I just read in my morning newspaper that whites had become a minority in Toronto. My hometown, where I have spent my entire life, is now a majority-minority city:

OTTAWA—Most people in Canada’s biggest city now identify as visible minorities, as new census data shows increasing diversity in Toronto and many of its neighbouring suburban areas.

More than half of respondents to the 2016 census in the City of Toronto — 51.5 per cent — said they’re from visible minority communities, a milestone that was narrowly missed when 49 per cent identified that way in 2011. [Author’s note: visible minority is the Canadian government’s term for non-whites. Peter Brimelow’s use of it in Alien Nation distressed some reviewers.]

A majority of Torontonians now identify themselves as visible minorities , by Alex Ballingall, Toronto Star, October 25, 2017

In many ways, this isn’t news. The Star article only confirms what I can see with my own eyes every time walk by the mosque on my way to the local park where Filipino and black high school students play basketball. The overwhelmingly white Toronto of my childhood and adolescence disappeared years ago.

To hear some people tell it, this transformation was bound to happen—the only surprise was that it took so long:

Toronto is a minority majority city at last, fully 51.5 per cent of us identify as visible minorities and almost half, or 48.8 per cent, do so in the GTA. (Author’s note: Greater Toronto Area)

“At last,” not because this fulfils a dire take-over-the-country prophecy by “foreigners,” but because in a capitalist society, this was inevitable.

The census makes for a colourful portrait, now how do we get along? By Shree Paradkar, Toronto Star, October 25, 2017

Shree Paradkar, “ Toronto Star race and gender columnist,” is herself an immigrant [ I was white until I came to Canada: Paradkar , Toronto Star, June 30, 2017]. And she’s just wrong. This demographic change had nothing to do with “capitalism” and it was not “inevitable.” It was a choice.

Although politicians and the immigration lobby cynically cite “labor shortages” as a justification for taking in more than 300,000 immigrants a year —about to be raised to an incredible 450, 000, multiply by ten to get the U.S. equivalent—Canadian immigration policy comes with heavy fiscal costs according to the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute: Read more >>

"Meet you at Peace Cross."

In northwest D.C. in the 1950s, that was an often-heard comment among high schoolers headed for Ocean City.

The Peace Cross, in Bladensburg, Maryland, was a 40-feet concrete memorial to the 49 sons of Prince George's County lost in the Great War. Paid for by county families and the American Legion, it had stood since 1925.



Before the Beltway was built, Peace Cross, at the junction of U.S. Route 1 and Maryland Route 450, was a landmark to us all.

Last month, two federal judges from the 4th Circuit ruled that Peace Cross "excessively entangles the government and religion" and must come down. A suggested compromise was to saw the arms off, so the monument ceases to be an offensive cross.

One wonders: At what moment did Peace Cross begin to violate the Constitution?

Answer: Never. No alteration has been made to the cross in a century. The change has come in the minds of intolerant judges and alienated elites where the dirty creek of anti-Christian bigotry now flows into the polluted stream of anti-Americanism. Read more >>

Livin' In A World Of Fools.     As I prepare to post this diary, on the morning of November 1st, the news is dominated by a terrorist attack in New York City. A crazy Muslim, admitted for settlement in the U.S.A. under the craziest of our crazy immigration laws, murdered eight people using a rented truck.

Reporting in last week's podcast on the October 22nd election in Japan, I said the following thing:

The great ructions over globalism, nationalism, multiculturalism, and mass immigration that are driving anti-establishment feeling in the West just aren't in play in Japan. The Japanese electorate can concentrate their attention on other matters: energy policy, national defense, social security, the economy.

It sounds nice, doesn't it? A real nation, of people who know who they are, trying collectively to cope with unavoidable political issues —  not with horrible problems they have blindly, stupidly, unnecessarily brought upon themselves via ethnomasochism and sentimental fantasies about human nature.

I have of course said and written similar things before — many, many times. Have I said that the most astonishing statistic of the 21st century, in my opinion, is that our country admitted more Muslims for settlement in the fifteen years after 2001 than we did in the fifteen years prior? Yes I have; at least three times, according to a quick search of the archives.

Those of us who have eyes to see and voices to sound the alarm with can only repeat things we said or wrote years, sometimes a decade or two, ago. Even a writer as resourceful and ingenious as Mark Steyn is reduced to cutting'n'pasting from stuff he wrote early in the last decade.

That's the problem with stating the blindingly obvious; having stated it, there's nothing much to do but state it again, hoping that with enough repetitions it might sink in.

Meanwhile the public sphere lurches from hysteria to hysteria. Last month it was Confederate statues; this month it's, what? Oh yes: "sexual harassment."

I am old enough to remember — it was less than thirty years ago — when Sweden's runaway feminism was a standing joke with other Europeans. You stepped on a woman's toe in a crowded elevator; you apologized; she waved it away with a smile; someone said, "That's rape in Sweden!" and everyone laughed. Read more >>

A man in a Home Depot truck deliberately drove into a bike path in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, mowing down cyclists and pedestrians, crashed into a school bus, then fled the truck, brandishing fake guns and shouting "Allahu akbar!" He was shot by a policeman and taken to the hospital. At least eight people were left dead and many more injured.

