826 - University Challenge feat. Basil Zacharia Rodriguez (4/23/24)
Will interviews Basil Zacharia Rodriguez, an activist and student at Columbia University involved with Columbia Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) about the ongoing demonstrations taking place there. They discuss the goals of the protests, the media response, and the University’s economic interests in both Palestinian occupation and displacing New Yorkers in Harlem.
Then, Amber and Felix join to continue the discussion of the media freak-out over campus activism, as well as the trial of Donald Trump, and two reading series exploring the sexual pathologies of Spectator columnists and Rabbi Shmuley.
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Comments (228)
It's pretty funny that you morons here will whinge about the Aesthetic Politics etc of campus protests while 1. Sitting on your fat ass at home and 2. Observing very clearly that it definitely really really pisses off the people who run this shit, which obviously indicates it matters. I'm also so over Amber's holier than thou "proletarian" sensibility, where everyone must be rubbing two sticks together for heat at night or else they're a sub adequate Revolutionary Subject or whatever the fuck. Incredibly jaundiced view of uhhh reality!
The opportunism of the US left in the last 10 years has not gone well. We have been jumping from movement to movement with less success each time. From Bernie to BLM, to now Palestine. Maybe we need to sit on our fat asses and shut up for a while. Yes support Palestine but as a means to stop the massacre but not opportunistically think or idealize the Palestinian struggle as a boarder left struggle. Hamas is very conservative, Islamic party and we need to be clear about that. They don't share our politics. Lets be for real, these Colombia students are the Blinkens of the future. They will end up in the State department, NGOs or wall street. They will conform to those institutions and not change it from within. Just look at how AOC ended up being just another democrat and holding the party line on the current issue when just a few years ago being the darling of Jacobin. We have to reflect a little and not just react.
I might be in the market for some Chapo branded buttplugs just saiyan
does this lady think black people are "indigenous" to Harlem?
It is a bit ridiculous to refer to city gentrification as "settler colonialism" but I also could care less
More Amber.
While I understand where Amber is going, but I think it important to understand that protest culture changes with time. People are not going to protest the same way they did in 1930s. And these students are young, so they will not be as radicalized as Amber wants them to be. If this is their first step towards being leftists—great. They won’t know Lenin and Marxism. For many, this is literally fight against a genocide because it’s a morally wrong thing to do. They cannot connect the dots to Franz Fanon.
i’m LMAO by amber being once again mean and right …
Kansas Owens
Basil I hope you know that only trolls and lunatics reply here, everybody else loves you and you are doing great work
The Spectator article reminded me of this completely bizarre Salon article from 2001 about having sex with a porn star. Who is the audience for this? https://www.salon.com/2001/10/02/suzi/
I wanted to hear the polycule article.
I love how Rabbi Shmuley thinks it's a sexual repression and anti-semitism problem. Not a him and his weird daughter who's eyes drift further apart the more you look at her problem.
I *am* proud of my polycule, Amber! Mostly for us managing to stay together without board games.
basil está cocinando
I usually love amber, but I don't understand her position at all? She thinks we're just not supposed to do anything? We shouldnt even protest because its not a revolution yet?
She thinks all college students are bourgeoisie without realizing you have to have a fucking bachelors degree nowadays to get any job that’s not waiting tables, driving for DoorDash or working in a factory. I can understand hating the folks who attend elitist institutions like the Ivy Leagues, but she has it out for anyone that steps foot on a college campus. It’s weird, off putting, and pretty fucking oblivious to what the economic environment is like out there.
Felt bad for Will this episode. Amber was bullying him. 😢
Everybody Gangsta until the 20 year old interviewee has vocal fry and says Chicanx
Someone should tell these kids there are like six militias with billions in weapons and ranks of Men willing to die in a battle with Israel and thus far they haven’t really impeded the Israelis *at all* so maybe camping in their country club isn’t going to save any lives.
What do you want to do then? You just think people should just sit on their phones all day? At least theyre outside.
