It should be recalled that Thomas Szasz was an excellent writer, and his collection of aphorisms “The Second Sin” is still a wonderful thing to have on your shelf. But more germane to this topic, Szasz was not only libertarian in his insistence on the rights of the “mentally ill,” a phrase he abhorred and a concept he vociferated against, he was also libertarian in his insistence on the responsibilities of everyone and in his willingness to hold people responsible and punish them, regardless of whether they said they were insane or whether others held them to be insane. He wanted Hinckley executed, for instance. The subway nutcase Jordan Neely, in a Szaszian world, would have changed his ways quickly or been expelled, locked up or executed long before he was strangled on the subway.

As a “flyover country” “deplorable,” whichis what the liberal whites and Asians of NYC and Philly and SF and Chicago think of me, I hope the violent blacks eat you alive and shit you out on the subway platform. Because when you voted for AOC and Mayor Adams and Lori Lightfoot and Larry Krasner and Chesa Boudin, you voted for this anarchy. Because you think you’re so much better and smarter than people like me who live stable, tax paying lives in small towns and go to church on Sunday. I laught at you when you are raped and assulted. This is what you voted for. May you have no peace, no rest, and no joy because, in your so-called wisdom, you wantto foist that death way of life on peaceful families in the heartland, too.

This is my favorite example of journalistic stupidity:

MSNBC host Brian Williams and New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay talked about how Michael Bloomberg’s failed presidential campaign could have given $1 million to every person in the United States instead of using the money on ads.

An interview Thursday evening touched on a Tuesday tweet from journalist Mekita Rivas, who said: “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over, I feel like a $1 million check would be life-changing for people. Yet he wasted it all on ads and STILL LOST.”

“When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear,” Williams said about the tweet. “He could have given each American $1 million and had lunch money left over. It’s an incredible way of putting it.”

“It’s an incredible way of putting it. It’s true. It’s disturbing,” Gay said. “It does suggest what we are talking about here that there’s too much money in politics.”

Critics on Twitter quickly pointed out that $500 million would not nearly be enough to give each American $1 million dollars. That sum would only be $1.53 a person — enough to buy each American an item off of the McDonald’s dollar menu.

What’s racist about that?

Any mention of race in any context other than “Whites are so bad” is “racist” nowadays.

The two high school students living under my roof have earnestly tried to explain that to me many times.

Hasan’s interview of Matt Taibbi was a disgraceful, mendacious performance, yet the comments by his fans were all raves. I refuse to quote John Derbyshire, who wrote “We Are Doomed,” but ……..

What I don’t understand is why the police organizations don’t militate against tinted windows. Isn’t it hard enough to stop a car and examine its passengers when you can actually see them?

When will the United Nations recognize discrimination as a human right?

“Debates like that are not permitted in media.” With all due respect to Tucker Carlson, it is a bit late for him to complain about what can be done when he has had as much liberty to do what he wants as anyone in the country. With respect to his interviews, it always seemed to me that his guests were simply props to his orations. For saying some things that no one else dared to — particularly for daring to tell the ADL to get lost — I am grateful to him. But he never seemed to me as anything else but a guy on the make who found a niche and used it to be a big shot.

He always gave me the impression of someone who would exaggerate anything to play up to his audience. On the other hand, he sometimes said things I’d never heard anyone else on TV say. And when he told the ADL to go take a hike after it sought his ouster for talking about the “great replacement,” I admit I was glad he existed. The odd thing about his dismissal is that so many of the rest of the Fox crew are much worse. Hannity, obviously, stands out for sheer pointlessness.

Great book, whose title is “The Age of Entitlement.” In essence, he writes that white Americans thought the civil rights legislation of the 1960s would atone for past injustices and establish “a level playing field.” Instead, the laws led to a huge federal establishment that works actively to disfavor them. Corporations, he seems to say, are caught in a bind, and to shield themselves from accusations of illegal discrimination they hire diversity experts and set up nonwhite recruitment efforts in order to show bona fides in relation to the law.

Once again I must compliment Mr. Sailer on his article, a model of firm argument and rhetorical moderation. He is ready for prime time, but who will employ him?

I agree with these comments. Standards change.

Is it possible that our society has come to prefer the pulpier faces of Southern Europe to the austere North European faces for socio-cultural reasons that wiser men than I might name?

At the risk of seeming pedantic, it’s “just deserts” (things deserved) and not “just desserts” (sweet things served).

