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The SPLC Called Ayaan Hirsi Ali an Extremist
It was Ayaan Hirsi Ali reviewing how SPLC went after her that clued me in. She writes:
I was placed on an SPLC blacklist in October 2016. The document was called “A Journalist’s Manual: Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists.”
See, if conservative media or conservative foundations called a lefty an extremist the whole world would erupt in outrage. But if SPLC or NAACP or The New York Times calls you a hard-right extremist you better make sure your mortgage is all paid off. That’s because the lefty educated class is the ruling class and hard-right armed insurrectionists are not. And the Bar Association in California can disbar a conservative lawyer like John Eastman six ways from Sunday.
Let me be clear, lefties. When you accuse Trump and Co. of being authoritarians, you are really telling us that when youse guys are in power you act like authoritarians. It takes one to know one.
How many steps is it from representative government under the rule of law to authoritarianism and from there to totalitarianism?
I say that with our lefty friends we are always toying with authoritarianism. That’s what yelling “Extremists!” is all about. And when lefties get the bit between their teeth, because despite the predictions of all the exerts the economy goes South — well we know all about that: Reigns of Terror, Great Purges, and Proletarian Cultural Revolutions.
With our lefty friends we are only one step away from flat out censorship and another step from the camps.
But whatabout the extreme right, and fascism and Literally Hitler?
Dear lefties: the “tell” is that nobody has time for Hitler: not on the right. If there were genuine stormtrooper groups on the right, we racist-sexist-homophobes would call them out and shame them. But then there is AntiFa, that never quite seems to get utterly deplored by the mainstream media and the Democratic Party. Any questions, lefties?
And it’s not that our lefty friends are any worse than your average KKKer. Or any better, for that matter. It’s just that politics leads directly to ramping up the secret police (in the US it’s called the Intelligence Community) and censoring speech and debanking and calling a mostly peaceful protest an armed insurrection and putting people in jail for having the wrong opinion and trying to get the other party’s candidate for president kicked off the ballot.
Because politics is the fight against the enemy. And we far-right armed insurrectionists don’t believe politics ever solves much of anything.
Except calling Ayaan Hirsi Ali an “extremist.”
| Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:32:19 GMT |
How to Understand SPLC & Co.
Marc Andreessen thoughtfully thought to ask Grok what it thought about SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) — recently charged with fraud by DOJ — and what other activist groups were playing the same game as SPLC. He asked Grok:
So @grok, we all just discovered that the SPLC has allegedly been funding some of the worst of the people and groups it claims to oppose. What are other activist pressure groups that advocate censorship/deplatforming of their enemies that could be doing the same thing?
And Grok answered:
ADL (Anti-Defamation League)
Media Matters
And who else, asked Marc:
Color of Change
CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations)
Keep going! Said Marc:
HRC (Human Rights Campaign)
Sleeping Giants — targets conservative outlets
Why? But why? To keep things Real Simple for the Sen. Iselins amongst us, here are three reasons why our liberal activist friends keep on keeping on:
“There is no politics without an enemy” — Curtis Yarvin curating Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt’s notion of the political as the distinction between friend and enemy.
“every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket”— longshoreman Eric Hoffer in The True Believer.
Our beloved mainstream media that amplifies the messaging from all left-wing propaganda outlets and because every liberal journalist learned in xer mother’s milk that all right-wing messaging is racist-sexist-homophobic hate speech.
Wikipedia on SPLC:
Founded by Morris Dees, Joseph J. Levin Jr., and Julian Bond in 1971 as a civil rights law firm, the SPLC began a litigation strategy in the 1980s of filing civil suits for monetary damages on behalf of the victims of violence from the Ku Klux Klan.
But, but, but… You mean to say that KKK violence was a problem in 1971 six years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act? You think this was needed after the following interventions by federal troops:
1957: 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas to integrate a high school.
1962: federal troops to integrate University of Mississippi.
1963: federal troops to integrate University of Alabama.
1965: federalized National Guard to protect Selma marchers.
See Eric Hoffer, above.
To understand all these activist organizations continuing their holy quest for racial justice decades after the requisite laws were passed, you just have to read, learn and inwardly digest my three points above.
Politics is about fighting the enemy. It’s in the jeans. All male apes do nothing except defend the border of the troop’s territory. Did you know that human males only started doing work when they were needed to plow fields, because women got miscarriages when plowing fields with horses? However, experts agree, this does not invalidate the sacred truth that women have been oppressed by the patriarchy since Before the Dawn of time by Nicholas Wade.
Fighting a great cause is so delightful that its soldiers never want to quit. Morris “Dees ran a direct mail and direct marketing business” in the 1960s, and then sold it in 1969. “He used the revenue from the sale to found a legal firm (that eventually became the Southern Poverty Law Center) in 1971.” See? That’s what Eric Hoffer is telling us: once the mass movement has achieved its objective, nobody wants to go home. If you are an ordinary salesman there’s no moral charge from “doing good.” But if you use your sales skills to change the world… Alas, once the cause has won, then the sacred quest turns into a business — just the thing for a direct marketing expert — and degenerates into a racket when you start paying people to act like your dastardly enemy.
The left’s willing accomplices in the media. If you are a lefty activist or politician you have the whole mainstream media ready willing and able to blast your political enemy as exactly the racist-sexist-homophobic hard-right armed insurrectionists you believe them to be. Talk about temptation. If Eve were living today: “the activist beguiled me, and I did eat.” Or Alfred Doolittle: “I’m willing to tell you. I’m wanting to tell you. I’m waiting to tell you” about the skunks of racist sexist homophobes lurking in the shadows of which you’ve heard tell.
After the next mass movement has heroically ditched the whole liberal firmament and consigned the SPLCs and Media Matters and HRCs to the flames of Hell, I wonder what its business and its racket will turn out to be.
Stay tuned.
| Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:20:44 GMT |
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Christopher Chantrill
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. — Hermann Göring
Reign of Terror equals Great Purge equals Cultural Revolution equals Cancel Culture
The simplest way to understand human society is as Three Layers such as Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs.
My take on Three Layers is my Three Peoples Theory of Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates.
I believe that we moderns live in Three Worlds: the War World of politics, the Market World of the economy, and the Life World of family and neighborhood.
And the trouble with politics is that it reduces human society to a war against the enemy, as determined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
The world that we all live in today is the one created by the German Turn in philosophy, psychology, science, and meaning.
But our modern elite, the educated elite, has taken, I believe, a Wrong Turn and has imposed a cultural Great Reaction on the world, a lurch back to the primitive. This manifests in the elite’s conceited Activism Culture and its patronage of Subordinate people as its Little Darlings.
The principal reason for the elite’s Wrong Turn has been that it does not understand and does not want to understand how the Three Peoples’ Religions are necessarily different.
The root of the educated elite’s Wrong Turn is its conceit that it knows what the world needs. I think there is a better way; I call it “A Good Life Better than the Left”.
ABC of Politics – Activism Culture – “Anatomy of Revolution” – Allyism – Critical Theory – Downstream-ism – Dutch Finance – German Turn – Good Life – Great Reaction – Little Darlings – Perfect Plan – Women in the Public Square – Ruling Class – Three Layers – Three Peoples – Three Peoples Religion – Tribalism – Two Cultures – Wrong Turn
Today’s topic: Small Minorities and the Culture of Innocence
