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Punims on Parade: Even Further Thoughts on Nasty Nathan Cofnas

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Jews have good senses of humor. Particularly Jews from New York. That’s a famous stereotype about Jews. So far, the New York Jew Nathan Cofnas has shown little sign of living up to it. But he has indirectly provided me with one of the funniest moments of 2024. After seeing my article “The Power of Punim,” he tweeted that “The Occidental Observer (edited by Kevin MacDonald) published an entire article about my face.” The tweet itself is dishonest rather than funny, as is proved by the fact that Cofnas didn’t include a link to the article, only a censored screenshot.

Nathan Cofnas’ dishonest tweet
Nathan Cofnas’ dishonest tweet

No, what was funny – very funny – was one of the responses to the tweet. A giant of genetic science felt Nathan’s pain and responded with virtuous solemnity: “This is grim antisemitism. Racism is awful in all its forms.” And who was that giant of genetics? None other than Dr Adam Rutherford. Yes, I was very amused to see the anti-woke Nathan Cofnas receive the support of the highly woke half-Indian Adam Rutherford (born 1975). And I was being sarcastic when I called Rutherford a giant of genetics. He isn’t, of course (see Steve Sailer’s “Occam’s Butterknife”). He’s a pygmy who thinks that “race as a scientific concept holds no water.” He fully supported the anti-scientific witch-hunt that drove a genuine giant of genetics, James Watson (born 1928), out of science and into poverty for stating the truth about low Black intelligence in 2007. According to Rutherford, Watson is “racist,” guilty of “hideous errors,” and “deserves to be shunned.” Pygmy Rutherford has also assailed another scientific giant, the Victorian polymath Francis Galton (1822-1911), for “racism.”

Cofnas’ conk at Cambridge

Like me, Galton was interested in the power of punim (punim is Yiddish for “face”). He once tried to create a “beauty map” of Britain by rating the looks of local women as he travelled around the country. He was insatiably curious and endlessly active in many fields, from mathematics to biology to meteorology to psychology. Unlike me, he had the brains to match his curiosity. I’m not a scientific giant like Galton or Watson. I’m not even a scientific pygmy like Rutherford. But it’s still very amusing to have Rutherford dismiss my article as “grim antisemitism” and “racism.” Not that Rutherford will have read “The Power of Punim” and seen the full context. Cofnas didn’t supply a link, after all. And he censored his screenshot of the article. I originally wrote this: “Is Cofnas’ selfie intended to proclaim ‘A Kike at Cambridge’? (Please note that I’m using the term ‘kike’ as an ironic Jew like Cofnas might use it, not to insult Cofnas.)” In the screenshot, my explanation in parenthesis is deleted after “the.” There seems little point in asking Nathan if he thinks this deletion was honest and fair. I asked him lots of questions in “The Power of Punim” and he hasn’t replied to any of them.

I also attempted to psychoanalyse Nathan in the article, suggesting that he is “one of the many Jews who feel resentment about White gentile beauty and concomitant distress at any discussion of Jewish ugliness.” His tweet seems to contain further evidence for this hypothesis. After misrepresenting the substance of my article, he went on to say: “Indeed, I wave my superior nose like a flag pole and proclaim, ‘A —- at Cambridge.’” Philosophers are trained in the careful use of language, but Cofnas was not using language carefully there. “Flag-pole” is not the right word. In that context, one’s nose is waved like a flag, not like a flag-pole. The flag is the highly visible part, not the pole. Was emotion interfering with Cofnas’ training in careful language? Perhaps. If it was, I hope I’m not going to trigger more emotion by discussing punims again. In “The Cult of Ugly,” I suggested that ugliness was characteristic of both leftists and Jews, and that this ugliness was related in some way to the harmful ideologies and ideas of leftists and Jews.

As Steve Sailer has often noted, antifa tend to be ugly (mugshots of Portland antifa from Twitter)
As Steve Sailer has often noted, antifa tend to be ugly (mugshots of Portland antifa from Twitter)

It’s interesting that nobody at the Occidental Observer or the Unz Review objected to my claim as it applied to leftists. For example, nobody produced any examples of good-looking leftists in attempted refutation. But there are good-looking leftists, of course, just as there are good-looking Jews. A good-looking leftist called Rosie Duffield (born 1971) has recently hit the headlines in Britain. She’s resigned from the Labour party, criticizing the prime minister Keir Starmer and other senior ministers for accepting lavish gifts from a publicity-shy Labour peer called Waheed Alli. She accurately said Starmer’s government is about “greed and power,” not about helping ordinary people. After her resignation, this good-looking leftist was interviewed on the BBC by the ugly leftist Laura Kuenssberg, who is Jewish (the double-s in “Kuenssberg” is correct). Here are Duffield’s and Kuenssberg’s punims side-by-side for comparison:

English Rosie, Jewish Laura: both leftist, but not both ugly (images from Kent Online and The Times)
English Rosie, Jewish Laura: both leftist, but not both ugly (images from Kent Online and The Times)

Kuenssberg is characteristically ugly as both a Jew and a leftist; Duffield is uncharacteristically good-looking as a leftist. However, it’s interesting that, unlike ugly Kuenssberg, she isn’t a typical leftist. She was on the right of the Labour party and this isn’t the first time she’s been at odds with the Labour elite. Duffield is “gender critical” and doesn’t accept the lunacies of transgenderism. The Labour elite did not support her adequately as she received the usual threats of murder, mutilation and rape from the narcissistic and perverted men who have a sexual fetish about pretending to be women. And after she said that “only women have a cervix,” Keir Starmer was asked whether he agreed with this clear statement of biological reality. He didn’t. He said it was “something that shouldn’t be said” and was “not right.”

Sarah Champion, another good-looking leftist who broke from mainstream leftism (image from Infogalactic)
Sarah Champion, another good-looking leftist who broke from mainstream leftism (image from Infogalactic)

Another good-looking leftist in Labour has been at odds with the Labour elite too. Sarah Champion (born 1969), MP for Rotherham, broke the tradition established by her predecessor, the philosemitic Denis MacShane, and stood up for the White working-class. Rather than schmoozing Jews and ignoring non-White pathologies like MacShane, she accurately said that there is a serious problem of Pakistani Muslim men preying on White girls in Britain. The unattractive Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn promptly drove her out of the Shadow Cabinet. Both Duffield and Champion are good-looking. Both departed from mainstream leftism in some way. Is this a coincidence? I don’t think so.

Ugly leftist Jews Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis of The Newsagents podcast
Ugly leftist Jews Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis of The Newsagents podcast
Leftist Jew Emily Maitlis glares at racist goy Nigel Farage (see video at Twitter)
Leftist Jew Emily Maitlis glares at racist goy Nigel Farage (see video at Twitter)

And I don’t think it’s a coincidence that two more prominent figures in the British media share three significant traits with Laura Kuenssberg at the BBC. Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel used to work for the BBC too. Then they departed to run an independent podcast called The Newsagents. The podcast is strongly in favor of non-White immigration and deeply hostile to the anti-immigration politician Nigel Farage. Like Kuenssberg, Maitlis and Sopel are three things: leftist, Jewish, and ugly. I think these three things go together. Indeed, I think they have similar genetic roots. Dr Adam Rutherford would call that “grim antisemitism.” I’d call Rutherford a PC pygmy. That’s why his support for anti-woke Nathan Cofnas is so amusing. After all, Rutherford also supported the anti-scientific witch-hunt against James Watson. And for exactly the same reason: “Racism is awful in all its forms.” I hope Nathan Cofnas appreciates the irony of that. I certainly do.

(Republished from The Occidental Observer by permission of author or representative)
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  1. It’s interesting that nobody at the Occidental Observer or the Unz Review objected to my claim as it applied to leftists. For example, nobody produced any examples of good-looking leftists in attempted refutation.

    The very original article, “The Cult of Ugly” (?), I produced many examples of good-looking Jewesses – but, not as an “attempted refutation”, of course, as that’d be fallacious.

    I don’t care if Jews are on average less pretty. I don’t understand why they, the Jews themselves, would care at all – if such is indeed true.

    For example, I’m White myself: I don’t care that, on average, Orientals are smarter. I don’t even “accept the fact, begrudgingly”, I just “don’t care at all, really”.
    (And my particularly significant White ethnies are, on average, shorter height, brown-eyed, brown-haired. I’d say many of “us” are jealous of how Danes look.)
    (I’ve never done a DNA Test, but it seems I’ve roots from everywhere in Europe: but, mostly, I’m Southern and Central.)
    (…I’m see-through, not Southern European-looking at all, typically!)
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    Side-Note: I don’t think Cofnas is ugly per se.

  2. Emily Maitlis is a nasty work. She’s an agenda-driven, hype-aggressive, condescending wench.

    Here Rod Liddle, a decent guy, tells Emily during her “interview” (interrogation) with him to “Get a grip.”


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  3. @Vergissmeinnicht

    Those politicians’ pretty faces are probably an important reason they got elected. The Jewish journalist is neither pretty nor ugly. The other Jewish woman is not exactly ugly either, though perhaps a little on the ugly side. But journalists are usually chosen for their competence, not their looks.
    I was the one who pointed out that Ruth Bader was pretty as a young age. I’d point out leftist politicians as well, but I live in Brazil, and no one would have heard of them. The funny thing is that in Brazil the same kind of silliness that we see in this article happens. There is a leftist politician named Maria do Rosário. She is blonde, has blue eyes, and is moderately pretty, but the rightwing enjoys making fun of her appearance, for reasons that they only understand. Even one of the icons of the right, the late Olavo de Carvalho, admitted that she isn’t ugly, but people will see what they want to see. This whole affair began, I think, when Bolsonaro, who was a deputy then and later became president, had an argument with her about lowering the age for being legally punishable (Bolsonaro was for it, she wasn’t), and, in the heat of the argument, she accused him of promoting rape, and he replied that he would never rape her because she was too ugly.
    https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_do_Ros%C3%A1rio
    https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controv%C3%A9rsia_Jair_Bolsonaro%E2%80%93Maria_do_Ros%C3%A1rio

  4. @Brás Cubas

    Another funny thing is that that supposedly ugly guy Sopel in the photo is a Robert De Niro lookalike. Incidentally, Nigel Farage is uglier than both.

