.
, he ’ d steal his mom ’ s seizure medicine .
I doubt if he was exceptionally ideological , but in Portland being on the left gives you an excuse to act out your various anti-social urges .
He was arrested once or twice over the summer for carrying a gun before he shot the guy who was spraying him with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Portland criminal justice system doesn ’ t seem to be enforcing gun control laws against Antifa .
From Oregon Live : Reinoehl ’ s posts indicate he attended many protests in Portland that began three months ago after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis under the knee of a police officer .
On July 5 at one of the demonstrations , Reinoehl was cited at 2:10 a.m. in the 700 block of Southwest Main Street on allegations of possessing a loaded gun in a public place , resisting arrest and interfering with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appear in court later that month , but the allegations were dropped on July 30 with a “ no complaint , ” according to court records .
The documents don ’ t indicate why prosecutors decided not to pursue the accusations .
Reinoehl spent no time behind bars .
Brent Weisberg , a spokesman for Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt , said the office is still reviewing that July case involving Reinoehl .
Schmidt earlier Sunday decried the deadly violence .
He took office on Aug. 1 and quickly announced that he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ demonstrators , such as interfering with police or resisting arrest .
He wasn ’ t district attorney when the office handled Reinoehl ’ s gun case .
Man under investigation in fatal shooting after pro-Trump rally allegedly took loaded gun to earlier Portland protest Updated Sep 02 , 2020 It wasn ’ t an evil rifle , it was a mere handgun .
What ’ s the worst that could happen with an unstable jerk with a loaded gun who thinks he ’ s Antifa Security ?
Will Antifa make him their designated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Song ” about him ?

The Antifa guy who shot the pro-Trump guy in Portland is dead.
Judging from what little I’ve read about the shooter, mostly from his sister, he was your basic Trouble-With-A-Capital-T type: e.g., he’d steal his mom’s seizure medicine. I doubt if he was exceptionally ideological, but in Portland being on the left gives you an excuse to act out your various anti-social urges.
He was arrested once or twice over the summer for carrying a gun before he shot the guy who was spraying him with something defensive like mace, but the Portland criminal justice system doesn’t seem to be enforcing gun control laws against Antifa. From Oregon Live:
Reinoehl’s posts indicate he attended many protests in Portland that began three months ago after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis under the knee of a police officer. On July 5 at one of the demonstrations, Reinoehl was cited at 2:10 a.m. in the 700 block of Southwest Main Street on allegations of possessing a loaded gun in a public place, resisting arrest and interfering with police He was given a date to appear in court later that month, but the allegations were dropped on July 30 with a “no complaint,” according to court records. The documents don’t indicate why prosecutors decided not to pursue the accusations. Reinoehl spent no time behind bars. Brent Weisberg, a spokesman for Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt, said the office is still reviewing that July case involving Reinoehl. Schmidt earlier Sunday decried the deadly violence. He took office on Aug. 1 and quickly announced that he wouldn’t pursue low-level charges against demonstrators, such as interfering with police or resisting arrest. He wasn’t district attorney when the office handled Reinoehl’s gun case. Man under investigation in fatal shooting after pro-Trump rally allegedly took loaded gun to earlier Portland protest Updated Sep 02, 2020
It wasn’t an evil rifle, it was a mere handgun. What’s the worst that could happen with an unstable jerk with a loaded gun who thinks he’s Antifa Security?
Will Antifa make him their designated martyr and sing “The Horst Reinoehl Song” about him?
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vdare--2020-09-04--White Folks Shooting White Folks, GOP Goodwhites Supporting Riots, And The Spreading Plague Of Race

White Folks Shooting White Folks, GOP Goodwhites Supporting Riots, And The Spreading Plague Of Race Denialism, Etc.

05m23s Revolution or counter-revolution ?
( Three factions in play . )
27m44s The spreading plague .
( Not COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ ) 41m55s Dropping the torch in Massachusetts .
( It 's not 1968 any more @ @ @ @ @ of Comrade Duch .
( Speaking of revolutionaries . )

01m07s White folks shoot white folks. (The Cold Civil War gets warmer.)
05m23s Revolution or counter-revolution? (Three factions in play.)
13m42s Do Goodwhite Republicans support the riots? (Cui bono?)
21m35s March of the Misfits. (True revolutionary spirit.)
27m44s The spreading plague. (Not COVID-19, the other one.)
38m00s A tremor in spacetime. (Just a reminder.)
39m31s What's the matter with America's mayors? (Remembering Richard Daley.)
41m55s Dropping the torch in Massachusetts. (It's not 1968 anymore.)
43m08s Making book on homicide. (Labor Day weekend betting.)
44m47s The passing of Comrade Duch. (Speaking of revolutionaries.)
46m39s Signoff. (With homage to Bill Evans.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, this Labor Day weekend from your strenuously genial host John Derbyshire.
We are now into the countdown for the 2020 Presidential election: nine weeks from last Tuesday, eight weeks from this coming Tuesday. Bear in mind, please, that everything you read about under the week's headlines, everything I comment on at length in this podcast, bears on the election in one way or another.
So what has been in the headlines? Let's take a look.
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02—White folks at war. As I come to the mike here on Friday morning, the news headliner is that Michael Reinoehl was killed yesterday—Thursday—evening in a shoot-out with cops who were trying to arrest him. It seems that no-one else was hurt in the shoot-out; the shoot-out was, as our own inimitable Steve Sailer observes, mostly peaceful.
Reinoehl, 48 years old, was, by his own confession in an interview with Vice published that same day, the person who shot dead an unarmed Trump supporter in Portland last Saturday. The supporter confusingly had two names, Aaron Danielson and Jay Bishop, I don't know why. He was 39 years old.
The New York Times reports that the cops involved in last night's shoot-out belonged to, quote, "a federally led fugitive task force." The death of Mr Reinoehl was reported by the U.S. Marshals Service. To judge from the footage at Andy Ngo's twitter feed, the law-enforcement officers on the scene were all white.
Michael Reinoehl and his victim Aaron Danielson were also both white. Seventeen-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot three anarchists in Kenosha, Wisconsin August 25th, was likewise white. So were all three of the people he shot.
I mention this by way of reminding listeners of my own long-standing interpretation of what's going on in the U.S.A.: a Cold Civil War. To quote myself yet again, it's, quote, "a conflict between two big blocs of white people who can't stand the sight of each other: Goodwhites and Badwhites." End quote.
Blacks are only peripherally involved. They hang around on the outskirts of the battlefield looking to dodge in and do a little looting as opportunity offers. Their drugged-up violent resistance to being arrested and the frequently fatal consequences thereof supply the Goodwhite propaganda machine with video clips they can use to show the cruel beastliness of Badwhites, all cops being assumed to be Badwhite by default—"ACAB," as the graffiti says.
And of course, far away from the battlefields, blacks commit violent crime at sensationally high rates, but almost entirely among themselves, so whites don't care.
That's the context in which I see these recent killings: we are in a Cold Civil War. It's long-running, and—if you'll pardon the expression once again—mostly peaceful. Hence the adjective "cold."
