“Walt Bismarck,” a neoreactionary/alt-right blogger, decided to live by his beliefs and move from the liberal hellhole of Arizona to the midwest:

In 2018 I moved from a racially diverse swing state in the Sun Belt to a homogenous red state up in corn country. This decision was largely motivated by politics—I was looking to retreat to an imagined hyperborea free of crime and degeneracy where my volk had political autonomy.

The particular delight here is the section “Reason #3 - White people are no longer my most important ingroup”.

It turns out they don’t like him, they don’t like his ideas, and the white womenfolk don’t take to him. The frauleins prefer “stoic chudbots with rough hands and smooth brains” over his noble mind and physique.

In practice a society that encourages late marriage is actually much better for more bookish eccentric guys, who tend to be late bloomers in developing their masculinity and ability to seduce women.

(meaning: he came on weird at one of the nice church girls he was ogling to the point where one of her large guy friends suggested he take his leave.)

Our guy comes so close to introspection, but successfully evades it and reaches the root cause - these are the wrong kind of white people:

But these Midwesterners aren’t descended from entrepreneurial adventurers like the rest of us. Their forebears were conflict averse and probably low testosterone German Catholics who fled Bismarck’s kulturkampf to acquire cheap land under the Homestead Act. These people mostly settled areas where aggro Scotch Irish types had driven off the Injun decades ago, so they never had to embrace the risk-tolerant, enterprising, itinerant mindset that had once fueled Manifest Destiny. Instead they produced families that became weirdly attached to their generic little plot of fungible prairie dirt, and as a result we now have huge pockets of the country full of overcivilized and effete Teutons with no conquering spirit who treat outsiders like shit.

There is no shortage of genuine and active neo-Nazis out Iowa way. But they would have met Wordy NRx Boy here and flushed his head.

In the comments section, other racists call him out on his insufficient devotion to the cause of white nationalism.

Even our good friends at The Motte took the piss out of him.

The illustrations are, of course, AI-generated.

original post. Found on Bluesky by ratelimitexceeder.

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    This was worse than I imagined from the quotes. I feel like I need to take a shower, now.

    […] which would severely limit the Federal Reserve’s ability to control the economy while exporting inflation abroad, and likely bring our material standard of living down to a German or Dutch level

    According to this Quality of Life index which I just searched up and have not critically assessed, but I doubt the guy did that either for his claims, so I guess it’s fine, the Netherlands rank second and Germany ranks 12th, while the US is on the 15th place. In other words: what is he even talking about?

    Every day in this country more and more Hispanics marry corn-fed blonde midwesterners and produce pale Castizo children who only speak English, consider themselves basically White, and vote like Irish and Italians.

    Jesus fucking Christ, I can’t even come up with a funny sneer here because this reads like he just pulled it out of the 1940s Nazi Party’s bag of race laws for who’s allowed to marry whom, and it’s making me feel icky.

    I also subscribe to the old fascist idea that adversity gives life meaning. A comfortable and easy life without struggle or conflict is miserable, and just makes you a slave to the hedonic treadmill. When you live for pleasure, no pleasure is ever enough, and continued success will just leave you so pampered that any task that’s challenging or outside your comfort zone will begin to feel onerous.

    Ignoring the low-hanging fruit that this guy just flat-out said “well, fascism wasn’t all bad”, what kind of toxic consumer mentality is ingrained in these chucklefucks that they are seemingly unable so sit their sorry asses down on the couch and just say, yeah, I’m happy right now, to the point where they just postulate that other people must feel the same way, because they just can’t imagine anyone being different?

    Like, seriously, get a hobby or something.

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      Dude, showering is exactly what I feel like now. I clicked the post to be nice and read, but only got a couple paragraphs before I just skimmed and picked out the “JFC” bits.

      Then the first comment on the blog mentions how sad it is that you lose your “genetic whiteness” in 9 generations and just…goddamn…why is this an issue? Genetic purity is a fucking impossibility due to sheer randomness, let alone the implications of “keeping it white.”

