Jeff Fynn-Paul
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Centrist. Historian and Economist. Advocate for science, democracy, humanity, and decency. 'Critical theory' sceptic; thus a bugbear of the Left.
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...and we have a cover. Beautiful, no? After a delay due to a shift from soft to hard cover release, Not Stolen is due to hit shelves Sept 23, 2023, just in time for Columbus Day!
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I'm starting to realize that censuring science in the name of progressivism is always a bad idea. Take The Bell Curve. Like most academics, I thought it was tacky. Yes ''black'' IQ in the US may have been lower, but why harp on this? I firmly believe that with education,
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@danagasta1
Yes, the painting is by an American illustrator who died in 1926, named Alfred Fredericks, so it's a "classic" take, one that we certainly scrutinize in the book. As for my academic background, you can look up my faculty page or on google scholar. Toronto is my alma mater.
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Is Canada returning to sanity after its bout of mass hysteria? In May 2021, Canada experienced one of the most egregious witch hunts in modern history, which led to arsonous attacks on dozens of historic churches. Even the Canadian Historical Association shamefully stoked the
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A strong sign of Not Stolen's success! It was released at the same time as Yasha Mounk's The Identity Trap; Mounk, being on his 5th popular book, has gotten much more press; yet 2 months out, both had the same healthy no. of reviews on Amazon. I'll take a bow.
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Always good to revisit the first maps in Eltis and Richardson's Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, to get perspective on just how few ended up in the United States. To hear the Left talk, you'd think 90% of African slaves ended up in the US. In reality it was 2.5%. Half
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@CoachAndrews
I would suggest reading the book first, before guessing whether this is incorrect or misleading...
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@heykevcorbett
Can you guess how many times in American history smallpox blankets were handed out to Natives? (Hint: one.) Read the book. The sources are there.
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I have a new piece in the
@spectator
today: where I wonder why almost no historians called New World adventurism "genocide" prior to about 2010, and if the rush to label it "genocide" since then has been based on peer pressure rather than facts or logic.
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I have been contacted by an increasing number of people who said that October 7 was a turning point, which made wokeness untenable for them. Litmus test: if you can justify the intentional slaughter of innocents based on the position of their group identity in your worldview,
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Again: my main beef with ''wokeness'' is not even the politics per se. It is the attempt to silence debate. This is inimical to reason, science, and democracy. It's called dogma, and publicly enforcing dogma is called totalitarianism.
So I don't really have an iron in the
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Elizabeth Weiss (
@weissunburied
) is an important voice in Native American anthropology, one of the very few who is brave enough to argue against the ongoing (and until recently unthinkable) destruction of the scientific record. If the woke have their way, what little we can know
My new book, On the Warpath, will be out in days! Two months ahead of schedule -- thank you
@PressAcademica
-- and it is the
#1
new release in Physical Anthropology on Amazon. Order your copy today!
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Three weeks before its release date, with little media fanfare at the moment, Not Stolen has sailed to the top of the Colonialism & Post-Colonialism list on Amazon. People are thirsting to hear a historian talk common sense. Thanks to all who've pre-ordered.
#twitterstorians
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It seems white males, who still make up 60% of American males, are staying away from the US armed forces. Whyever might that be? Is it time to restructure the US curriculum, giving a more balanced view of US history, and the role of colonization, and of European-Americans in
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A call for moderation in our interpretations of history... trending all day on the Spectator!
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Very Insightful review of Not Stolen in the
@realpamphleteer
, by an academic trained in postcolonial theory, who agrees that the field has gone off the rails. If you want to know what my book is about, read this.
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Not Stolen is having a bit of a moment! Thanks to
@MattWalshBlog
,
@MorningWire
,
@carljacksonshow
,
@JaneBColeman
,
@RonColeman
, and others for helping us put some common sense back into the discussion of American history. The truth will out.
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Congratulations to
@NigelBiggar
, whose book Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning was just published. Reminds us that “colonialism” was sometimes forced on British authorities to prevent humanitarian disaster, or that some preferred British rule to exploitation by local elites.
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And another brick falls from the house of fear that Covid built. 3.4 percent of Covid sufferers had ''Long Covid'' while 3.0 percent of people with similar viruses had the same symptoms (brain fog, etc). This is a well-understood phenomenon: ''post-viral syndrome.''
