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March 15, 2019 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
10:49
Keep Calm
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It's going to seem quite strange to say that everyone should just calm down, but really everyone does honestly need to calm down.
I'm seeing a huge amount of extreme reaction to the Christchurch terror attack.
And none of it is good.
This is, it's just such a bad idea because the thing that everyone's doing is precisely what the killer wanted.
And I don't know why we would do that.
I don't know why we would allow him to be the puppet master of us and our emotions.
I mean, if you read his manifesto, it is crystal clear why he did this.
And it is crystal clear why he took this method, this place.
He chose to use guns and shoot Muslims in order to trigger the identitarians and the gun defenders, the pro-Second Amendment people.
He hoped to spark or accelerate towards what he believed to be an inevitable civil war in the United States and broadly across the Western world so that we could kick out Muslims from the West.
And the first thing that he wanted to do, what he wanted to achieve with this is to inspire others, obviously, and to put one side against another in order to make them again further hate each other, further try to oppress one another and further feel that resistance is necessary to this oppression.
I mean, he knows he was a radical.
He knows he's a radical.
He knows that what he wants is revolution.
He's not in any way different to any of the kind of leftists in that regard.
Everyone on the internet is amazingly angry right now with one another.
And the guy wasn't even radicalized on the internet.
He traveled to France.
Le Pen lost the election, even though he considered her to be a milquetoast civic nationalist.
So not his kind of guy, but something, a step in the right direction, which is how he describes Trump.
And what he's talking about there is just the open borders issue, really.
Do we have countries or not?
But anyway, I don't want to get into the politics of it really.
Not in this video.
I'm working on a much larger second video that will come out in a couple of days.
Because there is a huge amount to talk about here.
And it's not very comfortable to do.
And I want to give it the time and care that it needs.
Because it is going to be something that's going to be something that has to be talked about.
Because these aren't going away.
I mean, this is like, what, the third major one now?
You had the Finsbury Park Mosque truck driving, ramming.
Then you had the Gab shooting.
I can't even think of a better way to describe it, where Gab was taking offline.
And then you've had this.
But I mean, Facebook won't be taking offline, obviously.
But that's the thing.
It's not about blaming our partisan enemies because they weren't his inspiration.
Like, you are wrong if you think any of these are his inspiration.
It was Anders Breivik.
Sorry, Knight Justicar Anders Breivik, as he described him.
This guy's not stupid.
He knows exactly what he's doing.
He chose a particular target at a particular time for a particular reason.
And that reason was to inflame everyone's passions, set them against one another, and further accelerate the decline of Western civilization so revolution can take place in order to save the white race.
That's his idea, right?
And you're all taking part in it.
You're all just playing into this, right?
Instead of having a period of calm where we say, right, we're not just going to do what he wants.
We're all going to log off and go and play outside for a bit.
Just be glad that we have families and friends still live or something like that.
Instead, we're going to take to the internet and say, oh, I'm against massacres.
Fucking stunning and brave.
Well done.
I mean, oh, God, I didn't even post a status to say that I'm opposed to massacres.
I must be pro-massacre or something.
You know, any kind of charitable, any kind of sensible adult dialogue that's going to happen on the internet will obviously start from the position that we assume that the person we're talking to is not pro-massacre.
Okay, so you don't need to do that.
No one needs to do that.
We are not going to point the finger at anyone else and say you're pro-massacre.
That's a ridiculous thing, right?
The guy knew exactly what he's doing.
We don't want to play into it.
So what we have to do is prevent ourselves from becoming hyper-emotional about this.
Because I see this all the time.
People at least signaling that, oh, I was crying all day, every day.
Like, this is terrible.
This is the worst thing.
You didn't even know these people.
All right.
You didn't know anything.
Now you're just scared and confused because something terrible has happened.
But unless you know those people, that's not a personal tragedy for you.
Okay?
Don't tell me that you think it is.
I don't believe you.
And I'm not going to pretend that it is for me either.
But it is still something tragic.
And I watched this footage and some other footage that was apparently from the second mosque.
And man, it's rough.
It's very rough.
Very, very tough to watch.
It's very difficult.
And I can see why you'd want to get upset.
I can see why you would want to lash out.
I can totally understand it.
But he deliberately names conservatives in his manifesto because he thinks conservatives are weak.
