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Sep 21, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Why did the New York Times claim in an obituary for Rep. Ilhan Omar's father that he was "was a teacher in Somalia" when the Somali Sahan Journal reported instead that he was a prestigious colonel in the Somali Army of genocidal dictator Siad Barre?

sahanjournal.com/remembering-mi…
Although Rep. Ilhan Omar tells reporters her father was "a teacher of teachers" back home, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that his nickname among Somalis in the Twin Cities was "Colonel."

startribune.com/nur-omar-moham…
Presumably, this smokescreen is all tied into the long-running scandal over whether Rep. Ilhan Omar's ex-husband is her brother. She claims her father was a teacher named "Nur Omar Mohamed" but he was more likely "Colonel Nur Said Elmi."

theblaze.com/op-ed/ilhan-om…
Rep. Ilhan Omar's late father is reported to have served as a colonel in Somalia's war of aggression in 1977 and defense in 1982, both against Ethiopia.

Whether or not he engaged in internal war crimes, such as the Isaaq Genocide of 1987-1989, is currently unknown.
Rep. Ilhan Omar recounts that when her family's mentor, the genocidal Somali dictator Siad Barre, fell in 1991, 20 armed men shot up their compound, causing them to flee Somalia. Evidently, the family had done enough things that lots of their neighbors wanted to kill them.
In general, we are indoctrinated to imagine that refugees are always innocent victims. But, some of the time, refugees were bully boys back home who had to flee when they lost the whip hand and the loved ones of their victims came for vengeance.

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When I was in high school in the 1970s, Minnesota and Wisconsin competed for the reputation as the most well-ordered state in the Union.

Now, they compete to be the state that generates the most Steve Sailer Content.
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@alecrogers1968 @amortowles It would be a better argument to contend that "A Gentleman in Moscow," like, say, "The Master and Margarita," has fantasy elements that make it more conducive to historically unrealistic diversity casting than would be, say, "Darkness at Noon" or "First Circle."
@alecrogers1968 @amortowles For example, I didn't object much to the diversity casting in "Wonka," a children's musical set in a vague time and place, than I would be to diversity casting in, say, "Middlemarch" or "Brideshead Revisted."
@alecrogers1968 @amortowles Dear Mr. Towles:

A good defense of unrealistically casting a black in your 1930s Soviet-set "A Gentleman in Moscow" is that your novel has strong imaginative elements, so utter realism in casting isn't artistically necessary in the TV series based on it.
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Washington Post: We Had to Destroy the Democracy to Save It.

The Post reports on how in Europe, the secret police are putting under surveillance political parties that are growing by advocating policies popular with voters.

This is to "save democracy."

unz.com/isteve/we-had-…
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One of the many threats to democracy in Europe, according the Washington Post news section, is that political parties are increasingly debating immigration policy instead of having a gentleman's agreement not to discuss it.

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Seriously, these articles would be less comic if they simply admitted their experts are, obviously, anti-democratic. Lots of bright people from Plato onward have been against democracy. But Plato at least didn't argue for rule by philosopher-kings in the name of Saving Democracy.
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A standard response to complaints about immigrant crime is that the migrant murder rate is is lower than the native born rate. (Of course, the trick here is that few Americans know that blacks accounted in 2021 for 60.4% of known murder offenders & 55.0% of homicide victims.)
But imagine that the 15,000 U. of Chicago students commit 3 murders / year. When Chicagoans complain that the U. of C. is bringing in 3 murderers annually, the college president scoffs analogously that his admittees' murder rate is 20% lower than Chicago's, so why the kvetching?
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@tadesouaiaia, @thebirdmaniac

Tade Souaiaia, Nabie Fofanah, Rawle DeLisle, Sheena Mason

arxiv.org/abs/2403.02358
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