My latest in PJ Media:
Rational analysts — that is, admittedly a small and vanishing group — agree: the Black Lives Matter narrative about “systemic racism” in the United States is completely contrary to reality. It is propaganda constructed in order to exacerbate racial division and has about as much truth to it as the Nazis’ narrative about how Jews conspired to sabotage Germany’s World War I war effort. America is actually the least racist society on earth, one of the only countries ever to have elected a member of a formerly despised minority to its highest office, and a nation that fought a bloody civil war and labored for a century thereafter to secure equality of rights for all. So why is there so much racial tension?
As Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster explains, the answer to that question is clear: there is so much racial tension because certain forces in the American public sphere benefit from its persistence. This is nothing new; in fact, it goes back to what should have been and what was heralded as the end of racism in the United States: the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What no one expected in 1964 was that the Civil Rights Act would herald not the end of racial tensions in the United States, but their aggravation. As a result in large part of the act, segregation ended in the South and equality of opportunity was virtually assured, with stiff penalties for those who denied it. Yet even as actual racism was becoming unusual, civil rights activists began to insist that racism was so deeply embedded in the psyche of the nation that had done more than any other to eradicate it that much more legislation was required, including measures giving not just equality of opportunity, but equality of outcome, which would require special boosts and privileges to minorities. This all but guaranteed that racial friction would remain a feature of the American landscape.
Meanwhile, Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and War on Poverty replaced segregation in the South with nationwide programs that were even worse for the poor, as they took away incentives to work and created a permanently unemployed underclass in which an ever-larger group of people essentially became wards of the state.
That may have been the idea all along. The famously coarse Johnson is said to have boasted about the Civil Rights Act of 1964: “I’ll have those n—-rs voting Democratic for two hundred years.” Between that act and the War on Poverty, he certainly did create a bloc of black Americans who could be counted on to vote Democratic – at least until the advent of Donald Trump. Whether or not those votes were in the best interests of those who cast them was highly debatable, but no one dared debate it.
There is much more. Read the rest here.
Wellington says
Brilliant article by Robert Spencer. Valid throughout.
Confirming again that Obama was the single greatest destroyer of the American dream in all of American history (this will be lost on virtually all those who still stupidly reside on the Left side of the political spectrum and will even be lost on many who are on the Right).
The charge of systemic racism in contemporary America is as false as the Jews being responsible for so much wrong in Germany during the Second Reich, Weimar Germany and most certainly Nazi Germany.
Systemic racism in America is a powerful myth but powerful myths often drive history far more than the truth does.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Excellent post, my compliments.
Now, it’s not enough to be “non-racist”. We are now all expected to be “anti-racist”.
I’m sorry, I don’t have to endlessly “prove” that I’m not a racist…
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/without-prejudice/201601/being-anti-racist-not-non-racist
somehistory says
Don’t be “sorry.” And it isn’t possible to prove a negative. I was called a racist back in early 2000 by a kid in elementary school and the reason she gave me: “You’re not Black.”
Since that day, I haven’t even bothered to deny that I’m a racist. I’ve proven that I view people as people no matter the color by my actions. If it isn’t accepted, then tough. Those who want to see the Truth, will see it and those who want to think the worst and believe lies, will do that.
gravenimage says
James, more and more it is posited that all white people are intrinsically racist simply by dint of being white (how racist is *that*?).
I ran across an article from last year by the appalling Robin DiAngelo (“White Fragility”) claiming that white women had to accept accusations of racism–valid or not–with “relief” and “gratitude”, and said that they had to develop “stamina” for suffering constant public shaming. Note that DiAngelo herself is white.
Sick, sick stuff.
Ray Jarman says
It is much like the far left Jews being anti-Israel and anti-Semitic or so many Americans being so anti-American.
gravenimage says
Too true, Ray.
Terry Gain says
Wellington
I couldn’t agree more. Tucker Carlson referred to the Obamas – and she is just as bad as him – as Race Arsonists. Obama was elected POTUS despite having the thinnest of resumes and no professional accomplishments of note in order to put the stain of racism behind America. Instead of thanking America he decided to destroy Martin Luther King’s dream. He portrayed black assailants Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown as victims. No one asked him what the hell he was talking about. Was a white person attacked by a black man not entitled to defend himself? I don’t recall Obama commenting on The Knockout Game where black youths attacked elderly white people from behind and attempted to knock them out with one punch. Some game. Some President.
