Bad for the Jews?

Explain It to Me

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🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Dara, Jane, and Matt on Nick Cannon, Louis Farrakhan, and antisemitic conspiracy theories. Resources: "The conspiracy theories behind the anti-Semitic violence in New York" by Jane Coaston, Vox "Nick Cannon let go by ViacomCBS over anti-Semitic comments" by Lisa Respers France, CNN "Calling out racism and anti-Semitism is a responsibility" by David Love, CNN "Black Demagogues and Pseudo-Scholars" by Henry Louis Gates Jr., NYT "July 20, 1992: Bias Is Poison" by Henry Louis Gates Jr., NYT "Why Tamika Mallory Won’t Condemn Farrakhan" by Adam Serwer, The Atlantic White paper Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:52.4	Hello. Welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network. I'm
1:09.2	Matthew Eclaseus. Here with Jane Kostin, ProPublica's Darrylind. There has been an interesting
1:15.0	chain reaction of comments. Stemming from originally, it was Nick Cannon went on a podcast,
1:26.1	and then what did he say? What happened, Jane? It was a bad sign when he was joined by
1:34.6	Professor Griff for those who may be aware of the RAP Group Public Enemy. He was kicked out
1:40.4	in the late 1980s for being a rabid anti-Semite. First, let's talk about what Nick Cannon said,
1:46.4	that resulted in him getting fired from his improv show Wild and Out, a program when I worked at MCV
1:52.2	appeared to be on 24 hours a day. His commentary was not just rapidly anti-Semitic and also
2:01.8	very anti-white in a very specific way. One of his comments he made is, you can't be anti-Semitic
2:08.3	when we are the Semitic people, African-Americans of the Semitic people, when we are the same people
2:12.5	who they want to be, that's our birthright, we are the true Hebrews. This happened a couple of days
2:18.2	after Philadelphia Eagles, wide receiver, DeShawn Jackson shared a quote on Instagram that he thought
2:26.0	was attributed to Adolf Hitler, which is bad, but it actually comes from Lewis Farrakhan,
2:32.7	which is also bad, in which he said that black people are the real children of Israel and that
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