Although I very much would like to see the Patriots defeated, Manning is simply not a very good playoff quarterback. If he doesn’t settle into a rhythm early and is kept off-balance his goose is cooked and unfortunately the Patriots seem pretty adept at doing that to him.

Mustn’t puncture politically useful myths.

I think this is true. When I lived in a pre-gentrification black neighborhood in DC, a lot of the older long time residents would complain about the generation that came after them – the proliferation of out of wedlock pregnancies, the crime, the indifference to the concept of working or earning an honest living. These were all working class people who had raised their kids in two parent homes and made an effort to keep up their homes and the neighborhood.

They also had low trust in the (majority black) police force, correctly noting that many of them were basically criminals themselves or related to them, and if a good citizen called the police because of a violent crime, more often than not the police would tell the perpetrator who had dropped a dime.

The area underwent a ton of violence during the crack epidemic and then a secondary wave right before the Great Recession as large numbers of previously-incarcerated people completed their sentences and came back home. When we discussed the surge in homicides, the response of one of my neighbors was that “it was just the trash taking out the trash.”

Your conclusion is 100% correct – the Dems know they are picking up huge numbers of future voters/clients of the social welfare system and the Chamber of Commerce is happy at the drag on wages for entry level and unskilled jobs. In neither case does either party give a damn about Americans who are determined to work but whose economic position is ever more precarious.

Whenever I say this at The Atlantic I get slammed as a racist or conspiracy nut (or both)…however, back in my youth I worked for Dem congress critters and the advantages of mass illegal immigration with eventual legalization to the party were openly discussed in inter-office staff meetings on this subject. The answer to why the Dems and CoC GOPers support this is so obvious and in front of the public’s face that most refuse to believe it.

I think the WaPo had an opinion piece not too long ago with the author proposing a form of reparations in which black Americans get to cast weighted votes for federal public office.

These types of stories need to be highlighted far more often – the left always frames immigration as an issue of compassion and overlooks what that costs low-educator/low-skill American workers who are struggling for self-sufficiency.

The anchor baby/unaccompanied minor issue is also an important one as well. Arizona has so many immigrant children with no parents that it has set up a number of youth shelters to house them until they can figure out what to do with them – a sad state of affairs that exists thanks to our lax approach to immigration.

It’ll be total pander-monium as both candidates chase minority voters in the primaries going forward…and interesting to see if the eventual nominee can even match Obama’s fairly dismal share of the white vote in 2012. After all, we’re going to be treated to two elderly white people who are going to be far more explicit in their fealty to black political demands than Obama ever had to be. I can’t imagine that’s remotely appealing to about two thirds of the white electorate.

“Obama’s legacy of helping blacks”? I don’t discount his importance to this demographic as a totem, but other than perhaps the expansion of Medicaid and food stamps I am hard pressed to think of any policy of his that “helped” blacks at all. In fact, his highest profile accomplishments all seemed to be items off the white SJW laundry list, and his record on immigration runs directly contrary to the best interests of black Americans.

To the extent that Clinton has any appeal to blacks, I would chalk it up to nostalgia for her husband and as a former cabinet member she served our first black president (which I guess is helping A black person).

This is a prime opportunity for Obama to stoke the base, so my money is on a highly divisive minority (probably black woman) choice that he counts on the GOP stalling, thereby winding up black voters for Hillary and possibly resurrecting the War on Women meme.

Thomas Perez?

Isn’t San Antonio run by a professional city manager with the mayor a largely ceremonial $2ok a year gig?

I agree that virtue signaling is a prime motivation for a lot of people in today’s society, but I think there is something else at work as well: most whites across the spectrum don’t actually want to have a lot to do with blacks and the slew of awards, recognition, and targeted programs is basically like giving a little kid you don’t really like a sucker and hoping they will leave you alone for awhile.

Unfortunately, just like trying to bribe a child to stop bugging you with treats, you only get more pestering for special things rather than less.

Black churches are extremely influential, and the Clinton campaign knows this and has cultivated relationships with the local big men/clergy that Sanders could not. It’s transactional politics – support me and we’ll make sure public money finds its way into your hands or neighborhoods, and that is way more appealing than Sanders’ abstract promises about Wall Street.

Also studiously ignored is the phenomenon of “walking around money” in black politics, a tool I have no doubt the Clinton campaign is using and Sanders is not.

It’s critical for the political left that Spanish-speaking immigrants or those with Spanish surnames be considered a separate racial category since the modern Democratic party is basically a collection of groups that are told they have a grievance against the white/Euro majority.

To some extent they have a point as large numbers of the low skill/low education immigrants we get have ancestry from the people indigenous to South America…on the other hand, the elites that run these countries tend to be as Euro as the elites in North America. Funny how that works.

“Diversity is our strength” is essentially a religious statement in modern America and it is verboten to consider what means have been used elsewhere to keep a lid on societies with competing ethnic groups that have vastly different priorities and beliefs.

The political elites don’t really care because they are totally insulated from the consequences of mass immigration, lower class whites are despised by both parties and thus have no say whatsoever, and lower class blacks were shoved aside by immigrant labor long enough ago that many have no memory of when when blacks comprised a significant portion of the unskilled labor in this country and can’t muster and outrage about it.

Despite the immigration uber alles attitude of the professional left, I don’t ever see them citing instances in which the host society is benefitting from all this vibrant diversity. They just seem content to offer Third World culture First World benefits (like social welfare) and consider that a good day’s work.

The political coalition of the left depends entirely on keeping united various groups that really don’t like each other much, so the progressives do everything they can to keep their anger directed at oppressive law-abiding middle class whites. Noticing social ills that can’t be put on this much-hated demographic is verboten.

