Posted under Political Correctness & Race & Sovereignty and Secession & The South
Mark Potok, lead investigator of the SPLC’s Thoughtcrime Unit, recently wrote another hit piece … um … I mean issued a cease and desist order to repeat offenders Michael Hill and the League of the South for violation of right-groupthink.
Here is the Michael Hill essay Potok is responding to.
Hat tip: Michael (not Hill) at the Southern Nationalist Network
Posted under Political Correctness & Race
Well, let’s see how much press this gets.
I wonder why ABC News put anti-racists in quotes. That’s exactly what these self-loathing idiots call themselves. Notice these punks came wielding “steel batons” and “hammers.” It figures they weren’t up for a fair fight. If they came empty handed I suspect every one white nat could take out at least two anti-racist pukes.
Posted under Race
A Censored Race War
By Thomas Sowell, Syndicated Op-ed, May 15, 2012
When two white newspaper reporters for the Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk, and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks — beaten so badly that they had to take a week off from work — that might sound like news that should have been reported, at least by their own newspaper. But it wasn’t.
The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel was the first major television program to report this incident. Yet this story is not just a Norfolk story, either in what happened or in how the media and the authorities have tried to sweep it under the rug.
Similar episodes of unprovoked violence by young black gangs against white people chosen at random on beaches, in shopping malls, or in other public places have occurred in Philadelphia, New York, Denver, Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, Los Angeles, and other places across the country. Both the authorities and the media tend to try to sweep these episodes under the rug.
In Milwaukee, for example, an attack on whites at a public park a few years ago left many of the victims battered to the ground and bloody. But when the police arrived on the scene, it became clear that the authorities wanted to keep this quiet.
One 22-year-old woman, who had been robbed of her cell phone and debit card, and had blood streaming down her face, said, “About 20 of us stayed to give statements and make sure everyone was accounted for. The police wouldn’t listen to us, they wouldn’t take our names or statements. They told us to leave. It was completely infuriating.”
The police chief seemed determined to head off any suggestion that this was a racially motivated attack by saying that crime is color-blind. Officials elsewhere have said similar things.
A wave of such attacks in Chicago were reported, but not the race of the attackers or victims. Media outlets that do not report the race of people committing crimes nevertheless report racial disparities in imprisonment and write heated editorials blaming the criminal-justice system.
What the authorities and the media seem determined to suppress is that the hoodlum elements in many ghettoes launch coordinated attacks on whites in public places. If there is anything worse than a one-sided race war, it is a two-sided race war, especially when one of the races outnumbers the other several times over.
It may be understandable that some people want to head off such a catastrophe, either by not reporting the attacks in this race war, or by not identifying the race of those attacking, or by insisting that the attacks were not racially motivated — even when the attackers themselves voice anti-white invective as they laugh at their bleeding victims.
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Fiji is clearly filled with a bunch of racists. They want their Miss World Fiji to actually look like a Fijian? The audacity!
But after Watters won the title, she faced heavy backlash because of her mixed European/Fijian descent, and some said she did not look Fijian enough.
Hundreds of derogatory comments had to be deleted from the Miss World Fiji Facebook page, according to reports.
Of course I do not support placing derogatory comments on people’s Facebook page, especially 16 year old girls. That is rude and unchivalrous. (Although what is a 16 year old girl doing competing in a beauty contest anyway?) I just post this as further proof of the PC double standard, ethnocentrism for me but not for thee.
Posted under Race
Yet another study showing that people are probably hardwired to prefer their co-ethnics. You think? Inclusive fitness could predict that people would prefer others of their own race. But let’s not let truth get in the way of spending another trillion dollars to stamp out “racism.”
Babies develop racist traits aged nine months, before coming into contact with other races
Daily Mail, May 4, 2012
White babies aged just nine-months-old show signs of racial bias, according to a study in facial recognition.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst found that by the young age the babies were already discriminating against those of different races in their ability to recognise faces and emotional expressions.
They analysed 48 Caucasian babies with little to no experience of African-American or black individuals.
