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🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Quillett Podcast. I'm your host Jonathan Kay, a senior editor at Quillett. |
0:08.0 | Quillett is where Freethought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. |
0:15.3 | If you'd like to support the podcast, you can do so by going to quilett.com and becoming a paid subscriber. |
0:21.8 | This subscription will also give you access to all our |
0:24.3 | articles and early access to Colette social events. And this week's guest is |
0:29.0 | one of my favorite newspaper columnists, Pamela Paul of the New York Times. She writes lots of great |
0:34.5 | columns but the one that really caught my eye was a somewhat tongue-in-cheek |
0:38.4 | June 20 article titled No I Don't Want to Protest which for me summed up my own feelings about |
0:44.8 | standing around in the sun or rain and shouting simplistic slogans at people about |
0:49.7 | Donald Trump or Joe Biden or Gaza or whatnot. |
0:53.2 | Now the obvious backdrop to this are the anti-Israel protest encampments |
0:57.8 | scattered around North American university campuses. |
1:00.5 | But as Pamela makes clear, her antipathy to protest extends beyond putting on a kaffia and bleeding from the river to the sea. |
1:08.0 | The experience can be tedious and sometimes even dangerous, and you spend a lot of time wondering when you're going to be |
1:13.7 | able to wander off and go to the bathroom. Anyway without further ado I give you Miss |
1:18.6 | Pamela Paul. Pamela thanks so much for being on the Colette Podcast, a big fan. |
1:23.6 | Thank you, delighted to be here. |
1:25.6 | Okay, so this felt like the kind of column that maybe you'd wanted to write for a long time and then you finally wrote it? |
1:34.0 | So actually I very often will write columns ahead of time and in fact I had filed my column for that week |
1:41.0 | and I was driving in my car and just had this sudden idea |
1:47.1 | of writing about protests from this very different angle, |
1:50.8 | which is to say first person pretty ironic satirical |
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