Episode 72: Transphobic Puppets Wreak Havoc And Greg Lukianoff Walks Us Through All These Anti-'CRT' Bills

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Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

After the hosts discuss a controversy involving a less-than-affirming puppet show, Greg Lukianoff joins them to talk about the anti-critical-race-theory laws being proposed all over the country, some of which he says represent the greatest threat to academic freedom he's seen in his 20-year career.

Show notes/Links:

Barnaby Dixon bio: https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Barnabydixon

His YouTube work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZWbpwCbxfY&ab_channel=barnabydixon

Philip the Philosofish interviews Sasha Ayad: https://youtu.be/Uvqg5wBOrqM

More info on Ayad: https://inspiredteentherapy.com/

"Responding to Criticism": https://youtu.be/5yQ8XYvA2Q4

No, desistance has not been 'debunked' (Jesse's newsletter): https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-science-vs-accidentally-invented

13 important points in the campus & K-12 ‘critical race theory’ debate: https://www.thefire.org/13-important-points-in-the-campus-k-12-critical-race-theory-debate/

Salon is crazy: https://www.salon.com/2021/06/23/desantis-signs-bill-requiring-florida-students-professors-to-register-political-views-with-state/

Chris Rufo on The Fifth Column: https://shows.acast.com/wethefifth/episodes/322-w-chris-rufo-banning-critical-race-theory-robin-diangelo

Kmele Foster of The Fifth Column teams up with ideological friends and foes alike to oppose the bills in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/opinion/we-disagree-on-a-lot-of-things-except-the-danger-of-anti-critical-race-theory-laws.html

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0:00.0	The Katie, I have been instructed by you to ask you how you're doing.
0:08.4	How are you doing?
0:09.4	Thank you for asking, Jesse.
0:11.9	I am pretty good, except that I have a severe weed hangover today.
0:16.2	Have you ever had a weed hangover?
0:17.4	I've had weed panic attacks, but not a hangover.
0:21.6	What does it feel like, is it similar to an alcohol hangover?
0:24.0	No, it is not similar to an alcohol hangover at all because it's not painful.
0:28.2	You just sit around the day after, in my case, eating a bunch of edibles, contemplating
0:33.4	the meeting of life.
0:35.0	In some ways, it's worse than an alcohol hangover.
0:37.4	No headache, just a lot of existential questions.
0:40.3	I saw my oldest friend and him and his wife were recently at a barbecue with their kids and
0:45.7	with a lot of other people's kids.
0:47.6	They gobbled down a few very tasty lemon squares to find out after that they were edibles.
0:53.3	Oh, no.
0:54.3	How did that go?
0:57.6	It was a challenge.
0:58.6	I think they each had one, my friend almost had two, but then the last minute his wife
1:02.6	was like, oh, I'll have that.
1:03.6	Wait, so did the kids have it?
1:05.5	No, no, I'm sorry.
	...

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