I make no bones about that fact I don’t like Kevin Williamson, the house rumpswab at National Review. I have no tolerance for people who put on false fronts and Williamson’s quill pen act is as phony as a three dollar bill. George Will did the same thing for decades, but he at least had a first class education and did some time as a university instructor. He was a gold-plated phony, but at least he had some credentials. Williamson has none of that. He’s just a real life version of Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons.
Gratuitously mocking fat guys is not a good look so I resist the temptation by doing what most everyone does and that’s avoid reading National Review. It’s not that hard as the only interesting thing about conservative commentary these days is the remarkable dullness of it. Even the most boring people are interesting on occasion. It takes special talent to be that ineffectual all the time. So, I was minding my own business scanning twitter and I see this tweet from Charles Murray:
Another example of why @KevinNR is essential reading. https://t.co/Nn6v8SMoi2
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) May 3, 2017
It was in response to this tweet;
https://twitter.com/arthurbrooks/status/859779407300501505
Naturally, I thought it was word that Williamson had got what he has been publicly wishing on normal Americans for the last few years. Instead it was more poverty porn aimed at the pseudo-academics, who populate think tanks and opinion sites in the Imperial Capital. It’s becoming a specialty for Williamson. He writes up a scene from lower class white America that portrays the people as benighted losers, who deserve the abuse heaped upon them by the good whites in his audience. It’s a ghetto tour as morality play.
The unconcealed contempt Williamson has for the subjects of his poverty porn is both ugly and bizarre, given his alleged background. He has invested a lot in creating a hillbilly back story for himself, which suggests it is probably fictional or highly exaggerated. Even if it is accurate, his contempt for the sorts of people he claims to have grown up around as a kid is pathological. It suggests that Kevin Michael Grace was right when he said in our chat a few weeks back that Williamson is filled with self-hatred.
Self-loathing fat guy is not an interesting area of inquiry. What is interesting is the audience. Charles Murray pimping this stuff suggests something about Murray and his view of the current crisis in American culture. Murray is a libertarian and like all famous libertarians, he is a ward of the state. AEI is a tax racket, like all of the so-called think tanks. Murray also makes big money charging taxpayers between $20,000 and $30,000 per speech at colleges and universities. That’s not working class wages.
Similarly, Arthur Brooks is cashing in on the college speaking rackets. He also gets between $20,000 and $30,000 per speech. Brooks also pays himself $700,000 per year out of AEI, plus expenses, of course. He also gets $100,000 a year for other work at AEI, but that’s not defined on the tax filing. He may not be a one-percenter, but he is close enough to see it from his perch in the Imperial Capital. Being a libertarian lion is a lot easier when you take home close to a million a year from a tax exempt foundation.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t begrudge these fat-cat grifters their money. It’s a crooked and corrupt system and they are simply working it to their advantage. I could do without the Randian lectures about small government and rugged individualism, but hypocrisy is a feature of the human condition, not a bug. What’s curious to me is why these people seem to take pleasure in the suffering of the white lower classes. The glee with which they praise these Williamson columns suggest they get some strange pleasure from it.
That’s thing. That column was mostly just sneering, but Williamson put a lot of effort into letting the reader know he took pleasure in not only evicting his wayward tenants, but also in observing the suffering of the poor people in housing court. I grew up dirt poor, so I have no illusions about poverty. Poor people are poor mostly because they have low-IQ’s and poor impulse control. Progressive efforts to romanticize poverty were always ridiculous, but that does not mean we should take pleasure in their suffering. That’s just sick.
Regular readers of this blog will know that my view of the Official Right and their slow-witted little brother, Official Libertarianism, is that they trail along behind the Progressives, as they flit from one fad to the next. Their contempt for the Dissident Right is not about ideology. It’s that they think the scruffy trouble makers to their Right make them look bad to their friends on the Left. It’s hard to make $30K from college speeches when the people running the college are blaming you for the alt-right hate-thinkers.
Maybe that’s why there is a market on the Official Right for the type of contemptuous poverty porn Williamson is peddling. The Left has made hatred of working class white people that shop at Walmart a centerpiece of their identity. Hillary Clinton ran for President on a platform of “White People Suck.” Perhaps the Official Right is just aping what they see, but with their own spin on it. “The Conservative Case for Hating Poor Whites” is probably in the works at National Review.
