“Accurate and fair” from Business Insider

When a black man assaulted an Asian man on a New York subway, Business Insider’s headline was:

Shocking video shows a New York City subway rider spraying an Asian man and yelling at him to move

The article features two videos showing the one-sided confrontation. We can all see that the culprit is a black man, and the victim is Asian – yet Business Insider makes no mention of this obvious fact. The perpetrator is described simply as a “subway rider.”

In another Business Insider article, we’re told:

Scientists and journalism organizations have called on the media “to ensure accurate and fair portrayals of Asians and Asian-Americans” and avoid fueling xenophobia during the outbreak.

Apparently, this “accurate and fair” policy does not apply to white people. When reporting on a very similar incident, on an airplane, Business Insider gave us this headline:

People are threatening to boycott Ryanair after the airline failed to remove a white man who shouted racist insults at an elderly black woman on one of its flights

Yes folks, this is “white privilege” at work. When a white man misbehaves, he’s referred to as “a white man,” but when a black man misbehaves, he’s referred to as a “subway rider.” Not very “accurate and fair” if you ask me.

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Our messed up healthcare system

If there’s anything we can agree with our friends on the left about, it’s that the American healthcare system is out of control.

I recently had a small growth biopsied and removed. It was an office procedure, taking no more than 10 minutes. I ended up paying over a thousand dollars for that procedure and biopsy.

That was almost 2 months ago. A few days ago, I got this charge:

Laboratory Pathological 99.00
HC BILL SURG SLIDE PREP – 88305 (CPT®)
99.00
Health Plan Payments and Adjustments -79.15
Hospital Services 99.00 -79.15 0.00 19.85

The bold part specifies which procedure I’m actually getting billed for. Incidentally, it took several mouse clicks to reveal that the $99 charge was to place a specimen upon a slide. How generous of my insurance company to pay most of it – so that I must pay only $19.85 for this service. I should have volunteered to do it myself.

How might this messed-up system impact out struggle against the Corona virus? From Business Insider:

An American man and his daughter were quarantined over coronavirus fears for two weeks after they were evacuated from China, and now he says he’s facing more than $2,600 in medical bills for his government-mandated hospital stay, according to The New York Times

They were met with bills adding up to $3,918 from hospital doctors, radiologists, and an ambulance company, according to The Times. Nearly $2,600 is from the ambulance company…

A spokesman for Rady Children’s Hospital told The Times that the hospital charged Wucinski for his stays in error, and removed the costs from his bills. The spokesman said the hospital is investigating the error and is working with the government regarding billing.

But Wucinski still owes $2,598 for the ambulance ride and $90 for radiology costs. He also has to cover the $2,200 cost of his flight to the US…

The CDC told CBS Sacramento that if patients have healthcare, bills will be submitted to their provider. If a patient does not have healthcare insurance, the government is expected to pay the bills, likely through Medicaid, CBS Sacramento reported.

It’s the last paragraph that worries me. Many of us do, indeed, have insurance – but our deductibles are so high that the insurance companies won’t pay any of it (in most cases). So, when the CDC says “the bills will be submitted to their provider,” it looks to me like the patient will be on the hook if his deductible hasn’t been met for that year.

With so many Americans living paycheck to paycheck, exposing oneself to such medical bills is simply not an option. We will continue to work, to mingle, and to infect others.

What is my solution to our outrageous healthcare costs?

All medical schools, including dentistry and other specialties, will accept new students based ONLY on merit.

All medical schools that receive any taxpayer subsidies will be required to dramatically reduce their tuition. This can be accomplished by laying off all of the high-paying clerical positions, ceasing all non-essential construction projects, putting a cap on professor salaries and eliminating costly textbooks. I’m sure there’s more that can be done to accomplish this. The goal is to prevent medical students from entering the workforce with large debts hanging over their heads.

Rescind the law that hospitals must treat all who enter; reserve that right for citizens only. If you’re a non-citizen who is visiting, on a valid visa, you may be treated, just as Americans are treated abroad.

We need to have a 2, or 3, tiered hospital system. The vast majority of treatments can be done cheaply, and with old equipment. We don’t need state of the art equipment for everything. That sort of expensive care should be reserved for tier-1 hospitals, where life-threatening diseases are treated.

