No, nothing as direct as that. I don't share Whoolee's concerns about the pervasiveness of the Klan. But there are plenty of other such groups: Vanguard America, Identity Evropa, American Renaissance, League of the South, National Socialist Movement, National Alliance, National Policy Institute, 1488ers, American Front, Hammerskin/Skinheads, Aryan Nations, Alt Knights, Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer, Anti-Communist Action, American Guard, Traditionalist Workers Party and Traditionalist Youth Network, Oath Keepers, and the various units of the Militia Movement. The Oath Keepers are active in Idaho and have shown up in Texas to intimidate peaceful protesters. When you see evidence of termites, you can take action or wait until they do real damage. We still have Christian Identity enclaves like Elohim City here, and McVeigh showed us how much damage one determined nut can do with explosives. These folks are armed and dangerous. As for Antifa, which seems to be your own bugbear, I've seen no signs of them around here. The only reason I have to believe they exist are reports in --THE MEDIA! Are you sure they're real?
Indeed The press’s demand for white supremacists doesn’t quite meet the actual supply of them. It’s a big reason why these idiot journalists keep on falling for these prank white supremacist symbols like the OK hand sign. Hell, you can convince them that milk is a white supremacist symbol because there’s a higher percentage of lactose intolerance in black people. As well as the color of milk. Oh wait, that actually happened PETA claims milk a ‘symbol of white supremacy’ Face it, the media WANTS white supremacy to stay alive and well, in order to keep their readers afraid and under their control.
The media couldn't care less if everyone in the US suddenly believed that Santa is real or the Dali Lama is the devil. Over half the fucking country refuses to share their words and play nice, and the mass media has no choice but to give them all the crap they swallow. Fox News is now our standard! That's why republicans are attempting to buy the entire mass media, because they want to be able to feed everyone their crap, instead of someone else's.
Did PETA actually convince anybody, except maybe its weak minded followers, that milk is a white supremacist symbol? "The media" reported it because it's so laughable. But I believe the Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer, the Oath Keepers, and the Great Replacement theorists are real and walking among us--ready to add their weight to the white supremacists in right wing causes. I believe you exist and there are probably others like you. That's scary enough!
PETA spouts insane nonsense, because academia in general spouts insane nonsense and, then, insists they know better. Seriously, one in five Americans insists the sun revolves around the earth and academics complain what they require is critical thinking skills, and that voting for whoever advertises the most is still legitimate democracy, because any academic institution that says otherwise is merely making a target of themselves.
..."academia in general spouts insane nonsense..." Really? You mean places like Harvard, Yale, Columbia, MIT, Duke, Penn State, Dartmouth, etc. Just a bunch'a loonies.
Asimov was my hero growing up, but I never liked his militant atheist crap one bit. Militant atheist are the anti-intellectuals from hell, wannabe lawyers who insist the popular definitions found in any dictionary are wrong. Fuck em all, until they can actually share their words and talk like adults, they are cannon fodder to me. Wall Street lawyers, who only care about winning any way they can and spout more rhetoric than a KKK rally. If academia becomes any more bourgeois they will have to all wear silk suits. I'm sure Neil Degrasse Tyson and Michio Kaku would love that. They are currently lobbying congress to censor the entire internet, to protect the same bourgeois idiots they teach from themselves.
I'm curious to know where you came by this idea. I have been paying more attention to platforms because of so many high profile bannings, mutings, demonetizings and deplatformings. I find it fascinating that people will actually raise a stink if someone gets banned for saying something stupid. When we used to raise a stink to get someone banned. Which made more sense, a voting consensus so to speak (democracy!). Pulling someone's plug because they offended one person indirectly in a comment, is a stupid knee-jerk reaction. And for what? The FCC doesn't care.
The minute the Soviet Union fell apart, they began systematically gerrymandering the entire electorate, went on the largest prison building spree in history, and the Supreme Court dismantled every constitutional protection we had, starting with insisting that corporations can spend as much money as they want on advertising for political candidates. Our glorious leader himself, cut the mass media a deal on their rent, using the money he saved never having to pay taxes. A single election now costs a billion dollars, which is also roughly the amount of money spent lobbying congress. Essentially, capitalism attempts to buy the government, which is not exactly healthy in a democracy. A billion here, a billion there and, pretty soon, you're talk serious corruption.
Remember it well. I personally saw it as a fishing expedition. I'm guessing they offered the story to a departing intern for a few bucks, or to someone in another role that's not part of the public face. Of course PETA doesn't care about racism, they care about cows being connected to machines to milk them twice a day. BUT, racism has been a hot commodity for the last decade, hotter than usual. Any story with a racial angle goes to the front page, fast. So some genius at PETA decided to float something preposterous, but never claimed to be specious. Presented with a straight face. For a moment in time, it brought attention to their cause. In a weird way, sure. If it became too embarrassing, out goes the writer, problem solved. Otherwise it would just be allowed to die off in the press while PETA has come into the view of more investors. I mean, because what use is fighting for animals if you can't make a buck?
I have a waterbed (yes, they still make those). So the klan man is gonna get waterboarded under there.
So what's your point? I never said everyone who went to those place was an outstanding citizen.....but I also never made the claim that "academia in general spouts insane nonsense..."
By their own standards, academia spouts insane nonsense, which is what my book proves, and I provide dozens of ways to prove it with quantifiable empirical evidence, including unique predictions. They either read my fucking book and see the punch lines coming, or not. It teaches their own colleagues how to automate the process of shoving each other's heads up their asses even further, and watching them beat their fucking heads against the wall and chase their own tails for years. You cannot attack what you cannot comprehend, but try telling that academics who never share their words and play nice.
There are no less than 17 types of atheism recognized today, all of which can be found on wikipedia, which is filled with biased atheist nonsense. Among all these distinguished atheists are the complete oxymoron of "Agnostic-Atheist" because all 17 definitions can be traced to 1920s Soviet propaganda. The Soviets realized early on that logic is not people's strength, and they could just make up any words they like, and use them as a foot-in-the-door just like any self-respecting Bible thumper might do when proselytizing. Those were the first militant atheists, and the existing atheists today have no clue how much meaningless rhetoric they spout. Just for the hell of it, I once encouraged one to argue that no less than a dozen two syllable words were defined wrong in the dictionary. Richard Dawkins is a famous militant atheist, who invented his own nonsense word "meme" and encouraged his followers to babble complete nonsense, in the name of survival of the fittest atheist. Linguists later had to actually give the word a minimalistic meaning, otherwise, it would have been pure gibberish added to the dictionary encouraging even more people to babble total nonsense for days and years on end.
It provides a way to prove the quantum observer effect is caused by the fact 42 is as good an explanation as anyone is ever going to get. That's first principles, which is what you want. I spoke to a physicist involved in measuring the brain waves involved, and he thought I was joking, until he read the last sentence and got the punch line. He has no choice, but to measure what I'm describing in my book and, assuming I'm right, it will prove that Santa's sparkling laughter really is magical, because its an echo of the big bang.