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March 9, 2013

"How the demographic shift could hurt Democrats, too"

An op-ed in the Washington Post from a young professor at Harvard:
How the demographic shift could hurt Democrats, too 
By Ryan D. Enos, Published: March 8 
Since the November election, in which President Obama won huge majorities among minority voters, it’s been taken as gospel that the Republican Party must, for its own survival, seek to appeal to those groups by moving to the left on topics such as immigration reform. But as the nation becomes more diverse, the demographic shift can cut the other way, too: Some Democratic voters are likely to move to the right. 
It’s assumed that, as the United States becomes increasingly non-white, white Democrats will continue to support the party. But a substantial amount of social-science evidence suggests a different conclusion: As the United States becomes more racially and ethnically diverse, liberal whites might start leaning Republican. 
Consider a straightforward experiment I conducted last year: Over two weeks, I sent pairs of Latino men in their 20s to ride commuter trains in the greater Boston area, often cited as one of the nation’s most liberal regions. 
These people were not asked to do anything out of the ordinary, just to wait for the train and ride it. The pairs I sent were native Spanish speakers, so when they spoke to each other, it was probably in Spanish. To gauge other riders’ attitudes about Latinos, I surveyed them before the experiment and two weeks into the tests. In each case, the trains and times were randomly selected and were later compared with a control group of riders on different trains. These trains originated in communities with very few Latino residents, and the men I sent to ride the trains were often the only Latinos at those stations on a day-to-day basis. In this sense, the experiment was testing how people react when a very small group of Latinos moves to a new community. 
The results were clear. After coming into contact, for just minutes each day, with two more Latinos than they would otherwise see or interact with, the riders, who were mostly white and liberal, were sharply more opposed to allowing more immigrants into the country and favored returning the children of illegal immigrants to their parents’ home country. It was a stark shift from their pre-experiment interviews, during which they expressed more neutral attitudes.

The Boston-NYC-DC corridor that dominates punditry is simply a generation or two behind much of the rest of the country in exposure to the effects of illegal immigration.
... In a more recent example, the city of Chicago began a massive effort in 2000 to overhaul its public housing. Large and notorious housing projects, such as Cabrini-Green, were demolished, and their residents were relocated. More than 99 percent of the relocated residents were African American. The outcome of the effort was the reverse of my experiment in Boston — rather than coming into contact, groups were separated. 
Did that separation result in more liberal political views? Voting patterns among white residents living near these projects before and after their demolition showed that it did. After their African American neighbors left, fewer white residents turned out to vote, and voters became less likely to choose Republican candidates, whom they had previously supported at higher levels than had residents in other parts of the city. It seems that the contact with African Americans had politically mobilized whites in Chicago, similar to how Southern whites were mobilized in the 1930s. 
To explore whether there was a similar effect among minority voters, in 2008 I conducted an experiment in which I sent a letter to African American voters just before an election in Los Angeles. The content of the letter was simple: It reminded people to vote and included a map noting how often people on their block voted compared with a nearby block. In some randomly selected cases, the comparison block consisted of African American residents; in others, it was largely Latino. When the letter pointed to a majority-Latino block, African Americans were significantly more likely to vote, suggesting that they were concerned about political competition with Latinos — even though both groups vote overwhelmingly for Democrats.
In that same year, I examined the voting of Latinos in Los Angeles and found that those who lived near predominantly African American neighborhoods were far less likely to vote for Obama than Latinos who lived farther away — suggesting that contact with their African American neighbors may have prompted them to vote against an African American candidate. 
As different groups come into contact, people often have adverse reactions, and this can cause them to vote for a party that represents opposition to other groups. In today’s electoral landscape, that might mean white Democrats would be more willing to vote Republican. There is some evidence that when most people vote against their party identification — perhaps as a Reagan Democrat, just once — they return to their regular partisan identity within an election or so. However, if people make that switch during their impressionable years, in their teens or 20s, it can last a long time. ... 
None of these findings bode well for Democrats. As ethnic groups mix, voters become more exclusionary and tend to vote for more racially conservative candidates — which may make it more difficult to maintain a diverse Democratic Party and could tilt the field in favor of Republicans.

I did a quick analysis after the 2000 election that suggested that the type of minority mattered: in states with a lot of blacks, whites voted more Republicans, and in states with a lot of Asians, whites voted more Democratic, with the Hispanic impact falling in between. If your main complaint about your Asian neighbor is that you have to close the window when her six-year-old daughter starts her violin practice, you are likely to find the Diversity Narrative much more plausible than if your black neighbor holds pit bull fights in the back yard.

But, of course, a huge advantage the Democrats have is holding the bullhorn that spews the Narrative. Their naturally rickety coalition of fringe groups would tend to turn on each other, but if the media can constantly gin up incidents, no matter how absurd, to elicit fear and loathing of the Straight White Gentile Man to unify the Obama Coalition, well, are you going to bet against the Democrats?

By Steve Sailer on 3/09/2013 173 comments
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Flying Death Robots viewed with unwarranted concern by citizenry

From the NYT:
Visions of Drones Swarming U.S. Skies Hit Bipartisan Nerve 
By SCOTT SHANE and MICHAEL D. SHEAR 
WASHINGTON — The debate goes to the heart of a deeply rooted American suspicion about the government, the military and the surveillance state: the specter of drones streaking through the skies above American cities and towns, controlled by faceless bureaucrats and equipped to spy or kill. 
That Big Brother imagery — conjured up by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky during a more than 12-hour filibuster this week — has animated a surprisingly diverse swath of political interests that includes mainstream civil liberties groups, Republican and Democratic lawmakers, conservative research groups, liberal activists and right-wing conspiracy theorists. 
They agree on little else. But Mr. Paul’s soliloquy has tapped into a common anxiety on the left and the right about the dangers of unchecked government. And it has exposed fears about ultra-advanced technologies that are fueled by the increasingly fine line between science fiction and real life. 
Drones have become the subject of urgent policy debates in Washington as lawmakers from both parties wrangle with President Obama over their use to prosecute the fight against terrorism from the skies above countries like Pakistan and Yemen. ...
Benjamin Wittes, a national security scholar at the Brookings Institution who has written extensively about drones, said he thought Mr. Paul’s marathon was a “dumb publicity stunt.” But he said it had touched a national nerve because the technology, with its myriad implications, had already deeply penetrated the culture.

Maybe we can start to see how the Afghans and Pakistanis feel, too?

