African dictators, corruption and their bling

Posted on December 6, 2011 by jewamongyou

Deposed Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, and wife Simone, sitting in a hotel room in Abidjan after their arrest.

According to the Daily Mail (gore warning on source page):

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo has today been charged with murder, rape, persecution and inhuman acts by the International Criminal Court.
The crimes were allegedly committed as his backers fought to keep him in power last year.

If found guilty, Mr. Gbagbo could be sentenced to remain with his wife for another twenty years.  I would be downcast too.
Here we see Gbagbo in happier days, wearing his customary bling:

I’ve often wondered where African strong men get their bling.  Do they sell it at Walmart over there?  Do they order it from a special online catalog for dictators and tyrants?  Perhaps the father of African bling was the infamous Idi Amin

Some of those look like they could have been police badges at one point.  Others could have come from cereal boxes or perhaps they were trinkets given away by airlines.  What do they symbolize?  It’s possible that each one represents an enemy that Amin had eaten.  It’s also possible that their primary purpose was to deflect the bullets of would-be assassins.
Former Central African dictator Jean Bedel Bokassa was known for running his poverty-stricken nation into the ground through his excesses and corruption.  Here he is in all his glory:

Is there an inverse relationship between the amount of shiny ornaments on an African dictator’s clothing and his morality?  This would be an interesting field of study for African dictatoroligists.

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The Tribe Of Ice People

Posted on December 5, 2011 by jewamongyou

Thanks to eugenicist for bringing my attention to a new race-realist blog by a fellow Jew(ess), The Tribe Of Ice People.  It looks pretty good and it just got started.

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Arrows in the hand of a warrior

Posted on December 4, 2011 by jewamongyou

Like arrows in the hands of a warrior
are children born in one’s youth  (Psalms 127:4).

If children are like arrows, we would do well to make sure we’re on the right side of the bow.  As it stands, Western civilization is being subject to a hail of arrows from its enemies.  Angel Adams has 15 arrows in her quiver, and they’re being aimed at the heart of our civilization.  She says, “Someone’s gonna pay for me and my kids”.  Unfortunately, she’s right.
Humans instinctively want to protect children, even the children of other species.  Long ago, humans and wolves formed a symbiotic relationship.  Both species have benefited as a result.  Like other instincts, the love of children has been formalized and institutionalized.  Even primitive man understood that children represent the future.  This makes a lot of sense when the children are of your own kind and represent, in a genetic and cultural sense, your own future.  But when it comes to Angel Adams, we need to ask ourselves whose future her children represent.  The relationship between ghetto blacks and Western civilization is not a symbiotic one; it is a parasitic one and an abusive one.
It seems to me that this is a good example of our natural instincts being usurped for evil.  Adam’s children are unlikely to grow up to be cancer researchers; they are more likely to end up murdering cancer researchers.  They are already diverting valuable resources away from more fruitful endeavors.
If this post seems unkind and callous, it is because I am asking for clarification:  At what point does compassion cease being a virtue and, instead, become a dangerous weakness?  The ancient Jewish sages said, “He who is compassionate to the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the compassionate”.  Even animals can show compassion, but only humans have the power to temper their instincts with reason.  In Adam’s case, reason would have dictated that she be sterilized (at least temporarily) until she can support her own children.  Now that the damage has been done, let the whole family be deported to Liberia.  I am not in favor of deporting all blacks to Africa, but America does need a dumping ground for those like Adams.  If people want to show compassion toward her offspring, let them do so at a safe distance.  Let them not do so at the expense and peril of the rest of us.

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Are white girls more likely to cut themselves?

Posted on November 29, 2011 by jewamongyou

In Psychology Today, Dr. Leonard Sax complains that people avoid talking about gender differences in people who cut themselves.  He writes:

I’m bothered that so few people want to address the gender differences in NSSI* – which I think are absolutely central to understanding why these young people are hurting themselves, and essential to intervening effectively with them.  Marilyn Manson is not Megan Fox.  Marilyn Manson’s issues are not Megan Fox’s issues.  Interventions which might have helped Marilyn Manson stop cutting would be unlikely to benefit Megan Fox, and vice versa.  Nevertheless — even people who really care about NSSI tend to overlook or deliberately understate gender issues here.  The leading non-profit organization concerned with NSSI, “To Write Love On Her Arms,” asserts on their web site that self-injury “. . .has the same occurrence between males and females.”  Not true.
Gender matters.  Why are people so afraid to talk about it?

