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Diabolical Lies

What a Viral Tradwife Rant Reveals About Gen Z's Alt-Right

Diabolical Lies

Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke

Society & Culture, News

4.8607 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.diabolicalliespod.com

In this conversation…

Caro & Katie engage in a close read of the viral Free Press debate TikTok that stars a young woman angry she can’t live on a homestead, and accidentally discover it’s uniquely emblematic of the sort of right-wing radicalization we’re witnessing en masse in the United States.

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0:00.0

Today's episode of Diabolical Lies was brought to you by Drag Queen Story Hour, banning birth control to own the libs, and Barry Weiss again, somehow.

0:11.8

Barry Weiss, again, somehow is going to be the name of my memoir.

0:17.1

All right, so if you're listening to this version of this episode, that means you're listening to the free version, the free preview.

0:24.1

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0:37.9

Caro, today I would like to drag you kicking and screaming into the wild, wild world

0:44.6

of free press swing state debates, baby.

0:49.7

Okay, so this debate style video on YouTube has sort of become more popular in recent years.

0:56.6

I think in part due to platforms like Jubilee.

0:59.9

Are you familiar with Jubilee?

1:01.3

I am not familiar with Jubilee at all.

1:03.6

Okay, well, you actually are because you've definitely seen clips from it.

1:06.6

You probably just didn't know that that's what it was.

1:08.5

Have you seen the one that's like, can one woke teen survive 25 conservative politicians? That's Jubilee.

1:15.9

So it's like, it's like 20 people in a church basement and someone's like,

1:19.5

but what about the blah, blah, blah, blah, and then it gets passed around in TikTok?

1:23.5

Yeah, it's like one on 25 style debates that always go viral because they are hot messes.

1:28.9

But one clip from this free press debate was making the rounds on Twitter recently and on TikTok.

1:35.4

It went like super, super viral.

1:38.2

It featured a woman in a brown blazer ranting about how she can't be like a homesteading stay-at-home mom because the economy

1:46.7

won't let her. And at first we wanted to talk about it because it was just like so endemic

1:52.7

to this like broader tradwife like ethos and kind of the way that the contradictions they're in.

2:00.5

But Kara, as I went deeper in my research for this episode,

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