FMJRA 2.0: Let The Good Times Roll

We all profess hatred of this evil, and then proceed to support it, passively or actively. We’re silent in the face of PC, because going active against it is also unattractive behavior.

But *why* is it so evil? People are fallible, and in need of correction. Nothing new there. Let me put forth the proposition that PC’s evil is found in the spirit in which it’s offered.

Someone trying to learn a skill will have a teacher. That teacher will criticize the student’s activity in a constructive way. The teacher wants the student to grow, possibly becoming a teacher one day.

Political Correctness is not teaching. It does not care about the subject at hand, or the student. PC is destructive. It is intended to silence that student. The subject is peripheral at best. The student has got to be silenced as quickly as possible.

Your disinterest in PC is not reciprocated. PC is bullying. PC is asymmetric. It is not a classically liberal consideration of the subject, running through stages of synthesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Quietly refusing to engage the bully will not preserve your liberty, Mr. Niemöller.

Recognizing the destructive spirit of PC, what do we do? My favorite approaches are to laugh at it and question it. The roots of PC bullying seem to be the rejection of truth and the lust for power. You may or may not be able to edify your Lefty. And you may lack the time/interest for a lengthy engagement with the foolishness. But let’s endeavor to leave everyone smarter for the encounter.

“your toga is showing” for whatever degenerate Lefty reason, was trending on Twitter as I was drafting this, so let’s have some fun:

REMEMBER: You can't spell "toga" without the letters in "goat". The Lefty rubs the loation on the goat, or else ze's thrown in Her Majesty's moat.

"Your Toga Is Showing" pic.twitter.com/b3TBWksJcQ

— I Came; I Saw; I Got Over Macho Grande (@smitty_one_each) January 13, 2018

Via the Curmudgeon, Klavan has a must-read-all essay on this topic:

The bullying is highly effective and very dangerous. In England, in the city of Rotherham, at least 1,400 non-Muslim girls, some as young as 11, were brutally raped by Muslim immigrants over a period of years in the 2000s. Police and other officials worked to keep the facts hidden because, according to multiple reports, they were afraid of being called racist. Think about that: police officers did not want to seem racist, so they stood by and let their city’s children be raped. The same thing goes on in other cities in England and throughout Europe. And in fact, some who have spoken out have had their careers curtailed by manufactured scandal. The message is clear: it’s just not nice to tell the truth. It’s just not done. Don’t do it.

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In The Mailbox: 01.12.18

Posted on | January 12, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.12.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Unfortunately, today’s links include quite a few references to human feces, or the origin thereof. Readers are advised to remember and practice appropriate fecal decontamination procedures at all times, in order to preserve your purity of essence.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Was Trump Wrong?
Twitchy: #FakeNews – Porn Star Stormy Daniels Denies Having Affair With Trump
Louder With Crowder: Hillary Tweet-Shames Trump For “Shithole” Remark. Remember How The Clintons Screwed Haiti?
According To Hoyt: The Inmates Are Running The Asylum
Monster Hunter Nation: New Swag For The Swag Page!
Vox Popoli: The Most Hostile Working Environment On The Planet
The Federalist: Leave Ginuwine Alone! Nobody Should Be Intimidated Into Dating Trans People (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Google Is A Shithole Edition
American Power: Darkest Hour, also, CNN Talking Heads Totally Lose Their Shit Over Trump’s Alleged “Shithole” Comment
American Thinker: Was Seth Rich Killed Over The Steele Dossier?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Sapiosexual Friday
BattleSwarm: Was Fusion GPS Allowed To Run Unsupervised FISA 702 Queries?
CDR Salamander: Rep. Wittman (R-VA) Goes Salamander, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Speaking Of Sh**holes, Where Were You? also, Speaking An Uncomfortable Truth About Haiti
Don Surber: Tax Reform Means A Mexican Truck Plant Is Moving To Michigan
Dustbury: Over And Done With
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: Hungarian PM Orban – “Refugees” Actually Muslim Invaders, also, Policy Manager For Twitter’s Trust And Safety – “We’re Working On Getting The Shitty People Not To Show Up” (VIDEO)
Hogewash: Blognet, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Two Democrat NYC Councilmen Arrested Protesting Deportation Of Criminal Illegal, also, The Trump Dossier’s Credibility Is Collapsing
Joe For America: Sarah Sanders Just Crushed CNN’s Jim Acosta
JustOneMinute: We All Knew Cy Young Had An Arm, But Still…
Legal Insurrection: Media Falsely Reports Haiti & Panama Ambassadors Resigned Over Trump’s Alleged “Shithole” Comment, also, WaPo Suspends Reporter Who Advised Democrats At Secret Event
Power Line: Everyone Hates Trump, Right? also, Crudity In The Oval Office (featuring LBJ)
Shark Tank: Trump Pressures US, World Leaders To Fix Iran Nuke Deal – Or Else
Shot In The Dark: Being Evil
STUMP: Setting The Stage 2018 – Connecticut Says Bye Bye Billionaires
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – I’m Going To Regret This Episode XCVII
The Political Hat: Whitewashing The Bloodline
This Ain’t Hell: Friday Morning Feelgood Stories, also, “Shitholes” And Stuff
Weasel Zippers: Gitmo Terrorists Blame Their Imprisonment On Trump’s “Hostility Toward Muslims”, also, Dem AG Candidate Mugged During Campaign Photoshoot In Chicago
Megan McArdle: Warning – Trump’s Babysitters Are About To Go Home
Mark Steyn: Saying “That’s Not Who We Are” Is Who We Are

