Sargon of Akkad

Carl Benjamin , better known as Sargon of Akkad, Carl I of Swindon, Sardine of Yakult or (orwellianly) The Thinkery, is a British YouTube talker, failed UKIP candidate for the South West England constituency of the European Parliament, right-wing reactionary and trend setter in the exciting new scene of dairy based fashion. Although Benjamin claims the mantle of "skeptic", his commentary often features theories of a rather more conspiratorial nature (in particular, concerning Cultural Marxism),Cultural Marxism Trends on Twitter Via YouTube 26th of March 2019. and potentially disingenuous sourcing: often overlooking critical passages, long words and graphs which might cause head scratching,Response to Sargon of Akkad (Garrett mirror) Via YouTube, retrieved July 21, 2018. calling for "social justice" courses to be temporarily suspended, complaining about the length of thorough rebuttals and criticism of his videos,hbomberguy (Jun 18, 2016). Antifeminism VS FACTS Via Youtube,retrieved July 21, 2018. and crying when Twitter suspended his account because he tweeted porn at his critics.Shoe0nHead Via Twitter, 27th of January 2017. In practice, Benjamin spends his time attacking "the left" (read: anyone from the Democrats to Chavez), screaming profanities at college juniors, ridiculing "the media" (read: literally any news with adjectives), complaining about Identity politics (especially people he labels SJWs), defending right-wing and fascist politicians (including Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen and Jair Bolsonaro), and defending brutal dictators such as Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin. We have documented his most egregious stupidity below.
Benjamin's method of "response video" inserts his own mocking commentary at frequent intervals into an opponent's video. As a result, Benjamin tends to quotemine his subjects, presenting a fractured and tormented view of their positions. When he gives his final rebuttal at the end, his opponent has already been established as untrustworthy. In contrast, Benjamin is much, much less effective in live debate.For example, see and a companion Reddit thread. Yet, performs well in other debates such as the one in which he causes Thomas Smith to walk out before the end.For example, see 
Benjamin's political views are actually somewhat confusing, making it difficult to identify his position on the horseshoe. He loves to consider himself a liberalist "classical liberal" opposed to identity politics; however his constant pandering to far-rightists and his belief in far-right conspiracy theories makes him very much an entry point for alt-right radicalization.
As of May 2019, Benjamin's main channel had over 956,000 subscribers and over 284 million views.About In December 2018, Benjamin was banned from Patreon, cutting off much of his income.Defunct Patreon This was after beefing with white supremacists and making the mistake of trying to use their language (slurs) against them (calling them "white niggers", calling them "faggots", accusing them of acting like "niggers").Calling Nazis Racial Slurs Via Twitter. How he intended it doesn't matter, however, as it violated Patreon's hate speech policy regardless.
==Conspiracy theories==
Although Benjamin claims not to be a conspiracy theorist, he's entertained a number of aluminum foil-clad hypotheses over the years.
===Former 9/11 Truther===
On a livestream in May 2014, Benjamin parroted 9/11 truther talking points about Mossad:
In a June 2014 video titled "What I Saw", Benjamin (during a monologue in which he described seeing a UFO) reported that one of his friends was blue-pilled with regards to 9-11:https://youtu.be/FgNfH52PG_8?t=199
Benjamin doubled down in the comments section. In a particularly lovely thread, Sargon argued that "2 planes can't bring down 3 buildings":Comments section archived on archive.is
Summarizing the discussion, Benjamin stated:
In a July 2015 livestream with Kyle Kulinski, Benjamin said
Benjamin's 9/11 views flew under the radar until other YouTubers called him out on it in May 2017.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq1COO0rbMMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKFlifNMM0U Afterwards, in a June 2017 video, Benjamin claims he was "deconverted" after he watched a viral December 2015 video titled "For the undying 9/11 MORONIC JET FUEL ARGUMENT" which debunked the common 9/11 truther talking point that "jet fuel can't melt steel beams":Am I a Conspiracy Theorist? The Thinkery, June 1, 2017 This is unexpected, as Benjamin was a 9-11 truther for years and (allegedly) all it took was a 2-minute video for his beliefs to fall apart.