The Cold Civil War sure has been heating up this last few months, though. Why is that?
You know why. It's election year.
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03—Revolution or counter-revolution? I opened last week's podcast with two segments I labeled "Revolution" and "Counter-revolution."
In the first segment I talked about the shooting of Jacob Blake and the ensuing riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin. I mentioned Abe Greenwald's column in the September issue of Commentary magazine titled: "Yes, This Is a Revolution." I said I agreed with Greenwald that the disturbances of the last few months do indeed amount to a revolution.
In the next segment I told the tale of some marching anarchists being shot at in Bedford, Pa. Then I reported on Kyle Rittenhouse shooting three people in Kenosha. These shootings, I said, mark the beginnings of counter-revolutionary violence.
A thoughtful listener took issue with all that. He emailed in to tell me that I had it the wrong way round. The real revolution had happened in November 2016, he said. What we've been seeing since then, including this year's riots, has been a counter-revolution by established elites, with the anarchist mobs as their foot-soldiers.
Mulling over that these few days, I think my listener has a point. What happened in 2016 was, in a mostly peaceful way, revolutionary. Republican primary voters were offered sixteen candidates from off of the institutional-Republican production line and one maverick outsider arguing for crazy stuff like bringing home our Cold War troops from Europe and stopping illegal immigration. Republican primary voters rejected the institutional-Republican bots and chose the outsider talking crazy.
Then in November that year, offered a choice between an admittedly lackluster Democratic Party candidate mumbling Goodwhite platitudes and the aforementioned maverick on the GOP ticket, 63 million of us chose the maverick, enough to swing the Electoral College.
Here I get to recycle a favorite old quote that faithful listeners will recall. I'm not quoting myself here; I'm quoting Peggy Noonan in her Wall Street Journal column, August 4th 2016. So this was after the Republican nomination was settled but before the general. Quote from Peggy:
From what I've seen there has been zero reflection on the part of Republican leaders on how much the base's views differ from theirs and what to do about it. The GOP is not at all refiguring its stands.
End quote.
Today, four years further on, the quantity of reflection still just barely moves the needle on the reflection dial, but it's no longer quite zero. Here, to match against that Peggy Noonan quote from four years ago, here is David Brooks, the very epitome of Goodwhite Republicanism, in his New York Times column this Thursday, quote:
According to research done by Larry Bartels of Vanderbilt, 50 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents believe [first inner quote] "the traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it." [end inner quote]. Nearly as many believe, [second inner quote] "A time will come when patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands." [End inner quote.]
End quote.
Those Republicans who think those things are, Brooks has just told us, quote, "a certain kind of Republican," end quote. Well, yes: they are Badwhite Republicans.
Brooks suggests that if the November election result is disputed, these deplorable Trump-supporting Republicans will take to the streets. Then, he further suggests, the only force capable of saving the Republic will be a Goodwhite uprising—a counter-revolution against Trumpism.
That does sound like the voice of an established elite warning against a revolutionary force, doesn't it? Counter-revolutions seek a return to the status quo ante—in David Brooks' case, ante the rise of the Orange Beast and his loathsome followers, those Republicans who believe "the traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it."
But wait a minute. Now things are getting really confusing. Aren't those Badwhite Republicans—50 percent of us, according to the researcher Brooks quoted—aren't those Republicans who are willing to use force to save the traditional American way of life, aren't they reactionaries?
So we have three factions in play here. We have the Goodwhite street-fighting shock troops of the previous segment, who want to tear everything down and build the world anew; we have Trump and his Badwhite voters, who'd like to get us back to a Calvin Coolidge-style commercial republic, minding its own business in the world and maintaining demographic stability; and we have Goodwhites like David Brooks hankering for a return to George W. Bush-style invade-the-world, invite-the-world, Martin-Luther-King-quoting institutional Republicanism.
Of those three factions, who are the revolutionaries, and who the counter-revolutionaries?
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04—Who's helped by the riots? Reading commentators like David Brooks leaves you in not much doubt that to Goodwhite Republicans, Donald Trump is the real enemy. If you corner them on it they will probably say what Chiang Kai-shek said of his two opponents, the Japanese and the communists: the street-fighting anarchists of BLM and Antifa, they will say, are merely a disease of the skin, but Trumpist Badwhites are a disease of the heart.
So what about the remark by that listener in my last segment, that the rioting anarchists are foot-soldiers of a counter-revolution by established elites—including David Brooks-type institutional Republicans—against Trump's populist nationalism?
For sure the rioters have elite support. The passivity of Democrat mayors and governors tells us plainly where the Democratic Party stands. So does the urging by party leaders like Kamala Harris for their followers to contribute to bail funds, so that arrested rioters won't get locked up.
Wealthy donors are in plentiful supply. Jeff Bezos' ex-wife Mackenzie Scott, estimated net worth $36 billion and as woke as it's possible to be, has been writing seven- and eight-digit checks to CultMarx causes, Black Lives Matter surely among them, and I'm not counting the cents digits there.
The media's dogged understating of the damage done—"mostly peaceful," and so on—makes their position plain. Tech moguls are vigilantly purging their outlets of anything that contradicts the pro-rioter, anti-police narrative.
Does that elite support include anti-Trump Republicans? To get to the bottom of that you have to untangle the simply political calculations going on here. Election-wise, who does the rioting help, who does it hurt?
There is a widespread feeling on our side, perhaps shared by the President himself, that it helps Trump, by showing voters what happens when you put Democrats in charge of things. An opposite view, probably common among Democrats and institutional Republicans, is that Trump's failure to do much about the rioting makes him look weak and ineffectual, turning voters off, which of course makes Trump's re-election less likely, thus warming the hearts of those in both parties who hate him.
I don't myself mind Trump's inaction. For one thing, it's grounded in a proper spirit of federalism. For another, the voters of the afflicted states and cities voted for their rioter-friendly governors, mayors, and DAs; let them pay the price of their folly.
The President surely knows that really forceful federal action to quell the rioting would be presented by the media as an authoritarian putsch. David Brooks would be out there at the head of a march.
And such federal action, if undertaken, would meet many difficulties. Kurt Schlichter, writing at townhall.com September 3rd, spells this out very clearly.
Schlichter, after a spell of active duty in the military, spent 23 years in the California Army National Guard, planning and commanding operations in all kinds of civil emergencies, from the L.A. riots of 1992 to the forest fires of 2007. He knows everything there is to know about troops coming in to civilian situations, and spells it all out for you. His bottom line, quote:
Getting mad at Trump because he is not doing something that would turn into the cluster fark [that's "f-a-r-k, fark"] to end all cluster farks is doing exactly what the liberal elite and its media minions want. Let Portland and the rest of the blue cities trash themselves. Let the DOJ, which has already charged dozens of these degenerates with federal beefs, do its thing. And make sure you get out and vote straight Republican if you want any hope of this ever ending.
End quote.
