How sick is that alliance? It’s tragic that members of any group persecuted by an organization with a history tied to the KKK would lie down with the dogs of the white supremacy movement.

But far from unprecedented: there’s nothing at all unusual about discovering a white supremacist who also believes himself to be a devout Roman Catholic. Nor is it unusual to discover recent immigrants from Eastern Europe in US white supremacist organizations.

Well, there’s your problem.

That chain should fire its existing lawyers, then, and “lawyer up” with attorneys who know what they’re talking about. Big chain hotels are more than capable of developing guidelines for their hospitality departments. I rather doubt those guidelines say “OMFG, unless they’re going to burn the place down please rent to them or they might sue us.”

Also, IQ tests were originally designed to identify children in need of remedial help in school. I thought the original IQ tests were developed to screen US draftees in WWI… and that a lot of the early eugenecist literature came out of the results of those tests.

For roughly a thousand years, the Ashkenazi were a reproductively isolated population in Europe, despite living in many countries, with little inflow or outflow from migration, conversion, or intermarriage with other groups, including other Jews.

Also, IQ tests were originally designed to identify children in need of remedial help in school. They were later adapted to place people on the Great Chain of Being, but it’s very much not what they were originally made for, and Binet would be horrified to see it. Quoting The Mismeasure of Man, an excellent source on the topic:

In summary, [Alfred] Binet insisted upon three cardinal principles for using his [IQ] tests. All his caveats were later disregarded, and his intentions overturned, by the American hereditarians who translated his scale into written form as a routine device for testing all children.

1. The scores are a practical device; they do not buttress any theory of intellect. They do not define anything innate or permanent. We may not designate what they measure as “intelligence” or any other reified entity.

2. The scale is a rough, empirical guide for identifying mildly retarded and learning-disabled children who need special help. It is not a device for ranking normal children.

3. Whatever the cause of difficulty in children identified for help, emphasis shall be placed upon improvement through special training. Low scores shall not be used to mark children as innately incapable.

My point was that this is clearly a result of their culture, not their ethnicity, since their basic ethnicity is shared with non-Jews.

My god, Dana, do you have to take everything so literally? Chill out - Tommykey was talking about cosmic justice, not advocating literal action…

If the Grand Dragon of the KKK wanted to have a dinner in honor of George Lincoln Rockwell at the same hotel, would that be just another expression of 1st Amendment rights and perfectly okay with you? What if they were openly advocating the extermination of all catholics (which you are, as I recall, Mr. Pico)?

A gay couple celebrating an anniversary are not advocating hate. They are not seeking to limit the rights of others.

OTOH, racists and other bigots ARE advocating hate, either by implication, or far more overtly.

I think this is where the US needs a “speakers’ corner” like the British. A place where any lunatic can spout of any nonsensical droolings about any subject they want, as long as they stay civil. (Perhaps the Internet could be considered the modern equivalent.)

I don’t want to take away anybody’s right to be an ass. I just don’t want the hate to spread any further than necessary…

Well, if there’s any justice, the Latino cooking staff will spit in the food they cook for the American Renaissance conference attendees.

You do realize that such would be a crime, and might even be a felony in some states.