@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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Mar 31

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-…

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.

washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/…

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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Mar 21

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?

In reality, of course, students accepted by the U. of Chicago almost never commit murder. And, of course, that is exactly as it should be. With much of the world to choose from, the U. of C. should not admit any murderers. Similarly, the murder rate for immigrants should be zero.

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Mar 13

A new preprint attemps to debunk all the noticing since the 1990s that sub-Saharans tend to have more really fast runners than other races:

"Revisiting Stereotypes: Race and Running"

@tadesouaiaia, @thebirdmaniac

Tade Souaiaia, Nabie Fofanah, Rawle DeLisle, Sheena Mason

arxiv.org/abs/2403.02358

The all-time fastest marathoners as of today include: 1 Japanese, 1 black Brazilian, 2 North Africans, and the rest East Africans (46 Ethiopians and 44 Kenyans).

Here are top 30 fastest marathoners of all time at the moment: unz.com/isteve/has-the…

And here's today's list of the top 36 fastest 100 meter men of all time by ethnicity:

14 African Americans
13 West Indians
3 Nigerians
2 half-black, half-whites
1 Namibian (SW Africa)
1 South African
1 Kenyan of the Bantu Luhya tribe (not Nilotic Luo)
1 Chinese

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Feb 23

From my new Taki's column:

These different types of mass shooting suggest the need for different types of gun control: point of sale vs. point of use. Only a tiny fraction of mass shootings are carried out with long guns that the shooter bought legally.
takimag.com/article/the-ka…

Instead, blacks, who are the perpetrators and victims of nearly 75% of mass shootings with 4 or more dead or wounded, typically get their handguns through friends and acquaintances on the black market.

takimag.com/article/the-ka…

What’s more promising for deterring mass shootings like Kansas City’s is point-of-use gun control: Discourage lowlifes from bringing their illegal handgun with them to parties. New York City had impressive success at changing the criminal culture toward leaving guns at home.

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