Emily Youcis, creator of the incredible animated short “The Ascent of Alfred” (which simply blew me away) has a brand new animated short called “Waking Up”. The potential for Alt Right art like this is unlimited. It’s time to get your fash on!
I finally got around to watching the full Jordan Peterson interview with the insufferable Cathie Newman on Channel 4 TV, an interview which has gone quite viral and which, now, SJWs are in a tizzy about.
Watching the video, I was struck at how logically-challenged, liberal egalitarians like Newman are, how they repeatedly fail to learn anything about biology factors contributing to group differences, how they instead always resort to kneejerk, leftwing, bumper sticker sloganeering.
The only place where JP stumbles a bit is when CN presses him on why heads of major companies are overwhelmingly male. JP should have immediately pointed to the inherently competitive nature of capitalism itself, which rewards (relative to one’s corporate competitors) aggressiveness, zero mercy, and downright ruthlessness.
Here’s a WaPo story about porn ‘star’ Stormy Daniels taking her act on the road. She will be appearing in Greenville, SC. at the Trophy Club, owned by one Jay Levy:
“I’m an old grandfather, and I seized an opportunity,” said Jay Levy, the owner of the Trophy Club. “I’m a liberal. I’m a big-time liberal. . . . I’m not here for the scandal. I’m here to make money off the biggest name in adult entertainment this week. Next week it’s liable to be someone else.”…
It was the biggest promotional coup in Levy’s 22 years running the club, which he views as a family business, a neighborhood joint. His daughter used to work the front door. His wife of 41 years would be in the club’s “skybox” that evening to watch the show.
Why does this not surprise me?
Ah, let us count the ways.
While it’s not new, re-familiarizing myself with Elizabeth Warren’s charade put a Sunday afternoon smile on my face. I forgot just how good it is. I can handle reading about her, but I cannot handle the sound of her voice — both shrill and condescending.
From (of all places) The Boston Globe (“Elizabeth Warren’s Native American problem goes beyond politics”):
Over the course of her life, Warren did at times embrace this family story of Native American roots. In 1984, she contributed five recipes to a Native American cookbook entitled “Pow Wow Chow: A Collection of Recipes From Families of the Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole.” In the book, which was edited by her cousin and unearthed during her 2012 campaign by the Boston Herald, her name is listed as “Elizabeth Warren, Cherokee.”
Warren also listed herself as a minority in a legal directory published by the Association of American Law Schools from 1986 to 1995. She’s never provided a clear answer on why she stopped self-identifying.
She was also listed as a Native American in federal forms filed by the law schools at Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania where she worked.
And in 1996, as Harvard Law School was being criticized for lacking diversity, a spokesman for the law school told the Harvard Crimson that Warren was Native American.
As I have noted on this site on several different occasions (and through a long-form piece in Counter-Currents titled “The Red Pilling of Rod Dreher”), I take Rod Dreher to be a shining example of the limits of Civic Nationalism buttressed by conventional, Christian, ‘pathological altruism’ ethics. The tortured and contorted logic… the impoverished theoretical approach… all can instructively be put on display through Dreher’s columns.
In his recent column “Of Sh*tholes And Second Thoughts”, Dreher believes his initial, pearl-clutching reaction to Trump’s “Sh*thole” comment may have been too emotion-based, not evidence-based:
I have to admit to you that I’m having second thoughts about my reaction to President Trump’s “sh*thole” comment. The whole thing is more morally challenging than I initially thought. Don’t get me wrong: I think it was crude, obnoxious, and wrong of him to say, and without question politically foolish. He has made it harder to defend sensible immigration restriction policies…
Let’s think about Section 8 housing. If word got out that the government was planning to build a housing project for the poor in your neighborhood, how would you feel about it? Be honest with yourself. Nobody would consider this good news. You wouldn’t consider it good news because you don’t want the destructive culture of the poor imported into your neighborhood. Drive over to the poor part of town, and see what a sh*thole it is. Do you want the people who turned their neighborhood a sh*thole to bring the sh*thole to your street?
No, you don’t. Be honest, you don’t…
I have no trouble saying that not all cultures in the world are equally healthy, equally good. “Different” doesn’t equal “bad,” but some places really are bad because the culture there is bad. Take the people out and put them in a different culture, and you should be able to expect different results over time. But not always.
