The University of California (San Francisco) is under fire this week after hosting a racist speaker who attacked white people as psychopaths and claimed that black women could be legally raped. A conservative campus group posted clips from the event in which author Dante King lambasted the United States and its institutions as racist and maintaining a white “rape culture.” Imagine if a speaker or professor gave a lecture that called blacks “psychopaths” and responsible for a rape culture. The university would be quickly shutdown in a campus-wide effort at introspection, condemnation, and healing. Instead, King’s lecture was followed by applause.
During the Black History Month event, King delivered a lecture titled “Diagnosing Whiteness and Anti-Blackness: White Psychopathology, Collective Psychosis and Trauma in America.”
He explained how
“whites are psychopaths… and their behavior represents an underlying, biologically transmitted proclivity with roots deep in their evolutionary history. How many of you can see the proclivity that evolved deep within the evolutionary history of Whiteness? By show of hands, how many of you could see it? Some people are sitting here, ‘Oh no, I don’t want to raise my hand,’ that’s called denial.”
King said he is not worried about how the whites in the audience react because he does not value or prioritize their feelings or views: “I’m not seeking agreement from White people at all. I don’t prioritize Whiteness or White people in my work in that way.”
There was little need to consider any whites on campus and what they think because “I think Whites are psychopathic. I think there are many lies. The level of lying that White people do that has started since colonialism. We’re just used to it.”
He also denounced the United States and its institutions as based on “anti-Blackness” as “the foundation of all American, all White American institutions.” Presumably, that is why
“there is no discussion about the delusions and the perversion of Whiteness. Say this with me: rape culture in America is a legal, economic, and moral institution. So we’re going to…we have it written in the law, you can rape Black women – but we’ve never been a racist country. This goes beyond gaslighting, and it’s rooted in psychological delusion. “
UC-San Francisco is full of faculty who have expressly committed themselves to being anti-racist but there was nary a complaint about this vehemently racist lecture.
There is nothing new. As we have previously discussed, professors have advocated “detonating white people,” denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters, and other outrageous statements.
University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis defended the murder of a conservative protester and said he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence.
Last year, Hunter College Professor Shellyne Rodríguez was only fired after being arrested for holding a machete to the neck of a New York Post reporter and threatening to “chop you up.”
Yet, she was not fired after she destroyed the pro-life display of a group of students. It was only later that she was fired after holding a machete to the neck of a journalist.
They are all part of the radical chic of academia and they have little fear of repercussions for their rhetoric.
Conversely, there is little tolerance for conservatives who seek to express their views.
The suspension of Ilya Shapiro is a good example. Other faculty have had to go to court to defend their free speech rights. One professor was suspended for being seen at a controversial protest.
We discussed how St. Joseph’s University refused to renew a contract for a professor who actually prevailed in such a free speech fight. A conservative North Carolina professor faced calls for termination over controversial tweets and was pushed to retire. Dr. Mike Adams, a professor of sociology and criminology, had long been a lightning rod of controversy. In 2014, we discussed his prevailing in a lawsuit that alleged discrimination due to his conservative views. He was then targeted again after an inflammatory tweet calling North Carolina a “slave state.” That led to his being pressured to resign with a settlement. He then committed suicide just days before his last day as a professor.
Yet, to even criticize an extremist speaker like King is to risk being ostracized and cancelled by one’s colleagues. Instead, you have professors and students sitting and listening to a virulently racist diatribe . . . only to politely applaud at the end. It is hard to see how this is any part of a celebration of Black History month as opposed to its debasement. To use this month to voice racist tropes and attacks should be offensive to everyone.
My greatest concern is not that offensive views are being shared on campus. King should be protected by free speech values and campuses should be places where a wide variety of viewpoints are heard. Rather, my concern is that such tolerance only seems to run to those on the far left. It is not evidence of the diversity but the hypocrisy and orthodoxy in higher education.
Dante King has been taking rap music a little too seriously.
I’ll say I think he’s going to start a paper route right now
“WHERE THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A WAY”
My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, to their own native land.”
After acknowledging that this plan’s “sudden execution is impossible,” he asked whether freed blacks should be made “politically and socially our equals?”
“My own feelings will not admit of this,” he said, “and [even] if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not … We can not, then, make them equals.”5
Racial separation, Lincoln went on to say, “must be effected by colonization” of the country’s blacks to a foreign land. “The enterprise is a difficult one,” he acknowledged,
but “where there is a will there is a way,” and what colonization needs most is a hearty will. Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. Let us be brought to believe it
is morally right, and, at the same time, favorable to, or, at least, not against, our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however great the task
may be.
