Episode 61: The Literally Violent Inquisition Against Richard Dawkins And The Case Against Making Everything About Race All The Time
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Richard Dawkins did an oppression with his tweets -- what should be done??? Also, new research suggests, shockingly, that making each and every issue about race 100% of the time might have some drawbacks. These issues and more, discussed thoroughly and vigorously.
Jesse's Book "The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills": https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Show notes/links:
Richard Dawkins is no longer 1996 Humanist of the Year: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/20/richard-dawkins-loses-humanist-of-the-year-trans-comments
If you talk about transracialism, you're gonna have a bad time: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/transracialism-article-controversy.html
The Yalies' paper on racial messaging and progressive policies: https://osf.io/tdkf3/
Jesse's paid post on The Daily Beast's ridiculous coverage of the killing of Ma’khia Bryant: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-daily-beasts-coverage-of-the
Jesse's mad about this stuff on Twitter too: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1386347467491454985
Washington Post police shootings database: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
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| 0:00.0 | I |
| 0:05.3 | Katie, how's it going? |
| 0:07.1 | Jesse I am fully vaxed. How are you doing I? |
| 0:10.8 | Two and fully vaxed as of today. How are you feeling I feel I feel fully vaxed that's how I feel about it |
| 0:19.3 | Um, you know, I got I got a special vaccine just for podcasters |
| 0:23.3 | So I assume I think it was like Moderna plus Pfizer plus Johnson and Johnson plus Astro Zeneca |
| 0:29.5 | It was all mixed up in one. That's what I requested at least I wanted to get a little bit of all of them |
| 0:33.8 | But I am still alive my arms have not fallen off my penis is not falling off as my 86-year-old neighbor said he was worried about about |
| 0:41.4 | happening to him |
| 0:42.9 | So yeah fully vexed. I'm just looking forward |
| 0:46.8 | I feel like your lifestyle is not gonna change that much because you're an island-dwelling recluse |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah for me when I think about like the last year |
| 0:56.1 | How many times I passed someone on the street and I've been like I want to lick that person and |
| 1:02.8 | Under normal circumstances as I would and then like fuck |
| 1:06.4 | COVID or I will often see on the streets of New York like a half-eaten slice of pizza |
| 1:11.9 | That are rat or pigeon is just feasting on I almost said fisting on |
| 1:16.5 | Maybe that too and I'm like under normal circumstances |
| 1:20.6 | I would just take it because it's free food, but goddamn it. There could be |
| 1:25.0 | COVID saliva. So this is really gonna get me back to my normal life and I'm looking forward to that |
| 1:30.4 | Jesse another thing that I'm not personally looking forward to this isn't exactly my lifestyle |
| 1:35.8 | But I do know some people who are involved in this lifestyle and I'm happy for them that things are gonna get |
| 1:40.7 | Back to normal and that's that's the poly community |
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