Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Race

  • Kanye and the Democrats

    Walter E. Williams: The big difference between black libertarians/conservatives and West is that he has 28 million Twitter followers and a huge audience of listeners whereas few blacks have even heard of libertarian/conservative blacks outside of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. (I might add in passing that Dr. Thomas Sowell is one of the nation’s…

  • We Are all ‘White Supremacists’ Now

    Even the San Francisco lefty, Angela Alioto. She has been called the following names: white supremacist, Trumpian, fascist, Nazi, and racist.  For despite her leftist wobble, she retains some common sense: she proposes a reform of the S. F. sanctuary city law so that it no longer protects felons as she explains on the Tucker…

  • ‘White Supremacist’ Values

    The following are now widely viewed as 'white supremacist' values: merit, individual achievement, objectivity. Leftists used to argue, fallaciously, that since outcomes are unequal for blacks and whites, 'racism' had to have been at work. As bad as that argument is, it was at least correctly assumed that people ought to be judged on their…

  • Black Privilege

    “The story at Starbucks isn’t racism but entitlement. The two men felt entitled to loiter on private property without buying anything. They decided that the rules didn’t apply to them. And apparently they were correct.” —Matt Walsh I love hanging out in coffee houses, reading, talking, and most of all, playing chess. I fancy myself a strong…

  • Fallacious Liberal-Left ‘Reasoning’ about Race

    Heather Mac Donald: The GAO [General Accounting Office] found that black students get suspended at nearly three times the rate of white students nationally, a finding consistent with previous analyses. The Obama Education and Justice Departments viewed that disproportion as proof of teacher and principal bias. Administration officials used litigation and the threatened loss of…

  • Sam Harris, Ezra Klein, and Race

    Here Here are links to some of my critical discussions of Sam Harris.

  • The Secularization of the Judeo-Christian Equality Axiom

    It is a plain fact that humans are not empirically equal either as individuals or as groups. Why then is there so much politically correct resistance to this truth? It is because it flies in the face of a central dogma of the Left, namely, that deep down we are all the same, want the…

  • The Rachel Dolezal of American Politics

    Here You say you've forgotten who Dolezal is is? Too much Twitter! A weapon of mass distraction. Soon you'll be a tweeting twit with a mind fit only to flit.   Related: Rachel Dolezal, The Black White Woman. I make a mistake at the end of this post that I will now correct. I represent Elizabeth…

  • Why Do Asian Americans Continue to Support Liberal Candidates and Policies?

    One might think that, given the superior intelligence of Jews and Asians as groups, members of these groups would not support destructive leftists when it is fairly obvious that doing so is not in their long-term best self-interest. We read below that a third of Asian Americans live in California. So they have first-hand experience…

  • Of Black Holes and Political Correctness: If You Take Offense, Is that My Fault?

    Suppose a white person uses the phrase 'black hole' in the presence of a black person either in its literal cosmological meaning or in some objectively inoffensive metaphorical sense, and the black person takes offense and complains that the phrase is 'racially insensitive.' Actual case here. Compare that with a case in which a white person…

  • Use, Mention, ‘Quotation’ Marks, and Political Correctness

    The title of a recent Weekly Standard article reads: Professor Uses 'N-Word,' Student Shouts 'F-You,' 'Free Speech' Class Canceled at Princeton. I would write it like this: Professor mentions N-word [no inverted commas], Student Shouts 'F-You,' [correct use of inverted commas for quotation], 'Free Speech' Class Cancelled at Princeton [correct use of inverted commas as sneer…

  • Can a Coin Toss be Racist?

    Why not? If everything is racist, then so is a coin toss. On the other hand, if everything is racist, then nothing is racist in any useful sense of 'racist.' Horribile dictu, there is nothing so stupid that some race-baiting leftist won't say it. I have a whole category on contrast arguments. Said category is…

  • The Left Eats Its Own: Andrew Sullivan

    Despite 'credentials' that ought to endear him to the Left, Mr. Sullivan has learned the hard way that he still has too much good sense to count as one of them: As for objective reality, I was at an event earlier this week — not on a campus — when I made what I thought…

  • The Left eats its own: pink pussyhats are now ‘racist’

    But of course! First, not all 'women' sport pussies. Second, not all female genitalia are pink.  The second point presupposes that race and skin color are the same, which is demonstrably not the case; that, however, is a serious point upon which I shall expatiate in a rather more serious offering. Here I am engaged in the…

  • Democrats Undermine the Foundations of Rational Discourse

    Rational discourse requires observance of a few simple procedural rules. One of the most basic is to use words and phrases in their commonly accepted senses and to refrain from distorting them for partisan purposes.  Take 'chain migration.' According to Wikipedia, a usually reliable source,  Chain migration is a term used by demographers since the 1960s[1] to…