“Tell me about a time you resolved a conflict.”
“I had a co-worker who talked all the time and nobody else could get any work done. I took him out to lunch one day, and so far as I know they never found the body.”

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Ahead of the holiday season, Amanda Calhoun appeared on MSNBC’s The ReidOut to deliver a message to its liberal viewers: It’s okay to cut off your conservative relatives.

“So, if you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you,” Calhoun told Joy Reid earlier this month, “it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why. I think you should very much be entitled to do so, and I think it may be essential for your mental health.”

While such sentiments may be common enough among the resistance left, Calhoun is no average liberal activist. She’s a psychiatrist who serves as chief resident of Yale’s prestigious Albert J. Solnit Integrated Adult/Child Psychiatry program—and she’s not shy about her far-left activism and racial biases.

Washington Free Beacon.

n September 2022, the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) made a bold promise to the school’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Engagement: From then on, the department said, 50 percent of all faculty hires would be either women or minorities.

Citing the need for “culturally relevant pedagogy,” the department explained that “minoritized” professors “tend to have a greater sense” of “the human, social, and communal nature of teaching and learning.”

That is why the department was applying to UIC’s Bridge to Faculty program, which funds the recruitment and mentorship of postdoctoral scholars from “underrepresented” groups.

The money would help the engineering program hit its diversity targets, the department wrote in its application, and, by boosting the number of minority faculty, “enable students” to change “oppressive systems, discriminatory practices, and eventually society as a whole.”

The pitch paid off: When UIC announced its fourth cohort of Bridge scholars in 2023, industrial engineering was one of 10 departments chosen to host one.

There’s money in them thar grifts.

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The District of Columbia’s attorney general is suing a “Defund the Police” activist for misappropriating $75,000 in charity funds for mansion rentals, a Cancún trip, and designer clothes.

Brandon Anderson, the leader of an anti-police D.C. nonprofit called Raheem AI, “misused charitable donations to fund lavish vacations and shopping sprees, and the Raheem AI board of directors let him get away with it,” Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D.), whose office regulates nonprofits in the district, said in a Monday statement.

Schwalb also sued Raheem AI, seeking to shut down the nonprofit entirely. The attorney general called for Anderson to be barred from leading any other D.C. nonprofit and demanded that Anderson or Raheem AI repay the $75,000, according to the New York Times.

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Cue meltdowns.

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The House of Representatives is becoming more of an insane asylum every day, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett is the perfect example of that. During a hearing on Wednesday, the Texas congresswoman went nuts, screaming about “oppression” and the “white man.” Some might call that racist. Democrats call that normal, as depraved as it is.

Representatives are representative, i.e. they reflect their constituents — that’s how they got elected.

If enough people in the district are crazy racists, their Representatives will be crazy racists, too.

None are more crazy and racist than black women. Maxine Waters. Cori Bush. Eddie Bernice Johnson. Sheila Jackson Lee. I’m sure you can fill in the rest of the list.

Public Notice.

Black women have long had to navigate being twice as good to get half the amount of credit. Kamala Harris’s presidential run was evidence of this.

Despite the stark difference in the tenor of each candidate’s campaign and the the quality of their policy proposals, many still questioned whether they could trust Harris’s leadership and opted for her opponent. Ultimately, an overwhelming majority of white voters voted Republican.

National exit polls showed that for white voters, their choice was largely a product educational attainment. Fifty-seven percent of college-educated white women voted for Harris, while 63 percent of non-college white women voted for Donald Trump. For white men, regardless of educational level, a majority voted for Trump. Contrast that with the 77 percent of Black men and 91 percent of Black women who voted for Kamala Harris.

The majority of the Black electorate, regardless of educational level, voted for Harris. But it wasn’t enough. The outcome reminded me of the Glass Cliff and the double standards for Black leaders that come along with it.

It wasn’t that she was totally unqualified, oh no. It wasn’t that she dropped the ball every time it was given to her, oh no. It wasn’t that she had never had a Real Job in her life, oh no. IT WAS WAYCISM, PURE AND SIMPLE.

