I have no idea, but it’s interesting to see on X how many nominally conservative black commentators are upset that whites are offended that the so-called black national anthem is going to be played.

Relatedly, I wonder how long the NFL is going to stick with its program of racial sloganeering in the endzones and on the back of players helmets, with inspiring words like “it takes all of us” or “be love.” Both are kind of darkly humorous, as the people that are being appeased by this certainly don’t think any of our national domestic problems involve them changing anything about their habits or love of anyone else.

The concept and worship of the “noble savage” manifests itself all of the time in leftist politics, aside from this rather laughable insistence that native spiritual beliefs be treated as a comprehensive system to understand the world. The other obvious example is in its fetishization of black people and culture and absurd slogans like “listen to black women.” These same people would laugh at the belief systems of Christianity as worship of a magical sky god while literally demanding we act like the native sky god is real or there is something called black girl magic. At the end of the day it’s all a hatred of the Western civilization that makes their lives and comforts possible, because acceptance would mean yes, there really are superior cultures and methods of organizing society and it excludes a pretty big swathe of the planet and/or your ancestors.

It also is a product of the problem of elite overproduction – no doubt the authors of the piece Steve has cited have extensive educational credentials and the student loans to show it yet work in what are essentially academic backwaters. They’ve put in their time, don’t really have anything to offer, but dammit want society’s respect and a secure living.

What a revolting couple – the article claims the now-adult children of this very loose union are ‘blase” about their parents’ serial infidelity, but there is zero chance it hasn’t resulted in a lot of emotional damage for them. Kids whose parents divorce and dating often struggle with that, I can hardly imagine what it must be like to realize that mom and dad don’t even have the courage for that and are just banging a series of strangers who are periodically in your home.

At any rate, I do think this is more likely to be a flash in the pan – whereas the trans/pronoun craziness is an easy thing to adopt because you can just declare yourself as such for attention, polyamory requires actual work to pull off and frankly the percentage of people who have a partner or spouse who would stand for this is incredibly low. Part of the glue that holds relationships together is mutual financial contributions and I guarantee you that a woman who lives in a ‘bright and airy’ Park Slope townhouse is not at all reliant on her teacher’s salary or worried about the economic consequences of her spouse deciding he’s ready to end a sham marriage. In contrast, a $60k/year teacher and their maybe $80k/year spouse generally understand that life is going to get a lot harder if they engage in serial adultery and the relationship implodes.

Pretty entertaining read – it takes cojones to say that these days, and hopefully public displays of courage give others the spine to do the same. I do think that resistance to DIE is increasing with whites who are reasonably successful, but it still is very strong with the high credential but middling income white person who feels they are underpaid and undervalued and want more social standing.

Like a lot of leftwing politics – and as Steve has noted on other issues – it’s really about people who feel like losers demanding an inversion of our social order to put them on top of the underserving current winners.

It’s an interesting concept on paper, but it will take a huge amount of will and political dexterity to ensure it doesn’t fall victim to the political and cultural values of much of the white upper middle class that have dragged down places like San Francisco – ie, diversity is our strength, soft on dysfunction politics, etc.

On the other hand, if they want to create what is essentially a larger California version of Carmel, Indiana it can be done by erecting enough economic and cultural barriers. Going back decades this city’s cops had a reputation for being extremely unforgiving – going 5 mph of the speed limit would be a ticket, if you had temporary tags on your car you’d get pulled over, the police show up to any call in strength. The city also established development standards in terms of materials and design that were very expensive to comply with, so there are essentially no businesses that can cater to lower class tastes at all.

So perhaps if the developers have the will and the brains to try and attract upper middle class people with red state values, it can succeed. If it’s just a reset on failed blue state cities, it will end up the same way.

A great example of the frivolity of our leadership class. Congress is really only obligated to pass annual appropriations, and they cannot even do that anymore except via a catch all continuing resolution rather than considering batches of somewhat related agencies to make adjustments.

Aside from that we have a staggering illegal immigrant crisis, ruinous annual borrowing, and out of date/inadequate energy and transportation infrastructure.

And yet we have legislation to ban glue traps and to borrow $14 trillion for reparations to America’s biggest fiscal and social burden, who have shown zero ability to leverage the trillions already expended on their behalf into any sustainable improvements in social or economic performance.

Unfortunately a lot of people just pick dogs for looks rather than understanding what traits they are going to have to live with, and whether it fits for where you live and the amount of hands-on effort you have to put in. Especially with border collies and blue heelers, things can really go sideways if an owner isn’t firm with the dog. Obviously pit bulls are a prime example of a breed that really doesn’t belong the hands of 90% of the people that have them.

One thing I have often thought was if there was a gene therapy or some other mechanism that could extend the lifespan of dogs there would be a fortune to be made there, as people will spend crazy amounts of money on a beloved pet.

Border collies are a poor choice for people who don’t have the ability or desire to offer them lots of opportunities to do what they were bred to do – spend lots of time outside running around and/or following their owner’s instructions or herding. Along with high intelligence comes a restless nature that can only really be satiated by making sure they have lots and lots of work to do and without an owner that can provide that you end up with an unhappy and destructive dog. Most people would prefer a lower-energy and less demanding breed that is happy to get a walk or two a day and spends the rest of the time napping.

Probably the same with kids – a huge share of the population would be incapable of seeing to the interests or needs of a high-IQ child, and probably wouldn’t want to if they understood what would be expected of them. A much larger share would be fine with kids who are more aesthetically pleasing or athletic instead, and frankly that would also boost their social standing more also.

Whites “going Galt” will increasingly be felt across a broad spectrum, at which point the same people who were celebrating the diversification of various job categories will then slam whites for not fulfilling their social obligations by abandoning tough/dirty/complicated jobs that they once dominated.

Timely overlap with this reporting from the NY Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/nyregion/swim-lessons-children-nyc.html

It’s nice to see things like this get attention at the local level, but it’s pretty scattershot because there is no easy way for the legions of race consultants to really monetize it for their own benefit.

To move forward requires a vision of where one is heading. When was the last politician or community leader was described as having a vision of the future. Obama talked about the future a lot but had no real vision for the future. And Trump is incapable of developing a vision about anything.

Good comments – there is no point in sending humans to the moon at this point. We checked that box before I was born and it’s close enough that robotic landers can do whatever we want there for now. Missions that are centered around the ‘firsts’ of the people involved show that the mission in and of itself is not important.

