Jonathan Keeperman
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This week, Christopher Rufo tackle the Indian Question. Among other things, this episode cuts to the heart of longstanding foundational political disputes that are simply unreconcilable, but which can longer be brushed aside. Namely that some people (perhaps most people) prefer to live in a homogenous society, and as America tips toward a majority-minority country, that fundamental preference is under threat. For a long time, liberals, who have more cosmopolitan preferences, have been able to pathologize the desire for homogeneity and subdue any explicit political effort to maintain a white majority in the country. A great many conservatives are no longer willing to be silent on this question. They are going to actively assert their preferences, and Indians, while relatively small in total number are nonetheless the fasting growing foreign born demographic in the country and the most conspicuous element of the 21st century mass immigration regime, and are therefore the inevitable flashpoint for this debate. *This episode we also took input from our Indian/South Asian friends Balaji, Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️, ib, and a secret 4th Indian.
Jonathan Keeperman3,119,002 次观看 • 28 天前
This is has gotten a lot of attention, and unsurprisingly raised the hackles of people who for decades have refused to address the problem of mass immigration, and who consider America nothing more than a free-economic zone. Good. Fortunately, the political solution to the growing resentments and social and political discord created by the unprecedented surge of mass immigration––across the entire West btw––is very straightforward, and despite the hysterical fever dreams of those mentioned above, entails virtually zero harm to anyone: We can simply turn off the immigration spigot, deport anyone who is not supposed to be here or who doesn't want to be here, and let assimilation do its work.
Jonathan Keeperman196,302 次观看 • 27 天前
Not even 2 minutes into the Rogan/Murray/Smith video and it's no wonder Murray is not being received well. In the first 30 seconds he immediately cuts off the friendly banter and starts interrogating Rogan about the anti-Israel slant in his content. He takes on a really grating, officious ,"just asking questions" tone, when, just like he accuses others of doing, he already knows the answer he wants to hear and is only using the faux-curious approach to smuggle in his criticism. This brief clip then ends with Murray saying: "I'm interested in your selection of guests because you're the world's number one podcast." Not only is this a kind of passive-aggressive concern-trolling, and a subtle implication that Rogan has neglected his moral obligation to act "responsibly" as an influential public figure, it also gets the causation EXACTLY backward. Rogan has the world's number one podcast precisely because of his guest selection, and precisely because the views he platforms are effectively embargoed from mainstream media and Rogan is willing to hear them out. The rest of the media is trying to "teach" it's audience something. People are sick of that kind of didacticism. Rogan is just letting you "listen." Most of Rogan's listeners won't even get to the substance of the arguments before (rightly) determining this guy fundamentally misunderstands the audience he's speaking to and misunderstands the context he's speaking to them in.
Lomez2,071,261 次观看 • 1 年前
"Empathy" is often used to explain bleeding-heart liberalism, but this is exactly backwards. It is precisely the liberal's lack of empathy, his failure to imagine the mindset of the malicious anti-social criminal, that drives his misguided politics. Important to realize this.
Jonathan Keeperman232,988 次观看 • 5 个月前
This week Christopher Rufo and I do a deep dive post-mortem on the Intellectual Dark Web, an outgrowth of a very particular time and place that is now long past its expiration. Why this movement imploded is worth careful consideration. Bari Weiss was surprisingly prescient in her concerns over the micro-zeitgeist she was memeing into existence with her article about it in 2018 in the New York Times. Even then, she was struggling with the question of effective gatekeeping––who to let in, who to exclude––but this was the wrong question. Among other things, the failure of the IDW was not only its people, but that it never understood its own "classical liberal" project. It's not that it couldn't police its membership that made it fail, it's that the IDW remained afraid to honestly discuss the full implications of the heterodox "truth-seeking" it supposedly championed, and instead resorted to heterodoxy for heterodoxy's sake. This is a common failure mode among "dissident" intellectual movements, and one to be very cautious to avoid.
Jonathan Keeperman55,059 次观看 • 1 个月前
Eight months ago, Christopher Rufo and I did a whole episode on why Abundance would get crushed. 1) This same technocratic managerialism crashed and burned under Obama, and 2) its supposed benefits were never aimed at the middle-class families who might actually want them.