This was the beginning of Black Privilege. A black man resisting arrest is subjected to horrid police brutality and dies and this somehow justifies months of mob violence where innocent people are killed and their lives are destroyed. Neither crime statistics nor economic statistics support the false narrative being pushed by BLM. East-Indian Americans are the highest per capita income earners. How is that possible in a systemically racist country? Black people kill more white people than vice versa. A higher percentage of blacks are killed by the police because a higher percentage of blacks commit crimes. The solution for the black situation In America is to work harder in school and avoid drugs and crime. Only a racist would conclude that blacks are not capable of choosing the path to success. Donald Trump as someone who does not consume alcohol or drugs and does the work of two people Is setting a good example. He should be praised for his example.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income
America needs less of the Obamas and more of Heather McDonald, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams and Larry Elder. And of course more of Robert Spencer and David Wood.
In my opinion it will take leadership from black conservatives to lead America out of the racial cesspool created by Obama’s Democrats.
Ray Jarman says
+1 Spot on.
J Morgan says
+1 That’s right.
mortimer says
Wellington is spot-on: “Systemic racism in America is a powerful myth”. It is a thing of the past, long replaced by systemic anti-racism and ‘handicapping’ … promoting untalented and undeserving candidates on the basis of their race quota, rather than on the basis of intellectual, experiential or academic merit.
Sabri S. says
What a bullshit article, encouraged by the deaf, dumb and blind. America is and has always been the most racist country in the modern world. Not even South Africa of the 1990s executed and imprisoned so many blacks under bogus assumptions. And they have done it under the auspices of a racist LAW Enforcement and Legal apparatus. Sure, there are people who benefit by pushing racial strife everywhere (which would be eliminated under Islam). However, this pales in comparison to the white supremacy and its related oppression that America forces on the world. Why are there 166 countries in the world with an American military presence? And no, they did NOT ask your government or military to come in as the idiots on this site have stated to me in the past. Why is $800 billion a year being wasted on America’s military industrial complex? America would rather go bankrupt, then be righteous. Iraq was better off with Saddam Hussein. Libya was better off with Gaddafi. The list goes on. Blacks in America are better off with a nation of their own, or territories carved out similar to the Native American Indians arrangement. And they are better off under Islam, then Christianity which falsely claims that Jesus was a white man in a geographic region of brown and black people. What racist rubbish. If America cant be honest about one of God’s prophets, or the white supremacy it pushes abroad, what can it be honest about. Nothing!
The people of the world are uniting, and white supremacy will be wiped out as it should have been a long time ago. N’ShaAllah.
L Mayor says
You`ve gone a long way to ratifying my experience that many adherents of the “religion of peace” are brainwashed idiots.
Rod says
So you see, Sabri – a different opinion is easily dealt with by a few well chosen insults.
On other sites, people engage in discussion and exchange ideas and opinions. That calls for intelligence, thought, and understanding. Such talents are not to be found among these contributors. “+1” is very frequently used. Dissension is almost unheard of.
PS “well chosen” insults? Not really.
FYI says
@Rod
But YOU…. are an infidel.
According to Sabri s’s ‘holy’ koran you are one of..
‘The WORST of created beings”
koran 98:6
That is YOU.You might say the koran and islam have a ‘different opinion’ of your worth.
The illogicality and irony of defending that which classifies YOU as an inferior appears to be completely lost on you.
muslims will defend their cult as expected : lefties think they are being tolerant by attacking those critical of islam but as far as islam is concerned lefties are INFIDELS,the ‘worst of created beings’
Lefties are useful idiots to islam for that reason.
So if you are not a muslim you are an infidel:which means YOU are ‘the WORST of created beings’
At least we know where we stand with muslim trolls.
But virtue-signalling snowflake lefties have no excuse.
The ability to grasp the concept of Irony and understand basic Logic seems to be missing in most trolls who post here at JW.
gravenimage says
Sabri S. has lauded Muslims beheading their own children and the conquest of the free world. Characterizing these as mere differences of opinion is just sickening.