===Heather Heyer heart attack at Charlottesvile===
In a livestream with alt-righter Colin Robertson, Benjamin cycled through the alt-right conspiracy theorySexist 'Alt-Right' Conspiracy Surrounding Heather Heyer's Death Persists Despite Ruling From Medical Examiner. Newsweek. October 17, 2017. that Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer died because of a heart attack, and not because she was struck by a vehicle driven by an alt-righter:
When pressed on the claim by Jared Holt of Right Wing Watch, Benjamin did ten seconds worth of Googling, proved himself wrong, and then did some whataboutism:
If Benjamin had done any research, he wouldn't have to retreat to "lies on both sides" so often.
===Other conspiracy theory views===
*World-spanning conspiracy theories:
:*Benjamin believes in the Agenda 21 variation of the New World Order conspiracy theory. In a YouTube comment on "Agenda 21 For Dummies", Benjamin stated:YouTube comment, archive.is
:*Benjamin holds that Cultural Marxism is a genuine problem for modern society.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GmbWyQgq3k (See also his quotes on this page.)
:*Sometimes Benjamin mocks George Soros conspiracy theories.Mocking Soros conspiracies - Example Tweet A (dead link)
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:Example Tweet F And sometimes Benjamin peddles them outright.Embracing Soros conspiracies - Example Tweet A
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*American conspiracy theories:
:*Benjamin buys Trump's (absurdThere's real research that was horribly misrepresented -- and which Trump clearly does not understand.) claims about voter fraud in the 2016 election.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-5gPymRYq4
:*Benjamin does not believe that Pizzagate is real.https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/812658701299490816 (dead link) However, he spends a very long time talking about why child sex rings are common and "the left" should take them seriously.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dQVRLrCbZs This view is disingenuous -- the question is one of a very specific child sex ring, not of sex rings in general -- and enables Pizzagaters. 
:*Benjamin peddled the (bullshithttp://money.cnn.com/2017/05/16/media/seth-rich-family-response-claims-of-wikileaks-contact/index.html) conspiracy theory that DNC staffer Seth Rich was murdered because he was involved in the 2016 DNC email leaks to WikiLeaks.Russian Hacking Report and Other Fairytales Sargon of Akkad Livestreams (YouTube). January 7, 2017. Screenshot from 15 May 2017.Sargon of Akkad Joins us! - Trump, BREXIT and Conspiracies, oh my! - Drunken Peasants #359 Drunken Peasants. June 2, 2017. In particularly poor taste, he spread a tweet by Paul Joseph Watson.Archived tweet.
*British political conspiracy theories:
:*Benjamin debated Thunderf00t on Brexit, referencing a number of conspiracy theories throughout.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsVV3fpVNKI
*Syrian Civil War conspiracy theories:
:*"Antifa: on a scale of 1 to allahu [sic] akbar, how pleased are you that ISIS are flying your colours?" - in response to a photograph taken by the after capturing a town from ISIS.https://68.media.tumblr.com/8ee50dff0ee85eea110c2e8864946143/tumblr_oploqvDOXb1w6v1v3o1_500.jpgThis is not technically a conspiracy theory, but is just an example of Benjamin being embarrassingly misinformed and ignorant.
:*Benjamin shared "evidence" that the April 2017 in Syria was staged and doubled down when questioned on it.Sargon of Akkad (Twitter, 6 Apr 2017): Benjamin later maintained that he was "not even sure that there is proof of a chemical weapons attack."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmxRddgpo-I&t=15m47s
:*Benjamin later presented as fact the debunkedhttp://www.snopes.com/cnn-same-refugee-girl/ theory that a Syrian girl was photographed in three separate "staged" rescues.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjgnOz0qujU&t=20m26sBenjamin's video was released on 9 May 2017 and Snopes had debunked the claim on 26 December 2016. The Snopes article is also the first result if you search for "syria same girl photograph" on Google, so Benjamin has no excuse for this mistake. He never explained why the assessment of Snopes was inaccurate (probably because it is true), so the likely conclusion is he is either incompetent or openly lying to his audience.