The hallmark of America’s most powerful institutions these days is wasting vast amounts of money and effort on signaling virtue while not actually doing anything that moves us forward. The spell will break eventually, but like all decadent societies it’s going to take one or more very traumatic events for that to happen. On the one hand, sometimes I feel like “let’s get on with it.” On the other, as a parent, I am very worried about the risks it poses to my children and how they could get swept into whatever is coming thanks to the catastrophically bad leadership class.

I personally have no idea, as my city is predominantly white and black, with Latinos being slightly less than their share of the population nationally and not much of a political force at all.

Just going off the shootiness aspect in the snippets above, I am guessing that being largely free of the racial baggage blacks and whites have, they don’t hold back on extreme use of force out of a concern about the consequences that a black or white cop might. Also, it’s impossible to tell how many of the people shot truly didn’t deserve it or were YOLOing themselves into an armed confrontation, which is partly a cultural thing as well.

Americans are culturally far more optimistic than most, and this combined with the belief in American exceptionalism has led vast numbers of people to buy into the idea that something that has never existed in human history can be brought into being here.

As AnotherDad has noted, this is a fantastic comment.

You’ve nailed the inherent contradiction in American (but now, increasingly, all of the West’s) concept of ‘diversity’. How can the diverse be different and still be equal? That’s the question that haunts us.

All of this descends from the radical vision of the early Christian church, which preached the world-upturning message that everyone — from the Roman emperor to his governors and centurions to Roman citizens to conquered ordinary people, and all the way down to common slaves — could be equal, as brothers and sisters who repented of their sins, believed in the crucified and risen Jesus, and followed Him.

Paul dealt with the unity-in-diversity conundrum with his metaphor of the body: all parts are needed, all are equally valuable, all are to be glorified when they do what they are called to do — but all are indeed different.

But here’s the problem: when a decaying Christendom abandons Christ, and its peoples start to believe that they themselves can ‘save the world’, then the body breaks down and ceases to function.

And that’s where we are today.

I think this makes some sense – in the past you could actually hoard assets like that were used for currency or trading, today you cannot. The printer just runs and runs and the indolent receive a variety of cash and like-cash subsidies to ensure they can remain the way they are and vote the right way as well. Someone else being a penny pincher doesn’t really affect the great unwashed, whereas a couple of centuries ago in village life that would be different.

In the modern age, even people that are not ostentatious about their financial position have many ways to signal it, whether consciously or not: the cars they drive, sending kids to private versus public schools, the brand of clothing they wear, the handbag the wife carries around, etc.

One of the things that was a strange realization for me was that “millionaire” is not nearly as meaningful of a term as it used to be. Whereas in the past that indicated a pretty rarified financial position, today it’s basically upper middle class – probably close to 10% of the population falls into this based on home equity and retirement savings.

Literally no non-Jews consider them an oppressed or under represented minority, and ironically if this actually comes to pass it would be because other Jews use their power in Hollywood to make it happen.

Great point about the US domestically being converted from a nation to an internal empire. All the people that squawk about colonialism and so on are enthusiastically acting like a colonial empire only with the intention to subjugate and exploit people at home rather than abroad. I think I may have discovered a new level of hatred just typing this.

Loury and McWhorter recognize the system is corrupt by design, and that’s a reality avoided by nearly everyone in polite society. Loury in particular gets upset because he recognizes black shortcomings across a broad spectrum and the total lack of accountability there, and they both understand the nice white people who say all the right things ultimately don’t really expect much from blacks other than to be grateful for professional head-patting.

I really do have a lot of sympathy for these guys. They are worthy of being taken seriously on merit but are at the same time extreme outliers for their group and know it. That’s got to be a pretty tough thing to carry around when they see all the black frauds making huge amounts of money and being lauded by all the right people when by rights they should be the ones being held up as black Americans at their best.

For a smart guy, Cuban is offering a pretty childlike defense of DIE. There is obviously some other motivation rather than this being his genuine understanding of how it works.

Anyhoo, as I have commented before, the champions of diversity always seem to miss the point that if one accepts that there are meaningful differences between groups that make them ‘diverse’, then it would be absurd to then believe they should be represented in proportions that would imply that these differences in ability, interests, or culture ultimately make zero difference in outcomes. In fact, true diversity would mean that there would disproportionate representation in various walks of life as a natural consequence of diverging group characteristics. In effect, proponents of diversity reject its real-life implications.

Americans are culturally far more optimistic than most, and this combined with the belief in American exceptionalism has led vast numbers of people to buy into the idea that something that has never existed in human history can be brought into being here. Our society is going to learn the lesson of the emperor’s new clothes the hard way as a result.

I have often wondered how economically effective naming sponsorships really are. There is an outdoor concert venue near my hometown that has had a series of corporate names since it was built but everyone just calls it by the original non-corporate name even though it must have been at least 30 years since it started a cycle of corporate sponsorship titles. Of the last three sponsored names I cannot recall buying a product offered by any of them or even considering it.

I assume the value of naming rights has been extensively studied and found to have some kind of net positive benefit for whatever company decides to do this, but to me it seems more like a dog marking its territory.

At the end of the day *most* people think that those like themselves should be in charge or would do an equal or better job than someone else, so to the extent that Spiers thinks urban high status white ladies should be the arbiters of society I kind of understand because all the people she interacts with are just like her and she likes how they favorably reflect on her own self image.

The problem is that if you stop and look around for successful enterprises, when you find those largely run by protected class people they are in niche areas and are massive outliers. It’s a real life replication crisis that is forced on society through politics rather than experience.

This AWFL just wants AI to be a more powerful version of herself at the end of the day. The prospect of a super processing entity with the morals of a prog white woman is almost too terrifying to imagine.

This is a good thing – yes, it’s clearly in the hope that they will identify more ‘diverse’ applicants they can accept in lieu of boring old white or Asian ones, but to the extent it helps separate urban achievers with totally bogus GPAs from those whose grades actually do reflect a combination of brains and effort I’m all for it.

My city has adopted a policy where the worst grade a kid can get on an assignment is a 50 percent, even if it’s not handed in, so there are undoubtedly scholars graduating from high school here whose true GPA and base of knowledge are significantly worse than their transcripts would indicate, so testing would be very useful.

Right – take Christian McCaffrey, whose dad was a notoriously fast white receiver, mom was a D1 soccer player and grandpa was an Olympic sprinter. Hopefully he meets a sporty lady and has many children.