Quintessentially English though
Haggling with a Chinese sex slave and then having no cash on you is not a good look
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NUPolice dispersed divestment protests in 1984-5 and again a few years later
Great ep. My mind was actually blown a long time ago when I learned that fat is burned and expelled through breathing. Lots of folks don't know that, but yeah. I can't tell if Amber actually believes it though.
yea every breath you exhale is literally carbon leaving your body and then plants absorb that carbon and it becomes wood or fruit or whatever, shit is mind boggling
I commend the guest for actually putting her ass on the line out there and don’t really find her annoying like other people do. Her problem is that she has a completely incorrect view of Columbia and places like it. Hopefully this experience will be enlightening. Columbia’s support of Israel has basically nothing to do with its stock holdings or war profiteering. Columbia’s whole point is to replicate the elite and then lick their boots. The bootlicking is the point for people like university presidents, not some means to an end.
Oh, and I found Amber much more annoying on this than the guest. Both of them always go back to the same toolbox for everything - colonialism for one, Marxism for the other - but the 20 year old doesn’t know any better and Amber should.
Swiping and skeeting
Amber letting her myopic personal dislike of universities factor into her stupid analysis of a real radical movement yet again.
Yeah, I feel like alot of the folks complaining about these protesters are just mad they aren't doing cosplay as 1920s union miners like them.
Ok but where is the “Jew Israel” shirt?
Great Amber episode! More Amber please!
Absolutely crying at native harlemites 😭😭😭😭😭
Love Amber's analysis of the process of metabolism
the interviewee is trying to speak clearly about a student movement that’s been wildly mischaracterized & vilified by pretty much every major institution in the past week. endless coverage of campus safety for jewish students, painting pro-palestinian students as deranged, violent anti-semites. not to mention that zionists have been trying to dox pro-palestinian student activists on these campuses for the past 6 months. I appreciate that she’s articulating the actual goals of these student protests. who cares if she sounds cringe talking about gentrification in nyc or describing her identity? it seems really cynical to dismiss her for an annoying accent or pronunciations. she’s trying, in fact doing more than most, to work toward the goals of the BDS movement. I’ve learned so much from chapo over the past several years, it’s both informed me about left politics & given me hope. but i’m probably a lot younger than most of the people commenting, since I’m her age, & that means my/her politics are not gonna be as developed as people who have been doing this for much longer. also amazing that people are nitpicking her use of the word “aunt” when she’s talking about the IDF’s murder of shireen abu akleh…
the people complaining about the interview probably used to post on the chapo subreddit and talked exactly like this person during bernie's first presidential campaign
Chapo needs to get boy boy on the pod, talk about pine gap!!!
Yes, this would be great. Good topic for TrueAnon too.
to everyone whining about the interview, I am deeply sorry that the columbia student protester whose relative was assassinated by the IDF didn't quote Lenin enough or whatever to pass your screening process for potential revolutionaries, how would any of us know who to take seriously without you
It’s not their fault. They were just born too late and can’t yell at the kids with the rest of the Tankies who gave up on all politics after the collapse of the USSR.
Misogynistic?
More Katherine Krueger less Amber please. Amber was actually really annoying in this one. Also she seems to have nothing but contempt for the protesters.
If you haven’t already go listen to the Chicago 7 episode. That gives you an idea of where she’s probably coming from on this. It’s a big blind spot for her.
what are these skin bank things? What’s the source?
It's a medical facility, similar to a blood bank. Skin from skin banks are used for skin grafts for burn victims or survivors of explosions. Where they may not have any healthy or appropriate skin to do a graft
Also haggle hookers. Wtf is wrong with you people.
Shai Davidai made me think of a South Afrikan professor visiting a US campus in the sixties: "You mean you just let these SNCC terrorists organize and collect money on campus?!" "And black people can go to school here *alongside the whites*? That's so scary."
I'm sorry, everyone's dancing around it or laying it out softly, but that interviewee is clearly a delusional narcissist. Not every little thing in existence fits into the settler-colonial paradigm, sometimes people have profit motives for doing things.
lol you think that colonialism can be divorced from the profit motive, careful who you call delusional pal
Would love to see Rick Steves handjob parlor reviews!
