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By Nicholas Stix
Updated at 4:52 a.m., on December 27, 2009.
Wikipedia, or as I call it, The Pretend Encyclopedia (TPE), has for years been a libel factory dominated by leftwing frauds, who fill its entries on controversial subjects with lies, while immediately censoring the occasional truth that might find its way in, and whitelisting the truthteller. The people who insert the lies and remove the truths are called “editors”; Wik founder and guru, James “Jimmy” Wales, insists that it is “the encyclopedia anyone can edit.”
It seems that an honest editor finally made an appearance at Wik/TPE, and fittingly, he was allegedly a blackmailer. In “Wikipedia ordered to reveal identity of ‘editor’ accused of blackmailing mother and child,” the Daily Mail’s Colin Fernandez reported,
A businesswoman smeared by an anonymous contributor to Wikipedia has won a landmark legal battle to have her accuser unmasked.
The victim had 'confidential and sensitive' details about her professional life and her child written into her page on the online encyclopaedia.
She also received anonymous threatening letters suggesting her accuser would reveal information to the press.
The businesswoman's identity is secret by order of the court but is thought to be wellknown in business circles.
Now the website has been ordered to hand over technical information to help track down the blackmailer.
The case is the latest example of Wikipedia - which has 325million visitors a month and can be edited by anyone - being used for malicious or mischievous ends.
Mr Justice Tugendhat said in his judgment at the High Court: 'In ordinary language, the mother believes that she is the subject of an attempt at blackmail. On the information before the court, she has reason to believe that.'
The amendments made to the woman's entry involved information about her professional expenses claims and details about her child which the judge did not reveal….
For more on The Pretend Encyclopedia, read my American Renaissance exposé, “Wikipedia on Race.”
A tip ‘o the hat to the longtime reader who sent me this story at the time.
Retired Seattleite James Paroline, 60, a Vietnam veteran, was murdered last July by Keith David Brown, then 28.
On the evening of July 9, Paroline was watering the traffic circle garden at the intersection of 61st Avenue South and South Cooper Street, in Seattle’s Rainier Beach area, just as he did every day.
The garden had only recently been built by the city, after years of prodding by Paroline, who took it upon himself to do that sort of thing. Paroline placed the cones to keep his water hose from getting crushed, and presumably to protect himself from getting crushed, as well. The cones forced drivers to pass by the entrance to the intersection, and enter after the traffic circle.
Instead of doing that, a group of young black women and girls stopped their two cars, blocking traffic, and began harassing Paroline, trying to throw away his cones and, after he responded by splashing them with water, getting in his face and screaming at, and throwing a water jug at him. Then one of them called Brown, the career criminal-boyfriend of one of the girls’ sisters, who quickly drove to the traffic circle, and murdered Paroline with a sucker punch.
For the rest of the story, as the recently departed Paul Harvey, may he rest in peace, would have said, please turn to my American Renaissance exclusive, “Three Race Murders in Seattle,” on the racially motivated murders of Paroline and his fellow Seattlites, Kristopher Kime (during the 2001 Mardi Gras black race riot) and “the Tuba Man,” Edward Scott McMichael.
Although an entry was up at Wikipedia/The Pretend Encyclopedia (TPE) about Oscar Grant, the felon who was shot to death in the wee hours of New Year’s Day on an Oakland subway platform by BART policeman Johannes Mehserle less than five days after Grant’s death, and Google just returned 1,020,000 hits for “Oscar Grant shooting”; eight months after James Paroline’s murder, you won’t find any TPE entry devoted to, or so much as mentioning him, and his name returns a paltry 1,770 hits at Google, including references to my article.
And that is not at all surprising, in this day and age. After all, by TPE’s politically correct standards, there are four reasons not to have an entry on Paroline’s death: 1. Paroline is a dead white guy, so his life had no value; 2. Paroline was a Vietnam vet which, except for traitors and con men, is yet another invisible demographic to TPE’s leftwing enforcers; 3. He was a law-abiding citizen, which is so bor-ing; and 4. He was murdered by a black man, something that the lefties at TPE want no whites to know about. By contrast, those same lefties found the Grant shooting worthy of an entry, because: 1. Grant was black, his life thus intrinsically more valuable than James Paroline’s; 2. Grant was a felon, and thus an object of sympathy; and 3. Grant was shot to death by a white policeman, which made his life politically of use.
Will someone please post an article on James Paroline at TPE? Attention must be paid!
By Nicholas Stix
By Nicholas Stix
This entry, which has not been touched since November 15, 2008, is supposedly about the Chicago Bears, whose historic nickname, going back to circa 1940, is “the Monsters of the Midway,” although that name has only been used when the team was dominant. In the third paragraph however, the entry gets kidnapped, and taken away to the Wikipedia Zone:
The team, which has now become the NFL's Arizona Cardinals, was originally the Racine Normals (named for the street on the South Side of Chicago where they played; the team eventually became the Chicago Cardinals), received their first uniforms as hand-me-downs from the University of Chicago. The faded maroon was fancied by the club's president to be a "cardinal" red color, so the team adopted "Cardinals" as its nickname. Through the years, the Cardinals were typically overshadowed by the Bears. Had the Chicago Cardinals enjoyed the success of their crosstown rivals, perhaps they would have inherited the nickname "Monsters" from the Maroons and not just their jerseys.