Obama represents the high water mark of black political influence in America and it’s all downhill from here. Yes, the Democrats will pander in the general and once in office for the coming presidential term (let’s be real, Clinton is going to be president unless she is indicted), but latinos are growing in numbers and economic clout and even the goodwhites that run the party will grow tired of the increasingly strident demands of blacks in the years to come. They’ll toss them a few crumbs but I suspect that the more intelligent black members of the political class realize that they are soon to be the third banana in the party, and are going to make all the noise they can now for programs and appointments knowing that there are no more black presidents on the horizon and probably fewer members of Congress as well.

I would also say that I totally agree with Sailer that black and latinos are far from natural allies and the only thing that holds them together under the Democratic banner right now is the successful effort of the left to frame much of politics and culture as the great white masses keeping wonderful minorities down. Although there are going to be plenty of latinos who stay near the bottom of the economic ladder, I expect the number of those who hit the solid middle and upper middle classes is going to be fairly large and they will come to look at blacks the same way a lot of average whites do – as a group that complains a lot, consumes a disproportionate share of public resources, and who seem to think the answer is using other people’s money for social programs for their benefit. I don’t think a lot of latinos in the first or second generation of middle class existence are going to want to be political bedfellows with the black voting base.

We’ve really gone down the rabbit hole when this is allegedly a major concern in sports – which I actually doubt it is amongst the people who actually play baseball. And of course the concern all goes one way, as I know I will never read an article pondering the dearth of white running backs in the NFL.

I can’t remember who made the comment but some years back when there was a piece on why the percentage of African Americans in baseball was so low, a black former player posited that more so than basketball or football baseball is a father-son sport….and the huge disparity in intact families between blacks and everyone else was therefore a factor.

Considering that many pit bulls are poorly trained, socialized, and encouraged to be aggressive, to the extent they receive any attention at all – just like their owners – this isn’t at all surprising When I lived in a nearly all-black DC neighborhood, with a single exception it was the only breed of dog any of the black neighborhood residents owned. They were mostly left in the yard by themselves most of the time unless taken for a stroll around the area to show off, and I don’t recall any being able to follow even rudimentary commands like “sit” or “heel.”

Some people argue that they aren’t really any worse than other breeds and perhaps that’s true if they have responsible owners, but in my observations they are often owned by people who don’t value them as companions but as accessories to their gangsta image.

The tribes are still there even when liberal goodwhites try to pretend they aren’t – witness the fact that minorities now outnumber whites in the public school system. You won’t find many middle and upper class whites of any political persuasion that will let their snowflakes go to a run of the mill urban public school – instead they are opting for charter schools when available and very expensive private schools when that’s all that’s left. Sure there will be a few black and latino students, but not in anything like the proportion of the cities at large, and they will be matched student for student by SE and SW Asians.

I had an interesting conversation with a couple that used to live in a gentrifying Brooklyn until a few years ago. It was very important to them that their kids grow up accepting and comfortable with minorities, which is why they moved away from a neighborhood where they would live with them side by side.

Over at The Atlantic – which I admit I haven’t read in a couple of months – it was becoming trendy to blame zoning, particularly for single family, as the root of all evil in explaining the rising costs of city living and its impact on minorities. Kriston Capps hit this idea many times, which is entertaining as his competency as a writer is as an art critic (and one that I enjoyed reading in that context), but I guess since he lives in a city that makes him an expert as far as the editors are concerned. There is some truth in the focus on zoning when it comes to dense places like SF, but in many American cities single family zoning just reflects the fact that it’s considered the ideal living arrangement by a majority of people regardless of race and there is plenty of space.

At any rate, the uncomfortable truth for people like Capps is that despite shrinking numbers, whites are still the most numerous demographic, have higher levels of education and entrepreneurship, and adherence to society’s norms so that wherever they cluster amenities arrive, prices go up, and minorities get pushed out. Most liberals don’t really want to pursue that line of thought and its implications and instead blame stuff like redlining, mortgage discrimination, white supremacy and so on, which have no “sell by” date for progressives.

Perez is a full-bore social justice warrior who finds racism and discrimination everywhere he looks. I am no fan of Hilary, but at least I know that with her the SJW language she uses is not some deep felt conviction, just whatever seems to be politically convenient so she is susceptible to changing her goals and priorities depending on which way the wind seems to be blowing.

Perez is like Obama in that he is totally immersed in the “America is irredeemably racist” meme and believes the role of the government is to hammer people and institutions he believes to be oppressive into line. If he were to be part of the Clinton Administration it would be like elevating Eric Holder to an even higher position and the country would deepen existing racial fault lines.

The real question in all this is which of the Western nations where a plurality or outright majority of citizens oppose never ending immigration of culturally hostile and/or low skill/education foreigners actually ends up revolting against the elected officials who consistently ignore the wishes of the people? What form does that take?

For it to actually resonate I think it would have to be France or Germany, but it’s going to take more mass sexual assaults or terrorism before we actually get there.

I don’t like Trump but I’d take him over Clinton just on this issue by itself.

Speaking as someone who used to live in a DC neighborhood where gunfire was something I heard at night every week, I can confirm the under-reporting of gunfire. You quickly learn to discern whether the shots are really close (in which case I would call 911 to report) or more like 4-5 blocks away, in which case I would just continue to try and sleep. Obviously, most gunfire did not result in any injuries or death. However, when it did, one of my black neighbors would comment that “it was just the trash taking out the trash.”

I think the phrase “failing upward” is appropriate here. She’s got the gender and ethnic thing working for her, I guess all that is lacking is actual talent…yet she keeps getting hired for jobs that put her in an income bracket 99% of the country will never experience.

How about spending a few tens of thousands of euros per person on rounding up rapefugees and maybe 500 euros on a one way plane ticket to a UN – run camp in northern Syria? Use the rest to pay the Germans and other Europeans to produce more kids.

