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Jew-Hating as ‘Intersectionality’? The Women’s March Farrakhan Problem

Posted on | March 9, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

The Atlantic‘s John-Paul Pagano tries to provide “context” for this feminist controversy, but the essential facts cannot be avoided:

Mass movements are sewn together from a wide variety of sources, so they often sweep in unwanted companions as they move toward their goals. No one, however, expected to discover that three Women’s March co-chairs — Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez, and Tamika Mallory — had ties to Farrakhan. More mysterious and disturbing was the extended reluctance of the Women’s March, nearly a year since it became public, to acknowledge Farrakhan’s extremist views and disassociate themselves from them.
It all came to a head last week, after Farrakhan delivered his address to the annual Nation of Islam gathering for Saviours’ Day, the sect’s three-day holiday honoring its founder, Wallace Fard Muhammad. Farrakhan denounced “Satanic Jews,” said that “when you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door,” and at the climax of his speech, proclaimed, “White folks are going down, and Satan is going down, and Farrakhan by God’s grace has pulled the cover off of that Satanic Jew — and I’m here to say, your time is up.”
Naturally, this renewed interest in just what the Women’s March was thinking. . . .

“Naturally”! It was no secret, however, that Linda Sarsour is a Palestinian radical with ties to terrorists like Rasmea Odeh. And it has been more than six months since Daniel Isaac Abraham of the Times of Israel showed the Instagram image in which Tamika Mallory posed with Farrakhan and Sarsour commented, “God bless him.”

All of this has been known for many months. The evil things Sarsour said about Brigitte Gabriel and Ayaan Hirsi Ali in 2011? Known. Blaming the CIA for an Islamic terrorist bomber in 2012? Known.

It is rather too late for The Atlantic to attempt to “contextualize” this with a history lesson about anti-Semitism in black culture. The “intersectionality” of radical feminists leads them into a de facto alliance with some of the worst people in the world. At a time when feminists have fallen into the habit of smearing their critics as “fascist,” the alliances of feminists like Linda Sarsour deserve scrutiny.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

UPDATE: “Third-Highest House Democrat Shared Stage With Farrakhan, Now Refuses To Denounce” (also via Instapundit).

 

Category: Racism, Sex Trouble

‘Beta Male’ as Rorschach Inkblot

Posted on | March 8, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘Beta Male’ as Rorschach Inkblot

 

Ace headlines this “Notes from the FriendZone,” which is one of the milder reactions to The Hollywood Reporter‘s latest cover.

New Hollywood Reporter Cover Celebrates
“Triumph of the Beta Male”
— InfoWars

Magazine Hails the ‘Triumph of the Beta Male,’
and Gets Relentlessly Mocked
— MRCTV

Are The Men Gone? This
Hollywood Reporter Cover Is A Bad Sign
— The Federalist

The Alt-Right Is Sh–ting Itself
Over A “Beta” ‘Silicon Valley’ Covershoot
— Pedestrian

Right wingers freak out over
‘Hollywood Reporter’ cover
celebrating the ‘triumph of the beta male’
— Raw Story

Pay attention, kids: You are being trolled.

The feature article in The Hollywood Reporter is about an HBO series called Silicon Valley, which I have never seen and know nothing about. However, the cover headline “Triumph of the Beta Male” is a devious bit of provocation — click-bait, really, and not actually relevant to the article about a “satire” of tech-industry start-up culture, produced by Mike Judge of Beavis and Butt-Head fame. The only reference to “Beta males” in the whole thing is a caption on a photo of one of the actors, Zach Woods: “There’s a tender quality to these guys. I’m among my tribe of, like, beta males.” The backstory is that the show’s “breakout star,” T.J. Miller, left the show last season. Miller was evidently an “Alpha male” and a party animal and thus, the show without him is . . .

“Triumph of the Beta Male.”

Or so HBO wants us to believe. It may be that, without Miller’s oversized persona, the series will go belly-up, but we don’t know that yet. The relevant point is that this headline is just hype to sell a magazine which, in turn, is just hype to promote an HBO series. There is no reason for a “freak out” over this ridiculous magazine cover, Bre:

The cast of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” stand in a line, hands in one another’s pockets, with a meek expression that says: “You don’t have to worry about me getting you pregnant, because my sperm count is so low! Not that you would sleep with me anyway, because my handshake is so weak it would send you running in the other direction.”

