Martin Amis on Trump, racism and political correctness

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Martin Amis speaks with the CBC’s Wendy Mesley about Donald Trump, racism and political correctness. The renowned British author has a new new book of essays called The Rub of Time.)
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@darrenwendroff3441 Год назад

This was amazing, Amis was saying very deep things and the announcer had no idea what he was talking about. When he said we need more division to come back together, and she questioned that, what he meant was the ego won't allow reconciliation until it surrenders to all the havoc it's caused. Incredible this interview even happened.

@andreww2319 9 месяцев назад

Excellent comment about the call for more division. It was a complex remark and really begged for a deeper discussion. I liked the interviewer and under the circumstances she did a good job.

@darrenwendroff3441 9 месяцев назад

@andreww2319 it is interesting though we watching the video now, it makes me think that Amis did not have the insight to realize that Trump did not need to be advised to go after the white supremacist, that Trump knew enough about human nature and the darkness of human nature to do exactly what they go out there by himself. In that group to me Trump has always been a certain kind of Genius. A very dark certain kind.

@darrenwendroff3441 9 месяцев назад

@@andreww2319re-watching it, you're right, the reporter did do a good job in a way to even question that small little detail of what he said. Though it's amazing right, some 5 minute video clip how are they going to capture the nuance and inside of this man or the situation. It's funny how modern news is, it's like Marshall mcluhan said the medium is the message.

@johnalexander3927 4 года назад

His clarity and correctness and getting precisely to the point and his simplicity is wonderful to hear. He nailed it. Thank you

@maximilliancunningham6091 Год назад

Wow, the CBC produced something worth watching. Thank you. Trust a impeccably well mannered British gentleman to hit the nail on the head.

@747obrien Год назад

On the nose. Refreshing, clear and concise…thanks Martin.

@gbaldwin1947 5 лет назад

This lady was a terrible, terrible interviewer. A brilliant and nuanced guest utterly wasted on vapid baiting "shock questions". For shame.

@Peter-ci1zw 4 года назад

Thats a lot to take from a 4 minute clip?

@reginaldmolethrasher437 4 года назад

@@Peter-ci1zw Exactly - not much 'nuance' on show here.

@Saffronelle Год назад

god shutup

@firsargentum5920 Год назад

100% ... couldn't agree more - she was so out of her depth it's funny.

@garyjones9910 Год назад

RIP Martin amis. Good books, said a few daft things,but his heart was in the right place.

@davidgoulden5956 Год назад

RIP Martin Amis. Only read three of your books - two novels and collection of novels - but I admire your dedication to your craft and I admire your candour and clarity in interviews.

@josephasghar 9 месяцев назад

As decent a tribute as I’ve read.

@mesamies123 3 года назад

The interviewer is embarrassing.

@robert9ish 6 лет назад

Martin Amis is one of my favourite novelists. There are plenty of people in this comments section that don't know who he is; far fewer that have likely read any of his books.

@robert9ish 6 лет назад

Ludwig, I enjoyed 'London Fields' very much and haven't yet made my way through the entirety of 'The Moronic Inferno', as he supplies so much research material to look into. I agree that he's an excellent essayist and commentator. As far as commentary and essays on American politics though, I prefer the late Gore Vidal.

@milesknightestrada3286 6 лет назад

Much prefer his father Kingsley.

@sybo59 5 лет назад

I know him well and am disappointed in the form his contrarianism takes here. Still, he is an essayist worth reading - my god can the man write!

@lonelycake4114 5 лет назад

Pseudo intellectual at best

@mattpopemusic 2 года назад

@@lonelycake4114 have you read his criticism?

@subswithoutvids-dw6dv 4 года назад

Crime rate is much more serious than political correctness.

@mr.mintman7545 Год назад

Poverty rate is much more serious than political correctness. Touché, clown

@hoeraufist 6 лет назад

I've always felt we needed Christopher Hitchens to help with this nonsense period of history. But having one of his close friends and colleagues will do nicely. I think I've found a new author.

@jwnyc3 5 лет назад

He is my favorite living writer. Start with "Success," then read "Money," then "London Fields." When you're in the mood to have the top of your head blown off, read "The Information." You have so much fun ahead of you!!!

@gardendormouse6479 5 лет назад

jwnyc3: He may be mine, too. I particularly liked 'Money'.

@malvolio01 4 года назад

@@jwnyc3 I've been wanting to delve into Amis for a while now, thank you.

@runner123ification 3 года назад

He is a good writer. After listening to him talk about politics I don't think he is a good candidate to replace Christopher Hitchens. His political opinions are pretty commonplace and not backed up by the same breadth of knowledge that Christopher seemed to draw from.

