tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post6969085823545976205..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Harry PotterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73093062872369285722007-08-03T05:16:00.000-07:002007-08-03T05:16:00.000-07:00"halakha is irrelevant"You reject Halakha. I don't..."halakha is irrelevant"<BR/><BR/>You reject Halakha. I don't. Nor do I deny it is effective eugenically.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46166424618904446872007-08-02T22:39:00.000-07:002007-08-02T22:39:00.000-07:00If you had said Radcliffe as a Jew, or according t...If you had said Radcliffe as a Jew, or according to Halakha Radcliffe is a Jew, I wouldn't have argued. But you said he is "racially a jew" from a biological perspective half his genes came from a Irishman, unless you claim that "Jewish racial traits" are limited to mitochondrial DNA or all "dumb goy" genes can be found exclusively on the Y chromosome, my original comment holds. In this context halakha is irrelevant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44978257335262139972007-08-02T13:30:00.000-07:002007-08-02T13:30:00.000-07:00"You said he was 'racially Jewish.' It has nothing..."You said he was 'racially Jewish.' It has nothing to do with Halakha." <BR/><BR/>Traditional Judaism states that the child of a Jewish mother is Jewish. It is a biological concern. Jews traditionally were very concerned with maintaining their racial purity - and many still are (why intermarry with the dumb goyim?).<BR/><BR/>The idea that race has nothing to do with millenium-old tribal rules regarding matrilineal descent is absurd on its face.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46440886944968848102007-08-02T09:41:00.000-07:002007-08-02T09:41:00.000-07:00DavidYou said he was "racially Jewish." It has not...David<BR/>You said he was "racially Jewish." It has nothing to do with Halakha.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2585745314590982652007-08-01T12:08:00.000-07:002007-08-01T12:08:00.000-07:00According to Anon. 7/31/2007 12:07 PM, "it would b...According to Anon. 7/31/2007 12:07 PM, "it would be equally accurate (or inaccurate) to state that Radcliffe is racially North Irish. Or does the one drop rule kick in here?"<BR/><BR/>What kicks in here is the rule of matrilineal descent. According to the longest, traditional (Halakhic) definition of Jewishness, if your mother is a Jew, you are a Jew.<BR/><BR/>Read a little:<BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F#Traditional_.28Halakhic.29_perspectiveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87596307846097658472007-08-01T09:05:00.000-07:002007-08-01T09:05:00.000-07:00"Women my age, from my culture really don't cling ..."Women my age, from my culture really don't cling to philandering males no matter what you want to believe. I've also noticed a trend towards marrying guys a few years younger which is a move away from the all-powerful alpha male who can both giveth and taketh away."<BR/> <BR/> I hear you Anon., but we said the same thing 35 years ago (when Hilary & Bill were young and fuller of beans). Really--I remember.<BR/>To an extent, I agree society is moving away from Svigor's norms, but not as fast as you think. Interview some of the yung'uns to whom you refer in, oh, 20 or 30 years. Then we can draw some conclusions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6790359258656634962007-07-31T23:43:00.000-07:002007-07-31T23:43:00.000-07:00Svigor, It's obvious you are in need of an older s...Svigor, <BR/><BR/>It's obvious you are in need of an older sister. This is how the modern world works. A woman who plays the field just might get pregnant. A man who plays the field just might get one or more of his many lovers pregnant.<BR/><BR/>Which gender has the choice whether or not to have the child? <BR/><BR/>Be careful out there, young man.<BR/><BR/>And as for that guy ranting about high status males and their harems. Note your main example was Hispanic w/ most of his women being from collectivist/authoritarian cultures. As for the Clintons, they are actually from an earlier generation. I don't know why we tend to think of them as being younger. Also, they are left wingnuts. <BR/><BR/>Women my age, from my culture really don't cling to philandering males no matter what you want to believe. I've also noticed a trend towards marrying guys a few years younger which is a move away from the all-powerful alpha male who can both giveth and taketh away. Your examples mixed cultures and generations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25543815195628430512007-07-31T12:07:00.000-07:002007-07-31T12:07:00.000-07:00"The actor who plays Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliff..."The actor who plays Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe, is racially Jewish." According to wikipedia his mother is Jewish and his father is a Protestant from Northern Ireland. So it would be equally accurate (or inaccurate) to state that Radcliffe is racially North Irish. Or does the one drop rule kick in here?