Episode 309 - Anti Anti-Racist (w/ Norman Finkelstein)
Bad Faith
Bad Faith
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Briahna speaks with writer and professor Norman Finkelstein about the latest scandal involving famed “anti-racism” advocate Ibram X Kendi. Financial mismanagement at BU is just the tip of the iceberg as Finkelstein applies his close reading of Kendi’s work to the current crisis. As interesting as “what’s going on” is the question of how did Kendi even get to a place where he was considered a leading scholar? Does his scholarship have anything to offer? And is “Wokeness” at the root of this?
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
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| 0:00.0 | That is a completely bankrupt culture. |
| 0:05.0 | That woke culture and everybody gets in my case |
| 0:08.0 | when I used the word Too Bad. |
| 0:10.0 | That woke culture is completely, totally bankrupt. |
| 0:17.0 | That's the problem. |
| 0:19.0 | It's not only bankrupt, but it does huge damage. |
| 0:24.0 | This idea that like somebody |
| 0:53.0 | profits from a policy and it's not me. |
| 0:56.0 | Therefore, I'm going to be like the lowest |
| 0:58.0 | most surpine person on the planet. |
| 1:00.0 | News flash. |
| 1:01.0 | Should I have to pay for elementary schools? |
| 1:05.0 | I don't have a child. |
| 1:07.0 | Should I have to pay for the roads? |
| 1:10.0 | I don't have a car or a driver's license. |
| 1:13.0 | Should I have to pay for section 8 housing? |
| 1:16.0 | I can pay rent. |
| 1:17.0 | Should my taxes go to endless wars? |
| 1:19.0 | I don't give a crap what Ukrainians are up to. |
| 1:21.0 | Is that my business? |
| 1:23.0 | In that argument, if you go back as far as I do, |
| 1:28.0 | the fact that the matter is what they teach now in college |
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