Eoghan McCabe
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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If you stay close to the moral high ground, you communicate the reasons you do what you do, and you stay strong, don't apologize or flinch when the tiny minority of people come after you, you'll find that the masses will be very supportive. And really, I've had no problems whatsoever by my openness.
Maybe during the DEI days, I never really promoted DEI. I always thought it was a really bad idea to discriminate against people for their race or their gender or things like that. So I never was cool with DEI. But publicly, I didn't speak out about it. There was a
point in the bay area where minority candidates were thrown around like poker chips like it was really gross i would go into meetings with recruiters and they would say good news we've got a minority candidate and i'm like that is the fucking most disgusting thing you could say about that person you didn't care to mention what company they worked with what their achievements are just that they're black the most egregiously disgusting way to treat a person so that used to happen but that doesn't happen anymore here
So I think we've moved on a little bit from it. Thankfully, we're a lot more sober, but I think in conventional industries and maybe in conventional cultures, and I think London and New York are a little more like that. There might be a little bit of it still, but thankfully we're waking up. What have we not moved on from that is totally fucked?
I think it's totally fucked that we try and censor people. The institutions and the big tech companies are still censoring people. It's evil, really, really evil.
Yeah, I think companies are very different from the wider world and the public forums. I think it's deeply evil to decide what can or cannot be spoken about. It's really dangerous. It's the hallmark of totalitarianism, and it has always signaled far worse things.
Jokes are protected by freedom of speech. And if Elon repeatedly does that, his reputation should take a hit. No greater power should ever be trusted. And it's proven that they can't be trusted, for example, during the COVID times to decide what is or is not fake news or right or wrong or appropriate. That's very dangerous.
And I know you're playing devil's advocate right now, but there's very, very few people that agree that that's a good idea.
Because who gets to decide? During COVID, it turned out that these gene therapies were really bad for you and that these traditional treatments were really, really helpful. Don't slap your face like I shouldn't have said that because it's fucking true. Then I could just blast anything out as a fucking joke. Yeah. Yes, you can. And you should.
And that's the power and magic and beauty of freedom of speech. No one gets to decide what is or isn't appropriate or true. And people frequently make mistakes. And often it's worse than a mistake. It's very purposeful massaging of truth for various certain interests.
The kind of hard and fast rule in the United States is you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. If your quote unquote joke causes egregious harm to someone, maybe your joke, I don't know, it doxes someone and it tells people go and attack a certain person at a certain address. You've passed the threshold there. That's no longer speech.
That's kind of conspiracy to cause harm and inflict damage on a person. So I don't think you could say that that should be protected.
Abso-fucking-lutely. Are you crazy? You think that a higher power should tell you, the sovereign individual, the beautiful human that is Harry, what opinions you can and cannot have. Governments become insanely and dangerously powerful when their citizens cannot say what they believe is true or not.
Fuck. then you should be shamed. You should be criticized. People should stop following you. I think that that's really, really inappropriate. That's not a cool thing to do. But the powers that be cannot decide what's right or wrong and what's a joke. Because then they can just decide that various things that they don't like is a joke. Look, all freedom comes at danger.
The freedom to own a knife, the freedom to drive a car, the freedom to say what you want comes at risks. But we are born sovereign people. and free and for us to be able to live our own beautiful lives and create and love who we want, build companies we need and deserve full freedom. And it's never been government's job to take that from us. The government works for us. They are our employees.
Their job is to protect us, not shut us down and shut down our freedom.
I think that is part of a UK thing. I think when there's a monarch and I think when you live under generational experiences of being a serf and people of a kingdom, then you do tend to feel less freedom. The people who came to the new world in the United States, by definition, are people who decided that they didn't want that and they separated themselves from it.
So Europeans, people in the UK and Ireland, they don't feel that same level of freedom.
That's a problem. And that's because of the institutions, the culture, big tech. You're saying you're speaking to a problem that is happening today. And it would be made far worse if we let governments shut down things like jokes.
No fucking clue. No clue.
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