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Imagine beginning a movie review about a couple evil Jews or Blacks (not that any such thing would be made these days) with this:
Time and time again throughout history, Jews have proven they cannot be trusted. In Martin Scorsese’s twenty-sixth film “Killers of the Flower Moon,” he shows us another staggering real-life example of that very warning. The legendary director’s magnificent epic traverses several years in the 1920s to tell the story of the wealthy members of the Osage Nation who discovered a massive oil well on their Oklahoma land — and as a result found themselves victim to a deceitful murder plot designed to put every dime in the hands of entitled Jews. “Killers of the Flower Moon” is a cautionary tale about the ubiquitous insidiousness of Jews, laying bare the notion that they will take everything from you that isn’t nailed down no matter the cost. Even the ones that seem innocent and good.
Why do 60% of us no longer feel able to say what we really think? Why do more than half of us think neither the Left nor Right represent our views? And why, over the last decade, have so many people been trying to change course —whether by voting for populists, Brexit, or pushing through the post-Brexit realignment?
The answer is revolution. Over the last half century or so the British people have been subjected to a profoundly destabilising political, cultural, and economic revolution.It came in two stages.First, on the right, the one political party that’s supposed to care about our national community, the place we call home, ushered in a radical and relentless economic liberalism. And then, on the left, the one political party that’s supposed to care about ordinary working people accepted much of that legacy while ushering in a radical and rampant cultural liberalism.By the time they were finished, by the 2010s, Britain had been completely and utterly reshaped around a bewildering, narrow and disruptive liberal consensus —a consensus which reflected the values of a new and deeply narcissistic elite minority who have shown remarkably little interest in the values of the wider majority.And what is this “consensus” exactly? Well, it was defined by three things.Firstly, it was defined by hyper-globalisation -a new and profoundly destabilising economic model which prioritises the interests of big business and the urban graduate minority over the interests of the wider national community.
Secondly, it was defined by an entirely new and historically unprecedented era of mass and uncontrolled immigration -a relentless and now visibly failing experiment which was introduced to help big business solve a labour problem but which is today not only failing to do that but is now also bringing us a glaring cultural problem. …We were told it would lift all boats in society. We were told it would drive growth and prosperity. We were told things could only get better. We were told that all those who criticised the new consensus or who merely asked questions were the “closed-minded” ones who did not understand the complexity and reality of the modern world.
But now fast forward to today and look around. We have a working class that’s been battered and broken on all sides by stagnant wages, collapsing living standards and some of the highest regional inequalities in the Western world, and was then derided as the ignorant thickoes, racists, Gammons and Bigots by the very people who claim to be the most liberal, the most tolerant, the most enlightened of all.
We have white working class kids who are now routinely the worst performers at every level of our education system and who are then told to reflect on their “white privilege”, their “white guilt” and their “institutionally racist” country while our universities simultaneously fall over themselves to take cash from China.
We have some of the highest rates of family breakdown in the Western world with more than 40 per cent of our children no longer living with both their mum and dad when they turn eighteen years old. The number of single-parent families in this country is exploding while all the government does is incentivise Mum and Dad to get back to work as quickly as possible, viewing them as little more than economic units who should simply rely on other people to raise their children.
And you know the worst bit about that? It’s the very same people in the new elite who tell us over and over and over again to choose freedom, to choose liberation, to choose gender fluidity, to choose diversity who are simultaneously the most likely to get married, to stay married, and to then have kids within a stable marriage.
Aaron Mate is a perceptive foreign policy journalist, often appearing on Tucker Carlson’s show discussing Ukraine and other issues. Here he discusses U.S. policy toward Syria, mentioning Israel as a “U.S. proxy” rather than the U.S. as Israel’s proxy in its ongoing war with the Arab world and Iran, as pressured by Israel Lobby, compliant politicians, and the neoconservative infrastructure that dominates U.S. foreign policy—the diplomats, the journalists writing for pro-Israel media, and the staff of prominent foreign policy think tanks.
For example, he mentions Josh Rogin, the presumably Jewish Washington Post columnist, who, “like the neoconservative diplomats he parrots, simply presupposes the US right to dominate their region. Indeed, as Rogin makes clear, for Washington’s Dirty Warriors, ‘stability’ means continuing to suffocate Syria, in a Middle East where Arab states only do what Washington ‘allows.'” He mentions the neocons but doesn’t get into their allegiance to Israel, nor does he discuss the role of the Israel Lobby, pro-Israel policy groups like the Washington Institute for Near East Policy [WINEP], Jews in the media, etc.—although he names a couple figures without identifying them as Jews or mentioning their history of pro-Israel activism.
