Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Basil "Not an Argument" Molyneux (/ˈstiːvən 'mɒlɪnʌks/) is an Irish-Canadian white supremacisthttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2018/12/26/molyneux-rips-off-the-hood-goes-full-on-white-supremacist/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/stefan-molyneuxhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWYFU7OMw58&feature=youtu.be&t=4683https://angrywhitemen.org/2019/01/17/stefan-molyneux-is-amplifying-white-supremacist-talking-points-on-population-replacement-youtube-is-letting-him/https://www.magic.co.nz/home/archivedtalk/on-demand/drive/2018/08/live--lauren-southern-and-stefan-molyneux-with-newshub-s-paddy-g.htmlhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/stefan-molyneux-the-plagiarist/ political commentator, "philosopher", cult leader, and Internet-media personality who has hosted Freedomain Radio — a podcast where he discusses philosophy, politics, religion, science, and relationships — since 2005. He also writes regularly for anarcho-capitalist websites and has self-published several books, e.g., Universally Preferable Behavior, (2007). American libertarian philosopher David Gordanhttps://mises.org/profile/david-gordon wrote the following: "Molyneux is by no means stupid: quite the contrary. Therein, I suggest, lies the source of the problems of his book. Because of his facile intelligence, he thinks that he has a talent for philosophical argument and need not undertake the hard labor of learning how such arguments are constructed. Unfortunately for him and his book, he is mistaken."https://mises.org/library/molyneux-problem
Molyneux has a group of very ardent fans, even though he is only questionably an ancap at this point, and is hated by a large portion of them: he is a "racial realist", and says disgusting red-pill things about women. He presents a crank-magnetism chimera of men's rights, white rights, and some sort of fedora-lover's Glenn BeckStefan gets into a pickle with an anti-Semitic caller. (or a thinking man's RooshV) who is known for mistreating his guests.
In June 2020, Stefan's Youtube channel, which had 930,000 subscribers and 285 million views as of October 2019, was removed from the platform for hate speech. His Twitter account had more than 475,000 followers as of June 2020, but was suspended as of July 7, 2020.Stefan Molyneux
==Families==
Molyneux rejects the idea that parents deserve unconditional love and respect from their children. Especially, he believes that adults who deem their parents to be physically or psychologically aggressive should cease all connections with them, if previous attempts to mend any faulty relationships have failed, or resulted in begging for "unearned forgiveness".James Cox, "Stefan Molyneux Against Me" 
While this is reasonable advice for children that have been abused by their parents, Molyneux's advice has another effect of having some of his audience abandon their parents to join his cult (see below).
He also claims that people who engage in or are drawn to contact sports were abused as children and/or had aggressive childhoods.Martial Arts, Violence, and History He has said that he would have killed his mother had she not been his mother.Molyneux Forgives His Mother By Not Killing Her
==A pioneer of the alt-right==
===Men's rights===
Molyneux is a major figure in the men's rights movement. He was a speaker at the A Voice For Men (AVFM) 2014 conference, and uses the AVFM site to plug his videos.SM doubles down on douchebaggery.
 
Single mothers are an important issue of our time,"No Excuses For Evil Women!""MRA "philosopher" Stefan Molyneux: "If you don't have a husband … to keep the child is abusive", We Hunted the Mammoth. and a demographic in need of attack:
 
Stefan goes so far as calling single mothers, who hold no political power historically especially relative to men, as a demographic terrible people. Because the only logical explanation for being a single mom is either making bad choices (in which case, you're a bad person), or being promiscuous and having sex with lots of different men (in which case, you're a bad person)."15 Reasons to Date a Single Mom - Rebutted!"
In one video, he sees being nice to a woman as "a white knight" reaction to "PROTECT THE EGGS." That's not hyperbole, he really shouts "PROTECT THE EGGS.""The TRUTH About Star Wars: The Force Awakens!"
Stefan is also very concerned about the "already gone" eggs of women who have chosen not to have children yet, as evidenced by a bizarre tweet concerning Taylor Swift,"Even Taylor Swift Can’t Escape ‘When Will You Have Kids?’", Alaina Demopoulous, Daily Beast, 2019-12-10 and more recently Tulsi Gabbard., Stephen Molyneux on Twitter
Remember, if you take the red pill, the red pill also takes you:
And on an entirely unrelated note, why are there so few female libertarians?Feminism is SOCIALISM IN PANTIES?? (Women know they're inherently weak, unlike big burly anarcho-capitalist males, and thus they are biologically driven to the warm embrace of the state.)
