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In The Mailbox: 10.13.20 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 13, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Big Conspiracy – Democrats & COVID Deaths
Bleach Cocktail: Sunday Comes & Sunday Goes
357 Magnum: New York Wants Your Money To Keep The Transit Unions Happy
EBL: Support John James For The Senate In Michigan
Twitchy: Pelosi Accuses Wolf Blitzer & His CNN Colleagues For Being Republican Apologists
Louder With Crowder: Biden/Harris Held A Rally In Arizona But Nobody Came
Vox Popoli: The Demoralization Season, also, A Mostly Peaceful Murder
Stoic Observations: About That Gunfight

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Let Women Rule Over You Edition
American Conservative: Saving Christopher Columbus From The Cultural Arsonists
American Greatness: KC Attorney/Activist Threatens Police & Their Families, also, Is Big Tech Breaking Campaign Finance Laws?
American Thinker: Are COVID Case Surges More Fake News? also, Nine Warning Signs Of Democrat Radicalization
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Anti-Communist Caravan For Freedom & Democracy Draws Tens Of Thousands Of Cars In Miami
BattleSwarm: Red China Invades Taiwan – Two Scenarios, also, BidenWatch For October 12
Cafe Hayek: The Absurdity Of Ad Hominem
CDR Salamander: Generational Failure
Da Tech Guy: Streaming Downward, also, Jussie Smollett’s Protector Kim Foxx Backs Out Of Debate With GOP Challenger
Don Surber: An Erie Feeling About This Election, also, Why Do Democrats Attract All The Loonies?
First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer Is On Its Last Legs, also, Kaepernick & His Ghostwriter Want To Abolish Police & Prisons
The Geller Report: 30,000 Cars Show Up For Latino Anti-Communist/Pro-Trump Parade In Miami, But Sleepy Joe’s 16 Points Ahead? also, Antifa/Biden Supporters/BLM Celebrate Murder Of Trump Supporter At Denver Rally
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Spaghettification
Hollywood In Toto: D’Souza’s Trump Card Rushes To Top Spot On iTunes & Amazon, also, Rescuing SF From The Horde Of “Woke Zombies”
The Lid: If You Oppose Antisemitism & Support Israel, You Must Vote Trump! also, Adam Schiff Wants To End Small State Voting Rights – For A Start
Legal Insurrection: Sen. Hawley Unloads On Those Who Attack Barrett’s Catholicism – “That’s Bigotry”, also, Biden Forgets Romney’s Name, Refers To Him As “That Mormon Senator”
Power Line: Remembering Whitey Ford, also, Columbus Day
Shark Tank: Marines For Crist?
Shot In The Dark: Body Count, also, Tipping Point
STUMP: Reading The News With Meep
The Political Hat: A Sea-Lion In The Wilds Of Twiiter
This Ain’t Hell: Man Sentenced To 16 Months For Stolen Valor, also, Another Fraudster Targeting Vets
Victory Girls: Teen Vogue Thinks Amy Coney Barrett Is Irresponsible, also, Denver Murder Is A Legal Hot Mess
Volokh Conspiracy: Which Is It, 1619 Or 1776? also, 9th Circus Rules Against Trump’s Diversion Of Military Construction Funds To The Wall
Weasel Zippers: WHO Backflips, Comes Down Against Lockdowns, also, Biden Says Voters “Don’t Deserve To Know” His Position On Court-Packing
The Federalist: Consumer Watchdogs Say Harris Looked The Other Way While Utilities Set Stage For Wildfires, also, Sleepy Joe Forgets What Office He’s Running For, Declares Senate Candidacy
Mark Steyn: Last Laughs & Sweet Spots, also, Tal Bachman – Three Weeks In ’86

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‘Well, We Just Have to Win Then’

Posted on | October 13, 2020 | 2 Comments

Politics is not about debate. Politics isn’t about compromise. It is not about “image.” Ultimately, politics is about power.

