Steve Sailer sums up.

It’s bizarre that immigrant groups—who chose to come to America, warts and all—are recipients of affirmative action. Indeed, it’s so inexplicable that virtually nobody attempts to explicate it. Even more strangely, opponents of ethnic preferences have largely failed to attack this indefensible salient. (Likewise, the quotas angle goes almost unmentioned in the immigration “debate” such as it is.)

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The more cunning colleges have figured out that the solution to their “black lack” is to give affirmative action to “African Americans” who aren’t very black and/or aren’t very American. (Barack Obama is the very model of the modern affirmative-action admittee.) In 2004, black Harvard professors Henry Louis Gates and Lani Guinier estimated that only one-third of black Harvard undergraduates were (like Michelle Obama) descended from American slaves through all four grandparents.

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Danielle Powell was close to getting her bachelor’s degree when she was kicked out of her university for being gay in 2012, and now says the only way the school will transfer her credits to another school is if she agrees to pay $6,300. In response, Powell has launched an online petition to pressure the school to forgive the debt.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Michael James, executive vice president at Grace, told The Huffington Post that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act prevents them from discussing any student’s particular case. But he did confirm the student handbook states that “Any student involved in sexually immoral behavior, including premarital sex, adultery, and homosexual acts, is at minimum placed on University probation and may be subject to a Judiciary Hearing.”

The question I have is, why was she attending a religious university? Could somebody please send her a clue?

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Of course he does. Servants of the Crust ought not to have to suffer what they put the rest of the country through! That’s just wrong!

The report indicates that Democrats want to alter the requirement, but know that it may not be easy politically. That’s hardly surprising given that “the provision was put in the bill in the first place on the theory that if Congress was going to make the country live under the provisions of Obamacare, the members and staff should have to as well.” Rep. John Larson, a Democrat from Connecticut, however, thinks that requirement is unreasonable. If the problems many Hill staffers have with the requirement are not resolved, he told Politico, “I think we should begin an immediate amicus brief to say, ‘Listen this is simply not fair to these employees.’ They are federal employees.” So it’s unfair to require federal employees to participate in one of the central features of a law they passed?

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Colorado state Senator Angela Giron (D-Pueblo) says that democracy in our republic is racist. Colorado citizens, angry over her votes to further restrict their Second Amendment civil liberties, have gathered thousands of signatures to force a recall election.

Democrats just say this sillly shit and nobody blinks an eye. And ‘minority’ elected officials are the worst of the idiots — just think of all the wacko pronouncements issuing from members of the Congressional Black caucus.

“I know it’s partially about me being a Latina and being in this position of authority,” said Giron.

Yeah, I’m sure that’s it — the fact that you have the IQ of a carrot certainly has nothing to do with it.

Carefully ignored is the fact that three other Hispanics, both Republican and Democrat, male and female, opposed a number of gun bills this session.

Republican Latina Clarice Navarro opposed all the gun bills.

Democrat Latinos Ed Vigil and Leroy Garcia opposed the Mag Ban, and Vigil also opposed the background check bill.

No recall campaigns have been initiated against any of those Hispanic politicians.

Hey, don’t confuse us with facts…

Jim Goad is lovin’ it.

There are numerous examples of such seemingly insoluble liberal dilemmas, all of them hilarious to me.

Do you protect the environment, or do you allow the Third World to continue breeding like dusky hamsters?

Do you support Islam or the women who are getting their clits sliced off?

Do you come down on the side of unions or illegal-alien scab laborers?

Do you support Greenpeace or Injun whalers?

Do you oppose censorship or rape jokes?

Black female activists or Jews?

Such constant squabbling usually devolves into pissing contests about who is more oppressed and who exactly is bullying whom.

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Affirmative action is hard.  So many racial sub-groups, so little room.

Sad but true.

A fascinatng new report urges colleges and other education groups to rework the classification schemes for Asian-American students, and says current practices to aggregate data hide inequities.

