Pat Condell

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{{cquote|Pat Condell is unique. Nobody can match his extraordinary blend of suavity and savagery. With his articulate intelligence he runs rings around the religious [[wingnuts]] that are the targets of his merciless humour. Thank goodness he is on our side.|||[[Richard Dawkins]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130823082758/http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/2517 Pat Condell: Anthology DVD] richarddawkins.net (From Wayback Machine)</ref>}}
'''Pat Condell''' {{lived|1949}} is a [[YouTube]] channel author, political commentator and [[atheist]] residing in the [[United Kingdom]]. He identifies himself as a "[[centrist]]," on the grounds that he dislikes the right (despite fawning over [[UKIP]]) and has soured towards the [[liberal]] left because of its "widespread support" for [[Islam]].<ref name="Pat">[http://youtu.be/G4FpTvp0tgss "Apologists for evil"]. 23 July 2009 &ndash; via YouTube.</ref>

Despite their apparently numerous differences of opinion, [[Anders Behring Breivik]] described him as his "favourite comedian" in his 1500 page long manifesto.<ref>[https://norskgoy.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/2083-aeuropeandeclarationofindependence.pdf "A European Declaration of Independence" 1406 - 1407]</ref> 

[[YouTube]] temporarily banned one of his videos – many of them criticizing Islam as [[totalitarian]] and an offence to [[Reasoning|reason]] – and considered suspending his account, which has over 300k subscribers.<ref>[http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediawatchwatch.org.uk%2F2008%2F10%2F02%2Fnow-condell-video-is-banned-from-youtube%2F&date=2009-09-12 Now Condell video is banned from YouTube]</ref> 

==Pat hates Sweden==
Condell denies accusations of [[bigot]]ry for his — among other things — apparently islamophobic views. 

*He objects to being associated with the [[BNP]] as well, saying: "I believe the BNP has a racial agenda, and is therefore a racist party...I'd rather drive a garden fork through my own foot than vote for the BNP."<ref name="Pat"/>
*His opposition to [[Park51]],<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjS0Novt3X4 "No mosque at Ground Zero"]. 4 June 2010 &ndash; via YouTube.</ref> is defined by him as a conflict against a totalitarian vision of the world, not of any race.
*He spoke favourably about [[Eurabia]] theory and his propagators and has confessed esteem for the fight of [[Geert Wilders]].<ref>[http://frontpagemag.com/2010/david-swindle/pat-condell-unleashed-on-geert-wilders-trial/ Pat Condell Unleashed on Geert Wilders Trial], ''[[FrontPage Magazine|Front Page Mag]]''</ref>
*He claims [[transgender]] people are actually promoting a [[Transphobia|mental disorder]] and that, even if rape isn't funny, it'd be hard not to laugh "if a Swedish news editor was ever gang raped by Muslim immigrants".<ref>[https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/577049819363061760 "Pat Condell"]. ''Twitter''. </ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/659665407536705536?s=09 "Pat Condell"]. ''Twitter''. </ref> He has also promoted elements of [[Holocaust denial]] and pseudohistory by questioning whether Hitler initiated the Holocaust relative to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini.<ref>[https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/656799193193955328?s=09 "Pat Condell"]. ''Twitter''. </ref>

==Brexit fandom==
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He is strongly opposed to the [[European Union]], something, he said, which led him to vote for UKIP in the [[United Kingdom general election, 2010|2010 UK elections]].

He mentioned his support for UKIP in a video encouraging viewers to vote for small parties;<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krybvOx-8Dk "Vote small, think big"]. 24 April 2010 &ndash; via YouTube.</ref> after facing criticism, he clarified that he supports UKIP because it is the only party that shares his stance on the [[EU]], and distanced himself from its other policies.<ref>[http://youtu.be/2LTKzg1K7Es?t=2m31s "Hello angry atheists"]. 3 May 2010 &ndash; via YouTube.</ref>

While claiming he was against the EU just because he was pro-democracy, considering those who opposed Brexit as enemies of democratic system, he was — judging by his Twitter feed — nonetheless more than delighted when he heard that a violent military coup was being attempted against Turkey's authoritarian (but nonetheless democratically elected) president [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]].<ref>https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/754073472372973568</ref> Keep in mind, this was just 3 weeks after the Brexit referendum, during which time he made exhaustive amounts of tweets parading on about democracy and how after voting Leave, Britain has ultimately "saved" it. <ref>https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/751032333197840384</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/749520533822304256</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/752142586580766725</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/743678797006835712</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/744074238093590528</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/746982526367850496</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/723888600266452994</ref>

