[by OD]

C-Rex is a center for studies on the Norwegian far right. Let's put it simply: Anders Breivik committed his attack in 2011; our researchers create their center in 2015. They needed 4 years to realize that it was a problem. However, it took them 5 days to react to the probable election of Nonna Mayer as head of the FNSP.

Indeed, in a recent post dedicated to the fight against the extreme right not in Norway, where we know that the C-Rex has already magnificently does the job anticipating on the heinous killings perpetrated by the extreme right-winger Anders Breivik with this article (here) written 7 years after the fact, not in the northern lands where we know that the problem obviously does not exist because everything there is only love and sincerity as shown by the recent European report on the subject:

In 2019, the Norwegian police recorded a total of 761 hate crimes, which is a 22% increase compared to 2018 (624 cases). These included 250 cases of violence (2 cases of homicide or attempted homicide, 13 cases of grievous bodily harm and 131 cases of bodily harm), 101 cases of "reckless behaviour", 50 cases of threats and 32 cases of property damage. Of these, 62% were recorded for reasons of racism and xenophobia, 17% for religious reasons, 2% for anti-Semitism and 14% for LGBTphobia.

ECRI report, https://rm.coe.int/6th-report-on-norway-/1680a17dd7

but definitely in the world, and surtout at Sciences Po Paris.

In this text, a French candidate for Norwegian PhD (graduate of the dual Sciences Po course – Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Mathematics and Computer Science since 2016 and a Master's in Political Science with a specialization in Comparative Politics since 2018 and very active on Twitter... the nights are long) denounces the Observatory, this nest infested with conspiracy theorists so uneducated that they cannot understand concepts as powerful as "race, gender and intersectionality" (yet, I promise, all the members have read Saul Alinsky):

 …around concepts they do not clearly understand

https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/news-and-events/right-now/2021/concern-inside-french-academia.html

We obviously move on to this quote on the “ Clearly " which is not " clear " that for them; we pass over the approximate use of a neo-colonial English in a country where the national language is still Norwegian - here is a laboratory that is so at the forefront of the fight against colonialism that it very clearly displays its multiculturalism by the use of a community and minority language, English-Globish. No, what we remember is the commitment of these Norwegian researchers to the defense of a candidacy at the head of the FNSP. And to the extent that the article speaks on behalf of the laboratory in what could pass for a study, to the extent that we cannot help but think that the article was the subject of a revision before publication: we therefore note the fact that this text comes not from a person using his position to confuse Twitter activism and approximate settling of scores, but rather from the laboratory itself. Of which acts.

Activism, Research, Twitter

More interesting, however, remains a characteristic feature of the argumentative procedure initiated by the article. We note at the end of its text the mention of a Twitter quote from a French political figure who is indignant about a procedure of the program organized by LCI one evening of debate. It is not an image reference, but rather an argument. We can imagine in passing the stakes of historical testimony for Norwegian research on the extreme right to preserve the memory of the lady in slippers cursing television… In short, it is a little uncomfortable. The presenters showed a thesis title, nevertheless supported and public, whose title makes one smile: it had to be thought of… That the procedure is clumsy, no one disputes. Still, we must attack its authors, that is to say the editorial staff of the channel. But it does not matter. It is interesting to note here that the author sees in Laurence de Cock's Tweet the illustration of the idea he defends, which in fact consists of taking up what the tweet itself said.

This argumentative tautology amplifies Twitter's blah blah, and forms an autotelic sounding board where Twitter's archived speech becomes the illustration of the scientific "theories" denounced in a form of Escher drawing where, in essence, the agora is replaced by the social network supposed to reflect the thoughts of real people. From there, the Twitter archive becomes a place of argumentation where ideas can be developed and a reservoir of arguments from which to draw from outside.

The same process is found at work in the rhetoric of a conspiracy group gathered around a few university figures on the site Reopen911 where these brave colleagues keep a list of the names of researchers who in their eyes embody the demon of protest. The wiki archives stolen data and, above all, a series of thematic links to Twitter to serve as a reservoir of political examples:

This evidence of the use of Twitter is not self-evident, neither in research in the Human Sciences in general, nor in sociology. It is rather a marker of a conspiratorial rhetoric of activists surveying social networks who share the same set of ideological marker traits: the use of mainstream media (Twitch, Twitter, Youtube); anonymity or pseudo-anonymity and the misappropriation of information.

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