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Democrats Love ‘S***hole’ Countries, and They Want America to Become One

Posted on | January 12, 2018 | 3 Comments

“This remark by the president of the United States smacks of blatant racism, the most odious and insidious racism masquerading poorly as immigration policy. And I’ll be very blunt, the president doesn’t speak for me as an American. He demeans America. He demeans and betrays American values by these kinds of remarks.”
— Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Democrat

Our president has provoked “controversy” by speaking the brutal truth:

President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they discussed protecting immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to several people briefed on the meeting.
“Why are we having all these people from sh–hole countries come here?” Trump said, according to these people, referring to countries mentioned by the lawmakers.
Trump then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries such as Norway, whose prime minister he met with Wednesday. The president, according to a White House official, also suggested he would be open to more immigrants from Asian countries because he felt that they help the United States economically.
In addition, the president singled out Haiti, telling lawmakers that immigrants from that country must be left out of any deal, these people said.
“Why do we need more Haitians?” Trump said, according to people familiar with the meeting. “Take them out.”
In November, the Trump administration rescinded deportation protection granted to nearly 60,000 Haitians after the 2010 earthquake and told them to return home by July 2019.

Reuters provides more information and reaction:

Trump’s remarks, made in the White House, came as Democratic Senator Dick Durbin and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham briefed the president on a newly drafted immigration bill being touted by a bipartisan group of senators, according to the sources, who asked not to be identified.
Other government officials were present during the conversation, the sources said.
The lawmakers were describing how certain immigration programs operate, including one to give safe haven in the United States to people from countries suffering from natural disasters or civil strife. . . .
Many Democrats and some Republican lawmakers slammed the president for his remarks.
Republican U.S. Representative Mia Love, a daughter of Haitian immigrants, said the comments were “unkind, divisive, elitist, and fly in the face of our nation’s values” and called on Trump to apologize to the American people and to the countries he denigrated.
Another Republican Representative, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who was born in Cuba and whose south Florida district includes many Haitian immigrants, said: “Language like that shouldn’t be heard in locker rooms and it shouldn’t be heard in the White House.”
Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, a frequent Trump critic, said the president’s comment “smacks of blatant racism, the most odious and insidious racism masquerading poorly as immigration policy.”

What was being discussed, of course, was a matter of government policy. The president’s characterization of which countries are favored by current policy was crude, but essentially accurate.

If Haiti is not the all-time winner of the Worst Country in the World title, it’s certainly in contention for that prize on an annual basis, and it is not an insult to Mia Love to tell the unfortunate truth about Haiti. Her father was an enemy of the Duvalier regime in Haiti, and her parents were part of an exodus of the country’s middle class during the 1970s and ’80s. Once the most intelligent and ambitious members of Haiti’s population fled the island nation, however, who remained behind? Haiti is plagued by endemic violence and poverty. Perhaps some of President Trump’s feminist critics would find this information relevant:

Sexual violence in Haiti is a common phenomenon. . . . Reporting a rape to police in Haiti is a difficult and convoluted process, a factor that contributes to underreporting and difficulty in obtaining accurate statistics about sexual violence. Few rapists face any punishment.

