Would you or your children want to go to this school?

Would you or your children want to go to this school? A teacher in a government school writes:

A fellow teacher, a friend, one of the last permanents, just resigned without even completing the rest of the term. She took a job in the Catholic system.

About a fortnight ago, she was on a sport class and was refereeing a game. A year 7 male student disagreed with a decision and started intimidating her. He got right up into her face, put his hand on her shoulder and put his other hand in her face and told her to stop talking. She managed to push to get him suspended. Upon his return, it was made clear in writing to the staff that his mum wasn’t supportive of the suspension.

The first lesson back she had with the class, this boy and his friends staged a premeditated attack. Five of them approached her and all put their hands on her, circling her. And peppered her with questions in her face. Despite it being caught on CCTV, and despite it being planned and the second instance for the main boy, he wasn’t suspended again. Only two of the other boys were given verbal warnings.

hat-tip Phil

I have no intention of assimilating; there is no white culture

I have no intention of assimilating; there is no white culture. By Nyadol Nyuon, a Sudanese refugee and lawyer who appeared on the ABC’s national forum on migration.

 

Actually there is a white culture. It is a truth culture, which evolved over the last few hundred years in Europe (and to a lesser extent in northeast Asia), and stands distinct from the honor culture that prevails almost everywhere else and for almost every time before that. Krzysztof Szczawinski takes a stab at describing white culture:

Western civilization is not an idea. It is a set of working arrangements, each of which took centuries to build and any of which can be lost in a generation:

1. Law that binds the ruler as well as the ruled.

2. Trial by evidence, not by authority.

3. Property the state cannot take at will.

4. Free exchange, and the prices that make it intelligible.

5. Science: the claim that reality is real, knowable, and open to correction by anyone with better evidence.

6. The individual conscience, which no institution owns.

7. The family: the only structure that transmits all of the above and invests in people who do not yet exist.

8. These are not Western by geography. They were built here, at great cost, and adopted elsewhere because they work.

What is being dismantled as honor culture reasserts itself:

9. Truth. Institutions built to establish facts now exist to protect narratives. Where evidence and narrative conflict, the evidence is managed. A society that cannot correct itself cannot steer.

10. Merit. “Who is best for this” is replaced by “who belongs in the room.” Position is allocated by credential, network, and demonstrated loyalty. This is not equality; it is the protection of incumbents in the language of equality. …

13. Free Speech. Not by law, mostly – by cost: employment, reputation, access. The result is a population that says one thing in public and another in private, and a growing number who have left public life entirely. …

Why white culture is eroding now (apart from immigration):

15. Accumulation. Every society builds layers of protected position. People who reach the top arrange the ladder behind them. Without periodic clearing, the layers thicken until the society is run by people it cannot remove.

16. Selection. An institution told to avoid scandal will select for people who avoid scandal, and those people prevent things rather than build them. No malice is required. Give an institution the wrong mission and it will perform it faithfully.

17. Therefore replacing individuals changes nothing. The same incentives produce the same people.

What can still be defended:

18. The law still mostly works. The scientific method is intact even where scientific institutions are not. Property holds. Several nations still know what they are and say so.

19. And the monopoly on distribution is broken. For the first time in a century, an argument can reach a continent without anyone’s permission.

What must be rebuilt:

20. The rotation of elites, so that position must be re-earned.

21. The presumption of freedom to act: punishment after harm, not permission before existence.

22. Institutions that transmit — schools, apprenticeships, prizes, families — rather than merely certify.

23. An authority that says publicly what is legitimate and what is corrupt, measured against a stated hierarchy of values. Nothing else on this list gets repaired while no one’s job is to name the problem out loud. …

The standard:

29. We will be judged by whether what we say turns out to be true. That is the whole authority available to us, and it is enough.

Woke lefties described white culture with a negative slant a few years ago for the Smithsonian in Washington:

What happens to Australia when we import thousands or millions of people like the woman in the video above? It changes.

Lozzy B. goes off:

This is a perfect example of an incompatible immigrant and why we must stop third world immigration and remigrate hostile incompatible migrants.

