Black Scholar Adolph Reed DESTROYS Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility & Nice Racism

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🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

As PC culture, led fearlessly by Miss Woke 2021 Robin DiAngelo, moves deeper into decreeing what terms and actions count as racist, Professor Adolph Reed has a warning for us: “Both the discursive and institutional have emerged around a systemic disposition to find ways to evade talking about class and economic inequality, then it just grows in that dark environment with other fungi and so forth and so on.” That’s “historian of ideologies” talk for a simple yet important concept which he explains further: When we focus too much on the struggle against racism and prejudice, what recedes from view is the struggle against specific policies that cause essential problems of economic inequality. In his return to Useful Idiots, Professor Reed judges excerpts from DiAngelo’s new book Nice Racism, shares stories of civil rights history, and does something basic yet suddenly important in a time when both racism and faux-anti-racism seem to be growing: he simply defines racism. It’s an important episode which also turns out to be one of the funniest ones yet. Here’s what else you’ll get: –Katie Halper’s NBA Finals Predictions –Poor Saudi Arabia tries to defend itself against Yemeni children –Biden and Republicans finally find a chastity belt for their mouths –And of course, it sucks to Zuck It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Subscribe at usefulidiots.substack.com Follow us on twitter @usefulidiotpod for clips, games, forums, and more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Helper and I'm joined by and this week
0:11.3	I'm joined by Matt tight just this week. I'm just kidding. Oh I say okay. That's awkward
0:19.6	awkward awkward ox. All right you know what you do it to me now and be like and for and
0:25.4	for the first for the first and last time ever. I'm introducing. I am Matt Tauybe and
0:30.5	welcome to Useful Idiots and I'm joined this week by Katie Helper and I'm Katie Helper
0:36.5	and you may know me for discovering Matt Tauybe back in the day when he was just a little
0:42.7	basketball player Mongolia and I said this guy has the chops to write. Right right that's
0:49.7	exactly how it happened. Yeah. I was very young but very procosis. Right right. When did
0:57.3	you write your first article? Probably in 1988. So I was a seven year old scout. Right you
1:05.5	saw right away the potential in that town meeting or whatever it was that I covered and
1:10.8	covered. Yeah. But for Massachusetts there's some silly thing like that. So yeah so here
1:16.1	we are years later after that important crosswords moment in both of our careers and decades
1:24.1	later and and we're in the middle of the spring slash summer of 2021 and all kinds of stuff
1:31.6	that's happening. I think we can go full-fledged. I appreciate your caution. I've always appreciated
1:37.7	that. You you're restraint but I think we can say it summer. So Katie before we get
1:44.8	to any of the other stuff if we just got to get this out of the way what's your what's your
1:48.9	take on the NBA final who's going to win. Let's just start with the basic prediction.
1:54.7	Yeah. Let's just start with the basics. Who's going to win? I mean if I'm choosing between
2:02.3	the Phoenix. Yeah between the Phoenix surprise and the Milwaukee Elk. Yeah if I'm choosing
2:09.0	between the Phoenix surprise and the Milwaukee Elk I call them the Milwaukee's. Yeah I mean
2:17.0	I'm going to go with the surprise. Yeah because it's a surprise right. Right. I mean that's always
2:24.2	I mean also the skill that they bring to the game they are so good at their they never travel.
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