The detail that should stop everyone: an EEOC chair on video recruiting plaintiffs. Not adjudicating. Not investigating. Recruiting. The federal civil rights apparatus turned into a casting call.
Then the internal directive: rank anti-white cases as top priority, fast-track them, find them, even when the facts aren’t there. That isn’t enforcement. That’s manufacturing. The state producing the grievance it then promises to redress.
This is what institutional capture looks like.
Miller’s circle figured out you can use the same agency to encode the dominant caste’s resentment as a protected legal interest.
A state-funded grievance factory for the majority, run by people who spent a decade insisting the majority was the real victim and now control the levers to make the paperwork say so.
Look at the freak at the center of it. Miller doesn’t show distress at suffering. He shows appetite. Children separated from parents, families in cages, deportation quotas as KPIs, and the affect never breaks. That isn’t ideology. Ideology argues. This is colder.
Arendt called it the banality of evil: the clerk who files the paperwork without feeling it.
Miller is the inversion. He feels it. He likes it. Watch the cadence when he talks about raids, the small lift in the voice, the almost-smile. The cruelty is the point and the payoff.
A man who found that other people’s pain gets him hard and built a career around uninterrupted access to it.
Manufacturing resentment is what the GOP does best. Emotion is stronger than self preservation it seems. If only many of their supporters could see this and we could all work together to recreate government and business to be fair to workers, voters, all people.
I still wonder how Miller can stand working in the same administration as Harmeet Dhillon, Mehmet Oz, and Melania Trump. I know: they’re “white” to him.
Unless those adults follow Trump's public recommendation that they're good for counting the money, ala former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg.
Please keep outing these hooded ones, Lisa Needham. Maybe you'll find a former employee who can tell you if AFL hires anyone who isn't white, or who is funding them, including any government source.
One nit: if 10% of discrimination charges are from white men, it does NOT follow that 10% of all white men have filed discrimination charges.
"Historically, they’ve brought about nine percent of charges of discrimination based on race, around 10 percent of sex discrimination charges, and roughly 11 percent of sexual harassment complaints. So to buy what Lucas is selling, you not only have to believe that far more than 10 percent of white men have suffered discrimination based on their race and sex, but that they have also somehow been too cowed by Big Diversity to say anything about it."
Good piece overall, but PLEASE tell me that I somehow misread and you did NOT ascribe the centuries-old blood libel to Stephen Miller. Yes, I know we all have fun calling him Nosferatu — and the resemblance is unmistakable— but couldn’t you have said “drinking the blood of virgins” or something else more clearly vampiric?
Miller is a shanda (disgrace) to most American Jews, but tagging him with one of the world’s most ancient and virulent antisemitic tropes is disturbing, to say the least.
Well, the oligarchs destroyed the ability of the rest of us to make a sustainable living and via their control of the media blamed it on others, such as women, immigrants and other foreigners, especially black or brown ones, or Jews, etc. (anything except white men), selling it to white men who have become more and more poorly educated over the past several decades. I do understand their despair. I grew up in a thriving town in upstate New York in the 1950’s and 1960’s where companies like Endicott-Johnson and IBM actually took great care of their employees and their families as well as the surrounding community – so well in fact that unions couldn’t get a hold and actually admired them. All that went away with the rise of neoliberalism and the area is now blighted. This even happened to highly educated engineers in “Silicon Valley” – at first, those jobs were given to cheap highly educated immigrants and then finally shipped overseas. The Reagan revolution was devastating to everyone but the very rich.
Agreed, as far as this goes. I fear there is more explanation lurking. Notable that the 'pawns' you've [accurately] described do not focus on 'personal responsibility'. Remember that one...?
Part of Miller's effectiveness is his organizational skills and his ability to attract people who think like him. Thus, AFL is made up of his true believers.
The regime placed someone opposed to the purpose of the protection organizations to ensure they are, at best, ineffective, or, more likely, work against the people.
The detail that should stop everyone: an EEOC chair on video recruiting plaintiffs. Not adjudicating. Not investigating. Recruiting. The federal civil rights apparatus turned into a casting call.
Then the internal directive: rank anti-white cases as top priority, fast-track them, find them, even when the facts aren’t there. That isn’t enforcement. That’s manufacturing. The state producing the grievance it then promises to redress.
