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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026

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And yet, I find myself living in an apartment in a city, surrounded by black and brown people... I feel safe and good about where I live most of the time. I'm reminded of Curtis Yarvin's famous statement that Cthulhu always swims left, and a part of me wants to say, "Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!"

If you're white, and if black and brown people give you warm and fuzzy feelings—those feelings are not only unreciprocated—but reciprocated in the inverse direction. And insofar as black and brown people tend to be net-tax consumers, that’s not a warm and fuzzy feeling for the wallets of white and white-adjacent people.

Individuals such as Bethany Magee and Ryan Carson found out the hard way, where the latter's friends would continue carrying water for blacks after his death:

Their friends say he [Carson] would consider his killer the 'victim of a broken system' and would want his death to be used to continue advocating for social justice causes.

Bonus quotes from an (also black) family friend of the killer, in hitting for the cycle when it comes to tropes, emphasizing the killer was just a teen and a good boy:

'It's a horrible tragedy because the son comes from a good family,' Riddick told DailyMail.com.

'I can't think of anything I can say why he went that route, or what triggered him to go that way.

'The kid is only 18 years old. And I really feel for the victim's family.'

'This was not the norm. He's a teenager.'

Riddick said it was 'a bad situation', but insisted Dowling was not a trouble maker.

'He wasn't the type of kid that followed,' said Riddick.

'He stayed to himself and was quiet. He never had any altercations.'

I enjoy how the family friend says the stabbing was a horrible tragedy because the black killer comes from a good family; the victim's family is just an afterthought (and the victim is a zero-thought). Additionally amusing is how he wonders what "triggered" the killer to stab, akin to pitbull defenders wondering what triggered a pibbie's reactivity.

If you're white, and if black and brown people give you warm and fuzzy feelings—those feelings are not only unreciprocated—but reciprocated in the inverse direction.

Interesting that Hispanics and Asians also rate every other group above whites (although "Asian" as a category is so broad as to be almost useless)

For Asians the ratings of the three other groups likely aren't statistically significantly different from each other. It does appear there's some greater variance in the ratings of Asian respondents, hence the wider errors (may be related to greater Asian heterogeneity, as you noted). Could just be lower sample size, though.

What's also interesting is that blacks have the highest degree of ethno-narcissism. They have the largest 1 vs. 2, 1 vs. 3, and 1 vs. 4 deltas of each of the four panels, where 1-4 correspond to the highest to lowest rated of each panel.

The 1 vs. 2 delta of black respondents (black vs. Hispanic) appears to be larger than the Asian 1 vs. 4 delta (Asian vs. white) and of similar magnitude as the Hispanic 1 vs. 4 delta (Hispanic vs. white), although these three deltas likely aren't statistically significant from each other.

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