Respect - don't hold your breath. As for the anti-semite stuff, that's an easy conversational ploy when the other side is losing the argument, similar to empty latter-day accusations of "you're a racist!" or "you're a Nazi!" - you're arguing with a four-year old - "you're a poopy-pants!"...As for Raskin and Soros, they have done more to further actual anti-semitism by their actions than any actual Nazi, and as for Carlson and his interview, he let Putin snow him with that ludicrous half-hour self-serving "history lesson" - perhaps Tucker was concerned that his hotel accommodations would be shifted to the basement of the Lubyanka had he offered significant challenge - but even Putin wondered at Carlson's apparent sycophancy, at one point asking "is this a serious interview?". The breaking point for me was when he had on Mr Dark Triad himself, Curtis Yarvin, our latter-day Alexander Hamilton, the Man Who Would Be King, on for a seemingly interminable interview, also without any sort of serious challenge - and that was enough for me.
The exchange in response to this post should be illuminating for my Jewish correspondents. I fear it will be totally ignored. Great thinkers from Sun Tsu through Clauswitz and Machiavelli have recommended that you know your enemy. Fuentes makes it pretty clear where he is coming from. They should listen. Just as Saul Alenski, Joseph Stalin and Karl Marx made their intentions clear, and we should have listened.
Not only should they learn to listen, they should learn to converse - that professor, did he ever argue his points to his students in class in the course of a spirited discussion - did he do that as a student, either undergrad or in grad school? Surely he must have - what is his PhD in, anyway? Or else he was indoctrinated, took it all up without challenge, regurgitated it in a convincing way - or convincing enough, and turned around and became an indoctrinator himself, and lived a life of ignominious academic dishonesty and hypocrisy, which is a terrible, terrible thing. He should read this - https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies - and think hard about it, if he is still capable of doing so...
This of off topic, but it has been reported that Tucker Carlson was paid by the Kremlin to interview Putin. Among your list of Right leaning pols in Europe, you list supporters of Russia and Putin. The AFD recently called for restoring the Nord Stream pipeline as a plank in their platform. Marine Le Pen has been paid by Putin to provide opposition in France for more than a decade. As much as I like Farage, he is a supporter of Putin. Hard for me to admire these people, especially the AFD.
The Kremlin supports anybody who is in opposition to the EU and the unification of Europe. Putin funded the Scottish separatist movement, the Catalonian referendum to leave Spain, the Veneto independence groups, and he supports Orban simply because Orban is a thorn in the EU side.
I myself while despising Putin and his 70s KGB vision of the world also don't like the EU which is rapidly becoming a tyrannical state under Ursula Von Der Lyin. I think if they held referendums today, the EU would lose the vote in at least ten countries, among them Poland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, and France. I fear Ukraine joining the EU which I believe is poison to Ukrainian freedom and independence.
As to the Jewish question in your post, I don't understand anti-Semitism in any form. I honestly didn't have any idea what a Jew was until I moved to Ukraine. I knew that there were Jewish people, but I always treated people the same, no matter where they came from and I have always embraced people who were different from the norm. People are just people in my mind. They are judged by who they are and how they behave individually. I don't think I have preconceived notions about anyone.
As Shakespeare wrote in Merchant of Venice. "I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?"
We're all human, we're all in the same boat. We're all sailing for Niagara Falls. Are we not rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?
Your background is different from mine. I grew up in Berkeley, attending school with the children of the Cal faculty. My mother edited for the UC anthropology and sociology departments - Hyman Minsky and Erving Goffman, among others. I attended Reed College, the "Little Red Schoolhouse" with the children of bona fide card-carrying communists.
I recognized friends such as Alan Koenig, Jim Kagan and Alan Birholtz as different, but it took a while for my mind to allow labels to congeal to describe that difference. They did. The differences are systematic and predictable.
After than comes the question of whether it is good, bad or simply a fact of life. The Jews think it is good, the antisemites take it as bad, and I am content to simply recognize it for what it is, a fact of life. And tell my children, so their learning curve is steeper than mine was.