This is something Republicans have a habit of forgetting. Because the Republican Party represents the respectable middle class, its leaders tend to be concerned with bourgeois respectability, an encumbrance which does not inhibit Democrats. Having assembled a coalition of the aggrieved and impoverished — including criminals, drug addicts, perverts and decadent intellectuals — Democrats unapologetically advocate the selfish interests of their constituent groups, whereas Republicans seem almost embarrassed by their own middle-class supporters.

Republicans have long complained about how Democrats are able to get away with things that no Republican would even dare attempt. The way Democrats turn Supreme Court confirmation hearings into bizarre “show trial” circuses — first with Brett Kavanaugh, now with Amy Coney Barrett, continuing a tradition that dates back to the original “Borking” — is an example of this disparity. Never have Republicans done to a Democratic nominee what Democrats routinely do to GOP nominees. Democrats can get away with this because most of the media (being decadent intellectuals) are part of their coalition, and can be trusted to apply the desired partisan “spin” to these political dramas.

Democrats are not embarrassed about seeking power, and make no apologies about wielding power. They constantly accuse Republicans of authoritarian ambitions, Democrats openly act in dictatorial manner whenever they obtain power. Just look at the way Democratic governors like Andrew Cuomo, Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom have imposed draconian policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This morning, I made the mistake of turning up the sound on my office TV, and endured Sen. Diane Feinstein’s questioning of Judge Barrett. A more shameless exercise in emotional pandering could scarcely be imagined, and I turned down the sound before Feinstein finished, rather than to let this spectacle further disturb my mind.

 

What we are witnessing, not only in these Senate hearings, but on a daily basis in the presidential campaign, is a remorseless crusade by Democrats in pursuit of power. Anyone claiming to be a conservative must oppose this, and I cannot imagine how David French, Rick Wilson, et al., justify their project of sabotaging the Republican opposition, merely because of their personal distaste for President Trump.

There’s an old country saying, “Any stick to beat a mad dog,” which is to say, in an emergency (e.g., attacked by a rabid animal) one does not hesitate to use whatever weapon comes to hand in self-defense. Such is our case now, and as we see the Democrats foaming at the mouth and snarling with bared fangs, we ought to be grateful to Trump for volunteering as the stick with which we beat these dangerous beasts.

What a lot of people don’t understand about me is that I was born and raised a Democrat, in a place and time where no one ever had to apologize for being a Democrat. In the 1990s — during the first term of Bill Clinton — I found myself disgusted by Clinton’s cruel betrayal of the loyalty of Democrats like me. Pandering to the “soccer mom” vote, Clinton signed into law the 1994 crime bill that included a ban on so-called “assault weapons” (certain semi-automatic rifles which were really not assault weapons at all). Never could I have imagined that a Democratic president, whom I had vocally supported in his 1992 campaign, would so casually infringe our Second Amendment rights. And buddy, that was it for me. My eyes were suddenly opened to the reality that the party to which I had given my loyalty did not reciprocate that loyalty. You don’t get a second chance to stab me in the back.

Getting ripped off, sold out and fucked over by Bill Clinton had a rather profound effect on my worldview. Mainly, it taught me to be deeply cynical about politics. People who claim to be our political “leaders” are all too often only in it for themselves — wealth, status, the aggrandizement of their own egos — and this is true also of most of the pundits and party operatives who cluster around politics. Does anyone believe that Reed Galen, John Weaver or any of the other scoundrels at The Lincoln Project are motivated by lofty ideals? Did any of that rotten #NeverTrump crew ever actually have any respect for Republican voters?

Well, I started writing this with a particular point in mind and see that I’ve digressed too far on that detour. My point is that our current crisis ought to teach conservatives a thing or two about why the Republican Party has been losing for so long. Democrats understand politics as an expression of power in a way that Republicans do not. Think back to the doomstruck debacle of 2008 John McCain campaign. Or think about the way the GOP establishment forced Mitt Romney down the throats of Republican primary voters. Good-bye to all that, and good riddance.

