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23% Of America Is Illiterate
Following on the heels of the dumbing down of the State of the Union speech we noted yesterday, we thought a simple visualization of just how stunningly poor our nation's reading skills really are would be useful. One in five Americans lacks the basic reading skills beyond a 4th grade level - are you one of them?
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My friend said that the rate dropped massively for unmarried women naming the father. That is, the boyfriend or live-in partner.
She found it fascinating that "boyfriends" or "partners" have a much higher chance of getting proper commitment than "husbands".
Betcha there's a cultural demographic somewhere there, no?
No, sorry, lots of educated high-iq white males playing fathers to kids not their own.
I'm just guessing, but I suspect not all of the biological fathers are single males. What do we call them?
Polygamists.
Marriage in Europe is dead, courtesy of Frankfurter Schule psychoanalysis programs to pathologize nationalism.
Clearly the Teachers Union should get more money.
I'm in shock! No I'm not in shock to be honest with you. I'm just surprised that it's worthy of an article. Even reading the comments here sometimes test my grip.
I only understand ZH, but don't understand MSM. So I'm clearly one of the illiterate ones...
When the literacy rate in your country rivals a third world country, then you are a third world country.
We shall be the first to achieve 4th world status.
We shall imagineer our way to a new low for humanity.
Say, that gives me an idea for a new Disney theme park!
Viva La French Revolution.
Town I live in had a meth lab in a nursing home. It caught fire killing one. Just the other day at someone's home they located 50 shake and bake labs.
America is a third world country just most people don't know it yet.
When every country is a banana republic, what will be the new derogatory name?
Shithole.
same thing.
The graphic is using bad data. Washington, DC is the most literate???
LMAO!
Most parents steer their children towards an easy career.
The Printer Ink Friendly Definitive DJIA Chart
http://chartistfriendfrompittsburgh.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-printer-ink-friendly-definitive.html
Call me a cynic, but I don't buy the income numbers. It's obvious to me that these people are overwhelmingly employed by the government, and now that the parasitic public sector is approaching 50% of jobs, the average income including pension benefits, insurance and such should put them up there with, oh, DOCTORS. LOL
I really do hope that the 89% voting of level 5 is lower than the percentage for level 4 - otherwise this statistic has just proven that better reading skills do not make you less susceptible for big lies...
D.C. is the most literate city, proving that we are governed not by idiots or fools but scoundrels and con-men.
PS: I am going to state it very fucking clearly. They only give a shit about literacy because 1) it looks good for PR, 2) you can't read propaganda if you can't read, and 3) the education lobby's greed is infinite. Three generations ago our functionally illiterate ancestors had as much or more economic opportunity than PhD-wielding kids do today. Stop letting these fucking progressives frame the debate by hijacking your critical-thinking capability with emotional tricks.
Thank you.
It might help if ALL GOVERNMENT TEACHERS were actually, ya know, literate.
Several things in this life are constant, two of these are, the states desire for ever more onerous taxation/confiscation of wages and "educators" bleating for their share of that loot.
Hubba hubba hubba
Hooray!
And now to start the brainwashing (functional illiteracy) in pre-school.
The Progressive Dream
Gives new meaning to "Drones"
Can someone please read that article back to me?
It's all styrofoams fault, but Bloomturd is gonna ban that so those evil chemicals don't make us so dumb.
so that is whh liby was bombed. jealousy.
Yes, we hated them for their literacy.
In 1880 Swinton was invited to speak at a meeting of journalists in New York City about the freedom of the press. He outraged his colleagues by arguing: "There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
-source
So... they were outraged because he spoke the truth to them... because they wanted to hear the lie that they... printed the truth...
That's some good i-rony right there.
Remember any nation with banks that are too big and too connected to fail will have a corporate media that is to big and too connected to tell you the truth. Go find a good blogger if you want the truth.
i dont c how u cann say dis. Tings r fien since da guberment gibs me everyting.
Ah, so this explains why Congress disregards the Constitution......they simply can't read the motherfucker.
its a good thing the new generation of robots can read..................................
That's why you never type the real word in a captcha. The Mechanical turk mystery is really a million tiny hands that may or may not translate the document properly.
https://typersupport.zendesk.com/attachments/token/re3a6xtc1r0kxnx/?name...
See how the crap word and the real word are counted in the picture?
You can put any word as long as the nonsense word is correct. Some use curse words, others use 666, but a common understanding is if there is a money denomination that it's 0.00. Then all those legal documents are put back together in a complete and total mess.
The 'computer' reading books is a mechanical turk, the computer is only acting as a database. Anyone that fills it in is the actual "AI". I'm afraid the reports of our automation AI attempts in IT have been bald faced lies.
