ROD DRYER ON YALE AND THE STATUS OF ELITES
THE NYSLIME AND ITS NEW CAUSE OF RACISM 24/7.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND ETERNAL TRUTHS (SOLSHINITZEN)
PAGLIA GETS IT WHY CAN'T ADMINISTRATORS.
TRINITY COLLEGE:SAY IT ISN'T SO
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE ETC DISCUSSION RE CHINA
A VIEW OF THE 1619 NYT PROJECT
GREENFIELD NEW HAMPSHIRE STORY --THE TRAILS END FARM?
GW FRAUD EXPOSED -- MANN LOSES SUIT
FAKE NEWS TECHNIQUE VIA SURVEY RESULTS REPORTING
THE CRAZED HATE FACTORY ON THE LEFT
DISGRACED YALE LOSES ANOTHER ONE TO JUSTICE
GIRLY MAN RUN PROPAGANDA ARM OF THE NYT.
WE'L SEE HOW THIS STORY HOLDS UP AFTER ELECTIONS
GW HOAX DESCRIBED IN DETAIL ON PL
VDH SHEDS LIGHT ON MILENNIALS AND SOCIALISM
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
WHY TRUMP WON AND WILL AGAIN
RACISM HOAZ -- CODEVILLA
SMALL BIZ OPTIMISM UP
GELERNTER UNLEASHED -- YALE'S REACTION?
WHAT'S HAPPENING BEHIND THE SCENES -- CALLED CORRUPTION/SOROS
ROLE OF EXPERTS IN OUR ECONOMY -- NOT!
DO NO EVIL COMPANY DOES EVIL
BOOKS TO READ.
CAMERA PRODUCT TO BUY
OMG THE FBI CORRUPTION CASE IS OBVIOUS. THANKS LOUIS GOMHERT
THE MEANING OF THE EPSTEIN SAGA BY FERNANDEZ
FROM GAIL HERIOT REMEMBERING THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION’S RED AUGUST (ADDENDUM): Last week I did a post about August of 1966, the month in which the Red Guard student gangs started going on the rampage. But where did these students come from? And what made them so angry?
RACISM HOAZ -- CODEVILLA
SMALL BIZ OPTIMISM UP
GELERNTER UNLEASHED -- YALE'S REACTION?
WHAT'S HAPPENING BEHIND THE SCENES -- CALLED CORRUPTION/SOROS
ROLE OF EXPERTS IN OUR ECONOMY -- NOT!
DO NO EVIL COMPANY DOES EVIL
BOOKS TO READ.
CAMERA PRODUCT TO BUY
OMG THE FBI CORRUPTION CASE IS OBVIOUS. THANKS LOUIS GOMHERT
THE MEANING OF THE EPSTEIN SAGA BY FERNANDEZ
FROM GAIL HERIOT REMEMBERING THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION’S RED AUGUST (ADDENDUM): Last week I did a post about August of 1966, the month in which the Red Guard student gangs started going on the rampage. But where did these students come from? And what made them so angry?
I can give you only partial answers: During this early stage of the Cultural Revolution, they were very disproportionately the sons and daughters of privileged party members. (Surprised? I suspect not.)
Red Guard students also tended to be the beneficiaries of preferential treatment in admissions. All during the 1950s and 1960s, the children of party members and at least in theory the children of peasants and workers received a kind of “affirmative action” in admission both to elite schools and to colleges and universities. Frequently a revolutionary pedigree was a more important credential than a good academic record. Early on, a popular meme (if not exactly a Shakespearean couplet) was “If the father is a hero [of the Revolution], the son is a good fellow; if the father is a reactionary, the son is a good-for-nothing—it is basically like this.”
Like students who receive preferential treatment here in the USA—diversity students, legacy students, and athletes—on average the Chinese recipients of preferential treatment got poorer grades than other students. Mao is reported to have acknowledged this: “The political performance of the children of revolutionary cadres in schools can only be rated as second-class, but students with bad family backgrounds [i.e. the children of alleged capitalists, landlords, rich peasants, and counter-revolutionaries] have performed very well. However, no matter how well they have performed, revolutionary tasks cannot be put on their shoulders.”
