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Mutant Illuminati whores, oh my!

Illuminati tool?

You can always count on men’s-rightser-turned-conspiracy-maven Henry Makow for sound and sensible commentary on the sexual and social mores of today.

Oh, wait, it’s not Opposite Day. You can count on Henry for loopy misogynist paranoia.

Henry recently took a trip to Toronto, where, he explains,

signs of the elite’s psychological attack on heterosexuals are everywhere. Young females are the main victims.

His evidence for this? He noticed some people fundraising for a program designed to help girls in the Third World. He read about a conference of feminists in Winnipeg.  (No, it’s still not opposite day: in his mind these things are terrible for girls.) Oh, and he read about one oddball couple that is raising their kid to be genderless.

All this leads him to conclude, naturally, that the powers that be are trying to make women obsolete. Huh? Let’s let him explain it, because I sure can’t:

WOMEN BECOMING OBSOLETE

If a woman will not accept her husband’s just leadership, she does not love him. …

A woman loves by surrendering power to her husband in exchange for his power (protection) expressed as love. Men want power; women want love. …

Masculinity is defined by power. Power = penis. Empower women and you give them a psychological penis. You neuter them.

Well, damn. That doesn’t sound good. Who exactly is giving women these psychological penises?

By sabotaging their gender identity and their faith in marriage, the Illuminati are transforming females into their sexless worker-drones and amateur whores.

Oh, right. Those guys. Those guys must be really, really busy.

Anyway, back to Henry’s trip to Toronto:

Most of the young women I saw on the street clearly defined their self-worth in terms of sex appeal. …

But they seemed to regard male attention as predatory. They were like amateur streetwalkers who were both too self-enamored and gender-confused to relate to males.

There’s also a chance that these women looked at Mr. Makow and thought, “huh, a weird angry dude old enough to be my father is staring at my tits like they belong to him. I will definitely not be having sex with him.”

Oh, and apparently ol Henry has heard about the Slutwalks:

Yet they will actually demonstrate for the right to behave like sluts without suffering any consequences. Their younger sisters are also being sexualized and look like Brooke Shields in the film Pretty Baby.

Um, THAT’s your cultural reference? Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby? Not, I dunno, the Bratz? And seriously, if you want to reference a 70s movie that creepily sexualizes underage girls, at least be a little original about it: go with Jodie Foster, in Bugsy Malone.

If you’ve never heard of Bugsy Malone, or simply want to remind yourself of its icky weirdness, the trailer below should help.

Ol Henry again:

The Illuminati are turning young women into mutants, unfit for marriage, and unfit for motherhood.

They are fit only to betray themselves and their society as cannon fodder in the New World Order.

Our world is increasingly zany because it is controlled by a Cabalist satanic cult, the Illuminati.

Dude, way to totally sell yourself short.  The world is zany because of people like you. And the producers of Bugsy Malone.

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Posted on May 27, 2011, in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. 333 Comments.

  1. Ah, conspiracy theories…

    Also, I find androgyny to be hot. What’s this dude’s beef? Not everyone has to be a Stepford Wife (wait, scratch that, NO ONE should be a Stepford Wife).

  2. “If a woman will not accept her husband’s just leadership, she does not love him. …”

    (for this and every other unsupported assertion he just made):

    [CITATION NEEDED]

  3. Captain Bathrobe

    Well, I’m sure we can find a self-professed feminist who said something equally silly, so we’d better spend the entire thread denouncing that person instead, just to be on the safe side.

    (Cue the MRAs: “‘Silly’? You thinks it’s ‘silly’? Well, you obviously support blah, blah, blah…”)

  4. *Slaps self on the forehead*

  5. Yet they will actually demonstrate for the right to behave like sluts without suffering any consequences.
    Oh no, because they should definitely suffer the natural and just consequences of dressing sexily, which are…?

    Masculinity is defined by power. Power = penis. Empower women and you give them a psychological penis. You neuter them.
    How can I be neutered when my psychological penis has these enormous balls?

    This is also such a circular line of thinking. You’re a man if you’re powerful, so if a woman is powerful, this doesn’t prove the first assumption wrong, this means that this woman is really a secret man.

