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703 Teaser - Might As Well Ban the Crank Yankers

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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We discuss Ron DeSantis’ war on books and its potential national popularity. Subscribe today for access to the full episode and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse

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as ignorant as most americans are i i think there is something

0:03.3

even in our like our you know pig headed sense something unamerican about

0:06.8

removing books from libraries like it just it doesn't it doesn't seem like

0:10.5

there's like that big a constituency for it i mean i'm sure there i mean there

0:13.7

it's a significant one and it's a frightening one but i i just think that this

0:16.6

shit is like

0:17.9

i just it is not going to get you over nationally or least i hope it fucking

0:21.2

doesn't because this is like it doesn't seem like a set mean

0:24.8

will put it this way i don't see them bragging about it a lot you know do you

0:28.9

i don't see them i don't see them like trumpeting this they don't seem like

0:32.4

terribly proud of it well i mean like similar to the abortion thing it's like

0:35.8

they of course want to ban any reference to you know uh... black people in

0:40.4

american history or gay people existing or gay themes from all art in culture

0:45.8

but like similar to the they want to abandon abortion too but when it gets

0:48.7

banned and like it becomes a thing like questions begin to get asked about what

0:53.5

this actually entails and i think you're seeing the same thing happen with this

0:56.5

like the the insane book banning and censorship that's going on in in florida

1:00.8

and elsewhere about like oh i didn't think i meant i don't i i didn't we didn't

1:04.9

think he meant that book it's considered a classic and like a part of american

1:08.8

history but no like they they do and you're right Felix they don't seem to be

1:13.3

i i seem like i'm i'm i'm i'm mostly see people like sharing their

1:17.2

disgusted reactions to it rather than politicians

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