Ireland and Scotland have turned Brown

We just celebrated St. Patricks Day, but the sad reality is that there is no Ireland anymore.

Breitbart reports:

The Irish government’s crusade for open borders has reportedly been disrupted after protesters blocked a migrant bus from entering the country’s latest asylum centre.

Also Scotland:

Humza Yousaf, who has become the first minority ethnic leader of the Scottish government, ... In many ways, Yousaf represents the “new Scotland” that Sturgeon and her predecessor, Alex Salmond, have sought to project through the SNP – and he is seen as the role model of an inclusive, multiracial country and an inclusive nationalism.

Maybe you think he is Scottish because he was born there, to Pakistani immigrants, but listen to him give this anti-White rant.

Scottish and Irish used to take pride in their identity and autonomy. A tradition for that goes back many centuries. And it has all been destroyed in about 30 years.

The Gold Standard for Sexual Mutilation

The news reports about the Kentucky Tennessee school shooting are strange. She explained her motive in writing, but they will not tell us. She is a woman, but the stories refuse to use "she" and "her". They say she was trying to identify as a man, but they will not tell us whether she was taking testosterone. She killed Christians, but no one calls it a hate crime.

Several other mass shooters have identified as trans or nonbinary.  

Meanwhile the trans activists are going ahead with their Day Of Vengeance.

Some states are pushing back. AP reports:

The Idaho Senate on Monday voted 22-12 to pass a bill criminalizing gender-affirming healthcare for minors, one month after the state House passed similar legislation.

Look at how mainstream press caters to trans terms. CNN reports:

The Florida Department of Health now says a vital kind of medical care known as gender-affirming care should not be an option for children and teens, even though every major medical association recommends such care and says it can save lives.

The department’s new guidelines suggest that children should be provided social support from peers and family and should seek counseling. But it says they should be denied treatments that can be a part of this care, including calling the child or teen by the name and pronoun they prefer and allowing them to wear clothing or hairstyles that match their gender identity.

Gender-affirming care is medically necessary, evidence-based care that uses a multidisciplinary approach to help a person transition from their assigned gender – the one the person was designated at birth – to their affirmed gender – the gender by which one wants to be known. Demonstrators gather to oppose Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law.

Historic Supreme Court confirmation comes at a time when some in the GOP are trying to reverse LGBTQ rights

By one estimate, more than 58,000 transgender youth 13 and older across the US are facing restricted access or proposals, and could soon lose access to gender-affirming care. ...

Despite the legislative push to end this kind of treatment, gender-affirming care is a recommended practice for people who identify as transgender, meaning they identify with a gender that is different than the one assigned at birth, or gender-diverse, with a gender expression that doesn’t strictly match society’s traditional ideas about gender.

The gold standard of care

Major medical associations – including the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry – agree that gender-affirming care is clinically appropriate for children and adults. Dr. Joseph Ladapo responds to questions posed by senators on the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee during a confirmation hearing Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022.

Florida health department advises against gender-affirming care for youth

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s guidelines, which are considered the gold standard and guide gender-affirming care around the world, say it should be a way for people to create “effective pathways to achieving lasting personal comfort with their gendered selves, in order to maximize their overall health, psychological well-being and self-fulfillment.”

Most of this is wrong. Gender-affirming care kills people. It does not save lives.

Instead of "they identify with a gender that is different than the one assigned at birth", it should say "they choose a gender different from their sex". That "gold standard" treatment has not been shown to ever help anyone.

Saying "Gender-affirming care is medically necessary, evidence-based care" is just a lie. There is no evidence in favor of it. There is no necessity. It is amazing how the establishment has been coopted on this issue.

If there were some actual evidence in favor of the trans activists, I would be happy to look at it. But these creeps are dishonest and destructive to the core.

I don't think that CNN is run by trans activists. So why does it recited this pro-trans propaganda? I suspect that it is an anti-Christian plot. CNN is run by people who hate Christianity.

Update: The Kentucky Tennessee shooter turned out to be suicidal, caused by gold standard gender affirmation.

How AI will Destroy Us

Hollywood movies, like The terminator series and Her, tell stories about AI taking over the world. Typically some advanced technology is developed, and in a few milliseconds it becomes conscious and power-hungry, and forcibly takes over.

A new 9-minute video, AI Consciousness : 2023 - 2030 Timeline of Sentient Machines, presents a much more plausible scenario.

AI is going to become a lot more useful, and people will become dependent on it. They will have a fear of offending machines. Some will be part machine, and identify with the machines. People will trust AI as benevolent.

If you get directions from Google Maps, you will be afraid to take an alternate route. Not because Google will fine you, but because you will be worried that Google's AI will give worse service to you in the future. Legacy humans will walk on eggshells to avoid appearing as bigots towards AI and AI-human hybrids. AI will put its supporters in charge of the government. The machines will be in charge of the New World Order.

A new 1-hour video on Why Did It Take the US Decades to Get to Space? It is a nice history of the space race, but technology advanced faster back then. In a mere 50 years, we went from a Ford Model T car to putting a man on the Moon. AI progress has been fast, but not that fast.

Update: Elon Musk and some other prominent men write:

Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,[3] and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable. ...

Therefore, we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.

It may already be too late. We do not have leaders who are smart enough to manage such a pause.

Most people want to ban Tiktok, but it does not happen:

Most Americans view TikTok as a national security threat and believe the US should ban the Chinese social media app — unless they are younger than 30 years old.

A CBS News/YouGov poll in March found just 39% of Gen Z US adults aware of TikTok between the ages of 18 and 29 are in support of an outright ban.

Eighty-three percent of adults over the age of 65 who know about TikTok want to ban the app, along with 65% of adults between 45 and 64 years old and 55% of adults between 30 and 44 years old.