There is no rhyme or reason for the above paragraph, which does not fit at all into what precedes or follows it. But that’s The Pretend Encyclopedia for you: No rhyme or reason.
The “Monsters of the Midway” entry also honors another uniquely Wikipedian tradition, that of “editors” making entries worse over time. Until November 15, 2008, the opening paragraph read thusly:
The "Monsters of the Midway" is most widely known as the nickname for the National Football League's Chicago Bears — particularly the dominant teams of 1940 and 1941. The name underwent something of a revival when the 1985 edition of the Bears proved to be similarly dominant.
Similarly, the fourth paragraph began:
The popularity of "Monsters of the Midway" was revived by the dominant Chicago Bears defense of 1985.
Unlike hundreds of thousands of TPE/WP entries, these were perfectly serviceable paragraphs, written in clean, proper English. And that is exactly what made them unacceptable to editor “64.171.224.83,” who felt compelled, on November 15, to improvilate them:
The "Monsters of the Midway" is most widely known as the nickname for the National Football League's Chicago Bears — particularly the dominant teams of 1940 and 1941. The name underwent something of a renewal when the 1985 edition of the Bears proved to be similarly dominant….
The popularity of "Monsters of the Midway" was renewed by the dominant Chicago Bears defense of 1985.
“Renewal”? “Renewed”? Gimme a break!
As “64.171.224.83’s” talk page shows, she/he/it (s/h/it, for short) already had a history of improvilating entries.
By the way, “improvilate” is not a word in the English, or to my knowledge, any other language. I just thought that a properly improper term should be coined, in order to do justice to the pixilated practices of so many thousands of Pretend Encyclopedia/Wikipedia “editors.”
By Nicholas Stix
What's the world's biggest spammer? A sex site? No. Those fake Google blogs that fool you into visiting them, and then refuse to permit you to navigate away from them, without shutting down the window they're in? You know, the ones that insist that they are a Microsoft Windows message from within your own pc, that has found malware on your computer, but actually are about to plant malware on your pc? Nope. The world's biggest spammer is The Pretend Encylopedia/Wikipedia!
"But how can that be?," you may ask. After all, aren't wikicensors running around 24/7, deleting links to articles which they decry as "spam" or "linkspam," which is meant to increase sites' search rankings? Indeed, they are. But that's not because they really are policing spam, but rather censoring true information that they don't want readers to see. (TPE/WP deletes real spam from sex sites, but now does so automatically through "bots.")
The TPE/WP difference is that the world's biggest spammer gets other people to do its spamming for it, by getting them to link to it! Wikienforcers insist on using "no-follow tags" for all outgoing links from TPE, but they never announce to the world that they are doing this. They encourage the world to link to them, in order to increase their own search rankings, but paranoidly suspect the world to be seeking to spam TPE, because they are merely projedcting their own spamming mentality onto everyone else.
There is, however, one exception to the “nofollow tags" rule.
TPE's enforcers use normal tags when linking to sites in which TPE co-founder Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales has a commercial interest, in order to increase their page rank.
I recommend that anyone linking to TPE use only no-follow tags. To find out how you can return the favor to WP/TPE/Wales, read this informative article: “Preventing comment spam.”)
By Nicholas Stix
On October 15, the tortured corpses of newlyweds, Marine Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak, 24, and Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, 26, were found in their Winchester, CA home. Mrs. Pietrzak had been gang-raped, and husband and wife had each been bound, gagged, and shot, execution-style, in the back of the head.
Four “Marines” are in custody: Pvt. Emrys John, 18; Lance Cpl. Tyrone “Cripgeneral” Miller, 20; Pvt. Kevin Darnell Cox, 20; and Pvt. Kesaun “Psycho” Sykes, 21. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, all four confessed to the torture-murders, though there was some dispute as to who the rapists were. Each said he was innocent of the rape—though Sykes confessed to cutting Mrs. Pietrzak’s clothes off of her—but that his three accomplices had raped Mrs. Pietrzak. One thing that Miller, Cox, and Sykes all agreed on, however, was that John was the shooter. (In court, all four suspects have since pleaded “not guilty” to the crimes, which are death-penalty eligible.)
Sgt. Pietrzak was a helicopter mechanic at Miramar Air Station, in San Diego; John and Miller were his subordinates. Pietrzak was white; his wife was black, as are the defendants.
The official story is that the crime was committed for “financial gain,” but there was no financial gain. The killers took the husband’s digital camera and the wife’s engagement ring, but made no effort to sell them.
This was a racial killing. I believe that the motive was humiliation and murder, based on the killers’ racism—and thus their rage that a white man had taken a black woman for his wife—and the items the killers stole souvenirs, with which to recall and savor their crimes. As a black former Marine, Sabrina, who had married a white fellow Marine while in the service and whom black racists put through hell for it argued,
Everything about this case points to a racially motivated hate crime which is fueled by sexual jealousy! It is as much of a hate crime as what happened in 1955 to Emmett Till and in 1998 to Matthew Shepherd….