It’s also interesting that missing from the rhetoric of the Biden administration and the pro-Israel activist groups is any serious discussion of what U.S. interests are at stake in Syria. Syria’s accepting aid from Russia and Iran is completely understandable given they have been and are faced with a very well funded, U.S.-supported insurrection — any port in a storm. And as usual, we hear moral outrage at unfounded claims that Assad has gassed Syrians.
But times are changing. The China-brokered deal between Iran and the Saudis is a signal that U.S. hegemony is on the wane as the Ukraine war is making new alliances and making countries around the world question whether U.S. military and economic (e.g., the U.S. dollar as reserve currency and its consequent enabling of sanctions] hegemony is still a reality
Excerpts:
Having spent billions of dollars on a dirty war to overthrow Syria’s government, and then imposed crippling sanctions to prevent the country’s reconstruction, Washington is not pleased with the Arab League’s new expression of independence toward Damascus.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has responded with a measure that would intensify US sanctions and punish states who engage with Syria any further. “The readmission of Syria to the Arab League really infuriated members and made clear the need to quickly act to send a signal,” a senior Congressional staffer told Reuters. Accordingly, “The legislation is a warning to Turkey and Arab countries that if they engage with Assad’s government, they could face severe consequences.”
Those severe consequences include US sanctions on any country that lets a Syrian airliner land at its airports. Given that Syrian civilians travel on these flights, the bill’s authors effectively seeking a global “Syrian Ban” in the image of Trump’s original “Muslim Ban.” The Congressional measure also calls for a review of “any grants of $50,000 or more to Syria,” — a warning shot to anyone helping Syrians in need. …
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken explained the core sanctions principle in October 2021: “Our position is oppose the reconstruction of Syria.”
US officials apparently see no contradiction in expressing concern for the Syrian people while imposing policies that inflict mass suffering on them. According to the United Nations, Syria’s “economic and humanitarian situation is at its worst since the start of the conflict” in 2011. This includes an “800 per cent rise in food prices since 2020.” As US officials openly brag, US sanctions — particularly under the bipartisan 2019 “Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act” — have played an instrumental role.
James Jeffrey, the former US envoy to Syria [and with a history of involvement with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), the above-mentioned pro-Israel foreign policy forum], writes that the United States has “crushed the country’s economy through sanctions.” The EU and Israel, he boasts, have also pitched in to help “choke the regime’s economy through sanctions, holds on reconstruction assistance, and maritime interdiction” – i.e. seizing and even bombing ships that defy the US-led blockade. These sanctions give the US “considerable influence” in Syria’s future, Jeffrey explains, along with military occupations that have left “30 percent of Syrian territory… controlled by the U.S. and Turkish armies and their Syrian allies.”
Andrew Tabler, another former senior US official for Syria policy [presumably Jewish and, like Jeffrey, associated with WINEP] likewise boasts that US sanctions have destroyed Syria’s currency, leading to “corresponding cuts in regime subsidies that have exacerbated fuel and food shortages for everyday Syrians.” In welcoming “fuel and food shortages for everyday Syrians,” Tabler is not only making plain the sadism of US policy, but cutting through the propaganda used to justify it. Whereas US officials claim to only target the Syrian “regime,” Tabler is admitting that, in the real world, this means targeting the “regime subsidies” that provide for ordinary civilians’ basic needs.
As another former Syria envoy, Joel Rayburn, explained, US sanctions are able to so freely immiserate Syrians because the Caesar Act managed to “lower the bar” for imposing them. …
In short, US policy is to destroy ever major “sector” of the Syrian economy, regardless of whether or not there is any “evidence to prove” a “link” to its nominal “regime” target. In the name of helping the Syrian people, the US ensures that their economy is besieged, and the rubble of their destroyed buildings and factories left in place.
Ahead of Christmas last year, Rayburn celebrated his success: Syria’s “economy and state are collapsing”, he declared, with “no fuel/electricity”, “basic needs unaffordable,” schools shuttered, and “people desperate.”
As to why US diplomats would hail a country’s torment, they, along with their media allies, are equally candid that Syria’s independent existence is an affront to US hegemony.
