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Nov 26 • 7 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
The hate speech law that Ireland is preparing to pass is arguably the most radical legislation of its kind we've seen in the West.

It criminalizes the mere possession of materials that are "likely to incite violence or hatred" — books, videos, or even memes on your phone.

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The bill defines "hatred" as "hatred against a person or a group of persons in the State or elsewhere on account of their protected characteristics."

Protected characteristics include "national origin."

Would criticizing Ireland's open borders even be legal under this bill? Image
Similarly, "gender" — another protected class in the bill — "includes transgender and a gender other than those of male and female."

So criticisms of gender ideology — or even possession of "anti-transgender" materials — are now potentially criminal acts. Image
In a press release last year, Ireland's Department of Justice argued that their previous hate speech law was ineffective, because it didn't allow them to prosecute enough people.

The new bill, they wrote, is "designed to be more effective in securing convictions." Image
This is the Irish government's response to their people's outrage over mass immigration: "Shut up and take it."

It's a particularly extreme example of something we see across the West: A state at war with its own nation.
In case there was any doubt about exactly how the Irish government plans to use this law — the Irish police are now investigating @TheNotoriousMMA for his criticisms of immigration, in the wake of the brutal migrant stabbing of three Irish children.

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Sep 7
For over a decade, the ADL used undercover spies to conduct a vast, coordinated, and potentially illegal campaign of espionage against the John Birch Society.

Until this year, that campaign was a secret.

It was uncovered by a historian digging through historical archives. 🧵 Image
In March, GWU historian Matthew Dallek published a book about the John Birch Society (JBS), a hard-right anticommunist org that was prominent in the 60s and 70s.

During the research process, Dallek was given access to a trove of internal ADL documents from that time period. Image
What Dallek uncovered was “a lengthy, multidimensional, and previously undisclosed counterintelligence operation waged by the ADL to infiltrate and dig up damaging information about” JBS, spanning from 1959 to the 1970s—and involving current and former US intelligence officials.
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May 19
Just for fun, I asked the Midjourney AI to generate images using the opening sentences of books.

Here's "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck:

"To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth." Image
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams:

"Far Out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun." Image
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell:

"Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes." Image
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Feb 28
I'm surprised no one's written about the broader issue here: The Biden administration's embrace of "Indigenous ways of knowing" is one of its more radical concessions to campus ideology. It's a categorical rejection of the scientific method — and ultimately, of objective truth.
A good @JoshDehaas essay from back in 2018 detailed the rise of the "Indigenous ways of knowing" fad—it begins at the basic idea that Indigenous communities have different epistemologies (i.e., "ways of knowing") that are just as valid as Western science.
quillette.com/2018/05/22/ind…
The "Indigenous ways of knowing" (IWK) doctrine is at once radically skeptical and pseudo-mystical — skeptical of traditional truth claims, as expressed by Western science, while simultaneously hewing to utterly irrational "knowledge" revealed, for example "through...intuitions."
Read 10 tweets
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Feb 27
The latest from Biden's "equity agenda": Scientists at certain government-funded facilities are now required to attach an Indigenous land acknowledgment statement to all of their published research. @NRO
nationalreview.com/corner/science…
This comes on the heels of the new "White House Indigenous Knowledge guidance sheet," which argues that "Western science has been used as a tool to oppress" Native Americans — and also that the "marginalization" of "Indigenous Knowledge" has resulted in "racism and imperialism."
And, of course, last summer's conference series between White House agencies and Native American activists, aimed at ameliorating past "experiences where Indigenous Knowledge was avoided, undervalued, or ignored in Federal policy decisions."
whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…
Read 7 tweets
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Feb 25
It's true. Straight white men just sat on their hands and did nothing for the first 100+ years of American history
The cool thing about American history — actual, authentic American history — is that it was a team effort. The effort to re-write its achievements as entirely credited to today's favored identity groups misses what's actually beautiful about the country we built together
Hence, weird revisionist efforts like "maybe Louisa May Alcott was a transgender man" (debunked by a couple discerning NYT readers in the letters section here):
nytimes.com/2023/01/09/opi…
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Feb 16
In today's America, conservatism is a counterrevolutionary project. If the Right hopes to take back the culture, it will have to become comfortable thinking of itself as an insurgent outsider — just as the Left once was.

My essay for the @NRO magazine 🧵
nationalreview.com/magazine/2023/…
If conservatives want to regain a foothold in American institutions, they can learn from one of the Left's preeminent strategists: Antonio Gramsci, the Marxist theorist who died a prisoner of Italian fascism in 1937—decades before the rise of the New Left that he helped inspire. Image
Gramsci's influence on leftist thinking is difficult to overstate: In contrast to the classical Marxist idea that society was shaped by economic relations, Gramsci argued that the ruling class wielded power via "cultural hegemony"—i.e, control of civic and cultural institutions: Image
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