Greg Anderson

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[Greg Anderson @AndersonJG]

A worthwhile read. Agree or not.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois intellectuels qui, dans les années 60, pondent des livres illisibles au fond d'amphis parisiens. Aucun n'a jamais tenu une arme. Aucun n'a jamais entendu parler de Southampton.

Et pourtant, soixante ans plus tard, c'est leur idée qui tient la main qui menotte Henry Nowak, 18 ans, pendant qu'il se vide de son sang.

Comment passe-t-on de l'un à l'autre? Il n'y a pas de hasard. Il y a une ligne droite. Je vais vous la dérouler, maillon par maillon.

Premier maillon. Ces philosophes lâchent une idée d'apparence inoffensive: la vérité ne serait jamais neutre, ce serait toujours une construction du pouvoir. Donc on pourrait, et on devrait, se méfier des faits eux-mêmes. Ils n'ont pas voulu ce qui allait suivre. Mais ils ont armé un mécanisme: le soupçon généralisé envers le réel.

Deuxième maillon. Cette idée traverse l'Atlantique et mute dans les universités américaines. Elle rencontre une impulsion noble, la repentance, reconnaître des injustices historiques réelles. Et elle la transforme en tout autre chose: une hiérarchie morale permanente. Des groupes classés selon leur degré supposé de victimité. Oppresseurs d'un côté, opprimés de l'autre. Pour toujours.

Troisième maillon, et c'est là que tout bascule. Une fois qu'on classe les gens par groupe, on cesse de les juger par leurs actes. On les juge par leur catégorie. La crédibilité n'est plus méritée, elle est assignée d'avance.

Quatrième maillon. Black Lives Matter en fut l'apogée liturgique. « I can't breathe » devient une formule sacrée. La règle implicite: croire d'office la victime désignée, soupçonner d'office l'oppresseur désigné. Avant les faits. À la place des faits.

Comprenez bien ce qu'on installe là. Pas une opinion. Un réflexe. Un automatisme cognitif gravé dans des institutions entières: l'accusation venue de la « bonne » catégorie l'emporte sur ce que vous voyez de vos propres yeux.

Et un réflexe, on sait ce que ça fait à des hommes ordinaires.

Je me suis longtemps passionné pour la psychologie, et une période m'obsède: l'après-guerre. Le moment où des chercheurs se sont posé la question la plus dérangeante du siècle. Comment l'Allemagne nazie avait-elle transformé des pères de famille ordinaires en bourreaux de camp?

La réponse, ils ne l'ont pas trouvée chez des monstres. Ils l'ont trouvée chez des hommes parfaitement banals.

Hannah Arendt a appelé ça la banalité du mal. L'historien Christopher Browning, en étudiant le bataillon de réserve 101 (des policiers d'âge mûr, des pères, des commerçants), a montré que ce ne sont pas des fanatiques qui ont fusillé des civils, mais des hommes normaux incapables de désobéir au cadre dominant.

Puis vint Milgram. À Yale, environ deux tiers de gens ordinaires ont infligé ce qu'ils croyaient être des décharges mortelles, simplement parce qu'une autorité le leur ordonnait. L'expérience de la prison de Stanford a montré la même chose sous un autre angle: donnez à quelqu'un un rôle et un cadre, et il s'y conformera jusqu'à l'inhumain.

La leçon n'est pas allemande. Elle est humaine. Le mécanisme s'active dès qu'un cadre moral dominant fait craindre la sanction sociale plus que ne compte le témoignage de ses propres yeux. L'individu cesse de voir ce qu'il voit. Il voit ce que le cadre l'autorise à voir.

Maintenant, rejouez la scène de Southampton au ralenti.

Henry Nowak, 18 ans, poignardé, allongé au sol, répète aux policiers « j'ai été poignardé », « je ne peux plus respirer ».

Réponse de l'officier: « I don't think you have, mate. »

Pendant ce temps, son meurtrier retourne la situation d'une phrase: il aurait été victime d'une agression raciste, on lui aurait arraché son turban. L'officier n'a pas vu Henry. Il a vu deux catégories. D'un côté, un homme qui dégaine le script de l'agression raciste, crédible par défaut. De l'autre, un jeune homme blanc à terre, sans grief à brandir, sans formule sacrée à réciter, suspect par défaut.

Le cadre a choisi à sa place. Il n'a même pas eu à réfléchir. C'est ça, le conditionnement: la pensée a déjà eu lieu, avant lui. Exactement le mécanisme de Milgram, de Browning. Un homme normal qui cesse de croire ses propres yeux parce qu'un cadre moral lui a appris ce qu'il devait craindre.

René Girard avait tout décrit. Le coupable détourne sa faute en désignant un bouc émissaire, et le système l'accepte d'autant plus volontiers qu'il colle au rôle attendu. Henry n'a pas été cru parce qu'il ne pouvait pas jouer la victime. Sa catégorie le lui interdisait.

