My Review of Ezra Klein's "Why We're Polarized"
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From my new book review in Taki’s Magazine:
The energetic media tycoon Ezra Klein has a book out titled Why We’re Polarized. Spoiler alert: One reason is because too many people watch Fox News instead of reading Klein’s properties like Vox. Another cause is because somebody imprudently spilled the beans to “white Christians” that they are being demographically doomed to defeat while they still have a chance to do something about it.
Read the whole thing there.
This will forever cure me of ever confusing Ezra Levant with namesake Ezra Klein!
Interesting and even entertaining with its light tone – thanks.
Do I worry at all about something in this interesting review? Yup – about the supposedly funny twist at the end, when the review goes a little into the Tarrantino/ de Sade direction. But except for that – everything’s fine, thanks again!
Don’t ask why, but (((who))).
I wonder if ol’ Ezra has ever thought about why his Dad left glorious multicultural Brazil?
Nah.
If you are say, a math professor at the University of Sao Paulo, you don't have a bad life. In general, you'll notice that while there are some here, there are not millions and millions of Brazilians trying to sneak into the US the way there are Mexicans or Central Americans. Being a white professional in Brazil is similar to living in NYC in the late 70s - as long as you observe certain precautions and are willing to put up with being mugged now and then, you'll probably be OK and most of the time you'll be largely insulated from what is going on in the ghetto.
That’s the theory, here’s how it works in practice:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/10/ny-times-tidal-wave-mass-immigration-hands-virginia-democrats/
Right now, the Democrat-controlled legislature is working hard to disarm and disenfranchise the white population of the state. In my own county, the Democrats on the county board of supervisors want to replace the sheriff’s department with a police force. The local sheriff is an elected official and a Republican, and an obstacle in the way of making the county a sanctuary county.
Elections have consequences
Ezra likes to think of himself as an independent thinker, but he is a standard-issue shallow liberal.
Not sure why, but I listened at double speed to Tyler Cowen’s interview of him. He said that becoming a father made him much more liberal because he feels guilty that some parents don’t get to work at home a lot and so aren’t able to take their children to the doctor without it being inconvenient. He also felt bad that his wife had a tough pregnancy and it is barbaric to make a woman go through that. He is into animal rights and cares “very very” deeply about immigration because his dad was an immigrant and he grew up in Irvine with lots of immigrants. He thinks California’s struggles with building infrastructure are an embarrassment to liberals, and seems to think this is a deep thought that will challenge people. He wishes we were still up in arms about healthcare because he knows so much about it.
Hopefully now I can forget this information.
But you can use as kindle to fuel your anger.
Complete with the endless rumination, hand-wringing, pearl clutching, self-hatred----and fat bank account.
Liberals taught me about animal rights at the Oscars. Joaquin Phoenix made a very poignant plea to save the baby cows. And at the Golden Globes, Michelle Williams told us that she couldn't have won without having an abortion. So, killing animals to feed your family is cruel and evil, killing your family for a little gold statue is virtuous and dedicated! These are the liberal values we must fight to preserve against the bad orange man.
Is this guy Jewish by chance?
Concluding sentence of your article:
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a drag queen of color’s stiletto heel stamping on a straight white male face—forever.
Yeah, probably more likely than not.
Our masters’ evil genius is to selectively over-empower elements of the public that were once somewhat in shadow for reasons of tradition, civic comity, lack of specific talent, religious propriety, and essentially give them their head. Win-win for our masters. They use “diversity” to drape themselves in virtue, but the real game is to use “diversity” to beat down traditionalist-conservative straight White guys who may have antiquated notions of family formation, economic betterment, and the pleasures of participating in a small way in the remnant of Euro-American high culture and political discourse.
Our masters once needed the National Guard to put down uppity White guys. Subsidized fifth columnists work better, I suppose.
https://www.unz.com/estriker/american-oligarchs-i-the-pritzkers-and-transgenderism/
Sudden acceptance of gay marriage didn't just happen.
World War T and Drag Queen Story Hour didn't just happen.
There is a huge amount of (((homo billionaire))) money power that paid cold, hard cash to MAKE those things happen.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/10/ny-times-tidal-wave-mass-immigration-hands-virginia-democrats/
Right now, the Democrat-controlled legislature is working hard to disarm and disenfranchise the white population of the state. In my own county, the Democrats on the county board of supervisors want to replace the sheriff’s department with a police force. The local sheriff is an elected official and a Republican, and an obstacle in the way of making the county a sanctuary county.
If he refuses to follow the laws wanted by the majority of the citizens the he should removed and prosecuted
Elections have consequences
https://wjla.com/news/local/elrich-ban-ice-county-jail
Whenever I think of overpopulation or the browning of America I think of this news item:
https://nypost.com/2018/04/18/it-smells-like-death-alabama-has-had-enough-of-nycs-poop-train/
I thank God for Bob Whitaker and his group who spread the word about this all over the internet.
However, as I sit here at a FedExOffice location on vacation, I find that while the BUGS site is accessible, the robertwwhitaker.net is NOT. It's blocked. I'm calling out AT&T and FedEx Office for this.
Please let Brian Philips, FedEx Services Leadership: President and CEO, FedEx Office,
know about this. Let him know that you resent this unfair action since splc.org and other hate sites are not blocked as well.
Not sure why, but I listened at double speed to Tyler Cowen's interview of him. He said that becoming a father made him much more liberal because he feels guilty that some parents don't get to work at home a lot and so aren't able to take their children to the doctor without it being inconvenient. He also felt bad that his wife had a tough pregnancy and it is barbaric to make a woman go through that. He is into animal rights and cares "very very" deeply about immigration because his dad was an immigrant and he grew up in Irvine with lots of immigrants. He thinks California's struggles with building infrastructure are an embarrassment to liberals, and seems to think this is a deep thought that will challenge people. He wishes we were still up in arms about healthcare because he knows so much about it.
Hopefully now I can forget this information.
You can never forget this information.
But you can use as kindle to fuel your anger.
High school English classes used to teach that the mark of good journalism is not using the words I, me, my or mine.
I guess they’ve stopped.
Why we’re polarized:
Because a small number of people want to eat us and have their way with our children, and a sizeable portion of us are cool with that.
I don’t know why anyone would read Vox, even if one is a statist/liberal of the 21st century. It manages to be pretentious, boring and patronizing simultaneously. The tag line is “Vox-Understand the News”, as if its readers need Vox to explain how they SHOULD view everything. There is even a daily podcast called, “Today, Explained” for those who embrace the newspeak.
Great piece but I’m not sure Matt Y coined the term “awokening.”
It’s here in the headline tag of this John McWhorter piece from a year before Matt’s piece (i.e. 2018)
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/05/24/atonement-as-activism/
throw the Ezra down the well so my people can be free!
I think part of the rush on the part of black and white progressive elites to cement into place policies that allow institutions to elevate POCs over whites is that Latinos are not yet particularly politically engaged nor are they filled with the anti-white animus that holds together the leadership of the left. The idea is to ensure that this growing demographic gets accustomed to racial entitlement so as to head off future defections of Latinos to the GOP – they might not like being in a political partnership in which woke whites running the party are overly deferential to the political wishes of less numerous blacks, but on the other hand the GOP would get rid of policies that put a foot on the scale for POCs that might benefit them or their relatives.
I remember immediately after the 2016 election some journalist wrote an analysis of the election for a “respectable” news site. The journo commented that Latins vote about 70% Democrat. Bad enough news for the Republicans. The journo continued by saying that Democrats though would love for Latinos to be Blacks 2.0: another racial bloc that votes 90% Democrat. Journo indicated some Democrats are disappointed this isn’t happening.
Here’s a riddle: What are the odds of flipping a coin 109 times and getting tails each time?
That depends on the coin.
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a drag queen of color’s stiletto heel stamping on a straight white male face—forever.”
Yep! But they still won’t be happy. Because that same face will be staring back at them from the mirror.
Not sure why, but I listened at double speed to Tyler Cowen's interview of him. He said that becoming a father made him much more liberal because he feels guilty that some parents don't get to work at home a lot and so aren't able to take their children to the doctor without it being inconvenient. He also felt bad that his wife had a tough pregnancy and it is barbaric to make a woman go through that. He is into animal rights and cares "very very" deeply about immigration because his dad was an immigrant and he grew up in Irvine with lots of immigrants. He thinks California's struggles with building infrastructure are an embarrassment to liberals, and seems to think this is a deep thought that will challenge people. He wishes we were still up in arms about healthcare because he knows so much about it.
Hopefully now I can forget this information.
“a standard-issue shallow liberal.”
Complete with the endless rumination, hand-wringing, pearl clutching, self-hatred—-and fat bank account.
And that goes for all liberals, Jewish or gentile.
I used to laugh at the “KKK Guy” on the old Howard Stern Radio Show with his “Wake up, white people” line. But…
Fast forward 25 years later:
Seriously. Wake up, white people.
This is Nazi level dishonesty. The whole POINT of encouraging these demographic shifts (from their POV) is to “upend existing power or economic arrangements”. If there’s no pony in there for them, then why bother with all the horseshit that goes along with immigration – the crowding, the litter, the crime, etc.? When they are not busy giving false reassurances to white people, they REVEL in the fact that the new demographics will permanently shift power in favor of the Left.
Communists were good at keeping their agenda secret until they were ready to pull off a coup but these folks are such fools that they alternate back and forth daily between “white people have nothing to worry about” and “once we are in charge, whitey will be made to pay for his crimes.” And then they don’t understand why deplorables vote for Trump – didn’t they get the message that white people have nothing to fear?
