Matthew Syed on Cousin Marriage, Immigration and Diversity

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Matthew Syed is the author of Rebel Ideas, Columnist for The Times & The Sunday Times, as well as a presenter on BBC Radio 4's Sideways. | Follow Matthew on X: https://x.com/matthewsyed SPONSOR. We’re honoured to partner with Hillsdale College. Go to https://hillsdale.edu/trigger to enroll for free. SPONSOR. Shopify! Sign up for a £1 per month trial at https://www.shopify.co.uk/trigger/ SPONSOR. ShipStation. Go to https://shipstation.com and use code TRIGGER to sign up for your FREE trial. Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Substack! https://triggernometry.substack.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Shop Merch here - https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 Introduction 05:59 The Broader Conversation Around Islam 11:34 Dealing With A Subset Of The Muslim Population That Wants To Destroy Us 18:06 Hillsdale College Advert 19:18 Cousin Marriage Results In Serious Genetic Disorders 22:16 Why Are Facts Racist? 26:14 The Weakness Of Liberals 31:37 Should Cousin Marriage Be Banned? 34:25 Grooming Gangs 44:47 Shopify Advert 46:04 Why Has This Failure Happened? 55:20 The Gold Standard 59:38 Bond Crisis 01:04:50 Changing The Tax System 01:07:56 How Do We End The Complacency? 01:13:12 ShipStation Advert 01:14:40 Diversity Debate 01:31:29 What's The Thing We're Not Talking About That We Should Be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I took a sabbatical to research cousin marriage. Now this is something that is prevalent across the world, but we didn't do it. We married each other. We were the first Mongol nation. We dissolved the tribes. And that created a national identity. It correlates very profoundly, not just with nepotism and corruption, but economic growth, GDP per capita around the world.
0:23.7	The prevalence of low-wage immigration is part of a wider phenomenon in Western societies
0:30.3	of electorates, voters effectively, who are unable to deal with reality.
0:35.8	The greatest discrimination happening in the Western civilization today
0:39.1	by far is a discrimination against the future.
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1:18.7	Matthew Seed, we've both been admirers of your column for many, many years.
1:22.7	So it's a pleasure to have you on the show.
1:24.2	Thanks for coming on.
1:24.8	Well, thanks for having me.
1:25.8	I'm not sure if I detected the merest hint of irony when you described
1:29.7	yourself as a fan of the car.
1:30.7	But that might me being too modest.
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