Settler colonialism and doppelganger politics w/ Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein joins PTO to talk about her book, 'Doppelganger: A Trip
Into the Mirror World'. In the first part of our conversation we
talked about why at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, parts of
the anti-vaccine movement started to adopt the garb and the
language of participants in struggles against racism and the
historic crimes of settler colonialism. In the second part we
talked about Israel and Palestine and how the notion of
'doppelganger politics' can be applied to the way Israel views the
Palestinians. We also talked about how European fascism of the
twentieth century is typically portrayed as being the diametric
opposite of liberal democracy, in spite of the extent to which
Nazism took direct inspiration from both European colonial
practices and racial segregation in the United States. To rate PTO
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