I couldn't do this on my own, even to have guests or which, you know, I don't do and I couldn't do it with David Bizarro because he's completely disconnected from politics for the most part. And so I thought you would be a perfect person to try this with. You're somehow putting the pressure back on me so that I so that if this is an ignomanious failure, some of the blame will fall on me. That is that is the subject of that, right? Pretty much. Yeah. Blame, blame. Well done. It's anti Semitic. There are tons of people who know more about history and stuff than to me.
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