tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post4830048338654956679..comments2024-03-29T00:24:13.128-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : Why People FailDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-67004052017469021162014-01-17T23:53:46.195-05:002014-01-17T23:53:46.195-05:00Excellent as always, D.G. But, hey, props to Will4...Excellent as always, D.G. But, hey, props to Will48. He found a typo, clever boy.black mambahttp://blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-15209041052392443452014-01-17T09:48:01.517-05:002014-01-17T09:48:01.517-05:00I have no idea what the source of this hostility i...I have no idea what the source of this hostility is, but her book was in the news at the time it was written. I write assuming that readers are familiar with current issues. <br /><br />If they're not Google makes it easy. <br /><br />https://www.google.com/#q=amy+chua+book&tbm=nws<br /><br />"Amy Chua book" in Google News brings up a great many results right away. Understanding the article doesn't require any familiarity with her or the book.<br /><br />As for your second comment, no one is forcing you to decipher anything. This site is a free project and its articles are written when I have the time to write them. That includes articles written at 2.30 AM.<br /><br />Absolutely no one is forcing you to read them. Either you find them worthwhile or you don't.Daniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-28932523133501071652014-01-17T09:07:25.202-05:002014-01-17T09:07:25.202-05:00And you're in bad need for an editor - any edi...And you're in bad need for an editor - any editor. What does that mean, "If they were the city and the country would be uninhabitable and there would be no black middle class." ? It's not even grammatical. If FPM won't edit your raw texts, do hire one yourself. It's becoming unbearable, having to decipher this stuff all the time.Will48http://reasonresponsibilityandchoice.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6530562913038106772014-01-17T08:58:58.238-05:002014-01-17T08:58:58.238-05:00you really allow yourself to become a second rate ...you really allow yourself to become a second rate propagandist. What responses? To which book? Google search only shows her 2011 book as the latest. Is it really soooo difficult to give a short factual intro to let us know what you rant about? Believe it or not, not all of your readers are Americans, inured in your everyday press.Will48http://reasonresponsibilityandchoice.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-42896539806294020972014-01-15T13:59:59.991-05:002014-01-15T13:59:59.991-05:00Andrew Breitbart was adopted by a Jewish couple an...Andrew Breitbart was adopted by a Jewish couple and the rest is history. Nurture over nature every time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-29104378180339518092014-01-15T12:30:03.101-05:002014-01-15T12:30:03.101-05:00DP111 writes..
Sultan wrote: The best evidence of...DP111 writes..<br /><br />Sultan wrote: <i>The best evidence of that may be in the world's biggest welfare state in the Palestinian Authority where the locals know how to do little except make demands and threaten to kill everyone if they don't get what they want. -<br /><br />Obama's latest peace process bid is already imploding because it's not a state that the Palestinian Authority wants; but an international welfare state.</i><br /><br />And on the heels of the above<br /><br /><br />Palestinian police, refugee camp residents clash over U.N. strike<br /> <br />Many refugees fear UNRWA is slowly disengaging from its aid activities and believe the international community owes them support since it recognized Israel amid the war that led to its founding in 1948..<br /><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/12/us-palestinians-unrwa-idUSBREA0B07220140112<br /><br />As Sultan states, the Palis want a state that is permanently subsidised by the "International community". If the "International community" meets their demands, it will be the first internationally supported beggar state.<br /><br />Well I'm afraid that the "International community" has had it with the spoilt Pali brats.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-85642722784460913752014-01-14T14:44:35.591-05:002014-01-14T14:44:35.591-05:00Yes, culture is created in a vacuum, LOL! Cultures...Yes, culture is created in a vacuum, LOL! Cultures ARE PRODUCTS OF THE A PEOPLE. Cultures are a simply what happens when genes and an environment interact.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-70885755889687659792014-01-14T09:51:41.407-05:002014-01-14T09:51:41.407-05:00Actually the idea is to create a working business....Actually the idea is to create a working business. It's not only the taxpayers who lost money on this. The left really wants a carbon economy. It really does believe that its policies can work.Daniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-34476048109787767982014-01-14T02:35:19.533-05:002014-01-14T02:35:19.533-05:00"Their subsidized businesses have already col..."Their subsidized businesses have already collapsed. They still have money but they had money to begin with. Their businesses failed though even with huge government loans. That's the narrower point of that part of the article."