:*Benjamin also said so-called "independent"https://www.rt.com/op-edge/authors/eva-bartlett/ journalist Eva Bartlett's conspiratorial statements on Syria were "completely accurate".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmxRddgpo-I&t=55m13s In reality, they were false.http://www.snopes.com/syrian-war-victims-are-being-recycled-and-al-quds-hospital-was-never-bombed/
*Miscellaneous:
:*In 2014, Benjamin asserted that the FBI believes Adolf Hitler .Adolph Hitler faked his suicide, and lived out his days in Argentina, according to the FBI Sargon of Akkad, March 7, 2015 Benjamin doubled down and said this was "probably true" in June 2017.Am I a Conspiracy Theorist? The Thinkery, June 1, 2017Archived tweets A day later, he said he should not have used the word "probably" but that it was "certainly a possibility."Sargon of Akkad Joins us! - Trump, BREXIT and Conspiracies, oh my! - Drunken Peasants #359 Drunken Peasants. June 2, 2017. This particular FBI-angled version of the "surviving Hitler"-myth was debunked by Snopes in May 2016.Don't FBI for Me, Argentina Snopes, May 20, 2016 The declassified FBI documents in question contained reports of alleged sightings of Hitler, and theories about his means of escape from Germany, but the FBI were only investigating rumours — not confirming zany conspiracies.https://vault.fbi.gov/adolf-hitler
==Anti-feminism==
Benjamin is perhaps most well-known for his "Why Do People Hate #Feminism" series.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua8T4nSTCWA&list=PLM9L2W5aOI_1TUcyIs9lJxTlCllkQer7d His channel is filled with videos of the type, "Feminism vs FACTS"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJeX6F-Q63I or "Feminist gets TRIGGERED".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvsJuY0d7Wohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H6QcT90WOghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJR83mFv094https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvsJuY0d7Wohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrANbOtMG6M He believes that "reality has an anti-feminist bias".https://youtu.be/SOAmuOXlQu4?t=1058 In short: If you've listened to other anti-feminist YouTubers, you've already listened to Sargon.
===Elliot Rodger===
Benjamin, discussing Elliot Rodger's murderous rampage, has the following to say:Full video and relevant portion. Rebuttal. Musical remix.
==="I wouldn't even rape you"===
More recently, British MP argued that internet freedom of speech requires that harassment of women become "unacceptable". In particular, she mentioned rape threats.http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jess-phillips/online-abuse-women_b_10133700.html Benjamin felt obliged to tweet this insightful response:https://archive.is/zS4ht
Since then, Benjamin has not apologised and continues to defend this exchange, which at one point notoriously garnered him applause from the audience during a live interview at MythCon 2017.http://akkadiantimes.com/2017/10/i-wouldnt-even-rape-you-tweet-gets-cheers-applause-at-mythicist-milwaukee-mythcon/
In May 2019, Benjamin appeared to double down on the remark as part of a joke in one of his videos, stating:
This has subsequently led to West Midlands Police opening up an investigation against Benjamin."UKIP candidate to be investigated over Jess Philips rape 'joke'", BBC. 7 May 2019.
===#MeToo and "gold-digging whores"===
During the #MeToo campaign encouraging women (and to a lesser extent men) to share their stories of sexual abuse following the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, Benjamin stated that "I don't agree with publicizing these things" despite intentionally publicizing this event in a negative light and publicizing known falsehoods, such as Pizzagate (see below). He had another crack at Jess Phillips by suggesting #IWouldntEven as a hashtag to mock the campaign.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27e3nUbRLF8 Regarding the women who accused Weinstein of sexual assault and harassment, Benjamin blamed the victims and offered these overtly misogynistic responses:
After being called out by one of the guests on his stream, Benjamin gave a weak excuse for his remarks:
Benjamin apparently thinks it's fine to call women "whores" as long as they were "just pestered" for sex. He also seemed to have forgotten that earlier, in the same livestream, he agreed with another one of his guests that "pestering" is a soft word for what Weinstein did.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQjNhajzR7A&t=1h15m40s
===Women in politics===
Benjamin seems to think that there is a "demonstrable" causal link between the point when women entered politics and the decline of society. 
