{"id":5113,"date":"2021-07-02T07:41:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T14:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2021-07-02T07:41:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T14:41:06","slug":"whatever-happened-to-bret-weinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5113","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened to Bret Weinstein?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Remember him? He is (or rather was<\/em>) the Evergreen State College professor who got his undies all in a knot<\/a> the time their annual Day of Absence asked White students to consider staying off campus for a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organizers of the event had asked the same of students of Color for decades, and Weinstein had never raised a peep about it. He only objected the one year when they thought to reverse it. That latter fact caused many leftists, including Yours Truly, to conclude that, despite Weinstein’s protestations to the contrary, white fragility<\/a> was at the root of his objections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, I pointed out (not on this site, but in conversations), that I considered him for the most part a “nutty professor” who was himself responsible for most of the brouhaha he found himself involved in. This was not to say that I supported everything done by his opponents (which degenerated at times into threats of physical violence).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhow, where is this nutty professor today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer: promoting COVID vaccine denialism and quack remedies, and as such causing YouTube to exercise editorial discretion by removing many of his videos. Then, of course, playing the victim card and acting like he’s being “censored” due to YouTube’s act of free speech. And yes, part of free speech is the right to not<\/em> say something, and to be free from others forcing you to say what you do not want to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You think I’m making this up? Go to his Twitter feed<\/a> and see for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, he also famously once tried to lecture the International Chess Federation about chess rules and strategy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looks like my earlier characterization of him as a nutty professor was spot-on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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