Ben Sixsmith writes in The Critic on my anthology Noticing:
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
4 April, 2024
By Ben SixsmithOne of the most influential and widely-read opinion columnists in the Western world is never published in mainstream outlets. Despite being read by major commentators and politicians, he is almost never named, let alone discussed. Steve Sailer, a 65-year-old Californian, has haunted mainstream discourse for decades.
You can see his name popping up in New York Times columns by David Brooks and Ross Douthat. He is occasionally published in the American Conservative. Yet the extent to which he is perceived as being politically unmentionable has made him the closest thing that opinion commentary has to an outlaw figure.
The once-edgy comedian, Patton Oswalt, quoted Sailer’s line that “political correctness is a war on noticing” on Twitter in 2014 (and has since deleted the tweet). The now-edgy comedian Tim Dillon referenced Sailer’s characterisation of American policy as being “Invade the World, Invite the World” on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. Online, there is a running joke about how liberal pieties posted on “X” (formerly Twitter) will attract Sailer’s responses like a crime scene attracts Batman.
Reading Sailer’s new collection Noticing — out on March 26 but unlikely to be reviewed in the New York Times or the London Review of Books — reveals that readers of Sailer’s blogs and columns over the years have at least to some extent been put ahead of the political curve.
He predicted the Iraq War would be a disaster. In the early 2000s he laid out the populist framework that Trump adopted in 2016. He wrote in 2014 that the next big culture war conflagration would be over transgenderism. You don’t have to like his opinions to appreciate that this is a record of analytical substantiveness.
You will encounter many undeniable facts that the journalistic mainstream politely flows around. Whilst everyone was agreeing that black lives mattered in 2020, for example, it was Sailer more than anyone else who pointed out that the American “racial reckoning” had coincided with a massive yet largely ignored spike in murders and road accidents amongst African Americans which claimed thousands of lives that had mattered.
True, the presentation of such facts might be acerbic — Sailer has described H.L. Mencken as a “role model” — but that does not make them less relevant and troubling.
Yet we are dancing around the real question here — why is Sailer unmentionable? It is almost entirely because he is a leading proponent of the view that Arthur Jensen stirred academic controversy with in his 1969 article for the Harvard Educational Review, “How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?” Charles Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein all but upended American intellectual life with this view when they authored The Bell Curve in 1994.
This is the contention that human populations have different innate cognitive faculties. In more direct terms, Sailer believes that different races are on average more and less intelligent than each other, and that this probably has a deeply rooted genetic component. I don’t need to spell out why this is controversial. Yes, these are suggested to be average differences, not reflective of individual abilities. (Taller people are, on average, better at basketball than shorter people, but I am a 6’3 uncoordinated mess.) True, this kind of “hereditarian” belief system tends to hold that Jewish and Chinese people, not white people, are the world’s brainiest.
But the argument that racial disparities are more the result of inherited biological differences than structural dysfunction or injustice has depressing implications when it comes to the future, and morbid resonance when it comes to historically oppressive and eliminationist political movements.
So controversial is a belief in what is often called “hereditarianism” that believers are excluded from mainstream intellectual life. This year, the philosopher Nathan Cofnas stepped down from his position at Cambridge University amidst protests against his claim that “the equality thesis is based on lies”. (“There is blood on the hands of Nathan Cofnas,” one student protester was reported to have said, though it is unclear whose blood it was.) The sociologist Noah Carl was dismissed from a fellowship at Cambridge in 2019 for his similar belief in what an open letter called “the discredited race sciences”.
“Discredited” is the important adjective here. The controversial nature of a belief is not necessarily determined by its truth or falsity. Is what Sailer argues true? Many experts in the fields of human intelligence and genetics maintain that is not. Richard E. Nisbett’s Intelligence and How to Get It argues that environmental factors rather than genetic factors are the dominant influence on human intelligence. The philosopher and intelligence researcher James R. Flynn encountered Jensen’s arguments about racial differences in 1969 and dedicated much of his career to arguing against them. Flynn did much to document the “Flynn Effect”, which refers to long-term improvements in IQ scores around the world (though its effects appear to have stalled if not reversed in many places more recently).
I would point out that both Professor Flynn wrote me to praise my review of his 2007 book, and so did Mrs. Flynn, who wrote to thank me for how much her husband enjoyed it.
Read the whole thing there.
Also, buy my book in paperback for $29.95. There’s an unlimited number of paperbacks Passage Publishing can print, so the more the merrier. On the other hand, Passage has committed to publishing only 500 leatherbacks at the exorbitant price of $395.00, with the large majority of them already having sold.
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Ben Sixsmith said:
Cofnas’s Jewishness apparently did not protect him against crazed anti-racists. I think that is probably an ominous sign. It suggests that the minoritarian genie has escaped confinement and is no longer under anybody’s (even Jewish) control. Anticipate much destruction ahead.
Absolutely not a time to slack off (attack when the enemy retreats, as Mao said), but they are looking a lot more vincible than they were 4 years ago.Replies: @J.Ross
There are clear deep ethno-cultural-political reasons why the scientific lineup was pretty much Anglos vs. Jews--truth vs. falsehood.
Arthur Jensen was some sort of Germanic and a little bit Jewish. But he could have been right out of the Pale, and he still would have been an officially "bad person". If you are getting in the way of the minoritarian narrative and tearing down the evil oppressive white-gentile society ... you are bad--period.Replies: @J.Ross, @Twinkie
The destruction you anticipate has been well with us before even Year Zero (2020). If you work in a business that churns out culture products you would've noticed the tremors of the corporatist/financialist war on the white middle class volk thereabouts in 2017-2019. The same Olympians are now making tut-tuts about how their cultural genocide programs of DEI and ESG were meant to be good but for some reason turned out to be bad (especially for business). In the end, trust none of these parasites. Zeus, Prometheus, Hacate, and the rest of them. Turn your eyes to North: Odin also wants us to sacrifice our lives in a gloried Gotterdammerung to feed Yggdrasil with our precious bodily fluids. But at least he's honest about it. He looked me in the eye and said, Corpse Tooth, you will feast with me in Valhalla. And I replied, where do I sign All Father.
He did not lose this job for being a race/IQ/crime realist. Rather, he was barred from teaching. The same thing was done to Amy Wax a few years ago for important classes, though she was permitted to do small seminar classes.
“on one of the outlets that regularly hosts him”
What outlet would that be? Is it like Voldemort? An outlet that must not be named?
Sixsmith has a rather pretentious and anachronistic writing style (even for a Brit). How old is he? He comes across as a sanctimonious prole and he writes like crotchety old man.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/01/why-arent-leftists-happy-joe-rogan-endorsed-bernie/Replies: @Stan Adams, @Nodwink
True believers and fanatics will always be a more powerful force than conspiring cynics and hypocrites.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U0C9HKW
Steve,
You can quit now. Your readers have all already seen the ads. We get it. We already decided to buy or not to buy.
1. Steve blogs a lot, and
2. that pushes the posts touting his book out of view, and
3. new readers are no doubt always coming onto the site...especially as Steve gets more mentions, so
4. Market away, he must.
Or so I'd guess.
In any case, I never understood griping commenters. We're here at the pleasure of our host.Replies: @New Dealer
Congratulations, Steve!
“Depressing implications and morbid resonance.” In other words, the truth upsets the moral sanctimony and moral vanity of liberals. It takes away their warm emotional security blanket. It forces them to think, which they are too lazy to do.
In fact there are no unhappy moral implications to innate inequalities. People are just different, that’s all. You just change your expectations.
I assume it’s the appropriate review for “The Critic”‘s audience. I don’t really know.
There’s a good bit of this sort of ho-hum ass-covering:
After the “some people disagree” sections Steve quotes above, he does his “but it could be true” bit:
Here’s the thing. There really is no scientific debate about the existence of HBD.
Human bio-diversity simply exists in the world. You can see it with you own eyes. Test for it. It is undeniable. And we know much of it is genetic. For example, dark skinned people give birth to and raise dark skinned children even when they move out of sunny tropical environment to cloudy temperate ones. Even when they adapt the culture, diet, practices, etc. etc. of the temperate natives. And now we have direct tests detecting genes. There are plausible scientific debates over particular cases and traits. How much of this or that difference that we see is from genes or from culture/environment–nature or nurture. But once you accept the existence of genes and natural selection, you are accepting HBD–or are simply incoherent.
Really all the heat here is not a scientific debate it is a political debate–not even a debate, but simply a political axiom that all human groups must have the same genetic intelligence and that ergo any differences in group performance can not stem from them but from differing environments–caused by “oppression!”
There simply is no science to get to genetic equality of intelligence. To get there you’d need to posit God doing creation, endowing all peoples of the Earth with a bog standard distribution of “human intelligence”, but with individual variation … and then suppressing natural selection to maintain it, by carefully replacing the same distribution of intelligence genes in each year’s births regardless of the genes of that year’s parents. Or something? The equality of various group’s intelligence (and other mental traits) is simply a nonsense assertion once you accept natural selection.