The problem with that, of course, is that voting "straight Republican" will get you a lot of anti-Trump Goodwhite Republican legislators. If Trump is indisputably victorious in November, they will sap away at undermining his program—I mean, continuing to undermine it, as they have been this past four years. In the event of a disputed result, they will be out there marching with David Brooks to get Trump removed.
In most precincts, though, there isn't much alternative to voting for institutional Republicans, repulsive swine as they are. We just have to hope that a re-elected President Trump will twist enough of their flabby, scaly arms to get some Trumpish legislation enacted.
My best guess is that Goodwhite Republicans don't mind the riots, though they are probably not materially aiding them as Democrats are. They don't mind them because (a) they're not happening in their neighborhoods, and (b) they see at least a good chance they will hurt Trump, leading to the kind of election debacle David Brooks tries so hard to pretend he isn't looking forward to.
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05—March of the Misfits. One more segment here on whether the rioting anarchists of Antifa and Black Lives Matter are true revolutionaries.
I'm pretty sure they are. Yes, they may be in the service of a cynical elite hoping to bring down Trumpism and restore a happier state of affairs for globalist-corporatist-neoliberalism; and they may, like Robespierre and Trotsky, end up under the guillotine themselves; but when I get a glimpse of their actual personalities, they are in the true revolutionary mould, like the Russian and Chinese revolutionaries in the late-19th, early-20th century that I've read about.
We actually have quite a few specimens now of those actual personalities. There is, for example, the guy I started this podcast with, 48-year-old Michael Reinoehl.
Reinoehl was a dedicated supporter of Black Lives Matter, with their clenched-fist symbol tattooed on his neck. He'd been arrested and cited in July for possessing a loaded gun in a public place, interfering with police, and resisting arrest. Before that, in June he got a failure-to-appear warrant issued against him; charges there were driving under the influence of a controlled substance, recklessly endangering another, unlawful possession of a gun and driving while suspended and uninsured.
He claimed to be a professional snowboarder; but the firm he named says they never employed or sponsored him. He claimed to be an Army veteran, but the Army has no record of him. His sister disowned him some time ago.
Then there's 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum, the first of the three people shot by Kyle Rittenhouse. He was a convicted child rapist. Court documents from 2002 reproduced on the internet list a range of sex crimes against several boys from the ages of nine to eleven years old, including outright rape. His prison record shows 40 disciplinary infractions for arson, disobeying orders, manufacturing a weapon, refusing to work … This guy was a real no-goodnik.
Anthony Huber, the other guy killed by Kyle Rittenhouse, was only 26, but he already had quite a rap sheet going back to at least 2016: possession of drug paraphernalia, and a whole host of charges under the heading "domestic abuse"—strangulation and suffocation, false imprisonment, battery, disorderly conduct, …
The guy Kyle Rittenhouse shot but didn't kill is Gaige Paul Grosskreutz, also 26. He's been comparatively well-behaved: convicted of a criminal misdemeanor in 2016 for going armed with a firearm while intoxicated, and some nuisance offenses.
So of these four anarchists who chance to have come to our close attention, every one could fairly be described as a misfit. These are not normal, stable people. Revolutionaries hardly ever are. Here's one of them from the 19th century: Sergey Nechaev, Russian, of course, supposed to have been the model for Verkhovensky in Dostoyevsky's novel Demons. Quote from Nechaev:
A revolutionary is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion—the revolution. Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he has severed every link with the social order and with the entire civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that world. He is its merciless enemy and continues to inhabit it with only one purpose—to destroy it.
End quote.
That's the true revolutionary personality. I don't think any of the four specimens I've mentioned here really come up to Nechaev's standard of pure revolutionary ardor, but they're all well along on the spectrum.
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06—The spreading plague. Back of those revolutionaries and their various levels of nihilistic passion there is of course an ideology. It's not just their ideology, either: It is mighty in the land.
Headline: APA calls for true systemic change in U.S. culture. APA is the American Psychological Association. Sample text from the article:
Today's inequities, psychologists say, are deeply rooted in our past, and the status quo is no longer acceptable. [Inner quote] "Every institution in America is born from the blood of white supremacist ideology and capitalism—and that's the disease," [end inner quote] says Theopia Jackson, Ph.D., president of the Association of Black Psychologists.
End quote.
Has the Association considered that perhaps "today's inequities" are deeply rooted in biological race differences? Good heavens, no! Get out of here, Nazi!
The APA is on the case, though. In June they launched a series of virtual town halls for their members, with the aim of, quote, "establishing a racially diverse psychology workforce and more efficiently and effectively translating research insights into action." End quote.
You don't get very far into an article of this sort before you come to the guilt section. Yep, quote from APA CEO Arthur C. Evans Jr., also a Ph.D., quote:
APA has a long history of taking a stand on these issues, but we also know that we have our own issues as an association and as a field. We have to look at our role as a discipline in perpetuating some of the things that are being protested. That has to be a part of our commitment.
End quote.
We are guilty, guilty! We are all guilty!
Here's one from the Yale School of Medicine, the YSM, August 4th, headline: YSM Team Proposes a Novel Approach to Addressing Racism in Medical Education. This proposal appears in a multi-author article in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
What does the article say? Key passage from the text, quote:
Many medical schools have made efforts to address pervasive racism in medical education by forming committees and appointing deans focused on diversity and inclusion, adding health equity classes to their curricula, conducting training on implicit bias and microaggressions, and expanding racial and social-economic equity in admissions.
However, [the authors of the article] believe a more direct way to address racism in medical training is to "stop admitting applicants with racist beliefs." … For example, essays, resumes, letters of recommendation, and interviews could be used to evaluate whether applicants [inner quote] "hold racist beliefs or invalid and fixed views on biological differences between races." [End inner quote.]
End quote.
This is a medical school, dammit! We'll have none of that filthy biology here!
The long arm of medical racism even reaches into the grave. Here's a piece from the Washington Post back in June. Headline: Autopsies can uphold white supremacy. Subheading: "They have long provided scientific and medical excuses for white killings of nonwhite people."
The author of this article is history professor Elizabeth Kolsky, author of a book titled Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law. The article starts off of course with the death of George Floyd. Quote:
The preliminary findings of the Hennepin County medical examiner's report … used the veneer of scientific respectability to advance the outrageous claim that Floyd was partly responsible for his own death—something we know is untrue, given the subsequent reports.
End quote.
Hm. I wonder how well that will age?
Then Prof Kolsky rambles off into a long tale about how beastly the colonial Brits were to the people of India, and my eyes glazed over. White people bad, dark people good; OK, got it.
For keening, slobbering, self-flagellating confessions of guilt, the September issue of Scientific American is hard to beat … as it were.
This touches me more than the other examples, as I was once a keen reader of Scientific American. I can still remember the first issue I ever read: January 1960, cover story "The Green Flash." The magazine has long since gone CultMarx, though, and I haven't looked into it for years, except when friends send me links to especially egregious specimens of wokeness. Which a friend just did.
Headline: Reckoning with Our Mistakes. Subheading: "Some of the cringiest articles in Scientific American's history reveal bigger questions about scientific authority."
