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   | 40 | Lawrence WilsonCreate draft (website drlwilson.com). Promotes "nutritional balancing" and believes the world is run by "Rogues", extraterrestrial beings who manipulate society with a nice bit of jonanism |
| 18 | Estus Pirkle was a Baptist minister from New Albany, Mississippi. Alongside director Ron Ormond, he was best known for creating and starring in his own Christian exploitation films. His films included If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? (anti-communist propaganda that makes Red Dawn look sane by comparison) and The Burning Hell (Pirkle's interpretation of what the Bible has to say about hell and why it should be believed and feared). Both films can be watched on YouTube, and you can also watch the Cinema Snob's reviews of the movies. |
| 41 | Gad Saad, A Lebanese-Canadian evolutionary psychology professor known for criticizing almost anything islam while being a staunch defender of Israel. He has a youtube series called "The Saad Truth", which has featured the likes of Dave Rubin, Milo Yiannopoulos, Carl Benjamin, among others. He also had some... interesting things to say about racial profiling here. |
| 13 | Camp of the Saints - a 1973 book by French "author" Jean Raspail that is a popular reference point for alt-right in regards to the refugee crisis and such. Given that a pdf of it is available online, it's best to do a chapter-by-chapter breakdown to show what people like Steve Bannon and his fans actually praise when they refer to it. Chapter One already describes people on migrant ships as "ant columns" and "microbes in a culture", and bemoans that "scorn of a people of other races, the knowledge that one's own is best" was quashed by "the monstrous cancer implanted in the Western conscience." There's also praise for South Africa at the time as "white nation with eighty percent blacks, not a black nation with twenty percent whites" and what not. |
| 44 | Fellowship of the MindsCreate draft - a batshit insane right-wing conspiracy theory blog. Groups its content under tags including Sandy Hook Massacre (alleging it's a false flag), Boston Marathon bombings (ditto), Police State/NWO, St. Michael's Prayer Against Evil (various allegations of Satanism), Creation (guess what) Leftwing Pathology and Islam/Jews. Recent content includes alleging Roy Moore lost due to black voter fraud based on Reddit screenshots. |
| 14 | What the Health, a documentary available on Netflix that pushes a vegan diet. |
| 23 | Muscular Christianity was a philosophical movement that originated in England in the mid-19th century, characterised by a belief in patriotic duty, manliness, the moral and physical beauty of athleticism, teamwork, discipline, self-sacrifice, and "the expulsion of all that is effeminate, un-English and excessively intellectual". This movement spread to other countries in the 19th century. Today this movement is well entrenched with athletes, most notably Tim Tebow, Manny Pacquiao, Josh Hamilton, and George Wilson. |
| 31 | The Billy Graham rule or Pence rule is a practice among male Protestant Christians, in which they avoid spending time alone with women to whom they are not married. It is named after Billy Graham, the most notable proponent of the practice. It is adopted as a display of integrity, a means of avoiding sexual temptation, and to avoid any appearance of doing something considered morally objectionable, but has been criticized as being sexist. |
| 50 | 1791LCreate draft - A right-wing YouTube channel that's been operating since March 22, 2016 and accumulated 256k subscribers and 45m views since then. It seems to envision itself as a right-wing counter to The Young Turks and Vox's presence on YouTube, and several of their videos are made explicitly in response to them: What Vox missed about sanctuary cities, Vox's messy explanation of "extreme creators", How Cenk Uygur smeared his own reporter, etc. Other stuff includes How Khan makes it harder for London to fight extremism, A Worthless Agreement (about Paris), and Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Cult of Science. For bonus irony points, How CNN threatened to dox the WWE Trump meme is preceded by Inside the lives of top Trump tweet repliers |
| 13 | Supersessionism, also called replacement theology or fulfillment theology, is a theological view on the current status of the church in relation to the Jewish people and Judaism. It holds that the Christian Church has succeeded the Israelites as the definitive people of God and that the New Covenant has replaced or superseded the Mosaic covenant. This doctrine has been said to justify anti-Semitism within fundamentalist Christian and Islamic circles. |
| 50 | Robert LindsayCreate draft (webshite), ex Communist Party USA founder of liberal race realism and the altleft, has a IQ of 147 and is friends with Jared Taylor; Chris Langnan and Gilead Atzmon once commented on his blog |
