tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post5634877184724460780..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: NYT: Latinos don't read, whites to blameUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38652599378040000932012-12-09T11:18:49.979-08:002012-12-09T11:18:49.979-08:00Never met a NAM who voiced this whine. Well, a bla...<i>Never met a NAM who voiced this whine. Well, a black lady co-worker of mine in Nashville long ago suddenly had select words with management about the country music that was piped in to the office all day. She went off in a hilarious rant about "racist cowboys." To the relief of most of us, the music ended for good that day. That's the only instance I can think of.</i><br /><br />In my lifetime, NAMs and even AMs rarely voiced that whine unless given cue cards by white liberals. And it was white liberals who bemoaned racism and "COLAHLESNEZ", either directly or by proxy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81604322579743937322012-12-08T20:33:26.213-08:002012-12-08T20:33:26.213-08:00Oh my goodness, this pushes my buttons.
>But M...Oh my goodness, this pushes my buttons.<br /><br />>But Mario, 8, has noticed something about these and many of the other books he encounters in his classroom at Bayard Taylor Elementary here: most of the main characters are white. "I see a lot of people that don’t have a lot of color," he said.<<br /><br />I would bet anything that Mario is Hispanic like Geraldo Rivera is, and that some adult put these words in his mouth.<br /><br />The whine "this TV show/movie/book is too whitebread, it needs more COLAH" is something that caused a shit storm during a movie I was involved in. The Scots-Irish producer was willing to junk the whole flick because, in the middle of filming, he decided it was "too whitebread." But the movie wasn't going to be sold to BET or anything, and firing the actors and refilming would have been expensive. <br /><br />Never met a NAM who voiced this whine. Well, a black lady co-worker of mine in Nashville long ago suddenly had select words with management about the country music that was piped in to the office all day. She went off in a hilarious rant about "racist cowboys." To the relief of most of us, the music ended for good that day. That's the only instance I can think of.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06774771559007049279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58324802304175251852012-12-08T20:12:39.662-08:002012-12-08T20:12:39.662-08:00Well, Steve, I came across a several page list of ...Well, Steve, I came across a several page list of students sent by a school district in CA today concerning your National Merit Scholars, and amazingly enough, almost all the names appeared to be Mexican extraction. Whether or not that means they are smart I do not know, but it for sure means that the Mexicans have succeeded in colonizing that city. You CA guys had better start running away unless you get the Feds to push out the invasion force.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91637969537229746492012-12-08T14:38:45.839-08:002012-12-08T14:38:45.839-08:00I read Curious George books. I did not know anyone...I read Curious George books. I did not know anyone in a jungle suit who had a pet monkey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68783294230285718342012-12-08T12:48:40.355-08:002012-12-08T12:48:40.355-08:00"Anonymous said...
Cons don't read much ..."Anonymous said...<br /><br />Cons don't read much either. In college towns and big cities, I recall leftist/Marxist/feminist/gay book stores, buy I've never seen a rightwing bookstore... not even in conservative towns."<br /><br />Conservatives - real conservatives - generally object to the politicization of everyday life. Their reading lists aren't dictated by a political agenda. They don't need books on gardening or cooking that have an explicit political agenda, as leftists (for whom all politics is personal) do.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23017661526861808852012-12-07T14:21:04.401-08:002012-12-07T14:21:04.401-08:00Mebbe NY Times is right. Not enough cons read the ...Mebbe NY Times is right. Not enough cons read the NY Times because it doesn't hire and showcase enough people who look and think like most conservatives. <br />So, it should hire more people who look/think like Buchanan to make us read more of it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37971990562219702062012-12-07T14:18:20.039-08:002012-12-07T14:18:20.039-08:00Playboy mags musta been popular with men of all ra...Playboy mags musta been popular with men of all races because the centerfolds were racially so diverse.<br /><br />It was when stubby and portly Maria Gomez made the centerfold that all the Mexican men flocked to buy it. <br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54138994868968033252012-12-07T14:15:04.307-08:002012-12-07T14:15:04.307-08:00This is a variation of black doll/white doll bs. This is a variation of black doll/white doll bs. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13693396758166084162012-12-07T14:13:17.777-08:002012-12-07T14:13:17.777-08:00Most Mexican tv soaps feature 'Aryan-looking&#...Most Mexican tv soaps feature 'Aryan-looking' people. So, why do mestizos watch so much of that stuff?<br /><br />And why do Japanese love anime when most characters don't look Japanese at all?<br /><br />And why did Jews draw so much inspiration from Wagner and write so many Christmas songs?<br /><br />and why did so many whites listen to and emulate black music?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-11163503259267476002012-12-07T14:10:14.000-08:002012-12-07T14:10:14.000-08:00Ok, pass out the 'Don Quixotes' and 'O...Ok, pass out the 'Don Quixotes' and 'Of Tombs and Heroes'.<br /><br />I'll bet more Jews and Asians will read them. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89314731945848740572012-12-07T14:07:51.680-08:002012-12-07T14:07:51.680-08:00Cons don't read much either. In college towns ...Cons don't read much either. In college towns and big cities, I recall leftist/Marxist/feminist/gay book stores, buy I've never seen a rightwing bookstore... not even in conservative towns. <br /><br />There are Christian bookstores but...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51389816118401561812012-12-07T13:01:41.662-08:002012-12-07T13:01:41.662-08:00"Maybe the SPLC can declare the Magic Treehou..."Maybe the SPLC can declare the Magic Treehouse a hate group."<br /><br />That made me laugh out loud at The Internet.