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Actually, it’s the people who have to deal with them who are doing the suffering.

I’m suffering from Wishing to Punch a Democrat in the Face Disorder. Where do I go to sign up for government benefits?

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Pakistan’s new prime minister has started to make good on his promise to end the crippling blackouts that are blighting the country by adding guaranteed supply to his own home.

Hey, gotta start somewhere. Obama would do the same.

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Well-to-do people are taking advantage of the city’s long-protected practice of limiting rent increases to preserve affordable housing by using their cheap apartments as weekend getaways.

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I thought they’d never leave…. Seriously, is it such a surprise when an explicitly racist organization acts like an explicitly racist organization? (Thought experiment: Visualize the fate of a group called ‘Congressional White Caucus’. Which tells you all you need to know about Black-Run America.)

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 Nassau County, N.Y., had let go 71-year-old veteran lifeguard Jay Lieberfarb after he failed a swim test. Charging that the county had not always dismissed younger guards who had failed the same test, the EEOC proceeded to negotiate a $65,000 back pay settlement, a three-year consent decree and other relief.

Sometimes it is good to be the victim … or at least profitable. At taxpayer expense, of course.

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Assange was cuffed by Met police on a European Arrest Warrant in December 2010. He was later granted conditional bail by London’s High Court with a bond of £200,000, collected from Assange’s celebrity supporters.

One of those conditions was that Assange had to adhere to an overnight curfew at his bail address between 22.00 and 08.00.

Let us all pause and shed a tear for the celebutards now financially hosed by befriending a ‘progressive’ like Assange.

Pass the popcorn.

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Just as Tracy Morgan learned that “gay” trumps “black” in the media’s politically correct pecking order, the Cherokee are about to discover that “American Indian” does not trump “pasty-white, wealthy female leftist who could unseat a sitting Republican in the U.S. Senate.”

Sure sounds as if they’re being treated like family….

Steve Sailer blows the whistle.

Women minorities hardest hit, of course.

Steve Sailer is invited to a regular Fashionable Victim Class hate-fest.

In Orwell’s 1984, they got all this done in only two minutes. But that was fiction.

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Mess with the bull, you get the horns every time.

Hey, he knew the job was dangerous when he took it….

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Sorry, got no time for that — busy worrying about the rampant racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, Islamophobia, whateverelseisgoingonophobia in the United States, which all right-thinking people correctly consider the be The Greatest Problem Ever.

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Identity Politics red in tooth and claw.

Touting a move to make its faculty more diverse, CUNY administrators have broken out Jews into a separate minority group: “White/Jewish.”

Hoo, boy. Reap the whirwind.

“It’s an insult and idiotic,” said Hershey Friedman, deputy chairman of the Finance and Business Management Department at Brooklyn College. “Most Jews are brown-skinned. We also have black Jews and Asian Jews. Once you mix religion with race you’re opening a Pandora’s box — and you look stupid.”

‘How dare you call us white people! You racist!’

But Jewish professors told The Post that marking them as Jews won’t make them the chosen people on campus — and may even shrink their ranks if Jews are found to be “overrepresented.”

“White,” said a Jewish professor at Kingsborough Community College, “is in every way a detriment to be categorized because of the push to hire minorities.”

Sharper than a serpent’s tooth is a minority deprived of its Official Victim status.

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Hey, look at his skin color — he’s obviously a Disadvantaged Minority.

I like the way the matching diamond ear studs add to the family resemblance.

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The Department of Health and Human Services launches $20M contract with PR company to foment race-consciousness to obtain minority support of Obamacare.

PR Week reported that Obama’s HHS launched a $20M campaign last week with Porter Novelli to sell Obamacare to the public. A “competitive” process resulted in the selection of a public relations company. This company just so happens to be led by Catherine “Kiki” Mclean, a former on-air surrogate for Obama’s campaign in 2008.

