(Preview) Burning a Bridge w/ Norman Finkelstein

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4.3 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Anders tries and fails to convince his erstwhile hero, Norman Finkelstein, to be more woke. At least when it comes to trans people. Full ep: Patreon.com/poddamnamerica Book: https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/books/ill-burn-that-bridge-when-i-get-to-it/

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0:00.0	you can't change it. And I will not, in the name of being enlightened, deny scientific or physical, forget
0:12.9	scientific, deny physical facts. I'm not going to call Danny DeVito tool. No, I'm not.
0:22.0	You laugh at that.
0:23.1	Why is that funny?
0:27.8	Well, just maybe relative to an aunt, he's quite tall, but that's, okay.
0:33.0	I would say that's a completely irrelevant comparison, and you know why.
0:33.9	That's why you laugh.
0:35.2	Yeah.
0:39.2	You want to make an argument that's not tenable, and that's my problem.
0:42.8	But it's not an argument about people's genitalia.
0:47.1	That's the whole point, is that that shouldn't really matter to you or to me.
0:48.3	It doesn't matter.
0:51.0	I just told you, I said, do whatever you want with your life.
0:52.2	Good. It's a good thing.
0:53.7	As Mills said, eccentricity is a good thing. As Mills said,
0:55.2	eccentricity is a good thing.
0:58.0	I have no problem with that.
1:00.5	What I have a problem with is people are trying to impose an agenda that's unscientific,
1:08.3	based on what people in science tell me.
1:10.8	Okay.
1:11.3	Well, if I, and if I sent you more science on this, would you read it and perhaps?
1:16.6	I actually, I wouldn't.
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