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Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part One)

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A Bicycle Rider - Is That a Slur?

West: An article in the new york times about a neonase, i guess is right way to put it. It produced a lot of outrage along a the sort of lines that were very used to seeing these days. And then i noticed that if you got on twitter or you looked around for any conversations about this, people were sort of peremptily arguing against the whole banality of evil and how there's something wrong with that. So i really wanted to get into the details of just she meant by that - whether our popular conception of that is misunderstanding.

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