Links - 22nd August 2026 (2 - Antifa)

KGW News on X - "Powell's Books begins layoffs amid financial struggles, cites slow Portland recovery"
Andy Ngo on X - "I remember how @Powells Books banned my book about Antifa & Portland from being sold in its physical stores. They even closed early when Antifa rioted outside with that demand. The management didn’t want the public to read & learn about what was causing the decline of the city."
"Book banning" is only bad when the books push the left wing agenda

Andy Ngo on X - "In August 2020, a conservative working-class activist named Aaron "Jay" Danielson was assassinated in downtown Portland by Antifa gunman, Michael Reinoehl. Danielson was falsely called a "fascist," like how Charlie Kirk and everyone who supports Trump are.   At first, Antifa propagandists like Robert Evans said a white supremacist killed a black man, but when the Antifa mob learned who had been killed, they announced it, celebrated and held a dance party in the street.   It remains one of my most disturbing and vivid memories from covering the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots in Portland while undercover.   The local press then smeared Danielson's legacy, calling him "far-right" and suggesting he deserved to be killed. His impromptu memorial by the shooting location was destroyed by Antifa."

The Pleb 🌍 Reporter on X - "Professor A. W. Peet of the University of Toronto likes to cosplay as an ANTIFA terrorist on the weekends He's spotted with a "all cops are bastards pin" and two other famous Antifa pins on his bag These are the radicals in our Universities brainwashing the youth"
Shaughn.SGT(ret) on X - "We're seeing a LOT OF EDUCATORS being revealed now. It's no wonder why our kids are so messed up."

Andy Ngo on X - "For the liars who say there is no way to join Antifa, show them these screenshots from Portland’s Rose City Antifa:"

Grummz on X - "Antifa is just an idea...
- Which recruits members
- Screens them
- Host private servers on Discord and else where for vetted members to chat.
- Seems to have endless money for bricks and riot gear.
- Spring up overnight in perfectly timed and coordinated riots.
Sure, that all seems random and organic to me..."

Mike Jackson on X - "ANTIFA is not a real group y’all, they just have a flag, official colors, uniforms, local chapters, meeting places, email signups, and clear directives for “members.”"

Lomez on X - "When @Nero tried to speak at Berkeley in 2017, Antifa started a riot, burned the campus, maced random Trump supporters, beat them, and ultimately got the event canceled due to the violence. CNN responded by calling Milo an extremist who was rallying "white supremacists.""

Andy Ngo on X - "Last year, an Antifa terror couple were convicted for carrying out a bombing to target @michaeljknowles and students attending his speaking event in Pittsburgh. Brian and Krystal DiPippa are members of the Torch Antifa Network. The network justified the attack, saying it was to stop “transphobic hate speech.” The words echo the Charlie Kirk assassin suspect."

Meme - *World War II American soldier raising Confederate flag*
Soyjak with Soviet star: "Wow, look, guys, it's Antifa."
*Crying soyjak with covered face and Antifa flag*

Cam Higby 🇺🇸 on X - "🚨WATCH: Resident of the building next to the Portland ANTIFA encampment reacts to the tents being removed “For the past 4.5 months, we the people haven’t been able to walk down the sidewalk without threats, violence and beatings [from ANTIFA].” “For the residents here, it’s been 4 months of hell”"

Wall Street Apes on X - "Liberal posted “I see any children dressed up in some MAGA type of costume like this little worm, I'm going to be giving them my special Fentanyl laced candy. Antifa action!” This is what we’re dealing with. Liberals who threaten to kill kids for wearing a MAGA hat…."

Young Bob on X - "Antifa thugs are outside a Southampton shopping centre, harassing anyone who supports mass deportations and mocking the death of Charlie Kirk. These people are the real face of so-called “tolerance” on the left."

Wall Street Apes on X - "BOMBSHELL: Washington State Democrats are using homeless NGOs to funnel money to Antifa 🚨 It’s so deep, the people seen protesting with Antifa are even working inside social services approving the money (HOLY CR*P) “If it sounds far-fetched, take it from someone inside the homeless sector here — It's the same faction of people who link up and protest and you know — hey're often the same people we see working inside Social Services” (Seattle)  “The connection between the homeless industrial complex and the tie-in to Antifa, it's there clear as day.”  “What we saw is beyond shocking”"

Wall Street Apes on X - "WOW 🚨 Democrat states are giving grant money to NGOs, that money is then funneled into ‘The International Antifa Defense Fund’ to pay legal fees for protesters arrested Once arrested, cases are assigned to radical left judges who settle cases for millions, which funds Antifa. Andy Ngo “Antifa is unique in a way in that Antifa encouraged their supporters to get arrested, to be violent, get arrested, get it captured on camera.
- One, for propaganda purposes
- but two, to get individuals to become party to lawsuits. Lawfare against police departments and cities
And in liberal jurisdictions, the Democrat-run city council will vote to settle, settle, settle.  $1 million, $10 million, $20 million, no problem. Cities across America have settled. So those who were arrested for rioting. Get rewarded with money. So the funding comes from all these places.”  “There's also an international element as well, which I've been discussing a lot in the capital here. The International Antifa Defense Fund, which takes money from donors all over the world — A lot of it's from the state, Oregon, Washington. It's run completely by Democrats. They can decide how to disperse grant money and they give it to people on the radical left”"

Andy Ngo on X - "The terror Antifa propaganda site "It's Going Down" has officially announced it will be shutting down. This coincides with the Trump administration’s crackdown on organized crime within Antifa networks. Over the years, "It's Going Down" has posted numerous claims of  responsibility for domestic terrorist attacks, including an attempt by an Antifa militant to derail a train, which led to the website being mentioned in a federal criminal complaint. The website has also posted manuals on carrying out crimes and evading detection for terrorist attacks."

Andy Ngo on X - "Did you know that Antifa groups have held conferences in the U.S.? The Torch Antifa Network has chapters across the country. Rose City Antifa, in Portland, is part of it."

Nick Sortor on X - "🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Portland Police aren’t just shielding Antifa—they’re actively WORKING AGAINST DHS agents I caught them multiple times taking videos from leftist “protestors” to launch investigations into DHS agents who use pepper spray on rioters PULL FEDERAL FUNDS FROM PORTLAND!   While Portland Police allow Antifa terrorists who attempt to blind DHS agents to hide behind them, they’re also trying to undermine DHS’ ability to defend themselves.  I’m not sure this police department is even salvageable at this point."

Nick Sortor on X - "🚨 EXCLUSIVE: I took the first known video of the inside of the Antifa safehouse located FEET from ICE Portland, catching leftist militants UNMASKED This is the safehouse where vioIent Antifa terrorists, like @KatieDaviscourt’s attacker, flee after they commit crimes. Portland Police allow them to harbor criminals there, and do NOTHING about it.  An FBI raid should be the next step here. As well as the storage unit down the street, which houses THOUSANDS of dollars in goods, paid for by unknown sources."

Andy Ngo on X - ""She's literally running behind you guys" @nicksortor captured the moment a riot suspect outside the Portland ICE facility ran to @PortlandPolice for cover. PPB have been recorded recently assisting riot suspects, i.e., after they're pepper-sprayed."

Andy Ngo on X - "Portland Antifa tactics revealed: In order to hide riot supplies and potentially weapons from @PortlandPolice during sweeps of their illegal encampment outside @ICEgov, Antifa have rented a nearby storage space to stash their supplies. @Tommy4Trump420 caught them transporting  supplies to their secret base inside the South Waterfront Heated Storage business. This is in addition to their Antifa safehouse at 677 South Lowell St., Unit #152."
DC_Draino on X - "FBI might want to rake a look at this. Democrats say Antifa doesn’t exist, but here they are transporting riot weapons and evidence to a secret location."

Andy Ngo on X - "“There have been no bombs dropped in Portland or exploded in Portland in recent memory,” wrote @lizzzyacker @lrmongeau @joel__odom for the Oregonian “fact check” of the Antifa roundtable. They don’t include any of the bombs used by rioters in 2020. Mostly peaceful bombings."

Andy Ngo on X - "The @PortlandPolice did nothing about this attack and attempted robbery of @hunnybadgermom and @KatieDaviscourt. They took their time to respond, and by then, the violent Antifa man had simply walked away and escaped."

Andy Ngo on X - "Here’s what I’ve unfortunately witnessed and learned in Portland: If you are labeled “right-wing” and are a victim of Antifa/far-left violence, @PortlandPolice  will not help you nor arrest your assailants. If you attempt to defend yourself, you will be arrested, prosecuted and likely convicted.   In 2017 I testified at the trial of conservative independent journalist @LaughAtLibs , who was charged with nearly two-dozen felony and misdemeanors for brandishing a legally owned gun in self-defense when a violent BLM-Antifa mob pursued him in downtown in 2016. Police treated Michael Strickland like a terrorist and a Portland judge convicted him of the charges. He was imprisoned.  It is anarcho-tyranny under the power of Democrats who have control of nearly every institution and government in the state."

