Once again, Clarey sides with the racists against the capitalists!

So, "Captain Capitalism" Aaron Clarey has given us this great post on Mexican reaction to the proposed American "border wall," which helps remind us that being poor should make you ashamed (I'm not sure if you're supposed to call out, "Unclean," or what.) And of course, as always the racial double standard is really striking: one wonders how such a fervent booster of Ireland can criticize a country because less than a mere tenth of its population are expats.

But the thing is, as seems often to occur, Aaron is taking a line here that, as far as I can tell, not a single major economist follows: so, what gives? After all, economists at Goldman Sachs - real economists, whose decisions affect how real real large amounts of real money are invested - are bullish on Mexico and think it'll become the world's sixth largest economy - bigger than the European ones, Korea or Vietnam - by 2050! The Economist predicted Mexico as the fifth largest economy by 2040 (using GS data; I'm not sure what they were using). And if you think, sure, 30, 40 years out, what's that worth - well, Mexico is one of the few third world countries that can now issue long term debt at almost first world interest rates, so, if you believe in capitalism and markets than it's pretty clear how capitalism is voting. How odd that Aaron Clarey doesn't know that, mere days after Mexico's first issue of thirty year bonds was pretty big economic news: wow, he's good at this stuff! For that matter, real economists - notably Jagdish Bhagwati, Mr. Brain-drain-emigration-models - would see Mexico's current emigration level as something for Mexicans to be optimistic about, a symptom of progess (I'm feeling lazy - you can find a recent summation of how this works from Kanbur and Rapoport (2005) J. Econ. Geog. 5: pp. 43-57).

Now, given Aaron's history of comments about Latin America and, for that matter, about Latino Americans, you might think, OK, I can guess why he's breaking with capitalism and economics here. And it might explain why Aaron Clarey thinks it's a big deal that China and India are putting out more engineering graduates (granted, of dubious quality) than is America, but doesn't even notice that Mexico, though smaller than America, is also heathily outpacing America in pumping out trained engineers.

It's nice to know that when Aaron's loyalties are divided between the jingoistic bigots and the capitalists, he knows which way he wants to jump!

NEWS FLASH!!! WORLD'S DUMBEST BLOGGER FOUND!

So, way back in that Octber 6 post we pointed out that "Captain Capitalism" Aaron Clarey appears to have the reading comprehension of a six-year old, but could at least look at pictures. But an alert correspondent points out that Aaron has already showed an inability to understand pictures in this post, titled "NEWS FLASH!!! WORLD"S TWO DUMBEST WOMEN FOUND!

Here, Aaroncriticizes Chicago for passing a minimum wage law essentially aimed at Wal-Mart, claiming that it will reduce employment. And indeed, while it turns out to be very hard to quantify the effect of minimum wage laws from real data, the theoretical arguments that they reduce employment are strong. Aaron then shows us a picture of the "world's two dumbest women" celebrating passage of the law.

And what do we notice? The women are wearing union local T-shirts. They are union members. Now, do organizations whose negotiating strength comes from withholding labor, benefit or suffer when it becomes more expensive to hire new workers? And if they benefit, are the women "dumb," or "cunning"?

Boy, I guess Ricardo and rent-seeking really are in those super advanced ec courses, the ones real economists take!

Our correspondent suggests that Aaron's real problem is that the "two dumbest women" are members of two groups - blacks and women - whom Aaron has been known to slime. But I disagree: I think in this case he's just genuinely ignorant!

But just to make everybody happy, we'll follow up with a post (above) where Aaron decided to side with the racists over the capitalists!

When is money not money?

"Captain Capitalism" Aaron Clarey spends a lot of time bitching about how academics contribute nothing to GDP and are useless (the word he generally uses is "academians," because he's illiterate, but you get the point).

Now, we can think of all kinds of reasons why that isn't true which are, y'know, complex and stuff. All that great technology that comes out of the academy, all those business startups near colleges and universities, the real income advantage conferred by academic training, the fact that all those economics professors make the big bucks by consulting for real world businesses, et cetera, and recognize that Aaron is a moron. But the thing is, Aaron's prejudice against academics is actually prima facie stupid because, as anyone even modestly intelligent who's ever been near a university will tell you, universities are large, impersonal corporations which provide a service for money.

For example, Harvard University's 2005 budget was $2.8 billion. And that doesn't include a lot of large sums -- like R&D money from government or private sources awarded to and spent by researchers there, much of the budget at Harvard affiliated hospitals, and so on. Or associated expenses, like living expenses and spending by members of the university community for textbooks and the like.

