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Saved - April 4, 2023 at 3:54 AM
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Every culture has something valuable to offer, but the internet is allowing western liberalism to homogenize the world. Third world nations will follow suit once they have access. The flattening of humanity into one homogenous ooze is a terrifying future. The push for economic efficiency and less friction will make us all victims. To stop this, we must focus on acquiring and using power to reward allies and punish enemies.

@Aristos_Revenge - 🏛 Aristophanes 🏛

I find that nearly every culture has at least *some* interesting nuggets of wisdom or viewpoints or contributions to the world at large. Every society generally has something to show for the work of many lifetimes of consistent human experience. But what really alarms me is the speed with which the internet has allowed western liberalism to crush so much of the world into a slurry of sameness. And as soon as 3rd world cultures and nations can be given ubiquitous internet access, they'll try to do it there, same as everywhere else. Mass communication is terrifying in that it has allowed such a "flattening" of the world to begin unabated. They are nowhere near done with such a project, but I have seen so much of its progress in the last 20 years. They won't stop pounding humanity flat until we're all one homogenous ooze. None will be spared unless they are stopped. That's a future that frightens me. Our kaleidoscopic cultures across the species being turned into one retarded thrall race if these people get their wish. Horrifying.

@Aristos_Revenge - 🏛 Aristophanes 🏛

Everything that is more economical, everything that has less "friction" for it, will be pushed relentlessly. We're just the first victims. A starbucks and a mcdonalds on every block in the world, no differences between male and female so everyone can be marketed to at one time.… Show more

@Aristos_Revenge - 🏛 Aristophanes 🏛

The main way to stop them that comes to mind is for a significant plurality to come to terms with the fact that they must focus on acquiring power, by creating it or seizing it, and using that power to reward allies and punish enemies. Our adversary does that, which is why… Show more

Saved - March 12, 2024 at 1:03 AM
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Slavery existed outside of the West and was often brutal. The Arab slave trade, which started before the Atlantic slave trade, caused the death of many slaves. African tribes and middlemen also played a role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Europeans were also enslaved by Barbary pirates and sold in the Ottoman Empire. Slavery was present in China, Mongolia, American civilizations, Southeast Asia, and among Native American tribes. The difference is that Europeans abolished slavery, while the focus on their role is driven by anti-White animus.

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

🧵 A look at slavery outside of the West: It has become popular to blame White people for slavery, to the point that many actually believe slavery was invented by or exclusively practiced by Europeans. But the history of slavery outside the West is far more brutal. 1/15 https://t.co/cJzJzuFl1J

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

2/15 The Arab slave trade emerged in the 7th century, 10 centuries before the Atlantic slave trade Arabs sold Africans to the Middle East for a variety of jobs such as domestic work or harem guards - castrating male slaves was common, causing over half of males to bleed to death https://t.co/k1cKECM652

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

3/15 The Arab slave trade was particularly brutal: it's estimated that 3/4 captured slaves died before they reached the market for sale Historians estimate that between 10 and 18 million people were enslaved by Arab slave traders, including women and children taken as concubines https://t.co/2yCSatEC7Q

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

4/15 Arabs did not create the slave trade out of nothing, in fact, enslaving conquered tribes was already common practice in Central Africa when they arrived. The West African Songhai Empire relied heavily on captured slaves in all levels of society, even as soldiers. https://t.co/Hy9bQr0hwP

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

5/15 Africans themselves also played a large role in facilitating the trans-Atlantic slave trade. African tribes conducted raids on rival groups to provide slaves for sale. African middlemen facilitated trade between European traders and African suppliers. https://t.co/KyhubXqyvl

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

6/15 The Arabs also had a slave trade in Europe. Estimates are that up to 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved by Barbary pirates, who would raid villages in coastal countries like Italy, France, England and Ireland, bringing them to North Africa for sale. https://t.co/ix4u5GMWzv

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

7/15 In some cases entire villages would be captured, such as the Irish coastal village of Baltimore, entirely raided in 1631. These slaves faced a brutal future, engaging in hard labour or sexual servitude, and spending nights hot and overcrowded prisons called bagnios. https://t.co/6oZc3TZdq2

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

8/15 Many slaves captured by Barbary pirates were sold eastwards into the Ottoman Empire. Slavery was central to the Ottoman Empire, most towns had dedicated slavery markets called Yesirs. Slaves came from Africa, the Caucasus, the Balkans and Eastern & Southern Europe. https://t.co/VZsEysB1ML

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

9/15 Sexual slavery was a big part of Ottoman society. Slavic women were popular slaves, and Köçeks became a popular source of entertainment in the 19th century: These were young boys, usually from European backgrounds, who were circumcised, cross-dressed and trained as dancers. https://t.co/iWdvY4euFs

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

10/15 Hereditrary slavery is recorded in China dating back to the Xia Dynasty in 2100 BC. Africans purchased on the Silk Road were used as a sign of wealth. After Chinese law began to treat women as property around 1000AD it was common to sell daughters and sisters into slavery. https://t.co/Y4lfWUiM0U

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

11/15 The Mongols enslaves tens of thousands of Chinese as punishment for resistance. In the post-Mongol Ming Dynasty, thousands of slaves were employed to do bureaucratic jobs for the government, and rich families also employed thousands of slaves to perform menial labour. https://t.co/crGrYStkb2

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

12/15 Slavery was common in American civilizations like the Aztec and Maya Among the Aztecs, slavery was a punishment for a variety of crimes or even failure to pay taxes. Husbands and wives sold each other in times of economic hardship. Slaves were identified by wooden collars. https://t.co/kD7zseYyQw

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

13/15 Slavery was also common practice in the civilizations of South-East Asia. The Khmer Empire had a massive slave class that did much of the work building monuments like Angkor Wat. Historians estimate 25-35% of the population of Thailand/Burma were slaves in the 17th century https://t.co/1pQOraUDe3

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

14/15 Slavery also existed among Native American tribes. Slavery was common practice among Northwest tribes like the Tlingit, for whom one third of their population during the mid-1800s were slaves. Various tribes practiced debt-slavery and enslaved captives of other tribes. https://t.co/VRpBhKS2G2

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

15/15 The only difference between these cases of slavery and that practiced by Europeans is that Europeans abolished slavery on humanitarian grounds, and spread this across the globe. The intense focus on the White role in slavery is a product of widespread Anti-White animus. https://t.co/CdTUmh3hew

Saved - October 6, 2023 at 11:49 AM

@WanjiruNjoya - Wanjiru Njoya

Let's recall why the history of African barbarism matters: to COUNTER the dominant but false narrative that Africans were playing happily together when suddenly the British invaded. The culture war was started by the LEFT. Never forget that. We're fighting defence, not attack.

@ItsTaz1989 - Taz

Just a reminder of what the British found when they got to Africa:

Saved - October 30, 2023 at 12:51 AM
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Despite imperfections, America and the West have created enviable societies. Many from the developing world seek to live here. Europe faces challenges with Muslim immigration, as some fear it aims to conquer through mass migration and high birth rates. This truth needs acknowledgment.

@charliekirk11 - Charlie Kirk

If America, the West, and whites are so awful, why do so many from the developing world keep trying to break into our countries to live? The truth is, we’re pretty great at creating societies worth living in. Our history of equal justice, while imperfect, is still the envy of the world. And yes, in the case of some Muslim immigration, they are intentionally trying to conquer us from within through mass migration and high birth rates. Europe is confronting this now. Needs to be said.

Saved - November 24, 2023 at 1:09 PM
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Europeans have a long history of genocides and atrocities. From the Native American genocide to British colonialism in India, millions of lives were lost. Leopold II's brutal rule in Congo caused the death of millions. The Persian famine, Aboriginal genocide in Australia, British genocide in Kenya, and the trans-Atlantic slave trade inflicted unimaginable suffering. Dutch colonization in Indonesia and French rule in Algeria were marked by massacres and oppression. These dark chapters in history must not be forgotten.

@bookdellector - 🪬 endthewest ☭

Europeans love to deny genocides. Mostly because they make them look bad. So, I thought I’ll compile a continuous list because I’m kinda all for it when Europeans are remembered for who they really are: pale monsters. Let’s go.

@bookdellector - 🪬 endthewest ☭

NATIVE AMERICAN GENOCIDE Between 1491 and 1691 Europeans deliberately caused the death of about 130 Million Native Americans. Did you know, that they actually murdered so many that the earths climate changed, which ironically in return caused famines in Europe. https://t.co/cN8vqK274R

@bookdellector - 🪬 endthewest ☭

BRITISH COLONIALISM ON THE SUBCONTINENT Did you know the Brits looooved to kill Millions by deliberately causing famines? Only between 1880 and 1920 the British empire caused an excess mortality on the Indian subcontinent of 165 Million deaths. https://t.co/cpTIsLoEi7

@bookdellector - 🪬 endthewest ☭

LEOPOLD II IN CONGO Among the shortest but also among the most brutal colonial endeavors was Leopold II’s rape of the Congo. He turned the entire country into a labor camp with draconian punishment and caused the death of 10-15 Millions Congolese in less than 25 years. https://t.co/M0QiakEwOF

@bookdellector - 🪬 endthewest ☭

PERSIAN FAMINE OF 1917-1919 Quite similar to its policies in India, Britain also caused a brutal famine in then formally Qajar-ruled Iran and blamed it on the Ottomans & Russians. Still largely under-researched, estimates range from 2M-9M, i.e. 40% of total population. https://t.co/3CUWkOJomL

@bookdellector - 🪬 endthewest ☭

GENOCIDE OF ABORIGINALS & TORRES STRAITS ISLANDERS Pre-colonial Australia was a heaven-like place of diverse landscapes to which Aboriginals had perfectly adapted & which they masterfully maintained. Population before arrival of Europeans was 1-1.5M - 90% were killed. https://t.co/Ma78mjLc4m

@bookdellector - 🪬 endthewest ☭

BRITISH GENOCIDE IN KENYA What we now know as Kenya was a region of many diverse tribes who lived together largely in peace for Millennia. After the infamous 1885 Berlin conference, GB drew indiscriminate borders to form what is Kenya and turning it into a slave labor camp. The British ran Concentration Camps with up to 1.5M Kenyans held, 10Ks murdered and invented gruesome torture methods for the Mau Mau uprising until Kenya liberated itself in 1963.

@bookdellector - 🪬 endthewest ☭

TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE The sheer volume and barbarity of the TA slave trade is near impossible to capture in any format incl. this. 12M+ Africans were trafficked, 12s of Millions enslaved over the centuries, Millions brutally murdered, 12s Millions sadistically tortured, raped, dehumanized. Trauma of sheer unimaginable inter generational dimensions. Of course, the TA slave trade breaks all frameworks, incl. that of genocide because of how multidimensional death, erasure, displacement and pain were inflicted. I can recommend Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

@bookdellector - 🪬 endthewest ☭

THE DUTCH IN INDONESIA The Dutch colonized Indonesia in the 17th century, ruled over it for 350 years and solidified their brutal control through countless atrocities, forced labor (cultuurstelsel) and massacres. The Banda “Spice” Islands were an early example wherein which, the Dutch massacred, depopulated and enslaved a string of Islands to exploit its riches. In 1825-1830 the Dutch brutally quelled the Java rebellion killing 250000 Javanese - 90%+ of which civilians. After losing their colony to the Japanese, the Dutch even tried to reestablish control over Indonesia between 1945-1949 during Indonesias War of Independence again killing 100Ks until giving up. Thanks to @AntiLondo45 for helping with this one 🖤🤲🏽🖤

@bookdellector - 🪬 endthewest ☭

FRENCH COLONIAL ALGERIA The French viciously ruled over Algeria for 132 years after invading in 1830. A third of Algeria’s previously 3M inhabitants were killed by 1875 due to wars, disease and starvations. Rapes and massacres were ubiquitous under French rule, who also settled Millions of French and other Europeans. It took the FNL 8 years to liberate Algeria - a period within which the French caused the deaths of 1M-1.5M of the indigenous Amazigh and Arab population. As always, I’m sending my undying love to my Algerian siblings 🖤🫶🏽🖤

Saved - December 29, 2023 at 12:32 AM

@ramshaofficial - Ramsha

The pretence of western moral superiority is over. Their image of being “civilised” is absolutely irredeemable. These people are savages. The world has woken up to their utter evil and barbarism.

@ShaykhSulaiman - Sulaiman Ahmed

BREAKING: THEY ARE BURNING CHILDREN ALIVE https://t.co/spf2Q6P7WZ

Saved - January 18, 2024 at 11:14 PM

@dijoni - Don Salmon

Everywhere, white people go, they kill millions. Genocide and starvation. they destroy more things than they built. https://t.co/AU58op9QhJ

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Summary: The speaker mentions various historical events and issues, attributing them to white people. These include the atomic bomb, hoaching, trophy hunting, wars in the Middle East and Africa, the use of AK 47s, the near extinction of Aborigines and Indians, the African slave trade, and the destabilization of the Middle East. The speaker expresses their belief that these actions are evil.
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Speaker 0: Facts. Atomic bomb, white people. Hoaching, trophy hunting, white people. Wars in the Middle East, white people. Wars in Africa, white people. AK 47, white people. Aborigines, almost extinct, white people. Indians, almost 16th, white people. Africans, 1,000,000 murdered in slave trade. White people. Middle East destabilized white people. That ain't evil. I don't know what is.
Saved - February 18, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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The Australian aboriginals surprised me when I discovered that they were skilled at making fire, contrary to my assumption. In fact, their frequent use of fire transformed the Outback from a rainforest to a desert. Additionally, the aboriginals showed inventiveness by creating canals to secure food when they were displaced from their traditional lands. It's interesting to learn how their actions impacted the environment and megafauna.

@Anorionn - Sólion ♨︎

I always assumed that the aboriginals didn’t know how to make fire. When I checked whether this was true, it was the opposite - Australian aboriginals burned down the continent so often that it transformed the Outback from a rainforest to a desert. I can’t stop laughing. https://t.co/ZPgszZaOsP

@polishXcellence - khanate

When aboriginals were driven from traditional foraging lands, Tribes of Queensland resolved their food insecurity by creating an interlocking series of canals to draw fish into their territories. Colonists were surprised at this inventiveness, reminding them of Dutch enterprises.

@Anorionn - Sólion ♨︎

The aboriginals didn’t even hunt their megafauna to extinction - burning down their entire continent is what did it. https://t.co/kncz1JLj8s

Saved - February 16, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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Slavery has been a prevalent and horrifying part of human history. Many people lack an understanding of its true scope and horror due to inadequate education. It is important to recognize that slavery was not limited to a specific time or political party. Additionally, it is alarming to realize that there are more people enslaved today than ever before. This is a disturbing reality that should be acknowledged.

@AwakenedOutlaw - AwakenedOutlaw⚒️

I believe everyone can agree that slavery is a horrible thing. Unfortunately, history is rife with it. The sad truth is that slavery represents more the standard than the exception in the history of human civilization. And like it or not, that's just how it's been since the 'ye old cave days. However, based mainly on having been subjected to poor education their whole lives, many cannot appreciate the relative scope and horror of it. As a result, a good deal of them harbor an unhealthy vision in their head having been knowingly warped versions of history. You see, America isn't going to make itself out to be the "bad guy" as a means of guilt-shaming itself into compliance with the NWO all on its lonesome. RE: History - It's said that it's written by the victor, and I don't think anyone would disagree. Unfortunately for us, we've all been in the losing bracket for a LONG ASS TIME. As a result, many have this distorted image of slavery in their minds wrongfully believing that it was only something the Anntebelum/Plantation Era Democrats used to engage in. 👉Which they most certainly did That being said, it's worth comparing & contrasting that history against the fact that there are more people in slavery around the world TODAY than at any point in history. Yes, it's pretty messed up. But it's at least worth chewing on if you weren't previously aware.

