Dangerous Speech
192 episodes - English - Latest episode: 19 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsI'm trying to discuss hot button topics in a reasonable manner. I'm also trying to figure out first principles and how we come by them and decide which are best. I'm speaking with academics, authors, journalists and activists in hopes of trying to find answers.
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Ep 121: Yasmine Mohammed
August 28, 2021 14:47 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBI spoke with Yasmine Mohammed about the fate of women in Afghanistan, the failure of the US and the West, in general, the implications for the region. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Yasmine: @YasMohammedxx Check out and support Free Hearts Free Minds: https://www.freeheartsfreeminds.com/ Check out Yasmine’s webpage and sign up for her book club: https://www.yasminemohammed.com/ Yasmine's article in Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/have-courage-name-real-threat-afghan-women-islamist-rule-o...
Ep 120: Frank McCormick
August 21, 2021 14:17 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBI spoke with Frank McCormick about why he started speaking out against CSJ training and curriculum in schools, how the pushback will need a concerted effort, the power of teachers’ unions, and mismanaged budgets. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Frank: @CBHeresy Check out Frank’s blog: https://chalkboardheresy.com/
Ep 119: Charles Love
August 14, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBI spoke with Charles Love about his recent article in Newsweek about how liberals distance themselves from conservatives even when agreeing on the cause, giving up the conversation, both sideism, loss of trust in institutions. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Charles: @CDouglasLove3 Check out the Cut the Bull podcast:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1759989 The Charles Love Show: https://thecharleslove.com/ Sign your kids up for the Coolidge Citizenship Challenge or donate: https://coolidgefoundatio...
Ep 118: Paul Rossi
August 07, 2021 14:22 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBI spoke with Paul Rossi about his pushback to a segregated training at the school where he was teaching and the fallout from that, transparency of the curriculum, what is taught vs how it’s taught. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Paul: @pauldrossi
Ep 117: Jason Littlefield
July 28, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBI spoke with Jason Littlefield about Empowered Pathways and a different approach to SEL, issues in education and victimhood culture. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Jason: @JasonTheeHuman Check out the work Empowered Pathways is doing: https://www.empoweredpathways.org/
Ep 116: Izabella Tabarovsky
July 21, 2021 14:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBI spoke with Izabella Tabarovsky about the similarities between Woke ideology and the Soviet Union, anti-semitism from the left, and the demonization of whiteness Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Izabella: @IzaTabaro
Ep 115: Sinead
July 14, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBI spoke with Sinead about transitioning and detransitioning, gender and queer theory, dangers to children, and the debate around female-only spaces Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Sinead: @ImWatson91 You can hear more of Sinead’s story here: https://youtu.be/CsT_Z8OFFdg
Ep 114: Ioan Grillo
July 07, 2021 13:17 - 57 minutes - 53 MBI spoke with Ioan Grillo about reporting on the cartels and how powerful they are, the corruption in Mexico, and comparing/contrasting life in war zones to life in areas where the cartels hold sway. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Ioan: @ioangrillo You. Can find out more about Ioan on his website: ioangrillo.com Get his latest book: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Gun-Money-Firearms-Trafficking/dp/1635572789/ref=sr_1_1?crid=L0EOQP1YHIO6&dchild=1&keywords=blood+gun+money+by+ioan+grillo&qid=162566...