Loyal Instapundit readers know that I have written extensively about the problem of affirmative action “mismatch” in this country. (If you haven’t already read one of my essays, they are here and here. Please take a look.) Alas, large gaps in academic performance between identifiable groups tend to cause resentments. Perversely, a group that has been given preferential treatment may come to believe, against all evidence, that the system is rigged against them, when in fact the problem is that the system was rigged in their favor.
In China, the myth that the “Born-Reds” (as they sometimes called themselves) had been mistreated by the educational system prior to the Cultural Revolution was a strong one. “We Born-Reds gasped for breath under the suppression of the cow ghosts and snake demons [i.e. the teachers and school administrators], and bourgeois bastards [i.e. children with “bad” family backgrounds] in schools,” wrote several of the Red Guard crybullies. In fact, in the years leading up to Red August, school administrators were often far too inclined to indulge the “Born-Reds,” in part out of fear of their political clout.
Mao pandered to these students. For him, poor academic performance was not really a problem. He was contemptuous of the Chinese system of education anyway. And he was especially contemptuous of its examination methods: I am in favor of publishing the questions in advance and letting the students study them and answer them with the aid of books.” He seemed not to be troubled by cheating. “If you answer is good and I copy it, then mine too should be counted as good.”
Mao complained about too much emphasis on “foreign dead people” much the same way that leftists today complain about about “dead white males.” And he sympathized with students who dozed off during lectures. “You don’t have to listen to nonsense, you can rest your brain instead.” He accused the schools of favoring students from “bad” family backgrounds.
No wonder the Born-Reds loved him (and weren’t too fond of their teachers).
Red Guard students also tended to be the beneficiaries of preferential treatment in admissions. All during the 1950s and 1960s, the children of party members and at least in theory the children of peasants and workers received a kind of “affirmative action” in admission both to elite schools and to colleges and universities. Frequently a revolutionary pedigree was a more important credential than a good academic record. Early on, a popular meme (if not exactly a Shakespearean couplet) was “If the father is a hero [of the Revolution], the son is a good fellow; if the father is a reactionary, the son is a good-for-nothing—it is basically like this.”
Like students who receive preferential treatment here in the USA—diversity students, legacy students, and athletes—on average the Chinese recipients of preferential treatment got poorer grades than other students. Mao is reported to have acknowledged this: “The political performance of the children of revolutionary cadres in schools can only be rated as second-class, but students with bad family backgrounds [i.e. the children of alleged capitalists, landlords, rich peasants, and counter-revolutionaries] have performed very well. However, no matter how well they have performed, revolutionary tasks cannot be put on their shoulders.”
Loyal Instapundit readers know that I have written extensively about the problem of affirmative action “mismatch” in this country. (If you haven’t already read one of my essays, they are here and here. Please take a look.) Alas, large gaps in academic performance between identifiable groups tend to cause resentments. Perversely, a group that has been given preferential treatment may come to believe, against all evidence, that the system is rigged against them, when in fact the problem is that the system was rigged in their favor.
In China, the myth that the “Born-Reds” (as they sometimes called themselves) had been mistreated by the educational system prior to the Cultural Revolution was a strong one. “We Born-Reds gasped for breath under the suppression of the cow ghosts and snake demons [i.e. the teachers and school administrators], and bourgeois bastards [i.e. children with “bad” family backgrounds] in schools,” wrote several of the Red Guard crybullies. In fact, in the years leading up to Red August, school administrators were often far too inclined to indulge the “Born-Reds,” in part out of fear of their political clout.
Mao pandered to these students. For him, poor academic performance was not really a problem. He was contemptuous of the Chinese system of education anyway. And he was especially contemptuous of its examination methods: I am in favor of publishing the questions in advance and letting the students study them and answer them with the aid of books.” He seemed not to be troubled by cheating. “If you answer is good and I copy it, then mine too should be counted as good.”
