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It's sadly predictable that the activist papers are smearing @TuckerCarlson as a racist for his 'Not how white people fight' text. It's disappointing that many conservative outlets aren't rebutting this nonsense for fear of being called a racist also. A brief thread. Image
Carlson said 'It's not how white men fight' relating to an incident where three Trump supporters beat up an Antifa member. The full context shows a deeply human moment of reflection wherein Carlson rejects the all-too-common impulse to dehumanise political opponents. Image
Carlson grew up in a well off neighbourhood & attended several private education facilities. He is used to moving in well-to-do circles where physical fights are taboo & where, when they happen, will be one-on-one, not gang. I witnessed this teaching in private schools. So...
When Carlson says 'It's not how white men fight, he is speaking from his experience as a white man from predominantly white and fairly privileged environments. He's right. From his experience this is not how white men fight. You can call him elitist at worst but not racist.
Also not insignificant is the fact that Carlson has a degree in History. Again, I can relate. I do too. When you study History you see the best and worst of societies and the best throughout time have valued chivalry and rules of combat. Societies run by mobs fall fast...
Carlson spoke from his experience. I believe he did not have racist intentions. These activist papers trying to bury him however, leading by saying his text was racist, know what they are doing. The responses from their readers is revealing. They call him racist. But against who?
This is the key point. Carlson spoke about white people, something he is qualified to speak about. The people calling him racist infer that he thinks other groups are inferior. Which ones specifically? Does Carlson think Japanese people fight like that? Cambodians?...
The reality is that the people calling Carlson a racist all have a specific race in their own minds when they call his comment racist. They are projecting their own prejudices onto him. So... ImageImage
There are two possibilities for their attacks:

1. They are projecting their own racist views onto him.

or

2. What the are inferring from Carlson's comment is a truism.

If you're going to call him a racist, at least name the race you believe he is referring to, racists.

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Mar 22
In the past month I published two deep dives into how Craigslist's Craig Newmark is pouring hundreds of millions of $$$ into the disinformation industry & America's leading journalism schools. He is quietly buying up the future of journalism & swinging elections for the DNC.🧵
In this piece I recount how Newmark, unable to deal with the election of Trump in 2016, went down the Russian collusion conspiracy theory rabbit hole and decided to spend $200million in the run-up to 2020 to swing the election for Biden. thefederalist.com/2023/02/13/cra…
Many of his donations were transparently pro-DNC.
Read 25 tweets
Mar 14
🚨Massive and disgraceful breaking news in the @DougMakey case. 🚨

Disgraced Antifa journalist Luke O'Brien has just interfered with an expert witness in the case which has led to a request for a delay from Makey's team.

A short thread....🧵
Luke O'Brien who was fired from HuffPo last year has harassed the defence's leading expert witness causing him to withdraw as a witness.
O'Brien attempted to portray the expert witness - Hawley - as an extremist based on emails that O'Brien presented to him. O'Brien pressured the witness by presenting him with the apparently hacked emails and asking if his employers knew about his testimony.
Read 12 tweets
Mar 6
Highly significant! An SPLC attorney arrested in Atlanta last night for terrorism. The SPLC is currently the biggest ally of Antifa relying on their hacked materials & doxes of individuals for their “hate watch” list. The SPLC actively hires Antifa “researchers” & “journalists”…
Michael Hayden is one of the most prominent Antifa journalists. He featured in my now peer-reviewed research into Antifa on Twitter. The SPLC also recently hired his close friend - Antifa journalist - Jason Wilson. Both were outed in this article - quillette.com/2019/05/29/its…
Researcher Megan Squire is openly Antifa. In a @WIRED article Squire details how she passes the identifying information of suspected far-right extremists to Antifa & how she condones the group’s use of violence as a last resort in a “diversity of tactics”. wired.com/story/free-spe…
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Mar 5
A boring thread about how I got my garden beds ready for planting. Last year was my first year #gardening. I just built natural earthen beds. I didn't know much about amending soil etc. & the garden had been dormant for about 15 years. Here's how it looked prepped last spring.
Despite being a novice there were some real successes. Like 45kg of spuds, 15kg of onions - which we still use! Peas, tomatoes, beans were all winners. Carrots, parsnips and cabbage, not so much. Still, I learned a lot. #gardening
I built a nice 3 bed composter from pallets and scrap wood to start building up our own supply of compost for this year's beds.
Read 10 tweets
Feb 3
Important. @craignewmark financed Donovan’s work at Harvard & has pledged to continue funding her in the future. He is literally the largest funder of disinformation in the US. He has spent millions of dollars making sure journalism departments are activist breeding grounds.
@craignewmark In 2021 the Harvard Shorenstein Centre announced that Craig Newmark would fund Joan Donovan's Technology and Social Change project. shorensteincenter.org/newmark-suppor…
@craignewmark Newmark spent close to $200 million in the run up to the 2020 presidential election granting large sums to university journalism departments, in a bid to defeat Donald Trump. He claims to be motivate to defeat 'misinformation'. forbes.com/sites/angelauy…
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Feb 2
I feel vindicated by the courageous steps taken by @Harvard Dean Douglas Elmendorf who is reportedly firing Shorenstein Centre 'misinformation expert' @BostonJoan. I have been covering how Donovan has packed the centre with Twitter activists. open.substack.com/pub/dreoinleni…
In a statement on the Harvard Crimson website it was reported that Dean Douglas Elmendorf was winding down Donovan's multi-million dollar project - "The Technology and Social Change" thecrimson.com/article/2023/2…
Donovan had packed the multi-million dollar funded centre with hyper-partisan Twitter 'researchers' and 'journalists' such as Erin Gallagher, giving fellowships to disgraced former journalist Luke O'Brien and Brandy Zadrozny.
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