What sort of half-assed economist doesn't count three billion dollars as a
contribution to GDP?

Just wonderin'.

Unbelievable!

Again Aaron Clarey changes the link to his racist poston Latinos, so he can keep it up but keep it hidden from you, dear readers.

Why is making racist comments about Latinos so important to him?

Of course he also changes the link insulting most Americans and calling the poor "scum-bucket parasites," so ya gotta figure it's not just racist speech he values, it's also ignorant, offensive speech.

Ah, well. Time to start changing some of those links to the PDFs so you can come to the carnival and gaze, fascinated, like some sort of repulsive spider under glass. Or, more apt, like a teratoma in a formaldehyde jar: you look, cluck your tongue sadly, and think, in a better world, this twisted, repulsive thing would've been a man.

UPDATE: and the link moves again!

Virtue? A fig!

One of the joys of interacting with Aaron Clarey as this site sometimes causes, is the realization that he is even more amusingly stupid than we thought! For example, look at his posts here - magnificent! Who knew?

So, of course, many of you are aware that Aaron is involved in some amusing attempts to kill the free speech of this blog's principal. So, today we got to see his first big court filing on the case. And Aaron's counsel builds to a thrilling conclusion, in which he sums up the gravity of his charge by a lovely, isolated and boldfaced quotation on defamation from Act III, scene iii of Othello, beautifully attributed to "William Shakespeare."

That's right - Iago's speech! Beyond belief! Team Clareywatch has been rolling on the floor laughing. We like to picture Aaron with his counsel, Derek Smalls-like, open mouthed expressions of awe all around, thinkin', Wow, Shakespeare, deep. That'll kill them. And it does! I defy you not to crack up....

Here's a little aside for the monkey house since I know you guys are a little, um, literacy challenged. "Iago" is a character in Othello with few scruples and a talent for vicious untrue speech - a repugnant, worm-like man. Motivated in part by racial hatred, in part by misogyny, and mostly by deep jealousy toward talented and decent people, he plots against Othello. In act III, scene iii, he gives the speech Aaron gave to emphasize his case, in which he plays at gross emotional distaste for foul speech while at the same time indulging in it himself, trying to snare those around in his lies.

Brilliant, Aaron, just brilliant. I couldn't have picked it better for you myself.

We have to apologize for ever trying to parodize you here. Nobody can use your voice to make you sound as racist, ignorant and repulsive as you yourself can.

Now this is just plain weird

OK, all I can get from this post is, Aaron can't read (but he can look at pictures!) All due respect to Summers and what he may or may not have been trying to do, but what he did was say, maybe you couldn't really get that many more women in the hard sciences because maybe due to natural reasons having to do either with aptitude or lifestyle preference, women chose not to go into them, and so we maybe shouldn't shoot for full gender equity among (say) science faculty. And the left pushed back at him for questioning the orthodoxy of the idea that women should make up lots more of the faculty in top-flight hard science departments.

Aaron seems to've gotten it backward, and is taking the extreme left position. Which of course he'll entirely go the other way on as soon as he realizes it. Aaron's not smart enough to have an ideology but he wants to toe the line anyway...

I mean, leave aside the usual display of misogyny. You just gotta wonder how functionally illiterate a guy is who fundamentally got wrong something over which so much ink (and electrons) was spilled. Doesn't keep him from commenting on it though! And that, that is the Clarey leitmotif.

Merry-go-round

Hee, hee -- he changed the "Mexican Women" link again, can you believe it? I mean, he knows it's racist so he tries to hide it whenever we link - but it's important to him to keep the racist speech up there, he doesn't just delete! Amazing!

Look, sooner or later we'll just change all the links at right to links to the PDF cache.

Boyfriend of the year!

Looking for that special approach which will win you the ladies, noble young sir? Take your advice from "Captain Capitalism" Aaron Clarey! Remember to badmouth all your ex-girlfriends as often as possible in public (PDF): it impresses future girlfrieds with the good choices you make and let's 'em know not to walk out!

And good first-date chat? Impress her with things you've learned from Aaron: like how women's liberation causes rape (PDF), how feminists aren't marriageable (PDF), or how stupider women look better (PDF).

She'll positively swoon!

UPDATE: A member of Team Clareywatch requests that we include this gem, a real winner! PERFECT date conversation - how could any woman not want this filthy scumbag romantic dreamboat?

Employee of the Month!

How do you make it in the business world, boys n' girls? How do you succeed where others fail? Easy! Take a tip from "Captain Capitalism" Aaron Clarey! You publicly make comments like this and this about your coworkers (PDF, PDF) and like this about your clients (PDF)!