Mao complained about too much emphasis on “foreign dead people” much the same way that leftists today complain about about “dead white males.” And he sympathized with students who dozed off during lectures. “You don’t have to listen to nonsense, you can rest your brain instead.” He accused the schools of favoring students from “bad” family backgrounds.
No wonder the Born-Reds loved him (and weren’t too fond of their teachers).
28Posted at 8:03 am by Gail Heriot 
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Sunday, August 4, 2019
THE COLLEGE DIPLOMA SCAM -- LED BY YALE
A STRAIGHT SHOOTING ACADEMIC WHO PULLS NO PUNCHES
and then there's this by him:COLORADO PROF TALKS STRAIGHT TALK
WHY SCHOOLS FAIL, AWNSER: THE PRUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL MODEL
ABOUT THE DANGEROUS DARPA AND THE SILICON VALLEY SIMILARITY
CRYSTAL CRUISE TRIP
CODEVILLA ON COMING CIVIL WAR
WITH HARD-NOSED BUSINESSMEN IN CHARGE maganomics wins
CLIMATE WARMING VIDEO W/MARK LEVIN
HEAVILY BIASED "STUDY" FROM RELIABLY BIASED NYT.
DON'T FORGET OFA FROM 2015. OBAMA'S TRUE LEGACY.
A BOOK ON BURKE AND LINCOLN REC BY HAYWARD
MISES DISCUSSION
IRONMAN'S BOOK ON THE ASSAULT ON STANDARDS
HEATHER MACDONALD ON LIES ABOUT POLICING
WWII GRAND STRATEGY VIDEO FROM HOOVER INSTITUTE
VDH ON WHITE SUPREMACY -- HE'S RIGHT, THERE IS NONE
DRBT HORROR
A STRAIGHT SHOOTING ACADEMIC WHO PULLS NO PUNCHES
and then there's this by him:COLORADO PROF TALKS STRAIGHT TALK
WHY SCHOOLS FAIL, AWNSER: THE PRUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL MODEL
ABOUT THE DANGEROUS DARPA AND THE SILICON VALLEY SIMILARITY
CRYSTAL CRUISE TRIP
CODEVILLA ON COMING CIVIL WAR
WITH HARD-NOSED BUSINESSMEN IN CHARGE maganomics wins
CLIMATE WARMING VIDEO W/MARK LEVIN
HEAVILY BIASED "STUDY" FROM RELIABLY BIASED NYT.
DON'T FORGET OFA FROM 2015. OBAMA'S TRUE LEGACY.
A BOOK ON BURKE AND LINCOLN REC BY HAYWARD
MISES DISCUSSION
IRONMAN'S BOOK ON THE ASSAULT ON STANDARDS
HEATHER MACDONALD ON LIES ABOUT POLICING
WWII GRAND STRATEGY VIDEO FROM HOOVER INSTITUTE
VDH ON WHITE SUPREMACY -- HE'S RIGHT, THERE IS NONE
DRBT HORROR
Monday, July 22, 2019
Monday, July 22, 2019
VDH SUMMARIZES OBAMA YEARS VS PRESENT
LUDVIG VON MISES ON THE WORKINGS OF THE MARKET
CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX
GOOD EXPLANATION OF MUELLER INVESTIGATION BY LEE SMITH
JOHN SOLOMON ON MILFSUD/PAPADOPOLOUS CONTACT
ON BEING WOKE BY ROD DREHER
POTENTIAL GIFT FOR ABBY/FINN?
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM EXPLAINED
THIS IS WHAT THE DEMS ARE DEATHLY AFRAID OF!
THIS IS WHY ISLAMISTS ALWAYS WRECK EVERYTHING
GOOGLE'S A DANGEROUS POLITICAL OPERATIVE.