– Abraham Lincoln
DEI cultism and Green cultism are things only wealthy countries can afford to indulge in. America is currently wealthy but heading for insolvency, with serial $2T annual budget deficits and no end in sight to the drunken orgy of spending. Once insolvency hits — and it will sooner than later — all the “antiracist” and “anti-fossil-fuels” garbage will suddenly disappear because nobody will be able to afford them. The absurdities reflected in this article will be wiped off the face of the earth before too long.
DEI cultism and Green cultism are things only wealthy countries can afford to indulge in
This is so true. Only extreme wealth allows such mindless navel gazing.
Oldman, I’m not so sure collapse isn’t exactly what the Davos crowd are diving us towards. While the absurdities won’t heat the home or pay for food, the super-wealthy will already be well-insulated from the chaos to follow.
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We still find comments from trolls on this blog asserting that the Trump-Putin Collusion theory has not been debunked. Anyone still harboring doubt on this subject should check the following podcast by Glenn Greenwald, interviewing Aaron Mate’, on February 2, 2024: “Greenwald: Russiagate Fraud One Of The Most Extreme DC Embarrassments Since WMDs and Wall Street Bailouts” https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/02/09/greenwald_russiagate_fraud_one_of_the_most_extreme_dc_embarrassments_since_wmds_and_wall_street_bailouts.html
Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, and 1802 (four iterations for clarity)
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof…
Meanwhile, as Dante King rants on and on:
“Take Collins Academy High School on Chicago’s West Side. With 219 students and 55 employees, Collins spends $27,163 per student. The Illinois State Board of Education declares the school “commendable,” the state’s 2nd-highest rating. Not a single student tested was proficient in reading or math in 2023. And yet 79% of students there graduated.
Nearby North Lawndale Prep Charter-Christiana spends over $20,000 for each of its 308 students. It’s also rated “commendable” by the state. Not a single student tested was proficient in math and only 1 student tested proficient in reading. The graduation rate? 85 percent.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/not-single-child-tested-proficient-math-67-illinois-schools
Diversity is our greatest strength !
I am joe biden and i approve this message
DEI has cost American taxpayers $25 trillion since 1964.
“Mirror Mirror on the Wall who’s the Fairest of them all” the Queen asked? Is that not a perfect example of vanity, kind of like the charlatans who preach their stature in life is the fault of some nebulous nonsense? We could additionally compare the meaning of Nebula as noun also “…a diffuse cloud of interstellar gas…” or “a cloudy spot on the cornea” they also may have inhaled some cosmic dust which rattled their brain, screeched so loud they’ve lost their hearing in the right ear, and have abandoned Iwazaru the proverbial monkey who covers his mouth. Division-ists exist everywhere but it does seem like a character trait to be more prevalent on the political left.
God help us All!
“Yet, to even criticize an extremist speaker like King is to risk being ostracized and cancelled by one’s colleagues. Instead, you have professors and students sitting and listening to a virulently racist diatribe . . . only to politely applaud at the end.”
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No one ever accused academia of having any guts. They’re government employees for the most part whose stock-in-trade is being lions around their students and lemmings around their administartors and peers. (They do do however look good in tweed with leather elbow patches so to “quoteaphrase” Bill Murray “at least they have that going for them.”) The law faculty is a little better since they have skills to fall back on that people actually want (unlike our typical English/Sociology/Political Science professor) but all in all I’d take a box of heavy rocks over most acadmics in a street fight.
“We the People…secure the Blessings of Liberty to Ourselves and Our Posterity.”
– Preamble
Jonathan: So you think Dante King’s lecture at UC (SF) was a “debasement” of of Black History Month and full of “racist tropes and attacks [that] should be offensive to everyone”. Wasn’t offensive to me. Why?
I personally don’t think every White person is a racist but that’s not the problem. The problem is the failure of a lot of White people to recognize the reality of the history of colonialism and racism that is part an parcel of the history of this country. Institutional systemic racism was the bedrock of this country–the idea that slavery was justified because Black people were inferior. In parts of South today they still celebrate confederate “heroes” who fought to defend slavery.
The legacy of slavery has pervaded the history of the country since 1865. A lot of White people still have a hard time dealing with that legacy. They may even feel some guilt about their own “white privileges”. But some cling to the myth that they “earned” their position in life and resent any evidence to the contrary. You see these views on this blog. Many show disdain for CRT and DEI programs and policies at universities and corporations that seek to level the playing field. These people’s guilt is translated in a sort of “psychopathic” resentment. They resent the fact that what they thought they “earned” is suddenly been challenged and no longer counts and is being taken away. That’s scary for some White people…the thought that equally qualified people of color might just get the job or position they thought was theirs by birth right.
