Ep. 982 Ordinary Libertarian Fired After Antifa Tweets "Nazi!" at Employer
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Tom Woods
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🗓️ 23 August 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Well, this was bound to happen. Brandon Navom of Software Engineers for Liberty was fired from his job for planning to take part in a free speech rally that had nothing to do with anything other than free speech. Hysterics tweeted at his employer that Navom was a Nazi and got him fired with no severance. He is an ordinary libertarian with no unusual views to speak of.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 982. |
| 0:03.4 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.0 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.2 | Folks, if you're like me, you were a victim of educational malpractice when you were in school. |
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| 0:36.9 | episode today. We're talking to Brandon |
| 0:39.3 | Navam, who started a group called Software Engineers for Liberty. He was a Ron Paul delegate for |
| 0:45.3 | Massachusetts in 2012. He's just a regular libertarian. Nothing particularly unusual about him. |
| 0:52.1 | And yet he got caught up in the maelstrom surrounding the Boston |
| 0:55.5 | Free Speech Rally, which somehow, for reasons not fully explained, we were supposed to understand, |
| 1:03.4 | was cut from the same cloth as the event in Charlottesville, when that's certainly not the case, |
| 1:08.8 | and that was obvious the day that it occurred. It was a small number of people who were trying to give speeches and tens of thousands of angry protesters, some of whom were throwing bottles of urine at people. They were looking for white supremacists but didn't find any. But of course, for a lot of these people, everybody's a |
| 1:27.6 | white supremacist. But there really weren't any by any reasonable definition. So Brandon was slated |
| 1:33.4 | to take part in this, and merely being slated to take part in it was enough to get him fired |
| 1:38.1 | because of the pressure that was put on his employer in this case. So it goes to show what I've been saying |
| 1:44.9 | that given the atmosphere of hysteria, I'm not worried that, you know, 57 white supremacists |
| 1:52.0 | are going to take over America. That is the last thing in the world anybody should be worried |
| 1:56.3 | about. There is no chance of that. And do not try to give me the comparison with Germany when the press supported people who took nationalist views and academia supported it. I mean, you know what happened to Jewish academics, for example. So academia was behind it. The media was behind it. That's not true in America. The media and academia couldn't possibly be more |
| 2:18.6 | opposed to these people. So you are a hysteric if that's your main concern. There is no chance |
| 2:24.1 | that that's going anywhere. No chance of that. What there is a chance of is people getting their |
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