==Anti-identity politics==
Benjamin's favorite whipping boy is the so-called "progressive left," which he considers to be a "cancer" on the left wing.https://archive.is/aehrn He defines "progressives" as leftists that dabble in authoritarian collectivism, claim racism and sexism where there is none, and suppress dissent through "censorship".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFnd6IS0DrY Extending this, Benjamin puts "SJWs" and "modern feminists" squarely under this "progressive left" umbrella. Of late, he has taken to describing liberals as "Neo-Progressive",https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFnd6IS0DrY&list=PLM9L2W5aOI_1c9VBdAi6efQAZPoZ-UcdC a definition which was taken straight from the Heritage Foundation.http://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/liberalism-radicalized-the-sexual-revolution-multiculturalism-and-the-rise At length, Benjamin explains his view on the "SJW" mindset:https://pastebin.com/vhMvgsRChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOJxexyVvug
In general, Benjamin views his opponents as promoters of reverse discrimination:
 Benjamin does support some genuinely liberal / leftist positions. He is pro-gay marriage,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyFXpXVZ8ho&t=1h25m7s supports legalising marijuana (and decriminalising drug use),My Political Compass Results Sargon of Akkad, June 26, 2015My 8 Values Political Test The Thinkery, June 3, 2017 opposes the death penalty,My Political Compass Results Sargon of Akkad, June 26, 2015 is pro-choiceMy 8 Values Political Test The Thinkery, June 3, 2017 and he doesn't like Fox News.What the #CharlestonShooting Was Not About Sargon of Akkad, June 19, 2015Especially after they hit him with a copyright strike. He also made two videos eviscerating the British Conservative Party shortly after the 2015 United Kingdom general election.The Conservative Party is Your Enemy Sargon of Akkad. May 13, 2015What the Conservative Party Did Next Sargon of Akkad. Sep 17, 2015
===Petition: "Suspend Social Justice Courses from UNIVERSITIES"===
In 2016, Benjamin created a petition to "Suspend Social Justice Courses" from "UNIVERSITIES ". He claims that:https://www.change.org/p/universities-suspend-social-justice-in-universities
The letter contained in the petition:
Sargon can't be bothered to specify which courses he's talking about, so even if there is a valid point in there, the petition is not useful.
And in the relevant video, Benjamin claims:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMiyvy7X8wg
And when the courses are banned, then what follows is up for debate. He also suggested to read the comments as an alternative to see what he's talking about. The comments, unsurprisingly, do not deliver and are mainly rants about the social justice boogeyman, sometimes contradicting each other (such as comments saying social justice courses telling everyone is racist while others saying that social justice courses are racist by being anti-white).
This is certainly a shift from saying that "Free Speech is the Answer to Political Correctness".https://youtube.com/watch?v=ahD2XMLLAx8 Perhaps Benjamin and the Islamic Republic of Iran should have a chat: the latter has moved to ban social sciences and was especially worried about shutting down women's studies and human rights courses.http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/24/iran-restricts-social-sciences-seen-as-western/ Finally, Iran is free of the SJW scourge.
===="Why Don't I Criticize the Right"====
Benjamin virtually never attacks the right. In "Why Don't I Criticise the Right",, Cultural Marxism quote at t=201. Benjamin asserts that this is because he wants to "improve" the left but doesn't want to "improve" the right. At length, he glosses over the problems of the right. For example, he complains that leftism sometimes produces communists who "undermine Western Civilization":
Yet Benjamin conveniently forgets that rightism regularly produces theocrats, white nationalists, and the like. Indeed, he explicitly minimises rights violations from the right in response to what he perceives to be the minimisation of rights violations from the left, those of foetuses, which he ostensibly values to a similar degree to children, however false the equivalence:
Benjamin thinks that abortion isn't that important, because how difficult is raising a child, really?
===Incoherent ideology===
In January 2019, Benjamin took a political compass test where he was placed in the centre-right, libertarian category.Sargon of Akkad: "My Political Compass 2019". YouTube. January 3, 2019.Benjamin's exact results in 2019 were: "Economic Left/Right: 1.13, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.79". When Benjamin took the same test in 2015, he was placed in the centre-left, libertarian category.My Political Compass Results (Jun 26, 2015)Benjamin's exact results in 2015 were: "Economic Left/Right: -2.38, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.87". Benjamin commonly refers to himself as a "classical liberal",Classical Liberal yet Benjamin once told Kyle Kulinski that "a system that produces billionaires is a bad system";https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCbH30D8Hxw&t=2h6m50s a strikingly socialist (and decidedly not "classical liberal") thing to say. Similarly, Benjamin's defense of workers' rights and talk of class warfarehttps://archive.is/JXQa6https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eksUvN9jn0 are more along the lines of Marxism, not "classical liberalism", but since such concepts, as subsets, aren't exclusive to their superset of Marxism, ideological coherence evidently stands. In June 2017, Benjamin clarified that he would be more accurately classified as a "social liberal" than a "classical liberal."The Wokest MEP The Thinkery. June 4, 2017. 