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75372614815633126942007-07-31T10:24:00.000-07:002007-07-31T10:24:00.000-07:00The BBC's Dr. Who is another sci-fi series which h...The BBC's Dr. Who is another sci-fi series which has gone PC. There hasn't been a female or ethnic Doctor yet, though it's only a matter of time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91924952962489659952007-07-30T05:56:00.000-07:002007-07-30T05:56:00.000-07:00"PC/Multi-culti/feminism are markers of high-statu..."PC/Multi-culti/feminism are markers of high-status/class (like an expensive biologically darwninian display, ala male Peacock tail feathers)." <BR/><BR/>Actually, they're precisely the opposite of the peacock's tail.<BR/><BR/>There is a positive correlation between a man's resources and his conformity to PC dogma, but that correlation follows from the fact that resources are directed to those who "play the game". Such conformity is not expensive in the least; in fact, it's an easy way to *acquire* resources.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77144981429471044062007-07-29T23:37:00.000-07:002007-07-29T23:37:00.000-07:00What I found mildly amusing about the last Harry P...What I found mildly amusing about the last Harry Potter book was the dichotomy regarding breeding with non-magical humans. The bad guy essentially want to preserve the dwindling magical lineage whereas the good guys admit reproduction with non-magical humans is inevitable. Now although non-magical couples can have magical children and magical couples can have non-magical children, in the books it seems either case is an except rather than the rule. The solution of reproduction with non-magical beings to save the magical <BR/>"genes" is counterintuitive.<BR/><BR/>It should also be mentioned that none of the major characters in the book end up with a non-magical partner despite fighting for that right.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps they should have solved it similarly to desegregation. Bus in Muggles to Hogwarts, and when they inevitably fail the magical curriculum have them band together and blame institutional discrimination.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76798282953245699252007-07-29T00:13:00.000-07:002007-07-29T00:13:00.000-07:00Peter Jackson also got into hot water for making t...<I>Peter Jackson also got into hot water for making the natives, in his remake of King Kong, a little too realistic.</I><BR/><BR/>From what I've heard, Jackson is out of "The Hobbit" movie. Perhaps his (apparent) willingness to ignore multiculturalism will go with him. If so, then it doesn't bode well for "The Hobbit." I wouldn't be shocked if half the Dwarves, or maybe the people of the Long Lake, wind up being black or Hispanic.<BR/><BR/>Hypothesis: The more multicultural and PC a fantasy world gets, the less popular it is. The first Star Wars movie was an all-white affair. It was excellent. The more PC/multiculti it got, the worse the movies got, untit in the end it was absolute dreck.<BR/><BR/>Same goes for Star Trek. The first Star Trek was multiracial, but <B>not</B> really multicultural. The more multiculti it got, the further south it went.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83777816156542256422007-07-28T21:34:00.000-07:002007-07-28T21:34:00.000-07:00I think That Multi-cultis are trying to dictate wh...I think That Multi-cultis are trying to dictate what everyone says and does. Harry Potter is a wonderful adventure in Fantasy for Children and Adults.<BR/><BR/><BR/>DebbieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78905060943659225002007-07-28T14:34:00.000-07:002007-07-28T14:34:00.000-07:00"By contrast, I work in an office where people of ..."By contrast, I work in an office where people of several different races work together very well."<BR/><BR/>And where do they live?<BR/><BR/>Many different animals at the watering hole.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84098316437431011892007-07-28T13:59:00.000-07:002007-07-28T13:59:00.000-07:00I'm not suggesting men shouldn't be subject to lim...I'm not suggesting men shouldn't be subject to limits, just that the standards are different for good reason (I didn't even mention cuckoldry).<BR/><BR/>I see the idea that men and women should have a single standard of sexual conduct as coming from way out in left field. Why? Why should the standards be the same? Are the sexes the same?Svigorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09397917915404344439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14283405930196787482007-07-28T08:58:00.000-07:002007-07-28T08:58:00.000-07:00I heard it claimed once that there are hints in Lo...I heard it claimed once that there are hints in Lord of the Rings that Hobbits are actually brownish in color, not white as often assumed. Can anyone with detailed knowledge of the books comment?