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Excellent list. I'd add:

Willing Accomplices: How KGB Covert Influence Agents Created Political Correctness and Destroyed America, where for simplification the author generally used "KGB" for the organization that started out as the Cheka and was the NKVD for a good part of what the book covers. He's an ex-counterintelligence officer, and uses analysis techniques from that field to go from the known operative Willi Münzenberg to known or likely "Willing Accomplices" his effort recruited before he was (inevitably) liquidated by Stalin (the effort was of course restarted later, but the lethal payload had already been delivered, in the US especially after the #1 goal of diplomatic recognition of the USSR was achieved early in FDR's administration).

I'd like to emphasize that anything relevant written or edited by Samuel Francis is going to be great, but you'll likely want to read some of his freely available or cheaper works before buying his $48 magnum opus Leviathan and Its Enemies. He's the guy who came up with the critical concept of anarcho-tyranny, which in classic Wikipedia fashion has been purged from his page, but they forgot to remove the redirect of that to it. (In short, it's a new version of the ancient pattern of top and bottom classes conspiring against the middle, criminals in particular are enabled to prey on us, rules and laws are enforced against us but not them and e.g. immigrants in California, native farmer Victor Davis Hansen has a lot of first hand observations about this.)

For a laser focused analysis of the current SJW phenomena and how to deal with them, you can't beat Vox Day's SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, the genesis of which started with an unremitting out of the blue attack a decade and a half ago by some SF SJWs for really mild and unrelated to their domain badthink. He's a fighter, so it has a lot of good advice as to how to attack and counterattack them. /u/sciencemile recommends Mill's On Liberty, and per Vox Day, Mill would be relevant if for no other reason than his "defining [a] new idea of justice in a form that is still recognizable in the demands of today's SJWs" in his Utilitarianism. (On the other hand, view anything Vox Day writes about economics with extreme skepticism, and I note he's not fundamentally honest, he's quite willing to lie for tactical reasons.)

To get a taste of it, he's written a short SJW_Attack_Survival_Guide PDF that's [currently being discussed on KiA]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/6gx2tl/in_light_of_recent_events_sjw_attack_survival/).

If you want to fight and are not equally adept at rhetoric as well as dialectic and know when to use each, he highly recommend's Aristotle's On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse (that seems to be the best English translation, but I've not read it yet, for better or worse my upbringing made me good at both).

Martin van Creveld's recent Equality: The Impossible Quest ought to be very important as well, but I've not read anything by him.

If you're really brave, check out The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements, although I only sampled that before starting with the two previous books in his trilogy, in the middle of the third now.

> For your reading pleasure: http://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/0684832674 Knowledge is power.

Thanks. But I work in that field and are well versed in what the internet is, what it is not, and it's history. ARPANET is not the internet. It never was, and never will be. As I said, it's a completely different network for a completely different purpose. The TECH used for the development of ARPANET, was repurposed to create the internet. But saying that it therefor is the internet, is like saying a car is a horse cart. It's simply not true.

> The OP did, when contending that the rough-and-tumble days of Usenet justified, even necessitated, a similar treatment of the ideology of "safe spaces" today.

No he didn't. You trying to cram that interpretation into it, does not make it one. Nor was that what he said. Why are you lying?

> Our legal system disagrees with you, vehemently. Here is achildren's primer on the subject, which seems about your speed:

No it does not. There's plenty of rulings from multiple courts in multiple levels regarding this. Free speech has nothing to do with what a company can and cannot do with their platforms. Free speech is about free speech, nothing else. That's not to say they're not allowed to control their platform, it simply have nothing to do with free speech. That a company has no obligation to allow you to use their platform for your free speech, is COMPLETELY different, from the company having free speech rights. Is the education on the difference between free speech and the first amendment and what the difference between those things is, REALLY this bad in the US that even people in Europe knows it better? You're just being silly now... Seriously...

>This is something I was wondering about that. What's the deal with people who are like 'I'm sick of heavy handed, <current year> political crap in my comics' getting into bed with the guy who made Trump the Rabbit and Trump in Space, or whatever they were called?

I would say there is a slight misconstruing of things, at least with regards to Lim (open to correction /u/AnarcrotheAlchemist or anyone else that knows better);

Lim's first book (Thump: The First Bundred Days) and his Trump-themed parody of My Hero Academia (My Hero Magedemia, natch) are stand-alone, boutique publications. More than novelty gifts (I have Thump, which is delightful, and Just Some Guy reviewed Magedemia rather glowingly), but they aren't ongoing comics or soft relaunches or things of that nature.

