HonestThinking is dedicated to topics related to culture, politics, science, and philosophy. To understand what HonestThinking is all about, please read our general manifesto as well as our immigration manifesto.

Endangered species

White people are positioning themselves for (partial) extinction

.

19.08.2008. The following are excerpts from an article at GalliaWatch (emphasis added): It is an unwritten law. Unwritten because inherent in our species. When one people is conquered by another, the men in the victors' camp seize the women of the vanquished. Humiliated, exhausted and deprived of a spouse, the male survivors of the vanquished are condemned to die with no posterity. Their descendants are fewer and fewer in number with each succeeding generation. The resistance waged by these men in revolt and their sons becomes less and less vigorous with the passing years. The children of mixed blood ("métis") born of unions between the invaders and the native women and impregnated with the dominant culture, remain for the most part indifferent to the fight being waged by their last survivors of the invasion. If the women of the vanquished hope to transmit their genes, such is not the case of their masculine compatriots. Thus the genome of the vanquished men is the first to disappear from the human genetic reservoir reservoir. Vae victis!

Genetic studies conducted on various populations of the South American continent have shown that most of the genetic material carried by chromosome Y (paternal lineage) is of European origin in these people. While conversely, the genetic material carried by mitochondrial DNA or DNAmt (maternal lineage) is for the most part African and Amerindian. That means that the South Americans are in their majority descendants of the Spanish conquistadors and their black or Amerindian slaves. The black and Amerindian men therefore left a much more scattered posterity compared to that of the white man. This illustrates exactly what I explained (...) The vanquished have nothing.

Another very eloquent example. In Cuba, researchers have just discovered that 33% (yes 33%, one third) of the DNAmt (maternal) of Cubans is of Amerindian origin. That is a considerable posterity for Indian populations that were supposed to have been massacred more than five centuries ago by European colonists! On the other hand, concerning chromosome Y (paternal), not a trace of Amerindian genes (0%). History is unforgiving. The Amerindian men of the island were killed in combats against the conquerors, by illnesses imported from Europe and in forced labor camps on sugar plantations. The men left no trace, not even in the blood of their enemies. But their women married the invaders, thus ensuring the perpetuation of their genes.

France at the beginning of the 21st century, while not (yet) having reached the cataclysmic state described above, is experiencing nonetheless a similar evolution. Although we do not have any official figures, you have only to walk down the street to verify that in the immense majority of mixed couples, it is the man who is foreign and the woman European. As in war, the winners seize the indigenous women all the while protecting their own. The whole rhetoric that aims to debase the European woman or France ("I screw France like a whore" says rap group Sniper) is a part of the feminization of the white race, of the idea that Europe is a land to be conquered, a habitat open to all forms of pillage. Are not the notorious "gang rapes" another example of collective violence to European women, just as Russian soldiers did when they seized German women in a devastated Berlin in 1945.

It all holds together. A tribe that does not protect its women is behaving as if they have already lost the war. Many of us don't know this. But our enemies do. Continue reading at GalliaWatch.

The gullibility of Western 'leaders' is bordering on treason.

HonestThinking comments: It is important to understand that the problems of Europe and the Western world go much deeper than just this and that particular challenge from Islam or from Muslims. At the end of the day humans are biological beings and nations are extended families. Thinking that genetic similarities and differences are of little or no importance is nothing but wishful thinking. These things have always mattered, and they always will. In particular, they matter a lot to those who immigrate to our countries. This has been consistently demonstrated by the immigrants themselves for several decades now. Until we realize these things, we will continue to lose the currently ongoing battle.

Melanocortins and behavior

Could there be an association between pigmentation and behavior?

19.08.2008. Excerpts from a recent article at Gene Expression: In many vertebrates, there is an association between pigmentation and behavior. One potential reason for this is that genes influencing pigmentation also have pleiotropic effects on other traits, including behavior. A recent paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution lays out this hypothesis:

In vertebrates, melanin-based coloration is often associated with variation in physiological and behavioural traits. We propose that this association stems from pleiotropic effects of the genes regulating the synthesis of brown to black eumelanin. The most important regulators are the melanocortin 1 receptor and its ligands, the melanocortin agonists and the agouti-signalling protein antagonist. On the basis of the physiological and behavioural functions of the melanocortins, we predict five categories of traits correlated with melanin-based coloration. A review of the literature indeed reveals that, as predicted, darker wild vertebrates are more aggressive, sexually active and resistant to stress than lighter individuals. Pleiotropic effects of the melanocortins might thus account for the widespread covariance between melanin-based coloration and other phenotypic traits in vertebrates.