Kevin Williamson (and his use to the powerful) is pretty easy to understand. Do you remember in “Silence of the Lambs” the part where Doctor Lecter cuts Clarice Starling to the quick by sniffing her out as one generation removed from poor white trash, hiding her accent? I believe Williamson’s pedigree is as roughneck as he portrays it, if only because he behaves like a lot of those aspiring people who get exposed to rich leftists in the metropolises, and then return home to flyover country for Thanksgiving to see their working-class conservative relatives, and they begin to feel a… Read more »
Good points. The worst guards in the Japanese POW camps were actually Korean collaborators.
It’s a lot like Hillbilly Elegy. I think the guy was secretly relieved that his grandmother died before he became successful. Having to deal with his mother was difficult enough.
Progressive efforts to romanticize poverty were always ridiculous, but that does not mean we should take pleasure in their suffering. Indeed, and every single one of us should be very, very aware that no matter how good things might be *right now* , situations can change very quickly. A new technology, an illness, an unfortunate lawsuit, a change in government…and suddenly us wealthy middle classes are staring down the barrel of poverty wondering how we’re gonna eat that day. I’ve never been poor and never been hungry, but I grew up smart enough to know one day I might be… Read more »
“…a change in the government…”
like, for example, muslim outreach becomes your new mission and 30 years of experience are now excess baggage?
I was fortunate enough to have been raised in a financially comfortable, well-educated, well-connected and cultured family and feel no “guilt” whatsoever for having had such good fortune. That said, an important part of the “code” by which I was raised was that conspicuous consumption was frowned upon and any disrespect of the less fortunate was absolutely forbidden. I live in a small South American rural village in which there exists a distinct social class divide and in which I find myself as one of the only “better-off” folks who treats the less-better-off folks with conversational equanimity, a fact that… Read more »
We all indeed may be joining the poor someday. If you sneer at or pander to the poor, you aren’t going to know how to function when that time comes. A habit and reflex of human respect for the well-meaning people around you, of any social or economic stripe, pays karmic rewards. I am convinced of it.
Our family is of mixed political persuasions. The one rule we have for each other is “be nice”. Don’t just tolerate others, accept them as they are. It has worked very well over the years, but college has corrupted one of the kids.
I like that. A libertarian raking money off a non profit. You should be able to harness the hypocrisy some how for alternative energy.
Even worse is someone like Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute. He makes neocon chickenhawks look sane. His problem with the war in Iraq is that we didn’t take pages from the books of Sherman and Churchill and scorch the earth and deliberately target civilians.
To be honest, if you’re going to fight over there that’s pretty much what you’d have to do. Which is an argument against war of course, not for it.
And something that Sherman and Grant grasped instinctively. Until your enemy was thoroughly beaten (physically and psychologically), fundamental change was impossible.
“My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
For all their scholarship, it will nevertheless be impossible henceforth to view Brooks and Murray as anything but hothouse orchids, maintained in costly greenhouses to gratify their billionaire hobbyists. Nearly a million a year from AEI?
We know *what* you are now, presently we’re just haggling over the price.
We’re reaching the Globalist endgame in the West, mainstream conservatives don’t pretend anymore that they care for the Native working class and mainstream liberals the total eradication of Western culture and its people
One of the things that strikes me about Williamson is that every slur he aims at poor whites is also quite applicable to poor blacks and poor illegals- but somehow he never quite gets around to mentioning anything about all that. Of course as usual here he includes the typical bootlicking praise the mainstream right requires immigrants must receive, especially the sacred immigrants of color. Shrug. I detest him and I normally won’t read anything from him or the worthless publication that presumably is paying him- but I’ll give him this: He knows what his paymasters want, and delivers it… Read more »
I work in the gas station/convenience store business, so I can tell you that it would be a lot harder for me, a native born American, to open up such a business than a new immigrant. Most of my customers have taken advantage of the fact that if you are an immigrant and start a business you don’t have to pay federal taxes for the first seven years (which is why many such businesses seem to be taken over by a relative every few years, who then pay a percentage of their profit to the previous owner), and special loans/grants… Read more »
I have read a few of Murray’s books including the Coming Apart one. My take on him is he’s basically a prig who looks at lower class white Americans with a Margaret Mead attitude with the natives, all in a barely concealed condescending manner. That he likes Williamson’s latest is the giving his thumbs up to someone who is willing to do the dirtier work he is too refined to touch. As for Williamson, yeah he definitely is a self loather. A lot of the respectable upper white classes don’t want to be reminded of their lessers and who’s class… Read more »
Charles Murray, like VDH, wants to tell the truth, but still wants to be considered part of the “respectable” right, and above all, above everything, not get called racist. It’s all futile, or course, and the Left will call them racist anyway, so they come off as being pathetic, despite the fact that there remains much of value in what they write (for now, anyway). They are reminiscent of those “moderate” Muslims who are always going on about how ISIS is not “real” Islam, even though ISIS can justify almost everything that they are doing with reference to the Koran;… Read more »
Consider: Murray points out with regret, in Coming Apart, that the elites no longer marry outside of their classes. The lawyer doesn’t marry his secretary, but another lawyer. Yet can we imagine Murray approving one of his children hitching up with a forklift driver?
