Sunday, March 31, 2013

'The Economist' Contempt for Brits & People of Western Civilization


Derbyshire On ECONOMIST Immigration Piece: "I Have Rarely Seen Elite Contempt So Brazenly Expressed."

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The Open-Borders nation-haters at The Economist have come out with one of their strangest pieces yet.
Titled "A bad day for foreign scroungers," it reports on how Britain's political class is being dragged towardsimmigration restriction, very much against its will, by ─ ugh! ─ voters.
The subtitle of the piece is: But a worse one for David Cameron, as the prime minister panders to the xenophobes.
The piece goes downhill from there.
Who are "the xenophobes"? The Economist huffs:
For Phil [one of the constituents of Ben Gummer, a Conservative Member of Parliament], his neighbours and almost every resident of the four Ipswich streets Mr Gummer was canvassing, that is part of the problem. Immigrants, they said, were taking their jobs, their benefits and their children’s future.
So...pretty much everyone, then. ...

Left-Wing Hate Machine & Necessary End of GOP

Opinion: Columnists

How to fight the left-wing hate machine


Conn Carroll, The Examiner 

Judging from the oral arguments in the two gay marriage cases before the Supreme Court this week, it appears the federal Defense of Marriage Act will be ruled unconstitutional on federalism grounds, and that the court will punt on California's same-sex marriage law, effectively allowing every state to define marriage as it wishes. ...

http://washingtonexaminer.com/how-to-fight-the-left-wing-hate-machine/article/2525808


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     The central power source of Cultural Marxism has long been the racial divide, which it always works to worsen. When the GOP folded on that, it was doomed to become progressively submerged under ever higher high-water marks of the rest of the Left's agenda, like open borders, gays in the military, transgendered Boy Scout leaders, morbidly obese prima ballerinas or whatever. The GOP just keeps renegotiating the terms of its own surrender as it conducts various sideshows rear-guard battles over gun rights, abortion, etc. 

     European Americans will be better off after the GOP folds so that they can get on with having a European American party to represent them as the country starts to break apart into black, Latino, Muslim and other power centers. It didn't have to be like this. The passage of the 1965 immigration legislation that began to open the floodgates to the third-world invasion was the beginning of the end. The endless tsunami, here and in all Western nations, is now just following its unremarkable and natural course of political inundation and the smothering of Western civilization. Until the West starts fighting back.


Friday, March 29, 2013

What's Wrong with Los Angeles?

10 Things I Hate About LA

Gavin McInnes, Taki's Magazine, 3/29/2013

http://takimag.com/article/10_things_i_hate_about_la_gavin_mcinnes/print#axzz2OyuL5abH


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     I grew up in the LA suburbs when that city was still mostly white and conservative and had a conservative mayor. Two major events destroyed Los Angeles. The first can be summed up in the film 'Chinatown.' The second was the federal government opening up U.S. borders to massive legal and illegal third-world in-migration. 

     To me it is unintentionally comical that when white writers characterize a certain city, its styles, manners, personalities, etc, they talk almost exclusively about their fellow whites. You have to wonder if we will still be doing this when we are down to comprising, say, five percent of America's population. It will be like, "Another thing about Memphis. Every green-eyed redhead I met was named Natalie!" Of course by then there will only be one remaining green-eyed redhead in the entire Memphis Metro Area, who happens to be named Natalie.



Wednesday, March 27, 2013

New York City or Lagos, What Makes a Place 'Vibrant'?


