Episode 229: Skin Deep?
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
We think racism is wrong but what about “lookism” – a bias that favors attractive people over unattractive ones? If it’s wrong to judge people by the color of their skin, what about judging people for something that is only skin deep? We talk about two pieces today, a forthcoming philosophy article by William D’Allesandro “Is it Bad to Prefer Attractive Partners” and the Ted Chiang story “Liking What You See: A Documentary.”
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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. |
| 0:09.4 | 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. |
| 0:17.1 | When you're ugly and someone loves you, you know they love you for who you are. |
| 0:22.7 | Beautiful people never know who to trust. |
| 0:24.7 | The lady on his phone says, |
| 0:30.7 | they do our attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:42.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:44.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:45.7 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:46.9 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:48.4 | Good man. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:52.3 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 0:54.4 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 0:55.3 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 0:58.4 | Dave, white people love to be a wizard. |
| 1:01.9 | I'm a very bad man. |
| 1:04.2 | I'm a very bad wizard. |
| 1:08.4 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:10.8 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
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