This African immigrant moves to Australia and says that there is NO WHITE CULTURE and that she dislikes the term Anglo Celtic, which is who ethnic Australians are.

Anglo Celtics literally founded, created and built Australia with their own hands.

These entitled, arrogant narcissistic immigrants come to our country to benefit off of the sacrifices, blood, sweat and tears of our people then openly disrespect us and our ancestors.

Then they have the nerve to tell us that our identity, people, culture and nation do not exist.  …

These people do not respect Australians or our culture yet at the same time they demand that we respect their identity and their culture.

They come to our country tell us who we are and what our nation is then make demands that we accept their version of our identity and nation. …

Facts are stubborn things, but play no part in honor culture:

Statistically Africans are currently the most problematic and violent group of people in Victoria. This is a fact.

At only 2% of the population, they make up over 50% of the youth prison population for serious violent crimes.

In Melbourne, the biggest fear of most Aussies is waking up during the night to five Sudanese teens standing over our beds with machetes. We sleep with one eye open now.

Aussies in Melbourne are literally building panic rooms, fortifying their homes and hiring personal security to keep these people out.

One Nation calls for fewer immigrants

One Nation’s call for fewer immigrants.

Pauline Hanson:

Australians are screaming out for mass migration to be cut because they are doing it tough.

They can’t find a home, can’t get a hospital bed and spend every morning stuck in traffic. I’m listening to them, not economists who keep getting it wrong, bureaucrats, politicians or big business chasing cheap labour.

More than 150,000 Australians are homeless, living in cars, tents or couch surfing….

I want migration returned to sustainable levels so our quality of life can improve. …

The uniparty people all scream that we’ll be economically ruined without ever more immigrants to do all the jobs. This brilliantly made French piss-take is their essential argument — notice all the doctors and engineers!

 

The globalists say we need immigrants to do the low-paying jobs that Australians won’t do, such as casual farm labor. Well there’s a solution for that — and it’s exactly the point. Pay more and Australians will do all the jobs. Duh.

Mass immigration lowers wages, especially at the low end. Which lowers living standards for those who depend on wages, especially at the low end. It’s supply and demand. But guess who it benefits? Those who’s income is mostly asset appreciation, or have high end jobs, or jobs that are insulated from competition from migrants. (Oh, the people in favor of mass immigration!)

Mass immigration raises home prices and causes overcrowding of our infrastructure such as roads, hospitals, and schools.

And that’s just on the numbers, before considering which immigrants arrive. Do they come from truth cultures (i.e. whites, north east Asians) or honor cultures (the rest of the world)? Truth and honor cultures are incompatible — there is no multiculturalism possible. Truth cultures only arose in the last few hundreds years, after millions of years of evolution, but leaped ahead technologically. If truth culture nations are swamped with non-assimilated people sticking to their to their honor cultures (“my tribe is more important than the truth, there are only winners and losers, oppressed and oppressors, exploited and exploiters, might makes right”) then a new dark age begins as truth culture gets snuffed out.

One Nation’s immigration policy:

  • Three years of net negative overseas migration.
  • A cap of 130,000 visas per year for permanent residents.
  • A 750,000 reduction in temporary visa holders over three years, returning the international student population to 2015 levels and the broader temporary migrant population to 2017 levels.
  • The deportation of 75,000 illegal migrants (including visa overstayers) within three months. Those who leave voluntarily may reapply, while those who remain face deportation and lifetime bans.
  • A “monocultural” Australia where immigrants assimilate under a “one cultural umbrella.” The party proposes refusing entry to migrants from nations deemed to foster extremist ideologies (including specific Muslim-majority countries) and withdrawing from the UN Refugee Convention.
  • An eight-year waiting period before migrants can access citizenship or welfare.
  • Ending taxpayer-funded visa appeals and reintroducing Temporary Protection Visas to prevent permanent residency through the back door.

Don’t hear much in the media about the details of One Nation’s policy. Too busy hiding her policies, but playing gotcha with Pauline.

