This woman is Iranian (real Iranian, not a convert). Of course she’s Muslim. Of course she’s not European. But- would anyone mentally sane say that she is not “white”?

Of course. She is literally Aryan.

Are you proud of that? At my old university, doing that would have gotten you expelled as an honor offender.

If you aren’t satisfied with a store’s checkout speed, you have the right to deny them your business. What you don’t have the right to do is steal from them.

‘liberal-progressive owned’?

You can just say ‘zionist owned’, you know.

A lot of liberal-progressives these days are pretty notoriously anti-zionist.

Police have accused Roberts of shooting five people in three separate assaults in Columbus, Georgia and Phenix City, Alabama. All victims are expected to recover, Columbus Police Chief Freddie Blackmon said Sunday.

And once again, Sailer’s rule of thumb on the probable race of mass shooters is validated.

He apparently just didn’t give a shit if the guy died because he had calculated he’d face no legal ramifications.

People who don’t give a shit if a suspect dies don’t upgrade the EMS call to Code 3.

Sorry PhysicistDave, your opinion does not count. 12 adults, presumably American Citizens, who saw the evidence and heard the arguments by the defense concluded that there was no reasonable doubt to acquit Chauvin.

Sure. And 12 citizens, who saw the evidence and heard the defense arguments, concluded there was no reasonable doubt in the Amirault cases. The Innocence Project spends a lot of time and money proving that people convicted by 12 of their fellow citizens, after seeing the evidence and hearing the defense arguments, are in fact innocent.

Does he have a non-negligible chance of getting out on appeal?e of getting out on appeal?

Not really. He should, but he’ll be appealing to Minnesota’s state courts.

UVa alumnus Haven Monahan was unavailable for comment.

“Underfunded” is a euphemism for “have students with low test scores.” E.g., “Washington D.C.’s underfunded schools.”

D.C. spent around \$30,115 per pupil in 2016-17, while in 2017-18, nearby Arlington County was expected to spend \$19,340, the City of Falls Church to spend \$18,219; the City of Alexandria, \$17,099; Montgomery County, \$16,030; Fairfax County, \$14,767; Prince George’s County, \$13,816; Loudoun County, \$13,688; City of Manassas, \$12,846; City of Manassas Park, \$11,242; and Prince William County, \$11,222.

But I suppose those are hate facts.

https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2020/09/16/washington-dc-public-schools-spend-30k-per-student-23-of-8th-graders-proficient-in-reading-n2576265

https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/for-good-or-ill-arlington-per-student-spending-again-tops-region/article_0f441fe4-cef5-11e7-b4d4-cf5ac038e374.html

Off topic. The town of Fairfax in pretentious lunatic liberal Whites Who Hate Whites Marin county ca plans to change the name of the town. Because it’s named after Charles Fairfax who never owned a slave.

I wonder whether the liberals who run Fairfax County, Virginia, will want to change the name of where *they* live. Because Fairfax County was named after Charles Fairfax’s ancestor, the 6th Baron Fairfax of Cameron, who *did* own slaves. As Wikipedia explains: “He bought and sold people and derived much of his income from the forced labor of several hundred enslaved people on some 30 farms.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fairfax,_6th_Lord_Fairfax_of_Cameron.

(Charles himself was the 10th Baron Fairfax of Cameron, though he didn’t use that title. One of his descendants, checking the family tree, realized that he was the current Lord Fairfax, so he crossed the pond and showed up in Westminster to claim his seat in the House of Lords. The Committee for Privileges of the House checked out his claim and ruled that, hey, this Yank *is* Lord Fairfax, and gave him his seat (or to be more accurate, allowed him to seek election as a representative Scottish peer). His descendant, an English barrister born in 1956, is the current Lord Fairfax. He visited Fairfax County a few years ago and was the subject of a couple of photo ops.)

Out of all the hate crimes that have occurred on New York City subway trains have any of them ever been committed by a White person?