But really, Dr. Sax, it’s not so bad.  There is no taboo against discussing gender differences, at least when the victims are disproportionately female.  It does appear to be true, however, that not enough people distinguish between different types of self-destructive behavior.  Cutting is not attempted suicide and it is certainly not the same as smashing one’s fist against a wall.
There does appear to be a taboo against serious discussion of racial disparities in cutting in the U.S.  I strongly suspect that white people are much more likely to cut themselves than blacks.  Asians are also probably more likely to do so.  It is claimed that South Asian women in the U.K. are at higher risk than white women.  Apparently, there is no taboo against addressing this.  Others have brought up the black/white disparity in cutting, here and here for example, but with no statistics or studies to support their claims.
But are there actual studies and statistics that deal with racial disparities in cutting in the United States?  It is doubtful, and I suspect the reason is that anecdotal evidence implies that whites are at higher risk than “people of color”.   Establishment people love to think they are iconoclasts and breakers of taboos.  If Dr. Sax were a true iconoclast, he would tackle the racial angle of cutting.  But pointing out that a problem disproportionately affects whites is a real taboo, not a make-believe one.  So we must either create our own studies or rely on guesswork for the time being.
*Non-Suicidal Self Injury

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Witty sayings of the Finnish right

Posted on November 28, 2011 by jewamongyou

Thanks to eugenicist for sending me this link.  I hope y’all enjoy them as much as I did:

  • Israel and Hamas recently came to an agreement about exchange of prisoners. From military history, we can tell that this exchange rate is about right: a thousand Muslims for one Jew. This disproportionate rate seems rather racist, and we haven’t been asked if the inverse rate would apply to any situation. We shall still answer: yes, since for any Western country, it would be more advantageous to take in a thousand Jews than one Muslim.
  • Finland has an effective technique to solve the problems of its Roma migrants in putting their kids to schools instead of begging in the street corners. If they next threatened to force the adults to take jobs, this torrent of Roma immigrants would become a drip.
  • Several trendy leftards have publicly announced that they will not have any kids. An otherwise great decision, except one generation too late.
  • Any technology can be used for both good or evil, but the only thing you can trust is that most people will use it for trivialities.
  • The religious people are a plague that God has placed on atheists.
  • All political parties support equality of salaries. They merely disagree about how this equality is defined. Conservatives, equal salary for equal outcome. Liberals, equal salary for equal work. NDP, equal salary for any work. Greens, equal salary regardless of whether you work or not.
  • I saw a clip about the reunion concert of New Kids on the Block. Based on the audience, the same women who were in the original concert and had aged along the band, I decided that it’s time to update the classic tasteless joke. Q: How is a matchbox different from an NKOTB fan? A-1991: You can squeeze two fingers inside a matchbox. A-2009: You can’t squeeze your entire fist inside a matchbox.
  • The Finnish Independence Day once again reminds us all about a certain truth. When the White Finns won the 1918 civil war, this made the left free to express their erroneous ideas. Had the Red Finns won that war, the right would not be free to express their correct ideas.
  • A married man will usually do the wrong thing. If he manages to do the right thing, he will do it the wrong way. If he manages to do the right thing the right way, he does it in the wrong place. If he manages to do the right thing the right way in the right place, he does it the wrong time. If he manages to do the right thing the right way in the right place the right time, he is damn annoying showing off.
  • The most harmful people are those who don’t know what they don’t know.
  • Elections again, and the same old problem. Most of the candidates you can’t really vote for because you don’t know who they are. The rest you surely can’t vote for, since you truly know who they are.
  • The economic policy of all countries in the European Union seems to be based on the plan that they give loans to each other and then live on the interest.
  • An easy way to prevent fixed events would be to allow sports betting only in women’s matches. It’s impossible to even imagine female players to co-operate to create the desired final score. And even if you could somehow achieve this, even more impossible would be to have them keep quiet about it.
  • The essential difference between the nuclear power and the coal power is that if the worst possible disaster takes place in a nuclear plant, it will create about as much pollution as the equal coal plant when it functions normally.
  • I wholeheartedly support the policies of family reunification for all humanitarian immigrants. The simplest possible way.
  • How to make a “diet” product: (1) Remove fat (2) Add 50% more water (3) Halve the size (4) Double the price.
  • The secret of leadership is giving your orders in a way that the subordinate couldn’t even imagine not following them.
  • Everyone knows that Europeans are guilty for the African countries being poor and corrupt since (1) they colonized them (2) drawing the borders regardless of native cultures, and (3) the minority rule of whites prevented their societies from developing. These claims are easy to verify by noting that (1) the two African countries that were never colonies, Ethiopia and Liberia, are undeniable success stories, and (2) Somalia, the purest nation state among all former colonies, has flourished since becoming independent, and (3) South Africa, the country where the white minority ruled over the black majority the longest, is known for its poverty and despotism compared to its wealthy and democratic neighbours.
  • How does the nation of Chile organize the annual championship game between their Eastern and Western conferences?
  • When a young man wakes up in the morning, that one place is stiff. When an old man wakes up in the morning, every place except that one is stiff.
  • Sweden during the past decade can best be summarized asfolkhemmet turning into folkhelvete.
  • They won’t ask us: what is the difference between a trend and singular event? We shall answer anyway: thousands of humanitarian refugees and the robberies, assaults and rapes they commit are all singular events. One bar fight started by the right-wing rabble, even though nobody was even seriously injured, is a worrisome trend that threatens the entire national harmony and fabric.
  • In the natural sciences, learning begins when you know that you really only assume. In social sciences, learning ends when you assume that you already know.
  • The best way to do things is not the most reasonable way, but the most realistic way, since the general stupidity of people will prevent the most reasonable way from working.
  • I noticed that a recent world championship of women’s hammer throwing was won by some athlete named Lysenko. I wonder which scientific theory would best explain how she developed to be so good in this sport?
  • A man who is exceptionally lucky with women will turn into a chauvinist; a man who is exceptionally unlucky with women will turn into a misogynist; a man who has an average luck with women will turn into a husband.
  • The term “hate speech” these days seems to appear in the proclamations of the tolerant crowd about as often as the word “Jew” did in the speeches of Hitler. Even in semantically equivalent places.
  • Secular humanism, which basically means the Christian morality but without any belief in God, is like a bottle of Stoli but without the alcohol.
  • My buddy was looking for more information about the Middle East conflict and asked for recommendations for books that discuss the topic objectively and dispassionately. I gave a couple of suggestions, but warned him that all such books are pro-Israel.
  • The doctor wrote a prescription for penicillin. I just wonder if, for my sinusitis, he should have rather prescribed noceillin, since now the medicine probably ends up in the wrong extremity.
  • A man knows that he has truly reached the middle age when he sees the dream babe of his boyhood years gracing the cover of the Zoomer magazine.
  • Back in the day I was opposed to letting women serve in the military. My reasoning was that at least in the war, men should be allowed to be left in peace.
  • Vegetarianism? If I eat grass, I will be left unsatisfied. Then the cow comes and sees that somebody ate the grass, and it will also be left unsatisfied. However, when the cow eats the grass, it will be happy, and then when I eat the cow, I will also be happy.
  • They say that reasoned discussion about multiculturalism is impossible because its supporters can’t tolerate opinions that differ from theirs. Oh, sure they can. They just can’t tolerate facts that differ from their opinions.
  • Calling the death penalty a legalized murder is like calling a prison sentence a legalized kidnapping and imprisonment, or calling a fine a legalized robbery.
  • The debate about any problem related to immigration always goes through the same six stages: (1) There is no problem (2) Yes, there is (3) But it’s unimportant (4) No, it’s not (5) It’s all the fault of the native Finns anyway (6) F**k you.
  • In Finland, there are always three things that you are simply not allowed to criticize. Which three, depends on the decade. In the thirties, home, religion and fatherland. In the seventies, president Kekkonen, the Soviet Union, and all kinds of progressive ideas. In the 2010’s, women, immigrants and alternative energy. Curiously, denouncing each of these sacred cows has every time become mandatory after thirty years.
  • In choosing the energy policy, there are two alternatives, either we will be in deep shit soon, or the future generations have a small chance of being in deep shit. This should not be a difficult decision.
  • I was reading this classic compilation of funny anecdotes from schools printed in1962. Some were about incorrect and funny exam answers given by the students. Perhaps these were not wrong, just ahead of their time, for example Q: What is the main religion of France? A: Islam.
  • The Swedes have this bumper sticker argument for their national policy of open borders in that even their own royal family is descended from immigrants. How very appropriate. Six generations and 200 years from Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, and the whole gang is still living high on the hog on the taxpayer krona.
  • Last Tuesday, the capital of Haiti was in ruins and the whole country a total catastrophe. And that quake certainly didn’t help any.
  • Lowering the voting age is popular among politicians who cynically calculate that they would receive more votes from immature people with no real responsibilities.
  • A low voter turnout traditionally benefits the right-wing and conservative parties. It’s dumb not to vote, since in a democracy, voting is the way to make your voice heard. Dumb people don’t vote, smart do. A high voter turnout means that more of dumb people have cast their ballots, and the left wing parties fare better. So what can we infer about those who support the left-wing parties?
  • Calling snowmobile safaris a way to enjoy nature is akin to calling rape a way to enjoy female companionship.
  • Sciences try to explain complex phenomena in a maximally simple manner. Humanities and arts try to explain away simple phenomena in a maximally complex manner.
  • A hyphenated last name on a woman is a warning sign similar to the bright colouring of red and yellow stripes on an animal. For men, the equivalent sign is using the middle initial.
  • Right wing intellectual. Left wing populist. These expressions sound weird, unlike the ubiquitous right wing populist and left wing intellectual. However, the fact that you have to add a qualifier on a word indicates that you need to express some phenomenon that differs from the normal meaning of the word. Right wing populist and left wing intellectual thus are violations of the norm, and therefore we conclude that right wingers are normally intellectual, whereas left wingers are normally populist.
  • It seems that we won’t see peace in the Middle East until one of the two things happen: (1) Arabs no longer want to kill Jews, or (2) Jews no longer want to breathe.
  • They keep telling us that multiculturalism offers more possibilities than threats. Probably true. It’s just that these numerous possibilities are each unlikely and have a small payoff, whereas the few threats are each very likely and have massive consequences.
  • It is important to have the right amount of education. People with not enough education lack the general knowledge to understand things, whereas an overeducated person is too abstract and detached from reality. Coincidentally, everyone believes that the right amount of education is precisely the very amount that he possesses.
  • It never ceases to amaze me how much work people are willing to do just to avoid having to think.
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HBD group nucleus formed in Portland area