Yeah, Southeast Asians are pissed that they’re in the same category as Chinese. And don’t get the Indians started on that….

Barry loves the little victims,
All the victims of the world;
Tan and umber, brown and black,
They just want to get some slack —
Barry loves the little victims of the world!

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(Disclaimer: Please disregard all of the following, because the mainstream media and America’s social-sciences community have already established beyond all doubt that anyone who criticizes, or even dares to think bad thoughts about, America’s 44th president is motivated solely by blind feral bigotry, which is a defect of character—and, verily, the soul—that is exclusive to white males.)

Not only was Obama’s administration rocked by the Benghazi hearings and revelations that the IRS during his reign has targeted Tea Party and “patriot” groups for extra scrutiny, it has become increasingly evident even to Obama’s Borg-like defenders that he may care more about appeasing his wealthy benefactors and toasting his celebrity friends than he does about uplifting the vanishing middle class and the squirming proletarian masses.

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Esther Gokhale teaches techniques for maintaining better posture. She says her advice can relieve nagging back pain.

Yet another First World problem. Eight weeks in boot camp will solve that posture problem for you, guaranteed.

Steve Sailer looks at the modern victim culture in academia.

While reading up a couple of weeks ago on the Oberlin College KKK fiasco, I became fascinated by the various Web pages at colleges such as Oberlin, Smith, Scripps, and similar advanced, lesbian-heavy institutions for the documenting of “microaggressions.” Since the Ku Klux Klaxon can’t be sounded every week (at least not yet), in the meantime young people are encouraged to fondle and document for posterity the subtlest of slights they feel they’ve suffered.

Steve Sailer kicks over a rock.

 Oberlin has a wonderful website for the racially aggrieved, of which it has no shortage, called Oberlin Microagressions. The New York Times opinion page today features the ubiquitous (but, to be frank, not scintillatingly bright) Ta-Nehisi Coates on a Manhattan microaggression against a movie star.

The election of Obama in 2008 was promised to usher in a post-racial age. The re-election seems to have ushered in an age of intensifying racial animus against whites.

How come?

Hey, if you ain’t a victim, you’re an oppressor — it’s all about getting on the winning team.

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Congress never lets the Constitution get in the way of passing a law with a catchy title. Thus, the Senate’s version of the bill reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act will likely pass the House this week, even though UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, a leading First Amendment scholar, earlier noted that provisions in it violate the First Amendment. (Legal scholars have criticized other provisions in the bill as violating Articles II and III of the Constitution, and for undermining due-process safeguards.) The House GOP had earlier objected to the Senate’s version, citing various flaws in the bill, but under political pressure, some GOP members in swing districts have switched sides and endorsed the bill, which is backed by Democratic leaders and the White House.

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Back in the 1990s, the wealthy couple of David Gelbaum and Monica Chavez Gelbaum bought the Sierra Club’s soul for $100,000,000 on the condition that they drop their immigration restrictionist stance and thus their stance against population growth in the U.S. and in the Sierra Club’s home state of California. This epochal switch has largely disappeared down the memory hole. Today, everybody assumes that plant nativists are, by the nature of their superior morality, human antinativists. But there are psychological tensions in this inherent contradiction.

Impossible. Everybody knows that rich people are all Republicans, and want illegal immigrants so they can have them pick fruit for less then minimum wage. This guy must not read any newspapers or watch the TV news.

The Other McCain is on the case.

News from the competitive victimhood sweepstakes in Great Britain indicates that transsexuals have won the Most Oppressed Group prize, and are now able to demand complete deference.

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All of this uproar began, remember, with a feminist’s jocular complaint about ridiculous pressures on women about their looks. And the moral of the story: Angry bullies always win!

From whom did the transgender community learn this lesson?

Why, yes, of course: From feminists themselves, who ruthlessly bullied their way to power by organizing hate-fests to denounce men whom they accused of sexism, discrimination, and/or harassment.

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There are copies available but kiddie porn involving small furry animals is easier to find.

