Mathematician and cultural critic James Lindsay has been permanently suspended from Twitter after a left-wing writer reported him for "hateful conduct."
Lindsay was suspended for violating Twitter rules against hateful conduct. According to a screenshot of an email Twitter sent to Lindsay, one of his tweets was said to promote "violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease." The email Twitter sent to Lindsay was reported by the Post Millennial.
The offending tweet read, "Ok, child sexulaization [sic] specialist." Lindsay wrote it on Thursday in reply to Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic, who had quote tweeted something he posted and wrote, "Your misogynoir is showing."
\u201cYour misogynoir is showing.\u201d— Alejandra Caraballo (@Alejandra Caraballo) 1659624413
Caraballo revealed Friday morning that she reported Lindsay and was proud of that fact. "Tell James, I want him to know it was me," she wrote in a tweet with screenshots showing she submitted a report for hateful conduct.
\u201cTell James, I want him to know it was me.\u201d— Alejandra Caraballo (@Alejandra Caraballo) 1659705282
"We suspended @ConceptualJames's account for breaking our hateful conduct rule. We found they broke our hateful conduct rule through different reports received about their behavior," Twitter said in a notification to Caraballo.
"They aren't allowed to create new accounts. We let people know that they've suspended, the safety rules they broke, and which content broke our rules," Twitter said.
Lindsay's suspension comes weeks after he was previously locked out of his Twitter account for violating the platform's rules by using the term "groomer." In July, Twitter updated its hateful conduct policy and announced that accounts that use the term "groomer" against transgender or nonbinary people would be in violation of its rules against "hateful conduct."
"We are committed to combating abuse motivated by hatred, prejudice, or intolerance, particularly abuse that seeks to silence the voices of those who have been historically marginalized," Twitter health product communications lead Lauren Alexander said at the time. "For this reason, we prohibit behavior that targets individuals or groups with abuse based on their perceived membership in a protected category. Use of this term is prohibited under our Hateful Conduct policy when it is used as a descriptor, in context of discussion of gender identity."
Lindsay was also suspended in May for tweeting "misleading" information about COVID-19 vaccines.
In a statement to the Post Millennial, Lindsay was unapologetic.
"Twitter has inconvenienced me and simultaneously confessed that they have a vested interest in protecting the sexualization of children. This also suggests the possibility of an untoward relationship between Twitter and Media Matters, which deserves investigation," he said.
He added, "I'm glad they've drawn so much attention to the issue, in any case. It has to stop. We must protect our children."
Twitter has instituted a new policy of suspending users for using the term "groomer." One of the first victims of this new censorship guideline is cultural critic James Lindsay.
The Daily Dot — a left-leaning millennial-focused online publication — reported this week that Twitter would begin suspending users who use the term "groomer" against transgender or nonbinary people. A Twitter spokesperson claimed the word violated the social media platform's "Hateful Conduct" policy.
Lauren Alexander — Twitter’s health product communications lead — said, "We are committed to combating abuse motivated by hatred, prejudice, or intolerance, particularly abuse that seeks to silence the voices of those who have been historically marginalized. For this reason, we prohibit behavior that targets individuals or groups with abuse based on their perceived membership in a protected category. Use of this term is prohibited under our Hateful Conduct policy when it is used as a descriptor, in context of discussion of gender identity."
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) — self-described as "the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization" — defines grooming as: "Manipulative behaviors that the abuser uses to gain access to a potential victim, coerce them to agree to the abuse, and reduce the risk of being caught. While these tactics are used most often against younger kids, teens and vulnerable adults are also at risk."
The usage of the term "groomer" recently spiked when conservatives began using it when discussing high-profile cases of small children being exposed to sexualized drag queen shows and teachers determined to discuss sexuality with their students.
Leftist organizations such as the Daily Dot and Media Matters launched campaigns this week to persuade Twitter to ban the word "groomer."
On Wednesday, the Daily Dot ran a post claiming that "people on the internet are calling on Twitter" to ban the word "groomer" — despite not offering any evidence that people are indeed calling for the term to be censored.