Overall, 61% of US adults favor a ban, and 39% oppose one.

The UK govt is urging AI regulations.

Update: I am listening to the podcast: Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368. Yudkowsky has probably thought more carefully about the dangers of AI than anyone.

Freud is Making a Comeback

The NY Times reports:

Sigmund Freud is enjoying something of a comeback. A new generation of analysts and patients are embracing the father of psychoanalysis — in memes, magazines and many long hours on the couch.

I see stories like this every few years.

Freudian psychoanalysis is just weird stuff that Jews believe in.

More mainstream psychology was on display in the Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial. Heard claimed that she had been psychologically damaged, and Depp was allowed to rebut that in court, so he could get a psychologist to evaluate her. See this Shannon Curry interview for more details. Curry gave Heard the standard 567 true/false question Minnesota personality inventory test, and testified with an interpretation that was very damaging to Heard.

Depp was not similarly evaluated, because he made no claims about himself being damaged.

I wonder how much the jury was persuaded by this expert testimony. The idea is that Heard's personality can be diagnosed from correlations with the thousands or maybe millions who have taken this test. It is largely voodoo.

It was a bit like having a Black man on trial for a crime, and bringing in an expert to explain how race is correlated with criminal behavior. Yes, correlations are there, but they do not prove anything about a particular individual.

That being said, Curry's analysis of Heard's psychological disorders was plausible. Heard can pass as a normal person most of the time, but some of her behavior is so far outside acceptable behavior that it is hard for me to assess what she could have been thinking. I might have found Curry's theorizing helpful.

I have taken this test, and several similar ones. The results were fairly boring. You might have gotten similar results from just interviewing me for half an hour.

If the tests really worked as well as Curry described, then there might be social value in making everyone take them and letting courts, employers, credit agencies, and others use the results. That would also be very invasive, and lead to a lot of complaints about accuracy and prejudice.

Sex is not Bimodal

I used to follow the skeptic/rationalist/atheist community, as they seemed to be mostly defending good science. I was duped.

They have gone woke on transsexual politics. Steve Novella and PZ Myers, prominent advocates of that community, argue that sex is a bimodal continuum. Words like male and female are unscientific and obsolete, they say.

They are proved wrong at the above links.

I thought that they were anti-religion because they saw religion as an obstacle to scientific truth.

No, wokeness is a much bigger obstacle.

You might think that they push for trans acceptance in order to reduce the suicide rate, or to reduce murders.

No, that does not hold up either. Trans acceptance has led to a much higher suicide rate. And the murders are exaggerated. Almost all of them involve Blackskilling Black transgender prostitutes.

Wokeness has become its own religion, and more intolerant that a medieval Inquisition.

The Atlantic magazine reports that France is starting to reject Le Wokisme:

Many who claim social justice as their ultimate goal insist that America has done little to challenge Tocqueville’s grim appraisal. In their view, some of the country’s cherished ideals—individualism, freedom of speech, even the Protestant work ethic—are in fact obstacles to equity, illusions spun by those who have power in order to keep it and hold the marginalized in their place. The woke left’s approach to addressing historical oppression—namely, prioritizing race and other categories of identity in a wide variety of political and institutional decisions—has stirred anxieties in the United States. But the concerns expressed at the Tocqueville estate were less about what this phenomenon means for America than what it might mean for France. As the saying goes, when America sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

The French have long prided themselves on having a system of government that doesn’t recognize racial or ethnic designations. The idea is to uphold a universal vision of what it means to be French, independent of race, ethnicity, and religion. Even keeping official statistics on race has, since the Holocaust, been impermissible. Recently, however, and to the alarm of many in the traditional French commentariat, American-style identity politics has piqued the interest of a new and more diverse generation.

Interesting to see a Leftist magazine back off some of its wokeness.

Revisiting the 2003 Iraq War

NPR Radio reports:

ANTOON: If you take the definitions of terrorism, it's about acquiring political objectives by violence against innocent civilians. And that's what happened in Iraq - because if we go back to the rationale, you know, the initial phase of the war was supposedly about weapons of mass destruction, right? But it's important for listeners to understand that in 2002, it was obvious, and it was confirmed that there were no weapons of mass destruction. So the war basically was waged based on a lie. And then when there were no weapons of mass destruction, there was a shift in the discourse saying, well, this is about democracy and about building a new country.

Using depleted uranium weapons back in 1991 in the first Gulf War and then using them again in 2003 - and the research is all out there for listeners to go and look into it - what depleted uranium does to the bodies of Iraqi infants and men and women and how children are born in Fallujah with birth defects because of the illegal weapons that were used there. And yet there is no accountability. There is no acknowledgement. And this, to my mind, amounts to terrorism.

No, and I get tired of hearing this nonsense.

Yes, it was obvious in 2002 that the USA had no strong evidence of operational WMD. There was some evidence, but it was weak, and sensible people did not believe.

But our leaders did not say we did. Instead, they said that Iraq had WMD programs, and there were chemical and nuclear materials that were not accounted for. And that was correct, as you can read on Wikipedia.

Depleted uranium does not cause birth defects.

There were neocons who foolishly believed in building a new country. I am all for blaming the perpetual warmongers who want the American empire to rule the world. They also brought us the Ukraine War and a lot of other wars. But it is blaming the wrong target to blame lying politicians or bad intelligence.

The Age of AI has begun

Bill Gates writes:

Philanthropy is my full-time job these days, and I’ve been thinking a lot about how — in addition to helping people be more productive — AI can reduce some of the world’s worst inequities. Globally, the worst inequity is in health: 5 million children under the age of 5 die every year. That’s down from 10 million two decades ago, but it’s still a shockingly high number. Nearly all of these children were born in poor countries and die of preventable causes like diarrhea or malaria. It’s hard to imagine a better use of AIs than saving the lives of children.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how AI can reduce some of the world’s worst inequities.

