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Aug 19 7 tweets 3 min read
There's many problems with this tweet, but above all that it isn't true.

The Holocaust ended because Germany was militarily defeated by the Soviets in East, for whom ending the Holocaust was not a military objective. The Germans fled from the Soviet advance while still attempting to complete their plan to kill every last Jew, diverting resources from defense to ensure the killing continued.

Other problems with the tweet: supreme confidence with which an untruth is declared, anachronistic application of "white" vs "brown" framing onto the great European encounter with the perennial Other whose long coexistence in Europe ended in a meticulous plan to eradicate every last member of that community within living memory that was substantially executed; the desperate indignation at white usurpers appropriating victimhood points rightly belonging to brown folx.

One sees this exasperation everywhere these days, this zeal to unseat the Jew from the claim to victimhood and to pay him back for his monopolization of it by making him into the new Nazi.

But also, this: if the state of the Jews is committing genocide, then what slur against them by Farrakhan or anyone else (Hitler, even?) hasn't been vindicated?

Insofar as this belief is axiomatic in the regions of Brooklyn where St. Felix inhabits, the tweets no longer offend anyone. They may be historically inaccurate but the sentiment they deploy is prescient. To write out one's critique of the tweet is to feel its diminished and diminishing power.

What actually happened no longer matters -- what matters is what 35 year old scribblers in Brooklyn think. And this is what they think. They tweeted it out a decade ago. She's just so delighted with her repetition of delusional racist nonsense, with the verve and style and attitude with which she carried off -- and everyone loved it, the guys at the New Yorker, her professors at Brown. They all found it, and her, wonderful.

We can all see the outlines of what's to come: The 1945 Project
Aug 18 9 tweets 3 min read
The gender inquisitors seeking to destroy the livelihood of a nurse for saying "human beings cannot change sex" are carrying out the defining goal of the trans rights movement If you think you support trans rights but are not celebrating this decision, you don't actually understand trans rights and don't actually support them.

If you aren't celebrating this decision, you oppose trans rights.
Aug 17 9 tweets 5 min read
The person Esper is referring to as having been "pulled into the fever swamp" is @jk_rowling. The reason Esper thinks Rowling has been pulled into the fever swamp is that she referred to the man in these photos as "a man."

Esper thinks it's 1.) it's ok to oppose the inclusion of this man, who calls himself a woman, in women's sports. But he also thinks 2.) it's monstrously cruel and indecent and bigoted and hateful, to the point of paranoid insanity, to call this person "a man." He thinks calling the man in the photos below "a man" is evidence of having "gone too far."

He thinks that Rowling and others who oppose the inclusion of this man in women's sports are 3.) just like the people who resisted the integration of the Jim Crow South because they called this hulking 6'2" man "a man" and he tells them that 4.) someday in the future they will think back to calling men like this "men" and be ashamed.

I disagree.Image @jk_rowling
Aug 17 7 tweets 1 min read
Should a nurse be forced to pay a $100k fine for saying “men are not women” and “humans can’t change sex?” “Trans rights” means “the right for other people to see you as you see yourself,” which also means “punishing people who don’t see you as you see yourself if you are a man who sees yourself as a woman.”
Aug 15 5 tweets 2 min read
She opposes transgender women in women's sports because transgender women are men. If they were women, her opposition wouldn't make any sense. It only makes sense because they are men. Strangio put it best: Image
Aug 12 5 tweets 2 min read
88 percent of college students have pretended to hold woke views to succeed socially or academically.

The article looks at the psychic injuries inflicted on a generation of students by this mandated fakery.

Don't forget about the ethical dimension. The mindless loyalty tests pervasive on college campuses have crippled the moral and intellectual integrity of a generation of future leaders.Image thehill.com/opinion/educat…
Aug 11 7 tweets 2 min read
The woman who killed his wife and two children is a man. He is a man who began claiming to be a woman after his arrest for killing his wife and two young children. The Canadian media called him a woman in accordance with their style guidelines that dictate that a "woman is anyone says they are a woman."Image globalnews.ca/news/10919996/…
Aug 9 6 tweets 2 min read
You have 30 other men that you can summon to gang rape a 12-year old on speed dial and trust none to rat you out or try to dissuade you rather than jump to take part because they are all your cousins, brothers, uncles, and nephews There is no daylight between 1.) what a genocidal fascist would invent about what this immigrant community of Brown foreigners invited in the millions to the UK is capable of doing and 2.) a neutral description of what this immigrant community invited in the millions to the UK actually did.

