Synopsis
The Intellectual Dark Web was officially christened in the New York Times by a sympathetic Bari Weiss. The explanation of this cultural phenomenon favored by the paper of record, however, is that it’s the successful monetization of misogyny and racism. Authored by a philosophy professor and logic teacher here going by the alias dero, Politikos sings its IDW protest song as it wages culture war on the IDW’s behalf: “Something is happening here but you don’t know what it is. Do you, New York Times?” Aided by Milo, Jordan Greenhall, Angela Nagle and others, dero shows how the left’s overuse of the slime-words “racist” and “misogynist” aided the rise of the alt-right. The liberal media is right that the IDW has something in common with them: Like the alt-right, they’ve responded to this overuse by developing immunity to these charges - consider Bret Weinstein’s immunity to the Evergreen mob’s charge of racism. But unlike the immature alt-right, who often did land in the slime-words’ domain of validity, the IDW displays the maturity required to be trusted with the cultural wheel. As Jordan Peterson puts it, “What everybody in the IDW is doing to some degree is speaking to people as if they are autonomous individuals.” This antidote to identity politics contrasts with the alt-right’s reaction, which retains this political form. The Times lobs the same slime-words at both movements, however, because it holds to the theses that cause their overuse: all critiques of feminism are misogynist and all right-of-center concerns about immigration are racist.Politikos articulates a set of concepts, strategies, and missions, and an ethic appropriate to these times, to prepare the IDW for what 2019 is likely to bring: a mission led by Sarah Jeong’s New York Times to deplatform or slime the IDW into oblivion (§29). A cultural clash of this magnitude could turn our cold civil war hot. In the hopes of preventing this, Politikos examines and patiently critiques the arguments journalists have made for deplatforming wrongthinkers from big tech. It defends a well-defined yet simple principle of “Absolute Free Speech” (§7) and defends the Marketplace of Ideas theory of free speech against the journalists and legal scholars gathering against it (§§25-40).Sometimes militant, often hilarious and always instructive, much of Politikos is written in dialogue form. In their wide-ranging and thoroughgoing defense of free speech, our IDW heroes engage well-known mainstream journalists, primarily from the Times, citizen journalists, cultural figures, YouTube personalities, podcasters, politicians, presidents, tech CEOs, legal scholars, philosophers, ancient and contemporary, and think tank analysts – we’re looking at you Data & Society. All Politikos’s “characters” are first developed via quotes, with references, from podcasts, YouTube clips, news articles and books. “Fictional” words are only put in these characters’ mouths once their commitments, beliefs, and desires are established. Written in a spirit of laughter and #war, this thoroughly memeable book does the synoptic work of bringing the myriad speeches of our battling cultural warriors into dialogue with each other and, as Jordan says in the book’s epigram (p.1), “letting them have it out.”
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The Intellectual Dark Web was officially christened in the New York Times by a sympathetic Bari Weiss. The explanation of this cultural phenomenon favored by the paper of record, however, is that it’s the successful monetization of misogyny and racism. Authored by a philosophy professor and logic teacher here going by the alias dero, Politikos sings its IDW protest song as it wages culture war on the IDW’s behalf: “Something is happening here but you don’t know what it is. Do you, New York Times?” Aided by Milo, Jordan Greenhall, Angela Nagle and others, dero shows how the left’s overuse of the slime-words “racist” and “misogynist” aided the rise of the alt-right. The liberal media is right that the IDW has something in common with them: Like the alt-right, they’ve responded to this overuse by developing immunity to these charges - consider Bret Weinstein’s immunity to the Evergreen mob’s charge of racism. But unlike the immature alt-right, who often did land in the slime-words’ domain of validity, the IDW displays the maturity required to be trusted with the cultural wheel. As Jordan Peterson puts it, “What everybody in the IDW is doing to some degree is speaking to people as if they are autonomous individuals.” This antidote to identity politics contrasts with the alt-right’s reaction, which retains this political form. The Times lobs the same slime-words at both movements, however, because it holds to the theses that cause their overuse: all critiques of feminism are misogynist and all right-of-center concerns about immigration are racist.Politikos articulates a set of concepts, strategies, and missions, and an ethic appropriate to these times, to prepare the IDW for what 2019 is likely to bring: a mission led by Sarah Jeong’s New York Times to deplatform or slime the IDW into oblivion (§29). A cultural clash of this magnitude could turn our cold civil war hot. In the hopes of preventing this, Politikos examines and patiently critiques the arguments journalists have made for deplatforming wrongthinkers from big tech. It defends a well-defined yet simple principle of “Absolute Free Speech” (§7) and defends the Marketplace of Ideas theory of free speech against the journalists and legal scholars gathering against it (§§25-40).Sometimes militant, often hilarious and always instructive, much of Politikos is written in dialogue form. In their wide-ranging and thoroughgoing defense of free speech, our IDW heroes engage well-known mainstream journalists, primarily from the Times, citizen journalists, cultural figures, YouTube personalities, podcasters, politicians, presidents, tech CEOs, legal scholars, philosophers, ancient and contemporary, and think tank analysts – we’re looking at you Data & Society. All Politikos’s “characters” are first developed via quotes, with references, from podcasts, YouTube clips, news articles and books. “Fictional” words are only put in these characters’ mouths once their commitments, beliefs, and desires are established. Written in a spirit of laughter and #war, this thoroughly memeable book does the synoptic work of bringing the myriad speeches of our battling cultural warriors into dialogue with each other and, as Jordan says in the book’s epigram (p.1), “letting them have it out.”
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POLITIKOS: The Intellectual Dark Web vs. The New York Times
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