Monthly Archives: March 2016

Body Odor Is Less Repulsive When It Comes from “One of Us”

It’s no secret that when traveling abroad, people often find local residents’ body odor particularly offensive. And mothers tend to believe that other infants smell far less appealing than their own. Now, in a study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a group of researchers has shown that the degree of disgust people find in others’ sweat may vary with group identification. In other words, disgust may depend on whether one considers the person they smell to be a member of their “in-group” or “out-group.”

www.scientificamerican.com/article/body-odor-is-less-repulsive-when-it-comes-from-one-of-us/

Jewish Republicans conflicted over Trump

Prominent Jewish Republican leaders and activists show little sign of being able to unify publicly in responding to Donald Trump’s emergence as their party’s presidential front-runner — even after Trump’s failure to condemn dedicated anti-Semites and racists and his declaration that he would be “neutral” on Israel.

With Trump’s triumph in the March 1 Super Tuesday primaries, some in the community are sounding alarm bells, calling for action before it is too late to stop his race to the top. But others in the Jewish Republican camp are cautioning against collectively rejecting Trump.

forward.com/news/national/334526/gop-jews-cannot-unite-against-donald-trump-despite-neutral-on-israel-declar/

People checking out of the universalist assumption.

Everything that is Christian, European, Male, or Heterosexual gets hit with the “tolerate-other-cultures” hammer.

Everything that is Muslim, African, Female, or Homosexual is protected by a wall of political correctness.

This is Machiavellian hypocrisy by people who hate Western Civilization.

A lot of people (me) are checking out of the universalist assumption. If I’m not part of your group, then you’re not part of my group.

Socrates earned his Hemlock

Socrates earned his Hemlock. That’s what you get for aiming profane critique haphazardly at the sacred, for no purpose other than to destroy; with no mind to create something better in its place, and no hope of doing so.

-Eli

“My dear Socrates… you know why they are putting you to death? It is because you make people feel stupid for blindly following habits, instincts, and traditions. You may be occasionally right. But you may confuse them about things they’ve been doing just fine without getting into trouble. You are destroying people’s illusions about themselves. You are taking the joy out of ignorance out of the things we don’t understand. And you have NO answer; you have NO answer to offer them.”

– from “Antifragile”, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Half-White People Have to Sit in the Middle of the Victim Bus.

Hating white people for their white privilege was the progressive racism of 2015. It was a glorious time and the left cheered as racist mobs of #BlackLivesMatter supporters terrorized diners and shoppers in “white spaces” of privilege to avenge the latest drug dealer killed while attacking police officers.

But intersectional racism couldn’t rest on its laurels by screaming at six-year-olds at Christmas tree lightings or intimidating white couples having brunch for the crime of being the wrong skin color.

In 2016, intersectionality continues the fight for a more tolerant country by exposing the white privilege of the interracial. The first target was Zoe Saldana, a black actress with Dominican, Haitian and Puerto Rican roots, who was accused of “blackface” for playing Nina Simone without the requisite racial purity. A petition condemns having “light-complexioned actors” playing “the roles of dark-complexioned historical figures”. Saldana was accused of having a “Eurocentric” face that meets “European standards of beauty”, instead of an “Afrocentric” face. She was told to check her “light-skinned black woman privilege”.

Yes, black people can also have white privilege as long as their skin isn’t the right shade of black and their features aren’t “Afrocentric” enough. Intersectionality is just legitimized racism. And racism is a pathological obsession with racial purity that can never stop on its own. The reverse version of the one drop rule is that even one drop of “white blood” is enough to transmit the disease of “white privilege”.

www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262067/interracial-white-privilege-lefts-hot-new-hate-daniel-greenfield