Talking about Russia and Islam

The double standard of politicians and media exposed

16.08.2008. Political commentator Diana West, author of The death of the grown-up, hits the nail on the head when she observes that we are hearing Roars about Russia but nary a whisper about Islam. Here are some excerpts:

In other words, no pattern of avowedly Islam-inspired violence in the world has ever earned a headline nearly as straightforward as "Islamic jihad is back." Not even the Islamic success of Motoon Rage, which has severely repressed Western modes of expression regarding Muhammad in particular and Islam in general, inspired anything as descriptive as, for example, "Sharia's new teeth."

Ask yourself: Would any British foreign secretary of the postmodern age look at, say, last year's trial of a British teacher in Sudan for "blasphemy" in naming a teddy bear "Muhammad," and conclude: "It's a reversion to not just post-colonial politics. It is a seventh century way of doing politics"? Hah.

HonestThinking comments: We may in this case safely label the behavior of our 'leaders' as ignorant, dishonest, and/or hypocritical. This is a paradigmatic or archetypical illustration of the meaning of the phrase double standard.

Raping the military

Feminism is destroying the US Armed Forces

15.08.2008. Excerpts from an article by Jared Taylor at Vdare.com: Let us stop for a moment and remind ourselves what soldiers are for. Their job is to find and kill the enemy. Ever since the Stone Age, it has been clear that the best people for that job are tough, aggressive young men. Soldiers have to kick down doors, stay cool under fire, and if need be, kill people with their bare hands. They may have to spend hours humping artillery shells, marching in the heat in combat gear, or live for days in the same clothes. What’s more, in today’s all-volunteer army, they have to want to do these things.

Soldiers must also be able to trust each other with their lives. Ever since the Greeks, commanders have understood what we now call "unit cohesion". Soldiers have always cherished loyalties forged in battle.

It just so happens that men of this sort have at least an average interest in sex—at an age when "average" means just short of obsessed. An army in the field is a giant locker room, where young men give vent to their adolescent nature, and strike vulgar poses precisely because there are no women around.

What happens when women show up? A reported 10 percent of the soldiers who have been to Iraq and Afghanistan have been women. [Women in Combat : NPR, October 1-5, 2007] With only a few exceptions, those assignments are essentially combat, with all the danger, stress, and close quarters that go with it.

What happens when a unit gets a woman assigned to it? If she is even slightly good-looking every one of the men—and I mean every one of them—will want her. That means advances, rejections, jealousies, resentments, and men who were once comrades become competitors of the most elemental sort. One or more of the men will get her and everyone will know it. Some of the men who don’t get her may have to listen to her grunting and squealing, just eight feet away through two layers of tent cloth.

Anyone who does not understand the poisonous effect this has on morale and unit effectiveness has either never gone through adolescence or simply refuses to see the obvious. Continue reading at Vdare.com.

HonestThinking comments: The American Armed Forces is a showcase of what happens when common sense, rational thinking, and science is replaced with ideology and wishful thinking. The situation in the US military is of course just a symptom of the profound problems into which the entire American society has gotten itself.

Genetic map of Europe

New study on the genetic makup of Europeans released

Diagram provided by Razib at Gene Expression.

Diagram from Genetic Future, originally published in Current Biology. The map was constructed using purely genetic data without information on spatial location, so the concordance between the two maps indicates the degree to which genetic ancestry correlates with physical location - in other words, how well your genes predict your address.

14.08.2008. A new study of the genetic map of Europe has just been published. The genetic map was constructed using data from over 300,000 genetic markers in 2,514 individuals from 23 European subpopulations, making it the most comprehensive analysis of European genetic variation performed to date, according to Genetic Future.

