Category Archives: Political Philosophy

NEW Video: Conservatives MUST Recognize Aggregate Group Differences While Cherishing the Individual

Affirmative Action, America, Conservatism, Crime, Political Philosophy, Race, Racism, Science, South-Africa

NEW Video: “Conservatives MUST Recognize Aggregate Group Differences While Cherishing the Individual.” 

This always enjoyable conversation With David Vance  was based on my latest column, “Murray’s Empirical Wisdom Confirms ‘Into The Cannibal’s Pot’s’ Analytical Truths.”

On ‘The Democrats Drove Them To Riot And Rut’ Reductionism: It’s Doo-Doo

Argument, Conservatism, Crime, Democrats, Morality, Political Philosophy, Sex

“It may be worth watching Tucker tonight,” tweeted Musil Protege. Musil was hoping to hear an impassioned response to a particularly gory South-Africa style homicide, in the course of which a bunch of fellas, during the Puerto Rican Day Parade in Chicago, pulled a young couple out of the car and shot them in cold blood, while gesticulating and hopping about with feral glee.

“He has developed a relationship with Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez,” posited Musil Protege, “a reasonable law and order Democrat, who has become something of a thorn in the side of Mayor Lightfoot. I don’t think this crime will be disappeared so easily.”

Gyovanny Arzuaga and Yasmin Perez were shot on West Division Street on the Northwest Side around 9:15 p.m. Saturday, hours after the parade had ended.” Both are now dead.

“My mistake,” came Musil’s next tweet. “Tucker Carlson turned to his go-to expert on everything, Candace Owens. Mea culpa.”

Say no more.

Musil is right about Tucker’s disappointing tack. The Fox News host had said that nobody rendered a more “lucid” explanation for the orgies of black crime than Candace Owens’ word salad.

I obviously didn’t get it. To me, Candace’s lucidity was silent (to conjure the great Queensryche ballad, “Silent Lucidity“).  Owens’ tack is essentially the following:  Democrats are just using innocent blacks. With their schemes—their political shenanigans—Democrats drove blacks to do the crime.

To go by Candace Owens, as per her consistent performances on Tucker Carlson’s show, the Democrats made black residents of Oakland CA, simulate coitus and engage in an orgiastic celebration of death and mayhem around the EMT vans.

And in case you don’t know it, US Democrats caused black crime in South Africa, too. My tongue is firmly in my cheek here.

What’s remarkable about these bacchanalias of murder and mayhem is the sexual component: Violence is sexually titillating to these lower-order reptilian brains (with apologies to reptiles).

Pants are often pulled down; and the lower body is thrusting as that of a dog in heat. (My apologies to the canine community for the unfortunate comparison.)

In all, “the Democrats Made Them Riot And Rut” argument is doo-doo. It doesn’t fly. And it’s pretty bad moral reductionism.

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MORE Candace fast-talking boilerplate.

Ben Domenech: Selling Soothing, Snake-Oil Conservatism On FOX News Primetime

Argument, Conservatism, Donald Trump, Free Speech, Israel, Political Philosophy, Race, Racism, Technology, THE ELITES

With Ben Domenech’s somnambulist, soothing, well-articulated, Establishment conservatism, Fox News is lulling viewers back into a meaningless, middle-of-the-road, political impotence.

And a load of claptrap.

Last night, June 5, Big Tech censorship was obviously panned vigorously for speech oppression, but an Israeli actress ensconced in Hollywood got to make allusions on air to her preference for censoring anti-Israel comments, when those are uttered by people lacking “expertise” on Israel. More philosophical bunkum, but certainly in line with neoconservatism’s Israel First position.

Americans—certainly this writer, who is pro-Israel—support unfettered speech! That used to be the American position—which includes the rights of people to express anti-Israel positions no matter the state of their expertise, which the silly sabra seemed to be demanding as a condition for speech on Israel.

Discussed too was the incitement to murder whites, expressed by a deviant at Yale, Aruna Khilanani. This, according to panelist Liz Wheeler, was best understood not as murderous anti-whitism needing to be aggressively combated, but with the aid of her unscholarly, unlearned allusions to the Frankfurt School… Wheeler’s ignorant theoretical escapism will help your life as much as voting Republican did.

In this context, Lynette Ackermann asked me, “Ilana, Have you any suggestions for a new paradigm for the 21st century?”

Reply: “What I am strongly suggesting in my commentaries about anti-whiteness is… keep it real. When it comes to anti-whiteness—a very serious, grave reality—you need a scrappy strategy, not a paradigm.” No theoretical escapism!

But the worst slot belonged to Douglas Murray, much revered for his accent and inchoate, wishy-washy positions. The segment dealt with Facebook’s verdict to ban Donald Trump for another two years. (Frankly, President Trump had not stood up for voters like myself, whose websites are banned for life, presumably, with no ability to appeal. And the former president’s response to Facebook’s Nick Clegg was, to put it charitably, puzzling: “Next time I’m in the White House there will be no more dinners, at his request, with Mark Zuckerberg and his wife. It will be all business!”)

Likewise, for his part, Domenech evinced great concern over Facebook curtailing the power of politicians; not so much about the power of the people curtailed.

But Murray is really something. The sassy, salient line he repeated again and again on the live broadcast—it doesn’t appear in the Fox News online video—was this: The Big Tech meddlers are “not fit for purpose“:

“… it is high time we make it clear that we cannot and will not live under the rules of Big Tech. They are not up to the job that they have taken upon their shoulders to perform.”

The premise of that statement is that, while Deep Tech is not up for the job;  someone is up for the job of censor and speech adjudicator. On display here is “Bic Con” deception, Tory deception, too. These establishment conservatives do not trumpet absolute free speech: Richard Spencer’s, Nick Fuentes’, Tommy Robinson’s, Michelle Malkin’s, mine. They seldom come to the defense of dissidents. For this reason, Murray is wont to make a stupid (cleverly worded) statement:

“We are dealing with kids here,” he said, adding “these companies got everything about the last year wildly wrong” and citing Big Tech’s censorship of the Wuhan lab leak theory.

Crystal clear premise once again of the Murray fatuity is this: If Deep Tech were more mature and accurate in their prediction (Murray awoke pretty late in life to most truths, too)—they might be in a position to adjudicate which speech if fit for consumption, which not.

Wrong. Absolutely wrong, but well-spoken.

UPDATED (5/14): Video: ‘Systemic Anti-Whiteness’ – Here And Across The Pond

Argument, Britain, Critical Race Theory, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Political Philosophy, Propaganda, Race, Racism, South-Africa

This week, British broadcaster and commentator David Vance and myself discussed ‘Systemic Anti-Whiteness’ in the US and across the pond.

Watch our wide-ranging conversation on YouTube:

Watch the abridged, rendition of the essay upon which the Vance-Mercer discussion was based (“Earth To Conservatives: The Problem Is ‘Systemic Anti-Whiteness,’ Not Marxism, Not ID Politics”) on YouTube, too:

UPDATE (5/14): On WND.COM and on The Unz Review

The “Videos of ‘Systemic Anti-Whiteness’ – Here and Across the Pond” are now on WND.COM and The Unz Review.