Rod says
More abuse FYI? See what I mean? No, perhaps not.
gravenimage says
Does “Rod” have a problem with Muslims beheading their children? Not so he says…
Terry Gain says
Sabri S
Thank you for your comment. It is important for conservatives to understand that the threat to freedom and equality and indeed our way of life does not just come from Leftists.It comes also from adherents of a violent, dishonest, totalitarian, supremacist conquest ideology which is opposed to freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, gender equality and equality of citizenship. You are a fine spokesperson for that evil ideology. Keep writing. You are the best of posters.
Wellington says
Seconded.
gravenimage says
+1
Giacomo Latta says
Blacks are better off under Islam? Not even muslims are better off under Islam, which is why they stream out of their shitholes into the West, and no one knows that better than you.
FYI says
“Jesus was a white man”
Can you think of a ‘prophet’ who under no circumstances could ever be considered… black?
Your ‘prophet’ muhammed.
“Ahmad ibn Sulayaman,sahnun’s companion,said that whoever says the prophet is black is KILLED.The prophet was not black”
Ash Shifa of Qadi Lyad{pg 387}
In islam satan is a black man{ibn ishaq pg 243}
Saying muhmmed was black meant execution.
Do you know why the black stone is black?it is because black=sin.
Do you think you might tell BLM that sabri S?
Of course not.
If muslims cannot be honest about their fake god’s African slave trading ‘prophet’ or the white supremacy of muhammed,what can muslims be honest about.Nothing!
Such typical islamic hypocrisy.You cannot deny your own sources.All You can do is lie.
Marsh’ma’llah.
{As for ‘white supremacy’:NOTHING beats your muhammed.
see on You Tube
acts17apologetics muhammed:the white prophet with black slaves}
john smith says
Sabri, It’s obvious to me that you have been brought up in an english speaking country. A country which probably taken your parents, or grandparents in as refugees. A country which shown you and your family kindness, provided for you,gave you health care and a chance to make something of yourself in life.
One thing I’m certain of, none of you would want to return to the place from which you fled.
Instead you are consumed with hatred towards those who have shown you nothing but kindness.
Giacomo Latta says
This is Islam. It always has been and always will be. This slave of Islam has consumed its regurgitant well.
gravenimage says
More from the vicious Sabri S.:
What a bullshit article, encouraged by the deaf, dumb and blind. America is and has always been the most racist country in the modern world.
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What absolute claptrap. All ethnicities have equal rights in the United States, and many African Americans have excelled here.
More:
Not even South Africa of the 1990s executed and imprisoned so many blacks under bogus assumptions. And they have done it under the auspices of a racist LAW Enforcement and Legal apparatus. Sure, there are people who benefit by pushing racial strife everywhere (which would be eliminated under Islam).
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Islam is *enslaving* Blacks today. This happens under Islam in Mauritania–which enslaves *over 17% of its population*–and in Sudan and other places in Africa. The West abolished slavery long ago–Islam *never has*. And why would it? The vicious “Prophet” himself was a slaver. He was also a racist, denigrating Blacks as “raisin heads”.
More:
However, this pales in comparison to the white supremacy and its related oppression that America forces on the world. Why are there 166 countries in the world with an American military presence? And no, they did NOT ask your government or military to come in as the idiots on this site have stated to me in the past. Why is $800 billion a year being wasted on America’s military industrial complex? America would rather go bankrupt, then be righteous.
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Mostly, Sabri S. objects to the US offering any defense against Jihad terror. And how is opposing Jihad terror “racist”? Of course, it is not.
More:
Iraq was better off with Saddam Hussein. Libya was better off with Gaddafi. The list goes on. Blacks in America are better off with a nation of their own, or territories carved out similar to the Native American Indians arrangement. And they are better off under Islam,
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Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi were both thugs–and they were both taken out by their own coreligionists, not by Americans as Sabri S. pretends.
Gaddafi was a Jihadist himself, bringing down a civilian plane over Lockerbie. *Of course* Sabri S. loves this savagery. But even he was not Jihadist enough for the ISIS thugs who finally deposed him in favor of their own barbarism.
More:
then Christianity which falsely claims that Jesus was a white man in a geographic region of brown and black people. What racist rubbish. If America cant be honest about one of God’s prophets, or the white supremacy it pushes abroad, what can it be honest about. Nothing!
The people of the world are uniting, and white supremacy will be wiped out as it should have been a long time ago. N’ShaAllah.
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Of course, Christianity has never claimed that Jesus was White–this is of course quite false.
Then, Sabri S. is not talking about Jesus, in any case–this is the Muslim “Jesus”–(“prophet Isa”), whose main role is to slaughter Christians in the last days.