To me all this reputable people say X, some say Y is just kind b.s. and misses the point. Some sincere people–like Flynn–may think nurture is more important in what’s going on with American whites and blacks. But that is not why any of this is contentious. It is contentious only because of politics. Because the minoritarian–white oppressors!–narrative requires a non-genetic explanation, to justify its meddling, minding, bossing, beatings and looting.
Ironically it scaring Jewish billionaires in the finance sector seems to be one of the things that’s making it slow down.
Absolutely not a time to slack off (attack when the enemy retreats, as Mao said), but they are looking a lot more vincible than they were 4 years ago.
The other thing that strikes me is all this “woe is us” nonsense.
Huh? Exactly why are these implications “depressing”? Especially when it comes to the future?
Seriously, prior to the Jewish intellectual/political coup, the default assumption in the West–and I’d assume the world–was that all groups were not the same. And that in fact European peoples generally had more on the ball than most peoples around the world. (Though with some understanding among people with experience there that some East Asians peoples seemed to have it going on upstairs as well–but just hadn’t developed their societies.) And particularly that blacks were not all that bright.
And yet … the West abolished slavery. The Brits abolished the slave trade and went around the world, imposing that upon other recalcitrant peoples. And Americans abolished slavery and had about the freest society known to man–all the consensus among both normies and elites that various races and peoples differed in their capabilities.
It’s actually the reverse notion–everyone’s the same–that is scary. Not on its face mind you. But coupled with the reality that big differences in performance nonetheless exist. Because then that is a charter for the “fixers” and “improvers” in the bullying super-state to be out finding and rooting out the “root causes” of inequality … and never ever resting until absolutely every impediment to equality has been destroyed.
That–not living with human inequality–is your truly “depressing implication” for a future of “oppression”.
While being Jewish might have mitigated some level of vitriol, but an individual being Jewish was never protection from being denounced as a wrong thinker.
There are clear deep ethno-cultural-political reasons why the scientific lineup was pretty much Anglos vs. Jews–truth vs. falsehood.
Arthur Jensen was some sort of Germanic and a little bit Jewish. But he could have been right out of the Pale, and he still would have been an officially “bad person”. If you are getting in the way of the minoritarian narrative and tearing down the evil oppressive white-gentile society … you are bad–period.
It probably is good that Steve wrote a physical book just in case we have a real war with Asia and the internet gets scuttled, either via our own government shutting down websites it doesn’t like or physical destruction of cloud-servers.
What outlet would that be? Is it like Voldemort? An outlet that must not be named?
Sixsmith has a rather pretentious and anachronistic writing style (even for a Brit). How old is he? He comes across as a sanctimonious prole and he writes like crotchety old man.Replies: @kaganovitch, @dearieme, @Curle
In a Jan. 2020 column in the Aussie ‘Spectator’, he describes himself as a “twenty-something.”
https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/01/why-arent-leftists-happy-joe-rogan-endorsed-bernie/
But what should low IQ people do? Seems like Murray and Sailer would be unassailable if they wrote about that more. Otherwise it looks like they punch down. (Maybe Charles Murray has written about that and I’ve missed it, but Steve does not seem to put much effort into the question.) For example, wouldn’t it be a better idea for Low IQs to learn a trade (that they can learn) as soon as they, say, are literate enough to, say, read the newspaper? That way they would be working when they otherwise start committing crime. And at least they would have a trade when they start having kids at 16 17 or 18. Worth thinking over, smart guys.
They should do what they always do, which is jobs which don't require a college degree. Examples include skilled trades, manufacturing, construction, landscaping, meatpacking, etc. However, fake Catholics like you (among many others) have decreed that it is our sacred duty to import as many foreigners as it takes to guarantee that those jobs do not pay a living wage. I can't speak for Murray, but Steve has attempted to hammer home continuously over the last quarter century or so the fact that the laws of supply and demand apply to the labor market. With regard to our Christian duty toward strangers, I have read the Douay-Rheims bible cover to cover, and I did not find a single verse commanding Christians to screw over their children by handing over their patrimony to foreigners who want to kill them.Replies: @The Spiritual Works of Mercy
You can quit now. Your readers have all already seen the ads. We get it. We already decided to buy or not to buy.Replies: @kaganovitch, @TWS, @Matthew Kelly
Eh, Number 2 son who visited for Shabbos, went home with my copy. Sometimes you have to decide to buy twice.
If Steve is so good at noticing, why has he never commented on Rob Henderson’s idea of luxury beliefs. It would seem that progressive having luxury beliefs falls well into the zone of refusing to notice reality.
I'd take all of these away in a heartbeat if I were king. It would be beautiful to watch rich lefties have to deal with DeAndre the Crip, Miguel of MS-13, and all the unvetted migrants. The comedy would last a lifetime.
Hi Steve, I didn’t see this question in your FAQ for the Noticing Tour:
I ordered the book and tickets, and have received a shipping notification. I may have missed it, but I haven’t received any info about the tickets or venue information. Does that arrive with the book delivery?
Thanks!
You are fighting a religion; this is not a scientific dispute. It was the religion of liberalism long ago, but it has morphed into the religion of anti-Whitism (the logical outcome of liberalism).
The techniques used to delegitimize a religion are the ones that will have to be used. Anti-Whitism has to be subverted and corrupted at every possible turn. It is ripe to be parodied and laughed at. The goal is catastrophic social humiliation. The fact that it is increasingly populated by aging spinsters, middle-aged harpies and mean-faced old bitches will make it easier.
There are clear deep ethno-cultural-political reasons why the scientific lineup was pretty much Anglos vs. Jews--truth vs. falsehood.
Arthur Jensen was some sort of Germanic and a little bit Jewish. But he could have been right out of the Pale, and he still would have been an officially "bad person". If you are getting in the way of the minoritarian narrative and tearing down the evil oppressive white-gentile society ... you are bad--period.Replies: @J.Ross, @Twinkie
Yes. Being part of a movement meant protection depending on its size (it just happens that Jews are very good and frequent at starting movements). Thus you have a faction insisting to this day that Julius and Ethel were railroaded, but Norman Finkelstein never makes tenure.
Absolutely not a time to slack off (attack when the enemy retreats, as Mao said), but they are looking a lot more vincible than they were 4 years ago.Replies: @J.Ross
Apparently Larry Fink’s signature homelessness project failed to yield a dividend for the first time. It’s not a boycott, but even with the border open and the federal government assisting human traffickers in the country with free airlifts, the available housing isn’t being converted to a banking experiment fast enough.
Nathan Cofnas cucked??! Does anyone have the scoop on this? I would expect him to stand his ground. Probably the kind of resignation that’s really a firing. I hope he at least gets all that sweet postdoc money.
You can quit now. Your readers have all already seen the ads. We get it. We already decided to buy or not to buy.Replies: @kaganovitch, @TWS, @Matthew Kelly
Not everyone has decided. I’d go for a PDF because my eyes can’t handle normal print anymore.
The bad old imperialist model was authoritarian, which can be scary, but not nearly as scary as the neo-imperialist, Globohomo model, which is totalitarian.
The authoritarian mission is imposing order on a messy, unequal, uncaring reality. The totalitarian mission is to create a new, better reality. Of course humans, not being Gods, cannot create reality but nevermind. By sheer judicial and executive fiat shall all humans be made equal, men transformed into women, homosexuals married, diffuse wind and solar made to power industrial society, Somalians become Americans, and on and on.
All those troglodytes pointing out that equality does not exist in the universe, that people are different and thrive under different systems, that marriage is a pre-State institution rooted in dimorphic sexual reproduction, that solar and wind are on the permanently short side of a physical equation, will just have to be put in camps and tortured until they see the light.
This, I’ve got to hear. OK, “counselor”, you’re laying it on pretty thick here like Aunt Jermina syrup. Make your case. Offer specific reasons here rather than make an unfounded generalization.
“By sheer judicial and executive fiat shall all humans be made equal…”
It’s these statements that you make from time to time that call into serious question you bona fides as a corporate lawyer. You serve your masters well by way of these processes. Of course, you neglect to offer an important caveat—the will of the people play a critical role in how laws are crafted, implemented, and interpreted. And it’s not as if legislation or legal decisions are in their very nature by arbitrary decree or pronouncement.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
OT — Hewitt interviews Trump.
https://hughhewitt.com/former-president-donald-trump-on-israels-war-2024-and-much-more
What outlet would that be? Is it like Voldemort? An outlet that must not be named?
Sixsmith has a rather pretentious and anachronistic writing style (even for a Brit). How old is he? He comes across as a sanctimonious prole and he writes like crotchety old man.Replies: @kaganovitch, @dearieme, @Curle
The only clumsiness I saw was “this is a record of analytical substantiveness.” Otherwise he says what many Americans might say but in about two-thirds the number of words. The extra American words would, many of them, be long and rather affected.
You can quit now. Your readers have all already seen the ads. We get it. We already decided to buy or not to buy.Replies: @kaganovitch, @TWS, @Matthew Kelly
But…
1. Steve blogs a lot, and
2. that pushes the posts touting his book out of view, and
3. new readers are no doubt always coming onto the site…especially as Steve gets more mentions, so
4. Market away, he must.
Or so I’d guess.