What is interesting is that your column comes the day after a column on the same subject by Fox that claims King’s lecture “appeared to disparage White people and called on others to do the same”. As a Fox contributor it’s clear what your job is–to echo Fox’s distorted claims about King’s lecture–that he is a “racist speaker who attacked white people as psychopathic”. You even claim, without any evidence, that “there is little tolerance for conservatives who seek to express their views”. The Q is what might “conservatives” offer as a counterpoint to King’s views? That racism is no longer a problem? We see a lot of these views over the conservative media (like Fox) so no one has suppressed your views or that of you conservative colleagues.
Your column speaks volumes about how some White people don’t want to have painful discussions about race and racism. The would prefer a sanitized version of Black History Month. Let’s talk about the contributions of MLK and Justice Thurgood Marshall but not how racism still pervades almost every institution in the country. When speakers like Dante King want to talk about the corrosive effects of racism today that’s a discussion to avoid. Fortunately, that’s not going to happen!
You are an idiot. First of all, you’re right–many whites don’t want to have painful conversations about race. And when I say “painful” what I mean is “pain in the ass” conversations. More to the point, you act as if every white person is the same and only by kowtowing to twits like Dante King (I don’t know his background, but he sure sounds like some suburban dude who went to college, got militant and now thinks he’s hard.), can they have some measure of redemption. F off. Guess what, the vast majority of people in this country work hard for what they have. Try coasting on so-called white privilege–see how far it gets ya.
Second, your stereotyping is disgusting.
Phaggotry. Reginald D Hunter would disagree with you.
. Institutional systemic racism was the bedrock of this country
Dennis is really AI. Retards don’t communicate in leftist talking points. Stupid talking points. It has to be AI using
Dennis – you make several statements that would be considered defamatory if a country had standing to sue.
1) “Institutional systemic racism was the bedrock of this country–the idea that slavery was justified because Black people were inferior.”
If you know any history, you would know that slavery has been ubiquitous and involved all races as masters and slaves. The common effect of losing a battle was slavery for the losers, and, when a city fell, enslavement of the women and children. The oldest book in the Western tradition, the Iliad, fortells this fate for the Trojans. The Bible mentions slavery in many places, e.g., Titus 2:9-10 : “Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.” The Romans had so many slaves that they were able to form an army under Spartacus that defeat a Roman legion. Columbus enslaved indiginous people when he arrived in the New World. Even today, slavery exists in the northwestern region of China (https://www.dw.com/en/uighur-exploitation-in-china-slammed-as-modern-day-slavery/a-55953464and), there have been reports of slave markets in Libya (https://time.com/5042560/libya-slave-trade/). Until the Industrial Revolution commenced, the value and rightness of slavery was challenged by almost no one, least of all in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This country was “founded” in the 17th century, and slavery was rare on the continent at that point, except perhaps among the indiginous tribes. If you are correct that black slavery ws the “bedrock” of this country, why were there so few here before the cotton gin was invented, esp. in the North? How did we survive and prosper without our bedrock?
What IS unique about this country is that it decided to dispense with its “bedrock” at a high cost in men and material.
2) “In parts of South today they still celebrate confederate “heroes” who fought to defend slavery.” Although it is not true that the South simply fought to defend slavery (most of the men fighting had no slaves), martial valor and skill are admirable whatever the cause. Can we admire Erwin Rommel? If the South had won the civil war, the men you describe as slave sympathizers would have been national heroes on a par with George Washington.
3) “The legacy of slavery has pervaded the history of the country since 1865.” Without having the nerve to say so, you are suggesting that blacks linger in economic achievement and social stability because their ancestors were enslaved. There is no reason to believe this. Throughout Roman history, there are examples of freed slaves who prospered upon manumission (“Within Roman law there was a set of practices for freeing trusted slaves, granting them a limited form of Roman Citizenship or Latin Rights. These freed slaves were known in Latin as liberti (freedmen), and formed a class set apart from freeborn Romans. While freedmen were barred from most forms of social mobility in Roman society, many achieved high levels of wealth and status. when manumeted.” Wikipedia, “Ancient Roman Freedmen.”) Did you know that St. Vincent de Paul was enslaved by Barbary pirates, a not uncommon fate for white Europeans. He founded his order after his escape.
4) You claim that we are unwilling to face our “white privilege”. Exactly what is our “privilege”? According to Merriam-Webster, the term means: “a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor : prerogative, especially : such a right or immunity attached specifically to a position or an office”.