People of all races flock to the civilized world–Europe and the US, for their freedom. The claim that this is somehow “white supremacist” is ludicrous.
john smith says
GI you are a true champion of truth.
gravenimage says
Thank you, John.
Keys says
Right on as usual, Wellington. Thank you.
In support of your comments between 1501-1866, more enslaved Africans went to Brazil/Portugal (5,848,266), Great Britain (3,259,441), France (1,381,404), Spain/Uruguay (1,061,524), and the Netherlands(554,336) than the United States (305,326), and “Less than one-quarter of white Southerners held slaves,” and that it is estimated that “3,776 free Negroes” owned slaves.
Quotes above and below are from black historian, Thomas Sowell.
“Of all the tragic facts about the history of slavery, the most astonishing to an American today is that, although slavery was a worldwide institution for thousands of years, nowhere in the world was slavery a controversial issue prior to the 18th century. People of every race and color were enslaved—and enslaved others. White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were freed. Everyone hated the idea of being a slave but few had any qualms about enslaving others.”
Further Sowell says, “The treatment of white galley slaves was even worse than the treatment of black slaves picking cotton. But there are no movies or television dramas about it comparable to Roots, and our schools and colleges don’t pound it into the heads of students.”
And. “The inhumanity of human beings toward other human beings is not a new story, much less a local story. There is no need to hide it, because there are lessons we can learn from it. But there is also no need to distort it, so that sins of the whole human species around the world are presented as special defects of “our society” or the sins of a particular race.
If American society and Western civilization are different from other societies and civilization, it is that they eventually turned against slavery, and stamped it out, at a time when non-Western societies around the world were still maintaining slavery and resisting Western pressures to end slavery, including in some cases armed resistance. Only the fact that the West had more firepower than others put an end to slavery in many non-Western societies during the age of Western imperialism. …”
Finally, Sowell says “It is not just the history of slavery that gets distorted beyond recognition by the selective filtering of facts. Those who go back to mine history in order to find everything they can to undermine American society or Western civilization, have very little interest in the Bataan death march, the atrocities of the Ottoman Empire or similar atrocities in other times and places.
Those who mine history for sins are not searching for truth but for opportunities to denigrate their own society, or for grievances that can be cashed in today, at the expense of people who were not even born when the sins of the past were committed.”
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The truth of American History is being distorted by agenda-driven leftists and other groups for power, money, and/ or to signal their false moral superiority, not to mention ignorance and stupidity.
Overall, Americans ought to be proud of their heritage and continue their past destiny to preserve freedom in the world.
Yohanan and Sabri S have been deceived and are choosing to be part of the deceit with their posts here.
gravenimage says
Good post, Keys.
Keys says
Thank you, gi.
Rod says
A relief to read that more slaves went elsewhere than the mere 305,326 who went to USA? Why? What difference does it make?
The USA’s total slave population by the 1860s is believed to have reached about four million, so the breeding programs must have worked exceptionally well, and produced enormous economic benefits. What a proud achievement, and what an effective way to establish a prosperous economy.
And how amusing to see these contorted arguments where you try to convince yourselves that it wasn’t a hugely important, shameful and indelible part of your heritage. The Bataan death march was bad, so slavery was not so bad – a stunning argument? (The millions of Vietnamese who died was bad too.)
gravenimage says
The West *abolished* slavery–Islam never has. Moreover, “Rod” has refused for *years* to say anything critical about this. Very telling.
Rod says
“The West *abolished* slavery–Islam never has.”
This keeps appearing here, but just what is the argument always so carefully unstated? Are we meant to agree that since “Islam never has”, then America’s shameful past history, and their stubborn refusal to confront and deal with it, can be overlooked?
Obviously it can’t and won’t be overlooked, and the poison will remain in America’s bloodstream.
So, forget your obsession with Islam. Instead of spreading hatred and intolerance, try evaluating and addressing the ugly realities of your own holy land. That might serve some useful purpose.
Has preaching hatred to your fellow haters ever achieved anything of value, for you or anybody else? Is there any value of any kind in a word of approval from any of your fellow fanatics?
gravenimage says
How is abolishing slavery wrong and continuing it a good thing? Can “Rod” explain this? I doubt it…
And no–opposing the horrors of slavery is not “hatred and intolerance”.