Souvenez-vous. Le monde entier s'est agenouillé pour quatre mots, « I can't breathe ». Des entreprises, des gouvernements, des stades entiers. Henry a prononcé exactement les mêmes mots, en train de mourir. Il n'y aura ni genou à terre, ni hashtag, ni minute de silence. Parce que sa mort ne sert pas le cadre. Elle le contredit.

Voilà l'inversion finale, et la plus monstrueuse. Une idéologie née en promettant de protéger les vulnérables a fini par apprendre à des hommes à ignorer la personne la plus vulnérable de la pièce, celle qui agonise, parce que sa catégorie n'était pas la bonne.

Et le vrai piège, c'est de croire que l'erreur aurait été de choisir le mauvais camp. Non. L'erreur, c'est de choisir des camps. De voir des catégories là où il y a un être humain qui saigne devant soi.

De Foucault à Southampton, voilà la ligne droite. Soixante ans pour qu'une idée abstraite apprenne à un homme à ne plus voir un enfant mourir sous ses yeux.

Henry Nowak n'avait rien demandé. Il demandait juste qu'on le voie.

Personne ne l'a vu.

[Telegraph-Journal @TJProvincial]

Henry Srebrnik: Civil war Sudan has no inclusive national identity https://t.co/oS8tAKIifu

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

This is the door said to have inspired Tolkien's Doors of Durin in The Lord of the Rings. The two trees standing on either side of it, at St Edward's Church in Stow-on-the-Wold, are believed to be the ones the Oxford professor placed at the entrance to the Mines of Moria.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

Four days before Israel declared independence, Golda Meir made a desperate secret trip to Amman. Disguised as an Arab woman, she met with King Abdullah of Transjordan — an Arab leader who acknowledged Jewish rights to the Land & who many hoped may choose peace.

Abdullah had long kept private contacts with Zionist leaders. He dreamed of a Greater Syria under Hashemite rule and saw cooperation with the Jews as strategically useful.

In their November 1947 meeting, he had hinted at possible accommodation.

But by May 1948, the Arab world was locked in rejection. Abdullah told Golda he was now “one of several” — no longer free to act alone. Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon were all committed to destroying the Jewish state the moment it was born.

He still wanted peace with his Jewish neighbors. But he felt trapped.

Before they parted, the King looked at Golda and said these remarkable words:

“I believe with all my heart that divine providence has brought you back here, restoring you to the Semitic East which needs your knowledge and initiative. Conditions are now difficult, but be patient.”

It was a poignant, almost prophetic farewell.

King Abdullah paid for his pragmatism with his life. On July 20, 1951, while visiting Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, he was assassinated by a local Arab gunman acting on orders from the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi war criminal, Amin al-Husseini. Peace with Jews was considered treason.

This became a tragic pattern: moderate Arab leaders who dared acknowledge Jewish rights or seek accommodation were sidelined, exiled, or killed.

From 1948 onward, maximalist rejectionism has been rewarded while moderation has been punished.

Yet the Jewish state survived — and thrived anyway.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Mohammed Fahir Amaaz and Muhammad Amaad have been cleared over the alleged assault of a male police officer at Manchester Airport

Two juries failed to reach a verdict and no further trial will take place

[Greg Anderson @AndersonJG]

The NP’s have every reason to be concerned. If @susanholt or any of the “oooh don’t hurt my feelings” bunch were on this platform they might be asked a few questions which, no doubt, is the reason they are not.

Foundever is a large, established player in a tough industry but shows clear signs of financial distress (high debt, repeated downgrades, liquidity risks). It is not “stable” for investors, lenders, or potentially long-term partners/employees right now. The BPO sector faces structural headwinds from automation, making recovery uncertain without successful refinancing or operational turnaround.
For the most current details, check recent S&P reports or financial news.

If or when Foundever fails will she or ANY minister take responsibility or will the people of New Brunswick pour money into yet another government failure?

[Jeff Thompson @thomjeff]

One month away from replacing #eVisitNB, 70+ nurse practitioners warning the Holt government the new model isn't ready, reduce continuity of care & push follow-up risk to NPs. This is not just a vendor change. It is health access & safety issue. #nbpoli https://t.co/JD41pHxopB

[Jeff Thompson @thomjeff]

One month away from replacing #eVisitNB, 70+ nurse practitioners warning the Holt government the new model isn't ready, reduce continuity of care & push follow-up risk to NPs. This is not just a vendor change. It is health access & safety issue. #nbpoli https://t.co/JD41pHxopB

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person.”

— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

[Telegraph-Journal @TJProvincial]

Holt Liberals 'don't understand competitiveness,' expert says of growth plan https://t.co/E072aEaISK

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

A lot of people have struggled to believe me when I say that the Australian Human Rights Commission is giving pregnancy protections in law to men who claim to be woman, because it’s so stupid it’s hard to believe anyone would say it.