By Steve Sailer on 3/09/2013 87 comments
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A theory about this week's Media KKKraziness

Why has the last week seen the national media break out into a frenzy over the specter of white racism? (See below for examples.)

Perhaps it goes back to the February 27th oral arguments at the Supreme Court over whether or not to bid adieu to Title 5 of the Voting Rights Act after 48 years. Justice Scalia's question about the "perpetuation of racial entitlement," about how quickly we glide from a world where affirmative action can't be ended because the beneficiaries are too weak to one where they are too strong, definitely got the press's goat. Scalia suggested that the Supreme Court is the only institution left in America with the independence and the moral backbone to say Enough Time Has Passed. 

Since then, we've seen the prestige press push bizarre stories, like the current top story in the Washington Post this evening about the "mysterious" murder of a black politician in Mississippi that was actually solved last month (Spoiler Alert! Another black male killed him.)

This is not to say that it's an organized conspiracy. The stories are way too stupid for that. It's more like an immune system response: throw everything and anything and see what sticks. Maybe the Oberlin assault blanket or the white racist deli or black-on-black Mississippi crime can get Justice Kennedy to decide, "I'm just not ... comfortable with sunsetting the VRA. What will Georgetown think?"

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March 8, 2013

WaPo: Black gay candidate murdered, "Mississippi’s dark history of racial brutality" to blame?

Splashed big in the Washington Post as the top story of the evening of March 8th:
Mississippi white man
A politician’s death opens old wounds 
Anne Hull 6:29 PM ET 
Marco McMillian moved back to his mother’s home in Clarksdale, Miss., to run for mayor, but the 28-year-old’s mysterious death has roiled old fears from the state’s dark history of racial brutality. 
In Mississippi, death of politician Marco McMillian stirs old civil-rights fears

In Clarksdale, Miss. — When Marco McMillian decided to move back to his home town and run for mayor, the 33-year-old aspiring candidate knew he needed the blessing of the silver-haired oligarchy that ruled quietly from church pews. ... 
Moments in Mississippi’s civil rights history: The slaying of an openly gay candidate for mayor of Clarksdale, Miss., is one of the latest high-profile issues swirling around race, civil rights and the Magnolia State. Here are several others: 
A week and a half after McMillian’s body was found in the mud on an isolated stretch of levee outside Clarksdale, his death remains a mystery. It has roiled old suspicions and fears from Mississippi’s dark history of racial brutality, although both McMillian and the man charged with his murder are African American. ... 
The Coahoma County Sheriff’s Department has charged Lawrence Reed, 22, in the crime. He told police that he killed McMillian and where to look for the body, according to two people familiar with the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss its early findings.

Confessed perp (left) and victim (right)
In other words, "his death remains a mystery" in all ways except that the confessed killer, who was caught upon crashing the victim's stolen car in February, told the cops where he stashed the corpse. So it hasn't been a mystery all March.

Does the whole world have "Django Unchained" on the brain? "America Debrained?" I guess that what really counts is that this black-on-black murder took place in the same state where Calvin Candie was so mean to Django Freeman in 1858, two years before the Civil War.

By the way, since the Washington Post wants to portray this poor bastard who got murdered as a martyr to the sins of straight white men, it's worth pointing out that a Google search shows he was a central figure in a financial scandal at Alabama A&M University a half decade ago. Judging from rumors on an alumni discussion board, it sounds like the misappropriation that led to the college president's departure was a gay thing then, too.

For a theory about why the press has gone nuts this month over non-hate crimes, such as the Oberlin KKK Assault Blanket, see here.

By Steve Sailer on 3/08/2013 42 comments
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Jeb Bush's book "Immigration Wars"

From the Washington Post:
Manuel Roig-Franzia,
native of Spain, winner
of Don Quixote Look-Alike Contest
Book review: ‘Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution’ by Jeb Bush and Clint Bolick 
By Manuel Roig-Franzia, Friday, March 8, 10:22 AM 
Manuel Roig-Franzia is a Washington Post staff writer and the author of “The Rise of Marco Rubio.” 
In the spring of 2002, a young Florida state representative named Marco Rubio sized up one of his mentors, Jeb Bush. 
“He’s practically Cuban, just taller,” Rubio quipped to a journalist. “He speaks Spanish better than most of us.” 
Few could dispute Rubio’s inclusion of Bush in a kind of honorary Hispanics club. ... 
Both men embody an aspiration of Republicans: a chance at luring the growing Hispanic electorate that so overwhelmingly rejected the party in the last presidential election. What’s so fascinating is how they’ve suddenly reversed roles. Bush once appeared more moderate than Rubio, and most other top Republicans, on immigration. Now he’s abruptly backflipped to his protege’s right on the key issue of creating a path to citizenship, triggering a furor along the way. 
And all because of a book. 
“Immigration Wars,” which Bush co-authored with Clint Bolick, an activist conservative lawyer, was surely intended to play to one of Bush’s strengths. 
Instead, it has prompted a critical reexamination of the former Florida governor and suggestions that this skilled politician and deep thinker might be a bit rusty six years after leaving office. 
The hubbub is over a small but important part of this sober, substantive and detailed explication of America’s immigration miasma. In the book, Bush — as any cable-news viewer should know by now — reverses his previous stance and declares that he opposes a path to citizenship for immigrants who entered the country illegally. 
That jarring statement distracts from the sweep of the book, which in 225 pages of text (generously double-spaced) presents a sophisticated take on an issue that often gets reduced to polemical bullet points. Far from being an anti-immigrant screed, “Immigration Wars” often reads like an ode to immigration, with Bush arguing forcefully and convincingly for policies that would encourage more — not fewer — migrants to enter the country. 
It’s a curious time for Bush to harden his position on immigration by opposing a path to citizenship, considering the fact that Republicans are desperate to woo Hispanics. Even the Cuban American Rubio, once an avowed opponent of such a path, has been coming around to the idea lately, joining a bipartisan effort in the Senate to change the nation’s immigration laws. Bush has tried to backpedal: In interviews this past week he made qualified statements in favor of a path to citizenship and has explained that he wrote the book last year. But these limp attempts are undercut by the tone he takes in print. 
“A grant of citizenship is an undeserving reward for conduct that we cannot afford to encourage,” he writes.

I've said this a million times over the last 13 years: once Republicans start talking about compromising with the Democrats on amnesty, they always get bushwhacked by the Democrats' trotting out "the path to citizenship" (i.e., the vote). Always. It's like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown.

