Anyhow, that reminds me that freaking out about cultural goods from Japan that don’t accurately reflect the country and importing them en masse is also a practice that dates to, if I remember correctly, the 1800s.
So being a weeb is trad. But if you’re hanging around the rationalsphere, you’ve probably already heard that as a joke already.
Anyhow, this discussion of China and racism got me thinking about how American companies talked about how only jobs that Americans didn’t want would be getting outsourced to China, and that it was nothing to worry about.
Which, like, implicit racism. China isn’t going to climb the ladder of production and become a fierce competitor because? What, are they just not cool enough?
Anonymous asked:
silver-and-ivory answered:
hon, i’m adopted. from china. it’s. not that hard to figure out.
both lesbians are also cis, i’m pretty sure i’ve said that in the past
Also like, ‘my parents are both lesbians’ should probably have a bigger prior of ‘adopted’ rather than ‘test tube baby that didn’t require sperm which is theoretically possible but hasn’t ever actually happened yet’.
The silver lining is that we’ve staffed this corner of Tumblr with so many transhumanists that someone’s brain ACTUALLY supplies “near/mid-future gene-editing technique” before “adoption.”
I mean I’m pretty sure that anon thought that I was Rachel Dolezal: Part Two, Asian Boogaloo; but this is a far more pleasing interpretation. @mitigatedchaos would approve.
Obviously you’re just not signalling being Chinese hard enough.
You’re gonna need to wear a qipao, while putting your hair in a bun and putting two chopsticks through it, while appearing in a kung fu movie set in Hong Kong, while speaking with a heavy Cantonese accent.
This should make it clear to all readers that you are definitely Chinese, despite growing up in America to the point that you tag things as “#half-remembered” and probably having almost no familiarity with speaking Cantonese in your life.
Now I know what you’re thinking. “But wait, don’t many overseas Chinese students these days speak with an accent almost indistinguishable from American English as spoken by a second-generation immigrant?” But this is about Tumblr theater for Americans who project their own terrible race politics on every other country, regardless of whether it’s remotely applicable, so spoon feeding is required.
As for the kung fu, that’s merely a point of disagreement between me and the current government on whether learning a martial art should be mandatory for all able-bodied adult citizens as part of a broad-based, multi-layered civil defense strategy. The good news is that the same viewers don’t know what real martial arts looks like, so you don’t actually have to learn kung fu, at least while the government and I hash out our differences over what qualifies as “an essential obligation of citizenship” and a “necessary sovereign service to be yielded by the state.”
CONCEPT: You stand by a rural railroad crossing at exactly midnight, lit only by a waning crescent moon peeking through heavy clouds. A single boxcar rolls slowly down the almost imperceptible incline. Rattling wood and the distant croaking of crickets. As the boxcar reaches the crossing you see words spraypainted on the side. The words read: “THE STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY: IT’S REASONABLY USEFUL”. The boxcar rolls on.
You panic suddenly, realizing the implications of what this means, You run after the boxcar, shouting to anyone ahead that might hear “Pull the lever! Lives depend on it!“
Anonymous asked:
elementarynationalism answered:
That’s an extraordinarily good troll and I want to congratulate you for trying.
He’s stuck between national separatism and national unity, anon.
Honestly if the Indian government buying the bullet train off of the Japanese in the hopes it repeats its zero-accident track record in Delhi isn’t the most ingenious experiment in human biodiversity theory, please find me a better one.
Wait until Dinesh decides the bolts don’t really need to be screwed on as tight as Takashi told him and we’ll see if they match that record.
Bro, m8, buddy, pal,
We don’t have a non-corrupt India with which to separate out biological factors, including environmental ones (such as poor nutrition), so “does India fuck up the bullet train” does not work as an experiment for your hypothesis.
You’re not dealing any more in the scientific method than I am. You hazard to bet the fact that bullet trains won’t work in India is down to something intangible like “corruption” and I’m suggesting it’s got more to do with human capital.
People who shit in the street and ride on the top of freight trains aren’t doing so because of poor nutrition, fam.
But they might out of cultural factors. (Also, poor nutrition, in the aggregate, could harm national IQ and mental health, among other things.)
Corruption is a norm, it can be removed (Singapore) by sufficiently-determined group of actors passing and enforcing the right laws.
The trick is that it’s based on expectations about others engaging in corruption and expectations of getting caught. It also arises when it’s impossible to function without violating the rules.
When corruption rates are high, there is not only a social expectation that one will get away with it, but there’s also the effect of “but everyone else is doing it - why do they get to benefit, but not me?” Additionally, there are networks of corruption that can be relied on.
Increasing the odds of getting caught and punished above a certain level eradicates the pro-corruption network effects. (This could be achieved with a series of sting operations all unleashed at once as a form of shock therapy.) At that point, corrupt officials become isolated individuals with far less expectation of getting away with it.
After a while, the next generation of bureaucrats rises in which the default is that corruption is almost unthinkable, and the relative rarity at that point makes it much less costly to police.
Under Communism, because it’s so at odds with reality, arresting the corrupt officials won’t work as well because they may have to lie and be corrupt to survive, normalizing corruption. Similarly, some cultures with a strong external locus of control or other elements may be prone to corruption.
Anonymous asked:
The political climate necessary to even establish such a thing suggests sufficient power mass to deal with most of the marginal sources that would turn people towards wanting a European ethnostate to begin with.
I don’t think what most of the people becoming identitarians right now really want is racial purity. I just think that they think racial purity is the only way to get what they want.
Anonymous asked:
Are you kidding? The Leftists would be absolutely furious if I got away with this, seeing as it denies the universalism of their ideals. They’d be furious even if it failed. They’d still be furious if I also gave one to the Black Nationalists. (They wouldn’t be furious if I gave one to Black Nationalists but not White Nationalists, but, eh.)
Anyhow, as for “nonwhite immigrants embracing the Rights of Englishmen” - that’s more a matter of social equilibrium forces and cultural replication, not genetics, IMO. (Also banning cousin marriage WRT its social effects, but cousin marriage rates are fairly low in the US.)
We need to slow immigration to get housing costs under control anyway.
And besides, if you get a little city-state of your own, then surely you can prove that the “White Way is the Right Way™” and that really it is about genetics and not culture. Right?
I think it’ll fail, but I’m willing to make that bet.