  6. Not only is this guy seriously gross towards women, he’s (unintentionally, I suspect) insulting towards men. “Men want power, women want love”? If a radical feminist made this kind of sweeping generalization of men wanting only power and not love, the MRA movement would see it as proof that feminists hate and denigrate all men.

    Hey! Let’s make her our Straw(wo)man Feminist! I fully disagree with and criticize any feminist who argues that all men just want power over women. Anyone else wanna jump on the Straw(wo)man Feminist Condemnation Train!

  7. Holly: Men and women flirting with you? Compliments? Self-confidence and improved body image? Creepy dudes deciding you belong to them?

  8. This actually seems too far out there to be assessed as part of the MRM ideology, until you remember that the MRM seems to attract LOTS of conspiracy theorists. At the very least, right-wing delusional conspiracies are mainish stream in the MRM.

    The Illuminati are turning young women into mutants, unfit for marriage, and unfit for motherhood.

    And sadly, time has turned middle-aged women into middle-aged women, unfit for pretty much everything. Amirite bro?

  9. I don’t think that’s a fair characterisation of Bugsy Malone. All the actors were kids. The songs were political (and vicious, it was Paul Williams).

    Mrakow… ew

  10. “Our world is increasingly zany because it is controlled by a Cabalist satanic cult, the Illuminati.” The Illuminati are Satanists? I thought the Illuminati were Jews, am I confused about which bizarre conspiracy theory is at work here?

  11. Shit, I always thought the Illuminati were Freemasons.

    I’m old school like that.

  12. … psychological penises? How exactly does one neuter someone by giving them a penis? Even if the guy said spay…

    “… sexless worker-drones and amateur whores…”

    ………. So… they are sexless, but they are whores… They are amateur (unpaid), but they’re worker-drones? Huh.

    “Power = penis”

    Hoo yeah, my penis can bench around 400lbs, run a mile in 4:30, and runs a multinational corporation. Eees strong.

    Yeesh, this guy is way out there…

  13. So the Illuminati, an organization I can only assume is vastly male, is given women penises which neuters them? Am I getting this right?

  14. kirbywarp: Penis and vagina appear to be matter/antimatter.

    So if you give one to a woman her femininity is cancelled out, and she is neuter.

    Clearly we need to give all women TWO penes, then they too can become MGTOWs, and no the true happiness of not needing women.

  15. @Pecunium:

    But but but… According to physics (I swear this might be true) anti-matter is just regular matter that’s traveling backwards in time! The big flash of energy released is really energy necessary to spin the particle around… Does that mean.. oh god…

  16. Lady Victoria von Syrus

    I think the Illuminati is supposed to be an elite, top-tier organization of Freemasons. The Freemasons technically only accept men in America (if you join a French lodge, you can be both atheist and a woman), and I think there’s the idea of the Illuminati being mostly men because men are powerful in our culture (I read a lot of conspiracy theories for their entertainment value – as far as I’m concerned, the greatest real-world contributions the ‘Illuminati’ have made to society are a couple awesome Robert Anton Wilson books and a really fun card game).

  17. What’s an “amateur whore”? Both etymologically and casually, “amateur” means someone who does a thing for love, not money. “Rookie whore,” maybe. “Please Be Patient, I’m New!”

  18. The Rothchild family funded the Illuminati and the Europeans took it very seriously back then. Heres what the founder, Adam Weishaupt said about directing women.

    “There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so, for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.”….Adam Weishaupt 1787.

    The Rothchild family has funded both sides of every war for the past two hundred years.

    The Rothchild family funded Lenin. Heres what he said about directing women.

    “Women’s incipient social life and activities must be promoted, so that they can outgrow the narrowness of their philistine, individualistic psychology centred on home and family … In the sphere of sexual relations and marriage, a revolution is approaching … There can be no real mass movement without the women … We cannot exercise the dictatorship of the proletariat without having millions of women on our side. Nor can we engage in communist construction without them.”…Lenin 1920.

    The Rothchild family funded the entire communist movement. Had the Czar, his wife and five daughters put to death. Nathan Rothchild promised to have the Czar and all his offspring put to death for blockading any foreign troops from interfering in the American civil war. He kept his word.

