ADL: ‘U.S. Representative Brings Holocaust Denier to Meeting on Capitol Hill’

From the ADL:

U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) brought Holocaust denier and high-profile alt right troll Charles C. Johnson to a meeting at the U.S. Capitol in early October. Rohrabacher and Johnson were reportedly on the Hill to discuss Wikipedia founder Julian Assange with U.S. Sen Rand Paul (R-KY). This comes after Johnson arranged an August meeting in London between Rohrabacher and Assange.
Johnson bolstered his credentials as a Holocaust denier back in January during an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit. Asked for his opinion on the Holocaust and the “Jewish Question,” Johnson responded, “I do not and never have believed the six million figure,” adding that he agreed with well-known Holocaust denier David Cole “about Auschwitz and the gas chambers not being real.” In a fashion typical of Holocaust deniers, Johnson recast the Nazi war effort as a defensive action against the spread of communism, and wrote that “German fears of [their own] extermination were not misplaced.”

The AMA was posted in the “Altright” subreddit, a white nationalist online community rife with anti-Semitism, racism, and Holocaust denial. Reddit has since deleted the subreddit, but Johnson’s AMA was preserved by a third party archive site.

Johnson is best known as an alt right blogger and internet troll. He has been criticized for making unfounded accusations against public figures, for racially charged comments and for doxxing people (publishing reporters’ and others’ private information online). He was banned from Twitter after soliciting for donations on the platform to “take out” a Black Lives Matter activist, though Johnson claims his tweets were misunderstood.

Johnson continues to foment controversy with WeSeachr, a website he founded which, among other things, serves as a crowd-funding nexus for members of the alt right and alt lite. A recent WeSearchr campaign solicited cash to support an alt lite rally in Berkeley, CA, and another raised more than $85,000 for the legal defense of Kyle Chapman (aka “Based Stickman”), an alt lite “hero” who was charged in August with felony weapons possession. The site also spearheaded a a legal defense fund to support Andrew Anglin, editor of the notorious neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, who is currently being sued by a Jewish woman for allegedly orchestrating a campaign of anti-Semitic harassment against her.

Rather than asking — how do they deny the Holocaust, we should ask — why do they deny the Holocaust. “Holocaust denial” or “Holocaust revisionism” isn’t really about body counts. It is denial that the Jews were 100% innocent.

It’s weird to take someone’s opinion on a part of history and then boil him down to “Holocaust denier.” These dismissals are a common tactic by some Jews and Leftists to remove enemies from the conversation.

As for my own opinions on the Holocaust, they are entirely conventional. I accept whatever is the scholarly consensus. I believe that somewhere around six million Jews were killed in Europe in World War II and I believe there were gas chambers and other forms of mass killing of Jews and non-Jews. I don’t think people should be put in prison or ex-communicated from polite society for challenging the conventional Holocaust narrative, however.

Orange County Register Aug. 25, 2017:

Johnson’s presence at the meeting helped fuel the criticism because he’s been associated with the alt right. Johnson, who runs GotNews.com, was banned from Twitter for life after a 2015 tweet soliciting donations to “take out” African American civil-rights activist DeRay McKesson.

A new website launched by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to attack Rohrabacher, dubbed “The Rohrabacher Conspiracy,” calls Johnson a “white supremacist” and “Holocaust denier,” citing research by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Johnson dismissed the DCCC site as “disgusting and underhanded.” He said he has “no reason to discount” consensus that Nazis killed 6 million Jews and “I am not a white-power fanatic.” He said online quotes attributed him that indicate otherwise have been doctored or taken out of context.

However, he did acknowledge his belief that there are intellectual differences between the races.

“There are some groups that are smarter than others, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t respect them,” Johnson told me in comments I read back to ensure their accuracy. “While it may be true that Jews may be smarter than whites and whites may be smarter than blacks, that doesn’t mean we should dehumanize anybody because of that.

“You should never use this to discriminate in hiring or in general.”

Chuck Johnson did this Reddit AMA about a year ago. Here are excerpts:

* I’m of the view that Donald Trump is an economic, cultural and political figure.
I supported him after he forced Obama to reveal his fake birth certificate. I wouldn’t say we are terribly close but I did watch all of the Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice and I’ve come around to him as a political figure.
I placed a bet on him and Ted Cruz in London but I honestly never expected the Republican Establishment to be as weak as it wound up being.

* From a macroeconomic perspective Trump is the return of the alpha male. Whenever you see societies that are collapsing you’ll see a return of alpha males. That’s why people like Mike Cernovich are coming to dominate the Twitterverse and why people like Ben Shapiro and the other cucks are starting to fall apart.

