293. Konstantin Kisin — An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
The Michael Shermer Show
Michael Shermer
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Shermer and Kisin discuss: growing up in Russia • "The Talk" Russian parents give their children • What is the "West" and how do Russians view it • Should Whites feel some guilt for slavery, racism, misogyny, bigotry, etc.? • systemic racism: criminal justice, housing, employment, income, wealth • Critical Race Theory (CRT) • immigration • free, private, and public speech • how language is used to distort truth • the origin of "political correctness" • journalism vs. activism • capitalism • and how the West could be lost.
Konstantin Kisin is a journalist, comedian, voiceover actor and social commentator. Born in the Soviet Union, where he experienced both untold wealth and grinding poverty, he moved to the UK when he was 13 years old. Now an award-winning performer, he co-presents the popular YouTube series Triggernometry alongside Francis Foster. Together, they've interviewed some of the most in-demand intellectuals of our age, such as Douglas Murray, Jordan Peterson and many others.
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| 0:17.0 | Hi everybody, it's Michael Sherman. It's time for another episode of the Michael Sherman Show. |
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| 0:59.5 | behind me I'm displaying on the podcast now some of the original artwork from Pat Lindsay |
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| 1:17.0 | Anyway, my guest today is Constantine Kissin, a journalist, comedian, voiceover actor, and social commentator bored in the Soviet Union, |
| 1:25.3 | where he experienced both untold wealth and grinding poverty. |
| 1:29.8 | He moved to the UK when he was 13 years old. Now an award-winning performer he co-presents |
| 1:35.2 | the popular YouTube series Trigger-Trigonometry, which I love, alongside Francis Foster. |
| 1:41.6 | Together they've interviewed some of the most in-demand |
| 1:43.6 | intellectuals of our age such as Douglas Murray, Jordan Peterson, and many others. Here's |
| 1:48.3 | the new book. A immigrants and immigrants love letter to the West. I read it on audio as usual and then I got the hard copy it reread this morning |
| 1:57.0 | Constantine it was a great read big fun |
| 2:00.0 | Give us a little bit of background your Your opening chapters are on your own particular unique history. |
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