Absolutely spot on Derb. Disparate Impact Theory is yet another of those which spring from Cultural Relativism, a belief that all cultures, all groups are equal and therefore should have equal results. As you pointed out the fact that Republican Congresscritters at a hearing regarding this policy refused to challenge its factual basis illustrates how far into the pseudo-intellectual muck our culture has sunk.

BTW in regards to Cultural Relativism has anyone determined why The Tribe are USA’s most successful ethno-religious group? https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/magazine/is-your-religion-your-financial-destiny.html

Spot on Derb, spot on. Talk about speaking truth to power. Black privilege indeed.

Good one Derb, as usual. Informative and circumspect at the same time. We don’t get that from Lefty media! The Kipling anecdote was a real scream.

Speaking of unfinished reading matter, bought Jonah Goldberg’s Suicide of the West on sale and got somewhere like halfway into it before checking the index. There isn’t a single entry for you, James Watson, James Damore, Dr. Timothy Hunt, and others who’ve lost their jobs (if not their careers) and/or been hounded from “respectable” so-called intellectual society for offending the Goddess of Diversity. So if Goldberg isn’t exactly a Lefty hitman he’s certainly a tacit collaborator in the muzzling of dissent.

Thanks again and keep on truckin’. Cheers!

Not unless Western Civ recovers its pride and spine. Otherwise toast.

Makes you wonder if any of these congresscritters ever read the Constitution. It expressly forbids ex post facto laws, or retroactive justice. IOW if something was legal in the past (as slavery was all over the planet until evil Whitey finally abolished it) then you can’t pass laws to punish those who were practicing it at the time, let alone indulge in intergenerational shotgun “justice” (“revenge” is more like it) to collectively punish all living members of the gene pool which was top dog way back when.

Apparently the body politic has been so permeated with the blatant structures of Diversity that it–and its elected reps–can’t even think straight.

Given that slavery in the US was perfectly legal until it was abolished and that the Constitution forbids ex post facto laws (i.e., retroactive justice) the case for “reparations” is DOA. Unless of course the rabid Left wants to tear it up and start over with one that favors the “historically oppressed.”

BTW if you search for “slavery abolished worldwide” the first one that shows up on Google is Reuters, which makes no mention of it outside Western Civ. You’d think only evil whitey was the only one to practice the infernal institution.

“With Roth’s help, Rickey penned a Life magazine article in 1954 pointing out the key finding of Bill James’s work a generation later: that on-base average was more important than batting average.”

Yes, and that’s what Michael Lewis noted in Moneyball about Billy Beane’s Oakland A’s in 2003. Yet nowadays it seems everybody’s swinging for the fences as strikeout-to-walk ratios are two-to-one or worse.

So when are guys with high OBP going to get paid as much as sluggers? Don’t hold your breath…

What matters is debt servicing relative to revenue. In 2015 it was 6% of federal spending ( just over 1% of GDP). By comparison debt servicing for France and Britain before the French Revolution was 60 and 70% respectively. (Sources: nationalpriorities.org and Simon Schama’s Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution)

Perhaps Paul Hewson (aka Bono) could rhapsodize on the succinct brilliance of Julius Malema’s personal anthem “Shoot the Boer,” which reminded him of IRA protest ditties. How sweet…and not at all populist. Whites are not a protected class in the New World Order.

As we have sown, so shall we reap. Maybe we should lure Israeli nationalists to immigrate and show us how to preserve a culture.

Spot on John, spot on. Good on yer mate!

Honestly, thought the headline was from the Onion. But this is serious, and deadly for academic freedom. The Left is on a collision course with objective reality.

If anyone owes “reparations” to anybody it’s descendants of slaves who didn’t pony up the cost of manumission. Slavery was legal all over the planet until evil white racist bigots abolished it. Instead of gratitude all they get is scorn these days. As the saying goes no good deed goes unpunished.

Cry me a river. Obviously the Izzies need to give their border guards more target practice since the wouded-to-kill ratio is too low. Should be more like 4 to 1 instead of about 45 to 1. You’d think that in turning away “mostly peaceful demonstrators” trying to crash the border and “reclaim their land” they’d be more deliberate

BTW does anyone remember how many Jews were kicked out of Arab countries after Israel was created? Just asking.

