What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?
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Really good discussion with Shelby Steele and his son, who made a documentary on the kid from Ferguson who got himself shot. How that narrative was bent into fantasy to conform to the race narrative, how that narrative is entirely about the acquisition of political and cultural power, how Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder were complicit in that power grab. Personally, I'm convinced that nothing gives the lives of white progressives more meaning than a juicy anecdote about a white cop killing a black person. I think it literally induces orgasms in some. Meanwhile, that fictitious narrative continues to damage the culture in general, and the psyches of black children in particular.
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McWhorter was on Sam Harris' podcast today. Good discussion, and of course McWhorter has good ideas. Never touched upon was the idea that only someone of his skin color can say them publicly. It would be nice to have that acknowledged. I'm not entirely sure WcWhorter himself is comfy with acknowledging it. Maybe he thinks he's an academic and thinker that just happened to excavate this truth before anybody else did.
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@horace said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
Never touched upon was the idea that only someone of his skin color can say them publicly.
He notes that all the time on Loury’s podcast. Also last night I started his new book and he mentions that in the first chapter. Says he has an obligation to publish the book because a white guy couldn’t.
DON’T let them eat cake.
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@jon-nyc said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
@horace said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
Never touched upon was the idea that only someone of his skin color can say them publicly.
He notes that all the time on Loury’s podcast. Also last night I started his new book and he mentions that in the first chapter. Says he has an obligation to publish the book because a white guy couldn’t.
That's good.
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I couldn't pass up today's episode of Ezra Klein's podcast, released under the banner of The New York Times Opinion. It was titled "how far right extremism has invaded politics". Ezra is on vacation, so has a guest host. The show was a conversation between two progressive white women, the host a journalist and the guest an historian. It was a very solemn and very serious discussion of the existential threat of white supremacy. The best part to me was the framing of January 6, which was brought up repeatedly. These two serious thinkers, one of whom is in fact the sort of person who will write grade school textbooks for modern American history classes, managed to pontificate about the root causes of January 6 without once mentioning election theft. It was all white supremacy, soup to nuts, white supremacy all the way down. The magic of human perception of culturally received ideas is that both of those serious and solemn thinkers probably believe that.
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There is a podcast about the "Theranos" case called Dropout.
(https://abcaudio.com/podcasts/the-dropout/)
I think we may have discussed this podcast on the previous forum board, and I know there were a couple of forum threads about the company and case, etc.
Anyway, there are new episodes now that the trial has started, and I have been listening to the new episodes.
Quite interesting.
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Just listened to the most recent episode of The Glenn Show, a conversation with a conservative academic named Amy Wax. Even someone as cynical about American culture as I am was a little taken aback by this truth bomb conversation between two adherents to truth and reality. I recommend our left leaning friends on TNCR not listen to this podcast, the truth bomb may induce too much cognitive dissonance and you may go even crazier than you already are.
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She wrote a good book called “Race, Wrongs, and Remedies” where she makes the crucial and generally overlooked distinction between ‘liability’ and ‘remedy’ when it comes to (white) society’s role in improving the lot of black America.
I’ll definitely listen, I’m a regular listener of his show.
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One of the best rabbit holes I've found:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/studs-terkel-archive-podcast/id1547088563
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Education is extremely important.
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Interesting interview with Larry Summers - who does a nice analysis of the inflation situation - likely recession and what interventions might be most useful.
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Just starting listening to this
"Why are some lonely, young men a growing threat to our safety? In 2018, a Toronto man drove a van down a busy sidewalk, killing 11 people and injuring many more. He was linked to the "incel" movement, a dark online world fueled by violent misogyny, extreme isolation and perceived rejection. "
Interesting so far.
There was a recent forum thread on "incel".
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A great podcast with Sam Harris interviewing Ian Bremmer over Ukraine. Different from many conversations you might have heard, this is focused mainly on potential endgames. Also some inside scoop on why the MIGs were never transferred.
https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/277-how-does-the-war-in-ukraine-end