According to Jeffrey, allowing an “Iranian and Russian strategic success in Syria, coming on the heels of the Afghan pullout, would endanger the decades-old American regional security system and the general security which it has provided.” The notion that US has provided “general security” to the Middle East happens to be at odds with public opinion there. In annual polls, Arab populations routinely list the US and its proxy Israel [!] as the top threats to their security. But Jeffrey is not concerned with the actual security of the Middle East region; instead, he recognizes that allowing Syria to evade US control would endanger a “decades-old American regional security system” based on US hegemony.
Accordingly, when Arab states increased outreach to Assad in late 2021, Jeffrey complained that “None of them have been told not to” by the US — the region’s real master.
Echoing Jeffrey, Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin declared that the Biden administration “is sorely mistaken if it thinks that allowing regional players to reestablish diplomatic and economic ties with Bashar al-Assad will lead to greater stability.” Rogin does not explain who has granted Washington the authority to “allow” Arab states to have ties with their neighbor. This is presumably because Rogin, like the neoconservative diplomats he parrots, simply presupposes the US right to dominate their region. Indeed, as Rogin makes clear, for Washington’s Dirty Warriors, “stability” means continuing to suffocate Syria, in a Middle East where Arab states only do what Washington “allows.”
Rogin has particular disdain for Jordan’s King Abdullah II. In “leading a rapid regional normalization” of Assad’s government, Rogin fumed, the Jordanian monarch is running “counter to U.S.-Syria policy and counter to U.S. law.” Following Rogin’s logic, Jordan is not allowed to “counter” US policy in its relations with its own neighbors, and “U.S. law” does not just govern U.S. territory, but the Middle East as well.
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The prevailing US colonialism toward Syria has been abetted by an establishment US media that has gone to extraordinary lengths to normalize it, as the Paper of Record has recently made clear.
In the aftermath of February’s devastating earthquake, the New York Times made the mistake of briefly acknowledging that “Syria is not able to receive direct aid from many countries because of sanctions.” This narrative error was quickly corrected: within one day, the Times erased that wording and replaced it to read that “the Syrian government tightly controls what aid it lets into opposition-held areas.”
Days later, the Times’ Declan Walsh followed up by noting that “the Syrian economy has nose-dived, strained by chronic food and fuel shortages” – not strained, of course, by US sanctions that – as more candid US officials like Jeffrey and Tabler openly admit — have caused those shortages.
The February earthquake posed a particular dilemma for supporters of US sanctions, which hinders Syria’s ability to rebuild. The Times’ Raja Abdulrahim captured this quandary in reporting of concerns from the Syrian opposition that the government may “now funnel money into the country under the guise of earthquake relief and instead use it for reconstruction of buildings damaged in the civil war.” Indeed, for the forces that tried to destroy Syria in one of the most expensive dirty wars in history, it would be unfathomable to allow the government to engage in the “reconstruction of buildings” destroyed in the process. The fact that the Biden administration subsequently allowed a six-month exemption for some humanitarian aid to Syria was a tacit admission that US sanctions explicitly hindered it.
From the US point of view, it is all the more unfathomable to let Syria rebuild given that its resistance to the dirty war was backed by two other Western foes, Iran and Russia. “Syria was one example of the effort by both to find ways to sap American strength and prestige wherever they could in the world,” the Times’ Neil MacFarquhar noted last year. Because these US rivals were able to help “sap American strength and prestige” in Syria, the country’s civilian population must accordingly pay the price.
The current policy of preventing Syria from rebuilding from a war that the US itself fueled reveals a fundamental contradiction that US officials and their media stenographers never acknowledge. Whereas the US claims to be punishing Syria for human rights violations during the war, it is an uncontested fact that the Syrian government was defending its own territory from an insurgency backed by the world’s wealthiest countries and dominated by sectarian death squads, namely Al Qaeda. (Additionally, when the US claims to be holding Syria “accountable” for using chemical weapons, it is never acknowledged that in all major cases, these allegations have been undermined by extensive Western leaks, including from the world’s top chemical watchdog, the OPCW). …
Indeed, the US proxy war in Syria was “one of the costliest covert action programs in the history of the C.I.A.,” the New York Times reported in 2017. Documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed a budget of nearly $1 billion per year [which should have been counted in U.S. aid for Israel], or around $1 of every $15 in CIA spending. The CIA armed and trained nearly 10,000 insurgents, spending “roughly $100,000 per year for every anti-Assad rebel who has gone through the program,” U.S. officials told the Washington Post in 2015. Two years later, one U.S. official estimated that CIA-funded militias “may have killed or wounded 100,000 Syrian soldiers and their allies over the past four years.” …
Although the CIA’s program has long been shuttered, the guiding sadism prevails. For defending their country from US-backed sectarian mass murderers — and renewing ties in a region that the US has long dominated — the message from Washington is that while Syria’s devastating war has ended, its suffering will not.