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Three people were killed and eight others were injured in central Mississippi early Saturday when at least two people opened fire into a group of several hundred people who were celebrating a school’s homecoming football win at an outdoor trail several hours after the game had ended, authorities said.

The gunfire was proceeded by a fight between some of the men at the celebration, but deputies hadn’t yet learned what sparked the fight, said Holmes County Sheriff Willie March.

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Shootings by young men have been an “off and on” problem recently in the county, which has a population of almost 16,000 residents. The young men who talk to the sheriff tell him that it’s often because they have a “beef,” or disagreement with someone.

“It’s hard to see what they are fighting over. I don’t think they are fighting over turf or drugs,” March said. “These are young men walking around with weapons. I wish I had an answer.”

I’ll be happy to say the quiet part out loud: Holmes County Mississippi is 82% black and 15% white, with negligible amounts of other ethnicities.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if young black males weren’t allowed to possess firearms.

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Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has reportedly fired about 24 staff at its Los Angeles offices for using their $25 (£19) meal credits to buy items such as toothpaste, laundry detergent and wine glasses.

The tech firm, which is worth £1.2tn and also owns the messaging platform WhatsApp, is said to have dismissed workers last week after an investigation discovered staff had been abusing the system, including sending food home when they were not in the office.

That included one unnamed worker on a $400,000 salary, who said they had used their meal credits to buy household goods and groceries such as toothpaste and tea.

And this is exactly what will happen to recipients of Universal Basic Income if they spend it on not-government-approved stuff. He who pays the piper calls the tune. (Markets work even when you don’t want them to.)

Huffington Post. (Of course.)

This kind of ‘female-entitlement’ attitude is at the root of a lot of today’s problems.

I became a single mother seven years ago. I ended my marriage because I simply wasn’t happy, wasn’t in love and believed I deserved to feel fulfilled. I didn’t want to merely exist in life or in my most important relationship. I wanted to be my authentic self. I wanted more.

This is why over 50% of marriages end in divorce, and over 80% of divorces are initiated by women. (Lesbian ‘marriages’ have the same problems.) The modern woman is a thoroughgoing Disney Princess: It’s all about her, she’s the prize, she deserves the Handsome Prince who will sweep her off her feet and deliver her to that great castle in the sky where she will be waited on hand and foot and be beautiful and adored forever after. When reality breaks into this fantasy, they continue on their hypergamous quest; whatever they had, even though that’s what they chose, isn’t good enough. As the author bluntly says, she wants more. She believes that she ‘deserves to feel fulfilled’.

She might want to wish for a pony while she’s at it.

My estranged husband and I divided our things and worked out a custody arrangement. I worried about the criticism I’d receive for making what still so often feels like an unpopular choice. I wondered if I’d be able to support myself and my kids. But I didn’t worry about dating, or whether it would be hard or scary. I didn’t worry about never finding someone or being alone for the rest of my life — not once.

After all, she’s a Disney Princess. Hot rich guys are just lined up to submit their applications. All she has to do is hang out the OPEN sign.

I had flings and some relationships, none which lasted very long. But each time I dusted myself off and returned to the apps — the place where most romantic connections begin these days — I started to feel a greater and greater sense of dread. It wasn’t exactly that I had grown tired of meeting people. It was that I started to feel as if I was no longer what a growing number of men were looking for.

Men aren’t looking for a Disney Princess. They’re looking for a wife, someone who will be a homemaker and a mother and a member of their team. They’re not looking for a diva. This is the harsh reality that they can never wrap their heads around. They’re also looking for someone quite a bit younger and more fertile with a lot less mileage. Don’t blame me–blame evolution.

Whether they were 28 or 58, they all claimed to want someone who “doesn’t take herself too seriously.” I saw the line again and again, on profile after profile. Bumble, Hinge, Tinder or The Stir (the dating app for single parents), it was all the same: This unserious woman request was everywhere. I couldn’t swipe through five profiles without seeing it. Each time I’d furrow my brow and spit out, “Nope!” Still, after the past few years spent mostly alone, I started to ask myself, am I just too serious?