      I try to be empathetic where possible, but fuck these people and their entire worldview.

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        Genetic purity is a fucking impossibility due to sheer randomness, let alone the implications of “keeping it white.”

        you assume that he has basic knowledge of biology

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          I, for one, vote for these “genetic purists” to only procreate with their peers and keep the circle closed from “those dirty Italians/Irish/Scots/Teutons/Slavs”. How many generations until the problem solves itself, 5?

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            This is a kind of obvious folklore fact as well as actually true, that inbreeding (you seem to be referring to) causes worse intelligence. Because I believe I am right, I would on principle object to getting someone who is less easy to convince of my world view as an option, even if someone else gets to indoctrinate them first. It’s obviously a cynical post but this is just unfair to the nonexistent inbred kids you’re hypothesizing

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      Like, seriously, get a hobby or something.

      For real. I don’t even necessarily disagree with the broad-strokes idea of “if you’re comfortable, it’s good to take on challenges and get outside of your comfort zone because that’s how you grow as a person,” but why can’t he just apply this energy to writing a terrible novel or learning to paint watercolors or something, like a normal person? Why does the fact his life is comfortable mean he has to become a Nazi? :/

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      In a nutshell, he ended up hating many Germans, white and almost white Hispanics, Irish, Italians, who else…? Pickiest white supremacist I’ve read in a while.

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      He’ll be judging standard of living by raw GDP/PPP per capita, where the US does indeed notoriously outperform everybody by an absurd margin. This does the rounds even on the “serious” econ net every few months, and it’s always the same paper thin sophistic ideas going back and forth arguing whether it’s telling you something meaningful about euro vs us living. In any case a good portion of self-assessed intellectual types have been drowning in that debate for about two decades (or more) so it’s always easy to spot lurking in the background: it’s a shibboleth for people who’ve self-educated on development by reading blogs.

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          “isn’t higher” than what? the GDP figures from your own link there indicate the US is among the highest. the only ones above it in the 2023 figures are Luxembourg, Ireland, Switzerland, Norway, Singapore, Qatar (each of which is singularly notable for a particular thing in their respective markets) - thus placing the US GDP figures ahead of literally every remaining country

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        Ah, the idea that merely living in the same country as some rich people means that you yourself are rich.

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      Seems like he gets his pleasure from ‘conflict’, ie being a troll, and is upset that all the other white boys aren’t just like him. Maybe he finds being content too onerous. Tie him to a couch and force him to listen to a polite discussion, call it a challenge.

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      Dutch level

      Yeah The Netherlands sucks a lot of if you only listen to the racist right. (A similar thing would happen if you were to listen to the poor Dutch minorities/disabled people/immigrants etc and took that as the whole of the Dutch experience (which is to say we still have room for improvement, and some people have it a lot better than others)).

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        There’s a difference in having a personality that gets easily bored of luxury and believing conflict is what inherently gives life a meaning. Maus puts it: “Suffering doesn’t make people better, it just makes them suffer”

        If someone’s life is so damn easy and hedonistic they’re actually getting bored of it, there are good ways and bad ways of introducing adversity and getting out of your comfort zone. The negation of being a slave to the hedonic treadmill[1] is not an eternal war for domination.

        1: A strange figure of speech, who the hell thinks treadmills are hedonistic?

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    “I moved to a place to be surrounded by white people, and decided I didn’t like white people because those white people weren’t hostile enough nor did they have enough of a desire to conquer other people. This made me realize white people are weak, so now I’m disappointed in them. But actually it’s because the white people in that area came from inferior nations 🤡.”

    That’s the premise of the article to save you from having to read absolute horse shit. That guy is a waste of atoms.

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      I would summarize as, “I learned that just being born white doesn’t make you superior to others…” yes yes yes yes “…because there are white people who suck, too.” Oh no.

      It’s like asking someone what “4+4” is and then they write out this long algorithm inexplicably including division and multiplication and some functions for some reason, and at the end they come up with 9. It took you so long to get so close, but in the end you still completely fucked it up.