Not sure why, but I listened at double speed to Tyler Cowen's interview of him. He said that becoming a father made him much more liberal because he feels guilty that some parents don't get to work at home a lot and so aren't able to take their children to the doctor without it being inconvenient. He also felt bad that his wife had a tough pregnancy and it is barbaric to make a woman go through that. He is into animal rights and cares "very very" deeply about immigration because his dad was an immigrant and he grew up in Irvine with lots of immigrants. He thinks California's struggles with building infrastructure are an embarrassment to liberals, and seems to think this is a deep thought that will challenge people. He wishes we were still up in arms about healthcare because he knows so much about it.
Hopefully now I can forget this information.
In the future, men and women will share pregnancy equally. It’s only fair.
I was watching the WGN-TV (Channel 9) news this morning and they had on a “gun policy expert” to push for ever more gun laws for everywhere so that Chicago could control “gun violence.” At the end they showed the book he was hawking: “Dying of Whiteness” by Jonathon A. Metzl.
Steve, Have you been watching Yoram Hazony’s descent into revealing what he always was? Social media makes it hard to conceal your secret motives for long…
This one honestly comes across as a little bitter or jealous or something. I assume there is some preexisting feud, or Steve was ghosted or ridiculed on Twitter or something? Maybe better to let stuff like this age for 24 hours and do a final read before clicking Publish.
Klein’s and Lowry’s 32-week preemie will have as much as a standard deviation lower IQ in adulthood than it would have had if carried to full term, perhaps lower even than the IQ of “Christian whites.” I wonder what the Kleins’ thoughts are on legacy Ivy League admissions? Settle for Rutgers?
“…when new arrivals from Europe drove out and murdered indigenous peoples, brought over millions of enslaved Africans, wrote laws making women second-class citizens…”
Was he writing about America here, or the entire New World? Not even one million were brought to North America.
Nah.
I doubt it was to get away from the glorious diversity of Brazil. Klein’s father is a seriously smart guy – a mathematician specializing in mathematical physics. His PhD. is from MIT. If you want to do world class academic work, American universities are #1 in the world. American grad schools are filled with the top talent from all over the globe for this reason.
If you are say, a math professor at the University of Sao Paulo, you don’t have a bad life. In general, you’ll notice that while there are some here, there are not millions and millions of Brazilians trying to sneak into the US the way there are Mexicans or Central Americans. Being a white professional in Brazil is similar to living in NYC in the late 70s – as long as you observe certain precautions and are willing to put up with being mugged now and then, you’ll probably be OK and most of the time you’ll be largely insulated from what is going on in the ghetto.
Here’s a riddle: What are the odds of flipping a coin 109 times and getting tails each time?
That depends on the coin.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/10/ny-times-tidal-wave-mass-immigration-hands-virginia-democrats/
Right now, the Democrat-controlled legislature is working hard to disarm and disenfranchise the white population of the state. In my own county, the Democrats on the county board of supervisors want to replace the sheriff’s department with a police force. The local sheriff is an elected official and a Republican, and an obstacle in the way of making the county a sanctuary county.
Sanctuary Cities, because NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW (unless they’re here illegally).
That a doofus like EK is considered an intellectual today is yet another sign that We are Doomed. ™
Not sure why, but I listened at double speed to Tyler Cowen's interview of him. He said that becoming a father made him much more liberal because he feels guilty that some parents don't get to work at home a lot and so aren't able to take their children to the doctor without it being inconvenient. He also felt bad that his wife had a tough pregnancy and it is barbaric to make a woman go through that. He is into animal rights and cares "very very" deeply about immigration because his dad was an immigrant and he grew up in Irvine with lots of immigrants. He thinks California's struggles with building infrastructure are an embarrassment to liberals, and seems to think this is a deep thought that will challenge people. He wishes we were still up in arms about healthcare because he knows so much about it.
Hopefully now I can forget this information.
“He also felt bad that his wife had a tough pregnancy and it is barbaric to make a woman go through that. He is into animal rights…”
Liberals taught me about animal rights at the Oscars. Joaquin Phoenix made a very poignant plea to save the baby cows. And at the Golden Globes, Michelle Williams told us that she couldn’t have won without having an abortion. So, killing animals to feed your family is cruel and evil, killing your family for a little gold statue is virtuous and dedicated! These are the liberal values we must fight to preserve against the bad orange man.
Now you have me wondering, Ozy, whether the contrast you’ve drawn was the whole point: to expose the fact that the same people who applaud the abortion of a human being will shed tears over the killing of a calf.
I assume Phoenix is just an immensely talented crazy person. But he did have the rationality to insulate his plea against cancel culture in all the other gobbledygook. And he showed character at the end when he remembered his deceased brother. That struck me as a clue to something deeper in his soul, even in a soulless setting.
Do you really want people like Michelle Williams having more kids? She's apparently a real piece of...work and has no more respect for the vows of marriage than she does for the sanctity of life.
The closest wild animal to a cow is the Cape buffalo, which is considered one of the African "big five" dangerous game animals. Even the Texas longhorn isn't capable of living as a feral animal because it can't effectively forage and protect its young against wolves and cougars and other predators. Also most cows are no longer capable of giving birth without humans pulling the calves, sometimes with chains and tractors.
One of these individuals has suggested that it would be okay to raise cows for dairy if the cows were never killed, they would be able to live out their post-dairy lives in retirement. Ice cream would be the price of caviar if the steers had to be fed as dead weight for fifteen or twenty years and the cows to live as economic dead weight for many years after they were no longer economic to milk. The incentive to simply kill off these useless eaters on the QT would be immense. Dairy is economic because of eating the steers, and veal caves, leather, and butchering old cows when they are no longer producing.
We’re polarized because of the lazy, stupid, self-defeatingly idiotic, Soviet Pravda-worthy, Hitler-in-the-bunker, Baghdad Bob lying propaganda of lying propagandists like Ezra Klein separting people who analyze and people who accept obvious media lies. Agree with Nate Tin about something:
https://postimg.cc/hfJ9DrBj
NPR said nothing about Trump winning New Hamphire’s primary by more voters-who-really-didn’t-have-to-show-up than any recent incumbent or any present Democrat. Instead they advertised a divsion ops story about how unpopular Trump is, no facts, just restarting that now deceased Jeb logic about reaching out to people who will not vote for you. But last night’s winner is of course Pete Company Man Buttigieg, who got his ass kicked by an old man, but not as badly as you’d expect, except for him also losing to a hall monitor nobody has heard of.
If you are say, a math professor at the University of Sao Paulo, you don't have a bad life. In general, you'll notice that while there are some here, there are not millions and millions of Brazilians trying to sneak into the US the way there are Mexicans or Central Americans. Being a white professional in Brazil is similar to living in NYC in the late 70s - as long as you observe certain precautions and are willing to put up with being mugged now and then, you'll probably be OK and most of the time you'll be largely insulated from what is going on in the ghetto.
That was not what living in NYC in the late 70s was like, unless perhaps you lived and worked on Park Avenue. (Which, I realize, some people did and do.)
Almost anyone is … Better than Ezra. Budump.
Given that Ezra Klein’s career has consisted of being a flack (professional liar) for Obamacare while posing as a journalist, founding a genuine conspiracy among journalists to disinform and mislead the public (Journolist), and relentlessly slandering the country’s founding population while calculating how to deceive them about their displacement that he is promoting, …
… can we stop assuming goodwill on his part?
The fatal flaw that has doomed our people and civilization is that we don’t have the same attitude. I guess as the old saying goes, “it’s just evolution in action”. However there will be pockets of us left, and I believe at some time we can make a comeback, because that is also how history sometimes works. I already see changing attitudes among our people who were formerly oblivious to the reality of what is happening.
If you are say, a math professor at the University of Sao Paulo, you don't have a bad life. In general, you'll notice that while there are some here, there are not millions and millions of Brazilians trying to sneak into the US the way there are Mexicans or Central Americans. Being a white professional in Brazil is similar to living in NYC in the late 70s - as long as you observe certain precautions and are willing to put up with being mugged now and then, you'll probably be OK and most of the time you'll be largely insulated from what is going on in the ghetto.
The parents of some of my friends left NYC for CA back in the ’70s. They were White professionals, but they didn’t want to have to deal with the rampant crime, the omni-present threat of being mugged/assaulted (One of them told me a story about being mugged three times in a month)….
Rent control also had the side effect of keeping a lot of people nailed down in order to reap the below market rent. And in NY if you decamped to an affordable suburb, you were looking at an hour+ commute by mass transit, not a quick 20 minute drive from Grosse Point.
Sure a lot of people left but plenty stayed – NY never fell to the depths of Detroit. There were tremendous cultural resources that you couldn’t get elsewhere. How many Broadway shows are playing in Irvine? For lifelong NY’ers, especially there was a lot of good to balance out the bad.
Rent control also had the side effect of keeping a lot of people nailed down in order to reap the below market rent. And in NY if you decamped to an affordable suburb, you were looking at an hour+ commute by mass transit, not a quick 20 minute drive from Grosse Point.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/23/article-2104608-11D97565000005DC-984_964x876.jpg
Steve seems to keep suggesting that the great ‘Awokening’ was the result of some effort by the Obama admin and MSM. Yet the contours of it don’t seem to support this. They responded to it and amplified it but they didn’t start it.
The 2012 election was important because it was the first one to take place in an era of mass use of Twitter (In 2008 it was still a very niche thing and even Facebook wasn’t very widely used.) and other social media that utilised a person’s real name, it led to the phenomena of social media political virtue signalling. This was exacerbated by the dominant demographic on social media being young women.
So a massive sea-change happened in only a few years, Twitter became a vector for the dissemination of this new religion, created by young women for young women. In an environment where your Twitter account was under your own full name, the mechanism of social shaming could run rampant without limits and the kudos for virtue signalling could be incredible. If every young woman habitually uses Twitter and social media, they are constantly thrown into this and exposed to constant trending Twitter activist hashtags that subconsciously become her gauge for ‘okay’ and ‘not okay’.
Now your social group you are trying to fit into isn’t just the people around you but the whole world. (Similar to concerns of how Instagram is causing higher rates of anxiety in young girls by making them compete not just with the few pretty girls in their school year but the whole world.)
