Episode · The Rubin Report · 2021-06-20
Books mentioned on Exposing Useful Idiots & the Lies Liberals Told Me | James Lindsay Interview
Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to James Lindsay about how an issue with a diversity hire first alerted him to the growing problems of wokeness, his recent red pill moment, and why he is worried about the useful idiots of woke culture.
James Lindsay discussed Is Everyone Really Equal? by Ozlem Sensoy and others, Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, The Racial Contract by Charles Wade Mills, and How Jews Became White Folks and what that Says about Race in America by Karen Brodkin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Is Everyone Really Equal?
Discussed“And as I've gone on and I've read more of their literature over the years, especially when I first read a book called, "Is Everyone Really Equal?" In probably the middle, early part of 2019, which is written by Özlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo.”
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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf is an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler that outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
Discussed“So let's look through Hitler's autobiography, and political manifesto and see if we can find anything. So I'm reading this book for the first time in my life, and it's shockingly bad in all regards.”
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The Racial Contract
Discussed“The books, they have a book, Charles Mills has a book, 1997 or something like this, called, "The Racial Contract." That says that all White people are secretly involved in a racial contract, and we all assent to it.”
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How Jews Became White Folks and what that Says about Race in America
Discussed“And there's a book called, "How Jews Became White Folks," by Karen Brodkin from the '90s, '98 or something like this. And she lays out that Jewish people were not considered White when they came to America...”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Cynical Theories
“- I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me today is the founder of New Discourses, and the co-author of "Cynical Theories, How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity."”
“- I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me today is the founder of New Discourses, and the co-author of "Cynical Theories, How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity."”