Really? We’re talking “sperm count” because of a magazine cover about a cable TV show? And you’re not helping either, Paul:

As we highlight in the video below, from the #MeToo movement, to commercials, to culture in general, young men appear to be being indoctrinated with the idea that being weak and effeminate will help them get ahead in life and relationships.
Combined with constant lecturing that they need to keep their “toxic masculinity” in check, this has led to a dramatic loss of confidence amongst young men and the rise of sub-cultures where some are giving up on women entirely.

Young men are “being indoctrinated” and “giving up on women entirely” because of an HBO series and a magazine cover? Not to go all “Alpha male” here, but what would Sun Tzu say? If your enemy is trying to provoke you into an attack, do not let yourself be provoked. But to go from The Art of War to the Art of Punditry, if you can’t say something clever, say nothing at all. Don’t over-react to this kind of click-bait trolling. About 95% of what comes out of Hollywood these days is either:

  1. Degenerate filth;
  2. Democrat Party propaganda;
    or
  3. Degenerate filth that is also Democrat Party propaganda.

If you’re going to pay attention to this stuff, try to avoid the Oswald Spengler reaction, except as deadpan irony:

Humanity is doomed.
But you knew that already.

That’s Ace’s “smart take,” and at least I think it’s ironic. Conservatives must try to laugh amid the wreckage of our once-great civilization. Cheerful good humor helps maintain high morale, and also is indicative of high sperm counts. Or so I’m told.

 

Category: Hollywood, Media Bias

Mexican Criminal Pro-Abortion Activist Detained by ICE, May Be Deported

Posted on | March 8, 2018 | Comments Off on Mexican Criminal Pro-Abortion Activist Detained by ICE, May Be Deported

Hey, are you guys getting tired of all this #Winning yet?

An abortion activist with a history of breaking the law could be deported after she was detained Wednesday by immigration officials.
Alejandra Pablos, 32, is an abortion and immigration activist who works for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Rewire reports. She also works with We Testify, a pro-abortion group that encourages women to publicly share how they benefited from aborting their unborn babies.
On Wednesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained Pablos in Arizona, potentially due to her criminal record, Phoenix New Times reports.
Pablos is a green card holder and was a legal permanent resident from Mexico; however, because she repeatedly has been convicted of criminal charges, her immigration status now is in jeopardy, according to the report.
Her convictions include two DUIs and other minor convictions, and she was arrested for allegations of trespassing and obstruction of justice in January, the report states. She spent some time in prison for the offenses, and her criminal record goes back to 2006, according to the report.
Rewire reports she lost her permanent resident status two years ago after a drug-related arrest.

Hasta la vista!

 

Category: Abortion, Immigration

Milwaukee: More Than 100 Infected in ‘Cluster’ Outbreak of HIV and Syphilis

Posted on | March 8, 2018 | Comments Off on Milwaukee: More Than 100 Infected in ‘Cluster’ Outbreak of HIV and Syphilis

Something weird in Wisconsin:

An outbreak of sexually transmitted disease is hitting the Milwaukee area, and an alarming percentage of the patients are teenagers.
According to The Journal Sentinel, at least 125 people — including some high school students — have contracted HIV, syphilis or both in one of the largest sexually transmitted infection “clusters” discovered in the city. . . .
“This is an epidemic people are not talking about enough, and it leads to people taking unnecessary risks,” said Melissa Ugland, a public health consultant told the newspaper.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines a “cluster” as “an unusual aggregation, of disease that are grouped together in time and place.” Ugland told the newspaper this cluster was identified because patients could all be connected, and were in contact with each other during a 12-month period.
Most of those who were tested in the group were men and 45 percent were HIV positive, according to Ugland and other health care advocates. . . .
The Milwaukee Health Department released a statement that the entire city is experiencing an increase in sexually transmitted infections in young people ages 15 to 24.

Gosh, an outbreak of sexually transmitted disease that seems to be clustered among teen boys and young men in Milwaukee. Hmmm. . . .

