"(9) A small cohort of blacks, in my experience around five percent, is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. A much larger cohort of blacks (around half) will go along passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming. "
"(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.
(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.
(10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).
(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.
(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.
(10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.
(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.
(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.
(10i) If accosted by a strange black in the street, smile and say something polite but keep moving. "
"(11) The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites. The least intelligent ten percent of whites have IQs below 81; forty percent of blacks have IQs that low. Only one black in six is more intelligent than the average white; five whites out of six are more intelligent than the average black. These differences show in every test of general cognitive ability that anyone, of any race or nationality, has yet been able to devise. They are reflected in countless everyday situations. "Life is an IQ test."
As the father of two black teenage boys, this case hits close to home. This is the fear that seizes me whenever my boys are out in the world: that a man with a gun and an itchy finger will find them “suspicious.” That passions may run hot and blood run cold. That it might all end with a hole in their chest and hole in my heart. That the law might prove insufficient to salve my loss.He also spoke about this [at 05:58 of 08:32] on Real Time With Bill Maher.
That is the burden of black boys in America and the people that love them: running the risk of being descended upon in the dark and caught in the cross-hairs of someone who crosses the line.
... And that is the burden of black boys, and this case can either ease or exacerbate it.
Under the influence I guess I should apologize for not having made much of a showing in the Corner recently. Nor, for the eagle-eyed crew who pick through our print magazine’s The Week section guessing which editor contributed which paragraphs, have I had anything to say in those pages.posted by Ironmouth at 9:46 AM on April 7, 2012
The fact is, I have been under the influence of bendamustine. (Trade name Treanda; though that always looks to me like something I’d see on the name tag of a check-out girl at the local discount store. “That’ll be $14.95.” “Here you go.” “Thank you, Sir. Have a nice day.” “You too, Treanda.”)
The nature of the influence is that my IQ seems to have dropped about 20 points, and my life processes have slowed to a crawl. Was there really a time when I simultaneously plotted and wrote books, conducted major home repairs, kept up a busy journalistic schedule, paid attention to my wife and kids, and took frequent breaks for travel? It seems incredible. This last few weeks, by the time I’ve roused myself from bed, got through necessary ablutions, checked my e-mail, and eaten a boiled egg, it’s 10:30 p.m. and time to go back to bed.
Everywhere you look around the Arab world you see squalor, despotism, cruelty, and hopelessness. The best they have been able to manage, politically speaking, has been the Latin-American style one-party kleptocracies of Egypt and Jordan.Of course he could conceivably say he was talking about "culture" and not "race", but still pretty disgusting.
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When I say “the best option,” I don’t mean “best for the Palestinians”. I don’t think they have any good options. Being Arabs, they are incapable of constructing a rational polity, so their future is probably hopeless whatever happens. Their options are the ones I listed above: to be ruled by gangsters, or Israelis, or Jordanians, or welfare bureaucrats. Or to go live somewhere else, under the gentle rule of their brother Arabs. Would expulsion be hard on the Palestinians? I suppose it would. Would it be any harder than options 1 thru 4? I doubt it. Do I really give a flying falafel one way or the other? No, not really.
It's starting to become clear to me that whether or not Trayvon Martin's killing and its peculiar non-investigation by the police was racist, a lot of racists definitely think it was. Because hoo boy, they sure have gotten more comfortable letting their racist flags fly now that they think enough people agree with them, haven't they?No, the sudden outpouring of sympathy for the kid and his family has surprised them, and they find it threatening. Now they're freaking out because they fear that people like them might no longer be the 'silent majority'
Derbyshire represents an insidious resurgent form of racism- "race realism" and "human biodiversity." Both attempt to make prejudice respectable by couching it in psuedoscientific sociology and statistics. I don't really understand why paleoconservatism ("radical traditionalism) has hitched its cart to the horse of racial bigotryWell, they are racist, and they like science, so they have to figure out a way to make science and racism reconcile.
Issac Newton was into alchemy and eccentric interpretation of the Bible.Alchemy as opposed to what? There was no other theory of the structure of matter at the time. The first book on chemistry was a book about trying to apply the scientific principle to what alchemists had been doing for centuries.
