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Ep 98: How Wokeness Foments Antisemitism; a Conversation with ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt

Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist

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Leftward Bias and Antisemitism in Education

This chapter examines the perceived leftist bias in educational materials from a notable non-profit, focusing on controversial figures like Ibram Kendi and Ta-Nehisi Coates. It discusses how their narratives may unintentionally contribute to antisemitism while exploring the complex relationship between cultural movements and Jewish identity. The conversation highlights the need for a unified approach to combat antisemitism across the political spectrum, emphasizing the importance of meritocracy and proactive community engagement.

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Welcome to show im. Jane, i'm david. I'm sara
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antony. We're discussing nop no. We'll laugh, we'll argue. We might get a little two into it, but at the end of the day, they're just movies. Soiler ler, we're to show that a recent five star review requested to be on two times a week and for two hours an episode. I'm
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dow the
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dudes from albertoto, how boring is edmontonitit's that boring. Next week we'r ging to do la big labowsky, which is fun to say when you put e little french lay at the front. Every nowmat in tha way ia goin gong to find out how good this move is, why people love it. I've seen it, but never properly. So that's be fun. But this week it's nope all
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day. So, david, what do you get in this movis out otap. It's nice. Jordan peel has continued his trend of rating his own movies using the amount of letters and their title. Four, oto, five, eght. Out of ten. Ait's a rounded up eight out of ten in some point. Eight out i just
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got to t process
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seven point. Eight out of ten. Somebodyll get out five letters, five or five a, two letters, two to five. Oh, you like, no better than us. I like, no better than us. Ey'd probably give us a three. But, you know, sata, i six out er thesa. For this thing, i gotto speak with it, ok, double down.
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Sarah, ok,
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so i'll be honest, over the last three days i've been trying to think of a slow gain. But i'm very torn about this ilm, and i could not think of anything, because there are aspects of it that i really liked and aspects that i didn't. So for now, i'm settling on a six point nine out of ten, or out yet out of ten. And i i, i want to see if that changes, or if i stay at the i
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saw the trailer from nope, and i was like, yep. But the film's lack of a strongn and weak main relationship left me feeling, me seven point five. There's
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some good stefpens movie. It's
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a good movie. It's worth watching. It's just jordan peel's worte move. Or
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might you get beter than us?
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I think us. Us is like werd ending. We'll oght to unpack what does it mean. But it was like, a done, like, the level of craft is very high. And i think it was very vocative. It's like this. This movie was more like, oh, i think i've seen this movie before. This is like, jawss,
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like a big chase. It's like an alien movie with thump monster that thyhave to kill,
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ya, ya, creature. Hororvibe
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as like, s a most basic movie.
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Yat felt very lake and man, think hes the most disjointed too. It feels like the one that he's kind of did the least revisions on to tie everything togetherye, i felt
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like there was a lot of like, missing pieces or things cut out that could have been added.

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