Racist code words

Posted on October 10, 2010 by jewamongyou

The left loves to accuse the rest of us of hiding our racism through “code words”.  Their list of code words might include “states’ rights”, “urban”, “high-crime area”, “youth” etc.
Typical of such leftists is Steve Rawley who  writes:

Racism exists in many forms. Perhaps the most hurtful form is the unconscious kind, expressed inadvertently by people who consider themselves to be well-meaning. I don’t think anybody who contributes to the discussions at PPS Equity is a racist, but there have been times when non-white readers have contacted me in exasperation about some of the things they’ve read here.
Just for kicks, see how many code words you can spot in the following passage. This is a real comment on a different blog.

We live in our neighborhood b/c it’s what we can afford, but the schools here are scoring so low and are socially very rough. We go to a charter school (thankfully k-8) about 4mi away, and have been developing a great community there. Most of the kids in our neighborhood go to various other schools too. Ironically, they are the more balanced, healthy kids that I prefer my kids befriend anyway. The ones from our neighborhood school are often yelling cusswords, lying, flipping each other off, and don’t seem to be supervised.

The type of “racism” Mr. Rawley complains about is, in fact, parents looking out for their own children.  Leftists (and most of those in power) view freedom of association and parental instincts as evils that must be crushed.
While leftists moan and groan about whites voting with their feet, picking their own friends and protecting their children, we do not see them complaining about anti-white racism at all.
Kaiser Permanente is offering scholarships for students interested in pursuing careers in health care.  Here is a snapshot of their application:
It is hard to be more transparent than this; Kaiser is plainly stating that Hispanics and blacks have preference over whites.  Examples, such as the one above, are extremely easy to find.  In fact, they are the norm.  Apparently, people like Rawley do not consider such policies “hurtful”.  Either that or he does not consider whites important enough to worry about.   By the way, “underrepresented” is a code word for racism.

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More blatant racism from The Oregonian

Posted on October 8, 2010 by jewamongyou

I am not sure what is more amazing.  The sheer volume of anti-white propaganda we are exposed to or the extent that the masses are blind to it.
The Oregonian ran a large article, in their “Opinion” section (Sunday, October 3, 2010) called “It’s time for Oregon to get smart on crime”.  The article dealt with various mandatory sentencing laws, Oregon’s prison population, crime levels and the budget.  On the first page of the add is a blurry illustration depicting an anonymous inmate’s face superimposed on the state of Oregon behind bars.  The inmate appears to be Caucasian.  On the second page of the add, two photos are featured.  The top one shows two productive, benign inmates clearly trying to better themselves.  One is black and the other Hispanic.  We can see how well they get along – and what could be more innocent than getting/giving a haircut?:

Toward the bottom of the page is the second photo.  Here we see a gang of shirtless toughs, one of them sporting a large swastika on his chest.  They appear menacing.  They are faceless, nameless and – they are all white:

Whatever message the Oregonian appears to be sending, they are clearly piggy-backing their underlying creed onto it: “people of color” = good.  Whites = bad.  But, since this is not the topic of their opinion piece, the impression is that this message is not an opinion at all, but rather a fact.  I hope none of this blog’s readers actually support The Oregonian monetarily, for this is a cowardly and dangerous form of propaganda.
(Note that the above photos were taken two years apart.  Somebody sifted through a lot of photos to find what they were looking for in order to obtain the desired effect).

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Quran-burning Pastor interview

Posted on October 7, 2010 by jewamongyou

Patrick, who often comments on this blog, was kind enough to send me an interesting link.  Here we can hear a naive and foolish BBC reporter interviewing the breathtakingly ignorant pastor Terry Jones – who recently planned to burn 20 Qurans.
It is frustrating when a cause, which should be praiseworthy, is taken up by a man who comes across as a clueless dufus.  It is not enough that pastor Jones had never even read the Quran, but he is caught flat-footed even on simple questions about the Bible.  If there are people like him among race-realists, let us hope that they do us all a favor and keep their mouths shut.

