Who Is The "We" here?...

The following is excerpted from an article by Steve Sailer.
Link below.

The reason the January/February issue of The Atlantic Monthly is so boring: editor James Bennet [email him] decided it should focus on race.

But you can’t write intelligently about race unless you’re willing to tell the truth. And how many journalists want to do that today?

Not surprisingly, this Atlantic issue reads like my VDARE.com articles with the punchlines amputated and replaced by conventional wisdom.

Ambinder goes on:

“[Obama pollster] Cornell Belcher’s polling and decades of political-science research showed that white voters held certain stereotypes about black politicians— namely, that they were more likely to raise taxes and redistribute wealth, were weak on crime, and favored heavy government spending to help the poor (read: minorities like them).”

Of course, this stereotype of black politicians as usually advocating tax-and-spend policies is also held by black voters, who like tax and spend policies.

After all, it’s a stereotype because it’s true.

In contemporary American public life, debates are won by denouncing inconvenient facts as “stereotypes”. Thus, the more undeniable something is, the more unmentionable it becomes.

Particularly boring is the issue’s cover story by the Chinese-American pop music critic Hua Hsu: The End of White America? It’s based on the same Census Bureau projection of a nonwhite majority in the U.S. by 2042 that I wrote about last August.

Considering that Hsu [email him] was born only in 1977, his thinking, when not echoing me, seems stuck in the past. For example, he devotes 630 words to the comically trite topic of 1990s rapper Puff Daddy / P. Diddy / Sean Combs.

Similarly, his observation of “the obvious material advantages that come with being born white—lower infant-mortality rates and easier-to-acquire bank loans, for example …” sounds completely clueless in the wake of the catastrophic 15-year-long campaign by the Clinton and Bush administrations to boost mortgage lending to uncreditworthy minorities.

Not surprisingly, this pop critic’s essay avoids all the serious questions of how well a nonwhite majority will perform economically.

Fortunately, we already have a gigantic test case: California, which is now only 43 percent non-Hispanic white.

So what can we learn about the future of America from California, where the state government may run out of money next month without a federal bailout?

For most of this decade, the financial wizards poured hundreds of billions of dollars into mortgage-backed securities originating in California. In other words, they made a colossal bet on diversity.

And lost.

-more here

Many of the themes addressed in that Atlantic article have been tackled here before.



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