I would have more respect for Yglesias if he embraced eugenics. He has this style of wonkish utilitarianism that is very irritating, yet he doesn’t follow through on the one issue that would show he is serious.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/how-america-outlawed-adolescence/501149/

I haven’t read this, but looks like classic liberal cluelessness from the Atlantic monthly.

I read somewhere that he was roommates with Malcolm Gladwell for a couple years. Also the goyim used to beat him up as a schoolboy, so he went to the schwartze who taught him how to fight, or something.

So what’s your theory about his motivations and his goals?

I read somewhere that it’s clear that Roth isn’t going to get the Nobel because they usually give it to someone when they announce they’re going to retire. That’s what happened to Alice Munro; if he was going to get it he would have already. There still is a chance that someone like Cormac McCarthy or Joyce Carol Oates wins, but things are not looking good these next couple of years from an American perspective except if you include Genius T. Coates…

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First come hate speech, next comes hate science…

It’s an interesting thought experiment to consider what would happen if Trump had run on just immigration as opposed to immigration and trade. While they are linked in the minds of many people, they are quite different empirically speaking. I wish Trump had simplified the message to just immigration, so he could smash the political correctness on the subject and tell Americans how they are being screwed over long term. On the other that might have caused the media to think of him as even more racist. Also “bring back our jobs” has a strong emotional appeal. So i dunno, maybe protectionism is a necessary part of an immigration restrictionist campaign, although I wish it wasn’t.

yup, still hasn’t learned his lesson after getting beaten by two democrat constituents for shits ‘n giggles. He must still blame it on redlining or implicit bias.

Also, he tweeted this out yesterday:https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/786623689357877249

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/778898401614295041

Matt Yglesias says: “black people (and especially men) are presumed dangerous.”

Why might that be Matty? Could it be that the perception black people are dangerous is based on the reality that black people are dangerous? It’s almost as if black men are a little over-represented among violent criminals, you should know Matty…

What worried me just as much was the flip-side realization: Whatever my wife and I tried to do to shape our son’s masculine identity would compete against such cultural norms as a postured indifference to school, which can lead to lower grades, graduation rates and academic motivation; a sports and gaming culture that exalt alpha domination (and aggressive male reflexes)

The Blank Slate Strikes Again.

It’s remarkable how many lefties deny evolution…

According to “mybabyname.com” the origin of Macallah is aboriginal.

Remember the Columbia mattress girl?

Well her story also seems very fishy. Here’s a super NSFW account of the affair: https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Emma_Sulkowicz

There’s also a phrase as explosive as “Haven Monahan” that can be initialized as F.M.I.T.B. that of course would never appear in any newspaper, but is very memorable and hilarious.

One thing that is striking is just how dumbed down discourse gets when the topic turns to immigration policy. Here’s Hillary getting paid $225,000 or whatever to give the inside scoop to the smart money boys at Goldman, and yet she’s just shoveling the same lowbrow schmaltz on immigration we hear everywhere else, and the Goldman guys are lapping it up.

The Davos crowd has succumbed to a dangerous group think on immigration. The fiscal consequences of letting in large numbers of low IQ groups is dangerous over the long term. The reason we can borrow money for so cheap is because the US has a good track record, but that was the old US. We’re gonna be a completely new country in the not too distant future if demographic trends continue. We’re fundamentally not the same country if we’re 45% white vs. if we’re 88% white. God help us, I see the US having a Greek style debt crisis in the medium term. We need to get our debt under control, and stop admitting all these low IQ foreigners.

The closest parallel to the immigration debate in terms of political correctness and overall stupidity is education. No child left behind is a preposterous piece of legislation, you know that and I know that, yet it passed both houses of congress and got signed by the president.

https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/444579033234550784

speaking of slate, Jamelle Bouie says TBC was utterly debunked, I wonder what he’s thinking of.

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So the James O’Keefe videos came out today, and basically vindicate Steve. It shows democrat operatives conspiring to instigate violence at Trump rallies, so that the media will blame Trump.

https://twitter.com/TEDTalks/status/787452757712175104

iSteve alert!

Psychometrics for example is one area where I basically just stopped paying much attention after reading The g factor. I understand that it’s a live field, but at this point to me the details are academic, as the broad sketch seems well established (this will change in some ways over the next decade due to genomics, but since I think genomics will confirm what we already know it won’t be very revelatory for me).

So do you wanna tell us what you think, or are you afraid of getting Watsoned?

🙁

Classic high low dynamic here, the college only listens to the donors and the noisy minority groups. Sort of like the democratic party. I’m sure there’s a person who is actually associated with Yale (sorry Ben Franklin), and isn’t some obscure oppression olympics gold medalist, who is worth naming a building after. Bart Giamatti college, anyone? I’m surprised they didn’t go with Grace Hopper who got a Ph.D from Yale and would have been an obvious compromise.