Politicians whose ties are too close to the pharmaceutical industry should be purged from office. Healthy competition, among drug companies, should be encouraged, and Americans should be encouraged to purchase their prescription drugs from abroad, where prices are more reasonable. This is already happening to some extent.

With a system such as the one we have, I have little hope that we can effectively defend ourselves from this latest virus. It would be poetic justice if some big pharma, and insurance, executives got infected with the Corona virus.

 

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NBC News: “Black on Asian Crime not a Problem!”

If you perform a Google search for “NBC News white man”, this is what comes up:

NBC white man

If we conduct a similar search, but for “NBC News black man,” this is what comes up:

NBC black man

It’s obvious that, in the eyes of NBC News, black men are victims, while white men are perpetrators.

Through this lens, we can make sense of the following NBC Story:

San Francisco police arrest suspect in filmed attack of Asian man collecting recyclables

The attack on the 68-year-old man was recorded, shared on social media and sparked outrage in the community.
San Francisco police on Thursday arrested a man who they said recorded last week’s attack on an older Asian man and posted it to social media.
Dwayne Grayson, 20, is facing charges including robbery and elder abuse as well as a hate crime enhancement in Saturday’s attack on a 68-year-old man collecting recyclables, police said. He’s also accused of probation violation for a prior robbery conviction…

The video shows a man wearing a dark jacket, black pants and black sneakers threatening and brandishing an object at an Asian man. Bystanders watched the attack and hurled racially charged taunts at the man as well.

“I hate Asians, n—,” one person can be heard yelling in the video.

The victim can be seen crying as onlookers imitate him and laugh and hold phones up to his face as he is visibly distressed.

The victim was struck on the back of the head and complained of pain but had no visible injury, police said.

A photo of the perpetrator appears at the top:

grayson

Yes, we can plainly see that the perpetrator is black – and yet the NBC article doesn’t even mention blacks at all until paragraph 13. It mentions Asians several times before that.

When the author, Phil Helsel, does finally mention blacks, this is what he has to say:

Mayor London Breed said at a community gathering Thursday that the video sparked widespread outrage, and not just in the Asian community. She said many black residents also said called for action, according to video from NBC Bay Area.

In other words, even though the perpetrator is clearly black, and onlookers (probably also black) participated in, and encouraged, the attack, Helsel will only mention blacks in order to point out that “many black residents also called for action.” I wonder if any of those conscientious blacks were at the scene as the crime unfolded…

I have no doubt that “many blacks also called for action.” There are lots of good people who are black. But I challenge you to find NBC News pointing out that “there were many whites calling for action” after an incident of white-supremacist violence.

It’s also interesting that this article finds it necessary to point out that the Asian victim “had no visible injury.” Is NBC in the habit of making such statements when it reports on white-on-black assaults?

A free press is supposed to identify societal problems, and bring them to the attention of the wider public. Black-on-Asian violence is a societal problem, but all NBC is capable of doing is downplaying this problem.

 

 

 

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The voyage of the voyagers

Last month, there was a glitch with the Voyager 2 spacecraft, but Earth engineers were able to fix it, even though it’s 11.5 billion miles away. From Forbes:

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft is recovering from a scary moment earlier this week, when its onboard computer automatically shut down the spacecraft’s science instruments to keep the spacecraft from draining its power supply. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory say the science instruments are back on, and Voyager 2 should get back to science as usual soon.

The trouble started on January 25, when Voyager 2 was supposed to make a 360⁰ roll to help calibrate its magnetometer. But when the spacecraft’s computer tried to execute the commands it needed to make the roll, it got the timing wrong. As a result, two systems that don’t normally run at the same time ended up running at the same time – and both systems draw a lot of power. Since Voyager 2 is running on a limited power supply courtesy of its onboard generator, this was exactly the sort of problem that could have put the mission in mortal peril.

Fortunately, Voyager 2 (like its twin sibling Voyager 1) was programmed to deal with problems like this. When the spacecraft’s computer realized how much power it was drawing, it shut down the science instruments to save power for really critical things, like heating fragile subsystems and communicating with engineers back home on Earth, who could help find and fix the problem.