Also one of Murray’s kids is gay, I believe. And *surprise* — Murray came out in favor of gay marriage a couple of years ago.
Marriage shouldn’t be a merger, but all too often it is and I speak to this with experience. I married for the first time (1970) within the Social Register circle that was all that was “permissible” at the time and it proved to be an error. My son on the other hand married (after two and a half years of cohabitation) a bright, educated and enterprising former beauty queen Latina (we live in South America) from a lower-middle-class family; two kids down the road, so far, so good. I confess to having been doubtful at first, but no longer: marrying… Read more »
when you think of it, Williamson The Plebe seems an awful lot like a white(ish) Tanishi Coates (or however you spell that knob’s name).
Ha. A white shadow that follows behind Genius T. Coates.
Kind of like the Right’s Shaun King.
Inability to maintain the habit of delayed gratification and poor impulse control may have as much or more effect on whether one is successful than IQ, depending on the circumstances. I’ve seen some highly successful people of middling talent who have merely been able to keep their nose to the grindstone and stay out of trouble whole keeping an eye out for opportunities. I’ve also seen some highly successful and intelligent people brought low by what seem to be epidemic attacks of a loss of these attributes, sometimes at least partially attributable to a bit of mental illness, sometimes totally… Read more »
All the traits you discuss correlate with each other over large enough sample sizes. So they tend to serve as better predictors of group level outcomes than individual outcomes. An individual with an IQ of 90, great impulse control and the ability to delay gratification may be very successful. A group of people with an IQ of 90 and below average impulse control and ability to delay gratification will likely be not that successful.
“What’s curious to me is why these people seem to take pleasure in the suffering of the white lower classes. The glee with which they praise these Williamson columns suggest they get some strange pleasure from it.”
Why is it curious? The best way to show that you aren’t one of the peasantry is to watch them suffer and revel in the fact that you aren’t. It’s not unlike how, in “1984,” the proof of having power was the ability to inflict suffering on others.
i am thinking that if someone pointed out to kevin, that his plebe dna is what makes him fat, it will cause him no end of misery.
Anti-retrovirals?
Epigenetics undoubtedly play a role as well. Think like a disgusting piece of shit, talk like a disgusting piece of shit, write like a disgusting piece of shit, act like a disgusting piece of shit… chances are excellent that you’ll physically resemble a disgusting piece of shit.
His DNA is what makes him a mulatto, that’s for sure.
“A lot of (white) people would rather be dead than rude. Enter Trump.”
This absolutely cannot be stressed enough, especially for the – for lack of a better term – RINO right, wailing about how they don’t recognize their party anymore and are ashamed of the “hate” and “divisiveness” coming from Trump.
These are Jeb Bush people and Mitt Romney people and John McCain people – they would rather (in fact, seem pathologically eager) to lose like “gentlemen” rather than win under the banner of a short-fingered vulgarian.
I sort of believed this once, but not anymore. Those people lose because they want to lose. All that “Oh, well, I could never go along with the likes of him” is just an excuse. McCain and Romney couldn’t even pretend to want to win.
On a related note, check out what our betters in the GOP have planned:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/04/gop-propose-american-workers-replacement-bill-amnesty-immigration/
The toothless, meth-addicted deplorables in the provinces have become so lazy and worthless, the GOP now talks openly of replacing them.
I asked Mark Kirkorian when we should stop pretending we can negotiate with these people. This looks like a good point to break off talks and start slitting throats.
I guess it still could be a lot worse. I’m actually kind of surprised that the GOP didn’t pass an amnesty last summer as a big middle finger to Trump voters.