Wikipedia’s Presentation of the Case
Wikipedia claims to provide “the sum of all human knowledge,” yet as of 2:28 a.m., November 28, the only mention of this crime in all of Wikipedia’s “2,638,091 articles in English,” is the following, 22-word mention in the entry for “Winchester, California.”
Winchester, California
Winchester is a census-designated place (CDP) in Riverside County, California, USA. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 2,155.
Largely rural for most of its history, Winchester experienced rapid growth during the housing construction boom in the early to mid 2000s. However, construction and growth slowed when the housing bubble burst in 2007, resulting in a housing market correction. In October of 2008, the town was rocked by the brutal murders of Marine Corps Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak and his wife, Quiana.
Then again, as I showed in my Wikipedia exposé in the July issue of American Renaissance, where race is concerned, such non-scholarship is par for the course at The Pretend Encyclopedia (TPE).
The Real Stuff of Encyclopedias: The “Erdős–Bacon Number”
The Wikipedia habitués whom I call, among other sobriquets, Wikithugs, make sure that none of Wikipedia’s entries on black-on-white atrocities honestly depict the crimes.
TPE also purports to be an inexhaustible font of “knowledge” about things like the “Erdős–Bacon number,” to which a 3,376-word entry has been devoted, replete with 69 footnotes.
What is an “Erdős–Bacon number,” you ask? Nothing at all, really. The notion is a third-hand trivia game, derived from the trivia game, “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” which was itself derived—no doubt by a fan of character actor Kevin Bacon—from the notion embodied in the title of John Guare’s 1990 play, Six Degrees of Separation. Another person—doubtless a camp follower of Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—then created an imitation Bacon trivia game, and combined the two.
Guare’s idea is that six degrees of acquaintance separates every human being from every other human being. Thus, limiting the notion’s application to Bacon’s acting career is contrary to Guare’s idea. Of course, few of the multitudes who use the phrase, “six degrees of Kevin Bacon,” in order to sound hip and knowledgeable have ever heard of, let alone read or seen the stage or film version of Six Degrees of Separation. (This writer has seen both versions.)
During the early 1980s, black con man David Hampton notoriously made fools of a series of white, leftwing, Manhattan socialites, claiming to be the son of Sidney Poitier (who, unbeknownst to them, had no sons!), in order to momentarily drop into their lives and homes, and by the way, pocket some symbolic small change from them. Guare, who was friends with some of the victims, fictionalized the real-life exploits of Hampton, who died in 2003, in order to meditate on the trivial, empty lives of rich Manhattanites—the lefty part somehow never made it into the play—and their desperate need for connection to “the other.”
(During the same period, I encountered alcoholic hustlers pulling similar cons in Vienna and Paris.)
For all the blather and footnotes, no one reading the Wikipedia/TPE entry for “Erdős–Bacon number” will even learn of this third-hand trivia game’s origins.
A person’s Erdős–Bacon number is the sum of one’s Erdős number—which measures the “collaborative distance” in authoring mathematical papers between that individual and Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—and one’s Bacon number—which represents the number of links, through roles in films, by which the individual is separated from American actor Kevin Bacon. The lower the number, the closer an individual is to Erdős and Bacon.
But Wikipedians and their third-hand trivia-loving counterparts in the “real” world refuse even to follow the rules of their own game. Thus, the first name on TPE’s Erdős–Bacon number “table” is that of Hank Aaron. But Hank Aaron never authored any mathematical papers. Why is he listed on the table? A Wikipedian gave a “reason,” but since it is completely at odds with the rules of the game, it can’t be the real reason.
What is the point of inventing a game, any game, if the players immediately throw its rules out the window? And aside from the fundamental issue of having “encyclopedia articles” about third-hand trivia games, what is the point of having encyclopedic-looking entries about such games, if those writing them violate their rules, even in their descriptions of the games, and fail to provide their historical background, which is their only aspect which is of intellectual or encyclopedic interest? (In case you were wondering, the “Erdős–Bacon number” entry is not a Wikipedia self-parody. The people dominating TPE suffer from extreme irony deficiency.)
Thus, Wikipedia is worthless, even as a compendium of trivia! That’s why I call it variously The Pretend Encyclopedia and Antipedia.
Let’s Stop Pretending
To learn more about the racist crime that I have dubbed The Winchester Atrocity, start with my two VDARE articles, and then hit the embedded hyperlinks in them to get to other material:
“The Knoxville Horror with a Twist—Four Black Marines Murder Interracial Couple in Winchester, CA; MSM Censors Details, of Course”
and
“The Winchester Atrocity: Down the MSM Memory Hole While Cops Claim It’s Not a ‘Racial Crime’”
(This article used “nofollow” tags in its links to Wikipedia. In getting everyone to link to it, in order to maintain its page rank, TPE is the universe’s biggest spammer, yet it refuses to return the courtesy. It uses “nofollow” tags for all outgoing links, so that hitting them does not help the page rank of any site to which it links, except for those in which Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales has a commercial interest. Thus, I am returning the favor. To find out how you can return the favor to WP/TPE/Wales, read this informative article: “Preventing comment spam.”)
