In part 1 of my review of Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger (2023), I concluded that I might not finish the book due to my distinct suspicion of being trolled. I spent a sleepless night in an apoplectic rage, triggered by the casual aplomb which with Klein bamboozles her audience. Don’t get me wrong, I like trolls, not all trolls are diabolical Jewish communists projecting their desires onto white people. But Klein really takes the cake, inverting logic and meaning at every turn to promote a partisan political perspective in favor of complete scientific unaccountability.
In Klein’s view, what matters is the welfare of the collective, not the individual. There is a name for this and it is totalitarianism. Klein calls herself a democratic socialist, but she is in fact a third generation Jewish communist. Her sworn enemy is fascism, white supremacy, and National Socialism. But everything she accuses her enemy of doing is what she does herself. The difference between Klein and me, as fellow propagandist trolls, is that she is trying to deceive her audience. If she weren’t so deceitful, her commie projection shtick would be funny as hell. It turns out that Klein is not only a twisted doppelganger of Naomi Wolf, but of me too.
Klein describes her efforts to get out the vote in Canada for her husband, a third generation Jewish politician. This mensch thought he could win amidst the bonfire of former public health principles with the slogan “The pandemic recovery must be a Green New Deal for all!” The “green new deal” is a phrase coined by Jewish polemicist Thomas Friedman in 2007 and pre popularized in 2019, later conjoined with the synonymous “Great Reset” of the World Economic Forum. According to Klein, it’s not a conspiracy that all these international socialists want to use a totalitarian COVID response to justify similar interventions in the name of climate change and economic equity. You see, the communist cabal just wants to help. It’s the scattered white people eating health food and exercising who are the real threat to democracy.
No, this is not a joke. Klein develops her thesis about “diagonalism” (ie, the liberal rejection of communism, ie, denialism) by complaining that whacked out New Age fitness buffs have joined forces with the Trumpian schutzstaffel to cram unrealistic amounts of Jews, blacks, and wheelchair people into the proverbial ovens. Genocide is the charge Klein levies against public indifference to a virus that killed only 1 in 400 of the oldest and weakest people on Earth before rapidly mutating to become much less deadly. We can add genocide to the list of words that Klein glibly abuses.
And we can laugh, because in the first part of her book she claimed genocide was part of a precious vocabulary of Nazi recollection and was one of few terms that should not be replaced with the environmental savior’s strategic mantra of “Blah blah blah.”
Klein describes her first interaction with a white Canadian voter while canvassing for her husband. We must note the inherent hypocrisy of knocking on strangers’ doors while simultaneously endorsing social isolation, distancing, and business closure. I’m sure Klein had at least one magical talisman restricting her airways, and she surely observed a six foot ritual distance from her intended victim. Note that if a communist Jew ever knocks on your door, they can’t come in unless you invite them.
Did I just say communist Jew? Zut alors! Klein’s Canadian quarry told her, “I voted for the NDP my whole life. My parents voted for you. My grandparents voted for you. But I have to tell you that I am so disappointed with your leader and the way he sold out to the globalists”. Klein’s internal monologue responds: “The globalists? My hair follicles tingled, sensing code for ‘Jews.’” TOP KEK. Isn’t she a globalist Jew shilling for the NDP? Was just she afraid of being recognized? Klein accuses voters like this of taking a “leap straight to the far right” because of “frustration over compromised leftism”. In Klein’s mirror world, people are rejecting “globalists” (Jews) because their governments have not sufficiently collectivized the economy. But “compromised leftism” is exactly what Klein is promoting: the totalitarian merger of state and corporate power. As usual, she is projecting her sins.
Klein calls liberal resistance to the unsafe and ineffective COVID vaccines “a poison released into the culture”. Once again, the irony drops my jaw. You can see why I want to smash my keyboard and not laugh when I observe Klein’s zany troll antics. When she describes “a poisonous compound enmeshed with powerful notions of natural living, bodily strength, fitness, purity, and divinity” she’s not talking about the vaccine, even though the vaccine was offered as a shortcut to all these things (or their psychological analogues). Klein compares health conscious Canadians to Nazi Germany, where “propaganda was crowded with images of young men hiking”. According to Klein, individual fitness is fascism.
Klein really doesn’t understand the first thing about COVID vaccines. She never admits that they do not prevent viral transmission. Her moral calculus is always about saving other peoples’ lives, but she never admits that the vaccines do not prevent hospitalization or death. Since the vaccines were so ineffective, they were never actually capable of stopping the pandemic, at any rate of uptake. At their hypothetical best, vaccines would have flattened the curve. But a flattened curve does not mean fewer people will be infected, it means their cases will be spread out over time. And the actual statistics show that instead of flattening curves, COVID vaccination turned molehills into mountain ranges. Klein has NO BASIS for claiming the vaccines saved lives. The brief control group in Pfizer’s clinical trial revealed a 20% excess mortality rate among vaccine recipients.
