Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Political correctness exists on all sides: right, left, and center. Holocaust and Israel/Palestine scholar Norman Finkelstein joins Alex Sheremet to discuss Robin DiAngelo's politically correct grift in "White Fragility" and opine on what Alex terms The Glenn Loury Problem: a rejection of one's past coupled with an inability to actually learn from it.

"Before Palestine, There Was Liberia" -- Alex Sheremet's video essay on how former American slaves colonized West Africa: youtube.com/watch?v=fUwdbPxRFYc

Clipped from ArtiFact #44: Norman Finkelstein On Race, Class, & Robin DiAngelo's Fraud -- youtube.com/watch?v=csWQhC40DDM

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