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Portland anti-Police Protests

There has been at least one protest in the city of Portland every day since the election of Donald Trump. Today’s demonstrators are protesting the fatal police shooting of robbery suspect Quanice Hayes, who police say pointed a realistic-looking replica handgun at them. Here protesters taunt police as they pull out of a standoff on theContinue reading “Portland anti-Police Protests”

Pirating Social Justice

When I first saw this quoted on Twitter I assumed it was satire–someone had simply substituted “Chinese” for “White”. One reason for that is I’ve found myself making this argument to SJW friends and family: “this white privilege business is silly. Go to China and you won’t see people arguing about ‘Han Chinese privilege’.” Well,Continue reading “Pirating Social Justice”

The Soulless Statistician

Business Insider derides Americans’ fear of terrorism: “I once asked a guy at [the National Institutes of Health] how much we should spend on preventing a disease that kills 6 per year, and he looked at me like I was crazy,” John Mueller, a foreign policy expert at the Ohio State University and co-author ofContinue reading “The Soulless Statistician”

Diary, February 9, 2017; Bittersweet Decay

The girls from work are all young and pretty, and in various stages of wreckage. Taylor is delicately featured, pale, a classic red head except for the not quite red hair. She’s done up too much, with the excessive eye liner and dark red lipstick that is a current, unfortunate fashion; it cannot overcome herContinue reading “Diary, February 9, 2017; Bittersweet Decay”

Deluded by the Dunning-Kristol Effect

We’ve all seen it. Forget for the moment the nastiness of it. Consider just how insanely stupid it is, to think you’re “replacing” a population–forget even the stupidity of taking no account of the quality of human capital you’re using as replacements in taking Somalis and Mexicans to be mere fungible human units equal toContinue reading “Deluded by the Dunning-Kristol Effect”

War with the NEETs

The assault on Richard Spencer turns out to be a watershed moment for the Trump opposition. The response from the mainstream has gone all the way from tepid, qualified disapproval to enthusiastic cheering. Then cultural figures joined in, most notably when an Emmy Awards audience applauded an award-winner’s visceral call for more. It isn’t asContinue reading “War with the NEETs”

Level 5 Peaceful Protest

I’ve seen it too often now, in person and online, for it not to be the result of training. I’ve even read someone else online (I don’t recall where) attesting to the phenomenon: as soon as demonstrators engage physically with police, counter-protesters or innocent bystanders, those not in the scrum start chanting “peaceful protest.” OnceContinue reading “Level 5 Peaceful Protest”

Movement Aesthetic and Action

Standards are necessarily discriminatory. The higher the standard, the more discriminatory. The more standards society maintains the more discriminatory that society is. The idea of discrimination is now discredited, due to the elevation of individual and minority rights. There is no morality above individual self-esteem or the group esteem of favored minorities. Standards of beautyContinue reading “Movement Aesthetic and Action”