There was an interesting article on Adrienne's blog today about an ongoing problem in certain Conservative circles: anti-Catholicism. It seems that some yahoo calling himself 'Wild Bill' Finlay posted a rhetorical question on Facebook: Should basic Bible knowledge be required to become Pope? The evident purpose of this meme was to elicit a throng of Catholic-bashing comments, which it did.
Well, to answer Finlay's question we'll mention a brief point. Finlay lists his theological training as Montana Bible College in Bozeman, Montana. Pope Francis' include San Jose University (Argentina); the Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San Miguel (Argentina); Milltown Institute of Philosophy and Theology (Dublin, Ireland); St. George Graduate School of Theology (Frankfurt, Germany). I think that we can safely assume that Francis had some basic Bible knowledge far above that of Finlay's.
But that aside, the commentary on Finlay's page often descended into gutter-level Catholic-bashing on par with some of the 19th Century Know-Nothing Party's anti-Irish propaganda. And 'Wild Bill' didn't criticize any of it. Instead, he took a writer named Allison Lombardi to task for daring to stand up to these bigots.
"OK, Allison," he wrote rather ominously, "You pulled a pin on a grenade, now get ready for the blast!"
"I'm not sure what you mean by that." she replied.
"If you want to defend the Catholic Faith, you better be prepared to get hammered with a lot of questions about some really questionable Catholic Doctrines. False religion is a serious threat to this country...so be prepared to have some battles on here...hopefully it will remain civil..."
Regular readers here will note that this is a very common rhetorical tactic frequently employed by Manosphere Red Pill types like Dalrock, Vox Day, Rollo Tomassi, etc. There's actually a term for it: the Delphi Technique. Basically it's a device for achieving a desired consensus by triangulating a group discussion. Finlay throws out a topic; gets the desired response, then turns the discussion against a single critic. And note too the hints of violence that are subtly planted in that brief exchange.
Besides that, for all his pretensions of being a theological expert, most of "the really questionable Catholic Doctrines" brought up by his readers are explained in the Catholic Catechism; which most of us read around age 12 before Confirmation.
Finlay garnered a lot of publicity and support in the Summer of 2017 when he was detained and deported from Canada as an undesirable alien. He was scheduled to speak at a political rally and "peaceful protest." The fact that Canadian authorities stopped him at the airport and seized his computer for forensic analysis tends to make us a bit suspicious that a simple 'hate crime' was not their motivation, as Wild Bill strongly suggested.
And there's reason to suspect that there's latent violence behind Finlay's activism, judging by the company he keeps. He's done public appearances with the psychologically-unbalanced Rev. James Manning. Manning believes that homosexuals should be executed by stoning and that Starbucks adulterates its coffee to induce homosexuality in its consumers. Manning praised ISIS once for destroying cultural artifacts on the grounds that ancient statues of Middle Eastern deities promotes idolatry.
Finlay is also a close associate of the Rev. Terry Jones whose great claim-to-fame was holding public book-burnings of the Koran and other Islamic literature. (I guess this is belated retaliation for the Moslem burning of the Alexandrian Library in the 7th Century). Jones shares with Finlay expulsion from a foreign country: in 2009, he was deported from Germany for running afoul of German anti-cult laws. Finlay, Manning, and Jones were all close to the late Rev. Fred Phelps. The four together could make a Mount Rushmore of Fanaticism.
We don't need kooks and charlatans like these in the Conservative Movement. They alienate people and give others a false impression of what we stand for and represent.
UPDATE: Since writing this article, Adrienne also uncovered today Finlay's connection with a multi-level-marketing 'patriot' site. That supports our suspicion about him employing the Delphi Technique. The Delphi Technique is studied and used by many engaged in marketing and sales professions.
The track team at Holmdel High School in New Jersey had a problem. Some loser was "on a daily basis" defecating on their field. Unlike the progressive cities here on the West Coast, Eastern cities don't consider public urination and defecation a human right.