Well, no, they don't really. The article does, though, reveal how racked with guilt a respectable old magazine has to be, or pretend to be, nowadays if it wants to stay respectable. Sample quote.
During the 19th century, Scientific American published articles that legitimized racism … By 1871 Charles Darwin had concluded that all living humans were descended from the same ancestral stock … But none of that stopped the rise of scientific racism, including false ideas about biological determinism.
End quote.
Down with biological determinism! Just because you're a fish, that doesn't mean you need to be in water all the time!
And Darwin had a bit more to say about the descent of man than the authors of this Scientific American article let on. In fact he wrote an entire book about it they might care to peruse. Sample quotes:
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world …
Looking at the world at no very distant date, an endless number of lower races will be eliminated by the higher civilized races.
End quote.
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07—Miscellany. OK, how'm I doing for time here? … Oh look, here comes my favorite Southern belle, all the way from Dixie. Yes, it's Miss Ellany.
Imprimis: Cast your mind back to May of last year, listeners—May 21st, to be precise. Did you, on that date, feel an odd momentary trembling in the world around you? Did a wineglass fall and shatter in your cocktail cabinet for no apparent reason?
If so, you were witnessing a gravitational wave passing through. It happens now and then: a teeny flexing in the fabric of spacetime. This particular one resulted from the merging of two colossal black holes out in remote space, seven billion light-years away.
No, this item has no connection whatever with the November election. It does, however, offer a reminder, which some listeners might find comforting, of the unimaginably puny part our human affairs play in the grand scheme of things. Something happened seven billion years ago, before our planet even existed; and it just registered on our instruments.
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Item: Here's something that does bear on the election, at least indirectly via the current riots in our cities. What? What, Derb?
Mayors, that's what. I mean, what's the matter with America's mayors? Have we ever before had so many unspeakably awful big-city mayors, all at the same time?
Frey in Minneapolis; Wheeler in Portland; Durkan in Seattle; Lightfoot in Chicago; Bowser in D.C.; and, OMG—I can hardly get the name out while holding down my lunch—de Blasio in New York. They are terrible. What are big-city voters thinking of? I could pull one of the servers out from behind the counter at my local Dunkin Donuts and make him Mayor of New York in full confidence he'd do a better job than de Blasio.
Yeah, I know: they're all Democrats. Look, though: Richard Daley, Mayor of Chicago in 1968, was a Democrat, too. Quote from him, after riots following the death of Martin Luther King, quote:
I said to [my police chief] very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting.
End quote.
Why don't we have mayors like that any more? Democratic mayors like that?
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Item: The short answer to that last question is, I guess: "Because it's not 1968 any more."
For further evidence of that, note that on Tuesday this week, sitting Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts defeated a Democratic primary challenge by Rep. Joe Kennedy III, grandson of Bobby Kennedy, of whom LBJ remarked that, quote: "When Bobby hates you, you stay hated."
Senator Markey is 74 years old; Congressman Kennedy is a stripling of 39. Go Boomer! So the torch has not been passed to a new generation of Kennedys. I guess dynastic decline happens faster in republics.
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Item: I hardly ever go to bars nowadays, so I'm a bit surprised to learn that they are open. Well, some of them are, here on Long Island at least.
Here's one: the Cliffton Bar in Patchogue, Long Island. They've been in the news, at any rate locally, for opening a book on whether Chicago or New York City will see more shootings over this Labor Day weekend.
Apparently—I haven't gone down there to check, I'm reading this from a local news outlet—apparently they have a paper grid hung in the bar so patrons can place bets on the number of shootings in the two cities. The winner will take home an unspecified cash prize.
A spokes-thing for New York State governor Andrew Cuomo honked that, honk:
These reports are repugnant and those responsible for this gambling pool should be ashamed.
End honk.
OK, pal. How about the bar changes to a book on how many inmates of nursing homes in Cuomo's state will die over the weekend?
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Item: Finally: If the air seems a little more fragrant than last week's, that's because Comrade Duch died September 2nd aged 77 at Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital. That's in Cambodia.
Comrade Duch was a senior figure in the Khmer Rouge, communists who controlled Cambodia through the second half of the 1970s. The Khmer Rouge were heart-and-soul revolutionaries in the Nechaev style—or, if you like, the Michael Reinoehl style. They murdered around two million of their own people, a quarter of Cambodia's population. Hundreds of thousands more fled the country.
Comrade Duch ran the Tuol Sleng prison in Cambodia's capital. An estimated 20,000 people were brought to Tuol Sleng as prisoners; only twelve are known to have come out alive. There's a book about the place, if you have a strong stomach; I reviewed it for the National Post.
Comrade Duch was tracked down twenty years ago. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012, which I think is absurdly lenient. Never mind: the bastard is dead now, and the world is a better place without him.
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09—Signoff. That's all I have, ladies and gents. Thank you for listening, and I hope you enjoy a quiet and relaxing weekend with your family. Should there be any listeners on Long Island who are unable to be with their family for some reason, I know a really nice bar in Patchogue where you could kill some time.
For last week's signoff, I played you some lute music. One sly listener emailed in to tell me that, supposing the phrase "lute music" means music to loot by, something from the rap or hip-hop genres would have been more apt. Har de har har, Sir.
For this week's sign-off, here is something from a friend who has blessed us before with software-produced music, but who here is playing the regular piano. The piece he's playing is Haydn's Derbyshire March No. 2, of course, but he's playing it in the style of the late great jazz pianist Bill Evans—who, I have learned, looking up his Wikipedia page, was half Welsh, half Ruthenian. Now that's melting pot.
My friend wishes this to be known as "Haydn's Derbyshire Ballad — Homage to Bill Evans." There you go, buddy; and thank you.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-09-04--John Derbyshire: "We Are All Michael Reinoehl Now! "(At Least, The American Psychological Associatio

John Derbyshire: "We Are All Michael Reinoehl Now! "(At Least, The American Psychological Association, Yale School Of Medicine, WASHINGTON POST, And SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Say They Are).

Above , the head of the Black Psychological Association , Theopia Jackson , and the CEO of the American Psychological Association , Arthur C. Evans Jr. [ Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb , now available exclusively through VDARE.com ] As I start writing here on Friday morning , the news headliner is that Michael Reinoehl was killed Thursday evening in a shoot-out with cops who were trying to arrest him .
It seems that no-one else was hurt in the shoot-out ; it was , as our own inimitable Steve Sailer observes , Mostly Peaceful .
Reinoehl was , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Vice published earlier that same day [ Man Linked to Killing at a Portland Protest Says He Acted in Self-Defense , September 3 , 2020 ] , the person who shot dead an unarmed Trump supporter in Portland OR last Saturday .
The rioting anarchists of Antifa and Black Lives Matter may be in the service of a cynical elite hoping to bring down Trumpism and restore a happier state of affairs for globalist-corporatist-neoliberalism .
They may , like Robespierre and Trotsky , end up under the guillotine themselves .
But when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ personalities , they are in the true revolutionary mold , like the Russian and Chinese revolutionaries in the late-19th , early-20th century .
