Kulturkampf

[HaughtyFrank]

Ok, glad to see some posting about the CBS Ta-Nehisi interview. I almosted posted it in the ResetEra mockery thread, but figured  

But yeah, the clip went viral, but I also think paradoxically Coates has provided the anti-israel groups a rock solid, convincing, non-hamas-endorsing and generally sane framework to build off of.

The only reason he was able to do that in a now-viral clip is because of the extremely frank questioning by the interviewer. If you want Coates view to be the prevailing one, you don't complain that this has happened, you celebrate it.

I feel like most of the people whining about the interview are distracted by narcissistic self-regard: they're imaging how immediately they would degenerate into heaving sobs and wordless screeching if presented with similar scrutiny, and are advocating to protect this non-existent self concept.

Yeah that's also a good point. The CBS host brought up the pretty classic arguments "Israel has the right to defend itself, isn't that antisemitic" etc. and whether you like it or not those are exactly the arguments Coates needs to refute since those are the believes of the people he's trying to convince, so this was actually a great platform to do that