Hi Joshua! I’ve been loving Doomscroll: your eclectic mix of guests is compelling, and the class-consciousness rabbit hole you’re building is a brilliant idea.
In this episode, there’s one line that jumped out at me: you said that Quebec seperatists are white nationalists and basically neo-Nazis. I had to rewind and listen to that bit several times to make sure I hadn’t misheard.
The separatist movement is way more complex than that. There’s certainly a white nationalist contingent within it, but it’s not accurate to reduce the entire movement in this way.
Many Quebec separatists are socialists and/or labour activists who argue for a civic rather than an ethnic approach to conserving the language and culture of Quebec.
In fact, Amazon just pulled out of the province due to the strength of organized labour in Quebec! Jay LeSoleil would be a great guest if you ever want to discuss this. I’d argue Quebec has been the most socialist province in Canada, historically speaking, so it’s a worthwhile conversation to have.
That’s not to say that separatism is never used as a smokescreen for racist policies, but while white nationalists are always trying to claim the mantle of Quebec separatism for themselves, the mainstream and socialist contingents of the movement are much larger, and consider the white nationalists to be outliers.
Great interview, but for me it seems that paternalistic patriarchy still has a chokehold on the underlying philosophy of nation states.
Identity politics arise in a system of gross social inequalities and the ideologies behind those inequalities.
Both the western right and the western left are like a bipolar disordered person who cannot integrate dynamic flexibility. They need to go outside their own limited ideologies to indigenous and nondual cultures and those philosophies.
Hi Josh, it would be awesome if you Adam Curtis on for an interview. Thanks!
This expands the Overton Window for possible guests tremendously
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Hi Joshua! I’ve been loving Doomscroll: your eclectic mix of guests is compelling, and the class-consciousness rabbit hole you’re building is a brilliant idea.
In this episode, there’s one line that jumped out at me: you said that Quebec seperatists are white nationalists and basically neo-Nazis. I had to rewind and listen to that bit several times to make sure I hadn’t misheard.
The separatist movement is way more complex than that. There’s certainly a white nationalist contingent within it, but it’s not accurate to reduce the entire movement in this way.
Many Quebec separatists are socialists and/or labour activists who argue for a civic rather than an ethnic approach to conserving the language and culture of Quebec.
In fact, Amazon just pulled out of the province due to the strength of organized labour in Quebec! Jay LeSoleil would be a great guest if you ever want to discuss this. I’d argue Quebec has been the most socialist province in Canada, historically speaking, so it’s a worthwhile conversation to have.
That’s not to say that separatism is never used as a smokescreen for racist policies, but while white nationalists are always trying to claim the mantle of Quebec separatism for themselves, the mainstream and socialist contingents of the movement are much larger, and consider the white nationalists to be outliers.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jaylesoleil/p/make-foreign-corporations-prove-their
oh let's gooo
Great interview, but for me it seems that paternalistic patriarchy still has a chokehold on the underlying philosophy of nation states.
Identity politics arise in a system of gross social inequalities and the ideologies behind those inequalities.
Both the western right and the western left are like a bipolar disordered person who cannot integrate dynamic flexibility. They need to go outside their own limited ideologies to indigenous and nondual cultures and those philosophies.