{"id":14191,"date":"2012-03-20T09:39:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T14:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14191"},"modified":"2012-03-20T09:46:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T14:46:38","slug":"kathy-shaidle-on-the-splcs-most-recently-discovered-threat-to-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/kathy-shaidle-on-the-splcs-most-recently-discovered-threat-to-national-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Shaidle on the SPLC’s most recently discovered threat to national security"},"content":{"rendered":"

In her column at Taki’s Magazine<\/a>, Kathy examines the Southern Poverty Law Center’s most recent revelation:<\/p>\n

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The armchair Freedom Riders at the weirdly named Southern Poverty Law Center (or \u201c$PLC\u201d as one of its dogged critics prefers) have been courageously, er, browsing the Internet and have uncovered a potentially devastating threat to not only America\u2019s females, but its national security:<\/p>\n

Dudes trading tips on getting laid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yep. The biggest threat since David Duke and the rabid Klansmen are … pick-up artists.<\/p>\n

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Woodland white supremacists? Old and tired. New hotness? According to the SPLC\u2019s most recent \u201cIntelligence Report,\u201d the latest \u201chate group\u201d plaguing the United States is the online \u201cpickup artist\u201d \u201ccommunity,\u201d AKA the \u201cmanosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

\u201cRoissy<\/a>\u201d — he took his nom de poon<\/em> from a character in the S&M classic The Story of O<\/em> — is the Tolkien of pickup artist Middle Earth, having invented or refined the manosphere\u2019s glossary: alpha male, game, wingman, the \u201canti-slut defense\u201d (\u201cI don\u2019t usually do this sort of thing\u2026\u201d), and negging (offering attractive women teasing insults instead of compliments: \u201cYou have really big ears. Don\u2019t worry, I think it\u2019s cute, kind of like a bunny.\u201d).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Speaking of “Roissy” (who now uses the name “Heartiste” for his online activities), here is his take<\/a> on Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State of a Politically Acceptable Bell Curve<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t have an argument with his economic numbers, although I think he probably understates the role automation, immigration and skill prerequisite inflation have had in the gutting of working class men\u2019s job prospects and ability to merge seamlessly into functional family formation.<\/p>\n

Murray is closer to the truth than a lot of his critics are when he blames cultural factors and bad policy for the dysfunction of the left side of the bell curve.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

How absolutely brave\u2026 brave, I say! \u2026of Murray to apportion most of the blame for the current state of affairs to men. Or, in this case, white men. This will surely win him lots of enemies amongst the feminists and social elites whose cocktail party invitations he haughtily throws in the trash in righteous, principled fury.<\/p>\n

Look, I have no problem with shaming men who don\u2019t want to work, or who can\u2019t muster the motivation to at least try to find work. It\u2019s not like the existence of self-destructive male bums is unheard of. But Murray DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS his proposed shaming solution with his explanation for the bleak male employment scenario just a few paragraphs above in the very same article! Once more:<\/p>\n

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    Simplifying somewhat, here\u2019s my reading of the relevant causes: Whether because of support from the state or earned income, women became much better able to support a child without a husband over the period of 1960 to 2010. As women needed men less, the social status that working-class men enjoyed if they supported families began to disappear.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n

    Where, pray tell, in that explanation does it follow that men are primarily to blame for their poor employment numbers? Doesn\u2019t the exact opposite conclusion — that women\u2019s mate choices are to blame for men dropping out — seem more obvious? Shouldn\u2019t it be the case then, that single working women on the fast track to single motherhood and alpha cock carouseling are the ones deserving of shame?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In her column at Taki’s Magazine, Kathy examines the Southern Poverty Law Center’s most recent revelation: The armchair Freedom Riders at the weirdly named Southern Poverty Law Center (or \u201c$PLC\u201d as one of its dogged critics prefers) have been courageously, er, browsing the Internet and have uncovered a potentially devastating threat to not only America\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28,53,13],"tags":[86,139,255,257,43],"class_list":["post-14191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-criticism","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality","tag-terrorism","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3GT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14193,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions\/14193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}