Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2024-11-09
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 155
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James Stout discussed V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and others and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and criticized On the Jews & Their Lies by Martin Luther and On the Jews and Their Lies by Martin Luther. Robert Evans criticized Unhumans by Jack Posobiec and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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On the Jews & Their Lies
Martin Luther's controversial historical text serves as a focal point for understanding the roots of severe religious intolerance and antisemitism.
Critiqued“And so he writes this book called On the Jews and Their Lies, which is like, yeah, the first version of this that I wrote had a joke here about how it could have been written by Hitler, but then I then I I like did a little bit of reading about it”
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On the Jews and Their Lies
On the Jews and Their Lies is an explicitly antisemitic book published by Martin Luther in 1543.
Critiqued“And so he writes this book called On the Jews and Their Lies, which is like, yeah, the first version of this that I wrote had a joke here about how it could have been written by Hitler, but then I then I I like did a little bit of reading about it”
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V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd is a graphic novel depicting a dystopian fascist Britain characterized by pervasive surveillance and government corruption.
Discussed“V for Vendetta may have misled you about the intentions of Guy Forgs. Yes. And and we'll we'll get to V for Vendetta because that's I think that's an important part of the closing of this story.”
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The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a bestselling young adult dystopian novel set in a ruined futuristic nation where children are forced to compete in a televised death match.
Discussed“And yeah, like I think I think I don't know that that that's the thing I want to close on is like a note of hope of like even the most deranged kind of revolutionaries actions against the state can sometimes ricochet around 400 years later and turn into like a revolutionary movement bounce back into trans firm films and”
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Unhumans
Unhumans by Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec is a controversial political book framed as a secret history of socialist and communist revolutions that depicts political opponents through extreme rhetoric.
Critiqued“One of the most sinister examples of this is Jack Bobic, a former US Navy intelligence officer whose recent book Unhumans is framed as a secret history of communist revolutions. from an article in Mother Jones.”
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Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
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