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Nellie Bowles: How the Lockdowns Drove Us Crazy

May 22, 2024

Nellie Bowles discusses the impact of lockdowns and racial unrest in America, the financial aspects of BLM, progressive stacking, cancel culture in the pandemic era, gender identity language controversies, navigating social change, and the influence of authors on journalism.

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Nellie Bowles

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San Francisco balances social justice causes, liberalism, and libertarianism, aiming for a livable environment.

Media outlets like The Free Press strive for diversity to prevent audience capture and foster varied perspectives.

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San Francisco Faces Changing Views of Social Justice Movements

San Francisco undergoes shifts in social justice causes, balancing liberalism and libertarian ideologies. The reform movements within the city aim to create a livable environment and address issues like crime and schooling.

Introduction

2min

The Intersection of Lockdowns, Race, and Social Movements

22min

Balancing Voices with the Progressive Stack

5min

Exploring Turduckin and Cancellations in the Lockdown Era

2min

Exploring Controversy, Cancellation, and Internal Strife in Brooklyn Media

4min

Gender, Language, and Identity

8min

Navigating the Complexities of Social Change

20min

Influential Authors of Journalism and Storytelling

4min

Today's guest is Nellie Bowles, a co-founder of the immensely popular Substack publication The Free Press, where she writes TGIF, a weekly news roundup that has earned a fanatical following. She's also the author of the new book Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History, a deeply reported account of how America responded to COVID lockdowns and racial unrest in 2020 and 2021 and her tumultuous tenure at The New York Times.

This interview was recorded at a live event in New York City.

00:00—The Morning After The Revolution

2:30— First sparks of the revolution

5:30— the working class victims of The Reckoning

9:37— BLM's property empire

11:16— Bowles' New York Times dispatch from CHAZ

13:40— Black and Asian White Supremacists

15:55— White women's tears & DEI trainings

20:25— Dismantle capitalism, but not too urgently!

24:10— The Progressive Stack 26:01- Academic "Pretendians"

29:20— The Bon Appétit Cancellation Turducken

34:37— The Creation of Non-man

37:52— Woman: a submissive vessel?

42:40— The Current Thing Speedway

44:06— San Francisco: Progressive Libertarian Nihilism?

48:33— Nellie Bowles' politics

50:25— Positive social change

54:17— Q&A

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