I’m sure the woke crowd would argue that Bernard Goetz’s shooting of Troy Canty and the latter’s droogs was a hate crime.

This article doesn’t give the race of the rapists (pardon me, “suspects”), so I think the smart money is against this being a pair of Haven Monahans: https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-spring-breakers-drugged-raped-171915265.html

Bush beat a sighing Gore in 2000’s first debate but didn’t maintain momentum and won by an incredibly narrow margin.

Lost, actually, if you count the popular vote.

I wonder if National Geographic knows why it was so popular with teenage boys in the pre-internet days.

I’m pretty sure they knew.

Does she count as a mistress if Ferguson is not married?

I wonder if she counts as a mistress if Ferguson isn’t paying for her apartment and clothes.

why the story about Ferguson breaching social distancing rules a month ago was reported in the Daily Telegraph on the day that Britain’s official death rate overtook Italy’s

According to Worldometer, Britain’s death rate (451 per million population) remains lower than Italy’s (495/million), as well as lower than Spain’s (558/million), Andorra’s (595/million), Belgium’s (726/million), and San Marino’s (1,208/million).

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

Many converts cooked pork as often as they possibly could, since they expected the Spanish Inquisition at any time.

I see what you did there.

Recently, he sold it to Shahid Khan, owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL, who I believe is the highest ranking (#64) non-Caucasian on the American Forbes 400.

I understand that the Census Bureau classifies Pakistanis as “Asian” rather than “white,” but they are definitely Caucasian (and probably “Aryan”).

“There are also psychological effects: Black children live in a world where their very appearance presents them as ‘others,’ often objects of either uneasy suspicion or patronizing sympathy.”

Yeah, Nigerians are so beaten down psychologically that they have higher average incomes than white Americans.

The courts have zero authority to set a percentage limit. That’s a legislative decision.

Separation of powers, like most of that constitution written by dead white male slaveholders, is racist.

As usual, this is never spelled out in any detail, but the idea seems to be that the slave ancestor was super stressed out (and I think most poor white people in the mid-1800s were super stressed out too, life was hard), and this stress caused some hormone or something to be excreted into their system and then magic happened and IQ fell, and the homone excreter was passed on to kids epigenetically, voila!, so on down the line.

Dr. Lysenko, please call your office.

Speaking of open borders and future Democratic Party voters, can anybody here think of a Conservative who is from Central America?

Miguel Estrada?

“Which human-rights problems are graver than murders and unethical property grabs, and why are they graver?”

Transphobic microaggressions, duh.

Alameda county DA is one of the most pro criminal in the country and has been since the OFEEs were brought to work in the shipyards during WW2.

Even when Ed Meese was working there?

Brazil incorporates the more talented mixed race people into the whitish ruling class, while America recruits talented mixed race people of privileged backgrounds like Jealous and Obama to be leaders of the entitled minorities.

I’m pretty sure Obama was incorporated into the whitish ruling class as well.

The trick is to get away with your balls. Especially with Latinas. If they think you’re cheating, off comes the dick. Metaphorical, but still, it’s always a scene getting away.

Lorena Bobbitt was a Latina for whom it wasn’t metaphorical.

the real importance of the Israel-Palestine conflict is that it’s one of the few remaining examples of a white v. non-white struggle taking place in the realm of geopolitics.

Given that both come from approximately the same genetic background, it’s amusing that one gets counted as “white” and the other as “non-white.”

(And since when did the idea arise that Arabs aren’t white in the first place? Is Ralph Nader non-white? Senators Abourezk and Mitchell? Danny Thomas, ferchrissake? Lisa Halaby and her father Najeeb Halaby (CEO of Pan Am and head of the FAA)?)