===Instances of state support===
For an "anarchist", Stefan doesn't mind the state all that much, so long as it acts the way he wants it to. 
*He used to be very adamantly opposed to voting, due to being an "anarchist".The Truth About Voting But as with many right-libertarians, that all changed when Donald Trump ran for President.The UN-truth About Donald Trump! Trump fans have taken to posting his "Untruth about Donald Trump" video as a "red pill" on Reddit and elsewhere,The 'Cult Leader Stumping for Donald Trump and the alt-right blog The Right Stuff features its 'donations' widget with a parody of his accent and a small image of him at the bottom. Stormfront entertains the possibility but rejects him for being too Jewish.Is Stefan Molyneux Trying to Become a WN?
*He praised Margaret Thatcher upon her death in 2013, despite claiming to oppose all forms of government.http://ozhouse.org/2013/04/14/stefan-libertard-molyneux-the-state-murders-people-but-thatcher-did-no-such-thing-ok/
*During the Ebola crisis he said that government should stop people traveling from West Africa, a violation of the non-aggression principle.What PISSES ME OFF About Ebola.This one won him some new fans over at Stormfront. He has since gone on to say he also supports banning people from traveling from predominately non-white North Africa, Middle East and Asian countries, a violation of the non-aggression principle.Stefan's deep insights into Islam and ISIS.The TRUTH/What PISSES ME OFF/What THEY WON'T TELL YOU about immigration, playlist. 
:Molyneux himself was against closed borders during his earlier embrace of the free market. Those videos have been scrubbed from his channel since his shift towards the alt-right, though this hasn't stopped in-show callers from reminding him of this, such as 2016's "Andrew". In this video, Andrew points out that supporting violent coercion against refugees is incompatible with the non-aggression principle. Stefan responds by claiming that morality doesn't apply within a statist society. A few moments later he goes back to saying that it does.Stefan Molyneux's Inconsistent Stance on Immigration
*In the wake of Nelson Mandela's death: 
*These days he moans about Islam and oversimplifies the Crusades.The TRUTH About The Crusades!
*He pushes the Lost Cause of the South.The "Truth" About Martin Luther King, Jr. Around 1:52, he starts arguing that the majority of slaves across the world were white people, and proceeds to hit every single Neo-Confederate target (e.g., black people should shut up about slavery because chattel slavery wasn't that bad and white people are the real victims).The TRUTH About Slavery!
:Watch for the look of surprise on Molyneux's face during his "they should have just paid for the slaves" argument on The Joe Rogan Show. Rogan asks where all the money for the slaves was going to come from. "Taxation?"The day Joe Rogan discovered the real Stefan Molyneux, FDR Liberated.
===Homosexuality===
Molyneux holds an unconventional unscientific and bigoted view on homosexuality, arguing that it is the result of childhood sexual abuse. He later apologized for the comment when contacted by a caller during a radio interview, saying he had reversed his views on the matter and would do his best to improve his understanding of homosexuality. He also promised to edit the video to better reflect his ignorance of the previous statements.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LqAw4GC5cc (Video set to private as of March 2022) The video remains unedited.
In 2019, Molyneux tweeted a misleading study which showed that "Forty-six percent of the homosexual men in contrast to 7% of the heterosexual men reported homosexual molestation"."“Forty-six percent of the homosexual men in contrast to 7% of the heterosexual men reported homosexual molestation. Twenty-two percent of lesbian women in contrast to 1% of heterosexual women reported homosexual molestation.”", Stefan Molyneux, @StefanMolyneux, archived on 2019 October 17 However, the study was heavily criticized. The survey didn't include the word 'molest' on the form, and then swapped the words "sexual experience" for "molestation" in its publication. It counted anybody who had a sexual experience before the age of 16 as 'molested', rather than relying on the standard definition of 13 and under. It also relied on a convenience sample of people who attended a pride parade and volunteered for the survey, further making it statistically irrelevant.Criticism of molestation, live copyCriticism of molestation study
He does, however, support the right of gays to marry. So that's nice.Stefan on gay marriage
===At the movies===
His movie reviews all dissolve into him ranting about white genocide or how terrible women are.
Molyneux is incapable of producing a brief "Truth about x" video. He even has an hour-long video about Frozen.The Truth about Frozen! Immediately afterward, he starts in on Harry Potter being a metaphor for psychiatry.
===On the Jews===
Although never explicitly criticizing Jews, he has utilized a lot of Nazi talking points regarding them. One example would be the conspiracy theory of Jewish influence on Communism:
He has also shown interest in whether Jewish people are white while showing a complete misunderstanding of what white privilege is:
Additionally, he retweeted a now-deleted tweet demonstrating a conspiracy-theory regarding Jewish control of CNN.
