I don’t think it matters what we think; the decision to attack Iran already looks a fait accompli.

See Buchanan’s piece:

http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/070129_hysteria.htm

That or it’s sabre-rattling of a class one wouldn’t typically associate with the present administration.

Completely ignored by the entire media is this odd coincidence:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/04/005697print.html

about Yong Ki Kwon, a Virginia Tech South Korean who is serving 11 years for “federal conspiracy and weapons charges”. He was a convert to extremist Islam. Cho had the words “Ismail Ax” on his arm, which might have some Muslim connection.

the above link

Here’s my prediction. Obama projects GDP growth of more than 10 percent over 4 years to get the deficit down to $500 billion. I predict that GDP will be about the same in 2012 as in 2008, which is, in my opinion, a rosy scenario. That would leave almost a $2 trillion gap with Obama’s assumptions, which translates crudely into a $400 billion revenue shortfall.

His 4 year debt will exceed Bush’s 8 year debt.

“Another strategy exists, and is well attested as low down the chain as among insects — a relatively small and weak male who has no chance in direct conflict pretends to be a female, even to the point of offering to be mounted by the dominant male, in order to sneak into the harem.”

Think of the story of smooth, clever Jacob and his hairy, wild twin Esau. Feminine Jacob wins out over masculine Esau and gets the patriarch’s birthright. Remember this story happened in the context of a goat herding kin network, not a nuclear family unit.

It’s too bad that the evolution crowd is so Bible averse, because it’s gold mine of superior evolutionary strategies. Abrahamic societies consistently out-compete more diffuse paganistic or (modern times) atheistic ones.

That’s in the story too: the patriarch Isaac suspects Jacob’s deception because Jacob evokes the name of God, and “Esau never mentions God.”

Maybe muted masculinity in males has evolutionary advantages. Guys who are a little femmy might make better dads who invest more in teaching and providing for their offspring. Blacks always criticize white men as “not real men” because they let women dominate them.

As moderns we focus too much on the sexual act as what’s “really” happening, but that is an odd or even stupid view. Sex means reproduction. Even the Darwin crowd neglects to really grasp that. If a man is a high investment parent with many offspring, occasional male-male sex contact is not too relevant (except in re increased pathogen risk).

There is a big difference between discreet taboo-breaking and overt, socially disruptive rule taboo-breaking. We moderns are too daft to know the difference, but the smart guys who wrote the Bible maybe were a little more canny about human nature.

“A respectable adult *has a job* in our culture.”

The measure of everything by economic efficiency is *the* Achille’s Heel in Anglo-Saxon societies. The “business uber alles” mentality is incredibly stupid and pig-headed at its extremes, because it opposes biological imperatives like motherhood and political imperatives like continuity of culture.

“However, another really important thing to remember is that very few women would go work in nasty places if they were offered marriage by a truly desirable man. So you guys need to shape up.”

Social scolding amount to nothing in Darwin’s universe. Nature doesn’t care if you have a good job or even if you are illiterate – so long as you produce viable offspring.

Fit women have kids because it is a biological imperative. Everything else, including “self fulfillment” and other ephemeral ego gratification amounts to nothing.

“That is not to say that the 50s model of women getting married at 18 and having kids at 20 will ever come back.”

It will come back and then some. 20 is a little late by some standards. The question is only *who* will bring it back.

We’ll see about all that. Women manage this husband-optional lifestyle because of massive state subsidization of education and childcare if they need it. That is the safety net they think they have… for now.

As the “economically efficient man’s” greed crisis combined with the demographic mediocrity crisis gets deeper, all that free public money will dry up. The desirability of marriage is all about opportunity costs – or lack thereof.

“We all earned big money but felt juggling full time work and babies was not a good lifestyle and we wanted to fully experience raising our children. (We’re all Catholic so our religion offered us no support) There are numerous support groups for stay at home moms.”

For a religion to be an effective evolutionary strategy, it must establish a ingroup-outgroup boundary. If Catholicism is failing at that and instead psychological orienting its flock towards the “mainstream,” then it is kaput evolutionarily.

Even atheism is a better religion (you heard me) by that measure, because atheists see themselves as bitterly opposed to a “world dominated by superstition and religion.” (Atheism fails by other evolutionary strategy criteria, though).

What’s funny is that Evangelical Christianity is also a better religion because Evangelicals see themselves as bitterly opposed to a “world dominated by secular atheism”!