The Jefferson statute in the picture (the one that the white nationalists led their tiki torch parade to last Friday night) was designed by Sir Moses Ezekiel. He gets some intersectionality points for being Jewish, but unfortunately he also fought for the Confederacy as a VMI cadet (taking part in the Battle of New Market), and he also designed the Confederate Memorial that still stands in Arlington National Cemetery (until the SJWs find out about it), so no, he gets classified as a dead, white, racist male, all of whose works should suffer the fate of the Bamiyan Buddhas.

I’ve literally never seen or even heard of a conservative/republican/religious person hold someone else’s liberal politics against them in a work setting.

Yes, but it’s going to start happening if firings like this become commonplace. Not the world I want to live in, but if the progs are going to target ordinary employees for crimethink like this, conservatives aren’t going to practice unilateral disarmament in the culture war.

Remind me again why the Hollywood Blacklist was a bad thing?

I don’t think there are very many white men who care that he married a white woman. Well, maybe Heartiste and some of the people commenting on his blog, but they’re outliers.

I would disagree strongly. I found that the Daily Mail gave much more complete and useful coverage of the shooting of John Geer by Fairfax County (Virginia) police than did the Washington Post, for whom it was a local story.

Everyone was afraid of Doug

Exactly what came to my mind. So I guess Doug Piranha was alt-right.

I have virtually no idea what happened in Spain between the Peninsular War between France and England and the beginning of the short-lived Spanish Republic of 1931

Surely you recall that they fought a war with the United States in 1898, and as a consequence lost Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.

So much for Rogers and Hammerstein’s theory that “You have to be carefully taught.”

As Steve said: It’s not my country. Let me have a sane, responsible government for MY country, and then Israel can go do whatever the hell it wants, as long as they keep me out of it.

Then it sounds like abstaining from the Security Council vote on the settlements resolution was the right thing for the U.S. to do.

Unlike most pundits, Israel doesn’t arouse strong passions in me.

So most pundits *do* arouse strong passions in you?

Roissy (or to give his blog its current name, Heartiste) has gone so white nationalist that I find myself wondering whether it’s actually the same guy writing the blog.

IIRC, Roissy’s secret identity was revealed a few years ago by a pissed-off female blogger who identified him as an employee of FINRA. I don’t remember the name, but I recall that it was one that’s often considered a “Jewish name.” The current author of Heartiste, on the other hand, is not only a white nationalist but also seems to have antisemitic tendencies, which is another reason I wonder if there hasn’t been a change in personnel. (I’m obviously assuming that (1) Jews are white, and (2) it’s possible to be a white nationalist or a “race realist” without being an anti-Semite.) For all I know, Roissy/Heartiste may be the new Dread Pirate Roberts (minus the drug dealing).

Speaking of “pervasive ethnic malice against the university founded by Thomas Jefferson,” there’s Karl Shapiro’s tribute to the school that he attended (but from which he did not take his degree): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/22722

Thermopylae was fought against the Achaemenid Empire – hardly barbarians, unless ‘barbarian’ has no lexical significance:

Barbarian *does* have a lexical significance, but what it means is “member of a nation whose native language is not Greek.” As far as the Greeks were concerned (and they’re the ones who invented the word “barbarian” in the first place). Persians and Egyptians might have had more advanced civilizations than the Greeks, but that didn’t save them from being barbarians.

The Spartans held the pass at Thermopylae. Aetius fought the Huns to a standstill at Châlons (although to judge from the character sketch in Gibbon, Aetius might just as happily have fought on the other side, if the price was right). Charles Marte l stopped the Muslims at Tours, and John Sobieski turned them back from the gates of Vienna.

You might also have mentioned that Otto I stopped the Hungarians at Lechfeld, after which they retreated to the Pannonian plain.

For white people to say they want their people to live is racist.

Look at his facial features. He’s definitively got a honky or two in the woodpile.

Balko has a column about how the Dallas police have been getting it right: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/07/08/what-dallas-pd-does-right-and-why-doing-those-things-could-now-be-more-difficult/

In fairness, a lot on the Left think that the Supreme Court stole a presidential election for the Right back in 2000.

