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373 "Notes on White Privilege" w/ Adam Davidson and Thomas Chatterton Williams

The Fifth Column

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I'm an Askanazi Jew, and I've Been a Libertarian for a Long Time.

I don't know how many commitments i want to make in this podcasamah, hold you to allof tho. There has been obsession for hundreds of years about who are these jews, and what are they up to? And there's also been empirical facts. Askanazi jews are one of the most isolated genetically groups in the world. Similarly, if you go to africa to day, the idea of blackness is confusing to a lot of people with very specific tribes and languages. I'm first generation american. My ancestry, within a couple of generations, is scottish and jamaica by way of africa. But i like the macro and micro

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Speaker 1
I don'w i don't know how many commitments i want to make in this podcasamah, hold you to allof tho. But, but, ye, on the one hand, there has been obsession for hundreds of years about who are these jews, and what are they up to, and do they have unique special powers, good or evil? Do they have a cultural thing that prizes education? Do they whatever? And there's also been empirical facts. Askanazi jews are one of the most isolated genetically groups in the world. Similarly, if you go to africa to day, the idea of blackness is confusing to a lot of people who are in a country with very specific tribes and languages. And a
Speaker 2
pretty confusing in the us. Too. I'm first generation american. My ancestry, within a couple of generations, is scottish and jamaica by way of africa. But i like the macro and micro aspect of this. And, you know, adam, i'm a libertarian. I've have some experience with the austrian school of economics, i suspect, i know. But that is,
Speaker 1
yes. Although in that too, it's different, like if you're a manger mes guy, that's different from being a hi guy. A too
Speaker 2
mes kind of loses me a little bit, if i'm honest. Hike is hik as more my guy. Especially a use of knowledge in society. I think i probably refer to that paperik maybe once a year i will pick it up and reread it. Ome too. That's a profound fundamental text for me as well. There's a way in which my ideas about identity and race are informed by tha work.

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