Wednesday 20 January 2016

The silence of the feminists: the dog that didn't bark in the night

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Feminists, I hope, will be reminded of Cologne every time they talk about rape for many years to come. I hope worse things do not happen for them to ignore.

The almost complete silence from feminists about the events in Cologne on New year's Eve 
has been deafening. Feminists talk about a non-existent Western rape culture but not about sex crimes committed by Muslims throughout Europe, which are now suddenly being openly discussed in the previously craven press. 

Click here for a Guardian article that does touch gingerly and laughably on the subject, no doubt written on the orders of the editor. (The writer muses about whether the affluence of young German women, evidenced by their mobile telephones, led to the assaults.) 

Yet when, during a recent television interview, a cricketer asked a woman journalist to
have dinner with him the outrage by feminists made world headlines.


Whatever it is that most influential feminists care passionately about, it is not women. Curiously, or maybe it's not that curious, when it comes to the crunch (as it now has) social conservatives turn out to care about women much more.

I hope that this historical moment might discredit both feminism and the idea of taking in migrants into Europe. I am a perennial, inveterate optimist. It might do.

Feminists are usually left-wing socialists, very often Marxists. What 
left-wing socialists want is to overthrow the system, the existing social order. Women are a supposedly oppressed and therefore revolutionary class. They are also 51% of humanity and therefore very useful, but non-white people are another, and much bigger, oppressed class. Complaining about non-white immigrants does not help to overthrow or undermine the system. On the contrary, is bolsters the system. Therefore it is counter-revolutionary.

All this is becoming much clearer suddenly, though we should all have know it long ago.

From Lenin onwards the hard left do not do altruism. They do blind fanaticism and rigid discipline. Islam has much good in it, but Marxism has none.


Here is a rather wonderful article by a very talented writer, Jane Kelly, on the feminists' indifference to oppression and rape committed by Muslims. I recognise the kind of Oxbridge feminists that she meets at dinner parties. They were hard to stomach as undergraduates and are now in positions of influence.

Veteran German feminist Alice Schwarzer has made a lot of enemies among other feminists by criticising the way Muslim men treat women in Germany. She said in an interview yesterday with Die Welt that the politically correct bubble has burst. She also said that sexual violence was now being used as a weapon of war in Germany. Shockingly, she went on to say,
“20 years ago, a Cologne police officer said to me: ‘Alice, 70 to 80 percent of all rapes in Cologne go to the account of Turks.’ I was shocked and replied: ‘You absolutely must make it public! Even a Turk is not born as a rapist. There must be causes. What’s going on here? What can we do?’
“But the message was clear: ‘No way, that’s not politically opportune’. 

A very interesting article in Frontpage eviscerates a feminism in thrall to the hard left.

Underneath feminism is the rotten leftist creed that all evils originate with the West. It is as impossible for a mainstream feminist in good standing with the political sisterhood to acknowledge what truly happened in Cologne and commiserate with the victims as it was for a Communist to admit that there was no food because a centralised bureaucracy of senile Socialist civil servants is not the best way to run an economy......
The left does not help women. The left only helps the left. Beneath the slick advertising, the artsy designs that lend the illusion of the personal to the impersonal and the touching video narratives is the soul of an ideological machine whose acolytes are trained to allocate empathy in tune with a rigid set of rules that are as inflexible as any Soviet commissar's handbook.The left is not in the business of caring, but of coordinating, and it exploits empathy to gain recruits only to mandate the things that they are allowed to care about in a coordinated ideological fashion.
Big Feminism, along with the rest of its leftist partners, created the conditions that led to the Muslim attacks on women on New Year's Eve. And feminists are leading the cover up of the crisis they caused and continue to worsen by advocating for even more refugee admissions.

Notice that when Muslims assault young German women, left-wing journalists put it into context. No-one seems to put the EDL or Pegida into context, though. When Germans demonstrate against attacks on foreigners this, rightly, receives respectful coverage. When Germans demonstrate against attacks by foreigners on young German women they are called dangerous extremists. Some German men avoided being considered extreme right by dressing up in skirts to make a protest against the sexual assaults. 