Anyone else think the person at the beginning came off as a bit smug? I obviously agree with her, but the rhetoric and tone of voice kills me idk...
They’re a college kid in New York lol. Of course they are. At least they’re protesting
Man I love Chapo comment sections. Always a wellspring of positivity and solidarity :)
Fuck u
I kept expecting those articles to take a third act turn into Jim Thompson psychopathy.
Today I realized it's possible to completely agree with someone while finding them entirely insufferable.
one day you will realize its possible to just keep that shit to yourself
I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hand jibber today.
Holy shit I actually know the guy who posted the brave wife video. Dweeby little New Haven townie weirdo.
Somebody please hate crime my wife while I watch.
Song of Solomon also includes a very early allusion to fisting
That's interesting because there's no way they could clean their shit pipes as well as we can with our modern technology.
Just wrote an angry letter to the NYU alumni's office, I imagine at this moment they're printing it out in order to crumple it up and see if they can make the three-pointer into the wastebasket.
Wow it's cute that all of you suddenly care about college students
Speak for yourself my guy. Most of us have cared about what people critical of Israel have been saying for a long time, college students or not. The guest had family murdered by Israel. Why should we dismiss that because of small minded takes about "woke" by dipshit blockheads like you?
jfc you all hear a guest that’s afab with a form of californian accent, and eat them up. Yeah prestigious college students can be kinda annoying but do you realize how misogynistic and conservative you sound?
No. They don't realize it.
Swedgin, Wu, Cambridge cockersucker
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL MENTIONED
to be FAIR felix, an atm ate my partner’s card a couple months ago
Loved the guest at the beginning. Great job Chapos! Love to you all. Fuck Israel
agonizing reading series
i gotta say how much i appreciate amber being back as a regular. her zero-second shootdown of polycule bullshit was awesome. people who wear overalls at their office job do not deserve the attention they transparently crave.
Love when amber is on, hopefully Matt can make it back and you four can go forward together
jesus u guys hear some nonwhite non-binary person and lose your freaking gourds… and ur saying that this person would never make it in the real world ijbol
god forbid someone younger than you sounds annoying…. ok grampa
What does Amber have against Duluth? #StopDuluthHate
Ok I had to put my phone down and stare out the window upon hearing “Israel’s skin bank”.
can someone link a source on this? not calling her a liar, it’s just almost too much to imagine that the descendants of people who were turned into lampshades by the nazis are stealing skin in 2024.
Imagine the kind of blend you’d get with Trump and Giuliani’s fetid asses in the same courtroom. Just both of them alternately backfiring all day. It’d be an absolute bioweapon.
Weight is also lost through respiration
Do NOT listen to the last few seconds of this episode! ANY song but that!
Sorry to nitpick, but that's not how Aunts work.
It's common for people from non-anglophone countries to use "aunt" and "uncle" as a catch-all for relations which can't be easily described in English. Often these terms capture the closeness and nature of the relation accurately, even if they are not technically correct in the strictest sense.
What’s up with all the neurotic retards in the comments
They've been waiting for a moment to go after an easy target--because it's all they can ever hope to go after.
Every woke stereotype stuffed into one person. The way some of these organizers talk is insufferable and completely off-putting to any normal person who might agree with your overall message and goal.
How is this different from the typical reactionary claim that demonstrations alienate otherwise sympathetic bourgeoisie because it inconveniences their commute to work? You sound petty and foolish
the real ep starts at 25 minutes if you want to skip the boring homework stuff
hey buddy, fuck you
Semen stains the mountaintops
These students are literally trying to get their Universities to do BDS, which is something that's basically been made illegal in many parts of USA, but Amber knows better: the protests are pointless because students are bad. They should just do nothing instead, at least until they become super-enlightened leftists like the Chapos.
Yeah... she's normally awesome but that was crazy. A lot of the organizers are immigrants with dead family FFS. I mean Amber would never virtue signal by always reminding her readers she's in touch because she grew up in a based working class religious household. I didn't want to predict this, but there's a chance she's a Redscare clone in a year or two. Hopefully a small chance but we'll see.
