Wednesday, May 1, 2013

A Reply to Bryan Caplan




No, Bryan, if you were a Haitian, it would be quite sane for you to advocate that the U.S. adopt an open borders regime.  If you were a Palestinian, you’d quite sensibly want Israel to cease enforcement of its borders.  And if you were unemployed, you’d quite rationally want to be hired by the employer of your choice.

But if you were an employer, it would be crazy for you to hire someone solely on the basis of their wanting to be hired.  If you were an Israeli Jew, it would be crazy for you to champion a demographically overwhelming migration of Arab Muslims, who are hostile to your values, into your country.  If you were a freedom-loving American, it would be crazy for you to advocate unlimited inflows of unskilled, crime-prone, Affirmative Action-eligible, future Democrat bloc-voting Haitians with average IQs of 80 into your country -- unless you had some strategic reason that you’re not telling us about for wanting to bring about an acceleration of the demographic and political degradation of the United States.

Monday, April 22, 2013

Snappish Snipes and Snippets


Progressive Contradictions

Egalitarian: It's homophobic to try to use social conditioning to change gay people. They were born that way.  

Egalitarian: Racial disparities can be fully overcome through social conditioning.  It's racist to believe that races were born that way. 


Averages

It's fallacious to draw conclusions about individuals based on a group average (ecological fallacy). It's not fallacious to derive an average from observations of individuals, which is what a white IQ of 100 and a black IQ of 85 (U.S.) represent.

Those who aren't willfully ignorant of statistical averages are called “racist.”



Race Realism in a Nutshell

Biological subdivisions within a species can be established by reference to variations in sets of superficial traits such as hair and skin color. Nobody with predominately European ancestry is born with black skin. Even if Europeans and sub-Saharan Africans didn't diverge in ANY way in brain functioning, they'd still qualify as evolutionarily formed, biologically distinct populations.

Subspeciation occurred in humans the same way it did in other species. We weren't exempted from evolution.  It's because the differences ARE more than superficial that intra-species categorization is protested for humans (and only humans).

Human populations distinguishable by skin color and other observable features that correspond to continental ancestry exhibit respective distributions of cognitive and behavioral traits that matter socially.

You inherit your brain from a particular line of ancestry.  Where your ancestors evolved in the world matters much in predicting how you will perform on such things as tests of IQ (which has a heritability of .75 in the U.S.).



PACKAGE Deals

The recognition of racial realities does not automatically translate into a prescription for racial separation (whether voluntary or forced). Deniers of racial realities try to package racial science into some noxious political box so that they can reject the science by way of rejecting the politics.

"People of color" is also a poorly conceived package deal. People of East Asian color are in many respects more different behaviorally and socioeconomically from people of sub-Saharan African color than people of no color (whites) are.  People of East Asian color in the U.S. score higher on tests, earn more, and live longer than people of no color.  Both score higher on tests, earn more, and live longer than people of African color.


We’re All Africans

We all diverged from ancient Africans -- some more than others.


Whites Are More Pathetic Than Blacks

There's nothing more pathetic than self-loathers who actively support policies that work toward their own detriment. Such people exist in much higher abundance among whites than blacks.

Blackness Social Construct History Museums

Monuments to the blackness social construct all over the country (they are never about the biology of blackness) are made possible by the harvesting of white guilt -- mainly in the form of taxpayer dollars and corporate gifts.

Blackness Social Construct History Month

Dedicating an entire month to the politically airbrushed history of a particular race doesn't help us move forward as a society. Let's dedicate February to something that aims to make a difference in the lives not just of blacks, but of everyone who comes in contact with blacks. Let's make February "Black Crime Resistance, Awareness, and Prevention" (BCRAP) Month.


Equality vs. Liberty

Free societies produce more inequalities of outcomes than controlled societies. Libertarians will never achieve liberty by embracing equality as an ideal

Equal opportunity is not a libertarian principle. Favoring some types of immigrants over others and only allowing citizens who possess certain characteristics to vote might better secure liberty for the inhabitants of a nation than would globalist egalitarian democracy.

Those whose moral prescriptions result substantively in more crime and less liberty for their own country and an increasingly less libertarian electorate shouldn't call themselves libertarians. They're global egalitarian idealists.



Mass Immigration

It's proper for a nation's immigration policies to accord with the shared self-interest of the individuals who make it up. The whole world is neither a viable standard of value nor any particular nation's reason for existing.

The notion of immigration being "voluntary" is inapplicable in a welfare-state democracy. The vast majority of immigrants today are of a background that makes them eligible for Affirmative Action. They and their children soon become dependent on and vote overwhelmingly for bigger government.

Americans didn't consent to be ruled by a Third World-derived electorate. And Western Europeans didn't volunteer to become Islamified.

Mass immigration is a cultural Marxist strategem. Liberty is resistance to it.


A Four-Step Action Plan 

  1. Convince white people who matter that the social ills caused by multiracial democracy are not merely cultural but biological and therefore largely intractable.
  2. Offer them a solution.
  3. Build a coalition among freedom-friendly white nationalists and racially aware libertarians and conservatives to engage in political activism/relocation.
  4. Make strategic alliances (if necessary) with other separatist groups.

We're still on step 1.  Proposing a solution to people who don't understand the nature of the problem is futile.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Martin Luther King and Libertarianism

Do his ideas and activism merit a federal holiday honoring him?

Thomas Jefferson could be called a hypocrite for owning slaves precisely because he opposed slavery in principle. His ideas are worth honoring. MLK embraced socialism and opposed private property rights in principle. His ideas were largely not even his own (his famous "Dream" speech also contained plagiarized material).



Murray N. Rothbard put it well: "Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist...

"... flying in the face of their former supposed devotion to the absolute rights of private property, the libertarian movement has embraced almost every phony and left-wing "right" that has been manufactured in recent decades.

"...I told two well-known leaders of the movement that I thought it had become infected with and permeated by egalitarianism...Further, I said that a good indication of this infection was a new-found admiration for the Reverend "Doctor" Martin Luther King. Absurd, they said. Well, interestingly enough, six months later, both of these gentlemen published articles hailing "Dr." King as a "great libertarian." To call this socialist, egalitarian, coercive integrationist, and vicious opponent of private-property rights, a someone who, to boot, was long under close Communist Party control, to call that person a "great libertarian," is only one clear signal of how far the movement has decayed.

"...there is one excellent litmus test which can set up a clear dividing line between genuine conservatives and neoconservatives, and between paleolibertarians and what we can now call "left-libertarians." And that test is where one stands on "Doctor" King...

"...Throughout the Official Libertarian Movement, "civil rights" has been embraced without question, completely overriding the genuine rights of private property...

"...Part of 'social tolerance,' of course, is uncritical and unlimited devotion to open borders; as in the case of most left liberals and all neocons, any proposal for any reason to restrict immigration or even to curb the flow of illegals, is automatically and hysterically denounced as racist, fascist, sexist, heterosexist, xenophobic, and the rest of the panoply of smear terms that lie close to hand."



BIG-GOVERNMENT LIBERTARIANS
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch16.html

Lew Rockwell And The Strange Death (Or At Least Suspended Animation) Of Paleolibertarianism
http://www.vdare.com/articles/lew-rockwell-and-the-strange-death-or-at-least-suspended-animation-of-paleolibertarianism