Episode 161: White Privilege (Peggy McIntosh, Charles Mills, et al) (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Is the rhetoric of "White Privilege" just the modern way of acknowledging historical and systemic truths of racism, or does it point to a novel way for acknowledging injustice, or does it on the contrary obscure these insights by involving confused claims about group responsibility and guilt? Readings include articles by Peggy McIntosh, Charles W. Mills, George Yancy, Tim Wise, Lewis R. Gordon, Lawrence Blum, and John McWhorter. With guest Law Ware.
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| 0:20.0 | point set on doing philosophy for living but them thought better of it. |
| 0:23.2 | Our questions for episode 161 are something like, what is white privilege and what should |
| 0:27.7 | we do about it? |
| 0:29.2 | We looked at material by Charles Mills, a Peggy McIntosh, Lewis Gordon, Charles Yancy, |
| 0:34.2 | Tim Wise, John McWordor and Lawrence Blum. |
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| 0:42.3 | My name is Mark Linson-Meyer, taking advantage of the low expectations run about by my race. |
| 0:48.3 | You guys do Wisconsin. |
| 0:52.9 | This is Seth Faskin in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:55.6 | This is Wes Aulon in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:57.9 | This is Dylan Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin. |
| 1:00.0 | This is Lawrence We're Fighting the Power in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. |
| 1:03.8 | Law was brave enough to have a thing that he was doing. |
| 1:06.8 | You guys cowards. |
| 1:08.3 | Cowards or lack of creativity. |
| 1:13.8 | No, it's cowardice. |
| 1:15.8 | I don't know which one is worse. |
| 1:18.3 | I don't know if it's worse to have the lack of creativity or to be a coward. |
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