What right or immunity do I have that any black citizen does not have? Can blacks vote, buy and sell property, travel, emigrtate, seek employment, dispose of their earnings (not taken by the government), play sports, marry and rear children, etc.? Please identify the special rights or immunities that I have that any black citizen lacks? If you can’t, please stop talking about “privilege”.
There is only one reason Leftists like you suggest that blacks are the permanent victims of other Americans: to help the Democratic Party to keep the voting loyalty of that group by appealing to their resentment and to their hopes of financial reward. Since this is harmful to them, you are the real oppressor.
Edwardmahl,
As I have stated in the past, Dennis is not worth reading, so, just scroll past. He is a well known idiot.
However, reading your comment to his comment, I did go back and read his comment for context.
Without a doubt, your comment was a complete and total, epic take down of Dennis comment.
Thank you.
This just about eviscerates and and excoriates your classifying your self as the sacrosanct a h one. ” King said he is not worried about how the whites in the audience react because he does not value or prioritize their feelings or views: “I’m not seeking agreement from White people at all. I don’t prioritize Whiteness or White people in my work in that way.”
If KING was back in Africa, he could be running errands for the village chief. Under the Auspecies of the US Constitution, America has allowed these black and islam intolerant ideologies to grow and fester.
Why don’t you and King manifest what has been manifested as to what has exported by blacks from Africa much other than slaves?
Same mankind rounding same mankind to SELL to other countries. America has put a black into WH 2 times. Two time US had black AGs, and I would allege they were both corrupt. There are black Congress people and now in 2024, and yet you Progressive Socialists still contend US is systemically racists? Most American cities have black Dems (and mostly female) and said cities are parallel to Africa in rampant crime and corruption. Since 64-65 CR acts, US has instituted affirmative action, tokenism, reduced and eliminated standards testing.
Woke ism? I would not tolerate my white child to be in a school class to be told and mandated to apologize for being white and guilt of such. Nor would I approve and not fight to eliminate pornographic same sex videos, etc. Your hate for DT, Fox, and any conservatives opinions are repulsive to me. You perhaps believe you are posting great savantness, but you are on the opposite side of those tracks.
Your disdain for the Prof is fully now known and you make an ass out of yourself each time you post such bovine fecal matters.
There is a level playing field in this country. I agree it has not always been that way, but they’ve certainly is now. and it is much more level here than anywhere else in the world. Also, the same faults you find with the beginning of the United States were true everywhere else in the world, and in many places still are. If you can’t make it in this country, it’s because either you didn’t work hard enough or you just don’t have the ability. Mostly, it’s because you didn’t work hard enough. Are there still some racist people in this country? Yes there are but they’re just as likely to be black as they are white or red. If anything, being nonwhite is more an advantage in this country than being white is. The entire government and academic structure is set up to favor non-whites now, and has been for some time.. If any group of people is at a disadvantage it is more because of the homes that they came from and the interests of their parents. Asian children tend to do very well because they tend to come from two parent households who emphasize education. Also, your remark about not offering any examples of censorship of conservatives is ridiculous. He gave you three or four examples in the blog. he is also absolutely correct that if any speaker had made the same claims about another race, the reaction would’ve been incredibly different. Perhaps any lack of success that you are experiencing is not due to your race, but more due to you
How is it privileged for white girls to be raped by black males, something that happens 30,000 times a year!
“The problem is the failure of a lot of White people to recognize the reality of the history of colonialism and racism ”
I see, so you need to control others thoughts and perspectives because you know their inner minds so well. HAHAHAHAHAAA
But that’s not really the problem even though you claimed it was. We will get to your real problem now.
“They(WHITEY) resent the fact that what they thought they “earned” is suddenly been challenged and no longer counts and is being taken away. That’s scary for some White people…the thought that equally qualified people of color might just get the job or position they thought was theirs by birth right.”
I see, so stealing jobs and positions from White people is the real goal. You claim coloreds will be equally qualified, but if that’s the case where is the systemic racism ? How can a poo’ ghetto boon be gettin’ those qualificashuns ?
Do you see why I can’t believe you ? We all know the whole idea is a vastly under qualified ghetto lord gits the job over whitey. That’s how your plantation slaves can get ahead now after you’ve failed them for 80 years of damnation of welfare on their heads – destroyed their families, murdered with abortion most of their children, and imprisoned nearly every male because of people like joe biden and his quarter sized bit of crack is 5 years in prison no parole so his mob children don’t have “TO LIVE IN A RACIAL JUNGLE” biden quote.
Yep, literally no one would care if the coloreds were qualified, but they are not, and you’ve grown the chips on their shoulders so large that they like destroying whatever they get into.