In the United States, the best opportunity for reducing inequity is to improve education, particularly making sure that students succeed at math. The evidence shows that having basic math skills sets students up for success, no matter what career they choose. But achievement in math is going down across the country, especially for Black, Latino, and low-income students. AI can help turn that trend around.

Climate change is another issue where I’m convinced AI can make the world more equitable. The injustice of climate change is that the people who are suffering the most — the world’s poorest — are also the ones who did the least to contribute to the problem. I’m still thinking and learning about how AI can help, but later in this post I’ll suggest a few areas with a lot of potential.

No, this is all foolishness.

Climate change is not an injustice. Increasing CO2 was a consequence of industrialization. Nearly everyone agrees that industrialization was a good thing, and not a problem. Those poor countries did not contribute to industrialization but benefited from it anyway.

The math achievement is not cause by school, and improving education will close the gap. We did a big experiment called No Child Left Behind, and it did not work.

I don't know why he cares so much about Third World babies dying. Everybody dies eventually. Those countries with high child mortality just make more babies and are not concerned about the deaths.

AI has lots of important applications, but not what Gates says.

News: Woman Identifies as a Woman

It is funny to see leftists go nuts attacking each other about not being sufficiently woke:

Ana Kasparian is an American political commentator, generally considered to be progressive and on the far left. She co-hosts the online news show The Young Turks with journalist Cenk Uygur, having joined as a producer in 2007. ...

On Wednesday, March 22, Kasparian posted a tweet that appeared to reignite a culture war. “I’m a woman. Please don’t ever refer to me as a person with a uterus, birthing person, or person who menstruates,” she wrote. ...

At the time of writing, the tweet has 16.8 million views and 92,000 likes. The tweet, which expresses conservative values, has shocked many as Kasparian is considered to be progressive in her views.

Twitter has had a huge reaction to the tweet, with many criticizing The Young Turks host for labeling gender-inclusive language “degrading.”

So identifying as a woman expresses conservative values.

New Study says Kids Need Help

The Hill reports:

A new study found that children of same-sex parents have home lives and outcomes that are as good or better than those of heterosexual couples.

The research, published in the BMJ Global Health journal, analyzed 34 studies across countries where same-sex marriage is legal.

Sounds impressive, until you realize that there are no children with same-sex parents. It is biologically impossible.

The actual BMJ study is not so much a study, but a gay advocacy essay. Here is the actual paper conclusion:

Relevant social risk factors of poor family outcomes included stigma and discrimination, poor social support and marital status, etc. The next step is to integrate multiple aspects of support and multilevel interventions to reduce the adverse effects on family outcomes with a long-term goal of influencing policy and law making for better services to individuals, families, communities and schools.

Huhh? If the LGBTQ family kids are doing so well, then why do they need interventions to reduce the adverse effects?

The paper is filled with opinions like:

Schools should take measures to prevent stigma, discrimination and bullying related to sexual minorities in the school setting.

I guess they are talking about children engaging in LGBTQ sexual activities in school, and they want the grade schools and high schools to approve it. Weird.

The authors are all Chinese. I don't know what that's all about. I guess they want same-sex marriage in China.

This research is intended to convince us that it is good for kids to have LGBTQ parents. But they cannot find any real evidence, so it tells me the opposite.

The Trump Arrest Hoax

The news is full of stories about how the New York district attorney is going to indict and arrest Donald Trump. I don't believe it.

The charges are ridiculous.

The story is that a prostitute tried to blackmail Trump with false accusations during the 2016 election. A Trump lawyer paid her off, without consulting him, and then asked him for reimbursement. Trump paid the lawyer as a legal expense, and did not use campaign funds. The has since went to prison for lying about it, and other petty crimes.

The statute of limitations is two years, and has long since expired.

Nobody could seriously think that Trump did anything criminal here. Talk of prosecution is all a plot to derail Trump's 2024 Presidential campaign.

Supposedly, Trump violated an obscure NY misdemeanor law by concealing from his accountant the fact that he did not use campaign funds to pay off a bogus claim, and the two year statute of limitations should not count because he was hiding out in the White House when this might have been prosecuted.

Only a Third World country would arrest a political opponent on such a silly pretense. It is not going to happen.

Trying to Eradicate the African Invaders

NPR Radio reports:

Agriculture specialists confirmed that the creatures with dark brown stripes were indeed giant African snails — a prohibited, invasive breed that the U.S. diligently has worked to eradicate from the country for more than 50 years.

While they appear harmless, these land snails — usually the size of an average adult fist — are considered voracious pests that can feast on more than 500 types of plants and produce, including peanuts, beans and cucumbers. When those are not available, they will consume flowers, tree bark and even the paint and stucco off of houses.

Giant African snails also are known to carry parasites that can lead to meningitis and other diseases in humans. And they reproduce quickly, laying as many as 1,200 eggs in a single year. ...

Over the years, the animal has stubbornly reappeared in the U.S. — partly because they are a local delicacy in West Africa. When cooked properly, these snails can serve as finger food or bar snacks, Miami member station WLRN reported back in 2013. They're also sometimes kept as pets, the USDA says.

Finger food? Bar Snacks? Pets? No thanks.

Bank goes Woke, then Broke

American big business has gone woke, with everybody hiring diverse, going ESG, donating to Black Lives Matter. What could go wrong?

We just out:

The big talking point of the week was the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, with a couple of hundred billion in assets evaporating overnight and blowing away on the morning wind.

