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Earlier: ADJUSTING TO THE POST-AMERICAN AGE—James Kirkpatrick’s Address To The First VDARE Conference This is James Kirkpatrick’s speech to the Second VDARE Castle Conference. I’m James Kirkpatrick, a long-time contributor to VDARE.com. And I'm the host of the VDARE Book Club. You've all heard the saying, if youth only knew, if age only could. I... Read More
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Sometime very soon—perhaps as you are hearing or reading this—the U.S. Supreme Court will, in the last month of its judicial term, bring forth a ruling on the constitutionality of Affirmative Action in college admissions. This ruling will be the final act in the... Read More
“Conservatives” ruled that race matters. Thumbnail credit: © Fred Schilling/Collection Of/Planet Pix via ZUMA Press Wire This video is available on Rumble, BitChute, and Odysee. Last week the US Supreme Court ruled on yet another case about race. The sheer volume of race cases – and the incredible number of justice-hours spent on them –... Read More
In the United States of America white people are now officially second class citizens as this 16 minute video by an Asian man makes completely clear: There is much in the video to disturb us, but notice especially that most of the colored and white young people denouncing white people as a race have been... Read More
I have been watching its arrival for a number of years, and now it has arrived–the transformation of our society from merit-based to status-based. This is a major revolution. “From status to contract” was Sir Henry Maine’s description of the rise of a merit-based society in which aristocratic privilege was eliminated and equality under the... Read More
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You have to feel sorry, sort of, for GOP presidential candidate Tim Scott, the black senator from South Carolina who was Affirmatively Acted into the Senate by the appalling Nicky Haley in 2013 to replace Jim Demint: his announcement last week was completely stepped on by Ron DeSantis. But Scott boasts the support of many... Read More
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There is a peculiar paradox in contemporary race relations: the more government struggles to achieve equality, the more it fails, and with mounting failures comes yet more coercion to repress those who tell the truth. This makes little logical sense. After all, silencing skeptics and twisting reality might have been necessary in the 1950s and... Read More
Earlier (2015) Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Train Crashes? Our Ruling Class’s response to Norfolk Southern’ s toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, was unsurprising given that it is uninterested in safety if it interferes with the Woke project of Diversity, Inclusion, Equity (DIE. Wokesters call it DEI for some reason). But the disaster is... Read More
Here come the junkies and crack hos. This video is available on Rumble, BitChute, and Odysee. Our country has a mysterious ability to make rules about race that clearly say one thing – don’t discriminate – and then use the same rules to justify racial discrimination, even require it. The famous Civil Rights Act of... Read More
Quota-based hiring and promotion has had deleterious effects on those awarded status-based preferment. The best among them are left in doubt whether they earned their place. The worst understand that it is an entitlement independent of performance, which, of course, undermines not only their performance but the performance of everyone else as well. If a... Read More
Henry Sumner Maine in 1861 wrote that “the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.” Maine is referring to the rise of merit from the Enlightenment and its replacement of aristocratic status as the basis for advancement. In the past few decades today’s progressives have turned this movement... Read More
Herschel Walker would not have gotten the GOP nomination if he were white. President Donald Trump bears heavy responsibility for foisting this candidate on Georgia voters, but he was hardly alone. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) backed Mr. Walker after failing to recruit another candidate. The whole party failed — not just President Trump. The Walker... Read More
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STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC. v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE No. 20-1199. Argued Oct. 31, 2022. Decided Dec. 2, 2022. & STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC. v. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA et al. No. 21-707. Argued Oct. 31, 2022. Decided Dec. 2, 2022. Justice KUMAR delivered the opinion of the Court. In two... Read More
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The United State Supreme Court is now considering two cases that could result in a ruling that it is unconstitutional for universities to consider race or ethnicity in admissions decisions. Such a ruling would be catastrophic. Every university will react by diminishing or completely abandoning objective academic criteria for university admission. This process is already... Read More
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Contrary to widespread expectations, Republican gains in last week's midterm elections were absolutely minimal, nothing at all like the "red wave" that so many had predicted. The GOP seems to have picked up enough Congressional seats to achieve a very narrow majority in the House, but the Democrats actually extended their control in the Senate,... Read More
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Thanks to the Supreme Court, the policy of racial preferences (affirmative action) is back in the news. Preferences have been around for a half century, so the pro and con arguments are well established. On the pro side, preferences are justified by the alleged advantages of “diversity,” while opponents say they are illegal, unfair, and... Read More
Earlier, by Peter Brimelow (Forbes, 1993): When Quotas Replace Merit, Everybody Suffers [Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Monday this week the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases concerning Affirmative Action in college admissions. The plaintiff in the case is a nonprofit called Students For Fair Admissions,... Read More