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Still going strong... For nearly four months now, Not Stolen has been the No. 1 bestselling book in Canada on Native Issues and US Colonial history, and one of the top selling history books in the country. In the US, it's only been outsold by Bill O'Reilly's Witches series in US
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As Not Stolen continues to dominate bestseller lists on Native History in Canada months after its release, I want to thank the many people who have defended me in online forums, despite the efforts of well-connected people to pretend I am a buffoon. Here's an academic CV with
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Not Stolen is now the No. 1 New Release in Colonialism & Post Colonialism on Amazon! Thanks to all who have pre-ordered.
#Colonialism
#colonization
#history
#education
#settlercolonialism
#war
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So many calls to ''stop erasing Native history,'' and yet this is where the logic of cultural extremism gets you. The ''cultural appropriation'' mantra, likewise, leads not to empowerment of Native peoples, but disappearance from public consciousness and cultural relevance.
Native American groups use cultural activism for political purposes. My oped on the closing of the American Museum of Natural History exhibits.
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My historian colleagues are not doing everything in their power to make Europeans look worse than they were, while making everyone else look better than they were. Nothing to see, people, just accept that we are ''redressing historic imbalances'' and keep your mouth shut.
What’s the difference between a conspiracy and the truth?
About 6 months.
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@KonstantinKisin
This is exactly the kind of resolve we need, if we're going to keep human rights, democracy, and prosperity alive on this globe.
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The answer to Q5 is A) only 8,000 Native Americans were massacred by whites in all of US history up to 1848, over the course of ca. 250 years. (In Canada this figure is a few dozen.) Yet many internet sources imply millions. Here's question 6:
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Thousands killed in N. Syria in the last few weeks--by Muslims. Where are the protests, from the westerners who swear that their pro-Palestinian stance is ''not political, but only about concern for human life?'' .
120,000 newly displaced in Syria in October due to regime bombing according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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The saga of discussing my book at my home university continues. To their credit, the admin is on board with a public debate (and even created a flyer), but so far a, ahem, woke mob of jr. faculty has successfully pressured those who agree to argue against me(!) to drop out.
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Historians now think the only way to avoid 'racism' is to present history as a caricature. E.g. the people of Glasgow played a sustained role in global abolition over many decades, and funded vanishingly few slave ships. But guess how Glasgow's history is being portrayed?
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@aroberts_andrew
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@DouglasKMurray
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@tiffanyjenkins
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@davidtorrance
Read in full my letter of protest to the Kelvingrove Museum at its travesty of the truth about Scottish (and British) involvement in slavery:
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On the
#4thofJuly
, it’s time to reclaim America from the cynics, and to honor everyone—of every color and creed—who has made it great. My PragerU 5-Minute Video “Are we Living on Stolen Land?” will be out July 17th. Meanwhile, pre-order Not Stolen now:
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@euroswydd658
Not yet, but I'll put a link up when it is. We expect this will be within a few weeks.
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My new
@prageru
video has over 100k views in a single day! Thanks to the impressive crew who made it possible. And also to Dennis for hosting me on his radio show a few weeks back. (Below are answers to some questions raised in the vid...)
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The serious political message underpinning
@JK_rowling
's HP series is how fear causes people to tolerate propaganda and oppression. I remember reading this in the early 2000s and thinking--how quaint! A mid-20th century message that we probably won't need again in the West...
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My new piece in the Spectator today; the rabid anti-Israelism we're seeing is one aspect of the same fetishization of 'indigeneity' that is causing so much irrationality re: Native Americans. As we've seen in the past week, dogmatic misreadings of history dehumanize everyone.
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@friendofanawim
You do not know the arguments made in the book yet. A little early to judge...
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Thoroughly entertaining review of Not Stolen in The Stream.
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A great speech, in which
@KonstantinKisin
@arc_forum
makes a many of the points on which I elaborate in Not Stolen. Even beginning with Columbus. Let's hope the Zeitgeist is finally moving in our favour...
"We are in the fight of our lives" - the speech the world NEEDS to hear right now.
Check out
@KonstantinKisin
's speech at
@jordanbpeterson
's
@arc_forum
2023 👇
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Has European culture been racist for a thousand years? In a new podcast, I debunk a pair of influential books that make this claim:
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Fabulous review of Not Stolen by Tom Flanagan in that bastion of Canadian historical thought,
@DorchesterRev
, which incidentally appears just after a thoughtful review of
@NigelBiggar
's book. Well worth a subscription if you have any interest in Canadian history and culture.