The Wall St Journal today tells us more very bad news, which we should have been told last summer. Though it should not be a surprise, it will be to all the very many people who said the refugees would solve Germany's problems of an ageing population and declining numbers of school leavers.
Two-thirds of the newcomers from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria are men below the age of 33. More than half of them are below 25. Overwhelmingly unattached, they don’t live under the civilising influence of mothers, sisters or wives.Acculturation into the strict sex codes of the West takes years, whereas the next batch of 50,000 is due this month, at current rates....Sadly, these asylum seekers are the “wrong” people for the wrong economy. Low-skill jobs fetching a decent wage are waning throughout the West, but only one-quarter of Iraqis come with completed vocational training. 

The paper quotes an economist, Professor Ludger Woessmann, saying that two-thirds of the Syrian refugees can barely read and write.

Tino Sanandaji of the Stockholm Business School told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
“It takes an average of seven years before a refugee gets a steady job.”
One knows that this is only the start of many years of bad news about migrants, refugees and Muslim newcomers.

Is this thought wicked? It crossed my mind to wonder if migrants who commit crimes in Germany could be given to Syria to form a Syrian version of the Foreign Legion to fight ISIS or whoever the Syrian army fights.

I am joking, but it is notable that they could be sent to Syria. The Syrian government would do them no harm because they left. Unlike people with the right to be given refuge under the provisions of the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees, these people are not fleeing because they have a well-grounded far of persecution. They are fleeing a war zone, which is a quite different matter. In fact, very large numbers are not Syrians but from many other countries. 

Germany has shown great weakness in the face of the untold millions of young men from poor countries, the majority Muslim, who want to come to the rich world to better themselves. It will be harder to create a Fortress Europe in the future, even if the will to do so is found.

And still they come. In the first two weeks of 2016 almost 25,000 refugees reached the EU, at a rate of over 1,700 every day.

24 comments:

  1. 99% of the refugees give the rest a bad name. Alex

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  2. Feminism has become the enemy of all emancipated women.

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  3. All this is only too true but it misses the salient point that none of this Cultural Marxism would gain traction if it were not fully endorsed by the Global Capitalist establishment.

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    1. Yes, endorsed by the establishment, including big business and international organisation people. My bete noire is Peter Sutherland of UNHCR who has said "The United States, or Australia and New Zealand, are migrant societies and therefore they accommodate more readily those from other backgrounds than we do ourselves, who still nurse a sense of our homogeneity and difference from others. And that's precisely what the European Union, in my view, should be doing its best to undermine." http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-18519395

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  4. The author seems to consumed by the immigration problem as manifested through the eyes of true conservative feminists but the main dog that forgot how to bark is the German shepherd. Whatever happened to the male repugnance that such anti social behaviour would have provoked in the past. Are the chivalrous Huns limited to macho deeds exclusively when they win a football cup.
    The solution is simple - no more immigration and certainly no more political correctness. The pc's form the sector who should be hunted. In the context of the article they have made our continent barking mad.!

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  5. Paul you are Churchhillian in your current commentary, as in , when speaking on the Bengal famine of 1943, " I hate the Indians, beastly people with a beastly religion, the famine is their own fault for breeding like rabbits"

    Your thoughts on sending others to fight ,when you are not first in the queue to do so is not simply wicked, it is evil. Like so many here and in the chattering classes you discuss much, but do little.

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    1. Why should I fight in Syria? I am not a Syrian.

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    2. I reread my piece - what was intended as a joke you took seriously. However these young men are draft dodgers. I recently met refugees camped out in tents in Beirut whose brothers had died fighting for the Syrian regime, a regime they did not like at all. They were brave young men.

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    3. He's not Syrian. Why should he fight? Ridiculous. Have Europeans lost all reason?

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    4. Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first send mad.

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  6. Your comment simply says migrants who may or may not be Syrian. Your view on the Syrian regime not doing any harm to returnees is ridiculous , and even if your comments on forming a Legion to fight at whoevers behest is in part jest, is so 19th century in light of current warfare , it merely reflects your backward vision of Europe. You are always very vocal of perceived threats to what you perceive as a white Christian hegemony ,but only as the cockerel standing on the safety of the roof while the fox runs through the hen house . Why should Orwell have fought in Spain, or Richard in Jerusalem for that? If it comes to erection of barricades to stem a tide of bloodthirsty Muslims at the gates of Europe will you man them? You call for others to defend Yarzi's , I didn't see you on the ground offering any aid . If you wish to send others to fight be prepared to do so yourself.

