If the data represented in this graph are correct, then how can one explain the continuing flood of immigrants into the United States without resort to “anti-semitic tropes”?

My childhood reading included, of course, Robin Hood’s adventures, from which I remember two things: a battle with staves on a footbridge between Robin and Friar Tuck (or was it Little John?) and a contest where two men took turns slugging each other until one fell. The latter persuaded me that I was unfit for the life of a heroic crime-fighter. No mention of knives that I can recall.

For readers with a half-hour to spare, I strongly suggest reading through the entire collection of letters that support this article. The list can be reached through the page of Theodore Hill’s article (a link to which is above in Degroot’s piece). Degroot has not exaggerated here; the whole affair is shocking.

Try bookfinder.com for used books. You can get results in ascending order of price. I think Amazon owns it now.

Minor teens are against the law, and I want to see the law emforced. But when I see the word pedophiles used in headlines and stories about him, I do wonder what is really going on. And why is the intelligence to which Acosta referred not being elucidated?

Whites are even racist toward whites. E.g., Ed Rogers in Washington Post, commenting on Democrats’ debate: ” a clutch of tiresome white guys”.

It bugs the hell out of me that people won’t spell “homogeneous” right.

Is “Aptitude” in headline a typo?

It is too easy to dump on French’s xenophilia. There is another matter implicit in his discussion that is too important to ignore. I’m of the “boomer” generation, and like I suppose most Americans of that era I was utterly unaware of the possibility that America could change so radically; it seemed indeed like it was my country and would always be. We were raised on cartoons and sitcoms, and as adults we have few references in common besides them and pop music. We could imagine a horrible A-war with Russia, but it never occurred to us that America would become unfamiliar to us. French is right when he says we didn’t work for it; and we never imagined we’d have to. Now we know. Can we change fast enough to save the country?

These supposed news articles read like editorials.

I heard a report the other day about urinary tract infections and how standard antibiotics are often ineffective against them now. Without insisting, as I am hardly an epidemiologist, I can well imagine that the current period of effective treatment of AIDS is not necessarily going to last forever. Could the anti-retroviral therapy eventually fade in efficacy as antibiotics do? If so, then the immense number of HIV-infected people is not going to seem so benign.

On second thought, instead of just taking sides and swinging away, let’s examine French’s point calmly. Isn’t it true that maintaining an inheritance is always a challenge? that those who are born into wealth (or US citizenship or whatever) don’t always realize the value of what they possess or the force of will and effort it might take to hold on to it? Isn’t an awful lot of American culture just plain crap? The proof is in the pudding, and if the US and Europe are being flooded with people we’re not too excited about, doesn’t that suggest that we’re in some ways decadent? French is putting his money where his mouth is; he’s supporting and raising an African child and militating for a radical indifference to race and origin. What are we doing to counter that?

That Wehrmacht line was very good, Wilkey. LOL, as they say. And it leads us to the important point: Questions of desert or of gratitude are beside the point. Ultimately, who possesses? Who is determined enough? As a wise man once wrote, it’s not true that where there is a will there is a way. But where there is no will, there is no way.

Babe Didrikson? Sonja Henie?

paedophile, or pedophile, is not the right word for what Epstein is accused of.

“Pedophilia”? Has anyone accused Epstein of mistreating pre-pubescent girls? I don’t think so. If Mr. Giraldi wants to deplore what Epstein is accused of, fine. But don’t try to confuse us by suggesting that he attacked children rather than underage teens.

I don’t think Olberman is a Jew.

Who started this grunting business, anyway?

Just because reducing and punishing crime is a good thing doesn’t mean total surveillance is a good thing. We’re relying on cameras more and more because the traditional basic methods of promoting good behavior aren’t working. Technological fixes, imho, are what you get when you’re too afraid to do the hard work of raising decent people and punishing the indecent.

Undoubtedly because I’m a racist old white guy, whenever i see a woman with a mop on her head, braided, beaded or not, i feel a measure of pity and disgust. Overall, though, I think, Just let me stay as far removed from such things as possible. Is my reaction natural or a product of conditioning? Sorry, I just don’t care.