Split into a group of five-months-olds and another of babies aged nine months, they were tasked with differentiating between faces of their people within own race and then of those belonged to another, unfamiliar, race.
Babies from the five-month-old group were far more adept at distinguishing faces from different races, while the nine-month-olds were able to tell apart two faces within their own race with greater ease.In a second experiment the babies’ brain activity was detected using sensors.
They were shown images of faces of Caucasian or African-American races expressing emotions that either matched or did not match sounds they heard, such as laughing and crying.Brain-activity measurements showed the nine-month-olds processed emotional expressions among Caucasian faces differently than those of African-American faces, while the 5-month-olds did not.
The shift in recognition ability was not a cultural thing, rather a result of physical development.
OneSTDV on the study.
Posted under Media & Political Philosophy & Race
This is a couple of days old, but I just came across it today. Looks like there are some changes in store for AltRight. The article is worth a read. I’ll append my thoughts when I have a little time, but I wanted to get the conversation started if anyone is interested.
Posted under Conservatism & Culture War & Media & Political Correctness & Race
Rather than continue to tack on links to the Derb articles below, I’m starting a new post for Derb related links. Others please add links as they come in.
Ilana Mercer “National Review Eunuchs”
Paul Mulshine on the Trotskyite roots of National Review and neoconservatism.
Noah Millman on the Derb. Surprisingly, Millman is so far the only writer at TAC to address the Derb issue.
Posted under Political Correctness & Race
In fact, George Zimmerman is a mestizo. His father is white; his mother, Peruvian. Peru is over 85% Amerindian / mestizo. Given the appearance of Zimmerman, he’s obviously a mestizo.
Some in the media still insist on calling him a “white Hispanic,” but this is inaccurate, as this term is already designated by demographers to refer to people in Latin America of pure, or almost pure, European ancestry.
Mestizo is not a derogatory term. It’s used by governments and demographers throughout Latin America. Mestizos are praised as the “cosmic race” by La Raza. If America wants to be the hip multiracial empire, it should really get with current terminology.
Now that we have terminology cleared up, let me say that I do feel bad for Zimmerman. He has become a political scapegoat for unhinged black activists and the Obama regime. From what little I’ve read of the Trayvon Martin case, it seems that Zimmerman was defending himself from a criminal gang-banging thug.
By the way, where is La Raza in all this? Shouldn’t they be defending Zimmerman? Or is he the sacrificial lamb they must offer for a seat at the affirmative-action trough?
Posted under Political Correctness & Race
Here are three statements about the Trayvon Martin case. One is different from the rest. Can you find it?
“Had there not been pressure, there would not have been a second look.” Rev. Al Sharpton, on George Zimmerman’s arrest.
“We simply wanted an arrest.” Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin’s mother.
“We do not prosecute by public pressure or by petition. We prosecute based on the facts on any given case as well as the laws of the state of Florida.” special prosecutor Angela Corey.
More important – which statement do you believe?
Posted under Conservatism & National Review & Political Correctness & Race & Republican Party
In what was thought to be the aftermath of the Zimmerman-Trayvon episode, there was a solid, if perhaps, premature, column from Matt Parrot, which noted:
Even if White Americans did want to feel guilty about the death of Trayvon Martin, the guy who shot him isn’t even White. George Zimmerman is of Peruvian descent, votes Democrat, mentors Black youth in his spare time, and is an anti-racist activist…For us, the most important and exciting development was the effectiveness with which Kyle Rogers of the Council of Conservative Citizens, Hunter Wallace of Occidental Dissent, Nicholas Stix (Jewish) of VDare, and others from across the movement effectively subverted and scooped the lumbering and lazy media conglomerates at every turn. The mainstream media kept lying, and our people kept catching and exposing them.
But alas, the story is only just beginning.
The Republican Governor of Florida—that hotbed swing state—appointed a special prosecutor, Republican Angela Corey, to replace the local prosecutor who originally handled the death of Trayvon Martin and did not press charges.
Republican Angela Corey is moving forward with 2nd Degree Murder charges.