We actually have quite a few specimens now .
Reinoehl was a dedicated supporter of Black Lives Matter , with their clenched-fist symbol tattooed on his neck .
He 'd been arrested and cited in July for possessing a loaded gun in a public place , interfering with police , and resisting arrest [ Michael Reinoehl , sought in fatal Portland shooting after Trump rally , killed by officers in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 ] Before that , in June he got a failure-to-appear warrant issued against him ; charges there were driving under the influence of a controlled substance , recklessly endangering another , unlawful possession of a gun and driving while suspended and uninsured .
He claimed to be a professional snowboarder ; but the firm he named says they never employed or sponsored him .
He claimed to be an Army veteran , but the Army has no record of him .
His sister disowned him some time ago .
Then there 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the three people shot in self-defense by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha WI .
He was a convicted child rapist .
Court documents from 2002 reproduced on the internet list a range of sex crimes against several boys from the ages of nine to eleven years old , including outright rape [ HUGE : Court Documents Reveal Shot Kenosha Rioter Joseph Rosenbaum Was a Convicted Child Rapist , by Richard Moorhead , BigLeaguePolitics , September 3 , 2020 ] His prison record shows 40 disciplinary infractions for arson , disobeying orders , manufacturing a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guy was a real no-goodnik .
Anthony Huber , the other guy killed by Kyle Rittenhouse , was only 26 , but he already had quite a rap sheet going back to at least 2016 : possession of drug paraphernalia , and a whole host of charges under the heading `` domestic abuse '' —strangulation and suffocation , false imprisonment , battery , disorderly conduct , … The guy Kyle Rittenhouse shot but did n't kill is Gaige Paul Grosskreutz , also 26 .
He 's been comparatively well-behaved : convicted of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a firearm while intoxicated , and some nuisance offenses .
So of these four anarchists who chance to have come to our close attention , every one could fairly be described as a misfit .
These are not normal , stable people .
Revolutionaries hardly ever are .
Here 's one of them from the 19th century : Sergey Nechaev , Russian of course , supposed to have been the model for Verkhovensky in Dostoyevsky 's novel Demons : That 's the true revolutionary personality .
But back of those revolutionaries and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is of course an ideology .
It 's not just their ideology , either : It is mighty in the land .
• Headline : APA calls for true systemic change in U.S. culture .
Has the Association considered that perhaps `` today 's inequities '' are deeply rooted in biological race differences ?
Good heavens , no !
Get out of here , Nazi !
The APA is on the case , though .
In June it launched a series of virtual town halls for its members , with the aim of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and more efficiently and effectively translating research insights into action . ''
You do n't get very far into an article of this sort before you come to the guilt section .
From APA CEO Dr. Arthur C. Evans Jr. [ Tweet him ] ( who also happens to be black ) : We are guilty , guilty !
We are all guilty !
• From the Yale School of Medicine : YSM Team Proposes a Novel Approach to Addressing Racism in Medical Education .
By Abigail Roth , August 4 , 2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Journal of General Internal Medicine .
[ Blackface in White Space : Using Admissions to Address Racism in Medical Education , by Nientara Anderson , Dowin Boatright , and Anna Reisman , June 29 , 2020 , pictured below ] This is a medical school , dammit !
We 'll have none of that filthy biology here !
• The long arm of medical racism even reaches into the grave .
Here 's a piece from the Washington Post : Autopsies can uphold white supremacy .
Subheading : They have long @ @ @ @ @ @ @ killings of nonwhite people .
[ June 3 , 2020 ] The author of this article is history professor Elizabeth Kolsky , [ Email her ] author of a book titled Colonial Justice in British India : White Violence and the Rule of Law .
She starts off of course with the death of George Floyd : Hm .
I wonder how well that will age ?
Then Prof Kolsky rambles off into a long tale about how beastly the colonial Brits were to the people of India , and my eyes glazed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people good ; OK , got it .
• But for keening , slobbering , self-flagellating confessions of guilt , the September issue of Scientific American is hard to beat … as it were .
This touches me more than the other examples , as I was once a keen reader of Scientific American .
I can still remember the first issue I ever read : January 1960 , cover story The Green Flash .
The magazine has long since gone CultMarx , though , and I have n't looked into it for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ links to especially egregious specimens of wokeness .
Which a friend just did .
Headline : Reckoning with Our Mistakes .
Subheading : Some of the cringiest articles in Scientific American 's history reveal bigger questions about scientific authority .
by Jen Schwartz and Dan Schlenoff , September 2020 Well , no , they do n't really .
The article does , though , reveal how racked with guilt a respectable old magazine has to be , or pretend to be , nowadays if it wants to stay respectable : During the 19th @ @ @ @ @ @ @ legitimized racism … By 1871 Charles Darwin had concluded that all living humans were descended from the same ancestral stock … But none of that stopped the rise of scientific racism , including false ideas about biological determinism .
Down with biological determinism !
Just because you 're a fish , that does n't mean you need to be in water all the time !
In fact , Darwin had a bit more to say about the descent of man .
In fact he wrote an entire book about it ( The Descent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Sex , 1871 ) .
Sample quotes : How are Scientific American ’ s Schwartz and Schlenoff not aware of this ?
Do we have to Cancel Darwin now ?
email him ] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets .
( This no longer includes National Review , whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him . )
He is the author of We Are Doomed : Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books .
He has had two books published by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( also available in Kindle ) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II : ESSAYS 2013 .
For years he ’ s been podcasting at Radio Derb , now available at VDARE.com for no charge .
His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com .
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Above, the head of the Black Psychological Association, Theopia Jackson, and the CEO of the American Psychological Association, Arthur C. Evans Jr.
[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
As I start writing here on Friday morning, the news headliner is that Michael Reinoehl was killed Thursday evening in a shoot-out with cops who were trying to arrest him. It seems that no one else was hurt in the shoot-out; it was, as our own inimitable Steve Sailer observes, Mostly Peaceful.
Reinoehl was, by his own confession in an interview with Vice published earlier that same day [Man Linked to Killing at a Portland Protest Says He Acted in Self-Defense, September 3, 2020], the person who shot dead an unarmed Trump supporter in Portland, Ore. last Saturday.
The rioting anarchists of Antifa and Black Lives Matter may be in the service of a cynical elite hoping to bring down Trumpism and restore a happier state of affairs for globalist-corporatist-neoliberalism. They may, like Robespierre and Trotsky, end up under the guillotine themselves. But when I get a glimpse of their actual personalities, they are in the true revolutionary mold, like the Russian and Chinese revolutionaries in the late 19th, early 20th century.
We actually have quite a few specimens now. Reinoehl was a dedicated supporter of Black Lives Matter, with their clenched-fist symbol tattooed on his neck. He'd been arrested and cited in July for possessing a loaded gun in a public place, interfering with police, and resisting arrest [Michael Reinoehl, sought in fatal Portland shooting after Trump rally, killed by officers in Washington, OregonLive, September 4, 2020]. Before that, in June he got a failure-to-appear warrant issued against him; charges there were driving under the influence of a controlled substance, recklessly endangering another, unlawful possession of a gun and driving while suspended and uninsured.