Seriously, I appreciate Mr. Sailer’s direct manner of putting to the NY Times this simple question: If it is all right to print articles in which blacks assail whites for racism and jews assail whites for antisemitism, not to mention all the articles where some white “privilege” or another is lamented, then why is it impermissible to write articles in which some generalized complaint about Jews is made? Who sets such rules? Now, we know it couldn’t be Jews, because any suggestion that they have power in the media is hate speech. So who does it? Who is keeping the NY Times from treating Jews fairly and letting them be criticized now and then?

The category “Asian” is clearly too broad, and its utility in data such as those above depends on our knowing what sort of Asians are being counted.

i wear NB, too, but I’d pay even more for them if I didn’t have to wear their big “N” on each foot. When Americans start objecting to walking around with makers’ names and logos all over them, then I’ll start thinking there’s hope for this country.

Three things: First, while it’s clear that men are more inclined to promiscuity than women and thus that male homosexuals are more likely to be promiscuous than male heterosexuals, I don’t see why we shouldn’t accord at least some part of the reason for the extraordinary excesses of the liberation era to the misery of the closet. Unhappiness in anyone can lead to self-destructive behavior. Second, we shouldn’t forget that heterosexuals too were testing the notion (remember “The Harrad Experiment”?) in those years that every bit of sexual inhibition they might feel was a dismal holdover from a repressive age that was expiring. Third, an anecdote: I was living in San Francisco in the late 70s and early 80s, and for about half a year let a visiting colleague stay in our spare bedroom. He was an active participant in the bathhouse orgies, and he liked to try to shock the relatively inexperienced heterosexual that I was with such invitations as “Let me take you to the bathhouse tonight and show you what manly sex is all about,” and such reports as “Last night I had my arms up to here [indicating his elbows] in that boy’s asshole.” He became horribly sick and was hospitalized during that time, but he survived another couple of years before dying of AIDS.

Dear “Monotonous Languor”: Hope you feel better now that you’ve got that off your chest. It is simply not true that people don’t change or that specifically leftist people never change. Secondly, it is obvious that in America and Europe today the majority of white people are more inclined to agree with CNN than with Jared Taylor; next year Kamala Harris might very well be elected president. You want to fight, fight, fight? Well, go ahead. Who’s stopping you? Will you kill all the leftist whites until you’re in a majority? You write that Mr. Taylor “should step down completely,” and then what? If you can lead whites to the promised land, why aren’t you doing so? How is Mr. Taylor’s work interfering with yours?

In France and living in a largely African (both Arab and black) suburb, I can attest to at least my general impression of far less menace in the blacks here. Still, I think the governor of Maine and the mayor of Portland should be ridden out on a rail for inviting Somalis and Congolese to come diversify the place. Must every haven be destroyed?

I agree. One of those rarities, a reporter/observer so sharp that her ideology doesn’t get in her way.

Among proponents of the right to abortion, there are still many rather naive people who assume that women’s “choice” is all that matters and beyond that the right to kill fetuses can never be misused. The virtual eradication of mongoloids, well, that doesn’t disturb too many feminists because, let’s face it, it is really convenient. The elimination of female fetuses in some Asian countries doesn’t fit comfortably with the usual women’s-rights rhetoric, but those countries are so far away. But the potential for in utero nullification of homosexual children-to-be? Maybe that might jar some of the wokiest people into a reconsideration of abortion.

I was walking with a Frenchwoman in France when we stumbled on a little leather case holding a transit pass, some other ID I’ve forgotten and a ten-euro bill. She returned everything to the agent at the station except the money. She said, “Are you kidding? The agents would just take it themselves.”

Elizabeth Warren is one of the few candidates to at least attempt to check corporate power. I’d like to like her. But, as with remark above, she can’t resist any chance to play the asinine PC scold. As with Biden himself, who seems willing to overrule himself whenever it seems electorally desirable, her ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

As an American, I was persuaded by Mr. Mirzaei very quickly: After reading just a few of the first paragraphs above, I had such a strong desire to flee that I was ready to agree to leave Iran to itself and its ways for all eternity!

Gripe sessions among the already persuaded (the anti-woke, perhaps?) aren’t going to advance the cause very far. Derbyshire and other anti-immigration polemicists need to keep one thing in mind: their success depends upon the conversion of white people who today are likely to regard them as abhorrent racists. If they aren’t aiming for this conversion, then all the nice debating points avail nothing. Therefore, may I suggest that he and his readers focus on how to acknowledge the decency and compassion that the “Goodwhites” exhibit toward aliens and to devise arguments attractive enough to win them over. Simply calling them chumps isn’t working.