Keeping a copy of Mein Kampf doesn’t mean you are have any affection for its author. I keep a copy of the Communist Manifesto, after all, and until I purged my library to free up room on my shelves, I had a copy of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung. (I’m still sorry I got rid of that one. It was the early edition, with a preface by Comrade Lin Piao, before he became a class enemy.)

Except that the First Amendment doesn’t say anything about “freedom of association,” any more than the constitution as a whole says anything about abortion or about “separation of church and state.” What the First Amendment protects is “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” I suppose you could coax a right to freedom of association out of the penumbras and emanations of that right.

“Why are we avoiding the historic name Bohemia, which for centuries served as the name of our country?”

Well, because Bohemia is only one half of the country. If you called it “Bohemia and Moravia,” that would be more accurate, but it would sound like a revival of the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia,” which Germany established over the Czech lands between 1939 and 1945.

William Shockley, at any rate, seems to have stuck with liberty. His most controversial proposal was that non-taxpayers with an IQ below 100 would

be paid if they voluntarily agreed to sterilization—a thousand 1972 dollars for each of their IQ points under 100.

If such a proposal were ever adopted, I’d like to see how you’d stop people from gaming the system, deliberately choking on their IQ tests in order to get a higher payout. I’m guessing that it’s a lot easier for smart people to convincingly fake stupidity than it is for stupid people to convincingly fake being smart.

If the public interest required unsealing Jack and Jeri Ryan’s divorce proceedings, then it certainly ought to extend to unsealing Jackie’s deposition.

One supposes that that term of opprobrium is reserved only for certain designated targets….

Don’t overthink the fact that Slate didn’t use the term “white Hispanic” this time. I’ll wager that Slate is full of opprobrium toward Rubio, and that “white Hispanic” is exactly what they think he is.

But I’m sure you can panhandle to fund your own additional research on how nonwhites students perceive white students.

Or how nonwhite students perceive other nonwhite students (whether Asian or NAM). It would be interesting, for example, to find out whether blacks are more or less inclined than whites to accept stereotypes about Asians and blacks.

The anti-semitism–at least in comments on Sailer’s blog (which is all I regularly read on Unz)–is annoying but no more than a minor distraction. I’d much rather err on the side of free debate, not being afraid to tolerate error as long as truth is left free to combat it.

What the mayoress did was to publish new guidelines for women on how to behave.

Imagine what would happen if, instead of “teaching men not to rape,” an American college president dared to offer such guidelines as a way to stem the epidemic of campus rapes. (Perhaps I should have said “epidemic”.)

When I read that this guy was telling the FBI all about attacks that he had helped Farook plan in 2012, all I could think was, “Seriously? Is he stupid enough to talk to the FBI without having a lawyer at his side? A lawyer who knows all about how easy it is for some dumb schlub to satisfy the elements for the crime of conspiracy and can kick his client under the table to make him shut up?” I guess the answer is, Yep, he’s that stupid.

When I read that this guy was telling the FBI all about attacks that he had helped Farook plan in 2012, all I could think was, “Seriously? Is he stupid enough to talk to the FBI without having a lawyer at his side? A lawyer who knows all about how easy it is for some dumb schlub to satisfy the elements for the crime of conspiracy and can kick his client under the table to make him shut up?” I guess the answer is, Yep, he’s that stupid.

So pretty soon we’re going to be told that it was wrong to slut-shame Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, and that they rather than the Scottsboro Boys should have been believed.

AS Europe frets over what to do about the hundreds of thousands of refugees pouring onto the Continent, it occurs to me that the ancient Romans, as they so often do, might offer a solution.

You mean the solution of how the Empire sat back helplessly when the Alans, Suevi, and Vandals crossed the frozen Rhine en masse on December 31, 406, and proceeding to settle on Roman lands (bringing an effective end to the Roman Empire in those places where they settled)?