Bottom line: establish that psychological ingroup-outgroup barrier. Otherwise your religion is just a bunch of inconsequential platitudes, which is what most Western Christianity has degenerated into.

Add one more step. Social conservatives have lower IQs. People with lower IQs on average earn less, live shorter lives, etc. They rely on tradition to help them navigate the world.

What to say of people who want to destroy tradition?

Belichick plays to win. This is exactly like his first Super Bowl victory. I remember an announcer (Madden, IIRC) saying he should run out the clock and go to OT. Instead, the Pats drove into field goal range and won the game.

The main factor in this call is the outcome if he succeeds. During the game, the Pats would still need to get into field goal range at a minimum to make the call worthwhile. In this case, it's equivalent to 4th and goal from the 2-yard line.

My "favorite" no guts call is by underdog coaches when they trail by 1-pt at the end of the game, having just scored a touchdown. The guts of the coach is what made Boise State's Fiesta Bowl win over Oklahoma so sweet.

When will we stop this nonsense of lumping Jews and whites together for statistical purposes?

Jews certainly don’t consider themselves “white.” They clearly are a distinct and separate ethnic group. They wouldn’t have it any other way.

Ah yes, but recall that “Last King of Scotland” had a Goodwhite(tm) as main character. So it qualified to receive nomination.

“Cohen.”

That is all.

“…for the longest time we either shamelessly ignored our history or rewrote it to conform to myth…”

“We”?

Mr. Cohen, there is no “we” in this context.

Your ethnic group measures everything by the “Is it good for the Jews?” litmus test. “We” does not include other Americans. It never has.

“the real leaders for this new era will distinguish themselves by focusing not just on the social diversity that makes great nations, but on the truth and wondrous benefits of the diversity that actually lives within us all.”

The benefits of diversity and “non-othering” are so “wondrous” that Israel has chosen to generously allocate its diversity quota to white nations. At the same time Jews agitate endless for dilution of white countries.

“Rothkopf.”

Kevin MacDonald got it right. There is no doubt.

Right, maybe he read the comments sections of web sites like this and responded accordingly. Or maybe Sailer disproportionately picks Jewish liberals to highlight. Most non-Jewish intellectuals (we call them the “talented tenth” haha, just kidding) are actually liberals.

Nice dodge.

It’s true that many non-Jewish intellectuals are lefties. It’s also true that pretty much all Jews (left and right) call for open borders for Europe and the USA while maintaining closed borders and ethnic “othering” for Israel.

Ethnic solidarity for me, not for thee.

But no worries. Move on. Nothing to see here.

And just 2% Jewish, right?

(((Robert Kagan)))
(((Max Boot)))
(((Eliot Cohen)))

Hmmm I see a pattern here…

Are there any Jews who publicly support Trump?

Yes, yes and yes!

Keep fighting the good fight Steve.

“Tiny amounts of diversity probably do add something to an overall culture; really good ethnic restaurants are an obvious example, as are some forms of music. ”

Yes, I’ve come to the same conclusion. Multi-racial societies *can* exist and even be “richer” than mono-racial/cultural societies. But ONLY if one race/culture is a dominant matrix, say >80%. This, historically, described America.

It reminds me of chemistry. A solvent can absorb only so much foreign substance before it becomes saturated. Once the tipping point is reached things change rather quickly.

We’re at — or beyond — the tipping point.

Are you kidding me?

Hysteria re: racism, secism, transgenderism is exploding because of Obama and his rhetoric.

Obama’s actions and rhetoric has been the most racially and socially divisive in my memory. He’s helped all lefties discover that the more they scream about “injustice” (real or imagined, usually the latter) the more power they get.

Yep. I came to the same conclusion. BLM is just another race hustle about money. Just like Sharpton and Jackson.

Just follow the money trail. BLM agitators get money and/or jobs. Will be interesting to see when there’s no more whitey to spread around.

Yep, no doubt Corvinus is a Jew.

I’ve noticed that any article using the word “fearmongering” always means “This is genuinely bad but if you try to prevent it I’ll tar you with a meaningless word.”

These people would say buckling your seatbelt is an unjustified reaction to “fearmongering” of car crashes.

Disney has neutered Pixar.

Pixar used to slip realtalk, anti-PC themes into its wildly successful films. My favorite is 2004’s “The Incredibles.” The whole film rails against equalism and PC. “Wall-E” railed against fat and sedentary people.

Would either film be made under Disney’s control today? I doubt it.