And note that “Rod” *still* will not say anything critical over Muslims enslaving people *today*.
Rod says
“How is abolishing slavery wrong?” What an utterly stupid thing to say.
Of course abolishing slavery is not wrong. What sort of myopia do you suffer from?
And, as you know perfectly well, millions of the Muslims all over the world abolished slavery long ago. Don’t you see that your obsession makes you unbalanced? Why do you NEVER address the issues I challenge you to discuss? That’s the hallmark of blind bigotry.
If you want to malign people who deserve it, start with people who disseminate and enjoy hatred. You won’t have to look far.
gravenimage says
“Rod” wrote:
“How is abolishing slavery wrong?” What an utterly stupid thing to say.
Of course abolishing slavery is not wrong. What sort of myopia do you suffer from?
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Yet “Rod” *still* won’t say anything against slavery in the Islamic world–the only place it still exists.
In places like Mauritania, up to 17% of the population is enslaved. Slavery is rife in Sudan. And one of the first things that the Islamic State did was to reinstate slavery.
And why not? The “Prophet” Muhammed himself was a slaver.
“Female al-Azhar prof: Allah allows Muslims to rape non-Muslim women”
The seizure of Infidel girls and their use as sex slaves is sanctioned in the Qur’an.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/female-al-azhar-prof-allah-allows-muslims-to-rape-non-muslim-women
Al Azhar is the seat of Sunni jurisprudence–and they support slavery and sex slavery.
More:
And, as you know perfectly well, millions of the Muslims all over the world abolished slavery long ago. Don’t you see that your obsession makes you unbalanced? Why do you NEVER address the issues I challenge you to discuss? That’s the hallmark of blind bigotry.
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Actually, there has never been an abolition movement in Islam. Places like Saudi Arabia still had open slave markets in the capital city during my lifetime. They only criminalized slavery–on paper, at least–under pressure from the free West.
And the idea that I should focus on wrongs righted a hundred and fifty years ago or more while ignoring the horrors of slavery today is something I reject. How inconvenient for this apologist for Islamic savagery.
More:
If you want to malign people who deserve it, start with people who disseminate and enjoy hatred. You won’t have to look far.
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The idea that opposing the horrors of slavery is “hatred” could not be more appalling.
curious george says
Wellington
+1
A picture is worth a thousand words. Obama signals his contempt for the American people. As valid then as it is now.
FYI says
Unless it is to represent Tawhid.
muslims like to give the one-figure salute to remind the infidel polytheist Christians with their 3 gods that allah is one god:but of course Christians don’t worship 3 gods as the Theology behind the Doctrine of the Trinity is monotheistic{NOT a 3 separate god polytheism}
Alas,allah himself misunderstands the Theology in his ‘perfect book, as we see in koran 5:116 where he mistakenly thinks the Christian Trinity consists of {allah,muslim Jesus… and MARY}
On that basis allah probably thinks the 4 Beatles are John,Paul,George and Bingo.
As for all these tensions:
Let us not forget DIVIDE AND CONQUER.
DavidR says
Those who thrive off division, drama and posing are aware that many people can be easily manipulated into believing the most racist assumptions about themselves, family, friends, grandma and the town librarian.
Never allow someone to coerce you into a place where you doubt something that is unquestionably true.
The streets are full of people who stopped thinking because it causes them so much inner conflict.
Lightship Chaplain says
I agree with the above comments; only Marxists sympathizers would try and tare at the fabric of our nation’s most sensitive subject to try and exploit it for political gain! It is disgusting, and the Democrats media and their allies are more an enemy to the Republic then even Red China, who have also purchased the Democratic party for a buck!
Reziac says
Islam and Marxism are fundamentally similar, both being at root the politics of envy:
He has stuff. I want it. Kill him and take his stuff.
gravenimage says
Too true.
FYI says
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm the farm animals start off with seven commandments but end up with..the supremacist slogan..
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others”
Soviet era party bosses with all their privileges{The dachas,the state cars etc} were in reality ‘more equal’ than their fellow communist citizens.
{The 7th commandment was originally ‘All animals are equal’}
Rod says
{The 7th commandment was originally ‘All animals are equal’}
I believe the US Constitution, written in the golden age of slavery, says something similar. And today racism persists and the gap between rich and poor continues to widen.