The film’s live-action depictions of Uncle Remus and his fellow smilin’, Massah-servin’ black folk are embarrassingly racist.

Only to the SWPL crowd who see racism under every bush. The same people who will fall all over themselves praising Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky will run away screaming with White Liberal Guilt when face with a film that is far less bigoted and tendentious. I suppose the next targets will be A Day At The Races and Mississippi, all from the same period.

If you were born after 1980, you’ve almost certainly never seen it in full, and it’s unlikely that will change anytime soon.

Yet another sad truth about modern America.

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Eighteen Democratic U.S. Senators and senators-elect sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last week calling for a “delay in the implementation” of the medical device tax in Obamacare, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Perhaps they ought to have thought it through before they passed Obamacare.

Sorry — I knew I couldn’t type that with a straight face….

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Pity the poor oppressed brown people of South of the Border.

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Racial tensions are mounting over the state Senate’s new, virtually all-white ruling coalition.

Okay, let’s Kremlinologize this: ‘virtually all-white’ means it has some non-white elements, otherwise there would be no need for the ‘virtually’. And ‘virtually’ suggests that those non-white elements are effectively no different from the white elements, because that’s what ‘virtually’ means. So there’s something going on here that depends entirely on color, because that appears to be the only significant feature. What might that something be?

Three black senators — Eric Adams of Brooklyn, Bill Perkins of Harlem, and Ruth Hassell-Thompson of The Bronx — are expected to join the Rev. Al Sharpton Saturday in a campaign to empower 15 black and Hispanic Democrats with key committee chairmanships and more influence, said a source.

Here, obviously, ’empower’ means ‘pay off’. So the ‘something’ under discussion is dividing the swag.

Sharpton claimed the coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats denies black and Latino senators power that should be “rightfully theirs” given that Democrats won a majority of Senate seats last month.

Suspicion confirmed. Democrats apparently are the party of non-white people, so when Democrats win, obviously non-white people are entitled to power. Competence? Doesn’t matter. Political beliefs? Irrelevant. Skin color? The only thing that matters.

In the old days, that would be called ‘racism’. But doublespeak reigns. I hope you love Big Brother; at least we can be sure he’s a Democrat.

Steve Sailer challenges you.

If you ace that one, try to pick out Susan Rice’s ‘black’ kids from any other group of pink ones.

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But is there any loud clamor about this sexual imbalance? Of course not.

Now, imagine the outcry if there were a courthouse that was 100% male … you’d be hearing it in Chicago.

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The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties has been working without a contract since June 2011. Unions and negotiators for the Pennsylvania state college system have met 40 times but have been unable to reach an agreement.

I am not making this up.

[Recap for the dimwitted: Unions arise when a particular occupation has a skillset that is easily subject to substitution on the part of management because supply vastly exceeds demand, hence collective coercion on the part of workers is the only way to raise (or sustain) their price over what the market-clearing amount would be.]

Think how clever the American higher-education system is. They have arranged it so that they can generate an oversupply of PhDs and thereby drive down the price that they pay for faculty, and the silly buggers pay them to do it, often in the process incurring crippling debt in amounts that an old-time Company Store could only dream about.

Insensitive Politically Incorrect Analogy: ‘Hey, Pedro, for the low, low price of $1000, I’ll be happy to help you sneak a hundred of your relatives over the border so that I’ll never have to pay more than $1.00 an hour for labor ever again. What do you say?’ ‘Gracias, Senor, that is very white of you.’

Isn’t it just.

The Other McCain explains it all to you.

What we are supposed to believe, according to political correctness, is that all problems experienced by homosexuals can be attributed to the hateful bigotry of homophobes. In much the same way, all problems experienced by black people are the result of racism, and all the problems of women are blamed on the oppressive sexist patriarchy. So when we encounter a black lesbian terrorizing her black lesbian ex-girlfriend, this is somewhat difficult for the politically correct to explain. However, if you dare to point out the seeming contradiction — the victims victimizing their fellow victims, without any prompting from straight white male oppressors — the politically correct will say that the mere fact that you noticed this makes you a sexist, racist homophobe. Heads, they win the argument. Tails, you lose. Never argue with a liberal. You’re only wasting your breath.

