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The Austrian Election: FPÖ at 29.2% is now largest party in Austria

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The National Council election on Sunday marked a turning point. For the first time in the Second Republic, the FPÖ (Freedom Party) came in first place nationwide, and clearly so. Still, other parties have said they will not cooperate to form a government.  

Analysis from an email listr:

Months of barrage of hate speech by the globalist media against the FPÖ (Freedom Party), intensified in the last four weeks and escalated to the point of total perversity two days before the election, when secretly filmed FPÖ mourners sang the song “When All Become Unfaithful, we remain faithful” (original, English subtitles) at the funeral of one of their comrades and fraternity members, which was written in 1814. “The song was an SS anthem“, so the hate media vomited and ranted: “Nazi song at funeral: These FPÖ politicians were there!”

It was in vain. The trend that had been consolidated by the AfD, from Thuringia to Saxony to Brandenburg, continued unabated in the Austrian National Election on September 29, 2024. The word “Nazi”, which for decades had a magical destructive effect when a liberal-national movement was given it by the globalist fake-news industry, no longer works. On the contrary, the term “Nazi“, which once seemed devastating and deadly, now guarantees election victories. “Nazirites”, those exalted by God, as Amos says, attract young people, because young people in Austria feel first-hand in the streets that they are being killed by migration. And young people notice that it is not the National Socialists who want to kill them, but the globalist democrats.

So it was only logical that one of the most honorable people in German history, the chairman of the FPÖ, Herbert Kickl, was able to defeat the globalists at the ballot box on September 29, 2024, and expose their death program.

From the Jewish Telegraph Agency:

Far-right party founded by former Nazis wins Austrian election
The leader of the Freedom Party has taken the mantle of “Volkskanzler,” formerly claimed by Adolf Hitler.

 A far-right party founded by former Nazis whose leader has adopted a moniker used by Adolf Hitler won in Austria’s national elections on Sunday.

The showing by the Freedom Party, known by the acronym FPO, is unprecedented there since the end of World War II and adds to a wave of support for far-right parties across Europe.

FPO took 29% of the vote on Sunday, twice its tally from the last election in 2017, according to early results. The center-right party that currently leads the government came in second, with center-left and left-wing parties posting historically poor results.

Whether the FPO is actually able to form a government remains to be seen. Leaders of the other parties have sworn not to enter a coalition with its leader, Herbert Kickl, who has said he wants to be seen as “Volkskanzler,” a term meaning “people’s chancellor” that Hitler used to describe himself. FPO was founded in the 1950s by former members of the Nazi SS paramilitary group.

In the lead-up to the election, the Austrian Jewish Students Union protested against FPO, saying that the group’s rise augured danger for Jews and others in the country.

“As young Jews, we often confront the tragic question of who would have hidden us during the Nazi era,” Alon Ishay, the group’s president, said in a statement shared by the European Jewish Congress. “The FPÖ leader’s response is brief and chilling: Herbert Kickl would have deported us.”

The wave of far-right successes across Europe are driven largely by rising anti-immigrant sentiment and discontent with the governing parties; the parties are typically fiercely nationalist and, in many cases, pro-Russia. A far-right politician, Geert Wilders, won the Netherlands’ national election in December, not long after a politician once photographed wearing a Nazi armband won Italy’s election. The far right in France posted stronger-than-expected results in the country’s surprise elections this summer. And earlier this month, a far-right party won a state election in Germany for the first time since World War II.

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Herbert Kickl: The Putin-loving far-right leader, who has scored a big win in Austria

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Kickl’s personal life

Kickl was born in 1968 in rural Carinthia in southern Austria. His schoolmates remember him as a contrarian in army surplus clothes.

The 55-year-old, who is known for his thick-rimmed spectacles, studied philosophy, history, communication and political science. The Economist reports that Kickl never finished his philosophy degree at Vienna University, nor his military service. Instead, inspired by Jörg Haider, he joined the FPÖ in 1995.

Little is known about his personal life other than that he loves extreme sports and long hikes. However, Kickl has mastered the world of social media. He has been far more present on TikTok and Instagram than on the campaign trail and has avoided debates and interviews.

