Conservatives, especially serious conservatives, will usually say that they believe in returning America back to the principles of the Constitution, with respect to the intentions of the Founding Fathers. In the American context, this is a conservative doctrine, being that it hopes to conserve at least the legal (if not the social) form that the country set out to promote. This is typically phrased with reference to notions of clearly demarcated natural rights, festooned with quotes, and, if on a TV documentary, with a baritone voice-over. The problem is not so much with the traditionalist impulse that motivates American conservatives, but with […]

The descent of Ferguson into chaos, the bankruptcy of Detroit, and the arrest of yet another black mayor on corruption charges might lead one to question whether or not civilization in America can be salvaged. One commenter threw out “Rebel’s Guide to the Collapse of an American City,” which, if taken at face value would suggest that all American cities are doomed to become mega-Camdens, or worse American Port-Au-Princes. The commenters on the article largely agreed, lamenting that their city centers were stolen by mobs of rampaging blacks. From where I sit, however, the forces of civilization are fighting back […]

I don’t want to put too fine a point on it, but sometimes the right-wing conspiracy theorist in me suspects that anti-bullying movements are CIA-funded PSYOPs campaigns to induce passivity and helplessness in the upcoming generation of American men. And then sometimes I don’t think that they’re calculated psychological warfare at all, that they actually haven’t been meticulously planned in the sub-basements of the Pentagon. But it doesn’t matter either way. They don’t have to be planned. They still work. Consider. What is the takeaway of anti-bullying campaigns for a young boy? The takeaway is that violence in all its […]

Feminism as an ideology is perfectly capable of entailing consent to the patriarchy, protestations of radfems to the contrary. Liberal feminism, whether the radfems like it or not, is cladistically part of the tradition. That’s what this piece is about: because of the genetic heritage of feminism and its world-historical development, no matter what feminism as an ideology logically entails, the cladistic approach better explains why feminists, rather than Feminism as such, hate with a visceral hate all manifestations of patriarchy-by-consent, but encourage high-octane BDSM. Too often conservatives fall into the trap of accepting Feminism and falling in with feminists, and […]

Contemporary divorce law has placed legal authority in the hands of wives, and taken it out of the hands of their husbands. All married households are legally female-headed households, especially when considered in the context of how family courts typically operate. The many changes in the United States since the 1970s have caused countless debates between the mainstream left and right: the causes of the shrinking returns to labor, the increase in the cost of living, the growing social chaos, the inability of the state to meet its long term obligations, and many other topics. In popular politics, both wings agree […]

American media publishes pearl-clutching moral outrage pieces at a remarkable clip and with remarkable persistence, so keeping up with all of them is, to be honest, a bit of a hassle. Here at Social Matter we devote a few interns to the task, and even then their filing cabinets always runneth over. Here’s an excerpt from one article that’s representative of the sort of papers they squirrel away: Waytz, A. et al., “A Superhumanization Bias in Blacks’ Perceptions of Whites,” Social Psychological and Personality Science (forthcoming). A new study suggests [that] in general, black people are more likely to think […]

This is going to be a bit of a hard and sober piece for most supporters of GamerGate to swallow. Bitter medicine is how I would describe it. GamerGate in its current form will likely not exist a year from now. Chan movements don’t have the energy to sustain themselves for longer than a year without a significant drop in firepower, especially if the other side begins to take steps to starve them of oxygen: apathetic responses, instead of white hot rage, from the SJWers, as well as lack of concrete success. Project Chanology didn’t win. Occupy Wall Street did […]

The main problem with the American right is that it is almost solely a set of democratic institutions. While there are a small number of right of center foundations and right-wing fundraising machines, most of the effort and money on the proper right goes towards encouraging people to vote for Republicans at the polls. Part of the trouble is that Americans tend to see elections as a legitimate way of resolving major social issues. Mandatory education trains all Americans into believing that a democratically elected government acting within the legal norms set by a written constitution can solve all human […]

It mystifies me to hear the various journalists, “indie game developers,” and yapping dogs from the periphery who have arrayed themselves against GamerGate describe that movement as right wing. (Or at least it would mystify me, if I weren’t already aware of the… we’ll say “plasticity” of the English language when it’s on the lying tongues of progressive shills and charlatans and grievance mongers.) The point of confusion, of course, is that, whatever else they are, nerds are not right wing. Not collectively at any rate. In fact, I would guess that, as a group, they tend toward to the […]