Alex Jones is back in the news again, and this time it's for a good reason. He's been accused of anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories, and conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Also, he's been banned from social media for being a racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, and a white supremacist. And he's not the only one who's been targeted by the right wing media for his views and opinions. Alex Jones is a hate figure, and that's not even close to the worst thing the media have ever said about him. Alex Jones has been on Fox News, CNN, and RT, and he's even been on the BBC and CNN. And now he's banned from all social media platforms because he's a racist and misogynistic hate figure. What's the deal with that? And why is this even a thing? And what does it have to do with Sandy Hook? And what's the point of conspiracy theories? And why does it matter if they're not true or not? I'll explain it all in this episode of Thick & Thin, hosted by me, Alex! I'm back on the air, and I'll talk about it all, and you can listen to it here on Thick and Thin. I hope you enjoy it! and tweet me what you think of it. Tweet me if you think it's funny, and/or if it's not funny, I'll send me your thoughts on it and we'll chat about it in the comments! Love ya! :) Timestamps: 0:00 - What do you like it? 5:00:30 - What does it mean to be a racist? 6:15 - What's your favorite part of a conspiracy theory? 7:00 8:40 - Is it racist or misogynistic? 9:20 - Is he racist or sexist? 10:00 | Is he a racist or racist? 11:10 - How do you think he's racist or is he a white? 12:00- Is he white or not racist or black? 13:00 +3: Is he black or white? 14:30 15:10 16: Does he have a point of view? 17:10 | What does he like it like that? 18:30 | What is he think of me? 19:15
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00:04:57.000This I think was, yeah, this was in the BBC.
00:05:00.000In an email, Facebook explained its rationale for banning the users.
00:05:03.000It said Alex Jones had hosted on his program Gavin McInnes, leader of the Proud Boys, whose members are known for racist, yeah, all the multi-racial racists, anti-Muslim, maybe,
00:06:12.000They're, that's their little mercenaries.
00:06:15.000And Proud Boys were the first to say, yeah, no, you guys are not wrecking, like before Proud Boys, you'd have a conservative like Milo about to help Trump by lampooning liberals at Berkeley and they just have Antifa go and burn the place down and Milo never gets to speak and everything's cool.
00:06:32.000But then Proud Boys came along and said, no, he's speaking.
00:06:36.000And they went, we have to shut these guys down.
00:07:00.000I mean, you know that you just, when you start saying stupid shit like this, you just make Trump win again.
00:07:07.000Like, when you say it's okay to have an abortion a day after the baby's born, or a three-year-old girl is a boy, or we have to get rid of fossil fuels, you know you don't blow minds and make the rest of America go, holy shit, that's a heavy wake-up call.
00:07:23.000Whoa, now I know something I didn't know before.
00:08:08.000If you think you're- if you're a young boy and you think you're a girl, wait till you're 18, get some red leather short shorts, and dance around the West Village for a while.
00:09:14.000So if you're banned, you can't praise anyone who's banned.
00:09:18.000And then it says, Laura Loomer also appeared with Mr. McInnis, and Facebook said she also praised another band figure, Faith Goldie, a Canadian.
00:09:27.000And then finally, we get to Nation of Islam founder, and we know that he wasn't the founder.
00:10:16.000Now, if that ain't racist, I don't know what is.
00:10:20.000But Snoop Dogg has gone out and said, please share all Farrakhan content as much as possible.
00:10:27.000Snoop Dogg and Stevie Wonder, by the way, both on Farrakhan's new box set.
00:10:32.000And if you're talking about associating, Barack Obama associated with Farrakhan.
00:10:37.000He tried to hide the picture but it's out there.
00:10:40.000So Barack Obama should be banned from Twitter.
00:10:42.000But I actually support Snoop Dogg pushing these Farrakhan videos on everyone because that's what free speech is.
00:10:51.000It includes all the stuff you don't like.
00:10:55.000The situation Facebook is pushing is called totalitarianism.
00:11:01.000And it's not how you destroy or even disprove bad ideas.
00:11:07.000If someone says a bad idea, you have to fight it and show people.
00:11:12.000Or else, you know, what happens is more, more, I hate, I hate the word hate, but more hate fosters.
00:11:18.000Like say you have a Holocaust denier and he's banished from the world.
00:11:23.000Uh, he's going to get more into his crazy theory and only hang out with his other Holocaust denying loonies until they have their own little cabal of nuts who keep pushing it on other people now.
00:11:38.000But if you could get them together with a smart Jew like Ezra Levant or Prager, Dennis Prager, or Alan Dershowitz, or even Ben Shapiro, you could nip it in the bud through debate.
00:11:54.000So these people are actually manifesting hate.
00:12:01.000They say they started out fighting real bad guys like the KKK and then they ran out of bad guys so they just started inventing bad guys and saying, uh, this Christian group, the Family Research Council, they're evil.
00:12:29.000Or Laura Loomer she was well by the way Ben Shapiro.
00:12:32.000I don't think I like him anymore I've never talked shit about that guy there was a whole alt-right thing where they attacked Shapiro and and Who was it Steven Crowder and photoshopped them with swastikas and stuff I always just
00:12:50.000Criticized that I always had those guys back.
