I would like to host a Haitian slave-French colonists debate, and do it well: 3-5+ hours, in-person, with empathy, rigor, and respect. Please suggest people who could represent each side. Reply below and/or vote in this form:
You could have great historians and social scientists talking about these issues but instead let's get random ass YouTubers like Ben Shapiro and fucking Destiny lmao.
Fuck me, I wish I was a talentless cis white guy so I could be handed platforms on issues I have no expertise on without earning it.
It shows the hand so well that the obvious choices to defend Palestine are noted academics and historians, and the choice to defend isntrael are rabid propagandists and media freaks.
If I was being generous I'd say this guy is trying to stack the deck in favor of Palestine (an easy thing to do honestly), but realistically it's just for views.
Douglas Murray is a literal fascist and an openly anti-Muslim racist. He likes to pitch himself as a historian but most of his books are bunk made up of Reddit-tier race IQ and crime statistics garbage.
I know a guy who thinks Lex Friedman and other podcasters in his orbit are geniuses lol.
Also, why is Destiny treated as some legitimate figurehead in politics and history? He couldn’t even handle Richard Wolff explaining context without interrupting him to talk to his chat or spin around in his chair and groan loudly like a child
Friedman can debate my brick to his face. Let's turn a genocide into a debate because, you know, it's all just entertainment when you're safe inside the belly of the beast.
There is no such possibility with the side. They are fanatical fascists who don't even care about thier own despite thier every sperm is sacred decreees.
Creating a marketable media event by putting a bunch of gossips and scolds in a room together to yell at each other over an ongoing act of genocide to generate clicks for my blahg
Is this guy the new Joe Rogan? I hear about him as much as I did with Rogan back in the day and his videos get more views than Rogan's have been lately.
Lex bring a smither of critical thinking into a podcast or issue challenge (impossible).
I've heard some of his episodes because it is interesting to see what some of his famous guests will say when given an hour to speak or more. But at the end of the day that's what his show is, nothing more (which is why, I believe, all these people agree to appear on an episode with him on the first place).
Zuck will literally say that you can't build facebook without caring about helping people connect and Lex will let that pass without the tiniest argument, lol, lmao even.