There follows a guest post by Dr. Raminder Mulla, Amy Willows and Rusere Shoniwa, who decided that rather than just listen to the lazy stereotypes of sceptics portrayed in the press, academia and Government, they would go and find out what people actually thought.
“Anti-vaxxers want to kill your babies,” screamed the ‘Fleet Street Fox’ in a September 2021 opinion piece for the Mirror. “These people are terrorists” she added, as if baby killing alone was insufficient to evoke searing hatred against a minority of people whose real crime was merely opting out of a medical treatment – a right codified after the Nuremberg trials to prevent a repeat of the crimes committed by Nazi doctors in World War II German concentration camps.
Such headlines arguably constitute the crime of incitement to violence. After all, if there was a gang of baby killers on the loose, many might justifiably regard it as their civic duty to halt them at all costs. And history teaches us that vigilantism can be highly imaginative and resourceful once the fire has been lit.
Giving an academic veneer to the kind of wild-eyed claims made by the Fleet Street Fox, a January 2021 study by Miguel et al concluded that people who eschewed compliance with Covid containment measures were more likely to display “lower levels of empathy and higher levels of callousness, deceitfulness, and risk-taking”.
Is there any truth in this? Prompted by a desire to foster genuine understanding between different sides of the Covid camp, a new study led by Dr. Raminder Mulla digs into this question. “Looking Into Their Eyes“, a riposte to the slogan deployed in the Government Covid safety campaign, asks dissidents of lockdown, mask, and vaccine mandate narratives to express their motivations, feelings, and thoughts in their own words.
The Fleet Street Fox will be disappointed with the study’s findings. Unsurprisingly, the authors discovered that this vilified group are anything but baby killers or terrorists. Crucially, they did not evince the stereotypical tropes about ‘anti-vaxxers’ that have been propagated in the mainstream and social media.
Simply put, the participants believe that lockdowns were a state overreach. They oppose lockdowns because of the burden placed on the entire population irrespective of risk, the collateral damage caused, and the imposition on civil liberties and individual freedom. As one participant put it:
What have you got if you haven’t got freedom? What is there? There’s nothing! You’ve got nothing if you’re not free to work, to go out when you want to, to travel. What is there? There is nothing. What is the point of anything without freedom?
Given that freedom was the West’s rallying cry against the tyranny of Communism throughout the entire Cold War, it’s hard for those who opposed the Government’s Covid containment policies to understand how a disease whose risk dependencies were heavily skewed against the frail and elderly could warrant the ongoing house arrest of virtually the entire Western world, with very few exceptions.
Addressing the label of ‘anti-vax’ directly, the study finds that most of its participants were not opposed to vaccination in principle but did express doubts about the rapid development and deployment of the current Covid vaccines and their side effects. None of the study participants subscribed to unusual theories, referencing 5G or nanobots, with which this group is often stereotyped.
Delving into the participants’ values, the study finds that most emphasised personal responsibility and autonomy in health and other affairs and the importance of the maxim to ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’
There was unanimity in the view that death is not something to be avoided at all costs. Instead, there was a clear prioritisation of quality of life over length of life. Participants were of the view that Covid containment policies had not only directly harmed life prospects on so many fronts but that the assault on quality of life was also unjustifiable.
Many participants were not personally inconvenienced in practical ways by the lockdown measures, but some gave accounts of being ostracised from activities owing to their choices on masking and vaccination. A major challenge for most was managing relationships with friends and family who had different views of the situation. This was done through a mixture of arguments and often simply avoiding the subject. Participants expressed frustration at the futility of trying to shift others’ viewpoints through rational discourse.
As a result of their experience over the past two years, participants reported significantly increased levels of mistrust in the state, medical profession, and vaccination as a medical practice. Running parallel to this was an overriding mistrust of their fellow citizens borne out of a sense of disbelief at the ease with which most people had acquiesced to a state of affairs participants regarded as highly abnormal – namely, uncritical compliance with the Covid state.
Despite the disappointment some interviewees expressed with those who unquestioningly complied with the Covid narrative, they did not wish them harm or inconvenience. In contrast, other studies have shown that this attitude of non-malevolence is not reciprocated by the compliant towards the non-compliant, whom the compliant view as deserving of unemployment, impoverishment and censorship.