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      Basically he’s like the dudes who left Twitter for Gab or Truth Social and found it boring because there weren’t any libs to own.

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    At first I wondered why a post about a man disavowing white supremacy wasn’t NSFW; but it’s because he didn’t get any better? He’s not a white supremacist because white supremacy is too inclusive and not racist enough against the shittier whites? He concluded that an ENTIRE GEOGRAPHICAL REGION was genetic backwash before he considered self-reflection?

    It is completely insane what the substack/X combo is doing to young men. It’s like CTE but concentrated entirely on the part of your brain that lets you tolerate other races.

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      Well yeah, because he’s the sort of person who becomes a white supremacist. They’re not smart people, they’re miserable people looking for something to blame for their own failures. So yeah of course he decided to blame midwesterners for being the catholic Germans instead of the Protestant Germans

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      Also this comment from the motte is definitely ethnonationalist, no?

      Agreed, though, that a lot of white Americans are kind of like hobbits, in their lack of antibodies against general blank slatism, outgroup preferences, and progressive American culture. They might make a stink face at the young white male cosmopolitan who arrives in town for an extended study abroad program, but will root for outsiders and people that hate them when it comes to college football/basketball, the NFL, the NBA. Quokka would be the rationalist sphere term of art, here. “Cucks” might even apply. Relatedly, this has been touched upon in the Norf FC series of memes with regard to whites on the other side of the pond.

      It’s the Motte special. Comments that are structurally culture critiques, but functionally a Turner Diaries summary.

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        The way tha “cuck” has been elevated to a genuine category in their armchair social science is such a warm breeze of insanity whenever I come across it

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          Internet weirdo to salt-of-the-earth Midwesterners: at least you’re all not cucks!

          SotEMW: cucks?

          IW: you know, like that porn where a white dude watches black dudes fuck his wife!

          SotEMW: <racks shotgun slide> get the hell away from my daughter

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        I dont know if I’m not as smart as I thought, or not as knowledgeable in pseudoscience as I thought because this just reads to me like someone who sniffs their own farts stroking their ego because they shit out a comment they think is incredibly meaningful.

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          He’s (very wordly) paraphrasing the common esoteric right wing belif that anti-racism is a belief only truly held by whites, and that it is simultaneously the contemporary western white’s only mistake.

          A cousin from the same parent thread goes a step further and claims that whites…

          I think he seems to have realized a terrible truth for a lot of WNs who are deeply used to their particular kind of persecution complex and enemy hierarchy, which is that much of the state of the modern west is a direct product of the ‘white temperament’ and white population preferences, possibly on a genetic level.

          …are GENETICALLY inclined to support diversity, which is a claim so fantastically racist that it might just offend everyone on Earth.

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          Agreed. This person is basically just discovering he doesn’t actually like people in a general sense and he can’t use the self gaslighting notion of skin color to pretend there’s people out there he actually likes. His window of acceptable is so small he’s practically the only one who can squeeze through.

          In part he can’t let go of whiteness as a label and synonym of superiority so when he finds a version of whiteness he finds subpar and unworthy by his own veiws of what it should be he compares that version of whiteness to… (checks notes) the Ming dynasty Chinese. He starts describing everything in what has been trained into him as language describing the inferior.

          All he ever really wanted was to be openly horrible to everyone with little to no consequences… Because kindness and empathy is just not something he understands. If it doesn’t serve him directly it’s trash. It’s easy to pretend to an in-group when you just shout the same nonsense and get rewarded with pats on the back for playing along, but that doesn’t translate to people legitimately caring about you. It’s not actual empathy and human connection. It’s just reciprocity. The minute you stop playing tit-for-tat in a reciprocity based movement for any reason you get abandoned. This guy is so far along that pipeline that he can’t leave and can’t distinguish the human in anyone. It’s sad.

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            Completely agree. But while it is sad, at the same time I also am starting to lose empathy for them because they get to a point where they start to just want everyone to be miserable like they are. And when you get enough of them, they can start doing some real damage.

