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Mar 19, 2023Liked by Second City Bureaucrat

Thanks for this. Rufo's campaign in Florida brought him out of quasi-recluse state.

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Mar 20, 2023Liked by Second City Bureaucrat

Black ethnonarcissism is a gift that keeps giving.

While at this point I find your ‘Remain Blacks’ series to be the Canonical authorship on Black ‘Intellectuals’, I still find myself taken aback by the mental jiujitsu we can see from otherwise intriguing characters.

As is the way with many Black creative types, that Coates passage was indeed an impressive set of rhetorical flourishes, but the minute you peek under the hood, it’s nothing but mental yoga bending.

I would be curious if you’d ever expand your spellbinding work to include other ‘future’ My Group Is Special movements, such as the growing Asian-American identity (although they’re much less self-involved at a group level, in fact they intermarry and champion whites with no issue) and of course Muslims In Europe, who use the exact same playbook as Blacks in America to utilize Western Altruism to gain ethnonarcissistic power.

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Sorry too busy filling out my reparations claim form at the British consulate to finish, I'm a 7th generation Irish Famine survivor. Since I know that the Irish are SCC's fav race of all time, especially on a Monday after Saint Patrick's Day previous Friday I'm sure SCC appreciates this deeply.

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Mar 19, 2023Liked by Second City Bureaucrat

"I learned it from watching you!"

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May 12, 2023Liked by Second City Bureaucrat

This critique of Coates is like using an ICBM to attack an anthill. I think I understand his appeal now that you posted that excerpt: he writes in a pleasing and almost hypnotic cadence. It's hard to keep track of what he's saying because his writing lulls you into a barely conscious state. And that's why AO Scott said his writing is more essential than air or water (lol). It's not that there's anything to his thought other than standard fare black grievance and black supremacism, it's just that it's nice to read in the same way people used to enjoy poetry.

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pls note: I have added your Substack to the top of my blogroll, pushing Angela Nagle into second place, Scroll down to the right to see - https://niccolo.substack.com/

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It's about suppressing and controlling white people's natural sense of "us", so non-white groups can gain access to white resources which whites historically restricted to their own group.

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Then one day for no reason at all, people elected ______ .

And then it was quiet in a short enough while, and much more peaceful and productive.

The problem with victimhood as profession is it comes true , it has too, we humans attack weakness to eliminate it as a species. Has to be that way. The victims drag us all down.

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Brah ... 😂 I can’t finish sorry its not you its him

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