E132. Bari Weiss Believes It's Never Going To Get Easier To Speak Up, So Do It Now

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🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Bari Weiss is a journalist (New York Times, Wall Street Journal) and author of How to Fight Antisemitism. She and Bridget have an in-depth conversation about how full personhood is not possible on the internet, faux outrage and what it's doing to us, the explosion of independent media, the dangers of exploring TikTok, and why the end of Trump's presidency means you're suddenly you're allowed to say things that have never stopped being true. They discuss what to do when you notice you're self-censoring, the potential for being de-platformed, how quickly our brains deny the reality of something terrible happening, how Jews are the obvious victims of antisemitism but the wider victim is the society infected by it, intersectionality, race, the dangers of focusing on whiteness, and why Bari believes that the fight of our lifetimes is the fight against illiberalism. Don't miss Bari's new podcast Honestly .

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this podcast one production now available on Apple Podcasts podcast one Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcasts
0:08.0	This is walk-ins welcome with Bridget Pettasy and Bridget Pettasy and you are welcome
0:13.6	You know the drill please subscribe rate comment share reach out tell your friend send smoke signals whatever we love your feedback and we want to hear from you
0:34.7	This week on the podcast
0:36.5	I am so excited to sit down with my friend Barry Weiss
0:40.2	Barry Weiss is a journalist and the author of how to fight anti-semitism which won a 2019 national Jewish book award
0:48.5	From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at the New York Times before that
0:54.5	She was an op-ed and book review editor at the Wall Street Journal
0:58.1	Barry is now writing at her sub-stack and her new podcast is called honestly with Barry Weiss
1:05.3	I'm with Barry Weiss everybody
1:07.4	Welcome hi bridge. It's been it's long overdue. I'm so excited to be I'm so excited to have you you're it's so funny because to me you're just you know like my Barry
1:19.1	And then I see the world I am a monstrous ghoul it seems like you the vitriol that you get is
1:26.6	outsized to the small adorable loving
1:31.0	joyful person that I know in real life and I don't
1:35.5	I think you handle it with so much grace. I don't know
1:40.5	How
1:42.0	How you do how do you handle it?
1:45.4	Let's get right into it. Let's get into it. Well, first of all, thank you
1:51.2	It's a combination of things and and and it's not
1:54.9	There's no perfect solution
1:58.0	Unless I guess I was to sort of like unplug the internet and move to some
2:02.5	Island off the coast of New Zealand and never look at Twitter again, which sounds amazing
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