The Diversity Report #21

 A selection of articles showcasing the benefits of diversity, equity and inclusion: 

• When Muslims become a majority of the population: "Horror of the Syrian massacres: Video footage 'shows brutal executions and mutilations carried out by fighters as nation's new Islamist rulers wipe out hundreds of Assad loyalists'"--Daily Mail. The article reports that "[n]early 1,500 people have reportedly been slaughtered, the majority civilians, as HTS militants filmed themselves subjecting unarmed citizens in Alawite and Christian communities to extreme violence." 
• "American tourist is among those attacked by brutal gang who raped Israeli traveler, 27, and killed her companion in horrific assault in India"--Daily Mail. This wouldn't have happened under British rule. 
  
• "Suspects in LA murder of good Samaritan who tried to stop catalytic converter theft were in country illegally"--Fox News (warning: video automatically plays). Who knows? Perhaps Michael Moore is right and these two might become doctors or rocket scientists.
• "‘Moderate’ Democrats Tell Candidates: Don’t Talk About Migration"--Breitbart. It is not a position change: according to the article, Democrat strategists now just want to expand legal immigration (which will undoubtedly include some sort of amnesty just as it always has before). 
  
• "Why would I, an outcast white male, fight Starmer’s deluded war?" by Frederick Edward at Conservative Woman. As the UK considers committing troops to the Ukraine debacle, at least one person raises the question of why should white males, which are at best second class citizens in the UK, go die or be maimed for a country that hates them. An excerpt:

    MEN account for 88.3 per cent of personnel in Britain’s regular forces. Overall, whites (or, at least, those who do not ‘self-identify as belonging to a minority ethnic group’, in the modern parlance) account for 88.8 per cent of all employed across the Army, Navy and Air Force. As such, it is what many a leftist would condescendingly describe as ‘pale and male’.

    Recently, we have learned that this same group is now at a newfound disadvantage. Sentencing guidelines coming into force on April 1 codified a two-tiered approach, with judges encouraged to give those of ‘an ethnic minority, cultural minority, and/or faith minority community’ and the transgendered leniency when determining whether or not they should receive a custodial sentence.

•  In a similar vein: "The White Man’s Ghost Dance"--Postcards from Barsoon (h/t Vox Day). The key part:

    ... A large plurality of our population supports the regime and its program of pillage and ethnic replacement with fanatic zeal, enthusiastic converts to a novel creed that itself evolved step by oh-so-logical step from the spiritual and civil religions of our fathers to a malign heresy that holds as a moral imperative the dispossession and extermination of the posterity of those very fathers. So far, most of the populace has resisted the suicide cult’s blandishments, but for all that they dislike it, they remain morally disarmed before the cult’s linguistic assaults, shrinking in fear from every invocation of the magical words ‘racist’, ‘fascist’, ‘nazi’, ‘white supremacist’, which Westmen have been trained to believe the worst possible things, and which evils the evil suicide cult claims – and believes itself – to be fighting against. 

Vox Day comments: "But there is no reason to give up hope, however irrational it might seem. The Chinese persisted and got their country back after centuries of foreign rule. The Spanish endured five centuries of foreign rule before expelling all the Muslims and Jews from their country."

• "Government Advisor Warns UK is Heading For Civil War"--Modernity.  Professor David Betz has warned that the UK government has destroyed its legitimacy "as a result of successive governments’ open border policy and their inability to protect children from grooming gangs, in addition to a two-tier justice system presided over by a highly-politicised judiciary." Also:

    Betz explains that highly-heterogenous societies (those comprised of many different social, cultural and ethnic groups) in which there is no single dominant cohort are not especially prone to civil war. That is because no group has enough power or status to co-ordinate a widespread revolt. Similarly, highly-homogenous, or ‘unfactionated’, societies are not particularly vulnerable on account of the fact that it is generally easy to arrive at consensus positions. The danger area, Betz asserts, is in the middle – societies that are becoming more heterogenous and in which a previously dominant social majority fears that it is losing its place. In such societies, a nativist sentiment manifests in a narrative of what Betz calls ‘downgrading’ and ‘displacement’ – the most powerful causes of civil conflict. Throw in long-term structural economic decline and the apparent inability of the government to offer ‘bread and circuses’, and the sense of dispossession deepens. 

    He also addressed the phenomenon of ‘asymmetric multiculturalism’ in which ‘in-group preference, ethnic pride, and group solidarity – notably in voting – are acceptable for all groups except whites, for whom such things are considered to represent supremacist attitudes that are anathematic to social order’. This ‘provides an argument for revolt on the part of the white majority (or large minority) that is rooted in stirring language of justice’.