Agree with you on golf. Some years ago I was a member of a country club (at the urging of friends, not because I love golf) and had the kids get some experience playing and the pro there said that if you are not playing regularly by 12 years old you just won’t ever be competitive these days. Other sports I think raw athleticism can get you up to speed fairly quickly although obviously there is situational experience that matters as well.

I recall not too long ago, Steve highlighted an article complaining about the lack of diversity in PWG (pretty white girl) sports, and I do think there is a certain aspect of financial gatekeeping in volleyball, soccer, golf, and lacrosse and the like to ensure the right class of people are involved, plus a lot of these club organizations are raking in money from parents as well. Part of having a bit of money is participating in things that signal that, and part of it is being able to select what kind of environment you and/or your kids have to move around in and what you can avoid.

Cell phones are definitely a huge contributor – both on the part of motorists and pedestrians, and it seems to me no one takes a back seat in their enthusiasm for noodling with their devices than blacks. Soccer moms are also pretty bad but they are generally home by dark so don’t count towards night time accidents as much as they could. Another factor that ties into this is the popularity of wearing headphones or ear buds while walking around, and not doubt the combination of distracted pedestrians in dark clothes and distracted drivers zipping through certain neighborhoods is a factor. One of the ‘equity’ criticisms in my city is that many lower income/black neighborhoods lack decent street lighting and sometimes sidewalks, and that’s definitely true.

But on a broader scale, the move towards minimal punishment for all manner of crimes, including traffic offenses, means there are simply more people who take a lot of risks driving around. In one extreme case, a man walking on the sidewalk in his very nice neighborhood was mowed down and killed by a driver who apparently had multiple other at-fault crashes due to recklessness in the previous 2 years but still had her license. After killing this doctor and before getting charged for it, she managed to get into another crash that resulted in the death of the other driver as well.

Darn, was hoping this would drag out a bit longer. This was another one of those things where I have heard first-hand from left of center people that the situation was ridiculous and unacceptable. Hopefully the Chris Rufos of the world are out sniffing around for more high profile diversity hires to out as lightweights.

What will be interesting is if the board doubles down on diversity or asks some kind of Larry Summers type of person to step in for a few years.

I will admit the Warhol question could be perceived as a cultural gotcha question, but unless the majority of questions on the test involved stuff like this this, one would still have to have blown it on scores of “job-related” questions to have failed, to say nothing of repeat failures.

At any rate, this is revealing in a way in that it yet again demonstrates that for the left the public sector is primarily viewed as a repository of workfare jobs for otherwise difficult to employ minorities, with the added bonus that it provides a mechanism to launder taxpayer money to the Democratic Party via public employee unions. If we make those illegal and destroyed public jobs as a source of campaign financing, I could probably live with using municipal public jobs as workfare so long as it didn’t involve things that involved maintenance of infrastructure or permitting reviews.

I am not sure who these acronymic efforts are aimed at because they don’t seem to have wide adoption. I have had multiple recent conversations in which very normie people were mocking the profusion of terms one is supposed to know and how it’s impossible because new ones are always being invented. I suppose all it takes is one zealous coworker and HR department to make things unpleasant, but I don’t actually know anyone that has fallen victim to that at this point. Seems like the kind of thing that is rigorously adhered to in academic and NFP settings but has no real traction elsewhere.

As a former Washingtonian, this is accurate in general. My black neighbors had the same general desires as myself and other gentrifiers – less crime, more neighborhood retail, etc. The problem is that getting those things would require modification of the behavior – including punishment – of their children, grandchildren, relatives, and neighbors and that is simply unthinkable. There was no active policing of each other either – it was totally verboten to interfere in someone else’s business, even if it meant having to see and hear a young woman being beaten senseless by your neighbor’s loser son right out on the sidewalk, no one will lift a finger. Add in the fact that in most places minority voters go strictly on racial lines and there is almost no hope or constituency for reformers to come in.

The civil rights era continues to produce poisoned fruit. The left completely internalized the idea that any divergence in outcomes between blacks and whites are entirely the fault of the latter and required zero examination or circumspection about the pathologies of the former. Fast forward half a century, and despite trillions of dollars in wealth transfers, pro-black messaging and actual discrimination, various social initiatives and applying a variety of pedagogies and social theories, certain facts stubbornly refuse to go away.

Since this is essentially a religious/matter of faith issue rather than a fact-based one, the response is to invent more fantastical explanations rather than examine whether one’s underlying assumptions might be flawed. However, the real world refuses to go away and large numbers of people who are not particularly ideological are repeatedly confronted with crime and disorder that is impossible to ignore. As I have posted previously, the renaissance of core urban neighborhoods and central business districts is over and the pendulum is swinging the other direction and will continue to do so for a generation. This is going to be increasingly apparent to huge numbers of Americans, and consciously or not they will understand what direction this is coming from and this will affect our politics/culture accordingly.

Correct. I am not in the “it’s always the joooos” camp on the right whose almost religious beliefs around their control over society are essentially the same as the left’s when it comes to whites in general.

However, Jews have played a hugely outsized role in the intellectual life of modern America, particularly in journalism, entertainment, media, and foreign policy and generally but not exclusively from the left. Therefore it’s not out of bounds to note their role in some of the most massive policy mistakes of the last 100 years and look at the latest positions with a gimlet eye.

That said, if you have a group that punches way above its weight that has come around to the idea that the beast they helped unleash needs to be put down, welcome that. DEI is pure poison and it’s great if the left is now on the defensive around this issue as it prevents them from pushing forward on other fronts at least temporarily. I don’t think there will be a huge swing in Jewish political allegiance because old habits are hard to break, but to the extent that there is some it’s great – converts are often more zealous than anyone else, and obviously brings with them resources and influence.

An interesting exercise but have my doubts about just how accurate it is. My state is in the bottom half and I have family in a state way near the top that I visit several times a year and there is no way I would trade locations – partly due to weather (warmer here) but also because of politics. The strangest thing about visiting the allegedly high performing state is that people who I would normally expect to be right of center based on their lives, income, etc. – and would be where I live – are often unthinking Democrats, even when the collateral damage of putting this party in charge directly affects them and they know it. The levels of delusion are off the charts and would drive me absolutely crazy if I had to live there.

I am well aware of the shortcomings of my state on a macro scale, and I also live in a large city so that sometimes means grinding my teeth at the local politics and incompetence. However, I have a high quality of life at a very reasonable price and the more troublesome elements of my burg I primarily only have to deal with in traffic or retail establishments, and my kids laugh at all the woke/trans stuff. It’s not perfect but I am pretty happy with my situation and I have close friends who are transplants from blue America that are also grateful to be raising their families here as well.