    Heres a bit more on the Rothchild family and what they own besides every government bank in the world, along with the IMF and world bank.

    http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=WorldCh01-1

    These are all facts, not conspiracies. Conspiracy is simply a word people use when something doesn’t fit into their ideology. Feminism is wholly funded by the Rothchild/Rockefeller families. This is a fact not a conspiracy. They do it because they love you I guess.

  19. “The Illuminati are turning young women into mutants,”

    Does that mean I can join the X-Men? Of course, the Illuminati has taken over that organization as well, and it will from now on be called the X-women. Watch out, Wolverine; your leader-man-bawlz belong to us now.

  20. … a Cabalist satanic cult, the Illuminati.

    Uh, does Henry Makow not understand that these words have specific meanings, and he can’t just string them together like that and expect to make sense? Cabalism is a Jewish esoteric mystical practice (if you spell it with an uppercase “C”) practiced by only a handful of people. Satanism is mostly a reaction against Catholicism; it has little to do with Judaism. The Illuminati were a group of Mason-wannabe’s around the turn of the 19th century… they haven’t existed since around the time George III went mad (hmmmm…). Mr. Makow is either trolling, or he’s spouting paranoid nonsense (Poe’s law, yanno.)

  21. Feminism is wholly funded by the Rothchild/Rockefeller families.

    Really? Can I get a cut?

    I’m not just a feminist, I’m a Jewish feminist. I can’t believe I’ve been doing this shit for free!

  22. wait, they funded EVERY war? Including all civil wars in Africa, Asia, every continent etc. Did they also fund any wars possibly involving sentient species on other planets we have not discovered yet? Did they fund the War on Poverty? What about the War on Drugs? Inquiring minds want to know.

  23. Also seriously I’m with you Arielle. Let’s totes go join the xmen together! Mutant feminists for the win!

  24. Man, I love my psychological penis! :D

  25. Lady Victoria von Syrus

    You can draw a loose connection between the Illuminati and Satanism, but it’s kind of a reach. The Illuminati are supposed to be the ‘bringers of light’, and therefore revere the concept of Lucifer, who in their mythology rebelled against a strict and fascist god to bring the light of knowledge to mankind. So you can kind of tie it to Satanism in a way, but LaVey was more about being selfish than in pursuing enlightenment. But then you get to the question, “If the Illuminati are supposed to be the bringers of light, then why are they such a shadowy and hidden organization?” To which I reply, “That is a very good question, young grasshopper, and should show you just what these theories are worth.”

    There are a bunch of secret and semi-secret societies that sprang up in the Victorian Era; its thought the Illuminati died out, though a few others remain active in the current day. Of course, it’s easier to target the one that’s not around, rather than the ones that are. No pesky members to arise with contradictions.

    And so Lenin and Weisshaupt both realized that women were influential members of society? That has to be a conspiracy. There’s no possible way that men would think of women as being people for any other reason than world domination. And even that quote by Weisshaupt is sexist and inaccurate.

    Here’s the big question I always ask true believers – to what end? What is the end goal of the Illuminati? Why? How will this help them achieve that? Why would the founding fathers of the nation try to set up a system of belief in personal liberty and the value of freedom, only to use that nation as a springboard for the New World Order?

  26. Sure, slavey. And the UN’s black helicopters are on their way to bomb your house with DDT, which will turn you gay. I think I read that somewhere.

  27. Right-wing conspirationists can’t even distinguish between liberalism (center right politicians like Obama) and communism (usually only aware of Marxism, a far left revolutionary creed, mostly defunct) anymore. Trying to have them differentiate between Cabalism (a Jewish occult practice), Satanism (a Christian heresy) and Illuminism/Freemasonry (a mostly secular, sometimes to the point of anti-clericalism, creed) is asking for a lot. Most of them think of any Christian who doesn’t happen to be part of the exact evangelical sect that they are members of as satanists.

  28. Now Stuart, if you look at the soil around any large U.S. city with a big underground homosexual population – Des Moines, Iowa, for example. Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart. You can’t build on it, you can’t grow anything in it. The government says it’s due to poor farming. But I know what’s really going on, Stuart. I know it’s the queers. They’re in it with the aliens. They’re building landing strips for gay Martians. I swear to God.