The Daily Mail has a reputation for being one of those British tabloid rags, but I’ve found that it often provides more in-depth factual coverage of local U.S. news than do U.S. papers. It’s like they take seriously their mission report the, you know, news. (I found Daily Mail much for helpful than the Washington Post, for example, in providing details about the police shooting of John Geer right here in Fairfax County, Virginia.)

This country’s gun culture is disgusting. No more of the NRA and its apologists; I am sick of their morally bankrupt arguments. Here is another day on which innocent people got up and went to work and didn’t make it home. This is social pathology – nothing less – and it is appalling that we permit it.

I can only presume that this was meant as a parody of prog reaction to the shooting.

Well, Quigley certainly got attention among the conspiracy theorists of the John Birch Society. Gary Allen’s 1971 book, “None Dare Call It Conspiracy,” published by Bircher publishing house Western Islands, claims that, “[i]n his 1300-page, 8 pound tome Tragedy and Hope, Dr. Quigley reveals the existence of the conspiratorial network which will be discussed in this book.” Allen adds: “The Professor is not merely formulating a theory, but revealing this network’s existence from firsthand experience. He also makes it clear that it is only the network’s secrecy and not their goals to which he objects.”

Against his wishes, his wife had him buried in a Catholic cemetery, the famed Père Lachai

se . . . .

Père Lachaise may be named for a Catholic priest, but it is far from being a “Catholic cemetery.” (Is it probable that the Church, having denied Colette an ecclesiastical funeral, would have allowed her to be buried in consecrated ground?) It’s owned by the City of Paris.

It was utterly ludicrous for a number of reasons, not least because she was handcuffed to two policemen the entire time she was in the department, and also because she was under uninterrupted CCTV surveillance that showed I didn’t so much as touch her. Oh, and also I’m gay.

Being gay is irrelevant if, as we’ve been told by feminists for the past 40 years or so, men don’t commit rape in order to get sex but rather to display power.

Well, that’s *one* meaning of the name. There may even be a few people who think of that meaning first.

Grand Admiral Doenitz wasn’t “Fuehrer of the Third Reich” for a week, a day–or for the 23 days between Hitler’s death and the dissolution of Doenitz’s governnment at Flensberg. The title of “Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor” is one that Hitler had made for himself, combining the previously-separate offices of President and Chancellor, upon the death of President Hindenberg. In his will, Hitler separated those offices again, assigning the title of President to Doenitz and that of Chancellor to Joseph Goebbels. When Doenitz assumed the office of President, however, Goebbels was dead, so Doenitz appointed Finance Minister Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk as “Leading Minister” (in effect, Reich Chancellor, although Schwerin refused to take that title).

I have a question: I haven’t been following this closely but why the assumption that all six cops (in a police force that’s 43% black) were white?

I don’t believe we’ve been told the race of the cops. If they’d all been white, I am confident that that fact would have been reported by now.

Universities there were not centers of radicalism for a few hundred years. But then, as the Jewish quota on admissions was relaxed, they did very much become centers of radicalism in the late 19th-eary 20th centuries.

Russian universities really didn’t exist for “a few hundred years” before relaxation of the Jewish quota. The oldest universities in Russia are Moscow State University (founded 1755) and St. Petersburg State University (founded 1819, though it claims to be successor to a university founded in 1719).

Anyone notice that WWT seems to be mostly comprised of white men?

High achiever M to F WWTers are overwhelmingly right of center.

WWT? Worldwide Technology? Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust? WorldWide Telescope? What was that?

Neither Wikipedia nor Urban Dictionary is helping me here.

Lowering black fertility is not our goal. Preventing them from coming into our countries is.

Yeah, but unfortunately we missed that chance back between 1619 and 1859 (to give the date the Clotilde landed in Mobile with an illegal cargo of slaves), when we imported large numbers of Africans to do “the work that Americans won’t do.”

