Affirmative action's silver lining

Posted on July 7, 2010 by jewamongyou

The negative consequences of affirmative action are well-known (to anybody who wants to know) but sometimes we can benefit from it as well.  We assume that, when a person is hired for a specific task, it would be good if he performs his task well – but there is an exception to this rule: cogs of government apparatus, whose jobs are designed to make the rest of us miserable and otherwise persecute us.  It is sometimes better if they do their jobs poorly.
On my return from one of my vacations, I realized I had a couple of large water bottles in my carry-on luggage.  Waiting in line in security, I noticed that the person in charge of the x-ray machine my luggage was about to pass through was an overweight black woman.  I thought to myself, “if she is well-trained and cares about her job, those two water bottles will be obvious to her and she’ll pull them out, at which point I’ll say I’d forgotten about them”.  I reasoned that since this person is likely an affirmative action employee, her skills are probably inferior and she’ll miss the bottles – and so it was.  Others might think: “she allowed a dangerous substance onto the airplane; he could have drowned somebody with that water if he’d poured it into a large bowl and then held the victim’s face under it.  Of course he is not a terrorist but I shudder to think what carnage a terrorist might have wraught with that water!”  My attitude was a bit different:  “I drank that water to assuage my thirst and it was good.”
On another occassion, I had to help a relative acquire a state I.D. card from the D.M.V.  There were irregularities, in the spelling of her name, that might have raised a red flag.  Furthermore, there was another technicality that might easily have thwarted our efforts and then things would have gotten hairy.  As we waited in line, I noticed that all the clerks were white except for one tall young black man, whose cranial capacity seemed deficient in relation to his body size.  He appeared clueless and I hoped we would end up with him – and so it was.  He did notice the spelling irregularity and asked about the extra “apostrophe” in one of the documents.  I answered him matter-of-factly “oh, that’s only a diacritical mark; it’s nothing”.  Indeed, it was nothing of importance but there is no doubt that he had no clue what a diacritical mark was.  As for the other documents, he didn’t even look at them.  Within five minutes, we had our document.  Yes, we had probably benefited from affirmative action/diversity in this case.  A more knowledgeable or conscientious employee might have caused us serious grief.
Of course, even in government positions, we sometimes prefer that employees actually do perform their jobs well.  We generally want good cops, firemen and park rangers.  It really depends on the case in question.  We want what works out best for us each time.  An overabundance of laws, regulations and government agencies already guarantee a certain degree of chaos.  Add in affirmative action and we’ve got even more chaos.  As a result, it is anybody’s guess how a visit to a government agency will turn out.  Even though, in both of the above situations, things turned out well for me, I would have preferred that the outcome was positive for different reasons.  I would have preferred that there was no rule against bringing water on to an airplane to begin with and I would have preferred that all the D.M.V. employees were good and competent people and that the one who gave us our document did so because he trusted me and allowed me to explain the situation.  It should not be necessary for me to pull an “idiocracy” on a borderline retard.

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Lawrence Auster attacks immigration

Posted on July 5, 2010 by jewamongyou

I’ve learned that Lawrence Auster is a Jew who converted to the Episcopal Church.  Is one religion really more believable than the others?  Practically all of them require us to believe absurdities – and so the concept of “faith” was invented.  So, for a Jew to go out of his way to convert to another religion is rather disturbing – unless he did so for some practical end.
But he did write a very good essay about immigration, which my friend Gaurav Ahuja sent me and I just finished reading.  It is called “Huddled Cliche’s” and it contains good rebuttals of every argument made in favor of mass immigration.  I like his style; he does away with niceties and goes for the jugular each time, demolishing each pro-immigration claim, generally by reductio ad absurdum.
Unfortunately, though logic and reason are on our side, I fear that things will become a lot worse before they become better.  If Auster’s essay on immigration were required reading in every school (as long as we have public schools) then we might be able to thwart disaster.  As it stands, we suffer from a dearth of readers, not a dearth of good reading material.

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Just an interesting pamphlet

Posted on July 4, 2010 by jewamongyou

I have several pamphlets from Palestine around the time of the founding of the State of Israel.  This one is unusual because it was printed in English along with the customary Hebrew.  There is nothing Earth-shattering about this pamphlet but some may find it interesting from a historical perspective and, since it is rather short, here it is:

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What we can learn from Johnny Gaskins

Posted on July 4, 2010 by jewamongyou

From the blog Pro Libertate by William Grigg:

Gaskins had earned his money legitimately. As a dutiful tax victim, he reported his income to the criminal predators running the IRS. His purported offense was to make numerous deposits in amounts just under the $10,000 threshold at which banks are required to report to the IRS under the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970.