Thus social media led to the political engagement and radicalisation in many cases of a cohort that the world had seldom seen, young women and teenage girls. SJW language and memes that had cultivated on Tumblr emerged after a lag onto Twitter.
You could also see this in the US with the brief but intense black student protests on US campuses a few years ago. The ‘Fees Must Fall’ or ‘Fallist’ activists in South Africa had their message and crucially, images of their mass protests broadcast over social media and the links between South African SJW twitter and Black American SJW twitter led to it being an inspiration for their own angry protests.
People are talking about the great tidal wave of Leftism that is (maybe) going to bring the Democrat nomination to Sanders but he has been getting around 25% of the Democrat votes so (roughly) 12% of the general population. This is certainly a significant fraction of the population but that still means that 7/8 of the population doesn't support him.
I found this old documentary from the mid-2000s...the use of woke jargon throughout is unmistakable: "problematic", "discrimination in immigration", "criminalization of the black body", "persistence of white supremacy and racism" and so on.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=by9SEhBPrJY&t=2999s
Similarly, lengthy books about "cultural appropriation" were published throughout the 2000s and before:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=oxyOsvs4Zw0C&dq=cultural+appropriation&source=gbs_navlinks_s
https://books.google.ca/books?id=BhAhb2lf49oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=cultural+appropriation&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjazo7V0cznAhWyslkKHQVeCS4Q6AEINzAC#v=onepage&q=cultural%20appropriation&f=false
https://books.google.ca/books?id=xjfmceZoKNMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=cultural+appropriation&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjazo7V0cznAhWyslkKHQVeCS4Q6AEIPjAD#v=onepage&q=cultural%20appropriation&f=false
There was one case by Maori activists in the early 2000s against the Lego Corporation. They accused the Bionicle series of "appropriating" terms and concepts from Maori stories.
When Clinton lost big his first mid-term, he moved right to the center immediately and pretty much stayed there for the remainder of his time in office. Obama actually lost more House seats in his first mid-term than Clinton did, but stayed resolute in his ideology nonetheless and of course had the leftist media gin up outrages for him in the form of George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin and Ferguson.
The review itself seems a lot of bunkum, as Biden might say, from both Ezra and Steve. The vast majority of Americans don't even think about the issues Ezra raises, as even the Democrat primaries show with economically-focused Bernie and billionaire-funded, centrist-leaning Pete dominating. Meanwhile, Steve's repeated "Coalition of the Fringes" epithet makes no sense considering the US itself was long considered such a coalition of the fringes, between religious loonies like the Puritans and Quakers and Irish refuse escaping from potato famines (as that guy notes though, it is madness that the current imported dregs are living off of our taxes).
Those past dregs managed to build a rich nation, I'm sure an even broader coalition could do the same. What the US really has to watch out for is that the Internet melts away geographic boundaries for economies, so US decline as the lone superpower is inevitable as the rest of the world moves online and overtakes us.
The substantial change here is not the silly concerns of Ezra and Steve, it's that we're now awash in information from the smartphones in all our hands pumping through the internet. This is similar to the great upheaval of the Yellow Journalism era of the late 19th and early 20th century, when new mass printing techniques like the rotary press and jobbing presses led to a similar deluge of information compared to what we were used to.
We adapted over time, we will do the same today and these petty propagandists will all be forgotten.
Rent control also had the side effect of keeping a lot of people nailed down in order to reap the below market rent. And in NY if you decamped to an affordable suburb, you were looking at an hour+ commute by mass transit, not a quick 20 minute drive from Grosse Point.
How many Broadway shows do heterosexual men attend per decade in New York? And the tix are so expensive, it’s not that much more to just travel from wherever you’re living outside of New York City. Same with museums and opera and ballet. Orchestras are widely available anywhere.
It comes down to ethnic food.
Which means that New York is good for young people with no savings because they eat out all the time, and their rabbit hutch lodgings don’t have enough of a kitchen to cook even if they knew how.
On the other hand: New York City has more fertility clinics per capita than anywhere else, so it’s recommended for folks in the market for IVF and egg freezing. Also, more psychologists for counseling when your frozen eggs don’t “take.”
NYS/NYC leniency regarding abortion contrasts with Reg Caesar's premise on conservative family law in NYS.
The article on Vox by a feminist about the hyaenas celebrating that the females have a sort of penis makes me think that Freud was right and women do have penis envy
1/2 * 1/2*1/2….109 times
Ezra’s conclusion: those people over there.
Logical conclusion: his book.
The 2012 election was important because it was the first one to take place in an era of mass use of Twitter (In 2008 it was still a very niche thing and even Facebook wasn't very widely used.) and other social media that utilised a person's real name, it led to the phenomena of social media political virtue signalling. This was exacerbated by the dominant demographic on social media being young women.
So a massive sea-change happened in only a few years, Twitter became a vector for the dissemination of this new religion, created by young women for young women. In an environment where your Twitter account was under your own full name, the mechanism of social shaming could run rampant without limits and the kudos for virtue signalling could be incredible. If every young woman habitually uses Twitter and social media, they are constantly thrown into this and exposed to constant trending Twitter activist hashtags that subconsciously become her gauge for 'okay' and 'not okay'.
Now your social group you are trying to fit into isn't just the people around you but the whole world. (Similar to concerns of how Instagram is causing higher rates of anxiety in young girls by making them compete not just with the few pretty girls in their school year but the whole world.)
Thus social media led to the political engagement and radicalisation in many cases of a cohort that the world had seldom seen, young women and teenage girls. SJW language and memes that had cultivated on Tumblr emerged after a lag onto Twitter.
You could also see this in the US with the brief but intense black student protests on US campuses a few years ago. The 'Fees Must Fall' or 'Fallist' activists in South Africa had their message and crucially, images of their mass protests broadcast over social media and the links between South African SJW twitter and Black American SJW twitter led to it being an inspiration for their own angry protests.
What % of young women and teenage girls are politically engaged and Twitter about woke subjects? It’s easy to confuse Twitter with reality but for most people never the twain shall meet. I have the feeling that there are a handful of loudmouths on campus like the black women who grabbed the mike from Sanders and that the rest of the students and young people don’t necessarily look upon these women with admiration. These loudmouths are getting their message hyped by the media but they are just tools (as they will find out if they try to get a job in the real world).
People are talking about the great tidal wave of Leftism that is (maybe) going to bring the Democrat nomination to Sanders but he has been getting around 25% of the Democrat votes so (roughly) 12% of the general population. This is certainly a significant fraction of the population but that still means that 7/8 of the population doesn’t support him.
Their arguments are often so fundamentally radical and almost theological in their structure that they need the legitmisation of social media repetition to go beyond the English/Sociology/Anthropology departments of universities as they were contained during the 90s/00s after the original backlash to such persons in the 90s.
It looks like Steve might want to update his photograph that appears at the bottom of the Taki page. Unless, that is, he likes the serial-killer look… 😉
Ferguson, MO is/was a truly integrated community with an almost perfectly balanced 50-50 white/black split and an abundance of solid, well-maintained lower middle class homes. There are many inner ring suburbs like that in the St. Louis metro area and- incidentally- the blacks there still believe perfectly honest sweat work is not beneath them. There are black gardeners there! My son had a blast going to a Cardinals game and sitting behind the home team dugout with some cheap, last-minute STUBHUB tickets, and all the vendors schlepping 20+ lb. trays full of cold drinks and ice water for us pampered spectators in the 90+ F/90+% humidity were black. I was tempted to make a crack that I felt like I was at a Paula Dean party, but thought better of it and simply gave a fiver to the drink vendor when I got our cold ones (and just to be clear, my first job involved cleaning toilets at a grocery store, so I certainly don’t look down on such work and think it more honorable than lots of white collar office jobs I could mention-e.g. writing clickbait for VOX).
In any case Bezos and his WASHINGTON POST had no compunction burning down Ferguson for fun and profits, destroying the real estate capital of 1000’s of hard-working middle Americans of both races, but when it comes to 10 million measly dollars of HIS CAPITAL (a mere rounding error in Amazon’s closing price) why, he’s just so [email protected]$king careful now isn’t he?
The 2012 election was important because it was the first one to take place in an era of mass use of Twitter (In 2008 it was still a very niche thing and even Facebook wasn't very widely used.) and other social media that utilised a person's real name, it led to the phenomena of social media political virtue signalling. This was exacerbated by the dominant demographic on social media being young women.
So a massive sea-change happened in only a few years, Twitter became a vector for the dissemination of this new religion, created by young women for young women. In an environment where your Twitter account was under your own full name, the mechanism of social shaming could run rampant without limits and the kudos for virtue signalling could be incredible. If every young woman habitually uses Twitter and social media, they are constantly thrown into this and exposed to constant trending Twitter activist hashtags that subconsciously become her gauge for 'okay' and 'not okay'.
Now your social group you are trying to fit into isn't just the people around you but the whole world. (Similar to concerns of how Instagram is causing higher rates of anxiety in young girls by making them compete not just with the few pretty girls in their school year but the whole world.)
Thus social media led to the political engagement and radicalisation in many cases of a cohort that the world had seldom seen, young women and teenage girls. SJW language and memes that had cultivated on Tumblr emerged after a lag onto Twitter.
You could also see this in the US with the brief but intense black student protests on US campuses a few years ago. The 'Fees Must Fall' or 'Fallist' activists in South Africa had their message and crucially, images of their mass protests broadcast over social media and the links between South African SJW twitter and Black American SJW twitter led to it being an inspiration for their own angry protests.
I partially agree. Keep in mind that SJW jargon and pathologies existed in grievance studies departments for decades before the Great Awokening.
I found this old documentary from the mid-2000s…the use of woke jargon throughout is unmistakable: “problematic”, “discrimination in immigration”, “criminalization of the black body”, “persistence of white supremacy and racism” and so on.