The True Meaning of the V-Word

Steve Sailer, Taki's Magazine
The True Meaning of the V-Word
What do people really mean by the word “vibrant?”
Until the disco era, “vibrant” was used only rarely, mostly in connection with vibrations, literal or metaphorical. A quick search online finds no examples of “vibrant” in the works of George Orwell or John Updike, one in Evelyn Waugh‘s (“that silence vibrant with self-accusation”), and two in Vladimir Nabokov‘s. (Humbert Humbert looks up to a “vibrant sky” through “nervous” rustling branches.)
According to Google’s Ngram, “vibrant” was an occasionally used word from the 1920s into the early 1970s. But then its share of all the words in books roughly quadrupled by the mid-2000s (when a few people finally started to make fun of it).
In 2013, it’s hard to avoid the word. For example, on Monday, President Obama announced, “Immigration makes us stronger—it keeps us vibrant.…”
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     All very well said. I understand that when Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas looks at a place like Lagos, Nigeria, he sees vibrancy bursting out all over. I'm thinking that real estate and advertising uses of the term might be a tad different, since they will use any buzzword that will likely work, but I think of 'vibrant' as either nonwhite or with a healthy sprinkling of whites, a vibrant rainbow that makes whites forget that the white band of the rainbow is fading out as the dark demographic storm clouds gather. 

     Also like Sailer's point that 'vibrant' has become a placeholder. I think part of the term satisfies something having to do with my particular view of White Man's Disease. For example, if I were a journalist or a novelist, how would I characterize a group of people of another race so that I can be safely polite, complementary or at least inoffensive? 

     It reminds me of when I read even older, pre-1960's, novels and some white character will be surrounded by nonwhites, for example, on a foreign airliner, filled with, say, Indonesians. I always smile, waiting for the nonwhites to invariably be described as "a handsome people." You have to wonder whether, for example, the Chinese or the Arabs feel the need to describe Europeans as handsome, attractive, sex kittens or some such--or their fellow Chinese or Arabs might suspect them of being bad bad BAD! 

     Maybe it is time to devise a scientific Scale of Vibrancy. Some mostly nonwhite multicultural multiracial neighborhood, with no doubt lots of hustle and bustle, ample street noise, loud music, spicy fragrant foods, colorful apparel and random gruesome danger, maybe in New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Austin, LA or San Francisco, might achieve a respectable 4. Skipping up the scale, a vibrant location to die for would be Lagos, a lofty 8. From what I recently read over at American Renascence, parts of Liberia, like those violently overseen/caringly ministered to by General/Preacher Butt Naked, might achieve a breathtaking 9. Whereas Hell proper would remain a solid 10, the gold standard of vibrancy. 



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Senseless in Seattle: White Privilege / Dispossession Conference


Psychological Mechanisms of White Dispossession














Kevin MacDonald

I discuss three mechanisms basic to the psychology of White dispossession — runaway displays of White guilt and abasement, social learning, and being a member of a moral ingroup. Self-interest is often front and center, or at least in the background. For example, it’s pretty clear that many if not most Whites who make effusive declarations of allegiance to the multicultural reign of terror are acting out of self-interest. Such people are plugging into the contemporary structure of rewards and punishments created by our hostile elites. Even White heterosexual males have much to gain by making such displays; simply attending a job talk at a university, especially for an administrative position, makes it clear that explicit affirmations of allegiance to multiculturalism, White guilt, and acquiescence to White dispossession are de rigueur.
Runaway Displays of White Guilt and Abasement
So part of the psychology of displacement among Whites is simply self-interest. Anthony Hilton’s article (“Giving away the farm: Why?”)  adds the suggestion that there can be a runaway process resulting from competition among displayers to the point that their declarations become more and more grotesque and removed from rationality. Just as peahens select for more and more cumbersome, costly tail feathers in peacocks, we can expect that the bar for successful displays of White self-deprecation and guilt to be continuously raised.
One might suppose then, that the White Privilege Conference to be held in Seattle in April would be an ideal arena for such displays. Here are some quotes from some of the presentations that caught my eye. 
“The Color of Empire / The Cost to Our Humanity: Dismantling White Privilege and Class Supremacy Using Cellular Wisdom” … The session begins with mind and body grounding in processes, proceeds to examining the biological wisdom of the human cell [???], moves to an analysis of race and class oppression / liberation dynamics in the U.S. (with particular attention to class supremacy and white privilege), and concludes with a range of applications of cellular wisdom to participants’ racial and economic justice work personally and professionally. …
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2013/03/psychological-mechanisms-of-white-dispossession/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theoccidentalobserver%2Ffeed+%28The+Occidental+Observer%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