It’s pretty funny though: Pauli Murray, really? That seems like a stretch…

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/788815210941329408

At this point the Founders are — as Hillary would put it — “fundamentally un-American.”

a Trump-friendly, highbrow online journal with a devoted following.

Trump friendly seems like a good way of putting it. I don’t think highbrow is accurate, although Unz review isn’t lowbrow.

Yeah, Mickey Kaus has been doing pretty good media analysis on his twitter. I was glad to see on a bloggingheads episode Robert Wright also agreed with him, and so did Michael Kinsley. I like his hashtag to describe what’s going on: #allhandsondeck.

The (((media))) has been attacking Trump in vicious and instinctual ways. The logic seems to be since David Duke likes Trump, if Trump is right then David Duke is right. If David Duke is right, then Hitler is right. It makes no sense, but you can see it from political twitter and the constant MSM freak outs over the latest Trump nothing-burger controversy that the (((media))) has dangerous prejudices.

No, no, no. They don’t feel ashamed. Really, they don’t.

So the Steve Sailer worldview is that blacks and white naturally differ in terms of intelligence and/or temperament. The Genius T. Coates worldview is that blacks and white races are naturally identical in terms of intelligence and temperament.

The Sailer worldview is easily falsifiable. In order to disprove you, Steve, it would be super easy, just give a school district or State or country where the achievement gap has been closed. If such a thing existed it would completely disprove you Steve, of course no such example exists. Not in Haiti, not in the US, not in Canada, not in the UK, not in Western Europe, not in Africa. There are places where the gap has been narrowed a little bit, but not much. If someone was able to do such a thing they would instantly become famous/rich, and we would have heard of him/her. So far no one has been able to substantially close the achievement gap anywhere at any time.

The TNC worldview is not easily falsifiable. What piece of social-scientific evidence could come out that could disprove TNC? If his view is that there are evil sinister forces lurking in the minds of white people that causes black people to be oppressed, how can you disprove this? If you believe that the reason D’Marquise doesn’t do well in school is because his great-grandfather lived in a red-lined neighborhood and the oppression mysteriously tricked down the generations to hurt him, how can you disprove this? So much of the TNC worldview operates on mystical forces, that are impossible to disprove.

This is what the TNC worldview has in common with conspiracy theories. One of the features of a conspiracy theory is that it can’t be disproved. For instance it is impossible to say that aliens didn’t visit Roswell, or bigfoot doesn’t wander the woods of the pacific northwest. Likewise it’s impossible to say that implicit bias doesn’t oppress blacks or redlining 80 years ago really doesn’t explain behavior today. The reason I subscribe to the Sailer worldview is that if it were wrong, it would have been disproved already. Since it isn’t I think it’s safe to say that you are right.

The data has apparently been revised since your article was published in June, and the black percentage went from 4 to 3. So an even smaller sample size…

Archive from April (The black percentage is 4): https://web.archive.org/web/20160408061836/http://www.greatschools.org/california/studio-city/1978-Carpenter-Community-Charter-School/quality/

Archive from August (The black percentage is 3): https://web.archive.org/web/20160828164704/http://www.greatschools.org/california/studio-city/1978-Carpenter-Community-Charter-School/quality/

As has been mentioned before, in most of Africa it is a common belief that if things are not going well for you, it is because some evil or spiteful person has cast a spell on you. So TNC is just bringing traditional African beliefs to America.

So it looks like we’re dealing with a sample size of 14. So if the black pass rate is 86% that means 12 out of 14 kids passed. The white pass rate was 75%, and the hispanic rate was 66%. So if only 9 out of 14 black kids had passed you would get the distribution we’re all familiar with. With blacks scoring lowest, then Hispanics, then whites, then Asians. So it only takes like 3 kids to mess this up. Frankly, looking at how small these sample sizes are, I’m surprised you don’t get more of these flukes.

Also, thanks for pointing me to the raw data!

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LARRY KING : We’ve always had hate, and you say it’s rising, what causes this, why do people hate people because of their color or their gender or their religious…Why? Hate is such a waste of time and energy?

JORGE RAMOS: It is a waste, if we remember the declaration of independence in 1776 it clearly says that all men are created equal, well among white supremacists or the so called alt right because they hate to be called white supremacists or racists, they call themselves they alt-right, they are afraid, Larry, and they are angry. What are they afraid of? Well they are afraid that they’re becoming a minority and they don’t want that. Since 1965, the white, non-Hispanic population has been decreasing. In 1965, about 80% of people in this country were white, non-Hispanic. Nowadays that’s about 60%, and in 2044, the white population in this country will become a minority. Well, white supremacists, or the alt-right, are incredibly angry about this. They don’t want to become a minority. They are resisting the rise of Latinos, they’re resisting the rights of Asians and African-Americans. And not only do they hate them, they don’t want them in this country. They are resisting the fact that we are seeing an incredibly important demographic revolution, a Latino revolution as I call it. And they don’t want to see this country as diverse, ethnically diverse, racially diverse, as it is becoming. The future of the United States is California, it is Texas, it is New Mexico. Those are three states in which already, right now, more than 50% of the population is composed by minorities. So, in other words, the future of this country will be composed solely by minorities. It is a beautiful American experiment, in which everyone is embracing, not only immigrants, but minorities. The white supremacists, the racist groups, the Ku Klux Klan, the alt-right, they hate that, and they’re fighting really hard right now to prevent that.

