Political Gabfest - Is Antisemitism Back?
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🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss Trump hosting prominent antisemites Ye (f/k/a Kanye West) and Nick Fuentes; Chinese protestors challenging their authoritarian government–with Sheena Chestnut Greitens; and Congress legislating to protect marriage equality through the Respect For Marriage Act.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Sheena Chestnut Greitens for Foreign Affairs: “Xi Jinping’s Quest for Order”
Sheena Chestnut Greitens and Julian Gewirt for Foreign Affairs: “China's Troubling Vision For The Future Of Public Health”
Here are this week’s chatters:
John: Darby Saxbe and Magdalena Martínez García for The Conversation: “Fatherhood Changes Men’s Brains, According To Before-And-After MRI Scans”
Emily: A compilation of Gabfest listeners favorite salad dressing recipes.
David: City Cast is expanding to new cities; Nicole Eustace for The New York Times: “300 Years Ago, There Was a Brutal Murder. We Could Learn From the Treaty That Followed.”
Listener chatter from Richard Medlicott: The Economist:”Shyam Saran Negi Never Failed In His Democratic Duty”; Alex Binley for the BBC: “Shyam Saran Negi: Man Dubbed 'india's First Voter' Dies Aged 105”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss the Supreme Court challenge to the Biden administration’s immigration policy in United States v. Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabb Fest. |
| 0:16.4 | December 1st, 2022, the is anti-Semitism back edition. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm David Plots of CityCast in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm joined by Emily Bazelon of The New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School |
| 0:30.2 | from New Haven, Connecticut, Hello, Emily, and still powerful is intellect not shaken |
| 0:38.9 | John Dickerson of CBS Primetime. |
| 0:40.9 | Hello everyone, I'm happy to be here, although I feel like I am only one cell more than the |
| 0:48.4 | basic minimum definition for a functioning human at this moment. |
| 0:54.2 | This week on the Gabb Fest, why did Trump have dinner with Ye and the anti-Semitic, white |
| 0:59.5 | nationalist, rabble rouser, Nick Fuentes? |
| 1:03.4 | I was trying to think of other disparaging terms for Nick Fuentes and I thought, I'll |
| 1:06.6 | just leave it there. |
| 1:08.1 | Then why has China erupted in protest? |
| 1:10.1 | We'll talk to beloved Gabb Fest guest, Gina Chestnut Gritans, about the zero COVID rebellion. |
| 1:16.2 | Then the Senate passed a law protecting marriage equality. |
| 1:19.3 | Will it protect marriage equality? |
| 1:20.6 | Does marriage equality need protecting? |
| 1:23.3 | Of course, we will have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:26.0 | You have just a couple more days to get conundrums to us. |
| 1:29.7 | We are going to have Allison Bechtel as our guest for our conundrum show, which will |
| 1:33.8 | air at the end of December. |
| 1:35.3 | If you want to have a one last gasp, just get us your conundrums this weekend. |
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