Eventually, Republicans figure out that giving illegal aliens citizenship is more or less the same thing as giving more votes to the Democrats.  "path to citizenship" is just a self-inflicted electoral wound to the GOP.

But, rhetoric about "citizenship" sells to white people because they assume it means responsibilities as well as rights. But Democrats see it as giving illegals the vote, making them more eligible to bring in more relatives legally, and making them more eligible for welfare and government jobs -- all good for the Democrats.

So, then, the Republican Brain Trust backtracks into saying, "Hey, we just want to make Hispanic voters like us, not make more Hispanics voters. Wait a minute, that didn't come out right. This can't be that hard -- our Democratic friends told us that "immigration reform" was going to make Hispanics love the GOP, and the Democrats wouldn't lie to us about how to beat them, would they? Look, we justwant cheap labor, not fellow citizens. Uh, strike that. Look, I'll have to go over this with the spin doctors but I'll get right back to you with the proper wording that will make it all okay."
... But for most of the book, Bush sheds this almost unrecognizably stern persona and settles back into the Jeb we once knew. The man who met his wife, Columba Garnica de Gallo, on the central square of Leon, Mexico, four decades ago argues that raising the number of legal immigrants could improve our gross domestic product by increasing the size of the workforce.

Do you ever notice how the topic of diversity just makes white people stupider?
  And he notes that cities with high immigrant populations tend to have better credit ratings.

San Bernardino? Stockton? Vallejo? Immigrants aren't stupid, so they don't move to Youngstown or East St. Louis, they try to go where the money is. But the evidence out of California is not reassuring for the long run.
In writing this odd but irresistible book, Bush has surely inflicted some wounds on himself, too, at least with moderates who thought they knew him well.
But if 2016 is his aim, he has plenty of time to heal.

Manuel Roig-Franzia is a Washington Post staff writer and the author of “The Rise of Marco Rubio.”

Manuel Roig-Franzia is a white guy born in Spain, but that's not stopping him from hopping on the Hispanic Bandwagon for all it's worth.

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Multiple regression of microaggression

It would be informative to perform a multiple regression analysis of the demographics of individuals who submit anecdotes to microaggression websites of how they have been victimized:

I'm not going to do it, but, as Yogi Berra said, you can observe a lot just by watching. From reading over examples, I would guess that common factors would seem to be:

- Female (or "'female'" or "female-identified" or "female-bodied")

- Homosexual

- The more recondite the self-described orientation, the better: e.g., a "genderqueer" is more likely to complain about being victimized by microaggressions that is a "lesbian."

- Nonwhite

- Mixed race

-  Visually ambiguous race

- Belong to an ethnicity with a high degree of immigration

- But, born in the USA

- Student 

- Employed in the (nominally) helping professions, but not the real helping professions, such as nursing (see below for nurses' and doctors' attitudes)

- Disabilities

- Mental and emotional illnesses

- Self-absorbed

- Generally hostile personality

As a palate-cleanser, allow me to direct you a page of Medical Acronyms and Doctor's Slang. Examples of what doctors, especially Emergency Room doctors, write in their notes include:

AHF - Acute Hissy Fit

AAA (or Triple A): Ay Ay Ay. Precursor to Status Hispanicus. Wound-up Hispanic female unable to tolerate even the small discomfort of removing an adhesive plaster, but not yet full-blown histrionics.

Acute Pneumoencephalopathy - airhead

APRS - Acute Puerto Rican syndrome (bouts of screaming and yelling)

Blade - Surgeon: dashing, bold, arrogant and often wrong, but never in doubt

BVA - Breathing Valuable Air

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More Microaggression Resources

Can't get enough? Well, there's more where that came from:

  1. Microaggression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microaggression
    Microaggression is the idea that specific interactions between those of different races, cultures, or genders can be interpreted as mostly non-physical aggression ...
    Types - Gender - Other forms of microaggression - Experience
  2. power, privilege, and everyday life.

    microaggressions.tumblr.com/
    Have a question/comment/similar experience to share? Email us or fill out our contribution form. Note: The comments section provides a space for people to ...
  3. Micro-Aggression: It's Bullying.

    www.aapd.com/resources/power.../micro-aggression-its.html
    Jan 24, 2012 – One of the more unnoticed forms, however prevalent, is micro-aggression. AAPD is taking a very proactive approach in combating bullying and ...

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March 7, 2013

Best of MicroAggressions.com

Highlights from MicroAggressions.com:
I noticed that when I eat out and order a Coke, I’m often asked whether I want it to be a diet Coke. I asked some male friends about this and they told me it never happens to them.

24, female-bodied, in a relationship – so Facebook shows me ads with babies, wedding dresses, and engagement rings. Change gender on Facebook to male – suddenly I get ads pertaining to things I actually care about.

“I don’t date bisexuals. They’re never faithful.” 
Said to me by woman who identifies as lesbian.

Often when I have dinner at people’s houses, they ask me if I would prefer chopsticks, regardless of the meal!

“You can do [x]. It’s not that hard.” 
I have an invisible physical disability. I hear this from teachers, friends, and parents when I try to tell them about my ability level. 

Being called “hearing impared,” instead of deaf or hard of hearing. 
The term “hearing impaired” seems silly to be upset over, but when used over and over to describe you, you begin to believe that you are indeed broken instead of just different. I fight against the use of this word everyday.

"Push like a man!"
One man to another while trying to load a delivery cart in Manhattan. 

My daughter is a college freshman three states away from home. She’s having some depression so went to college counseling office this week at my insistence. The counselor asked if she belonged to any clubs and she mentioned the gay-straight alliance. He replied by asking “Are you having trouble adjusting because you’ve been rejected by your fellow lesbians?” For the record, she thinks she may be asexual but said nothing to him to warrant his assumption.

I walk out of my office and approach a waiting cab, make eye contact with the cab driver, reach out my arm to open the door… and a white woman rushes past me, gets in the cab, closes the door and starts telling the cab driver where she wants to go. Does she think that she deserves the cab more? Did she see me but assume I wasn’t taking the cab? Did she simply not see me at all (despite touching me as she brushed past)? I don’t know which is worse. I do know that I immediately thought, “next time someone asks me why “all” black women are angry, I’m going to tell them its because of stuff like this”.