What now?
Aug 8 4 tweets 2 min read
Vance is the figure that many people said would necessarily emerge from the browning of America and the concomitant end of the white majority -- the first national political figure to go through the gauntlet of elite socialization, marry a fellow legal elite of Indian ancestry, emerge into the world of the Great Awokening at its height and seek to find a way to take the side of Anglo-America in a palatable but unapologetic way, shrugging off all the epithets that would be applied to such an attempt. Can this be done? Is there in fact an Anglo-American subject that can speak?

"Those of us with ancestors buried in Civil War gravesites" names a faction of country (many of whom, of course, were non-Anglo immigrants sent here by the Irish potato famines and the revolutions of 1848) who underwent an American ethnogenesis and brought the new nation to the summit of global power. What are this faction's interests? Does it have any? Or must its fate simply be to defer and acquiesce to economic and demographic processes and imperatives that it itself unleashed that are now beyond its control? Is any assertion of such interests inherently illegitimate, charged with peril, a slippery slope to death camps? Or does this core have a historical role to play in the continued shaping of the country its ancestors founded?

Vance's career will be an answer to these questions. The point here is that left-wing adversaries who hear a dogwhistle in his references to ancestors buried in American soil are right and wrong. He's not dogwhistling, he's making an essentially overt case that the founders of this country have a distinctive claim on this country that they have been and are willing to share with others but under terms and conditions that they will at minimum have a key role in defining.
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Aug 8 9 tweets 3 min read
It's really not complicated. The New Left/Fanonist vision of the world is that Nazi Germany was a pale and failed much belated shadow of what Anglo colonists succeeded in doing in the New World, building an empire founded on genocide and slavery buttressed by a disgustingly hypocritical gloss of verbiage about liberty and justice enacted by racist white supremacist murderers and enslavers. It's not some abstruse and complicated intellectual construct, it's the articulation of the perspective of those on the receiving end of imperial expansion.

It's the foundational worldview of that political faction and while it was utterly defeated politically in the 1970'd and 1980's, it succeeded totally in leveraging the foothold it had in academia to capture K-12 education and the rest of the machinery of socialization. And now its on the cusp of direct political power in the global capitol of capital.Image Why is Zohran Mamdani giving the finger to the man who discovered the New World? He sees himself as living in the Thousand Year Reich looking at a statue of Heinrich Himmler.
Aug 7 5 tweets 1 min read
The media is pivoting from “it’s not happening” with regard to dosing 11 year old girls with testosterone and cutting off their healthy breasts at 12 so they can be “nonbinary” to doing sympathetic, soft focus profiles of the mother who approved of it in only her words — normalizing a destructive mania and vilifying those who resist itImage They use of the “as told to” format is a striking choice
Aug 6 7 tweets 2 min read
The media celebrated a 17-year old female mathematical prodigy while actively suppressing the fact in the initial report that the girl is actually a boy. It's not hard to do the intersectional math and figure out why the story wasn't framed as a triumph of "transgender inclusion." A weird confluence of different interests at play, among them the fact that 1.) a contagion of trans-identification is ripping through the male nerd population and 2.) STEM and tech are "solving" their gender problems with a burgeoning new cohort of these male nerds who "identify" as a women 1.) We want there to be an inspiring female math prodigy
2.) We have one! But he's a boy.
3.) But trans girls are girls, right? No?
4.) No they aren't.
5.) OK, just leave it out.
Jul 30 9 tweets 3 min read
Everyone involved in a university hiring search between 2014-present was witness to deeply unethical and unambiguously illegal practices that virtually no one did anything to contest.

No one ever anticipated that there might someday be accountability. Suing would be career and social death even for someone with a slam dunk violation. But they drove out so many qualified applicants that a few, like Wright, have nothing to lose, and much good to accomplish, by imposing much deserved and much belated accountability now. Literally tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of people saw this happen to them or people close to them:
Jul 30 7 tweets 3 min read
North Carolina's legislature just overrode a veto of a law that, among other worthy initiatives, extends the statue of limitation for medical malpractice claims for transgender procedures to ten years.

Extending the statute of limitations to 25 years across the whole country would be the end of the gender medicalization industry.