I fear there are darker forces at work within Disney…

Yes. Far better to use “Anti-Jew” rather than the Jewish-preferred made-up word “Anti-Semitic.”

But somehow, “Anti-Jew” doesn’t have the same holier-than-thou ring that “Anti-Semitic” does. It also puts attention squarely on “Jew” (and baggage contained therein) which Jews don’t want.

“Didja hear? That guy is Anti-Semitic” sounds a whole lot better (or worse) than “Didja hear? That guy sounds Anti-Jew!”

The former sounds like a horrible affliction. The latter would be received with knowing shrugs. That’s why Jews prefer the former.

It’s far clearer to use the phrase “Anti-Jew.”

Already I read one article that breathlessly pointed out the the Munich attack occurred just steps away from the 1972 murder of Israeli Olympic athletes.

All roads lead back to…aw hell you can finish it.

What your cited ‘enraged’ Jews are actually concerned about is non-Jews noticing that they are being harmed by policies/actions being pushed, disproportionately, by shrewd activist Jews.

Nailed it. Couldn’t agree more.

Jews don’t want any talk of racial or ethnic differences. At all. If that is allowed then eventually people will get around to looking at Jews as a separate ethnicity who act in their own interests (which often run counter to WASP interests).

Can’t have that. Move along. Nothing to see here.

Yet isn’t it odd that although Jewish groups are at the forefront of pushing mass third world immigration in Western countries, few (or none) push open borders for Israel.

A stumper.

A very perceptive comment.

Advocating open borders for Israel is so obviously an immediate recipe for the destruction of Israel…

How can this be?

We’re told that opening America’s borders just makes us stronger. We’re told there is no “race.” We’re told that all people are equal and really the same. We’re told that mass immigration from peoples of alien cultures with alien values will not change our culture or political system one iota. For example, importing thousands of Somalis into Minnesota won’t change a thing about those communities, except improve them.

Hence, there is no reason mass non-Jewish immigration would change anything in Israel. To say otherwise is to reveal oneself as a bigot.

[end sarcasm]

This is why I dislike Jewish actions. They advocate tirelessly in to import third worlders into white nations, yet when it comes to their own nation suddenly race/ethnicity *does* matter.

The conclusion is inescapable to me: Jews pursue a strategy of ethnocentrism for themselves whilst undermining ethnocentrism for other nations/groups. All while denying they are ethnocentric in their host nations. A brilliant strategy, for them.

So, the contradiction is, the “smart” Jews are either ignoring the very obvious fact that a Muslim presence is antithetical to Jewish well-being, or else the Jews are acting against their own interests.

Good point.

Yes, on the one hand Muslim immigration is against Jewish interests. Muslims tend to be intensely anti-Jew. It would not be smart to import people who are likely to harm you.

On the other hand, if you buy the premise that a primary motivation of Jews is not to be “othered” as an alien nation in their host countries (which I do) then the apparent contradiction can be reconciled as a choice between the lesser of two evils.

A multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and divided society is far less likely unanimously to finger Jews as the “other” (see Germany 1930s). Hence, Jews are “safer” in such a society.

It’s hard to exclude one ethnicity without the logic being extended to other ethnicities/racial groups. Hence, gotta accept Muslim immigration as part of the multicult package that, in the big picture, “makes Jews safer.”

If the above is true, Jewish advocacy for Muslim immigration is quite smart indeed. A shrewd way to advance Jewish interests, even if there is a bit of collateral damage.

In the wake of the slaughter of four Jews in a Paris kosher supermarket by an Islamic jihadist, a Parisian Jew said: “In the past year, 7,000 Jews have already left France and after this there will be many thousands more. We are not safe in France any more. There is no future for Jews here in France. We are finished in France.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/01/12/the-death-of-the-jews-of-france/

Collateral damage.

The larger objective of weakening the historically white, Christian French state by importing unassimilable peoples is achieved. Very unlikely the French will ever unify against the Jews when they themselves are a house divided.

I’m willing to bet 98% of French Jews will remain in France. And if they don’t they always have the option to return to their homogenous ethnic homeland. [A non-Jew Israeli citizen agitating for non-Jewish immigration to Israel would be run out on a rail.]

What homeland shall the French Christian people return to? Oh, right.

Whether Jewish actions are motivated by “altruism” or ethnic interest doesn’t really matter, does it? The outcome is the same.

I would add that the Islamic invaders in Europe have slaughtered far more Christians than Jews during the last few years.

