Who was that evil professor? White men are down – but so are most others.

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Following my curiosity with regard to my recent piece on the University of Maryland, I learnt nothing about Jennifer King Rice's husband from the Internet.  Not even his name.  If this is simply a strategy by Rice to maintain the privacy of her family I would applaud. They should be able to grow up outside the limelight.

However, considering that she was then still a mere professor I don't see that there was a vast need for privacy.  Is Mr. Rice still around? As a good Catholic we hope he is, but we are not sure.

On the Internet I find only one source of family photos.  Facebook shows two family photos, both posted in 2013 but taken in 2009.  That's five years after I attended her course, at which time I thought she had four sons.  These photos show a handsome guy and four girls and a boy, one of them younger than five.  The ages fit.  The kids in the photo would now range between sixteen and thirty, appropriate for a woman of 55. 

How has their environment shaped them?  Did they attend Catholic schools, like she did? I noted in my substitute teaching days of the late 90s that the Catholic girls' schools were conservative.  They required uniforms, common courtesy and manners. One can hope that Catholic school education retains its traditional character. Catholics themselves, one notes, have changed, especially since Pope Francis.

I wonder what it is like to be the husband or the child of such a driven woman. Is she as intolerant of her husband's differing points of view as she was of mine? Rereading my well-researched paper on American Indians that she awarded a B-/C+ grade, I am amused once again that she could be so venomous.  Is her husband a timid white mouse like the men who took her class?  What mother posts so few photos of a growing family, and four years old at that?  Enquiring minds want to know.

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Ice cream parlors used to feature a flavor-of-the-month.  Our society seems in a similar manner to favor a minority-of-the-decade, allowing each in turn to bask in the sunshine of government favors.  Except, of course, people like me.

Being at the top of the heap, the flavor-of-the-month, the most favored minority of the moment, has not brought Darwinian fitness to any of the favored groups.  Brief ascendancy doesn't incline them to perpetuate their advantage by having kids – to enjoy Darwinian fitness.  Let's take a survey.

Descendants of the Founding Fathers

In America, my people were not only the dominant group but were very fertile as the nation was growing, up through the 19^th century.  Though the cousins we left behind in Europe had already lost interest in children, we held our own through the postwar Baby Boom. 

Whites remained the unquestionable dominant ethnicity, and men the dominant sex, until the 1950s.  Questioning our position in society has intensified in every decade since, and somewhere along the line, at different times by different measures, we lost ascendancy.

My whole adult life I have been watching doors close behind me shortly after I squeaked through: College admissions, employment, promotions, mortgages, business loans, freedom to choose neighbors, freedom to choose tenants, and of late, bodily autonomy and freedom of speech.  In a few instances I had to maneuver to avoid doors closing in front of me.  I was lucky.  I hear and sympathize with the lamentations of later cohorts of white guys.

Though we are still accused of patrimony, invisible knapsacks, etc., the advantages we supposedly enjoyed have long been lost as the government put its heavy thumb on every scale that measured our worth versus that of the flavor-of-the-month favored groups listed below.

American Indians

Skip American Indians – they have almost never been favored.  They are not very political.  They let other groups, with their own agendas, decry their victimhood.  See my paper on Indian education, awarded a B-/C+ mark by a favored female.  Indians never have, and never will enjoy the flavor-of-the-month designation.

African Americans

Captured and enslaved by black Africans, sold by black Africans, black Americans' labor was used by Portuguese, Spanish, French, British and later American masters.  They have been the beneficiaries of white and Jewish benevolence ever since arriving on American shores four centuries ago.  The abolitionists got the importation of slaves outlawed in the US in 1807.  They had slavery abolished in the British Empire in 1833. In the 1860s Americans fought the deadliest war in the western hemisphere to free them.

Despite the accomplishments of Benjamin Banneker and the eloquence of Frederick Douglass and WEB DuBois, African Americans remained largely passive as all this was done on their behalf, first by Protestant and Quaker church ladies, later the Jews.

The civil rights movement of the 1960s converted the notion of rights – equality under the law – into privileges.  The absence of material equality was taken to be prima facia evidence of discrimination, to eliminate which government coercion was applied in many spheres of life.  The Age of Entitlement provides as good of a summary as any.

Displaying ethnic solidarity, and with the help of Jews and white altruists, African Americans ascended to political power.  It is substantial throughout urban America and almost a given in provinces where they are the majority.

Despite the abundant benefits bestowed on them, African Americans have not developed sustained Darwinian fitness.  Though their fertility grew in the early decades of civil rights, they now appreciate that being childless gives them more freedom.  They have perpetuated their culture out of force of habit rather than any great conviction. No elements of their culture have enhanced society's material well-being.  They do little to increase productivity.  As with their ancestors in Africa, they have largely left it up to the village – in this case, the state – to socialize their children.

