David kennedy

[Dan O'Brien @danobrien20]

Ireland since independence has always rejected the political extremes. Communism and fascism were rejected in the 20th century and militant ultranationalism during the Troubles was overwhelmingly rejected by voters.
Opinion polls show that middle Ireland does not support the extreme obsession of a minority with one of the world’s many awful conflicts. That so many politicians (and most media) are so detached from the average voter is a real cause for concern. The political class has shown itself to be out of touch on other issues, eg the referendums of 2023. Some self reflection by politicians on the obsession with one of the Middle East’s conflicts is needed more than even after tonight’s game.

[Paul Treyvaud @PaulTreyvaud]

Not even 20 people!

What happened to

‘An entire nation?’

‘All of Ireland?’

Questions have to be asked how such a tiny group of people got such national and indeed, international, exposure from the MSM

This is all we have seen, or was rammed down our necks for over a week now. There were even less outside Leinster House yesterday.

Who’s behind this? Who’s paid for this? Is any journalist going to ask these questions or is the money that good not to?

[David kennedy @quackser4]

The more delusional the mob becomes, the more they double down.

[Clare Daly @ClareDalyIRL]

Can you please spread the word about this event and make your best effort to attend? Is our last chance to appeal to the players and show the FAI large numbers against playing Israel.

Please share!

[David kennedy @quackser4]

The older Greta gets, the more tinfoil hat crazy she seems to become, poor girl is totally barking mad.

[Omri @OVisionIL]

Calling Ed Sheeran "Complicit in Genocide" is insane

We are actually witnessing mass psychosis

[Paddy McKenna @paddymacc1]

God help us, is this the alternative government in waiting, in Ireland

[Damien @taxidamien]

Murphy, Boyd Barrett, Labour, Social Democrats and all the leftie libtards heading to Doonbeg
#AmgenIrishOpen

[David kennedy @quackser4]

@KTHopkins Unbelievably well said and honest

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

Well done Kay. At this sad time I think it's very brave of you to repost this interview of you unquestioningly accepting of bunch of improbable lies at face value. Perhaps if you'd done your basic due diligence as a journalist, Jason Arday wouldn't have felt so emboldened to continue up his tower of fallacy that would inevitably come tumbling down, and he might've had a softer fall.

[The Spectator @spectator]

Behold the human wreckage of the cult of diversity. The tragedy of Jason Arday is that he was both built up and destroyed by the ruthless machinery of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). The academy made him into the golden boy of its philistine project of ‘decolonisation’ and gave not one thought to what the consequences might be if his thin story unravelled, as it inevitably would.

✍️ Brendan O’Neill
https://t.co/uF44CU3HOQ

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Extracts from article in Spectator 16th August by Brendan O’Neill:

Behold the human wreckage of the cult of diversity. The tragedy of Jason Arday is that he was both built up and destroyed by the ruthless machinery of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). The academy made him into the golden boy of its philistine project of ‘decolonisation’ and gave not one thought to what the consequences might be if his thin story unravelled, as it inevitably would. No one can deny it now: wokeness makes false gods and real tragedies. . .

This is the poison chalice of the state religion of diversity. It lays traps for the very people it celebrates. It handpicks members of ‘the oppressed’ for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. That’s the toxic bargain of identity politics: it builds teetering pedestals for ethnic-minority thinkers, meaning their fall from grace is often twice as fatal.

And what a pedestal they made for Arday. They worshipped him as ‘the best in the world’. They beatified him as a black wunderkind whose very presence in a place like Cambridge might help to wash away its sins of whiteness. They canonised him as a living monument to ‘decolonisation’. It was precisely this, their giddy, narcissistic desire to manufacture a kind of black saviour, that made them turn a blind eye to the questionable elements of Arday’s CV and life story. They sacrificed their due diligence to the god of decolonisation.

And Arday suffered. He was both poster boy and sacrificial lamb of the diversity crusade. Even as he gained from it – reaching the dizzying heights of a Cambridge professorship – he was being damned by it. The foundation of myth and sand his starry career was built on was untenable. Its collapse was a given. It is a testament to the ideological blindness of the inhabitants of our ivory towers that none of them foresaw it. . . .

The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.

. . . The media is the only institution in this entire tragic scandal that did its job properly. Journalists found a story and they told it. It was the academy and Arday’s colleagues who failed to do their jobs. Who failed to prize merit over identity, and failed to foresee the public embarrassment that would befall their falsely promoted friend. They ignored the truth – the media found it.

I and others have been arguing for years that the politics of identity is a disaster for all, black and white alike. White kids are overlooked, black kids are patronised. Whites are branded ‘privileged’, blacks ‘oppressed’. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who must atone for past sins, blacks as history’s perma-victims who require the gracious helping hand of the state. We are demonised or infantilised according to the accident of our race.

Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true ideal of equality. We couldn’t save Jason but we can save merit from the monstrous jaws of identity.

[David kennedy @quackser4]

@TadhgHickey @NOOWSHOW You are a lot more scarier and dangerous than Greta. Jeepers lad, you really are something else.

[Nick Buckley MBE @NickBuckleyMBE]

Heads have to roll at Cambridge. This incident has damaged their reputation world wide and turned them into a laughing stock. DEI destroys everything - eventually.

[ZZ Flop ✡️🇮🇪 @ZzVvbbbbn]

Ireland is the last country in the west that takes Greta Thunberg seriously

[David kennedy @quackser4]

A perfect example of performative politics 🫣

[The Irish Politics Newsletter @IrishPoliticsNL]

This is shocking.
At an EU Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, Lynn Boylan lamented that it was “a pity we can’t use our own language.” When it was pointed out that she could, in fact, speak Irish, she backtracked almost instantly: "I wasn’t prepared, so I’ll use English."

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Islamic Regime: “The U.S. has resorted to lies. I reject the unfounded accusation by Western members and Bahrain.”

🇺🇸 @USAmbUN Mike Waltz: “Let me remind you where you are. This is not Tehran. This is the USA. This is the U.N. Security Council. You will not silence this body.”

[Ben Scallan 🇮🇪 @Ben_Scallan]

Not one liberal politician or journalist argued that the George Floyd "I can't breathe" clip shouldn't have been shared. They only want to stop you seeing the Belfast clip because it's massively, massively inconvenient to them - 'sensitivity for victims' has zilch to do with it.

[karldeeter ⭐ @karldeeter]

Those who won't be affected by jobs lost to US companies or who have a singular moral superiority on just one human catastrophe in the world (while ignoring all others) won't care, their religion is that of the left, and that means that no price is too high.

[Robert Gilchrist ⚽️🐿 @RabG1988]

Celtic fans love IRA terrorists, love Hamas terrorists, laugh at kids that died at a football match, sing about dead rangers staff and players, sing about Lee Rigby murder.

Robbie Keane worked in Israel for a year and that’s what they find appalling 🤦🏻‍♂️

Mental 😂

[Ann McElhinney 🧡 @annmcelhinney]

There’s a growing list of the virtuous class in Ireland who think we shouldn’t play soccer against Israel.

But that same group think it’s ok that Ireland are going to play cricket against Afghanistan.

The virtuous Irish are of course in no way antisemitic.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

HEARTBREAKING: Her 10-month-old baby was cut in half with a knife in front of her, her husband shot dead, and she watched them split her second child's skull with a machete. They also cut off one of her hands.

This is life for Christians in Nigeria. The media remains silent.