Far-left Media Matters demanded Twitter "take action against the 'groomer' smear." The piece targeted BlazeTV's Steven Crowder for using the term. Media Matters then accused BlazeTV's Dave Rubin and guest James Lindsay of promoting the "groomer slur" on YouTube.
By Thursday night, Lindsay had been temporarily suspended for the crime of saying "groomer."
\u201cHi all, @ConceptualJames has been locked out of his Twitter account. Stay tuned...\u201d— New Discourses (@New Discourses) 1658447924
Lindsay — a mathematician, author, and critical race theory detractor — was suspended for calling a Media Matters employee a groomer.
Lindsay replied to a tweet by Ari Drennen — LGBTQ program director at Media Matters — by saying, "Ok, groomer."
Lindsay had to delete the tweet, and he was locked out of his account for 12 hours.
Drennen claimed that Lindsay called her a "groomer" on four occasions, and she reported him to Twitter's safety team.
She reacted to Lindsay's suspension by writing, "James Lindsay got suspended from Twitter for calling *me* a groomer lmaooo."
\u201cJames Lindsey got suspended from Twitter for calling *me* a groomer lmaoooo\u201d— Ari Drennen \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@Ari Drennen \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08) 1658452053
Lindsay told the Daily Caller, "I call people who engage in either of these grooming behaviors 'groomers' because it’s wrong to do and because that’s what they’re doing: grooming."
The ongoing feud between Joe Rogan and CNN continued this week with the acclaimed podcast host smashing the left-leaning cable network. During a recent episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" with author and mathematician James Lindsay, Rogan slammed CNN for disseminating "propaganda."
Rogan and CNN have been engaged in a squabble ever since the network claimed that he used "horse dewormer," when he actually took a human dose of ivermectin that was prescribed by his doctor in one of many treatments he utilized after being infected with COVID-19. Several CNN personalities repeated the claims that Rogan took "horse dewormer," which caused the podcaster to ask, "Do I have to sue CNN? They're making s**t up!"
A month later, CNN anchor Don Lemon doubled down on the narrative that Rogan had consumed veterinary medicine. Rogan roared back and bashed Lemon as a "dumb motherf*****."
Even Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple skewered CNN for its reporting on Rogan's usage of ivermectin, claiming that CNN's coverage "sounds more like the work of an advocacy group than a journalism outfit."
Last month, Rogan needled CNN's low ratings, "I think CNN is realizing that their ratings are dogs**t, [with] these highly polarizing editorial personalities like Stelter and Don Lemon."
Earlier this month, Rogan accused CNN of distorting video of him announcing that he had COVID-19 to allegedly make him appear significantly more "sick."
This week, Rogan took CNN to task yet again.
Rogan called the network's opinion-based anchors "knuckleheads."
"Well, they have to know that they've destroyed their business," Rogan said of Jeff Zucker's network.
Lindsay tagged the statement by adding, "They have no credibility left."
(WARNING: Explicit language)
Joe Rogan and @ConceptualJames on how CNN destroyed CNN.pic.twitter.com/2yntLwEK9c— Mythinformed MKE (@Mythinformed MKE) 1642719900
Rogan then noted that one former CNN producer was charged with enticing mothers and underage daughters to engage in unlawful sexual activity, and another former employee is under criminal investigation for accusations involving "potential juvenile victims."
Rogan mentioned a report from last week that said CNN's ratings plummeted by a whopping 90% in the first week of the new year. He added that the scandals aren't the cause of the massive decline in viewership.
"Most people don’t know that, though, most people aren’t aware of it," he said of the allegations against the producers and the firing of primetime star Chris Cuomo.
Lindsay added, "Their programming sucks," to which Rogan replied, "It's not just that it sucks, but it's preposterous."
Rogan continued to blast CNN, "It’s also the smugness in which they disseminate propaganda."
"People know that they’re full of s**t, and they’re doing it with a smugness and it turns people off," he declared. "It would turn people off even if they were accurate."
Rogan also said that the cable network has "an extreme lack of understanding of human nature."
He pointed out that CNN discussed "shaming people” for not following COVID-19 restrictions and protocols.
Rogan said, "What are you f***ing saying? You’re on the 'news' and you’re talking about shaming people?"
In September, Don Lemon encouraged his viewers to "start shaming" unvaccinated "stupid" people, and to stop "coddling them."