==Philosophy==
Molyneux has declared himself "the savior of philosophy" and styles himself as a New Socrates,Without him, we'd have to wait another 2000 years! (Archived by Tru Shibes.)The world needs my show for its survival! Archived by Tru Shibes. though he doesn't actually engage any scholarly literature on issues of philosophy. He used to be an Objectivist, but now considers himself an ancap and advocates UPB (Universally Preferable Behavior), his own moral theory which appears to be Kantianism with the serial numbers filed off. He doesn't credit any philosophers for having influenced him, though he routinely makes arguments famous philosophers (usually John Locke) have made many times in the past without attribution, and misinterprets famous philosophical arguments and writings; his lecture on the social contract is an excellent example.The Social Contract Defined and DESTROYED in under 5 min
Molyneux has claimed that Freedomain Radio is the most popular online philosophy conversation in the world, despite no backing to such a claim. His support among actual philosophers is questionable as well. In 2007, fellow libertarian (and actual philosopher) gave a critical examination of Molyneux in The Mises Review: "He fails, and fails miserably. His arguments are often preposterously bad."David Gordon, "The Molyneux Problem", Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Popular YouTuber SisyphusRedeemed, who is an academic philosopher, uploaded another great rebuttal."The Damnation of Philosophy"
One thing he may share with Socrates is that it would probably take hemlock to shut him up.
==Anarcho-capitalism==
He manages to bottle most of his crazy inside, pretending he agrees with anarchist principles, but it's a smokescreen for what is essentially a call for corporate tyranny.Noam Chomsky educates Vizzini Moly on the correct usage of the word. Sorry, Chomsky, a PhD and tenure at MIT doesn't prepare you for the rigor of pseudo-intellectual YouTube personalities. 
===History===
Molyneux defends his more...unusual beliefs with historical examples. These are invariably healthy servings of PIDOOMA. He has, for example, claimed that the First World War was more destructive than the Second, and that the majority of casualties in it were members of the aristocracy.The TRUTH About World War I! This is a self-evident argument for free trade, apparently.
===Overpopulation===
Like most laissez-faire economists, he denies overpopulation is a problem. Stefan believes there's no such thing as too many exploitable wage slaves to boss around too many people (except when those people aren't white men). He believes the real problem is that not enough people follow his philosophy.OVERPOPULATION
===DMCA and IP law===
Molyneux has gone on record against the DMCA and IP law, saying that "IP must die" as it is an unjustified use of force.http://youtu.be/15wxWLDmnAE?t=1m3shttps://www.facebook.com/stefan.molyneux/posts/242827249085001 He believes this is a universal principle with no exceptions.
However he also used IP law in order to censor critics on YouTube by filing DMCA claims against them, with the most notable being "TruShibes," who created a YouTube account dedicated to clips documenting Molyneux's questionable behavior and philosophy.File this one next to Ayn Rand's use of Medicare and Ron Paul's appeal to the UN to go steal a website for him. He blamed this on a contractor.Public statement by Stefan Molyneux
In a textbook case of actions having consequences, TruShibes has filed a case in US federal court against Molyneux for his blatant exploitation of the DMCA to shut down her account, for silencing her and for defaming her afterwardsMike Masnick, "'Anarcho-Capitalist' Stefan Molyneux Sued For Abusing The DMCA", Techdirt. (Moly: Well, if you want something done quickly and efficiently you go to the Govern... Waitaminute, you almost tricked me!)"Molyneux sued for misrepresentations, defamation", FDR Liberated. (she is in the US and he is in Canada, but his YouTube activity and income is US-based and constitutes a local presence). Of course, it's no surprise he resorted to censorship. That is what Stef does if he doesn't have anything to say. Raised a good question on FDR? Banned. Contradicted Stef on his show? Cuts the caller off. Wrote a blog punching holes in Stef or his philosophy? Come on and verbally debate him!Contemptible chickens, all of you!
Hey, isn't it textbook for a cult leader to go to any lengths to silence criticism or dissidence...?
===Public education===
If you don’t buy Stef's logic, you went to public school because you are a brainwashed sheeplePublic School, Private HELLHey, teacher! Leave those kids alone! that can't comprehend the glory and pure truth of UPB, NAP and anarcho-capitalism—or his wife's equally obnoxious stance that you're aware of it, but such a transition would be uncomfortable, and therefore you subconsciously deny it out of childlike spite.