This sounds like it might be interesting. Can you explain more, please?
Americans are scientifically illiterate as well as innumerate; they don't understand exponential function:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
I think that is a "lowballed stat".
The bar is just low. It sounds like this is saying that 23% can identify the time of a meeting, but cannot identify an intersection on a map.
The percents seem to add up to 100%, which indicates that no one failed to identify the time of a meeting, which seems implausible. Maybe those people didn't make it to take the test.
The part I find interesting is how nearly uniform the three different literacy types are in that swirlograph (which is a piss poor way to represent data in my opinion).
You may be thinking of the IQ test results. The one where all the cutting edge humans read how to save the world from changing and the communist manifesto and were granted genius status in the click down the street.
The illiterates don't need to learn how to balance a checkbook. They just go stand in line for a new SNAP card.
Who needs to learn words , Just need to learn letters R and D
Ballots discriminate against the illiterate; the choices should have color coding, a picture of the candidate, an audio clip of each candidate's voice, in order to ensure votes are correctly counted.
And the little levers that you flip should be energized at 1000 volts, to discourage people from doing stupid shit like voting.
BZZZZZZTTTT
Your turn!
Ewe are a tottle d-wad for sayin' dat! Screw U Tieler! I'm quite good at littering.
And I wonder who they tended to vote for...
Hmmm; and no ethnicity breakout of the stats either...
DC and Bakersfield are not in their correct coordinates. Shows to go you.
I got duh map reading more bether.
Who knew that D.C. was west of Harrisburg, PA ... and Bakersfield is an island off the coast of Marin County?
Frickin' Level 1 illiterates ... keep 'em away from infographics.
Eye kin reed in rite ass will is ewe.
The other great problem is ilnumeracy, where a person may think that a billion is only a few dozen more than a million.
Ever since I took the Evelyn Woodhead sped ridin course, my ridin has im-PRO-v'd won-der-FULL-y. I ricommend these Evelyn Woodhed Speed Riddin Course to all my frens out there and you tell 'em that you heard it here first... on Roller Derby...
Don't give up the Ebonics
Tommy Chong, Knukles...
Angry black woman: Are you sayin' the Democratic Party don't care about the African-American community?
Bullworth: Isn't that OBVIOUS? You got half your kids are out of work and the other half are in jail. Do you see ANY Democrat doing anything about it? Certainly not me! So what're you gonna do, vote Republican? Come on! Come on, you're not gonna vote Republican! Let's call a spade a spade!
[Loud, angry booing]
Bullworth: I mean - come on! You can have a Billion Man March! If you don't put down that malt liquor and chicken wings, and get behind someone other than a running back who stabs his wife, you're NEVER gonna get rid of somebody like me.
So a quarter of the people in the US are on welfare and illiterate and another 25% are Government parasites.
How many productive Americans are carrying all these unproductive parasites?
Down to just you and me, Cupcake.
I believe the popular answer is 53%/47%.
The 47% refer to the people who receive government handouts greater than what they pay in. It does not count all government employees and government contractors, who are spending the money of the productive. I suspect 80% is closer to the real number.
But we elected 0bama!!!!
I suppose it depends on how one measures "literacy". Look at Eddie Van Halen for example, he never learned how to read english, yet he was a musical genius...and pretty damn good at handling his massive income.
I'll bet valerie bertinelli had a lot to do with that.
public education has been a success at what is was intended to accomplish
Here in Southern California the courts have a terrible time getting testimony and depositions. There are interpreters for nearly language spoken worldwide and still they can't figure out what is being said. One young fellow with tatoos was sent to nine different interpreters with no luck. Finally the court sent in an ex-gang member who also spoke English. Voila. They got their deposition.
An palsy afflicted finger sign reader?
(Gang signs)
25% born in another country, probably another 60 % were anchor babies.
I got my "smartmeter" opt. out shit today. $53. one time then $8.72mo...Fucking extortotion machine cock sucking sons o bitchin NV Energy!
Just get it. Then set a big ass magnet over the thing for a day or two.....
Are you including high school graduates in this number?
I are a engineer. I count good but maybe I donut spell so rite.
I almost believed you until I realized you spelled engineer entirely correct.
I actually double majored in engineering and European history. Also, I have made a living in the last ten years or so, translating 1st generation engineering requirements (avionics) into something that is clear and understandable.
Is somebody contemplating refitting a fleet equipped presently with vacuum-tube gear?
(Don't tell us: East German or Russian military?)