Those are the facts, but facts don't matter. In cases like this, what counts is the spin. The post-Islamic-attack commentary goes more like this ...

So far, the only concrete information we have about the driver is that he was a lone attacker, he is from Florida, and he has recently been living in New Jersey.

In the bubble of your white-skinned privilege, I know you badly wanted this to be a dark-skinned person, a foreigner—the "other"—but you're just going to have to accept the fact that the driver was a guy from Florida. Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov—just another homegrown terrorist. Read more >>

(My title is an homage to Richard Perle et al’s famous 1996 paper outlining Israel’s geopolitical needs in the Middle East, which does indeed seem subsequently to have largely implemented by the U.S.)   It’s telling that President Trump is under siege because of the alleged misdeeds, committed years earlier, of Paul Manafort, briefly Trump campaign chairman. Though the Main Stream Media did its best to portray Steve Bannon as President Trump’s Svengali, and though MSM enforcers palpably fear the Breitbart media mogul may run for president himself, no one is suggesting Bannon is linked to Russia.

In contrast, Manafort was the safe, Establishment choice who made his name crushing Ronald Reagan’s anti-Establishment insurgency at the 1976 Republican National Convention. During Manafort’s brief tenure as Trump campaign chairman, he tried his best to turn the Donald into a conventional Republican candidate. Nevertheless, it is Manafort who is at the center of the greatest scandal engulfing Trump’s administration.

This serves as a metaphor for the larger problem facing the Republican Party: the Establishment is not the solution, it’s the problem. A new Pew Research Center study [ Political Typology Reveals Deep Fissures on the Right and Left , October 24, 2017] shows the Republican Party is deeply divided but held together by reflexive partisanship and dislike of Democrats. The core voters of the party and many of its officials have reconciled themselves to President Trump, and they aren’t going to break away from him. However, in order to build a winning political coalition, President Trump needs to deliver for working class voters who aren’t excited by the kind of free market fundamentalism championed by Conservatism Inc.

In short, Conservatism Inc. can no longer rally the masses needed at a time when the Left is resurgent and the parties are increasingly polarized. Read more >>

See also “The Motorist Yelled ‘God Is Great’ In Arabic”–They Need A EUPHEMISM For “Allahu Akbar”?

"Shout 'Allahu Akbar,' because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers."

Who knew hijacker Mohammed Atta's parting words, discovered in his journal after the 9/11 attacks, would become a national punchline? The louder and more frequently jihadists around the globe shriek their signature battle cry, the more fervently multicultural apologists deny its meaning. They've transformed the Islamic supremacists' obvious and explicit call for violence into a bland utterance of peace as indiscernible and nonsensical as "Aloha Snackbar."

With blood still fresh on the pavement in Manhattan after Tuesday's outbreak of Allahu Akbar-itis that took at least eight innocent lives, Palestinian-American propagandist and Hamas cheerleader Linda Sarsour tweeted:

"Every believing Muslim says Allahu Akbar every day during prayers. We cannot criminalize 'God is great.'"

Rice University sociologist Dr. Craig Considine [Email him] mourned: "It begins. CNN reports murderer said "Allahu Akbar." Queue the Islamophobia." Read more >>

Well over a year after the FBI began investigating "collusion" between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has brought in his first major indictment.

Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has been charged with a series of crimes dating back years, though none is tied directly to President Donald Trump or 2016.

With a leak to CNN that indictments were coming, Mueller's office stole the weekend headlines. This blanketed the explosive news on a separate front, as the dots began to be connected on a bipartisan plot to bring down Trump that began two years ago.

And like "Murder on the Orient Express," it seems almost everyone on the train had a hand in the plot.

The narrative begins in October 2015. Read more >>

Berry Library at Dartmouth: not a "safe space" for white students, assaulted by "Black Lives Matter" demonstrators in 2015.

Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively on VDARE.com

I recently got to meet social psychologist Lee Jussim [Email him] of Rutgers University. Back in 2001 I had reviewed a book Dr. Jussim had written in collaboration with two other scholars, book title Stereotype Accuracy: Toward Appreciating Group Differences . My review was titled "Stereotypes Aren't So Bad," which is more or less the message of the book.

So here I was a few days ago meeting Lee Jussim for the first time, sixteen years and ten months after reviewing his book. I remarked to him that this sets my own personal record for longest interval between reviewing a person's book and actually meeting the person. Dr. Jussim, who is a cheerful and good-natured fellow, laughed appreciatively.

Here's another much-too-long delay featuring Lee Jussim.

Last year, Jussim and another social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt—Haidt is the author of that excellent 2012 book The Righteous Mind , about the moral psychology of our political beliefs—published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal: Hard Truths About Race on Campus .

That op-ed pointed out a thing that would be obvious if we had not all been so heavily indoctrinated to not notice obvious facts about race. Read more >>