@Saffronelle Год назад

no we definitely DO NOT need that misogynist to help in this society. people like him would have shut down non straight white male voices. it's those men who kept us censored. nobody needs privileged men controlling the conversation.

@shaunmcgee4204 2 года назад

What a wasted opportunity, this interview could’ve been so much more.

@BooksForever Год назад

A writer is necessarily a thinker, and any quality thinker will reach the conclusion that “there is a great convulsion of stupidity happening in the world.”

@MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist Год назад

Wise words esp.regarding political correctness

@carlranger8060 Год назад

Martin Amis is completely wrong on this and denigrates his legacy.

@nzfreeski Месяц назад

No he's not, he was spot on. Trump went on to deny a fair election and fuel riots by insurrectionists on the Capitol, not even the civil war achieved that.

@296Echo Год назад

A legend in his own lunchtime …..

@nzfreeski Месяц назад

like you but unlike you he was famous

@296Echo Месяц назад

@@nzfreeski well he has passed onto that great lunchtime in the sky … so we don’t have to suffer his bile …. Great Outcome ..!!

@Superfuntimejazz 4 года назад

Martin Amis sitting down with a bag of cut, rusting potatoes.

@scottbrandon6244 Год назад

Martin looks and talks very closely to that of his father Kingsley Amis.

@denisdaly1930 3 месяца назад

Oh my goodness - I was an Amis fan. No longer. What a complete tool.

@angryangora 4 года назад

Whatever his feelings about Trump, I'd have expected Amis to have had a more nuanced take on Trump's winning in 2016 rather than saying it was simply because of racism. It's even more disturbing to hear an author endorsing political correctness which is not just about fighting racism, sexism, etc (to give its defenders the benefit of the doubt)...but also about strictly controlling conversation and debate about these matters. Amis may have become a victim of polarized thinking himself.

@reginaldmolethrasher437 4 года назад

Couldn't agree more. Amis has always been a pretentious twat.

@koleyw932 2 года назад

@@reginaldmolethrasher437 I find him pretty sincere and unaffected.

@GregQchi Год назад

Racism proved to be a big part of it.

@castelodeossos3947 Год назад

@@koleyw932 True, but hardly a rebutting Trippetta's comment. A chief characteristic of a fool is, of course, sincerity.

@billthestinker Год назад

Amis is another egomaniac like Trump

@kopeinokai5370 3 года назад

Hitch would cry.

@Lornes.Cawks.inflationOfficer Год назад

Why?

@rameshhansaravendra 4 года назад

. Martin's opinion on Muslim countries is 100% accurate

@michaelwalker2676 4 года назад

Martin Amis is very well spoken and convincing to me.

@reginaldmolethrasher437 4 года назад

What did he 'convince' you of in 4 minutes 44 seconds? The man said nothing; just slurs without evidence. Gibberish.

@firsargentum5920 Год назад

@@reginaldmolethrasher437 You could not be more wrong.

@jackmann8447 6 лет назад

Wow!

@markwoldin162 5 лет назад

“Not very uplifting”? What does that mean? Is she looking for a puff piece?

@jamesdettmann94 Год назад

I think he's only politically correct in the old fashioned sense, in the same he would call himself a leftist liberal. These terms have changed dramatically in recent years away from secularism and a fight for social justice and towards a bigoted, cultist group of regressive liberals who call any attack on Islam racism, any attack on the biological absurdity of transgenderism transphobic, and seemingly without a sense of humour of irony. It's always difficult to know how prevalent these groups are given the social media echo chambers we find ourselves trapped in, but I am sure that much of today's PC left would refuse to associate with Amis over his rightly critical view of Islam, to take the most clear example.

@BigBADSTUFF69 Год назад

He knows the difference, just google his name and islam, I think he's quite aware of what he's saying.

@jamesdettmann94 Год назад

@@BigBADSTUFF69 *knew, he died last week

@BigBADSTUFF69 Год назад

@@jamesdettmann94 the tenses of the statement are really not the important thing here

@73BigMC Год назад

The interview says more about Amis's snobbery than anything else. "They need someone to look down on." Oh Martin, how you projected!

@alperongan Год назад

Rest in Peace

@USERNAMEfieldempty Год назад

Did Hitch copy Amis or did Amis copy Hitch?

@andynewzealand 6 лет назад

Truth hurts America doesn't it?

@robert9ish 6 лет назад

John Kasich. Tell us of your scapegoats...

@robert9ish 6 лет назад

Could one of them be John Kasich?

@robert9ish 6 лет назад

John... I love my white heterosexual Dad, though I think your right-wing talking points have been plagiarised. Do you think yourself a William F. Buckley presenting a "Bill"?

5 лет назад

so you too have bought into the groupthink mass delusion of the obaba cult?