In 1998, the Lewinsky scandal threatened to destroy Bill Clinton’s presidency. The day the scandal broke, Clinton got a call in the White House from his former campaign adviser Dick Morris:

The consultant testified that he assured the President that “there’s a great capacity for forgiveness in this country, and you should consider tapping into it.”
“But what about the legal thing?” Morris says Clinton replied. “You know, Starr and perjury and all?” Clinton had already denied the affair in his Jones deposition, but, Morris says, the President admitted to him that “with this girl I just slipped up.”
Morris says he took a poll on the voters’ willingness to forgive confessed adultery. He phoned back a few hours later to tell Clinton that voters would forgive adultery “but not perjury or obstruction of justice.” In other words, it was already too late. Morris testified that Clinton said, “Well, we just have to win then.”

See my point? That backstabbing swindler knew what politics is really about. There are no participation trophies for second place in politics. You either win, or you go home. What we are facing, with three weeks to go until Election Day, is either victory or defeat. And you can be sure that if Democrats win, they will not be merciful toward their enemies. There will be no olive branches offered to their vanquished foes.

We shall be trampled down, trodden under, punished and humiliated in a vindictive partisan witch hunt against all the “deplorables” who prevented Hillary from becoming president. If Trump is defeated, there will be very little remaining hope that we can prevent Democrats from turning America into a one-party state, where opposition will be practically impossible, and dissent will be silenced. We can expect no assistance from the useful idiots who climbed aboard the Evan McMullin bandwagon four years ago. We are at coffin corner, my friends.

“Well, we just have to win then.”

Selah.




 

Category: Democrats, Donald Trump, Supreme Court

Annual Admiral Of The Ocean Sea Appreciation Post

Posted on | October 12, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Today President Trump proclaimed Columbus Day, taking a swing at “radical activists” trying to undermine the legacy of the great explorer. Well, the best defense against these leftist ninnies is the truth, and what better way to find the truth than by reading Samuel Eliot Morison’s classic Admiral of the Ocean Sea, a “vivid and definitive” biography buttressed by Morison’s 1939 expedition to retrace the route taken by Columbus on his way to the New World. As for the radical activists, Conquistador-chan has a few words:*

Defending Western Civilization, even if only on the Internet, gets tiresome, and while admiring pretty girls is good, settling down with a good book is also good. I’d like to recommend Larry Correia’s latest novel, Destroyer of Worlds, the third in his “Saga Of The Forgotten Warrior” series. Former Protector Ashok Vadal has survived his battle against the assassins’ guild, and now leads an army of untouchables to what they all hope is safety, but his former brothers are on his trail, eager to bring him down and end the rebellion. Correia has done an excellent job of depicting a society based on the Indian caste system, as well as creating a cast of characters suited to the epic tale he’s telling.

While at the Emergency Holographic Convention in Clarksville last month, I picked up a copy of Michael Z. Williamson’s Tide of Battle, which is half short stories and half humor along the lines of his Hugo-nominated collection Wisdom From My Internet. The short stories are a mix of tales from the Freehold universe and elsewhere; there’s science fiction and fantasy, including the chilling “Soft Casualties” and the amusing zombie apocalypse tale “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Grandpa?” Very much worth your time.

I also reread the original There Will Be War anthology, edited by the late Jerry Pournelle & John F. Carr; this is a treasure trove of outstanding short SF including the original version of Orson Scott Card’s legendary “Ender’s Game”, and also includes some important historical documents on the roots of what became the Strategic Defense Initiative.

I was fortunate enough to find a hardback copy of Alistair Horne’s The Fall Of Paris: The Siege And The Commune in a local used bookstore, which means I now have his complete Franco-Prussian Wars trilogy…anyhow, Horne is unsparing in his criticism of the inept Second Empire and the feckless Communards who took over Paris mere months after the city was surrendered to the Imperial German Army, which itself had only recently been assembled from the armies of the several German states by the legendary “Iron Chancellor”, Otto von Bismarck. One can’t stop there, though, for the surrender of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in the treaty that ended the war bred a thirst for revenge even as the French Army learned all the wrong lessons from its humiliations in 1870. This sets the stage for The Price Of Glory, which is mainly about the horrific Battle of Verdun, but by necessity also provides a precis of the First World War on all three fronts (four if you want to include the U-boat campaign) by way of illustrating the political and military pressures that drove the Germans and the Allies on the Western Front. Which brings us around to Morison again; Admiral Morison was forthright in his belief that history should be written in a manner both authoritative and popular (i.e readable by the average fellow), and Horne’s books are both.