Secretary Marco Rubio on X - "Today, building on @POTUS’s historic commitment to uproot Antifa’s campaign of political violence, the Department of State is designating four Antifa groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists. The United States will continue using all available tools to protect our nation from these anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-Christian terrorist groups."
Andy Ngo on X - "Thank you, Sec. Rubio. The four Antifa groups sanctioned so far are among the most violent in Europe. One of the accused terrorist members is an Italian woman (Ilaria Salis) who escaped prosecution in Hungary by gaining diplomatic immunity by becoming a Member of the European Parliament for the Greens and Left Alliance party. Hungarian prosecutors accused her of being part of Antifa Ost/Hammerbande, which jumped and beat people in Budapest with weapons."

Andy Ngo on X - "Far-left extremist Antifa anarchists in Philadelphia are holding a letter-writing support event for Rodney Hinton Jr. They call him a "black freedom fighter." Hinton Jr. was arrested on May 2 in Cincinnati, Ohio, for allegedly striking and killing a random traffic detail officer with his car as revenge for his armed son being killed by police. His son, Ryan Hinton, was killed after brandishing a gun at police during a stolen vehicle investigation. The support event requires attendees to wear masks."

ANDY NGO REPORTS: No prison time for pedophile Portland Antifa member who pleaded guilty to stabbing black conservative at 2020 riot - "A Portland Antifa member who spent years in prison for a child sex crime conviction pleaded guilty this morning to stabbing a black conservative livestreamer during the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots.  Blake David Hampe, 46, pleaded guilty in a sweetheart deal to felony second-degree attempted assault. He will serve no prison time, instead getting three years of probation. The charge is downgraded from the original felony second-degree assault charge. A felony charge of unlawful use of a weapon was dropped in the plea deal.  On July 25, 2020—during the height of the nightly far-left rioting in downtown Portland—Hampe was recorded on video stabbing Andrew Duncomb. Duncomb was hospitalized and narrowly survived being paralyzed as the blade pierced inches from his spinal cord. Hampe had his face covered with a helmet and goggles during the attack and nearly escaped. This reporter witnessed him being captured by a protest crowd who mistook him for being a right-winger following the stabbing. After he was booked into jail, Hampe’s $250,000 bond was covered by a far-left bail support group. The case dragged on for nearly three years with multiple trial dates pushed back. During this time, Antifa extremists in Portland intimidated Duncomb for his participation in the case by targeting him at his place of employment. In March this year, Antifa harassed him at a grocery store and successfully had him fired as security over false claims he is a white supremacist.    Despite Hampe failing to show up to several court dates, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office under Mike Schmidt offered him the sweetheart resolution deal.   Hampe was active in the Portland Antifa militant circles for several years and has been witnessed by this reporter at multiple direct actions in 2019 and 2020 where he wears clothing featuring children’s cartoon characters. He had a particular hatred for the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. immigration and border officers. His past criminal history appears to shed light as to why...     In an account he operates on Reddit under the username, “br0k3nr0b0t,” Hampe posted about his diaper fetish"

Antifa Whistleblower: "They Call You Fascist So They Can Kill You" - "A former Antifa foot soldier has ripped the mask off the far-left’s violent underbelly, revealing how the self-styled “anti-fascists” weaponise slurs not to fight tyranny, but to justify murder—labelling foes “fascists” as a license to “dehumanise” and assault them without remorse. The interview from Steven Edginton’s documentary “‘They’re Getting Ready for War’: Ex-Antifa Reveals Inside the Far-Left,” lays bare Antifa’s radicalisation pipeline: a toxic brew of bullying, arming up, and ISIS-style self-justification that’s morphed from street theater to outright terror prep. ‘Andrew’, who ditched the extremist group after witnessing their descent into “self-radicalisation,” outlined the fascist slur’s lethal intent: “They don’t kill you because you’re a fascist, they call you a fascist so they can kill you.” He further unpacked the psychology: "It is like calling a Nazi or a Fascist as a way to just dehumanise them, so you can do whatever to them. You could assault them. It's funny to them. They laugh about it." "How is this different than a group like ISIS?" The ex-member pondered. He also confirmed a shift in targets, noting “Originally they were trying to bully and threaten like what they would consider right wing extremists like Proud Boys or Christian Nationalists that show up to protest or events… That’s not the target anymore. Now, the target is anyone that doesn’t agree with them.” Andrew’s wake-up call came amid casual chats turning apocalyptic, as he explained that “Socially when I’m not at a meeting, I’m just hanging out with people I know, more and more they talk about acts of violence. They talk about guns or going to gun ranges. And it scares me.” “They feel as though their under threat. Well, we’re gonna be genocided or put in prison or Nazis have taken over America. So we have to act now to stop it,” he continued, urging that “They’re getting ready for war.”"

Andy Ngo on X - "The Intercept is again running cover for an Antifa terrorist attack. Five members of this cell have already admitted to being part of a group that carried out a shooting on an ICE facility near Fort Worth. This article calls it a "noise demonstration." Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada is not charged for having a literal Antifa insurrection zine, he's charged for allegedly conspiring with one of the defendants to hide and destroy evidence showing her involvement in the shooting. Part of the evidence destruction included hiding the extremist texts."

Andy Ngo on X - "Mark Bray, an American financier of Antifa and an assistant professor at @RutgersU, calls for mass (violent) criminality to save him and his co-conspirators in Antifa. "Only mass antifascism, legal or not, can save us," he wrote. Bray is an open advocate of Antifa violence and announced is he fleeing to Europe (likely Spain) after the U.S. government took steps to treat Antifa as domestic and foreign terrorists."
Andy Ngo on X - "Wow. @cbc’s @jayme_poisson interviewed Mark Bray without disclosing to listeners that he is a financier of Antifa. And worse, she allowed him to say without evidence that White House staff are showing Trump fake AI videos of rioting in Portland to influence his decision-making."

The Researcher on X - "Kris Goldsmith is a veteran and ANTIFA. He is also a member of the progressive globalist democracy cult. He outed himself when he mention disinformation dingbat NATO Nina Jankowicz.   This guy is a propagandist just like Nina. His role is to normalize ANTIFA and radicalize people by claiming there are fascist white supremacists everywhere.   That is why they call Trump supporters fascists, racists, Nazis, authoritarians, autocrats, etc. The democracy cult has to make us the enemy so that their radicalized brainwashed cult will rise up. It has nothing to do with fascism. It’s about the globalist progressives doing anything they have to do to defeat “populists”.   Also notice how he mentioned that they were working with DHS. That goes along with Michael Loadenthal, the ANTIFA police who worked to round up J6ers, being funded by and working with Mayorkas, DHS and the FBI."

The Oregonian on X -  "Conservative media personality reports assault at Portland protest, slams police as ‘antifa’"
Andy Ngo on X - "Conservative media personality? She was on the ground for months risking injury to capture footage while you cowards stayed inside your nearby secured office writing pieces to support the local Democrat regime. You cowards don’t even put a name to the hit pieces and  lies you write.  Meanwhile, you refer to violent Antifa camera people who participate in violence, conspiracy and rioting as “journalists.”"

EXCLUSIVE: RCMP “aware” of Antifa website with instructions on rail sabotage - "The RCMP said it is aware of an Antifa-affiliated website instructing adherents to commit crimes by sabotaging domestic rail infrastructure in British Columbia.  In a comment to True North, the RCMP said it is aware of what it called “anarchist” and “anti-authority” organizations believed to be behind a string of attacks targeting rail networks across British Columbia...  the RCMP confirmed it is monitoring a self-professed “anarchist” website B.C Counter INfo that provides how-to guides for radical protesters, including on acts of potentially deadly railway sabotage.  The website text offers something approximating a criminal “how-to” guide for sabotaging rail infrastructure in British Columbia.   It instructs readers on specific methods to disable or damage track circuits, including cutting cables, attaching wires, or tampering with power supplies—actions that constitute mischief, property damage, and potentially sabotage under Canadian law.  The guide also encourages strategic thinking to evade detection and maximize disruption, which could amount to conspiracy to commit a crime and obstruction of justice.  It even references using burning vehicles to destroy tracks, which would involve arson, endangering safety, and possibly terrorism-related charges.  According to police and court records, dozens of track circuits in B.C. were tampered with in the months following federal approval of the Pacific Rim Gas Transmission Project in 2020...   In several cases, rail safety systems were deliberately disabled, forcing trains to stop and prompting broader concerns about public safety.  Anonymous online communiqués posted at the time claimed responsibility for the disruptions, framing them as part of a wider campaign against resource extraction in Western Canada.  These statements invoked both Indigenous land-defence actions and anarchist movements, situating rail sabotage as a tactic of anti-capitalist resistance.  The RCMP investigated the incidents under the federal Critical Infrastructure Protection framework.  Unlike the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa—where many participants continue to face criminal proceedings—no charges were laid in connection with most of the rail disruptions."

