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🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 129 minutes
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0:00.0 | So are you right wing? No, I'm still not right wing. I think you're referring to an article |
0:07.5 | in a video I did saying the title of which was fine, call me right wing. And it's basically |
0:12.6 | just me saying I'm tired of like defending myself against this allegation. I'm still not right |
0:18.2 | wing. But if it's really important for people to frame me in that way, |
0:22.1 | that's fine. |
0:22.9 | They can do it. |
0:23.7 | Why is right wing a disparaging marker? |
0:27.2 | I think the political realm in which we operate is the framing is, I think deep down, |
0:34.4 | if people are honest, it's like the caricature of the left is that they're |
0:38.9 | wrong but well-meaning and of the right is that they're like factually more correct but evil. |
0:45.9 | Callous and evil and cruel and nasty. And so even if you're right, you're still wrong kind of |
0:52.6 | that's kind of the way people seem |
0:54.6 | morally. |
0:55.3 | Morally wrong. |
0:56.1 | Exactly. |
0:57.6 | And I think that's why that's what I noticed, right? |
1:00.3 | Because my journey into all of this world, as you know, was like, hey, guys, maybe free speech is quite important. |
1:05.7 | Oh, right wing. |
1:06.3 | I was like, what? |
1:07.3 | And then I just gradually discovered, you know, thinking that you should be allowed to |
1:11.5 | speak freely, makes your right wing, which when I was in my early 20s, you know, George Carlin and |
1:17.1 | Bill Hicks, these were my heroes when I was growing up, these great comedians who were getting |
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