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From FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education:
Ithaca College’s Microaggressions Bill Labels Students ‘Oppressors’ for ‘Belittling’ Speech
By Will Creeley March 26, 2015Early last week, the Ithaca College Student Government Association passed a resolution to create an anonymous, online system for students to report “microaggressions” on campus. FIRE has closely monitored the bill’s progress, as its language presents obvious problems for freedom of expression at the private New York college.
First, the measure resolves to create a “school-wide online system to report microaggressions”—but does not define the term “microaggressions.”
This glaring lack of clarity is deeply troubling. Without a stable understanding of what a microaggression is or is not, students run the risk of being reported for speech that crosses an invisible line, drawn by and known only to the offended listener.
Well, that’s kind of the point, isn’t it?
Of course, the inherent subjectivity of microaggressions is an even bigger problem, and the squirrely elasticity of the term makes the lack of clear definition all but unavoidable. One student’s microaggression is another’s earnest attempt to discuss different life experiences. The chill on student speech would be severe. In fact, chilling speech appears to be the point; as one supporter of the bill told The Ithacan student newspaper, “Just like any other resolution that we want to pass with microaggression and diversity in the institution, what it does is it helps to make people think a little more before they do or say something.”
If the bill had included a definition, the threat to free expression would likely be clearer still. In an interview with The Ithaca Voice, one of the bill’s authors defined microaggressions as “statements by a person from a privileged group that belittles or isolates a member of an unprivileged group, as it relates to race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ability and more.” This is an unequivocal attempt to police speech, and it only prompts more questions: What groups are privileged or unprivileged? Who decides? What makes a statement “belittling” or “isolating”? Who decides? What other class statuses might make a student a member of an unprivileged group? Who decides?
Surprisingly, in practice there’s not all that much uncertainty over Victimization Pokemon Points, since the unspoken but apparent engine is anti-Core Americanism.
1. The less you are like, say, George Washington, the more points you have.
2. Further, the benefit of the doubt goes to those asserting victim status. For example, Barack Obama might seem to have a lot in common with George Washington in terms of power and privilege, what with both of them being Presidents and all. But the President had the good sense to assert his blackness, so he gets to be an official victim while some unemployed white guy in West Virginia is just a loser.
3. Moreover, the more power and privilege a self-identified victim has, the less you’d better publicly doubt his Pokemon Points.
Again, the inescapable subjectivity of the term means that student expression is only as safe as the most sensitive student on campus allows it to be, however unreasonable his or her determination.
… The resolution further states that “the system will be set up to not identify individuals who choose to report by name but will note the demographics of people who report and the demographics of oppressors based on a coding system.” As explained by one of the bill’s authors, the bill would record the “gender, race, age and school within the college and year of both the person reporting the microaggression and the person being reported.”
In other words, the class status of student speakers (“oppressors”) who are deemed to have “belittled” or “isolated” a student member of an “unprivileged group” would be recorded. Presumably, the reporting student would be empowered to determine the oppressor’s gender, race, and age …
The Ithacan reports that the sponsors’ desire to go further by requiring that the names of the “oppressors” be recorded, too, was quelled only by “possible legal barriers.” Apparently, those barriers are currently being reviewed by college lawyers. Publicly labelling a student an “oppressor” solely on the basis of an anonymous report about speech that caused subjective offense? What could possibly go wrong?
FIRE, which is complaining about this microaggressions initiative, was founded in 1999 by civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate, age 72, and U. Penn intellectual history professor Alan Charles Kors, 71.
Professor Kors, who specializes in the Enlightenment, is, despite his Bugs Bunny accent, perhaps the technically best lecturer of all the many fine lecturers whose tapes are published by the Teaching Company. He’s a master at pacing and clarifying his lectures so that you can follow his complex ideas while driving or doing housework. I’ve listened to his series of lectures on Voltaire while commuting on the freeway and I never had to hit rewind, even after changing lanes.
Kors and Silverglate are representative of a once powerful tradition of Jewish civil libertarianism that felt that it was good for the Jews that universal rules of freedom of expression applied to everybody. Jazz critic Nat Hentoff, now 89, is another example. (Here’s Hentoff interviewing martyred Jewish comic Lenny Bruce.) A society in which people are not formally punished for being verbally aggressive seemed like it would be good for the Jews.
In recent decades, however, Who? Whom? thinking has become more popular. Why put up with a lot of guff when you have the power and privilege to award yourself plenty of Victimization Pokemon Points? Instead of a Single Standard, why not have a Double Standard? A Single Standard was appealing in Lenny Bruce’s day, but in Jon Stewart’s day, it’s more fun to ruin the career of Rick Sanchez for pointing out that Stewart isn’t a minority victim.
But successful as that has been in the short run, in the long run, will that kind of thinking be good for the Jews? Or will aggressive newcomers, like those University of California student politicians, use the Jewish tendency toward verbal aggressiveness to take down the current top dogs, using the widespread distaste for Israel in the rest of the world as an opening wedge for dislodging American Jews from their positions of power and privilege?
Perhaps the Kors-Silverglate-Hentoff theory of a Single Standard of liberty and objective fairness might be more prudent for Jews in the long run?
Speechophobia.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911047
Why not just ban Rap music then?
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911048
While this might be a mere trickle, there appears to more written this past couple of weeks about repression of speech and the dangers that this entails. The question might be “Who is listening?” But there is more and more “standing up” recently. And I think of the biggest names in the whole “Free Speech” business stood up and was counted. Floyd Abrahms.
http://www7.law.temple.edu//news-and-events/first-amendment-giant-floyd-abrams-calls-higher-education-the-next-battleground-over-free-speech-in-2015-adams-lecture/
A little wikipedia background on Floyd Abrahms.
“Floyd Abrams (born July 9, 1936) is an American attorney at Cahill Gordon & Reindel. He is an expert on constitutional law, and many arguments in the briefs he has written before the United States Supreme Court have been adopted as United States Constitutional interpretative law as it relates to the First Amendment and free speech. He is the William J. Brennan Jr. Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Abrams argued for The New York Times and Judith Miller in the CIA leak grand jury investigation.”
The two New York Times cases he argued in front of the Supreme Court New York Times Co. v. Sullivan,New York Times Co. v. United States literally set the judicial interpretation of free speech.
In a speech in front of Temple University, he argued that the biggest threat to free speech today is occurring on college campuses. And not due to repression on the part of administrations but rather due to that of some minority of students who scream to repress viewpoints different from what they hold.
He quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes, of all people (talk about calling in the big guns)
“Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. put it well, when he was a Harvard undergraduate before the Civil War and was a student editor of Harvard Magazine. “We must,” he wrote in 1858, “have every train of thought brought before us while we are young, and may as well at once prepare for it.”