So, to their credit, the Holmdel Track & Field Team took some initiative. With the help of the local police, they set up surveillance cameras and took turns arriving the field during the wee hours of the morning to apprehend the miscreant. And today, their efforts paid off. Police arrested 42 year-old Thomas Tramaglini of Matawan and charged him with Lewdness, Littering, and Defecating in Public.
And it turns out that Tramaglini is the School Superintendent of the nearby Kenilworth School District.
Tramaglini was nominated for this $147,000 position in December 2015. His salary is about four times higher than the median income of Kenilworth. In 2013, at his previous position, he was awarded the Outstanding Educator Award by the New Jersey Teachers' Union.
Kenilworth Board of Education Chairman Gregg David said upon the hiring: "Dr. Tramaglini has an impressive background with great experience; he has a commitment to student achievement while achieving superior standards of academic excellence." Yes, well, according to Areavibes, Kenilworth's students' test-scores stand currently at 34% below average for New Jersey and 42% below average for the United States as a whole.
No worries, though. After Tramaglini was arrested, Kenilworth officials put him on a paid leave of absence. That's right: he still draws his bloated salary while in jail and beyond.
Tramaglini's case is another example of why we need swamp draining in the public schools---and soon. The fact that obvious mental cases like Tramaglini can rise to such prominence in our schools is a national disgrace.
May Day in the United States used to be a fun day; especially for kids. I can remember in school making May Baskets and building maypoles. Most towns used to have a May Day parade and a May Day pageant where young beauties competed to be the 'May Queen'. It was the unofficial start of Summer in many localities.
These days, though, May Day is a time for Anarchists, Bolsheviks, Communists, LaRouchites, and every other political malcontent to take over the streets and behave like the violent drug-addicts that most of them are. The Whacko Left dominates these spectacles, although in recent years the Alt-RINOs have been joining in the May Day Mayhem.
Since this is the first day of the month, the protesters usually get going in the afternoon. They have to cash their welfare checks and pick up their psychiatric drugs in the morning; before confronting the police and demanding overthrow of the government. Usually too these protests target or disrupt local businesses. The same businesses whose exorbitant tax burdens subsidize these parasites.
This year, it appears that Paris, France had the worst riots. But that may be because the French police actually arrest rioters and try to stop them from destroying property. In most of the Left-Wing cities of the US Pacific Coast, it's really difficult for protesters to get thrown in jail. That way, the Corporate Media can report that all the demonstrations were peaceful no matter how many personal injuries or property damage actually happened.
Rather than meditate on these gloomy occurrences, however, we should examine how these extremists have ruined nearly holiday in this country and how we can take them back. President Trump has given us a good start by proclaiming May 1st Loyalty Day, reviving a long-forgotten American tradition.
Loyalty Day was enacted by Congress in 1955 and proclaimed by President Eisenhower on May 1st of that year. Here is what President Trump had to say:
"On Loyalty Day, we reflect with humility and gratitude upon the freedom we hold dear, and we reaffirm our allegiance to our Nation and its founding principles. We cherish our system of self-government whereby each American is free to exercise his God-given and inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We honor and defend our Constitution, which constrains the power of our government and allows us freely to exercise these rights. We recognize the great responsibility that accompanies a free people, and vow to protect our hard-won liberties."
But you wouldn't know these words were ever spoken if you were watching the Corporate Media. They would, however, stick a microphone into the face of any black-clad, semi-literate sans-culotte spouting off about American 'oppression'.
And therein lies how we can take our holidays back. Ignore the Mainstream Media. Put up Christmas and Easter decorations and stand on your rights to free speech. Do things that honor Christopher Columbus, George Washington, and Abe Lincoln. Kick the homos out of St. Valentine's and St. Patrick's days. We can and should follow Trump's lead and start pushing back.
Since last week's historic summit at Panmunjom, the Liberal Corporate Media and the Swamp RINOs have been seething with rage that their hopes for a Second Korean War is slipping through their fingers. This weekend at Mass, Pope Francis expressed hope for global peace and disarmament.