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The legacy of serfdom

Posted on October 5, 2010 by jewamongyou

The vast majority of whites are descended from people who suffered as serfs for several hundred years.  In our time of abundance, we often forget how short and brutal life used to be.  Christopher Martin, in his book “Louis XIV”, describes it thus:

… The peasantry still formed the bulk of the population.  Dressed in course cloth, with wooden clogs, living in thatched hovels, they lived simply at the best of times, on a meatless diet of bread and dripping, and porridge.  As much as half the value of their crops might go to the landlord in rent; or if, as was common in Southern France, they owned their own smallholding, it was often too tiny to keep them above the level of starvation.  The periodic scourges were famine, plague and war.  Not surprisingly the peasant’s expectation of life at birth was only twenty-five years.

During the Middle Ages, some 90% of Europeans were serfs.  These “Middle Ages” persisted, in some places, until the 19th century.  Once born a serf, it was almost impossible to escape to a higher station in life;  one’s status was determined by lineage.  Education was rudimentary at best and was typically limited to religious instruction.  Illiteracy was the norm.
Peasants were viewed as an inferior breed of human, relegated by divine providence to serve the noble class:

Certain wild creatures, male and female, are to be seen about the countryside, grimy, livid, burnt black by the sun, as though tethered to the soil which they dig and till with unconquerable tenacity… When they stand upright, they show a human face; they are, in fact, men.  At night they creep back into dens, where they live on black bread, water and roots; they spare other men the trouble of sowing, ploughing, and reaping in order to live, and they deserve not to go short of that bread which they have sown…” (La Bruye’re on the peasants, in “Characters”).  Also from “Louis XIV”.

While most white people today are descendants of those “wild creatures”, it is certainly working class/blue collar whites who are their true heirs.  What long-term cultural and genetic legacies did those centuries of slavery inflict upon the the descendants of serfs?
Among large-scale movements, the rise of Marxism in Eastern Europe was clearly built upon class resentment – though it ended up destroying the very downtrodden it was supposed to rescue.
I would argue that the prevalence of alcoholism in certain European countries is an outgrowth of serfdom.  After all, in a life of abysmal misery, it is only natural that people availed themselves of the temporary escape from reality that alcohol provided.  Who can blame them?
In a feudal society, peasants lacked freedom.  They needed their lord’s permission to marry or even to leave his property.  Over generations, people would have grown accustomed to their rulers making important decisions for them.  Today, their descendants are accustomed to government making decisions for them.  There was a smooth continuity of subservience – the lord gave way to other, more modern, forms of subjugation.  The serf has always had “authorities” to answer to even to this day.
Despite all the above, I do not believe that any white society pities itself and lives in the shadow of any historical persecution.  As Guywhite eloquently put it, in his open letter to Eric Holder and Michelle Obama:

What proof is there that black people still suffer from slavery 150 years ago besides your claims? Do Russians still suffer from the legacy of serfdom? If so, why did Russia get rapidly wealthier after the fall of the Soviet Union and the people of Moscow are now wealthier than most Americans? If blacks still suffer from the legacy of segregation into the black ghetto, does that mean that Jews must still suffer from the legacy of the Jewish ghetto? If so, then why are Jews the wealthiest people in the United States and every other country? Why do they score the highest on academic and IQ tests?

In the Western world, what is it that distinguishes successful people from failures?  Failures are enslaved by their legacies.  Successful people rise above their legacies.

