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Commentary from Reuters:
Courts are beginning to admit that some immigration laws are racist
By Hassan Kanu
Hassan Kanu writes about access to justice, race, and equality under law. Kanu, who was born in Sierra Leone and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, worked in public interest law after graduating from Duke University School of Law. After that, he spent five years reporting on mostly employment law. He lives in Washington, D.C. Reach Kanu at [email protected]
… Judge Miranda Du of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada dismissed on Aug. 18 a case against Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez, who was indicted for being in the U.S. after previously being deported. Du held that Carrillo-Lopez had shown that the reentry law was “enacted with a discriminatory purpose and that the law has a disparate impact on Latinx persons.” The government failed to show it “would have been enacted absent racial animus.”
The ruling is a momentous judicial acknowledgment of the plainly racist and nativist underpinnings of laws, like the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, that criminalize reentry. It marks a rare admission by the courts that foundational elements of the federal immigration machinery – enforcement processes we now take for granted – actually clash with constitutional equal protection guarantees,
After all, the 14th Amendment clearly states that “equal protection of the laws” means that all Mexican nationals have the right to immigrate to the United States and receive affirmative action privileges while white American citizens don’t have the right to pass laws against that.
and perpetuate a stigmatizing disparate impact on Latinos and Hispanic people.
It’s also a recognition that courts can and should strike down laws motivated by bias, especially given the prevalence of approaches to law enforcement that are inextricably linked to race and identity, like drug-crime sentencing.
And murder. And rape.
Moreover, Mr. Carillo-Lopez is (as far as the U.S. legal system officially knows) a nonviolent heroin and cocaine smuggler. Nonviolent.
Ahilan Arulanantham, professor and co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, told me the ruling is significant culturally because it airs out “incredible archival and legislative history of these laws, which is really very sordid and just racist.”
As Ahilan Arulanantham points out, how dare white American citizens racistly use the Democratic process to privilege themselves and their posterity when Ahilan Arulanantham has dozens of cousins who haven’t moved here yet.
… That history was laid out in Carrillo-Lopez’s case by UCLA historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez and Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien, a political scientist at San Diego State University.
… I asked Gonzalez O’Brien whether it’s fair to say that it’s generally accepted among historians and political scientists that U.S. immigration laws of today have racist underpinnings.
“Yeah, because if you look at that history in this country, it’s fundamentally impossible to separate race and racism from immigration policing,” Gonzalez O’Brien said. “The desire to shape the racial and cultural characteristics of this country is deeply intertwined with our immigration policy.”
And Lytle Hernandez would tell you the same thing.
In fact, Miranda Du, Hassan Kanu, Ahilan Arulanantham, Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien, and Kelly Lytle Hernandez would all point out that there is nothing worse than white American citizens using immigration policy to shape the racial and cultural characteristics of this country.
On the other hand, there is nothing better than Miranda Du, Hassan Kanu, Ahilan Arulanantham, Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien, and Kelly Lytle Hernandez using immigration policy to shape the racial and cultural characteristics of this country.
Look, it’s really simple: there is bad white racism and there is good anti-white racism. Is that so hard to understand?
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As luck would have it, I was just reading this comment by the estimable Altai, in another thread:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/processing/#comment-4863049
Pretty much explains it.. immigration policy in America is far too important to be left up to Americans.
No, not hard to understand.
Frankly, it almost looks as if it might be hard to admit (if people still understand what that dirty little word once meant).
Nothing simpler!
I mean that IS why they coined the term, right?
Sounds just like Aziz Ansari. Do they all sound like this?
The email attached to this activist bio brought me up with a jolt: a reporter in Reuters?
Hassan Kanu writes about access to justice, race, and equality under law. Kanu, who was born in Sierra Leone and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, worked in public interest law after graduating from Duke University School of Law. After that, he spent five years reporting on mostly employment law. He lives in Washington, D.C. Reach Kanu at [email protected]
And then one day, for no reason at all, the lights went out, the water stopped running, and the toilets didn’t work.
And it was the fault of Whites.
We and the other First World countries have to change — a lot. The countries where these people or their families came from get to stay the same.
How do they explain that?
Hassan Kanu writes about access to justice, race, and equality under law. Kanu, who was born in Sierra Leone and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, worked in public interest law after graduating from Duke University School of Law. After that, he spent five years reporting on mostly employment law. He lives in Washington, D.C. Reach Kanu at [email protected]Replies: @Steve Sailer
Is he an employed reporter or an outside op-ed contributor?
Three decades ago I had op-eds published in the Christian Science Monitor, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Sacramento Bee, and the like, but I didn’t work for them.
Surely an outside contributor would not be given a Reuters email.
Whites name of Smith and Jones are out? Can a White guy named Christian join the discussion?