Posted on November 27, 2011 by jewamongyou

Beginnings are usually small, especially when it comes to high-culture issues that reside at the right of the bell-curve – such as HBD.  Today, three of us HBDers got together and had an informal meeting.  It was very interesting and pleasant and, if you’ll pardon the expression, we were a very diverse group.  HBDers are anything but cookie-cutter people.  By nature, we’re independent thinkers and this is why such meetings will (I hope) never resemble sports rallies.
There is a lot of fear, and even paranoia, among those who believe in HBD and white advocacy.  Given the forces arrayed against us, this is to be understood – but nobody ever made a difference in history by sitting at home trembling from fear of what might happen to him if his views became known.  In my opinion, there is very little risk in going out and meeting new people who share our cause.  The rewards far outweigh the risks.
Therefore I urge any readers, who live in the Portland, Oregon/ Vancouver, Washington area to contact me (rhayat10@gmail.com)  so we can work together locally to make a difference to the best of our ability.

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Oxytocin levels, trust and race

Posted on November 23, 2011 by jewamongyou

Hbdchick has posted some tables comparing trust levels between people in various nations.  Of course there are many variables that influence how much people trust each other.  It is worthy noting that, as hbdchick has pointed out:

the most trusting peoples in the world (surveyed)? = the usual suspects. germanics, anglos, finnish, french. swedes most naive.
the least trusting peoples in the world (surveyed)? = chinese, romanians, peruvians (what’s up with the peruvians?).
italians = not so trusting.

Coincidentally, I was just reading “What is Your Dangerous Idea?“, where Alun Anderson writes (pg. 79), regarding Oxytocin,:

And the hormone boosts the feeling that you can trust others, which is a key part of intimate relations.  In a recent laboratory “investment game,” many investors would trust all their money to a stranger after a puff of an oxytocin spray.

