Stefan Molyneux podcast
It’s possible that mass immigration might work if there wasn’t this constant leftist drumbeat of ‘white privilege’ and “you’re being treated differently because you’re black or you’re brown and the whites hate you”. It’s one thing to say were going to bring a whole bunch of other races and cultures. It’s another thing to say ‘and there’s going to be this constant leftist drumbeat to turn them against the whites in the countries they are coming to. That makes it functionally impossible. And that is basically the design.’
Gavin Mortimer
‘Emmanuel Macron’s Challenge For French Lesbians’
6th June 2018
Spectator Coffee House
Herein lies the paradox at the heart of the secular, progressive West: they champion multiculturalism but are intolerant of the traditional family values and religious beliefs inherent in many of the cultures they welcome into their communities. This, in turn, has created a moral disjunction that has been exploited by Islamic extremists, who pump out propaganda that contrasts the piety of their ideology with that of the permissive West.
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/emmanuel-macrons-challenge-for-french-lesbians/
Christopher DeGroot
‘Diversity Comes For Science’
May 25th 2018
Takimag
Ironically, the diversity crowd cannot stand diversity itself. For doing so would require leaving others alone, letting them be what they are: endlessly different, unequal, diverse….Their [the diversity crowd] goal is power, and that they are motivated by status envy is evident from the fact that nobody cares about “racial parity” and “gender parity” when it comes to blue-collar jobs. Indeed, we never find feminists waxing indignant about why there are not enough women getting up at 3 a.m. to repair broken electrical wires in rainy weather. When a pathetically inept figure such as Michael Eric Dyson—a star academic only because he is black—complains of “white privilege” while masochistic white leftists look on in rapture, he does not do so because he wants more blacks to get jobs in construction and in landscaping.
https://www.takimag.com/article/diversity_comes_for_science_christopher_degroot/
Ed West
‘Christmas Markets Without Armed Police are Now A Thing of The Past ‘
7th Dec 2017
Spectator Coffee House
I’ve noticed these ‘diversity bollards’ popping up everywhere, without a word spoken about it… Does anyone in a position of power believe this is going to get better and these security measures will ever be taken down? If not, perhaps they should explain to us why, how they led us down this route, and what they intend to do about it…No free society can maintain its liberal traditions with that sort of internal [terrorist] threat, so as the problem deteriorates the surveillance state will expand. We will be faced with the decision about whether to allow the government to monitor people’s internet activity, because the alternative would be asking serious questions about immigration and multiculturalism.
Mark Steyn:
The deal we seem to have come to in Europe is that, on the minus side, we’ve got a bit more gang rape and beheading than we used to have, but on the plus side, there’s a much wider range of cuisine. So it’s all swings and roundabouts.
Dr Taj Hargey, Imam, Oxford Islamic Congregation, Letter in The Times
9th August 2018:
“Sir, Boris Johnson should not apologise for telling the truth. His evocative analogy is unfortunate but he is justified in reminding everyone that the Wahhabi/Salafi-inspired fad of female facial masking has no Koranic legitimacy. It is, however, a nefarious component of a trendy gateway theology for religious extremism and militant Islam.
The burka and niqab are hideous tribal ninja-like garments that are pre-Islamic, non-Koranic and therefore un-Muslim. Although this deliberate identity-concealing contraption is banned at the Kaaba in Mecca it is permitted in Britain, thus precipitating security risks, accelerating vitamin D deficiency, endorsing gender-inequality and inhibiting community cohesion.
The retrogressive Islamic clergy has succeeded in persuading ill-informed Muslims through suspect secondary sources that God wants women to cover their faces, when in reality it is a toxic patriarchy controlling women. Is it any wonder that many younger women have internalised this poisonous chauvinism by asserting that it is their human right to hide their faces? Johnson did not go far enough. If Britain is to become a fully integrated society then it is incumbent that cultural practices, personal preferences and communal customs that aggravate social division should be firmly resisted. For this reason Britain must emulate France, Belgium, Austria, Bulgaria and Denmark in banning the burka.”
Salman Rushdie:
“Islamophobia,” a term that, as Salman Rushdie commented, “was created to help the blind remain blind.”