When the birth control mandate was forcing the GOP on the wrong side of women, republican leaders had the issue framed in a very careful way as being about religious freedom (even if that didn't make any real sense.) Then Rush Limbaugh jumped into the fray and forced the misogyny out in the open, and the GOP couldn't really do anything about it because hey, it's Rush. He's too powerful for them to dismiss, so they had to follow his lead.Or maybe it says something about the differences between sexism and racism in society? Regardless of the actual prevalence of racism, it's a taboo. On the other hand, people spout sexist bullshit all the time. How often do you hear the word "slut" on TV compared to the n-word?
That's a bit of an exaggeration, isn't it? Newton mostly just refined work started by others.The had a description. Kepler figured out that planets orbited in ellipses. But one had any idea why. What newton did is made the connection between something we see on a day to day basis, stuff falling towards the earth, and explain the heavens using the same rules. Before newton, people had know idea what the planets were. Gallaleo had seen mountains on the moon, but after newton people knew how much the planets weighed, which would have made it clear that they were made of the same kind of stuff that earth was, rather then being hollow or whatever.
"His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible. We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation. It’s a free country, and Derb can write whatever he wants, wherever he wants. Just not in the pages of NR or NRO, or as someone associated with NR any longer."posted by exphysicist345 at 8:20 PM on April 7, 2012
Male-male buggery has been proscribed in every society that ever existed. I am inclined to think that there are good reasons for these universal prohibitions. To say the least of it, male homosexuality is very unhealthy–much more so than, for example, cigarette smoking. A lot of the people who howl “Homophobe!” at me whenever I write anything about this topic are people who have to swallow a bucket of pills eight times a day just to stay alive. Is it any wonder I have trouble taking them seriously?Christ, what an asshole.
Yeah the deal about dog whistles is that only dogs can hear them. So you can make a coded statement and the people who agree with "things that you've maybe already talked about but that you can't really say out loud" will hear what you've said and get that it's a silent nod in their direction and everyone else hears nothing other than the words you're saying. And "states rights" is the perfect example. It's been so co-opted as a dog whistle by racist types since the sixties (first for civil rights stuff, people who wanted to deny black people civil rights went all "states rights!" about it as Faint of Butt mentions aboveThe problem though is that people may hear people they like mention the dog whistle, and assume that it's an actual principle that they think is important. Like, some kid might grow up hearing politicians talk about "states rights", without ever having it used as a defense of racist policies. So, later on they says they support states rights and people call them a racist.
"States' rights" has always meant "oppression," and if we'd somehow adhered to the actual notions of states rights, all we'd have is more oppression. The same people who are on the wrong side of the culture wars today would still have found a way to (try to) force other states to remain backwards as well.Does that include medical marijuana advocates out there? Or people using "states rights" arguments against federal anti gay-marriage laws?
We believe in the equal dignity and presumption of equal decency toward every person — no matter what race, no matter what science tells us about comparative intelligence, and no matter what is to be gleaned from crime statistics. It is important that research be done, that conclusions not be rigged, and that we are at liberty to speak frankly about what it tells us. But that is not an argument for a priori conclusions about how individual persons ought to be treated in various situations — or for calculating fear or friendship based on race alone. To hold or teach otherwise is to prescribe the disintegration of a pluralistic society, to undermine the aspiration of E Pluribus Unum.Unlike Rich Lowry's posts, this one is open to reader comments. The readers seem to generally condemn Derbyshire's article and support NR's decision.
Yes, NR is a journal of opinion, and that entails vigorous disagreement about countless things. But that has never meant all opinions are equally entitled to exploit this platform — or, in Derb’s case, his connection to this platform. He is not being silenced: NR is not the government, I don’t believe the magazine is responding to any sort of government pressure, and what has happened here has nothing to do with the First Amendment. Derb remains free to express his views and he’ll surely find a market for them. But NR is equally free to say: Not here.
I am sorry to see it happen, but I don’t think NR can be blamed for emphatically distancing itself from opinions people here find more harmful than illuminating.
Did National Review offer him any sort of severence package?posted by John Cohen at 2:22 PM on April 9, 2012
"Nothing," wrote Derbyshire, "but I wasn't an employee, only a freelancer with an 'understanding' they'd use my stuff when suitable. So there was no reason to give me anything and I didn't expect anything."
Did he get a chance to defend his position at the magazine?
"Not really. I exchanged 3-4 emails with [National Review Editor in Chief] Rich Lowry, but he wasn't listening."
"Weissberg had talked about ways of "maintaining whiteness" in "Whitopias."With restricted country clubs, presumably.
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