Ep. 7: Norms
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
Nebulous Media
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
What are norms? What societal and political norms should we continue to observe today? And when is it okay to break the norms? On this episode of The Re-Education, Eli Lake talks norms with Liberties founder Leon Wieseltier.
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- 00:03 - Segment: Introduction
- 00:18 - Segment: Monologue
- 07:38 - Segment: Interview with Leon Wieseltier
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| 0:00.0 | This is Eli Lake and you're listening to the re-education. |
| 0:05.0 | Our topic today is norms, and our guest is the editor and founder of Liberties, the incomparable Leon Weaselteer. |
| 0:14.0 | While this illegitimate court is on the verge of taking away reproductive rights, I wanted to speak to another horrendous assault on people's rights that is taking place across the country right now. |
| 0:27.7 | At the same time, as states are rushing to pass new abortion restrictions or are waiting to uphold their anti-abortion trigger laws, legislatures across the country are passing a flurry of anti-LGB |
| 0:38.4 | Bills as well. |
| 0:40.4 | Just this year, we've seen the introduction of 238 anti-LGBQ bills, over half of which |
| 0:50.0 | target trans individuals. |
| 0:52.3 | This is genocide. |
| 0:56.1 | It is. |
| 0:57.2 | We've seen attacks on the rights of people to use the bathroom to play sports and just to |
| 1:01.9 | openly live as themselves. |
| 1:03.7 | What you just heard was from a protest in front of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's |
| 1:09.1 | home. |
| 1:09.8 | Following the leak of a draft decision that would |
| 1:12.1 | overturn Roe v. Wade, advocates for legal abortion have been assembling before the private |
| 1:17.7 | homes of six conservative justices. One group, known as Ruth sent us, publicized Google |
| 1:24.5 | Map addresses of the six justices they deemed reactionary. Other activists have |
| 1:30.9 | disrupted mass in Catholic churches dressed as characters in The Handmaid's Tale. A group in Wisconsin, |
| 1:37.5 | calling themselves Jane's Revenge, attempted to burn down an anti-abortion organization's office. |
| 1:43.0 | But it also shows a leader what it feels like to lose your freedom of choice. |
| 1:48.9 | He cannot leave the house easily, so maybe that's a good lesson for them. |
| 1:52.2 | Well, and I will say... |
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