Honor or truth: Can we say that Australian Aboriginals were among the most primitive of races?

Honor or truth: Can we say that Australian Aboriginals were among the most primitive of races? By Craig Kelly.

It might be uncomfortable, but it’s the truth.

Around 20,000 years ago, as the Earth’s climate changed — as it has throughout history — sea levels rose, severing the land bridges that had once connected Australia to New Guinea and mainland Asia, and Australia’s Aboriginal peoples became isolated from the rest of humanity.

For thousands of generations they remained in extraordinary isolation, trapped (Antarctica aside) on one harshest inhabited continent on Earth.

Without domesticated animals for transport or agriculture, and particularly without horses or other beasts of burden, they lived in a harsh and unforgiving environment where survival itself demanded extraordinary resilience.

Separated from other civilisations for millennia, technological development remained comparatively limited.

No written language emerged, nor metallurgy or ceramics, and only simplest canoes and stone tools were used. And Australia appears to be the only inhabited continent where the bow and arrow was never developed or widely adopted.

Honor culture is creeping over Australia. For years now we have only been able to say positive things about Aboriginals. Many lies are told about Aboriginals in public, but there are encouraged by the ruling class because they are positive about Aboriginals. In an honor culture, status matters more than truth. The status of aboriginals must be raised, according to the ruling class. Even in truly racist ways (e.g. the Voice) or when it harms us (e.g. mandatory aboriginal maths in school).

But what Pauline Hanson said is true, or close enough (ok, it’s a nitpicker’s delight). In a truth culture, that’s enough to make it permissible to say, albeit impolite. In a truth culture, we act and make policies that accommodate the truth, not punish the truth tellers.

Honor culture means not hurting the feelings of the powerful or those the powerful choose to protect at any given moment. It is not compatible with truth culture.

Albanese’s mother’s housing is a legitimate issue because he’s spent 30 years boasting about it in public

Albanese’s mother’s housing is a legitimate issue because he’s spent 30 years boasting about it in public. By Ryan Daly.

Anthony Albanese spent 30 years selling the houso story. Pauline just asked why his mum kept the house for 65 years.

Albo just fronted the cameras emotional and steaming, slamming Pauline Hanson as “nasty and spiteful” for comments about his late mother.

He said he’s “stunned”, that Maryanne was “way out of Pauline Hanson’s league”, and that he’s “proud to be a houso”.

Fine.

No one is stopping him from being proud of “being a houso”

What Pauline actually said, months ago on Stefanovic, then again this week, is the bit they don’t want discussed:

“Public housing is a hand up, not a 65 year occupancy. You get help, then it should move on to the next family coming through”

That’s it. …

Albanese has used the Camperdown commission house story as a political prop for his entire career. Victory speeches. Interviews. Every time he needs the humbleorigin card.

The moment someone points out that scarce public housing shouldn’t be a lifetime tenancy while other Australians are in cars and tents, suddenly it’s an unforgivable attack on a dead woman.

Lozzy B. on the selling of the smear:

Meanwhile he calls Hanson dangerous, divisive and appealing to dark forces 🙄

A man that cries about a true statement made by another politician on national TV should not be leading a nation. Pathetic.

Albanese is not exactly addicted to telling the truth. He seems pretty comfortable with honor culture.

Sydney Sweeney is completely untroubled by her sexual charisma, and leftist women hate her for it

Sydney Sweeney is completely untroubled by her sexual charisma, and leftist women hate her for it.

US ABC News:

An advertising campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney for a sports betting platform, in which she covers herself with footballs, tennis rackets, and hockey pads, has sparked widespread backlash from female athletes, who say it sexualizes women in sports.

Tim Treacher:

Last year, liberals were all angry at Sydney Sweeney for wearing blue jeans. Now they’re angry that she’s not wearing blue jeans. Or anything else.

She’s naked again. She just did an ad for some sports betting app, I think. I don’t know. Not anything I’ll ever use. But in the ad, she’s butt-nekkid, with strategically placed sporting equipment covering her naughty bits. …

There’s a theory that this woman keeps triggering these people because she’s not a liberal. Or at least not an outspoken one. Her relatives were seen in MAGA hats at one point, I think. That’s how it all started.