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The Supreme Court Reconsiders Affirmative Action
On Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments on a potentially momentous case challenging the use of race in admissions decisions at Harvard University and our other academic institutions. Over the last half-century, our system of Affirmative Action---preferences based upon race---has become an increasingly powerful and entrenched aspect of American society,... Read More
See also Masters Attacks Affirmative Action—Makes The Move That Could Win College-Educated Whites Back To GOP An Affirmative Action case before the U.S. Supreme Court has returned this issue—so critical to white success in higher education—to the political discussion. Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, which incorporated the same... Read More
The topic was “the end of the all-male, all-white cockpit.” The context: A June 3, 2022 TV episode, in which Fox News personality Tucker Carlson beseeched viewers to look beyond the race and gender of pilots, to his or her competence. “What’s color to do with competence?” he demanded to know. Mr. Carlson was appealing... Read More
American race relations exhibit a bewildering paradox: The more whites help blacks, the more blacks hate whites. The government has spent trillions to lift up blacks, who grow even more vehement about “toxic whiteness.” Ironically, the greatest beneficiaries, those owing jobs and university admissions to naked racial preference, are the most vocal in denouncing “white... Read More
Don’t get sick! This video is available on BitChute, Rumble, and Odysee. Is your doctor competent? For years, whites and Asians have had to be a lot better qualified than blacks or Hispanics to get into medical school. You have every reason to be suspicious of a “doctor of color.” But now the entire medical... Read More
What transformed white people from proud warriors into sheeple? Some say it was Jews teaching them guilt. But Jean Raspail in his now suppressed novel says it was the consequence of the degeneracy in Western thought. Today where can you find in literature, Hollywood, media, public statements by Western politicians, and public policies in the... Read More
Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters has a new campaign pitch: End Affirmative Action. He tossed this issue into the race after he was attacked for mocking the federal government’s strategy to tackle inflation with more diversity at the Federal Reserve. Instead of backing down or apologizing, he punched back even harder. Maybe he knows something... Read More
The US military is in its final stage of collapse. The indoctrinated and brainwashed high command think that a Tower of Babel is what it takes to confront Russia and China. Of course, a tower of babel is precisely that. There is no unity. But the lack of unity is what the dumbshit US Air... Read More
See also: Women Are Taking Over Medicine—Not Necessarily Good For Them, Or Their Patients Eight years ago, as I prepared to retire from medical practice, health care was under assault. A federally-mandated computerized medical record had complicated charting patients and added hours of daily unproductive work for hospital staff, with no improvement in the quality... Read More
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White UC Freshman enrollment down to abysmal 18.6%
The LA Times reports that UC campuses have “set records for diversity, as students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups increased to 43.8% of the admitted first-year class. For the third straight year, Latinos were the largest ethnic group at 37.3%, followed by Asian Americans at 35%, white students at 18.6% and Black students at... Read More
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New York City is paying out nearly $1.8 billion to black and Hispanic teachers who were unable to pass a test that was required for them to get a New York State teacher’s license. Thus far, more than half of the plaintiffs in this decades-old class action suit have won compensatory damages; Silvia Alvarez was... Read More
A mantra of our time is that white people have “white privilege.” Here is the latest shocking example of “white privilege:” Here is an example from Britain: How long has it been since you have seen a corporate advertisement, or any kind of advertisement, in which there is a white couple with white children? Miscegenation... Read More
Heather Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to the institute’s City Journal. She is probably best known for her pro-police book The War on Cops and columns such as “The Myth of the Racist Cop” and “The Myth of Systemic Police Racism.” She is a tireless voice for... Read More
Matt Walsh is an effective conservative activist. His documentary What Is a Woman? is a clever look at the absurd impulses of transgenderism. He’s even a best-selling children’s author, but he has a mixed record on race. His tweet above is wrong. The 1990s were hardly a time when Americans didn’t talk about race. Many... Read More
In 1945 the United States emerged from a world war with the only intact industrial economy in the world. The British, European, Soviet, and Japanese economies were in ruins. China and the rest of Asia, Africa, and South America had undeveloped economies, later renamed third world economies. Additionally, the US held most of the world’s... Read More
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Part I of "America's Endgame"
The United States depicted in that song and the Eurocentric West are undergoing an unprecedented assault from the Left on their histories, traditions, cultures, societies and very races. All are at risk, in varying degrees. Ironically, only Russia and some of the former communist countries in Eastern Europe are offering much resistance – the more... Read More
Is being white a privilege in America? Let’s put aside sociological and philosophical speculation and instead investigate history and human behavior. If being legally classified as white is advantageous to an individual or group’s advancement, why do so many fight desperately to escape the label? Take Portuguese-Americans as an example. Portuguese descended persons, as with... Read More