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@HeterodoxRight
I'll have to talk to the powers that be, but let's keep in touch. Thanks for your interest.
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Using an abstract concept like 'colonialism' to justify the murder of actual humans is pathetically mid-c20th. I thought we were past that as a civilization. It's the same logic that animated the IRA and Spain's ETA, I suppose my colleagues would defend them as well?
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You guessed it, natives massacred more whites than vice versa before 1848. (By the way, though I'm featuring some prominent statistics in this Quiz, Not Stolen does a lot more than just present numbers...) That being said, here's another interesting figure to ponder:
#history
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Yep, when elites get too smug and start calling average people ''populists/racists'', then it becomes easier and easier for them to censor opinions they don't like. It's a slippery slope and it's about time we reclaim 'populism' to mean 'democracy.'
Nancy Pelosi did not like what I had to say...
Populism is not a threat to democracy.
Democrat elites like her are.
Watch my full Oxford Union speech from the debate with her:
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It seems the high priest of racial antagonism Ibram X. Kendi has proven bad manager, after he was given absolute power over a $50million+ research institute.
Anyone still ready to have him head the US ''Dept. of Antiracism,'' as he suggested?
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To paraphrase The Dark Knight, Not Stolen may not be the book Canada deserves, but it's the book Canada needs. At any rate, it's the book Canada wants. No. 1 in Native Issues and US Colonial history for the past 6 months in a row, peaking at 361 in all books last weekend. It's
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Today's the day! Not Stolen is now available online and in fine book stores everywhere.
@History_Reclaim
@spectator
@Telegraph
@NigelBiggar
@BruceDGilley
#history
#nativeamerican
#twitterstorians
#colonialism
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In which I point out that the happy-clappy 'give it back' mantra is based on 1970s fantasies about Native Americans, which (as I point out elsewhere) ultimately do more harm than good.
@History_Reclaim
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In 2020, my article on the ''stolen ground'' myth went viral. Within days, a hit piece was published in Foreign Policy whose purpose was to tag me as ''far right'' and a ''bad historian.'' I pulverize this drivel in a youtube video here:
Eloquent but
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Pleased to announce the publication of An Economic History of the Iberian Peninsula by Cambridge University Press, for which I was honoured to write the summary chapter for Part I. This will likely be the definitive economic history of Spain and Portugal for decades to come.
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With 10 days until the publication of Not Stolen, it's time to begin the Native History Quiz, which will consist of 10 questions over 10 days. How many can you guess correctly?
#twitterstorians
#history
#columbus
#historical
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Faced with a wall of facts, the Left is now claiming that ''no one actually believes'' that the US committed genocide, that they tried to starve the Indians by killing buffalo, that they spread smallpox blankets, that the US is illegitimate because it was ''stolen''...
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In Part II of Not Stolen, we debunk the most common myths about Natives. Myths that two decades ago, most people realized were part exaggeration. With social media weaponizing these myths, however, serious historians must step in and clear up the mess.
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There is an inescapable dialectic between people's habits and national institutions. Good institutions produce good habits. Bad institutions produce bad habits. People with bad habits promote institutional decay. People with good habits promote good institutions. Thus, too
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And this is exactly why I contest far-Left interpretations of US and Canadian history. For some reason, militaries across the West are experiencing a seismic recruitment crisis... just as the enemies of democracy are flexing their muscles. What could go wrong?
This is what the typical issue of the Canadian Military Journal looks like today.
Canada is racist, white people are evil, the military is full of white supremacy, supporting families is patriarchy...
Our military is entirely compromised
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Q7: D. Any time you hear ''casualties of colonialism'' figures in the millions, circa 99 percent of these were due to the passive spread of disease... which Europeans had no way of knowing would be more fatal to New Worlders. Here is Q8:
#history
#twitterstorians
#Columbus
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Both Covid and Wokeness have convinced me that a PhD can only impart a small measure of wisdom, at best. If you don't start out wise, then a PhD will merely convince you that your unwise opinions--obtained via your 'elite' peer groups and elite groupthink during graduate
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the editors did agree to publish my response, in which I remind readers that, to paraphrase Twain, the number of ''white supremacists'' on campus has been greatly exaggerated in the Age of Kendi.
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As often as not, when someone calls me a ''racist'' online, their profile yields references to anarchism or marxism. Why are personalities that combine obnoxiousness, laziness, and just enough brains to feel entitled, drawn to ''marxism'' like flies to a dung pile?