Saved - June 8, 2024 at 11:55 PM
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The posts discuss various reasons to avoid miscegenation, including the risk of infertility and the genetic dissimilarity between different racial groups. They argue that mixing races can lead to negative outcomes such as outbreeding depression and the potential extinction of certain races. The posts also mention the importance of considering intelligence and racial achievements. Additionally, statistics are referenced regarding interracial relationships and violence.

@GovloverMD256 - Govlover MD

Reasons to avoid miscegenation. A collection of posts 🧵

@GovloverMD256 - Govlover MD

The risk of infertility.

@GovloverMD256 - Govlover MD

🚨CDC (2020): Black Americans were nine times more likely to have gonorrhea, and six times more likely to have chlamydia than White Americans. These are both important causes of infertility in women. Both of these STDs can be asymptomatic, which means that they are often untreated, which substantially increases the risk of infertility (due to PID). These patterns hold up around the Western world. Infertility is devastating. Please educate your loved ones. Men and women need to be smart. Don't risk your fertility, or that of your future partners. https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/fact-sheets/std/std-us-2020.html https://archive.is/eavId

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@GovloverMD256 - Govlover MD

Race is so much more than skin deep. These infographics are from an excellent Keith Woods article (linked in his post below).

@KeithWoodsYT - Keith Woods

𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: If there is such thing as a White race, who exactly is included in White? How light does their skin have to be? I have a friend from Iran with light features, is he White? 𝗔𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿: White just refers to people of European descent – the European race. It isn’t merely a description of skin colour. So Italians, French, and Germans are all White, but Persians and Arabs are not, regardless of differences in complexion. The easiest way to visualise this is to look at scatter plots generated from the application of principal component analysis (PCA) to human genetic clusters. This is a statistical procedure that allows us to identify and visualise patterns of variability within a large dataset on a simple two dimensional graph. Take a look at this graph in the image attached. As you can see, we can identify distinct ethnic groups of shared ancestry. There is also a larger cluster of European or White groups, noticeably distinct from Middle Eastern ethnic groups. While you can find some “white” looking people outside European ethnic groups, they would not be included in this White genetic cluster. Of course, this genetic mapping alone does not capture what it means to be White, Europeans have a shared history and many shared cultural practices which mark them as distinct from other racial groups. But this is not just an “imagined community”, it maps on to an objective genetic reality. From my latest essay responding to frequently asked questions about race. Read in full: https://keithwoods.pub/p/frequently-asked-questions-about

Frequently Asked Questions About Race A dialogue about controversial topics keithwoods.pub

@GovloverMD256 - Govlover MD

Outbreeding depression. Notice that Europeans are very genetically dissimilar to Africans, and, despite their admirable qualities, also East Asians. It’s odd that these pairings are extremely common in advertising.

@GovloverMD256 - Govlover MD

The ideal mate is actually genetically similar to oneself - stray too far, and negative results occur (see link). If a tall man breeds with a short woman, do they get some kind of hybrid vigor result, and produce an extra tall child? No, they get an average of their heights (firstborn being the tallest, usually). Likewise with intelligence. A smart parent and a dumb parent will produce average children, on average. Whichever way you want to quantify it, Whites have clearly produced the greatest civilizations, art, technology, and anything else you can think of. East Asians are clear competitors for the top, but we are so genetically dissimilar that mixing also results in outbreeding depression. Thats not to say they can’t go on to do great things; it’s only to say that mixing should be avoided. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreeding_depression

Outbreeding depression - Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org

@GovloverMD256 - Govlover MD

It’s morally wrong if you are part of a dwindling subspecies (perhaps even species). Europeans are as genetically distinct to sub-Saharan Africans as North American Gray Wolves are to coyotes, a different species!

@GovloverMD256 - Govlover MD

If you are White, miscegenation is morally wrong because we are dying out. Most people agree that it is immoral to cause a species or subspecies to go extinct. If it is immoral to allow a specific kind of animal to go extinct, then it is surely as bad (or far worse) to allow a subspecies of humans, i.e., a race, to go extinct. Intermixing will get rid of us just as surely as not having children at all - our paltry numbers will be totally erased by the overwhelming tide of other subspecies (races).

@GovloverMD256 - Govlover MD

Any behavior associated with all of these negative attributes is surely worth avoiding.

@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️

Whites who racemix are on average dumber, poorer, fatter, less honest, more promiscuous, more mentally ill, more neurotic, and more prone to risk-taking behavior. Source: https://mankindquarterly.org/archive/issue/64-2/8

Predictors of Engaging in Interracial Dating Research suggests that mixed-race adolescents are more likely than monoracial adolescents to use drugs or engage in violent behavior, and that interracial relationships contain more conflict than monoracial ones. However, it is not clear whether these outcomes are caused by racial conflict and identity or by self-selection. To determine this, we used data from the NLSY97 and Add Health datasets to explore what characteristics predict whether an individual is engaged in an interracial relationship. Our investigation suggests that assortative mating occurs between races, where individuals who date individuals of other races tend to be more similar to them. The standardized difference in intelligence between those interracially mated and those who didn’t varied by race (White d = -0.22, p < .001; Black d = 0.31, p < .001; Hispanic d = 0.73, p < .001). Also, there is a difference in height between Hispanics who interracially dated and those who didn’t (mean d = 0.29, p < .001). Interracial daters tended to engage in a broader range of risk-taking behaviors (White d = 0.18, p < .01; Black d = 0.42, p < .01; Hispanic d = 0.53, p < .001) regardless of their race. The available evidence supports that the behavior of mixed-race adolescents is a product of genetic transmission, and that some of the increased divorce and inter-partner violence observed within interracial relationships may be a product of self-selection instead of racial conflict or social pressure. Keywords: Assortative mating, Intelligence, Race, Psychopathology mankindquarterly.org

@GovloverMD256 - Govlover MD

As I alluded to earlier, intelligence and racial achievements are also very important to consider. Jared Taylor goes over this topic in the video below (from the American Renaissance channel on btchute). https://t.co/Tj57E9brhr

@GovloverMD256 - Govlover MD

🚨White people are over twelve times more likely to be killed by a Black spouse than by a White spouse. Article with several key stats:

@GovloverMD256 - Govlover MD

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Saved - May 24, 2024 at 11:57 PM

@Vltra_MK - Michael Rae Khoury

The British Empire was never a force for good — this Empire is STILL one of the Most Savage Royal Death Cults to ever exist… https://t.co/BTPO50FfOq

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In the history of the British throne, violence and betrayal are common themes. From William the Conqueror's mysterious death to Henry VIII's brutal executions, the royal family's legacy is tainted by bloodshed. The Tudors, infamous for their ruthless reign, were followed by the era of colonialism, where Britain became a superpower through slavery and exploitation. The monarchy's involvement in the slave trade and colonial atrocities has left a dark mark on history, with millions of lives lost and resources plundered. The royal family's actions have had far-reaching consequences, from causing wars to shaping global events.
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Speaker 0: Back to the days with no Internet, 34 years have passed since William conquered England. His third son is on the throne. He's also a William, William the second. That's the English royal family for you, big on power, low on creative names. Either way, William the second is hunting in southern England one day. Disaster struck. His own noble killed him with an arrow. What's more, nobody even bothered to recover his body. It was an arrow maker who eventually found the dead king. Sounds fishy? Many historians agree. They point fingers at William's younger brother, Henry. He was a man in a hurry. He first secured the treasury in Winchester, then rushed to London and made himself king. Rumor is he had his elder brother killed, and the UK royal history is filled with such betrayals and murders. But as they say, what goes around comes around. Just ask Henry's great grandson, King John, who took the throne in 1199, but he had a rival, his brother's son named Arthur. Guess what King John did to his 16 year old nephew slash rival? First, he ordered his eyes and genitals to be removed. It was so cruel, even the jailer refused. So the king took matters into his own hands. He personally murdered his nephew and threw his body into a river. It was a sign of things to come. Cut to 15th century, one of the bloodiest chapters in English history was unfolding. It was called the war of roses. Nothing rosy about it though. It was 30 years of ruthless and barbaric civil war. There were 2 players, the house of Lancaster and the house of York. Their armies fought a famous battle in 14/71. The Yokes won, but it was a bloodbath. Around 2,000 Lancastrian soldiers were slaughtered. That place is still called the Bloody Meadow. With the war done, the Yokes set about ruling. Their king was Edward the 4th, great general, bad sibling. He grew suspicious of his brother George, the Duke of Clarence. By now, you know where this is going. Edward imprisoned his brother and had him killed. He was drowned in a pot of wine. Not my idea of a sweet death, but like I said, what goes around comes around. In 14/83, Edward the 4th died. His successor, his 12 year old son, also Edward. The young boy was heading to London when his uncle stopped him. He put Edward and his brother in the Tower of London. Nobody has seen them since. The uncle made himself king, but decades later, 2 skeletons were found in the tower. Did they belong to Edward and his brother? Your guess is as good as mine. The murderous uncle did not stay king for long. Just 2 years later, he lost the throne. If you think things have been violent so far, think again. What you just saw was the trailer. The movie is just beginning. Our murderous uncle's defeat signal the start of a new reign, the house of Tudor. They had 5 monarchs, but one stands out, Henry the 8th. Being his spouse was like playing Russian roulette, very risky stuff. Henry divorced 2 of his wives and executed 2 more. In fact, he had a thing for executions. In 36 years, he executed around 57,000 people. That's around 4 people per day. Among them was Thomas Cromwell, great statesman, champion reformer, but a bad judge of character. Cromwell was Henry's chief minister. He did 2 very important jobs. 1 was to arrange marriages for the king. The second was to reform Christianity. Both things came back to haunt him. Henry, being Henry, had a problematic marriage with Cromwell's chosen bride. The result, Cromwell lost his head. Henry's daughter too had a vengeful streak, Elizabeth the first. Her rivalry with Mary, the Queen of Scots, is legendary. Fun fact, Mary was also Elizabeth's cousin. Did not stop her from doing what she did, though. Elizabeth imprisoned Mary for 18 and a half years. Then in 15/87, she was executed. It took 3 swings of the ax to behead her, and you thought Game of Thrones was bad. Mary's story does not end here. Elizabeth died without children. Guess who succeeded her? The son of Mary, the same queen she executed. He took the throne in 1603. This was around the time when Britain started thinking about colonies. Soon the bloodlust would be exported worldwide, but more on that later. Around the mid 17th century, Charles the first became king. Almighty god, to celebrate the solemnity of our royal coronation at Westminster He was a delusional ruler. He thought he was appointed by God. When the parliament disagreed, he went to war. Charles was defeated in 16/45 and executed 3 years later. That's right. A king was executed. And with that, Britain became a republic. No king, no royal family. But as they say, a dog's tail can never be straightened. In 16/60, the royals return. Charles the second became king. After centuries of killing sons, brothers, and nephews, they were ready for the next stage, colonialism. Close your eyes and pick any country on the globe. Chances are, Britain invaded it. Around 90% of all countries were invaded by the British. They became the superpower of the 18th century. Their economic model, slavery. To be clear, Britain did not start the slave trade. That would be Portugal in Spain, but Britain perfected it. They transported around 3,400,000 Africans to their colonies. 2,700,000 reached alive, the rest perished. This was all done with royal approval. Remember Charles the second? During his rule, the company of royal adventurers into Africa was set up. Nothing adventurous about it. This company shipped more slaves than any other. Its shareholders included royal family members. If Charles the 2nd institutionalized slavery, Charles the third is carrying its burden. That's the current king. His direct ancestors bought slaves in Virginia. Empire, of this throne? It was built on the blood of murdered relatives, on the sweat and blood of slaves and colonial subjects. By some accounts, 100,000,000 Indians died prematurely because of British policy, 100,000,000 Indians in just 40 years. They also took resources worth $45,000,000,000,000 which is 15 times Britain's current GDP. The entire world has had to pay for the royal family's mistakes. The first World War was such a case. Don't believe me? Take a look at these men. They look the same, don't they? Well, because they're all cousins. One is George the 5th, king of England. The other is czar Nicholas 2 of Russia. The third is Kaiser Wilhelm the second of Germany. All three were rulers during the 1st World War, and all three were also cousins. Their rivalry ended with the death of 20,000,000 people. This flashback is a reminder of the real history of the British throne, the blood they spilled, the innocence they executed, and the lands they plundered. The throne soiled by cruelty and ruthlessness.

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

The British Empire was, in many ways, a force for good. Nearly everywhere it occupied it: -raised the standard of living -developed infrastructure -promoted education It also single-handedly ended slavery for much of the world…🧵(thread) https://t.co/hVNQIIu9Rg

Saved - June 21, 2024 at 9:49 PM

@stclairashley - Ashley St. Clair

While slavery was common to all civilizations, only one civilization developed a moral revulsion against it: Western Civilization “Rather than be ashamed as Westerners, we should stand proud for having led the world out of a mentality where slavery was the norm.” 🔥🔥🔥

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Slavery was common across civilizations, not just in the West. It was not solely based on race. Many different races owned slaves, including black people and Native Americans. The US government fought to end slavery, and reparations may not be the best solution. Western civilization was the first to reject slavery morally, so we should not feel ashamed but proud.
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Speaker 0: The first point is that everyone had slaves. Okay? People of all colors became slaves for economic reasons, because of war, because slavery, as odious as it was, was simply a normal way of life. Arabs were extracting millions of black African slaves centuries before Christian nations did for about 13 centuries, compared to the 3 centuries European nations ran the Atlantic slave trade. Arabs marched African slaves across the Sahara Desert, and as such, they died more often. It was customary to castrate them and many died from this practice. The Arabs also enslaved over 1,000,000 white European Christians. The term slavery, in fact, comes from the word Slav. The Slavs inhabited Eastern Europe and were taken by the Muslims of Spain in the 19 in the 9th century. Not to mention that Africans have been enslaving each other for 1000 of years. The point is that slavery The the second point is that slavery was not about race, and it's important. It was not about race. The only reason we think it's about race is because philosophers like David Hume in the 18th century ranked human beings and put Africans at the bottom saying that they had no souls. The enlightenment imposed the concept of race on a practice that had been going on for centuries, in order to justify that practice. And why did they have to justify it? And this is the point. Because people in the West began to question slavery's moral validity. The fact is that people of all colors owned slaves, both as part of the Atlantic slave trade and outside of it. In the United States and Caribbean, black people, black people owned thousands of black slaves, and so did the Native Americans. Nearly 20,000 of the Native Americans, 5 civilized tribes sided with the confederacy during the civil war, fighting to keep slavery alive. 28% of the black population who were free in New Orleans pledged their support to the Confederacy. All of the 13 southern states of the confederacy had substantial numbers of black slave owners. There were more than 250,000 free blacks and nearly 4,000 of them were slave masters, who owned more than 20,000 slaves. The practice of slavery was legal, after all. We need to remember that governments did not own slaves. Slave owners did. In fact, the US government fought a war to end slavery. How much should the descendants of the 400,000 Union soldiers, who lost their lives fighting to free the slaves, pay to the descendants of the slaves they freed? Giving people lump sums of money does not work. Economists often point to the Georgia Land Lottery of 18 32, in which parcels of land were distributed randomly. What happened to the descendants of those who were lucky enough to be given this land? Are they the richest families in Georgia? No. In fact, within 1 generation after the distribution of the Georgia land, one could not distinguish between those who had been given land and those who hadn't. Certainly, my own direct experiences of working for 20 plus years in the inner city with families on welfare demonstrates this time and time again. Rather than give a man a fish, it is always better to teach him how to fish. All giving the fish does is make the giver feel better. Reparations might relieve white people of their guilt, but it will do little else. So back to my initial question. Why are we only discussing whether the West should pay reparations for slavery? Because while slavery was common to all civilizations, only one civilization developed a moral revulsion against it very late in its history, western civilization. Not even the leading moralists in other civilizations rejected slavery at all. Rather than be ashamed as westerners, we should stand proud for having led the world out of a mentality where slavery was the norm, and we should vote against this motion. Thank you.