I think a lot of educators instinctively know this even if it is never vocalized – hence the hatred of No Child Left Behind and the goal of getting minority students to perform the same on standardized tests as white kids. They knew this would be an impossible goal to realize and that teachers are a convenient scapegoat for underperforming kids, rather than their parents or communities.

I seem to recall a few years back DC proposed abandoning equalizing white and black test scores and just focus on how much of a percentage increase black students could achieve over past benchmarks. It was accompanied with the usual comments about privilege, private tutors, and so on (I honestly don’t know any parents who use private tutors), but it was a surprisingly realistic perspective about what is possible.

That our immigration policy is growing the American underclass is a feature, not a bug for the left. They get to rub the rest of the country’s noses in “diversity” and expand their political client base at the same time. Unmentioned is that white liberal elites still expect to remain in charge of their political coalition even as it is increasingly dependent on turnout of non-whites.

Reason #679 I stopped reading The Atlantic – think pieces pondering the significance of racial emojis. I can only imagine what anthropologists in the future studying the decline and fall of the US will make of garbage like this.

This brings to mind the Banksy film “Exit Through the Gift Shop.” It chronicles the rise of an ‘artist’ now known as Mr. Brainwash and just how phony the art world can really be. It’s on Netflix I believe – entertaining even for those not really into modern art.

This WaPo piece completely ignores the yawning chasm in the values and behavior of (largely white) upper class Americans and (heavily minority) NAMs. Your typical upper middle class household has two parents, at least one with a decent job, and they provide an emotionally stable environment and template for successful male/female relationships. Far too many lower class NAMs are from single parent households with constant ups and downs and a parade of short-lived relationships with the opposite sex that produce half-siblings that may or may not remain in the picture. It doesn’t matter how great the school or teachers are, one child is being shown behavior that gives them a strong chance to retain their economic standing as adults and form stable relationships and families, and the other is learning all the different ways to self-sabotage whatever innate gifts they have.

Add this to the list of leftist nostrums that are supposed to make us safer but actually increase the chance of conflict. Sort of like the Obama view that a multipolar world is desirable and just, when in reality it drastically increases the odds of war and disorder in the areas where strong powers decide to jockey for strategic position.

I actually voted for Kerry because I felt Bush was totally mishandling the Iraq war (which I was against but felt once we were in, might as well do whatever had to be done to effect the outcome we wanted) and his lack of fiscal responsibility. Immediately afterwards I felt grateful he lost.

After the euphoria of Obama’s election in 2008, I think the professional left temporarily believed they had actually completely won the political debate so the 2010 midterm elections results were a total shock, as were the steady GOP gains in both chambers since that time and lack of punishment meted out to the party for opposing the Greatest President Ever.

The left ascribes all things it sees as problems to powerful external forces – it’s never the fault of its own behavior or its various constituent groups. Even W, who was not a great president, was able to extract enough political support from the public to occasionally force Dems to support his legislative priorities out of fear of being on the wrong side of their constituencies – the Iraq War, Medicare RX drug expansion, No Child Left Behind, etc. In contrast, Obama has never had the same effect on the public/GOP for any of his priorities and has had to rely on party line votes or executive actions to get his way. For the left this can only be due to irrational hatred of various kinds, not Obama’s inability to persuade the public to his point of view.

How much of the post-crack decline in violence is due to the selective pressure of widespread violence that took thousands of criminally prone and violent people out of circulation? Could there be a similar effect after a few years of elevated violence in the cities mentioned above?

There are occasionally innocent bystanders involved, but in my experience most of the violence is pretty targeted, and it’s usually active rivals not some person who is only tangentially involved in drug or gang activity.

Must not notice things. Reminds me of an Atlantic piece last year on how more conservative southern states have significantly worse educational outcomes than northern blue ones – which never at any point touched on the fact that most of these states tended to have very large black populations that drag the average down. Same with high rates of infant mortality, STDs, and so on. But of course read any article in The Atlantic or a similar publication and you will learn the most troublesome population are white men.

In other news, let’s catch up with Genius T Coates: http://heatst.com/culture-wars/poverty-expert-ta-nehisi-coates-bails-on-newly-purchased-2-1-million-home-after-media-attention/?mod=sm_tw_post

I already loved Jason Whitlock, but even more so with his tweet at the bottom.

Exactly. I also found his worries about drop by fans amusing. Even he doesn’t want a bunch of g0odwhites intruding on his daily existence, although my feeling is that if you monetize your notoriety you don’t get a pass on the ugly/inconvenient side of it either.

I think you have a sensible policy as a media professional but if you are someone like TNC people who want to know will find out where you live whether it’s in the paper or not. I guess I would have more sympathy for someone whose presence in public life was akin to that of Mr. Rogers rather than TNC. He makes a living by stirring up division and dislike of a huge percentage of his countrymen, and then wants to be anonymous when it’s convenient. Meanwhile the rest of us have to live in areas where the effect of the resentment “intellectuals” like himself stoke up have a direct impact on our quality of life and safety, and the possibility of a $2M+ home in a picturesque area of the world’s most important city is only a dream. I don’t feel sorry for him or his inconvenience.

Interesting column, but I wonder if this is a case where things are less complicated than they seem in relation to Germany – it seems to me that cultural masochism has set in as a prime motivator in a lot of the actions take by European and North American nations.

At least in the US the left can point to our history of absorbing large numbers of foreigners as a reason for blithely admitting loads of latinos or resettlement of Arabs (conveniently ignoring the fact that there was a lot of pressure to conform to the dominant culture rather than today’s deliberate Balkanization), but Germany has no track record whatsoever. The Turks are still largely a population apart and they are theoretically more assimilable to European ways than the more alien people of Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

It appears to me that the largest countries in Europe – and increasingly the US – don’t have the confidence to defend their cultures and the attributes that made them great in the first place. These will be replaced by cultures and practices that failed in the new arrivals’ home countries and all the while the political class will blame themselves for not being welcoming enough to these vibrant additions to the nations.