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https://youtu.be/WBtLPNT6jlo?t=16m58s

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This is a remarkable quote from Jorge Ramos, describing the “Latino revolution”. No where does he try to make the argument that this revolution is a good thing, he only says that the KKK doesn’t like it. Ross Douthat described this line of incredibly intellectually lazy thinking in a good column a couple months ago called “When the Wrong are Right”. Jorge Ramos would much rather talk about “hate” than the actual merits of this Univision-friendly demographic revolution.

https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status/123986249827618816

It’s weird how the scores for two sections could be so far apart. 2.5 standard deviations. I’m not sure what to make of that.

His twitter bio is “voten mi gente”. Yup, it looks like he’s planning ahead. Kirsten Gillibrand is young, but Chuck Schumer can’t be around for that more than a couple years (or maybe he can). He’s up for election this year, meaning in 2022 there might be an open Senate seat from NY. That seems like a good place to be. He’ll be 42, and Schumer will be content knowing he’s ushered in indefinite one party rule. Also, Charlie Rangel’s 86. If he still lives in Inwood, that wouldn’t be a bad entry point.

The logic of this eludes me. I get that a lot of these Davos types are worried about low fertility rates which will mess up social security, but there seems to be a growth at all costs mentality in these peoples’ minds. Why does GDP matter per se, and not GDP per capita? Also, doesn’t Davos man care about the environmental consequences of this? For instance Hillary Clinton’s website says this: “Climate change is an urgent threat and a defining challenge of our time. It threatens our economy, our national security, and our children’s health and futures.”

You know it’s pretty bad/hilarious when Steve doesn’t need to add any commentary.

White privilege is real and it’s in Ireland.

Hmm…How’d it get there? When did racism against non-whites become an issue in Ireland?

Nicole Eramo suffered because she was falsely accused and her defamed at a national level

I mean c’mon, $10 million dollars seems a little excessive. She still has her job, and her name has been cleared, not that I have much sympathy for Rolling Stone either.

What Are the Democrats / Media Going to Unload on Trump This Week?

I think we have an answer. The following story is on the homepage of “nytimes.com”.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/donald-trump-tax.html

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[7:37] “Now is my really honor and pleasure to introduce the next president of United States of America: Hillary Clinton!”

So Alicia Machado is introducing HRC at rallies. Her English is quite bad. This could have been the perfect opportunity for Trump to point out the insanity of our current immigration policy, but alas he’s tweeting stuff out like “Hillary Advisers Wanted Her To Avoid Supporting Israel When Talking To Democrats”.

https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/793862708915503104

It’s crazy that the Trump-is-whipping-up-violence narrative is still being promulgated. His campaign has been going on for 15 months, if the narrative was true we would have seen serious acts of violence already. So far they can only point to like two serious acts of violence by Trump supporters so far, and he regularly gets thousands of people at his rallies. The hysteria is out of control.

Douthat has gone full retard,

Yeah, Dreher and Douthat have bought into the MSM hysteria over Trump. Douthat had a pair of articles called “The Dangers of Donald Trump” and “The Dangers of Hillary Clinton”. He was trying to say that the dangers of Trump outweighed the dangers of Hillary Clinton, but I think he accomplished the opposite. His criticism of Hillary was very good and iSteve-ish: she wants to invade the world and invite the world. His criticism of Trump was all hysteria and no substance: he’s racist, and civil insurrection blah blah. I like him generally, but “The Dangers of Donald Trump” was a super weak column.

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More hysteria from The Forward, this time from Maya Wax Cavallaro: Donald Trump’s Plan for Immigrants Should Scare The Hell Out of Jews

http://forward.com/opinion/352854/donald-trumps-plan-for-immigrants-should-scare-the-hell-out-of-jews/

Razib, you’re voting for Trump, right? I’m gonna take no response as a yes.

OT/ Charles Blow: Trump Is an Existential Threat

Are you kidding, America?

…

There is no way to make this make sense. Believe me, I’ve tried.

Donald Trump is a bigot.

Donald Trump is a demagogue.

Donald Trump is a sexist, misogynist, chauvinist pig.

Donald Trump is a bully.

