Bonus Sample: Mighty White
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Original Air Date: 12-7-21
Today, I am joined by Amanda, Erin and Deon to discuss:
- Old and new usages of "White"
- A little-known version of class mobility in Spanish colonial America
- The Great Resignation
References:
Loving Your Job Is a Capitalist Trap - The Atlantic
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a LeftPod cast. |
| 0:10.0 | This is a sample of our recent bonus episode every couple of weeks or so, our crew of researchers, |
| 0:15.6 | Amanda and myself get together for a roundtable discussion. |
| 0:19.6 | So here's a few minutes for free so you can see what all the fuss is about. |
| 0:28.2 | I know the sort of classic idea of white and black being used as metaphors for good and bad |
| 0:37.7 | in like every conceivable way, right? |
| 0:40.8 | Angel food cake, devil's food cake, and everything else. |
| 0:46.4 | So, I came across this very not surprising idea that in the sort of latter half of the 19th century, |
| 0:59.7 | slang use of white, just simply the word white, meant honest and gentlemanly, |
| 1:07.9 | as in to be treated whitely, was to be treated honestly and well, and what that led to was a phrase |
| 1:19.1 | that I'd never heard of before, which is that's mighty white of you. |
| 1:25.2 | Are you familiar with this, Dion? |
| 1:26.3 | Dionne? |
| 1:26.7 | Dionne? |
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