This kind of BS is one of the reasons I abandoned the Democrats in my 20s. No one treats blacks worse than other blacks – whether it is the enormous and constant pressure to conform to a certain way of dress and behavior, the shockingly casual attitude towards sex and childbearing, or the 3rd-world rates of violent crime directed at each other, black culture places roadblocks to success and security in front of its people right out of the gate.

White liberals like Hilary or Joan Walsh speak as though they have authoritative knowledge about the lives of blacks and the imaginary forces of white supremacy keeping these noble savages down, but in reality their only contact with an ordinary black person is when one of them is holding a door open for them at some fundraiser or clearing away their plates.

No group has done so much to stoke racial division as the Democratic Party in modern America, because their electoral fortunes depend so much on a sense of grievance and resentment.

Is there a single place on the planet where strictly observed Islam has resulted in anything other than violence and repression? When I was a child at the end of the Cold War, it was not considered controversial to vocalize the observation that Communism resulted in widespread poverty and oppression wherever it became the organizing principal of society. Yet today to make the same observation about Islam is to be accused of racism or xenophobia.

Normally I tend to blow off suggestions that mass media (music, movies,video games) amplifies violence but I have a hard time doing that now, particularly with rap music. Despite the left’s attempts to portray most of this genre as subtle and brilliant art, a huge percentage of it revolves around crude boasts about money, drugs/drinking, promiscuity, and violence.

It appears to me that lots of young black men and boys essentially model their behavior after the archetypical character in a rap song. In fact, it’s common too see some young black guy with headphones on walking down the street or standing at the bus stop rapping along with his favorite song complete with the gestures and expressions of the rapper in the music video, as if he’s trying to be that character. I don’t see white hipsters doing that while listening to the latest Wilco or even high schoolers play-acting to the soundtrack of teen pop music.

Obviously, the way people dress or act can be a reflection of their cultural influences of the moment, and I just as often silently laugh at the white kids who spend hours cultivating a look that is supposed to look careless, but guys with greasy hair, beards, and retro clothing or messenger bags style aren’t going to get wound up about some perceived slight and start shooting at a party or bar. In contrast, those that consciously mimic rap culture very well might.

It’s also partly a function of whose esteem you are seeking and the expectations they place on you – for suburban white kids, no matter how much fun it is to listen to rap and play-act with friends, at the end of the day they aren’t going to live out the fantasy because it’s not considered an acceptable way of life by friends and family and the girls they are chasing will tire of the act pretty quickly, and that probably matters as much as anything to a late-teens to 20-something male.

In contrast, a black kid who acts “real” is respected/feared and gets the attention of young black women. They are rewarded by the objects of their desire and their peers for thuggish behavior, so that’s what society gets.

While this seems to be a pretty common circumstance for American born blacks, in my observation real Africans who live in America are revolted by the behavior of African-Americans. I used to live in an area with a lot of Ethiopians and their comments about American blacks and what they thought of them were tougher and more blunt than anything I have heard out of a stereotypical white redneck.

This is the typical “heads I win, tails you lose” view of the SJWs that see racism everywhere. The fact that large numbers of Group A have observed the behavior Group B and regardless of intelligence level don’t really want to live next to them or have their kids forced to go to school with them says more about how unappetizing the culture of Group B is than Group A. But we can’t talk about that.

Also worth mentioning the the reference to military boot camp – sort of ignores the fact that part of the reason blacks and whites get along fairly well is that they have been pre-screened for a minimum level of intelligence so many of the enlisted are intellectual peers and figure that out quickly and enables a level of trust. In the real world, even white liberals understand at some subconscious level putting little Timothy in a classroom with little T’quavious is not going to enhance the educational outcomes of either kid.

As for the assertion that people just need to interact with each other more to break down barriers, apparently the author has never heard the phrase “familiarity breeds contempt.”

This is actually the best possible outcome for BLM – it plays into their narrative that white cops can act with impunity against unjustly targeted black men. As with most things for the left, it’s not the outcome that matters but how useful the process is politically.

I will be curious to see how the administrative review goes against him. Will the powers that be find he acted appropriately and can return to his job (and basically sanctify his innocence) or will they dismiss him and position Nero to sue the daylights out of the city?

Boulder IS awesome – even if you don’t subscribe to the left wing politics of the place, it’s got nature in spades, safety, lots of smart people, and decent culture and dining. Of course as Steve points out, the author glaringly omits the key characteristics of who lives there and who doesn’t, because readers might accidentally think that high concentrations of educated white people tend to result in really high quality of all around living as opposed to vibrant diversity all over the place being the highest good.

I’d probably toss Madison, Wisconsin in there as well – love it and could live there even as a huge political outlier because everything else about it is pretty great.

I don’t want to be around only people that are basically political and cultural clones of myself, but having lived in for an extended period in a city that is only slightly to the right of San Francisco, it’s not any fun to experience liberal fascism first hand. And heaven forbid you actually vocalize your disagreement with some bit of their dogma, you’ll find yourself arguing with 30 people at a time at dinner parties or just not invited anymore, period.

So yes, if you live in an area where there is some check on the worst impulses of the progressives I think it can generally be pretty great. But when you live in a one-party state, it’s pretty aggravating.

For much of the progressive left, illegal immigrants (and urban blacks) are modern noble savages – morally superior beings to the typical white American whose drawbacks to society at large cannot and will not be discussed.