That could be part of it, I guess. I think it’s just women hating a woman for being more attractive than they are. If they could get a lucrative endorsement deal for lounging around in the buff, they would. But they can’t, so they rage at somebody who can.

Oh the hypocrisy:

Haven’t any of these people heard of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue? That’s been around since I can remember.

No outcry over these:

No outcry here either:

 

End Wokeness:

These are the “journalists” writing hit pieces on Sydney Sweeney.

Ace of Spades:

My other mild objection is about attention-getting. The media and media-personalities are constantly demanding the attention of each of us. I prefer these demands to be made more subtly. Yes, Sydney Sweeney has an amazing body but I would like my own Male Gaze to decide when to gaze.

But feminists have decided that attractive women are not allowed to show they are attractive in public because of Equity. Unattractive women do not draw positive attention in public, and therefore attractive women should be hated, shamed, and clucked to death by angry hens in the name of Sexual Equity. If we can’t all be gorgeous Sex Symbols, than nobody can.

Note how they never admit that they’re engaging in the ancient art of female sabotage/smear-campaigning against rivals they’re sexually jealous of. They always have to pretend their obvious middle-school sexual jealousy is actually some high-minded campaign for Women’s Empowerment.

Turns out Sydney is no dummy, as Eric Raymond noted:

I am in fact going to say “intelligent”. She was on the math and robotics teams at her high school. She restores and maintains her own cars. She’s been shrewd about managing her career. And she even shoots tactical pistol competently.

She is also, if one can judge from her public appearances, a sweet-natured and happy person. I think that thousand-candlepower smile is genuine.

She likes who she is. And she pisses off all the right people.

Mystery Grove:

Communism is when ugly deformed freaks make it illegal to be normal then rob and/or kill all successful people out of petty resentment and cruelty. The ideology is all window dressing.

Leftism stays strong by ostracism

Leftism stays strong by ostracism. By Matt Van Swol.

When my wife and I became conservative at the same time, early last year, I knew I would take some hate for it, and I did… but NOTHING like my wife took from liberal women

They all dropped her like a fly and then they ostracized her from their circle.

I have never seen anything like it.

If you’ve ever had the privilege of meeting my wife, you know she is one of the kindest, gentlest people you will ever meet.

Yet, every day she braces herself before she walks into places she used to walk into freely where we live because someone will inevitably ignore her, berate here, or sneer at her.

I watch her brace herself like this and I hate it.

All my wife did was just decided what she believed and didn’t hide it.

And for that, other women have decided she’s should be utterly destroyed.

Women are deeply radicalized to the Left and they legitimately attempt to destroy women who leave “their side”.

It’s cruel and evil and I’ve seen it first hand, but I’ve seen my wife turn into the most badass fighter on earth who doesn’t give a DAMN what anyone thinks and just chooses to do good and speak truth.

Christian Heiens:

Older Conservatives have no idea that this is what every single Right-wing Millennial and Zoomer experience when they interact with anyone of a similar age to them on the Left. …

They hate us. They want the worst for us. They have broadcast their intentions to hurt us for years, and there is no universe where we will ever allow these people to inflict their sadistic fantasies upon us without a fight.

Islam already has the ultimate apostate policy — the punishment for leaving Islam is death. Islamic scholars reckon that without this policy Islam would long ago have dwindled to a minor religion.

25 Years Later, Yes, They’re Winning

25 Years Later, Yes, They’re Winning. By Robert Spencer.

The media narrative has been set in stone for years: the real victims of 9/11 were Muslims in the U.S., who for a quarter-century now have suffered from unreasonable suspicion, hatred, harassment, discrimination and worse at the hands of racist, bigoted “Islamophobes.”