@josephyoung6749 4 года назад

@@greateramerica4139 no

@ionvasile12 3 года назад

So an ARTIST or should I say CREATIVE PERSON (author) is for POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ! Interesting.

@brianliberante 5 лет назад

Christopher Hitchens is facepalming in his grave.

@ayleneasp8933 3 года назад

I am loving your books; I also love the fact that you are frank and honest in your opinions; not to mention your scintillating brilliance. I hope I get to meet you one day. I am sorry that I never met your sidekick (pardon me if I offend you) Christopher Hitchens; he too had a dazzling intelligence. I love his books also. I feel that I have been enriched just reading your books.

@rafflesxyz4800 Год назад

Keep out of politics.

@nzfreeski Месяц назад

says who? your wannbe dictator and cult leader? the orange makeup-wearing Trans trump?

@bostonodonohue 3 года назад

Based on his introduction, it would appear as though he's calling the kettle black

@sue.F 4 месяца назад

Not looking so well here, and some accusations he makes against Trump really missed the mark. I wonder how he’d feel now about the Woke and censorship… Fan of his novels but not so much his courting controversy with these wee guest appearances. Little Keith and Hitch were an interesting cultural phenomenon.

@SBCBears 4 года назад

Martin is a brilliant man and right about Trump's veniality, but Martin misapprehended American politics at the time of the interview. I wonder what he thinks of PC now.

@josephyoung6749 4 года назад

How about all these BLM demonstrators, you know, the millions in the streets in every US state? This interview is sounding more and more prescient, and at a time when "liberals" were still traumatized about Hillary loosing, and not sure what to make of any of it.

@densmorde4520 3 года назад

This guy is a great thinker?

@sagat666 2 года назад

No, he's not a great thinker, he's a fictional author. He's bluntly, yet terribly accurate. He just states the facts, uncensored, without embellishments. Some people turn away and wince, others admit concrete truths irrefutable.

@errgo2713 Год назад

@@sagat666 "fictional author" or author of fiction? Try using the English language again.

@sagat666 Год назад

@@errgo2713 there are no rules, there is no algorithm, no Euclidean Geometry, escape your perfunctory shackles, are you a person who corrects others pronunciation of words? Tedium will devour your idle fingers* (please make it your life's goal, to read E. M. Cioran's - A SHORT HISTORY OF DECAY). (then come back to me with a correct response s'il vous plait)

@sagat666 Год назад

@@errgo2713 yes, he's a fictional author, as, i would say, Plato in The Apology, is not*

@sagat666 Год назад

@@errgo2713 semantics, lexic and syntax RIP*

@nzfreeski Месяц назад

RIP Martin Amis!

@joelozzy9083 Год назад

RIP Martin Amis, literary genius

@mikewaves1057 6 лет назад

Well said, well said.

@Swishergirl1987 6 лет назад

I like this guy for every reason! Seriously!

@frankie3041 Год назад

Astonishing. Man who feels a need to be better and more superior to everybody else thinks that everyone else also has a need to feel better and more superior to others. Open and shut case of projecting.

@shannongfm9945 4 месяца назад

I’m guessing you’ve never read any of his books.

@machidaman 3 года назад

'Great convulsion of stupity' I am borrowing that phrase. In these times of Brexit and increasing right wing populism it is hard to argue against.

@RockerfellerRothchild1776 2 года назад

Because so far the left is doing a wonderful job....smh

@machidaman 2 года назад

@@RockerfellerRothchild1776 you will need to provide an example of a left leaning administration and then explain.

@TheMightyMidget Год назад

"Populism" just means what the people want. If you're upset that that's taking a right wing turn right now, that is the fault of the Left sadly. Not the people or the Right. They function as their correct function in this system. The Left on the other hand has ran further and further from the enlightenment; diving into post modernist deconstruction and censorious levels of PC culture. If you put up no decent fight, you cant complain you lose.

@donnawebster4310 Год назад

TDS

@s31720 3 года назад

Martin "Islam must get it's house in order" Amis: "I'm very politically correct."

@samjoshi1812 3 года назад

I think he means being politically correct in discourse about people of minority demographics yk? Islam is not a person, giving people license to be as insulting as they like.

@Neil_MALTHUS Год назад

Honest people / smart people know all religion is all bollocks. So political correctness has nothing to do with it.

@juliegannon8046 Год назад

barf

@Stormrunner0002 6 лет назад

Good thing you pointed out he was an arse hole right at the start. I might have thought people would take him seriously. And the interviewer must have been in a drama class the day Justine subbed in for the real teacher. She sounded so concerned for Trump's reputation.