“White” colonialism was a brief period historically – begining in the 15th century at the earliest – if you think of spanish conquest as “white colonialism”. Northern european colonialism did not start until the 17yh or 18th centuries. Despite north america being called “colonies”, it was radially different from spanish/south and central american colonialism and european coloniasm of Africa.
The english and later americans in north america were never colonial. Paleolithic people in north america were pushed out and conquered, they were never colonized. South and central america were colonized. Parts of africa were colonized – south africa is generally misrepresented. The Dutch populated a mostly unoccupied region of African and conquered some adjecent tribes and then the british actually colonized the dutch.
Much of the rest of africa were colonized, India and Packistan were colonized. parts of southeast asia, and china were colonized.
Circumstances were not even close to identical, nor was subsequent results identical – further the chines, japanese, indians, and koreans colonized various parts of asia until replaced by western nations.
Prior to that the egyptians, greeks and persans colonized significant portions of the mediterainian.
After than the Romans colonized the mediterainian, most of the mideast, north africa, all of europe including what is now the british isles.
After that the mongols brutally colonized almost all of asia and europe – probably the largest single empire in history.
After that aranbs in the mideast colonized much of southern europe, and north africa.
But when left wing nuts like you talk of the history of colonization are specifically talking about white norther Europeans and Americans and mostly in the 18th-20th century, operating under the delusion that colonization was a rare thing that only whites did, just as in left wing nut world only northern European whites enslaved people.
Some colonizations were especially brutal such as those of the mongols or the arabs.
The claim by the left again ignoring almost the entirety of world history is that northern europen colonization was particularly brutal and exploitative – when the opposite was true.
Spain – not northern european though caucaisian, spread a religion and language accross much of the world, and Spain brought to itself a substantial portion of the worlds gold and silver.
Adam Smith observered that While Spain was drawing much of the worlds gold and silver to itself, that England was slowly suplanting Spain as the worlds sole superpower by engaging in Trade. This was a critical observation in Smith’s Wealth of nations, and informed Smith’s understanding of the nature of money. “All money is a metter of beleif”. I WON Smith seems to grasp the subjective nature of value, but it took another century before economists formalized the fact that “Value is subjective”.
Regardless, northern european colonisers were brutal by todays standards – but by historical standards they were benevolent.
Regardless, the countries colonized by northern europeans were unarguably better off by the time they attained self government than they were before. Further as northern Europe shed its global empires starting slowly after WWI, with a few exceptions – places like Hong Kong, Singapore and India, standard of living has not noticably improved in those countries.
In my lifetime we have ended african colonialism, poured more than 3T in aide to africa and in amny cases those countries have ended up worse rather than better off.
I would suggest reading or listening to – he is on Youtube, work by William Easterly – who is possibly the pre-eminent developmental economist int he world.
WE do not know how to deal with underdeveloped nations and they have Faired WORSE on their own than when they were colonized.
In the US indians were conquered and pushed west. They were no colonized. Ultimately various tribes ended up controlling some land that americans considered to be worthless, and aside from the lucky few where oil was found on that land, indians “native americans” have done a pretty crappy job of governing themselves – despite massive aide from the federal govenrment.
Dennis it is clear that you are clueless.
With respect to racism – every single country, tribe or culture in the world throughout history through to the present has been Racist.
Human beings are genetically hardwired to be suspicious of things that are different.
Even today the vast majority of the nations of the world have very little in the way of racial and cultural diversity.
There have been innumerable genocides in the 20th century – aside from those of Nazi Germany and Stalins USSR there are no 20th century genocides of Europeans wiping out specific races.
While the Chinese are trying to exterminate the Uighurs today, and Myanmar seeks to exterminate the Karen peoples – which is both a racial and religious genocide.
In the later 20th and 21st century Arabs have nearly purged the mideast of christians and jews. When I was born every nation in the mideast and north africa had significant populations of christians and jews – very large minorities. Today there are very few christians and jews in these countries. They have nee exterminated or driven out.
Actual racial diversity until very recently has been almost exclusively a feature of the anglosphere.
Of This country and the other western countries that you hate the most.
China has almost 100 ethnic minorities – yet 98% of Chinese are Hahn chinese.
In Korea a super majority of the country traces back to only 5 families.
There is no nation in the world with the racial, ethic, religious or cultural diversity of the US.
And ALL nations that come close are the white parts of the former british empire.
Those of you on the left that value racial, ethnic, religious and cultural diversity get that value from the very western people and though that you hate.
You rant about the racist history of this country – you clearly are clueless about this country.
No nation has the diversity that the US has – even as I speak of the diversity of the anglosphere – still in 1800 there were only 8,000 blacks in the entirety of England. British colonies had racial diversity – almost entirely slaves, but England itself did not.