00:12:52.000I said this is horrible fuck and this is this one the alt-right Weren't the crazy alt-right there now people don't realize this but and they always go back in time and they say you spoke to this guy like Richard Spencer in 2009 was a normal dude.
00:15:20.000Secondly, totalitarianism is totalitarianism.
00:15:24.000I don't care if it's an angry mob or the police.
00:15:28.000At the end of the day, it's the same thing.
00:15:32.000I'm reminded of this tattoo artist who was a proud boy up in Canada and Antifa started terrorizing the shop and harassing everyone who goes there and saying this guy has to get fired and eventually the owner of the shop says to the guy, I know you're not a racist, I know this is all bullshit, but my store's about to close, so my shop's about to shut down, what do you think I should do?
00:15:56.000We can both die with our boots on, I guess.
00:15:58.000Or you can, and he just stops the boss and he goes, dude, it's cool.
00:16:50.000I'll tell you, you know, it has no limits and sometimes it makes me nauseous to say, like, what if pedophiles want to have a convention and give a bunch of speeches?
00:17:51.000Like, say someone says, I want America to be all, like Richard Spencer wants America to be all white and he wants all the other races to go.
00:20:40.000You'll notice, by the way, whenever you hear this kind of crazy talk from non-white people, from minorities, it's just poo-pooed.
00:20:49.000Richard Spencer, again, I don't agree with any of this, is for white segregation, where white people can have their own states.
00:20:57.000This is a common belief amongst black academics, black radicals.
00:21:03.000Even in college, we had a guy in upstate New York,
00:21:08.000Who, it's not Hampshire College, but it's a college like that, where the students, the black students, are having black introductions, something like that.
00:21:17.000Introductions is when students of the school go and party and socialize, you know, the first few days of school, so you get to know everyone.
00:21:34.000One of the students was mad that it took so long to get the funding for these and he was recorded at a, uh, like a college, whatever you call it, school, government thingamadoodle.
00:22:25.000They just didn't like that they had to fill out all the forms.
00:22:27.000Anyway, that's just one school where not only are they having black, like, introduction weeks, but they want to have separate black graduations.
00:23:55.000We have a mob that is running around making up fake propaganda and then punishing these people for straw men that people like the SPLC have created.
00:24:05.000I'm honestly floored that people still talk about the SPLC.
00:24:13.000I was looking at my Wikipedia the other day
00:24:16.000And I like to check on it about once a year.
00:24:18.000And it is just over the top SPLC propaganda.
00:24:23.000Every link with all these crazy criticisms, either links to the SPLC or links to an article that cites the SPLC.
00:24:32.000And you think, wait a minute, the SPLC is thoroughly debunked.
00:24:36.000They are the laughing stock of the people who know stuff community.
00:24:42.000But no, they just keep going back to them, keep interviewing them.
00:24:45.000I just saw an article in the Guardian where they had sat down and interviewed that big fat blonde woman, Heidi something, for information about what's going on in hate.
00:24:56.000If you want to know about hate, you tune into the SPLC.
00:24:58.000Nevermind that I've raised a quarter million dollars with an average of $36 per donor.
00:25:05.000To fight them, fight their war on free speech, to liberate free speech.
00:25:13.000Nevermind that their founder's gone, the president's gone, the head of legal's gone, Tina Tchen came in, she's been marred by all this Jussie Smollett stuff.
00:25:21.000You know what I think happened with Tina Tchen?
00:26:39.000Just make it go basically I think Michelle likes the show Empire and didn't like that this this was embarrassing embarrassing her favorite celebrities and so Tina told I mean Michelle told Tina to make it happen and Tina did
00:26:55.000And then the SPLC goes, hey, we just hired you to clean up our image and you're doing all this corrupt fucking, your, your text messages are about to get subpoenaed.
00:27:22.000And they think they're winning because they've silenced us all, but what they've done is they've made the country hate them.
00:27:32.000The hatred for the media is at an all-time high.
00:27:35.000All of these bloggers, HuffPo, BuzzFeed, Daily Beast, all of those silly juvenile little blogs and all of this Ilhan Omar and AOC, all these radical
00:30:34.000The beauty of de-platforming is you de-platform, then you de-person, and then now that someone is not a person, you can just kill them.
00:30:42.000Like the eggs, throwing eggs at people and they just threw a milkshake on Tommy Robinson.
00:30:49.000And by the way, speaking of the media gleefully reporting about censorship and how great it is, they gleefully laugh at Tommy Robinson covered in a strawberry milkshake and the police don't do anything about it.
00:31:10.000You know if Ann Coulter was killed by a mob and they got a picture, the first thing you'd do is start seeing memes of Ann Coulter's dead head with something like, having the big sleep, Ann.
00:31:24.000Before his body was cold, they had a million jokes about his dead body because he ran Fox News and conservatives should die.
00:31:33.000So don't, I didn't even like that on September 11th they had Dan Rather on David Letterman and he started crying about all the people that died, which I did too, privately.
00:31:46.000But you know that the terrorists are just watching that, laughing, loving every minute of it.
00:32:55.000But then you have people saying that this on this next election and this is Alyssa Milano but it was she's just parroting a new trope that's coming out and she was saying join me in the quest not to criticize anyone who runs against Trump in 2020.