Phil Eiger Newmann, Rules of the Game 2021.
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In the immediate wake of 2013’s Boston Marathon bombing, writer David Sirota — a skinny dork with delusions of being a tough guy — wrote an article for Salon.com called “I Hope the Bomber is a White American.”
I hope that Sirota was disappointed to the point of lifelong fecal incontinence that the bombers turned out to be a pair of foreign-born Chechen Muslim brothers with an axe to grind against all things white and American.
On Monday, in the immediate wake of a mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, battalions of whiteness-loathing social-media dorks didn’t even stop at “hoping” the shooter was white — they declared he was white and launched into the shopworn, threadbare, statistically unsupported memes about the mere fact that he was taken into custody alive proves he was white, because police shoot all black suspects dead — even if they’re innocently standing around holding a phone — whereas they treat all white criminals with kid gloves.
Mind you, these are the same innumerate shlubs who bemoan the fact that there are currently over two million blacks in the American corrections system who magically didn’t get shot dead when they were taken into custody. They are also the same shrieking turds who avoid all discussion about the fact that there isn’t a single category in the FBI Uniform Crime Reports that blacks aren’t overrepresented, often to an absurd degree.
Meena Harris is the niece of Kamala Harris. While the blood was still wet and sticky in the supermarket aisles, she tweeted “The Atlanta shooting was not even a week ago. Violent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country.”
When it was revealed that the suspect was a Muslim Syrian immigrant who left ten dead white bodies, she deleted the original tweet but burped up the following alibi:
I deleted a previous tweet about the suspect in the Boulder shooting. I made an assumption based on his being taken into custody alive and the fact that the majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are carried out by white men.
What she said is technically correct, but one of the multifarious reasons that blacks score the lowest of any racial group on standardized math tests is that they struggle with the idea of “per capita versus raw numbers.”
In raw numbers from 1982 to the present, whites committed around 54% of all mass shootings — a slight majority. But depending on whether or not you count “white Hispanics” as white, America currently hovers around 60% to 70% white. Therefore, whites are statistically underrepresented when it comes to mass shootings, whereas blacks — who are presumed to never commit mass shootings — are overrepresented, just as they are among serial killers.
In the immediate aftermath of New Zealand’s 2019 Christchurch shootings, Ahmad Alissa — the suspect in the Boulder massacre — shared the following Facebook post from another user:
The Muslims at the #christchurch mosque were not the victims of a single shooter. They were the victims of the entire Islamophobia industry that vilified them.
I doubt that Alissa or anyone in the mainstream American media would say that the ten dead white bodies in Boulder were victims of an entire anti-whiteness industry that vilified them. It’s the same anti-whiteness industry that declares all whites are guilty of, participate in, and benefit from white supremacy merely by dint of being born white.
You can buy Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin here.
In 2018, Alissa was convicted of misdemeanor assault for sucker-punching a white student while in class. None of the witnesses — nor Alissa himself — claims that his victim said anything to him that day that immediately precipitated the assault. Instead, he told police in his 89% white hometown of Arvada, Colorado that he felt his victim was laughing at him along with other students, even though he denied that his victim was pointing at him or even looking at him while laughing. He did claim, however, that the victim had called him “racial slurs” a week or so earlier.
Well, there you go — there’s your white-supremacy angle. He was bullied by white supremacists in an overwhelmingly white town until he was forced to strike back to defend his dignity by any means necessary.
I have no idea whether or not Alissa was taunted for being a Syrian-born Muslim by his white classmates, but I’m reasonably sure that if I’d attended high school in Syria, the other students would have found a way to “other” me in ways that were less than kind. Right or wrong, that tends to be how majority populations treat outsiders all across the globe.
As a result of his anti-white hate crime, Alyssa was sentenced to a brutal and unforgiving 48 hours of community service.
Angel Hernandez, who was a member of the high-school wrestling team along with Alissa, suggests that the accused mass murderer was another hate-crime hoaxer in the making:
He would talk about him being Muslim and how if anybody tried anything, he would file a hate crime and say they were making it up. . . . He was always talking about (how) people were looking at him and there was no one ever where he was pointing people out. We always thought he was messing around with us or something.