The opening paragraphs of a comment to this study at Dienekes' Anthropology Blog are as follows: This is a very important study, the first one to use both a large number of markers and a wide and fairly representative sample of Europeans from across the continent. My main observations after reading this study are:

• relative genetic homogeneity in Europe, with a fairly small percentage of variance explained by geographic differentiation
• clinal, rather than racial apportionment of European genetic variation, with no emerging separated clusters (except the Finns, who stand at some distance along the first eigenvector)
• south-north (but not east-west) decrease in genetic variation and heterozygosity indicating that Europe was populated on a south-north axis, rather than an east-west one.
• clear clustering of individuals from different ethnic groups within the European continuum, indicating that ethnic groups are not only cultural, but to some extent biological entities.
• Some ethnic groups are clearly distinguishable from each other (e.g. Swedes vs. Spaniards); some groups are partitioned into fairly disjoint sets (Spain I vs. Catalans in Spain II); others mutually overlap (e.g., British and Irish); while others overlap asymetrically (e.g., some former Yugoslavs in the Greek cluster, but not vice versa).

See also Genetic, Geographic, And Linguistic Structure Of European Populations, How well does your genome predict your postcode?, and European population substructure...Finns in the corner again (thanks to Gene Expression for the tip).

Whites fear discrimination

Racial prejudice in UK

14.08.2008. Almost one in three white people believe they are the victims of racial prejudice, a Government study has found. Continue reading in The Telegraph.

EU brings down Danish immigration law

European nation states are being crushed by EU

Asylum seekers now just need to marry an EU citizen (from any country), after which their applications can no longer be rejected.

13.08.2008. Two months ago, the Irish held a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon. We all now know how it ended. One of the elements in the run-up to that referendum was the Irish concern for their abortion laws. The Irish have an abortion legislation that doesn't fit in the minds of most liberal journalists. They also thought that the Treaty of Lisbon could liberalize it against their will. That is why the Irish voted "No," some argue, even after so many explicit promises by politicians that there was absolutely no reason to worry. On 26 July, the Court of Justice of the European Communities (Ecj) proved the Irish right: National law is subordinate to whatever is ruled on the European level. As a consequence, the Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen found himself in trouble: after the ECJ ruling in the Metock case the Danish immigration legislation is now completely void and worthless.

Here is a verbatim quote from the press release from the European Court of Justice:

A non-community spouse of a citizen of the Union can move and reside with that citizen in the Union without having previously been lawfully resident in a member state. The right of a national of a non-member country who is a family member of a Union citizen to accompany or join that citizen cannot be made conditional on prior lawful residence in another Member State.

This ruling came after a lawsuit started by four black men who had sought asylum in Ireland. Their application was rejected by Ireland, but in the meantime each of them had married a non-Irish EU citizen, and wanted to appeal to EU law to obtain a residence permit in Ireland. However, the Irish state ruled that the EU law did not apply because they had not stayed in another EU country before coming to Ireland. However, the European Court of Justice rejected that argument and ruled that the four men should be given a residence permit.

Continue reading at The Brussels Journal.

HonestThinking comments: As I have remarked many times before, the EU is moving in the direction of a totalitarian system. True democracy is impossible when (1) when there is too much distance from the ruled to the rulers, and (2) when there is too little unity among the ruled.

Attack victim loses part of his skull

But the attacker got away with a 14-month jail sentence

13.08.2008. When a state is no longer willing or able to uphold law and order or to protect its citizens, that state is headed for disaster. Read the troubling story in Chad and This is Nottingham of Eddie Fletcher who, walking home with a friend, had his head smashed and his life ruined.

Debate in Sweden

Accusations of racism in Aftonbladet

10.08.2008. On 31 July the debate editor of the Norwegian daily Klassekampen, Ali Esbati, published a lengthy article in the Swedish daily Aftonbladet where, as part of his discussion of the Norwegian Progress Party and their high scores in the opinion polls this summer (more than 30%), he pays a visit to HonestThinking as well as yours truly, accusing me of racism. Aftonbladet allowed me to reply to this accusation, and I made the point that as far as utterances (as opposed to actions or attitudes) are concerned, at least one of the following criteria must be fulfilled before they can be considered racist:

1. False statements.
2. Suppression of relevant information.
3. Hateful, condescending, scornful, or otherwise contemning words and expressions.

