Jan. 19, 2016 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| All right, we're doing another Ask Dave Rubin, so here we go. | ||
| At Alish Rezai asked me, what do you think of hashtag je suis Milo? | ||
| All right, so if you guys don't know about this, Milo Yiannopoulos, who's actually a former guest | ||
| on the Rubin Report, he had his Twitter verification, the little blue check next to the name, | ||
| he had it removed by Twitter this week, and it's apparently the first time | ||
| that they've taken away the blue check as sort of retribution for not liking | ||
| what somebody's saying on Twitter. | ||
| They've banned accounts before, they've suspended accounts, but they took away the verification. | ||
| Now, the verification, all that does is say that he actually is the real Milo Yiannopoulos, | ||
| which as I've sat across from him, he actually is the real one. | ||
| Now, there's a billion accounts that are faking to be him, which I'm finding very irritating in my mentions. | ||
| So what do I think about it? | ||
| Look, it's not censorship in that they're not stopping him from being on Twitter. | ||
| They're not telling him what he can and cannot say. | ||
| But it does seem like a bit of a tough and an odd move by a social media organization to remove someone's verification. | ||
| It's obviously a punitive measure. | ||
| They don't like some of the things he's talking about. | ||
| Now look, he goes out of his way To offend people. | ||
| That's his whole thing. | ||
| I welcome you to watch our video that we did together. | ||
| He offends everybody. | ||
| He was promoting a hashtag, Feminism is Cancer, just a couple weeks ago. | ||
| That's his thing, right? | ||
| He wants to offend everybody. | ||
| He's a provocateur. | ||
| So should Twitter have done this? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I like my blue check. | ||
| Please don't take my blue check away from me, Twitter. | ||
| And I think in a weird way, they end up just strengthening some of the ideas that he's really just pushing out there for the conversation. | ||
| So I think it's a silly move by Twitter, and it's not helping whatever they're trying to help, but it's not a First Amendment issue, right, because it's not the government, and it's barely a free speech issue because they're not taking away his ability to say what he thinks. | ||
| But I do like Milo, and I'm gonna have him on the show again, and we disagree on stuff. | ||
| And that's fine. | ||
| Nick asks, what do you think is Reza Aslan's motivation to lie? | ||
| Perfect timing on this one. | ||
| I just talked to David Pakman, so we're gonna put a link right down below where you can find out. | ||
| David Pakman did a great video dissecting Reza Aslan. | ||
| The guy is a notorious liar. | ||
| He made up his credentials. | ||
| He's just someone that should not be relevant to any public discussion, and I'm not a fan of his, in case you can't tell. | ||
| Idan Simpson said, I've noticed on a few occasions you refer to Bernie Sanders as a socialist instead of a democratic socialist. | ||
| Is this intentional? | ||
| Why? | ||
| It's not really intentional. | ||
| I think actually, if Bernie was being 100% truthful, he would describe himself as a socialist, right? | ||
| But you're not going to win the presidency describing yourself as a socialist, at least not in America, in 2016, maybe in 2024 or something. | ||
| So he has to describe himself as a socialist democrat, or a democratic socialist, whatever that is. | ||
| I don't think it really matters. | ||
| I always say to you guys, let's not get too hung up on the terms. | ||
| But I think Bernie basically is a socialist, and if you really got him in his most honest moment, I think that's what he would say. | ||
| At Metal Atheist asks, what is the best way to engage in a conversation with a closed-minded theist? | ||
| I would say buy the book by my former guest, Peter Boghossian, A Manual for Creating Atheists. | ||
| He literally lays it out. | ||
| That is the entire point of the book, and it's not about attacking them, and it's not about mocking them. | ||
| They're allowed to have different views. | ||
| Everybody's allowed, but it's about how do you open those conversations and talk to people in a rational, honest way about your ideas, and maybe they'll convince you of something that you didn't know about. | ||
| All right, atmacneil asks, what is your favorite sci-fi or fantasy novel? | ||
| Um, I think I would say, and I don't know how high up this goes on the litany of sci-fi novels, but Contact, which was written by Carl Sagan, who's an incredible scientist, as you guys all know, I hope, and author, who wrote a million great books that were non-fiction. | ||
| But it was his one fiction book, which eventually was a movie with Jodie Foster. | ||
| And there's a lot of interesting differences between the movie and the book. | ||
| And it's sort of, it's science fiction, but it's also very much based in fact. | ||
| sort of like the Martian, which I think is pretty cool. | ||
| Zach F. asked, "I'm going to college next year. | ||
| "I'm curious what you think is the best way "to combat antisemitism on campus | ||
| "without being branded a bigot. | ||
| "I'd love to know your thoughts." | ||
| I thought this was an interesting question because how to combat antisemitism | ||
| without being labeled a bigot. | ||
| So you're saying, how do I stop people from hating Jews without people saying that I'm a bigot? | ||
| There's some odd logic in that, but I guess that's sort of how things work out. | ||
| As I would say in any thing, whatever the minority group that you're trying to defend is, Pretty much everybody's just humans, and you really just gotta, just sort of, if you stand for basic liberal human principles, whatever your religion is, whatever your color is, whatever your race is, then that's sort of what will rise to the top. | ||
| I know that's probably not the greatest answer in the world, but I think that's a good jumping off point. | ||
| AtAllanDLG said, hey Dave, I've lived in a great and loving Christian home all my life, so I've always been pretty comfortable with the concept of death. | ||
| You live a good Christian life, you die and then you go to heaven forever. | ||
| Very comforting stuff. | ||
| It wasn't until recently that I started to question the things that I had believed my whole life. | ||
| The one thing that seems to be holding me back from saying that I'm full-on agnostic atheist is death. | ||
| It's incredibly terrifying to me and I think about it every day. | ||
| I know it's something all men before me have done and that I have to face it at some point. | ||
| I guess what I'm trying to ask is how do you deal with this and what comforts you when you think of death? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I don't think about death that often. | ||
| I really don't. | ||
| I know if I watched a lot of Woody Allen movies, I would. | ||
| I have watched a lot of Woody Allen movies, and it always seems kind of silly. | ||
| We're here right this second, so I have no idea what happens when you die, and I just really can't worry about it that much. | ||
| And it would seem crazy to me to do that. | ||
| Like, you got to do it while you're here. | ||
| And finally, at K3TI said, what music do you listen to? | ||
| I'm big on 80s classic rock. | ||
| I just went to a Journey concert a couple months ago. | ||
| Love Fleetwood Mac. | ||
| I listen to a lot of jazz. | ||
| I listen to a lot of ambient stuff. | ||
| I like the Cafe Del Mar channel on Pandora. | ||
| Not a huge fan of words in general in music, so there you go. |
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