In any case, I never understood griping commenters. We’re here at the pleasure of our host.
And if the reason for objection is the desire to economize on one's precious time, typing out a griping comment doubles the amount of time one has wasted.
DM me for help.Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @Bel Riose
(emphasis added) Have the environmentalists moved on from arguing for “zero genetic influence”? That “more” would be a significant upgrade in accuracy of the statements coming from the crusaders (theirs is a religious belief, right?) against “hereditarianism.”
I liked the following. Does Sixsmith read enough iSteve comment section to understand why it would be funny in this context? To be clear, Corvinus’s repetitively accusing Steve of being cagey.
“Hides in the thickets of detail and doubt” is a nice way to put what is often described as FUD. Original to Sixsmith?
Ben Sixsmith is part of the growing British expat community in Poland.
Poland, along with Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia, is part of Central
Europe which I define as that part of the European continent which
never participated in colonialism or slave trade. As a result, it’s not
afflicted by racial guilt, and IMHO is the last remaining island of
rationality in Europe while (cultural) Catholicism also protects it
from going to extremes to accommodate LGBT fanatics.
There is a young Dutch woman (“The Writing Traveler”) whose depression
was so severe she could barely get out of bed. Quite accidentally she got
a job as a nanny in Poland, not knowing anything about the country. Her
depression lifted almost immediately. Today she is in love with Poland,
speaks the language, and is encouraging more Dutch people to move there.
I assume many speak German there given the old Dual Monarchy tradition.Replies: @HFR
I believe that Jews and East Asians have higher IQ because they have been literate longer. No fair!
And the thing about poor Charles Murray is that The Bell Curve said that the future job market would require high cognitive skills. Hey, Houston we have a problem, because blacks have low IQs! No doubt because of the Flynn effect blacks will have higher IQs in the future (providing, of course, we destroy the gubmint school system till the rubble bounces).
Someone once wrote that Roger Ebert was by far the most “effective” film critic; and then went on to muse that it would be impossible to point to another field of endeavor in which that formulation would apply. I would suggest a counter-example: In the field of endeavor to which Steve has devoted his talent, he is, Ebert-like, the sole occupant of the first tier. (At most, the population of the first tier is extraordinarily small.) For this reason, I compliment Ben Sixmith’s introduction about Steve’s being ignored by the mainstream media; Sixsmith begins his essay by giving context to who it is who is being ignored (“most influential and widely read”).
Steve surely hits for power and average....but there's a lot of untapped talent out there.
He used to be on Blogger ten years back as “Ben Six”.
He is indeed relatively young, perhaps early 30s. Also IIRC, like Ed West, a Catholic. Lives in Poland, been there some years. Or did, anyway, not read much lately.
100% off topic but highly important, this in the Guardian.
Some clever clogses have been attempting to quantify historical and current CO2 emissions since the Industrial Revolution. They’re not worrying so much about who burns the stuff, just who makes it available for burning – and the answer turns out to be state companies.
Bottom line is that when it comes to current emissions, the usual suspects are nowhere and China, Saudis, India, Russia, former Soviet Union (i.e. Stans plus Baltics) utterly dominate. I posted six months or more ago how coal and oil, far from being (as the Greens like to say) the energy of the past, are the energy of the present, with use of both at record levels.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/just-57-companies-linked-to-80-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-since-2016
“China coal is more than a quarter of current world CO2 emissions”
Even historically (since Ind Revolution) it’s 14%.
So as I’ve been saying, we are paying China to burn coal to make the solar panels and wind turbines for us! In the UK we are particularly keen on cancelling oil and gas even before we’ve worked out adequate replacements for them.
I notice that there is no mention of unz.com in Sixsmith’s review. If you don’t want to be shunned by the respectable media, publishing your work on a platform whose contributors mostly deserve to be shunned is probably not going to help.
The difference between Steve Sailer and Andrew Anglin is a good number of Steve's readers have readers, while a significant portion of Anglin's readers can barely read.Replies: @res
“when it comes to the future, and morbid resonance when it comes to historically oppressive and eliminationist political movements.”
I have no idea what any of these bozos are wringing their underwear about. Right now, here in Current Year, the only “oppressive and eliminationist political movements” that exist are aimed squarely, openly, and very effectively at white people, and only at white people. Who are they kidding?
“Anticipate much destruction ahead.”
The destruction you anticipate has been well with us before even Year Zero (2020). If you work in a business that churns out culture products you would’ve noticed the tremors of the corporatist/financialist war on the white middle class volk thereabouts in 2017-2019. The same Olympians are now making tut-tuts about how their cultural genocide programs of DEI and ESG were meant to be good but for some reason turned out to be bad (especially for business). In the end, trust none of these parasites. Zeus, Prometheus, Hacate, and the rest of them. Turn your eyes to North: Odin also wants us to sacrifice our lives in a gloried Gotterdammerung to feed Yggdrasil with our precious bodily fluids. But at least he’s honest about it. He looked me in the eye and said, Corpse Tooth, you will feast with me in Valhalla. And I replied, where do I sign All Father.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/01/why-arent-leftists-happy-joe-rogan-endorsed-bernie/Replies: @Stan Adams, @Nodwink
On December 6, 2022, he tweeted that he was 31 years old.
Amazon currently lists Noticing as unavailable.
Poland, along with Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia, is part of Central
Europe which I define as that part of the European continent which
never participated in colonialism or slave trade. As a result, it’s not
afflicted by racial guilt, and IMHO is the last remaining island of
rationality in Europe while (cultural) Catholicism also protects it
from going to extremes to accommodate LGBT fanatics.
There is a young Dutch woman (“The Writing Traveler”) whose depression
was so severe she could barely get out of bed. Quite accidentally she got
a job as a nanny in Poland, not knowing anything about the country. Her
depression lifted almost immediately. Today she is in love with Poland,
speaks the language, and is encouraging more Dutch people to move there.Replies: @PeterIke, @Frau Katze, @Pixo
Isn’t that like asking Californians to move to your red state? In any case, GloboHomo won in Poland and they are moving FAST to implement it everywhere. Poland will be unrecognizable in ten years.
Poland, along with Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia, is part of Central
Europe which I define as that part of the European continent which
never participated in colonialism or slave trade. As a result, it’s not
afflicted by racial guilt, and IMHO is the last remaining island of
rationality in Europe while (cultural) Catholicism also protects it
from going to extremes to accommodate LGBT fanatics.
There is a young Dutch woman (“The Writing Traveler”) whose depression
was so severe she could barely get out of bed. Quite accidentally she got
a job as a nanny in Poland, not knowing anything about the country. Her
depression lifted almost immediately. Today she is in love with Poland,
speaks the language, and is encouraging more Dutch people to move there.Replies: @PeterIke, @Frau Katze, @Pixo
And American writer Rod Dreher (“The Benedict Option”) is living in Hungary.
1. Steve blogs a lot, and
2. that pushes the posts touting his book out of view, and
3. new readers are no doubt always coming onto the site...especially as Steve gets more mentions, so
4. Market away, he must.
Or so I'd guess.
In any case, I never understood griping commenters. We're here at the pleasure of our host.Replies: @New Dealer
About griping commenters. Someone should tell them that if they are using a smartphone, they can use their finger to “scroll” past material that they dislike. If they have a laptop, on most there is a trackpad that also can scroll over unwanted content; if no trackpad, the down arrow works too.
And if the reason for objection is the desire to economize on one’s precious time, typing out a griping comment doubles the amount of time one has wasted.
DM me for help.
Stay cagey!
And if the reason for objection is the desire to economize on one's precious time, typing out a griping comment doubles the amount of time one has wasted.
DM me for help.Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @Bel Riose
Interestingly, this technique works equally well for those who don’t want to read the griping comments of others.
Influence in getting things considered, yes, but still far from influence in getting things done. Otherwise, the term eminence grise would be apropos:
It sure does, just not in the way everyone assumes. It’s the progressives who claim differences in cognitive capacity could defend slavery and genocide. This is true if you believe exitus ācta probat the ends justify the means. But that is outside the Christian Pale, too alien even to qualify as heresy, and is also rejected by most post-“Enlightenment” thinkers.
It is the progressives who believe this. The right half of the curve can enslave the left half, in Steve’s construction. These people are dangerous.
NB: Note the different fonts for Nisbett’s book vis-à-vis Noticing and The Bell Curve. Reverential italicization?
And pretty much only by white people, other white people.
Who are you kidding? Our enemies are just as white as we are. Some are acting religiously, some cynically, like the old cheapskate planters who whined that white men were unfit for the jobs they offered, so they had to import others from various steamy rainforests.
Cofnas has one of the top post-doc fellowships in the world for new philosophy PhDs.
He did not lose this job for being a race/IQ/crime realist. Rather, he was barred from teaching. The same thing was done to Amy Wax a few years ago for important classes, though she was permitted to do small seminar classes.
Poland, along with Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia, is part of Central
Europe which I define as that part of the European continent which
never participated in colonialism or slave trade. As a result, it’s not
afflicted by racial guilt, and IMHO is the last remaining island of
rationality in Europe while (cultural) Catholicism also protects it
from going to extremes to accommodate LGBT fanatics.
