#1358 How A System Of Power Defends Itself, A Case Study
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 69 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
Ch. 3: Jay explains the fraught nature of interracial relationships
Ch. 4: Introducing the Education Council Meeting incident
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 to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast. |
| 0:07.3 | Speaking of award-winning, now is the time to nominate the show once again. |
| 0:11.1 | We have twice won the award for Best Produced Podcasts and the Podcast Awards, but in |
| 0:16.4 | more recent years we've been focusing on the news and politics category. |
| 0:20.6 | So just being nominated is great for us whether we win or not. |
| 0:24.4 | It's a great way for new listeners to find the show. |
| 0:27.2 | So if you would be so kind, please go to podcastawards.com, nominate as many shows in all the categories |
| 0:34.4 | as you want, just make sure you nominate Best of the Left for News and Politics. |
| 0:38.9 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:40.4 | Now today's episode is very unlike our normal episodes. |
| 0:44.7 | I usually aim for a theme. |
| 0:47.1 | I pull together several clips to help to bring that theme to light. |
| 0:52.2 | Today I have just one big story for you and the lessons to be learned all stem from telling |
| 0:58.1 | that one story. |
| 0:59.6 | I have some clips but not in the usual sense and I shall be your guide through all of this. |
| 1:05.9 | And I warn you right up front that today's episode is going to turn into a bit of a soap |
| 1:11.1 | opera. |
| 1:12.1 | I apologize for that. |
| 1:13.4 | I do think it is for a good cause though. |
| 1:16.4 | And the last thing to keep in mind as we go forward is that the story to be discussed, |
| 1:21.7 | the kind of messy soap opera that I'm going to tell you about, it is both central but also |
| 1:27.7 | kind of beside the point of this story. |
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