  29. ah crap.. does this mean NWO’s ramblings are now on topic? Saints preserve us…

    from the vid: “There was no reason why World War 1 should have happened”

    I seem to recall a certain assasination that took place.. noo, that couldn’t have possibly caused a war! Must be that some rich family paid both sides to fight! yeah, that’s it. Also, Hitler didn’t really want to bring a new Germany to the world, he was paid off by those coniving Rothschilds.

  30. Lady Victoria von Syrus

    Not just the assassination caused WWI, but Europe at the time was a tangle of treaties, alliances and rivalries. Had the assassination gone off in a politically stable Europe, it would have been a blip in the history. But the shooting of the Archduke was the pebble that started the avalanche.

    Then the Treaty of Versailles punished the fuck out of the losing Germans, setting them up for a WWII-flavored comeback.

  31. @Lady Victoria von Syrus

    No, I know, history isn’t simple. It irks me that the video simply consists of a dramatic history reading followed by a blindside of assertions. Of course, that’s really all conspiracy theories ever are, right?

  32. Lady Victoria von Syrus

    Well, that’s why I enjoy reading them for fun and entertainment, kind like how I enjoy reading Lord of the Rings for the exact same reasons.

  33. Here I was assuming we’d established that NWO was from an alternate reality and THAT’S why none of his history tidbits match up with reality!

  34. Lady Victoria von Syrus

    Also, my rebuttal was more directed to NWOslave and the people who believe the video, rather than directly at you :)

  35. Captain Bathrobe

    I just knew that it would just be a matter of time before slavey showed up, insisting that this is not conspiracy theory, these are facts! Wake up sheeple!

    Besides, why the fuck would an unbelievably rich family fund “the entire communist movement?” If they really funded a movement dedicated to the destruction of their own class, then they are not only uncommonly rich but uncommonly stupid.

    But I suppose that’s all part of the conspiracy, right?

  36. Well, Captain B, we know that Communism is evil (and aren’t going to bother looking into what makes it tick) and we know that the Illuminati/Freemasons/Rich People are evil, ergo…

  37. Captain Bathrobe

    @Holly,

    Yeah, really, what the fuck? I’ve been wearing out my keyboard defending feminism and all I got was…well, not even a t-shirt. Cheap bastards.

  38. Captain Bathrobe

    Well, Captain B, we know that Communism is evil (and aren’t going to bother looking into what makes it tick) and we know that the Illuminati/Freemasons/Rich People are evil, ergo…

    Yeah, I know, it’s the same logic that puts Hitler and liberals in the same category. Free association is a useful psycho-therapeutic tool, but it’s no way to analyze history.

  39. CB – I’ve actually given money to feminist advocacy groups and rape crisis centers. Boy do I feel like a sucker.

  40. YEAH! TORONTO REPRESENT!

    I have nothing constructive to add to this conversation, I just like it when my city shows up things I read.

  41. Captain Bathrobe

    All right, that does it Holly! I’m not writing one more comment until those selfish assholes mail me big, fat check! It’s a matter of principal. Well, actually it’s not, but still.

  42. Remember Slavey only has room in his reptile brain for two types of people, those who agree with him and those who don’t, so naturally commie feminist Satanist Illuminati Jews are one group.

  43. You know, for a guy who wants to talk about examples of why the city is emasculated, he somehow misses the 3 biggest examples: The Toronto Maple Leafs, The Toronto Raptors and the Toronto Blue Jays (tho they do have that manstud Jose Bautista xD I’d have his babies! But only if he can hit 50+ HRs again)

    But when the largest city in the country has such pathetic examples representing manhood (and they dun even have a REAL FOOTBALL TEAM, they have pansy Canadian football, which is like Football for chicks!), how can you expect the men to be nething other than spineless worms, and the women to be nething other than super hot ugly femme butch illumislutties? >_<;;;

    on the other hand, thanks to Pecunium + the lovely and talented Kirbywarp, I now know what an orgasm during straight sex is… it's when you GO INTO WARP xD

  44. So that’s where all those ‘increase your penis size’ spam emails are coming from. The Illuminati are trying to neuter me.

  45. girlscientist

    On the subject of the Illuminati, Satanists, conspiracy theories and Jews, can I recommend Umberto Eco’s new book, The Prague Cemetary? It’s really Eco at his best, showing how conservative forces in the nineteenth century shaped the twentieth century and its horrors. It’s really, really good.

  46. ah crap.. does this mean NWO’s ramblings are now on topic?

