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14 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
actually lots of things happen organically Image
just saying. Like think about eggs, for instance Image
I don't mean to set anyone's paper tigers aflame but I'm starting to think this guy's narratives are fallacious Image
posted <6 minutes apart

let that be a lesson to you "Woke Puritans" ImageImage
Reading Michael O'Sovereign Nations, I finally understand the context in which Conceptual James is worth paying as a writer

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16 Apr
all stories are made up, but this story is *more* made up
as a prominent professor at an elite university, I have access to all the most reliable YouTube comments
plot twist: it was a swimming class
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16 Apr
what a peculiar, fascistic document
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"Est. 2021". This logo makes me think: tradition, continuity, free checking Image
"ideological flexibility" = mixing metaphors for the good of the nation

can't make an omelette without sacrificing some toes Image
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7 Apr
If you spend decades demonizing universities, dismissing academic research, and attacking professors as threats to their country and/or civilization, you should expect to find that your views are not well represented in academia.

Their absence there is a mark of your success.
If you tell your fans and followers that academic work is worthless or harmful, they will not pursue it. If you make disdain for academics a core part of your message, people who believe your message will share that disdain. This should surprise nobody.
There's been no actual campaign to rid academia of "conservatives" -- unlike the very real and quite explicit campaigns to get rid of various putatively leftist academics (see Turning Point, for instance).

There has been a "conservative" campaign to devalue academia. It worked.
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26 Mar
Setting the content aside, the position that "most people know more about X by simple observation/common sense" than people who study X in depth is a core commitment of the IDW.

It is, by definition, anti-intellectual, and it lends itself to fascistic censorship of universities.
Which is why it was utterly predictable that the IDW would in fact support fascistic censorship of universities -- whether it be Peterson's praise for Orban, the entire Turning Point phenomenon, or Lindsay et al's campaign to get "woke" academic work banned by law in the US.
Actual "liberals" who gave this the time of day have begun to back away, but not so honestly as to own their role in promoting it.

Meanwhile, more of the fanbase -- and more and more conservative politicians -- are comfortable talking about academics in openly fascist terms.
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25 Mar
Not sure how this "translates" what I said, unless by "translate" you mean "say something different."

Ftr, I doubt "recognized authorities in full sympathy with their subjects" *will* publish here. But what I said was that Pluckrose's attitude toward "editing" explains a lot.
You can see my tweet here, in case you missed it. I'm not sure what language in it is so complicated that it would require "translation" for "everyone".
(I am starting to see how Sokal Squared "translation" of Mein Kampf impressed so many of their fans, though.)
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24 Mar
Helen Pluckrose equating "making the best case" with "facing no editorial scrutiny" says a lot about the IDW's conflation of scholarship and opinion. It helps explain how Areo published a plagiarized piece with a phoney author. And it underscores why their work is untrustworthy.
I feel I've made the "best case" when I know specialists have checked what I've said against what they know, and editors have commented on the logic and interest of the argument.

Helen is promising her authors that no one will ask them to fix any factual or logical flaws at all.
(For the record, I believe her.)
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