But as rational people have pointed out, importing millions low skill/low education workers not only has deleterious effects on Americans who lacks specialized skills or education that must compete for the same jobs and the resulting low wages, but these are all people whose jobs are often the prime candidates for replacement through automation or greater efficiency. We have half a century of experience with large scale Latin American immigration and the end result is that the offspring of these arrivals don’t rise much higher economically than the parents. In our economy brains matters more and more and labor is worth less and less – we are building an enormous and permanent underclass. For obvious reasons the Democrats are just fine with this, but ultimately the future America will resemble the social structure of present day Mexico and there is no safety valve for us.

I think the key item that is not being discussed much when it comes to the presidential race is that Hillary is going to have a massive organizational advantage over Trump, and despite her being increasingly radioactive I’d still put my money on a candidate with a 50 state get out the vote operation against one that is counting on sheer popularity.

It is true the GOP voters need less external motivation to show up on election day, but in 2008 and 2012 Democratic micro targeting and GOTV efforts got millions of additional people to the polls.

Basically this is an attempt to measure and/or induce children from a substantially more advanced culture to buy the concept that welcoming huge numbers of people from a low trust clan-based society will enhance rather than degrade their quality of life. Sadly, it appears highly developed Western societies are all too willing to commit suicide in the name of moral vanity.

Not to be overly cold-blooded about it, but who cares? I suspect what Chicago needs is a period of blood letting that wipes out some of the most aggressive and criminal citizens, not unlike what parts of the Middle East are experiencing right now (and which I hope continues for quite some time, provided Europe stops deluding itself about its wonderful refugees).

As has been pointed out here and many other places, young violent men basically cannot be rehabilitated in most cases – all you can do is take them out of the population via the criminal justice system until they are older and substantially less testosterone-filled. Since we have a political class that is determined not to do that, we’re going to have a lot of intra-black violence, and all the while we’ll get periodic chin-stroking pieces in the WaPo, NYTimes, and so on pinning the problem on “lack of opportunity”, guns, or residential segregation. It’s none of those things of course, but we can’t talk about how the worst parts of black America are enthusiastically outbreeding the middle and upper class parts of that group, so we’re going to be stuck with this problem in perpetuity unless there is a huge cultural shift.

If I hadn’t read your post I would have assumed that young lady was a teenage boy. Used to have a girl like that in my neighborhood in DC – she was a petty thief and sometimes mugger, and would frequently get drunk and offer to fight anyone who was interested. She was was pretty big and very mean, so not many people would mess with her.

As for the hormone blocker, I guess chemical castration is permitted in some states so this could be legal…seems to have echoes of A Clockwork Orange that I am sure would get the SJWs wound up. Lots of discussion about how it’s just another way for the white overclass to undercut black masculinity or some version of that.

On a somewhat related note, although I am more of a small government person, I would have no problem with free universal long-acting birth control implants for any woman under 35. Maybe even a refundable tax credit for childless women and men of limited means for “personal development” or something like that. It would have to be somewhat large to be a big enough carrot, but if it drove down the out of wedlock birth rate it would be cheaper than what we have now.

Obviously there is a risk with Hilary being elected and the Senate flipping that Congress could try to change Section 8 program so that landlords cannot decline to take a voucher or dramatically increase Section 8 appropriations.

But I suspect that even Dems will come under a lot of pressure from goodwhites if they wanted to force Section 8 on people who own nicer rental properties. They talk a good game but faced with the prospect of a house stuffed with young urban achievers next door and going to the same school as their kids, a lot will find creative reasons for why its best for them to stay in their current communities, close to services, family and friends.

I am consistently amazed at the ability of Europeans to ignore the total failure to integrate most of the Islamic immigrants of the last half century and their stated belief that they should welcome more of them to the continent.

If the goal is to obtain more bodies to economic purposes, why don’t they try to lure North Americans or even East Asians to their countries instead? At least that way they’d get people who are on average far better educated and more likely to easily adopt European social norms.

It is unfortunate that sometimes innocent bystanders are harmed as a result. But the only way to prevent that (mostly, not entirely) would be far more aggressive policing than we currently have and there is apparently no real constituency for it in the largest urban centers today. The political left and apparently a majority of black and latinos would rather live with elevated levels of violence than have a higher proportion of “justice involved youths” for the sake of community safety. Even GOPers are on board with so-called “reform” of the justice system that would reduce the number of people incarcerated and return them to the streets.

Part of all this is the unwillingness to face reality – the narrative is always that powerful external forces (white supremacy, poverty, residential segregation, and so on) is responsible for the unbelievably bad group behavior of blacks and to a lesser extent Latinos. This fiction is politically useful to the left since it gives them someone other than their own voting base to go after.

Thus the approach towards urban crime that yielded such great results in NYC could not be allowed to legitimized or allowed to be replicated elsewhere, because it makes apparent that the real problem is the people and communities themselves, and it is intolerable that designated victim classes might be their own worst enemy and that public fears about them might be very well founded.

For now, those of us who support intelligent policing and incarceration have lost. The only thing to do is stay out of the way while the inevitable bloodshed and collateral damage adds up to the point where the public – and more importantly, the politicians – come back around.

I am somewhat conflicted about this. On the one hand, there are certainly people on the left who understand that creating highly desirable urban neighborhoods often means finding a reason to get rid of all the NAMs dragging down values in areas that naturally should be great real estate…and some of them are OK with developers making a fortune off of it, reckoning the tax revenue generated by increased property values or returning previously tax-exempt property to the rolls can be used to help the noble NAMs, but preferably somewhere many miles away.

On the other hand, I feel like there are even more who subscribe to the “white people are magic” theory by which vibrant diversity needs to be placed in close proximity to them to absorb their personal habits, educational achievement, economic success and so on through some kind of osmosis even though all right-thinking people also understand they are stodgy racist oppressors who are responsible for all the shortcomings in NAM lives across the country.

