GRIFTER James O’Keefe SMEARED Ben Burgis with LIES of RACISM! Mindgasms Quickie

Philosophy Bro
2 min readJun 29, 2022

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Newest Mindgasms Quickie about the journalist and right-wing activist, James O’Keefe from his organization called Project Veritas, recently smearing the left-wing philosopher, writer, podcaster and political commentator, Ben Burgis by accusing him of deceptive editing to hide his racism. This is related to a clip that Burgis showed on his channel from Project Veritas, which apparently showed a teacher using the N word, but Burgis supposedly edited that part out. O’Keefe and people who work for him released a video on Project Veritas in which they ambushed him with bunch of cameras at the recent Minds Festival of Ideas, accusing Burgis of editing the teacher using the N word out of the clip because he is racist. As usual, O’Keefe used manipulative and disingeuous tactics to innacurately smear Ben Burgis’s character, presumably so he himself could make a lot of money from his vdeo getting over 100 000 views.

Mindgasms Quickie on a video clip in which the philosopher, Peter Boghossian, does an atrocious job of communicating with woke students on a college campus about the controversial topic of transgender women in sports. Some of them are cringy, but he makes his own bias painfully obvious, even though he’s supposedly such an expert in hearing very radical views from disagreeable people that he literally wrote a book about it with James Lindsay, called How to Have Impossible Conversations. Boghossian invented street epistemology, which is investigating people’s knowledge claims by asking questions about them. This is like what Socrates used to do, but with average random people. However, rather than acting with wisdom, like Socrates, Boghossian is so rude and lays so many rhetorical traps that it seems like he is just either trolling, or attempting to own whiny social justice warriors. It’s not a productive conversation at all.

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