I predict a bright future collecting unearned benefits from her awesome victim status. Is this a great country, or what?

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A lesbian requested a manly haircut at a barbershop in Toronto, but was turned down by the Muslim proprietor on religious grounds. Now she has taken her case to — surprise! — the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

The HRC spokesbeing in this news report says that there is no hierarchy of rights, and no one class of right can trump another. But I think she’s wrong: experience has shown that ethnicity trumps women’s rights, gay rights, and all the others. Since Islam has deliberately and deftly converted itself into a “race”, the rights of Muslims trump everything.

Steve Sailer turns over a rock.

Asians apparently voted overwhelmingly last Tuesday for the Party of Affirmative Action in Admissions.

How’s that working out for them?

So far, not so hot.

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A KPIX news cameraman was punched and robbed during a live broadcast outside an Oakland high school, the latest in a spate of holdups targeting the media, police said Thursday.

Apparently they were doing a piece on how much local public schools had improved under SantaClausism.

Reporter Anne Makovec and cameraman Gregg Welk were on the air shortly after noon Wednesday outside Oakland Technical High School near the corner of 42nd Street and Broadway. They were at the school to do a story on the passage of Proposition 30, the tax measure preventing deep cuts to education.

I’ve always heard that a conservative was a liberal who’d been mugged … somehow I don’t think it will work in this particular case.

One of the assailants punched Welk in the mouth before the group fled in a Mercedes-Benz, which apparently was accompanied by a Lexus, police said. Welk declined treatment by paramedics but saw his doctor.

That’s California for you — most affluent low-lifes in the country. Aren’t you proud?

The incident comes amid a series of robberies in which media representatives have been victims throughout Oakland, often in broad daylight.

The perps were only identified as ‘five men’, which means that they were either black or Latino, because otherwise their race would have been reported, since then there would have been no danger of the ‘journalists’ being suspected of racism.

Steve Sailer comments:

 With Jerry Brown on top of the world again and talking about running for a fourth term as governor of California, I recall when I met him a decade ago. When Brown was mayor of Oakland, I attended a Milken Institue speech he gave in which he explained what he had learned as mayor. I was quite astonished, because the gist of his speech, as far as I could tell, was that being mayor of Oakland had been a most eye-opening experience for an old liberal like him, that he had concluded that the main hope for Oakland was persuading poor people to move out and for the the poor people who insisted upon staying, trying to get their kids to go to a public military school he started to get some discipline pounded into their dysfunctional heads.

With results as you see them. You can knock some sense into the Governor, but if the electorate remain morons, it doesn’t help a whole lot.

 Now, that I think about it, why not Jerry Brown for President in 2016? Who is his competition? Hillary? Biden? That would be quite a field. The Democrats could really use some of that Senior Citizen Mojo that’s been working for Republican nominees so well since 1992.

And there you go.

Women and Minorities Hardest Hit

The New York Times isn’t happy with any social trend, not even those of its own side, until it can find — and exploit — a group of Victims.

Unfortunately, this proposal has some serious problems. First, “privatizing” marriage will not cause it to disappear — it will just leave it to be regulated by private institutions, especially religious and ethnic ones. For many centuries, marriage has been the primary mechanism by which people who are not related “by blood” become relatives, and it is unclear that civil unions will acquire this social power. Many families will then be structured and governed primarily by private marriage customs and practices now freed of state regulation. Because of the deep and rich cultural significance of marriage, in many cases marriage arrangements will take precedence over the terms of civil unions. When these arrangements exist in tension with widely shared public values — like those that subordinate wives and daughters and limit their opportunities — privatizing and deregulating marriage will curtail the government’s ability to promote gender equality within families structured by marriage. In other words, privatizing marriage will give private organizations, including inegalitarian ones, more influence over the institution of marriage without giving individuals negatively affected much protection by having access to civil union status.