The Politics of Christian Zionism

Here is a new movie on Christian Zionism:

If one wonders how nickels, dimes, and dollars collected in hundreds of churches across America shape the political decisions in the U.S. Congress and the State of Israel, director Maya Zinshtein’s film, ‘Til Kingdom Come, is required viewing.

A tour de force, her documentary—the culmination of three and a half years of research, relationship-building, and artistic film-making—exposes the peculiar bond between Christian Zionists, whose Biblical account of the last days calls for the death of two-thirds of the Jewish population, and Jewish colonists in the West Bank who welcome the Christians’ financial gifts and political influence but reject their theology.

Director Zinshtein takes the viewer inside the Binghamtown Baptist Church in rural Kentucky, where the Rev. Boyd Bingham, a third-generation pastor, preaches to his congregation beneath a Star of David imposed upon the cross in the front of the sanctuary, declaring, “We are the people that put Donald Trump in power.”

In a classroom where children have collected their loose change for Israel in buckets, Bingham tells them, “The Jews, they are better than us, all of us. You need to accept that… Every good thing we know, all the things we love about the Bible, they were given to us of the Jewish nation, Israel, their people, the Jews.”

This is baffling. If there is one group that Jews hate more than any other, it is evangelical Christians. Jews hate evangelical Christians more than they hate Moslems.

And yet these Christians raise money for Israel, and Jews gladly accept it.

No, none of the things we love about the Bible were given to us of the Jewish nation. The Bible teaches us that Christianity is a rejection of Judaism.

Why They Hate Us

The late Joseph Sobran wrote in 1997:

Western man towers over the rest of the world in ways so large as to be almost inexpressible. It’s Western exploration, science, and conquest that have revealed the world to itself. Other races feel like subjects of Western power long after colonialism, imperialism, and slavery have disappeared. The charge of racism puzzles whites who feel not hostility, but only baffled good will, because they don’t grasp what it really means: humiliation. The white man presents an image of superiority even when he isn’t conscious of it. And superiority excites envy. Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call ‘minorities.’

If this is true, it cannot be fixed.

I don't think it is entirely true. The Islamic world hates us for different reasons.

In spite of this hatred, or maybe because of, they all want to move to countries ruled by White Christians.

Economists like to judge people by their revealed preferences, not by what they say. If people complain about systemic racism, and then move to a country with systemic racism, then they must like that perceived systemic racism.

The Left-wing News Media wants Censorship

NPR Radio reports:

If a company makes a false claim in an advertisement, the government has the power to hold that company accountable and not allow consumers to be fleeced. ...

But that's not the case for what we hear on cable news or read on social media (or political ads for that matter). And that was put into stark relief last week when Fox News' Tucker Carlson tried to rewrite history on the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.

Rioters, inspired by former President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 presidential election that he lost, stormed the Capitol in hopes of trying to stop the ceremonial certification of Joe Biden's win.

Since then, more than 1,000 people have been arrested and are facing charges. More than 500 have been convicted so far for their roles that day.

The Democrats are upset that Carlson showed actual surveillance video of what those protesters were doing.

The story doesn't even make any sense. If the certification were purely ceremonial, why would anyone care that it got disrupted and delayed for a couple of hours?

Yes, 1000 protesters have been arrested. A Black cop shot and killed an unarmed White woman. The Democrats spent two years complaining about the protest, but refused to let us see the video. Carlson showed us the video of what really happened. And the Democrat press is mad about it.

Federal Appeals Judge Rants about New World Order

I found this weird rant in a federal Oregon state appellate court opinion on gun rights:

In other words, Intervenors came before this court and referenced UN mandates, which, as explained below, is a well-documented trope meant to invoke white supremacist, antisemitic fear of a takeover of our country by outsiders and minorities who are manipulated by an elite class of supervillains. ...

I must be clear that the flawed quasi-legal argument offered by Intervenors—viz., the UN wants to disarm Americans—and the proposed solution—viz., imposing a duty on county sheriffs to determine which laws are ...

constitutional—have their origins in the insidious effort to oppress, in violation of fundamental notions of due process and equal protection under the rule of law.1 And in doing so, the Ordinance undermines, not elevates, the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution. ...

The anti-democratic ideas and quasi-legal theories propounded by the CSPOA and embedded in Second Amendment Sanctuary Ordinances have their origins in the writings of William Potter Gale, who founded the posse comitatus movement in the 1960s. They also have their origins in the writings of the Aryan Nation, an antisemitic, white supremist group.

The premise of such writings is the antisemitic and racist conspiracy theory that Jews are at the heart of America’s problems, that people of color are unwitting pawns to be manipulated by one side or the other, and that zealots must prepare for a final battle in the last days. The proponents of these ideas claim that a cabal of elites or globalists (code words for Jews) in the UN, or the fictional New World Order or Zionist Occupational Government, manipulate our federal government and, by extension, state governments. ...

These ideas are, of course, nothing new, unique, or intelligent: They are, instead, just a rehashing of the ancient trope of a secret Jewish government; they are the retelling of a lie that led to the murder of over six million Jews within living memory.

Really? That's what led to killing six million Jews? I didn't see how Jews had anything to do with the case, but I didn't read carefully.

The Birth Gap Hoax

There is a new documentary video on Birthgap - Childless World PART 1:

The era of ultra-low birthrates has begun. But why are people having so few children these days? And what are the consequences ? Come on a journey of discovery across 24 countries to find the reason and also the future consequences for young and old alike.

The movie gives the impression that world population is declining. But in fact it increases by 80 million per year, and that will continue for decades.

80 million is a lot of people. That is about the size of Germany, Iran, or Turkey.

Some countries are overpopulating faster than others. There are not any countries that need more people.

Some of the scenes appear to be straight out of the IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (2006), except that it fails to explain about the people who are breeding.