Donald Trump is a cheat.

Donald Trump is a pathological liar.

Donald Trump is a nativist.

Donald Trump’s campaign has proved too attractive to anti-Semites, Nazis and white nationalists, and on some level the campaign seems to be tacitly courting that constituency.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/opinion/campaign-stops/trump-is-an-existential-threat.html

I think part of the freakout is that the words they normally use to silence people are losing their power.

Yeah, Trump never made a sustained effort to make his case on immigration. Hillary’s going to claim a mandate on immigration if she wins, and she’ll point to polls saying significant numbers of Americans kinda sorta support a gang-of-8 style law (if the question is phrased right). But in reality the issue didn’t really come up that much. It wasn’t even mentioned in the first two debates. Also, Trump’s campaign operation was totally incompetent. The Clinton campaign was a total machine, they had all these silicon valley people and had an enormous staff early on, giving them a massive edge regardless of the issues.

In my ideal world would have talked about Richwine-style stuff, and the long term effects of the “latino revolution”. In debates on immigration I never hear any coverage of what happens with the children of immigrants, which seems like an enormous blind spot in our debate.

Of course Trump would have never done something like that, it’s not really his style. However, Stephen Miller has a populist shtick on immigration (that’s within the overton window) that I think could have played well if given enough time. Explaining to the American people how they’re being screwed by big business and ethnic activists could have gone a long way.

KC Johnson has a pretty long list of all the journalists who slurped up the hate hoax. MSM clearly wanted the story to be true.

https://academicwonderland.com/2016/07/07/celebrating-erdely-as-a-journalist/

https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/795286994616205312

https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/795288427910615040

Our boy Ross is getting denounced as racist. It’s an interesting development. He normally is able to stay on the good side of the volunteer auxiliary thought police.

From the transfer admissions page at Berkeley:

Juan Prieto

A Little About Myself:
Juan A. Prieto, Fourth Year Transfer, El Centro, CA

Previous Institution/Community College:
San Bernardino Valley College

My Involvement on Campus:
Latinx Recruitment and Retention Center, Transfer Student Center, Latinx Association of Transfer Students, Undocumented Student Program, R.I.S.E.

Future Plans:
Write a book or something.

Ask me about:
Deconstructing the anglocisheteropatriarchy.

Cant make this stuff up…

Latinx Recruitment and Retention Center

Interesting to see how swiftly “Latinx” is gaining ground…..

Deconstructing the anglocisheteropatriarchy

Aren’t Hispanics supposed to be natural conservatives? I mean, that’s what guys like Karl Rove keep on telling us…..

This was a very interesting election year (or two) from an iSteve perspective. I’m hoping for the best, but the odds of Trump winning look long. 🙁

Cast my vote for Hillary Clinton an hour ago. Didn’t feel good as I did when I voted for President Obama twice but knowing that white supremacy is about to dealt a body blow is a pretty good feeling.

Me and my partner were talking yesterday about how his niece (born in 2009) has never known a white man as president. Hopefully, she won’t have to.

https://twitter.com/THR/status/796228052288094208

Education Realist – Secretary of Education
Omarosa – Secretary of the Commerce
Piers Morgan – White House Press Secretary
Ben Carson – Surgeon General
Stephen Miller – Secretary of State
Ann Coulter – Chief of Staff
Steve Sailer – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

U.S. Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues = Roosh V

Thanks for all you do to make this site what it is.

Thank you Steve. I’m sure without your blog America would not be great again. Your blog has some very important readers. 😉

https://twitter.com/JamesFallows/status/797116859518750720

I would have liked to see more media coverage of the actual merits of our trade policy. It’s unfortunate that free trade skepticism and immigration skepticism always come in the same basket, when they’re completely separate issues. Also, there isn’t the same level of emotion and political correctness applied to discussions of trade, meaning the elite consensus is probably less wrong on trade than it is on immigration.

At Columbia U. the campus SJWs are witch hunting a frat because they sent racially insensitive text messages to each other. The object of hate are wrestlers and it is reminiscent of what happened with the Harvard soccer players a couple weeks ago, and also Haven Monahan/Ryan Lochte/Brock Turner. I’d be surprised if this got onto the pages of the NYT, but I like keeping an eye on campuses to see where the zeitgeist is.

http://bwog.com/2016/11/11/students-protest-in-front-of-kdr-house-in-response-to-wrestling-teams-messages/

http://bwog.com/2016/11/10/messages-from-wrestling-team-groupme-reveal-culture-of-intolerance/

http://www.weeklystandard.com/former-mexican-secretary-of-foreign-affairs-trump-could-easily-make-mexico-pay-for-the-wall/article/2004471

A couple months ago the former foreign secretary of Mexico said that Trump could easily make Mexico pay for the wall, since fees for visas and a lot of other stuff are controlled by the state department. Let’s pray this is true. Either way the executive order stuff can all be undone on day one which is great. Also DACA and DAPA mean that Trump has a list of 1.5 highly eligible deportables…

Day 1 Agenda for Immigration

1. Revoke both of Obama’s executive amnesties. Pay the legal fees for the state government challenges to them, rewarding the patriot attorneys general of the states that stood up to Obama.

