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Deconstructing Colonial Myths (or Fuck the Colonial Myths) - Part One: Roads, Railways & Civilization
We continue to hear it – apologies for colonialism, justifications for colonialism, legitimations for colonialism. Fuck it all. Some – like providing civilization, infrastructure and technology – are contemporary justifications that propagandize colonial history and legitimate the consequences of that history; while others are historic justifications that legitimated colonialism’s brutality in the first place – from funding further Crusades, to narratives about combating
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How Social Media was Weaponized to Divide South Africans – The Tale of Bell Pottinger & The ‘Zuptas’
credit: The New Yorker; Illustration by Ben Jones In 2016, through various agents and representatives, scandalized former President Jacob...
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“Subscribe to PewdiePie” - How Internet Humour is leveraged to Encourage Fascism & Violence
In 2019, Brenton Tarrant - the Christchurch Killer - slaughtered 51 innocents and injured 89 others at two Mosques in Christchurch, New...
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“DEUS VULT”: Pete Hegseth’s Problematic Tattoos & the Fetishization of The Crusades
Hegseth's official US gov portrait; image credit: Wikipedia Pete Hegseth – the United States’ Secretary of Defense – a man in a key...
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The Camp of the Saints: The Most Racist Book of Recent History - Part One
“Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison. And will go out to deceive the nations which are in...
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Gamergate: Gaming, The Culture War, & The Rise of the Alt-Right
In the mid-2010s, an online movement known as Gamergate was formed which would alter the gaming industry forever,...
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Eurabia Part Two: The Counter Jihad & the Influences of Eurabia
(This paper is the second part of an exploration of Eurabia; an anti-Muslim conspiracy theory. For Part One, please click here .) Bat...
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Eurabia: The Founding Myth of Contemporary Islamophobia - Part One
Islamophobic conspiracy theories are as old as the faith itself; with such theories becoming popular through historical periods like the...
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Conspiracy vs Conspiracy Theory
This paper is part of a series exploring the nature of conspiracy theories and conspiratorial thinking, in order to elucidate a model for...
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Mythologies & Conspiracies: The Work of Roland Barthes - Part One
Myth and Mythology Conspiracy theories have come to play a central role in political discourse in recent years, driving decisive...
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Galileo’s Gambit: PragerU’s Anti-Science for Kids
PragerU is a conservative right-wing American media and education company that uses a largely online based model for its courses and...
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Ritual Murder & The Blood Libel - Part One: From Rome to the Late-Middle-Ages
Our work is committed to exploring and challenging propaganda, misinformation and popular conspiracy theories. Much of the popular...
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