Similarly, lengthy books about “cultural appropriation” were published throughout the 2000s and before:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=oxyOsvs4Zw0C&dq=cultural+appropriation&source=gbs_navlinks_s
https://books.google.ca/books?id=BhAhb2lf49oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=cultural+appropriation&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjazo7V0cznAhWyslkKHQVeCS4Q6AEINzAC#v=onepage&q=cultural%20appropriation&f=false
https://books.google.ca/books?id=xjfmceZoKNMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=cultural+appropriation&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjazo7V0cznAhWyslkKHQVeCS4Q6AEIPjAD#v=onepage&q=cultural%20appropriation&f=false
There was one case by Maori activists in the early 2000s against the Lego Corporation. They accused the Bionicle series of “appropriating” terms and concepts from Maori stories.
I’ve duly noticed this particular pattern: they are all … men.
Not sure why, but I listened at double speed to Tyler Cowen's interview of him. He said that becoming a father made him much more liberal because he feels guilty that some parents don't get to work at home a lot and so aren't able to take their children to the doctor without it being inconvenient. He also felt bad that his wife had a tough pregnancy and it is barbaric to make a woman go through that. He is into animal rights and cares "very very" deeply about immigration because his dad was an immigrant and he grew up in Irvine with lots of immigrants. He thinks California's struggles with building infrastructure are an embarrassment to liberals, and seems to think this is a deep thought that will challenge people. He wishes we were still up in arms about healthcare because he knows so much about it.
Hopefully now I can forget this information.
Children can be such an inconvenience. I guess he’s not sufficiently pro-choice. However did previous generations manage–being handcuffed to the widget machine on the factory floor? It’s a mystery…
Reality is such a struggle. Why didn’t anyone forewarn Ezra?
... can we stop assuming goodwill on his part?
Assuming goodwill? Well actually Ezra Klein does operate from goodwill: it’s goodwill towards himself and people like him. I don’t think anyone has ever believed he harbors goodwill towards anyone else.
The fatal flaw that has doomed our people and civilization is that we don’t have the same attitude. I guess as the old saying goes, “it’s just evolution in action”. However there will be pockets of us left, and I believe at some time we can make a comeback, because that is also how history sometimes works. I already see changing attitudes among our people who were formerly oblivious to the reality of what is happening.
Who knew?
Mr. Klein is apparently in the habit of keeping a mouse in his pocket while writing.
Or perhaps he was referring to this “we?”
That particular “we” doesn’t seem to be very “polarized,” though.
Mr. Klein needs to define his antecedents more clearly in his writing.
People are talking about the great tidal wave of Leftism that is (maybe) going to bring the Democrat nomination to Sanders but he has been getting around 25% of the Democrat votes so (roughly) 12% of the general population. This is certainly a significant fraction of the population but that still means that 7/8 of the population doesn't support him.
The amplification happened through the media, but it wouldn’t have happened without social media. Events like GamerGate had nothing to do with the media but were picked up by the media. The legitimisation and introduction to a mass audience of these ideas through social media allowed the professional SJW provocateurs more power.
Their arguments are often so fundamentally radical and almost theological in their structure that they need the legitmisation of social media repetition to go beyond the English/Sociology/Anthropology departments of universities as they were contained during the 90s/00s after the original backlash to such persons in the 90s.
Don’t forget Spencer Ackerman.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/07/journolist-liberal-conspiracy-story-scandal-or-overblown/344812/
Some unnecessary context.
If you are say, a math professor at the University of Sao Paulo, you don't have a bad life. In general, you'll notice that while there are some here, there are not millions and millions of Brazilians trying to sneak into the US the way there are Mexicans or Central Americans. Being a white professional in Brazil is similar to living in NYC in the late 70s - as long as you observe certain precautions and are willing to put up with being mugged now and then, you'll probably be OK and most of the time you'll be largely insulated from what is going on in the ghetto.
Wrong, they just come here to New England where there was a preexisting population of Portuguese-Americans.
By placing seemingly random groups in micro-pockets, it never rises to the public consciousness. Of course, if you LIVE in those micro-pockets, you’re inundated.
As an example, how many people know that the Cambodian Embassy in Lowell, MA is bigger/does more work than the Cambodian embassy in DC? Well, everyone in Lowell but no one else would even believe that there WAS a non-DC embassy.
Anyone that’s ever been to Malden or The Cape knows the ubiquity of Brazilians, but everyone everywhere else (to include Andover and Cambridge!) thinks, “well, we’re losing the battle but at least the BRAZILIANS are staying home!”
By popularizing a platform for various people in the FUSA to point out their micro-flood, it allows us to be appropriately based on the issue.
This is a long-form way to say there are TONS of Brazilians in the US
People are talking about the great tidal wave of Leftism that is (maybe) going to bring the Democrat nomination to Sanders but he has been getting around 25% of the Democrat votes so (roughly) 12% of the general population. This is certainly a significant fraction of the population but that still means that 7/8 of the population doesn't support him.
It’s not just Twitter, but all social media. I have a perfect case study from my own life; my middle-aged mother used to have quite sensible views about politics (she had read The Bell Curve and was aware of HBD), but I made the mistake of showing her how to use Facebook and almost instantly she became a fanatical SJW.
... can we stop assuming goodwill on his part?
I agree and I don’t get the impression from Steve’s review of his book he is assuming Klein has any goodwill. Even some Conservatism, Inc. writers understand Klein is an enemy who wants them wiped out.
Correct. Immigration begets more immigration. Far from the story of immigrants fearlessly throwing themselves into an alien environment, mass immigration follows once a critical mass of an ethnic diaspora is established. The behaviour of immigrants is often decidedly different to how they behave back home, they develop an innate form of ethnic nepotism, subconsciously they’re building a colony. It’s almost like people don’t like diversity.
What drives the guys camped outside Calais is the desire to link up with relatives or a general ethnic diaspora established in Britain. So they live in total hopeless squalor rather than take advantage of living in France. (Language is also sometimes an issue but is it worth living under tarp strung between trees in the cold to not learn French?)
Thus the character of immigration is very different in different countries and different regions within countries.
Steve’s talent as a humorist and satirist is seriously underrated.
Vox is heavily backed by Soros. There’s a reason his startup is still around. He might be taking losses, but Soros is making sure his message gets broadcast.
Rent control also had the side effect of keeping a lot of people nailed down in order to reap the below market rent. And in NY if you decamped to an affordable suburb, you were looking at an hour+ commute by mass transit, not a quick 20 minute drive from Grosse Point.
A lot of people thought that NYC might become another Detroit….
Broadway show vs getting knifed by a Black/Latinx mugger…
Yeah, but those were also the people who who experienced the greatest sense of loss…..They could remember pre-’70s NYC……
What’s better than Ezra? Eine kleine Nacht(und Nebel)musik.
Rent control also had the side effect of keeping a lot of people nailed down in order to reap the below market rent. And in NY if you decamped to an affordable suburb, you were looking at an hour+ commute by mass transit, not a quick 20 minute drive from Grosse Point.
My Boomer relations viewed New York City and a sort of war zone. Even after Guiliani, they couldn’t be convinced to go within a country mile of the place nor would they allow their children to visit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rocker#Controversial_statements
If you want a war zone, you might look to places like Baltimore, Memphis, St. Louis, Detroit, Kansas City.
But hey, NYC is not for everyone--and with Kaiser Wilhelm, it might be returning to the bad old days.
“imagine a drag queen of color’s stiletto heel stamping on a straight white male face”
The Luciferian-Totalitarian version of the fascist jackboot. Another wry, informative article from the programmer of this simulation.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/10/ny-times-tidal-wave-mass-immigration-hands-virginia-democrats/
Right now, the Democrat-controlled legislature is working hard to disarm and disenfranchise the white population of the state. In my own county, the Democrats on the county board of supervisors want to replace the sheriff’s department with a police force. The local sheriff is an elected official and a Republican, and an obstacle in the way of making the county a sanctuary county.
2020 Virginia is the California of the 1960s: a laboratory for the national security state.
Rent control also had the side effect of keeping a lot of people nailed down in order to reap the below market rent. And in NY if you decamped to an affordable suburb, you were looking at an hour+ commute by mass transit, not a quick 20 minute drive from Grosse Point.
Don’t NYers see Broadway shows as a tourist trap?
They truly are our misfortune.
If you are say, a math professor at the University of Sao Paulo, you don't have a bad life. In general, you'll notice that while there are some here, there are not millions and millions of Brazilians trying to sneak into the US the way there are Mexicans or Central Americans. Being a white professional in Brazil is similar to living in NYC in the late 70s - as long as you observe certain precautions and are willing to put up with being mugged now and then, you'll probably be OK and most of the time you'll be largely insulated from what is going on in the ghetto.
The level of affluence enjoyed by the broad mass of the population is about the same in Brazil as it is in Mexico. The frequency of violent crime in Mexico is, overall, no worse than Brazil’s and there are whole provinces in Mexico which are agreeable in this regard. You have Mexican’s streaming over the border because of geographic proximity and extant social networks already in place, something that’s not there for the Brazilians.
Why is there no impassioned polarization about Israel, Zionism, and Wars for Israel?
If indeed the US is polarized about everything, shouldn’t one side be totally for Zionism & Jewish power while the other side is totally against them? One party should be totally pro-BDS, the other side should be totally anti-BDS. But red states and blue states both shut down BDS. What unity!
Both parties seem to be about Israel, Israel, Israel, more Wars for Israel, more Wars for Israel, more Wars for Israel, and ‘muh holy Jews’, ‘muh holy Jews’, ‘muh holy Jews’.
So much for polarization. When it comes to Jews and Israel, there is an excess of consensus and unity. But how could this be in a polarized nation?
Nancy Pelosi said that even if Congress were to fall, the US will stand with Israel.