Hey! White girl! I love you! You are beautiful! 
Shouted to me on the street 15+ times a day during my study abroad experience in Nicaragua. I never truly understood what it meant to feel objectified until this experience. 
Comments upon Nicaragua anecdote
ToruKun1: 
This submission is very, VERY problematic…as much as I sympathize with her plight I’m calling BULLS*** on this woman ~never TRULY feeling objectified~ until some random brown guys in a foreign country hollered at her…subconscious racism/xenophobia much? 

eiVega: 
This complaint of a microaggression is a microagression in and of itself. It is perpetuating the idea that ‘white beauty’ is ideal and that Latinos are machismo & objectify women. 
As a side-note, it is also a humble-brag. Let’s complain about how annoying it is to be beautiful because unwanted men try to flatter me. 
Sorry your beauty was such an inconvenience while trying to study abroad in the second poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, grappled by earthquakes, hurricanes, dictatorships, two revolutionary wars, oppression and a history of US interference and manipulation. 
-A Nicaraguan-American, reading white girls complain about Nicaraguans on the microagression blog… 

R: 
As a white American girl living in a small town in the Dominican Republic, I’m going to have to agree with ToruKun1 and elVega on this one. I feel a hell of a lot more sexism coming from my white, male, American, ivy league-educated, nonprofit bosses than the constant catcalls coming from Dominican dudes, who are living in poverty that is directly related to my part of the world’s exploitation and oppression of theirs. You know our lives are like super f’ing easy in comparison, right? So much so that you can go study abroad, invade their lives and then complain when they act how their culture acts, wow. Even if it is objectifying (not saying it is), it isn’t your place to get offended. How bout you try to spend your time trying to genuinely and respectfully learn about culture and life and your role there instead? 

Kenocka: 
Why isn’t it her place to be offended? Perhaps she’s only pointing out one of many times that this has happened to her? What “role” is she supposed to assume? 
I’m just really confused by this response. She doesn’t feel safe with random dudes yelling at her in a foreign country. Purely conjecture but she probably felt the same way back home but for whatever reason, being at home it might not have “been as bad” because she could call people she knew at a moment’s notice and have them help her or a million other reasons. 
I’m just wowed that you would be mad at her for voicing her insecurities and fears. You could’ve been nicer about your points instead of just attacking her the way you seem to have done.

Rididill: 
Uh, you may be Nicaraguan American but whatever, clearly they don’t shout at you in the same way. So STFU. ‘Your beauty was such an inconvenience?’ That is a little MORE than a microaggression. Why don’t you stop defending your misogynist compatriots and have a little solidarity. Harassment is not a compliment. 
Actually, it’s your fellow Nicaraguans who are perpetuating the ‘white beauty ideal’ by saying that. Not her. Why don’t you take it up with them. 
So worse things have happened in the world. DUH. It’s a site called ‘microaggressions’. Not genocide etc. Same could be applied to anything here. Get over yourself, this is supposed to be a safe space.
It’s actually a fact that if you are white, and you go to a Latino country, you will get harassed like a million times more than in a white country. It is not racist to point this out, it is simply true. 

Simmerdownnow: 
This person went to another country, with a different society and cultural norms and expected to be treated like she is in her country and then got offended when she wasn’t. Don’t go to someone else’s home and judge them based on your house rules. Go to someone else home and learn their rules and try to be a humble guest. 
Rididill: Your comment was so offensive to me that I’m going to have to break it down and go through it piece by piece. Hopefully you can open up your mind and actually learn from this because your understanding of privileged oppression needs some deepening. 
1. ” Uh, you may be Nicaraguan American but whatever, clearly they don’t shout at you in the same way. So STFU. ” 
What does that even mean? And why was it even necessary to bring up this persons cultural identity here? Were you pointing out that elVega isn’t white and so they could never understand “white girl’s” situation? Everyone has imagination and intellect and can imagine what it was like from “white girl’s” description. You have no point here. Also don’t “whatever” someone’s identity. That’s just rude. Don’t do it. 
2. “Why don’t you stop defending your misogynist compatriots and have a little solidarity. Harassment is not a compliment.” 
Okay, so compatriots means fellow citizen of a nation. elVega is Nicaraguan AMERICAN, that means this person is American. That’s why it’s stuck in there at the end. Sorry to let you down, but elVega is you’re compatriot and you’re haste to jump to deny their American identity IS A MICROAGRESSION. If this person didn’t have Nicaraguan heritage you would’ve said “don’t defend misogyny” but instead you decided to go the racist route. Good job. 
And I’m not sure if you’ve just gotten out of a feminism 101 class and you’re hot to stomp out male privilege everywhere but something you might’ve not gotten to yet is Western European Feminism is exclusive and based off of Western European experiences. You’re definition of misogyny does not apply to Nicaraguan culture so don’t call all Nicaraguans misogynists. That’s, again, racist. 
Also elVega is showing mad solidarity, by speaking up when Nicaraguan people are being racially stereotyped by you and white chick. 
3. “Actually, it’s your fellow Nicaraguans who are perpetuating the ‘white beauty ideal’ by saying that. Not her. Why don’t you take it up with them.” 
Oh wow, you threw in another completely pointless reference to the fact that this person is Nicaraguan, look at you being casually racist all over the place. And no, it’s her, she took up space on this site to say “hey guys! people think I’m beautiful because I’m white! It’s awful.” The men who were cat calling her learned that white is “beautiful” through histories of colonization, U.S. interference and globalization. Through European people traipsing through the country, stealing resources, land and lives and meanwhile shaming dark skin and rewarding light skin. 
So worse things have happened in the world. Like colonization, that was a horrible thing that happened and is still effecting colonized nations, peoples and communities today as we try to recover what is left of these cultures and learn how to love our cultures when we are constantly told by the dominant one that we are inferior. This site is about the way we still live with those histories and how they come to head in small, daily interactions. How people who have historically had privileges, like being white, male, straight, rich, gender conforming – act out their feelings of entitlement and false superiority in just a few actions or sentences. And how people who have historically been oppressed and marginalized have to deal with that s*** like 15+ times a day, everyday, all the time.

Project much?

