62: Eric Weinstein Part 2, Cancel Culture
I Don't Speak German
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🗓️ 30 August 2020
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
The final (for now) part of of coverage of the IDW's Weinstein brothers. Back to Eric, with special reference to his boss Peter Thiel and the Gawker affair, Eric's response to Becca Lewis' Alternative Influence Report, and to Eric's thoughts on BLM and the current protests.
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Notes/Links:
Owen Thomas, Gawker, "Peter Thiel is Totally Gay, People." https://gawker.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, "The Most Expensive Comment in Internet History?" https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/hogan-thiel-gawker-trial/554132/
Steven W. Thrasher, "Peter Thiel's Gawker War Not His First Brush With a High-Priced Vendetta." https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/05/peter-thiel-gawker-lawsuits-james-okeefe-acorn
Maureen O'Connor, Gawker. "Christina Hendricks Says THese Giant Naked Boobs Aren't Hers, But Everything Else Is." https://gawker.com/5890527/christina-hendricks-says-these-giant-naked-boobs-arent-hers-but-everything-else-is
Maureen O'Connor, Gawker, "Olivia Munn's Super Dirty Alleged Naked Pics." https://gawker.com/5890506/olivia-munns-super-dirty-alleged-naked-pics-lick-my-tight-asshole-and-choke-me"
Bollea v. Gawker at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollea_v._Gawker
Rebecca Lewis, "Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube." https://datasociety.net/library/alternative-influence/
Full PDF: https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DS_Alternative_Influence.pdf
Eric Weinstein abuses Becca Lewis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=beccalew%20(from%3Aericrweinstein)&src=typed_query
Dave Rubin, "What Is the Future of the Intellectual Dark Web?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUl7-SvntQ4
Eric Weinstein, "Some Thoughts on Wokeness and Shame in light of events." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETcq7qqPhow
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome and welcome to I don't speak German the anti-fascist podcast in which I Jack Graham and my friend Daniel Harper have conversations about the far rights conversations. Every episode I don't speak German featuring me Jack Graham he him speaking as usual to my my friend and my co-host Daniel Harper he him also |
| 0:31.2 | Hi Daniel how's everything going at the moment with you I wouldn't really be asking how |
| 0:36.6 | everything was going with anybody else would I no well I'm currently googling to see if |
| 0:41.1 | a stop ever read about Adam Street ever read about I don't speak German |
| 0:43.1 | episode 62 I don't think it's a thing but you know other people wrote fables |
| 0:48.4 | other than aesop right so I think we're okay I think we're covered. Yeah, and so this is, I mean, we're on time this time, having made you wait a long time for part one of our Eric Weinstein coverage. We're now hot on the heels fairly quickly with part two of our Eric Weinstein coverage. |
| 1:11.0 | No news today at the start. I mean there's plenty going on but that's not really for us to cover. |
| 1:19.6 | So yeah, yeah, it turns it turns out you know, some Bugulu boy murdered some, but murdered a couple of people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, |
| 1:28.0 | which isn't that far from me last night, but we're not even going to talk about that. That's very sad and very distressing. |
| 1:38.4 | The world is now a different place for any in-person activist. But instead we have we have internet Nazis to talk about it. We have |
| 1:46.6 | Hulk Hogan's penis. We we have more important topics than the murder of protesters by far right activists. |
| 1:55.0 | Hulk Hogan's penis is now upon us. |
| 1:59.0 | That's it. |
| 2:00.0 | That's why it's fabled, isn't it? |
| 2:02.0 | That's why this episode is fabled. That's why, because we're finally |
| 2:05.2 | getting to the topic you've all been waiting for. So yeah, so what's this episode about? I mean I know it's Eric Weinstein part two, but you know more specifically. |
| 2:20.0 | It's really more about sort of Peter Teal in the sort of extended intellectual dark web network and about sort of the way that |
| 2:31.2 | you know various figures sort of responded to things and so we're not really |
| 2:35.1 | going to talk much about Eric in the first half of this episode we'll get to |
| 2:41.0 | him in a lot more detail in the second. |
| 2:43.0 | And what's, I want to kind of refocus our attention here as to what brought us here in terms of discussing this topic and that was cancel |
| 2:56.1 | culture that was this idea of cancel culture of people who are being |
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