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Can you hazard a guess what Europe is 
clamping down on speech critical of 

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Islam when Islam is causing lots of 
problems with rape,

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gangs,
terrorism,

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and generally being a menace?
Why?

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Well,
I suppose the first,

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let's say if I was going to oppose that 
statement,

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I would say,
well,

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perhaps it's a propaganda stick.
Uh,

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uh,
what would you call it,

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conspiracy to blame what's happening in 
Europe on Islamic immigrants?

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I guess part of the problem is,
is that at least as far as I can tell,

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the news has become sufficiently 
unreliable because it's so polarized 

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that we can't really tell what's going 
on.

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I mean,
I think the reason that Europe is 

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clamping down on speech critical of 
Islam is partly the same reason that the

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entire Western world is clamping down on
speech that's critical of anything that 

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is associated with group identity,
which is pretty much any set of ideas 

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that unites people and it's,
it's a consequence of the collective 

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decision that we've made.
That egalitarianism and a conflict 

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avoidance constitute the two highest 
virtues and they trump everything else 

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including free speech.

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Now why that's happened is very,
very difficult thing to say.

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I mean I'm,
I suspect to some degree that it's a 

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consequence of women becoming involved 
in the political system,

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which is something that we've never 
experienced before and women are more 

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agreeable by nature than men and I'm 
variable.

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People are are compassionate towards 
those.

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They see a suffering and that seems to 
include any minority,

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especially when you combine that with a 
kind of neo Marxist doctrine that claims

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that anyone who has an advantage swiped 
it.

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And I think in the Islamic situation,
you get it real conflict there because 

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it's obviously the case that many 
Islamic practices are not commensurate 

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with postmodern neo Marxist feminism,
let's say.

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But they seem to get a free pass.
And I guess that's because the idea that

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all cultures are equal trumps the 
requirement for human rights for women.

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And.
And maybe the other thing that's even 

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darker is that there's a fair bit of 
revolutionary fervor in the more radical

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end of the political spectrum.
And that radical fervor is devoted 

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towards tearing down the patriarchy.
And of course that's basically Western 

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civilization.
And so if,

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because Islam isn't part of Western 
civilization,

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than it can be seen as an ally in that,
in that attempt,

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that's what it looks like to me.
I also think that ignorance and and all 

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of that contribute.
It isn't obvious that people who are 

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afraid of such things as Islamophobia 
really understand anything about Islam 

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wouldn't say I understand anything about
Islam.

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Even though I've read a fair bit about 
it,

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it's very difficult to put yourself 
inside a different belief system.

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I'm somewhat apprehensive about Islam 
because it looks to me like it's a 

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totalizing system as well as a religion 
and it's a totalizing system because 

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everything has to come under his 
purview,

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including law and and everything that 
goes along with that.

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There's no separation between church and
state.

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And so I don't see how that's 
commensurate with the western mode of 

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existence.
And I don't think people want to have 

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that conversation because they want to 
say,

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well no,
everyone diverse as they are.

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And important as that diversity is 
apparently such that everyone has to be 

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represented equally.
The diversity isn't really of anything 

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about anything fundamental and we can 
all get along without a problem and I'm 

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afraid that that's extraordinarily 
naive.

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And then I suppose there's also an 
element of something like Western guilt,

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I guess perhaps for what has been 
described as our imperialist past,

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um,
the,

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there's been a very longterm assault

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on,
on the,

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what would you call it,
moral

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on the morality of the West.
We're often viewed as the rapers and 

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pillagers of the world and that sort of 
goes along with the environmentalist 

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ethos.
And so I think we do have a fair bit of 

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guilt about that,
whether it's warranted or not.

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Um,
I mean history is a bloody nightmare and

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it doesn't matter where you look.
And I would say at least in the West has

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brought advantages along with its 
disadvantages.

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And I think that our attitude towards 
individuality is fundamentally correct 

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and absolutely vital.
And I would also say that the only 

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countries in the world that are 
essentially worth living in,

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in any real sense are the ones that are 
predicated on the Judeo Christian 

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tradition and manifested in western the 
western body of laws.

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So,
but there's still plenty of guilt and 

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there's plenty of people who,
well,

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who are,
what contemptuous of being,

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as we discussed it,
the last question and also angry with 

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the political system because they're 
powerless or maybe they've been hurt by 

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male authority figures.

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Um,
and that happens very frequently.

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And so they have absolutely no trust in 
higher in hierarchical structures.

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And there you might add to that to a 
certain amount of laziness because the 

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thing about hierarchical structures is 
that they impose values on people.

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And then in order to progress in that 
value structure that you have to 

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discipline yourself and work hard.
And many of the radical leftists 

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happened to be very low in 
conscientiousness.

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And so they don't believe in hard work 
and they don't believe that people get 

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to where they're going by hard work.
And,

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well,
one other thing,

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there's a group of people I think who 
were basically personality disordered 

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in,
those are the ones that had never had a 

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positive relationship with anything that
was masculine.

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And so whenever they see anything 
masculine that has motive power and that

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would include authority and competence,
not just power,

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they assume that that's tyrannical and 
it's part of the postmodern assumption 

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that all power higher,
all hierarchies are hierarchies of power

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when the truth of the matter is,
is that hierarchies in the West are 

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usually hierarchies of authority and 
competence and they're like,

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they're oriented towards getting a 
certain task done and they actually do 

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get the task done.

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So,
but we're,

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I'm dubious about our own ethical.
Um,

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what would you say?
Integrity.

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And I guess that's also why it's a 
particular importance for people to try 

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to act honestly,
because if you don't act honestly and 

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then you start to doubt your own 
integrity and then when people come 

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after you,
you're going to be weak.

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And that's a really bad idea.
So.