    Yes, but just for this one topic. It’s sort of a present to him. I’m sure he’s been dying for a chance to post all that Rockefeller/Illuminati shit.

  47. Masculinity is defined by power. Power = penis. Empower women and you give them a psychological penis. You neuter them.

    Like others here I am puzzled how giving someone a penis, psychological or otherwise, equates to neutering them. Especially when power=penis.

    Presumably the inverse is also true, penis=power.

    Giving someone power isn’t neutering them.

  48. Oh, and Illuminati? Really?

  49. What I dun get is that if the conspiracy is so all encompassing and impossible to break through and feminism has these powerful backers that control every single thing… then aren’t men just doomed? At the very least, trolling the internet isn’t going to fix it… is it? o_O Is this a battle for believers… like against the Ori? :o

  50. I always wonder what information sources people like NWO are working with. I’m assuming he doesn’t have any actual “inside connections,” and is just going off news reports and historical sources that are matters of public record. (Or, more likely, other conspiracy theorists, but they’re going off public information, anyway.)

    The thing is, these sources are available to everyone. And 99% of people–including people who were part of these events, including people who are professional historians, including people who are investigative reporters–have interpreted them differently. When you’re working with the same facts everyone else knows, acting like your nonstandard interpretation of those facts is The Secret Truth is simultaneously arrogant and incredibly naive.

    I’d be interested in a conspiracy theorist who told me he was actually (credibly) involved in the Jews Controlling The World conspiracy or heard about it first-hand somehow, but not one who read the same history books as me and just decided to fit them into a fantasy narrative.

  51. Rockefeller contributions to feminism.

    http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/search/?q=women

    Rothchild wealth and control, no matter where you go the wealth is always estimated at around 500 trillion dollars.

    http://www.jubilee2012.50webs.com/the_house_of_rothschild.htm

    Heres a documentary on how your money is created and who controls it.

  52. Or, the short version: “If the Illuminati control everything, why aren’t they able to hide their existence from the least connected, least informed members of society?”

  53. Oh sure, conspiracy theories are lots of fun. It’s conspiracy theorists that bore me to tears.

    I keep reading “psychological penis,” but singing “Detachable Penis.” I wonder what King Missile is doing these days … Makow’s loopy rant might make for interesting song lyrics.

  54. The Rockefeller Foundation contributes to a ton of charitable causes. They also contribute to agricultural improvements in Africa and healthcare in developing countries.

    The fact that their charity supports feminist causes doesn’t mean that they control feminism, much less that they control it maliciously, much less that they are the only ones controlling this herd of cats I call my movement.

  55. Oh man, another holocaust denial website, NWO! (Jubiliee2012.)

    So hey: Do you believe in the Holocaust?

    (My grandmother was a notorious liar, so I’ll believe you if you say she made up all those dead sibilings. She was no doubt doing her part for the cause.)

  56. http://literallyunbelievable.tumblr.com/

    This is reminding me of what’s going on here xD

  57. Captain Bathrobe

    So wait: if the Rockefellers fund all feminism, and Holly has given money to feminist causes, then that must mean…

    (dramatic pause)

    HOLLY’S A ROCKEFELLER!

    Holly! My girl! You know I love you, right? How about sending a little of that green my way?

    (Call me!) :)

  58. “Conspiracy is simply a word people use when something doesn’t fit into their ideology.”

    Conspiracies are something that people make up to make things that make them uncomfortable into something ancient, awful and sinister.

  59. SallyStrange

    My first thought when reading this was,

    “I PENETRATE YOUR MIND WITH MY PSYCHOLOGICAL PENIS!! MUAH HAH HAH HAH!!!!”

    Carry on.

  60. Lady Victoria von Syrus

    Because NWOslave obviously thinks it’s a crime to donate money to organizations dedicated to helping women. Because that means that somewhere, there’s a man not being helped. Which is a tragedy, because women only get help after all the men have been helped first.

    So, what, all DV shelters in the nation/world are financed by Rockefellers? And it’s all a conspiracy to get women to leave their husbands and take his children away, and nothing at all to do with the fact that a bunch of people realized that they could really save some lives that everyone else had overlooked. Betty Friedan was obviously just an Illuminati puppet, and totally not at all interested in trying to make life better for women who were miserable when forced into their prescribed gender roles.