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Jared Taylor versus Ora Garway

Posted on October 3, 2010 by jewamongyou

We like to think of the internet as being a free forum of ideas, a place where unpopular truth can defeat establishment dogma in a level playing field.  This is what we like to think – until we remember that even where freedom of speech prevails, it is money that determines which speech people are most likely to hear.  It is money that determines who speaks the loudest.
Hence we have Ora Garway, a newspaper editor in Monrovia, Liberia getting far more publicity than Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance. Garway’s newspaper, “Punch”, has a circulation of only 500 people per issue and does not appear to deal with particularly controversial issues.  I do not know how many readers American Renaissance has but I’m fairly certain it is more than 500.  Furthermore, AR is truly revolutionary.  It discusses issues than no mainstream publication is willing to seriously discuss.  The same cannot be said of “Punch”.
If we do a Google search for “Jared Taylor +American Renaissance”, we get 21,200 hits.  For “Ora Garway +Punch” we get 303,000 hits.  Garway’s visit to Mango Town is international news, even though very little happened there.
I have nothing against Garway.  She seems like a dedicated and brave woman.  But the above Google searches show us who is truly in charge versus who the real underdogs are.
Taylor and Garway do have something in common.  Just as most Liberians are illiterate, so too are most Americans racially illiterate.  Just as Garway faces an uphill struggle to get her message across, so too do people like Taylor.  The difference is that Garway has the support of powerful international forces behind her.

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The horrible life of school teachers

Posted on October 2, 2010 by jewamongyou

My brother, who is a school teacher, sent me this article by a (presumably) socialist school teacher.

Here was my reply:

I have a few questions about this article:

1) “the biggest predictor of a child’s future is what their parents do…class and growing economic inequality”  And yet Miss Behrent wants to expand public education to include (presumably) even toddlers.  Any reasonable reader would conclude that the author does not approve of the fact that parents are the #1 influence on a child’s life; he would prefer that the State be the #1 influence, with teachers (most of them, anyway) serving as its proxy.  She assumes that the parents’ income and social class are the sole important factor in their influence on their children.  What about heredity?  What about culture?  There are many reasons for economic inequality, not all of them bad.  As old class structures disappear, I.Q. takes a more and more important role in determining who lives with whom and who marries whom.  All this was explained quite well in “The Bell Curve”.

2)  “That a school’s “effectiveness” is so strongly correlated with the racial makeup and economic status of its student population suggests that poverty is what keeps our schools unequal. Not teachers.”  I think she’s got it backwards.  Poverty is a byproduct of lower average I.Q. – which, in turn, is correlated with race.  This is why higher income blacks score lower, on average, than lower income whites.  It is why North Asians consistently score high regardless of their income.  I can back this claim up with facts.  I wonder if Miss Behrent can back up his assumption with facts.

3)  “Rigoberto Ruelas, a 14-year teacher in Los Angeles who went missing after the reports came out and was recently found dead, with suicide suspected.”  As unfortunate as this is, let’s put this in perspective and consider how many people, of other professions, commit suicide because of their work or loss of their careers.  To use this anecdotal story as evidence is pretty pathetic.  The implication is that teachers should be shielded from criticism lest they commit suicide.  Really?

4) “only 17 percent of charter schools do better than public schools, while 37 percent perform worse”.  “Better” or “worse” by whose standards?  Here, read this:

“Many parents would prefer to see their kids “survive” school intact and with their outlook still healthy even if they don’t ace their SATs. Whereas a bad-ass public school can still make kids scrape through but many may be brutalized already and this will affect their future. A child in an inner city public school who performs well on scores against all odds has often undergone the kind of pressure a child should not have to undergo to be given a place at a college. Scores are not education they are just a selection tool.”

5) “the continued and increased segregation of schools; and the growing gap between rich and poor that leaves all poor children behind.”  What’s his problem with segregation?  I think it’s a good thing – if that’s what the parents want and as long as it’s not by force of law.  As for the “growing gap between rich and poor”, again see The Bell Curve.  Also, income disparity comes naturally with any multi-racial society.  I don’t think you can find any exceptions.  All over the world this is the case.

Okay, so they weren’t all exactly “questions”.  For the record, I know that my brother is a skilled, and very conscientious, teacher.  He really cares about his students and always goes the extra mile.  This being the case, I’m certain that if the government hadn’t hired him to teach kids – many parents would gladly do so.  After all, if you have a valuable skill, people will pay you for it, right?

