The Cult of Stefan Molyneux

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I'm reading about this man but really struggling to understand what his philosophy is, or what he actually did it said that was racist. I feel like everyone is beating around the bush.

That said, my concern is that the label 'radicalization', itself, will be weaponized. Some things are inflammatory. That doesnt mean they should be censored.

George Floyd being murdered certainly radicalized people. As a result we had riots and even killings. But I certainly don't want BLM advocates shut down for radicalizing people.

In the period this report concerns he was a fairly standard "racist libertarian" type. His videos promoted revisionist narratives around the impact of police violence on racial minorities, antisemitic theories regarding the US-Israel relationship and Israeli-Palestenian conflict, and scientific racism. Apart from the racist beliefs, there was plenty of anti-communism including apologetics for McCarthyism. If you were an active observer of the growth of the Alt Right movement, you'd know he was a major part of that.

As the report states, he was banned from Youtube in 2020. I haven't been paying close attention to that, but he seems to be more in the Jordan Peterson/Andrew Tate sphere of appealing to disenfranchised men on gender issues now.

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