By David Futrelle
The protests over the police murder of George Floyd have gotten YouTube “philsopher” Stefan Molyneux all excited, in part because they have given him a fresh excuse to indulge in one of his favorite hobbies, racism.
Actually, that’s a little unfair to Mr Molyneux; racism is a huge part of the “philosophy” he spews on YouTube and Twitter, and thus his racism is something more than a hobby; it’s his bread and butter, part of how he makes his living.
In any case, let’s get on to the protests, which Molyneux sees as fundamentally illegitimate. First off, he’s not convinced that there even was a murder at the hands of the police, but rather a death due to preexsisting conditions that just happened to coincide with a police officer pressing his knee down hard on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes.
As Molyneux sees it, the protests are all Soros-funded communist plots first hatched long before Soros was even born:
Oh, and also they’re the fault of barbaric Somali immigrants.
And possibly some college professors as well:
Public schools are also somehow to blame:
And welfare, let’s not forget the insidious evil behind programs designed to keep poor children from starving to death:
He also tsk-tsks black protesters for allegedly playing into stereotypes by burning down a Wendy’s. (I’m not exactly sure what stereotypes he’s talking about — the stereotype of there being Wendy’s franchises in black neighborhoods?)
But don’t worry! Despite all of his posting about the protests, Mr Molyneux has managed to find time to post about the most important subject of all — that is, of course, Stefan Molyneux, MA.
It’s good to know that even in the midst of a dramatic crisis that Mr Molyneux can keep his eyes on the prize, himself.
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@Anonymous
I know, Biden’s not what any of us want, but he’s better than the alternative when the alternative is Trump establishing his dictatorship.
Think of it this way: if Trump gets re-elected, there is a decent chance that there will never be free elections again and that the US will become a dictatorship and remain one even after he’s dead. If Biden wins, we have four years to find a new candidate and elect someone better in 2024.
@Anonymous
Ask Louis XVI about that.
Yeah about Louis XVI:
https://twitter.com/louisducdanjou/status/1266578058452054016
@Moggie
That hand was not original to the statue and it came off easily because it was a late addition. The statue was a gift from France mainly because France just didn’t want it, and it came with the hand already broken off. The hand was replaced when the statue was placed. A lot of people are angry about the fact that it was stolen, but it can be replaced again.
@Naglfar
Assuming of course Biden doesn’t want to be re-elected. Or if the GOP doesn’t pick someone even more extreme than Trump.
@Dallillama
The military is on the side of the wealthy. Until that changes, nothing can do much more than inconvenience them.
@Moggie
Is that the guy who’s also the great-grandson of Francisco Franco?
@ POM
You’ve now got me wondering about the Statue of Liberty.
(Which, if I recall correctly, was modelled on a black woman)
@POM, that sounds familiar. Hasn’t it been stolen before? Of course, it would be better if the statue had a detachable head. For historical accuracy.
@Anonymous, no idea: I hadn’t heard of the guy until I saw him retweeted. I do know that Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
@Moggie
I haven’t read about it being stolen before, just that the statue came without it. I think part of his foot is also not original. The story I read was that Louisville originally didn’t want it, but eventually accepted it when it became clear that France really didn’t want it and the statue was in danger of destruction if the city didn’t take it.
@Anonymous
Biden has already floated the idea of being a voluntary one term president, which would make him the first since Rutherford B Hayes declined to run for re-election in 1880.
@Alan Robertshaw
The Statue of Liberty was modeled on anArab woman (though I don’t think any one woman in particular). It appears the sculptor originally designed a statue for the Suez Canal but didn’t get funding, so he repurposed the design a decade later with different clothes.
(Apologies if this double posts or more, I’ve been having issues with posting and am now removing links to see if it posts)
ETA: It appears that once I removed the links it posted. Weird, usually I don’t have issues with links. Well, if similar posts turn up in the spam filter they can be ignored, the links weren’t very important.
Always heard it’s his mother’s face. And his then fiance’s body.
Which has the advantage of living up to the stereotype of “artists are strange.”
