Ep#197 - What the left gets wrong about ethnic minorities - Rakib Ehsan
The Godless Spellchecker Podcast
Release Date: 12/08/2023
Ep#201 - Sall Grover - Being sued for 'women only' social app
The Godless Spellchecker Podcast
This week on The Knight Tube, Stephen Knight (@GSpellchecker) speaks to Sall Grover. Sall is a businesswoman currently embroiled in a legal row for trying to create a single sex social App called ‘Giggle’ 0:00 Intro 0:59 About Sall and what happened with her App. 5:22 At what point in time did it become controversial to say that “men aren’t women”? 7:23 What does it mean to be “peaked”? 9:23 Why say “there is no such thing as trans”? 11:53 How much of this is ‘cultural’? 15:53 Has trans rights activism hijacked the gay rights movement? 19:38 Does Sall have public...
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The Godless Spellchecker Podcast
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The Godless Spellchecker Podcast
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Ep#198 - Buck Angel
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Ep#197 - What the left gets wrong about ethnic minorities - Rakib Ehsan
The Godless Spellchecker Podcast
This week on The Knight Tube, Stephen Knight (@GSpellchecker) speaks to Author Dr Rakib Ehsan (@rakibEhsan) about his book 'Beyond Grievance: What The Left Gets Wrong About Ethnic Minorities'. Watch the video version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE9CIlh4AQg 0:00 Intro 0:10 About Rakib Ehsan 1:49 Why talk about ‘race’ given how controversial it is? 3:04 Does it matter what publications you write for? 5:50 Is religious faith really a solution to our problems? 9:35 Freedom of expression at pro-Palestinian protests and the failure of the Metropolitan Police. 14:04 Reflecting on the...
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Ep#196 - Israelophobia - Jake Wallis Simons
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This week on The Knight Tube, (@GSpellchecker) speaks to Author, Journalist and editor of The Jewish Chronicle, Jake Wallis Simons about his book ‘Israelophobia’. Watch the video version at 0:00 Intro 0:32 About Jake 2:03 Why the title of ‘Israelophobia’ for Jake’s book? 3:49 Disagreement with David Baddiel 8:18 Israel and the power dynamic 9:40 The left’s problem with Israel and reality 11:40 The problem of Jeremy Corbyn 12:29 Does Keir Starmer understand the problem? 17:08 People who take a position of neutrality on the conflict 19:53 Israel screening footage of Hamas’s...
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This week on The Knight Tube, Stephen Knight (@GSpellchecker) speaks to Author Dr Rakib Ehsan (@rakibEhsan) about his book 'Beyond Grievance: What The Left Gets Wrong About Ethnic Minorities'.
Watch the video version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE9CIlh4AQg
0:00 Intro
0:10 About Rakib Ehsan
1:49 Why talk about ‘race’ given how controversial it is?
3:04 Does it matter what publications you write for?
5:50 Is religious faith really a solution to our problems?
9:35 Freedom of expression at pro-Palestinian protests and the failure of the Metropolitan Police.
14:04 Reflecting on the Brexit referendum.
16:40 The white saviour complex of the progressive left.
19:18 Is it ethical to limit certain types of immigration?
22:18 ‘The traditional family’ argument.
25:22 The outcome of Bianca Williams’s stop and search case.
32:21 The problem with importing American identity politics and grievances to the UK
37:29 Is the gender debate really all that important to the general public and our election cycle?
41:40 Reflecting on the problem of Jeremy Corbyn
45:44 Do ethnic minorities in the UK lean conservative?
48:55 Is patriotism important to a modern Britian?
55:25 ‘White privilege’ and anti-white attitudes.
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