[PJ] When you are looking for a scientist, an engineer, a designer, or an artist, if the most brilliant, accomplished, and talented candidate is a white male, reject him! White males are not "diverse," are "privileged oppressors," and "overrepresented," so instead hire a member of a "marginalized. underserved minority," such as a person of color, a female, an LGBTQ++ individual, a poor or disabled person. Never mind if the person hired is weaker at the job; "social justice" will have been served. The examples are staggering.
The competition for the 2021 Australian National Jazz Awards for piano was carried out via blind auditions using audio recordings, with the names, faces, and voices of the competitors not disclosed. The ten short-list candidates were all men. Female jazz performers went ballistic, denouncing the results as sexist and unfair. They demanded that blind auditions be done away with and that a quota for female winners be implemented. In other words, the female critics demanded that merit be rejected in favor of enforced parity of the sexes.
An even more egregious case is the competition for the prestigious fellow status for the American Geophysical Union. One committee was appointed to nominate candidates in the cryosphere (Earth’s snow and ice) section. Some of the candidates were described by the female member of the committee as "truly, amazingly deserving." But the nominees, suggested by peers in the Union, were all men. This was too much for the diversicrats on the committee, who felt that "social justice" demanded the nomination of more females, more blacks, and more non-Americans. So the Committee refused to nominate a winner.
The claim made by diversicrats was that there is "implicit bias" against outgroup members, i.e. people who are not white males. It is alleged that members of oppressed victim groups, such as females and people of color, are not recognized for their accomplishments. A study in Scientific Social Studies concluded that prizes in 141 of the world’s top scientific competitions between 2001-2020 went to 2011 men and 262 women. This is a disparity that violates the "equity" argument that all census categories of race, sex, sexuality, etc., must have equal outcomes.
That this disparity is due to "implicit bias" is now claimed about all scientific prizes, such as the Nobel Prizes in science, three percent of which have been given to females, and none to black scientists. The fact that 26% of all scientific Nobel prizes went to Jews, who make up 0.02 percent of the world’s population, raises doubts about the implicit bias thesis, given the almost universal prejudice and widespread discrimination against Jews, who are by far the greatest recipient of religion-directed hate crimes. The alternative hypothesis that awards to Jews and others are based on scientific accomplishments is forbidden by diversicrats.
In just about every institution in what used to be Western Civilization, white males are personae non gratae. Job ads often exclude white men from applying, as is seen in many ads for university positions. This is also true in business. For example, one of the world’s largest investment companies, State Street Global Advisors will require special permission to hire white men as part of the company’s new diversity hiring initiative, according to the company’s head of inclusion, diversity, and corporate citizenship. The company said that "All of our leaders have to demonstrate at their annual appraisals what they have done to improve female representation and the number of colleagues from ethnic-minority backgrounds." The company plans to triple the number of Black, Asian and other minority staff in senior positions by 2023, and if executives don’t meet the quotas, they will face reduced bonuses. No requirement is specified for achievement, merit, or potential.
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Future anthropologists will conclude that our culture's Woke tribes use the credentialed mulatta as a totem which maintains social solidarity.
Just as the members of primitive clans "unite around their totemic emblem through collective rituals which create a powerful sense of togetherness," so do our Wokerati unite around the totemic emblem of the Middle Class Black Female.
The Credentialed Mulatta totem is everywhere:
..every consumer product advertisement
..every 15- or 30-second pre-roll or post-roll video or televised commercial
..every college or university brochure and every page of every website
..every government agency
..every political campaign of the UniParty, be it openly anti-OrangeMan, quasi-Orange ("Peachy"?) or even run by OrangeMan himself...
EVERYONE must show and embrace and bow to this totemic symbol of all that is pure and innocent and sacred.
Credentialed Mulatta, qui tollis peccata mundu, Dona nobis pacem: this totem who takes away the sins of the world, shall grant us peace.
Through Her are we absolved of any and all taint of our Original Sin, of Rayciss.
Short version: these people are batshit crazy and regressing to a primitive state.
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/\ The Credentialed Mulatta totem is everywhere:
..every consumer product advertisement
..every 15- or 30-second pre-roll or post-roll video or televised commercial
"Fifteen or thirty seconds?" It's start to finish on my teevee. I'm still awaiting a centaur to appear as a contestant on Wheel of Fortune.
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Anytime an employee selects for anything other than ability, mediocrity and failure await. Even a janitorial company provides a better service with hard working, knowledgeable employees, and home economics was originally the application of materials science, business economics, and psychology to give the housewife the tools of modern industry so she could better accomplish the tasks of running a home.
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State Street Global Advisors will require special permission to hire white men as part of the company’s new diversity hiring initiative
Hopefully State Street's loan customers will participate by refusing to repay any loans made to them by white loan officers, and by referring to State Street's collection officers as "slave catchers." It's the least they can do.
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Now this little baby ovuh heah is one of WHITE WESTINGHOUSE's finest ... back before pearls became swine
[The Last Refuge] Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; the institutions were already weaponized by the Patriot Act.
Instead, what Obama and Holder did was to take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum. This point is where many people understandably get confused.
In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.
What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms so that only their ideological opposition became the target of the new national security system. This is very important to understand as you dig deeper into this research outline.
Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, and take a walk with me as we outline how this was put together. You might find many of the questions about our current state of political affairs beginning to make a lot more sense.
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After many hours of specific questions and answers on specific examples, I realized why our nation is in this mess. That is when I discovered the fourth and superseding branch of government, the Intelligence Branch.
They are not simply the "fourth branch", they are the Deep State.
