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Everybody, gather ‘round! It’s story time with Dr. Jeffrey Barke.
Today, we’ll listen as #DirtyJeff bumbles his way through excerpts from a super racist essay written by a man who’s name Jeff can’t pronounce.
(A THREAD)
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Today, we’ll listen as #DirtyJeff bumbles his way through excerpts from a super racist essay written by a man who’s name Jeff can’t pronounce.
(A THREAD)
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Dr. Barke came across this essay when he attended a seminar at The Claremont Institute, which according to him, has “great thinkers and great information”.
We’ll go deeper into The Claremont Institute at the end of the thread.
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We’ll go deeper into The Claremont Institute at the end of the thread.
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The essay is titled “Preserving the American Way of Life” and yes, it’s every bit as racist and gross as the title suggests.
This is what #DirtyJeff considers to be “great information” from a “great thinker”.
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This is what #DirtyJeff considers to be “great information” from a “great thinker”.
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This clip is boring, but here Jeff reads and repeats a lot of buzzwords - but he doesn’t miss the chance to shamelessly plug his new book.
(That’ll be another Sorry Time post, I’m sure)
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(That’ll be another Sorry Time post, I’m sure)
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What exactly is this “right way of life” they are trying to preserve, or rather, recover?
This thread by @JYSexton tells you everything you need to know.
5/ https://twitter.com/jysexton/status/1267831319112761346
This thread by @JYSexton tells you everything you need to know.
5/ https://twitter.com/jysexton/status/1267831319112761346
By insisting that immigrants assimilate and hyphenated Americans don’t exist, they seek to eliminate the traditions, values and heritage of “others” in the pursuit of a “Judeo-Christian” single-culture.
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Color blindness is *your* ideal, not Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideal.
Dr. Barke is just another white man who has no problem attributing his beliefs where they don’t belong and speaking for people who don’t need to be spoken for.
Here’s what MLK’s daughter has to say...
7/ https://twitter.com/berniceking/status/1116545449580748800
Dr. Barke is just another white man who has no problem attributing his beliefs where they don’t belong and speaking for people who don’t need to be spoken for.
Here’s what MLK’s daughter has to say...
7/ https://twitter.com/berniceking/status/1116545449580748800
Here are a couple of addition excerpts from the essay.
The author argues that multiculturalism is incompatible with “The American Way of Life”, because he’s an asshole.
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The author argues that multiculturalism is incompatible with “The American Way of Life”, because he’s an asshole.
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Here we have Dr. Barke explaining why “multiculturalism is the antithesis is the American Way of Life”, because he is also an asshole.
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The author of the essay takes issue with the 1619 Project.
They accuse the 1619 Project of “rewriting history” and compare “multiculturalists” to “totalitarians”.
(This is a perfect example of why we need to teach history as it happened, not as people prefer to hear it.)
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They accuse the 1619 Project of “rewriting history” and compare “multiculturalists” to “totalitarians”.
(This is a perfect example of why we need to teach history as it happened, not as people prefer to hear it.)
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Here Dr. Barke reads what the essay’s author has written about the 1619 project.
I doubt he’s actually read the actual piece himself.
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I doubt he’s actually read the actual piece himself.
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The essay’s author tries to make the argument that “multiculturalism” seeks to destroy many institutions, among them, family.
This is straight up hysterical and paranoid.
Moving on...
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This is straight up hysterical and paranoid.
Moving on...
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Jeff goes a bit off-script here. In his argument about how “multiculturalism” isn’t compatible with the “American Way of Life”, he uses the Black Lives Matter movement as an example.
He fails to understand that the nuclear family isn’t the only type of family.
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He fails to understand that the nuclear family isn’t the only type of family.
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So, what is the Claremont Institute?
It’s a “conservative think tank” that has been criticized for defending white nationalism.
They publish essays that allude to the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, where white people are being replaced by “other ethnic groups”.
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It’s a “conservative think tank” that has been criticized for defending white nationalism.
They publish essays that allude to the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, where white people are being replaced by “other ethnic groups”.
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The author of the “Birther” article, John Eastman, is a fellow at the Claremont Institute.
15/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/kamala-harris-birther-birthright-citizenship-claremont.amp
15/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/kamala-harris-birther-birthright-citizenship-claremont.amp
Again, we have John Eastman spouting anti-immigrant sentiments and attempting to make the case for ending birthright citizenship.
16/ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/the-intellectual-origins-of-trumps-chilling-immigration-plan
16/ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/the-intellectual-origins-of-trumps-chilling-immigration-plan
The Claremont Institute has ties to Steve Bannon and Ben Shapiro.
Need I say more?
17/ https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-populist-los-angeles/
Need I say more?
17/ https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-populist-los-angeles/
“The think tank is ostensibly dedicated to fusing conservatism with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Why is it flirting with alt-right authoritarianism?”
18/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/499094/
18/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/499094/
“...conservative institutions can’t simply go around asking, with faux-naivety, “Why are all these white nationalists constantly showing up wherever we go?””
19/ https://newrepublic.com/minutes/150859/trump-think-tank-wracked-white-nationalist-controversy
19/ https://newrepublic.com/minutes/150859/trump-think-tank-wracked-white-nationalist-controversy
From the journalist who uncovered the origins of the “birther” piece:
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https://twitter.com/mjs_dc/status/1294101432409493506?s=21 https://twitter.com/mjs_dc/status/1294101432409493506
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https://twitter.com/mjs_dc/status/1294101432409493506?s=21 https://twitter.com/mjs_dc/status/1294101432409493506