He claimed to be a professional snowboarder; but the firm he named says they never employed or sponsored him. He claimed to be an Army veteran, but the Army has no record of him. His sister disowned him some time ago.
Then there's 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum, the first of the three people shot in self-defense by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was a convicted child rapist. Court documents from 2002 reproduced on the internet list a range of sex crimes against several boys from the ages of nine to eleven years old, including outright rape [HUGE: Court Documents Reveal Shot Kenosha Rioter Joseph Rosenbaum Was a Convicted Child Rapist, by Richard Moorhead, BigLeaguePolitics, September 3, 2020]. His prison record shows 40 disciplinary infractions for arson, disobeying orders, manufacturing a weapon, refusing to work … This guy was a real no-goodnik.
Anthony Huber, the other guy killed by Kyle Rittenhouse, was only 26, but he already had quite a rap sheet going back to at least 2016: possession of drug paraphernalia, and a whole host of charges under the heading "domestic abuse"—strangulation and suffocation, false imprisonment, battery, disorderly conduct, …
The guy Kyle Rittenhouse shot but didn't kill is Gaige Paul Grosskreutz, also 26. He's been comparatively well-behaved: convicted of a criminal misdemeanor in 2016 for going armed with a firearm while intoxicated, and some nuisance offenses.
So of these four anarchists who chance to have come to our close attention, every one could fairly be described as a misfit. These are not normal, stable people. Revolutionaries hardly ever are.
Here's one of them from the 19th century: Sergey Nechaev, Russian of course, supposed to have been the model for Verkhovensky in Dostoyevsky's novel Demons:
A revolutionary is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion—the revolution. Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he has severed every link with the social order and with the entire civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that world. He is its merciless enemy and continues to inhabit it with only one purpose—to destroy it. [Catechism Of A Revolutionist, 1869, as quoted in Stalin, by Edvard Radvinsky, 1997]
That's the true revolutionary personality. But back of those revolutionaries and their various levels of nihilistic passion there is of course an ideology. It's not just their ideology, either: It is mighty in the land.
APA is the American Psychological Association. Sample text:
Today's inequities, psychologists say, are deeply rooted in our past, and the status quo is no longer acceptable. "Every institution in America is born from the blood of white supremacist ideology and capitalism—and that's the disease," says Theopia Jackson, Ph.D. [Email her], president of the Association of Black Psychologists. [by Zara Abrams, APA Monitor, September 1, 2020]
Has the Association considered that perhaps "today's inequities" are deeply rooted in biological race differences?
Good heavens, no! Get out of here, Nazi!
The APA is on the case, though. In June it launched a series of virtual town halls for its members, with the aim of "establishing a racially diverse psychology workforce and more efficiently and effectively translating research insights into action."
You don't get very far into an article of this sort before you come to the guilt section. From APA CEO Dr. Arthur C. Evans Jr. [Tweet him] (who also happens to be black):
APA has a long history of taking a stand on these issues, but we also know that we have our own issues as an association and as a field. We have to look at our role as a discipline in perpetuating some of the things that are being protested. That has to be a part of our commitment.
We are guilty, guilty! We are all guilty!
From the Yale School of Medicine: YSM Team Proposes a Novel Approach to Addressing Racism in Medical Education. By Abigail Roth, August 4, 2020
This proposal appears in a multi-author article in the Journal of General Internal Medicine [Blackface in White Space: Using Admissions to Address Racism in Medical Education, by Nientara Anderson, Dowin Boatright, and Anna Reisman, June 29, 2020, pictured below].
Key passage:
Many medical schools have made efforts to address pervasive racism in medical education by forming committees and appointing deans focused on diversity and inclusion, adding health equity classes to their curricula, conducting training on implicit bias and microaggressions, and expanding racial and social-economic equity in admissions. However, [the authors of the article] believe a more direct way to address racism in medical training is to "stop admitting applicants with racist beliefs." …For example, essays, resumes, letters of recommendation, and interviews could be used to evaluate whether applicants "hold racist beliefs or invalid and fixed views on biological differences between races."
i.e. a political test.
This is a medical school, dammit! We'll have none of that filthy biology here!
The long arm of medical racism even reaches into the grave. Here's a piece from the Washington Post: Autopsies can uphold white supremacy. Subheading: They have long provided scientific and medical excuses for white killings of nonwhite people. [June 3, 2020]
The author of this article is history professor Elizabeth Kolsky, [Email her] author of a book titled Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law. She starts off of course with the death of George Floyd:
The preliminary findings of the Hennepin County medical examiner's report … used the veneer of scientific respectability to advance the outrageous claim that Floyd was partly responsible for his own death—something we know is untrue, given the subsequent reports.
Hm. I wonder how well that will age?
Then Prof Kolsky rambles off into a long tale about how beastly the colonial Brits were to the people of India, and my eyes glazed over. White people bad, dark people good; OK, got it.
But for keening, slobbering, self-flagellating confessions of guilt, the September issue of Scientific American is hard to beat … as it were.
This touches me more than the other examples, as I was once a keen reader of Scientific American. I can still remember the first issue I ever read: January 1960, cover story The Green Flash.
The magazine has long since gone CultMarx, though, and I haven't looked into it for years, except when friends send me links to especially egregious specimens of wokeness. Which a friend just did.
Headline: Reckoning with Our Mistakes. Subheading: Some of the cringiest articles in Scientific American's history reveal bigger questions about scientific authority, by Jen Schwartz and Dan Schlenoff, September 2020
Well, no, they don't really. The article does, though, reveal how racked with guilt a respectable old magazine has to be, or pretend to be, nowadays if it wants to stay respectable:
During the 19th century, Scientific American published articles that legitimized racism … By 1871 Charles Darwin had concluded that all living humans were descended from the same ancestral stock … But none of that stopped the rise of scientific racism, including false ideas about biological determinism.
Down with biological determinism! Just because you're a fish, that doesn't mean you need to be in water all the time!
In fact, Darwin had a bit more to say about the descent of man. In fact he wrote an entire book about it (The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 1871). Sample quotes:
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world … Looking at the world at no very distant date, an endless number of lower races will be eliminated by the higher civilized races.
How are Scientific American’s Schwartz and Schlenoff not aware of this? Do we have to Cancel Darwin now?
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vdare--2020-09-05--A Reader Finds That Breitbart's Freedom-Of-Speech Enthusiasts, Censored Themselves, Ban Links To VDA

A Reader Finds That Breitbart's Freedom-Of-Speech Enthusiasts, Censored Themselves, Ban Links To VDARE.com

Instead of the well-known criminals like George Floyd and Jacob Blake who dindu nuffin except terrorize people , resist arrest and fight with cops , how about Justine Damond , the Australian woman shot in cold blood with no provocation by an African affirmative action policeman in Minneapolis because she was white ?
The following text appeared immediately after I clicked `` Post '' : Breitbart uses Disqus for comments and may delegate comment screening to Disqus ( and the SPLC ) .
