Charlottesville: Call it what it is
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2017
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Today was our first day back in the studio after the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VA this past weekend. We wanted to share a few thoughts from the team.
You can access the Charlottesville Syllabus that Casper mentions here. We've also put it as a button on the top of our website: harrypottersacredtext.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, it's Casper from Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. |
| 0:03.4 | Today is Wednesday the 16th of August. |
| 0:05.8 | It's the first time we've been in the studio since the events in Charlottesville. |
| 0:10.1 | And we feel compelled to just share a brief message with you all. |
| 0:14.2 | We read in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
| 0:17.2 | that we should always use the proper name for things. |
| 0:20.0 | Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. |
| 0:23.7 | And we hear at the podcast want to be really clear about what we're naming. |
| 0:27.3 | We're naming white supremacy. |
| 0:29.1 | We're naming neo-nazis marching through the streets with swastikas saying, |
| 0:33.6 | Hi-all, this is not acceptable. |
| 0:36.2 | It never has been and it never will be. |
| 0:39.1 | On the podcast, we try to offer nuance about good and evil |
| 0:43.6 | and how hard it is to be a good person in a complicated world. |
| 0:47.1 | But we think it's really important to not make it complicated what we saw this weekend. |
| 0:52.8 | What happened on Saturday included an active terror. |
| 0:55.9 | Those were neo-nazis in that space against nonviolent protesters. |
| 1:00.5 | When Donald Trump says, I think there is blame on both sides. |
| 1:04.1 | He is creating a false equivalency. |
| 1:06.8 | We did not see two equal sides having a complicated conversation this past weekend. |
| 1:12.8 | We saw an active terror in response to civic engagement. |
| 1:17.0 | The place for nuance in this moment is in heartfelt and compassionate conversations |
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