It’s not uncommon in youth basketball to see a kid on a team where he outshines everyone else and against weaker competition to generate highlight reel performances and recordings that get sent out to recruiters for HS or college. One of my kids played in a game in which the opposing team (who we knew) had a ringer show up for our matchup complete with tripods and multiple cameras. He then proceeded to score something like 50 of his team’s 60 points and we never saw him again. It was a useless exercise for everyone on the court.

Appreciate your comment. It makes the squawking about using average school math scores short-sighted – like me, they don’t realize it’s actually probably a net add for ‘diverse’ applicants.

All the same, it’s hard to respect Chetty in a lot of ways. He concocts fundamentally dishonest narratives on magic dirt/ZIP codes rather than going down uncomfortable paths in the pursuit of knowledge. Billions of dollars are spent annually by various actors that are steadfastly dedicated to not noticing. What an incredible waste of money and intellectual capital.

I can actually see a bit of logic behind the complaint about how your undergrad alma mater is weighted versus your own academic performance as there are a lot of reasons why a student might not have gone to the most elite of schools – for Asians or whites its affirmative action working against them, for everybody it could simply be they got a better financial aid package, wanted to be in a specific location more than others, etc., etc. Giving a half point pat on the head for attending the better BHCUs is laughable – Spelman and Howard are considered the best, get undue credit in college rankings, and frankly are 3rd tier at best. Given the other criteria, this category probably serves as a way for Chetty to say “we tried” but not actually have to hire anyone significantly below the target caliber.

The phenomena that Chetty and others like him repeatedly demonstrate but are determined not to measure is how much political shibboleths around race and diversity distort intellectual honesty.

We are now in an era in which a non-insignificant number of athletes are 2nd generation pros as well, and in some cases have mothers who were accomplished amateur athletes, so perhaps there is some civilizing influence going on there combined with shared interests that make these relationships work. I do find it interesting how LeBron James is the son of a teen mother but has stuck with his high school girlfriend (now wife) to raise his kids, but apparently she grew up with married parents and no doubt that influenced things. I suspect – but don’t know for obvious reasons – that amongst wealthy black ex-athletes that there is a social pecking order between those like James that have adopted a more mainstream and respectable existence that gives them continued access to respectable/white society versus those that are essentially still hood people with money.

I do agree with Steve’s observation about the benefits of slower to physically develop white boys playing the game with fewer black competitors when young. I think it’s pretty well established that blacks hit puberty earlier than whites, and as parent of kids that play a lot of basketball it appears to me that generally there is on average noticeable physical separation by the end of middle school. There’s also the fact that a lot of young basketball talent ends up playing loads of AAU games in which physical ability is highlighted but there not as much game fundamentals, and the latter is where white kids can shine more if allowed to develop.

Not sure if this is truly a sign of desperation by the left or if it’s a sign that they think they are untouchable. Probably more of the latter, although if for some reason this stands and/or Colorado and other states refuse to comply with any SCOTUS ruling, couldn’t the House simply refuse to certify the electors from states that do this?

In any case, yet another example of the left taking action that will bring into being the very thing they say they are trying to prevent. Removing the filibuster for approval of federal judges in the Obama years was then used by Republicans to get through multiple SCOTUS nominees. Alleging some organized white racial solidarity that doesn’t exist is harming minorities has led to policies that will almost certainly result in the birth of actual white racial consciousness, and now trying to implement a method in which partisan judges can prevent candidates from standing for election on the basis of crimes they haven’t been charged with, much less convicted of, would kick off a wave of retaliation that would make a national election impossible.

Yes, successful football programs make schools more attractive but no, it’s not short term rentals skewing the market. My wife went to a school that won the Rose Bowl twice while she was there and it resulted in a surge in interest in foreign and East Coast students who could pay the full freight and didn’t want to live in some run down rental or traditional dorm. Prior to Covid there was a 10 year boom in the construction of new highly amenitized student housing and the PSF rents owners could get were staggering compared to traditional new multifamily. That reset the rental market around a lot of campuses and naturally all other rentals get a boost from it as well.

From what I’ve read, Tirico is pretty hardcore insistent that his is a paisan and clearly doesn’t like the questions about his potential black heritage. I say fine, if he’s really proud of the Italian side that’s way better than the self-hating clowns like Nikole Hannah-Jones, Adam Serwer and the like.

Obviously there are a lot more black NFL analysts today but I actually like several of them quite a bit. Louis Riddick has a sort of GM’s mind and is very sharp, Shannon Sharpe is good, Domonique Foxworth, and even Richard Sherman all have worthwhile insights. I actually find a lot of the white ones really annoying – Skip Bayless is awful, Rex Ryan is an aged fratboy, Greeny is just OK, and Rich Eisen is basically the only white guy I can listen to for an extended period of time. Nick Wright is also generally annoying but the only thing I like about his show is that he, Broussard and Wildes all clearly like each other, whereas there is a lot of tension on most of the others.

*I would also add that Shannon Sharpe and Chad OchoCinco’s “Nightcap” is generally a pretty good show.

There is a reason the modern left is not allowing the accommodations or peace of the past remain standing – they have been waging a cold civil war that was largely out of sight or under the surface to the average American but is increasingly out in the open because they believe a decisive moment in which they are the new victors is close at hand, and unlike the last civil conflict they have no intention of showing any magnanimity towards the vanquished.

I used to have a live and let-live mindset, now I am increasingly very pro-marginalization.

Probably a same dynamic with modern commercials – I’ve had more than one left leaning relative comment that there are almost no white people in commercials anymore and minorities get shoehorned in to a ridiculous degree. My current favorite is the crusty old black llama farmer.

It’s true that many on the right just want to be left alone, whereas the reason people on the left get up in the morning is to resume meddling in other people’s lives and making it worse for those they don’t like. That’s a big advantage in terms of where energy is directed.

For people like us, it’s important to realize that the most effective way to shift public opinion is to make sure lots of ordinary people have to live with the consequences of progressive politics or be confronted with unpleasant facts – to the point of pain. Based on some of the things Chris Rufo has accomplished recently and things like shipping illegals to blue cities/states, the adoption of near-universal school vouchers in some states, it seems at least some kind of conservative ecosystem is emerging that has the energy to apply pressure that will take time to be fully felt but has big potential. Some financial support of those you feel are most effective is good and if there is an opportunity to volunteer your time or talent just a bit, that’s good as well.