Not that I am aware of. However about 10 years ago (or so) the US Navy tried to run a destroyer using using Windows NT. The system locked up and the ship had to be towed back to port!
I love the irony of using dumbed down snapshot graphs in Yerkish to illustrate illiteracy.
"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave" - Frederick Douglass
The Matrix: Prison for your Mind - The Rabbit Hole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4zICmyuNvs (2:32)
Wasn't he a slave though?
She's hot.
So let me see if I have this correct; according to the bar chart above, 1 million illegals per year are adding to the illiteracy problem. Obama and the traitors on the Hill will grant them all amnesty, they will become legal, and the problem will be solved! Thanks once again Washington, I knew I could count on you to fix today's complex problems.
As a side note, adults score no better on reading comprehension tests when the text is read aloud to them than if they have to read it themselves. So illiteracy isn't a reading problem, it's something else.
I do not doubt that there are tens of millions of "illiterate" sheeple in Amerika.
On the other hand, being "literate" doesn't seem to make people more resistant to propaganda. The most literate people in Amerika are generally in the mainstream and are the useful servants of Empire. Remember that.
Like Oflogger . That's all he knows how to do. If someone asks him a real question he shuts down like a retarded robot.
dats purdee picsur wat et du sa
Civilization! - *Some Restrictions Apply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wiRhVzsXFM
Why read when you can just wait for the movie?
I had a book years ago, it was comprised of letters written by Civil War soldiers to home, loved ones and friends. Most of the enlisted men had at most three or four years of education, yet the prose of their letters read like that of today's university students. Grammar, spelling and punctuation was nearly perfect. They didn't have "spell checker" back then either. Explain that against the rhetoric we are told today about the need for ever more funding of public education.
Yet they too were taken in by the controlers, and killed their fellow man on their behalf. Sorry about the grammar, spelling and punctuation I'm one of the 9th grade drop outs.
Obviously, these letters were written by eccentric, conspiracy-theory-laden psycopaths who would be deemed nowadays as having a disorder of 'nonconformity', and should have been treated with psychotropic medications. They most likely grew up in the antiquated society which was driven by a two-parent family, taught 'moral principles', and raised to think that an honest day's work would result in an honest day's pay. NO DOUBT, they actually USED THEIR HANDS and got DIRTY while growing up...
PUBLIK EDUMACATION IS GOOD.
HOMESKULING IS BAD.
I thing that the CPS in your stait should look in to your inflammatory and derogatory comments regarding the idea that funding edukashun with taxses is not good.
YAH!
Call the LAPD or Janet, and pull a Waco or a Dorner!
Did you actually state that you can READ BOOKS?
BOOKS are BAD. They contain 'conspiracy theorist information' in them.
The FIRE DEPARTMENT will be brought into your sector (somewhere near Big Bear, CA.). The antiquated measure at which paper burns is Farenheight 451.
I wonder what temp causes a computer keyboard to melt? I am SURE it's LOWER!
GOOD COMMENT, Obsolete!
Burgess Meredith played in that Rod Serling teleplay...
Practically every home had a King James Bible in it, possibly some Shakespeare, likely Charles Dickens Washington Irving Louisa May Alcott or Mark Twain. And they read them too, reading aloud was a popular form of family entertainment.
The least literate city in socialist paradise Kommiefornia? Impossibru!
What unions has done good for what they work in?
WHERE NUMBER 1!!
USA! USA! USA!
Dammit
We're number one, Dammit!
the'yre, fikst it foar yoo.
TANKS!
The hedonistic conception of man is that of a lightning calculator of pleasures and pains, who oscillates like a homogeneous globule of desire of happiness under the impulse of stimuli that shift him about the area but leave him intact... He is an isolated, definitive human datum, in stable equilibrium except for the buffets of the impinging forces that displace him in one direction or another. Self-poised in elemental space, he spins symmetrically about his own spiritual axis until the parallelogram of forces bears down on him, whereupon he follows the line of the resultant.
The financial makeup of the conception of A man can be summed up in far less 'large' words than this:
IF YOUR OUTGO EXCEEDS YOUR INCOME, YOUR UPKEEP WILL BE YOUR DOWNFALL.
Hedonism is 'kewl', while you have other people's money to fund it.
Hedonists seem to tend towards the 'I am a genius at the financial algorythims' thingie.
They are always self-assured, but also fearful of the 'FLASH-CRASH' which could (and has) wipe(d) out all their so-called 'HOLDINGS' faster than a cockroach runs on a hot griddle.
They see the universe as a simple two-dimensional object (in your example, a 'parallelogram'), but the truly SOCIOPATHIC Hedonist sees the possibility of a contingency plan (or, the chance of another 'escape route').