Yet it’s still all about how Europe isn’t safe for the Jews, isn’t it?

Fair enough.

So in other words, the Jewish push for mass immigration makes their behavior a danger not only to others (ask the Euros), but to themselves. Great.

I’ve noticed a positive correlation between degree of liberalness and whiteness of neighborhood choice. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

The big problem is that very few TTs will actually call out black dysfunction, other than a handful of them like black Sheriff Clarke of Milwaukee. Race loyalty still means too much to them.

My sense is personal incentives explain this behavior more than race loyalty.

Blacks get rewarded a lot more by screaming about white racism than they do calling out black dysfunction.

Sounds like sarcasm but I like it.

I have long since concluded that the best way for races to get along is to keep them separate.

White people bad. Non-white people good. Best to keep non-whites away from whites. Big walls.

Israel shoots people who try to cross their border without permission. America can too.

Sure. Walls aren’t built to be utterly impassible. They’re built to control entry.

We will put a big, beautiful door in our border wall. Millions may pass with our blessing.

I suspect a big part of the activists’ motivation is money.

Mandating bilingual education directs a spigot of public money to them and theirs.

It’s not about “helping” immigrants.

Crazy like a fox.

English-speaking children of immigrants integrate better into wider American culture. Can’t have that. Gotta keep Latinos separated and marginalized. Otherwise, how to exploit ethnic tension for power and money if there isn’t enough of it?

A few years ago I would have dismissed what I just said as a crazy conspiracy theory. Now I think it’s closer to the truth than not.

Political Correctness’ allure to socially-middling and loser whites is that it lets them speak aggressively and accusingly to their social superiors.

Wow. I never thought of it that way. But it rings true with shining clarity.

This comment wins the Internet today.

How come when these leftie Goodwhites threaten to leave the USA, it’s always to frigid mostly white Canada and not, say, sunny Mexico with more diversity?

Oh, right.

I always thought an effective weapon against the diversity nonsense would be insisting that leftist elites practice what they preach. Personalize, freeze, mock and ridicule their hypocrisy without mercy.

Look at the senior administration in any major university — mostly white (or Jewish). Democrat staff in Congress — overwhelmingly white. How many white university presidents who preach diversity resign in order to make way for a non-white? Yeah, none.

It’s just cost-free holier-than-thou virtue-signaling.

When I was in b-school I met the former Chairman of Lucent Technologies, Henry Schacht, for a brown bag lunch with a few other students. He lectured us about the need to make American senior management “diverse” and bragged about how he had favored women and non-whites over white men.

Even then I thought “What a supreme asshole, getting his virtuous Goodwhite feels at my expense. He should have resigned to make way for a non-white.”

It was then that I realized cucks are the enemy. People like him got theirs, then screw their own.

This is true.

In business school my group-mate was Chinese Chinese. She told me point-blank that the Chinese government asked her for information, and that Americans were right to be suspicious of Chinese. She’s a naturalized US citizen now, btw. I still wonder where her loyalties lie.

In another b-school incident, another Chinese Chinese classmate asked me “You were in the Navy, right?” The way he asked me struck me as contrived, funny, out of place. Totally out of context at the time too.

I got the feeling he was completing my dossier. The funniest thing was I’ve never been in the military nor would he have any reason to think I was.

China struggles to accept that descendants of Chinese emigrants may feel no obligation to reflect China’s interests. Gary Locke, the first Chinese-American ambassador to Beijing in 2011-14, was repeatedly criticised by state media for doing his job—representing American interests, even if they conflicted with China’s.

What Americans DO NOT GET is that to Chinese (and pretty much everyone outside of white Western countries) race=nation.

Appointing Gary Locke ambassador to China was a huge mistake. They basically viewed him as a race traitor.

The problem [for the left] is that the demand for bigotry is far higher than supply.

Therefore, supply must be fabricated. This explains the rash of hate hoaxes, Rolling Stone fake rape article, etc.

There is no doubt in my mind that “environmentalism” is used to stifle development and keep out undesirables. Just follow the money.

Stories like this one convince me that the best solution to “racism” is separation of races.

Incentives matter. As long as blacks get goodies for crying racism they’ll keep doing it. Looks like this man built his whole little empire on cries of “raaaccissst!” He has good company in the USA.

As Steve mentioned in a previous post, demand for racism far outstrips supply these days. Proliferation of hate hoaxes is just filling demand.

