Episode 11: The Deficits Racket Part II -- Racist Media as Barrier to Govt Spending
Citations Needed
Citations Needed
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🗓️ 4 October 2017
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
If broad government programs are so popular why don't we just vote them into existence? One of the primary barriers to democratic socialism--or spending in general--is racist media coverage and racist attitudes about how government programs are administered. In this episode we explore how media-fueled racism and means-tested nickel-and-diming makes radical change that much more difficult. With guests Sean McElwee and Noel Cazenave.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cytations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome to Cytations Needed, where media criticism show about the intersection between power, |
| 0:14.2 | PR and the history of bullshit. |
| 0:16.8 | Today I'm doing a little different, I'm obviously your co-host Adam Johnson, but I'm joined |
| 0:21.3 | today by our producer Florence Borough Adams. |
| 0:24.7 | So Nima had a conference for his work so he couldn't be here for the second part of this |
| 0:28.4 | two-parter. |
| 0:29.4 | He was in one of the interviews, but not in the other. |
| 0:32.9 | Nima has a life, he has an actual job, so sometimes he can't. |
| 0:37.8 | We all have a life. |
| 0:38.8 | We all have a life. |
| 0:39.8 | I literally don't have a life. |
| 0:40.8 | But he did have to go away, yeah. |
| 0:41.8 | Anyone who falls, anyone who falls to me on Twitter can tell that I literally have no |
| 0:44.4 | life. |
| 0:46.2 | So anyway, she's going to be joining us today for the second part of this two-parter. |
| 0:52.8 | And to kind of help me out, because I can't do it alone. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm very clingy. |
| 0:57.0 | I don't like being alone. |
| 0:58.1 | Oh, Adam. |
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