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🗓️ 26 June 2019
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Who better to pummel neoliberal common wisdom than the tribune of the swoletariat, @prettybadlefty? We speak with Chad Vigorous about his ethnographic studies on white people music, the infuriating/depressing debate about what is or isn't a goddamn CONCENTRATION CAMP, and liberalism's tendency toward rhetorical chicanery rather than actually addressing the issues surrounding class and race in US society.
CONTENT WARNING: electoral politics
Check out Chad's excellent podcast The Discourse: https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse/
Not that he needs more followers, but @prettybadlefty
Music: Chumbawumba - The Day the Nazi Died
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Antifada where unrest is best. I'm Jamie Peck. I'm Sean K. B. I'm AP Handy. And we are here with |
0:16.5 | Chad Figuress, also known as Pretty Bad Lefty on Twitter, host of the Discourse, |
0:22.2 | which is an excellent podcast. |
0:23.7 | Hello, thank you for having me on. |
0:27.1 | I don't get to do a lot of podcasts. |
0:29.6 | Except your own, which is a wonderful podcast that I listen to a lot of in preparation for this show and everybody else out there should subscribe and listen as well. |
0:37.0 | Yeah, you should all joke in your side and you could you all listen to things I have to say. |
0:41.0 | Yes, always, especially now because this is going to get |
0:44.8 | really real this time. We're going to be talking about all sorts of interesting |
0:48.3 | stuff, but I think to start things out, Jamie had a sociological question for you. |
0:54.0 | Yeah, so you recently did some sociological research on the sociology website, |
1:01.0 | Twitter.com, and you did a a I'll call it a survey so quote you asked I've |
1:08.1 | recently been enjoying white staple bands I've never listened to before |
1:11.6 | tell me a white band and I'll tell you if it's actually good or if you've just been poisoned by your socialization, family, and white media." |
1:20.0 | So what did you find most surprising about white music? Which white artists speak to you and why? |
1:27.0 | Okay, so I'll be, I'll give a little bit of my background first, right? so I grew up in Brooklyn in the 90s. |
1:34.1 | My mother was a pretty big rap fan, |
1:37.2 | Jay-Z, Biggie Smalls, and so that kind of defined |
1:41.1 | my musical taste up into the point when I went to college, right? |
1:45.6 | When I started branching out a little bit more. |
1:47.4 | But then by time I was in college, I mostly only listened to music you can work out to. |
1:51.8 | So again, that was mostly like rap music, |
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