The complaint says she was great at math but her professors maliciously gave her bad grades. So I kept waiting for the incontrovertible proof, that is, to read that her math SAT score was fantastic. Did I miss that?

Whatever we call it, can we at least spell it homogeneous and not homogenous?

For quite a different, and critical, perspective on Zen, you might try “Zen: A Rational Critique,” by Ernest Becker.

In high school I was in love with a girl who wanted to go to Vassar. So I applied, too, and it seems there was a quota. I got in and she didn’t. I guess that romance just wasn’t meant to be. (And no, I didn’t go there: I’d have been so outnumbered I would never have survived.)

Actually, if the biography of Churchill I was just reading is right, FDR put lots of pressure on the Brits to let India go. So maybe Mr. Mehta should get out his checkbook.

I read as much as I could of Zach Goldberg’s very long article. Noticed this in it: “In fact, multiple recent studies find no racial disparities in police use of deadly force. The odds of an unarmed black person being shot by police appear to approximate his/her chance of being struck by lightning. The probability of being killed by a right-wing extremist is equally low, if not lower.”

there is a world of difference between saying that marijuana users shouldn’t go to jail and working for “a marijuana investment firm”. Just what this country needs is corporations pushing a drug that will make people even dumber than they are already. If there is still anybody out there who believes that Republicans are the real party of the people, Boehner is now Exhibit A for the negative side.

OT but since Steve Sailer has often written about the immorality of doxing, I’m wondering what he thinks of Jay Cost’s piece in National Review criticizing The Daily Beast for publishing “personal information” about the man behind (in some way or another) the faux-drunk Pelosi video. Cost is greatly upset, but I fail to see how the Beast article is “doxxing.” The man created or at least published the video, clearly with the intention of somehow playing a role in the political world, and his anonymity has been taken from him. Unless I read the Beast article too fast, neither his home address, telephone nor email address have been given out. Is this “doxxing”? Is it blameworthy?

I believe the NYT’s policy is only to mention race when it is “relevant.”

I have recommended Steve Sailer to several people as the best antidote to mainstream cant. One friend described him as a racist, another as an antisemite. I see him more as a rebutter of unfounded orthodoxy.

Once again I’m astonished at how little I share Mr. Sailer’s opinion on movies and television shows, even while his usual fare continues to delight me.

My impression has been that Diamond denied genetic differences out of political caution or distaste but that his geographical determinism nonetheless was worthy of serious consideration. Thomas Sowell, similarly, has attributed Africa’s backwardness to its lack of navigable rivers, among other causes. These are not all-or-nothing questions.

From Wikipedia: The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician in Eisenach.

“Rare Bird” certainly sets a high standard of PC vindictiveness. Whatever. If black people insist that they cannot be expected to follow the elementary rules of behavior established by white people, then it’s time for white people to start stating explicitly their determination to live apart. I’ve started in a little way: When I visit relatives in a very white New England state, I tell them it’s a pleasure to be somewhere with so little “diversity”. It’s a small step, I admit, but it does shock them. Such shocks could be multiplied into something worthwhile.

As much as I enjoy and appreciate this commentary by Steve Sailer, he is ignoring an obvious objection to his comparison of the relative financial inferiority of blacks to whites, on one hand, to the inferiority of non-Jewish whites to Jews. And that is that the allegation is that blacks were thwarted by legal barriers. No one is asserting that non-Jewish whites were handicapped by pro-Jewish laws.

In France a similar phenomenon involves a gesture called “la quenelle,” which the hypervigilant anti-antisemitism types insist is a cryptic version of the Nazi salute. It looks like this, not that I want to start anything:

Just happened to be flipping through an anthology of French poetry and came across a poem called “À Caliste,” by François de Malherbe (1555-1628), in which he writes, “La blancheur de sa gorge esbloüyt les regards,” meaning, “The whiteness of her throat dazzles those who look at her.” My guess is that European poetry is chock-full of admiring references to whiteness, and thus that those of our contemporaries who insist that whiteness is a recent concept are wrong.

Of course “abortion” is the magically missing word. I suggest reading Anthony Ludovici’s little book “The Night Hoers” for a frank discussion of rational eugenics. Writing before the advent of amniocentesis and other prenatal tests, he deplored abortion as equivalent to hoeing at night, that is, trying to eliminate weeds without the benefit of daylight. Better by far to wait till the baby was born and it could be examined carefully by a competent committee to see if it would constitute a burden on the community (and not the parents particularly).