That's the kind of can-do spirit business loves!

Fifteen minutes

Well, it seems this website's principal figure has made it into print. Lessons? Wisdom? Don't ask us, ask somebody who earned his fifteen minutes in the sun by banging starlets.

But, let's just erase a couple Aaron Clarey mistruths, shall we?

Aaron would have you believe that this isn't about squelching free speech, but rather about people impersonating him. Nuh-uh. This blog stopped using Aaron Clarey's voice on the very day (June 19) that he first communicated to us that he didn't want it used; in fact, this blog has not used Aaron's voice at all since . But Aaron sent his summons which started the suit the article described on August 20 - more than two months later. This is about Aaron Clarey trying to silence speech he doesn't like, plain and simple.

And secondly, it didn't start with a call to Aaron telling him someone called him a racist -- it couldn't have. Because when Clarey first commented on this blog, nobody had called him a racist here. What panicked Aaron were links to his own speech -- links he still tries to hide. And that's what's getting him in trouble.

Man, Clarey can't even tell the truth when it's not on a blog!

I dream of Gini....

Which to believe, what Aaron says about Gini coefficients here, or here?

The best thing I can say about "Captain Capitalism" Aaron Clarey: smart enough not to read himself.

But speaking of Gini coefficients -- maybe we'll do something on it soon.

Another brilliant research tip from Aaron Clarey!

Fascinating to see Aaron commenting on a movie about Muslims here and here and repeatedly bringing up the comments of a three year old girl to prove "how effed up these people are." Which is a pretty strong statement about a three year old girl but we already know Aaron doesn't shy from that kind of thing.

Now, as it happens, one of the principals here at the Clarey Watch knows a thing or two about three year old girls. And, they'll say anything. Ask 'em where hair comes from, some time - fascinating. They don't know what "kill" or "dead" mean - bless 'em - and have every kind of crazy idea there is. So there's a useful tip from Aaron! You want to prove something, anything, to support any thesis whatsoever: interview a three year old, then hold her up as "fucked up." It's a surefire research tool.

Probably even works for bigots!

First, shoot the fish in the barrel

Of course, when "Captain Capitalism" Aaron Clarey decides to go post in backface, how're we gonna let that go? So don't miss this post (or the PDF here) where Aaron puts on the voice of an imaginary reader:

Captain Capitalism Reader #3 – "Yo man. So I was like hangin with my homies and word up g, get dis. Al Sharpton comes up to me and says, "you know prices are coming down just because Bush wants his cronies getting re-elected." And I was like, "whoa, step-off man! That’s like crazy freaky sh!t because my man Captain Capitalism predicted you leftist perps would be push that sh!t on us, thinking we was some dumb flock o’ sheep willing to be brainwashed and follow you anywhere. Next thing you know you’d be saying some girl was raped by a bunch of white cops when she wasn’t. I owe it to my main man Captain C for keeping in the truth. Thanks Captain!"

Because, it's funny to make fun of how minorities talk! I certainly hope we get an Aaron Clarey rendition of Stepin Fechit! (and, you just gotta believe he does a good one!)

Ah, sweet sweet irony

What's so funny about this post is that "Captain Capitalism" Aaron Clarey (and I wonder again, how much does some ass have to disrespect the military to award himself a rank?) is eager to display a PDF of somebody's racist post just in case they decide to hide it.

Because, of course, only a contemptible worm would post racist material - like on how we keep the high crime levels in black communities secret in order to promote socialism, or how Latino Americans mistreat women, or how Muslims are "sexually inadequate" - and then try to hide it when somebody links to it, right?

Right.

The title's pretty funny, too!

Keeping the biogtry on display

By the way - those links keep getting hidden away. So in case you have some burning need to see, say, bigotry from Aaron Clarey which tells religious folk that they are psychologically scarred and should just stay home instead of bothering normal folk, the (moved) original is here, and the PDF is here. Which is odd considering the further anti-Christian bigotry here, but hey, that post is weird for a lot of other reasons too, given comments elsewhere both expressing disgust for children and mocking the idea that there's anything wrong with, say, working a child in a factory all day. But OK.

By the way, you can still see the poor being called "greedy scum bucket parasites" here, or get the PDF here.

And that weird, unscientific loathing of all things African discussed here, can still be seen in the original here or in PDF here.

And he tried hiding the "Mexican Women" post here, but PDF's are below.

Those're the one's we've covered some. More tk!