Eventually there won’t be enough whitey to go around.

Mass Third World immigration is very bad for Jews

Erm…I guess that’s why they work without rest to flood Euro-ethnic countries — but not Israel — with mass 3rd world hordes?

Someone needs to tell the French that what we need is bridges, not walls.

PS – Walls don’t work.

Yeah, nailed it.

I read one of Trump’s books, “Think Big and Kick Ass.” It has a whole chapter dedicated to revenge. You read that right. A whole chapter. Trump says you should always pursue revenge because “…it feels good, and people learn not to mess with you.”

Trump prizes and rewards loyalty too. Ryan pretended fealty, then dissed Trump badly at the first (admittedly big) bump in the road.

There is NO DOUBT in my mind that the healthcare bill meltdown went according to Trump’s plan. He will use it to destroy Ryan and install someone more loyal.

Remember when Trump “considered” Romney for Sec of State? Yeah, no. Romney was NEVER under consideration. Not after his “Never Trump” speech. Trump just dangled SoS in front of Romney to humiliate him publicly. That pic of them at dinner with Trump’s shit-eating Cheshire Cat grin and Romney’s pained expression? All planned.

“By Rachel M. Cohen”

Every. Single. Time.

Third world nations that were colonized by Europeans are more advanced economically and socially. Except for Africa maybe.

Europeans really were a positive civilizing force in colonial times. Can you imagine what Australia would look like today if the Brits hadn’t colonized it?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: We can learn a lot from the Israelis:
– Border wall? Check.
– Disallowing immigration from people who are culturally/ethnically dissimilar? Check.
– Proudly being an ethnically-based nation with no apologies? Check.
– Political class immune to SJW shaming? Check.

They know what they’re doing. Follow the leader.

Rich White Democrats don’t take BART and don’t much care what happens there. BART is for poor Whites and non-Whites.

Whenever I read a story mentioning swarms of “teenagers” behaving badly I automatically assume “blacks.” Doesn’t everyone?

Same for no description of perps. It’s “Blacks” followed by “Hispanic.” If the perp is White it’s right in the headline. Asian never enters my mind.

Reminds me of Orwell: “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

Erm….the Italians are complaining of “too many migrants” yet the Italian Navy keeps picking up migrants right off the coast of Libya and giving them free rides to Italy?

I don’t get it.

“Israel wasn’t tested.”

“Kaufmann”

I’ve got a niggling feeling there’s a relationship between these two bits, but I can’t figure out what.

For what it’s worth, the government of Singapore openly calls for and makes official policy of keeping ethnic Chinese the majority of the Singapore population. They call it “ethnic stability” or some such.

Yet no one calls them “racists.”

Weird.

Chinese privilege indeed. Dirty, evil, terrible racists, those Chinese ethnics in Singapore. I always knew they were Chinese supremacists for wanting to remain a majority.

Singapore needs a healthy injection of African vibrancy for its own good.

Yeah I had the exact same thought.

When was the last time a speech as canceled because the speaker said something nasty about Christianity?

Asking for a friend.

Steve – re: your post about foreign scammers bilking the USG out of dough then scurrying back to home country havens, here’s a story tailor made for you:

https://news.google.com/news/amp?caurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nydailynews.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Fex-house-staffer-busted-bank-fraud-leave-u-s-article-1.3357407#pt0-51242

Paki-American Congressional staffer for Wasserman-Schultz and his wife scam nearly $200k then hubby caught boarding a plane to Paki after wife already got therr with the kids.

A very iSteve-y story.

Fair point.

The lionization of “Tolerance” in the West is a recent development.

For hundreds of years European-derived nations harboured no doubts about the superiority of their culture. Western nations invaded and colonized other peoples around the world (and those peoples are largely better for it I might add) without apology.There was no hand-wringing about “diversity” or “inclusiveness.”

Then around 50 years ago Europeans lost their confidence. What changed? It’s a puzzle.

PS – I have no doubt the Chinese harbour a healthy sense that their culture is superior.

The term “anti-Semitic” makes no sense. “Semitic” can include peoples who are not of the Tribe.

“Anti-Jew” is clearer.

Are they counting Jews as whites?

Great question. I think we all know the answer.

Would be very interesting to know the breakdown of the “White” category. My guess is 50% Jewish. Anyone have data?

SJWs complain that Asians are overrepresented, but not Jews. Weird.

I read the memo.

It’s not “anti-diversity” at all.