Displaying the proprietary blend of depraved creativity and utter dishonesty that typify their caste, federal prosecutors insisted that these innocuous acts constituted the alleged crime of “money structuring.”

Aside from the obvious lesson that the “Federal” government is evil, what else can we take home from this sad tale?  Firstly, if you happen to possess a large amount of cash, do not deposit it in a bank if you have any choice in the matter.  Instead, trade it in for a precious metal such as gold and then place that metal in a secure location such as a safe deposit box or a strong vault in a secret hiding place.  Any interest you might stand to gain through the bank is easily offset by inflation so why risk it?
Secondly, the victim here appears to be in his sixties.  Though it is an admirable trait of white people that they plan for the future, we cannot deny that the older we get, the less future there is to plan for.  Not only that, but as we grow older our health tends to deteriorate and so the quality of that future is not as good either.  I think there is a fine line between saving up enough for your retirement in order to avoid being a burden to the younger generations and saving too much and essentially wasting that money by not using it when you can.  In other words, a certain amount of hedonism is a good thing.  Gaskins would have been better off taking that money to a travel agent and purchasing a nice long vacation in a tropical paradise.  Of course I do not know all the details of his case but it is a fact that many people his age (especially whites and Asians) have a tendency to save too much and to deprive themselves of the pleasures of this world while they can still enjoy them.
Thirdly – did I mention that the “Federal” government is evil?

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Oxkutzcab – diversity and the Mayans

Posted on July 2, 2010 by jewamongyou

I have a friend who is a (proud) Mayan Indian.  He hails from the city of Oxkutzcab (pronounced “Oshkushkab”) in the Yucatan region of Mexico.  Recently he was relating to me how, when he was a youngster, it used to be safe to wander anywhere in Oxkutzcab and parents had little reason to worry if their children would return home in one piece.  People were friendly and trusting to each other.  Back then, there were only around 1,500 people in Oxkutzcab.  Now there are tens of thousands.  He told me, with great sadness in his voice, that things are not as they used to be.  These days, murder and mayhem are rampant.  Gangs wander the streets and parents fear for their children.
I asked him, “is this because there are more people or because residents no longer share the common bonds of the Mayan language, blood ties and culture?”  He replied that the lack of a common heritage and culture seems to be the culprit; a majority of the people in Oxkutzcab share no common bonds and so they are hostile to each other.  I continued, “so what you are saying is that ‘diversity’ has not been good for Oxkutzcab?”  He agreed that this is the case.
When we speak of the victims of “diversity”, many of us automatically think of whites, but the fact is that many indigenous peoples are in grave danger, culturally/genetically because of the influx of foreigners.  Naturally, many on the left sympathize with those indigenous peoples – as long as they are not of European stock.

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Beating around the bush

Posted on June 29, 2010 by jewamongyou

Sometimes it is downright funny how close some authors will come to citing racial differences as causes for historical conditions but without actually mentioning it explicitly.  They will beat around the bush and consider far-fetched theories but never dare to bring up the obvious.
Here we see a blogger, by the name of Paul Rosenberg, listing explanations for why liberty flourished specifically in the West.
He admits that practically all the trappings of modern civilization were invented in the West (in other words, by whites), yet it seems to never occur to him that racial differences might have something to do with it.  Instead he comes up with these theories:

1) Language – Western (Indo-European) grammar, with its categories of gender, its sharp distinction of person and number, and its great emphasis on chronological tense, instills a certain level of logical attitude toward life. In contrast, the languages of the Far East emphasize relative class levels…
2) Separation – The Western tradition features heroes who separated themselves from everyone else. Abraham was commanded to separate himself. Moses commanded Israel to be separate from all other peoples. Jesus commanded his students to remain separate from the teachings of the other Jewish sects. And so on…
3) Subversive religions – The religions of the West – Judaism and Christianity – are subversive religions, even though most of their leaders would rather not admit it. (They must generally support the State in order to get favors such as tax exemption.)…
4) Farming – Westerners have almost always been farmers, as opposed to herdsmen or hunters…
Farmers tend to see the world as a positive-sum game and nomads as a zero-sum game. The important thing about this is that positive- or zero-sum assumptions form in human minds and – if not analyzed and adjusted – color wide areas of thought. This affects all sorts of opinions and judgments…
5) Cold – Most Western cultures are also northern cultures. There have been a number of interesting theories put forth as to why most advances are made in cold places. Certainly the inability to be lazy without freezing plays a major role. Active people, after all, produce more than inactive people, and in cold places, inactivity can be fatal. This is an interesting area of study…
6) New continents – In the 17th Century, people in the West found an opportunity to flee all expectations and re-create civilization on a new continent. This was a very important and powerful force in the West. In our current situation, people with radically new ideas are considered dangerous to one extent or another. What if they could simply leave, go to some new, un-ruled place and try living their new way? What new strategies might be revealed as superior to thought-choking obedience?…
7) Disasters – This answer goes fairly deep into speculation, but it is worth mentioning.
For the last half-million years, our planet has experienced a string of at least four ice ages. In each of them, a huge portion of the earth has been covered with ice and snow and the rest of the planet was much colder than it is now. In the last ice age, what are now Indianapolis and St. Louis were covered with glaciers – a lot like Greenland’s current condition. Even the areas where soil was exposed were much colder than they are now…
8) God versus State – Since the Judeo-Christianity of the West was a subversive religion (as mentioned above), it has very often struggled against the State. Normally this is thought of as the State preventing the Church from turning into an oppressive theocracy (which has certainly occurred), but that is only one side of the issue. When massive ideologies (like Church and State) oppose each other, it opens up cracks, where liberty can flourish. (And they do oppose each other, since both compete for the full respect and devotion of the people…

Of course most of us are aware that the underlying cause of most of the above conditions was inherent racial advantages such as higher average I.Q. and a lower time preference.  Especially interesting are his words on “Cold” (which include only what I quoted above and no more).  Is it reasonable to attribute technological advancement with a need for more physical activity due to cold?  It seems to me that most of that physical activity would have been spent hunting for food in the vast tundra when they were not huddled in front of a fire sleeping.
The above essay is in the same category as “Guns, Germs and Steel“, an obsessive quest to find non-racial explanations for the superiority of white civilization.  Even if some of those arguments have validity, this does not preclude the validity of racial explanations.  There can be many contributors to an end result
Mr. Rosenberg comes so close to mentioning race that I suspect he might realize its significance.  But there is a huge leap of courage that separates realizing the truth and writing the truth.  Some would say it is not courage but folly and this is for each individual to decide for himself, as an ancient Jewish sage once said, “Do not judge your fellow until you come to his place.”


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Extra credit for being black

Posted on June 28, 2010 by jewamongyou

Take a look at the illustration below:
Our initial impression is that square A is darker than square B.  This is because our brain recognizes a pattern and interprets what our eyes see accordingly.  As a matter of fact, square A and square B are the same shade.
Similarly, we are accustomed to blacks behaving a certain way.  Not that all blacks behave the same, but there are particular black flavors of the various personality types we encounter.  Over the years, our brains grow accustomed to this pattern and we expect it.  I am certain that leftists, in particular, internalize these patterns and adjust their judgments of black individuals accordingly.  If I encounter a black person (or a person of any other race) who is loud and obnoxious, I have no qualms about thinking this, or even saying it.  A leftist, on the other hand, will excuse such behavior since it is expected among blacks.  He will have no such tolerance for whites who behave similarly; his expectation of whites is higher – though he will never admit it.
I will freely admit that when I encounter blacks who act with humility, behave like ladies and gentlemen, dress conservatively and speak with respect, I think to myself “what a beautiful thing!”  because  their demeanor is in stark contrast to what I’ve learned to expect from so many others of their race.  It is refreshing.  And yet, because I have not excused the inferior behavior of other blacks, I do not hold the well-behaved ones to be superior to similarly behaved whites.  But leftists, having already accepted inferior black behavior as normal, expected and perfectly acceptable, will give those blacks extra credit.  In their minds, civilized blacks are superior to equivalent whites because they had to elevate themselves further from their base (default) behavior to reach their current level.
To be sure, if a leftist recognized the above psychological dynamics within himself, he would castigate himself for being racist.  He would sign up for sensitivity training because he would realize that the root of his adoration of civilized blacks lies in his lower expectations of them to begin with.
In his mannerisms, oratory skills and overall intelligence, Barack Obama is no better than many white politicians.  But since he is (half) black, leftists subconsciously expected less of him.  It is as if they were saying, “this guy is really smart for a black.  We should elect him!”
Blacks also receive extra credit in grading.   Steven Farron in The Affirmative Action Hoax (pg 127) writes:

Even without conscious intention, Blacks receive much higher grades than Whites for the same work.  Kent Harber (1998) wrote a large number of essays that he filled with errors in grammar and content.  He then asked ninety-two  White college students to act as markers and gave one essay to each, along with a brief description of the putative author, which indicated the “author’s” race indirectly but clearly (e.g., member of the Black Student Union).  The markers’ average rating (on a one to seven scale) for content of the essays they thought were written by Blacks was 3.5, but 2.7 for the essays they thought were written by Whites…

The converse may also be true.  Since we expect less of blacks, their crimes are not punished as harshly as if they were committed by whites.  Just as square A seems darker than square B, because it is in an overall lighter area, so too do the crimes of whites seem more heinous than those of blacks.  The MSM sometimes plays into this mentality with statements such as “in this quiet trusting community, nobody could have suspected that a monster lurked in their midst”.  We probably would not read such a statement if the crime had occurred in the South side of Chicago.
We are hardwired to perceive things in terms of contrast and in terms of patterns.  This is not our own doing; it is embedded in our nature.  It is a part of nature that is in us.  While we have the power to appreciate that squares A and B are the same shade of gray, we also have the power to appreciate why we see them differently.  I think there is room to celebrate both aspects of our humanity.

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Gulf oil spill stimulates the economy (parody)

Posted on June 28, 2010 by jewamongyou

Everybody knows that war is good for the economy.  Unfortunately, it has a tendency to affect people of color disproportionately and even lead to their deaths.  This unfortunate fact has lead to a search for alternative forms of war – war that affects mainly white people and animals, the former having no group interest lobbyists in government and the latter represented only by people who throw fake blood on fur coats.
When the idea of a massive oil spill was first presented to President Obama, his first question was, “how would this affect the bruthas and sistas?”  As soon as Obama was assured that the vast majority of victims would be white, he signed the order and, well, the rest is history.
Yes, war on the environment is the wave of the future for stimulating the economy.  Only a handful of people died – almost all of them merely white men – but many jobs are being created as a result.  Not only that, but special care is being taken that these jobs are not taken by heretics.
Some have questioned the long-term efficacy of oils spills for employment.  To them I say, let us not lose sight of the fact that, when employment runs out for this oil spill, we can always create another and another and another…  There is enough offshore oil to keep Americans employed for generations to come.  If necessary, all three hundred million of us could make our livings skimming oil off the waters.  Between B.P., the Fed printing presses and some generous donations from Bill Gates, there should be enough money to keep us all living well for hundreds of years.  So cheer up folks!  It’s not all that bad.

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An excellent article

Posted on June 26, 2010 by jewamongyou

Today I’m going to be lazy and simply link to somebody else’s work.  It is an excellent article by Alex Kurtagic entitled “Learning from the Right“.  Though it is somewhat long, it is well worth reading; he sums up a lot of what many of us here have been saying, or should be saying, about the racialist movement.  Although I am not one to read fiction, I am tempted to purchase his novel, “Mister” – or rather, I was until I saw the price.  Why would a used copy cost over twice as much as a new one?

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The Oregonian re: illegal immigration

Posted on June 25, 2010 by jewamongyou

It looks like the Oregonian is finally willing to recognize the damage from illegal immigration.  This is from a recent front page article in the Oregonian (06/20/2010)*:

The trafficking is in people as well as drugs, and we pay dearly.  Mexican migrants leave trash strewn across the desert, break into homes in search of food, receive treatment at hospitals and impose a burden on police.  We have paid for autopsies for many migrants found dead in the desert.
We find tons of trash that these individuals leave behind, backpacks and cloths.  They commit a lot of theft.
Legal experts say Washington bears some blame.
“The quality of law enforcement in border areas is generally weak, said Kevin Washburn… “It is primarily a federal responsibility, and the federal government’s commitment has been weak.

I did take the liberty of omitting one small detail (and changing some words accordingly) from the above quote: This article deals specifically with the impact of Mexican “migrants” upon Native American reservations.  It seems that it’s alright to list the ills of illegal immigration as long as the victims are non-white.  I challenge anybody to find a similarly negative take on illegal immigration (as it impacts whites) from the Oregonian or any major Western newspaper – except, perhaps, in the editorial section.
*Native American reservations becoming drug pipeline to U.S. (pg. A2)

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