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Best of the Web: Rob Slane: The masks are coming off

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:41 UTC
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I had intended to start the New Year with a heart-warming piece entitled, "2021: The Year of Censorship of Dissent". It would have been a somewhat prophetical piece, shocking some readers with predictions of a coming crackdown on dissent, and causing others to hoot with laughter because they haven't quite caught up with the times we are in. You know, the types who say things like "Oh perrrlease! Social Media companies are private companies and they have the right to decide who they allow on their platform" and "Stop making out it's the gulag" etc.

Unfortunately, my plans were scuppered by the fact that media and social media companies — let's call them Global Pravda — have come out of the blocks even earlier than even I anticipated, and have been censoring left right and centre. As a result, my intended "prophetical" utterance seems like yesterday's news.

We've had the censoring of Talk Radio on YouTube. Although this was then restored after intervention at the highest level, I understand some of the wonderful conversations between Mike Graham and Peter Hitchens are still banned. YouTube have also banned videos from extremely qualified scientists around the world, including two lengthy interviews given in English by one of the most qualified microbiologists on planet earth, Professor Sucharit Bhakdi.

We've then seen the President of the United States being banned from Facebook, Instagram and more recently Twitter. I am no fan of Donald Trump, but it is clear that he has never used these platforms to "incite violence" - the excuse given for his ban -, and it is obvious that there something else going on there. And we've also seen numerous conservatives and scientists who oppose or question the mass quarantining of healthy people literally losing hundreds of Twitter followers in the last few days. Their followers are simply being deleted by Jack's Magical Dissent Removing Algorithm, which has been invoked with a vengeance.
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DC Officer Sicknick's death driven by medical condition; reports of fire extinguisher attack unconfirmed

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 08:02 UTC
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© screenshotOfficer Brian Sicknick
Capitol Hill Police Officer Brian Sicknick died after protesters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday. Officer Sicknick passed a way on Thursday he was the fifth victim after the US Capitol was stormed on Wednesday. Rest in Peace.

The BBC reported:
A police officer who died from injuries he suffered during the pro-Trump siege of the US Capitol has been named. Brian Sicknick "was physically engaging with protesters" when he was wounded, the US Capitol Police (USCP) said. His death is the fifth connected to the riots, which have led to calls for Donald Trump's removal as president.
It's not clear who started the fire extinguisher rumors.
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Tragic: Hillary Clinton posts accidental self-own with single emoji response to Trump losing Twitter account


RT
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 10:29 UTC
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© Reuters/Carlos BarriaHillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton has posted a toe-curlingly cringe reaction to US President Donald Trump being booted off Twitter. The failed presidential candidate reminded every one that she's still struggling to process her election defeat.

As it emerged that Twitter had permanently suspended the US president, for reasons known only to her (and her team of advisers) Clinton decided to dredge up a tweet from her disastrous election bid.

The 73-year-old retweeted a post from the 2016 race in which she instructed Trump to "delete your account," along with a black checkmark.
Not only has the ex-secretary of state not moved on from her crushing defeat four years ago, but she also appears to be claiming the dramatic scenes that unfolded in the US this week as some kind of belated win for her stillborn presidential push.
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Snakes in Suits

Best of the Web: James Lindsay: What Is Critical Race Theory?

James Lindsay
New Discourses
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 20:05 UTC
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I've been asked a million times for a short introduction to Critical Race Theory that hits the high points in a quick, straightforward way. Most people will have heard of Critical Race Theory by now, but in case you haven't, it's a particular way of thinking about race and racism that developed first at Harvard Law School from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Its stated objective is to question whether the Civil Rights Movement and Civil Rights Acts legislation improved the racial situation in Western nations, especially the United States. Its true objective is to re-organize the social, cultural, and legal playing field in a way that claims to reverse "historical injustices" around the issue of race, allegedly without reproducing them.

To keep this short and simple, I'll provide you with two quotes from the book Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (third edition) by Critical Race Theorists Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. These quotes summarize everything that Critical Race Theory is really about in its own words.

First, Critical Race Theory views race and racism this way: race is a political construction that was invented by white people to give themselves power while excluding all other races from it, and racism is the ordinary state of affairs in society, present in all interactions, institutions, and phenomena, and effectively permanent in society (short of a full sociocultural revolution that puts them in charge). That is, Critical Race Theory assumes that racism is present in everything under a doctrine known as "systemic racism." Quoting from Delgado and Stefancic,
What do critical race theorists believe? Probably not every member would subscribe to every tenet set out in this book, but many would agree on the following propositions. First, that racism is ordinary, not aberrational — "normal science," the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most people of color in this country. Second, most would agree that our system of white-over-color ascendancy serves important purposes, both psychic and material. The first feature, ordinariness, means that racism is difficult to cure or address. ... The second feature, sometimes called "interest convergence" or material determinism, adds a further dimension. Because racism advances the interests of both white elites (materially) and working-class people (psychically), large segments of society have little incentive to eradicate it.
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Parler and the problem of escaping internet censorship

Daniel Greenfield
FrontPage Magazine
Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:37 UTC
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© AppleA still from Apple Inc's launch of the MacIntosh Computer
Back when Parler was first taking off, I warned that its app-based dependency meant that two companies, Apple and Google, can eliminate it anytime they like.

