Tom Holland
speaker
53,930 appearances
202 recordings
9 series
first heard Sep 2024
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Tom Holland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're very inoffensive.
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They are exactly the kind of thing that today constitutes the political mainstream for parties in pretty much every Western democracy, I would say.
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We mentioned how Robespierre...
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Poses the death penalty.
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He also is a keen supporter of freedom of the press.
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He's backed this throughout his life.
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He's in favor of universal male suffrage, not female suffrage, although he is incredibly popular with revolutionary women, as we will see.
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He supports progressive taxation to support universal education.
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He supports the idea of human rights.
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He's a firm believer in them.
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And he's an abolitionist.
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He wants to see slavery go.
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So these are all pretty politically impeccable positions from the perspective of today.
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Woke garden reading snowflake, who knew?
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A further thing that is strange about him, you were talking yesterday about how Mara
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dresses in a way that makes him seem the embodiment of the revolution.
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He dresses as a child of the street and how by 1793, this is something that most revolutionaries are doing.
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This is not Robespierre's vibe at all.
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Robespierre's vibe does not remotely seem that of a revolutionary itching to drown the ancien regime in blood.
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So Timothy Tackett in his book on the terror, which we've been quoting a lot in this series, he quotes Robespierre.
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