<br /><br />I think you still miss my point. The idea was never to create a working business, parasitic or not. The entire point was to use businesses as a shell game to steal money and hide it elsewhere. The money is then spent on tangible gains such as gold or land. <br />Suggesting that their businesses are failures (including the business of governing) is as misguided as suggesting that the stage one boosters on the latest rocket were a failure because they never made it to space. <br />The businesses did what they were meant to do. Suck in dollars and leave IOUs when the creditors came calling. By that (accurate) measure they were a roaring success.Wombatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-78225581294371656032014-01-13T14:03:25.826-05:002014-01-13T14:03:25.826-05:00That's what institutional determinism means.That's what institutional determinism means.Daniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-19748371703845691042014-01-13T13:43:08.665-05:002014-01-13T13:43:08.665-05:00'Institutional determinism is why the Great So...'Institutional determinism is why the Great Society measures failed'<br /><br />Great Society measures butted heads against human nature. That is why they failed and that is why they HAD to fail.Steve Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-69080146261776992372014-01-13T08:23:24.252-05:002014-01-13T08:23:24.252-05:00Their subsidized businesses have already collapsed...Their subsidized businesses have already collapsed. They still have money but they had money to begin with. Their businesses failed though even with huge government loans. That's the narrower point of that part of the article.Daniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-39113427871458941982014-01-13T06:02:11.562-05:002014-01-13T06:02:11.562-05:00"The left views people as static"
I alw..."The left views people as static"<br /><br />I always thought one of the main features of the left was the exact opposite - that they viewed people as mouldable, maleable beings, who couldbe made perfect by having change forced on them by those who know what's best for them - and of course, those who know best are the elite leftists. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-14165250961847761882014-01-13T02:24:56.187-05:002014-01-13T02:24:56.187-05:00Many of them have lived and died of old age in the...Many of them have lived and died of old age in the lap of luxury. More still will be far better placed to survive the collapse than the peons they've duped. This is still success by any material (non-spiritual) measure. The idea that Bernanke and co will meet a noose or starve on the streets with everyone else is wishful thinking (if you can call equal suffering "wishful"). They have their bunkers filled to the roof with everything they need. Their staff will be paid in the currency of survival. <br /><br />You're right that a corrupt society can be reformed, but usually it only happens after the worst kind of catastrophes. Meanwhile the corrupt will continue to fleece those too ignorant or cowardly to stop them, which is 99 percent of the western world, and even when the collapse comes they will still live in luxury relative to the rest of us.<br /><br />Their island citadels await, far far away from any place an angry mob can find. I hope for the best, really I do, but the precipice we all stand on is unprecedented and I expect the promised 90% die-off that will follow, not just because it's possible but because it's what's been planned all along.Wombatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-9977913517690129722014-01-12T19:39:14.843-05:002014-01-12T19:39:14.843-05:00I don't "espouse" fraud. I am pointi...I don't "espouse" fraud. I am pointing out that South Korea or Columbia are better than Somalia. A failed state or community is a completely hopeless place. A corrupt society can still be reformed.<br /><br />Wombat, they don't succeed, they move money around in a corrupt network that will collapse sooner or later. Daniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-45462761499016367342014-01-12T19:30:54.665-05:002014-01-12T19:30:54.665-05:00"Those who cannot succeed on their own, will ..."Those who cannot succeed on their own, will not succeed through the government."<br /><br />On the contrary, the greencorp scumbags who banked millions ripping off the taxpayer have been quite successful. Mosquitoes, tapeworms and ticks are also successful in their daily endeavours. It's best to quit furthering the foolish notion that government parasites and their satellite parasite kin are trying to be successful in any honourable sense of the word. <br /><br />As said before. The system cannot be fixed because it is not broken. Your masters are not incompetent. That is a fool's illusion. They are very competent at doing what they mean to do. Enslaving you and milking you dry.Wombatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-75853786300168232172014-01-12T18:26:01.693-05:002014-01-12T18:26:01.693-05:00 You espouse fraud, cheating and graft as better t... You espouse fraud, cheating and graft as better than failure? <br />I am shocked and disappointed at that response from this blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-850962272754878502014-01-12T17:29:25.577-05:002014-01-12T17:29:25.577-05:00I've seen wonderful parents end up with troubl...I've seen wonderful parents end up with troubled teens and rather hands-off parents produce stellar students with lovely personalities.<br />As my father told me when I had three toddlers, " they may not Hear everything you Say, but they watch everything you Do."<br />Never underestimate the value of role models.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-68965149479703567672014-01-12T15:23:10.684-05:002014-01-12T15:23:10.684-05:00Our beliefs and culture are defined by many variab...Our beliefs and culture are defined by many variables; IQ being one of the most important, but not the only. Let's point out that White people single-handedly invented the modern world. Whites are still overwhelmingly the innovators and inventors. The much vaunted Asians aren't even a close second in that respect. The rest can't even use or maintain what we've given them. When nonWhites move to the U.S. or European countries they don't improve at all, and in a malignant climate of Leftist social pathology, nonWhites actually tend to assimilate to the lowest common denominator; the Blacks. This will not change because nonWhites can't change. Their very presence destroys our civilization. Unfortunately their presence is accompanied by aggressive hatred and resentment of the White civilization that has made White countries so attractive to nonWhites in the first place. NonWhites in White countries are parasites; even the ones who support themselves (all too few).<br /><br />Even the Asians are no good for us at all.