Claire Lehmann π on X - "2023's been great for @Quillette: 465 articles ✍️ MRR up 66% π° Subs up 52% π @IonaItalia & @zoecabina full-time π Profitable π Still independent & founder-owned! π 3 QSocials in New Orleans, Melbourne & London π Special thanks to Jamie Palmer, @jonkay, & all contributorsπ"
Why the left hate it so much (just like X) - it's not failing like the leftist media
i/o on X - "In less than two decades the number of PhDs more than doubled, while the academic job market shrank. So what do all these underemployed overwhelmingly lefty humanities and social science "doctors" end up doing? If your city is like mine, they take control of local politics."
Scientific American on X - "The heightened concern about black women's weight reflects the racist stigmatization of their bodies. It also ignores how interrelated social factors impact black women’s health."
i/o on X - "Average BMI of Japanese-American woman: 20.4
Average BMI of African-American woman: 32.8
Average lifespan of Japanese-American woman: 89 years
Average lifespan of African-American woman: 77 years"
demonfaZe on X - "In healthcare, The proposed solution to everything is to educate the patient on X And that will result in change. After being a physical therapist and a physical medicine physician for 15 years now, I can tell you that certain cultures are more willing to listen and implement changes than others. Black culture is highly resistant to any sort of change. Even pointing out things like weight is damn near impossible without dealing with emotional outbursts, which make my survey scores lower which makes me not want to even approach the subject."
GOLDSTEIN: Why are race-crime statistics banned in studies of police racism? - "From the very beginning, the OHRC has simply asserted that the only reason Blacks are overrepresented in interactions with the police is due to the fact the police are systemically racist and that it has nothing to do with Blacks being disproportionately involved in crime. Today, it is impossible to address this issue because it is illegal for police to gather or release race crime statistics unless they are part of studies on systemic racism by police. The problem is it is simply absurd to keep avoiding the issue of crime rates in the Black community in the context of accurately evaluating, and correcting, systemic racism by the police. Indeed, the two OHRC researchers who worked on the commission’s 2020 report on systemic racism in the Toronto Police Service raised this issue themselves... The 2020 OHRC report, which found Blacks were disproportionately arrested and charged by police compared to whites, also found whites were disproportionately arrested and charged compared to other visible minorities. Should we thus conclude Toronto police are systemically racist toward Blacks compared to whites and toward whites compared to other visible minorities? The problem is this infers that for the police to prove they aren’t racist, they must demonstrate the percentage of people they arrest and charge in every racial group exactly reflects their percentage in the overall population. But that’s absurd. We don’t want police arresting and charging people based on their race. We want them arresting and charging people based on credible evidence they have committed crimes. Finally, if adverse social conditions caused by racism lead to Blacks being disproportionately involved in crime, the police cannot alleviate those conditions in order to lower their interactions with Blacks, and it would be unfair to suggest they can."
GOLDSTEIN: Why we no longer talk honestly about police race-based data - "it has been illegal for police forces in Ontario to gather or reveal this data for decades. That was the result of a controversy that erupted in 1989 when then Toronto police superintendent Julian Fantino released statistics suggesting Blacks in one Toronto community were disproportionately involved in crime. Fantino said he did it to counter allegations police were racist. But politicians, criminologists and civil rights groups responded that releasing the data without the context that the Black community was over-policed, was unscientific and would feed into racism... The problem is that by continuously ignoring the issue of crime rates within the communities with which the police interact, we are no longer looking honestly or completely at all aspects of the issue. This will inevitably contribute to public skepticism among many about the findings of this latest report by Toronto Police identifying systemic racism in the force."