Those Hedonists that are skilled in the old Boolean Algebra concept of 'Dimensional Arrays', see the universe differently than this. Every time they are 'squeezed' by the 'parallelogram', they worm out in a different direction, and resurface (as any good cockroach or flea can attest to),
Smart cowboys in Phoenix, Arizona, for example, wear pointy-toed boots for the sole reason that they are good for kicking cockroaches (or Hedonistic people) in corners (where they hide).
When Hedonists graduate into other realms, they become like fleas.
From the Latin:
'POLITICS':
A compound word, made up of 'POLI' ('many'), and 'TICS' (blood-sucking parasites that eventually kill the host body).
The BUFFETS of 'IMPINGING FORCES' sounds vaguely like the ORACLE from OMAHA. A guy who made lots of money by selling hosts which were laden with tics and fleas is MY HERO!
Someone is on FIRE today, and probably 'fueled' by caffeine if I had to guess ...
Kudos.
I love that Veblen quote. I love all the big words. He wrote that in 1898.
Thank you, Scottie, for being part of the 77%.
Blacks and illegal hispanics.
There, I said it out loud. The elephant in the room isn't going away unless it is addressed openly and honestly. The culture, not skin color, is brutal to a society.
How about those 'whiggers' ('white niggers') driving around with the loud little Japanese cars?
How about the white congressman that called the 'internet' a SERIES OF TUBES'?
How about the white guy that dreamed up the 'Chia Pet'? How about the stupid white people on the East Coast that actually BOUGHT IT?
HOW ABOUT THE WHITE GUYS IN SUITS AND TIES that run the current 'system' from Brussels or D.C.?
How about that white guy ROOSEVELT, that confiscated the GOLD, and also instituted this current EDUCATION SYSTEM?
LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
roosenveldt was...........a communist jew
hence. yalta
.
From C-SPAN Clinton Impeachment Hearings:
STARR:
'So, Mr. President, you were busy getting gratified orally by Monica Lewinsky, while 23% of the American public IS ILLITERATE!'
Clinton:
'It depends on what the definition of "is" is!'
Does anybody recognize the lyrics, and can they name the song and band?:
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying.
In a McDonand's 'Big Mac' (T.M.), there are 'two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun".
The frigging MAP shows Bakersfield somewhere near San Fransisco, so these 'illiteracy experts' obviously FAILED the section of the test entitled 'READING A MAP'!
Obama is taking care of this. He has proposed a new 'deal' which fully funds 'HEAD-START' for EVERY FAMILY that makes less than $45,000.00 a year (in the 'State-Of-The-ONION speech).
Yeah, Messiah Obama, get'em even YOUNGER!
Train for your New high tech job at the govt preschools. Another Probably solved. Colleges expand to offer 4 year degree programs to pass mandated Federal licensing and union membership.
"For the purposes of everyday life it was no doubt necessary, or sometimes necessary, to reflect before speaking, but a Party member called upon to make a political or ethical judgment should be able to spray forth the correct opinions as automatically as a machine gun spraying out bullets." – George Orwell, "1984"
No successful society shows a spontaneous tendency towards multiculturalism or multiracialism. Successful and enduring societies show a high degree of homogeneity. Those who support multiculturalism either do not know this or, what is more likely, realize that if they are to transform Western societies into strictly regulated, racial-feminist bureaucracies they must first undermine those societies.
This transformation is as radical and revolutionary as the project to establish Communism in the Soviet Union. Just as every aspect of life had to be brought under political control in order for the commissars to impose their vision of society, the multiculturalists hope to control and dominate every aspect of our lives. Unlike the hard tyranny of the Soviets, theirs is a softer, gentler tyranny but one with which they hope to bind us as tightly as a prisoner in the Gulag. Today's "political correctness" is the direct descendent of Communist terror and brainwashing.
Unlike the obviously Jewish implantation that was Communism, what makes multiculturalism particularly insidious and difficult to combat is that it usurps the moral and intellectual infrastructure of the West. Although it claims to champion the deepest held beliefs of the West, it is in fact a perversion and systematic undermining of the very idea of the West.
What we call "political correctness" actually dates back to the Soviet Union of the 1920s (politicheskaya pravil'nost' in Russian), and was the extension of political control to education, psychiatry, ethics, and behavior. It was an essential component of the attempt to make sure all aspects of life were consistent with ideological orthodoxy – which is the distinctive feature of all totalitarianisms. In the post-Stalin period,political correctness even meant that dissent was seen as a symptom of mental illness, for which the only treatment was incarceration.