In the background, Presidential aspirant (then aspirant) Rick Santorum sided against Zimmerman and with the mob. Alleged Tea Party Congressman, Allen West, sided with the mob against Zimmerman. And most recently in the news as far as this web site is concerned, Rich Lowry sided with Sharpton and the mob.
It’s clear that this is a political prosecution of Zimmerman, or rather, a witch hunt, based on discredited political calculus that pleasing the mob, will get the mob to vote Republican.
But circle back to Zimmerman’s original defenders, the ones who will remain his defenders.
A sense of justice, or at the minimum, the old concept of a fair trial, perhaps does triumph other considerations—an ethic evolves.
Zimmerman is going to be railroaded, in some post-modern combination of the Dreyfus Affair, ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’, and Bob Dylan’s (born Zimmerman) misleading account of a song, Hurricane.
Stay tuned…
Posted under Election 2012 & Race & Ron Paul
One of the hypocrisies of National Review and others at Breitbart or Daily Caller who wanted to run John Derbyshire out of town is how such publications and others have used race to sell their products. Richard Spencer points this out beautifully in his lastest blog at Atl. Right
“…With the Right, on the other hand, the conservative base is, in its guts, “racist”: such people grasp what is really happening to their country. They have sour memories of their (re-)educated children scoffing at the “talks,” quite similar to Derb’s, that they’ve given to them about Black people over the years. They’ve spent a great deal of their income isolating themselves and their families from “Diversity.”
In other words, the conservative base supports its “enlightened and forward-thinking” leaders despite what they say and do (and how they look). The base supports its leaders because it views them, rightly or wrongly—for the most part, quite wrongly—as on the side of the “home team.”
The Derb might have offended some NR readers with his scientific worldview, but it was always clear to them that he was in their corner.
Those who truly walk a tightrope, or who “dance around these issues” (in Rich Lowry’s words), are not the John Derbyshires of the movement (if any still remain) but the Rich Lowrys. It is they who must ensure that White anxiety, anger, and hope is safely and effectively channelled into the quarantine of the Republican Party and “Conservative Movement.”
John Derbyshire got off script.”
Spencer goes on to point out all the examples of how some supposed “mainstream” journals of opinion use race as way of selling itself to a mass conservative audience only to pull back and, as turns out, the pull the rug out from writers who probably thought what they were writing was once okay. As some have pointed out, Derbyshire’s latest article isn’t even the most caustic of previous things he’s written without penalty of termination.
Throughout the 2012 campaign we heard how Ron Paul supposedly profited from the racial and apocalyptic tone his own newsletters took from 1990 through 1994 and was attacked as an opportunist. Well, when will the same be said for Lowry, Beck, Carlson Breitbart et. al? Hmmm?
Posted under Political Correctness & Race
It’s official, the neocon rag National Review has fired John Derbyshire for writing an entirely reasonable and realistic article. I only ever visited National Review Online to read Derbyshire’s posts at the The Corner, but now I suppose I’ll have no reason to visit NRO at all. They’ve already either purged all their other good writers (such as Peter Brimelow and Steve Sailer) or gagged the rest (such as John O’Sullivan).
If you haven’t been following the development, Derbyshire’s article at TakiMag, “The Talk: Nonblack Version,” is a play on the “talk” that black leaders tell blacks to have with their children: don’t trust whitey. Looking at mundane crime statistics, Derbyshire wrote a piece advising white parents to tell their kids not to visit black neighborhoods, etc. The leftist and neocon media went ballistic. Derb was first attacked by PC leftists, who were quickly joined by Trotskyite neocons like Jonah Goldberg and Ramesh Ponnuru.
Why now? Derbyshire has written controversial pieces previously. Is the MSM now pushing for a final pre-election purge of all unacceptable thought from mainstream press? First Buchanan and now Derb? Is it because it’s on the heals of the Trayvon Martin story? Is it because Derb, undergoing chemotherapy, is now most vulnerable? Or is it because what he says hits so close to home? Although one may disagree with a few points in Derb’s piece, who’s going to disagree with its main premise? How many white suburban liberal parents do you know that tell their kids to go hang out with gangbangers in the inner city? Everyone knows what Derb writes is true. Perhaps that’s his real crime. In a state of totalitarian political correctness, telling the truth is the greatest crime one can commit.