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    1. For the avoidance of doubt, I was talking in jest about Syrian refugees, not other refugees. Orwell was wrong to fight for the Spanish Republicans. The Republicans committed atrocities quite as bad as those of ISIS or Assad and had they won Spain would have been a Communist dictatorship like Romania was a few years later. Nor do I think the Crusades were a good idea. Richard I's place was at home. If called on I should certainly fight for my country, though almost certainly not for someone else's, but your argument is ad hominem and you are losing your temper.

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  7. My argument may be AH ,however that does not make my reasoning fallacious, espeacially when I question the credibilty of the sources you use to support your arguments . You believe Orwell was wrong, I happen to believe he was right, we can both agree on Richard which was simply financial and I agree he would have been better off overwintering in Chinon.
    Do not mistake mild distaste for your views on immigration with anger, I may simply be too busy doing something out in the world,to appear as eloquent or erudite in my comments.

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    1. Ad hominem is discourteous - it is also based on the clearly fallacious reasoning that by attacking your interlocutor you attack his argument. Whether I am a brave man, a coward, or even a scoundrel is beside the point.

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  8. This is the best part that no one is talking about:

    “It takes an average of seven years before a refugee gets a steady job.”

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    1. Thank God for your sane opinions. Isn't this absolutely terrifying? And Europe is ruled by fools and internationalist ideologues, frightened of Nazism and their own neutered peoples. I'd love your opinion on my post of thirty minutes ago.

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  9. As I have said it is not necessarily fallacious when questioning both the credibility of quoted sources, unsubstantiated press opinions full of probablies nor when using it to emphasize the ' well he would say that argument ' . The truth is your opinion remains just that , it offers no solid facts to argue against or counter arguments possible above a he said she said level, it is inflammatory alarmist nonsense on the whole with little of the intellectual depth of which you are capable . At dinner parties I have always found the prigs and buffoons far harder to stomach than feminists . Perhaps you will be proven right and in 50 years we will live in an unrecognisable Europe. That will of course be the case. Edwardian England would not recognize 1960's London, The societies of Europe have coped with enormous flux always both social and genetic, often at times of great upheaval. The coming fourth Industrial revolution will make the last three seem mild

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    1. I suppose Europe coped with the fall of Rome, innumerable barbarian invasions, the Black Death, Hitler, Communism. The continent will survive even if the people who live in it are supplanted. As a little boy in the 1960s I remember Victorian England did not seem so very distant, though by the 70s it did. In any case, Londoners in 1800, 1900 and in 1960 had pretty similar DNA. Now almost 40% of Londoners were born abroad.

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  10. Europe does not seem to know what to do with a hefty quota of its natives, let alone. I do not see how such dishonor could be talked about in whatever counts as the European public sphere - hence loud nonsense...

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    1. It is outrageous at a time of such high unemployment in Greece, Poland etc that migrants and immigrants are coming in in such numbers, though the semi-Communist government in Greece bears a lot of the blame for the crisis.

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  11. You say that no feminists criticize the coverup in Cologne, then cite one who does. Many women demonstrated out in public against the attacks. Please look at news sources other than Breitbart.

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    1. Unfair. I mentioned "almost complete silence" from feminists and said that what "most influential feminists" care passionately about is not women. And I did look at other sources, then referred to a feminist who did criticise not just the cover up but the wave of sexual assaults. Breitbart was talking about an interview in German in Die Welt. I linked to Frontpage and The Conservative Woman, both sharing my political views, and the Guardian.

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  12. Post Cologne, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the only way to advocate the right of women to walk unmolested and be equal to men is to decry feminism and advocate equal rights. Feminism has been tainted by the daft-left politics it has become associated with.

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  13. The watchdog became the underdog. The old feminists seem to still do what they preach. Merkel did well to accept the refugees unconditionally. The new politically correct German man and woman needs to learn it the hard way; she would have been unbearably blamed otherwise.

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