I want to talk today about one tool used by reactionaries
to fool people and to goad people into reactionary beliefs, and that is the use of the fake or imaginary slippery slope.
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In general, reactionaries use fear as a tool.
You mean like they're doing with Putin?
Like they did before with COVID?
Like they constantly do with capitalism and free markets?
Like
and basically anyone who isn't on your political team?
Somehow, I think this is gonna be a lot of Confession Through Projection here.
They aggrandize threats beyond what they are to make people afraid,
and then they use that fear to try to get people to support certain policies.
But enough about Pakman.
One example of a false slippery slope...
Except, as we've repeatedly seen, slippery slope
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And a great example we have because of the pandemic is the fake slippery slope of vaccine mandates.
As you may know, for over a year now,
the reactionary right has been saying the first thing is you've got to get a COVID vaccine
and the next thing you know, A-B-C-D-E-F-G.
Right, because there's
Stay at home and let the Great and the Good like Pakman spoon-feed you the information you need.
And we now have over 200 years of history to tell us
that vaccine mandates don't lend themselves to more authoritarianism.
Yyyyyeah, except history tells us just the opposite, doesn't it?
In 1905, the Supreme Court decided in Jacobson v. Massachusetts
that states could require vaccination against smallpox.
And what was it used for?
Specifically the forced sterilization of inmates who were examples of, as they put it, "hereditary imbecility,"
which the Supreme Court then said was A-OK in
And yes, the
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., writing for the majority, said:
As a result of this decision, by 1930 a total of 24 states had passed involuntary sterilization laws
and around 60,000 women were forcibly sterilized.
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And then in 1905 in the U.S. Supreme Court case
the Supreme Court said now municipalities can this, can, can put in a vaccine mandate.
And people were saying, this is the start of what? And it just never went further.
What??? SERIOUSLY???
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Pakman is one of the
And so it's an obviously false slippery slope.
The vaccine mandates over the last 200 years have not led to anything more than that.
Un...be...lievable!
You can really tell the difference in how the right uses
slippery slopes and fearmongering by thinking about something like health care.
I mean, look, I just think it through. We on the left say about health care, listen,
the right wants this like total for profit free market health care thing.
Yeah, and you don't
They generally speaking, want to let insurance companies charge whatever they want to.
People with preexisting conditions, deny them insurance.
And if the right got its way, we would continue to see medical bankruptcies, which we're already seeing.
We would continue to see people unable to afford or access care, which we already see.
All of this stuff exists right now.
Yeah, so, thanks for backing me up!
Okay? There, there, there's no crazy fear-mongering from the left on health insurance.
What?
The right says, if the left gets his way,
gets its way, it's the start of a communist takeover of health care,
where government bureaucrats will create death panels and decide whether you live or die.
You mean, like, what is
See my video,
This is
For a particularly heartwrenching story of NHS abuse, look up the story of Baby Charlie.
The slippery slope IS REAL.
Whereas
Because all of the left's examples of fearmongering about capitalism and the free market
all end up being the fault of government, as I've repeatedly shown.
None
In fact, you can't even get your
I didn't play this part, but there's one part where he talks about George Washington and vaccination,
even though there were no vaccines at the time!
All he showed was that he doesn't even understand the difference between vaccination and inoculation!
And those are the tools of people like Pakman:
So the best thing when you start hearing these slippery slope claims,
if you do this, it's going to lead to all this other stuff.
First of all, ask for examples of when that has happened.
And we'll give you some. We'll give you a
And you might wanna have some tissues ready when we do.
Secondly, ask the person claiming the slippery slope will happen to explain exactly how.
And we'll tell you. We'll explain about economic incentives.
We'll explain how government is nothing but aggression,
and why aggression is a terrible way to try and get what you want.
Whereas, what will people like Pakman do?
We saw it just now with Jacobson: they will tell you
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