You can listen to the entire "The Joe Rogan Experience" episode with James Lindsay below.
A father stood before a public school board recently and deftly destroyed critical race theory, not only saying it's a concept meant for the collegiate level but also noting that it influences students of different races to "hate each other."
The fact that Ian Rice is black matters a great deal because he also said, "Critical race theory is teaching that white people are bad. That's not true. That would teach my daughter that her mother is evil."
He told the board he has two children in the district.
"This board and this school district is failing," Rice also said. "[Critical race theory] was never meant to be brought into grade schools, high schools — at all. It's actually taught in the collegiate atmosphere — and more importantly the legal portion of the collegiate atmosphere to see different laws through the lens of race ... from an ethical standpoint — not for grade schoolers and high schoolers."
He added that "the problem with bringing it to the high-school and grade-school level is we don't have the educators to properly teach these kids. Instead they're using as their own agenda to indoctrinate the kids to hate each other."
To make matters worse, Rice told the school board that at one point a staff member pulled his daughter aside and said, "Well, you're a minority, so you know better than to engage in certain things."
The assertion drew some gasps from meeting attendees — but not as pointedly as when he added that when the incident was brought to school's attention, nothing was done to the educator — but instead his daughter was "ridiculed."
"What is your criteria to educate the educators?" Rice asked the board. "And who are you to educate my children — or any of our children — in life issues? That's our job. Your job is to teach them math and science. Our job is to teach them about life."
He added that although there's still "a long way to go," racism and issues surrounding it are "nowhere near what they used to be decades ago."
"But I believe the people here don't look at me as a black man; they look at me as a man standing in front of you addressing the issue that we all are very passionate about," Rice said in conclusion, after which applause broke out in the room.
Amazing parent testimony on Critical Race Theory in our schools. https://t.co/Llbe0yBn4U
— James Lindsay, uncitable (@ConceptualJames) 1625453929.0
Early in Rice's remarks he mentioned his children are part of the "Caledonia school district." It would appear he's referring to Caledonia Community Schools in Michigan, as another parent posted video of her speaking at what appears to be the same school board meeting last month.
In the following clip, Angela Rigas also took the school board to task, saying it's "going down the wrong path." She ripped wearing masks and what she said was a proposal to test students twice weekly for COVID-19: "I'm sorry, but you are not my kids' physician, and you will never, ever have permission to do any sort of medical procedure or test on my child." Rigas' words drew loud applause.
She also criticized the district's "radical, progressive policies that are ruining our country" before bringing up critical race theory, saying "we are not for racism. If you took the CRT curriculum and took out the word 'white' every time you're shaming a white person and replaced it with 'black,' you then would actually realize it's racist ... and it needs to stop."
Last month, another black father — Ty Smith — took down critical race theory in front of an Illinois school board.
"You're going to deliberately teach kids, 'This white kid right here got it better than you because he white?'" Smith asked the board of Bloomington School District 87. "You're going to purposely tell a white kid, 'Oh, the black people are all down and suppressed.' How do I have two medical degrees if I'm sitting here oppressed?"
Watch this parent absolutely obliterate Critical Race Theory at an Illinois school board meeting:“How do I have t… https://t.co/9jjOoGGY3I
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) 1623961928.0
Leftist MSNBC host Joy Reid has repeatedly defended critical race theory and criticized anyone who opposes it.
Just 10 days ago, she hopped on Twitter to assert that CRT is not being taught in U.S. elementary and secondary schools but then added that people who are scared of CRT being taught to K-12 students in American schools are apparently OK with "Confederate Race Theory" being taught in schools, where youngsters are reportedly being taught "slavery was not so bad."
On Thursday, Reid and her guest, Harvard Law professor Annette Gordon-Reed, blasted critics of CRT by claiming that the topic is a law school technique and reiterated the claim that CRT is not being taught to K-12 students.
"It's a distraction," Gordon-Reed said. "No one is teaching critical race theory K through 12."
During the segment, Reid quoted from and criticized Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo, a longtime opponent of CRT who has worked to expose how it and racial woke-ism has permeated American schools, universities, and businesses.