Orwell is gone but his truth lives on.
gravenimage says
The West has abolished slavery–Islam never has. Not that “Rod” has a problem with this, of course.
James Lincoln says
test post
somehistory says
When “o” became the ingrate pretender to the “throne”….pretending he was a king while denying it…pretending that he was qualified to be president, while clearly not being on any level, legal or brain-wise, some in the public began seeing that they had a chance to become the **owners** and seeing themselves with power over others, solely due to his, and their, skin color. I recall hearing one woman saying, “Now it’s our turn>”
When he swore to “uphold and defend,” he was really lying…just pretending still…and right from the get-go, began stoking the fires that already burned in those who saw his election as their chance to become the “owners” and rulers of everyone else.
Recall the police investigation of the break-in at the professor’s home…he was breaking in to his own home…and they arrested the professor because they were attempting to protect the property. “o” jumped right in with “the police acted stupidly,” and then had a “beer summit.”The officer was made to apologize for doing his job.
Imo, the professor wanted to be arrested, wanted the police to think he was a burglar, so he could then accuse them of racism and “o” could call them stupid and the whole country would be fuming.
Evidently, “o” is still at the core of the stoking the fires group, a backer for the bm and others in the world of so-called celebs.
livingengine says
What does CAIR have to do with Kenosha? Answer: Nothing, nothing except incitement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPCL-k60FbQ
somehistory says
Lies, lies, you can’t believe a word he says…..
blake is and was already, a criminal. He had raped a woman in her bed and her son was in the same bed. He had a restraining order and arrest warrant with his name on them and the police were there to arrest him.
moslims an these other thugs are inciting riots and and encouraging murder and murder is taking place.
And the devil is behind every minute of itl behind the riots, the violence, the looting, the arson, and the murder.
gravenimage says
Why Racial Tensions Are So High in the Least Racist Society on Earth
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Good piece.
mortimer says
Systemic racism in the US has been replaced with systemic ANTI-racism.
The system that Martin Luther King asked for was to be color-blind, rather than color-mandated, promoting people without merit solely on the basis of their color.
mortimer says
What most Western countries are now doing is to promote non-whites on the basis of a quota system by providing them with additional points out of the gate in a ‘handicapping’ system.
This is actually still racism by low expectation.
Thinker1 says
Look up military grade disinformation by the Democrats.
Tony Naim says
As an immigrant, America to me is the land of innovation, fairness, opportunity, generosity and hope.
Before President Trump, America was the envy of the world. With Him, it is twice as much so.
All the fake investigations and mockery trials, all racially motivated unrest in Major US cities , the politicization of the Covid pandemic is nothing more than a Democrat plot to smear and degrade the legacy of one of the best American presidents, who is in tune with that great American spirit.
I am sorry to use the following language, unfortunately, but what does one expect when a whore and a pimp run the Democrat controlled House in Congress.
By the grace of God, the prayers of millions, President Trump will prevail, not only for the sake of what America will evolve to become in a generation or 2 but also for safety and freedom all over the world.
gravenimage says
+1
J Morgan says
+1
Yohanan says
Rational analysis – really? Rational like Trump? Like the reality show president, RS and this JW news comment and forum site wander far from rational thought. Read history without blinders. “fought for a century [for] and against racism…” and still on. Be well, be safe. Next visit here in Feb.
L Mayor says
Why so soon? I, for one, would be fine were you to return when shrimp begin to whistle.
Wellington says
+1. Yes, February will definitely be too soon.
Yohanan says
let’s see if in Feb at the US incoming passport control under same flag there will be a different presidential photo. A smaller size photo-poster of a less crooked president than the irrational anti-science twitter-in-chief Trump, Putin’s puppet. Time will tell how pendulum of democracy swings. Good luck to whoever is in management. But in this JW focus here, it’s a long stretch from pointing out jihad theology to partisan political platform… JW no longer in bookmark bar. see you in Feb
gravenimage says
Trump is not perfect, but he has acted to protect the American people from Jihad. Muslim immigration was down 90% even before the lockdown. Biden has vowed to overturn this on day one. How will that keep people safer? I doubt that Yohanan will say.
infidel says
As I have said here many times b4, Islam has now entered into the black-white racial equations and will now do its best to exacerbate the divisions and make it almost unbridgeable like how it has widened the R-L (read Rep-Dem) gulf in the USA. U see, Islam is a PhD at fishing in troubled waters.