No, that was code for ‘I don’t want a self-centered shrew’, which this woman obviously is. (The also don’t want a ‘single mother’, because they have no interest in raising somebody else’s child. Sorry, but that’s just the way it is.

As long as she keeps her focus on what she wants rather than on what the men she’s trying to attract want, she’s going to wind up alone.

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As it turns out, when you have a far-left mayor in a city that has been under Democratic control since 1931, within a state dominated by radical progressives for decades, criminals become emboldened and live out their lives as if every day was a scene from the ‘Grand Theft Auto’ video game.

Unmentioned, but easily visible in the videos, the fact that the looters were People of Color.

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A 33-year-old man punched a female MTA worker in the face without provocation in a Manhattan subway station last month, according to an indictment announced on Thursday.

Prosecutors said Robert Ray followed a female MTA employee inside the Lexington Avenue-53rd Street station at 6:05 a.m. on Sept. 16 as she made her way to the bathroom and checked that the escalators were working on her way. He ran up behind her and punched her in the face, causing her to fall to the ground, prosecutors said.

Ray fled the scene and was arrested later that day, prosecutors said. The attack left the worker’s face lacerated, swollen and in substantial pain, they said.

By Coulter’s Law, the fact that they didn’t mention the ethnicity of the perpetrator suggests that he was black, and the fact that they didn’t mention the ethnicity of the victim suggests that she was white. But modern ‘journalists’ are trained not to mention facts that might be inconsistent with the Woke Narrative.

The American Mind.

The history of civil rights reform is to a considerable degree a history of constitutional conflict. The civil rights revolution has put substantial pressure on a wide array of constitutional principles—including freedom of speech, freedom of association, due process, and the separation of powers.

At present, we may be witnessing the beginning of a broad course correction. One very important sign is the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which struck down the diversity justification for affirmative action in higher education. That opinion came as nearly half of the country’s state legislatures push back against DEI and wokeness—especially in higher education. These efforts have borne fruit in a way that is resetting the national agenda.

Oddly, we do not discuss these red state initiatives in terms of “civil rights reform,” though that is in fact what they amount to. That we do not articulate these efforts in the most straightforward terms available (preferring to cry “Marxism!” or “postmodernism!”) raises questions about their long-term prospects. Indeed, this failure to name forthrightly what red states are doing seems to suggest a certain amount of uncertainty and anxiety at the center of contemporary anti-woke efforts.

Steve Sailer.

Oak Park, IL is a very liberal, quite gay, still quite white suburb of Chicago just over the city line from the bleak Austin ‘hood within Chicago. When Martin Luther King came to Chicago and demanded integrated neighborhoods, Austin was one of the first to tip. Middle class blacks moved in, but they were quickly followed by underclass blacks as the federal government promoted mortgages for minorities in 1968-1972. Crime exploded, the middle class blacks fled, and local real estate agents got rich flipping entire neighborhoods.

Neighboring Oak Park, with its couple of dozen Frank Lloyd Wright homes, had more of a margin for error. It quickly made most streets connecting Oak Park and Austin into culdesacs.

A brilliant innovation was the no doubt illegal but successful “black-a-block” racial quota imposed on realtors to keep Oak Park from tipping all black: the rate of racial change was throttled way back. Realtors could make the score of a lifetime by driving out everybody who lived on a block.

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Apparently every senior public official in the Adams administration is a Person of Color.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course.

Although … if a white mayor had an administration of all white people … oh, the shit that would flow….

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U.S. dock workers and port operators have reached a tentative deal that will immediately end a three-day strike that has shut down shipping on the U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) said on Thursday.

The tentative agreement is for a wage hike of around 62 percent over six years, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. The workers union had been seeking a 77 percent raise while the employer group previously raised its offer to a nearly 50 percent hike.

