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Serious Inquiries Only

SIO9: Punching Nazis, with Eli Bosnick

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, Atheism, Skepticism, Democrat, Left, Liberal, Politics, News Commentary, Progressive, Religion

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Recently the internet exploded in debate over a video in which neo-Nazi Richard Spencer was punched while giving an interview. Even the New York Times published an article that asked whether this is something that should be morally permissible. I have come out against violence over words of any non-imminently threatening kind, and my guest Eli Bosnick has come out strong the other way. Since Eli is an awesome guy willing to discuss disagreements and try to find the truth, he's here to have a bit of a debate with me on what the correct course of action is re: Nazi punching. To leave a voicemail to potentially be played on the show, call (916) 750-4746! Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/seriouspod Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email [email protected] Questions, Suggestions, Episode ideas? Contact us: [email protected]

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0:00.0

You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and this is serious inquiries only I'm your host Thomas Smith and this is episode number nine.

0:36.0

All right well today I've got a bit of a sort of a preemption I had a different episode planned

0:41.0

but then this whole Nazi punching video went viral and actually

0:46.7

it has a lot of people arguing back and forth I did a few statuses on it on various social media

0:51.4

by the way you can befriend me on Facebook.com

0:54.4

slash Thomas Podcast if you'd like to be my Facebook friend and catch all this stuff

0:59.2

or follow me at at T and the B or at serious pod. Those are my two Twitter accounts.

1:05.1

I Twitter more serious stuff on the serious pod thing and more jokes on the T and

1:09.6

the B. But anyway, all that aside. there's a lot of disagreement actually in our little online

1:16.0

communities about this.

1:18.1

And I wanted to get to the bottom of it.

1:20.5

I was going to do a Thursday talk on it but Eli Bosnick was

1:24.0

willing to come on because we disagree on it and it's it's always good when we get a

1:28.2

chance to argue with each other about something so I want to thank Eli for coming on. It was a long discussion. I edited down a little bit, but a lot of stuff, a lot of moving parts in this discussion. So here I give you my debate with Eli Bosnick

1:44.6

over whether it's okay to punch Nazis.

1:47.2

And I suppose you'll have to judge for yourself. Joining me right now is Mr Eli Bosnick back for a umpteenth time.

2:04.4

How you doing, Eli?

2:05.6

I'm good, Thomas, thanks for having me.

2:07.8

Thank you for coming on.

2:08.9

I really appreciate it.

2:09.7

First, I do want to say, just a split second here to praise one Eli Bosnick because we've

2:16.4

pretty vehemently disagreed on this issue the issue of punching Nazis which is what we're

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