Episode 113: Should "The Bright Ages" Be Pulped For Its Racism, Or Merely Burned In Village Squares Nationwide?
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The hosts discuss one of the most memorable online meltdowns in recent memory, and then they talk about the fallout from last week’s episode. To discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, click here.
Show notes/Links:
“Allegations of white supremacy are tearing apart a prestigious medieval studies group”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/09/19/its-all-white-people-allegations-white-supremacy-are-tearing-apart-prestigious-medieval-studies-group
Jesse on Gabriele: https://reason.com/2020/07/08/the-reaction-to-the-harpers-letter-on-cancel-culture-proves-why-it-was-necessary/
Some David Perry receipts:
Original complaint about spiked review and more positive one published in LARB was here but is now protected:
This is whiteness in action. This is silencing BIPOC scholars *doing* the work and labor while white men (and women) profit by doing half-assed work and their club of editors (yes they are friends - as noted in an email) work behind the scenes to keep us in the "dark".
Also:
24 hrs later & no word from anyone. Notably columbusing, gatekeeping and academic dishonesty takes place daily for BIPOC and it is more often than not that particular wyte scholars aren't receptive to call-ins, let alone being held accountable.
Seph Rodney backs up Bond:
Erik Wade tweetstorm:
Bond is weaponizing her feelings:
She also apologized too quickly for MRO’s liking:
Some whole other apology rejection:
The spiked review: https://mrambaranolm.medium.com/sounds-about-white-333d0c0fd201
Gabriele apology:
The LARB, too, has failed various accountability checks:
Smithsonian Mag review of The Northman: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-true-history-behind-robert-eggers-the-northman-180979954/
The Guardian on same: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/apr/22/norse-code-white-supremacists-reading-the-northman-robert-eggers
The image of “Christ of Mercy between the Prophets David and Jeremiah” by Diego de la Cruz comes from here.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay. |
| 0:01.0 | I was talking to a friend yesterday and she has a seven year old son who I think he's |
| 0:16.8 | in first grade. |
| 0:18.3 | And he came home the other day and he was asking about the inward. |
| 0:21.8 | Wow. |
| 0:22.8 | Like that inward? |
| 0:23.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.8 | He said he was like, Mom, what's the inward? |
| 0:28.4 | He had heard about this from some kids at school, some black kids told him they said that |
| 0:32.2 | there's this word that they can say. |
| 0:34.6 | He can't say and they told him the word but he couldn't remember it. |
| 0:37.4 | So he was like, I go and like, Negro. |
| 0:40.0 | Oh, no. |
| 0:41.0 | I guess. |
| 0:42.0 | Negro, like trying to figure it out. |
| 0:45.0 | And his mom was like, no, no, no, no, no. |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.8 | And my friend was like, oh, you know, yes, there is this word and really nobody should |
| 0:52.0 | say it. |
| 0:53.0 | So if you hear it at school, you should tell your teacher and you should just walk away. |
| 0:58.2 | Literally walk away and never come back to that school. |
| 1:01.2 | Yeah. |
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