(This is my censored Wikipedia/Pretend Encyclopedia entry, which I just did a verbatim copy-and-paste of from Deletionpedia. I coded the top version, so as to be presentable within Blogger’s coding scheme. In the bottom version, the Wikipedia/Pretend Encyclopedia coding is untouched and exposed. )
Nicholas Stix is a New York-based freelance investigative journalist and social critic who often writes on controversial issues such as race, feminism, and the media from a generally right-wing perspective. In 2006, researcher-journalist Carl Horowitz cited Stix in a list of “Northern paleoconservatives,” “a fraternity whose prominent names include Peter Brimelow, Steve Sailer, Nicholas Stix, Lou Dobbs, Tom Clancy, Mark Krikorian, Ted Nugent, Rep. Tom Tancredo, and yes, the late Sen. Robert Taft."
Stix founded A Different Drummer magazine (1990-93), which he continues online, and has written for numerous paper and online publications, including Die Suedwest Presse, New York Daily News, New York Post, Newsday, the Westsider, Chelsea Clinton News, Flatiron News, Middle American News, Toogood Reports, Global Politician, Insight on the News, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, the American Enterprise, Campus Reports, VDARE, American Renaissance, the Weekly Standard, Front Page Magazine, the New York Press, New York Newsday, Ideas on Liberty, Academic Questions, National Review Online, Liberty, Men's News Daily, Intellectual Conservative, WEBCommentary, the Autonomist, the Magic City Morning Star, the Post Chronicle, the New Dominion, the Conservative Voice, The Illinois Leader, Enter Stage Right, MichNews OpinioNet, American Daily and News by Us. His day jobs have included washing pots, building Daimler-Benzes on the assembly-line, tackling shoplifters, serving as an adjunct lecturer at the City University of New York, and being a stay-at-home dad.
Controversies
Since the 1990s, Stix has written extensively on a number of controversies, including Kwanzaa; Ebonics; remedial education and grade inflation; New York City school scandals; one of the October Surprises in the 2000 presidential election; charges that on Election Day 2000, Florida state officials prevented black voters from going to the polls, or having their votes counted; bilingual education; the 2001 Cincinnati riots; the Steven Hatfill case; the racial profiling debate; the de-policing debate; race hoaxes; affirmative action; the Sally Hemings-’Thomas Jefferson imbroglio; the Jayson Blair case; the Brian Nichols case; the New York City police crime statistics scandal; the corruption scandals enveloping then-Gov. Jim McGreevey of New Jersey; then-Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama; the Associated Press "Boosgate" scandal; the CBS News "Memogate" scandal; The Color of Crime; what Stix called "reverse reporting" in ‘New Orleans, following Hurricane Katrina; the illegal immigration amnesty movement; what Stix charged was a cover-up by the Associated Press in the Baytown, Texas, black-on-white, homosexual serial rape case; the "Duke Rape Hoax"; and the "Knoxville Horror."
Praise and criticism
Stix’s work has elicited responses running the gamut. In 2002, in “The Crucifixion of Steven Hatfill,” Newsmax reporter Phil Brennan wrote of the attempt by the media and the FBI to link biodefense scientist, Dr. Steven Hatfill, to the previous fall’s deadly anthrax attacks, due to the anthrax letters having had the return address of a non-existent “Greendale School” in New Jersey, and Hatfill’s having once lived in Harare, Zimbabwe, near a neighborhood called “Greendale”:
“Investigative journalist Nicholas Stix took the trouble the rest of the media couldn’t bother themselves with. He contacted people in Zimbabwe and asked if anyone knew about the so-called Greendale school. Here are two answers he got:
‘There was [and still is] only one school in the neighbourhood. In my day, it was called Courtney Selous primary school. ... I checked on a NGO website which listed all the name changes which the government is proposing presently and discovered that the school is, indeed, still called Courtney Selous [after a famous 'White Hunter,' Frederick Courtney Selous, who featured prominently in early Rhodesian pioneer history]. Although the school is located in Greendale, it has never been known as “Greendale School.” No other schools have ever been built in the area.’
‘There isn't and never has been a Greendale School. There is a suburb in Harare called Greendale. The schools in that area were Courteney Selous School, which is a school for junior kids. The only other schools in that area were for high school, i.e Oriel Boys, Oriel Girls and Chisipite. There is a school that is called Greengrove but is not in the school zone in the area mentioned although it is fairly close.’”
In Richard P. Phelps’s book, Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized Testing, he praises “free-lance investigative reporter Nicholas Stix” as being among the “small proportion of journalists [who] do make some effort at writing balanced stories on testing.”
In Writing Alone and with Others, Prof. Pat Schneider lists among “some of my favorites from other writers” two lines from one of Stix’s poems: “Please do not call to me mother / while I am making pancakes…”
Other writers have judged Stix negatively. In the article, “The Struggle over Language Rights,” published in the anthology, Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work, Prof. Keith Gilyard identifies Stix as “a steadfast opponent of language rights for African Americans.”