And it was the fault of Whites.Replies: @Hangnail Hans, @SFG, @Prester John
If only it happened suddenly, some (figurative) lights might switch on in peoples’ minds. But the road to Kinshasa-land is long and the slope is relatively gradual.
It’s gradual at first anyway. But the real trouble with this road is that the only available off-ramps occur in the first several miles.
That judge should be removed from office.
Lets remember the greatness of Cesar Chavez
Who literally fought to protect our border
Ronald Reagan awol.
It’s recursive, self-amplifying, mutually assured destruction.
More third-world replacement of the first world. Which leads to …
More remittances from the first-world to the third-world. Which lead to …
More ammo, ordinance, recruitment, Toyota pickups for operations, etc. for third-world feuds and fanaticism; and more start-up capital for third-world businesses, the most profitable of which are criminal in nature. Which lead to …
More third-world replacement of the first world. Which leads to … (ad infinitum)
How do they explain that?Replies: @AndrewR, @Escher
“Get to stay the same”
You think everyone in Sierra Leone, India, Latin America, etc, would just hate for their country to change? These aren’t utopias.
Anyway… It shows how in-your-face our fellow white elites are that they chose all these people to lecture us. There is no shortage of WASP academics who think it’s their moral duty to bring the entire world to the US, so I’m not sure why they needed “ethnics” to lecture us.
Also let me again point out that open borders policies hurt American Indians more than they hurt whites. Sailer and many other boomers here think screaming “BUT WHAT ABOUT WHAT WHITE PEOPLE WANT?” is going to make a difference. Brimelow has dedicated half of his very long life to doing this, and what has he accomplished?
Most leftists and neocons (but I repeat myself) openly brag about their hatred of white Anglos, specifically Protestants, so I’m not sure why you people keep using the same rhetoric you did when Reagan was in office. Actually I do have some ideas but I’m too polite to mention them.
Whereas the American Indian is, as bizarre as it may seem, used as an excuse for why whites shouldn’t be allowed to rule the United States. “You whites / we whites / my fellow whites and I [pick one] stole this land from the natives, so who are whites to say who can come here?”
Leaving aside the obvious fact that the American Indians would have benefitted from being able to more strictly enforce their territorial boundaries, in 2021, every immigrant that comes here from India or China or Africa or wherever makes it that much more unlikely that the Cherokee, Lakota, etc will ever regain their former lands and cultures.
So point this out to the open borders freaks, all of whom pretend to care about the red man. I literally made my shitlib, anti-white sister speechless with this. She admitted she had no rebuttal. Stop using the same tired pro-white propaganda you used back when you had hair and you didn’t need Viagra.
You are onto something regarding the Indians, but not what you think. The Indians are still living in technically separate nations from American citizens. I have written a number of times that an alliance with them would be a good idea. I don't mean just to have another million, many half-drunk, former warriors on our side. The deal would be that we help them in all sort of ways, but they let the palefaces become tribal members in large numbers to get out of Feral law. It's a foot in the door that leads out of governance under this evil Feral Gov't.
I have often pointed out here that our immigration policies hurt American blacks the most because I think of them as our largest historic minority with the others being so much smaller, but you are of course right about American Indians. Immigration and the money we spend on newcomers is also money we could have spent on American Indians, many of whom live without many things we take for granted.
I hope our Indians are not still hoping they will get their lands back. That simply will not happen. Their culture is not coming back either, not as a way of life today. They have enough to do to preserve the memory of it, as use of Indian languages is almost gone and intermarriage with other groups continues.
A black guy with a law degree from Duke who uses that law degree to…work as a reporter.
Either he’s a trust fund baby, or he sucked as a lawyer. Note that it doesn’t mention how long he spent working in “public interest law.” His LinkedIn page does, though. He graduated from Duke in 2012 then switched to journalism less than a year later.
So he graduated from one of the most prestigious (and expensive) law schools in the country, then couldn’t even manage to pass the bar.
Its worstest form is Education law.
And it was the fault of Whites.Replies: @Hangnail Hans, @SFG, @Prester John
There’s a sci-fi story with just this angle by Paolo Bacigalupi, Pump Six, I think, though he omits the racial angle and his writing the story of the West’s future decline due to dysgenics (in the story pollution is to blame) is almost certainly unintentional.
Interestingly, in the story the guy trying to figure out how the pumps work is a totally average Hispanic guy, which I find kind of credible.
http://www.jasonsanford.com/jason/2008/02/27/story-of-the-3
The book review link there is broken, so here is an archive version.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080821104517/http://books.monstersandcritics.com/features/printer_1392821.phpReplies: @SFG
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hassankanu/
During and after college he does a total of two years of half a dozen internships or research assistant type jobs for social justice/environment outfits then BOOM he becomes the legal editor for Bloomberg breaking news for six years before joining Reuters as a legal columnist.
