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|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=1/ I’ve been noticing a ubiquitous technique recently upon which I have seen little commented. “Punchable face”, #killallmen, “Open Borders”, “Tax is Theft”, “Believe Women”, “Free markets”, “Free Speech” and uptalking are examples. I want to explain here what I see linking them.
|content=1/ I’ve been noticing a ubiquitous technique recently upon which I have seen little commented. “Punchable face”, #killallmen, “Open Borders”, “Tax is Theft”, “Believe Women”, “Free markets”, “Free Speech” and uptalking are examples. I want to explain here what I see linking them.
|timestamp=4:22 PM · Jan 28, 2019
|timestamp=4:22 PM · Jan 28, 2019
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1100454587381633025
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1100454587381633025
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=What about cryptic public funding of private institutions through “overhead”?
|content=What about cryptic public funding of private institutions through “overhead”?


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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1100454583262797824
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=.@SamHarrisOrg & I are coming to Cambridge/Boston as arguably the most important academic metropolis in the world. What is it that must be, yet can’t be, discussed w/ the Mass Ave. Institutions?
|content=.@SamHarrisOrg & I are coming to Cambridge/Boston as arguably the most important academic metropolis in the world. What is it that must be, yet can’t be, discussed w/ the Mass Ave. Institutions?


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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1106266049110904832
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Things important to me in a true progressive agenda:
|content=Things important to me in a true progressive agenda:


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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1110959732653580288
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=No. 🛑.
|content=No. 🛑.


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|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Where is any real payoff coming from taking social justice and making it bigoted, anti-science, anti-free Speech, radically relativistic, non constructive, blood thirsty, authoritarian, intolerant and utopian?
|content=Where is any real payoff coming from taking social justice and making it bigoted, anti-science, anti-free Speech, radically relativistic, non constructive, blood thirsty, authoritarian, intolerant and utopian?


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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1122584660666511360
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Assume I already get that some gender fluidity is highly conserved and that some of gender is socially constructed. Assume I got that a million years ago. What is the function of pretending that all gender and sex in a k-selected species is abiological and socially constructed?
|content=Assume I already get that some gender fluidity is highly conserved and that some of gender is socially constructed. Assume I got that a million years ago. What is the function of pretending that all gender and sex in a k-selected species is abiological and socially constructed?
|timestamp=7:33 PM · Apr 28, 2019
|timestamp=7:33 PM · Apr 28, 2019
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1124208985114963969
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=When we ban people from spreading conspiracy theories we can no longer discuss conspiracies.
|content=When we ban people from spreading conspiracy theories we can no longer discuss conspiracies.


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Think about this: the US has had a proven history of conspiring repeatedly against its own citizens and destroying lives. Our check against that tyranny is FREE SPEECH/PRESS including the freedom to discuss & test wild hypotheses that begin as...wait for it...conspiracy theories.
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Think about this: the US has had a proven history of conspiring repeatedly against its own citizens and destroying lives. Our check against that tyranny is FREE SPEECH/PRESS including the freedom to discuss & test wild hypotheses that begin as...wait for it...conspiracy theories.
|timestamp=7:08 AM · May 03, 2019
|timestamp=7:08 AM · May 03, 2019
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1126152063753179136
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I am not a free speech absolutist.
|content=I am not a free speech absolutist.


