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Michael and Us

#158 - Dinesh D'Souza: A People's History

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We venture back into the oeuvre of conservative firebrand Dinesh D'Souza and watch AMERICA: IMAGINE THE WORLD WITHOUT HER (2014). Seeking to offer a counter-narrative to Howard Zinn's counter-narrative, D'Souza dusts off his trademark thesis that, actually, America is NOT racist - although if it is, it's the Democrats who are REALLY racist. This was a rough one, folks. We suffer for you, the listener.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're living in the American era, but this moment of American triumph is very fragile.

0:12.0

Of course we can say thievery was a critical element to the expansion of American Empire

0:17.0

and the establishment of the American way of life. Of course. The settlers came in,

0:23.0

drove out, exterminated the native population. That's one of the two original sins of the

0:29.0

society. Another being slavery? The other is slavery. Why do you want to blow up Mount Rushmore?

0:37.0

And I think we should, if it's okay with you, I'm feeling like doing this one a little bit loose.

0:43.3

And I've got a glass of wine here.

0:46.1

This is, I think, the third Dinesh D'Souza movie we've done.

0:49.4

That's right.

0:50.0

And I think the only way that I can get through this with my sanity intact is Tabit B,

0:56.1

kind of, you know, less structured than we sometimes do.

0:59.2

And to drink, you know, possibly copious amounts of wine while we record.

1:03.1

Sound good to you?

1:03.9

It sounds good.

1:04.7

So, so you don't want me to say, welcome to Michael and us.

1:07.4

I'm Will Sloan here as always with.

1:09.5

Luke Savage.

1:10.3

I mean, it seems to me you just, you just said it. That's what it, that's what it would have,

1:13.9

that's what it would have sounded like if we'd have done the traditional Michael and us intro, but because

1:18.0

we're looser, we skipped it this time. You know, Luke, a few nights ago, you contacted me and said,

1:22.9

hey, I have a really busy day on Friday. Can we do something kind of light? Can we do something kind of fun and goofy? And I said, oh, how about we do some like right-wing kitsch again?

1:32.8

And, you know, of course, I Google right-wing conservative documentaries. And of course, who comes up?

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