2. Immediately bar entry and prohibit issuance of visas to aliens who are from countries that refuse to accept nationals we deport. I.e. no more Somalis and Syrians.

3. Remove every single country from the Temporary Protected Status list, effectively ending the single worst of the many bad immigration laws we have.

For the Muslim ban, I suggest Kobach not be too hasty. It should survive legal challenge, but it is worth spending a few careful weeks making sure it is done right. Maybe in time for Day 1.

Kobach should also look into greatly increasing every single immigration related and naturalization fee such that these agencies easily pay for themselves and also pay for more enforcement and removals.

Something to keep in mind is that the Senate still is 70% in favor of amnesty, so Trump needs to focus on maximizing results from the executive branch.

Good to see you’re still alive Tiny, I thought we had lost you. What happened to your predictions of a Clinton landslide?

Supposedly Kris Kobach is the leading candidate for Attorney General. That would be amazing.

So at Amherst College there is a “#sanctuarycampus” protest. They are chanting:

No borders, no nations
Stop deportations!

The turnout is pretty good, and you can see a video of it here if you are signed in to facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amir.hall.3

On infrastructure spending, child tax credits, paid maternity leave and dismantling trade agreements, Democrats are looking for ways they can work with Mr. Trump and force Republican leaders to choose between their new president and their small-government, free-market principles.

Isn’t that called leverage? If the opposing team wants something more than your team, doesn’t that mean you can ask for more? I’m no legislative expert, but can’t Trump slip in some immigration enforcement proposal (e-verify, money for fence/wall etc.) in return for giving the democrats what they want on infrastructure. If his first major piece of legislation includes massive infrastructure spending and e-verify, how popular do you think that will be? I would guess 80% or 90% of Americans would approve of such a bill. Based on the polling I’ve seen e-verify has like a 75% approval rating, and so does more infrastructure spending.

WOW, he is angry! If someone had asked him about the immigration policy of Israel I think he would have had a stroke.

https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/800796643717251072

Ross Douthat is slowly coming out of the closet.

And, of course, the cherry on the cake is his weird arrogance (as if he is Der Führer already)

I listened to a podcast he did and he wasn’t familiar with the idea of a disparate impact lawsuit. He’s very into this nietzschean stuff, and totally ungrounded from the real world.

At his conference he opened with a dramatic poetry reading set to montage of European looking things playing in the background (marble statues, forests, alps). He also designed a goofy looking alt-right logo, that was supposed to have some artistic meaning. In contrast to a lot of other people on the alt-right (or whatever you want to call that general sort of intellectual space) he doesn’t seem interested in engaging with real world issues like “head start”, housing policy, affirmative action, crime etc. That’s what I meant by “ungrounded from the real world”.

But yes, certainly he knows how to get his name in the news. I’m curious how he is able to maintain this lifestyle, I’m sure being a professional white nationalist doesn’t pay very well. Or maybe it does, I wouldn’t know. It says on wikipedia that his dad is an opthalmologist, so is he just mooching off of him?

I think we should deport all racists.

At the very least we need to criminalize the use of the word “illegal”. It is pernicious and reeks of racism.

I swear, the evil of white men knows no bounds. . I hope your daughters bear Children of Color

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http://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/25/we-need-trumps-wall-both-physical-and-psychological/

Good to see this article from Dick Lamm, former democrat governor of Colorado. He is sane and calm, and he clearly knows what he’s talking about since Colorado is one of those states with massive illegal immigration. I hope more smart people like Gov. Lamm finally start to get it on immigration.

Lena Dunham and her dad on “the extinction of white men”:

Both Lena Dunham and her father, Carroll Dunham, expressed their support for “the extinction of white men” in a bizarre video posted to Dunham’s Twitter account on Wednesday.

“How are you feeling about the extinction of white men?” Lena asks her father in the video.

“Well, white men are a problem. Straight white men are a big problem, that’s for sure,” declared Carroll.

“But I actually feel pretty good about it,” he continued. “I think straight white guys have been screwing things up for long enough. High time for straight white males to step back and let some other people do it.”

“That’s my dad!” replied Lena, as Carroll laughed.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/11/03/lena-dunham-posts-video-celebrating-the-extinction-of-white-men-on-twitter/

NYT launches “This Week in Hate” series.