I have published this list of criteria in both Dagbladet and Aftenposten (the two most important arenas for public debate in Norway), and no one has yet challenged it (at least not directly). But when I implicitly challenged Mr Esbati either to (1) criticize these criteria, (2) document that my writings fulfill any of these criteria, or (3) admit that his accusation of racism is without a proper foundation, he responded as follows (in a follow-up comment that Aftonbladet placed below my reply to his original article; my translation from Swedish to English):

I do not regard it as a meaningful task to explain to a man who is possessed by the birthrates of immigrants, who leans on race researchers who are applauded by Ku Klux Klan [he is alluding to an earlier reference I made to the article Wanted: More Race Realism, Less Moralistic Fallacy, by J. Philippe Rushton, ed.], and who is urging people to show 'solidarity' with 'white/Western peoples', why his activities can be labeled as racism.

HonestThinking comments: I consider this responce from Mr. Esbati to be quite revealing. A valid argument is a valid argument, no matter who makes it; what Ku Klux Klan or Mr. Esbati may think of professor Rushton is irrelevant. And, yes, I am indeed urging all of us to show solidarity with anyone who needs it, including white/Western people. It is always worth noting when someone indicates that solidarity, compassion, or concern for white/Western people is somehow unethical or otherwise inappropriate. I find it hard to see how such an attitude can be anything but hypocritical or evil.

Permalink.

Can a wounded nation heal itself?

Can France find back to its roots?

10.08.2008. Excerpts from an essay by Fjordman at The Brussels Journal (emphasis added): Here is a quote by Nicolas Sarkozy from 2006, before he became French President:

[S]ecurity is the responsibility of the State, I am against militias, I am against the private ownership of firearms, and I'm trying to make you think about that. If you are assaulted by an armed burglar, he'll use his weapon more effectively than you anyway so you're risking your life. If the criminal is not armed and you are and you shoot, your life will be ruined, because killing someone over a theft is not in line with the republican values that are mine. The private ownership of firearms is dangerous. I understand your exasperation for having been burglarized two times, I understand the fear that your wife and daughter may have but the answer is in the efficiency of the police and the efficiency of the judiciary process, the answer is not in having guns at home.

Yes, but what happens when the state neither can nor wants to protect its citizens, which is clearly the case in France and in many other Western countries today? Here is another quote by the same man, this time as president, in July 2008, when he announced the creation of a new "Mediterranean Union" in a huge meeting between European and Arab leaders: “The goal of this summit for the Mediterranean, of this Union for the Mediterranean, is that we learn to love each other instead of continuing to hate each other and wage war,” Sarkozy told a news conference. That same month he also declared that Ireland will have to hold a second referendum after Irish voters rejected the EU Constitution, the same Constitution which French and Dutch voters had previously rejected but which was implemented anyway under another name, the Lisbon Treaty. In saner times we would have called this a coup d'état, committed not just in one country but in many countries simultaneously.

The European Union is an organization of corrupt parasites and power-grabbing traitors, mixed up with some dangerously naive fools. EU leaders are intent on flooding their countries with even more Muslims at the same time as immigrants commit countless acts of violence against native Europeans. The greatest organized betrayal in history is celebrated as a victory for peace and tolerance. Our so-called leaders open the floodgates to people who are, always have been, and always will be hostile to everything we hold dear, and tell us to love them. Unfortunately, others have rather different plans for us. [...]

In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, a largely – and in my view excessively – pro-Mongol book, Jack Weatherford claims that the Mongol conquests in the thirteenth century triggered the Renaissance in Europe by opening up the continent to ideas from Asia, for instance gunpowder and printing. So, we now have claims that the Renaissance was what caused the great advances in Western science, and that it was triggered by Muslims in the twelfth century or Mongols in the thirteenth century. At the same time, there was supposedly nothing special about Europe until the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries.

An intelligent reader will quickly see that all of these different claims cannot be true at the same time, yet they are all made at the same time. The point here is not whether any of them are correct, the point is to put down any sense of pride people of European origins might have in their historical achievements. It is a bit ironic that European culture is constantly derided for being racist, oppressive and evil, yet everybody else seems very busy with claiming the honor for having created it. If we are racist oppressors who rape the earth and create global warming, why are Muslims and others so eager to take credit for having created our culture? Shouldn't they feel ashamed of themselves instead?