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36551326183323462152007-07-28T08:52:00.000-07:002007-07-28T08:52:00.000-07:00"Harry Potter Doesn’t Cast Much of a Spell on Most..."Harry Potter Doesn’t Cast Much of a Spell on Most Americans" from the Rasmussen website<BR/><BR/>"Overall, 76% of Americans have not read any of the Harry Potter books. Ten percent (10%), however, have read all of the books in the Harry Potter series. Twenty-four percent (24%) of men under 40 say they have read all of the Harry Potter books (99.9% of these men are gay). This compares to just 8% of women under 40 who have read all the books.<BR/><BR/>Twenty-one (21%) hold a very favorable view of Harry Potter author and creator, J.K. Rowling. Another 20% have a somewhat favorable opinion. Meanwhile, 21% have an unfavorable opinion of her. Thirty-seven percent (37%) don’t know enough to have an opinion one way or the other."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37477940791390227782007-07-27T23:01:00.000-07:002007-07-27T23:01:00.000-07:00David, Rowling is a Labourite who named her daught...David, Rowling is a Labourite who named her daughter after left wing muckraking journalist Jessica Mitford and made her books' villains blood purity obsessed racists. The repeated stated moral is that ability is less important than choice. And in the later books, it's pretty explicitly stated that the entire Wizarding world is built on the oppression of nonhuman species (elves, centaurs, and goblins in particular). It's true that her fictional world is detailed and robust enough for conservatives to find things in it to like, but it's silly to deny the Potterverse's essentially left wing sympathies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69050725340247358962007-07-27T22:54:00.000-07:002007-07-27T22:54:00.000-07:00"The days of married men whose wives turn a blind ..."The days of married men whose wives turn a blind eye to their adulterous liasons are over."<BR/><BR/>Hillary Clinton? Corinna Villaraigosa? [The latter endured numerous affairs including one with the wife of Tony's campaign manager then best-friend, and allegedly a whole lot of bimbos he had in addition to the Telemundo hottie: the LAPD officer assigned by his demand to his protective detail, the Korean Fashion Designer he took a "Big Love" trip to Seoul with, the various hottie lobbyists, etc.] Women will not LIKE cheating, but if the guy is powerful and famous enough, they'll put up with for a good long time.<BR/><BR/>"Why does it matter whether or not a man can control his sexual urges as well as a woman? Men can get STDs too .." True and monogamy of course works best for ordinary men, it's an Anglo-Saxon/European institution, but Feminists were happy to destroy that in their relentless pursuit of the Alpha Male.<BR/><BR/>"I know you hate anecdotal evidence but this one is particularly relevant."<BR/><BR/>No it's not relevant. I once saw a 7'2" giant. His name is Shaquille O'Neil. Guess what? He's an outlier, hardly any men at all have his size.<BR/><BR/>"Most women would rather not be so naive and inexperienced that they can't pick one of these men out in a crowd. Maybe they will have an affair with him but save their heart for a guy who will be too concerned about the well-being of his family to risk everything for an adrenaline rush. Maybe they'll ignore such a guy, knowing he's narcissistic and immature - the kind of person who never grows up."<BR/><BR/>Available evidence suggests that's not what women actually do. Women generally pursue the most high-status men in their available reach. Monogamy benefits average men because he has exclusive access, his children are his own ("Non-parental events" aka the kid's not "his" can run to 20% or more of some groups). It's not a benefit for women because sharing the resources of a powerful/wealthy man is better than all the wealth/attention of an ordinary man. It's why Mayor Tony, Bill Clinton, and other famous/powerful men have strings of simultaneous girlfriends. [Clinton had Gennifer Flowers, and Miss Arksansas and actress "Amanda" on Highlander, Elizabeth Gracen]<BR/><BR/>Rap guys get criticized for being misogynistic, but their defense that they report what they see seems accurate. It's very common among poor black neighborhoods to see young women with three kids by three different men. Such behavior does not generate positive opinions about women, but rather push black men into competition for status (being the "hardest hard man" gangsta basically). You wonder why the crime rates are highest in black communities, next in