(2014/04/07) Dog whistle politics (Racism)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 7 April 2014
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Edition #816
Dog whistle politics
Today we look at how racism is strategically used to gain power for Republicans and funnel money to corporations. And here you thought it was just about keeping them away from the white women.
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Ian Haney López on the Dog Whistle Politics of Race Part 1 - @BillMoyersHQ - Air Date: 2-28-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Corporate takeover - NerCity
Ch. 4: Act 2: The Costs of Racial Color Blindness - Harvard Business Review - Air Date: 02-26-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Black or white - Michael Jackson
Ch. 6: Act 3: Ian Haney López on the Dog Whistle Politics of Race Part 2 - @BillMoyersHQ - Air Date: 2-28-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: People are people - Depeche Mode
Ch. 8: Act 4: The Difference Between Being the Majority & the Minority - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 11-15-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Racism - MYSTAFYA
Ch. 10: Act 5: Paul Ryan's 'Inner City' Remarks - Racist? No... A Republican? No Way! - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 03-15-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Say what you mean - Dojo Cuts
Ch. 12: Act 6: Paul Ryan's Economic Faux Losophy - @radio_dispatch - Air Date 3-25-14
Ch. 13: Song 6: Pure imagination - Leslie Bricusse
Ch. 14: Act 7: Online debate sparked on race and poverty - @MHarrisPerry - Air Date: 4-6-14
Voicemails:
Ch. 15: How to replace coal as a baseline energy source - Perry from Green County, IN
Ch. 16: On self identification and appropriation - Tim from Oklahoma
Ch. 17: Asking for a response to a friends thoughts on gender - Robert from Los Angeles
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 18: Final comments responding to Robert's friend's bad argument
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.8 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLifetime.com, and welcome to the award-winning |
| 0:10.0 | BestOfTheLifetime podcast with Cups today from Moyers & Company, a video from Harvard Business |
| 0:14.2 | Review, the Tom Hartman program, the Young Turks, Radio Dispash, and Melissa Harris-Perry, |
| 0:19.3 | and a sneak peek at the answer to the age-old question of whether Republican politicians |
| 0:23.0 | are racist or not? |
| 0:24.5 | The answer turns out it doesn't matter. |
| 0:30.0 | A dog whistle doesn't sound like much to your ears or mine, but it will make the neighborhood |
| 0:35.0 | canines come running faster than you can shout, lassie, or rent in 10. |
| 0:40.2 | This whistle sends its signal at a frequency only dogs can hear, which makes it an apt |
| 0:45.6 | metaphor for this new book, Dogwistle Politics by my guest, Ian Haney Lopez. |
| 0:51.8 | He's broken the code on the racist politics of the last 50 years, as politicians mastered |
| 0:57.6 | the use of dog whistles to turn Americans against each other while turning America over |
| 1:02.5 | to plutocrats. |
| 1:03.8 | The dog whistle of racism, says Ian Haney Lopez, is the dark magic by which middle-class |
| 1:10.0 | voters have been seduced to vote against their own economic interest. |
| 1:15.2 | Ian Haney Lopez is now a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, after |
| 1:19.7 | teaching at Yale, New York University, at Harvard. |
| 1:23.2 | Dogwistle Politics is his third book. |
| 1:26.0 | Welcome. |
| 1:27.4 | Glad to be here. |
| 1:28.4 | So why did you use this for the title of your book, Dogwistle Politics? |
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