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22134750783838584862012-12-07T10:25:15.492-08:002012-12-07T10:25:15.492-08:00Everyone knows that not seeing people like yoursel...<i>Everyone knows that not seeing people like yourself in picture books is the cause of poor school performance. As a Jewish child, not once did I see a bearded rabbi in my picture books at school and now all I can do is mow lawns since I never learned to read. All those blond haired blue eyed characters completely turned me off on school.</i><br /><br />Which is probably why so many blacks, Latinos and other darker nominal Christians were turned off Christianity by all those Bible Stories books in doctor's offices!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24696473445006864902012-12-07T07:21:44.709-08:002012-12-07T07:21:44.709-08:00I'm actually in the proc ess now of reading ... I'm actually in the proc ess now of reading Old Man and the Sea out loud to my 6 and 9 year old daughters at bedtime. They seem to like it. Eric Rasmusennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20886505436932397322012-12-07T07:19:00.401-08:002012-12-07T07:19:00.401-08:00"Of all the children sitting cross-legged on ..."Of all the children sitting cross-legged on the rug, only Mario said that his mother had worked on farms."<br /><br /> Ah, if only white children, too, could appreciate those farm family books like Little House on the Prairie!Enter your full name herenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2253076320271676132012-12-07T06:51:34.381-08:002012-12-07T06:51:34.381-08:00"Everyone knows that not seeing people like y..."Everyone knows that not seeing people like yourself in picture books is the cause of poor school performance. As a Jewish child, not once did I see a bearded rabbi in my picture books at school and now all I can do is mow lawns since I never learned to read."<br /><br />I doubt it, but you probably became a WASP butt-kisser like all of the Jews who wrote the comic books.<br />Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30479143525138163082012-12-07T05:52:55.172-08:002012-12-07T05:52:55.172-08:00Wanna hear something truly depressing? According t...Wanna hear something truly depressing? According to WIkipedia, here's the employment data on the 45,000 strong Somali population in the UK:<br /><br /><i>"Somali-born migrants have the lowest employment rate among all immigrants in the UK...In the three months to June 2008, 31.4 percent of Somali men and 84.2 percent of Somali women were economically inactive (the statistics include students, carers and the long-term sick, injured or disabled in this group). <b>Of those who were economically active</b>, 41.4 percent of the men and 39.1 percent of the women were unemployed. Employment rates were 40.1 percent for men and 9.6 percent for women. The male employment rate has, however, risen from 21.5 percent in 1998"</i><br /><br />Follow that: only ~40% (68.6% of the economically actives (those who hold or are looking for a job)x 58.6% who are actually employed) of all Somali men in the UK hold down a job.<br /><br />Compare that to the United States, where the <i>overall</i> workforce participation rate - men AND women - at its lowest ever recorded was 63.5%.MAtthewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21366435814904866062012-12-06T23:27:40.491-08:002012-12-06T23:27:40.491-08:00Everyone knows that not seeing people like yoursel...<i>Everyone knows that not seeing people like yourself in picture books is the cause of poor school performance. As a Jewish child, not once did I see a bearded rabbi in my picture books at school and now all I can do is mow lawns since I never learned to read. All those blond haired blue eyed characters completely turned me off on school.</i><br /><br />Hehe. It's easy to scoff, but I think there is something to the 'identification effect.' I used to love playacting as a kid. I've been everything from crusader to muslim marauder, to cowboy, to roman, knight of the round table and so on. But some identities were easier to assume than others. Being a soldier in WWII came very easily, but I always struggled with cowboys. <br /><br />As far as I knew, cowboys were all WASPs who looked like the Lone Ranger, and they didn't have surnames like Stoyanovich or Dimitrov. So I'd play a cowboy but my heart was never really in it - I suppose maybe because I thought I could never 'really' be one (like when I grow up, say). <br /><br />On the other hand, He-Man looked as Germanic as it gets and I never thought about it even once. That could be because I knew the world he inhabited was completely make-believe, but it does go to show that racial considerations are hardly paramount.<br /><br />Also, the attempt to be inclusive can have unintended negative consequences. In the 5th grade my class listened to a sing-along radio program for kids. The programmers decided to include a most embarrassingly stupid folk song from Yugoslavia. The chorus had a part that went "seno slama seno slama - zob zob zob." The kids would hit an emphatic "zob zob zob!" and look at me and snigger -- "That's where Silver's from." Lol, even the teacher got into the act. There was a student teacher from England monitoring our singalong once and this song came on. The teacher and the student teacher looked at each and fighting back laughter my teacher said to the student teacher, "We don't do so well with the ethnic songs" and glanced at me immediately afterwards. I wanted to sink under the desk.Silvernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91143638079541577882012-12-06T21:23:03.761-08:002012-12-06T21:23:03.761-08:00"As schools across the country implement the ..."As schools across the country implement the Common Core — national standards for what students should learn in English and math — many teachers are questioning whether nonwhite students are seeing themselves reflected in their reading. "<br /><br />soon, they will be questioning the predominance of English in public schools.john marzanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08036820667908976630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12485323252057709262012-12-06T20:35:00.482-08:002012-12-06T20:35:00.482-08:00Los Angeles has two million Mexicans, but is there...Los Angeles has two million Mexicans, but is there a single decent Spanish bookstore, something that sells literature beyond westerns and romances? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33159770732421075342012-12-06T17:29:29.507-08:002012-12-06T17:29:29.507-08:00"Title?"
