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UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

Comedian Amber Ruffin Wants to “De-Gaslight” America

UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

The Meteor, Collective Media

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Amber Ruffin is breaking boundaries in late-night television with her witty and insightful takes on race, politics and history. She’s a writer and performer on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and the star of “The Amber Ruffin Show.” In this laugh-packed conversation, host Brittany Packnett Cunningham talks to the comedian about everything from the rise of Black women in late-night to why racism is actually...funny? Plus, Brittany brings you the latest Untrending news. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Lauren Sherman, the host of fashion people. I love fashion, obviously. But shopping for fashion online is kind of annoying.

0:07.0

There's endless scrolling, my size is always out of stock, and I can't actually find what I want. No one has really made this work for me.

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0:29.0

Don't shop around. Join 200 million fashion shoppers, me on list.com that's

0:35.2

y st or download the list app on the app store today. Hey y'all it's Brittany. So ain't it funny how the mainstream media and law

0:59.2

enforcement will bend over backwards to not call a thing a thing.

1:05.0

Like how for the last week women of color and Asian women in particular

1:11.0

have been saying that the gunman in Atlanta was targeting

1:14.5

Asian women because of deep seated racist misogyny and reporters and the

1:20.0

police were just all oh we, we just, we don't know why this has happened.

1:27.0

I want to get one thing straight.

1:28.3

Racist misogynists don't wear signs that read, I am a racist misogynist and requiring that they do in order to

1:36.7

believe what women are saying is both racist and misogynistic because it invalidates the experiences that we live and breathe every day.

1:48.0

Y'all, the persistent hypersexualization of Asian women has been talked about at length by the very women who have experienced it.

1:58.0

From the fetishized depictions of Asian women in pop culture to the racist catcalling they endure on the streets to the idea

2:05.8

that they could be the cause of a white male gunman's so-called bad day because they were just

2:11.9

to quote tempting.

2:14.1

This has been happening.

2:16.3

And in order for us to stop such harmful stereotypes

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