Thereby strongly increasing the incentive for companies to automate their processes and get rid of actual live workers. Smooth move, guys. Let me know how that works out for you.

Meanwhile, back in flyover country, what is this settlement going to do to prices for imported goods (almost everything these days)?

Associated Press.

All were convicted of witness tampering related to the cover-up of the beating, but Bean and Smith were acquitted of civil rights charges. Haley was acquitted of violating Nichols’ civil rights causing death, but convicted of the lesser charge of violating his civil rights causing bodily injury. He was also convicted of a conspiracy to witness tamper charge that the others were acquitted of.

Since all three officers are black, we were not subjected to the riotous cries of RACISM! that would otherwise attend such an affair.

But I’m sure there’s some band of proglodytes somewhere who are this very minute taking to social media to explain that, yes, black police officers can be and sometimes are racist, ‘racist’ in this context meaning ‘anti-black’.

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Tidal action on the underside of the Thwaites Glacier in the Antarctic will “inexorably” accelerate melting this century, according to new research by British and American scientists. The researchers warn the faster melting could destabilize the entire West Antarctic Ice sheet, leading to its eventual collapse.

Which scientists? Who cares! Just, you know, scientists!

The massive glacier—which is roughly the size of Florida—is of particular interest to scientists because of the rapid speed at which it is changing and the impact its loss would have on sea levels (the reason for its “Doomsday” moniker). It also acts as an anchor holding back the West Antarctic ice sheet.

More than 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) thick in places, Thwaites has been likened to a cork in a bottle. Were it to collapse, sea levels would rise by 65 centimeters (26 inches). That’s already a significant amount, given oceans are currently rising 4.6 millimeters a year. But if it led to the eventual loss of the entire ice sheet, sea levels would rise 3.3 meters.

Yah, sure. Call me when real estate prices in Malibu, Martha’s Vineyard, and Miami Beach start going down.

UPDATE: US Government interagency sea level rise website is live  All hail the Narrative!

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As a general rule, you can make a generic headline “[black person’s name]’s new book compares [thing Woke people don’t like] to the Jim Crow South.”

Saves a lot of time and effort on everybody’s part.

Headline you won’t ever see: “Ta-Nehisi Coates’ New Book Compares Palestinian Treatment of Israelis to Muslim Massacre at Hebron“.

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The NBC-Telemundo poll showing Vice President Kamala Harris with a historically low level of support among Hispanics has begun to trigger some of the usual reactions at MSNBC, including the tired “adjacent to whiteness” trope.

WashPost Associate Editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart opened his The Sunday Show segment on the poll by barely being able to put together the words necessary to describe Harris’s 14-point lead among Hispanics in relation to past Democrat nominees.

So, appaarently, do many ‘black’ women, such as Beyoncé.

al-Jezeera.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted amid multiple corruption probes into his administration, US media outlets have reported.

The charge or charges against Adams, one of the most powerful city leaders on the planet, were not immediately clear late on Wednesday as the indictment was under seal.

Time to leave.

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“I was told that they discovered her father was white,” the musician said in a recent interview.

The consequences of ‘black’ being an ethnic tribal identity rather than, you know, a color.

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Ever wonder why those crime statistics don’t necessarily seem to line up with what you’re bearing witness to in real life and on social media? Try this one on for size…

A black illegal immigrant, already wanted for murder in his home country of the Dominican Republic, wound up stabbing a family of four, including two toddlers in upstate New York.

Then, in the in the Monroe County Jail roster, he was recorded as “white”.

Well, he’s about as white as Beyoncé is black….

The Other McCain.

It’s a long story. First of all, you’ll find liberals insisting that these Haitians are not illegal immigrants. Research further, however, and you learn that most of them entered the country illegally, crossing the U.S.-Mexico border after making their way through Central America. After Haiti descended into its latest crisis, the Biden administration granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to all Haitians in the U.S., so you may say that they have been retroactively (but temporarily) “legalized.”

