Discrimination has existed since humans fell from the tree. Recently, the Democratic Party of America lost the elections. Many Democrats are wondering why. Some blame the media, Donald Trump and the price of eggs. But, some Democrat boffins got $20 million to research what REALLY went wrong. Gus Leonisky investigates:

Discrimination happens even under the best DEI policy. We have posted about Clarence Thomas…

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In Created Equal, Thomas says he struggled to find a job after law school because 1970s law firms knew black Ivy League graduates had been admitted with significantly lower qualifications than white graduates. As Thomas writes in his SFFA v. Harvard concurrence, “I have long believed that large racial preferences in college admissions ‘stamp [blacks and Hispanics] with a badge of inferiority.’”

Thomas, of course, is the most brilliant American legal mind of his lifetime, a peerless justice who sets the standard of constitutional analysis. Anyone who reads his work can see he didn’t need affirmative action.

Its use [affirmative action], however, harmed him and everyone else it claimed to “help.” In his memoir, My Grandfather’s Son, Thomas writes that while struggling to find a job he bitterly affixed a 15-cent price sticker to the frame of his law degree “to remind myself of the mistake I’d made by going to Yale. I never did change my mind about its value.”

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For the Democratic Party, discrimination, as it eventually “discovered”, was not about blacks, women, hispanics, jews, gays, pronouns or whatever gender — most of whom were taken care off in the DEI policies — but about ordinary young males who felt “marginalised”…

Result?: Many men — blacks, whites, hispanics, young, old, etc — empathised more with the Republican Party that did not try to crush, but encouraged, the “male macho image”…

Even young women who were not lesbian or “butch” felt alienated by the Democrats, for being “feminine”… (unless being an occasional female movie star on a red carpet) as if it was a forbidden attitude in the Democratic Party. 

As well for the Democrats, a latent sense of superiority came with education. Higher education preferably. With superiority comes relative discrimination and patronisation. 

Kamala (Harris) and her jovial (lying somewhat) side-kick thought that joy and smiles would capture the undecided, since voters of Democrat bend were already captured. The forceful DEI “woke” did them in… Despite having been a prosecutor/lawyer/etc…, Kamala (Harris) NEVER appeared to be intelligent. She relied on too many platitudes and laughing bouts to make sense to the ordinary male — a male feeling threatened for being male. 

So. Will the Democrats be able to adapt? IT’S GOING TO BE VERY DIFFICULT…

RECENT Revelations (we knew all along), about Joe Biden’s administration hiding his dementia or whatever BRAIN-fried, are going to show the Democrats as a party of too many educated deluded aspirational lying fools. 

The Democrats will need a GIANT charismatic leader (NEW) to wipe the slate clean and start afresh…

The Republicans have their own clown who shows some bold common sense without having any…

BOTH parties (and this goes for the left and the right in the Western world) try very hard not to be discriminatory about the Jews (antisemitism) — especially those who are committing the most atrocious crimes in Gaza — while both parties (left and right) are ultra-Russophobic (discriminating) without reasons — or for the wrong reasons.

Ignorance of facts, distortion of facts, fake information and emotional manipulations are pushed daily by the media — a media that flip-flops in many prejudices, while selling latent superiority via pontification and preaching stories. MEANWHILE:

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More than 160 million people in India are considered "Untouchable"—people tainted by their birth into a caste system that deems them impure, less than human.

Human rights abuses against these people, known as Dalits, are legion. A random sampling of headlines in mainstream Indian newspapers tells their story: "Dalit boy beaten to death for plucking flowers"; "Dalit tortured by cops for three days"; "Dalit 'witch' paraded naked in Bihar"; "Dalit killed in lock-up at Kurnool"; "7 Dalits burnt alive in caste clash"; "5 Dalits lynched in Haryana"; "Dalit woman gang-raped, paraded naked"; "Police egged on mob to lynch Dalits".

"Dalits are not allowed to drink from the same wells, attend the same temples, wear shoes in the presence of an upper caste, or drink from the same cups in tea stalls," said Smita Narula, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch, and author of Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's "Untouchables." Human Rights Watch is a worldwide activist organization based in New York.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pages/article/indias-untouchables-face-violence-discrimination

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And we are not allowed to mention the “vicious” inequalities between men and women in many Muslim societies… because it would be discrimination against a religious belief...

Such stories of discrimination finally take us here to a group of people — discriminated against till recently — in the south of France and in the north of Spain: The CAGOTS (see picture at top)…

Here is one of OUR OLD recorded “lesser human” status of the Cagots… 

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THE CAGOTS OF FRANCE. 

From the travels, which, under the assumed name of Derwent Conway, and with the title of " Switzerland, the South of France, and the Pyrenees, in mdcccxxx," were issued in Constable's Miscellany, as volumes lxvi. and lxvii., of that work, by R. D. Inglis, Esq., a lineal descendant, we believe, of the excellent Col. Gardiner, we take the following extract, relative to this peculiar race. Inglis published, under his own name, several volumes of travels, marked with much acuteness of observation, strong sense, and felicitous description. 