I know that much MSM journalism is not very demanding of experience or cognitive ability but that seems a quick ascent.
From Altai’s comment:
This has long been my response to clowns like George Will who love to write that we live in a “proposition nation” rather than an ethnostate. What is that proposition? How do we test whether immigrants actually believe in it, and how many are refused or deported for not believing in it? Can we deport native-born citizens who don’t believe in it? Why or why not?
The reality is that our immigration policy is already controlled more by immigrants than by native-born citizens. Marriage reunification favors people from cultures – usually recent immigrants – who practice arranged marriage.
Ditto for things like family reunification policy. Your average native-born citizen doesn’t have any family members overseas he can sponsor for an immigrant visa – especially if most or all of your ancestors came here before the Revolution.
One could just as easily make an argument that, for that reason, our immigration policy discriminates against native-born Americans, not immigrants. Why can’t I go to, say, Scotland or Poland, and just pick out some random person I’d like to have move here, just because he or she looks like me?
The aboriginal Indians should have a say in immigration policy.
As reparations for colonization, give every Indian a vote on how many immigrants should be let in each year. The vast majority would feel empowered to request negative numbers.
OMG Steve!
I’m getting reports of an influx of white people at the southern border!
Caravans and caravans of New Zealanders (and not one a PoC Maori!)!
But fear not Steve! Rest assured I will not let these aliens invade and transform this country unrecognisably!
I don’t want your kids growing up speaking English with a funny accent and playing cricket!
(No, I want your kids growing up hablando el castellano y jugando el futbol.)
Therefore, I, in my court, have ruled as constitutional…
1. Construction of massive concrete border wall (a la Israel)
2. Shoot-to-kill policy for our border troops (a la India)
3. Expel any survivors of 2) across the border and into the desert to die of thirst (a la Algeria)
Steve, as I say in my court: If the illegal alien ain’t Mexic-can, then it’s ‘no passaran’!
Yours,
Miranda Du-Process (judge)
Las Vegas
Nevada
Greater Mexico
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180627-algeria-abandons-13000-migrants-in-sahara-desert/
And it was the fault of Whites.Replies: @Hangnail Hans, @SFG, @Prester John
By the by, that’s a metaphor for what’s going to happen when all of what was once called Western Civilization collapses.
Graduation from law school-whether it’s Duke or the U. of Mississippi–doesn’t prepare one to take the bar exam. The latter requires taking a special course. The Clinton woman, who graduated from Yale LS, flunked the DC bar exam.
Stopping? They’ve sacralized it. Immigration skeptics of whatever stripe need to come to terms with the revealed preference of GOP office-holders and the staff which malinform them. They’re on the other side. Enthusiastically.
The Congress is full of them.
The reality is that our immigration policy is already controlled more by immigrants than by native-born citizens. Marriage reunification favors people from cultures - usually recent immigrants - who practice arranged marriage.
Ditto for things like family reunification policy. Your average native-born citizen doesn't have any family members overseas he can sponsor for an immigrant visa - especially if most or all of your ancestors came here before the Revolution.
One could just as easily make an argument that, for that reason, our immigration policy discriminates against native-born Americans, not immigrants. Why can't I go to, say, Scotland or Poland, and just pick out some random person I'd like to have move here, just because he or she looks like me?Replies: @Jonathan Mason
You can, as long as you marry them or adopt them. It is just a question of meeting the paperwork requirements.
With 60 million Hispanics in U.S., if one million Hispanics decide to go out and marry a Hispanic spouse or adopt a Hispanic child from abroad, they can fill all the quota. With most of them being in California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Florida etc., this is much easier than someone going out and marrying or adopting someone from Scotland or Poland.
Miranda (Du) Don’t
You drink Mekong moonshine, yes it’s true
That’s why they call you “Mountain” Du
What you did to the law–is it flout or flaunt?–
Whatever it’s called, please, Miranda don’t
Say you will when you won’t
Uh-uh, Miranda don’t
Lowering the bar for federal judges appears to be working well.
Does he career indicate that he passed the bar? Even if he did he probably wasn’t any good at it. Many minorities have this glamorous view of being a lawyer. When the reality is it’s just a lot of dry reading.
The good news is, the “conservative” Supreme Court today finally lives up to its billing and reinstated Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy that was challenged by Biden’s DOJ. Naturally, the two Jews and the Latina dissented. Thankfully it is now 6 to 3. Now let’s hope Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, ages 71 and 73, stick around for at least another decade, or at least until the next conservative president is elected to nominate their replacements.
America doesn’t need to import people who’ll sell out their country for a couple of bucks.
The Congress is full of them.
