Episode 159: You Have the Right to Go to Prison
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Poor and black defendants have more legal rights than ever, but that didn't stop mass incarceration. Why is that? We talk about a paper by Paul Butler called "Poor People Lose: Gideon and the Critique of Rights." Plus, we answer the question that's on everyone's mind: how to live as an anti-natalist. And Tamler is appalled to discover David's anti-natalist leanings.
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Links:
- How to Live As an Antinatalist: 11 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow
- Suing your parents for being born has philosophical support — Quartz
- Indian man to sue parents for giving birth to him - BBC News
- Butler, P. D. (2012). Poor people lose: Gideon and the critique of rights. Yale LJ, 122, 2176.
- Butler, P. (2010). Let's get free: a hip-hop theory of justice. The New Press. Chicago
- Gideon v. Wainwright - Wikipedia
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.3 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.0 | I like that. I like waiting this. I like the fact that you think you fun it, |
| 0:20.4 | but you ain't funny with me, so don't you worry about that. |
| 0:30.9 | I know my attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:39.6 | Who are you? |
| 0:41.6 | Who are you? |
| 0:43.2 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:46.5 | Good man. |
| 0:50.8 | They think he's lost, and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:54.7 | I know my attention to that man. |
| 1:00.8 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:04.8 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:07.2 | And a very good man. |
| 1:09.0 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:11.7 | Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:16.1 | Dave, my daughter posted a photo of my dog Omar on Instagram to promote our last episode, |
| 1:22.9 | and it got a bunch of likes. |
| 1:24.6 | Does that make Omar an influencer? |
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