What’s BAP ?

one of the things i most appreciate about Mr. Sailer is that he audaciously says true things that would be taken as gross offenses if non-fans actually read him but that are nevertheless always completely free of malice. It’s a very rare talent.

I am willing to go pretty far in thinking that Xi wants its brothers and sisters on Taiwan to be part of the great Chinese nation, just as I am willing to think that Putin wants to embrace his Ukrainian brethren. But when the bombs start falling, and they all seem to be on the Ukrainian side of the border, I get the feeling that these guys have a notion of brotherhood that I don’t share.

Very nice effort, Mr. Hood. Whatever the nature of the ill, until we have leaders willing to speak plainly and risk the consequences, hope will be weak.

Not all one-in-a-hundred situations are identical. I think John Derbyshire once wrote that most people are inclined to let in immigrants, say, even if one if a hundred might be a terrorist. (I could be forgetting what he was talking about exactly.) But if you put a hundred chocolates in a box and told someone that one was fatally empoisoned, most people would simply decline to take the chocolate. If Cheney or anyone else could really establish that there existed a 1/100 chance of a nuclear attack, of course action would be justified. But some risks are much harder to quantify than others.

NPR is crazily PC and I often say I hate it, but this guy has a point: Most of the private radio in the U.S. really stinks.

Another admirably composed little essay by Steve Sailer. As he documents, the push for equality, equity or whatever has relentlessly eroded the standards of excellence in academia. One is tempted to surmise that because real equality is impossible, its proponents are ever more determined to obscure the inequality that is natural and inevitable. And while academic standards decline, standards of ordinary decent behavior keep dropping, as in the way well-placed commentators praised Rihanna’s gestures during the Super Bowl entertainment or as in this headline of Time magazine: “A Little Trash Talk Is Just What Women’s Basketball Needs.”

About the hair-touching phenomenon that riles so many black loudmouths: I attended a performance by a children’s choir recently. Among about 35 middle-schoolers there were two or three black kids. One was a fairly light café au lait with half a globe of marvelous hair extending a foot from her scalp. Among the white students I couldn’t find one with even curly hair. I would imagine anyone seeing this girl would be curious to know what that hair felt like. Nothing “racist” or mean-spirited in it at all, just a natural reaction to something extraordinary.

Say, Kratoklastes, “The Second Sin” is one of my all-time favorite books. Your description of it as being wall-to-wall witticisms is excellent. I think Szasz would have detested Derbyshire’s applause for the Osheroff verdict. As you know, while Szasz was an ardent defender of “Our Right to Drugs”, he was also extremely skeptical of the notion that depression (like most other “mental illnesses,” a term he abhorred) was caused by chemical imbalances in the brain.

Sorry to ask an ignorant question, but if Ohtani plays for the Angels, why was he on the Japan team?

The burden of proof is on the “everyone is equal and all groups are equal” crowd, but in practice most people speak as if the contrary were true. Everyone knows that Bill is smarter than Bob or vice versa, and once you accept that individuals have different IQs, by what possible axiom can you insist that every agglomeration of Bills and Bobs must have the same mean IQ and distribution curve? None that I can think of, and those who insist on it — of whom there are legions — more or less simply base their position on the notion that it wouldn’t be nice to say anything else.

I’m not going to argue about whether it was a disaster or not, but one should still go through the exercise of imagining Saddam and his sons surviving.

Printing up a page to correct the oversight — since it seems that the editors pleaded nolo contendere — is a reasonable solution. I haven’t seen such a thing recently, but I have occasionally read old books or academic books in which a page of “Errata” has been slipped into the volume. Nothing to burn down any cities over.

I am always bemused by the reports of conservative banning of books in libraries. In my experience, the libraries seem — as if guided by an unseen hand — to choose books like Kendi’s and reject anything that smacks of dissidence. For example, through my Maine public library account I have access to an ebook library called Cloud Library. There you can find Kendi and DiAngelo and other antiracist prophets but not a word by, say, Glenn Loury or Thomas Sowell or Candace Owens. I live in France, and the public libraries here with which I am familiar tend to avoid anything by, say, Eric Zemmour. I can’t say I approve of censorship in any way, but it’s quite ignorant to take the lefties’ complaints at face value.

I don’t see how Mr. Sailer can say so confidently that the 15 board members weren’t bright. It seems to me that starting the bidding at $5 million a head was brilliant.