If Hernandez is telling the truth, Ahmad Alissa was fully aware he lived in a society where a nonwhite could get away with attacking a white by falsely claiming to have been attacked for his ethnicity. I’m fully aware of this, too, because a quarter-century ago, I experienced it from the other end.
I’ve found a lot of evidence suggesting that Alissa is a paranoid schizophrenic and zero hard evidence that he was ever bullied for being nonwhite.
His older brother Ali — who blamed “mental illness” rather than “politics” for the shooting spree — said that for years, Ahmad said that he felt he was constantly being tracked and stalked:
When he was having lunch with my sister in a restaurant, he said, “People are in the parking lot, they are looking for me.” She went out, and there was no one. We didn’t know what was going on in his head.
In 2019, Ahmad Alissa made two online posts suggesting that “racist islamophobic [sic] people” at his high school had been hacking his phone.
One thing Alissa had in common with Atlanta spa shooter Robert Aaron Long was an inability to get laid, but I don’t see many people attempting to pin the massacre on inceldom.
Although Alissa is only 21, he’s grossly overweight with “a major bald spot on the top of his head,” yet no one is suggesting that his killing spree was caused by body-shaming. Even after the shooting, his own sister-in-law told reporters that Alissa was so fat that he “looked like he was pregnant.”
I haven’t seen anyone in the MSM pondering whether a yearlong mass lockdown might make people go crazy, regardless of their ethnicity or ideology.
You won’t see any of the paid-and-controlled yippity-yappers suggest that both this massacre and the Atlanta spa shooting indicate that perhaps multiculturalism doesn’t work.
And except for here and a dwindling number of other outlets, you are guaranteed to never hear anyone ponder whether the endless media and educational canting against whiteness brainwashed Ahmad Alissa into feeling justified for taking out a supermarket full of crackers.
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I think you guys are making a terrible mistake with instituting a paywall, just as you’re becoming a more well-known site. I understand you’re trying to make a living, but I think limiting your exposure this early will hurt your business. This movement is just sprouting, people I’ve known for years as apolitical or as egalitarians are beginning to see their mistake. Zerohedge was unsuccessful in its attempt to go paywall. I hope you rec.
Agreed, having to pay for one single article out of the three to four that are posted everyday for free is flat out extortion. Anything less than four free articles a day is anudda shoah, Greg won’t get away with this dastardly scheme of his, I’ll be notifying the UN Human Rights Council of his criminal activities posthaste.
Interesting that the other two commenters did not address his point which I think was reasonable, they just ascribed poverty or miserliness to him. I think that’s lame.
I too have reservations about this plan which are nothing to do with the cost.
I’ve bit my tongue so far as I wish CC well. But if this is a sign of what’s to come, that subscribers assume a position to demean and scoff at non-subscribers then I think it’s a shame that Greg wants to create something like that.
I hope Greg does reconsider some of this. If he’s totally intent on this I would hope he drop the two tiered comments system with a blue check mark at very least.
I’m not a subscriber so my previous comment, and this one, went through the queue and his point is weak, Greg said nothing topical would be locked and I’ve never had to wait more than an hour for my comment to be moderated when posting earlier in the day, otherwise it shows up the next day. I don’t assume CC readers have the memory of a goldfish so naturally don’t think it’s a big deal to wait a day between replies. I suggested that he’s being hyperbolic and concern trolling because he’s implying the website is going somehow limit exposure by locking a single non topical article a day behind a paywall which I think is absurd quite frankly hence my over the top response mocking it.
There’s probably been a sizable jump in traffic that would’ve otherwise went to Taki’s just from having Jim Goad here let alone whoever gets hired next with the surplus of the new funding goal. The most viewed articles having Jim’s at the top is seems to be evidence of this, if you or the OP have proof that this paywall system will irreparably damage viewership then I’m willing to be corrected. And no I don’t consider a dime a dozen cucked lolbertarian website having their paywall backfire as irrefutable proof that this is a bad idea for a WN website, just more absurdity as far as I’m concerned.
Whenever I do get around to subscribing I’ll likely lose my privilege since I’ve had comments deleted before for being a smart ass and that’s fine, CC doesn’t owe me a damn thing regardless of whatever I donate. I could get perma banned for all I care and I’d still make it a point to donate because I enjoy the site and want it to be successful. The fact is I wouldn’t have said anything if he didn’t make claims that, to me, seem both ridiculous and disingenuous.