In other words, if we get rid of government control of marriage, the Crust will no longer be able to use the power of government to fiddle with social relationships. God forbid that our ruling class give up any of their coercive power to regulate individual lives, even if it clashes with their public propaganda narrative.

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Rather than a coldly elucidated set of principles in a Benthamite fashion modern social liberalism is fundamentally a movement of justice rooted in feeling. That everyone get a fair-go, that everyone can engage in their own personal project of self-actualization. But at some point this universal principle is going to hit diminishing marginal returns. In the 19th and early 20th century progressives argued for women’s suffrage. About half of the population. In the 1960s in the USA they argued for civil rights for racial minorities, and blacks in particular. On the order of 10 percent of the population of the day in the United States. Over the past generation they have argued for civil rights for homosexuals who identify as gay or lesbian. Being generous, this is probably on the order of 5 percent of the population (I am willing to accept the proposition that the self-identified ~2 percent value may be an underestimate).

Last year the center Left publication The New Republic published a story, Transitions, which had the cover lead “America’s Next Great Civil Rights Struggle.” As a matter of numbers this is farcical on the face of it. Transgender people do face a great deal of discrimination and are the objects of hate, to the point of violence. But the reality is that they are far less than 1 percent of the population. As a matter of numbers it seems that modern social liberalism is running out of victims to uplift if it has to target such a small segment of the population.

Not that it will stop them….

Steve Sailer fisks the NYT, rings the bullshit alert.

 It’s fascinating how little college development there has been over the last century. Brandeis, for example, is a good faith effort by liberal Jews to build a Jewish university on the model of all the various kinds of Christian but not exclusive universities. But as quotas on Jews fell at the older schools, Jewish donors lost interest in creating more Brandeises. Asian Americans have shown negligible interest in starting up their own Brandeises.

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The horror! The horror!

(Three words: Off. Site. Backup.)

No doubt PETA will want an appropriate memorial raised, at taxpayer expense.

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 The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says that 3 of every 4 states that have enacted a ban on texting while driving have seen crashes actually go up rather than down.

It’s hard to pin down exactly why this is the case, but experts believe it is a result of people trying to avoid getting caught in states with stiff penalties. Folks trying to keep their phones out of view will often hold the phone much lower, below the wheel perhaps, in order to keep it out of view. That means the driver’s eyes are looking down and away from the road.

Heh.

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In August, the left found it amusing to speculate about Divine judgment when Hurricane Isaac seemed to be approaching Tampa, FL as the Republican National Convention began.

Even when Isaac veered west and followed a similar path to that taken by Hurricane Gustav in 2008–which also coincided with the Republican convention, in St. Paul, MN–and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, some on the left celebrated the GOP’s misfortune.

As Hurricane Sandy bears down on heavily Democratic mid-Atlantic and northeast states, no one, left or right, is joking.

Well, except for me, of course. You want tasteless political jokes, I’m your boy.

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You know when it’ll be clear that racism is all but dead and buried?  When so-called liberals stop accusing black conservatives of being Uncle Toms and Aunt Jemimas.

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Perhaps they’ll think better of it next time.

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 You, American Airlines, should no longer be flying across the Atlantic. You do not have the know-how. You do not have the equipment. And your employees have clearly lost interest in the endeavor. Like the country whose name graces the hulls of your flying ships, you are exhausted and shorn of purpose. You need to stop.

Flight 121 from Paris to New York began on a clear autumn afternoon. It ended over 30 hours later. For those of us without miles, it is probably still going.

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Prosecutors in Italy have called for a group of scientists to be sent to prison for four years each for allegedly failing to give adequate warning of the L’Aquila earthquake in 2009 that killed 309 people and injured hundreds more.

I predict a sudden and catastrophic fall in Italian interest in pursuing a scientific career.

via Steve Sailer:

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The class-action gravy train may have hit something on the tracks.

