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BONUS: Hangin' Out with Eiynah 5 - Halloween Special!

I Don't Speak German

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Politics, News, Currentaffairs, Society & Culture

3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Oooooo-wooooo! Wokeness is Scary!

In this little Halloween bonus, Jack joins friend of the pod Eiynah Mohammed-Smith, and Dr Caitilin Green, for a special spooky space over at cursed nazi chan board X. Recorded October 27th 2023. Please excuse the usual sound quality issues.

We talk about right-wing and IDW-type panics over woke Halloween costumes, concerns about cultural appropriation, etc. To quote Eiynah's write-up: "We discuss Bill Maher, Steven Crowder, Yale professors Nicholas & Erika Christakis & their calls for students to ‘look away’ from ‘offensive Halloween costumes’, U of Oregon Professor Nancy Shurtz who wore blackface at a party that students attended ….all this and more."

As always, thanks to everyone who turned up to listen and contribute.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. Thank you for patiently waiting for us to get this started and thank you for joining us today for a very spooky Twitter space. Jack and I will be discussing various hetero docs horror stories where some poor victims of cancel culture were criticized for doing or defending something bigoted and Halloween related.

0:26.0

We thought it'd be a good time for a little like a you know roundup of such stories from the past few years. I think they are becoming like less and less common because the awareness around why these types of things are so fucked up is increasing. What is your sense track?

0:47.0

Yeah, I think that they're just getting a bit wrote something that it's I think even the people churning them out year after year and maybe getting you wouldn't think it was possible but maybe just getting a little bit self conscious about it.

1:00.0

Yeah, it's like the same article you could just do like a madlibs you know with it.

1:06.0

You just like replace the names and the setting.

1:11.0

So who wants to go for?

1:14.0

Zombie stories of the brave cultural warriors.

1:18.0

I'll start with everybody's favorite person Bill Ma, which I found a it's kind of a yeah, I know it's kind of a

1:29.0

art whole section situation because it's a report about Bill Ma talking about Halloween on the daily one kind of big bag squared.

1:37.0

Yeah, so it's just the daily wire turning something Bill Ma said on television into a new story which in fairness people across the political spectrum do that but yeah this one made me laugh because it's

1:51.0

Bill Ma unloads on the problematic costume police.

1:55.0

So it's.

1:57.0

He reads through a list of problematic Halloween costumes compiled by Buzzfeed which he renames buzz kill.

2:06.0

Isn't that funny?

2:08.0

What he did.

2:10.0

What he did there was he changed the word feed to the in the name Buzzfeed to the name to the word kill.

2:18.0

And that's implying that they're it's very very clever.

2:23.0

Yes, it's so edgy.

2:24.0

It is isn't it? Yeah, I'm cutting myself and all the edges here.

2:27.0

But yeah, he says he says something in the article he says in it says something that really made me laugh.

2:33.0

He says the entire point of the night of freedom that came before all Saints day.

2:39.0

Is to be problematic.

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