HBD, Black passenger yellow cab

So one of my friends tweeted a picture of Fukushima following the earthquake:

Then I wondered about Haiti and found this article (no before and after pics).

One year later, reconstruction is moving at a snail’s pace, millions of people are still without a permanent home, a cholera epidemic has killed thousands, and the recent first-round of the presidential election is under investigation for fraud.

Only an estimated five percent of the capital’s rubble has been cleared, and many streets are still blocked by debris. Makeshift camps in and around Port-au-Prince house more than a million people.

HBD in action!

On a more serious note, I read Black passenger yellow cab
He goes hardcore against the Japanese culture, noting it's dysfunction with regard to the status of women, open mindedness, father-daughter relations, the dating culture, etc.  And the other half is devoted to sex stories about him and Japanese women.

There is a part of the book where he devotes time to dysfunction in Jamaica, on the lack of trust and the criminality.

This is an interesting book, I'd give it 4 stars but I feel it was ranting at times and quite tough on the Japanese, who have been able to build a largely successful society despite a paucity of natural resources.  We can argue about the lost decade, but by and large, their people have money, healthcare, safety, food, freedom, etc.... 

Here are some great quotes:

"We all go out together. Me, she, her husband, and he knows everything."

"As newlyweds of only a few months, and in their early and mid thirties respectively, they slept in separate beds, in separate rooms, and had not been sexually active.  I had come to understand this as a common practice among Japanese couples.."

And on Jamaica:

"Jamaica, this barbaric land of my birth, is the most vehemently and religiously homophobic place on earth, where one can be hacked to death just on rumors of being gay."

"The lives of the influential non-African minority are far more important than those of the poverty stricken African masses....the nation with the highest murder rate per capita, also sports the most churches per square mile."

"Hence arriving in America and observing such widespread poverty among Negroes, all but confirmed that yes, the people of my race, this race to which I was attached for life, were doomed it seem internationally."


"During my childhood and to this day, it is a common tenet among men of the uneducated masses that real men don't take care of their children.  That's for wimps."

If wimps, he means civilized, high-k countries.....then, well, it all makes sense.

Anyway, a great read.  Titillating and educating.

Thomas Friedman: I'm fed up with Muslims

Well, not really.  But his recent Times column has some gems that we wouldn't see until after seeing pretty much every Middle East initiative and non-initiative turn into a disaster.

He starts out with a great quote:

“Let us review the various American policy options for the Middle East over the last few decades,” Hanson wrote. “Military assistance or punitive intervention without follow-up mostly failed. The verdict on far more costly nation-building is still out. Trying to help popular insurgents topple unpopular dictators does not guarantee anything better. Propping up dictators with military aid is both odious and counterproductive. Keeping clear of maniacal regimes leads to either nuclear acquisition or genocide — or 16 acres of rubble in Manhattan. What have we learned? Tribalism, oil, and Islamic fundamentalism are a bad mix that leaves Americans sick and tired of the Middle East — both when they get in it and when they try to stay out of it.”

So, basically, no matter whatever we try, things turn bad there. 


What ails the Middle East today truly is a toxic mix of tribalism, Shiite-Sunni sectarianism, fundamentalism and oil — oil that constantly tempts us to intervene or to prop up dictators.

Agreed - the people are NOT compatible with Western style democracy.  Oil is the problem?  I'd say oil is the only thing they have going for them.  Without oil, they'd be forced to abandon Islam as Saudi Arabia will turn into the desert it's supposed to be.

. The young Egyptians who drove the revolution are desperate for the educational tools and freedom to succeed in the modern world. Our response should have been to shift our aid money from military equipment to building science-and-technology high schools and community colleges across Egypt.

Now more gobbleygook.  Is he talking about the 90% of egyptians who believe that apostasy requires the death penalty?  With an average IQ of 83, good luck...what is Egypt going to do that China can't do twice as cheap and without the religious baggage? 

But I am fed up with supporting people just because they look less awful than the other guys and eventually turn out to be just as bad.

Where people don’t share our values, we should insulate ourselves by reducing our dependence on oil. But we must stop wanting good government more than they do, looking the other way at bad behavior, telling ourselves that next year will be different, sticking with a bad war for fear of being called wimps and selling more tanks to people who can’t read.