Meanwhile, there’s this article in The American Conservative today about a small town 400 miles SE of Moscow that still has a Main Street that supports small businesses:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/saving-the-russian-main-street/
This country is ruined by Big Business and their ultimate controllers, (((Wall Street))). In their addiction to eternal growth, Big Tech, Big Agriculture, Big Hospitality, Big Retail etc. all want not just cheaper workers but more customers. Our universities are also addicted to tuition dollar from foreign students. More, more, more. The mantra is, if you don’t grow, you die. Where does it end? Until America becomes as big, corrupt, disfunctional and poor as India?
Many immigrants who came here to escape where they came from are working hard to ensure we increasingly resemble where they came from, by attempting to kick the door wide open for their countrymen to flood in. Ultimately a country of immigrants will fail because most immigrants are soulless selfish greedy people and a country full of such people will eventually fall apart.
Nah, this idiot is representative of everything wrong with journalism in the 21st Century. The people in the business now are not reporters and didn’t train to be reporters. They are activists who failed out of or couldn’t make any money out of their chosen fields, like Mr. Mismatch here.
A decent Washington Times piece about Republicans
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/23/republicans-politicians-still-bitter-at-trump-over/
I’m sure all of these people want Duke law school to “look more like America” (currently 60% white non-Hispanic, 18% Hispanic, 13% black), and for the federal bench to “look more like America”, and for any source of money and power in the country to “look more like America”.
Really the only thing they don’t want to look like America, is America.
On LinkedIn it says he graduated from Duke Law in 2012. Post-graduation he spent a total of nine months working in law related jobs, including six months for the organization alluded to in his Reuters bio. Then there’s a 14-15 month gap where no work is listed until 2014, when he switched to journalism.
That strongly suggests that he couldn’t pass the bar. What does it say about a law school that is supposedly one of the top 14 law schools in the nation that it is graduating students who are unable to pass the bar exam? What percentage of Duke’s white and Asian graduates are unable to pass the bar? What percentage of its black graduates can’t?
The Spanish surname equivalents of Smith and Jones are Herrera and Juan, (or Yanez). So get used to it.
In the past immigrants from Europe often changed their names, or had them changed for them, to make them more pronounceable in English, or to hide Jewish names.
This could be done either by changing the name to something that sounded similar, or by translating the meaning of the name to English.
Like Gaetz could be changed to Gates, or Zuckerberg to Sugarhill or Neumann to Newman or Krzyzewski to Christopher.
In the future, people with English surnames will be expected to change them to make them more pronounceable in Spanish. So…
Wolf to Lopez
Towers to Torres
Brown to Moreno
Hill to Serrano
Whitehead to Rubio
Miller to Molina
King to Reyes
Green to Verde
Crowe to Vasco
Smith to Herrerx.
The Spanish word for Mason is masón, so I am ready.
Masón is a member of the Freemason fraternal organization, which has a less than savory reputation in parts of Latin America.
Also, many famous Latin Americans have non-Spanish surnames: Vincente Fox, Salma Hayek, Eugenio Derbez, Frida Kahlo, Bernardo O'Higgins, Jorge Bergoglio.
The most common lie in genealogy. You can't change someone else's name.
https://twitter.com/amalieskram/status/1430431699566047234?s=20
It says that many law schools are a racket designed to extort money from students who are manifestly not suited to the profession.
Didn’t Hillary Clinton fail the state bar exam after graduating from one of the most prestigious law schools in the world? And Kamala Harris, and Michelle Obama, and, and, and a whole lot of politicians.
How many medical school graduates fail to get state licenses to practice? I imagine that they mostly get weeded out long before graduation.
Nevertheless, it is odd that Kanu doesn't seem to have at least a summer with a white shoe firm on his Linkedin work history. Black guys from top law schools are sought after by BigLaw.Hillary failed the DC bar exam after graduating from Yale Law, and Harris and Obama failed the California and Illinois bar examinations respectively. My understanding is that only the DC bar examination is considered particularly challenging. It does say something however that these are the horrible women that the PTB keep putting in front of us and demanding that we like.
Keep in mind as well that the bar examination is a "test of minimal competence to practice law," and typically tests knowledge of elementary legal concepts. So, to have failed the bar examination is to have failed to learn an elementary baseline of what you were taught for three years.This is a good question but the Doctors have a good racket going in that they restrict the supply of freshly minted doctors via the residency process. It's conventional wisdom that health care costs are high and increase well above inflationary indices because we have too few doctors to serve our population. With regard to U.S. based medical schools, I would imagine that there are few who fail to acquire licensure, however as to foreign medical schools where lots of aspiring doctors who can't get admitted to U.S. medical schools wind up I imagine that the number of failures is significant. We probably just don't hear about those failures because the failures have the good sense not to seek out public life unlike Hillary, Harris and Obama.Replies: @Grahamsno(G64)
In a sense, Du-Kanu and the rest are doing proper politics – they’re using the political process to increase the power and material well-being of their peoples. It just happens that their peoples are not the people of the United States of America, but rather the peoples of their nations of origin.
