A Brilliant Leftist Professor Speaks Out Against Lockdowns

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  1. Ethereal

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    The great Tom Woods interviews NYU professor, Michael Crispin Miller, who specializes in the study of propaganda.

    Ironically, Miller has come under fire at his own university for questioning the propaganda surrounding COVID.

    Woods and Miller also discuss the total inversion of "leftist" values, with Miller describing modern leftists as a thoroughly reactionary movement prone to censorship and fanatical groupthink.

    Definitely worth listening to.

     
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    Well he's right about that. And it's a very good description of what's happening.
     
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    Ethereal Well-Known Member

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    The old left is pretty much dead and gone. They've been replaced by the new authoritarian left.
     
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    No more faculty cocktail party invitations for him! :disbelief:
     
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    The 'ole role reversal. Today Lefties are conservative, and Righties are liberal.
     
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    Not really. Republicans have become more neo-libertarian and democrats have embraced autocracy at the cellular level.
     
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    Interesting to listen to this, thanks OP, but I have a strong hunch that 99.9% of this guy's course materials over the years center on alleged "RW propaganda" which is why his department has allowed it for so long, but he just couldn't resist the low hanging easy layup of the Covid Moral Panic. After all, it's the most important example of a Moral Panic since the Satanic Ritual Abuse and False Memory of Sexual Abuse of the 80s-90s. Maybe he's honest generally, have my doubts (calls wealthy "buccaneers," says NPR and Atlantic consumers are "generally very well informed" LOL talk about PROPAGANDA). Hope I'm wrong. Calling the new Left radical and unhinged is kind of a given/truism, not really going out off the deep end there.

    To the topic, old but best "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" Mackay, "The Invisible Gorilla," anything by Gigerenzer and "Thinking Fast and Slow," (several different authors, not all Gigerenzer but not correcting) extremely informative to the Covid Moral Panic. Also the older HBO movie "Indictment" with James Woods for anyone who wants to start seeing through the Moral Panic that has cost us DEARLY as a country and how such Moral Panics form.
     
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    I remember a time when I at least respected the left for thier civil libertarianism but not any more- that has all but vanished in the guise of using authoritarianism as "what's best for the country" and "efficiencies".
     
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    If I may respectfully disagree. The left has always been big government authoritarians. Democrats used to be a more broad spectrum party, Blue Dogs being the minority centrist caucus.

    Venezuela Chavez says "Comrade" Obama more left-wing
    By Reuters Staff

    CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday that he and Cuban ally Fidel Castro risk being more conservative than U.S. President Barack Obama as Washington prepares to take control of General Motors Corp.
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    “Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right,” Chavez joked on a live television broadcast.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/Oba...edName=ObamaEconomy&virtualBrandChannel=10441

    There is nothing Liberal about an intolerant cult of people who hate those who don't agree with them, infidels, and despise those who became enlightened and left their ranks, apostates.

    Communism didn't author numerous genocides because those lefties were Liberal.
     
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    What lockdowns? I wasn’t aware any state is locked down.
     
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    I cannot help but wonder if one possible reason for that is Operation Covid.

    The men of Davos brought this upon the world, especially Bill Gates, and I think it would have happened even if Hillary had won.

    Because Trump was in office, it took on hugely political overtones, and it seems to have backfired somehow.
     
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    And their antiwar activism. But that's gone as well. Total sellouts on every level.
     
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    Miller is another democrat who has seen the light -- Like me and Ronald Reagan.
     
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    Precisely. Bad that I forgot that point!
     
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