PS: I agree that commenters under a lot of UR articles are substandard compared to those under iSteve (and, while he was there) Audacious Epigone.

The site let me put my long post praising VDare and regretting its absence. Got no idea what happened a few weeks ago, but it'd have been #1 or 2 or 3 in the list there, had the site not rejected it.

Now, those 10-cent Chinamen came on annoyingly - the guy MM is a Chinese guy who lives in Australia and complains continually about Australians and Westerners. Yet.. somehow, he hasn't gone back to China. Joe Wong is obviously a troll and time-waster. Luckily they didn't see the article till about 3 weeks after it first appeared.

PS: OK, Mr. Hail, I guess I can find this, but perhaps the money from NR and other publications alone was not enough to support Mr. Sailer and family - they must have been at-home kids back then too.

That "Why Lesbians are not Gay" article was one of my favorites in his book. I may have read parts of that before on iSteve on unz or his old blogspot (I wasn't a real regular reader there and only commented a few times, I think.)

I agree then - VDare kept Steve Sailer long enough in the pundit world, without having to go back to, errr, working, such that he could more fully develop some ideas of his and also put his mark on the anti-immigration movement.

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Re: Peter Bradley article on VDare

The Unz comment(ers) outside the Sailer section tend to be quite bad, with the main thing you see low-brow insults and hobby-horse riding, often irrelevant to the actual topic. It's the worst kind of "off-topic" commenting.

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-- When did Sailer go into full-time paid writing/blogging? --

I thought Sailer had written that he retired from his marketing-analyst job in the year 2000. That, after years of getting occasional paid writing jobs here and there, including old-style letters-to-editor and op-eds sent off to local newspapers in the 1990s and even 1980s.

A landmark moment for him was his famous "Why Lesbians Are Not Gay" debut in National Review around 1994 (reprinted in the Noticing anthology in 2023). Within a few years he was life-banned from National Review for racism (along with other expelled persons like Sam Francis). I guess the thirty-year anniversary of that publication has passed this year, unremarked as far as I know (except for that it's included in the book "Noticing").

The main person paying him at that initial stage, in the early 2000s, was VDare, as far as I know. It may not be too far to say that without VDare there'd never have been a Steve Sailer as we know it.

PS: OK, Mr. Hail, I'd thought it was the Chronicles and Taki-Mag (going pretty far back), and some other publications, but before that National Review that supported Steve Sailer long after his cube-dwelling* times as a marketing analyst(?). VDare started up in '99. I thought Mr. Sailer left his corporate job long before.

(I'm not trying to argue it, as I may have it wrong.)

I wonder how good the software that organizes these wiki pages is, or especially if it's AI now, it can really suck. There's nothing like a human who's very familiar to sum up someone's life work accurately. Perhaps the software sucked in article titles, and found a lot with the very same "War on Christmas" phrasing, and that made it determine that this was Mr. Brimelow's biggest concern.

Well, now, the Peter Bradley post that I tried (including in the middle of the night for Ron Unz) to try top post a comment under is up top on TUR. I think I'll give it one more shot, for shits and grins, even though comments are up toward 100. I hope you will go on there and support Mr. Brimelow and Mr. Bradley, Hail. (I don't know who this Peter Bradley is, BTW.)

* There were still lots of real offices back then. I think of cube-dwelling jobs as being in the 1990s' and laer.

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Peter Brimelow says he has mixed feelings about Wikipedia summarizing his life's work by leaning heavily onto his involvement in the "War on Christmas."

The way the cast him, it's as if PB were a single-issue "War on Christmas" guy who also happened to be a financial journalist all those years, then founded VDare, was a central figure in immigration-restrictionism and involved as an elder figure, for a time, in the "Alt-Right" of the mid-late 2010s.

(PB is the first man to funnel money to Steve Sailer, to allow the latter to finally retire from his normal business-analyst "cube" job and do his Sailering full-time (circa early 2000s). There might be no Steve Sailer as you know it without PB.)