Her hypocrisy grows in leaps and bounds. Klein accuses the Eugenicist Canadian Zumba stans who don’t care about a virus with a .026% fatality rate of “imagining the pandemic as a means by which the natural world would be rehabilitated from human stresses”. But isn’t that a perfect description of the Great Reset that Klein herself endorses? Wasn’t it her husband’s campaign slogan? Isn’t it her goal?
She also mischaracterizes the colonization of native Americans by “white” Europeans, writing that infectious diseases were wielded against natives “after settlers stole their land and decimated their food sources”. But according to Charles C. Mann in 1492, this is false. In fact, smallpox and other diseases to which native American immune systems were completely naive killed the preponderous majority of Indians before they ever even saw or heard of a white person. Germs travel much faster than horses. Christian supremacist attitudes towards the natives were no picnic. But Klein needs to get her facts straight if she wants to argue that white people are inherently genocidal. According to Mann, without the extreme immune vulnerability of the Indians to the Spanish, the thirteen American colonies would never have succeeded.
Klein equates whiteness with what she calls “ecofascism”. She writes:
Whenever one group has chosen to allow terrible violence to be inflicted on another group, there have been stories and logics that provided the permission for the beneficiaries of the violence either to actively (even gleefully) participate or to actively look away. Stories that said things like this: the people being sacrificed/enslaved/imprisoned/colonized/left to die so that others can live comfortably are not the same level of human. They are other/substandard/lesser/darker/more animal/diseased/criminal/lazy/uncivilized.
Again, this is pitch perfect projection of Klein’s own totalitarian propaganda. One group (the willingly vaccinated) gleefully allowed and or encouraged violence to be inflicted on another group (the unvaccinated) including police action, deprival of livelihood, and forced or threatened medical intervention. They told stories like: unvaccinated people who are being violated by the state for the welfare of others are subhuman: fascist, conspiracy theorist, mentally ill deniers as well as “other/substandard/lesser/darker/more animal/diseased/criminal/lazy/uncivilized”.
In Klein’s bizarro world, governments and corporations working in lockstep to persuade the public to take a new military grade pharmaceutical product is not fascist. What is fascist is when people want to exercise and eat well. She complains about those who “make a claim to special knowledge about what is right for other peoples’ bodies”, slyly indicting her own certitude about modifying other peoples’ bodies with a gene therapy product, before blaming “trainers, yoga teachers, CrossFit instructors, masseuses, mixed martial artists, chiropractors, lactation consultants, doulas, nutritionists, herbalists, menopause coaches, and certified juice therapists”.
She complains about the “Disinformation Dozen”, a group of authors blamed by the Center for Countering Digital Hate for fostering COVID vaccine denial. These included RFK Jr, a man who never stops talking about how much he loves Israel and hates the Holocaust. I don’t trust Kennedy but his book about Anthony Fauci is stupendous. Instead of focusing on the reportage of Kennedy, or the criticism of other influential authors and scientists like Berenson, Ioannidis, Montagnier, et cetera, Klein settles for ad hominem attacks against lesser known strawmen. She describes the resistance to COVID vaccines as “a who’s who of woo—alternative health, women’s wellness, and spirit-infused diet and fitness.” What about Mike Yeadon, or Robert Malone? Sucharit Bhakdi? Why is Klein criticizing the editor of Health Nut News?
Klein insinuates that all COVID vaccine critics are only in it for the money, to sell “memberships and newsletters and tinctures”. Klein cites Barbara Ehrenreich claiming that this focus on personal health was a reaction to the neoliberal destruction of socialist movements in the 1980’s. Per Klein, Ehrenreich argued “so many turned their attention to perfecting the body, with treadmills replacing protest marches and free weights replacing free love”. This psychosocial “atomization” replaced “the briefly thrilling communal uplift” of the 1960s. According to this thesis, loss of socialist influence leads to wanting more control over one’s own body. Again, this is Klein’s frankly illiterate definition of fascism. Klein urinates on the concept of wanting to improve one’s body by equating it to the alleged murder of 6 million Jews.