The GOP has been openly hostile to white blue collars since NAFTA was passed. Ever since then they have never passed up a opportunity to kick lower white class in the teeth, Then GOP made sure no economic populist candidate would ever get their hands on the levers of power. So voters had nowhere to turn. So much for democracy. And look whose backing it – libertarian scumbags from the CATO Institute, you know the folks who support open borders, demographic obliteration of whites and off-shoring. Eventually the only way this stuff will be fixed is with the wholesale slaughter… Read more »
Charles Murray has had an enormous impact on how I view the world, but it’s getting to the point where I really can’t stand him. I was glad Middlebury happened. In an interview with Bill Kristol a couple of years ago, Murray spoke about the deep depression that he slipped into after the publication of TBC. I felt sorry for him then. I don’t know. I’m glad that he’s viewed as a racist eugenicist persona non grata by the social class that he’s so desperate to remain a part of. The Williamson article is genuinely infuriating. No enemies to the… Read more »
You can kinda-sorta forgive Murray and VDH, they are from a different generation, back when civility in public discourse was a two-way street, and lots of people really thought that the whole multi-racial society thing was going to work out. They should know better, they probably do know better, but old habits die hard. For Williamson, there’s no excuse, and I agree he’s genuinely infuriating.
My difficulty with Murray is my disappointment with someone who I used to highly admire. I am going overboard by suggesting that he should be a target for the alt-right, and I take that back. But when the next Middlebury happens, I won’t defend him. His recent interview with Sam Harris was useful. Just listen to the intro Harris gives before the interview. Harris is highly influential in the skeptic/atheist/rationalist community and it’s good to hear someone who’s so highly regarded there side with the facts on IQ. The interview itself is mostly Murray being the Murray that I used… Read more »
there is nothing wrong in wanting murray to receive a decent beatdown. he deserves more than one.
Yeah, I’ve grown to dislike Murray too. I get that a man needs to make a living and provide for his family. Murray is long past the point of having to grovel to the Left, yet he is in full grovel now. I think it reveals something about that man I wish I had known decades ago.
“No enemies to the right?”
No, it’s “No enemies to the right of YOU”
Every reader of this blog is well to the right of Williamson. He is a shit-tier liberal progressive masquerading as a conservative. He deserves to get bullied relentlessly.
I’m shocked. The poor are poor, inept and clinging to what little they have. Thank you, Kevin, I would never have guessed.
I only go to NRO for Victor Davis Hanson. What do you guys think of him?
Here’s his latest http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447231/why-progressives-lie-leftist-agenda-requires-deception
The realities of future America and leftist rule have been a good, hard school for him; but he is still haunted by the ghosts of Official Conservativism due in large part, it seems, to his associations.
Even in that VDH article, though, his conventionality shows through. The agenda requires deception, but there is no account for what that really is or why it changes at the drop of a hat. It is a very safe article to write. Leftists lie and they know they lie and they continue to do so because they know pointing this out doesn’t matter at all. Contrast that with Dr. Charlton: https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2017/04/q-why-is-it-that-secular-people-cannot.html I’ve seen other people come close to this conclusion, but blink: http://www.friesian.com/satan.htm#text-2 (the important insight of this atheistic, Californian philosopher being: ” If I were a Christian, and if… Read more »
*swims left*
I won’t go into the reasons, but I’m pretty sure Hanson hates me. I think VDH is one of the few readable writers in the Buckley Mystery Cult. I think he knows that the great chain of causality is real. I think he makes the same mistake everyone else makes and that is he thinks the Progs are amenable to reason. He believes they think through what they are doing, as a conscious strategy. Therefore it can be defeated with facts and reason. All of the evidence says otherwise, but he persists in going with the old facts and reason… Read more »
VDH always says the same things, over and over and over and…
Yes, he does, but he believes his ideas are important, and in the public sphere something said once sinks without notice, thus all good ideas (in the eyes of their authors) bear repeating.
Yes he does, which got me to thinking. In Hanson’s case, and perhaps in many more, saying the same thing over and over is a form of angst in place of moving on to the next level of thinking which the first level demands. But all unspoken truths become poisonous, to where even speaking to one becomes extraordinarily rude. Hanson cannot bear being rude. A lot of (white) people would rather be dead than rude. Enter Trump.
Very true. Early on in my red pill days he was invaluable in my education, but after a time he didn’t seem to have anything new to say
Long ago, when I was young, WFB was a neighbor and as a fellow fortunate Irish Catholic of budding conservative bent, I held him in high regard, but as the years passed, said regard began to diminish and eventually evaporate.