There is a young Dutch woman (“The Writing Traveler”) whose depression
was so severe she could barely get out of bed. Quite accidentally she got
a job as a nanny in Poland, not knowing anything about the country. Her
depression lifted almost immediately. Today she is in love with Poland,
speaks the language, and is encouraging more Dutch people to move there.Replies: @PeterIke, @Frau Katze, @Pixo
Middle class Germans have been moving to Hungary too to escape the MENA invasion.
I assume many speak German there given the old Dual Monarchy tradition.
Yes, under the Dual Monarchy almost all educated Hungarians spoke German. But when the Communists took over, all students had to study Russian. Most Hungarians made sure that the only Russian they retained was the word "nyet." Today, Germans and Hungarians most likely communicate in English.
Oh Yeah, I forgot about Murray’s Real Education. But there he says “America’s future depends on how we educate the academically gifted.” The academically gifted can fend for themselves well enough. It’s the ~20 percent with IQs under 85 who need help. Much of the future depends on them staying out of prison instead of reckoning with the rest of us. That seems obvious.
Gated communities, “mini-towns” with seperate police forces, and Private Schools facilitate luxury beliefs.
I’d take all of these away in a heartbeat if I were king. It would be beautiful to watch rich lefties have to deal with DeAndre the Crip, Miguel of MS-13, and all the unvetted migrants. The comedy would last a lifetime.
Like I told Ron in our idiotic back-and-forth ( arguing with Unz is like arguing with a 12 year-old who claims to have an IQ of 200):
The difference between Steve Sailer and Andrew Anglin is a good number of Steve’s readers have readers, while a significant portion of Anglin’s readers can barely read.
https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/could-aaron-bushnells-sacrifice-spark-regime-change/#comment-6466255Replies: @jb
OT — Simplicius links Russian government propaganda proposing, as was apparently unthinkable a year ago and which Boris Johnson bloodily averted at the outset, that Russian claims in Eastern Ukraine be recognized so that the EU and NATO can fortify a proud new Galicia.
Wait, that’s not Russian government propaganda, that’s the American Spectator.
https://spectator.org/new-an-october-surprise-from-ukraine-is-possible/
This joins a gloomy chorus in thoroughly regime-aligned Western journals, like WaPo.
Minsk would have given de jure Ukrainian sovereignty over those areas but with devolution, respect for Russian language.
Heckuva job, Boris Johnson!
We'll have to see what the dry weather brings, but there might be a lot more under Russian control by August - they still haven't got all of Donbass yet. Can I see Russia being content without Odessa and the Danube exit?
Who's got the black earth and the minerals?
And if the reason for objection is the desire to economize on one's precious time, typing out a griping comment doubles the amount of time one has wasted.
DM me for help.Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @Bel Riose
Corvinus — are you paying attention?
Stay cagey!
And the thing about poor Charles Murray is that The Bell Curve said that the future job market would require high cognitive skills. Hey, Houston we have a problem, because blacks have low IQs! No doubt because of the Flynn effect blacks will have higher IQs in the future (providing, of course, we destroy the gubmint school system till the rubble bounces).Replies: @Pixo, @Curle, @tyrone
“ I believe that Jews and East Asians have higher IQ because they have been literate longer. No fair!”
Ashkenazi might have the longest history in the world of universal male literacy and numeracy.
Nonetheless, Egypt, Lebanon, and Iraq have had elite literacy longer than Japan or England. And yet…
There are clear deep ethno-cultural-political reasons why the scientific lineup was pretty much Anglos vs. Jews--truth vs. falsehood.
Arthur Jensen was some sort of Germanic and a little bit Jewish. But he could have been right out of the Pale, and he still would have been an officially "bad person". If you are getting in the way of the minoritarian narrative and tearing down the evil oppressive white-gentile society ... you are bad--period.Replies: @J.Ross, @Twinkie
It’s actually worse than that. When individual minority – be he a Jew, a black, or an American Indian – engages in a crimethink, the mainstream simply takes agency away from him and still blames the whitey, e.g. “He was reared in a systemic structure of white supremacy and internalized its doctrine despite himself,” etc.
Hence, poorly trained black cops with problems who beat or kill a black suspect or arrestee isn’t simply a bad cop (or an unsuitable person brought into the force for political reasons, i.e. affirmative action) – he is a victim of white supremacy who has internalized its anti-blackness and has learned to hate and dehumanize his fellow black people.
This, the current paradigm in which “whiteness” is at fault for everything, is not falsifiable. It exists above reason, facts, or evidence. It’s a self-justifying dogma of the worst kind that exists outside all human perception (and that’s an insult to properly constituted religious dogma, e.g. the Catholic Church, for example, places a great deal of value on reason as one of God’s gifts to humanity so that we may use it to discern what is and is not true).
So, on a personal note, when I express some dissident views, it simply means that either 1) I have been brainwashed by white supremacy (“stupid”), 2) I am an immoral opportunist sucking up to the white supremacist power structure for personal gain (“venal”), or 3) I am simply “white-adjacent” (“inherently immoral”).
How can you even begin to argue with that?
One would argue that the culture of the U.S. used to underpay women in order to pay slower men more. Think teachers in the 1950’s were paid less than the janitor at an elementary school.
Anyone know who Keira Havens at Medium is? Unlike most others hostile to the HBD-intelligence connection, she seems to know the territory, naming names even I hadn’t come across.
Box of Rocks #7 — Ouroboros
She has an Obama-but-with-brains-and-military-service-without-apparent-affirmative-action biography:
https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/6441
This reads as epic projection. Who is doing the social engineering using reality denial as a tool?Universal human hierarchy? Is it so hard to understand there are many traits and they don't all align? Much less important traits (e.g. intelligence) not having a simple hierarchy themselves (e.g. multi-dimensional).Eagerly awaiting the better measure for intelligence she supplies. But not holding my breath.I do find it fascinating how goodthinkers seem so focused on ideas like this. Why might that be? Is there a more parsimonious explanation than projection?Her invocation of all those people would be more compelling if she would engage with work like Jensen's (a notable name not dropped) g book and Emil Kirkegaard's (a name dropped, but only to say what a bad person he is) admixture studies of race and IQ.
If anyone sees a worthwhile observation in that piece could they please point me to it?
P.S. You are right about there being lots of name dropping though. Also a lot of ad hominem, but that is standard for pieces like that.
P.P.S. Looking at one specific argument from Sasha Gusev she references (a series of tweets): https://twitter.com/SashaGusevPosts/status/1696337989050220794?s=20
Here is a detailed response. https://twitter.com/DamienMorris/status/1700467509726450042Replies: @J.Ross, @Intelligent Dasein
I assume many speak German there given the old Dual Monarchy tradition.Replies: @HFR
“I assume many speak German there [Hungary] given the old Dual Monarchy tradition.”
Yes, under the Dual Monarchy almost all educated Hungarians spoke German. But when the Communists took over, all students had to study Russian. Most Hungarians made sure that the only Russian they retained was the word “nyet.” Today, Germans and Hungarians most likely communicate in English.
I can personally testify that James Flynn (mentioned above) knew and understood the difference between racism and race realism:
https://www.unz.com/akarlin/obituary-flynn/
What should low IQ people do?
They should do what they always do, which is jobs which don’t require a college degree. Examples include skilled trades, manufacturing, construction, landscaping, meatpacking, etc. However, fake Catholics like you (among many others) have decreed that it is our sacred duty to import as many foreigners as it takes to guarantee that those jobs do not pay a living wage. I can’t speak for Murray, but Steve has attempted to hammer home continuously over the last quarter century or so the fact that the laws of supply and demand apply to the labor market. With regard to our Christian duty toward strangers, I have read the Douay-Rheims bible cover to cover, and I did not find a single verse commanding Christians to screw over their children by handing over their patrimony to foreigners who want to kill them.
Then by all means let us have true believers on our side:
You mean China , right…..let me help you here, there will be no war with China , they have already won , an American politician they have bought and paid for is “president” …..game ,set, match.
Wait, that's not Russian government propaganda, that's the American Spectator.
https://spectator.org/new-an-october-surprise-from-ukraine-is-possible/This joins a gloomy chorus in thoroughly regime-aligned Western journals, like WaPo.Replies: @tyrone, @YetAnotherAnon
Meanwhile Blinken is offering NATO membership to Ukraine ,no need to spell out what that would mean……who ever thought the United States would end over Ukraine , funny old world.
What outlet would that be? Is it like Voldemort? An outlet that must not be named?
Sixsmith has a rather pretentious and anachronistic writing style (even for a Brit). How old is he? He comes across as a sanctimonious prole and he writes like crotchety old man.Replies: @kaganovitch, @dearieme, @Curle
Let’s dissect this. Waters that would get “brownshirts’ blood running” is not necessarily a Brownshirt site I’d it was the author would have said as much. Whose site is it? A pro-Muslim site? An isolationist site? Anyone know?
And the thing about poor Charles Murray is that The Bell Curve said that the future job market would require high cognitive skills. Hey, Houston we have a problem, because blacks have low IQs! No doubt because of the Flynn effect blacks will have higher IQs in the future (providing, of course, we destroy the gubmint school system till the rubble bounces).Replies: @Pixo, @Curle, @tyrone
I assumed it was mating practices that favored the most well read.
