There's a very specific way to police it in a way that there often isn't in other topics. The broad brush call them anti-Semitic strategy is so tried and true with this that people rarely, you know, appeal to anything else. Same sex marriage, for example, didn't have a way of police, a specific way of policing the boundaries. I personally think that the way gay rights have moved so fast has to do with other other things.
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