"In speaking of the inhabitants of the Pyrenees, I must not overlook that extraordinary race, which has baffled the historian in his vain endeavors to account for its origin, and which has furnished matter of interest both to the novelist and the traveller. It is probable, that many readers of this volume may never have heard of the Cagots, and that others may know only of the existence of such a race ; and although, in presenting some details respecting this extraordinary people, I disclaim any pretension to novelty or original elucidation, yet, having travelled among their valleys, and seen their huts and themselves, I feel that it would be an unpardonable omission, were I to omit availing myself of even the common sources of information, in order that I may include, in this volume, a short account of the Cagots. 

"The Cagots are found in several of the more secluded valleys of the Pyrenees, particularly in the lateral valleys that branch from the valley of Bareges, Luchon, and Aure. So sedulously do the Cagots keep apart from the rest of their fellow-men, that one might travel through the Pyrenees without seeing an individual of the race, unless inquiry were specially directed towards them. It was not until I expressed a desire to the guide who attended me in my excursions from St. Sauveur, to see one of the race of Cagots, that my curiosity was gratified. This was in one of the lateral valleys that runs to the right, between Bareges and the Tourmalet, a valley traversed by no road, and which only leads to the lac d'escaibous. The Cagot is known by his sallow and unhealthy countenance — his expression of stupidity —his want of vigor, and relaxed appearance — his imperfect articulation — and, in many cases, his disposition to goitres. If we were to credit the assertion of the novelist, we should reject one of these characteristics, or at least say, that the stupidity of the Cagot is only apparent. It is possible, that a knowledge of his degraded condition, and the contempt, if not aversion, with which he is regarded, as well as the total seclusion in which the family of the Cagot lives, may have their effect in impressing upon his countenance an expression of humility, distrust, and timidity, that might be mistaken for intellectual deficiency. But the observation of all those who have studied with the greatest advantages the peculiarities of this race, concur in allotting to the Cagot an inferior share of mental capacity.
"The days of Cagot persecution have passed away; but tradition has preserved a recollection of the degradation and sufferings of the race, and has even, in some small degree, handed down, along with the history of these persecutions, some vestiges of the prejudices which gave rise to it. From time immemorial, the Cagot families have inhabited the most retired valleys, and the most miserable habitations. The race has always been regarded as infamous, and the individuals of it outcasts from the family of mankind. They were excluded from all rights of citizens; they were not permitted to have arms, or to exercise any other trade than that of wood-cutters: and, in more remote times, they were obliged to bear upon their breast a red mark, the sign of their degradation. So far, indeed, was aversion towards this unfortunate people carried, that they entered the churches by a separate door, and occupied seats allotted to the rejected caste. The persecutions have long ceased; and time and its attendant improvements have diminished the prejudices, and weakened the feelings of aversion with which they were formerly regarded. But they are still the race of Cagots — still a separate family— still outcasts — still a people who are evidently no kindred of those who live around them, but the remnant of a different and more ancient family." 

It is impossible for the traveller, still less the philosopher, to know of the existence of this caste, without endeavouring to pierce the clouds that hang over its origin, and the causes of its persecution. But it is at least doubtful, whether any of these inquiries have thrown true light upon the subject. History, indeed, records the peculiar persecutions of which they were the subjects ; and proves, that these persecutions, pursuing a despised and hated race, were directed against the same people, whether found in Brittany, La Vendee, Auvergne, or the Pyrenees. We find the Parliament of Rennes interfering in their favor, to obtain them the right of sepulture. In the eleventh century, we find the Cagots of Beam disposed of by testament as slaves. The priests would not admit them to confession ; and, by an ancient act of Beam, it was resolved that the testimony of seven of them should be equivalent to the evidence of one free citizen; and even so late as the fifteenth century, they were forbidden to walk the streets barefooted, in case of infection being communicated to the stones ; and upon their clothes was impressed the foot of a goose. Yet all these marks of hatred are unaccounted for. No record has descended to us, by which the cause of this persecution may be explained ; and we are left to guess at the origin of that reprobation which has followed this rejected people from the earliest times, and in whatever country they have been found. 

