Michael Nayna
@MikeNayna
http://www.michaelnayna.com
This is "discourse engineering," a large and growing industry that's sustained by left-wing philanthropy, government research projects, and grants. It's about circumventing discussion and debate (democracy) to align public opinion with elite policy consensus. 🧵
The University of New South Wales and its Centre for Refugee Law have commissioned Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), a UK-based nudge unit, to 'prebunk' misinformation about immigrants and refugees and their impact on housing. Here's some of the strategies they use:
Propaganda is like a garden. Once the initial landscaping is done, discourse grows naturally within its boundaries. The most effective propaganda isn’t aggressive; it simply tends the environment through censorship, narrative reinforcement, & selective amplification.
What do the data say about the Woke era? I sat down with @Musa_alGharbi for a wide-ranging discussion hosted by @FSUofAustralia.
Speaking about the state of the academy at @TheFreedomFest with @BretWeinstein and @ConceptualJames .
As the naively optimistic moral paradigm of Boomerdom draws to a close, uncomfortable truths will begin to emerge from the narrative fabric that holds it all together. The story of what happened to South Africa after Mandela is one of them.
I don’t think what’s happening in South Africa is anywhere close to a “white genocide.” If you spend time there, or if you have South African friends and family, you know somebody who knows somebody who has been affected by racially targeted attacks. Even murdered. But words…
I appreciate James Lindsay taking the time to lay this out. I’ve been frustrated and bewildered by all the noise surrounding the "Woke Right" debate. Beneath the hysterics, there are important and interesting discussions waiting to happen—and Jim is taking a step toward that…
Do we live in Postmodernity, and, if so, does that mean we need Postmodernism? Longer post. One of the very few interesting discussions in the Woke Right universe of garbage and nonsense is the above question, which we have to think about considerably. Is there a phase of…
Before this interview, I knew about @MikeNayna's involvement in the grievance studies affair but it turns out there's so much more to his story. @stellaomalley3 rather hilariously dubbed him the Forrest Gump of the culture war because he found himself involved in so many of its…
There is now a new video of me doing stand up comedy on the internet. It is called Hey America and it is 18 minutes long.