http://www.amazon.com/Colin-Fi..."Title?"<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Colin-Fischer-Ashley-Edward-Miller/dp/1595145788/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354558099&sr=1-1&keywords=colin+fischer<br /><br />Looks like the authors are a couple of 40-ish straight white married with kids white guy screenwriters with gentile names. Hmm...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3305140649011086602012-12-06T15:41:09.137-08:002012-12-06T15:41:09.137-08:00Hispanics seem to be white, when they feel like it...Hispanics seem to be white, when they feel like it and non-white when it serves their interests.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60278061428444509942012-12-06T15:35:08.231-08:002012-12-06T15:35:08.231-08:00reminds me of the argument that africans will not ...reminds me of the argument that africans will not do well on tests created by european men, and that if the africans created the tests, it would be the europeans doing badly.<br /><br />1) europeans create almost everything, so, what tests? have african academics created any tests of any kind, in any field, from scratch? "If we created the tests, you'd suck at them." this riposte assumes the africans, or more broadly speaking humans in general, even have the capacity in the first place to create anything like that.<br /><br />over and over again though we find, they don't. so that's occam's razor for the books available to public school students in the US. who's writing all the books, doing all the work, coming up with everything from scratch? the europeans. so of course most of the characters in the book are europeans. if the other groups had any interest in this stuff, and they don't, they'd be free to write any story they want. that they don't, pretty much ever, is the reason the characters in existing books are the way they are. it's because europeans are more interesting and do more stuff. not because any authors are discriminating.<br /><br />the mexicans in LA i used to hang with were crazy about movies. almost all movies show european peoples doing stuff and almost never mexicans, mestizos, mulattos, or the various mixed race people of latin america. that never stopped them from paying their 10 bucks for a ticket once a month to see the latest blockbuster.<br /><br />2) i seem to recall this one test european men created, called "who can put the orange ball in the basket the best". not surprisingly, africans were terrible at it. another test european men created was called "who can move the brown oblong ball down the green field the best". africans were, predictably, awful at this as well. even ancient european men, who may not have been the virulent racists that year 2012 white men are, created a test called "who can run circles around the oval the best" and even an ancient test from ancient times which, one would think would be exempt from modern racism, was, yet again, found to be racist. africans were abysmal at that test as well.<br /><br />now, if only africans created the tests, you might seem them excel at tasks like:<br /><br />moving spheres through euclidian space in a vector horizontal to the earth<br /><br />increasing their velocity from from point A to point B in the shortest time possible and achieving a smaller delta than anybody else<br /><br />overcoming the negative acceleration of g, and momentarily achieving lift off at a rate greater than 9.8 meters per second, while simultaneously calculating parabolic trajectories to accurately predict their flight towards objects 10 feet above the ground<br /><br />alas, those are tricky mathematical propositions, and africans struggle with such tests of ability.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37556379646815250302012-12-06T15:16:43.488-08:002012-12-06T15:16:43.488-08:00My favorite Steinbeck novel has always been Tortil...My favorite Steinbeck novel has always been Tortilla Flat. I lived in Salinas/Monterey Peninsula area for years, and I can tell you those hispanic sons of bitches were very funny and reeking of verisimilitude!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12336063042671076362012-12-06T14:44:48.865-08:002012-12-06T14:44:48.865-08:00Am/Was I the only one, who, upon reading the perso...Am/Was I the only one, who, upon reading the persons Steve cited above, began to feel as though their primary concern was not so much helping Latino children learn to read as it was lecturing, chiding, admonishing, fault finding and pointing the finger at the Evil White Callous Demon and yet again, reluctantly but for its own good, shoveling a load of guilt/sh*t on those recalcitrant Whites for their just-can't-help-acting-like-Whitedness? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com