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In light of recent events, a thread of our favorite KYE episodes for new & eager to be initiated listeners. (Feel free to let us know which ones we're forgetting.)
First off, our flurry of nuance on the Trump/Fascism debate:
Know Your Enemy
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Know Your Enemy
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A leftist's guide to the conservative movement, w/ cohosts @matthewsitman & @samadlerbell. Sponsored by @DissentMag. [email protected]
- Effective immediately, we are suspending @SamAdlerBell from the podcast for saying "actually the Jews were persecuted for having too much swag." We’ve asked him to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of his comments.
Matt is safely holed up in Hell’s Kitchen with a month’s supply of MREs, but the enemy is at the gate. Don’t let cancel culture win. #FreeSitman.- Matt is safely holed up in Hell’s Kitchen with a month’s supply of MREs, but the enemy is at the gate. Don’t let cancel culture win. #FreeSitman.What have they done to my beautiful boy?? @MatthewSitman
- Coming soon: 5-part, 10-hour special episode on this one Ben Garrison cartoon.
- I prefer this characterization to “Chapo but not cool or funny” which is probably more accurate.Replying to @opinonhaver@KnowYrEnemyPod is a really good and smart podcast you should be listening to. It’s Chapo but only the smart episodes, with people who actually know what they’re talking about. Killer soundtrack too.
- Replying to @KnowYrEnemyPodA personal (if depressing) favorite: America's culture of guns with @PatBlanchfield. On how traumatic repetitions of spectacular violence are rooted in American history and ideology.
- What's at stake when left and right argue about the American past? In the new ep, we chat with @jbouie about historiography as culture war, the 1619 Project, anti-racism, and patriotism.
- As discussed on the latest KYE w @Econ_Marshall, they don't want to "open the economy." They want to throw the bodies of service and industrial workers directly at the virus for profit. It's an eliminationist class war against those who cannot "work from home" by those who can.Impressive how quickly “open the economy” became a phrase every media outlet & pundit just decided was a neutral, anodyne descriptor rather than a horrific rightwing euphemism for condemning 100,000s of workers, disproportionately African-American, to death for corporate profits
- Replying to @KnowYrEnemyPodFan favorite @Econ_Marshall on the Chicago School and the baleful influence of libertarian economics on our public life:
- real heads know...Here’s a dumb question I’ve never seen asked: Whats the best podcast theme song? Most of them are public domain guitar jangles so I want to cast a wide net. My all-time nominee is @bestshow4life but current champ is @YourKickstarter.
- @KnowYrEnemyPod I'm just re-listening some of your earlier episodes and having a blast. The German Philosopher "Fichte" is pronounced "fish-te" for an American. A Fichte is a tree - a spruce. But the way you pronounced his name - "fickte" - means "fucked" in past tense xD
- Our latest episode! An in-depth discussion with ACT UP veteran @peterstaley on the history of AIDS activism, America’s pandemic response, and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s complex role in both.