And while it is not Eisenhower calling out McCarthy, when the biggest name alive in Free Speech says “Enough”, it begins to give others cover to stand up also.
http://concurringopinions.com/archives/2015/03/guest-contributor-floyd-abrams-liberty-is-liberty.html
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911050
If I was a student there I would simply overwhelm the system with bogus reports. I mean, I would submit dozens of complaints every day claiming that I had been microagressed by a lesbian midget handicapped Muslim Eskimo.
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http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911061
I am unclear on your concept of “verbally aggressiveness.” How is this different that being clear, persuasive, or eloquent? Do you consider yourself verbally aggressive?
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911071
The Jews of America are going to be okay. I’m not worried anyone’s going to cramp their style or make them hold their tongues. Nobody puts Baby in the corner.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911079
The victimization Pokemon points reminds me of a skit in Community, where the insanely politically correct Dean tries to make the ultimate non-offensive mascot by first codifying all racial characteristics to avoid each and every one of them:
“Oh, that is our human color wheel, it goes from Seal, to Seal’s teeth.”
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911080
Microaggressions are “statements by a person from
a privileged group that belittles or isolates a member
of an unprivileged group, as it relates to race, class,
gender, sexual orientation, ability and more.”
Legalistic mavens will note that this requires lists of
privileged and unprivileged groups, and raises the
possibility that the same group may be both privileged
and unprivileged. “Black male pharmaceutical
entrepreneurs” could belong in both groups, because
their business ethic is such that they microagress (and
even milliagress) against each other over issues of
commercial territory and quality control.
An ambiguity of the legislative definition is the pronoun “it”
in “as it relates to race, class, gender, sexual orientation,
ability and more.” Also peculiar is that the conjunction
in this list of topics is not “or” but “and”. So belittlement
by gender that does not also mention race does not
qualify as a microagression. And what is and is not
included in the “and more” needs to be clarified.
Also, we need more research into nano-, pico-, and femto-
aggressions.
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feature not bug
That was done intentionally. That way it can be selectively enforced.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911083
http://www7.law.temple.edu//news-and-events/first-amendment-giant-floyd-abrams-calls-higher-education-the-next-battleground-over-free-speech-in-2015-adams-lecture/
A little wikipedia background on Floyd Abrahms.
“Floyd Abrams (born July 9, 1936) is an American attorney at Cahill Gordon & Reindel. He is an expert on constitutional law, and many arguments in the briefs he has written before the United States Supreme Court have been adopted as United States Constitutional interpretative law as it relates to the First Amendment and free speech. He is the William J. Brennan Jr. Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Abrams argued for The New York Times and Judith Miller in the CIA leak grand jury investigation.”
The two New York Times cases he argued in front of the Supreme Court New York Times Co. v. Sullivan,New York Times Co. v. United States literally set the judicial interpretation of free speech.
In a speech in front of Temple University, he argued that the biggest threat to free speech today is occurring on college campuses. And not due to repression on the part of administrations but rather due to that of some minority of students who scream to repress viewpoints different from what they hold.
He quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes, of all people (talk about calling in the big guns)
“Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. put it well, when he was a Harvard undergraduate before the Civil War and was a student editor of Harvard Magazine. “We must,” he wrote in 1858, “have every train of thought brought before us while we are young, and may as well at once prepare for it.”
And while it is not Eisenhower calling out McCarthy, when the biggest name alive in Free Speech says “Enough”, it begins to give others cover to stand up also.
http://concurringopinions.com/archives/2015/03/guest-contributor-floyd-abrams-liberty-is-liberty.html
Okay, but it seems like most of the pro-free speech examples you and I are coming up with are in their 70s or 80s.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/category/freedom-of-speech/
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911084
I am unclear on your concept of “verbally aggressiveness.”
This might be an example. Are you really unclear? Really? Completely? Hard to believe.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911102
The biggest story in the world right now among Silicon Valley centimillionaires and billionaires seems to be the new religious freedom law in Indiana. Here’s Apple’s Tim Cook, for example: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/pro-discrimination-religious-freedom-laws-are-dangerous-to-america/2015/03/29/bdb4ce9e-d66d-11e4-ba28-f2a685dc7f89_story.html
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911104
The Frankenstein monster is turning on its master.
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This is a brilliant observation. Look at someone like Elizabeth Warren – she can, at the very same moment, be both a Harvard Law professor and an oppressed American Indian. If a waitress at your local diner told you she was a Native American despite being blond haired and blue eyed, you’d tell her that she was pulling your leg, but would you dare say this to a “self-identified” Amerindian Harvard Law prof to his/her face?
These two white Republican congressmen from Oklahoma are officially Indians:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markwayne_Mullin
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911111
The key article that started the modern trend of trying to criminalize speech that offends minority groups was by Richard Delgado, a Mexican American law professor (who looks more like he’s Japanese to me). It’s called Words the Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults
http://home.wlu.edu/~mayocke/SpeakingFreely/Words%20that%20Wound.pdf
Another especially important is by Charles Lawrence III: If He Hollers Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus
http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3115&context=dlj
Delgado responds to his critics in this article:
http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1712&context=californialawreview
The two primary critics he responds to are Nat Hentoff and Nadine Strossen. (Others are Marjorie Heins, NYT columnist, Anthony Lewis and Benno C. Schmidt, who despite being a New York City attorney, academic, and venture capitalist with a German last name, is of Texas-German ancestry rather than Jewish ancestry).
The authors Delgado cites as supporting the criminalization of “hate speech” are himself, Rhonda Gay Hartman, Jean C Love, Mari Matsuda, Shawna Yet, and his co-author David Yun.
In summary, your claim that Jews have moved away from their prior strong support for free speech, supposedly because they now want to protect their privileged status from criticism, is not founded. Though they make up a very large percentage of law professors, not a single one of the leading advocates for criminalizing hate speech is Jewish, while at the same time Jews are prominent in opposition, and 80% of those its leading proponent identifies by name.
http://takimag.com/article/the_monroe_doctrine_to_outlaw_hate_speech_david_cole/print#axzz3VqL6Dys9
And a leading advocate is NYU Professor Jeremy Waldron:
http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/32077-the-harm-in-hate-speech/
Ans Ezra Levant says that Canada's hate speech laws were enacted at the request of the Canadian Jewish Congress:
http://nonalignedmedia.com/2015/01/zionist-ezra-levant-canadas-hate-speech-laws-result-jewish-lobbying/
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I don’t understand why she didn’t concoct the Cherokee fable before she even applied to Law School. Did the thought really never cross her mind until she had matriculated at Rutgers that she could go further in life if she was a Cherokee? If she had been a Cherokee when she applied to Law School, she could’ve gone to Harvard or Penn, instead of Rutgers, and later on when she worked as a professor at Harvard and Penn, it wouldn’t have attracted nearly as much notice.
2nd comes back to Steve's explanation - before she was a powerful person she was afraid of showing off her fake Pokemon race cards because she was afraid she would get called on them. After she had already achieved some power, she was no longer afraid and flashed her Pokemon cards around shamelessly knowing that no one would dare doubt her publicly.
