I listened to this week in tech for years. Then it got a little too political for my personal preference. I would take a break and come back but sure enough it just went deeper down the political podcast category than I felt like listening too. Calling Tucker Carlson a nazi was an interesting one. I don’t watch his show but this just reeked of a left talking point instead of addressing anything specific he said. I consider myself middle of the isle libertarian leaning… I see a lot of good and bad from both sides. Sometimes I love a good political debate. Just wasn’t interested in it from TWiT. His show though. He had a right to talk about anything he wants. I did try to email them just to discuss as a long term fan. Someone, his wife I think, made it pretty clear my input was not wanted. fair enough but that’s when I stopped listening.
Petaluma is 17% Republican, which is probably high for the Bay Area. While I also dislike when politics leak into a show that's subject based (not general interest nor specifically political), he keeps his shows from having much in the way of dead air and some of that requires filling in with whatever topic is on the top of the head of the host. For the Bay Area, that's often going to be about how some conservative is bad. I used to watch lots of TWIT shows but these days I pretty much only watch 'Security Now' and even that only once in a while, but for what it's worth, I don't recall too much political content, at least not content unrelated to security, during that show.
In the same sense you can call yourself a cabbage if you want, sure. But if you don't watch someone's show, maybe don't wade in to defend them from even extreme criticism, since for all you know it might be correct. (I don't watch Carlson's show either, merely pointing out the internal logic of your statements.)
I would have had the same thing to say if he called Don Lemon a nazi. My point was really that degrading the conversation down to who is a nazi is pretty unproductive. Unless of course they actually were. I sure hope that’s an extreme example we can both agree on. Does that logic check out?
I have 100% confidence that a Nazi would not have their own television show on a popular network where they spread Nazi propaganda in America.
I do not believe the American people would tolerate it. Seems like a safe bet to me. I don’t need to watch his show to know that. There are also people whom I know who do watch his show who I know would never accept a nazi perspective even for one second. So I do believe I can have some confidence that it’s a ridiculous claim used to stir up fear and outrage.
Does this sound unreasonable? I appreciate the questions and the conversation. However I can’t tell if it is sincere or just having fun for fun’s sake. I’m down for both but if you really think that I should take a closer look to confirm whether or not he is a Nazi. Please point me in the right direction. Maybe my entire world view of how things currently work needs a calibration.
