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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

(2015/08/07) On Cosby and consent (Rape Culture)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2015

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Edition #944

Today we take a look at the accusations against Bill Cosby of serial rape, some of the underlying concepts behind consent and how rape culture creates #TheEmptyChair
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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

Ch. 2: Act 1: New details revealed in Cosby assault claims - Rachel @Maddow - Air Date 7-6-15

Ch. 3: Song 1: The Time To Run (Finale) - Dexter Britain


Ch. 4: Act 2: Cosby Rape Victim Strikes Back At The View Host - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 07-11-15

Ch. 5: Song 2: American Life (instrumental) - Silence Is Sexy


Ch. 6: Act 3: Republicans Ponder: Is Sex With an Unconscious Person Real, Legitimate Rape? - Majority Report (@majorityfm) - Air Date: 02-10-15

Ch. 7: Song 3: suffer them - Noaidi


Ch. 8: Act 4: Tea Consent - @BlueSeatStudios and the Rockstar Dinosaur Pirate Princess - Air Date: 5-12-15

Ch. 9: Song 4: Time for Tea - Madness


Ch. 10: Act 5: Bill Cosby's accusers as you've never seen them before - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air Date 7-27-15

Ch. 11: Song 5: Structures In The Sun - Metal Mountains


Ch. 12: Act 6: Protect Funding that Supports Victims of Sexual Violence via @RAINN01 - Best of the Left Activism

Ch. 13: Song 6: Activism - Shihan


Ch. 14: Act 7: #TheEmptyChair - This week in blackness (@TWiBprime) - Air Date: 7-27-15


Voicemails

Ch. 16: The history of the racial division - Ruben from San Jose

Ch. 17: Asking for thoughts on inflation - Matt from Maryland

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics


Ch. 18: Final comments on inflation vs deflation

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone


Activism: Protect Funding that Supports Victims of Sexual Violence via @RAINN01

Take Action:

Email, tweet, call your representatives from: "Tell Congress to Protect Funding that Supports Victims of Sexual Violence and Helps Catch Rapists”

Sources/further reading:

"‘I’m No Longer Afraid’: 35 Women Tell Their Stories About Being Assaulted by Bill Cosby, and the Culture That Wouldn’t Listen” by Noreen Malone at NY Mag’s ‘The Cut’

"Who Will We Choose to See? Bill Cosby and Believing Survivors” by Tọ́pẹ́ Fádìran at RH Reality Check

"The Empty Chair & 35 Women Standing Up to Bill Cosby, Rapist” by Roxane Gay at The Toast

"Serial rapists commit 9 of 10 campus sexual assaults, research finds” at AlJazeera America

Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich


Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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0:00.0

This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details

0:05.2

visit the Contribute tab at BestableF.com. Now welcome to the award winning Bestable

0:09.8

F podcast with clips today from the Rachel Maddo show, The Young Turks, The Majority Report,

0:14.3

The Rockstar, Dinosaur, Pirate Princess, All in with Chris Hayes, and This Week in Blackness.

0:19.6

And if it isn't already obvious from the title, trigger warning for anyone sensitive to

0:24.0

Bill Cosby and all that he represents, which is now primarily serial rape.

0:29.7

So this is a huge national story that has been unraveling over the course of the last year or so,

0:35.0

month after month, allegation after allegation. But there are late breaking developments,

0:39.3

court records that are newly public tonight, which have qualitatively changed the nature of this story.

0:45.7

Everybody knows the name of the man at the center of all this. So the past few years,

0:49.8

but really in the fall and winter of last year, it seemed like every few days a new woman

0:55.3

went public with allegations against the actor and comedian and beloved entertainer Bill Cosby.

1:00.0

Every few days there were new ugly allegations that Bill Cosby had raped and sexually assaulted

1:06.9

women, ultimately dozens of allegations from dozens of different women. And the incidents were

1:11.6

alleged to have occurred over a series of more than four decades, starting in the mid 1960s,

1:16.2

all the way to 2008. And although they spanned that very large stretch of time,

1:22.0

all of the allegations were variations on the same terrible theme. They all were basically

1:26.9

allegations of sexual assault or rape preceded by the woman being drugged. Three dozen women

1:33.2

have come out publicly to tell a version of that story. But the very first woman, the very first

1:38.8

woman to ever publicly accuse Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting her, as a woman who worked for

1:43.8

Temple University in Philadelphia. MSNBC is not identifying the woman by name. A Temple University

1:48.9

is Bill Cosby's alma mater. He was on the board for many years before he resigned in the wake of

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