Intellectual Dark Web
The Intellectual Dark Web is a name used for a group of people on the Internet who are controversial. They are known for having a problem with political correctness. The phrase was first used on the Rubin Report by Dr. Eric Weinstein. Eric Weinstein's brother Brett Weinstein had left a University where he was a professor of biology after he opposed having a day every year where white people would not show up on campus. Brett Weinstein said that forcing white people not to go on campus was racist though the college said that it was only asking them not to go but wasn't forcing them to do anything. A lot of people said Brett Weinstein was racist after he said that and there were some people who actually used or tried to use violence against him. After Brett Weinstein left, he was interviewed by Dr. Sam Harris, an atheist who complained that he couldn't say he disliked Islam without people calling him racist, for his podcast. Brett Weinstein was then interviewed by Joe Rogan about his politics. He was then interviewed by his brother Dr. Eric Weinstein, who works for Peter Thiel, for his podcast.
When Eric Weinstein was interviewed by Dave Rubin, he joked that Brett Weinstein, Sam Harris, Joe Rogan and Dave Rubin were the intellectual version of the Dark Web. Then Bari Weiss,who is Pro-Choice, supports gay marriage, dislikes Donald Trump, supports free speech, supports Israel and believes that people who are left-wing often call people who are not fascists Fascists, wrote an essay in The New York Times on the rise of the Intellectual Dark Web. In it she calls people who are popular on the Internet but not with the media or universities the Intellectual Dark Web. She gives Benjamin Aaron Shapiro, Sam Harris,Dr. Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan, Milo Yiannopoulos, Alex Jones and Dennis Mark Prager as examples. Weiss also said that she was worried that people who supported racism would end up taking over the Intellectual Dark Web from people who just don't like political correctness and identity politics.
Jonah Goldberg said he didn't like the phrase "Intellectual Dark Web" because the real Dark Web is completely horrible while most of the people Weiss mentioned aren't and that the people she talked about have nothing in common except for not liking political correctness.
David French said that he actually liked Weiss's article and that what a lot of people didn't understand was that when Weiss was writing about people whose non- left-wing ideas were silenced she didn't mean that Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson and Dennis Prager, all of whom have published books and spoken at universities, were silenced but that the millions of fans that each one has are people who have opinions that are not politically correct but who would be afraid it to admit it if it weren't for people with successful podcasts and/or popular YouTube shows agreeing.
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