Demonization and Right Wing Labels ｜ A Critical Compass Clip
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss a phenomenon that has been going on for a long time in media and politics, where when someone criticizes the wrong side for the same things, they get lumped in with the opposite side.
Transcript
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he's not a conservative but glenn greenwald is often lumped in with conservatives uh another
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person who spent most of his career apolitically not being not apolitical but not being associated
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one way or another with any given wing uh just reporting on news whoever happens to do it being
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known as a as an anti-war reporter more than anything else but if you criticize the wrong
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side for the same things you get lumped in with the opposite side so i mean it's uh it's sort of a
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we're going beyond our show notes here james but this is a this is an interesting um phenomenon
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that we're seeing where you it sort of relates to for being a queer for palestine where it doesn't
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particularly matter what the nuance of your views or the nuance of your uh demographic is
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if you believe the wrong thing in the moment you're done yeah and what what ends up happening is you've
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got certain shows that are a little bit left-leaning or media that is left-leaning and when you have an
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opinion that does not fit with kind of their idea of acceptable discourse what they do is they stop
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inviting certain commenters to things and these may be left-leaning commenters and then when you have
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other media outlets on the right or you have podcasts or you have people wanting to have conversations
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and we'll have conversations with anybody doesn't matter what side of this political discourse you're on
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what ends up happening is these alt-right uh podcasts these alt-right media will invite these
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people to have conversations and just because they're curious and now the left-wing media will
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look at that and say well we can't invite this person back because they are now on these
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right-wing shows and therefore they are a right-winger and that's how they do is they just push people out
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like and just by not and you can see you'd be curious maybe we do an episode and we show the
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cases of people who have been slowly excommunicated from who like appeared a lot on mainstream media
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and were not allowed on after a certain point or not invited back well i can think of two examples
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right now uh matt taibbi and michael schellenberger i mean two guys who both left to center oh for sure
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i mean schellenberger made his entire career reporting on uh as a as an environmentalist reporting on and
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writing about renewable energy and the homelessness crisis in california like a very self-described
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progressive liberal man who now he made the mistake of being associated with elon musk another noted
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former self-described democrat like he used to be a shining star of the left like musk was held up
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and he was mentioned he was interviewed a lot and now he's described as white right wing regardless of
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they actually this label gets thrown around regardless of any like due diligence of actually
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checking if people if their views have shifted that's right it's just a slur that's used how big
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of a shift sorry to interrupt how big of a shift speaking of podcasts did has joe rogan taken in the
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last two three years joe rogan the has always been a self-described liberal person uh supportive of
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the welfare state of uh a bernie bro he was one of the original bernie bros right uh this is a guy who
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talks regularly about being uh growing up on food stamps and the importance of social programs and how
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uh obama is his favorite president the most he views as the most presidential president we've ever had
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like literally nothing about this guy is conservative in his in his life other than
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i don't know people associate now i was i was watching a an x twitter x video the other day about
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how people associate uh health and fitness with the right wing now so i don't know i guess
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if you're really interested in working out and and weights then you're following some conspiracy
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theories as well so conspiracy theories about uh about uh body mass index yeah so i don't know man
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it's it's kind of sad to see the this the overton window the acceptable discourse be narrowed and
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this is where like i i guess that's been the most interesting and also kind of frustrating and kind
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of draining this last month is seeing we we've lost nuance along the way and the
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palestine israel conflict has it has people divided again and what i'm worried every time people are
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divided i'm worried about some of these bigger issues it's like people are so focused on these
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things and we're not seeing kind of creeping authoritarian and policies we're not seeing
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digital ids or these health passes or these things that erode away at the individual sovereignty of
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countries and the sovereignty of citizens within those countries and people are so focused on these
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other things and like well that's this is important but there's still some of these bigger
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issues out on there and we're so distracted at the moment