African Americans' tenure as a flavor-of-the-month is expiring. The novelty wears off as the liberals dodge sidewalk excrement, get shot on the streets and have their houses burgled.  Society in general is increasingly put off by their uncivil and unlawful behavior.  The willingness to pacify them by throwing money their way is waning.  Other minorities, listed below, are displacing them in the flavor-of-the-month position.

Ellis Island Immigrants

Immigrants from Ireland and the south and east of Europe arrived later, by steamship more than wooden vessels.  In America's Gilded Age they found ample employment.  They raised large families and ascended into the middle class.  In doing so they largely lost their individuality to the American melting pot, a metaphor coined for them and to whom it best applied.

They lost their national identities, merging with us Foundational Americans, after which  they have shared our status.  Since the 1950s they have suffered from identity politics just as we have.  Their wages, like ours – and unlike any other groups named here – have been stagnant for 50 years as every other group's grew.

Descendants of Ellis Island immigrants experience the same dysphoria, lack of direction and drug abuse problems.  Not believing that they have anything worth passing down, they don't feel much obligation to have children.

We whites, both early and late arrivals, used to take pride in our skill and our work.  Government policy forced us out of jobs in the government sector, and increasingly the private sector as well, in favor of women, minorities and immigrants.  As government concerns itself with process, not with product, work is no longer done as well. Many of us are resigned to sit on the sidelines and smirk as things collapse around us.

Jews

Jews are unique.  Those in America mostly arrived by steamship with the Ellis Island immigrants.  The Ashkenazi are more intelligent by a large margin than any other minority group of their size.  They also benefit from centuries' experience coping with and taking advantage of less capable indigenous populations.  The following characterization of the arc of Jewish activities and accomplishments by generation is only approximate. 

They arrived penniless and persecuted, but gifted with intelligence, cohesion and chutzpah.  The first generation survived as garment workers and whatnot.  Their children excelled in academics and applied skills learned from their ancestors to mingle with and take advantage of us somewhat naïve goyim. 

Second generation American Jews formed the backbone of, among others, the music industry in New York, the entertainment industry in Hollywood, and the radio/TV industry.  They distinguished themselves in the fields of law and medicine.  As any Woody Allen movie demonstrates, they almost invented the field of psychotherapy.  Characteristically, Thomas Szasz, author of Psychiatry – the Science of Lies – was himself Jewish.

Jews successfully attacked the "gentleman's agreement" that limited their enrollment in elite universities, which they then rose to dominate.  They formed the core of the Manhattan project.  Through every generation, Jews have been highly overrepresented in the fields of banking and finance. 

Their dominance has lessened significantly of late.  Steve Sailer writes:

Using YouGov data, Eric Kaufmann finds that just 4 percent of elite American academics under 30 are Jewish (compared to 21 percent of boomers)…. The same pattern holds across America’s elite institutions: a slow-moving downward trend from the 1990s to the mid-2010s—likely due to all sorts of normal sociological factors—and then a purge so sweeping and dramatic you almost wonder who sent out the secret memo.

Third generation Jews questioned the establishment.  These included hippies such as Abby Hoffman.  They championed feminism, drugs, the antiwar movement, arcane spiritual movements, homosexuality and the like.  Abandoning their religion, they remained single or married out and often didn't have children. 

Latest generations, their numbers and their Jewishness having been diluted, have a weaker record of accomplishment.  Though they remain politically and socially liberal, most other minorities lump them with white men.  As Sailer notes above, their "flavor-of-the-month" status pretty much ended a few decades ago with the Seinfeld TV show.

For all of their worldly success, however, they have not proven themselves to be evolutionarily fit.  They are not breeding true, and in fact, not breeding much at all.

Feminists, Gays and Transsexuals

Though not ethnicities, each of these groups has in its turn enjoyed flavor-of-the-month status. First feminists, then, gays beginning with the Stonewall Riots in 1969, and now transsexuals eclipsing both those groups in the second and third decades of the new millennium.  The gay and very articulate Douglas Murray has an excellent book on the subject entitled The Madness of Crowds.  People speculate about the next abominations to be normalized.  Plural marriage? Pederasty? Bestiality?  There seem to be no limits.

One consistent thread runs through these fads – they all significantly reduce Darwinian fitness.  As in the waning days of the Roman Empire, groups attracted to such practices are bound to die out.

Illegal Immigrants

"Undocumented" immigrants have been a flavor-of-the-month for quite a while. However, the recent flood arriving in New York City is loosing a backlash among the very liberals who invented "sanctuary cities." We have the sense that that too is going to turn around.

The love affair with immigrants has already ended in Scandinavia and Germany. It leaves, however, a vast hangover. The immigrants cannot easily be got rid of. Denmark is trying to pay the money to go back home, but in many cases, there's not much of a home to go back to.  They will be an albatross around Europe's neck for a long time to come.

Mistakes in social policy are not easily undone.  One generation's frivolous fashion, or weak-kneed refusal to act, cascades into vast problems for future generations.

