The following racial diagram is derived from the genetic data (no “self identified race” is used as input) via a technique called “GAMOVA” in a paper by Caroline M. Nievergelt, Ondrej Libiger and Nicholas J. Schork titled “Generalized Analysis of Molecular Variance”:

This isn’t the first time genetic correlation structure has shown that race precedes the “social construction of race”.  Andrew D. Skol et al in “An Algorithm to Construct Genetically Similar Subsets of Families with the Use of Self-Reported Ethnicity Information” used a computer program called STRUCTURE to demonstrate that the genetic data contains the correlation structures prior to “socially constructed” race and matches that “social construct” very closely.

However, in the abstract for “Generalized Analysis of Molecular Variance” we read:

However, many of these strategies are either rooted in cluster analysis techniques, and hence suffer from problems inherent to the assignment of the biological and statistical meaning to resulting clusters, or have formulations that do not permit easy and intuitive extensions. We describe a very general approach to the problem of assessing genetic background diversity that extends the analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) strategy introduced by Excoffier and colleagues some time ago. As in the original AMOVA strategy, the proposed approach, termed generalized AMOVA (GAMOVA)

So a question to the more technically literate readers:

How do these techniques compare in their results and how might their differences affect the potential for Removing Lewontin’s Fallacy From Hamilton’s Rule, hence extending the theory of Ethnic Genetic Interests and providing a stronger foundation for Universal Nationalism?

The Jerusalem Post reports that:

The new Symantec figure does not mean that a high proportion of Israel’s 3.7 million Internet users engage in “malicious activities,” cautioned Reznik. [Ricardo Reznik, vice president for Marketing at Rosh Ha’ayin-based TrekIT—JAB]

Although Israel tops the ranking in per capita Internet abuse, in absolute terms it does not even place in the top 10, lagging far behind the top-ranked USA, the world’s largest Web market, which accounts for 31% of the malicious activity.

This doublespeak is just too cute:

A high “proportion of…users” is not a high “per capita” according to one of Israel’s top authorities on Internet security (according to the Jerusalem Post).

Just to be clear on what a “high proportion” is, they tell us to look “in absolute terms [Israel] does not even place in the top 10”.

How perfect…

Even ignoring the relative transparency of the attempt to obfuscate the statistics—an endearingly minor rhetorical crime compared to the standards set by movements documented in MacDonald’s “The Culture of Critique”—this is one reason I am an Oslo Accord Zionist.  Various people make statements about “Jews” as a group, but what better way to test those predictions than the behavior of a Jewish national ecology?

Please, I’m not being coy or sarcastic here.  I genuinely think Zionism is the most admirable aspect of Jewish character and I’m not being sarcastic or coy there either.  I’m saying a lot.  High verbal intelligence of the Ashkenazim Jews is another admirable trait of Jews and is nothing to be sniffed at (verbal IQ is the best predictor of economic development in a nation).  Zionism is honest.  Zionism tests Jewish character.  Zionism provides Jews much fewer excuses for failure and much more difficult routes by which accounts of “human accomplishment” may be confused with parasitism of others.  Zionism is anti-vectorist.

Zionist Jews who are honest enough about their Jewish identity to actually move to Israel, unlike the essentially hypocritical Zionist diaspora Jews, should not be a scape goat for the activities of diaspora Jews.  That’s just too easy, and ultimately intellectually dishonest of Jews (like Soros) and “anti-semites” alike.

Life and blogging are sometimes unpredictable.  A week ago I put up a fairly extensive post on metapolitics and Man.  In it I drew together some strands of what, in my addled brain, passes for philosophical thought.  There was nothing there that hasn’t been aired before at MR, and none of it was very remarkable, no doubt.

Even so, whenever one goes out on a limb in this way it is always with an expectation that the most godawful humiliation lies just around the corner.  After all, we are intellectual gunslingers of a sort and MR is, if not Dodge City exactly, certainly somewhere the tumbleweed rolls.

So after posting the piece I waited, as one does, for the saloon doors to swing open and the fun to start.  I was disappointed.

Then two days ago I posted an innocuous little piece about the popular redefinition of language not by the left now, and still less by the incompetent right, but by our children.  This wasn’t a controversial or dangerous post.  It was intended as light reading.  My holster stayed hanging on the hook behind the door.  So why, pray, have so many people taken it upon themselves to start shooting?

In a word, Wintermute, I suppose.  But, really, all he did was to light up an unmissably large target for lots of MR folks who really, really don’t like neoliberalism.  Quite right too.  I am a bit embarrassed to point out that none of what WM had to say, and none of the gunfire that followed, was aimed anywhere near where I take my philosophical stand.