Ep 113: Counterweight Anniversary
July 01, 2021 13:32 - 1 hour - 63.8 MBI spoke with Helen Pluckrose, Harriet Terrill, Issy Marston, Kevin Lowe, and Jennifer Friend about the work they are doing at Counterweight, and their future plans Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Helen: @HPluckrose Follow Jennifer: @Dissidentdelite Follow Kevin: @Intrinsic29 Check out Counterweight’s website and see more of what they do. You can also support them or get help through their site: Counterweightsupport.com
Ep 112: Grace
June 23, 2021 13:52 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBI spoke with Grace about how she pushed back on the encroachment of CSJ ideology in her non-profit. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Grace: @graceisforyou
Ep 111: Monica Osborne
June 16, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBI spoke with Monica Osborne about trauma, and the overuse of the term, the rise of antisemitism on the woke left, vilification of whiteness. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Monica: @DrMonicaOsborne
Ep 110: Marilyn Muller
June 13, 2021 13:16 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBI spoke with Marilyn Muller about the issues with education for specialness kids, her organization Moms 4 FAPE, school choice, and the overall problems with education. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Marilyn: @1in5advocacy Follow Moms 4 FAPE: @moms4FAPE Checkout the moms 4 FAPE website and see more of their work: https://www.moms4fape.org/
Ep 109: Erika Sanzi
June 09, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBI spoke with Erika Sanzi about Parents Defending Education and the work they do, school choice, and the pushback on CRT-based curricula. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Erika: @esanzi Follow Parents Defending Education: @DefendingEd Checkout Parents Defending Education’s website and see more of their work: https://defendinged.org/
Ep 108: Chris Elston
June 02, 2021 13:10 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBI spoke with Chris Elston about his campaign to raise awareness about puberty blockers being used on children, the harms the trans lobby is doing to children and the increase in children transitioning. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Chris: @christophelston Check out his website: billboardchris.com Subscribe to his channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/billboardchris
Ep 107: Karam Bassam
May 30, 2021 12:48 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBI spoke with Karam Bassam about heavy metal music in Iraq and the Middle East, the situation in the area, attitude shift between generations, some of the work he did with Ideas Beyond Borders. Karam's article about heavy metal: https://www.ideasbeyondborders.org/post/fighting-for-humanity-through-metal?fbclid=IwAR0F4ExAHbK7idwrpXRQ4y4GO_yhh5vD4EnMzmBQq92ArDxPPlurmi5qahY Check out Ideas Beyond Borders: https://www.ideasbeyondborders.org/
Ep 106: Jason
May 26, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 94.1 MBI spoke with Jason about his channel, the impact that CSJ fields are having on native people, the idea of the noble savage. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Jason: @Native_Liberty_ Subscribe to his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNoQOEwSnbYNSo4UoEG_HqA
Ep 105: Robert Pondiscio
May 19, 2021 14:00 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBI spoke with Robert Pondiscio about school choice, curriculum choice, reading to learn vs learning to read, and other issues in education. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Robert: @rpondiscio Checkout Robert’s website: https://www.robertpondiscio.com/ Buy his book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Other-Half-Learns-excellence/dp/0525533737/
Ep 104: Helena
May 16, 2021 12:47 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBI spoke with Helena about similarities between Gender ideology and fundamentalist faith, identity, detransitioning, and the harms of puberty blockers . Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Helena: @lacroicsz
Ep 103: Francis Foster
May 12, 2021 12:53 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBI spoke with Francis Foster about comedy, and wokeness encroaching into comedy and the arts, free expression, and choosing for yourself what to watch and listen to. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Francis: @francisjfoster
Ep 102: Seerut Chawla
May 05, 2021 13:30 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBI spoke with Seerut Chawla about psychotherapy, the dilution of terms, CSJ-based therapy. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Seerut: @seerutkchawla
Ep 101: Gabrielle Clark
May 02, 2021 13:23 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBI recently did a live stream with Gabrielle Clark about her fight to get CRT-based education at her children’s school and the work that No Left Turn in Education is doing. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Gabrielle: @GabsClark5 Find out more about No Left Turn in Education: https://noleftturn.us/about-us/ Join them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/noleftturnineducation/
Ep 100: Wenyuan Wu
April 28, 2021 14:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MBI spoke with Wenyuan Wu about her work with the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, their work in defeating Prop 16 and now their push for Civil Rights in education in California and pushing back against CRT curriculum. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Wenyuan: @wu_wenyuan Find out more about CERF: https://cferfoundation.org/
Ep 99: Batya Ungar-Sargon
April 21, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBI spoke with Batya Ungar-Sargon about wokeness in media and academia, the left’s abandonment of the working class, the Enlightenment and the rise in anti-Semitism. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Batya: @bungarsargon Batya’s article on anti-racism: https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-warped-vision-of-anti-racism?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter You can pre-order her book: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-News-Media-Undermining-Democracy/dp/1641772069/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&ke...
Ep 98 Eric Kaufman
April 14, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBI spoke with Eric Kaufman about his report on academic freedom in crisis, some of the pushback via legislation and litigation, and issues with academia. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Eric: @epkaufm Check out Eric’s website: sneps.net Read the executive summary of Eric’s report: https://cspicenter.org/reports/academicfreedom/ The full report: https://cspicenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AcademicFreedom.pdf Some of Eric’s articles: https://unherd.com/thepost/why-the-race-equalities-re...