And, here's a thought. If you're like the Clareywatch crew, you're probably chortling too hard over the patheticity of this muscial links thing to think this through right now: but bear with me. When a racist/offensive post is pointed out here, Aaron hides it away and sometimes gets rid of it, and the cache links. But then, he can choose to play the musical links game for things he really wants to preserve.

So one wonders: what's so important about preserving posts which have no economic or political content but mostly serve to slime a racial or ethnic group? Why are those posts so important to Aaron? Waht does that tell you?

What's dumber than a mollusk?

Now, anyone who doesn't flat out admire "Captain Capitalism" Aaron Clarey has to be won over by this post. Here, a guy who has repeatedly demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of how to do statistics, calling people "mollusks" for - wait for it - not doing statistics well! That, friends, is cojones. It is truly impressive. Let's go through the post a bit, shall we? This is a bit outside of the usual remit of this blog but fortunately there's some offensive speech, not just the usual brainless patter.

Now, a lot of people - even, say, buisness oriented folk - have found a lot of bad news in the Census report on poverty. But here he's picking on a left-leaning group's comments on it.

He begins by making fun of a graph showing how many more people are living in poverty in America over the past few years.: there has been almost a 20% increase -- not beanbag. He then says they had to "mainpuilate the scale on the Y-axis." Uh, no. In fact, real stats packages real economists use - and for that matter even the crappy Excel graphs Aaron uses - will do this by default. The natural Y-axis ranges basically over the same range as your data, no? More on axes later. A graph is designed to help you present your data, kiddies, and that's all - "the right way" to set it up is so what you want seen can be seen.

He says, well, of course there's more people who're poor, there's more people, isn't the rate the relevant number? And here, Deputy Bullshit Spotters, is the point to listen to your inner voice that says, "Is this moronic toad really trying to suggest the population of the United States went up by something like 20% between 2000 and 2005?" Because it didn't -- it went up, by the Census Bureau's estimates, about 5%. That means, a plot of the rates is going to look, well, pretty much like the plot of the absolute numbers, with pretty much the same trends - NOT flat. How does he make it look flat? He screws with the Y-scale. Excellent.

And here's something for all you stats wannabes out there. You want to compare to pieces of data graphically? Make sure you show them with the same scaling, whatever scaling you use. Anyone who doesn't, is hiding something, or perhaps stupid, or both.

Now, Pathetic Ignorant Little Man (PILM) Aaron goes on to worry about "context" - you see, it's not fair to look just at a short time scale. Of course, PILM himself often makes judgements about trends from even shorter time spans - like, for example, here. But never mind. So he shows a plot of the poverty rates beginning with 1959. Basically it shows a gentle falloff from the '50s to 1970 -- from which one might infer that things like the New Deal and Great Society worked OK. Aaron thinks that's the relevant context. Um, why, oh Deputy Bullshit Spotters, is it relevant to compare poverty rates now, to a time when the US was segregated, and half the anti-poverty measures in action now, weren't in place? This is the challenge of all data analysis: define the meaningful "context." But for a group like CAP looking at immediate policy effects and solutions it's hard to defend Aaron's concept of "context."

"Thus, official economists would come to the professional conclusion," (says the PILM, who is not an economist, contra just about every economist involved in policy anywhere in the political spectrum) "that 'People should shut the hell up and stop their whining. Poverty is not a problem in America.'"

But, hey, there's never been a problem, right? After all, Aaron Clarey is the one who said that

"I'm sick and tired of your greedy scum bucket parasites known as 'the poor' who think you have it so rough"

so, how can there ever have been a problem, eh? I mean, screw these people!

And that's in a way as offensive as anything Aaron has ever written, and goes back to the point below about guys sitting in their rooms playing Super Mario who have no idea how actual Americans think. My personal guess on that thinking being, that while we recognize that how you help poor people may be a complicated issue, there is a real and terrible poverty problem in America if just a few hundred thousand people - let alone 40 million - are in need, and we desperately want to help, and anyone who denies that vision is a moral cretin, more fit to be called a "retard" or "mollusk," simply for lacking that understanding, than anyone at CAP. And I don't think it's just "liberal" or "conservative" Americans who'd agree with that.

Moving on - he again takes a shot at assessing the administration's policy effects just by looking at the past 4-5 years instead of longer (uh...OK, you don't need me to point out the problem). But then he says, hey, incomes fell for a while because we're coming out of a recession. Which is funny, because Aaron has heaped scorn upon the idea that we're coming out of a recession! And because, OK, we're coming out of a recession, incomes are recovering - but poverty numbers AREN'T, which seems to be CAP's point, no? Note that on the graph the Census Bureau doesn't identify the "recession" the same way Aaron (now) does. It's interesting to note, by the way, that while median incomes are stangant or declining, mean (per capita) incomes are going up, so Aaron's graphs are actually not addressing the "somebody's getting screwed" question.

