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Sociology Professor Who Quoted ‘Red Pill’ Sites Forced Out of Canadian University

Posted on | June 5, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

In 2011, University of New Brunswick sociology professor Ricardo Duchesne published The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, a critique of multiculturalism. In 2017, Professor Duchesne published Faustian Man in a Multicultural Age:

At this pivotal moment in recent Western history, Richard Duchesne tackles what may be the most crucial question for people of European descent: ‘What makes us unique?’
Casting aside the dominant cultural Marxist narratives and dismissing the popular media attacks on concepts of ‘whiteness’, Duchesne draws on a range of historical examples, sources and philosophies to examine the origins of European man, his achievements, and the nature of the Faustian spirit that has driven his innovation and creativity.

Last month, Huffington Post published an article detailing how Professor Duchesne was “peddling white supremacist views while the university’s leadership is unable or unwilling to intervene.” As a result, Professor Duchesne has now been forced into retirement:

A University of New Brunswick professor accused of being a white supremacist and denounced by more than 100 colleagues for his views on immigration is taking early retirement, the university announced on Tuesday.
Prof. Ricardo Duchesne provided his notice “to focus on his own pursuits as an independent scholar,” vice-president Petra Hauf said in a statement.
“We respectfully accept his decision and thank him for his 24 years of service.” . . .
Duchesne, who teaches sociology at the Saint John campus, has appeared on far-right podcasts and YouTube channels. He has also written about what he calls the “relentless occupation of the West by hordes of Muslims and Africans,” and asserts that “only out of the coming chaos and violence will strong White men rise to resurrect the West.”
He says he’s looking forward to retiring at the end of the month and pursuing independent studies.
He plans to write about “why European civilization was far more creative than all the other civilizations combined” and “why all European-created nations are being forced to diversify themselves through mass immigration,” he said in an emailed statement.
He will also address “why the mainstream media never allows any critical thinking about the mandated ideology of diversity,” he said.

Googling some of the phrases attributed to Professor Duchesne, I found a March 2017 article, “There Is Nothing the Alt Right Can Do about the Effeminacy of White Men,” a historically informed analysis of cultural decadence. Professor Duchesne cites such sources as Plutarch, Polybius, Sallust and Livy on the similar trend of decadence in ancient Rome. Interestingly, Professor Duchesne also cites “red pill” sites Chateau Heartiste and Return of Kings. He does this to refute their claim that feminism is to blame for the decline of the West, concluding instead that this decline is a consequence of historical forces:

The expectation recently articulated in a Counter-Currents article that reading about Rome’s glories can teach current White men to regain their valor and heroism is pure wishful thinking. White men today will never build up their “resolve as great as that of the Romans” by reading about the Romans. The Romans built their character, before and during the time of Cato the Elder, by living at a point in the historical cycle when anarchy and savagery demanded hardness, by working extremely hard as farmers, by living in a very patriarchal culture that had harsh laws and expectations, and by undergoing intense military training and warfare. The Rome of Cato was a civilization at its peak; the West today is senile and childless, its families in decline, preoccupied with appearances, and overall too lazy and comfortable.
Decline is irreversible. The relentless occupation of the West by hordes of Muslims and Africans is an expression of White male decadence and effeminacy. Only out of the coming chaos and violence will strong White men rise to resurrect the West.

Well, these startling assertions would make an interesting topic of debate, if only Professor Duchesne’s critics were willing to debate him, but instead they have sought to silence him, to terminate his employment and ostracize him as persona non grata. How odd is it that disciples of Marx and Lenin — advocates of revolutionary socialism — are tolerated in academia, but a professor who makes reference to Plutarch and Livy is condemned as a Thought Criminal? The point is not whether one agrees with Professor Duchesne’s racial beliefs or his bleak assessment of future prospects, but instead whether these beliefs can be the subject of open discussion and debate. There is a totalitarian tendency in academia that now seeks to silence certain perspectives by labeling them “hate speech,” and it’s never the Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries who are silenced.

(Hat-tip: Jeanette Runyon on Twitter.)



