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Sarah Jeong and the Media's Alt-Left
by Daniel Greenfield
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Judge Jeannine: Mueller is The dummycrats-Dems
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Host Judge Jeanine Pirro argued Department of Justice special counsel Robert Mueller was acting in a “cleaner” capacity for dummycrats-Democrats... who she argued was acting on behalf of the so-calleds- “deep state” and it’s alleged botched effort to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. She likened Mueller to Harvey Keitel’s character Winston Wolfe in the 1994 movie “Pulp Fiction,” who was deployed to help dispose of a dead body. “When things go terribly wrong for the dummycrats- Democrats, they don’t just call in a cleaner to get the job done, they call in someone who’s been in the clean-up business for a long time,” she said. “They call in the serial cleaner, former FBI director, and now special counsel Bob Mueller.” Pirro went on to remind her viewers of Mueller’s testimony following the 2012 Benghazi incident that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens... https://rickwells.us/jeanine-mueller-serial-cleaner/
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by Tony Badran
{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ Following the Assad regime’s recapture of opposition-held areas in southern Syria, pro-regime media have begun boasting the restoration of economic relations with Arab countries... namely Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. Damascus is eager to show that its success on the battlefield will persuade regional governments – including those friendly to the U.S. – to stop treating it as a pariah state. The conversation between Damascus and Amman over resuming economic ties has been ongoing for a while, even before the regime’s campaign to retake the opposition-held areas in the south along the border with Jordan. There have been exploratory visits by Jordanian business delegations in recent months, including a delegation last week headed by the president of Jordan’s Exporters and Producers Association for Fruits and Vegetables. The main focus for the Jordanians has been reopening the Nassib border crossing to resume overland trade. In recent days, both Damascus and Amman have made statements about their readiness in principle to recommence trade through the Nassib crossing. Concomitant with this drive, the Syrian airline operator Cham Wings Airlines announced in late July it would begin offering two weekly flights from Damascus to Amman. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Cham Wings in December 2016, citing the airline’s transport of militants to Syria “to fight on behalf of the Syrian regime and assisted the previously-designated Syrian Military Intelligence (SMI) in moving weapons and equipment for the Syrian regime.” There are also longstanding suspicions that Cham Wings’s owner, Issam Shammout, is a front, possibly for Bashar al-Assad’s cousin, Rami Makhlouf...Afghan forces free 149 people taken hostage by Taliban
{ foxnews.com } ~ Government forces in Afghanistan managed to free 149 people-- including women and children... who were abducted by the Taliban just hours earlier in the province of Kunduz. Nasrat Rahimi, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, says the insurgents still hold 21 others hostage following their ambush of a convoy of buses traveling in the Khan Abad district on Monday. Mohammad Yusouf Ayubi, the head of the provincial council in Kunduz province, said the insurgents stopped the buses near Khan Abad district. Ayubi believes the Taliban were looking for government employees or members of the security forces. The attack occured despite President Ashraf Ghani's call for a cease-fire with the Taliban during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha...
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Sarah Jeong and the Media's Alt-Left
by Daniel Greenfield
{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ Ever since the New York Times decided to hire racist blogger Sarah Jeong, despite her history of hateful tweets about white people, “the world could get by just fine with zero white ppl and the thing stopping POC (people of color) is...a disinclination toward genocide?”, white women, men, heterosexuals and Christians, and then refused to part ways with her (unlike its treatment of previous hire, Quinn Norton, whom the left had accused of homophobia based on a few tweets, despite her being gay), the debate has been about all the wrong things.
Jeong isn’t really the issue. Her racism is typical of an influential subset of the left.
Some of the pro and anti Jeong essays briefly circle around the actual problem before quickly zooming away. Andrew Sullivan writes in his anti-Jeong essay of the “extent to which loathing of and contempt for ‘white people’ is now background noise on the left”. Vox's Zack Beauchamp, wrote in his pro-Jeong essay that comments such as hers in the "the social justice left" about "white people" are typical.
But what part of the “social justice left” or “left” is really producing Sarah Jeongs?
To answer that question we have to talk about what no one really talks about, the alt-left. Unlike the alt-right, a subject of numerous essays, news reports and investigative pieces, the internet culture of racism, misandry and heterophobia that is the millennial alt-left is mostly undocumented.
The alt-left’s norms of discourse are defined by the same harsh contempt and winking racism that appear in Sarah Jeong’s tweets. It’s an internet culture where “white people” is an inherently derogatory term and new slurs, such as “caucasity”, are coined. Ironic racism is defined as “resistance” to whiteness. And what better way to resist whiteness than with racial slurs aimed at white people?
Sarah Jeong’s hateful tweets aren’t extraordinary examples of one woman’s bigotry. They’re variations on the typical memes and jokes on the alt-left. When we talk about Jeong’s racism, we’re really talking about the bigotry of an intersectional movement that is obsessed with punitively destroying the “privilege” of white people and other majority groups with racist memes, taunts and harassment.
