The Numbers, Please

Submitted by Keith M.

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Stop believing the propaganda and lies from the media on demographics.

The numbers don’t add up. Of course, figures never lie, but liars do figure, as the old saw goes.

Have you ever watched TV, streamed Netflix, paged through a magazine or viewed a commercial advertisement and thought something seemed out of whack? Why is everything portrayed as so, well . . .  gay, lesbian, black, and as if America had instantly and forever, completely changed. Why have these demographic misperceptions been used to fuel media and political hate mongering?

A recent YouGov poll asked people to look in the mirror, asking how they envision the country.

It turns out Americans vastly overestimate the size of all minority groups, representing an over-scaling problem for which there should be some accounting. The poll’s findings are alarming. Among the questions:

  • What percentage of the country is black? The average answer was 41 percent. The actual number is 12 percent. Of course, if you watch television commercials, you would think it’s closer to 90 percent.
  • What percentage of marriages are mixed race? Average answer: 50 percent. The actual number is 1 percent. If you watch television commercials, you would think it is more like 99 percent.
  • What percentage is “Latinx”?  Average answer: 39 percent. The actual number is 16 percent. Also, most Latinos hate the term “Latinx.”
  • How many families make over $500,000 a year? Average answer: 26 percent. The actual number is just one percent.  We somehow think a quarter of the country is rich.
  • What percentage of Americans are vegetarians? Average answer: 30 percent. The actual number is a paltry five percent.
  • What percent of Americans live in New York City? Average answer: an astounding 30 percent. The actual number is just three percent.
  • What percentage of Americans are transgender? The answer given was 22 percent. The actual number is not even one percent.
  • What percentage of your fellow citizens are gay? The answer give was 30 percent. The actual number is just three percent.

So, why do people have such bogus and inaccurate estimates?

It’s the Media 

The media and advertisers run race, gender, and wealth stories constantly. They aren’t just biased. They misrepresent the truth and have gone fully woke. There is next to nothing about the average Tom, Dick, Harry, Sue, or Karen. Nothing about the so-called “boobs” in flyover country or the exurbs. Nothing about everyday life lived by the majority of real people.

The result?

Americans are being constantly brainwashed by the nation’s corporate left-wing media. It is misinformation and propaganda galore. Hitler’s own propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, would be proud if he had half the success.

There may well come a day when a new-and-improved obsession with equality, diversity, and inclusion, or God forbid, the equity of outcomes, will grind down the very last of all things. That is clearly their plan. In the meantime, we need things that can serve as a map of the true landscape of unequal men and their unequal things. And perhaps some future Marxist “equalitarian” or stylish university lecturer, with tats and nose rings will, upon reading or hearing them, suddenly remember the great truth: that things and men can be divided between better or worse, between good or evil―and that, for the sake of all our sanity, we would do well to rank things as our ancestors once did.

The yardstick was called excellence, in Latin, praestantia: fitness and superiority based in virtue, valor, and strength. It was colorblind and nonsexual. It was not dictated by some Marxist critical theory about dominance or privilege.

You see, when Alexander the Great finished conquering the world and paused to take in what he had done, no one told him to “check his privilege.”

When William Shakespeare began a sonnet with “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun,” he said what was on his mind and then went home to his castle and relaxed with a good glass of claret. What he did not do was get an angry lecture about his “hetero-normative, cis-gender micro-aggression” from a mob of interior decorators.

When Daniel Boone told his youngster 13-year-old boy to “grow up and be a man, for crying out loud,” the gender-queer native Shawnees across the Ohio River said, well, not a single word.

Being a color or participating in abnormal sex is something today. Indeed, it feels like it is everything. No color or new gender—no deal.

It’s good for business, good for school, good for sitting on a bus, and good for taking a parking space in a crowded lot, or moving to the front of a line, any line.  It will get you into Harvard in front of whites with better qualifications on paper.

Those of you privileged with color or gender difference pause for a moment: Pity the person who has none.

And if you think color is a feather in your cap, try accessorizing that cap with a nifty new socially-constructed identity and a spiffy new sexual orientation (we are informed that you now have some 75 plus choices)—it’s all to die for!

Did even one of the lucky, gay, feminist, trannies take a moment to sympathize with the long-suffering, cisgendered, and heterosexual white men who are forever cursed and now badly miscounted or written out of history and cut from all woke business. Tear down those statues!

Personhood—particularly of the colorless variety touted by Martin Luther King, Jr.,—has fallen out of favor and is utterly despised. True enough, our new champions have not  conquered a continent, written a timeless sonnet, invented an airplane, or a polio vaccine, pacemaker, ice cream, public transportation, hospitals, new strains of vegetables, life-saving medicines, or what-have-you.

Who’s got time when the heteronormative patriarchy is oppressing you with nonfunctioning sewage and water systems? You are, after all, a victim.

The woke media has roundly succeeded in castigating us and making everyone in their Tower of Babel hate each other. Divide and rule is their plan. They seek to conquer us into quietude and oblivion.

