This is a footnote to Tim Murray’s current TOO article, “Pulling at Our heartstring: How the Enemy Within Uses Our Empathy Against Us.” In this Guardian article, note the reference to the famous photo and its effect in motivating empathy and (pathological) altruism: The school hall was packed, with all eyes fixed on the video screen and […]
A Haaretz columnist, Chemi Shalev, complains that Jewish organizations have not been up in arms about Donald Trump’s proposed immigration policy. The reason Jewish organizations must act is because over 90 years ago the US passed an immigration restriction bill that shut off the flow of Eastern European Jews to America. The basic logic here is that the […]
Original article: The Cuckservative Phenomenon; Article d’origine publié le 30 juillet 2015 Si vous voyez l’immigration illégale comme un “acte d’amour”, il se pourrait que vous soyez un cuckservative. [NdT: Cuck est l’abréviation de cuckold (cocu). Cuckservative combine les mots Cuck (cocu) + Conservative (politicien conservateur).] Le terme cuckservative se trouve soudain partout. C’est un mot […]
I certainly counted myself among the skeptics when it comes to Donald Trump’s candidacy. But it’s clear now that he is going full populist on the issues that matter, first with his statements on trade deals, but now—and more importantly—on immigration. Ann Coulter calls his immigration statement “the greatest political document since the Magna Carta,” The […]
Original article: “Jew baiter” Obama: The same people who brought you Iraq are opposing the Iran deal Article d’origine publié le 7 août 2015 Parfois, les commentaires juifs à propos de l’antisémitisme sont si aberrants qu’ils me surprennent moi-même. Un article du site Tablet décrit la rencontre entre Obama et un rassemblement de représentants de […]
Not to be outdone by the Tablet article labeling Obama a “Jew baiter,” Joel Pollak writing in Breitbart came out with “Barack Obama’s Anti-Semitic Rant on the Iran Deal: President Barack Obama is using anti-Jewish language to sell the Iran deal.” On Thursday, Obama led a conference call with left-wing activists in which he repeatedly railed against his […]
The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentric Cooperation Max Hartshorn, Artem Kaznatcheev and Thomas Shultz (2013) Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 16 (3) 7 Abstract Recent agent-based computer simulations suggest that ethnocentrism, often thought to rely on complex social cognition and learning, may have arisen through biological evolution. From a random start, ethnocentric strategies dominate […]