Whether oxytocin levels vary according to race or ethnicity is a touchy subject.  Iranian writer Fesenjoon wondered the same thing (back in 2010) and wrote:

But what can be said from a scientific point of view? Can we pinpoint some factors or elements, that might bear some direct influence on the status of the country’s social and economic health? Is there a relationship between the degree of poverty in a country, and the amount of how people perceive each other? According to Paul Zak, a neuroeconomist, there is.
According to Zak, one can observe a linear correlation between the amount of Oxytocin in one’s body, and the amount of trust that person feels toward others. And what’s more interesting is that “high-trust countries are by and large rich countries, or certainly fast-growing countries, and poor countries are countries with low trust”. So according to him,“countries in which trust is high have effective governments, they have very tight social structures, people interact very nicely with each other, they don’t have a lot of divisions, and there’s a positive feedback loop. They have higher incomes which further accentuates greater growth. So trust is this kind of great summary measure of a society in which things are working well. And lack of trust therefore is a measure of how things do not work well in society…
What Paul Zak dared not delve into (and yet hints at in some of his lectures) is the question of whether race and ethnicity have anything to do with Oxytocin. Oooo, touchy subject, aint it. What if I were to claim that Iranians (and Middle Easterners in general) have a low propensity overall towards being moral (which is why weve had the most fucked up govt on the planet for 30 yrs, and yet some of us are still defending it, while others simply live with it)? Are we genetically programmed to be so muleaheadedly stubborn and bezehkaar? Or is it a cultural thing? Or is it the sway and influence of a 7th century incompetent faith on the affairs of the state?

Not many black African countries are listed on hbdchick’s tables.  Mali is listed, and it scores fairly high in trust.  This may be because it is a largely homogeneous state that is strongly Islamic.  Its citizens are bound together ethnically and religiously.  It is one of the safest places in black Africa.
I did find one study hinting at low Oxytocin levels among blacks.  In a study called “Ethnicity is associated with alterations in oxytocin relationships to pain sensitivity in women”, we find:

Abstract

It is well established that African Americans (AA) experience greater pain associated with a variety of clinical conditions, and greater pain sensitivity to experimental pain tasks relative to non-Hispanic Whites (W). Notably, African Americans do not show the same relationships involving endogenous pain regulatory mechanisms and pain sensitivity documented in Caucasians, including positive associations between blood pressure, norepinephrine, cortisol and greater pain tolerance.
Objectives. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between plasma oxytocin (OT) and pain sensitivity and to explore the relation of OT to other factors known to influence pain perception.
Design. OT concentration and sensitivity to ischemic, cold pressor, and thermal pain tasks were assessed in African American (n=25) and non-Hispanic White (n=23) pre-menopausal women.
Results. African American women demonstrated significantly lower pain tolerance across tasks compared with Whites (F1,46=6.31, p=0.0156) and also exhibited lower plasma OT levels (AA: 3.90, W: 7.05 pg/mL; p=0.0014). Greater OT levels were correlated with greater tolerance to ischemic pain (r=0.36, p=0.013) and accounted for a marginally significant portion of the ethnic difference in ischemic pain tolerance (B=+0.29, p=0.06). Greater OT was also correlated with greater tolerance of cold pressor pain (r=0.31, p=0.03); however, this association was no longer seen after the variance due to ethnicity was accounted for.
Conclusion. These data suggest that reduced oxytocinergic function may be one of multiple biological factors contributing to the greater sensitivity to experimental ischemic pain, and to the greater burden of some types of clinical pain experienced by African Americans compared with Whites.
Due to taboos surrounding racial science, we are often forced to use medical studies, such as the above, and extrapolate to other areas.  If “African Americans” are low in Oxytocin, then it is very likely that black Africans, in general, are low as well.  It would make no sense to claim that such a deficiency would only impact their pain tolerance, but leave them unaffected in other ways.  There would also be low levels of trust and high levels of psychopathy and crime in societies dominated by black Africans – unless, of course, they are blessed with circumstances such as we find in Mali.
Though there have been a few fleeting articles on the role of Oxytocin (for example, those cited at Amren  here and here) it is clear that more research needs to be done on the subject.
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Ghosts of WWII

