Rory Sutherland
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You go on their Wikipedia page and it says accused of inappropriate behavior.
Now, I have no idea whether they're the next Epstein.
Or whether they told a knock-knock joke that two people found unpleasant.
Do you have them in Canada?
Knock-knock joke?
Yeah.
At least they're not being complete.
Because otherwise I could have been misunderstood there, you see.
But I now have no idea, literally no idea, whether the person's guilty of some utterly trivial infraction which would only have offended 0.01% of the population.
So it strikes me as highly problematic in the UK.
I'm not one of those people who, by the way, I'm not J.D.
Vance.
I don't believe that free speech is completely dead in the UK.
But there are worrying signs where people who make a complaint on the basis that they found something disturbing
can then call in the, that's not a police matter, unless it involves a direct threat of physical action.
I mean, simply being disquieted by something can't be.
And so whether you agree or disagree with him and his views... I have to confess, I was only dimly aware of his existence beforehand, perhaps because I'm a Brit.
How many of these people who are hypersensitized on one side or the other?
How many of them really exist?
By the way, don't include things like, you know, one of the things I find really disturbing is the practice of the media describing people who, say, oppose uncontrolled immigration and describe them as a far-right group.