An absolute banger of an Episode, aided by Amber's presence, probably your best this year!! The only thing you missed is Georgia Goober Senator Rick Allen grilling Columbia president Nimat Shafik that per Genesis 12:3, "Jerusalem is the center of the world," not DC, & anyone not an Israel Firster will be "cursed by God" for violating Abraham's covenant with HIM, and won't she agree Columbia shouldn't be "cursed by God?" She surrenders & agrees, violating every post-Enlightenment standard about freedom of inquiry, thought & conscience & the secular nature of education. Cringe beyond Cringe!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGLWU6868GE
Moldova has 30,000 people and NATO has pledged to spend every last one of them resisting Russian oppression or whatever
Having Amber back as a regular fucks
Big swing and a miss if you don't slapp a Zapata oil logo on those buttplugs
Amber episodes are good episodes
Amber
That ‘Jew Israel’ lady looking like trans femme Alan Dershowitz has captivated my every thought since I saw it.
Racing through your brain
You exhale CO2 when you burn fat, Felix.
Also when you burn carbs. Weird
You can’t drop neutral milk hotel like that on me man now I gotta put like 45 mins aside today for that
I'm sure the antiwar hippies also said some things you guys would find silly, relax
Rick Steves mentioned
I don't think people realise how many Vietnam war protestors upped sticks and went to live in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. There are 60,000 yanks twatting about in the settlements now, they started going in the early 70s feeling their oats after the 6 day war, and almost all of them were democrats
Call me crazy. Still voting for Biden. I get it. What! Psshhh. Idiot. You just think that cuz media. And you're dumb. Yeah. I'm not in college chillin. These next four years will suck if it's Trump. Keep protesting and not voting, kids. Seems to be doing wonders. Thanks.
You can protest and still vote.
The moment the guest said “I’m Palestinian chicanx from (Spanish accent on) Baja California” I knew this would be a hell of a ep
Their realative was murdered by israel. Jfc
Mothers cousin is in fact not your aunt but alright
A lot of places refer to most extended family as aunts and uncles. Personally, I have much older cousins who have children, my relation to them is more like uncle than whatever a 'removed' cousin is
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-beginners-guide-to-getting-a-massage/ This guy has an article from 3 months ago that would appear to be the first part of this: “…‘You studied? You learned? At college? You trained? Training?’ She responded to ‘training’ in the affirmative. ‘How long?’ I asked. ‘Ten year,’ she said… …‘Take off,’ she said. This wasn’t a question but an instruction. Having been raised from earliest childhood to obey medics without a murmur, I did as she ordered and removed my KKs instantly. Then I lay back on the couch, as naked as Adam, staring at the ceiling. At this point my eyes wandered towards an advisory sign on the wall: ‘Our trained therapists give massage treatments and DO NOT offer sensual or sexual services. Anyone making such a request will be removed immediately.’ This was printed on wipe-clean vinyl, for some reason. However, the temptations of Aphrodite were far from my mind, and I felt relieved that the house rules would be adhered to faithfully during my visit. At that moment, a power cut struck. In the semi-darkness I could see Hong Kong Linda gazing at me, but with no sign of alarm or surprise. Had she flicked an invisible switch beneath the couch? ‘More?’ she asked. I watched in puzzlement as she used a manual gesture to indicate that a supplementary form of treatment was necessary before my cure would be complete. This placed me in a tight spot. Her proposal involved a clear violation of her ethical code as set out on the wipe-clean notice. Such a transgression might even jeopardise the professional diploma that she’d spent ten years acquiring. “
Hong. Kong. Linda.
It’s a rough day when the settler-colonial brain rot becomes wide enough to encompass the ancient, and wondrous lands of Manhattan north of Tito Puente Way.
“Indigenous Harlemites suffering through mass level settler-colonialism in the form of gentrification” This shit makes me want to blow my brains out.
I respect what the guest is doing and I think she spoke very eloquently, but I will say that it was a little disheartening to hear that the new generation of campus leftists seem to have developed the same rhetorical stance of victimhood as the last - not that they haven't been literally victimised, they absolutely have, but I've seen this rhetoric fail to sway people for ten years- a little more tough talk would go a long way here in the face of their enemies. Less speaking about your trauma and healing, more defiance and trash talking and just general strength in support of the Palestinian cause.