As Mao Zedong put it, "Not to have a correct political orientation is like not having a soul." Mao's "Little Red Book" is full of exhortations to follow the correct path of Communist thought, and by the late 1960s Maoist political correctness was well established in American universities. The final stage of development, which we are witnessing now, is the result of cross-fertilization with all the latest "isms:" anti-racism, feminism, structuralism, and post-modernism, which now dominate university curricula. The result is a new and virulent strain of totalitarianism, whose parallels to the Communist era are obvious. Today's dogmas have led to rigid requirements of language, thought, and behavior, and violators are treated as if they were mentally unbalanced, just as Soviet dissidents were.
Some have argued that it is unfair to describe Stalin's regime as "Communist," pointing out that one man, no matter how ruthlessly he exercised power, could not control all the functions of such a state. But, in fact, he didn't have to. Communism was much more than state terror, censorship, and concentration camps; it was a state of mind in which the very idea of a private opinion or point of view had been destroyed. The Jewish/Communist propagandist forces people to believe that slavery is freedom, squalor is bounty, ignorance is knowledge, and that a rigidly closed society is the most open in the world. And once enough people are made to think this way, it is functionally Communist even if a single dictator does not personally control everything.
Today, of course, we are made to believe that diversity is strength, perversity is virtue, success is oppression, and that relentlessly repeating these ideas over and over is "tolerance and diversity." Indeed, the multicultural revolution works subversion everywhere, just as Communist revolutions did: judicial activism undermines the rule of law; "tolerance" weakens the conditions that make real tolerance possible; universities, which should be havens of free inquiry, practice censorship that rivals that of the Soviets. At the same time, we find a relentless drive for equality.
Today, Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" would have to be repackaged as "Crime and Counseling."
In the Communist era, the totalitarian state was built on violence. The purges of the 1930s and the Great Terror (which was Mao's model for the Cultural Revolution) used violence against "class enemies" to compel loyalty. Party members signed death warrants for "enemies of the people" knowing that the accused were innocent, but believing in the correctness of the charges. In the 1930s, collective guilt justified murdering millions of Russian peasants. As cited by Robert Conquest's book "The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine" (p. 143), the state's view of this class was, "not one of them was guilty of anything; but they belonged to a class that was guilty of everything." Stigmatizing entire institutions and groups makes it much easier to carry out wholesale change.
This, of course, is the beauty of "racism" and "sexism" for today's culture attackers – sin can be extended far beyond individuals to include institutions, literature, language, history, laws, customs, entire civilizations. The charge of "institutional racism" is no different from declaring an entire economic class an enemy of the people. "Racism" and "sexism" are multiculturalism's assault weapons, its Big Ideas, just as class warfare was for Communists, and the effects are the same.
If a crime can be collectivized all can be guilty because they belong to the wrong group. When young whites are victims of racial preferences they are today's version of the Russian peasants. Even if they themselves have never oppressed anyone they "belong to the race that is guilty of everything."
The purpose of these multi-cultural campaigns is to destroy the self. The mouth moves, the right gestures follow, but they are the mouth and gestures of a zombie, the new Soviet man or, today, PC-man. And once enough people have been conditioned this way, violence is no longer necessary. We reach steady-state Marxism, in which the vast majority know what is expected of them and play their allotted roles.
The Russian experiment with revolution and Communism social engineering has been fully chronicled by two of that country's greatest writers, Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn. They brilliantly dissect the methods and psychology of totalitarian control. Dostoevsky's "Devils (Oxford World's Classics)" has no equal as a penetrating and disturbing analysis of the revolutionary and utopian mind.
The "devils" are radical students of the middle and upper classes flirting with something they do not understand. The ruling class tries to ingratiate itself with them. The universities have essentially declared war on society at large. The great cry of the student radicals is freedom: freedom from the established norms of society, freedom from manners, freedom from inequality, freedom from the past.
Russia's descent into vice and insanity is a powerful warning of what happens when a nation declares war on the past in the hope of building a terrestrial paradise. Dostoevsky did not live to see the abominations he predicted but Solzhenitsyn experienced them first hand.
"The Gulag Archipelago" and "August 1914" can be seen as histories of ideas, as attempts to account for the dreadful fate that befell Russia after 1917. Solzhenitsyn identifies education and the way teachers saw their duty as instilling hostility to all forms of traditional authority as the major factors that explain why Russia's youth was seduced by revolutionary ideas. In the West, during the 1960s and 1970s – which can collectively be called "the 60s" – we hear a powerful echo of the collective mental capitulation of Russia that took place in the 1870s and continued through the revolution.
