I would have sent this as an email, but i don't know yours. This is a comment and observation about Darryl Cooper.
I have been listening to his latest which is about the German army at the end of WW1 to WW2. I think that it is plainly obvious from his appearances on Tucker's show and from his X feed that he has taken a dark turn and as far as I am concerned he is unabashedly antisemitic. I believe that in his present work that he is going to absolve the average German soldier of any complicity or agency in any of the bad things the Wehrmacht and the German nation did in WW2. He will also try to lay some of the blame on Jews. As he is describing the Russian Civil War he will let the listener know of every Jewish Bolshevik that did a horrible thing (and there were many of them no doubt, the Bolsheviks and the Red Army were monstrous and cruel). As expected, the Whites are not included in the endless litany of atrocities committed during the Civil War, even though they were as frequent and as horrible as anything the Reds did. It was a bad time and a bad place for ordinary people to be. They were indeed the Bloodlands (as Tim Snyder called them before he lost his mind and emigrated to Canada). When he related the abbreviated details of the negotiations that led up to the Treaty of Brest Litovsk, he went on about how crude the Bolsheviks were in front of the proper civilized German generals and diplomats. What wasn't discussed were the details of that treaty, and how much territory was taken from Russia as a result of losing their war with Germany.
I will listen to the whole series. I fully expect a whitewashing of Germany. He will place the blame on the USSR and the Jews and probably on the most evil character in WW2, Winston Churchill who we all know was a stooge of the Zionists.
I am enjoying the Crackpot History examination of Scott Horton's Provoked, and I look forward to his analysis of this publication of Cooper's.
Once again, I thank you for your excellent substack and congratulations on you PhD, which I assume from your posts will be forthcoming soon.
Thanks as always for the kind words! (And not quite PhD yet; just the masters, but that’s hopefully next!). And yeah as someone who, in part, covered the White Army’s actions in Mongolia (with the Bloody Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, no relation I SWEAR lol) I can say that like all civil wars, there was no shortage of monstrousness on either side, and missing that picture or distorting it is just boring contrarianism.
I’m seeing a LOT of people (not just Darryl) falling for this idea that “well the way others act makes it OBVIOUS why Jew hatred is on the rise” as if there is no agency involved when someone develops an obvious fixation or—and this is my favorite part—how that is any different from, say, claiming that white American racism against black Americans makes sense because of urban blacks’ thuggish behavior. A lot of people, on the left and right, saying that Jews experiencing antisemitism these days is even partly because of what Israel has done or is doing would be mighty comfortable with something like Executive Order 9066 and they don’t even realize it. It sucks, especially because there are really smart and sweet people who are falling for it because they think it’s “nuanced.” Like in the end, even if it’s partly true, who cares? People make choices, including being conspiratorial or bigoted. It’s not some mysterious magical unconscious force; that’s woke bullshit, frankly.
When I was in high school, my biology teacher mentioned eugenics in a quick sentence. He treated the subject with the same level of seriousness as he would give to a "flat earther."
You mentioned that eugenics was once considered cutting-edge by leading universities. While that support and research are deeply disturbing, it clashes with my previous understanding of how much importance we give it today. You made me realize there was probably a "PR" campaign to clean up the names of those big institutions. This is fascinating.
I didn’t linger on it too much but it really was the PR disaster eugenics encountered thanks to the Third Reich acting as its logical conclusion and the revelations about the Holocaust that dealt it a death blow. I do think there was unfortunate splash damage that hurt the pursuit of genetic studies and the role of nature instead of nurture but that is ultimately another essay and conversation. Eugenics itself though is somewhat of a dirty word now and for good reason, and I think there was an effort to distance from it. Academia tends to do that without grand pronouncements of shame for having participated in destructive trends, quietly pretending nothing ever happened, while allowing occasional academics to write blistering critiques later on.
Anyway thanks for reading and for subscribing! Really appreciate it.
Oh wow, I looked into this a little bit more. I remember one of the streets around the house where I grew up was renamed recently because it bore the name of "the Nazi" Alexis Carrel. This piece of trash used his "halo" as a Nobel Prize winner in Medicine to implement eugenics policies in France.
