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Jul 6, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Ta-Nahesi Coates’s father is a former Black Panther who runs a Black Nationalist publishing house that issued a new edition of a book called “the Jewish Onslaught” right around the time that his son published the Message.

Zohrab Mamdani’s father is a post colonial scholar at Columbia so committed to Fanonist politics that he wrote sympathetically about Uganda’s ethnic cleansing of Indians in spite of the fact that himself was ethnically cleansed. (He did note that the expulsion was an economic catastrophe for Uganda.)

Both men raised sons to seek and gain power in mainstream US institutions in order to break the old hegemonies and institute new ones.

They have both done well in their ambitions.
Mamdani’s effortless co-optation of the abundance crowd, shows an evolution in strategy and tactics that may or may not in the long one prove to be as thorough going as the revision of communist, practice successfully undertaken by the CCP
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Mahmood Mandani on ethnic cleansing in Uganda lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/…Image
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Apr 14
The gap itself is not in question. The debate is over whether the causes are hereditarian or environmental and if the latter, whether the environmental causes pertain to cultural deficits within the black community (this is the position taken by James Flynn, the psychometrician who observed rising IQ's across industrialized world -- a trajectory that had reversed by the time of his death in the US ) or to 'systemic racism."

In practical terms, of course, the latter question doesn't really matter to a prospective employer: for cognitively demanding tasks, the distribution of those capable of doing the work will be different across groups. This could entirely be the fault of the warping effects of repeated triggering of adrenaline on the developing child's brain caused by racial microaggressions (every time someone asks to touch your hair reduces your IQ by a point, let's say): it would not change the fact that while there are roughly 60K white students who score above 700 on the Math SAT each year, 60K Asian who scored that high -- and 2K black students. This means that for any job for which the ability to score a 700 on the math SAT is table stakes, there would be roughly nine white candidates and sixty Asian candidates.

Here is how the eminent Harvard sociologist Christopher Jencks characterized the IQ gap in the NYT back in 1998. He took an environmentalist position on the question, expressed optimism that the gap could close, but said doing so "would probably take more than one generation." I read that as saying "I'll be dead by the time this prediction can be tested." He died in February 2025.Image
"The Flynn Effect" of rising IQ's across the industrialized world is typically cited by anti-hereditarians with hopes that gaps will close as disparities of health and human welfare level off between groups.

Toward the end of his James Flynn himself said black IQ's weren't rising because black parents don't create cognitively enriching environments for their children:

"In the late 1970s, an experiment took 46 black adoptees and gave half to black professional families and half to white professionals with all the mothers having 16 years of education. When their IQs were tested at eight-and-a-half, the white-raised kids were 13.5 IQ points ahead. The mothers were asked to do problem-solving with their children. Universally, the blacks were impatient, the whites encouraging. Immediate achievement is rewarded in black subculture but not long-term achievement where you have to forgo immediate gratification.”Image
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Mar 22
The BC Human Rights Tribunal issued a decision that established the principle that doubting a man's claim that he is a woman is "existential denialism" and levied a $750K fine against a man who harbored those doubts and stated them aloud.

Now on cue, an adult male convicted criminal and serial harasser who abused the tribunal process to target immigrant women who provide intimate services to women because they wouldn't wax his balls is shooting off accusations of "existential denialism" at everyone who accurately refers to his sex (he is a man).

The adult male convicted criminal and serial harasser is right that everyone he is targeting has indeed made repeated and public statements that men cannot become women and that despite his claims to be a woman that he is man. He is therefore arguably right that each of these people has placed themselves in violation of the tribunal's precedential finding that defines refusal of a man's claim to be a woman as "existential denialism."

Will the tribunal enforce its prohibition on "existential denialism" by levying ruinous fines on Brodie and others who deny that a man can become a woman? (Men cannot become women.)

Will the courts issue warrants for the arrest of any who refuse to pay these fines? Will they incarcerate people who 1.) deny that a man becomes a woman when he says he is a woman and 2.) assert that despite Jessica Yaniv's to be a women, he remains a man? (Jessica Yaniv is a man.)

It was always going to come to this. Now is the time for choosing.
My thoughts exactly:
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Mar 18
Millions of schoolchildren have literally been taught that the nuclear family is a form of white supremacy in grades K-3 across America Image
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In Rituals of Blood, the sociologist Orlando Patterson dismantled the myth that Black American had created functional alternatives to the nuclear family of village-like structures that compensate for the breakdown of the family.

In fact, Black Americans are the most socially isolated Americans with sparser rather than denser social networks in the Hood than those outside of it.

TLDR: Black Villages aren't real

"Which brings me to the second popular piece of folklore among modern Afro-Americans, what may be called the myth of the “hood,” the belief that viable informal friendship patterns and communities exist, compensating for the breakdown or absence of more formal institutions. Through sheer, baseless repetition, and through nonrepresentative case studies of a few Afro-American housing projects by urban anthropologists, it has become an accepted belief that large networks of support and natural neighborhood communities are out there waiting to be developed and built on.

Would that this were so. But my own analysis of representative samples of national network surveys confirms what other scholars have found: The typical Afro-American has a much smaller network of friends and kinsmen than other Americans do. And, what was most unexpected, the proportion of the members of this attenuated network who are kinsmen is smaller than in other Americans’ networks. There are no “hoods” out there, which is precisely why murderous gangs, like opportunistic social cancers, rush in to fill the vacuum."Image
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Feb 19
People are laughing at the Quebec Human Rights Commission awarding a $500 judgment to a bald non-binary identified man who claimed that he was oppressed because a hair salon only offered men's and women's haircuts.

But another Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in British Columbia has fined a man for refusing to parrot the false dogmas of the transgender movement, effectively making it illegal for anyone to disagree that a man claiming to be a woman becomes a woman by virtue of the claim.

The tribunals are a totalitarian menace and must all be decommissioned.
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Feb 10
When I refer to "Hanania-tier hypocrisy", I refer to the most brazen lies ever told in a tone of supercilious scorn despite everyone, including himself, knowing that there is easily available evidence in his own publicly broadcasted words contradicting a posture he is assuming at the moment, quickly followed by assertions that thrashing around from one position to its opposite is a mark of a superior mind
No, the claim emerging from postmodern academia was that the harms associated with fat stigma imposed a psychic burden on patients that was more injurious to health than obesity itself.
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Of course I don't think in terms of Team Blue or Team Red -- another example of Hanania's willingness to tell brazen lies that everyone, including himself, knows are false. persuasion.community/p/no-the-bmi-i…
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Feb 2
First, the ACLU's lead trans rights litigator admitted before the Supreme Court that there is no evidence to support the claim that chemically castrating children reduces suicide.

Today, the incoming president of the medical lobby that creates standards of care for the gender industry is published stating that cutting off the breasts of teenage girls caught up in the delusion that they are boys isn't suicide prevention either.

And yet California is suing a hospital for complying with federal mandates to stop transing minors.Image
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