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Tag: debate
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March 2, 2023 Greg Johnson
La Russie et l’Ukraine, à nouveau
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Author’s Note: On October 15, I debated Mark Collett on the Ukraine war. My opening statement is here. After our opening statements, the format was to answer questions posed by the host/moderator Joel Davis. These are my answers to the first five questions. I appended my answer to the sixth and final question to my opening statement. (more…)
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The pro-Kremlin crowd in online Dissident Right spaces has one argument that they love above all others. Mike Peinovich made it in his recent post about how utterly right he is (in his view) to support Russia over Ukraine. Greg Johnson from Counter-Currents offered to debate him on that point, an offer which Joel Davis and Mark Collett both seconded, an offer which Mike and The Right Stuff (TRS) will no doubt refuse. (more…)
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Much of the friction within the Right in this country, and especially on the Dissident Right, can be rendered into a schematic conflict between two primal urges of the spirit. I call these the Republican Urge and the Monarchal Urge. Everyone on the Right has these urges, and falls into one of three categories. (more…)
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April 22, 2022 Greg Johnson
Rusko a Ukrajina, znovu
English original here
Poznámka autora: Těmito slovy jsem otevíral debatu (která je ovšem alespoň prozatím skryta za „paywallem“ – pozn. DP) na téma „Západní nacionalisté by měli v současné válce podporovat Ukrajinu proti Rusku“. Hájil jsem tuto pozici, dr. E. M. Jones opačnou. Rád bych poděkoval Fróði Midjordovi a jeho Guide to Kulchur, organizátorům této debaty. (more…)
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Czech version here, French version here
This was my opening statement in a debate on the topic “Nationalists in the West should support Ukraine against Russia in the current war.” I argued the affirmative and Dr. E. Michael Jones argued the negative. I wish to thank Fróði Midjord of Guide to Kulchur for hosting this debate. (more…)
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Greg Johnson participated in an impromptu “Frenly Chat” on Gaddius Maximus’ show yesterday along with Fróði Midjord to discuss this weekend’s upcoming debate between Greg and E. Michael Jones on the War in Ukraine, as well as next week’s Jonathan Bowden Memorial Stream and what else Counter-Currents has in store this year, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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2,471 words
“Sir, you are hereby charged with the crime of racism. How do you plead?”
This accusation is actually a hidden false dichotomy, where the correct response is neither admitting nor denying the alleged crime, but instead rejecting the concept itself. The appropriate answer is to say that this term means nothing to you, and then move the conversation forward. This sounds deceptively simple, but there is a lot more to it. To understand the required frame of mind for delivering this, and to find out why this is likely to be more effective than previous alternatives, read on. (more…)
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In the now-halcyon days of late 2019, I was called to participate in a debate which was billed “nationalism vs. patriotism,” but adherents to the dissident Right’s creeds would probably categorize it as “ethnonationalism vs. civic nationalism” which then branched out into “traditionalism vs. liberalism,” because those things tend to go hand in hand for some strange reason. After the introductory niceties, once we stated our premises, I quickly surmised that my interlocutor, a self-styled patriot, did not inhabit the same empirical universe as myself and the rest of the dissident Right, which is to say, his basic postulates on how the universe, and specifically human beings work, were different from my own. (more…)
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Mars, ca. 2nd century AD.
Mars, ca. 2nd century AD.
2,096 words
You are here because you are convinced of the rightness of your ideas. This is not meant in a specific, epistemological sense; as in, your ideas have been verified by some kind of universal truth or that they are backed by data drawn from rigor, though these things could be applied to many of the ideas we hold on the Right. I mean that you are convinced enough of what you hold to be true that you are taking a risk in upholding it, even in the face of great adversaries. (more…)
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1,215 words
1,215 words
Six black people have been found dead, hanging from trees, during the month of June so far. They were all ruled as suicides by local police. Black people refuse to believe that’s true, of course. The circumstances of these deaths too closely resemble the lynchings of yesteryear, right down to the surrounding social turmoil and the highly public spectacle of the corpses. (more…)