#1318 Why We Cannot Have Nice Things (How Racism Hurts Everyone, Including White People)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 12 November 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 11/12/2019
Today we take a look at some of the ways that conservative policies, willed into existence almost exclusively by white people, measurably hurt people and shorten life expectancies, including those who most fervently support the self-destructive policies.
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SHOW NOTES
‘People are voting for these policies that are shortening their own life spans.’ — Author of 'Dying of Whiteness' Jonathan Metzl argues that the politics of racial resentment is killing Americans in the heartland.
Ch. 2: Slavery and the Lack of Universal Healthcare - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 8-20-19
Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times editorial board member and staff writer for the New York Times Magazine, talks about the intersection of race and lack of universal healthcare in America.
Ch. 3: An Incredible Con - Slate Presents: The Queen - Air Date 5-20-19
For presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, Linda Taylor epitomized the brokenness of the federal bureaucracy and the broader trend of poor people getting rich off the public dime.
Ch. 4: Dying of Whiteness with Jonathan Metzl - Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes - Air Date 3-26-19
Jonathan Metzl writes that the policies promising to Make America Great Again, policies rooted in centering and maintaining the power of whiteness, are shortening the lives of the white Americans who vote for them.
Ch. 5: Greater than Fear - Brave New Words - Air Date 9-6-19
In 2018, progressives in Minnesota won across races, defining what it means to be “Minnesotan” through an aspirational narrative of multi-racial populism.
Tim speaks with Dr. Jonathan Metzl, a professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, and the author of the new book, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland.
Ch. 7: People seeking asylum - Brave New Words - Air Date 9-6-19
Over the last few years, facing a conservative and openly xenophobic administration, human rights advocates mounted and won four campaigns challenging offshore detention of people seeking asylum.
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Ch. 8: What was I thinking back then, gosh what am I thinking now? - Alan from Connecticut
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Ch. 10: Final comments on learning to be wrong and the sad future of podcasting
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of Left by Cast, in which we shall learn |
| 0:07.2 | about some of the ways that conservative policies, willed into existence almost exclusively |
| 0:12.7 | by white people, measurably harm people and shortened life expectancies, including those |
| 0:19.5 | who most fervently support these self-destructive policies. |
| 0:23.9 | Before we get started, just a quick reminder that we here at the show are facing a fiscal |
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