In the wake of the anti-racist riots in the streets of New York City last night, it's safe to say there's a lot to be said about what Antifa are up to, and what they're trying to do.
00:01:55.840Wasn't that a big thing like not too long ago?
00:02:01.520Well, it turns out the coronavirus is apparently nothing we're worrying about today.
00:02:07.540But we are worrying about a different virus, an idea virus, which is what the Antifa folks are spreading.
00:02:19.340Now, I would argue that ideas, if they're damaging ideas, operate so much the same as a physical virus that you have to at least consider the same mechanisms for treating it.
00:02:35.460So, in other words, if you get the coronavirus, what should I do?
00:02:43.680Well, what I do, if you get the coronavirus, is I stay away from you.
00:02:48.500So, the most important thing that can protect me from your virus is information.
00:02:54.780If I have information, I can, oh, okay, you've got the virus?
00:02:59.400All right, I'll stay over here for a while.
00:04:37.660But if you require that people, let's say, demonstrate that there's some certainty that the person is Antifa,
00:04:45.620they would have to include, let's say, a social media snippet or something like that.
00:04:50.040So, if somebody, let's say somebody put my name on there, it would only take a minute for somebody to say,
00:04:56.980all right, let's see your evidence that this cartoonist is a member of Antifa,
00:05:01.740and you click on it, and there are no social media links that would support that.
00:05:06.500So, you'd say, oh, okay, that one, that's not real.
00:05:08.820But, if somebody has social media posts that say they're Antifa, or there's a photograph of them at an Antifa event or something,
00:05:17.920and you post it, wouldn't you say, that's reasonably good evidence?
00:05:23.820Now, I would think people, just like a credit report, people should be able to petition to have their name taken off if they're not Antifa.
00:05:32.560In fact, maybe all it would take is a statement that says, no, this is incorrect.