As Gernot Bauer and Robert Treichler, who recently penned a biography on Kickl, said in an Irish Times report, “For a politician, especially a party leader, Kickl is surprisingly shy and inhibited. “Kickl doesn’t want any unpleasant surprises, he wants to retain control of the story.”

Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria, is notoriously private about his life. He is known to be a lover of extreme sports and long hikes. File image/AP

Rise and rise of Kickl

After joining the FPÖ in 1995 — for the unaware, the party was founded by the Nazis — Kickl was elected to parliament in 2006 and was tasked by the party to run its media operations for 13 years. It was during this time that he penned several of the party’s slogans and rhetoric — some being termed as xenophobic.

As the years rolled on, he rose to the top and is credited with helping the party’s rise in popularity too. In 2017, he was appointed as interior minister after the centre-right Austrian People’s Party formed a coalition with FPÖ under Sebastian Kurz’s chancellorship. In his time as minister, he questioned the European human rights convention and even proposed renaming refugee facilities “departure centres”.

He was later fired owing to the cash-for-favours sting operation against then FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache.

In 2021, he took over the leadership of the FPÖ amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It was amid the pandemic that Kickl used the hatred against lockdowns and vaccinations to garner support.

Herbert Kickl, head of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party is seen in this election campaign poster in the outskirts of Salzburg, Austria. The poster reads “You are the Boss – I am your tools”. Reuters

Kickl’s ambition to be ‘Volkskanzler’

However, many view Kickl as a danger for Austria. He views Hungary’s Viktor Orban as his hero and many of his policies are Orbanesque.

For instance, he is anti-immigration and for this election came up with the vision to build “Fortress Austria”. He wishes to overhaul Austria’s immigration system, registering all new arrivals and detaining them in specialist facilities. The party is also proposing to introduce “remigration” of “unwanted strangers” — deporting migrants to their country of origin.

Similar to Orban, he is also seemingly a champion of Russia’s Vladimir Putin. He has promised to end Austrian support for Ukraine and veto any new EU sanctions against Moscow if he becomes chancellor.

He has also spoken of becoming Volkskanzler (people’s chancellor), a term that many associate with Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. However, he denies that Volkskanzler is a Nazi reference, adding that numerous politicians in the past have claimed the term.

Moreover, some believe that a slogan in this election campaign — Thy will be done — invokes the previous line in the Lord’s Prayer: “Thy kingdom come”—in German, Dein Reich komme, a reference to the Third Reich.

He has also publicly praised the Identitarian movement — Europe’s answer to America’s alt-right.
People hold flags and posters (reading Kickl can do it) during Austria’s Freedom party’s election campaign kick-off in Graz, Austria. File image/Reuters

It is because of these reasons, perhaps, that Kickl will find it difficult to find coalition partners. In fact, Austria’s Karl Nehammer, of the rival conservative Austrian People’s Party, has called the 55-year-old a “right-wing extremist.” Moreover, Andreas Babler, leader of the left-wing Social Democratic Party, even told Kickl during a TV debate, “I think you are extremely dangerous.”

A former acquaintance of Kickl also told the Irish Times that the 55-year-old’s mistrust of everyone around him also makes it difficult to be his ally.

But another chimes in, saying to the newspaper, “Herbert reminds me of someone with a substance addiction, but in his case the substance is political moods and majorities. He’s an expert at spotting what people need now, and manipulates language to shift the public mood. He loves recognition for that but, like all addicts, he will never be satisfied.”

Even others agree that if Kickl came to power in Austria, the country’s role in the EU would be “significantly different”. As Kathrin Stainer-Haemmerle, a political science professor at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences told Reuters, “Kickl has often said that [Hungarian Prime Minister] Viktor Orban is a role model for him and he will stand by him.”

Nasrallah’s Death Marks Israel’s Apocalyptic Rise

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Dugin getting Biblical:

This is being done in anticipation of the coming and enthronement of the Messiah, who will subject all countries and peoples of the world to Israel (in the Christian and Muslim understanding, this figure is the false messiah, the Antichrist, or Dajjal). One can imagine what is happening now in the minds of far-right Zionists who see their successes. They can only interpret this as the nearness of the Messiah, and the current actions of Israel’s far-right government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are seen as paving the way for his reign.