Ep 97 Erec Smith
April 07, 2021 14:00 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBI spoke with Erec Smith about Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, diversity of black thought, and issues in academia . Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Erec: @Rhetors_of_York Follow Free Black Thought: @FreeBlckThought Read Erec’s latest article: https://www.newsweek.com/redefining-harm-infantilizes-people-color-opinion-1581113 Check out the work Free Black Thought does: https://www.freeblackthought.com/
Ep 96: Angel Eduardo
March 31, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 88.3 MBI spoke with Angel Eduardo about his idea of starmanning, how to have meaningful conversations, and merit vs meritocracy. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Angel: @StrangelEdweird You can read Angel’s articles Starmanning: https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/how-to-star-man-arguing-from-compassion/ Merit: https://www.newsweek.com/why-calling-merit-racist-erases-people-color-opinion-1575196 Check out Angel’s website to read more of his work: http://angeleduardo.com/
Ep 95: Clifton Duncan
March 24, 2021 11:52 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBI spoke with Clifton Duncan about acting, representation, and woke thinking in the arts. Follow me: @dangerousspeach Follow Clifton: @cliftonaduncan
Ep 94: Daniel Buck
March 17, 2021 14:00 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBI spoke with Daniel Buck about education, school choice, colleges of education, and teaching Shakespeare. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Daniel: @MrDanielBuck
Ep 93: Charles Negy
March 10, 2021 14:33 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBI spoke with Charles Negy about his dismissal from UCF, attitudes in academia, siloing of departments. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Charles: @CharlesNegy You can buy his book here: https://www.amazon.com/White-Shaming-Prejudice-Virtue-signaling-Ignorance/dp/1792407858
Ep 92: Christopher Rufo
March 03, 2021 15:00 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBI spoke with Christopher Rufo about his work on CRT-based training in the federal government, CRT-based K-12 curricula and teacher training, and some of the pushback . Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Christopher: @realchrisrufo Follow and support his work: https://www.city-journal.org/buffalo-public-schools-critical-race-theory-curriculum
Ep 91 Erika Sanzi
February 25, 2021 23:06 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBI spoke with Erika Sanzi about school choice, lowering standards, children not reading or doing math at grade level, and boys being left behind. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Erika: @esanzi Read Erika’s writing: sanzi.substack.com
Ep 91: Erika Sanzi
February 24, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBI spoke with Erika Sanzi about school choice, lowering standards, children not reading or doing math at grade level, and boys being left behind. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Erika: @esanzi Read Erika’s writing: sanzi.substack.com
Ep 91: Zach Greenberg
February 17, 2021 15:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBI spoke with Zach Greenberg about the work FIRE is doing. Free speech on campus and in society. Free speech as laws and as culture. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Zach: @Zach2Greenberg Follow FIRE: @theFIREorg Learn more about Fire: https://www.thefire.org/
Ep 90: Zach Greenberg
February 17, 2021 15:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBI spoke with Zach Greenberg about the work FIRE is doing. Free speech on campus and in society. Free speech as laws and as culture. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Zach: @Zach2Greenberg Follow FIRE: @theFIREorg Learn more about Fire: https://www.thefire.org/
Ep 89: Patrick Lockwood Pt3
February 10, 2021 14:24 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBI spoke with Patrick Lockwood about losing touch with reality, confrontation vs cooperation, education, and CBT. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Patrick: @PsychPLockwood Check out his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_5lsyaHFA3PF069ZrFva0w You can get his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Problem-Technology-Culture-Hijacked/dp/1684018137/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+fear+problem&qid=1596163328&sr=8-1 Patrick’s website: https://www.primitiveunity.com/
Ep 88 Ian Rowe
February 03, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBI spoke with Ian Rowe about education, school choice, charter schools, teaching history, the bigotry of low expectations, reparations, and the work of 1776 Unites. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Ian: @IanVRowe You can check out his work at AEI: https://www.aei.org/profile/ian-rowe/ His podcast: https://www.aei.org/multimedia/troy-stovall-on-reimagining-pathways-to-power/ The 1776 Unites project: https://1776unites.com/
Ep 87: Razib Khan
January 27, 2021 15:33 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBI spoke with Razib Khan about narrative shaping facts, the Capitol riots, and problems in academia. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Razib: @razibkhan You can check out his writing: razib.substack.com
Ep 86: Wilfred Reilly Pt2
January 20, 2021 15:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBI spoke with Wilfred Reilly about how to look at disparities, systemic racism, the focus on race vs class. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Wilfred: @wil_da_beast630 You can get his books here: https://www.amazon.com/Taboo-Facts-Cant-Talk-About/dp/162157928X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CUFA05GZTVXV&dchild=1&keywords=wilfred+reilly&qid=1611097080&sprefix=wilfred+reill%2Caps%2C512&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Crime-Hoax-Lefts-Campaign/dp/1621577783/ref=pd_sbs_1?pd_rd_w=IagFJ&pf_rd_p=3ec6a47e-bf65-4...
