I haven't watched Stefan in a long time, is he now producing content in the same register as David Duke & Richard Spencer ? It did not seem to be the case a few years ago.
Yes, I don't remember Stefan Molyneux saying anything racist. Can someone share an example?
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#12I haven't watched Stefan in a long time, is he now producing content in the same register as David Duke & Richard Spencer ? It did not seem to be the case a few years ago.
Not at all but Molyneux disagrees with so many left-of-center ideas that the effort needed to effectively detail how Molyneux is different is great, so he gets lumped in with them.
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#13Twitch and Reddit enacted bans simultaneously:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/29/reddit-bans-pro-tru...
https://www.engadget.com/twitch-suspends-donald-trump-accoun...
Seems odd for multiple independent companies to act in concert like this.
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#14I haven't watched Stefan in a long time, is he now producing content in the same register as David Duke & Richard Spencer ? It did not seem to be the case a few years ago.
I used to listen to Stefan Molyneux about 10 years ago because he had some interesting views on free market economics. Now I look him up on Wikipedia and find out he's turned into a white nationalist. What the hell happened?
Perhaps there is an association between strongly supporting principles of free markets and problematic ethics.
Re: YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech
#15Strange coincidence, considering what happened on reddit earlier
There is safety in numbers, they can argue that reddit did it as well (either in court or somewhere else)
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#16Since these threads often turn out the same way once they get popular enough (assuming they don't get flagged first), a while ago I wrote a comment[0] which can help sum up some arguments from "both sides" of the debate over Internet censorship, and I hope it's useful to those who would otherwise repeat a discussion that's been had many times before in these comment sections.
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#17I haven't watched Stefan in a long time, is he now producing content in the same register as David Duke & Richard Spencer ? It did not seem to be the case a few years ago.
I used to listen to Stefan Molyneux about 10 years ago because he had some interesting views on free market economics. Now I look him up on Wikipedia and find out he's turned into a white nationalist. What the hell happened?
Unfortunately, a portion of the 2000s internet rationalist movement radicalized towards these views.
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#18Keep in mind that YT had been funneling viewers towards extreme, bizarre, fringe videos for a long time - including quite a bit of hateful content. This is something of their own doing.
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Re: YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech
#19Twitch and Reddit enacted bans simultaneously: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/29/reddit-bans-pro-tru... https://www.engadget.com/twitch-suspends-donald-trump-accoun... Seems odd for multiple independent companies to act in concert like this.
"coincidence"
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#20I haven't watched Stefan in a long time, is he now producing content in the same register as David Duke & Richard Spencer ? It did not seem to be the case a few years ago.
Not at all but Molyneux disagrees with so many left-of-center ideas that the effort needed to effectively detail how Molyneux is different is great, so he gets lumped in with them.
"The primary purpose of feminism is to lower white birthrates." - https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/118100374698304307...
"If we had been allowed to talk about race and IQ, the invasion of Iraq would never have occurred, because no one would have been under the illusion that a Jeffersonian Republic was going to emerge from a population with an IQ in the 80s. Opposing science got >500k people killed." - https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/108248906874151321...
EDIT: added a second quote