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So are you right wing? No, I'm still not right wing. I think you're referring to an article in a video I did saying the title of which was fine, call me right wing. And it's basically just me saying I'm tired of like defending myself against this allegation. I'm still not right wing. But if it's really important for people to frame me in that way, that's fine. They can do it.
Why is right wing a disparaging marker? I think the political realm in which we operate is the framing is, I think deep down, if people are honest, it's like the caricature of the left is that they're wrong, but well-meaning. And of the right is that they're like factually more correct, but evil. Callous. Callous and evil and cruel and nasty. And so even if you're right, you're still wrong.
That's kind of the way people seem to- Morally. Morally wrong. Exactly. Exactly. And I think that's what I noticed, right? Because my journey into all of this world, as you know, was like, hey, guys, maybe free speech is quite important. Oh, right wing. I was like, what?
And then I just gradually discovered, you know, thinking that you should be allowed to speak freely makes you right wing, which when I was in my early 20s, you know, George Carlin and Bill Hicks, these were my heroes when I was growing up, these great comedians.
who were getting arrested like george carlin for routine like the seven words you can't say on tv or whatever whatever it was so um that flipped without me realizing that it happened it was a left-wing thing or maybe a universal thing um and then it became a right-wing thing then Thinking your country's not all bad became right wing. And we can go down the list of all of those things.
So I think that it's basically what a lot of people call you if what they want to do is discredit the things that you're saying because they don't actually have a counter argument to what it is that you're saying.
And we can't really be fully aware of somebody's intentions. So castigating, lambasting the moral foundation that it's based on and saying, oh, it's coming from a place of judgment or impoliteness or uncouthness or callousness or whatever is kind of easy slime to throw at someone maybe.
Yeah, and it makes people question people's motives. And a lot of people find people's motives more interesting than the results of the things that they're advocating. So if you go and, you know, try to create this beautiful utopian, which everyone's equal, and you end up killing 50 million people in the process, well, you know, that wasn't real communism.
You were well-intentioned, but you didn't quite live up to the ideals of this great philosophy. Whereas if you actually do things that work, but you have the wrong intentions or you're a bad person, then people don't seem as interested in that.
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