Lastly he hits on the idea that illegal immigrants might be causing the jump - and, well, I think you know how to handle that question, it's going to look a lot like how you clever folk handled the population question. You know, "Is the PILM really saying....?" That way.

And check out the apparatchiks in the comments. It is tragic that after all the good work on decent people like Philip Mangano and others showing how new ideas and approaches can help the poor and the homeless, there are still fools who will spit out invented statistics about the percentage of homeless that are mentally ill or the like. These are not, of course, "fact-oriented" people.

Ahhh, culture.....

There's not really anything I could add to satirize this weird equivalence of governmental structure, with "culture." In fact, it's about what you'd expect from a guy who seems to consistently think "standard of living" means "GDP per capita" -- after all, nothing measures quality of life like the mean amount of money in a place! But I mean, sure, everybody knows that "culture" means the same thing as "governance," right? I mean, when someone asks you about, say, "Japanese culture," the first thing you think of is their Parliament, no? All praise the political system that produced Shostakovich and Solzhenitsyn! Great culture, must've been great politics!

What can I say: that's what makes a PILM, a PILM. These are people beyond even Mencken's concept of a booboisie - ignorant, yes, but proud of it. This is "economic analysis" -- what do people want? what makes them happy? - from a source displays little ability to identify a Joe Henderson riff or a Schoenberg theme. These are folk who don't know Paul Auster from Paul Anka, William Gaddis from William Tell, Alvin Ailey from Alvin and the Chipmunks, Andrew Wyeth from Andy Griffith, Horace Silver from Mr. Ed, Washington Irving from Dr. J. (get it? Of course you do. Know where it's from? I know, I love y'all.) These are people so frickin' knowledgeable that they have probably never even felt the need to leave US shores, dammit. So, boy oh boy, that's some quality commentary.

Charity begins at home!

"Captain Capitalism" Aaron Clarey is shocked, shocked by a picture of putative Islamists carrying a sign praising Hitler and says, "The parallels between Hirohito's crazed Japan and radical islam carry me to the same solution Truman derived."

Brilliant, insightful analysis as ever. But sadly, the world isn't at Aaron's speed. Those damn pinko Commies would never let us give those Muslims what they deserve; if we nuked 'em there'd be a huge ugly international incident. Big diplomatic mess. That candy-ass Kofi would get involved.

Hey, wait! Maybe there's something we could do closer to home! That makes sense, by Aaron's always-impeccable logic, no?

A little Euripedes

Every man, is, after all, like the company he is wont to keep. Let's look at the company a little, shall we? I mean, who exactly is buying this stuff anyway? Who's reading Aaron Clarey, getting the message? Check out those second, third and fourth comments.

Now, Frequent Clarey Commenter Mahan is just so impressive. I mean, that projected child mortality rate - 75,000 per 100,000 - is just amazing. So much better than, say, the Cambodians could do at the killing fields. It really shows how inefficient those Commies are, no? And tells you right up front that Mahan is just so damn accurate and careful with those statistics, he is at least as good an historian as Aaron is an economist! Alfred Thayer is no doubt rolling over in his grave. Oh, and hey -- what exactly is up with these nutjobs who give themselves fake military ranks, anyway? And who knew that "the fauna" were such a threat! Run, bwana, the lions are coming!

But, wow, that's a bold stance - y'all are fools to try to help starving children. It's nice to see "Liar_Liar" - a friend of this blog, after all, who's shown up here to threaten your humble blogger, and call him names! - chiming in rapidly to agree. "[T]he african kids will hack you with a machette [sic] after they finish off their best friend." Wow. A sensitive, humane soul. Deep, man.

Ya gotta wonder -- just how much time do you have to spend alone playing "Mario Brothers" and reading comic books, to be so far removed from, y'know, the human species?

But you gotta leave to to the reader to decide if these are guys who spend their weekends alone in their underpants in dark rooms, in front of a box of Oreos, glaring at computer screens, hitting "refresh" every couple of minutes, waiting for responses.

I guess the apparatchiks are just agreeing, after all, with the guy who said, anyone who thinks they'd like to visit Africa is just brainwashed, and who called Africa a "shithole."

Maybe Euripedes is the wrong Greek, y'know? I mean, I'm not that clever. Maybe it's somebody else who said you could recognize folk when they speak....

