Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Race

  • Liberals Need to Preach What They Practice

    Liberals who have amounted to something in life through advanced study, hard work, deferral of   gratification, self-control, accepting responsibility for their actions and the rest of the old-fashioned virtues are often strangely  hesitant to preach these conservative virtues to those most in need of them. These liberals live Right and garner the benefits, but think…

  • Kimball on Stove on Race

    Roger Kimball, Who Was David Stove? Excerpt: Stove’s essay “Racial and Other Antagonisms” is similarly emollient. He begins by noting that some degree of friction is the common if not the inevitable result when “two races of people have been in contact for long.” Only in the twentieth century, however, has such antagonism been described…

  • You are not a Racist if You Speak the Truth about Race

    My title answers the question I posed in my post Are the Police Racist? I asked: If a statement about race is true, is one a racist for making it?  Is one a racist for reporting the following? Homicide numbers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976–2005 indicate that young African-American males account for…

  • Are the Police Racist?

    A short video by Heather MacDonald. Can you spare five and one half minutes? Question for liberals: If a statement about race is true, is one a racist for making it?  Is one a racist for reporting the following? Homicide numbers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976–2005 indicate that young African-American males account…

  • Do Black Lives Matter?

    FULL DISCLOSURE:  I am not now, and never have been, a Southerner, a redneck, a plantation owner, slave holder, apologist for slavery, Civil War re-enactor on the Confederate (or Union) side, racist, or white supremacist. I condemn slavery as a grave moral evil. I also condemn abortion as a grave moral evil.  Holding that all…

  • Why the Left Can’t Let Go of Racism

    Shelby Steele on the racism racket.  After actual racist oppression of blacks was eliminated, the Left invented 'structural,' 'systemic,' or 'institutional' racism to keep the race hustle going. It was plain to objective investigators that the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown had nothing to do with race hatred. Those two brought about their…

  • Victor Davis Hanson on Joan Baez and Abolitio Memoriae

    In Our War Against Memory, Hanson writes (hyperlinks added), How about progressive icon Joan Baez? Should the Sixties folksinger seek forgiveness from us for reviving her career in the early 1970s with the big money-making hit “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”— her version of The Band’s sympathetic ode to the tragedy of a…

  • More on Dreher vs Buchanan on “All Men are Created Equal” and White Supremacy

    Dr. Patrick Toner comments and I respond in blue: Your piece on Dreher and Buchanan accepts Dreher's overall reading (or misreading, as I see it) of Buchanan's argument — you seem to accept that Buchanan actually means to somehow call into doubt the metaphysical doctrine of the equality of men.  This seems clearly wrong to…

  • I’m a Racist Because I Like Chess

    I left the house at 5:15 this morning, hiked 45 minutes over the local hills to arrive at 6:00 sharp at Gecko Espresso where I met up with Lowell S. a local chess aficionado.  We played under the influence of caffeine for a solid two hours, one game, recorded, to be analyzed when next we…

  • Some Questions About White Privilege

    A demanding entry from 1 September 2014. Not for liberals. It requires thought.

  • What is White Supremacy?

    Robert Paul Wolff offers the following: Hatred has fundamentally very little to do with White Supremacy.  White Supremacy is a policy of domination and economic superiority of Whites in a multi-racial society.  African-Americans are not worried about whether White people want to be friends.  Most of the African-Americans I know have quite enough friends, thank…

  • In Case You Missed It

    Can One Change One's Race? A critique of Rebecca Tuvel's notorious article. Written sine ira et studio. Just a calm refutation.

  • Alan Dershowitz is a Racist!

    So says Maxine Waters. I have some advice for this sorry specimen: Lie about others and they may tell the truth about you.

  • The Bret Weinstein-Heather Heying Caper at Evergreen State

    Having come to expect lunacy from lefties, I was not dismayed, but entertained, by the absurd bigotry that seeps out of the following passage from this Chronicle of Higher Education piece: Now the couple weighed a new option. A producer for Tucker Carlson Tonight, a prime-time show on Fox News, had asked if Mr. Weinstein…

  • Can One Change One’s Race?

    I raise the title question in the context of my recent study of  Rebecca Tuvel's controversial article, "In Defense of Transracialism" (Hypatia, vol. 32., no. 2, Spring 2017, pp. 263-278). It raises a number of fascinating and important questions. I will argue that even if one can change one's sex, by having one's body altered by…