Category: Race
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Obama Backs Race-Based Disciplinary Policies
Should we be surprised? President Barack Obama is backing a controversial campaign by progressives to regulate schools’ disciplinary actions so that members of major racial and ethnic groups are penalized at equal rates, regardless of individuals’ behavior. "Regardless of individuals' behavior." Think about that.
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Systematic Deracination
To deracinate is to uproot. W. K. sends this: That article about political correctness in the universities you linked to reminded me of David Conway's comments in A Defence of the Realm about the 'systematic deracination' of the citizens of western liberal democracies since World War Two: Through changes in educational curricula, plus other cultural…
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Are You a Racist?
Find out here.
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Left-Wing Racial McCarthyism
Contemporary liberals hunt for racists the way McCarthyites in the '50s and early '60s hunted for commies, and they use their terms of opprobrium with the same sort of irresponsible semantic latitude. You could say that they are extreme semantic latitudinarians when it comes to their verbal bludgeons of choice. But a witch hunt by any other name…
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Elizabeth Warren: Undocumented Injun
Elizabeth 'Fauxcahontas' Warren, Cherokee maiden, diversity queen of the Harvard Lore Law School, and author of the cookbook Pow Wow Chow, is being deservedly and diversely raked over the coals. Howie Carr, White and Wrong. NRO, Paleface. Michael Barone, Racial Preferences: Unfair and Ridiculous. Excerpt: Let's assume the 1894 document is accurate. That makes Warren…
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Profiling
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First John Derbyshire, then Naomi Riley
John Fund in Censoring Naomi Riley comments on the latter's dismissal by the The Chronicle of Higher Education: Earlier this week, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the trade paper for faculty members and administrators in universities, fired Naomi Schaefer Riley, a paid blogger for its website. Her crime? She had the courage to respond to…
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‘Blacklisted’ Blacklisted
Here: "POLICE chiefs have banned IT staff from using the word blacklist over fears it is RACIST." (Via VFR) This sort of thing is insane, of course. And so I suspect that to argue against it is foolish: it only lends credibility to a view that ought to be mocked and derided. But I do argue it…
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Some Inaccurate Negative Stereotypes About Stereotypes
• People ascribe a stereotype to everybody in the subject group. "All Germans are efficient." "All English people have bad teeth." In fact, these researchers were not able to locate anybody who believes that a stereotype is true of all members of the stereotyped group. Stereotypes are probabilistic tools, and even the most dull-witted human…
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On the Word ‘Racism’ and Some of its Definitions
'Racism' and 'racist' are words used by liberals as all-purpose semantic bludgeons. Proof of this is that the terms are never defined, and so can be used in wider or narrower senses depending on the polemical and ideological purposes at hand. In common parlance 'racism' and 'racist' are pejoratives, indeed, terms of abuse. This is why it is…
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PC Conservative Andrew McCarthy’s Lame Response to John Derbyshire
It is well known by now that NRO has cut its ties with John Derbyshire ('Derb') over the latter's publication in another venue of The Talk: Nonblack Version. Both Rich Lowry and Andrew McCarthy have commented on this severing of ties and both sets of comments are unbelievably lame. Here is the substance (or rather 'substance')…
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A Pithy Summary of the Trayvon Martin Case
Here: The liberal narrative about the [Trayvon Martin] case is now destroyed; it had nothing to do with finding out the truth, whether a trigger-happy vigilante murdered Trayvon Martin, or a desperate neighborhood watchman saved his head from being pounded to smithereens by pulling out a gun and shooting his assailant, or something in between.…
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In Defense of Profiling
Even Jesse Jackson does it! This following is excerpted from the NYT piece, The Color of Suspicion (emphasis added) Why a Cop Profiles This is what a cop might tell you in a moment of reckless candor: in crime fighting, race matters. When asked, most cops will declare themselves color blind. But watch them on the job for…
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Derbyshire’s ‘Racism’
I got wind of Derb's defenestration, and the concomitant crapstorm of Internet commentary, a little late, but I've been making up for lost time. I found this curious passage over at RedState, a self-professedly conservative website (emphasis added): Derbyshire likes to pepper his racist rants with “facts” that generally consist of social studies that are…
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Derbyshire’s Defenestration
In case you are not familiar with the word, 'defenestration' is from the Latin fenestra, window. Defenestration is thus the act of literally or figuratively throwing something or someone out of a window, or the state of having been ejected through such an aperture. In plain English, John Derbyshire, 'Derb,' got the boot from NRO's Rich…