Name: Debunking the 5 Most Common Anti-Palestinian Talking Points by Citations Needed Podcast
Duration: 37 min 5 s
Description: In this public News Brief we breakdown the most common anti-Palestinian tropes and why they're based on sophistry, ignorance, racism, or some combination of all three.

its super hard to hear this guy. the levels are way off!

@user-327190318 nobody's buying that shit. Hamas is a pathetically obvious IDF cut out. Keep lying liar.

Lol! Hamas is controlled opposition. Not a true existential enemy of Israel. The deck is rigged from the start here...

Brace makes an NFT: https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/104503460708576514723677294791054914639824523807549586153085114764453373542401

Episode 145: New F*ckin Trueanon

Author and Northwestern University history professor Daniel Immerwahr stops by to tell us about why our tech overlords in Silicon Valley are suddenly interested in all things paleo, and about why studying deep time is important.

Here is a link to the article in the New Republic that we discuss: https://newrepublic.com/article/161593/prehistoric-myth-work-james-suzman

Also buy Daniel's very good book, How To Hide An Empire: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374172145

Outro music by Michael Howard: https://soundcloud.com/baronvonsuckit

Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Episode 197: The Mods Must Be Crazy (w/ special guest Daniel Immerwahr)

In this public News Brief, we dissect recent news that the Biden administration backs a TRIPS waiver at the WTO and why the terms of their upcoming TRIPS waiver matter more than the splashy headlines.

News Brief: On Biden's TRIPS Waiver Support, Substance Matters More than Headlines

Greetings my precious ....dammers. This week we take on the most chaotic, the most vile, the most ubiquitous and malevolent of all topics on the internet. The bane of the discourse, the black hole from hell's heart, the god damn albatross around my neck. I'm getting fucking furious just typing about it. I am losing my god damned motherfucking mind.

We are joined this week by Jacobin writer and Zero Books author Ben Burgis to talk about his new book, Canceling Comedians While The World Burns. While we may not agree 100 percent with each other, we actually had a rather pleasant debate about cancel culture and whatnot probably because it didn't happen on twitter. Enjoy, yell at us, idk, who cares whatever i'm gonna go play video games.

BEN BURGIS
@benburgis
benburgis.com
@deadpundits
@GTAA_SHOW
https://redemmas.org/titles/34877-canceling-comedians-while-the-world-burns--a-critique-of-the-contemporary-left

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Arguing With Comedians While The World Burns w/ Ben Burgis

In this News Brief we break down the entirely predictable media coverage of Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians--liberal handwringing, vague "progressive" outrage--and make the case for why the most recent "clashes" should compel nominal progressive leaders like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to formally support BDS.

On Palestine, It's Time for Progressives to Stop Reading From the Same Outrage Script & Support BDS

We get Blowback’s Noah Kulwin (twitter.com/nkulw) on the line to talk about the past and present of the Cuban exile lobby.


Blowback Season 2: stitcher.com/show/blowback

Episode 157: Havana Nights

In this public News Brief we breakdown the most common anti-Palestinian tropes and why they're based on sophistry, ignorance, racism, or some combination of all three.

Debunking the 5 Most Common Anti-Palestinian Talking Points

"A good, hard working kid." "A 4.0 student." "He's asking for too much money." "They get paid to play a child’s game." "He shows up and does his work and never complains."

Despite the fact that the concept of paying college athletes has gained some mainstream support in recent years, much of the ideological scaffolding that exists to justify their lack of fair compensation is still very popular and widespread in sports punditry and writing, AM radio and play-by-play broadcasts.

Scrutinizing GPAs and work ethic, talking about how "kids" are "becoming men," racialized claims of lazy or ungrateful players, and wildly different double standards for players and owners for when they attempt to maximize their economic interests all prop up a system that, despite liberal hand-wringing and box checking concern for not paying players at the highest levels, still relies on withholding compensation from college athletes for their labor.

The stakes go beyond just sports. This conservative cultural contempt for athletes as a whole mirrors and informs that of other workers as well. Whenever, say, nurses organize for better pay and safer working conditions or, in the era of COVID, teachers unions seek to continue virtual rather than in-person classes for the sake of public health, they’re dismissed as self-interested and domineering.

On this episode, we parse the racist, anti-labor characterization of athletes in media, how they are both scary threatening men and tiny children whose should be paid and breakdown how this topic has cultural implications to other labor struggles, by informing and reinforcing anti-union tropes across the board

Our guest is Penn State professor Amira Rose Davis, co-host of Burn It All Down.

                              

Episode 136: The 'Ungrateful Athlete': Anti-Black, Anti-Labor Currents in Sports Media

Felix is joined by journalist for AJ+ Mohammad Alsaafin for a wide ranging discussion on Palestinian resistance and the future of Zionism and the Palestinian cause.

Sorry for the slightly abrupt outro, we lost the last few seconds of Mohammad’s audio, but please follow him at @malsaafin and check out and share this concise video explainer on Israeli apartheid he produced for AJ+:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MknerYjob0w
And follow @ajplus on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

Chapo Trap House

BONUS: Focus on Palestine feat. Mohammad Alsaafin

Brace and Liz live and dangerous “spilling tea” (sorry we’re in our 30s) about Bill & Melinda’s divorce, Ghislaine’s trial and her mysterious black eye

Journalism's Gates Keepers: cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php

Episode 159: Melinda Single???

"Hand-picked successor", "firebrand", "proxy" — In Anglo-American media, there are certain Enemy Epithets that are reserved only for Official Enemy States of United States and their leaders, which are rarely, if ever, used to refer to the United States itself or its allies, despite these countries featuring many of the same qualities being described.

Over two years ago, in a two-part episode entitled "Laundering Imperial Violence Through Anodyne Foreign Policy-Speak" (Episodes 70 and 71), we explored the euphemistic way American media discusses manifestly violent or coercive US policy and military action. Words like “engagement”, “surgical strikes”, “muscular foreign policy”, “crippling sanctions” obscure the damage being unleashed by our military and economic extortion regime.

Just as pleasant sounding, sanitized foreign policy speak masks the violence of US empire, highly loaded pejorative labels are used to describe otherwise banal doings of government or are employed selectively to make enemies seem uniquely sinister, while American allies who exhibit similar features are given a far more pleasant descriptor.

This and next week, we're going to lay out the Top 10 Enemies Epithets — derisive descriptors that are inconsistently applied to smear enemies without any symmetrical usage stateside, designed to conjure up nasty images of despotism and oppression, often pandering to racialized and Oriental prejudice and, above all, asking people to shut off our brains and have the label do the thinking for them.

Episode 137: Thought-Terminating Enemy Epithets (Part I)

Citations Needed is a podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. It is hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, and produced by Florence Barrau-Adams.

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