Other interesting passages in bold.

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The confirmed death of Hezbollah leader Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is a colossal blow to the entire structure of the Axis of Resistance.

The term “Resistance” is used to refer to the most radically anti-Israeli forces in the Middle East. These include, primarily, the Yemeni Houthis (the Ansar Allah movement, which controls the northern part of Yemen), the Syrian forces led by Bashar al-Assad, the Palestinian movement as a whole (primarily Hamas), and the most radical, predominantly Shia, forces in Iraq.

The Axis of Resistance developed under the significant influence of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was its main pillar. The deceased Hassan Nasrallah, as the leader of Hezbollah, represented the vanguard of anti-Israeli resistance for the entire Islamic (primarily Shia) world. Therefore, the blows that Israel has dealt to Hezbollah in recent weeks, ultimately killing its leader, represent a powerful strike against the entire Axis of Resistance.

Taking into account the relatively recent strange helicopter crash that resulted in the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who actively supported the Axis of Resistance, the picture of Israel’s attack on its regional opponents appears truly epic.

Israel, thanks to the support of the collective West and using its latest technological tools (and they have been and remain pioneers in the field of digital technologies), operates very effectively, precisely, and cohesively. And it is very difficult to imagine how one could respond to this, especially considering that many people from various countries, who are at the forefront of high-tech processes, could at any moment turn out to be Israeli citizens and, together with their codes and technologies, head to Israel.

In other words, Israel relies on a vast network of supporters, people who share the principles of political and religious Zionism in all countries of the world. This gives Israel a major advantage as a networked structure, not just a state.

It is precisely this Zionist structure that subjected the population of Gaza to mass genocide. And now it has carried out a similar terrorist attack on Lebanon, achieving the death of Hezbollah’s leader, the charismatic spiritual and political leader of the Shia vanguard of the Axis of Resistance.

Let me remind you that earlier, in January 2020, the Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, also one of the leaders of the Axis of Resistance, was similarly eliminated. But the assassination of Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, whom Shias worldwide now consider a martyr and shahid, is truly an unprecedented event.

By acting in this manner, Israel is setting goals to create a great state. This is being done in anticipation of the coming and enthronement of the Messiah, who will subject all countries and peoples of the world to Israel (in the Christian and Muslim understanding, this figure is the false messiah, the Antichrist, or Dajjal). One can imagine what is happening now in the minds of far-right Zionists who see their successes. They can only interpret this as the nearness of the Messiah, and the current actions of Israel’s far-right government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are seen as paving the way for his reign.

As of today, practically all obstacles to the destruction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem have been removed. In the very near future, Israeli far-right forces, buoyed by their triumphant mood, may act on this, after which they will begin the construction of the Third Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The collective West supports all of this, allowing for the mass extermination of innocent people who stand in the way of “Greater Israel.” This includes attacking them using any technical means.

This is a serious matter. It is no longer just a war in the Middle East. In fact, the very existence of the Axis of Resistance is now in question. The leaders of the Shia world are bewildered, but even more confused are the Sunnis, who cannot remain silent on what has happened.

On the one hand, the Sunnis cannot side with Israel, as this would be a complete betrayal of even the most basic notions of Islamic solidarity. On the other hand, the military efficiency and harshness of Israel’s far-right Zionist policy places them in an extremely difficult position, as it is unclear how to counter Israel. Especially considering that Israel’s missiles can strike wherever they want, while the missiles and drones of its opponents are effectively intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system at Israel’s borders.

It is possible that Israel will now follow up with a ground invasion of Lebanon and beyond, with the aim of creating a “Greater Israel” from sea to sea. No matter how utopian or extremist the projects of Netanyahu and his even more far-right ministers, Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, may appear, they are being carried out right before our eyes

Liberation of the Kursk Region or Nuclear Armageddon

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Reposted from Arktos
It’s long been clear that the Ukraine-Russia war is seen as existential by both sides, and since Ukraine is a proxy for the West, that means that the stakes are very high—so high that it can’t be any surprise that the use of nuclear weapons is on the table.  “In the case of the Kursk region, we now have not only the right but also the obligation to enter into a war with NATO. … Essentially, we have placed ourselves in a situation where entering into a war is inevitable. And not in hypothetical situations that may arise someday, but in circumstances that are already a well-known fact. … What happened yesterday [i.e., changes to Russia’s nuclear policy]is probably a turning point in history. Because under the current circumstances, we can no longer avoid direct confrontation with NATO.”