While condemning Stix over the course of 1,300 words: “But as [sic] evident by now, Stix isn't much about logic,” “In the final analysis, intellectually speaking, Stix is for kids,” etc., Gilyard failed to disclose his prior history with Stix. In 1997, in the pages of the news magazine, Insight on the News, the two had squared off in a 3,500-word debate on the pedagogical value of using Ebonics in the classroom.
In 2005, after Stix published a story about convicted rapist Roman Polanski, Polanski’s victim, ‘Samantha Geimer wrote Stix,
“It should be a crime for you to make a living re-victimizing me with your stupid story.
”You and your fellow reporters are no better than Polanski.
”I wish you would all get sued for every lie your print."
Stix published Geimer’s letter, and responded that he had not written anything about her that wasn’t true, and had not taken the initiative in revealing her identity. Geimer had in recent years given numerous on-camera TV interviews, newspaper interviews in which she had permitted herself to be photographed, and had even revealed where she lived.
In "Into the Mainstream: Academic Racists' Work Inching Toward Legitimacy," in its Winter 2005 Intelligence Report, the Southern Poverty Law Center cited Stix as having written on the ‘New Century Foundation’s report, The Color of Crime, about which the SPLC was highly critical. On April 8, 2008, the SPLC’s Mark Potok condemned the National Policy Institute as a “white supremacist” organization, and wrote that Stix’s report, The State of White America-2007, “paints ‘a statistical and narrative portrait of the war on white America,’ in the website’s words. Nicholas Stix’s introduction "The State of White America: A Major New Study on American Race and Ethnic Relations," to the article describes the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education ruling outlawing school segregation as ‘arguably the worse [sic] decision in the Court’s 216 year history.’ He claims later civil rights legislation was unconstitutional. ‘[I]ntegration and the civil rights movement led directly to the destruction of great cities,’ he concludes.”
More nuanced positions were taken by Thomas Jackson in the August 2007 issue of American Renaissance magazine and by Casey Sanchez, in the Fall 2007 Intelligence Report of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Reviewing the National Policy Institute report that Stix edited, The State of White America-2007, Jackson criticized Stix for the latter’s harsh tone in his introduction to the report, while praising him for his exhaustive report on black-on-white school atrocities, his analysis of the pitfalls of affirmative action hiring of black police officers, and for his chapter on black-on-white crime.
While in “The Big Lie: Criminal Cases Exploited to Attack Blacks,” Sanchez referred to Stix as a “white nationalist,” he praised him for casting doubt on uncorroborated Internet rumors, and for exposing journalist Michelle Malkin’s spreading of uncorroborated rumors regarding the murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.
==Works Citing Nicholas Stix==
(Added October 24, 2009)
The American Directory of Certified Uncle Toms, by James B. Lowe (Bensenville, IL: Lushena Books, 2002).
Boxing is My Sanctuary: A Collection of Essays, by Theodore Roland Sares (New York, Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2007).
Breve Antología Poética, by Luís Benítez, (Jaén, Spain: Publicatus Libros, 2006).
Composition and Cornel West: Notes toward a Deep Democracy, by Keith Gilyard, Ph.D., (Carbondale & Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008).
The Conscience of a Nation: Clinton, Sex and Politics Around the World, by Victor Mbakpuo (Charleston, SC: BookSurge, 2005).
Criminal Justice, by Jay S. Albanese, (Boston: Allyn & Bacon; Brief edition, 2000).
The Directory of Small Magazine Press Editors & Publishers, 1993-1994, by Len Fulton (Paradise, CA: Dustbooks, 1993).
The Directory of Small Press & Magazine Editors & Publishers, by Len Fulton (Paradise, CA: Dustbooks, 1992).
The Directory of Small Magazine Press Editors & Publishers, 1991-1992, by Len Fulton (Paradise, CA: Dustbooks, 1991).
Ebonics: the urban education debate, edited by J. David Ramirez, Terrence G. Wiley, Gerda de Klerk, Enid Lee and Wayne E. Wright (Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters; 2nd edition, 2005).
Education: opposing viewpoints, edited by Mary E. Williams (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000).
International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses, by Len Fulton (Paradise, CA: Dustbooks, 1991).
International Directory of Little Magazines & Small Presses, by Len Fulton (Paradise, CA: Dustbooks, 1992).
Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized Testing, by Richard Phelps (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 2003).
The New Absolutes, by William D. Watkins (Bloomington, MN: Bethany House, 1996).
Poet's Market 1992, by Judson Jerome (Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, 1991).
Poet's Market 1994, by Christine Martin (Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, 1993).
Power: A Critical Reader, by Daniel Egan and Levon Chorbajian, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005).
A Rational Approach to Race Relations: A Guide to Talking Straight about Contemporary Race Issues, by R.V. Roush (New York, Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2008).
Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work, edited by Gary A. Olson (Carbondale & Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002).
Right-wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, by Chip Berlet and Matthew Nemiroff Lyons (New York: Guilford Press, 2000).
