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Fellow @amrenewctr 'His passion for understanding left-wing ideology was a constant inspiration to keep digging, keep thinking, and keep pushing' -Chris Rufo
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Oct 27 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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 The Advisory Board of the Community Development Financial Institution Fund is staffed by leftists, and it funnels money into leftist causes.

For example: Justin Maxson, who sits on the board of the CDFI Fund, created a "racial equity lens" in his previous job. Image 2/
 Jennifer Sun works at Asian Americans For Equality which "advances racial, social, and economic
justice for Asian American, immigrant and other systematically disadvantaged communities"

Again, it's a social justice focus. Image
Oct 24 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
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 These Republicans are protecting the CDFI fund, an institution which funnels money into left wing causes.

The CDFI gave 173 Million dollars to the Opportunity Finance Network, and organization that is concerned with DEI, Systemic Racism, and "Racial Justice"

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 The Opportunity Finance Network is an institution that has as its goal advancing leftists ideology and talking points.

For example, the CDFI ran a post reflecting on how they were going to "operationalize racial equity" into their work.

This is just a folk version of Critical Race TheoryImage
Oct 24 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Canadians aren't ready for what this is going to do to our economy.

Canadian Liberals adopted smug, self-satisfying anti-americanism because they see themselves as more sophisticated and intelligent than Americans, and they think having to win Trump over is beneath them... Image Canada's Elite Liberal class thinks that Trump is beneath them, and they think it is they who deserve to be the ones with all the power and decision making. It eats them alive that Canada needs America more than America needs Canada...
Oct 18 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
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I realize the over-feminization of public life is a problem, and I think wokeness is also feminine coded.
But leftist extremism of wokeness are not necessarily feminine coded.

In the 60's and 70's the radical left was led by violent, militant, masculine men... 2/
 The left engaged in bombings, riots, kidnapping, riots, and other such sort of behavior. They formed militia's armed themselves to the teeth, and made straight-forward demands while engaging in direct confrontation.

In fact, feminists used to complain about how the left...
Oct 13 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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 This misses the point of the question

Indigenous displacement is an idea from postcolonial theory often used to normatively criticize western nations; often using statistical demographic change as evidence of the charge.

My question is: why this doesn't idea apply to London? 2/
 The point I am trying to bring out here is related to a question asked by the philosopher Joseph Heath: "What is the difference between a settler and an immigrant?"

Concepts like "indigenous displacement" appear to be neutral descriptions but are in fact normatively loaded...
Oct 11 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
"Catholics would be tolerated on the fringes of society"

This sentence is why the dissident right will fail. Trad-Caths/Catholic Integralists see protestants as an abhorration of the true faith. So there's *zero* chance they ever agree to be "tolerated at the fringe of society." The dissident right has a Protestant wing and a catholic wing.

Protestant DR types think some form of *protestant* Christianity (usually but not always some form of Calvinism) needs to be the default religion of the public.

Trad-caths think it should be catholicism...
Sep 26 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Since "noticing" appears to be a thing, I'd like to say that I "notice" things as well....And I can't help but *notice* the obsession that certain people have with Israel, even though other nations (China, India, Russia, etc) impact the U.S. far more.... I also can't help but notice that those same sorts of people are obsessed the influence of wealth Jews, but have nothing to say about the influence of money from China, Qatar, Russia, India, and so on.

The Jews are, apparantly, an item of incredibly deep concern...
Sep 25 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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 Wokeness is the alloy of the political ideology and moral value framework from Critical Theory with the social constructivist worldview and epistemology of postmodernism.

As the political side of woke recedes culturally, it leaves behind the underlying postmodern worldview. 2/ The teleology of the woke project came from the moral commitments of intersectional social justice (Trans-rights, Race based activism, etc)

Those movements are being dissolved by their own incoherence and absurdity (Land acknowledgements, claiming men can become women, etc)
Sep 24 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
The left created an epitemic bubble which filters out everything that challenges their narrative while promoting anything that confirms their priors

It's socially enforced confirmation bias at scale which results in the left having no idea what anyone outside their bubble thinks The left has what @wesyang calls a "Vertically Integrated Messaging Apparatus." It's an apparatus of messaging distribution which is owned and operated by leftists top to bottom, and disseminates only the information which aligns with leftist moral norms and political priorities.
Sep 23 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
For decades it was the progressive leftist worldview from which the norms of public life and the values of the common culture were derived. The at-large culture was the home of leftists, and conservative evangelicals were treated like unwanted guests.

