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And so 2020 - notable mostly for being IDSG's second year - comes to an end.  This time, in a change to the advertised program, and with apologies for our absence throughout most of this last month, we return with another of our period movie discussion episodes, this time looking at D. W. Griffith's epic, lauded, infamous, three-hour, silent-era blockbuster of hate, prejudice, and bigotry, Birth of a Nation. Content warnings very much apply. The promised Part 2 of our coverage of Tom Metzger should be along as the first IDSG of the new year.  Thank you all for sticking with us through thick and thin, sending us words of encouragement... and special thanks to those of you who helped us out financially.  Let's hope we all have a better one in 2021.  We have plans for the show in the new year, so stay tuned and stay safe. Links/Notes: Notes: Birth of a Nation (1915) Full Movie on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGQaAddwjxg The Clansman (1905) Full Text: https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/dixonclan/menu.h

The first in a two part series on Tom Metzger (deceased), former Grand Dragon of the California Klan turned Neo-Nazi, pioneer of using cable-TV for propaganda and hate music to recruit young people.  Content Warnings. This episode is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Mulugeta Seraw. Notes/Links: Louis Meets the Nazis (at BBC iPlayer): https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02q8d5v/louis-theroux-louis-and-the-nazis James Mason and Tom Metzger on Race and Reason: https://www.bitchute.com/video/C80lEHzlqfaB/ WAR website: https://resist.com/ SPLC on Tom Metzger: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/tom-metzger SPLC on Mulugeta Seraw case: https://www.splcenter.org/news/2020/10/25/remember-mulugeta-30-years-after-splc-lawsuit-life-and-legacy-man-killed-hate-group IDSG Ep 2 on David Duke: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/i-dont-speak-german-episode-2-david-duke Uprising podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-uprising-a-guide-from-por-73255667/  

Part 2 of our look at the National Justice Party's 25 Point Program, with special attention paid to ecofascist rhetoric.  Content Warnings. Links / Notes: Part 1 pf this discussion: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/73-the-njp-program-part-1 National Justice Party: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/ National Justice Party Platform: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/platform/ Mike Enoch/Peinovich "The Way Forward" Speech: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/2020/11/19/the-way-forward/ Strike and Mike Episode 137: (unavailable because it's paywall content, can't imagine why) Bernie Sanders Rally Ann Arbor March 8, 2020. AOC arrives around 1:14:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekJo2mW_yAA Relevant previous IDSG episodes: 9: Mike Enoch and The Daily Shoah https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/i-dont-speak-german-episode-9-mike-enoch-and-the-daily-shoah 52: Genocide and The Right Stuff https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/52-genocide-and-the-right-stuff 70: The National Justice Party https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn

In this episode, the first of a two-parter, Daniel tells Jack all about the new 25 Point Program of the National Justice Party, the latest venture from Mike Enoch and the Right Stuff rabble, and their hope of peeling away support from disaffected leftists using 'Third Position' rhetoric.  Daniel starts going through the program point-by-point, analysing its hypocrisies and contradictions.  The 'left' rhetoric is exposed by comparison with genuine left ideas and principles.  To be continued... soon. Content Warnings. Links / Notes: National Justice Party: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/ National Justice Party Platform: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/platform/ Mike Enoch/Peinovich "The Way Forward" Speech: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/2020/11/19/the-way-forward/ Strike and Mike Episode 137: (unavailable because it's paywall content, can't imagine why) Bernie Sanders Rally Ann Arbor March 8, 2020. AOC arrives around 1:14:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekJo2mW_yAA Relevant previous IDSG episodes: 9:

This time, after a brief obligatory discussion of current events, Daniel and Jack take one of their periodic detours into film discussion to talk about David Fincher's 2010 movie The Social Network about Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook, and thus of so many of our current problems (not that the film gets that). Links/Notes: Our old podcast about Zodiac, at Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/44059681 Behind the Bastards 3-part episode on Mark Zuckerberg: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-mark-zuckerberg-the-worst-30417725/ https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-two-mark-zuckerberg-the-worst-30423810/ https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-three-mark-zuckerberg-the-worst-30429682/  

Recorded 8/9 Nov 2020.  What the hell do you *think* we're talking about? Content Warning North Carolina Gerrymandering article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/us/north-carolina-congressional-districts.html IDSG makes it to the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/fbi-arrests-the-base-michigan.html  