@elonmusk - Elon Musk

@WallStreetSilv And slavery is still active in many parts of the world https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

Slavery in the 21st century - Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org
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Rhodesia, once a thriving economic hub in Africa, faced devastation after its fall to Mugabe in 1980, largely due to Western intervention that favored communism over a functioning republic. Unlike apartheid South Africa, Rhodesia had a property-based voting system aimed at maintaining stability. The West's abandonment of Rhodesia, driven by a rejection of hierarchy and cultural achievement, led to genocide and chaos. This history reflects the West's decline, as it turned away from the values that once made it great, resulting in a cultural and societal shift that many now question.

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

Rhodesia, after it fell to Mugabe in 1980, was forgotten for many decades, but it matters greatly because it shows why the West is no longer what it once was A short 🧵👇

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

First, what was Rhodesia? It was the little land north of South Africa and south of the Belgian Congo, where decolonization meant chaos and slaughter that effectively hasn't ended since the Belgians left Despite being landlocked and underpopulated, it was an economic powerhouse. It was the breadbasket of Africa, exporting food to the rest of the continent, and was an industrializing economy that was also successful at growing cash crops like tobacco

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

Notably, Rhodesia also didn't have apartheid. Rather, it had a voting system like America and much of the West, such as Britain used to have: anyone could vote so long as they owned a requisite amount of property That restriction was meant to keep it a republic and percent the problem of democracy, which is mob voting and the wolves voting to eat the lamb

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

But despite its economic success, resistance to communism, and its hope to chart a course in Africa where the whites wouldn't face the fate of those left behind in Congo or Kenya and where blacks wouldn't face the same fate as in South Africa, America helped the USSR destroy it

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

Yes, America helped the Russian and Chinese communists destroy a functional, Western nation known for being "more British than the British" The result was genocide. With Mugabe, the winning communist, first butchering the Ndebele tribe and then forcing white farmers off their land, killing many in the expropriation process Britain helped too

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

Why? Why destroy an agricultural land that mimicked Britain at its Victorian height? Because Cultural Marxism and liberalism generally had rotted the West from the inside. It was no longer comfortable with itself and its old values, and so wanted to destroy them

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

Particularly, it wanted to destroy the twin concepts of natural hierarchy and cultural achievement

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

As a reminder, the Old World, and much of the new (South America and the Cavalier South) were ruled by hierarchy: landed aristocrats, whether titled or gentry, handed down their wealth and prestige from generation to generation

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

As a result, wealth was largely controlled by an elite few, and those few were the ones who, largely, were the ones best suited to responsible nurture it in the manner of a garden That brought with it noblesse oblige, or the concept that the privileged should care for their social inferiors in the name of the community.

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

But they weren't to destroy all wealth in the impossible quest to eradicate poverty; Jesus reminded us that the poor with always be with us, after all Instead, donated was responsibly spent on bettering the circumstances of the poor, such as by building worker cottages

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

Or it was spent on cultural achievements. The great statues of the Renaissance. The beautiful Palladian country houses of England. The hunting castles of Scotland. The music of Mozart and Beethoven All came only as a result of noble wealth; hierarchy enabled achievement

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

Then came Marxism and Leninism, the twin ideas of enforced egalitarianism and weaponized grievance Death duties, punitive income taxation, social leveling, and hostility to beauty resulted from those impulses, destroying much of the Old World mindset

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

This era, roughly the two or three decades after WWII, saw the British nationalized coal industry destroy Wentworth Woodhouse, the greatest of country houses, out of envy. It saw America destroy the space program to focus on welfare. And, perhaps worst of all, it saw former empires turn on their colonial subjects

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

Hatred of hierarchy meant hatred of colonialism and imperialism after all, so Britain and France effectively helped communists carry out atrocities in Algeria, Kenya, the Congo, and more as they left and helped the "national governments" accede to power

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

Rhodesia saw what happened in the Congo and told Britain to get lost, with WWII Spitfire pilot and war hero Ian Smith, the PM, leading Rhodesia as it declared independence in the hope of surviving as a functional nation

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

So, the UK, and eventually America under Civil Rights Carter and his friends like Andy Young, embargoed Rhodesia. It couldn't import fuel or weapons and so was slowly strangled by the West as communists funded and armed by the USSR and Red China murdered civilians in horrible ways as their form of "war"

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

Eventually Rhodesia fell, unable to survive without being able to import fuel or weapons and unable to export its cash crops. Then the aforementioned horrors of Mugabe occurred, with the West covering for Mugabe and even congratulating him as he butchered his own people

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

That conduct matters, and it's largely the reason the West is no longer functional and, indeed, often abetting its own destruction by importing hordes of foreigners It's no longer self-confident, and as such, no longer willing to stand for the traits that made it great

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

Egalitarianism did not make the West great. Social welfare did not make the West great. Hatred of white people did not make the West great. Degenerate culture and rotten entertainment did not make the West great Social hierarchy and its wonderful fruits did But, as shown by its rejection of Rhodesia, the West turned its back on those values. Rotted internally by Cultural Marxism and the Leninist grievance impulse, it destroyed them

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

Now, instead of moon landings, concertos, and palaces, "we" have brutalist architecture, rap music, and food stamps Was that a good tradeoff? Was it worth it? Or should we have sided with Rhodesia as it remained the last outpost of the Old World, beset by grievance politics of the sort now destroying us?

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

Read more about the West's war on Rhodesia here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/p/how-the-united-states-supported-white

How the United States Supported White Genocide in Southern Africa The Problem Elon Called Out is an Old One, and the US is Culpable theamericantribune.news

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

Oh, and I should have added this earlier, but also check out @k9_reaper to understand the similar events happening in South Africa, and check out this interview we did with him on the subject, in which we mention the Bush War: https://www.theamericantribune.news/p/surviving-south-africa-a-boers-take

Surviving South Africa: A Boer's Take on the South African Situation Pt. 2 What Americans Must Learn from the Collapse of the Rainbow Nation theamericantribune.news

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

And credit to the intro pic from @thewardoll, from whose account I found it awhile ago

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

Make sure to read these superb books about the Bush War and Rhodesia: https://t.co/8tjlXeGfvI

@Will_Tanner_1 - Will Tanner

What books would I recommend you read about Rhodesia? This is a question I was asked in the context of my recent threads about Rhodesia and its struggle against communism So, here are 7 great options, my favorite books on the subject 1/8

Saved - September 5, 2024 at 12:39 PM

@JohnStossel - John Stossel

Native Americans weren’t as “kind to the environment" as they’re portrayed in today’s schoolbooks and media. One example: they set big forest fires to clear land. “You're burning alive… animals... probably killing members of other tribes,” author Wilfred Reilly points out. https://t.co/Yc4hDQBWLI

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Political science professor Wilfred Riley's new book, "Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me," challenges the romanticized view of Native Americans as peaceful stewards of the environment. He argues that government guides and textbooks falsely portray natives as living in harmony with nature, not killing anything they couldn't use, and lacking prejudice or major wars. Riley contends that natives manipulated their environment through practices like setting large forest fires and that some tribes practiced slavery and cannibalism. He points to the Aztec capital's towers of human skulls as evidence against the notion of universal peace. Riley suggests the persistence of the "peaceful native" myth stems from Marxism and critical race theory, which he says unfairly demonize Western values and white people. He argues that while white people committed atrocities, America's sins were not unique, and nearly every society had slavery, cruel wars, and environmental destruction. He concludes that the West has led the world in making things better, lifting people out of poverty, and protecting the environment.
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Speaker 0: Some people have a deep abiding respect for the natural beauty that was once this country. Speaker 1: Americans are taught that the people who once lived in what we now call America were stewards of the environment. They had An ancient respect and connection to the land and water. Disney movies made that their message. I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has Speaker 0: a name. No. Speaker 2: I don't I don't think native American hunters gave names to every rabbit in the woods around them. No. That's not that's not a real thing that happened. Speaker 1: Political science professor Wilfred Riley's new book is Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me. Speaker 2: We've gone into almost this cult like romanticization of the natives who were great warriors and poets, but, I mean, who hunted buffalo by driving herds of them off of 100 foot tall cliffs. Speaker 1: Yet government guides for teachers say Native Americans lived in harmony with nature. There was love of every form of life. They didn't kill anything they couldn't use. Speaker 2: That's just objectively untrue. I mean, that would mean no young male warrior, no brave ever killed for sport. I mean, that's we just know that's false. Speaker 1: I heard that. I believed it. Speaker 2: Well, I believed it too because I was 8. Speaker 1: The best selling book, Lies My Teacher Told Taught Me, loved by teachers and students alike. Riley's new book is a response to this hugely popular book. It correctly points out that American textbooks and media portrayed Columbus simply as a hero. Speaker 0: Let go. Let go. Arrive for admiral Columbus. Speaker 1: Textbooks ignored Columbus's brutality and enslavement of Indians. Columbus himself wrote about his slaves saying, Indians make all our food, extract gold from the mines, and perform all other labors. The book was valid, right, with the kids were being taught at Columbus. It's wonderful. Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think your focus should be white and native atrocities against one another in a 6th grade class. Speaker 1: Today, students are rarely taught that natives also took slaves and considered them objects of wealth. Speaker 2: The morality of today didn't exist anywhere in the world until about 60 years ago. Speaker 1: White people did murder the natives cruelly. What what's the harm in sending a counter message? Speaker 2: You don't need a counter message. No one denies that whites and native Americans killed each other. Sure. In 1970, in some southern schools, people might have been taught a jingoistic view of American history, but the the reverse has been true for 40 years. Speaker 1: He says the old myths don't justify nuance like the one spread by today's social media influencers. Speaker 2: We know firsthand how to live in harmony with the natural world. In fact, we did so since time in memorial. Speaker 1: In reality, natives manipulated their environment. To make farming easier, they set big forest fires to clear land. Speaker 2: Giant forest fires. You're you're burning alive hundreds of thousands of small animals, slower running deer. You're probably killing members of other tribes. You're you're modifying the environment more bluntly. US government curriculum guides also claimed There was no prejudice, no major wars. Nonsensical. In the Aztec capital, there were 90 foot towers of human skulls that were brought back from their defeated enemies. Speaker 1: Some tribes even practiced cannibalism, eating enemies they killed. But still I cannot see if the savage one is me. Yet the myth of peaceful natives lives on. You don't know. Speaker 2: You're looking at people saying the absolute opposite of reality. When myths persist despite obvious objective reality, that's an indicator of a kind of brain virus among people who want the myth to be real. Speaker 1: Why does the myth of peaceful, harmonious living among Indians versus uniquely evil oppression by Europeans live on? All this to me is just downstream from Marxism. Marxism? Well, it is true that at colleges today, the most assigned economist, is Karl Marx. Students are taught that western values are bad. Critical race theory amplifies that. Speaker 2: White Americans have more because of racism. Critical race theory is communist theory with the rich man replaced by the white man. Speaker 1: Westerners and white people being so evil. Why is it so popular? Speaker 2: I think that a lot of rich people don't like their father. There is a lot of dislike for our society among people who are pretty near the leadership class. Speaker 1: I think the people who teach these myths mean well. They want minorities to feel included, but teachers should at least also teach that America's sins were not unique, that just about every society had slavery, cruel wars, and environmental destruction. The seldom taught good news is that in the last century, the West led the world in making things better. Speaker 2: The Geneva Convention saying that you can't abuse prisoners of war who tried to kill you, The last of those was signed in, I believe, 1949. Speaker 1: Most of the world is getting better, and the much maligned capitalist countries now are largely responsible for lifting people out of poverty and protecting the environment. They ought to teach that.
Saved - October 7, 2024 at 12:36 PM

@JohnStossel - John Stossel

In schools, students are now taught that Native Americans were peaceful. Then uniquely evil Europeans arrived. Political Science professor (@wil_da_beast630) says it’s Marxism’s fault! Karl Marx IS the most assigned economist in today’s colleges. https://t.co/lFemYr3Hta

