CNN's John Sutter says he has run afoul of some speech police in the past. He argues that there is a correlation between how you describe Israel and what policies it supports. The way this can get weaponized is that if you are outside the Overton window at any given point, you can either be attacked as anti-Semitic on one end or ignored by mainstream press. "I think we're coming at it in a broader sense than Joseph Overton might have intended"
A new mini-series with Tamler Sommers and Robert Wright on the range of politically acceptable discourse for a given topic and how this “Overton window” changes over time. This episode is available for free for everyone, the remaining episodes will appear at the Very Bad Wizards Patreon and Robert Wright’s Nonzero Newsletter on Substack.
00:33 What is this new Overton Windows series about?
10:05 Tamler’s connections to Israel and Bob’s experiences there
19:22 What does Zionism mean in practice?
27:35 The shifting Overton window around Israel/Palestine
45:35 The heavy-handed response to the BDS movement
57:13 What the Israel/Palestine discourse says about Overton windows
1:02:09 So where should the boundaries be set