OLD GUY says
America offers so much to all people who are citizens or become citizens of this great country. Racism is a small factor in the failure of blacks or anyone wanting to succeed economically in this country. The BIG problem is the destruction of families, drugs and crime within the black communities. We all need to do a better job of raising our children to respect everyone and the law. We need to support our teachers, schools and students by examples of respecting teachers, fellow students and benefits of being an educated individual. The drug culture needs to be shown for what it is, a TOTAL destruction of a persons life not what Hollywood portrays it as. It’s NOT COOL. If you sell or provide drugs to minors you are literally MURDERING a human life and should be treated as such by the law. Children need parents not friends, a parent needs to lead their child by example and some times tough love. If we as parents don’t teach our children how to succeed in our society we are handicapping them socially and economically for life, it’s hard to interview successfully for a good job when your grammar and ability to speak is limited to M***** F***** every other word, or you have no math or writing skills. Education is so important to success, it makes for better lives and better citizens overall.
If you want your children to succeed in life work with your children to become educated and better citizens of their community. Most teachers want your child to succeed but they need your help with behavior problems and attitude towards the learning process. Home life has a major effect on a Childs ability to learn and pay attention. If your home life is a disaster with homelessness , drugs and fear a Childs chances are slim. As a parent you must take responsibility for raising the child you brought into this world, that child needs your LOVE and direction to succeed.
David Darman says
I stopped taking this piece seriously after reading that according to RS the US is the “least racist society on earth.” I lived in Brasil 10 years. It is several orders of magnitude less racist than the US.
gravenimage says
Brazil was last nation in the Western hemisphere to abolish slavery. And there are nowhere near the same opportunities for people of color in Brazil that exist in the US.
David Darman says
There are nowhere near the opportunities for “white” people in BraSil that exist in the US as well. Overall opportunity is not the issue. Racism in all its manifestations is. For RS or you to claim that US is the least racist country in the world is laughable. Have you ever lived ib BraSil as did I for a decade?
Again, when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. RS’s political viewpoint is myopic – every issue is seen through a lens of anti-jihad and anti-islam. While I share his opposition to Islamic jihad (and Islam in general), I believe RS diminishes his value and influence by failing to see issues beyond his myopic view.
David Darman says
p.s. How do you bankrupt a casino?
David Darman says
p.p.s. With all this leftist bashing I have yet to see where anyone has defined the term except by tautology:
1) A leftist is anyone soft on on Islam/Jihad:
2) Anyone soft on Islam/Jihad is , ipso facto, a leftist.
gravenimage says
When has Robert Spencer ever defined leftism in such a manner? Citations, please–not that I’ll be holding my breath.
David Darman used to be a real Anti-Jihadist. Now pretty much all of his posts here entail his castigating Robert Spencer for daring to note that the left so often whitewashes and enables Islam, They are not the only ones to do so, certainly–but tend to be by far the worst. I wish this were not so–but our recognizing the truth is actually important.
Does David Darman still oppose Jihad and Shari’ah? I hope so, but have seen little evidence of this of late.
David Darman says
How has it been defined by RS?
Rod says
“the Least Racist Society on Earth”
No doubt Mr Spencer has made a careful study of the degrees of racism in every one of the planet’s nations, from Albania to Zambia, from Australia to Zanzibar, in order to reach this stunning conclusion.
Perhaps the data and results are published in one of his “best sellers”. Or somewhere else, so that we can review it. Or perhaps not.
Alternatively, his claim is so ludicrously untrue, and so obviously impossible to confirm, that it is merely consistent with the rest of his work, no more, no less. But we may be sure it will be accepted unquestioned by his naive, gullible disciples as undeniably true in every detail.
Meanwhile, his claim is obviously, undeniably, itself blatantly racist.
gravenimage says
So now saying you are not racist is racist? How does that work?
Rod says
How could a racist possibly understand? But obvious to victims of racism. Ask them. There seem to be a lot of them.
Hint – I’m sure Himmler did not believe himself to be a racist.
CogitoErgoSum says
I know that I’m a racist because black and brown people tell me that I am since I’m white and can’t help being a racist. But if I can’t help it why do they blame me for it? Aren’t they being racist by telling me that I’m a racist because of my race?
gravenimage says
Ah, yes–so now anyone who says they are not racist, and has never exhibited any racist tendencies–must ergo be racist.