Small Press Record of Books in Print: 1994-1995, by Len Fulton (Paradise, CA: Dustbooks, 1994).
Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, by John R. and Russell J. Rickford (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons), 2000.
El venenero y otros poemas, by Luis Benítez (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Nueva
Generación), 2005.
The Unsleeping Eye: Secret Police and Their Victims, by Robert James Stove (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003).
What Were They Thinking? Crisis Communication: The Good, the Bad, and the
Totally Clueless, by Steve Adubato, Ph.D. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008).
Writing Alone and with Others, by Pat Schneider, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
==External links==
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored (weblog)
A Different Drummer (online)
Nicholas Stix VDARE Archive
Nicholas Stix Archive from Insight on the News and The American Enterprise
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'''Nicholas Stix''' is a New York-based freelance investigative journalist and social critic who often writes on controversial issues such as race, feminism, and the media from a generally right-wing perspective. In 2006, researcher-journalist Carl Horowitz cited Stix in a list of “Northern paleoconservatives,” “a fraternity whose prominent names include [[Peter Brimelow]], [[Steve Sailer]], Nicholas Stix, [[Lou Dobbs]], [[Tom Clancy]], [[Mark Krikorian]], [[Ted Nugent]], Rep. [[Tom Tancredo]], and yes, the late Sen. [[Robert Taft]]."[[http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_17_01/tsc_17_1_horowitz_profiling.shtml “Profiling In an Age of Terrorism,” Carl F. Horowitz, ''The Social Contract'', Volume 17, Number 1 (Fall 2006)]]
Stix founded ''A Different Drummer'' magazine (1990-93), which he continues online, and has written for numerous paper and online publications, including ''Die Suedwest Presse'', the New York ''[[Daily News]]'', ''[[New York Post]]'', ''[[Newsday]]'', the ''Westsider'', the ''Chelsea Clinton News'', ''Flatiron News'', ''[[Middle American News]]'', ''Toogood Reports'', ''[[Global Politician]]'', ''[[Insight on the News]]'', ''[[Chronicles]]: A Magazine of American Culture'', the ''American Enterprise'', ''Campus Reports'', ''[[VDARE]]'', ''[[American Renaissance]]'', the ''[[Weekly Standard]]'', ''[[Front Page Magazine]]'', the ''[[New York Press]]'', ''[[New York Newsday]]'', ''Ideas on Liberty'', ''Academic Questions'', ''[[National Review Online]]'', ''[[Liberty]]'', ''[[Men's News Daily]]'', ''Intellectual Conservative'', ''WEBCommentary'', ''The Autonomist'', the ''Magic City Morning Star'', the ''Post Chronicle'', the ''New Dominion'', the ''Conservative Voice'', the ''Illinois Leader'', ''[[Enter Stage Right]]'', ''MichNews'' ''OpinioNet,'' ''American Daily'' and ''News by Us''. His day jobs have included washing pots, building Daimler-Benzes on the assembly-line, tackling shoplifters, serving as an adjunct lecturer at the City University of New York, and being a stay-at-home dad.[[http://www.americandaily.com/author/152 ''The American Daily''], an online journal.]
==Controversies==
Since the 1990s, Stix has written extensively on a number of controversies, including [[Kwanzaa]]; [[African American Vernacular English|Ebonics]]; [[remedial education]] and [[grade inflation]]; [[New York City]] school scandals; one of the [[October Surprise]]s in the [[2000 presidential election]]; charges that on Election Day 2000, Florida state officials prevented black voters from going to the polls, or having their votes counted;[[http://www.geocities.com/nstix/florida2000.html "The Great Florida Disenfranchisement Hoax," Nicholas Stix, ''Middle American News'', February 2001]] [[bilingual education]]; the [[2001 Cincinnati riots]]; the [[Steven Hatfill]] case; the [[racial profiling]] debate; the [[de-policing]] debate; race hoaxes; affirmative action; the [[Sally Hemings]]-[[Thomas Jefferson]] imbroglio; the [[Jayson Blair]] case; the [[Brian Nichols]] case; the New York City police crime statistics scandal; the corruption scandals enveloping then-Gov. Jim McGreevey of New Jersey; then-Illinois State Sen. [[Barack Obama]]; the [[Associated Press]] "Boosgate" scandal; the CBS News "Memogate" scandal; ''The Color of Crime''; what Stix called "reverse reporting" in [[New Orleans]], following [[Hurricane Katrina]]; the [[illegal immigration]] amnesty movement; what Stix charged was a cover-up by the [[Associated Press]] in the [[Baytown, Texas]], black-on-white, homosexual serial rape case; the "Duke Rape Hoax"; and the "Knoxville Horror."
