Byron C Clark 🍠
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Author of 'Fear: New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists' | Twitter Blue accounts blocked by default | buy me a coffee
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I feel like to many people don't recognise fascism because they think fascism will arrive selling oppression and tyranny, but if you're part of the privileged group fascism is selling you safety, normalcy, and tradition
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I set up my web browser to automatically change "political correctness" to "treating people with respect"
http://t.co/yvNnqUWpNm
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people talking like this is Kafka thing is Dawkins first foray into literary criticism as if this never happened
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@Ahhmandah
Reminds me of an anecdote a co-worker told me about working in Chennai based call centre for an American Telco
Customer: can I talk to someone who speaks English?
Him: what, you mean like Shakespeare?
C: excuse me?
H: my supervisor, Mr Shakespeae, would you like to speak to Him?
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@Ahhmandah
He then told his supervisor "dude I told her your name is Shakespear, please play along"
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Even the flat Earthers think the Q crowd have lost the plot
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Sue has no time for the anti-vax protesters who turned up in her neighbourhood
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Yeah what the hell does this dude know about Cyberpunk anyway
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Click "view hidden replies" to see people proving the point
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To the National MPs who have lost their seats tonight I hear there lots of fruit picking jobs in Central Otago
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New Zealand has designated The Proud Boys a terrorist entity
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When the New Conservative Party talk about "protecting our way of life" this is what they mean
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The harassment I've received since appearing on TV last weekend has been some of the worst I've experienced since I started doing this activism. I'm thankful for everyone who has been supporting me in different ways, I couldn't do it without you
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@_ElizabethMay
Not my own story as such but I discovered Nun Twitter when somehow a tweet got into my feed that said "be the reason a nun clutches her rossary beads" and the goth teen who posted it got roasted by some social media savvy sisters
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Reminder that in her 1997 book, 'Pauline Hanson: The Truth' Pauline Hanson predicted that by 2050 Australia would be ruled by an Asian lesbian cyborg. Her election loss today brings that dream a little bit closer to reality
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People are posting "2 sleeps till Christmas!" But really you can have as many sleeps as you want over the next 24 hours there's no rule
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In a significant escalation in the harassment I've been receiving, far-right activist Lee Williams turned up at my workplace and started filming me.
This follows the two anonymous death threats I received earlier in the month. The far-right are feeling emboldened
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Starting to get threats and doxing following Alps comments on Counterspin earlier today. The address being shared is an old one but I've still informed police.
This is not a "freedom movement" these are people who threaten their critics with violence
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Just left the district court, a judge has granted me a restraining order against conspiracy theorist Damien de Ment. I am please with this outcome.
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Advance NZ on track to make history as the first party to get less votes than they have Facebook likes
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I've been overwhelmed with the support I've received following a local far-right activist accosing me at my workplace, a lot of people have been asking me what they can do to help, so here's a thread
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@jordanbpeterson
Kia ora Dr. Peterson
Author of a book on extremism in New Zealand here, just wanted to let you know that you're wrong and should probably feel bad about it.
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People are posting "2 sleeps till Christmas!" But really you can have as many sleeps as you want over the next 24 hours there's no rule
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This has got to be some kind of secret spy communication, right?
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If you're cancelling your
@nzherald
Premium sub tomorrow please be polite to the person you speak to on the phone, remember they didn't write the opinion piece and will be having a busy day
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I really can't understand how a transport minister owning airport shares is treated like a massive scandal while a landlord prime minister can vote to pass laws giving landlords tax breaks and it's not seen as a conflict of interest
"I just say to you that that's the perception, whether that's real or not doesn't really matter"
Christopher Luxon, NZ Prime Minister and owner of 7 properties
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"There is a river of filth, there is a river of violence and menace, there is a river of antisemitism, there is a river of Islamophobia...I would say madam speaker that there is a river of genuine fascism in parts of the event that we see out the front of this parliament today"
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The woman who appeared on
@1NewsNZ
yelling "Make Ardern Go Away!" at the Groundswell protest today isn't a farmer, she's a retiree who makes YouTube videos claiming that an Islamic take over New Zealand is underway and posts anti-vaccine content on Facebook
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Shout-out to the hardworking sandwich artists of Subway Waiuku who should be paid more for having to deal with this nonsense
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Thinking of the 51 people who lost their lives in a hateful act three years ago today, and remembering how much work we still have to do ❤️
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In Israel people speak Hebrew, in Gaza people speak Arabic. This video is in English because the target audience isn't actually the residents of Gaza (who have had their internet access cut) but Westerners. It's propaganda.
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Threats have really ramped up this week. I'm not sure why exactly. Police are involved and I'm somewhere safe. I have a lot of support but may be a bit quieter the next few days because this stuff is tiring and time consuming
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seeing people on the far-right complaining I'm "being a victim"
Well I wouldn't be if you weren't sending me death threats and accosting me at my workplace...