 

Category: Culture, Education, History

NYC Schools Face Lawsuit Charging Discrimination Against Whites

Posted on | June 5, 2019 | 1 Comment

The New York Post reports:

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza’s crusade against “toxic” whiteness at the city Department of Education created an “Us vs. Them’’ culture that saw three longtime officials demoted in favor of less-qualified persons of color, a blockbuster $90 million lawsuit claims.
“If you draw a paycheck from DOE … get on board with my equity platform or leave,” Carranza thundered to employees assembled in the rotunda of the agency’s Lower Manhattan headquarters last June, according to the suit, filed [May 28] in state supreme court.
That “totalitarian threat” was just the most direct example of Carranza’s push to overhaul the leadership at the top and attitude throughout the DOE since he took the helm last year, claims the suit, levied against the department and Carranza by the trio of demoted white female executives.
“Under Carranza’s leadership, DOE has swiftly and irrevocably silenced, sidelined and punished plaintiffs and other Caucasian female DOE employees on the basis of their race, gender and unwillingness to accept their other colleagues’ hateful stereotypes about them,” wrote the group’s lawyer, Davida S. Perry, in the filing.
Plaintiff Lois Herrera, who started at the DOE in 1986 as a guidance counselor and worked her way up to lead its Office of Safety and Youth Development, claims in the suit that she saw a sea change almost immediately after Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed Carranza in April 2018.
A month later, LaShawn Robinson, then the executive director of the DOE’s Office of Equity and Access, purportedly told white attendees of a training seminar that they “had to take a step back and yield to colleagues of color” and “recognize that values of white culture are supremacist,” Herrera heard from a fellow administrator, according to the suit.
And that June, Carranza delivered his stay-or-go edict to address a flurry of recent staffing changes among department brass — including Robinson’s promotion to deputy chancellor of School Climate and Wellness.
At another scheduled event, in August, Herrera saw Robinson’s alleged attitude for herself.
“If you’ve been with the DOE for more than 20 years, you are responsible for the problem,” Robinson, who is black, allegedly said.
Robinson is not named as a defendant in the suit.
Despite being Harvard-educated and having been recognized as recently as 2017 for contributing to the “safest year on record” in city schools, Herrera was abruptly stripped of her title and demoted three levels “to essentially the bottom of the … group she formerly led,” the suit says.
Without so much as a formal search or interview process, Herrera was replaced by an African American man, Mark Rampersant, despite him being “demonstrably less qualified,” the suit claims. . . .

Two other plaintiffs in the lawsuit — Jaye Murray and Laura Feijoo — say they were similarly demoted in favor of black employees. Gosh, it’s almost as if “diversity” is code for Hating Whitey, or something.

(Hat-tip: Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit.)



 

