Thread by @AlexEpstein

*Warning*

Tomorrow the @washingtonpost plans to "cancel" me and my new book Fossil Future by publishing a 100% slanderous hit-piece labeling me as "racist."

Please join me in calling for The Post to spike the piece, fire the "journalist," and publicly apologize.

VIDEO THREAD

The @washingtonpost's smear campaign against me has 4 main steps:
1. Refuse to engage my arguments.
2. Hunt down things I wrote at 18 that seem controversial.
3. Falsely portray those *individualist* writings as "racist."
4. Use "racism" to discredit my work.

Despicable.

*Step 1 of @washingtonpost's "racism" smear of me*

Refuse to engage my arguments, including the many parts of Fossil Future where I condemn and ridicule racism as deeply immoral and absurdly pseudoscientific.

"Fossil fuel eliminators" can't refute me so they try to smear me.

*Step 2 of @washingtonpost's "racism" smear of me*

Try to find the most "smearable" things I've ever written. In this case, climate reporter @maxinejoselow is using articles of mine I wrote at Duke when I was *18 and 19* years old--then totally misrepresenting them as racist.

*Step 3A of @washingtonpost's "racism" smear of me*

Portray 18-year-old me's statements of Western culture's historical superiority as racist--even though I made clear that I believe that culture, which is fundamentally *ideas*, is totally different from skin color!

*Step 3B of @washingtonpost's "racism" smear of me*

Portray 18-year-old me's criticisms of certain MLK actions--e.g., affiliating with Communism, supporting policies that proved destructive to black individuals--as racist.

The criticisms were *individualist*, not at all racist.

When you look at the @washingtonpost's "allegations and information" about my "racist" views at ages 18 and 19 in the context of what I actually said, it becomes clear that I was *not remotely racist* and that the WP is trying to *destroy my work and life for political reasons*.

*Step 4 of @washingtonpost's "racism" smear of me*

Use the totally false smear of me as "racist" to attack the motives for my energy arguments.

Reporter @maxinejoselow wrote that she plans to portray me as not really concerned about "poverty in developing nations in Africa"!

Instead of engaging with my arguments in Fossil Future, @washingtonpost is planning to publish a hit-piece on me to discredit my arguments with the absolute lie that I'm a racist--a lie that could be used to attack me for the rest of my life.

Heads must roll over this.

*Step 5 of @washingtonpost's "racism" smear of me*

Try to discredit my extensive *energy* expertise by citing a complete non-expert (climate scientist Andrew Dessler) with an enormous axe to grind (he's been widely ridiculed for recent debate performances against me).

Summary: @washingtonpost climate reporter @maxinejoselow is planning to "cancel" me tomorrow by 100%-baselessly portraying me as "racist."

Please join me in calling for the Post to:
1. Fire Joselow for malpractice.
2. Apologize to me.
3. Pledge to root out political smearing.

Here's the YouTube video with my full explanation of how @washingtonpost and @maxinejoselow are planning to "cancel" me and my new book Fossil Future tomorrow through slanderous claims that I am a racist.

No legitimate paper can allow this to happen.

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FYI not only can you buy Fossil Future from typical booksellers, students and educators can get a *free* copy from @yaf.

Please spread the word so that thousands of young people are exposed to the truth about our energy, environmental, and climate future.
yaf.org/fossilfuture/

Update on @washingtonpost's plan to "cancel" me as "racist": the Managing Editor has not only failed to apologize, she is *praising* the "climate reporter" who responded to my major energy/climate book by falsely accusing me of racism 23 years ago.

Vile.

Dear Editor @Krissah30, did you even look at the video I made detailing the horrific plan to *destroy my life* with "racism" allegations that are *total distortions* of my *individualist* writings at age 18?

If you won't spend 1 hr, watch this 4-min clip.

Here's by far the best report so far on the @washingtonpost's attempt to "cancel" me and Fossil Future with totally false accusations of "racism."

Thanks @revivingreason of @TheObjStd for getting all the facts right.
theobjectivestandard.com/2022/03/washin…

I wonder if this note from an African energy leader who knows me will affect @washingtonpost’s desire to portray me as a racist who doesn’t really care about Africa.

Or will they continue to rely on their staffer’s bizarre distortions of me at age 18?

The @washingtonpost hit-piece on me was “slated for publication on Wednesday at 6 a.m. EST.” It’s now *two full days* past that.

Time’s up, guys. Admit that you were totally wrong—that you planned to cancel a political opponent with false “racism” allegations—and clean house.

Update: It's 3 days since the Post's hit-piece against me was supposed to run, and still nothing. (The author has written several pieces since.)

I've received overwhelming support.

Here's a 10-minute summary of the story so far.

Have a great weekend!