The (soon to be SJW-swarmed, fired and humiliated) author bends over backwards to state repeatedly that he SUPPORTS more women and minorities in tech. He just disagrees with the methods such as courses at Google restricted by race, etc.

His main thoughtcrime is stating that there may be biologically-rooted differences between men and women that at least partly explain why women don’t often become back-end engineers. He has the outrageous suggestion that Google change its development processes to take advantage of women’s natural strengths, to encourage more women engineers.

So of course the MSM and SJWs immediately swarm him and distort his ideas with breathless headlines like “Anti-Diversity Memo.”

This man is getting an education in the nastiness, deceit and fragility of ideas on the left.

Imagine the efficient chip designs that could be unlocked by engineers who speak fluent Ebonics! Intel can’t afford not to diversify.

Interesting thoughts there, many on target.

However, Luttwak gets it 100% wrong when he predicts that a President Trump granting amnesty to illegals after the “border is secured” will win the Hispanic vote.

Reagan’s 1986 amnesty did NOTHING to help the GOP. Rather, it had the opposite effect of turning CA permanently Hispanic and blue.

Hispanics will NEVER vote for the GOP. NEVER.

The North Koreans call that “self criticism” time.

Brilliant

A guard is stationed round the clock at the stone-gate entrance to the street to keep the curious away.

B-b-but — don’t they know that walls don’t work?

The left simply cannot admit that the genders have ANY different means or distributions of characteristics between them.

The reason?

As soon as they let this inconvenient fact see daylight their entire equalist ediface comes crashing down. Along with tens of thousands of cushy sinecures like “VP Diversity & Integrity.”

The whole thing is Orwellian. 2+2=5 if the Party says so.

The left simply cannot admit that the genders have ANY different population means or distributions. Their curves must be exactly the same because equality.

The reason?

As soon as they let this inconvenient fact see daylight their entire equalist ediface comes crashing down. Along with tens of thousands of cushy sinecures like “VP Diversity & Integrity.”

Yet anyone who has lived a day in his life knows there are inherent sex differences.

The whole thing is Orwellian. 2+2=5 if the Party says so.

B-b-but…we’re always told that “race doesn’t matter.”

SJWs don’t want you to notice race except, of course, when they do.

It’s a little too perfect.

– Congregation says “hate crime” immediately? Check.
– Media-friendly sound bites prepared? (we came for religious freedom!) Check.
– On the heels of the jumpy Somali “cop” who shot over his partner thru the cruiser door to kill a White woman? Check.

My spidey sense tingles “hate hoax.”

We’ll know for sure in a few weeks. If the event goes down the memory hole (like the noose at the African American museum in DC) we’ll know for sure it was a hate hoax.

This is not only possible, but likely.

Google cannot afford another White man to stand up and publicly question Google’s gender and racial preferences. It would be recorded and public in seconds.

It’s funny that they are hiding behind “cannot ensure safety.” This is the left’s new excuse for suppressing speech.

Google management has become a joke.

Google’s founders kept 51% voting control for a reason — control.

You can bet that a flunkie like Pichai did not make a decision under the klieg lights without getting at least their tacit blessing.

I fail to see how it could end any other way, if I were a Mexican or Somali or Chinese person living in America I would not really care about Jefferson or Washington, why would I ?

Exactly. Why would you?

This is why importing mass numbers of non-Europeans from vastly different cultures will spell the end of the (pale, stale, male) Constitution and, eventually, of America.

No shared ideals, no founding fathers, no common culture or shared background to keep us together. Just identity politics and mish-mash of bitterly competing interest groups.

“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold…”

We need more wise Asian immigrants like you to save us from our madness.

Lol!

Don’t feed the trolls.

Controlled opposition can be very useful.

My take is that Beinart knows very well that Jefferson and Washington are next to be taken down. But it would be a bad tactical move to speak openly of it, yet. Still too many Whites, and they are not sufficiently cowed.

The left has used the “Camel’s nose in the tent” technique brilliantly in advancing its agenda. They play the long game.

Ted Kennedy, speaking of the 1965 immigration bill opening borders to the 3rd world: “This bill not not impact the ethnic makeup of the USA.”

Lefties, 1980s: “Isn’t all the ethnic food great? So much better than dull White food.”

Lefties, 1990s: “Nothing is changing. You’re overreacting, White people.”

Lefties, 2000s: “We’ve always been a nation of immigrants. Immigrants from Somalia are more “American” than Americans born here.

