My book is out today! Racial thinking is not a permanent feature of humanity and is not part of human nature. We need to oppose the notion of race, not simply ignore it or deny its existence. Let's transcend racial divisions rather than accommodate to them.
Yes indeed. Anything the gutter press and social media racists threw at Jason Arday could be thrown at Young. Sneaked into Oxford through the back door by daddy. The UK's broad institutional top-tier is full of these private-tutor-crammed halfwits.
"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday
“I did a leg amputation on a 5-year-old girl, and the only anesthesia that we had was the anesthesia doctor singing to her… We were praying for her to faint. She stayed awake the whole amputation.”
Absolutely devastating testimony from doctors in Gaza.
Last week I wrote about the double standard at play in the right wing MSM coverage of Jason Arday’s story for @thenerve_news. My column included, a comparison to another Cambridge professor who, back in 2023, was found to have plagiarised work but kept his job bec of the Uni concluded the intellectual theft was “the product of negligent acts but was not deliberate”. I’ve waited all week for other outlets to reflect that comparison. But no. Presumably because it’s an inconvenient fact that didn’t fit their toxic narrative. 1/
Simon Jarvis, a Cambridge professor, pleaded guilty to 12 offences involving indecent images of children. Peter King, an Oxford lecturer, was jailed for offences involving thousands of indecent images of children.
I know some of you are reading these names for the first time…
Ironic really, when you think Toby Young only got into Oxford with his piss poor A-Levels because his old man pulled a few strings. There were people at Bogbrush Poly in the eighties with better grades than the old fraud here.
If you think this was reasonable and normal media scrutiny — and you’re defending it — even in the wake of a man’s death then truly, you have surrendered your humanity.
here are my thoughts on Jason Arday, who just committed suicide after being incessantly hounded by the entire UK and US media class from across the ideological spectrum, The Guardian to The Telegraph and New York Times. After it was revealed that he committed plagiarism in his PhD thesis and academic work, he resigned, but it was not enough. They kept picking at him every day, over and over. They wanted to turn him into a symbol for the lack of ability of every non-white scholar. They wanted to make him the poster-boy for "woke 1", to use AOCIA's phrasing, and all its evils and depravities, so they couldn't let it go even after he had resigned and it was already over.
So I want to compare and contrast Arday with another person: Bill Ackman's wife Neri Oxman, who is an Israeli Zionist Jew. She completed her PhD at MIT in 2010, and in the same year joined MIT's media lab as part of the faculty. There she was allowed to found a "research group" that was heavily funded, including by Jeffrey Epstein. Her PhD was found to be filled with plagiarism:
https://t.co/jJo1vGiJXN
https://t.co/XUDyQe3t8b
https://t.co/f0eUKS2T0G
As you can see there, her plagiarism was massive, and included literally copy-pasting from Wikipedia and plagiarizing from another already caught plagiarist: https://t.co/nQwyyPjAaI. This is worse than anything Arday was accuse of by a million miles. She didn't even copy-paste from other academic sources, she copy-pasted FROM FUCKING WIKIPEDIA.
This was a marginal item for a few days, her husband Bill Ackman, a fanatical genocidal Zionist, defended her plagiarism by saying that copy-pasting from Wikipedia and all the rest is actually completely normal and fine, and he pressured Business Insider's owners to review and retract the reporting (https://t.co/MAZLFC3Lb0), and then everyone forgot about it and she still has her PhD in good standing.
If she hadn't already left her MIT position in 2021, she would still have it today, and everyone knows it because no one dares touch a Zionist Israeli Jew who can hysterically cry ANTISEMITISM ANTISEMITISM and get Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, everyone at the NYT, BBC, CNN, Guardian alongside the vast Israel lobby and regime to rise to their defense.
No one attempted to make her into the symbol for Zionist Jewish supremacists and their deception and lies and how they worm themselves into elite academia and then use their Zionist Jewish supremacist husbands and the entire Israel lobby to defend them when they get caught.
Jason Arday had no one. A few marginal voices attempted to call of the dogs, but they were themselves swamped with death threats and insanity. He was systematically murdered by the media and political class, while countless Neri Oxman's slither around at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge, Oxford without a worry in the world because they know exactly where power really, actually lies.
Tommy Robinson and fuckin' Benjamin Netanyahu have active Youtube channels. These two cretins are just fine, but I've just had my channel removed to "protect the community" 🤯 @TeamYouTube
The British government has refused to release any files about alleged meddling by an Israeli firm in elections in Scotland earlier this year.
A little-known firm named BlackCore was accused by French authorities in June of meddling in elections in Scotland, France, New York, Angola and Togo after a probe uncovered the use of fake social media accounts.
Viginum, a French government agency that fights foreign digital interference, said BlackCore had coordinated hundreds of accounts to post negative comments about Scottish first minister John Swinney during his bid for re-election, which was nonetheless successful.
The agency launched an investigation after evidence suggested BlackCore may have tried to smear three candidates from the leftwing France Unbowed party during municipal elections in March, Reuters reported.
After the National newspaper asked for files relating to the allegations under freedom of information (FOI) rules, the UK Cabinet Office rejected the request to “avoid giving offence to other nations and retain the trust of our international partners”.
It also said doing so could damage national security. “Taking into account all the circumstances of this case, we have determined that the balance of the public interest favours withholding this information,” it said.
An exemption under FOI rules allows for information to be withheld if it would “prejudice relations between the United Kingdom and any other state”.
Scotland’s government, however, did release some files in response to an identical request made by the National, while withholding others on national security grounds.
The files suggest that Swinney and other government figures were unaware of the allegations about BlackCore until they saw them in the media.
“You might not have seen this,” one email between two redacted addresses said.
John Webster, the principal private secretary to the first minister, was copied in. He replied: “I have shared this with FM [Swinney] – anticipating that he will want to understand more about this report… and what actions remedial and future / proactive are being taken.”
Scottish Greens co-leader Gillian Mackay told the National: “These allegations of meddling in elections from BlackCore represent a potentially extremely serious attack on Scotland’s democracy.
“The public deserves to know whether warnings were missed before polling day, and what action has been taken since. All governments should do their part to provide clear assurances that Scotland’s democratic processes are being protected.”
BlackCore deleted its online presence after being contacted by Reuters in June, and has not made any public statements about the allegations.
With the experiences of 20th century in mind, how far are we going to let these new authoritarian forms of anti-communism develop?
Ceuta is Spain in AFRICA. "Detail" easily forgotten when people want to promote idea of "dangerous invasion" of undesirable migrants in Europe. 7/7
The left, especially the left fighting all forms of racism and defending migrants, is portrayed as supporting so-called Islamist terrorism and so, it is also viewed as the internal enemy of Western civilisation. 4/7
Racism against the Jews was endemic throughout the West (with the development of racial thought, Jews and others were portrayed as separate races). And it became easy to accept the attempts to exterminate and expell Jews from the West. 2/7
Let's think about this sudden "50 000 migrants invading Spain/Europe" event. Why now? Who benefits? What is happening and how it is being used?
Good points made here.
Genocide does not require extermination, which is a separate crime. It requires destruction. A genocidaire does not need to kill all members of the group to commit genocide. They don’t even need to kill them. Subjecting them to destructive conditions suffices
"Marxism *never* developed an ethics."
Never say "never." Michael Lazarus and Vanessa Wills make a strong case that Marx's immanent critique of capitalism has an ethical dimension. In short, the ethical dimension is freedom as self-development through freely associated labor.