Max Klinger

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[Max Klinger @maxklingerpol]

I studied in the academic department at Cambridge that later employed Jason Arday. Here's just some of the crap I learnt: For one module, I wrote a lengthy essay about how cultural products like kids’ cartoons and jazz songs serve as instruments of capitalist oppression. I got a top mark on that paper (despite knowing at the time that I was essentially regurgitating complete crap).

While studying for another paper I had a debate with the professor, an eminent anthropologist, because she insisted that native tribes could fly through the trees - not metaphorically, but that they could literally fly because they believed they could fly. After all, who are we to question ‘indigenous ways of knowing’...

For a different course, I read long ‘research papers’ which argued that the fact that black kids are excluded from schools more than white kids proves systemic racism exists in education. Crucially, they ignored the fact that white kids are excluded more than, e.g., Japanese kids, a statistic which, applying the exact same logic, would suggest that the education system is systemically biased in favour of, erm, Japanese kids (which obviously it isn’t).

Something that was held up as proof of the existence of this largely imaginary racism was that teachers tell kids not to use booming voices in the classroom, and not to put up their hoods or wear their trousers down below their pants.

On another occasion, my supervisor casually praised some students agitators who were trying to shut down a talk by someone they disagreed with. I said that I didn’t think this was something to celebrate, because I believed in freedom of speech. He got visibly angry, and proceeded to tell me that free speech was not worth protecting in a capitalist system (or something along those lines).

In my all-important final year, a lecturer let me know that I shouldn’t worry too much about my exam results, because as someone who was not from an upper class background I should be more focussed on using my grasp of leftist revolutionary theory to further the interests of the proletariat. Writing this down, it strikes me that it’s so hilariously mental that some of you will presumably assume I’m lying. But there’s no way I’m leaving it out, because it happened.

Unlike the academics who make a living from this stuff, I couldn’t bring myself to build a career pumping out whiney, divisive, intellectually incoherent rubbish. But others, as we’ve seen exposed in recent days, do so with gusto. And are lauded for it.

Please read the full piece this is taken from, and give it a share. I've linked it in the tweet below.

[Max Klinger @maxklingerpol]

It’s the state in the entire region with by far the greatest degree of formal equality for all citizens. Meanwhile Jews have been ethnically cleansed from virtually every other state in the Middle East, and that would happen to them in Israel the moment they ceased to be the majority. Everyone knows this. So of course, you nutters focus obsessively on the one state that is most equal, while ignoring all the others that are not.

[Max Klinger @maxklingerpol]

‘What’s happening in Gaza is worse than the Nazis! It’s worse than any other war in world history! It’s worse than the limitless wars of annihilation and genocides perpetrated by Muslim regimes, including ones going on right now, that have claimed literally thousands of times more lives that we support’.

How does anyone fall for this melodrama. The war’s horrifying. But ya boyz stormed through a fence, murdered and raped absolutely everyone, vowed to do it again, seized captives to massacre in tunnels, then hid in schools and hospitals. Now they’re experiencing the absolutely inevitable response.

Stop with the cry bullying.

[Joe Mama @JoeMama_v23]

@maxklingerpol What Nazis did to Jews in the Holocaust is less evil than what Jews are doing in Gaza today.

The Gaza genocide is the most important event in the past 100 years easy. Forget Ukraine, it is More important that the Holocaust.

[Max Klinger @maxklingerpol]

Is that before or after the part where you detonate bombs in concert halls full of children and rape women to death?

[SNEAKO 🇺🇸 @sneako]

Jihad means the struggle to become better btw

[Max Klinger @maxklingerpol]

‘Zionist’ is a historic term. In the current context, its meaning is that you don’t think Israel should be annihilated and/or conquered and subsumed by Islam. If you are not a ‘Zionist’, by definition you think Israel - the world’s only tiny jewish state, and only that state, should be wiped out. That’s why the term ‘Zionist’ is a misnomer here. Given that Israel has already *been* established, and survived multiple genocidal attempts by Muslim armies to destroy it, it makes no sense to say you are or aren’t a Zionist, it’s like saying you are or aren’t an ‘abolitionist’ - sure, if slavery existed in the West (as it does in parts of the Muslim world) I’d be an abolitionist. But it doesn’t, so the term is not relevant now. Similarly, Israel exists. So the divide isn’t between ‘Zionists’ and ‘anti-Zionists’, it’s between people who want to wipe out a state and those who don’t.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Basic education piece:

Not all Jewish people are Zionists.