*Yes, this pertains more to the Aztecs than the rest of the Native American tribes, but it applies to the ones that weren’t cannibals, too.

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Category: Books, History

Denver: ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Protest Until Gunman Murdered a Trump Supporter

Posted on | October 12, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Nothing quite so perfectly illustrates what’s wrong with America’s media class as what happened Saturday in Denver. A group of conservative “Patriots” announced a pro-police rally. The organizer of the event said the intention was “to make a public show of force after communist and socialist protesters broke up a pro-police rally in July.”

Communists — yes, self-described Communists — then announced their own counter-protest, declaring on Facebook:

Rightwing vigilante violence against anti-racist protesters has become commonplace. Especially since, both locally and nationally, the cops and courts have mostly given these terrorists a green light.
But we are undeterred! We feel it is our responsibility to vocally oppose fascists every time the try to assemble. And we hope you feel the same way! And what are our options? To cede our streets to them? That’s how you get Hitlers.

You see how Communists deploy words like “fascist” and “terrorist” against anyone who disagrees with them, and make the preemptive accusation of “vigilante violence” against the people who were, in fact, rallying in defense of law enforcement. This is how a pro-police, law-and-order rally is made to seem like something sinister and dangerous. And the media eagerly regurgitates this Communist propaganda narrative.

By publicizing the Communist message, of course, the media acted as recruiters for the counter-protest, encouraging their audience to turn out and fight the alleged “fascists” (i.e., the ones who are for the police and against rioting). The predictable result is violence:

 

A private security guard is being held as a suspect in a deadly shooting near the Denver Art Museum, according to the Denver Police Department (DPD).
Matthew Dolloff, 30, is being held at the Denver Downtown Detention Center on suspicion of first degree murder. He has not been formally charged.
Dolloff was contracted through Pinkerton by 9NEWS. It has been the practice of 9NEWS for a number of months to contract private security to accompany staff at protests.
DPD originally took two people into custody and later found the second individual, a 9NEWS producer who works in the investigative unit, was not involved in the incident. The producer is no longer in police custody and is not a suspect.
This incident occurred beneath a city police surveillance camera and police confirmed they have footage of what happened.
DPD said that a little before 3:50 p.m. there was some sort of verbal altercation just as protesters were leaving the area.
Someone sprayed pepper spray and DPD said that is when at least one shot was fired.

This “contracted through Pinkerton” claim has proven false. We’ll get to that part of the story in a second, but first we must tell you that 4chan — that  unruly hive of hackers — identified Dolloff within two hours of the shooting, whereas it wasn’t until Sunday afternoon that the media named him. Even 9News (KUSA-TV, the Denver NBC affiliate) didn’t name him until police issued a statement Sunday, despite the obvious fact that (a) many employees of 9News knew Dolloff’s name, and (b) Dolloff’s arrest record was publicly available through the Denver County Jail’s website.

Meanwhile, hackers combed through Dolloff’s online presence and discovered abundant evidence of his far-left fanaticism, including his participation in the 2011 “Occupy Denver” protests, where he was quoted telling a reporter “corporations have killed America.” Dolloff hates cops.


 

Question: Is “f**k the police” a sentiment that you would expect to see expressed by someone who aspires to work as a security guard?

It turns out that Matt Dolloff was not licensed as a security guard (licenses are required by law in Denver), nor was he an employee of Pinkerton, which issued a statement saying Dolloff was “a contractor agent from a long standing industry vendor,” whatever that means. A city official made clear it was illegal for Dolloff to be an armed guard:

“If he was operating as a security guard, he was in violation of the law,” department spokesman Eric Escudero told the news station.
“Security guards are prohibited from carrying or using a firearm without getting an armed firearm endorsement for their license.
“All security guards in Denver are required to get a federal background check before they receive their license.”