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Just visited my grandson in California

Posted on September 28, 2010 by jewamongyou

I wanted to share a few thoughts about my visit to Southern California to see my first grandson.
It had been a while since I’d visited the Los Angeles area.  Most striking to me was the extent of the demographic transformation.  Living in the Pacific Northwest, I’ve been largely sheltered from this.  When I think of all the leftists who, when the subject of race, is brought up to them, love to reply, “I do not recognize ‘race’; it means nothing to me and it is therefore of no importance” – I wonder if their attitudes will change as they grow old and find themselves increasingly isolated in a dangerous world.  For, as we all know, race is very important to the mestizos, blacks and Asians who are inheriting this nation.  In their eyes, those isolated whites (leftist or not) are hostile aliens, to be dealt with accordingly.
My daughter, though not religious at all, decided to have my grandson circumcised by a rabbi.  I’m pleased to say it was obvious that he felt no pain at all and there was also very little blood.  The whole procedure was clean, painless and very informal.  Of course, this is not always the case but, apparently, it is not unusual either.  In any event, my grandson is just as cute as ever and none the worse for wear.
During a chat with a family elder about child-rearing, she mentioned that in her day there were no books or articles giving advice how to raise children other than Dr. Spock.  I told her that, back then, there was little need for such books; America was still 90% white and Western European tradition was still alive and well.  People simply raised their children as they, themselves, were raised.  For the most part, those children grew up to be productive and happy adults.  Only when massive numbers of non-European immigrants began flooding the country did Americans experience an identity crisis.  That’s when they started having doubts how to raise their children and it was this void that such books tried to fill.
As for the weather, it was interesting timing on my part: Los Angeles experienced its hottest day ever at 113 degrees (maybe more; the official thermometer stopped working at that point) during my visit.

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Albert Speer and the "ice people"

Posted on September 26, 2010 by jewamongyou

A few years back, black nationalist Leonard Jeffries made his infamous remark that whites were ice people while blacks were sun people.  Many felt scandalized by those remarks.  Many others tried to interpret them, each according to his own views.  Typically, those views were variations of the theme that whites are, somehow, emotionally inferior to other races.
I just finished reading an essay about the life of Albert Speer.  Speer was a remarkable man and his life holds many lessons.  His parents were aloof from him; he never experienced warmth or love during his formative years and his siblings looked down upon him.  According to the essay, the closest thing to a friend Speer ever had was Hitler.  Throughout his career, as Hitler’s architect and minister of armaments and war production, Speer remained blissfully protected from the suffering his policies wrought.  Intoxicated with power, fleeting glimpses of this suffering did not bring him to question his role as an important cog in the machinery of war and death.  In short, Speer was an “iceman”.
Throughout his 20 years of incarceration at Spandau, Speer struggled to complete himself as a human being both by trying to come to terms with his past and by cultivating the aspects of humanity that he had earlier lacked so sorely: compassion, empathy, love, and a sense of right and wrong.  Prior to his incarceration Speer was, it may be said, half a person.  And yet this “half person” was immensely successful in his endeavors.  The most powerful man in Europe considered him a trusted confidant and perhaps his closest friend.  Clearly, what Speer lacked in the softer attributes of humanity, he made up for in intellectual prowess, ambition and loyalty.
If we look only at the traits that made Speer an “ice man”, we should ask ourselves if those traits are more or less common among non-whites.  Are distant, aloof, parents uncommon among blacks?  Is it so unusual to find a lack of compassion among mestizos?  If we judge NAM societies based on their “family values”, their compassion toward other people and their criminality, any rational person would consider them to be the “ice people”.  I think the reason that the term “ice people” has stuck to whites is because the other virtues whites have (as in Speer) made the “ice” traits stand out in sharp contrast.  If a retarded person drools, we think nothing of it; retards are supposed to drool.  But when we see a physicist drool, we consider it noteworthy.  The physicist might acquire the epithet “the drooler” while the retard will always remain simply a “retard”.

