#1422 Teach No Evil, Protest No Evil, Vote Not At All
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Air Date 6/9/2021
Today we take a look at the motivations behind legislation being introduced in statehouses around the country to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory, criminalize the right to protest and limit the right to vote. Now if only there were some theory we could look to to understand the complicated interconnectedness of these subtly racist ideas...
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SHOW NOTES
Most students in America are only taught about a handful of important Black Americans in history class. Here’s a look at why schools should teach students about race and why certain parents are opposed to that shift.
Ch. 2: Critical Race Theory - Past Present - Air Date 5-25-21
In this episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia discuss the current controversy over critical race theory.
Ch. 3: Elly Page on Anti-Protest Bills - CounterSpin - Air Date 4-23-21
If the Chauvin verdict is testament to the power of protest, so too are the vigorous efforts to squelch that power. Plus: Right-wing legislators target trans kids at the state level.
Ch. 4: Not Ready For That Conversation - On The Media - Air Date 4-23-21
Tami Abdollah [@latams], national correspondent for USA Today, on how Republican-controlled legislatures across the country have been introducing bills to criminalize protests — or as they put it, to stop the rioting.
Ch. 5: GOP States Are Pushing for Stricter Penalties for Protesters - The Takeaway - Air Date 4-27-21
The Takeaway spoke with Nora Benavidez, the director of U.S. Free Expression Programs at PEN America, and Elly Page, senior legal advisor at the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, working with the U.S. Protest Law Tracker.
Extreme voting restrictions have advanced in several Republican-led states across the U.S., including in Florida. Mother Jones reporter Ari Berman says these efforts are an extension of former President Trump’s “big lie” about voter fraud.
This “Trump grip” narrative is nonsense and it needs to stop —the Republican Party has made it crystal clear with their voter suppression efforts that they no longer believe in democracy. They are doing this because they want to.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Trey Martinez Fischer says the legislation would have “a tremendous impact” on ballot access in the state. “Just like every bad policy, Hispanics, Latinos and Asian Americans will be disproportionately impacted," "the time for a national response is now."
Ch. 9: How Corporate Media Protects Violent Cops - Carlos Maza - Air Date 6-4-20
Police departments across America have declared war on unarmed protesters. They get away with it thanks to a corporate media ecosystem that helps shield cops from criticism and discredit the people protesting police brutality.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 10: Lesson #3 The Value Proposition
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 11: Final comments
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of a Left Podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.1 | take a look at the motivations behind legislation being introduced in state houses around the |
| 0:12.0 | country to ban the teaching of critical race theory, criminalize the right to protest, |
| 0:17.8 | and limit the right to vote. |
| 0:19.8 | But first, just quick thought to take with you. |
| 0:21.8 | The first clips up we're about to hear are on critical race theory being taught in schools |
| 0:26.0 | and the resistance to it. |
| 0:30.0 | Maybe that's an idea you identify with, but even if it's not, you may struggle to identify |
| 0:41.4 | exactly what it is white people are supposed to be feeling about confronting the deeply |
| 0:47.6 | racist history of the country. |
| 0:49.4 | So I wanted to share the best analogy I have heard so far on the idea for reference I got |
| 0:54.7 | this idea from Isabelle Wilkerson in her book Cast, which I highly recommend. |
| 1:00.7 | So in this analogy, imagine that you are living in a family home built by your distant ancestors. |
| 1:09.3 | Now imagine that you learn from a home inspection that the foundation of the house is faulty |
| 1:15.8 | and it's causing the structural integrity of the building to be unsound is the problem |
| 1:22.8 | with your house, your fault. |
| 1:25.5 | No. |
| 1:27.0 | Should you feel personally ashamed that your ancestors built a house with a flawed foundation? |
| 1:33.0 | No. |
| 1:34.8 | Is it now your responsibility to deal with and fix the structural integrity of the home |
| 1:41.5 | you inherited and currently live in? |
| 1:44.9 | Of course. |
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