#1358 How A System Of Power Defends Itself, A Case Study (Repost)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 7/20/2020
Systems maintain themselves through the efforts of many moving parts that need not understand their roles in maintaining the system as a whole, only their specialized task. Today, I use a case study incident to show how the system of racism defends itself against attack. Many separate parts, none of which understand how their individual actions connect to the larger system, work in complicated yet predictable ways to carry out this defense of racism much like the many specialized antibodies of an immune system work together to isolate and eradicate threats to the host.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Introduction to the story of a story
Ch. 2: Yascha Mounk on antiracism in America - The Good Fight - Air Date 7-10-20
Ch. 3: Jay explains the fraught nature of interracial relationships
Ch. 4: Introducing the Education Council Meeting incident - The Good Fight - Air Date 7-10-20
Ch. 5: Edward Irizarry speaks about the privilege and racial dynamics of the council
Ch. 6: Explaining DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender
Ch. 7: Robin Brochi responds to Edward
Ch. 8: Tom demands to know what’s racist about holding a brown baby
Ch. 9: Additional input from other council members
Ch. 10: The story of the story
Ch. 11: Recap and wrap up
Original meeting video: CEC D2 Working Business Meeting June 29, 2020
16:55 - Edward Irizarry Speech
22:50 - Robin Brochi's Apology
26:25 - Tom Wrocklage asks what about his actions were racist
39:20 - Beginning of segment that is ultimately clipped out of context
Tom's I-have-a-black-friend video: My friend from my living room on the June 11th CECD2 meeting
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions):
- Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
- Theme - The Good Fight podcast
- Opener - American Moon Bicycle
- Waltz and Fury - Macrame
- Rafter - Speakeasy
- When We Set Out - Arc and Crecent
- Thannoid - Bodytonic
- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone. |
| 0:00.8 | Today I have a rerun episode for you |
| 0:03.2 | because I am at the end of a very long |
| 0:06.4 | and extremely busy week that culminated very happily |
| 0:10.7 | in me getting my second vaccine shot. |
| 0:13.3 | Actually Amanda got hers as well one day apart. |
| 0:16.3 | So we've been experiencing the wave of 24 hour fatigue |
| 0:20.8 | and fever and those sorts of things. |
| 0:22.8 | And so between the busy week and the fatigue |
| 0:25.8 | and slight fever a show was just not gonna get made. |
| 0:29.4 | So what I have for you today is a very special rerun episode. |
| 0:32.4 | It was made about 10-ish months ago |
| 0:35.9 | and it is, I think maybe the episode I spent |
| 0:39.5 | the most actual work hours developing, |
| 0:45.0 | researching, writing. |
| 0:47.2 | And I think it's a good episode and worth hearing. |
| 0:49.8 | So if you miss it the first time around, |
| 0:51.6 | I wanted to give you a second chance. |
| 0:53.9 | I should also mention that the beginning |
| 0:55.8 | of this extremely busy week started |
| 0:58.1 | with our first ever live event. |
| 1:00.5 | And that recording is now available in the members feed. |
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