COLEMAN HUGHES: Live At The Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Are we too focused on race? Have recent anti-racist movements like Black Lives Matter abandoned the ‘colourblind’ spirit of the original civil rights movement?

Coleman Hughes is an American writer, podcaster and public intellectual known for his criticism of modern social-justice ideas about racism and racial inequality. In this live Festival Of Dangerous Ideas edition of Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps, Hughes articulates his vision for a future where individuals are judged by ‘the content of their character’, not the colour of their skin.

Drawing from research and personal insights, he argues for a society that embraces a colourblind ethos, aiming to dismantle divisive narratives and foster a more inclusive culture.

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0:00.0	Giday, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. Back in August, I brought out to
0:08.6	Australia's sunny shores, the incomparable Coleman Hughes for the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
0:14.3	It was a cross-collaboration between uncomfortable conversations and the iconic Sydney Ideas Festival.
0:23.5	And I also supplemented that with a show in Melbourne. And you may have heard that because we released that on the podcast feed.
0:27.9	That was an uncomfortable conversations event. And Coleman and I had an incredible chat.
0:34.2	What you may not have heard, in fact, probably haven't heard if I look at the numbers of
0:38.7	our YouTube channel accurately, is the Sydney show, which is why I'm bringing it to you on this
0:44.4	platform. We released it on YouTube. But the reason I'm fairly confident in saying that you
0:48.7	haven't seen it on YouTube is because a great, great, great, great many people listen to this
0:52.7	podcast and a great, great, great, great few people to this podcast and a great, great, great,
0:55.0	great few people watch the YouTube channel. So go to the YouTube. I just hate being one of those
0:59.7	guys who's always like, go to my YouTube and click and subscribe. Remember to click the
1:04.0	subscribe button, ding, ding, ding, and like and share. I mean, my goodness, it's boring.
1:10.2	It's so bloody annoying, but maybe you can do me
1:13.5	a solid and just go to your stupid YouTube and subscribe, because it's good. Like, you'll be able to see
1:18.7	a nice, polished, well-produced, professional festival video of me and Coleman Hughes saying all
1:27.0	the same things that you're about to listen
1:28.5	to anyway, which when I put it like that, it kind of makes me not when I go to the YouTube page
1:33.1	after all. I'm not doing a very good job of selling this, am I? Listen, I'm going to come clean with you,
1:39.6	all right? I'm sitting in a shack by a beach on an island, and I'm talking into my phone.
1:46.4	That's why it might sound a bit different.
1:47.8	I don't know if you can hear the waves in the background, but I'm literally looking out a window,
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