Episode 127: How James Lindsay and Karl Anderssen Gazed Into The Abyss
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
PhD scientist James Lindsay (“ConceptualJames”) wanted to expose fellow leftist academics for their culture warring with his famous hoax paper, which blamed penises for climate change. Embraced by the right, he waded into the front lines of the culture war and allowed it to consume him. Last week, the high-profile academic was pronounced dead at a Cracker Barrel in Tennessee after a dispute over meat substitutes turned deadly. (Rest In Power, brother.)
PhD researcher Karl Andersson wanted to get into the head of people who “like” little boys a little too much. He really, really wanted to get into their heads. So much that he – oh, thank God. They took it down. Noticing the right-wing backlash to his violation of social norms, the left instinctively jumps to his aid, opening another front in the culture wars…
He who does battle with monsters…
Fear and Loathing In Cracker Barrel
“Where pork-based and plant-based sausage lovers can breakfast all day in harmony.”
Is the Cracker Barrel menu getting 'woke'?
Jimmy Concepts
The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct: A Sokal-Style Hoax on Gender Studies
Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship
https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/
Is a Portland Professor Being Railroaded by His University for Criticizing Social-Justice Research?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/is-peter-boghossian-getting-railroaded-for-his-hoax.html
James Lindsay trying to start a fight with the Auschwitz Museum on Twitter, because that’s what normal people do
Lindsay blatantly declaring war on the gays without congressional authorization
Lindsay describing President Biden as having been “installed”
Lindsay saying someone called “Joe McCarthy” “didn’t go nearly far enough”. Apparently he’s from the Red Scare but I don’t remember him from any of their episodes so idk
Interview with Lindsay on his Twitter permaban
Lindsay attempts to tweetstorm IRL (WARNING: cringe)
Has Science Gone Too Far? (Yes.)
(What remains of) the article
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14687941221096600
Tories are not happy
Seeing the right-wing backlash, leftists begin reflexively defending it
The Perils of 180ism
The 2012 Vice article mentioned by Richie
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xdpb7k/breaking-boy-news
Image: “Surreal illustration of a man standing on the edge of an abyss” via Getty
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, here's up. |
| 0:03.0 | Hey, Jesse, are you familiar with monkeypox? |
| 0:14.7 | It's now been rebranded as like MPH or something, but monkeypox. |
| 0:18.3 | Yeah, I've been covered with source for years and no one cares. |
| 0:21.4 | And suddenly it's like a big deal. |
| 0:23.1 | But yeah, monkeypox. |
| 0:24.1 | That's Jessepox. |
| 0:25.1 | I've kind of bet. |
| 0:26.1 | I've the first known case of Jessepox, yes. |
| 0:29.0 | And only, okay. |
| 0:30.5 | So obviously monkeypox is a big story right now. |
| 0:33.3 | In Josh Barrow, the reporter, critic Josh Barrow, he shared a tweet, or he shared an article |
| 0:38.4 | the other day on Twitter that I wanted to read a little bit from. |
| 0:41.7 | So this is from Oregon Public Radio. |
| 0:44.5 | And they interviewed a senior advisor at the Oregon Health Authority about monkeypox. |
| 0:51.0 | And the reporter asked this guy about, Gabe, about like the messaging around this because |
| 0:56.0 | monkeypox is specifically impacting gay men. |
| 1:00.5 | I mean, oftentimes it's been reporters will say it's like the LGBT community. |
| 1:05.1 | This isn't true. |
| 1:06.1 | Lesbians don't go to bathhouses. |
| 1:07.3 | We're not getting monkeypox. |
| 1:08.3 | It's gay men or men who sleep with men. |
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