Still a little flummoxed by the conceit(on both sides of the interview) that the Universities's conundrum is an ideological one and not one of capital.
I agree with this person, and there's no perfect activist, but holy fuck she was annoying
Sounds like a skill issue. I had no issues with it
Jesus. I hope this column is a suicide note.
This author has a huge fucking humiliation fetish. Holy shit.
Lot of brave souls here who had perfectly developed politics at 18 condemning the student organizer
Exactly, you can tell how politically perfect I was at that age by my extremely witty and insightful username.
Why the fuck would you study at a university run by such evil bastards?
Name a university that isn’t
I'm getting old enough to be able to listen past this young student's overly affected accents and careful political positioning to the actual drive and concern about the lives of the Palestinians. Kudos. I hope she learns to stop thinking the world is listening to her by default. The world is not watching Columbia university. Never heard of this sit-in. You can't rely on capitalist media to spread your message. If anyone involved in the sit-in reads this, though: Kudos. Keep fighting, but don't stop with protest. Awareness won't do shit. Everyone knows there's a genocide going on. They just know the US govt isn't going to stop doing it. So you should think about what to actually do.
It's literally all over the news
Kosher sex is holey, like through a sheet
“Chican-x” ? Ok bye bye
Triggered?
Kansas Owens the new chapo election analysis expert
This particular gal says it’s been a multigenerational movement for her family. Presumably her parents explained why they held certain beliefs.
shut up no one cares
Good on ‘em, but I can’t imagine something more off putting than listening to the enrollees of elite colleges. Christ that was rough.
Considering how much much chapo makes fun of college brain it’s funny how college brained this guest was.
You exhale it as water and carbon dioxide. You don’t fart it out. You don’t get fat from inhaling CO2 because all the stored energy was lost in the process. Cmon guys you can’t hate stem that much.
No normal person talks like this woman. If she didn’t want to legitimize the settler colonial state of the United States she should not tried to enter its elite institutions such as Columbia, the attendance of which does nothing BUT LEGITIMIZE YOU to the very ruling institutions and elites she’s claiming legitimize the American settler colonial project in the first place. “America is bad so I’m going to go rub shoulders with the Bushes and the Vanderbilts”. She didn’t know these institutions were thick as thieves with Israel BEFORE she applied? How did she not know that? I am 110% fuck Israel but it’s hard to fathom robots like this woman agree with me. She’ll have a real estate license within the decade or be on welfare (ie employed by one of these universities). Chapo (Matt and Amber) red pilled me on getting rid of universities and this does nothing but steel my belief in that.
A lot (most) of the people that end up in college were primed to value / have faith in those institutions from birth; that's being socialized into a middle-class household. That doesn't mean the students aren't doing exactly what you're saying re: legitimizing these institutions through their enrollment -- but again, they were basically kids when they made that decision, nursed on years of indoctrination. It's cool you had all this shit figured out when you were 17, apparently.
“We are not going to respond to slander that we are antisemitic and instead keep focus on how the Jews stockpile organs from dead-non Jews in a massive Jewish Flesh Bank.”
Even though this particular thing seems not to be supported by evidence, be honest: Would this behaviour be that shocking from the IDF, considering what they do to Palestinians every day?
Technically the nation of Israel is the American's whore, like top shelf whore too. We pay her a handsome fee to procure real estate & maintain a fascist monoculture sporting various thin fashionable veneers; occasionally we'll froth her up at a competing narrative & just let go of the leash. If I had to guess, she was groomed pretty hardcore as a youth.
try being normal
Horny old man jacking off at clouds, the article
Holy fuck that reading series is painful to listen to
It never ceases to amaze me how blatantly shitty people can be shitty to people and go on to pat themself on the back for their “gallantry.”
New Felix character: Holocaust denier who survived the Holocaust
"I was there, it wasn't that bad! What are they all complaining about?"
