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This Wreckage

Free Speech on the Beach (BONUS preview)

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2970 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

We chat about Sean's appearance at the Sublation Media release event last week in Brooklyn, the dead end of free speech/cancel culture obsession among leftists, and meeting Norman Finkelstein on the beach.

Check out the full episode and join or Discord community at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Chris Cutrone's essay from the event: https://www.sublationmag.com/post/dogmatization-and-thought-taboos-on-the-left

Song: Neil Young - On the Beach

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yeah, and also, and I said this on the panel, which probably clips will be up, I think, at some point in time, so if they're up in time, we can link to them, if not, we'll, I don't know, send them out some other way, right?

0:10.0

But I said this at the time, you know it's it's illegal to be

0:17.3

To preside within a union and be a communist

0:21.1

Right you know about that with the Taft-Hartley Act, which is still in place.

0:25.7

Like you have to be willing to take an oath of loyalty to the Constitution of the United States

0:30.6

and you cannot be a communist if you're going to run for

0:33.5

union office. But does that mean like CP USA? It means whatever it means. Is it like a

0:40.0

big C communist? It's and it's it's little C and big C. It's both of these things, right? It's like we're going

0:47.3

back to like a period like in the you know the 1950s if you were gay and worked for the State Department like you could just

0:55.8

lavender scare listen to our episode about the lavender scare from last year I should

0:59.1

probably repose that yeah you should it's important stuff I mean let's go back to the alien and sedition acts

1:05.2

Let's go back to fucking the free speed the original free speech move oh my god that was the cat

1:12.3

Wow Murray's on the pod

1:15.0

Wow he's causing a ruckus he does not like he's a free speech advocate

1:19.6

Okay, chill Murray

1:21.3

No, you go back to the original free speech movement,

1:24.4

which was Wobbly's in the 19-teens,

1:26.8

like going in and getting arrested

1:28.3

for standing on soap boxes and advocating

1:30.6

for working class power, getting thrown in jails on mass until the jails were

1:35.2

filled up and they had to all get thrown out.

1:37.5

And then of course you put on top of that, like the structural constraints of the fact that like the media is capital like and

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