Begging the question about over-policing, putting your head in the sand and repeating liberal platitudes works as long as it's black people getting killed
“-Phobic” is a Mind Rape of Epic Proportions - "The targets of these "phobic" insults most often are engaged in nonviolent conflict. They show emotions related to anger – disdain, contempt, disgust, or resentment. If those normal emotions constitute extreme physiological reaction to unreasonable fear, then every human being on the planet is “phobic” because everyone has experienced those gradations of anger. The sinister result of accusing sociopolitical opposition of “phobia” is that the target becomes a figurative mental patient. We don’t engage a crazy person as a cognitive peer – we engage them like an adult engages a child. Rather than exchanging facts and critique, they now exchange emotions and disrespect... The correct reaction is to expose how the accuser is the fearful one – hiding their own fear of respectful and factual debate that could challenge their identity, beliefs, and values. The users of “phobia” language have dehumanized their opposition, while advancing their own agenda with dishonesty, and should thus be treated as aggressors. Where did this dysfunctional sociopolitical dynamic begin? If you’ve noticed that homophobic is the most common “phobic” mind rape, you are perceptive. George Weinberg, a psychotherapist and homosexual activist, promulgated the dishonest tactic in his 1972 book Society and the Healthy Homosexual. Borrowing from the primitive value system of socialism, where “the ends justify the means,” he did not have remorse for spreading the idiot’s lollipop. In 2012, he wrote in reflection, “As it turned out, the word ‘homophobia’ was exactly the concept that gay men and lesbians needed to achieve liberation.” What a shame that he credited rhetoric instead of something eternal like empiricism. A disgrace to LGBT history. Semantic deception is not limited to pejorative “phobia.” It changed prostitutes to sex workers, swamp to wetlands, trolleys to light rail, and illegal aliens to migrants. With the flip of a tongue, centuries of human experience captured in vocabulary can be erased and replaced with modern agendas. Semantic deception of any sort should be the first sign to an intelligent and dignified citizen that the manipulative speaker is unjustified. George Weinberg soiled the LGBT movement with these dishonest tactics, in tacit admission that the cultural truths were not so axiomatic. People with confidence in the veracity of their position do not choose such manipulative tactics... People who recognize the catastrophic impact of illegal immigration on social insurance, public services, and cultural continuity are not xenophobic – in fact, by speaking up, they are courageous. There are many stupid and emotional people who will ostracize or punish them for criticizing illegal immigration. People who criticized France for abstaining from the Iraq War are not Francophobes, they are people with an opinion on warfare. People who point out the negative impact of promiscuity and gluttony are not “whorephobes” and “fatphobes,” they are people who think critically about sexual behavior and nutrition. People who criticize Islamic culture for security, crime, and civil rights are not fearful of Islam – in fact, they are courageous to even speak out in a time where violence is threatened against those who oppose Islamic sociopolitical norms."
Gay man who claimed thugs carved a homophobic slur into his buttocks admits he LIED - "A gay man who claimed homophobic thugs carved a slur into his buttocks with a knife has admitted he lied and two sadistic lovers did it with his consent while he cheated on his boyfriend. The 20-year-old had told detectives he was assaulted at the entrance to his apartment block in the Madrid neighbourhood of Malasana. The 'eight assailants' blamed for the attack were said to have cut his lower lip with a knife and then scored the word 'maricon' into his buttocks - the Spanish equivalent of 'fa###t'... Local reports said he had invented the gang attack to stop his partner finding out he had cheated on him with two other men."
The Rabbit Hole on X - "One piece of advice for Woke Asians would be to stop acting as useful idiots for DEI commissars to justify discrimination. Many of you worked hard and come from hard working families of immigrants - why enable people who think your race is what should be considered? Don’t feel guilty for succeeding as a natural consequence of your efforts."
Since we know that rationality (ie "Objective, rational linear thinking", "Cause and effect relationships" and "Quantitative emphasis") and hard work are whiteness and white values, it follows naturally that Asians succeed because of their adherence of white supremacy
Richard Hanania on X - "I'm starting to like the term classic liberal, whereas I shied away from it before. There are a few reasons for this.
1. One thing that used to drive me crazy about people who used the term was that they used to treat anything that pushed back against DEI/wokeness/civil rights as violating their principles. This has changed. Many or most classical liberals are now radicalized against the DEI bureaucracy, and when you say civil rights law is a problem now they get it, they don't think that you're trying to bring back Jim Crow. I personally played a large part in this. See here: https://tinyurl.com/4mfxf7rv
2. The rising power of theocrats after Dobbs necessitates a term to separate one's views from them. I have as little in common with opponents of surrogacy, euthanasia, and abortion as I do with wokes, if not even less. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict in the news is a reminder that the battle against theocracy is global.
3. There are a few problems with libertarians, namely their naive foreign policy views. Also, from an epistemological perspective, the term is associated with eccentricities like starting from the non-aggression principle and building a philosophy from there, while classical liberalism signals an openness to empirical evidence.
4. Unlike libertarianism, which invokes closed-minded dogma, classical liberalism can claim to be the ideology of the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the American Founding, and the basis of the modern world. It can claim a history of winning and making the world a better place to a much greater extent than libertarianism can.
Labels can blind people more than they help facilitate communication, but I think that the two front war against woke and theocracy needs a banner it can unite under. As the abortion issue, etc., continues to destroy the electoral chances of conservatives across the Western world, thus empowering destructive leftists, in the coming years I expect more people to realize this."