The way they achieved all that is quite clever: they simply lied about reality. Stop believing them.

The numbers don’t add up. Of course, figures never lie, but liars do figure, as the old saw goes.

Have you ever watched TV, streamed Netflix, paged through a magazine or viewed a commercial advertisement and thought something seemed out of whack? Why is everything portrayed as so, well . . .  gay, lesbian, black, and as if America had instantly and forever, completely changed. Why have these demographic misperceptions been used to fuel media and political hate mongering?

A recent YouGov poll asked people to look in the mirror, asking how they envision the country.

It turns out Americans vastly overestimate the size of all minority groups, representing an over-scaling problem for which there should be some accounting. The poll’s findings are alarming. Among the questions:

  • What percentage of the country is black? The average answer was 41 percent. The actual number is 12 percent. Of course, if you watch television commercials, you would think it’s closer to 90 percent.
  • What percentage of marriages are mixed race? Average answer: 50 percent. The actual number is 1 percent. If you watch television commercials, you would think it is more like 99 percent.
  • What percentage is “Latinx”?  Average answer: 39 percent. The actual number is 16 percent. Also, most Latinos hate the term “Latinx.”
  • How many families make over $500,000 a year? Average answer: 26 percent. The actual number is just one percent.  We somehow think a quarter of the country is rich.
  • What percentage of Americans are vegetarians? Average answer: 30 percent. The actual number is a paltry five percent.
  • What percent of Americans live in New York City? Average answer: an astounding 30 percent. The actual number is just three percent.
  • What percentage of Americans are transgender? The answer given was 22 percent. The actual number is not even one percent.
  • What percentage of your fellow citizens are gay? The answer give was 30 percent. The actual number is just three percent.

So, why do people have such bogus and inaccurate estimates?

It’s the Media 

The media and advertisers run race, gender, and wealth stories constantly. They aren’t just biased. They misrepresent the truth and have gone fully woke. There is next to nothing about the average Tom, Dick, Harry, Sue, or Karen. Nothing about the so-called “boobs” in flyover country or the exurbs. Nothing about everyday life lived by the majority of real people.

The result?

Americans are being constantly brainwashed by the nation’s corporate left-wing media. It is misinformation and propaganda galore. Hitler’s own propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, would be proud if he had half the success.

There may well come a day when a new-and-improved obsession with equality, diversity, and inclusion, or God forbid, the equity of outcomes, will grind down the very last of all things. That is clearly their plan. In the meantime, we need things that can serve as a map of the true landscape of unequal men and their unequal things. And perhaps some future Marxist “equalitarian” or stylish university lecturer, with tats and nose rings will, upon reading or hearing them, suddenly remember the great truth: that things and men can be divided between better or worse, between good or evil―and that, for the sake of all our sanity, we would do well to rank things as our ancestors once did.

The yardstick was called excellence, in Latin, praestantia: fitness and superiority based in virtue, valor, and strength. It was colorblind and nonsexual. It was not dictated by some Marxist critical theory about dominance or privilege.

You see, when Alexander the Great finished conquering the world and paused to take in what he had done, no one told him to “check his privilege.”

When William Shakespeare began a sonnet with “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun,” he said what was on his mind and then went home to his castle and relaxed with a good glass of claret. What he did not do was get an angry lecture about his “hetero-normative, cis-gender micro-aggression” from a mob of interior decorators.

When Daniel Boone told his youngster 13-year-old boy to “grow up and be a man, for crying out loud,” the gender-queer native Shawnees across the Ohio River said, well, not a single word.

Being a color or participating in abnormal sex is something today. Indeed, it feels like it is everything. No color or new gender—no deal.

It’s good for business, good for school, good for sitting on a bus, and good for taking a parking space in a crowded lot, or moving to the front of a line, any line.  It will get you into Harvard in front of whites with better qualifications on paper.

Those of you privileged with color or gender difference pause for a moment: Pity the person who has none.

And if you think color is a feather in your cap, try accessorizing that cap with a nifty new socially-constructed identity and a spiffy new sexual orientation (we are informed that you now have some 75 plus choices)—it’s all to die for!

Did even one of the lucky, gay, feminist, trannies take a moment to sympathize with the long-suffering, cisgendered, and heterosexual white men who are forever cursed and now badly miscounted or written out of history and cut from all woke business. Tear down those statues!

Personhood—particularly of the colorless variety touted by Martin Luther King, Jr.,—has fallen out of favor and is utterly despised. True enough, our new champions have not  conquered a continent, written a timeless sonnet, invented an airplane, or a polio vaccine, pacemaker, ice cream, public transportation, hospitals, new strains of vegetables, life-saving medicines, or what-have-you.

Who’s got time when the heteronormative patriarchy is oppressing you with nonfunctioning sewage and water systems? You are, after all, a victim.