Isn't this statement an admission that you've embraced stereotypes? Isn't that a confession of prejudice? I grew up in a different environment, so I necessarily have a less prejudiced vision of the world. I guess we have to ask if your personal experience is confirmation bias.
It's bias if it isn't supported by evidence. Sociologists have, however, repeatedly confirmed that there is a measurable, factual basis to most stereotypes. To say Jews are smart is not a mere stereotype.
It has been supported by psychometricians for over a century. Most of whom, by the way, have been non-Jewish British and Americans.
Stereotyping, racism, White Supremacism that’s what Graham excels at. He thinks he is so intelligent because he is a book addict. So fing what! He has absolutely no emotional intelligence or empathy or feelings for anyone who is not in his tribe other than feelings of hatred and condescension. Respect is earned, I have no respect for Graham or his White Supremacist ilk. And Nick Fuentes is an incel woman hating, White Supremacist. anti semitic Hitler lover also deserving no respect, only scorn.
I don't know if you've noticed, but your rant is filled with hatred and venom. I see no point to what you wrote. If you simply want to be mean, then you have succeeded. Why bother? I don't see Graham's posts as white supremacism at all. And I don't get the reference to Nick Fuentes. He has only popped up in the news recently, but you seem to want to lump Graham into the same category without any evidence, aside from insults. I think it would be useful if you offered a less hateful commentary. As it is, you simply insult Graham without offering anything other than abuse. You defeat your own purpose by your insults.
You must have used artificial intelligence to string so many ugly, derisive words together in one paragraph. You may have the venom, but I don't think you have the wit to do it on your own.
When I write that Jews are smart, I must concede there are significant exceptions. Thank you for making it so obvious.
I find the following assertion about Grahm absurd:
(Graham's) faux intellectual style reflect his lack humanitarian instincts and a distorted perspective on life
What universe does this guy live in? ad hominem attacks from this chap, as the one above, confirm that he himself is displaying his own personal "faux intellectual style", reflect his own "lack humanitarian instincts", and his own "distorted perspective on life"
I've said in the past, that when Ukraine is done with Putin and his vassals, they will have to get rid of Zelenskyy and *his* vassals. And I hope Russia survives Putin, and Ukraine, Zelenskyy, and I do not believe that Putin is Orthodox, in any sense of the word. See https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/the-problem-in-ukraine-and-russia for details...
Graham, I agree with you. Having been an academic my entire life I certainly have noticed the good and bad in academic Jews. Some have helped me in my career. Some had a lot to do with my firing from the university, even though I was a full tenured professor. Although I’ve often thought that setting up a Zionist state right in the heart of Palestine was a extremely bad idea and if you look at the history, there were many other options that could’ve been chosen. After October 7, I noticed something very strange. I was not even able to mildly criticize Israel’s response without immediately losing Jewish friends cutting me off with charges of antisemitism. I started digging into it and it became very clear to me that October 7 was BB either letting it happen on purpose or making it happen on purpose. Since then, the genocide of Gaza and the surrounding rhetoric from all Israeli politicians has indicated to me that Zionists have completely lost the thread. At this point for those in power in Israel, you either support them or you’re an antisemite no matter how many Palestinian babies they kill, how many Gaza food lines they wipe out or how many hospitals they bomb with US F 35s. Unfortunately, for Israel, all the chickens are coming home to roost now. We’ve got Epstein being much more than a Mossad agent. He was working with an Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barack to undermine governments in countries all over the world. He was also trading arms for Israel. He was helping to wipe out Nicaraguans by selling them arms and helping the CIA transport the dope they collected to destroy black neighborhoods in South Central Los Angeles. Little more needs to be said about the Epstein pedophilia rings but don’t hold your breath on when that information will be released. Epstein was working for the Israeli government. Now we have Charlie Kirk connections to Israeli IP addresses for Google searches weeks before Kirk was assassinated. Today Candice Owens has released some bombshell information that links Egyptian military jets to the Charlie Kirk assassination. Ian Carol has bombshell information that Trump is hiding the Epstein material because of compromising gay photos of him that Putin might have. One way or the other things are going to explode and a lot of people are gonna look pretty bad. It’s very possible that the state of Israel will not survive all of these revelations. Could even threaten America, not that democracy here is doing all that well anyway. This is a fork in the road that we haven’t seen since the Civil War.
