AS87: On Privilege, with Erik
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 24 November 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Listener Erik sent me a very thoughtful email outlining some thoughts he had on the James Lindsay episodes, especially our brief discussion on privilege. Since Erik comes from a different background, I thought it would be a good idea to get a different voice in on the discussion so it wasn't just another case of … Continue reading AS87: On Privilege, with Erik
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello, I'd like to welcome to the show Eric. How you doing Eric? |
| 0:37.0 | Good, how are you? |
| 0:40.0 | Pretty good, pretty good. |
| 0:42.0 | So you commented into the show with some very enlightening and thoughtful comments. |
| 0:47.0 | I think you just emailed me right or did you? |
| 0:50.0 | Yes, no I emailed. |
| 0:51.0 | Okay, cool. And so I figured it would be awesome to get you on the show because I really, I'm very sensitive to the fact that oftentimes the voices that you hear are all from the same |
| 1:07.2 | background and they can tend to dominate the discussion in anything really but atheism especially since |
| 1:15.8 | that's kind of you know the name of the show and Eric has a different |
| 1:20.6 | background and that's perfect I want to get somebody with a different |
| 1:23.4 | background and hear your perspective so let's see how should we start things out why |
| 1:29.2 | why don't you tell us about yourself well I live in New York and Rochester, so upstate New York. So it's a fairly |
| 1:37.6 | liberal area. I actually have been raised an atheist, so I've had the benefit of I think it's a very unique |
| 1:46.3 | perspective being raised atheist because a lot of the people you know I'm in |
| 1:51.2 | several atheist groups and you know I listened to a lot of |
| 1:54.9 | podcasts and stuff like that and it seems like a lot of people have left religion |
| 1:59.3 | and I never I always always thought religion was silly from the first time I heard about it. |
| 2:05.4 | It sounded exactly like the Easter Bunny, so I never... |
| 2:10.8 | Yeah, that's what happens when you're not indoctrinated, huh? |
| 2:13.5 | I was actually just talking about this with my brother because he was talking about how his |
| 2:19.0 | daughter is kind of getting exposed to the idea of God, you know, and she's asking questions that it's like, yeah, that's what you would ask if you didn't, you know, like, well, I've never seen him, you know, like why do, yeah, it's like, yeah, that's obvious, but when you have all this, you know, indoctrination and legend that kind of grows and people just accept it, like, oh, yeah, no, no, you would never see them, of course, no, it's like, yeah, I thought it was like in the same camp as like Santa Claus |
| 2:44.1 | and yeah people keep you know I'm like 13 you're like you're still hanging on |
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