Despite self-identifying as left-leaning,The Beautiful Destruction of the Mainstream Media #PewDieGate Benjamin of Akkad Livestreams. Feb 16, 2017. Benjamin has been commonly referred to as right-wing. This is largely due to his anti-progressive views and recent endorsements and support of right-wing political candidates such as Donald Trump,Anyone But Hillary Sargon of Akkad. Nov 8, 2016. Marine Le Pen, and Theresa May. Admittedly, his support for May was half-hearted at best. Since he does not believe he shares the political views of these candidates, he justifies his support for them with fear-mongering, mental gymnastics, and by massively overstating the flaws of their opponents.On Twitter, he has described Hillary Clinton as a cult leader and compared her to Hitler and Putin. He bought into Russian propaganda that Hillary was pressing for war with Russia. He describes her as ruthless, corrupt and someone who "represents all that is bad in the American political system". He also believes that Trump is significantly better than her.Thinkery Podcast #1 - The System Against the Nation (The Green Man's Burden) The Thinkery. April 29, 2017.In a livestream, he denounced Jeremy Corbyn as a Marxist, and used a Daily Mail headline to declare that Corbyn is a dictator-supporting mass murder-condoning Stalinist.
Compare his February 2015 views on poverty:https://youtu.be/_GmbWyQgq3k?t=739
And his September 2015 views on poverty:The False Narrative of the Working Poor by Sargon of Akkad (September 19, 2015) YouTube (archived from September 19, 2015).
Compare his 2015 views on Black Lives Matter:
And his 2016 views on Black Lives Matter:
Compare his September 2015 views on no platforming:
And his December 2015 views on no platforming:
===Trump defender===
Please enjoy the beliefs of the "classical liberal" Carl Benjamin:
*"You will have two anti-establishment characters running for president and thank God, it means that Bernie Sanders is going to win."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0wa7IrTknU
*"I'd love to see Trump as president. He's crazy, but fuck it, how could it be any worse."https://archive.is/cxoEH 
*On "The Assassination of Donald Trump" (44:08!), Benjamin tells us that Trump is "a manifestation of the will of the people" to "regain control of the system". According to Benjamin, if Trump is assassinated, then his successor will be a "Julius Caesar" who will "end [the American] republic".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIfSwt489e4
*Benjamin whined about John Oliver's #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain skit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrBPN3Lybeg Twice.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_yRpEbFeG4 (Benjamin also apparently fails to realize that, in a show spanning 30 minutes, the end skit was not actually the brunt of Oliver's criticism.)
**In the same vein, Benjamin defended poor Donald Trump from the biased media.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72G5b85pPwY Again.Cenk Uygur vs His Own Bias And again.https://archive.is/gygui And again.https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/836546553506594816 (dead link) And again.https://archive.is/OE6BY And again.https://archive.is/2AdH4 And again.https://archive.is/1VVXc
**Benjamin genuinely thinks that: "They do nothing but lie. Trump is right to call CNN fake news and ignore their requests for comment."https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/822430307500572672 (dead link)
*Benjamin published "Hillary must lose."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtRj6x1jHuU Since then, it's been a downhill slide, with "Anyone But Hillary",https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPUjOJ6YPYY Trump's election will "spell the end of social justice, which I think is a damn good thing",https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TE_QMa3fw and the crown jewel, "Walls are not racist".Original, Mirror.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajppWvtW2I4
*"Anyone got a Trump/May handshake, Hillary supporter autistic screeching meme?"https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/828263864781398016 (dead link)
*"And left-wing radicals try and fail repeatedly to assassinate Trump, while initiating violence and public persecution of his supporters."https://archive.is/KkpZG
===Other statements===
*"Can you find better countries than English-speaking countries?"The Beautiful Destruction of the Mainstream Media #PewDieGate - Sargon of Akkad Livestreams (Feb 16, 2017)
*"I can't think of a single problem I have with a sex-positive feminist."Tropes vs Shitlords - Sargon of Akkad Livestreams (Sep 1, 2015)
==Age of consent==
Benjamin discussed the age of consent in a 2014 livestream with "The Justicar":Sargon of Akkad: A Conversation with The Justicar (December 10, 2014), YouTube. (Conversation starts at 18:40) 
==Reactionary fans==
Benjamin has been endorsed by:
*Reactionary neo-Nazi blog MoreRighthttp://www.moreright.net/great-quote-from-sargon-of-akkad/ 
*The English Defense League.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2xaWEagwz0&feature=youtu.be&t=25m22s Benjamin sees no problem with this, even claiming it as a win (though he acknowledges that the EDL is racist).http://archive.is/8pDrx Twitter post
*Rabidly anti-feminist Paul Elam of A Voice for Men. (Originally, Elam criticized Benjamin over his claims that MRAs have "achieved nothing".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwKDHPJU3gU After viewing AVFM's video, Benjamin apologized in the comment section, and agreed that MRAs have achieved change.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwKDHPJU3gU Paul Elam then said that he subscribes to Benjamin, watches his videos, and that there is a "good person in that man".http://www.avoiceformen.com/a-voice-for-men/a-friendly-message-to-sargon-of-akkad/)
*The decidedly reactionary Breitbart, which looked positively on "his parody of their identity politics"http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/06/10/guardian-accused-of-false-copyright-bullying-against-hilarious-youtuber/ and described him as a cultural libertarian (read: opposed to the "regressive left")http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/24/rise-of-the-cultural-libertarians/
Benjamin ran a channel called "Vae Victis" "The New Memedia" "The Thinkery" The original "The New Memedia" got taken down for multiple violations of copyright infringement, but an archive channel exists. The channel was originally called "Vae Victus". aimed at engaging his "meme culture" audience. Benjamin hasn't helped matters by repeatedly posting videos about the people of "Kekistan",The Big Man Tyrone Kekistan Trilogy (The Thinkery. Mar 28, 2017). 