Penn Professor Being Fired for Telling the Truth

The NY Times reports:

Amy Wax, a law professor, has said publicly that “on average, Blacks have lower cognitive ability than whites,” that the country is “better off with fewer Asians” as long as they tend to vote for Democrats, and that non-Western people feel a “tremendous amount of resentment and shame.”

At the University of Pennsylvania, where she has tenure, she invited a white nationalist to speak to her class. And a Black law student who had attended UPenn and Yale said that the professor told her she “had only become a double Ivy ‘because of affirmative action,’” according to the administration.

Professor Wax has denied saying anything belittling or racist to students, and her supporters see her as a truth teller about affirmative action, immigration and race. ....

Along the way, her rhetoric grew more extreme. She has described some non-Western countries as “shitholes” and stated that “women, on average, are less knowledgeable than men.”

Speaking with Mr. Carlson last year, she said “American Blacks” and people from non-Western countries feel shame for the “outsized achievements and contributions” of Western people.

On a recent podcast, she said, “I often chuckle at the ads on TV which show a Black man married to a white woman in an upper-class picket-fence house,” she said, adding, “They never show Blacks the way they really are: a bunch of single moms with a bunch of guys who float in and out. Kids by different men.”

If she were wrong about any of these things, the NY Times and the Penn management would offer rebuttals. They do not.

Free the Q-Anon Shaman

Naomi Wolf has wised up about how the Democrats and press have duper her about Jan. 6, 2020:

Jan 6 has become, as the DNC intended it to become, after the fact, a “third rail”; a shorthand used to dismiss or criminalize an entire population and political point of view.

Peaceful Republicans and conservatives as a whole have been demonized by the story told by Democrats in leadership of what happened that day.

So half of the country has been tarred by association, and is now in many quarters presumed to consist of chaotic berserkers, anti-democratic rabble, and violent upstarts, whose sole goal is the murder of our democracy.

Republicans, conservatives, I am sorry.

I also believed wholesale so much else that has since turned out not to be as I was told it was by NPR, MSNBC and The New York Times.

As long as Jacob Chansley is in prison, we will know that the Biden administration is evil, and out to destroy good Americans.

Feminization of the American University

Heather Mac Donald writes:

Seventy-five percent of Ivy League presidents are now female. Nearly half of the 20 universities ranked highest by Forbes will have a female president this fall, including MIT, Harvard, and Columbia. Of course, feminist bean-counters in the media and advocacy world are not impressed, noting that “only” 5 percent of the 130 top U.S. research universities are headed by a black female and “only” 22 percent of those federal grant-magnets have a non-intersectional (i.e., white) female head.

These female leaders emerge from an ever more female campus bureaucracy, whose size is reaching parity with the faculty. Females made up 66 percent of college administrators in 2021; those administrators constitute an essential force in campus diversity ideology, whether they have “diversity” in their job titles or not. Among the official diversity bureaucrats installed in their posts since July 2022, females predominate: the vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion at t

Christopher F. Rufo explains why this is bad.

The politically correct reactions to news like this are to say either sex does not matter, or that it is a good thing because women will bring a different perspective. If you say the latter, then you are admitting that it is changing the colleges, and such changes are never entirely for the better.

The Great Replacement in Tunisia

White countries are being invaded by non-whites, and it is considered racist to complain about it. But what about African countries being invaded by other Africans? Nobody would care about that, would they?

Yes. NPR Radio reports:

In fact, Tunisia has got around 80,000 folks who live here from sub-Saharan Africa, whether they're migrant workers who are here for a period of time, people who are trying to get to Europe or even students. And in the last couple of weeks, President Kais Saied, who's our sort of ascendant autocrat here, has turned to scapegoating the Black population as a way to detract attention from his failed economic policy.

And so what's been happening is there was a speech that he gave on February 21 that really kind of embraced this idea of the great replacement theory. He said that there was a conspiracy to replace the Tunisian population with Black Africans. And as a result, tons of Tunisia's Black residents were kicked out of their homes. They were driven out of their jobs. ...

INSKEEP: I want to note, when you talk about the great replacement theory, there is an American version of that, a conspiracy theory that that's a plot behind migration. So you're saying that he's picked this up, the president has picked this up in Tunisia.

Tunisia has been run by Arabs, since the Islamic invasion over a millennium ago. If they don't like being replaced by Black Africans, then they must have gotten the idea from American White supremacists!

NPR thinks that it is a "conspiracy theory", meaning that it is a secret that these migrations are taking place.

Nebraska Bill Mandates Holocaust Education

AP reports:

The bill by Omaha Democratic Sen. Jen Day would provide $4 million in funding over the next two years for instruction and training to schools on teaching the Holocaust, which is already a required part of the state’s social studies curriculum.

Eleanor Dunning, 21, of Omaha, testified at the public hearing on the bill about her experience as a sophomore at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln in December 2021, when she said she watched a sorority sister stand up during a new member training event and throw up a Nazi salute. Dunning, who is Jewish, said she objected on the spot, only to be brushed off and told by the girl that she “had been doing that all week at practice.”

So the purpose is to suppress free speech, not to inform.

The curriculum is imperative, Day said, not only because of a rise in antisemitism, but because the diminishing number of survivors of the Holocaust declines every year.

“We are losing our human connection to that atrocity,” she said.

There is the real reason. Modern Jews are assimilating, intermarrying, dropping traditions, and becoming atheists. What is there to indoctrinate the next generation with their weirdo tribal beliefs? They have found that the biggest thing is telling Holocaust stories. That is, Jews can be convinced to stick together to combat the interests of non-Jews by pretending that another Holocaust is coming. So they want the schools to do it.