Maybe an alternate theory is that the progressives know full well that an influx of lower income NAMs into conservative suburbs and exurbs will destroy those communities and alter the political calculus for the House as middle class whites disperse and their voting power is diluted. It’s political and cultural warfare carried out in the name of social justice.

Is there any authoritative place where one can easily determine if there has been a single year in the last 40 or so in which there wasn’t some slavery or civil-rights themed TV or film(or I guess musical album, like Beyonce’s newest flaming bag of dog poop) that got hyped by the cultural elites so that we didn’t actually forget about this stuff in the previous 12 months?

Every now and then there is something like The Color Purple or Precious that isn’t ham-fistedly pounding audiences with the standard “whites=bad oppressors, blacks=noble people who would have done great things absent Euro colonialism and slavery”, but overall it’s about as subtle as a sledgehammer.

The main reason I feel Clinton will still win despite her total lack of appeal (to anybody) and the beating she is going to take over her ethical problems is that the Democratic party still has a very sophisticated get out the vote operation that will move into high gear this summer and fall. The GOP has been totally outclassed on this in the last two presidential elections and as far as I can tell the Trump campaign is making no preparations whatsoever to build its own capacity in this regard. Unless this changes, organizational strength will get her over the finish line no matter how many verbal shots Trump lands.

Not enthusiastic about Trump, but a vote for the Dem nominee at this point is a ratification of the type of intimidation we are seeing on campuses and at political rallies. Once they realize they can get away with this kind of thuggery, it will become part and parcel of campus and political life going forward.

I can’t speak of Canada’s historically troublesome populations, but America’s has a very deeply entrenched attitude that jaw-dropping rates of criminality and anti-social behavior at an early age that continues into adulthood are just “being real.” Added to that is the taboo against the larger culture being able to criticize this behavior in direct terms – to do so is to bring down the condemnation of all right-thinking people and accusations of racism or ignorance of history. One must always blame nebulous concepts like “white supremacy” or “structural racism”.

Yes, this lines up with my experience in the few cases in which I am friends or acquaintances with former NBA players. However, in my very limited experience, both men are still married to these women, and aside from the women being impressive people, the players are as well. They were smart to make use of their physical skills to make a lot of money at a young age, but they are intelligent guys regardless, so it makes sense that they gravitated to smart (and attractive) women as their spouses.

The play might be fine but I am always amused by the assertions of ultra-white liberals that hip hop is a potential force for positive social change because it speaks to the young and diverse. When I was in public school in the late 80s and early 90s we always were encouraged to do special projects in school that consisted of creating an original rap song about the subject (usually not to sell or use drugs) and I still occasionally read about public schools doing the same thing today – how’s that working out?

I also appreciated the author of this piece baldly stating that one of the appeals of Hamilton is the subject’s “passionately progressive views on…issues of federal power.” This is the point that rarely gets the attention it deserves – while the left will proclaim that any given prominent GOPer is a fascist because it implies they are dictatorial, it’s the left for whom muscular central authority over every element of life is the desired goal of politics.

The fact is that deep down progressive whites don’t really believe blacks are capable of the same quality of work or standards of behavior as white people, and all of their social policies (AA, the constellation of social welfare programs, disciplinary policies, etc.) are built around around this fact. Blacks in turn have completely internalized this latent message and thus many blacks of above average capability go through life believing they don’t have the tools to succeed in modern society and need some kind of special consideration from employers, schools, and society in general.

Personally, I’d rather be ignored by someone than treated with special attention that implies getting over the lowest possible bar is all that can reasonably be expected of me…but that doesn’t seem to be the case with a huge percentage of the black electorate.

That one was right over the plate…as always, the political left’s insistence on “equality” actually means anything but when applied to a protected class. Same with its concept of social “justice.”

Check out Petula Dvorak’s piece on the WaPo web page on the Stanford rapist – according to her, this is what “campus predators look like.” How odd that she ignores previously-documented assaults by college football players (Baylor, anyone?) and what those predator look like.

You know stuff is getting out of hands when high ranking German officials start waxing poetic about the benefits of eugenics.

I would say the track record of Germany getting highly ambitious about wholesale societal change is less than stellar…I was joking with a friend that Germany is anxious to shed the past and the imagery of shipping undesirables out of the country on cattle cars yet that is probably what they will be forced to do again in the end with all the rapefugees once they realize they made a massive mistake that will bring down their vaunted society and quality of life.

It will be interesting to see what percentage of the black vote Trump gets. On one hand, they are dog-loyal Democrats, more so than any other group in the entire population is to either the Dems or the GOP. On the other, they love “big men” type politicians, and Trump is that, if nothing else.

I can’t recall the exact figure, but the Dems basically need to capture at least 90% of the black vote to win national elections…trump might be able to chisel a few percentage points more out of black voters than GOPers in the last 20 years and put the final total under 90%. Unfortunately, so far he has zero political organization and until that changes I would still put Hillary as the likely winner of the election because the ground game really does matter.

Although Steve is correct that stating outright that the Democrats are most interested in immigration for the sake of boosting their future voting base, it’s obviously no secret in political circles. Way back in my first career on the Hill, the huge electoral advantages conferred on the Democrats by the bipartisan indifference to illegal immigration were discussed multiple times in staff and Member meetings I attended (I worked for a Democrat). That the GOP is so easily bought by the Chamber of Commerce to go along with this is a prime example of the contempt the political class has for ordinary Americans.

“deeply ingrained elitism,..disdain for the lower classes and…fear of democratic politics.”

Are we talking about a long-dead Founding Father or the current political establishment in America?

Despite getting cold cocked by reality time and time again, progressives still believe that we’ve reached the “end of history” and that progress as they define it will never get rolled back. Unfortunately, we have a mass political/sectarian movement that is quite enthusiastic about reclaiming the present for the past.

