Black Pigeon Speaks

Felix Lace, better known as Black Pigeon Speaks (BPS), is a Canadian Neo-Nazi and YouTube talker and plagiarist who supports pigeonsLauren Southern. (October 20, 2017). Saving Pigeons w/ Black Pigeon Speaks. YouTube. Retrieved June 13, 2019. and even rescues them when they're hurt.BPS (June 3, 2019). Twitter. Retrieved June 13, 2019. Unfortunately, he also supports alt-right talking points, numerous conspiracy theories, all-capping the same words a ton of times,Daniel (20 Jul 2018). . Twitter. Retrieved September 17, 2018. Note the self-contradicting "anarcho tyranny state" in one of the videos in the image. and various other bigoted positions (like believing women and immigrants destroy civilization) while presenting them as if they were fact. His statements usually include making bold sweeping claims, establishing ridiculous premises and backing them up with equally ridiculous non sequitur and circular reasoning. He often supports his statements from misleading wingnut sources, showing only their scary headlines while the sources misrepresent studies, cite flawed studies, cite fake studies, or even have body text that contradicts the headlines. Lace previously operated TVShinjuku, a travel channel. Like many other alt-rightists, he is a weeaboo. Probably unlike other alt-righters, he shows decency as an animal lover; his Twitter frequently supports animal care and condemns animal cruelty, though some of the sources for his condemnation are questionable, such as when he cited RT for reporting on animal abuse on a farm owned by a partner of Coca-Cola.BPS.(June 7, 2019). Twitter. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
As of March 2022, Black Pigeon's channel had over 517,000 subscribers and 48 million views,About Black Pigeon Speaks, YouTube. which is one among countless examples that show you don't need to be educated, honest, or careful about the sources that back up your claims to be profitable when you say things people like to hear. Despite this, Black Pigeon Speaks has been temporarily removed from YouTube on June 13, 2019.BPS (June 13, 2019). @TeamYouTube @KEEMSTAR @Timcast woke up to my channel being deleted. It was fully monetized, was in GOOD STANDING, had NO STRIKES and 95-99% like ratio and with almost 500k subscribers. I follow the rules carefully and have not broken any them. Is this a mistake?. Twitter. Retrieved June 13, 2019.BPS (June 13, 2019). . Twitter. Retrieved June 13, 2019. During the short stint by YouTube, he wrung his hands about free speech, apparently forgetting that he wanted Shaun's videos to be taken off YouTube earlier in February 2018.Shaun (June 13, 2019). https://twitter.com/shaun_jen/status/1139293413197701122 Twitter. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
==Views==
===Women===
In his sexist video called "Women DESTROY NATIONS * / CIVILIZATIONS - and other UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS" (as all-capping words like "TRUTH" makes points somehow more correct and coherent) Lace claims that if women, being "biological creatures", are free from sexual restrictions, they start to form harems and then irreparably damage or even destroy civilizations, and if women are allowed political power, then civilization will inevitably die. These are both ludicrously bold claims. Lace believes that women have not evolved to stay loyal to their "tribe", and have brought destruction to Western nations by having exercised their voting rights., YouTube His reasoning includes the stereotype that women seek those stronger and more dominating than themselves. He refers to some examples including Japanese women who have married American soldiers and French women who married Nazis, though he fails to take account the context (the Japanese women for instance are living in the aftermath of the atomic bombings), assumes that the men have no agency in these decisions, does not address parallels of men going against their own country, shows lack of self-awareness as he is not living in his own home country, and overall makes a sweeping generalization of women just from the actions of individual women in specific situations.
Besides reasoning that civilizations restricted women's rights historically and therefore civilizations should restrict women's rights, he lists no specific examples of a civilization that has been destroyed by women (because there are no civilizations that have collapsed from a group that has historically no power). He quotes social anthropologist Joseph Daniel Unwin in support of sexual repression. Unwin has argued that powerful civilizations tend to come with sexual repression. While this argument is oversimplified, Black Pigeon Speaks heavily misrepresents Unwin. Unwin actually heavily criticizes inequality by arguing that women's inequality caused the downfall of monogamy; he is highly pro-immigration (which Black Pigeon Speaks is not); and he advocates sexual repression for both men and women, particularly in the upper class and in positions of power.
Other sources Black Pigeon Speaks includes "The Primal Male", misrepresenting a Slate article by cropping off its subtitle that contradicts the headlines, and a Legal Insurrection article that misrepresents a BBC article.
Lace does realize that this video can offend women, so he makes a logical clusterfuck of a disclaimerExley, Z. (June 28, 2017) Black Pigeon Speaks: The Anatomy of the Worldview of an Alt-Right YouTuber. Shorensteiner Center on Media, Politics, and Policy. Retrieved February 1, 2019. practically saying his generalizations don't apply to them (why make the generalizations then) and they apply to "western" women. Women also apparently have no agency in their decisions and it's not their fault they destroy civilizations.
On rape, Lace also claims that "the vast majority of women, when raped, reach sexual climax or orgasm." Lace refers to an MSNBC article citing a study that reported that an estimated 87% of women rape victims reached orgasms while being raped. However, neither the MSNBC article or the scientific study (Shame and Guilt in the Aftermath of Sexual Attack) actually exists., Skeptics StackExchange
Lace also believes that women objectify themselves simply because they love to.Women Love to Objectify Themselves: Here's Why
===Transgender===
Lace also has a beef with transgender folk, claiming they are mentally ill.The Transgender: Normalizing MENTAL ILLNESS
===Race realism===
In "Contrarian Query #1: Systemic Segregation", Lace spends 5 minutes just asking questions about whether alleged low black IQ and high black violence rates (neither premise is backed by reality) might suggest that nation-wide segregation in the United States is necessary.