:Buzzfeed Supports the Kekistani People #FreeKekistan (The Thinkery. Apr 1, 2017). 
:Sargon of Akkad explains Kekistan to The Amazing Atheist #FreeKekistan (The Thinkery. Apr 1, 2017). 
:Normie Wants to #FreeKekistan (The Thinkery. Apr 14, 2017). 
:Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan Discuss Kekistan (The Thinkery. May 9, 2017). 
:The SPLC Denounces Kekistan (The Thinkery. May 10, 2017). 
:National Anthem of Kekistan (Orchestral Version) (The Thinkery. May 11, 2017)."kek" is a 4chan meme-spelling of "lol". a fictional ethnicity that he describes as oppressed.Kekistan tweets Kekistan is symbolized by a Nazi-flag analog with "KEK" replacing the swastika and frequent Pepe memes.YouTube: "Sargon of Akkad explains Kekistan to The Amazing Atheist #FreeKekistan", The New Memedia ArchivesYouTube: "Big Man Tyrone Declares The Meme Jihad #FreeKekistan", The New Memedia ArchivesYouTube: "The #FreeKekistan Census",The New Memedia ArchivesYouTube: "#FreeKekistan An Ethnic Kekistani Speaks", The New Memedia Archives Interestingly, this has both attractedhttps://archive.is/IM6Hmhttps://www.dailystormer.com/even-stupidass-women-believe-the-kekistani-people-deserve-to-be-free/ and pissed offhttps://altright.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/kekistan-2.pnghttp://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/125708035/kekistan-is-ruining-pol-and-the-altright alt-right types. Benjamin maintains that "white nationalists actually really hate" Kekistanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtXwkD-KgLg&t=1m42s and the flag's design is meant to be a mocking parody of Nazis.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtXwkD-KgLg&t=6m33s 
===Relationship with the alt-right===
Benjamin has an interesting relationship with the alt-right. He personally does not identify as alt-rightJoe Rogan Experience #979 - Sargon of Akkad PowerfulJRE. Jun 26, 2017 and has mocked and criticised them on Twitter. He has tried to provoke his alt-right followers into unfollowing and blocking him by tweeting them with interracial gay pornography.The alt-right are opposed to pornography, homosexuality and "race mixing".Archive of a Tweet from September 2016 He has opposed racist viewpoints espoused by the alt-right such as their discouragement of "race mixing", their use of "scientific racism" and their promotion of racial segregation."I will never think it right to judge someone based on the colour of their skin instead of the content of their character." 
:IQ is about poverty, not race. 
:Scientific racism is wrong. 
:White nationalists are wrong about race mixing being unnatural. 
:White people do not have superior qualities compared to other races. 
:Racial segregation is wrong. 
:"I think that it's immoral to judge people based on their race." 