And the claim that the Nazis rejected racism is utterly ludicrous–what utter claptrap.
Himmler was, in fact, one of the main architects of the Holocaust, targeting Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs.
Himmler was also a proponent of Eugenics.
The implication that they made a secret of this is absurd.
David Darman says
Still waiting for RS’s (anyone else’s) definition of leftist.
Westman says
Do you have a definition of “conservative” or “the political right” and are you able to reduce it to an individual or is it really a spectrum?
A David Darman says
But I’m not the one using the term. RS and others here throw around the term as if simply by incanting it, an alliance between the left and jihadis is established. I’m vehemently anti-jihad, but I don’t believe a valid alliance between jihadis and “leftists’ can be said to be established/discussed unless one defines the latter. So far, no one has done so. The only responses are evasive.
J Morgan says
Ilhan Omar perfectly embodies a leftist jihadi and she is not alone. I think the alliance of leftists and jihadis began after 9/11 with leftists, specifically Progressive Democrats and Progressive Independents, sympathizing with the *poor, targeted* Muslim community in the USA and agencies like CAIR seizing the sympathy and finding allies. Another beginning is when the feminists aligned themselves with Linda Sarsour and embraced the hijab as a sign of *religious freedom.* Bring in the cause of the Muslim refugee and the Left is first in line to not have any problem bringing in unvetted Muslims in large numbers. Do you need further proof of a Left/Jihadi alliance? The Democrats love lots of refugees because they have ended up being a big voting bloc for the Dems,
A David Darman says
Thanks for taking a stab at defining the word “leftist.” No one else seems to want to. However, your definition strikes me as tautological. A leftist is apparently defined as someone who is insufficiently antagonistic to Islam/Jihad/Muslims (a sympathizer to all things Islam). Furthermore, anyone who is not sufficiently antagonistic to Islam, Jihad, Muslims is, ipso facto, a leftist or maybe even a “Progressive” or, god forbid, a Democrat ! The sole consideration in defining where one stands on the political scale is one’s attitude about Islam.
What about other components of sociopolitical philosophy that define where one fits on the left/right (liberal/conservative) scale, e.g. government ownership of the means of production, labor and wage laws, taxation, state contribution to retirement pay, unemployment benefits and medical services, immigration law, voting rights, abortion and drug policy, prisoners’ rights and conditions, death penalty, the right to a state sponsored education and/or housing, etc. Here at JW, none of these issues seem to matter in defining “leftist.’ I believe this is myopic, illogical and self-defeating.
In my opinion, at a time in history when RS’s scholarship could have significant social impact, his insistence on a left/jihad alliance based on a flawed, superficial analysis undermines his influence.
J Morgan says
Leftist, Progressive Democrats are all one entity now under the banner of the Democrat Party. There is no moderate party anymore where we can be assured that no matter who wins, the country won’t radically change. The goals of the present day radical Democrat Party involve a revolution that dismantles America as we know it – which just happens to be the goal of jihadis, too.
I have a long-time, dear friend who was raised a Muslim, but who has lived as a practicing Buddhist his whole adult life. He will be voting for his first time, this election and has gotten involved in politics. He has gravitated to defunding the police and voting for Biden. Even though he is not a practicing Muslim, its imprint is indelible in him and he was a Bernie supporter and supports women in hijabs, Medicare for all,, taxing the rich, letting in unvetted immigrants, no death penalty. I’ve seen this same voting pattern with famous Muslims in the news, like Ilhan Omar and Linda Sarsour. Not that all Muslims vote Democrat, but there does appear to be a Dem voting bloc in their community. There are few conservative, Republican Muslims, that I know of.
“What about other components of sociopolitical philosophy that define where one fits on the left/right (liberal/conservative) scale, e.g. government ownership of the means of production, labor and wage laws, taxation, state contribution to retirement pay, unemployment benefits and medical services, immigration law, voting rights, abortion and drug policy, prisoners’ rights and conditions, death penalty, the right to a state sponsored education and/or housing, etc. Here at JW, none of these issues seem to matter in defining “leftist.’ I believe this is myopic, illogical and self-defeating.”
I think people stay on topic here at Jihad Watch. The topic being jihad and keeping a watch on jihad. All those issues you mentioned Do matter in defining “leftist”, they might just not have to do with the topic at hand. Not sure what your gripe is.