The rest of us are just hobbled by gauzy ideological nonsense that makes it forbidden to see and say this plainly, to understand that they’re paper Americans only, and to use the same political process to limit their power and accumulation of resources for their foreign peoples.
How does Steve square white nationalist rhetoric like this with civic nationalism?
I can sort of empathize with not changing one’s name, because after all, the name has family roots. But I don’t understand why so many unintelligible people here in Southern California do not take an accent-reduction course for a couple of hours. I think it’s not that hard to do. An Asian American guy I knew who was not born in the US took a brief course in this, worked with some word lists and a teacher, and it made a big difference.
This is true but if any law schools should be above the racket it would be a school like Duke Law. So this guy is likely just a regular Affirmative Action mismatch – a different environment would have yielded a better legal education for him, and may have made him competent to practice law, but Duke Law’s self-conception means that it needs a student body with a sufficient number of blacks.
Nevertheless, it is odd that Kanu doesn’t seem to have at least a summer with a white shoe firm on his Linkedin work history. Black guys from top law schools are sought after by BigLaw.
Hillary failed the DC bar exam after graduating from Yale Law, and Harris and Obama failed the California and Illinois bar examinations respectively. My understanding is that only the DC bar examination is considered particularly challenging. It does say something however that these are the horrible women that the PTB keep putting in front of us and demanding that we like.
Keep in mind as well that the bar examination is a “test of minimal competence to practice law,” and typically tests knowledge of elementary legal concepts. So, to have failed the bar examination is to have failed to learn an elementary baseline of what you were taught for three years.
This is a good question but the Doctors have a good racket going in that they restrict the supply of freshly minted doctors via the residency process. It’s conventional wisdom that health care costs are high and increase well above inflationary indices because we have too few doctors to serve our population. With regard to U.S. based medical schools, I would imagine that there are few who fail to acquire licensure, however as to foreign medical schools where lots of aspiring doctors who can’t get admitted to U.S. medical schools wind up I imagine that the number of failures is significant. We probably just don’t hear about those failures because the failures have the good sense not to seek out public life unlike Hillary, Harris and Obama.
https://www.lawyeredu.org/10-year-summary-pass-rates.htmlReplies: @Steve Sailer
This article (and the ruling) is incredibly weak in not recognizing that although past laws may be racist, the 1965 laws are very fair. In fact, U.S. is unique in inviting so many immigrants just based on Family unification without consideration for the quality of immigrant. Canada, Australia and most other countries ask what can you bring to the country in terms of skills, employability, earning ability etc., U.S. on the other hand prefers uneducated Central Americans over educated Asians and Europeans.
With 60 million Hispanics in U.S., if one million Hispanics decide to go out and marry a Hispanic spouse or adopt a Hispanic child from abroad, they can fill all the quota. With most of them being in California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Florida etc., this is much easier than someone going out and marrying or adopting someone from Scotland or Poland.
Public interest law is just another left-wing, Naderite, artificial legal “speciality” with a mission to generate big fees for its practitioners by screwing the public with bigger government (higher taxes).
Its worstest form is Education law.
There are no reporters and there is no reporting — you just sit around rummaging through twitter feeds
I read a book last year, “Unlikely Union (IIRC)” about the Irish immigrants and Italian immigrants in NYC finally accepting each other based for the most part on a shared religion,ie, Roman Catholics. Judge Du should read some history. Italian immigrants had to pass literacy tests and crime backgroung checks. Irish came off the boat and were pressed in to the Civil War. Maybe she needs a geography lesson also. We share a porous border with Mexico and Mexico is a funnel for migrants fron Central and South America, so most illegals at our southern border would be, wait for it. Latinx. Her name sould be Miranda Duh.
She doesn't have to. She's a judge-for-life. More to the point, she would learn nothing. Because he's not ignorant, she's filled with hate.
Don't assume good intentions where it is obvious that none exist.
https://rlv.zcache.com/irish_temper_italian_attitude_t_shirt-rd19ffce3a77448a4aed66d2a05a98d36_k2gml_700.jpgPlenty more where that came from-- the "O'talians".
Towers to Torres
Brown to Moreno
Hill to Serrano
Whitehead to Rubio
Miller to Molina
King to Reyes
Green to Verde
Crowe to Vasco
Smith to Herrerx.The Spanish word for Mason is masón, so I am ready.Replies: @Matttt, @Reg Cæsar
“Mason”, as in the person who makes a wall, is albañil or cantero. Albañil also refers to construction workers generally and cantero refers to stonecutters. Both are Spanish surnames.
Masón is a member of the Freemason fraternal organization, which has a less than savory reputation in parts of Latin America.