The entire concept that diversity is a good thing is a western and value originating in the american colonies.
“The legacy of Slavery” pervades the world.
Dennis, your view of history is warped and wrong.
There is no uniquely american horrid history of racism or slavery.
YOUR Dark view of US past is actually the history of thye US leading the entire world away from Slavery and racism.
The US is one of the earliest nations in the world to end slavery. Thoughout the 19th and 20th centuries the US, UK and France worked to end the slave trade throughout the world – african slavery continued through the early 20th century.
No the US has NOT had massive problems regarding slavery persisting through to today.
Slavery ended in 1865. Racism did not. Racism has ALWAYS existed everywhere in the world.
It is idiotic and ignorant to believe that ending slavery would magically end racism – something that is as old as mankind.
Ending slavery in the US was the beginning of the unfinished effort to end racism throughout the world.
Your ranting that the country that has lead the world in ending slavery, ending racism and advancing diversity, somehow did not miraculously acheive the impossible earlier.
According to the Equal Justice Institute – there were approximately 4500 lynchings of blacks in the US after the civil war – with almost all from the civil war through WWII.
In 1994 the Huti in Rwanda committed racial genocide against the Tutsi – murdering about 800,000 Tutsi in a bloodbath that lasted about 100 days.
Pol Pot mudered 3M of his own people from 1970-1975 only ending when the Vietnamese deposed the Khmer Rouge.
Was the historic treatment of blacks in the US bad ? Absolutely. Was it unusual ? Yes, as racism throughout the world goes at our worst the US has been better than the rest of the world.
Dennis, having a discussion with you is painful.
Scratch that – you do not discuss, you just rant.
Many here – myself among them read what you write. We give it serious consideration – it is necescary to actually understand what you say to properly criticize it.
But you clear do not read anything from people you disagree with. You spend no time thinking about what they say.
Why should anyone be forced to have painful and irrelevant discussions regarding race ?
LOTS of data demonstrates that racism is just about the least consequential factor in a persons future.
YOUR fixation on race is damaging those you claim to wish to help.
Recently Sonny Hoskins of the view found out that both her and her husbands ancestors were slave owners.
My ancestors came from Ireland where they very nearly were slaves.
So who is it that needs to have this painful discussion about race – this pasty white guy from Ireland ? Or the brown person whose family owned slaves ?
The answer is NEITHER. I am neither responsible fort the good or the evil that my parents did, much less those 6 generations in the past.
Each of us is responsible for our own lives – not things that happened before our great great great grandparents were born.
You talk about “painful discussions” – it is not painful to discuss the past history of this country.
That is left wing gibberish. What we things that happened a century before I was born cause me pain ?
My own choices can cause me pain or pride. Not those of others, and I am quite proud of the fact that I am not one of the nut jobs telling black people that they can not help but fail, because long before they were born some ancestor was a slave. THAT is racist.
I found this somewhat enlightening…
https://compactmag.com/article/a-black-professor-trapped-in-anti-racist-hell
That was a fascinating article!
JAFO,
Not sure enlightening is the word I would use.
Disturbing is more like it.
But thank you for posting it.
Enlightening only in the sense where other non-white students so quickly gave deference to “Keisha’s” influence; cancelling their own thoughts on the subject materials. Disturbing describes the end result, no doubt.
JAFO, that was a brilliantly written account and at the same time tragic. It provided just a glimpse into a very dangerous ideology running rampant in this country.
Indeed, Olly. It had more impact on me *because* it was written by a Professor who most certainly overcame petty racism in his own life only to learn, perhaps the hard way, so-called anti-racism is worse than previous racism itself in academia, his chosen profession.
LMAO – A bunch of fools wasting their lives, “fascinating”.
What color was their belly button, and was it a racist black hole ?
dear Prof Turley,
Well, Joe Biden is white ish, but that’s not why I think he’s ‘psychopathic’. Otoh, Obama is a clean-cut articulate black man, but that’s not why I call him ‘Uncle Tom’.
Lost in the gathering storm clouds, it won’t matter what color you are. Dante is tilting at windmills .. . obscured by the dust of time, dawg.
The Sickness afflicting the ‘most stable and successful democracy in the world’ today, I believe, begins with the SCOTUS 2001 Bush v Gore decision and has spread unchecked to infect the functional authority of gov., the ‘media’ and the entire political process. These people go to Harvard and Yale, they f*ck each other. Looks like Biden V Trump 2024 Election Redux #2. .. whether you like it or not.
*an incestuous, symbiotic relationship Nobody seems to want.. .