We know this because the law banning pediatric gender medicine in Missouri allowed the clinics to stay open for another year and continue treating children already having their puberty blocked or cross-sex hormones being administrated.

But the clinics all shut down immediately because of another provision of the bill, extending liability for those who regret their transitions for 25 years.

Though the clinicians claim they are helping people to become their authentic selves by dosing them with cross-sex hormones, they don't really believe it. If it were true, they would have no reason to fear future liability. But it's not true, they know it's not true, and they therefore shut down immediately rather than face that liability. The transgender mania began with major corporation joining in a capital strike on North Carolina (including the NBA moving the All-Star game in protest) because it passed a law saying that women's bathrooms should be for women only. That was the zenith of trans lobby's power, when it had lined up all of corporate America's leadership in a kind of rainbow mafia cartel.

Since 2020 more than 100 laws have been passed banning child gender medicalization and boys in girl's sports with zero protest or action from corporate America.
Jul 29 4 tweets 2 min read
Five Democratic state senators broke with their party in PA to join with Republicans to pass a bill protecting girls sports.

They did so in spite of the rhetorical onslaught of the state's governor, Josh Shapiro, who called those supporting the bill "extremist politicians."

Polling shows that 67 percent of Democratic voters support laws keeping girls sports female.

The Democratic House Speaker has prevented the bill from coming up for a vote, "reportedly fearing that some of her own members might also break ranks with the party and support the popular legislation."

"Republicans believe McClinton is shielding Shapiro from having to either sign or veto a bill on an issue that hurt Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential campaign. And while Shapiro has attacked the pro-girls-sports bill, he has been careful not to pledge a veto."

Shapiro posted on social media back in 2020 that "trans women are women" and has a long record of actions and statements demonstrating a deep commitment to transgender ideology.Image delawarevalleyjournal.com/shapiro-labels…
Jul 28 5 tweets 2 min read
A rigorous yearslong study of unconditional cash aid to poor families has found that the children whose parents received that aid "were no more likely to develop language skills, avoid behavioral problems or developmental delays, demonstrate executive function or exhibit brain activity associated with cognitive development."Image nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/…
Jul 28 4 tweets 2 min read
You thought there was a vibe shift and we were done with wokeness. You posted about how weird things were back in 2020, as if 2020 was decisively in the past.

You thought wrong. The vibe shift, to the extent it exists in some milieu, is merely a pause while the next army of woke warriors is propagandized from the earliest age for the next generational assault on already weakened and infiltrated American institutions
Jul 14 6 tweets 2 min read
This sounds superficially appealing but it's educated and wealthy elites who are being consumed by it more than anyone else.

The schools where 30-50 percent of the kids are trans-identified are all elite private schools and competitive public schools in SuperZIPS full of children of academics and other knowledge workers. Now we do have some anecdotal evidence that trans is making major inroads into Appalachian and downscale America. So it's possible we will see a sad and terrible replay of what happened after the 1970's, when wealthy elites were the first adopters of divorce and later re-moralized their class societies -- while marriage as an institution crumbled amidst the working classes and never recovered.
Jun 29 7 tweets 3 min read
The first screenshot is Manhattan Institute federal budget expert "Jessica" Riedl, a middle-aged man who knew he was a girl on the inside at the age of four and went on to marry a woman and father two children, citing "brain studies" as evidence that he was actually "born trans."

The second screenshot is three researchers employed by the Manhattan Institute nothing that these studies are fatally flawed and do nothing to support the claim that anybody is "born trans."Image
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Jun 23 8 tweets 3 min read
Ten-year old fears he's going to be murdered on the street, is desperate for assurance that he will have access to "my medicine" (an off-label cancer drug used to chemically castrate adult sex offenders and never approved for keeping ten year old boys frozen in prepubescence to look more like a girl.)

If you watch this and aren't horrified on the boy's behalf because of what his parents have done to him but are instead horrified by efforts to protect him from maniacs drugging him at age of ten, you have lost your moorings. People who've had their minds warped by delusion to this degree (and this is the default position of every Democratic official elected and unelected at every level of government) cannot be reasoned with -- they just have to be ousted from influence and kept from power for all time.

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Jun 22 7 tweets 2 min read
It’s not filters fwiw. There are no filters that will do that. It’s four facial reconstruction surgeries.

It’s why Wu is so zealous in support of blocking the puberty of boys as young as 12.