Episode 648 | Why The Culture War and Social Issues Are All That Matter

The Benjamin Dixon Show

News, Politics

4.6 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk is a friend of mine and I respect his work. But a tweet he sent out -- though he certainly offered clarification -- gives us the opportunity to explore the idea that the culture war is a distraction or best understood as a tool used by oligarchs to keep us divided. I used to think this too until I thought this all the way through.

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0:00.0	The Benjamin Dixon Show is only possible with listener support.
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0:12.0	I believe and join the Progressive Army.
0:17.0	I believe this is episode 648. I'm going to cover several things in this episode.
0:21.0	First and foremost, I want to address this tweet from a colleague I guess you can say in this
0:26.2	YouTube podcast political commentary space Kyle Kallinsky made a tweet that I can't disagree with more and it's important that we discuss
0:38.8	it because at the core of it not just because tweeted it, that's not as important as the fact that what's at the
0:45.8	core of this tweet is a problem that plagues progressive circles and liberal circles. progressive circles
0:55.0	probably more because well let me read the tweet to you
0:59.0	when we get started
1:00.0	Secondly I'm going to cover Think Progress being censored by
1:06.7	Facebook as a result of a conservative media platform, the weekly standard being given fact-checking powers over
1:19.1	progressive and liberal content. And why this is not the same as what happened to Alex Jones and why we see some of the same people who were screaming over Alex Jones from the left are silent about
1:35.3	this because they don't like thing progress. The horseshoe theory, as much as people don't like
1:42.0	it, there's some truth to it.
1:44.0	And you'll see why that's probably going to be in the B segment.
1:48.0	And last but not, at least, somebody accused me of going after Jimmy Doerr because I wanted more ratings. And anyone who looks at my YouTube
1:57.7	numbers obviously knows that I genuinely am not concerned about the numbers that I get on YouTube.
2:06.0	I've always been preeminently concerned with speaking the truth,
2:11.0	how I see it no matter who it pisses off and I think well I'll talk about that
2:16.6	more in the C segment but since I've been accused of that I think I will actually do that and use Jimmy Door and
2:27.8	explain to you all why I think Jimmy Door is a scourge on progressive politics, progressive commentary, and I don't even
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