Category: Education, New York, Racism

In The Mailbox: 06.04.19

Posted on | June 5, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Baltimore Hoping to Blame Anyone But Themselves
Teh Daily Squeak: Colorado Releases Deranged Professor Frisch From Jail
EBL: Valery Legasov, RIP
Twitchy: Judd Legum Butthurt Over Advertisers Ignoring His Orders, Advertising On Fox News Again
Louder With Crowder: So The Media Can Conduct Investigations…Into Trump Supporters, also, Formal Apologies – “I’m Sorry”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Crazy Girls & Sexual Opportunists
American Greatness: After Long Delay, Key Mueller Probe Witness Arrested On Child Porn Charges, also, “Coward of Broward” Scot Peterson Arrested Fro Inaction During Parkland Massacre
American Power: Our Existential Struggle
American Thinker: Rep. Mike Hill (R-FL) Vs. The Gay Establishment
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Former Vegan News
Babalu Blog: Trump Tightens Stranglehold On Castro’s Financial Windpipe, also, An American Story – The World’s Richest Man Was Raised By A Cuban Refugee
BattleSwarm: Social Justice Warrior Headhunters
CDR Salamander: Bureaucratic Self-Harm & The Seawolves
Da Tech Guy: On Board The Democratic Train Wreck, also, How Bad Is LA?
Don Surber: Trump Triumphed In England
Dustbury: Strictly Noncommercial
First Street Journal:  The New Republic Tells The Truth About Jay Inslee’s Global Warming Climate Change Plan
The Geller Report: Nike Celebrates Muslim Oppression Of Women In New Ad, also, Massive UK Crowd Chants “We Love Trump”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, New Voters
Hollywood In Toto: Chernobyl Producer Recoils At Conservative Praise
JustOneMinute: Debt Service Redux
Legal Insurrection: Fauxcahontas’ Campaign Staff Votes To Unionize, also, Congress, DOJ Launch Investigations Into Big Tech
The PanAm Post: Argentina’s Bolivian Immigrants & The Spirit Of Capitalism, also, Peace In Colombia & Its Temporal Inconsistency
Power Line: Segregation Comes To Minnesota, also, A Better Way To Fight China?
Shot In The Dark: Live From Where?
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Illinois Taxpayers Beware
The Political Hat: The Call For Global Governance Is Real
This Ain’t Hell: Obamanomics, Revisited, also, Judge Removes Prosecutor From SEAL’s War Crimes Case
Victory Girls: Border Crisis Continues, Now Includes Africans
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Judge Dismisses House Border Wall Lawsuit For Lack Of Standing
Weasel Zippers: Dutch Teen Raped As A Child Euthanized, also, Oregon Antifa Putting Up Signs Warning Blacks Not To Date White People
Mark Steyn: JUST Desserts, also, Steyn Appears Before The House Of Commons Justice Committee

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‘Florida Woman’ Strikes Again

Posted on | June 4, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Florida Woman’ Strikes Again

 

Everyone knows that when you see “Florida Man” in a headline, the story’s going to be crazy, but “Florida Woman” is not to be ignored:

Escambia County Sheriff’s Office (ECSO) has arrested 25-year-old Keriah Renea Giomi for aggravated battery after a report says she attempted to stab a man in the stomach with a hunting style knife.
According to the report, ECSO was called out to 300 block of Wenger Avenue on Sunday regarding an armed disturbance.
When deputies arrived on the scene the report says, they found blood droplets on the concrete driveway and observed the front porch to be wet.
A deputy stated in the report, Giomi met him at the door and made a spontaneous statement that was redacted from the report. ECSO says Giomi continued to repeat the phrase and later placed in handcuffs.
The sheriff’s office says in the report, they were notified that a stabbing victim had checked into Sacred Heart Hospital and told them while he was in the bathroom on Wenger Avenue, he heard a woman screaming and went to see what the problem was.
The victim told ECSO when he left the bathroom, Giomi standing there naked holding a hunting style knife with a hook on the end and yelled, “Jehovah” and attempted to stab him in the stomach, says the report.
The victim stated in the report, he tried to grab the knife to stop her and received cuts on his hands.
ECSO says the man told him in the report, he pushed Giomi away in an attempt to run out of the door but she ran to the front door locked it and trapped him inside the house.
The arrest report says, the victim as he ran around the house to try to escape Giomi she cut him across the back multiple times.
The victim told deputies he managed to push Giomi into a room lock her in and was able to get out of the house, says the report.
The report revealed, witnesses stated in the report they saw a woman running around naked outside chasing a black male with no shirt on.

Escambia County is the Pensacola area, incidentally, and it’s perhaps unfair to blame Florida for this woman’s bizarre behavior, because the only Keriah Renae Giomi I can find online is from Lake Havasu City, Arizona. How she ended up in Florida, running around naked with a knife chasing a black man and yelling, “Jehovah,” I don’t know.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)



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Category: Crime, Florida

Man Who Threw Child Off Mall Balcony Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison

Posted on | June 4, 2019 | Comments Off on Man Who Threw Child Off Mall Balcony Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison

 

A frightening crime:

The man who threw a 5-year-old boy over the Mall of America’s third-floor balcony in April was given a 19-year prison sentence Monday.
Emmanuel Aranda, 24, pleaded guilty in May for attempted murder. The 40-foot fall left Landen with head trauma and broken bones.
Landen and his parents did not appear in court Monday, but offered statements read in court by prosecutor Cheri Townsend, NBC News reported.
“Your act was evil and selfish,” the boy’s father said in his statement. “You chose to listen to the worst parts of yourself that day. That is where your impact on us stops. You will take nothing more from us.”
Aranda told investigators he was “looking for somebody to kill” on April 12 and was looking to kill another person at the mall, according to The Associated Press. He chose Landen when the previous plan did not “work out.”
“God will judge you someday and I have peace with that,” his mother’s statement said, NBC reported.