Now let’s talk about Springfield, which is a “blue” island of liberalism in a sea of Republican “red.” Ohio was once a battleground state, closely contested in every presidential election, and then Trump came along and the Buckeye State has now become a GOP stronghold. Springfield was a city of 58,662 residents before the Haitian influx, and the city sits in Clark County (population 136,000) which voted 61% for Trump in 2020.

You see that, if the Democrats can turn these Haitians into voters, they can make Clark County “blue,” and a similar calculus is being applied nationwide by the Biden administration’s immigration policy. Democrats insist that the “Great Replacement” is a right-wing conspiracy theory, but we can see them doing it — blatantly, deliberately, in front of our eyes — in places like Springfield. And this brings us to the late Warren Copeland.

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The Abbott Protocol.

The Hungarian Prime Minister’s Political Director Balázs Orbán defended his government’s migration policies on Tuesday, September 10th, after Hungary came under fire for promising to bus migrants to Brussels.

“Hungary has been protecting the European Union’s external borders without any financial support from Brussels; what we received instead was political and financial blackmail. This nonsense must stop now!” Balázs Orbán wrote on his X account.

Global Health Crisis: Over Half the World Lacks Essential Micronutrients, Harvard Study Reveals (SciTechDaily) Whatever would we do without Harvard Studies?

Billions worldwide consume inadequate levels of micronutrients critical to human health (Harvard School of Public Health) Billions and billions and ….

Four Key Nutrients Lacking in Diet of Two-Thirds of Adults: ‘Alarming’ (Newsweek) Aren’t you alarmed? I’m sure alarmed.

Billions worldwide consume inadequate levels of micronutrients critical to human health, new study finds (MedicalXPress)

The Other McCain.

Say hello to Corey Cobb-Bey and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because he died Thursday night in the proverbial hail of police gunfire after he murdered a Dallas cop and wounded two others.

New York Times.

How is this news? If you get rid of the rules pumping up the numbers of unqualified minorities, you’re going to wind up with fewer of them. A six-year-old could see this–but not, apparently, AWFUL writers for the New York Times.

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Books have been written, movies made and college courses taught about white privilege. Denouncing the evils of whiteness indiscriminately allows people of all races, even white people like Robin DiAngelo and Tracie McMillan, to earn a very good living from hunting for white privilege.

Less discussed is ‘whiteless privilege’. Even when one of the biggest beneficiaries of whiteless privilege, Vice President Kamala Harris, has made that her identity. What race is Kamala? Kamala is at once black and Indian, and none of the above because what matters most is not what race she is, but what race she is not. By not being white, she is a person of color and thus whiteless.

Kamala has white ancestry by way of her father, but in a world where men can be women and women can be androgynous and can then march in pride parades as Androgynes for Gaza while wearing half-burkas, what you are matters much less than what you identify as and what you don’t identify as.

Steve Sailer.

Kamala’s one regret was that at the signing of her bill, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, one man couldn’t be there to share the spotlight with her, a man who had gone above and beyond the call of Wokeness to raise awareness of Kamala’s ETAA: her good friend Jussie Smollett.

Sure, TV star Jussie Smollett’s passion for helping pass his pal Kamala Harris’s “Emmett Till Antilynching Act” led him to self-lynch himself during a downtown Chicago polar vortex and blame it on white men shouting “This is MAGA Country!”

But that was an anti-WHITE hate crime, so it was OK.

Meanwhile, in other late-breaking Emmett Till news, the Washington Post today runs a 2,000 word article on Till’s death a mere 69 years ago today.

The Hill.

Oh, ya think?

Fani Willis doesn’t take a breath without playing the race card.

UPDATE: Trump Lawyers: Willis ‘Disqualified’ by Race Rhetoric

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The new system, “Grading for Equity,” seeks to remove non-academic factors such as attendance, participation, and timely submission of assignments from students’ grades, focusing solely on mastery of content.

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A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer was critically injured outside the city’s police station during protests on the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a pivotal moment in the national Black Lives Matter movement, police said Saturday.