The Pope sent out a message on Twitter to this effect; which incited a firestorm on the Internet. This, notwithstanding the fact that Popes and other Christian leaders have been speaking of futures where men beat their swords into plowshares. Yet many are throwing up their hands in pious horror that a Christian leader actually speaks out against the proliferation of war materials.
What many fail to understand is that modern warfare is simply too expensive in both lives and money to fight. It really has been since the 1950's. As an example, the 2017 and 2018 missile strikes on Syria cost a quarter-billion dollars combined: and that's only the cost of the missiles employed. The cost of deploying ships, paying technicians , sailors, pilots, etc. likely doubled the cost. And nothing has changed in Syria because of it.
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain---which Francis' predecessor John Paul II helped bring about--- a phony philosophy arose in the United States called the Pax Americana. The Bushes, the Clintons, Obama, and all off their hangers-on are firm believers in it. Historically, American National Defense Policy has been to maintain a military strong enough that no one would dare attack us. Pax Americana theorists believe that we should maintain a military strong enough to impose our leaders' will on any country anywhere in the world at anytime and for whatever reason (or pretext) our leaders choose. Part and parcel of that belief holds that the foreign policy of the US and that of the UN are indistinguishable.
Now when the Pope calls for international disarmament, he's clearly not talking about abolishing militaries used for internal security and defense. What he's talking about are the international arms-traffickers who make billions off inciting wars abroad. Supporting these gangs is not what Conservatism is all about. As Benjamin Harrison---one of our first modern Conservatives said: "We Americans have no Divine Mandate to police the entire world." And we would add to that we certainly have no Divine Mandate to police it on behalf of the freebooters in the American Deep State.
It's time that we re-examined our international policies in this respect. We should never back down when our national interests are genuinely threatened by a foreign power. But peace should always be our top priority. It doesn't make us weak to seek peace; it makes us right.
Dr. Rookh Kshatriya---one of the early intellectuals of the Manosphere, and one of the few in that community who still writes anything worth reading---has also written a piece analyzing events in Toronto. For those not familiar with Dr. Kshatriya's writings, he has postulated a theory that Anglo-American culture has become more sexually repressive since the advent of Radical Feminism despite outward appearances. The so-called Cultural Elites, to maintain this illusion, promote what he calls a Sexual False Consciousness.
Sexual False Consciousness may be briefly explained as the difference between how the media portrays the average person's sexual/romantic lives against what happens in reality.
"In the wake of Minassian's foolish deed, almost every Anglosphere news outlet has been asking 'What is an INCEL' as if INCELs constituted only a tiny minority! In reality about one-third of people under 30 in the United States are involuntarily celibate, according to the US Center for Disease Control."
Yes, this is true. And it also illustrates the number of men vulnerable to radicalization is very high. This, by the way, is exactly why we've said that censorship will fail.
It's a biological and sociological fact that sexually deprived men become more aggressive. It the days before Cultural Marxism took over America, society channeled that aggression into constructive pursuits. Thus we had all-male venues like the military, team sports, commerce, politics, and other professions. But our postmodern dystopia not only represses men sexually; it also closes avenues of achievement to them by subordinating them to women and homosexuals. Then, to make it worse; the media taunts them by treating them as 'losers' if they aren't having regular sex.
As evidence of this, notice that the American males of 'Generation Snowflake' are simultaneously the most pampered and the most ruthlessly violent men in our history. They run to Safe Spaces at the slightest affront; but think nothing of slaughtering dozens of innocents in schools, churches, or concerts.
As a medical professional, Dr. Kshatriya understands what social engineers don't: that gender differences are fixed and that they cannot be legislated out of existence. Laws need to be reformed and reconstructed along those lines.
And here the good doctor puts his finger on the root of the problem: "Media-induced Sexual False Consciousness is rampant in our society...Everyone has to keep silent while the naked emperor of sexual liberation walks abroad, pretending that they too are banging models every night. Of course almost no one is; but none can break ranks to discuss openly the frigid hostility of most Anglo-American females for fear of ridicule and ostracism."