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Political science professor Wilfred Riley's new book, "Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me," challenges the romanticized view of Native Americans as peaceful stewards of the environment. He argues that government guides and textbooks falsely portray natives as living in harmony with nature, not killing anything they couldn't use. Riley claims this is untrue, citing examples of buffalo hunts, intertribal warfare, and even cannibalism. The transcript asserts that natives manipulated their environment through practices like setting large forest fires. It also claims that some tribes practiced slavery. The speaker suggests that the myth of peaceful natives persists due to Marxism and critical race theory, which allegedly promote the idea that Western values are inherently bad. The speaker concludes that while white people committed atrocities against Native Americans, such behavior was not unique. They state that nearly every society had slavery, cruel wars, and environmental destruction. They also state that the West led the world in making things better, citing the Geneva Convention and capitalist countries lifting people out of poverty and protecting the environment.
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Speaker 0: Some people have a deep abiding respect for the natural beauty that was once this country. Speaker 1: Americans are taught that the people who once lived in what we now call America were stewards of the environment. They had An ancient respect and connection to the land and water. Disney movies made that their message. I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has Speaker 0: a name. No. Speaker 2: I don't I don't think native American hunters gave names to every rabbit in the woods around them. No. That's not that's not a real thing that happened. Speaker 1: Political science professor Wilfred Riley's new book is Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me. Speaker 2: We've gone into almost this cult like romanticization of the natives who were great warriors and poets, but, I mean, who hunted buffalo by driving herds of them off of 100 foot tall cliffs. Speaker 1: Yet government guides for teachers say Native Americans lived in harmony with nature. There was love of every form of life. They didn't kill anything they couldn't use. Speaker 2: That's just objectively untrue. I mean, that would mean no young male warrior, no brave ever killed for sport. I mean, that's we just know that's false. Speaker 1: I heard that. I believed it. Speaker 2: Well, I believed it too because I was 8. Speaker 1: The best selling book, Lies My Teacher Told Taught Me, loved by teachers and students alike. Riley's new book is a response to this hugely popular book. It correctly points out that American textbooks and media portrayed Columbus simply as a hero. Speaker 0: Let go. Let go. Arrive for admiral Columbus. Speaker 1: Textbooks ignored Columbus's brutality and enslavement of Indians. Columbus himself wrote about his slaves saying, Indians make all our food, extract gold from the mines, and perform all other labors. The book was valid, right, with the kids were being taught at Columbus. It's wonderful. Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think your focus should be white and native atrocities against one another in a 6th grade class. Speaker 1: Today, students are rarely taught that natives also took slaves and considered them objects of wealth. Speaker 2: The morality of today didn't exist anywhere in the world until about 60 years ago. Speaker 1: White people did murder the natives cruelly. What what's the harm in sending a counter message? Speaker 2: You don't need a counter message. No one denies that whites and native Americans killed each other. Sure. In 1970, in some southern schools, people might have been taught a jingoistic view of American history, but the the reverse has been true for 40 years. Speaker 1: He says the old myths don't justify nuance like the one spread by today's social media influencers. Speaker 2: We know firsthand how to live in harmony with the natural world. In fact, we did so since time in memorial. Speaker 1: In reality, natives manipulated their environment. To make farming easier, they set big forest fires to clear land. Speaker 2: Giant forest fires. You're you're burning alive hundreds of thousands of small animals, slower running deer. You're probably killing members of other tribes. You're you're modifying the environment more bluntly. US government curriculum guides also claimed There was no prejudice, no major wars. Nonsensical. In the Aztec capital, there were 90 foot towers of human skulls that were brought back from their defeated enemies. Speaker 1: Some tribes even practiced cannibalism, eating enemies they killed. But still I cannot see if the savage one is me. Yet the myth of peaceful natives lives on. You don't know. Speaker 2: You're looking at people saying the absolute opposite of reality. When myths persist despite obvious objective reality, that's an indicator of a kind of brain virus among people who want the myth to be real. Speaker 1: Why does the myth of peaceful, harmonious living among Indians versus uniquely evil oppression by Europeans live on? All this to me is just downstream from Marxism. Marxism? Well, it is true that at colleges today, the most assigned economist, is Karl Marx. Students are taught that western values are bad. Critical race theory amplifies that. Speaker 2: White Americans have more because of racism. Critical race theory is communist theory with the rich man replaced by the white man. Speaker 1: Westerners and white people being so evil. Why is it so popular? Speaker 2: I think that a lot of rich people don't like their father. There is a lot of dislike for our society among people who are pretty near the leadership class. Speaker 1: I think the people who teach these myths mean well. They want minorities to feel included, but teachers should at least also teach that America's sins were not unique, that just about every society had slavery, cruel wars, and environmental destruction. The seldom taught good news is that in the last century, the West led the world in making things better. Speaker 2: The Geneva Convention saying that you can't abuse prisoners of war who tried to kill you, The last of those was signed in, I believe, 1949. Speaker 1: Most of the world is getting better, and the much maligned capitalist countries now are largely responsible for lifting people out of poverty and protecting the environment. They ought to teach that.
Saved - October 15, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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I explored the complex legacy of the British Empire, highlighting its role in raising living standards, developing infrastructure, and promoting education. Following Napoleon's defeat, Britain emerged as a dominant global power, benefiting from strategic territorial gains. The period known as "Pax Britannica" brought stability and prosperity, largely maintained by the unmatched British Navy. Notably, Britain took significant steps to end the slave trade, enforcing anti-slavery laws and capturing slave ships, ultimately freeing thousands. This raises questions about the nature of empires and their potential for benevolence.

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

The British Empire was, in some ways, a force for good. In many places it occupied it: -raised the standard of living -developed infrastructure -promoted education It also single-handedly ended slavery for much of the world…🧵(thread)

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

Though Britain had been a global power since the early 17th century, it wasn’t until Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 that it emerged as the dominant power. By eliminating France from the world’s stage, Britain was left without a serious competitor. https://t.co/bpacPQyAe3

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

The Vienna Treaty that followed favored the Brits, granting them territorial possessions like modern-day South Africa, Trinidad, and Sri Lanka. These territories served as strategic naval bases Britain used to control its immense empire from all corners of the globe. https://t.co/ICZ1LOPb1F

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

The century following Napoleon's defeat is sometimes called the “Pax Britannica,” because of the relative prosperity enjoyed by Europe during this time. The presence of a single world power created stability and kept conflicts to a minimum. https://t.co/TIMsKmrrXK

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

Britain’s unmatched navy is what maintained its dominance. The British Royal Navy was more than twice the size of the next largest navy. Though their ships weren’t vastly superior to others’, their sailors were at sea continuously making them the best in the world. https://t.co/OaRZKXxqs8

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

British ships controlled most of the key trade routes in Asia, North America, and Africa, allowing its merchants and traders an overwhelming advantage compared to other nations—Britain got incredibly rich off sea power. https://t.co/VGksy9KzYc

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

But Britain didn’t just use its Naval supremacy to fill its coffers. Its navy actually became a source of peace and stability. British ships were on the frontline during one of the darkest episodes in Western history: the slave trade. https://t.co/yFwF1WUYfk

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

Decades before the American Civil War and 13th amendment ended slavery in the US, Britain passed two anti-slavery laws: the “Slave Trade Act 1807” banning the slave trade around the empire, and the “Slavery Abolition Act 1833” which officially made it illegal to own slaves. https://t.co/0jX9S1USiy

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

Britain enforced its legislation via their strong navy. Ship captains who were caught transporting slaves were subject to fine initially, but soon the Royal Navy declared all perpetrators of slave trading to be treated the same as pirates—the punishment for piracy was death. https://t.co/iDx8Zmeoyi

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

Britain's ships were the “global policemen” in the 19th century, and along the West coast of Africa became highly successful in capturing slave ships and freeing slaves. They basically declared war on the African slave trade in a move called the “blockade of Africa.” https://t.co/zL2tU9H0RI

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

In 1808, a fleet called the West Africa Squadron was formed to patrol the African coast and catch slave ships. In the following decades they seized an estimated 1,600 slave ships and freed a whopping 150,000 Africans slaves. https://t.co/QNvAJHMXu6

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

African kingdoms were also encouraged to sign anti-slavery treaties. Over 50 African rulers signed them, and for ones that didn't, “corrective action” was taken—sometimes fighting slavery meant using the full force of the British Navy. https://t.co/YEeeKR3ybv

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

One example was the deposition of Oba Kosoko of Lagos in 1851. After refusing to sign an anti-slavery treaty, the HMS Bloodhound and HMS Tartar besieged Lagos and deposed Kosoko. He was quickly replaced with an anti-slavery rival named Akitoye. https://t.co/6x0jlsxa52

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

While some illegal trade continued in far-off regions, by the middle of the 19th-century the Atlantic slave trade was almost completely eradicated. Slavery outside the empire’s jurisdiction, however, would continue for hundreds of years in some places. https://t.co/Wniuro7ggv

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

No nation on earth did more to eliminate slavery than Britain. Though empires are often viewed as inherently tyrannical, Britain’s war on slavery shows that immense power can, in some cases, be channeled for good. https://t.co/oWhfJ7lV8i

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

Undoubtedly some terrible things were done under its rule, but Britain's success against slavery leaves one questioning whether empire *per se* is always a bad thing. Is it possible to have a benevolent empire? https://t.co/54sTYu4Opb

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

If you enjoyed this thread and would like to join the mission of promoting western tradition, kindly repost the first post (linked below) and consider following: @thinkingwest https://t.co/rmJKTYSQ1M

@thinkingwest - ThinkingWest

The British Empire was, in some ways, a force for good. In many places it occupied it: -raised the standard of living -developed infrastructure -promoted education It also single-handedly ended slavery for much of the world…🧵(thread) https://t.co/54oNhogV4I

Saved - December 25, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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I noted that slaves had certain privileges like passes to visit family, garden plots, and extra rations, which were more than many had in the 19th century. When discussing history, it's important to ask "compared to what?" Most people during that time, and even into the 20th century, lived in poor conditions. It's crucial to recognize that no group has a monopoly on suffering throughout history. We should appreciate the progress humanity has made, without exceptions.

@WanjiruNjoya - Wanjiru Njoya

"Slaves were granted passes to visit spouses, their own garden plots and the right to raise chickens, extra rations of pork, meal, and wood, Christmas and Easter holidays, cash payments for overtime, or half days on Saturdays" That's more than most people had in the 19th century

@WanjiruNjoya - Wanjiru Njoya

When you hear people complaining about history, always ask "compared to what"?

@WanjiruNjoya - Wanjiru Njoya

Always ask, "compared to what?" Most people in the 19th century, and right through the 20th century, did not live in affluent conditions. https://t.co/1rUVFoVlbv

@WanjiruNjoya - Wanjiru Njoya

No race, tribe, or nation, has a monopoly on historical suffering. We should all be grateful for human progress and for where we are now. No exceptions.

Saved - January 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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For over a decade, I've observed a narrative that paints Western civilization, particularly the U.S., as inherently flawed and destructive. The founding of America is often tied to slavery and the mistreatment of indigenous peoples. Recent catastrophic fires in Los Angeles highlight the consequences of this ideology, exacerbated by the mismanagement of leaders like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass. Their focus on social justice over effective governance has led to disastrous outcomes, including increased homelessness and crime. Ultimately, the destruction of Los Angeles reflects the failures of those who sought to dismantle what they deemed an evil civilization.

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

For more than a decade, the media, Democrats, and Hollywood have told us that Western civilization in general and the United States in particular are white supremacist, genocidal, and unsustainable. The founding of America occurred not in 1776 but rather in 1619 with the beginning of slavery, whose effects are felt more strongly than ever. The original colonies and the expansion of the Western frontier depended on the extermination of indigenous people and theft of their lands. And our crimes against nature have resulted in apocalyptic climate change, which requires radical changes to the way we live our lives. The consequences of this self-hating Woke ideology can be seen today in catastrophic fires, mass evacuations, and burned rubble of Los Angeles. So-called progressives finally achieved what they supposedly warned of but in truth wished for: the eviction of the affluent descendants of colonizers, the incineration of their homes, and the destruction of a city that, more than any other, represents our bloody history of white supremacy and conquest. I’m not suggesting that Democrats consciously sought to destroy Los Angeles. The entertainment industry professionals in Malibu, Topanga Canyon, and Pacific Palisades, who voted overwhelmingly for California’s progressive Governor, Gavin Newsom, and LA’s radical Left mayor, Karen Bass, thought they were voting for social justice and sustainability. They didn’t imagine their vote would result in their homes burning down. And yet that’s what their votes resulted in. Over the last 24 hours, the evidence of gross mismanagement and incompetence by Newsom and Bass has only grown more overwhelming. On January 2nd, a full eight days ago, the National Weather Service urgently warned of extreme fire conditions. To drive home the point, the National Weather Service’s Los Angeles office held a press briefing warning of impending catastrophe. On that day, Newsom and Bass should have called out the National Guard. They should have had planes and helicopters circling over Los Angeles spotting fires and putting them out immediately upon detecting them. They should have issued emergency warnings to residents. And they should have used various methods to spray water, including mobile sprinkler units alongside normal firefighter hoses, to wet down vulnerable areas. Instead, the following day, Karen Bass flew to Ghana on a frivolous junket. And Gavin Newsom only called out the National Guard yesterday, seven days later than he should have. In truth, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Newsom and Bass should have constructed two to three times more water reservoirs than Los Angeles has in order to deal with fires of that magnitude. Newsom and Bass should have not only built water recycling and desalination plants, like they have in Israel, they should have built them with excess capacity so that, in an emergency, those plants could have pumped fresh water to supplement the water in the reservoirs. And instead of emptying the prisons and jails, subsidizing rampant homelessness, eliminating penalties for breaking the law, and allowing addicts the mentally ill to camp everywhere and start fires, Newsom and Bass should have cracked down on the rampant disorder and violent crime, all of which has skyrocketed under their misrule. It now appears that at least one of the fires was started by a homeless man. Whether or not that’s the case, over half of all fires put out by the Los Angeles Fire Department are started by the homeless, which has diverted the agency from doing what it should have been doing, which was preventing catastrophic fires, including by putting them out as soon as they started. Why didn’t they? Why did Newsom and Bass make so many catastrophic errors? Part of the reason is that they are self-centered and craven politicians, typical of the people who hold office in California. They claim to care about society’s victims; in truth, they care only about themselves and their self-image. Newsom, Bass, and other California politicians are uninterested in doing a good job and instead obsessed with their own personal promotion. For that reason, they have long been focused like a laser on playing politics rather than governing effectively. Another reason is that they are beholden to affluent, radical Left environmentalist and social justice donors who live in places like Marin County and Hollywood. These are the same people who bankroll radical Left groups like the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council, who have successfully blocked desalination and water storage plants, the proper clearing of flammable debris in forests, and effective management of landscapes around housing development, for over 45 years. Before that, the same groups and financial interests halted the expansion of nuclear power, which is the perfect energy source for desalination. And these are the same people who demanded that homeless encampments be allowed to spread throughout the city and that addicts and the mentally ill be given free housing with no strings attached. All of these things were done in the name of saving the environment, social justice, and saving black lives. The result of them was the destruction of the environment, grotesque injustice, and the disproportionate loss of black lives, including from violent crime, which increased 15% since Newsom took office and grew to be 31% higher than the national average. For decades, Hollywood cranked out movies and TV depicting the exhaustion of natural resources and climate as causing the apocalypse. Yesterday, some reporters and scientists blamed climate change for the lack of rain in LA. That’s ridiculous. There's no trend in annual rainfall from 1877 to 2024. We have wet years and dry years. Destroying civilization turned out to be expensive, not cheap. Californians pay the highest taxes for the most expensive gasoline, electricity, and water in the nation. Under Newsom, we spent $24 billion to increase homelessness by 40%. Both ancient wisdom and modern psychology teach us that one can understand a person’s motivation by the consequences of their actions. California’s Democrats, progressives, and politicians lied when they said their highest priority was protecting the people of California. They lied when they said they cared about social justice. And they lied when they said they cared about protecting the environment. Instead, what they cared about was destroying the civilization they had long ago decided was evil. All civilizations require a story. The story that built Los Angeles and California was one of human progress. The story that destroyed it was of human sin. For decades, progressives, Democrats, and the news and entertainment media preached that civilization was evil and doomed. Slavery, indigenous genocide, and climate change were proof. And now, as the city of angels smolders, it’s clear that progressives reaped what they sowed.