By the way he’s free to respond to and correct what I said, just as you indirectly did, I’m not some protected elite that has the reply button turned off on my posts, not yet anyway. I can’t speak for anyone else but I assure you I’ll still respond to posts subliminally written about me, if not directly at me, when I get those special privileges that you’re implying I’ll have when I do get around to subscribing. I’m not at all conflict averse nor am I one to be uppity but I am opinionated and I really dislike when people say things that I think are blatant bullshit especially when it looks like concern trolling to me.
Ok…well thanks for replying.
Personally, I find the priorities skewed in what you’ve written. I appreciate you mean well, but some of it is not that different from what one might find on a Star Trek fan forum or something.
One of my points of concern is this is where Greg could be tempted to go. I’m not saying it *will* happen.. frankly no one has ‘proof’ about the future, which again feels like straw man forum fodder talk, all we can do is speculate. I’m saying it’s a potential source of concern where fandom could become prioritized over meaning.
At the same time, I’m not saying it’s wrong or bad to like CC and want to support it, I’m saying that CC has done better than most to keep the standard of interaction here high and what a shame if that were to become compromised with some new system.
I didn’t find the OP concern trolling and I can see little to be gained by doing so.
Other points are easier to address to Greg when he posts something here about the paywall again, which I see he has done.
I’m looking at this from the perspective that Greg had to ask for donations very late in the year to hit the funding goal, that goal was set before hiring Jim by the way. It’s incredibly stressful when you have employees and bills to pay to keep the site running. I’ve ran businesses and know very well how anxious it can be keeping your employees paid when money isn’t consistently coming in.
So when he made a comment asking Greg to go back to the utter chaos of kindly asking people to donate before the year is over when he was already running late, even before his goal was increased, then used an apples to oranges comparison to justify it, it really stuck out to me as concern trolling. Until an explanation is given for how ZH is identical to CC I’m maintaining that it’s a blatantly dishonest argument against the paywall.
The fact is he has employees and bills to pay, he wants to expand the site and he wants a reliable source of income which is difficult to do since he’s deplatformed from selling books at the biggest book retailers, banned from major sites like Youtube and blacklisted from the most convenient methods of accepting donations. In the face of all that his comment absolutely looks to me like he’s totally unsympathetic to the struggles Greg goes through to do what he does and that is why I made a facetious comment exposing how absurdly weak and dishonestly framed his comment was.
So yes I am biased and I just so happen to have arguments to back up my biased views, you however have only made accusations, claimed all sorts of things with no explanation whatsoever beyond stating your feelings and pooh poohed what I’ve said in response instead of addressing any of it. That right there is the exact reason I tend to make facetious comments, I could’ve done just that in response to you and would’ve ended up in the same place sans the time I spent explaining myself. I’ll be sure to be more efficient in my response to you next time you make a passing accusation against me.
As for the other things you said about the comments generally, that was never the point of my response. Everything I wrote was solely to address the accusations you made towards me, anything outside of that is immaterial to the point. I think there’s already commenters here who are treated with kid’s gloves compared to others, I have examples to back this up but the destination of this conversation is clearly preordained to end in disagreement and you effortlessly hand-waving away everything I say with no actual substance so I won’t bother.
Thanks for this.
You are right: fundraising is enormously stressful. I am hoping the paywall makes it less stressful, more automatic, and more successful as whole.
And yes, his comments smack of concern trolling.
The fact that this is a post-‘War on Terror’ massacre pretty much explains the alacrity with which (((media))) has moved on and casually let it bury under other ‘newsworthy’ stuff.
As we have entered the ‘War on White Terror’ era, an immigrant Ahmad from Syria after pumping bullets into his victims cannot now be deemed to have taken ‘inspiration’ from a Baghdadi or Awlaki. That narrative has outlived its significance.