Reid decried efforts by Rufo and other CRT opponents for "basically using critical race theory as a brand name."
Following the segment, Rufo posted a clip from the interview and challenged Reid to debate him on CRT on her show.
"@JoyAnnReid has denounced me by name multiple times on her show," Rufo wrote. "But she doesn't have the courage to invite me on as a guest."
"She knows that I will crush her critical race theory apologetics any day of the week," he added.
Reid did not take kindly to Rufo's fightin' words and accused him of being "weirdly aggressive" about the whole thing — and, of course, she went after his race, saying he was making "White Man Demands."
"This is a weirdly aggressive way to get yourself on TV, Christopher," she tweeted. "Why not just contact my booking producers like a normal person, rather than going with the White Man Demands option?"
Then to make it clear that he's pretty much a nobody in her world, she added, "I had never even heard of you until @oneunderscore__ piece exposing your plot to rebrand CRT."
This is a weirdly aggressive way to get yourself on TV, Christopher.. Why not just contact my booking producers lik… https://t.co/fllnq6Mh8o
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) 1624142138.0
But Rufo wasn't taking Reid's response lying down.
"I'm not 'demanding' anything; I'm challenging you to a debate about critical race theory," he replied. "The real question: are you going to accept this challenge or not?"
I'm not "demanding" anything; I'm challenging you to a debate about critical race theory.The real question: are y… https://t.co/cuY4PYbkfe
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) 1624142916.0
He summed up Reid's stance thusly: "I am allowed to attack you on television, but you are not allowed to challenge my assertions because white man."
@ConceptualJames Lmao, "I am allowed to attack you on television, but you are not allowed to challenge my assertions because white man."
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) 1624160433.0
Townhall political editor Guy Benson was more explicit in calling out Reid's comments: "Trash him, then instantly play the race card when he asks to come on and respond."
Trash him, then instantly play the race card when he asks to come on and respond. 👌 https://t.co/K0H72q4CYK
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) 1624144316.0
No word yet on whether Reid will have Rufo on her show to debate CRT.
(H/T: New York Post)
Whiteness is "a malignant, parasitic-like condition" that does not have a "permanent cure," according to research recently published in a peer-reviewed health care journal.
Dr. Donald Moss, a New York City psychoanalyst, published an article titled "On Having Whiteness" last month in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
"Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has — a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which 'white' people have a particular susceptibility," the paper claimed.
"Parasitic whiteness renders its hosts' appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse," Moss wrote. "These deformed appetites particularly target nonwhite peoples. Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate."
Fox News reported, "Moss argues that white people possess an 'entitled dominion' that enables the 'host' to wield power 'without limit, force without restriction, violence without mercy,' and increases one's desire to 'terrorize.'"
The paper stated that "any infant is vulnerable to the parasite of whiteness."
"Effective treatment consists of a combination of psychic and social-historical interventions," the psychoanalyst, who is white, prescribed. "Such interventions can reasonably aim only to reshape whiteness's infiltrated appetites — to reduce their intensity, redistribute their aims, and occasionally turn those aims toward the work of reparation."
The doctor alleged that "there is not yet a permanent cure" for whiteness.
Moss also claimed that whiteness "easily infiltrates even groups founded on the protection of individuals, on democratic principles."
I read the "On Having Whiteness" paper. It's genuinely psychotic. Here are some samples. https://t.co/Rs5MXEnA8S
— James Lindsay, known gentleman and scholar (@ConceptualJames) 1623298605.0
Newsweek reported, "In 2019, he delivered his theory describing whiteness as a parasitic condition as a plenary address for the South African Psychoanalytical Association, and he also lectured on it at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in New York."
Moss presented his "On Having Whiteness" seminar at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in 2020.
Moss teaches psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.
According to the American Psychoanalytic Association website, Moss says since the mid-1980s he has "been working on clinical/theoretical/activisist perspectives that aim to understand and dismantle structured forms of hatred– 'hating in the first person plural'–racism, homophobia, misogyny and xenophobia."
In 2017, Moss was the recipient of the Elizabeth Young Bruehl award for work against prejudice.
Moss is also a climate change activist and is a founding member of the "Green Gang," a "group of analysts and scientists focusing on climate change and its denial."
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