<br /><br />The history of Asian civilization is one long chronicle of brutal tyranny. Even Japan has an insanely invasive government. Asians tend to be rigid, arrogant and conformist to an amazing degree. There is no tradition of innovation. They seem to glom on to Western inventions and methods; in some cases improving them, but Asians haven't made or developed for practical use any of the fundamental inventions in spite of their supposed intelligence. High intelligence as a general Asian population trait is only found in a corner of northern Asia in any case.<br /><br />I've worked with a LOT of Asians; mainly Japanese and Chinese and Vietnamese. A few India Indians. They all have this attitude that if a project is done by the book and the prevailing theory, then nothing should go wrong. They make no contingency plans. When things do go wrong, they are mystified and confused. They never plunge into a project with an attitude of learning as they go or changing procedure to achieve a goal that is frequently a moving target.<br /><br />The Asians I've known are also knee-jerk Leftists, which represents a self-destructive impulse to embrace tyranny.<br /><br />The bottom line is that they have no business in a White country. We don't need them. Their presence is, at the end of the day, destructive to Western Civilization.<br /><br />And they really are bad drivers. It's a symptom of their inability to innovate or react to changing variables. The chaos of traffic paralyzes them or makes them overly aggressive. I've seen them simply stop in the middle of an intersection because they can't react to an unexpected development. They are not as childishly aggressive as Blacks and Mexicans, but they are as dangerous.<br /><br />I like a lot of Asians I've known, but they are essentially cuckoos in the nest; rigid collectivists; supercharged Leftist SWPLs. They need to find someplace else to live. But I guess they've ruined the countries that they come from.<br /><br />Horace Staccatonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-62877319891722560312014-01-12T14:35:27.827-05:002014-01-12T14:35:27.827-05:00One factor I think is not accounted for is that th...One factor I think is not accounted for is that the majority of immigrants from non-Western Hemisphere countries probably come from the upper classes of their former countries (they're the ones who can afford to emigrate) and therefore arrive in this country with a lot more going for them than many natural-born citizens.Snackeaternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-27313002262310046682014-01-12T14:25:24.805-05:002014-01-12T14:25:24.805-05:00Yes, fine. As usual, the conservative critique is...Yes, fine. As usual, the conservative critique is predictably polite and well-formed-- I didn't need more than the first para to see where you'd go with this.<br /><br />But you never seem to address the elephant in the room:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption_Study<br /><br />Daniel, until you begin talk about things the Left is truly terrified of, you're simply playing a stock character actor to their cultural lead in discussions like these.<br /><br />The Proposition Nation is a myth we would be well served in burying, not propping up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-30423218618890781652014-01-12T13:31:32.595-05:002014-01-12T13:31:32.595-05:00Learning is being taught "tricks" until ...Learning is being taught "tricks" until you learn to teach yourself. I don't think this qualifies as abusive parenting, though some of the Asian parenting varieties might.<br /><br />Yes overtraining children into child prodigies sometimes leads to very little later in life, but we're not talking about extremes. Though Mozart, I would note, was a child prodigy. <br /><br />I'm not sure what alternative you're really proposing?Daniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-49043871400329626612014-01-12T13:16:28.716-05:002014-01-12T13:16:28.716-05:00What is success? Becoming a concert pianist, a do...What is success? Becoming a concert pianist, a doctor, a professor? Or is it a Ford or Standford or Einstein? I can teach a dog tricks that are unnatural and would seem to imply intelligience (on the part of the dog not the teacher). Is teaching a child to be a concert pianist so different then teaching a dog amazing tricks? Did it make the child smarter? did it make the child a "success"? Amy Chau has two daughters and most probably these two young women are "successful" intelligent and a joy to their parents. But are they just trained dogs who in the process of this intense training have been turned into very anal very driven humans who may be of no value to anyne. What kind of a wife or mother would they make. Could their husband or children ever make them happy? Would there ever be joy in their home or would it always be training to make their husband and children do "tricks" designed to make them seem "successful". I argue that any young child can, like an empty vessel, be filled or trained to do tricks. They can be taught to be great musicians or to know all or most all the existing knowledge in some field, say mathematics. But does that in an of itself make them successful? Was it this kind of traning by a relentless mother from an early age that made Einstein? It is my observation that people like this rarely if ever offer society anything new or useful. They may master their musical instrument but never be a Mozart. They may master calculus and higher mathmetics and never be an Einstein. Would you or any normal human want somene like this as your spouse? So where is the "success" in this? It may well be a form of child abuse to spend their children's entire youth teaching them tricks so that the mother can feel "successful". Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-61758861928752289552014-01-12T11:27:27.970-05:002014-01-12T11:27:27.970-05:00Another great essay. You say what people don'...Another great essay. You say what people don't want to hear.Ellen Shipleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07806407695486557068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-48840635735889603162014-01-12T11:02:40.250-05:002014-01-12T11:02:40.250-05:00see Thomas Sowell's
"Black Rednecks &...see Thomas Sowell's<br /><br />"Black Rednecks & White Liberals"jwnoreply@blogger.com