It took a solid three days to get one of the overlapping, power-hungry systems shut down and the science instruments turned back on – but engineers spent a lot of that time waiting. At the moment, Voyager 2 is 18.5 billion km (11.5 billion miles) from Earth (and counting), and even for radio communications at the speed of light, it takes 17 hours for a message to get from Earth to Voyager, and another 17 hours for a message to get from Voyager back to Earth. So every time engineers at NASA sent Voyager a command, like “turn off that extra system now,” it took at least 34 hours to find out if the command worked and whether it fixed the problem…

This is a good opportunity to include an excellent YouTube video I’ve been wanting to share with y’all for a long time. It’s over a year old, but no less mind-boggling.

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Another Quora dialog

We Aspies have a tendency to be direct. Sometimes, we’re too direct for the comfort of others. So we adapt. We try to be subtle, and gently lead people to our way of thinking.

Unfortunately, too many “normies” are conditioned to be oblivious to the obvious. It’s not enough to lead them to the water; we must also pour the water into their mouths. Even then, the very next day, their convictions will have reverted to what they were before, as if nothing had happened.

Getting some people to see the point is a major challenge. They’ll claim you’re making a completely different point. If you’re using reverse psychology, they’ll take you literally. If all else fails, they’ll be offended, and shut down the conversation.

Here’s a dialog I recently had on Quora, in response to this original answer:

I announced to my husband the morning after the 2016 “election” that I wanted “to get the f*ck out of this country”. YES it was due to the POTUS (and ALL the trumpanzees supporting him). We moved the following September to a mountain villa near Valencia Spain.

It isn’t just the POTUS (piece of totally useless shit). It was all of the hatred he exposed in the US. The bigots, homophobes, misogynists, xenophobes, and racists. The willfully ignorant with respect to science and climate change. I knew there were people like that in the US, but I was stunned at the sheer quantity.

I couldn’t get out of the US fast enough and I will never go back. Life here is sane. Healthcare is affordable and amazing. The food is less expensive and much tastier and healthier. Neighbors don’t rant about “those damn X (fill in the blank with the minority or different lifestyle of your choice) destroying everything.” A friend who visited summed it up best. The US now has a “culture of mean”. I have no desire to ever again live in that type of culture.

The above liberal is tired of the racist, xenophobic, Trumpanzies in the US. So where does she flee to? A mountain villa near Valencia, Spain.

It seemed like a fairly white place to me, so I asked her:

I’m sure you moved to an area where Native Spaniards are a minority, so that you can enjoy the Diversity.

It’s a fair question, considering that it’s been the policy of the Democrat Party to reduce American whites to minority status, and Trump campaigned on the promise to slow down this process (at least implicitly). Her response:

Well aren’t you the judgmental — and CLUELESS — moron. I moved to a Spanish village that is 2000 years old. Yes, there are some Brit there. There are also many Spanish, Dutch, Russian, French, German, and Swedish. Maybe you should put your hate back in your pocket where it belongs.

She’s right; what she describes IS diversity, but it’s not Diversity. It wouldn’t pass muster in any US school system, in a residential area or at a large company. If the Rainbow Coalition sues your company for “lack of diversity,” tell them that you’ve got British, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, French etc. – and see how far that gets you. You’d be laughed out of court, and be saddled with a large settlement to pay. My reply:

Can’t help but notice all those ethnicities are white. Do you have a problem with People of Color?

You see? I’m being subtle. I didn’t just blurt out my point, but tried using reverse psychology. Did it work? Not a chance.

Oh. Good. F*cking. Grief. I was asked about other people besides Brits living in my chosen community. I listed who lives there. You want people of color in my village? Then move there. I don’t control who chooses to move where.

It’s shocking, but very likely that in her mind, she’s won the debate. After all, it’s true that she cannot control who moves to her chosen community. I retorted:

Janet Christian: “I’m tired of the trumptards, and the xenophobia in the US… I know! I’ll move to a place that’s almost ALL WHITE to get away from all those RACISTS.” No, you can’t control who chooses to move there, but you CAN control where YOU choose to move – and you chose to move to a place that’s very white. Through your actions, you’ve proved the “Trumptards” right.

