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The PoliticsGirl Podcast

College Campus Crisis: A Conversation with David Rothkopf

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

I’ve been watching what’s been happening on college campuses with real uncertainty. I don’t believe we’re getting the full story from the media. Much like the horserace neck and neck BS they’re peddling for the election, I feel as if traditional media is pushing narratives with the protests that don’t tell the full picture and it leaves people feeling outraged or confused. As today’s guest David Rothkopf says, “If you want this crisis to be simple, you’re looking in the wrong place. It’s not simple. It’s difficult and it requires grown-ups who have a sense of history and the ability to weigh different and competing ideas at the same time.” As David so aptly points out, our tendency to be tribal has turned these conflicts on college campuses into a Rorschach test where we often end up seeing what we want to see. As Robert Reich said, “There should be nothing inherently anti-Semitic about condemning the ongoing destruction in Gaza”. And yet…that is not how it’s always playing out. So let’s talk about it. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: The Rothkopf Group: https://trgmedia.com Deep State Radio:https://pod.link/1245002955 Twitter: @djrothkopf Amazon for books:https://www.amazon.com/David-J.-Rothkopf/e/B001H6O2A0%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… http://rocketmoney.com/politicsgirl http://honeylove.com/politicsgirl http://sundaysfordogs.com/politicsgirl Code: PoliticsGirl

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0:00.0

Each of us has a responsibility to do the work to understand what's going on and not to be easily swayed by talking heads on TV who say, well well this is all anti-Semitic or this is all

0:16.4

virtuous or this is you know it's it's not those things it's more complicated

0:21.1

than that and you owe it to the people who are out there

0:25.0

protesting sincerely to try to get to their core message and understand it.

0:29.6

Now you don't owe it to them for any other reason that this is how we help make our society work.

0:35.6

We listen to other voices.

0:37.2

This is democracy.

0:38.3

We celebrate that there can be many voices here. Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.

0:56.6

I move some things around this week so I could have my friend David Rothkop back on the show

1:00.7

to talk about what's going on in college campuses in America

1:04.0

in regards to the Middle East. For those of you who didn't hear David in my conversation

1:08.1

back in January regarding the Israel-Gaza Palestinian-Hamass crisis, I would highly recommend you go back and listen to that

1:15.0

episode.

1:16.0

It gives a lot of history of the conflict and David offers a lot of important insight into many of

1:20.4

the faces of the response since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th,

1:24.1

2023. Today, however, we're going to discuss how the crisis is

1:27.8

escalated in America, particularly on American college campuses, and the

1:32.2

reaction around the country in response.

1:34.6

For those of you who don't know, David is the CEO of the Rothkop Group, a best-selling author

1:39.0

and journalist and host of the Deep State Radio Podcast.

1:42.2

He served as Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce

1:44.4

and International Trade Policy in the Clinton administration, has worked as a

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