Trump has been harassed by Jews from day one, but he’s all for Israel and Jews.
Dems and Repubs who bitch at each other will be the best of friends the moment a Palestinian family was dropped in their midst. They would become instant-buddies and beat up, murder, and hang the Palestinians from a tree and celebrate and sing and cheer.
Hmmm, could it be that the US was made polarized and divided so that it would come together on Jews and Israel? After all, if all those goyim were united on many issues, they might unite against the Jew. But if they are divided on everything, the nation could only function by the two sides agreeing on a few things… like ‘muh Israel’ and ‘I love Jews’.
If you wanna know who has power over the people, try to find out on which matter/issue all sides are united. The single biggest issue of unity in the US is “Israel is our closest ally.”
As for Ezra Klein’s question, of course there’s gonna be more divisions when people who control academia/media/government keep cooking up new wedge issues that are meant to divide people. Prior to globo-homo, most Americans scoffed at ‘gay marriage’. But once homos were made holy, a new religion of homo-worship began. Before trannies, there was unity against the notion of man as woman. But media promoted nonsense about deracinated and deculturized Americans who grew up with TV and pop music as main staple of culture and ‘values’. Once illegals were made into ‘dreamers’, so many dummy Americans think it’s the ‘new holocaust’.
So, if Klein wants less polarization, how about the Tribe not using the media and academia so much to cook up new wedge issues? And how about not creating new enemies with Russia, Syria, Iran, Hungary, and whatever nation Jews happen to hate at the moment.
Americans weren’t polarized over Ukraine but they are now since the US-backed coup and the Jewish media telling us that it is the closet ally of the US next to Israel.
Klein is foul piece of turd.
The source of American polarization owes really to a phenomenon of Sorolization. Before the American public split in half, a certain group gained the power to drive ever more wedges into the body politic. It’s even gotten to the point where trannies and feminists are hating each other. It is wedger nation.
But whites are idiots. Haven’t they figured out the problem yet? Just think. If Jews are using Diversity against whites, wouldn’t the most natural thing be for whites to use diversity against Jews? If Jews scream ‘white privilege’, scream ‘Jewish privilege’, esp as it’s closer to the truth.
If someone hits you with a stick, you try to take the stick from his hand and beat him with it. The last thing you wanna do is try to protect him from the stick he’s beating you with.
Jews hit whites with diversity but whites try to protect Jews from diversity. Jews use Ilhan Omar against whites, but whites protect Jews from Omar.
Of course, whites act like this because white elites have been blackmailed and bought over by the Jews. White elites serve Jewish elites than represent and serve their own people. So, white elites are useless, and white masses are clueless as their elites tell them, “Praise Jews, serve Israel, and it’s NOT okay to be white.”
The game will change only when whites begin to support BDS and spread the message among non-whites that Jews got everything. Then and only then will powerful Jews stop pushing for Diversity.
But as long as dumb whites protect Jews from the stick that Jews use to beat up whites, they will get clobbered and will lose.
Not everyone shares your monomania.
The 2012 election was important because it was the first one to take place in an era of mass use of Twitter (In 2008 it was still a very niche thing and even Facebook wasn't very widely used.) and other social media that utilised a person's real name, it led to the phenomena of social media political virtue signalling. This was exacerbated by the dominant demographic on social media being young women.
So a massive sea-change happened in only a few years, Twitter became a vector for the dissemination of this new religion, created by young women for young women. In an environment where your Twitter account was under your own full name, the mechanism of social shaming could run rampant without limits and the kudos for virtue signalling could be incredible. If every young woman habitually uses Twitter and social media, they are constantly thrown into this and exposed to constant trending Twitter activist hashtags that subconsciously become her gauge for 'okay' and 'not okay'.
Now your social group you are trying to fit into isn't just the people around you but the whole world. (Similar to concerns of how Instagram is causing higher rates of anxiety in young girls by making them compete not just with the few pretty girls in their school year but the whole world.)
Thus social media led to the political engagement and radicalisation in many cases of a cohort that the world had seldom seen, young women and teenage girls. SJW language and memes that had cultivated on Tumblr emerged after a lag onto Twitter.
You could also see this in the US with the brief but intense black student protests on US campuses a few years ago. The 'Fees Must Fall' or 'Fallist' activists in South Africa had their message and crucially, images of their mass protests broadcast over social media and the links between South African SJW twitter and Black American SJW twitter led to it being an inspiration for their own angry protests.
Steve predicted early on that Obama would at least rhetorically tack to the center during his first term, but that if he won re-election would go all in on Political Correctness for his second term, and that’s pretty much what ended up happening. The particular dynamic of social media fueling the rise of wokeness online may have been helped that along, but it was pretty evident that Obama was a very left wing guy, far more ideological than Bill Clinton or Tony Blair ever were.
When Clinton lost big his first mid-term, he moved right to the center immediately and pretty much stayed there for the remainder of his time in office. Obama actually lost more House seats in his first mid-term than Clinton did, but stayed resolute in his ideology nonetheless and of course had the leftist media gin up outrages for him in the form of George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin and Ferguson.
https://books.google.ca/books/about/America_s_Half_blood_Prince.html?id=N232AgAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y
Unfortunately the video now seems to be muted.
Depends which show. Yes if you are talking about The Lion King or the Phantom of the Opera. But even Manhattan snobs try to get into the hottest, most hip shows when they first open and the gossip columns will report which celebrities were seen in the audience (e.g. Hamilton). Everything in NY is either so hip that you can’t get in or so uncool that you don’t WANT to get in.
And a significant part of local TV ads in NY is advertising for Broadway shows (although these ads are aimed at the entire NY metro area and not just city dwellers). They must be advertising to someone. The audience for Broadway today is 2/3 tourists / 1/3 locals but 1/3 is still a significant %. And in the ’70s it would have been much more than 1/3 since crime had scared away a lot of the tourists.
I know exactly what it was like because I lived there then and not on Park Ave. Yes it was shitty but mostly it was a tolerable level of shitty (you learn to tolerate a lot) and there were a lot of offsetting benefits that you wouldn’t have found in other shitty places like Detroit. New York lost 10% of its population from 1970 to 1980 but that still left 7 million people and a lot of those were white people, more white people than any other American city had people period.
Right, if you take away the theater, the opera, the ballet, the museums, the symphonies, the shops, the auction houses, the universities and the restaurants then living in NY is just like living in Dayton. Ceteris Paribus, as my econ professor used to say.
Dayton Ballet
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
Dayton Opera
Dayton Philharmonic
The Human Race Theatre Company
Muse Machine
Victoria Theatre Association
https://www.ticketcenterstage.com/about/
https://www.planetware.com/wpimages/2018/08/ohio-dayton-attractions-schuster-center.jpg
It’s not for everybody and definitely not going to impress anybody passing through. But it really is underrated. I am from Dayton originally and now live in a far larger metro with way better ‘opportunities’ and it’s certainly not a much more impressive place to live.
As Henry Ford told us 100 years ago, this is all by design:
Throw all the ideas out there and keep the people fighting so we won’t notice what (((they))) are really up to. Liberalism, Conservatism, Neoconism, Neolibism, Bolshevism, Communism, Socialism, Capitalism, Racism, Sexism, Genderism, Globalism, Nationalism, every “ism” out there is brought to us by a hummus eating intellectual, so we won’t notice what their brethren are really doing, which is looting the whole world blind via Wall Street, Belt Way, every government program, the Military Industrial Complex, while developing technology to keep us fighting, with them being the referee “cancelling” anyone who is on to their game.
Those who are not into the fighting, well, (((they))) have got something for you too: Pornography, alcohol, drugs, sexual deviance, violent degenerate brain-dead entertainment brought to you by Hollywood, video game industry…keep the gentile mind sedated, or rotting.
You do realize that most of us couldn’t care less about the opera, or symphony or museums? Those things are novelties that some people might utilize once a year or less. On other hand, the crushing weight of foul smelling humanity, vibrants, petty and not so petty crime, traffic and on and on, are relentless daily fixtures of any large urban area. Not to overplay the urban/rural/suburban disdain for big city types schtick but, how do people live that way? I’ve never been to Dayton but I’ll bet many areas are nice with a good urban forests and sidewalks and every type of restaurant that you might need within 30 minutes.
Liberals taught me about animal rights at the Oscars. Joaquin Phoenix made a very poignant plea to save the baby cows. And at the Golden Globes, Michelle Williams told us that she couldn't have won without having an abortion. So, killing animals to feed your family is cruel and evil, killing your family for a little gold statue is virtuous and dedicated! These are the liberal values we must fight to preserve against the bad orange man.
Audacious Epigone wondered on his blog today whether Phoenix was trolling with that speech. I wondered the same thing while watching it, but I didn’t make the connection with the abortion girl at that other awards show.
Now you have me wondering, Ozy, whether the contrast you’ve drawn was the whole point: to expose the fact that the same people who applaud the abortion of a human being will shed tears over the killing of a calf.
I assume Phoenix is just an immensely talented crazy person. But he did have the rationality to insulate his plea against cancel culture in all the other gobbledygook. And he showed character at the end when he remembered his deceased brother. That struck me as a clue to something deeper in his soul, even in a soulless setting.
I found this old documentary from the mid-2000s...the use of woke jargon throughout is unmistakable: "problematic", "discrimination in immigration", "criminalization of the black body", "persistence of white supremacy and racism" and so on.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=by9SEhBPrJY&t=2999s
Similarly, lengthy books about "cultural appropriation" were published throughout the 2000s and before:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=oxyOsvs4Zw0C&dq=cultural+appropriation&source=gbs_navlinks_s
https://books.google.ca/books?id=BhAhb2lf49oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=cultural+appropriation&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjazo7V0cznAhWyslkKHQVeCS4Q6AEINzAC#v=onepage&q=cultural%20appropriation&f=false
https://books.google.ca/books?id=xjfmceZoKNMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=cultural+appropriation&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjazo7V0cznAhWyslkKHQVeCS4Q6AEIPjAD#v=onepage&q=cultural%20appropriation&f=false
There was one case by Maori activists in the early 2000s against the Lego Corporation. They accused the Bionicle series of "appropriating" terms and concepts from Maori stories.