Steve Sailer.

About three decades ago, California political legend Willie Brown introduced Donald Trump to his latest mistress, Kamala Harris, when Trump gave Willie and his entourage a lift on his jet so he could ask advice from the expert himself on how to get around California’s notorious regulators on a hotel deal he was pondering. It appears that Trump made the not-unreasonable snap judgment that Willie’s nice-looking young beige woman of indeterminate ethnicity with the Hindu first name must be a South Asian.

Years later, when Trump would see headlines celebrating Kamala as the “first black woman” this or that, he didn’t wonder what the full story must be and how he’d gotten it not quite right. (Kamala’s racial ancestry is half Tamil Brahmin on her Indian mother’s side, while on her middle-class mulatto Jamaican father’s side she is roughly one-quarter white and one-quarter black. Her Stanford professor father is the kind of person who is referred to as “black” in America and “white” in Jamaica.)

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Obviously, Trump was wrong: Kamala has always identified as both Asian Indian and black. For instance, she used her claim to blackness to get into Hastings law school via affirmative action.

Of course, Trump’s bumptious accusation was greeted with shrieks of “racism” from part-black women journalists like Nikole Hannah-Jones, the daughter of a white woman, who owe their jobs to DEI favoritism distributed based on the One Drop Rule under which their claims to the professional privileges of blackness are considered as indisputable as, say, Michelle Obama’s.

Steve Sailer.

Finally, in the ninth paragraph, they admit it wasn’t just the pandemic, but that the sacred memory of George Floyd might also have played a role:

The Other McCain.

Say hello to Charles Andrew Jones II, a/k/a “Julio Foolio” and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Mr. Jones died last month in a hail of gunfire in the parking lot of a Tampa hotel.

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Well, here’s a story we can safely say you’ve likely never heard before.

An Apache Indian named “Keanu Dude” has been accused of starting a massive wildfire in the state of Arizona…by setting fire to the American flag.

The wildfire eventually burned over 2,200 acres, according to a report by the New York Post.

Dude was arrested Tuesday for allegedly starting the Watch Fire, the report says. The Post wrote the fire “burned 3.4 square miles, destroyed 21 homes, and forced over 400 people to evacuate reservation land before being contained last week, officials said.”

ZMan says the quiet part out loud.

Back during the great interregnum, when issues like race, affirmative action, and demographics could be discussed, it was obvious that the main failure of affirmative action programs was not that they did not result in more blacks in the targeted area, but that the blacks themselves often resented it. Everyone just assumed that these people got where they were through affirmative action, rather than merit, so those who thought they earned it hated the stigma that came with affirmative action.

It is an important and overlooked part of race politics. The white saviors who create and implement these race programs are not counting heads looking for the correct number of brown people. They are looking for salvation. That comes, they assume, when the black recipients of their programs are grateful to the people behind them. The “failure” of affirmative action was that it created black resentment, the exact opposite of what the white saviors were expecting.

That aside, there were second and third order effects that no one thought to consider, and they also contained an internal contradiction that could not be covered up with moral language. You cannot have a meritocratic, egalitarian society and at the same time have special rights for certain people based on dubious claims about the suffering of their ancestors. Good intentions and righteous indignation could not obscure this reality nor stop people from acting on it.

The Other McCain.

The parents of the baby apparently owed $100 for “narcotics,” a debt which Billips apparently intended to collect. Also, the parents had outstanding warrants, while Billips had been the victim of a shooting two years ago. Probably in your neighborhood, such incidents are rare, but in the Holmesburg neighborhood of Philadelphia?

You don’t want to be anywhere near that neighborhood. Did I mention that Joe Biden got 81% of the vote in Philadelphia?

Obviously we need to ban firearms from Women of Color. You know how oppressed they are; who can blame them for just snapping?

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The madness continues.

Steve Sailer.

Upper Canada more or less ended slavery in 1793.

An Ismaili Muslim of Gujarati ancestry who was born in Kampala and kicked out of Uganda by Idi Amin for being South Asian. So you can imagine what he really thinks about blacks. But, no need to bring that up!