Also, many famous Latin Americans have non-Spanish surnames: Vincente Fox, Salma Hayek, Eugenio Derbez, Frida Kahlo, Bernardo O’Higgins, Jorge Bergoglio.
OK, so you’re just going to ignore people like this guy’s attorney, that is, people with names like “Lauren Gorman”.
And you’re going to completely ignore people with names like “Michael H. Simon”:
Again, OK, whatever floats your boat, but don’t be too surprised if it capsizes.
I do miss the days when newspapers dependably had bylines like Chuck Biffley or Lou Klopp, rather than Bagavahni Gutierrez-Chin
>judges are beginning to legislate
When the lyingpress doesn’t outright lie, it delays.
Fauci never did an internship, he went from school to the federal bureaucracy.
Their culture is obnoxiousness. Whereas Europeans learned to either cooperate or yield space, South Asians learned constant haggling and needling and berating.
How do they explain that?Replies: @AndrewR, @Escher
It’s because their home countries stay the same that they move to the first world.
Thanks for the recommendation. Here is a review of the story.
http://www.jasonsanford.com/jason/2008/02/27/story-of-the-3
The book review link there is broken, so here is an archive version.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080821104517/http://books.monstersandcritics.com/features/printer_1392821.php
Any idea how this became the standard of proof? Should it not be the opposite?
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?979411
It’s kinda shocking when your remember the “best of” anthologies you used to read and you realize they all contained stories from the 80s and earlier and you don’t know really what animates current short story writers. Maybe gay unicorns?
OTOH I read Paolo’s “The People of Sand and Slag”. Military bodily enhanced personnel find the last dog on a beah – a pitiable creature no longer fit for survival in the new age of modified bodyplans. In the end, they grill it because keeping it alive is just too much trouble.
I had the same curiosity, so I went through the Hugos--in the past few years they had a space opera where everyone has no gender and the default pronoun is female (Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice), Cixin Liu's Three-Body Problem, a whole African-themed trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, a story by Arkady Martine about someone from a space station meeting an expansionistic empire, and a book by Mary Robinette Kowal, the Calculating Stars, about female astronauts saving the world from climate change. Last white guy to win was famous wokie John Scalzi, in 2013, for Redshirts, which I bought used to avoid giving him any money. It was actually a pretty funny story about the Star Trek guys trying to figure out why they keep getting killed on missions.
For the Nebula, the last white guy is Jeff VanDermeer in 2015 for Annihilation. After that it's Naomi Novik's Uprooted (which was actually a pretty fun Polish fairytale but definitely fantasy), Charlie Jane Anders' (used to be a white guy) All The Birds in the Sky (a romance between a witch and a techno-geek), N.K. Jemisin's book, Mary Robinette Kowal's female astronaut book, Sarah Pinsker's A Song for a New Day, about a musician in a future where concerts are illegal (yes, I know, Styx did it first with Mr. Roboto), and one of Sarah Wells' Murderbot books about a security robot that rebels, gets humanized, and spends its time watching soap operas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_Award_for_Best_Novel
Up to you. If you have to I'd go with Cixin Liu--like it or not China is the country of tomorrow, and Steve seems to think it's interesting.Replies: @anon
Judge Du should read some history.
She doesn’t have to. She’s a judge-for-life. More to the point, she would learn nothing. Because he’s not ignorant, she’s filled with hate.
Don’t assume good intentions where it is obvious that none exist.
These are new times. Oldthinkers can’t bellyfeel.
Mixed marriages. Does the second go by “BGOB”? The first by “KllL Her”?
It has previously been reported and much-discussed that one or more refugees from the Middle East have claimed, as an explanation for committing a sex crime, to have been suffering from a personal “sexual emergency”. Obviously disturbing. But might there be an encouraging angle here as well? Can we not, perhaps, take heart that at least such migrants may have been reading Carl Schmitt?
Towers to Torres
Brown to Moreno
Hill to Serrano
Whitehead to Rubio
Miller to Molina
King to Reyes
Green to Verde
Crowe to Vasco
Smith to Herrerx.The Spanish word for Mason is masón, so I am ready.Replies: @Matttt, @Reg Cæsar
In the past immigrants from Europe often changed their names, or had them changed for them…
The most common lie in genealogy. You can’t change someone else’s name.
Plenty more where that came from— the “O’talians”.
You drink Mekong moonshine, yes it’s true
That’s why they call you “Mountain” Du
What you did to the law--is it flout or flaunt?--
Whatever it’s called, please, Miranda don’t
Say you will when you won’t
Uh-uh, Miranda don’t
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZF6Qqc7Z9UReplies: @the one they call Desanex
Judge Miranda M. Du = Man, am I a dud judger!
Why are we just sitting back and letting foreigners tell us what to do? Is there any way that America’s white majority people can get their “mojo” back? Or maybe “assabiya”?