So who is this “industry vendor” who KUSA-TV used to hire Dolloff?

It doesn’t matter, really, but there is something odd here. Nothing on Dolloff’s online presence suggested he had worked as a security guard. What are the odds that an “industry vendor” would send a cop-hater with no license to work security for a Denver TV station at this rally?

Just a random coincidence, I’m sure.

The victim was 49-year-old Navy veteran Lee Keltner:

Keltner was identified as the victim by family members who revealed the grandfather and military veteran was shot dead in front of his 24-year-old son.
Carol Keltner, who said she is the victim’s mother, wrote in a social media post that her son was ‘murdered’ because he supported the police.
‘My son Lee was at the patriot rally today in Denver,’ Carol wrote in a Facebook group called Northeast Arkansas Tea Party Group. ‘After the rally a person on the BLM and Antifa side went up to him said a few nasty words then shot him in the head.
‘He was murdered because he backed the police. His 24 year old son was with him. I moved to Arkansas because Colorado got too expensive and liberal. The left has gotten out of hand.’ . . .
Keltner’s sister, Suzan Keltner, on Sunday said her nephew has been struggling to cope after witnessing his father’s death.
‘He was my brother, my only sibling,’ Suzan told the New York Post. ‘He also served our country.’
Jay Keltner, who identified himself as one of Lee’s sons, also posted about the tragedy on Facebook, writing: ‘I can’t believe my dad’s gone. This will never be right #RIP.’

We will certainly learn more about what happened in the days and weeks to come. Keltner’s family will be suing KUSA-TV for this.




 

Category: Colorado, Crime

Rule 5 Sunday: Phoebe Kline

Posted on | October 12, 2020 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Better known as Phoebe Cates, star of such movies as Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Gremlins, and Bright Lights, Big City. She met Kevin Kline while auditioning for the Big Chill part that went to Meg Tilly, and they married in 1989. Here she is in a shot from the mini-series Lace.

Phoebe Cates as Elizabeth “Lili” Lace.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny brings us Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1133, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; at Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Right To Commerce Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd of opera singers and such contains Enola Holmes, Tristan und Isolde, Girl In Red, Tannhauser, BBQ Pinups, Valerie Bertinelli with Eddie Van Halen, Cheating Cal Cunningham, Amy Coney Barrett, Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Rush’s Trump Radio Rally, Gotterdammerung, Dolly Parton, Tove Lo, The Coveted Sex Pistol Endorsement, and Parsifal.

A View From The Beach reels in Hey There Georgie Girl – Georgie Darby, Fish Pic Friday – Emma ‘Slaya’, Tattoo Thursday, Russiagate: Let the Sunshine In, Your Wednesday Wetness, Tanlines Tuesday, WuFlu Casts Cloud on Maryland Oyster Season, Masked for Monday and Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe this week is Barbara Valentin, Red Pilled Jew has women with bare midriffs, and Bleach Cocktail debuts with Friday Afternoon Blogging, Late Night With Hedy Lamarr, and Saturday With Go-Go Dancers.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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FMJRA 2.0: Cherokee Lane

Posted on | October 11, 2020 | 1 Comment

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Rule 5 Sunday: Damn It, Janet
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL

Florida Man Charged With Vote Fraud
Bacon Time
EBL

The Other Podcast: Crisis Edition
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Night Suit
A View From The Beach
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It’s Stabbing Season!
EBL

How to Get Shot by Police
357 Magnum
EBL
Bacon Time

‘The Third Time It’s Enemy Action’
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In The Mailbox: 10.05.20
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Cuomo vs. Jews: ‘We Know Religious Institutions Have Been a Problem’
357 Magnum
EBL

Michelle Obama Race-Shames America
EBL

What Counts as a ‘Tragedy’?
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.07.20 (Afternoon Edition)
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
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In The Mailbox: 10.07.20 (Evening Edition)
EBL
A View From The Beach

Pence Trounces Harris in VP Debate; Commission Wants ‘Virtual’ Debate Next?
EBL

The Idiot Caucus Weighs In
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An Important Anniversary
Pushing Rubber Downhill
Dark Brightness
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In The Mailbox: 10.08.20
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
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VIDEO: Cop-Hating Anarchist in Michigan Calls Trump a ‘Tyrant’
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In The Mailbox: 10.09.20
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Trump Has Utterly Broken Their Minds

Posted on | October 10, 2020 | 3 Comments

 

The headline and subhead of Olivia Nuzzi’s latest column:

The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event
Down in the polls, high on steroids, and clinging
to good health while endangering everyone else’s.