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              Yeah… I don’t mean sad in a “I want to make taking on their bullshit and trying to redeem them my personal project” kind of way. They desire empathy and I can understand where they come from (even if it’s grounded in evil bullshit) but babystepping them bit by bit into being reasonable to be around is gunna light whomever tries to do it’s mental health on fire.

              I do not afford them empathy. Saying that I understand and feel the situation is sad isn’t pathos. They made this bed through a series of conscious choices and there is a human cost to believing what they believe that is unconscionable. I am simply sad that the situation has progressed to this.

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          I think it should be hyphenated, “blank-slatism” but I can’t be bothered to figure out what meaning the term is supposed to convey.

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    TL;DR: “I’m no longer a white nationalist because a lot of white people are cucked. Now my new identity is with sufficiently pilled white people. This is much more pragmatic. Also I would totally have a cool black friend if any actually existed which means I’m totally not racist.”

    Also: did anyone else feel a chill reading about a literal nazi talking about how society accepts him now? America used to despise nazis and now they feel like they can walk around openly. It’s terrifying.

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      I reacted to that too, “no need to be an overt WN now that society accepts us!” but I think that’s partly bravado.

      For example, he loves Twitter now but Elon still hasn’t given his account back…

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      Yes, that stuck with me very much. It’s one thing to hear fellow leftists talk about how Trump shifted the Overton window. It’s a whole different thing to hear that a Nazi fully feels the effects of it having truly shifted.

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    This reminds me of a report from the Nazi ambassador to Iceland sometime in the late 1930s. He was posted there, expecting to find a model Aryan utopia, as could only be inevitable from a population of pure Nordic blood, but was bitterly disappointed to find a provincial backwater whose people were happy to stay put and get on with their lives. The schadenfreude was palpable.

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      the neoreactionary bloggers from the early 2010s, every one of the fuckers writes like this - they all fucking love Mencius Moldbug and think that’s the model of the best possible writing

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        Tbh I like it, even if the content is vile shitpoison. But I also like that super crunchy, pulpy type of writing that lacks subtlety, so my taste in prose is objectively bad.

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      I would dare wager that he utilizes a tome of the variety known as “thesaurus” likewise as you just have

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      That and the way he acts like he’s totally objective and pragmatic, definitely not scared to death of PoC.

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    Low testosterone German Catholics

    hahahaha

    These idiots will never get the message that scientific racism is dog shit. They can’t stop obsessing over weird irrelevant shit

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      I love the criticizing the Midwest for bland conformity. Like that’s more our thing than being disturbingly monoracial. Next he’s gonna bitch about the goths at Walmart and the refusal to spend money on luxury goods. That’s just what the Midwest is like

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      I saw @gerikson’s comments after seeing this one and had to click on the tiny thumbnail of his profile pic to make sure it wasn’t this exact Squidward face.

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    Lol he needs to get the fuck out of here

    Sincerely, A far left Midwestern queer lady who grew up German Catholic

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    You guys notice how he capitalizes “white” but not “black” even when they’re used in the same sentence? A pathetic little weirdo to the last little detail.

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      also capitalizes a couple other racial group references when the mood strikes, all “tactically” used/chosen

      the amount of effort you have to expend just to hate that specifically… fucking mental

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    he’s clearly still convinced that if you could just purge the degenerates you’d get a utopia. but his post is a nice illustration of how if that actually happens they’ll just keep inventing new ways to classify people as degenerate. fascists need, at all times, a face to stamp on

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      It is a fantastic example that their racist delusions are all made up. Whiteness is whatever they feel like in the moment. “These Chads and Staceys are a genetically inferior low-T line of white, I am the real lineage.”

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    It’s impossible to stop returning to that steaming pile of dogshit post and find something new to sneer at:

    As Delicious Tacos aptly put it, a Far Left phase is treated like a woman eating pussy in college, while a Far Right phase is treated like a man sucking cock.

    SO? WHATS THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE YOU WASTE OF SPACE?