Those days are over. The culture is changing so quickly that people are about to get whiplash. It's no longer the case that the default values of public life are those of the social-justice left, (or of "progressives") and progressives no longer get to determine what is allowed in "polite company."
Sep 20 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
For years conservatives told people that leftists used violence and intimidation to silence dissent, and the media downplays and ignores it. Charlie Kirk's assassination proved the right was correct, and gave them the moral high ground in the culture for the first time in decades Kirks' assassination validated what the right had been saying about free speech, censorship, and political violence exactly because Charlie was a vigorous free speech advocate who was killed for his speech.

Free speech is therefore the root of the rights' moral highground...
Sep 19 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Any leftist podcaster or celebrity can hold an event at any University in the United States with minimal security and be completely safe.

Conservative speakers can't hold events on campus without armed guards and a bullet proof vest.

Let's talk about why🧵 Universities have basically said there is no penalty for *trying* to do violence against conservatives; there's only a penalty if you actually manage to injure one of them.

You can try to do violence as much as you like, and there's no penalty until you actually hurt somone.
Sep 16 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
As I've said for years:

1. There is no such legal category as "hate speech"
2. You don't defeat ideas by banning them
3. Adopting a leftist frame ("hate speech" is leftist framing) is always a losing proposition. The idea of "hate speech" was given academic backing by a group of Critical Race Theroists in the book "words that wound."

There is no way of picking up that term without legitimizing all of the leftist intellectual machinery that comes with it.

Sep 16 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
The reason the trans-movement is so nihilistic, violent, and unhinged is because it is postmodern, and the postmodern intellectual solvent it uses to dissolve the distinction between male and female also dissolves the distinction between good and evil. The postmodern ideology of the transgender activists believes all values of any kind (moral, social, scientific, and epistemic) are just social constructs that have been constructed in alignment with the interests of the dominant ideology or ruling class.

so...
Sep 13 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Repeat after me:

People who celebrate the murder of their political opponents are not participating in the marketplace of ideas, they are encouraging deadly political violence by building a permission structure to legitimize and justify the murder of those they disagree with. My freedom of speech means I get to clearly and succintly explain to the whole world that if you call for the assassination of your rivals this is not free speech, it is a direct incitement to political violence.
Sep 11 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
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 The Radical Left has used political violence to advance their cause for decades. What's new is the progressive left's professional class building a permission structure to justify the use of political violence

It's called Assassination Culture, and we need to talk about it
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 To understand what's happening, you need to understand that the line between progressive-left professional class and radical left has been blurred. The extremist radical left and the socially progressive "bluesky left" are increasingly intertwined both socially and politically
Sep 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Look at the number of pro-athletes posting condolences about Charlie Kirk, and you'll see what a huge cultural figure he was.

He wasn't just famous in conservative circles, his clips debating college students were a loadbearing pillar of online political pop-culture His willingness to calmly and politely debate all comers on any issue (at the very moment when cancel culture was strongest and people were afraid to say what they think) made him a sort of lovable internet folkhero.

He was an indelible piece of the online landscape.
Aug 30 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
What he is describing here is the deconstruction of America as an ideal. The goal is to destroy America by subverting the conception of America as a force for good which sustains American confidence, and attacking the founding narrative from which America derives it's legitimacy. They will try to redefine America in a way which subverts the legitimacy of America as a national project. They want to erase the current American narrative, and replace it with a new one which grants them the right to inherit America's wealth, power, prestige, and influence.
Aug 16 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
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 Afew thoughts on this

The article Doreen St Felix wrote for the New Yorker was as racist as the tweet @realchrisrufo dug up; it was just more subtle.

Had she repudiated those old views it would be a different story, but that New Yorker article was doubling down... 2/
 on racist resentment against white people and racialist identity politics, complete with the racist stereotyping.

This shows a continuity of thinking over a period of a decade, and there has been no take back, or explanation for the disgustingly racist tweets she made.
Aug 12 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
The left gets away with violence because it has the capacity to memory hole and cover up all it's violent behavior.

For example, from 1971-1972 leftists carried out 5 bombings per day, every day. By the end they carried out more than 3000 bombings.

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Image And many people who did that would be welcomed into mainstream leftists politics.

IE: Susan Rosenberg helped a communist group bomb the Capitol building in 1983-for which she was convicted.

She went on to sit on the board of the parent organization for Black Lives Matter. Image
Aug 6 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The game being played by the "sex is a spectrum" people is to engage in a sleight of hand between the ontological question (what makes this thing what it is), epistemological question (how do we know this thing when we see it), and linguistic question (how do we define the word) The tactic is to attack the definition by blurring the lines between the primary features that make the object what it is and define its function and the secondary features we use as proxy's for identifying the object when we encounter it "in the wild".