Here he gets a bit more realistic, and where I think a rationale policy can emerge even while in denial about Islam.  Isolate yourself through energy independence, don't try to remake societies, don't believe in pie in the sky optimism....

The story gets juicier

HS has a monster post on it, so I don't really need to rehash. Apparently I was too forgiving of Trayvon in my previous post!  Oh well, let's see what happens.  Seems like when the facts come to light the media will bury the story in search of the next great white defendant (HT: Steve Sailer). 

Instead, I'd like to point to an article today in the Post, on why Obama makes it harder to talk about race.

The author begins by complaining to her friends about feeling out of place due to her race.  Her friend responds:
“How can we all be racist? Look at who is president!”

The author of course disagrees, clinging to the old narrative, claiming that the president:
Here was a politician who embraced his biracial heritage but also understood how tough it can be to navigate 21st-century America as a black person.

So the author wants people to continue to be able to blame racism for the persistent failures of the black community. 

And I wanted to see him tackle racial inequalities through federal policy, making the system more equitable and fair for Americans of all colors.

What? She wants more affirmative action?  Are you serious? 

More recently, we’ve witnessed racially insensitive rhetoric surrounding the rise of Taiwanese American basketball player Jeremy Lin.

And who was behind this rhetoric?  I blogged about this earlier (clue: it's not whites hating on Jeremy Lin).


I have encountered many people who seem to believe, subconsciously or not, that Obama’s win is proof that America has reached the mountaintop. What more is there to say about race, they ask me, after this country so proudly and overwhelmingly elected a black president? They cite success stories as disparate as Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z and former Time Warner chief Dick Parsons. But Oprah’s billions don’t counteract the dire poverty and unemployment rates in the black community.­

Even the most well-intentioned white people, who fundamentally understand the challenges of race in America, often can’t understand why race, as a subject to wrestle with, can never be “over.” They can’t understand what it’s like to walk down the street and have someone fear you just because of your race. Or to go to your doctor’s office after-hours to pick something up and have someone think you’re the maid. Or to have someone give you a virtual pat on the head for being “articulate.”

But of course it will never end...THATS THE POINT!

In a meritocratic system (like generally exists in America) if there are genetic gaps between the races that will continue on!  It's not going to be "over," and we're never going to reach the mountaintop.  

And they certainly won’t admit that thugged-out guys scare them. Or that if they saw a young black man in a hoodie walking in their neighborhood, like Martin was in his father’s neighborhood outside Orlando last month, they wouldn’t call 911 but they might cross the street.

Are you serious?  You're hating on people for being scared of thugged out guys?

Has our media reached this absurd state of denial that we're not allowed to listen to our instincts, even when they're clearly right? 

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Like I keep saying, eventually people will snap and tire of the racial guilt trip being laid on them.  Watson was a few years too early.  The next time a mainstream post comes out on genetic racial IQ differences, perhaps people will listen up.  This is the post racial era, but the most racial era at the same point.

Humanity wakes up

Achieves oneness with the universe....if we don't destroy ourselves in the process....

This is a difficult world we live in.

Now, you've all heard about the Zimmerman case.  No need to rehash the details.  Instead, we have to take a step back.  Instead of reacting instinctively to it like Half Sigma (no hate, I love his blog, I'm just using an example) or these petitioners, we must thing about this in the big picture.  Steve Sailer actually has a good piece up on the tragedy of this situation. 

Upon reading the initial account from media, I was inclined to sympathize with the kid.  Bad things happen to good people.  The world is neither just nor fair.  Innocent people get killed.  There are white assholes out there who are racist.  And this killer said a racial slur, supposedly.   The killer should be persecuted.

But then, you can read a leftist screed which would accuse my former statement of not going far enough.  For example,  a personal reaction to the shooting states that this is a symptom of racism in America:

Growing up as an African-American male one of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people’s suspicions. And so, the reason you’re seeing all these demonstrations…is because African-Americans, particularly African-American men have to comport themselves and live their lives in a way that doesn’t bring upon them undue, unwarranted attention by law enforcement

And he's 100% correct. 

As an American citizen, [I’m told] don’t run in public. Don’t run in public with anything in your hands. Don’t talk back to the police, which I know is a universal rule, but when you’re African-American and certainly an African-American male, to do that is to put your life in your own hands.