The fall of Jason Arday

The fall of Jason Arday - New Statesman

"It is some irony that in a Protestant country which professes to have no truck with saints, we remain stubbornly hagiographical in temperament, elevating exemplary figures and saddling them with a symbolic freight, only to recoil when they crumble under it. This habit of mind, and its inevitable flare-ups, reveals something fundamental about the contemporary state of the country. And this includes the Jason Arday affair, which is so much more than the story of a fallen academic – or, as Arday once referred to himself, of a modern “Icarus”. It is, in a more interesting sense, an English story: a parable of our national institutions and national temperament, our credulity and our cruelty.

Arday’s own biography, as it was narrated in interviews and now in his new memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things, due to come out this month, functioned for a time as a fable of self-cultivation...

 

What follows takes us on to the familiar ground of the classic Bildung, a tradition running from Victorian self-help manuals to such modern descendants as Tara Westover’s Educated, in which preliminary hardship gives on to great things...

 

Having left school with two GCSEs, in physical education and textiles, Arday entered higher education conspicuously late before eventually completing a doctorate in education at Liverpool John Moores University. His thesis, “An Exploration of Peer-Mentoring Among Student Teachers to Inform Reflective Practice Within the Context of Action Research”, was a desultory, workaday work, which argued that reciprocal mentoring among trainee teachers fostered more reflective professional practice than traditional hierarchical models. Put differently, peers often prove better teachers than superiors. Curiously, the memoir is taken up almost entirely with the struggle to obtain a PhD, with the thesis itself being given short shrift. One of its many scenes of studied poignancy recounts the young Arday, aged 18, asking his mentor, the sports lecturer Sandro Sandri, the childlike question, “What’s a PhD?”

 

From there, Arday’s public life expanded into what might now be called a portfolio career. Traditional scholarship was accompanied by an ever-growing catalogue of civic endeavours: charity fundraising through endurance running, educational advocacy, work with the campaign group the Black Curriculum, an appearance as an Olympic torchbearer, and a dependable presence on the radio and literary festival circuit. The memoir pushes the mythopoeic narrative even further, recounting a violent assault in early adulthood, a brain tumour during his doctoral studies and charitable work installing water pumps in Brazilian favelas.

 

It was on the strength of this accumulated biography, rather than his scholarship stricto sensu, that Arday, aged 37, was appointed professor of sociology of education at Cambridge in 2023, becoming the youngest black professor in the university’s history. Beyond the ivory tower, his profile continued to rise. His agent secured an advance of “1.4 million” – whether sterling or dollars remains oddly unclear – for his memoir after a ferociously contested pre-empt. By then, Arday – black, autistic, working class, the son of immigrants – was something of a totemic figure. His life seemed proof that, given enough determination and enlightened institutional support, even the hardest start could be overcome...

 

Here, seemingly, was the perfect allegory of national decline: one of the two ancient citadels of British learning had lowered its drawbridge to a jumped-up intruder who turned out to be an imposter. For conservatives, the affair confirmed what they had been saying all along: that universities had disingenuously come to treat lived experience as a kind of epistemic authority in its own right, often at the expense of more mundane measures of scholarly standing...

 

A rather pretzelled defence was mounted by some progressives, though to little avail. One version held that Arday was an interloper, and that the establishment had finally closed ranks to keep him, and his sort, out. The UK, on this account, remains a peculiarly closed society, its elite institutions guarded by invisible sentries of pedigree. But this does not quite ring true. As Perry Anderson observed in the pages of the New Left Review some 60 years ago, Britain’s governing class has, in fact, proved remarkably adept at incorporating outsiders. Indeed, few national elites have proved so porous; all the better to entrench itself through multiple historical periods.

 

Time and again, Britain has preferred absorption to exclusion. The story is familiar enough: from the émigrés of Mitteleuropa, who found a place at the heart of British intellectual and cultural life in the mid-century – Nikolaus Pevsner, Friedrich Hayek, Lucian Freud – to the ease with which individual black and brown Britons have risen to the highest levels of politics, from Rishi Sunak and Nadhim Zahawi to Kwasi Kwarteng. Arday’s ascent likewise sits awkwardly beside the popular image of impenetrable institutions. His progress through higher education was extraordinarily rapid. Publishers, broadcasters, universities and agents competed for his attention. Far from being put off by his unconventional background, they were drawn to it.

 

A second progressive refrain holds that people from minority backgrounds are picked over endlessly, and that Arday was subjected to this treatment in its most extreme form. This, too, is hard to square with what actually transpired. Arday’s frictionless rise suggests that very few of his claims, academic or otherwise, were ever seriously questioned. Quite remarkably, they were accepted at face value until the very end. Again and again, the scepticism you might expect from academics simply failed to emerge. If there is a lesson here, it is that British institutions can be oddly naive when the story in front of them is one they badly want to believe.

 

A more persuasive response came from within Cambridge itself. Priyamvada Gopal and a number of Arday’s colleagues shifted attention away from his lies and fantasies towards the institution that had raised him up. They called for an independent inquiry into how a scholar at such an early stage of his career had ended up in one of Cambridge’s most prestigious chairs, and questioned why the university had been so keen to hold up his appointment as proof of its own broad-mindedness. They also saw something that Arday’s board of electors apparently did not: that the inevitable backlash would fall upon black academics tout court; that they would be left carrying the can for an institutional failure not of their making. Nor would the damage stop there. It would spread to Britain’s already battered universities, which are already struggling with job cuts, shaky finances and growing public distrust.

 

The deeper failure, undoubtedly, lies in the transmutation of the modern university into that curious hybrid: part research institution, part property developer, part international corporation, part media brand. It speaks the language of metrics, rankings and, above all, “impact”. The successful academic is now unmoored from the anchoritic ideal of old. They are, by turns, a broadcaster, event organiser and inveterate email correspondent – and, in Arday’s case, a fundraiser, campaigner and moral exemplar besides. The old compact between teachers and students has given way to an altogether more ramshackle affair of sprawling bureaucracies, speculative property portfolios, ever-expanding managerial hierarchies and a small caste of superstar academics whose public personas often matter rather more than their scholarly oeuvres.

 

Technological change has played a part. The professor of journalism Jeff Jarvis has argued that the age of print created what he calls, after Lars Ole Sauerberg, the “Gutenberg parenthesis”: a civilisation in which intellectual authority was conferred through institutions devoted to publication, criticism and the gradual accumulation of reputation. The university was among the chief custodians of those conventions. Our post-print age rewards rather different qualities. Universities have come to compete for personalities as much as ideas. Their staff lists now include broadcasters, public intellectuals and actors alongside career scholars – for example, Angelina Jolie at the LSE, Brian Cox at Manchester and Alice Roberts at Birmingham. Celebrity trumps authority. The Arday affair, then, is a singularly vivid symptom of a wider cultural transformation.

 

Two more developments have enabled the Arday scandal. The first is the uncritical importation of American intellectual fashions into British institutional life. Diversity, equity and inclusion programmes have arrived together with assumptions about race that sit uneasily with recent British history. This is not to deny the persistence of racism. Britain has never been innocent of it. But neither has it been America. Race has undoubtedly mattered here; but class has counted for more. These days, the median hourly pay gap between black and white workers in Britain is about 6 per cent, compared with roughly 22 per cent in the US. Young black Britons are likewise substantially more likely than their white British peers to enter higher education and, on average, outlive them.

 

The Arday affair illustrates the perils of ignoring these British peculiarities. In an institutional culture anxious to advertise its emancipated worldview, routine scepticism can easily come to be mistaken for racial prejudice. The upshot is a paternalistic impulse that sits uncomfortably close to what George W Bush once called “the soft bigotry of low expectations”. The human rights lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie’s well-intentioned intervention – “Not sure many of us can write a PhD even with copied paragraphs” – captured the problem perfectly. To be sure, undertaking a doctorate might be a difficult enterprise for some people. Scholarly sprezzatura is unevenly distributed. But the question at hand is whether the ordinary standards of scholarship should apply to everyone without fear or favour. To say otherwise is to mistake solidarity with condescension.

 

A second, related shift has been the retreat of the left. As organised labour declined and the unions lost their clout, identity politics moved into the space they left behind. The aim was no longer to close the gap between classes, let alone do away with class altogether. Instead, Britain learned to celebrate the exceptional stories of those few who had managed to escape the circumstances of their birth. The exceptional life, after a fashion, became a political programme. As the commentator Ash Sarkar argues in her 2025 book Minority Rule, the language of collective solidarity gradually gave way to an exhausting contest over symbolic injury, an Olympics of victimhood in which representation came to matter more than material politics. Institutions found it easier to put different faces in their prospectuses and professorial chairs than to tackle the harder questions of wealth and educational inequality. Arday’s appointment, therefore, came to mean far more than an ordinarily academic appointment. It was made to stand for race and autism, social mobility and reparative justice.