Video Transcript AI Summary
For over a decade, the narrative has been that Western civilization, particularly the U.S., is rooted in white supremacy and environmental destruction. The consequences of this ideology are evident in the catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, which many attribute to the mismanagement of leaders like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass. Despite warnings from the National Weather Service about extreme fire conditions, timely action was not taken. Instead, leaders prioritized personal agendas and political correctness over effective governance. Environmental policies have hindered necessary infrastructure, leading to increased homelessness and crime, which contribute to fire risks. The narrative of civilization being evil has resulted in real-world destruction, revealing that the very policies intended to promote social justice and environmental protection have led to greater harm. The situation in Los Angeles exemplifies the failure of these progressive ideals.
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Speaker 0: Hey, everybody. It's Mike Shellenberger for Public. For more than a decade, the news media, democrats, and Hollywood have told us that Western civilization in general and the United States in particular are white supremacist, genocidal, and unsustainable. The founding of America occurred not in 17/76, but rather in 16/19 with the beginning of slavery whose effects are felt more strongly than ever. The original colonies and the expansion of the western frontier depended on the extermination of indigenous people and the theft of their lands. And our crimes against nature have resulted in apocalyptic climate change, which requires radical changes to the way we live our lives. The consequences of this self hating woke ideology can be seen today in the catastrophic fires, mass evacuations, and burned rubble of Los Angeles. So called progressives finally achieved what they supposedly had warned of but in reality had wished for, the eviction of the affluent descendants of colonizers, the incineration of their homes and the destruction of a city that more than any other represents our bloody history of white supremacy and conquest. Now I'm not suggesting that democrats consciously sought to destroy Los Angeles. The entertainment industry professionals who lived in places like Malibu, Topanga Canyon, and Pacific Palisades, who voted overwhelmingly for California's progressive governor, Gavin Newsom, and for LA's radical left mayor, Karen Bass, thought they were voting for social justice and sustainability. They didn't imagine that their vote would result in their homes burning down. And yet that's exactly what their votes resulted in. Over the last 24 hours, the evidence of gross mismanagement and incompetence by both Newsom and Bass has only grown more overwhelming. On January 2nd, a full 8 days ago, the National Weather Service urgently warned of extreme fire conditions. To drive home the point, the National Weather Service's Los Angeles office held a briefing warning of impending catastrophe. On that day, Newsom and Bass should have called out the National Guard. They should have had planes and helicopters circling over Los Angeles, spotting fires and putting them out immediately upon detecting them. They should have issued emergency warnings to residents, particularly those in vulnerable areas. And they should have used various methods to spray water, including mobile sprinkler units alongside normal firefighting to wet down the vulnerable areas. Instead, the following day, Karen Bass flew to Ghana on a frivolous junket, and Gavin Newsom only called out the National Guard yesterday, 7 days later than he should have. In truth, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Newsom and Bass should have constructed 2 to 3 times more water reservoirs than Los Angeles has in order to deal with fires of that magnitude. Newsom and Bass should have not only built water recycling and desalination plants like they have in Israel, they should have built them with excess capacity so that in an emergency, those plants could have pumped significantly more fresh water to supplement the water in the reservoirs. And instead of emptying the prisons and jails, subsidizing rampant homelessness, eliminating penalties for breaking the law, and allowing addicts, the mentally ill, and others to camp everywhere and start fires, Newsom and Bass should have cracked down on the rampant disorder and violent crime, all of which have skyrocketed under their misrule. It now appears that at least one of the fires was started by a homeless man. And whether or not that proves to be the case, over half of all fires put out by the LA Fire Department are started by the homeless, which has diverted the agency from doing what it should have been doing, which was to prevent catastrophic fires, including by putting them out as soon as they start. Fires including by putting them out as soon as they start. So why didn't they? Why did Newsom and Bass make so many catastrophic errors? Well, part of the reason is that they are self centered and craven politicians. They're typical of the people who hold office in California. They claim to care about society's victims. In truth, they care only about themselves and their self image. Newsom, Bass, and other California politicians are uninterested in doing a good job and instead are obsessed with their own personal careers and promotions. For that reason, they've been focused like a laser on playing politics rather than on governing. Now, another reason is that they're beholden to affluent radical left environmentalists and social justice donors who live in places like Marin County and Hollywood. These are the same people who bankroll radical left groups like the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council and who have successfully blocked desalination and water storage plants, the proper clearing of flammable debris in forests, and the effective management of landscapes around housing development for over 45 years. Before that, the same groups and financial interests had halted the expansion of nuclear power, which is the perfect energy source for desalination. These are the same people who demanded that homeless encampments be allowed to spread throughout the city and that addicts and the mentally ill be given free housing with no strings attached. All of these things were done in the name of saving the environment, of social justice, and of saving black lives. The result was the destruction of the environment, grotesque injustice, and the disproportionate loss of black lives including from violent crime which increased 15% since Newsom took office and grew to be 31% higher than the national average. For decades, Hollywood has cranked out movies and television depicting the exhaustion of natural resources and climate change as causing an apocalypse. Yesterday, some reporters and scientists blamed climate change for the lack of rain in LA. That is ridiculous. There is no trend in annual rainfall from 18/77 to 20 24. We have wet years and dry years. Destroying civilization in this way turned out to be expensive, not cheap. Californians pay the highest taxes for the most expensive gasoline, electricity, and water in the nation. Under Newsom, we spent 24,000,000,000 to increase homelessness by 40%. Both ancient wisdom and modern psychology teach us that one can understand a person's motivation by the consequences of their actions. California's Democrats, progressives, and politicians lied when they said their highest priority was protecting the people of California. They lied when they said they cared about social justice. And they lied when they said they cared about protecting the environment. Instead, what they cared about was destroying the civilization they had long ago decided was evil. All civilizations require a story. The story that built Los Angeles in California was one of human progress. The story that's destroyed it is one of human sin. For decades, progressives, Democrats, the news and entertainment media preached that civilization was evil and doomed. Slavery, indigenous genocide, and climate change were proof. And now as the city of angels smolders, it's clear that progressives have reaped what they sowed. Thanks for listening.
Saved - April 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM

@JohnStossel - John Stossel

In schools, students are now taught that Native Americans were peaceful. Then uniquely evil Europeans arrived. Political Science professor (@wil_da_beast630) says it’s Marxism’s fault! Karl Marx IS the most assigned economist in today’s colleges. https://t.co/uDUU8iRbfG

Video Transcript AI Summary
Political science professor Wilfred Riley's new book, "Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me," challenges the romanticized view of Native Americans as peaceful stewards of the environment. He argues that government guides and textbooks falsely portray natives as living in harmony with nature, not killing anything they couldn't use. Riley claims this is untrue, citing examples of buffalo hunts, tribal warfare, and even cannibalism. The transcript asserts that Native Americans also practiced slavery and manipulated their environment through large-scale forest fires. It suggests that the myth of peaceful natives persists due to a "brain virus" among those who want the myth to be real and that this thinking is downstream from Marxism and critical race theory. The transcript concludes by stating that America's sins were not unique and that the West has led the world in making things better, lifting people out of poverty, and protecting the environment.
Full Transcript
Speaker 0: Some people have a deep abiding respect for the natural beauty that was once this country. Speaker 1: Americans are taught that the people who once lived in what we now call America were stewards of the environment. They had An ancient respect and connection to the land and water. Disney movies made that their message. I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has Speaker 0: a name. No. Speaker 2: I don't I don't think native American hunters gave names to every rabbit in the woods around them. No. That's not that's not a real thing that happened. Speaker 1: Political science professor Wilfred Riley's new book is Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me. Speaker 2: We've gone into almost this cult like romanticization of the natives who were great warriors and poets, but, I mean, who hunted buffalo by driving herds of them off of 100 foot tall cliffs. Speaker 1: Yet government guides for teachers say Native Americans lived in harmony with nature. There was love of every form of life. They didn't kill anything they couldn't use. Speaker 2: That's just objectively untrue. I mean, that would mean no young male warrior, no brave ever killed for sport. I mean, that's we just know that's false. Speaker 1: I heard that. I believed it. Speaker 2: Well, I believed it too because I was 8. Speaker 1: The best selling book, Lies My Teacher Told Taught Me, loved by teachers and students alike. Riley's new book is a response to this hugely popular book. It correctly points out that American textbooks and media portrayed Columbus simply as a hero. Speaker 0: Let go. Let go. Arrive for admiral Columbus. Speaker 1: Textbooks ignored Columbus's brutality and enslavement of Indians. Columbus himself wrote about his slaves saying, Indians make all our food, extract gold from the mines, and perform all other labors. The book was valid, right, with the kids were being taught at Columbus. It's wonderful. Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think your focus should be white and native atrocities against one another in a 6th grade class. Speaker 1: Today, students are rarely taught that natives also took slaves and considered them objects of wealth. Speaker 2: The morality of today didn't exist anywhere in the world until about 60 years ago. Speaker 1: White people did murder the natives cruelly. What what's the harm in sending a counter message? Speaker 2: You don't need a counter message. No one denies that whites and native Americans killed each other. Sure. In 1970, in some southern schools, people might have been taught a jingoistic view of American history, but the the reverse has been true for 40 years. Speaker 1: He says the old myths don't justify nuance like the one spread by today's social media influencers. Speaker 2: We know firsthand how to live in harmony with the natural world. In fact, we did so since time in memorial. Speaker 1: In reality, natives manipulated their environment. To make farming easier, they set big forest fires to clear land. Speaker 2: Giant forest fires. You're you're burning alive hundreds of thousands of small animals, slower running deer. You're probably killing members of other tribes. You're you're modifying the environment more bluntly. US government curriculum guides also claimed There was no prejudice, no major wars. Nonsensical. In the Aztec capital, there were 90 foot towers of human skulls that were brought back from their defeated enemies. Speaker 1: Some tribes even practiced cannibalism, eating enemies they killed. But still I cannot see if the savage one is me. Yet the myth of peaceful natives lives on. You don't know. Speaker 2: You're looking at people saying the absolute opposite of reality. When myths persist despite obvious objective reality, that's an indicator of a kind of brain virus among people who want the myth to be real. Speaker 1: Why does the myth of peaceful, harmonious living among Indians versus uniquely evil oppression by Europeans live on? All this to me is just downstream from Marxism. Marxism? Well, it is true that at colleges today, the most assigned economist, is Karl Marx. Students are taught that western values are bad. Critical race theory amplifies that. Speaker 2: White Americans have more because of racism. Critical race theory is communist theory with the rich man replaced by the white man. Speaker 1: Westerners and white people being so evil. Why is it so popular? Speaker 2: I think that a lot of rich people don't like their father. There is a lot of dislike for our society among people who are pretty near the leadership class. Speaker 1: I think the people who teach these myths mean well. They want minorities to feel included, but teachers should at least also teach that America's sins were not unique, that just about every society had slavery, cruel wars, and environmental destruction. The seldom taught good news is that in the last century, the West led the world in making things better. Speaker 2: The Geneva Convention saying that you can't abuse prisoners of war who tried to kill you, The last of those was signed in, I believe, 1949. Speaker 1: Most of the world is getting better, and the much maligned capitalist countries now are largely responsible for lifting people out of poverty and protecting the environment. They ought to teach that.
Saved - May 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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For years, a pattern has emerged where White individuals face public backlash for comments, leading to doxing and demands for apologies. However, in the case of Shiloh Hendrix, the response was different; she received overwhelming support, raising over $250,000. This marks a shift in White identity politics, moving from guilt to a collective assertion of identity and interests. As White guilt fades, a growing awareness of shared heritage and rights emerges, challenging the narrative that has long silenced this group. The future holds the potential for a renewed, unapologetic political identity.

@CCrowley100 - Chad Crowley

1/ For years, the pattern has held. A White person makes a comment, sometimes crude, sometimes merely unfashionable. A video is clipped, stripped of context, and cast into the digital coliseum. The crowd demands penance. Doxing follows. Then come the sponsors, the employers, the journalists. The result is always the same: apology, groveling, ruin. This is not justice, it never was. It is a moral spectacle, a purification ritual for the postmodern West, where the cleansing agent is White submission. The apology is not meant to be accepted, but to affirm the guilt of the group. The goal is not reconciliation, but re-education, humiliation, silence. But this time, with the case of Shiloh Hendrix, the script cracked. Her personal details were posted online. She received death threats. Her children were targeted. And yet, she did not capitulate. She did not appear on camera with quivering voice and downcast eyes. She launched a fundraiser. And White people responded. Not the media, not the institutions, not the credentialed class, but ordinary White people. Tens of thousands poured in to support her. The platform, GiveSendGo—not GoFundMe, which routinely bans dissidents—reported over $250,000 raised in days. These were not donations. These are the stirrings of something new. Each dollar said, “We see what you are doing, and we are done pretending.” This is more than a defense of one woman. It is a rejection of the moral framework that made her a target. The Hendrix affair is not the first of its kind. But it is one of the first to end differently. No apology. No resignation. No collapse. Instead: resistance. And that, more than anything else, signals a shift. The ritual is breaking. And with it, the spell of White guilt.

@CCrowley100 - Chad Crowley

2/ White guilt was never a natural sentiment; no people naturally hate themselves or push for their own demographic extinction. It did not emerge organically from conscience or history. It was manufactured, ritualized, and weaponized. It was imposed from above by alien elites who seized control of the institutions of education, media, and culture, and rewrote morality to make one group, the White population, the permanent villain in its own homeland. From the youngest age, White children are taught to associate their identity with conquest, slavery, cruelty, and destruction. They are told to dissociate from their own heritage, to feel shame for the achievements of their ancestors, to distrust their instincts, and to question the legitimacy of their very existence. They are instructed to love all others, but never themselves. This is not ethics. It is psychological warfare. And like all systems built on repression, it only works if it remains unquestioned. The moment it is challenged, seriously, openly, defiantly, it begins to fall apart. The power of White guilt lies in silence, not argument. Once someone says aloud, “I do not feel guilty,” the illusion weakens for everyone else. That is what the Hendrix fundraiser represents. Not a defense of one person, but a refusal to obey the narrative. It is one thing to quietly disagree with the orthodoxy. It is another to act on that disagreement. The act of giving money in defiance of the media’s command is a political gesture far more radical than voting. It is an act of moral rejection. And tens of thousands just performed it. This would have been unthinkable a decade ago. Even five years ago, the weight of institutional guilt still compelled submission. But something has changed. The spell is weakening. The repetition no longer works. The words no longer bind. The system still speaks in the language of shame, but fewer and fewer are listening. The idea that Whites must apologize for existing is no longer sacred. It is simply absurd. And once absurdity is exposed, mockery follows. Then rejection. Then reversal. We are witnessing the early stages of that reversal.

@CCrowley100 - Chad Crowley

3/ When guilt dies, politics begins. The moral paralysis ends. The silence breaks. And what replaces it is not chaos, but clarity. Once Whites stop apologizing for who they are, they begin to ask the forbidden questions. Who benefits from our shame? Who profits from our dispossession? Why are we the only people on Earth forbidden to speak in our own name? White identity politics is the answer to those questions. It is not supremacy. It is not hatred. It is not a call to dominate others. It is simply the political expression of collective interest. Every other group has it. Every other group is allowed it. Only Whites are told that to speak as a group is to commit a crime. But the spell is fading, and with it, the power of that prohibition. Once the guilt disappears, it becomes obvious. We are a people. We have a shared past, a shared destiny, a right to exist and a right to continue existing. We are not just individuals with private lives. We are part of a greater whole. And like all peoples, we have interests that must be protected. This is why White identity politics is inevitable. In any multiracial society, politics becomes tribal. Interests diverge. Groups form. Coalitions compete. The only people told to sit out this contest are Whites. The only people who believe they can remain neutral are those still under the spell. But neutrality is a luxury of those not under attack. That time is over. Every institution in the West now operates openly against the long-term interests of Whites. From immigration to education to media representation to the redefinition of national identity, every policy moves in one direction, toward our reduction, our silencing, our replacement. To oppose this is not extremism. It is survival. It is not radical to defend what every group defends by instinct. It is only considered radical because the system has criminalized our normality. But that is changing. Each time someone like Hendrix refuses to collapse, each time the crowd responds with support instead of shame, the political ground shifts. The taboo weakens. The future opens. What comes next is not a return to the past, but the forging of something new, an explicit, unapologetic, and moral politics of White identity.

