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Steve Sailer: “It is becoming a cliché that America is undergoing its own version of Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution”

Steve Sailer writes:

But that’s not the only analogy between late-1960s China and 2018 America. One of the mainsprings of the Cultural Revolution was a vindictive aged actress out for revenge on the producers and actresses who had cost her roles back in her prime. Mrs. Mao, Jiang Qing, had been a movie starlet in 1930s Shanghai, when she built up a lifetime of grudges that she acted upon when her husband let her take control of Chinese popular culture in the 1960s.

Her squads beat up aging film figures and reedited old movies to conform to new political prejudices. She would have considered the recent American custom of terrified novelists hiring “sensitivity readers” to censor their manuscripts for them a step in the right direction. (…)

Outside of the occasional Evergreen State, American educational institutions are torn between promoting social justice warfare and maximizing revenue. Ironically, the increasing dependence of American colleges on full-tuition-paying Chinese students, who have nothing but contempt for African-American Cultural Revolutionaries (“Hey, hey, hey, this is library!”), inclines them toward prudence.

 

 

Steve Sailer: “Since the downfall of the Gestapo, nobody has treasured the verb ‘interrogate’ as much as postmodern academics”

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“Journalist Edward Jay Epstein has shown that in crucial respects, the Times coverage was at odds with what the [Pentagon Papers] actually said”

Neo-Neocon quotes the WSJ:

The lead of the Times story was that in 1964 the Johnson administration reached a consensus to bomb North Vietnam at a time when the president was publicly saying that he would not bomb the north. In fact, the Pentagon papers actually said that, in 1964, the White House had rejected the idea of bombing the north. The Times went on to assert that American forces had deliberately provoked the alleged attacks on its ships in the Gulf of Tonkin to justify a congressional resolution supporting our war efforts. In fact, the Pentagon papers said the opposite: there was no evidence that we had provoked whatever attacks may have occurred.

In short, a key newspaper said that politicians had manipulated us into a war by means of deception. This claim, wrong as it was, was part of a chain of reporting and editorializing that helped convince upper-middle-class Americans that the government could not be trusted.

(via SDA)

The trouble is that Edward Jay Epstein is also a JFK assassination buff, so I can’t take everything he says at face value.

 

 

 

My life so far, summed up in one blog post (written by someone else)

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David Cole: The Left-Wing Cannibal Holocaust

The Left has been eating itself since the Russian Revolution (or even, arguably, since the French one.)

And yet it persists.

So I don’t glean as much hope or meaning from evidence of cannibalism as others do.

But, yes: It is damn entertaining to witness…

Anyhow, here’s David Cole, citing a few examples from — he emphasizes — the last few weeks alone:

Left-wing looneybird Ta-Nehisi Coates found himself embroiled in a very public feud with left-wing loonierbird Cornel West after West attacked Coates for being too narrowly focused in his fight against “white supremacy.” Specifically, West pummeled Coates for not speaking up about Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, an issue that, as we all know, is of the greatest importance to inner-city American blacks. At its core, this was a fight between two leftist blacks over who is blacker, and whether blacks should fight white supremacy from within the system, as Coates does as a shill for the Democrat Party, or from “the streets,” which West defines as his oak-paneled office at Harvard.

 

David Cole: Rachel Dolezal, the Left’s Transracial Monster

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Hey, remember that whole “Glenn Beck vs. Cass Susstein” thing?

The New Yorker does:

In another show, Beck insinuated that Sunstein had been inspired by Edward Bernays, the author of a 1928 book called “Propaganda.” “I got a flood of messages that night, saying, ‘You should be ashamed of yourself, you’re a disciple of Bernays,’ ” Sunstein recalled. “The result was that I was led to look up this interesting guy Bernays, whom I might not have heard of otherwise.” (…)

After the talk, we sat in a hotel restaurant and ordered coffee. Sunstein has a sense of humor about his time in the spotlight—what he calls not his fifteen minutes of fame but his Two Minutes Hate, an allusion to “1984”—and yet he wasn’t sure what lessons he had learned from the experience, if any. “I can’t say I spent much time thinking about it, then or now,” he said. “The rosy view would be that it says something hopeful about us—about Americans, that is. We’re highly distrustful of anything that looks like censorship, or spying, or restriction of freedom in any way. That’s probably a good impulse.” He folded his hands on the table, as if to signal that he had phrased his thoughts as diplomatically as possible.

“All jokes aside, I would buy the fuck outta those tapes. They look educational…”

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Jim Goad: The 17 Most Annoying People of 2017 — and Justin Trudeau makes the cut!

Jim Goad writes:

What I find very interesting is the fact that Nguyen wasn’t quite brave enough to go whole-hog and, say, expose herself to a brick of uranium and actually get cancer.

(…)

If, while snorkeling in the Bahamas, Justin Trudeau were to stub his toe on an AIDS fish and die, I would have no qualms with that.

