A thread on the absolutely ridiculous “report” by @datasociety which includes @joerogan @jordanbpeterson @benshapiro @DennisPrager @RoamingMil @Timcast and even lil old me as part of the Reactionary Right (never heard the phrase before!) and tries to link us to white supremacy. 
First off, it’s flat out partisan BS, every word of it. Let’s just be 100% crystal clear about that. It was designed to scare and intimidate. Many of the people included, at least the ones I know, have hugely varying views on abortion, gay marriage, taxes, immigration and more.
Now it should be noted that this diversity of thought itself is exactly what the progressive authoritarian groupthink fears most. They hate that @benshapiro will sit down with me, or that @joerogan has talked to Alex Jones, or that @DennisPrager reaching young people w/ @prageru.
Right now I’m on tour with @jordanbpeterson who is fighting the racism of both the Left and the Right every night. And the audiences are overflowing with people who want to have honest conversation about complex issues. Not label everyone they disagree with as a racist.
This labeling of everyone else as racist, homophobic and now a white supremacist, is all they’ve got. Their arguments are tired and have grown fat. This is why they deplatform and try to silence everyone who disagrees. They are believe they are moral and the other side is evil.
For the first couple years of my show I spent most of my time talking about how this strain of hysterical authoritarianism and deceitful tactics was destroying the decent Left. I wanted to clean up my side and try to return it to the Liberalism of years gone by.
It’s fairly clear to me that this return is not possible anytime soon, and the Far Left Democratic Socialists (who will drop the word Democrat once in power) have complete control of the messaging of the Left through well placed useful idiots across media.
So, the real issue here isn’t some dishonest report with an paranoid chart. The issue is what its goal is and how it gets disseminated. The goal, of course, is to scare us, and you, into silence. And it gets disseminated by people at NYT, NBC, Vox, Buzzfeed , Wired and more.
Now, they won’t scare me, but it’s pretty clear that calling them out won’t scare them, either. They feel they can say the worst things possible with impunity and this needs to end. @MaajidNawaz knew this and now the @splcenter is paying for it.
You can push and push people so far, but at some point we have to push back. It’s not the only the labels that matter here, but it’s the clear goal (often stated) of getting us booted from YouTube, Twitter, FB, etc. Labels are Phase 1, Lists are Phase 2, purge is Phase 3.
So, I’ll be looking into all my options of recourse going forward. But more importantly I’ll continue to have conversations and expose these awful authoritarian ideas. While they silence and make lists, we’ll talk and make sense.
(Ok, that’s it’s for now. This is what happens when you have time in Uber en route to airport. See you tonight Grand Rapids, where we’ll talk about diversity of ideas, how to fight radicalism and also several important lobster-related issues!)
Sorry one more: In case you missed it, here’s Part 1 of my chat with Parkland shooting survivor and March for our Lives co-founder, @cameron_kasky: You know, more far-right, white supremacist stuff...
