Daily Show: Sacha Baron Cohen, ‘hate’, Paltering & Illegal Limericks

Today’s episode talks about the slipperiness of “Wokeness”, and how intelligent people end up unwittingly supporting an authoritarian movement, through the obfuscation of language, paltering, and I talk about the concept of ‘stealth authoritarianism’.

Resources

Sacha Baron Cohen slams Facebook for allowing hate speech

The comedian and actor took aim at social media giants in a speech but reserved his most biting critique for “unaccountable” Mark Zuckerberg.

Stealth Authoritarianism

By Ozan O. Varol

‘Right to be offended’ does not exist, judge says as court hears police record hate incidents even if there is no evidence

The “right to be offended” does not exist, a judge has said, as the High Court hears that British police forces are recording hate incidents even if there is no evidence that they took place.

Paltering & propaganda, a counterpart to denial & deception

Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, For it hath cow’d my better part of man! And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us […]

Hate speech – Wikipedia