The British set up the conflict, starting in 1916, when they offered Amir al-Husayni (who had converted to Wahhabism a few years before) land in their Mandate to set up a pan-Arab nationalist state in exchange for al-Husayni's efforts against the Ottoman Empire which were eventually successful - and al-Husayni started importing fellow Wahhabist Arabs in large numbers. Then the British, in 1919, offered the same lands to Lord Rothschild to set up a homeland for the Jewish people, in exchange for Rothschild's paying off the British war debt, since the Crown was nearly bankrupt. Rothschild accepted, paid, and started importing Jews in large numbers... The British switched off every few years, supporting Arabs and then Jews, until both were fighting each other, and then the British washed their hands of the whole mess they had created, and scampered off to Dear Old Blighty and left the infant UN holding the bag... see https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/its-time-for-israel-for-once-and for details.
One can really go down a worm hole, trying to figure out the history of the Balfour declaration and the history of Theodore Hersel and the original Zionist movement. suffice it to say that when I see how much the current Zionists lie about everything and insist that any criticism even by secular Jews is antisemitism I discount a lot of of what prior Zionists have said. Norm Finkelstein is my go to on the history of the region.
This is one of the glories of Judaism. Norman Finkelstein "The Holocaust Industry" and many others, tried to bring out the truth. Likewise David Cole. And Ron Unz.
There are Millions of Jews (myself included) that are anti Netanyahu, anti IDF, and anti Hamas but we are not self hating Jews or obviously not anti Semitic. Even some Jews are anti Zionist.
But in my mind Jews can be anti Hamas because they are truly a terrorist war criminal organization as exemplified by the barbaric attack of October 7th and also believe that the disproportionate response of the Israeli Netanyahu Regime and the IDF of the leveling of Gaza and the intentional murder and starvation of innocents (over 20,000 dead children) are war crimes approaching ethnic cleansing and likely an attempt at Genocide. One can criticize the Israeli regime under Netanyahu and that is not necessarily Anti Semitism by any means. Instead in my mind it IS following Jewish values.
You’re probably right, but BB has done enormous damage to Israel with the genocide of Gaza that is still going on. I listen to Naftali Bennett who’s probably gonna be the next Prime Minister and I’m not seeing any evidence that he’s gonna do things any differently in terms of the genocide campaign, and the Palestinian”concentration camps” in the West Bank.
I can believe they are antisemitic. I would encourage the Jews to investigate why it is that everywhere in the world their diaspora takes them, including unlikely places such as Japan, China and India, the native populations form the same opinions.
Condemning antisemitism is not sufficient. It would be better to attempt to avoid its emergence in the first place. As I wrote in this piece, I am willing to overlook actions and characteristics that might turn other men into antisemites. Wish I did not have to.
I don't think there is really antisemitism everywhere.
It is usually overstates in some Western countries, like racism in general, that some people just made a living of it and see it everywhere.
Just mentioning differences is not antismetism. Every group who defines itself by differences experience that.
And every outgroup will experience it share of rejection. If not, it will become a distinctive group.
(E.g.If you are in Japan or China, and you are not Japanes or Chines, you will be excluded from that society.)
But this is very different from the progroms and mass murder we saw in the 20th century, which was maybe rooted in historic animosity, but then was very deliberatedly increased by states for their own purposes.
And that is exactly what I see on some of these larger Twitter account: a deliberate stirring of hatred.
Respect - don't hold your breath. As for the anti-semite stuff, that's an easy conversational ploy when the other side is losing the argument, similar to empty latter-day accusations of "you're a racist!" or "you're a Nazi!" - you're arguing with a four-year old - "you're a poopy-pants!"...As for Raskin and Soros, they have done more to further actual anti-semitism by their actions than any actual Nazi, and as for Carlson and his interview, he let Putin snow him with that ludicrous half-hour self-serving "history lesson" - perhaps Tucker was concerned that his hotel accommodations would be shifted to the basement of the Lubyanka had he offered significant challenge - but even Putin wondered at Carlson's apparent sycophancy, at one point asking "is this a serious interview?". The breaking point for me was when he had on Mr Dark Triad himself, Curtis Yarvin, our latter-day Alexander Hamilton, the Man Who Would Be King, on for a seemingly interminable interview, also without any sort of serious challenge - and that was enough for me.
The exchange in response to this post should be illuminating for my Jewish correspondents. I fear it will be totally ignored. Great thinkers from Sun Tsu through Clauswitz and Machiavelli have recommended that you know your enemy. Fuentes makes it pretty clear where he is coming from. They should listen. Just as Saul Alenski, Joseph Stalin and Karl Marx made their intentions clear, and we should have listened.
Not only should they learn to listen, they should learn to converse - that professor, did he ever argue his points to his students in class in the course of a spirited discussion - did he do that as a student, either undergrad or in grad school? Surely he must have - what is his PhD in, anyway? Or else he was indoctrinated, took it all up without challenge, regurgitated it in a convincing way - or convincing enough, and turned around and became an indoctrinator himself, and lived a life of ignominious academic dishonesty and hypocrisy, which is a terrible, terrible thing. He should read this - https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies - and think hard about it, if he is still capable of doing so...
I hope somebody calls this exchange to his attention. It won't be me. I enjoy being a fly on that wall.
This of off topic, but it has been reported that Tucker Carlson was paid by the Kremlin to interview Putin. Among your list of Right leaning pols in Europe, you list supporters of Russia and Putin. The AFD recently called for restoring the Nord Stream pipeline as a plank in their platform. Marine Le Pen has been paid by Putin to provide opposition in France for more than a decade. As much as I like Farage, he is a supporter of Putin. Hard for me to admire these people, especially the AFD.
True. The Russians always try to sow discord, and supporting these parties is a move in that direction Unfortunately.
The Kremlin supports anybody who is in opposition to the EU and the unification of Europe. Putin funded the Scottish separatist movement, the Catalonian referendum to leave Spain, the Veneto independence groups, and he supports Orban simply because Orban is a thorn in the EU side.
I myself while despising Putin and his 70s KGB vision of the world also don't like the EU which is rapidly becoming a tyrannical state under Ursula Von Der Lyin. I think if they held referendums today, the EU would lose the vote in at least ten countries, among them Poland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, and France. I fear Ukraine joining the EU which I believe is poison to Ukrainian freedom and independence.
As to the Jewish question in your post, I don't understand anti-Semitism in any form. I honestly didn't have any idea what a Jew was until I moved to Ukraine. I knew that there were Jewish people, but I always treated people the same, no matter where they came from and I have always embraced people who were different from the norm. People are just people in my mind. They are judged by who they are and how they behave individually. I don't think I have preconceived notions about anyone.
As Shakespeare wrote in Merchant of Venice. "I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?"
We're all human, we're all in the same boat. We're all sailing for Niagara Falls. Are we not rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?
Your background is different from mine. I grew up in Berkeley, attending school with the children of the Cal faculty. My mother edited for the UC anthropology and sociology departments - Hyman Minsky and Erving Goffman, among others. I attended Reed College, the "Little Red Schoolhouse" with the children of bona fide card-carrying communists.
I recognized friends such as Alan Koenig, Jim Kagan and Alan Birholtz as different, but it took a while for my mind to allow labels to congeal to describe that difference. They did. The differences are systematic and predictable.
After than comes the question of whether it is good, bad or simply a fact of life. The Jews think it is good, the antisemites take it as bad, and I am content to simply recognize it for what it is, a fact of life. And tell my children, so their learning curve is steeper than mine was.
Isn't this statement an admission that you've embraced stereotypes? Isn't that a confession of prejudice? I grew up in a different environment, so I necessarily have a less prejudiced vision of the world. I guess we have to ask if your personal experience is confirmation bias.
It's bias if it isn't supported by evidence. Sociologists have, however, repeatedly confirmed that there is a measurable, factual basis to most stereotypes. To say Jews are smart is not a mere stereotype.