And his low income compared with his fellow law school grads is used as more “proof” of systemic racism.
Hear him, hear him!
The average open borders shitlib would just say that the American Indians are screwed no matter what, so at least they get after death revenge on Whitey via Hindus and Dindus.
A lot of the people coming across the southern border are American Indians.
Or as Mark Stein puts it, no reporting, just stenography.
Wow, you shut up your shitlib anti-white sister, Andrew? What an accomplishment! Is she still your shitlib anti-white sister? I would bet she is. You go around berating people for supporting a White guy who tried to defend himself and his family from an intruding violent black guy – just “stupid” or something, huh? Well, Andrew, that guy actually DID something, didn’t he? If there were more like him, his neighborhood would be better and that low-life would have been in jail or an institution earlier.
You are onto something regarding the Indians, but not what you think. The Indians are still living in technically separate nations from American citizens. I have written a number of times that an alliance with them would be a good idea. I don’t mean just to have another million, many half-drunk, former warriors on our side. The deal would be that we help them in all sort of ways, but they let the palefaces become tribal members in large numbers to get out of Feral law. It’s a foot in the door that leads out of governance under this evil Feral Gov’t.
Clarence Thomas has been the best judge on that bench for quite a while. I never would have bet on that during his confirmation hearings. Watch your 6, Clarence.
You are talking about different things. These places may want change but I do not know that they want demographic change. I never have heard anybody specifically ask for that except recently in First World countries where various groups have asked for more “diversity.”
I have often pointed out here that our immigration policies hurt American blacks the most because I think of them as our largest historic minority with the others being so much smaller, but you are of course right about American Indians. Immigration and the money we spend on newcomers is also money we could have spent on American Indians, many of whom live without many things we take for granted.
I hope our Indians are not still hoping they will get their lands back. That simply will not happen. Their culture is not coming back either, not as a way of life today. They have enough to do to preserve the memory of it, as use of Indian languages is almost gone and intermarriage with other groups continues.
http://www.jasonsanford.com/jason/2008/02/27/story-of-the-3
The book review link there is broken, so here is an archive version.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080821104517/http://books.monstersandcritics.com/features/printer_1392821.phpReplies: @SFG
Sure, no problem, hope you like it. Thing is, I could totally see that–some future protagonist with some unknown mix of ancestries retaining just enough responsibility to realize something’s wrong but lacking the ability to rebuild what can no longer be created.
Yeah, I remember that one.
I had the same curiosity, so I went through the Hugos–in the past few years they had a space opera where everyone has no gender and the default pronoun is female (Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice), Cixin Liu’s Three-Body Problem, a whole African-themed trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, a story by Arkady Martine about someone from a space station meeting an expansionistic empire, and a book by Mary Robinette Kowal, the Calculating Stars, about female astronauts saving the world from climate change. Last white guy to win was famous wokie John Scalzi, in 2013, for Redshirts, which I bought used to avoid giving him any money. It was actually a pretty funny story about the Star Trek guys trying to figure out why they keep getting killed on missions.
For the Nebula, the last white guy is Jeff VanDermeer in 2015 for Annihilation. After that it’s Naomi Novik’s Uprooted (which was actually a pretty fun Polish fairytale but definitely fantasy), Charlie Jane Anders’ (used to be a white guy) All The Birds in the Sky (a romance between a witch and a techno-geek), N.K. Jemisin’s book, Mary Robinette Kowal’s female astronaut book, Sarah Pinsker’s A Song for a New Day, about a musician in a future where concerts are illegal (yes, I know, Styx did it first with Mr. Roboto), and one of Sarah Wells’ Murderbot books about a security robot that rebels, gets humanized, and spends its time watching soap operas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_Award_for_Best_Novel
Up to you. If you have to I’d go with Cixin Liu–like it or not China is the country of tomorrow, and Steve seems to think it’s interesting.
I had the same curiosity, so I went through the Hugos--in the past few years they had a space opera where everyone has no gender and the default pronoun is female (Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice), Cixin Liu's Three-Body Problem, a whole African-themed trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, a story by Arkady Martine about someone from a space station meeting an expansionistic empire, and a book by Mary Robinette Kowal, the Calculating Stars, about female astronauts saving the world from climate change. Last white guy to win was famous wokie John Scalzi, in 2013, for Redshirts, which I bought used to avoid giving him any money. It was actually a pretty funny story about the Star Trek guys trying to figure out why they keep getting killed on missions.