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I think the student body should be forced to watch “The Killing Fields.” Then they can decide on who gets to make rules concerning speech.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911119
In fairness, a very high percentage of white people with Oklahoma roots claim some Indian ancestry, quite often correctly.
These two white Republican congressmen from Oklahoma are officially Indians:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markwayne_Mullin
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911128
Eugene Volokh is 47, and most of his co-bloggers are Gen X-age Jews who are strong advocates of free speech:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/category/freedom-of-speech/
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911134
http://home.wlu.edu/~mayocke/SpeakingFreely/Words%20that%20Wound.pdf
Another especially important is by Charles Lawrence III: If He Hollers Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus
http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3115&context=dlj
Delgado responds to his critics in this article:
http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1712&context=californialawreview
The two primary critics he responds to are Nat Hentoff and Nadine Strossen. (Others are Marjorie Heins, NYT columnist, Anthony Lewis and Benno C. Schmidt, who despite being a New York City attorney, academic, and venture capitalist with a German last name, is of Texas-German ancestry rather than Jewish ancestry).
The authors Delgado cites as supporting the criminalization of "hate speech" are himself, Rhonda Gay Hartman, Jean C Love, Mari Matsuda, Shawna Yet, and his co-author David Yun.
In summary, your claim that Jews have moved away from their prior strong support for free speech, supposedly because they now want to protect their privileged status from criticism, is not founded. Though they make up a very large percentage of law professors, not a single one of the leading advocates for criminalizing hate speech is Jewish, while at the same time Jews are prominent in opposition, and 80% of those its leading proponent identifies by name.
Like I said, and as you further document, a lot of the leading supporters of freedom of expression for everybody are Jews old enough to remember Lenny Bruce. You mentioned Nadine Strossen, for example. She’s one of the younger ones at 64.
Like I’ve been saying, perhaps contemporary Jews should listen to the wisdom of their elders. Right now they don’t seem to have much to worry about in terms of Victimism Pokemon Points, but that may not be true forever. For example, I know one of the student politicians involved in the UCLA BDS whoop-tee-doo: it’s a big world out there and things change.
Prudence would suggest that Jews should try harder to hedge their bets, rather than go all in on Diversity Uber Alles.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911136
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9IB90WgBF8&t=13m28s
"Oh, that is our human color wheel, it goes from Seal, to Seal's teeth."
I had no idea Chevy Chase was back on TV. Is that show any good? Does he get much airtime (he’s listed at the bottom of the case list)?
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Jews first. The rest of White people later. Or, Michael Richards and Jerry Seinfeld first, Jay Leno, Adam Carolla, and Andrew Dice Clay later.
This is what multiculturalism means. Whites on bottom, other on top in layers. Jews with the highest iqs will get the Chinese diaspora treatment. But other Whites will soon follow.
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Rod Serling was (in addition to being a human being, a father, and many other things) a Jewish professor at Ithaca College. He had some ideas about social tolerance. What do you think he would say about this proposed regulation?
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911150
Which group has the competence and asabiya to dethrone our Jewish elites?
Blacks? They’ve got anger, unity, charisma, and the whole slavery/segregation thing to guilt trip the rest of us. Unfortunately for them, they lack discipline and competence. Jews have been very effective at using blacks as pawns, while also bringing them under control when necessary (ie pushing out Dinkins after the Crown Heights riots in NYC, getting Al Sharpton marginalized until he agreed to tone down his rhetoric, forcing Obama to bring on lots of Jewish advisers like Rahm/Plouffe/Axelrod to compensate for hanging out with Rev Wright).
Latinos? They’re just as incompetent and undisciplined as blacks, but with none of the energy or charisma or guilt tripping legacy. Also, of the few competent and charismatic Latino leaders in existence (many of whom are Cuban), there’s a tendency to assimilate into the white population and lose their connection with the Latino masses. Linda Chavez and Marco Rubio don’t inspire blue collar Latinos at all, but neither do leftists like Sotomayor or Julian Castro. Anyway lots of these Latino leaders become pawns of Jewish power brokers, as we’ve seen with Rubio, Cruz, and Castro.
Native Americans? Sorry, but I don’t see that happening. They’re mostly involved in small scale stuff, like getting angry about the Washington Redskins and protecting casino gambling. They’re also susceptible to manipulation on the rare occasions when anyone pays attention to them (for some reason, Americans tend to ignore Natives these days). For example, look at how Jack Abramoff played his Native American clients and how much he disdained them (“monkeys,” “troglodytes,” and “morons”).
Middle Easterners (Arabs, Persians, Turks, Maghrebis, etc.)? The ethnic divisions and religious divisions (Shiite, Sunni, Christian) are too significant. It’s also pretty easy for Jewish neoconservatives to whip up anti-ME fury anytime among evangelicals anytime they want. I could see Jewish Democrats getting white liberals (gay, feminists) angry at them too, if the need arose. In the EU, the growth of ME populations has resulted in the rose of right-wing gentile/Jewish coalitions. I’m sure Jews could replicate that here in America. Also, they could play up the mistreatment of blacks under ME rule (ie blacks in Darfur, Afro-Iraqis, Africans in Libya, etc.).
Asians? They tend to be too introverted and politically apathetic to succeed here. There have been plenty of affluent and well educated Asians in California for many decades. How much political clout do they carry? Despite their high level of education and strong representation in elite colleges, how many present Asian leaders do we see in business, finance, politics, intelligentsia/academia, or media?
Indians? There’s plenty of religious and linguistic/ethnic divisions among them. I also don’t see much of a move to separate themselves from the mainstream. There are also quite a few Indians in the UK and Canada, who do adequately well in politics/intelligentsia but aren’t especially dynamic. Also, the Indians who do the best politically (Jindal, Haley-Randhawa) are usually highly conservative Republicans, not reactionaries. In my opinion, Indians are too foreign for most Americans to accept, except when Indians choose to Americanize themselves. There are some prominent Indians in the media too (Sanjay Gupta, D’Souza, Zakaria, Velshi), but they tend to be pretty assimilated and also not that connected with their Indian heritage (all those men have white wives).
-Armenians seem like a group that could do well if they had larger numbers, but there are too few to matter.
-White ethnics do alright in local elections (Italians in NYC/NJ, Poles in Chicago, Irish in Boston), but only the Irish do well nationally.
-Mormons will do well regionally as their numbers grow, but they are not going to be very effective on the national level.
-Christian Middle Easterners could do well too (they’ve flourished in Latin America), but they’re ME ethnic background is too controversial. Pollster John Zogby hasn’t done too well promoting Arab-Amerian interests and seems to have been marginalized in recent years. Also, lots of Christian MEs tend to assimilate in (Doug Flutie, John Sununu, etc.).
Ick
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The Twilight Zone episode pretty much writes itself.
"Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace."
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Ban speech altogether.
Let’s go back to grunting. But then I fear PC idiots will groan about micro-grunts.