A quickie

Hey -- one of our correspondents here at the Watch dragged us over to look at Aaron's latest (PDF). And is going to bug us until we post. So, yeah, three points:

• What the hell is wrong with the word "Alleged?" Does Aaron Clarey know something nobody else does?
• The other bit singled out for special notice is, "We ... urge law enforcement authorities and elected officials to caution against stereotyping entire religious or ethnic groups...." Because of course "Captian Capitlaism" Aaron Clarey knows you've gotta be able to stereotype entire religious or ethnic groups.
  
• "We're Sorry"? That's right, Aaron. If a nominal member of your religious/ethnic group does something wrong, you'd better apologize immediately. Because the whole ethnic group has done something wrong! Everybody knows that! Man, I'm still pissed that the blacks around here haven't all apologized to me personally over that OJ thing!

Now, get off my back, correspondent, I'm busy.

UPDATE: Hee, hee! As is PILM Aaron's tradition when we cotton on to his racist speech here, he has now changed the link repeatedly. But you have the PDF....

Missing links?

Wow, here at the Watch we start linking to the Google cache of "Captain Capitalism" Aaron Clarey's more repulsive speech, and suddenly somebody goes and tells Google to delete those cache pages, just like Aaron originally pulled the posts!

Well, now, we here are looking out for you. Since Aaron has insisted those aren't offensive speech, I'm sure he'd want you to be able to see them (and many others!) And I'd be happy to do you that favor. Besides, I'd want you to be able to see those pages so I'm not doing anything unfair! After all, when this site was all parody it referred to those posts as "interesting" or "daring," not, say, "racist," and I'd really rather not continue misrepresenting Aaron. And you should be able to judge for yourselves, no? So in case you're having a hard time finding the stuff (and of course, you can always contact me) that's gone missing, you can go ahead and find

• That post on Mexican women discussed down below, here.
• That post on Katrina refugees, here. (Oh, and check out his gratuitous reference to them as the "losers of Louisiana" here!).
  

And of course there's lots more in the ol' hard drive. People keep asking me to put up that post - you know, the crime one - but I'm saving it for a particularly wonderful occasion, and I'm really kind of behind the 8 ball with work right now. So we'll see.

Back to the tape

Re-examining the Google cache on that post about Latino Americans was, I think informative and fun, wasn't it? Let's try another post.

Just after the government issued Katrina refugees $2000 debit cards to cover
emergency expenses, Aaron posted this, his only statement on the subject.

All I said about it in the satiric part of the blog was, it was Aaron's "message to the Hurricane Katrina refugees." And in retrospect, that's not fair to you, the reader. After all, people are mostly pretty good to one another and prize compassion, and many of us have seen people who are struggling to get by dig into their pockets to help out, say, Indian Ocean tsunami victims. So I bet A lot of you looked at that and thought, how nice, a message for the Katrina victims. And once again, I regret misleading you.

So please check out that cache link so you can personally enjoy things like, "Let it be officially known that I can’t really muster up a care about the people of New Orleans....And now these idiots are costing me $2,000 per debit card." After all, people unfamiliar with Aaron Clarey's oeuvre probably wouldn't have expected something like that.

Although maybe they'd have known better if they'd read about how he's "getting mighty sick and tired of your greedy scum bucket parasites known as "the poor" who think you have it so rough when in reality, you don't pay a freaking dime for any government service if you're in the bottom 60% of income earners." (If you're wondering if you're a parasite, by the way, median household income in America is about $45 grand).

So, don't forget to check all this stuff out in the cache if you need to!

We apologize for the error!

Sadly, there have been no responses suggesting non racist interpretations for that Aaron Clarey (Captain Capitalism) post on Latinos below. But looking it over again myself, I gotta think, Peter (below) was right: when I linked to that post before I just said it was on the misogyny of Latinos, and that really misrepresented it.

In fact, a better description would be, it is a post opening with a textbook example of the classic racist trope of minority men coming to steal white women, imputes to them both misogyny and adulterous behavior, using statistics poorly to do so, and en route makes a typical Clarey swipe at the intelligence of women.

I guess I may have really represented it as much less bad than it actually is, largely because it's difficult to make it sound so bad when using the first-pesron satirical voice (since nobody really brags about being a racist.) Thanks, Peter; I'm glad I went back and re-examined that. If time permits we'll look at more old posts sometime this week.

Let's roll the tape!

So, there's some question over whether I have represented Aaron's posts well, since of course you can't see them right now. Perhaps it would be useful for anyone with question to go check out, say, this one, for example. (if you particularly need the chart, it can be seen, for example, here.)

