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#465 - Douglas Murray - The Wild Hatred Of The West

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Do We Really Care About the Death of George Floyd?

The west is accused of being anti-Western, but there are other things going on. Russia and others have for years encouraged this sense of self loathing in the west. And then we have this thing of total self abnegation - getting rid of everything because it's all bad. I mean, phrases like dead white men suddenly took got currency in recent years. This became aa process of self scourging in recent years,. i'm afraid that a lot of it is done by bad actors, bad faith actors. The same thing with russia. Er, one of the easiest ways to make yourselves look clever in the modern era is just to blame us for everything.

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