Slow news day? No problem!

Posted on February 28, 2011 by jewamongyou

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen “Hispanic population rises quickly” as the front page headline in a newspaper.  Each time, it is written as if it is some sort of astounding revelation that the average citizen would have never guessed.  Each time, it is presented as a positive development.  “The Columbian”, a local South Washington State paper, recently stated:

St. John is one of five Catholic churches in Vancouver, and the archdiocese 25 years ago tapped it to provide ministry to Hispanics, the fastest-growing minority group in Clark County.
“There’s been this boom,” Perez said.
Clark County grew about 23 percent over the past decade…
As population growth among Hispanics outpaces that of other minority groups, they have become targets of discrimination, said Rosalba Pitkin, a member of the Washington State Commission on Hispanic Affairs…
“Right now, the Latinos feel persecuted,” she said.  “People assume all Latinos are undocumented.”…
“Vancouver benefits from having these wonderful, family-oriented people here,” Perez said.  “Some, like in any community, are here for the wrong reasons.  But as a whole, we benefit more than not.”

Unless we’re talking about tumors, “growth” is usually a good thing.  “Boom” is almost always a good thing.  A “benefit” is always a good thing.   I think we could benefit from some growth in the editorial section of The Columbian.  It would boom if articles such as these were placed there, and not on the front page – where, supposedly, unbiased news is supposed to be reported.
Two underlying assumptions, in the article, fly in the face of typical mainstream opinions: 1) that only recently have Hispanics become “targets of discrimination” and 2) that population growth is a good thing.  By presenting his own opinions as quotes of those he interviewed, writer Erin Middlewood (or his bosses) can deny that such articles, one-sided as they are, are editorials.  This is a cheap, underhanded tactic; they choose, very carefully, who they quote in such pieces.
Even the decision-makers at The Columbian surely agree that there are at least two sides to the immigration debate.  Surely they can see that rising crime, increasingly expensive infrastructure and environmental degradation are worthy to be considered as “the other side of the coin” in this matter – even ignoring the disturbing implication, by Middlewood, that Hispanics are better than other ethnicities and, therefore, worthy of replacing the current majority population.
It’s high time we had a real and honest debate about immigration.  So far, it appears this is not allowed among “mainstream” newspapers.  Perhaps this lack of openness is one reason readership has been declining in recent years.
I have submitted the above article, slightly modified, to The Columbian as a letter to the editor.  I expect, at best, a cordial form letter notifying me that it was not accepted for publication.

Posted in examples of propaganda, immigration/ Hispanics | 15 Comments

San Francisco may ban circumcision

Posted on February 27, 2011 by jewamongyou

San Franciscans may soon have the opportunity to ban circumcision in their city:

Self-described “civil rights advocates” say that a ballot proposition to ban circumcision is on track for gathering signatures, meaning that San Franciscans may vote on the measure this November.

The proposed law is being spearheaded by local resident Lloyd Schofield, according to the San Francisco Examiner.

It’s part of a national push to end the procedure, which some say is steeped in tradition but poses risks and has little medical benefit. TheAmerican Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association do not recommend routine circumcision.

Browsing the various comments, it appears that most conservatives oppose such a ban because it would infringe on freedom of religion.  I think it goes without saying that freedom of religion should only apply when no real harm is done to the child.  Thus, male circumcision is okay but female mutilation is not okay.

One comment, in particular, seemed more rational than the rest:

BRANDONCHESHIRE Regarding Free of Religion arguments: This is protecting the religious freedom of the infant strapped into the circumstaint who may not grow up wanting half his penile skin system removed and/or participate in the parent’s religion. There is nothing in this law preventing adults from circumcising themselves if they so choose it for themselves and their religious beliefs. If your religion wants to perform rituals on those who cannot give consent or decide for themselves whether they want to be a part of your religion or not, you need to rethink what religious freedom means.

