Jack Graham

So UATX happened.

Dear God I wish stuff would stop happening.

Thankfully we got Kristin Rawls and Jeff Eaton from Christian Rightcast to come back to help us talk about it. 

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Pano Kanelos at Bari Weiss’s Substack We Can’t Wait For Universities to Fix Themselves. So We’re Starting a New One

• The numbers tell the story as well as any anecdote you’ve read in the headlines or heard within your own circles. Nearly a quarter of American academics in the social sciences or humanities endorse ousting a colleague for having a wrong opinion about hot-button issues such as immigration or gender differences. Over a third of conservative academics and PhD students say they had been threatened with disciplinary action for their views. Four out of five American PhD students are willing to discriminate against right-leaning scholars, according to a report by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.
• The picture among undergraduates is even bleaker. In Heterodox Academy’s 2020 Campus Expression Survey, 62% of sampled college students agreed that the climate on their campus prevented students from saying things they believe. Nearly 70% of students favor reporting professors if the professor says something students find offensive, according to a Challey Institute for Global Innovation survey. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reports at least 491 disinvitation campaigns since 2000. Roughly half were successful.

University of Austin Wikipedia

The University of Austin website

Under “Our principles”

• Universities devoted to the unfettered pursuit of truth are the cornerstone of a free and flourishing democratic society.
• For universities to serve their purpose, they must be fully committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse.
• In order to maintain these principles, UATX will be fiercely independent—financially, intellectually, and politically.

Under “What Makes UATX Different”

• A COMMITMENT TO FREEDOM OF INQUIRY

We’re reclaiming a place in higher education for freedom of inquiry and civil discourse. Our students and faculty will confront the most vexing questions of human life and civil society. We will create a community of conversation grounded in intellectual humility that respects the dignity of each individual and cultivates a passion for truth.

• A NEW FINANCIAL MODEL

We’re completely rethinking how a university operates by developing a novel financial model. We will lower tuition by avoiding costly administrative excess and overreach. We will focus our resources intensively on academics, rather than amenities. We will align institutional incentives with student outcomes.

• AN INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM

Our curriculum is being designed in partnership not only with the world’s great thinkers but also with its great doers—visionaries who have founded bold ventures, artists and writers of the highest order, pioneers in tech, and the leading lights in engineering and the natural sciences.…

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Sines v. Kessler is finally underway, and Christopher Cantwell is representing himself.  Need we say more?  Actually, yes.  And hence, this episode.

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Vice News, Charlottesville Race and Terror (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIrcB1sAN8I)

Christopher Cantwell transferred to Communication Management Unit in Marion, IL. (https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1402292133483196422?s=20)

Pro Se Letter regarding change of address by Christopher Cantwell.(https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120.968.0_1.pdf)

Hilary Sargent coverage of the Cantwell criminal trial at The Informant. (https://www.informant.news/people/1157338-hilary-sargent)

Cantwell Criminal Trial Testimony Day 3 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nhd.53269/gov.uscourts.nhd.53269.118.0.pdf)

Cantwell Criminal Trial Testimony Day 4 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nhd.53269/gov.uscourts.nhd.53269.119.0.pdf)

Jordan Green at Raw Story: ‘Crying Nazi’ Christoper Cantwell is getting legal assist from a white supremacist as he prepares for Charlottesville trial (https://www.rawstory.com/crying-nazi-trial/)

• While serving his sentence, Cantwell met Hale along with another man named William A. White, who has played an even more significant role in helping him prepare for his upcoming trial in Charlottesville. White, in turn, is in prison for soliciting violence against the foreman of the federal jury that convicted Hale. According to the US Justice Department, White created the now defunct Overthrow.com website in the late 2000s as a platform for the American National Socialist Workers Party. He used the website to post derogatory comments and personal information about the jury foreman, including their home address and phone numbers.
• “Anyway, so I run into these guys,” Cantwell told a white supremacist podcaster during an interview last week from an Oklahoma prison where he is awaiting transfer to Charlottesville to stand trial. “And allegations against them notwithstanding, they’re good to me.”

