The Unz Review Digest - April 23, 2021
The George Floyd trial verdict and its aftermath dominated this last week’s most popular featured articles, with Gregory Hood’s harsh description of the difficulties of blacks and whites functioning in the same society reaching the top spot after a single day. Ranking third and likely soon to reach second was Jared Taylor’s parallel piece, condemning the murder conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin as an absolutely unjust version of mob justice, orchestrated by the media with the looming threat of severe racial rioting. And coming up extremely fast after just twelve hours and shortly to break into the leading spots was Robert Hampton’s focus on the broader racial message of the trial and verdict, arguing that the outrageous nature of the verdict should lead all American whites to consider themselves as being in Chauvin’s position, with additional unreasonable attacks against white police officers likely coming down the road. Taken together, these three articles quickly amassed over 800 comments, totaling over 100,000 words.
Closely related to this same racial theme was Kenn Gividen’s sixth place article describing the 33 American whites murdered by blacks last month along with the single case of white-on-black homicide, the sort of massive disproportion that has been a regular occurrence, month in and month out, with almost all of the victims totally ignored by the American media.
Also somewhat related was Linh Dinh’s fifth ranking article on the late Southern author Flannery O’Connor, whose works have become a staple of the public school curriculum, often harshly critical of ordinary white Southerners and generally laudatory towards the blacks of that region. However, ironically enough, her private correspondence revealed her harshly negative feelings towards blacks, leading to speculation that she had tailored her writing to the demands of the NYC publishing industry and its leading critics.
On an entirely different subject, our second most popular featured article was Mike Whitney’s lengthy interview with Israel Shamir regarding the extremely provocative actions taken by America and its Ukrainian ally towards Russia, seriously risking the possibility of a major war in Europe, with quickly attracted some 350 comments totaling 50,000 words.
Finally, fourth place was held by Philip Giraldi’s discussion of the recent Tucker Carlson show, which highlighted the tremendous hypocrisy of the ADL, ferociously attacking any white Americans who criticize high immigration levels of non-whites, but lauding the Israeli government and leading Israeli figures who take exactly the same position with regard to non-Jewish numbers in their own country. This controversy quickly attracted over 300 comments totaling some 30,000 words.
“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.” – Thomas Jefferson The trial was pointless. We knew...
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Interview with Israel Shamir
Question 1--- For the last 4 years, Democrat leaders have blamed Russia for allegedly meddling in the 2016 elections. Now the Democrats-- who control all three branches of government -- have the power to reset US foreign policy and take a more hostile approach to Moscow. But will they? At present, there are roughly 40,000...
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The jury has found Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts. It took fewer than 24 hours to reach a unanimous decision. I have argued all along that an acquittal was impossible, no matter what the evidence showed. No jury, anywhere in the United States, could have found Mr. Chauvin innocent after nearly a year...
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Jewish establishment embraces immigrants but only in America
Well, the cat is finally well and truly out of the bag when it comes to Israeli and organized Jewry’s hypocrisy. The unprincipled attack on Tucker Carlson by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over his alleged “white supremacism” included a demand to Fox News that he be fired. It was from a familiar playbook that groups...
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Though Flannery O’Connor didn’t live long, she left us some of the best stories ever written. It’s impossible to overpraise “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” “The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” “The Displaced Person,” “The Artificial Nigger,” “Good Country People,” “Everything That Rises Must Converge” and “Revelation.” O’Connor’s liberal usage of...
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Earlier: 34 Deaths (If You Count One Hmong Girl Definitely Not Killed By White Supremacists): FEBRUARY 2021—Another Month In The Death Of White America I found twenty-five instances of interracial violence resulting in the deaths of thirty-five victims reported in the calendar month of March 2021. All but two of the victims were white and...
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Earlier, by Steve Sailer: Nope, No Riot in Chicago Last Night Over Mexican Kid Shot by a Cop Here's a phrase due for an airing: "asymmetry of indulgence." That phrase was coined by conservative British journalist Ferdinand Mount. He was writing about how Leftist...
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Mike Yeadon is a soft-spoken microbiologist and a former Vice President of Allergy and Respiratory Research at Pfizer. He spent 32 years working for large pharmaceutical companies and is a leading expert on viral respiratory infections. He is also a man on a mission, and his mission is to inform as many people as possible...
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Or, the Accidental Biopolitics of the Culture Wars
Culture wars seem to be everywhere across the West these days. American politics has notoriously been plagued for decades by divisive conflicts over guns, abortion, and gay marriage (now replaced by the exotic trans phenomenon). Europe is also no stranger to such conflicts, whether within or between countries, though in the postwar era these appeared...
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Many literary classics you encounter too early in life, often as a class assignment in college or even high school. With almost no life experience, you can’t fully grasp their deeper meanings. Nothing prevents you from rereading them much later, however, and a masterful work should be revisited again and again. I don’t know how...
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The Sacred Central Principle of Modern Western Politics and Culture
Two views on non-Whites are permitted in the modern West. The first view is leftist and rules the media, academia, law, education, government bureaucracy, big business, sports and all leftist parties. It states: “Non-Whites are a limitless blessing and whites are cruelly oppressing them.” The second view is cuckservative and states: “Non-Whites are a limitless...
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That the United States likes to use expressions like “shock and awe” or “maximum pressure” would rather suggest that there is a psychopath working in the White House basement whose full-time job is to come up with pithy one-liners to somehow euphemize government bad behavior. The expressions hardly mean anything in and of themselves apart...
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In a previous article I noted that Tucker Carlson’s comments on ‘replacement’ in the context of immigration had unleashed a torrent of hatred from the ADL and the liberal media. When the ADL goes after public figures, the usual response is groveling apology in a typically futile effort to prevent getting ostracized or fired. After...
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Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts for the “murder” of the beatified George Floyd. The jury, consisting of only two white men among twelve, found him guilty within a matter of hours. It was a quick decision that sent a clear message to America: black lives matter more than yours. Despite being...
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Lance Welton’s article on VDARE is a nice summary of research on Jewish ethnocentrism and its consequences: “Did the ADL Think It Could Get Away Hypocrisy on Replacement in U.S. vs. Israel? Answer: It Probably Didn’t Think At All.” As noted below, some of his presentation touches on my Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition...
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The Searchers (1956) has been acclaimed not just as one of John Ford’s greatest films, and not just as one of the greatest Westerns, but as one of the greatest films of all time. This praise is all the more surprising given that The Searchers is a profoundly illiberal and even “racist” movie, which means...
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From the New York Times news section: Note that the NYT didn't have the body camera footage when they posted this article. I do, and I analyze it below. My brief impression was that Mayor Ginther handled it pretty well, unlike many other politicians recently, emphasizing keep calm and wait for the facts. He didn't...
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Nearly half a millennium ago Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince described three options for how a conquering power might treat states that it defeated in war but that “have been accustomed to live under their own laws and in freedom: … the first is to ruin them, the next is to reside there in person, the...
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Never Happen Since Too Many People Get Rich from It
As perhaps most now know, China is preparing a digital currency with which it intends to replace cash entirely, and other countries, including the US, are considering the idea. Conservatives and libertarians will shriek, pull their hair, and turn blue at the idea, perhaps with good reason—which doesn’t matter since it is going to happen...
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The F-16 really is a beautiful piece of engineering. It is the Silver Wraith of the skies. The Drive: The four U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets that recently flew a mission over the highly contested South China Sea were photographed landing at Yokota Air Base in Japan, en route to their home base at...
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