Brandoncheshire’s comment makes sense, at first glance, because he adopts a position of total individual freedom and this appeals to libertarians like myself.  But I think that an important element is missing from the whole debate: ownership of our own children.  As a libertarian, I am somewhat hesitant to make this point, but it seems obvious that many of the things we call “ours” are located at different points in the ownership continuum – at least in relation to morality.   Absolute ownership and absolute morality often find themselves at odds.  Absolute ownership implies that I may do anything I wish with the object I own.  Hence, since I own my cat, I may do away with her by any means I choose if I no longer find her convenient.  But by doing so, I would be violating a moral code and a bystander would have the right to intervene and rescue my cat.  But what if I choose to have her declawed?  Few would claim the right to intervene and rescue her from this fate.

We own our children.  This ownership is not absolute; it does not give us the right to torture them or do away with them at our whim.  But, just as we may choose to declaw our cats, so too may we subject our children to certain ritualistic modifications.  Where do we draw the line?  This is a question that can only be answered, with authority, by the moral compass of our culture and community.  Though most of us consider female genital mutilation to be inexcusable, would we invade a country in order to save their girls from this fate?  A better approach would be to try to enlighten them through peaceful means.  If this does not succeed, it is unfortunate but no escalation is justified in my opinion.

The only way to make moral decisions, and to justifiably uphold them by law, is through our culture and community.  Multiculturalism, by definition, destroys cohesive cultures and communities.  It replaces them with a hotchpotch of values and mores.  A confused jumble of definitions of right and wrong.  It should not be surprising when moral chaos ensues.  It is the equivalent of trying to use a compass in outer space, where there is no North or South, up or down.

As Western civilizations fall to multiculturalism, and their moral codes are eroded, so too do their property rights erode.  It used to be that a business owner could choose his employees based on whatever criteria he chose.  But now that there are numerous peoples and cultures in close proximity, government has an excuse to slide his ownership ever more to the left in order to accommodate the “new morality”.  Morality inflation comes at the expense of ownership rights.  It used to be that few would question an individual’s right to own a gun.  But now multiculturalism has thrown our old morality into uncertainty, more individuals become confused even when it comes to taking another human life.  This gives government an excuse to slide gun ownership ever more to the left in a vain effort to offset the violence that its own multicultural policies have wrought.

As multiculturalism eats away at property rights, it was only a matter of time before the matter of circumcision became a referendum.  It is also not surprising that it would take place in a city like San Fransisco.

Posted in Jewish stuff and Israel, libertarian thought, pan-nationalism and multi-culturalism, shenanigans of the Left and of non-white activists | 21 Comments

Violence against whites on YouTube

Posted on February 26, 2011 by jewamongyou

There have been many recent racial attacks, against whites, that have been posted to YouTube. Sagat linked to one a few days ago.  Hoosier Nation also posted a few examples.  A few have been featured, over the years, on Amren as well.
When we read the comments, we always find the inevitable leftist claim that such behavior is just as common among whites and that race probably wasn’t a factor at all.  It was just coincidence that the perpetrators were black and the victims white and we shouldn’t take it seriously when racial epithets are hurled against the victims.  In their world, there must be a campaign to besmirch the good name of blacks by finding the few black on white attacks, that have been caught on video, and posting them.
Fair enough.  It should be fairly easy to find some similar attacks on YouTube – but featuring white perpetrators and black victims.  I searched YouTube for “whites attack black” and came up with the equivalent of Google’s “did you mean blacks attack white?” – because almost all of the search results featured black on white attacks.  The only exception was of one clearly deranged white woman attacking the black clerk at McDonald’s because they didn’t have the meal she wanted.  The white attacker was just one woman against one woman.  She was not noticeably physically larger than the victim.  She was clearly off her medications and there is, in this case, no reason to suspect there was a racial motive.  There was one other exception and it was a television news clip that made a big fuss over the racial aspect of the attack.  According to the video, no “hate crime” or “ethnic intimidation” charges were brought against the perpetrators – which makes me wonder if they are leaving something out.  But let us, for the sake of argument, assume that this really was a racial group attack by whites against a black.  It is telling that only one or two actual white on black attacks come up through such a search.  A search for “white on black attack” yields similar results.
The vast majority of black on white attacks are, of course, not caught on video.  The vast majority of those that are caught on video do not make it to television news.  There is no doubt that those we see on YouTube are merely the tip of the iceberg.  Furthermore, I would venture to guess that the odds of justice being served in most of these attacks, are slim to none.  Media coverage of such attacks is almost nonexistent.  There are no large organizations, or political parties, to advocate for the victims.  If we so much as complain about this state of affairs, we are labeled “racists” and “haters”.  And people wonder why we are angry.

