It goes without saying chappie is an educator. Also needless to say, our educator chappie has form.
Given the self-satisfied ignorance on display - or malign perversity - I’m guessing Dr Kotsko doesn’t live in a neighbourhood rapidly being enlivened with Congolese and Somali borra gangs, whose social skills, and machetes, are so much in the news here.
Of course, it’s much easier to be dismissive of rapidly changing demographics and to disdain expectations of cultural common ground if your own immediate neighbourhood hasn’t yet been enriched by gangs of machete-wielding sociopaths, or by people butchering animal carcasses in the back garden, or newcomers struggling with the concept of electricity, or getting lively in the name of Islam, or just shitting on your doorstep, as happens in some of the more vibrant areas.
Aside from apparently not knowing that the US&A didn't invent slavery and that it still goes on today but not in the US&A, he seems a little short on knowledge of current events.
Meanwhile, Now is the time in South Africa we dance, but what do I know I am not one of 12 "professors" at one of the worst colleges in the US.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | August 10, 2019 at 13:21
Somewhat related:
Also, “Narratives of Europe’s enrichment by migration are post facto rationalisations for something that Europe is undergoing, not choosing.”
Posted by: David | August 10, 2019 at 13:31
I'll put a fiver on Adam Kotsko being Jewish.
For some Jews, "never again" means no more white nations.
Posted by: Revelation | August 10, 2019 at 14:25
Oh, and one other fact that has been "memory holed"
The majority of Slave traders in the US were Jews.
Posted by: Revelation | August 10, 2019 at 14:27
It boggles the mind that the lefties or enviro-lefties who spout such things as "given" or "fact" get all angry when someone suggests they take their own advice. I had a co-worker once who was convinced humans were ruining the earth, and we needed less humans. So I said - well, you first. For the Earth! He was not amused. Luckily for me he was not a member of a protected class who could go to HR and get me fired for offending him.
Posted by: ComputerLabRat | August 10, 2019 at 14:42
Totally OT but the day after the document drop on Jeffrey Epstein, he allegedly commits suicide.
It may be black humor that Epstein's "suicide" has been predicted for awhile because of the Clinton connection, but I'm not laughing right now.
Posted by: Darleen | August 10, 2019 at 15:23
“The majority of Slave traders in the US were Jews.”
[citation needed]
Posted by: Pst314 | August 10, 2019 at 15:44
The majority of Slave traders in the US were Jews.
I claim no expertise, but five minutes of Googling suggests that isn’t actually true.
Posted by: David | August 10, 2019 at 16:04
Also needless to say, our educator chappie has form.
Honk honk!
Posted by: sH2 | August 10, 2019 at 16:06
I’m guessing Dr Kotsko doesn’t live in a neighbourhood rapidly being enlivened with Congolese and Somali borra gangs...
FaberShimer College, where this guy teaches (ahem) bounced around the northern 'burbs of Chicago before landing in Napierville from when it decamped to the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology (on two floors of one building - seriously) in Bronzeville, on Chicago's south side, in 2017, so your guess is probably safe, and that he commutes. Of course with the cultural enhancement in Germany, being near a commuter train is problematic these days, so there is that.Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | August 10, 2019 at 16:27
Honk honk!
If, at short notice, I had to find someone with pernicious, indeed lunatic, opinions concerning what they’d like to see happen to white people, and to white men in particular, the first place I’d look is the nearest Clown Quarter of academia.
You know, where other people’s children are taught what to think.
Posted by: David | August 10, 2019 at 16:29
A definition of "racist" would be helpful, but that might derail the narrative. Also an explanation why racism, however defined, is intrinsically bad.
Birds of a feather flock together. People tend to prefer the company of people with whom they have a lot in common. Preferring the company of one's own genetic/ethnic group is not bad. Hating others because of *their* genetic/ethnic categories is bad, but preferring one doesn't require hating the other.
Looking at the origins of the new demographics, and comparing the conditions there to the conditions of one's own society prior to the demographic changes and coming to the conclusion that one prefers one to the other is, likewise, not bad.
And if that be racist, then sign me up. I'd rather not see the U.S. (or Europe) turn into South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mexico del Norte, or the Dar al Eurabia.
Posted by: jabrwok | August 10, 2019 at 16:44
[citation needed]
I wandered over to wiki to see what it said about slave trade in the USA (no I don't use it for citing per se but the footnotes usually have links to other sources)
What I found curious was this phrase
That 2019 'woke' phrase is just weirdly out-of-place. Regardless of whether or not Mr. Dew actually believed the "white race" was superior or not, this is a political label. And unless I've missed it, the race supremacy assertion isn't used in examination of the eons-long, world-wide history of slavery.