This Week in Hate tracks hate crimes and harassment around the country since the election of Donald Trump. The Southern Poverty Law Center and other groups are keeping detailed counts of harassment and abuse. We will regularly present a selection of incidents to show the scope of the problem. This article, the first in the series, includes incidents reported in the last two weeks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/opinion/threats-of-an-anti-muslim-holocaust.html

They go on to list a bunch of hate crimes. A couple of their examples are clearly hate hoaxes. 🙂 $PLC

This war has just begun. You Christian white men have shown you have no interest in justice and peace.

You want a fight? You got one. People of Color outnumber you 10 to 1. We control the media and universities. We will win the war if the cradle.

We will never accept trump and never accept white supremacy

You white men have shown your racist ways and will be dealt with accordingly

Also, honestly I’m not sure that Twitter will be around in its current form in another five years

Yeah, it’s curious what’s going to happen with “gab.ai”. Currently 90% of the people on there are alt-right, but I think it’s conceivable that there could be some sort of right wing twitter that slowly gets created if there is too much censorship. I guess we’ll see in a couple of years. Also, good luck and I’ll see you over at this new place. 🙂

In the news reports it says he is 18. I don’t know many 18 year olds with a hairline that is obviously receding. Kinda like the elephant in the room, same thing with Serena only different issue. Yet another example of how our “refugee” resettlement program is complete bogus.

Here’s Bouie on Richwine in the Daily Beast, it’s pretty hilarious.

In trying to explain the IQ differential between races, Richwine borrows from Rushton, arguing that “the totality of the evidence suggests a genetic component to group differences in IQ.” He tries to hedge against accusations of racism by noting that you can’t blame “obvious biases in test construction and administration” for the differential. And he gives an example of what he means when he says one racial group is less intelligent than another. These differentials, he writes “places the average black at roughly the 16th percentile of the white IQ distribution.”

There are a host of problems with “IQ” as a measurement, including the degree to which it corresponds with what we understand as “intelligence” and the extent to which IQ measurements reflect long-term systemic bias. Let’s set those aside. The more obvious problem is with trying to measure “racial” differentials in the first place.

Remember, racial groups are imagined communities; there’s nothing biological or genetic that makes someone “black” or “white.” These are social distinctions. What does it mean to measure “Hispanic” intelligence, when Hispanics come from a huge variety of socio-cultural backgrounds and environments? Hispanic isn’t a “population” as much as it is an umbrella term for populations, namely, people with heritage in the Spanish-dominant countries of the Americas.

The same is true of African-Americans or black people; there is no such thing as a “black IQ” that you can compare to other “blacks” around the world. Rather, there are the IQs of different peoples of African descent, which you can try to cross-compare, accounting for vastly different social, cultural, and economic circumstances.

It’s for this reason and many others that people are skeptical when anyone attributes persistent racial difference to genetics. It doesn’t help that proponents of the view tend to overlap with the fringes of Western life. Rushton, for example, headed the Pioneer Fund, listed as a white supremacist organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its funding of openly racist groups and support for “research” into ideas of racial inferiority for blacks and other groups.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/09/immigrants-iq-lower-wrote-coathor-of-heritage-foundation-report.html

Furthermore, if you look put into google: “Jamelle Bouie” “race” “iq”, you get basically nothing. There are only two (since deleted) tweets. One of them says TNR/Sullivan is racist, and the other saying “Gosh, it’s so weird that ideas about race & IQ match exactly with 19th and 18th century white supremacist theorizing. ”

So clearly not a deep thinker, although he’s probably better than your average SJW black opinion journalist (i.e. Charles Blow).

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Here’s Paola Ramos’ twitter bio:

Deputy Hispanic Media Director for @HillaryClinton. @WhiteHouse/@VP before. @Kennedy_School and @Columbia alum. Cubana, Mexicana, Americana. Opinions are mine.

She has also been tweeting stuff about Alicia Machado. I wonder how Jorge’s holding up after the election; his rhetoric was pretty much identical to Tiny Duck beforehand.

The more obvious problem is with trying to measure “racial” differentials in the first place.

Remember, racial groups are imagined communities; there’s nothing biological or genetic that makes someone “black” or “white.” These are social distinctions. What does it mean to measure “Hispanic” intelligence, when Hispanics come from a huge variety of socio-cultural backgrounds and environments? Hispanic isn’t a “population” as much as it is an umbrella term for populations, namely, people with heritage in the Spanish-dominant countries of the Americas.

The same is true of African-Americans or black people; there is no such thing as a “black IQ” that you can compare to other “blacks” around the world. Rather, there are the IQs of different peoples of African descent, which you can try to cross-compare, accounting for vastly different social, cultural, and economic circumstances.

I, for one, would be happy to avoid this whole subject of grouping people by race. But when you just test the students as individuals, and assign them into different tracks in their schools based on their scholastic abilities, the gifted classes will be mostly white and asian, and the remedial classes will be mostly black and hispanic, and the Bouies of the world wouldn’t stand for it.