| 36 | Guns, Germs, and Steel is a book by Jared Diamond that tries to explain why Eurasian and North African civilizations were historically dominant.While generally well received critics argue against many of the details as well as the lack of accounting for human action |
| 32 | Paul BeckwithCreate draft - Another climate change doomer and an ally of Guy McPherson. |
| 36 | Daniel KinchCreate draft - a guy on Quora with >1500 "answers" who describes himself as "author of work on near-term human extinction based on AGW". Claims that global warming will make humanity go extinct before 2026. Believes that "clathrate gun" (the supposed millions of tons of methane under the North Pole) will be the trigger, and uses nothing but links to "brooklynculturejammers.com" to justify said belief. Effectively, a more extreme version of the "Nature Bats Last" Guy McPherson, who is already profiled on here: a doomsday prophet either dispiriting those still capable of helping or making the entire field look ridiculous. |
| 28 | War Room. From the people who brought you Fireproof, comes another terrible film that follows the same basic plot as Fireproof only with black people instead of white people! |
| 51 | A Twitter account called AntifemcomicsCreate draft[1] used to post strawmen comics. Comics can still be seen from the hashtag. |
| 15 | Lee Camp is a Progressive comedian and writer who hosts Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp on the RT network, He has promoted conspiracy theories, such as the debunked claim that Seth Rich's murder was connected to the Democratic National Committee leaks (here), That all information reported by the MSM on Syria is "fake news" (here), and that GMO's cause cancer (here). |
| 25 | Scared Straight! is a 1978 documentary directed by Arnold Shapiro. The subject of the documentary is a group of juvenile delinquents and their three-hour session with actual convicts. It had several follow ups including Beyond Scared Straight on A&E, which Shapiro served as an executive producer. This article should explain why this type of juvenile rehabilitation program and other similar programs are outdated and ineffective in deterring criminal activity. These types of programs can also be harmful and increase delinquency relative to no intervention at all with the same youths. |
| 8 | Tony Katz is a radio personality and political pundit who claims that America is "at war" with Mexico, apparent defender of the RFRA, calling its opponents "liberal fascists", coined the "Racer" theory (i.e., that anyone who disagrees with Obama must be a racist), and all-around wingnut. In the most basic of terms, he's a younger Rush Limbaugh. |
| 56 | Megalodon, the most overhyped predator in history. A lot of information about this giant shark is put out all over the internet, and a lot of it is terrible. This article could debunk a lot of the crap people say about megalodon, as well as give some basic info about it. Given how it's such a popular thing to talk about, how have we not gotten an article about megalodon yet? Sandbox page here, open for editing. |
| 10 | The Portable Atheist compiled by Christopher Hitchens. It contains a huge selection of atheist writings from middle age philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes to enlightenment philosophers like David Hume to 19th century philosophers like Karl Marx to Modern philosophers such as Bertrand Russell to present day new atheists such as Sam Harris. |
| 14 | The Good Book: A Humanist Bible written by noted atheist academic A C Grayling. It's a book written in the style of the Bible but instead of having religious texts and quotes, it has secular ones instead. It's suppose to show that inspiration, morals and a general guide to life can be secular and areligous. |
| 5 | Mary Katherine Ham, a right-wing |
| 47 | AltRight.com. An article on the website that popularised the alt-right term and movement is probably due.the site itself youtube twitter [2] (facebook) |
| 42 | Braving RuinCreate draft. Previously known as Edgy Sphinx before he got exposed for being an alt-righter just pretending to be moderate so he could dog whistle and introduce alt-rightism to centrists, Braving Ruin has such gems on his channel as De-Platforming = Death youtube, "Centrists" are liars (which is a totally not extremist thing to say) (YT again) and a video about (((Google))) (his anti-Semitic Triple parentheses, not mine) (more YT). He currently almost has 10,000 subscribers and over 150,000 views as well as over 4,500 twitter followers. |
| 68 | The Olympics and the World Cup. Beneath the manufactured, feel-good veneer of athletic prowess, international unity and wholesome fun lies a dark reality, which host cities, thankfully, are starting to grow more privy to. Both of these events invariably result in tremendous financial net losses for host cities, both require the construction of venues which, more often than not, are never thereafter used again and which, more often than not, are constructed by migrant laborers subject to borderline slave-like conditions, and both, finally, are essentially money-grubbing opportunities for their disgustingly corrupt organizing bodies. Plus, they're basically dick-measuring contests for countries, aren't they? Are games in which people run around in a circle as fast as they can or kick a leather sphere around really worth looking past all this? |
| 17 | Center for Organizational Research and Education They are pro tobacco, alcohol and fast food. Runs a bunch of Astroturf websites. They spread millions of dollars lobbying Congress. |
| 116 | Standing desks, or Dangers of sitting depending on the planned scope of the article. Standing desks are being heavily promoted right now as a cure for the serious and crippling health problems caused by our lifestyles of sitting in the car, sitting in front of the computer for eight hours, sitting in the car again, then sitting in front of Netflix for five hours. The studies that have been done have links to standing desk manufacturers that were not disclosed in the papers, and do not show as much positive effect on these problems as claimed. Independent studies show that standing desks do increase physical activity but have no real effect on cardiovascular health; there is emerging evidence that (as anyone who's ever worked retail will tell you) standing on the job is even more damaging to the body; and the frequent canard that hours spent sitting undo the benefits of exercise is not based on any evidence whatsoever. There is even a danger that the standing-health link will be used by ruthless airlines to make flying even worse. Related to the Alexander Technique, the more zealous promoters of which have been known to claim that the chair is the most harmful invention of mankind. (Most Alexander technique teachers are quite happy to use chairs so long as you sit up straight, though.) |
| 43 | Jewish expulsions as proof that Jews are somehow bad. The argument goes: 1: A ton of people in history have kicked out the Jews. 2: There can be no explanation for this fact except that Jews are eeeeevil. Examples: [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] and the comments in [13] Counterarguments: [14][15][16][17][18][19] |
| 6 | Trae Crowder is an American comedian and co-author of The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark. Crowder attributed his liberal political views to the "abject poverty" of his family during his childhood in rural middle Tennessee. His trademark comedic monologues have garnered both controversy and cumulative views now in the millions on YouTube. |
| 38 | Either Mindfulness or Mindfulness industry which is quite a thing now. See "Where's the proof that mindfulness meditation works? |
| 73 | BearingCreate draft. Australian Youtuber, antifeminist, skeptic and general bigot and wingnut. His videos are mainly just roasts of feminists, fat people, transgender and gender queer people. He also targets tiny YouTube channels, and hides behind a cartoon avatar of the bear from Total Drama. In 2017 he made a video where he explained why he was going to vote no to making same sex marriage legal in Australia. He has over 460,000 Youtube subscribers, almost 300 vidoes and over 63,000,000 views. Listed on our religion webshites page. Is extensively and scathingly described on Encyclopedia Dramatica, and is also covered on Everipedia. |
| 61 | UndoomedCreate draft. Youtube skeptic and atheist. Does a lot of anti-feminist vidoes but has also recently done vidoes against BLM aswell. His main gimmik is that his avatar is slenderman and he has a pretty cool voice. over 310,000 subscribers, over 32,000,000 views and 163 videos. |
| 87 | World of Warcraft. The MMO video game for excellence, that has been around for 13 years (and counting) having millions of subscribers. Given its popularity, that it's precisely a video game, its genre (fantasy) and what it entails (Dungeons & Dragons-lifted off stuff as elves, orcs, etc, paganism, magic, demons, dragons, undead, etc.), those reports of people who got addicted to it often to negligent extremes, |
| 46 | Rwanda, an East African country with progressive (given its area) laws on homosexuality. |