The woke media has roundly succeeded in castigating us and making everyone in their Tower of Babel hate each other. Divide and rule is their plan. They seek to conquer us into quietude and oblivion.

The way they achieved all that is quite clever: they simply lied about reality. Stop believing them.

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23 Comments
B_MC
B_MC
September 22, 2022 6:48 pm

Americans are being constantly brainwashed by the nation’s corporate left-wing media. It is misinformation and propaganda galore.

Now Dilbert is racist! Popular comic strip is canned by 77 newspapers after artist Scott Adams began incorporating anti-woke plotlines, including black character who identifies as white

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11235995/Dilbert-comic-strip-canned-77-newspapers-artist-Scott-Adams-included-anti-woke-plotlines.html

rhone
rhone
September 22, 2022 7:07 pm

was it really necessary to double=print this?

Don Diego
Don Diego
  rhone
September 22, 2022 11:24 pm

Maybe it’s one of those tests to see if we’re actually reading these. Like when the sneaky professor throws in a hidden message in the essay prompts to write, “I am paying attention” to get additional points.

bidenTouchesKids
bidenTouchesKids
September 22, 2022 8:26 pm

This is what emerging tyrannies do; they make the minority seem like the majority in a effort to demoralize the true majority. An old trick to keep people from speaking up and thinking they’re outnumbered, when it’s a complete falsehood.

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 22, 2022 8:43 pm

Someone has an agenda. Who might that be?? How many double (((citizens))) are in government?

Ken31`
Ken31`
September 22, 2022 9:01 pm

“What percentage of the country is black? The average answer was 41 percent. The actual number is 12 percent. Of course, if you watch television commercials, you would think it’s closer to 90 percent”

If you believe the US census or any other government statistic, I have business opportunities for you!

BL
BL
  Ken31`
September 22, 2022 10:43 pm

Ken- What percentage do you believe is black in America?

rhs jr
rhs jr
  BL
September 25, 2022 10:50 pm

Places I’ve worked: 60% ; local government jobs: 75%; public schools here: 95%; TV shows here: 50%; Walmart: 75%. Anybody who thinks America is only 41% Blacks must be blind.

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 22, 2022 9:21 pm

Everyone I know sees the bullshit in advertising. The media is not”woke” or “left” they are owned by large corporations who follow orders from folks who are not “liberals”. They’re fucking war mongers.

BL
BL
  Anonymous
September 22, 2022 10:45 pm

you left out genocidal maniacs Anon.

irish savant
irish savant
  Anonymous
September 23, 2022 4:56 am

That’s anti-semitic! 🙂

rhs jr
rhs jr
  irish savant
September 25, 2022 10:52 pm

Most Arabs etc are Semitic; I think you mean anti-Zionist.

BL
BL
September 22, 2022 11:07 pm

People who live in the south will always answer fifty percent when it comes to black population. They have no idea that the national figure is 12-14 percent depending on where you count the mulattos. That is because the black percentages are very high in the south.

Thanks for posting this article, now figure out how to get this knowledge in the mainstream. Things may be quite different if people caught on to the lies.

TampaRed
TampaRed
September 22, 2022 11:17 pm

i’m curious–years ago when gays were just starting to become active,social scientists estimated the gays were 2% but the gays themselves claimed 10%–
why 3% now? are they reproducing themselves? recruiting?
serious minds want to know–

fujigm
fujigm
  TampaRed
September 23, 2022 12:17 am

Obama changed the definition of “gay”.

rhs jr
rhs jr
  TampaRed
September 25, 2022 10:55 pm

AIDS, other VDs, Hepatitis, murder, illegal drugs, etc.

Arthur
Arthur
September 23, 2022 12:32 am

Turn off the television. Or better yet, throw it away.

Ooze the other one
Ooze the other one
  Arthur
September 23, 2022 6:34 am

Too passive for me. I killed my television: garrote with coax.

Horseless Headsman
Horseless Headsman
  Arthur
September 23, 2022 7:58 am

^^+100^^ Best Advice of the Day award.

Common Cents
Common Cents
September 23, 2022 1:31 am

(((Who))) own the media? Just asking.

rhs jr
rhs jr
  Common Cents
September 25, 2022 10:56 pm

Who owns the big banks?

irish savant
irish savant
September 23, 2022 4:52 am

It’s not just America, it’s every White country, even the formerly all-White Emerald Isle. Looking at advertisements and talk shows here you’d think that the country is about 75% ‘enriched’ by diversity. But hey, we’re getting there.

Ooze the other one
Ooze the other one
September 23, 2022 6:41 am

Someone was telling a youngster that television stations used to shut down, aka “sign off,” around midnight every night, leaving nothing but static.

The kid pondered for a moment, then asked, “Why?”

“And now, WTBP concludes its broadcast day. Please enjoy the Star Spangled Banner and some awesome images of pure Americana, like Chuck Yeager in flight and happy Americans reaping the rewards of their hard work. Goodnight. And may God Bless America…… “