Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Joe Rogan Experience #1494 - Bret Weinstein" video.

They can do that by seizing his car and impounding it. If he offers no resistance to losing the car, there is no reason to so much as touch him. Plus he can't come back and pick it up later, after the police leave. Problem solved.
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Have you been concerned about the hundreds freed from prison through innocence projects, some who spent decades thete? How did that happen? Where was the concern then? Weinstein actually asks, "was this department policy?" As if that could sanitize the action in any way! It is a wholly irrelevant question. In any case, Rogan answered it carefully. Rogan was excellent here. We have to recognize everyone as a human being, a part of our community. He is not trying to skip due process for anyone. He is supporting the decision to charge Chauvin.
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Not imperative to arrest at all -- especially not during a pandemic. Impound the car, ticket the driver and take his license (no bond in lieu of taking the license). If he does not resist relinquishing control of the car, there is no reason to deprive him of liberty. And if he can't get his car back for a while, or ever, so be it. We used to know life and liberty are more important than property, and we used to know how to achieve goals without violence. When did it become jail or nothing, deadly force or nothing?
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So, a person fell asleep in a drive thru, seeking food, and could not be revived. How would anyone know it is because he got drunk, and not due to diabetes, epilepsy, or COVID for that matter? I would call an ambulance. The paramedics are competent to assess him. As for drunk drivers who are NOT caught driving recklessly, seize their cars and ticket them. There is no reason to take custody of them. It is not cheap to get an impounded car back. Life and liberty are more precious than property.
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Let me see if I understand. The kiddos at Evergreen State are a harbinger of the reaction we have to police brutality and excessive force directed against a community that is at this very moment bearing the brunt of mass unemployment, death and disability from COVID, and, when its members still have work, are doing some of the most at-risk essential jobs for minimum wage or slightly more. Sure, I see the comparison. 1. James Baldwin was right. 2. Tell me again why Cariol Horne was fired a year before vesting her pension.
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@steveb9713 I just read Peterson's article, and it is misleading. The paper that was removed was an opinion piece of a prominent research chemist on the sociology of his field. The paper was not within the field of chemistry itself, where we would have to bow to superior knowledge and empirical evidence. I basically don't agree with removing papers because they are controversial -- let them stay there, so that we know what people really think. But I don't see why the opinions of a chemist on how it's dangerous to extend more opportunities to women and minorities to work in science because it harms the field and weakens "meritocracy," according to him, is any more worthy of being published than anyone else's opinion. His expertise is in chemistry, not cognitive science or social psychology -- or ethics, obviously. Peterson is convoluted, and makes it sound like the scientist's research in chemistry was attacked, when it wasn't. He used his prestige as a prominent scientist to push his personal opinions in a totally different field. That's like when actors tell us what foreign policy should be, or whether to vaccinate our children. It is not an attack on STEM to say more people need to have an equal opportunity to study STEM subjects.
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@filminginportland1654 "We must be willing to be lined up against the wall" . . . "unravel the very foundation of western [sic] civilization" . . . "no compromise" . . . What in the world are you talking about? If I better be willing to line up against some wall, you will need to be more specific. The old slaveowners said that ending slavery was an assault on civilization, too, when the opposite was true.
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@anitacs So impound their car and ticket them, and make them pay for the tow as well. If they lose their car in the end, it's harsh, but so be it. They stay alive, and so do innocent motorists. It's all good. Force is not necessary.
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There is no such thing as a "cultural Marxist" and there is no such thing as a "post-modern Marxist." Nor is there any Marxist anywhere who is opposed to science. These are all chimera, and . . . sprinkled with false flags? They function as such.
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Bret Weinstein would be brilliant on a camping trip during a moonless night when everyone is huddled around a camp fire. I love a sophisticated ghost story. I bet this gig is much more lucrative, not to mention more fun, than teaching biology. He has got the right voice down, too. Great delivery. Except for one "small" problem: this "Maoist" rhetoric, and "collision course with history," "civil war," etc., is superficially cute and engaging, perfect for the camp fire, but what we could see is another Kent State, only this time with more dead, long before we have anything like the Cultural Revolution. People who take Weinstein's rhetoric seriously will applaud it, and Weinstein's bank account will not be hurting. That's the pattern I see.
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