We see here how the propaganda message of the Joe Biden campaign — “Coronavirus will kill us all! Blame Trump! Wear a mask! Vote Democrat!” — is translated into a media narrative. Journalists strain themselves not merely to repeat this message, but to amplify it to the deafening roar of a jet airline takeoff. The most over-the-top rhetoric is permissible as “reporting” in service of this narrative.

This relates to something Charlie Hurt pointed out this week:

Current polls show Joseph R. Biden anywhere from 10 to 20 points ahead of President Trump — a double-digit blowout.
The whole election will come down to Mr. Trump’s handling of the global pandemic, which extensive polling shows is where Mr. Trump is most vulnerable.
In 2016, Mr. Trump barely won the election — and only because so many voters assumed he had no chance of winning and stayed home. Also: Russia!
This year, Americans are exhausted. They might not particularly like Mr. Biden, but they desperately want a break from the current occupant of the White House.
In short, we are three weeks away from an election that the president has no hope of winning. Every indicator suggests Mr. Trump will lose in a landslide.
So, I have a very simple question. If all this is true and Democrats have the election so deep in the bag, why are they so terrified?
Why, if this is such a done deal, are Democrats so desperate right now?

It doesn’t add up. If the media really had confidence in the polls that show Biden heading for a landslide, they would not be turning the knobs of their anti-Trump amplifiers all the way up to 11. The shrieking hyperbole — “He’s high on steroids! He’s a menace to public health!” — suggests that the Democrat-Media Complex fear a repeat of that night in the Javitz Center, when they watched their dreams of Madame President turn to ashes as the “Blue Wall” collapsed under a populist tsunami.

Honestly, I have no idea how the election will turn out, but I take great satisfaction in knowing Democrats have surrendered to panic.




 

Category: Election, Media Bias

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved

Posted on | October 10, 2020 | 4 Comments

 

Nearly 70 years ago, a young alumnus of Yale University published a critical examination of his alma mater. God and Man at Yale set off a firestorm of controversy and made its author, William F. Buckley Jr., an intellectual celebrity. Buckley’s argument was that Yale, supposedly governed by a board of trustees and responsible to the alumni whose contributions funded the institution, was teaching ideas which the alumni almost certainly did not approve. Founded as a Christian institution, Yale employed professors who openly mocked Christianity, and its courses on economics and political science showed a distinct tendency toward socialism and collectivism. Buckley’s critique was met with a fierce reaction from liberals, and Yale did nothing to reverse its leftward drift, with the result that by the late 1960s, its campus was taken over by student radicals who supported Communist victory in Vietnam and who demanded release of the “New Haven Nine” (Black Panthers accused of torturing to death a suspected informer named Alex Rackley).

Since then, of course, Yale has become a disreputable abyss of “postmodern” nonsense. The professors are notorious perverts and Yale’s administration is a corrupt gang of academic swindlers, with a student body selected on the basis of illegal racial quotas:

Black applicants to Yale University are up to eight times more likely to be admitted than Asian applicants with the same level of academic skill, a disparity that the Department of Justice says violates federal law.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, the DOJ alleged that Yale was in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination by institutions that receive federal funds. In its 32-page complaint, the department documents Yale’s use of race as a factor at every step of its admissions process and details statistical evidence that students of similar academic skill but different racial groups face wildly divergent admissions chances.
The suit follows DOJ’s official request that Yale cease its use of race as an admissions factor, itself the result of a multi-year investigation into Yale’s admissions practices. Although the two institutions negotiated extensively since that request was made in August, a DOJ official told the Washington Free Beacon, Yale has refused to alter its admissions process, necessitating legal action. . . .
For at least the past two decades, DOJ argues, Yale has consistently ensured that its freshman class is between roughly 6 and 8 percent black, an illegal “racial balancing.” Salovey claimed that over the same period the racial composition of admitted applicants “fluctuated significantly for all groups” but did not address the concerns about black students specifically.
Data on the 2017 and 2018 applicant pools, released by Yale to DOJ, show bigger signs of discrimination. In those classes, about 6.4 percent of white and Asian applicants were admitted, compared with 8.3 percent of Hispanic and 9.5 percent of black applicants. But those numbers mask gaping disparities that become apparent when comparing applicants’ academic achievement, as measured by an “academic index” in use across the Ivy League. . . .
Black applicants above the second decile of academic skill are consistently five to eight times more likely to be admitted compared with their Asian counterparts; Hispanic applicants are two to four times more likely to be admitted.
These disparities, DOJ argues, are driven by Yale’s use of race at every step of the admissions process. According to the complaint, application readers are encouraged to use race as an explicit factor in grading the quality of an applicant; Yale also regularly “bops” white and Asian applicants, replacing them with black or Hispanic applicants to maintain the class’s racial composition.

It is self-evident that Yale has implemented a racial quota system, justified by a rationale of “diversity” that deserves critical scrutiny. This is one of those situations where the “motte and bailey” fallacy is employed by liberals to defend the indefensible. Most people have no objection (and indeed, are likely to support) “diversity” as a general goal. This is the non-controversial “motte” of the argument, and having gained our assent to this, liberals will then deny that “diversity” is being implemented through discriminatory quotas (the “bailey”).

Given the documented disparity in admission rates for students with similar scholastic records — black students being at least five times more likely than Asians to be offered admission — and given also the fact that the number of black students admitted to Yale has hovered suspiciously in the same percentage range for two decades, we cannot deny the reality that “diversity” at Yale is synonymous with discriminatory quotas.

Most people disapprove of racial discrimination, and when you show clear and convincing evidence that “diversity” requires discrimination — that is to say, the “motte” and the “bailey” are inseparable — you force the liberal into a crisis of cognitive dissonance. The result? The liberal points an accusatory finger and shrieks: “RAAAAACIST!”

Now do you see why the Yale curriculum is all postmodern nonsense? Only by resort to the works of Derrida, Foucault, et al., is it possible to believe that the opponents of discrimination are guilty of racism.

Liberalism ultimately destroys everything it touches, because liberalism has no real principles beyond a devotion to a handful of vague slogans — “Equality,” “Progress,” “Democracy,” “Science,” et cetera.

Once upon a time — by no coincidence, the exact time that Buckley published God and Man at Yale — liberals expressed enthusiastic devotion to “Tolerance” and “Academic Freedom.” You see, Buckley wrote his book during the onset of the Cold War, at a time when Americans were increasingly alarmed by Communist subversion and espionage. Buckley’s book did not dwell on this topic, but his liberal critics could read between the lines and perceive the threat to what Buckley called the “superstition” of Academic Freedom. There were, to my knowledge, no Yale professors at that time with a history of association with the Communist Party, but the same was not true at other universities. Liberals were quick to detect in the pages of God and Man at Yale a threat to “Tolerance” of Communism in academia.

You see that the situation has now made a 180-degree reversal, so that Yale and other elite universities now advocate intolerance of any criticism of certain ideas. It is impermissible at Yale to question the “Science” behind climate-change hysteria, and so also the “Science” of Third Wave gender theory is off-limits to criticism at Yale. Certainly, any Trump supporter is persona non grata at Yale, and any student who dared to speak out against the regime of “diversity” quotas would probably be tarred, feathered and run out of New Haven on a rail.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit, Yale Law ’82, summa cum laude.)

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! Reminder that you can find my columns at The American Spectator, including my most recent, “Are Americans Tired of Being Called ‘Racist’ Yet?”




 

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