The alt-left preceded the alt-right. The features of the alt-right that the media has attacked are mirror images of its origins counter-trolling the alt-left. When Sarah Jeong’s critics and defenders claim that she was “counter-trolling”, they hilariously get the origin of the internet culture species completely wrong.
Long before the alt-right at least in internet years, the alt-left was weaponizing racist memes “white tears” was a popular one and harassing targets with online mobs today’s social justice mobs are alt-left online harassment coordinated with alt-lefties in the media. The current trend of media stories that dox targets on the right almost all tend to come from media millennials aligned with the alt-left.
This isn’t the first time that the alt-left’s ironic racism has gotten its members in trouble. There was plenty of outrage when Drexel University's George Ciccariello-Maher had tweeted, "All I want for Christmas is white genocide". Just like Jeong, the defense was that Maher was just kidding.
The claims by Vox lefties that Sarah Jeong and the “social justice left” are being ironic in their racist remarks about white people, is not a defense, it’s an indictment. Ironic racism was prevalent on the alt-left before it was mirrored by the alt-right. It’s also a misuse of the term. Non-ironic irony is typical of millennial internet culture that uses humor as a distancing mechanism to normalize repellent views.
That’s not ironic. It’s cowardly and disingenuous.
The “ironic” alt-left humor of Sarah Jeong uses absurdity and winks to convey actual hatred for white people. But the same “ironic racism” that the media condemns when it appears on the Twitter accounts of the alt-right is somehow acceptable when it appears on alt-left accounts like Jeong’s. Even the argument that Jeong and the alt-left are just joking is the same “wrongfooting” defense that the media never accepted from the alt-right, even as it now tries to “wrongfoot” the right on Jeong’s racism.
Even the 1488ers, the Neo-Nazis who are the most noxious part of the alt-right, had their original counterparts in the tankies Communists in the internet culture of the alt-left. You’re less likely to have read about them because the media loves writing about Neo-Nazis, but not its own Neo-Commies.
When we talk about the alt-left, it’s often in terms of antifa, but Black Lives Matter owes as much to the alt-left as it does to the black nationalist thugs it adores and worships. And the violent activists are just a tiny portion of the larger internet culture that is the alt-left. But neither is the alt-left composed of minorities. Most of the alt-left, like the rest of the left, is white. Its racism isn’t the outcry of an oppressed minority, as the pro-Jeong pieces have contended, but of an ideological bigotry.
As John Perrazo notes in the Freedom Center’s pamphlet, “The War on Whiteness”, “The ultimate objective in stigmatizing whiteness is to intensify racial tension. But the anti-whiteness movement also intends to destroy whites’ comfortable assumption that their skin color is ‘normal’ or ‘neutral,’ without consequences, and to make them color-conscious and ultimately rub their noses in their whiteness.”
The left politicizes race. The alt-left’s war on whiteness is an overt rejection of post-racial neutrality and the grand bargain of civil rights. The stream of racist abuse aimed at white people is meant to politicize whiteness. And to force white people to align with racist movements on one side or the other.
What the alt-left fears above all else is post-racial coexistence. And so it fights tolerance with racism.
Why do we hear so little about the alt-left? For the same reason that the media throbs with defenses of Jeong’s ironic racism and the leftist internet culture that birthed it. The media’s millennial new guard is drawn heavily from the alt-left. It seeks out and destroys media millennials who are not alt-lefties.
The alt-left is the media. Gamergate, frequently referenced in the defenses of Sarah Jeong, was a clash between the alt-left entrenched in gaming journalism tech journalism, and especially gaming journalism, were the parts of the media most likely to hire and quickly promote millennials and gamer culture. But the alt-left now pervades the entire media from foreign affairs to sports journalism.
Jeong’s past tweets are just one of numerous examples of millennial media hires who had been caught spewing toxic alt-left rubbish. Jugal Patel and Fahim Abed kept their gigs with the New York Times after their old and ugly tweets came to life. There was no reason to think that Jeong would lose hers.
Sarah Jeong’s alt-left racism wouldn’t have dissuaded the New York Times. It was the reason she was hired. Being a vocal alt-lefty on social media while blogging about social justice issues has been part of the Tumblr-to-Times pipeline for a while now. The media looks for a social media background in its millennial hires. Broadcasting alt-left memes in those circles makes you more likely to be retweeted, recognized, quoted and hired to fail upward with more racism at major media orgs.
Gamergate used to be a debate about the alt-left’s takeover of journalism. Now that the alt-left controls journalism, period, it’s become a national debate about fake news.
Sarah Jeong’s racism isn’t an isolated incident. It’s a culture that is taking over newsrooms. The complete disregard for facts, the pervasive contempt for the political opposition, the impassioned victimhood, and the ravening hatred poorly disguised as comedy now defines the media.
And so we don’t talk about the alt-left, because when we talk about the alt-left, we’re talking about the media.
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