• "Chinese PhD student Zhenhao Zou is unmasked as one of Britain's worst rapists: Predator who drugged and raped 10 women is revealed to have up to 60 victims after police found twisted videos he filmed of his attacks"--Daily Mail. 
• Meanwhile, in Paris: "Left-wing theatre managers who invited 200 migrants to a free show will abandon the building and face bankruptcy as refugees still refuse to leave after three months and spark wave of sex-related violence"--Daily Mail. As the old saying goes, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. 
• "HOW THE LEFT REVERSES ‘ORDO AMORIS’"--Instapundit. 

    There is a traditional Christian doctrine, Ordo Amoris or Ordered Loves, that prioritizes the objects of an individual’s loves. It begins with one’s own family, then one’s neighbors, one’s community, the state, the nation and then those beyond the nation. ...

    But, as Dr. Steve Turley and Rod Martin explore in a well-spent 20 minute video discussion,  the Left has focused a great part of its resources for a century on reversing the traditional Ordo Amoris.

    Among the many destructive results they focus on are seen in the growing hate among younger Americans who view this nation as inherently evil from its founding, to say nothing of the insistence that America is obligated to open its borders to all comers and then give them preference over citizens.

• Tail wagging the dog: "Israel Wants Next U.S. Aid Package to Span 25 Years"--Information Liberation. It seems Israel feels it might get caught between a resurgent nativism on the right that will weaken support for Israel and the large number on the Left that hate Israel because of the Palestinian issue.
  

The Israel Lobby wants the next multibillion dollar US aid package for the Jewish state to "span 25 years, rather than 10" in order to "insulate the relationship against future US political vagaries and uncertainties."

We should be able to audit Israel to see how the money is being spent.

• Que the world's smallest violin: "ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests"--NPR.

    Federal immigration authorities arrested a Palestinian activist Saturday who played a prominent role in Columbia University's protests against Israel, a significant escalation in the Trump administration's pledge to detain and deport student activists.

    Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia until this past December, was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody, his attorney, Amy Greer, told The Associated Press.

    Greer said she spoke by phone with one of the ICE agents during the arrest, who said they were acting on State Department orders to revoke Khalil's student visa. Informed by the attorney that Khalil was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that instead, according to the lawyer.

•  "Explaining the LGBT Explosion"--Bryan Caplan. He begins:

    Wikipedia's article on "Acquired Homosexuality" begins:

    Acquired homosexuality is the discredited idea that homosexuality can be spread, either through sexual "seduction" or "recruitment" by homosexuals or through exposure to media depictions.

    Au contraire! As I explain in my book on human genetics, twin and adoption researchers have long credited some version of this “discredited” idea. While almost all studies find that genetics matters, virtually none asserts that the heritability of sexual orientation is even close to 100%. Ergo, homosexuality must, to some extent, be “acquired.” While that hardly implies that any specific mechanism - such "recruitment" or "media depictions" - works, the idea that homosexuality can be spread is the unheralded scientific consensus.

    Recently, however, the evidence in favor of acquired homosexuality has become overwhelming. ...

The rest of the article looks at polling data that indicates that the numbers of people identifying as LGBT has exploded recently, and blames this on the media and recruitment.

•  "The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal"--Tracing Woodgrains. At one time the FAA had two means of making sure that they had qualified air traffic controllers: they had instituted a collegiate training initiative (CTI), partnering with certain colleges to provide a program for training aspiring air traffic controllers; and they used an aptitude test that was very good at screening out those that would be good air traffic controllers and those that would not. But, of course, there was a significant disparity between the number of white people hired versus black (or other minority) groups. Consequently, starting with the Obama Administration, the FAA essentially eliminated any advantage for those that went through CTI programs, and started fudging with test scores in order to accept more minority applicants. Unfortunately, the author is an example of "everyone is a conservative" when it comes to his or her specialty and does not seem to understand that what happened with the FAA is just a microcosm of what has happened all across society. 
• "Deportation Uproar in India Threatens Trump’s Trade and H-1B Talks"--Breitbart. 

    India’s politics are in an uproar after President Donald Trump brusquely repatriated a tiny share of the almost 1 million Indian migrants who have illegally sneaked into American communities.

    The uproar complicates fast-track trade negotiations where major business groups are pushing Trump to accept more Indian white-collar H-1B migrants in a swap for Indian acceptance of more U.S. exports. For example, India is removing tariffs that reduce motorcycle sales by the investor-owned and troubled Harley-Davidson company.

    Trump’s first repatriation flight to India on February 4 carried 104 illegal migrants who were shackled to their seats as they were flown back home in a military cargo aircraft. The videos of the drop-off caused much TV drama and outrage among Indian nationalists.

India has become an expansionist power. But rather than send armies overseas, it using immigration. That's not to say that the armies might not come, but for now it using soft power. The danger it poses probably rivals China and may exceed it. After all, India's population continues to grow while China's is collapsing.