As a doctor, Kshatriya knows that the first step to effecting a cure is admitting that a problem really exists. That's as true of social diseases as it is of physical ones.
Since the Election of 2016, we have a window of opportunity to address these problems. Trump has shown us that the Corporate Media is built upon a tissue of lies spun by ignoramuses and degenerates---and can be ignored with impunity. He's also shown us that Political Correctness is a paper tiger and men can push back against it. What Dr. Kshatriya calls "the fear of ridicule and ostracism" must be overcome if we want to put a permanent stop to this whole 'Gender War' nonsense. And that nonsense is being pushed both by the Feminist Left and the Red Pill Alt-RINO Right.
David Futrelle---who is a male feminist and far-Left politically---wrote an editorial yesterday in Elle Magazine about the social dangers posed by radicalized men in the INCEL movement. Futrelle's piece has a lot of predictably Radical Feminist bias; but his analysis of what fuels INCEL (and the Red Pills generally) is generally accurate. We're going to offer some commentary here on the passages that show some insight and summarize with its relevance to us as Conservatives.
"What makes the INCEL subculture so dangerous for young men who engage in it" Futrelle says, "is that it takes the bitterness and sadness we sometimes feel when faced with sexual and romantic frustrations and turns this misery into a mode of being. Instead of encouraging them to move on from their disappointments, the INCEL subculture encourages young men to stew in their own bitterness."
This is entirely true; at least as far as the objectives of INCEL leaders and pundits go. The problem that I've seen among most in this movement is that sexual/romantic frustration is an effect; rather than a cause of their radicalism. However, Futrelle is correct in that men who've become emotionally vulnerable are easy prey for Red Pill propaganda.
In our last article, we pointed out the desperate need for male leaders and men of maturity and experience to step up to the plate and start offering alternative advice to the Red Pills and the INCELs. The lack of these kinds of men is leaving the field wide-open for Radicals to recruit them.
Futrelle goes on to make another good point: "INCEL culture tells young men that their problems are unfixable...INCELs direct so much hatred at the outside world---and at women in particular---that it's easy to lose sight of the many ways that INCEL culture promotes a deep and hopeless form of self-hatred."
As a political 'Progressive', it's doubtful that Futrelle puts much stock in Classical Psychology, but he's basically explaining the same dynamic as what the Psychoanalysts call projection. To be specific: sexual frustration may not necessarily lead to self-hatred, but it does bring out such thoughts and suspicions. The INCEL propagandists validate those suspicions---and at the same time they cultivate in their dupes the belief that people outside of their victims' ego-fields are responsible for it. In other words, the typical INCEL feels worthless, but he believes that worthlessness has been imposed on him by others. It's not hard to see how men in this state of mind can become extremely dangerous. And their leaders, in turn, incite them to acts of violence which they themselves haven't the courage to commit.
Futrelle goes on to warn that "if these young men aren't stopped" there would be more like George Sodini, Eliot Roger, and Alec Minassian. Unfortunately, he's right about that too; although he doesn't explain here how they should be stopped. Of course, we can all point out that Feminism is radicalizing and cultivating self-hatred in women too. But that isn't the point.
The point is that the failure of Conservatives to address this issue of male radicalization is effectively ceding the Moral High Ground to the Left, like David Futrelle and the SPLC. We have seen some hope among Christian Conservatives like the Southern Baptist Convention and the Conference of Catholic Bishops. But much more needs to be done and said---especially by our political leadership. We need men like William F. Buckley who exorcised from Conservatism the Birchers and the Randians; the Alt-Right of his day.
Despite what the Red Pills say, maintaining the Moral High Ground is the key to our movement's ultimate victory. Without it, we're no better than the Left.
So it's happened yet again: one of the Red Pill disciples went berserk and hoped to impress his leaders by committing mass-murder. Alec Minassian by his own admission is part of the INCEL sect of the Manosphere. He was inspired by the murders committed by Eliot Roger in 2014---who also was a believer in INCEL.
The INCELs are somewhat similar to the MGTOWs of the Manosphere. The difference is that MGTOWs have no desire to have relationships with women; INCELs do have the desire but can't/won't act up on it. The term is a portmanteau of involuntarily celibate. Now most of us men are in this state from time to time, but INCELs consider this a permanent condition. The founders of the movement were reacting to a real social problem; the disparity in male to female ratios giving a lack of sexual opportunity. What they advocated were changes in laws---most of them quite sensible---to address the issue. Things like making fiancee visas easier to get, relaxing AOC laws, repealing many of the Clinton Era's politically-correct gender rules, etc.
But like the rest of the Manosphere, the INCELs became extremely radicalized. The sorts of men it came to attract were the lowest of social, political, and sexual misfits. These are the types of guys who wouldn't have success with women (or much of anything else) regardless of social conditions. Even under pagan tribalism, few fathers likely would even consent to sell their daughters to cretins like these. On their websites they hold Eliot Roger up as a hero and celebrate the anniversary of the Isla Vista killings. Men like these are losers no matter how you slice it.
One of the writers at Incel.me called 'BlkPllPres' was giddy with excitement over the attacks and bragged that Minassian had probably read his article published on March 18th. It's worth reading because it illustrates perfectly the mentality of these fools:
"I think that mass shootings are too pointless anyway. I want to see some mass food poisoning deaths, maybe a bomb or two, or hopefully somebody just uses a f----g truck to ram down roasties* {*a vulgar neologism invented by the Red Pill Cultists as a slur against women} at a school parade or something...The one I can't wait for, the one that will really punish normies* {*another bit of Red Pill parlance; 'normies' are normal men who have normal relationships with women---unlike these 'enlightened' ones who know better) and really punish society is when the first INCEL mass/serial rapes start occurring; when a guy leaves a manifesto just before killing himself admitting to all the rapes he's done. The will be the best ER* ever. {ER is their shorthand for 'Eliot Roger'; used to describe any terroristic act committed on behalf of their ideology}.
This goes on to explain why raping-sprees are so wonderful: "Because after the act, his victims don't just 'get to die' and their families 'move on.' These women will be traumatized and some might even kill themselves...their families will have to endure the shame that comes with this, the women will have to relive this every day and spend months or years in therapy sessions. Not to mention that we will be spamming the rapist's image and memeing him into an immortal internet presence like we have with Eliot Roger. They won't ever be able to forget; society won't be able to forget: and it is at that moment that normies will truly fear us."
Well---no: I doubt seriously that any normal, red-blooded man is going to cower in fear other men who go around raping defenseless women for sport. I think that, if this happened in reality, the INCELs would likely be hunted down by packs of vigilantes and the authorities would likely look the other way at such reprisals.
That aside, though, there's nothing in the above quote that's materially different from what the propagandists for ISIS and other Wahhabi cults write of their own strategies. Since we began this blog we have made it clear that one of Civilization's greatest threats are radical cults. Just like Wahhabism is not a religion but a cult; so the Red Pill is not a philosophy but a cult. And Canada---our neighbor to the north---has seen the bloody results of both cults when drawn to their logical conclusions.
How Canada will react is unknown; that country's commitment to free speech is not nearly as rigid as ours. And censorship is not the answer anyway. Our society needs leaders-----especially community leaders like pastors, bishops, local politicians, and local media figures to give the weight of their authority speaking out against the dangers of radicalization. And frankly men, collectively, need to do a better job of self-policing like our fathers and grandfathers did. When we start seeing young men in our circles drifting into radicalism---talk it out with them. A lot of these guys are in this spot because they lacked male mentoring. The Red Pill leaders---like ISIS---offers them respect and the opportunity 'to be somebody'. But these vulnerable men are so blinded at the prospects that they don't see the price tag attached. That's what mature men can show them.