It would be unseemly for law firms to collude on their billable rates in an antitrust case. Interestingly, however, the billable rates cluster around certain levels: $750-$950 for senior partners, $375-$450 for experienced associates, and $200-$300 for junior partners. While the legal industry might be as competitive and efficient as, say, the egg business, it’s difficult to see how this many firms, linked together with a web of referral agreements, can actually compete on price so their clients get the best deal possible. Especially since the clients aren’t actually bargaining for anything; the law firms themselves drive most consumer antitrust cases and only the judge  — and lawyers’ own sense of ethics — stand in the way of full-on collusion with each other and the defendant to strike a settlement that is lucrative for the lawyers and nobody else.

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Impossible. Everyone knows that only Republicans can be racist.

The Democratic National Committee is trying to cover up an incident at the party’s National Convention in which a Puerto Rican member of the New Progressive Party called a politician of African descent a “monkey” at a DNC luncheon.

Lornna Soto referred referred to Rafael Cox Alomar, a Puerto Rican of African descent, as “el monito,” which translates to “the monkey.”

My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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This twist was hardly surprising given the controversial discussions of the underrepresentation of women in SF — particularly Hard SF — that have been unfolding at SFsignal and elsewhere in the online SF community. However, it did bring into clearer focus something that has surprised me over the last few months: the gusto with which people have been flinging around labels. Feminist SF. Women’s SF. SF by Minorities. White Male SF. People have been deploying these phrases as if they were listing elements in the periodic table. As if they thought that they had some objective lock on the difference between the writings of men and women, or of people with differing skin colors. As if they thought that the author photo on the back cover was the single relevant datapoint for determining which genre a book belongs to and who can reasonably be expected to read it … you know, for fun, and because it’s good science fiction, instead of just to fulfill their annual guilt-expiating requirement for reading books by people who don’t look like them.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the degeneration of modern culture is the intrusion of Identity Politics into every nook and cranny of life — especially the concept of ‘underrepresented’, as if ‘representation’ has any legitimate significance outside of the political realm. (But, of course, under Identity Politics, there is nothing that is outside of the political realm.)

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…it seems that the Obama Administration’s “Affordable Care Act” has made health insurance less affordable for North Carolina’s college students.

CNN’s Political Ticker reports that Tom Ross, the president of the University of North Carolina system, informed the university’s board of governors that there would be a significant increase in the cost of university-provided insurance plans that would result in students paying nearly twice as much as they do now.

My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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 The Wikileaks founder breached the conditions by seeking political asylum before he was due to be extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault charges.

A raft of high-profile figures including socialite Jemima Khan, journalist John Pilger, film director Ken Loach and publisher Felix Dennis have all confirmed they raised the cash as security to help free him which a judge ordered be forfeited at an earlier hearing.

Nine high profile backers, including two members of the British aristocracy, a Nobel Prize winner and an academic, were today told at Westminster Magistrates Court they have a month to show why the £140,000 they promised between them if he refused to surrender to the authorities should also not be lost.

Plenty of room for rich fools under the bus. Think of it as evolution in action.

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Diversity training doesn’t extinguish prejudice. It promotes it.

My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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A team of boffins in Germany say they have found a statistical link between periods of low solar activity and very cold winters in Europe. Some physicists believe that a long period of low solar activity – like the “Maunder Minimum” of the 17th and 18th centuries – could be on the cards in coming decades, so the new research might indicate an upcoming “mini Ice Age”.

That would be entertaining, watching all of the Global Warming crowd trying to keep their heads from exploding.

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Crimes and infractions are not evenly distributed across racial groups, as the Supreme Court noted in United States v. Armstrong, 517 U.S. 456 (1996).  As that 8-to-1 Supreme Court ruling noted, there is no legal “presumption that people of all races commit all types of crimes” at the same rate, since such a presumption is “contradicted by” real world data, in which “more than 90% of” convicted cocaine traffickers “were black” in 1994, and “93.4% of convicted LSD dealers were white.”  But the Maryland Board of Education has chosen to ignore reality by proposing a rule that would require school systems to discipline and suspend students in numbers correlated to their race, and require school systems that currently don’t do so to implement plans to eliminate any racially “disproportionate impact” over a three-year period.  Thus, it is imposing quotas in all but name.