Yesterday’s session of the permanent meeting of the Russian Security Council, during which Vladimir Putin announced amendments to our country’s nuclear doctrine (“Fundamentals of State Policy in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence”), is an extremely important event. The most significant aspect here is the following innovation introduced into the nuclear doctrine: participation in aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear state, if supported by a nuclear state, will be considered a joint attack on the Russian Federation.

This is a fundamental point, according to which our President, as Supreme Commander-in-Chief, now not only retains the right to use nuclear weapons. In the event that our country is attacked by a non-nuclear state with the support of a nuclear state, he is not only entitled to respond according to the full logic of nuclear deterrence but is obligated to do so.

Now, let us consider: is this about the future or the present? Right now, we are witnessing an act of direct aggression against the Kursk region. An invasion by hostile, non-nuclear Ukraine, supported and directly assisted by a nuclear state. This means a joint act of aggression against the Russian Federation by NATO, the United States, and Ukraine.

Of course, at the same time, there are also four other entities that have reunited with Russia, against which Ukraine is committing aggression. However, in the case of the Kursk region, we now have not only the right but also the obligation to enter into a war with NATO. The same now applies to any encroachment on the territorial integrity of Belarus, our strategic partner in the Union State.

In other words, from the moment the new version of the nuclear doctrine is adopted, it must be acknowledged that Russia is in a state of war with NATO. There is concrete evidence of aggression against Russia by the Ukrainian regime, with the support of a nuclear state. Whether we like it or not, according to our nuclear doctrine, we are now obligated to enter into a full-scale conflict with NATO and the United States.

Let me repeat, this is more than serious. Essentially, we have placed ourselves in a situation where entering into a war is inevitable. And not in hypothetical situations that may arise someday, but in circumstances that are already a well-known fact.

Therefore, today, to prevent a nuclear apocalypse, that is, a direct nuclear confrontation between Russia and NATO, there is only one solution. The immediate withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the Kursk region. Immediate, because any continued presence there, with the continued support from the US and NATO, is simply the inevitable start of a nuclear war. Not because we decided so but because we have adopted such amendments to our nuclear doctrine.

Yes, of course, many will now try to soften this rigidity. But the essence is that this is no longer just “red lines” but effectively a decision for nuclear Armageddon. In any other documents, including the National Security Strategy, the amendments might still be interpreted differently. But when such a clause is adopted in our nuclear doctrine, we leave ourselves no choice.

Yes, this is a very serious move and a very serious document. What happened yesterday is probably a turning point in history. Because under the current circumstances, we can no longer avoid direct confrontation with NATO.

(Translated from the Russian)

Key Ukrainian Stronghold About To Fall To Russia As Zelensky Touts ‘Victory Plan’ In D.C.

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Zerohedge

Having been in the United States since Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is about to present his ‘victory plan’ to President Biden, as well as VP Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, likely in that order as the meetings unfold this week.

He said in an ABC News interview published Tuesday, “I think that we are closer to peace than we think.” But he caveated this by saying this will only be assured if Ukraine comes from a “strong position” with the help of Western backers.

Aerial view of the Ukrainian town of Vuhledar. Source: Mosccow Times/X @pavlokyrylenko_donoda

He described his so-called victory plan as not being focused on seeking to negotiate with Russia, but rather it is “a bridge to a diplomatic way out, to stop the war.”

“We just have to be very strong, very strong,” Zelensky said, and this is largely dependent on the “quick decisions”. He has also of late said that “bold” decisions must be made by Washington, in reference to the request for NATO to greenlight long-range missiles strikes on Russia.

“Everybody’s looking up to [Biden], and we need this to defend ourselves,” he told ABC, in an obvious effort to increase pressure on a somewhat hesitant White House. Ukraine also wants a firm path to NATO membership.