| 48 | Semen retention: A form of alternative therapy based around the theory that men who do not ejaculate semen gain superpowers from retaining more masculine essence, such as increased physical strength and various psychic powers. (Think Fortunato from the Wild Cards books.) Derived from an extremely liberal reading of Tantra, and currently promoted by great thinkers such as Mike Cernovich, the Proud Boys (a bunch of wankers who claim to be "no wank") and various bodybuilding and alt-med cranks. While it's partially covered by Masturbation and NoFap, the former is based on crank theories about negative results from masturbating, not the insane claimed benefits of not masturbating, and NoFap is a specific subculture within this larger movement. I think we need a general and, uh, as tasteful as possible overview about this sticky subject. |
| 60 | Plant-based enzymesCreate draft: Various businesses and "medical professionals" (who lead said businesses) say that "plant-based enzymes" are apparently not denatured within gastric acid in order to sell them as food supplements. Examples: [20][21] |
| 46 | Gary RuskinCreate draft: Alt-health dude who founded the anti-GMO group US Right To Know. |
| 7 | Patterns of Evidence: A movie/book promoting Evidence for the Exodus. |
| 50 | Tuttle TwinsCreate draft: A children's book series featuring a little boy and girl spouting libertarian talking points. Apparently they're taking the fundie approach and trying to get em' while they're young. |
| 43 | LifeWaveCreate draft: A placebo "health" product. |
| 7 | Mike Lester — A pro-Trump, conservative political cartoonist who assaulted his wife. His comics are regularly posted on Infowars.com |
| 59 | Kaiser Wilhelm II - Ruler of Germany during World War One and coiner of the term "Yellow Peril". While the Entente powers were far from innocent either, he did certainly help escalate tensions with other nations with the naval arms race and ending Otto von Bismarck's policy of not pissing off Russia. After losing the war, rather than blaming himself, blamed the Jews and argued they should all be gassed. I wonder how that turned out? |
| 67 | Spoon theory, the mental health taxation thing. Even Wikipedia's article on the subject lacks any mention of evidence for or against the theory. A skeptical treatment is sorely needed somewhere. |
| 49 | Francis E. Dec. Come on, that man at the very least played on the same league as Gene Ray |
| 56 | Jeff DurbinCreate draft is a pastor at Apologia Church in Tempe, Arizona. At first glance, he looks like your typical American hipster, but looks can be deceiving. He's a fundamentalist and is the leader of the Red Door Ministry, a radical anti-abortion group that believes that any woman who gets an abortion should receive the death penalty. Along with picketing outside his local Planned Parenthood, Durbin hosts a weekly show on his YouTube channel, Apologia Studios. See also Extremist hipster wants to execute women who have an abortion. |
| 26 | A Patriot's History of the United States, a textbook created as a "truthful" reply to A People's History of the United States and all the leftist bias in history books. Contains trace amounts of global warming denialism, Obama citizenship denial, whitewashing of anything bad that ever happened, and probably other bullshit. This is sometimes used as a complimentary textbook or the main textbook (!) in US history college classes or Advanced Placement courses. |
| 14 | Greg Palast A far-left Journalist "forensic economist and activist chalk full of incredible sounding stories supported by laughably bad evidence. His work is defined by [[22] stupidity] and defamation of those who disagree with him. An example Palast constantly engages in name dropping and sexist commentary. |
| 20 | Daryl Gates was the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1978 to 1992. He was highly controversial due to his hardline, aggressive, paramilitary approach to law enforcement. He also earned notoriety for his controversial rhetoric on many occasions. Some of the most notable examples of this were: that infrequent or casual drug users "ought to be taken out and shot" because "we're in a war" and even casual drug use is considered "treason" and his dismissive response to concerns about excessive force by police employing "chokeholds." In 1982, Gates attributed several deaths of people held in chokeholds to the theory that "blacks might be more likely to die from chokeholds because their arteries do not open as fast as they do in 'normal people.'" |
| 50 | The ThawCreate draft, a 5 minute rant by Reach America filled with the usual suspects including the Christian persecution complex, lack of knowledge regarding the establishment clause, and America as a christian nation. |
| -28 | Emer PrevostCreate draft, apparently an awful MRA who died recently. Reader request. There's an ED article which may be mineable for actual sources. |
