Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-04-25
Chris Williamson & Douglas Murray: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom (Apr 2022)
Why Do Western People Hate Themselves? - Douglas Murray
Douglas Murray discussed Stupid White Men by Michael Moore, The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and others, Candide by Francois Voltaire, and Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, and criticized White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi, and Orientalism by Edward W. Said.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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White Fragility
Critiqued“and of course the author of white fragility which sold about half a million copies after the death of george floyd um says there is no good form of being white”
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How to Be an Antiracist
Critiqued“he wrote a book called how to be an anti-racist uh which is very very popular book in america it's flooded everywhere”
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Antiracist Baby
Critiqued“there's also a very slightly less grown-up version called anti-racist baby which he explains among other things for two-year-olds that you should talk to your two-year-olds about the fact that policies not people are the problem”
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Stupid White Men
Discussed“in the early 2000s the uh filmmaker michael moore wrote a book called stupid white man which i reference in my book”
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The Genealogy of Morals
Discussed“and you know it brings to mind a phrase of nietzsche's in the genealogy of morals he's a people who there's a type of person who who who tears that wounds long clothes and then shrieks about the pain they feel”
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Candide
Discussed“they forgot to forget by the way that voltaire also wrote in candide one of the great great uh attacks on slavery”
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Orientalism
Critiqued“one of you like critique in the book edward syed who wrote the book orientalism which always all students still read unfortunately accuses western scholars and approaching the middle east and looking at it through orientalist eyes”
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Arcadia
Discussed“it's what tom stoppard in arcadia describes he says at one point something like he says you know the character um this is the the student says”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Madness of Crowds
“paperback of madness of crowds that's right and the world's only got better”
Plugged The Madness of Crowds
“i mean i think we talked about this when we talked about the matters of crowds we talked about the fact that there's a there's such a thing as an over correction in social issues”