Posted in crime and violence, government/corporate discrimination against whites | 16 Comments

Firefly

Posted on February 24, 2011 by jewamongyou

I was driving along a couple of days ago, listening to one of my Ramstein CD’s.  I hadn’t listened to this particular CD in at least a year.  I got to the song about “firefly” and thought to myself, “I wonder what they’re saying – and why are they singing about a firefly?”  As this was going through my mind, I glanced to the side of the street – and there it was: a shop with a large sign in front saying “Firefly electronics”.  I rarely drive that way; I had no previous knowledge there was such a shop.  From this experience it seems obvious to me that Firefly is God and He is, some mysterious way, communicating with me!

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Confession of a young race-realist

Posted on February 24, 2011 by jewamongyou

I’ve been a bit under the weather recently, and haven’t had much energy for writing.  So it was nice that a reader (who calls himself “E) sent me this post he found on a site called “grouphug”:
Link: http://grouphug.us/confessions/139354277
Text:

I am 24 years old. I am a race realist and I can’t tell anyone.
I became a race realist in 2008 or 2009, when I read an article by William Saletan about race, genes and IQ. The more I learned, the more depressed I got, and the more I knew that what I was reading was true.
My family is from Detroit, Michigan. My mother grew up in the inner city. To this day she has post traumatic stress disorder, she is always jumpy and frightened. It was worse when I was a little kid, and I picked up on it and adopted it to a great extent. I am always afraid, on some deep level, that orderly civilization is just a thin ice layer over a chaotic abyss, and there is nothing I can do to keep it from cracking and opening beneath me.
I am very angry at the people who let blacks take over Detroit. If they were still alive I would hurt them. They ruined my mother’s life. Her family was poor and her parents abused her. She didn’t need black power on top of that. Hell, even the other blacks didn’t need black power when you think about it. To this day, I’ll never volunteer or donate to any charity which helps black people, unless it helps them stop breeding.
I am not angry at black people, because they didn’t choose their nature. However, I can’t say I exactly love them to bits. If everyone with more than 20% black ancestry disappeared from the planet tomorrow, I would be happy. I would smile. As it is, I would just be happy if they all went back to Africa and if we stopped giving money to Africa and started flushing it down the toilet instead. The second way is more direct, and at least that way, some American sewer workers will clean up (no pun intended).
I am angry at my mother. In one way I see her as a victim, first of her life circumstances, and second of race fantastic propaganda. I only learned that Detroit was black when I was in high school, and by then the brain damage was already done. When she told me stories about sleeping in the bathtub because of gunfire, walking through the streets alone terrified, being holed up in a mafia-protected neighborhood during the riots, being dragged by four or five men towards a van, she never told me what race these people were. I grew up thinking it was white people who did this to her, because we lived in a majority white neighborhood (big surprise) and white, jewish and asian was all that I saw.
When I found out about Detroit’s racial makeup, and the violent nature of blacks, I felt like I’d been betrayed. My parents were supposed to teach me about reality and she taught me that black people are the template for human nature, and that a white person is just as likely to hurt you as a black person is. Because of this I grew up terrified and believing that if anything bad happened to me, I deserved it, because she’d tried to warn me and I hadn’t protected myself enough.
I think she believed that if she told me the truth, I would have grown up hating black people and believing that they are criminals. Well, so what?! She is a smart woman, she could have used a simple analogy like wolves versus dogs.
A few months ago my mom told me she was ashamed that she was scared of black people on the street. I was really upset. It must be Stockholm Syndrome, or maybe the propagandists in the sixties targeted women for psychological reasons. My Dad doesn’t like blacks, he views race fantastic and liberal propaganda as “do-gooder nonsense.”
In a way, I have to thank my parents, for not feeling so guilty they raised me in a “joyously diverse” environment. I am just upset that they were so brainwashed.
My friends are all liberals. I honestly don’t have much common ground with conservatives. I agree with them on many issues, but culturally we are very different. Most race realists are middle aged and many are off on their own tangents, there is no cohesive movement to, say, end immigration and race preferences BAMN, and screw all the other issues and side-issues until those are fixed.
At the present moment, I feel like the snake in the Garden of Eden. I took a bite from the fruit of the tree of knowledge, and instead of being expelled from the garden, I was turned into a snake and slung into the tree, where I saw the garden for what it was, an oasis of false calm amid encroaching chaos.
I understand why people resist race realism. It’s not exactly a pleasant thing to believe in, but once your eyes are opened, they won’t close again. And also, there is no new knowledge in the fruit from the tree of knowledge. It is knowledge hidden inside of you, suddenly illuminated, with a light “as blank and pitiless as the sun.”

