S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 514 | Trump Cancels Critical Race Theory
Jared Howe - Sep 13th 2020 6:46pm EDTThe tables have turned. Following an explosive series of segments on the topic from Tucker Carlson, Russell Vought announced over the weekend that the President will be completely defunding Critical Race Theory indoctrination seminars at the Federal level. According to clarification provided by Trump via Twitter on Vought’s memorandum to the heads of Federal agencies, […]
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 513 | Antifa Assassin Commits Suicide by Cop
Jared Howe - Sep 13th 2020 6:46pm EDTMichael Reinoehl was nothing if not a coward. After assassinating a member of Patriot Prayer in broad daylight, Mike fled the state of Oregon and gave an interview to VICE news in which he admitted to the killing but claimed it was in self defense (in spite of the video evidence to the contrary.) After […]
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 512 | A Watershed Moment
Jared Howe - Sep 13th 2020 6:46pm EDTThe high profile attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse and Nick Sandmann, L. Linn Wood, was shut out of his Twitter account yesterday for several hours due to what Twitter described as an “automated flagging error.” Riiiiight… Their apology was too little too late, however, as the ban prompted Wood to appear on Fox News where he […]
H.L. Mencken, Nietzsche and the Death of the Victorian Mainstream
Occidental Dissent - Sep 12th 2020 9:55am EDTWhy should anyone bother studying this? What relevance does it have to our own times? I would respond by saying it is worth knowing when, why and how our own age began and when, why and how the old mainstream crumbled. The following excerpt comes from Henry F. May’s book The End of American Innocence, […]
The Cuties Uproar
Occidental Dissent - Sep 11th 2020 12:46pm EDT Netflix is comfortable with this. Plenty of people will defend it. This is where our culture is at. pic.twitter.com/UlqEmXALmd— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) September 10, 2020 Unless you have been living under a rock this week, you have probably heard about the big conservative uproar against Netflix over the French film Cuties which sexualizes children. […]Pride and Prejudice Fails To Meet Modern Inclusion Standards
Occidental Dissent - Sep 9th 2020 1:59pm EDTStarting in 2024, movies will need to meet specific inclusion standards in order to be eligible for the best picture Oscar. https://t.co/aPT1qejKvU— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) September 9, 2020 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is responsible for the annual Academy Awards, has implemented sweeping new restrictions and requirements that will determine […]
Nietzsche’s Insanity, Oscar Wilde’s Aestheticism and Modernism
Occidental Dissent - Sep 8th 2020 4:44pm EDT When did the Modern age begin? There is no real precise moment that separates the Romantic or Victorian age from the Modern age and it varies from country to country, but the moment that Friedrich Nietzsche went insane and became Dionysus isn’t far off. The 1890s were a cultural turning point in European history. The […]American Racial Decline and Modernism
Occidental Dissent - Sep 8th 2020 12:10pm EDTI’m bumping up my response to ATBOTL from the comments who raises some good points: “American radical abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and Charles Sumner were openly anti-white in the current sense long before modernists had any influence anywhere or even existed. Most significantly, they a huge following among average, non-elite middle class whites in […]
“Ethan Is Supreme” Has Died Of a Drug Overdose
Occidental Dissent - Sep 7th 2020 2:18pm EDT [BREAKING] Leaked video shows Social Media influencer “Ethan Is Supreme” suffering from a seizure moments before his death ? We send our condolences to his loved ones. pic.twitter.com/LdAunsx5mK— ?MISS DIOR? (@MlSSDllOR) September 6, 2020 He originally went viral for this video https://t.co/PYWEozFyFW— Sadie Longs Protégé (@ForgottMyName) September 7, 2020 I had never heard of this […]William James and Modernist Psychology
Occidental Dissent - Sep 7th 2020 1:27pm EDTThis is an excellent book. I can’t recommend it highly enough. As we have already seen, the first American Modernist was the artist James Abbott McNeil Whistler whose extraordinary and highly unusual life took him out of the antebellum United States to Russia and from there to France in the 1850s and 1860s where he […]