==Praise and criticism==
Stix’s work has elicited responses running the gamut. In 2002, in “The Crucifixion of Steven Hatfill,” [[http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/8/19/201601.shtml “The Crucifixion of Steven Hatfill,” Phil Brennan, ''News Max'', August 19, 2002.]] ''[[Newsmax]]'' reporter Phil Brennan wrote of the attempt by the media and the [[FBI]] to link biodefense scientist, Dr. [[Steven Hatfill]], to the previous fall’s deadly [[anthrax attacks]], due to the anthrax letters having had the return address of a non-existent “Greendale School” in New Jersey, and Hatfill’s having once lived in Harare, Zimbabwe, near a neighborhood called “Greendale”:[[http://web.archive.org/web/20020816230754/toogoodreports.com/column/general/stix/20020814.htm “A High-Tech Lynching: ABC News, the FBI, and the ‘Greendale School’ Myth, Nicholas Stix, ''Toogood Reports'', August 14, 2002.]]
“Investigative journalist Nicholas Stix took the trouble the rest of the media couldn’t bother themselves with. He contacted people in Zimbabwe and asked if anyone knew about the so-called Greendale school. Here are two answers he got:
‘There was [and still is] only one school in the neighbourhood. In my day, it was called Courtney Selous primary school. ... I checked on a NGO website which listed all the name changes which the government is proposing presently and discovered that the school is, indeed, still called Courtney Selous [after a famous 'White Hunter,' Frederick Courtney Selous, who featured prominently in early Rhodesian pioneer history]. Although the school is located in Greendale, it has never been known as “Greendale School.” No other schools have ever been built in the area.’
‘There isn't and never has been a Greendale School. There is a suburb in Harare called Greendale. The schools in that area were Courteney Selous School, which is a school for junior kids. The only other schools in that area were for high school, i.e Oriel Boys, Oriel Girls and Chisipite. There is a school that is called Greengrove but is not in the school zone in the area mentioned although it is fairly close.’”
In Richard P. Phelps’s book, ''Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized Testing'', he praises “free-lance investigative reporter Nicholas Stix” as being among the “small proportion of journalists [who] do make some effort at writing balanced stories on testing.”[[http://books.google.com/books?id=i370N8U-ZLoC&pg=PA205&dq=%22Nicholas+Stix%22&sig=w1kXTDxEPoyshbzz6WKYdzFuh7g Richard P. Phelps. ''Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized Testing'' New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003], 205.] In ''Writing Alone and with Others'', Prof. Pat Schneider lists among “some of my favorites from other writers” two lines from one of Stix’s poems: “Please do not call to me mother / while I am making pancakes…”[[http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/019516573X/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link Pat Schneider. ''Writing Alone and with Others'', New York: Oxford University Press US, 2003], 311.]
Other writers have judged Stix negatively. In the article, “The Struggle over Language Rights,” published in the anthology, ''Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work'', Prof. Keith Gilyard identifies Stix as “a steadfast opponent of language rights for African Americans.”[[http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0809324334/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link Gary A. Olson, ed. ''Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work'', Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002], 116-118.] While condemning Stix over the course of 1,300 words: "But as [sic] evident by now, Stix isn't much about logic," "In the final analysis, intellectually speaking, Stix is for kids," etc., Gilyard failed to disclose his prior history with Stix. In 1997, in the pages of the news magazine, ''Insight on the News'', the two had squared off in a 3,500-word debate on the pedagogical value of using Ebonics in the classroom.[[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n12_v13/ai_19241610/print “Q: Would ebonics programs in public schools be a good idea? - opposing views,” Keith Gilyard and Nicholas Stix, ''Insight on the News'', March 31, 1997.]] In 2005, after Stix published a story about convicted rapist [[Roman Polanski]],[[http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article4541.html “Pedophile-Rapist-Fugitive Roman Polanski Demands Respect!,” Nicholas Stix, ''Intellectual Conservative'', 22 August 2005]] Polanski’s victim, [[Samantha Geimer]] wrote Stix,
“It should be a crime for you to make a living re-victimizing me with your
stupid story.
”You and your fellow reporters are no better than Polanski.
”I wish you would all get sued for every lie your print."
Stix published Geimer’s letter,[[http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/stix/2005/08/diva-victim-forgives-polanski-condemns.html "Diva-Victim Forgives Polanski, Condemns Journalist," Nicholas Stix, ''Men’s News Daily'', August 16, 2005]] and responded that he had not written anything about her that wasn’t true, and had not taken the initiative in revealing her identity. Geimer had in recent years given numerous on-camera TV interviews, newspaper interviews in which she had permitted herself to be photographed, and had even revealed where she lived.
In "Into the Mainstream: Academic Racists' Work Inching Toward Legitimacy," in its Winter 2005 ''Intelligence Report'', the Southern Poverty Law Center cited Stix as having written on the [[New Century Foundation]]’s report, ''The Color of Crime'',
[http://amren.com/colorofcrime/color.pdf][[http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=580 "Into the Mainstream: Academic Racists' Work Inching Toward Legitimacy," ''Intelligence Report'', Winter 2005, Southern Poverty Law Center.]] On April 8, 2008, the SPLC’s Mark Potok[[http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/04/08/immigration-report-being-released-today-linked-to-white-supremacists/ "Immigration Report Being Released Today Linked to White Supremacists," Mark Potok, ''Hatewatch'', SPLC.]] condemned the National Policy Institute as a “white supremacist” organization, and wrote that Stix’s report, ''The State of White America-2007'', “paints ‘a statistical and narrative portrait of the war on white America,’ in the website’s words. Nicholas Stix’s introduction[[http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2006/11/state-of-white-america-major-new-study.html "The State of White America: A Major New Study on American Race and Ethnic Relations," Nicholas Stix, ''Nicholas Stix, Uncensored'', November 4, 2006.]] to the article describes the Supreme Court’s 1954 ''Brown vs. Board of Education'' ruling outlawing school segregation as ‘arguably the worse [sic] decision in the Court’s 216 year history.’ He claims later civil rights legislation was unconstitutional. ‘[I]ntegration and the civil rights movement led directly to the destruction of great cities,’ he concludes.”