All that said, immigrants from America's south are at least fertile.  It is they, and almost they alone, who hold America's overall fertility rate up at 1.78 compared to Europe's 1.5.  Foundational Americans may be dying out, but through immigrants America retains Darwinian fitness.

Gypsies

Roma are a bigger issue in Europe than the United States. Free from the persecution they suffered in less enlightened epochs, they thrive and reproduce abundantly everywhere.  See my review of The Roma: A Balkan Underclass

Muslims

Muslims have never been and will not be a flavor-of-the-month. They get their way by being dangerous and not easily appeased.  They are tough – see Fistfights with Muslims and The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam.

As for fitness, Muslims are among the most fertile people in the world.  They have coped for centuries in some of the least hospitable natural surroundings the world has to offer.  Though they are not widely liked in our more favorable climes, they are tolerated.  They remain hungry enough to find and take full advantage of every kind of government largesse. 

East Indians

India represents the best example of the observation that the most intelligent fraction of a country tends to emigrate. Though their average intelligence is only around 82, India's highly endogamous caste system has ensured that the Brahmans are significantly above that. Per Steve Sailer again, they are the ones who have emigrated to the United States.

They take care of themselves. They have masterfully exploited the H1B visa system. As Sailer writes, nepotism is in their blood. As they rise to lead American corporations, they overtly favor fellow Indians. They have done well politically. Vivik Ramaswamy is running for President of the United States. The prime minister of Great Britain and the mayor of London are both Indian.

Asian Indians no longer enjoy flavor-of-the-month status with regard to small business loans and other such advantages.  Except for being hired as H1Bs, and the benefits brought by nepotism outside of government policy, they seem no longer to be greatly favored.

Indians in America, despite their material success, appear to be only slightly more fit in a Darwinian sense, that is to say fertile, than traditional Americans.  They do appear less inclined towards self-destruction through drugs, dropping out, transexuality and the like.

Northeast Asians

Chinese, Japanese and Koreans – the only Orientals we knew in my benighted childhood – were respected and feared for their intelligence as I attended the University of California. Mark Twain wrote favorably about them a century and a half ago in Roughing It.  They never needed affirmative action or any other such benefit. Nevertheless, simply being minorities they enjoyed flavor-of-the-month status for about a decade or so in the 1980s. Though my half Japanese wife of the time was too proud to take advantage of government stupidity by starting a minority owned small business, others did.

The Orientals (my characterization above) have never gotten deeply involved in politics, choosing instead to apply their intelligence to individual success as professionals and businessmen.

Their reluctance to start families has made their Darwinian fitness low. They are intelligent and conservative enough to want to be married and have an adequate income before they have children. More than that, as Philippe Rushton writes, they evolved to have a highly communal temperament. Low libido reduced societal conflict. In its place they developed a strong sense of obligation to their ancestors to have a family. This scaffolding surrounding family formation fell away in the United States, as a result of which both the marriage rate and fertility have fallen.

Education

It is a delusion that money is the major factor in raising successful children.  Controlling for the intelligence of the students, $50,000 a year schools such as Brearley in New Your or Holton Arms and Sidwell Friends in Washington do no better job than good public schools.

All schools are fraught with liberal dogmas, and all are losing ground to homeschooling, which even after giving up one salary can be cheaper and more effective than ordinary schools.  Most important, a home school will not inject children with unproven genetic gunk or groom them to cut off body parts.  Even conservative Texas lost thirty thousand public school students to home schooling last year.

Reed College which I attended is now headed by Audrey Bilger, a lesbian.  UC Berkeley is now headed by a Carol Crist.  The two top officers of the University of Maryland are the black Daryll Pines and my feminist professor Jennifer King Rice, about whom I wrote recently.  It is hard to imagine that white men suddenly lost the right stuff to lead educational institutions, but that is the appearance.

A student can acquire an education on their own over the Internet or in a foreign country more easily than ever before.   The American educational establishment is bound to collapse as it is overpriced, dedicated to perverse Marxist ideas, and delivers little of value.  Because knowledge can be so easily disseminated, and scholars can so easily exchange ideas over the Internet, the monopoly that universities have enjoyed in delivering education is bound to collapse.

Whither the white man?

So where did that leave us?  Decades of anti-white discrimination have significantly reduced our influence in the society our ancestors built. However, the decline in our Darwinian fitness is of our own doing. Moreover, the groups and ethnicities that have benefited from our fall are suffering their own declines.

The top priority of the social commentators who concern themselves with White Identity should be precisely that – what we white people think of ourselves.  We will never recover unless we regain a sense of pride in ourselves and our civilization.

Civilization perpetuates itself through its children.  Those who want children can do it, albeit at the cost.  It is expensive to raise them, but those with the will can manage one way or another.   

Children coming into the world today will find a place in society.  If they are not damaged by vaccines, drugs or despair, they will find work.   If they are smart, they will have more than ample opportunity.

Our challenge is to form families and situate them among others with families who want them to grow up with traditional values. My conclusion is that it is easier to do overseas.