Damon Imani Barges into Democrat-Elite Bullshit Sessions to Drop Truth Bombs

Clever and Cathartic mashup by Damon Imani (also available on Rumble):

I'm waiting for the day when Democratic Elites acknowledge that they became adamantly pro-war, pro-censorship, shamelessly partisan, race-obsessed, cheering wide-open totally unregulated borders, anti-empiricist, anti-merit and opposed to hard-earned Enlightenment principles.

For many more examples of how corporate "news" sites work hard to A) prevent you from knowing things that are true and B) deprive you of critical context for stories and C) insist that you believe untrue things, check out the hundred of posts here at DI under the category of "Narratives in Media."

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FIRE’s Greg Lukianoff: Stanford’s Approach to Speech is Like Being in “An Upper Class Finishing School.”

Greg Lukianoff, reflecting on the time he attended Stanford University: Don't confuse "upper class white liberal ways of seeing the world with truth itself.” Excerpt:

And one thing that was so clear when I got to a place like Stanford, was that people had a real tendency to confuse sort of upper class white liberal ways of seeing the world with truth itself and therefore wanted everybody to talk exactly like rich white, over educated people. And there was like this lack of curiosity about whether or not those assumptions were even correct.

And you think about people who are on the spectrum, you think about people from other countries, you think about people who come from different economic classes or different regions or who are a little bit older or a little bit younger than everybody else, and it's just a series of landmines that you're supposed to either know they're there and if you know they're there, you're supposed to pretend you believe the following five things. It's a really messed up way for a place that is supposed to be a marketplace of ideas, to teach people to interact with each other.

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How Corporate Media is Trying to Turn Free Speech into a “Right Wing” Position

Notice this recent headline from the New York Times:

Six years ago, no one would have claimed that free speech was a "right wing" value. What happened? Glenn Greenwald discusses this issue with Matt Taibbi (Start at min 14):

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About Corporatism

Robert Malone is concern about that new thing that is not not capitalism and not socialism:

This used to go by the name “crony capitalism” which perhaps describes some of the problems on a small scale. This is another level of reality that needs an entirely different name. That name is corporatism, a coinage from the 1930s and a synonym for fascism back before that became a curse word due to wartime alliances. Corporatism is a specific thing, not capitalism and not socialism but a system of private property ownership with cartelized industry that primarily serves the state.

The old binaries of the public and private sector – widely assumed by every main ideological system –have become so blurred that they no longer make much sense. And yet we are ideologically and philosophically unprepared to deal with this new world with anything like intellectual insight. Not only that, it can be extremely difficult even to tell the good guys from the bad guys in the news stream. We hardly know anymore for whom to cheer or boo in the great struggles of our time.

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