We Need To Talk About...
Sometimes it feels like there are so many unaddressed elephants in the room that there is scarcely room for oxygen. I want to deal with basic matters that affect everyday political culture, but that we take for granted or feel unable to discuss. I am doing this in the most raw, bare bones way possible. It is just me speaking from notes.
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Episodes
Friday Oct 11, 2024
Friday Oct 11, 2024
In Episode 2 I follow thematically from episode one to explore generalisation and "othering". I continue some focus on antisemitism but shift more to the use of wilful bigotry against Palestinians which serves to paint the victims as being the agents of their own destruction. Links: Indi.ca: "How 'Israel' Is Used To Divide And Conquer The Middle East" https://indi.ca/how-israel-is-used-to-divide-and-conquer-the-middle-east/Me: "Israel's Big Lie of 'Self-defence"" http://ongenocide.com/2023/11/02/israels-big-lie-of-self-defence/"Beyond Stalemate: The Second Indochina War as a Genocidal War System" https://ongenocide.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/beyond-stalemate-revised.pdfGeorge Orwell: "Politics and the English Language" https://archive.org/details/PoliticsAndTheEnglishLanguageCBS Mornings: Ta-Nehisi Coates segment, https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ta-nehisi-coates-on-the-power-of-stories-new-book-the-message/vi-AA1s2CEE
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Antisemitism is on the rise, but so is the misuse of allegations of antisemitism to police political speech. How do we balance these increasingly urgent concerns? How do we distinguish what is and is not antisemitism?