On Monday, April 10, President Joe Biden signed H.J.Res.7, officially terminating the national emergency concerning the purported Covid-19 pandemic previously declared by then-President Trump on March 13, 2020. The national emergency and a separate, but very much related, public health emergency had been reinstated repeatedly since they were first announced that fateful month, the beginning of the end of Trump’s first (and maybe only) term in office and the initiation of what can only be described as a color revolution in America that led to the likely theft of the 2020 election.
According to mainstream reporting on the official ending of the national emergency, along with the eventual end of the public health emergency on May 11, not much will actually change concerning health insurance policies and coverage as well as medical treatment and protocols. The moves are mostly symbolic, as were the original national emergency and public health emergency declarations themselves: public relations stunts designed to instill mass conformity in one of the most egregious and outrageous psychological warfare operations in the history of humanity known as the Covid-19 “pandemic.”
The legacy of the Covid-19 pandemic and the government’s tyrannical overreach and unconstitutional policies will, however, likely stay with Americans and citizens the world over, most of whom were subjected to the global PSYOP that resulted in disastrous consequences for the vast majority of peoples across the planet while massively benefitting the world’s billionaire class in one of the greatest wealth transfers in history.
Governments at all levels—local, state, and federal—along with the various public health departments and “experts,” doctors and the broader medical establishment, the scientific community and academia more generally, and of course the mass media were all seemingly coordinated in their response to the purported “pandemic.” These forces and institutions certainly did not let the manufactured crisis go to waste, heeding the Machiavellian advice of Rahm Emanuel, a leading Jewish globalist who served as the Chief of Staff and official handler of former President Obama and, later, mayor of Chicago.
Covid-19 and the response to it were precedent-setting in the most profound ways. Never before in history have masses of people willingly suffocated themselves with useless face masks, adhered to absurd, contradictory, and asinine public health “guidance” and “recommendations” masquerading as legitimate law, and injected themselves with an unknown, untested, and truly novel form of vaccination using mRNA technology, which its designers and advocates, including Tal Zaks, the Israeli-born former Chief Medical Officer of Moderna, refer to as hacking “the software of life” and editing a person’s genetic code.
The fear- and trauma-based mind control programming concerning the purported Covid-19 “pandemic” disseminated by the mass media—which was reinforced and perpetuated by virtually the entire political, public health, and scientific establishment, all day, every day for over two years—proved to be extremely effective. There’s no telling when these same sorts of tactics will be used again in the future, especially now that it’s been demonstrated that the vast majority of people will willingly go along with almost every aspect of the insanity. Expect just such a scenario—or something similar—to unfold should a perceived political outsider or renegade make serious strides and gain serious traction in American politics.
While much has been written on Covid-19 and its aftermath, including much speculation and fear mongering equally as reckless as mainstream coverage of the alleged public health emergency, no book, to this writer’s knowledge, has addressed one of the most taboo aspects of the situation: the role that Jews have played throughout the entire scam.
While explicitly Jewish media outlets, such as The Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Telegraph Agency (see here), and the Jewish Daily Forward, have reported on the Jewish role in the Covid-19 pandemic—ranging from advising political leaders, serving as public health “experts,” and creating and selling vaccines—many in both the alternative and mainstream media have either ignored, dismissed, or outright ridiculed any discussion of Jewish involvement in the Covid-19 scenario as an “anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.”
Either too afraid to address such a taboo topic, entirely ignorant of the matter, or, perhaps even worse, actively gatekeeping the issue, many independent journalists, researchers, and investigators have simply never broached the topic, at least not in any great detail.
That has changed with the publication of Covert Covid Culprits, the first book authored by Karl Haemers, a regular contributor to The Barnes Review history magazine who maintains his own Substack page and who also writes for The Occidental Observer.
The book, available for purchase from The Barnes Review, focuses on two important and controversial topics, both of which are very much interrelated.
First, as the title suggests, the book focuses on the “covert culprits” involved in the Covid-19 scam. Of course, we’re referring to the Jews involved at key positions of power and influence in the federal government, public health agencies, academia, medicine, Big Pharma, globalist institutions such as the World Economic Forum (which arguably played the leading role in coordinating the talking points and global response to the alleged pandemic) and Council on Foreign Relations, and the mass media. These “covert culprits”—and the list is quite long—deserve to be highlighted and exposed to the public in a straightforward manner, and this book accomplishes that goal.