(…)

Even though I have no proof that he’s a child molester, Bill Nye looks like one.

(…)

Scott Wiener is a California state senator who looks gayer than Liberace’s balls resting on Judy Garland’s head.

Jim Goad: Bill Nye’s Fake Science

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Joe Bob Briggs on Luke & Linus & Catholics & Protestants

Joe Bob Briggs writes:

The Catholics consider this scene a heresy.

Granted, the Catholics consider many things heresies, but this particular one is caused by a centuries-long dispute about a single letter in the text. Angels singing about God’s good will toward all men is, they say, a misreading of the last line. It should read instead, “Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth peace and good will to those He favors.”

Indicating that God is offering his peace message only to those who are deserving of it.

Leave it to the Catholics to throw cold water on Linus.

 

 

Joe Bob Briggs: “Despacito” for Gringos

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Steve Sailer: “‘The Post’ is a celebration of how Democrats turn lemons into lemonade via their control of the media”

Steve Sailer writes:

Likewise, The Post celebrates Bradlee’s championing of “the people’s right to know” when a Republican was in the White House, but fails to mention his perjury in the trial of the man accused of murdering his sister-in-law Mary Pinchot Meyer in 1964, the ex-wife of CIA propagandist Cord Meyer.

Upon hearing news of her murder, Bradlee raced to Mrs. Meyer’s residence to break in and find her diary (which presumably documented her affair with JFK). To his surprise, Bradlee discovered that the CIA’s legendary head of counterintelligence James Jesus Angleton had picked the lock ahead of him and was ransacking the place. Bradlee explained that he ultimately burned her diary because he’d “concluded this was in no sense a public document, despite the braying of the knee jerks about some public right to know.”

Mrs. Meyer’s murder remains officially unsolved.

In 1979, Mrs. Graham and Bradlee teamed up to get the publisher of an unauthorized biography entitled Katharine the Great to withdraw the book from circulation.

Now, you might think that this maelstrom of sex, secrets, and death swirling around The Washington Post’s glamorous central figures would make a lively soap-opera-ish film. But the Eagle Scout Spielberg is uninterested in their sex lives and instead wants to portray them as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington idealists.

 

Steve Sailer: “The female sex has shown that their emotional responses have not yet evolved to deal well with modern visual media”

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David Solway: Why I Quit Teaching

David Solway writes:

But the primary incentive for flight had to do with the caliber of students I was required to instruct. The quality of what we called the student “clientele” had deteriorated so dramatically over the years that the classroom struck me as a barn full of ruminants and the curriculum as a stack of winter ensilage. I knew I could not teach James Joyce’s Ulysses or Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain since they were plainly beyond the capacity of our catechumens – mind you, all old enough to vote and be drafted. The level of interest in and attention to the subjects was about as flat as a fallen arch. The ability to write a coherent English sentence was practically nonexistent; ordinary grammar was a traumatic ordeal. In fact, many native English-speakers could not produce a lucid verbal analysis of a text, let alone carry on an intelligible conversation, and some were even unable to properly pronounce common English words. I could not help thinking of Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, in which the children of the planet are all translated into some otherworldly dimension. I titled one of my books about our educational debacle The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods, based on an initially mysterious phrase in a student’s essay by which, as I discovered after long consultation, he meant to say “the total epidemic of psychopaths.” (This is a true story.)

 

“In a school that has a majority Latino population, telling time is an especially critical skill…”

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Ann Coulter: Why I Secretly Wanted Moore To Lose

Ann Coulter writes:

But, otherwise, Moore’s loss is good news for patriotic Americans. First of all, the media would have set up tents outside Moore’s Senate office around the clock, capturing his every utterance, so they could broadcast anything stupid he said and demand that all Republicans defend it or disavow it.

Most important, now Mo Brooks can run in 2020 and return the seat to a respectable Alabamian who is rock-solid on the most important issue.

Everyone who screwed the pooch on this one better realize fast: All that matters is immigration. It’s all that matters to the country, and it’s all that matters for winning elections.

 

Gavin McInnes: ‘I figured I should double check if Ann [Coulter] is as batshit crazy as we all think’

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David Cole on one of the greatest Hollywood scams you’ve never heard of

writes:

But I’m too much of a con man myself to fool easily. All it took was a few phone calls to some publicists I knew, and I soon realized that none of the “committed” artists even knew about the project, so I took a pass. But I continued to watch from afar. Soon, Ivanovich brought in a fella named Claes Nobel, a tangential member of the Nobel family, and they began seeking money for their “peace concert” from China, where, they must have assumed, people really love stone soup. In one of the greatest moments of unscripted comedy in human history, the organizers took their stock-footage promo video and recut it, removing the image of the Dalai Lama and replacing it with…Mao. Yes, Mao, arguably the world’s greatest mass murderer, featured in a promotional video for a concert dedicated to “peace” and “nonviolence.”

David Cole’s (not surprising) inside dirt on Bobcat Goldthwait

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