We found no evidence to paint Covid narrative dissidents as anti-social misfits lacking in empathy. Instead, what we found was a group of people who had consulted reliable independent media sources and come to their own conclusions independently of the Government and mainstream media narrative. This used to be the bedrock of our democracies. This group had formulated very different, but not unreasonable, views from the majority as to how Covid should have been managed. We do not shy away from the anger these people feel. But ultimately, the most pressing concern of our participants was whether the obsession with extending life had destroyed the experience of being alive:
I’m not scared of dying, I’m scared of not living. That is my thing. It’s what being human is. You can’t have life without death. It wouldn’t have any meaning would it, to be alive if there wasn’t the counter of death. I don’t particularly fear death to the point that it would dictate me hiding myself away from Covid.
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I don’t watch or listen to them.
They are called the legacy media for a reason.
Most people get their news elsewhere – and for good reason – they cannot be trusted to tell the truth nor cover allegedly controversial issues which are only controversial because the opponents don’t want the public told the truth.
Go to this video at 1h 34m 47s Why the Establishment Hates This Man | Tommy Robinson | EP 462 Jordan B Peterson Jul 8, 2024
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Why the Establishment Hates This Man | Tommy Robinson | EP 462 Jordan B Peterson Jul 8, 2024
Dr. Jordan Peterson and Tammy Peterson sit down in-person with journalist and activist Tommy Robinson. They discuss why he was recently detained in Calgary, the lawfare being waged against him and the film he is attempting to screen, the story behind the film, why he became an activist, the brutality of the UK grooming gangs, and the cowardice of the government that is actively enabling it.
Tommy Robinson is a British journalist and activist who first became an establishment target after reporting on the grooming gangs in London. From then on he and his family have suffered sacrifice and punishment for attempting to out those who are enabling the grotesque brutality of Islamic extremism. This episode was recorded on June 30, 2024
Very few of the thousands of child rapists in the grooming gangs were prosecuted. Only a handful in each UK town where the gangs had been allowed to operate free of UK police interference.
One reason for this is that the UK has become a recognised centre for planning muslim terrorist attacks.
For decades MI5 have used and controlled paedophiles as assets including senior figures in positions of authority in the UK.
How MI5 protected child sex abusers in the notorious Kincora Boys’ HomeJournalist Chris Moore – the author of book ‘The Kincora Scandal’ – writes about how the secret service helped cover up sex abuse
Kincora is just one example. There were similar examples of state childrens’ homes Wales, UK being used for similar purposes to provide children to paedophiles in prominent positions in the UK and so keep them under control doing what MI5’s masters wanted them to do by blackmail.
Tommy Robinson’s home town of Luton UK was named by the CIA as the centre for terrorist activities across Europe. The fertilizer bomb plot was planned in Luton. The UK 7/7 attacks got their bombs in Luton. The Stockholm bomber was radicalized in Luton. Terrorist attack after terrorist attack was orchestrated from Luton.
So the British Establishment is so perverted that it is considered a reasonable trade off to have innocent white British girls aged 12 and 13 to be groomed and then forced into prostitution whilst their families could do nothing as the British police stood aside to let it all happen.
And they won’t tell you that on The BBC, Sky, Channel 4 or in any of the legacy media.
If you want the BBC’s version and Sweeney’s version you can read some of it here – which is at odds with Tommy Robinson’s account and amounts to a denial of the documentary faking allegations by Robinson:
BBC journalist leaves after 17 years with parting shot at Tommy Robinson: ‘He’s a complete c***’ Lizzie Dearden Home Affairs Correspondent The Independent Thursday 03 October 2019
What is difficult to understand is why in 2019 Sweeney felt he had to leave the BBC merely for “some offensive and inappropriate remarks”.
Others who engaged in far more serious conduct like most recently Huw Edwards were not sacked – at least in Edwards’ case not until he had admitted paedophile activies and pleaded guitly in court and was convicted in court.
I remember Pano-Drama. Think it was back in 2018 and it really opened my eyes to the depth of the mendacity of the MSM.
You must turn off all msm. It is not fit for purpose and serves no purpose. Turn it off. See how good it feels.
It’s a bit fucking late to have this sentiment now, Boris.
Absolute bell end.
Yes you beat me to it ! From king of the castle to news paper columnist
He was a very ‘sound’ columnist before entering Parliament and seems to be reverting to type now.
WTF happened in between?
And this tactic really gets my goat
“We have a problem with criminal gangs who have, for years, been bringing migrants across the English Channel in small boats.”
The criminals are in the boats.