OT: If you type “Donald Trump’s Argument For America” into youtube the real ad is nowhere to be seen in the search results even though it has 8 mil. views. The top hit is from a channel called “Entertainment News Gaming”. It does appear if you type in “Donald Trump’s Argument For America team trump”. The top comment on the video, which is from a couple of weeks ago, is:

#15 on trending.. 7 million views even though we know there are way more. Likes being kept down even though we all know it’s way more then what YouPuke is showing.

I get the impression that stuff likes this happens a lot with youtube/google/twitter.

Here’s the search query with the exact title:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Donald+Trump%27s+Argument+For+America

Here’s the search query with “team trump” at the end:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Donald+Trump%27s+Argument+For+America+team+trump

Here’s the archived versions for posterity to show I’m not crazy:

http://archive.is/MxS8g

http://archive.is/aPPsz

Highlights from This Week in Hate:

This Week in Hate tracks hate crimes and harassment around the country since the election of Donald Trump. The Southern Poverty Law Center and other groups are keeping detailed counts of harassment and abuse. We will regularly present a selection of incidents to show the scope of the problem.

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• A mosque in Providence and one in Wayland, Mass. received letters saying Donald Trump is “going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews.” The same message was sent in November to several other mosques.

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• A swastika and the word “Trump” were found on a blackboard in a middle school classroom at the William H. Lincoln School in Brookline, Mass. last Wednesday.

• On November 29, a visitor to Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg, Md., found a swastika drawn on a bathroom wall. Local police are still investigating a previous incident at the school, in which the football field was vandalized with a swastika.

• A faculty member at the University of Nebraska at Omaha found a swastika, an anti-Semitic slur and the words “make America great again” carved into a bathroom wall on campus last Thursday.

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If you have experienced harassment, these resources may be helpful. If you witness harassment, here are some tips for responding. This Week in Hate is collecting submissions of incidents that have already been reported to law enforcement or in other media outlets. Send submissions to [email protected].

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/opinion/a-muslim-police-officer-attacked-in-brooklyn.html

From the article:

Given today’s high-tech, globalized economy, the single best step would be to help more middle- and low-income children acquire the skills that lead to good-paying jobs. Notably, most college graduates still earn more than their parents did, other data show — yes, even after taking into account student debt.

But education is not the only answer. Incomes have also stagnated because of the rise of corporate power and the weakening of labor unions, leading profits to rise at the expense of wages. The decline of two-parent families plays a role, too. And tax policy has not done enough to push back against these forces: The middle class, not the affluent, deserves a tax cut.

The Davos/Soros conventional wisdom is remarkably stupid on many subjects. David Leonhardt clearly has a high IQ, but is totally clueless on the biggest issue of our time: it just doesn’t register. Also, the discussion about education is hillarious. You know and I know that the elite conventional wisdom about K-12 education policy is absurd, but nevertheless this is what gets printed in the prestige press.

I wonder how long it will take for places like the NYT to figure out that Open Borders killed the American Dream. I’m giving the over/under at 25 years.

https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/807001481077465088

https://twitter.com/AndyPuzder/status/807283406233079808

OT: Seoul Brother #1 Jay Caspian Kang on the unbearable whiteness of journalism.

After Ferguson, I remember being in meetings for the web team at The New Yorker where it became painfully obvious to everyone in the room that we simply did not have a writer to tackle the massive change that was happening in the country.
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Back then, me and one of the only other minorities on the 20th floor of the old Conde Nast building would have to routinely schedule lunches just so we could vent about the totemic whiteness of the place we had dreamt of working our entire lives.
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This same media has sprayed its panicked guts all over the walls in the weeks following the election, but it will eventually settle down into what these prestige journalistic outlets have always been — center-right, bourgeois takes read by lawyers on planes.

https://medium.com/kang-blog/an-open-letter-to-fellow-minority-journalists-2ccf3f1bbfeb

I guess if you’re a kid with interest and ability in books, there’s just never a point at which its better to go to a lower ranked school offering a more traditional curriculum rather than go to an Ivy where they’re tearing down Shakespeare, and in practice all the straight white males have already left the English department anyways.

I’ve never me someone who chosen to matriculate into a college other than the most prestigious school he has been admitted to. Things like political climate are negligible; what matters far more than anything else is how elite the school is. For instance, in high school I knew a girl who got into Duke (#8 on US News) and Brown (#14 on US News), and she chose Duke. But, when Yale let her via wait-list, she changed to Yale (#3 on US News).

Nikita Whitlock makes it to the top of “This Week in Hate” by the NYT:

This Week in Hate

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD DEC. 13, 2016

This Week in Hate tracks hate crimes and harassment around the country since the election of Donald Trump. The Southern Poverty Law Center and other groups are keeping detailed counts of harassment and abuse. We will regularly present a selection of incidents to show the scope of the problem.