If you’re wondering about the conclusion to this debate, here it is:

quora violation

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Proselytizing to Arabs

I found this text prominently displayed at the entrance to the Virginia Garcia medical clinic near where I live:

Virginia Garcia

My translation:

Virginia Garcia welcomes…

All creeds

All religions

All nationalities

All people

All sexual orientations

We stand with you

You are safe here

… because Arabs are so unsafe in the Portland area. In all seriousness, I can think of only two anti-Muslim incidents in our area in recent history. One was when a man started yelling at two black Muslim girls on a bus, two bystanders intervened, and the man stabbed them, killing both. It was international news. The other was when a woman snatched the hijab off of the head of a Muslim woman. That (black) woman was charged with a bias-crime, and this incident was also nationally reported. Other than that, I see Muslims walking around, going about their business, every day. Nobody bothers them. They are SAFE EVERYWHERE IN PORTLAND. They don’t have to visit Virginia Garcia to be safe, unless they need to be safe from disease and injury.

Do progressives really think they’re going to turn Arabs, most of whom (in my area) are Muslims, into progressive SJWs? It’s hard to tell. The impression I get is that they’re allies against the Evil Deplorable White Men who Vote for Trump (EDWMVTs). It appears that progressives actually mistake this alliance for genuine friendship.

I hope I’m still alive when American progressives find out how wrong they were.

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From the mouth of… a liberal

I found this gem on Quora, from a liberal (“liberal hanging by a thread” in his words):

I’ve asked my liberal friends, “Don’t you find it strange that everything you read in the media, every TV show you watch, every movie you watch, every commercial you watch confirms your worldview?” They don’t find it suspicious at all that every corporation magically agrees with them, or worse, that they’re being manipulated to toward a particular worldview. It’s like an episode of the Twilight Zone. But no. These questions go right over their heads. They say, “We’re right. That’s why everyone agrees.” The problem is, not everyone agrees. We have a split government based on the vote of the people.

Speaking of corporations being having a “liberal” worldview, here’s a poster I saw at Discount Tire:

discount tire

It’s their “Diversity Poster.” They do have another poster showing two white men, but those men are Nascar racers. They’re not anonymous representatives of “Diversity.” As you can see, white men are not important for Diversity. It’s black men who are at the top of the Diversity Totem Pole, as we can see from the poster.

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Fury vs. Wilder: Not a racial war

The headline statesSensational Fury crushes Wilder in heavyweight title rematch.” In this boxing match, British heavyweight boxer Tyson Fury (AKA “Gypsy Queen”) crushed his American opponent Deontay Wilder.

fury

(photo credit Yahoo Sports)

For the less perceptive among you, I’ll point out that Fury is white, while Wilder is black. We’re not supposed to notice this… Let me rephrase that: WHITE people are not supposed to notice this. Black people definitely do notice.  Based on the photos, it doesn’t look like there were any happy black faces at the conclusion of this fight.

Leading up to this rematch, Wilder was posed a question. From Business Insider:

The combat sports editor for Sporting News and DAZN, Andreas Hale, asked Wilder if he was looking to create a “big moment in black history.”

Hale said: “In the first fight, you went viral … now, this is Black History Month. Are you looking to make a big moment in black history come February 22?”

Wilder’s answer?

They picked the wrong date, the wrong month for this fight to happen. And when I knock the Gypsy Queen out, we gonna have a black history trivia question — spread it all over the world.

In hindsight, Wilder spoke too soon. Perhaps this occurred to him – as he lay sprawled upon the floor.

wilder

(photo credit Yahoo Sports)

But Fury had a different take on the question, which wasn’t even posed to him:

I’m not into all this racial thing with a black man versus a white man in Black History Month.

I will refuse to go into any sort of thing about it. We are two human beings, two heavyweights, at the top of our game. This is not a racial war. This is two heavyweight boxers going toe to toe for all the jewels in heavyweight boxing, nothing more, nothing less.

Still, it wouldn’t surprise me if Fury faces criticism back home. Progressives will hold him accountable for not allowing Wilder to win. No, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if winning a boxing match is considered “racism” in Britain these days.

 

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This is why they hate “The Jews” #2

A while back, I wrote about local Jewish anti-white crusader Sam Sachs. Alas, there is no shortage of Jews who rise up, like dandelions, to “fight hate” and “take a stand against racism.” It’s been a while since I’ve visited The Daily Stormer or Stormfront, but as I recall, their pages are graced with the names of Jews (real or imagined) who make names for themselves demonizing whites – that is to say, demonizing whites who are proud* of being white.