David Mikics
A Review of ‘Islamophobia and post-colonial guilt’ by Pascal Bruckner
5th September 2018
Tabletmag.com
The usual response to Cologne, and not just from hard leftists, was, Bruckner writes, “to drown the events … in the deep waters of equivalence”: We were supposed to remember that violence against women occurs everywhere, and that non-Muslims do it too. Bruckner reminds us that this kind of argument stems from the Cold War era: If you pointed out the lack of freedom in the Eastern Bloc, you were frequently told how much the countries of Latin America suffered from U.S. imperialism.
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/269389/islamophobia-pascal-bruckner
Comment posted by ‘wisestreligion’ on ConservativeWoman “Where Tories Fear to Tread”
Jan 3, 2019
The test of whether multiculturalism is really a good principle would be to hear from its Progressivist enthusiasts a list of the non-Western countries where they would prescribe it for its wonderful benefits: the dilution of the local culture and importing of foreign customs? I suspect a very short or non-existent list.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/where-tories-fear-to-tread/
Tim Newman’s Blog
“Strangers on a Plane”
Oct 23rd 2018
I’ve lived in functional societies, and I’ve lived in dysfunctional societies. I believe the difference between the two is a culture in which people make dozens of small sacrifices on a daily basis which act as a lubricant for the society as a whole to get along. So you stand aside for people pushing prams, you let people out into traffic, you conduct yourself in a way which minimises the aggregate level of inconvenience and difficulty for everyone involved in a given situation. Annecy works a lot like this. For example, everyone stops at zebra crossings, and those crossing always give a little wave to the driver. People also hold doors open for one another and stand aside if someone is carrying something heavy. By contrast, drivers in Lagos will move two metres forward and block an entire highway because it means they have gained two metres. The fact a hundred cars are now blocked in because of their actions doesn’t matter one whit: the important thing is they have advanced two metres, and to hell with everyone else. This is why Lagos is the most dysfunctional place I’ve ever been to.
Samuel Goldman
‘Home is where you don’t have to explain yourself’
The American Conservative
June 27th 2016
Residential sorting by wealth, education, and age makes it increasingly possible to live only among people who agree with you on every significant question. That is why so many Remainers were sincerely shocked by the result.
The much praised diversity of the New Britain, then, is vertical rather than horizontal. In other words, it tends to produce enclosed, unconnected communities rather than widening the scope of social experience (excursions to exotic restaurants don’t count).
‘Home is where you don’t have to explain yourself‘
Tucker Carlson
“How is Diversity Our Strength”
Fox News, 2018
How, precisely, is diversity our strength? Since you’ve made this our new national motto, please be specific as you explain it. Can you think, for example, of other institutions such as, I don’t know, marriage or military units in which the less people have in common, the more cohesive they are?
Do you get along better with your neighbors, your co-workers if you can’t understand each other or share no common values? Please be honest as you answer this question.
And if diversity is our strength, why is it okay for the rest of us to surrender one of our central rights, freedom of speech, to just a handful of tech monopolies? And by the way, if your ideas are so obviously true, why does anyone who question them need to be shamed, silenced and fired?
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Christopher De Groot
‘Life Without Intellectual Principle: Part One’
It is a corollary of GMVI [Greater Male Variability of Intelligence] that there are both more idiots and more geniuses among men than among women. If we consider GMVI, the differences in interests between the sexes, and the fact that men are higher (on average) in motivation than women (more willing and able, that is, to rise through dominance hierarchies), then the ongoing lack of “gender parity” in math, science, and elsewhere is only to be expected.
Still, we aren’t supposed to talk about these factors when it comes to explaining unequal outcomes between the sexes. For feminists are prone to reading their own anxieties and insecurities into empirical, value-neutral subjects. Their reactions and judgments imply that truth is determined by their feelings: If something upsets them, it can’t be true, or publishable. Hence feminists, in an amusing irony, live up to the most negative stereotypes about women: that they are too emotional, irrational, and illogical. It’s as if feminists wanted to confirm stereotype accuracy.
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Atticus Fox 