What escapes these researchers is that if it is unjust to exclude Semenya — and it certainly is wrong to insist that she take drugs to modify her natural biochemistry — then it is also wrong to exclude real men from the women’s races. The natural endpoint of their argument is to have no division between men’s and women’s sports. Oddly, though, few feminists seem to want that.

The question also arises whether it makes sense for universities and public policy to underwrite the graduate studies of young women who may drop out, wholly or in part, from the working world. I’m thinking primarily of doctors. Are there statistics on this?

If “Western Civilization” is a euphemism for Christendom, where does that leave the ancient Greeks and pre-Constantine Rome?

“Insane” is, I think, not the word at all. This is an entirely logical step in the revolutionary repudiation of every trace of white racism (or racial self-appreciation, if you don’t like the plain word). Its purpose is clear, to render it even more objectionable, to the point of unthinkable, that anyone would dare to utter, or even think, such things today and in the future. It is pointless to argue that Robeson should also be banned, because he clearly was not a member of that race which has the most to gain from fighting against this censoring. The prospect of black people awakening to the truth and then clamoring for white rights is low; the heirs and fans of Kate Smith, however, must be presumed suspect forever.

On April 12, the New York Times ran an op-ed piece titled “Nipsey Hussle Loved His Blackness.” Whatever else one might say about “whiteness,” I think it is fair to guess that the Times never has published and never will publish such an op-ed with the word “whiteness” used so positively. One reason I find it absolutely essential to read the Unz website is that only among the crazies on this site can one find efforts to explain this double standard. Unfortunately, among all the responsible writers in all the responsible publications, it either doesn’t exist (except in my paranoid white imagination) or it is just what I deserve (for all the sins of my fathers, not to mention my own).

I don’t think Sylvia Plath was Jewish, although she was interested in Jewish subjects. Does the writer know differently?

Maybe, but by assuming that the war will be a “race war,” aren’t you begging the question? Suppose the IT people detest racist whites?

Although I don’t speak Portuguese, I was told that there is a saying in that language that holds that women are like sardines : the small ones are the best.

I’m not generally drawn to conspiracy theories, but this headline is so inflammatory, given that every reader of the New York Times knows that the paper would never allow such a headline to appear were it speaking of “whiteness” rather than “blackness” (except, of course, for purposes of derision) — well, to be blunt, it is manifest to me now that the Times is conspiring to make Steve Sailer look like a genius.

“RT defectors”?? I would like to read more on this subject. Can anyone refer me to something worthwhile?

sorry, i don’t know any more about it. i put the two lines that Sailer quoted into my DuckDuckGo searcher and found the rest somewhere. i think i copy/pasted the whole thing, but don’t know if my source did.

Once again, reality tops fiction. Actually his poem is not a limerick at all:

You’re a man.

Your breasts are made of silicone

Your vagina goes nowhere

And we can tell the difference

Even when you are not there

Your hormones are synthetic

And lets just cross this bridge

What you have you stupid man

Is male privilege.

You’re a man, you’re a man

We can say it, yes we can

That you’ll never be a woman

Even if that is your plan

Every cell is coded male

From your birth until the grave

You are simply a man

Neither stunning nor brave

Your penis isn’t womanly

Your wig is poorly made

Your idea of womanhood

Just doesn’t make the grade

You think we are just caricatures

Or porn tropes for your use

You pretend that you can be us

But it’s merely more abuse

Your great big hands and manly head

Are difficult to hide

A hand in front of Adam’s fruit

Proof does not provide

That you have changed your actual sex

Because your brain is pink

It’s laughable to those of us

Who can actually think.

Interesting remark. Thanks. It’s worthwhile for men to keep in mind that women live in a world with bigger stronger people, i.e., men. Customarily, they need somehow, as you get at in discussing horses, to engage the devotion of one of those bigger stronger people to ward off all the other bigger stronger people. As a man myself, I think that sounds like a complex challenge. So let us all, despite all the provocations in the air these days, try to maintain a certain gentlemanly indulgence toward them.

The 8th Amendment to the Constitution says as plain as day that “excessive bail shall not be required.” What’s excessive?