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

This promotional campaign is not targeting all Americans equally. The campaign creates race-consciousness in order to win over the minority vote. Obama has prioritized reaching Hispanics, African Americans, and women through this PR blitz. For example, an email to HHS in January from the Vice President of Ogilvy PR Worldwide stated, “I realize we really can’t use the blond mom and child for this audience” in regards to a banner ad campaign. With the election on the horizon, Obama realizes he must secure the minority vote.

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The U.S. Commerce Department is considering a petition to include Arab Americans on the list of socially and economically disadvantaged minority groups eligible for special business assistance.

The petition was submitted earlier this year by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) to make Arab Americans eligible for the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). The MBDA helps minority entrepreneurs establish and grow their businesses.

According to the ADC petition there has been an increase since 9/11 in “discrimination and prejudice in American society resulting in conditions under which Arab-American individuals have been unable to compete in a business world.”

Guess people don’t want to do business with potential terrorists. Wonder why that is?

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Ford is working with State Farm to add all Sync-equipped vehicles to the insurance provider’s list of Drive Safe and Save approved vehicles. Once a customer signs up for the program, they can run a Vehicle Health Report which will then relay miles-traveled to State Farm for potential discounts of “up to 40 percent.” While Sync’s automatic integration with State Farm will be limited to Utah for the time being, it intends to expand this support to other areas in the near future.

I’m opening a book on how long it will take for some Nosy Parker social-welfare ‘activist’ group like the ACLU to sue for discrimination because their slumdog proteges aren’t getting the discounts even though they drive like six-year-olds. I’m thinking less than a year.

And that’s not including the fringies who decry this as the next seven-league-step toward an Orwellian future.

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Abbot Justin Brown of the St. Joseph Abbey never thought about the casket business, despite the fact that the abbey has made them for years, but as the abbey must support itself, the monks invested in the necessary equipment and added casket-building to their routine, the Post reported.

But due to the state law, the abbey must either give up the business or get licensed, which would require a display area, a layout parlor, employment of a licensed funeral director and even an embalming room. So with the assistance of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian civil liberties law firm that challenges “the government when it stands in the way of people trying to earn an honest living,” the monks went to federal court.

In a July ruling, U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr., said Louisiana’s restrictions were unconstitutional and held “the sole reason for these laws is the economic protection of the funeral industry,” the Post noted. Judge Duval pointed out that consumers can buy a casket online from Wal-Mart or Costco, but not from an in-state manufacturer.

Crapitalism red in tooth and claw.

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Dumb rules prevent Silicon Valley from building the houses and offices we need to power American innovation.

Apparently even Left Coast ‘progressives’ get tired of their ideological fellows from time to time.

Pass the popcorn.

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Modern Liberalism is more about politics than policy. Even the most devout liberals are not immune to the legal harassment levied against other entrepreneurs.

The pack sometimes eats its own, to keep the rest strong — and watchful. ‘Okay, boys, meat’s back on the menu!’

Sure you would expect any successful chain to face nuisance lawsuits. Last year, a Mexican National sued a Minneapolis Chipotle for violating his human rights by denying him a beer. They actually asked him for more identification than the State of Minnesota requires to vote. The chain was also sued by a man in a wheelchair who claimed that the counters were too high for him to watch his burrito being prepared, denying him of his “full Chipotle experience.”

Even in the pros, you occasionally get an own-goal.

Personally, I don’t see a problem with hiring Mexicans to work in a Mexican restaurant.

Indeed. Whipping up disgusting unhealthy third-world poverty food and selling it to SWPL metrosexuals at premium prices sounds like the Platonic ideal of a Job Americans Won’t Do.

This is politics Chicago-style (apparently, deep-dish pizza isn’t the only tradition nationally franchised out of the Windy City). It’s flat-out harassment. The Administration is trying to convince the restaurant that it would be more profitable to donate than to pay legal fees. As the adage goes, Hell hath no fury like a liberal denied his protection money.

Nice little restaurant chain you got there, amigo. Be a shame if anything happened to it. Make the check out to ‘Obamassiah for President’.