Ep 86: Wilfred Reilly
January 20, 2021 15:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBI spoke with Wilfred Reilly about how to look at disparities, systemic racism, the focus on race vs class. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Wilfred: @wil_da_beast630 You can get his books here: https://www.amazon.com/Taboo-Facts-Cant-Talk-About/dp/162157928X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CUFA05GZTVXV&dchild=1&keywords=wilfred+reilly&qid=1611097080&sprefix=wilfred+reill%2Caps%2C512&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Crime-Hoax-Lefts-Campaign/dp/1621577783/ref=pd_sbs_1?pd_rd_w=IagFJ&pf_rd_p=3ec6a47e-bf65-4...
Ep 85: Colin Wright Pt2
January 13, 2021 13:11 - 1 hour - 55 MBI spoke with Colin Wright about a biological view of gender and sex, the legitimation crisis in academia Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Colin: @SwipeWright Check out his substack: colinwright.substack.com
Ep 85 Colin Wright
January 13, 2021 13:11 - 1 hour - 55 MBI spoke with Colin Wright about a biological view of gender and sex, the legitimation crisis in academia Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Colin: @SwipeWright Check out his substack: colinwright.substack.com
Ep 84: Jonathan David Church
January 06, 2021 15:40 - 53 minutes - 48.5 MBI spoke with Jonathan David Church about his latest book Reinventing Racism: Why “White Fragility” Is the Wrong Way to Think About Racial Inequality. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Jonathan: @jondavidchurch You can learn more about Jonathan here: http://www.jonathandavidchurch.com/ You can buy his book: https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Racism-JONATHAN-CHURCH/dp/1475858183/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Ep 83: Thomas Chatterton Williams
December 30, 2020 15:00 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBI spoke with Thomas Chatterton Williams about his latest book Self-Portrait in Black and White, identity, race and Critical Race Theory. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Thomas: @thomaschattwill You can learn more about Thomas here: https://www.thomaschattertonwilliams.com/ You can find his books here: https://www.amazon.com/Self-Portrait-Black-White-Fatherhood-Rethinking/dp/0393358542/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2DSTF6BG4B6R7&dchild=1&keywords=thomas+chatterton+williams&qid=1609294182&s=books&sprefix...
Ep 83 Thomas Chatterton Williams
December 30, 2020 15:00 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBI spoke with Thomas Chatterton Williams about his latest book Self-Portrait in Black and White, identity, race and Critical Race Theory. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Thomas: @thomaschattwill You can learn more about Thomas here: https://www.thomaschattertonwilliams.com/ You can find his books here: https://www.amazon.com/Self-Portrait-Black-White-Fatherhood-Rethinking/dp/0393358542/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2DSTF6BG4B6R7&dchild=1&keywords=thomas+chatterton+williams&qid=1609294182&s=books&sprefix...
Ep 82: Lisa Bildy Pt2
December 23, 2020 13:09 - 57 minutes - 53 MBI spoke with Lisa Bildy about Bill C-6 in Canada and it’s implications. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Lisa: @LDBildy
Ep 81: Zion Lights
December 16, 2020 14:07 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBI spoke with Zion Lights about nuclear energy as a way to help fight climate change, the issues with renewables, and stargazing. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Zion: @@ziontree Check out Zion’s website: http://www.zionlights.co.uk/ Listen to her Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/zion_lights_don_t_forget_to_look_up
Ep 80: Joe Garza
December 09, 2020 14:03 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBI spoke with Joe Garza about how the current Critical Social Justice movement is stifling creativity and imagination and its effect on the arts. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Joe: @JoeGarzaCreates You can read Joe’s blog here: https://medium.com/the-reckless-muse
Ep 79: Jodi Shaw
November 21, 2020 23:22 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBI spoke with Jodi Shaw about Smith College and a 2018 incident leading to anti-racism being pushed through, the issues faced by staff as opposed to faculty at the college, labelling anything that goes against the orthodoxy right-wing. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Jodi: @Smith_Surge You can see Jodi speak more about the situation on her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMD8T83rp02uKmrXpmW8zXg/videos
Ep 78: Eric
November 11, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBI spoke with Eric about science, STEM education, affirmative action, race and racism. Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Eric: @EricsElectrons
Ep 77: Lee Jussim Pt 2
November 04, 2020 15:28 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBI spoke with Lee Jussim about research he is working on about radicalization & extremism. We also discussed conspiratorial thinking and the US election Follow me: @obaidomer Follow Lee: @PsychRabble Check out the research on extremism which Lee is collaborating on https://ncri.io/reports Check out Lee’s blog in Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble-rouser