Category Archives: Culture

The Online Relevance of René Girard

In The Weekly Standard, Joseph Bottum, professor of cyber-ethics at Dakota State University, writes a cuck piece on the Great Statue Removal Frenzy, but in this passage astutely discusses the contemporary relevance of René Girard (“The Joy of Destruction”): In … Continue reading

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The Target on Gab’s Back

Gab, one of the first forays of Alt-Tech (or Tech 2.0) is under attack from the SJW-Fueled-I.T.-Company industry: The social media service Gab, which bills itself as Twitter for the alt-right, is on the verge of being booted from the … Continue reading

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All You Need To Know About The Emmys

“I’m rooting for everybody black!” #Insecure star @IssaRae says on the red carpet #Emmys pic.twitter.com/Pz3DJPyJc2 — Variety (@Variety) September 17, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1pGeZp55HA

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The Long Game

One has to hope that moves like this are exacerbating a crisis to the system, Cloward-Piven style, otherwise it can only be read as a sign that the P.C. Left is winning (at a minimum, in the short term). From … Continue reading

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A Swede, a Muslim, and a Trannie Walk Into a Bar…

In the past couple of years, Muslim ‘refugees’ have brought their vibrantly diverse penchant for groping infidel women to places like Cologne and music festivals in Sweden. As a result, one Swedish music festival has decided to ban men from … Continue reading

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Facebook Hires 3,000 to Monitor ‘Hate Speech’

Yet another reason to quit FB, as if you needed one: Social media giant Facebook is increasing its crackdown on what it perceives as hateful content. The company is hiring an additional 3,000 content reviewers to monitor the site, according … Continue reading

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The Red Pilling of Rod Dreher – Redux

My first post for Counter-Currents is “The Red Pilling of Rod Dreher”, a reworking of a post I did earlier this week.

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Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!”

From Kyle Smith’s NR review of Darren Aronofsky’s new film Mother!: Ordinarily when a filmmaker goes trampling all over your senses with an eye toward maximizing disgust, it’s for the purpose of producing some cheap scares. In Mother, though, the aim … Continue reading

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Elite Virtue-Signaling

In TAC, Benjamin Schwarz reviews The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett (“The New Elite’s Silly Virtue-Signaling Consumption”): Currid-Halkett convincingly argues that the consumer preferences of today’s elite—be it the approved podcast, TED … Continue reading

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NYT: 9/13/17

All the News that Fits the Narrative.

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