By Steve Sailer on 3/07/2013 110 comments
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NBC's defense in George Zimmerman's defamation suit: Rest of media did it too

From the Washington Post:
NBC’s Zimmerman response: Other media outlets highlighted race 
Posted by Erik Wemple on March 7, 2013 at 5:50 pm 
NBC doesn’t want to deal with George Zimmerman’s libel suit. In a Feb. 20 filing in the case, NBC Universal Media LLC asks a Florida circuit court to stay the case until the conclusion of Zimmerman’s June trial for second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin. 
The procedural part of the motion — that the libel case and the criminal case overlap and can’t proceed smoothly at the same time — is far less interesting than the substantive case that lawyers for NBC News advance in defense of the network. 
To recap Zimmerman’s case against NBC News: On the night that he shot Martin, Zimmerman called 911 and narrated his pursuit of the teenager in his gated community in Sanford, Fla. A March 27 edition of the “Today” show abridged the 911 tape, as follows: 
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black. 
Here’s what that abridgment was abridging: 
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about. 
Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic? 
Zimmerman: He looks black. 
There’s a black-and-white difference between those two treatments. In the first, Zimmerman is an out-and-out racial profiler. In the second, he’s just a guy answering reasonable questions from an emergency dispatcher. 
Among the important themes of NBC’s recent motion is the way other news outlets portrayed Zimmerman and the larger issues in the case. For example, it notes that a Reuters story played up the racial dimension of thing, quoting the Martin family’s lawyer, Benjamin Crump, as saying that race was the “600-pound elephant in the room.” It cites an early CBS piece noting that the case has “serious racial overtones.” It cites a Huffington Post account saying that “The martin family’s attorneys and black community leaders have said the teenager was profiled and targeted because he was young and black.” It cites a Christian Science Monitor account saying that “[f]or many tuning in across the nation, the shooting late last month in Florida of an unarmed black teenager by a suspicious neighborhood watch captain looks like a racially motivated murder.”

Indeed.

By Steve Sailer on 3/07/2013 17 comments
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How pharma firms jack your bills up through payoffs to would-be competitors

Since most people get most of their medicine at least subsidized by health insurance or Medicare/Medicaid, there isn't much general interest in the murky deals made by pharmaceutical firms with potential competitors, generic manufacturers, to hold on to monopoly profits a little longer. But an upcoming Supreme Court case will shine a light on this.

A reader explains:
It's all controlled by the Hatch-Waxman Act; the Wikipedia article is better than the average one on a controversial subject, though out of date. But even when a patent expires, the generic doesn't get to sell until they get FDA approval that they're manufacturing the generic to a +/-20% approximation of the original drug. I've had pharma execs complain bitterly to me that the generics aren't the same thing. 

Ranbaxy of India had a two year right to be the only generic manufacturer of gigadrug Lipitor, but agreed with Pfizer to delay introducing a generic version. Then when they did introduce a generic, it had to be recalled for having glass particles in the pills!
Wrt to generics cutting sweetheart deals with patent holders ("pay for delay"), the FTC has been complaining about it for years, but pharma kept beating it back in court -- until last year, and now the Supreme Court is stepping in to resolve the question once and for all, or at least until lobbyists on one side or the other get to Congress. It's getting argued in three weeks, so you'll start to see a lot of news stories about the issue soon.   

Here's the summary of the upcoming case involving Andrew Sullivan's favorite career pick-me-up AndroGel:
FTC v. Actavis (formerly Watson): 
Issue: Whether reverse-payment agreements are per se lawful unless the underlying patent litigation was a sham or the patent was obtained by fraud (as the court below held), or instead are presumptively anticompetitive and unlawful (as the Third Circuit has held). (Alito, J., recused)

The Foley law firm explains:
ANDA litigation often is settled by a "reverse payment" agreement, wherein the patent owner pays the would-be generic company (the ANDA filer) to stay off the market for a period of time. (It is called a "reverse" payment because usually it is the infringer who pays the patent owner.) 

In other words, the firm with the original patent pays the challenger to take a dive in the lawsuit.
While patents are given special treatment under antitrust laws, the FTC does not like reverse payment settlement agreements. According to the FTC's assertions in its petition for certiorari in the Watson AndroGel® case: 
Reverse-payment agreements tend to support monopoly pricing of brand-name drugs by delaying the onset of generic competition .... 
Reverse-payment agreements ... [cost] consumers billions of dollars each year. 
The FTC also implies that the majority of patents would be invalidated if litigation proceeded: 
[A] substantial fraction of fully litigated patent cases have, historically, resulted in a finding of patent invalidity. 
Overall, in cases litigated to decision, would-be generic competitors have prevailed three quarters of the time in paragraph IV patent litigation against brand-name manufacturers.

This sounds boring, but giant piles of money are involved.

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Morningside Heights Deli of White Racism identified

A friend in New York identifies the Deli of Discrimination where, according to an NYT column by Ta-Nehisi Coates ("The Good, Racist People"), white racism caused actor Forrest Whitaker to be suspected of shoplifting:
Oferrcrissakes. 
Coates never mentions the name of the place. I had to find that out somewhere else. 
It's the Milano Market. Too pricey for me. Everyone who works there is either Hispanic, or Muslim - or perhaps, African. But that's true of ALL the small markets in all of Manhattan, not just the UWS. There are no white deli help, cashiers, stockers, etc.* 
If he was stopped, it was not by a white person. 
But of course, it's all whitey's fault. 
The comments are sickening. Sometimes the Times actually has perceptive or dissenting comments, but apparently not this time. 

This reminds me of 1991 when my wife and I were in the Soho Dean & Deluca, an extremely expensive grocery store, looking for a gourmet gift for our hosts. Standing ahead of us in the checkout line was ... the 7-Up Uncola Nut guy! Geoffrey Holder, 6'6" black Trinidadian classically trained actor (the Haitian voodoo villain in a James Bond movie) with the basso profundo voice and the shaved head.

The kid at the checkout counter (and back then there were white kids working in grocery stores in Manhattan) looked up at him and said, "Hey, you're ... you're ..."

Holder looked down magnanimously and replied in his vastly deep and perfectly modulated voice, "Why, yes, you are right. I am James Earl Jones. But, don't tell anyone. You see, I'm traveling incogneeeeeeeto!" And then he let out a laugh like a gas main erupting and walked off chuckling.