* One day the country will know what I know about Barack Obama.
Yes, he’s gay (not that I care), and yes, his second daughter isn’t his. And yes, his father is Frank Marshall Davis. And if you want to work on this, you should email me.
For the record Obama was born in Hawaii but he’s told two different stories about which hospital. He’s also told three different stories about how he met his wife.
Oh, and have a look at his hands in this photo.
And while we’re on the topic check out the moles on Obama’s face. That’s a trait only common among West African blacks (think Morgan Freeman!).
Oh, and another thing. I went to this bridge and I can’t get the angle on the shot they did. It’s in Central Park across from the Plaza Hotel.
Prove it’s fake and I’ve got some other fun projects for you.

* I’m wearing my Make America Great Again hat right now. One day the public will know all that I did behind the scenes but it is not today. My wife gets mad at me for running around the house yelling “MAGA” in sheer joy.
When BuzzFeed made up Donald Trump leaving Roy Cohn because he had AIDS that pissed me off. It wasn’t true. Cohn was being investigated by the feds.
When BuzzFeed — that cat porn site — attacked Donald Trump for backing Mike Tyson — who was wrongly put in prison for rape — I knew he was a great man and that I had to do everything I could to tell the truth about him and his supporters.

* Don’t tell anyone but Ben Garrison is a great man.

* Jesus or Socrates or Galileo was the troll I always wanted to be.

* >When did you first realize you were a glorious shitlord?

I started (((noticing))) things and read the Bell Curve. I legit hid it under my mattress. Steve Sailer was a huge influence. I used to work in a computer lab in high school and I would read him and delete my history lest anyone found out.

* I’m not really sure if I’m an Alt Right figure. Okay, fine. I probably am. I did a podcast on the Alt Right awhile back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBvq0kUpHio
I think I was GamerGate before there was a GamerGate. I used to play an absurd amount of StarCraft, Halo, Gears of War, Call of Duty, Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Rainbow Six, and then I got married and had to make money and shit so I stopped playing video games but then I realized Twitter is kind of a video game. So is the news media. Real life has become my video game.
You should read Steve Sailer and Mike Cernovich and Razib Khan at Unz Review.
You should also go to my website and see all the books. You should join my researcher slack where we have a reading list.
You should read the 10,000 Year Explosion; Albion’s Seed; The German War; and, of course, The Blank Slate.
You should buy these books but if you are cheap you should get them at bookzz.org.

* I think it’s odd that we haven’t seen more political assassinations. You usually expect to see them in economic downturns and perhaps we are due. I think Trump probably has a 5-10% chance of being assassinated. I think oftentimes about what America would look like afterwards.

* If you want to join us, go over to Gotnews.com and we’ll teach you how to become a better consumer of news and ultimately a producer.
The most important thing everyone can do is “not live by lies.”
Don’t teach the SJW bullshit to your children. Don’t pretend you believe it to get laid. Don’t say it to get promoted, etc.
Just walk away from the lies. It’ll be hard at first but then you’ll feel so good about yourself that you won’t want to stop.
Oh, and read this essay which I sort of plagiarized from just as second ago there. www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/SolhenitsynLies.php
Also read this one by Paul Graham to discover when you’re being sold a moral fashion. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Work very hard to make your life anti-fragile too so that no SJW mob can come try and lynch you. And if you can’t do that, send me some stories and I’ll write them for you.

* Part of the reason I did a research project on Deray McKesson is that I’m acutely aware of how Silicon Valley fascism teamed up with Black Lives Matter and Obama to try to push this fiction that white cops kill blacks disproportionately. That’s why I fought it so hard and that’s why I will continue to fight to expose those relationships. It’s why I’m so friendly with George Zimmerman.
McKesson is Jack Dorsey’s boyfriend. (Not a joke).
Yes, I got suspended from Twitter because I insulted a man’s secret boyfriend. It’s fucked up.
Mckesson is finished. When someone bothers to look into his time at Bowdoin College they’ll find what I found and it’ll all be over.
Oh, and remember, Donald Trump crushed McKesson when he was running for Mayor of Baltimore.

* >What inspired you to start up GotNews?

It kind of started as a joke, like, “Got Milk?” but then moved into something more serious.
I started as a researcher for Alan Dershowitz, who is still a good friend and I paid my way through college researching things for corporations, individuals, etc. and playing poker of course.
I realized that the way the social justice warriors maintain power is through the narrative and that news — and the way the human brain focuses on novelty — was how they maintained control. You could blow up those narratives and they would be left scrambling. Social justice warriors always lie! And I soon realized that people would come out of the woodwork and give you money to cause trouble. And they still do. gotnews.com/donate.
Shameless plug out of the way!

* >What fact angers the most people in your experience?

The IQ differential between racial populations.

* It’s weird how much weed and video games have emasculated some men. I think it’s all about making you become a part of the matrix.