Just read the latest unclassified assessment of The Office of The Director of National Intelligence released a few days back. According to the ‘Intelligence Community, the biggest threat is now ‘Domestic (read White) violent Extremism’.
https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/UnclassSummaryofDVEAssessment-17MAR21.pdf
When the Jews and Wahabis are recognizing each other and making common cause against Shia Iran and one of the most seasoned Deep State animals, Zalmay Khalilzad, is busy negotiating with the Taliban for an ‘honorable’ exit from Afghanistan, it doesn’t suit the bureaucratic communication warriors to insist on the ‘OBL/Al Qaeda vs West’ drama. After all, Sunni terror outfits like Jabhat Al Nusra, the Libyan Islamic Movement, Daesh, etc. have served (((Western))) interests in the past decade in one way and another.
You are right, the Boulder shooting is plainly connected to the Syrian imbroglio. We should not lose sight of the geopolitics in seeking the racial angle.
America faces utter humiliation and the collapse of its imperium should it undertake military action against Iran, whether alone or in harness with the Saudis and Britain.
Will the neoconservative players controlling the Biden Administration’s foreign policy finally learn that even chutzpah is subject to hubris?
I highly doubt Al Issa is legitimately 21. His parents (if they are his biological parents and not other more distant relatives) obviously claimed a false birth date for him due to immigration status or school or some other illegality. If it’s true they came to the US in 2001 (again, I don’t presume anything the media prints is accurate), then he would have qualified as their child as long as he was under 18. Perhaps they merely wanted to claim he was younger than he was because of his stupidity, so that he could pretend to be the same age cohort as his classmates in American schools (like the all American name Angel Hernandez).
Regardless, his family is fully read up on the diversity racket and milking it to the hilt. His mother ordered away a reporter from her property. His brother-in-law claims he was merely an incel and not a good Mohammedan (i.e. could not possibly have been motivated by sudden Jihad syndrome). But his father’s social media is fully of triumphant Mohammedanism and beatifies Erdogan who’s successfully re-Islamized Ataturk’s officially secular Turkey.
Fact: He is a Syrian Mohammedan and not a European American. He is not my people.
Fact: He killed clueless Whites, even going back and ensuring kill shots before surrendering to the police. He acted with malice aforethought and planning. Most of the Whites he killed were boomer aged, so none of them were responsible for his not having a girlfriend.
Fact: Non-Whites immediately attributed his crime to racism and mental illness rather than malice and ethnic resentment and hatred.
Everything will be made to serve the woke narrative in one way or another. None of the details really matter, because ultimately, it’s all about race. Always and everywhere.
Actually whites aren’t even a majority of mass shootings:
https://newscetera.com/2019-data-shows-51-of-mass-shooters-were-black-only-29-were-white/
Furthermore, almost all statistics on mass shootings specifically exclude drug-related crimes. Guess which races mass shooter numbers sky rocket if you include drug-related shootings…
That’s only data for the year 2019. I specified I was citing data from 1982 to 2021.
Now you went and did it Jim!
lol
Fake news reports this bearded fella was not taken to a Burger King to have it his way like the heroic Kyle Rittenhouse but rather to the Allah Snackbar for some Hamas hummus.
Sirota is “orphan” in Russian. A typical Jewish name, of course.
Doesn’t the mug shot of Alissa appear doctored or overexposed so as to make him appear like a European white male? All the other pics look distinctly middle eastern.
‘ a skinny dork with delusions of being a tough guy ‘
Oh Jim.
Mr Goad,
Your writing is a breath of fresh air on a cloudy day here in the moderately white Midwest. The cartoon is fantastic. The only Jewish bad guy for the last few years, according to the news, was Epstein and look how well they took care of him.
I guess the FBI doesn’t track white collar crime. I suspect blacks would not register in that statistic. The line about all those blacks locked up that somehow dodged a storm of bullets from their oppressors is classic. It added a new perspective for me.
Hey Mr. Goad,
California’s Dept of Education just passed that “Model Ethnic Studies Curriculum” for our schools, the one with the chanting to Aztec gods to bring about racial justice.
https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/cdereceditsesmc.asp
You can download it at this link to skim it, but I noticed the area around pages 9 through 12 of chapter 5 have a maniacal gem of a song for students to sing.
I wanted to summarize it but my writing skill can’t do it justice.
The whole thing is smattered with this crazy shit. At least jewish groups are whining that it takes too much focus away from the Holocaust, so hopefully they get sued to hell and back.
KALI MA! KALI MA! KALIFORNIA!
