Pretty sure this “network” is just a bunch of angry far-right internet shitlords  combing Twitter and Facebook. If the media outlets in question clearly take a stand against bad faith controversy mongering they’ll have nothing. Sure, if someone said something really anti-Semitic years ago there should probably be some…

The legal argument is that they’re fired for not conforming to “sex stereotypes/expectations”. So essentially a gay man is fired for not conforming to a heterosexual idea of what a man is. This is the same argument used for trans people fired. While “sex” is the term in the original statute, later legal rulings have…

Yeah, that’s a reason I watch all of this beyond just normal news reading. I’m a polytheist. Muslims and LGBTQ folks are the bigger targets these days but in the ‘90s pagans were the bogeyman. I was a child then, but it all got passed down. I’ve still dealt with a lot of prejudice and discrimination even though we’re…

That and a similar authoritarian mindset. A lot of the ex-evangelical crowd on Twitter has been hitting on that point for awhile. There’s a fundamental desire for authoritarian leadership friendly to them. They aren’t committed to democracy if it fails their interests. 

Well, the majority of the OT is a fictional history, anything before the Babylonian Captivity is heavily fictionalized and edited to suit the Judahite monarchy and their new religion. Really anything before the Hellenistic period is worth being skeptical. Once you get into the Seleucid era much of it seems to have…

That’s a good point. There’s also a weird amount of hostility among white Americans who identify as “white” with practices that are “too ethnic” even if they’re from “white” cultures. People who hate Polish food and think it’s too foreign. People who celebrate St. Paddy’s day but get angry when you speak a cúpla focal …

I’m worried the Supreme Court will approve this. Their record is awful. I still remember the case they ruled sectarian prayer before government meetings was fine as long as they tossed in one or two non-Christians per 100 meetings. It didn’t get a ton of press, though it was big in the pagan community because one of…

Honestly, not sure it’d make a difference. These people claim a lot of the past that was before the concept of “white” (which begins in the late 1500s at the earliest). Ever wonder why “Western Civilization” includes Mesopotamia and Egypt? Neither were “Western” even in the reductive and near-meaningless sense the…

I’m not a Christian, but I’m pretty sure race isn’t actually mentioned in the Bible. Especially considering the early Jews circa 650 BCE or so, when it looks like the OT was compiled and redacted, had no concept of “white people”. The Genesis narrative probably dates from around that time. At that point monotheism…

Wow, I expect the first part these days, but I’ve got to say the “no mixed race marriages!” part was more explicit than I thought. Saying that to the face of a woman whose father was Syrian no less (though 20 years ago he might have been considered white). 

Yeah, I mean I think people expected more biting political satire, as others have noted it feels pretty soft in that regard, but I saw it randomly one night and laughed at the absurdity.

America’s weird “love-hate-fetishize” thing with Jews is just so weird. Sociologically trying to unpack it gives me a headache. Living it must be worse. In the span of one discussion you can go from Christians considering you their civilizational bosom-buddy to an evil leftist undermining America. 

I think, but I’m not certain, their usage may be related to one of the numerous anti-Semitic books and theories of discredited academic Kevin MacDonald. He’s really popular with the “race realism”/”human biodiversity” crowd that makes up a lot of the VDare readers. 

Frum is not very smart, and absolutely bigoted, but he’s not a “I sympathize with the poor souls at VDare” kind of bigot. He’s a “I think we need to listen to the arguments of fascists” bigot. 

I’ve already seen a number of conservatives say the term kritarch is not anti-Semitic, which is one of those “true in a narrow way but false in general” claims and I can’t ken why they’re doing it. In those circles, it fundamentally is meant to insinuate Jewish control. This is part of the “Jews are flooding the…

If you were raised on “the Arabs are violent and primitive and want to kill us” the jump to “Muslims are violent and primitive and want to kill us” really isn’t very large. Add in some very well-funded anti-Muslim groups, who staff pretty heavily from the small but very vocal segment of far-right Jews in America and…

I keep trying to get into podcasts, but my habit of reading while listening to music makes it tough. I’ve had two sitting in a tab for like a week.

Reminder: Cotton is supposed to be one of the smarter foreign policy voices in the present GOP. This is a serious claim people have written many times. 

Most of the networks, and most bigger papers, won’t give space to people to the left of Beinart though. I mean Bari Weiss, with a long history of racist harassment, get’s a plum job laundering her bigotry at NYT. The opinion editor at the Forward, one of the biggest liberal Jewish papers, is notorious for her bigotry…

Hasan has a long list of these instances that’s been active for awhile, so I’m not sure if most of it originates with Beinart or Hasan. Beinart’s really being shoved left by all this, I’ve always respected his voice but thought his attempt to salvage Liberal Zionism naive. Ironically actually Hasan has been attacked…