Cult of Ubu: Recent Episodes

King Ubu

Dispatches from Clown World. Politics, conspiracies and weird items from the headlines and beyond.

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In the British Journal of Medical Psychology, Dwight DL Turner introduces the Honkey Pyramid (tm), a diagram which categorizes white supremacy along an acceptable\unacceptable axis. The takeaway: you’re a racist.

Original article: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dwight_Turner2/publication/324890681_%27You_Shall_Not_Replace_Us%27_White_supremacy_psychotherapy_and_decolonisation/links/5ae99d8ea6fdcc03cd903db2/You-Shall-Not-Replace-Us-White-supremacy-psychotherapy-and-decolonisation.pdf

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A look back at Susan Sontag’s New Yorker essay after 9/11, and how the outrage it provoked demonstrated why she was right. Also, the relevance of the essay to today’s political climate. New Yorker (scroll down): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/09/24/tuesday-and-after-talk-of-the-town National Review letter: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/susan-sontag-and-911-richard-brookhiser/

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A book written in 1976 about a confrontation with the Anti-Defamation League shows how certain tactics are not only still in use, but are shifting the culture incrementally to the left. (Note: I erroneously call it Conspiracy Against Liberty at the beginning of the show.) Conspiracy Against Freedom: https://ia801201.us.archive.org/5/items/CartoWillisAllisonConspiracyAgainstFreedom/Carto_Willis_Allison_-_Conspiracy_against_Freedom.pdf

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You can probably still learn a few interesting things in a Humanities education, and the universities have not completely destroyed their credibility...yet. (Note: this episode was originally going to be shared to the video services only, but well, I changed my mind.) In response to Stefan Molyneux and Tom Woods, Is College Worth It?

https://youtu.be/qI-9eJ1UOV0

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Arkady Babchenko faked his death with the help of the Ukrainian government. Also, a female London CEO is attacked on the subway, and naturally blames white men for not coming to her aid.

Breitbart: http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/05/31/russian-journalist-thought-dead-pledges-to-dance-on-putins-grave/

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/30/for-all-its-absurdity-the-babchenko-stunt-is-no-laughing-matter

The Sun: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6465766/female-boss-slams-white-middle-class-men-who-fled-as-6ft-attacker-kicked-and-threatened-her-on-tube-in-london/amp/