And to clarify, this WAS APPROVED, it’s not just a proposal anymore. The lefty sites are celebrating it.
Also check out the “human barometer activity on ch5 pg3, the intent for it to enforce conformity is obvious.
Shaun King recently said something in relation to all of this. He, or they rather, “just want black people to be treated like white people are”. But we know that is bullshit. They want white people to be treated how they (or propagate) how they think blacks are. So in other words, they want blacks to get lighter sentences for rape, they want white shot dead, ect….but of course equality even in that respect isn’t what they want either. They just want whites at the bottom.
I was saying outloud to my girlfriend looking at white people who rush to social media hoping so bad the lunatic who slaughtered people looks like them and shares the same DNA. Why they love to throw fire on their own race, in the process throwing it on themselves. Which is the beauty of it all. Look at how many whites who suffer the wrath of non whites and get cancelled previously played lipservice to them. Take for instance Sharon Osbourne, who was no doubt the mastermind behind the Black Lives Matter shirts done in the font on one of Black Sabbath’s classic records with the money going to the NAACP. Her efforts really paid off huh? She’s a white supremacist now and she deserves it because as somebody pointed out, if Floyd was a long haired dope smoking Sabbath fan shot by cops, she nor would anyone give a fuck.
Sharon Osbourne was born Sharon Rachel Levy.
This is an unusual case in that this guy is phenotypically White but still an alien to most Americans, including the media. Only his name stands out. It’s a good reminder that diversity is “problematic” not just racially, but in every way.
What I find most troubling is the fact that Kamala Harris has a niece. I hope that’s the extent of that family.
As much fun as it is to besmirch an entire race or belief system based on the actions of the odd spree shooter, generally speaking the only thing they have in common is being nutty as fruitcakes.
Last week’s shootings occurred because the shooter has a sex addiction and wanted to eliminate temptation. So he’s apparently attracted to Hispanic men.
Do you want to be where he’ll be living with a “sex addiction?” Rooming with people whose favorite recording artist is Ghostface Killah? They have sex addictions, too.
Didn’t think that through.
Friends and family of this week’s shooter say he thought people were out to get him so apparently he decided they all shop at the same grocery store.
That’s nutty. Cray-cray, if you will.
If you add up all the casualties from all the mass shootings, won’t it just look like Labor Day weekend in Chicago where people like Tay Tay and L’il Mookie take out people for wearing the wrong color shirt?
Or a typical Mardi Gras season in New Orleans when lives are lost in disputes over beads and trinkets?
Let’s not let that stop us from using batshit bozos as agenda fodder and talking points for Kamala Harris’s relatives.
This shooting coming right after the Atlanta one IS rather interesting. It does make one wonder. As soon as a Democrat gets in office, shitloads of the exact sort of scenarios they need to implement their polices happen. But I won’t allow myself to fall into that trap.
Anyway, since race can’t be blamed, they are focusing on the type of gun used. Looking at MSM reports of it, one would assume an assault rifle floated on it’s own into the store. Zero mention of the person who pulled the trigger.
…and of course despite the body count being bigger than Atlanta, there is STILL more talk about the Atlanta one. Liberals are the biggest big mouths of anyone, but despite their apparent care for humanity and victims, have no problem quickly brushing things under a carpet.
In fact, it’s rather interesting and funny how as soon as Biden win, even the most loud radicals suddenly as “bored with politics” and are now back to sharing funny cat videos.
Slightly off topic, but I haven’t seen any articles about a disgusting anti-White film that recently came out funded by the band rage against the machine. In it such shameful acts like getting a little White girl to cry when she admits she’s White, and having a joo teach a bunch of White children that Whites don’t exist, yet are still responsible for all the world’s problems. Kosher productions like this are one of the reasons non-Whites like this syrian creature are free to kill. But, like Mr. Johnson says, our enemies are playing right into our hands with this madness. To continue to vilify Whites, yet also insist that Whiteness is a made-up label, they counterintuitively are increasing White consciousness. They should remember that the vilification of joos, though well warranted in their case, by National Socialist Germany, eventually led to a jish state. What will this vilification of Whites lead to? I think, inevitibly, a similar situation. A White state, or, at the very least a massive increase in White identity politics.
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