Yeah. Especially the ones who know the difference between a possessive pronoun and an adverb…

It’s about time. Go Trump!

…and you are a diversity hire. Period.

“Europeans robbed Africans of the development that would have otherwise been theirs”? Seriously? Africans were enslaved and colonized simply ‘cuz they weren’t developed in the first place.

Likewise, to state their development would have been “similar to Europeans” is a cultural relativist trope which must be sustained by faith, not reason. The corrupt, kleptocratic, dysfunctional autocracies of sub-Saharan Africa are a reminder that all groups, all cultures are not equal, as is the contrary example of Jews and their advanced Homeland of Israel.

Indeed. Only fly in the ointment is that Justin didn’t win game 6. Noticed he was throwing 90-plus mph fastballs almost exclusively since curves and sliders didn’t break with the balls they used for the playoffs. Probably why Darvish got knocked out of game 7 as well. Sorry to see this mellow game turned into a home run derby. C’est la vie.

The Army gives parachutist badges just for showing up? Seriously? Silly me. And here I thought all along you gotta jump out of airplanes to get one.

Either that, or the otherwise crafty, worldly-wise Derb is clueless about the military and its elite units.

Spot on John, as usual. Your alien perspective demonstrates the superiority of cold-blooded “patriarchal” analysis over touchy-feely relativist romanticism or feel-good patriotism. There is no way out of this, as you say, although it’s a shame Lincoln didn’t double down on his initial plan for separation through colonization. Too late now.

George Will had his Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball published in 1990. In it he wrote that only 20 teams had hit 200 or more homers in all of baseball history. This year alone 16 teams have hit that mark. The long ball is no longer dramatic, simply banal, especially when you consider there’s no real suspense or action after a homer is hit, except to watch guys trot around the bases with impunity.

Meanwhile finer team-oriented points of the game are sadly neglected. Stuff like run-and-hit, hitting behind the runner, the bunt and other aspects of small ball have practically vanished. Apparently the owners decided that more dingers were necessary to resuscitate flagging interest from a jaded public. It ain’t baseball no more, it’s simply a home run derby. Sad.

So race denialism is “an argument put forward by Marxist ideologue Richard Lewontin in 1972, an argument since debunked so often and comprehensively it commonly appears in reference sources as “Lewontin’s Fallacy…”? But the links only point to Edwards and Wade as debunkers, while the Wiki source claims “Edwards’ critique is discussed in a number of academic and popular science books, with varying degrees of support.”

Doesn’t exactly sound like a lot of comprehensive debunking to me. Sorry John.

Very good, although I wish people would stop using the ideologically loaded term “gender” instead of “sex.” Conservatives should use traditional language if possible, especially when backed scientifically in this case by chromosomal evidence. Recall Solzhenitsyn’s observations on the totalitarian control of language to further their agenda.

Yes. The “Indians” adapted quickly to Western weapons, sometimes even to tactics, even though their favorites were raids and ambuscades. It would’ve been interesting to see what would’ve happened if the tribesmen hadn’t been so susceptible to Eurasian pathogens, which in the end decided their fate.

Yes. And Israel also builds walls without apology.

Yeah, well, sad to say gotta mostly agree with ya on this one. Barring some unforeseen developments the role of US as world cop has just been resurrected. Call it historic recurrence; perhaps the planet’s pre-eminent superpower will never abstain from intervention until it is obliged to fight a war on its own territory–with or without air cover. C’est la vie.

It’s amazing that such an unapologetic proponent of Western Civ is still teaching at a US university. While not agreeing with everything he says (actually since Western gals don’t wanna haul ashes why not hook up with Asians? they’re sharp and conservative) I’d say he’s definitely right on about the Establishment and its attitude towards the “racist, sexist, homophobic” etc. white working class.

Well done sir and good luck!

Gee, wonder why I haven’t heard about this plan for conversion-or-else on CNN or BBC. Maybe I missed someting on Fareed Zakaria’s latest global dump on Trump.

Another great article by El Derbo. BTW an alternate version of Wellington’s reply to Uxbridge goes, “By Jove, so you have!” Whatever his merits the Duke was not strong on empathy. But if he was, w0uld he have been such a winning general?

