Category: Race
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What’s Wrong with Cultural Appropriation?
Is acting white cultural appropriation? No doubt, but what's wrong with that? What's wrong with cultural appropriation? I culturally appropriate every day from the Greeks and the Romans and the Jews. Why shouldn't blacks borrow from and make use of the products of white culture? I also appropriate culturally from the Jews who play the blues, who…
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Liberals and Segregation
When a liberal hears 'segregation,' he thinks of racial segregation, thereby confusing the genus with one of its species, and of course, being the bien-pensant fellow he is, he reflexively comes out against it in words for public consumption. But in his private life he practices segregation, racial and otherwise: he lives in a lily-white,…
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Why are So Many Jews Democrats?
Paul Gottfried may have part of the explanation: Most Jews dislike the Republican Party because they associate it with the idea of a Christian America. And since the 1960s, as Peter Novick exhaustively shows in The Holocaust in American Life, blame for the Nazis’ attempted extermination of the Jews has shifted in both Jewish and…
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Race, Social Construction, and Lewontin’s Fallacy
I asked a correspondent what it means when leftists say that race is a social construct. Here is his response with my comments: What do they even mean? I wonder about that too. What could it mean to say that race is a "social construct"? Do they mean that there are no biological or ancestral differences…
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Celebrity Privilege
Add that to Black Privilege and Leftist Privilege and you've got some serious privileging going on. Not to mention the tribalism of blacks which makes it very difficult for them to be objective about members of their own race. Remember the O. J. Simpson trial? And to those on the Reactionary Right, I say: white…
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Why Would Anyone Consider Islam a Race?
Islam is obviously not a race, but a religion. If you hesitate to call Islam a religion, then it is either a political ideology masquerading as a religion, or a hybrid ideology that blends features of religion and political ideology, or a Christian heresy. On any of these interpretations it is not a race. That…
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A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Welcome to the delusional world of Ta-Nehisi Coates, that darling of 'liberal' elitists and winner of numerous awards and accolades. I read his Between the World and Me a while back. Here are a couple of quotations: 'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies, Sometimes…
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Proof that I am a Native American
A while back a front page story in the local rag of record, The Arizona Republic, implied that one is either a native American, a black, or an Anglo. Now with my kind of surname, I am certainly no Anglo. And even though I am a 'person of color,' my color inclining toward a sort of…
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The Left’s Attack on Merit
I regularly speak of the destructive Left. There is no exaggeration in that. Whether they intend it or not, leftists promote policies that are destructive. They attack merit, for example, bizarrely considering it to be 'racist.' For example, there is the case of New York Mayor, Bill de Blasio, who has proposed to do away…
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More on the Hate-Filled Left
Jacques comments on yesterday's Shelby Steele entry: Shelby Steele is clearly right about the Left's need for hate objects (as a source of power) but I think he is wrong to say this is "a death rattle". Or at least I'm skeptical. We've already been through so many phases of this same dynamic, and it…
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Kavanaugh is in Like Flynn
And what little credibility the Dems had left is out like Stout. (G. F. Stout?) Here: Opponents of Kavanaugh lost the fight when they lost their marbles. His foes on the Senate Judiciary Committee and allied activists ensured that opponents to the nomination appear to be a pack of wild cranks. [. . .] Not…
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The Institutionalized Race War
Things are going to get 'interesting.' I'm glad I'm an old man. I've had a good run. Trouble is, I take care of myself.
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More on Whether Non-Whites Can be Racist
Jacques writes, I had a few thoughts about your post on the definition of "racism". First, I think your definition and almost everything you say here is reasonable, but you may not be engaging with the enemy's reasoning (if we can call it that). As you anticipate, Leftists will say that only whites can be…
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Friday Cat Blogging! Proof that I am a Racist
I have two black cats and they are never allowed off my plantation. The following graphic proves the opposite of what it intends. It is obviously white supremacist in excelsis for a white man to own black cats!
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Can a Black be a Racist?
More generally, can a non-white be a racist? It depends on what a racist is. The unfortunate tendency is to bandy the term about undefined. This serves the purposes of those who want an all-purpose verbal cudgel with which to attack their opponents. I will give you my definition, one that ought to appeal to…