Posted by: Darleen | August 10, 2019 at 16:57
I claim no expertise, but five minutes of Googling suggests that isn’t actually true.
Add to that is Jews are under strict Biblical rules for slaves, not the least of which is that any slave MUST be released at the end of 7 years and any remaining debt for which he was enslaved must be canceled.
Posted by: Darleen | August 10, 2019 at 17:20
I’m not really bothered by the racial impact of mass immigration. I don’t give a damn about miscegenation or birth rates or any of that rubbish. What offends is the cultural assumptions its white left wing advocates try to push.
Cuisine often represents a sort of synecdoche for what the left appears to believe in general. What came before in the past was monotonous and boring where it wasn’t identifiably objectionable. There’s less and less understanding that immigrants at their best enhance what was already pretty good. The sense increasingly is that Western countries were actively at fault for being majority white and people on the right side of history are rectifying that.
It’s very hard to know what one should expect of immigrants in terms of integration. I myself despise association football, the BBC and the NHS, which plenty of people would regard as touchstones of being British. When I see a non-white face pleased to see England win at rugby or cricket I’m always delighted, but I’d never want to enforce the Tebbit test.
Posted by: Charlie Suet | August 10, 2019 at 17:42
The school where our genius teaches is in Naperville, IL. For all the information you ever wanted to know about Naperville, go here: http://www.city-data.com/city/Naperville-Illinois.html
re: comments above, the predominant religion in Naperville is Catholic. The great majority of single-family homes cost between $400k and $750k. A quick look suggests that Naperville is an upscale predominantly white community with low crime and poverty rates and a fairly fixed demographic.
City-data has lists! Naperville is on these lists.
#7 on the list of "Top 101 cities with the largest racial income disparity between any two races with at least 2,000 householders"
#8 on the list of "Top 101 cities with the least people below 50% of the poverty level (population 50,000+)"
#9 on the list of "Top 101 cities with the lowest percentage of single-parent households, population 50,000+"
#11 on the list of "Top 101 cities with the lowest number of auto thefts per 100,000 residents (population 50,000+)" #11 on the list of "Top 100 cities with biggest houses (pop. 50,000+)"
#12 on the list of "Top 101 cities with the lowest number of burglaries per 100,000 residents (population 50,000+)"
#18 on the list of "Top 100 safest cities (lowest city-data.com crime index) (pop. 50,000+)"
#20 on the list of "Top 101 cities with the lowest city-data.com crime index (population 50,000+)"
#21 on the list of "Top 100 cities with highest median household income (pop. 50,000+)"
#24 on the list of "Top 101 cities with the least people below the poverty level (population 50,000+)"
Posted by: Richard | August 10, 2019 at 18:05
Here is his blog post from four years ago on this subject, in its entirety.
https://itself.blog/2015/06/30/should-white-american-commit-mass-suicide-if-not-why-not/
Posted by: Smallish Bees | August 10, 2019 at 18:11
This has also been an opportunity to learn a lot of racist talking points.
Lefties project.
Posted by: H | August 10, 2019 at 19:43
Can you believe anyone would hold such a view?!
Dr Kotsko’s claim of ‘Hey, just kidding!’ might seem less squirmy and disingenuous if many of his peers weren’t basing their status and careers on framing “whiteness” as a pathology, something to correct and atone for, and attempting to inculcate pretentious racial guilt among pale-skinned students. It might also seem less squirmy and disingenuous if much of the left-leaning media, from Salon to the New York Times, weren’t all but fixated with framing “whiteness” and “white people” as inherently oppressive and dysfunctional, with articles claiming the US will be “saved” by being “less white,” with white people reduced to a fringe minority - and claiming that “white men must be stopped” because “the very future of mankind depends on it” - deemed worthy of mainstream publication.
And it might seem less squirmy and disingenuous if Dr Kotsko hadn’t himself spent quite a bit of time framing “whiteness” as a defect, a lamentable pathology, one with “a stranglehold on power,” and which “exists solely to legitimate the subordination and exploitation of other races.”
Posted by: David | August 10, 2019 at 20:24
Not entirely unrelated:
Franklin Einspruch, here.
Posted by: David | August 10, 2019 at 21:45
Apparently Kotsko is convinced that all peoples are so innocuously uniform and interchangeable that he's outraged when very evidently they're not. Whitey.
"Celebrate diversity" is so Nineties.
Posted by: Ten | August 10, 2019 at 21:51
Jews are under strict Biblical rules
As in Old Testament law post-70 AD or thereabouts? I wasn't aware of that.
Posted by: Ten | August 10, 2019 at 21:54
Jews are under strict Biblical rules
Orthodox, Reform, Reconstructonist, or Conservative ?
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | August 10, 2019 at 22:10
And of course, there’s always everyone’s favorite: Other Cultures Had Slavery Too. And We Abolished It. Boy, do I feel pwned, bro.