 

This is where the real injustice lies. Outstanding black British scholars, whose achievements need no embellishment, will now have to work under a cloud of suspicion they did nothing to create. At the same time, the conservative iconoclasm unleashed by the Arday affair risks doing wider damage to British universities, which remain one of the country’s great sources of soft power and export earnings. For generations, our universities have punched well above the UK’s shrinking geopolitical weight, drawing ambitious minds from around the world. Whether they can keep doing so will depend on their willingness to defend time-honoured standards.

 

What’s more, the fallout will not stop at the university gates. Every perfectly avoidable institutional failure gives fresh ammunition to those who already distrust higher education in particular and public institutions in general. Rather as the Cambridge Five became a permanent byword for the fallibility of the British establishment, the Arday affair seems destined to outlive the particulars of the case. It will be remembered not simply as an academic scandal but as an emblem of the defining neuroses of our age."

 

Links - 22nd August 2026 (1 - Migrants: US)

Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge | Facebook - "Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz and Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz came to the United States looking for something painfully ordinary: the chance to stay alive. They worked. They raised three daughters. They tried to build a future in Overland, Missouri. They weren’t asking for luxury. They were asking for tomorrow. Then ICE tore their family apart. Nixon was driving to his roofing job when a group of agents emerged from an unmarked car, surrounded the van, and pulled him out. There was no warrant. It didn’t matter. ICE detained Nixon, caged him, and he was deported him to Guatemala. Glendy remained behind with their children, trying to keep a roof overhead while pursuing her asylum case and living with the constant fear that she would be next. Eventually, survival became impossible. She gathered the children and returned to Guatemala so her family could be together again. That decision became a death sentence. On July 20, the couple disappeared after traveling to register a motorcycle. Days later, they were found in a sugarcane field. Their hands and feet had been bound. They had been gagged. They had been beaten. They had been shot to death. Their 14-month-old daughter was found beside her mother’s body, dehydrated and crying. Two parents gone. Three little girls left without them. No government official pulled the trigger. The people who murdered Nixon and Glendy bear responsibility for the killings. The United States government bears responsibility for forcing this family back into the conditions they had fled. Those are different acts. They are not unrelated acts. This is what disappears inside political slogans. Deportation is discussed as if it’s an administrative procedure. A statistic. A policy objective. A number on a press release. But every deportation lands somewhere. Every removal has a destination. Sometimes that destination is hunger. Sometimes it is persecution. Sometimes it is a sugarcane field where a toddler is left crying beside her murdered parents. There is a particular cruelty in pretending outcomes exist in isolation from the decisions that made them possible. Governments make choices. Those choices alter the trajectory of human lives. Sometimes they alter whether those lives continue at all. Supporters of mass deportation often speak as though the government’s responsibility ends the moment an airplane touches down. Reality doesn’t respect that convenient fiction. Returning someone to a place consumed by violence does not erase the danger. It delivers them back into it. Rolando Pérez Paz, Nixon's brother, is now raising the couple's three daughters. He's had difficulty explaining to them why their parents aren't coming back. "If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive," he told St. Louis Public Radio, "and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow. Unfortunately, immigration — the government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them." Three little girls will spend the rest of their lives without their mother and father. One of them will never remember their faces except through photographs and stories told by relatives trying to explain an absence no child should have to understand. Every politician who promises millions of deportations should be required to answer a simple question. What, exactly, do you believe happens after people are sent back? Because sometimes the answer is waiting in a sugarcane field. And history has a habit of remembering not only who pulled the trigger, but who decided that sending people back into the line of fire was an acceptable price to pay. A candlelight vigil for Nixon and Glendy is planned for 6 p.m. on August 2 at Overland City Hall in Missouri for anyone who wants to show up rather than just read about it."
Left wing logic - you need to let the whole world into your western country because if you deport those who come in illegally and they're murdered, you're the murderer. Of course, they'll find a way to blame the western country when they let in the sort of people who murdered them and they murder people in the western country

Jack Hopkins on X - "ICE grabbed a roofer in Missouri with no warrant. His wife self-deported so her kids wouldn’t lose both parents. Both found bound and shot in a cane field. Their 14-month-old was crying next to her mother’s body, dehydrated. Not a side effect. The point. Enough of this bullshit."
Liberals Are Cool | Facebook - "White supremacy does not want you to follow rules or do things 'the right way'. They want you dead or living in fear of dying for the simple crime of existing.  These parents were killed by white supremacy. These parents were killed by pro-lifers who only want white children in the world."
Comments: "So you're saying the US is safer for minorities than their home countries?"
"If it's supposed to be the USA's duty to help these people, why is that we tried to save millions in Iran from persecution and torture, that we are now seen as monsters? See, we just can't win. Just make people deal with their own stuff."
"So what you're saying is that there are a lot of criminals and horrible people in these other countries and we should definitely be vetting them and ensuring they come in legally?"
Apparently Guatemalan gangs are white supremacists now
Left wingers claim that white people not wanting to be minorities in white countries is proof that minorities are badly treated in white countries. When really minorities are badly treated in non white countries... while left wingers demand white countries become non white.
Left wingers implicitly proclaim that non white countries are shitholes because they claim everyone who flees them needs to be let into white countries because their home countries are dangerous

Libs of TikTok on X - "SAY HIS NAME: Cooper Whiteside  Connecticut cop was just kiIIed along with his girlfriend, Brittany Islami, when illegal alien Melissa Ramirez crashed into them while driving drunk.  Ramirez's blood alcohol level was TWICE the legal limit.  Connecticut has sanctuary policies that blocks cooperation with ICE.  This is who Democrats are working to protect."

ALX 🇺🇸 on X - "I was positive we went through this a few months ago but apparently it needs to be repeated.
A retard’s guide on how to not get shot by ICE:
-Do not put the car in Drive.
-Do not accelerate towards people.
-Do not attempt to physically assault law enforcement.
Is this complicated?"
Left wing logic: if you can't attack law enforcement, that's fascism, and if law enforcement defend themselves against people trying to kill them, they are acting as judge, jury and executioner

Jennifer Bendery on X - "NEW from me: A senior Trump official is using his govt social media account to smear sitting federal judges, sparking accusations he's putting their safety at risk as judges already face a spike in threats. This “puts a bullseye” on em, one judge told me."
Thread by @Vermeullarmine on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I’ve lost count of the district judges who have impugned the motives and even legitimacy of the elected president and his administration. Comity isn’t a one-way street and it’s not something that judges are unilaterally owed by right. Frankfurter understood this (from a different but related context): if judges want comity, they have to give it as well."

CBS News on X - "Ohio's GOP governor calls Trump's plans to deport Haitians a "mistake": "You'd be sending people … back to hell."
Auron MacIntyre on X - "Haiti is hell because Haitians live there. If you move them to the US you don’t make the Haitians more like Americans. They make America more like Haiti"
How ignorant. Doesn't he know about magic dirt?

Ethiopian migrant allegedly kills 3 St. Paul apartment workers over parking - "An Ethiopian migrant allegedly murdered three employees at his St. Paul apartment building after becoming enraged over a $65 parking deck contract, days after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was rebuked for defending the pardon of an illegal immigrant sex offender. Police recovered nearly three dozen 9mm shell casings from the management office after Tsegaab Ademassu Binessu, 30, allegedly went on a rampage over apartment parking contract policies. Authorities said he later complained about the U.S. immigration system.  Binessu, who the local FOX affiliate said had been employed as a truck driver until recently, became angry after trying to cancel his parking contract shortly after renewing it because he was considering joining the U.S. Navy. Adam "AJ" Wilwerding, 43, Nansi Fuentes Zambrano, 25, and Dena Silcox, 56, were found dead Monday after Binessu allegedly told an employee who answered the phone that he was coming to the office... He was detained while driving one of the victims' cars and reportedly complained to investigators about the American political system and his inability to bring his wife and children from Ethiopia to the United States, which the local FOX affiliate said contributed to his divorce.  Binessu also reportedly complained he was being treated differently because of his race and immigration status... "So, he allegedly shot three women to death," Benson said. "Will Gov. Walz warn us not to judge this man over his ‘worst day,’ or whatever his recent excuse was for pardoning & defending that child sexual abuser?""
Clearly, if there were open borders, those 3 people would still be alive, so those who oppose open borders are murderers

Acyn on X - "Homan on ICE Shootings: All goes back to the DEMs who tell people to evade ICE… There will still be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws."
K(sad trombone noise enthusiast) on X - "So we are at the point of the fascist street violence where the head of the secret police is threatening, more extrajudicial murders in the street if we do not comply. You’re never voting this out."
Left wingers are openly proclaiming that they're following the Hamas strategy. They're such terrible people. But then, they support Hamas, after all
Nobody is above the law - unless it pushes the left wing agenda
Since Obama gave Homan an award, he must be a fascist too

Meme - *Bike Fall*
US: "I bomb other countries"
US: "refugess from the countries I bomb come to my country"
US: "look what refugees did to me"
"So you agree we can deport anybody from a country we didn't bomb. Awesome."
Comment (elsewhere): "If you were bombed by china would you try to flee to china for safety?"
When left wingers say that refugees are (trying to) destroy(ing) the US. Why are they so racist and xenophobic?
Weird how non-Western countries don't have this problem because they don't sign up to human rights conventions

Meme - Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib: "Flock - a private surveillance company worth $8.4 billion - contracts with ICE and CBP to turn out neighborhoods into mass surveillance zones. Their Al-powered license plate readers performed 20 billion scans of cars EVERY MONTH. That should terrify everyone."
"Be aware. These folks come in and say it's about public safety, but it's not. Flock is turning our communities into mass surveillance communities" - Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Flock has no contract with ICE and ICE has no direct access to their platform or data. Local agencies own/control the data. Indirect access has occurred when local police run queries for federal purposes just as it could for any other system local law enforcement controls"
Left wingers are always spreading misinformation

Meme - "If ICE agents are going out to murder illegals why do they only shoot the ones assaulting them with cars or weapons.? Odd coincidence isn't it."