THIS IS KIMBALL AT HIS VERY BEST -- ON RACIST FRAUDS
ILLIBERAL ERDOGEN IS A THOROUGHLY BAD ACTOR
IMPORTANT NEW BOOK REC BY HAYWARD
PAUL CANTOR TALKS CULTURE AND MISES/HAYEK INFLUENCE
AN IMPORTANT SUMMARY OF MUELLER REPORT BY REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS
LUDVIG VON MISES ON THE WORKINGS OF THE MARKET
CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX
GOOD EXPLANATION OF MUELLER INVESTIGATION BY LEE SMITH
JOHN SOLOMON ON MILFSUD/PAPADOPOLOUS CONTACT
ON BEING WOKE BY ROD DREHER
POTENTIAL GIFT FOR ABBY/FINN?
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM EXPLAINED
THIS IS WHAT THE DEMS ARE DEATHLY AFRAID OF!
THIS IS WHY ISLAMISTS ALWAYS WRECK EVERYTHING
GOOGLE'S A DANGEROUS POLITICAL OPERATIVE.
THIS IS KIMBALL AT HIS VERY BEST -- ON RACIST FRAUDS
ILLIBERAL ERDOGEN IS A THOROUGHLY BAD ACTOR
IMPORTANT NEW BOOK REC BY HAYWARD
PAUL CANTOR TALKS CULTURE AND MISES/HAYEK INFLUENCE
AN IMPORTANT SUMMARY OF MUELLER REPORT BY REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS
Sunday, July 14, 2019
Sunday, July 14, 2019
GOOD DISCUSSION OF CONSTITUTION
MULVANEY WAS A GOOD LIBERTARIAN MOVE BY TRUMP
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AOC
ABOUT RACE RELATIONS AND RAAACISM IN AMERICA
CONRAD BLACK EXAMINES TRUMP PRESIDENCY
ALARMING SPREAD OF ISLAMISM IN GERMANY
LIZ CHENEY REBUTS THE "SQUAD"
ON HOW TO COMBAT RACISM BY MORGAN FREEMAN: But don't believe me. Believe Morgan Freeman. Let's roll back to the Early Paleolithic Age (2005), when the great black actor was on 60 Minutes with Mike Wallace:
MIKE WALLACE, CBS`s "60 MINUTES": Black History Month, you find...
MORGAN FREEMAN, ACTOR: Ridiculous.WALLACE: Why?FREEMAN: You`re going to relegate my history to a month?WALLACE: Come on.FREEMAN: What do you do with yours? Which month is White History Month? Come on, tell me.WALLACE: I'm Jewish.FREEMAN: OK. Which month is Jewish History Month?WALLACE: There isn`t one.FREEMAN: Why not? Do you want one?WALLACE: No, no.FREEMAN: I don`t either. I don`t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.WALLACE: How are we going to get rid of racism until...?FREEMAN: Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man. And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman. You`re not going to say, "I know this white guy named Mike Wallace." Hear what I'm saying?
Stop talking about it. Interesting idea, isn't it? I doubt Cory Booker would approve. 'The Squad" would doubtless go apoplectic. Nevertheless, it's the only way to end racism—stop talking about it. We already have laws against it, for a long time now, as we should. And they should be strictly enforced. But the rest of the blah-blah has got to go. It only makes people hate each other. It creates racism rather than solves it.
As a conservative, I’m biased against government intervention into free enterprise. But I also recognize that sometimes regulation and legislation are necessary to protect the rights of citizens against the agendas of certain groups of people or corporations. I’m starting to lean toward the necessity of the US government regulating social media firms as public utilities. Because Big Brother isn’t just from the government any more.
That conclusion is where I'm at. It's becoming harder to ignore the evidence that Facebook is deliberately shutting conservative Christian voices out of the public dialogue. The banning of the St. Augustine quote as hate speech further drives me to conclude that it's time for the U.S. government to regulate social media.