 

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Videos from the shadow conference now up!

Posted on February 23, 2011 by jewamongyou

Matt Parrott has finished editing and uploading the shadow conference videos.  They can be found here.
The latest interview, by Richard Spencer, with Jared Taylor, can be found here.  But the audio doesn’t seem to work (except for the commercial at the beginning).  Does anybody else have this problem?
On another note, I have finished translating chapter two of “The Ashkenazi Revolution”.  It is turning out to be a very interesting book.

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An Iranian, a Polynesian and a Jew…

Posted on February 22, 2011 by jewamongyou

An Iranian, a Polynesian and a Jew were at work one day.  The Polynesian and the Iranian were having a discussion about race.  It seems they were talking about white people.  The Iranian, seeing the Jew (yours truly) close by, approached him and asked if he could contribute his own opinion to their dispute.  The Iranian said to me “you’re rather brown yourself, so from your experience, do white people resent it when a brown person shows himself to be smarter than them?  Isn’t it true that whites usually like to consider themselves smarter than other races?” (or something to that effect).  Of course I immediately told the Iranian that whites tend to be the most accepting and tolerant of any race on Earth.  This was not the answer that he expected to hear – but the Polynesian replied, “see!  I told you so”.  The Iranian proceeded to explain that, in Texas, he found whites to be arrogant.  I told him that this might sometimes be the case but that he should consider other factors that may lead to their resentment, such as his accent.  Also, nobody likes others to outdo them intellectually, regardless of race.  Then, paradoxically, he switched to black people and how they often under-perform, leaving the heavy work for others.
What struck me is that the Iranian is an exceedingly friendly person.  He and I get along famously and he is always smiling.  In contrast, there has often been friction between myself and the Polynesian.  If I had to guess which of the two held stereotypical views about whites, I would have picked the Polynesian.  But racial attitudes cannot be gauged solely on other personality traits.  Furthermore, it is possible that the friendly, smiley, Iranian is not so friendly and smiley toward whites.  Perhaps he is nicer to me because he does not perceive me as white.
I am reminded of an odd childhood experience.  I must have been about 14 years old at the time.  A black boy, at school, had decided to befriend me.  We visited each other a couple of times and had some interesting conversations.  It turned out that he was very much intrigued by the black Muslim movement.  He showed me pictures of Muslims hurling stones at a large white boulder.  He explained that the white boulder symbolized whites and this was one way they showed their disdain for whites, who represented the Devil.  It soon became clear that he only befriended me because he did not consider me “white”.  Still, there were plenty of other non-whites he could have befriended and, as far as I could tell, I was the only one so “honored”.  To that friendship I said, “thanks but no thanks”.
Though I can’t prove it, I am fairly certain that some of my interactions with Mestizos have been similarly colored.  I get the impression that a similar skin tone makes us “brothers” on some level, even though they must realize I am not actually one of them.   I know a Puerto Rican who was in prison for a few years.  I asked him how a member of an ethnic group, that has few members in prison, would find protection.  If the inmate is the only Arab or Pakistani, for example, wouldn’t the other inmates make his life a living hell?  He answered that such an inmate can become an honorary member of the Samoan, or Mexican group and find protection among them.  It was clear that neither whites nor blacks would normally accept a brown person as a member.
It seems to be a natural human tendency to treat those who look like ourselves better than we treat those who look different.  America has enough of each race, at this point, that most of us experience a range of racial friendliness levels as we go through life.  It is silly to complain about a lack of friendliness, from some members of a different race, when a surplus of friendliness can be had among members of one’s own race (or a similarly looking race, as the case may be).  If one finds himself in an area where he feels racially out of place, instead of complaining, he should move to a different area.  If he does not do this, then he obviously enjoys the company of a different race more than his own.
Those in power, unfortunately, do not sees things this way.  Their approach is to force us together in the (ostensible) hope that we will all treat each other the same – in other words, that we will cease being human.  Personally, I’d rather be a “racist”.