Are they political? Oh yeah! But they're not meant to be anything but political, and they are up-front about that.

Obviously I can't speak for Lim, but certainly my objection is not that things like these (or the analogous Obama/Reagan hero worship stuff) exist, but the infiltration of hard-left politics into places that weren't just previously politically 'neutral', but places where it is detrimental to the story.

Where they intersect with CG is (again guessing) because Lim was attacked by The Mary Sue (the OG Asian White Nationalist) and clearly ostracized from mainstream comics even before EVS started getting hit.

I would slightly differ from Anarcro in that I think CG (much like GG) is really more a movement of people that have been ostracized from the mainstream combined with a consumer revolt than a coherent movement with a unifying message.

what's peter david's stance on all of this? because at least going by his book on writing comics he seems to be pro comicsgate echoing several sentiments in that book.

like how he advises to write your characters how you want them where he recounts writing a lesbian character based on an actual lesbian friend of his and a bunch of proto SJWs whined about how the character perpetuated stereotypes despite being based on a real person and how GLAAD celebrated the same character as being the most realistic and true to life portrayal of any gay character in media at the time.

he even says you should not go to a publisher and demand they use your original characters because their house roster "sucks" as it insults them and shows you have an abrasive personality.

also praised the uber-obsessed nerd a few times with a prominent example of advising hired guns to go on fan pages (or wikis today) to research the character because nerds love comics so much they do your research for you.

though i am betting he denounced such stuff and now is willing to punch "toxic males".

Didn't make it to the 3rd sentence, eh? On this snapshot literally every unverified 5-star review was deleted

I'll even link them for you:

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I don't care what the SJW's think of the game but let's just put the historical facts to bed, there were absolutely a significant amount of brown people in and around Bohemia in the Middle Ages. Look at the maps, there was overlap in areas controlled by both the Bohemians and Muslims at differs periods in the Middle Ages. There was so much Bohemian artwork depicting brown people in their region (even as Knights) and Moorish goods were very much in fashion at the time as there was a lot of trade between the regions. I actually think it's cool when I see historically accurate movies depicting the cultural diversity at the time. It was a fascinating period.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_Ottoman_Empire

Edit:
If you want to learn more about the history of the the cultures, races, and religions that made up the region and time the game in question takes place in I suggest you read Islam, Christianity and the Making of Czech Identity. It will give you more insight than some quick googling ever could. It's a good book, and you can easily see that to be historically accurate their should be non-white in the game. But whatever, it's just a game.
http://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Identity-1453-1683-Transculturalisms-1400-1700/dp/1409431657

Yeah, but remember, the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam. :)

This is a good book that touches on this subject, btw - if anyone is interested. Just read it the other day myself...

https://www.amazon.com/Islam-Future-Tolerance-Sam-Harris-ebook/dp/B0163EHLRQ/

Well I can almost guarantee you I'm more educated on post-Soviet Russia than you are.

I just finished reading Jon Dunlop's The Moscow Bombings of September 1999. It's an extraordinary read.

Care to discuss the subject with me? Or any subject relating to post-Soviet Russia? I'm going for a run but I'll look forward to the productive and very civil conversation :)

You need the two most definitive books that outline GamerGate, the lead up to today's problems, how to crush the SJW and how to win.

Vox Day, SJWs always lie.

SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police (The Laws of Social Justice Book 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014GMBUR4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_vUaQBb1J635SS

Then

SJWs Always Double Down: Anticipating the Thought Police (The Laws of Social Justice Book 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075BGGKLG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_WUaQBb5CMGKYP

Read this:
http://www.voxday.net/mart/SJW_Attack_Survival_Guide.pdf
This is written by a guy who has the #1 best selling book on Amazon about SJWs: SJWs Always Lie.
The biggest and most important advice I can give is: NEVER APOLOGIZE

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left Hardcover – September 25, 2004

Recommend reading it. Note how it was written 2004, and David Horowitz also manages JihadWatch.

It's extremely enlightening.

Williamson's Freehold Book 1 is currently free on Amazon and the 21 hour ebook is only $1.99. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BEQLTZY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0

>you could try treating them like human beings

That noble sounding sentiment is revealed for what it is the moment anyone looks at your comment history.

I'm asking for SJW deconversion stories, not looking for advice on how to generally interact with SJWs. There's already Books written about that.