Do the celebrity feminists who used the Golden Globe ceremony to decry the “rape culture” in Hollywood really want to import thousands of such people to the United States? While the president’s vulgar language is unfortunate, the underlying reality is exactly as he described it, which is highly relevant to the matter of immigration policy.

America will be coping with the consequences of decades of misguided policy (see “Ted Kennedy’s Real Legacy: 50 Years of Mass Immigration”) for a long, long time. Even if we could suddenly reduce immigration to zero — or perhaps, as President Trump implied, if we were henceforth to admit only Norwegians — we ought not to underestimate the difficulties of assimilating the millions of immigrants from “sh–hole” countries we have already admitted. Vox Day has described open-borders ideology as based upon the “Magic Dirt” theory, i.e., the belief that “all immigrants will magically become Real Americans . . . by virtue of geographical relocation, thereby instantly negating of all of their racial, ethnic, religious, political, and cultural traditions.” Any assertion that immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti or Somalia will automatically discard the culture of their homelands, merely because they have immigrated to the United States, is self-evidently false. It is foolish to ignore the risk that immigrants from “sh–hole” countries may bring with them the same problems that afflicted them in the failed nations they fled. Why would Democrats therefore insist that their deal with President Trump must include permanent legal residency for such immigrants, who were originally admitted on a temporary basis as “refugees”?

Because Democrats hate America, that’s why.

Democrats hate freedom. Democrats hate capitalism and Christianity and everything else that is good about America. Democrats want to turn our country into a “sh–hole” no different than the nightmare regimes of corruption, poverty and violence these “refugees” have fled. If telling this truth offends Democrats, good. They deserve to be offended.

By the way, are you aware that nearly 40 percent of sex offenders in Oregon prisons are illegal aliens? Probably from “sh–hole countries.”

BREAKING The International Association of Shithole Countries demands an apology from President Trump.

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 11, 2018

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

Also, as I keep saying, Hit the Freaking Tip Jar!

UPDATE: The Norwegians don’t get it, either:

Twitter users, some of them from Norway, quickly lashed out asking Trump: Why would Norwegians want to come to America?
‘I’m confused — why the f*** would anyone migrate to the US from Norway? Why would you give up healthcare free at the point of access, living wages and reliable public services?,’ one tweet read.
‘I live in Norway and would never move to USA. We have free health care, free higher education, 5 weeks vacation 8 hours work a day. No thanks Trump,’ another user tweeted.

Vox Day provides the clarifying facts:

There are more than 4.5 million Norwegian Americans according to the most recent U.S. census, and most live in the Upper Midwest. Norwegian Americans currently comprise the 10th largest European ancestry group in the United States.
And here is why:
The introduction of the Danish grain monopoly caused severe shortages of grain in Norway that led to famine and conflict. Crop failures led to a terrible period of famine in Norway which was followed by disease and dire poverty causing thousands of deaths. Norwegians began to look to America as an escape from the devastation, political strife and hunger.
So, devastation, political strife, and hunger is the answer.

You’re welcome, Norwegian-Americans. Now please do the rest of us a favor: Stop complaining and support our President.