Yes, but they were largely contained in academia. Tumblr became the social network dominated by English/Sociology/Art/Anthropology students (As well as the typical 15 year old BPD) and brought the whole thing to a larger audience it was denied after the backlash against all this in the 90s largely banished these ideas from MSM.
Since these ideas could be used in a context of social status seeking and were tailor-made to the trending concept (Black Lives Matter was originally a hashtag), they spread on Twitter and became legitimised through the perceived authority of their widespread acceptance on Twitter despite them not being widespread in real life.
And among Gen Y/Z, there was little hope of the typical social advancement or social status from earnings, home-ownership etc, so they were even more motivated to seek status by virtue-signalling. Indeed, among Gen Z who have spent their entire adolescence with social media and are the heaviest users, the 15 year old girls in a kind of mania moral panic purity spiral (Similar to ROGD) are the ones pushing these hashtags high, the ultimate logic of this being Greta who is a kind of IRL version of how many of these girls are online. (Except at least Greta is complaining about something which exists)
You can attribute to Obama, the more aggressive prosecuting of civil rights cases by Holder to create the spark of racial antipathy but they had little control or impute on things progressed. To what extent did it all really kick off not from news coverage on CNN and Holder on the lectern but the existence of ‘Black Twitter’ running with all these incidents. Absent social media it doesn’t matter how of these cases you try and push, you’d just get some local riots and greater black antipathy towards whites not this weird theological language about ‘whiteness’.
Back in 2011, Sailer compared the emerging social media to disco, an emerging phenomenon primarily composed of blacks, gays, and other fringe groups that displaced the higher-IQ types that dominated the early internet.
https://www.takimag.com/article/the_golden_age_of_white_male_antisocial_media/
People are talking about the great tidal wave of Leftism that is (maybe) going to bring the Democrat nomination to Sanders but he has been getting around 25% of the Democrat votes so (roughly) 12% of the general population. This is certainly a significant fraction of the population but that still means that 7/8 of the population doesn't support him.
This afternoon in Pacifica, CA I was parked in front of a McD’s. At the adjacent bus stop were four high school girls, 3 blacks and one mostly white but likely hapa type, who not only was pretty good-looking but, at about 5’10” and lithe, probably could be a real-life buttkicking babe. She was obviously anxious to impress her black friends. First, she ostentatiously threw her drink up in the air to litter the street, then began a routine of sexual gyration and pole climbing as the various cars passed. I’m thinking of contacting the principal – maybe for a modest sum I could have her sit for a 6th grade arithmetic test.
In the Empire State’s defense, she has long been renowned for her seriously conservative family law, not succumbing to no-fault divorce until 2010. Only about five states prohibit surrogacy contracts, and none except Michigan so severely as New York:
Why are we polarized? Maybe it’s because whenever someone from one side asks a question, the media representing the other side spends more than a week (so far) in pounding on the person who made it.
In this recent Saline, Michigan school meeting, a Mexican father describes his children’s past experiences with being different from everyone else in 95% white Saline. Listen for the nice white ladies gasping in amazement – start around 30 seconds in if you’re in a hurry.
This video has been played at noon, six and eleven o’clock every day for the past week in the Detroit area TV stations. We’re into week two of the gasp of horror right now. Will it ever end?
Not if we’re going to make sure to polarize everyone.
A Mexican father who describes his children’s experiences with being different from everyone else is about as newsworthy as the sun rising in the east. They are different because they choose to be different, to see themselves as different, to hold themselves out as different--just as does an attention whore--for the reaction to their so-called plight. And because he is certain to get "a reaction."
As an American, can you imagine migrating to a foreign country--and expecting anyone to give you the time of day to express concern regarding your experiences due to being different from everyone?
"Woe is me" is as old as humanity.
Insightful.
Great article.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a drag queen of color’s stiletto heel stamping on a straight white male face—forever.
Yeah, probably more likely than not.
Our masters' evil genius is to selectively over-empower elements of the public that were once somewhat in shadow for reasons of tradition, civic comity, lack of specific talent, religious propriety, and essentially give them their head. Win-win for our masters. They use "diversity" to drape themselves in virtue, but the real game is to use "diversity" to beat down traditionalist-conservative straight White guys who may have antiquated notions of family formation, economic betterment, and the pleasures of participating in a small way in the remnant of Euro-American high culture and political discourse.
Our masters once needed the National Guard to put down uppity White guys. Subsidized fifth columnists work better, I suppose.
The neighbors are having a good discussion about this:
https://www.unz.com/estriker/american-oligarchs-i-the-pritzkers-and-transgenderism/
Sudden acceptance of gay marriage didn’t just happen.
World War T and Drag Queen Story Hour didn’t just happen.
There is a huge amount of (((homo billionaire))) money power that paid cold, hard cash to MAKE those things happen.
Exactly, Wild Geese.
I think it's worth noting that calculated economic and political advantage accruing to selected elites plays a big role, maybe a dominant role, in tampering with any given moral equilibrium. That bullshit we sometimes hear about "evolving standards" and what-not is mostly (not always) just that.
I'm genetically programmed to listen to other people's arguments for sumpin' or other, but in my experience, most of those arguments end up as "meet the new boss, same as the old boss".
John Rocker had the best take on modern NYC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rocker#Controversial_statements
I think by “we” he means “fellow whites”.
There is certainly some truth there.
Back in 2011, Sailer compared the emerging social media to disco, an emerging phenomenon primarily composed of blacks, gays, and other fringe groups that displaced the higher-IQ types that dominated the early internet.
https://www.takimag.com/article/the_golden_age_of_white_male_antisocial_media/
Get tickets to see performances of the Dayton region’s finest arts organizations including:
Dayton Ballet
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
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Dayton Philharmonic
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/10/ny-times-tidal-wave-mass-immigration-hands-virginia-democrats/
Right now, the Democrat-controlled legislature is working hard to disarm and disenfranchise the white population of the state. In my own county, the Democrats on the county board of supervisors want to replace the sheriff’s department with a police force. The local sheriff is an elected official and a Republican, and an obstacle in the way of making the county a sanctuary county.
And I’ll bet it has more abortions performed than anywhere. And while it doesn’t necessarily follow, I’ll bet NYC has more abortions per capita than anywhere (well, cities more than 100,000).
NYS/NYC leniency regarding abortion contrasts with Reg Caesar’s premise on conservative family law in NYS.
Liberals taught me about animal rights at the Oscars. Joaquin Phoenix made a very poignant plea to save the baby cows. And at the Golden Globes, Michelle Williams told us that she couldn't have won without having an abortion. So, killing animals to feed your family is cruel and evil, killing your family for a little gold statue is virtuous and dedicated! These are the liberal values we must fight to preserve against the bad orange man.
“Liberals taught me about animal rights at the Oscars. Joaquin Phoenix made a very poignant plea to save the baby cows. And at the Golden Globes, Michelle Williams told us that she couldn’t have won without having an abortion. So, killing animals to feed your family is cruel and evil, killing your family for a little gold statue is virtuous and dedicated!”
Do you really want people like Michelle Williams having more kids? She’s apparently a real piece of…work and has no more respect for the vows of marriage than she does for the sanctity of life.
When Clinton lost big his first mid-term, he moved right to the center immediately and pretty much stayed there for the remainder of his time in office. Obama actually lost more House seats in his first mid-term than Clinton did, but stayed resolute in his ideology nonetheless and of course had the leftist media gin up outrages for him in the form of George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin and Ferguson.
Yeah, way back in 2008 with Sailer’s book America’s Half-Blood Prince, he predicted that Obama’s first term would be pretty sensible and second pretty authentic. In a rare video with Sailer discussing his book, he noted that Obama’s ’90s philosophy on race was not to reconcile, not to bring people together but to “win”:
https://books.google.ca/books/about/America_s_Half_blood_Prince.html?id=N232AgAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y
Unfortunately the video now seems to be muted.
Celebs (especially minor celebs) do in fact show up on opening night, but genuine Manhattan snobs attend previews before opening night and never after the critics have weighed in. And, as Snorlax implies, Off-Broadway >>> Broadway for real New Yorkers. I get the feeling you didn’t really know your way around.
Well. after Giuliani, NYC was basically the safest large city in America. There were some years that the reduction on crime in NYC accounted for one-half the reduction in crime in the entire country.
If you want a war zone, you might look to places like Baltimore, Memphis, St. Louis, Detroit, Kansas City.
But hey, NYC is not for everyone–and with Kaiser Wilhelm, it might be returning to the bad old days.
I have. The place is a dump.
Give me anything-from Tokyo to rural Texas-over Dayton.
we’re polarized because there’s a million guys like (Ezra Klein) here.
that’s it. that’s all there is to it.
beyond that you get into stuff like Albion’s Seed and the comparatively minor differences between the europeans, the Protestants and the Catholics, and other small issues which were bridged. none of which would have lead to the entire nation breaking up.
If you define the term “men” sufficiently loosely, I suppose…
I hate to be the bearer of an inconvenient truth, but your noon, six, and eleven “news” broadcasts are entertainment. Stop treating them as must-watch TeeVee–it’s media filling the airwaves with propaganda, and an agenda (mostly to see how many hoops they can get you to jump through).
A Mexican father who describes his children’s experiences with being different from everyone else is about as newsworthy as the sun rising in the east. They are different because they choose to be different, to see themselves as different, to hold themselves out as different–just as does an attention whore–for the reaction to their so-called plight. And because he is certain to get “a reaction.”
As an American, can you imagine migrating to a foreign country–and expecting anyone to give you the time of day to express concern regarding your experiences due to being different from everyone?
