Bret Weinstein on seeing the common humanity of people on the right and ignoring flak from the left

He may be very far left and hold a lot of positions I disagree with and
some I even feel are potentially dangerous. And yet, I can overlook all
of that because when push came to shove (almost literally) he refused to
join the left’s authoritarian social justice mob. He did so at the cost
of his job, ultimately (and that of his wife). That’s an act of
political defiance that is incredibly rare on the left and one even many
people on the right hesitate to take it because the cost is so high.

good 4 him… so what

“hold a lot of positions I disagree with and
some I even feel are potentially dangerous

“

are they less dangerous now?

this is the problem with the intellectual dark web, debate openly and honestly, as it should always be, and decide nothing. defeating bad ideas on paper and continuing to treat them as if they are worthy of discussion.

they debate philosophical points or a symptomatic outrage. why free speech is important  and how to fix the campuses. yes  How they got that way and why it won’t happen again? who should go to collage? how do eliminate the extra capacity? what is the point of education? not as much

lets talk about why the iceberg hit the ship and how we could avoid that in the future. It is very interesting, let me pull up a deck chair.

is it necessary

is there time 4 it

y

n

Bret Weinstein on seeing the common humanity of people on the right and ignoring flak from the left

Theorising Out Loud – Quillette

damonramirez:

FTA
Activists are naive to think that they can impartially censor oppressive
speech to correct for historical oppression. Their conception of
oppression is warped by the biases of their particular political
tradition, and they inevitably end up simply censoring people they
simply dislike, most often those less powerful than themselves. It is
better (or, more accurately, less worse) to let individuals speak as
freely as possible, and not get boxed into groups controlled by the
purportedly enlightened few. Of course, the perspectives and
pre-existing narratives we adopt can still control us, even when we
speak freely. But it’s a form of control many steps removed from, and
far preferable to, giving a direct veto to mediocre academics,
activists, and left-leaning journalists.

Theorising Out Loud – Quillette

regressive-leftists-are-cancer:

Tammy Bruce Exposes the FRAUD of Feminism.

Jordan Peterson on Gender, Patriarchy and the Slide Towards Tyranny. In May 2018, we recorded a special episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast in London. Jordan Peterson, author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, was joined by Anne McElvoy, Senior Editor at The Economist and head of Economist Radio, to discuss identity politics, liberalism and #MeToo.

Camille Paglia speaks with Jordan Peterson about what she believes is one of the primary issues with University Departments, and Women’s Studies.

Why do people hate feminism? Because there is absolutely nothing that a feminist won’t censor and they will lie to your face while they do it. (True that, many times they deny and lie to me when I confront them with evidence that they are doing the thing I accuse them of, all I get is the same old “you’re a conspiracy theorist/ no we’re not don’t be silly/you must be a right winger” etc and soon afterwards it is then revealed to everyone that they were doing the thing anyway and they just shrug and smugly smirk. This is typical behavior of sociopaths.)

Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its meaning. If the deep truths physicists describe about the origin and functioning of the universe have little practical import and do not change our picture of the meaning of the universe and our place within it, then knowing them would not count as wisdom.

Robert Nozick, The Examined Life (via philosophybits)
Source: philosophybits