Apparently, just being liberal isn’t enough anymore.

Sadly, it never is.

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This could prove to be almost as entertaining as the progressive dissolution of the Anglican Communion.

All they need do is repeal the Act of Union of 1707 and work from there. But I suppose that wouldn’t allow a sufficient number of politicians to pee in the soup first.

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I had somehow forgotten that Winston Churchill’s grandmother was one-quarter Iroquois indian, which makes Winston (if I’ve done my genealogical math correctly) one-sixteenth native American–twice as much as Elizabeth Warren supposedly is.  Let’s see the diversity-mongers explain this away.

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Like the French language, the liberal brain works in reverse. Where we say “the red book,” the French say “le livre rouge.” They start with a blank book and work backwards to fill it in with rouge. Liberals start with, “All men are created equal” and walk backwards from there without looking. If everyone isn’t succeeding equally, it can’t be because they made some bad decisions or have unequal abilities. It’s because we didn’t do enough.

If America is fat, it must be because nobody told them food is fattening. If women earn less than men, it must be because of sexism. If gays aren’t getting married, it must be because homophobes are cockblocking them. If the top ten mathematicians of all time are white males, it must be because nonwhite mathematicians with vaginas suffered discrimination.

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Boy, those U.N. sanctions are certainly effective. What would we do without such an excellent international body to show tyrannical regimes that they can’t get away with whatever it is they’re doing?

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Another day, another person fired from a prestigious writing gig for perceived racism.

You wonder why they even bother.

John McWhorter, a black academic critical of the discipline, wrote for the Manhattan Institute that the mission of most of these departments “is to teach students about the eternal power of racism past and present.” He added, “however, too often the curriculum of African American Studies departments gives the impression that racism and disadvantage are the most important things to note and study about being black.”

Well, duh. You can’t have a victim-industry without victims, and black kids whose parents are doctors and academics who went to prep school and Ivy League colleges have to be trained to realize that they are, in fact, victims (although you wouldn’t know it to look at them…).

A case in point is Zachary Brewster and Sarah Nell Rusche’s article in The Journal of Black Studies titled “Quantitative Evidence of the Continuing Significance of Race: Tableside Racism in Full-Service Restaurants.” Brewster and Rusche analyze the “culture of white servers” in which white waitstaff allegedly infringe on black patrons’ civil rights by profiling them and providing them with poor service. The authors surveyed waiters and waitresses—people who earn most of their income through tips—and found that many of them assume that black patrons tip worse and display worse behavior than other groups.

This research documents a legitimate concern, but it is incomplete and typical of Black Studies research. A more complete study would consider black patrons’ actual tipping behavior.

What!? Confuse the issue with facts!? That’ll never happen….

When Black Studies programs explore the causes of economic and social disparities, they always begin with the conclusion that white racism is the root of the problem. It assumes that all-pervasive racism is tucked behind every political, social, or economic interaction in which blacks participate and that blacks are always the victims. The discipline seems to borrow the format of the popular game show Jeopardy! It begins at the end and works back toward the question. That’s not how academic inquiry should work. And Naomi Schaefer Riley’s ouster suggests that it probably won’t change.

As, indeed, it probably won’t — so long as there is power and pelf to be had in being victims. You always get more of what you pay for.

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Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

The Other McCain raises the banner.

Q. How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. That’s not funny!

Don’t laugh: Somebody once laughed at Ashley Judd’s puffy face, and we’ve been suffering from her empowered victimhood ever since.

Steve Sailer is on the case.

There’s definitely one African-American in the back row-center (a large man in a black shirt). There might be another black or two in the back row, but that appears to be about it.

And let’s not forget the Asian chick looking lost and alone dead center.

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I notice that there is no choice for taking the salaries of top government employees.

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Is teacher tenure a “human right”?

That’s what the head of the Nevada State Education Association seemed to suggest in a television interview last weekend.