My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

The fact that a higher percentage of black students are suspended than whites in most schools reflects greater infraction rates associated with poverty and single-parent households — not racism against minorities by school officials.  As a scholar at the Brookings Institution notes, “children who spend time in single-parent families are more likely to misbehave, get sick, drop out of high school and be unemployed.”  As the federal CDC notes, while most whites and Asians are born to two-parent families, most blacks and other minority groups are born out of wedlock.

Note the clever way they dance around the truth — that black culture is corrupt, and promotes and sustains socially dysfunctional behavior in its children — under the mealy-mouthed discussion of ‘poverty’ and ‘single-parent households’ … treating the symptoms as if it were the disease.

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The Internet doesn’t like me — or, at least, it doesn’t care much for my name. My first name consists of two words and I have accent marks in both my first and last names, which seems to complicate my online life considerably. When trying to purchase an airline ticket or sign up for an email newsletter, I’m never completely certain whether it will go through, or how my name will come out of the transaction, but I’m usually pretty sure it won’t be right.

Tell me about it. At least it guarantees that I’ll never run for political office. Damn you, white males! Oh, wait….

“I think software is slowly conforming to us. It’s just inconceivable that English will be the sole winner of the Internet,” Miller said, noting that bigger tech companies such as Apple, Microsoft, and Google are keenly focused on internationalization. As these companies incorporate more diverse programming, others will follow, and eventually because the Internet is so global, older systems will be replaced, too.

Uh, the winner will probably be Chinese, in which case accent marks are the least of our problems. C’mon, guys, think it through.

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And don’t forget Aunt Zeituni.

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But of course they’re nasty racist sexist bigot homophobes because they oppose ‘gay marriage’ so eating there makes you a moral leper.

Steve Sailer examines a Voice of the Crust.

For Mehl and Schmader, this was the smoking gun that an insidious psychological phenomenon called “stereotype threat” was at work. It could potentially explain the disparity between men and women pursuing science and math careers.

Few people are better than the fashionistas of the left in coming up with fancy names for reasons why everything is the fault of people they don’t like.

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My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

After all, Democrats are right up there with Muslims as far as being peace-loving people who wouldn’t harm a fly.

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How can this be? I thought that the 1% (among which the owners and employees of Google certainly rank) are all homophobe Republicans?

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 When you label someone an “illegal alien” or “illegal immigrant” or just plain “illegal,” you are effectively saying the individual, as opposed to the actions the person has taken, is unlawful. The terms imply the very existence of an unauthorized migrant in America is criminal.

That’s because it’s a fact. If you are in this country contrary to the law, you are illegal and a criminal. That’s just a fact. Anyone who objects to being called an illegal immigrant can avoid the whole problem by STAYING HOME. It’s not hard.

In this country, there is still a presumption of innocence that requires a jury to convict someone of a crime. If you don’t pay your taxes, are you an illegal? What if you get a speeding ticket? A murder conviction? No. You’re still not an illegal. Even alleged terrorists and child molesters aren’t labeled illegals.

That’s because there’s a difference between what you are and what you are labelled. If you commit a crime, you are a criminal, whether or not you are ever convicted of that crime. Our courts have a presumption of innocence based on the legal effect of their proceedings, not on the existential nature of what you do. If you murder somebody, you’re a murderer, whether or not you ever get convicted — or even accused — of the crime.

This is the sort of intellectual dishonesty that lawbreakers — and those who support lawbreaking — perennially use to try to weasel their way out of the consequences of their lawbreaking. If you don’t like the law, have it changed. If you can’t get it changed, then you aren’t entitled to work your way around it by attempting to pervert the language.