One of the echoes of Marxism that continues to reverberate today is the idea that truth resides in class (or sex or race or erotic orientation). Truth is not something to be established by rational inquiry, but depends on the perspective of the speaker. In the multicultural universe, a person's perspective is "valued" (a favorite word) according to class. Feminists, groids, environmentalists and faggots have a greater claim to truth because they are "oppressed." In the misery of "oppression" they see truth more clearly than the white heterosexual men who "oppress" them. This is a perfect mirror image of the Marxist proletariat's moral and intellectual superiority over the bourgeoisie. Today, "oppression" confers a "privileged perspective" that is essentially infallible. To borrow an expression from Robert Bork's "Slouching Towards Gomorrah," nig*er and feminist activists are "case-hardened against logical argument" – just as Communist true believers were.
Indeed, feminist and anti-racist activists openly reject objective truth. Confident that they have intimidated their opposition, feminists are able to make all kinds of demands on the assumption that men and women are equal in every way. When outcomes do not match that belief, this is only more evidence of white-male deviltry.
One of the most depressing sights in the West today, particularly in the universities and in the media, is the readiness to treat feminism as a major contribution to knowledge and to submit to its absurdities. Remarkably, this requires no physical violence. It is the desire to be accepted that makes people truckle to these middle-class, would-be revolutionaries. Peter Verkhovensky, who orchestrates murder and mayhem in The Devils, expresses it with admirable contempt: "All I have to do is to raise my voice and tell them that they are not sufficiently liberal." The race hustlers, of course, play the same game: Accuse a late-20th century liberal of "racism" or "sexism" and watch him fall apart in an orgy of self-flagellation and Maoist self-criticism. Even "conservatives" wilt at the sound of those words.
One of the echoes of Marxism that continues to reverberate today is the idea that truth resides in class (or sex or race or erotic orientation).Ancient liberties and assumptions of innocence mean nothing when it comes to "racism". You are guilty until proven innocent, which is nearly impossible, and even then you are forever suspect. An accusation of "racism" has much the same effect as an accusation of witchcraft did in 17th century Salem.
It is the power of the charge of "racism" that stifles the derision that would otherwise meet the idea that we should "value diversity." If "diversity" had real benefits whites would want more of it, and would ask that yet more cities in the U.S. and Europe be handed over to immigrants. Of course, they are not rushing to embrace diversity and multiculturalism; they are in headlong flight in the opposite direction. Valuing diversity is a hobby for people who do not have to endure its benefits (youknow Jews, and rich people).
A multicultural society is one that is inherently prone to conflict, not harmony. This is why we see a huge growth in government bureaucracies dedicated to resolving disputes along racial and cultural lines. These disputes can never be resolved permanently because the bureaucrats deny one of the major causes: race. This is why there is so much talk of the "multicultural" rather than the more precise "multiracial." Ever more changes and legislation are introduced to make the host society ever more congenial to racial minorities. This only creates more demands, and encourages the non-shooting war against whites, their civilization, and even the idea of the West itself.
How is such a radical program carried forward? The Soviet Union had a massive system of censorship – the Communists even censored street maps – and it is worth noting there were two kinds of censorship: the blatant censorship of state agencies and the more subtle self-censorship that the inhabitants of China soon learned.
The situation in the West is not so straightforward. There is nothing remotely comparable to Soviet-style government censorship and yet we have deliberate suppression of dissent. Arthur Jensen, Hans Eysenck, J. Philippe Rushton, Chris Brand, Michael Levin, and Glayde Whitney have all been vilified for their racial views. The case of Prof. Rushton is particularly troubling because his academic work was investigated by the police. The attempt to silence him was based on provisions of Canadian hate speech laws. This is just the sort of intellectual terror one expected in the old Soviet Union. To find it in a country that prides itself on being a pillar of Western democracy is one of the most disturbing consequences of multiculturalism.
A mode of opinion control softer than outright censorship is the current obsession with fictional role models. Today, the feminist and anti-racist theme is constantly worked into movies and television as examples of Bartold Brecht's principle that the Marxist artist must show the world not as it is but as it ought to be. This is why we have so many screen portrayals of wise black judges; street-wise, straight-shooting lady policemen; minority computer geniuses; and, of course, degenerate white men. This is almost a direct borrowing from Soviet-style socialist realism, with its idealized depictions of sturdy proletarians routing capitalist vermin.
Multiculturalism has the same ambitions as Soviet Communism. It is absolutist in the pursuit of its various agendas, yet it relativizes all other perspectives in its attack on its enemies. Multiculturalism is an ideology to end all other ideologies, and these totalitarian aspirations permit us to draw two conclusions: First, multiculturalism must eliminate all opposition everywhere. There can be no safe havens for counter-revolutionaries. Second, once it is established the multicultural paradise must be defended at all costs. Orthodoxy must be maintained with all the resources of the state.