>What are your personal thoughts on the whole Michelle Fields thing?
Do you think it was a deliberate smear attempt due to her feeling like she was not pampered enough by the campaign, or do you think she’s just so spoiled rotten and entitled that she convinced herself she was truly assaulted?
Also if you can’t comfortably answer that – alternate question, what do you think about how Trumps campaign handled the incident and do you feel it was recovered from?

It was an effort by Michelle Fields to get the limelight once again. She worked with her very rich boyfriend (((Jamie Weinstein))) to hijack the national discourse to promote herself and later her book. I think she is actually mentally ill. I don’t mean that in a derogatory way. I just think she is. I think it’s quite revealing that Jamie hasn’t made an honest woman of her yet.
The Trump campaign should have shared more of my articles. You’ll note that when they did the whole story changed. I don’t get why people don’t share my articles more often but I know that they read them. I’m sort of like a Steve Sailer for news! Megyn Kelly — when she wasn’t busy cheating with Brit Hume — even called my website discredited or some such. Naughty, naughty!

>Confirm some things about Obama.
Is he gay? Is his wife really a man/tranny? Is he really muslim? Is he Kenyan or Hawaiian or other? What are his real political views, since he had close dealings with communism/socialism in college and while growing up

Yes, he’s gay and had gay relationships.
I’m pretty sure she’s a woman but that she has high levels of testerone which is not uncommon for black women.
He was registered as a Muslim at a Catholic school he attended and I visited in Indonesia.
He is not Kenyan. Frank Marshall Davis is his father.
Frank Marshall Davis is a card-carrying Communist who is called Uncle Frank in “Obama’s book”. He was openly gay in Chicago and joined the gay club in 1979 at Occidental College. His boyfriend and he traveled to Pakistan in the 1980s. He’s a leftist, atheist gay guy who got married to a connected black woman to have a political career. He wanted to be mayor of Chicago.

>what are your thoughts on the Holocaust, WW2, and the JQ in general?

I do not and never have believed the six million figure which I think is still up for some historical debate. There were a number of sources that disputed the six million figure and I find myself in that camp reluctantly. Of course you can’t really discuss any of this stuff without being called a Holocaust denier which I am not. I think Jews were killed in the war, particularly in the Eastern occupied provinces. I think the Red Cross numbers of 250,000 dead in the camps from typhus are more realistic but I confess to having complicated views on the subject. I think the Allied bombings of Germany were a war crime. I agree with David Cole about Auschwitz and the gas chambers not being real. Why were their swimming pools there if it was a death camp? I support decriminalizing Holocaust inquiry. I read the German War (highly recommend), Bloodlands, Mein Kampf, and all of David Irving. I’m more or less of the view that the war was an outgrowth of the efforts of communism to spread itself throughout the world. I also believe that the fears of German extermination were not misplaced, especially in light of the Ukrainian famine. But I support Israel as a Jewish state and Zionism as a concept. I’m pro-ethno state, generally. I understand why and how Hitler rose to power but think too much of our focus on World War II is spent trying to understand Hitler and not enough is spent trying to understand Weimar. Mecius Moldbug, aka Curtis Yarvin, is right. America is a communist country.

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‘Trying the Feldenkrais Method for Chronic Pain’

New York Times: After two hourlong sessions focused first on body awareness and then on movement retraining at the Feldenkrais Institute of New York, I understood what it meant to experience an incredible lightness of being. Having, temporarily at least, released the muscle tension that aggravates my back and hip pain, I felt like I was walking on air.

I had long refrained from writing about this method of countering pain because I thought it was some sort of New Age gobbledygook with no scientific basis. Boy, was I wrong!

The Feldenkrais method is one of several increasingly popular movement techniques, similar to the Alexander technique, that attempt to better integrate the connections between mind and body. By becoming aware of how one’s body interacts with its surroundings and learning how to behave in less stressful ways, it becomes possible to relinquish habitual movement patterns that cause or contribute to chronic pain.

The method was developed by Moshe Feldenkrais, an Israeli physicist, mechanical engineer and expert in martial arts, after a knee injury threatened to leave him unable to walk. Relying on his expert knowledge of gravity and the mechanics of motion, he developed exercises to help teach the body easier, more efficient ways to move.

I went to the institute at the urging of Cathryn Jakobson Ramin, author of the recently published book “Crooked” that details the nature and results of virtually every current approach to treating back pain, a problem that has plagued me on and off (now mostly on) for decades. Having benefited from Feldenkrais lessons herself, Ms. Ramin had good reason to believe they would help me.

