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Oct 19, 2024 • 8 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Some excerpts from the book "Big Government and Affirmative Action: the Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration" Image
Richard Nixon massively expanded affirmative action and minority set asides. I think he gets far too much credit in Internet right-wing circles - he had good ideas, but his actions were terrible. Image
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Of course, he was called racist for not expanding them enough. Black activists compared the Small Business Administration to the KKK and threatened civil war unless gibs were expanded even further. Black activists were no more compromise-capable in the 70s than they are today. Image
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Not that the fact that the objects of his affection hated him stopped Nixon. He even overrode the objections of congressional democrats! Image
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The Small Business Administration, which tenders low-interest government loans to minority and women-owned businesses, tended to expand in election years. Not just Nixon who did this. Image
Shockingly, black owned businesses affirmative-actioned into government contracts/loans tended to become completely dependent on ever more gibs, and never "graduated" into private sector competitiveness. They also screwed federal government by failing to fulfill their contracts. Image
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The book vindicates Steve Sailer; Asians got themselves classed as minorities for business set asides. Hasidic Jews tried to get it on it too, but were rebuffed (thankfully). Image
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Minority-focused SBA loans have always been a destructive and unjust waste, but the damage is much bigger when 3/4 of the country (nonwhites + women) is eligible, including already capable groups like Asians, rather than just 1/8 (only blacks, like at the start). Need to be eliminated, ASAP, by the executive branch and the Supreme Court.

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Excerpts from TR Fehrenbach's "Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico" (1973) on the Mexican War of Independence. The Mexican criollos were far less impressive than their South American counterparts, and produced no leaders equal to Bolivar or San Martin. Image
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Thread with excerpts from the Colonial New Spain portion of TR Fehrenbach's 'Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico' (1973). His view is that New Spain would have remained permanent divided and stagnant if not for the northern frontier. Image
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More excerpts on Colonial Mexico from TR Fehrenbach's "Fire and Blood" (1973). Fehrenbach saw the discovery of silver in Mexico, mostly in the arid north, as a disaster, as it led to Spain administering Mexico as a loot box rather than developing the productive economy. Image
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