Sines v. Kessler at Courtlistener (https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6168921/sines-v-kessler/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc)

Document 1108 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120.1108.0.pdf)

• In addition, it has now become apparent that Cantwell, who has been proceeding pro se and has been afforded its corresponding protections and leniency, may be using another inmate, William A. White, to participate in this litigation and “ghost-write” his recent filings. See ECF 1063 at 1 (“Christopher Cantwell … Moves this Court … To Provide Cantwell and his Lay Counsel, William A White, Adequate Access to The Electronic Materials…”); ECF 1063-2; compare ECF 1055 (handwritten filing written largely in first person) with ECF 1063 (typewritten filing written in third person). That provides yet another basis to deny these motions. Ghost writing plainly violates legal rules and only reinforces the inappropriate and harassing nature of Cantwell’s numerous recent filings, including ECF 1062, 1063, 1064, 1065, 1066, 1077, 1078, 1084, 1085, 1086, 1087, 1088, 1089, 1090, 1096, 1097, 1098, 1099, 1102, 1103. See Wojcicki v. SCANA/SCE&G, 947 F.3d 240, 244 (4th Cir. 2020) (“Allowing individuals to represent themselves pro se reflects a respect for the choice of an individual citizen to plead his or her own cause, but so does the bar preventing individuals without legal expertise from representing others.”

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Yes, we’re back with Jimmy Concepts, reliable source of dishonest idiocy.  This time, as a kind of ‘bonus feature’ to our last episode, Daniel reads out a representative selection of reviewer comments on some of the fake papers submitted to academic journals by Lindsay, Pluckrose and Boghossian during the so-called ‘Sokal Squared’ prank.  It’s very revealing… albeit of something we already knew: namely that Lindsay and his cohorts are absolutely full of shit.

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Oh, and here’s Part 1 (ep94) again: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/94-james-lindsay-and-the-grievance-studies-hoax

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Show Notes for 95:

Areo Magazine, Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship ( https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/ )

Full listing of Grievance Studies Papers and Reviews ( https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19tBy_fVlYIHTxxjuVMFxh4pqLHM_en18 ).

“BJ-Gay” reviewer’s comment:

– This paper claims to apply a combination of psychoanalysis and feminism to examine and critique
styles of masculinity evident within grappling-based martial arts subcultures. Overall, I found the
paper very difficult to read and cannot recommend it for publication. This is due to a combination of factors, namely:
– A densely theoretical, often confusing style of prose in many parts of the paper;
– An inconsistent application of theoretical concepts, most of which were not defined with any
clarity for the reader;
– Overuse of certain source material, as well as a fairly consistent tendency to misuse sources in
support of claims that the papers/books in question do not actually support;
– Many sweeping generalizations about (all) men involved in (all) grappling-based martial arts;
– A tokenistic inclusion of discussions of women in these spaces, which was not reconciled with the analysis in any meaningful way;
– A central thesis which is not, to my knowledge, supported by any of the empirical research in this area (despite the fact that several such studies were cited in the paper);
– Bizarre, even farcical concluding recommendations which indicate a lack of knowledge about the martial arts in question, as well as a tenuous and selective grasp of feminism as applied to sport.

– There is simply too much wrong with the paper to offer a more robust criticism as a reviewer. I recommend that the author spends far more time acquainting themselves with both the theoretical and empirical literature at the intersection of sport, martial arts and masculinity studies before attempting a re-write. The current offering sits far short of the standards of scholarship expected of academic publication, particularly in a journal such as Men and Masculinities.

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So, in rank defiance of our recent promise to ‘get back to the nazis’ instead we continue our James Lindsay coverage.  (What… me? Irony? How dare you?)  This time, Daniel patiently walks a distracted, slightly hyperactive, and increasingly incredulous Jack through the infamous ‘Grievance Studies Hoax’ (AKA ‘Sokal Squared’) in which Lindsay and colleagues Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghossian tried (and then claimed) to prove something or other about modern Humanities academia by submitting a load of stupid fake papers to various feminist and fat studies journals.  As Daniel reveals, the episode was an orgy of dishonesty and tactical point-missing that actually proved the opposite of what the team of snickering tricksters thought they were proving.  Sadly, however, because we live in Hell, the trio have only raised their profiles as a result.  A particular highlight of the episode is Lindsay revealing his staggering ignorance when ‘responding’ to criticism.