@CCrowley100 - Chad Crowley

4/ What happened with Shiloh Hendrix is not an isolated moment. It is part of a larger pattern, one that grows stronger with each passing year. In case after case, when Whites are smeared, vilified, or threatened, the response is no longer retreat. It is support. It is solidarity. It is an instinctive, growing resolve to take our own side. We saw it with the Covington boys, when a group of Catholic school students were slandered across every major news outlet for a crime they did not commit. The footage was selectively edited, the truth buried, the children’s faces splashed across the internet as villains of the week. And yet the response was not surrender. It was a legal counterstrike and eventual vindication. We saw it with Kyle Rittenhouse, who was hunted across every media platform as a domestic terrorist, despite clear video evidence of self-defense. He was doxed, threatened, and prosecuted. But millions supported him. Donations poured in. The truth won in court, and more importantly, it won in the minds of countless Americans who saw what the system really is. We saw it again when corporate giants like Bud Light and Target made open mockery of the cultural and sexual values of the American heartland. The response was not just outrage, it was organized, economic retaliation. Boycotts worked. Stocks dropped. Executives panicked. In every case, something important happened. Whites, once atomized and demoralized, began to show signs of collective nerve. They acted in defense of their own, even if they could not always articulate why. They stopped backing down. They stopped assuming they were guilty. They started pushing back. This is the slow emergence of White political consciousness. Not yet unified, not yet fully articulate, but undeniably present. It no longer takes manifestos or movements to activate it. A single slandered face, a single act of defiance, is enough. And each time it happens, the reflex strengthens. These reactions are not driven by ideology. They are driven by instinct, tribal, ancestral, moral. They are not about hate. They are about loyalty. They are about fairness. They are about survival. What we are witnessing is not a backlash. It is an awakening.

@CCrowley100 - Chad Crowley

5/ White identity politics is not just strategic. It is not merely a reaction to demographic decline or institutional hostility. It is rooted in something deeper, something moral. At its heart is the principle that every people has the right to exist, the right to continuity, the right to its own space in the world. To say that Whites have collective interests is not to deny the same of others. It is to affirm the most basic moral symmetry. What is legitimate for everyone else is legitimate for us. No more, no less. Love of one’s own is not a sin. It is the foundation of every functioning society. It begins in the family. No decent father loves the neighbor’s child more than his own. No sane mother sacrifices her child’s future for the approval of strangers. What is natural at the familial level is no less natural at the national or civilizational level. The same moral instinct that binds a parent to a child also binds a people to its heritage. To defend your nation, your culture, your memory, is not selfish. It is sacred. And yet this basic moral code has been inverted. We are told that to love our own is exclusionary, that to preserve our culture is oppressive, that to secure our future is an act of violence. But only White people are told this. No one lectures the Chinese about ethnonational continuity. No one tells Africans that tribal loyalty is backward. No one scolds Jews for preserving their identity. The taboo is selective. The double standard is absolute. That is why the system is unsustainable. It demands that Whites abandon instincts that every other group is allowed to honor. It demands that we surrender the very morality we are told to uphold. But real morality does not require self-abolition. Real morality is rooted in order, loyalty, and the defense of one’s own. The deeper we dig, the more clearly we see, White identity politics is not a threat to moral order. It is a return to it.

@CCrowley100 - Chad Crowley

6/ White guilt is dying. The institutions still speak its language, but the people no longer believe. The slogans ring hollow. The shame has worn thin. More and more, the system demands apology and receives only silence. Or resistance. Or laughter. What rises in its place is not bitterness. It is clarity. White identity is legitimate. White interests are real. White survival is non-negotiable. These are not radical claims. They are foundational truths, long suppressed, now returning to the surface. No society can endure without some form of identity. No people can endure without some form of pride. This is not about nostalgia. It is not about restoring the world of yesterday. That world is gone. What remains is the task of building something new, something rooted in memory but aimed at the future. A politics not of apology, but of affirmation. Not of resentment, but of renewal. The rise of White identity politics is not a threat to others. It is a restoration of balance. It is the correction of a moral distortion that demanded one people dissolve itself for the comfort of all others. That era is ending. And the signs are everywhere. In every boycott. In every defiant fundraiser. In every quiet conversation that dares to name what cannot be named. There is a growing majority, not yet organized, not yet fully conscious, but already forming. The next political realignment will not be between Left and Right. It will be between those who kneel and those who stand. And we are learning to stand. We do not ask permission. We do not beg for place. We are not going anywhere. The future belongs to those who know who they are.

@CCrowley100 - Chad Crowley

7/ A Link to the Shiloh Hendrix Fundraiser: https://www.givesendgo.com/ShilohHendrix

Help Me Protect My Family Hello!My name is Shiloh and I have been put into a very dire situation. I recently had a kid steal from my 18month old sons diaper bag at a park. I called th... givesendgo.com

@CCrowley100 - Chad Crowley

8/ An Interrelated Essay: You cannot care for nature while condemning the only people who ever made it sacred. You cannot fight for animals while erasing the civilization that protected them first. https://t.co/KmMIoFHalH

@CCrowley100 - Chad Crowley

Animal rights. Environmental protection. The defense of nature. These causes did not emerge from a vacuum. They are the product of a specific people, with a specific soul: ours. It was Europeans who created national parks, outlawed cruelty to animals, and wrote laws to preserve forests and rivers. We looked at the natural world not as something to exploit endlessly, but as something sacred. This was not, and is not, universal. It is a product of us. What happens when that people dies? You get the image below, and countless others: a wild animal, lit on fire for amusement. No honor. No awe. No restraint. Just impulse, sadism, laughter, and degeneracy. That is not civilization. That is the return of a mindless barbarism, and it is what replaces us. Environmentalism today is often used against us. We are told to lower our birthrates, stop eating meat, give up land, and reduce our carbon footprint, while billions elsewhere multiply, pollute, consume, and swarm into our homelands. The people who created environmental ethics are now told to destroy themselves in the name of it. There is no environmentalism without Europeans. There are no animal rights without Western values. Without us, the world reverts to fire and blood — not in the noble sense of survival, but in the ugly sense of waste. It becomes a world ruled by peoples unworthy of the role we once held: stewards of the planet, for ourselves and for our posterity. Those who pretend to care about animals while undermining the people who built sanctuaries, protected habitats, and passed anti-cruelty laws are liars. You cannot preserve nature while destroying the only people and the only civilization that ever truly defended it. The cause of the earth and the cause of our people are not separate. They are the same. No White survival, no environmentalism. No White survival, no animal rights. No memory, no forest, no future. If we fall, the last defenders of the beauty of the natural world fall with us.

@CCrowley100 - Chad Crowley

9/ The morality of White identity https://t.co/EPFHghh85p

@CCrowley100 - Chad Crowley

White identity is not a political issue. It is a moral issue. Until we understand this, and convey it without hesitation, every attempt to defend ourselves will be misunderstood, misrepresented, or ignored. Politics deals with power. Morality deals with what is right. What is just. What is owed. If we frame the question of White existence as one of political expediency or demographic utility, we will always be outflanked by those who speak in the name of justice, however falsely. But if we make clear that White identity politics is not a tool for gaining influence, but a moral reaction to an immoral condition, we take the ground back from those who built their entire system on stolen terms. The lie of modern liberalism is not only that race does not matter, but that it is wrong, morally wrong, for Whites to care about themselves. That lie is enforced through a thousand channels, from media to education to law, and always under the same inverted logic: any assertion of White group interest is treated as aggression, while every other group’s assertion of interest is treated as defense. In such a world, every group is allowed to speak in the name of its identity, to express grievance, to demand recognition. Only Whites are taught to say, “I don't see color.” The result is not colorblindness. It is moral disarmament. The regime does not suppress identity politics. It mandates them, but only for those whose identities are defined by opposition to Whiteness. The moral code is rigged from the start. This is not speculation. It is happening now. The latest birth statistics make it plain: in vast regions of the country, Whites are no longer the majority of the next generation. The numbers do not lie. They tell a story of displacement, of replacement, and of the erasure of a people who are being told they have no right to resist. But morality, if it means anything, cannot be one-sided. If it is wrong for one people to be displaced, then it is wrong for any people to be displaced. If it is good for one group to preserve its culture, language, faith, and posterity, then it is good for all groups to do so. Any moral system that denies this is not morality at all. It is a justification for power. A mask. White identity politics, in its clearest and most honest form, is nothing more than the refusal to be the one group excluded from moral consideration. It is the recognition that we have the same right to exist as anyone else, and that our children are not less worthy of protection, our culture not less worthy of memory, our people not less worthy of a future. This is not about supremacy. It is about survival. It is not about domination. It is about dignity. When a people says, “We will not be replaced,” it is not a threat to others. It is a promise to itself. It is a moral affirmation of being. The question we must ask is not whether White identity politics is popular, or palatable, or good strategy in the short term. The question is whether it is right. And the answer is that it is. There is no higher cause than the defense of one’s own people from dispossession. The family is moral. The tribe is moral. The nation is moral. All of them are expressions of loyalty, rooted in love, sustained through sacrifice. To say that we care for our own first is not a declaration of hate, but the most basic, natural, and universal expression of moral life. Even animals understand this. Even children understand this. Only modern ideologues pretend not to. And they do so only to weaken those they wish to dissolve. What we are facing is not mere demographic change. It is a moral assault on the right to exist. The slander of White identity is not a critique of ideas. It is an attack on being. It tells us that our past is shameful, our future unnecessary, our pride dangerous, our memory criminal. It tells us to accept dispossession with grace, to smile as we vanish, to thank those who have built a system to replace us. No other people is asked to do this. No other people would accept it if they were. To reject this is not a matter of politics. It is not left or right. It is not radical or moderate. It is a matter of moral sanity. If it is right to defend one’s home, then it is right to defend one’s homeland. If it is right to raise one’s children with a sense of belonging, then it is right to preserve the identity in which that belonging makes sense. White identity politics, in its truest form, is the application of normal moral principles to the one group now denied them. We will never win on borrowed terms. We will never be persuasive if we speak like cowards. We will never hold ground if we concede the moral high ground from the start. That is why the first task is not strategy, not slogans, not policy. It is to remember what is right. It is to say, without fear, that we exist. That we matter. That we will not apologize for existing. And that no people who wishes to survive should ever be made to. We are not wrong for taking our own side. We are not wrong for refusing to be dissolved. And we are not wrong for calling this what it is: a moral issue. Our enemies will call it hate. But hate is not the opposite of love. Apathy is. And we are not apathetic. We are awake. We are committed. And we are right.

Saved - July 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM

@elonmusk - Elon Musk

Slavery was standard practice throughout Earth until it was almost entirely ended principally by Anglo-American forces in the 19th and 20th centuries. Slavery still exists in some parts of the world btw. I’m not suggesting Britain was purely angelic, but, nonetheless, this is true.

@elonmusk - Elon Musk

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Saved - August 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
I've been translating a manifesto that reveals disturbing thoughts and plans for violence. The author details their intentions to attack a school, expressing excitement about the potential for chaos and harm. They describe meticulous planning, including reconnaissance and weapon preparation, while grappling with feelings of despair and nihilism. The posts reflect a deep-seated anger towards various groups and a desire for notoriety through violence. The tone is dark, filled with self-loathing and a longing for destruction, revealing a troubled mindset.

@FrancisAaronUK - FRANCIS AARON

THE MINNESOTA SHOOTER'S Manifesto. THREAD. I have started translating BOOK 3 of the manifesto. It is a blue notebook, with a red sticker on the cover saying ‘Where’s the hash?’ On the inside of the cover, there is a sticker with the Transgender Progress flag, an AK-47, and the words ‘Defend Equality’ plastered on it. There is also a sticker for KMFDM, a rock band, who have songs titled ‘Megalomaniac’, ‘Stray Bullet’, and ‘Professional Killer’.

@FrancisAaronUK - FRANCIS AARON

Page 1. 07.19.25 [Let’s get this chariot in motion!] Part 3! Well… welcome to part.. three or whatever. Things are swiftly moving into place. I am feeling good about Annunciation. It seems like a good combo of easy attack for me, and devastating tragedy, and I want to do more research. I have concerns about finding a large enough group. I want to avoid any parents, no pre or post-school pickup/dropoff. I think parents are super likely to have a gun or attack me with scary ferocity. Maybe I could attack an event at the on-site church. The gym at the school is in the basement so that’s not an option. A Christmas concert at the church would be packed with kids, but also parents. I think my plan of attacking a large group of kids coming in from recess is my best plan. Then from there I can go inside and kill going for as long as I can. I just have no idea how many kids are out for recess at one time. I know recon on that place is going to be near impossible. I bet those staff members and neighbours are very watchful of their area. – to know, I bet I can see the playground from the Autozone parking lot! That means I will have to wait for school to start :I That’s ok, it’s only a few months. If I time it right, I could be able to catch that big assembly on the first day of school! I think that is a bit too risky though. Since everyone is outside, it would be very fast, how quickly everyone would disperse. I think I would wait, do some recon, and make sure this place is worth attacking. I think I will go on 1 normal school day to Autozone and see how many people are in the playground area. First I will need to pretend I am fixing my car so I can see when they have recess even. Then I can see the count and feel the vibe. We shall see.

@FrancisAaronUK - FRANCIS AARON

Page 2. Monday, August 25th is their first day of school. I wonder if there is any staff there who would remember me. I didn’t ever think I would actually shoot that place up! On the day, I would park at Autozone and feel it out, then drive around the block, on Garfield Avenue into the lot to begin my attack. When going inside, don’t even give an heroes the chance to rush you. Start pre-firing before you round corners. Shoot through closed doors before using them. Shoot through walls and windows. That’s the beauty of it all. Police and good guys have to hesitate and confirm their target. I get to shoot whoever the fuck I want! Have fun! I drove by Annunciation today. I parked at Autozone and I could not see the recess area from the parking lot. I want to do a closer look at the place. See if there are any new features that could be relevant. I saw today, that there is a new fence on the north side. Doesn’t change my plans but it could trap more people! *Devious face* Sometime I want to skateboard through the parking lot to do some recon. If I get asked, I can just say I used to go to school there and am just passing through not meaning any harm. I talked with my papa tonight about borrowing a few thousand to help me for a bit. He agreed, so I should be all set. I just wish I didn’t have to lie to him or take his money. Tracy told me I seemed “serene”. She is for sure reading my aura. I do exhibit the calm and serenity that a suicidal person has. I know my problems won’t bother me much longer. But goddamn did I have to bullshit and lie. I had to just say I was very hopeful about the future, which I am, just not in the way I have led you to believe. I am hopeful, I do have plans, but I don’t think you will ever expect my steps.