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It's not always sunny in Philadelphia

Here's a massively controversial article in Philadelphia Magazine where a white journalist talks about the subject of race in Philadelphia with less misdirection than is the norm:
Being White in Philly 
Whites, race, class, and the things that never get said. 
By Robert Huber 
March 2013 
759 Comments and 0 Reactions

My younger son goes to Temple, where he’s a sophomore. This year he’s living in an apartment with two friends at 19th and Diamond, just a few blocks from campus. It’s a dangerous neighborhood. Whenever I go see Nick, I get antsy and wonder what I was thinking, allowing him to rent there. 
One day, before I pick him up for lunch, I stop to talk to a cop who’s parked a block away from Nick’s apartment. 
“Is he already enrolled for classes?” the cop says when I point out where my son lives. 
Well, given that it’s December, I think so. But his message is clear: Bad idea, this neighborhood. A lot of burglaries and robberies. Temple students are prime prey, the cop says. 
Later, driving up Broad Street as I head home to Mount Airy, I stop at a light just north of Lycoming and look over at some rowhouses. One has a padlocked front door. A torn sheet covering the window in that door looks like it might be stained with sewage. I imagine not a crackhouse, but a child, maybe several children, living on the other side of that stained sheet. Plenty of children in Philadelphia live in places like that. Plenty live on Diamond, where my son rents, where there always seem to be a lot of men milling around doing absolutely nothing, where it’s clearly not a safe place to be. 
I’ve shared my view of North Broad Street with people—white friends and colleagues—who see something else there: New buildings. Progress. Gentrification. They’re sunny about the area around Temple. I think they’re blind, that they’ve stopped looking. Indeed, I’ve begun to think that most white people stopped looking around at large segments of our city, at our poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods, a long time ago. One of the reasons, plainly put, is queasiness over race. Many of those neighborhoods are predominantly African-American. And if you’re white, you don’t merely avoid them—you do your best to erase them from your thoughts. 
At the same time, white Philadelphians think a great deal about race. Begin to talk to people, and it’s clear it’s a dominant motif in and around our city. Everyone seems to have a story, often an uncomfortable story, about how white and black people relate.

Many other journalists have objected to Huber writing honestly about race:

Jason Fagone writes:
Philly Mag’s “Being White in Philly” Doesn’t Make Sense as Journalism 
How do you launch a frank discussion about race under a cloak of anonymity?

Uh, how do you a launch a frank discussion about race not under a cloak of anonymity? To be precise, Huber isn't anonymous, but the white people who agreed to talk to him wanted anonymity.

And here's more controversy from Romenesko.

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How long until a drug goes generic?

Informative readers have pointed out various websites that give clues about when currently high-priced on-patent drugs might be available as generics. For example, here's an FDA site. 

But it's not exactly user friendly, especially when you consider that a huge fraction of patients are not quite as sharp as they used to be. For example, here's what I get for Lipitor, the biggest revenue drug in the history of pharmaceuticals, which I've been getting generically for around a year:

Patent and Exclusivity Search Results from query on Appl No 020702 Product 001 in the OB_Rx list. 

Patent Data

Appl
No
Prod
No
Patent
No
Patent
Expiration
Drug Substance
Claim
Drug Product
Claim
Patent Use
Code
Delist
Requested
N0207020015686104Nov 11, 2014YU - 213
N0207020015686104*PEDMay 11, 2015U - 213
N0207020015969156Jul 8, 2016Y
N0207020015969156*PEDJan 8, 2017
N0207020016126971Jan 19, 2013Y
N0207020016126971*PEDJul 19, 2013

Exclusivity Data

There is no unexpired exclusivity for this product. 

I'm pretty baffled by the rows of information, but it looks like the sentence at the end is pretty clear: "There is no unexpired exclusivity for this product."

But for products that are still on patent, it's not at all clear what's going on:

Patent Data

Appl
No
Prod
No
Patent
No
Patent
Expiration
Drug Substance
Claim
Drug Product
Claim
Patent Use
Code
Delist
Requested
x003z*PEDJul 16, 2012
x003qFeb 14, 2014YY
x003e*PEDAug 14, 2014
x003rAug 30, 2012U - 629
x003y*PEDMar 2, 2013
x003p*PEDJul 16, 2012

Exclusivity Data

Appl NoProd NoExclusivity CodeExclusivity Expiration
x003M - 61Oct 10, 2015

x003PEDApr 10, 2016

So , how much longer until a patient can get it generically?

This would seem like the kind of thing that Cass Sunnstein, the Obama Administration's Nudgeocrat, could more profitably devote his time to doing than to his previous bright ideas like having the government battle on-line conspiracy theorizing by organizing a conspiracy to infiltrate conspiracy theorizers and plant more pro-government views. (The history of agent provocateurs raises severe questions about this approach.)

Cass, why don't you use your big brain to make it easy for an 80-year-old to figure out how long until his brand name medicine goes generic?

The other issues is that there is a lot of leeway in when things go generic because of anti-competition conspiracies between patent-holders and generic manufacturers. I'd like to see a scorecard where that gets spelled out in comprehensible detail. Make it easy to tote up just how much healthcare spending is boosted annually by anti-competitive agreements between patent holders and generic manufacturers. I wouldn't be surprised if the number is something like $100 billion annually. And yet, you almost never hear of it outside of investors' discussion groups.

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Obie Microaggressions Do Manhattan

Oberlin has a wonderful website for the racially aggrieved, of which it has no shortage, called Oberlin Microagressions. The New York Times opinion page today features the ubiquitous (but, to be frank, not scintillatingly bright) Ta-Nehisi Coates on a Manhattan microaggression against a movie star.

The election of Obama in 2008 was promised to usher in a post-racial age. The re-election seems to have ushered in an age of intensifying racial animus against whites.

How come?
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Is there a central website for when drugs go generic?

The way my family's health insurance works most of the time, we pay $45 per month for brand name pharmaceuticals that are on patent and $10 per month for drugs where the patents have expired and they've gone generic. So, the difference for maintenance drugs is $420 per year, which is not insubstantial. 

Therefore, I look forward to the day when an old brand name drug goes generic. If I knew that a brand name drug would be patented for the next 10 years, which would cost me an incremental $4,200, I might have a serious discussion with my doctor about how much better the brand name drug sold by that moonlighting NFL cheerleader he likes is compared to the generic. 

But, finding out when a drug will go generic is a hit or miss proposition, even with Google.  The best site I found for one drug is a discussion forum for pharmaceutical sales reps where they bitch about when the company is going to lay them off when the drug goes generic. But even these guys (and gals) couldn't agree over whether the day of doom (for them, not me) was Christmas 2013 or Memorial Day 2014. Other evidence comes from firms' press releases for SEC purposes. But it's all very scattershot. And I'm a much better Google searcher than most pill consumers.

Shouldn't there be an official list somewhere of when each brand name drug will go generic and the contingencies that might delay it?

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Do species exist?

From the NYT:
Coming Soon: Long-Delayed Decisions on Endangered Species 
The eastern massasauga rattlesnake has been a candidate for protection since 1982, a legless bridesmaid, never a bride. Ditto the elfin-woods warbler. Like them, the Dakota skipper butterfly, a cucumber-bodied flier that zips unusually fast (for a butterfly) over the Minnesota and Dakota prairies, is dying out as development shrinks its habitat. It nevertheless has hung on, its candidacy deferred since 1975. 
Belatedly, the Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service is giving them all — and 258 more — a thumbs up or down for protection under the Endangered Species Act, the 1973 law that was among the early triumphs of the environmental movement. 
It is evidence of the law’s travails that it took a federal judge to get them to this point. 