'Just a Coincidence': New Minnesota Flag Draws Backlash for Somali Resemblance - "A Minnesota commission tasked with redesigning the state’s flag faced significant backlash on Twitter due to allegations that the new design closely resembled flags from territories in Somalia, an East African country. The proposed design includes an eight-point North Star, along with a tricolor stripe (blue, white, and green) symbolizing elements reminiscent of the state’s geography, including mountains, water bodies, and the sky. The change came after complaints that the old flag was offensive to Native Americans... the final draft came under immediate scrutiny from social media critics who drew parallels between the proposed flag and those of Jubaland and Puntland, two Somali federal states. In response, a popular conservative account, End Wokeness, posted on Twitter, “Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the West. Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) is from Puntland. Minnesota just unveiled their new flag. I’m sure this is just a coincidence.” In a separate tweet, End Wokeness added, “Minnesota just replaced its official state flag with a new flag that looks awfully similar to Somalia. They are rubbing it in our faces.” Political science professor Wilfred Reilly reacted, expressing disbelief, “Holy crap – this is actually real.” Similarly, Conservative commentator James Lindsay blasted what he described as a rampant attempt to change the designs of American flags. “The state-by-state agenda to change state flags is big. Happened first in Utah. Now Minnesota with Pennsylvania up to bat. The revolution is proceeding with what pretend to be reasonable issues,” Lindsay said."
Wesley Yang on X - "You didn’t have to teach the woke to hate Jews per se — you just had to teach them anyone who has anything out of proportion to their population share is an oppressor and let them reinvent the oldest hatred"
Richard Hanania on X - "Part of the Rosa Parks story most people don't know. In 1994, age 81, she was living in Detroit. A black man broke into her house, beat her, and stole $53. Her reaction: "We still have a long way to go" In 2020, the same man was arrested again for assaulting an elderly woman."
Damn racism, forcing him to attack a Civil Rights Heroine!
Meme - Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok: ".@WSSchools sent out a memo to employees that they can't put up Christmas decorations, play Christmas music, or dress up for Christmas. Meanwhile they proudly celebrate pride month in their schools. Can't celebrate Christmas but it's okay to celebrate who adults like to have s*x with!"
School District Goes Full 'Grinch' with Order Banning Christmas Decorations - "In the town of Wallingford, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb, a memo went out to all school bus drivers and aides. Subject: “Bus Decor & Attire.” “As per Dr. Marseille” — Wagner Marseille, the superintendent of the Wallingford-Swathmore School District — “he has been receiving complaints from parents concerning District employees displaying ‘Christmas’ themed decorations and/or wearing clothing of the same nature,” the memo, obtained by WTXF-TV, read. “If you have decorated your bus with anything specific to the Christmas Holiday or any other decorations relating to a specific religion, please remove them immediately,” the memo continued. “In addition, employees are not instructed to wear clothing related to Christmas or any other religious holiday,” it said. And, just in case you didn’t get the message: “THIS IS NOT SPECIFIC TO OUR DEPARTMENT, IT APPLIES TO ALL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES.” All caps, so you know they meant it!... And yes, in case you’re wondering, the Wallingford-Swathmore School District does have an eight-page guide to “ensuring equity and nondiscrimination” for “gender expansive & transgender students,” adopted in 2018, but a terse, three-paragraph tell-off to employees who might want to experience some of that “nondiscrimination” in expressing their faith traditions."
We're still told the War on Christmas is a myth
JoJo Siwa WON'T have to kiss a man in upcoming Christmas movie Bounce now she's come out as LGBTQ - "Teen sensation Jojo Siwa has won her fight to get a kissing scene with a man cut from her upcoming Christmas movie Bounce. The former Dance Moms reality star, 18, who has a girlfriend, told EW this week that she is 'madly in love and I do not want to kiss another human. Especially because it’s a man.'"
So much for do your job or get fired. Liberals don't believe in that anymore
Boy, 9, found hanged 'was bullied for being white' - "A boy of nine who was found hanged is believed to have killed himself after he was ‘bullied for being white’ by an Asian gang at school. Aaron Dugmore – thought to be one of the youngest children in the UK to commit suicide – was discovered in his bedroom after being tormented for months, his parents said. They said Aaron was threatened with a plastic knife by one Asian pupil, who warned him: ‘Next time it will be a real one.’ He was also allegedly told by another pupil that ‘all the white people should be dead’ and he was forced to hide from the bullies in the playground at lunchtime. Aaron’s mother, Kelly-Marie Dugmore, 30, and stepfather Paul Jones, 43, said that despite complaints to the school, nothing was done to stop the bullying... His mother claimed she went to see the head teacher of the school several times only to be told: ‘You didn’t have to come to this school, you chose to come here.’ A neighbour of the boy’s grandmother earlier told how ‘he had been targeted by a gang of older bullies at the school’."
