Substack Notes, Vol. 8.7
May 20th - May 24th
“How Antifa was dealt with in the mainstream press was basically two ways: Pretend it’s not real, which was sort of the main way it was handled (“it’s just a tiny movement, it doesn’t have any role”), or you pretend it’s just very good. You had mainstream reporters at the time saying the soldiers who fought in World War II were Antifa, that we are an Antifa kind of country, and this kind of attempt to make this group of activists into like American civic heroes. And the third thing that was always very important in the press was that, if Antifa was ever discussed, to say that it’s totally separate from BLM and that it’s a very different movement, and that to imply that they’re in any way entwined is like really, really crazy… And the reality was, there was only one protest each night. It was a united group. It was one movement. It was completely entwined for a time. There’d be a supposed BLM protest one night and no one would be there. And all of those leaders were actually at the sort of autonomous action event that was more aggressive and more violent. And Antifa sees violence as a righteous part of the revolution they want. And so they’re openly pro-violence, pro-using guns, pro-using sort of physical intimidation, pro-lighting things on fire. So that was obviously why BLM wanted to distance themselves from it, but they were very useful because actually lighting the fires and using a little bit of a frisson of threat was very useful in escalating the intensity of the moment, the intensity of the revolution. And eventually what you saw, and what I write about in the book is Antifa kind of getting sidelined a little bit as more and more corporate money comes into BLM. But at the start, in that first hot year, it was an entwined movement. Now the memory-holing and the denial is fascinating because I think we’re going to see it on a ton of these things that we’ve just been talking about. I think we’re gonna definitely see it on pediatric gender medicine, which I write about in the book. But the people denying that they were ever for hormones for kids under 18 is going to be just like the norm. And the memory-holing, you’re already seeing it.”
“A person with a spine—someone who prints or says what she sees and really means—will attract the venom of those with no spine, less intellect, and who will say anything. Illegitimi non carborundum.”
-Rex Murphy, 1947-2024
College campus protests have been some of the most effective and successful protests in modern human history.
These institutions are taking the students' hard-paid tuition money and investing in the occupation, in the genocide, in ecocide (through use of all these bombs and chemical weapons). So please elucidate how protesting this is not a worthy act that students can uniquely perform?
So if the institutions are investing their tuition money in support of an entity they oppose... why don't they withdraw? A group of students withdrawing en masse from the university would do FAR more for their goals than their extended camping trip. Oh... wait. That would entail actual sacrifice. Now that CU has refused to divest from Israel how many of them do you think will return next semester? My bet? Basically every single one that is able to. Protesting Gaza is one thing... but they have to get their expensive degree! That's what I call a distinct lack of principle.
Despite the obvious fact that mass migration is bad, our rulers cling to migrationism like grim death. Given a choice between disincentivising asylees and intimidating, browbeating and harassing the millions of anti-migrationists among their own citizens, our governments generally choose the latter path, even though it is obviously the worse of the two.
Additionally unsettling, is the fact that official justifications for mass migration often have a creepy, post-hoc flavour about them. They sound much more like excuses dreamed up after the borders had already been opened, rather than any kind of reason mass migration must occur. When the migrationists really started to go crazy in 2015, for example, we were told that border security was simply impossible in the modern world and that infinity migrants were a force of nature we would have to deal with. That didn’t sound right even at the time, and since the pandemic border closures we no longer hear the inevitability narrative very much, although – and this is very bizarre to type – there is some evidence that high political figures like Angela Merkel believed it at the time. It is well worth thinking about why that might have been the case.
Psst, c’mere
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(based on modern standards, 100% of people and cultures from the past were evil, not just the group you don't like)
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