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@s_decatur
Nov 22 • 8 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
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In a 1999 essay, Tom Wolfe described how an academic mafia set out to destroy the brilliant evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson. This included hysterical attacks from his Harvard colleagues Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin - demonizing Wilson as a "Nazi in embryo." 🧵

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Wilson’s crime in the eyes of his leftist colleagues was rejecting the idea of the “Blank Slate” – Theorizing that human traits and behaviors have evolved, genetic roots - That “nature” may play a more dominant role than “nurture.”
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Wilson's enemies set out to "cancel" him. Gould and Lewontin teamed-up with the “Science for the People” to attack Wilson's theories. Protesters picketed his class at Harvard. At one conference a protester dumped a carafe of ice water over Wilson's head.

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@Steve_Sailer notes that Wilson - an "Alabama country-boy bug collector" - fought back by "teaching himself in his late 40s to write like a literary intellectual." Wilson won a Pulitzer and many new admirers.

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As Wolfe notes, the smear campaign backfired. Wilson went on to enjoy immense fame and prestige - "while Gould and Lewontin seethed ... and seethed."
Wilson triumphed. But unfortunately the deniers of human nature continued their successful long-march through the institutions. Image
For Tom Wolfe fans, I will add a few other threads based on his work. On the brilliant sculptor Frederick Elliott Hart:

Wolfe's observations on the ethnic, cultural, and religious roots of America’s revolution in computer and aerospace technology:

And from his 2000 essay "In the Land of the Rococo Marxists:"

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Thread on the "Lobby," by Professors Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Walt of Harvard.
> At the creation in 1948 – “explicit acts of ethnic cleansing, including executions, massacres, and r___”
>”Harm them without mercy, women and children included.”
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1957, 1967, and 2003:
> Hundreds of prisoners murdered.
> More ethnic cleansing - Expulsions of hundreds of thousands; destruction of thousands of homes.
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An occupation of now over five decades – “the longest official military occupation in modern history.”
> An estimated “23,600 to 29,900 children required medical treatment for their beating injuries in the first two years …”
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Thread on Boston-born "Black Power" activist Hakim Jamal and his connections with Gail Benson - a British socialite and daughter of a Tory MP, and Trinidad-born gangster-activist “Michael X.” Spoilers: One dies in a hail of gunfire, one buried alive, and one at the end of a rope.

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Jamal (born Alan Donaldson) grew up in the "vibrant" Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. There he had a passing acquaintance with a young man known as “Detroit Red,” who the world would later know as Malcolm X. Jamal would milk this connection for profit for the rest of his life.


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Jamal helped establish the “US Organization” a deadly rival to the Black Panthers, soon targeted by the FBI for COINTELPRO. Not much encouragement was needed. The FBI’s plan was to get the two groups in the same location and “grant nature the opportunity to take her due course.”
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Ethnic voting and the key role it played in New Deal-era politics.🧵
> Yankee Republicans supported the women’s suffrage movement - motivated by the hope that “old-stock” Protestant women” could counteract the swelling tide of Democrat-leaning “ignorant male immigrants”.

At first this expanding suffrage strategy was successful, as the more educated, politically-savvy Yankee women voters quickly mobilized. And in the 1920s the Yankee women tended to vote overwhelmingly Republican, just like the Yankee men.
But somehow the Yankees failed to forsee that in the long-term this strategy was a dead end – Eventually the women immigrant voters would also mobilize. “The vote which Yankee women had won and wielded so successfully in the 1920s had by 1940 been turned against them … ”

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We are approaching the 50th anniversary of the “Zebra killings” – the “Death Angel” anti-White terror campaign that panicked San Francisco and claimed at least 23 victims (likely *many* more), including 15 killed, 8 seriously wounded, and one raped.
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Some of the “Zebras” met while they were serving time in San Quentin State Prison in 1973. Here, Jesse Lee Cooks would often share his fantasies of mass-murdering Whites – especially children or the elderly. Image
While at San Quentin, Cooks, Anthony Harris (who eventually turned informant and entered witness protection) and Manuel Moore learned about the “Death Angels” – a cult dedicated to murdering Whites and starting a race war. ImageImageImage
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In the Autumn of 1973, Boston was stuck by a wave of deadly racial violence that shocked the city and made headlines nationwide. The turmoil helped set the stage for more violence when the “racial balance” busing was inflicted on the city's families the following year.
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The most shocking incident was the immolation of Evelyn Wagler on Tuesday, October 2 - the account of her murder reads like a script from a horror movie. Wagler (called Rene by friends) had run out of gas near her home. She walked to a service station with a two-gallon gas can. Image
Wagler’s trip was short, but it took her up Blue Hill Ave, in the heart of Roxbury, an overwhelmingly Black section of Boston. A middle-class neighborhood just 10 years prior - The area was now known for high levels of crime, and for being particularly dangerous for Whites. ImageImage
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