Ban sight too. Remove all eyes. Eyes see differences, they are ‘racist’ organs.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911166
LOT – In the name of G*d do not look back – you will turn into a pillar of beef jerky for sure. Community has been on the air for almost 6 years for now. DO NOT WATCH IT.
Check out Parks and Recreation. As my time is, alas, at an end – I will say I went to school with Mike Schur and know, through some family connections, he actually is a pretty decent guy for a Hollywood type. I don’t think he really understands conservative types, but he does try to give a fair hearing, i.e, Ron Swanson.
You, can, however, avoid “Band Camp” or “The Duff”. Sorry, Josh.
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LOT – In the name of G*d do not look back – you will turn into a pillar of beef jerky for sure. Community has been on the air for almost 6 years for now. DO NOT WATCH IT.
Check out Parks and Recreation. As my time is, alas, at an end – I will say I went to school with Mike Schur and know, through some family connections, he actually is a pretty decent guy for a Hollywood type. I don’t think he really understands what it mean to be conservative, but he does try to give a fair hearing, i.e, Ron Swanson.
You, can, however, avoid “Band Camp” or “The Duff.” Sorry, Josh.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911179
In California, our Latino politicians tend to be pretty pro-business interests because term limits means they have at most 12 years in the legislature, and for most state assemblymen 6 years is more realistic since only 1 in 3 can move up to the state senate.
Even if they aren’t personally poor, they tend to have large poor families, and need the cushion of a nice regulated-industry job when they leave office, which requires them to play ball with business interests.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911180
A couple of possible explanations – Warren seems to have gotten in on the whole Eastern elite game rather late in life – up until the point where she was hired as a law school prof, she had a very ordinary Midwestern type middle class resume.
2nd comes back to Steve’s explanation – before she was a powerful person she was afraid of showing off her fake Pokemon race cards because she was afraid she would get called on them. After she had already achieved some power, she was no longer afraid and flashed her Pokemon cards around shamelessly knowing that no one would dare doubt her publicly.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911197
These two white Republican congressmen from Oklahoma are officially Indians:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markwayne_Mullin
Yes, there are many Oklahomans with Indian blood but there is no evidence that Warren is one of them She doesn’t belong to any tribe, there’s no DNA evidence, her family tree seems devoid of Indians, etc.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911199
In other words, the class status of student speakers (“oppressors”) who are deemed to have “belittled” or “isolated” would be recorded.
MICROAGGRESSION REPORT
FILING DATE: February 7, 2007
MEMBER OF UNPRIVILEGED GROUP: African American male.
OPPRESSOR: Wealthy, privileged white male.
OFFENSE: Black male said oppressor described him as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
https://archive.org/details/IveGotAWhiteManWorkingForMeByArthurCollinsAndVessL.Ossman1900
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911200
Charles Kors , Christina Hoff Summers , Steven Pinker and many more worthwhile folks appear at TheFireorg youtube channel
Steve if you rip audio books/lectures from cd/dvd to mp3 there are a number of mp3 players and software programs that allow to slightly slow the speed by 5-15 percent which is perfect for combining listening with moderate activities like walking, driving or mowing that magnificent lawn of yours.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911209
Back in the day, royalty protected their perches of privilege with laws against lèse-majesté
Following in this tradition, certain self-declared ““unprivileged groups” are attempting to institute lèse-diversité laws through which they hope to overturn the oppressive principal of equality under the law and hope to replace it with an increased privileged legal status over those they call “oppressor groups” For example, laws could be established that would dictate the testimony of any number of privileged group oppressors could never contradict the testimony of even one unprivileged person.
If Jews could be guaranteed that, both, they would never be categorized as a privileged group and that Muslims would not be declared unprivileged, then they would have no problem with these laws. They know damn well that those assurances are never going to happen though…
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911228
Charles Kors , Christina Hoff Summers , Steven Pinker and many more worthwhile folks appear at TheFireorg youtube channel
Steve if you rip audio books/lectures from cd/dvd to mp3 there are a number of mp3 players and software programs that allow to slightly slow the speed by 5-15 percent which is perfect for combining listening with moderate activities like walking, driving or mowing that magnificent lawn of yours.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911229
Davide Piffer has calculated the extent to which various ethnic groups have the intelligence-enhancing alleles that have been uncovered thus far. Should scholars and students not be allowed to see or hear these numbers?
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911232
In a world in which some groups are to be protected and others are not, the protected groups would be privileged. No protected group could be an “unprivileged group”.
In other words, the definition makes it impossible for a microaggression ever to happen.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911234
If you have to ask, you won’t understand the answer.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911243
Assuming the most privileged group on campus is going to be white, heterosexual males, why don’t they just setup schools for white, heterosexual males only and eliminate all possibility of unprivileged students being on the receiving end of micro-aggression? With all the universities we have in this nation, it shouldn’t be too hard to designate a number of them for the Haven Monahans of this nation. We could end the culture of rape and micro-aggression in one fell swoop.
Having a privileged group set itself apart to heid from the rest of society, doesn't work well in public opinion. As Obama said, we need to spread the wealth around.
The way the left wants the micro-aggressions to be stopped, is to impose macro-aggressions on the stale pale male.
Recall the University of Delaware scandal from some years back, or any UK NUS meeting.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911252
Not if she said she was 1/32, which is what Warren claims. My children (1/32), my wife (1/16), her mom (1/8), her mother’s mother (1/4) — are all blue-eyed (as are all their siblings). Even the half-breed ancestor, I believe I have been told, had blue eyes.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911253
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0W9sSqeJnA
Steve if you rip audio books/lectures from cd/dvd to mp3 there are a number of mp3 players and software programs that allow to slightly slow the speed by 5-15 percent which is perfect for combining listening with moderate activities like walking, driving or mowing that magnificent lawn of yours.
“that magnificent lawn of yours”
It was magnificent ten days ago. Now it’s fading as its getting warmer.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911273
Perhaps the trend will be the ability to turn the party line around on a dime when the inner party wills it. Single standard might be good for a certain period of time depending on what the situation is then later switch to the double standard when that seems to be advantageous. Then switch back when the situation changes again. Perhaps there’ll be innovations like a triple standard or a multi-tiered one. The key will be flexibility and the increasingly short memory of succeeding generations.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911279
[…] Source: Steve Sailer […]
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911282
http://home.wlu.edu/~mayocke/SpeakingFreely/Words%20that%20Wound.pdf
Another especially important is by Charles Lawrence III: If He Hollers Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus
http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3115&context=dlj
Delgado responds to his critics in this article:
http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1712&context=californialawreview
The two primary critics he responds to are Nat Hentoff and Nadine Strossen. (Others are Marjorie Heins, NYT columnist, Anthony Lewis and Benno C. Schmidt, who despite being a New York City attorney, academic, and venture capitalist with a German last name, is of Texas-German ancestry rather than Jewish ancestry).
The authors Delgado cites as supporting the criminalization of "hate speech" are himself, Rhonda Gay Hartman, Jean C Love, Mari Matsuda, Shawna Yet, and his co-author David Yun.