And the thing about poor Charles Murray is that The Bell Curve said that the future job market would require high cognitive skills. Hey, Houston we have a problem, because blacks have low IQs! No doubt because of the Flynn effect blacks will have higher IQs in the future (providing, of course, we destroy the gubmint school system till the rubble bounces).Replies: @Pixo, @Curle, @tyrone
Too bad they rat-fucked the education of a whole cohort with their “plandemic” …..oh look , another plandemic! ,it’s called bird flu , somehow ,some way it got onto this country and is infecting dairy cows!, OH NO! it’s “mutated” and is more infectious! ……..just in the nick of time for the election!
The difference between Steve Sailer and Andrew Anglin is a good number of Steve's readers have readers, while a significant portion of Anglin's readers can barely read.Replies: @res
Pithy. Adding a link for context.
https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/could-aaron-bushnells-sacrifice-spark-regime-change/#comment-6466255
https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/could-aaron-bushnells-sacrifice-spark-regime-change/#comment-6457000
Substack is calling to you Steve...
OT — or is it? — WSJ: (Poetic Justice!) Open Borders is the very reason why the elite, locked inside the Green Zone, think the economy is doing well, while Americans living under occupation disagree.
https://archive.is/YiKSc
The rising employment numbers (even with their laughable baked-in problems) would be excellent, if the population were not simultaneously being allowed to explode. So employment and unemployment are both going up, because the borders are open, and there’s not enough jobs in the country for everyone on the planet. Time to protect people from disinformation like “per capita.”
Box of Rocks #7 — Ouroboros
She has an Obama-but-with-brains-and-military-service-without-apparent-affirmative-action biography:
https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/6441Replies: @res
Not seeing the brains in that piece (credentials != brains, though I suppose that aspect adds to the Obamaesqueness of her biography). I mean, gems like these?
This reads as epic projection. Who is doing the social engineering using reality denial as a tool?
Universal human hierarchy? Is it so hard to understand there are many traits and they don’t all align? Much less important traits (e.g. intelligence) not having a simple hierarchy themselves (e.g. multi-dimensional).
Eagerly awaiting the better measure for intelligence she supplies. But not holding my breath.
I do find it fascinating how goodthinkers seem so focused on ideas like this. Why might that be? Is there a more parsimonious explanation than projection?
Her invocation of all those people would be more compelling if she would engage with work like Jensen’s (a notable name not dropped) g book and Emil Kirkegaard’s (a name dropped, but only to say what a bad person he is) admixture studies of race and IQ.
If anyone sees a worthwhile observation in that piece could they please point me to it?
P.S. You are right about there being lots of name dropping though. Also a lot of ad hominem, but that is standard for pieces like that.
P.P.S. Looking at one specific argument from Sasha Gusev she references (a series of tweets): https://twitter.com/SashaGusevPosts/status/1696337989050220794?s=20
Here is a detailed response. https://twitter.com/DamienMorris/status/1700467509726450042
I'm sorry, when did Zimbabwean entrepreneurs buy the Imperial Palace in Tokyo? How'd I miss that? Was that after ADOS voluntarily giving up all forns of state assistance and those church parking lot food distributions?Replies: @res
I gather it would surprise her to learn that HBDers, at least the less doltish variety thereof, ruthlessly reject essentialism because they understand it means the end of their operation. There is an intrinsic materialist implication in HBD which Keira apparently shares for other reasons, so she is somewhat ill-equipped to win this argument. However, while HBD entails materialism, materialism does not entail HBD, so it is possible for two materialists to argue with each other about this; but since neither one has a philosophical advantage over the other, these arguments are merely political not scientific.
It is purported to have been said of the Grateful Dead, “they’re not the best at what they do, they’re just the only ones who do it”.
Steve surely hits for power and average….but there’s a lot of untapped talent out there.
He can’t, NATO does not allow a nation currently at war to try to join. Plus it’s pretty clear that NATO has certain limitations here. Nevertheless, consider what I posted. “The Ukraine” won’t join NATO, “Galicia” will, while technically at peace, having given up on reconquering culturally distinct Eastern oblasts. Russia gets its Black Earth, Ukraine gets its Westernness, NATO gets their fort, the people get something like peace.
And everyone in the region gets a zillion jillion squazillion African refugees.
As you know, those two words are verboten because it reminds people that The Ukraine, like The South in the US. is a reference to a geographic area, not a real country...
It will revert to being a farm stand.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/UkraineReplies: @J.Ross, @Frau Katze
This reads as epic projection. Who is doing the social engineering using reality denial as a tool?Universal human hierarchy? Is it so hard to understand there are many traits and they don't all align? Much less important traits (e.g. intelligence) not having a simple hierarchy themselves (e.g. multi-dimensional).Eagerly awaiting the better measure for intelligence she supplies. But not holding my breath.I do find it fascinating how goodthinkers seem so focused on ideas like this. Why might that be? Is there a more parsimonious explanation than projection?Her invocation of all those people would be more compelling if she would engage with work like Jensen's (a notable name not dropped) g book and Emil Kirkegaard's (a name dropped, but only to say what a bad person he is) admixture studies of race and IQ.
If anyone sees a worthwhile observation in that piece could they please point me to it?
P.S. You are right about there being lots of name dropping though. Also a lot of ad hominem, but that is standard for pieces like that.
P.P.S. Looking at one specific argument from Sasha Gusev she references (a series of tweets): https://twitter.com/SashaGusevPosts/status/1696337989050220794?s=20
Here is a detailed response. https://twitter.com/DamienMorris/status/1700467509726450042Replies: @J.Ross, @Intelligent Dasein
It must be incredibly frustrating for the hereditarians that people at the bottom of their universal human hierarchy keep refusing to accept that they should let their betters run the show.
I’m sorry, when did Zimbabwean entrepreneurs buy the Imperial Palace in Tokyo? How’d I miss that? Was that after ADOS voluntarily giving up all forns of state assistance and those church parking lot food distributions?
Those superior Nigerians (BTW, this is another writer, "scammers" has resulted in res going to reeducation camp) then purchased many cultural icons around the world. Wakanda lives.
Hey Stevo! Why not suggest that Amazon by 50,000 copies, they could build a huge bonfire to dance around. Maybe invite some of their Google pals.
Is Sixsmith being dodgy here? The “historically oppressive and eliminationist political movement,” which slaughtered over 100 million civilians, beginning circa 1917, was the one attacking Steve, not those supporting him.
As for the reviewer claiming that so many academics deny hereditarianism, that’s because of a generations-long terror campaign against psychometrics, legitimate psychometricians (Jensen, Rushton, Lynn) having died off, and potential successors being intimidated out of entering the field. Meanwhile, for a generation or more, one has read racial socialists assert that all hereditarian theories have been “debunked,” but without their providing a scintilla of evidence against hereditarianism.
Why would I think that had any reality outside your imagination?
Also, https://www.nber.org/digest/202310/legal-changes-1960s-narrowed-gender-pay-gap
Or . . . Poland could just annex/form a union with Western Ukraine. That way the same lands and people go straight into NATO and the EU without having to be admitted (since Poland is already a member of both).
Yes, already there’s been lots of completely serious talk about taking back lands that were redistributed when the Soviet Union wanted to build up the Ukraine.
They should do what they always do, which is jobs which don't require a college degree. Examples include skilled trades, manufacturing, construction, landscaping, meatpacking, etc. However, fake Catholics like you (among many others) have decreed that it is our sacred duty to import as many foreigners as it takes to guarantee that those jobs do not pay a living wage. I can't speak for Murray, but Steve has attempted to hammer home continuously over the last quarter century or so the fact that the laws of supply and demand apply to the labor market. With regard to our Christian duty toward strangers, I have read the Douay-Rheims bible cover to cover, and I did not find a single verse commanding Christians to screw over their children by handing over their patrimony to foreigners who want to kill them.Replies: @The Spiritual Works of Mercy
Well, one thing I will say is that I never understood what exactly Steve’s reasoning is for letting the crops rot in the field.
I have upheld the Church’s teaching on the right of the refugee to save his life. That’s different than decreeing a sacred duty to import software engineers from India, for example.
With regard to the Christian duty toward strangers, I think you need to be a little more Christian toward this stranger.
Or Steve's reasoning in wanting to deny Americans cheap poultry products.
https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20231204"I have upheld the Church’s teaching on the right of the refugee to save his life."
People who can buy plane tickets from Africa to Mexico and then join a subsidized caravan to the United States in order to receive free housing and EBT cards do not fit the generally accepted profile of a "refugee".
"With regard to the Christian duty toward strangers, I think you need to be a little more Christian toward this stranger."
An individual Christian or group thereof heeding the word of God and the command of their conscience by using their own means and wealth to provide aid to strangers in need is charity. The "Catholic Charities" taking government money to import people for whom they then take no responsibility is a grift.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Corvinus
One of the writers at The Orthosphere has your number:
I know a man who has a power
He calls Humanity,
And frequently it causes him
To hurt and harass me.
