White is the New Nigger

Richard Houk in Unz Review:

Do white people deserve to die for uttering the word “nigger”? Blacks, prompted by the mainstream media, increasingly say “Yes.”
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We are faced with two groups that are both hostile and adverse to our interests on the whole, with one group attacking whites with a license granted by the other. A video came across my newsfeed with the title “A man gets knocked out after reportedly calling a woman with a child the N-word” (emphasis mine). 

From a similar story out of Virginia: There was some altercation between a white woman and a black man in a 7-Eleven, ending with the black man punching the white mother, killing her. The black man claims she called him a “nigger,” justifying his attack.
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What does the law say about this?

Fighting words are not an affirmative legal defense in the US.
You cannot attack a person and escape legal punishment by claiming that your victim uttered so-called fighting words.

This is of course known by the media, yet they are writing these stories and framing the headlines in such a way that gives attackers of white people some sort of pseudo-moral and legal authority to lash out. Or, after attacking a white person, they can simply say they were called a “nigger.”

The paradox here is that if any of the claims were true — that a white person called a black person a “nigger,” and that prompted the black to violently attack the white person — doesn’t that simply prove we are dealing with the genuine article? What else would you call a black person who is impulsive and violent, who is unable to delay gratification or think ahead? Call them what you like, these are brutish traits that have led to massively disproportionate black-on-white crime.

Of the many lies and crimes riding under the banner of civil rights there is one I like to isolate because it gets little appreciation: it is now more a conflict between innate white versus innate black value systems than a genuine political movement. Not a struggle within a democratic system (or the struggle for democracy, as its language maintains) but a struggle between two competing cultural systems, one rooted in African biology and one rooted in European.

Criminality in black America is undoubtedly significantly worse than the numbers say. The sort of beatdown that is routinely administered in the hood would warrant criminal charges for assault in one of the few genuinely white neighborhoods left.

This doesn’t mean that if left to their own devices blacks would create chaotic violent societies; more likely the violence would gravitate to a state maintaining order with a cruel, firm hand. Black American society is a perversion, a people put in a system they’d never create for themselves and granted the sort of liberty and license they, as Africans, would never have allowed themselves; all while ultimately having no real group agency, the shock troops of a savvier group in the end.

Still black people, in their oblivious way, are imposing harsher African values over liberal and enlightened European values, with the irreplacable aid of a group that is arguably alien to both.

Cultural precedent is set in the media, which is ultimately upstream of legal precedent. Houk:

What does the law say about this? 

Fighting words are not an affirmative legal defense in the US.

You cannot attack a person and escape legal punishment by claiming that your victim uttered so-called fighting words.

This is of course known by the media, yet they are writing these stories and framing the headlines in such a way that gives attackers of white people some sort of pseudo-moral and legal authority to lash out. Or, after attacking a white person, they can simply say they were called a “nigger.”

Note how this resembles, in mirror image, what the same media would have you believe about “white privilege” and how it persists: a vindictive media lies about black violence and–in critical race theory fantasy–blacks are ultimately convicted of crimes they didn’t commit; the reality we see is blacks are getting away with more violence, ultimately because the media lies about it.

The early civil rights assumption blacks would create the same sort of society whites would, that they wanted it, above all that they had it in them in the first place, has been proven horribly, disastrously misguided, and nobody gets to say so.

The fundamental insight of American civil rights is not that the West fails blacks but that blacks fail it. Black Americans never rose to the occasion of civil rights.

As saying so is strictly forbidden, all we can do is adapt to or accommodate black standards of behavior–and pretend the erosion is struggle and progress.

In the Booty of the Beast

Like Elvis with his black belt, Kim Kardashian will one day wield a law degree:

Kim Kardashian West is a step closer to becoming a lawyer, having finished her first year of study as an apprentice.

She told The Associated Press on Saturday that her next step is taking the “baby bar,” so-called because it’s a one-day exam. If she passes, she plans to study for another three years and then take the California bar exam.

“I’m super-motivated, and I really want to see it through,” she said in an interview after promoting a television documentary on criminal justice reform. “There’s obviously times where I’m overwhelmed and stressed and feel like I have a lot on my plate. My kids know that I’m in school just like they are. It’s 20 hours a week, so it is a lot of my time.”

“Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project” airs April 5 on Oxygen. The two-hour documentary shows her being visibly moved by prison inmates recounting their stories of landing behind bars. She talks to their families and friends, lobbies public officials and consults with their attorneys as well as her own.

Lest you think she’s a typically ill-informed celebrity whose ambitious vanity is about to visit destruction on whatever poor mortals get in its way, Kim is fully aware she could get someone killed:

Vince DiPersio, an executive producer of “The Justice Project,” said Kardashian West was taking on a “fair amount of risk” by advocating for the release of prisoners.

“She is a nationally known figure, and she has a big brand. God forbid someone gets out and does something terrible, but Kim is willing to take that risk,” he said.

She’s willing to risk a momentary brand devaluation and lost revenue, should one of her pets end up raping and murdering your daughter. Courage, thy name is Kardashian.

But seriously, that’s an astounding admission by Mr DiPersio, and if anyone is paying attention over at the Kardashian-Justice Project axis they might want to limit his interactions with the press.

