{"id":2892,"date":"2012-10-16T08:32:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T08:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2012-10-16T08:39:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T08:39:44","slug":"ann-coulters-mugged-a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2892","title":{"rendered":"Ann Coulter’s Mugged, a review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many in the Dissident Right\/ Right Opposition have criticized Ann Coulter as the epitome of the cable news partisanship. However, next to Pat Buchanan, she probably speaks more taboo truths than anyone else with Main Stream Media [MSM] access.<\/p>\n

Coulter calls for cuts in legal immigration, ending birthright citizenship, speaks frankly about the Bell Curve, defends groups like the Council of Conservative Citizens (with some qualifications), and even quotes VDARE.com and Peter Brimelow .<\/p>\n

So I was excited when I heard of her latest book, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama.<\/p>\n

But, as she began promoting it, the controversy seemed to be limited to her attacking liberals and the Democrats for racism and indifference to blacks.<\/p>\n

So I got worried that the book would be more partisan Jonah Goldberg-type \u201cDemocrats-are-the-real-racists, Martin Luther King-is-a-conservative\u201d platitudes than an actual, much-needed indictment of racial demagoguery.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, however, the vast bulk of Coulter\u2019s book focuses on exposing liberal and black hysteria and lies about race.<\/p>\n

Coulter notes several actions that now inspire accusations of racism in the Age of Obama:<\/p>\n

\u201cnot electing Obama president\u201d
\n\u201crequesting documents from Attorney General Eric Holder\u201d in Fast and Furious
\n\u201creferences\u00a0 to Obama playing basketball\u201d
\n\u201cthe word \u2018the\u2019\u201d. The last charge, she notes, was inspired by Donald Trump referring to \u201cthe blacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her book\u2019s subtitle is Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama, and Coulter systematically documents racial demagoguery from the 1970s on. She does a great job telling the true story behind supposed acts of racism such as the justified Rodney King beating, the tragic (but not racist) shooting of Amadou Diallo, and the Willie Horton Ad. She exposes the little-known fact that Jim Jones People’s Temple mass suicide was led by a fanatical left-winger driven by \u201canti-racism\u201d and Marxism, who also had close ties to the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the best part of Coulter\u2019s book is her discussion of hate crime hoaxes. She devotes an entire chapter, amusingly titled \u201cHey, whatever happened to that story\u2026\u201d to hate crime hoaxes and how the MSM always accepts the lies, only to deep-six the stories when they prove false. In addition to rehearsing well-known hoaxes such as the Tawana Brawley case, she goes into great detail about lesser-publicized frauds, like the non-existent epidemic of black church burnings during the Clinton years. More importantly, she notes that many of these fake hate crimes stirred up actual hate crimes against whites\u2014which were all ignored by the MSM.<\/p>\n

Coulter covers the Duke Lacrosse mess later in the book.\u00a0 This is one of the few Hate Crime hoaxes that most people still remember, but Coulter brings up facts often ignored (outside of VDARE and a few other sources) that put it in perspective. She reports DOJ crime statistics noting that there has not been a single case of an actual white-on-black gang rape, while thousands of black-on-white rapes (including gang rapes) occur each year. As Coulter barbs:<\/p>\n

\u00a0 If there were a single unequivocal example of a white on black rape in modern times, a lesbian folk singer would have written a song about it and won an Oscar for the accompanying documentary.<\/em><\/p>\n

There are, however, a few areas where I believe Coulter’s partisanship gets in the way of her otherwise excellent analysis.\u00a0 Like many Conservatism Inc. publicists, Coulter argues the Democrats are in fact the real racists, and that the Republican Southern Strategy was non-racial.<\/p>\n

Coulter has occasionally made some statements suggesting that she is sympathetic to Bell Curve arguments. [See her column Murdering The Bell Curve, June 27, 2002 at 2:50 PM]But she concludes her book by asserting<\/p>\n

if all black people woke up tomorrow morning with the cultural predilections of Korean Americans, all sociological disparities\u2014income, crime rates, out of wedlock births\u2014would vanish within ten years.<\/em><\/p>\n

Coulter’s general point that most of the problems in the black community will only improve through cultural change is no doubt true. But the unfortunate fact of average genetic differences means that most of those disparities will never vanish.<\/p>\n

These quibbles aside, Coulter’s Mugged ranks with Jared Taylor’s Paved with Good Intentions and Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed\u00a0 as one of the best indictments of American minority and liberal hypocrisy and hysteria on race. – Alexander Hart, VDARE.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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