===He has the lobes for business!===
Molyneux decided that Leonard Nimoy's passing was the appropriate time to talk about how Spock's collectivism was "emotional" in nature and how big government (the socialist-esque United Federation of Planets) is a bad thing.The TRUTH About Spock (btw rip or whatever) Similarly, he posted a video on Robin Williams' suicide, leaping at the chance to psychoanalyze the actor (without ever having met him, of course).The TRUTH about Robin Williams! (Why does this toolbag want to ruin our all childhoods?) Kicking a still-warm corpse: Another philosophical victory for libertarians!
==Science==
===Mental illness denial===
Molyneux has denied that mental illnesses are real, saying there is not enough evidence to prove otherwise. He also calls psychiatry a pseudoscience and claims that it is part of a government agenda.There's NO SUCH THING as mental illness! This has drawn the ire of many, including online scientific skeptic Emil Karlsson of Debunking Denialism who responded with a lengthy refutation of his claims.Karlsson, "Stefan Molyneux’s Unfortunate Spiraling into Anti-Psychiatry". Now, he's right that mental illnesses are culturally defined (though the anti-semitism came out of nowhere);We stand corrected. He is not an anti-Semite, because Murray "Baby Market" Rothbard is one of his favorite philosophers! This old post was thankfully still in the Google cache; he deleted the thread (probably out of embarrassment). He could never fault Rothbard's ideology or call him immoral, so he has to go with 'it is because he was circumcised so he doesn't know any better'. "DAE Jews probably all hate their kids because foreskin." if your culture favors extremely fastidious people, somebody with "checking" type OCD may not be considered abnormal. But it certainly exists independent of cultural context, with various causes ranging from environment to dietary to genetic to neurological. It's convenient for Molyneux to foist everything onto "society" because it feeds into his viewers' self-entitlement and moral relativism, while ignoring the cultural context behind, say, private property.
==="Global warming HOAX"===
Stefan's already-impressive resumé includes him being a climate change denierThe Case Against Climate Change on top of everything else — going so far as to host Christopher Monckton on his show to discuss the (as Stefan calls it) 'hoax'.The Global Warming Hoax Lord Monckton and Stefan Molyneux
The only meaningful outcome of the aforementioned 'meeting of the impotent minds' was Potholer54 taking the time to explain the utter wrongess of climate change denial, by using their convoluted discussion as a teaching example.https://youtu.be/LiZlBspV2-M
===Anti-physics crankery===
Taking a page from Objectivists and the Insane Clown Posse, Stefan has a bone to pick with modern physics. Charming quips (directed unilaterally at an entire STEM field) include:
The irony here is that a lot of modern engineering (cough electricity cough), would not be possible if it weren't for physics, but the assumption is natural given that Stefan has absolutely no understanding of it. What's more, he now claims his mind transcends physics.So, how long before he publishes a manifesto and starts sending mail bombs? All in a day's work for Molyneux, and perfectly in line with his M.O. of being the clogosphere's prime libertarian narcissicist übermensch.
===Organ transplants===
Stefan thought that organ transplants between races are not possible.https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1071825748707631106 When called out on this, he backs down by claiming that he meant the genetic match chance was lower.https://twitter.com/stefanmolyneux/status/1072005355427717120
==A cult (of freedom lovers!)==
Molyneux's attitudes and beliefs, coupled with the slavish devotion of his listeners, has led Sam Seder and his associates to label him a cult leader. This view is echoed by parents whose children abandoned them on Molyneux's advice.Guardian"This is How Stefan Molyneux is Running a Cult". Answer: A degree in theater, stupidly good on-his-feet debate skills, and experience fleecing tens of thousands into joining his cause.Besner, Linda, "Remote Control - The Cult of Stefan", Real Life 10.6.16.
*His method is popular with fundamentalist Churches (or Scientology's practice of "disconnecting"): before you were baptized and saved, your life was full of sin.The whole breeding arena of our species needs to be cleaned the fuck up!! Genetics or child-rearing has already determined you to either be depraved (i.e. not a Molyneux fan), or one of a chosen few who will stand beside him. It's like a much lamer version of Calvinism. (Archived by Tru Shibes.) Now your baptism ("defoo" in Molynese)"Stefan Molyneux Revealed - A Defoo Story". represents a new life in Christ and your acceptance of the Church's teachings. However, in the case of the Manson Molyneux Family, it's a baptism in hack philosophy and an-cappery. For instance, Molyneux advises people to abandon all friends and relatives who are not anarcho-capitalists or adherents to the Non-Aggression Principle. This is similar to the practices of other cults that isolate members from their former friends and family, both so that their loved ones can't lead them away from the cult and because it makes members dependent on the cult with regards to their social life. Those who ditch their families and friends are insultingly advised that the next step in saving the world is to plug his show.