A glib recitation of an argument is not a refutation of it. Neither is heavy handed sarcasm.
Posted by: Charlie Suet | August 10, 2019 at 22:42
there’s always everyone’s favorite: Other Cultures Had Slavery Too.
It stands to reason that in the postmodern moral wasteland where every sin is normalized and racism! is up-leveled to exclusive top god status*, slavery becomes the ultimate bellwether. Given that everybody did it? Mumble mumble argle bargle.
*with a chaser of clinical projection. You evil bastards, although I can't exactly say why. Mumble mumble argle bargle.
Posted by: Ten | August 10, 2019 at 23:10
Kotsko
What is an eastern european warehouse store, Alex?
Posted by: Steve E | August 10, 2019 at 23:24
As in Old Testament law post-70 AD or thereabouts? I wasn't aware of that.
Posted by: Darleen | August 10, 2019 at 23:41
I claim no expertise, but five minutes of Googling suggests that isn’t actually true.
I hope our Jew-hating commenter is not a harbinger of things to come: Instapundit has linked now and then to posts on this blog, and the Instapundit comment threads are now sometimes polluted with racist and antisemitic comments.
Posted by: pst314 | August 10, 2019 at 23:45
Deuteronomy
Which doesn't answer the post-Christ question but that's okay.
racist and antisemitic comments
And the right becomes the left.
Posted by: Ten | August 11, 2019 at 00:21
What say your grandparents and great-grandparents about this, Brits?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229643/This-isnt-Britain-fought-say-unknown-warriors-WWII.html
Posted by: Pogonip | August 11, 2019 at 01:03
Jews are under strict Biblical rules
Apparently Epstein and Soros did not get the memo.
Per Hugh Thomas's book "The Slave Trade," much of the slave trade (at least initially) was financed by conversos.
Posted by: Jay Guevara | August 11, 2019 at 02:42
Annndddd Steve E causes me to ruin yet another keyboard.
Posted by: Jeff Guinn | August 11, 2019 at 08:30
Looking at the origins of the new demographics, and comparing the conditions there to the conditions of one’s own society prior to the demographic changes and coming to the conclusion that one prefers one to the other is, likewise, not bad.
Dr Kotsko’s line of thinking also strikes me as parochial, in that he seems to imagine that the people who have reservations about rapid demographic change must invariably be white and therefore, by his reckoning, racist. As if people who live in the US or the UK and whose families originated in, say, India, China or Nigeria couldn’t possibly have concerns about their neighbourhoods being transformed by immigration and a failure (or refusal) to assimilate.
A few years ago, I overheard a lively discussion, in an old-fashioned barber shop, in which a black customer and the Indian owner of a chip shop were voicing precisely these concerns, and in particular the need for assimilation, which rather underlines the importance of behaviour and cultural common ground over skin colour.
But in order to badmouth whitey and thereby posture to his peers, our educator seems happy to, as they say, erase any members of a racial minority whose views diverge from his own.
Posted by: David | August 11, 2019 at 10:13
He should go and tell the Dalai Lama that he and the Tibetan people are just being racist when they object to their ethnic replacement by the Chinese.
Posted by: Jonathan | August 11, 2019 at 10:28
Long-time fan, first-time commenter (though I think one of my tweets got linked here once).
Adam Kotsko is a (very odd and obnoxious) Christian theologian. I don't want to hit the spamfilter so I won't link, but it's easy to verify via websearch.
Posted by: St. Rev | August 11, 2019 at 12:05
or just shitting on your doorstep, as happens in some of the more vibrant areas.
Unless the person it happens to is black, in which case white lefties will be falling all over themselves to call it a hate crime.
Posted by: Ted S, Catskill Mtns, NY, USA | August 11, 2019 at 12:12
Long-time fan, first-time commenter
I do like it when lurkers de-lurk. Help yourself to bar snacks.
What?
Posted by: David | August 11, 2019 at 12:21
Dr Kotsko’s line of thinking also strikes me as parochial, in that he seems to imagine that the people who have reservations about rapid demographic change must invariably be white and therefore, by his reckoning, racist. As if people who live in the US or the UK and whose families originated in, say, India, China or Nigeria couldn’t possibly have concerns about their neighbourhoods being transformed by immigration and a failure (or refusal) to assimilate.
Well, there are any number of white lefties who complain about gentrification, aren't there?
Posted by: Ted S., Catskill Mtns., NY, USA | August 11, 2019 at 12:38
I'll put a fiver on Adam Kotsko being Jewish.
You owe me a fiver, Anti-Semite-who-posts-as-Revelation.
I'll have a fiver's worth of the pickled eggs, David.