Keep at it, Mr. Sailer! In XX years, who knows? you might see the whole edifice of denial topple over. I was going to suggest to the NYT and its reporter that all they need to do to refute the criminal observation of Professor Wax would be to show that blacks score just as high on intelligence tests as anyone else. But then, of course, I’d have to hear how the tests are biased. Etc. Etc. Etc.

Although I don’t think I would usually find myself in agreement with Compact magazine, I wish them well. I wonder, though, how much writers and publishers expect us all to pay to stay well-informed. Compact wants 90 bucks a year. How many newspapers and magazines do you read? How many Substack bloggers to you subscribe to? If I paid for all the ones I wanted to read, I’d probably top a thousand bucks a year. What should someone who wants to be well-informed be willing to pay? P.S. I am in fact a subscriber to American Conservative, so it’s a bit disappointing to me that Helen Andrews, AmCon’s editor, has chosen to write about STeve Sailer for Compact, where I can only see the first couple of paragraphs.

I try to resist the influence of many Unz commenters who see the Jews as the source of all (or most) of our woes. But it is worth noting, I think, that The Atlantic under the editorship of Jeffrey Goldberg has published the writings of Ta-Nehisi Coates and other indictments of white people. The review that Mr. Sailer discusses is by a (presumably) Jewish man; the book reviewed was written by a black man. Any white man or woman who thinks as they do would, I am sure, be welcome in the pages of The Atlantic. But neither Mr. Sailer or Mr. Derbyshire nor Mr. Brimelow is welcome even in the pages of so-called conservative publications.

The continuing practice of the New York Times and the Washington Post and other mainstream news organs to quote the SPLC and the ADL as if they were impartial and unimpeachable is one reason that I, usually a sort of mainstream guy, don’t trust them any more. As for the Great Replacement, it is necessary to keep in mind that although it is abetted by an open-border policy, it is largely the (unconscious perhaps) choice of the white people of America themselves. Basically they don’t want to do the work of raising families but they want the advantages that come with an abundant supply of cheap labor. Not just Americans, of course.

Just the other day someone, I think at Taki’s — maybe Fred Reed? — was pondering this cold-weather theory and said, But what about the Eskimos? Mr. Sailer?

The situation in Hawaii sounds very similar to that of Corsica, which is part of France but full of people who like to think of themselves as Corsican rather than French. French tourists are generally tolerated, but the French who buy property there sometimes (I can’t say how regularly) find themselves the victims of nationalist bombs. And the Corsicans, from what I hear, are really not too pleased with Arabs or blacks. I’m not advocating blowing up newcomers’ houses, but in general the preservation of the white race is in dire need of some strategy that could be more popular than genocide.

It is often observed — at least by the dubious authorities I listen to — that the Arabs avoided the problem of race relations such as it is experienced in the United States by neutering their black slaves. The point being that where there are no survivors there are no complaints. The United States took Hawaii by force more or less because it was there and it fit in nicely with the vision of a worldwide destiny popular at the time. Somehow, even though race is a social construct, the Hawaiians think they’re different from white people. Some people just have no gratitude! If the U.S. had been truly genocidal, there would be no ‘haole’ issue today. If the U.S. had been content with its territory, there would be no ‘haole’ issue today either. I have no moral to offer.

The funny thing about the excisions of “fat” is that the Bowdlerizers don’t mind leaving in the descriptions of the “great folds” of flesh; it’s just that it is impermissible to call a fat man fat. This is really a very female sort of primness.

“So, one of the primary motivations for writing music gradually fades away as we age.” Definitely true, in more ways than one. When we’re young we’re yearning to shine, both to impress the opposite sex and to stand out generally. That’s the time when, should we try to write songs, we’re most likely to craft songs that our generation will go for. As we age, if we want to write popular hits, we have to start trying to think like the younger people do, and that gets progressively harder. Finally, and perhaps most important, the rock/pop genre is hostile to adult, mature themes, so as a composer ages he will find it less and less easy to fit his mature viewpoint into the straitjacket of rock.

One of the things that particularly sickens me is the way so many well-established institutions lack the courage to make their own judgments and instead hire black people of various sorts to lecture white people on the latter’s failings. All of which would be fine with me if they also hired white people who were free to comment on black people’s failings.