Mexican, and lower in White, lowest in wealthy Asian (Japanese and upper-class Chinese)? Heck it's how women select men. Which is markedly different according to each community. Blacks and Mexicans select on violent status and so get violent men (the ultimate Darwinian reward is reproductive success which defines "fitness"). White and some Asian women select off fame/power/wider social status and avoid obvious criminals. <BR/><BR/>The zilch investment in kids behavior though, is classic "I don't know which is mine" Darwinian behavior. It's common in parts of Africa where promiscuity among both sexes leaves parentage up in the air. Natural selection guarantees that male behavior (zilch investment in kids or marriage) when parentage is uncertain, because it's the only strategy that has reproductive success (i.e. spread your seed far and wide). That the Black and to some extent Mexican community have this is due to probably uncertainty in parentage.<BR/><BR/>Harry Potter's world of his parent's marriage is a lost world. Nowdays the triumph of feminists has led to fairly large scale polygamy -- a great deal for women and elite men, but a guaranteed source of continued strife and misogyny among the loser beta males.<BR/><BR/>The serfs and peasants and slaves generally had low regard for the Sultan's harem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66997053637877933712007-07-27T18:43:00.000-07:002007-07-27T18:43:00.000-07:00"You seem to be implying that there should be comm..."You seem to be implying that there should be common standards of sexual conduct across sexes. Why?<BR/><BR/>Male reproductive capacity is cheap. Female reproductive capacity is not. This is no doubt intimately related to how and why our sexual mores evolved."<BR/><BR/>If her Daddy's poor, do what you like...<BR/><BR/>I can't believe you are so obtuse, Svigor. Parity between the sexes in number of sexual partners and in freedom to express sexuality is a good thing. Note I say parity not promiscuity. The days of married men whose wives turn a blind eye to their adulterous liasons are over. <BR/><BR/>Why does it matter whether or not a man can control his sexual urges as well as a woman? Men can get STDs too and pass them on to the fragile flowers they deem suitable for marriage. A woman who is so sheltered that she can't distinguish between men who will be ruled by their sex drive and men who won't is limited in her capacity to choose a mate wisely. <BR/><BR/>I know you hate anecdotal evidence but this one is particularly relevant. I grew up around a family whose father spent all his time outside of work chasing women. The mother spent her free time outside of her 9 - 5 job whining about it. The four children they produced ended up being raised by the eldest sibling by default. They turned out surprisingly well. I guess due to the fact that mom and dad were mostly unavailable. <BR/><BR/>A philandering father is an absent father. The woman in the relationship might focus on her children instead of reveling in her victim status. Even so, she will feel less attractive, unloved and set a bad example for her children - just as the father does. Very few men are capable of being good fathers despite their sexual escapades outside the home. They are taking risks that can ultimately affect their children. <BR/><BR/>Most women would rather not be so naive and inexperienced that they can't pick one of these men out in a crowd. Maybe they will have an affair with him but save their heart for a guy who will be too concerned about the well-being of his family to risk everything for an adrenaline rush. Maybe they'll ignore such a guy, knowing he's narcissistic and immature - the kind of person who never grows up.<BR/><BR/>You're being frivolous, Svigor. This isn't really a feminist/liberal argument. A feminist isn't concerned about the sanctity of marriage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87412016013472717322007-07-27T17:53:00.000-07:002007-07-27T17:53:00.000-07:00Being a WASP I have noticed sort of a backlash aga...Being a WASP I have noticed sort of a backlash against all things Anglo-American. My ancestors wrote the US Constitution, spoke English, invented the airplane ...<BR/><BR/>Many people have immigrated to the English speaking world both black and white and for the most part adopted the language and through it my culture and past. There is no question about whos root run deepest in this culture. <BR/><BR/>Everything from Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings to Civil War enactments are upholding a tradition that rings of a time before mass immigration from other parts of the world. A Japaneese-American can speak perfect English, have gone to the best Universities, and have a million dollars but he can never claim to have had an ancestor who fought in the American Revolution unless it is from an ancestor who was not Japaneese.