As regular readers of the Daily Sceptic will have seen, the French philosopher Renaud Camus, coiner of the useful term ‘The Great Replacement’ – used to describe the rapid and obvious demographic shift taking place across Europe – was last month banned from entering the UK from France to explain his ideas to a meeting of the obscure anti-immigration Homeland Party. The rationale given by the Home Office is that his presence here would “not [be] considered to be conducive to the public good”. On that same basis, please deport the entire Government.
Fortunately, the Free Speech Union is on the case, but even if the FSU fails to get Camus permission to enter, there may be some hope for those who want to hear him speak. As FSU founder and Daily Sceptic boss Toby Young correctly observed: “If Mr Camus wants to be sure of being able to visit the United Kingdom, maybe he should come over in a dinghy in the middle of the night. That way, he’s guaranteed entry.”
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No, no, no.
That misses the point completely.
The FSU isn’t defending any idea. It is the defending the right to have an idea. Not the same thing.
When you defend someone’s right to free speech you aren’t defending any particular idea or set of ideas. You are defending the right of that person to have those ideas. But even more importantly, and this is what most people miss, you are defending your own right to have your own ideas. Because if someone else can’t have their ideas, who is to say you can have yours?
My defence of free speech is purely for selfish reasons. I want the right to be able to express what I think without fear of being persecuted.
There are some things I’ve heard Camus say that make me quite uncomfortable. But I don’t wan’t anyone to silence him.
No Stewart there is a key idea which free speech is based on, and that is not in fact an absolute right to have any idea. It is based on reciprocity. The criteria of reciprocity has certain requirements to work, which might be likened to an agreed common space or common wealth in which to communicate. This includes a common language and a relatively safe personal space from which to speak. Of course we no longer have the common space, language has been debunked no-one knows what a woman is anymore etc, and we no longer have a safe space given debanking, and the general HR gross misconduct of bringing ones employer into disrepute.
Toby’s right, he needs to black-up, jump in a dinghy with 40 other young black subsaharan African men, chuck his phone and identity in the channel and describe himself as a 13 year old school boy…Guaranteed entry!
Unfortunately the European elites are deliberately ignoring the tens of thousands, if not considerably more, actual Nazis who infest Ulraine. These are the followers of Stepan Bandera, creator of the radical militant wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Although he is no longer alive his followers now form the hard core of Ukraine’s military and widely use Nazi symvbology on the bodies, uniforms and vehicles, are to be seen giving straight arm salutes and have an active youth movement.
They form some of Ukraine’s elite brigades, like AZOV,
The destruction of this ideology in Ukraine was one of Putin’s stated objectives for his cross border incursion.
I wonder if demonising Camus is a deliberate act to deflect scrutiny from the real Nazi problem in Europe.
Considering European history after 1945, when the real so-called Nazi ceased to exist, the term Nazis basically just means enemy of communism and/ or opposed to Russian dominance. Ukrainians are “Nazis” if they don’t want to be governed by Russians, in exactly the same way the Berlin Wall was officially known as Antifascist Bulwark — to separate and protects us from those evil people who reject Russian overlordship.
I’ve actually read this article despite it was basically just a truckload of Nazi babbling with no identfiable other content. You, Mr Tucker, are a perfect example for what you were trying to decry and your insistence that there are two kinds of people on this planet, namely, people and the evil untermenschen called Germans aka ‘Nazis’, you deserve everything which will happen to you.
The third Reich was created in 1919 by the vindictive powers who had been unable to win their Great War and sought to compensate themselves for that by acts of barbarianism hitherto unheard of in European history.
The third Reich was created in 1919 by the vindictive powers
I think this is only partially true. The program of the NSDAP was derived from the ideas of community, socialism, nationalism, and the role of the state which were common in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. And Hitler’s own contribution were the idea of social salvation (derived from Wagner’s leftwing operas), and to regard himself, and to present himself, as the saviour of Germany. It’s significant that the NSDAP didn’t get much support from the German voters until the Wall Street Crash produced an economic catastrophe in Germany that utterly discredited the Weimar Republic.
Hitler’s self-stated political mission was to restore Germany to what it was before the revolution of 1918 and the Versailles diktat of 1919. Before that, he was a an Austrian volunteer in the Bavarian army who was, despite reportedly being a good soldier, so devoid of personal ambition that he never rose past the rank of a private.
As contemporaries already claimed long before 1933 (an Amercian guy who wrote a fine book called Tolerance whose name I don’t know because I have a half Chinese half English edition of it I bought in Shen Zhen) it was the War To End All Wars which destroyed Europe and ‘the civilisation.’
Wagner was an ardent German nationalist and anti-semite and as such, anything but “left wing.” During is lifetime, this meant being in favour of a revolution to end the monarchy and replace it with some kind of democratic republic (for perspective: the Russian bolshevists considered themselves to be fighting for “the democratic cause”).
Wagner was an ardent German nationalist and anti-semite and as such, anything but “left wing.”
Wrong. Anti-semitism was leftwing in the 19th century. For example, Marx was an anti-Semite. More importantly, Wagner was heavily influenced by Bakunin, who was a socialist revolutionary and ardent anti-Semite. Wagner spent a lot of time with Bakunin while they were taking part in the 1849 revolution in Saxony, and it’s from Bakunin that Wagner picked up his anti-Semitsm. Also, nationalism was a leftwing cause in the first half of the 19th century. Wagner was born in 1813.
Please spare me your 20th-century pseudo-fangled American pseudo-wisdom. I’m not interested the “Just jump to the left, then a jump to the right!” theory of the NSDAP supposed to enable Americans to label their political opponents “Nazis” regardless of their actual political position and you categorically don’t get to rewrite our history for this.
Anti-semitism as political movement in Germany came to be as countermove to the so-called Jewish emancipation, the granting of full citizen rights to Jews in the course of the Napoleonic wars. It has no inherent association with either the political left (revolutionary democrats/ republicans) or the political right (monarchists, nationalists and conservatives).
Anti-semitism as political movement in Germany came to be as countermove to the so-called Jewish emancipation,
That was only on the Right. Anti-Semitism appeared on the Left as part of the Left’s critique of capitalism. Which is why it appealed to anti-capitalists like Wagner (read his writings), like Marx (read his anti-Semitic writings), like Bakunin (read his writings).
Please spare me your 20th-century pseudo-fangled American pseudo-wisdom.
You’re obviously someone who instead of dealing with the historical substance of what I write indulges in ridiculous insults.
Marx was a Jew, fer crissake.
Marx didn’t regard himself as Jewish. He regarded himself as German – which he was, culturally and philosophically. Maybe you just need to expand your reading-list.
Yes it truly is a mystery, anyone would think it’s happening by design…The difference between the 1987 census and that of 2021 is mad;
”For 99% of English history there were almost no Muslims. In 1951 there were just 21,000 Muslims.
So in less than one lifetime we’ve gone from 21,000 to 3.8 million and I believe the real number is closer to 6 million now.
Two-thirds of whom are from the Subcontinent.
Why?”
https://x.com/WorldByWolf/status/1919303768694276437
Here’s the Wikipedia page of the “Nazi scientist” who “invented computers”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
As can be gathered from the text, what makes him “Nazi” is that he’s German and was already alive in 1933.
Excellent as always, Steven.
But did Nazi scientists really invent programmable computers?
I guess it is disputable since several people produced them at roughly the same time, but (British) Colossus (1943) is generally thought of as the world’s first programmable computer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer