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  • Sunset

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 8th 2020 6:31pm EDT

    I need to brush up on my Hegel. I’m beginning to develop a theory. Please entertain this idea for the sake of argument which I admit could be complete nonsense. I’m just being creative and having some fun. Joe Biden could be on “the right side of history.” Modernism could potentially last forever. It could […]

  • Modernism and Protestantism

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 8th 2020 2:16pm EDT

    The following excerpts come from Eric P. Kaufmann’s book The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America and illustrate the degree to which the rise of Modernism was transforming American Christianity in the first three decades of the 20th century. In the early 20th century, American Protestantism became obsessed with ecumenicism and cosmopolitanism and began to splinter. […]

  • The Federalist: American Left Is “The Only One In The World That Hates Their Country”

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 7th 2020 6:41pm EDT

    Chris Bedford made some good points last night on Tucker Carlson’s show, but failed to provide any theoretical context which makes sense of the problem: FOX News: “We have that insidious phrase, that ‘You’re on the wrong side of history,’” Bedford said. …” What does that phrase mean? “It is 2020.” “You’re on the wrong […]

  • Could America Split Up?

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 4th 2020 2:25pm EDT

    Possibly. Maybe not though. The Week: “All week I’ve been haunted by a brief few seconds of video posted on Twitter late Sunday night by a student journalist in Eugene, Oregon. Two men face off at a protest — the one standing on the left is demonstrating for Black Lives Matter; the one on the […]

  • The Wrong Side of History

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 2nd 2020 1:44pm EDT

    I woke up this morning with this idea. Progressives are on the “wrong side of history.” I can’t tell you how many times that I have been told this over the past two decades. I’m on the “wrong side of history.” It is the modern progressive form of the old Whig theory of history. The […]

  • THE END Unveiled In Trafalgar Square

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 1st 2020 3:44pm 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 Sure, it is a catastrophe, but I would leave it up. It is a fitting memorial […]

  • Antifa and Black Lives Matter Burn American Flags and Bibles While Rioting Against Portland Police

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 1st 2020 3:04pm EDT

    More flag burning at the antifa/ BLM gathering in downtown Portland. Video by @FromKalen. #PortlandRiots pic.twitter.com/okngG7eRYK— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 1, 2020 Left-wing activists bring a stack of Bibles to burn in front of the federal courthouse in Portland. pic.twitter.com/lYWY0x8n8P— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 1, 2020 ‘F*ck Trump!’ | Bible and US flag set […]

  • Why Woke People Won’t Debate You

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 31st 2020 11:09am EDT

    According to the critical race theorists, racism is everywhere. It is in every society (“structural”), every organization (“institutional”), every relationship (“interpersonal”), and every individual (“internalized”).There is no escape. pic.twitter.com/fCU4VXIPbG— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) July 29, 2020 1/n Further confirmation of the white liberalism-negative mental health relationship (see the original thread here https://t.co/nI29Hu8guk). pic.twitter.com/Gf58jiYRAC— Zach Goldberg […]

  • Tucker Carlson: America Is Witnessing a Brazen Power Grab

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 31st 2020 9:30am EDT

    “Democracy” is their word for ripping the tongue out of their critics, censoring the press of their rivals, blacklisting you from employment, oligarchs buying public policy and nullifying elections, bureaucrats sabotaging the will of the president, declaring all disagreement on vast swathes of public policy to be “hate” and therefore illegitimate and outside the realm […]

  • Thomas B. Edsall: ‘The Whole of Liberal Democracy Is in Grave Danger at This Moment’

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2020 7:27pm EDT

    In The New York Times, Thomas B. Edsall warns that the Right is drifting away from liberal democracy and toward authoritarian democracy. New York Times: “In the continuing debate over whether liberals or conservatives are more open minded, whether those on the left or the right are more rigid in their thinking, a team of […]

  • Woke Supremacy Is Surprisingly Unpopular

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2020 2:10pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. The first data point comes from The Washington Post which shows a huge retreat in public support over the past month from the so-called “racial justice movement.” As the reaction to woke supremacy has gathered momentum, there has been a 15 point decline in support for seeing […]

  • An Intellectual History of “Woke” Left Modernism

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2020 1:14am EDT

    Left Modernism is ubiquitous. It is synonymous with American mainstream culture which is a composite mix of liberalism, modernism and cosmopolitanism. It is essentially what we are against. Modernism rejects authority and tradition in favor of self-interest, self-expression, self-achievement, self-realization, self-fulfillment and self-advancement. It rejects the past in favor of the future. It is always […]

  • Anarchy, Plus a Street Constable

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 18th 2020 4:56pm EDT

    These scenes of chaos coming out of Portland continue to bring to mind Thomas Carlyle’s famous quip about the future of America: “Anarchy, plus a street constable”: that is also anarchic to me, and other than quite lovely! I foresee, too, that, long before the waste lands are full, the very street-constable, on these poor […]