She can’t seem to distinguish between “the desire for perfect wellness and perennial glowing youth” and more pedestrian desires like burning fat, maintaining or building strength, improving metabolic function and any number of disease outcomes, or, heaven forbid, socializing with your fellow Nordictrack enthusiasts who pay $49.99 a month to be a member of the master race. Klein writes “This is the trouble with the Mirror World: there is always some truth mixed in with the lies.” But Klein says the only thing that can be true is the failure of collectivization. She thinks the shortfall of “democratic socialism” is responsible for every problem in the world.
Another one of Klein’s wicked synonyms for the “ecofascists” who don’t want an undisclosed cocktail of nanoparticles injected repeatedly into their shoulder is the “white, wealthy, libertarian streak” who “can become lethal”. Yes that’s right, a mere streak is what white wealth and liberty has been reduced to in North America, and Klein wants to wash the stain away entirely. In the context of COVID interventions and literally everything else, Klein thinks “a great many women and gender-marginalized people need more (and more sensitive) health care, not less.”
Klein contrasts the individual approach to wellness with her imagined solutions: collective and structural responses. She lauds the public works programs of the New Deal which built hundreds of swimming pools and state and national parks, praising the philosophy that “exercise and access to nature were rights that should not be reserved for the rich”. Help, my irony meter is broken. Klein has this nasty habit of conceding everything she disagrees with; a page earlier, she said “moving our bodies in whatever free time we have will make us healthier” and “food prepared with fresh ingredients is more nourishing”. She even says there is truth to the claim that “the medical industry prefers a chronically ill population over a healthy one”.
Maybe if she could get white tax dollars to build gyms and organic grocery stores for everyone in the hood she would stop attacking personal health goals? Here’s the obstacle for Klein; no matter how much money you spend trying to improve health outcomes, you can’t force a person to eat well or exercise. Good health ALWAYS comes down to personal responsibility. We all have limitations, some more than others. We CANNOT all be equal, but we can all be our best, IF we so choose.
Hilariously, Klein calls all the collective and structural circuses she wants to pay for with white debt and tax dollars “free”. She accuses her archnemesis Steve Bannon, who she thinks constantly watches her through a one way mirror, of “sabotaging what could have been a hugely successful and popular government program: the dissemination of free, lifesaving vaccines in the middle of the pandemic.” Yes, the vaccine program could have been more popular if only it wasn’t so unpopular. And billions of dollars of experimental vaccines paid for by U.S. citizens were “free”. Klein wants to spend more on everything, including wage replacement. Then she wants to channel that momentum into spending on hunger, housing costs, universal healthcare, and of course the biggest expense of all: fighting climate change. She thinks all that stuff is free. This is why democracy should be illegal.
Now Klein hits us with the punchline, accusing her imagined ecofascist adversaries as people who “want you to be well—but first you have to buy whatever they are selling”. So offering a (pseudo) medical product for sale is wrong, but unilaterally buying a (pseudo) medical product for everybody and automatically charging them for it and foisting it upon them is an act of moral and economic munificence. Right.
In Klein’s mirror world, she even inverts the “far right” meme that leaders like Joe Biden only pretended to get injected with the nanoparticle slurry. She reverses this by suggesting that people like Tucker Carlson only pretended to be unvaccinated. She implies the vaxx is such a slam dunk that no educated person would refuse it.
Here’s is Klein’s biggest chutzpah of all: “It takes time to understand a novel virus. Time to do research before serious scientists will make claims about the best course of action.” Yes it does take time to understand a novel virus, especially one made in a lab, not to mention the time needed to develop a vaccine candidate against such a virus. When did Klein get her first shot, before or after she admitted the virus might not be zoonotic? Why was she content with only 2 months of blinded clinical data from the “serious scientists” at Pfizer? As Klein notes, scientists can only make claims. But COVID “science” became holy scripture and Klein is obviously one of its rabbis.
Airing out her ignorance, Klein complains that deniers “didn’t understand the virus either”. But we did understand the virus! We understood it was a coronavirus that would mutate rapidly into a less virulent form. We understood that this mutation would make ending the pandemic through vaccination impossible. We understood that “flattening the curve” meant that no infections would be prevented in the long run. We understood the vaccine did not prevent infection, transmission, or death. We understood that the CDC changed its definition of a vaccine when it was pointed out that a leaky mRNA gene therapy branded by Donald Trump wasn’t it. Yet Klein claims we “feared the precedent of a functional, caring state”. She accuses us of saying, heaven forbid, that death is natural. Her best psychological comparison for people who go to the gym is a fictional short story about a woman who gets liposuction.
