Ep 204 | Nick Cannon FIRED After Anti-White Rant

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Nick Cannon was just dropped by ViacomCBS after an anti-white, anti-Semitic tangent he went on during an episode of his podcast. Lauren gives her opinion on the situation — is this cancel culture at work, and is the anti-white part of his statement being swept under the rug? And secondly, Lauren gives her (hot!) take on the resignation of Bari Weiss from the New York Times. Get in shape with one of Echelon’s lineup of affordable fitness bikes, rowing machines, and fitness mirrors starting today! Go to https://EchelonFit.com/Lauren Receive waived registration fee at a fully-accredited K-12 online school at https://LaurelSprings.com/Lauren Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.3	Hey guys welcome back to the show and thank you so much for tuning in just a heads up. This episode is going to be a fiery one because stories like the ones I have right here honestly they are the reason why I am
0:20.3	seriously considering leaving modern life and just moving to the wilderness and establishing
0:26.3	a compound, right? Because I don't know how much more I can take of this, but first up, Nick Cannon,
0:32.4	he went on an extremely racist
0:34.4	rant we're gonna be discussing it and the backlash that followed then Barry Weiss
0:38.8	a former editor at the New York Times she recently resigned from the publication in an open letter and is now being hailed as a champion for free speech and free expression, but does her past actually support the idea that she is a champion of open dialogue?
0:57.0	Doesn't actually look like it. All right, so let's just hop right into it.
1:00.0	Nick Cannon is an actor and a writer a producer among other things he appeared in a
1:06.2	podcast a clip of which went viral this week for essentially being super-duper racist and I know the word racist is sworn around a lot in
1:16.0	2020 but trust me this actually is we have a clip here when we talk about
1:21.7	the power of melanated people, when we talk
1:23.8	about who we really are as guys in understanding that our melanin is so power and
1:28.3	it connects us in a way that the reason why they fear Black, the reason why they
1:32.4	fear is because they the lack that they have of it so then when you see what you know Dr.
1:37.8	Francis C. Wellesley talked about is that fear in that that that genetic annihilation
1:44.0	efficiency
1:45.0	when you have a person that has the lack of pigment,
1:49.0	the lack of melody
1:50.0	that they know that they will be annihilated.
1:52.0	I don't know about you guys but I feel like we've watered down the word racist so much by applying it to things like flags and hats and even emoji for going to say that at least personally when and me, right? Like I'm taking it back just, oh yeah, that's what racism actually is and I feel exactly like that when listening to this clip.
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