I prefer not to be rude, but there are times when it’s called for, something VDH has apparently forgotten; I like to believe that I haven’t. Well said, Mr. Z! There are times when a “SIUYA” and “GFY” are the only appropriate rebuttals to nonsensical premises.
His too polite to tell them to fuck off
My fault in life (or maybe one of my many) is that for the most part, I can’t bring myself to say it, but I give off a vibe that lets everybody know what I’m thinking all the same. Worst of both worlds, I guess.
Anyway, since the mention of VDH suggests that a reference to Classical literature would not be out of place, on the topic of being too polite to say fuck off, read Horace, Satires 1.9. It’s pretty funny.
As far as I’m concerned he’s collateral damage. I don’t read their stuff and he’s irrelevant by association.
VDH was a Hubert Humphrey/George Meany Democrat on 9-11-2001. He’s come a long way in his political evolution. He’s really not a pundit… more of a chronicler like a Tacitus or a Suetonius. Short form essays are not his strength either. I recommend his books. Carnage and Culture is an important work. He very effectively counters Jared Diamond and the “magic dirt” thinkers. There are a lot of ideas in that book that are very relevant to what we are discussing here.
The white working class must be destroyed by the left. The white working class remind the left of where they came from .It is fair game to discriminate against the poor whites and refer to them in language that the left would call racist if used against any other group. The working class founded the nations institutions through the theft of their wealth. Who is prepared to represent us now?
I re-read the article in case I missed something the first time. I don’t love NR any more nor Williamson, but I don’t get all the hate being heaped on him for this particular article. The account reminded me of Life at the Bottom by ‘Theodore Dalrymple’. IOW, it struck me as a bleak, dispassionate view of the combinations of bad luck and bad choices that keep the poor, poor. No doubt somewhat like, but far less immediately damaging, than the poor choices that made Williamson fat, if he is. But what does his BMI to do with the proceedings… Read more »
Maybe, just maybe, if Williamson could show once the other side of working and lower class whites. It’s all hate. Self loathing hate as we have said before.
@Al It’s important to take this latest article in context. In an article from last March in NR Williamson wrote, “The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible.” Full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/432569/father-f-hrer If you understand where he’s coming from, his contempt for prole whites seeps out of this latest article. A few examples: “She has a daughter and a man in her life (it is not clear whether he is her husband or the girl’s father or both or neither), and they are obliged to maintain… Read more »
I believe KW has picked up his pretend-poor persona as a schtick. Gives him the “credentials” to write what he sees as niche journalism from a place his elite wannabe colleagues at NR wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole. His fostering of his own authenticity, an expert on his nasty subject. I have a hunch he was a dull, homely little dweeb of a kid who was picked on and never got over it. So ordinary that his middle class (OK, maybe lower middle class) roots left him in a terrible limbo all his life. A nothingburger. Especially in… Read more »
The day after the collapse, the prima donnas in the Citadel will learn first about the sharpshooting skill set of those backcountry boys. And among the poor, an insult is never forgotten.
The ne plus ultra of poverty porn:
Pre-Monty Python: We Were So Poor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAdlkunflRs
Posts like this are an interesting history lesson for me. I was raised a moderate (by today’s standards) prog with libertarian leanings on government and business. Then I read Moldbug and was done with all that. Now I pretty much read the alt-right blogosphere.
So all these names, Kevin Williamson, the National Review, never heard of them before. My only exposure to the whole enterprise is having them described as the Washington Generals to the Prog Globetrotters. It’s fascinating that their writings used to form opinions on the right.
You’re not missing much. “Movement” Conservatism played a genuinely useful role in giving the US the spine to stand up to Communism, and in introducing lots of people to the idea that there were other ways of looking at the world than the Lefty one, but they have not really done anything useful since about 1989, and since the late ’90’s they have been an actual detriment to the Right. It’s natural for old conservative guys to constantly re-fight the battles of their youth, moon over Reagan the way old liberals used to moon over FDR when I was a… Read more »
The original target was silencing the Birchers.
The rest was just a cover for previous and continuing Hegelian ‘solutions’.
I used to have a girlfriend from an old New York family. The parents were terminal progs, but very nice people, and they liked me. The first time I met the girl’s mother, she looked me in the eye and said, “The fairest rose was Roosevelt.” She had a portrait of Eleanor in her sewing room.