I have often commented that Waugh was lucky to have died when he did, because if he’d lived any longer, he could no longer write satire, because every time he thought he’d come up with something so absurd that surely no one would ever actual put into practice, even though it might be the logical outcome of their flawed principles, it would turn out that people were too committed to their flawed principles to shy away from the absurd practice.

And Philip is half-Greek, isn’t he?

No, the royal house of Greece is actually Danish (or Krautish, if you go back far enough, as can be seen from the family name: “Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg”)

There’s now nothing to stop every gas station in Indiana refusing me service.

Other than their own self-interest, sure.

Anyhow, last I heard the offended lady is out of work and the developers who got fired got quickly rehired elsewhere.

Well, if *someone* has to be out of work, I’d prefer it to be the person who went out of her way to harm someone else than the one who simply told a stupid joke.

The reason for banning gay marriage (or, rather, refusing to redefine marriage to include relationships between same-sex couples) is not “to stop guys from having sex with other guys and women from having sex with other women,” any more than the reason for not allowing people with pica to use food stamps to buy chalk or laundry starch. The fact that some people get emotional satisfaction from consuming such things doesn’t make them “food,” and the fact that some people get emotional satisfaction from sexual relations with people of the same sex doesn’t make those relationships “marriages.”

White people are evil for leaving the Mississippi Delta and abandoning it to the blacks. But if they ever moved back in serious numbers, they’d be evil for trying to take political power from the blacks. We saw that play out in Washington, D.C., where it was first racist for whites to leave DC, then it was racist for them to move back in and gentrify it (look up “The Plan”).

Sounds like TR was denouncing “dual loyalty,” and everyone knows that criticizing dual loyalty is nothing more than anti-Semitic dog-whistling.

“American musical theater has become terminally pretentious, edgy, and gay.”

I agree. It’s completely lost the manliness it had in the days of Cole Porter.

Love to eat them mousies
Mousies what I love to eat
Bite they little heads off
Nibble on they tiny feet.

In fact, didn’t two guys named Jobs and Wozniak, who knew each other because they had the same high school teacher, name their company Apple in tribute to the Liverpudlians’ record label?

And got sued by Apple Corps for trademark infringement as a result. At one point, they reached a settlement, in which the American computer company promised to stay out of the music business. Apple Corps thought that was a good deal, because as long as the two companies stayed in different lines of business, it was unlikely that there would be any confusion between the two brands.

And then Apple started marketing the iPod.

“But it doesn’t change my opinion that it may or may not have happened,” Mr. Duffin said.

Well, as the White Knight said about his song, “Either it brings the tears into their eyes, or else [‘Or else what,’ said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause.] Or else it doesn’t, you know.”

You might also have said, Was Al Sharpton’s career over after Tawana Brawley?

This is most definitely not your father’s New Republic. Where TNR editor Michael Kinsley used to say, “The scandal in Washington isn’t what’s illegal; it’s what’s legal,” TNR publisher Chris Hughes now says “Apple has acted squarely within the law.”

So not only are they not rapists, they aren’t anti-Semites, either. Damn! They must be guilty of something, though. Journalists need to keep digging.

” She said she was disappointed when her family told her that they could not afford the Ivy League tuition. She enrolled at U-Va. without ever visiting the school.

“I wonder if that’s BS too. The Ivies are very generous with ‘need based aid’.”

Actually, that’s one thing I’m willing to believe. I too was told by my parents that they couldn’t afford to send me to the Ivy League school that I’d been admitted to and that was my first choice. We were just rich enough not to qualify for that need-based aid, but not rich enough actually to swing the tuition and other costs.

Like Jackie, I didn’t visit UVa before deciding to go there. (That’s not quite true. In 10th grade, I went to a high school forensics competition held in Wilson Hall. And I caught a glimpse of the Rotunda. But I never went on a tour of the Grounds before my first year there.) Unlike Jackie, I never regretted attending.