Jonathan Keeperman41,504 次观看 • 1 个月前
Perhaps the most significant political asymmetry is that the left has the unilateral power to exact social punishment on its enemies. This is why establishment cons still defer moral authority to the NYT. Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ discuss this in the context of the SPLC indictment.
Lomez163,141 次观看 • 6 个月前
I have said previously I think the anti-tech/anti-data center sentiment is largely misdirected. But on the Flock question, despite the law enforcement benefits, I am more much more sympathetic to the skeptics. Christopher Rufo discuss at length on the latest episode.
Jonathan Keeperman47,643 次观看 • 2 个月前
One of my grand theories of Trump is that he is a living rearticulation of the End of History, that his presidency opens an alternative path from the one we took after the Cold War, reversing its mistakes and cutting the loose ends it left dangling. I remain a Plan Truster.
Jonathan Keeperman135,241 次观看 • 7 个月前
George Floyd's death was the pretext for a political revolution––supported up and down the left, from their radical fringes to the "respectable" centrists of the Democrat Party–– and whose BLM-inspired ideology of racial tyranny still dominates mainstream institutions to this day. That pretext was lie. Their revolution is a blight on all of American Life. It must be extracted from its roots and its idols burned to the ground. It starts by telling the truth about what happened to George Floyd and exonerating Derek Chauvin.
Lomez82,780 次观看 • 5 个月前
After Mystery Grove posted about Homestead being another Yellowstone, I looked up what the new based conservative Angel Studios is up to, and their next theatrical release is a Hillary Clinton/Samantha Power State Department wet dream fantasy about a "trailblazing" all-girls science team from Afghanistan This trailer has to be seen to be believed.
Lomez254,260 次观看 • 1 年前
Back in 2015 there was a debate between GMU economist and open-borders advocate Bryan Caplan and his colleague Garett Jones who cautioned that immigrants tend to import all the beliefs and pathologies of their home nations, and that if we want to preserve America qua America, and importantly the strength of its institutions, we need take a far more prudent approach to who we let in to the country and at what volume. Caplan, and mass immigration proponents at places like CATO and elsewhere, who think of immigration as an unalloyed economic good (which somehow became conventional wisdom), dismissed these concerns––when not simply waving them away as the bigoted ranting of evil bad racists––by claiming, as Caplan does in the clip below, that 1) first generation immigrants don't really hold any political power (so who really cares?) and 2) second generation immigrants and beyond simply assimilate to the prevailing norms of the country (as they have in the past). Now that a fully westernized Indian by way of Uganda is leading a coalition of non-natives to impose socialism on our country's biggest city and economic power center, do they have any revisions they want to make? Do they think maybe it's time to reconsider the conventional wisdom? Do they think maybe, as Garett Jones warned us, that mass immigration doesn't just spontaneously produce Americans, that there is no magic dirt, and that since a country is its people, when the people change (or *are changed*) the country changes with them?
Jonathan Keeperman149,673 次观看 • 1 年前
The left establishment has always tolerated its vanguard, sometimes to its detriment, but on balance as a useful political force. Can the right learn a similar lesson as its institutions are reformed in the post Trump era? This is the counterbalance to the clip below.
Jonathan Keeperman40,388 次观看 • 2 个月前
This week, Christopher Rufo I discuss another California fraud story that defies belief. A Nigerian Chieftain named Nathan Ogbatue bilked Medicaid for 10s of millions of dollars and absconded back to Nigeria where the "half man, half god" resides in a luxurious compound adorned with golden statues of himself. All on the American tax-payer's dime. So far, this heist, and many others like it, have led to very little corrective action. Sure there have been a few arrests here and there (though Ogbatue remains a free man) and sure people are starting to pay attention to this problem, but these efforts can and do feel Sisyphean to the activists on the ground who might, after a while, begin to wonder what it's all for. One of the problem's on the right is that the conservative personality type is not built for activist politics. Being an activist sucks. There is little to be gained and the opportunity costs for competent, energetic people are just too high. Nonetheless, somebody has to do it. We spend a good chunk of the episode discussing the mindset needed to carry on in spite of the costs. In short: "Because we're here, lad. Nobody else. Just us"
Jonathan Keeperman12,096 次观看 • 22 天前