Our illustrious host here is a good example – his influence has grown and grown and it’s partly possible because some people are able to toss some money his way once or twice a year so he can keep doing what he does. Money well spent if you ask me – there is no question he has helped shift the Overton window on the right and perhaps in certain quarters of the left, and I am overdue for another contribution.

The left was willing to play the long game and that’s why there are where they are. If you don’t want to directly work against them at least try to empower those that do.

I mean it’s great to have someone like this show they recognize some of the toxic qualities of their staff and operational practices, but it’s sort of stating the obvious rather than a warning. He and others should have acted on this 10-15 years ago to have a meaningful impact and they didn’t. Not exactly a profile in courage.

I subscribe to the NYT because it still has several sections around culture, science, cooking, business, etc. that are quite good and I enjoy. The news is even on occasion less partisan than one would expect. The op-ed portion is an insane dumpster fire – as Bennett notes, the contributors spend a lot of time describing their impressions of an America that doesn’t actually exist. I read Jamelle Bouie’s latest fever dream of an op-ed, titled how red and blue states are increasingly like different countries. “Accurate” I thought to myself before diving into a bizarro world account that had little hold on reality.

You can basically read any op-ed headline and look at the author’s headshot and you automatically know exactly what they are saying.

I worked in Congress for a Dem over 2 decades ago and even then Biden was widely considered to be a total doofus that was laughed at by other members and their staffs – when Obama picked him as VP there was a lot of tittering over it although everyone assumed it was a meaningless appointment.

I have a very low opinion of the left having once been actively involved on that side, but I have to admit it is still surprising how much self-gaslighting goes on by people who really ought to know better on the left about who Biden is and his mental capabilities even when he was decades younger, much less the husk that he is now. The same people that will lecture others about our precious democracy participated in a total fraud to get this stooge elected so thousands of mostly unknown operatives could carry out an ideological mission even most Democrats would not be on board with.

Largely agree with this – the kind of plagiarism Gay engaged in would have probably gotten me suspended in high school, yet it’s being hand-waved away by our betters. One of the key things to remember about the modern Left is that they resolutely reject the concept of objective truth or standards. Thus you can have fake narratives and twisted versions of events that must be accepted to prove their preferred version of reality or policy, or in this case having a black lady in charge is more important than her actual integrity or credentials.

Like a lot of people on the right there was a period of time when I thought it would be possible to claw back the worst excesses of our age and society would revert back to a more sane and reasonable posture experienced in the not too distant past. But that’s not possible – as this post notes, the rot is too deep and many institutions as they currently exist must be razed. The left perversely frames any attack on captured institutions as a threat to democracy, but only fools think we have a functioning democratic system.

Still, there is a lot of opportunity in front of us and there is no reason to be moderate – there is no going back to the past, the left will damn any opposition in the strongest possible terms no matter how mild the resistance, and they regularly provide examples of corruption that if called out will change a lot of perceptions over time. A determined minority is what is required to effect large scale change and obviously the left over the last 50 years has shown more determination. The same can work for the right if it has the nerve to try and refuses to play by the rules the left has set out.

As I have posted in the past, many white progs think their allyship is providing them with some store of credit with the wokistas but it doesn’t – they still hate you and given the chance will act on it, as all the river to the sea people are demonstrating.

Even with this in-your-face evidence, old habits die hard and I would guess the political left can still rely on Jewish support for quite some time yet, although to the extent some minds are changed or wallets closed, great. As other have noted, the persecuted minority mindset runs very deep, it’s just that literally no one else considers Jews to be that. A widespread awakening to that reality would be very useful, but we still have miles to go on that.

I wonder if her mom not being the perfect ally is in any way related to her ungrateful and self-centered daughter’s personality made her a difficult person to share a household with?

Mixed race people who decide to really lean into capital B blackness are really the worst – massive overcompensation and sanctimony. I am guessing fully black people don’t really like them either.

Don’t get me wrong – we are going to have to take our lumps for quite a while before there is a resolution one way or another, and where we are right now is still the run up to a more decisive period of turmoil. People like your neighbor are going to have to personally suffer for there to be a sea change, which means millions of good whites (or more likely their kids) will have to experience the blessings of diversity good and hard in school, job opportunities, safety, etc.

Massive change happens when a critical mass of people are so sick of the status quo they will take whatever alternative is on offer so long as a core promise is to end the instability and insanity. The current spit on the left on Gaza/Israel is great, just stand back and let the fur fly. Many of our large cities are at the front end of a massive decline in their urban cores – 20 years of increased gentrification and renewal are going to be at least partially reversed thanks to the move to remote work and the crime and disorder of feckless mayors and the fact that most large city public school systems are awful and not everyone can afford private school.

As I mentioned, DeSantis and Abbott had the brains to increase the pain on immigration by shipping them to other places and should keep that going full throttle. There will be other opportunities to make strongholds of the left have to deal with the consequences of policies they intended by borne by others. The key is not to chicken out for fear of being called a racist or fascist, but have the balls to heighten distress. The right has a long track record of losing by adhering to rules only one side is observing and ended up with its back against a wall. When that happens you can either submit or fight in any way that lets you win.

I agree there might not be a lot of movement but any cracks in the facade are good…plus, the foaming at the mouth progs who are leading this right now are not going to be chastened. Through their actions they will provide additional opportunities for the left’s most important financial benefactors to rethink things. I really cannot wait for the Dem convention in Chicago.

Me too. There was a time when I subscribed to the Post because it did have more balanced news and political coverage and a decent op-ed roster. Now it’s totally unreadable and as I mentioned it doesn’t offer something like decent arts, culture, or real estate coverage to give people outside the Beltway any other reason to subscribe. It deserves to die…in darkness, lol.

I personally do not care about Israel and don’t support open-ended financial aid. What this is really about is the domestic forces that have come out in droves to condemn Israel and demand decolonization hold the exact same feelings about American whites and our culture and would act on it given the chance – it’s not a principled concern about Palestinians per se. What you are seeing directed against Israel is what is in store for the rest of us if this element remains ascendant, and right now they are demonstrating how far they have penetrated the intellectual centers of the left.

I do think this is a fair point – I personally think Israel needs to be treated like most other countries, a place that is sometimes useful to us and sometimes not, and certainly not the recipient of annual appropriations from the US taxpayers. At the same time, I don’t see anyone protesting our ritual billion dollar donations to places like Egypt and Pakistan or questioning what that enables either.