Meme - "WE REMEMBER HER. Today marks six months since Renee Good attacked an ICE agent with her vehicle in Minnesota. The agent was able to defend himself and survived the attack. Renee died in the commission of a federal crime."

Meme - "DEAR DEMOCRATS. JUST COMPLY WITH ICE THE SAME WAY YOU TOLD US TO COMPLY WITH SHUTDOWNS, MANDATED VACCINES, AND MASKS."

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on X - "The Trump admin's latest strategy to mass generate removal orders is diabolical:
- Take a huge group of people with hearings scheduled in late 2026 or 2027.
- Send them a physical letter rescheduling their case to next week.
- Order those who inevitably miss court deported."
PoIiMath on X - "In my city, I can get an order to appear in court next week for the crime of not mowing my lawn. If I miss that court date, they can put out a warrant for my arrest. I'm not sad that illegal immigrants suddenly have to live by the same rules as citizens."

seanmack on X - "We know this is criminal. When will someone be held responsible? He was leaving in 3 days
From FB
 Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran was three weeks into a tourist visa when ICE pulled his car over in Florida. And he was two days away from getting on a plane back to his family.  His wife found out from the news.  This is the third ICE-related death in a single week. A man in Maine with a valid work permit and Social Security number. A father of three in Houston who owned a small business. Now a tourist with a plane ticket in his pocket.  These are not immigration statistics. These are people who had lives, families, and plans — until they crossed paths with ICE.  ICE cannot be reformed."
Left wing logic - if you run from law enforcement and get killed by traffic, law enforcement murdered you. They outdo themselves each day.

Meme - Mexicans: "Reconquista! This land belongs to us Mexicans! We are indigenous! This was our ancestors land! No Human is illegal!"
Native American 1: "There are too many Mexicans"
Native American 2: "I'm joining ICE"
Channel 5: "Inside ICE's all-Native American tracking unit known as the Shadow Wolves."

Meme - *Democratic Donkey holding Illegal Aliens as fuel and lighting the Riot fire in Los Angeles*
*Donald Trump putting out fire with the National Guard*
Unhinged Democratic Donkey: "HE'S ESCALATING TENSIONS!"

Meme - "ODD HOW IF ICE SHOOTS SOMEONE THE LEFT DOESN'T BLAME THE GUN"

Meme - *Laughing man getting out of car*
"MILLIONS OF PEOPLE GO HOME EVERY DAY SAFELY. When they don't try to run over ICE agents with their car. Bad decisions lead to bad outcomes."

Meme - Lance Gooden: "Hospitals are turning American citizenship into a business. Advertising birth packages in Mexico to create anchor babies is a slap in the face to every American. Congress must act and END birth tourism once and for all!"
"Birth Packages in South Texas. Natural $3,950. C-Section $5,525
havemybabyinTEXAS.com"

Clown World ™ 🤡 on X - "A 33 year old Canadian woman on the Jersey Shore boardwalk repeatedly confronted and then slapped a teenage girl for wearing sweatpants that said Trump and ICE.  She fled the scene but was identified through surveillance footage and turned herself in on July 13, charged with simple assault, endangering the welfare of a child, harassment and obstruction. She is now in ICE custody, and her husband is publicly pleading for her release"
Coffee and Grit on X - "Trump has really done a great job showing us how many psychopaths we have walking among us."
More proof that Trump is a fascist, because you're not allowed to criticise him!

Meme - "IF YOU TURN THIS INTO A WEAPON *Joan Sebastian Guerrero's White Kia Rio* THEN THIS WILL HAPPEN *bullets in windshield in front of driver*"
Left wingers still claim that he was fleeing, not attacking ICE. I guess he was so traumatised that he fled in reverse gear

Kim "Katie" USA on X - "🚨 ICE shot and killed a man in Biddeford, Maine who tried to run them down with his vehicle. When are these people going to stop trying to kill federal agents?"
Kim "Katie" USA on X - "🚨 Eyewitness says the driver was told multiple times to stop by ICE agents. He then put the car in drive and DROVE AT THE ICE OFFICER. There you have it, direct eyewitness confirms the suspect weaponized his vehicle. Source: @PressHerald"
Zack on X - "You might wonder why left leaning creators never advise to comply with police and not resist arrest The answer is simple: they want ICE to kill more people They might pretend to be sad but they are actually happy because now they have another martyr for their narrative"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Correct. A BLM leader, who I knew from Occupy the Hood back in the day, once frankly admitted this to me. Hamas calls it "the CNN strategy.""
On Lorenzo Araujo
Left wingers are terrible people and encourage human sacrifice to push the left wing agenda

Threads - "“It’s wild that we’ve managed to convince ourselves that the man framing your house is more dangerous than the people poisoning your water, bankrupting your healthcare system, or stealing public money.” Justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo #FuckICE"
When left wingers proclaim that they exploit illegal immigrants

Vince Langman on X - "PSA: You have a 0% chance of being shot by an ICE agent if you:
1. Don't try to shoot at them
2 Dont attack them when they're doing their jobs
3. Don't resist arrest
4. Don't try to run them over with your car.
Number 4 is probably to most important one! You're welcome!"

Greg Price on X - "NYT: President Trump doesn't allow people to claim asylum at the southern border and it's led to a drop in illegal border crossings.
Mamdani: "They are legally entitled to... in terms of international obligations.""
Bonchie on X - "The left-wing assertion is that anyone, from anywhere should be allowed into the United States, but also, Gaza is for Palestinians, Somalia is for Somalians, so on and so forth. It’s not incoherent, though it appears to be. It’s all part of the plan."

Tim Walz Protects a Child Rapist from Deportation - "Governor Tim Walz protected a child rapist from deportation. I guess we can’t have enough evil child rapists in this country, and Timmy is on the case. Tou Lue Vang claims he is sorry for abusing a 10-year-old two decades ago. According to the New York Times, a three-person Minnesota panel, including Gov. Tim Walz, granted a pardon to an immigrant convicted of sexually abusing a child. The pardon will now help Vang as he fights deportation... Democratic governors have long faced scrutiny for pardoning immigrants with criminal records who have served their sentences, in an effort to slow or halt their deportations"
Time to accuse Republicans of being pedo protectors because Trump is a pedo because left wingers say so

Rapid Response 47 on X - ".@GovTimWalz responds to the deportation of a convicted child sex abuser he pardoned: "Did that make us any safer?... Did it improve the idea that we can't all be judged by our worst day?" Walz is one seriously sick, depraved individual."
Robby Starbuck on X - "The guy he’s talking about REPEATEDLY raped a 10 year old little girl. So yeah @Tim_Walz, it DID make little girls in America safer to deport him after you tried to pardon him. I have a 10 year old daughter myself. Your words here make you profoundly evil. Absolutely disgusting."

Homeland Security on X - ".@GovTimWalz on why ICE shouldn’t have deported this child rapist: “we can’t all be judged by our worst day.” For Tou Lue Vang this wasn’t just one “worst day” — it was YEARS of repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl starting when she was 10. Just disgraceful."
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Of all the days he spent raping the kid, which one does Tim Walz technically think was the worst?"

Meme - "So, hundreds of ICE agents coming to your neighborhood is an invasion, But milfions of illegals isn't?"

Meme - "2023 *arrested Trump*
Liberal white woman: Good, nobody is above the law!
Now *police & ICE leading illegal immigrants away*
Liberal white woman: FASCISM!"

Meme - "CLINTON SIGNED MASS DEPORTATION LAW IN 1996. Two months later... 85% OF DEMOCRATS VOTED TO RE-ELECT HIM. Today many riot against the laws their party passed. HYPOCRISY HAS NO EXPIRATION DATE."