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Sokal's nonsense,the Kabbalah and leftism

Posted on September 24, 2010 by jewamongyou

Long ago and far away I was a teenager attending a Lubavitcher yeshiva.  I plainly remember sitting among other students as the rabbi tried explaining a pivotal Kabbalistic concept to us.  Combining the most serious expression he could muster and animated hand gestures, he would say, “It’s there… but it’s not there…” as if he was sharing a profound secret with us.  At that moment, as other students sat spellbound, a disturbing realization began to percolate through the subconscious of my young mind: the deepest concepts are those that are untrue.
We all have our intellectual limits and, at least in Western society, we are taught to test those limits.  At the boundaries of what we can understand and what we cannot understand is a buffer zone of foggy concepts.  With a bit of effort, we can often resolve those foggy concepts into either “true” or “untrue”.  Most are too lazy to even challenge them, instead deferring to the wisdom of popular faith or those they consider experts.  Just beyond this frontier is the zone of “deep ideas”.   This latter zone is an ideal spot to hide falsities from the gullible, for most can only barely discern the hazy outlines of such concepts and lack the ability to expose their true nature.  Sometimes the ability is there but religious faith prevents this ability from being exercised.  Such was the case with most of my fellow students and, to a lesser extent, myself.
Of course, not everything kabbalistic is nonsense; once the necessary foundations were established, subsequent fantasies could be constructed upon them.  Within the context of previously built mystical illusions, any such later inventions might not (technically) be considered nonsense.  Over many generations, an entire field of “knowledge” was built, complete with various schools of thought, ongoing debates, special terminology and legions of “experts”.  Several Kabbalistic books were written and then erroneously attributed to ancient sages.  This gave the illusion of historical depth and hence the Kabbalah came to be considered a reputable field of study.
Time and time again we see how easily the masses, and even scholars, can be fooled.  In 1996 a man by the name of Alan Sokal conducted an experiment:

The Sokal Affair (also Sokal’s Hoax) was a publishing hoax perpetrated by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University. In 1996, Prof. Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies. The submission was an experiment testing the magazine’s intellectual rigor, and specifically to learn if such a journal would “publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors’ ideological preconceptions.”
The article “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,” published in the Social Text Spring/Summer 1996 “Science Wars” issue, proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct. At that time the journal did not practice peer review fact-checking, and did not submit the article for outside expert review by a physicist.  On its date of publication, in May 1996, in the journal Lingua Franca, Sokal revealed that the article was a hoax, identifying it as “a pastiche of left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense . . . structured around the silliest quotations [by postmodernist academics he] could find about mathematics and physics”.

We all have our intellectual limits and we all like to think we’re smart, so even elite publishers possess a zone of deep ideas.  Even intellectuals sometimes give in to the temptation to annex their zones of foggy ideas or deep ideas into their zones of understanding.  I can only surmise that the root of this flaw is a lack of humility.  They simply cannot bring themselves to admit that they do not understand.  In this regard, honesty and humility would go a long way toward advancing human knowledge.
There might be another, deeper, appeal to nonsense in the human psyche.  In his book “Consciousness Explained“, Daniel Dennett advances the hypotheses (chapter 8) that human speech originates, within the mind, as utter nonsense.  Our minds refine this nonsense into meaningful phrases as the situation demands.  The notion of a homuculus within our heads making fully developed decisions has been discredited, both by Dennett and other researchers.  Dennett supports his hypotheses (which he calls the “pandemonium model”)  by showing us that sometimes humans lose the ability to make sense of their speech even though they still have the ability to speak.  A classic example of this is jargon aphasia.
I wonder if the “zone of deep ideas” and the zone of “pandemonium” reside in the same foggy region of our subconscious.  If people can lack the ability to speak their thoughts in ways that are comprehensible to others, perhaps they can also lack the ability to discern the difference between nonsense and sound logic.
It is a well-known fact that leftists (AKA “liberals”) are incapable of engaging in rational discussion when it comes to certain dogmatic notions that they have – for example about race.  Perhaps they suffer from a form of reverse jargon aphasia.  Since “liberalism” is a religion, we might expand the question further: do all (irrational) religious people suffer from reverse jargon aphasia?  If we consider that the vast majority of humans, since time immemorial, have been religious in one sense or another, the truth may be that such aphasia is the normal state of mankind.  Then it might be fair to say that we, who read/write this blog (and others like it), represent a more advanced stage of evolution.  We have overcome our aphasia.   Illogical Kabbalistic claims no longer hold sway over us.  Leftist racial superstitions no longer intimidate us.  Sokal’s nonsense no longer fools us.