Posted on November 22, 2011 by jewamongyou

When I was barely a teenager, I bought a WWII German helmet at a flea market.  I paid $10 for it and it was in very good condition.  It still had the leather liner and the soldier’s name inscribed on it.  The man who sold it to me told me he had gotten it from the American veteran who had personally killed its original owner.  Unfortunately, the helmet got lost over time.  In Israel, we used it as a charity box.  The tragedy of WWII was so immense, and on so many levels, that it has always held a fascination for me.
I just finished reading “Adolf Hitler” by John Toland.  I found it riveting and I could hardly put it down, though I had to skip over some parts that dealt with the slaughter of Jews.  The book is about 900 pages long so there will be no comprehensive review here.  But there are a few points I wanted to make regarding it.
Firstly I strongly recommend that Irish Savant read it, for he expressed some confusion recently in one of his posts.  I’ll admit to being confused myself.  As a matter of fact, many Germans – and even Nazis – were confused during WWII.  It should be no surprise, to anybody familiar with human nature, that not all Nazis were in favor of “The Final Solution”, that many within the National Socialist Party simply wanted to relocate the Jews, that even many of those who did want to physically eliminate the Jews were determined to do so as painlessly as possible.  There were explicit orders to avoid unnecessary suffering.  As can be imagined, there were many legal grey areas.  Old laws against murder were still in place and Hitler’s ascent to absolute dictator was a gradual one.  By the time he had achieved complete power, more and more people within his own party (and especially generals) recognized that he was growing increasingly mad.
What kind of individual would seek out a position in which he presides over the snuffing out of human life?  Certainly not the most sensitive, moral or upstanding of citizens.  It should therefore come as no surprise that gangs of sadistic sociopaths flocked to concentration camps.  Even if their job was not to murder as many people as possible, they ruled over masses of powerless subjects and there was very little to stop them from doing as they pleased.
One person who stood in their way was S.S. judge Georg Morgen.  Using the German judicial system, he was able to prosecute several war criminals during the war.  If we bear in mind that, even during the height of Nazi power, not all of Germany was a black hole of evil, that not all Germans were complicit in murder – that not even all Nazis were blood-thirsty demons – then we should not be so surprised by phenomena such as Morgen.
The War is, in some respects, not over yet.  Bodies, from the last few months of that horrific conflict, are still being dug up and identified.  Funerals for the dead are still being held.  One of the many tragedies of that era is the lot of the tens of thousands of soldiers, on all sides, who were fully aware that the outcome of the war was already determined.  Those thousands of German soldiers, who died in the outskirts of Berlin in 1945, knew they were dying for a lost cause.  The Americans, and British, who died during the Battle of the Bulge, knew that they were dying for a war that was already won.  Many of the Soviet soldiers must have realized they were dying to protect a regime that was no better than that of the Nazis – and that they, too, were dying in a war whose outcome was already determined.
The soldiers who lost their lives, whether German, Russian, American, English or French, all ended up on the same side in the end.  Most of those soldiers had no choice but to fight.  Refusal was not much of an option.  To quote Germany’s corpse hunter, Erwin Kowalke:

When it comes to reburial, he believes even the smallest details are of paramount importance. “If I overlook something,” he stresses, “no one else can make up for that. It’s gone forever.” And it doesn’t matter to him if the person who he recovers is German or Russian, a member of the SS or the Red Army. “After death, we are all the same,” Kowalke says. “I might not know the poor guy. But God knows and loves them all.”

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America: Protector of small, vulnerable nations

Posted on November 21, 2011 by jewamongyou

Victor Hanson wrote a thought-provoking, if not very original, column praising the United States for its role in protecting “at risk nations”.  He writes:

So why does the United States take risks in guaranteeing the security of countries such as Israel and Taiwan? Surely the smart money – and most of the world – bets on its richer enemies. The Arab Middle East has oil, hundreds of millions of people and lots of dangerous radical Islamic terrorists. China is more than 1 billion strong, with the fastest-growing economy in the world.
But President Obama should remember that America does not think solely in terms of national advantage. In fact, only the United States seems to have an affinity for protecting tiny, vulnerable countries. In two wars and more than 12 years of no-fly zones in Iraq, America saved the Kurds from a genocidal Saddam Hussein…
All of these people – Israelis, anti-communist Chinese, Kurds, Greeks and Armenians – have a few things in common. They have relatively small – and often shrinking – populations, aggressive neighbors, few strong allies, many expatriates and refugees in the United States, and a tragic history of persecution and genocide. Half the world’s Jews were lost to the Holocaust. Had Mao Zedong – the most prolific mass murderer in history – gotten his way, the entire anti-communist Chinese population who fled in terror to Taiwan would have been wiped out. In the early 1920s, nearly a million Greeks perished in Asia Minor – ethnically cleansed by a Turkey that had at one time conquered and occupied Greece for more than 350 years. A million Armenians perished during the breakup of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The stateless Kurds have often been persecuted by Arabs, Iranians and Turks…
Only America is moral and strong enough to protect the world’s historically vulnerable but culturally unique peoples. It would be a shame if we forgot that – either out of desire for profit or because we became fed up with the bother.