And yet in reality, if Osama bin Laden and Mohamed Atta were alive today, they would look at what is happening in the United States with a deep sense of satisfaction. …

The jihad project to transform the U.S. into a Sharia state, which Osama bin Laden and his brethren tried to advance so spectacularly 25 years ago today, is going along quite nicely.

As ever-increasing numbers of Sharia-adherent Muslims are elected to political offices at all levels of the U.S. government, the entire leftist establishment continues to insist that Sharia is entirely benign religious law with no political content, to which only hate-filled “Islamophobes” could possibly object. …

Ever since George W. Bush proclaimed six days after 9/11 that “Islam is peace,” the U.S. government has focused on stopping jihad terrorists, without ever acknowledging in any way that other Muslims might be trying to extend the hegemony of Sharia over this country by means other than terror attacks. …

Under cover of darkness, the Sharia agenda continues to advance. The establishment does its part by spreading propaganda about how Muslims are poor, innocent victims, with no attention whatsoever to the 49,000 jihad attacks worldwide since 9/11, or to the boasts of an increasing number of Muslims in the U.S. about their imminent takeover. …

 

Missing from our news

 

There are, however, glimmers of hope. More and more people are waking up to what Sharia involves. Numerous Americans are determined to resist. The jihadis and their allies and enablers have had a relatively easy time for the last twenty-five years. They may find the next 25 not to be so easy.

The Rational Response to 911 — Not Taken

The Rational Response to 911 — Not Taken. By Benjamin Weingarten.

The rational domestic response to 9/11 would have been for the federal government to engage in an extensive study of Islam, Sharia, the ideology and practices of both violent jihadist organizations and “civilizational jihadist” organizations, and then to calibrate a whole-of-government response to neutralize the threat posed by those animated by that ideology, and prevent it from coming to our shores and metastasizing to the greatest extent possible under the law.

Authorities would have surmised that our foes’ primary goal was to spread Islam over the world; that they would impose their totalitarian system using any and all means necessary; that that system was inherently incompatible with America, posed an existential threat to our republican system, and that its adherents would seek to exploit all of our freedoms — including our commitment to religious liberty — to advance their antithetical political and social project under banner of religion.

They would have acknowledged, in short, that our commitment to religious (and all other) freedom requires us to prevent threats to that freedom clad in religious garb — including from those seeking to overthrow our nation with a hostile, totalitarian, theopolitical ideology in the name of Allah.

Our response would have included closing the borders, a total freeze on immigration only to thaw once policies had been implemented to mitigate the threat, the rolling up and eliminating of Islamic supremacist support networks, deporting non-citizen promoters of such subversive and revolutionary ideology, likely a related denaturalization effort, eliminating foreign funding mechanisms of such activities to all relevant public and private institutions, etc. — anything and everything possible under the law to prevent Islamic supremacists from operating in or coming to the U.S., influencing let alone coercing us, and advancing their subversive cause in our body politic. …

But what did our ruling class do instead?

Its primary feature … has been to abide if not encourage mass Islamic immigration and integration into every aspect of American society.

Lefties, it’s not your civilization to give away.

I preferred the earlier situation where they live in their countries and we live in ours. That’s what countries are for.

AI is the next big psyop after covid — building our digital jailer?

AI is the next big psyop after covid — building our digital jailer? By Edward Dowd.

Be very afraid, they are telling us:

On Tuesday … a young man by the name of Jacob Coxon put out a post on X…his first post ever and it went mega viral. He is a former employee of both Anthropic and OpenAI and he warned about the dangers of AI.

 

 

Within 24 hours Jacob‘s X post had received 123 million views 650,000 likes 190,000 followers. Even Elon weighed in and said “I don’t think this has ever happened for a post from a new account with almost no prior activity.“

Immediately mainstream media hopped on board to add to the virality of the post. The Wall Street Journal within a few hours had already interviewed Jacob and mainstream media piled on. Both sides of the house then piled on (mostly Democrats) with X post quotes calling immediately to ask for regulations and government interventions.

Ed calls bullshit:

I believe this is a well-orchestrated psyop to move the needle and change minds. Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “psyop”:

“A military operation usually aimed at influencing the enemy’s state of mind through noncombative means… also: someone or something used by the government to influence the population’s opinions and attitudes.”