This is what institutional capture looks like.
Miller’s circle figured out you can use the same agency to encode the dominant caste’s resentment as a protected legal interest.
A state-funded grievance factory for the majority, run by people who spent a decade insisting the majority was the real victim and now control the levers to make the paperwork say so.
Look at the freak at the center of it. Miller doesn’t show distress at suffering. He shows appetite. Children separated from parents, families in cages, deportation quotas as KPIs, and the affect never breaks. That isn’t ideology. Ideology argues. This is colder.
Arendt called it the banality of evil: the clerk who files the paperwork without feeling it.
Miller is the inversion. He feels it. He likes it. Watch the cadence when he talks about raids, the small lift in the voice, the almost-smile. The cruelty is the point and the payoff.
A man who found that other people’s pain gets him hard and built a career around uninterrupted access to it.
Johan 🐌
Manufacturing resentment is what the GOP does best. Emotion is stronger than self preservation it seems. If only many of their supporters could see this and we could all work together to recreate government and business to be fair to workers, voters, all people.
I still wonder how Miller can stand working in the same administration as Harmeet Dhillon, Mehmet Oz, and Melania Trump. I know: they’re “white” to him.
And Patel
Stephen Miller is Nazi bad guy Joseph Goebbels reincarnated. They even look similar.
Raiders of the Lost Ark was the highest grossing film of 1981.
In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, he says, “Nazis. I hate these guys.” Perhaps this could become the tagline for the Democrats.
The irony, of course, is that no matter how vicious the vituperation, in the post-Trump world a Jew will never sit at the adults table.
Unless those adults follow Trump's public recommendation that they're good for counting the money, ala former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg.
Said “adults” seem to see Jews like the Mafia does—lawyers, doctors, accountants … hired hands.
Please keep outing these hooded ones, Lisa Needham. Maybe you'll find a former employee who can tell you if AFL hires anyone who isn't white, or who is funding them, including any government source.
Great writeup.
One nit: if 10% of discrimination charges are from white men, it does NOT follow that 10% of all white men have filed discrimination charges.
"Historically, they’ve brought about nine percent of charges of discrimination based on race, around 10 percent of sex discrimination charges, and roughly 11 percent of sexual harassment complaints. So to buy what Lucas is selling, you not only have to believe that far more than 10 percent of white men have suffered discrimination based on their race and sex, but that they have also somehow been too cowed by Big Diversity to say anything about it."
Good piece overall, but PLEASE tell me that I somehow misread and you did NOT ascribe the centuries-old blood libel to Stephen Miller. Yes, I know we all have fun calling him Nosferatu — and the resemblance is unmistakable— but couldn’t you have said “drinking the blood of virgins” or something else more clearly vampiric?
Miller is a shanda (disgrace) to most American Jews, but tagging him with one of the world’s most ancient and virulent antisemitic tropes is disturbing, to say the least.
How did this country produce Ms of self-pitying infants masquerading as adults-?
Well, the oligarchs destroyed the ability of the rest of us to make a sustainable living and via their control of the media blamed it on others, such as women, immigrants and other foreigners, especially black or brown ones, or Jews, etc. (anything except white men), selling it to white men who have become more and more poorly educated over the past several decades. I do understand their despair. I grew up in a thriving town in upstate New York in the 1950’s and 1960’s where companies like Endicott-Johnson and IBM actually took great care of their employees and their families as well as the surrounding community – so well in fact that unions couldn’t get a hold and actually admired them. All that went away with the rise of neoliberalism and the area is now blighted. This even happened to highly educated engineers in “Silicon Valley” – at first, those jobs were given to cheap highly educated immigrants and then finally shipped overseas. The Reagan revolution was devastating to everyone but the very rich.
Agreed, as far as this goes. I fear there is more explanation lurking. Notable that the 'pawns' you've [accurately] described do not focus on 'personal responsibility'. Remember that one...?
Part of Miller's effectiveness is his organizational skills and his ability to attract people who think like him. Thus, AFL is made up of his true believers.
The regime placed someone opposed to the purpose of the protection organizations to ensure they are, at best, ineffective, or, more likely, work against the people.
Good piece. Thank you!