He says he needs cash to repair
Injustice I can’t see,
And so he robs me in the name
Of his Humanity.
From prison, jail and calaboose
He sets foul felons free,
Thus causing me to live in fear
Of his Humanity.
Hordes cross into my native land
By river-ford or sea,
Protected by the bodyguard
Of his Humanity.
He boasts that he’s improved upon
The man of Galilee,
The gospel being a childish sketch
Of his Humanity.
I say he does not love mankind,
But rather detests me,
And therefore flogs me with the rod
Of his Humanity.Replies: @The Spiritual Works of Mercy
I'm sorry, when did Zimbabwean entrepreneurs buy the Imperial Palace in Tokyo? How'd I miss that? Was that after ADOS voluntarily giving up all forns of state assistance and those church parking lot food distributions?Replies: @res
Didn’t you hear? That was after it was declared illegal (because racism) to pursue or convict Nigerian scammers. Combined with legislation requiring protected classes to receive a 90% discount on real estate.
Those superior Nigerians (BTW, this is another writer, “scammers” has resulted in res going to reeducation camp) then purchased many cultural icons around the world. Wakanda lives.
That’s good! Interest rates up?
Personally, I’m just impressed by how much information you manage to hoover up.
This reads as epic projection. Who is doing the social engineering using reality denial as a tool?Universal human hierarchy? Is it so hard to understand there are many traits and they don't all align? Much less important traits (e.g. intelligence) not having a simple hierarchy themselves (e.g. multi-dimensional).Eagerly awaiting the better measure for intelligence she supplies. But not holding my breath.I do find it fascinating how goodthinkers seem so focused on ideas like this. Why might that be? Is there a more parsimonious explanation than projection?Her invocation of all those people would be more compelling if she would engage with work like Jensen's (a notable name not dropped) g book and Emil Kirkegaard's (a name dropped, but only to say what a bad person he is) admixture studies of race and IQ.
If anyone sees a worthwhile observation in that piece could they please point me to it?
P.S. You are right about there being lots of name dropping though. Also a lot of ad hominem, but that is standard for pieces like that.
P.P.S. Looking at one specific argument from Sasha Gusev she references (a series of tweets): https://twitter.com/SashaGusevPosts/status/1696337989050220794?s=20
Here is a detailed response. https://twitter.com/DamienMorris/status/1700467509726450042Replies: @J.Ross, @Intelligent Dasein
I think what we have here is not an intellectual revolt, but the beginnings of one. Miss Keira, like most modern people, does not really have the vocabulary or the conceptual architecture to develop the kind of case she needs to make. Even though she knows that something sticks in her craw concerning “hereditarianism,” she does not understand why, and all her education leads her in the wrong direction. So, instead of pointing you to a worthwhile observation, I will point you to the spot where she torpedoes her own argument. It’s right at the beginning of the article:
I know what she means by “biological essentialists,” but properly speaking, that phrase is just a meaningless combination of words. If something is essential, then it does not take a modifier like “biological.” Furthermore, in speaking somewhat derisively of essentialism in general, she throws away her own life preserver. Real essentialism, of course, precludes the kind of biological reductionism she is arguing against. If she had a correct understanding of things, she would see it as an ally instead of a boogeyman.
I gather it would surprise her to learn that HBDers, at least the less doltish variety thereof, ruthlessly reject essentialism because they understand it means the end of their operation. There is an intrinsic materialist implication in HBD which Keira apparently shares for other reasons, so she is somewhat ill-equipped to win this argument. However, while HBD entails materialism, materialism does not entail HBD, so it is possible for two materialists to argue with each other about this; but since neither one has a philosophical advantage over the other, these arguments are merely political not scientific.
Specifics, please: How “low IQ” and how inherently violent are we talking? Beyond a certain point it matters little what they’ll do (we already know—breed and commit violent crimes) and matters more what we’ll do (or not) with them.
Depending on context, “punching down” is fine. Also stomping, shooting, etc.—would you let an aggressive dwarf stab you in the nuts?
LOL. Given that you’re anti-White (or “-white”), you must be using the royal (or, despite your handle, Gollum) “we”. How precious.
“Russia gets its Black Earth, Ukraine gets its Westernness, NATO gets their fort, the people get something like peace.”
And everyone in the region gets a zillion jillion squazillion African refugees.
It’s hard not to notice that the main purpose of Sailer’s Noticing is for him to get get noticed (by the right people, of course)
Wait, that's not Russian government propaganda, that's the American Spectator.
https://spectator.org/new-an-october-surprise-from-ukraine-is-possible/This joins a gloomy chorus in thoroughly regime-aligned Western journals, like WaPo.Replies: @tyrone, @YetAnotherAnon
So basically the Minsk Agreements but with Russian de jure sovereignty over the new territories PLUS Donbass/Luhansk. No NATO in Western Ukraine.
Minsk would have given de jure Ukrainian sovereignty over those areas but with devolution, respect for Russian language.
Heckuva job, Boris Johnson!
We’ll have to see what the dry weather brings, but there might be a lot more under Russian control by August – they still haven’t got all of Donbass yet. Can I see Russia being content without Odessa and the Danube exit?
Who’s got the black earth and the minerals?
True ,It’s almost like NATO was formed by sane, sober statesmen, we had those once kids……. nostalgia .
In ongoing DEI news:
The Smart Money is betting it’s not an Airbus.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/anthony-blinkens-jet-suffers-mechanical-issue-paris-airport
https://www.seat61.com/CO2flights.htm
Always good to see our climate warriors walking the walk.
Churchill was anything but sane and sober.
Churchill caused the destruction of Europe.
I see you attempt to pre-pardon your sin by enclosing The Ukraine in quotes.
As you know, those two words are verboten because it reminds people that The Ukraine, like The South in the US. is a reference to a geographic area, not a real country…
It will revert to being a farm stand.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/Ukraine
“Debunked” is one of those markers that practically defines the enemies of truth. Every time I read someone using the term, my initial impulse is to assume that the opposite of what he says is true.
I remembered it as a 20th century problem but it continues https://nypost.com/2010/11/08/janitors-clean-up/
Also, https://www.nber.org/digest/202310/legal-changes-1960s-narrowed-gender-pay-gap
As you know, those two words are verboten because it reminds people that The Ukraine, like The South in the US. is a reference to a geographic area, not a real country...
It will revert to being a farm stand.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/UkraineReplies: @J.Ross, @Frau Katze
Ukraine sadly has never had its own nation. It’s a great big indefensible field with resources everybody wants, surrounded by superior powers. Historically hatred of Russians has led Ukrainians to make temporary and very short-sighted deals with Turks. The closest thing to a recognizable historical Ukrainian state would be various Cossack hosts.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/anthony-blinkens-jet-suffers-mechanical-issue-paris-airportReplies: @res
Paris to Brussels fastest Eurostar is 1:24 while flight time is 1:00. According to this (for London to Paris) the train trip emits about 90% less CO2 than flying (and that is flying commercial ; ).
https://www.seat61.com/CO2flights.htm
Always good to see our climate warriors walking the walk.
Churchill? How about a certain Austrian of ill repute? I’d put the blame there.
As you know, those two words are verboten because it reminds people that The Ukraine, like The South in the US. is a reference to a geographic area, not a real country...
It will revert to being a farm stand.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/UkraineReplies: @J.Ross, @Frau Katze
Ukraine, with or without “the”, will be happy to be a farm stand provided it’s not run by Putin.
Debunked is right up there with misinformation as a clue to stop reading.
Do you have a table of contents you could post?
It is always so refreshing to hear people on this side of the Atlantic decide what Ukrainians will be happy with.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Canadians
We have a large Ukrainian diaspora here in Canada so I am not unfamiliar with them. An old school friend and my nephew are both married to people of Ukrainian descent.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Canadians
“The bad old imperialist model was authoritarian, which can be scary, but not nearly as scary as the neo-imperialist, Globohomo model, which is totalitarian.”
This, I’ve got to hear. OK, “counselor”, you’re laying it on pretty thick here like Aunt Jermina syrup. Make your case. Offer specific reasons here rather than make an unfounded generalization.
“By sheer judicial and executive fiat shall all humans be made equal…”
It’s these statements that you make from time to time that call into serious question you bona fides as a corporate lawyer. You serve your masters well by way of these processes. Of course, you neglect to offer an important caveat—the will of the people play a critical role in how laws are crafted, implemented, and interpreted. And it’s not as if legislation or legal decisions are in their very nature by arbitrary decree or pronouncement.
That’s because you haven’t read Steve’s many writings about the “crops rotting in the field” lie. He’s got a new book out, so you can understand Steve’s informed point of view if you want to.
“Well, one thing I will say is that I never understood what exactly Steve’s reasoning is for letting the crops rot in the field.”
Or Steve’s reasoning in wanting to deny Americans cheap poultry products.
https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20231204
“I have upheld the Church’s teaching on the right of the refugee to save his life.”
People who can buy plane tickets from Africa to Mexico and then join a subsidized caravan to the United States in order to receive free housing and EBT cards do not fit the generally accepted profile of a “refugee”.