| 30 | The online Hapa community (or another title along these lines). There exists a moderately sizable, moderately vocal online community of half-white, half-Asian men pissed about the ubiquitousness of interracial couples composed of white men and Asian women, and who claim that having been born from such pairings themselves has bestowed them with mental illnesses, an inability to attract women, and hopeless futures among other things (they often cite Elliot Rodger as one of their numbers). r/Hapas is easily the community's principal watering hole; Model Minority is another. While the fetishization of Asian women is certainly a legitimate issue, this community often approaches the level of whininess, narcissism and misogyny characteristic of MRAs, MGTOWs, and Incels. |
| 76 | Reich-Wing WatchCreate draft is a YouTube channel dedicated to exposing any far-right individual and group who's political philosophy parallels that of fascist leaders like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. |
| 39 | FisherofMenCreate draft, one of the oldest members of Youtube's Conspiracy community (And probably one of the craziest). Notable mostly because he was arrested in 2016 for threatening to attack what he believes are enemies to Christianity/America if some vague crisis happens (read: Gays/Non-Christians). While some of the more pleasant cranks like WhiteRabbit just simply hopes he gets better from his "Illness", FisherofMen has recently been released and is now framing himself as one of the first "Christian Martyrs" of the New World Order, despite his trial and sentencing being publicized. |
| 25 | Trumpwave is a subgenre of vaporwave and synthwave that focuses on Donald Trump. Vice writes that Trumpwave exploits vaporwave's ambivalence towards the corporate culture it engages with, allowing it to recast Trump as "the modern-day inheritor of the mythologized 80s, a decade that is taken to stand for racial purity and unleashed capitalism". |
| 20 | MEMRI.org is a pro Israel language translation organization. Considered to be negatively Biased and tries to paint Arabs,and Muslims by cherry picking by some. |
| 122 | Lectin-freeCreate draft is the latest bit of food woo to turn up. |
| 82 | McDonald's coffee lawsuit is an infamous lawsuit usually brought up to show how obsessed Americans are with suing people. However the lawsuit is far more reasonable with the plaintiff suffering third degree burns, originally suing only for medical expenses and the coffee itself being so hot it was considered unfit for consumption which was an issue that McDonalds knew for years. |
| 12 | McMansion is a pejorative term for a large "mass-produced" dwelling, constructed with low-quality materials and craftsmanship, using a mishmash of architectural symbols to invoke connotations of wealth or taste, executed via poorly thought-out exterior and interior design. Note: A previous attempt was deleted in 2012. |
| 49 | Brett KeaneCreate draft, who apparently was the original YouTube atheist, being the inspiration for all others like TheAmazingAtheist et al., although he has since alternated between christianity and atheism, mainly because of plagiarism and vote boting his videos, as well as being an e-begger. Today has a very small audience. His wife divorced him due to domestic violence. |
| 127 | Cult of SaturnCreate draft, an ambiguous, but obviously evil (and nonexisting) cult that Conspiracy Theorists like to invoke when their Apophenia isn't working enough for the usual, boring Illuminati symbols to be shoehorned. Simple things like cubes and rings are proof of some grand Conspiracy. It is a common scapegoat for Christian End Times, and Illuminati Predictions and Conspiracies. A couple of examples |
| 53 | Straight pride is a slogan that arose in the late 1980s and early 1990s and has been used primarily by social conservative groups as a political stance and strategy. The term is described as a response to gay pride adopted by various LGBT groups in the early 1970s or to the accommodations provided to gay pride initiatives. Straight pride backlash incidents have generated controversy and media attention. School policies and court decisions regarding freedom of expression have drawn particular attention, spotlighting individuals protesting school expressions against harassment of LGBT adolescents. |
| 40 | David Pakman and/or The David Pakman Show, anybody? |
| 12 | William Walker, 19th century American mercenary who in 1856 was hired to fight in the Nicaraguan civil war and decided to seize power for himself in the hopes of creating a pro-slavery, Amerocentric regime in Central America. |
| 80 | Thuggees Worshippers of the goddess Kali who according to colonial British sources believed themselves to have been created from her sweat, they were known to strangle travelers; Guinness Book of Records estimates they killed two million people and Political scientist David C. Rapoport says theya re the most destructive terrorist group in history. Mentioned as an example of nutpicking. |