He doesn't think they're capable of doing what needs to be done in his mind to his mind.
And he wants to sabotage them.
That's what he wants.
And he wants to set the left against them so the conservatives feel like they're losing their rights.
So they're losing their access to guns, their access to free speech.
So they will feel the need to fight back.
He is what he wants is exactly what is happening right now.
But we can avoid doing this by simply calming down.
There is no reason to lose our heads over this.
It's never a good thing.
It might feel emotionally gratifying.
You might not know what else to do with this energy or emotion that you have, but it doesn't help.
It doesn't help the situation.
It just makes it worse.
You're just going to make stupid decisions in the same way that people do George Bush off 9-11.
Make stupid emotional decisions that just lead to more pain and suffering further down the road.
No good decisions are made in the heat of the moment when everyone's shouting at one another, when everyone's upset and angry and crying.
Nothing good comes of that.
What you need to do is just log off.
If you're really upset and you need something to do and you have no outlet, just log off and have a cry if you really have to.
But don't go and talk to your political opponents online because you're not going to find any satisfaction there.
They're just going to call you names.
You're going to call them names.
You're going to further hate each other, which further advances his agenda.
And that's not a good idea, is it?
Unless, of course, you happen to be a fascist.
An eco-fascist, sorry, and you happen to want that kind of thing.
But not being an eco-fascist, I don't want that kind of thing.
But the thing is, right?
All of the things that he's talking about in the manifesto, I'm afraid they just can't be dismissed.
They're not things that aren't happening.
They aren't things that aren't real.
And so we do need to talk about these things, which is why I'm preparing a video to talk about his manifesto, which I guess YouTube will probably just take me off the platform for.
But I'm afraid I really feel that has to be done because this is important.
And it's a very, very big problem.
And it's been going on for a long time.
And there's a lot to address.
And it's not going to be comfortable, frankly.
But we have to.
We have to do this.
Because otherwise, this isn't going to stop.
There will be no end to it.
There will be further acceleration towards civil war, which is what the people who are doing these kind of things want.
But I don't want this.
I think the problems that we have were made were created democratically, and I think they can be solved democratically.
I do have faith in the system.
I just think we need to be able to speak freely about it without persecuting one another or excessive moral judgments.
But I mean, again, at the moment, that's hardly the case, is it?
I saw a couple of articles this week.
Well, I mean, a couple of things.
Tucker Carlson, outrage going back 10 years when he was on a shock jock show and he was making jokes.
Don't care.
Joe Biden said something misogynistic in 1974.
That was something I saw going around the other day.
And obviously, a bunch of old things from Bernie Saunders.
Like, I don't care about these opinion necromancy.
I just don't care about it.
It's not, all it is, is a way of attacking people.
It's not a way of resolving anything.
And it can't carry on like this.
And the thing is, the internet makes it convenient and easy to do.
Really convenient and easy to do.
But you, you personally, the guy watching this, the person watching this video, you have to guard yourself against emotional manipulation like this.
You have to prevent them.
You have to prevent yourself from getting excessively upset.
Now, I understand that in my videos, I get upset about stuff.
I know I do, right?
And I'm sure that a lot of it is about the entertainment value of making a video because, I mean, you know, people are watching.
You don't want to be bored.
What we need to do is get out and vote.
But the first thing we need to do is stop trying to shame one another for thinking a certain thing, right?
Because I've spoken to people on every side of the political spectrum at this point, every political persuasion you can imagine.
And they all have what they believe to be honest and sincere convictions for the things they believe.
Now, you don't have to like those convictions.
You don't have to agree with them.
But that doesn't mean that the other person does not hold them sincerely.
And it does need to be discussed.
Now, I don't know what the conversation looks like, you know, and I can, in fact, I can imagine what the conversation looks like.
And I think it ends quite quickly with an audience clapping that someone said the morally popular thing.
But it can't just be ignored.
There are some things that can't just be ignored.
And one of those things is definitely you being manipulated by the media and social media and actors on social media.
Just keep control of yourself.
You know, don't let them get under your skin.
Don't let them take control of you through your emotions and have you shouting for someone else's blood because some lunatic went and shot up a mosque.
If you're not calling for his blood, you've got no blood to call for because his inspiration is already in jail.
You can't solve this by simply oppressing someone.
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