It seems like the Turkey/EU angle is not unlike Mexico/US. Both countries have huge numbers of uneducated and unskilled citizens that are of more benefit to their home nations if they leave for richer nations and pump up the home economy through remittances rather than staying put. Also, Turkey and Mexico get to accuse host countries of being racist if elements of their population have the temerity to say out loud this doesn’t seem to be such a great deal for them.

Obviously if Turkey or Mexico thought the large numbers of emigrants was hurting their pool of human capital they’d take a different stance, so their enthusiasm for out-migration tells you all you really need to know about who wins and who loses with an open borders policy.

No kidding – the logic of “don’t brand Muslims as dangerous because upsetting them causes them to get violent” is the epitome of doublethink.

Compare and contrast the way Christians in America are constantly made fun of by the political and media elites – the worst reaction you might get is an angry post on the Internet or a call into a radio show. Yet they are the ones (particularly if they are white) who are portrayed as troglodytes whose errant ways demand a vigorous and heavy-handed correction courtesy of the federal government.

Of course they are talking about guns, because the public associates white men with defense of gun rights and they are the common enemy of the Democratic coalition, according to their theology. Heaven forbid we point out that the US is overall incredibly tolerant of gays (and just about everyone else as well) and the most virulently homophobic societies can be found in Africa and the Middle East.

But amid all the din about Trump’s reaction to this, I don’t see how this really hurts him. The people who sincerely believe the biggest reason for mass casualty attacks are the availability of long guns rather than the ideology that motivates people to murder large numbers of strangers are not GOP voters under any circumstances. Perhaps people are finally able to admit to themselves what the common thread is in the Hebdo, Bataclan, Orlando, San Bernardino, and Boston attacks are (I know I am leaving some others out).

I wish someone somewhere would ask the president and/or high level members of the foreign policy and defense establishment what purpose is served by our ongoing presence in Afghanistan. When we were in both Iraq and Afghanistan when Bush was president I figured it was partly to send a message to Iran, which had to consider that it had tens of thousands of battle-hardened US troops on both sides in determining how frisky it would get in the region.

Now that we’ve mostly left Iraq and Afghanistan has not progressed into anything other than a place where taxpayer money goes directly into the pockets of corrupt warlords, I can’t see the point. It’s a country that is incredibly poor in human capital and natural resources and as revolting as its native society is, it poses no threat to us.

The media doesn’t ever ask what our objectives or purposes are there 15 years on, and no one is asking the current or prospective presidents about it. Am I missing something?

Not strictly true – Anderson Cooper grilled a FL statewide elected official about her shameful lack of pro-LGBT tweets. Hard hitting reporting right there.

It’s affirmative action forever now – the doctrine of disparate impact essentially says that so long as any given policy shows up minorities as being less capable than whites or Asians, then the offending metric must be done away with lest the truth be revealed.

Despite all its rhetoric, the left is deeply anti-egalitarian. Favored classes must be promoted and praised above all others, and out-group members social worth is tied to have enthusiastically they discount their own achievements owing to vague concepts like “privilege.”

As painful as it is to admit, America’s best days are well in the past now – which is how much of our ruling class likes it.

Isn’t it just a function of economic and social stability? It seems like the 50s would be the apogee of both, and I felt that there was a period like that in the 90s…but the huge numbers of children born to single parents who started coming of age in the 80s and though the present day have led to a turbulent and chaotic social structure for the lower class, coupled with the long decline in the demand for low education/skill workers for decent paying jobs in manufacturing and other sectors that provided some incentive to order for those on the bottom.

The only answer to that on the crime front is aggressive and sophisticated policing to remove the most troublesome members of society from circulation for extended periods, which is currently out of fashion because of the grossly disproportionate share of these folks that are black or brown…but the underlying problem of a massive and possibly permanent underclass (which is growing thanks to both parties’ complete indifference to illegal and illegal immigration from points south) has no immediate solution. There is a huge oversupply of unskilled labor and nothing that I can see on the horizon that will change that. What do you do with millions of people whose labor value is bottom of the barrel?

It’s only a matter of time before she’s citing The Grio or Jezebel.

RE: Scott Adams

White progressives are mostly scared stiff of the minority groups that vote Democratic and enable them to retain power, and view them as noble yet savage beasts that require care and feeding from a benevolent state, but also kept way the hell away from themselves unless for photo ops or occasional volunteer efforts.

Marxism is still the backbone of progressive politics, particularly the “to each according to his need” concept. The “need” of the downtrodden to live in a wealthy 1st world society trumps the right of the people to actually decide who gets to live in our country and why – instead our betters make that decision for us and tell us that admission of millions of grossly undereducated and semi-literate foreigners who are destined for a lifetime of low-wage work makes us a stronger nation.

If the EU nations want to retain the first world style they’ve become accustomed to, they need to ensure their populations remain those of first world nations, rather than admitting millions of undereducated and often semi-inbred people from cultures that are entirely alien to a modern liberal democracy. The migrants/refugees literally have nothing to offer their host countries – there is no value-add here, it’s all downside.

We face a similar problem in the US – though most of the Mexican and Central American immigrants we have admitted are overall decent people, the fact remains that they tend not to rise much on the economic ladder nor do their children. With an economy that has fewer and fewer decent paying jobs for those of limited education or skills, the future is bleak for them as well as the native born of similar attributes – it’s total madness to continue to add to that pool of our population when it just guarantees a future with a significantly diminished middle class and a massive underclass that will be wards of the state.

Like a cat chasing its tail, SJW’s will always find a way to bend any phenomena to fit their theory of how the world works.

Also, they don’t really care about outcomes just their personal sense of justice in putting a foot on the scale to assist a preferred demographic. This author seems to imply in her piece that she really doesn’t want computer intelligence to be used to most effectively combat crime hot spots – she’s more interested in making sure whites are hassled at the same rate as blacks regardless of the probability of that resulting in the prevention of crime.

