Ben interviews Freddie about the central thesis of his new book. He lays out how "elite capture" shifted focus toward issues such as affirmative action instead of far more impactful ones like the child tax credit. Ben also asks Freddie to defend his ideas against some common critiques of the "elite capture" framework. Freddie de Boer's new book: "How the Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement": https://www.amazon.com/How-Elites-Soc... Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going: patreon.com/benburgis Read the weekly philosophy Substack: benburgis.substack.com Visit benburgis.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNQseJR4vSE

Ben Burgis hosts a panel including Cale Brooks, Ana Kasparian, Jason Myles, and J. Andrew World to discuss the fact that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is surveilling activists with the intention of arresting immigrants. Read this article from The Intercept for more information here: https://theintercept.com/2021/06/17/ice-retaliate-immigrant-advocates-surveillance/ https://theintercept.com/2019/12/22/ice-social-media-surveillance/ Independent creators rely on your support to create the content you want! Support Give Them An Argument on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/benburgis. Patrons get a bonus episode every Thursday, access to the Discord server, a “Sopranos” Recap Bonus Episode every month with Mike Recine, Nando Vila, and Wosny Lambre, a monthly Discord Movie Night, and "Discord Office Hours" (regularly scheduled group voice chats). Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis Like, subscribe, and get notifications on Ben’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/BenBurgisGTAA Visit benburgis.com Image Credit: Lewis Ogden https://www.flickr.com/photos/bitsfrombytes/43617178595 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode so uh speaking of uh of that uh seamless transition uh general uh general part of the uh the country are uh our uh graphic designer uh j andrew world the uh the guy who's responsible for all those awesome thumbnails uh uh andy brought to our attention uh this uh this story about ice uh do you wanna recap what's been going on with that andy well um excuse me sorry uh basically what's going on is uh ice has been uh spying on activists and uh it's it's a uh really um uh you know it's it's kind of disturbing but basically there was a uh uh somebody who was uh having a uh mental health issue in a uh a private detention camp in uh georgia and uh ended up committing suicide and they found out that the um uh that that you know his family and the activists around there were being spied on and like just like 15 of them showed up at a candlelight vigil and like they're getting spied on uh then there was like a hunger strike at a uh one of these uh facilities and one of uh these activists reported on it and they got an email from i saying that's not true please delete your tweet um and then they actually have um uh were able to obtain emails from ice to the uh private detention centers uh you know discussing that i um did not reread those before the episode so i apologize for that so so i don't have that uh fresh in my head but there there was um uh several emails that went back and forth and it's uh it's it's something yeah uh which which which does does tie into what anna was saying at the uh know toward the end of the the main show that like when it comes like you know there's a lot of uh you kn ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjXXWr61tJk

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Ben Burgis dares to have Rania Khalek, Daniel Bessner, and Katie Halper on his show all at once, for an explosively informed discussion of some deranged individuals that have managed to shape our domestic and foreign policy in recent years. They also discuss other crazy monstrous things like welfare reform, the storming of the Capitol, and U.S.-backed coups in other countries. Find Katie Online: https://twitter.com/kthalps https://www.youtube.com/TheKatieHalperShow https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-katie-halper-show/id1020563127?mt=2 “Useful Idiots” for Rolling Stone: https://twitter.com/RollingStone Find Rania Online: https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek https://twitter.com/UnauthorizedDis https://linktr.ee/raniakhalek Find Daniel Online: https://twitter.com/dbessner https://danielbessner.com/ Independent creators rely on your support to create the content you want! Support Give Them An Argument on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/benburgis. Patrons get early access to every episode as well as a weekly bonus episode and regularly scheduled "Discord Office Hours" group voice chats. Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis Like, subscribe, and get notifications on Ben’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/BenBurgisGTAA Visit benburgis.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwIZDwuxZXw