The Truth About "Authoritarianism"
Added 2023-10-20 00:42:43 +0000 UTCHowdy, friends! Apologies for the late preview. Suffice it to say it's been a hell of a couple weeks. In this episode we're tackling one of the most misused words in politics - authoritarianism. I hope you enjoy!
Also, which title do you prefer:
The Truth About "Authoritarianism"
We Need To Talk About "Authoritarianism"
Comments
Normally I really like your content but a lot of these comparisons are really in bad faith and I'm pretty disappointed. Chinese police killed no people? Yeah, I'm sure those are the official numbers, China is known for how truthful it is in reporting unfavorable metrics /s. And while our prisons are terrible, I'd rather be in prison here than in a soviet gulag (~5k deaths a year in US prisons vs the 1.6mil over the 30ish years the gulags existed >50k deaths/yr). Comparing prison populations flat (not per capita) when the soviet union's pop was smaller than the US pop is of course going to show the US prison pop being higher - there are simply more of us (though, at their height, soviet union was only about 20% smaller than US today, so it's not an enormous difference). Same thing with the computer surveillance - the internet didn't exist during soviet era, and China DOES tons of surveillance, way more than the US. Like I said, this just seems like bad faith arguments using partial data in a way to paint the US as worse than these obviously worse places. We are unequivocally more free in the US than in China or the soviet union. This seemed more like you were trying to direct a narrative rather than being a neutral-ish explanation of authoritarianism, so yeah gonna have to hard disagree on a lot of your points here. :(
Jade Ferra
2023-11-08 21:23:30 +0000 UTCAll together now, "This is extremely dangerous for our democracy" 7:48
Hamid Bashiri
2023-10-29 22:26:16 +0000 UTC