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      If I could talk to him I might say - I mean, if you are out of your Far Right phase (and it was really just a phase) maybe the idea of a man sucking cock shouldn’t be your go-to example of a thing you imply can never be forgiven.

      But that’s none of my business, I’m just a puppet depicting a frog drinking tea.

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      So much to unpack. What the fuck is “Far Left”? How do you treat women eating pussy? Differently in college than after college? Why?

      I completely agree with framing all Alt Righters as cocksuckers, but I’m not sure that’s what was meant here.

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        You’ve got to get in their twisted headspace* to decode it. They mean the former is somewhat acceptable straight behavior, while the latter is “too gay” for stupid reasons.

        *not recommended for longer periods of time

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          Ignore me I feel stupider just trying to explain it idk, but I’m just straight enough that I can see what they mean even if I can’t really translate it for a normal person

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            That right there illustrates what that comment actually means. As a man, I’m assuming you are because of the context of being just straight enough to understand this, traditional society has created this expectation of manliness. That includes having an emotional, and especially a sexual, barrier against other men.

            This expectation is not socially present in women. So it’s “ok” from a social standpoint to be a woman into women, but it violates manliness protocol for a man to be into men.

            What this guy in the original comment is demonstrating is that he is entirely beholden to traditional social protocol, and he’s making the comparison, somewhat ironically, that being far right is viewed as a violation of the same social expectations while being far left isn’t.

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              No, you just don’t understand. The real punks want to codify existing social and sexual norms into inviolable legally enforced rules backed by state violence.

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              Just to underscore this, the Bible explicitly condemns male-on-male homosexuality and doesn’t even mention female-on-female.

              Although a true white chad society like ancient Greece understands that there’s nothing more manly than the love between two men.

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        You’re lucky that you don’t know all the fucked stereotypes going into this. If you really wanna know, I’m pretty sure it’s:

        • parts of mainstream society is only homophobic against gay behavior in men
        • gay behavior in women instead “doesn’t count”, or “isn’t serious”
        • therefore people thinking like this will accept a women “coming out of a lesbian phase” whereas they look down upon men who didn’t behave 100% heterosexual
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    Post reads like he tried the penis implants mentioned in the stubsack and now has regrets

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    Cheezus! That’s like a lot of discussion and commentary about a random fascist chud, over at the Motte, innit?

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      Yeah dude i was looking for schadenfruede but all i got was a masturbatory tirade about how this guy isn’t calling himself a white nationalist anymore because republicans are basically racist enough for him now and don’t have the skinheaded baggage of his former friends. I honestly hope he dies on the toilet.

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      I do hope everybody here is aware of the deeper TheMotte lore, and what kind of place it is.

      E: also themotte mentions the ‘alt light’ (not by name) but I heard a rumor that apparently a lot of these yt alt light people were paid by shady people to make rightwing content. The YT’er (sorry if you know any of those) chrisraygun apparently revealed it, but I have not looked into it at all.

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        I do hope everybody here is aware of the deeper TheMotte lore, and what kind of place it is.

        No clue whatsoever, but I got the impression from the way they were talking about this guy, that they are basically sophisticated fascists and reactionaries.

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          it’s an offshoot from the r/slatestarcodex subreddit and scott alexander has directly recommended it to slatestarcodex readers

          it’s wordy Nazis debating things

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            That context means almost nothing to me. I’m not familiar with those actors either. But I can understand “wordy nazis” at least 😅

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              Scott Alexander Siskind, his blog SlateStarCodex and now AstralCodexTen are a pack of lesswrong rationalists and deeply on-topic for sneerclub, sadly, so you probably willl in future

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    conflict averse and probably low testosterone German Catholics […] overcivilized and effete Teutons

    Kind of off topic, but this piece of wall to wall insanity reminded me how Steven Pinker tried to explain away southern US crime rates that didn’t fit with his Violence Is Declining And In Fact Everything’s Improving Inexorably (As Long As You Don’t Rock The Boat) thesis by randomly blaming irish-catholic sheepherder genealogy.