I haven't really read up on the Endangered Species Act since Charles C. Mann's series of articles in The Atlantic in the mid-1990s. Perhaps it has been amended since then? The 1973 legislation was hustled through Congress and signed by Nixon (who had bigger worries) without anybody thinking through the law's absolutist wording. The idea was to save the bald eagle and other charismatic megafauna, but nobody had any idea then just how many species there were in the United States (does anybody now?) Yet, the bill doesn't distinguish between wolves and weeds. A species is a species.

So, I presume, the unlimited demands of the legislation have mostly been blunted by not giving the bureaucrats a big enough budget to fully implement the ESA's fundamentalist language. But now a judge and the Obama Administration have negotiated a major expansion in coverage.
Under a 2011 settlement of two lawsuits by conservation activists, the wildlife service has pledged to decide the fates of all the backlogged species by 2018. A schedule issued by the service on Feb. 8 promised to decide by September whether to add 97 species to the endangered list, including 70 covered by the lawsuit settlement. 
Moreover, the service has finished preliminary work on more than 550 other potential candidates for the endangered-species list, almost all of which will be further evaluated after the backlog is erased. 
“They’ve dramatically increased the number of decisions they’re making — both positive and negative decisions, but the vast majority of decisions are positive,” said Kierán Suckling, the executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, an Arizona conservation organization that is a party to the settlement. 
It is the most feverish activity on imperiled wildlife in two decades, an improbable feat amid ferocious attacks from conservative critics and in an economy with little money to spare for environmental frivolities. 
The wildlife service, the steward of most of the 1,400 species on the endangered list, casts the settlement as an opportunity to get back to its mission. 
... Skeptics might ask whether any species that can wait decades for listing was endangered to begin with. The answer, experts say, is that some aren’t; the wildlife service is likely to remove some from consideration after re-evaluation. But most of the rest are probably in declines lasting decades that would not be arrested without outside help. 
... Should many of the 800-plus species listed in the settlement be granted federal protection, as seems likely eventually, the endangered list could increase as much as 60 percent — and encompass more territory than ever before. ...
Developers are increasingly anxious over the possible listing of more than 400 freshwater mussels that live in rivers close to urban areas, mainly in the Southeast.

The mention of "more than 400 freshwater mussels" raises the central philosophical question about the Endangered Species Act that, as far as I can tell, remains unanswered: how do we know what is a species and what isn't? How do we know that the supposedly endangered San Fernando Spineflower is really a different species from the common San Gabriel Spineflower (the assumption that the answer to this question is yes derailed a billion dollar housing development in California). Do species exist? If so, how do you define them? How can the wolf-dog that lives down the block be two different species? 

If you think these questions sound familiar, yes, they are fairly analogous to the debate over whether or not race exists. The usual arguments are between those who view races as subspecies and those who point out the problems with the concept of subspecies. 

Yet, even the better established concept of species has many problems both in theory and in practice. Thus, there have been, last I checked, a couple of dozen different definitions of species put forward by biologists. Ernst Mayr proposed the simplest: interfertility defines a species. That's something you can wrap your head around. But there are problems. What about species that reproduce asexually? Among sexually reproducing species, how can you tell whether or not two of the 400 different types of mussels are interfertile or not? As we know from pandas, captive breeding programs are tricky. And what about types of animals who are interfertile but seem worth differentiating, such as dog, wolves, and coyotes?

In general, naturalists just look at animals and decide. (Linnaeus's stroke of genius was that he concentrated upon the reproductive organs, which meant that he was getting some indication of interfertility that way.)

Indeed, it was while I was thinking about the Endangered Species Act and the issues surrounding specieshood during the biodiversity debates of the 1990s kicked off by Edward O. Wilson's campaign to save the rainforests that led me to try to ground the study of human biodiversity in something less woozy than the notion of race as subspecies. Instead, I reasoned, something we know exists for every human is a genetic family tree and a biological extended family. If we go back to thinking about racial groups as extended families, one given a higher degree of coherence and endurance by partial inbreeding, then we have a stronger, broader concept that can be used in vastly more human situations than in just trying to differentiate continental-scale racial groups by skin color in the post-1492 world.

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The central irony of 21st Century American politics

From the Wall Street Journal:
The Reverse-Joads of California
by Allysia Finley 
Low- and middle-income residents are fleeing the state. Sacramento's liberal policies may bear much of the blame.
Over the past two decades, a net 3.4 million people have moved out of California for other states. But contrary to conservative lore, there has been no millionaires' march to Texas or other states with no income tax. In fact, since 2005 California has experienced a net in-migration of households earning more than $200,000, according to the U.S. Census's American Community Survey. 
As it happens, most of California's outward-bound migrants are low- to middle-income, with relatively little education: those typically employed in agriculture, construction, manufacturing, hospitality and to some extent natural-resource extraction. Their median household income is about $40,000—two-thirds of the statewide median—and about 95% earn less than $80,000. Only one in 10 has a college degree, compared with 30% of California's population. Roughly 40% of the people leaving are Hispanic. 
Even while California's Hispanic population has grown by more than 1.5 million since 2005, thanks to high birth rates and foreign immigration, two Hispanics have moved out for every one that has moved in from another state. 
By contrast, four Hispanics from other states have settled in Texas and Arizona for every three that have left. 

The central paradox of American political life is that blacks and Latinos tend to do better in Republican states while affluent whites do best in Democratic states.

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Downside of Moynihan's Law of the Canadian Border: It's cold

Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Law of the Canadian Border says that the farther north an American state is, the fewer social problems it will have. One downside of this is northern states' underdeveloped intellectual immune systems. Texans and Georgians are less naive, so cold states tend to be the biggest suckers for refugees from hot weather countries. But the refugees aren't ready for Canadian Border weather themselves. If they came from cold climate cultures, they probably wouldn't be refugees because they would less often get into murderous feuds with their neighbors.