@FrancisAaronUK - FRANCIS AARON

Page 3. The date 07.20.25 is in the top left of page 3, with the words ‘Help me’ written at the top of the page, and then a dispirited face and a drawing of what looks to be some sort of alien raygun. God they got me on cashier duty again. Today is going to be a shit day. I just need that money from my papa, then I can quit. Fuck this place. They are lucky this place is so secure. Opening day of rec would have this place PACKED with idiots. At least Ryan is here so I can chat with him. I feel like shit all the time. I think my apartment [bom andiya] needs to be tweaked a bit. I think it worked for Sapirman because he started his attack mere moments after leaving. I will have to drive and maybe do some scouting for a bit. Instead of turning the oven on max, I would put it on the lowest heat to buy myself as much time as I can. I am sure it will still blow up the oven eventually. I just would hate for it to explode before I start the attack, and now I have police looking for me before I even begin. *STAR* Mind blank, head empty. Full dark, no stars. I am rotten, broken. I am on a mission. My clock is ticking. You can’t stop me. I am already dead. A still breathing corpse. I wish I hadn’t been born. I am a mistake, a curse on the world. A mar on history. Shoot me dead, you motherfuckers. I want my damn AR. I live in pain, give me the kiss of death. Help! Wow… I just learned the story of John Earnest. It’s a shame more Jew-fags didn’t die. Only one. What an idiot! And of course, who is surprised the Jew-fag running the synagogue was… being a Jew and stealing tons of money. The jokes write themselves. I think white supremacists are idiots. You are not your ancestors, they did that, not you! You are an empty shell, clinging onto your bloodland

@FrancisAaronUK - FRANCIS AARON

Page 4. At the top of the page is a drawing of an AK, and next to it written: “I want to kill kids! For fun!” because you have nothing to claim for yourself. This pussy bitch couldn’t even get through one magazine. Haha I am drunk! I just stabbed my other journal. That shit went deep! Haha. Fuck you niggers. Eat shit! Active shooter drills are useful. I am glad there are so many videos on them that I can watch. Lessons I have learned from them so far: pre-fire around every corner you go through. Shoot through the wall even, to make sure heroes can’t rush you. Shoot through any door and the walls next to it before going through. Lights off means there is definitely an entire class hiding in there. If you can’t get into a classroom, shoot through the wall, right above the ground to get anyone laying down or crouching. If someone grabs the rifle, let them take it, and immediately draw your pistol and clip them before they can use it against you, then reclaim the rifle. I want to practice some force-on-force training, practice regaining control of my weapon if someone tries to struggle with me. I feel like I could practice that with Joe, but I would need to word my request correctly to avoid any suspicion. I should get some armour-penetrating rounds for the rifle to make shure I can shoot through walls and lockers. Shoot into every room, even if targets are not present. Desks and tables will not stop bullets. Shoot through them, don’t give them a chance to rush you. Only reload when you are aware of your surroundings, don’t get caught with an empty gun. Practice reloads. Practice clipping jams. Practice, practice, practice!

@FrancisAaronUK - FRANCIS AARON

Page 5. In the top left is the date 07.21.25. At the top right of the page is written ‘Jews are the problem.’ There is what looks to be a swastika that has been crossed out, and next to it is written ‘It’s all the same.’ The writing begins with a Russian expletive. This is a common phrase which basically means ‘Fucking hell!’, and is used to express a shitty situation. The shooter has misspelt the first word in Russian. The shooter’s nihilism here creeps forth here, and then segues into a rant about his ‘weeb’ friends. Nahoy pizdets (Fucking hell!). I am… what? What? Nothing. I have nothing to say that I haven’t said one hundred times before. Fuck you all. Life is pain. Put me to sleep. I am the problem. My problems are my own, but I will still unleash my anger on the world. I want to shoot a lot of kids. I am sad I won’t ever know the high score I will get, but I hope my numbers will inspire those like me to train and beat my score! Good luck! Tragedy, suffering, pain, and despair. Feel my heart. My family knows I am in pain, but their efforts to reach out annoy me. I feel too much obligation to be a normal, good person. I am sick of having to lie about having plans for the future. I have plans, just very short-term ones. I just can’t wait to die. Nahodi (Find) Fuck off Andy. Kill yourself, I have goals. Lmao rant as I wrote that, my coworkers 6 and Andy were making jokes about being suicidal and basically said exactly what I just wrote. I have to leave the room. I was going to snap! Fuck, nigga… I don’t want to go to Mankato with Abbie. I couldn’t give a fuck about your friends. I hate you all. I don’t want to fucking drive. I don’t want to waste my free time on this bullshit. I don’t want to keep burdening Martha with needing her to feed Abbie’s stupid cat. It’s always on me to find arrangements because Abbie is too stupid to figure it out for themself. I am sick of taking care of this baby. These are not my people. I hate these weeb freaks. Lee is a sad, awkward pussy boy. And his boyfriend is a fat Jew-fag. The sushi at the restaurant was mid. The beer and miso soup were the best things there LMAO!

@FrancisAaronUK - FRANCIS AARON

Page 6. 07.22.25 I hate these niggas, man! I just want to go home, LOL. Last night when we were drunk, we were talking about dreaming and what we would do in a lucid dream. Then all said some stupid Steven Universe shit, in my head, I thought of getting a Gundam suit or some kind of Mech suit and go on a rampage haha. I kept that part to myself lol. I can’t wait to kill. I am ready to die. Nothing excites me anymore save for thinking of killing and death. I feel like I want to cheat on Abi just to feel something. I hate that stupid bitch. I don’t care if they catch me. I want to bring them pain. I be talking to some “massage therapist” on Craigslist just to feel something. Idc (I don’t care) if I will meet any though. I don’t want to get robbed or stabbed before my attack lol. But yes, I might try to get a “massage” haha. I just want to hurt Abi in that way. The same when they left me sexually broken. I am a freak. I like BDSM and all kinds of weird shit. I am not afraid of anyone finding out what I have all done. When you find out, I will already be dead, and my act of violence will be far more egregious than any weird sex act I did. I don’t care anymore. I just want to die. I have two or three guns ready, and I have a target that seems hopeful. Annunication should be a good place to attack. Nigga, if I had a huge Mech suit, I would go full-on Woo Bum-Kon* mode and go city to city, killing as many people as I can before the army has to blow me up! Feel my rounds of twenty-millimetre anti-material cannons. Run from my Bunker Buster missile. Catch my cluster bomb! But no, I am a mere mortal. I will do whatever I can! Notes: *Woo Bum-Kon was a South Korean killer who murdered 56 in a mass shooting in 1982.

@FrancisAaronUK - FRANCIS AARON

Page 7. Where the shooter gives his views on the various peoples of the world, and then considers doing mushrooms: I think I am not your average racist lmao. I am for sure not a white supremacist. White people have always been problem makers. I just have racist feelings for most people of colour. One of the few brown people I have respect for are Native Americans. I am impressed by them or… what they were. Now they are all free-loading drunks but in their prime, when they ruled America, I am a fan of their ways. I respect Native people, where they are supposed to be, in their best eras. The prowess and skill of Native American hunters, the resourcefulness of the Aboriginals, the persistence of the Sentinelese. I like these groups in a vacuum. As soon as they integrate with the white man, problems emerge. Don’t build a mosque in a place called “Christchurch”! Stay in your tents in the desert you dirty sand niggers. We need to put a huge fence around Africa to keep the plague of niggers from integrating into the world lol. Stop coming into our communities. Half of the employees at the sushi place last night were filthy lil Indians and Pajeets. Don’t belong there. Fuck haha. Maybe I am a racist motherfucker. Also, bomb Israel! I am so tired. I need these faggots to wake up so we can hurry up and live. I hate waking up at someone’s house and there is nowhere to sit and chill without bothering or waking anyone. At least I can sit outside here and write. I feel like I am in a theatre though haha. I am surrounded by apartment windows, being watched maybe. Watch out! Even when drunk, I still have my heart set on my plan. I can drop my smile and sober up instantly if I want to. I want to do some mushrooms and think about my plan. It’s possible mushrooms would scare me out of doing this, but I believe I have my heart set. It will…

@FrancisAaronUK - FRANCIS AARON

Page 8. At the top of the page is the Russian word ненависть (nyenavist’) meaning ‘hatred’, and a doodle of a ‘fuck you’ gesture. At the side is a doodle of a cup of hot tea or coffee, the word ‘women’ in Russian and an annoyed face. The text says: [It will] be sad but living in this world is worse! Kill me! Ohhh, I just want to lay down, close my eyes, and never wake up. I am always uncomfortable, always in pain. I am so happy my target is now a school. I don’t care too much about high scores, I want to commit the worst of the worst! I am so happy I get to kill little kids. My childhood dreams are coming true! I don’t do this to make a point, I do it because I am a pussy bitch who can’t deal with my own problems, so I am selfishly forcing my plan onto the world. I am not a hero, I am an embarrassment to all who knew me. I am sorry to my family, whose lives I will ruin. Life goes on, though. They will recover. Those kids won’t! Paul Merhige* is incredibly based. I bet he had fun! Even when I am home I am still perturbed by Abi’s presence and the foul odours. I am going the gun range before I go to 1 party for my manager who is leaving. I just want to carefully avoid Abi seeing me bring a gun on my way out. I don’t like Abi knowing I go to the range so often, but I need to get away from them! I don’t really care about my co-workers, I just am going to see Andrew the Manager, and get some food. I can’t eat at home with Abi here. I am just bringing Samantha to the range. Can’t really sneak koshmar* out of the house lol. I just went to the range. Holy shit! I shot an AR and had a great time! It was so easy, easiest ob all the rifles I have shot. I shot three rifles today, AR, AK, and PCC. PCC was very comparable to the AR so I definitely want a 5 56 full size rifle. I shot a sixteen inch AR and it wasn’t that bad. I still want to train a ten inch if I can. Dude, I am SO disappointed by the AK! I am so sad! Heehee :) *Paul Merhige killed his own family members on Thanksgiving in 2009. *Koshmar is the Russian word for nightmare… the usage of this is not clear... not sure if it's accurate… It seems 'Samantha' and 'Koshmar' may have been the names of his guns...

Saved - September 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
reSee.it AI Summary
While Europe experienced its "Dark Ages," Africa thrived with powerful empires like Mali, led by Mansa Musa, whose wealth was so immense it disrupted economies. The Mali Empire was vast, with a population of 50 million and abundant gold. Cities like Timbuktu were intellectual hubs, far surpassing European counterparts. Colonial narratives erased these achievements to justify exploitation. Modern archaeology reveals the sophistication of African civilizations, challenging the long-held belief that Africa was primitive while Europe was civilized.

@shawnchauhan1 - Shawn Chauhan

While Europe wallowed in its "Dark Ages," Africa's medieval empires were flexing wealth that makes today's billionaires look broke. Mansa Musa was so rich his generosity crashed entire economies. But your history books forgot to mention it. Here's why 🧵

@shawnchauhan1 - Shawn Chauhan

The Mali Empire wasn't some small kingdom. It was 1.24 million square kilometers - bigger than France and Germany combined. 50 million people. 100,000 troops. While Europe's kings begged Italian bankers for loans, Mali literally grew gold like crops.

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The great empire of Mali, which lasted more than four hundred years, was extraordinary. Governed as a confederation of kingdoms where multiple kingdoms got to select their representative to the high king called the Musa's court, at its height, it covered more than a half million square miles. East to west, it went from the coast to the great bend in the river. It was so large that it was said that if you started walking from the coast, you would walk eight months before leaving the empire. In its day, it was only exceeded in size by the great Mongol empire, and it was unbelievably rich. It was the end of the salt caravan trade, and it had gold mines so rich that nearly half of the gold in the old world came from those Malian gold mines.
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Speaker 0: The great empire of Mali, which lasted more than four hundred years, was extraordinary. Governed as a confederation of kingdoms where multiple kingdoms got to select their representative to the high king called the Musa's court, at its height, it covered more than a half million square miles. All of West Africa from South Of The Sahara Desert to the rainforest, including the Great Highway Of Commerce, the River Niger. East to west, it went from the coast to the great bend in the river. It was so large that it was said that if you started walking from the coast, you would walk eight months before leaving the empire. In its day, it was only exceeded in size by the great Mongol empire, and it was unbelievably rich. It had copper mines. It was the end of the salt caravan trade, and it had gold mines so rich that nearly half of the gold in the old world came from those Malian gold mines.

@shawnchauhan1 - Shawn Chauhan

In 1324, Mansa Musa went on pilgrimage with 60,000 people and 12,000 slaves carrying gold staffs. He gave away 20,000 ounces of gold as tips. The result was that - Egypt's economy collapsed for a decade. Gold prices crashed 20%. One man's road trip broke the Middle East.

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In thirteen twenty four CE, Mansa Musa, the ruler of the Mali empire, embarked on a legendary pilgrimage to Mecca. His journey accompanied by a vast caravan of gold, slaves, and camels demonstrated the immense wealth of his empire. Mansa Musa's generosity during his travels, particularly his lavish distribution of gold in Cairo, disrupted local economies. His pilgrimage solidified Mali's status as a major power in the medieval world and established Mansa Musa as one of the wealthiest individuals in history. In thirteen twenty four CE, Mansa Musa, the ruler of the Mali empire, embarked on a legendary pilgrimage to Mecca.
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Speaker 0: In thirteen twenty four CE, Mansa Musa, the ruler of the Mali empire, embarked on a legendary pilgrimage to Mecca. His journey accompanied by a vast caravan of gold, slaves, and camels demonstrated the immense wealth of his empire. Mansa Musa's generosity during his travels, particularly his lavish distribution of gold in Cairo, disrupted local economies. His pilgrimage solidified Mali's status as a major power in the medieval world and established Mansa Musa as one of the wealthiest individuals in history.

@shawnchauhan1 - Shawn Chauhan

Timbuktu wasn't the mythical desert outpost Europeans imagined. It was a metropolis of 100,000 people with 700,000 manuscripts - more books than most European cities combined. While London had 40,000 mud-dwelling peasants, Timbuktu was hosting international scholars.

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Long before Europe's industrial rise, the West African city of Timbuktu stood as a beacon of wealth, knowledge, and trade. Located in the ancient Mali Empire, Timbuktu was home to gold rich kings like Mansa Musee, the richest man in history. Caravans crossed the Sahara, loaded with salt, ivory, and manuscripts, making the city an economic and intellectual powerhouse. At its peak in the fourteenth century, Timbuktu had libraries that rivaled any in Europe and scholars that shaped science and theology. While London was still developing, Timbuktu was already flourishing with gold markets. Universities and global influence proving Africa wasn't just surviving history, it was making it.
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Speaker 0: Long before Europe's industrial rise, the West African city of Timbuktu stood as a beacon of wealth, knowledge, and trade. Located in the ancient Mali Empire, Timbuktu was home to gold rich kings like Mansa Musee, the richest man in history. Caravans crossed the Sahara, loaded with salt, ivory, and manuscripts, making the city an economic and intellectual powerhouse. At its peak in the fourteenth century, Timbuktu had libraries that rivaled any in Europe and scholars that shaped science and theology. While London was still developing, Timbuktu was already flourishing with gold markets. Universities and global influence proving Africa wasn't just surviving history, it was making it.

@shawnchauhan1 - Shawn Chauhan

The University of Sankore was teaching astronomy, mathematics, and medicine when Europe was still burning "witches" for knowing too much. Students came from three continents to study there. Oxford wishes it had Timbuktu's intellectual street cred in the 1300s.