The plain fact is that people generally enjoy seeing people who resemble themselves — only more lovely and more entertaining. That white people generally fashioned a country to suit themselves (“systemic racism”) is an accusation that they should be willing to admit to. And they should recognize that non-whites might have other ideas about who should be seen. So how will this be worked out? I can’t escape the thought that the entire trend is to make the country less agreeable to white people. Maybe there’s a happy balance where everyone is content. Maybe not.

Tempting as it is to print “an unconfirmed rumor,” especially one so juicy in its potential to rock the “narrative,” it is not a good thing to do; it is not responsible, and like making predictions it is one of the ways a columnist can make himself look silly. (Still, wouldn’t it be … interesting if it’s so!)

BAck when I was in the news biz, I was told that a question mark in a headline meant that you wouldn’t find the answer even if you read the whole article.

Following the main news media’s logic, one must ask what actions of black people anywhere could possibly be attributed to black people themselves. Do the black people who obey the law do so, too, because of systemic racism? Do black policemen in Haiti ever mistreat suspects, and if they do, is it because they too have incorporated “systemic racism” into their thinking and behavior? When Jessye Norman sang Richard Strauss’s “Four Last Songs” and amazed and delighted her audiences, was it because of “systemic racism”?

I have no experience in policing, but I did watch the George Floyd video, and what I’ll always remember is that he was saying “I can’t breathe” while he was still standing, and before Derek Chauvin even arrived.

I would think putting in golf would be a domain similar to snapping a football. I leave the analysis to others more familiar with the players.

1. I think it’s possible that the five black cops might have hesitated a bit if the guy they were whomping was white. So I give that race angle 2 or 3 out of 20 points.
2. The better race question is: Is this a police brutality case or an affirmative action case?
3. in any case, from the little video I saw on the NYTimes, the officers were really worked up right from the get-go, which suggests something had happened to get them riled.

I read the article in its entirety; saw no mention of Israelis. They’re Middle Easterners, no?

Is “I’m just a girl who cain’t say no” a despicable slut-shaming or a valiantly feminist proclamation?

Isn’t 72 years old rather high for this sort of thing?

Is Trump really a 2.8-handicap golfer? That’s awfully good golf.

Why not offer the special price for apartments that are much smaller, even if in the same buildings? The winners would still have the benefit of the location.

My French girlfriend gets outraged if I say anything the least “racist,” but for the Gypsies she herself is unapologetically condemnatory. In France it is amazing what they get away with.

I left this response at National Review after reading its take on the San Francisco proposal:

“Insane,” “madness,” “preposterous” — why are the editors of National Review so reluctant to see such proposals as what they are, that is, self-interested, ideologically buttressed attacks on the well-being of white people? The word missing here is “insulting”, and it boggles my mind why I need to go to Vdare and AmRen and Taki’s to read people willing to face facts. I recommend Steve Sailer’s piece in Taki’s today (Wednesday). As he makes clear, there is nothing “insane” about this proposal; it is an utterly rational attempt to extort money from white people. NR treats it as an ill-founded policy decision, which is, to borrow NR’s own term, too close to “insane” for me.

Once again Mr. Sailer shows that he’s far too sensible to be taken seriously by any significant number of Americans. Apart from hunters and sports shooters, why would anyone invest in a lethal weapon that could be found and used by a kid or that might tempt the owner to self-slaughter on a dark night when all looks bleak? Make places safe and most people won’t even consider getting a gun.

1. Thoroughly agree that Twitter-government collusion in censorship is wrong.
2. Thoroughly agree that media’s ignoring of this is outrageous.
3. Still, I think it somewhat muddies the waters to bring the Covid matter into this. Almost everyone would agree that in emergencies the government should not be indifferent to what is being said. Take, for example, a situation where a flood is imminent because of a dam’s rupturing. Imagine someone deliberately lies about where people should go to avoid oncoming flood. Does government really have no responsibility to ensure people are accurately informed? Covid, obviously, is a more complex and somewhat less urgent problem, but it was still an emergency.

Thanks. I stand corrected.

I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, and an antisemitic one to boot, but after reading the section above about Dostoyevsky’s Diary of a Writer, I went looking for it on Internet Archive, which usually offers free downloads of books that are no longer bound by copyright. It has a few for lending, but none for downloading, which is unusual. Then I looked on Bookfinder.com, an international source for finding used books. I found it there, but very expensive, that is, thirty dollars for poor used copies merely of volume 2. For a writer widely recognized as one of the great novelists of all times, it is rather peculiar that there are no inexpensive paperback versions available.

