Episode 536 Promo - Compact Carnage (w/ Vijay Prashad)
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Author and journalist Vijay Prashad returns to Bad Faith initially to discuss Venezuela but gets sidetracked by Briahna's frustration with several media happenings from last week: the Compact article "The Lost Generation" arguing that white millennial men have faced discrimination as a consequence of DEI, and Vivek Ramaswamy's New York Times op/ed that attempts to pull the GOP back from its descent into open racism, which often manifests in the use of anti-Indian slurs against Ramaswamy and Second Lady Usha Vance. The two do get to Venezuela eventually, but life is about the journey.
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
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| 0:00.0 | I mean, there's real racism, but also for political reasons, it's very useful to believe that groups rise or fall because of their kind of intrinsic ability because they don't have to spend money on any policies to try to create any kind of equality. |
| 0:11.2 | Right? Like, that's the real game is like to cut government spending by saying that anything that you observe or a group is struggling is their own fault. |
| 0:18.4 | But he can't point to the difficulties that any other group faces, |
| 0:23.4 | because in his mind, it's their own fault. And that's why I think he's having this |
| 0:29.6 | existential. Like he thought that we were doing merit. This is why he got in trouble about a year |
| 0:34.0 | ago around the holidays defending H-1B visa immigrants because it was like, |
| 0:39.7 | oh, I thought we all agreed that if someone is smart and does a good job and isn't a quote-unquote |
| 0:43.8 | burden on society that they should come here. And then all the white people were like, no, |
| 0:47.7 | the game is white people get good stuff and nobody else does. We run this joint. It's not about |
| 0:53.5 | merit. It's about white supremacy. |
| 0:54.9 | And he was like, oh, shit. I thought that the merit stuff was legitimate and not a pretext, you know? Yeah, but that's, you know, is he naive? I mean, what is it? Is he riding a pony? You can't write two ponies at the same time. That's the problem. You can't write the pony of white supremacy and merit at the same time, you have to choose. |
| 1:13.2 | Either he's naive or he's... That's the problem. You can't write the pony of white supremacy and merit at the same time. You have to |
| 1:12.4 | choose. Either he's naive or he's playing a very malicious game, which is that he's trying to say that |
| 1:19.2 | I'm part of white supremacy. Don't you see it? That you're missing the color of my skin for my |
| 1:24.9 | political views. You're seeing a black man. But in fact, I'm a white supremacist. |
| 1:30.6 | Is that what he's saying? I mean, either he's naive or he's a white supremacist, because you |
| 1:35.3 | can't ride the pony of white supremacy and then be surprised in shock that when you look down, |
| 1:43.2 | it wants to throw you off. I mean, I don't have |
| 1:45.5 | empathy. The reason I said the thing about how does it feel to be a solution is I don't have |
| 1:50.8 | empathy for an Asian of the right who writes in public and says, but listen, I'm a nice guy. I mean, |
| 1:57.4 | what are we? So we make a list. I mean, Dinesh D'Souza. |
| 2:01.1 | Let's make a list of all of them, you know? |
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