This guy is why people hate academics, and use “professorial” as an insult: arrogant AND incomprehensible.
“What even educated people fail to grasp is ‘Word X’ has been ‘Word X-ized.”
That’s the intro for his online course. 🤷🏻♀️
“Addendum”:
I had A LOT of colleagues who spoke like this about white supremacy —
— and did a 180 when fighting it got me on a kill list, saying “if you hadn’t drawn so much attention to yourself, groups like Atomwaffen wouldn’t target you; you make campus unsafe.”
He has a job and I don’t, when — people like him are… exactly why I have no job.
Absolutely hilarious — the “Walter White / Breaking Bad = white supremacists” responded to my criticism that this is why average people don’t take academics seriously on white supremacy by…
… telling me to calm down b/c it’s *just* a TV show.
(Then deleting and blocking me.)
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Mr. Twitter egg, that’d be 10 years of ‘fringe articles’ on white supremacists — as well as ISIS, and other ‘imaginary’ political violence — for the United Nations, global think tanks, and the top academic journals.
While we wait for the Sines vs. Kessler jury to return a verdict over Charlottesville, warning: don’t get complacent if it’s guilty.
Remember, Metzger lost his 1990 case — he wasn’t stopped; he just got more careful & deeper underground.
[Nazi Telegram noted the same thing.]
I feel bad for the jury, but I hope that verdict doesn’t come today.
In conjunction with the Rittenhouse verdict, regardless of which way Sines vs. Kessler goes —
— that’s potentially very bad timing.
In fact, Metzger saw his 1990 court loss as a victory (and not just as a spinned one, either).
THAT is when he went full force pushing the “lone wolf” approach — and became far more cautious about white supremacist organizational and security strategy.