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In 2019, the New York Times Magazine published a series of articles with the theme that the true date of America’s birth was 1619. The anchor piece of this 1619 Project series, called “The Idea of America,” asserts that the arrival of African slaves to the Virginia Bay Colony was the start of everything that... Read More
The 1896 Supreme Court Plessy decision, which gave us “separate but equal” is widely considered today to be incorrect. Legal scholars maintain that the private railroad company violated the Constitution by separating people in railway cars on the basis of race. Justice John Marshall Harlan’s dissent–“Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes... Read More
As if on cue, only a couple of weeks after my article wondering whether – given its bizarre admissions formulae – Harvard was any longer fit for purpose comes the astounding story of Kaitlyn Younger (see Douglas Belkin, “To Get into the Ivy League, Extraordinary Isn’t Always Enough These Days,” Wall Street Journal [April 21,... Read More
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Earlier by Nicholas Stix: Yes, Virginia (Dare), Black Supremacism Really Is A Thing We live in a world of anti-white hatred for myriad reasons, including the now-sacramentalized anti-white “Civil Rights Movement.” But yet another reason is the anti-white Mainstream Media and its black Leftist satellites, such as the viciously anti-white, Official Black Voice, The Root.... Read More
As the U.S. prepares to confirm to the Supreme Court a black woman who cannot define the word “woman” [Blackburn to Jackson: Can you define ‘the word woman’?, by Myah Ward, Politico, March 22, 2022], we are reminded of the fact that Ketanji Brown Jackson has been nominated because she is a black woman, not... Read More
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Earlier: A Talk Radio Listener Comments On Ketanji Brown Jackson's Qualifications—And Unknown LSAT Scores The Senate Judiciary Committee, as I'm sure you know, has been holding confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the president's nominee to replace retiring justice Stephen Breyer in October. I can't say I've followed the hearings closely…or at all, really.... Read More
Ever since the beginning of humanity, man has been seeking the perfect political/economic system. In the 18th century, egalitarianism gained a foothold in France and slowly spread to the rest of the civilized world. Slavery was gradually abolished as people’s awareness of equality gained ground. Absolutism was replaced by constitutional monarchies, democracies, anarchism, communism, and... Read More
Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing is retiring. This gives President Joe Biden a chance to nominate a “progressive” justice. He has promised to choose a black woman — affirmative action at the highest levels. New York Times columnist Charles Blow said there should be a nominee like Thurgood Marshall, whose “entire... Read More
President Biden has announced that his nominee for the Supreme Court will be a black woman. Rather than asking, “Who is the best qualified?” he will be asking “Who has the right sex and skin color?” According to a 2019 report, only 3.4 percent of sitting judges are black women. The president is therefore limiting... Read More
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The Regime Media is upset that the U.S. Supreme Court has accepted a case challenging Affirmative Action in college admissions [The Supreme Court adds affirmative action to its potential hit list, by Nina Totenberg, NPR, January 24, 2022]. And maybe it should be. In the famous case of Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall... Read More
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or, Will Exhibiting Art by Black Artists End Rioting and Looting?
The US is in the grip of a terrible pox but unlike COVID-19 that targets individuals, this rampaging pox undermines institutions. It is, moreover, everywhere, and those spreading it are relentless. Remarkably, however, it lacks a name and, worse, its spreaders are convinced that the damage is actually “doing good.” What is this Pox without... Read More
Not even doctors are immune to diversity rubbish. This video is available on Bitchute. The other day I made a video called “Diversity or Standards: You Can’t Have Both.” I pointed out all the standards that have fallen in the name of diversity – in law enforcement, schools and colleges, employment, and even historical accuracy.... Read More
And the white man has got to go. This video is available on BitChute and Brighteon. In America, you can have either diversity or you can have standards. You can’t have both. And since diversity – especially racial diversity – is our number-one goal, it’s standards that have to go. Consider crime. To America’s everlasting... Read More
The latest census reports that America’s white population declined for the first time in history. Other groups grew. Non-whites are replacing whites, but the Great Replacement is a “conspiracy theory” if white advocates mention it. To the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin — once the paper’s “conservative” columnist — it is “fabulous news.” This would be... Read More
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“Facing Reality” is Murray’s lament for America. He dissects the two key problems of race, and prescribes a reaffirmation of the American Creed of equality under the law, but is hoping against hope that those noble aims are achievable, and doubts his suggestions will be heeded. His short book might be briefly summarized as: “It’s... Read More
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You might well ask why the world’s most expensive army can’t fight
Too many American politicians at all levels of government have come to believe that your money is their money. Federal, state and local tax rates are set annually and often arbitrarily based on the issues that elected officials and tax managers consider to be important. Input from the public is basically unwelcome except at election... Read More
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The unprecedented racial transformation of California and its political consequences.