The Unz Review Digest - June 19, 2020
The massive national wave of Black Lives Matter protests and related riots and looting heavily dominated this last week’s top featured stories, just as they did the mainstream media coverage. Ranking first was Linh Dinh’s analysis of these events, which he finds strongly reminiscent of the Red Guards unleashed by Mao during the Cultural Revolution, and similarly aimed at disrupting the once pleasant and placid societies of cities such as Minneapolis. Over 400 comments totaling more than 40,000 words responded to this thesis.
Ranking third was Ilana Mercer’s somewhat similar take on these events focused on the proclamation of local radicals of a police-free independent zone in Seattle, and the subservient response by elected officials and other authorities in that city and many others around the country, kneeling down before protesters and rioters.
Next came the Saker’s piece, noting the important fact that so many of America’s top corporations and business leaders have fully endorsed these protests, suggesting that they are hardly elements of the “popular revolution” that they purport to be, and are instead furthering the interests of our ruling classes, and perhaps being used by the Deep State to attack and undercut the Trump Administration. Mike Whitney’s sixth-ranking article took a somewhat similar stance, arguing that the hand of the Deep State was quite apparent being these events.
My own Race and Crime article, originally published in 2013 ranked fifth this week, providing some of the unstated reality of the racial nature of crime in our society over the last few decades. Although the MSM and our political elites seem to pretend otherwise, for decades American violent crime has been overwhelmingly a black phenomenon, which undergirds the reactions of the police now so heavily demonized in public discourse.
Meanwhile, ranking second and constituting the sole exception to these topics was Carolyn Yeager’s lengthy analysis of the true pattern of mass graves from World War II, in which the overwhelming majority seem not to contain the victims of the Nazis but rather those of the other side, considerably reversing the standard narrative of our history books and public media. Although originally published a decade ago, this topic remains quite contentious, quickly attracting over 500 comments totaling more than 80,000 words.
A guy with who once pointed a gun at the belly of a woman during an armed robbery was actually “a gentle giant,” according to ABC News. It quotes one of his buddies, “Anybody who knows him will tell you he’s not confrontational.” At George Floyd’s funeral, the mayor of Minneapolis, Richard Frey, knelt by...
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The search for mass graves to support WWII extermination numbers is taking a surprising turn
Introduction: Questions about the official World War Two death figures increasingly mount. Where are the proofs for these numbers? Where are the bodies? Did people just vaporize into thin air--as some believe, going up in smoke through tall chimneys? Two responsible figures have recently and publicly added their voices to the question of six million...
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On June 9, I tweeted out the following: “Seattle's East Precinct has fallen, as Police Chief Carmen Best orders Seattle Police to evacuate. The occupiers, aka the ‘peaceful protesters,’ declare victory. ‘They’ve given us the precinct,’ they boast. Not even in South Africa.” A mere day on, and the City of Seattle is de facto...
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I have to say that I am amazed that so many folks on the Left seem to think that the current riots in the US are a spontaneous rebellion against police violence, systemic racism, and history of persecution and exploitation of Blacks and Indians, etc. As for the violence, looting and riots - they are...
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The unspoken statistical reality of urban crime over the last quarter century.
The noted science fiction writer Philip K. Dick once declared that “Reality is what continues to exist whether you believe in it or not.” Such an observation should be kept in mind when we consider some of the touchier aspects of American society. Recall the notorious case of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whose 1965 report on...
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Does anyone believe the nationwide riots and looting are a spontaneous reaction to the killing of George Floyd? It's all too coordinated, too widespread, and too much in-sync with the media narrative that applauds the "mainly peaceful protests" while ignoring the vast destruction to cities across the country. What's that all about? Do the instigators...
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Have you noticed the peculiar fact that despite the lockdown, the economic crisis, tens of millions unemployed and multiple corporations filing for bankruptcy, Wall Street is having a ball? CNBC‘s Jim Cramer examined this anomaly earlier a few days ago, his verdict: “we're looking at a V-shaped recovery in the stock market, and that has...
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...And How the Jews Attacked Him
On August 9, 2014, an unarmed Black 18-year-old man named Michael Brown was walking with a friend on a Ferguson, Missouri, street when he was confronted by white policeman Darren Wilson. Officer Wilson shot the young Black man dead. As Michael’s brains spilled onto the street, no ambulance was called and his body was left...
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The May 25th killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man, at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota shocked the world and set off mass protests against racism and police brutality in dozens of cities from the mid-western United States to the European Union, all in the midst of a global...
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The intergenerational wealth gap, the housing crisis, and how “BLM vs. MAGA” poisons the discussion on every issue...
Recent events have made it harder but more necessary than ever to eschew the reactive tribalism encapsulated currently by “BLM vs. MAGA” in favor of an honest dialogue about the material conditions under which middle-to-lower class Americans in both camps increasingly suffer. Case in point is the BLM camp’s focus on “white supremacy” as a...
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Demands to defund police departments quite naturally raise the prospect of anarchy, or, as Thomas Hobbes would put it, “…the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” (Leviathan, i. xiii. 9). Nevertheless, this dystopian prospect need not be all that unwelcome, even for fans of strict law and order. And, going a step...
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I have lived in the United States for a total of 24 years and I have witnessed many crises over this long period, but what is taking place today is truly unique and much more serious than any previous crisis I can recall. And to explain my point, I would like to begin by saying...
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What’s philosophical about Fight Club? Fight Club belongs alongside Network and Pulp Fiction in an End of History film festival, because it beautifully illustrates ideas about human nature, history, and culture from Hegel and Nietzsche—especially as read through the lenses of Alexandre Kojève and Georges Bataille. Prehistoric society is relatively egalitarian and focuses on the...
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It is easy to forget how explicitly racist British society was within living memory. I’m not talking about unconscious prejudice, or social media tropes. I’m talking about openly celebrating racism in the public space, about major companies making racism integral to their brand, a selling-point. Roberston’s, Britain’s leading jam maker, made their orange marmalade sweeter...
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Iran and Syria again on the receiving end of sanctions
One of the most disturbing aspects of American foreign policy since 9/11 has been the assumption that decisions made by the United States are binding on the rest of the world, best exemplified by President George W. Bush’s warning that “there was a new sheriff in town.” Apart from time of war, no other nation...
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] It is allegedly always darkest before the dawn. Here’s some darkness: the symphony orchestra of Austin, Texas has fired their lead trombonist. This is a white lady named Brenda Sansig Salas, 51 years old and a U.S. Army veteran. Austin Symphony Trombonist Fired Over...
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Studies in Applied Stupidity
This will be a disoriented essay. These are disorienting times. Perhaps the reader should prepare himself with a double shot of Wild Turkey throat sanitizer, or a doob. I am still getting mail saying that Floyd’s death was due to underlying conditions. I see. By purest coincidence, he died of natural causes while hand-cuffed, face...
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Fatal Fentanyl: A Forensic Analysis
Truth is the first victim in politics. Factions and passions rule. Random facts are picked as weapons, no one thinks things through. We need to understand the facts surrounding the death of George Floyd. Many key facts are being ignored: Floyd’s blood tests showed a concentration of Fentanyl of about three times the fatal dose....
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America's most watched cable news show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, is on the brink of being canceled. Carlson, the only high-profile journalist in America who defends and advocates for normal people, has had some of his last few remaining sponsors pull their ads this week over his accurate coverage of the George Floyd race riots. Jews,...
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It is quite interesting to observe how many commentators are completely misreading the current race riots or compare them with previous race riots in the history of the US. I suppose that by telling themselves that these latest riots are "just like" or "not nearly as bad" as past US race riots they try to...
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