69: Andrew Sullivan: How the rebels became the censors

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🗓️ 21 October 2021

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Andrew Sullivan, author of ‘Out on a Limb’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about how millennials became crippled by wokeness, why the oppressed need free speech, and how the trans movement compels us to lie.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Brendan here, and before we get into this week's show with the brilliant Andrew Sullivan,
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0:56.0	People in general liked gay people in part because we were the ones that said,
1:06.1	don't censor it. We want to publish it. We want to put this show on. We want to say these
1:11.2	naughty words. We were always the rebels. And now we are the censors. Yeah. And not only that,
1:17.6	it is not the spirit of gay people. It really isn't. This is alien to us. We are not the
1:23.3	characters. We are the resistors to purge us. And it's absolutely horrifying to see this great
1:30.2	culture of rebellion revolve and pre-speech turn into a fucking church.
1:38.9	Hello and welcome to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill. This is a podcast in which
1:44.8	an esteemed guest joins me to talk about the big ideas, the bad ideas, the problems and the
1:49.9	controversies of life in the early 21st century. In this episode, I am delighted to be joined by
1:55.9	Andrew Sullivan. Andrew is a British-born, America-based journalist, essayist and author. He is one of
2:02.6	America's best known conservative commentators and has been described by the New York Times as
2:08.0	one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades. He was editor of the New
2:13.2	Republic from 1991 to 1996. He launched his blog The Daily Dish in 2000 and that blog was
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