What've we got, here? Aaron's got a problem: there's an equal number of white men and women out at his nightspots but there's three times as many Latino men as whites. Why is that, he wonders? He comes up with three possibilities. One: that mostly men are coming here from Mexico - somehow he knows these guys are in fact Mexican immigrants - without their "wives/girlfriends in Mexico (whilst they do their damnedest to score with a white chick)," which is the kind of great insight into the moral character of Mexican immigrants only Aaron can give since he knows they've got steadies back home and that the reason they go out to places that play the music they know is, of course, to score with white chicks.

Two: the Latin women are somewhere else looking for white guys. Oh, if only they knew where Aaron is!

Three: maybe "the stereotypes were true. That latin men treat their women like crap and that the latin women are really here, they're just not allowed to go out."

So Our Hero thinks over these possibilities, and finds a graph showing that among Mexicans in Mexico, about a quarter of women ages 15-19 (an oddly high number) are not working or employed. And which of those three theories does that support? [Aside: actually, none, since legal marriage in Mexico is at age 18 -- these girls are being kept home by their parents. But, continuing....]

So, he concludes, "as much BS as I hear the brainwashed suburbanite women of the Twin Cities metro opine how latin men are so romantic, I can only shake my head in pitiful humor that they think barefoot and pregnant is romantic." [Aside #2: actually, it might be: for whatever reason "romantic" is tied in with traditional gender role notions, it's not the same concept as "hot" or "sexy."] Yep, girls, when you see those Latinos you should be thinkin', he wants me barefoot and preganant. One can only wonder why they prefer Latinos to Aaron, who certainly thinks women should be active outside the home instead of staying home with the kids - or maybe not.

So, let's hear from y'all as to why this isn't, y'know, racist speech.

And, let's puncture some crap Bayesian arguments that are going to come up right now.

Firstly, if someone tells you, say, that blacks commit crimes way disproportionately to whites in America, that's not racist, it's true. If he uses it to suggest why there might be hiring disparities or why you might need special policing or educational solutions or whatever, that's interesting. If on the other hand he uses it to mock you for not looking at blacks and thinking, "criminals" ... that's something else. And if it's not even blacks in general but the blacks who hang out at, say, this particular nightclub ....

Secondly, it's not even the right set of statistics (a common Aaron problem). This isn't about Latinos or even Mexican-Americans. It's about Mexicans in Mexico. All they have in common with the people he has been talking about is, that they are co-racialists.

Let's hear the defenses, eh? I welcome them.

A bleg?

Dear all,

If you asked a week ago I'd have said this blog has only one reader. None, if you don't coun guys who move their lips while reading. The recent spate of comments makes me happy.

But I don't really know that there's a lot to read now. This blog has gotten some hate speech pulle off the web and I'm proud of/happy with that. If more speech like that sneaks its way up, I'll have something to make fun of and I will. But compiling Aaron's male chauvinist comments sounds awful dreary, there's a lot and anyway if his blog at all represents his speech in person nobody really needs the help.

I know there's folks out there that like to go over to Captain Capitalism and make detailed point-by-point refutations of his nuttery but that strikes me as a colossal waste of time. Look, guys, there's real, published, repected economists from all over the political spectrum on the web and they are resonable, cordial, and wicked smart. Anyone reading Aaron Clarey isn't looking for real economics and you are around as stupid as he is if you're trying to convince them of anything. When some weiner who can barely read a graph tells you, "I've looked over the Earth's temperature data and it's obvious to me that the vast majority scientists studying this hideously complicated thing are complete idiots," then if you still take him even slighly seriously there's no real point in arguing with you. I'm leaving econ blogging to people who know what they're talking about. If only Aaron did the same. You want to see that stuff on this site, I'll give you keys and you can do it yourself.

So -- anything you want to see here? Let me know below. Otherwise posting's gonna get really rare.

Although, expect a long post Monday or Tuesday!

A special anniversary

Hey, all, it's a special anniversary here at the Aaron Clarey "Captain Capitalism" racism watch!