<BR/><BR/>The reality is that Harry Potter books are very English. The food they eat, the schools they go to, the clothes they wear look like the ones my grreat great great grandfather might have worn. <BR/><BR/>I could read sun tzeu's art of war 100 times but it will never make me chineese. They have a great culture. So do I.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8509860043668648252007-07-27T17:08:00.000-07:002007-07-27T17:08:00.000-07:00Peter Jackson also got into hot water for making t...Peter Jackson also got into hot water for making the natives, in his remake of <I>King Kong</I>, a little too realistic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52265004217067785612007-07-27T16:26:00.000-07:002007-07-27T16:26:00.000-07:00: Crtics have commented that she espouses old-fash...<B>:</B> <I>Crtics have commented that she espouses old-fashioned Toryism</I><BR/><BR/>Sshhh!<BR/><BR/>Don't tell anyone, but JK Rowling just might be the last person in the British Isles who believes in God:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.leakylounge.com/index.php?showtopic=19605" REL="nofollow">http://www.leakylounge.com/index.php?showtopic=19605</A><BR/> <BR/><A HREF="http://www.internetwritingjournal.com/aug05/rowling2.htm" REL="nofollow">http://www.internetwritingjournal.com/aug05/rowling2.htm</A><BR/> <BR/><A HREF="http://www.wnd.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56634" REL="nofollow">http://www.wnd.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56634</A><BR/> <BR/><A HREF="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=6142" REL="nofollow">http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=6142</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42818876291707440822007-07-27T14:59:00.000-07:002007-07-27T14:59:00.000-07:00I wonder if your racist insults about Mexican mest...<I>I wonder if your racist insults about Mexican mestizos being stupid and prone to criminal activity will resume now that Arlen Specter is presenting the legalization part of the bill without the path to citizenship.</I><BR/><BR/>Best define racism before we open that can of worms: your definition, or the dictionary's, or liberalism's, or the one in common parlance, or what? They vary widely.<BR/><BR/>Note I'm not playing semantics. I don't dodge the racism accusation (got over that ages ago).<BR/><BR/>I ask because one question sticks out in my mind: since Mexicans are in fact less intelligent and more prone to crime than Americans of Euro stock, and since racism is usually intended as a synonym for "evil," do you really want to set up words like "honest" and "observant" in conflict with "racism"? If you do, I think the latter, and by extension, liberalism, will be the long-term casualties.<BR/><BR/><I>I'm sick of the sexist remarks lampooning women for the kind of sexual promiscuity that has always been typical of the male of the species.</I><BR/><BR/>You seem to be implying that there should be common standards of sexual conduct across sexes. Why?<BR/><BR/>Male reproductive capacity is cheap. Female reproductive capacity is not. This is no doubt intimately related to how and why our sexual mores evolved.<BR/><BR/>The thin gloss of liberalism can't, won't change that.<BR/><BR/><I>I'm sick of the games, the double standards</I><BR/><BR/>I assume you are a liberal. If so, that's a pretty ironic statement. Liberalism is a mass of convoluted double-standards (many of them intersecting at feminism). Not that I have anything against double-standards, per se. In fact I'm all for double-standards, when they're healthy ones.<BR/><BR/>As for your classist references to misogyny, get a grip. Your feminism blinds you to the fact that HBD-types don't pull punches. Men are the vast majority of violent criminals. Men are relentlessly profiled by law enforcement, as they should be.<BR/><BR/>None of these statements ever elicits so much as a blink from anyone. That's because males aren't a part of your liberal narrative.<BR/><BR/>Now, if their skin is black, that's probably another story, right?Svigorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09397917915404344439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22772587654862383552007-07-27T14:37:00.000-07:002007-07-27T14:37:00.000-07:00Thanks for ruining the American Conservative for m...<I>Thanks for ruining the American Conservative for me. Why don't you change the name to American Assimilation for Those with Genius IQ and Sexist Views? You're a jerk, Steve, and not nearly as smart as you think you are. </I><BR/><BR/>She's got a crush on you, Steve. She's trying to get your attention.<BR/><BR/>( DD has been wondering if iSteve fans are 95-99 percent M's. This one sounds like a gen-u-whine F. Maybe she's the 1 %. ))Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com