| 23 | broken window policing Another police practice that became popular in the 1990s that focuses on the idea that a area that seems more crime ridden will encourage crime. This practice was used to encourage stop and frisk procedures and was focused on minority populations. |
| 113 | Doctor Who Arguably the most popular science fiction program in the world. Numerous scientists have commented on the possibility of the various technologies addressed, though seemingly not hard science advocate Richard Dawkins, despite being married to actress Lalla Ward who played Time Lady Romana. [23] It would be worth including a discussion of the actual educational merits of the show which began as a BBC children's program, and whether or not it promotes harmful science woo doing harm to the young as the Chinese government alleges all time travel fiction does. [techland.time.com/2011/04/13/china-decides-to-ban-time-travel/] There are bound to be homophobes complaining about the latest companion being gay. [24] As of 2018, Doctor Who is now a woman.[1] |
| 9 | selfhacked.comCreate draft |
| 13 | HeartMath Institute, a reader request. "HeartMath® is a scientifically validated system of techniques and technologies that will help you to transform your stress, boost your resilience and empower higher performance." [25] [26] [27] |
| 15 | Dunno how we've missed covering Louise Mensch. From middling-thick Tory MP to expat Brit in America singularity of weird and dumb. Lots of RW material here. She is known to harass women with false accusations of spying. 4chan is leaking fake documents to Mensch to an attempt to destroy the left. |
| 57 | Foreign Workers in Asia and the Middle EastCreate draft. To support their families, people of low socioeconomic status from developing countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines often travel to perform unskilled labor in capacities such as domestic service and construction work in nouveau-riche countries such as Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Singapore, wherein they are often subject to borderline slave-like conditions, including rape, domestic abuse and non-payment of wages, against which they have no means of legal recourse. |
| 25 | Male gaze red linked on sexual objectification, the name is used frequently in feminist analysis in the arts and humanities, though it is used somewhat less in psychology or sociology. The article should also include the lesbian, gay, hetero sexual female and trans equivalents of the visual cues of objectification. On one hand the my face is up here T shirt makes a valid point, but on the other hand telling someone their glance hurts you or that their gaze makes the stars collapse outside the village menstrual hut can make them feel like Scott Summers; perhaps a see also for the evil eye. What constitutes an inappropriate amount of gawking can be difficult to quantify and varies by individual and culture but is a major and nebulous societal issue, while wearable tech that can record video complicates the issue. |
| 58 | War on HalloweenCreate draft Not actually a phrase that's thrown around in the news like the War on Christmas is by Fox, but many churches actively oppose the celebration of Halloween and even secular groups have opposition to both the supernatural inspiration of the holiday as well as certain costumes derived from historical hate groups such as Nazi's or the KKK. Any costume with fake weapons is also prohibited in many schools and ethnic stereotypes are also frowned upon at universities, which technically should include Egyptian mummies, Voodoo zombies, werewolves made from gypsy curses and vampires with thick Transylvanian accents. That basically leaves costumes appropriated from European mythology, animals modern jobs, dressing up as your biological ancestors, something without weapons from Comicon, bigfoot and aliens. Does your child need to be both in a wheel chair and bald to inoffensively dress as Professor X for Halloween, or just one or the other? |
| 20 | The Doctors, the CBS show that focuses on medical/health issues. Given its popular status, I think RationalWiki editors should have a look at it. |
| 44 | Perhaps an article on science advisers for fictional worksCreate draft in TV and film [28],Dr. John Underkoffler was one of the first for Steven Spielberg's Minority Report. Also ties into the authors of the science of superheroes books, Michio Kaku Science of the Impossible is another good source. |
| 26 | Inception the 2010 film about experiencing and interfacing with other peoples dreams through technology, compliments the article request for the equally fantastical Interstellar. This Forbes article mentions a team in Japan and can reconstruct simple black-and-white images the subject is viewing by analyzing the blood flow in the brain’s visual cortex. According to Dr. Jack Gallant "“I think it’s legitimate for some people to have some concerns about brain-reading technology being used for bad things, but nobody has to be worried about one of those bad things being writing stuff to the brain.” [29] |