Exactly one month ago we received a letter from a real honest and for true lawyer (maybe) warning us that Aaron was going to take "legal action" unless this blog came down. And, well, not wanting to disappoint the fanbase - here we are! But since then, nothing. Not a peep, but for the comment below. Such a shame, because Aaron Clarey speaks words of great wisdom (when they aren't, y'know, hate speech) and we really wanted to meet him in person. There're all kinds of deep questions he could've answered for us, like for example:

• How big a failure does a human have to be, to bitch out people who lost their families, homes and jobs in a storm for taking government aid, but then to run to the law like a baby to try to protect himself from the consequences of his own speech?
• Where does a guy who bashes trial lawyers get off playing games with frivolous suits?
• Somebody gets worried because he said some things he wishes he hadn't. Instead of taking responsibility like an adult, he tries like hell to edit what he said out of history, to silence anyone who points out what he said, and to bully and intimidate yours truly for noting it. Does that sound like someone who should be attacking communists and fascists to you? Or does it sould like a pathetic Stalin wannabe?
• And, what kind of loser tries to earn his bread sliming minorities? Oh, wait, I guess I know that already: the kind that goes and slimes other peoples toddlers down below! Excellent!
• And, hey, what happened to "Batfink" and "CaptainCool" and "Sanjay" and "Ricardo Juan?" Just how many people is Aaron censoring to try to cover up his ignorance and racism? Like reading Pravda....

I'm still laughing at you, you pathetic, ignorant little man.

Still on the burner

So, I here at Aaron Clarey racist watch world headquarters we keep getting questions: what about all the sexist/misogynist posts? You said you were going to do something on that! And the answer is, there's more than one kind of chauvinism and we'd sure like to get round to it. But here's the thing: there's a heck of a lot of those posts. It's like, a third of the Captian Capitalism weblog. We'd need to get some kind of intern over here. And I don't even have a humidor! So, hang in there. It's coming.

We have a very special anniversary coming up on 19 July, too, so, wait wait wait, all you kiddies out there!

It takes a lot of courage!

Hey, all, don't forget to check out the comments below to see Aaron Clarey, aka Captain Capitalism, purveyor of hate speech, attack a little girl! His manliness astounds! I'd never dare do the same! That must be why he can attack minorities and women too!

More quantum phenomena -- this is cool!

Hey, boys n' girls, we've noted here before that very often when we put up a link to posts of Aaron Clarey's describing some of his thoughts on people of different races or ethniities or ideas, those posts get deleted off of "Captain Capitalism" within hours -- almost like he's ashamed of hate speech in them, or afraid that less enlightened souls -- y'know, people not qualified to be radio personalities -- will see them, or something like that, though it's really a special quantum entanglement phenomenon.

Well, sometimes when the post contains a lot of bloviation Aaron might be proud of, what happens instead is, the post isn't immediately deleted but the link changes. That happened within hours from that "Mysterian" post we mentioned below, where Aaron thoughtfully and insightfully explains how the NAACP and people who complain about racial inequality, are muchlike spoiled children, and have never had to work. That's an even stranger thing, isn't it? I bet it requires a lot of math to describe.

Anyway: I just thought that was pretty neat.

UPDATE: Oopsie, and now the link's chnged again, after a brief disappearance.

Clarey on racial advocacy and other activism

I think we have a winner here at the Aaron Clarey watch for Aaron's stupidest post ever. It's a strange, eerily Marxist screed on how some people want to contribute to society while others -- generally spoiled children of the upper class -- seek instead to do nothing and hold back the actually productive workers.

But, hey, let's stay focused on the language that we focus on here. Here, Aaron talks about activits (he calls them "Mysterians") --

"...it would seem only spoiled children can be Mysterians ... a system has been installed in our society that allows people (wealthy or not) the option of never having to get a real job....

...the ulterior motive is nothing as noble as protecting the environment or advancing the well-being of women. It's not about eliminating racism. It's not about the ethical treatment of animals. The only thing it's about is the Mysterian....

That is why you'll never see the NAACP or Jesse Jackson even admit to an improvement in race relations."

Heady stuff. By accusing racial advocacy groups of a ridiculous proposition which they don't in fact say (nobody's going to argue that things haven't improved since, say, slavery, or outright Jim Crow, or the inability of racial minorities to be a political force), he tries to trivialize and discredit activists now. Those activists being, apparently (and to my surprise) basically privileged folk who don't know from real work. Following into the comments, you can see the commenters expanding the point: Nothing for racial equality advocates to do, if they'd only admit that things have gotten better. Classic! The sheep are all in line.

And of course, there is nothing for racial equality advocates to do. It isn't like public figures who broadcast regularly on the radio are sliming minorities wholesale on the Web anywhere!

So Aaron gives us examples of "The Mystery" -- the "cardiac arrest inducing" lies activists propagate, like, oh, global warming, or,

"You are poor and your life sucks because of racist, sexist white men."

So remember Aaron's wisdom, and diregard anyone who bitches that he's losing out because of bigotry. Like, oh, the kind you can hear from Mr. Clarey.