In summary, your claim that Jews have moved away from their prior strong support for free speech, supposedly because they now want to protect their privileged status from criticism, is not founded. Though they make up a very large percentage of law professors, not a single one of the leading advocates for criminalizing hate speech is Jewish, while at the same time Jews are prominent in opposition, and 80% of those its leading proponent identifies by name.
Give me a break. Less than two weeks ago, Taki’s published a piece discussing the efforts of Monroe Freedman (then dean of Hofstra Law School) to develop such a law:
http://takimag.com/article/the_monroe_doctrine_to_outlaw_hate_speech_david_cole/print#axzz3VqL6Dys9
And a leading advocate is NYU Professor Jeremy Waldron:
http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/32077-the-harm-in-hate-speech/
Ans Ezra Levant says that Canada’s hate speech laws were enacted at the request of the Canadian Jewish Congress:
http://nonalignedmedia.com/2015/01/zionist-ezra-levant-canadas-hate-speech-laws-result-jewish-lobbying/
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911303
http://takimag.com/article/the_monroe_doctrine_to_outlaw_hate_speech_david_cole/print#axzz3VqL6Dys9
And a leading advocate is NYU Professor Jeremy Waldron:
http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/32077-the-harm-in-hate-speech/
Ans Ezra Levant says that Canada's hate speech laws were enacted at the request of the Canadian Jewish Congress:
http://nonalignedmedia.com/2015/01/zionist-ezra-levant-canadas-hate-speech-laws-result-jewish-lobbying/
That’s not inconsistent with what I wrote at all. Freedman is an obscure nobody who appears to have produced no scholarly support for his idea.
Waldron is from New Zealand, which is about 0.4% Jewish, and has a Dutch surname. What reason do you think he’s Jewish? Yet in the article you linked, one of the two main supporters of free speech Waldron wrote in opposition to is Ronald Dworkin.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911325
Chevy Chase got a decent amount of airtime, until season 5 or so when he got fired. I’m a big fan, and it has a pretty serious cult following, but it’s not for all types.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911328
Blacks? They've got anger, unity, charisma, and the whole slavery/segregation thing to guilt trip the rest of us. Unfortunately for them, they lack discipline and competence. Jews have been very effective at using blacks as pawns, while also bringing them under control when necessary (ie pushing out Dinkins after the Crown Heights riots in NYC, getting Al Sharpton marginalized until he agreed to tone down his rhetoric, forcing Obama to bring on lots of Jewish advisers like Rahm/Plouffe/Axelrod to compensate for hanging out with Rev Wright).
Latinos? They're just as incompetent and undisciplined as blacks, but with none of the energy or charisma or guilt tripping legacy. Also, of the few competent and charismatic Latino leaders in existence (many of whom are Cuban), there's a tendency to assimilate into the white population and lose their connection with the Latino masses. Linda Chavez and Marco Rubio don't inspire blue collar Latinos at all, but neither do leftists like Sotomayor or Julian Castro. Anyway lots of these Latino leaders become pawns of Jewish power brokers, as we've seen with Rubio, Cruz, and Castro.
Native Americans? Sorry, but I don't see that happening. They're mostly involved in small scale stuff, like getting angry about the Washington Redskins and protecting casino gambling. They're also susceptible to manipulation on the rare occasions when anyone pays attention to them (for some reason, Americans tend to ignore Natives these days). For example, look at how Jack Abramoff played his Native American clients and how much he disdained them ("monkeys," "troglodytes," and "morons").
Middle Easterners (Arabs, Persians, Turks, Maghrebis, etc.)? The ethnic divisions and religious divisions (Shiite, Sunni, Christian) are too significant. It's also pretty easy for Jewish neoconservatives to whip up anti-ME fury anytime among evangelicals anytime they want. I could see Jewish Democrats getting white liberals (gay, feminists) angry at them too, if the need arose. In the EU, the growth of ME populations has resulted in the rose of right-wing gentile/Jewish coalitions. I'm sure Jews could replicate that here in America. Also, they could play up the mistreatment of blacks under ME rule (ie blacks in Darfur, Afro-Iraqis, Africans in Libya, etc.).
Asians? They tend to be too introverted and politically apathetic to succeed here. There have been plenty of affluent and well educated Asians in California for many decades. How much political clout do they carry? Despite their high level of education and strong representation in elite colleges, how many present Asian leaders do we see in business, finance, politics, intelligentsia/academia, or media?
Indians? There's plenty of religious and linguistic/ethnic divisions among them. I also don't see much of a move to separate themselves from the mainstream. There are also quite a few Indians in the UK and Canada, who do adequately well in politics/intelligentsia but aren't especially dynamic. Also, the Indians who do the best politically (Jindal, Haley-Randhawa) are usually highly conservative Republicans, not reactionaries. In my opinion, Indians are too foreign for most Americans to accept, except when Indians choose to Americanize themselves. There are some prominent Indians in the media too (Sanjay Gupta, D'Souza, Zakaria, Velshi), but they tend to be pretty assimilated and also not that connected with their Indian heritage (all those men have white wives).
-Armenians seem like a group that could do well if they had larger numbers, but there are too few to matter.
-White ethnics do alright in local elections (Italians in NYC/NJ, Poles in Chicago, Irish in Boston), but only the Irish do well nationally.
-Mormons will do well regionally as their numbers grow, but they are not going to be very effective on the national level.
-Christian Middle Easterners could do well too (they've flourished in Latin America), but they're ME ethnic background is too controversial. Pollster John Zogby hasn't done too well promoting Arab-Amerian interests and seems to have been marginalized in recent years. Also, lots of Christian MEs tend to assimilate in (Doug Flutie, John Sununu, etc.).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Abraham
Ick
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911338
Why, Mr. Sailer, that Twilight Zone episode was done in 1959: http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi3386615577?ref_=tt_pv_vi_aiv_2
“Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.”
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911339
What you speak of sounds like a German “gymnasium”, a selective entry school of the top test scorers.
Having a privileged group set itself apart to heid from the rest of society, doesn’t work well in public opinion. As Obama said, we need to spread the wealth around.
The way the left wants the micro-aggressions to be stopped, is to impose macro-aggressions on the stale pale male.
Recall the University of Delaware scandal from some years back, or any UK NUS meeting.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911344
This 1961 Twilight Zone is a chilling metaphor for today’s Volunteer Auxiliary Thought Police: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734580/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_64
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911346
Steve’s posts remind me of all the “Jews are going to start voting Republican real soon now” articles. Jews would have to change their entire self-conception in order to start voting Republcan. The “enemy of my enemy” thinking is so ingrained that any attempt to think “wait, the enemy of my enemy hates me too” will take generations.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911352
Early prototype of campus wide system for supporting microaggressions :
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911413
I agree with you, but I’m watching the numbers.
Every President claimed Castro was going to be gone soon, and he outlived many of them, but he finally seems to have stepped down. So often these things happen after the original people advocating for them have died or passed from the scene.