Updates:
Derbyshire is now unemployed, undergoing chemotherapy, and asking readers for donations as he lives “somewhat precariously, by the pen.”
Patrick Cleburne on incident here, on defenses of Derbyshire here, and on Derbyshire’s necessary work here.
Steve Sailer on “the talk,” on the irrelevance of National Review, and on Josh Barro at Forbes pointing and sputtering.
Paul Gottfried compares National Review to the communist Daily Worker.
Federale on Rich Lowry.
James Fulford on neocons Jonah Goldberg and Ramesh Ponnuru’s tweets.
Nicholas Stix calls it a “high-tech lynching.”
Paul Kersey defends Derbyshire.
Jared Taylor writes Derbyshire was fired for writing the truth no one is supposed to say.
Richard Spencer argues that Derbyshire is a truth-teller, not a race-baiter.
Peter Brimelow writes on Derb’s financial situation, and notes that what’s going on is similar to the journolist hysteria.
Thomas Fleming writes that Derbyshire was too intelligent for National Review.
Taki defends Derbyshire.
Joseph Kay writes about the rationality of firing Derbyshire.
Paul Gottfried discusses the reality of black crime.
Jared Taylor notes the Atlantic Wire’s obsession with Derbyshire.
Posted under Political Correctness & Race
Liberals have learned to use “racism” to silence opposition to their agenda. From Rebellion.
Drinks all around at the Atlantic! Ta-Nahisi’s paying!
The media’s political narrative has triumphed over the facts in the Trayvon Martin case, which transformed a Latino into a white supremacist. This tee-shirt will incite even more racial animosity than Al Sharpton ever could.
C’mon!
Posted under Culture & Economics & Race
Charles Murray deserves a lot of credit for writing about white America in serious manner compared to compared to the crap usually put out by the academia or even the media on the subject. But however true his new book Coming Apart is about the current class divide in white American his solution for it is utterly unbecoming of a social scientist which Murray claims to be.
Perhaps the best critiques of the book from trolling the internet are offered by Rod Dreher, Yual Levine and yes, even David Frum. There are three key points I wish to chime in with: 1). Murray says he’s he’s a libertarian but yet he admonishes the upper-middle class whites for not being “judgemental” enough about their lower class brethren. Aren’t libertarians the most non-judgemental people on earth?; 2). For a social scientist, why doesn’t Murray understand, as we do here at CHT, that like-minded persons on average, whether in race, religion, creed, background, are going to coalesce in like-minded communities? 3). Because he works for AEI, Murray’s judgement is often clouded by his apparent dislike of not just the upper-middle class or lower well-to-do-class, but the liberal i.e NPR listener, members of said class. Is that really enough people to base a whole race’s problems at?
Even though Murray himself is member of the very classes he criticizes, as this article shows he tries to keep things real by eating out at a casino in West Virginia from time to time. According to the book, if taken literally, Murray believes enlightenment will come when the white “overclass” spends a day at a casino watching the white old ladies spending their Social Security checks with the one-armed bandit. Why does this remind me of the 1960s when young SDS activists moved into poverty stricken and working class neighborhoods or going even back further when the Russian Narodniks started their “To the People” movement in the 1870s to try and find out what peasants were thinking? Because it’s the same sort Utopian mindset. So the young professionals are going to tell the Korean War vets at the VFW Hall how to be better citizens? If I were them I think I would pass and leave well enough alone. Or better yet order them a copy of Grand Torino to watch and learn from.
Murray would been better off just presenting the data in his book instead of offering solutions a social scientist like himself would have found distasteful if some Lefty professor made the suggestion every white person in the U.S. had to take in a person of color in their homes. Imagine what he would have written about that.
“The Trayvon Martin case involves the shooting of a young black man by a young white man, and the failure of the white-run Southern police department to take any action against the killer. The more evidence comes out, the less defensible and more bigoted the police department’s attitude seems.” James Fallows
What a remarkable snapshot into the mind of the modern liberal. A Latino shoots a black, and liberals see Southern racial sin and white bigotry.
