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41: Douglas Murray - Heroism 2020: Defense of Our Own Civilization

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Are They Taking Our Jobs?

Eric tin, the host did think it was too complicated a i fil that it has to do with the fact that the host has an idea that this is that lefty stuff. And circle around, which is like, for example, if somebody were to say at my table, they're taking our jobs, i would get very upset. So it dos mean that i don't know exactly what that person is saying. It doesn't mean that i haven't written a perreviewed paper that actually embodies what is meant by that phrase. But that phrase is a short cut, and it's it.

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Eric
Speaker 2
tin, the host did think it was too complicated
Speaker 1
a i fil that it has to do with the fact that the host has an idea that this is that lefty stuff where you guys can't say these words that the rest of us can say. And circle around, which is like, for example, if somebody were to say at my table, they're taking our jobs, i would get very upset. So it dos mean that i don't know exactly what that person is saying. It doesn't mean that i haven't written a perreviewed paper that actually embodies what is meant by that phrase. But that phrase is a short cut, and it's it. It won't do for somebody on the left to say, they, which is people who are more or less like me, that don't happen to hold my citizenship, a taking ou jobs. You mean our jobs? Did we not have emmigration? There's so much wrong with the statement, they're taking our job that i i can't get around the way the right might express that point. The right to your earlier point, that the right will taint this with a kind of jingoism or a a nationalism, or patriotism bordering on something less savoury. And my feeling is, no, i would rather spend three pages and get it right and show that it has nothing to do with zenophobia or jingoism. Well, yes. And the right point is that's not going to win elections, dear boy, ye.
Speaker 2
Well, maybe part of the problem of this is that everyone is currently behaving as if they're in a permanent campaign mode, yes, when it's not their bloody job, you know? I mean, this is what's so infuriating particulan america at the moment, is, i what do you think this dinner table is? Is it a place where friends congregate and we exchange ideas, or is it somesome grade version of the veep debate?

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