Damn white supremacy!
Meme - "BILLIE EILISH HAS LOST MORE THAN 100,000 FOLLOWERS ON INSTAGRAM AFTER COMING OUT"
"Thanks for the good news"
Meme - Gretchen Felker-Martin @scumbelievable: "today i learned that the guy who shot osama bin laden brags about it in his twitter
"haha i put three bullets in a sick old man's head for daring to strike back at the country that helped to gut and cannibalize his home"
the huge crime of is that the shit we do every day overseas got done to us exactly once"
When you support terrorism
Apparently the US destroyed Saudi Arabia
Meme - "This graph show how America conveniently became racist after Occupy Wall Street
Number of NYT Articles Mentioning 'Racism'
Total N = 21,726
End of Occupy Wall Street: 2012
*massive acceleration after 2012*
2012: "Foreclose on Banks Not People. Occupy Wall St
2018: *JP Morgan Pride Float with Chase Float in background*"
Greg Croll on X - "Let’s not forget the abrupt shift of the MSM toward the racism narrative (hello NYT 1619 Project) after the 3yr Russia narrative fell apart..."
Keywords: mentions of racism, New York Times
Meme - GAWD @_benjvmins_: "yt girls killing themselves to get surgeries to look like us. Imao, you won't win creature"
parody, promise its parody...par...: "Dad left before he taught you English. Maybe your kids missing dad will send a check, but I don't know if he has a bank account"
*GAWD @_benjvmins_ with long blonde hair and fairish skin and huge fake eyelashes*
Meme - Cassandra MacDonald @CassandraRules: "Its a "thumb" tack. Its a funny pun and cool swag. Stop looking for crap to cry about. Youre lame."
Stacey Patton @DrStaceyPatton: "Was at the AAAM conference, a Black event, today in Nashville. A white male exhibitor, whose company makes exhibit mannequins, was giving out these thumbtacks as "swag." Deeply triggering to me as someone who researches lynchings where fingers and genitals were cut and sold."
Of course, if they'd only had white thumbs, this would've been exclusion and racist
Supreme Court Rules Philadelphia Can’t Force Catholic Agency To Serve Gay Foster Parents - "Philadelphia officials were in the wrong when they tried to force a Catholic charity to ignore its religious convictions and place children in the foster homes of same-sex parents, the Supreme Court ruled... In a decision that saw no dissents, the Supreme Court justices determined that the First Amendment religious freedoms of Catholic Social Services were violated when the city of Philadelphia refused to renew a contract with the organization to handle the placement of foster children there because the agency would not place kids with same-sex couples. The refusal put the organization at odds with the city's anti-discrimination policies. And so, while the city still contracted with Catholic Social Services for other programs, it stopped doing so for foster child placement. Today's majority decision in Fulton v. Philadelphia bears some resemblance to the 2018 Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission decision about gay wedding cakes. In that ruling, the majority decision didn't actually determine whether the state could mandate under its anti-discrimination law that a baker must make a cake for a same-sex wedding, despite his religious objections. Instead, the majority determined that the discrimination ordinance was not being neutrally applied. Comments from members of the commission indicated hostility toward the baker's religious beliefs. In today's case, the majority similarly determined that Philadelphia's anti-discrimination regulations were not being neutrally applied. The city's foster care contracts grant the commissioner of the Department of Human Services "sole discretion" in allowing exceptions to the city's nondiscrimination regulations. Inherently, that means these regulations are not "generally applicable."... despite the ruling against Philadelphia, much as what happened with the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, the Court has declined to deal with the underlying religious liberty issues involved. Alito is at least correct in saying that keeping the ambiguous status quo here guarantees more cases will arise"
Damn far right Trump judges!
Weird. I thought gay marriage becoming legal wouldn't affect anyone except those who wanted to get a gay marriage. There's the "myth" of the slippery slope again.