    Again, NWOslave, what’s your view of the Illuminati endgame? Why are they doing all of this? What’s the point of creating feminism as a political tool? What will the New World Order look like when it is finally achieved?

  61. Conspiracies are something that people make up to make things that make them uncomfortable into something ancient, awful and sinister.

    Sometimes. Other times, I think conspiracies are something that people make up about issues that don’t affect them in real life (very few Jewish Holocaust deniers) so that they can feel like they’re part of something big and dramatic and so they can imagine they know something the common rabble don’t.

  62. Ami — I had never seen “literally unbelievable.” Oh my lord. People are amazing. Such an entertaining species.

  63. http://search.un.org/search?q=women&output=xml_no_dtd&client=UN_Website_en&num=10&lr=lang_en&proxystylesheet=UN_Website_en&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&ud=1&exclude_apps=1&site=un_org

    This is the UN site for womens advancement.

    The reason feminism is the perfect tool for installing world marxism/communism/socialism is because racism will only get you so far. In a country where there is a largely homogeneous population trying to incite racism won’t work. Since every country has men and women you have a built in division if properly exploited. Men being the oppressor class and women being the victim class.

    It’s like I tried to explain to you about the Haiti disaster. 16 food distribution centers gave food to women only. You can look it up and see its true. In that case only women were given food and they literally seperated and guarded by UN troops. Of course after a week of starvation the men attacked with machettes. The women were then told by the media to “fear” men because they were attacking women for food. The entire situation was artificially created. Women than begged for more “protection” from UN forces. It was the perfect plan created by the UN instilling a division where there was none before. The man was the oppressor and the woman was the victim. Womens fears were played upon to perfection.

    We’ll take Title IX in the US. By the 70s women weren’t forbidden from any schools other than all male schools, but there were also all female schools. Today 58% of college degrees are obtained by women. Yet Title IX was handed an extra 1 billion dollars a month ago. They are now a seperate police force to deal with the supposed sexual harrassment epidemic. Since women are getting more degrees than men why didn’t Title IX vanish. They can’t, they’ll never go away, they must incite hatred or lose their funding. Can any of you aswer me why Title IX exists if women recieve the lions share of degrees?

    Once an State agency is in place in can only grow larger and they play on womens fears to accomplish this.

  64. NWO, go wild here. Just in this one topic, though.

  65. Remember Slavey only has room in his reptile brain for two types of people, those who agree with him and those who don’t, so naturally commie feminist Satanist Illuminati Jews are one group.

    Yes, but the question is, are they alphas or omegas?

    Or, the short version: “If the Illuminati control everything, why aren’t they able to hide their existence from the least connected, least informed members of society?”

    LMAO!!!

  66. Lady Victoria von Syrus

    Also, I kind have to take issue with the logic fail in the original post being mocked:

    Most of the young women I saw on the street clearly defined their self-worth in terms of sex appeal.

    Well, yeah, because all he’s doing is looking, and therefore all he has to go on is personal appearance. Did he actually try and sit down with these women and find out what they thought of themselves, their bodies and their best attributes as a person? It’s not like people walk around with their diplomas silk screened onto the backs of their coats, or their life goals tattooed on their foreheads.

  67. So yes, NWO, there are charities, including big important ones, that give things to women. This isn’t proof of some conspiracy. This is proof that there are a lot of people in need in the world and more than half of them are women or children being cared for by women.

    Can any of you aswer me why Title IX exists if women recieve the lions share of degrees?
    To ensure that men can never receive less than 50% of funding! Aren’t you glad for that protection?

    Oh, and by the by: DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE HOLOCAUST?

  68. @Holly…Planned parenthood, founded and funded by the Rockefeller foundation. Kil, kill kill. They love dead people.

  69. SallyStrange

    I blame the proliferation of conspiracy theories on our schools’ refusal to teach critical thinking, much less systemic analysis. Plus there’s the myth of rugged individuals and rational actors–which leave people predisposed to make the basic error that there are only two options:

    1. It’s not happening at all

    2. It’s happening because someone’s doing it on purpose

    There’s no understanding of emergent properties and unintended consequences. Which is a major obstacle to fixing systemic problems like sexism, racism, poverty and all the rest.

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