In this episode, after a little roundup of podcast recs, Daniel (finally) tells Jack all about the latest venture by Mike Enoch and the TRS: the National Justice Party.  We listen in on their founding meeting in a barn and learn the *other* problem with the GOP according to Enoch's audience.  Then we check in on Richard Spencer to see what he thinks about it all.  Finally, Daniel gives Jack a short, improvised tutorial on the concept of... pardon us... 'Finkelthink', which Jack finds unwarrantedly confusing.  Fun times.  Election?  What election would that be officer? Content Warnings Show Notes / Links: Correction: In the episode, Daniel mistakenly says TRS has moved to Lancaster, PA.  It's actually Greely. Embrace The Void Podcast: https://voidpod.com/podcasts/2020/10/29/ev-164-the-far-right-wing-with-daniel-harper Woking Up Episode 1: https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/woking-up-1 Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/ ALAB Liberate Michigan: https://www.alabseries.com/episod

This episode, we are joined by special guest Talia Lavin to talk about her excellent new book Culture Warlords. Content Warning. Talia's Twitter: @chick_in_kiev Culture Warlords: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/talia-lavin/culture-warlords/9780306846434/

Christopher Cantwell, the 'Crying Nazi', was recently tried and convicted in a federal court in New Hampshire.  As our regular listeners will know, we've been following Cantwell's fortunes for some time.  In this episode, Daniel and Jack are joined by special guest, journalist and Cantwell expert Hilary Sargent, to talk about the trial, and the long, winding, bizarre, horrifying story of how we got here.  Content warnings. Notes / Links: Hilary's Twitter: @lilsarg Hilary's articles on the Cantwell trial for The Informant: https://www.informant.news/people/1157338-hilary-sargent Don't do meth kids: www.bitchute.com/channel/sFreBwLNiMDA/  

An unplanned, emergency mini-sequel to our discussion of Tim Pool just a couple of days ago.  Reality, displaying its customary poor timing, waited until just after we dropped our Tim Pool episode to reveal the story of the Wolverine Watchmen, a group of militia types arrested for planning the abduction and 'trial' (i.e. murder, presumably) of Michigan Governer Gretchen Whitmer.  At least one of the conspirators seems to have been part of Tim's audience; Tim has been demonizing Whitmer as a dangerous tyrant for ages; and Tim himself reacted to the story in ways that combine the hilarious, disgusting, and accidentally instructive.  And so here we are. Content Warnings.  Contains Tim Pool. Links / Notes: Episode 67: Tim Pool https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/66-tim-pool New York Times, "F.B.I. Says Michigan Anti-Government Group Plotted to Kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/us/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-militia.html Continuation of Criminal Complaint regarding kidnapping plot of

This time, Jack and Daniel delve into the cesspool that is the barking, beanie-wearing, bollocks-talker Tim Pool.  Prepare for a small avalanche of weapons grade stupid from YouTube's favourite reactionary propagandist pretending to be a centrist or something. Content Warning. Links / Notes: CV Vitolo “Haddad”: Another Academic Racial Fraud? https://medium.com/@polite_keppel_dinosaur_57/cv-vitolo-haddad-another-academic-racial-fraud-c5c41fe32110 The CV Dossier: https://twitter.com/thecvdossier Inside Higher Ed, "Fresno State Pulls CV Vitolo-Haddad's Job Offer." https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/09/18/fresno-state-pulls-cv-vitolo-haddads-job-offer Timcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Timcast/videos Timcast News YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TimcastNews/videos Timcast IRL YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TimcastIRL/videos SCNR YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SCNRtv/videos Tim Pool: Day at a Chicago Warehouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LgfyUeFlzw Tim Pool calls into the Majo

This time, Daniel welcomes special guest Rebecca Lewis to the show.  Rebecca is the author of the Data & Society report 'Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube' about which Eric Weinstein was such an asshole (our word, not Rebecca's). Content Warnings as ever. The report: https://datasociety.net/library/alternative-influence/ Rebecca's Twitter: https://twitter.com/beccalew IDSG 62 (on Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel, etc): https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/62-eric-weinstein-part-2-cancel-culture  

This week, Daniel is joined by a special guest Ed Burmila who blogs at Gin and Tacos and hosts the Mass for Shut-Ins podcast.  A free-form chat about the way things are and the way they're going.  Fun despite the depressing subject matter. Content Warnings, as ever. Ed's Twitter: @edburmila Gin and Tacos blog: http://www.ginandtacos.com/ Mass for Shut-Ins: https://massforshutins.libsyn.com/  

Another of our occasional movie episodes, this time looking at famous (and bad) 90s movie American History X starring Edward Norton as a neo-Nazi skinhead. Content warnings apply. Also, we introduce our new theme music, courtesy of Lune the Band.