@nzfreeski Месяц назад

hahahah - he triggered just the right snowflakes

@Brandon-tk2rw 5 лет назад

I love amis. I have read all of his novels and ss collections. I thought the war against cliches was an amazing collection of essays. His memoir is a must-read. That said, when he puts his foot into the vortex of american politics he sounds like a utter fool -- or to phrase it slightly more amisian-- he sounds like a true denizen of the moronic inferno. Moreover he is an umbra of his former self. Amis needs to stop pulavering about subjects he barely knows and start fuccing young women, take TRT, and tap into the dionysian energies of his past.

@manuman5319 5 лет назад

When you're so weak people's opinion hurt you.

@ianprest3850 Год назад

A British champagne socialist

@nzfreeski Месяц назад

hahahah - the best critique is from people outside of the American asylum - its even funnier how riled up people like you get. He actually said, in agreement with Hitch, that Champagne was overrated.

@CodeLeeCarter 6 лет назад

A Fan of being PC, are you freaking Mad or what.

@user-st6np6li8b 4 года назад

I don’t know what he thinks pc babies would say about his stance on Muslims...

@alexanderangelo7284 2 года назад

American here. Just remember 8-9 million Obama voters went for TRUMP in 2016. Luckily we won them back in 2020.

@RockerfellerRothchild1776 2 года назад

This aged poorly

@alexanderangelo7284 2 года назад

@@RockerfellerRothchild1776 how so?

@johnllewlyndavies222 2 года назад

Amis is bonkers.

@firsargentum5920 Год назад

He is "but mad north-northwest".

@markbrown6978 Год назад

Trump Derangement Syndrome is rabid in this one

@BooksForever Год назад

Trump Derangement Syndrome is the blind adherence demonstrated by his followers against the mounting incontrovertible evidence of Trump’s malfeasance.

@sheenesteves2167 6 лет назад

Please stay in brooklyn

@andrewmcleod1684 3 дня назад

Don't know much about Amis but this is embarrassing, politics aside the takes are teenage-girl Reddit-tier garbage

@andres.e. 5 лет назад

I'm disappointed he just virtue-signalled the whole segment.

@josephyoung6749 4 года назад

What if he actually means it? That possibility isn't that remote.

@petervanbogel5446 5 лет назад

What a weasel.

@husseinm.4723 5 лет назад

Hit dogs holler.

@samchandler2527 6 лет назад

Ahh the passive aggressive tone of condesenscion from Canadian academics. Taste the disdain.

@Openintelligence1 6 лет назад

He's English, not Canadian.

@JohnLloydScharf 6 лет назад

He is an academic and is disdainful. There is much that is disagreeable, but stick to using logical argument; not tone; or you are trolling. *Trolls do not prove their claims. They cannot rise above the redline of baiting:* _1.They state the opposing case with little or no evidence,2.They criticize others' writing without addressing the argument,3.They engage in personal/ad hominem attacks without addressing the argument, or 4.They engage in bald bare name-calling._

@dianeowen5258 6 лет назад

SAM - believe in yourself hon....you measure up.....you can build that self-esteem.

@samchandler2527 6 лет назад

Diane Owen LOL!

@abrahkadabra9501 6 лет назад

SAM chandler MGTOW A Brit living in the US talking about Trump and you think he's a Canadian talking down to you. Diane is 100% correct about you but she forgot to say that you're a dum-dum. 😂

@susanl2502 4 года назад

Amis used to be a critical thinker, now he is a corporate media shill.

@Nurse_kenjaku Год назад

This guy lives in his own head!

@agricolaregs 4 года назад

I think he’s way off.

@ritamoon7261 6 лет назад

Truth hurts, wonder how many trumphtards will be triggered lmao 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅

5 лет назад

so by 'truth' you mean cnnpc, msnpc, nyt, and wapo of course. the obaba groupthink cult mentality is strong with this one.

@like2ROLL 3 года назад

Amis and Hitchens voted for Biden.

@firsargentum5920 Год назад

Well you didn't expect them to vote for Drumpf, did you?

@shannongfm9945 4 месяца назад

Not likely. Hitchens died in 2011 and Amis was a British citizen, genius.

@like2ROLL 4 месяца назад

@@shannongfm9945 I'm guessing I was trying to make a joke about Trump accusing Biden of election fraud and people who were dead being on ballots. I can't remember though.

@karenkaren3189 5 лет назад

Poor Amis. Too much booze and cigarettes, I am afraid. He looks absolutely ghastly.

@ilovebarrylewismynamejeff6482 5 лет назад

The guy is like 70 😂

@louduva9849 4 года назад

This old man is beyond parody.

@americanmama1 Год назад

Pompous arrogance. Ignorance on a pedestal. He knows nothing of America or her people. Exactly why we broke the fetters of British imperialism. America refused such oafish arrogance in 1776. We refuse it still!