Links - 21st August 2026 (2 - General Wokeness)

Wilfred Reilly on X - "Western prey morality is invoked by China, the various Arabs, Russia, India and Nigeria, etc ONLY in the context of exploiting useful idiots. Can anyone truly be mad enough to believe that these legendary historical rivals and ruthless current peers actually just care about "minority representation inside the USA," or "queer environmental justice," or wotever?"
Frank Adams on X - ""Can anyone truly be mad enough to believe that these legendary historical rivals and ruthless current peers actually just care about "minority representation inside the USA," or "queer environmental justice," or wotever?" The lefty kooks pretend to believe it to effect their goals."

TheBlaze on X - "Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “The political structures that we are surrounded by were built on slavery and genocide and oppression. Look at this room, motherf******. We aren’t going anywhere. Now we’re in Congress and every corner of the United States.”"
Justine Bateman on X - "These people are ridiculous. They have lost all tethers to a sense of self. Their entire identity now relies on this treasonous hate of America. They make up fantasies of how horrible America never was to justify their need to "fight tyranny." They have no identity but this. And they cling to it with a death grip, because they have nothing else. None of it is true. Not the fantasy about America about which she is shrieking, not her identity of believing herself to be some "hero" in a movie about an oppressive government, and not the resulting congress-free, senate-free, President-free, childish (and completely chaotic) future she sees for this country. She is an infant. She and others like her will not get their way. Not even close. If you have a modicum of common sense, it's time to let your line in the sand about tolerance be made known. Myself, I have a limit to tolerance. I have a limit to patience. I know there is a limit to free speech. If your plan is to tear down the United States of America, if your plan is treason, I will not tolerate you, I will have zero patience for you, and I will not defend your right to free speech. @FBI @FBIDirectorKash"
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries

Facebook - "Suicidal empathy strikes again.
These far-left activists spent their lives championing open borders, defund the police, racial justice, Antifa causes, injection safe sites, and every progressive policy imaginable.
• Benjamin X Rowe: LGBTQ+ activist and far-left punk rock concert organizer. Randomly shot and killed by a Black male while walking down the street.
• Ryan Carsen: Injection safe site activist and self-described Antifa. Randomly stabbed to death by a Black male.
• Josh Kruger: LGBTQ+/HIV+/injection safe site/racial justice activist. Killed by a Black male during a home invasion.
• Ted Lawson: Democratic Party County Secretary, BLM activist, voter rights activist. Randomly murdered by a 15-year-old Black male.
Rest in Peace to all of them. No one deserves to be murdered, regardless of their politics. But their ideology left them vulnerable to the very realities they refused to acknowledge. They championed the groups and policies that ultimately took their lives. This is what suicidal empathy looks like. Ignoring patterns doesn’t make them disappear. Prioritising everyone else over your own safety has consequences. The left keeps learning this lesson the hard way. #conservative #fyp #Crime #rip #lgbt"

Covfefe Anon on X - "It's bad to give attention to stupid liars like David French but his attempt to meme the phrase "magic blood" is a great demonstration of the cargo-cult thinking on the left that leads to a "search for a thought-terminating cliche" "Magic dirt" rhetorically wounds them because it exposes the stupidity of the trick they're trying to play - that by simply declaring people "American" that you meaningfully change those people. This wound causes them to search for a counter-cliche to dismiss it "Magic blood" is his attempt at this but it plainly fails because every person alive has an instinctive understanding of the importance of heredity - their encapsulated, bounded thinking that merely tries to stay in tune with the progressive egregore - that thinks of nothing other than "how do I conform to the beliefs of a 'Good Person'" has a lot of trouble with this idea because it has to reconcile Children are like parents in appearance and temperament and capability Somehow this stops being true when you are dealing with groups I guess they square this by... pretending there are no group differences? Which is actually absurd and something literally no one believes and no one has ever believed - not even leftists like this guy but it serves as a patch - a way of avoiding thinking about the extremely obvious implications of other things he believes Leftism constantly requires absurd levels of mental handicapping like this - inserting absurd falsehoods to avoid thinking about the consequences of other falsehoods - those falsehoods are then abandoned in other contexts which demonstrate that they don't actually "believe" them - to the extent that they can be said to believe *anything* outside of "I am a Good Person for having Correct Beliefs""

Stand Up To Marxism on X - "Across the West "progressive" governments, are following the exact same playbook.
1. Flood the country with immigrants from the Global South.
2. Indoctrinate children through education to criticize or hate their own country and heritage.
3. Erase or downplay the nation's traditional history and heritage, replacing it with a multicultural narrative.
4. Implement draconian speech restrictions, hate speech laws, and content moderation.
5. Promote gender ideology, self-ID policies, and youth medical transitions in schools and institutions.
6. Push aggressive climate policies, net-zero targets, and green regulations (often raising energy costs).
7. Reform criminal justice toward leniency, reduced policing, and focus on systemic explanations for crime.
8. Impose DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) mandates across government, education, and corporations.
9. Expand welfare programs, redistribution, and identity-based social benefits.
10. Favor supranational governance (EU-style integration, global pacts) over national sovereignty.
11. Undermine or de-emphasize traditional family structures, religion, and national identity.
12. Support expansive abortion/reproductive rights and related social policies framed as equity.
13. Destroy all sense of national identity and demographic cohesion.
Why? Progressive ideology is derived from Critical Social Justice, critical theory (Neo-Marxism) and postmodernism that views Western civilization, traditional institutions (family, nation, religion, merit), and historical majorities as sources of oppression requiring complete deconstruction and equity-based remedies. Universal human rights and diversity are elevated above particular national or cultural continuity."

X-Men Were Never Created As A Civil Rights Allegory Confirms Marvel Writer - "The most repeated piece of X-Men lore ever told is a myth, and it just got debunked by one of the men who built the franchise. John Byrne, the legendary artist behind the Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past, sat down with The New York Times this week to promote his new alternate-reality hardcover X-Men: Elsewhen. Along the way, he casually detonated the origin story fans have been repeating for fifty years: that Stan Lee created the X-Men as a metaphor for the civil rights movement, with Professor X as Martin Luther King Jr. and Magneto as Malcolm X. According to Byrne, that framing came later, and Stan simply went along with it. Byrne tells the Times that anyone who actually reads the earliest issues will see a very different template. “Xavier is F.D.R. and Magneto is Hitler,” he says, pointing out that early Magneto is even draped in Nazi trappings. Per Byrne, fans persuaded Stan Lee that he had been writing a racism allegory all along, and Stan’s response was essentially “Sure, why not?” That should sound familiar. It is the same pattern that produced every “the X-Men were always political” argument you have seen online for the past decade. The mutant metaphor did not start as a statement about race, and it did not start as a statement about LGBTQ identity either. It started as a superhero book about outsiders, and readers poured their own meaning into it. It’s not something limited to a small segment of the population; it’s something that all fans can relate to. That’s the point. Byrne even cites the late Marvel writer and editor Roger Stern on the real appeal: the fans saw themselves in the X-Men because the X-Men were outsiders who only hung out with their own kind. So the claim that the book was activist by design from issue #1 is fan mythology that certain types of fans found convenient to ratify... Byrne’s answer is the one nobody arguing online wants to hear: it meant whatever the readers decided it meant, and Stan Lee was happy to take the credit."

Marvel's X-Men Movie Writer Confirms It: The X-Men Are For Everybody - "Lee Sung Jin — the Beef creator reuniting with his Beef director Jake Schreier, who helms the mutant reboot after Thunderbolts* — tells Deadline that he and co-writer Joanna Calo (The Bear) are starting from the one thing every version of the franchise that ever worked started from. “We’re thinking about these characters and what makes them tick,” Lee said. “What parts of them feel universally relatable, and leading with that first before we start thinking about plots and world stakes and all that.” Universally relatable. Leading with that first... Notice what “feeling othered” means in that framing. It’s not a demographic checkbox. It’s the most universal feeling there is, that every kid who ever ate lunch alone, every adult who ever walked into a room and felt like the odd one out. That’s why the theme is “relevant today in 2026”: because it’s relevant to everybody, in any year... This isn’t theory. Marvel just ran the experiment on its own animated series. X-Men ’97 Season 2 stripped out the Season 1 agenda messaging — the latest sign of Marvel’s retreat from its message-first era — and told a universal story instead. The results: a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 10/10 three-episode premiere, and a 10/10 Apocalypse episode that plays like a gut punch instead of a lecture. Critics themselves called it less preachy. For everybody. Character first. Watch what happens."

Meme - "According to the Southern Poverty Law Center
The Nation of Islam a black supremacist hate group has 50,000 members
Which is More than...
The KKK, The Aryan Brotherhood and the Patriot Front COMBINED"
Naturally, left wingers were pretending this was false

Meme - Retard Finder @lfindRetards: "Incredible stuff here after the terror attack in Paris earlier. One short paragraph separates the confessed motive from "The motive for the attack remains unknown.""
""It is Allah who commanded me," the man lying on the floor says. Nunez said the man had been detained by an off- duty police officer. pay tribute to him, it was a courageous act," he added. The motive for the attack remains unknown, Nunez said, adding that police could not verify the identity of the attacker, whose declarations were "incoherent" while he was being arrested."