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|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Well this is cool. @CIGS_INET is starting off a YouTube channel with a bang: @SamHarrisOrg interviews @NAChristakis on the evolutionary pressure on free speech after the digital revolution. Subscribe on YT to get them to continue making more great content!
|content=Well this is cool. @CIGS_INET is starting off a YouTube channel with a bang: @SamHarrisOrg interviews @NAChristakis on the evolutionary pressure on free speech after the digital revolution. Subscribe on YT to get them to continue making more great content!
https://youtu.be/2oNLoPAf1hg
https://youtu.be/2oNLoPAf1hg
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Can you also direct me to your sources of fact? It doesn’t sound like you became familiar with my stance on free speech in the course of writing your book unfortunately. You are beginning by making incorrect assumptions and inferences it would seem.
|content=Can you also direct me to your sources of fact? It doesn’t sound like you became familiar with my stance on free speech in the course of writing your book unfortunately. You are beginning by making incorrect assumptions and inferences it would seem.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=So I’m not welcome in front of your audience on your upcoming dates to discuss this or show some solidarity and any coming together?  
|content=So I’m not welcome in front of your audience on your upcoming dates to discuss this or show some solidarity and any coming together?  
|timestamp=2:32 PM · Sep 20, 2019
|timestamp=2:32 PM · Sep 20, 2019
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=And it would be an honor to shake yours. Thanks for standing up for the voiceless during the dark times. Even if we disagree.
|content=And it would be an honor to shake yours. Thanks for standing up for the voiceless during the dark times. Even if we disagree.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=[My audience isn’t exactly clamoring for me to interview Billy Bragg. It was supposed to be a reciprocal show of solidarity in the face of four more years of Trump on the horizon if we don’t come together. You‘re not wrong whoever you are. Nothing to do w/ “gladiatorial combat”.]
|content=[My audience isn’t exactly clamoring for me to interview Billy Bragg. It was supposed to be a reciprocal show of solidarity in the face of four more years of Trump on the horizon if we don’t come together. You‘re not wrong whoever you are. Nothing to do w/ “gladiatorial combat”.]
|timestamp=Sep 20, 2019
|timestamp=Sep 20, 2019
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[And thank you for trying @BluesClown. After hearing about being a “free speech warrior” (false), trying for gladiatorial confrontation (false) and having heard that I’m an “investment banker” (false), the  public mischaracterization feels infinite. He can always find me in DM.]
|content=[And thank you for trying @BluesClown. After hearing about being a “free speech warrior” (false), trying for gladiatorial confrontation (false) and having heard that I’m an “investment banker” (false), the  public mischaracterization feels infinite. He can always find me in DM.]
|timestamp=Sep 20, 2019
|timestamp=Sep 20, 2019
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Cut it out. I wasn’t looking to debate you on your stage. Just play two songs that came out of two adjacent counties in Appalachian Kentucky we lost to Trump in 2016 in solidarity w workers & boost your book tour on a podcast after your show. Then you said “no thank you”.  So Ok!
|content=Cut it out. I wasn’t looking to debate you on your stage. Just play two songs that came out of two adjacent counties in Appalachian Kentucky we lost to Trump in 2016 in solidarity w workers & boost your book tour on a podcast after your show. Then you said “no thank you”.  So Ok!
|timestamp=Sep 20, 2019
|timestamp=Sep 20, 2019
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=It was about solidarity w decent people getting screwed over by both political parties & the Left not eating itself, but actually doing something to come together. But you weren’t interested and I accepted that. Okay. Move on. But Pete Seeger would have shaken my hand. As he did.
|content=It was about solidarity w decent people getting screwed over by both political parties & the Left not eating itself, but actually doing something to come together. But you weren’t interested and I accepted that. Okay. Move on. But Pete Seeger would have shaken my hand. As he did.
|timestamp=Sep 20, 2019
|timestamp=Sep 20, 2019
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Yes and no. I wasn’t looking to debate you. You wanted that. I’m not a free speech warrior. You said that, not me. I’m not an investment banker. I heard you think I am.  
|content=Yes and no. I wasn’t looking to debate you. You wanted that. I’m not a free speech warrior. You said that, not me. I’m not an investment banker. I heard you think I am.  


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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Music to me is like breaking bread. I won’t have a man to my house who won’t have me to his. I wouldn’t invite a man playing the Saul Alinksy ridicule game. My audience isn’t going to like the Internationale. But I would have stood up for you. DM if you like for a call. Peace 2/2
|content=Music to me is like breaking bread. I won’t have a man to my house who won’t have me to his. I wouldn’t invite a man playing the Saul Alinksy ridicule game. My audience isn’t going to like the Internationale. But I would have stood up for you. DM if you like for a call. Peace 2/2
|timestamp=Sep 20, 2019
|timestamp=Sep 20, 2019
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|content=There‘s a sizable number of white supremacists who latch onto legitimate free speech, meritocracy, islamofascism & immigration issues like free-riding remoras. If these are issues you discuss you *must* piss these folks off regularly as if rubbing against a reef to dislodge them.
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=There‘s a sizable number of white supremacists who latch onto legitimate '''free speech''', meritocracy, islamofascism & immigration issues like free-riding remoras. If these are issues you discuss you *must* piss these folks off regularly as if rubbing against a reef to dislodge them.
|timestamp=4:13 AM · Nov 18, 2019
|timestamp=4:13 AM · Nov 18, 2019
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