| 44 | Donnie RomeroCreate draft is an American Independent Baptist pastor and the founder of the Stedfast Baptist Church in Fort Worth, TX. He is yet another cohort of both Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist and Roger Jimenez of Verity Baptist and he is just as bad as both of them. |
| 42 | Color psychology is distinct from color therapy and attributes attributes to colors; featured in Forbes. |
| 46 | Hentai is popular with Gamergaters and MRA's but there's little scientific analysis of it in Japan, or western academia. |
| 46 | Paul WittenbergerCreate draft is an Independent Baptist conspiracy-oriented filmmaker from Phoenix, AZ and a former Hollywood production crew member for film and television. He has directed and produced such "documentaries" as After the Tribulation, The Book of Revelation, New World Order Bible Versions, and Marching to Zion, all of which he collaborated with Steven Anderson. His website, http://framingtheworld.com/, is where he sells his "documentaries" and other merchandise. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1509561/ |
| 66 | RecaptioningCreate draft or a less generic name - specifically, the alt-right practice of "redpilling" cartoons by other artists with white nationalist captions. Examples include Ben Garrison (whose opinions are half way there) and Sarah Andersen (whose opinions aren't). |
| 12 | Aestheticization of violence, considering how many GamerGate articles with references mentioning sexism, elaborating more on violence in fiction in general seems appropriate and on mission and this topic would cover more mediums than just video games, stretching back well into antiquity. There's a number of fairly reputable news sources commenting on this [30] and [31], as well as some claims by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry whom appear to be academic and don't seem to be religiously founded like the Parents Television Council. It would be nice to establish if there's a scientific consensus on this. |
| 130 | Catholicism and far-right politicsCreate draft, the wikipedia category includes quite a few entries from the modern era. I don't think simply adding this to the page for Catholicism is a good idea because it will most likely end up almost as long as rest of the page, like how Child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church has 55 references compared to Catholicism's 56. |
| 120 | Eastern Orthodoxy and far-right politicsCreate draft, ditto for this one. |
| 40 | Dean Saxton aka Brother Dean is a University of Arizona student who gained some media attention in 2013 for his protests on campus with Westboro-styled signs declaring that women who wear "short shorts" deserve to be raped, that "sorority girls" are whores, predictable homophobic slogans, and other bizarreness. While there is mention of him on the Brother Jed article, I think he should have his own article. |
| 11 | Paul Craig Roberts, whose sometimes-legitimate criticisms of U.S. foreign policy are lost amid his sea of false flag accusations. (Website here: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/ ) |
| 123 | Shouldn't We have an article on slavery in the Qur'anCreate draft? There's an article on slavery in the Bible. |
| 51 | Gary FranchiCreate draft a.k.a Next News NetworkCreate draft is being put on notice for the following: 9/11 trutherism, doomsday soothsayer, clickbait headlines with questionable validity, and also spreading fake news at a rate. In a nutshell, he makes Alex Jones of all people look sane. |
| 13 | Original position; the question of what society people would choose if they didn't know where in said society they'd start off in. Not a particularly extensive topic, but useful for understanding some of the nuttier "utopias"; e.g., people advocating for eugenics and so forth never consider the possibility they wouldn't be the ones on top. |
| 8 | Terence P. Jeffrey Wrote Control Freaks: 7 Ways Liberals Plan to Ruin Your Life. and writes for CNSNews.com. |
| 17 | Belle Gibson is a young Australian woman who fooled large sections of the media and huge numbers of people that she had miraculously recovered from several episodes of terminal cancer, strokes and major heart surgery (her scars had miraculously disappeared too) through nothing more than following a healthy diet and using alternative medicine. She became a star of the celebrity circuit, and sales of her Apple app (which was featured by Apple in promotional material for their Apple Watch) and book The Whole Pantry made her rich, but she unfortunately neglected to make the promised charitable donations and instead splashed out on a high-flying lifestyle. In 2015 the begrudgers won out and she finally admitted her entire story was fabricated. Interestingly, she claims that delusionality was the reason for her false claims, and was later discovered selling more scam health advice under a pseudonym.[32] |