“M. Ramond, in his disquisition upon this subject, says,'The Cagots of all France have a common origin. The same event has confined them all in the most remote and desert spots ; and, whatever this event may be, it must be such as will account for every thing — it must be great and general must have impressed at once upon the whole of France the same sentiments of hatred— have marked its victims with the seal of the same reprobation — and have disgraced the race, and all its subdivisions, with the opprobrium of a name which every where awakened the same ideas of horror and contempt.' This is just reasoning; but we are as far as ever from the event which has fixed hatred and opprobrium upon the dispersed race of Cagots. Some have held, that they are descendants of lepers, and, as such, exiled from the society of others; but to this, M. Ramond replies, that although lepers have been exiled or confined, there is no record of their having ever been sold or disposed of by testament. Others have contended, that the Cagots are the descendants of the ancient Gauls, brought into a state of slavery by the people who drove out the Romans ; but to this hypothesis, also, M. Ramond answers, that under the dominion of the Goths, the Gaul and the Roman were never reduced to a state of slavery ; and he rightly adds, that the tyranny merely of a conqueror enslaving the vanquished, would not account for the origin of the Cagot; because the feeling with which the Cagot has been regarded, has not been merely that of contempt, but of aversion, and even horror. But the explanation attempted by M. Ramond seems to me to be alike inefficient to explain the origin of this hatred and persecution. He says, ! Such victory as may have terminated the conflict of two nations equally ferocious and inflamed against each other by a long train of rivalry — the invasion of one barbarian punished by another barbarian — the reaction of the oppressed against the oppressor — at last completely disarmed — bloody combats — disastrous defeats — such only could have been the sources of the hatred and fury which could have given rise to miseries like those which we behold.' But it appears to me, that such events as M. Ramond supposes, would lead only to oppression, and perhaps slavery, but not to aversion or horror ; and that even the deadliest feelings of hatred, engendered from such causes, would not have outlived the generation which first imbibed them. But even the explanation of M. Ramond, if satisfactory, would still leave the origin of Cagots and Cagot persecution as dark as ever ; for, among the numerous hordes of barbarians who pushed one another from their conquests, and among the endless and confused strife of battles which destroyed, mingled, and separated the different races, how can we determine, whether Alans, or Suevi, or Vandals, or Huns, or Goths, or Francs, or Moors, or Saracens, were that peculiar race, whose remnant has descended to these  days with the mark of persecution and hatred stamped upon it!
"It would prove to most readers an uninteresting detail, were I to go over the arguments of M. de Gebelin, who contends that the Cagots are the remains of the Alans; or of M. Ramond, who believes them to be a remnant of the Goths. Nothing approaching to certainty, scarcely even bordering upon probability, appears in the reasoning of either. The Cagots may have been Alans, or they may have been Goths ; but there seems to be nearly the same reason for believing them the remnant of the one as of the other people. If this miserable and proscribed race should, indeed, be all that remains of the Gothic conquerors of half the world, what a lesson for pride is there ! "I cannot conclude this hasty sketch better than in the words of M. Raymond, who, whatever his philosophical powers may be, is evidently a kind- hearted and an observing man, and who possessed the best of all opportunities for judging of the people which were the object of his inquiry.
" 1 I have seen,' says he, ' some families of these unfortunate creatures. They are gradually approaching the villages from which prejudice has banished them. The side-doors by which they were formerly obliged to enter the churches are useless (M. Ramond might have said shut up, for so they are in general), and some degree of pity mingles, at length, with the contempt and aversion which they formerly inspired ; yet I have been in some of their retreats, where they still fear the insults of prejudice, and await the visits of the compassionate. I have found among them the poorest beings perhaps that exist upon the face of the earth. I have met with brothers, who loved each other with that tenderness which is the most pressing want of isolated men. I have seen among them women, whose affection had a somewhat in it of that submission and devotion which are inspired by feebleness and misfortune. And never, in this half annihilation of those beings of my species, could I recognize, without shuddering, the extent of the power which we may exercise over the existence of our fellow — the narrow circle of knowledge and of enjoyment within which we may confine him — the smallness of the sphere to which we may reduce his usefulness.' " Constable's Miscellany, vol. lxvii., pp. 128—134. 

The Breton antiquarians, who find in their own portion of France the same race, have seemed inclined to trace them no farther back than to the lepers of the mediaeval times, victims as they suppose of a disease brought back into Europe by the Crusaders. But the allusions to this remarkable people run back to a far earlier era than that of the first crusade. Michelet, the historian, leaves undetermined the origin of these "Pariahs of the West," as he calls them. The recent erudite and elaborate work of F. Michel, (Histoire des Races Maudites de la France et de l'Espagne. Paris, 1847, 2 tomes,) who has devoted the first volume of his treatise to the Cagots, accepts, in the main, as true, the ancient tradition that they are chiefly, though not exclusively, descendants of the Goths, and sustains the derivation of the name supported by Scaliger, Canis Gothus, (or that, in token of the popular hate and scorn, they were styled Dogs of Goths,) (Michel,I.355.). He assigns as the era of their settlement in southern France, the disastrous return of Charlemagne, from his expedition into Spain, about the close of the eighth century, when the residents of Spain, Gothic and Arabian, who had adhered to his banners, sought, on his retreat, safety from their Moorish masters, by retiring into Charlemagne's dominions, though meeting there the hereditary and invincible dislike of his earlier subjects already settled in the regions where he fixed these new colonists. The work of Michel furnishes the most curious details, as to the popular enmity, and social disadvantages, and envenomed contempt, of which the Cagots were for ten centuries the victims ; their advent into France, according to his theory, going back to the times of the battle of Roncesvalles, so celebrated in the fables of chivalry, when Roland, the nephew of Charlemagne, and the Orlando of mediaeval romance, perished, in fighting the Saracens.

FROM “MISCELLANIES BY WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS… 

Gus Leonisky

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.