Lefties, Current Year: “America will be better when you’re gone, White people.”

Race doesn’t matter. Except when it does.

Stay quiet. The SJWs and POC will tell you when it matters and when it doesn’t.

That’s a parody account, no?

First rule of dealing with SJWs: Never, ever apologize. It’s accepting their frame and an admission of guilt under their terms. There is no upside to it.

Couldn’t agree more. It’s all the 13 year old girls’ and their fathers’ fault. Feral Pakis know not what they do.

OMG!

Forthwith we must rename the following:
District of Colombia –> District of Tubman
Columbia University –> Nat Turner University
Columbus Ohio –> Booker T. Washington, Ohio
Columbia River –> People of Color River

The sooner these racist stains on our history go down the memory hole, the better!

Euro-American man here. I’ve lived and worked in Asia for 10 years. Married to an Asian.

Over 10 years patterns began to reveal themselves and overwhelm my American social conditioning that “everyone is the same.” My takeaways:

East Asians have plenty of brain processing power. Their mean possibly is higher than Euros. They learn established processes quickly. They can apply this knowledge in standard patterns. Hence China’s rise in learning and applying technology and business practices from the West.

The big weak point for Asians is their creative ability and imagination. Imagining possibilities that are different from the present. Applying old practices in novel ways.

East Asian cities tend to have streets where shops cluster that specialize in one type of good — aquariums, paper products, bolts and locks, etc. They all copy each other blindly. They are all the same. You will NEVER see a shop that tries to differentiate itself. It never occurs to them to “think different.”

Of course, it doesn’t mean there are no creative Asians. It’s just that the population means are different. There is zero doubt in my mind that the Euro creativity mean is materially higher than the Asian one.

I used to think my observations were a product of culture. Recently I’ve concluded that culture is a product of biology. Asians and Euros are just wired differently, each with strengths and weaknesses.

What percent of the “White” line is Jewish? Are Jews “overrepresented”?

Asking for a friend.

Is there any evidence that the East Asian-white gap on something like the SAT math isn’t primarily due to HBD? (Let’s ignore selective immigration for a moment here.)

Is there any evidence that the East Asian-European gap on something like, oh I dunno, every single technological and business innovation of the last 500 years isn’t primarily due to HBD?

Euros invent. Asians copy. HBD.

It’s an interesting question why Europe and East Asia diverged in the past 500 years, but that’s not the issue I’m addressing here.

“That’s not the issue I’m addressing here” = I don’t want to talk about the fact that Asians invented nothing in the last 500 years.

We’re talking about modern day.

Yes. The modern day where Asian economic growth is built entirely on top of European innovations. Nice sidestep by the way.

It’s clear to me that East Asians skew towards quantitative aptitude and that probably explains why East Asians are disproportionately over-represented in actual value creation activities, i.e. they’re vastly over-represented in technical roles in Silicon Valley, etc.

Yes. Certainly Asians skew towards the technical. That’s because their population mean for imagining and creating is far to the left of Euros.

According to you, “value creation activities” are only technical. Imagination got nuttin’ to do with it — just engineers figuring out how to make smaller, cheaper widgets — the stuff that great nations are made of.

Please refer to my early comment about the meme that high mathematical ability is conducive to value creation while high verbal ability is conducive to value transference.

LOL. Only high processing power for math creates value. Anything else is shysterism. Got it.

You can see this reflected in the very different manner that the economies of East Asia are oriented compared to the economies of Western nations, California tech aside.

Erm, “California tech” is all software and creativity — Paypal, Google, Linkedin, AirBNB. “Economies of East Asia” is using cheap labor to crank out tinier and tinier gadgets designed in California by Euros.

East Asian economies are disproportionately shifted towards value creation tech and advanced manufacturing, while Western economies are more oriented towards value transference services such as investment banking, management consulting, law, etc.

I repeat — following instructions from Euros to build widgets is the only activity that creates value. Conceiving, designing and building business models around those widgets is nothing more than value transference. The Euros add nothing.

The idea that East Asians are “copying” doesn’t really hold water when you consider that East Asians are actually disproportionately over-represented in value creation activities both in the US and worldwide. For instance see the article below.

Another sidestep. Show me one, just one, technological or business innovation from Asia that is extensively used in modern industry or society. Vaunted mathematical ability?

Show me one mathematical breakthrough from an Asian in the past 500 years. For each one you find (if you can find even one) I’ll show you 50 from Europeans. “High mathematical ability” indeed. I could say the same about a spreadsheet.