:"I don't think it's acceptable to judge people based on characteristics that they can't change. I think that's unfair." He has also mocked the idea of white genocideSargon of Akkad - Should white identity exist? Best Debate in the Universe! Madcast Media Network. Jun 26, 2017 and does not agree with the alt-right narrative that a white genocide is occurring. Benjamin originally claimed his own grandfather is black,Shooting the Shit with Logicked Sargon of Akkad Livestreams. Feb 20, 2016Rambling About: The Alt Right Sargon of Akkad. Dec 22, 2015 but later admitted that his grandfather was probably mixed race, as a dark-skinned man from St. Helena, an island of largely mixed race people between southwest Africa and South America.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNw8B8QasLo Due to these statements, some in the alt-right do not consider Benjamin "racially pure" and have labeled him with the obvious, cringeworthy insults expected from the alt-right.Examples of alt-right insults of Benjamin: "Sargoy of Cuckad", "Sargon of Acuck", "Cuckold of Akkad", "That Sargon is an anti white fag﻿"
However, despite having no apparent intention to do so, he appears to be helping the alt-right more than he is hurting them. For example, Andrew Anglin of The Daily Stormer said he did not feel it was necessary to oppose Benjamin since "on some level he is leading people in our direction (as we are the obvious conclusion to reactionary thought)." Similarly, Richard Spencer believes that people like Benjamin can be "great entry points" to the alt-right.Archived tweet. October 4, 2016. An example of this happened when Benjamin joined a hangout with self-identified alt-righters, and one of them thanked Benjamin for "putting me on the path that got me here."Millenniyule 2015 Hangout #1 Sargon of Akkad edition Millennial Woes. Dec 19, 2015 He has also helped the alt-right by inviting figures such as Millennial Woes onto a livestream, thereby giving him free publicity."The Case for White Nationalism" - A Discussion with Millennial Woes Sargon of Akkad Livestreams. Mar 20, 2016 Benjamin has also legitimised some of the alt-right's rhetoric such as the belief that Cultural Marxism is real and a threat to modern society. While some in the alt-right are completely hostile to him, others essentially see him as someone who acts as a gateway to their ideology.
After the violence at the Benjamin released a video in which he attempted to both denounce the alt-right but also legitimise their point of view. Benjamin said he despises three quarters of the attendees at the rallyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgccg9xurE8&t=20m13s but still maintained that the alt-right deserve to have their "problems" considered.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgccg9xurE8&t=15m33sBenjamin seems to forget that the alt-right's "problems" include people of mixed racial heritage such as himself. While Benjamin has claimed to not believe in the white genocide conspiracy theory, he said that the demographic shifts in America seemed to be "part of some plan" by the Democratic Party.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgccg9xurE8&t=28m22s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgccg9xurE8&t=26m28s This is a statement which, at the very least, enables those in the alt-right. Benjamin also emphasised that he believes there is a significant amount of anti-white hatred in the United States.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgccg9xurE8&t=22m30s
In August of 2017, Benjamin released a video called "Nazis are Bad", where he criticized Nazis and Neo-Nazi ideology. In 48 hours it received over 10,000 comments, with many of Benjamin's viewers taking offense at his statements and attempting to defend Nazism, White Nationalism, and/or deny the Holocaust. Many comments focused on either "the Jew book" he was reading from ("The Ominous Parrallels" by Leonard Peikoff, who is the heir of Ayn Rand), or calling Benjamin himself a Jew/Jewish shill."Nazis are Bad" Aug 21, 2017 This prompted him to release a follow-up video two days later, "Answering Nazi Comments" (which reached 6,600 comments in just six hours, most in the same vein as the first video's) in which Benjamin questioned and mocked the Nazi commenters."Answering Nazi Comments" Aug 23, 2017
In December 2017, Kraut and Tea had one of his videos called "The Alt Right is too dumb for Quantitative Genetics" flagged and removed,https://twitter.com/RealKraut/status/936236357688717312 in which Benjamin helped out by mirroring his video, which has also been flagged.https://twitter.com/RealKraut/status/936248346662096896https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n88bx5KRnc0
===Spat with the Daily Stormer===
Andrew Anglin, neo-Nazi founder & editor of the white supremacist Daily Stormer website, criticized Benjamin for not being right-wing enough. Anglin put out an article titled, "Sargon of Akkad Needs to Address His Implicit Support for Pakistani Child-Rape". It reads:http://www.dailystormer.com/sargon-of-akkad-needs-to-address-his-support-for-child-rape/
Benjamin's video indeed blamed the rapes on British society's supposed "political correctness".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtJ-OEnKwUU Benjamin responded, saying:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVK1ZmYU0NU
And the Daily Stormer shot back:
In the end, Anglin has this to say about Benjamin:http://www.dailystormer.com/world-war-sargon-2/
==UKIP==
In June 2018 Benjamin joined UKIP together with Paul Joseph Watson, Milo Yiannopoulos and in order to "take it over in a soft coup which will lead to the total restoration of freedom in the United Kingdom",Will Sommer Far-Right YouTube Stars Plan Takeover of UKIP 26th of June 2018, Via The Daily Beast. calling it "war plan purple" (how edgy). This was followed by a short boost of popularity and the party gaining around five hundred members.Ukip membership surges 15% in a month 2nd of August 2018, Via The Guardian. They then turned the party even more further to the right by allowing former EDL leader Tommy Robinson to become Gerard Batten's advisor on grooming gangs.Tommy Robinson appointed Ukip adviser on rape gangs and prison reform 23rd of November 2018, Via The Independent. This made many famous UKIP politicians (most notably Nigel Farage) leave the party because of the rising Islamophobia and extremism in the party.Nigel Farage quits Ukip over its anti-Muslim 'fixation' 4th of December 2018, Via The Guardian. Benjamin and his alt-right friends aborted UKIP in 6 months and ruined it. Good Job!