From the NYT:
PORTLAND, Me. — Charlene Masengu left the Democratic Republic of Congo late last year, hoping to get asylum status in the United States after a wave of political violence made life at home unbearably dangerous. She made it to this coastal city last month, just before it was covered in more than 30 inches of snow, and she wondered, briefly, whether she had made a mistake. 
Ms. Masengu was squeezed, notebook in hand, into a plain conference room at the city’s center for refugee services. She and dozens of others were here to be schooled in a central piece of Portland’s cultural curriculum for its growing population of new arrivals, many of whom are asylum-seekers from Central Africa: the art of handling a Maine winter. 
... Northern New England would seem an unlikely destination for immigrants from Central Africa, but many new arrivals — who include a steady number of refugees and a rapidly growing number of asylum seekers, who say they are refugees but whose claims have not yet been evaluated — are drawn here by referrals from family and friends, as well as the relatively low crime rates of this region’s small and manageable cities.  
... More than anything, he says, his students have to learn how to bring the weather into their daily calculus. “The weather forecast — you have to plan ahead. The best way to do that is wake up in the morning, put the TV on and look at the cancellations,” Mr. Alloding said. 
Miguel Chimukeno, from Angola, rose to ask a question in Portuguese, which another student translated to French, which the French interpreter, Eric Ndayizi, posed to Mr. Alloding. 
“He’s low income — zero income — and you said they should watch TV and know some information. How does he get TV?” Mr. Ndayizi asked. 
“There’s nobody that’s going to issue out TV’s,” Mr. Alloding said. “My only suggestion is that you talk to your neighbors.” 
One of the biggest winter-related issues refugees face, Mr. Alloding said, is dealing with the heat in their apartments. “Some landlords have evicted some of my clients,” he told the class. “There is a complaint that a certain population will open the heat at 90 and keep it on. They are under law to provide you with a temperature of no more than 67.”

Wouldn't it be better for all concerned just to pay neighboring Third World countries to take in the refugees?

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March 6, 2013

"26 Dead in Misconceived 'Oberlin Spring Break in Seville'"

Traditional procession of penitents to Seville Cathedral
SEVILLE, SPAIN -- An Oberlin-sponsored cultural enrichment trip, "Spring Break in Seville," turned tragic today, as seven students, two professors, and 17 staffers from the Ohio liberal arts college's Multicultural Resource Center suffered terror-induced heart attacks at the sight of the Spanish city's customary march of hooded penitents.

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Breaking News: "Oberlin announces campus security to be bolstered by 'Django Patrols'"

Artist's conception of
Oberlin's new security force
OBERLIN, OH -- After a spate of nationally publicized racist hate crimes during February's Black History Month, which runs until March 10th on this progressive campus, Oberlin College announced today that it was bolstering campus security with "Django Patrols." Unemployed black victims of structural racism are being bused in from Cleveland, handed six-shooters, and told to shoot first, ask questions later if they see any white racists.

The response among experts was highly positive.

Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Association, replied, "Now that's the kind of proactive institutional creativity we've been talking about: pro-gun sales pro-responsible gun ownership and anti-racism! What could possibly go wrong?"

Quentin Tarantino, who won a Best Writer Oscar last week for his screenplay of Django Unchained, faxed back a hand-printed note reading, "Im like wow! Remember that seen in Balcazars awsome spahggeti westurn Jesse Doe'snt Forgiv - He KKKill!? Well, this is just like that only like mor so, you now?!"

Oberlin grad Lena Dunham, star of HBO's "Girls," used all of Twitter's 140 character limit to enthuse, "Hey Obies, Oberlin's diverse anti-patriarchal revolutionary yet comfortable and accepting climate is treasured forever in my heart, but ar"

Articulate movie star Christoph Waltz, who earned the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for playing Django Freeman's mentor in mayhem, Dr. King Schultz, issued a quadrilingual statement of praise that, unfortunately, exceeded in size all available disk storage options. Requests for a manageable excerpt had not been returned as of press time, despite multiple calls to Waltz's longtime publicist, Christopher Dorner.

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Michelle Malkin (Oberlin '92) on Hate Hoaxes and Hate Hysteria

Michelle Malkin is a graduate of Oberlin:
The Coddling of College Hate Crime Hoaxers 
By Michelle Malkin · March 6, 2013         
American college campuses are the most fertile grounds for fake hate. They're marinated in identity politics and packed with self-indulgent, tenured radicals suspended in the 1960s. In the name of enlightenment and tolerance, these institutions of higher learning breed a corrosive culture of left-wing self-victimization. Take my alma mater, Oberlin College. Please. ...
Oberlin alumna Lena Dunham, a cable TV celebrity who starred in a pro-Obama ad likening her vote for him to losing her virginity, took to Twitter to rally her fellow "Obies." The Associated Press dutifully reported Dunham's plea as news: "Hey, Obies, remember the beautiful, inclusive and downright revolutionary history of the place you call home. Protect each other."

Judging from their tweets, it sound like staffwriter Lesley Arfin brings "Girls" much of its needed edge.
But what the AP public relations team for Dunham and the Oberlin mau-mau-ers didn't report is the rest of the story. While Blame Righty propagandists bemoaned the frightening persistence of white supremacy in the tiny town of Oberlin, city police told a local reporter that eyewitnesses saw no one in KKK garb -- but instead saw a pedestrian wearing a blanket. Yes, the dreaded Assault Blanket of Phantom Bias. 
... Color me unsurprised. The truth is that Oberlin has been a hotbed of dubious hate crime claims, dating back to the late 1980s and 1990s, when I was a student on campus. ... 
In 1993, a memorial arch on campus dedicated to Oberlin missionaries who died in the Boxer Rebellion was defaced with anti-Asian graffiti. The venomous messages ... led to a paroxysm of protests, administration self-flagellation and sanctimonious resolutions condemning bigotry. But the hate crime was concocted by an Asian-American Oberlin student engaged in the twisted pursuit of raising awareness about hate by faking it, Tawana Brawley-style. 
Segregated dorms, segregated graduations and segregated academic departments foster paranoid and selective race-consciousness. While I was on campus, one Asian-American student accused a library worker of racism after the poor staffer asked the grievance-mongering student to lower the blinds where she was studying. Call the Department of Justice! 
A black student accused an ice cream shop owner of racism after he told the student she was not allowed to sit at an outside table because she hadn't purchased any items from his store. Alert the U.N. Commission on Human Rights! 
In 2006, I went back to Oberlin to confront the campus with the hate crime hoax phenomenon. As I told students back then, liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks. I documented case after case of phony racism by students and faculty, from Ole Miss to Arizona State to Claremont McKenna, and contrasted it with the vitriolic prejudice that tolerant lefties have for minorities who stray from the political plantation. 

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