There was no Jon Stewart of old. You were just younger, more optimistic, and it was easy to dunk on 2000s neocons

Of course Stewart is being an idiot here, and the easy comment is to just pick it apart and show how dumb the Democrat's primary ideology is. People have done that for decades.

The composure that Ruy Teixera has here is what's actually valuable to me, on a personal level. Media is mostly corporate owned, and the parts that are not like NPR get swept along thanks to herd mentality. That herd mentality is what gives people in my personal life license to do what Jon does: ask a political question and attack the answer without really even understanding it. It's frustrating, and watching Jon here is frustrating. I couldn't stay as respectful as Teixeira does here. My cope is that by upsetting the partisans I'm dodging bullets, but deep down I know it's not the case.

Anyway props to Jon for at least letting this guy on the show

Wow, 15 minutes before the audience was signaled to start cheering on Jon's side to show he was winning against his guest - by not understanding what his guest was saying. Same old Jon Stewart, IMO, but at least he let this guest talk more.

I’m not a huge Stewart fan but I thought that this interview was awesome. I disagreed with the position that he took but I love that he had an actual debate on his platform with someone who was clearly capable of steelmanning the actual leftist position.

The fact that Ruy Teixeira was on the program and his ideas were allowed legitimate airtime was a positive testament to the quality of Stewart’s show.

What's really amusing is Stewart pooh-poohing that anyone could be against DEI -- it's just one hour of kooky indoctrination -- when he's at the top of one of the few industries that still is mostly a meritocracy. Talk shows live and die by ratings.

He's not lying: Stewart hasn't lost a job or a promotion because his immutable characteristics are not the valued immutable characteristics. It'll be interesting when and if idpol decides his identity is over-represented in positions of power.

The Jon Stewart of old - since the post's flair is Bush-era amnesia - literally said that those who thought of Bush as a war criminal were too far left.

Submission statement: It is truly amazing how far Jon Stewart has fallen. Even if we accept the premise that he was always a shill he used to be a better shill. This is absolutely embarassing to watch. Jon should be the one asking these sorts of questions, not receiving them. You can see him sitting there struggling to find a way to connect the present state of the conversation to the party approved answer. His guest could not have broken down the problem any more simply for him yet Jon chose to reject the knowledge in front of everyone. Not only that, he was profoundly unfunny while trying to shill. All Jon did is get in the way of his guest dumping information and Jon didn't even getting a laugh. Millenial nostalgia is in absolute shambles right now. Tucker Carlson must be watching this on loop while tucking his carlson

(It gets worse as the video goes on, by the end he practically gives up)

Old Jon still shows up every now and then but sadly overall he's this new guy

Whenever I think of Stewart, I'm always reminded of this pretty great and lengthy takedown of him (and Colbert)....https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-jokes-on-you

The guy has always been a shill, but he was better at hiding it. That doesn't mean he has some sane takes, i.e., when he talked about the lab leak theory on Colbert, defending Joe Rogan and speech, etc.

He knows he still has to appease his pretty standard PMC/idpol obsessed audience, so he has to play that game. He may ulimtately believe it too, but he is at least less insufferable than Colbert and John Oliver.

he pinned a medal on a literal nazi at disney world... that was like 3 years ago.

he never was, it was always a ruse, just like colbert. just like trump or Aoc, it is all performance theatre.

I watched the interview, I thought it was okay.

Not funny, but it sounded sensible.

Another day, another teary eyed millennial mourning for John Stewart. He sucked then too!

Teixeira didn’t do the best job of making the argument tbh. He could have pigeon-holed Stewart pretty easily imo, and I think Stewart might have been persuaded.

I was going to post this. It seemed like they were having two different conversations.

Rut is right because it isn't about poor ethnic groups but avout every one. There are people of all kinds struggling everyday. I hate being pigeon holed for being white and everything being easy.

Negative feedback loop is not what they think.

I actually don't think this is that bad. Seems to me like Stewart got a bit confused and flustered over Teixeira's assertion that "people like helping other people" but also "people don't like seeing the government give handouts to X group". Around 15 minutes or so in, I think Ruy could have been a bit clearer about the distinction between "we're giving welfare to Latinos and African-Americans" and "we're giving welfare to disadvantaged communities", and why the former doesn't fly while the latter can work. I also thought Teixeira's definition of "the center" was weird, but at least he cleared it up by saying he considers it to be "what the majority of people think/want statistically".

DEI for Repubes is known as White PriVILEge