Chelsea Handler On White Privilege

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🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Last year, comedian Chelsea Handler made a documentary on Netflix called, Hello Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea, where she explored the idea of white privilege. Which happens to be a thing that a lot of people are talking about again... right now, in 2020.

Sam talks to Chelsea about what she's learned since then, her latest book — Life Will Be the Death of Me...and You Too! -- and coming to terms with both her own white privilege during the protests... and herself, in therapy.

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0:00.0	I was on the phone, I mean, I was on the phone.
0:01.8	I was in person.
0:02.6	I was out of friends' house the other night.
0:04.2	We were all at a social distance Friday night dinner.
0:07.0	And my friend was saying, she's like, I just read white
0:10.6	fragility.
0:11.3	And she's like, and you know, we were talking
0:12.6	to somebody at the office.
0:13.9	And you know, this black woman worked at the office.
0:16.8	And she was giving us feedback.
0:18.4	And I just feel so terrible.
0:20.3	Like, I just don't get it.
0:21.4	I just, and she starts like really getting weepy.
0:23.5	And I was like, well, what are you doing right now?
0:25.5	You just said you read white fragility.
0:27.5	You cannot talk about reading white
0:29.8	fragility and start to cry.
0:32.0	I was like, this is exactly what the problem is.
0:35.4	And she was like, no, I'm just telling you.
0:37.5	I go, don't.
0:38.2	No, you can't talk to me about it either anymore.
0:40.6	No more white people should be talking about how sad they are.
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