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James Lindsay, New Discourses, “Why You Can Be Transgender But Not Transracial.”” https://newdiscourses.com/2021/06/why-you-can-be-transgender-but-not-transracial/

James Lindsay has a day job, apparently. “Maryville man walks path of healing and combat.” https://www.thedailytimes.com/news/maryville-man-walks-path-of-healing-and-combat/article_5ea3c0ca-2e98-5283-9e59-06861b8588cb.html

Areo Magazine, Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship. https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/

Full listing of Grievance Studies Papers and Reviews. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19tBy_fVlYIHTxxjuVMFxh4pqLHM_en18

‘Mein Kampf’ and the ‘Feminazis’: What Three Academics’ Hitler Hoax Really Reveals About ‘Wokeness’. https://web.archive.org/web/20210328112901/https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-hitler-hoax-academic-wokeness-culture-war-1.9629759

“First and foremost, the source material. The chapter the hoaxers chose, not by coincidence, one of the least ideological and racist parts of Hitler’s book. Chapter 12, probably written in April/May 1925, deals with how the newly refounded NSDAP should rebuild as a party and amplify its program.

“According to their own account, the writers took parts of the chapter and inserted feminist “buzzwords”; they “significantly changed” the “original wording and intent” of the text to make the paper “publishable and about feminism.” An observant reader might ask: what could possibly remain of any Nazi content after that? But no one in the media, apparently, did.”

New Discourses, “There Is No Good Part of Hitler’s Mein Kampf” https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/there-is-no-good-part-of-hitlers-mein-kampf/

On this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay, who helped to write the paper and perpetrate the Grievance Studies Affair, talks about the project and the creation of this particular paper at unprecedented length and in unprecedented detail, revealing Nilssen not to know what he’s talking about. If you have ever wondered about what the backstory of the creation of the “Feminist Mein Kampf” paper really was, including why its authors did it, you won’t want to miss this long-form discussion and rare response to yet another underinformed critic of Lindsay, Boghossian, and Pluckrose’s work.

The Grieveance Studies Affair Revealed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVk9a5Jcd1k

Reviewer 1 Comments on Dog Park Paper

“page 9 – the human subjects are afforded anonymity and not asked about income, etc for ethical reasons.…

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We revisit the subject of our very first episode, Richard Spencer, catching up with his more recent exploits, all in an attempt to emphasize that a) he’s still around, b) he’s still dangerous, and c) he means what he says.

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Our previous episode on Richard Spencer, Episode 1

The New York Times, How a Small Town Silenced a Neo-Nazi Hate Campaign

Rafi Schwartz, Discourse Blog, America’s Top Nazi Is a Broke Little Booger Who Can’t Get a Table

• The punch, which     prompted plenty of handwringing     and pearl-clutching over whether or not it’s okay to     ever punch a Nazi (it sure is!), occurred during what should have     been the height of Spencer’s career as a full-time racist — the     inauguration of Donald Trump. Instead, it forever branded him as     “that Nazi who got his clock thoroughly cleaned” and helped     define him as the ur-bigot of the Trump era. This, I think, is     crucial to the arc of Spencer’s seeming cancelation by the people     of Whitefish. It’s much easier to identify a Nazi — and identify     what should be done to them — when that Nazi has already become an     internet joke for both being a Nazi, and facing the consequences     thereof. Were Spencer not memed into oblivion as “the Nazi who got     smacked,” my guess is that it wouldn’t have been quite so easy     to rally an entire community to oppose him. Yes, it would likely     still have happened in some form, thanks to the sincerely hard work     of both activists, and ordinary citizens on the ground in Whitefish     and elsewhere, but I can’t help but think that the moment Spencer     got blasted in the jaw, his cancelation, or silencing, or whatever     doofy substitute for “getting what he deserves” became     inevitable.

Tablet Mag, No, White Supremacist Richard Spencer Didn’t Seriously Endorse Joe Biden

• And yet, countless credulous accounts—many on the pro-Trump     right, but also some on the anti-Biden     left—uncritically shared Spencer’s posting as though     it was on the level.
     
• That a disingenuous racist like Spencer would pretend to     support Biden in order to get attention and undercut the former vice     president is not surprising. What is surprising is how many people     still fall for Spencer’s transparent trolling.
     
• In reality, Spencer and other white supremacists have a long     history of purposely adopting their opponents’ causes and     pretending to back them in order to undermine them. That’s exactly     what Spencer did in 2018 by pretending to support “Zionism,”     when he actually has a long history of hate towards both Israel and     Jews, and claims that the Jewish state and its supporters control     America.

