tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post7850801488821777422..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: George Kennan, Fareed Zakaria, Kim KardashianUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49480897796095221992014-03-04T16:33:07.391-08:002014-03-04T16:33:07.391-08:00"Just think what kind of country the US would..."Just think what kind of country the US would be if the Anglos didn't bring in slaves and didn't allow the Great Wave of immigration."<br /><br />Canada. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89304667295067877602014-03-03T22:51:35.228-08:002014-03-03T22:51:35.228-08:00The Brits and the French routinely allied with the...<i>The Brits and the French routinely allied with the Ottomans against Russia....</i><br /><br />Since that, too, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Ottoman_alliance" rel="nofollow">did not happen to Russia alone,</a> you are in fact reinforcing the point I already made.<br /><br />I do not wish to demean Russia or Russians, but there are apparently some Russophiles on these threads who seriously need to get over themselves.HAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61019522924125286812014-03-03T21:24:04.448-08:002014-03-03T21:24:04.448-08:00Just think what kind of country the US would be if...<i>Just think what kind of country the US would be if the Anglos didn't bring in slaves and didn't allow the Great Wave of immigration.</i><br /><br />I'm sure it'd have been quite the country. The really interesting thought experiment is to imagine no slavery, no great waves <i>and</i> a continuation of the sorts of eugenic policies emerging early in the 20th century. Now, although such a country would have had no place for a butthurt ethnic grievance-monger with wounded amour-propre like me, that would have been a real sight to see.Silvernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15127526120975678982014-03-03T20:57:26.106-08:002014-03-03T20:57:26.106-08:00whereas in Australia they just bundle together all...<i> whereas in Australia they just bundle together all people who give their ancestry as deriving from Britain and Ireland (the majority of Australians ) as "Anglo-Celt" . </i><br /><br />Even Anglo-Celtic is somewhat fabricated. Anyone (both white and non-white) roughly 35 or older would regard it as fairly standard to refer to people of British and Irish descent as simply "Australian" (ie as a racial identifier), even if they are aware that doing so is exclusive and "racist." Among the younger generations of whites I commonly hear people describing their backgrounds as "English" or "English and [whatever]" rather than as "Australian" or "Australian and [..]" as was done when I in high school. Silvernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52000332895383122552014-03-03T20:48:50.740-08:002014-03-03T20:48:50.740-08:00It was still before PC went wild, before all this ...<i>It was still before PC went wild, before all this gayish SWPL took over the culture.</i><br /><br />I had a wonderful childhood so I look back on the 80s very fondly. Of course, a child's perception is very different to an adult's. The impression I have of the era as an adult is that it was the last Great White Decade. A white couldn't be openly "racist," but provided he cloaked it in terms of "western civilization" he could express pride in his country and his culture without fear or shame. That began to rapidly change in the 1990s to the point where today the only permissible white identity is that of flamboyant racial self-abnegator. <br /><br />I am fiercely determined to do what I can to right this pathetic state of affairs, both because I favor the chain of political consequences I foresee as being triggered by a revitalization of white identity, and because, dammit, it's the right thing to do. Decades from now when, God willing, I'm an old man someone may ask me, "Silver, when the white race was on its last legs, what did you do?" And I will be able to tell him, "I did the right thing." Silvernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84492289276615933222014-03-03T19:06:44.274-08:002014-03-03T19:06:44.274-08:00Find it of interest that Americans when talking ab...Find it of interest that Americans when talking about ethnic background usually talk , both personally and officially , of English , Scottish, Welsh and Irish ( and Scots-Irish and Irish Catholic , maybe Anglo Irish , Highland Scots , Lowland Scots etc etc ) whereas in Australia they just bundle together all people who give their ancestry as deriving from Britain and Ireland (the majority of Australians ) as "Anglo-Celt" . <br /><br />I'm aware that the settlement patterns of America and Australia have been quite different which may account for such nomenclature but note that ancestries from other countries such as Germany are not broken up in such a way <br /><br />Must say I prefer the Australian approach which emphasizes the much greater commonality rather than ( all things considered ) the relatively small differences between what the DNA analysis tells us is fundamentally the same tribeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44195138039681205562014-03-03T17:34:55.966-08:002014-03-03T17:34:55.966-08:00This is a message for the would-be anti-Catholic h...This is a message for the would-be anti-Catholic humorist at 6.16 AM = Newton had fourteen, fifteen or sixteen great-great-grandparents of Catholic heritage, and he is considered a better physicist than any one from any other ethnic group. (very distant seconds, Einstein and Aristotle). Shakespeare had four Catholic grandparents, and two Catholic parents, and he was a better writer than any one from any other ethnic group in these post-messianic times, except maybe Dante and Cervantes (both Catholic, with some genetic Jewish admixture in Miguel's background, I suppose, and of course the three of them liberally copied hundreds of ancient Hebrew word combinations). Having covered mathematical and verbal summits, I will now turn to visual arts. Da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Velazquez (all Catholic, with some Jewish admixture) are so good that no sane artist has claimed to be better than them in the last several hundred years (it is less easy to get away with bragging in the visual arts than in the other arts, so there are no equivalents to the Shakespeare-deriding Tolstoys and Shaws among decent visual artists). Oh, and there is Palestrina, Mozart and Chopin, not to mention the most celebrated musicians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Anyway - Thanks for reading, while I am sure I have not made you more witty and sarcastic, hopefully you, having been given a reason not to indulge in stupid allusions to alleged Catholic intellectual deficiencies in the future, are now less ignorant than you were before reading this comment. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66959407701366976902014-03-03T16:46:32.523-08:002014-03-03T16:46:32.523-08:00"Blacks 106
Mexicans 85
American Indians 85
I..."Blacks 106<br />Mexicans 85<br />American Indians 85<br />Italians 70<br />Irish 67<br />Jews 64<br />Germans 56<br />English/Welsh 47<br /><br />My hunch was correct. This pattern coincides with that feeling that goes way back among nativists that the moral quality of the country was slipping with the mass immigration from Catholic, southern and eastern European countries, and more recently in concern over immigration from Mexico.<br />Posted by Ron Guhname "<br /><br />Just think what kind of country the US would be if the Anglos didn't bring in slaves and didn't allow the Great Wave of immigration.<br /><br /><br />They really blew it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86886011833820737372014-03-03T13:45:54.452-08:002014-03-03T13:45:54.452-08:00Silver said...
"My favorite Fareed Zakaria mo...Silver said...<br />"My favorite Fareed Zakaria momement was him telling Sean Hannity to his face that he's (Fareed) a better American than Hannity because he chose to become American, while Hannity was merely born as one. Hannity just sat there smiling stupidly..."<br /><br />Which demonstrates just how stupid Hannity is. I'd have replied,<br />"Look, if I was born in some Third World Sh*thole, I'd want to immigrate to the US, too. What happened -- did Canada and Australia turn you down? Because as your presence demonstrates, we take anyone."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35814267800841566512014-03-03T13:32:15.974-08:002014-03-03T13:32:15.974-08:00Sorry to be so tardy on this perennial topic:
&qu...Sorry to be so tardy on this perennial topic:<br /><br />"1. Wounded ethnic amour-propre: Apparently many Germans, Irish, Italians, Jews, etc. are simply deeply wounded in the center of their being by the merest suggestion that their presence in America might not have been an unalloyed good."<br /><br />http://inductivist.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html<br />near bottom<br />http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=26188478&postID=2489087754197860379<br /><br />WASPs rule! I wrote in a recent post that I was getting the sense that Americans with Protestant European backgrounds were the best behaved. So I decided to sum all my prior post numbers that dealt with ethnicity and moral behavior to assess this idea systematically. I followed the simple strategy of assigning a rank for each behavior for each of the 8 ethnic groups with sufficiently large sample sizes. Jews were often ignored in previous posts since one must turn to the religion rather than the ethnicity variable to get estimates, but I wanted to include them, so I calculated numbers and then ranks for them.<br /><br />I included all variables that I have posted on--here's a list of them: okay to cheat on taxes; drinks too much; ethnocentric; dirty house; frequents prostitutes; promiscuous men over 30; feel that infidelity is not wrong; gay; lesbian; husbands and wives who cheat; fathers divorcing mom; women arrested; and promiscuity for men and women and under. I realized that I had not posted on drug abuse so I added that to the rest. I ranked group so high numbers indicate more bad behavior, then I simply summed the 16 rankings for each ethnic group. Here are the totals:<br /><br /><br />Bad Behavior Index<br /><br />Blacks 106<br />Mexicans 85<br />American Indians 85<br />Italians 70<br />Irish 67<br />Jews 64<br />Germans 56<br />English/Welsh 47<br /><br />My hunch was correct. This pattern coincides with that feeling that goes way back among nativists that the moral quality of the country was slipping with the mass immigration from Catholic, southern and eastern European countries, and more recently in concern over immigration from Mexico.<br />Posted by Ron Guhname <br /><br />Robert HumeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31321182703293290922014-03-03T13:26:16.663-08:002014-03-03T13:26:16.663-08:00"Cultural trends of the 80s may not have been..."Cultural trends of the 80s may not have been markedly worse than anything seen in the 70s, but they cannot be regarded as improvement."<br /><br />But all said and done, I love the 80s... though I didn't like it when it was happening. <br />It was still before PC went wild, before all this gayish SWPL took over the culture. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57700861813714155382014-03-03T13:22:26.585-08:002014-03-03T13:22:26.585-08:00"I was born in 1977 so I can't comment on..."I was born in 1977 so I can't comment on the basis of personal experiences, but I do wonder if times really were as bad as they so often seem to be remembered by those on the cultural right."