By the way, some people have falsely claimed that Aranda is a Somali Muslim immigrant, but in fact he was born in Chicago. There is a large Somali population in Minneapolis, but he’s not part of it.



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Category: Crime, Minnesota

‘Incel’ Gets Five Years in Prison

Posted on | June 4, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Incel’ Gets Five Years in Prison

 

In January 2018, Christopher Wayne Cleary of Denver posted a disturbing message to his Facebook page:

“All I wanted was a girlfriend, not 1000 not a bunch of hoes not money none of that. All I wanted was to be loved, yet no one cares about me I’m 27 years old and I’ve never had a girlfriend before and I’m still a virgin, this is why I’m planning on shooting up a public place soon and being the next mass shooter cause I’m ready to die and all the girls the turned me down is going to make it right by killing as many girls as I see.”

Cleary already had an extensive history of cyberstalking. His Facebook threat was reminiscent of “incel” (involuntary celibate) killer Elliot Rodger. Last month, Cleary was sentenced to prison:

A man who posted a Facebook message threatening to kill “as many girls as I see” in retaliation for years of romantic rejection was sentenced [May 23] to up to five years in prison.
Judge Christine Johnson’s decision to keep Christopher W. Cleary, 27, of Denver, behind bars in Utah went against a recommendation from Cleary’s attorney and prosecutors to sentence him to probation so he could be returned to Colorado to serve prison time there for probation violations.
Johnson said the incident clearly warranted prison time and that she didn’t feel comfortable relying on Colorado to keep Cleary locked up. She said Utah’s board of pardons can decide if Cleary should be transferred to Colorado.
Cleary’s Facebook threat came hours before women marched through many U.S. cities in January, stoking fears of another deadly rampage by a man blaming women for his problems. Cleary called himself a virgin who never had a girlfriend. When police tracked his cellphone and arrested him at a McDonald’s restaurant in Provo, Utah, Cleary said he had been upset and wasn’t thinking clearly.
Cleary spoke only briefly at the sentencing, saying quietly, “I’m just sorry for what happened.”
His actions fit a pattern of behavior for a troubled man with a history of terrorizing women he met over the internet. At least eight people since 2012 have contacted authorities to accuse Cleary of stalking or harassing them, according to an Associated Press review of police and court records.
His attorney, Dustin Parmley, said Cleary was ashamed of his actions and has long had issues controlling his impulses to say inappropriate things. He said Cleary had a troubled childhood and was diagnosed with mental health issues at age 10, though he didn’t elaborate. Parmley said Cleary bounced between group homes and mental health hospitals during his childhood. . . .
Among the complaints against Cleary in Colorado were reports that he threatened to bomb a grocery store in 2013 after an employee refused to cash his check; that he threatened to slit the throat of a Denver city employee after his car was towed; and that he threatened a mass shooting at a mental health facility during a 2016 phone call.
Cleary was on probation for a marijuana conviction when, in 2016, he was charged with stalking two 18-year-old women he met online. He was on probation and in mental health court for the stalking cases when he was charged in 2017 with stalking and harassing a third woman who was Cleary’s caseworker. Last year, judges in Jefferson County, Colorado, sentenced him to probation in all three stalking cases.
Cleary also has a warrant for his arrest in Denver, where a 17-year-old told police in 2015 that he sent her a string of threatening text messages, including: “I own multiple guns I can have u dead in a second.”