Posted in immigration/ Hispanics, pan-nationalism and multi-culturalism, racial differences and how they manifest themselves/race science | 9 Comments

Exceptional speech about race and discrimination

Posted on February 21, 2011 by jewamongyou

Destructure links to this video on his blog.  I highly recommend it.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKgHc6bWqZ4&w=480&h=390]

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My involvement with Shas

Posted on February 20, 2011 by jewamongyou

These days, anybody who is familiar with Israeli politics, has probably heard of Shas, the Sephardic religious party.  It is typically believed that the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef, was responsible for forming Shas.  Indeed, the wording in Wikipedia is misleading:

The party was formed under the leadership of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (a former Israeli Chief rabbi), who remains its spiritual leader today.

Yes, it is likely that the political party was formed by Ovadia Yosef.  But the movement itself was not.  I was actually involved in the movement before R. Yosef even knew about it, so I do speak with some authority on the matter.
A dear friend of mine, at the time, had invited me to a meeting in a synagogue located in the Bukharian quarter of Jerusalem.  She was friendly with one or two of the speakers and thought I might be interested.  A few days later, I showed up at the meeting, which was held in semi-secrecy in the evening.  There were about 20 or 30 of us and refreshments were served.  While I do not remember the details of each of the two or three speeches that were given, I do remember that the organization was not intended to be a political one at that stage.  Instead, it was intended to be something of a civil rights group for Mizrahi Jews in Jerusalem.  A serious question was also raised: at what point should R. Ovadia Yosef be notified of the existence of our organization?  Though the group was not, at that point, political, everybody knew that this might change.  It was believed that R. Yosef was beholden to the established, and almost exclusively Ashkenazic, religious political party – Agudat Israel.  There was a real fear that he would quash our movement even before it got started.  As a member of the establishment, there were doubts that R. Yosef could be trusted at this early stage.
The next meeting I attended involved hundreds, if not thousands, of people.  Word had gotten out.  At some point (I cannot remember exactly when) we were given flyers to hand out.  The movement had definitely become political and was going to run for seats on the Jerusalem city council.  The backing of R. Yosef had been secured as well, and this was decisive.  A war of flyers broke out, with the established (and very powerful) Agudat Israel playing dirty tricks to dissuade people from supporting the new party.
In the very beginning of its political phase, Shas was known as “Shat”, which stands for “Shomre Torah” (keepers of the Torah).  A few flyers were printed up, initially, using this acronym.  It soon became known that another registered political party was already using those letters.  There was some discussion as to what to call ourselves instead.  A decision was made to change it to “Shas”, which is also an acronym for “the six orders of Mishna” and is symbolic of the body of Jewish law.

