The founder of The Nation of Islam, Wallace Fard Muhammed, claimed himself to be half black and half white, born in Mecca. His followers claimed he was God Incarnate; most others see him as a white imposter. In truth, he was Pashtun by way of New Zealand.
The FBI investigated Fard in the 1950’s, 20 years after he mysteriously disappeared. They combed through files of criminals with similar names until they found a “Wallie Dodd Ford”, a small time opium dealer imprisoned at San Quentin in the 20’s. The fingerprints matched.
Further detective work by historians discovered this Fard's 1917 draft card in which his birthplace was given as Shinka, Afghanistan.
More digging into Fard’s repeated divorces under slightly different names (“George Farr”, “Wali Fard”, “Fred Dodd” ) discovered that he had immigrated from New Zealand, the son of a Pashto father and white mother. His real name seems to be Wali Dodd Fard.
The Pashtun connection makes sense: Fard is a common name in Pakistan and the only place on Earth that sounds similar to "Shabazz", the Nation’s word for African-Americans, is the Pakistani name "Shahbaz". He gave Elijah Muhammed’s brother the new Pakistani name “Kallatt” .
Muhammed often took time off from denouncing whites to inexplicably rage against Hindus, who his Black audience had never seen before and must have cared nothing about.
While living under the alias “George Farr” Muhammed joined Marcus Garvey’s black nationalist organization. It took about two seconds for investigators who noticed the man at the time to spot that he was Indian, not black:
Ahmadiyya missionaires from the Sindh were the first to win African American converts to Islam beginning in 1920, which almost certainly gave Fard his inspiration. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiyya…
At different times in his life Fard posed as a self-taught genius who spoke 30 languages. In truth, he was functionally illiterate to the point had to dictate letters home to New Zealand to his wife. He taught his followers the TRUE etymology of Europe: it means “bad rope”.
The NYT doxxing Scott Alexander for no real reason was wrong, but most of the defenses of SSC that I've read recently disgust me about as much as the original article did because they're all playing dumb: Alexander was clearly sympathetic to the idea of Race-IQ differences.
The modern liberal worldview is large, but cannot survive the revelation that there are racial differences in IQ. Any respectable outlet that indirectly promotes this viewpoint is an existential threat and it is rational for liberals to seek these out and destroy them.
In other words, according to the modern American consensus all published writers adhere to, Metz's attack on a rising threat would be commendable (other than the doxxing). It's only distasteful if you are sympathetic to Race/IQ connections, as most of his defenders secretly are.
What caused the big Baby Boom of 46-63? The explanations most often given are economic, but the fundamental cause seems to be contraceptive failure: married couples didn't actually want families as large as they were having:
As the excerpt indicates, the problem was accentuated by a decline in the average age of marriage in those NW Euro countries west of the Hajnal line that had previously delayed it:
Histories of homosexuality often emphasize the war as a major turning point, when guys realized they weren't the only one and were exposed to prostitutes in major cities. Straight guys seemed to have a similar awakening, although they talked about it less.
Going to argue today that societies in which agriculture is performed collectively in and around nucleated villages act to domesticate human beings via the same biological pathway as in dogs and cats and is apparent in a similar shortening and broadening of their skulls
The second central point is that behavioral domestication is a result of an increased tolerance for stress and that people who were most thoroughly feudalized (most Slavs, Germans, French) have adapted by becoming harder, less fearful of people, and overall less eccentric.
The cephalic index measures the length of the skull divided by its width. Values of about 75 or less are considered dolicocephalic or long headed (like Ridley Scott’s Alien). More than 81 is brachycephalic or broad headed like a bulldog. Populations vary from means of 70-90.
Everything I hear about Q reminds me of the 80's Satanic Panic ("There's secret tunnels under the preschool where kids are abused!", claims local schizophrenic). Under interrogation some 5 year olds claimed the Q adjacent Chuck Norris was a pedophile witch:
The 80's Panic is sort of interesting as an evolutionary transitional form: halfway between genuine medieval witch hunts and more modern, sophisticated theories about pedophiles.
There's something about deeply appealing about this idea that allows it to recur under different guises in different eras. An interesting question is how many of these panics originate with genuine schizophrenics like Judy Johnson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_…
Trump's 2016 primary campaign (not the general) had an ethnic angle that went largely untalked about. It revealed a cultural split in the American Midwest between the descendants of Germanic immigrants who hated his boastfulness and the descendants of Old Americans who loved it.
After the Iowa cacucus I fiddled around with a NCSS spreadsheet of Iowa counties and discovered that the % of county who identified as Dutch in the census was the best negative predictor of Trump’s vote count, more important even than the % of bachelor’s degrees.
There aren’t many Dutch people in America. Their highest concentration by far (57.7%) is in ultra-religious Sioux County Iowa which also gave Trump his lowest shared of the vote (10.9%, his average was 24.3%). Others have noticed the same thing: aei.org/op-eds/the-mos…
The People of the British Isles Project developed a new technique to cluster genetically similar peoples, looking at the British with a racial microscope. What they discovered is that the English are some of the most homogenous/genetically boring people in Europe.
The project discovered 53 genetic clusters, five of them just in the Orkneys, and yet the great majority of Englishmen belong to the same big genetic blob. I don’t think there’s another European country of 50+ million people that shows such uniformity.
In the last millennium there have been major population movements from S England to the periphery that has eliminated some of the country’s genetic isolates. One of the best examples are the formerly Scandinavian people of the Wirral peninsula in NW England.