Posted by: Sue Sims | August 11, 2019 at 13:21
My first thought gazing upon the visage of Adam Kostko: 'smug little git'.
In this case either physiognomy is destiny or inner reality molds outward apperance. In eiter case prudence requires that he be chastised with sticks, repeatedly.
Posted by: fnord | August 11, 2019 at 13:55
I'll have a fiver's worth of the pickled eggs, David.
*shudder*
More courage than sense.
Posted by: fnord | August 11, 2019 at 14:02
I’ll have a fiver’s worth of the pickled eggs, David.
You could take down a carjacker with a couple of these.
Posted by: David | August 11, 2019 at 14:50
David, the hump fat tastes funny. Are you thinning it with the dehydrated water again?
Posted by: Pogonip | August 11, 2019 at 16:48
Dr Kotsko’s line of thinking also strikes me as parochial, in that he seems to imagine that the people who have reservations about rapid demographic change must invariably be white and therefore, by his reckoning, racist.
I wonder if the good professor has any idea of the word "gentrification" and the lengths some neighborhoods *of color* will go to in order to keep their decrepit, dangerous, depressed cultural(sic) centers?
Posted by: Darleen | August 11, 2019 at 17:35
"Dying of whiteness"
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1160600655687487489
Honk.
Posted by: sH2 | August 11, 2019 at 18:40
I am not one of 12 "professors" at one of the worst colleges in the US.
The article you linked does indeed anoint Shimer College as the #1 worst college in America, not merely one of the worst.
It is the worst of the worst. The most visible canker sore of many, in all of American upper education. The last place any sane parent would send their child to.
There can only be one worst college, and that is Shimer.
So back to Kotsko's incandescently idiotic pronouncement: he has Shimer's wretched reputation to uphold, and he has done so with flying colors.
Posted by: Burnsie | August 11, 2019 at 20:03
The problem with people like Kotsko is they don't understand that whilst it is nice to offer your neighbour a place to stay if their house burnt down, you might hesitate if you knew they were the arsonist.
Posted by: Runcie Balspune | August 11, 2019 at 21:08
Re Dr Kotsko and his urge to call people racist, this came to mind.
Posted by: David | August 11, 2019 at 21:23
Oh my, the Ministry of Truth has struck again.
Posted by: Darleen | August 11, 2019 at 22:16
the Ministry of Truth has struck again.
Speaking of the "lovely" Jessica Yaniv, here's our intrepid defender of the rights of the shaggy-balled, making her way through the city on her, wait for it...
Mobility scooter! Because, you know, being a male to female transexual who has been refused a good ball waxing doesn't get you quite where you want to be in the privilege olympics.
Posted by: Steve E | August 11, 2019 at 23:31
Paint that thing a different colour and you just might have a clown car.
Posted by: Steve E | August 11, 2019 at 23:33
Mobility scooter!
He appears to be man-spreading.
Posted by: jabrwok | August 12, 2019 at 00:07
So "Jessica" Yaniv is now "trans disabled"?
Posted by: pst314 | August 12, 2019 at 00:14
So "Jessica" Yaniv is now "trans disabled"?
This was visited here recently but I can't find the link right offhand, which is embarrassing because I posted it, but in Orwellian fashion people who either want to be disabled, pretend to be disabled, or deliberately maim themselves are not "transdisabled", but "transabled".
People who look askance at them, or suggest they seek help, to include the genuinely disabled, are, of course, bad, bad people.
Regardless, Yaniv appears to up to his antics as usual claiming he was denied french fries for being "trans". A casual observer might make the mistake that this chap has some problem with Indians as well seeing as how, IIRC, that is who refused to wax his 'nads.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | August 12, 2019 at 02:57
This was visited here recently but I can't find the link right offhand, which is embarrassing because I posted it
I saved the link as being particularly noteworthy:
https://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2019/07/elsewhere-294.html?cid=6a00d83451675669e20240a4718928200c#comment-6a00d83451675669e20240a4718928200c
not "transdisabled", but "transabled".
I was being deliberately disrespectful of those who foist the term upon us, just as I put "Jessica" in quotes.
Posted by: pst314 | August 12, 2019 at 12:29
I'm guessing that any reference to the name Ruby Begonia will short circuit the system.
Posted by: Jay | August 12, 2019 at 20:15
On one level, it is nice to see Yaniv forced to accuse various Indian, Filipino, and other immigrants of discrimination. Everybody knows he's a malicious grifter, but he isn't granted the social acceptance of accusing a straight white man or woman.
It is so much easier to publicly ridicule him as the entitled, degenerate pedophile he shows himself to be when the media isn't cheering him on from the front page as some sort of warrior against oppression of lunatics.
Posted by: Joe Ego | August 13, 2019 at 18:45