UK Muslims Rape White Girls Move on to 'Fresh Meat'


'What you did is depressingly familiar in this country': Judge condemns pair who drugged and raped vulnerable underage girls before moving on to 'fresh meat'


  • Shazad Rehman, 30, and nephew Bilal Hussain, 23, jailed today in Bradford

  • Underage vulnerable girls were picked up as the men cruised the streets

  • Known as 'Yaz and Naz' - they plied the girls with alcohol and cannabis

  • Girls were 'emotionally fragile and may have been seeking attention'

  • Judge said conduct was 'pernicious, wicked and determined'


Two men have today been jailed for drugging and raping vulnerable underage girls they found walking the streets.


Shazad Rehman, 30, was jailed for 18-and-half years and his nephew Bilal Hussain, 23, was jailed for 17-and-a-half years at Bradford Crown Court.

Judge Jonathan Rose said the men 'engaged in a course of conduct which has become increasingly and depressingly familiar in this country'.

The pair denied abusing the girls, who were picked up as they cruised the streets of Keighley and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

Shazad Rehman (30), of no fixed address, who was found guilty of raping two 14-year-old girls, one repeatedlyShazad Rehman (30), of no fixed address, who was found guilty of raping two 14-year-old girls, one repeatedly
Bilal Hussain
Shazad Rehman, 30, (left)  was jailed for 18-and-half years and his nephew Bilal Hussain, 23, (right) was jailed for 17-and-a-half years at Bradford Crown Court

A jury of eight men and two women found them guilty of a series of sex and drugs offences after two days of deliberation.

The court heard how Rehman and Hussain - known as 'Yaz and Naz' - plied the girls with alcohol and cannabis and took them to hotels for sex. ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2289170/Keighley-rape-trial-Judge-condemns-pair-drugged-raped-vulnerable-underage-girls-moving-fresh-meat.html#ixzz2Ohf2GVtO 

Open Borders + Amnesties = Third World USA = RIP GOP


What killed the New Majority?
Patrick J. Buchanan, Taki's Magazine, 3/26/2013
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. . .  First, there was mass immigration, which brought in 40 to 50 million people, legal and illegal, poor and working class, and almost all from the Third World. The GOP agreed to the importation of a vast new constituency that is now kicking the GOP into an early grave.

When some implored the party in 1992 to secure the border and declare a “timeout” on legal immigration to assimilate the millions already here, the party establishment repudiated any such ideas.

“We are a nation of immigrants!” it huffed. Well, we sure are now.

And when amnesty is granted to the 12 million illegals, as GOP senators are preparing to do, that should advance the death of the GOP as a national party by turning Colorado, Nevada and Arizona blue, and putting even Texas in play. ...

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Monday, March 25, 2013

SPLC / Anti-Racism High Command Shuns Hiring Blacks


SPLC — 2013 — Still No Minorities at the Top After 42 Years

World Press, 3/22/2013


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Last week, Watching the Watchdogs examined the Southern Poverty Law Center’s latest “hate map” fundraising tool and broke the amazing, astounding, unprecedented news that for the first time in history the number of alleged “hate groups” designated by the SPLC’s Public Relations chief, Mark Potok, (something even the FBI cannot do…), actually DECLINED!!

While this inconceivable turn of events left many investigators gasping in amazement, a quick head-count of the SPLC’s top executives reveals a caucus as Caucasian as it was the day Morris Dees opened the doors of the company in 1971. There are still some unbroken traditions that one can count on in this mad, mad world. ...

http://rkeefe57.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/splc-2013-still-no-minorities-at-the-top-after-42-years/

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Heinemann Elizabeth Laird ‘Sugar & Candy’ Anti-White Kid Propaganda


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     This is not so much an attack on the author of this book, since almost any multiracial/multicultural book for our hapless kids would exhibit the same characteristics.

     In Summary:

     We read about the teenage black girl, “Sugar is sweet. Sugar is pretty. Sugar has nice clothes and nice hair. People like Sugar. Sugar is happy. ...