85% of Liberal Students Think Professors Should Be Reported for Offensive Comments - "While most students think their professors adequately encourage diverse viewpoints in the classroom, don't want speakers disinvited from campus, and are comfortable sharing controversial opinions, 85 percent of liberals think professors who say something offensive should be reported to the university. That's according to a new survey of student attitudes conducted by North Dakota State University's Sheila and Robert Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth... Probably the most concerning result was that 70 percent of students—85 percent of liberals, 41 percent of conservatives, and 65 percent of those classified as "independent/apolitical"—wanted professors reported to the administration for making offensive statements. Most students also felt this way about other students who said offensive things. The survey does not define the word "offensive," so it's impossible to know what kind of speech the respondents had in mind. Professors are frequently reported for uttering ethnic slurs, though many such occurrences are misunderstandings or arguably legitimate educational uses."
Meme - "If a professor says something that students find offensive, should that professor be reported to the university?
American College Student Freedom, Progress and Flourishing Survey, Shella and Robert Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth, June 2022"
The Associated Press on X - "Protesters demanding a cease-fire in Gaza shut down the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles Wednesday morning. All lanes were blocked as protesters lined up, sitting down along the southbound side of the freeway. 75 people were arrested, according to the California Highway Patrol."
Conor Friedersdorf on X - "This protest made thousands of people worse off and no one plausibly better off because there is no logical reason why shutting down a Southern California freeway would lead to a cease fire, though it could easily lead to a death if an ambulance was stuck in traffic."
James Lindsay, epic manspreader on X - "I'll repeat again: appealing to emergency vehicles is correct but weak. Thousands of people with things to do, some incredibly important, some emergencies, some time-sensitive, have their circumstances ruined because of this stuff. Pilots, parents, businesspeople, etc. Blocking highways isn't merely "inconvenient," and it's not just a problem because people might have emergencies. It should be treated as a tremendous crime because of the size of the impacts, some moral, some personal, some economic, all ruined for a spectacle."
Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost on X - "Mid-level violence is violence and should be recognized as such. Blocking a road is similar to any other "I'm not touching you" provocative Marxist action intended to erode your power or draw an overreaction."
HarmlessPirateRadio on X - "It's funny, because show only the bit where it's a young boy doing it to a young girl and they would instantly know it as violence, but show a person with rainbow clothing and technicolor hair doing it to a person in a red cap and they will deny, deny, deny."
This is similar to the left milkshaking people they disagreed with - pretending that their assault is not really assault. Of course, if a "far right" person throws glitter on someone the left approves of...
Boston city council holiday party bombs after 'no whites' event: Report - "Only six elected officials showed up to the Boston city council holiday party on Monday night after Wu was criticized for organizing an earlier “no whites” event... only three state representatives, a state senator and two city councillors attended despite 40 being invited. Wu tried to play down the drama and blamed the unnamed councillor who leaked the smaller party’s invitation... Wu claimed the backlash was less about the event being exclusive and more that people were “shocked” there were so many minority leaders in Boston. She said the existence of the group and its celebrations were well-known by councillors and the leak had a “political motive.”"
When you can't withstand scrutiny, blame whistleblowers
If you're against liberal-endorsed segregation, you're a bad person
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "A famous paper by Lisa Cook claims that Black patents declined in 1900, and that this was caused by racial violence. However, the results immediately look suspicious. There is a full halving of patents in exactly 1900, after which the levels are stable at 1880 levels. This doesn't look like a pattern that ongoing violence would cause. It looks like a specific thing changed in 1900. And as it turns out, a specific thing did change in 1900: the data set. The Black inventors were identified in a variety of ways. One of the sources was from the dataset gathered for the 1900 World's Fair, in which there was an exhibit of African American inventors. Wikipedia says there were nearly 400 Black inventors identified here. The total size of the data set is 726. Thus, most of her data points comes from this source from the year 1900. It is obvious that if you get most of your data from a source that only includes data up to 1900, then your data points will be more sparse after 1900. And this is precisely what we see in the graph. The Brookings institute looked at the number of Black patents, and identified ~50,000 patents over this same period, instead of the 726. And they found no significant decline around year 1900. It is quite depressing that a paper with such an immediately obvious flaw can achieve such acclaim. It was probably an important paper in getting Lisa Cook nominated to the Fed, even though she has little to no experience in matters of monetary policy. Paul Romer wrote a post supporting her appointment based on this paper. (https://paulromer.net/lisa-cook/) He writes: "The surprise for me was the size of the effect on black patenting at a time when the control group of white inventors shows no comparable change." He was right to be surprised. But I increasingly find that when research surprises you, your first consideration should be whether the research should be trusted."