He further said his plan is about “the strengthening of Ukraine, Ukrainian army and Ukrainian people. Only in the strong position we can push [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to stop the war – diplomatic way.” He emphasized: “That is why we are asking our friend.”

Despite this optimism about Ukraine’s battlefield chances from Zelensky, Reuters on Tuesday has more bad news for Kiev, centering on rapid gains in Donetsk as another key town is about to fall.

“Russian forces have begun storming the eastern Ukrainian town of Vuhledar, a stronghold that has resisted Russian attack since the beginning of the 2022 war, according to Russian war bloggers and state media,” Reuters writes.

“Russian forces in eastern Ukraine advanced at their fastest rate in two years in August, according to multiple open source maps, even though a Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region sought to force Moscow to divert troops.”

One well-known regional journalist and war observer, Leonid Ragozin—formerly of the BBC—agrees that things are looking bad for Ukraine forces in Vuhledar…

“The situation on the frontline couldn’t be worse for Zelensky-Biden summit,” Ragoniz writes.

So it seems Zelensky is busy in Washington ramping up the hawkish talking points even as his forces are against the ropes in the Donbass. “Russia can only be forced into peace, and that is exactly what’s needed — forcing Russia into peace,” Zelensky had told ABC further. But so far, it seems the opposition situation is unfolding.

From Tucker Carlson’s email newsfeed:

The Real Kamala Harris  

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The Real Kamala Harris  

It’s crazy for Donald Trump not to agree to another debate. While he may not be everybody’s cup of tea, his opponent is an absolute lunatic who could do permanent damage to our country, in addition to the damage that she’s already done.

The media sure aren’t going to alert the public to this looming danger. It’s up to Trump.

Among her other plans for us, Kamala Harris is for:

— Slavery reparations;

— Defunding the police;

— Taxpayer-supported transgender operations for prisoners and detained illegal immigrants;

— Paying bail funds for violent BLM rioters;

— Decriminalizing illegal immigration;

— Abolishing ICE, (or, as The Washington Post put it, “she signaled an openness to a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency”);

— Banning fracking, offshore drilling and gasoline-powered cars;

— Mandatory confiscation of “assault weapons”; and

— Abolishing private health insurance.

The media act as if she’s changed her mind on only one or two little things, like fracking — as opposed to on every single position she’s ever held — and proceed to coach her on how to explain these trivial reversals.

Here are a few ideas from The New York Times:

Todd Purdum: “One person’s flip-flop is another’s proof of a stateswoman’s maturation. Why not own it?”

James Carville: “The retort can be simple: I learned from my time governing in the White House. These are my positions. Take it or leave it.”

Frank Bruni: “We’re always learning and always growing, or at least we should be: That’s a sign of humility, curiosity, openness.”

Except the problem is, there’s no evidence that Harris has, in fact, changed her mind, and a lot of evidence that she hasn’t. For one thing, she has come out in favor of these policies repeatedly, recently and on tape. Worse, every chance she got, she actually implemented them.

Moreover, that’s a lot of positions to reverse. She’s not so much flip-flopping as completely abandoning her entire worldview. As Stalin is supposed to have said, “Quantity has a quality all its own.”

This column isn’t long enough to cover all of her (alleged) turnabouts, so I will only briefly cover her long-standing positions on law enforcement (hates ’em!) and white Americans (honestly, not a big fan).

Harris has unfailingly, aggressively, in every possible way, opposed law enforcement, while supporting criminals and illegal aliens. At the least, this is an odd disposition for a “prosecutor” (as her fangirls boast), rather like an orthodox rabbi whose hobby is curing Virginia hams.

She is on tape comparing ICE agents to the Ku Klux Klan, and on other tapes saying she wants to abolish ICE. It’s hardly surprising, therefore, that as “Border Czar” she presided over the worst border crisis this country has ever seen. (The media once touted her as Biden’s “Border Czar,” but realizing that that sounded like calling Lizzo the “Intermittent Fasting Czar,” now they try to deny it.)

When Harris was San Francisco district attorney, she released Edwin Ramos, an illegal alien and known MS-13 gang member, over the angry objections of the police. Three months later, Ramos drove alongside a father and his two sons and opened fire into their car, killing all three. (Another “migrant” just trying to make a better life for himself and his family!)

