Antifa and Black Lives Matter Burn American Flags and Bibles While Rioting Against Portland Police
Occidental Dissent - Aug 1st 2020 3:04pm EDTMore 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 […]
Rebellion
Occidental Dissent - Aug 1st 2020 1:41pm EDTWhy have our efforts come to naught? Why is the Black Lives Matter movement which burned the American flag and the Bible last night in Portland the most popular and celebrated social movement of our times? The answer is an elite consensus. Black Lives Matter and Antifa are officially backed and sponsored by established progressive […]
Black Klan Extorts Rents From Small Business Owners In Louisville
Occidental Dissent - Jul 31st 2020 3:54pm EDTThe NFAC, an all Black militia, is marching in Louisville for Breonna Taylor.pic.twitter.com/a37iPLMaHS— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) July 25, 2020 The size of the NFAC march in Louisville needs to be seen to be believed pic.twitter.com/xaUR3YD0IT— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) July 25, 2020 “Grandmaster Jay” gave a speech that was 50 minutes long.In it, he said that […]
Fred Reed: It’s Gonna Blow
Occidental Dissent - Jul 31st 2020 2:17pm EDTFred Reed is also nervous about this tinderbox. Unz.com: “Black militia at Stone Mountain. Cocky, heavily armed, outgunning the police. White militias have similar firepower. A fight is entirely possible. In downtown America.Hoo-boy. She’s ready to explode, go high order. Smoking ruins, dead bodies, seething hatreds, and a country that can’t be put back together. […]
Today’s Absurdities
Occidental Dissent - Jul 31st 2020 1:16pm EDTPortland Pig’s Head: Surely, this means that Antifa are only opposed to Trump’s occupation of Portland, not the local and state police which are scheduled to takeover defending the federal courthouse? White Flight: Put another way: white people do not have freedom of association, and “access” to white people is a human right to be […]
Why Woke People Won’t Debate You
Occidental Dissent - Jul 31st 2020 11:09am EDTAccording 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 […]
John Lewis Haunts Us From The Grave
Occidental Dissent - Jul 30th 2020 9:01pm EDTBlack people secured the right to vote over 50 years ago. Blacks vote at higher rates than Asians and Hispanics and exceeded White voter turnout in the 2012 election. A lack of voting for civil rights dinosaurs like John Lewis who served in Congress for 33 years isn’t the problem. New York Times: “While my […]
The Reconciliation Must Be Televised
Occidental Dissent - Jul 30th 2020 7:54pm EDTWhat do you think? Are you ready for an American Truth and Reconciliation Commission? Are you ready to “reconcile” and march forward into the glorious future of “antiracism” and progress that South Africa embarked on in the 1990s? Now that we have retired the Martin Luther King, Jr vision of a colorblind utopia, are you […]
James Lindsay: The Complex Relationship Between Marxism and Wokeness
Occidental Dissent - Jul 28th 2020 2:04pm EDTJames Lindsay has an excellent new article on the tangled intellectual roots of Critical Social Justice ideology (i.e., wokeness) in the Marxist tradition. New Discourses: “I was recently asked by someone reading my forthcoming book with Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories, if I would explain the relationship between Marxism and the Critical Social Justice ideology we trace […]
Tucker Carlson: Political Violence Is An Attack On America Itself
Occidental Dissent - Jul 27th 2020 9:12pm EDTMillennials are engaging in violence. Baby Boomers are legitimizing it because “antiracism” is a righteous cause. Why is political violence suddenly being normalized?
NFL To Stencil “End Racism” On Zone Borders
Occidental Dissent - Jul 27th 2020 7:19pm EDTIn the beginning of this era, “antiracism” was slowly becoming part of our civilization, but now that we are approaching the end of this era, it is rapidly consuming every aspect of our civilization. ESPN: “As part of the NFL’s ongoing commitment to social justice programs, the messages “It Takes All of Us” and “End […]
Consensus Antiracism
Occidental Dissent - Jul 27th 2020 5:03pm EDTThis is one of the dumbest conservative takes about our current crisis that I have seen. American Mind: “America is burning. Peaceful protests against police abuse have been marred by the presence of looters and rioters. Most people want to distance themselves from team riot—but everyone has a different theory about who these people are. […]
Let The Revolution Eat Its Own Children
Occidental Dissent - Jul 26th 2020 11:03pm EDTNow watching.