     Then the white blond girl, “Candy comes to town. Candy is sweet. Candy is pretty. Candy has beautiful hair and new clothes. Candy has money and roller-skates and stereo. People like Candy.”

     Okay, Candy’s parents must be wealthy and privileged. Of course there are wealthy black kids, especially those of celebrities and sports figures, who are wealthier than millions of poor or working-class white kids, but of course no one in their right mind would write a book for schools with such a flamingly un-PC premise. 

     Candy is offered presents from her new admiring friends. “Candy takes the apple and the flowers. Candy Smiles. She has a sweet, pretty voice.”

     Tragically, “Sugar doesn't have a stereo. She doesn't have roller skates. ... 

     Sugar says to her old friends, ‘Come to the drugstore with me! Susie? Billy? Joe? Come and buy some ice-cream, or a hot-dog, or a drink.’

     ‘Sorry, Sugar, we’re going with Candy. ...”

     Once again notice how all these things are irreversible. Imagine a multicultural children’s book where the white girl would be the object of unfairness. 

     “Sugar is very unhappy. She cries. Then Sugar hears something. ...”

     Sugar sees two taller older boys roughing up a younger boy to get his money. 

     “The little boy is crying. Sugar wants to help the little boy.”

     ‘Hey stop that! Don’t hurt that little boy!'

     So Sugar, the black teen, steps in to rescue a little blond white kid, being pummeled by two thuggish older white boys. Although one of the older boys has a darker shade of skin, he clearly has finely wrought Western European features, so apparently the author was comically trying hedge a bit on the racial issue. Maybe he just has a golden suntan? Or the author was wanting not to be too obvious? 

     But again, notice the irreversibility. Imagine a children’s book that would show a white teen standing up to black thugs, or the much more typical scenario of black thugs roughing up a little white boy. Had authoress Laird written it that way, the Tolerance Police, the Cultural Marxism Enforcers, or whatever we want to call them, would have come after her, portraying her as a drooling hate-filled ‘white supremacist.’ 

     Back to the story. Sugar is now being threatened by these young toughs, so she whistles for her old friends, who come running back and help Sugar save the day.

     The little boy who was saved by Sugar “talks to Sugar’s friends.”

     ‘Sugar’s kind. Sugar’s brave. ... Sugar’s a great girl.’

     Meanwhile Candy is shown in the foreground, with her expensive stereo and stylish clothes and beribboned blond hair, now standing alone and looking disconsolate. 

     “Sugar’s friends laugh and smile. They forget about Candy. They forget Candy’s pretty clothes and her roller skates and her stereo. Sugar’s brave and kind. They want Sugar now.”

     But wait–Sugar again saves the day!

     “Sugar smiles. Then she sees Candy. Candy is alone. Candy is unhappy.”

     ‘Come on Candy. Come and have some ice-cream with us.’

The End


     Happy ending? Sure. Teaches good lessons? Okay.

     However, what does it say about the possibility of successful multiracial/multicultural societies if these things always have to be written in one direction, never in reverse, even if the way they are written are often far less likely to occur than in the real world? Is it common in schools for big white kids to beat up small white kids as black girls spring to the rescue? Is that why whites, liberal and conservatives alike, try about everything they can to escape from sending their kids to non-white majority schools?

     And what does it say about race relations that the only way to keep the peace is for whites to always need to bend over backwards propping up a double standard to please nonwhites and to prove they are not ‘haters’? In fact, even to such an extent that they are expected to celebrate their future demographic demise. 

     Finally, what will happen when goody-two-shoes whites are not around to take an apologetic stance and run around monitoring polite behavior between a multitude of races, cultures and religions? We already see this happening at some schools where blacks and Latinos are at war. And to make it even more fun and ‘vibrant,’ sometimes these are Muslim blacks from Africa. So we are treated to a racial AND a religious war in the same school. A double hooray for diversity! Alas, there are probably very few blacks or Latinos trundling up and down such school hallways piously saying things like, “No, after you!” in the cafeteria food line. 