I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a handjob today
Xe would surely belong to the professional handle society
People didn't turn against the idea of the Iraq war, they were just mad that "Bush screwed it up" and didn't do it "properly". That is why they just turned around and supported Libya, because they love killing. And that is why every Iraq war supporter, instead of killing themselves, decided that they deserve a promotion, because they wanted to be more directly in charge of the killing. Many libs were just like "Thomas Friedman was right, we didn't do enough of suck on this cleansing of the population".
“Judaism is the only religion on earth that believes that sex isn’t just for procreation and survival, but also for intimacy” little known fact, the Kama Sutra is really just about yoga and you’re sick if you come. Also Mormons aren’t real.
This guest has to be the most annoying person on their campus. They even have the upward inflection while speaking. Complaining about settler colonialism in the form of gentrification because of Columbia. An institution they chose to go to and pay for. Are the students the settler colonialists in this?
She’s not a thinker.
oh my god that article. wow.
I can't find jew Israel wife lol
Skin Bank? Sweet jesus christ
Yeah, half thought about setting myself on fire there, but Amber said to not to
Most boomers are lying about opposing the Vietnam War. They supported the war, they voted for Reagan, and they never changed. The reason they always have to distinguish Vietnam from the present war/atrocity is that even polite history doesn't allow them to pretend they were right back then.
And, as result of the anti-war movement, polite history can't do the same with Iraq and Afghanistan either.
I see you Chris, slipping that Neutral Milk Hotel in there
Were any of these college kids aware before college that *every prestigious* ivy league and gatekeeping institution in the United States has deep ties to Israel and, if so why did they apply to offer their labor and works to further these institutions’ prestige? If they were unaware, how the fuck did they get in in the first place?
like governments, I think theres a fundamental disconnect between the admin and rhe student populace. its lIke everything else in this capitalist hellscape where our complicity is obscured by our need to survive. Everybody has got to resolve that contradiction themselves and I think they could do worse than mass protest
Rookie moves with the pleasure professional.
B-O-O-S-I-E B-I-D-E-N that's me.
WIPE ME DOWN
I love that a student camping out with limited resources resources has better audio quality than a repeat guest
Have you ever done a Deadwood episode, I just watched it for the first time and would love to hear y’all talk about it?
There's a Time for My Stories (Matt and Felix podcast from Stitcher) about it.
This rub n tug reading series is making my skin crawl. Thanks, I hate it
Amber going HARD
Can't find the brave mom video online
https://twitter.com/abierkhatib/status/1782626582827331839
Very upset about the idea of haggling with a prostitute.
The prices are outrageous these days though.
Fuck the opps, FREE PALESTINE! 😤
Felix is right about the weight loss gas thing
Professor Rodney Dangerfield: "Hate-crime my wife! Please!"
Damn, I unwittingly stole some of this one from you. Let me know where I can send the check.
Chapo Trap House: The Ick Episode
My understanding is that when you lose weight from lost fat the fat is ultimately converted into CO2 and water. Therefore, the bulk of the weight is lost through exhaling. This is why you need to up your heart rate to lose weight rather than just working out muscles by pumping iron.
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Who can forget sketch comedy smash hits such as ‘Columbia Untisemity’
Rest in Power, Shireen.
Shireen Abu Akleh was actually murdered over a year before Oct 7th, not a couple months..
Yeah, if I remember correctly it took a few months just for Israel to admit it was them. "Oh by the way, yeah we killed her. We uhh, accidentally sniped that journalist we were threatening"
I listened to Trashfuture cover that very same Spectator article this morning lol
me too! and not to defend this absolute turd BUT I did have an Irish bank ATM eat my card in 2013. but what was cool was it was actually INSIDE the bank so I grabbed it the next day! not sure if the UK has tech like this
Really going to be here for the vote shaming leading up to November. “A woman’s right to her body and democracy is on the ballot this year. Plus Trumps is the same if not worse than Biden on Israel. We need to vote for Biden. Lesser of two evils. We can push him left.” If you fall for this I recommend that you start wearing a helmet in public.