Same thing on affirmative action in education – ensuring students go to a school best suited for their academic capability is far less important than making sure everyone gets some diversity on themselves so that they are better prepared, nay, – even more intelligent – for working in our multicultural society. The fact that the gaps in academic achievement between different racial groups and on standardized exams for entering college don’t disappear when it comes to passing exams for graduate work or professional licensing like Praxis or the bar seems to put the lie to that concept, but never mind.

If you really want to see Fallows get wound up, read his passionate writing on the most critical ban issue of the day: banning two cycle motor leaf blowers.

And no, I’m not kidding.

The Atlantic had an article maybe 10 years ago by Hanna Rosin on how the decision to de-concentrate poverty by demolishing a lot of public housing and giving residents Section 8 vouchers didn’t actually reduce overall crime but just spread it around.

Today HUD is pursuing enhanced vouchers so that holders aren’t hemmed in by the ‘fair market rents’ to which they are pegged and which are usually enough to pay for an apartment in lower middle class neighborhoods, but can instead afford to live in upper middle class neighborhood and suburbs. Coupled with the affirmatively furthering fair housing abomination, it seems that our betters are determined to ensure no one can get away from the least desirable elements of society.

So what’s next for stable middle and upper middle class communities that can look forward to an injection of vibrant diversity courtesy of HUD?

As others have noted, Brexit and the success of Trump (and Bernie to a lesser extent) is about the contempt the ruling class has for ordinary people , which translates into policy that goes against their interests and opposition to it is framed as bigotry, xenophobia, and so on. The fact is that the middle does not want to be ruled by a high/low political coalition and be treated as speedbumps in the way of ‘progress’ that will make their lives worse.

Although I agree with this sentiment, Trump is a hugely flawed messenger – he’s capture some of the discontent but his blatant political opportunism undercuts his ability to fully exploit this trend and I think he is destined to lose this election. That’s going to leave a lot of pent up anger and frustration in the population on the right plus a very determined cohort of the left that will want to move quickly to squash these voters culturally and politically. I think Clinton is probably smart enough to understand the danger in indulging in that, but the pressure from the progressive base will be enormous.

The fissures in society are only going to get deeper in the coming 4-8 years the country might end up as Yugoslavia writ large down the road.

BLM is just following in the path blazed by the Rainbow Coalition (although I guess that has gay overtones in its name) in shaking down various institutions and corporations in exchange for being exempt from criticism. My guess is DeRay was half hired because the morons in charge of the school system think an administrator of human capital could actually accomplish something and half because he’s not going to criticize the city from the inside.

If DeRay has the slightest bit of intellectual honesty and actually works at his job, he’ll come out of it hating the professional left and what it has wrought in once-great cities. I’m not holding my breath, though.

Legislation at the local and state level to allow green card holders to vote.

Alternatively, judging by posts from my left-leaning friends on Facebook, the next push is for pets to be given the same moral standing as human children.

Of course she did – and no doubt had her hot sauce packed in her purse for the post-show dinner at Le Bernadin. Just like an authentic non-white person would do.

In my Washington days I had heard Ms. Clinton likes to drink but never heard anyone say they had seen her out of control. In contrast, the woman who was initially floated as her Senate replacement, Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan) was a pathetic drunk who my wife and I would encounter periodically staggering around Capitol Hill late at night when we were walking the dog.

Hilary’s campaign slogan should be “Rules are for the little people.” It’s clearly what she and her strongest supporters think, and real crimes are speaking ill of Mexicans or Muslims.

The attitude of the elites in Europe and America reminds me of a line in Full Metal Jacket: “inside every gook is an American trying to get out.” No matter how foreign or unlikely to assimilate a group is, they cling to the belief that the hordes of 3rd worlders just want to be part of our beautiful cultural tapestry and the only downside is that we don’t let enough of them in.

Borders are anachronisms, and our future president proclaimed in Berlin (of all places) in 2008 that he was offering himself up as a “citizen of the world” and that “The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes, natives and immigrants, Christians and Muslims and Jews cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down.”

Europe took that speech to heart – how’s it working out?

Exactly – anyone who doesn’t meekly sit back and agree with the progressive perspective is considered to be close-minded, probably a bigot, definitely ignorant of how things really are, such as the sea of white supremacy we all swim in daily. I love looking through my FB feed and seeing all the righteous rhetoric and approving “likes” of pro-BLM posts by lily-white friends who wouldn’t dare live anywhere near the parts of the city where the cops most frequently are called to.

The line about “changing the subject” says it all. For the Times and the professional left, missing the forest for the trees is the mission now and forever, because it’s the only frame of reference that puts the blame on an institutional actor like law enforcement (which is a stand-in for whites) instead of the mind-boggling and widespread cultural failure that runs through a large percentage of the black community. This way the finger is pointed at police as failing blacks, rather than blacks failing society.

Nailed it.

Blacks have helpfully conducted a multi-decade/generational experiment in discarding the Western nuclear family in favor of far looser relationships with multiple partners and producing a passel of half-siblings. The results speak for themselves.

I’ll admit that the right really isn’t all that interested in black Americans but that indifference is far less damaging than the way the left shows its intense concern for the welfare of its favorite pet minority.

Every religion has its myths, and for modern progressives the concept that white supremacy is all around constantly working against striving minorities who would otherwise be achieving (or overarchieving) the same life outcomes as whites.

Thus the need for a powerful central government that stands ready to tilt the scales for favored classes.

Picking Pence means the GOP has a decent chance of keeping the governor’s mansion. Pence was looking weak against the Democratic candidate (who has run and lost before) because a lot of moderate GOPers were upset with this ham-fisted handling of the RFRA law and the possible economic impact to the state.