The truth is that the scientific revolution was the greatest achievement of the human mind in history, and it was done by Europeans, not by anybody else. This particular form of ideological disinformation takes place all over the Western world, and there is no specific reason for singling out the French in this regard. I suspect many ordinary French citizens are just as fed-up with this nonsense as everybody else is. I wish good French people the best of luck in reclaiming their dignity and their country. Given the state of things, they are going to need it.

What about basing French national identity on the Battle of Tours on October 10, 732, when the people who were eventually known as the French halted an Islamic invasion of the heartland of the European continent? By doing so, they saved not only their own nation; they saved the greatest civilization mankind has ever seen. That really is something to celebrate, unlike the happenings of 1789 which led to senseless mass slaughter and widespread intra-European wars. If the French need historical inspiration, they should follow the example of the right Charles next time. That would be Martel, not de Gaulle.

Punished first, acquitted later

Totalitarian tendencies in Canada

08.08.2008. After 900 days, the Alberta Human Rights Commission has finally dismissed a complaint of illegal "discrimination" against Ezra Levant and the now-defunct Western Standard magazine, for republishing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed in 2006. Fifteen government bureaucrats participated in the investigation, costing Alberta taxpayers more than $500,000 and leaving Levant and the magazine with $100,000 in legal bills. "I was punished first, then acquitted later. It was a mockery of justice," said Levant. Continue reading at CNW Group. See also Levant's own comments.

HonestThinking comments: My understanding is that the plaintiffs can bring their case before these kinds of Canadian courts without risking anything, while the defendants have no right of legal defense, will be punished if they do not show up, and must carry their own costs, in this case $100,000. This is not in keeping with the centuries old tradition of being considered innocent until proven guilty. A tradition that we pride ourselves of, and rightly so. The Canadian system of human rights commissions is a disgrace to the Western civilization. As CNW Group remarks: "The Danish cartoon investigation has made Alberta's human rights commission an international embarrassment." Indeed.

Germany’s brain drain increases

This trend could soon become self-enforcing

06.08.2008. They are young, well-educated and ready for adventure. And they are sick of Germany. More and more are leaving the country to try their luck abroad, and they often find that coming back is not always easy. Continue reading at DW-world.de.

Creationism in UK schools

Dawkins warns of islamic influence

05.08.2008. Prof Dawkins, a well-known atheist, also blamed the Government for accommodating religious views and allowing creationism to be taught in schools.

"Most devout Muslims are creationists so when you go to schools, there are a large number of children of Islamic parents who trot out what they have been taught," Prof Dawkins said in a Sunday newspaper interview.

"Teachers are bending over backwards to respect home prejudices that children have been brought up with. The Government could do more, but it doesn't want to because it is fanatical about multiculturalism and the need to respect the different traditions from which these children come (emphasis added)." Continue reading in The Telegraph (thanks to EuropeNews for the tip)

The power of blogging

Norwegian blogs having an impact

02.08.2008 (updated 03.08.2008). For the last few years it has been pretty clear that there are exactly three multiculturalism-skeptical blogs in Norway that really have an impact on the public debate, viz. the following:

• Document. I think it is fair to say that this site primarily promotes liberalism. The material here is mostly in Norwegian, and sometimes in Danish or Swedish. They have no tradition for publishing in English, but one of their major contributors, Nina Hjerpset-Østlie recently had one of her articles translated to English and published at GoV.
• Human Rights Service. In spite of its name, this is also a Norwegian (plus Danish and Swedish) language site only. Their primary focus is on feminism, female genital mutilation, forced marriages, Islam, and human rights in general.
• HonestThinking. This is a conservative site with articles both in English and Norwegian (plus Danish and Swedish). See my general manifesto as well as immigration manifesto to get a better understanding of where I am coming from.