Appearing on a local news show, NSEA President Lynn Warne said the Silver State’s new education reforms – which focus largely on teacher tenure – “really struck at the heart of what are educators’ rights, workers’ rights, human rights really.”

No doubt the next step is a complaint to the U.N. Human Rights Council (notable members: China and Cuba).

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Over the years, there had been a number of incidents at Bedia in which individuals had felt misunderstood, mistreated, or disrespected. Eventually, someone sued.

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

All it takes is one I’m-the-victim whiner and your diversity training (and the expense of it) goes down the drain.

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

No shit. Nothing solidifies prejudice like making a big deal out of it — as, say, diversity training does.

A study of 829 companies over 31 years showed that diversity training had “no positive effects in the average workplace.” Millions of dollars a year were spent on the training resulting in, well, nothing. Attitudes — and the diversity of the organizations — remained the same.

It gets worse. The researchers — Frank Dobbin of Harvard, Alexandra Kalev of Berkeley, and Erin Kelly of the University of Minnesota — concluded that “In firms where training is mandatory or emphasizes the threat of lawsuits, training actually has negative effects on management diversity.”

Nothing solidifies prejudice like making a big deal out of it — as, say, diversity training does.

But it’s deeper than that. When people divide into categories to illustrate the idea of diversity, it reinforces the idea of the categories.

Which, if you think about it, is the essential problem of prejudice in the first place. People aren’t prejudiced against real people; they’re prejudiced against categories. “Sure, John is gay,” they’ll say, “but he’s not like other gays.” Their problem isn’t with John, but with gay people in general.

But the ‘experts’ either don’t know that (they’re ignorant) or won’t admit it (they’re prejudiced — there’s irony for you).

Categories are dehumanizing. They simplify the complexity of a human being. So focusing people on the categories increases their prejudice.

And making a big deal out of ‘diversity’ just demonstrates to people that they live and work with a lot of strangers, because if you didn’t, nobody would make a big deal of diversity. ‘Let’s celebrate the fact that we have all these minorities here!’ merely causes people to focus on how many minorities you have here. This is not a strategy destined for success.

Steve Sailer turns over a rock.

A continuing question here at iSteve is whether media-proclaimed ethnic leaders actually have many followers. For example, there is little evidence that that the well-funded “Latino leaders” who get quoted in English-language newspaper articles actually have many followers. A Pew survey asked Hispanics who the most important Hispanic leader is, and 74% said Don’t Know or There Isn’t One. The déformation professionnelle of these synthetic Hispanic hierarchs constantly cited in the Washington Post and the New York Times claiming that the vast numbers of voters who are their followers want, above all else, more immigration is that they have their jobs only because white people with money and power look at the Census data and figure they need to get on the good side of the coming tidal wave. Not surprisingly, these spokesmodels argue, in turn, for an even bigger tidal wave to make them even more employable in the ethnic leadership racket.

The available evidence suggests that the followers of most ‘ethnic leaders’ are overwhelmingly white.

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Two years ago an “Australian” named Zialloh Abrahimzadeh killed his estranged wife in front of 300 witnesses at the Adelaide Convention Centre. The issue between them was a quarrel over the financial settlement of their joint property in their native Iran. Mr. Abrahimzadeh took the opportunity to kill his wife during a Persian cultural festival at the convention center.

Apparently ol’ Zialloh is claiming that he is a victim, too. Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

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Will the oppression never cease?

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And by “welcomed,” I mean busted in his punk face with a rifle butt.

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“Despite some progress, the board continues to have low minority representation in the economist job family,” the report stated. “The board hires a large number of Ph.D. economists and the availability of minority candidates for these positions is low.”

Gee, I wonder why?

Be careful you don’t step in the diversity.

Steve Sailer has some fun with the Capital of the Crust.

If you are ever feeling in the need for a laugh, just look up the latest news from New York City on the Kindergarten Admissions Wars. Year after year, it’s pure comedy gold.

