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Weekends: Cancel Culture Toxicity and the Myth of Free Trade (ft. Leigh Phillips)

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Socialism, History, News, Left, Jacobin, Alternative, Socialist, Politics

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. “Weekends” features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and left political strategy, along with interviews with prominent individuals on the left. The guest for this episode, which originally aired August 15th: science writer and EU affairs journalist, Leigh Phillips. He is the author of Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts and co-author of The People's Republic of Walmart.

Read Leigh's latest Jacobin article: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/on...
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0:00.0

The What's up, up everyone?

0:15.0

What's up everyone? Welcome to weekends. I'm Anna Kasparian.

0:19.0

I'm Nando Vila.

0:20.0

What's up Nando, how are you? I'm doing well. How are you? I'm pretty good. You look chipper this morning

0:28.6

Yeah, I'm feeling chipper. I'm feeling chipper. I'm feeling pretty good. I think part of the reason why is you know there's just been a lot of really great content

0:36.7

put out there recently by people on the left and I really really enjoyed a piece that Ben Burgess published in Jacobin this week, which is going to be part of my commentary segment.

0:50.0

We're going to talk a little bit about cancel culture and I know that that discussion, you know, it almost

0:55.8

seems like a cliche these days in terms of like a topic to discuss.

1:00.7

But you know, I think that one of the perspectives that isn't really represented is the

1:06.5

perspective that I'm going to share the perspective that Michael Brooks

1:10.8

wanted to share and there's a lot of fear behind that,

1:14.2

because I think it's easy to kind of twist that message

1:16.8

and make it seem as though you're an apologist

1:19.3

for bad behavior when that's actually not the case at all. But I'm really looking forward to your commentary segment today

1:25.0

about supply chains and, you know, just like the history of free trade.

1:29.0

Fun stuff.

1:30.0

Fun stuff.

1:31.0

It's going to be great.

1:32.0

Yeah, no, I and I think both both of our segments were in a way inspired by Michael Brooks because that I mean this is mine is something he talked about a lot as well. So yeah, I'm really looking forward to. Yeah and so you know Michael Brooks would have

1:46.1

turned 37 this past week August 13th this is birthday and you know that was a tough day. mean I I knew I was going to be a little

1:55.0

sad that day but I was pretty devastated from the moment I woke up and it's

2:00.0

because you know there are so many conversations

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