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A confused and confusing analysis. Lots of solid and interesting observations, but this author struggles to weave them into a coherent account of how, why and what exactly has evolved. He starts by accusing Obama and Holder and then immediately shifts into a narrative whereby the "pillars" were put in place by "engineers" in 2006-2007 -- according to somebody's (surely not Obama-Holder's) "designs" -- and "in the background."
If this isn't confusing enough, the metaphors make your head spin. Branch, I get, but he shifts back and forth from branch to pillars, to octopus tentacles, thence to siloes, to some vaguely engineered artifact....
All of which, in a way, reinforces one of his main insights: nobody in or out of government has a clue what these people at FBI and DOJ are up to or why. A terrifying thought.
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Deep state is more than intelligence agencies, sheesh. They are the unelected government with the real power, and they barely acknowledge the elected government. State, Pentagon, federal agencies. None of them are accountable and they consider the American people as a dangerous threat.
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The purpose of the "Deep State" is to perpetuate and expand the Deep State. Anyone who threatens that is considered an enemy. That includes about 95% of the people that still believe in the Constitution and the rule of law. If you understand that, everything becomes much simpler.
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Repeal the Civil Service Act and reinstitute the patronage system (although it's de facto in effect but only for one party). Then it becomes responsive every election cycle.
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The so-called US "Intelligence Branch", weren't they the same people who, during the Cuban Missile crisis, were ignorant that the USSR subs off Cuba had nuclear torpedoes on board and whose onboard command had full authority to use? That "Intelligence Branch"?
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NEW YORK—I’ve never met anyone named Othello, certainly not in Venice nor in Cyprus, but perhaps there are men by that name in Africa. The only one referred to as Othello, but always behind his back, was the greatest of all Russians, Alexander Pushkin: “As jealous as Othello but twice as dark,” was what les mauvaises langues in court called the great poet. Pushkin had a great-grandfather general who was Ethiopian.
I’ll get back to Othello in a jiffy, but first a few words about marital jealousy and Pushkin. The poet got a bee in his bonnet early on after marrying the beautiful but coquettish Natalia because she flirted, harmlessly but nevertheless disastrously. Innocent flirting might be fun in the English shires where men are more interested in killing birds and chasing foxes, but not where hot-blooded Russians are concerned.
That’s where the Dutch ambassador’s bum-boy and adopted son, George D’Anthes, who swung both ways, comes into the story. The palace buzzed with gossip as D’Anthes danced nonstop with Natalia and flirted with her outrageously. Pushkin immediately challenged him to a duel, but the Dutch ambassador tried to cool him down and had his bum-boy son ask Ekaterina, Natalia’s sister, to become his wife. In no time Georgie Porgie became Pushkin’s brother-in-law. The Tsar declared the case closed.
The poet did not fall for it, however—and rightly so. He challenged again and presented himself ready to fight without a second. D’Anthes the coward—he was an officer and familiar with weapons—shot first, mortally wounding Alexander the great. Like most cowards, D’Anthes lived to a ripe old age and died in Paris early in the 20th century.
So far so bad, as far as sexual jealousy is concerned. It certainly did in Pushkin, who should have known all about Othello and that psychopathic swine Iago, who at least got his comeuppance. Now Othello is back in the news, but not that American students have suddenly discovered Shakespeare. To the contrary, they think the Bard should not be taught because he’s all the things they hate and that I like, but we know all that already.
No, the reason Othello is back in the news is because at the University of Michigan, a Chinese-born professor showed the sensitive ones a film of Othello starring Laurence Olivier. Larry appeared as the melancholy Moor in blackface makeup; students were “offended” and all hell broke loose. The irony is that the professor who showed the clips was himself a victim during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and had been roughed up by the Red Guards. Read the rest at the link
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Colorful use of the language. Writer pulls you along until you have read all. I never met, I'll get back, That's where, The poet, So far so bad(now I like that one) and finally No, the reason.
OH; How I dread, I'll circle back. I'll get back was the original deflection.
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the irony is that the professor who showed the clips was himself a victim during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and had been roughed up by the Red Guards.
I'm really curious to know what Asian-Americans now think of the Woke neo-Red Guards. Why do most Asian-Americans still vote for Democrats?
Their kids are discriminated against in elite university admissions -- by the Wokesters. Their businesses and their wealth are in the gunsights now of commie kommissars Omarova and Yellen.
Can it really be true that Asians here have forgotten all the horrific lessons of the Cultural Revolution?
[JPost] Even the donor countries in Europe and the Arab world have grown weary of watching their investment in the PA squandered by its corrupt leadership, rather than put to proper use
Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej appears to be having a high old time in the Norwegian capital, where he’s leading Israel’s delegation to the biannual gathering of donor countries to the Palestinian Authority.
Calling the session on Wednesday of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) "important and fruitful," Frej tweeted his gratitude to Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt for "hold[ing] in Oslo an optimistic conference that I believe will produce a new way forward."
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104 guns on HMS Victory I believe he said. Hearing damage for sure. Ears ringing as a side damage to hearing nerve damage. Ringing only way you know you caused damage. Bet those fellows used sign language. Iowa class big guns required ear protection but accidents happen. Without protection busted ear drums and bleeding from ears.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The 'Diversity' Road to Mediocrity.
/\ The Credentialed Mulatta totem is everywhere:
After many hours of specific questions and answers on specific examples, I realized why our nation is in this mess. That is when I discovered the fourth and superseding branch of government, the Intelligence Branch.
[JPost] Even the donor countries in Europe and the Arab world have grown weary of watching their investment in the PA squandered by its corrupt leadership, rather than put to proper use
