Erol Basturk retweeted
The truth is that life was brutal and harsh for almost everyone in the 1800s.
"Yes it was brutal and harsh. And it gave my ancestors the chance to earn a wage, acquire property, receive an education and benefit from healthcare- all possible thanks to the British Empire."
My ancestors worked as indentured labourers under the British Empire in Mauritius in the 1800s.
Yes it was brutal and harsh.
And it gave my ancestors the chance to earn a wage, acquire property, receive an education and benefit from healthcare- all possible thanks to the British Empire.
We cannot keep teaching our young people a one-sided view of history.
I trace the history in my book, ‘Patriot: Empire, betrayal and hope’.
Erol Basturk retweeted
Selective virtue is fake virtue
It's obvious that people who only pretend to care about slavery when they can use that to blackmail others have no moral principles.
The goal of the left is wealth redistribution. If slavery apologies can help with that then they'll harness it.
Erol Basturk retweeted
“A review of 104 studies found little evidence that demographic diversity makes scientific teams more productive or influential: Only 15-28% of reported results clearly supported the idea, while most found no effect or the opposite.”
stevestewartwilliams.com/p/f…
Erol Basturk retweeted
“don’t listen to the experts.” probably the best explanation about the changes being realized from AI and why they’re smashing the experts’ narratives.
Expert predictions about AI progress have been stunningly inaccurate
youtube.com/watch?v=xdwFncdu…
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It's almost impossible for me to believe that this silencing of my right to speak freely is rampant in
England now, as if we were living in an authoritarian
country
The British Government is preparing an apparatus of internet censorship without parallel in the modern era.
At the UN, Andy Burnham announced the creation of a National Centre for Information Defence — Labour’s Ministry of Truth.
The Prime Minister says the centre will protect us from hostile foreign powers such as Russia, which he accused of spreading lies and disinformation about Britain, amplifying “far-right narratives” and interfering in our democracy.
But the real purpose is to suppress dissent and silence those who criticise the Government or express views about the state of the country that run counter to Labour’s prevailing progressive orthodoxy.
FSU Director of Policy and Research David Rose has written a new briefing examining the threadbare research the Government has used to justify its plans. The Government is clutching at straws — and, ironically, already spreading misinformation about the threat of misinformation.
It has ignored a wealth of evidence from leading academics to push ahead with its new censorship regime.
Burnham’s Government is putting Britain in the same league as some of the world’s most authoritarian powers.
Watch the new episode of the FSU Podcast with General Secretary of the FSU Lord Young of Acton on YouTube and read @DavidRoseUK’s report below 👇
Erol Basturk retweeted
Marxists successfully completed a "long march" through the institutions. Now they control the universities and museums, plus "official" history websites, media, and book publishers. They won!
But they didn't reckon with people simply deciding no longer to trust official sources.
Erol Basturk retweeted
🇯🇵 No, BBC. We are not "struggling with our identity" in Japan. It is you who is struggling with your identity.
We know who we are. We are Japanese. We are not Muslims. We have temples and shrines. We do not have mosques.
We will never forget who we are even if you do.
Erol Basturk retweeted
Today, on Calmversations: Liberty Enjoyer @WanjiruNjoya and I discuss the US Constitution, and how certain of its Amendments infringe on the liberty of US citizenry -- link below!
Erol Basturk retweeted
The immigration debate has become far too black and white.
You’re either told there are no cultural tensions, or that entire groups are inherently incompatible.
The truth is more uncomfortable: numbers matter, culture matters, and integration matters. For immigration to work you need a strong national culture and a genuine expectation that newcomers integrate. Otherwise you get ghettoisation, parallel communities and growing social tension.
Erol Basturk retweeted
These charts are *designed* to make the blame problem look worse for men. When you normalize the y-axis, it is clear that the problem is way worse with Democratic women.
26% of young Republican men blame their problems on women.
66% of young Democratic women blame their problems on men.
🔗 americansurveycenter.org/sig…
Erol Basturk retweeted
He's basically been jailed without trial.
They're calling him "far right". He's essentially a political prisoner at this point. They've remanded him in custody until March 2027. He'll spend Christmas in jail. The process is the punishment.
Erol Basturk retweeted
Women shouldn't have to justify wanting women-only spaces. Men shouldn't barge into women's spaces.
Men also shouldn't have to justify wanting men-only clubs, and women should stop trying to crash into men's clubs.
Erol Basturk retweeted
I was a big-government liberal. My consumer reporting found problems I thought only government could fix…
But economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises made me question what I thought I knew about government policy.
@ryanmcmaken of @mises explains their ideas:
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The NGOs end up increasing the number of homeless people they manage, because that’s the only way to increase their revenue! Incentives drive outcomes.
“Homeless” is a propaganda word used to describe people on the street who are mentally ill or severely addicted to drugs. The word implies that this is someone who fell a little behind on their mortgage payment and they’re one job offer away from getting back on their feet, which is obviously false if you’ve ever tried talking to a “homeless” person in SF, LA, NY, Austin or anywhere else.
The honest reality is that we need to bring back asylums for extreme mental illness or drug addiction for those who are a serious danger to themselves or others.
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EXTRAORDINARIO
Milton Friedman on why it is so hard to keep government from expanding:
“The benefits from government tend to be concentrated. The costs tend to be dispersed.”
“To each farmer, the subsidy he gets from the government means a great deal. To each of a much larger number of consumers, it costs very little.”
“Consequently, those who feed at the trough of government tend to be politically much more powerful than those who provide the wherewithal.”
Erol Basturk retweeted
You can't address past injustice. Nobody can. The past is the past and it's important to move forward and build a better world for your children.