Secondly, the book addresses the concept of what has been historically described as the “Jewish Question” or, more derisively, the “Jewish Problem.” A handful of the 15 chapters address this topic specifically—easily the most taboo topic in modern Western society—from the author’s perspective and tie the discussion directly to the Covid-19 situation.
In the final chapter, Haemers effectively argues that it’s not merely a “question” or “problem” with a simple answer or solution humanity is dealing with when confronting the subversive role organized Jewry, professional Jewish activists (such as Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL), and highly ethnically conscious Jewish bureaucrats, politicians, academics, and journalists play in society. Rather, it’s a broader “Jewish Issue,” encompassing many different political, sociological, economic, and racial factors.
Overall, the book must be praised for its boldness in confronting these highly controversial topics in such a straightforward fashion. Haemers’ passion and devotion to the subject material is obvious to any reader. However, it should be pointed out that the book could have greatly benefitted from further editing, which would have helped smooth out some of the language, ensure uniformity in punctuation and spelling, and correct any misspellings or minor factual or grammatical errors. Independently publishing anything—let alone a detailed, fact-filled 275-page book—is never an easy task. That being said, any minor editorial oversights hardly detracted from Haemers’ bold approach in tackling the subject matter.
In this writer’s view, the single most important contribution this book makes to the broader Covid-19 skeptic community is the thorough documentation of the role that Jewish individuals have played throughout the alleged pandemic. Speaking or writing openly about Jews is not an easy thing to do in modern American society. In fact, as I’ve suggested previously, it’s the most taboo and controversial topic to articulate to the American public, largely due to the massive pro-Jewish propaganda and narratives endlessly disseminated by the mass media and educational establishment.
Simply pointing out basic facts about Jews—facts that are even documented and highlighted by explicitly Jewish news outlets and journalists—is more than enough to get yourself “cancelled” and censored, denigrated as an “anti-Semite” or a “conspiracy theorist” (or both!), and generally ostracized from polite society.
The Jerusalem Post openly reports on “the Jews behind the coronavirus vaccines,” but don’t you dare notice or comment on it!
I encourage readers to purchase the book for all of the background information and details of the many Jews involved in the Covid-19 scam, but just to give you an idea, here is a list of some of the most prominent individuals identified:
There are many others identified in the book, including some of the leading figures at the Council on Foreign Relations, a powerful globalist organization deeply involved in the Covid-19 scam, many of whom are Jewish, such as its President Richard Haass and Chairman of the Board of Directors David Rubenstein (mentioned above). Haemers takes care to provide citations from well-established sources to document the role Jewish individuals played throughout the Covid-19 scam.
While the Jewish Issue dominates the focus of the book, Haemers does devote two chapters to the role Bill Gates and his insidious foundation, bankrolled to the tunes of billions of dollars, played in the overall Covid-19 operation, and another chapter titled “Covid Evil: Satanic References in the Coronavirus Scamdemic” that deals with other sinister aspects of the purported global “pandemic” more generally.
That being said, Haemers’ treatment of the Jewish Issue, as he describes it, is a nuanced and interesting perspective, one that deserves contemplation and debate. Anyone familiar with his writing knows full well his knowledge of and passion for the subject. While the information and source material presented is highly credible, some of Haemers’ more polemical writing about Jews could too easily be dismissed as mere “anti-Semitism.” But since that is possible no matter how one writes about Jews (except in praise), and audiences are already changing to accept such views, this potential flaw may be forgiven. Detailed factual analysis presented in the book may even redeem it.
Generally speaking, Haemers would argue, and I would wholeheartedly agree, that addressing the Jewish Issue—confronting the reality of Jewish power and influence in society—is easily the most important topic facing humanity, particularly Whites worldwide.
In a nutshell, Jews have highjacked Western governments, media and entertainment complexes, banking systems, and academia. They have formed a hostile elite that is waging ethnic, demographic, and psychological war against formerly White Western nations. This process began decades ago, and Americans have been living under a Jewish-dominated regime and broader society for at least four generations now. Radical Jewish activists have entirely transformed our culture, attacked our traditions, weaponized narratives of Western history, instigated minorities against us, and in general have turned our society completely upside down—and the results have been devastating.
