The West Is Under Attack - Konstantin Kisin - #499

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Konstantin Kisin. He's a podcaster and an author. The West has had a bad run over the last few years with accusations of every ism and obia under the sun. Having grown up in the Soviet Union, however, Konstantin has a unique perspective on just how bad a nation can be and has some home truths to remind everyone of. Expect to learn whether we should be bothered that Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin are banned from Twitter, why the term political correctness has some very communist roots, how a Russian disinformation agent predicted everything we're seeing in 2022, whether we've passed peak woke, if both sides ism is a grift, and much more. This Saturday is episode 500, which is insane, so I'm going to do a bunch of lessons that I've learned from some of my favourite guests and episodes over the last four and a half years.
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