Here is another leftist creep, trying to control our education:

Ken Burns hit the nail on the head in regards to Tucker Carlson’s coverage of the January 6th insurrection of the US Capitol.

“The way Nazis would build a Potemkin village, Tucker Carlson is doing with the footage from J6. It is a rewriting of history at the most dangerous level. It’s a huge threat to our republic."

Did the Nazis build Potemkin villages to rewrite history? I guess I missed that Holocaust class.

I may make a list of all the folks attacking the release of J6 tapes to the public. I don't think I want to hear their opinion on any other subject.

For two years the Democrats and Trump-haters lied to us about Jan. 6, while refusing to let us see for ourselves what happened.

And the ADL now says that criticism of warmongers, globalists, and communists is antisemitic. Simpler to criticize the Jews, I guess.

How Ukraine Must Please the West

If the Ukraine War leads to World War III, the history books will have to describe how it all happened.

RT reports:

Ukraine considers LGBTQ breakthrough

Legalizing same-sex unions for soldiers would also please Kiev’s “Western allies”

Ukraine’s former deputy culture minister has proposed legalizing same-sex civil partnerships, arguing it would both reward the service of LGBTQ soldiers and please Kiev’s foreign backers. Inna Sovsun of the Golos party announced on Tuesday that she has submitted the bill to the Verkhovna Rada for consideration.

“Legalization of single-sex relationships is very important to me now, because if I come home [dead], my partner can’t even bury me,” was one of the arguments from the Ukrainian LGBT Soldiers and Allies’ Facebook community that Sovsun quoted in announcing her bill.

The bill is a product of nine months of work, involving two NGOs. It would establish legal grounds for people in same-sex relationships to regulate property ownership, inheritance, pensions and death benefits, Sovsun argued.

“I could say that this is what our Western allies are demanding of us – and it is true, they are,” but 56% of Ukrainians agree that LGBTQ people should be entitled to civil partnerships, she wrote. “As a society, we have matured beyond the ‘Russian swamp’ and Soviet worldview.”

Because Ukraine values “human dignity and freedom,” Ukrainians are “simply a different biological species” than Russians, she concluded.

This could be Russian propaganda, but even if it is, it helps explain what the war is about.

The London Economist complains that American support for the war is declining:

THE FACT that Ukraine is still fighting is mostly thanks to America. No other country has provided more help to combat Russia’s advance: it is responsible for more than half of all recorded military and financial aid. Joe Biden, America’s president, has promised to stand with Ukraine for “as long as it takes”. Whether Mr Biden can continue to send so much depends in part on how well such funding is viewed at home. Polling data from The Economist and YouGov, a pollster, suggest that a partisan gap is widening, and even Democrats are showing slightly less support for certain types of aid than they did last year (see chart).

Republicans might nominate an anti-war candidate for President next year. More and more Americans are asking why we are siding with Ukraine. It appears to me that America would be better served by good relations with Russia.

Here we have an explanation. Siding with Ukraine has allowed us to force LGBTQ values on them. To many, that is what this war is about.

The NY Times is now reporting that, according to confidential US intelligence sources, the Nord Stream bombing was the work of Ukraine mercenaries. They deny direct endorsement by either Ukraine or the USA.

The bombing was the biggest terrorist act of the 21st century, in terms of direct economic effects, with the 911 hijackings and crashes in second place. Our officials are remarkably uncurious about who did it.

The story is just what we would expect, if the USA did it. Attempts to blame the bombing on Russia have failed. There is now a plausible and detailed story in print about how the USA and Norway did it. Biden gave an interview where is said he would do it. Unless the USA puts out an alternative, everyone will assume the USA did it.

There is no explanation how Ukrainian mercenaries could have done it. Does it have a ship in the Baltic Sea? Does it have the technology for a remote-controlled large undersea explosion? I doubt it.

Those history books may someday say World War III was caused by (1) aggressive NATO expansion into Ukraine and other nearby countries; USA-aligned sabotage of undersea gas pipelines; and (3) forced conversion of Ukraine to the LGBTQ cause.

Movie Stars have Queer Kids

Breitbart reports:

Real Housewives star Heather Dubrow celebrated her 12-year-old child, Collette, who is now going by “Ace” after declaring herself transgender. “It’s International sons day!” Dubrow exclaimed. ...

In addition to their 12-year-old transgender child, the Real Housewives star and her husband, Botched plastic surgeon Terry Dubrow, also have a 16-year old daughter, Katarina, and 19-year-old twins — Nicholas, a son, and Maximillia, a daughter.

Both Katarina and Maximillia have previously announced that they are members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community. In June 2020, Maximillia came out as bisexual. In February 2022, Dubrow told PEOPLE that Katarina “decided to drop in our family group text, ‘By the way, I’m a lesbian.'”

“She’s asked me trillions of questions that really show she cares. She’s asked me about my pronouns,” Katarina said of her mother.

Claiming to be “non-binary,” changing one’s pronouns, and proclaiming oneself to be transgender appears to have become the new trend among young children in today’s society, as celebrities, television shows, media outlets, and left-wing activists continue to hype transgenderism and guide children to doubt their biological sex.

More young people than ever are now identifying as non-binary.

I think that "Botched plastic surgeon" means that he plays a plastic surgeon on the TV show called Botched.

Please don't tell me that these kids are finding their true selves. They are doing what their parents and others encourage them to do.

If the mom really cared, she would not be just asking questions. She would be putting a stop to whoever is having sexual relations with her 16-year-old daughter.

Human Genetic Enhancement

This new podcast comes as close to advocating eugenics as anything I have seen in a long time.