PS: Great thread there on SS.net along with the stuff under his UR "Merry Christmas" post. I did read through 48 or so, including yours, of course, on the former, and all of the latter.

PS: Ann Coulter wrote an article some years back explaining how Kwanzaa is a totally made-up holiday. During the few times I've heard someone in person say Happy Kwanzaa, he was either just being funny/silly, or trying to be inclusive. Even with the latter, it's mostly just like "yeah, OK, in case anyone really cares about that one...") I've seen black ladies say that, but you could tell it was pretty much a joke to them too.

Saying "Happy Holidays" in early/mid December, say, by airlines to the passengers, does not bug me so much, as they are just talking about the general travel season. When it's within a week from Christmas, I'll just answer "Merry Christmas to you , too."

However, I've recently seen corporate emails that are very specifically about December 25th, and they won't say "Christmas". That's very deliberately anti-Christian. I've got screenshots - won't show 'em here though ...

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Comment at SteveSailer.net asking what % of USA-residents are of H1b-visa "stock" (following the huge storm of outrage after the Trump people have proposed removing the "cap" on H1b visas, and then leading Trump/MAGA people began berating White-Americans for being lazy good-for-nothings who need Elite Global Immigrant salvation):

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/fewer-but-better-immigrants-is-a/comment/83201731

I think the answer has to be several percent of the resident-population has H1b origin at the top of their chain of arrival.

H1b. It's a policy, enforced by federal agency (or agencies). It's not a meandering campaign speech. The former is real. The latter is not.

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-- Happy Holidays --

Some Ngram research on when the phrase "Happy Holidays" entered use:

Sustained uses get picked up in the AmE-Ngram corpus beginning in 1948-49 and rise to a short-term peak in the mid-1950s. It'd take more research (in looking directly at examples) to determine if these mid-1950s uses were the modern-style "euphemism to avoid saying the word 'Christmas'," but I'd hypothesize it was not quite there yet but the concept may have been introduced.

Starting about the late 1980s, the ratio of "Merry Christmas" to "Happy Holidays" declines to 4:1. It has stayed near that ratio ever since.

Interestingly, the phrase "Happy Hannukah" does not appear year-on-year consistently in the AmE corpus until the 1980s (same applies for variant spelling "Chanukah"). "Happy Hannukah" rose until the mid-1990s towards a point at which it's been stable now fort thirty years.

"Hannukah," a laughably-minor Jewish 'holiday' that has been inflated to grandiose heights, was promoted heavily by the Trump admin in the late 2010s, perhaps because of his several Jewish grandchildren). The 1980s rise of "Happy Hannukah" is associated, chronologically, with the rise of the "Happy Holidays" greeting as a way to avoid the word "Christmas" towards its long-stable 4:1 ratio.

Meanwhile, the artificially created Black-racialist holiday of "Kwanzaa" only emerges into a strong showing in the AmE-Ngram corpus in the early 1990s, apparently especially associated with the Year 'One' of Our Clinton, 1992. By a few years later, in the mid-1990s, "Kwanzaa" is at a stable-equilibrium with "Hannkuah." So it was that the three pillars of "Happy Holidays" rode off into the night, laughing all the way.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22Happy+Holidays%22%2C%22Merry+Christmas%22&year_start=1932&year_end=2022&corpus=en-US&smoothing=1&case_insensitive=false

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22Hanukkah%22%2C%22Kwanzaa%22&year_start=1965&year_end=2015&corpus=en-US&smoothing=2&case_insensitive=true

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Thanks everybody, and Keep on Peaking into this dawning "second quarter of the 21st century."

PS: I think you showed us that one before, Mr. Hail. Or was it Adam Smith? I have no problem with the idea, that's for sure.

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The quality of this Christmas2-24 meme is open to debate:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GfRZnbiXEAAJSxa?format=jpg&name=900x900