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Nikole Hannah-Jones wants both races to be equally miserable — 20 Comments

  1. The argument for the wholly imaginary “systemic racism” from disparity in household wealth (with the corresponding emphasis on “equity”, i.e. state-mandated equality of outcome) falls apart very easily when one considers the numerous factors responsible for the creation of wealth nationally and for the ability of citizens to benefit from the systems in place. Individuals vary greatly in ambition, intelligence, perseverance (and all other elements of temperament), and there exists considerable evidence that groups (considered statistically) do as well. It therefore follows that the only possible result from the forcible attempt to equalize all is to immiserate (almost) all, for, of course, in the society imagined by most “progressives”, they are the privileged minority of materially comfortable commissars ruling over the vast majority of impoverished kulaks.

  2. j e:
    People also vary in interests and goals, which often affect income. This is often ignored, for example, in the income gap between men and women. People sometimes choose careers that have lower income potential; and not all of those choices are irrational.

  3. Hmmmm. “Equally miserable.” Isn’t that the Commie Party Line? For those who’ve read their Solzhenitsyn, at least?

  4. Must admit she is rather entertaining…in a “Night of the Living Dead” kinda way.

    (But then it seems that the Democratic Party and its supporters have been zombified now for quite some time…with the help of the corrupt media and infotech certainly. But how long can THAT be used as an excuse?)

  5. In related news, US students interviewed by Campus Reform cannot fathom why equity champions from Cuba hoist Old Glory in protest against their great State’s achievements….?

    From the National Mall in occupied Washington, DC:

    “Students in Washington DC were confused to see the American flag, which they don’t believe is a symbol of freedom, flown by Cuban citizens in recent protests against the communist government. One student suggested Cuban anti-communists should fly the flag of Sweden.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/tag/cuba/

    The USA used to be the richest and best educated nation in the world. Today, we spend more per capita than anywhere on K-12.

    Yet 15 year olds rank a F-d up 37th in STEM.

    But hey. We’re so rich and successful, we really need Diversity and Anti-racist Training (TM)!

    Hannah what’s her face, OMG! She’s soooooo GRT!

  6. NHJ is probably making $500k-$1m per year with her new gigs.

    Coates, the alleged writer, has a place in Paris.

    The race industry has been very, very good to them.

  7. I don’t believe the World Bank has published data on Cuba’s income distribution. Ever. In terms of per capita income, Cuba has a half-dozen peer countries in Latin America; together they account for < 10% of Latin America's population. Everyone else more affluent.

  8. The entire group of Caribbean islands had extensive African slavery back in the 17th and into the 19th century, including Cuba. Wikipedia says there were 224,000 African slaves in Cuba in 1817. Also:

    In part due to Cuban slaves working primarily in urbanized settings, by the 19th century, the practice of coartacion had developed (or “buying oneself out of slavery”, a “uniquely Cuban development”), according to historian Herbert S. Klein.

    But it wasn’t a uniquely Cuban development. It was part of the Vatican’s (corrupt?) accommodation with slavery. Slaves in France and some of its territories were allowed to work for cash on weekends and eventually buy their freedom.

  9. Winston Churchill long ago pointed out that socialism results in the “equal sharing of miseries”. Perhaps he thought it too obvious to mention that all collectivist ‘philosophies’ also result in ‘some animals being more equal than others’.

    As for Cuba, it’s one of those “shithole” countries of whom Trump spoke…

    There’s no shortage of countries that have and do demonstrate the intellectual, social, economic and moral bankruptcy that results from implementing collectivist governance.

    So by now, the only motivation for championing such systems is either mendaciousness or useful idiocy. Some are too intelligent for useful idiocy to be the category within which they fall, Chuck Schumer for instance is a manipulative man who serves evil. Others are hard to pin down. And some are clearly useful idiots like most ‘celebrities’. ‘Meathead’ being a prime example.

  10. The problem for the loonie left is that their argument for women earning less makes no sense. If it were true that a woman is worth less, than any business with a brain would hire more women because they would have to pay them less.

  11. Engaging in any kind of debate with people of Hannah-Jones’ ilk is an exercise in futility. She is the embodiment of uniformed, Bad-Faith political discourse. No effective rebuttal is even possible with such people – they will simply move on to newly-shifted premises once they perceive a confrontation. AS others have pointed out (I think correctly), theirs is a successful grift, and grifts can’t survive in the harsh light of classical debate.

  12. Art Deco : a good question. And a sad commentary.
    Maggie T was a wonder. We need someone like her right now.

  13. The business of politics is not abstruse theorizing and it’s not moral preening. The business of politics is making Nikole Hannah-Jones feel especially miserable. Trust me, the more miserable she feels, the better you will feel. Embrace the Dark Side 🙂

  14. My question for Hannah-Jones is when was the last time she saw a Cuban official who was black?

  15. Neo quoting:
    In 2019, around the original launch of the 1619 Project, Hannah-Jones identified Cuba as a model for racial equality.

    Johann Amadeus Metesky:
    My question for Hannah-Jones is when was the last time she saw a Cuban official who was black?

    Johann beat me to it. Neo also beat me to it, by mentioning Carlos Moore, who knows a bit more about being black in Cuba than Ms. Nikole Hannah-Jones does. I read Moore’s book, but years ago.

    It is a sad state of affairs when an ignoramus like Ms. Nikole Hannah-Jones gets so much attention.

  16. Neo:
    It seems that Hannah-Jones would have had to flee Cuba, or be imprisoned, for speaking the way she does. Here she’s rewarded for it. But like the good leftist that she is, she nevertheless praises Cuba for its racial policies.

    For example, Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin lived in Cuba for 4 years, but got booted out for her big mouth. (While lefties in the US love “speaking truth to power,” that POV doesn’t go over too well with the rulers of Socialist paradises.) While fellow radical Margaret Randall didn’t get booted out of Cuba, her decade in Cuba came to a bad end circa 1980, when due to internal politics (not, as far as I can tell, for a big mouth), she was not permitted to go to her job- though she still got paid. Margaret Randall went on to Sandinista Nicaragua, but eventually returned to the US.

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