Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The Bulwark Daily · Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics · 29 Jan 2026 podcast

And it was a vocabulary.

And, you know, that vocabulary, you know, included, you know, phrases like Israel has the right to defend itself.

Israel has the right to exist.

You know what I mean?

And it wasn't even like what you think about that is, you know, whatever.

But what I'm trying to say is it was repeated so much.

and un-interrogated and so specific about Israel that I was just like, why is this?

What I think is there's a world in which

you tell yourself or you speak a kind of language to yourself over and over and over and over again, and you never have to actually defend it.

You never actually have to have it interrogated directly, publicly.

And I think when you haven't had the practice of defending the thing, when you tend to speak in slogans,

You know what I mean?

Which I really try hard not to do, right?

Like I try to find my own language for what I saw.

And then, you know, we can have it out about, you know, what that was.

But my language is not somebody else's language.

You know, whatever you think about from river to the sea, I'm not going to say it because it's not my language.

I'm a writer.

You know what I'm saying?

And I think people get out of practice.

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