Comments on: UPDATE VI: Eunuchs at NRO Sack John Derbyshire (Cognitive Consonance)

By: Gerry T. Neal

Gerry T. Neal — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:39:37 +0000

Last October, in his review of Pat Buchanan’s Suicide of a Superpower, at Takimag, Mr. Derbyshire remarked, in reference to the chapter on “The End of White America”, that “At age 72, Pat may feel tempted to succumb to Elderly Tourette’s Syndrome.” There was a hyperlink in those words that went to Mr. Derbyshire’s website, to a column he wrote for National Review Online on March 7th of 2001 about Senator Byrd’s use of the n-word.

He wrote that when some people grow older they “might decide to have a little valedictory fun by shocking the easily-shocked” and concluded by saying “If a speaker is taken by that spirit nowadays, his fun is guaranteed, for there has surely never been a society as easily shocked as ours.”

I wonder to what extend Mr. Derbyshire had that in mind as he penned the article that led to his being thrown under the bus by National Review?

By: Nell Bowen

Nell Bowen — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 04:30:20 +0000

In the city of Chicago, I can attest to the fact that Mr. Derbyshire’s talk is called “street smarts” among the people.
I’d like to link to a video related to the topic that I found very delicious. It really gives me pleasure and giggles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LONUecnsMb8&feature=player_embedded#!

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:30:45 +0000

Maybe the Derb realized his mortality (he has cancer after all) and figured speaking the Truth was the right thing to do.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:56:55 +0000

What was it that Jack Nickleson said in that movie? “You can’t handle the truth!” Mr Derbyshire’s article was the truest piece of logic on the subject that I’ve read. He must have had a death wish, about his employment, to write such brutal truth. My hat is off to him.

By: My RON-PAUL i

My RON-PAUL i — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:36:33 +0000

Presumably, any statements involving stereotyping are racist – even a statement such as “Black men are more likely to be NBA players than Asian women” – but most people would not challenge the statement. On the other hand, if someone said “All Jewish women have 5 ears” and one proves that Ilana Mercer, who is a Jewish woman with only two ears exists, then that statement is not valid.

So why didn’t Lowry write a REFUTATION of Derbyshire in his statement?:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295514/parting-ways-rich-lowry

Is it that Lowry believes that Derbyshire’s points are valid but just “nasty” and that therefore the National Review crowd are just “polite” racial profilers? If it is “indefensible”, why not attack it point-by-point?

The “conservatism” of the National Review is, ironically, the 2012 equivalent of the “Dime Store New Deal” that Goldwater and Buckley used to criticize in the 1950’s:

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/30/us/barry-goldwater-is-dead-at-89-conservatives-standardbearer.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

e.g. an insipid, intellectually void, Wonder Bread of vapidity worthy of John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Robert Dole, and Mitt Romney. Buchanan, Sobran, Roberts, Francis, Gottfried, Derbyshire, Coulter, Fred Reed, and Ilana Mercer who cross over the boundary from the insipid to the controversial must be purged. What remains are oxymoronic attacks on Obamacare for “endangering Medicare”!

By: sunny black

sunny black — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:30:17 +0000

Ironic that Derbyshire’s article and NRO firing came at the same time of the Baltimore tourist beating from the St. Patrick’s day celebration. Briefly, a white tourist from Virginia was at a St. Patty’s day celebration and found himself in a part of Baltimore where he was surrounded by blacks. The tourist was subsequently robbed (of his watch, iphone, car keys), beaten and kicked, stripped naked in the middle of the sidewalk, and no one helped him; in fact, the throng of people laughed at him. No decency whatsoever. It conforms to every stereotype about black urban youth, and, indirectly, lends credence to the concerns stated in Derbyshire’s article.

Warning: It’s rough to watch..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdmaYeWfmGQ

By: Milos

Milos — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:10:20 +0000

The saddest part is that they do not even attempt to refute anything Derbyshire wrote in his essay.

By: Rebel Without a Clause

Rebel Without a Clause — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:49:11 +0000

Finally read Derbyshire’s essay via Ilana’s link. He is a superb writer, and told all the truths race liberals (and neoconz) don’t want to hear.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:38:35 +0000

With the cowardly dismissal of John Derbyshire, I perceive the uncomfortable fact that I have seen the future of intellectual life in America.

It is … intellectual life in Australia. And in Canada. And in New Zealand. And everywhere else in the Anglosphere where there isn’t even the pretense of a First Amendment.

By: Rebel Without a Clause

Rebel Without a Clause — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:28:51 +0000

NR has been a joke since Buckley first truckled to Norman Podhoretz and the Israel Ueber Alles crowd. I’m only surprised Derbyshire lasted as long as he did. The real conservatives – Brimelow, Oliver, Sobran – left decades ago. On the plus side, Derbyshire’s courageous embrace of race-realism and the MSM’s squawks of outrage.