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s05e48 | The Liberal Parasite – with James Lindsay and Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad)

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The Parasite of the Civil Rights Act

english liberalism is built on negative rights of course yes uh what the king can't do to you. Rousseau believed we exchanged our natural rights for civil rights and that's a positive perspective right rather than a negative one. The woke virus was able to start to cannibalize the liberal tradition, he says. We have two constitutional orders right now two fundamentally different irreconcilable constitutional orders One of them is in fact an entitlement state called french enlightenment or french liberal the specific state.

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