In April 2019, deciding that Carl hadn't quite ruined their party enough the last time he got involved; UKIP have put him up in the number two position for the in the South West Region.UKIP MEP List 12th of April 2019, Via UKIP Website. Unfortunately for him, Farage's upstart Brexit Party took a considerable number of votes from UKIP (which faced a 29.1% drop in vote share), meaning UKIP lost both of their seats in that region."Live European election results for Cornwall as six South West MEPs elected," CornwallLive.
==Interviews==
Benjamin has debated, interviewed, and been interviewed by, among others: 
==Carl's Greatest Hits==
What article on the man wouldn't be complete without a quick summary of his most notable gaffs?
* 9/11 was an inside job.Conspiracy Carl Via his old Twitter.
* Feminism caused Elliot Rodger to kill people.Sargon Blames Feminism for Elliot Rodger Via YouTube.
* "I wouldn't even rape you (Jess Phillips a Labour Party MP)".Carl on Twitter Via Twitter. A comment so bad that Gerard Batten went on national TV to apologise deflect by saying it was "satire".Gerard Batten on Andrew Marr 14 of April 2019, Via The BBC. Gives Jo Cox vibes.
* Carl displaying his masterful grasp of history: "I presume they're all foreign inventions? Democracy, freedom..." Democracy actually first appears in the historical record in Greece. When this was pointed out, Sargon replied with the non-sequitur "the mother of parliaments did not begin in Greece", which is more a statement about the British empire than origins of the concept.
* English speakers can't be Nazis, because semantics.
==See also==
*Neoreactionary — A more authoritarian kind of right-wingers who are also fond of lengthy rants about the modern world, and monarchs.
*Armoured Skeptic — His less reactionary partner in crime.
*The Amazing Atheist — His American counterpart.
*Davis Aurini — His crazier Canadian counterpart.
*Thunderf00t — Though they have strong disagreements about Trump, Brexit, and whether it's okay to laugh about another Youtuber being murdered,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tqXNHTxyIg&t=240s they have similar views on feminism.
*Dave Rubin — His other American counterpart. Benjamin got to appear on this guy's show thrice.
*JonTron — One of his buddies.
*Laci Green — Formerly his biggest target after Anita Sarkeesian. She eventually forgave him for his transgressions.
*Milo Yiannopoulos — His even crazier fellow Brit.
*Tulsi Gabbard — Benjamin believes she's been "on the right side of every issue."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB3tU5J5jZ0&t=16m43shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh8Oj5dSX4I&t=51m35s
*Thomas Sowell — Benjamin loves his book Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective.Christmas Eve Shitposting Stream Sargon of Akkad Livestreams, December 24, 2016Punished Shitposting with #JonTron Sargon of Akkad Livestreams, January 27, 2017
*Jesse Lee Peterson
==External links==
*Main account at YouTube
:*The Thinkery
:*Sargon of Akkad Livestreams
:*Account at Gab
:*Account at facebook
:*Account at Twitter. Permabanned on 8/14/2017. Reinstated November 2022 following Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter
:*Account number 9000 at Twitter. Permabanned for ban evasion on the 4/28/2019.
:*Account number 9001 at Twitter.https://www.facebook.com/sargonofakkad100/photos/a.1671883446160631.1073741828.1669596836389292/1838456406170000/?type=3&theater ***An Internet Archive backup from 7/7/2017.
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*Sargon of Akkad, Drunken Peasants wiki
*Sargon live at Conway Hall
==Notes==
==References==
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