     As the United States and other Western nations become ever more balkanized violent corrupt polluted dangerous teeming third-world anthills, maybe our official grave marker will someday read:

     ‘Western Civilization: Dead from Good Intentions.”

Jaron Lanier Ron Rosenbaum & Jewish / Gentile Double Standard


The Spy Who Came In From The Cold 2.0 

How one digital pioneer turned against the very culture he helped create

By Ron Rosenbaum
Smithsonian Magazine, January 2013

Jaron Lanier


     I couldn't help thinking of John Le Carré’s spy novels as I awaited my rendezvous with Jaron Lanier in a corner of the lobby of the stylish W Hotel just off Union Square in Manhattan. Le Carré’s espionage tales, such as The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, are haunted by the spectre of the mole, the defector, the double agent, who, from a position deep inside, turns against the ideology he once professed fealty to.

     And so it is with Jaron Lanier and the ideology he helped create, Web 2.0 futurism, digital utopianism, which he now calls “digital Maoism,” indicting “internet intellectuals,” accusing giants like Facebook and Google of being “spy agencies.” Lanier was one of the creators of our current digital reality and now he wants to subvert the “hive mind,” as the web world’s been called, before it engulfs us all, destroys political discourse, economic stability, the dignity of personhood and leads to “social catastrophe.” Jaron Lanier is the spy who came in from the cold 2.0. ...

     But he saw anonymity as a poison seed. The way it didn't hide, but, in fact, brandished the ugliness of human nature beneath the anonymous screen-name masks. An enabling and foreshadowing of mob rule, not a growth of democracy, but an accretion of tribalism. ...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/What-Turned-Jaron-Lanier-Against-the-Web-183832741.html#ixzz2OVBVyX7d

     Not that all of Lanier’s points are without merit. What responsible person would defend the extreme ‘flaming’ on the Internet?

     But two things need to be noted. 

     First, the Powers That Be, what I often call the Tolerance Police, who actually specialize in intolerance, are understandably upset that the Internet is becoming an ever growing un-PC forum that they have been unable to control.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Critique-Evolutionary-Twentieth-Century-Intellectual/dp/0759672229

     Secondly, as Kevin MacDonald discusses at length, in his ‘The Culture of Critique,’ it has been characteristic of the Jewish community down through the ages to label any feelings of kinship among gentile whites as dangerous unhinged “tribalism,” while at the same time simply assuming out-of-hand that even stronger feelings of kinship within the Jewish community are not only natural and beneficial, but absolutely necessary for survival. 

     If you look at the consequences of this double standard, especially in the field of legal and illegal mass in-migration, plus offspring, it seems that the only way for white gentiles to prove they are not anti-Semitic is for them to politely go out of existence. 

Friday, March 22, 2013

Africa Still 'Heart of Darkness'? Ask Liberian General Butt Naked


Into the Heart of Darkness

Michael McGregor, American Renaissance, March 20, 2013
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Vice Magazine ventures into Liberia.
Joseph Conrad’s classic novella Heart of Darkness depicts Africa as a continent of primordial darkness where savage impulses reign. Heart of Darkness was published in 1899, but The Vice Guide to Liberiapresents a similarly brutal image of the Dark Continent, except that the darkness has crept out of the jungle into the dilapidated cities. This is not a really a travel guide, however; it is a deliberate search for degeneracy.
Degeneracy is easy to find in Liberia, which is a particularly wretched place, even for Africa. It is a country where underage hookers sell their bodies for less than a dollar to feed their drug addictions, and where cannibal warlords transform themselves into evangelical preachers overnight. The film is reminiscent of a documentary made in the 1960s, Africa Addio. Both show aspects of Africa the West refuses to see, and suggest how difficult it is for Africans to manage a Western-style state. ...