I suggest you pay for my heath insurance, which trump will eliminate. And also find birth control pills for my daughter, which will be outlawed by Trump. Please check yourself as you have seemingly wrecked yourself,
I feel like the genocidal assault on Rafah will begin and the worst pieces of shit on the planet will still be talking about some problematic things said on edited out of context clips and reconstructing calls for liberation and human dignity in statements of organizations as calls for genocide of Jews.
A motherfucking skin bank. In Israel, joint funding by IDF. Someone please gave me a Jew joke to lighten the mood. MFing skin bank, website published by US govt. What the fuck
Let me guess why they need the world's largest skin bank... is it because they have the most skin cancer in the world despite claiming to be indigenous to the region?
Listening to this talk about the baby boomers and Vietnam made me think of the scene from The Boondocks when Grandad tries to guilt Huey and Riley about his generation being attacked with firehoses and dogs marching for civil rights, then Huey brings up Grandad's entire generation tries to take credit for what happened to some people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIgr1xWkm-E
Maybe the craziest reading series ever. Why did he write an article about that? Why did they publish it???
Anglos, man idk
Really great interview. Dont use the word “positionality” though, it’s not a real word.
If people use it it's a real word. Might be a new one, but usage is king when it comes to linguistics
Person mention a Skin bank. I was like Bull shit, nope. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15256940/
Simultaneously so proud of my fellow students and so ashamed of our administration
What is polycule article Will is talking about?
Hey this guy has my name
Loved this episode! I was in SJP-Houston a few years ago, and National SJP as well, so I really appreciate the work they've been doing at Columbia and around the country
Is this slop early or should I just go fuck myself?!
I will say, it's kinda rude for Amber to say that the politics of these students will go back to normal. After hearing the girls say that her aunt was killed, It seems some of the Muslim students really are genuinely inspiring their friends to stand up alongside them. I get what she's saying but it's just seems that it's kind of reductive in this moment as opposed to other moments because I don't know if things go back to normal in this particular debate.
Agreed, also divestment is focused on an external impact even if the target is internal
should unlock this one, at least the interview portion, it’s a great one!!
Last chance to watch the phenomenal Footlight Parade (2 of the musical numbers are incredible, best I’ve ever seen) and One, Two, Three before Movie Mindset drops!
"The times they are a changing." (I know it's hack, but it seriously was the first thing that came to mind when this all broke.)
Holy hell, the skin bank thing is real. Like, Israel actually admitted to harvesting skin up until 2000, and a doctor admitted to continue doing so until 2010. It's not unimaginable that it would kick off again in the conflict.
It's amazing that there was 1 lampshade that 1 Nazi made from skin. Now Israel has a whole bank of skin that they're harvesting from their genocide victims, and they're grafting it onto themselves to live longer. I'm going to go insane thinking about this. Israel's going to have Lush stores with bath bombs made of Palestinians next.
Minouche Shafik (President of Columbia) was the President of LSE when I did my masters there and while students were protesting and withholding tuition because the school had moved fully online yet refused to reduce tuition by even a penny she went on a promo tour for her book “What we owe each other” in which she unironically talks about how we all need to support each other more as a society
The music in the background when Rodriguez was speaking on the dehumanization and liberation of the Palestinian people was unspeakably poignant. Nearly made me cry on the bus.
I’m pretty sure my dad got clubbed by the cops at the ‘68 protests at Columbia
SLOP!
Schmuley Boteach got insulted by Christopher Hitchens to his face and never got over it. That explains about 60% of why he is the way he is
YAAAAASSSSS!!!! FEEEED MEEEE!!!! https://youtu.be/gZM1WQKwpl0?si=ZmKY6a6rqKTnXS9d
25:32 to jump to the episode. Posted cause Jacob brown wanted to skip the interview.
Thank you! Good ups on protesting the genocide but my god annoying
How about Richard Simmons as the watcher in a Buffy reboot?
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I hope the delay is because Chris got arrested and had to post bail
Also even though this person sounds like she called in, her audio quality is still tons better than the last guy.
First, also love the surprise Amber appearance a few mins in ☺️☺️