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Thomas Sowell has a new book; cue the hit pieces labelling his oeuvre a ''pseudoscholarly sham... which peddles mindless, factually unreliable free market dogma.'' Pathetic of Current Affairs to run such pseudoscholarly, mindless drivel.
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Not Stolen has been flying off shelves in the US and Canada, hovering inside the top 1000 on Amazon. It seems that a lot of people are allergic to being told what to think. Who'd have guessed?
#history
#ushistory
#historyteacher
#NativeAmerican
#colonialism
#twitterstorians
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Suggestion for decolonizing the curriculum No 2: Eliminate scientific discourse. With a history steeped in Greek philosophy, Renaissance experimentalism, and nineteenth-century European rationalism, modern scientific discourse is hopelessly Eurocentric. Time for it to go.
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One of the worst vices of the left in the last century has been moral equivalence between democratic governments (which generally try to act morally), and non-democratic governments (which generally have a far worse track record).
🧵Claims that Israel is "indiscriminately" bombing or causing disproportionate civilian deaths in Gaza can be easily proven false based on actions & statistics. Here are SEVEN items of evidence that debunk claims of war crimes, genocide, unprecedented civilian deaths, etc. 1/
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Love it when modern NGOs, lauded by Huff Post etc., crow about the success of their hand washing programmes in e.g. Mauritania, vs. my dear scholarly colleagues who write articles calling the imposition of hand-washing programmes 100 years ago ''colonialist.'' Er, no. Soap
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Thanks very much Steven! Absolutely agree that pessimism and cynicism are not the way forward.
Admitting the tragedies & crimes of the European settlement of America was a great moral step, but centrist historian Jeff Fynn-Paul argues it's gone too far. With democracy threatened, should we be stoking contempt & cynicism about liberal societies?
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In Germany half the migrants who arrived there in 2015 live on benefits. In Austria more than 60 per cent of those living on benefits are migrants. A Dutch study found Western immigration was broadly cost neutral, but the net costs of non-Western immigration averaged around €27
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On the one hand, the Harvard Book Store has been selling Not Stolen. This shows liberal-mindedness on someone's part and deserves praise. On the other hand, it's now out of stock. Hopefully this is because hordes of Harvardians couldn't wait to engage with it, and not because
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Gotta love it when the government stops publishing the data that is necessary to have an honest public conversation about a major political issue. I noticed this when 3 weeks into Covid, it became virtually impossible to get data about the normal numbers of flu deaths.
Mass immigration is now such an indisputable policy success that the government is now going to stop publishing the data needed to evaluate whether it's making you worse off.
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‘If the Palestinians lay down their weapons, there will be peace. If the Israelis lay down their weapons, there will be a massacre.’ - Golda Meir.
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We first debunk Charles C. Mann's silly exaggerations about urbanization and tech levels; then we look at war, environmentalism, hierarchy, sexism, and finally, the canard, spread by a handful of non-historian academics, that the Founding Fathers ''stole'' democracy .
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“When people read the history of Nazi Germany, they always think they'd be Schindler. They never think they'd be the perpetrator… Did you watch people during Covid? Many were thrilled to inform on others to feel moral superiority.”--someone despised by the Left
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Time to show a bit of ankle... the ''look inside'' feature for Not Stolen will soon be enabled, but meanwhile, we can do a global exclusive Table of Contents reveal... I'll tease it out by Part, just for fun. (I'll post the whole thing together in a few days.)
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According to Google I am a 'public figure.' And yet, I have received notes from people saying that they attempted to submit a wikipedia entry for me, only to have it struck down. As
@BruceDGilley
discovered a few weeks back, Ned Blackhawk's 2023 book has been ordered by ca.
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This is what happens when you discomfit the Leftist mandarin establishment. They'll run what are effectively ''warnings'' against you, labelling you a quack, knowing these will appear at the top of google searches on your name for years afterwards. (This piece was very top.)
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My Spectator piece is a call for scholarly synthesis. To borrow Marx's favourite Hegelian logic, we had 100+ years of thesis (Europe is great), and now 40 years of antithesis (Europe is horrible), now it's time to move beyond one-sidedness. Time to join the 21st century.
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I can handle Not Stolen being called, as it is in a forthcoming review, ''the most comprehensive antidote to Zinn published to date.''
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A group at my university is engaged in "decolonizing the curriculum." I have several suggestions. 1) Eliminate the university. As a product of the European middle ages, often built on stolen indigenous ground, and latterly an agent of Western hegemony, it's high time.
