RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/March 2021

March 2021
The long-term prognosis for human civilization is grim, but hopeful The Japanese Wikipedia is full of historical misinformation, apologism and propaganda The threat of authoritarianism is no longer on the horizon: It's arrived in the GOP Boris Johnson was portrayed as a liberal, but his draconian government is wrecking Britain Holocaust denial was already taking root in Britain during WWII and laid the blueprint for its later usage, according to a senior researcher Elite Panic vs the Resilient Populace: How society often gets actual human nature very wrong. How online subscription blogging/email platform Substack has been secretly promoting and commissioning anti-trans content, and protecting TERFs like Graham Linehan who violate their terms of conduct: posts by Jude Doyle and Annalee Newitz. Ireland is trying to revive the memory of Violet Gibson, the Irishwoman who shot and almost killed Benito Mussolini during a 1926 fascist rally. The much-touted Trump-brokered relationship agreements between Israel and several Muslim states have actually inflamed lines of conflict and made a lasting peace less likely. [https://www.npr.org/2021/03/15/976352794/syrias-civil-war-started-a-decade-ago-heres-where-it-stands March 15th is the 10th anniversary of the Syrian Civil War. Here's where things stand now]. Islamo-Leftism is the new enemy of the French right wing: a made-up movement of academics that supposedly is seeking to divide and undermine France by studying race and Islam, in the latest example of non-sensical culture wars (see also Cultural Marxism and Judaeo-Bolshevism).