Category: Crime, Democrats, Donald Trump, Immigration, Racism

In The Mailbox: 01.11.18

Posted on | January 11, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Les Parapluies De Cherbourg
Twitchy: Looks Like Peter Thiel’s Getting Some Poetic Justice (And Glenn Greenwald Can’t Deal)
Louder With Crowder: Seal Blasts Oprah’s Harvey Weinstein Hypocrisy On Instagram
Medium: How A Cult Infiltrated The California Institute Of Integral Studies (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Solution To African Gangs Terrorizing Melbourne? Crack Down On Far-Right Racial Hatred
American Power: Laura Ingraham Warns Trump – You Promised A Wall, Not A Fence, also, James Agee, A Death In The Family
American Thinker: Killing Trump Is The Deep State’s Plan C, Stone Claims
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Bat-Guano Crazy News
BattleSwarm: Engineer James Damore Sues Google
Bring The HEAT: French To Deploy On US Carrier This Spring
CDR Salamander: REFORGER – Now More Than Ever
Da Tech Guy: The Self-Identification Retirement Plan, also, What You Already Knew About Twitter Is Worse Than You Thought
Don Surber: Doesn’t Look Like Amnesty Is Happening
Dustbury: Gawker To Remain Dead
The Geller Report: Greece Limits Sharia Law After European Court Challenge, also, US Jewish Leadership Ignores Catastrophic Effects Of Hijra On European Jewry
Hogewash: A Changing Comet, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Liberals Outraged As Walmart Increases Wages & Benefits In Response To GOP Tax Bill
Joe For America: LA Teacher Cuffed, Removed From board Meeting For Asking Questions, also, Chicagoans Not Happy About Obama’s Presidential Library Plans
JustOneMinute: Add This To “Frequently Unasked Questions”, also, Irrigate The Swamp?
Legal Insurrection: Psychiatrists Who Targeted Trump Face Backlash, also, Undercover Video Ensnares Twitter
Power Line: FBI Reportedly Used Trump Dossier To Obtain FISA Warrant, also, Google “Fact Checks” The Right
Shark Tank: 66% Of Americans Feel Trump’s Economy Is “Excellent Or Good”
Shot In The Dark: MSGA, also, After All These Months…
STUMP: Centless In Seattle – The New Soda Tax Saga
The Political Hat: Blame The White People, Blame The Republicans, Blame The Christians
This Ain’t Hell: CSM Troxell To ISIS – Surrender Or Die, also, Army Recruit Fitness Fails
Weasel Zippers: Spokane WA Decides To Outlaw Jailing Of Illegals By Police, also, Meghan McCain Destroys Michael Wolff And His Book On The View
Megan McArdle: Saving Hollywood From The Chinese Box Office
Mark Steyn: Of Sellouts, Sepoys, and Superheroes, also, The Pleasure Of His Company

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Violence Against Women: Convict Kills His Mother’s Girlfriend and Her Daughter

Posted on | January 11, 2018 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women: Convict Kills His Mother’s Girlfriend and Her Daughter

Marlin Larice Joseph is accused of murder in Florida.

Marlin Larice Joseph, 26, has tattoos on his face. In 2013, he was charged with “lewd behavior” involving a 13-year-old girl, and was sentenced to prison. He served less than a year of that sentence, and was living with his mother, Robin Denson, in West Palm Beach, Florida:

Wearing a black baseball cap and a gray T-shirt that says “Ben Hustlin All My Life,” Robin Denson spoke to her missing son.
“Marlin, son, I love you,” Denson said, standing in front of the West Palm Beach Police Department on [Jan. 1]. “You know I love you, but please, turn yourself in. If you’re scared to do so, call me.” . . .
She said she’s had no contact with Joseph since he vanished. Denson has no idea where he is.
“We’re all he’s got,” she said as her two other children, Pop and Annie, stood next to their grieving mom for six minutes.
Denson says Marlin was a good kid. He played high school football. He read his Bible every day. “I just don’t know what went wrong,” she said.

Police say where Joseph went wrong — besides his stint in prison and his face tattoos — was murdering his mother’s lesbian girlfriend, Kaladaa Crowell, 36, and Crowell’s 11-year-old daughter, Kyra Inglett:

Upset over an 11-year-old’s “bad attitude,” Marlin Larice Joseph gunned down the girl’s mother, then chased the elementary-school student outside and killed her, recently released West Palm Beach police records show.
Joseph, 26, was arrested [Jan. 2] in Lake Worth on two first-degree murder charges about two hours after authorities caught his 27-year-old cousin using his credit card at a Lantana gas station. Javarie Williams was arrested for reportedly hiding Joseph for days and lying to authorities about his whereabouts. . . .
Joseph’s mother, who was dating the woman her son reportedly killed and considered herself a stepmother to the girl, tearfully pleaded for her son to turn himself in the day before his arrest.
Robin Denson said she was outside the West Palm Beach home [Dec. 28] when her son allegedly fired fatal shots into Kaladaa Crowell, 36, and her 11-year-old daughter, Kyra Inglett.
Police records indicate Crowell and Joseph, who also lived in the 822 Third St. home, had argued that day about the way Kyra “was not getting along with the other children who lived in the home.”
Joseph claimed the 11-year-old, a fifth-grade student at Northboro Elementary School in West Palm Beach, “had a bad attitude,” according to an arrest report.
Shortly after 7 p.m. Joseph’s brother said Joseph walked out of the bedroom they shared. Seconds later, the brother heard a gunshot and found Crowell sitting on the ground.
“Please call 911,” the mother pleaded, according to the police report.
Joseph’s brother ran out the front door and saw another brother wrestling with Joseph.
The second brother told authorities he heard gunfire, then saw Joseph run out of the home behind Kyra and shoot her. Police say the 11-year-old was shot in the head and the right forearm.
The brother grabbed Joseph, trying to keep him from running off, according to a police report.
A third brother, who also saw Joseph shoot Kyra, said Joseph ran back inside the home, fired at least two more shots, then fled in Crowell’s car.