I started my 12 step plan of leaving the “Buckley Conservatives” about 11 years ago. Made the final break about 4 years ago. I still get the mailers from NR to sign up for their “cutting edge” conservative magazine. The mailers go directly to the trash can. These supposed “conservatives” have never contributed anything of value to the fight against the progs. Oh sure the “Buckleyites” have fought to get a piece of the lecture circuit from the progs, but they have CONSERVED nothing. It’s a racket that’s been finally exposed as nothingness (except for lining the wallets and purses… Read more »
John Derbyshire wrote about his departure from the CoE as a two step process. He left spiritually, but kept going to services out of habit. Then one day he decided he was done and never went back. That was a similar process for me with regards to the conventional right. I lost my faith in them under Poppy Bush, but I hung around out of habit. That and there was no where else to turn, for the most part.
When they had the thin-Kevin photo. Of him years ago, I thought he was black.
Kevin is of Black & White admixture: mixed race. See: http://www.amerika.org/politics/mixed-race-kevin-williamson-gives-us-the-talk-about-white-boys/
Dan Kurt
I’ve never been able to locate anything that shows Williamson is mixed race, at least in the normal sense of the phrase.
I’ve spent most of my professional career working in and around the people Kevin’s poverty porn describes, and this one in particular seems 100% correct. I guess the reason I enjoy it is because I have to see this every day so it’s kind of cathartic to have these people called out for their flaws, especially because they work so very hard to never take responsibility. His description of them as essentially passive (everything happens TO them), always having some lengthy evasive explanation how nothing is their fault, thinking the world is out to get them whenever you expect them… Read more »
way to miss the point…completely. it’s a given that the white underclass has myriad and multiple disadvantageous character traits. the topic at hand is why some cuckservatives are so hostile to these people.
you try making your way through this world with a 90 IQ and a lifetime of being surrounded by other 90 IQ’s. these people need active guidance and a much simpler “user interface” for life. i reserve my scorn for dicks like Williamson, because I feel he should be more appreciative for the blessings he has been granted.
Well done, and your commentary reminds me of something GHC wrote almost a century ago: “The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types — the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say… Read more »
When they had the thin Kevin photo up a few years ago I assumed he was black or mulatto.
“Charles Murray pimping this stuff suggests something about Murray and his view of the current crisis in American culture.”
I think that in America, there is no crisis in culture, but that crisis IS its culture.
Poverty porn.
Victimization porn, offense porn, illegal alien porn, “economics” porn,
political comedy porn….all the same to me.
I am undone! I thought you hated libertarian ideas- a fantasy as honestly dead as small government or Constitutional limits. No, whate you hate are the frauds and hucksters of Libertarian Inc. It’s not that they said what their paymasters want, it’s that I fell for it. They often seemed to say what I wanted to hear. Cucked. I was cucked, as surely as I supported the Iraq War. So, the Right offers me- A police state run by criminals. The Left offers me a police state run by criminals and insane fanatics. Well, I’m sure the Zman knows that… Read more »
Curious that Williamson doesn’t think about the shiftless relatives of those successful immigrants. They stayed home. Or they were from a culture that encouraged families to stay together and have some loyalty. The “smart” people in this country are opposed to it. And add this to your list of things poor people don’t seem to be good at: they don’t seem to be very good at remembering court dates. We know a guy like that. He has a cell phone with a calendar and could enter it there, or even get a paper calendar to keep track of dates. he… Read more »
Well, this time it seems the Z man behaves in the same way as a snowflake would when seeing a mention of blacks and the bell curve: gets into excited and irrate moralizing. I don’t care whether Kevin Williamson is fat or slim as an inmate of a Sudanese prison. After all, Bill Kristol is not so fat, but says the same thing. What Williamson writes about is perectly verisimile and recognizable (there may be some exaggeration and simplification for effect, but otherwise we have all seen the cases he writes about hundreds of times, on our own). And mind… Read more »
Haha, right. That’s why Somalia’s such a great place to live. Your post, like Williamson’s, is beyond parody. It is precisely because Williamson willfully ignores the pathologies in non-white groups that his piece is repulsive and cowardly drivel. Yes there are dysfunctional white people, but Williamson knows perfectly well that the immigrant groups he extols by contrast have lower human capital on the whole. He also knows (or else he’s stupid) that his buddies in the Chamber of Commerce have spent the last several decades selling out the American lower and middle classes (both black and white) in preference for… Read more »