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The Benjamin Dixon Show

Episode 649 | The Smearing of Botham Jean

The Benjamin Dixon Show

The Benjamin Dixon Show

News, Politics

4.6855 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Watching the Dallas police smear a man who was killed while resting in his home is surreal. But they've done this so many times, the smearing of Black people killed by police has been perfected down to a science.

Today's bonus show I cover "Useless contrarianism" -- the performative art of grandstanding but doing nothing to help progressive goals.

Transcript

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So I've got a new word that I'm using, a new phrase that I'm using a lot this week.

0:05.0

It's useless contrarians.

0:07.0

And it's the word I use to describe people who have no positive contribution to moving us towards our goal.

0:13.8

All they have, our goals, policy goals, specifically,

0:17.5

all they have are just pitly reminders of how bad things

0:21.6

were with Barack Obama or how bad things were with Barack Obama or how bad things were, you know, no matter what,

0:26.1

it's got to be something Hillary Clinton did, useless contrarians.

0:30.5

If you want to know more about that and figure out if I'm talking about you,

0:34.0

go to Patreon.com or slash the BPD show. Let's get on with the show.

0:40.0

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0:43.5

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0:50.0

I think it's unfortunate that law enforcement immediately began to criminalize the victim in this case.

0:58.0

Someone who was immediately, clearly the victim.

1:00.0

It has absolutely no bearing on the fact that he was shot in his home.

1:04.0

I would love to see more information coming out about warrants, execution on the home of the

1:09.5

shooter who lived just below him. I haven't seen any of those and so in particular for it to be

1:14.4

returned on this day on the day that we remember and celebrate him to see the

1:19.2

common assassination attempt on the victim.

1:23.0

It's the same old playbook

1:26.0

assassinate the character after they assassinate his person

1:30.0

as attorney mayor and attorney Washington said,

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