And you thought your family was “dysfunctional”? Here you have two women living together with their five children, and none of the news stories about this case contains a single word about who were the fathers of these various children. Considering Joseph’s criminal record, I’m going to guess his father isn’t exactly a model citizen. One notices that there were at least four different surnames (Denson, Joseph, Crowell, Inglett) among the seven residents of 822 Third St. In this disorderly household, the convicted felon with face tattoos considered himself fit to pass judgment on the “bad attitude” of his mother’s girlfriend’s daughter, a fifth-grader who “was not getting along with the other children who lived in the home.” He decided to settle this domestic conflict with a pistol.

Trish Bendix, who for nearly 10 years was editor of the lesbian news site AfterEllen.com, connects this South Florida murder to an upstate New York case we previously covered here, and provocatively asks: “Why Are Black Lesbians And Their Children Being Targeted For Murder?”

The similarities in these two cases are too hard to ignore — black lesbians and their children killed by men who knew them and their families. In 2014, James Larry Cosby was convicted of murdering his daughter, Britney Cosby, and her girlfriend, Crystal Jackson, in Houston. During his trial, friends and family testified that Cosby was vocal about his problem with their relationship and his daughter’s homosexuality, though he never went on record to state his motive.
“These are the things we know. He had resentment. They had a better life. They were being treated differently at [Jackson’s family’s] house,” Capt. Barry Cook, an investigator with the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office said. “He didn’t agree with their lifestyle, but neither did the Jacksons. Were they killed for being gay? Who knows? He’s the only one who knows and he’s not talking.”
While certainly not explicitly specific to black families, familial homophobia is often ignored when it comes to law enforcement declaring something a hate crime. It seems, for some reason, that an anti-lesbian motive isn’t one worth bringing up by anyone other than the prosecution or people that knew the victims well, at least in Cosby’s case. But with what seems like a tragic trend of black lesbians and their children being murdered in their own homes, it’s past time to acknowledge that their being targeted was very specific.

Except correlation is not causation, Ms. Bendix. What you are doing here is what I’ve called the Atrocity Narrative method of propaganda. In a nation of 320 million people, it’s possible to collect a handful of examples of almost any unusual phenomenon (e.g., people having sex with dogs) and portray this as a social “trend.” This was how, for example, the Black Lives Matter movement ginned up a firestorm of anti-police anger, claiming a pattern of racist brutality by white cops, even though as a matter of statistical fact, a police officer is more likely to be killed by a black suspect than vice-versa. Selective media attention to relatively rare incidents — cops shooting unarmed suspects, or lesbians being murdered — can create distorted public perceptions. Yet such distortions are often deliberately created by activists and journalists seeking to promote “social justice” narratives about racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.

Are black lesbians being “targeted” because of their sexuality? Perhaps, but what do we know about the sexuality of the 624 people shot to death last year in Chicago, of whom 78% (502 victims) were black? So far as I know, no one has ever analyzed Chicago’s crime epidemic in terms of its impact on the LGBT community, but what we do know is that 91% of the victims are males, and most of the perpetrators were also male. Chicago is a microcosm of violent crime in the United States, which is disproportionately committed by black males, who are about 6% of the U.S. population, but commit nearly half the country’s violent crimes.

For more than half a century, dating back to “The Moynihan Report” of 1965, social critics have tried to call attention to the correlation between family breakdown in the black community and the problem of poverty and violence. Unfortunately, these concerns have been shouted down with accusations of racism by liberals who insist that, somehow, the prejudices of white people must be to blame for every problem that affects black people. This scapegoating explanation is used by liberals to excuse and justify irresponsible behavior by black people, who are portrayed as helpless “victims of society,” without moral agency over their own individual lives. This belief begets the Officer Krupke syndrome: “I’m depraved on account I’m deprived.”

