Interesting thread on something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately:
I think we're dancing around a terrifying issue:
— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) December 18, 2020
Q: Do our institutions believe that there a right to inform/misinform/disinform that is peculiar to certain institutions/voices but not others?
A: Clearly there is a monopoly right claimed to curate both truth & total nonsense. https://t.co/gSlCL3cVRg
Who gets to say "Don't wear masks because masks don't work?" Well the Surgeon General. The W.H.O. Who gets to say "Run that marathon!" or "Go gather for Chinese new year celebrations and Protests". Democratic mayors and reprsentatives. Try to gather to pray and you are a monster.
— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) December 18, 2020
Who gets to define whether saying "On July 30, 1976, Bruce Jenner won the Decatholon." is 'deadnaming' and should get you thrown off twitter? Only @TwitterSafety knows given that Caitlyn Jenner didn't exist yet. The rest of us await such decisions as if from a delphic oracle.
— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) December 18, 2020
By all means feel free to disagree w/ that. But deep down, we both know it's true. The establishment institutions have taken the right to think for us all & to tell us what we can say to each other.
— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) December 18, 2020
And if we put up with this abomination? Then maybe we deserve Chinese Communism.