I went to see this earlier in the week with one friend who was willing to come along with me. The documentary is mostly just a ninety minute documentary about something, if you've been paying attention to alternative media/intellectual dark web/youtube commentators etc probably won't illustrate anything new. But when I was in the theaters my friend and I... pretty sure were were younger then everyone in the theater by a few decades so the films reach might actually reach a lot of greybeards and boomers who don't really have much exposure to the 'Culture Wars' as it's happening on the internet.
Mostly the documentary covers various cases of social justice outrage in regards to campuses cancelling speeches or speakers, the often violent protests that happen in the wake of "controversial" speakers, the idea of safe spaces and it covers a lot of this via interviews with Dennis Prager and Adam Carolla as well as interviews (or excerpts from other interviews/podcasts) with other people. For the documentary itself they seem to interview Jordan Peterson, Alan Dershowitz, Lindsey Shepherd, Bret Weinstein/Heather Heying and some commentators who I just don't recognize by name/face such as Tricia Beck-Peter of the Foundation for Economic Education. There are also clips from their tour and various podcasts that feature folks like Van Jones, Cornel West, Dave Rubin and others commenting seemingly in agreement about these things. There are also bits from a comics roundtable discussion with Adam Carolla, Tim Allen, and Karith Foster talking about how comedy has changed.
It touches on a lot of the random outrages that have been brought like the protests brought up by Milo and Ben's appearances in Berkeley, how the University of Wyoming claimed Dennis Prager was an anti-semite when they protested him, Google and Facebooks censoring of PragerU, the whole Evergreen University brouhaha, the Yale Halloween costume 'controversy' and so forth. There were lots of clips of outraged social justice types, and lots of clips of Dennis Prager interview or speaking to people, one of the notable ones where he's talking with a group of Black college students about how the legacy of slavery lends itself to oppression today and how shockingly calm and insightful that discussion was for both sides.
Also there were some animated shorts of... varying amounts of quality. If I had to choose a favorite, it would be the Social Justice Warriors as superheroes one. I chuckled at the idea of a Cyclops style white dude whose power was "ethnic analysis" and allowed him to see racism everywhere. Your level of cringe at these shorts may vary.
Overall, it was a decent documentary. I don't know if it'll impart much knowledge to people like us who are younger and more aware of the weirdness of the Culture War going on in the internets and on campus but I didn't feel like watching the film was cringey or a waste of time or boring or anything. It was interesting enough to watch and I laughed in a few moments. Held my interest throughout.
Also before its nationwide opening, it outperformed Terminator: Dark Fate... so that's funny too.
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Mostly the documentary covers various cases of social justice outrage in regards to campuses cancelling speeches or speakers, the often violent protests that happen in the wake of "controversial" speakers, the idea of safe spaces and it covers a lot of this via interviews with Dennis Prager and Adam Carolla as well as interviews (or excerpts from other interviews/podcasts) with other people. For the documentary itself they seem to interview Jordan Peterson, Alan Dershowitz, Lindsey Shepherd, Bret Weinstein/Heather Heying and some commentators who I just don't recognize by name/face such as Tricia Beck-Peter of the Foundation for Economic Education. There are also clips from their tour and various podcasts that feature folks like Van Jones, Cornel West, Dave Rubin and others commenting seemingly in agreement about these things. There are also bits from a comics roundtable discussion with Adam Carolla, Tim Allen, and Karith Foster talking about how comedy has changed.
It touches on a lot of the random outrages that have been brought like the protests brought up by Milo and Ben's appearances in Berkeley, how the University of Wyoming claimed Dennis Prager was an anti-semite when they protested him, Google and Facebooks censoring of PragerU, the whole Evergreen University brouhaha, the Yale Halloween costume 'controversy' and so forth. There were lots of clips of outraged social justice types, and lots of clips of Dennis Prager interview or speaking to people, one of the notable ones where he's talking with a group of Black college students about how the legacy of slavery lends itself to oppression today and how shockingly calm and insightful that discussion was for both sides.
Also there were some animated shorts of... varying amounts of quality. If I had to choose a favorite, it would be the Social Justice Warriors as superheroes one. I chuckled at the idea of a Cyclops style white dude whose power was "ethnic analysis" and allowed him to see racism everywhere. Your level of cringe at these shorts may vary.
Overall, it was a decent documentary. I don't know if it'll impart much knowledge to people like us who are younger and more aware of the weirdness of the Culture War going on in the internets and on campus but I didn't feel like watching the film was cringey or a waste of time or boring or anything. It was interesting enough to watch and I laughed in a few moments. Held my interest throughout.
Also before its nationwide opening, it outperformed Terminator: Dark Fate... so that's funny too.
Free speech documentary ‘No Safe Spaces’ continues surge ahead of nationwide release
Radio personality Dennis Prager and comedian Adam Carolla's documentary about free speech, "No Safe Spaces," doesn’t open nationwide until November 15 but is already making noise.
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