A page from an early flyer using the name “Shat”

 

… another flyer, with the new name, “Shas”

A flyer urging Sephardic Jews to remain loyal to Agudat Israel

I was fairly active in promoting the new movement back then.  It seemed to me that their grievances were legitimate ones.  The establishment party, Agudat Israel, had a stranglehold on political power within the religious community.  Though it received much of its support from Sephardic/Mizrahi Jews, very little benefit or recognition was seen in return.  Agudat Israel cronies used taxpayer monies for their own pet causes and organizations.  The uppermost flyer, pictured above, reads, “a public representative or a private representative”.

The rise of Shas was a good example of a truly grass-roots movement succeeding beyond its wildest dreams – and in a very short amount of time*.  I was a volunteer during the first Jerusalem election that included Shas.  We counted the votes at the end of the day.  The feeling of triumph, when it became clear that Shas had beaten Agudat Israel by a large margin, is hard to describe.  Each party was represented among the volunteers and the faces of those who represented Agudat Israel changed over the course of the counting process.  On their faces I saw disappointment, frustration – and finally a forced respect.  There was a new kid on the block and they had no choice but to resign themselves to the new reality.

Many years have passed since those exciting days.  Is Shas now just another political party?  Is it just as corrupt as the others?  Has it worked toward worthy goals and sought to strengthen the traditions of the people who voted it into power?  I am not sure I want to know; I fear the worst.  As for me, I did what seemed right at the time and those memories continue to bring me pleasure.  As for the future, there are other banners to carry and other battles to be fought.  So much of the fun is in the fight that, at times, victory seems almost irrelevant.

* All this took place in 1983 and 1984

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HBD among the Asians

Posted on February 18, 2011 by jewamongyou

HBD oriented Asian blogs seem to be popping up around the internet.  Personally, I am tickled.  This development is promising because American society is not as strict with Asians, as it is with whites, when it comes to the taboo against honest discussion about race.  If HBD becomes fashionable among Asians, this could provide a foothold for whites to also espouse such opinions.  It could be like sushi or Yoga.  One SWPL would say to another, “hey, did you hear about HBD?  It’s this cool new Asian philosophy!!”
There are far more Asians in the world than there are whites.  If a majority of Asians (even just East Asians) accept HBD, then those whites who continue to cling to their dusty and useless racial equalitarianist beliefs would find themselves increasingly isolated and marginalized.
Asian race-realism does not have the unfortunate baggage that white race-realism so often carries; from what I’ve seen so far, their outlook tends to be kinder and gentler.  The fact that they do not face minority status in their own lands certainly has much to do with this.  We would do well to try to emulate them in this regard – but without losing our sense of urgency and activism.
Some examples of Asian HBD proponents are Steve Hsu, whom I have already written about, Sagat Says and Oriental Right.  We should ally ourselves with them, contribute to their sites and befriend them.  Though there are Asian supremicists , who are enemies of all who are not Asian, we should be able to distinguish between them and our friends with ease.  It would be much more beneficial, for our movement, to ally ourselves with like-minded Asians than with whites who seem to share our goals – but who, in fact, are poisonous.
Some might say that Asians are drawn to HBD because, within the world of HBD, they are generally at the top of the I.Q. totem pole.  Perhaps there is some truth to this.  More likely, I think, they are drawn to HBD because they are intelligent enough to recognize its merits.  Ultimately, we should strive for a world where human differences are acknowledged and respected.  Where policy is based on truth rather than blind faith.  Where it is understood that each race and ethnicity has a right to its own lands and where peaceful commerce and intellectual intercourse are the norm.
It could be claimed that those Asians who live in America are part of the problem; by participating in the displacement of whites, from the nations whites created, their actions speak louder than words.  I do not believe this is a fair standard to hold them to.  If somebody disagrees, perhaps I’ll dedicate a separate post to explain why I feel this way.
In the meantime, I give Asian HBDers the official Hebrew blessing of “ken yirbu” – may they multiply!

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