OA511: More on the Censorious Right's Unconstitutional Quest to Cancel Knowledge

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🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In a dizzy euphoria at having had a single good interaction with a stranger on Facebook, Andrew decided to listen to an episode of Bari Weiss's podcast featuring a debate between Chris Rufo and David French on Critical Race Theory. Apparently, Andrew has too much free time and not enough things to be mad at. But it inspired part 3 on Critical Race Theory and what the likely next Pokemon evolution of the moral panic will be.

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0:00.0	The party in the face part should be known in this contract as the party in the face part.
0:19.2	The witness will comply under the, uh, this, uh, zero.
0:27.8	Judge Perth is stumped by this case.
0:29.7	I've also misplaced my judge-hammin.
0:31.7	The Justice system works swiftly in the future and I'll think of polished all lawyers.
0:39.7	The light cloud will suggest that your client drives my client back to your client's flat where
0:48.7	your client will play some James Taylor.
0:53.7	Welcome to Opening Arguments, a podcast that pairs a comedian with a real-life lawyer.
0:59.7	This podcast is sponsored by the law offices of P. Andrew Torres LLC for entertainment purposes,
1:04.7	is not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship.
1:08.7	Don't take legal advice from a podcast.
1:17.7	Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is episode 5-11 and I can quit because we finally podcasted my height.
1:24.7	You know, that's what, that's what, like you try to bowl your weight or like, or bench your weight, you know, or one of those things.
1:31.7	Podcasted my height, I can quit. Have fun, Andrew. How you doing?
1:36.7	Well, I could, I could have quit last month sometime, but apparently, still working on the whole bowling my weight thing.
1:45.7	If I could get my, if I could get my weight down to like a good trim 105 pounds.
1:51.7	Yeah, I was going to say which is the better strategy? Get better at bowling or diet. I don't know which, one way or the other.
1:57.7	You'd have to like, surgically remove my head and put it on a balsa wood body for me to match my bowling abilities.
2:03.7	So that's going to be a challenge. But you know what's not going to be a challenge explaining more of the right wings assault on critical race theory. How is that?
2:14.7	And you know what's interesting in between recording these episodes. We learned in the teaser last episode that you listened to Barry Weiss's podcast, right?
2:26.7	That was a debate between Chris Rufo and David French. Right.
2:31.7	I just noticed in the middle of that that I saw someone share. Now this is a week older. So, but I saw someone share that none other than Sam Harris tweeted out.
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