Then Klein gets into the race baiting. She cites a NYT story from April 2020, which was very early in the pandemic, the first few weeks of sensationalism. Even the most careful research must be thoroughly vetted, and most research/statistics are simply untrue (see: Replication Crisis). The NYT reporter wrote “the pace at which African Americans are dying has transformed this public health crisis into an object lesson in racial and class inequality”. In Klein’s words, “those who would pay the highest price for Covid’s unchecked circulation were, at that time, disproportionately poor, Black, and Brown.” Well, if that’s true, it’s because those groups were the least healthy due to deficits in nutrition, recreation, and exercise. But Klein thinks such pursuits are ecofascist, and what minorities really need are ventilators, shots, and stimmies.
Klein’s cries of ecofascism are mirrored by her doppelganger, Naomi Wolf, with accusations of “biofascism”. Wolf believes it is biofascist to believe that vaccinated bodies are superior to unvaccinated bodies, so Klein accuses her of projection. Klein accuses the Nazis of not caring about the health of Slavs, even though they lavished the filthy ghetto Jews with lice killing gypsum pellets in their battle against typhus.
Klein responds, “vaccination programs that ask strong, healthy people to accept small inconveniences to protect themselves—as well as people who are sicker, older, and more medically vulnerable—are the precise opposite of biofascism. On the contrary, they are acts of what we might call biojustice”. Well, what is it that makes people strong and healthy in the first place? How is a teenage boy dying of myocarditis a small inconvenience? How is it biojustice? Just call it what it is! It’s biobolshevism.
Klein writes:
When we get vaccinated against diseases that pose a greater threat to other members of our communities than they do to us, we are saying that all people, no matter their bodily impairments or challenges, are of fundamentally equal value and have a right to equally access the public sphere and a good life.
According to this logic, if it is too dangerous for a fat old cancer patient to go the gym, a healthy person should not be allowed to go there either. It would create inequity. Klein is a communist and she wants her revolution. The bourgeoisie are sacrificed for the proletariat. The royals are sacrificed for the people. The healthy are sacrificed for the ill. The whites are sacrificed for the Blacks and Browns. The goyim are sacrificed for the Jews. It’s a tale not quite as old as time. “Biojustice”.
Klein claims she wants to build a world without sacrificial people. Well, I guess that will become a reality after they’ve sacrificed everyone already. Klein’s avowed goal is to “exert power to change reality in big and important ways”. But reality cannot be changed. Reality is what changes us if, unlike Klein, we allow it to.
In my previous post, I still gave Klein the benefit of the doubt, and so I refused to call her bad names. Today I rescind my benevolence. It feels like her hypocrisy and projection will never end. She writes, “the very idea that humans can and should be ‘optimized’ lends itself to a fascistic worldview”. She continues, “If you are optimized, others are, by definition, suboptimal. Defective. Next door to disposable”. But what are vaccines if not human optimization? Klein worries about an “obsession with pure children and perfected bodies”. But that was the exact obsession of the vaxx shills made hysteric by CNN. We had to take the vaccine: not only to be well, but to be good.
So, STOP TROLLING ME, NAOMI. The vaccines don’t fucking work, you inbred lying ladyprick. They don’t do what you claim they do, what they would need to do in order for your arguments to make any sense. You’re just pulling globalist bullet points out of your ass while mercilessly projecting your own totalitarian desires.
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"the people being sacrificed/enslaved/imprisoned/colonized/left to die so that others can live comfortably are not the same level of human. They are other/substandard/lesser/darker/more animal/diseased/criminal/lazy/uncivilized. Again, this is pitch perfect projection of Klein’s own totalitarian propaganda." What I see here, even more than vaxxed vs unvaxxed, is the globalist Elites vs. Plebes in general. That's exactly how the so-called elites view the rest of us "deplorables."
Absolutely hilarious, GT.
One small correction regarding these lines:
'Klein’s Canadian quarry told her, “I voted for the NDP my whole life. My parents voted for you. My grandparents voted for you. But I have to tell you that I am so disappointed with your leader [Trudeau] and the way he sold out to the globalists”.'
The leader of the NDP is Jagmeet Singh. But it might as well be Justin Trudeau, since Jagmeet and Justin made an agreement to work together to keep Justin's gang of commissars in power after the Liberals were only able to scrape together a minority government during the last Canadian federal election in 2021.
The Liberal leader Trudeau is not really the legitimate leader of Canada at all:
"As in 2019, the Conservatives captured the popular vote [in 2021], but they failed to translate that support into winning the most number of ridings."
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/federal-election-2021/six-charts-to-help-you-understand-the-2021-federal-election-1.5598419?cache=mgxriho
Not that the Conservatives are much better. But that's "democracy" for you.