The war against free Speech: To be hypocritical is in the Alinsky DNA of the Progressives (Orthomolekulare Aufklärung)
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Last annotated on April 13, 2017
We’re teaching university students lies’ – An interview with Dr Jordan PetersonRead more at location 11
Jung’s propositions was that whatever a person values most highly is their god. If people think they are atheistic, it means is they are unconscious of their gods.Read more at location 24
I concentrated on Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. I was particularly interested in what led people to commit atrocities in service of their belief.Read more at location 28
The motto of the Holocaust Museum in Washington is “we must never forget.”Read more at location 29
People don’t understand the Holocaust, and they don’t understand what happened in Russia.Read more at location 30
One of the things that I’m trying to convince my students of is that if they had been in Germany in the 1930s, they would have been Nazis. Everyone thinks “Not me,” and that’s not right.Read more at location 32
Part of the reason I got embroiled in this [gender identity] controversy was because of what I know about how things went wrong in the Soviet Union. Many of the doctrines that underlie the legislation that I’ve been objecting to share structural similarities with the Marxist ideas that drove Soviet Communism. The thing I object to the most was the insistence that people use these made up words like ‘xe’ and ‘xer’ that are the construction of authoritarians. There isn’t a hope in hell that I’m going to use their language, because I know where that leads.Read more at location 34
compelled speech is unacceptable for two reasons. One is to protect the rights of the speaker, the other is to protect the rights of the listener. The listener has the right to be informed and instructed without being unduly influenced by hidden sources. If your speech is compelled, it isn’t YOU who is talking, it’s some other entity that’s compelling your speech.Read more at location 40
Social constructionism is the doctrine that all human roles are socially constructed. They’re detached from the underlying biology and from the underlying objective world.Read more at location 53
They say ‘what you said hurt my feelings’ – and this is part of the assault on the objective world – your intent is irrelevant. My subjective response is the determining factor.Read more at location 80
So we shouldn’t call someone ‘your majesty’ just because they ask for it?Read more at location 106
They say that your identity is nothing more than your subjective feeling of what you are. Well, that’s also a staggeringly impoverished idea of what constitutes identity. It’s like the claim of an egocentric two-year old, and I mean that technically.Read more at location 110
Your identity isn’t just how you feel about yourself. It’s also how you think about yourself, it’s what you know about yourself, it’s your educated judgement about yourself. It’s negotiated with other people if you’re even vaguely civilized because otherwise no one can stand you. If your identity isn’t a hybrid of what you are and what other people expect, then you’re like the kid on the playground with whom no one can play.Read more at location 112
The social justice people are always on the side of compassion and ‘victim’s rights,’ so objecting to anything they do makes you instantly a perpetrator. There’s no place you can stand without being vilified, and that’s why it keeps creeping forward.Read more at location 139
Note: DISCUSSIONI SULLA GIUSTIZIA SOCIALE. CHI HA COMPASSIONE È UMANO. CHI SI OPPONE È UN MOSTRO Edit
The thing is if you replace compassion with resentment, then you understand the authoritarian left.Read more at location 143
Assigned identity is oppression. Assigned identity is the identity that’s assigned to you by the power structure – the patriarchy. The only reason the patriarchy assigns you a status is to oppress you. And so the language that frees you from that status is revolutionary language.Read more at location 147
This is why free speech is so important. You can struggle to formulate some argument, but when you throw it out into the public, there’s a collective attempt to modify and improve that. So with the hate speech issue – say someone’s a Holocaust denier, because that’s the standard routine – we want those people out there in the public so you can tell them why they’re historically ignorant, and why their views are unfounded and dangerous.Read more at location 162
The conversations that are the most curative are simultaneously the ones that are most difficult and most dangerous. Most normal people will not have those conversations.Read more at location 172
That’s why so many marriages dissolve. People don’t like to have those conversations.Read more at location 173
Nietzsche say: ‘you can judge a man’s spirit by the amount of truth he can tolerate.’Read more at location 180
What happens when that truth actually does contribute to violence against groups? You pick your poison, and free speech is the right poison. There are groups that advocate for hate, but that’s not the issue. The issue is whether repressing them makes it better or worse. I would say that [repressing them] just makes it worse.Read more at location 182
justice warriors? They’re the ones who weaponize compassion.Read more at location 270
