Odds and Ends, 1/9/22

In der news.

I am intrigued by Brimelow's proposal of retroactive removal of birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants. I have a particular HBDer's family in mind. In any case, Brimelow's proposals are completely unrealistic simply because the GOP has no real interest in most of it.

Treason:

SECTION 3. Clause 1. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open court.

HBDers give "Aid and Comfort" to the government of China, when those HBDers promote Chinese government propaganda about covid.

See this.

Jared Taylor: Well, let’s see ... I think Asians are objectively superior to whites by just about any measure that you can come up with in terms of what are the ingredients for a successful society.

Jared Taylor: Oh, I think European Jews are Europeans, sure.

See this.

Jared Taylor, who runs the white nationalist website American Renaissance and is one of the most avid hawkers of racist IQ theories, expounded on the “good culture” of East Asians in an interview with Splinter. Taylor spent the first 16 years of his life in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. He told me that “if whites are to be replaced by some populations other than themselves, it would be better that they be replaced by Asians.”

See this.

Jared Taylor: If Europeans are to be replaced, I would far prefer that we be replaced by Asians than by Africans or Middle-Easterners and, certainly, by Muslims. I hope, of course, that Western civilization will survive, that white people will carry their civilization and their biological substrate forever into the future. I hope that’s what happens. But, if we are—if we really are—to be bred out of existence, or if we do not reproduce ourselves, if the continent of Europe becomes non-white, if North America becomes increasingly non-white, I would prefer they became Asian rather than African, Middle Eastern, or Latino. Asians are a high IQ group, and they would organize superior societies, whereas if the United States became populated by people like Guatemalans, Haitians, Syrians, then the United States would become a Third World mess.

HBDers weep.

Herman 

Usual reply:

If Asians are so smart why do they immigrate to a White Christian country?

JohnEngelman  Herman 

They immigrant to the United States for the same reason your ancestors immigrated here from Europe.

Let’s consider Engelman’s response.  Two types of Europeans came to America. First, there were the settler colonists, who took the land away from the Amerindians and founded a new nation. Is that what Asian immigrants are doing to White Americans?  Second, there were the Europeans who immigrated to an already established USA – Europeans immigrating to a nation founded by Europeans.  That is not the same as allegedly superior Asians immigrating to a nation founded, and majority-populated, by an allegedly inferior and different race.  Thus, Herman’s question remains and Engelman’s answer is either self-defeating (in the first instance) or incoherent (in the second).

Affirmative action.

Looking at the anti-vaxx question from the purely political/metapolitical standpoint, the Counter-Currents position fails because:

• 1. They over-estimate opposition to the covid vaccination among "normies" (and commentators have to resort to conspiracy theories about numbers of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated to convince themselves otherwise).
• 2. They falsely believe that all potential recruits are fungible, while the more educated, professional elements, definitely the STEM elements, are repulsed by Der Movement's lies and hysteria. They are catering to the lower elements among the White population.
• 3. They fail to understand that the masses are conformist - the anti-vaxx as much as the pro-vaxx and that the proper role of leadership is to lead, not to follow, to persuade, not to jump on whatever bandwagon is most convenient at the time.

That is all independent of the biomedical question, which is up for debate. On the one hand, I'm sharply critical of the flubros and the anti-vaxx hysterics. On the other hand, the following is also true:

• The behavior of Fauci and Collins has been horrendous.
• Reasonable dissenting voices (not the "viruses don't exist crowd") have been silenced.
• It is uncertain why schoolchildren and other young people need to be vaccinated, particularly with omicron. It is also questionable at this point keeping children out of school.
• Cloth masks don't really do much against omicron (but may be helpful against other diseases?).
• The natural immunity vs. vaccination immunity needs to be determined. American authorities tout vaccination immunity but there are some who assert natural immunity is better. That's not to say getting covid is preferable, of course not, but if it has happened, does such a person require endless boosters?
• Pfizer and Moderna should not be dictating vaccination decisions.

Brownster videos of interest:

See this.

And this.

I don’t regret my vaccination or booster, but I’m old.  Younger people can take all these things into perspective.  Younger people, particularly males, may be best served avoiding Moderna.  For people my age, Moderna, which may give better protection, may be better. I’m skeptical of the DNA-based vaccines.  Note that many of us, both the young and the old, were forced to get vaccinated, because of work or school.  But if you have a choice as to which one to take, then choose wisely. This all does not change the underlying fact that Der Movement is hysterical and crazed on this topic.  I agree with this:

Lord Shang January 8, 2022 at 3:27 am

Not to go totally off topic here, but Covid is exploding in LA and San Francisco. This is not a “narrative”. My friends there, including one who’s a very smart doctor, tell me in absolutely no uncertain terms that everyone is noticing huge differences in the outcomes experienced by the vaccinated as against unvaccinated. The former are doing better, period. What is wrong with rightists that, speaking of empiricism, they have such a hard time accepting widespread evidence? In a way, Right Covid-denialists are as obtuse as Left race-denialists. The only admirable position is one which rigorously deduces from the available data. The West invented science, the best mechanism for piercing veils of superstition. We should be the ones most publicly identified with it. On Covid, we’re not. Given the extreme reliance of white nationalism on empirical evidence of racial group differences, this dichotomy is going to return to haunt us someday.

It will haunt Der Movement; educated people, particularly in STEM, are disgusted by Der Right’s lies.

From Jack Vance's Rhialto the Marvellous we read the following insight into the female character:

[a woman states the following to Rhialto, who is a male magician]: If you had treated me shamefully, and ravished me to your desires, at least I would be left with my pride. Your courteous detachment leaves me with nothing.

I suspect that all of the MeToo complainers would be even more embittered if men afforded them no interest at all. Indeed, others (the Roissy crowd) have observed that charges of sexual harassment are typically not because of the deed itself, but because it comes from the wrong men. Thus:

• No male interest - the woman is offended and left "with nothing."
• Interest from non-alpha males - the woman is left with her pride, which stimulates her to anger against being so bothered.
• Interest from alpha males - the woman is left with her pride AND is satisfied with the quality of the men in question.

Perhaps the optimal behavior is from the magician Tchamast from the same book, described thus:

morose of mood, an avowed ascetic, whose distrust of the female race runs so deep that he will allow only male insects into the precincts of his manse.

Is that the insane and paranoid Ted Sallis as well?

See this.

This contrasts with EOW’s description of Ruth Hubbard, another Harvard professor who rejected his work:

I always thought of [Hubbard] as burning with a pure fire. She believed all of this. She was dedicated in an honest way to all of this. She was doing other things, too. She was putting herself into civil rights movement, she was an early environmental activist. She was on the wrong side of the problem that culminated in [Napoleon Chagnon’s] difficulties, but at least she was sincere.

Hubbard seems to have been the sort of WASP idealist discussed extensively in Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition (Chaps. 6 & 7)..."

 When High Trusters are anti-White fanatics, then they are "idealists."

The Jewish reaction to MacDonald's paper confirms everything he says about their ethnocentric intensity. They would have been better served ignoring it, calmly refuting it, or laughing if off with ridicule, Sallis-style. But Jewish hysteria is easily provoked, which may be their biggest weakness and one that can be leveraged against them. They cannot control themselves. The tragedy of Jewish history is that they themselves with their behavior are responsible for the anti-Semitism they claim to fear.