I don’t want to repeat here all the remarks I made in my post of last week.  I do want to say that even the best understanding of the C-word that the thinking American right can offer does not include my meaning - which, anyway, is less political than metapolitical, less about “conserving” than according with our nature.

Here, then, is my meaning:-

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As I’ve previously hypothesized, the amygdala is a likely target for parasitic castration, which may partially explain the otherwise mysterious rise of autism, a disease affecting boys more than girls, in areas high in south Asian immigrants. 

Now we discover a specific pathogen, Toxoplasma gondiis, has evolved to not just attack the amygdala, but do so with such surgical precision that it has few noticeable side effects on the victims:

Rats infected with the parasite became mildly attracted to bobcat pee. However, they remained as fearful of open spaces as normal rats. They reacted normally to sound cues that suggested mild electrical shocks were coming. Normally rats are somewhat reticent when it comes to eating food that smells unfamiliar. And the infected rats were, just like the normal rats, reticent when it came to food scented with the unfamiliar odor of coriander.

“One would thus assume that if something messes up with fear to cat pee, it will also mess up a variety of related behaviors,” Vyas said. “We do not see that. Toxoplasma affects fear to cat odors with almost surgical precision.”

Where was this brain surgery located?

Vyas’s team looked at the distribution of the parasite in the brain of infected rats, and found it was almost twice as dense in the amygdala.

Does this mean Toxoplasma gondii is responsible for the rise of autism?  No.  It means, however, that the theory that “surgical” operations on the amygdala might be a form of parasitic castration is more likely than it would be in the absence of such clear parasitic targeting of the amygdala.  Moreover, Toxoplasma gondii is transmitted to humans from cat feces.

How likely is it that an intestinal parasite endemic to South Asia might have migrated to Euroman’s major technology centers along with the rise of affirmative action (both in India and in the US) in bringing many more “engineers” to the US from India’s lower castes via the dispossession of US technologists during the rise of H-1b visas, not to mention support personnel for said Indian immigrants such as restaurant workers?

If likely, we might expect to see an association between autism and intestinal pathology.

In his most recent Commentary article “Jewish Genius”, Charles Murray spends pages speculating about why Jews excel, only to end with this:

At this point, I take sanctuary in my remaining hypothesis, uniquely parsimonious and happily irrefutable. The Jews are God’s chosen people.

All well and good but he still can’t discuss at precisely what they excel because he’s afraid he must subtract.

To quote Kevin MacDonald:

The dispossession of Europeans is the ultimate defeat — an evolutionary event of catastrophic proportions for people of European descent. Whatever the contributions of Jewish “entrepreneurs, jurists, philanthropists, entertainers, publishers, and legions upon legions of scholars,” they could never make up for this cataclysmic loss

In other words, he’s afraid he’ll have to explain exactly why God hates Scotch Irish Iowans like Murray and myself so much as to “choose” such people for us to live with.

Perhaps Charles Murray would do well to drop the pretensions that the story of Moses and Exodus are true and consider the consequences of being not merely “nomadic” but a tribe with multinational urban populations since Babylonian times.  If he did while at the same time learning to subtract, he might infer not only how “persecution” of Jews could be much older than many now think, but he might see, much more importantly, how to inhibit their virulence—described so graphically and succinctly by Kevin MacDonald.

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Oh, the agony of being PeeCee and caught in the middle of this one:-

Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims

Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.

It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.

There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades - where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem - because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.

The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using history ‘as a vehicle for promoting political correctness’.

The study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, looked into ‘emotive and controversial’ history teaching in primary and secondary schools.

It found some teachers are dropping courses covering the Holocaust at the earliest opportunity over fears Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic and anti-Israel reactions in class.

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The government needs to be sending a signal that it is not acceptable to discriminate against non-Russians. It should not be participating.  The irony is that in the Soviet era Russia was famous for promoting “friendship between peoples”, hosting large numbers of students from the developing world.  But now that slogan seems to have been turned on its head.  It is now Russia for Russians.

Allison Gill, head of the Moscow office of Human Rights Watch, following the coming into effect yesterday of a law reserving retail jobs for ethnic Russians.

From the Independent:-

Russia bans foreign workers from retail jobs

The legislation, which has been described as state-sponsored racism by human rights activists, bans non-Russians from working in large chunks of the country’s retail sector.

