Episode 11: CPK (Central Park Karen), Racist Policing, And The Endless Battle Over Online Shaming
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Katie and Jesse discuss the Amy Cooper/Christian Cooper incident in Central Park. Is this different from other instances of online shaming? Do we lose something when, in trying to understand a complicated problem like police shootings and other abuses, we focus in on individuals rather than institutions and structures? Why are white women so often pilloried these days when white men, like Jesse in particular, are obviously so much worse?
Program notes/links:
-"White People Behaving Badly" (Arc Digital)
-"Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America" (Amazon)
-"Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment" (Amazon)
-"From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America" (Amazon) [not mentioned in the episode but Jesse is a fan]
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jesse, how's it going? |
| 0:02.7 | Katie, it is going okay. |
| 0:05.1 | Usually, we'd have some sort of bantery, funny, and |
| 0:09.0 | introductory section here that doesn't really feel like the right week for it, does it? |
| 0:12.4 | Right. |
| 0:13.4 | It is hard to make light of everything going on right now. |
| 0:17.2 | As much as I would like to try, I think we should probably forego the, what do you banter |
| 0:22.1 | for a week? |
| 0:23.1 | My apologies to our listeners. |
| 0:24.4 | Yes. |
| 0:25.4 | Our instinct is just shit, irony, all over everything. |
| 0:30.2 | So this is Blockton reported. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm Jesse single. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm Katie Herzog. |
| 0:33.9 | Yeah, we, so look, we, I think about a week ago or five days ago, we thought we were |
| 0:37.8 | going to go deep on the Joe Rogan media story today. |
| 0:41.3 | We're not going to do that in this episode. |
| 0:42.6 | We do think it's really interesting and important from various angles. |
| 0:45.8 | We'll talk about him either on an upcoming episode or for the patrons only. |
| 0:51.9 | So check us out patreon.com slash blockton reported. |
| 0:54.8 | You can always get in touch. |
| 0:55.8 | Blotter imported podcast at gmail.com, which is getting that stuff out of the way. |
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