(2016/06/21) What drives hateful violence (Orlando Massacre)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 21 June 2016
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1023
Today we take a look at the myriad driving factors that can combine to drive a person to commit an act of violence such as the Orlando Massacre as well as a variety of reactions to the shooting
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 3: Song 1: Tolerance - Michael Franti And Spearhead
Ch. 4: Act 2: The problematic media coverage of the Orlando shooting - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 6-17-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: Make the news - Stephanie Haseman
Ch. 6: Act 3: What to label the Orlando shooting and why - @TalkPoverty Radio - Air Date 6-17-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: Call it what it is - Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Ch. 8: Act 4: LGBTQ community not allowing their pain to be turned into demonization of others - @HumorlessQueers - Air Date 6-19-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Happiness - Pet Shop Boys
Ch. 10: Act 5: Trans and Queer Latinxs Respond to #PulseOrlando Shooting - Familia:TQLM - Air Date: 6-13-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: Sopra un aereoplanino di carta - Menion
Ch. 12: Act 6: Jorge Gutierrez from the Trans Queer Liberation Movement on the Orlando shooting - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 6-17-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: Liberate - Buguinha Dub
Ch. 14: Act 7: If what they say about the LGBT community were true then violence would seem justified - @TalkPoverty Radio - Air Date 6-17-16
Ch. 15: Song 7: Words Are Seeds - My Gay Banjo
Ch. 16: Act 8: Wrongheadedly playing right into the hands of terrorist groups - @HumorlessQueers - Air Date 6-19-16
Ch. 17: Song 8: Hello bonjour - Michael Franti And Spearhead
Ch. 18: Act 9: The toxic hatred that led to the Orlando shooting - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 6-13-16
Ch. 19: Song 9: Oxygen - Willy Mason
Ch. 20: Act 10: When It Comes to Orlando Massacre, Domestic Violence Is the Red Flag We Aren't Talking About - @DemocracyNow - Air Date 06-14-16
Voicemails
Ch. 21: Why we shouldn't be violent - Al from Seattle
Ch. 22: Classism needs to be considered alongside racism and sexism - Alyson from Colorado
Ch. 23: A Trans Latinx listener finding a feeling of power
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 24: Final comments on toxic masculinity and a request for your thoughts on the same
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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| 0:00.0 | No wonder that you see hate violence of this nature |
| 0:03.9 | when for decades the LGBT community has been painted |
| 0:09.2 | with a number of stereotypes that if you truly believed them, |
| 0:12.8 | of course you would act. |
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| 0:25.2 | Now, welcome to the award winning best of left podcasts |
| 0:27.7 | with Cups Today from Dan Savage, |
| 0:29.7 | Counter-Spin, Talk property radio, The Humanless Queers, |
| 0:33.4 | Familia TQLM, The Bradcast with Brad Friedman and Democracy Now. |
| 0:46.7 | This wasn't the first attack on a gay bar. |
| 0:48.8 | Some bigoted monster planted a nail bomb |
| 0:52.2 | in a pub in London in the 90s. |
| 0:55.8 | A madman tried to set fire to a gay bar in Seattle |
| 0:59.0 | on New Year's Eve 2014. |
| 1:03.0 | A madman and other arsonists set fire to a gay bar |
| 1:05.5 | in New Orleans in the 70s and 30 people died. |
| 1:08.8 | There have been other attacks. |
| 1:11.0 | There will be attacks in the future |
| 1:14.0 | because there is and it seems there always will be |
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