THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

LIBERALS ALWAYS PORTRAY AVERAGE AMERICANS AS PANICKY COWARDS | 2002-08-03

As good liberals, history professors are always trying to prove that there were no heroes at the Alamo. Liberals always try to prove that Americans are evil exploiters and cowards, especially those who fought for Politically Incorrect causes like taking Texas from Mexico.

In academia and on the East Coast the doctrine is that people should never "take the law into their own hands." All guns should be in the hands of the police. They say that any American who has a gun will use it for crime and that Americans are too cowardly to defend themselves, so the police have to do it.

Some time ago, the media were all reporting that if a home had a gun in it, a burglar was exactly FORTY-THREE TIMES more likely to take it away from the cowardly, panic-stricken householder and use it AGAINST HIM than the householder was to protect himself with it.

This "fact" reigned supreme for months. Then career police officers began to write newspapers saying that, in twenty-five year careers on the police force, they had never seen this happen once, and they had seen a lot of robberies and burglaries thwarted by armed citizens.

Like all gun control "facts," this one was discredited and everybody agreed to forget it had ever been said, especially respectable conservatives. But the next time the media come up with another "fact" like this, everybody will report it respectfully.

I heard National Public Radio announce that since Kennesaw, Georgia, began to require every citizen to be armed, the crime rate has shot up. Actually, it turns out that from the time Kennesaw started that requirement to the time NPR made that report, not one single crime had been committed there!

Probably no crime has been committed there since. So NPR ws as wrong as you can get.

NPR made no correction and no conservative ever asked for one.

3/7/05 | 2005-03-05

I looked at this week's WOL again for inspiration. It's becoming a healthy addiction.

I have asked Peter to write a continuing series of articles chronicling his experiences and thoughts.

What We're All About

A trusted member of my book team just became a father.

In the end, future generations of white people is what we're all about, so I asked him to write what it feels like to be a warrior for our race's future and to have the whole meaning of that battle reinforced by the birth of a son.

He came through beautifully.

It seemed appropriate to make it the centerpiece of this week's WOL. More from the crabby old man next week.

Bob

THE ORWELLIAN CREEPS | 2015-04-17

When it comes to really scaring you, the old movies like Teenage Werewolf were not even intended to.

I was about as naïve as kids came even in the 1950s.

But when I took a girl to a drive in movie, even I did not really believe the girl with me grabbed me entirely because she was so terrified by the makeup they put on Michael Landon to make him look like a werewolf.

And I admit it, I did not grab her back entirely because I felt the need to comfort her in her terror.

Real horror is produced by writers like Stephen King or movies like The Body Snatchers, where the hideous monster is trusted by the audience until he shows just the slightest hint that he is really one of the Aliens.

The same sort of thing happens when you go from movie goer to interrogator.

You get the chills as you realize that the person sitting there who sounds so normal is actually a true psychopath, a person who could slowly disembowel you without showing any emotion about it.

This chill of realization is what I call the Orwellian Chill.

When Orwell wrote Animal Farm and 1984, he made the most hideous villains use everyday language right up to and after the disemboweling.

He had heard his Marxist fellows use the same calm language and then seen what the Stalinists made of it.

Then read The Gulag Archipelago and see how this harmless and idealistic language turned into actions that would have made Himmler turn pale.

Never again will you mistake the horror monger for a run of the mill speaker. When you realize what his language can really mean, you get creeps that even Stephen King can't match.

Never again when you hear the word "extremist" will you think of the speaker as harmless. Every bloody handed tyrant routinely calls those he is killing "extremists."

This alien in human form uses words like "productive discussion" to give you an idea what discussion he feels free to stamp out.

And, as in all really professional horror dramas, no one around you SEES THE MONSTER!

All they see is perfectly normal people using perfectly ordinary language.

I don't need horror books.

I get the creeps damned near everywhere these days.

THE MAGIC CLOCK | 2014-05-16

Some time ago a big advertising magazine had a lead article, "Objections to intermarriage in 2014?"

Like any magazine editor, it expressed shock that mere consumers would dare object to a Quaker Oats (?) ad featuring a mulatto child going from his white mother to his black dad.

The first irony here is what ADVERTISING is all about.

Advertising is supposed to be the science of KNOWING public opinion, not of JUDGING it.

Like any other big magazine, this publication hired an editor from the pool of carbon copies produced by the magazine bureaucracy.

But in advertising, astonishment at real public attitudes is not a mistake of the public, but of the advertising industry.

Advertisers are hired to KNOW public opinion, not to be astonished by it.

Let me explain this further: The magazine editor bureaucracy produces editors who tell the public what it SHOULD think.

Advertising is about what the public DOES think.

So the carbon copy editor did not come up through the advertising industry.

In real advertising, the question is "What do people prefer?" not "In the Year 2014 on the Magic Clock, this is what the public SHOULD think."

No editor, least of all in advertising, would hire ugly models. Models for ads are not representative of the public. No matter how often you repeat, "Real people don't look like that," there is no way this side of Hell that advertisers are going to hire fat, ugly models.

To most White people, the kid looks like every other mulatto.

In real world advertising, you don't tell people that ugly is lovely. That is fine for mainline magazines.

But in the real world real consumers don't LIKE ugly. Period.