Cleary never actually committed any acts of violence, but apparently enjoyed frightening people with threats of violence. There was a time in our history where someone like Cleary would have either been permanently locked up in a lunatic asylum or, perhaps, shot dead by the father of one of the girls he threatened. The fact that Colorado was willing to turn him loose on probation . . . Oh, crap. He’s like Deb Frisch!

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)



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Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 06.03.19

Posted on | June 3, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.03.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Stop Freaking Out Over Avocados, also, Tiananmen 30 Years Later
Twitchy: Gun Expert & Journalist Stephen Gutkowski Wipes The Floor With Bloomberg Puppet Shannon Watts
Louder With Crowder: NRA Lays Scathing Burn On Senator Gillibrand, also, All Our Vox Video Rebuttals
Camp Of The Saints: Laura Rosen Cohen Has A New Website

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Are You Special Enough For Women Like Wendy? also, Podcast #110 – The Hemispheric Differential Episode
American Greatness: Tired, Boring  – And Dangerous – Celebrity Death Wishing, also, Biden’s Problem Isn’t That He’s Old & White
American Power: Woke Los Angeles Is The New Typhus Hotbed, also, Patriot Anna Timmer Blasts Rep, Justin Amash At Grand Rapids Town Hall
American Thinker: Somalis Have Changed Minneapolis, also, A Made Man Unmakes Himself
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Mexico Deports Another 64 Cubans Back To Socialism, also, Canada Suspends Embassy Operations In Venezuela
BattleSwarm: Shoe0nHead is Not Impressed With The 2020 Democrats, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
CDR Salamander: Midrats Early Summer Melee, also, History Majors Vs. Math Majors
Da Tech Guy: Aftereffects Of The Obama Presidency, also, The Midwest’s Wildflower Spring Of 2019
Don Surber: Highlights Of The News, also, Democrats Stuck With Russiagate
Dustbury: Democracy Dies In Dorkness, also, Strange Search Engine Queries
First Street Journal: Just Imagine It – A Catholic Bishop Who Is Actually Catholic!
The Geller Report: Jihad & Jew-Hatred At Sugarland Texas Graduation, also, Muslim Taxi Driver Admits To Murdering 250 Non-Muslims In India
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Democracy Dies In Derpness
Hollywood In Toto: Why The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Was Worth The Wait, also, The Perfection Shows Folly of Modern Film Hype
Joe For America: Obama’s Pro-Iran Echo Chamber Continues Dealing With Mullahs Behind Trump’s Back, Insist It’s Normal
JustOneMinute: Too Busy Mocking Obama To Enjoy The Joke
Legal Insurrection: LA Cops Contract Typhoid Fever, Others Show Typhus Symptoms, also, Accurate Ad Calling Out Rep. Tlaib’s Holocaust Lies Sparks Furious Reaction
The PanAm Post: Venezuelan Central Bank Contradicts Maduro – Crisis Existed Before Sanctions, also, US Sanctions Weaken Cuban Presence In Venezuela, But They’re Not Enough
Power Line: DOJ – We Would Prefer Not To, also, Candace Owens & The Left’s Attempt To Ban Common Sense
Shot In The Dark: BoCo
STUMP: State Of The Pensions – Oregon
The Political Hat: California Vs. Dialysis Patients
This Ain’t Hell: More Misconduct? Nah, Just Continuing Since WW2, also, Feral Cities & Fanatics
Victory Girls: (Some) Britons Go Rude For Trump State Visit
Volokh Conspiracy: No, I’m Serious – The Roberts Court Won’t Save Trump From Impeachment
Weasel Zippers: In Central African Republic, Catholic Nun Beheaded By Muslim Militia, also, Desperate Adam Schiff Tries To Clean Up The Mess He Helped Create
Megan McArdle: If John Cleese Meant London is Just Another Homogenized World Capital, He’s Right
Mark Steyn: Smacks of Carelessness, also, June Is Bustin’ Out All Over


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Totalitarian @GayWonk Is Attempting to Silence Conservative @SCrowder

Posted on | June 3, 2019 | Comments Off on Totalitarian @GayWonk Is Attempting to Silence Conservative @SCrowder

Carlos Maza (left); Steven Crowder (right).