That these three blogs do indeed have a certain impact on the public debate and the political climate of Norway was confirmed a couple of days ago by Ali Esbati, one of the editors of the Marxist daily Klassekampen (which used to be a very interesting forum for public debate until Mr. Esbati took charge of that department in January this year). On 31 July he had a long article in Sweden's largest newspaper, Aftonbladet. Esbati's big concern is that the Norwegian Progress Party (this link is actually in English!) has repeatedly been above 30% in the opinion polls this summer. Trying to understand what may have caused this catastrophe, Esbati offers the following analysis (my translation from Swedish to English, emphasis added):

The Progress Party is benefiting from a general political debate that to an increasing degree is being 'Denmarkified'. Several neo-racist forums have established themselves as points of reference in every discussion concerning immigration, Islam, or integration. At sites like Document, HonestThinking, and Human Rights Service (HRS) dubious numbers and insidious 'connections' are daily being dumped on the readers. The tone and selection of material are reminiscent of what you get from the 'news services' of the Swedish National Democrats or other racist parties. [...] The editor of HonestThinking has established himself as a participant in the public debate by monomaniacally harping on the role of the demographic developments in the 'islamization' of Norway. Not only are there many Muslims - they even have kids! Lately he has taken some interest in the relationship between 'race' and intelligence. This hodgepodge - the intentions of which should be obvious to any normally gifted citizen - is what you risk being served in ordinary Norwegian newspapers.

Although I am sick and tired of left-wing radicals and other multiculturalists who have no better 'arguments' to offer than branding their opponents as 'xenophobes', 'islamophobes', 'racists', 'fascists', and the like, I appreciate Esbati's implicit admittance that he finds it hard to come up with proper replies to my writings, as well as his grudging acknowledgement that I am posing some tough challenges to him and his Marxist companions.

Even so, nobody should have to take these kinds of accusations without a chance to answer, and I am currently awaiting Aftonbladet's decision whether or not to print my responce. With Sweden's tradition of preventing free and open debate the outcome is not given, although I am, after discussing my case with the Swedish office of the Press Ombudsman yesterday, a guarded optimist. Stay tuned.

Added 5 August: Aftonbladet has agreed to print my reply, which is tentatively scheduled for Thursday this week.

The no longer forbidden debate in Denmark

English reports from Denmark at GoV

02.08.2008. The tensions between Denmark and the EU gives rise to a number of articles in the Scandinavian languages (primarily Danish and Norwegian, it seems), and some of them are being translated into English and published at Gates of Vienna.

Home

• HonestThinking, July 2008
• HonestThinking, June 2008
• HonestThinking, May 2008
• HonestThinking, April 2008
• HonestThinking, March 2008
• HonestThinking, February 2008
• HonestThinking, January 2008
• HonestThinking, 2nd half of 2007
• HonestThinking, 1st half of 2007
• HonestThinking, 2nd half of 2006
• HonestThinking, 1st half of 2006
• HonestThinking, 2005.

HonestThinking is dedicated and committed to the art of thinking honestly. Yet honest thinking is not the same as true thinking, for it is possible to think honestly, but be mistaken. For the same reason, honest thinking is not identical with objective thinking either. Honest thinking is striving to get things right. This involves being truthful about whatever one publishes, but just as importantly, it involves an uncompromising dedication never to suppress relevant data, even when data collides with dearly held prejudices. Such an approach may sometimes cause hurtful revisions in one’s belief system. That’s what HonestThinking is all about! Read the entire manifesto.

Provoked or enthusiastic?

Please send e-mail to postmaster at honestThinking.org (replacing ' at ' with '@') if you would like to tip us about a web resource that we should link to, or if you wish to submit an article for publication here. Quality contributions are welcome from anyone.

The current European immigration and integration policy is profoundly disrespectful of both Muslims and Islam, because it is built on the tacit assumption that the Muslims will become like us. One claims to have respect for Islam and for Muslims, but one also expects Muslims to give up their orthodox faith when they come here. At the same time one is assuming that Islam will be reformed and modernized as soon as the Muslims become integrated and understand and appreciate how superior our Western culture is compared to their own. This is cultural shauvinism and arrogance indeed! The unspoken premise for this scenario is that Western socities are superior to Islam. Read more.

Human rights and democracy are under pressure. One threat comes from the Western world, in the form of lack of or dishonest thinking. There exists a peculiar Western "tolerance" which is so "tolerant" that it even tolerates totalitarian or anti-democratic ideologies. A tacit assumption underlying such an attitude is that all cultures, world views, and religions are really equally good. As a consequence of this assumption one is cut off from the possibility of critically examining the above mentioned ideologies. Read more.