More nuanced positions were taken by Thomas Jackson in the August 2007 issue of ''American Renaissance'' magazine and by Casey Sanchez, in the Fall 2007 ''Intelligence Report'' of the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]]. Reviewing the [[National Policy Institute]] report that Stix edited, ''The State of White America-2007'',[[http://nationalpolicyinstitute.org/publications.php?b=sowa07 ''The State of White America-2007'']] Jackson criticized Stix for the latter’s harsh tone in his introduction to the report, while praising him for his exhaustive report on black-on-white school atrocities, his analysis of the pitfalls of affirmative action hiring of black police officers, and for his chapter on black-on-white crime.[[http://www.amren.com/ar/2007/08/index.html#article2 “How Whites Stack Up,” Thomas Jackson, ''American Renaissance'', August 2007]] While in "The Big Lie: Criminal Cases Exploited to Attack Blacks," Sanchez referred to Stix as a “white nationalist,” he praised him for casting doubt on uncorroborated Internet rumors, and for exposing journalist [[Michelle Malkin]]’s spreading of uncorroborated rumors regarding the [[murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom]].[[http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=819 “The Big Lie: Criminal Cases Exploited to Attack Blacks,” Casey Sanchez, ''Intelligence Report'' Fall 2007, Southern Poverty Law Center.]]
== External links==
*[http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/ ''Nicholas Stix, Uncensored''] (weblog)
*[http://geocities.com/nstix/ ''A Different Drummer''] (online)
*[http://vdare.com/stix/index.htm Nicholas Stix ''VDARE'' Archive]
*[http://findarticles.com/p/search?tb=art&qa=Nicholas+Stix Nicholas Stix Archive from ''Insight on the News'' and ''The American Enterprise'']
==References==
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By Nicholas Stix
I just stumbled across Deletionpedia. No, I did not make up the name.
Deletionpedia is an archive of about 63,540 pages which have been deleted from the English-language Wikipedia.
Deletionpedia is not a wiki: you cannot edit the pages uploaded here. An automated bot uploads pages as they are deleted from Wikipedia.
I was looking for a valentine one of my fans at the SPLC, Casey Sanchez, had written about me, and found instead my disappeared Wikipedia biography.
Like most everything on the Web, Deletionpedia is a mixed blessing. It is not a full counterweight to the wikicensors at The Pretend Encyclopedia (TPE), because it only reproduces entries that have been banned in their entirety. However, the wikicensors more typically work by censoring the truth, and inserting lies into entries, rather than “disappearing” entries in toto. They went to the trouble of disappearing my entire entry, because a number of TPE gauleiter are obsessed with me, and seek to suppress public knowledge about my work. I’ll name them later.
I’m hardly the only one the gauleiter are obsessed with. They are constantly calling for the deletion of new entries on right-of-center journalists and intellectuals, and when they don’t disappear the entries wholesale, they engage in their usual dirty tricks, as mentioned above. For a record of some of their chicanery in this regard, just check the biographical entries for conservative writers that editor href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Comradesandalio>Comradesandalio has worked on, and see how many have been nominated for deletion.
And when the gauleiter don’t have the nerve to immediately call for an entry’s deletion, they get cute, and claim that it lacks “notability,” as one gauleiter did only five hours after Comradesandalio started the entry for the brilliant political writer who works under the pseudonym, “Takuan Seiyo.” (For a prime sample of “Seiyo’s” intellectual and moral power, see “The Case of the ‘Disappeared’ Subprime Minority Borrower.” (Full disclosure: I am a VDARE contributor. However, I have never published under the name, “Takuan Seiyo.”)
I was ready to say that Deletionpedia a mixed blessing, in that, due to their libelous character, some entries at The Pretend Encyclopedia really do need to be eliminated, but DP’s founder, David Batley, aka physics dave aka TPE User: H2g2bob, already anticipated that issue, and goes out of his way not to preserve libelous TPE entries. If only TPE would show such care to prevent libel!
Leave it to an Ars Technica blogger named Nate Anderson to completely miss the point of Deletionpedia: “Deletionpedia: Where entries too trivial for Wikipedia live on.”
I was tempted to do a background check on Anderson, to determine whether he reduced Deletionpedia to the hoarding of trivia out of ignorance or political hackery, but then I caught myself. Nate who? This guy’s really too … trivial.
