#Coincidentally There is No Truth in Pravda

The Didact recently brought up yet another recent case of "flash mob" violence where the article is strangely.... quiet... about describing the perpetrators.

Short version, 50 or so "youths" were arrested , with hundreds running around in groups from 20 to 50, ganging up on and beating up people in northern Philadelphia over the course of an evening. Just from the headline alone one would guess, based on who actually does these kind of things, as to the cultural or ethnic background of the perpetrators.

And as he points out, amazingly, somehow, it's never mentioned.

I've cut down on listening to Colin Flaherty anywhere near as much, not because he's wrong, but because though the names change from week to week of the victims and the perpetrators, the stories remain, sadly, year after year, the same. Frankly, if you haven't read at least one of his two books on the subject, White Girl Bleed a Lot, or Don't Make the Black Kids Angry - both based on actual quotes by people using or excusing violence, then do so, or dig through several months of the podcast.

Remember when I said that "three times is enemy action" means that there is a systemic problem? It could of course be a campaign of lies as the Trump-directed allegations of sexual impropriety, but it nevertheless means something is systemically wrong.

Colin mercilessly documents case, after case, after case, and the relevant statistics of crime vs population, of degrees of behavior. He darkly jokes that when people tell him "white people do it too" he'll challenge them to post articles of the same behavior by whites, and then when they run out keep posting. "White people do it too" - yet in white neighborhoods people are less cautious, take fewer steps to secure their valuables, because empirical experience shows that their stuff is far less likely to get stolen there.

Even Jesse Jackson would rather be followed by a crowd of rowdy white teens than black ones.

Also worth looking at is an Eric Raymond posting, Press silence, black privilege, and unintended consequences. Especially relevant line:

I’m here to say what that article could have but did not: suppressio veri, when performed systematically enough, itself becomes a code that can be read. What the press is teaching Americans to assume, story after story, is that if “youths” commit public violence and they are not specified to be white, or hispanic, or asian — then it’s yet another black street gang on a wilding.

The article and its comments are worth a read.

Two Minute Hate - Never Apologize

Courtesy of TruthRevolt - this video is a perfect example of why we need to spread the word on Vox Day's SJWs Always Lie, and more importantly, the SJW Attack Survival Guide, as far as we can.

Regardless of how you want to argue this dialectically, insofar as a cutoff for deciding "are blacks systematically oppressed" or how much they're really oppressed, and how much is only fixable by the black "community" - this is downright totalitarian.

The secondary headline: “My eyes are wider open today than they’ve ever been as a result.”

I'm sure they were.

What Happens Nextdoor is Racist! (and White Girl Bleed a Lot)

There are a lot of people who are not, by self-description, "Alt Right", who nevertheless are kindred spirits. They search for truth. And because the truth simply is, there may be disagreements over what exactly it means, but at least they live in the same world, and not one of lies and delusion that we children of the 70's were raised in.

Some are aggressive, others take a more passive approach, staking out their territory and saying "here I stand, this is true." One of the latter well worth paying attention to is Colin Flaherty, author of the books White Girl Bleed a Lot, and Don't Make the Black Kids Angry. The former is also the name of his podcast on iTunes and stitcher, and he has a YouTube channel. 

His most recent episode on Aug 28th with Willie Shield covers a lot of the usual ground, but also delves into the phenomenon of "neighborhood" social networks and crime tracking apps, and how racist they are for making clear the disparity in white and black crime. 

The app/ network in question is "Nextdoor.com" - a geographically based social media app for communities. The people programming the app noticed a "disturbing" pattern - people reporting crimes would often report the skin color of the suspect, and of course, all to very frequently, the color was black. So the creators took it upon themselves to help guide us to a more tolerant future -  by making it more difficult to describe the suspect.

Per an interview, they decided to add a new feature. If you describe the skin color of a suspect when reporting a crime, it will automatically ask you to provide several more pieces of information such as height, clothes, etc. On the one hand, they're not preventing you from completely describing a suspect, but they're also making it more difficult to report it by upping the level of friction.  Not because a more complete descrition is inherently better when available, but because criminals are more than their skin color. 

#Coincidentally - another old lady killed....

Colin Flaherty - always worth listening to - posts another example of Black on White violence. Motives of course, are unknown. "Maybe they shouldn't have made that black kid angry"

His podcast and book, "White Girl Bleed a Lot" are worth digging through. So is the followup "Don't Make the Black Kids Angry".

Wait, They Invaded Geek Culture?

If it weren't for leftist papers, would England have any? Anyway, we have the latest dreck at the "Independent".

One really has to try, or be profoundly ignorant of ones ignorance, to be so consistently wrong.

We've always been here - and only someone ignorant of the background of computer culture, gaming culture, Sci Fi culture, etc. would think otherwise. The "invasion" they see is a backlash - some articles in the past have even used that term. Hugos? Larry proved his point about it being a clique.

Then there's this gem:

The movement is a nebulous online community whose values are almost indistinguishable from the far-right racism and sexism of Europe's National Front or America’s Klu Klux Klan. They openly call for ethnic purity, believe in the inferiority of women, and treat all alternative sexualities as aberrant and illegal. The Alt-right hates "Libtards", but it hates "Cuckservatives" more, a play on "cuckold", for what the Alt-right see as their infidelity to true conservative values.

I'll leave aside the strawman mischaracterizations in that paragraph. I've got news for them - not only do they display profound ignorance of everything outside of their little bubble, but in some ways, we're worse.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's apathy. And we. don't. care.

If anything, most alt-righters would gladly take black nationalists up on their desire for an independent state - and leave them to their own devices.

That may be far worse, for them, in the long run.

When All Solutions are Bad...

Peter Grant, science fiction author, former soldier, now preacher, discusses possible solutions to ongoing black poverty and alienation in response to Fred Reeds article on Milwaukee.

Go read them both.

Peter offers several things we can try to do, but the biggest and most immediate one is this:

I can offer one response to Fred's "What now?" It's based on cold, hard reality, learned in Africa over many years of traveling that continent and seeing what works and what doesn't. It's not politically correct, it's not merciful, and it's not very helpful . . . but it's practical.

Simply put, it's like this: YOU PAY FOR WHAT YOU GET.

Right now, the US government and US society are subsidizing the current mess in our inner-city communities. We're paying through the nose for it, directly and indirectly; and we're getting what we pay for. 

Solution? STOP PAYING FOR IT. 

Cut off the funding. Now. Completely. Not a dime more for failing schools, subsidized programs producing more failures, 'Blackness' orientation/education/promotion/whatever. Shut them all down. 

I can already hear the screams, "But you can't do that! You'd leave a vacuum!" 

So? 

What we have now has always failed, is continuing to fail, and will continue to fail. We aren't doing those trapped in its coils any favors by going on paying for them to fail. We may have nothing worthwhile to replace the programs we're cutting, but at least we'll stop wasting money hand over fist.

One factor to consider is what lifeguards are taught - that many drownings involve two victims. The man who was drowning, and the one who went out there unprepared, and was dragged down, overcome,  by the first victim in a panic. Also - airlines tell you to put your own mask first, before your kids for a similar reason.

You also do alcoholics and addicts no favors by continuing to enable them, sometimes you HAVE to cut them off.

I'm not sure we can rule out "cut them off" - but if all we have is multiple modes of failure, then the one that results in fewer victims MAY be our best course. It at least holds out a hope that in cutting them off from the crutches of dependency, they may get their lives in order if only because they are left no other choice.

Read both articles.