| 61 | The so-called People’s Protection ForceCreate draft[33] and Kevin Mugur Galalae. Here’s their "manifesto". Seems to me like some kinda super-crank magnetic mixture of the Alt-right (hails Trump as an anti-NWO hero, calls itself "Alt-news", defends Adolf Hitler outright, rants about the importance of traditional family structure) and NaturalNews/Zeitgeist Movement/GlobalResearch.ca-type moonbats in general (supports the Occupy movement, defends Russian propaganda). |
| 31 | Quite frankly, I'm surprised Kellyanne Conway hasn't gotten a page yet. |
| 7 | Ami Horowitz, who recently came into the spotlight for being cited in Donald Trump's "Sweden Incident" debacle. As of yet, Horowitz's claims have been debunked by numerous sources, including Swedish authorities. |
| 42 | truththeory.comCreate draft |
| 24 | Questions White Men have for SPOOKs, a notorious Gish Gallop by the "Rationals" done as a "style parody" of two sketches by Buzzfeed. I'm shocked how this hasn't gotten a side-by-side rebuttal here yet, given its content being a bunch of strawman representations of intersectional feminism and anti-racism. |
| 42 | Heart of Darkness is a novella written in 1899 by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa. Central to Conrad's work is the idea that there is little difference between so-called civilised people and those described as savages; Heart of Darkness raises questions about imperialism and racism. |
| 38 | TL;DR/Teal Deer, yet another of the Rationals, who somehow manages to be even dumber, more smug, and more grating to listen to than his peers. Also known for being unable to let any criticism of himself slide (often completely missing/proving his critic's point in the process), confusing pedantry for intelligence, failing at pedantry, and for being unable to admit when he's wrong, even when his own audience points it out (see when he accused Anita Sarkeesian of making up the term neoliberal), alongside the usual angry right-wing YouTuber faults. (Currently a mention under Webshites.) Also the title of his channel make no fraggling sense since it stands for "Too Long; Didn't Read", and people don't read videos. |
| 86 | Alternative facts - This'll be good. Currently only exists as a redirect. |
| 27 | Marching to Zion (2015) is an American "documentary" directed by Paul Wittenberger, written by Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church, and staring Anderson, as well as Texe Marrs. This "documentary" states that it's about tracing the "history" of the Jewish people from the destruction of the temple in 70 AD to the modern-day nation of Israel, however, it is actually a typical anti-semitic propaganda piece that's filled with heavy bias, strawman, and blatant misconceptions that are utilized throughout the film to undermine the Jewish faith by promoting a replacement theology that claims that Christians are the real Jews. In fact Anderson came under fire by the Jewish community when it was discovered that he lied to the rabbis who were interviewed by telling them the interviews were for a neutral PBS documentary on Jewish history. |
| 21 | Hard right folks on the internet keep bringing up Mark Levin's "Liberty Amendments". Basically proposed amendments to the Constitution to strictly enforce Tea Party dogma. Perhaps a point-by-point deconstruction is in order? |
| 41 | I can't believe we still don't have an article on White Aryan Resistance. |
| 33 | 5:2 diet: A method of eating that supposedly prevents/reduces cancer. [34][35][36][37][38][39] |
| 20 | Currency Manipulation - Tends to come up in anti-China rants. Not sure if it's a Wingnut conspiracy theory, or something real. |
| 13 | The Daystar Television Network[40] is a Christian television network established in 1997 by Marcus Lamb. They claim to own 70 television stations in the United States and are a fixture on many cable and satellite networks. Daystar hosts programs from the likes of Jack Van Impe, Creflo Dollar, Joel Osteen, Hal Lindsey, Jim Bakker, and many other fundamentalist televangelists. |
| 48 | Roger JimenezCreate draft is an independent Baptist pastor at Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento, California. A recording of a sermon, given by Pastor Jimenez, was posted to YouTube on June 13, 2016, the day after the Pulse Orlando Shooting (2016) which brought much criticism. In the video, Pastor Jimenez preached to his congregation that they should not be grieving for the victims of the shooting, and compared them to pedophiles. He is also a cohort of Steven Anderson, which should come to no surprise. |
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