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“Antifa’s American roots are intriguing, seeing as they involve organized crime”

Jim Goad writes:

In the 1930s, when the German American Bund were holding fascist rallies across the US, perhaps the main person who nipped them in the bud was none other than Meyer Lansky, AKA “The Mob’s Accountant” and in many eyes the most powerful organized-crime figure in American history. Lansky claimed that influential rabbis and even an unnamed judge encouraged him and his criminal cohorts to shut down fascist rallies in ways almost identical to how Antifa operates today.

 

Steve Sailer takes on Malcolm Gladwell’s latest whatsit

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Joe Bob Briggs: Let’s Name the Segregated Universities

It’s not segregated by race, or religion, it’s segregated by a belief in the fallenness of all mankind—excuse me, humankind—in the form of ingrained bias and prejudice. If you don’t believe this—if you’re a member of the Young Republicans and don’t see color or gender as legitimate ways of separating people—then you don’t belong at Clark. Clark should have an asterisk by its name because it’s exclusive, not inclusive. It has a doctrine that rules out certain people and, undoubtedly, certain campus speakers.

So I’m going to make a proposal for a simple and effective way to upend the various anti-free-speech movements currently afoot on university campi…

Screw these “rankings.”

All I ever needed to know about Liberty University, I learned from this still-great video:

Joe Bob Briggs: How CVS Invaded My Brain

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“By satire, most people now understand childish, self-satisfied snark…”

Christopher DeGroot writes:

…the stuff of late-night television liberals like Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and others.

Such comedians are in fact conformists. They provide what is expected. They do not take chances, because they are cowards. But high comedy, again, requires not just imagination, but the willingness to offend, in which there is exalted relief from our general moral constraints. Like John Quincy Adams, and unlike most American “men,” President Trump is suitably pugnacious. He is no coward, whether it’s in respect to China, North Korea, or elsewhere. And not being a coward, he is capable of wonderful humor.

 

‘I’ve known Ernst Zundel for 25 years, and there’s no question the man’s loopy as hell’

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You know Frank Rich, if you’d been paying attention…

you’d have noticed that “Monty Python sketches” are becoming more “true to life” all the time…

Because we’ve since learned that “jokes CAN kill”…

Quebec comedian ordered to pay $35,000 over mean joke

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Steve Sailer: “One of the stranger culture wars at present is being waged by fans of pop diva Beyoncé…”

…who are excoriating rival pop diva Taylor Swift for her “silence” on partisan politics: In other words, Swift hasn’t gifted us with her denunciation of the president like most of our other moral role models in the entertainment industry. (…)

For example, not many middle school girls in these days of obesity and “the changing face of America” can realistically expect to ever be as skinny and fair as Swift, while more can aspire to look sort of like Beyoncé. Thus, if Beyoncé bests Swift in the battle for society’s admiration, there is hope, the thinking goes, that boys will think you are pretty. (…)

In reality, of course, boys who care a lot about Beyoncé versus Taylor Swift don’t like girls.

Steve Sailer on academic affirmative action: “Is something radically wrong with African-American culture?”

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David Cole: “Last week, (…) the champion of banned films got banned” for defying Australia’s gay mafia

David Cole writes:

Richard Wolstencroft is a friend of mine. He’s appeared on my podcast, and I’ve appeared with him on other people’s podcasts. He’s a typical Aussie—gregarious, boisterous, and cheerful. No question, he’s “alt-right”-friendly, but his dedication to free speech and shit-stirring is such that he would in a millisecond defend and champion a left-of-center filmmaker, or a filmmaker of color, or a gay filmmaker (as he did with Bruce LaBruce), should they become the target of the thought police. He’s been able to survive being outspokenly pro-Trump, something that would kill the career of any U.S. film-festival organizer. Hell, for a while it seemed as though Richard Wolstencroft was as untouchable as a wallaby’s bum…until he decided to use his Facebook page to call unfair dinkum on the gay-marriage vote…

 

David Cole on affirmative action in action

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Jim Goad: No, Charles Manson wasn’t a “right winger”

Jim Goad gets the last word in a must-read (and -bookmark):

Would anyone care to explain the fact that the Manson Family first took root in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district during 1967’s “Summer of Love”? What about all the orgies and long hair and LSD? Care to account for the communal living and dumpster-diving? How about the Manson Family’s rock-star aspirations and the fact that the Beach Boys covered one of Charlie’s songs? What about their vocal opposition to the Vietnam War, to “the establishment,” to “capitalist filth,” and all the inflamed rhetoric about “pigs”? What about the fact that Richard Nixon openly hated Charles Manson and vice-versa? How about Manson girl Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme’s failed 1975 assassination attempt on Nixon’s successor, Gerald Ford?

What about when John Lennon approvingly noted that Manson “took children in when nobody else would” and claimed that “I just think a lot of the things he says are true”? How about the fact that folksinger Phil Ochs and Jerry Rubin visited Manson in jail?

 

James Delingpole: “Beneath the kaftan of every other hippie beats the heart of a fascist”

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“‘[P]ostmodernism’ (…) might be better described as ‘pre-emptive kitsch’”

Roger Scruton writes:

Pre-emptive kitsch offers fake emotions, and at the same time a pretended rejection of the thing it offers.

The kitsch work of art is not a response to the real world, but a fabrication designed to replace it. Yet both producer and consumer conspire to persuade each other that what they feel in and through the kitsch work of art is something deep, important and real.

As I always say, “camp” is intentional, while “kitch” is unintentional. Here’s Scruton:

Having recognised that modernist severity is no longer acceptable, artists began not to shun kitsch but to embrace it, in the manner of Andy Warhol, Allen Jones and Jeff Koons. The worst thing is to be unwittingly guilty of producing kitsch; far better to produce kitsch deliberately, for then it is not kitsch at all but a kind of sophisticated parody. (The intention to produce real kitsch is an impossible intention, like the intention to act unintentionally. Deliberate naivety is really faux naïf.) Pre-emptive kitsch sets quotation marks around actual kitsch, and hopes thereby to save its artistic credentials.

 

‘Buying wasn’t important to SkyMall’s business model’

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“Fascism Came To America Wrapped In A Rainbow Flag And Wearing A Pussyhat”

Caitlin Johnstone writes something that, as usual, will annoy everyone:

So while Trump leads his American flag-wrapped, cross-carrying supporters into consenting to more war, more domestic surveillance, more militarization of the police force, and more soul-crushing, world-killing neoliberal economic policy, the goons of the Democratic establishment are leading their rainbow flag-wrapped, pussyhat wearing base into consenting to the exact same thing. The noose gets ever tighter, the censorship gets more and more severe, the spectrum of acceptable debate gets smaller and smaller, the rule of the oligarchs grows ever more totalitarian, and neither the flag-wrapped cross carriers nor the rainbow flag-wrapped pussyhat wearers do anything about it. This was intended. (…)

That said, the painted face of enlightened coastal liberalism has facilitated the agendas of the oppression machine far more.

 

Is this a convention or a table reading for “Freaks”?

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Had Orwell lived past 1950…

Ben Judah isn’t a fan:

Orwell was no visionary when it comes to economics, either. Recall his Floating Fortresses in 1984, explicitly designed to eat up the surplus production of a population. His inability to meaningfully reflect on the dynamics of capitalism (beyond moralising condemnation), let alone imagine a consumer society, is a fascinating wooly mammoth frozen in ice from the postwar era. It is a reminder of how utterly written-off by European intellectuals the market economy was immediately after the war—and what a shock the 1950s consumerist takeoff in living standards proved to be.

“I can’t believe I’m going to subscribe to Maclean’s…”

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