"Off The Rails?" with James Lindsay

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

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

4.6 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

James Lindsay is one of the most controversial figures on the American right. He was permanently banned from Twitter in August, until Elon reinstated him this week. He initially gained famed debunking the social-justice left. Since then, he has become notorious for increasingly dire warnings about an authoritarian leftist takeover of culture. Is he a crank, or a genius? Josh tries to figure him out.

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0:00.0	A quick programming note because this is hot off the presses for today's conversation.
0:07.2	James Lindsay, with whom I'm about to speak, was just reinstated onto Twitter by Elon Musk.
0:14.0	We discuss his Twitter ban back on the 8th, sorry, the 5th of the 8th, the 5th of August
0:19.1	2022.
0:19.9	He was banned from Twitter.
0:21.4	That was pre-the-Musk takeover.
0:23.3	He'd been talking about groomers, that whole controversy in the United States, about whether
0:29.2	or not teaching young children about drag queens and transgender people and different
0:35.0	sexual orientations is a way of trying to groom them into that
0:38.4	lifestyle. He had created the meme, hashtag OK groomer. And as a result of that, Twitter booted
0:47.7	him off the platform. He had been silent for some months. And then literally today, as I record
0:53.4	this on the 22nd of November in Australia,
0:57.3	his first tweet back courtesy of Elon Musk five hours ago,
1:01.9	Hello Darkness, my old friend, and he follows up with a photo of him at Karl Marx's tomb
1:07.3	and he's pissing on Karl Marx. Enjoy. Gonday humans, this is the safe space for
1:15.4	dangerous ideas and oh, James Lindsay has some dangerous ideas. Maybe not just sort of metaphorically
1:23.4	dangerous ideas, maybe actually dangerous ideas. I was a bit torn about going back to James
1:31.5	Lindsay, but here's the thing. I'll explain who he is in just a moment if you don't know.
1:35.9	He and I did an amazing interview all the way back in February of 2022. It was almost two hours
1:43.2	long. We didn't know each other from a bar of soap. He certainly almost two hours long.
1:46.4	We didn't know each other from a bar of soap.
1:48.0	He certainly didn't know anything about me and was expecting me to be a wild-eyed, woke, lefty,
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