In "Know Thyself"[23] Wagner deals with the German people, who Gobineau believes are the "superior" Aryan race. Wagner, in fact, rejects the notion that the Germans are a race at all and further proposes that we should look past the notion of race to focus on the human qualities ("das Reinmenschliche") common to all of us. In "Heroism and Christianity",[24] Wagner proposes that Christianity could function to provide a moral harmonization of all races, preferable to the physical unification of races by miscegenation:
Incomparably fewer in individual numbers than the lower races, the ruin of the white races may be referred to their having been obliged to mix with them; whereby, as remarked already, they suffered more from the loss of their purity than the others could gain by the ennobling of their blood [...] To us Equality is only thinkable as based upon a universal moral concord, such as we can but deem true Christianity elect to bring about.
Wagner's concerns over miscegenation occupied him until the very end of his life; he was in the process of writing another essay, On the Womanly in the Human Race (1883),[25] at the time of his death, in which he discusses the role of marriage in the creation of races: "it is certain that the noblest white race is monogamic at its first appearance in saga and history, but marches toward its downfall through polygamy with the races which it conquers."
Following this, Tregear alluded briefly to the ‘grievance studies hoax’ carried out Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay and Peter Boghossian, in which seven fabricated papers (one of them a rewriting of a chapter from Mein Kampf) were accepted by major academic journals. Tregear suggested that this happened primarily because such papers appealed to a sense of righteousness, and particular identity groups, and this type of authority took priority over any other form of reasoning or observation. Personal biases, once viewed as something to guard against and if necessary correct, have become a reigning scholarly principle. With the eschewal of any attempt at disinterest, what remains, according to Tregear, is what literary scholar David Palumbo-Lui calls (in the context of modern languages) ‘a morbid constellation of egotism, arrogance, self-enclosure, and normalized self-interest’, and also, as identified by Richard Arum and Josipa Roska, limited skills encountered in students in terms of analytical thought, reasoning and written expression. This situation will surely be familiar to many, and is sometimes replicated and perpetuated by other academics who were themselves schooled in institutions which devalued these types of qualities.
https://www.wagneropera.net/wagner-books.htmA university lecturer has provoked outrage after comparing the planned Brexit celebrations in London to a 're-enactment of Kristallnacht.'
Dr Mark Berry, of Royal Holloway University, suggested that the Leave Means Leave event on January 31 was similar to the Nazi's vicious assaults on Jewish property in 1938.
He tweeted Sadiq Khan: 'Could you explain, please, why you have given provisional agreement to this re-enactment of Kristallnacht, @SadiqKhan? Anyone can see that this is a pogrom waiting to happen. Please reconsider.'
Why have you deleted the tweet Mark Berry?
As predicted, Remainers frantically deleting their vile Nazi slurs.
The Nazi Hoey presumably on the verge of mentioning George Soros.
The Marquess of Queensberry Rules: a written code of generally accepted rules in the sport of boxing, intended to promote amongst other things fair play.
The Markberry Rules: a set of unwritten rules followed by Dr Mark Berry of Royal Holloway (a branch of London University) and many others applied to a different form of combat, polemics. Polemics under The Markberry Rules pay little or no attention to fair play.
Characteristic features of Mark Berry Polemics (MBP) under The Markberry Rules:
(1) People and organizations which are vastly different from Nazis and Nazi organizations, vastly different from Fascists and Fascists organizations, vastly less harmful or not harmful at all, it can be argued, are routinely described in MBP as Nazi or Fascist, or a comparison is made with Dr Goebbels.
Supplementary: this characteristic feature of MBP isn't to be confused with 'Godwin's Law, which has been formulated in different ways, such as this: 'As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.' This is patently hyperbole. An alternative formulation: 'Invoke the Nazis and you've lost the argument.' This is patently garbage. Nazis are invoked to try to justify arguments and counter-arguments in many different fields, supposed prejudice and supposed anti-prejudice, to support 'political correctness,' for example, and to oppose political correctness, to support reasonable views and deranged views. (The examples here will show that invoking the Nazis can be used by people with very different views.)
Illustrative examples,taken from the writings of Dr Berry (referred to informally as 'The Markberry' in some places) and other writers. The examples from The Markberry come from his blog, Boulezian https://boulezian.blogspot.com/ and his twitter writings https://twitter.com/boulezian
Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass: a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA Paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi German on 9-10 November 1938. 267 synagogues were destroyed during riots. Over 7,000 Jewish businesses were damaged or destroyed, together with many other Jewish buildings. 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. From a report in The Times newspaper (11 November, 1938):
'No foreign propagandist bent upon blackening Germany before the world could outdo the tale of burnings and beatings, of ... assaults on defenceless and innocent people, which disgraced that country yesterday.'
Kristallnacht is viewed by many historians as a prelude to The Final Solution.
The subject that Dr Mark Berry studied at Cambridge University was history. How does he view Kristallnacht? the deeply disturbing claim that Kristallnacht can be compared with an event held in connection with Brexit. Addressing the Mayor of London, Sudiq Khan:
'Could you explain, please, why you have given provisional agreement to this re-enactment of Kristallnacht ... Anyone can see that this is a pogrom waiting to happen.'
Mark Berry retweeted this:
He's referring to Sarah Atherton MP. Can The Markberry explain why and how Sarah Atherton is to be ejected from public life, given that the electorate chose her as their MP? Is the form of democracy he supports the one current in the United Kingdom or one closer to the 'democracy' in the old DDR or some other form, which allows for the elimination of people from public life whose views he dislikes? What about the elimination of people from academic life whose views he dislikes? The elimination of journalists whose views he dislikes? He uses that word 'now' which you find so often in the calls of people whose grip in reality is insecure. Another example, from a different sphere:
'End all animal exploitation NOW!' What? This minute, with no allowances made for the practicalities at all?
I think that Royal Holloway made a disastrously misguided appointment when it appointed Mark Berry. Mark Berry suffers from Mark Berry Syndrome (MBS) - symptoms include tendencies to hysteria and a severely defective sense of reality - but I don't call for his dismissal, and certainly not for his instant dismissal.
Thursday, 12 December 2019
4 Oct 2019
'Perhaps this audience did need to see and hear Orlando with her girlfriend, to hear her child sing freely, to be reminded of the threat Trump-and-Johnson fascism poses us all, and so forth.'
23 Oct 2019
Craig Whittaker MP Calder Valley