As per usual, Harris refused to seek the death penalty against Ramos.

Another illegal alien sprung by Harris managed to go a full five months before killing an American, breaking the record previously held by Ramos. Roberto Galo, an “undocumented” immigrant from Honduras, took an illegal left turn, hit 25-year-old law student Drew Rosenberg on his motorcycle, then backed over him again.

Elevated to California’s attorney general, Harris wrote the wildly misleading titles and descriptions for the two pro-crime initiatives, Propositions 47 and 57, that put violent criminals back on the streets, where they run rampant today. Imagine that on a national scale and — presto! — suddenly you’re living in Haiti.

When the BLM riots were in full swing, she endorsed the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which was paying bail funds for BLM rioters, to get violent criminals out of jail and back to doing what they do best.

She openly cheered the BLM riots — on tape — enthusing to Stephen Colbert, “They’re not gonna stop. They’re not gonna stop, and this is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not gonna stop, and everyone beware, because they’re not gonna stop. They’re not gonna stop before Election Day in November, and they’re not gonna stop after Election Day. Everyone should take note of that, on both levels, that they’re not going to let up — and they should not. And we should not.”

Harris has said time and again that she supports defunding the police — or “re-imagining public safety,” as she puts it.

The only guns Harris wants the government to forcibly confiscate are so-called “assault weapons,” which are predominantly owned by white men, who are “more likely to have higher incomes, to have served in the military and to be Republican” than other Americans, according to The Washington Post.

Meanwhile, gun homicides are overwhelmingly committed with illegally owned handguns. So she’s cool with drive-by shootings but will institute a government confiscation program to eradicate a hobby of rich white men.

Naturally, Harris totally believed Jussie Smollett’s hoax hate crime, which stirred up real hate toward white male Trump supporters. (They’re not hated enough, apparently.) His story about being attacked by two white men shouting, “This is MAGA country!” at 2 a.m. in Chicago in the middle of a polar vortex — because they recognized him from “Empire”! — was so preposterous that, in short order, Jussie was criminally prosecuted and his acting career “re-imagined.”

But Harris immediately believed Jussie, calling his invented hate crime a “modern-day lynching” and pushing through “anti-lynching” legislation. She’s never apologized.

She has enthusiastically said — again, on tape — that she supports convening a study on slavery reparations. What’s her position on reparations today? She refuses to say. The Post reports: “The Harris campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment on her current position on reparations.”

Can the Post ask her for “her current position” on those KKK-ers at ICE, defunding the police, the destructive BLM riots, the pro-crime propositions she helped impose on the hapless citizens of California, confiscating AR-15s, Jussie Smollett, the homicidal illegals she released, the support she gave to bailing out BLM rioters, and on and on and on?

It’s not like she doesn’t have an answer. Her answer is, “I grew up in a middle-class household and in college, I worked at McDonald’s.”

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Jack Ohman on Tucker Carlson

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From Wiki: Jack Ohman (born September 1, 1960)[4][5] is an American editorial cartoonist and educator. He is currently a contributing opinion columnist and cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle.[6] He formerly worked for The Sacramento Bee and The Oregonian.[7] His work is syndicated nationwide to over 300 newspapers by Tribune Media Services.[4] In 2016, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.[8]

NYTimes: Prof. Amy Wax Suspended for Believing in Race Realism

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This is way worse than what happened to me at CSU-LB. All I had to deal with was hate and ostracism. And faculty resolutions and faculty Inquisitions. Wax (who is Jewish) says she will sue. I hope she does and wins in the Supreme Court.

Penn Suspends Amy Wax, Law Professor Accused of Making Racist Statements

The case tested the limits of academic freedom and tenure.

A brick building with large windows on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.
The accusations against the professor, who had invited a white nationalist to her class and said that Black people and women were less intelligent, led students and others to call for her to be fired.Credit…Rachel Wisniewski for The New York Times

By Vimal Patel and Stephanie Saul

The university issued a “public letter of reprimand” to Dr. Wax describing the terms of her suspension, which will begin in the fall of 2025 and which also includes the loss of her named chair and the loss of summer pay in perpetuity.

