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Tarl Warwick.

“ ” In the its very very large nose, let's just leave it at that, typically did mince its words and did try to insinuate the masses were ignorant without actually stating it outright. In the good old days , the establishment, when it looked down its nose at people,, let's just leave it at that, typically did mince its words and did try to insinuate the masses were ignorant without actually stating it outright. —Tarl Warwick,[1] who clarified that this is just a harmless reference to Pinocchio[2]

Tarl Warwick (January 20, 1988–), better known as Styxhexenhammer666, Botany101,[3] or Tyrell Warner,[4] is a YouTube talker who promotes alt-right talking points. Warwick previously considered himself a "libertarian"[5], and before that, a "progressive".[6]

As of April 2020, Warwick had over 400k subscribers and 238 million views.[7] As of April 12, 2018, Warwick has announced that he is running for Governor of Vermont.[8]

Flirting with the alt-right [ edit ]

“ ” The The alt left has gone too far and I am going to join forces with the further right . You have awakened a sleeping giant, you soy suckers —Tarl Warwick, awakened giant[9]

Warwick has been sympathetic to the alt-right since 2016, but was apprehensive to consider himself a part of it. In his first appearance on Red Ice TV in September 2016, he claimed he was "sort of on the fringes of the alt-right, I guess".[10] In his final video of 2016, he said he is more than happy with being called alt-lite.[11] He has since disowned both titles and refers to himself as a classical liberal (or "minarchist".)[12][note 1]

He has been endorsed by noted non-Nazi Richard Spencer[13] and later appeared in one of Spencer's podcasts.[14] In January 2018, in a since-deleted tweet,[9] he declared that he would be joining forces with the "further right," as often done by people who definitely aren't Nazis.

Warwick dedicated a video to express his support for Varg Vikernes and encouraged his viewers to subscribe to Vikernes's channel.[15] You know, standard non-Nazi things.

Warwick has long been interested in the Third Reich, just like many people who totally aren't neo-Nazis. For example, he gave a five-star review of Hitler's Mein Kampf, calling Hitler "idiotic" but describing the book as reading like "a drastic corrective manifest for the primary purpose of improving mankind (albeit through somewhat stupid methods)".[16][note 2] After being called a crypto-fascist for saying "Nazism briefly worked" (on a video about his opposition to Communism),[17] Warwick defended himself in the comments section, arguing that he had spent years attacking corporations and authoritarianism on the left and the right.[18] I guess authoritarianism is bad, except when it sort-of works, in which case it's actually not so bad.

Holocaust "revision" [ edit ]

See the main article on this topic: Holocaust denial

Warwick grossly underestimates or outright denies several aspects of the Holocaust.[19] In particular, Warwick doesn't question that the Holocaust took place, but questions what proportion of deaths came through execution instead of famine or disease. This is the standard line from "revisionists" who pretend they aren't deniers and like to pretend they're being persecuted for just asking questions about whether the Holocaust really happened according to the "official story".

He insists that Zyklon B was a mostly harmless delousing agent, and Auschwitz was burning through so much of the stuff mostly trying to keep lice from spreading the typhus epidemic brought about by Allied firebombing.[20] This is false; Zyklon B was used in Auschwitz's gas chambers to kill Jewish people.[21] This is a stock claim by "revisionists" who have to explain away the evidence of its heavy use at some camps: those thoughtful Nazis were just trying to get a handle on the pest problem! No, wait, not those pests. He does admit that maybe the gas was used for the occasional execution, which is an understatement.[22] In the same vein, he supposes the "shower" of Auschwitz to have been an actual shower. The "showers" were, in fact, disguised gas chambers.[23]

Warwick gave five stars to the obscure book Black Nazis! A Study of Racial Ambivalence in Nazi Germany's Military Establishment:[24]

As we all know, the Nazis had famously-progressive racial policies. The author of this work, J A Sexton, is semi-antagonistic towards Hitler fans. Sexton has written a book, The Hitler Worship Cult, that is "neither pro-Hitler nor anti-Hitler."[25][note 4] Sexton is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist who believes that Israel[note 5] is more responsible for World War II than Hitler.[26][note 6] Weronika Kuzniar, whose works he has read, wrote Albion & Zion United: The Brizi-Jewzi World Menace in which she alleges that Jewish people secretly run the world.[note 7] An example:

Remember, Warwick is obviously, definitely, not a neo-Nazi.