Such a society would be well on its way to becoming Communist. It might not have concentration camps, but it would have re-education centers and sensitivity training for those sad creatures who still engaged in "white-male hegemonic discourse." Rather than the hard Communism of the Soviet state we would have a softer version in which our minds would be wards of the state. We would be liberated from the burden of thought and therefore unable to fall into the heresy of political incorrectness.
If we think of multiculturalism as yet another manifestation of 20th century totalitarianism, can we take solace in the fact that the Soviet Union eventually collapsed? Is multiculturalism a phase, a periodic crisis through which the West is passing, or does it represent something fundamental and perhaps irreversible?
Despite the efforts of pro-Soviet elements, the West recognized the USSR as a threat. It does not recognize multiculturalism as a threat in the same way. For this reason, many of its assumptions and objectives remain unchallenged. Still, there are some grounds for optimism, for example, the speed with which the term "political correctness" caught on. It took the tenured radicals completely by surprise, but it is only a small gain.
In the long term, the most important battleground in the war against multiculturalism is the United States. The struggle is likely to be a slow, frustrating war of attrition. If it fails, the insanity of multiculturalism is something white Americans (and soon after that, white europeans) will have to live with. Of course, at some point whites may demand an end to being punished because of black failure. As Prof. Michael Hart argues in "The Real American Dilemma" (published by New Century Foundation and available from American Renaissance (American Renaissance) for $11.95, postage paid), there could be racial partition of the United States. We may find that what happened in the Balkans is not peculiar to that part of the world. Race war is not something the affluent radicals deliberately seek but their policies are pushing us in that direction.
I have argued so far that the immediate context for understanding political correctness and multiculturalism is the Soviet Union and its catastrophic utopian experiment. And yet the PC/multicultural mentality is much older. In "Reflections on the Revolution in France," Edmund Burke offers a portrait of the French radicals that is still relevant 200 years after he wrote it:"They have no respect for the wisdom of others; but they pay it off by a very full measure of confidence in their own. With them it is sufficient motive to destroy an old scheme of things, because it is an old one. As to the new, they are in no sort of fear with regard to the duration of a building run up in haste; because duration is no object to those who think little or nothing has been done before their time, and who place all their hopes in discovery."
Of course, multiculturalism is far from being a solution to racial or cultural conflict. Quite the contrary. Multiculturalism is the road to a special kind of hell that we have already seen in this gruesome 20th century, a hell that man, having abandoned reason and in revolt against God's order, builds for himself and others.
http://www.reversespins.com/pcmarx.html
Well I tried to read all that, but after the second paragraph my lips got tired.
yup.......rong phorum
That's ok, you missed the same old .....ah...what was I saying?....ah...they're better than us...we're pig monkeys and they know everything there is to know....I wonder if they knew I was going to tell you that I am going to piss on their graves if I stumble upon them.
I'll shit on yours, jew.
After I dig you up and tatoo a star on your fucking jew forehead
Just say no to manifesto posts !
the fuck is this, a la raza gathering?
Que ?
If you were really good, you could project your xenophobia, racism, ignorance, and self-absorption in, oh, say... less than 48,823 words.
ok how's this?
asia for asians
africa for africans
mexico for mexicans
kikistan for "jews"
the middle east for moslems
but White Countries for EVERYONE?
here is who is responsible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QoJGvEVogI
why on earth should I take money of my labor from my community and family to give it to disgusting, illegitimate, affirmative action blacks?
communist, khazarian "jews" are cultural, moral, biological PLAGUES
Thanks for condensing your above, much longer post. I got tired just scrolling past it.
Imagine how quickly things could be resolved if, among all our colors, there were only one of you.
Good fences make good neighbors.
illegals and blacks are drains imported here for the sole purpose of breaking the system.
Naw dude, white guys just wanna capitalize on their cheap.
Free labor; slaves, cheap labor Latinos.
You have noticed that, right?
Sure.
'MERIKA!
FUK YEAH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX5ZRE26YWM
FULL SCREEN, BITCHEZ!
Lest we forget the new Texas twang of our President for some unknown and ungodly reason.
Methinks we have a new troll with whichway (which might be hard to say fast 10 times in a row). Yeah! Hmm .... sincere, trolling for fun or government sock puppet - you be the judge.
Speaking of sock puppets ... I was following Twitter last night on the #dorner thing via Twitter search and for a period of time I swear the hashtag was invaded by every women offering online sex in the US. It was weird and no not related to my personal browsing habits but made me nervous about clicking on any link on the feed. This is what cyber warfare against citizens will look like going forward (I think).
