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  • Apple Releases Pregnant Man Emoji

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 1st 2022 10:43am EST

    Everyone has been laughing at this. If George Fitzhugh were alive today, he would feel vindicated. The Sun: “Apple’s recent update introduces a number of new emojis- including the one of a pregnant man that has divided opinion. Among the new batch of emojis are also a gender-neutral pregnant person and one bearing a crown. The […]

  • Team Blue Breaks Their Brains Over Joe Rogan

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 31st 2022 11:13am EST

    Liberalism is dead. It was killed by these people. Personally, I don’t care that Joe Rogan has a podcast. I don’t care that he has conversations with people like Alex Jones or Alex Berenson and shares his takes on his own platform. I don’t agree with all of his takes which do include misinformation. I […]

  • Thomas Main: The Rise of Illiberalism

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 30th 2022 10:28am EST

    After listening to the entire episode, I came away with the impression that we are really having the same argument that we have always been having going back to the Constitutional Convention. Here are my thoughts: 1. The first thing you will probably notice is Thomas Main’s thick New York accent. The man has a […]

  • Thomas Main: What Is Liberal Democracy?

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 12th 2022 10:27pm EST

    I’m reading Thomas Main’s new book The Rise of Illiberalism. According to Main, “illiberalism” is “the basic repudiation of liberal democracy, the very foundation on which the United States rests.” It can also be traced back to Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. This is the story that progressive liberals have always told themselves. […]

  • Red River

    Counter Currents - Nov 29th 2021 8:47am EST

    2,335 words Howard Hawks’ Red River (1948) is one of the greatest Westerns. Red River has it all: charismatic performances by John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, a solid ensemble cast to back them up, a beautifully economical script, dramatic black-and- white cinematography, and a surprisingly good score from Dimitri Tiomkin, who had always struck me […]

  • San Francisco Descends Into Looting Free For All

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 25th 2021 3:01pm EST

    Here are your liberal norms again. These people control San Francisco. This is how they prefer to live out there. This is how the justice system works in progressive enclaves when it is staffed by people like Chesa Boudin.

  • Jason Kessler Wants To Start a White Civil Rights Organization

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 25th 2021 11:15am EST

    There are radicals who would like to stamp out Christian liberty. But the Valyrian steel that stops the cultural white walker is pluralism buttressed by classical liberalism, not Christian statism. (Analogy makes sense in the piece): https://t.co/QECVdwBepZ — David French (@DavidAFrench) May 30, 2019 Fields: LChauvin: LKyle: WCharlottesville: LMcMichaels: LConservatives: “Yeah, we’re winning!” — Jake […]

  • New York Times: Charlottesville Extremists Lose In Court, But Replacement Theory Lingers On

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 24th 2021 7:21pm EST

    The Unite the Right defendants lost a civil case before a Charlottesville jury. Nationalist groups which decided four or five years ago for their own reasons that holding volatile public rallies in progressive college towns was a tactical error will now be deterred from holding similar events. New York Times: “The jury verdict on Tuesday […]

  • Patrick Deneen: Abandoning Defensive Crouch Conservatism

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 24th 2021 11:27am EST

    The Right is constantly accused of “authoritarianism” by the Left. This recent provocative essay by Patrick Deneen was on my mind when the Sines v. Kessler verdict came down. The entire American Right from David French through the Alt-Right in Charlottesville where Jason Kessler styled himself as a White civil rights advocate has been championing […]

  • The Last True Believers In Liberalism

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 21st 2021 10:06am EST

    I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while now. As we await the outcome of the Sines v. Kessler trial, it has been on my mind all week. Back in 2017, the Alt-Right fell under the spell of the Alt-Lite and sought to emulate them in key ways that led to the disastrous […]

  • Metternich, the Anti-Nationalist?

    Counter Currents - Oct 28th 2021 7:44am EDT

    1,523 words Wolfram SiemannMetternich: Strategist and Visionary Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019 Julius Evola called Klemens von Metternich the “last great European.” The Right-wing philosopher saw the Austrian statesman as his ideal leader instead of the fascist strongmen he saw in his own time. Statements like this have made the Right partial to Metternich, […]

  • Thomas Edsall: The Moral Chasm That Has Opened Up Between Right and Left Is Widening

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 27th 2021 9:42am EDT

    Thomas Edsall has an interesting new column up this morning. New York Times: “There has been a remarkable erosion in public tolerance of “offensive expression about race, gender and religion,” according to Dennis Chong and Morris Levy, political scientists at the University of Southern California, and Jack Citrin, a political scientist at Berkeley. “Tolerance has declined overall,” they […]

  • Brian Stelter: Rightwing Media Repeats The News

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 14th 2021 1:35pm EDT

    CNN’s Brian Stelter draws smallest audience of 2021 in category coveted by advertisers https://t.co/AADJEj2376 — Brian Flood (@briansflood) October 12, 2021 What the US needs from national news in this moment is not “balance” but instead a foundation of moral clarity. When anti-democracy forces make their next pass, “both sides” won’t get us through. It’ll […]