It was only a matter of time.

The transition from desktops and laptops to Android and IOS devices mean that users are operating in a walled garden run by two very lefty companies. Those companies can do with the garden what they please. Those users who choose to jailbreak their devices have more options, but most don't. Conservatives can try to distribute the knowledge more widely and encourage that kind of self-empowerment. But the bottom line is most smartphone, Kindle, Chromebook, etc users want a simple device that just works and runs all the apps in the app store. Doing anything more complicated would be inconvenient.
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JP Sears takes on the coup against the coup against the coup

Matthew Ehret
The Canadian Patriot
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:15 UTC
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As everyone who has been following American news closely should have noticed by now, the 'Stop the Steal' rally on Capitol Hill on January 6 was subverted by Soros-sponsored Antifa activists causing the total breakdown of efforts to halt the Color Revolution that has been underway in the republic since 2016.

It is absolutely shocking that at this stage of the game, after four solid years of outright lies, psy ops and other proven dirty tricks deployed to undermine the republic, that so many people, including former Trump supporters, are incapable of processing the facts which prove this to be so. If you need a reminder that what you read here is not hyperbole, not only was Russia gate proven to be a hoax, but so was Ukraine gate, and the witch hunt conducted on Michael Flynn.

Comment: The jesters dare to say what others can or will not. But who is listening?


Apparently Sears is also on the edge of being banned from YouTube.

More of JP skewering the current madness:

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Brick Wall

YouTube bans Dave Cullen's channel 'Computing Forever'

Ciaran Brennan
The Burkean
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:04 UTC
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© The David Cullen ShowCensored
In a dark and precedent-setting week for online censorship, the axe has fallen on yet another dissident Irish Youtuber, this time in the form of Dave Cullen, who had his channel purged Sunday morning from the embattled video hosting site.

With just over 500,000 subscribers, Cullen who originally started his life on the channel 14 years ago primarily as a technology reviewer, made a name for himself among rightist circles due to his drift into conservative and nationalist politics. More recently he has led the charge in the critique of the science behind state-mandated lockdowns and the emergence of what he believed to be a technocratic police state by means of a 'Great Reset'.

Comment: One of the many reasons David Cullen has run afoul of the YouTube gatekeepers. The video is gone but can be accessed here

Covid-19, mandatory vaccination and the rationalization of tyranny

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The Woke Purge has begun

Brendan O'Neill
spiked
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 17:52 UTC
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© Alex Wong/GettyPresident Donald Trump looks at his phone during a roundtable at the State Dining Room of the White House June 18, 2020 in Washington, DC.
Twitter's suspension of Donald Trump is a chilling sign of tyranny to come.

Cancel culture doesn't exist, they say. And yet with the flick of a switch, billionaire capitalists voted for by precisely nobody have just silenced a man who is still the democratically elected president of the United States. With the push of a button in their vast temples to technology, the new capitalist oligarchs of Silicon Valley have prevented a man who won the second largest vote in the history of the American republic just two months ago — 74million votes — from engaging with his supporters (and critics) in the new public square of the internet age.

Not only does cancel culture exist — it is the means through which the powerful, unaccountable oligarchies of the internet era and their clueless cheerleaders in the liberal elites interfere in the democratic process and purge voices they disapprove of. That's what Twitter's permanent suspension of Donald Trump confirms.
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FBI search homes, offices of Tennessee lawmakers suspected of corruption

Natalie Allison
The Tennessean
Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:28 UTC
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© Stephanie Amador / The TennesseanA few FBI agents hold boxes inside the elevator, heading to Kent Calfee and Glen Casada's office at the Cordell Hull State Office Building in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. It's unknown what they are searching for.
Federal agents descended on multiple Tennessee Republican House members' homes and state offices on Friday, collecting evidence while executing search warrants as part of an unspecified investigation just days before the legislative session begins.

Nearly a dozen agents from the FBI entered the Cordell Hull legislative office building just before 8 a.m., fanning out into multiple offices for several hours before leaving with boxes full of items.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee confirmed the FBI visited the homes of former House Speaker Glen Casada, R-Franklin; Rep. Robin Smith, R-Hixson; Rep. Todd Warner, R-Chapel Hill; and former Casada aide Cade Cothren. They also went to a business associated with Warner.
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Peter Hitchens: I am, for the first time, afraid for the future of freedom in my country

Peter Hitchens
Daily Mail
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 22:04 UTC
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London's Carnaby Street is pictured above on Saturday under the national lockdown.
What if the days did not, after all, start to grow longer after Christmas? Well, yes, of course they will (won't they?) but I feel a dark, oppressive foreboding which makes spring seem very far away. Why is this?

I sense that I and some others have now become the targets of a worrying wave of spite, censorship and intolerance, very like the McCarthyite frenzy in 1950s America which swept up all kinds of innocent people in what claimed to be an attack on Communism.

The modern Left love to claim they are against that sort of thing. But only when they are not doing it themselves. There are three important groups here.
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