  • “Civil Rights Icon” John Lewis Is Finally Dead

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 18th 2020 3:44pm EDT

    A giant. A legendary leader. A civil rights icon. A human saint. Here’s how friends, colleagues and admirers are remembering John Lewis, who died on Friday at 80. https://t.co/TqYSgLL5ex pic.twitter.com/RJYsWeM6ZR— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 18, 2020 We are made in the image of God, and then there is John Lewis. He was truly […]

  • Andrew Sullivan Resigns From New York Magazine

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 17th 2020 3:01pm EDT

    We live in a strange world. In this world, I am the “bigot” and “extremist” and the underground “hate group.” And yet, I have read Andrew Sullivan over the years and it has never occurred to me to hate or despise the man or to whip up a mob to silence him. Sure, he is […]

  • Liberalism and Leftism

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 16th 2020 8:08pm EDT

    It is hard to say which is worse. I want to draw a distinction. This might be confusing to some readers. When I criticize “woke supremacy,” I am referring to Woke people whose worldview is based on Critical Social Justice Theory. These people are leftists and their intellectual roots trace back ultimately to the Frankfurt […]

  • Steve Sailer: Our New Religion of Race

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 15th 2020 8:38pm EDT

    Woke supremacy is our new established national religion. Takimag: “St. Paul famously wrote to the Galatians:“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”But America in the era of George Floyd (may he rest in power) appears to be […]

  • Woke Scold Hotline

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 13th 2020 7:46pm EDT

    “You’re awful.” The post-World War II era summed up in three words.

  • McCloskeys Served With Search Warrant

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 11th 2020 12:22pm EDT

    BREAKING: Warrant reportedly served on St. Louis couple who stood outside their home with weapons as protesters approached. We’re told weapon(s) seized. We’ve got the warrant and pictures for you at 11p – PLUS, Missouri @AGEricSchmitt joins us LIVE @FoxNews @FoxNewsNight— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) July 11, 2020 How dark is this country about to get? […]

  • Trans Effie: The Progressive Ideal of Beauty

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 10th 2020 10:15pm EDT

    In the final issue of The Charleston Mercury, Robert Barnwell Rhett described our regional cultural divide this way: “The South, a more tolerant and congenial region, did not like change and revered the past, while the North, “fond of novelties, misnamed “progress,” was the slave of its own dogmatism.” This was a common refrain in […]

  • Steven Pinker: They’re Trying To Cancel Me

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 9th 2020 4:26pm EDT

    I have a copy his book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Needless to say, its conclusions are problematic for the racial justice movement. Fortunately, it doesn’t appear they have read it and thought about the implications that Pinker tries to dismiss. The Times: “Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychology professor and bestselling […]

  • San Francisco Supervisor Introduces The CAREN Act

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 8th 2020 5:38am EDT

    City officials in San Francisco are introducing the ‘CAREN’ Act to outlaw racially motivated 911 calls.It stands for “Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies.” pic.twitter.com/YemlHB08ks— UberFacts (@UberFacts) July 8, 2020 Racist 911 calls are unacceptable that’s why I’m introducing the CAREN Act at today’s SF Board of Supervisors meeting. This is the CAREN we need. Caution […]

  • Martinez Residents Charged With “Hate Crime” For Covering Up Black Lives Matter Mural

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 8th 2020 5:16am EDT

    In case you didn’t already know, the message is far more important than the medium. Painting over a street gets you arrested. Putting up a sticker gets you arrested. Standing on a building gets you arrested. But violent rioting, looting, vandalism? Oh well, that’s just how it is. https://t.co/SKfox1wvK9— Ashley Rae Groypenberg (@Communism_Kills) July 7, […]

  • Armed Black Militia Declares Race War At Stone Mountain

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 5th 2020 11:36am EDT

    The largest armed Black crowd I’ve ever seen in my life just crossed the front of my house in Stone Mountain. Bigger than any Black Panther engagement I’ve ever encountered #July4th2020 pic.twitter.com/4iH5qx77Ee— Jollof Rice Brand Ambassador (@_King_Akin) July 4, 2020 BREAKING – An armed Not Fucking Around Coalition (NFAC) militia in Stone Mountain, Georgia has […]

  • Woke Liberalism Self Destructs In New York City

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 3rd 2020 5:50pm EDT

    As I have been saying for weeks, anti-racism is the defining idea of the post-World War II era and is about to plunge the West into its next major crisis which is currently taking shape: TAC: “He is absolutely correct. This video, which features people (council members) who are Jewish, white Gentile, Latino, East Asian, […]