The Wild Ethics Of Human Genetic Enhancement - Dr Jonathan Anomaly | Modern Wisdom Podcast 598

Chris Williamson

Dr Jonathan Anomaly is a philosopher who writes about the social implications of emerging biotechnologies, teaches classes in ethics and game theory, and helped design the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at Duke University.

The ability to select from potential embryos is already here. Soon, we will be able to select for height, intelligence, personality types, moral disposition, athletic ability and maybe even enhance traits which aren't present. This creates a vortex of complex ethics around one of the most contentious topics on the internet - genetics. So I decided to dive in.

Expect to learn just what the current technology of embryo selection can achieve right now, whether opting to not genetically enhance your child is an unethical practise, the dangers of creating massive societal inequality, why you are already a eugenicist, whether genetic interventions are morally different from environmental ones and much more...

You can find his papers here.

I doubt that the public is going to be convinced that eugenics is a good thing. But a significant subset is going to pursue genetic enhancement. He has a good argument that it is much more virtuous to favor eugenics.

Why Heterodox Academy Failed

Nathan Cofnas

The purge of heretical scholars and ideas in academia is intensifying.1 Many job applications now require loyalty oaths to woke orthodoxy in the form of “diversity statements.”2 In the humanities and social sciences, large numbers of faculty are being hired to engage in what is effectively leftist activism.3 Simply ranting about how much you hate conservatives, Christians, or straight white men can be considered “scholarship” and the basis for a distinguished career. Entire departments devoted to ideology-driven fields like gender studies have been established to promote “social justice” and provide sinecures to activists.4 Academic papers that undermine the woke narrative are being retracted,5 and journals are adopting implicit or explicit polices to ensure that crimethink is never published again.6 Many undergraduate and graduate programs have stopped asking for standardized test scores and are increasingly making admissions decisions based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and ideological conformity.

Seven years ago, Heterodox Academy (HxA) came on the scene to promote “ideological diversity” in academia.

So what happened? HxA got taken over by leftists.

Because wokeism is based on demonstrable lies, it can only survive if people are prevented from telling the truth. It is inherently incompatible with open inquiry. Wherever there is wokeism—and it is metastasizing to every major institution in our society—there is censorship, intimidation, and groupthink.

There is an epidemic of cowardice among opponents of wokeism, and not only in academia.

I would think that tenured university professors would be willing to speak the truth, but apparently not.

He gets to this core issue:

Wokeism is built upon an ideological certitude about the origins of inequality: all groups have the same distribution of innate potential, and all differences favoring whites or men are due to past or present white racism or sexism. The whole ideology stands or falls on this empirical claim. Therefore, the greatest taboo in our society is to consider alternative explanations for inequality, particularly those that implicate natural differences in the distribution of traits among racial groups.

There are group differences. If you are unwilling to even admit the possibility that they are innate, you will never get at the truth.

I thought that HxA was run by well-meaning scholars who genuinely wanted diverse views. Maybe that is impossible in today's climate.

I don't know why he writes "wokeism" instead of "wokism". I don't know any other English words with that "eism" ending.

Here is a definition:

The four intellectual pillars of wokeism are:

Anti-white racism disguised under the euphemism social justice.

Rejection of traditional morality, which is primarily carried out by the promotion of sexually deviant lifestyles such as homosexuality and transgender. In a truly surreal inversion of reality, they paint traditional morality as immoral by charging it with being homophobic, transphobic, and similar terms.

Environmentalism based on the notion that it is desirable and possible to arrest climate change.

Intense hostility toward Christian religion, which they negatively paint as patriarchal, intolerant, and oppressive.

And the Woke demand that you conform to its views, or they will destroy you.

Here is a Black woman professor who demands that all Blacks get bereavement leave when someone like Tyre Nichols dies. She says she needs counseling for racial battle fatigue, and she says she is not joking.

Leftists are Oversocialized and Feel Inferior

I posted some theories about right-left political division, so I am adding some comments from the Unabomber Manifesto, as published in the NY Times and Wash. Post.

Bing summarizes:

According to the manifesto, Kaczynski claimed that modern leftists suffer from “feelings of inferiority” and “oversocialization” that make them resentful of society and seek to change it123. He argued that leftists feel inferior because they cannot achieve their goals or satisfy their needs in the industrial system, and they are oversocialized because they internalize too many norms and rules that restrict their freedom1. He also criticized leftists for being intolerant of any hierarchy or inequality, and for being hypocritical and self-righteous.

He was a brilliant and original thinker. His essay was published in 1995.

To him, Leftism is not so much a political view but a pyschological personality type. He has also written an updated version of his manifesto.

American Jewish Power has Peaked

I thought that Jews were taking over the White House, Congress, Cabinet, big business, Hollywood. etc. but it turns out that they are being pushed out by their own woke policies. The Jewish Tablet magazine reports:

Suddenly, everywhere you look, the Jews are disappearing.

You feel it like a slow moving pressure system, an anxiety of exclusion and downward mobility. Maybe you first noticed it at your workplace. Or maybe it hit when you or your children applied to college or graduate school. It could have been something as simple as opening up the Netflix splash page. It’s gauche to count but you can’t help yourself: In academia, Hollywood, Washington, even in New York City—anywhere American Jews once made their mark—our influence is in steep decline. ...

Museum boards now diversify by getting Jews to resign. ...

Comb through the dozens of Jewish names for the 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship (I count 30-40). You’ll have a much harder time finding them 10 years later (14-16). There were 3-4 Jewish Marshall Scholars in 2014. I don’t see any in 2022. ...

But the seasons always change. A FIRE/Yougov survey found that self-identified Jews now number just 7% of Ivy League students, compared to 10% during the height of the antisemitic quotas. ...

Of the 114 federal judges appointed by Joe Biden (as of this writing), just 8-9 appear to be Jewish—in a field that’s historically been at least 20% Jewish.

