Who is Jackie Jackson Anyway? | Re ContraPoints | BreadBusting #10

Welcome to BreadBusting, where we attempt to examine the problematic ideas that come out of BreadTube, and the ideology of Breadism more generally. Basically, it's like Myth Busting, but for Breadism. Please note that, while I do have my personal political beliefs, all this is done in the name of intellectual discussion and seeing things from different perspectives. This is the third and final part of my response to the latest ContraPoints video, titled Transtrenders. Today, we will focus on Jackie Jackson, host of The Freedom Report.

Is Jackie meant to be a classical liberal? Probably. Her show is called The Freedom Report, she talks about freedom and free speech all the time, and earlier on she gave me some Dave Rubin vibes. But then, maybe she is meant to be a centrist instead, because she jokingly said she would take the 'centrist' position in this latest video. Finally, another possibility is that she has become a hardline conservative as of late, because in this most recent video she clearly sounded more like Milo Yiannopoulos than Dave Rubin! While there have been concerns throughout the political spectrum surrounding some of the topics Jackie raised, her attitude is clearly much more to the right of your average classical liberal or centrist. In short, Jackie Jackson appears to have a political identity crisis, and she doesn't even know what she believes!

In fact, Jackie Jackson is PURE IMAGINATION!

I actually think that Jackie Jackson is a characature of what a leftist would imagine a non-leftist to be. She's not specifically a centrist, a classical liberal, a libertarian or a conservative, but a confused and unrealistic mix of all these things! She's Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Ron Paul, Steven Crowder, Jordan Peterson and more, but all rolled into one person! I still remember Natalie accusing Jordan Peterson of blurring the differences between the different groups on the left, well, Jackie Jackson is the exact same thing, except for doing it to people outside the left. In the real world, Jackie Jackson simply can't exist. To give an analogy a leftist would understand, it would be as if somebody was a fan of President Obama but was also a committed anarcho-communist. In the real world, Jackie's confused politics would mean that she would have no followers at all. Jackie is simply the left-wing's jumbled up collective imagination of what their enemy looks like.

I guess Jackie Jackson is most symbolic of one thing: the left's tendency to imagine straw-man enemies who don't actually exist. Don't get me wrong, the right does this too, for example with their whole 'Comrade Obama' thing, but Jackie is clearly a product of the imagination of the left. In fact, as a non-leftist who is also a regular reader of many left-wing websites and publications, I have found that many leftist writers do this regularly. It often sounds like they don't get why centrist or right-leaning people hold a particular view, but rather imagine that they hold that view because they have an agenda of deliberately oppressing people. In fact, what many centrist and right-leaning people fear most is social engineering, changing society based on ivory tower generated theories, which they fear will bring real world disasterous consequences. Leftists never seem to address this concern.

Conservatives, centrists and classical liberals are also fundamentally different in many ways. In particular, they have different attitudes to proposed civil rights reforms. Conservatives often justify their blanket opposition to proposed civil rights reforms based on fears about some kind of social engineering agenda. On the other hand, centrists and liberals generally hear all sides of the debate, and make their case for a cautious version of the reform by pointing out that it wouldn't lead to enabling the social engineering agenda. The gay marriage debate had plenty of this dynamic, for example. The pro-gay marriage side won by simply convincing most people there's no sinister social engineering plot behind it. As a result of that debate, people like Dave Rubin are happily enjoying their newly won civil right, while people like Ben Shapiro grudgingly admit that the sky hasn't fallen in after all. Leftist commentary seems to ignore all this, and imagine all non-leftists to be a uniform bloc of reactionary people who literally want to oppress other people. This can't be further from the truth!

In these supposedly polarizing times, there has been calls for people from all sides to get together and have constructive discussions. But this can only happen if people stop stereotyping their opponents.

That's all for today. I'll be back next time to discuss another big idea. Subscribe if you want to follow our story. The transcripts are available on my website. And remember to resist the hive mind and stay individualistic. The world depends on it.