Mr. Hood is not believable when he says there is no such thing as hate speech. If someone were to say, “X people are intrinsically evil, a permanent threat to us good people, and should be persecuted and exterminated,” I would call that speech hateful and I’m sure Mr. Hood would too. But over all he is entirely right. Still, given that the founding fathers were all privileged white males, many of them “enslavers,” is it any wonder that they should have enshrined so-called “rights,” like freedom of speech, that served their evil purposes? We are deep in the doo-doo.

The plain fact is that far more men than women are interested in racing of all sorts. Far more men than women — by probably a greater factor than for the first reason — are interested in cars and engines. Far more men than women tolerate or even like noise. Almost every woman likes lots and lots of other things more than driving cars fast (even if plenty of women go fast on the highway). Once you look at the difference in the numbers who even start out in the sport, there is no need for wonder about why so small a number of women excel. I recommend a book written by Warren Farrell several decades ago titled “Why Men Are the Way They Are.” He starts off with a look at the most popular magazines, for men and for women. But I suppose it’s all due to patriarchal conditioning.

The question that, perhaps unfortunately perhaps necessarily, keeps coming up when I read stories like this is: Is this what almost all black people are like, or is this just what the idiotic wokey whites who run the news media and the universities and the big corporations (etc. etc. etc.) select as representative of black people generally? Because the overall effect of all this black cheerleading with white bashing is simply disgust and a desire to keep as far away from all black people as possible. Charles Blow wrote a column in the NY Times a couple weeks back urging black people to move to Georgia to create a black power center there, and I couldn’t help thinking how many fed-up white people would be happy to have all the black people near them go isolate themselves somewhere. (Of course the NYT almost always nixes my comments, even though I am unfailing polite.) Imagine never having to listen to anybody rant about “white privilege” and “white supremacy” again!

Looked to me as if Edelman’s catch bounced off the ground before he scooped it up again.

The thing about soccer that irritates me is how sloppy it all is. Possession of the ball is far more precarious than in US football, say, or to basketball, in which a player dribbling has far more control over the ball. For every attempt at a successful maneuver there are tens that are thwarted by the defense because the ball is so available to everyone. The rare times in a match when things work right can be delightful, but putting up with all the chaotic failures is beyond me.

Ron Unz has created — or perfected, if there should be a precedent I’m unfamiliar with — a genre. What should we call it? Each work in the series has more or less the same arc: It starts with “I was too busy with other things so I didn’t really pay attention.” It continues with “I just figured that the generally accepted explanation was true.” Then it veers into “But a while back, when I had some free time, I read a hundred or so works on it that had been disdained by the news media.” It blossoms with “I was astonished to see how much good faith, factual reporting and intelligent analysis there was in these spurned works.” And it ends with “The wacko conspiracy theorists were right all along!” From the Holocaust to JFK to Vince Foster, it works every time. It’s fun!

Mr. Hood writes that “It’s time for whites to stop giving blacks unearned political power. Groveling is embarrassing, dishonorable, and demoralizing, but that’s not the worst of it.” I stopped right there after reading these words: They sum up my position perfectly; the rest is coda.

What’s the Sailerian equivalent of methodone?

Why was Steve Sailer absent from Taki’s Magazine this week?

I repeat my question: Why is Steve Sailer absent from TAki’s yesterday?

Where is Steve Sailer’s Taki column? What gives?

There was a time when any third-rank editor on the Washington Post’s staff would have considered it inadmissible to put a quotation in a headline next to the name of someone who DID NOT say it. This is a textbook example of how to insert an editorial into a headline; it is a violation of the most basic principles of honest journalism.

I searched this article for “poison” and — guess what? — not one hit! Gee, I wonder why Mike Whitney has so little influence on Americans’ opinion of Putin.

When I’m tempted to complain of old age’s pains and infirmities and deprivations of youthful pleasures, I stop and give thanks that never in my life was I required to undergo “anti-bias training.”

Every once in a while I start to think Andrew Anglin is all right, then he writes something that is so clueless I am reminded that it’s mostly his irreverence that appeals to me; on facts he’s as much a wishful thinker as anyone. Fetterman’s victory proves voter fraud happened? Nonsense. It proves that plenty of people were so put off by the Republicans that even a mentally handicapped man could win. Just as Biden did. I need to find a new diversion.