You can lay the blame for that at the feet of the 2000 Florida Supreme Court. Like today’s Colorado Supreme Court, the FL court consisted of seven Democrats, four of whom were willing to distort the law (the FL election code) out of proportion to reach a hack political result. Scotus ruled 7-2 that that result violated the US Constitution. (The 5-4 aspect of the ruling was limited to whether it made realistic sense to send the case back for yet another recount, this time with uniform standards, given that there was clearly insufficient time left for such a recount).
Thought Bush v Gore was more a political decision, best left for the state of Florida to determine their own election laws within a reasonable time frame. And there was some time left for Florida to get its act together.
In any case, I was referring to the bitter acrimony – the political divide – resulting from Bush v Gore. All of our elections since then have been considered quite ‘controversial’ .. . in case you haven’t noticed.
I don’t lay the blame for all that at the feet of SCOTUS.
*to be clear, if Colorada or other states want to determine who can, or can not, be presidential candidates .. . then the SCOTUS would have no choice but to be involved.
Gore’s approach to the election in 2020 can be compared (unfavorably) to Nixon’s in 1960, who lost to JFK due to a whole bunch of dead people voting in Chicago. Nixon decided it would be harmful to the nation to challenge it in court. That was admirable. Gore? Not so much. His selfish behavior has led to what you describe.
It was the G.W. Bush/Cheney gang of cutthroats and thieves, the ‘winners’ of Bush v Gore, who are the genesis, the touchstone, of our present dysfunction today. At least that’s how I see it.
*they created the ’empire’ .. . now Joe Biden is the emperor.
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” ~ Karl Rove, aka the ‘Turd Blossom’
I construed your previous comment as relating to the tendency nowadays for elections to be heavily litigated, which to me seems to reflect a corrosion of our politics. W won the original count and all recounts in FL. The FL SoS followed the FL election code as written in terms of when she certified the votes. If Gore had taken Nixon’s approach I believe our elections would not be as contested in court as they are today. Plus Gore probably could’ve had a good chance of a subsequent win just like Nixon did.
By the time voyeur rove was blabbering the empire was already turning to dust.
The EGO of the US in DC is far outside of the reality, and the big spankings will continue.
Did you notice the empire can’t control the ocean routes anymore ?
There are so many traitors and sellouts there’s just about nothing left.
“IT’S OK TO BE WHITE.”
– Rasmussen
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Only 53% of blacks agree while 47% disagree.
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“Blacks are a hate group.”
“As you know, I’ve been identifying as Black for a while – years now – because I like – you know, I like to be on the winning team.”
“The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.”
“Just get the f*** away.”
“Wherever you have to go, just get away because there’s no fixing this.”
“You just have to escape, so that’s what I did.”
– Scott Adams, “Dilbert”
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Even for the deranged, hysterical, incoherent, bleeding-heart, liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO, AINO communists, “…THERE’S NO FIXING THIS!”
And NUTCHACHACHA claims it was only one extremist outlier.
Looks like about half, according to Dilbert.
It will ultimately get fixed. The first question is whether it can be fixed at the ballot box by something that at least resembles a legitimate political process. If that is what you are claiming cannot happen, I regret to say that you may have a point. However, it will still get fixed, sooner or later, by some means or other, because conflicts do get resolved, by their very nature. The question in that case is who will be in or out of confinement, and who will be regarding the lawn from what vantage point, as that resolution occurs. I plan to be walking free, and looking at the sod from above, no matter what happens, and, push come to shove, I will absolutely do whatever is necessary to achieve that outcome.
Another thought I just had, was Thank God for Dante King! I mean, if you were to tell some white people that black people hate white people, in the most racist manner imaginable, those white people would not believe you. Particularly if they were cloistered in mostly white areas, or academia. But Good Old Dante is there, to show that it is not just some white conspiracy theory. I doubt the white audience there, quiescent or not, were unaffected by Dante’s speech. They may have had to play along to survive at work, but I bet most of them were seething inwardly.
FWIW:
More of Turley cherry-picking one extremist person or stance and trying to metastasize it to the evil “Left”. Being an alleged expert in law, why doesn’t Turley address Trump’s baseless claims of “presidential immunity”, his efforts to avoid accountability by using one stall techinique after anohter, or his claim that he could, somehow, refuse to honor the NATO treaty to which America has been a signatory since the 1940s unless other countries “pay up”, as if belonging to NATO is some kind of club that collects membership dues? And why not address the reason Trump is going after NATO–obviously, it’s because he’s a puppet of Putin, who helped him cheat his way into office in 2016. Why else would any American politician try to undermine NATO after Russia invaded Ukraine?
Man, ain’ts it da trooph!