James Fulford writes : The NFL is going to have an `` approved list '' of `` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' which will include Breonna Taylor , killed by mistake in a drug raid , George Floyd , who seems to have died of a drug overdose while resisting arrest , and burglar/gunman Ahmaud Arbery , killed in self-defense when he tried to grab someone 's shotgun .
It 's unlikely to include the name of a white woman shot by an affirmative action hire , although she really was a victim of institutional racism .
What makes this interesting is that Breitbart claims to be strong for freedom of speech , see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Be Scanned by ‘ Hate Speech Algorithms ’ , September 5 , 2020 .
Despite this , they 've displayed a lot of cowardice over race-related issues .
See Hey , BREITBART , FEDERALIST—Our `` Black Crime '' Tags Are Better Than Yours !

From: A Dissident Commenter [Email him]
Breitbart printed an article recently saying:
Report: NFL to Allow Names of Those Killed by Police on Helmet Padding, by Dylan Gwinn August 30, 2020
My comment:
Instead of the well-known criminals like George Floyd and Jacob Blake who dindu nuffin except terrorize people, resist arrest and fight with cops, how about Justine Damond, the Australian woman shot in cold blood with no provocation by an African affirmative action policeman in Minneapolis because she was white? https://vdare.com/posts/diversity-hire-somali-killer-cop-convicted-of-3rd-degree-murder
The following text appeared immediately after I clicked "Post":
Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by Breitbart News Network.
The comment never appeared.
Breitbart uses Disqus for comments and may delegate comment screening to Disqus (and the SPLC).
James Fulford writes: The NFL is going to have an "approved list" of "victims of police violence and/or systemic racism" which will include Breonna Taylor, killed by mistake in a drug raid, George Floyd, who seems to have died of a drug overdose while resisting arrest, and burglar/gunman Ahmaud Arbery, killed in self-defense when he tried to grab someone's shotgun.
It's unlikely to include the name of a white woman shot by an affirmative action hire, although she really was a victim of institutional racism. What makes this interesting is that Breitbart claims to be strong for freedom of speech, see Bokhari: Everything You Post Online Will Be Scanned by ‘Hate Speech Algorithms,’ September 5, 2020. Despite this, they've displayed a lot of cowardice over race-related issues. See Hey, BREITBART, FEDERALIST—Our "Black Crime" Tags Are Better Than Yours!


vdare--2020-09-05--IT’S OFFICIAL: Leftists Think They’re Rational. But They’re Not

When a BLM mob surrounded an innocent diner in Washington , DC , demanded she raise her fist in “ solidarity ” with them , and then taunted and intimidated her for refusing to submit to them [ A woman diner is tormented by Black Lives Matter mob for refusing to raise her fist in Washington DC .
Is n't this how Nazi fascism began ?
by Dominic Sandbrook , Mail Online , August 26 , 2020 ] , the contrast couldn ’ t have been more stark : aggressive , emotionally-incontinent liberals against a calm , brave and dignified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contrast seen in the nation ’ s capital was by no means a one-off .
New research has proven that conservatives do indeed have better emotional control than liberals .
I have recently reported a growing body of studies finding that conservatives are more mentally stable than liberals , with young liberal females having the worst mental health of all .
Virtue-signalling liberals are also high is psychopathic traits , one of which is an inability to regulate your emotions .
Now a recent study published in the journal Social Psychological Science has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cognitive functioning between liberals ( used in the American sense of “ Leftist ” ) and conservatives [ Political Ideology and Executive Functioning : The Effect of Conservatism and Liberalism on Cognitive Flexibility and Working Memory Performance , by Bryan Buechner et al.
, April 10 , 2020 ] with liberals being worse at emotional regulation .
Led by Bryan Buechner , a psychologist at the University of Cincinnati , the team hypothesised that liberals and conservatives would perform differently on tasks that involved different aspects of working memory .
Conservatives , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that required “ response inhibition.
” This is where you have to be able to suppress reactions which interfere with behavior which is likely to achieve a set goal .
If you were told to remember something specific , this would allow you to suppress information which might cause you to alter your memory .
Conservatives , the researchers argued , are defined in part by resistance to change , liking order and structure , and following established rules .
Put simply , conservatives should be better at suppressing their reactions .
Liberals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at “ response updating.
” This is when you are required to revise your “ mental representations ” in reaction to new information .
It involves suppressing and disregarding effectively out-dated information and should be predicted by the liberal tendency to like change and to be open to new things .
The team conducted a number of experiments .
In one , which employed an undergraduate sample , subjects had to focus on a target while ignoring a distractor that manifested on a screen .
All subjects were also assessed in terms of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that it really was political ideology that was behind any differences , they were also assessed for their intelligence and for how religious they were .
The team checked this because intelligence is associated with “ openness to experience , ” so intelligence differences—rather than political differences—could have been the driving factor .
Conservatives are , on average , more religious than liberals and religiousness , argue the authors , is associated with “ impulse regulation , ” so this could have been the causal the factor .
The researchers found , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tasks that involved response inhibition , while liberals were better at response updating .
Neither differences in religiousness nor in intelligence could explain the relationship that they had uncovered .
They also found that liberals displayed greater “ cognitive flexibility ” than conservatives .
This was tapped into via a questionnaire which asked subjects to rate themselves on items such as “ I can communicate an idea in many different ways ” or “ I avoid new and unusual situations.
” So , there we have it .
Conservatives have better impulse control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tend towards childish behavior .
But liberals are more willing to change the way they see things in response to new information .
Or are they ?
The second finding might seem to jar with other studies , which have found that liberals are actually more dogmatic than conservatives .
When faced with information which challenges their fundamental worldview , it has been shown that liberals are actually more likely to dismiss empirical evidence and stick to their dogmas than are conservatives [ Are Conservatives Really More Simple‐Minded than Liberals ?
The Domain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Conway et al .
Political Psychology , 2015 ] .
This , in fact , would explain why liberals are prepared to live in a fantasy world when it comes to issues such as the causes of racial disparities in socioeconomic status .
So perhaps the liberal-conservative difference is more complicated—a difference to which this study does not do justice .
This is because the study relates to mundane and unimportant “ response updating ” —not updating about information that is a central to your worldview .
Maybe we could argue liberals are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are less rule-bound , less requiring of structure and thus more open to new things .
But when it comes to information that is fundamental to how they make sense of themselves and the world , the opposite is the case .
Such challenges evoke strong emotions—feelings of helplessness and existential angst—and liberals are worse at regulating their emotions .
( VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow made a similar point back in 2005 : Why I Am a Reagan Conservative/ Immigration Reformer ) .
So on the unimportant things , liberals are better @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much on the things that really matter .
This makes sense in terms of conservative-liberal differences in personality .
Conservatives are higher in many aspects of Conscientiousness , meaning they are ordered , rule-following and dislike sudden or radical change .
By contrast , liberals are low in Conscientiousness , meaning they cope better with change in general .
However , they are also high in Neuroticism , defined as feeling negative feelings strongly [ Mental Illness and the Left , by Emil Kirkegaard , Mankind Quarterly , 2020 ] .