I would have sent this as an email, but i don't know yours. This is a comment and observation about Darryl Cooper.
I have been listening to his latest which is about the German army at the end of WW1 to WW2. I think that it is plainly obvious from his appearances on Tucker's show and from his X feed that he has taken a dark turn and as far as I am concerned he is unabashedly antisemitic. I believe that in his present work that he is going to absolve the average German soldier of any complicity or agency in any of the bad things the Wehrmacht and the German nation did in WW2. He will also try to lay some of the blame on Jews. As he is describing the Russian Civil War he will let the listener know of every Jewish Bolshevik that did a horrible thing (and there were many of them no doubt, the Bolsheviks and the Red Army were monstrous and cruel). As expected, the Whites are not included in the endless litany of atrocities committed during the Civil War, even though they were as frequent and as horrible as anything the Reds did. It was a bad time and a bad place for ordinary people to be. They were indeed the Bloodlands (as Tim Snyder called them before he lost his mind and emigrated to Canada). When he related the abbreviated details of the negotiations that led up to the Treaty of Brest Litovsk, he went on about how crude the Bolsheviks were in front of the proper civilized German generals and diplomats. What wasn't discussed were the details of that treaty, and how much territory was taken from Russia as a result of losing their war with Germany.
I will listen to the whole series. I fully expect a whitewashing of Germany. He will place the blame on the USSR and the Jews and probably on the most evil character in WW2, Winston Churchill who we all know was a stooge of the Zionists.
I am enjoying the Crackpot History examination of Scott Horton's Provoked, and I look forward to his analysis of this publication of Cooper's.
Once again, I thank you for your excellent substack and congratulations on you PhD, which I assume from your posts will be forthcoming soon.
Thanks as always for the kind words! (And not quite PhD yet; just the masters, but that’s hopefully next!). And yeah as someone who, in part, covered the White Army’s actions in Mongolia (with the Bloody Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, no relation I SWEAR lol) I can say that like all civil wars, there was no shortage of monstrousness on either side, and missing that picture or distorting it is just boring contrarianism.
I’m seeing a LOT of people (not just Darryl) falling for this idea that “well the way others act makes it OBVIOUS why Jew hatred is on the rise” as if there is no agency involved when someone develops an obvious fixation or—and this is my favorite part—how that is any different from, say, claiming that white American racism against black Americans makes sense because of urban blacks’ thuggish behavior. A lot of people, on the left and right, saying that Jews experiencing antisemitism these days is even partly because of what Israel has done or is doing would be mighty comfortable with something like Executive Order 9066 and they don’t even realize it. It sucks, especially because there are really smart and sweet people who are falling for it because they think it’s “nuanced.” Like in the end, even if it’s partly true, who cares? People make choices, including being conspiratorial or bigoted. It’s not some mysterious magical unconscious force; that’s woke bullshit, frankly.
When I was in high school, my biology teacher mentioned eugenics in a quick sentence. He treated the subject with the same level of seriousness as he would give to a "flat earther."
You mentioned that eugenics was once considered cutting-edge by leading universities. While that support and research are deeply disturbing, it clashes with my previous understanding of how much importance we give it today. You made me realize there was probably a "PR" campaign to clean up the names of those big institutions. This is fascinating.
Thanks a lot for the insight!
I didn’t linger on it too much but it really was the PR disaster eugenics encountered thanks to the Third Reich acting as its logical conclusion and the revelations about the Holocaust that dealt it a death blow. I do think there was unfortunate splash damage that hurt the pursuit of genetic studies and the role of nature instead of nurture but that is ultimately another essay and conversation. Eugenics itself though is somewhat of a dirty word now and for good reason, and I think there was an effort to distance from it. Academia tends to do that without grand pronouncements of shame for having participated in destructive trends, quietly pretending nothing ever happened, while allowing occasional academics to write blistering critiques later on.
Anyway thanks for reading and for subscribing! Really appreciate it.
Oh wow, I looked into this a little bit more. I remember one of the streets around the house where I grew up was renamed recently because it bore the name of "the Nazi" Alexis Carrel. This piece of trash used his "halo" as a Nobel Prize winner in Medicine to implement eugenics policies in France.