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The Columbia Protests
🕑 Added 2024-05-16 09:00:07 +0000 UTCPeter and Michael discuss the media coverage of the protests at Columbia, from the crazed, bloodthirsty ravings of right-wing media to the more muted, respectful bloodthirst of centrist media.
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Soph Emm
I am just eternally baffled that grown adults are taken seriously in professional public spaces asking an academic whether they want the university to be cursed by their magical sky man. Mind blowing
Hambitchplease
i know you essentially say this by the end of the statement, but as a mizzou j school grad - i don’t think there’s a single journalistic argument you could make that “in the fighting” could be technically right in light of her correction, though my ap style guide book is a few years old admittedly lol
McKayla Hall
lovely episode but michael knowing about little joel made me have to pause the episode for a second.. michael i would pay u to be my friend.
Allison Taylor
I need to know if it’s as bad as his article take
Allison Taylor
Please please pleaseeeeee go through Woke Racism by John McWhorter
Anna
Catching up on the Patreon and shocked & elated to hear a little joel reference! I hope that means y’all have seen his impression of Michael Hobbs
Alye
You guys did it!! Eric Adams has been charged!! Your minds...
Grumpy flat
As a student during these protests, this was super validating to hear after months of frustrating news coverage! I really think this topic deserves a follow up, particularly because a lot of people don’t understand the depth of the harassment and violence that occurred against protestors at UCLA. Students were hospitalized, but even before that we were subject to daily verbal harassment, threats of violence (including sexual assault), loud music, gun and knife threats, and even injected mice (which was weird asf). This was just from the Zionist side; the administration and the cops also cracked down in similarly awful ways. A lot of stuff isn’t really known, and a lot of things desperately need to be debunked.
Jasmine
Severe misrepresentation of the nastiness and ignorance of the protestors. Totally disregarding the threats faced by the Jewish community and classic double standard. “Fine people on both sides” 🙄
Jadie Lee
Yall should do American Marxism by Mark Levin. I just read the first 3 pages and was floored by how intellectually lazy and dog-whistle-y it was. I mean…. Obviously. It comes across as inherently comical and “cultural Marxism” seems to be a trending reactionary term.
Maryanne Dihayco
Haha these studious kids have books about terrorism BC theyre trying to do A+ terrorism. What a bunch of nerdy terrorists!
Oriane Sachs-Bernstein
PLS do Vivek Ramaswamy book Woke.Inc
Chris Getzie
Snow, the most nonviolent thing ever, cancels class regularly. How is canceling class an indicator of violence?
Lauren Wollaston
The pronunciation of "Pret a manger" ended me.
Stacie Willoughby
Ok but did you guys realize that they made a GIANT MOCK-UP of the Terrorism book for the newscast?? They made it larger than an average book, when the actual book is much smaller than average, and it’s not like they don’t have a zoom lens, dinguses