Don’t make it out that the illegals are forced across the channel by people-traffickers selling them into the sex trade. The illegals are paying customers.
“WTF happened in between?”
Nothing.
Talk is cheap.
Boris has no backbone. He’s a posh twat acting as a salesman.
I agree with what he says and writes, but he can’t execute.
“Got Brexit done.” I could have done that in one second: “we’ve left the building, bye!” Done.
Imagine if you or I (or any of the other fine commenters on DS) somehow managed to be in a position to stop the rot and enact some real change for the better.
And then right-royally screwed up and did the opposite.
As a minimum, we’d surely feel that our right to be heard had been forfeited. And some of us would probably do the honourable thing in the library, with a bottle of whisky and a revolver.
Yes all I can say is the stopped Clock analogy. But he himself brought an illegal immigrant amnesty when he was London Mayor. The Tories lied in both their manifestoes and wonder why there is such little trust left in politics. Good discussion on that in the latest Neil Oliver Show.
And he had another little job in between; Mayor of London. Must have done something then!
Yep
Leave Bunter in the gutter where he belongs – scum of the earth.
But Boris where were you when we needed you ! You could have saved us from all this !!!!… Too Late to start moaning now ! You had an 80 seat majority FFS !!!!
“Starmer’s Irregulars” makes them sound like an invading army.
Well that is something he got right – they are an invading army.
Uncle Kneel’s Starmtroopers.
Connor Tomlinson does an excellent job at covering all the negatives this relentless mass immigration results in. I think it’s safe to say the jury’s in and we’re not benefitting from it in any way, shape or form. On the contrary, it’s only the migrants themselves that get any benefits;
”Immigrants also commit different kinds of crime to native Brits. Outside Europe, East Asia, and the Anglosphere, the worth of a woman or child is purely instrumental to the power or pleasure of the most violent man. Hence why Islamic honour-based violence has risen by 60% in two years and by 193% since 2016. When Britain sees a 75% annual rise in acid attacks on women, which formerly only occurred in the Middle East, south Asia, and Africa, we might be forgiven for supposing that we are dealing here with an imported pastime.
Violence against women and girls is not only a phenomenon within immigrant households. Anti-white rape gangs in towns like Rotherham, Rochdale, and Telford have groomed over 4,000 girls. A 2020 Home Office review found the Pakistani perpetrators were three times more likely than white Britons to commit child sexual offences. A GB News investigation found that 1 in every 2,200 Muslim males, and 1 in 1,700 Pakistanis, have been prosecuted for child sex offences between 1997 and 2017.
Rather than tailor immigration policy accordingly, the annual increase in illegal entrants presents another avenue for predators to exploit British women and girls. The BBC reports that a record 18,467 people or so have broken into Britain via the English Channel already in 2024.
Foreign criminals regard our wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters as the spoils of war. The government knows about this, and does nothing. What more is to be debated here?
The point being made is that every one of these criminals does not need to be here. Every one of their victims would be alive, unmolested, if not for government policy. Every crime committed by an immigrant is both an avoidable tragedy, and a result of choices made by politicians, civil servants, lawyers, and NGOs.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/the-immigration-debate-is-over/
All true of course. It is interesting, however, that it always seems to be that there only two types of people – bad males and females. Nothing inbetween and nothing on either side. I’m always reminded of when Boko Haram hit the headlines in 2014 after taking two hundred odd girls hostage. An international outcry was heard and every single member of polite society showed their anger and support. This same terror group had been butchering Christian boys for years – thousands has been slaughtered because they posed a potential threat – yet not a dickie bird to be heard from anyone. It’s almost as if Western society only values female life. We should try to remember that these animals are more likely to rape women but kill men. As with all things in life, if we want to resist then we should unite and not see everything through a single lens.
I live in a fairly small town in East Central Scotland. Maybe 20,000 people. In the last year alone I have noticed an astonishing amount of new arrivals, mostly Black and Asian. They are appearing out of thin air. ——-Liberal Progressive open border people would say to me “What have you got against Black and Asian people then”? —-The answer is NOTHING. But I say to them “Why are you bringing these people here in such huge numbers”? “How many people do you think can comfortably live in this country and does it not bother you that you are changing the countries demographic so that it is turning into something that looks more like Bangladesh and Nigeria than the place our parents grew up in”? ——————-Clearly it does not
Valid points like that is what 2TK is trying to silence!
I guess this means the rioters should now be called ‘irregular protesters’?