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

 

Category: Wisconsin

In The Mailbox: 03.08.18

Posted on | March 8, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.08.18

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: Libby Schaaf Needs To Go To Jail
EBL: Stormy Weather For Donald Trump?
Twitchy: NO MERCY. Dana Loesch Blasts Gun-Grabbers Trying To Backpedal On Calling The NRA Terrorists
Louder With Crowder: Chris Cuomo Triggered By Clever Ted Cruz Ad
Reason: What Forfeiture Reforms? NH Cops Ignore State Law, Keep Seizing Stuff


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #76 – The Purpose Episode
American Power: I Got My News From Print Newspapers
American Thinker: Why Trump is So Hated By Leftists
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily “Vikings In Canada, Eh” News
BattleSwarm: Crooked Dem Nashville Mayor Pleads Guilty, Resigns
Bring The HEAT: Sonobuoy
CDR Salamander: The Best Call For FFG(X), also, Oh, It’s International Womens’ Day?
Da Tech Guy: At Least He Didn’t Use A Gun, also, Gender Politics Update
Don Surber: First 500 Jobs Added Under New Trump Tariff
Dustbury: Wiener And Still Champion
The Geller Report: Britain First Leaders Jailed For “Hate Crimes”, also, Minneapolis Muslim Crawls Into Woman’s Bathroom Stall, Attempts To Rape Her
Hogewash: Jupiter’s Jet Stream, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: Joe Biden Says Democrats Don’t Understand The Working Class
Legal Insurrection: Oprah Giving This Poor Girl Advice Is Everything That’s Wrong With Our Culture, also, Baltimore Mayor Charges Taxpayers To Send Students To Anti-Gun March
Power Line: A Fake Republican Runs In Minnesota, also, If You’re Gonna Run In Texas…
Shark Tank: Secretary DeVos Visits Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS
Shot In The Dark: Watching The Bubble Pop
STUMP:  The Fiscal State Of Connecticut? Totally Screwed.
The Jawa Report: Everyone Wave Buh Bye To Ali Muhammad Brown
This Ain’t Hell: “Cannabis Candidate” Under Fire, also, CT Governor Says NRA Is “Terrorist Organization”
Victory Girls: McDonald’s Sucks Up For International Womens’ Day
Weasel Zippers: Harvard Giving Hillary Award For “Transformative Impact”, also, Poll – Five Democratic Senators Likely To Lose Seats To GOP
Mark Steyn: The New House Of Peers


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Baltimore Mayor Uses Taxpayer Money to Send Students to Gun-Control Event

Posted on | March 8, 2018 | 2 Comments

Taxpayer-funded Astroturf:

Baltimore’s new Mayor Catherine Pugh is sending public school students to the “March for Our Lives” event in Washington, DC. The event has been organized for the students of Parkland who have been repeatedly exploited by the left to push gun control. Pugh is charging the taxpayers of Baltimore for the trip. . . .
Less than a month ago, Baltimore was named the most dangerous city in the United States.
Baltimore is the big city with the highest per capita murder rate in the nation, with nearly 56 murders per 100,000 people. At 343 murders in 2017, the city tallied the highest per capita rate in its history. Columbus tallied 143 murders — 37 more than 2016 and the most the city has seen in a single year.

If the Democrat Party didn’t demonize police as “racist,” while turning criminals loose on the streets, maybe cities like Baltimore would be safer.

 

Category: Crime, Democrats

Tucker Carlson: ‘Something Ominous Is Happening to Men in America’

Posted on | March 8, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

If you did not see Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program Wednesday night, you missed a stunningly detailed description of the problems that are affecting men in America:

The signs are everywhere. If you’re a middle aged man, you probably know a peer who has killed himself in recent years. At least one. If you’re a parent, you may have noticed that your daughter’s friends seem a little more on the ball than your son’s. They get better grades. They smoke much less marijuana. They go to more prestigious colleges. If you’re an employer, you may have noticed that your female employees show up on time, the young men don’t. And of course if you live in this country, you’ve just seen a horrifying series of mass shootings, far more than we’ve ever had. Women didn’t do that. In every case, the shooter was a man.
Something ominous is happening to men in America. Everyone who pays attention knows that. What’s odd is how rarely you hear it publicly acknowledged. Our leaders pledge to create more opportunities for women and girls, whom they imply are failing. Men don’t need help. They’re the patriarchy. They’re fine. More than fine.
But are they fine? Here are the numbers:
Start with the most basic, life and death. The average American man will die five years before the average American woman. One of the reasons for this is addiction. Men are more than twice as likely as women to become alcoholics. They’re also twice as likely to die of a drug OD. In New Hampshire, one of the states hit hardest by the opioid crisis, 73 percent of overdose deaths were men.
But the saddest reason for shortened life spans is suicide. Seventy-seven percent of all suicides in America are committed by men. The overall rate is increasing at a dramatic pace. Between 1997 and 2014, there was a 43 percent rise in suicide deaths among middle-aged American men. The rates are highest among American Indian and white men, who kill themselves at about ten times the rate of Hispanic and black women.
You often hear of America’s incarceration crisis. Well that’s almost exclusively a male problem too. Over 90 percent of inmates are men.
Now these problems are complex, and we know they start young. Relative to girls, boys are failing in school. More girls than boys graduate high school. Considerably more go to and graduate from college. In schools at every level boys account for the overwhelming majority of school discipline cases. One study found that fully one in five high school boys had been diagnosed with hyperactivity disorder, that’s compared with just one in 11 girls. Many of them were medicated for it. The long term health effects of those medications, not fully understood, but they do appear to include depression in later life.
Women now decisively outnumber men in graduate school. They earn the majority of doctoral degrees. They are now the majority of new enrollees in both law and medical schools.
For men, the consequences of failing in school are longterm and profound. Between 1979-2010, working age men with only high school degrees saw their real hourly wages drop about 20 percent. Over the same period, high school educated women saw their wages rise. The decline of the industrial economy disproportionately hurt men.
There are now seven million working age American men who are no longer in the labor force. They’ve dropped out. Nearly half of them take pain medication on any given day. That’s by far highest rate in the world.
Far fewer young men get married than did just a few decades ago, and fewer stay married. About one in five American children live with only their mothers. That’s double the rate in 1970. Millions more boys are growing up without fathers. Young adult men are now more likely to live with a parent than with a spouse or partner. That is not the case for young women. Single women buy their own homes at more than twice the rate of single men. More women than men now have drivers licenses.
Whenever gender differences come up in public debate, the so-called wage gap dominates the conversation. A woman makes 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That’s the statistic you’ll hear. It’s repeated everywhere. But that number compares all American men to all American women across all professions. No legitimate social scientist would consider that a valid measure. The number is both meaningless and intentionally misleading. It’s a talking point.
Once you compare men and women with similar experience working the same hours in similar jobs for the same period of time — and that’s the only way you can measure it — the gap all but disappears. In fact it may invert. One study using census data found that single women in their 20s living in metropolitan areas now earn eight percent more on average than their male counterparts. By the way, the majority of managers in the workplace are now women. Women on average are now scoring higher on IQ tests than men are.
Men are even falling behind physically. A recent study found that almost half of young men failed the Army’s entry-level physical fitness test during basic training. Fully seventy percent of American men are now overweight or obese. That’s compared to 59 percent of American women.
Perhaps most bafflingly or terrifyingly, men seem to be becoming less male. Sperm counts across the west have plummeted, they’re down almost 60 percent since the early 1970s. Scientists don’t know why this is. Testosterone levels in men have also fallen precipitously. One study found that the average levels of male testosterone dropped by one percent every year after 1987. And it’s not unrelated to age. The average 40-year-old-man in 2017 would have testosterone levels 30 percent lower than the average 40-year-old man in 1987. There is no upside to this. Lower testosterone levels in men are associated with depression, lethargy, weight gain and decreased cognitive ability. Nothing like this has ever happened to a population this big. You’d think we’d want to know why and how to fix it. But the media ignore the story. It’s considered a fringe topic.
Nor is it a priority in the scientific research establishment. We checked and couldn’t find a single NIH-funded study on why testosterone levels are falling. We did find a study on, ‘Pubic Hair Grooming Prevalence and Motivation Among Women in the US.’
This is a crisis. Yet our leaders pretend it’s not happening. They tell us the opposite is true: Women are victims, men are oppressors. To question that assumption is to risk punishment. Even as women far outpace men in higher education for example, virtually every college campus supports a women’s studies department, whose core goal is to attack male power. Our politicians and business leaders internalize and amplify that message. Men are privileged. Women are oppressed. Hire and promote and reward accordingly.
Now that would be fine if it were true. But it’s not true. At best, it’s an outdated view of an America that no longer exists. At worst, it’s a pernicious lie.
Either way, ignoring the decline of men does not help anyone. Men and women need each other. One cannot exist without the other. That is elemental biology, but it’s also the reality each one of us has lived, with our parents and siblings and friends. When men fail, all of us suffer. How did this happen? How can we fix it? We hope this series answers those questions.

Because I’m sure this will be extensively discussed by the commenters, I won’t go too far with my own discussion, but I do wish to point out how much of this problem is caused by our education system.

