thoughts in and out of season
I wonder what would have happened if the Brits had the strong antidiscrimination law the UN says they’re obligated to adopt? Winterton race joke prompts police probe—she was a Tory MP who got sacked as rural affairs spokeswoman after referring to ethnic Asians as “10 a penny” while telling an after-dinner joke at a … More ...
In Japan it’s still possible to talk about race suicide, it appears. Still, it’s hard to imagine what they’ll do about it. The prime minister suggests continuing the transfer of the functions of the family to the state (more welfare benefits, better childcare). The UN on the other hand wants them to import 600,000 … More ...
There’s always be a … whatever: an English university forbids flying the English flag.
Evidently a book to read if you want a closeup view of malfunctions built into advanced liberalism: Coloring the News, by William McGowan. Nat Hentoff, the reviewer, doesn’t see it that way of course. He thinks of inclusiveness as incomplete rather than self-contradictory, even though pursuing any goal—even “inclusiveness”—requires that many things be excluded.
Religion leads to violence. Dogma divides, experience unites. We hear such things all the time, but are they true?
The answer isn’t obvious. There have been religious wars and persecutions, but also non-religious and anti-religious ones. It was secular ideologies, after all, that led to the political catastrophes of the last century, and the most … More ...
More adventures with the N word: in Idaho, you can go to jail for saying it. Not up to the Dutch standard, but getting close!
What happens when a black woman got stabbed to death in a small Indiana town in 1968? Just what you’d expect:
… More ...For nearly 34 years the outside world assumed that the killer was from Martinsville, with its Ku Klux Klan past, and that the police had covered up for the murderer.
Martinsville, which according to
This whole diversity thing doesn’t seem to be working: school in uproar after girl (apparently) uses N word in conversation with friends.
The schools are crazy about more than race, of course. Consider zero-tolerance policies in general. But how can you have common sense, which is a matter of customary understandings, if you reject all … More ...
It’s good bad language is being so vigorously suppressed in England: “Minister prompts race row over ‘nitty gritty'”.
The Dutch tolerance Nazis strike again. And again. And again.
A friend refers me to this compilation of non-discrimination legislation in the Netherlands. As the law is written, it appears that you can get jugged for six months for sending someone almost any serious work on man, God or the world as a birthday … More ...