To explain the murders of Kaladaa Crowell and Kyra Inglett as a consequence of “familial homophobia,” as Ms. Bendix does, you must ignore a whole lot of contrary evidence. You must ignore, for example, the question of why Marlin Joseph, a sex offender with tattoos on his face, was living in the same household with an 11-year-old girl and, also, why this convicted criminal had possession of a pistol. Just ask a few questions: What percentage of the population of West Palm Beach is on probation or parole? What’s the violent crime rate there? How many sex offenders live in the community? Wouldn’t such facts be more relevant than speculation about the influence of “familial homophobia”?

Here’s a fact: Hillary Clinton got 57% of the vote in Palm Beach County. Is there any reason to suspect Marlin Joseph voted for Trump? Of course not, but Trish Bendix is a liberal and liberals don’t care about facts:

In 2017, more LGBTQ people were killed in hate-violence-related homicides than previous years. . . . Of the total number of LGBTQ homicides in 2017, 75% of the victims were people of color; 20 (56%) of the victims were Black. . . .
Researchers posited that Trump’s election and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric coming from his administration, as well as other far right conservatives in states like North Carolina and Texas, had made it somehow more acceptable for some to act on their hatred or dislike for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, trans men or women, and other members of the queer community.
But should those who are motivated by hate crimes are not charged for them, and if the identities and relationships of the victims are ignored as they can often be not just by law enforcement but by the press as well, it will be harder for the community to qualify an epidemic that could threaten to keep growing during a time of civil unrest inspired by those currently in power.
In Trump’s America, black lesbians and their children are being murdered; trans women are being murdered; hate crimes are rampant and can’t and shouldn’t be ignored, especially if this kind of hate is coming from inside our own homes.

So, a convicted sex offender with tattoos on his face kills two people in his mother’s home in the Democrat stronghold of West Palm Beach and, according to Trish Bendix, this is evidence of an “epidemic” of hate crimes caused by “anti-LGBTQ rhetoric” from Trump administration and “far right conservatives.” Meanwhile, in upstate New York, the apparent motive for the December murder of two lesbians and two children was — wait for it — stealing a flat-screen TV. Blame Trump!

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Category: Gays, Racism, Sex Trouble, Violence Against Women

Google Lawsuit Exposes Stalinist Climate Protecting Anti-White, Anti-Male Bias

Posted on | January 10, 2018 | Comments Off on Google Lawsuit Exposes Stalinist Climate Protecting Anti-White, Anti-Male Bias

We tend to use the phrase “political correctness” as a joke, without acknowledging its blood-soaked historical origins. However, I’ve spent the past couple of weeks reading Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, a history of the darkest era in Stalin’s murderous dictatorship, and I cannot overlook the parallels between Stalinism and the so-called SJW (social-justice warrior) mentality exposed by James Damore’s lawsuit:

James Damore, the Google engineer who was fired after arguing that the gender gap in tech may be partially explained by sex differences among men and women, just filed a class-action lawsuit against Google in the Santa Clara, Calif., Superior Court.
Damore came to fame after he wrote the now-infamous “Google Manifesto,” where he pointed out that “differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech.” . . .
Filed Monday morning, the class-action lawsuit argues that Google discriminates against white conservative men on the basis of their “male gender” and “Caucasian race,” further alleging that there is “open hostility for conservative thought” in the Google workplace.
Damore is joined by another former Google engineer named David Gudeman, who faced “wrongful termination” in 2016 after three years as a software engineer. Both are represented by the Dhillon Law Group.
The lawsuit also alleges that Google employees were awarded bonuses for arguing against Damore’s views. In one example of this, a female employee was awarded a bonus for speaking out against the “wretched hive of scum and villainy” allegedly represented by Damore’s memo.

You can read the whole thing. To those who have studied Soviet history, it is evident that in the quasi-Stalinist atmosphere at Google, heterosexual white males became the “class enemy,” like the kulak peasants annihilated during the forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture. Denounced by Lenin as “bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers,” these were peasant farmers who were demonized for being slightly more prosperous than their neighbors. The Bolsheviks made kulaks the scapegoats for the failures of Soviet policy. Bread shortages were blamed on the kulaks — a slur which in Russian implied greed — and when Stalin came to power, a campaign of genocidal violence was unleashed against these scapegoats, a policy that resulted in the notorious terror famine known as the Holodomor.

