I don't buy into the view that Israelis are just, you know, monsters or whatever. I think if 34 years ago, the bounds on speech hadn't been so effective, maybe there's a chance that we have seen a more, more heartfelt attempt to solve the problem. Social media has made it easier for Palestinians to get their story out. Now, story may not go over all the channels they like, but it will circulate within certain social media channels. It isn't just memory of the Holocaust. It's like increasingly they don't have a relative who had a direct connection to the Holocaust.
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