UNLOCKED - Episode 197 - The YIMBY Failing Project feat. Shanti Singh (3/28/18)

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4.6 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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UNLOCKED The gang takes a break in the middle of their West Coast tour to talk urban housing with Shanti Singh (@uhshanti), co-chair of the DSA SF Housing Committee and steering committee member. While Will cooks up a banquet they discuss the sanctity of the Atlantic’s op/ed roster, Baseball Crank’s mpreg fantasy, Silicon Valley’s Pinkerton-patrolled company towns, candidate cities for Chapo’s new content factory, and YIMBYism, the hot new fad among poorly socialized free market liberals. sfrighttocounsel.com - DSA SF's campaign to give tenants facing eviction a universal right to counsel

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0:00.0	Folks, we're leaving Zans in 2017.
0:04.0	Thank you.
0:04.8	No, it's so funny watching the conservative freak out over the response to Kevin Williamson
0:10.7	being hired by the Atlantic.
0:13.2	And all of them saying, my God, the brightest conservative voices of our generation, the
0:18.6	liberal no-platformers are going to go after to ensure that they have nowhere they can
0:23.0	write for.
0:24.0	Like, the everyone who is politically active when they were like 16, head of phase where
0:28.0	they read the Atlantic and read like, you know, the brave new age of IQ vote testing
0:34.8	by Andrew Sullivan or whatever.
0:36.2	And it's like, no, this is like exactly as shitty as the Atlantic is.
0:39.8	But it is funny that everyone is pertaining to Kevin D. Williamson should have any job
0:44.7	except being the host of a sort of medieval time spin-off or its Dracula's castle.
0:49.6	Yeah.
0:50.6	And he gives you a big chicken leg.
0:52.1	It's really the, there's a double-edged sword with criticizing something like a Williamson
0:56.8	hired by the Atlantic.
0:57.8	Because the one hand you want to point out, this is horrifying.
1:01.6	Why are you platforming this maniac, this drooling bond villain who wants to bring back
1:06.6	Hooverville's and forced a boy and forced childbirth at gunpoint?
1:11.8	What does that say about the range of opinion, you know, that there's no left comparable
1:15.2	voice you could have on that would equal Kevin Williamson on the right and it's unfair.
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