And he's also correct here. But this is the problem:  stereotypes are generally true.  They don't arise out of thin air.  Hollywood propoganda can only perpetuate a falsehood so much before it no longer resonates.  This page illustrates the extent of black male criminality over the decades. 

The simple fact is that black males disproportionately commit crime. Even in the UK.

And people adjust to that.  They move their kids out of inner city schools, they walk on the other side of the street when they see a group of young black males, and they police gated communities.  Because the statistics are there, and they don't lie.  Avoid black males, less chance of being a crime victim.

Innocent people are affected by stereotypes.  I'm a brown skinned male.  I was singled out for questioning when I traveled to Israel.  But I wasn't resentful to them for it.  They were merely being rational given their history. 

I may be proven wrong, and Zimmerman may turn out to be a stand up guy and Trayvon a thug out to mug.

But get out of the narrative.  Beyond the fact that the shooter was hispanic, and not a WASP, the tragedy is that Trayvon is still a victim.  He's a victim of a society that is still a nation of cowards when it comes to race because we're still unwilling to look at the biological roots of crime.  The innocent kid suffers because so many crimes are connected to young black males.  I suffer extra attention because Muslims commit so many terrorist attacks.

This problem is not going away.  At some point, society will have to confront the truth of stereotypes, there is only so long that people will deny the fear in their hearts when they see young black males on the street. 

Will this confrontation lead to enlightenment?  To humanity recognizing our biological limits of perfection and begin seeking to transcend it?  Or to darkness?  Will the recognition of the truth of Human Biodiversity play into humanity's supposed "new era," brought on by the 2012 phenomenon?

Stay tuned.

I didn't say it!

But this Taki Magazine article makes the connection between IQ and PUA.

Also read these sites because many in the manosphere, particularly Human Stupidity and Roissy’s Chateau Heartiste, discuss more than sex. Race and class also come up for candid, heated discussion. This is ultimately why the SPLC’s Investigative Report so amused me. In 1971, the Southern Poverty Law Center appointed itself the nation’s Klanfinder General. It receives untold millions to investigate and expose “racist” “hate groups.” Yet somehow this report almost entirely neglects top-of-the-fold discussions of black IQ and illegal immigration that take place daily in the manosphere alongside the cataloguing of caddishness.

And in the comments:

The manosphere does well to point out that while certain male personalities are good at securing lots of sex and women, these types are also very, very bad at running western style civilization.   (PUAs do not often make up our engineers, I'm afraid).


Don't know why I get such a thrill out of seeing the PUA crowd get force fed HBD.  Maybe because the PUA crowd has become too anti-American for me and HBD gives a more nuanced picture? 

Gene sequencing

The Washington Post has a good article up today on the downward costs of gene sequencing:



(Gerald Herbert - Associated Press) In 2008, Congress overwhelmingly passed, and President George W. Bush signed, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. Ron Paul was the lone dissenter. The legislation bars insurers from denying coverage or raising premiums on individuals who show a genetic predisposition toward particular diseases. 


That's pretty interesting.  We have a clear indicator that someone is more predisposed to getting sick, and we're not allowed to charge them more for insurance, even when it's clear that the likely cost of their lifetime health care is higher...

Think about car insurance.  The better your grades are, the better your driving record, the older you are, what kind of car you have...it all determines how much you pay in insurance, because it's the expected expenditures, plus admin and profit.

But now with genetic screening, what if we can say that someone will have a lower intelligence, or proclivity to crime.  To what degree can the government say that that person should be sterilized?  Or that person shouldn't even be born in the first place?

If we can fully determine someone's genetic potential, but not have the potential to change it, then it will clearly strike at the heart of the meme of equality that's at the heart of our polity. 

Fantastic News - PUA to HBD

Now that RooshV is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, will more people in the manosphere start questioning the mainstream view on race and intelligence?  Steve Sailer, who is arguably the most widely read HBD blogger (except perhaps Nicholas Wade or the Heartiste) is consistently on SPLC's shitlist (and vice versa).  Could their vilification of Roosh push the Roosh crowd into the arms of Sailer?  Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?

What about all the hate America propoganda in the Rooshosphere or the wierdness of Real Social Dynamics?  How will it all play in?