It has been supported by psychometricians for over a century. Most of whom, by the way, have been non-Jewish British and Americans.
Stereotyping, racism, White Supremacism that’s what Graham excels at. He thinks he is so intelligent because he is a book addict. So fing what! He has absolutely no emotional intelligence or empathy or feelings for anyone who is not in his tribe other than feelings of hatred and condescension. Respect is earned, I have no respect for Graham or his White Supremacist ilk. And Nick Fuentes is an incel woman hating, White Supremacist. anti semitic Hitler lover also deserving no respect, only scorn.
I don't know if you've noticed, but your rant is filled with hatred and venom. I see no point to what you wrote. If you simply want to be mean, then you have succeeded. Why bother? I don't see Graham's posts as white supremacism at all. And I don't get the reference to Nick Fuentes. He has only popped up in the news recently, but you seem to want to lump Graham into the same category without any evidence, aside from insults. I think it would be useful if you offered a less hateful commentary. As it is, you simply insult Graham without offering anything other than abuse. You defeat your own purpose by your insults.
You must have used artificial intelligence to string so many ugly, derisive words together in one paragraph. You may have the venom, but I don't think you have the wit to do it on your own.
When I write that Jews are smart, I must concede there are significant exceptions. Thank you for making it so obvious.
I find the following assertion about Grahm absurd:
(Graham's) faux intellectual style reflect his lack humanitarian instincts and a distorted perspective on life
What universe does this guy live in? ad hominem attacks from this chap, as the one above, confirm that he himself is displaying his own personal "faux intellectual style", reflect his own "lack humanitarian instincts", and his own "distorted perspective on life"
He's projecting!
Zelensky and his synagogue are doing a great job of running Ukraine! They are a blessing from God!
I've said in the past, that when Ukraine is done with Putin and his vassals, they will have to get rid of Zelenskyy and *his* vassals. And I hope Russia survives Putin, and Ukraine, Zelenskyy, and I do not believe that Putin is Orthodox, in any sense of the word. See https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/the-problem-in-ukraine-and-russia for details...
As you have seen, I generally agree.
Wherever they go, peace and plenty are sure to follow. So the Bible states. 🙏
Graham, I agree with you. Having been an academic my entire life I certainly have noticed the good and bad in academic Jews. Some have helped me in my career. Some had a lot to do with my firing from the university, even though I was a full tenured professor. Although I’ve often thought that setting up a Zionist state right in the heart of Palestine was a extremely bad idea and if you look at the history, there were many other options that could’ve been chosen. After October 7, I noticed something very strange. I was not even able to mildly criticize Israel’s response without immediately losing Jewish friends cutting me off with charges of antisemitism. I started digging into it and it became very clear to me that October 7 was BB either letting it happen on purpose or making it happen on purpose. Since then, the genocide of Gaza and the surrounding rhetoric from all Israeli politicians has indicated to me that Zionists have completely lost the thread. At this point for those in power in Israel, you either support them or you’re an antisemite no matter how many Palestinian babies they kill, how many Gaza food lines they wipe out or how many hospitals they bomb with US F 35s. Unfortunately, for Israel, all the chickens are coming home to roost now. We’ve got Epstein being much more than a Mossad agent. He was working with an Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barack to undermine governments in countries all over the world. He was also trading arms for Israel. He was helping to wipe out Nicaraguans by selling them arms and helping the CIA transport the dope they collected to destroy black neighborhoods in South Central Los Angeles. Little more needs to be said about the Epstein pedophilia rings but don’t hold your breath on when that information will be released. Epstein was working for the Israeli government. Now we have Charlie Kirk connections to Israeli IP addresses for Google searches weeks before Kirk was assassinated. Today Candice Owens has released some bombshell information that links Egyptian military jets to the Charlie Kirk assassination. Ian Carol has bombshell information that Trump is hiding the Epstein material because of compromising gay photos of him that Putin might have. One way or the other things are going to explode and a lot of people are gonna look pretty bad. It’s very possible that the state of Israel will not survive all of these revelations. Could even threaten America, not that democracy here is doing all that well anyway. This is a fork in the road that we haven’t seen since the Civil War.