“Woe is me” is as old as humanity.
Agreed, and it’s a real problem w/ the Steve-o-Sphere but it’s also one of our largest strengths.
By placing seemingly random groups in micro-pockets, it never rises to the public consciousness. Of course, if you LIVE in those micro-pockets, you’re inundated.
As an example, how many people know that the Cambodian Embassy in Lowell, MA is bigger/does more work than the Cambodian embassy in DC? Well, everyone in Lowell but no one else would even believe that there WAS a non-DC embassy.
Anyone that’s ever been to Malden or The Cape knows the ubiquity of Brazilians, but everyone everywhere else (to include Andover and Cambridge!) thinks, “well, we’re losing the battle but at least the BRAZILIANS are staying home!”
By popularizing a platform for various people in the FUSA to point out their micro-flood, it allows us to be appropriately based on the issue.
This is a long-form way to say there are TONS of Brazilians in the US
https://books.google.ca/books/about/America_s_Half_blood_Prince.html?id=N232AgAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y
Unfortunately the video now seems to be muted.
Great post and a great opportunity to applaud our host. There are us in the audience that feel “AHBP” was halfway into our Steve fandom, and it’s was TWELVE YEARS AGO. Our host is an absolute gem who’s been fighting the good fight for EVER, please keep him in your wallets during the next fundraising cycle
Elections have consequences
I get it, resistance for thee but not for me. The thing is, the sheriff is enforcing the law, including US immigration law. Meanwhile, we can see across the river in Maryland what happens when localities become sanctuaries for law-breakers.
https://wjla.com/news/local/elrich-ban-ice-county-jail
Sure getting in early has snob value. If Lin sang the score to you in his living room then even better. But the point is that theater is for NYers and not just tourists but the shows that they will see will differ.
Dayton Ballet
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
Dayton Opera
Dayton Philharmonic
The Human Race Theatre Company
Muse Machine
Victoria Theatre Association
https://www.ticketcenterstage.com/about/
https://www.planetware.com/wpimages/2018/08/ohio-dayton-attractions-schuster-center.jpg
That’s an impressive concert hall but I’d still rather slit my wrists than live in Dayton, Ohio.
Nah.
Immigrants to Brazil, South Africa, Canada, Argentina, Australia, etc., often are/were ones who can’t get into the US. If, with the passage of time, they can, they often do.
A Mexican father who describes his children’s experiences with being different from everyone else is about as newsworthy as the sun rising in the east. They are different because they choose to be different, to see themselves as different, to hold themselves out as different--just as does an attention whore--for the reaction to their so-called plight. And because he is certain to get "a reaction."
As an American, can you imagine migrating to a foreign country--and expecting anyone to give you the time of day to express concern regarding your experiences due to being different from everyone?
"Woe is me" is as old as humanity.
I hate to be the one to inform YOU that there’s no window into our idiocracy future quite as good as Detroit local television. The videotaped robberies, shootings and burglaries, the health department reviews of restaurants with fifteen priority violations, Hamtramck paczki vodka, the green ooze, all marinated in the most creative ambulance-chasing lawyer commercials – better tv our civilization does not offer.
I think they play the video over and over for the gasp of horror. “Everyone is not with the program?” Progressive Left little old white ladies, what would we do without them?
Conflict between the “nations” of Albion’s Seed did lead to the entire nation breaking up.
Complete with the endless rumination, hand-wringing, pearl clutching, self-hatred----and fat bank account.
Where’s the self-hatred? I’ve never noticed any trace of self-hatred in liberals. They do lots of hating but they certainly don’t hate themselves. They think they’re the wisest most enlightened most virtuous people ever to walk the earth.
And that goes for all liberals, Jewish or gentile.
Dayton has always punched above its weight culturally. Both in terms of production and opportunities/outlets. Higher than normal levels of hometown pride that’s mainly anchored in the achievements of people from there and not sports teams or the climate or cuisine.
It’s not for everybody and definitely not going to impress anybody passing through. But it really is underrated. I am from Dayton originally and now live in a far larger metro with way better ‘opportunities’ and it’s certainly not a much more impressive place to live.
It’s the party that talks endlessly about feminism, white privilege, and toxic masculinity.
This is the party that tells us that if it can’t convince us it will simply replace us.
And it wonders why our political dialogue is so polarized.
Sadly, Robert W. Whitaker has passed on. But his rich legacy has been preserved at robertwwhitaker.net .
However, as I sit here at a FedExOffice location on vacation, I find that while the BUGS site is accessible, the robertwwhitaker.net is NOT. It’s blocked. I’m calling out AT&T and FedEx Office for this.
Please let Brian Philips, FedEx Services Leadership: President and CEO, FedEx Office,
know about this. Let him know that you resent this unfair action since splc.org and other hate sites are not blocked as well.
The 2012 election was important because it was the first one to take place in an era of mass use of Twitter (In 2008 it was still a very niche thing and even Facebook wasn't very widely used.) and other social media that utilised a person's real name, it led to the phenomena of social media political virtue signalling. This was exacerbated by the dominant demographic on social media being young women.
So a massive sea-change happened in only a few years, Twitter became a vector for the dissemination of this new religion, created by young women for young women. In an environment where your Twitter account was under your own full name, the mechanism of social shaming could run rampant without limits and the kudos for virtue signalling could be incredible. If every young woman habitually uses Twitter and social media, they are constantly thrown into this and exposed to constant trending Twitter activist hashtags that subconsciously become her gauge for 'okay' and 'not okay'.
Now your social group you are trying to fit into isn't just the people around you but the whole world. (Similar to concerns of how Instagram is causing higher rates of anxiety in young girls by making them compete not just with the few pretty girls in their school year but the whole world.)
Thus social media led to the political engagement and radicalisation in many cases of a cohort that the world had seldom seen, young women and teenage girls. SJW language and memes that had cultivated on Tumblr emerged after a lag onto Twitter.
You could also see this in the US with the brief but intense black student protests on US campuses a few years ago. The 'Fees Must Fall' or 'Fallist' activists in South Africa had their message and crucially, images of their mass protests broadcast over social media and the links between South African SJW twitter and Black American SJW twitter led to it being an inspiration for their own angry protests.
Good point, I was going to say something similar, except extended out to the broader technologies of the smartphone and the internet, which allow for so many niche outlets like Vox or iSteve.
The review itself seems a lot of bunkum, as Biden might say, from both Ezra and Steve. The vast majority of Americans don’t even think about the issues Ezra raises, as even the Democrat primaries show with economically-focused Bernie and billionaire-funded, centrist-leaning Pete dominating. Meanwhile, Steve’s repeated “Coalition of the Fringes” epithet makes no sense considering the US itself was long considered such a coalition of the fringes, between religious loonies like the Puritans and Quakers and Irish refuse escaping from potato famines (as that guy notes though, it is madness that the current imported dregs are living off of our taxes).
Those past dregs managed to build a rich nation, I’m sure an even broader coalition could do the same. What the US really has to watch out for is that the Internet melts away geographic boundaries for economies, so US decline as the lone superpower is inevitable as the rest of the world moves online and overtakes us.
The substantial change here is not the silly concerns of Ezra and Steve, it’s that we’re now awash in information from the smartphones in all our hands pumping through the internet. This is similar to the great upheaval of the Yellow Journalism era of the late 19th and early 20th century, when new mass printing techniques like the rotary press and jobbing presses led to a similar deluge of information compared to what we were used to.
We adapted over time, we will do the same today and these petty propagandists will all be forgotten.
It’s not for everybody and definitely not going to impress anybody passing through. But it really is underrated. I am from Dayton originally and now live in a far larger metro with way better ‘opportunities’ and it’s certainly not a much more impressive place to live.
No offense to Dayton. As you say they punch above their weight for a city of their size – but the size is not very big. Whatever it is, for better or for worse, it’s not in the same league as NY, which was the point I was trying to make. I could have just as well said Lansing or South Bend or Davenport, etc. (no offense to fans of those cities either).
The review itself seems a lot of bunkum, as Biden might say, from both Ezra and Steve. The vast majority of Americans don't even think about the issues Ezra raises, as even the Democrat primaries show with economically-focused Bernie and billionaire-funded, centrist-leaning Pete dominating. Meanwhile, Steve's repeated "Coalition of the Fringes" epithet makes no sense considering the US itself was long considered such a coalition of the fringes, between religious loonies like the Puritans and Quakers and Irish refuse escaping from potato famines (as that guy notes though, it is madness that the current imported dregs are living off of our taxes).
Those past dregs managed to build a rich nation, I'm sure an even broader coalition could do the same. What the US really has to watch out for is that the Internet melts away geographic boundaries for economies, so US decline as the lone superpower is inevitable as the rest of the world moves online and overtakes us.
The substantial change here is not the silly concerns of Ezra and Steve, it's that we're now awash in information from the smartphones in all our hands pumping through the internet. This is similar to the great upheaval of the Yellow Journalism era of the late 19th and early 20th century, when new mass printing techniques like the rotary press and jobbing presses led to a similar deluge of information compared to what we were used to.
We adapted over time, we will do the same today and these petty propagandists will all be forgotten.
Look at the domestic situation – you would think that the Internet would make it possible to work in Fargo just as easily as you could in San Francisco, but in fact San Francisco has become MORE desirable, not less. The same thing is true with countries – the Internet has only INCREASED the desirability of the richest countries.
The US doesn’t have to be the most perfect union, just more perfect that the others. Who is going to overtake us? We are seeing right now the weaknesses of the Chinese dictatorship. China could have evolved to become more democratic as it became more wealthy but it went in the opposite direction. Xi is their most dictatorial leader since Mao. Dictatorships are brittle. They are like cast iron boilers. They seem strong but they lack resiliency and can explode if they are put under too much pressure. Maybe the dictatorship will withstand this event but someday there will be an even bigger one.
