Saturday Sermon

No Exit (originally published on Dec 11, 2007)Now that all the groups have disappeared, and every tribe has dispersed, we know ourselves as isolated but similar to each other, and we have lost the desire to unite.—The Possibility of an Island, Michel Houellebecq Reality is the only word in the English language that should always comeContinue reading “Saturday Sermon”

Gettin’ Paid

The meek passivity with which the white Left has absorbed the aggressive entitlement of “black lives” wreckers harassing the Sanders campaign (the socialist has real-life counter-revolutionary wreckers, but he can’t say it!) reveals a new stage in the ever-evolving Democratic coalition of the fringes.Addicted to black outrage, the party is compelled to adopt an organizational modelContinue reading “Gettin’ Paid”

The Importance of Legacy

From Steve Sailer: ABN comments I get the sense that there is a lot of psychic stress experienced by the Talented Tenth, i.e. bourgeois middle-class blacks like Ta-Nahesi Coates. They basically live among white people according to white norms, but this creates in them a need to “keep it real” by defending and excusing the dysfunctionContinue reading “The Importance of Legacy”

Fraught and Bothered

Steve Sailer contextualizes an Atlantic Monthly blog post as “historical racism porn”: ‘Dinnertimin’ and ‘No Tipping’: How Advertisers Targeted Black Consumers in the 1970sIn an attempt to reach African American customers, many U.S. businesses began integrating their commercials—often by relying on fraught stereotypes…   [ I call this one Kid with Big Forehead advances on RichardContinue reading “Fraught and Bothered”

The Fake’s Progress

It’s worthwhile to compare the other “iconic” Vanity Fair cover Woman with Caitlyn’s curious spread Man From the ultimate image of womanhood to its ultimate caricature.  Moore’s deliberately immodest cover offered pregnancy as a feminist provocation: you can’t do this. Caitlyn’s celebrants, twenty four years later, would be outraged. In seizing immediately upon socio-political platitudes,Continue reading “The Fake’s Progress”