Enjoy:

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Follow the logic.

Women are deluded and naive for thinking predatory and violent men can be kept out of women-only spaces. ‘They can rape you anywhere.’

However, trans-identified men can only be safe in women-only spaces, because no abuser would ever follow them in there.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

I need everyone to share this.

This is a 14-year-old Palestinian boy who tried to stab IDF soldiers to death.

The anti-Israel crowd edited the video to make it look like they killed him for no reason.

This is the full unedited version. Please make this go viral.

[Edward De Lavigne @EdwardDeLavigne]

Daily reminder about Gaza.

What is important to understand about the Gaza, is that it was the Islamic “Resistance” Movement aka Hamas, the Islamic republic of Iran, and all of the other delusional Islamic groups who designated, created and engineered Gaza in its entirety, including the population, as a battlefield.

They spent nearly two decades investing all of their efforts and resources into this. They spent billions to create a battlefield below and above the ground, they built a 600 mile network of terror tunnels that stretch under the Gaza, ‘for reference, that’s larger than the London underground’.

They installed rockets, weapon caches and tunnels in the north and south, in residential areas, in hospitals and schools. They weaponized Gaza totally.

By invading Israel on the 7th of October 2023, carrying out the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, and taking hostages, Hamas provoked and lured Israel into the Gaza battlefield with the false assumption they would be victorious.

But they were defeated on the battlefield that they prepared themselves, and all hostages were brought home to Israel.

Those of us who do understand, have had enough of Gazan lies and deceit, their wickedness and self inflicted suffering, their accusations and blame. It’s time they own the consequences of their actions.

Gaza had 20 years to build for peace, they chose the path of of radical Islam, Hamas and Jihad. Gaza preferred war, so they can accept war, and stop playing victim !

Hamas are both genocidal and suicidal ! Their self-inflicted suffering is nauseating, their human sacrifices for their god is barbaric.

Every bomb, every bullet, every limb lost and every life destroyed in Gaza and in Israel is the responsibility of the psychopathic Islamic Jihad ideology, superiority complex, and attitude, aka Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Islamic republic of Iran, Hezbollah and all those who support them !!!

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Sam Harris has triggered the hell out of Hamas supporters online by simply explaining a basic fact:

The Muslim terrorists who initiated a war against Israel on October 7 are facing the consequences of that war, not a genocide.

They invaded Israel shouting “Allah Akbar”, raped, murdered and burned over 1,000 Jews as Islamic acts of worship, and kidnapped hundreds more into Gaza.
They filmed their own atrocities with pride. They chose holy war, aka Jihad. Israel chose to fight back and destroy the enemy that attacked it.

That is not genocide.
That is war.

The people screaming “genocide” are the same ones who celebrated October 7 and still demand more Jewish blood.

They started the slaughter and now cry victim when Israel refuses to let them finish the job.

Sam Harris is doing what the media and politicians refuse to do: telling the truth without apology.

Do you agree with him? Yes/No?

[Greg Anderson @AndersonJG]

No. It was murdered by extremists.

[Gilles Gautier 🐰 🇫🇷🌻☣🪔2° 💸 @JackBoHare]

@SorrentinoSean @brivael Is anobody still able to make the distinction between "having minimal empathy for others" and "running a ruthless dictature based on false claims" ? Did nuance died ?

[North Yorkshire @visitnorthyork]

Rainy days are underrated 🌧️

[Greg Anderson @AndersonJG]

“Real therapy should make people more capable of dealing with reality, not less.” A good way to start your week. #nbpoli https://t.co/xcTsJvj2BT

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

This real-time 1948 article from The Economist completely destroys the modern “Nakba” narrative that was invented decades later as political propaganda.

Straight from British eyewitnesses in Haifa, October 2, 1948:

“Jewish authorities urged all Arabs to remain in Haifa and guaranteed them protection and security ... However, of the 62,000 Arabs who formerly lived in Haifa, not more than 5,000 or 6,000 remained.

The most potent factor was the announcements made over the air by the Arab Higher Executive, urging the Arabs to quit ... those who remained and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades.”

They didn’t flee because of “Zionist ethnic cleansing.”
They fled because Arab leaders ordered them to get out of the way so their armies could “drive the Jews into the sea.”

Then they lost the war they started — and spent the next 77 years rewriting history to blame the Jews.

The “Nakba” you were taught? Pure revisionist fiction.

[Burchell Wilson @Burchell_Wilson]

BREAKING: Full Federal Court decide to abolish the biological definition of women, damages doubled against Sally Grover due to aggravating circumstances, and costs awarded against Grover. Artist's interpretation of decision's delivery. #FederalCourt #SalGrover #GigglevTickle