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Today an undergraduate said to me: ''I think your book has once more proven that... the freedom to disagree with each other is not set in stone and cannot be taken for granted.'' Sadly, most of his professors have long since forgotten this basic truth of a free society.
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Another fabulous column by Janet Daley: a journalist who fully understands how anti-democratic (and anti-scientific) lockdowns truly were.
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If one side destroyed a hospital full of people, they would be horrified; if the other side destroyed a hospital full of people, they would rejoice. No real question who the baddies are. Sam Harris states it with admirable clarity.
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Agree. This is about as direct a threat to democracy as can be--simply intolerable. The whole point of democracy is that it prioritizes *talking* (debate) over violence. Such crimes are therefore far worse than public disorder or whatever light charge these people might get.
People who attack politicians should be given extremely harsh sentences. Many, many years in prison.
Anything else just encourages more of it.
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To my dear academic colleagues: rather than virtue signal on twitter where we are limited to a few showboaty lines, let us do this the old fashioned way: Invite me to a conference/debate at your uni, decide a topic, and let's dispute this logically and scientifically.
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While I imagine that affirmative action has some value in certain situations, the woke have gone overboard and have long since been doing more harm than good. They are entrenching prejudice on all sides, in part by making the policy look not only ridiculous but malicious. Give
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The problem before us now, is how to maximize dignity for the historically under-represented, without misrepresenting European history in the process. It's not a zero-sum game. You can do good by one, without distorting and abusing the other.
@History_Reclaim
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In which I systematically debunk the idea that Europeans committed ''genocide'' in the new world, partly by pointing out that before 2016, almost no historian considered ''genocide'' a valid description of European colonialism in the New World.
"The myth of New World genocide is a radical take on European colonialism based on systematic abuse and suppression of the historical record for the purpose of scoring political points with modern social media audiences."
Professor
@JeffFynnPaul
Watch👇
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And perhaps surprisingly, only 10% of Not Stolen's reviews are review bombers. (Including, memorably, one female anglican priest who works on an Indian reserve, who felt the need to clown me.) So far every verified purchase is more or less unreserved praise...
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Looks like we're already creating a bit of buzz in Canada... and still six months out. People are hungry for a bit of balance in their history. This includes many First Nations people, who, if you listen, will tell you they are also tired of identity caricatures.
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The answer to Q2 was C) 300,000. It's believed that ~30k slaves were sacrificed every year in Mexico City alone. But the real number might have been closer to D). Here's Question 3:
#twitterstorians
#history
#mexico
#today
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Those gloating over 'takedowns' of my argument don't realize they are trying to bail the Titanic with a bucket. As soon as you concede that neutral processes such as biology, demography, and supply and demand exist, reality comes flooding in and your whole argument sinks.
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Not Stolen will be released in one month. Meanwhile, here's an example of what I'm arguing against. Jack Forbes helped found several Native American Studies programs in the 60s & 70s, while teaching that European civilization was uniquely depraved.
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The charge of ''denialism'' works when something is objectively true, such as the Holocaust. Applied to an active academic debate (such as the role of colonialism in creating modern poverty), it is a lazy attempt to assert that one's subjective opinion is objectively true.
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Thanks so much to well-known podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey
@conservmillen
, who has over a million subs across social media, for having me on her show! Very insightful questions, good conversation.
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Humanities PhDs need to remember that Critical Race Theory - the theory which reads all European actions of the last 500 years as 'maximally evil' - is just that. A theory. As social scientists, we have a duty to contest every theory, especially if they cause mass discontent.
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If you can prove my main theses wrong, I will stand corrected. I am willing to submit my interpretations to rigorous scientific debate. Can you honestly say the same?
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This used to be common knowledge, but now Biggar is one of the few people willing to point out the obvious. Gosh, thinking is hard!
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In a 1995 survey conducted by the US Dept. of Labor, 49.8% of indigenous Americans preferred "American Indian," 37.5% preferred "Native American," 5.7% had no preference, 3.7% preferred some other term, and 3.5% percent preferred "Alaska Native."
This means that before all the
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In Canada, the woke can now legally censure and ''re-educate'' any professional for the crime of being a Conservative. Kendites will doubtless see this as a roadmap for the United States. It's been a while since the threat to free thought has been so dire.
My just-published response to the court decision to let the Ontario College of Psychologists proceed with no legal objection to their forced re-education plans:
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