And that’s why we’ve seen in effect the liberals have no defence over this, which is why all the liberal institutions are crumbling.What I’m seeing, and I would say this is more me, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, is that there’s all sorts of bridges to be built the other way. There are those who believe the tools of liberalism can still be deployed to persuade the Woke Left to change their mind (he includes Bari Weiss, Sam Harris, Bret Weinstein in this group) and then there are those, like him, who have decided that it simply isn’t possible, and they’re better off building bridges with the Right: 'They’ve made what to me seems to be a very obvious fatal mistake, that you can use any of the tools of Liberalism - of open inquiry, freedom of speech, respect for your fellow human beings, individual rights - that you can use any of these things to rationalise with the monster that is coming to burn your house down.
He sees the old IDW gang as divided now along a crucial ideological split. I love that space,” he told Freddie Sayers in a wide-ranging and philosophical discussion on LockdownTV. “What I thought and believe now that I am good at is that I can sit with these people and take a lot of that stuff and distil it into something that the average person can understand enough of. And yet he has always suffered the accusation that he wasn’t a ‘real’ intellectual. The group of thinkers now known as the “Intellectual Dark Web” - Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Bret and Eric Weinstein, Ben Shapiro - were convened in Dave Rubin’s garage and on his YouTube channel, The Rubin Report.
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