For the Nebula, the last white guy is Jeff VanDermeer in 2015 for Annihilation. After that it's Naomi Novik's Uprooted (which was actually a pretty fun Polish fairytale but definitely fantasy), Charlie Jane Anders' (used to be a white guy) All The Birds in the Sky (a romance between a witch and a techno-geek), N.K. Jemisin's book, Mary Robinette Kowal's female astronaut book, Sarah Pinsker's A Song for a New Day, about a musician in a future where concerts are illegal (yes, I know, Styx did it first with Mr. Roboto), and one of Sarah Wells' Murderbot books about a security robot that rebels, gets humanized, and spends its time watching soap operas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_Award_for_Best_Novel
Up to you. If you have to I'd go with Cixin Liu--like it or not China is the country of tomorrow, and Steve seems to think it's interesting.Replies: @anon
Dude, the Rabid Puppies were totally right. Even most of the Sad Puppies have admitted it. Pink SF rules at certain publishing houses. But not all publishing houses…
Cixin Liu and his translator are very good. Ball Lightning is sort of a prequel to Three Body Problem but it’s no worry to read 3-Body as a start. Liu’ explanation of the Fermi Paradox in The Dark Forest is extremely dark. I have not yet read Death’s End.
I also very much liked Nick Cole’s CTRL-ALT Revolt! but it’s not for everyone. Really it’s only for gamers. Superior world building…
Mesoamerican Indians. Not the same thing.
Stenographers work for dictators.
Nevertheless, it is odd that Kanu doesn't seem to have at least a summer with a white shoe firm on his Linkedin work history. Black guys from top law schools are sought after by BigLaw.Hillary failed the DC bar exam after graduating from Yale Law, and Harris and Obama failed the California and Illinois bar examinations respectively. My understanding is that only the DC bar examination is considered particularly challenging. It does say something however that these are the horrible women that the PTB keep putting in front of us and demanding that we like.
Keep in mind as well that the bar examination is a "test of minimal competence to practice law," and typically tests knowledge of elementary legal concepts. So, to have failed the bar examination is to have failed to learn an elementary baseline of what you were taught for three years.This is a good question but the Doctors have a good racket going in that they restrict the supply of freshly minted doctors via the residency process. It's conventional wisdom that health care costs are high and increase well above inflationary indices because we have too few doctors to serve our population. With regard to U.S. based medical schools, I would imagine that there are few who fail to acquire licensure, however as to foreign medical schools where lots of aspiring doctors who can't get admitted to U.S. medical schools wind up I imagine that the number of failures is significant. We probably just don't hear about those failures because the failures have the good sense not to seek out public life unlike Hillary, Harris and Obama.Replies: @Grahamsno(G64)
Just how difficult are the bar exams the 10 Year Summary of Bar Exam Pass Rates Between 2002 and 2011 don’t reveal any great terrors, I understand that significant ‘grade inflation’ is taking place and the exam must have been a different beast during Hilary Clinton’s era, though both she and Kamala did pass during the second try. Surely people like this who want the highest offices in the land ought to be in the 90th percentile no? They aren’t that bright are they.
https://www.lawyeredu.org/10-year-summary-pass-rates.html
https://www.lawyeredu.org/10-year-summary-pass-rates.htmlReplies: @Steve Sailer
The California bar exam isn’t easy, although they made a little easier recently.
Biden passed the Delaware bar exam on his first try, which is another tough one.
Barack Obama passed the not tough Illinois bar exam on his first try, Michelle O on her second.
Bob Dole passed the Kansas bar exam on his first try, with his first wife doing the handwriting for the crippled war hero while he whispered his answers to her.
Oh, they totally were. Vox Day kind of lost me with the whole pedophile thing (they’re bad, but I don’t they’re running the world) but he was right about Pink SF. My big nitpick with his thesis is that SF was never pro-Christian–I read quite a bit made in the 50s through 90s, and it was much more atheist, scientific-rationalist, Gray Tribe to use Scott Alexander’s nomenclature. It was the whole INTJ/INTP/nerd/geek/engineer/scientist complex. Those dudes didn’t like Christianity much, they didn’t believe in religion at all. (Read Asimov or Heinlein.) The only reason Sam Harris is on the same side as Jordan Peterson in the culture war is the left won.
I kind of feel like the media those people consume is much more anime and video games rather than written SF now. I spoke to one person in a comic book shop in a medium-size city in a purple state who said she was watching anime because she was sick of all the politics in the American stuff now.
And thanks for the recommendation. 🙂
Stenographers work for dictators who died before the 1990s. Nobody knows what a “steno pool” is anymore, at least not from real life. Maybe Che Guevara is dictating his latest tirade to a steno pool in the pits of Hell.
And all of the German soldiers coming across the Polish and French borders in 1939/1940 were European.
For a rebuttal nothing beats, “Death to anti-Whites” as this includes white quislings.
How do you keep your word count average almost exactly at 100? I rarely snoop at commenters’ stats, but I’m hoping you can pass my total pretty soon. Corvinus and Syonredux are over two million already.
I’m giving iDeplorable a fighting chance.