I suspect that part of the perception gap is due to what I noted in another comment, when I responded to someone holding up Steve Jobs as an example of innovative and creative brilliance! My point was that Jobs was actually noted mostly for being a product and design person, not for being technically brilliant.

Right. Steve Jobs created nothing. Revolutionizing the music, computer and mobile phone industries. Making massive value-creating business models like Uber (copied by the Chinese immediately) possible.

Only the nerdy technical guys who figured out how to build what Jobs told them to had value. Again, got it.

Bill Gates supposedly looked down on Steve Jobs because the latter wasn’t a particular great engineer.

Right. And which man has had a greater transformative impact on modern society? The engineer (Gates) or the creative visionary (Jobs)? Rhetorical.

In actuality, most of the high end technical components in Apple’s products are made in East Asia, many of them supplied by their direct competitor Samsung! Let’s call Jobs as belonging to what I refer to as the Don Draper school of innovation. Others have described Steve Jobs as possessing a reality distortion field, able to use slick marketing and verbiage to advance Apple’s products in the marketplace.

Translation: The widget makers are the real heroes and value creators here! Jobs did nothing. A shyster at best (typed on Yan Shen’s smartphone, an irony-free zone).

In general, I suspect that whites are more inclined to view the kind of design innovation that Jobs embodies as being real innovation, while East Asians typically view innovation from a more purely technical perspective, i.e. Samsung coming out with the latest generation OLED displays, etc

Everyone knows that innovation is purely about incremental widget improvements, at which Asians excel. Building widgets conceived and designed by Europeans is “real innovation.” Aseans are so good at it that the all scientific and engineering progress underlying all these widgets came from Europeans.

Asian academic ability and intelligence are so awesome they have been unable to create world class universities in their own countries. Instead they flock to Western universities to learn.

Oh, the irony.

Witch hunts have to intensify.

Yes. It’s like a raging fire. It will grow as long as there is fuel to consume.

Like subprime lending, I suspect that the SJW business plan will keep on working until it doesn’t.

My conclusion too. We’re heading to a tipping point one way or the other. Fasten your seat belts.

More sidestepping.

Yes, Asians work disproportionately in STEM. And if Asians tend to be strong in STEM due to HBD (which I don’t doubt) then why have we seen no historical innovation from Asian countries? All fundamental innovations, discoveries and scientific theories came from the West. Yes, all right up to the Current Year.

– Internal combustion engine
– Power generation and transmission
– The corporation
– The Internet
– Computers
– Radio
– Television
– Calculus
– Trigonometry
– Rocketry
– Display technology
– Quantum theory
– Steam engine
– Clocks
– Genetic theory and engineering
– Understanding of the circulatory system
– Advanced drugs

I could go on and on. Charles Murray already has.

My observation after living in Asia for 10+ years is that although Asians have strong processing power they’re weak in the creativity and insight that leads to innovation and breakthroughs. They are good at making improvements to already-existing processes/products, but not so good at breakthroughs (like iPhone, Google, Internet, Uber, reusable rockets etc). It explains why they never developed technology like Euros did.

Software aside, Apple’s primary strengths are in marketing and design. Samsung’s strength is in engineering, which I would argue is real innovation and creation.

I am not knocking the engineering that Samsung does. It’s advanced work. It does require intelligence and skill. And they are great at it.

Apple excels at understanding what people need, imagining the future and ideating devices, software and business models that change the world. It’s suited to European HBD strengths. Samsung excels at applied engineering and building the devices to spec cleverly. It’s suited to Asian HBD strengths.

It seems where we differ is you value only the applied engineering bit. Whereas I put tremendous value on the ideation and creation. Without ideation there can be nothing. Without highly advanced engineering maybe the devices would be bulkier or more expensive, but we’d still have them.

After all, Europeans did manage to build electronic devices before outsourcing to Asia, whereas Asians were never able to ideate or build these innovations without European insight (hence all scientific and technological progress has been from the West up to now).

I’m not knocking Asians. I’m married to one. I actually view Asians and Europeans as having a symbiotic relationship. They complement each other, HBD-wise.

I am a little fatigued at the chest-thumping of “Asian mathematical aptitude”. Yes, I don’t doubt it. But it’s more of an ability to process math, not innovate or think creatively. Hence the symbiosis between Euros and Asians.

“Daniel Gross”