Jesse Interviews Ben Burgis About "Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique Of The Contemporary Left" (extended cut)

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🗓️ 2 June 2021

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Self-explanatory! Enjoy. Lotsa links below about Ben's work and the stuff discussed in this interview. We'll be back with a new K+J episode soon.

-latest book, Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique Of The Contemporary Left: https://www.amazon.com/Canceling-Comedians-While-World-Burns/dp/1789045479

-Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis

-YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCByZMNYpHFEetI0s3deYH2g

-Bernie Sanders’ unreasonably Vermontian demands: https://nypost.com/2021/05/27/book-reveals-bernies-hotel-demands-king-size-beds-and-60-degree-rooms/

-Bernie Sanders criticized for ‘touting’ Rogan clip: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/24/politics/bernie-sanders-joe-rogan-endorsement/index.html

-Ben Burgis and Michael Brooks on why Rogan’s endorsement was good: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/01/its-good-that-joe-rogan-endorsed-bernie-now-we-have-to-organize

-Tom Cotton column: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html

-National Guard deployment to Kenosha:

https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/national-guard-ends-deployment-to-kenosha/article_61a44f06-43cd-5db8-992f-23f1bcbb5188.html

-$1-2b in damage from the George Floyd riots:
https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html

-attacks on federal courthouse in Portland:
https://ktvz.com/news/crime-courts/2020/07/24/fires-set-inside-portland-federal-courthouse-fence-18-arrested-on-federal-charges/

-Matt Taibbi’s book Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another:
https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Inc-Todays-Despise-Another/dp/1949017257

-Ben Burgis/Jacobin Bestner article on ‘insurrection’:
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/trump-capitol-riot-fascist-coup-attempt?fbclid=IwAR1CVU3AKhMhXufL6OfwDiu_UEIFcghIZ0osMlS-uFST8rmdT7dQ9w69vVU

-2019 DSA convention ‘highlights’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHRxu3XrsHg&ab_channel=Mitchollow

-JFC, tankies: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tankie

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0:00.0	Hello, it's me Jesse, no Katie today. I am here to present you with an interview I did with Ben
0:06.2	Burgess, a philosopher and writer who also does a lot of debates and other good stuff online.
0:12.0	He recently published a book called Canceling Comedians While the World Burns, a critique
0:17.0	of the contemporary left. As you can probably gather from the title that critique centers on
0:22.4	fixation on certain fights that Ben thinks are counterproductive to the left. We had a very good
0:28.2	conversation about his book, about Joe Rogan, about the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
0:34.4	You are a patron, so you will be hearing the whole thing. It's about an hour. I hope you enjoy.
0:38.7	Thank you very much for the support. Ben Burgess, how are you doing today?
0:43.7	I am okay. I'm actually a little a little disturbed by this news. I don't know. They saw the
0:49.6	New York Post broke this story. Bernie Sanders apparently is a maniac, like a rock star,
0:58.4	a collegial figure. He'd go to hotel rooms and there was a list of demands. His staff was
1:06.8	prepared to demand of all the hotels. Let me just guess before you continue.
1:11.4	Okay. Quarter pound of fresh locks. Yeah, so apparently he demanded a king size bed and that
1:22.0	the temperature would be set to 60. To 60? Yeah. Wait, okay, that's actually psychotic. That is
1:28.7	very cold for a hotel room. Well, I guess he's not from Vermont, but he lived there long enough
1:33.2	that he wanted sort of, I guess that's like the height of Burlington summer temperature.
1:38.7	Yeah, yeah. Apparently sometimes he'd go so far as to open up a window to get the temperature
1:45.6	down to 60. That's really crazy. Wow. Well, he really, I can no longer support him in light of
1:53.4	these revelations. Yeah. No, I think that yeah, I mean, like apparently like an elderly
2:02.8	Jewish man has strong preferences about about the condition to which one to sleep. So really defying
2:09.4	step, really defying stereotypes there. Well, Ben, I know, I know that we could because of your
2:15.6	burning hatred of Bernie Sanders, we could talk about this for hours, but instead you have a new
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