128: How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism, with Craig A. Johnson
I Don't Speak German
IDSG
3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Jack and Daniel welcome to the show Craig A. Johnson - academic, researcher, antifascist, and host of the (excellent) podcast 15 Minutes of Fascism - to chat about his (excellent) new book How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism, a primer on today's fascist and far-right, in all their styles and iterations, aimed at people worried that a young person in their lives (most especially a young man, obviously) is being sucked into the darkness.
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How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism, book.
15 Minutes of Fascism at Soundcloud
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| 0:00.0 | That's one of the things that is, I know that you two deal with this, that like one of the |
| 0:04.9 | hardest things about telling people about this stuff is that it is just so goofy and dumb. |
| 0:12.2 | Like it doesn't make any sense. |
| 0:15.2 | It has two modes and they are goofy and gut-wrenchingly horrifying. This is I Don't Speak German. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Jack Graham, he, him, and in this podcast I talk to my friend Daniel Harper, also He Him, |
| 0:42.2 | who spent years tracking the far right in their safe spaces. |
| 0:46.5 | In this show, we talk about them and about the wider reactionary forces feeding them and feeding off them. |
| 0:52.9 | Be warned, this is difficult subject matter. Content |
| 0:55.7 | warnings always apply. So welcome back to I Don't Speak German, the podcast that does the |
| 1:06.5 | things that you know that it does, because you listen to it probably. And I'm Jack Graham and I'm here with Daniel Harper as usual. |
| 1:12.5 | And Daniel, say hello to the little girls and boys and boys and boys and girls and non-bary |
| 1:19.0 | folks, absolutely. |
| 1:19.9 | And everybody else. |
| 1:20.6 | I said everybody else. |
| 1:21.4 | No, I'm here. |
| 1:22.4 | I hear you just don't want to, you know, don't want to yada yada yada, the non-binary folks. |
| 1:26.3 | But yeah, no, hello to all those people. |
| 1:28.5 | You're absolutely right. |
| 1:29.6 | I did yada yada and I shouldn't have done that. |
| 1:31.8 | And we are very lucky and happy and honored to have with a special guest on the show. |
| 1:38.0 | Craig Johnson, host of 15 Minutes of Fascism. |
| 1:41.1 | Hi, Craig. |
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