Responding to one of the commenters, Dreher writes:
I would a thousand times rather live with people of any and all races who shared the same general set of virtues than with people of my own race/ethnic background who did not.
And, when it comes to immigrants from Sh*thole Countries like Haiti, where, exactly, does that happen? Relatively speaking, it is a rarity. When it’s the case that where this does happen is more than offset by the opposite, that’s when our culture begins to qualitatively change… for the worse. Waves of immigrants from country X tend to settle in urban U.S. areas with high levels of X immigrants. (IOW, people of all races want to be amongst their own kind.)
“But I know a Haitian with a PhD!” is a myopic way to approach the issue. One must look at statistical averages of immigrants from X. One must also engage in cultural anthropology to see how the micro-changes in cultural behavior by ever-increasing waves of X-immigrants begins to qualitatively change the character of the wider society emanating from those high concentrations of X-immigrants. These are the ‘critical mass’ inflection points.
Human biodiversity is real. I.Q. is real. Different populations with different average IQs have different collective potentials and create very different civilizations. Evolution + population genetics + time = different norms of social interaction… passed on through genes. Northern Europe has very different norms of reciprocity and higher levels of ‘social capital’ (willingness to trust & assist a stranger) than other civilizations. Degrees of consanguinity (e.g., Hajnal Line) matters. All of these dynamics involve long-evolving racial dimensions. Using Pareto Principle, European countries need to remain at least 80% racially homogenous to ensure continuity of their unique cultural and civilizational identities.
The same is true for Japan, Poland, and every nation on earth. The idea that America is different, that it is a ‘Proposition Nation’, is a myth. America was created by white Northern Europeans and for the vast majority of its history was almost entirely white (i.e., 90% white through 1965.)
Acknowledging these aspects of ‘race realism’ doesn’t make one a Nazi.
In “What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right”, Karin McQuillan writes:
Last time I was in Paris, I saw a beautiful African woman in a grand boubou have her child defecate on the sidewalk next to Notre Dame Cathedral. The French police officer, ten steps from her, turned his head not to see.
This is where we are at.
A very astute observation by Greg Johnson from Counter-Currents about the Alt Right’s superiority at meme-generation, levity, and a comic sensibility, and how this conveys the growing confidence of the movement. (See the discussion around the 45:00 marker):
You can only laugh if you feel superior to your enemies… We feel intellectually and morally superior to the Left… That’s a sign that, psychologically, we’ve already won…
The Left has the sh*ttiest, dumbest, unfunniest memes… They used to be so effective at mocking us, and now it’s just so…weak. I’m very optimistic because of that. That alone is a huge sea change in the culture and politics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=246&v=4OWvsx81JSc
In the first segment of Tucker’s show tonight, his guest was the gorgeous “Rebecca” Kaplan, Oakland City Council Member and (apparently) proud Jewish lesbian… or something or other. The rainbow-colored Star of David lapels are an especially nice, intersectional touch. If only we were to find out she’s half Hispanic, she would be a walking embodiment of CA.
Kaplan was on Tucker’s show to (naturally) defend California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s shocking promise to prosecute CA employers (and presumably individuals) if they in any way assist federal immigration officials in finding illegal immigrants.
Kaplan’s attempt at the end of the segment to rhetorically mock Tucker was also classy: She pulls out a Bible as she says “Hey, Tucker, let me ask you a question. You believe in the Bible, right?”, before Tucker cuts her off and ends the segment.
Kaplan would make a wonderful spokesman/Spokeswoman/Spokesze for CA.
The fetching Rebecca Kaplan.
An interesting video for this old Slayer tune. The riff that starts at 1:54 rules the universe.
Recently, the NYT took a walk on the wild side by publishing 15 very brief, pro-Trump letters “[i]n the spirit of open debate, and in hopes of helping readers who agree with us better understand the views of those who don’t, we wanted to let Mr. Trump’s supporters make their best case for him as the first year of his presidency approaches its close.”
FWIW, at least half of these pro-Trump letters are from Jews. (Letters to the Editor are a function of readership, and this is a telling representation of the NYT’s narrow readership demographics.)
Then, today the Grey Lady published “The Furor Over a Forum for Trump Fans” which contains 7 letters from readers upset that such pro-Trump letters were allowed. Regarding these 7 letters, they are written by:
What diversity!
Normism: The Philosophy of Norm Macdonald, a short book I wrote about the late great comedian, is available on Amazon.