This demagogue doesn’t deserve your attention, nor mine. The world is teeming with loudmouths looking for attention, and they know they can get it by saying outrageous things. But we don’t have to take the bait. Our attentional circuits are ours to manage, and as we filter out junk, it moves the culture in a positive direction..
Indeed. Feeding the trolls never results in less trolling on the troll’s part. Never.
Well said, and yet the MAJORITY of the comments on here are replies to Dennis / Gigi / Bob / sealioning Anonymous, etc which just fuels the anarchy. All this proves is that, as I have stated man times, both the Left and Right have caused our national plunder. The level of despair communicated by most on here is anathema to their supposed Christian ethos day after day after day
Time for a break. Tomorrow starts Lent. Im giving up the internet for Lent. Catch you after Easter
Until then (and ever after, too) stay safe, friend.
Imagine how big the canyon has to be to sustain echoes since Plantation Days in the Deep South. Will they still be echoing when we land on Mars?
National Library of Medicine
PubMed
James Watson tells the inconvenient truth: faces the consequences
Jason Malloy
PMID: 18440722 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.03.041
Abstract
Recent comments by the eminent biologist James Watson concerning intelligence test data from sub-Saharan Africa resulted in professional sanctions as well as numerous public condemnations from the media and the scientific community. They justified these sanctions to the public through an abuse of trust, by suggesting that intelligence testing is a meaningless and discredited science, that there is no data to support Dr. Watson’s comments, that genetic causes of group differences in intelligence are falsified logically and empirically, and that such differences are already accounted for by known environment factors. None of these arguments are correct, much less beyond legitimate scientific debate. Dr. Watson was correct on all accounts: (1) Intelligence tests do reveal large differences between European and sub-Saharan African nations, (2) the evidence does link these differences to universally valued outcomes, both within and between nations, and (3) there is data to suggest these differences are influenced by genetic factors. The media and the larger scientific community punished Dr. Watson for violating a social and political taboo, but fashioned their case to the public in terms of scientific ethics. This necessitated lying to the public about numerous scientific issues to make Watson appear negligent in his statements; a gross abuse of valuable and fragile public trust in scientific authority. Lies and a threatening, coercive atmosphere to free inquiry and exchange are damaging to science as an institution and to scientists as individuals, while voicing unfashionable hypotheses is not damaging to science. The ability to openly voice and argue ideas in good faith that are strange and frightening to some is, in fact, integral to science. Those that have participated in undermining this openness and fairness have therefore damaged science, even while claiming to protect it with the same behavior.
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James Dewey Watson…co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson [wrote] many science books, including the textbook Molecular Biology of the Gene (1965) and his bestselling book The Double Helix (1968).
– Wiki
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George, Thank you for posting that. I recall when Watson was attacked for having ‘wrong’ opinions, particularly in the minds of journalists who clearly know more science than just about anyone. Funny that they don’t make discoveries or advance scientific knowledge.
And, besides, what does Watson know about science or genetics–apart from discovering the double helix, that is.
Many people with European ancestry have some Neanderthal DNA (one study I saw said as much as 7%). There is also genetic evidence that some Sub-Saharan Africans who never migrated off that continent mixed with an unnamed hominoid species. Many east Asians have some Denisovan DNA.
The idea that these genetic differences between humans do not matter is anti-science.
There was report not that long ago that collected government-published data from every country that keeps reported crimes statistics. For the crimes that mention race of the parties involved (not all crime statistics drilled down to identify perp/victim racial makeup), the aggregate percentages revealed something the report’s author didn’t expect – wasn’t even on his radar. It was this: Where race *was* indentified in the stats, in EVERY country, black-on-black crime was the highest reported, percentage-wise, by an unexepected margin. The author did not establish a corrolation nor any conclusion, it was a simple ‘here are the reported stats from every country that keeps track of crime metrics, including race, where available’. Unsurprisingly, a Google search no longer yields a link to the report. Of course, I can’t find the link I saved, either. Sometimes, the stats are just the stats. Make of that what you will.
Since we haven’t had any hunter Biden articles of late (Geee, I wonder why?). Here you go
“Vekselberg “reportedly funneled $500,000 to an LLC run by Donald Trump’s former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen, supposedly with the intention of influencing the new administration to let Russia illegally occupy parts of Eastern Ukraine.””
Let’s see how many trump supporters can actually do research on this site.
“Teenagers, young people who are going out committing home invasions and hitting women over the head with objects and stealing their purses — I want you to just say that’s human nature,”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1755993038545977827
This suited demon is defending violent crime committed by blacks as simply “human nature”, but apparently there is no human nature defense if one is white.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/whites-are-psychopaths-guest-lecture-at-ucsf-draws-outrage/