"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats." - Aldous Huxley : r/JordanPeterson

I don’t want police writing ‘racism essays’, I want them catching criminals - "you’re stuck in a boardroom listening to an audio recording of a fairytale. “The Witches of Glum” is nominally about a beautiful witch called Gwendolyn and an ugly witch called Groga, but it’s also a trick, used to expose officers on police diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) training programmes as the prejudiced human beings that they must surely be. (Spoiler alert: the beautiful witch is in fact evil, while the “disfigured” witch is good. Clever, eh?) And you can all too easily picture the glee if and when you “fail” any part of the subsequent questionnaire. Because the DEI brigade needs you to come across as bigoted and biased in order to feel good about themselves. If only this were the most ludicrous aspect of the DEI courses being imposed upon officers across England and Wales, courses that are costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds and taking them away from their duties. But documents obtained by The Telegraph through a freedom of information request prove otherwise. Over at Surrey Police, for example, it turns out that officers have been told to write 500-word “reflections” on how they feel about the force’s stance on racism. While you’re at it, why not get them to copy out “I must not be racist” a hundred times on lined paper? Then there are the officers at Northamptonshire Police, who are being taught that Brexit is behind a rise in far-Right hate, and those at City of London Police who are planning to host a “listening circle” about Gaza. While the DEI dons are in their cosy little circle, passing around a plate of Digestives and enjoying their moral superiority, ethnic minorities are being abused and attacked by far-Right extremists. Little old ladies are being mugged at knifepoint, and hard-working shopkeepers like my local newsagent are being raided by shoplifters almost daily. They’re unfazed by the new CCTV system he paid an arm and a leg for, he tells me, knowing the police don’t have the time or the resources to follow up on footage – what with that three-day conference on pronouns to attend and the weekly LGBTQ binaural beats sessions. There is no place for racism, sexism or indeed any form of discrimination in policing, and it’s right that officers should be held to the highest standards of fairness and professionalism, but being made to write or chant the right words will never change a racist’s attitudes or behaviour (it’s possible it may even reinforce it). Meanwhile, branding a non-racist one of the most disgusting words in the English language isn’t just offensive – to borrow one of their favourite terms – but unacceptable."

Basil the Great on X - "WOW. A student at the Oxford Union tells Tommy Robinson he is lucky they've put security on for him otherwise their Pro-Islam supporters outside would beat him to death This is the Oxford Union, how far it has fallen as an institution when this is the sort of argument made"
Ben Shapiro on X - ""You're lucky we Muslims in here are nice, because if we weren't, our co-religionists outside would burn you to death" isn't an amazing argument"

Je Suis Non-binary: Coming Out in Support of Free Speech - "Charlie Hebdo... Now I was in an office surrounded by some of the most left-wing people you can imagine, all of us committed to ideas I had supported for years. Seeing them so unconcerned about free speech and the murder of fellow journalists, I felt rage and sadness — and on top of that, I felt so alone... though my devotion to activist movements remained a constant, my life was moving away from academia. I had taken up a profession that also concerned itself with power and language — but always in pursuit of truth, backed up with data and based on more than one source. Ironically, my journalistic work was more rigorous than my academic work ever had been... Authoritarian demagogues generally don’t like their policies to be questioned or ridiculed. Journalists are murdered all over the world for exposing abuses of power, and satirists who joke about the wrong people or ideologies disappear behind bars or appear on hit lists. Truth and questioning are the first things to go in a repressive society, even when they are delivered in a way that makes people laugh. An uncensored press and a culture of satire are great indicators of the level of rights and freedoms that people have within a society. I had always believed these things were at the core of left-wing beliefs. They promote accountability for the powers that be, expose corruption and wrongdoing, and give a voice to the powerless. It turned out I was wrong. That Wednesday in the winter of 2015, when those 12 editors died, it seemed everyone around me saw something entirely different than I did. I scrolled through my social media feeds with a sinking heart. In post after post, my left-wing activist friends were using their ideas about power and language to the maximum, calling out anything that reeked of Islamophobia in the responses to the attack and stifling the debate around it into a black-and-white issue. It was completely well-intentioned, but completely off the mark. Only one satirist dared make a statement about it, a short, biting video that still feels relevant today. He was branded a racist — not that he cared, but he was one of the very few who took that risk. In a sea of right-wing xenophobia, protests in the Muslim world, and social justice activists more concerned with Islamophobia than protecting the freedom of the press, I ached for solidly nuanced left-wing critiques. But there weren’t any. It was clear to me that the free speech I wholeheartedly believed in — so much so that it had gotten me into several professional conflicts — now belonged to the opposite side of the political divide from the theories that had helped me finally understand my gender. And maybe it always had. At that point, I recognized that social justice is, at its very core, unequipped to support a free press... Let me say something here that probably won’t make me many friends: I believe that it should be the left, not the right, which stands in support of showing the Muhammed cartoons. For the good of all of us. Freedom of speech is fundamental to the success of a diverse society and essential for the freedom of everyone in it, including Muslim people. You cannot build a better world by employing the same repressive tactics used by the fundamentalist regimes you say you want to abolish... the left has now seemingly instituted a hands-off policy when it comes to defending free press and satire. Nobody dares even to make a joke about anything remotely related to the issue anymore, and anybody who wears a “Je Suis Charlie” t-shirt is now supposedly a right-wing asshole... Women who work to end marital captivity or stop female genital mutilation are being silenced because of their supposed “Islamophobia”, and advocates are refusing to discuss anti-LGBT sentiments in non-Western countries unless it’s to place the blame solely on the shoulders of the West. And yet another desperate situation is unfolding now that will haunt us into the future. I shudder to think how the radical left can impact our stance toward the unlucky, liberal-minded people of Afghanistan, now trapped under Taliban rule after the US and its NATO allies have gone. My heart breaks when I think of Afghan women and LGBT people being abandoned by progressive movements afraid to come to their aid for fear of being labeled “colonialist.” Will we look back on this in a couple of decades and find ourselves on the right side of history with this kind of reasoning? I just can’t imagine that. I think the left is making a massive mistake here. One I cannot support anymore... I asked them about the “Je Suis Charlie” demonstrations that were planned for that evening. Would they go? No, they said, they didn’t want to “play into the hands of right-wing people.” I felt my throat close up with disappointment. I hadn’t expected to be so alone with my grief. I decided to go anyway, even if I was alone. But I hid my face from any photographers because it was best not to be seen there. Not many things make you feel lonelier than the fear I had that evening. It felt like going back into the closet. I don’t ever want to feel like that again, and I want others to know they aren’t alone either. I have come to realize that this is bigger than journalism, bigger than being non-binary"
From 2022. Left wingers don't want to abolish fundamentalist regimes. They just want to abolish Christianity

Christina Aguayo News | Facebook - "BLM and the Democrats were in favor of Body cams, until it proved that the vast majority of complaints lodged by BLM, Dems and anti-Police agitators were false...
🔹A trial in Rialto, California, found an 88% reduction in citizen complaints against officers wearing cameras, alongside a 59% drop in use-of-force incidents.
🔹In Phoenix, Arizona, complaints against cops wearing body cams dropped by 23%, while those against officers not wearing cameras rose by 10.6%.
🔹A multi-site study involving nearly 2,000 body cam wearing officers reported a 93% drop in complaints, attributing it to behavioral changes by 'suspects' that de-escalated volatile situations.
🔹In Las Vegas, body cameras led to fewer use-of-force reports and citizen complaints, with no significant change in arrest rates.
🔹A comprehensive review of 30 studies confirmed a 16.6% average drop in complaints
The drop in complaints undercut the democrats and BLM who accused police officers of brutality without any evidence. The 'he said-she said' narrative was ditched for video evidence that overwhelmingly favored police officers."

Kamala Harris settles in Point Dume, a nearly all-White community - "Despite a career-long commitment to combating racial disparities in housing and touting the importance of living among Black people, former Vice President Kamala Harris’ new California mansion is situated in a neighborhood with virtually no racial diversity. Harris’ new 4,000-square-foot property, which reports indicate she acquired for $8.15 million, is located in the exclusive seaside community of Point Dume and includes ocean views, multiple wine fridges, private golf greens and enough parking to accommodate five vehicles. Point Dume is situated entirely within Census tract 8004.08, which the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey estimated was just 0.2% Black and roughly 94% White as of 2019. Harris' choice of neighborhood may surprise longtime observers given past comments she has made about the importance of living among other Black Americans."