In particular it prevents anyone who doesn’t hold a Russian passport from working in Russia’s huge indoor and outdoor food-and-clothing markets and in the thousands of roadside kiosks that sell anything from newspapers to cosmetics. Such jobs are usually low paid and involve working at least 12-hour days.

Until yesterday, it was not uncommon to visit a market staffed exclusively by migrant workers from across the former Soviet Union. But, as of yesterday, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from countries such as Georgia, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan are looking for a new job.

In Russia’s Far East, where such positions have typically been filled by Chinese migrant workers, the impact was felt immediately. Many of them appear to have already packed their bags and returned home.

At Ussuriysk’s vast market near the Chinese border, almost all the stalls were reported to be deserted. “We had hoped good sense would prevail ... This could disrupt the economy and bring many problems,” said Sergei Simakov, a district councillor from Ussuriysk.

Some commentators have raised fears that prices may rise as employers are forced to pay higher wages and have questioned whether ethnic Russians will be willing to take up jobs that entail such long hours. At Moscow’s famous Dorogomilovsky food market several stalls were denuded of their usually exotic mixture of fruit and vegetables from across the vast region. In their place hung signs that read: “Wanted: Sales-people. Must be Russian.”

Officials from the country’s migration service raided a Moscow market yesterday. That is a sign that the Kremlin expects the new law to be scrupulously followed. Four foreign workers were detained.

A spokesman for the Federal Migration Service said the raid proved that the new law was effective. “Considering that this particular market has 1,200 trading stalls and only four foreigners were detected you can conclude that in general the law is working.” The Kremlin insists that there is nothing racist about the law that it says is intended to protect the rights of ethnic Russians, who have complained of being squeezed out of the retail sector by migrant workers.

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The evolution of language often disaccomodates those who love and value their culture.  But usage changes continually, and sometimes whole rafts of linguistic fashion disappear in a matter of a few years - one thinks of the disappearance of received English, and the class attitudes associated with it, from the BBC’s airwaves in the 1960s.

But it’s another matter when language is not really evolving at all but has been expropriated for politically disreputable ends.  The disaccomodation is severe.  It occasions real anger.  What right, for example, had politically-organised sodomists to take possession of that old and useful three-letter English word beginning with “g”, and employ it against the unnappeasable conviction that homosexuality is at best tragic?  What right has anyone to coerce the majority to think in their way, and only in their way?

Still, there are moments even here when “the best-laid schemes o’ mice an ‘men gang aft agley”, and anger among the abused majority can give way to something approaching mirth.  And never is that more true than when the “ganging agley” is done by the hand of innocent, apolitical children.

The young don’t know anything about the culture wars of my generation.  They don’t know how Marxist progressives systematically prostituted language to redefine and limit debate on their own terms.  They don’t know that stigmatising the “stigmatisers” was an end in itself for these vile people.  They don’t know that they are supposed to be the harbingers of a new dawn when men and women will bestride the Earth freed from all too, too native humanity.  As if.

They don’t know any of that.  So when they discover that there are men out there who like other men in what is obviously the wrong way, they express their distaste in the time-honoured fashion.  They prostitute language to redefine and limit debate on their own terms.  It’s just not the language our social engineers would want to see prostituted.  You gotta laugh!

Police send four police officers to tackle boy, 11, who called schoolmate ‘gay’

When two policemen turned up unannounced at Alan Rawlinson’s home asking to speak to his young son, the company director feared something serious had happened.

So he was astounded when the officers detailed 11-year-old George’s apparent crime - calling one of his schoolfriends ‘gay’.

They said primary school pupil, George, was being investigated for a ‘very serious’ homophobic crime after using the comment in an e-mail to a 10-year-old classmate.

Cheshire police launched the investigation last month after a complaint from the parents of the 10-year-old younger boy who received George’s e-mail.

They said their son had been called a ‘gay boy’ and were concerned that there was more to the comment than playground banter and that their child was being bullied.

As a consequence, two officers were sent to the boys’ school, Farnworth Primary, in Widnes, Cheshire, to speak to the headteacher who directed them to the Rawlinsons’ home in nearby St Helens, Merseyside.

George told his parents that the comment was in no way meant to be homophobic and that he had simply been using the word gay instead of ‘stupid’.

Mr Rawlinson, 41, who runs his own business, and whose wife, Gaynor, also 41, is a magistrate, said his son was terrified when the police arrived at their home.

He feared he was going to be arrested and locked up in a cell because of it, he added.  “I feel very aggrieved about this,” Mr Rawlinson, who has lodged a formal complaint against the police, said.

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