In short, if it happens, it won’t be because the AJC or UJA decide to cast their lot with conservatism. It’ll happen because more than half of American Jews are intermarried and no longer primarily identify as Jewish and all the Diversity sees them primarily as white.
Anyway, I can’t predict the future. Steve convinced me, but I’m one man and don’t even have a blog. (And have zero connections, BTW. And if I can’t convince the ladies to sleep with me, I’m not going to be able to convince my distant relatives not to hate whites.
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Why do they hate whites?
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911479
Perfect. Now all we need to do is peel the cops and soldiers away from these people. After that it’s just a matter of saying “boo” and they’ll go and lock themselves in a closet, hugging their knees and rocking back and forth.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911598
I’ll use this because it’s the most recent example to come to my attention:
http://theaimn.com/australia-must-have-zero-tolerance-for-online-hatred/
Read the whole thing linked.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911610
The “Monroe Doctrine” to Outlaw Hate Speech
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911641
Should Neo-Nazis Be Allowed Free Speech?
Also found a black guy who hates free speech:
Dangerous Speech is Not Free Speech or Even Hate Speech
And a French Jew who hates American free speech:
French Jewish leader calls on Americans to crack down on hate speech
That’s all I could glean in the first 9 pages of G**gle results. I don’t think I ignored any advocates of speech oppression. Oh, btw, G**gle is working on rolling out “fact-based” sorting of search results, to replace current methods.
You and Tillman have found a bunch of foreigners and an obscure dead guy who taught at a clown college law school, and who the leading scholarly advocates of criminalizing hate speech don't seem to have even cited. Jews are ~30% of law professors at leading schools, and an even higher percentage of constitutional law professors. You can't find ANY who support hate speech codes, much less show the percentage is higher than their background 30-40 percentage of leading constitutional law professors.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911642
When applying for jobs, do your children claim eligibility for Affirmative Action as American Indians as Warren did? Do their employers put them down as Native Americans when they list their diversity statistics, as Harvard Law School did?
I could imagine someone who is very blonde and yet grows up on a reservation speaking an Indian language and feels very closely bonded to their tribe (in colonial America it was not unusual for Indians to kidnap white children who would then “go native”). Or I could imagine someone who grows up far from Indian country but who still is a full blooded or close to full blooded Indian who would feel connected to a tribe by reason of blood.
But Liz Warren fits none of those descriptions. The closest she got to having ANY connection to Indian culture was some family lore and noting that her great grandmother had “high cheek bones” in an old photograph.
It’s quite common for American family lore to include claims of Indian ancestry. Sometimes this is real but often it is imaginary. No white person (until recently) would brag about having black ancestors but it was always considered kind of cool to have a sprinkling of Indian ancestors – brave warriors, etc. Until recently this was just done for bragging rights (and it was not really much of a brag – it wasn’t like having an Indian ancestor really got you much of anything, even in terms of admiration from your friends, esp. in a place like Oklahoma where many people were able to make the same claim) but now there is real money in being able to claim Indian status.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911643
First they came for the extreme right, but I was not an extreme rightist, so I said nothing.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911654
Everyone you mentioned is an obscure nobody.
Every Waldron I’ve encountered in person or in the public sphere (n=5 or 6) has been Jewish. It seems like a safe assumption.
Sean Waldron, a bible-quoting pop singer:http://seanwaldronup.blogspot.com/
A Florida plant science guy who does not have any Jewish features:http://plantscienceunit.ifas.ufl.edu/images/Chris%20Waldron.JPG
A baseball player in Omaha:http://journalstar.com/sports/high-school/baseball/super-state-2014/mike-waldron/article_e3aadab5-570e-5da9-9f1b-d5ec369f1550.htmlAn Amish-looking family
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~edgmon/waldronbtn.jpgAn early Dutch NY settler:http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/images/jpg/pwaldron.jpgI'm sure, give that you claim to personally know of multiple Jewish Waldrons, you can link me to a great many
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911669
The war to eliminate microagressions will work, by design, to the primary benefit of those who complain a lot.
Do Jews complain a lot?
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911683
I’m one man and don’t even have a blog. (And have zero connections, BTW. And if I can’t convince the ladies to sleep with me, I’m not going to be able to convince my distant relatives not to hate whites.
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Why do they hate whites?
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911687
Who has the most victimhood points?
A. Ashkenazi Jews
B. non-Sephardic, non-Mizrahi non-gentiles
C. Both A and B
D. All of the above
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911710
Having a privileged group set itself apart to heid from the rest of society, doesn't work well in public opinion. As Obama said, we need to spread the wealth around.
The way the left wants the micro-aggressions to be stopped, is to impose macro-aggressions on the stale pale male.
Recall the University of Delaware scandal from some years back, or any UK NUS meeting.
The top public high schools in NYC are test-admission only. Stuyvesant, the best, and best known, is majority Asian and NAMs account for < 5%. That's a serious "setting apart." DeBlasio wants to change this, but is unlikely to make any headway.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911728
Ick
A good indication of the ethnic clout/likability of Christian Middle Easterners came about six months ago when Ted Cruz told them that “If you don’t stand with Israel, I cannot stand with you.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2ZVihACwQ0
Back in 1984, Mondale returned $5000 in donations to Arab donors at the behest of his Jewish supporters. In 1988, Dukakis rejected endorsements from Arab-American groups.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911754
http://theaimn.com/australia-must-have-zero-tolerance-for-online-hatred/
Arguably the most noxious thing since Barbara Spectre.
Read the whole thing linked.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911831
No. Jews will always be an “unprivileged group”.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911847
“Verbally aggressive” carries with it the implication of favoring outcomes over process and my side over truth. Your question is a good example of “verbally aggressive.” My answer is a good example of “clear.”
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911877
My guess is that she didn’t really believe she could get away with it. Once she had some experience with academia, she started to get it. Sort of like most people don’t really understand that virtually nobody ever gets prosecuted for perjury.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911881
You are understating the reality. Stuy. is not majority Asian, it is 72.5% Asian. Last year, out of 952 accepted (acceptance is based strictly on test scores) , 7 blacks were accepted and 21 Hispanics, or around 3% NAM, in a city in which 70% of the students are black and Hispanic. So they are underrepresented by a factor of around 23x – they are almost as rare as whites who rape black women. I really can’t see how DeBlasio and the left can allow this situation to persist. If there was a public school like this in Ferguson, MO they would have burned it down by down. Every day that Stuyvesant remains open and segregated it is a living refutation of their beliefs in the intellectual equality of the races.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911922
Ted Cruz gets booed at Christian Arab event in Washington, D.C. for making pro-Israel comments. He tells the crowd that he will not stand with them if they won’t stand with Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2ZVihACwQ0
Back in 1984, Mondale returned $5000 in donations to Arab donors at the behest of his Jewish supporters. In 1988, Dukakis rejected endorsements from Arab-American groups.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911926
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2ZVihACwQ0
Back in 1984, Mondale returned $5000 in donations to Arab donors at the behest of his Jewish supporters. In 1988, Dukakis rejected endorsements from Arab-American groups.