I am as opposed to the anti-white propaganda as anyone here. But this whole item is poppycock. She didn’t call white women roaches. She said their support for Republicans was “almost like roaches voting for Raid”. This is merely saying that they were supporting something bad for them. This is not worth your time or mine. There is nothing to see here, team! Wait next time till you see the whites of their eyes before firing.

I recommend David Cole’s piece today on Taki’s Magazine. Best thing I’ve read on blacks and Jews in sports and music.

If my arithmetic is right 0.2% of 30,000 is 60 positive tests for performance-enhancing substances over the course of more than 15 years. About half involve Dominicans. That is, about 30. I don’t know if this is a lot or a little, but it is clearer than the figures the article uses.

Very much in agreement with Mr. Derbyshire. My motto is, “Discrimination is a human right.” Restore freedom of association in the private sphere and reduce the public sphere as much as possible.

Poor White Kids Are Less Likely to Go to Prison Than Rich Black Kids

As is their wont, the WaPo left out an intermediate step.

More complete headline:

Poor White Kids Are Less Likely to Commit a Crime and Go to Prison Than Rich Black Kids

Or if WaPo wants to to stick with their original phraseology, perhaps they arrange quick and easy prison visits or tours for poor white kids to” close the gap”.

As even the worst MSNBC news gal could tell you, all your stinkin’ graph shows is that, because of white racism, too many Black people can’t escape murderous environments.

(Accidentally posted this originally to the wrong blog item.)

Who will ask these questions in public and publish the answers?

1. What is the percentage of non-hispanic, non-Jewish white people in the United States?

2. What is the percentage of non-hispanic, non-Jewish white people in the Ivy League universities?

3. What is the percentage of Jewish people in the overall U.S. population?

4. What is the percentage of Jewish students in the Ivy Leagues?

I suggest that Mr. Sailer, who is more at ease with statistical inference than I am, talk to a behavioral psychologist about how women vs. men do on such measures as rule-following, willingness to shame others, etc. I would guess that he’s wondering about some things that have been examined already.

I agree. Let football do what it wants. Baseball wasn’t made for technological analysis.

“Freedom of association and the freedom to use your own property the way you want were abolished.” Mr. Hood, following Mr. Caldwell, is right. And “freedom of association” ought to be the slogan on which “race realists” and many conservatives make common cause. Cede hotel and restaurant accommodations but insist on the right to associate or not associate, in short to discriminate. Make this a motto for your T-shirts and yard signs and bumper stickers: “DISCRIMINATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT”.

Just saw your reply. That’s exactly what they’re trying to do. But some short-term rentals are perfectly legitimate. One woman spoke about renting to people who come to attend weddings; they don’t need more than a night or two. Why can’t the police arrest troublemakers and fine landlords when their properties become a nuisance? Why must the rules target things that aren’t in themselves offensive, such as short-term rentals?

First of all, my compliments to Mr. Sailer for stating forthrightly an obvious truth that almost no public men today are willing to state. Secondly, it seems to be a natural human tendency to avoid blaming those most responsible. If you’ll allow me an example: I was at a town council meeting the other day in a friend’s affluent coastal town in New England. The subject was short-term rentals, such as through Airbnb and VRBO. There had been various problems associated with people who used these rentals for parties, with the attendant noise, drunkenness and other familiar problems. The town was seeking to formulate an ordinance that would impose rules on landlords to avoid these problems, whereas it seemed to me that a rigorous enforcement of the usual nuisance laws would have sufficed.

What book is this article taken from? Arrrgggghhhhh! Is anyone who ain’t a bot working here?

Where are the footnotes? I don’t see them even on the Occidental Observer site. In particular, what’s the title of Shapiro (1992)?

I have had a great idea for an app for many years, but no one seems interested. Any time you made a phone call, it would add up how much time each speaker spent talking, with a final result given as two percentages showing what part of the whole each took up. As someone who knows lots of talky people and who feels often as if getting a word in edgewise is very hard, I know I’d love to be able to confirm my impression after a call.

I detest the cowardice of white Americans who can only dare to frame their opposition to affirmative action on the grounds that it’s so unfair to those poor Asians. Sure, whatever, but it’s also unfair to my kinsmen, near and far. That happens to be a lot more important to me.

I think every college should be free to discriminate as it pleases. In fact, I think everyone should. I propose that “DISCRIMINATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT”. Maybe, for instance, if the Democrats and the government and the news media would stop trying to shame, blame and prosecute white people for “racism” and instead say, “Go ahead and discriminate but do so wisely,” everything would work out fine.

