Unregistered 248: Norman Finkelstein

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Thaddeus Russell

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🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Since 2007, Norman Finkelstein has been blacklisted from academia and considered a pariah among the liberal establishment for his fierce criticism of the state of Israel and what he calls "the Holocaust industry." He joined me to discuss his new book, I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It, which is an equally provocative attack on identity politics in the contemporary left.

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0:00.0	On April 12th at Unregistered Academy, we begin our long-awaited four-part webinar series on the Bible.
0:10.0	It's part of our great book series at Unregistered Academy, and you can sign up to attend this course live
0:17.0	and or view all of our courses, including this one, via streaming video.
0:23.2	Just go to unregisteredacademy.com and join up at any level.
0:29.0	We'll see you in class.
0:33.4	This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.
0:39.5	This is a show about ideased Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell. This is a show about ideas,
0:45.2	people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.
0:50.6	The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a schoolteacher, a college professor,
0:56.7	a businessman, a politician, a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host.
1:02.2	These are the things you're not supposed to say or even think if you're a good liberal,
1:08.9	a good conservative, or a good citizen. Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say. They might be a journalist or a professor.
1:12.6	They might be a porn star or a drug dealer.
1:15.6	They might just be an ordinary person with an ordinary job
1:18.6	who doesn't care about the rules of polite society.
1:22.6	I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker.
1:25.6	I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought and to expand the scope of the rules just to be a troublemaker. I'm interested in people who break the
1:28.3	rules of conventional thought and to expand the scope of what is possible to say in our society.
1:34.3	I'm interested in people who make me think.
1:38.3	My guest this week was one of the very first people to get cancelled for saying things
1:52.8	you're not supposed to say.
1:55.6	And he's trying to do it again.
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