Thus , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , such as in what scientists think about an issue , they will be overcome by feelings of anxiety in a way that is not the case with the more mentally stable conservative when an aspect of his worldview is challenged .
Liberals react to this through cognitive dissonance , whereby they will become emotional and angry , allaying their anxiety by becoming even more fervently attached to their worldview .
So , this explains the paradox of liberals being more open to change but also more dogmatic when their fundamental worldview is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and not reported in a media summary of this research back in May nor emphasized in the study itself , consulting the original paper reveals that in every experiment conducted , conservatives are very considerably better at emotional inhibition than liberals , but liberals are only a little bit better at response updating than conservatives .
This implies that a large minority of liberals are highly dogmatic and resistant to change on fundamental questions .
So , in understanding the BLM insurrection of the past few months , not only can we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ serious problems with depression , Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Psychopathic Personality Disorder , but it is clear that , even putting these aside , they have pronounced problems with regulating their emotions .
In this sense , in dealing with BLM protestors , we are dealing with children who happen to dwell in the bodies of fully-grown adults .
Lance Welton [ email him ] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York .

When a BLM mob surrounded an innocent diner in Washington, DC, demanded she raise her fist in “solidarity” with them, and then taunted and intimidated her for refusing to submit to them [A woman diner is tormented by Black Lives Matter mob for refusing to raise her fist in Washington DC. Isn't this how Nazi fascism began? by Dominic Sandbrook, Mail Online, August 26, 2020], the contrast couldn’t have been more stark: aggressive, emotionally-incontinent liberals against a calm, brave and dignified (probable) conservative. And the contrast seen in the nation’s capital was by no means a one-off. New research has proven that conservatives do indeed have better emotional control than liberals.
I have recently reported a growing body of studies finding that conservatives are more mentally stable than liberals, with young liberal females having the worst mental health of all. Virtue-signalling liberals are also high is psychopathic traits, one of which is an inability to regulate your emotions.
Now a recent study published in the journal Social Psychological Science has found that there are clear differences in cognitive functioning between liberals (used in the American sense of “Leftist”) and conservatives [Political Ideology and Executive Functioning: The Effect of Conservatism and Liberalism on Cognitive Flexibility and Working Memory Performance, by Bryan Buechner et al., April 10, 2020] with liberals being worse at emotional regulation.
Led by Bryan Buechner, a psychologist at the University of Cincinnati, the team hypothesized that liberals and conservatives would perform differently on tasks that involved different aspects of working memory. Conservatives, they reasoned, would perform better on tasks that required “response inhibition.” This is where you have to be able to suppress reactions which interfere with behavior which is likely to achieve a set goal. If you were told to remember something specific, this would allow you to suppress information which might cause you to alter your memory.
Conservatives, the researchers argued, are defined in part by resistance to change, liking order and structure, and following established rules. Put simply, conservatives should be better at suppressing their reactions.
Liberals, they proposed, should be superior at “response updating.” This is when you are required to revise your “mental representations” in reaction to new information. It involves suppressing and disregarding effectively outdated information and should be predicted by the liberal tendency to like change and to be open to new things.
The team conducted a number of experiments. In one, which employed an undergraduate sample, subjects had to focus on a target while ignoring a distractor that manifested on a screen.
All subjects were also assessed in terms of their political ideology. And to ensure that it really was political ideology that was behind any differences, they were also assessed for their intelligence and for how religious they were.
The team checked this because intelligence is associated with “openness to experience,” so intelligence differences—rather than political differences—could have been the driving factor. Conservatives are, on average, more religious than liberals and religiousness, argue the authors, is associated with “impulse regulation,” so this could have been the causal the factor.
The researchers found, as predicted, that conservatives were superior at tasks that involved response inhibition, while liberals were better at response updating. Neither differences in religiousness nor in intelligence could explain the relationship that they had uncovered.
They also found that liberals displayed greater “cognitive flexibility” than conservatives. This was tapped into via a questionnaire which asked subjects to rate themselves on items such as “I can communicate an idea in many different ways” or “I avoid new and unusual situations.”
So, there we have it. Conservatives have better impulse control than liberals, which is why liberals tend towards childish behavior. But liberals are more willing to change the way they see things in response to new information.
Or are they? The second finding might seem to jar with other studies, which have found that liberals are actually more dogmatic than conservatives. When faced with information which challenges their fundamental worldview, it has been shown that liberals are actually more likely to dismiss empirical evidence and stick to their dogmas than are conservatives [Are Conservatives Really More Simple‐Minded than Liberals? The Domain Specificity of Complex Thinking, by L. Conway et al. Political Psychology, 2015].
This, in fact, would explain why liberals are prepared to live in a fantasy world when it comes to issues such as the causes of racial disparities in socioeconomic status.
So perhaps the liberal-conservative difference is more complicated—a difference to which this study does not do justice. This is because the study relates to mundane and unimportant “response updating”—not updating about information that is a central to your worldview.
Maybe we could argue liberals are better at “response updating” because they are less rule-bound, less requiring of structure and thus more open to new things. But when it comes to information that is fundamental to how they make sense of themselves and the world, the opposite is the case. Such challenges evoke strong emotions—feelings of helplessness and existential angst—and liberals are worse at regulating their emotions. (VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow made a similar point back in 2005: Why I Am a Reagan Conservative/ Immigration Reformer).
So on the unimportant things, liberals are better at response updating, but not so much on the things that really matter.
This makes sense in terms of conservative-liberal differences in personality.
Conservatives are higher in many aspects of Conscientiousness, meaning they are ordered, rule-following and dislike sudden or radical change. By contrast, liberals are low in Conscientiousness, meaning they cope better with change in general.
However, they are also high in Neuroticism, defined as feeling negative feelings strongly [Mental Illness and the Left, by Emil Kirkegaard, Mankind Quarterly, 2020]. Thus, when a particular change challenges their worldview, such as in what scientists think about an issue, they will be overcome by feelings of anxiety in a way that is not the case with the more mentally stable conservative when an aspect of his worldview is challenged. Liberals react to this through cognitive dissonance, whereby they will become emotional and angry, allaying their anxiety by becoming even more fervently attached to their worldview.
So, this explains the paradox of liberals being more open to change but also more dogmatic when their fundamental worldview is empirically challenged.
Potentially consistent with this, and not reported in a media summary of this research back in May nor emphasized in the study itself, consulting the original paper reveals that in every experiment conducted, conservatives are very considerably better at emotional inhibition than liberals, but liberals are only a little bit better at response updating than conservatives.
This implies that a large minority of liberals are highly dogmatic and resistant to change on fundamental questions.
So, in understanding the BLM insurrection of the past few months, not only can we say with certainty that BLM protestors have serious problems with depression, Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Psychopathic Personality Disorder, but it is clear that, even putting these aside, they have pronounced problems with regulating their emotions.
In this sense, in dealing with BLM protestors, we are dealing with children who happen to dwell in the bodies of fully grown adults.
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.