I am not saying Jacob Coxon is a government asset. I am saying the last 72 hours look less like a whistleblower and more like an inorganic panic narrative. …

Overnight the post printed nine figures in views. Hundreds of thousands of likes. The account went from nobody to a household handle before most of the country had coffee.

That is not how organic X speech works: organic speech stumbles, it posts a draft, it deletes a typo and it has a history. This account had a history of silence, then a professionally punchy script, then the entire mainstream media stack that ran with it with hours of post.

The Wall Street Journal published an exclusive interview with Coxon very shortly after the post went live. Business Insider, Newsweek, the New York Post, Mashable, and Deadline, all ran the same quotes within hours. Then the next day live interviews on Fox News and CNN. That is not one reporter getting lucky on a late night scroll. That is a package. In my humble opinion you do not get a WSJ exclusive and a 100 million view thread by accident unless the interview was already in the can.

Who benefits?

Let us start with who does not benefit:

  • Not the open-source shops
  • Not the startups that cannot afford a compliance department and a containment audit
  • Not the Chinese labs, who will ignore the sermon and keep training regardless

The first beneficiaries are the two names in the original post: Anthropic and OpenAI.

They are burning cash at a rate that would make a 2000-2001 CLEC blush. Token prices keep falling. Enterprise demand is not doubling fast enough to offset it…. Capex is a black hole. Valuations only work if the story stays vertical and the competitive set stays small.

A federal moat with pre-certification, insurance mandates, criminal liability for unlicensed models does two things at once. It crushes the long tail of competitors who were eating their margins. And it gives the incumbents a political story to take to investors: “we are the responsible adults, the regulated utilities of intelligence, please keep funding the losses until the unit economics appear.”

The second beneficiary is the government itself (this push is mostly a Democrat project).

A cabinet-level AI agency means new appropriations, new buildings, new GS-15s, new contractors, new “advisory boards” stuffed with the same people who wrote the talking points. Hearings mean travel budgets and television time. Pre-certification means a permanent inspection class. Mandatory insurance means a regulated market the agencies get to supervise. …

Bottom line:

Could Coxon be sincere? Sure…people leave jobs and people get scared…sincerity and utility are not opposites. The most effective operations use a real person with real anxiety and then put a megaphone, a Journal reporter, and a legislative calendar underneath him. …

Watch the cash, watch the narrative, watch the fear porn, watch who benefits … this is elaborate Kabuki Theater. After the Covid psyop this is the next big push in my opinion. All the signs are present.

 

Also by Edward Dowd:

In May of 2024 Marc Andreessen had a meeting with the Biden White House where it was revealed that only 2-3 AI companies would exist due to government regulations and no startups would exist. He has been vocal about this meeting.

Then yesterday Politico suddenly writes an article disputing the meeting…love the timing. More evidence this is an op with the blessing of the deep state and three letter agencies. They want total control and a fusion of AI and the state.

The real fear shouldn’t we are all going to die but instead we are building our digital jailer.

The carpentry parable, by Eric Raymond (esr).

Imagine it’s the 1940s. You’re a carpenter. Power tools are beginning to replace hand tools for ordinary work. Furthermore, jobs that would have been impossible or ruinously expensive are suddenly within reach.

You show up at a worksite one fine morning and it’s being picketed. STOP POWER TOOLS! the signs say. WOODWORKING UNDER THREAT!

Puzzled, you accost one of the demonstrators and ask him why he has a signboard in his hand rather than tools.

“Power tools are a menace!” he says. “How are you going to train apprentices if they can’t feel the wood through their hands?”

“What happens when we can chew through aged quality timber faster than we can grow new trees?”

“Carpentry isn’t just a set of skills and habits, it’s a mindset. It won’t be any true carpenters left if we let this go on.”

You inquire further and discover that they have plans. Plans to exclude from any job they work on any craftsman who has ever used a power tool or even spoken approvingly about them.