See the main articles on this topic: Immigration and Mass immigration

Warwick previously said America should allow immigrants from all parts of the world (probably when he was still a "progressive").[29]

However, Warwick has since changed his mind and believes America no longer has enough "space" to admit "limitless" numbers of immigrants. He further believes liberty cannot survive unlimited immigration.[30]

In particular, Warwick opposes Muslim immigration (because Muslims allegedly have a "vested interest in attacking us")[31] and supports a Mexico-USA border wall (saying "it'll pay itself off in a decade").[32][note 8] Indeed, Warwick claims governments are doing too little to keep out "Islamic extremists", although no refugees have carried out fatal terrorist attacks in the US.[33]

Although Warwick sympathizes with Middle-Eastern refugees, he does not wish to accept them into Western countries.[28] Instead, Warwick states that we should "stop destroying their homelands" and should "restore order" in those regimes,[34] which is hardly instantaneous and does little for refugees with currently-destroyed homelands. He believes that the United States (and its allies) should never have involved themselves in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and other countries.[34] In this vein, Warwick has questioned Trump's continuation of drone warfare and attacks on Syrian government forces.[35]

Other views [ edit ]

Pseudoscience [ edit ]

Human origins [ edit ]

See the main article on this topic: Racialism

Warwick rejects the notion that the Out of Africa theory is settled science, and believes it may (or may not) be displaced by some other hominid origin theory, while dismissing the idea that this has any modern racial relevance, as "hominids were not modern man."[53] Warwick believes that races are biologically meaningful, and are the result of partial divergence:[53]

[T]he divergence that you see that explains race in the modern sense, that explains genetic differences between a European population and an African population or an East Asian population and an aboriginal population, those happened later, long after these hominids that we're discussing. It doesn't matter what region the original lineage arises in, because taking off from that, that original group, uh, prospers for a time, grows larger, some groups move around over time, as they find themselves encroaching into new climates with different light levels, different food sources, different everything, different temperature certainly, different beasts that they have to be worried about, different beasts that they can hunt and eat, different food spices, that's when they diverge. They diverge because their surroundings are different and what is selected for is therefore different. They weren't diverging as long as they were in one primordial area because they were experiencing much the same thing, they were all co-evolving together, the group was evolving, it hadn't diverged, this is a basic principle within natural selection, selective forces, when they were the same on this group, drove them in roughly the same general direction, selected for the same thing. Only when they geographically diverged and were not largely mixing with one another did they turn into modern races.

The claim that human populations did not "mix" (interbreed) is particularly absurd.[citation needed]

Climate change [ edit ]

See the main article on this topic: Global warming

Warwick believes that climate change is a non-issue and questions if it's anthropogenic.[54][note 10] He supported Donald Trump's decision to leave the Paris Climate Accord, calling the liberal response to that action "propaganda".[55]

Other ideas [ edit ]

Mental illness denial: The majority of people diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome are misdiagnosed and are just assholes. He guarantees that in 20 to 30 years, this will be considered true. [56] People with Asperger's syndrome have a much lower life span than the average population. [57] A common cause of death for people with Asperger's syndrome who do not have an intellectual disability is suicide. [57] Yet, Warwick considers people with Asperger's syndrome as misdiagnosed folks "fundamentally of normal mental state". [58]

People with Asperger's syndrome have a much lower life span than the average population. A common cause of death for people with Asperger's syndrome who do not have an intellectual disability is suicide. Yet, Warwick considers people with Asperger's syndrome as misdiagnosed folks "fundamentally of normal mental state". MGTOW and third-wave feminism result from the "behavioral sink", based on the famously-flawed mouse utopia experiment. [59]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he's repeatedly stated that he's against wearing masks in public, despite ample evidence that wearing a mask can help prevent spreading the disease.

Conspiracy theories [ edit ]

See the main article on this topic: Crank magnetism

Mainstream media [ edit ]

See the main article on this topic: Mainstream media

Warwick urges his viewers to ignore the "corporate media" by not consuming news stories from TV and Jews newspapers.[67] At length, he states that everything from broadcast media is fake:[68]

As we know, the unalterable laws of the universe prevent governments and corporations from paying people to put up YouTube videos.

Views on RationalWiki [ edit ]

“ ” According to Rationalwiki I am a crazed conspiracy loving nazi [69] According to Rationalwiki I am a crazed conspiracy loving nazi gatekeeper so, no, it isn't accurate. It's a leftist conservapedia

He doesn't like it, and has actively attempted to whitewash censor reformat this article to better suit his view of himself. [70]

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