Today’s addition to this Wall of Shame is Rep. Max Rose. Yahoo interviewed him, and published an article about his ideas for fighting neo-Nazi terrorism. In the interview, and in the article, Max equates “white-nationalism” with “white-supremacy” and neo-Nazism. He also condemned Trump’s comment that there were good people on both sides in the Charlottesville incident. Was he there, and did he speak to every one of the protesters? I fail to understand how he could possibly know that every single one of them was evil otherwise. Perhaps he could explain this to us.

At the same time, he has no problem with Islam; he does not equate Islam with “Islamism” or “Jihad.” If Mediagov treated Islam the same way it treats white-nationalism, would it surprise anybody if a swelling of the ranks of Islamic terrorists ensued? Muslims would see no alternatives other than abandoning their faith or terrorism.

Here are some chilling quotes from the article:

“Max Rose is right,” says Jason Blazakis, a terrorism expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and a former top official at the State Department. Blazakis says it is appropriate to treat white nationalist groups as transnational syndicates, a model that runs counter to the “lone wolf” mythology long associated with white supremacist violence. “Rose is asking the right question,” he adds…

“We have to stop talking about free speech,” he says, an allusion to the First Amendment rights that white supremacists frequently invoke, as do the civil libertarians who may loathe racism but worry about threats to the Constitution…

The remedy Rose has proposed is to treat any American white nationalist group that associates with similar groups abroad as a foreign terrorist organization. The list of those organizations, which is kept by the State Department, now has 69 members and includes the likes of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and the Real Irish Republican Army.

At some point, as American demographics continue to deteriorate, Max’s vision will probably become reality – and I’d like to adapt an old saying:

First they came for the Neo-Nazis, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Neo-Nazi.

Then they came for the White-Nationalists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a White-Nationalist.

Then they came for the White-Advocates, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a White-Advocate.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Max, if your vision of America comes to fruition, then it’s only a matter of time before they come for YOU.

If Max seeks to understand the roots of anti-Semitism, he need only look in the mirror. I have no doubts that The Daily Stormer is having a field day with Max’s outbursts. Jews like Max are the reason so many white-advocates consider Jews to be the arch enemies of whites. Jews like Max complain about the spreading fire of anti-Semitism even as they throw kerosene upon the flames.

In the interview, Max points out that there are very few Jews in the world… Has he looked at white birthrates lately? I can’t help but get the impression that he desires the same fate for whites. Either that or he’s simply a political opportunist, with no convictions whatsoever.

If he has a problem with ethnic nationalism, then let him start with Israel. I’m not holding my breath.

Max, if you read this, I would love to get a response. Again, I’m not holding my breath.

 

*“Proud” being a word with more than one meaning. It doesn’t necessarily involve one’s own accomplishments; it depends on context.

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“Mature, responsible countries”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has chided China for expelling journalists. From The Week:

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is condemning China for its decision to expel three reporters from The Wall Street Journal from the country.

“Mature, responsible countries understand that a free press reports facts and expresses opinions,” Pompeo said in a statement on Wednesday. “The correct response is to present counter arguments, not restrict speech.”

This came after China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said three journalists from the Journal would have their credentials revoked over the paper’s recent headline, “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia,” The New York Times reports.

The moment I saw this, I couldn’t help but wonder if Mr. Pompeo has any idea that his own government, and some of its allies, have been guilty of the same crime that he’s chiding China for.

How can our Secretary of State not know that:

Lauren Southern was deported, and banned, from the UK for criticizing Islam. Listen to her account of what happened to her here.

Jared Taylor was deported, and banned, from the European Union for advocating for white people.

Richard Spencer was banned from the EU also for advocating for whites.

Greg Johnson was arrested, and almost deported, from Norway for advocating for whites.

US Border Control agents prevented a Canadian colleague of Greg Johnson from entering the US under an obviously false pretense that he was planning on “working” in the US without a work visa.

It wouldn’t take much effort to compose a longer list, but this one should suffice for my point.

Mr. Pompeo, instead of criticizing China’s authoritarian regime, why don’t you first focus on protecting freedom of speech in America, and among America’s allies?

 

 

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