  • The Triumph and Terror of Wang Huning

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 12th 2021 12:12pm EDT

    Are you ready to suit up and fight those evil ChiComs over Taiwan’s inalienable right to secede from China? I’m just joking. It is not like you are even eligible to serve in the U.S. military anyway. Palladium Mag: “One day in August 2021, Zhao Wei disappeared. For one of China’s best-known actresses to physically […]

  • After Liberalism: George Bancroft and American Liberalism

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 2nd 2021 6:06pm EDT

    I’m just now discovering this. It figures though that Paul Gottfried would have already come across the importance of George Bancroft in the history of American liberalism. This excerpt comes from Paul Gottfried’s book After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State. “While Tocqueville and Guizot underlined the link between American democracy and America’s decentralized […]

  • After Liberalism and American History

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 2nd 2021 11:12am EDT

    I’m already having a good laugh reading through Matthew Rose’s new book After Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right. “We are living in a postliberal moment. After three decades of dominance, liberalism is losing its hold on Western minds. Its most serious challenge does not come from regimes in China, Russia, or Central Europe, whose […]

  • The Taliban Is Patrolling Women

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 17th 2021 9:34am EDT

    Wow, just wow. Isn’t this terrible? Afghanistan has gone back to the Dark Ages!

  • No-Go Zone: January 6 Committee Farce & The Push For Forced Vaccinations

    Red Ice TV - Jul 29th 2021 4:45am EDT

    This is the audio version of the show. If you want to watch the video version go here. We have RSS/Podcast feeds available here. Henrik cover some the latest news and recent events in episode 64 of No-Go Zone. Sign up for a membership at redicemembers.com. Get full access to our extensive archives, watch or listen to all our shows. Stream […]

  • Politico: Biden’s Domestic Terrorism Strategy Concerns Progressive Activists

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2021 2:36pm EDT

    It dawned on me last summer where this is going. As Sully pointed out, the ruling class is woke now. This sudden and radical shift in worldview is spilling over into everything – policing, immigration policy, the criminal justice system, federal holidays, ag policy, Big Tech, education, historic monuments, the vaccine distribution, the FBI, “journalism,” […]

  • Liberalism, Which Inverted Society, Inverts Itself

    Amerika.org - Jul 20th 2021 8:02am EDT

    Back when the Enlightenment™ came around, traditionalists criticized it because it made the individual the core of social order, replacing natural order. They pointed out that this turned society from a functioning organism into a bureaucracy like those run by Genghis Khan and Darius. That kills culture, which results in a collapsed, mediocre, low average […]

  • American Booksellers Association Apologizes For “Anti-Trans” Book

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 17th 2021 4:37pm EDT

    If there were a Hall of Fame for capitulations to Woke bullies, the American Booksellers Association is hereby inducted. The “serious, violent incident” they perpetrated? Including my book in a large box of new book samples sent out to independent booksellers. https://t.co/SgnKvPy4AU — Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) July 15, 2021 pic.twitter.com/nCPnqUFIe6 — Jaggybunnet (@hughgmeechan) July 15, […]

  • Wesley Yang: Welcome To Year Zero

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 17th 2021 1:43pm EDT

    Sully sounded the alarm last weekend. In that article, he referenced Wesley Yang who coined the term “successor ideology” to describe the new woke governing ideology that has replaced liberalism among American elites and the Democratic establishment. Wesley Yang has a new article out about this on his Substack. Meanwhile, Axios is saying that Sullivan […]

  • Andrew Sullivan: The Radicalization of Liberal Elites

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 11th 2021 10:26am EDT

    I distinctly recall Andrew Sullivan’s sheer terror before Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election. “Fascism” was on the march and was coming to power in America. “I have long had faith that some version of fascism cannot come to power in America. The events of the past year suggest deep reflection on that conviction. […]

  • ITV: Casts of Faces of 850 “Trans” People To Be Displayed In Trafalgar Square

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 6th 2021 1:13pm EDT

    What do you think of London’s new artwork on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square? It’s by the artist @h_phillipson and has been unveiled this morning. It’s called THE END… #4thplinth pic.twitter.com/dgDv9ybWyV — BBC Radio London (@BBCRadioLondon) July 30, 2020 In the UK, this is the next disgrace which is going to decorate Trafalgar Square […]

  • Canada Is Transforming Into a Woke Authoritarian Dystopia

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 4th 2021 10:52am EDT

    As mentioned before, (English) Canada is emerging as the first woke nation, home of the new cultural revolution https://t.co/NXYsgbZsGt — Eric Kaufmann (@epkaufm) July 2, 2021 These two women vandalized a church in Vancouver. pic.twitter.com/On5csWcJfe — L?IGH (@LeighStewy) July 4, 2021 It’s natural for disgusting people to recoil from beauty and truth in a desperate […]