The final (for now) part of of coverage of the IDW's Weinstein brothers.  Back to Eric, with special reference to his boss Peter Thiel and the Gawker affair, Eric's response to Becca Lewis' Alternative Influence Report, and to Eric's thoughts on BLM and the current protests.  Warnings Apply.   Notes/Links: Owen Thomas, Gawker, "Peter Thiel is Totally Gay, People." https://gawker.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, "The Most Expensive Comment in Internet History?" https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/hogan-thiel-gawker-trial/554132/ Steven W. Thrasher, "Peter Thiel's Gawker War Not His First Brush With a High-Priced Vendetta." https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/05/peter-thiel-gawker-lawsuits-james-okeefe-acorn Maureen O'Connor, Gawker. "Christina Hendricks Says THese Giant Naked Boobs Aren't Hers, But Everything Else Is." https://gawker.com/5890527/christina-hendricks-says-these-giant-naked-boobs-arent-hers-but-everything-else-is Maureen O'Conno

We return, apologetic for the delay, with the next part of our investigation into the Weinstein brothers (no, the other ones).  This time, it's Eric - mathematician, hedgefund manager, cultural commentator, founder of the Intellectual Dark Web (or at least of the name), and persecuted/suppressed victim of conspiracies (to hear him tell it anyway).  We don't always cover Nazis.  Sometimes we have to cover people like Eric who, while not Nazis, are part of the current reactionary ecosystem.  And what a part he is.  More about Eric, particularly his connection to Peter Thiel, next week. Content Warnings, as ever. Notes/Links: Eric Weinstein website: https://ericweinstein.org/ Eric Weinstein YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/nobani88 Eric Weinstein CV: http://www.eric-weinstein.net/CV/Eric_Weinstein_CV_July_17_2003.pdf Eric-Weinstein.net About Page: http://www.eric-weinstein.net/about.html "During my training in pure mathematics, I became equally interested in real world problems. While much of the challenge

This week, Daniel and Jack discuss Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, two alumni of the Intellectual Dark Web, their 'origin story' as 'public intellectuals' in the Evergreen College kerfuffle of 2017, and their current views on Black Lives Matter and Trans Rights as expressed in their Dark Horse podcast. Jack gets angry and giggly. Next week, we will move on to Bret's brother Eric Weinstein. Content Warning. Bari Weiss, "Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html Bret Weinstein homepage: https://bretweinstein.net/ Heather Heying homepage: https://heatherheying.com/ Evergreen State College at Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_State_College Programs and Courses at Evergreen. https://www.evergreen.edu/academics/programs Bret Weinstein Explains the Day of Absence on Joe Rogan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-st73zhZL3A Bret Weinstein on Tucker Carlson, May 26 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j9nFced_eo Jacqueli

In this bumper episode, Daniel tells Jack all about the recent response to us by Matt Heimbach and Jesse Morton on their Walk on the Right Side podcast.  Also, we do a news roundup, taking in Camilla Long, Lauren Southern, Andrew Neil, Ben Shapiro, Tim Pool and Hank Hill; Tucker Carlson and his writer Blake Neff, recently revealed as a racist forum poster; the arrest of Steven Baca; and the latest scary developments in Portland as ICE/DHS start black-bagging protestors, featuring the rise to instant fame of Tazerface.  Also... the triumphant return of Cantwell News. Content Warnings Apply. Notes/Links: Cantwell's additional charges. https://www.fosters.com/news/20200714/jailed-white-nationalist-from-nh-faces-more-charges Blake Neff exposed: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/tucker-carlson-writer-blake-neff/index.html Tazerface16 assulted. https://twitter.com/PDXzane/status/1285037835058180097?s=20 Tazerface aka "Chris David" describes the assault: https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1284999020188807168?

Daniel and Jack skip back a bit to re-examine the raging transphobia on display from the 'Right Stuff' crew, as evidenced with clips in IDSG 52.  Also, some 'LUL News' and general 'TRS News'. Content Warning.  Notes/Links: IDSG Episode 52 and 53 Jack's article Schoep's tweets:

Bowing to necessity, this week Daniel and Jack talk about the Boogaloo, the shortcomings of the current discussion around it, and the reality. CONTENT WARNING Notes/Links: Bundyville Podcast https://www.opb.org/news/article/bundyville-occupation-podcast/ Robert Evans; Jason Wilson: The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-what-you-think/ Robert Evans guests on Qanon Anonymous, on the Boogaloo Boys https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-qanon-anonymous-30956096/episode/episode-96-the-boogaloo-boys-feat-63994902/