Here’s something funny: If you go and read the Chronicle article, you’ll eventually hit this paragraph: “Luke Miller (a pseudonym) is an early-career scientist who has long been rankled by racial hereditarians. As a geneticist, he said, he feels a responsibility to combat the harm done by the fringes of the scientific community. (The Chronicle has used a pseudonym for Miller and left some other early-career researchers in this article unnamed because they fear professional repercussions.)”

In short, Cid Standifer writes a denunciatory article about a supposedly racist researcher, whom she identifies by his real name, but shields several of his critics. Her intent (and the Chronicle’s) is clearly that the subject actually suffer “professional repercussions,” but for his critics that would a fate too harsh to tolerate.

Actually their ideas were not similar. Laing criticized ordinary psychiatry because he believed that madmen were saner than the sane. Szasz criticized ordinary psychiatry because it aligned itself with the coercive power of the government. Szasz was a radical libertarian who believed that everyone, not excepting those we might want to call insane, is responsible for his actions; thus, he was an ardent opponent of the notion of “not guilty by reason of insanity”. In a similar vein, he was a strong opponent of all governmental restrictions on the availability of drugs, whether medicinal or “recreational”. In short he was a radical supporter of individual rights.

I went through a libertarian phase and read just about everything Thomas Szasz wrote, on this subject as well as others. It is true that he objected to civil commitment and to all nonvoluntary “treatment” of anyone. But he was at the same time a staunch advocate of holding everyone, including the “insane,” fully responsible for their actions. He had no compunctions against, for instance, the death penalty, and he argued that no one should be excused from responsibility for his crimes because of any supposed “mental illness”. I wouldn’t want to defend all his views, but he did have a point that giving the government the right to incarcerate people merely because they were considered to be “crazy” was not compatible with basic American principles.

Treasury advisory committee on racial equity:

Wally adeyemo – negro
Mike nutter – negro
Dave clunie – negro
Felicia wong – chink
Barika williams – negro
Nicole anand – non- white
Jaime barrera – beaner
Nicole borromeo – eskimo
Dorothy brown – negro
Bill bynum – negro
Gary cunningham – negro
Nicole elan – negro
John friedman – jew
Gilbert garcia – beaner
Bulbul gupta – pajeet
Darrick hamilton – negro
Mike mcafee – negro
Gina nisbeth – non -white
Lorella praeli – non-white
Jose quinonez – beaner
Carlos rangel – non-white
Valerie red-horse mohl – injun
Amanda renteria – beaner
John rogers – negro
Chiling tong – chink
Mike miebach – white (jew?)

Doesn’t the future of America look awesome?

In the New York Times today, believe or not, there is a remarkably balanced report — which is, to boot, a remarkably amusing one — about a woman in Brooklyn whose dog was attacked by a black man in a park. Do progressives have the right to feel safe in a park? I see the piece as a gleam of hope that people can see the folly of their politics if they get their noses rubbed in the (usually far off) consequences.

I’m delighted to read that the ADL has declared “White Lives Matter” to be hate speech, because I occasionally soften in my view that the ADL is an odious collection of self-interested fear mongers and start wondering if I’m a crypto-antisemite.

One question for a society that insists that women prepare for careers as well as men: To what extent will women’s higher education be wasted — from society’s point of view — if they drop out of the work force, fully or partly, in order to be with their eventual children? Educating doctors, for example, is amazingly expensive, and admission to medical school is extremely limited. Are there studies that look at who retires early, who chooses part-time work etc.? Is the investment in female doctors being rewarded? Or does it appear upon examination like a vanity project?

As wiser people than I have explained, the Christian tradition mandating monogamy ensured that most men would have mates. The further we go away from that tradition, the more uneven will be the distribution of sexual prizes. The harem is not a Western institution, but it may well become one.

You think the Ukrainian army looks white? Well, did you look at the folks in the control room as the DART doohicky rammed into the asteroid’s moon?

Amen! How about this for a T-shirt: “DISCRIMINATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT!”

I know Mr. Sailer seems to be exaggerating, but I think he is right, not only about “champagne liberals” but about an awful lot of well-meaning Christian men and women — but probably mostly women. The notion that they are white and born to “privilege” while others elsewhere are not strikes them as a monstrous injustice, which must be corrected as soon as possible. Viva Giorgia !