JohnnyWalker123, thanks much for digging this youtube out of the woodwork. It’s useful.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-911981
I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death the power and privilege to prevent you saying it.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-912020
No, Delgado, Matsuda, and Lawrence are all influential law professors who publish in leading journals. Law students are often forced to read their work. Freedman is a nobody. Hofstra is the newest and least prestigious out of the more than a dozen metro NYC law schools, training dog bite specialists rather than lawyers and judges who will ever have any influence on the law.
You just can’t admit you’re wrong. You sought to defame Jews collectively with the acts of someone who clearly isn’t Jewish.
At this point I think you’re lying when you say you’ve personally met or know of multiple Jewish Waldrons.
First, it is an obscure name so I don’t think you’ve met multiple people with it, and second, putting into google returns a bunch of English and other NW Euros, not not a single obvious Jew. We have these guys:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Henry_Waldron_-_Brady-Handy.jpg/220px-Henry_Waldron_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
http://tenconf.s3.amazonaws.com/Node/rick_waldron.png
A Miss Ireland:
http://media.irishcentral.com/images/Emma+Waldron.jpg
A conspiracy theorist named “Lamar” who went to Georgia State:
http://www.legacyofsecrecy.com/authors.html
A producer of Hallmark Specials and Christian music:
http://www.cantinas.org/karen-m-waldron/
A writer for a Baptist website:
http://www.graceonlinelibrary.org/blog/top-10-books-that-have-influenced-sam-waldron/
A Dutch looking guy who teaches South Asian Religion:
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/rel/faculty/node/25351
Sean Waldron, a bible-quoting pop singer:
http://seanwaldronup.blogspot.com/
A Florida plant science guy who does not have any Jewish features:
http://plantscienceunit.ifas.ufl.edu/images/Chris%20Waldron.JPG
A baseball player in Omaha:
http://journalstar.com/sports/high-school/baseball/super-state-2014/mike-waldron/article_e3aadab5-570e-5da9-9f1b-d5ec369f1550.html
An Amish-looking family
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~edgmon/waldronbtn.jpg
An early Dutch NY settler:
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/images/jpg/pwaldron.jpg
I’m sure, give that you claim to personally know of multiple Jewish Waldrons, you can link me to a great many
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-912029
Dangerous Speech is Not Free Speech or Even Hate SpeechAnd a French Jew who hates American free speech:
French Jewish leader calls on Americans to crack down on hate speech That's all I could glean in the first 9 pages of G**gle results. I don't think I ignored any advocates of speech oppression. Oh, btw, G**gle is working on rolling out "fact-based" sorting of search results, to replace current methods.
I’ve found a huge number of non-Jews who promote hate speech codes, and a huge number of Jews who have consistently supported the freedom of speech.
You and Tillman have found a bunch of foreigners and an obscure dead guy who taught at a clown college law school, and who the leading scholarly advocates of criminalizing hate speech don’t seem to have even cited. Jews are ~30% of law professors at leading schools, and an even higher percentage of constitutional law professors. You can’t find ANY who support hate speech codes, much less show the percentage is higher than their background 30-40 percentage of leading constitutional law professors.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-912039
You and Tillman have found a bunch of foreigners and an obscure dead guy who taught at a clown college law school, and who the leading scholarly advocates of criminalizing hate speech don't seem to have even cited. Jews are ~30% of law professors at leading schools, and an even higher percentage of constitutional law professors. You can't find ANY who support hate speech codes, much less show the percentage is higher than their background 30-40 percentage of leading constitutional law professors.
Without conceding that they cannot find “ANY” who publicly speech codes, I think it’s perfectly reasonable to suspect them of supporting them privately – the same way Jews think it’s perfectly reasonable to suspect whites of being closet nazis. Remember, what’s good for the Jews is good for the gander.
As a general matter, the battle between the traditional left and the new, radical, virulently anti-white left, Jews in academia are pretty solidly behind the traditional left, and usually in alliance with the small number of academic conservatives (itself a fairly Jewish group). The anti-white left absolutely hates Alan Deshowitz for example. The BDS movement recently has better exposed this fault line, but these fights have been going on since the early 80's.
An amusing result of this split, and of Jews and old-left types allying with the right, was the 20 straight years of Republican/quasi-Republican New York City mayors. In academia, it meant that the very liberal Harvard Law School faculty incongruously had Robert Clark, a conservative corporate law specialist, as its longtime dean, who managed to unite the moderate left, apolitical types, and conservatives against the new left group who tried and failed to take over the school and force it to hire a large number of minority professors. (which they still have not, as you can see here: http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/index.html )
Anyway, the radical anti-white left is a growing but still minor threat to Jewish domination of academia and the media, one that pales in comparison with the threat from extremely low secular Jewish fertility.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-912091
Sean Waldron, a bible-quoting pop singer:http://seanwaldronup.blogspot.com/
A Florida plant science guy who does not have any Jewish features:http://plantscienceunit.ifas.ufl.edu/images/Chris%20Waldron.JPG
A baseball player in Omaha:http://journalstar.com/sports/high-school/baseball/super-state-2014/mike-waldron/article_e3aadab5-570e-5da9-9f1b-d5ec369f1550.htmlAn Amish-looking family
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~edgmon/waldronbtn.jpgAn early Dutch NY settler:http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/images/jpg/pwaldron.jpgI'm sure, give that you claim to personally know of multiple Jewish Waldrons, you can link me to a great many
Clearly isn’t Jewish? Just because you say so? You’re hilarious.
That really reflects poorly on you.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-912153
Well, go look for yourself. If you look hard enough you’ll probably find one or two. But you’ll never refute the fact that while Jews are a huge portion of constitutional law professors at good law schools, at least 40% if not a slight majority, you just don’t find them in the anti-free-speech brigade. And you’ll find them quite prominent in the defenders of the first amendment, not to mention other civil liberties. (To take the next amendment in the Bill of Rights, the lead lawyer in the biggest gun rights case in the past 100 years was Robert Levy, and the most prominent academic on the issue is Eugene Volokh).
Huh? Both of those views are completely unreasonable.
Sure, I completely agree that supporting freedom of speech is good for Jews. For one thing, they have a large economic interest in newspapers, publishing, and visual media.
As a general matter, the battle between the traditional left and the new, radical, virulently anti-white left, Jews in academia are pretty solidly behind the traditional left, and usually in alliance with the small number of academic conservatives (itself a fairly Jewish group). The anti-white left absolutely hates Alan Deshowitz for example. The BDS movement recently has better exposed this fault line, but these fights have been going on since the early 80′s.