“With regard to the Christian duty toward strangers, I think you need to be a little more Christian toward this stranger.”
An individual Christian or group thereof heeding the word of God and the command of their conscience by using their own means and wealth to provide aid to strangers in need is charity. The “Catholic Charities” taking government money to import people for whom they then take no responsibility is a grift.
I can see your point.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/07/28/gop-lawmakers-once-praised-catholic-charities-now-they-want-defund-group/
Although…
—It’s work that, not long ago, Republicans in Congress nearly uniformly praised. In 2014, amid a spike in border crossings by unaccompanied minors and mothers traveling with children, a delegation of Republican lawmakers led by talk-show host Glenn Beck visited a Catholic Charities respite center based in a church in McAllen, Tex. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), Rep. Randy Weber (R-Tex.) and then-Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.), among others, toured the center and, in Beck’s case, donated toys to children.
I want to thank Catholic Charities that are working to care for these children and care for these families,” Cruz told reporters.
Weber was similarly effusive, quoting scripture while describing the center’s work as a fulfillment of “the church’s role.”—
Or Steve's reasoning in wanting to deny Americans cheap poultry products.
https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20231204"I have upheld the Church’s teaching on the right of the refugee to save his life."
People who can buy plane tickets from Africa to Mexico and then join a subsidized caravan to the United States in order to receive free housing and EBT cards do not fit the generally accepted profile of a "refugee".
"With regard to the Christian duty toward strangers, I think you need to be a little more Christian toward this stranger."
An individual Christian or group thereof heeding the word of God and the command of their conscience by using their own means and wealth to provide aid to strangers in need is charity. The "Catholic Charities" taking government money to import people for whom they then take no responsibility is a grift.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Corvinus
Giving things away to paupers which do not belong to you, and which you have no right to give — like say your country’s societal capital, the realistic carrying capacity in the local ER, or other people’s children’s futures — is not charity.
We call that “theft”. And since we’re being all multicultural and shit, let’s follow Islamic law regarding theft — and chop off the hands of all leftists immigrationists and those who proclaim that immigration is a fundamental Jewish value.
Hey, I just did some shifty legal shenanigans, and gave away Will Stancil’s house to a bunch of Latino squatters. I’m such a charitable guy, when’s my award dinner?
This, I’ve got to hear. OK, “counselor”, you’re laying it on pretty thick here like Aunt Jermina syrup. Make your case. Offer specific reasons here rather than make an unfounded generalization.
“By sheer judicial and executive fiat shall all humans be made equal…”
It’s these statements that you make from time to time that call into serious question you bona fides as a corporate lawyer. You serve your masters well by way of these processes. Of course, you neglect to offer an important caveat—the will of the people play a critical role in how laws are crafted, implemented, and interpreted. And it’s not as if legislation or legal decisions are in their very nature by arbitrary decree or pronouncement.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
I’m gonna get Ron to change your handle to “Aunt Jermina.”
So you’re planning to use Jew power for your own benefit. Bold move, Cotton, bold move.
“As Vox Popoli has pointed out, immigrants don’t assimilate, they transform.”
Ironic he says that, given his claim that his grandfather was a supposed Mexican revolutionary who emigrated to the U.S.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
A plugin which translates Corvinus-speak to reality also would be useful.
You probably think cotton is still picked by stout teams of darkies purchased at the Charleston market.
One of the writers at The Orthosphere has your number:
I know a man who has a power
He calls Humanity,
And frequently it causes him
To hurt and harass me.
He says he needs cash to repair
Injustice I can’t see,
And so he robs me in the name
Of his Humanity.
From prison, jail and calaboose
He sets foul felons free,
Thus causing me to live in fear
Of his Humanity.
Hordes cross into my native land
By river-ford or sea,
Protected by the bodyguard
Of his Humanity.
He boasts that he’s improved upon
The man of Galilee,
The gospel being a childish sketch
Of his Humanity.
I say he does not love mankind,
But rather detests me,
And therefore flogs me with the rod
Of his Humanity.
“I’m gonna get Ron to change your handle to “Aunt Jermina.”
So you’re planning to use Jew power for your own benefit. Bold move, Cotton, bold move.
“As Vox Popoli has pointed out, immigrants don’t assimilate, they transform.”
Ironic he says that, given his claim that his grandfather was a supposed Mexican revolutionary who emigrated to the U.S.
So you’re planning to use Jew power for your own benefit. Bold move, Cotton, bold move.
“As Vox Popoli has pointed out, immigrants don’t assimilate, they transform.”
Ironic he says that, given his claim that his grandfather was a supposed Mexican revolutionary who emigrated to the U.S.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
The statement is correct regardless of whether Vox is as Mexican as Pancho Villa.
Immigrants assimilate, which results in transformation of a nation. That is more nuanced, “counselor”.
Remember, this is the “great replacement” of human recorded history.
—Newcomers arrive
—Newcomers are unwelcome
—Newcomers assimilate
—New newcomers arrive
—Old newcomers are unwelcome toward new newcomers
—Ad infinitum
Now, if we turn our attention to one period of American history of where, in some people’s eyes, was a “Great Replacement”, The Know Nothings of the 1850’s in particular believed a Romanist conspiracy was afoot to subvert civil and religious liberty in the United States. The Know Nothings as a result sought to politically organize native-born Protestants in what they described as a defense of their traditional religious and political values. In other words, they characterized themselves as the “True Americans”. Interlopers need not apply.
The nativists did not care the Irish (and later on the Italians, Slavs, and Poles) were European; they were decidedly concerned these “inferior groups” would forever change the character of the United States for the worse. But here is the hypocrisy: today’s nativists—whose ancestors came from Ireland, Italy, Serbia, and Poland and had been viewed as “undesirables” by the Know Nothings—are using those same arguments their ancestors bitterly opposed to deny opportunities for non-white immigrants to enter our shores.
So, what changed? Magic dirt?Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
Or Steve's reasoning in wanting to deny Americans cheap poultry products.
https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20231204"I have upheld the Church’s teaching on the right of the refugee to save his life."
People who can buy plane tickets from Africa to Mexico and then join a subsidized caravan to the United States in order to receive free housing and EBT cards do not fit the generally accepted profile of a "refugee".
"With regard to the Christian duty toward strangers, I think you need to be a little more Christian toward this stranger."
An individual Christian or group thereof heeding the word of God and the command of their conscience by using their own means and wealth to provide aid to strangers in need is charity. The "Catholic Charities" taking government money to import people for whom they then take no responsibility is a grift.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Corvinus
“The “Catholic Charities” taking government money to import people for whom they then take no responsibility is a grift.”
I can see your point.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/07/28/gop-lawmakers-once-praised-catholic-charities-now-they-want-defund-group/
Although…
—It’s work that, not long ago, Republicans in Congress nearly uniformly praised. In 2014, amid a spike in border crossings by unaccompanied minors and mothers traveling with children, a delegation of Republican lawmakers led by talk-show host Glenn Beck visited a Catholic Charities respite center based in a church in McAllen, Tex. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), Rep. Randy Weber (R-Tex.) and then-Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.), among others, toured the center and, in Beck’s case, donated toys to children.
I want to thank Catholic Charities that are working to care for these children and care for these families,” Cruz told reporters.
Weber was similarly effusive, quoting scripture while describing the center’s work as a fulfillment of “the church’s role.”—
“The statement is correct regardless of whether Vox is as Mexican as Pancho Villa.”
Immigrants assimilate, which results in transformation of a nation. That is more nuanced, “counselor”.
Remember, this is the “great replacement” of human recorded history.
—Newcomers arrive
—Newcomers are unwelcome
—Newcomers assimilate
—New newcomers arrive
—Old newcomers are unwelcome toward new newcomers
—Ad infinitum
Now, if we turn our attention to one period of American history of where, in some people’s eyes, was a “Great Replacement”, The Know Nothings of the 1850’s in particular believed a Romanist conspiracy was afoot to subvert civil and religious liberty in the United States. The Know Nothings as a result sought to politically organize native-born Protestants in what they described as a defense of their traditional religious and political values. In other words, they characterized themselves as the “True Americans”. Interlopers need not apply.
The nativists did not care the Irish (and later on the Italians, Slavs, and Poles) were European; they were decidedly concerned these “inferior groups” would forever change the character of the United States for the worse. But here is the hypocrisy: today’s nativists—whose ancestors came from Ireland, Italy, Serbia, and Poland and had been viewed as “undesirables” by the Know Nothings—are using those same arguments their ancestors bitterly opposed to deny opportunities for non-white immigrants to enter our shores.
So, what changed? Magic dirt?
Immigrants assimilate, which results in transformation of a nation. That is more nuanced, “counselor”.
Remember, this is the “great replacement” of human recorded history.
—Newcomers arrive
—Newcomers are unwelcome
—Newcomers assimilate
—New newcomers arrive
—Old newcomers are unwelcome toward new newcomers
—Ad infinitum
Now, if we turn our attention to one period of American history of where, in some people’s eyes, was a “Great Replacement”, The Know Nothings of the 1850’s in particular believed a Romanist conspiracy was afoot to subvert civil and religious liberty in the United States. The Know Nothings as a result sought to politically organize native-born Protestants in what they described as a defense of their traditional religious and political values. In other words, they characterized themselves as the “True Americans”. Interlopers need not apply.