Because, you know, if your Child of the Crust doesn’t get into the Right Pre-School Program, s/he’s destined to be an Underclass Loser Wastrel forevermore. Or at least that’s what they’re afraid of. (Oh, the tragedy of being tagged an underachiever before your sixth birthday….) Oh, and Persons Of You Know What need not apply:

When school supremo Joel Klein made the switch to pure test-based admissions, using tests would obviously have a huge disparate impact effect. But, Klein didn’t know or didn’t care, because kindergarten admissions is serious stuff where testing is too crucial to be sacrificed on the altar of racial equality. This isn’t something trivial like saving people from burning skyscrapers, this is NYC kindergarten admissions, and don’t you forget it. Different rules apply.

Yet another illustration of Murray’s thesis that the right side of the bell curve are marrying each other and producing Talented Offspring who are forced to compete with other similarly Talented Offspring for a place in the Crustian Cursus Honorum — sort of a Hunger Games for the Ruling Class.

Pass the popcorn.

Steve Sailer looks under the hood … so to speak.

I have some fun below with the Dave Barry-ish Florida special prosecutor lady overcharging George Zimmerman with 2nd degree murder, but it’s worth keeping in mind (because nobody else will) how this is the mirror image of the Jena Six brouhaha.

This is not to say that blacks are never the victims of racist injustice, but that crime stories involving blacks that the prestige press gets most worked up over (Dominique Strass-Kahn, Duke Lacrosse, various campus hate hoaxes, etc.) turn out, with remarkable regularity, to be travesties.

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Note the photo of Obama campaign staff. The only non-white face is some poor Asian chick right in the middle — who is the only one not smiling. Wonder why that is.

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Must have been one of those neo-Nazi white people done it. No way it was any law-abidin’ black folks.

(A brilliant way to ensure that the next Neighborhood Watch guy who approaches a black kid will be unarmed.)

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White college girls from Arkansas go to a national step dancing competition — a dance form that is a hallmark of black fraternities and sororities — and, gee whiz, win the whole darned thing! Boy, are the black sorority sisters steamed!

But wait!

In the final reel, five days after the results set off a national ruckus, show organizers say they discovered a “scoring discrepancy.” They say the second-place sorority from Indiana University, the pink-and-green Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation’s oldest black sorority, is also a winner! Each team gets $100,000 in scholarships!

I notice that each of the sorority girls in the photo has ‘white girl hair’. Guess they’re just comfortable bein’ black.

But later, when it was announced that the Zetas won, the feel-good vibe evaporated. Large sections of the crowd starting booing. Then Internet and radio-call-in warfare broke out when the videos were posted on YouTube. There were allegations of cultural theft and reverse racism, not to mention race-based taunting and name-calling.

Late last week, Sprite officials said they discovered the scoring discrepancy. This was odd because the show’s host, rapper Ludacris, assured the crowd that the judges’ scores had been “double-checked.”

God forbid that white people should ever win anything ‘black’. After all, what would happen if some black kid won an Irish dance competition? They’d rig it so a white kid won too, wouldn’t they? (Oh, maybe not….)

“If you take race out of it, it doesn’t matter if the Zetas won,” Ross said. “They were good. They won. It’s reasonable to believe the AKA routine was better, but it’s debatable. That’s it. The only reason people are upset about the winners is because they were white.”

Fancy that. Can’t be racism, of course, ’cause only white folks can be racist. It’s in the rules.

Steve Sailer, of course, has some comments.

John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, speaks truth to power.

You have to follow my version of the talk point for point; but if you are white or Asian and have kids, you owe it to them to give them some version of the talk. It will save them a lot of time and trouble spent figuring things out for themselves. It may save their lives.

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The Granite City, Missouri, School Board has barred William Carruba from attending his senior prom wearing a kilt. Carruba says he bought a kilt made out of the family’s tartan to honor his mother’s Scottish heritage. But when he asked school officials about wearing it to the prom, Carruba says his principal said he should dress like a man. Superintendent Harry Briggs denied that anyone questioned the manliness of kilt wearers.