“Jews have engaged in extraordinary campaigns to change and degrade the moral foundations of their perceived enemies, while clinging intransigently to their own amorality,” Haemers accurately argues in the final chapter.
Jews have fundamentally transformed traditional American and European societies—demographically, sexually, socially, culturally, and politically—which have largely benefitted the organized Jewish community and its leadership to the detriment of the average White American.
While focusing on the “covert culprits” involved at the highest levels of the Covid-19 operation, Haemers’ recently published book also powerfully addresses the broader Jewish Issue. Addressing this taboo topic is critical to articulate any potential political solution not only in America, but the wider Western world.
NB: Author Karl Haemers joined me on the most recent edition of TBR History Hour, a podcast program featuring contributors to The Barnes Review history magazine and other special guests. You can listen to the entire program in MP3 format by clicking here.
F. Roger Devlin’s review of Heather MacDonald’s When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives appeared at AmRen.
This review is far more informative than Ann Coulter’s review which was posted here recently. You probably won’t be surprised by a whole lot, but some of the examples are amazing.
Excerpts:
At present it is still possible, although dangerous, to challenge this fallacious idea by citing data on racial gaps in skills and behavior. But such data themselves are increasingly being attacked or hidden. This is the reason standardized test scores are being dropped from school admissions, for example. Such tests have never impeded the practice of racial preferences — different standards have simply been set for the different races. But they have continued to provide evidence of actual skill gaps. For that reason, nearly 2,000 colleges, including the entire University of California system, have now either banned the use of test scores or made them optional.
The next frontier is the rejection of the concept of accomplishment itself, since it leads inevitably to the realization that some people and groups accomplish more than others. The behavioral standards that make accomplishment possible cannot be left intact either. In the summer of 2020, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, declared that rationality, planning for the future, punctuality, delayed gratification, and being polite were aspects of white culture that “people of color” might not wish to internalize. We are sacrificing civilization itself to maintain the illusion of racial equality. …
An even fiercer reaction greeted Norman Wang of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2020 when he argued in the Journal of the American Heart Association for an end to racial preferences. Mr. Wang pointed out that years of research showed students admitted under quotas disproportionally drop out because of poor grades and have a harder time passing medical licensing exams. Miss Mac Donald quotes a president-elect of the American Heart Association who wondered out loud how such a paper could have been published, given its “unbalanced, unscientific, and untrue statements” — without citing a single example of such statements. The AAMC claimed Mr. Wang’s paper was factually inaccurate, also without examples. Another doctor denounced Mr. Wang’s “racist beliefs and paper” on Twitter. The editor of the journal apologized for publishing the article and retracted it [sounds familiar], assuring readers it would be “improving” its peer-review process to avoid such “missteps” in the future [in my case, the editor was fired]. Mr. Wang not only lost his position as director at the University of Pittsburgh Heart and Vascular Institute, but was banned from all contact with medical students and residents. A lawsuit is pending. …
Some of the incidents Heather Mac Donald describes, especially within the arts academy, are the kind that might have occurred a generation ago. However, certain novelties suggest that America’s racial revolution has entered a new phase. One such novelty already referred to is the growing impermissibility of mentioning racial gaps in skills and behavior, even when attributing them to “cultural” factors. Another is preemptive self-accusation: In the wake of the George Floyd riots, observers who thought they had lost the capacity to be surprised at America’s racial madness were bewildered to see eminent people and institutions rushing forward to confess their “racism” like the victims of Stalinist show trials. Miss Mac Donald has a noteworthy take on this:
The self-abasement common in the post-George Floyd era is actually a form of self-aggrandizement. Individuals and institutions blame themselves for inequalities for which they have no responsibility in order to claim a current impact they do not possess. [Thus they] position themselves as essential to the anti-racism crusade.
Under a regime of anti-racism, cultural authority can come from only two sources: “the assertion of victimhood or the acknowledgement of oneself as a victimizer.” Whites cannot adopt the first strategy, so “that leaves the vigorous assertion of racial guilt as the second-best means of retaining social capital.”
Frustrated by the failure of white and Asian men to fight back against the diversity juggernaut, the author asked one research scientist, “How much longer would they continue to allow their hard work and accomplishments to be disparaged and sidelined?” His reply:
We need our jobs. Our peers will turn on us. Speak out, lose job forever, be quickly forgotten and abandoned. I admire the bravery of those who speak out but they will be systematically exterminated until they are all gone. The system will have to rot from within and be reinvented, which will take 50-100 years.