The nativists did not care the Irish (and later on the Italians, Slavs, and Poles) were European; they were decidedly concerned these “inferior groups” would forever change the character of the United States for the worse. But here is the hypocrisy: today’s nativists—whose ancestors came from Ireland, Italy, Serbia, and Poland and had been viewed as “undesirables” by the Know Nothings—are using those same arguments their ancestors bitterly opposed to deny opportunities for non-white immigrants to enter our shores.
So, what changed? Magic dirt?Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
Nothing changed. What was right then is right today. This is just more of your weird, orthogonal arguments since your neurological event in 2009-10.
The fact that immigrants transform, that immigrants aren’t fungible and the non-white ones have higher rates of social pathologies, that nationhood is hereditary and not pieces of lawyer-paper, is correct across time, place and peoples.
You sound just like an irrational, caddy girl. Why don’t you tell your wife that she comes from an inferior gene pool and that her ancestors are “paper Americans”?
“This is just more of your weird, orthogonal arguments”
This is just bizarre even for you.
“since your neurological event in 2009-10.”
You mean when my wife beat cancer. Any person going through that would endure stress.
“The fact that immigrants transform”
By assimilating.
“that immigrants aren’t fungible”
Right. They are major contributors to a society.
“and the non-white ones have higher rates of social pathologies”
Citations required here.
“that nationhood is hereditary”
Citations required here.
Of course, a nation-state would be a sovereign territory with one group of individuals who share a common history. Today, a true nation-state in the academic sense of the world does not exist. Nearly every state (country) in the world contains more than one national group. Free in theory, not in reality.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
You’re right, but why argue with him? He’s no more serious than the duck.
“Nothing changed. What was right then is right today.”
You sound just like an irrational, caddy girl. Why don’t you tell your wife that she comes from an inferior gene pool and that her ancestors are “paper Americans”?
“This is just more of your weird, orthogonal arguments”
This is just bizarre even for you.
“since your neurological event in 2009-10.”
You mean when my wife beat cancer. Any person going through that would endure stress.
“The fact that immigrants transform”
By assimilating.
“that immigrants aren’t fungible”
Right. They are major contributors to a society.
“and the non-white ones have higher rates of social pathologies”
Citations required here.
“that nationhood is hereditary”
Citations required here.
Of course, a nation-state would be a sovereign territory with one group of individuals who share a common history. Today, a true nation-state in the academic sense of the world does not exist. Nearly every state (country) in the world contains more than one national group. Free in theory, not in reality.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/01/why-arent-leftists-happy-joe-rogan-endorsed-bernie/Replies: @Stan Adams, @Nodwink
As someone who has followed Sixsmith for a while on Twitter (never calling it the other name), he has dropped some details. He is tall, thin (he has mentioned that he once had an eating disorder), and may have had more liberal/left-ish politics in his youth. He has been living in Poland for the past few years.
How about a browser plugin which changes every occurrence of “Corvinus” to “Aunt Jermina?”
A plugin which translates Corvinus-speak to reality also would be useful.
If you don’t think a conservative Catholic country like Poland can go woke quickly, one only has to look at the example of Ireland.
Same with Catholic Quebec.Replies: @Jack D
You sound just like an irrational, caddy girl. Why don’t you tell your wife that she comes from an inferior gene pool and that her ancestors are “paper Americans”?
“This is just more of your weird, orthogonal arguments”
This is just bizarre even for you.
“since your neurological event in 2009-10.”
You mean when my wife beat cancer. Any person going through that would endure stress.
“The fact that immigrants transform”
By assimilating.
“that immigrants aren’t fungible”
Right. They are major contributors to a society.
“and the non-white ones have higher rates of social pathologies”
Citations required here.
“that nationhood is hereditary”
Citations required here.
Of course, a nation-state would be a sovereign territory with one group of individuals who share a common history. Today, a true nation-state in the academic sense of the world does not exist. Nearly every state (country) in the world contains more than one national group. Free in theory, not in reality.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
What is a “caddy girl?”
That seemed to happen overnight.
Same with Catholic Quebec.
One of the writers at The Orthosphere has your number:
I know a man who has a power
He calls Humanity,
And frequently it causes him
To hurt and harass me.
He says he needs cash to repair
Injustice I can’t see,
And so he robs me in the name
Of his Humanity.
From prison, jail and calaboose
He sets foul felons free,
Thus causing me to live in fear
Of his Humanity.
Hordes cross into my native land
By river-ford or sea,
Protected by the bodyguard
Of his Humanity.
He boasts that he’s improved upon
The man of Galilee,
The gospel being a childish sketch
Of his Humanity.
I say he does not love mankind,
But rather detests me,
And therefore flogs me with the rod
Of his Humanity.Replies: @The Spiritual Works of Mercy
Eh, thanks for the thought but that’s not my cup of tea. I don’t know why you would I assume I think I’ve improved upon Christ. (You’d have to be as smart as Immanuel Kant to do something that stupid.)
“It is always so refreshing to hear people on this side of the Atlantic decide what Ukrainians will be happy with.”
The fanboys have long ago decided the Ukrainians will do just fine if they are left to the tender mercies of Putin.
No, it’s the rest of us who think the Ukrainians should get to have a say in whether they get to have a country and whether they can join NATO, and all the other stuff countries choose to do, even if they have a THE tacked to the front of their name. That’s what made your boy so angry he decided to invade them (I mean, supposedly — the cheap rationalkizations seem to change from week to week, whereas the conviction that he should decide what Ukrainians will be happy with seems unshakable).
After 1991, Ukrainian nationalists had a good chance to grow their dream of distinctiveness by cooperating with Russia. The circumstances were very complicated so this was a tall order but other options, including voluntarily becoming a pawn, were worse.
The conflict is the West versus Russia, not Russia versus Ukraine. It started long before 2014 when the West made it absolutely clear they wanted to pressure Russia by controlling Ukraine. The Ukrainians were very gullible and their leaders sold out to the West, turning most Ukrainians into throw away pawns.
After 1991, Ukrainian nationalists had a good chance to grow their dream of distinctiveness by cooperating with Russia. The circumstances were very complicated so this was a tall order but other options, including voluntarily becoming a pawn, were worse.
This review was too cute by half. It was almost as if, recognizing full praise of Sailer would place him among the damned, Sixsmith choked and decided to obscure everything in lots-o’-vague language and hints that THE WORST PEOPLE (e.g. Nazis) might be somewhere near if he said anything else.
Maybe ol’ Corvy means catty girl? i.e. a girl who is catty. Could also mean a Daddy’s Girl I suppose. Corvinus has gotten more girly himself in the last couple years, so maybe he’s pondering a move to Transworld.
Jay Joseph and Ken Richardson claims the bell curve didn’t prove IQ heretibility – that’s not a typo..
“.…unlike most previous reviewers, we concluded that Herrnstein and Murray produced no valid evidence that genes influence within-group IQ score differences”
His website got 385k isits in January! I would be very interested in hearing your comment on it.
Here’s the mainstream article on hi website
https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/03/bad-science-bell-curve/
Here is the pre-print article where he lays out his claims in detail: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/jz7ku
He writes that there were numerous worldwide protests in 2020 for wokism and the Behavior Genetics Association (BGA) issued a “Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan”. That sounds about the way science is working these days.
Same with Catholic Quebec.Replies: @Jack D
If you look at Quebec (and I think this relates to Poland and Ireland also), back in the days when the French speakers were mostly Catholics, they were a mostly rural population that was dominated and led by their conservative (you might even say reactionary) Catholic clergy who set the tone for the society.
In conditions of modernity, a lot of people (especially single women) moved away from the countryside and from domination by their parish priest and many of them got secular higher education and jobs in modern bureaucracies or in multinational corporations.
Once they were no longer under the thumb of the Church, a lot of them realized that the Church was actually a highly flawed institution that had been abusing them in some ways (e.g. brain washing them to act as breed sows in order to churn out a lot more Catholic congregants) and rather than just drift away from the Church they totally flipped and rejected it completely. This also coincided with a flip in their politics. Possibly a less reactionary Church would have led to less of a flip in the other direction. It’s hard for Americans to understand this because we don’t really have an anti-clerical tradition.
AFAIK that’s never been reversed. The Pope is tiptoeing towards gays but staying solid on no birth control.
Maybe he IS the duck, albeit on steroids and not so tiny.
Yes the urbanization trend could definitely have played a part. And the Catholic Church firmly sticking with the “no birth control” line likely lost a lot of women.
AFAIK that’s never been reversed. The Pope is tiptoeing towards gays but staying solid on no birth control.
https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/could-aaron-bushnells-sacrifice-spark-regime-change/#comment-6466255Replies: @jb
Steve probably already knows what Ron thinks of him; nevertheless it might be useful to bring to his attention another post in your thread where Ron makes it explicit:
https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/could-aaron-bushnells-sacrifice-spark-regime-change/#comment-6457000
Substack is calling to you Steve…