The right-wing crazies are doing is lifting the mask, which ironically then allows people to kind of see what was already going on there. That's certainly a perspective I've come across. There's a guy in a cabinet now, till a couple years ago, when he entered decided under politics, he had a portrait of Baruch Goldstein up in his living room on the wall. So the reason to say this is that yes, this is kind of in your face,. obviously horrible, somebody who would celebrate a person who massacred people praying in a mosque.
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