An amusing result of this split, and of Jews and old-left types allying with the right, was the 20 straight years of Republican/quasi-Republican New York City mayors. In academia, it meant that the very liberal Harvard Law School faculty incongruously had Robert Clark, a conservative corporate law specialist, as its longtime dean, who managed to unite the moderate left, apolitical types, and conservatives against the new left group who tried and failed to take over the school and force it to hire a large number of minority professors. (which they still have not, as you can see here: http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/index.html )
Anyway, the radical anti-white left is a growing but still minor threat to Jewish domination of academia and the media, one that pales in comparison with the threat from extremely low secular Jewish fertility.
Nobody was surprised by Minow's behavior because that's pretty standard operating procedure these days.
When Jewish panic merchants freak out about nazis no one characterizes them as sick or twisted or evil, or inquires whether they don't have a KKK meeting to go to, or suggests they go back to Stormfront.
But when white gentiles express concern about the very open and very pervasive Jewish opposition to free speech - all leading Jewish organizations favor speech restrictions - they get unloaded on.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-912310
As a general matter, the battle between the traditional left and the new, radical, virulently anti-white left, Jews in academia are pretty solidly behind the traditional left, and usually in alliance with the small number of academic conservatives (itself a fairly Jewish group). The anti-white left absolutely hates Alan Deshowitz for example. The BDS movement recently has better exposed this fault line, but these fights have been going on since the early 80's.
An amusing result of this split, and of Jews and old-left types allying with the right, was the 20 straight years of Republican/quasi-Republican New York City mayors. In academia, it meant that the very liberal Harvard Law School faculty incongruously had Robert Clark, a conservative corporate law specialist, as its longtime dean, who managed to unite the moderate left, apolitical types, and conservatives against the new left group who tried and failed to take over the school and force it to hire a large number of minority professors. (which they still have not, as you can see here: http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/index.html )
Anyway, the radical anti-white left is a growing but still minor threat to Jewish domination of academia and the media, one that pales in comparison with the threat from extremely low secular Jewish fertility.
Well, you used to see Jews in the leadership of pro-freedom of expression causes, but most of those warriors have gotten old and there hasn’t been much of a rush to replace them. Moreover, I’m more concerned at present with bullying people out of jobs to encourage the others than with government censorship, and I haven’t seen much interest in that.
Personally, I think it would be very much good for the Jews in the long run to encourage an attitude where verbal give and take is appreciated rather than seen as evil. But then I’m biased because I like arguing with people more than I like shutting people up because they disagree with me. So I’m trying to get this idea into the heads of a few influential people that encouraging moderation and pluralism might be in their collective interests.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-912317
As a general matter, the battle between the traditional left and the new, radical, virulently anti-white left, Jews in academia are pretty solidly behind the traditional left, and usually in alliance with the small number of academic conservatives (itself a fairly Jewish group). The anti-white left absolutely hates Alan Deshowitz for example. The BDS movement recently has better exposed this fault line, but these fights have been going on since the early 80's.
An amusing result of this split, and of Jews and old-left types allying with the right, was the 20 straight years of Republican/quasi-Republican New York City mayors. In academia, it meant that the very liberal Harvard Law School faculty incongruously had Robert Clark, a conservative corporate law specialist, as its longtime dean, who managed to unite the moderate left, apolitical types, and conservatives against the new left group who tried and failed to take over the school and force it to hire a large number of minority professors. (which they still have not, as you can see here: http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/index.html )
Anyway, the radical anti-white left is a growing but still minor threat to Jewish domination of academia and the media, one that pales in comparison with the threat from extremely low secular Jewish fertility.
Here’s a current decade example: Martha Minow, dean of the Harvard Law School, behaved shamefully when a romantic rival leaked a thoughtful email that HLS student Stephanie Grace had written about why she wasn’t completely convinced by “The Bell Curve.” Instead of denouncing the violator of privacy, Minow denounced Grace for not wholly denouncing TBC.
Nobody was surprised by Minow’s behavior because that’s pretty standard operating procedure these days.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-912353
As a general matter, the battle between the traditional left and the new, radical, virulently anti-white left, Jews in academia are pretty solidly behind the traditional left, and usually in alliance with the small number of academic conservatives (itself a fairly Jewish group). The anti-white left absolutely hates Alan Deshowitz for example. The BDS movement recently has better exposed this fault line, but these fights have been going on since the early 80's.
An amusing result of this split, and of Jews and old-left types allying with the right, was the 20 straight years of Republican/quasi-Republican New York City mayors. In academia, it meant that the very liberal Harvard Law School faculty incongruously had Robert Clark, a conservative corporate law specialist, as its longtime dean, who managed to unite the moderate left, apolitical types, and conservatives against the new left group who tried and failed to take over the school and force it to hire a large number of minority professors. (which they still have not, as you can see here: http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/index.html )
Anyway, the radical anti-white left is a growing but still minor threat to Jewish domination of academia and the media, one that pales in comparison with the threat from extremely low secular Jewish fertility.
It’s not a question of reasonableness, it’s a question of double standards. (You know this, of course, but irritatingly insist on playing dumb.)
When Jewish panic merchants freak out about nazis no one characterizes them as sick or twisted or evil, or inquires whether they don’t have a KKK meeting to go to, or suggests they go back to Stormfront.
But when white gentiles express concern about the very open and very pervasive Jewish opposition to free speech – all leading Jewish organizations favor speech restrictions – they get unloaded on.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-912423
1. There’s a huge number of non-Jews who consistently support freedom of speech. But I wasn’t looking for the people who support free speech (a very popular position in America), I was looking for the people who support oppression of speech. Like I said, I got bored after 9 pages of G**gle results, and posted the links here (full disclosure, the first one I posted, from Australia, was something I’d read recently (posted to this blog in a comment), not something I found in those 9 pages). If you think I fudged the results, just say so.
2. Canadian Jews, Australian Jews, etc., can give us fair warning of what Jews might like to do here, if they get the chance.
3. Oppression of free speech is an extremely unpopular position to take in America. But maybe after a couple generations of softening up the American people via mass media indoctrination, the American population will be more like Canada’s and Australia’s.
I don’t think it’s defaming Jews collectively to do an ethnic breakdown of who is supporting oppression of free speech. I also don’t think it’s defamatory to wonder out loud if we might need to add the ADL to the list.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-912552
FILING DATE: February 7, 2007
MEMBER OF UNPRIVILEGED GROUP: African American male.
OPPRESSOR: Wealthy, privileged white male.
OFFENSE: Black male said oppressor described him as "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."
Obama was just biden his time until he could cue up a version of that classic song from 1900, “I’ve Got a White Man Workin’ for Me”: (download required)
https://archive.org/details/IveGotAWhiteManWorkingForMeByArthurCollinsAndVessL.Ossman1900
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-913447
http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-liberal-ethnocentric-jewish-crackup-of-2015-comes-to-comedy/#comment-913466
Right now, Jews acting like psychos over the infrequent manifestations of the mildest forms of mockery or criticism seems to be working well enough. Who needs hate speech laws when you have the megaphone?
http://www.unz.com/isteve/does-the-war-on-microaggressions-have-disparate-impact-on-jews/#comment-913473