So while I agree US support for Israel shouldn’t be unconditional, the overwhelming majority of the support for Palestinians is largely reflexive anti-Western, not principled humanitarian concerns. They feel the same way about American whites as they do Jewish Israelis and would apply the same “decolonial” principles to us if they could. This is the canary in the coalmine.

Personally I hate Mr. Brightside and change the channel when it comes on, but it is ubiquitous. The mention of Dancing Queen as the song played when the lights come on to signal a concert is over is funny – I have experienced that multiple times. Fortunately my own wedding did not feature a DJ so I was spared having to listen to a bunch of pop rock and disco.

Yesterday the Washington Post’s staff apparently staged some kind of walkout, not that anyone would have noticed unless they had worked overtime on social media in the days prior to let everyone know how they deserved solidarity, presumably during work hours when they are being paid to journalism.

However, this little wedding song piece does highlight one of the contrasts between the NYT and WaPo. Obviously the politics of the Times op-ed roster is standard dogmatic leftism, and the bias in their political and domestic news coverage is clear. On the other hand, the paper does still cover a wide variety of other subjects with often entertaining stories like this one. The Post is essentially a local paper with national political coverage that is at its best indistinguishable from the Times and often worse. I suppose with Mr. Bezos as owner there is theoretically a bottomless pile of money he *could* throw at this dog, but I am guessing in the end he won’t passively sit by as it gets ever more irrelevant and bleeds subscribers. Will be interesting to see what he does when he’s had enough.

That was awful, but history doesn’t stand still. There’s a lot of churn in the world – domestically the Dems have a real pickle in respect to the Israel-Gaza split in the party, the border situation is no longer just a concern of people on the right, our debt is crushing, and people are very unhappy with their prospects. Never underestimate the ability of the GOP to fumble an opportunity, but those are very good conditions for the right messenger(s) to use to inflict a lot of damage on the left. It might not result in a GOP presidential victory, but it will make it very hard for the Dems to govern.

The right needs to learn from 2020 – the left deliberately inflicted distress on society to make it receptive to a change, if for no other reason than to make (they hoped) the bad stuff stop. It worked. There are some hints with the practice of dropping illegals off in blue cities and states that some on the right have learned from that.

It’s amusing how the Palestinian cause is such a cherished part of leftist identity – after all, we are talking about a pretty small space on a map, a relatively small population, and a group a tiny share of Western people have any blood or personal ties to. There are a lot more benighted people and places to pick from, so it’s hard to avoid explanations other than anti-semitism as being a prominent factor.

However, anti-semitism on the left is also linked to the fact that they absolutely love history’s biggest losers and loathe winners of moderate to lesser pigmentation. The same sentiment animates its absurd worship of blacks and illegal immigrants and white-hot hatred of, well, whites. It would be prudent for American Jews to realize that the left’s current open animosity is just a facet of a broader anti-white/Western bigotry and no amount of solidarity or allyship will change that – in fact it’s only going to get worse.

Unfortunately as Steve notes, many have a deeply ingrained sense of victimhood and minority status despite vast wealth and influence, and this often leads them politically to embrace the left since it has positioned itself as the home of the supposedly underrepresented. I don’t think passing themselves off as members of the oppressed is really going to work with the current composition of the Coalition of the Fringes. Quite the opposite, in fact.

It will be interesting to see how the activist left factors into the 2024 election on this front – it’s possible they will do more than all the Evangelical Christian Israel worshippers have ever accomplished to persuade American Jews to alter their political allegiances and donor habits.

Leftist radicals (Cloward and Piven) in the 60s came up with a plan for political revolution that was essentially to sign up as many eligible people for welfare in the hope that it would overwhelm the system and force economic changes out of necessity to deal with a crisis.

That’s probably at the heart of the Great Replacement as well, and the flood of illegals is designed to make the problem so large that politicians say we must just legalize them all rather than deport. Once that’s accomplished the left will have a stranglehold on national politics, and they will then push through redistributionist economic and social policies that would have no chance of being adopted with the legacy American electorate.

We are clearly approaching some kind of moment of crisis in which the outcome will chart the course of the country for generations.

He is definitely perfect for that kind of job. While I wouldn’t call him tightly wound, he is one of those guys where everything has to be done right no matter what it is and he is very disciplined in everything he does. Adding to that is that he really, really enjoys what he does for a living and is very proud of it. Hopefully there are a lot of other like him in similar roles.

Makes sense. One issue my local district is dealing with is that despite declining enrollment over the years demands that kids be able to go to school in their neighborhood means they have a number of aging school buildings that are operating at half capacity, so obviously there are a lot of unnecessary utility and maintenance costs as a result.

Another issue is the cost of operating and maintaining a bus fleet and/or contracting it out. Not sure if it’s normal in many other countries for this to be part of the operating cost of a school district or if kids are more able to walk or use public transportation.

Lastly, one thing that may be fairly unique in American school spending is that teachers unions are a huge source of cash for the Democratic party, so there is every incentive to keep staffing high and expensive to ensure the mandatory dues are healthy so they can be turned into political donations.

A couple of years ago my trash local paper ran a few op-ed columns written by blacks about how everyone ought to look to them more for leadership, and apparently a condition of that was these pieces were run without any editing whatsoever. Each piece was chock full of misspellings, huge grammatical errors and naturally circular logic. I half wondered if some subversive editor had insisted on publishing them untouched as a backdoor way of highlighting what diversity gets us but haven’t seen anything since that leads me to believe that the people that run the paper are not all in on equity.

At any rate, Steve’s column is scary stuff. Somewhat on-topic I do know a black guy who is a safety auditor for an airline, and he grouses about the stuff he and his team turn up on a regular basis as well, although I have no idea what the demographics are of the people whose work he is double checking. My acquaintance wanted to be involved in aviation since he was a kid and deliberately pursued a degree that would allow him to do so, which seems to me to be the type of person you want involved in stuff like this. He is absolutely no-nonsense at extremely fastidious in attention to detail.

US spending on education is probably largely a worthless metric, as it doesn’t really translate to the quality of instructors or anything like that. A big chunk of it is just the cost of maintaining the school district’s facilities, and the rest is often just a measure of how much the teachers unions have managed to chisel out of the taxpayers elected representatives (who are on the same side as the teachers, not the taxpayers) in wages.

