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Black ex-cop on “racist” Starbucks: “White liberals are making us look dumb”

(To his “why is this happening?” I’d humbly suggest (for the 800th time) that, intentionally or not, the 1960s Civil Rights Movement valorized “disobedience,” and the elites have valorized the Civil Rights Movement.)

Mark Steyn to Tucker Carlson: “We don’t actually need unity. We need robust, civilized disunity”

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David Cole: Is Donald Trump the first Jewish President?

So David Cole had lunch with Ann Coulter at “one of Beverly Hills’ most revered Jewish delis,” and…

Ann shared a theory about why Trump has elicited so much irrational hatred from one particularly influential U.S. demographic group. And what she said hit me right in the gut. She’s never publicly written about this theory, but with her permission I’ll present it here.

Suffice it to say, it falls into the category of “Wish I’d said that.” (…)

Ann Coulter’s theory is that Jews dislike Trump because he reminds us too much of ourselves. More specifically, in style and manner he reminds us of the traits we’re most often ridiculed for. Trump is a loud, boorish New Yawker. He’s foulmouthed; he has no “indoor voice.” He’s clumsy when delicacy is called for; he gesticulates madly and almost certainly spits when he talks. He’s a slumlord, and a master manipulator of finance and bankruptcy law. And the strikingly beautiful women he surrounds himself with are most likely only there because of the money. Basically, he’s a Streicher cartoon without the Jewface. For Jews, gazing at Trump is like looking at a fun-house mirror reflection of the very worst anti-Semitic stereotypes. And Jews don’t want to see that in a president, because it makes us feel uncomfortable (we are, after all, a people known for our neuroses).

Ann’s theory hit me like a lightning bolt.

 

Ann Coulter: Voters tell GOP, ‘We’re just not that into immigrants’

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Daniel J. Flynn on Art Bell: ‘Late night listeners lose an American original and storyteller’

Flynn writes:

Boasting three names — Linda Moulton Howe, David John Oates, Tom Van Flandern, etc. — seemed a prerequisite for landing an appearance as a guest. A fellow listener pondered aloud to me about this shared characteristic with serial killers; methinks ridiculed people take themselves super seriously when nobody else does, hence the three-name defense mechanism. (…)

The host giving unscreened callers a forum, uncredentialled guests the floor (for hours!), and new life to Giorgio Moroder’s “Chase” and the entire Gordon Lightfoot catalogue all help explain his extraordinary success. More so does timing. Broadcasting in the wake of Waco and the Oklahoma City Bombing and contemporaneously with The X-Files, conspiracy theories found a massive audience. But even more than broadcasting in that time in history, broadcasting during a specific time of night — which witnesses our imaginations turn on when the lights turn off — catalyzed his popularity. (…)

Their fidelity did not mean a belief in the words said on the broadcast. They tuned in not for the truth but for a good story. Adults still want storytellers, preferably ones offering the most fantastical tales, to send them to sleep. Art Bell told them stories when parents and older siblings no longer would.

 

 

NEW Taki’s column: My semi-regular all-Canadian round up

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David Cole: ‘The little-person way is the polar opposite of the tranny way’

David Cole writes:

The tranny demands that we alter our vocabulary. The tranny demands that we change our sexual and aesthetic preferences. The tranny demands that we lower our standards for things like military service. The tranny wants to stop us from using words or phrases that are “exclusionary” (I’ve never seen a campaign mounted by little people to stop the rest of us from using terms like “stand tall” or “be the bigger man”). The tranny insists that we rewrite the science books. The tranny even demands that we, the normies, rename ourselves “cisgender” to help them feel less freakish.

As I pointed out several years ago, little people have never demanded that folks of normal height adopt a new descriptive term to define themselves as “not a dwarf.”

It’s generally true that the more phony one’s ailment, the more loud and obnoxious one will be about it.

Yeah, that subtitled still from Freaks contradicts Cole’s column, but I really like it, so there.

I wrote a poem about Frida btw.

 

 

David Cole comes out as ‘Marlon Mohammed,’ author of famous ‘moderate Muslim’ LA Times op-ed

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Jim Goad on the YouTube shooting: ‘Most hardcore vegetarians are far crazier than most hardcore ‘racists.”