• The home in Moonachie, N.J., of Nikita Whitlock, a fullback for the New York Giants, was vandalized last Tuesday night with swastikas, the phrase “KKK” and the word “Trump.” Police are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime.

• Brandon Marshall, a Denver Broncos linebacker who had knelt during the national anthem at games this season, received a threatening letter full of racial slurs last week. “We are ‘channeling’ a devastating hard hit for you,” the sender wrote. “Something to make you an invalid in a wheel chair.” The security staff of the Broncos is investigating the letter.

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• Last Tuesday and Wednesday, the staff at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a public high school in Cambridge, Mass., found three swastikas drawn in boys’ bathrooms.

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• The actor T.J. Miller was arrested on Friday after allegedly hitting an Uber driver in an argument over Donald Trump. Mr. Miller has been critical of Mr. Trump in the past; during an October television appearance, he attempted to burn a Trump-brand tie.

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If you have experienced harassment, these resources may be helpful. If you witness harassment, here are some tips for responding. This Week in Hate is collecting submissions of incidents that have already been reported to law enforcement or in other media outlets. Send submissions to [email protected]. Thanks to those who have already submitted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/opinion/brandon-marshall-a-broncos-player-gets-a-racist-threatening-letter.html

I see the $PLC is trying to capitalize off of year end giving.

By the way, Cambridge, Massachusetts is probably in the top 5 for the most liberal municipality in the country. Trump got about 8% in Cambridge, which is the lowest in the entire state. For comparison, in San Francisco 10% went for Trump. So how many David Duke supporters are there at CRLS, which is Dzhokhar’s alma mater? My guess is less than 1.

I’ve been looking through the NYT to see if there is a single article addressing the argument made in “The Mexicans In The Living Room”. I haven’t found one.

If we hadn’t done the 1965 immigration act, the US could easily have had 70 million fewer people. The blind spots concerning immigration/fertility and the environment are astounding.

My impression from reading “The Closing of the American Mind” was that Bloom thought the campus identity politics movements of his time had their roots in Nietzsche, and a lot of other German dudes from the early 20th century and 19th century. He was annoyed by moral relativism, and thought it had come as enlightenment ideas and classical Greek ideas had been pushed out.

Accordingly, I hear Richard Spencer quoting people like Oswald Spengler and Nietzsche. In fact his whole shtick is basically just Nietzsche. So it seems to me (as a layperson) like Ms. Zuckerberg hasn’t really done her homework on the alt-right. She seems to be thinking of things in terms of the canon wars, where the right was into the whole great books thing, and against identity politics.

Ms. Zuckerberg has a high IQ, but she has been crime-stopped so much that she can’t think straight.

https://twitter.com/donnazuck/status/810541504339001345

She just posted this; it’s a look into the mind of a hysterical and emotionally needy Jewess.

Here is a selection of her “recommended articles” from her Medium profile:
-Day 1 in Trump’s America [which quotes the $PLC]
-This Filthy Jewess is Done with “Alt-Right” Bullshit
-We Should Be Meaner to Racists
-Teaching in the Post-Truth Era

OT: Article in Nature that touches on Gates Foundation and population control:

Three minutes with Hans Rosling will change your mind about the world

He has influenced leaders from Melinda Gates to Fidel Castro. Now, he is on a mission to save people from their preconceived ideas. …

Rosling’s charm appeals to those frustrated by the persistence of myths about the world. Looming large is an idea popularized by Paul Ehrlich, an entomologist at Stanford University in California, who warned in 1968 that the world was heading towards mass starvation owing to overpopulation. Melinda Gates says that after a drink or two, people often tell her that they think the Gates Foundation may be contributing to overpopulation and environmental collapse by saving children’s lives with interventions such as vaccines. She is thrilled when Rosling smoothly uses data to show how the reverse is true: as rates of child survival have increased over time, family size has shrunk. …
http://www.nature.com/news/three-minutes-with-hans-rosling-will-change-your-mind-about-the-world-1.21143

I’m not really in a position to evaluate whether this is true, but let’s hope it is.

Yeah, I don’t really feel like I’m getting an honest accounting of globalization from places like Tom Friedman, the Economist, WSJ. If I recall correctly, the main argument from The World is Flat was “Even though we lost millions of solid blue collar jobs, we can all just buy cheap shit at Walmart!”. The discussions of immigration are much worse.

As for climate change, the latest IPCC projections give the mean forecast at 3.2 C of warming by the end of the century, and they give the high forecast at 5.2 C (9.4 F). So maybe this will get me in trouble with the other commenters, but I think we should be hedging against this really bad scenario. Of course the main thing we can do is limiting immigration from the third world, and then on top of that a carbon tax.