As much as we would like to think of America as if it were a benevolent individual, or some sort of super-hero out to protect the little guy, in reality it is more like a vast political machine.  As immigrants stream into its borders, they form well-organized lobbying groups capable of seizing control of certain aspects of this machine.  At the same time, it sometimes does serve America’s strategic interests to protect small nations and peoples.  While Hanson praises America for protecting the Kurds, it is worth noting that such protection has mainly been at the expense of Iraq.  The U.S. has done comparatively little to help the Kurds on the Turkish side of the border because friendship with Turkey is considered more important than human rights for Kurds.  Similarly, there are strategic reasons why it is important for the U.S. to support (at least de-facto) Taiwanese independence from mainland China.
Even a broken clock is correct twice a day (once a day if it is a military clock).  Likewise, even a political machine will do the right thing once in a while.  While there may be some human sentiment involved now and then, my impression is that as the United States grows in population and complexity, this human factor decreases in importance.  In other words, political decisions are increasingly subject to special interests, big business lobbying and foreign pressure.  As the U.S. loses its cultural identity, “right” and “wrong” will mean less and less.
And that brings us to Hanson’s last paragraph.  Yes, it is important to protect “culturally unique peoples”, but it needs to be recognized that one of those peoples is the American People.  If we accept Hanson’s premise that an important part of American culture is to protect the little guy, then it follows that we have a responsibility to protect American culture – if not for itself, then at least for the small, “at risk” nations.
If, and when, the United States deteriorates into a third world cesspool (due to uncontrolled immigration and anti-assimilation policies), then what will become of nations like Taiwan, Armenia and Greece?  Who will they then look up to to protect their interests?  Certainly not Eurabia.

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The presumptuous morality police

Posted on November 20, 2011 by jewamongyou

A recent editorial by David Brooks, in the New York Times, reveals how arrogant the self-appointed leftist elite morality police can be.  Brooks writes:

Ancestor inequality is not socially acceptable. It is not permissible to go around bragging that your family came over on the Mayflower and that you are descended from generations of Throgmorton-Winthrops who bequeathed a legacy of good breeding and fine manners…
Moral fitness inequality is unacceptable. It is out of bounds to boast of your superior chastity, integrity, honor or honesty. Instead, one must respect the fact that we are all morally equal, though our behavior and ethical tastes may differ…
Church inequality is unacceptable. It would be uncouth to wear a Baptist or Catholic or Jewish jersey to signal that people of your faith are closer to God. It is wrong to look down on other faiths on the grounds that their creeds are erroneous…
Vocation inequality is acceptable so long as you don’t talk about it. Surgeons have more prestige than valet parkers, but we do not acknowledge this. On the other hand, ethnic inequality — believing one group is better than another — is unacceptable (this is one of our culture’s highest achievements).
Dear visitor, we are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other. Have a nice stay.

It never seems to occur to Brooks that, by referring to “our culture’s highest achievements”, and that “we are a democratic, egalitarian people”, he obviously considers our people and culture to be better than others.  Thus, he is violating his own rules.
Brooks somewhat acknowledges that there can be a link between one’s ancestors and one’s manners (as implied in the first paragraph).  But he does not seem to believe that there might be a link between one’s ancestors and one’s culture.  Apparently, culture, ethnicity and values are just random things that a person chooses, without regard to his ancestry.  That Brooks himself happens to be a white American must be merely coincidence in his eyes, and he could just as easily have been born into a New Guinean jungle tribe – but his ideals would remain the same.
If Americans, as he seems to claim, can boast superior integrity, honor or honesty, due to our advanced culture, then how does he reconcile this with his prohibition against “moral fitness”?
One wonders if Brooks views traditional Muslim societies, with their repression of women and non-Muslims, as equal to our own – to the point where it would be unacceptable to look down upon the Muslim faith.  Logic would dictate that he can either support women’s rights (American style) or traditional Muslim societies – but not both.  Though he may not be willing to move to Egypt, he certainly is living in de-Nile.
Would it be too much to expect Brooks to spell out the distinction between “ethnic inequality”, which is verboten, and the inequality between our “democratic, egalitarian people”, which he touts?  Last time I checked, a “people” and an “ethnic group” were fairly close in meaning.  But Brooks does not excel in telling the truth; his specialty seems to be empty rhetoric.

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