Episode 68: Whiteness Whiteness Whiteness Whiteness Whiteness

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Katie (white) and Jesse (white) talk about the perils of Whiteness, a situation in which one's soul is colonized by a mayonnaise-devouring demon who makes you hate other races and ask your neighbors to turn the radio down. They also talk about the ACLU and (more importantly) Harambe.

Show notes/Links:

Katie and her wife own real goats now: https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1402012125845889024

Katie on the Yale speaker who wants to murder white people: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-psychopathic-problem-of-the-white

"On Having Whiteness": https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34039063/

The scary event that launched Harambe to posthumous stardom: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/us/gorilla-killed-after-child-enters-enclosure-at-cincinnati-zoo.html

NY Mag and Vox run down the meaning of the meme:

https://www.vox.com/2016/8/17/12457468/harambe-meme-social-commentary-explained

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/harambe-forever.html

Oral history of Weird Twitter:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jwherrman/weird-twitter-the-oral-history

More on harambe: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1259654-harambe-the-gorilla

Our call for memes produced some good ones: https://twitter.com/TheBARPod/status/1402715518109372426

Run Run Harambe: https://soundcloud.com/markcrozier/run-run-harambe?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Top 20 Political Assassinations of the 20th Century: https://twitter.com/basementpoli/status/1402715854731632643/photo/1

“This is the photo of Harambe the Cincinnati Zoo doesn’t want you to see”: https://twitter.com/metalg33k/status/1402721720419618820

Michael Powell on the ACLU in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html

Responses to that piece:

https://newrepublic.com/article/162674/new-york-times-aclu-free-speech-culture-war

https://twitter.com/gingi0/status/1402304533569708039?s=20

https://twitter.com/carltakei/status/1401655639114489859?s=20

https://twitter.com/DavidColeACLU/status/1402245242636718083?s=20

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0:00.0	Katie, how's it going?
0:02.9	Not too bad, Jesse, you?
0:04.4	Good. I followed you on the old social media bit and I noticed there is a new member
0:10.2	or members of the Herzog clan.
0:12.8	Um, what are you referring to?
0:14.2	The goats.
0:15.2	Oh, you saw my tweet that said we got goats.
0:18.9	I see.
0:19.9	Did you see the tweet underneath that tweet?
0:21.9	No, what did that say?
0:22.9	I'm going to go ahead and send you a link here on our chat.
0:25.5	Alright, just click that.
0:26.8	Wait, what?
0:27.8	No. Oh, my God.
0:32.4	This is a level of, um, this is a level of preparation I put in.
0:37.3	This is actually referring to ridiculous.
0:40.3	I, okay, I, I looked glancingly at a photo of what looked like goats in your backyard and
0:46.2	you're from the Pacific Northwest and I think everyone there's required to have at least
0:49.0	one goat.
0:50.0	This appears to be like little dolls cardboard cutouts.
0:53.5	What are they?
0:54.5	No, it's yard art.
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