Andy Ngo on X - "A black author who got a $2 million plus crime novel book deal has been accused by his own book agent of suspected AI-use to write the story. He says this is racism and an attempt to stop black authors from shining."
Author Whose $2 Million Book Deal Was Derailed by AI Concerns Says He’s Innocent - WSJ - "“Definitely innocent!!!” Jerry Falade, a graduate student at Southern Methodist University, said in an Instagram story early Tuesday. “They CAN’T and WON’T stop this Black boy’s light from shining!!” he wrote in another. Fourteen publishers had bid on the U.S. rights for Falade’s crime novel, “Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body,” and he ultimately signed a two-book deal with Macmillan’s Minotaur Books imprint worth more than $2 million. HarperCollins Publishers landed the U.K. rights. Soon after the deals closed, Falade’s agent at Europa Content notified the publishers in a letter that he could no longer support the book after concerns were raised about the author’s possible AI use... Falade said none of the editors he met with during the book-sale process asked about AI usage. He also said he hadn’t consented to having his manuscript run through AI detection software and found it “very suspicious” that much of the coverage of his situation has focused on the growing capabilities of that software. He said he has retained legal counsel... Falade said the claims against him are part of a historical pattern of diminishing the intellectual contributions of people of color. He wrote that in the past such authors were accused of plagiarism, while now “If you’re a Person of Color and you secure a lucrative deal in history, someone, somewhere, will accuse you of using AI.” Meanwhile, he wrote, white authors “brag about using AI all the time.”"

Trevor Phillips: ‘London liberals are only now realising how hated they are in Britain’ - "As chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Phillips helped to shape the Equality Act 2010, which included protections from discrimination for people undergoing gender reassignment. He says he failed to anticipate the strength of the trans movement in subsequent years. “It never occurred to us for one second that anybody would think of sex as anything other than biologically determined,” he says. “It was an oversight on our part that you would get the rise of a movement based in fantasy. We never imagined that there would be people peddling the fantasy that you can just make up what sex you are. And it never occurred to me that people who make decisions on these things would be engulfed by this fantasy. “The problem is that the grown-ups in the room have turned into cowards, and they are all running away from the fantasists,” he adds. “When I was a student, one of the things we fought for was that women could operate independently of men. Now, according to this new fantasy world, the one thing women cannot do is decide when they want to be separate from men. It’s not just outrageous, it’s insane.” He also disagrees with politicians making their race or sex the most important thing about them, singling out Rachel Reeves for repeatedly talking about being the first female chancellor, and his “good friend” David Lammy for drawing attention to the fact that he was the first black deputy prime minister. “When they [highlight their race or sex], the rest of the country is going, ‘What is wrong with you?’” he says. “It’s not just that you are drawing attention to these things, it’s that you are saying, ‘If you don’t think this is the most important thing about Rachel Reeves or David Lammy, you are a sexist and a bigot and a racist.’ There is a lot of work to do for the governing classes to reconnect with the country, and for that we need a bit of humility.”"

Le Marxisme Moderne

Brivael Le Pogam on X

Tout le monde pense que le monde libre a gagné en 1989, à la chute du mur de Berlin. C'est faux. Et c'est exactement pour ça que le monde est aujourd'hui en feu. Ce qui est tombé le 9 novembre 1989, c'est un appareil. Une économie planifiée, un empire militaire, un mur de béton. Ce qui n'est pas tombé, c'est l'idée. L'idée que le monde se divise en oppresseurs et en opprimés. L'idée qu'il existe une égalité finale à atteindre, par tous les moyens. L'idée que tout ce qui existe (la famille, la nation, le mérite, l'héritage) est une structure de domination à abattre. Cette idée-là n'était plus dans le bâtiment quand le bâtiment s'est effondré. Il faut reprendre la chronologie, parce que tout est dans la chronologie : Le communisme économique avait un défaut fatal : il était réfutable. Il promettait l'abondance, il produisait des famines. Il promettait l'émancipation, il produisait des barbelés. Budapest 1956, Prague 1968, L'Archipel du Goulag publié à Paris en 1973, les boat people de 1979 : à chaque décennie, le réel envoyait sa réfutation. Les boat people étaient une réfutation flottante, visible depuis les plages. Alors l'idéologie a fait ce que fait tout organisme menacé : elle a muté. La mutation a un nom, et j'en ai raconté la généalogie ici : la French Theory. Foucault a déplacé la guerre du terrain des faits, où le communisme perdait à chaque fois, vers le terrain du savoir lui-même. S'il n'y a pas de vérité, s'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir, alors plus aucune famine, plus aucun mur, plus aucun goulag ne peut réfuter quoi que ce soit. La French Theory n'a pas enterré le marxisme. Elle l'a rendu irréfutable. Et la mutation a des dates. Toutes antérieures à 1989. 1934 : l'École de Francfort, chassée d'Allemagne, s'installe à Columbia. La critique de l'économie devient critique de la culture. 1964-1965 : Marcuse, exilé allemand devenu professeur américain, remplace le prolétariat défaillant par un nouveau sujet révolutionnaire (les minorités, les étudiants, les marginaux) et écrit noir sur blanc que la tolérance doit être accordée aux mouvements de gauche et refusée à ceux de droite. Octobre 1966 : le débarquement a une date précise. Université Johns Hopkins, Baltimore. Derrida, Barthes, Lacan présentent la pensée française aux campus américains. 1967 : Rudi Dutschke lance le mot d'ordre, la longue marche à travers les institutions. 1968 : les révolutions de rue échouent partout. Qu'importe. La révolution ne passera plus par la rue, elle passera par la salle de classe. 1975-1985 : Yale, Berkeley, Columbia absorbent la théorie, qui devient le système d'exploitation des humanités. 1987 : Allan Bloom publie The Closing of the American Mind pour donner l'alerte. Un million d'exemplaires vendus. L'université le traite de réactionnaire et passe à autre chose. L'Amérique avait son Aron, elle en a fait la même chose que nous du nôtre. Puis arrive le 9 novembre 1989. Le Mur tombe. L'Occident célèbre. Fukuyama avait déclaré la fin de l'Histoire dès l'été, avant même la chute. On démantèle les missiles, on encaisse les dividendes de la paix, on déclare le match terminé. Nous avons célébré notre victoire sur une adresse vide. L'idéologie avait déménagé vingt ans plus tôt. Nous avons gagné contre les chars et perdu contre les chaires. Pendant ce temps, l'autre empire communiste faisait la lecture inverse. Pékin avait écrasé Tian'anmen dans le sang cinq mois avant Berlin. Sinistre, mais lucide sur un point : la Chine savait que la guerre était idéologique. Elle a choisi : abandonner l'économie marxiste, garder le contrôle du récit. L'Occident a fait l'exact opposé : il a gardé le marché et absorbé l'idéologie. Trente-cinq ans plus tard, regardez qui construit des centrales et qui déboulonne ses statues. Vous voulez la preuve que c'est le même logiciel ? Faites la table de correspondance. La lutte des classes est devenue la lutte des identités. Les koulaks sont devenus les privilégiés. L'autocritique maoïste est devenue le privilege checking. Les commissaires politiques sont devenus les DEI officers. Le samizdat est devenu le compte shadowbanné. La nomenklatura a quitté Moscou pour Davos et Bruxelles. Et le paradis ne s'appelle plus la société sans classes : il s'appelle l'équité, l'égalité des résultats. Exactement ce que je décrivais ici il y a quelques semaines. On me dira : il n'y a pas de Goulag. C'est vrai. C'est même tout le génie de la version 2.0. Le communisme dur devait briser les corps parce qu'il ne tenait pas les esprits. Le communisme mou tient les esprits : il lui suffit de briser les carrières. Pas de camps, des services RH. Pas de procès de Moscou, des excuses publiques. Pas de Sibérie, la mort sociale. Demandez aux émigrés du bloc de l'Est installés en Occident ce qu'ils ressentent en traversant une université américaine en 2026. Ils reconnaissent l'odeur. Et voilà pourquoi le monde est en feu. Une civilisation a passé trente-cinq ans à enseigner à ses propres enfants qu'elle était le problème. Résultat : elle ne sait plus défendre ses frontières, transmettre son héritage, ni même nommer ses ennemis. Quand la présidente de Harvard, devant le Congrès, répond que condamner un appel au génocide « dépend du contexte », vous voyez le logiciel tourner en production. Et les prédateurs du dehors lisent cette faiblesse comme un livre ouvert : Moscou teste, Pékin patiente, l'islamisme avance dans les rues de nos capitales. Le feu extérieur n'est que la conséquence du désarmement intérieur. On ne brûle bien que les maisons qui se sont vidées de leurs défenseurs. Le Mur n'est pas tombé. Il s'est déplacé. Il ne sépare plus l'Est de l'Ouest : il passe désormais à l'intérieur de chaque institution occidentale, entre ceux qui construisent et ceux qui déconstruisent. La première guerre froide s'est gagnée avec des missiles et du PIB. La seconde se gagnera avec des écoles, des médias libres et des modèles d'IA. Celui qui écrit les valeurs dans les machines écrira le prochain 1989. Cette fois, ne nous trompons pas de victoire. Au travail.