  5. @Brás Cubas

    I argued in another article:

    For “race-norming” when talking about Aesthetics. Obviously (silly example): Somalis grasp Somali beauty standards better than Apaches, and vice-versa.

    Like, I don’t understand how the Japanese find this “kawaii”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaeba
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    If you think about it… Given that Jews are high(er) on mental anomalies, Occam Razor’s would point out that:
    Jewish 20th-Century Aesthetics (e.g., Bauhaus) was not a “conspiracy” to “overthrow the White Man’s standards” or what-not (!), maybe they really find that stuff charming!

    •�Agree: Brás Cubas
  6. Dennis Dale says: •�Website

    This is such an embarrassingly puerile waste of time I hate myself for taking this time to note it.

    •�Agree: son of a jedi
  7. @Vergissmeinnicht

    I notice that it’s mostly southerners (Brazilians, south Slavic, Jews ) who disagree, feel bad, react to this article.
    For people from the north, it is an evidence… We don’t share the same aesthetic values.

    •�Replies: @Vergissmeinnicht
  8. @Gerald the Frog

    “The Truth hurts”, there’s some truth in the saying.

    Again I’ll repeat:
    Being around, my whole life, waaay more brown-haired, brown-eyed people than blue-eyed blonds, I noticed “jealousy” from a non-trival percentage of them (not me, that is) at how, say, Danes look.
    An “Inferiority Complex”, maybe

    •�Replies: @Gerald the Frog
  9. @Vergissmeinnicht

    Nordic looks are rarer, so there is some jealousy at work. It’s always the same, people envy what they don’t have.
    And it’s unfortunate.
    There are dark haired ” Mediterranean and or Slavic Europeans ” with incredible good looks ( Alain Delon ( rip ) comes to mind ) , there is no need for this stupid envy.

    •�Replies: @Vergissmeinnicht
  10. Anyone else note the uncanny similarity between the punims of Andrew Anglin and the great Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL? (Granted, Greenblatt is much more handsome (no homo!) and likely at least a foot taller than the reportedly 5’1″ Anglin.)

    Notably, when Anglin does grow his hair out and grows a beard, it appears to come in red (or at least reddish). In Slavic countries, red or reddish hair is widely regarded as a sign of the Jew. Anglin likely claims Scottish or Irish ancestry to try to explain-away his red hair, but come on! The Judensign is clear.

    Just more evidence supporting the long-standing rumors of Anglin being a cryptojew.

    •�LOL: son of a jedi
  11. @Gerald the Frog

    I know Hollywood, back in the day, thought Spanish-looking men were “all the rage”.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall,_dark_and_handsome

  12. Tobias, you should do an article on the obviously Jewish punim of (((Andrew Anglin))). (((Anglin))) may be on the lam from the multiple judgments against him but his Judisch punim is “hiding in plain sight!”



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    •�Replies: @Dmitri
  13. Dmitri says:
    @Shiksas Love DV / DA

    “Shiksas Love DV / DA” is a very interesting handle. Some quick research on DV / DA seems to be that it has some sort of mathematical meaning or related to the porn world. Could be either way?

    •�Replies: @Shiksas Love DV / DA
  14. @Dmitri

    Well, Jews are very good at math ( (((High IQs))) ) and according to the pervert fantasies of many TUR commenters, the Jews are also owning/running virtually all the worldwide porn industry. And since shiksas do love Jews (perhaps not as much as Tyrone or Ahmad, but usually much more than the beta cucks on TUR), just take your pick as to its meaning.

    •�Replies: @Dmitri
  15. Dmitri says:
    @Shiksas Love DV / DA

    Jews and porn. What’s not to love? Jewish women are the best.

    •�Replies: @Shiksas Love DV / DA
  16. @Dmitri

    They are!! Although Jewish Conquering Hero Ron Jeremy used to always point out it was the Catholic women who would gladly (and for low pay!!) perform the most perverted, degenerate, nauseating, and downright sick acts on camera.

    (I think he used to credit it to so many of them having “daddy issues” or having received “the bad touch” in their parish church or local nunnery when they were young.) Either way, those Catholic women made some INCREDIBLE porn! My whole Hebrew School class learned what a “Cleveland Steamer” was from watching “Get Thee to a Nunnery 37”!

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