The idea that this could be yet another incident in the long-simmering grudge match between Latinos and Blacks is just inconceivable to liberals.
If you want to see more of what’s inside Mr. Fallows’ head – should you have the stomach for it – you can read the whole thing.
Posted under Political Correctness & Race
Posted under Election 2012 & Immigration & Race & Ron Paul
Richard Spencer recently wrote, “I find it sad, however, how quickly the libertarians’ “right-wing” moment has been flushed down the memory hole.” My sentiment exactly. While leftists and neocons (is there a difference between the two?) are rushing to label Paul a “racist,” many libertarians are scrambling to prove their anti-racist bona fides. As noted by Paul Gottfried in his recent interview, LewRockwell.com is trying to become as politically correct as Reason or the Cato Institute.
But this wasn’t always the case. In the 1990s, there was a right-wing libertarianism, and the Ron Paul newsletters are quite representative of the views of paleolibertarians of this era, especially Murray Rothbard who was the intellectual center of paleolibertarianism. The “racist” quotes from the newsletters were in sync with the views of Rothbard, who was both a race realist and opposed to Third World immigration.
But since the 1990s, paleolibertarianism has drifted radically toward political correctness and anti-Western positions (such as support of Third World immigration), making it in many respects indistinguishable from cosmo-libertarianism, as noted in the infamous essay “Lew Rockwell And The Strange Death (Or At Least Suspended Animation) Of Paleolibertarianism.” I don’t really know whether mainstream journalists know this when reporting on the newsletters, but they probably don’t care. They primarily oppose Paul because of his foreign policy, so the “racism” charges are merely convenient. (N.B. If Obama in 2008 were found to be vehemently anti-Israel, his dealings with the anti-white Rev. Wright could have been given the same press coverage as the Paul newsletters.)
All in all, the newsletters are defensible and it’s too bad that paleolibertarians are trying to brush under the rug things they wrote only two decades ago (and leaving it to more honest publications like VDare to do the dirty work). Paleolibertarians apparently haven’t received the memo that no matter how PC they try to be, if they oppose the empire and endless nation building, they will be labelled as “racists,” so why not just be honest from the start?
Ron Paul is less than an ideal candidate (an ideal candidate would look like Pat Buchanan), as recently noted by Ellison Lodge. Ron Paul’s recent support of mass amnesty in his new book is quite troublesome (contrary to his anti-immigration stances in 2008). That said, Paul is infinitely better than the other clowns in the GOP primary (which isn’t saying much, considering how bad they are) and I plan to vote for him in the primary.
Posted under Election 2012 & Political Correctness & Race & Republican Party & Ron Paul
At least some “conservatives” aren’t afraid to defend the Ron Paul newsletters which, as I said below, are generally defensible from a conservative standpoint. VDARE steps up to the plate.
Posted under Election 2012 & Race & Ron Paul
Being a journalist I’m not going to argue with a collegue for persistence. I just wish Gloria Borger was just as persistent in finding out whether there were WMD’s in Iraq as she was asking whether Ron Paul wrote his little fan newsletters or not. The latter is just politics. Actual lives were at stake when it came to Iraq. Apparently to Borger, one was more important than the other. It’s too late to play “journalist” now and ask the “really tough questions.”
To their credit, people like Connor Friesdorf and Andrew Sullivan and Reason magazine (which went the the opposite way four years ago) realize the bigger picture at stake. Others will take their pot-shots to stop a man whom they view as a mortal threat. But what the whole newsletters issue really comes down to, whether these words which even a scumbag like Eric Dondero said Paul never wrote are as important as what’s going on right now in the world where brown children in Afghanistan and Pakistan are being blown away from Obama’s killer drones as collateral damage or whether Iranian children might have the same done to them if Iran is attacked by the U.S. and or Israel.
If being the PC police, pleasing the SPLC and being clear of conscious of the taint of “racism” is more important than what’s being done in their name and their tax money in southwest Asia which Ron Paul wishes to stop. We’ll find out what’s more important to people, trivialities or human life.