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@LilySimpson1312
Also Sophie Wilson who developed the ARM architecture that pretty much every smart phone is using
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Can't believe Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party won an outright majority after so many magazines she was in got turned backwards in supermarkets
#turnardern
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This is why I didn't vibe with the cynicism about John Oliver getting involved in the campaign, this is what it's all about really
"Forest and Bird told RNZ donations associated with the campaign were "several times higher" than previous years"
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Show me a picture that proves you went to school in New Zealand.
I'll start:
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I voted today. A 'special vote' as I'm on the unpublished roll due to the violent threats I get from the far-right. I've been less actively involved in this election campaign than most previous ones, but those threats made it feel like the most important vote I've cast
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Former New Conservative Party leader Leighton Baker was among the protesters arrested this week.
This was the law and order policy of New Conservative when he led them
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I was really hoping NZ First would lose a seat once special votes were counted, but they didn't, meaning the next government will include an MP who was part of the 'Nuremberg' Telegram group where journalists and public health officials were listed to be "tried"
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Livestreamers at the parliament occupation on Wednesday be like
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For the first Friday night in over a century* there is nowhere in New Zealand one can pick up fish and chips
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To give some context to goings on, this is how big Gaza is. Over 2 million people live there
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Still formulating ideas around this but I'm increasingly thinking that the combination of far-right & conspiracy theorist movements that we've seen grow during the pandemic is akin to a dress rehearsal for what we'll see once the impact of climate change becomes more significant
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Supporters of the protests are refuting the idea that there is a far-right element involved by showing pictures of protesters dancing, feeding each other, operating laundries etc
But in propaganda fascists have always protrayed themselves as morally upstanding citizens (1/8)
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A few people have been asking what they can do to help my safety following the threats I've recieved this week.
Here's a thread, the thing I'd like to emphasise is that while I'm reasonbly prominent in anti-facist activism I'm not the person most at risk.
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Any commentator/columnist/TalkBack host/whatever who is still saying there is no far-right involvement in the protests outside parliament is being willfully ignorant at this point
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When you see David Seymour talking about how horrible it is to say "from the river to the sea" remember he had no problem with an ACT donor using the phrase "if this happens to my daughter I'm destroying mosque after mosque until they take me out"
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Today's protests have made international news
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In New Zealand you can tell what generation people are by what they call our public broadcaster
Millennials: RNZ
Generation X: Radio New Zealand
Boomers: The National Programme
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If you're wondering did the Free Speech Union reach out to help when the far-right were trying to silence me with threats and stalking? No, no they did not.
I did get great support from a real union though, E tū does great work and I'm proud to have been a member
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Seymour, who accepted a donation from a man who threatened to "destroy mosque after mosque until I'm taken out" has decided there is "no place for flag burning" at protests in Aotearoa
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Can't say which one, but today I had a victory in civil court against a local far-right activist. I'm now three-for-three with civil cases against the far-right.
the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
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Calling the prime minister a dark princess in command of demonic hordes just makes her sound metal af 🤘
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My first peer reviewed journal article. Style is more academic than my ususal stuff. Looking at how the media covered the occupation of parliament grounds, including the stuff they missed
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First person featured in the book to buy a copy of the book (that I'm aware of)
I won't stop them doing so, but I am going to match what they spent on the book with donations to charities supporting refugee resettlement
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Instead of arguing about whether Christchurch or Tauranga is the more racist city think about ways you can challenge racism wherever you live
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.
@NewstalkZB
have been quietly removing Islamophobic articles from their website. That's a good start, but it's only a start. Here's a thread of some thing you could do next.
1) Publicly announce that you're deleting these articles, and why you're deleting them.
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New Zealand was founded by colonisers who believed their race to be superior, and that the treaty they signed with "savages" was void. It was treated as such for over a century. Today we have politicians claiming that governments honouring that treaty are creating an ethnostate
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Turns out the 'old soldier' who was celebrated on Counterspin Media livestreams as he saluted people on the convoy to the Wellington protest in February is just some guy with a replica uniform, and never served in the military
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Ok, I'll be watching so you don't have to, assuming they can get their livestream working
Counterspin reacts to 'Fire and Fury'
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Excited to announce that you can now pre-order my book 'FEAR: New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists'
Published by
@HarperNZ
and out in February
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Wondered how long it would be until the weather control conspiracies began
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Stranger Things trying to depict abject horror but this just your average New Zealand rental property in the winter
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Counterspin Media ran into James Shaw and he was in no mood for their bullshit
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Frustrating to see 1 News open tonight's show with a story on rugby rather than the ongoing genocide in Gaza
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Bit rude of David Seymour to say special votes are cast by left-wing voters who are "less organised"
I voted the first day voting was open but it's a special vote' because stalking from the far-right requires me to be on the unpublished roll.
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Counterspin Media is getting together all the people who appeared in 'Fire and Fury' for an 'emergency broadcast' tonight
For disinformation researchers this like our Multiverse of Madness
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This UK based YouTuber told his audience to report the petition calling on Synlait to reconsider their employment of Lee Williams, lots of them misunderstood and instead signed the petition
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Folks on Telegram still trying to process the PMs resignation
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