The Best Explainer Of 21st Century America
The journalist Steve Sailer gave his first public speech in ten years recently, and he needed a literal castle as his venue, since the last time he had a speech scheduled in a hotel, activists shut it down. When you hear him speak, you might wonder why: he's a mild mannered, polite man. And then you realize: he speaks truth, and truth is the enemy of the Empire of Lies.
The lens Sailer uses to look at the world is human biodiversity, a term he coined in the 1990s, which is the study of how various human populations differ--and ways our reigning ideology seeks to suppress that knowledge, via what was once called "political correctness", and is now sometimes called "wokeness". As Sailer notes in the transcript of his speech, an example of this occurred to him on 9/11:
Let’s start on September 11, 2001. I sat down that evening and wrote a news article that began:
Bush had called for laxer airport security
Ironically, in an attempt to appeal to the growing number of Arab-American and Muslim voters, exactly eleven months ago George W. Bush called for weakening airport security procedures aimed at deterring hijackers.
On Oct. 11, 2000, during the second presidential debate, the Republican candidate … said …, “Arab-Americans are racially profiled in what’s called secret evidence. People are stopped, and we got to do something about that.” … Bush went on, “My friend, Sen. Spence Abraham [the Arab-American Republican Senator from Michigan], is pushing a law to make sure that, you know, Arab-Americans are treated with respect. So racial profiling isn’t just an issue at the local police forces. It’s an issue throughout our society. And as we become a diverse society, we’re going to have to deal with it more and more.” [UPI, not published until several days after September 11, 2001.]
There was nothing out of character about Bush’s attack on airport security profiling in the name of pleasing a growing immigrant group, which he tasked Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta with launching a few months before 9/11. The brains of the Bush operation, Karl Rove, often publicly declared that Republicans in 2000 would emulate Republicans in 1896, when William McKinley beat William Jennings Bryan by getting more immigrant voters.
Five years after 9/11, the airline ticket clerk who first checked in Mohammed Atta, a guy named Michael Tuohey, went on Oprah and said:
“I said to myself, ‘If this guy doesn’t look like an Arab terrorist, then nothing does.’ Then I gave myself a mental slap, because in this day and age, it’s not nice to say things like this,” he said. … “I got an instant chill when I looked at [Atta]. I got this grip in my stomach and then, of course, I gave myself a Politically Correct slap.”
Although he is modest about making predictions, Steve Sailer nevertheless made a few prescient ones about the 21st Century that came true:
- Before George Bush invaded Iraq, Sailer noted that Western-style democracy would be unlikely to take root there, due to what he called "The Cousin Marriage Conundrum": high rates of cousin marriage made the population too clannish for it.
- In the early 2000s, Sailer laid out the strategy that would ultimately win President Trump the White House: not focusing on winning Hispanics, as Karl Rove had suggested, but winning Rust Belt whites.
- Soon after gay marriage was legalized, Sailer correctly predicted the establishment would push transgenderism next.
Sailer also did a better job of explaining the consequences of the Black Lives Matter movement (more deaths, as cops pulled back on enforcement) than mainstream pundits.
The Secret History Of The 20th Century
I've embedded a video of Sailer's speech below; if you'd like to watch, make a point of doing so before YouTube deletes it.
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