And on Dorner. Sorry but there are some serious issues with the MSM story. Aside from ID showing up in multiple locations and surviving an intense fire- oh ya just like 911 when the that atta guys passport floated down....
Go fuck yourself you idiotic, self-important moronic twat
thanks!
Methinks your whore jew mother shat out an insufferable loser
I'm a Jew lover .... do I get lumped in with your Hymies ?
the fact that you capitalize the word "jew" says it all
WAY too many words!
I am going to go back and try to find the book thst the woman is reading in the picture at the beginning of the article.
I like frizzy-haired little sluts who can actually SMILE while holding a large object in their hands. I have seen them smile, and also seen them as they held the Large Object, but, usually, they get scared as I present them with the large object and ask them to smile (at the same time).
Your post must have taken a long time to compose (unless, of course, it was written, either previously; or by someone else). It's sort of like arguing about the size of a particular camel that can pass through the 'eye of the needle' (the east gate of entry into the OCCULT CITY).
'MULTIICULTURALISM' is NOT the 'enemy'.
Actually, it is EXACTLY the enemy.
Fillibuster Much?
Just read from the phonebook next time..
fuck off, jew
Jew, moron.
Matrix Farts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hllwWjyIEw
I don't think that a majority of that illiterate 25% want to read. English anyway....
And Bakersfield is a tell there.
I need some advice from you guys. I have a little bit of money saved up and Im considering getting into options trading. Ive dabbled in it before, won some, lost some, but by no means am I an experienced trader. Last time I traded I made a little money betting on the collapse of silver prices in may 2011. Is now a good time to get back into trading options? or is the market to rigged for a novice to make money?
Any serious opinions are appreciated. Thanks.
As a buyer of options, you will lose on most of them due to time value decay, even if you beat the 50/50 chance of getting the direction correct.
As a seller of options, you can make steady income from time value decay. But every few years, a six-sigma event will come along and wipe you out.
Bottom line, options are a shitty game, unless you're a masochist and enjoy the thrill and agony and moral exaltation of being a loser.
If you still insist on messing around with options, at least do something sensible with a back-tested track record:
http://www.cboe.com/micro/bxm/
Seat-of-the-pants option trading will lose all of your money, guaranteed.
There are obviously some disconnects between YOU and an insider trader.
Three or 10 commodities should be invested in.
Of course, the USD is as sound as a Pound, so you should immediately change your investment portfolio to this lucrative, negative-interest investment. If you have any of that physical Silver that you are whining about owning, you can send it to me, and I will immediately ask the Bernank to print up some duckets, which i will give you in trade for that worthless metal.
TELL US HOW the trades in worthless FEDSCRIP is going to 'GROW' your 'PORTFOLIO'.
Do you really think that this is 'BETTING', like in LAS VEGAS, where the HOUSE ALWAYS WINS? " Last time I traded I made a little money betting on the collapse of silver prices..."
I am bullish on:
LEAD
BRASS
ANTIMONY
WATER
FOOD
CLOTHING
SHELTER
If you have brass, lead, and antimony, you can take silver or gold as you wish.
The ladies prefer perfume and tampons, and razor blades and pepper are favorites with both sexes.
That's TEN.
OOPS. That's ELEVEN.
Are you FRIIGING SERIOUS, DUCKY?
wes iz not .just fat fingered
Illiterate? No problem. Write me for details.
UMMM...
Do you have PICTURES?
meanwhile the 10 year treasury yield is down 17 cents at this hour...
Time for Jeff Rense....Tim Rifat...Jay Weidner...Jim Marrs
http://www.renseradio.com/listenlive.htm
NASA: Never A Straight Answer
heh..i thought POTUS said NUMERACY was the problem (may be why he got so many votes)......AND from the comments after the article
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Funny that it mentions locating a place on a map as a type of literacy, and then mistakenly places Bakersfield in Northern California. Reply · https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yX/x/U9AwDhGgiju.png); display: inline-block; height: 13px; width: 15px; margin-right: 2px; vertical-align: text-top; background-position: -33px -170px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">1 ·
· about an hour ago
I wish I cuold spell better then this
cause my homies wuold think i'm the shits
at the libary studien the grammer
my speeches i wuoldnt still stammer
i'm hopin my tele-promter do not quits
-choom
Bummer. At one point I tried to dumb down and make things simpler and that is really stupid for someone like me.
Is this a problem? Heck, Canada has a Senator that is an admitted functional illiterate!
Safest custodian of launch codes.