Disciplinary proceedings against Dr. Wax tested the tenure protections of professors and whether such protections allow them to voice opinions that might be seen as inappropriate or downright insulting [but not untrue]. Many students said that they could not trust Dr. Wax to grade students without bias. But many professors — even those who found her comments profoundly racist — objected to disciplining her, on the grounds of academic freedom.

Among allegations against her were that she had described some non-Western countries as “shitholes” [all countries are equal and all would succeed if not for White racism, just like all races are equally intelligent…] and had said that “women, on average, are less knowledgeable than men [a reasonable point of view given Richard Lynn’s findings; in any case, they are less politically based].  She has said that Black people from the United States and people from non-Western countries feel shame for the “outsized achievements and contributions” of Western people [nothing angers non-Whites more than bringing up the relative accomplishments of the West versus the rest], and has derided as unrealistic television ads depicting “Black men married to white women in an upper-class picket-fence house” [Good for her! Pisses me off]. 

Dr. Wax denied making some of the comments and said that others were taken out of context.

She has also invited a white nationalist, Jared Taylor, to class [I’d love to see that. Jared is very articulate and convincing for all but those in the leftist fever swamps].

In a 12-page complaint filed in 2023, Theodore Ruger, the law school dean at the time, wrote that Dr. Wax had demonstrated “callous and flagrant disregard” for students, faculty and staff, subjecting them to “intentional and incessant racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic actions and statements.”

Her statements, the complaint added, “have led students and faculty to reasonably believe they will be subjected to discriminatory animus if they come into contact with her”[far more realistic to suppose that White students would be downgraded by woke professors for being White. Notice that no examples are given.] Mr. Ruger declined to comment on Monday.

Dr. Wax declined to comment on the decision. She has previously warned that she will sue the university if she is disciplined. A lawyer for Dr. Wax, David J. Shapiro, also declined to comment.

For several free speech groups, the case represented a threat to one of the key tenets of academic tenure — the right of faculty members to speak freely, without fear of punishment, whether in public or in the classroom.

Reacting to the suspension, Alex Morey, an official with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a free speech group, said that Penn’s decision “should send a chill down the spine of every faculty member, not just at Penn but at every private institution around the country.”

Ms. Morey, the group’s director of campus rights advocacy, argued that Penn had altered its customary disciplinary procedure to prosecute Dr. Wax. She added that she was gratified that Penn had not revoked Dr. Wax’s tenure — an indication, she said, of how flimsy the accusations were.

Peter Wood, president of the conservative-leaning National Association of Scholars, where Dr. Wax serves on the board, accused the university of a “serious error of judgment.”

“Professor Wax’s various statements on race, gender, ethnicity, immigration, inculturation and other matters were entirely within the zone of academic freedom,” he said, predicting that Dr. Wax would not “back down.”

A former assistant to the U.S. solicitor general, Dr. Wax argued 15 cases before the Supreme Court. Though Dr. Wax’s outspoken viewpoints have been a subject of debate for years, student demands for sanctions began in earnest in 2017, after she co-wrote an opinion article arguing that “all cultures are not equal.”

The long-running disciplinary case had gone before a faculty hearing committee. The university’s hearing board has said it does not dispute that academic freedom protects Dr. Wax’s speech, but said that she had violated “behavioral professional norms” in the way she presented her views.

The reprimand letter to Dr. Wax, dated Sept. 24 and signed by the university’s provost, John L. Jackson Jr., said that while academic freedom should be “very broad,” professors must conduct themselves “in a manner that conveys a willingness to assess all students fairly.”

It said Dr. Wax’s conduct had included making “sweeping generalizations about groups by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and immigration status. It also said that she had breached “the requirement that student grades be kept private by publicly speaking about the grades of law students by race, and continuing to do so even after being cautioned by the dean that it was a violation of university policy.”

The letter said that the university’s interim president, J. Larry Jameson, had confirmed the decision to suspend Dr. Wax. Because the academic year has already started, the suspension, which was first disclosed by The Philadelphia Inquirer, will not begin until next fall.

The letter also said that, in future public appearances, Dr. Wax must say that she was speaking for herself and not on behalf of the university.