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Apr 2024
1h 42m

Anti-Semitism and Middleman Minorities

Bro History
About this episode

So we started off talking about the rise of anti-semitism, and went into a long debate on Thomas Sowell's theories on violence committed against "middleman minorities"


It's a very unstructured episode, with a lot of debate and rabbit holes. Enjoy.


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