Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Oliver JJ Lane — Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running


What the article misses is that Muslims name their first male child Muhammad in honor of the Prophet. This obviously influences the distribution within a population group that may suggest something about the population that is not the case.

Breitbart News has been accused of representing white nationalism. Breitbart honcho Steve Bannon has publicly disavowed white nationalism.

Make up you own mind.

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Muhammad Is Top English Baby Name for Fifth Year Running
Oliver JJ Lane

8 comments:

Ryan Harris said...

Oliver JJ Lane's bibliography and his twitter blurs the line between a healthy brit nationalism and xenophobic, even racism at times. Breitbart does the same all the time.
Pretending there is no value to any racism, borders, and social cohesion means no value is placed on harmony, uniformity and social cohesion. Asia, Africa and the Middle East maintain extremely "racist" societies by liberal western standards.

To believe in nations, you have to have borders, and if you have borders or natural barriers, you get races. If you are honest, you can't pretend that isn't a consequence.

White isn't a race, it's a skin color. In the US it simply means you've assimilated into the mix. Whether Irish, Asian, Iranian, Mexican even Africans after a couple generations most increasingly identify as "white" in surveys. English or Scottish or Welsh are nationalities. Muslim is a religion, not a race. It's important to be precise otherwise the radical liberals just throw everyone who doesn't agree with them on any point into a basket called racist but these differences between people and the places they come from and their religions are of enormous value. Trying to demonize people who want to maintain those differences is curious to me. It makes me wonder what motivates them to pretend there is no value.

Matt Franko said...

Maybe "no wars between nations if there are no nations" kind of thinking....

Most of the sjw/left are anti-war....

Six said...

This blog has descended into idiocy.

Tom Hickey said...

This blog has descended into idiocy.

US and UK politics has descended into idiocy. There, fixed it for you.

These countries assume that in conjunction, they are the leaders of the world.

What is the consequence of a world led by morons?

Six said...

Thanks, Tom :-)

Tom Hickey said...

Sociologist call what is happening now "intersectionality." It's a result of liberalization, where different groups come into close contact that either didn't very much before, or some groups view them selves as victims of other groups and begin asserting themselves.

This is a shifting of social construction and power relationships.

It is also a consequence of globalization and is reflected in immigration, as well as shift economic effects based on trade.

Globalization is just in the initial stages and it will take decades, and there is going to be a lot of intersectionality. e.g., gender, ethnicity, and religious issues that will impact societies socially and political and also have economic consequences.

Ryan Harris said...

Most importantly economists can't do the dismissive hand wave on placing values on these social constructs. In most economics, MMT included, the models make no attempt to assign values to social, religious, national issues aside from environmental concerns.

Tom Hickey said...

Right. This is why economic sociology, economic anthropology, evolutionary economics, political economy, history of economics, etc., are important counterbalances to theoretical economics. Moreover, the intersection of philosophy (especially ethics and social & political thought), history, social science, and policy science is foundational.

“The study of economics does not seem to require any specialized gifts of an unusually high order. Is it not, intellectually regarded, a very easy subject compared with the higher branches of philosophy or pure science? An easy subject at which few excel! The paradox finds its explanation, perhaps, in that the master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man’s nature or his institutions must lie entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood; as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near to earth as a politician.” — J. M.Keynes, 1924. “Alfred Marshall, 1842-1924.” The Economic Journal 34 (135): 311-372.