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The University of Sankore, also known as the Sankore Madrasa, was a renowned learning center in Timbuktu, Mali. It was one of the earliest universities in the world and played a crucial role in the intellectual and cultural life of West Africa. The university offered various subjects including Islamic theology, jurisprudence, grammar, rhetoric, logic, mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. It attracted scholars and students from across the Muslim world, contributing to Timbuktu's reputation as a center of intellectual exchange and scholarship.
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Speaker 0: The University of Sankore, also known as the Sankore Madrasa, was a renowned learning center in Timbuktu, Mali. It was one of the earliest universities in the world and played a crucial role in the intellectual and cultural life of West Africa. The university offered various subjects including Islamic theology, jurisprudence, grammar, rhetoric, logic, mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. It attracted scholars and students from across the Muslim world, contributing to Timbuktu's reputation as a center of intellectual exchange and scholarship.

@shawnchauhan1 - Shawn Chauhan

Here's what's controversial: This erasure wasn't accidental. Colonial powers needed Africa to look "uncivilized" to justify centuries of exploitation. So they buried stories of empires that outshone medieval Europe in every metric that mattered.

@shawnchauhan1 - Shawn Chauhan

Great Zimbabwe built stone cities housing 18,000 people while trading gold with Asia. Colonial archaeologists literally refused to believe Africans built it. They invented fake theories about Phoenicians and Arabs because the truth was too threatening to white supremacy.

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Great Zimbabwe rose in the hills of Southern Africa as a massive stone metropolis with walls over 30 feet high, built by hand. Its towers reached toward the sky, its gold fueled powerful trade routes, and its king ruled an empire so rich Arabian merchants bowed before him. When Europeans arrived, they couldn't believe what they saw. 'These ruins must be foreign,' they insisted. 'They're too sophisticated to be African.' So they buried the truth. Literally—British archaeologists destroyed evidence, rewrote the story, and claimed it came from Phoenicians or aliens, anyone but Africans. But the stone wouldn't lie. Carbon dating, oral traditions, and local art all revealed the same thing. This city wasn't lost. It was silenced. Great Zimbabwe was home to over 18,000 people, centuries before Europe's castles even had plumbing. No colonizer could explain it. Stones don't forget.
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Speaker 0: This city had no cement, no European architects, but it was so advanced they refused to believe Africans built it. In the hills of Southern Africa, Great Zimbabwe rose, a massive stone metropolis with walls over 30 feet high, built by hand. Its towers reached toward the sky, its gold fueled powerful trade routes, and its king ruled an empire so rich Arabian merchants bowed before him. But when Europeans arrived, they couldn't believe what they saw. 'These ruins must be foreign,' they insisted. 'They're too sophisticated to be African.' So they buried the truth. Literally. British archaeologists destroyed evidence, rewrote the story, and claimed it came from Phoenicians or aliens, anyone but Africans. But the stone wouldn't lie. Carbon dating, oral traditions, and local art all revealed the same thing. This city wasn't lost. It was silenced. So if you believe the truth should be louder, hit subscribe. Great Zimbabwe was home to over 18,000 people, centuries before Europe's castles even had plumbing. No colonizer could explain it. So they erased it. But we remember. Because stones don't forget. Comment the next empire they never taught you and subscribe to help restore what they tried to erase.

@shawnchauhan1 - Shawn Chauhan

The Ghana Empire was taxing trade caravans and maintaining standing armies when European "kings" were glorified warlords fighting over pig farms. African gold funded Europe's later "Age of Exploration." They explored the world with wealth stolen from the continent they called primitive.

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"The Ghana Empire, otherwise known as the Empire of Gold, was an ancient civilization that thrived in West Africa between the fourth and thirteenth centuries AD." "The Ghana Empire's roots are steeped in mystery and legend, with the bulk of historical knowledge stemming from oral and archaeological records and the writings of Arab travelers of the time." "The region abounded in gold, and controlling this precious resource, along with the opportunity to mediate between the northern salt producing areas and the southern gold producing regions, positioned the Empire of Ghana as a dominant trading force." "The main city and capital of the empire is believed to have been Kumbai Sala." "Islam also had a strong foothold, especially among the elite and merchants." "Eventually, Mali in particular overshadowed Ghana in power and influence in West Africa."
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Speaker 0: The Ghana Empire, otherwise known as the Empire of Gold, was an ancient civilization that thrived in West Africa between the fourth and thirteenth centuries AD. This powerful empire had a major role to play in West African history, establishing itself as an important trading and cultural hub, while its complex and sophisticated society had an enduring regional legacy. The Ghana Empire's roots are steeped in mystery and legend, with the bulk of historical knowledge stemming from oral and archaeological records and the writings of Arab travelers of the time. The Ghana Empire was in what is now Southeastern Mauritania and Western Mali. It established itself as a cluster of chiefdoms which, eventually, became unified under a central leadership. The term Ghana traditionally means the title of the ruler. Rather than the name of the empire itself, the empire's name and the area it covered were different from the current nation of Ghana. Oral tradition holds that the establishment of the empire was ascribed to a mythical figure called Dinga Sisa. According to some traditions, Dingasisa is portrayed as a semi divine or heroic figure with supernatural abilities that allowed him to assert his leadership and found the empire. During the first centuries AD, when Trans Saharan trading picked up momentum, the North African Berbers and later the Arabs built up contacts with the region. The accounts of these travelers provide some of the first written references to the Ghana Empire. These encounters partly influenced the growth and consolidation of the empire. The Ghana Empire's geographical location meant that it could control the Trans Saharan trade routes. The region abounded in gold, and controlling this precious resource, along with the opportunity to mediate between the northern salt producing areas and the southern gold producing regions, positioned the Empire of Ghana as a dominant trading force. As it grew in wealth and influence, the Ghana Empire started to annex neighboring territories and subdued various ethnic groups and tribes, cementing its position as the region's dominant empire. Society in the Ghana Empire was structured hierarchically, topped by the king, known as the Kaya Magan. The nobility merchants, artisans, farmers, and slaves were underneath him. The king enjoyed near absolute power and was considered a semi divine figure. He oversaw maintaining order, justice, and the well-being of the kingdom. Although the king's power was highly centralized, there was a well established bureaucracy to help run the empire. The conquered territories were ruled by appointed governors, whereas the central territories were more closely administered, the main city and capital of the empire is believed to have been Kumbai Sala, an important trading and political center. In fact, it was divided into two parts, a royal area and a commercial district, with the latter predominantly held by Muslim merchants. Whilst traditional African beliefs prevailed in the Ghana Empire, Islam also had a strong foothold, especially among the elite and merchants. This targeted acceptance of Islam allowed the Empire of Ghana to develop favorable trade relations with North African Muslim states. This coexistence of African traditions and Islamic influences in Ghana made for a diverse and prosperous society, where trade and diplomacy were as important as tradition and religion. The social and political legacy of the Ghana Empire continues to be a crucial piece of West Africa's complex tapestry of history. The Ghana Empire was a dominating authority in West Africa for several centuries and was often embroiled in military campaigns, whether defensive or expansionist. Towards the end of the eleventh century, the Almoravids, a Berber religious and military movement from the Sahara, started to expand southwards. It is widely acknowledged that some kind of clash or series of skirmishes took place between the Almoravids and the Ghanaian Empire, but the specific details are the subject of debate among historians. Some believe that the Almoravids did invade and occupy Ghana, while others argue that their impact was more mercantile and religious than military. The consensus, however, is that these confrontations with the Almoravids and the subsequent commercial developments contributed to the gradual decline of the Ghana Empire, as well as the Almoravids, other burgeoning groups and empires in the region, such as the Mali Empire, started to exert pressure on Ghana. Eventually, Mali in particular overshadowed Ghana in power and influence in West Africa. The decline and subsequent demise of the Ghana Empire did not stem from a single event, but rather from several internal and external factors that took place over the course of centuries. The Ghana Empire's economic system depended heavily on the trade in gold and salt. As time went by, new trade routes began to emerge. Undermining the role of the Ghanaian Empire as a crucial go between, evidence has shown that climate change may have affected the region, with the Sahara Desert spreading, rendering some areas less hospitable and impacting on agriculture and trade. The gradual embrace of Islam by the elite merchants influenced the empire's political and social dynamics. Whilst Islam offered a bridge to North Africa, it also brought new ideas and practices that may have upended established traditions and governance in Ghana. The Ghana Empire had been effectively supplanted by the rising Mali Empire by the end of the thirteenth century. Whilst the Ghana Empire no longer existed as a dominant political entity, its political and social legacy continues to be a crucial part of West Africa's fascinating and fertile history.

@shawnchauhan1 - Shawn Chauhan

Axum Empire was minting coins and building 100-foot obelisks while converting to Christianity before most of Europe even knew what a church looked like. But somehow this doesn't make it into "Christian civilization" narratives. Wonder why.

@shawnchauhan1 - Shawn Chauhan

The Songhai Empire controlled the Niger River with actual naval forces while European "navies" were fishing boats with delusions. They had advanced irrigation systems and urban planning that wouldn't look out of place today.

@shawnchauhan1 - Shawn Chauhan

UNESCO sites are still overwhelmingly Eurocentric because the same biases that erased these empires from textbooks now control "world heritage" designations. African architectural masterpieces get ignored while European castles get celebrated.

@shawnchauhan1 - Shawn Chauhan

Medieval Africa wasn't just comparable to Europe - it was often superior. More stable governments, larger trade networks, greater cultural exchange, and massive wealth. Europe was the backwater, not Africa.

@shawnchauhan1 - Shawn Chauhan

Modern archaeology keeps proving this. Every dig uncovers more evidence of sophisticated African civilizations that colonizers claimed never existed. The narrative is crumbling, but it's taking forever because academic institutions are slow to admit centuries of racist lies.

@shawnchauhan1 - Shawn Chauhan

The biggest fraud in history isn't financial - it's intellectual. Convincing the world that the continent with the richest medieval empires was "primitive" while the plague-ridden feudal mess called Europe was "civilized." The con job lasted 500 years.

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@elonmusk - Elon Musk

Yup

@ClassicLearner - Brett Pike

Slavery had been the norm throughout all of history, for thousands of years, impacting all people, including millions of Europeans enslaved in the Ottoman Empire - which had institutionalized the sexual slavery of European women. Yet children are led to believe that slavery was a uniquely American activity. Now why do you think that is?

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The speaker questions why public schools focus on the Transatlantic slave trade and not on other slave systems, arguing that slavery was widespread across history and regions. They claim the Ottoman Empire enslaved six hundred years and 5–10 million people, with sexual slavery being institutionalized and slaves sourced from Central Europe, the Balkans, and among Hungarians, Russians, and Ukrainians. They assert the word slave derives from “Slav.” They also assert lengthy slave trades in other regions: the Trans Indian slave trade lasting over twelve hundred years and enslaving 4–10 million people; and the Trans Saharan slave trade lasting over twelve hundred years and enslaving 9–17 million people. The speaker asserts that these systems ended after, not before, the North Atlantic slave trade, and emphasizes that chattel slavery was practiced in all these places. They claim that in 1776 the majority of countries in the world practiced chattel slavery, and that while Europe and the United States were early in abolishing slavery, it continued much longer in the Middle East, Africa, and in places like China, Thailand, and Mongolia. They state that if one looked back to 1776, 90–95% of the countries in the world practiced slavery, a norm for thousands of years. They also state that the United States banned slavery in seven states at a time when the rest of the world had banned it in only seven countries. The speaker contends that the reason these histories aren’t taught is that schools are framed through a Marxist lens of oppressed versus oppressors, intentionally teaching history out of context as a form of brainwashing designed to make dividing and conquering society easy. They claim that, without historical context, it allows framing the United States as uniquely evil, whereas, in reality, it is Britain, the United States, and the West that are responsible for driving the institution of slavery into extinction. Additionally, the speaker promotes their own work, stating they teach courses on real history and what it means to be an American, and that they write books on the First Amendment and the Second Amendment, inviting readers to engage with their material.
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Speaker 0: Why is it that public schools only teach about the Transatlantic slave trade? They don't teach that there was slavery in the Ottoman Empire that it lasted for six hundred years and five to 10,000,000 people were enslaved. That they not only enslaved men, but the most valuable slaves were women. Because sexual slavery was not only permitted, but it was institutionalized in the Ottoman Empire. So they would get many of their slaves from Central Europe, many of their slaves from the Balkans, and they would enslave Hungarians, Russians, Ukrainians, which is why the word slave comes from Slav. And why don't schools teach about the trans Indian slave trade, which lasted for over twelve hundred years and enslaved four to 10,000,000 people. Or the Trans Saharan slave trade, which lasted for over twelve hundred years and enslaved nine to 17,000,000 people. All of which ended. Ready for it? Not before, but long after the North Atlantic slave trade. And yes, chattel slavery was practiced in all of these places. In fact, in 1776, the majority of countries in the world practiced chattel slavery. And where Europe and The United States were early in abolishing slavery, it went on much longer in The Middle East, in Africa, and in places like China, Thailand, and Mongolia. If you went back to 1776, you would find 90 to 95% of the countries in the world practiced slavery, and that had been the norm for thousands of years. And The United States Of America banned slavery in seven states when the rest of the world had only banned it in seven countries. And the reason this isn't taught is that everything in school is framed through a Marxist lens of oppressed versus oppressors. So they intentionally teach our history out of context, which is a form of brainwashing that is designed to make dividing and conquering society easy. Because absent of historical context, it allows them to frame The United States Of America as some uniquely evil place. When in reality, it is Britain, The United States Of America, and the West that is responsible for driving the institution of slavery into extinction. You could learn more about that in my previous video. And this is why I teach courses on real history and what it means to be an American. And I write books on the First Amendment, the Second Amendment and so much more. Check out my private homeschool community, classicallearner.com.
Saved - February 3, 2026 at 11:43 PM

@TAmTrib - The American Tribune

The obvious answer is the Belgian Congo, which we're told was some horrid and cruel crushing domain of Leopold's, yet was really a colonial gem that brought the natives the only good governance they ever got Remember, what Livingstone and Stanley found were cruel Arab slavers from Zanzibar working with cannibal chieftains to capture and lead off countless columns of slaves for the markets of Arabia. It was they who often indulged in chopping off hands to send a message, all while inflicting the worst forms of slavery and suffering on the horribly oppressed population. Such was how life had been in the Congo for as long as anyone could remember...nasty, brutish, and short Such is also what the Belgians--including under Leopold II's Congo Free State--poured immense resources into stamping out, and they've been slandered for it forever For example, the hand chopping was done by the slavers and cannibals they were stamping out, not them, yet the horrid pictures of what they had ended was used as evidence against them by avaricious Brits who wanted the Congo for themselves Yet still they ended it, and spent decades turning the heart of darkness into a jewel of the colonial world that was so peaceful and pleasant that Europeans visited it on vacation! For once, they Congolese got prosperity and good governance, and the Belgians got to mine the minerals of Katanga. Then they were forced out by decolonization, and the Congo has been reverting to the horrid Stone Age ever since, with the infrastructure and industry left by the Belgians falling to pieces as endless anarchy and civil war destroyed any semblance of good government This is the same sort of story from across the colonial world. What the Europeans brought with them was not slavery and suffering, but good governance and freedom from the horrors that had long afflicted the non-West Such is the legacy of colonialism, including the Belgian Congo

@JoshuaLisec - Joshua Lisec, The Ghostwriter

What period of history has not yet gotten the 'based' treatment yet in the mainstream? I am asking for a very specific reason. Give your best (the worst):

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