It is quite ironic that he suggests the need for nation-wide segregation in the US on the basis of IQ - the average IQ scores of Asians has been shown to be higher than that of whites. The only conclusion that could be made from his logic is that Asian countries with higher average IQ scores than those of Western countries should implement nation-wide discrimination against all whites living in their countries. Japan is one of these Asian countries. BPS lives in Japan.. EastWestWriter. Pattberg. Published 2017-10-28.
While one can state that that the difference in average IQ scores between Japan and the US is only marginal, the difference in IQ scores between the different races in the US is similarly marginal. There are also ongoing criticisms of the reliability of what IQ scores really measure and how IQ tests are administered and how ultimately applicable IQ scores are. Nevertheless, this extremely small difference is enough for him to propose discrimination against blacks and other races in the US but not propose discrimination against himself.
===Banking cartels and mass immigration===
In "We're ALL Debt SLAVES - Here's Why", Lace alleges that central bankers are driving mass immigration in order to get more people to loan to:
Lace reiterates and expands this claim In "AUTOMATION will Save Western Economies, NOT Immigration": He brings up the flagantly racist Great Replacement conspiracy theory to counter his opponents' arguments (which is established in easily-refuted absolutes such as assuming they argue in unconditional favor of open borders) to fearmonger about people and their cultures being "replaced".
Fittingly, Lace also believes in many, many conspiracies surrounding George Soros.. YouTube. Black Pigeon Speaks. Published 2017-03-04.. YouTube. Black Pigeon Speaks. Published 2017-10-12.. YouTube. Channel: Black Pigeon Speaks. Published 2017-09-06. He also believes that most shareholders in the Federal Reserve have ties to the "Rothschild banking dynasty":
===Pseudohistorical nationalism and Holocaust denial===
In a now-deleted video called "Does the West HATE itself?",Three Arrows. (June 9, 2018). Does the West HATE Itself? - A Response to Black Pigeon Speaks. YouTube. Retrieved November 8, 2019. Black Pigeon Speaks engages in Nazi apologia and pseudohistorical nationalist Western exceptionalism by JAQing off about why people aren't allowed to "question" the Holocaust. To erase viewers of any doubt he is a Neo-Nazi, he gestures them toward an overtly Neo-Nazi figurehead at the Neo-Nazi Daily Stormer, his example of someone shunned by society for "questioning" Holocaust. He also believes that the summer of 1914 was really the height of "Western civilization", never mind income inequality, no safety nets, limited if any social security, no insurance, way less vaccinations, not everyone (such as women but BPS doesn't like women) had the right to vote, and no profitable YouTube videos that spout and validate nationalist fascist apologia. While constructing ideas about Nazis in absolutes (i.e. strawman: "You learn from a very young age that the ultimate incarnation of pure evil were the Nazis and thus, those that oppose Nazis are the ultimate good."), he believes the fight against the Axis powers in World War II, the Holocaust in particular, led to a replacement of the foundation myths being that of self-loathing and shame that led to the decline of Western civilization. This is a weird argument that puts too much emphasis on foundation myths influencing society morale and also ignores that right-wing nationalist movements have not declined after World War II (for example, there was the Red Scare, resistance to the Equal Rights Amendment, and in France found success). Additionally, there's no demonstrable case that society morale went down for every country that participated after World War II.
===Current politics===
Lace is also a supporter of Donald Trump,Vibrant DIVERSITY & Why TRUMP CAN WIN. YouTube. Channel: Black Pigeon Speaks. Published 2016-03-25. Brexit, and Marine Le Pen.Populism and the END of the EU. YouTube. Channel: Black Pigeon Speaks. Published 2017-01-31. He has also shown dislike towards Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (whom he always prefaces with "substitute drama teacher and part-time ski instructor") and German Chancellor Angela Merkel for allowing Syrian refugees to come into their countries.
==Conspiracy theories==
Lace is also heavy on conspiracy theories. He believes the failed military coup against Erdoğan in Turkey was a false flag operated by Erdoğan himself (although a lot of western governments believe this as well).FALSE FLAGS & the END of Secularism in Turkey. YouTube. Channel: Black Pigeon Speaks. Published 2016-07-18. Additionally, he armchair speculates that Hillary Clinton is afflicted with Parkinson's disease (lovely).Hillary Clinton & Parkinson's - A Detailed Analysis By Dr Ted Noel. Removed.
==Plagiarism==
It turns out that much of the work Lace does is actually just reading the words of other people in a flashy animation. YouTuber Kraut and Tea exposed Black Pigeon Speaks as a plagiarist.Black Pigeon Steals. YouTube. Channel: Kraut. Published 2018-12-02.. Jared Holt. Published 2018-12-14.Episode 39: Tucker Goes For Broke (12/16/18) ft/ Ashley Feinberg & Mike Rothschild. Podcast. SH!TPOST Podcast. Published 2018-12-16. Lace composed his script by cutting and pasting the words of other people together in a single script, and then read those words verbatim.
==See also==
*Davis Aurini
*Stefan Molyneux
==External links==
*BlackPigeonSpeaks.com
:*Black Pigeon Speaks on YouTube
:*TVShinjuku on YouTube (old channel)
:*Black Pigeon Speaks on Twitter
:*Black Pigeon Speaks on Facebook
*Black Pigeon Speaks: The Anatomy of the Worldview of an Alt-Right YouTuber, Shorenstein Center
*r/badhistory: Black Pigeon Speaks asks "why don't we question the Holocaust" and attempts to rewrite the history of "Western civilization" - an example of Black Pigeon Speaks's argumentation style
*YouTube and the Politics of Pessimism (Three Arrows)
*Abusing Statistics ft. Black Pigeon Speaks (Shaun)
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