Unlike Ann Coulter Rand Paul Swallowed by Open-Borders Sinkhole

John Derbyshire On Rand Paul And Ann Coulter: Lose Some, Win Some, The War Grinds On

Authorities announced that Rand Paul's mind cannot be retrieved. 
... In seeking an explanation, I am more inclined to impersonal historical forces. Reading Paul’s speech, in fact, what came to mind—and I mean no disrespect to the dead—was that awful story out of Florida a few weeks ago, about the poor chap who was swallowed by a sinkhole while watching TV in bed.
Rand Paul suffered some analogous political fate. Playing the part of the Florida terrain here is the intellectual framework of our current politics: a thin crust of firm civic republicanism overlaying a deep wet karst of utopian romanticism. Playing the part of aquifer depletion is the draining away of national spirit under the forces of multiculturalism and ethnomasochism. Playing the part of gravity is the Republican Party’s current, powerful death wish.
GLWOOP! There goes another one.
And, as always in human affairs, sheer stupidity and sloth are not to be neglected. Given that Rand Paul’s speech was stitched together from the stalest, most threadbare clichés—the kind of thing immigration patriots have been debunking for a decade and more—you have to wonder how much time the junior Senator from Kentucky put into reading up on his chosen topic. ...
So much for the “one out.” The “one in” was Ann Coulter, who told CPAC last Saturday afternoon:
I'm now a single-issue voter against amnesty…We offer hope, opportunity, and jobs. And I hope that we offer a change to our absolutely suicidal immigration policies.
Ann is not a legislator, although I understand that Peter Brimelow is having some COULTER FOR PRESIDENT lapel buttons made up. She is a brilliant and popular polemicist, though, and her speech—and the applause it got from the CPAC crowd—could be a milestone on the road back from the demoralized GOP’s surrender on immigration.
It is good to know, too, that the lady has decisively unhitched herself from the gun-controlling, border-opening Chris Christie. Ann signaled her refusal to be embarrassed about that error by opening her CPAC talk with a Christie joke: “The sequester’s really ruined everything, hasn't it? . . . Even CPAC had to cut back on its speakers this year by about 300 pounds.” (At 20 seconds in here.)
The chutzpah is characteristic, and welcome in a movement that has all too often in recent years been timidly deferential to the established liberal order. ...
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Update on comfortingly sane Coulter views on legal immigration as well:







Thursday, March 21, 2013

Brown University Teaches 'Queer' Nonwhites to Resist Sexy 'Queer' Whites


Upcoming workshop at Brown Univ. set to help queer minorities overcome attraction to queer whites

Timothy Dionisopoulos, Campus Reform



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A group of Brown University students appear to be preparing an on-campus workshop in which “queer” participants will separate by race to work past their sexual attraction to Caucasians.

We “find ourselves falling always for the white queers... wishing we could have more agency in the process, be more intentional about who we desire and how,” reads the official Facebook description of the event.

“We are invested in generating a politics of sexuality that compels us to interrogate beauty as privilege and constructed by systems of white supremacy, ableism, capitalism, and heteronormativity,” it continues. ...

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

What is the 'Cult of Microaggressions'?


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The Cult of Microaggressions

March 20, 2013
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While reading up a couple of weeks ago on the Oberlin College KKK fiasco, I became fascinated by the various Web pages at colleges such as OberlinSmithScripps, and similar advanced, lesbian-heavy institutions for the documenting of “microaggressions.” Since the Ku Klux Klaxon can’t be sounded every week (at least not yet), in the meantime young people are encouraged to fondle and document for posterity the subtlest of slights they feel they’ve suffered.

As I pored over the microaggressions endured by victims/students at expensive liberal-arts colleges, it struck me that this ongoing dumbing down of America is a joint project of both sexes, with men and women each contributing their own special something.
In the wake of the Obama campaign relaunching the Battle of the Sexes a year ago, it’s worth noting that the peculiar contemporary version of ressentiment that assisted the president’s reelection can’t be blamed on either sex alone. The current mode, of which microaggressions websites are only the outer edge, combines female conformism and self-absorption with male abstraction, aggression, and gang loyalty.
First, though, what are microaggressions?
The Smith College site explains:
A microaggression is a brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignity, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicates a hostile, derogatory, or negative slight or insult….