The British set up the conflict, starting in 1916, when they offered Amir al-Husayni (who had converted to Wahhabism a few years before) land in their Mandate to set up a pan-Arab nationalist state in exchange for al-Husayni's efforts against the Ottoman Empire which were eventually successful - and al-Husayni started importing fellow Wahhabist Arabs in large numbers. Then the British, in 1919, offered the same lands to Lord Rothschild to set up a homeland for the Jewish people, in exchange for Rothschild's paying off the British war debt, since the Crown was nearly bankrupt. Rothschild accepted, paid, and started importing Jews in large numbers... The British switched off every few years, supporting Arabs and then Jews, until both were fighting each other, and then the British washed their hands of the whole mess they had created, and scampered off to Dear Old Blighty and left the infant UN holding the bag... see https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/its-time-for-israel-for-once-and for details.
One can really go down a worm hole, trying to figure out the history of the Balfour declaration and the history of Theodore Hersel and the original Zionist movement. suffice it to say that when I see how much the current Zionists lie about everything and insist that any criticism even by secular Jews is antisemitism I discount a lot of of what prior Zionists have said. Norm Finkelstein is my go to on the history of the region.
This is one of the glories of Judaism. Norman Finkelstein "The Holocaust Industry" and many others, tried to bring out the truth. Likewise David Cole. And Ron Unz.
You raise many points, some of course debatable. In any case, debate should be allowed. It is increasingly obvious which parties want to suppress it.
There are Millions of Jews (myself included) that are anti Netanyahu, anti IDF, and anti Hamas but we are not self hating Jews or obviously not anti Semitic. Even some Jews are anti Zionist.
But in my mind Jews can be anti Hamas because they are truly a terrorist war criminal organization as exemplified by the barbaric attack of October 7th and also believe that the disproportionate response of the Israeli Netanyahu Regime and the IDF of the leveling of Gaza and the intentional murder and starvation of innocents (over 20,000 dead children) are war crimes approaching ethnic cleansing and likely an attempt at Genocide. One can criticize the Israeli regime under Netanyahu and that is not necessarily Anti Semitism by any means. Instead in my mind it IS following Jewish values.
You’re probably right, but BB has done enormous damage to Israel with the genocide of Gaza that is still going on. I listen to Naftali Bennett who’s probably gonna be the next Prime Minister and I’m not seeing any evidence that he’s gonna do things any differently in terms of the genocide campaign, and the Palestinian”concentration camps” in the West Bank.
Except this fork has nuclear tines and Global ramifications
And no Arab state will take the "Palestinians" and for very good reasons - see https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22056/why-most-arab-countries-do-not-want-palestinians
I would not underestimate the trauma of antisemitism and the holocaust.
Though it is at time used for advantages by some, I think there is also a great fear when antisemitsim rears its head, as it does now.
I follow this Carlson/Owens/Fuentes discussion a bit on Twitter (although now, it is tiresome). And it the comments are often virulently antisemitic.
This may lead to responses which more a panicy lashing out. At this stage I would not take this too personal.
I can believe they are antisemitic. I would encourage the Jews to investigate why it is that everywhere in the world their diaspora takes them, including unlikely places such as Japan, China and India, the native populations form the same opinions.
Condemning antisemitism is not sufficient. It would be better to attempt to avoid its emergence in the first place. As I wrote in this piece, I am willing to overlook actions and characteristics that might turn other men into antisemites. Wish I did not have to.
I don't think there is really antisemitism everywhere.
It is usually overstates in some Western countries, like racism in general, that some people just made a living of it and see it everywhere.
Just mentioning differences is not antismetism. Every group who defines itself by differences experience that.
And every outgroup will experience it share of rejection. If not, it will become a distinctive group.
(E.g.If you are in Japan or China, and you are not Japanes or Chines, you will be excluded from that society.)
But this is very different from the progroms and mass murder we saw in the 20th century, which was maybe rooted in historic animosity, but then was very deliberatedly increased by states for their own purposes.
And that is exactly what I see on some of these larger Twitter account: a deliberate stirring of hatred.