Tag: The Bell Curve

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Conservatives are finally seeing the results of what has been a long overdue reckoning with diversity, equity, and inclusion. Across the economy and the wider institutional landscape, once enthusiastic champions of race-based preference are now retrenching. Major corporations like Walmart, Lowe’s, Meta, and others are scaling back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs amid legal and political pressure. Walmart has abandoned its formal DEI commitments and begun phasing out racial equity initiatives.  (more…)

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The new upper-class culture is different from mainstream American culture in all sorts of ways. — Charles Murray, Coming Apart

And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here? — Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime”

Charles Murray
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
New York: Crown Forum, 2012 (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Melanin’s Deficiency, 2021.

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Last week, doddering President-Elect Joe Biden nominated a black female lawyer named Kirsten Clarke to head the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Referring to the Brooklyn-born daughter of Jamaican immigrants as “one of the most distinguished civil rights attorneys in America,” the CIA robots who control Biden’s cyber-brain transmitted the following words through his thin, dry, cracked lips:

“The Civil Rights division represents the moral center of the Department of Justice. And the heart of that fundamental American ideal that we’re all created equal and all deserve to be treated equally.” (more…)