Nobody is really sure what exactly happened, but a cold, icy wind is blowing through the intellectual cosmos today, following the deplatforming of Andrew Anglin and Professor Kevin MacDonald from Twitter. Anglin's account (@WorldWarWang) and MacDonald's accoung (@TOOEdit) were taken down this week for unknown reasons.
As is well known, Twitter boss Elon Musk is a resolute defender of free speech, but he is also "in cahoots" with the Communist-controlled Chinese government, due to most of the supply chains for his various businesses stemming from there. So, did Anglin or MacDonald say something disparaging to Musk's Chinese overlords? Or is this just evidence of "backstairs pressure" exerted by the usual suspects of the ADL and the SPLAC (and the American deep state) to cut down the tallest flowers in the garden of on-line dissent
Anglin is a well-known neo Nazi troll, who shows clear signs of being run by the Kremlin, while Kevin MacDonald (or K-Mac, as he is known to his followers), runs The Occidental Observer, associates with blatant Neo-Nazis, and pushes an intellectualised theory of "Jewish group interests" as the driving force in modern Western social degeneracy.
Both Anglin and MacDonald tried to stay within the "letter of the law" on social media and avoided using gratuitous smears and vulgar hate speech. But that was a poor defence. These deplatformings suggest that the longer someone exists in the dissident-o-sphere, the more negative the baggage they accrue, and therefore the bigger target for deplatforming they become.
The ultimate message here is that dissent is only supposed to be a "phase that one goes through," before waking up one day, like Orwell's character Winston Smith in 1984, and saying "I love Big Brother."
The ultimate message here is that dissent is only supposed to be a "phase that one goes through," before waking up one day, like Orwell's character Winston Smith in 1984, and saying "I love Big Brother."
McDonald is great and I agree with most of what he writes is clearly visible at least tangentially.
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