One of the sad facts about our present situation is that virtually no Jews are willing to engage with critics of Jewish political behavior, such as AnotherDad, such as Steve Sailer, such as Kevin MacDonald. There are some readers of this blog and others who really think Jews from time immemorial have been the hidden agents of every bad thing. That opinion is impossible to hold for people such as me who have studied under, worked with and had many agreeable personal relations with Jews. But few are the Jews willing to acknowledge that their insisting that all the fault is on the side of the gentiles is tantamount to the same sort of categorical condemnation that they want to combat as antisemitism.

I’d be very happy to see Ron Unz and Steve Sailer engage in a calm debate over immigration, without any attempts at clever point-scoring. I am thoroughly in Sailer’s camp, and I delight in his making obvious the latent biases in MSM news coverage, but it is a lot easier to defend exclusion in the abstract than it is if you’re face to face with the people you’re rejecting and can clearly see what misery they’re in. (Rather like carnivorism.) Newspapers like the NYT virtually never acknowledge that the immigration policies they espouse essentially mean the devaluation of the cultural commonwealth of our countries and the eventual dissolution of their identity, not to mention the kick in the gut to ordinary citizens when ever more newcomers are invited in to compete with them. In France, where I live, it is plain to see that the country is getting less and less French every day. The large number of Africans and other foreigners in the country, as well as their children — what reason do they have to sink deeply into Frenchness rather than glide easily on the carpet of the global Anglophone culture? Many real French people are displeased by the demands of Muslim French citizens for more mosques, but in a democracy no one has standing to object to the choices other citizens make, so one wonders how they can be surprised by such a predictable development. Ultimately, it seems to me, borders are morally defensible because certain peoples and their ways are worth preserving.

Here’s a quotation from that article: “I asked [Morton A.] Klein [the president of the Zionist Organization of America] why he believed it was “utterly racist and despicable,” as he put it, for [Richard] Spencer to promote a state for only one ethnic group but not racist for Israel to do so. “Israel is a unique situation,” he said. “This is really a Jewish state given to us by God.” He added, “God did not create a state for white people or for black people.”

The New Yorker article is far less certain about this than Sailer. DePalma’s professional article will appear soon in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and while he has a strong view of what his discoveries mean, there is likely to be some scientific debate over them.

Bravissimo! I suspect I wouldn’t believe any of these books, but that the ADL can merely whisper into Amazon’s ear and have them vanish doesn’t strike me as right.

I live in France and have NEVER heard about Catholic cemeteries or churches, except in reports from a tiny group that fights “racism” against Catholics and French people. But Jewish cemeteries get the full treatment: big stories in the media and lamentations from the politicians. E.G., https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Societe/Un-cimetiere-juif-profane-en-Alsace-Macron-va-se-rendre-sur-place-1606619

Steve Sailer ended his Taki piece with a suggestion of limiting enrollment in these schools to U.S. citizens. Anyone know what percentage of their student bodies might be foreign? Seems like a suggestion too obviously sensible to be approved today.

Even though the SPLC presents itself as a fighter against racism, I’d be surprised if black people made up a large percentage of the SPLC’s donors. I am more inclined to believe that Jewish donors, afraid that the white heartland harbors genocidal antisemites, are the force that have boosted its assets to their present height. Which leads to a connection to Mr. Sailer’s recent piece on Jewish contributions to the Democratic Party. It is straining my brain to not link this awesome generosity with the notion that Jews have more money — and more concentrated political will — than most other Americans.

If Buchanan believes that we were “dragged [into World War I] by a WASP elite” against the wishes of hyphenated Americans, then shouldn’t he be in favor of having more rather than fewer people with dual loyalty?

If only Jews could find the courage to finally speak up about the hushed-up subject of anti-Semitism.

This is why I come to iSteve. To be able to smile–even to smirk–amid the destruction of my nation and civilization.

thanks one hell of a lot, Mr. Sailer. I showed the mall-brawl video to the woman I live with and she said, well, your country is a racist country. Case closed!

Rania’s remarks resemble those of many young French citizens of North African origin. Their parents, too, were seen as content to work and fit in. The children, at least according to the commonplace view, don’t feel accepted as equals and are thus attracted to radical Islam as a way to reconnect with what their parents left behind (or to atone for their parents’ faithlessness).

