John-Paul Pagano

@johnpaulpagano

I write about bad ideas in politics. Focus on conspiracism. Anti-Semitism is a conspiracy theory. Bylines , , ,

Brooklyn, NY
Vrijeme pridruživanja: veljača 2010.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    23. ruj 2019.

    In , I write about the Blood Libel and The Conspiracy Theory That Jews Are ‘Anti-Human’

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    2. velj

    Think about the type of mind that generates the phrase “questioned Holocaust orthodoxies”.

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  3. 2. velj

    It indicates that the oppositional nihilism that Chomsky and Greenwald represent is not about critically challenging ourselves or seeking the truth. It is meant to manufacture uncertainty about the truth, so we destroy ourselves.

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  4. 2. velj

    This subtle shifting, like the rhetorical equivalent of an infected tooth, indicates the rot at the base of the oppositional nihilism Chomsky & Greenwald represent: it’s not principled, it’s about ANY principle, that erodes the foundations of our society, which they simply hate.

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  5. 2. velj

    It’s only later, when criticized, that Chomsky and Greenwald go to the mattresses with their rationale about Holocaust-denial being irrelevant to defending free expression, or making it more urgent. Because it serves them, they purport THEN to be clear-eyed about Faurisson.

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  6. 2. velj

    But why not admit it loudly from the beginning? To immediately and clearly admit that Faurisson is a rank Holocaust-denier would have strengthened their pose in defense of free speech. Yet both Chomsky and Greenwald’s initial instinct was to recast Faurisson as something else.

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  7. 2. velj

    If pressed, Greenwald would likely admit that Faurisson is a Holocaust-denier, because it would be too damaging to equivocate. (Chomsky, whose moral idiocy operated in an earlier era, might have continued to wriggle. Let me know, if you can.)

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  8. 2. velj

    No one denies that Robert Faurisson is a Holocaust-denier—no one, except subtly, Noam Chomsky, who originally recast Faurisson as a “relatively apolitical liberal”, and Greenwald, who now says that Faurisson “questioned Holocaust orthodoxies.”

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  9. 2. velj

    There’s a subtle key in Greenwald’s framing—Faurisson “questioned Holocaust orthodoxies”—that exemplifies the oppositional nihilism of Chomsky and his imitators.

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  10. 2. velj

    Of course, this is a standardized lie that Chomsky flacks use. Chomsky went beyond his pointed selection of Faurisson as a free speech cause to sanitize the French Holocaust-denier as a “relatively apolitical liberal of some sort.”

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  11. 2. velj

    Think about the type of mind that generates the phrase “questioned Holocaust orthodoxies”.

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  12. 31. sij

    Journalist for Argentina’s public TV tweets: “Sikorsky S76 helicopter, of Jewish surname, kills

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  13. 28. sij
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  14. 27. sij

    The contradiction in WaPo managing editor Tracy Grant suspending for expressing a provocative opinion, and justifying herself by claiming Sonmez’s had made her colleagues’ work “more difficult”, is the sort of ethical travesty that journalism is there to highlight.

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  15. 27. sij

    Good for . As I said, you can find ’s tweets appalling—though they shouldn’t be taken out of the context of her personal history to indict “cancel culture”—but her suspension is a nonsensically justified act of cowardice.

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  16. 27. sij

    .: “Don’t get it twisted. You’re not just eating terrible Chinese food in a rush. You’re rendering an invaluable service to our democracy.”

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  17. 27. sij
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  18. 27. sij

    I’m sorry, but this spitting-on-the-sidewalk move is ridiculous. Public discourse is in its most parlous state since I’ve been born and managers of major media lack even peanut-sized testicles.

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  19. 27. sij

    Peter Beinart joins the flagship publication of the Everything-But-Jewish Left.

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  20. 27. sij

    I think she deleted her tweet. This is what I’m referring to.

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  21. 27. sij

    There is a wide berth in which to debate the propriety or ethics of Sonmez’s tweet, but I don’t think she was virtue-signaling—she’s a victim of sexual assault. With respect, by reducing her motivations this way, you may be guilty of the callous myopia you were criticizing.

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