Today’s Absurdities
Occidental Dissent - Jul 26th 2020 8:48pm EDTMike Adams: Mike Adams died today. He was my friend. He was my client. We spent seven years in court together, fighting a long battle for free speech until a jury declared him a winner — six short years ago. I want to tell you some things about Mike. /1 https://t.co/wcRqVnoxzt— David French (@DavidAFrench) July […]
Do Nothing
Occidental Dissent - Jul 26th 2020 7:54pm EDTSometimes it is best to do nothing. This was in Eugene, Ore. yesterday at the violent antifa gathering. They blocked off the streets and prevented a driver from using the road. When they surrounded him, he brandished a gun. One of the far-left protesters then brandished a gun back. pic.twitter.com/WY1TgdI738— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 26, […]
Today’s Absurdities
Occidental Dissent - Jul 24th 2020 9:20pm EDTEditor’s Note: This is a work in progress. Flannery O’Connor: Showing the moral and intellectual fortitude one would expect, @LoyolaMaryland has now preemptively canceled #Flannery O’Connor. A statement from the president, Brian F. Linnane, S.J.: pic.twitter.com/Watr2L58RY— Joseph Bottum (@JosephBottum) July 24, 2020 For the racist perspective of her personal writings which are in conflict with […]
The Burden of the 20th Century
Occidental Dissent - Jul 24th 2020 5:34pm EDTEditor’s Note: I apologize for not being quicker to approve comments. I have been working on this article. If you are a devoted fan of this website, then chances are you are a dissident who resents the crushing burden of the 20th century, particularly the West as it has existed in the post-World War II […]
Today’s Absurdities
Occidental Dissent - Jul 23rd 2020 7:41pm EDTMajor League Baseball: Members of the @SFGiants kneel during the National Anthem. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/QbvAvCZiEs— MLB (@MLB) July 21, 2020 Playing for more than ourselves.#BlackLivesMatter // #NATITUDE pic.twitter.com/su8AxUxTSt— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) July 23, 2020 These boys ? #NYYforNY @TorresGleyber @Urshela10 @ElGarySanchez pic.twitter.com/UlwSA4nyOi— New York Yankees (@Yankees) July 23, 2020 Equality is not just a word, it’s […]
“Mostly Peaceful Protests” Continue In Portland
Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2020 9:17pm EDTWhat do you think? Portland looks perfectly under control to me. Graphic: Shane V. Green, who is black, walked inside a NE Portland laundromat & used a sharp handsaw to attack two women. Responding police located him on a nearby street but the arrest was interrupted by Portlanders who screamed at & taunted officers, accusing […]
Today’s Absurdities
Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2020 4:32pm EDTJohn Muir: The Sierra Club, nation’s oldest conservation group, is denouncing the racism of founder John Muir, the ‘father of national parks’ https://t.co/dDMgHzFXe4— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 22, 2020 “It is essential that we try to understand John Muir in all his complexity. He was a man of his times, who actively worked to […]
Woke Supremacy Is Surprisingly Unpopular
Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2020 2:10pm EDTEditor’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 EDTLeft 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 […]
Today’s Absurdities
Occidental Dissent - Jul 21st 2020 4:49pm EDTAristotle: Try not to burst out laughing. We thought this subject had been settled in the High Middle Ages in Peter Abelard’s time. The Rightwing Internet: Just noticed Google has removed several conservative websites from search results (at least on my end, in the UK). RedState, Breitbart, Daily Caller, Human Events, and more – all […]
Saying No To Critical Race Theory
Occidental Dissent - Jul 21st 2020 3:19pm EDTThis is a great overview of the genealogy of woke supremacy. I disagree with James Lindsay on three points though: 1.) First, I do not believe that race is a social construct that was invented in the 16th century to justify slavery and colonialism. Slavery wasn’t abolished by Spain and Portugal until the late 19th […]
Social Justice Search Results
Occidental Dissent - Jul 21st 2020 12:39pm EDTI seem to have been cancelled by @Google. If you search for my blog and blog posts, you don’t find it. Is this happening to any other conservatives?— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) July 21, 2020 Rod Dreher brought this to my attention. Rod has been blacklisted in Google search results. Guess who else is blacklisted and […]