#3: What the P.C. Police Won't Tell You

Current Affairs

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🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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The *Current Affairs* panel discusses why right-wing commentators feel so aggrieved, figures out what we mean by prison abolition, and make the complicated simple and the simple complicated.

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0:00.0	From Studio H3 in the Current Affairs World Headquarters, it's Current Affairs,
0:08.8	your ears' greatest hour of politics and culture.
0:12.1	Today on the program, we discuss why right-wing commentators feel so aggrieved.
0:17.8	We figure out what we mean by prison abolition, and we all make the complicated
0:22.3	simple and the simple complicated. Our panel today, current affairs contributing editor
0:28.6	and intercept politics editor, Brianna Joy Gray.
0:31.8	Hey, Pete. Current Affairs legal editor, Esquire, Orin Nimmi.
0:35.6	Hello, everyone. Current Affairs senior editor, Breonna Renix.
0:39.4	And the editor-in-chief himself, Nathan, J. Robinson.
0:44.8	Hi there.
0:45.4	I'm your host, Pete Davis. Let's begin with segment one.
0:50.2	Please, oh, please, let this be the last time we talk about this.
1:13.6	In please, oh, please, let this be the last time we talk about this. In please, oh, please, let this be the last time we talk about this, we try to put an end to a conversation that has been happening for too long. This week's topic, the recent intellectual dark web kerfuffle, and with it, the general right-wing complaint about being silenced, a complaint that has been registered throughout the entirety of the right-wing ascendance into power over the past
1:18.2	decades. Are these intellectuals being silenced? Where does this complaint come from? How
1:24.6	should we respond to it? Let's hope in the next 20 minutes or so we can come to some
1:29.7	conclusion about this topic so that, please, oh please, this is the last time we talk about this.
1:36.5	Nathan, you recently wrote a current affairs piece about this. Could you explain the recent
1:42.3	intellectual dark web kerfuffle and get us started in finishing off this conversation for good?
1:48.6	Yeah, well, I hope so, but I feel like every time I think I've heard the last of these particular people,
1:55.4	we have another series of profiles and op-eds, and they just keep coming back. So the most recent thing was
2:03.4	Mary Weiss of the New York Times wrote this long, long profile with all these professional
2:11.0	photographs, with all these men standing looking serious, and these are the so-called members of the intellectual
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