<br /><br />77 was cool with Star Wars, Close Encounters, Saturday Night Fever. Great stuff for a 9/10 yr old. I remember seeing Annie Hall back then but didn't get any of the reference-laden jokes. The only joke I got was 'spider the size of a buick'. But then maybe, it was an allusion to the spider in Bergman's THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, so maybe I didn't get that one either as I didn't know who Bergman was. (Was it an allusion to Kafka? Spider in the bathroom of a shikse?) <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90058565362832357262014-03-03T12:21:31.904-08:002014-03-03T12:21:31.904-08:00Yeah, but in fairness to Kim Kardashian, she's...Yeah, but in fairness to Kim Kardashian, she's never pretended to be an intellectual.<br /><br />Unlike plagiarist and all round bullsh*t artist Fareed Zakaria. <br /><br />As for Kennan, R.I.P.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55268273460270253482014-03-03T11:30:00.788-08:002014-03-03T11:30:00.788-08:00Did anyone here ever read Peter Schrag's 1971 ...Did anyone here ever read Peter Schrag's 1971 book The Decline of the Wasp?buzz halcionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12057481045488633752014-03-03T11:15:44.877-08:002014-03-03T11:15:44.877-08:00"The Catholic Irish, for example, dearly nurs..."The Catholic Irish, for example, dearly nurse their grudges.<br /><br />Like the Jews, or Armenians? Or, for that matter, Western Ukrainians?"<br /><br />Irish Catholic grievance nursing is much over-stated. I say this an agrieved Irish Catholic. Most of the ones I grew up with were dead keen on the Queen and watched Charles & Diana's wedding rather than get to work on time that fateful morn in June 81.<br /><br />Grievance nursing only thrives when there is genuine suffering still going on; or--this is more common in the United States--when it gets them more stuff. The Irish don't get more stuff going on about the past. The groups that do get more stuff from that exercise are well known.give me grief or give me deathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79135274063956465182014-03-03T11:07:13.684-08:002014-03-03T11:07:13.684-08:00"Anonymous:"You can take the Anglo out o..."Anonymous:"You can take the Anglo out of his cottage but you cannot take the cottage out of the Anglo. <br /><br />Despite all the great conquests and stuff, Anglos and Anglo-Americans still dream of returning home to that old cottage."<br /><br />Something like this was said on some British drama from the 90s, I think. Except that it wasn't a cottage. It was a large estate sort of affair. I guess it depends on the class of the person doing the dreaming.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40072792789992115452014-03-03T10:47:25.662-08:002014-03-03T10:47:25.662-08:00Any claim that the Russians fought the Ottomans al...<i>Any claim that the Russians fought the Ottomans alone is nonsense. Do the names Don John, Jan Sobieski, and Nikola Subic Zrinski mean nothing to you, simply because none of them were Russian?</i><br /><br />The Brits and the French routinely allied with the Ottomans against Russia. The logic was similar to that of Mackinder's "world-island" idea, with the Brits especially tending to ally with the weaker Continental power against the stronger ones.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5473505045476247242014-03-03T09:36:01.635-08:002014-03-03T09:36:01.635-08:00Kennan was spot on.
America is going to spin apa...Kennan was spot on. <br /><br />America is going to spin apart, more violently and dangerously than Ukraine. <br /><br />Detroit on a good day is more dangerous than Northern Ireland ever was. Dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47232632712192609702014-03-03T08:52:33.857-08:002014-03-03T08:52:33.857-08:00"Would you kind gentlemen be so sporting as t..."Would you kind gentlemen be so sporting as to choose a less insulting epithet for my dear late father's people? Say, "gringo", or perhaps "ofay"…"<br /><br />Anglo is fine. Short for Anglo-Saxon for those who are that but wider for the non A-S people who evolved into that whole NW Euro thing inside America.<br /><br />.<br /><br />"Does Germany have any obvious interest in slyly supporting Russia's aims in the Ukraine?"<br /><br />Yes. Neocon permanent revolution is bad for business.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49743630547544917242014-03-03T08:16:08.650-08:002014-03-03T08:16:08.650-08:00Whatever victories Tamerlane had over the Turks wa...<i>Whatever victories Tamerlane had over the Turks was not the beginning of the end for the Ottomans because the very clearly continued to expand long after he was gone.</i><br /><br />So what? No one is saying that the Mongols singlehandedly took down the Ottomans, but of all the countries prattling to everyone around of them "remember that we’re the ones who saved you from the Turks" - the loony comment about poor Russia fighting all alone is a characteristic example – it was the Mongols who first and foremost showed the rest of the world how it could be done. The fact that the Turks then turned their focus on (and made headway into) softer targets, including the Balkans and other parts of Europe still recovering from the Black Plague, does not invalidate the Mongols’ contributions.HAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45000078129575631032014-03-03T07:16:59.127-08:002014-03-03T07:16:59.127-08:00Its unlikely that people with a heritage from outs...<i>Its unlikely that people with a heritage from outside Francia could ever come to a workable understanding of the Anglo outlook, since they do not share the same cultural heritage.</i><br /><br />My wife, who comes from an upper class Mayflower-descended family (with some German and Swedish ancestry as well) would find your emphatic statement amusing. Her family, though illustrious historically, is so far from "the English temperament" that it's almost comical.<br /><br />Meanwhile I am an admirer of Edmund Burke, and I was born and partly raised in Northeast Asia. I introduced Burkean conservatism and orthodox Christianity to my wife. And, yes, I too am an opponent of mass immigration, including that from Asia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41324290159845162012014-03-03T06:58:02.806-08:002014-03-03T06:58:02.806-08:00JWS said...