Do you think Jackie is a NAM woman ?

Of course she isn’t. If she were, we’d have heard about it by now (at least, we’d have heard about it before she was exposed as a fraud), since it would further the goal of indicting the white patriarchy.

“The article calls her ‘militantly Jewish’ and links to another article where she is mentioned taking her children to a Jewish identity day camp. ”

I’d like to see her reaction to a story about the ritual murder of a Christian child in order to flavor the matzoh at a seder. Even if the facts can’t be confirmed (because, don’t you know, the witness is too scared–those people are powerful, you know–to provide verifiable details such as the names of the people at the seder), the story would be valuable as an illustration of what we “know” happens all the time.

The Rolling Stone story was fake but accurate.

Also, his first name should be a good indicator that he was Irish, not Anglo-Saxon.

Brendan Gill may have hung around with WASPs and modeled himself after them, but he was a lapsed Catholic (as he told us ad nauseam in his memoir, “Here at the New Yorker”), not a Protestant. (Also, the name “Brendan” should have been a tip-off that he wasn’t Anglo-Saxon.)

“What happens when a linchpin of political correctness becomes scientifically untenable?”

The science gets denounced as “hate facts.”

I’m guessing that an NFL star with a \$92 million contract would find raising seven kids to be less of a financial strain than the rest of us might. Better he spend that money on them than on sports cars, bling, and blow.

You may think it’s absurd to require soldiers to have non-functioning firearms in the presence of the president, but the Secret Service probably remembered how Anwar Sadat died.

Or the even more ridiculous: the black man/Asian woman relationship, of which I’ve seen more on TV than in real life, and those I have seen in real life were war brides who married black servicemen for a green card.

Well, there’s also Kevin Johnson/Michelle Rhee.

I’m glad Patricia Washington has the courage to speak up on this. After all, no one would ever dare to talk about “angry white men,” would they?

I wonder whether Dylan Matthews, Ezra Klein, and the folks at Vox believe that anyone who wants to should just be allowed to walk into Israel and get a job (and a home) there. (If they turn out to be anti-Zionists and answer yes, then flip the question and ask whether any person who wanted to should have been allowed to just step off a boat into Mandatory Palestine and get a job (and a home) there.)

If “they stole shit,” without breaking and entering into a building, and without use or threat of physical force, then what they committed was theft, not burglary, and not robbery.

“Americans are appallingly bad at math. Struggling with fractions hinders their understanding. What is three fifths of seven eighths? Now find that on your inch ruler.”

I did it in my head . On my inch ruler, it’s just a hair over a half inch. That’s as close as I ever need to be

“What is 0.6 x 0.875 =?

“0.525 There, I did it in my head without recourse to a pencil or calculator. And if my calipers allows me to read 0.875 then it allows me to read 0.525. That’s why Engineers use tenths and hundredths and thousandths.”

I bet you’d have had a bit more difficulty doing it without a pencil or calculator if the question hadn’t used numerals but had been written in words, the way you posed your fractional problem: What is six tenths times eight hundred seventy-five one-thousandths?

“I will never understand why Americans cling to absolutely ridiculous and arbitrary idiosyncracies . . . .”

Good point! And I’ll never understand why people in other countries cling to *their* absolutely ridiculous and arbitrary idiosyncracies. I refer, of course, to their refusal to convert to the universal use of US dollars and cents for their currency. The problem of converting from one monetary unit to another is a lot more troubling that having to convert from English to metric units when dealing with foreigners. At least the number of inches per meter doesn’t change from day to day.

““One reason Americans are so dumb and can’t do Math is simply because most adults can’t handle fractions, can’t add em, multiply em or divide them. ”

So we’re going to make them smarter–and teach them to handle fractions–by adopting a system of weights and measures that doesn’t require them to use common fractions at all?

And what can possibly account for this disparity? RAAAAAAACCCCISSSSSSSSMMMMM!