00:00 So Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was asked, I assume by some leftist, he had his genuine proletariat
00:07 little hat on.
00:08 And he was asked about sort of two questions and I'm sorry to sound so weary but it's just
00:14 so sad how little thought people put into these questions or these answers.
00:19 So the question was twofold and it was around freedom of speech.
00:22 So the first question was, well what if somebody is directly inciting violence?
00:28 Should that not be a violation of freedom of speech and banned and shut down and so
00:32 on?
00:33 I'm like, all right, all right.
00:34 Well, first of all, there are laws against that already so you don't need anything extra.
00:39 But I guess the question I would have is there are tens of thousands of outright Marxists
00:45 in Western universities teaching impressionable youth and Lord knows how many there are in
00:52 public schools as a whole.
00:53 Now Marxism explicitly calls for a violent overthrow, a bloody revolution and so on in
01:01 order to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat and the eventual utopia of the
01:06 stateless society.
01:07 So I suppose if people were really fussed and bothered and concerned about, I don't
01:12 know, speech that not only theoretically in its language promotes the use of political
01:19 violence and terrorism to change the world, but you know the communist revolutions have
01:24 actually been enacted around the world and have caused the slaughter of well over 100
01:29 million people.
01:30 So it would seem to me that if anybody was concerned about, I don't know, political
01:37 violent speech that the first thing they would say is, man we gotta ban all of these communists
01:42 you see because communism is explicitly violent in its formulation, theory, execution and
01:48 practice.
01:51 But of course they never talk about it.
01:54 Why does nobody talk about this?
01:55 I don't understand the world.
01:57 This is so blindingly obvious, right?
02:00 Oh, promotion of violence.
02:01 I don't know, how about promotion of violent bloody revolution, slaughtering your enemies
02:05 and liquidating entire classes of society.
02:08 Would that be considered, especially when it's happened in the world repeatedly, is
02:12 that something that we could classify as an incitement to violence?
02:16 But no, it's never so.
02:17 Of course they don't care, right?
02:19 They don't care, right?
02:20 I mean, what they care about is they say, well we want the right to ban speech that's
02:27 an incitement to violence so that we can define speech we disagree with as an incitement to
02:32 violence and ban it that way, right?
02:35 So it's, I mean the idea that people on the left care about incitement to violence when
02:39 it's sort of the foundation of the whole philosophy is pretty wild to me.
02:42 And I don't know why this is so hard for people to understand, why nobody's talking about
02:45 this, but I do what I do.
02:49 So that's number one.
02:51 Number two is the example was, well what about medical misinformation, right?
02:55 What about medical misinformation?
02:57 So let's say somebody says insulin is really, really bad for diabetics.
03:01 Shouldn't we ban that?
03:03 Now to his credit, I mean, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he did say like absolutely not.
03:10 The government shouldn't have the right to decide what's true and what's false and so
03:13 on.
03:14 I mean, you know, that's fine.
03:15 It's sort of a statement, but I mean the foundational argument, of course, it's this belief that
03:22 the power you give to others will always be executed in the way that you like, right?
03:31 So these, I really want, I don't want there to be bad medical information out there.
03:36 Well, sure, of course.
03:37 Yeah, we understand that.
03:39 Absolutely.
03:40 So, so you give to the government the power or some organization the power to ban medical
03:47 misinformation.
03:48 You say, oh, well, the only thing that's going to get banned, you see, is medical misinformation.
03:53 Because I have this fantasy, I have these magic levers in my head that only the best
03:58 possible human beings are ever going to be in charge of banning speech.
04:02 No one's ever going to be drawn to that for nefarious, profit-driven, control-driven,
04:07 hierarchical, oligarchical, horrendous motives.
04:09 Never, never will happen because Lord knows sociopaths are never attracted to power.
04:14 So I'm going to create this magic lever to ban speech and only the most virtuous and
04:17 angelic and positive and wonderful people are ever going to have a hold of it.
04:21 Oh my God.
04:24 Oh my God.
04:27 The power I surrender will only ever be used to benefit me.
04:31 It's hilarious.
04:33 I mean, absolutely hellscape godforsaken, but bitterly funny.
04:40 So if you have the power to ban medical misinformation, well, what's going to happen?
04:51 Well, if you have a very profitable drug, and we can't think of anything off the top
04:55 of our heads, I'm sure, but if you have some very profitable drug, then you will simply
05:00 influence the government to use that power to ban alternative treatments to your very
05:04 profitable drug by calling those alternative treatments medical misinformation.
05:08 And that way you get this fascistic control over state apparatus in order to make profits
05:14 and frankly, potentially cause a lot of deaths.
05:20 So the idea that there's this objective category called medical misinformation and there's
05:28 this magic, perfect, honorable epistemological lever that's only ever going to be pulled
05:32 by perfect angels and that nobody will ever take that power and abuse it for their own
05:36 benefit at the harm of the general population is just wild.
05:41 You know, I mean, the left is founded on accusations of infinite exploitation by capitalists who
05:47 actually can't force anyone in the free market to consume any of their goods or pay them
05:51 a single penny.
05:52 So they say, you know what?
05:53 Human nature is intensely prone.
05:56 It's intensely prone to exploiting others.
05:59 So let's give a small group of people all the power in their own universe.
06:03 I mean, it's madness.
06:05 And I don't know why this is hard for people to argue, but I don't, the reason I'm recording
06:09 this, I don't see any of these arguments anywhere.
06:12 I find it wild.
06:13 I tell me, tell me why.
06:15 Help me understand why this is blindingly obvious stuff.
06:18 Why does nobody make these arguments?
06:19 I don't understand.
06:21 Please enlighten me.
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