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LAT: ‘Six women accuse filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct’

Danielle Berrin told us all about Brett Ratner years ago. And she says she took it easy on him. I assume that means he masturbated in front of her. What’s with all these Jewish guys who like to corner women and whack off? Harvey Weinstein, James Toback, Dov Charney, Leon Wieseltier, Brett Ratner…

Los Angeles Times:

In interviews with the Los Angeles Times, Henstridge and five other women accused Ratner of a range of sexual harassment and misconduct that allegedly took place in private homes, on movie sets or at industry events.

As is often the case, none of the women reported the allegations to the police…

Olivia Munn said that while visiting the set of the 2004 Ratner-directed “After the Sunset” when she was still an aspiring actress, he masturbated in front of her in his trailer when she went to deliver a meal. Munn wrote about the incident in her 2010 collection of essays without naming Ratner. On a television show a year later, Ratner identified himself as the director, and claimed that he had “banged” her, something he later said was not true. The same year her book was published, Munn ran into Ratner at a party thrown by Creative Artists Agency and he boasted of ejaculating on magazine covers featuring her image, she told The Times.

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How To Spot A Liar

I generally despise TED talks, but this is a good one:

Truth #1: “Lying is a cooperative act.”

Truth #2. Everyone is willing to give you something for what they’re hungry for. Lying is an attempt to bridge that gap between who we wish we were and what we are really like.

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Prager University (PragerU) Takes Legal Action Against Google and YouTube for Discrimination

Press release: LOS ANGELES — Prager University (PragerU) has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to stop Google and YouTube from unlawfully censoring its educational videos and discriminating against its right to freedom of speech.

The lawsuit cites more than 50 PragerU videos which have either been “restricted” or “demonetized” by Google/YouTube. The PragerU videos range on various subjects presenting a conservative point of view, and include a video by noted Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz on the founding of Israel. PragerU previously compiled a complete list of their restricted videos here, which includes: “Why America Must Lead,” “The Ten Commandments: Do Not Murder,” “Why Did America Fight the Korean War,” and “The World’s Most Persecuted Minority: Christians.”

In correspondence cited in the filing, Google/YouTube made it clear that the censorship of certain videos was because they were deemed “inappropriate” for younger audiences.

“Watch any one of our videos and you’ll immediately realize that Google/YouTube censorship is entirely ideologically driven. For the record, our videos are presented by some of the finest minds in the Western world, including four Pulitzer Prize winners, former prime ministers, and professors from the most prestigious universities in America,” stated PragerU founder Dennis Prager.

Prager added, “They are engaging in an arbitrary and capricious use of their ‘restricted mode’ and ‘demonetization’ to restrict non-left political thought. Their censorship is profoundly damaging because Google and YouTube own and control the largest forum for public participation in video-based speech in not only California, but the United States, and the world.”

The total number of people who currently use YouTube exceeds 1.3 billion people. Google and YouTube advertise YouTube to the public as a forum intended to defend and protect free speech where members of the general public may express and exchange their ideas. They have represented that their platforms and services are intended to effectuate the exercise of free speech among the public. According to Google and YouTube: “voices matter.” YouTube states that it is “committed to fostering a community where everyone’s voice can be heard.”

“However,” said Eric George of Browne George Ross, the firm representing PragerU, “Google and YouTube use restricted mode filtering not to protect younger or sensitive viewers from ‘inappropriate’ video content, but as a political gag mechanism to silence PragerU. Google and YouTube do this not because they have identified video content that violates their guidelines or is otherwise inappropriate for younger viewers, but because PragerU is a conservative nonprofit organization that is associated with and espouses the views of leading conservative speakers and scholars.”

“This is speech discrimination plain and simple, censorship based entirely on unspecified ideological objection to the message or on the perceived identity and political viewpoint of the speaker,” said former California Governor Pete Wilson of Browne George Ross. “Google and YouTube’s use of restricted mode filtering to silence PragerU violates its fundamental First Amendment rights under both the California and United States Constitutions. It constitutes unlawful discrimination under California law, is a misleading and unfair business practice, and breaches the warranty of good faith and fair dealing implied in Google and YouTube’s own Terms of Use and ‘Community Guidelines.’”

“There is absolutely nothing ‘inappropriate’ about the content of the PragerU videos censored by Google and YouTube; the videos do not contain any profanity, nudity or otherwise inappropriate ‘mature’ content and they fully comply with the letter of YouTube’s Terms of Use and Community Guidelines,” said Marissa Streit, PragerU’s chief executive officer who has engaged in a year-long-effort to try and persuade Google to stop censoring PragerU content. Streit continues, “It’s clear that someone doesn’t like what we teach and so they intend on stopping us from teaching it. Can you imagine what the world would look like if Google is allowed to continue to arbitrarily censor ideas they simply don’t agree with?”

“This is not a left/right issue. It is a free speech issue, which is why prominent liberals, such as Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, are supporting our lawsuit,” Prager concluded.

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