Just talked with a troll (I know, dumb move) who was trying to create a justification for what Chauvin did. He was all excited about the possibility of drugs in Mr. Floyd’s system and how the preliminary autopsy showed Floyd wasn’t strangled. Gee, he wasn’t shot or stabbed, either, but the side of his neck sure had the hell pressed out of it. What about the carotid artery’s role in his circulatory system failing? And what sort of drug overdose remedy involves pressing on an unconscious person’s neck for several minutes? Molynieux or whatever his name is has really twisted himself into a moronic pretzel this time. He should stick with his narcissism and babble about that.
A Trump supporter just drove a truck into kneeling protesters on the I-35 bridge (the same that collapsed in 2007) and people were still calling the protesters violent rioters. Any protest that attempts to change the status quo will always be considered violent by some. Most of the same people that are wringing their hands and telling protesters to be non-violent now were mad at Colin Kaepernick a couple of years agofor taking a knee, which is about the least violent and threatening protest there is.
So it’s kind of pointless to debate protester behavior.
I think I’m going to go to bed.
Wake me when it’s finally 2021, the Toffee Torquemada is gone (or better yet indicted), and there’s a COVID-19 vaccine being distributed.
@Surplus to Requirements, Observer of the Vast Blight-Wing Enstupidation
Don’t tempt fate, because it is prone to getting nasty ideas.
@ Anonymous:
I see you haven’t actually been following Biden’s campaign.
The man explicitly states he’s pushing to be a New Deal president and started long ago, and more than that, you know what he’s doing now?
Meeting with the protestors and supporting mayors who condemn the police violence. He explicitly said the cops were in the wrong here.
I’m sorry your guy didn’t win, but Biden is very much learning from his playbook. We go with the guy we have.
I’d like to know how he’s going to handle the issue of the way Amy Klobuchar (didn’t) handle a shooting case involving Derek Chauvin in 2006.
Anonymous says:
There’s actually tremendous value in not roping others into contending with your way of “coping.”
(In case you don’t get it, that’s a fancy way of saying STFU.)
He forgot to precise that he is the most modest too.
And comparing himself to Socrates, really ? As far as i hate this guy, i do not wish hemlock for him to drink.
@Nequam
At the very least I hope he doesn’t make Klobuchar VP.
Re: Biden
My expectations aren’t high, but I leave open the possibility that he could do something good. I’ve heard about the New Deal type ideas, and that would be good right now.
Guy has real Vizzini energy to him.
Oliver Crumb: You’re that smart?
Stefan Molyneux: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
OC: Yes.
SM: Morons.
Hasn’t anyone told these cops that violence is never the answer??
What does famous philosopher Stefan (checks notes) Molyneux call a police officer who had been tried and found guilty of murder?
Oh, I meant to post this earlier. Some history on the creation of the image of Black protest as violent and dangerous:
https://twitter.com/clairewillett/status/1266894029498675200
This may seem small potatoes in the grand scheme of things; but it does I think give yet another example of the mendacity of the Trump administration.
So by way of brief background: In 1943 the US and UK made a declaration, and warning to the Nazis, that after the war they would seek to return all the art and cultural artefacts stolen by the regime. You may have seen that film Monuments Men.
After the war they were good to their word; and the law in the US and UK had always been that no future purchaser could get good title to any stolen, looted, or forced sale property. The estate of the original owner or their heirs would be entitled to reclaim it.
However the US Solicitor-General has now filed a brief at court arguing that, as Jews were German citizens at the relevant time, they were bound by the laws of the Nazi state; and therefore the laws allowing for confiscation of Jewish property were fully legal and binding on Jews too. Seriously.
https://blog.sullivanlaw.com/artlawreport/u.s.-solicitor-generals-office-advocates-impunity-for-nazi-art-thefts-against-german-jews
@Shadowplay:
I heard a claim the statue was modelled on Isabella Eugenie Boyer, the widow of Isaac M. Singer, the sewing-machine magnate. Wikipedia does describe her father as “Louis Noël Boyer, an African-born French confectioner,” so maybe that’s what people mean?
Either that or the statue had more models than Legoland.