IMMIGRATION HISTORY
2014 PRESCIENT POST ON RULE BY ELITES
IMMIGRATION HISTORY
2014 PRESCIENT POST ON RULE BY ELITES
Saturday, June 29, 2019
Saturday, June 29, 2019
THIS IS REAL HUMOR FROM A BETTER TIME FOR THE US.
CROSS EXAMINING MUELLER--WHERE'S GOWDY?
BOEINGS DOWNFALL?
SOVIET HISTORY BOOK(S) TO READ
MISES ECONOMIST ON THE FAKE RECOVERY (FOR JOHN)
THE WOEFUL NEGATIVITY OF WOKENESS! SCREW'EM.
RIGHT ON IN BEHALF OF OUR DEBT TO PAST.
NASH THE CONSERVATIVE HISTORIAN'S PERSPECTIVE
ALGORITHMS RULE
THE LIGHTNESS OF THE MUELLER REPORT
EDWARD SAID'S HARMFUL AND ROTTEN LEGACY
APA AND THE PROGRESSIVES' DUPLICITY RE ADMINISTRATIVE STA
CALI EARTHQUAKES ET AL
HOW LONG CAN CALI CORRUPTION LAST
HOWARD DEAN AND SLAVONEY ARE BIRDS OF A FEATHER
CROSS EXAMINING MUELLER--WHERE'S GOWDY?
BOEINGS DOWNFALL?
SOVIET HISTORY BOOK(S) TO READ
MISES ECONOMIST ON THE FAKE RECOVERY (FOR JOHN)
THE WOEFUL NEGATIVITY OF WOKENESS! SCREW'EM.
RIGHT ON IN BEHALF OF OUR DEBT TO PAST.
NASH THE CONSERVATIVE HISTORIAN'S PERSPECTIVE
ALGORITHMS RULE
THE LIGHTNESS OF THE MUELLER REPORT
EDWARD SAID'S HARMFUL AND ROTTEN LEGACY
APA AND THE PROGRESSIVES' DUPLICITY RE ADMINISTRATIVE STA
CALI EARTHQUAKES ET AL
HOW LONG CAN CALI CORRUPTION LAST
HOWARD DEAN AND SLAVONEY ARE BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
VDH'S CALIFORNIA -- SALVEGABLE?
BYRON YORK'S TAKE ON WATERGATE/TRUMP COLLUSION CASES
WONDERFUL STATEMENT OF FACT REGARDING NATIONALISM
REALISM ABOUT SOCIALISM MUST READ FOR OAC
QUICK AND CONCISE SUMMARY OF RUSSIAN COLLUSION
GOOGLE IS AN EVIL COMPANY BEING EXPOSED
COMMON SENSE EXPLANATION OF DEMOCRATS PLANS FOR ECONOMY
WHY TAX REFORMS BENEFIT EVERYONE
REALLY GREAT DISCUSSION OF EDUCATION TODAY. HAYWARD
OMG! LIB HISTORIAN TURNS ON OBAMA.
IT'S ALMOST LIKE DEMS DON'T CARE ABOUT THE BORDER
THE FRAUDULENT KAMALA HARRIS EXPOSED FOR ALL TO SEE!
BYRON YORK'S TAKE ON WATERGATE/TRUMP COLLUSION CASES
WONDERFUL STATEMENT OF FACT REGARDING NATIONALISM
REALISM ABOUT SOCIALISM MUST READ FOR OAC
QUICK AND CONCISE SUMMARY OF RUSSIAN COLLUSION
GOOGLE IS AN EVIL COMPANY BEING EXPOSED
COMMON SENSE EXPLANATION OF DEMOCRATS PLANS FOR ECONOMY
WHY TAX REFORMS BENEFIT EVERYONE
REALLY GREAT DISCUSSION OF EDUCATION TODAY. HAYWARD
OMG! LIB HISTORIAN TURNS ON OBAMA.
IT'S ALMOST LIKE DEMS DON'T CARE ABOUT THE BORDER
THE FRAUDULENT KAMALA HARRIS EXPOSED FOR ALL TO SEE!
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