Carlos Maza’s Twitter handle is @gaywonk, which would seem to imply that homosexuality is not only the basis of his personal identity, but also defines his expertise as a “wonk” (i.e., a public policy analyst). For nearly six years, Maza worked for Media Matters, specializing in — what else? — LGBT issues. Then in January 2017, Maza was hired by Vox-dot-com to produce a series of videos called Strikethrough, more or less exclusively devoted to Maza’s dual obsessions, Donald Trump and Fox News.

The Trump-Fox & Friends feedback loop, explained
— Feb. 9, 2018

Fox News keeps breaking its own rules
— Nov. 26, 2018

Fox News keeps forcing Trump into shutdowns
— Feb. 14, 2019

Why Tucker Carlson pretends to hate elites
— April 3, 2019

You get the idea. Maza’s attacks on Fox News are arguably unethical, because he fails to disclose that Vox is substantially owned by Comcast/NBC Universal, a business competitor of Fox. But in terms of pure politics, Maza’s prominence as a left-wing pundit (many of his videos have gotten more than 1 million views on YouTube) makes him a fair target of criticism by conservatives. Steven Crowder, who has nearly 4 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, has been providing this criticism, which is to say he’s made a lot of jokes at Maza’s expense.

So, last week, Carlos Maza published a lengthy Twitter thread claiming to be a victim of “harassment” because Crowder has made jokes about him. Of course, liberal media are amplifying his claim:

Vox Journalist Opens Up
About Homophobic Mob Harassment
He Endures On YouTube
— Huffington Post

Vox Reporter Carlos Maza Breaks Silence
About Steven Crowder Harassment
— Newsweek

YouTube Investigating Right-Wing
Commentator Steven Crowder
— Daily Beast

Jessica Chastain Urges YouTube
to Take Action Against Targeted Harassment
of the LGBTQ Community
— Just Jared

Of course, all these stories just assume the validity of Maza’s claim, that there is a “homophobic mob” who have been incited by Steven Crowder to engage in “harassment.” This assumption ignores the fact that Maza has made himself obnoxious by his repeated attacks on Fox News, and that all Crowder has done is to call Maza’s videos to the attention of a conservative audience that resents such attacks. Most of what Maza calls “harassment” is merely people expressing (however rudely) their objections to Maza’s obnoxious behavior. It may help to compare this to something completely outside the world of politics.

Think about this year’s NFC championship game, in which the referees missed a pass-interference call that cheated the New Orleans Saints out of a Super Bowl appearance. Now, it is an unfortunate reality that football fans are not apt to express their anger politely, and Saints fans probably said some very crude things about the referees in that game. Whose fault is that? Are the TV game announcers, who called attention to the missed call — replaying it over and over in slow-motion — guilty of inciting “harassment” against the referees? If the referees got death threats from angry New Orleans fans, should this be blamed on the broadcasters and sports writers who criticized the missed call? No, of course not.

Likewise, in the world of political commentary, a partisan pundit who makes himself obnoxious by his commentary is apt to provoke hostile reactions and this is not the fault of any critic who calls attention to the pundit’s commentary. Like the refs in the New Orleans game, Carlos Maza has endeavored to deserve the contempt of a rather large number of people, namely everyone who watches Fox News (the highest-rated cable news network, with more than 3 million views). It is not Steven Crowder’s fault that people are angry at Carlos Maza, and if some of these people have expressed their anger in behavior that could be called “harassment,” these people are responsible for their own misconduct. It’s wrong for Maza to blame Crowder for this, in the same way it would be wrong for bad NFL referees to blame their unpopularity on the broadcasters who call attention to their erroneous judgments.

 

Here is a simple statement: Carlos Maza is a bad person.

Evidence of his bad character can be shown by the fact that Maza is now attempting to get Steven Crowder banned from YouTube. This is an effort to suppress free speech, and shows that Carlos Maza is a totalitarian, for only a totalitarian seeks to “win” an argument by silencing opposition.



 

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