I have no idea how other countries spend on those items or if they tend to run leaner on the admin side (how could they not?), but as everyone here knows the demographic profile of a given district matters most. I would actually be interested to know what methods of instruction are typically followed in high performing Asian countries. At a guess a lot of it is likely rote work – particularly on math – but obviously our racial politics means there is an entire ecosystem of consultants and supposed reformers that are constantly trying to devise a silver bullet solution to tough to swallow results.

Thanks. I personally am totally bored by the Marvel and DC stuff – I enjoyed the first Ironman, liked the Guardians of the Galaxy movies (haven’t seen the 3rd) and was forced to watch another 3 or 4 because of my kids and just cannot get into it. I think these cinematic universes have probably punched themselves out to some degree and even fans have gotten tired of the deluge of offerings and are more likely to skip them in the theaters.

I do feel sorry for the director a bit – it’s not easy to make a good movie and being a superfan of the genre is not enough. Readers may recall that Ta-Nehisi Coates tried his hand at comic book writing and apparently did very poorly. Based on what you posted, DaCosta does have some pure love of the genre but I would guess the pressure to make it about grrrls is pretty intense and her angle to get the gig, whereas if she has just pitched a more conventional story she might not have gotten the movie made.

I also do feel for blerds in general – it’s a tough balance to strike socially and it would be easy to just collapse into race-based rage as a result. That’s basically what happened to TNC – his natural instinct was to be a big soft geek but his militant dad and surroundings demanded he be something else to be authentic and have their approval, plus the scum that runs The Atlantic basically needed a black beard to launder their own anti-white hatred. Faced with the possibility of selling out and making great money or trying to carve his own independent path, he chose the former and I really cannot entirely blame him for it.

Lest the public get the wrong – which is to say, the correct – impression about the nature of gun violence and possibly question leftist dogma on crime, punishment, and legislative initiatives around firearms, I guess a distinction must be made between shooters who take out multiple people with intentionality and those who are only after a single person but aren’t particularly fastidious in avoiding additional woundings or deaths.

Like all things related to black underperformance, we must constantly redefine and lower standards in order to avoid extremely uncomfortable and politically fraught discussions. In some ways it really is an existential issue for the left – the almost unshakeable loyalty blacks show at the polls essentially all comes down to the promise to shield blacks from the consequences of their actions, be it crime, familial dysfunction, lack economic independence, etc.

Due to the nature of the Democratic coalition, should a critical mass of non-black voters awaken to the cost of this indulgence and demand changes as the price of *their* loyalty, the party is going to have a big problem, so certain fictions must be maintained no matter how strained the explanations get. Fortunately for them, a lot of people that really ought to know better are not particularly interested in seeking out answers that might clash with their chosen political alignment.

The biggest thing as far as I can tell so far is the way kids who are out in the world and have to interact in person with adults and peers a lot and outside of school have better soft skills in human interaction and therefore navigate social situations with a lot more ease. Makes the teen years a bit easier, and in business (if that’s your path) that sort of thing matters a lot.

I definitely did a double take when I saw that bat price – hard to believe it’s that much better than a bat that is in the hundreds. I just bought my youngest a $350 bat, which is pretty insane but I rationalized that he’ll be able to use it a couple of years and between rec, travel and all-stars he’s going to play at least 40 games a year and who knows how many practices so it will get a lot of use.

Hard to say – I don’t know anyone with kids (including myself) that has one that is interested in magic. I do think it is sort of a nerd/non-athlete sort of thing, but whereas in the not too distant past these types of kids might get into magic or D&D to do some kind of activity, nowadays they can just jump online and play Fortnite or whatever.

This ability to just live online and what it portends for the more introverted or poorly adjusted kids has yet to really make its impact felt on society, and frankly I don’t know what it will be. Although my kids do like to play video games at times, it’s not the main focus of their attention fortunately – they play sports and like to get together with friends in person, so although it can be a lot to juggle shuttling them from this thing or that it’s way better than them sitting in their room talking to people they have never met on a headset.

A lot of obvious points to be made on this subject, but innumeracy – whether deliberate or not – is a fundamental element of modern mainstream journalism, often paired with a distinct lack of curiosity in phenomena beyond the talking points of favored advocacy groups.

Obviously our cultural guardians want to keep certain inconvenient facts away from the public, but from my own interaction with younger journalists, they simply are not that smart nor do they view it as their responsibility to try to determine if the ‘facts’ presented to them actually make sense. Possibly their editors know better, but obviously they don’t demand more from their staff.

During Floydmania, the WaPo diligently assembled a database of all fatal cop shootings and sorted them by race, and even at one point admitted in an article that in 80% of the killings of blacks who were classified as unarmed, the deceased had been actively assaulting or threatening either cops or other people at the scene. Despite having a lot of fairly accurate data at their fingertips, Post journalists and editors continued to pump out ‘news’ articles and op-eds painting America as having an epidemic of unjustified cop-on-black killings.

Essentially there are not enough black female nerds. I am a bit sympathetic in that it’s a very rare breed and many are probably under enormous social pressure in their middle school and high school years to conform to a more “authentic” black mode of social behavior. I had a couple of classmates like this in high school, and from my observations it was tough for these girls at times because they just didn’t fit neatly into any particular group – and the social pressure girls are under from their peers is totally different than what boys go through.

I would guess that some of the calculus – like with books written by politicians – is that some ideologically-friendly foundation or NFPs buy a load of them to hand out at events, colleges, etc.

It’s a nice little system – publishing house puts out ideological book, they get a few very large purchase orders that makes it worth their while, schools and NFPs place their preferred propaganda in the hands of tons of people, author gets exposure and money, repeat process. Look at the 1619 project – I am sure there are plenty of white cat ladies that bought it, but the real play was prepping the materials for schools and a lot of woke school systems are buying up that crap (like mine).

Obviously there is only so much of that to go around, so the market is saturated with these books because the extremely insular and highly conformist group of editors grossly overestimated demand because they only consort with the like-minded. It’s sort of like that famous Pauline Kael quote about being surprised Nixon was elected – “no one I know voted for him.”

Thanks. Truly depressing that such a dynamic and interesting figure was reduced to this. Unfortunately the “Wikipedia-deep” level of historical interest in major historical figures will probably continue to grow as the distance between the present and men of consequence grows. Our culture is still firmly in the grip of ideological cultists who absolutely loathe Western civilization and the people who made it possible.

Now that some British museum has deemed a little known Roman emperor transgender we will no doubt get some kind of biopic about that, or perhaps on Sporus, a kid Nero had castrated and dressed up like his dead wife.

