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Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh’s Soap Box: Twitter & Antisemitism

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Comedy

4.6863 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Josh reflects on Elon Musk, Kanye, Israel, and the rise of online Jew-hate.

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0:00.0

Gahy humans. Welcome to my soapbox, a little bit of free extra content for you.

0:08.2

My thoughts about some things that are going on this week.

0:11.5

There's a lot of who-harring about Elon.

0:13.7

Ah, it's the death of Twitter, apparently.

0:15.9

It's just going to become a hate-filled place for neo-Nazis.

0:19.6

Now, gee people get prematurely agitated about things. I mean, give the guy... a hate-filled place for neo-Nazis now.

0:24.1

Chee people get prematurely agitated about things.

0:25.7

I mean, give the guy three seconds.

0:29.7

Oh, I'm as skeptical as anyone that it's going to be a change for the better.

0:31.4

But can we give him a second?

0:35.8

He might actually know something more than we do about what he's planning.

0:39.1

Or he may not, but I'm certainly withholding judgment.

0:47.0

Nonetheless, the climate into which this Twitter takeover by Elon is happening is not ideal in terms of hate speech, the fear being that he's going to allow more of it

0:52.6

on the platform and be more expansive in his idea of free speech

0:57.7

than the people running social media platforms have been

1:02.2

in trying to weed out hate speech.

1:06.8

And the climate's particularly tender at the moment because of Kanye.

1:13.2

Kanye has brought forth in my mind, and I think many people's minds,

1:18.3

this lurking, dark, background issue of anti-Semitism.

1:25.0

And on my, I suppose, first foray into this little format of just sort of ear vomiting my thoughts into your brain,

1:35.4

I was dismissive about Kanye.

1:37.5

I was saying, well, look, this is obviously mental health issue.

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