Because teachers in K-12 schools are overwhelmingly female, there is a built-in educational prejudice against boys. This prejudice has severely worsened in recent decades because (a) the enforcement of Title IX has resulted in deliberate anti-male discrimination in the name of “diversity,” and (b) radical feminist ideology is now part of the curriculum in the universities where teachers are trained.

It is important to note, also, that some of the statistics cited by Carlson don’t reflect any recent trend. Men have always committed more violent crime than women, and men have always been more prone to suicide. (Women are more likely to threaten or attempt suicide, as a way of getting attention, whereas men are more likely to actually do it.)

Finally, we must realize that statistical trends about collective groups are not predictive of individual outcomes. No young man should feel that he is doomed to defeat by the “male crisis.” However, he may be doomed if he does not realize the nature of the problems he faces. Look at the list of problems Tucker Carlson cites — drug addiction, alcoholism, crime, fatherlessness. All of these reflect individual choices. The young man who hangs around dopeheads and criminals is putting himself at risk, and the young man who abandons his children is putting them at risk.

 

Tucker Carlson promises to return to the “Men in America” topic every Wednesday this month, and it should be interesting to watch.

Like I keep saying, people need to wake the hell up.



 

 

Category: Sex Trouble

The Attitude

Posted on | March 8, 2018 | Comments Off on The Attitude

Mike Damone explains ‘The Attitude.’

Why do some guys win with the ladies and some guys always lose? When I occasionally read the kind of “advice” (if you could call it that) emerging from the so-called “Manosphere,” sometimes I’m troubled by the mood of despair and resentment expressed by these congeries of losers. Let’s face it — if a guy’s really winning, he’s not going to have much time or patience for the endless blabber about “Alpha” vs. “Beta” males, and other pseudo-scientific Darwinian discourse endlessly rehashed among devotees of pickup artist (PUA) culture.

No, if a guy is really winning, he’s so busy with real-life women that he’s not going to spend hours on some PUA forum talking about women as theoretical abstractions. Nor should we expect that the winner would freely share the secrets of his success with losers. Like he’s a philanthropist or something? Being a happily married father of six (now with four grandkids), I could claim a certain expertise in this area, but what would be my motivation to give away this valuable knowledge to every guy with an Internet connection? From the perspective of Darwinian advantage, wouldn’t it behoove me to treat this expertise as a proprietary trade secret, which I share only with my sons? If my sons are winning (and trust me, they are) while so many of their male peers are losing, why should I do anything to clue in the losers? Nevertheless . . .

Because I am such a magnanimous benefactor of humanity, and because I’m sick and tired of reading feminist diatribes inspired by the lame pickup efforts of pathetic losers, I will offer some guidance to steer young men in the general direction of a clue. One of the great teen movies of the 1980s was Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and one of the best scenes in the movie was when nerdy Mark “The Rat” Ratner sought advice from Mike Damone about how to win his dream girl:

Damone: This is what you do — start from the minute you walk into biology. I mean, don’t just walk in. You move across the room. And you don’t talk to her. You use your face. You use your body. You use everything. That’s what I do. I mean I just send out this vibe and I have personally found that women do respond. I mean, something happens.
Ratner: Well, naturally something happens. I mean, you put the vibe out to 30 million chicks, something is gonna happen.
Damone: That’s the idea, Rat. That’s the attitude.
Ratner: The attitude?
Damone: Yeah! The attitude dictates that you don’t care whether she comes, stays, lays, or prays. I mean whatever happens, your toes are still tappin’. Now when you got that, then you have the attitude.

 

Now, this is just a scene in a comedy film and (spoiler alert) Damone ultimately proves to be a disgusting swine, but important truths are being conveyed here. For starters, notice that Damone begins by telling Ratner not merely to walk, but to move across the room. A young man should learn to carry himself with a sense of poise and style. Good posture and a confident stride are impressive. So often, you can spot a loser merely by the way he stands and moves. The loser slumps and slouches and shuffles. The winner stands tall, and he walks like (a) he knows where he’s going, and (b) he doesn’t have all day to get there. Damone is telling Ratner to be conscious of the message he sends by the way he moves, to think of himself as a performer on a stage, so to speak.

Consistent with that strategy, Damone tells Ratner not to talk to the girl he’s seeking to impress, but rather to communicate his interest by subtle gestures — to “just send out this vibe.” Dear friends, if young men would only heed this advice, we would be spared so many feminist diatribes about the stupid things guys say to women. Here is a clue for you losers: Most women are smart enough to spot a guy who’s on the hunt and, let’s face it, the typical teenage boy is always on the hunt. Read more

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