Yes – theoretically “trust the science” means one should follow the evidence wherever it takes you, but generally it means “shut up and do what I want” these days. However, I do think in the wake of Covid that term has lost a lot of its potency for people.

Not sure I see the era of endorsing lies grinding to a halt – after all, the left needs these lies to justify their politics, so unless they abandon their politics there is still a strong incentive to latch onto even the most transparently false stories about bigotry and oppression.

Unfortunately, higher education has zero incentive for honesty in this regard – they need warm leveraged-up bodies to keep coming in the doors, so they are OK with this charade. Same for K-12 public education, need to keep teachers employed so they funnel their union dues to the Democratic Party.

The left loves to say “trust the science” but when they run up against a phenomena that resists all of their policy prescriptions, they never reconsider their underlying assumptions. Instead they insist they just need a new spin on an old policy, say not enough resources have been thrown at the problem, or just eliminate measuring the offending phenomena.

As you note, trillions – likely tens of trillions – have been transferred to black America since the civil rights era in an effort to alter performance and outcomes, and the results have ranged from no change to outright disaster. Although they wouldn’t admit it, the left is intellectually exhausted by black America, so everything they put forth now is essentially rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic in an effort to look like they are ‘doing something’ rather than admit that really the best they have at this point is perpetual and very expensive subsidy of blacks in the hope they won’t cause too much trouble.

Unfortunately some of this subsidy will come in the form of putting patently unqualified people in positions in which competence very much matters. The resulting failure will just result in the left saying we have to redouble our efforts on diversity because we didn’t try hard enough in the first place.

Correct – the reality is that a very large share of the black population does not believe that they have any obligation towards self-sufficiency and that the only real purpose of the government is to direct an ever-increasing stream of resources their way. Having tens of millions of people that have no intention of ever being a net add to larger society is a massive anchor on American potential and will be an even larger problem in the decades ahead without a significant change in our culture’s attitude towards people like this.

Indeed, grade inflation will be equitably applied. My city’s public school system adopted a new grading scale where the lowest score on an assignment is 50% – even if you didn’t do it at all, and had the balls to brag about how the HS graduation rate had gone up in the most recently-concluded academic year. Likewise, the local campus of the state university also announced that a 3.0 from the public school system is sufficient for automatic admission, so I am sure the average GPA in our public school system is about to take a huge jump.

Our overlords couldn’t lynch Chauvin outright – although obviously there were many actors that would have happily done so given the opportunity – so this is the next best thing. The underlying message is that the most useless black person on the planet is infinitely more valuable to our rulers than any white person.

However, the message has also been received by tens of millions of people who already understand what we are facing. If Chauvin dies or is killed next year, I would expect a lot of public commentators to repeatedly point out that a guy just going about his job was convicted of murder, over sentenced, and allowed to be killed by deliberate state negligence. Although a lot of GOP figures have shied away from pointing out the insane racial double standards in society, it has to be dawning on some that there is zero political downside at this point to stating the obvious.

High minded appeals to reason and openness amongst the intellectual class is all well and good, but what really needs to happen is proscriptions against certain topics need to be openly defied by people with large public/media followings to create space for politicians (who are generally spineless and follow the herd) to act. There are some green shoots, but not nearly enough – yet.

So the Weinberg Foundation just redirected its money from one lefty group undermining our immigration laws and national cohesiveness to another? Some people refuse to learn their lesson it seems.

I would like to know what Irish emigration looked like over the same period – I would assume that the most lusty younger Irish lads and lasses decamped for the US or parts of the British Empire to seek their fortunes, leaving behind a much older and/or vigorous population.

I sort of view that as part and parcel of the civil rights era since it was clearly intended to help blacks the most, but fair point. At any rate, the downstream consequences of the Johnson presidency have been enormous, and any semi-historically literate American should spit on his name.

Truly a tragedy – LBJ succeeding JFK was a disaster for our country whose effects are still strong today. Vietnam, Hart-Cellar, and the Civil Rights Acts – any one of these three items would have created significant long-term problems for the US, but all three? JFC.

It doesn’t seem to me that LBJ was some kind of crypto progressive, just a grasping (and effective, in the short term) politician. Still, it’s an example of how an organized political movement can use the fractures created by policy to their advantage if they have patience and think long term.

There is a lesson here for the right was well – we are in an era of fracture and turbulence and it will get worse in the years ahead. Be prepared to exploit it or reconcile yourself to permanent rump status. I don’t think ‘official’ organs like the GOP or the constellation of think tanks are remotely up to the task.

For me, the neighborhood made more sense at the time – we had rented on Capitol Hill and couldn’t afford to buy there, I didn’t have an office, and my wife’s job was just a mile and a half up Florida Ave so she could drive there easily. There were also a lot of older black couples who were at the end of their working careers or retired who had been there for a long time and they were generally very friendly and took care of their homes. To the extent I had some problem neighbors, often it was the children or relatives of people who had retired and left or died – I am guessing over the years more of that happened, which countered the arrival of more whites.

Still, the Trinidad neighborhood to the north sucked and anything past 15th/Benning Road was crap, and will probably always be so.

Ah, the old neighborhood. It wasn’t as hostile as places like Petworth or Columbia Heights in the mid-aughts, but I sure didn’t walk around after dark unless it was from the NYAve metro station. Last visited maybe 5 years ago and although H Street had a lot more development, the neighborhood was still not awesome.

The reality of DC is that although the demographics have changed somewhat, this neighborhood is bordered to the north and east by a lot of neighborhoods that are pretty resistant to gentrification, so this is a convenient place to victimize whites and get away easily. Add in a more laissez-faire attitude towards policing, and this neighborhood may have reached a generational tipping point for the worse.

Unfortunately for all of us, they birthed a wrathful and remorseless deity that has legions of useful idiots champing at the bit to administer divine justice.

That’s some vivid and memorable writing, Arclight. Thanks.

Also, I too am partial to a literate Frankenstein analogy.

I cannot remember which large X account posted this comment about the current very open anti-Semitism on the left, but is was essentially “Dr. Frankenstein finally gets to meet his monster.”

Leftist whites of whatever variety have always assumed that their allyship with the POCs they whipped into an anti-white frenzy would count for something, like blood on the door so God wouldn’t strike them down on the way to destroying the Egyptians. Unfortunately for all of us, they birthed a wrathful and remorseless deity that has legions of useful idiots champing at the bit to administer divine justice.