Great article. Been wondering why the “race realists” haven’t been able to produce much new stuff since The Bell Curve. Or why they can’t come up with sensible explanations regarding the Flynn Effect, rapid changes in group IQ, or the ability of countries with supposedly borderline mentally retarded populations to handle modern infrastructure, finance, etc.

This pretty much blows out of the water any presumptions of the IQ-is-destiny crowd about how “scientific” they are. Thanks Mr. Reed!

So if you want a temporary halt to immigration while the broken system is reviewed and upgraded you’re a xenophobic racist? Riiiiight.

Shoulda stuck with economics Mr. K. At least you know something about THAT.

Actually nobody threw any rocks–the “cotton ball” episode occurred in 2010 IIRC–and none of the three incidents which caused the brouhaha (two allegations of the N-word, one of them off-campus, and the “poop swastika”) have been substantiated. Nobody took a picture of the swastika, apparently, and the supposed N-word perps have not been identified. We don’t even know if these aren’t simply race hoaxes designed to attract attention.

At any rate we’re left with three alleged incidents over a couple months supposedly causing a “hostile racial atmosphere on campus,” along with a now-aborted hunger strike by an “underprivileged” grad student whose daddy is a Union Pacific vice-president, making a cool eight-plus million dollars last year. Color me skeptical.

Yeh-heh. All this “white privilege” business is getting nauseating. Solzhenitsyn’s Zek aphorism seems appropriate here:

“If they’re [effing] you, don’t lie down and ask for it!”

If “all the racists lost a long time ago,” how come the US still has race-based affirmative action? Could it be that a color-blind society is not really on the multi-culti agenda?

Ah yes, Howard Zinn, another hate-Amerika Lefty who, as the late historian John Diggins noted, “Live off of liberalism, but not for it.”

This essay is fine as far as it goes. Most of us would prefer to live in a world without war, with liberty, justice, and material plenty for all. Perhaps someday, when all human cultures, religions, tribes, nation-states, empires, etc. share the same values and belief systems we may eventually get there. Until then it’s an unfortunate fact of life that some people will strive for advantage, and if they run a country they’ll try to spread their influence as much as possible.

And yeah, the occupation of Iraq was badly handled. Whether you agree (as I do) or not that invasion was justified, most of us were disgusted by the chaotic mismanagement which followed. (Whatever possessed Dubya to allow Bremer to disband the Iraqi army and almost totally de-Baathize the Iraqi civil service? That thoroughly alienated the Sunnis and provoked their insurrection.) No doubt if Iraq were a viable, prosperous state today a lot of the “No Blood for Oil” rhetoric would be simply water under the bridge. Didn’t happen though, so the finger-pointing continues to this day.

On a broader plane, the stuff Zinn does–like A People’s History of the US–is one-sided and naive. The elite minority which supposedly runs the US government can do no right, and those who lost (indigenous Americans, blacks, labor unions, feminists, Mexicans, Filipinos, etc.) are virtuous innocents. The American people themselves have been “striving, against corporate robber barons and war makers, to make those ideals [of the Declaration of Independence] a reality — and all of us, of whatever age, can find immense satisfaction in becoming part of that.”

All very nice for those who like to believe in conspiracy theories and the intrinsic goodness of the American people. Unfortunately this fails to take into account the “common man’s” (before women had the vote anyway) complicity in the dispossession of the “Indians,” the enslavement of blacks and continued white supremacy under Jim Crow (along with its de facto assertion in the North), popular enthusiasm for wars against Spain, Imperial and Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, North Vietnam (don’t forget Nixon won in 1972 by a landslide), Afghanistan and Iraq, along with his (or her) basic suspicion of any “radical” economic plan that would upset the economic applecart by killing the Golden Goose of capitalism.

Yet the US must have been doing SOMETHING right all along. Otherwise tens of millions of immigrants wouldn’t have picked up stakes to take their chances in “the land of opportunity” over the centuries. They’re still doing it, in fact, including from countries that used to be the source of slave labor, were once colonized, or suffered the effects of US invasion. So let me pose this question to the Shade of Zinn (or his living supporters): Why have people from all over the planet voluntarily thronged to the shores (or nowadays, airports) of a country that’s so presumably elitist, oppressive, war-mongering, racist, sexist, and so forth?