Why is Soviet history so relevant to what happened at Google? How could far-left “social justice” ideology have become institutionalized at what is, after all, a powerful (and enormously profitable) communications conglomerate valued at more than $400 billion? This is explained by the fact that, during the past decade, identity-politics grievance groups began eyeing Silicon Valley as a target for class-action lawsuits alleging discrimination against women and minorities. At companies like Google, slogans of “diversity” and “inclusion” were used to disguise what were, in reality, defensive measures against such accusations. In April 2017 — four months before Damore’s “manifesto” went viral — the Labor Department accused Google of “extreme” discrimination against women:

Google has discriminated against its female employees, according to the US Department of Labor (DoL), which said it had evidence of “systemic compensation disparities”.
As part of an ongoing DoL investigation, the government has collected information that suggests the internet search giant is violating federal employment laws with its salaries for women, agency officials said.
“We found systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,” Janette Wipper, a DoL regional director, testified in court in San Francisco . . .
Janet Herold, regional solicitor for the DoL, said: “The investigation is not complete, but at this point the department has received compelling evidence of very significant discrimination against women in the most common positions at Google headquarters.”
Herold added: “The government’s analysis at this point indicates that discrimination against women in Google is quite extreme, even in this industry.”
Google strongly denied the accusations of inequities, claiming it did not have a gender pay gap.
The explosive allegation against one of the largest and most powerful companies in Silicon Valley comes at a time when the male-dominated tech industry is facing increased scrutiny over gender discrimination, pay disparities and sexual harassment.
The allegations emerged at a hearing in federal court as part of a lawsuit the DoL filed against Google in January [2017], seeking to compel the company to provide salary data and documents to the government.
Google is a federal contractor, which means it is required to allow the DoL to inspect and copy records and information about its its compliance with equal opportunity laws. [In 2016], the department’s office of federal contract compliance programs requested job and salary history for Google employees, along with names and contact information, as part of the compliance review.

If you read that carefully, you understand that this “compliance review” of Google’s hiring policies was begun by the Obama administration. The officials pushing this — Wipper and Herold — are bureaucratic holdovers from the previous administration, who filed a lawsuit in January 2017 (i.e., before Trump was inaugurated) at a time when Silicon Valley firms were “facing increased scrutiny over gender discrimination.” Under those circumstances, Google managers were obviously feeling pressure to demonstrate that they were not engaged in discrimination against women, which is the most obvious motive for the attitude of anti-male discrimination that the Damore lawsuit alleges:

Damore, Gudeman, and other class members were ostracized, belittled, and punished for their heterodox political views, and for the added sin of their birth circumstances of being Caucasians and/or males. This is the essence of discrimination — Google formed opinions about and then treated Plaintiffs not based on their individual merits, but rather on their membership in groups with assumed characteristics.
Google employees and managers strongly preferred to hear the same orthodox opinions regurgitated repeatedly, producing an ideological echo chamber, a protected, distorted bubble of groupthink. When Plaintiffs challenged Google’s illegal employment practices, they were openly threatened and subjected to harassment and retaliation from Google. Google created an environment of protecting employees who harassed individuals who spoke out against Google’s view or the “Googley way,” as it is sometimes known internally. Google employees knew they could harass Plaintiffs with impunity, given the tone set by managers — and they did so.
Google employs illegal hiring quotas to fill its desired percentages of women and favored minority candidates, and openly shames managers of business units who fail to meet their quotas—in the process, openly denigrating male and Caucasian employees as less favored than others.
Not only was the numerical presence of women celebrated at Google solely due to their gender, but the presence of Caucasians and males was mocked with “boos” during company-wide weekly meetings. This unacceptable behavior occurred at the hands of high-level managers at Google who were responsible for hundreds, if not thousands, of hiring and firing decisions . . .

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There are some genuinely mind-boggling examples cited in that complaint and, as lawyers like to say, “discovery is a bitch.” If Google doesn’t settle this lawsuit, or if they can’t get it dismissed in the early preliminaries, they’re going to be forced to hand over a lot of internal emails and other communications that could be very embarrassing. The Stalinist climate at Google exists because the company’s executives don’t want to tell the truth about their company’s personnel policies. The actual facts about who gets hired or promoted and why — the reality behind those slogans of “diversity” and “inclusion” — would be a shattering blow to the utopian illusion of “social justice.” Just as the Soviet dictatorship blamed the kulaks for food shortages, rather than acknowledge the failure of their own misguided policies, so also has Google made heterosexual white males the scapegoats for their managerial failures.

James Damore refused to play along with the social-justice game, and his truth-telling courage made him the Solzhenitsyn of the Google gulag.