But, Canada is working on getting its blacks to behave as badly as American blacks. It’s a tough job, but I’m betting they are up to the task.

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Maybe it’s time for America to reconsider the ugly trend of bringing the ghetto into politics and the courtroom? The list of leftist politicians and judges in trouble for corruption and belligerent low-class behavior is growing long. It’s painful for many Americans to think about how this reflects on the country overall. If anyone was unsure about our status as an idiocracy, we certainly look like one now.

Case in point, one of Georgia’s highest paid (and most infamous) Democrat judges, Christina Peterson, has recently been arrested for assault on a police officer outside a nightclub in Atlanta. Peterson has subsequently been dismissed from the bench, but not just for allegedly striking an officer during the arrest of another woman. She was also investigated and disciplined for dozens of professional violations. Seeing her personal conduct when interacting with police, one wonders how it was possible for such a woman to be in the position to become a judge.

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Oakland, California Mayor Sheng Thao is well known for her woke activist policies; policies that have led to a severe spike in property crime (17%) and violent crime (21%) within the first year of her administration. The problem has become so overwhelming that Thao and Alameda District Attorney Pamela Price are both facing potential recall. One has to wonder if leftist politicians are so lax on criminal prosecution because they are engaging in the same kind of activities?

An FBI raid on Sheng Thao’s residence last week may help to answer this question. Though she has not yet been arrested or charged, accusations indicate a corrupt web of illegal campaign finance and “pay to play” favors for special donors. The investigation is allegedly focused on Thao’s boyfriend, Andre Jones, as well as specific donors.

Let’s have some names of these ‘radical right wing forces’. Merrick Garland, perhaps? Or Robert Wray?

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People have expressed ominous surprise that the British military is once again targeting white men in recruitment ads, with some seeing it as a sign that war is coming.

“After being totally dismissed from adverts for years now, the lesser spotted white male is now seemingly making quite the comeback for UK Military Ads,” commented an X user.

The UK Army clip in question appears to feature exclusively white people and features no diversity whatsoever, despite previous military ads and TV commercials in general being full of it.

Wall Street Journal.

Not a problem! Just have them sneak across the border. They’ll get free housing, free college for themselves and their kids, preference in hiring for government jobs, the prospects are endless!

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The chief content of this myth is that people often cannot process or work through adverse events and traumas—abuses, breakups, firings, humiliations—and sometimes even repress the memories because they are too painful for the psyche to assimilate. But repressed or poorly processed traumas do not simply subside; they fester, and they spread, causing further psychological pain and maladaptive behaviors. Time alone, it seems, does not heal psychic wounds. But if the sufferer works through the trauma, potentially recovering repressed or degraded memories, she can understand and perhaps even eradicate the sources of her misery. Thus, the talking cure is indispensable, and a stoic embrace of silent suffering, once lauded, is not only a species of misguided masculinism, but is inimical to mental health.

The psychotherapy myth is often coupled with, though sometimes contradicted by, another pervasive myth, the brain-chemical imbalance myth. According to this myth, depression is not caused by repressed trauma, at least that is not the essence of depression, but rather by a chemical imbalance (perhaps especially by an imbalance of serotonin). The talking cure might work, but only if it restores chemical equilibrium; and often therapy is not enough. Antidepressants are needed. These alleviate despair, lethargy, and the other myriad symptoms of depression by increasing available serotonin and other relevant neurotransmitters (depicted memorably in a Zoloft commercial).

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Another day, another Democrat hate crime hoax – this time allegedly by a former Biden White House appointee and current candidate for a county commissioner seat in Texas.

Taral Patel, 30, was arrested for online impersonation last week following an investigation initiated by his opponent, incumbent Andy Meyers, the NY Post reports.

The investigation was launched in October, after a September post Patel made on Facebook in which he suggested that he and his family had been victims of race-based verbal attacks perpetrated by Meyers supporters.