Next they’ll be disparaging the size of his dirk. Time to get the claidheamh mòrs out.

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The U.S. equivalent would be putting Alicia Silverstone behind the drive-through window at McDonalds for 12 hours asking ‘You want fries with that.’

Of course, in the case of Alicia Silverstone, there are other employment opportunities available to her that would generate a lot more income in 12 hours than either McDonalds or good grades, If You Know What I Mean And I Think You Do.

Released on bail, he told the police that he had not physically punished her for not doing well in school but merely wanted to teach her a lesson.

And did she?

The 12-year-old girl has been placed in a government child-welfare centre to help her overcome the trauma of her humiliating experience.

Yeah, the lesson she learned is that being a slacker means she’s a victim, and therefore entitled to sympathy and government support.

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In the wake of yesterday’s announcement from the Fair Labor Association that it had reached an agreement with Foxconn to reduce the maximum number of working hours for its employees at its Apple production facilities, Reuters reports that Foxconn workers are concerned about the move’s impact on their salaries.

‘Thank you, First World assholes, for cutting our incomes by a third. With friends like you, who needs enemies?’

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Thus far, media attention has been minimal. Were the situation reversed in terms of race, there is little doubt that the media attention would be significantly more intense.

Ya think?

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Because nothing says ‘entrepreneurial opportunity’ like a dead son.

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Anyone who spends time looking at crime statistics will discover the basics of race and crime before too long, but you better be careful not to talk about them in polite society. They are protected by a taboo even stronger than the Victorian taboo against public discussions of sex, but with good reason. The facts are painful. No one can take joy in publicizing them.

Murder is the crime which has the greatest “clearance rate,” i.e., it is the crime most frequently resolved and prosecuted. We know a lot about the victims and perpetrators of the crime of murder.

Murder is largely an intraracial crime. Almost all murders of blacks are committed by other blacks.

Blacks as a group commit murder at a rate astronomically higher than other groups. The rate of murder committed by blacks exceeds that committed by whites by approximately seven times.

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For liberals, it is always 1962, and we are always in Mississippi.

And that’s the whole story, in a nutshell.

And another thing: What’s with these names? You would think that black parents wouldn’t go out of their way to give their kids names that will ensure that, even without an accompanying picture, any recruiter will see it on a resumé and say, ‘Huh. Black. If we hire him/her, and need to fire him/her later, guaranteed civil rights lawsuit. Don’t need that kind of trouble.’ and trash it without even reading it? What’s up with that?

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In fact, the rule would generate only about $47 billion in extra revenues over the next decade, according to a new estimate by the nonpartisan congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. That’s less than some outside experts had expected, and not enough to make a dent in federal deficits, which now are running at more than $1 trillion a year.

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

Of course, the writer presumes that the reason for it is to raise revenue, which is just a smokescreen. The ‘Buffet Rule’ isn’t intended to hurt the super-rich, but help prevent the merely-rich who aspire to be super-rich. Buffet and his fellow Crustians don’t want the rabble intruding on their activities.

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The New York Times shows how you, too, can belong to a fashionable oppressed minority.

Mixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation to identify as black — and interracial couples share a similar moral imperative to inculcate certain ideas of black heritage and racial identity in their mixed-race children, regardless of how they look.

That way they won’t have to acknowledge that any part of their heritage comes from Icky White People.

One of the most interesting aspects of modern America is the number of opportunities it presents for people to make money off of the fact that their skin is darker than most, without any need to display any other talent or useful skill.

Ilya Somin responds here.

Williams’ argument in regards to blacks has superficial plausibility because blacks have been victims of major historic injustices in this country. But it is not clear why other blacks – or mixed-race individuals – have a special obligation to combat those injustices that is greater than that of other people. If anything, the duty to combat an injustice falls most heavily on those who inflicted it – who, in this case, were mostly white.