     Sounds like just another day down on the Orwellian American Soft-Totalitarian Animal Farm. The larger conflict is not one between women and men, but Cultural Marxism versus Western civilization, a civilization that traditionally had been led by white men. 

     The forces of the Left have managed to commandeer racial minorities, homosexuals, the transgendered, white feminists and almost everyone else, except possibly one Midwestern Mormon Asian-American circus clown and two Mongolian Gothic cathedral bell-tower maintenance men, as their allies. 

     Ironically, once white men have been tossed into history's wood-chipper, by biological necessity, soon to follow will be white women. Tragically, that will be a very bad hair day.


Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Stephen Jay Gould Tattersall & the Murder of Social Science


Ian Tattersall on Stephen Jay Gould


Kevin MacDonald, Occidental Observer, March 19, 2013



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The great thing about being a liberal/radical academic is that even falsifying data isn’t enough to seriously tarnish one’s reputation. Franz Boas’s finagling of his data on the skull shapes of immigrants in pursuit of his ethnopolitical agenda certainly hasn’t hurt his reputation, and Ian Tattersall’s remembrance of Stephen Jay Gould in the current issue of Natural History certainly won’t do anything to damage Gould (“Remembering Stephen Jay Gould“). Indeed, we read that the tenth anniversary of Gould’s death occasioned a “commemorative meeting in Venice organized by the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in collaboration with the Università Ca’ Foscari.” Doubtless replete with adulation. ...

Tattersall is quite frank about Gould’s politics and his views on science, describing him as “an unrepentant political liberal, he was firmly on the side of nurture.” Tattersall is saying that being a liberal implies that one will naturally support environmentalist positions in the social sciences. Given the dominance of the left in the academic world and the media, that means that the official message promulgated from elite institutions in the West inevitably supports the nurture argument and its typical correlate that all problems of non-Whites are due to White racism. (Predictably Adam Carrolla was recently called a ‘racist’for wondering why 50% of Blacks and Latinos in California couldn’t manage to obtain a checking account when Asian immigrants have managed to do just fine despite the pervasive racism by White Americans.) And of course this means that social science is impossible. ...

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2013/03/ian-tattersall-on-stephen-jay-gould/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theoccidentalobserver%2Ffeed+%28The+Occidental+Observer%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail

American Grade Schools Requiring Kids to be Muslims

How Diversity Ideology Corrupts American Education
By Brenda Walker 
The Social Contract, Volume 23, Number 2 (Winter 2013) 
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In the weeks following Mitt Romney’s electoral defeat, Republicans worried at length that the failure indicated a growing cultural divide in which traditional values were being lost. It seemed that millions voted in favor of the free stuff handed out by the redistributionist administration, like the free Obama phones and near doubling of food stamps. Minorities did indeed vote for Obama in large majorities: Hispanics, 71 percent; Asians, 73 percent; blacks, 96 percent (including 100 percent in Philadelphia!).
Quick-fix remedies were proposed, in particular that Republicans should promote an illegal alien amnesty for millions of foreign lawbreakers that would prove conservatives’ friendliness toward diverse immigration.
If only it were that easy. A little surrender of American sovereignty will not begin to solve the cultural erosion, because the rot goes far deeper than can be remedied by a simple political deal. Traditional values and American history are condemned throughout popular culture, but nowhere more than in the public school system.
The neighborhood schoolhouse is often a little indoctrination center for the trendy ideals of diversity as the highest good, followed closely by the equality of outcome in society. American and immigrant kids alike both get the same dose of anti-American views that condemn capitalism, national sovereignty, and the idea of equality of individuals under law. ...
There have been instances of schools making kids dress up like Muslims and even recite Islamic prayers so students could learn about the culture from the inside out. In 2002, the Byron, California, schools directed 7th graders to live like Muslims for three weeks — kids were required to memorize Muslim prayers, fulfill the Five Pillars of Faith, and fast during lunch period to simulate fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. ...

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