I’m sure Kim’s own Jack Henry Abbott is penning some cringe-kitschy rap lyrics right now.

Racism is Forever

There’s an old joke that goes something like “gee, blow one guy and all of a sudden you’re gay.”

In the woke era you offend minorities once and all of a sudden you’re irreedemably racist, forever.

Poor Don Imus. I sampled his show back in the day and had to ask: where was the promised controversy? The first thing I heard was a parody song (last refuge of the morning zoo dj) mocking Rush Limbaugh’s racism (Garth Brooks’ “Friends in Low Places” became “All My Friends Have White Faces”); how daring! How relevant! Even for the nineties, it was bad. Cringe wasn’t a word yet.

I suspect the politcally incorrect image was exagerrated by the same establishment figures who lined up to appear on his show. They could engage in a sort of Kabuki, a mock engagement with controversy, knowing it would never go too far. Like the late Tim Russert on Meet the Press, the only people who praised his “tough interviews” were the interviewees, all establishment figures who appreciated Tim’s ultimate discretion. Like Conrad’s Lord Jim, to the powerful Imus was “one of us”–or at the least a dependable patsy.

But he was definitely not one of us.

His service to the status quo would not save him after he was fired from CBS for referring to players on the thuggish-looking Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hoes” in 2007. He managed to salvage a radio career and was allowed to live in a sort of partial exile from the powerful, but, he had to know this too, sadly, whatever penance he performed would not spare him the posthumous fate of all “racists” and–especially–“antisemites”; upon death his crimes would be ritually read out. He, like many better and more accomplished people before, would forever be “Don Imus, Racist.” The human stain that even in death does not fade but only grows.

You wonder what any aging white public figure–who sees the lies–is saving himself for, or from, the shellacked, multi-colored nails of a Jezebel hack?

On the morning of December 27th, known racist and radio host Don Imus died at the age of 79.

If you’re lucky, you grew up not knowing who Don Imus was. If you’re around my age, chances are you found out who Don Imus was in 2007 when he was fired from CBS for referring to players on the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hoes.” At the time, it felt like it was almost impossible to turn on the news without seeing someone offering their opinion on his remarks.

Gwen Ifill, who had previously been referred to by Imus as a “cleaning lady” appeared on Meet the Press and offered a sentiment that is, unfortunately, just as relevant today, over a decade later, as it was in 2007. Speaking with Tim Russert she said, “My concern about Mr. Imus and about a lot of people… is not that people are sorry that they say these things, they’re sorry that someone catches them.”

This was, of course, not the first or the last time Imus had been caught using racist language, which is not surprising given that he was, in fact, a racist.

Later in 2007 Imus appeared on Rev. Al Sharpton’s radio show to address his remarks. After becoming frustrated with the conversation, Imus remarked that he couldn’t “get any place with you people.” That comment obviously didn’t go over well with Sharpton.

A 2006 The New York Times reported that in 2004 he had referred to book publishers Simon & Schuster as “thieving Jews,” and had previously called Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz a “boner-nosed … beanie-wearing little Jew boy” in 1998.

In 2008 Imus, while discussing the suspension of Dallas Cowboys’ cornerback Adam Jones, asked “what color” Jones was. When he was informed Jones was Black, Imus cavalierly replied, “Well there you go, now we know.”

It’s unfortunate that Imus was allowed to continue making these kinds of remarks and spewing his vitriol into the airwaves until his retirement in 2018. After his firing from CBS, New York based radio network WABC picked up Imus’ show Imus in the Morning from 2007-2018. Fox Business Network also ran Imus’ show on TV from 2009-2015.

If somewhere there do exist fans of Imus’ work, they can return to Imus’ infamous quote, forever solidified in Nicki Minaj’s 2012 track Stupid Hoe, certainly a far more generous memorial than Imus deserves.

Someone who’s decided to nod along with the ongoing rape of the West has made something of a nihilistic determnation; he’s abandoned posterity for the present and, presumably, a respectable image in death. He fears the wrath of no god; he respects the desires of no ancestor; he protects no descendant.
Even after retirement almost to a man they maintain the respectable lie all the way to their death bed. Fear of God is replaced by fear of man–of a shameful reputation.

It isn’t as if Imus dared challenge a single operating assumption. He was only too glad to join the point and sputter mob and reinforce them. You see in his gaffes no substance, just crude insults. They are deplorable, and stupid. Especially so coming from a false renegade, establishment hanger-on who supported the system and narrative that elevated his dumb jokes to absurd heights of transgression.
He would never dare challenge the order that sustained him in comfort.

So his lame “racist” jokes only serve to harm, albeit not much, the cause of turning back that system, by serving up the image of the hate-spewing bigot. When someone calls out the system for one of its many contradictions, when someone points out the lie that is “racism”, for one, he at least forces the powerful to reveal their hypocrisy as they take him down.

Don Imus never dared go there. I hope he’s in a better place, and I hope he wishes he had.

Of course had he, you wouldn’t be reading this. We wouldn’t know who he was. So he got to have his career, money, even some status but in the end he will be forever “Don Imus, Racist”; this was the price he paid to play.