“I wonder why.” LOL. My morning’s droll delight. Anyway, I fear for the ladies when Mike Tyson decides to transition and get back in the ring. But, of course, I’m a sexist and it’s normal I’d feel that way.

I appreciate all the work, Mr. Sailer. Another point should be made, if I might: Many of these incidents involve graffiti. How many incidents of graffiti are there in the U.S. every day (or week or month)? Who does most of this graffiti? Of all the words and messages written on public walls, how many of them, what percentage of them, involve “hate” as defined by the SPLC and NYT? Is it really believable that in the periods covered by the NYT’s hate feature, there were no anti-white words or messages scrawled on public walls in all of the United States? Is it at all conceivable that no graffiti “artist” wrote “Fuck Trump” somewhere or other? I will sympathize with anyone who is terrorized by a true threat, but otherwise every effort must be made to show the NYT’s propaganda for what it is.

Not only do most people not understand tails of distributions, but the average person is really quite resistant to the idea that different groups might have different distributions, different averages and so forth. But if you stop even for a second to think about it, it would be quite amazing if different groups of people had the same distribution of characteristics and the same averages. If individual people differ, then why should any two groups of people be the same? It would be extraordinary if they were.

Well put, Bardon Kaldian. I agree with you about just about everything. But there is one thing that Soral has said that I thought worth considering, that is, that a civil war between Muslims and non-Muslims is not something to be encouraged. But I read his book (Comprendre l’empire) and it was worthless.

I think Mr. Durocher doesn’t give Mr. Finkielkraut sufficient credit; his Saturday-morning radio show offers very often a worthwhile discussion of current events or history or literature. But Mr. Durocher is certainly right that the video of Mr. Finkielkraut’s abuse triggered “a veritable pro-Semitic moral panic across the entire politico-media class.” I don’t blame Jews for being appalled when they hear of such abuse. But my sympathy struggles to survive as I see and hear so much discussion and lamentation on the radio and TV about antisemitism. Supposedly the Jews have no particular influence, they’re just like everyone else, but somehow once they’re insulted the president is rushing off to console them and the news shows seem to be talking of nothing else.

No, what all those people should be saying is, “We are sorry that we were so quick to believe evil about MAGA-hat-wearing people. Smollett tried to frame them, and we bought into it. Although we are appalled at the duplicity and stupidity that Smollett showed, we are glad to realize that America isn’t really as hostile a place for black people as our campaigns will be working so hard to demonstrate.”

Also in today’s NY Times, an op-ed by Noah Rothman about hate hoaxes (the term is not used). Interestingly, he finds that “The real tragedy in all of this is that hate crimes are, in fact, on the rise in the Trump era, particularly against Jews and Muslims.” Oddly, he makes no mention of Mr. Sailer’s favorite perpetrator, Michael Ron David Kadar, a dual American and Israeli citizen, who was convicted in Israel of threatening “thousands”. The Times, in reporting on Kadar’s conviction, said, “The threats raised fears of growing anti-Semitism in the United States.” Apparently, once raised, those fears are hard to bring down.

Mr. Sailer, my compliments. It was audacious to suggest right from the start that Smollett was putting us on. Now you may come down off that limb and enjoy a celebratory glass of Champagne.

I was at lunch recently with some friends, and as we complained about the NY Times I recommended Steve Sailer as an antidote. One of my friends said that he remembered my having mentioned Sailer before and that he’d looked him up and discovered he was antisemitic. I didn’t argue the point, but I believe that it is simply not legitimate to label everyone as antisemitic who dares to point out certain things about Jews. All I want is a freedom to speak about Jews, favorably or not, equivalent to that with which so many Jews and Jewish organizations and largely Jewish media operations speak about “white people”. As Sailer has often said, there are certain truths about Jews that one is punished for merely noticing and remarking on in a public forum. The case that stands out in my mind is that of the Irish pundit Kevin Myers who lost his gig with the Irish Times for making a perfectly innocuous remark about Jews’ not being known for selling their talents short. It is instructive to listen to him being admonished by a Jewish BBC interviewer, Emma Barrett; the interview is on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xo6QIAASZw). At one point she tells him that the notion that Jews have a lot of money is a despicable old “trope” and that there are lots of desperately poor Jews. To sum up: Lots of what some strong critics of Jews say seems to me extravagant, but I’ll be damned if anybody is going to tell me that my honest pursuit of the truth about them (or anyone else) is unacceptable.