Meanwhile, inside the picket line, a house is going up. Men are working. Cutting and joining the framing is going faster than you could have imagined 10 years ago.

You look at the workers. You look at the demonstrators. One group is talking. The other is getting stuff done. One group looks like the past, the other like the future. In this moment, you get to decide which group you’re going to join.

This [parable] was not about carpentry.

The Great Threshing Machine: Why We’ve All Lost Our Leftist Friends

The Great Threshing Machine: Why We’ve All Lost Our Leftist Friends. By Edward Dutton at The Jolly Heretic.

Polarisation may have taken place for partly genetic reasons, as I’ve explored in my book Woke Eugenics: How Social Justice is a Mask for Social Darwinism.

In effect, we [are] under harsh selection for the traits, all of them significantly genetic, that are associated with conservatism: group-orientation, mental stability, physical health, pro-social personality and traditional religiousness.

With the collapse of child mortality [and thus, selection pressure], there was a massive build-up of mutation which would, logically, be expressed as the opposite of this fitness factor. Eventually, “individualism” (in the sense of being concerned with yourself and, thus, with equality and harm-avoidance), took over the culture and acted as a selection event — “Woke Eugenics” — sucking the unhealthy into its death cult of childlessness and leaving behind what we might call the remnant normal population from pre-Industrial times.

As part of this process, it has introduced policies which destroy social trust, such as mass immigration, which we know leads to distrust even among the natives because they fear that their fellow countrymen will collaborate with the foreigners….

Social media, such as Twitter, makes this process of coming apart so much worse. You quickly divide into niches, into echo chambers, and, once you’ve done so, whether you’re right- or left-wing, you competitively socially signal in a given direction.

Also, free from the constraints of having to rub along with people from the other side, it strikes me, you feel safer and so you allow yourself to “go down the rabbit hole” to “think the (previously) unthinkable” and, before long, the difference between you and those on the other side becomes a chasm and the “other side” really do seem like evil people who have no interest in your group-oriented values of obedience to traditional authority, in-group loyalty and sanctity. Further, because you feel safer, you fight back against Woke dominance, allow yourself to challenge it, and you start to build a parallel society. …

No more left wing friends:

As a middle-aged man, I bitterly lament the left-wing friendships that I’ve lost via this process. However, were we to meet up, it would be impossible to get along. …

In some cases, we are still “Facebook friends” but we can’t realistically have anything to do with each other anymore. In every battle in this Culture War, from Covid to trans, they were on the other side. It is as though we are not part of the same society. …

To the extent that political viewpoint is genetic, they will be more likely to end up with partners who are genetically similar to themselves than was the case in previous times, because they are likely to only socialise with such people. This will cause the chasm between Right and Left to grow even wider and we would expect this to lead, all else being equal, to a kind of sectarian society along the lines of the formerly Pillarised Netherlands (where there were parallel Protestant and Catholic societies) or Northern Ireland. In the Netherlands and in Ireland, the newspapers and even the universities were sectarian.

Phil writes:

While I understood how modern health practices would tend to reduce average IQ I missed that it would also (obvious in retrospect) affect mental health in the pathological sense. The effects on society are now visible.

hat-tip Phil

Are you a non-practicing white?

Are you a non-practicing white?

The term came to prominence outside lefty echo chambers recently when a Lindsay Clancy fan found out the mind-bending news that the lone holdout juror in the Clancy case who forced a mistrial was… *gasp“… black.

(The holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s trial was the sole person of colour amongst them. This means eleven white liberals, almost all women, were intimidating a lone black man — to free a white child killer.)


She said:

“I’m a non-practicing white… it changes the landscape of the conversation a little bit. A lot of us were assuming it was a white man.”

End wokeness:

I can’t get past the “non-practicing white” line. Here we have a person assuming that being white is like a social affliction, rather than the shorthand description for a person with sparse melanin content.

But yes, it’s a real term:

These people are crazy. Men can be women, and white people can be non-white? They keep changing the meaning of words to feel good about themselves, which renders communicating with them almost impossible and wastes our time.