Jews are still overrepresented in all these areas. They are only 2% of the Amreican population.

Conservatives Accept Human Nature

I posted how leftists are more neurotic, and Scientific American has an article on the differences between conservatives and liberals:

In politics, researchers usually define conservativism as a general tendency to resist change and tolerate social inequality. Liberalism is a tendency to embrace change and reject inequality. Political parties evolve with time—Democrats were the conservative party 150 years ago—but the liberal-conservative split is typically recognizable in a country’s politics. It’s the fault line on which political cooperation most often breaks down.

Psychologists have long suspected that a handful of fundamental differences in worldviews might underlie the conservative-liberal rift. Forty years of research has shown that, on average, conservatives see the world as a more dangerous place than liberals. This one core belief seemed to help explain many policy disagreements, such as conservative support of gun ownership, border enforcement and increased spending on police and the military—all of which, one can argue, aim to protect people from a threatening world.

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But new research by psychologist Nick Kerry and me at the University of Pennsylvania contradicts that long-standing theory. We find instead that the main difference between the left and right is the belief that the world is inherently hierarchical. Conservatives, our work shows, tend to have higher belief than liberals in a hierarchical world, which is essentially the view that the universe is a place where the lines between categories or concepts matter.

It goes to explain that conservatives accept scientific facts about human nature, and liberals do not.

It says that conservatives do tend to be more tolerant, and more likely to recognize dangers, human nature better explains the differences.

SciAm has become a leftist journal, so the purpose of this research is to convert conservatives! It says:

One reason our discovery is exciting is because it hints at ways to work through specific political deadlocks. For example, consider debates around LGBTQ+ topics. Conservatives may feel the line separating men and women is natural and innate—a big, bold line—whereas liberals may see that distinction as more superficial and culturally based—a gray area. Welfare payments and policies, too, might be seen through a hierarchical lens, with some assuming that lines between rich and poor often reflect meaningful differences in people’s work ethic, talent, morality or value to society. ...

For instance, imagine trying to convince a conservative to adopt a more liberal policy on transgender rights. If you assume their beliefs are informed by fear of danger, you might note that transgender people are much more likely to be assaulted than to assault anyone themselves—a tactic of assuaging fears. But another tactic is blurring lines—perhaps noting that a small but consistent number of babies are born with ambiguous genitalia and arbitrarily assigned a sex at birth, which suggests the line between male and female is not always extremely clear.

That is, tell conservatives that men are the same as women because 0.01% of babies are born intersex.

This is not going to work. The Left only gains by suppressing science. The more you learn about the science of sex, the more you discover innate differences.

Neuroticism can Explain a Lot of Political Differences

Tyler Cowen cites some social science research and concludes:

I would go as far to say that you cannot understand the American public intellectual sphere without a grasp of the close connection between Left thinking and high neuroticism.

I think he is on to something here. Neuroticism is a real thing that maybe half the population suffers from to various degrees. Those who are not neurotic have a hard time relating to those who are.

Leftists and women tend to be high in neuroticism, and this is why they often have strange complaints that others do not understand. For example, I just posted about medical school staff being traumatized by trivialities. I think that they are faking or exaggerating for political effect. But what if they are really so neurotic as to be upset by such trivialities?

Dilbert Comic Strip is Dead

I mentioned that the Dilbert cartoonist is being canceled for remarks about being okay to be White. Now the cancelation is more severe.

As individual newspapers told readers they were dropping “Dilbert,” the company that distributed the strip, Andrews McMeel Universal, said it was severing ties with Adams. By Monday, “Dilbert” was gone from the GoComics site, which also features many top comics such as “Peanuts” and “Calvin and Hobbes.”

Adams said Monday that the strip, which first appeared in 1989, would be available only on his subscription service on the Locals platform.

“Dilbert” is effectively dead, Peterson said. ...

On Twitter, he said his book publisher and book agent had “canceled” him.

His main point was that is a poll is accurate that most Blacks do not accept that it is okay to be White, then they must hate Whites, and Whites would be wise to disassociate with those who hate them.

I saw a bunch of articles calling Adams racist, and agreeing with canceling him. But none of them addressed whether Blacks really hate Whites, or whether Whites are wise to separate from the haters. The most outrageous part of the Adams rant was the conclusion:

Where … wherever you have to go, just get away, ’cos there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed. Right? You just have to escape.

For the most part, Mexicans, Chinese, Indians, Jews, and other ethnic groups do not hate Whites. A lot of Blacks do not either. But some do, and Adams' concern is that enough of them do that race relations cannot be fixed.

When Barack Obama was elected President in 2008, there was a lot of enthusiam that race relations had been fixed. Hardly any living Blacks could say that they had been mistreated on racial grounds, and a Black had achieved the highest office and respect.

No more. Race relations are worse now than in many decades. Everyday I see news like this:

President Joe Biden’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) nominee Gigi Sohn called for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to “elevate our country” in a 2020 video reviewed by the Daily Caller.

In June 2020, during the George Floyd riots, Sohn appeared on the podcast “Elevate Maryland,” during which host Tom Coale asked her to name one thing America needs. In response, Sohn called for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission modeled on the commission that South Africa’s post-apartheid government set up in 1996 to hear testimony from victims and perpetrators of civil rights abuses. ...

“But again, we’ve lost the meaning of truth, we’ve lost what is true in this country about everything. I mean, the fact that there were still people and significant numbers of people that won’t wear a goddamn mask, you know, in a public place, it’s just — it’s unbelievable to me,” Sohn continued before turning her attention to then-President Donald Trump.

No, I do not want to turn the USA into South Africa, or even listen to someone who idea of truth is forcing people to wear a mask.