:Hopefully, every Ancap will take his advice so that next X-mas they won't be invited back.
*Like many other cults, the Molyneux cult hides core tenets (such as "defoo-ing") from newcomers[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yERWiUu5T9IStef Says FDR "Philosophy" a Deliberate Bait and Switch
], FDR. Archived by Tru Shibes. because they are off-putting to any, well, sane person. One way this was accomplished was by keeping the more objectionable doctrines and podcasts confined to a secret website that newcomers were not told about.https://web.archive.org/web/20171020023308/http://defoo.org/defoo/
*As with other cults, former members who dare to leave the cult are shamed and harassed to serve as a deterrent for current members who are thinking about leaving. In the case of Molyneux's cult, former members of Molyneux's "Inner Circle" were shamed on a public facing website which listed their personal information as well as embarrassing personal details such as their sexual history and professional failures.https://web.archive.org/web/20170721023021/http://defoo.org:80/inner-circle/
*Molyneux records everything,God knows why Moly made this private discussion with his wife public. Christina talks about her fear of losing her license to practice psychotherapy (she doesn't care about her practice, she just wants the beer commercial lifestyle). This whole situation is making Moly very stressed, considering he's responsible for ruining his wife's career, and she chides herself for not offering him enough support throughout this tribulation. no matter how mundane (because Wouldn't it be awesome if you could hear Socrates talking to his barber?).
*He has some, uh, "interesting" views on movies, and likes to read Randian meanings where they definitely don't belong. The real kicker was him remarking on having to "reprogram" his daughter after watching the film Maleficent. He thinks any female character with a lack of character flaws is propaganda to indoctrinate children; evidently, it is dishonest for "Estrogen-based parasites"#killallmen (dead link) to have any positive portrayals in media at all. He basically uses his daughter to assert arguments; a "Think of the children" card of sorts.
*Molyneux has amassed a small fortune in Bitcoin, apparently entirely from donations.Incredible stories of Bitcoin millionaires by boumalo (August 01, 2016, 05:53:34 PM) Bitcoin ForumJust make sure you send him more than one dollar. He claims to have connections to Satoshi Nakamoto and the original development group survivor, Steven Wright (he worked on the page numbers).
*A civil court complaint, filed in 2014, says Mr. Molyneux boasted in a 2006 podcast that he would listen while his wife Christina Papadopoulos (a therapist who severed contact with her parents to join his AynCrap cult)"Molyneux and Wife Read Letter From Her Parents" talked to her patients, even interjecting and railroading them into subscribing to his website.Tu Than Ha, "Controversial podcaster listened in on therapist wife and clients: lawsuit ", Globe and Mail. Just what any mentally-disturbed person needs: Stefan's voice filtering eerily through an intercom.
*Somehow, his wife kept her license,Tu Than Ha, "Therapist who told podcast listeners to shun their families reprimanded", Globe and Mail. as she didn't actively propagate Molyneux's insanity (despite him obviously coaching her in all matters personal and professional),Just listen to her strain to get a word in edge-wise.A Suicide Caused by Stefan Molyneux and Christina Papadopoulos and FreeDomainRadio, Stefan Molyneux Revealed. but it is clear she bases her therapy around "defoo'ing" people—prying them away from their families—and cultivating donors to FDR. All podcasts with even a whisper from Christina, including the laughable "Ask A Therapist" series, have been scrubbed from the website and any mention of her results in a swift ban on the forums.
==Ejected from the marketplace of ideas==
In 2020, Molyneux was censored suspended from YouTubeJulia Alexander, "YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer, and more for hate speech", The Verge, 29 June 2020 and TwitterHubert Davis, "Twitter Suspends White Nationalist Stefan Molyneux's Account Following YouTube Ban", ScreenRant, 8 July 2020 for triggering the libs violating their hate speech policies. Ironically, this was itself a result of cancel culture the capitalist free market, since both sites are owned by private companies and Molyneux voluntarily agreed to their terms when registering his account(s).
==Interviews==
Molyneux has interviewed, and been interviewed by, among others: 
==External links==
*Tru Shibes Archive - Backup of the channel which Molyneux used IP law to remove.
*Freedomain Radio
*FDR Liberated - A site focusing on refuting the often questionable beliefs, actions, and comments of Molyneux and his followers.
==Notes==
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