Archives for the links in comments:

• By Platypus581 (gameobjective.com): http://archive.is/0bOa8
  
• By cranktheguy (en.wikipedia.org): http://archive.is/vn7Ng
  
• By Bomb_adil (townhall.com): http://archive.is/k5ZtX
  
• By cranktheguy (washingtonpost.com): http://archive.is/cVFuF
  
• By noh8justlitig8 (amazon.com): http://archive.is/bGZJ9
  
• By cranktheguy (nbcnews.com): http://archive.is/7Vryp
  
  
• By cranktheguy (thedailybeast.com): http://archive.is/c8KBS
  
  
• By cranktheguy (washingtonpost.com): http://archive.is/5hOg7
  
  
• By cranktheguy (nytimes.com): http://archive.is/k0wfS
  
• By noh8justlitig8 (washingtonpost.com): http://archive.is/cOf4q
  
• By DestroyedArkana (bullshitpolitician.files.wordpress.com): http://archive.is/VQ5zK
  
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The best answer to this is Vox Day's uncompromising book
SJWs Always Lie.

I really wish someone other than Vox day would, effectively, re-write this book. His name has so much baggage that you can't just hand a copy out to normies.

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Looking at his related books... (Holy shit, linking these are a nightmare due to Amazon's tracking buillshit in the URLs)

https://smile.amazon.com/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed-ebook/dp/B00L9B7IRC/

https://smile.amazon.com/How-Trump-SJWs-Alinskys-Radicals-ebook/dp/B01JFOM1LM/

https://smile.amazon.com/Social-Justice-Warrior-Handbook-Millennials-ebook/dp/B074N6968P/

https://smile.amazon.com/Bullies-Culture-Intimidation-Silences-Americans-ebook/dp/B008GULMDK/

https://smile.amazon.com/New-Church-Ladies-Extremely-Uptight-ebook/dp/B06VVHV1DX/

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Nothing short and to the point, but some good stuff there for normies to read.

You're exactly right. Not like one can screen for every tumblrina or special snowflake in every instance, every type of employment specialty. But there are ways to cut out the tumor before it becomes malignant, so I've heard.
If you didn't already know, there is an excellent read on the very subject: https://www.amazon.com/SJWs-Always-Lie-Taking-Thought-ebook/dp/B014GMBUR4
It's by Vox Day, everyone's favorite crazy author/publisher.

>ARPANET, which while it has some relation to the internet, is a completely different thing entirely...

For your reading pleasure:
http://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/0684832674
Knowledge is power.


>No one gave an argument from tradition.

The OP did, when contending that the rough-and-tumble days of Usenet justified, even necessitated, a similar treatment of the ideology of "safe spaces" today.

>free speech does not have anything to do with the right to manage any platform

Our legal system disagrees with you, vehemently. Here is achildren's primer on the subject, which seems about your speed:

http://1forall.us/teach-the-first-amendment/the-first-amendment/#a4

If you manage to choke that down, see Marsh v Alabama (1946), Hudgens v NLRB (1976) and Pruneyard v Robins (1980). It's why you're not allowed to wear pornographic t-shirts at Disneyland.

Twitter's EULA states, in part: "We reserve the right at all times (but will not have an obligation) to remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services and to terminate users or reclaim usernames.”

According to the law, they're tight. Your precious fee-fees have no claim.

That's why.

Top Reviews HERE show a number of low scoring reviews that do not reflect the overall score shown

Here is the desktop version of your link

> Isn't this what Correct the Record actually did? And in a way, still doing?

The three laws apply:

• SJWs Always Lie
  
  
• SJWs Always Project
  
  
• SJWs Always Double-down

https://www.amazon.com/SJWs-Always-Lie-Taking-Thought-ebook/dp/B014GMBUR4

accuracy has nothing to do with is just one component of effective persuasion. quick rundown:

there are two modes of persuasion, dialectic and rhetoric. dialectic is based on facts, rhetoric on emotions. dialectic is concerned with accuracy, rhetoric with effect.

rhetoric is without any question the more effective mode of persuasion. somebody who disagrees with you on an emotional level isn't going to listen to your well-thought out and proven assertions that a given thing is wrong. they will definitely listen to effective ridicule or humiliation for their wrong beliefs.

the most effective rhetoric, however, is that backed up by facts. the reason why SJWs are reacting the way they are to the crisis actor meme isn't because of their high-handed moral supremacy regarding the victims of a tragedy, but because they CAN, HAVE, and WILL IN THE FUTURE use tragedies like this as planks to push idiotic social policy, and anything that threatens that stranglehold must needs be anathema. thus, the recent flailing.

you have a tactic at your disposal which is proved to be effective and which is in fact backed up by the truth. there is no more useful term than "crisis actor" because it causes such pain and suffering to the bunnies. use it and use it often.

further useful reading. it's on sale, grab it while it's hot.