Jim Goad writes:

I don’t recall any European traditionalists stalking and terrorizing the pig-haulers in England whose trucks get attacked and whose children are threatened with abduction and torture. I’ve never met a WWII obsessive who howls about the “billions murdered” by “carnists.” I don’t recall hearing about any reader of The Bell Curve sending letter bombs to government officials. (…)

At least in this case, it was not a gun problem. Neither was it an Islamic problem. And despite the fact that Aghdam was clearly cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, is was not even a mental-health problem. It was a simple case of misplaced priorities. When you upset the evolutionary order and place animals above humans, you wind up doing stupid things like this.

Mark Vandermaas: Will free speechers miss Berkeley’s golden opportunity?

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‘If the women in Dean’s book are incorrectly linked under the category of sharp…’

…they might be better understood via a phrase coined by Hannah Arendt: “conscious pariah.” The women in this book were many things—brilliant, difficult, successful, frequently wrong—but they were all outsiders. (Often literally: Arendt, Adler, and Malcolm were all immigrants.) “A conscious pariah knows she is different,” Dean writes, “and knows she may never, at least in the eyes of others, properly escape it. But she is also aware of what her individuality gives her.” (…)

Fittingly, then, it’s Hannah Arendt who succeeds most at climbing out of the shadow cast by the Dark Lady. Though Arendt would also be reproached for her lack of feeling—most sensationally, when she covered the trial of Adolf Eichmann for the New Yorker—she does not have the thwarted quality that most of the other women in the book have. She might have been snidely dismissed by some of her male peers, but she accomplished the work she set out to do and does not seem to have been troubled greatly by the opinions of others.

 

Note to self: Buy Ron Liddle’s new book

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‘And yet, we can see that American youth do have a desire for accomplishment unapologetically pursued’

Christopher DeGroot writes:

Such exuberant pride finds a parallel in hip-hop culture, wherein men “battle” and “dis” one another with pleasure. Why is it that we hear rap everywhere we go these days, from Walgreens to the breaks at sporting events? What is the special appeal? It is that, like rock and roll, rap contains an unfettered masculine energy that is rather lacking in our enfeebled, professionalized culture.

Jim Goad: Reclaiming Toxic Masculinity

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Mark Steyn: ‘The San Bruno attack also underlines a point I’ve been making for over a decade…’

…ever since my troubles with Canada’s “human rights” commissions:

“Hate speech” doesn’t lead to violence so much as restraints on so-called “hate speech” do – because, when you tell someone you can’t say that, there’s nothing left for him to do but open fire or plant his bomb. Restricting speech – or even being perceived to be restricting speech – incentivizes violence as the only alternative.

As you’ll notice in YouTube comments, I’m often derided as a pansy fag loser by the likes of ShitlordWarrior473 for sitting around talking about immigration policy as opposed to getting out in the street and taking direct action. In a culture ever more inimical to freedom of expression, there’ll be more of that: The less you’re permitted to say, the more violence there will be.

“Smoking is a physical pleasure that reminds us that life is not merely a physical affair”

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Steve Sailer: ‘What do the pasts of India and China imply about their futures?’

writes:

Another feature that makes our commentariat comfortable with India is that Indians don’t seem to be all that mechanically facile, perhaps especially not the priestly Brahmin caste, with whom Western intellectuals primarily interact.

And the Indians tend to be more verbally agile than the Chinese and more adept at the kind of high-level abstract thinking required by modern computer science, law, and soft major academia. Thousands of years of Brahmin speculations didn’t do much for India’s prosperity, but somehow have prepared Indians to make fortunes in 21st-century America.

Reich’s DNA studies find Indians to be as wildly diverse racially as you would expect from your lying eyes. (…)

An Indian reader wrote me in 2004:

“China has an enormous advantage over India: relative homogeneity. In China there is no significant difference in racial appearance between the rich and the poor. They come from the same people. In India, you can see a colour line dividing classes every inch of the way. Sure these lines aren’t cut and dry like black and white, and there are overlaps, but the trends are easy to follow for anyone willing to observe. The fact that the Chinese don’t have 4000 year old caste hatreds gives them the advantage over India.”

 

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

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2016: Martin Luther King, Pussy-Grabber

PLUS: My mini-treasury of Taki’s columns on MLK!

 

This time last year, I wrote “Martin Luther King, Pussy Grabber” at Taki’s…

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