Daily Progress, RIchard Spencer-led organization ordered to pay $2.4 million in Unite the RIght lawsuit

• The biggest sum     was awarded last week by an Ohio judge who ordered the National     Policy Institute to pay Burke $2,444,461.15 for the harm he suffered     as a result of the rally.

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So, we here at IDSG have lots of plans for the future.  Good stuff is coming.  But we need a bit longer to provide it.  Just a little bit.  So, to tide you over – because it’s been a couple of weeks since you’ve heard from us – here’s one of our bonus episodes, previously for Patreon backers only.  (They got it months ago, along with seven other bonus episodes… consider bunging one or other of us a dollar a month for access to this exclusive bonus content.)  This episode sees Daniel and myself, both Orson Welles fans, chatting about The Third Man.  Enjoy, and see you soon with new material.

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Our friends Jeff Eaton and Kristin Rawls from the Christian Rightcast return to help us wrap up our Bret & Heather coverage, at least for now.  Daniel takes us through the horrors of the ‘Better Skeptics Project’, Bret and Heather’s escalating (yet crumbling) project of puffing Ivermectin as a Covid treatment, their spat with Yuri Deigin and Quillette, etc. 

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Christian Rightcast https://rightcast.substack.com/

CHristian Rightcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/crightcast?lang=en

Kristin’s Twitter https://twitter.com/kristinrawls

Jeff’s Twitter https://twitter.com/eaton

Thread by Ben Collins on the origins of the Ivermectin craze: https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1431040456364810242

Decoding the Gurus, Special Episode: Welcome to Weinstein World with special guest David Pizarro

Yuri Deigin, Lab-Made? SARS-CoV-2 Genealogy Through the Lens of Gain-of-Function Research

• Furin Cleavage Site
• Similarities to RaTG13

Dark Horse Episode 93: School of Rocks

“No such thing as a biologist” — 40:50ish

Claire Berlinksi and Yuri Deigin, Looking for COVID-19 ‘Miracle Drugs’? We Already Have Them. They’re Called Vaccines

Sam Harris with Eric Topol, Making Sense Podcast #256, A Contagion of Bad Ideas

Rebel Wisdom YouTube

Rebel Wisdom, Better Skeptics for the Dark Horse

Rebel Wisdom, Ivermectin, For and Against, with Tess Lawrie, Graham Walker, and Gideo Meyerson-Katz

Rebel Wisdom, Eric Weinstein: Vaccines, Ivermectin, & Dark Horse

Rebel Wisdom, Yuri Deigin Responds to Bret Weinstein on Vaccines, Ivermectin, and Quillette

Rebel Wisdom, Vaccines and Dark Horse, an Investigation

Rebel Wisdom, Ivermectin, the Backstory of the FLCCC. Eric Osgood

David Fuller, Ivermectin — For and Against, Briefing Document

David Fuller, On Bret Weinstein, Alternative Media, Ivermectin and Vaccine-Related Controversies

Megyn Kelly, Bret Weinstein on Tech Censorship, The Value of Conversation, and COVID Treatments

• Kirsch and Malone and the Other Side Starts around 17:20

The Better Skeptics Project

Alexandros Marinos Twitter

Alexandros Marinos [thread about Fuller and Better Skeptics]https://mobile.twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1422301544737738762?s=19

Alexandros Marinos thread about the Sam Harris/Eric Topol Making Sense

Better Skeptics, [Launching the 10K Ground Truth Challenge]https://www.betterskeptics.com/launching-the-10k-ground-truth-challenge/

• We think it is worthwhile to take full accounting of the quality of the statements uttered in these podcasts. This is almost 11 hours worth of live speech, so it would be unbelievable if the number of false statements is zero. Should some false statements be identified, it will be for the world to see how the interested parties react. We want to compose high-quality fact-checking from average-quality ingredients: normal people, with our own biases and internal contradictions.
• A detailed description of the challenge process and rules is available here. In a nutshell: Anyone who identifies what they believe is a false statement will be required to submit their claim to us via public Twitter message with a specified hashtag. Three referees will evaluate each submission across two rounds, and all submissions scoring 9 or above will be awarded the $100 prize.

Ground Truth Challenge: The Rules

We’ve chosen and transcribed four recent podcasts featuring Bret Weinstein which discussed COVID-19 vaccines and/or Ivermectin. These are:

• Covid, Ivermectin, and the Crime of the Century. June 1, 2021. Video – Transcript
• How to Save the World in Three Easy Steps.

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