Maybe, maybe, maybe … but I like it when people making strong arguments acknowledge facts that might be seen as going against their case. Such as, that the Jolson character in The Jazz Singer wants to be a jazz singer, that is, he wants to sing the music of African-Americans. Usually imitation is seen as a form of flattery, no?

He said he learned about the history of minstrel shows, where white people mocked black people “and exaggerated their characteristics and mannerisms.”

As opposed to rap music, in which blacks quietly discuss their love of homework and other non-stereotypical subjects.

This is why I love this site.

is there a “not” missing here: ” … and Johnston found that he could ???shoot unblocked sidearm hookshots over Bill Russell.”

The most important lesson here, of course, is not that so many journalists were too quick to jump to conclusions, but that they were ready to jump in one particular direction, that is, to vilifying white people. Three distinct groups played a role in this event, a very small bunch of foul-mouthed black nutcases, a loony and lying group of self-described Native American activists and a large group of normal, well-behaved white teenagers. The media, as soon as it had the slight excuse it had, jumped where it was itching to go anyway.

Here it seems to me that Sailer is just throwing bones to his hungriest fans. I don’t see anything wrong with sleeping with whomever you please; the blackface and KKK get-up is at least arguably offensive. I’m in general agreement with Sailer on these things, but I sense that he’s getting fat and a wee bit lazy.

I went through a Cioran phase and found some of his aphorisms marvelous. But I agree with G.D. that ultimately they aren’t worth the time. Partly, you have to be suspicious of someone who tells you that things are so bad but nevertheless both doesn’t kill himself and continues to labor on his little works. I probably shouldn’t mention the two together, but I feel the same way about Oscar Wilde’s witticisms; they charm me at first but soon seem empty and pointless (although I don’t feel the same about The Portrait of Dorian Gray).

IT ISN’T CLEAR WHAT IS BEING MEASURED. SAILER HAS LEFT OFF THE QUESTION. ON ZACH GOLDBERG’S SITE, IT READS: “In general, would you describe yourself as … “

Likening the wall to a cell membrane is an excellent simile. Have you noticed that people on the borders tend to be rougher and tougher (e.g., the Serbs) than folks from the interior? Anyway, a wall won’t save anyone unless the osmotic pressure inside the cell can be increased.

The slogan he wants is “Biden: His Time!”

I’d say Derbyshire was right: the novel’s characterizations are grossly overdone, the author is too obviously on the side of the violent patriots, and there is really no suspense or doubt about the ending. BUT it is a marvelous foretelling of the present-day plight of Europe.

I absolutely love it when someone expresses my own opinions so marvelously! Now, if I could only begin to understand the Riemann hypothesis.

Very tricky these days when (1) the publications will insist on having your SS number so your income is reported to the IRS and (2) most publications won’t want to pay you at all.

A tad oversimple, no? The archaeologists cooperated with Reich but dispute his extrapolations from the very few samples he used. Are they really just guarding their comfy notions? Time will tell.

What strikes me as odd is that the people who promote open borders are generally the same as the ones who are constantly scolding us for “racism” or reminding us to “never forget” the Holocaust. Yet the Nazi genocide was a response to a huge influx of Jews from Eastern Europe, was it not? Wouldn’t just a wee bit of prudence suggest that welcoming the world to the U.S. would be a very dangerous idea for the newcomers? (Of course I understand that the natives’ lot is not of any interest to anyone.)

Steve King said that Americans “can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” I was tempted to believe him right, since it seemed well, duh, obvious. But then I read the many objections in the mainstream press and, finally, bingo!, I realized how wrong he was. The apotheosis of human life is the sterile pursuit of personal happiness; child-bearing is an outrageous drag on that process. Thus unlimited immigration, pace King and his ilk, is the only true libertarian solution to the eternal question of human happiness: Americans (white) pursue their little hobbies without reproducing while enjoying the services provided by immigrants. Meanwhile, the immigrants gradually replace the white Americans. It’s a win-win situation here, and I wish the Unz commentators would wise up to it, relax and enjoy the ride!

While I’m generally all for low-cost solutions, all I can say is that if you really think the safety razor is anywhere near as good as even Gillette’s basic Sensor (hardly the top of the line), then you must have a very pleasantly smooth convex face.