As the software tools to enable this decentralization get built out, such as github.com for software developers themselves, countries fade away into the background, and the work comes from anywhere and everywhere. I think somebody said this before, but the internet is its own country.Completely agree, which is why I don't take China seriously or US nationalists like Trump or Sailer either. What's coming is completely from the other direction, ie distributed hordes from everywhere not some monolithic institution, and their backward-looking "national greatness" projects are irrelevant.
Liberals taught me about animal rights at the Oscars. Joaquin Phoenix made a very poignant plea to save the baby cows. And at the Golden Globes, Michelle Williams told us that she couldn't have won without having an abortion. So, killing animals to feed your family is cruel and evil, killing your family for a little gold statue is virtuous and dedicated! These are the liberal values we must fight to preserve against the bad orange man.
What the vegetarians and hindu-rockstars do not mention is that if people quit eating cows, cows will no longer be bred. The modern “cow” is an animal that exists only domestically, there are no wild or even feral cows out there. They will be extinct.
The closest wild animal to a cow is the Cape buffalo, which is considered one of the African “big five” dangerous game animals. Even the Texas longhorn isn’t capable of living as a feral animal because it can’t effectively forage and protect its young against wolves and cougars and other predators. Also most cows are no longer capable of giving birth without humans pulling the calves, sometimes with chains and tractors.
One of these individuals has suggested that it would be okay to raise cows for dairy if the cows were never killed, they would be able to live out their post-dairy lives in retirement. Ice cream would be the price of caviar if the steers had to be fed as dead weight for fifteen or twenty years and the cows to live as economic dead weight for many years after they were no longer economic to milk. The incentive to simply kill off these useless eaters on the QT would be immense. Dairy is economic because of eating the steers, and veal caves, leather, and butchering old cows when they are no longer producing.
It’s not for everybody and definitely not going to impress anybody passing through. But it really is underrated. I am from Dayton originally and now live in a far larger metro with way better ‘opportunities’ and it’s certainly not a much more impressive place to live.
It’s not like anybody from Dayton invented anything that changed the world, come on.
Ya think.
I understand your point for sure. Usually that’s how it gets mentioned – as anyplace USA. I’m sure is that case for Davenport etc. as well. Often it’s mentioned in a ‘I’d rather not’ way as it was in ‘Sunset Blvd’
https://www.unz.com/estriker/american-oligarchs-i-the-pritzkers-and-transgenderism/
Sudden acceptance of gay marriage didn't just happen.
World War T and Drag Queen Story Hour didn't just happen.
There is a huge amount of (((homo billionaire))) money power that paid cold, hard cash to MAKE those things happen.
“There is a huge amount of (((homo billionaire))) money power that paid cold, hard cash to MAKE those things happen.”
Exactly, Wild Geese.
I think it’s worth noting that calculated economic and political advantage accruing to selected elites plays a big role, maybe a dominant role, in tampering with any given moral equilibrium. That bullshit we sometimes hear about “evolving standards” and what-not is mostly (not always) just that.
I’m genetically programmed to listen to other people’s arguments for sumpin’ or other, but in my experience, most of those arguments end up as “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”.
And yet, there are people working out of the very equivalent of Fargo for decades now, particularly in the tech sector and increasingly in the rest of the creative economy. Your statement is the conventional wisdom and may temporarily be true, only because the internet is such a giant change that it is largely being used as a “sustaining innovation” for now, as that’s easier, before it disrupts geographical boundaries altogether. As always, disruption takes much longer.
This perfectly exemplifies the outmoded geographical thinking I’m talking about. No country will overtake us, rather national champions like google or Apple will be smashed to bits by hordes of information workers collaborating online from anywhere. This is already how open source software works and it led to decentralized Android defeating corporate-produced Windows: that model is spreading to all work.
As the software tools to enable this decentralization get built out, such as github.com for software developers themselves, countries fade away into the background, and the work comes from anywhere and everywhere. I think somebody said this before, but the internet is its own country.
Completely agree, which is why I don’t take China seriously or US nationalists like Trump or Sailer either. What’s coming is completely from the other direction, ie distributed hordes from everywhere not some monolithic institution, and their backward-looking “national greatness” projects are irrelevant.
As the software tools to enable this decentralization get built out, such as github.com for software developers themselves, countries fade away into the background, and the work comes from anywhere and everywhere. I think somebody said this before, but the internet is its own country.Completely agree, which is why I don't take China seriously or US nationalists like Trump or Sailer either. What's coming is completely from the other direction, ie distributed hordes from everywhere not some monolithic institution, and their backward-looking "national greatness" projects are irrelevant.
Where will these distributed businesses pay taxes?
Heh, they won’t, that’s one of the benefits of being online. 😉 More seriously, some may incorporate themselves, just as some software consultants do today, but tax evasion is going to be rampant.
So they won’t expect anyone to enforce their intellectual property rights, then. Right? Or their contracts.
https://books.google.ca/books/about/America_s_Half_blood_Prince.html?id=N232AgAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y
Unfortunately the video now seems to be muted.
So, if Trump gets re-elected will his second term be “gloves off”?
If indeed the US is polarized about everything, shouldn't one side be totally for Zionism & Jewish power while the other side is totally against them? One party should be totally pro-BDS, the other side should be totally anti-BDS. But red states and blue states both shut down BDS. What unity!
Both parties seem to be about Israel, Israel, Israel, more Wars for Israel, more Wars for Israel, more Wars for Israel, and 'muh holy Jews', 'muh holy Jews', 'muh holy Jews'.
So much for polarization. When it comes to Jews and Israel, there is an excess of consensus and unity. But how could this be in a polarized nation?
Nancy Pelosi said that even if Congress were to fall, the US will stand with Israel.
Trump has been harassed by Jews from day one, but he's all for Israel and Jews.
Dems and Repubs who bitch at each other will be the best of friends the moment a Palestinian family was dropped in their midst. They would become instant-buddies and beat up, murder, and hang the Palestinians from a tree and celebrate and sing and cheer.
Hmmm, could it be that the US was made polarized and divided so that it would come together on Jews and Israel? After all, if all those goyim were united on many issues, they might unite against the Jew. But if they are divided on everything, the nation could only function by the two sides agreeing on a few things... like 'muh Israel' and 'I love Jews'.
If you wanna know who has power over the people, try to find out on which matter/issue all sides are united. The single biggest issue of unity in the US is "Israel is our closest ally."
As for Ezra Klein's question, of course there's gonna be more divisions when people who control academia/media/government keep cooking up new wedge issues that are meant to divide people. Prior to globo-homo, most Americans scoffed at 'gay marriage'. But once homos were made holy, a new religion of homo-worship began. Before trannies, there was unity against the notion of man as woman. But media promoted nonsense about deracinated and deculturized Americans who grew up with TV and pop music as main staple of culture and 'values'. Once illegals were made into 'dreamers', so many dummy Americans think it's the 'new holocaust'.
So, if Klein wants less polarization, how about the Tribe not using the media and academia so much to cook up new wedge issues? And how about not creating new enemies with Russia, Syria, Iran, Hungary, and whatever nation Jews happen to hate at the moment.
Americans weren't polarized over Ukraine but they are now since the US-backed coup and the Jewish media telling us that it is the closet ally of the US next to Israel.
Klein is foul piece of turd.
The source of American polarization owes really to a phenomenon of Sorolization. Before the American public split in half, a certain group gained the power to drive ever more wedges into the body politic. It's even gotten to the point where trannies and feminists are hating each other. It is wedger nation.
But whites are idiots. Haven't they figured out the problem yet? Just think. If Jews are using Diversity against whites, wouldn't the most natural thing be for whites to use diversity against Jews? If Jews scream 'white privilege', scream 'Jewish privilege', esp as it's closer to the truth.
If someone hits you with a stick, you try to take the stick from his hand and beat him with it. The last thing you wanna do is try to protect him from the stick he's beating you with.
Jews hit whites with diversity but whites try to protect Jews from diversity. Jews use Ilhan Omar against whites, but whites protect Jews from Omar.
Of course, whites act like this because white elites have been blackmailed and bought over by the Jews. White elites serve Jewish elites than represent and serve their own people. So, white elites are useless, and white masses are clueless as their elites tell them, "Praise Jews, serve Israel, and it's NOT okay to be white."
The game will change only when whites begin to support BDS and spread the message among non-whites that Jews got everything. Then and only then will powerful Jews stop pushing for Diversity.
But as long as dumb whites protect Jews from the stick that Jews use to beat up whites, they will get clobbered and will lose.
Why is there no impassioned polarization about Israel, Zionism, and Wars for Israel?
Not everyone shares your monomania.
Pelosi and Trump are united on which one issue? "Muh Israel".
What do Democrats and Republicans in Congress agree on? "Muh Israel" and "AIPAC forever."
What do Bloomberg and Trump have in common? Israel, Israel, Israel.
Seems pretty monomaniacal to me.
https://mondoweiss.net/2020/02/bloomberg-defied-a-flight-ban-to-show-support-for-israel-defended-the-country-shelling-a-school-and-killing-sleeping-children/
Depends what you mean by “anyone,” certainly no government will be involved, but private enforcement mechanisms will only grow more popular, particularly online.
If only. He lacks any sympathy from institutions (i.e. universities, Hollywood, etc) to try to spark, say, a right-wing nationalist cultural revolution.
Not everyone shares your monomania.
But US politics is monomaniacal.
Pelosi and Trump are united on which one issue? “Muh Israel”.
What do Democrats and Republicans in Congress agree on? “Muh Israel” and “AIPAC forever.”
What do Bloomberg and Trump have in common? Israel, Israel, Israel.
Seems pretty monomaniacal to me.
https://mondoweiss.net/2020/02/bloomberg-defied-a-flight-ban-to-show-support-for-israel-defended-the-country-shelling-a-school-and-killing-sleeping-children/