Ben Burgis is a columnist for Jacobin Magazine, an adjunct philosophy professor at Morehouse College, and the host of the podcast and YouTube show “Give Them An Argument.” He's the author of several books including “Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters” and “Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left.”
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Comedians don't and really can't exercise political power.
They might influence to a certain extent the way that people think about certain things,
but nobody who's doing comedy is making decisions that directly impact people's lives.
So, if you are actually trying to do that, if you're actually trying to effect real change,
this doesn't make any sense.
What I think it is, is it's a symptom of how extreme this kind of moralistic approach to politics can get.
That you're this concerned with constantly testing whether somebody is a good person or a bad person,
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