Oh no. “Hard right” will do nicely for these enemies of the state.
As the judge said….You can no longer have “anti-establishment views”.
Johnson is despicable.
Johnson is a . . . johnson.
Speaking of which, do you think this dirty b’stard got arrested? If he’d had a Union Jack anywhere on his person he would have, but chances are he wouldn’t be doing this in the first place. But as things stand, ‘cultural differences’ give many dirtbags and psychos a free pass. Not an isolated incident either as there’s loads of similar vids circulating of men doing this on public transport;
”Why should we be subjected to this as women . I hope it was reported to police. Or may be women feel police won’t take us seriously! Glad someone caught this on camera though!”
https://x.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1827246047892017211
Indeed.
Not mentally ill and therefore understandable (though still unacceptable) – normal behaviour for a black man-child.
Nothing better that Nuremberg 2 for his types. Also people like Piers Morgan who used his huge platform to shame those that saw through the Covid PsyOp!
Is this the same bloke who locked us in our houses, closed the schools, tried to introduce vaccine passports, bankrupted the country & effectively banned free speech?
You must be mistaken. He’s a lovely fella. Just look at his friendly scarecrow mop. Lovely.
I would have hoped that the DS treated its readers and contributors with a little more respect. Trying to shovel this sort of nonsense down our throats smacks of the same contempt shown by MSM and the State. Read the room Toby.
And even organisations like this one have things crawling out of the woodwork now: BBC jab injury story, broadcast on “Points West” 23/8/2024: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2g921rd2lo . Somewhat biased about risk assessments, a cynic might observe – after all, why would someone like that be using a novel drug as early as that at all?
Yes maybe this article would be better received on Sp!ked. After all, they think the Warp Speed was a wonderful thing on there.
Johnson sounding off about blatantly illegal immigration is about as palatable as him railing against adultery.
It is like Mystic Meg complaining about folk who don’t adopt a rational and common sense approach to life.
Bozo forfeited any right to be heard when he surrendered to the Davos Deviants in March 2020.
I’m not interested in anything that Fat Oaf has to say about anything.
For 2+ years, he stood at the Downing St Lectern and at the Dispatch Box blatantly lying about the dangers of Covid ….. knowing full well that it was a Low Consequence Infectious Disease.
He stripped us of our Civil and Human Rights; allowed Sunak to blow up the economy; Big Pharma to kill thousands and injure millions with their dodgy concoction; and he put in place the rules to import millions of low-paid, low-skill immigrants and their extended families AND inflicted the Net Zero Lunacy on us.
He did more long-term damage to this country than Hitler.
I don’t call them illegal or irregular migrants.
They’re criminals, breaking and entering into this country, so that’s what I call them.
The entire Political Class are parasites. Some of the parasites are just worse. —LABOUR
He also made so much money he was able to buy £3m property!!
Davos rewards? maybe just like the treasonous Theresa May.
Superb post.
Here’s another bandwagon the clown is jumping on! Firstly Brexit, which he erroneously claimed as his doing and now illegal immigration which Farage had campaigned against and now Johnson is speaking out about – he is beneath contempt!
The Liberal Progressive Political Class don’t protect the border because they don’t think there should be one.
Labour want to STOP THE BOATS, but the bad news is they want to START THE SHIPS.
The use of the word irregular is double newspeak. The instances of small boats arriving seems to be very regular indeed.
This excellent short article makes a welcome accompaniment to the above article. How the likes of Blackrock run the world.
https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/23/fascism-2-0-globalism-and-the-subjects-of-interest/
“According to a report by Oxfam, during the pandemic, the world’s wealthiest individuals saw their fortunes rise dramatically, with the ten richest men doubling their wealth from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion. This surge highlights a broader trend where the wealthiest 1% gained $1.4 trillion.
Meanwhile, the world’s poor and middle classes, including small and medium-sized businesses, collectively lost around $1.3 trillion due to economic disruptions.
Just consider the local shops people were no longer visiting during lockdown. Instead, of course, they were buying from Amazon.”
These irregulars arrive on a very regular basis – regular as clockwork!
Never forgive or forget the politicians who are doing this
Man throws stones into own glass house.
I am sorry, but I never want to hear anything Boris Johnson has to say ever again.
He was useless as a leader. He never solved the problem of illegal immigration’s despite having a huge majority in parliament.
I have absolutely no time for this man.
What is that call when a government decides to change the definition of words? Communism, insanity, incompetence?