Lots of Zionists aren't Jews.

The Board of Deputies largely self identity as Zionists.

The Media often report the Board of Deputies as the opinion of Jewish people.

Yet many Jewish people say #NotInOurName

[Max Klinger @maxklingerpol]

@amappou 🥱

[Max Klinger @maxklingerpol]

Here’s something more racist: invading a festival and shooting hundreds of people to death because they’re Jews

[Mothin Ali @MothinAli]

What could be more racist and ignorant than smearing people for talking about the ethnic cleansing, apartheid and genocide they've suffered without even bothering to speak to them?

[Max Klinger @maxklingerpol]

@kareemwmasri @ZackPolanski There was no state of Palestine in 1948. ‘Zios’ offered to split the land and create a Palestinian state, in response Arabs invaded and tried to destroy Israel and murder everyone. They lost their war of aggression humiliatingly.

[Max Klinger @maxklingerpol]

@Fox_Claire @TheFP Thanks Claire! Unbelievable event.

[Max Klinger @maxklingerpol]

This I think ranks among the truly maddest things to have come out of posting on here and writing/talking about politics more generally. An invite from the Free Press (@TheFP) - out of the blue - to attend their ‘creator summit’, in New York with a handful of some of the biggest and best writers, political content creators and so on in the world. In the middle of Times Square, with a massive billboard lit up to advertise the event. An honour. Genuinely wild and slightly surreal, but amazing.

[Max Klinger @maxklingerpol]

A quick look at what’s not getting reported on correctly…

[Max Klinger @maxklingerpol]

French cities are filled with large mobs of people who are actively glorifying the jihadists who committed these almost unimaginably horrific crimes, while burning those cities to the ground. Everything about that is insane.

It’s insane these crimes were ever committed, insane we’ve imported massive numbers of lunatics who are now celebrating those crimes while burning down French cities, insane that ‘anti-racists’ in France are joining them, insane we’re being told this is about schoolbooks and a ‘protest by French schoolkids’ etc.

When the consequences of the groupthink and dogma that has dominated our cultural and political life come home to roost, as they are now, they are genuinely astonishing to witness at times.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Myriam was a 7-year-old French Jewish girl. She witnessed a terrorist break into her school and kill two of her classmates.

She tried to run but tripped while grabbing her schoolbag, causing her ballet slippers to fall out. She stopped to pick them up. He chased her and grabbed her by the hair, shooting her in the head at point-blank range.

The man was Mohamed Merah, and a rap song honoring him and other Muslim terrorists has become the unofficial anthem of the ‘student protests’ in France.

[Max Klinger @maxklingerpol]

It’s a massive riot. It doesn’t matter if it supposedly ‘started as a protest about books.’ Riots almost never *immediately* start as a riot. The significant story here is that European nations are full of people who will happily burn down their own countries at the slightest opportunity. This includes (but is not limited to) people who are, in all but name, so unassimilated as to be foreign, and home-born self-hating left-wing agitators. The latter group’s ideology is, in a more moderate form, essentially pushed on us non-stop by our cultural classes, and has resulted in the massive, epoch-defining issues raised by the beliefs and attitudes of the former group going unaddressed for decades.

[Max Klinger @maxklingerpol]

Lol - say the people who’ve spoken absolutely non-stop about Israel and Palestine for 3+ years despite having absolutely zero connection to the region whatsoever and zero clue what’s going on. Suddenly, now that men with Palestine flags are burning down European cities, we mustn’t speak of it.