The discussion around the Douglas Murray/Dave Smith podcast feels like a completely fake discourse.
It’s supposed to give you the impression that it’s anchoring the overtown window further to the right, in reality it is buttressing the rightward boundary of the window.
If you pay close enough attention, you might have noticed that Dave and Douglass both agree that “racialism,” holocaust denial, and certain attitudes about Jews are beyond the pale.
Everyone is clowning on Murray but he succeeded. His job, as hall monitor, is to sharpen the edges of the discussion. If Ian or Darryl are being ambiguous, “hiding their power level,” planting seeds, being subtle— his job is to force them to be explicit and own what they’re saying.
His job is to get them to say “I’m not saying x, all I’m saying is z,” and that’s exactly what happened.