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E-cigarettes and copyleft

Posted on September 22, 2010 by jewamongyou

With millions of smokers eager to kick the habit, and the rest of us just as eager to help them, you would think that innovations such as e-cigarettes would be in good standing with the powers that be.  Apparently, this is not the case.  As Thomas Knapp explains, in this article, not only big tobacco, but the F.D.A., big pharma (see comments) and the American Lung Association are all erecting hurdles to keep people from availing themselves of this technology.

Enter the electronic cigarette: No tobacco involved. Nicotine and flavorings are delivered in a liquid (propylene glycol or vegetable glycerine), slightly heated to produce a fog or vapor. While the full health implications aren’t yet clear, it’s a safe bet that e-cigs are safer than “real” cigarettes. Cigarette smoke is full of carcinogen-laden “tars.” E-cig vapor isn’t. There’s no “secondhand smoke” because there’s no smoke at all.
Even thought they’re currently only a tiny portion of the nicotine market, e-cigs are driving all the usual suspects crazy.
Big Tobacco wants them gone ASAP because they threaten tobacco profits.
The FDA wants to bring them under its regulatory authority because authority is what regulation is all about.
If you’re surprised to hear that the American Lung Association has condemned e-cigarettes, you shouldn’t be. They rake in more than $50 million per year, mostly by leveraging the scare value of tobacco-related lung disease. “Non-profit” or not, the continued solvency of ALA depends largely on the continued popularity of their bête noire, smoking.
The alleged Axis of Anti-Smoking — Big Government and Big Non-Profits — are fully aligned with Big Tobacco on the issue of electronic cigarettes. If we take their claims at face value, smoking kills more than 400,000 Americans per year … and they want to keep it that way.

Whenever a vast infrastructure grows around a “war against… (fill in the blank)”, we should be suspicious of the “warriors” true motives.  There is no doubt in my mind that many, if not most, anti-Cancer activists have noble intentions.  They would probably celebrate if Cancer were eradicated for good.  The same is no doubt true of anti-AIDS activists, anti-hunger advocates, anti-poverty advocates and even those who wish to extinguish “racism” (whatever this means for them).  However, money has a way of talking.  Each morning, when those activists get up for work, money speaks to them and says things like, “don’t you like your job?”, “you sure have a cozy job and good benefits… it would be a pity if, for some reason, you would lose it.”  Yes, it’s true that if Cancer were conquered, most of those doctors and researchers would find equally good jobs in other fields.  But will they all be able to do so and what guarantee do they have that their new jobs will be just as good?  The people we should be more concerned about are the lobbyists, fund-raisers and administrators of “non-profit” groups.  Those people have a great interest in keeping their enemy alive.  For them, Cancer, AIDS, poverty, hunger and “racism” are their bread and butter. Would it be surprising if we found out that some of those activists were secretly working to propagate the very evil they are supposed to be battling?
At the bottom of the above article is a small piece of text that reads: “Copyleft 2010 Center for a Stateless Society”.  Copyleft is a way to retain credit for intellectual work while allowing the work to be freely distributed.  I’ll take this opportunity to say that every one of my articles on this blog is copylefted.
Those who invented electronic cigarettes deserve to make massive profits from their work.  If the powers of evil succeed in robbing them of this profit, my suggestion would be for them to create easy-to-read instructions so that average people could manufacture their own electronic cigarettes.  If they could succeed in doing this, then the victory of big tobacco, big pharm, the F.D.A. and the A.L.A. would be a pyrrhic one.

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