Episode 110: The Threats Against Jesse Get Weird, Jon Haidt Diagnoses America, And The FBI Plots A Terroristic Kidnapping
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Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Does the Twitter trans community have a problem with sexually violent threats? Will Elon Musk hurt Twitter? How accurate is Jon Haidt’s take on what is ailing American? How big a threat was the Gretchen Whitmer kidnappling plot? Is this question-heavy format for episode descriptions annoying? To discuss this episode with other Blocked and Reported subscribers, click here?
Show notes/Link:
The tweets Jesse was complaining about:
A threat to hang the likes of Kathleen Stock:
Normal stuff:
"Why The Past 10 Years Of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid":
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
Than Robinson on the SPLC: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/the-southern-poverty-law-center-is-everything-thats-wrong-with-liberalism
The Whitmer “kidnapping” “plot”:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/fbi-michigan-kidnap-whitmer
https://reason.com/2022/04/08/gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-plot-acquittal-fbi/
The Takes:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/04/09/whit-a09.html
Image: People attend a Freedom Rally in support of First Amendment rights and to protest against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan on May 15, 2021. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP) (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, here's our what's up. |
| 0:11.4 | Hey Jesse, I got an interesting message from one of our followers the other day. |
| 0:16.4 | Do you remember our episode about Niko Kato? |
| 0:19.4 | Yes, tell me if I have this right. |
| 0:21.5 | Niko Kato is a young man who eats grotesque amounts of food on YouTube for money and then |
| 0:27.6 | occasionally complains about being fat shame for it. |
| 0:29.8 | Yeah, that's pretty much it. |
| 0:31.9 | So I don't totally remember the details of why we covered Niko Kato avocado. |
| 0:37.1 | I believe there was something somebody made a video that made it look like he was questioning |
| 0:41.2 | the Holocaust. |
| 0:42.2 | Was that it? |
| 0:43.2 | Something like that. |
| 0:44.2 | I don't know. |
| 0:45.2 | I think I could just like throwing out completely defamatory. |
| 0:49.1 | I think he might have been responsible for that 11. |
| 0:52.5 | No, no, no. |
| 0:53.5 | He didn't, he wasn't responsible for the Holocaust. |
| 0:55.0 | He didn't question the Holocaust. |
| 0:56.2 | He took a video of him like complaining about likes or comments. |
| 1:00.1 | Oh, and made it seem like like Nazi shit. |
| 1:02.6 | I remember this. |
| 1:03.6 | Yes, he didn't do anything like that, but there was a deceptively edited video. |
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