He was on the faculty at Princeton&#...<i>JWS said... <br /><br />He was on the faculty at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study from 1956 to 2005. That is a total of 49 years. <br /><br />His wikipedia bio mentions he was unhappy as an undergraduate, but also says he was shy and introverted. Wikipedia may be a little off on this one (shocker) or at least oversimplifying, because he went back to his alma mater and worked there. And five decades just seems a little long to be at a place he was "unhappy and did not fit in," especially for someone who could have easily gotten a faculty position at any other university in the country, although Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, where Einstein spent his last years, is a pretty decent gig.</i><br /><br />The Institute for Advanced Study is located in Princeton, NJ, but is not a part of Princeton University. And, unlike WASP-founded Princeton, the Institute was founded by Abraham Flexner and Louis and Caroline Bamberger, and was home to the likes of Noam Chomsky and J. Robert Oppenheimer.<br /><br /><i>His dad was a tax lawyer. His background was not East Coast elite upper-class WASP like say, the Boston Brahmin families. He was more like Midwestern upper-middle class WASP.</i><br /><br />Emphasis on "middle." He wanted to attend law school but found it too expensive, so tested for the Foreign Service instead.<br /><br />As I wrote before, his writings drip with a sense of superiority toward the lower class and feigned condescension toward his social and economic betters.<br /><br />Kennan fancied himself a Platonic wise man in the European mold (a Western version of a Mandarin) and advocated a governing structure in which such a man as he would have influence, without, of course, any (electoral) accountability.<br /><br />In other words, he was a middle class snob with a chip on his shoulder toward the upper class.<br /><br />Finally, he was never quite the intellectual he fancied himself. He had no noteworthy academic achievement or acclaim. In the policy realm, he was a failure as ambassador to both the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and a failure as the director of policy planning at the State. It was his successor Paul Nitze who authored the eventual anti-Soviet strategy in the form of NSC-68 (Nitze, unlike, Kennan, was an actual WASP elite despite his German, rather than English, origin). Nitze was far clearer-eyed about the Soviet Union and its incremental worldwide revolutionary strategy unlike the so-called realist Kennan.<br /><br />As he aged, Kennan became progressively naive about the Soviet Union and ultimately became a fellow traveler of the nuclear disarmament movement (which was heavily infested with Soviet agents). Much of his fame and lionization derive from being at the right place at the right time during and immediately after World War II and from the fact that the U.S. lacked qualified and trustworthy experts on Russia during that time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81539086328027417352014-03-03T06:16:44.340-08:002014-03-03T06:16:44.340-08:00"I inherited Jewish brains and Catholic aggre..."I inherited Jewish brains and Catholic aggressiveness."<br /><br />Could be other way around.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88650165924622751072014-03-03T05:57:06.844-08:002014-03-03T05:57:06.844-08:00Per capita GDP in Poland $21,000 in 2013. Per capi...Per capita GDP in Poland $21,000 in 2013. Per capita GDP in Ukraine $7,000. Explains a lot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56906933972982506572014-03-03T05:28:26.065-08:002014-03-03T05:28:26.065-08:00"There are NO Protestants on the Supreme Cour..."There are NO Protestants on the Supreme Court, and the President who assured that, the one with the Muslim name, was re-elected."<br /><br />More a manifestation of anti-abortion politics than anything else. Most reliably anti-abortion Protestants are morons, products of left-side of the Bell Curve schools like Bob Jones University. In contrast, there are smart Catholics who are anti-abortion and who have gone to good unis.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com