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Cooper Stuff Podcast

Cooperstuff Ep. 97 - What We Can Learn From Whoopi Goldberg

Cooper Stuff Podcast

Jennifer Fleming

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

5.03.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Whoopi Goldberg has been asked to take 2 weeks off from her show after some controversial remarks about the holocaust and racism. Her statements give us a practical example of the reigning philosophies in our culture about (1)how racism is defined (2) identity politics and intersectionality. Lastly, are these influences coming into the church?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to Cooper Stuff where I have a short episode here.

0:10.0

Alright, what can we learn from this Wippy Goldberg thing?

0:15.0

Certainly if you've been paying attention to the news, I'm sure you've seen it.

0:18.0

Lots of people talking about it.

0:20.0

Alright, look, I am not doing this quick episode to continue to dump on Wippy Goldberg.

0:25.0

She makes some horrible statements.

0:27.0

We'll talk about them very quickly.

0:29.0

The reason I am doing this is because let's find something that we can learn from this.

0:35.0

This is like a perfect example of some of the philosophies we talk about.

0:40.0

And it's really important because a lot of people listen to podcasts and they listen to these

0:45.0

sometimes very academic things where we're talking about critical race theory

0:50.0

and systemic racism and hegemony.

0:52.0

There's all these things and we go, okay, okay, that kind of helps explain what's happening

0:57.0

and what does it look like?

0:58.0

Wippy Goldberg has given us really, I mean, it's like a master class within a couple of statements

1:05.0

to practically explain.

1:08.0

So you see with your eyes it just explains all these deep philosophies that we try to talk about.

1:14.0

So I'm going to give you two things that I think are really important notice from this

1:18.0

to help explain the times we're in.

1:21.0

After that, I want to give you what I believe to be a bit of a, okay, that explains what's happening in culture.

1:28.0

Here's why it matters for the church.

1:30.0

We cannot go down this road in Christianity.

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