Because of his different opinions and opposition to Nigel Farage, Condell suddenly seems dead set on hating Bob Geldof, even when the issue has nothing to do with Brexit. <ref>https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/756457495690899456</ref>

==Biting the hand that feeds him==
Condell has also attacked certain elements of the atheist community. These include atheists who try to get nativity scenes removed from public display,<ref>[http://www.youtu.be/watch?v=IolHgMf_nbw "The intolerance of diversity"] </ref> "[[politically correct]]" atheists who supposedly defend [[Islam]] at [[Christianity]]'s expense,<ref>http://www.youtu.be/watch?v=j1N1zhUm84w</ref> and the [[Atheism+]] movement, which he [[Ad hominem|dismissed]] as "whiny selective feminism that ignores Islamic misogyny" ("I almost hope God exists so he can piss in their eye" he added).

He also argues that [[feminists]] are unwilling to oppose Islamic [[misogyny]], saying that they "turn a blind eye to religiously endorsed wife beatings, forced marriage, honour killing, genital mutilation, organised rape gangs, [[Sharia]] courts that treat women as less than fully human."

==Defending the EDL==
Condell challenges portrayals of the [[English Defence League]] as a [[racist]] organization:

{{quotebox|I went to their website and read it quite carefully, looking for racism and fascism of course, because the media keep telling me that they are far right, but, well, I’m a little puzzled because I can find is a healthy regard for human rights, democracy and the rule of law. [[Denialism|Not a whiff of racism or fascism and not a whiff of far-right politics of any kind]].<ref name=gabriel>http://www.alexgabriel.co.uk/post/57563528777/yes-richard-dawkins-your-statements-on-islam-are</ref>}}

His other targets include the UK-based Islamic extremist [[Anjem Choudary]] and university students who Condell feels shouldn't be entitled to free speech.

==US Election 2020 conspiracies==
On Gab, he has repeatedly posted his opinion that Trump won reelection by a "landslide" and that China and the Democrats stole the election.<ref name=lunacy1>https://gab.com/patcondell/posts/105695361182077591</ref><ref name=lunacy2>https://gab.com/patcondell/posts/105487080549889439</ref>

==COVID-19 conspiracies==
He believes [[COVID-19 denialism|COVID-19]] was engineered and released by China, potentially to fuck with the U.S.<ref name=virus1>https://gab.com/patcondell/posts/105643547615440780</ref><ref name=virus2>https://gab.com/patcondell/posts/105571315801677985</ref>

Condell posted a video on his own Youtube channel stating "When it first emerged in the city of Wuhan, a responsible government would have dealt with it decisively. But, the Chinese Communist Party covered it up to save face, until it was too late to contain it."<ref> https://www.aninews.in/news/world/europe/british-writer-slams-china-for-covid-19-pandemic20200323132643/</ref> He continued to  blame the CCP stating China cannot be trusted by the world as long as it is governed by the CCP.

==Anti-trans ramblings==
He referred to trans people as "mentally" ill. On Gab, where he can ramble freely, he posts stuff such as "A male can no more become female than a monkey can become a pig. Allowing mentally ill males to ruin female sport is not a civil liberty."<ref name=antitran>https://fstdt.com/$YCF6LVTYGF83</ref>

== Support for the “Freedom Convoy” ==
Condell voiced his support for the so-called “[[Freedom Convoy]]” in Canada, saying things on Gab like "Canadian farmers break through police barricades to join the truckers blocking the border. I was fortunate enough to live in Canada when it was a free country. Thanks to these good people and many more like them, it will be again,"<ref name=supportingborderblockade> https://gab.com/patcondell/posts/107728421738056924</ref> supporting the blockade along the US/Canada border in Coutts, Alberta/Sweetgrass, Montana. The consequences of this blockade resulted in Jason Kenney caving to the “convoy's” unreasonable demands and ending the Restrictions Exemption Program, which allowed restaurants to re-open safely.<ref name=restrictionsexemptionprogram> https://globalnews.ca/news/8578252/alberta-premier-restrictions-pandemic-reaction/</ref>

==See also==
*[[Sam Harris]]

==External links==
*[http://www.patcondell.net/ Pat Condell's homepage]
*[http://www.youtube.com/user/patcondell Pat Condell's YouTube channel]
*[http://dotsub.com/view/user/patcondell Transcriptions of Pat Condell's videos on Dotsub]

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