Episode 70: Why Did NPR's "Code Switch" Join The Pileon Against An Innocent Palestinian-American Businessman?

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 26 June 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

After Katie describes how she and Jesse had their First Amendment rights literally murdered by an NYC venue and Jesse provides a weird update to last week's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie/Akwaeke Emezi episode, the hosts talk about some reparations-related drama at Seattle's Pride and "Code Switch"'s strange decision to join the pileon against Majdi Wadi, a Palestinian-American businessman who did nothing wrong.

Show notes/Links:

-when the government literally arrested everyone associated with Blocked and Reported: https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1406043541525073920

-Emezi on her transition: https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/writer-and-artist-akwaeke-emezi-gender-transition-and-ogbanje.html

-Are Twitter trolls mentally ill?: https://unherd.com/2021/06/are-twitter-trolls-mentally-ill/

-Taking Black Pride: https://www.seattlepride.org/events/taking-black-pride

-Seattle HRC responds:

https://twitter.com/SeattleHRC/status/1405767042330812419

https://twitter.com/SeattleHRC/status/1405767189634818048

-Lorena González drops out: https://twitter.com/MLorenaGonzalez/status/1405968795567497219

https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2021/06/after-complaint-against-black-pride-events-reparations-fee-wave-of-cancellations-hit-tiny-capitol-hill-prides-big-plans-for-in-person-festival/

-affirmative action bake sales: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/05/03/40096408/uw-college-republican-affirmative-action-bake-sale-draws-resistance-and-controversy

-BARPod patrons-only episode on Holy Land Brand/Majdi Wadi: https://www.patreon.com/posts/destroying-small-38100907

-“Code Switch” on same: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/892974522

-Bari Weiss on same, via her new podcast “Honestly”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/americas-cultural-revolution/id1570872415?i=1000524764029

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0:00.0	Katie, what's up?
0:04.6	Hey, Jesse, so you're familiar with Substack, right?
0:09.6	That's the Transphobic newsletter service, right?
0:13.0	Exactly.
0:14.0	Exactly.
0:15.0	So the other day, I tweeted a little complaint about Substack.
0:19.0	I'll read you the tweet.
0:20.8	One thing that sucks about Substack is that it doesn't show up on Google results.
0:24.4	So if you Google Arunachelanani, you don't get Barry Weiss's Substack that broke that
0:28.4	story.
0:29.4	And if you Google Jesse single stalker, you don't get Judeoil Substack that broke that
0:32.8	story.
0:33.8	Did you see that tweet?
0:34.8	I did.
0:35.8	I...
0:36.8	The name you mentioned is the person who thinks white people are psychopaths.
0:42.1	Yeah, thinks that white people are psychopaths who are also don't eat bread because of our
0:46.2	white guilt.
0:47.2	You can go back if anybody isn't aware of talking about, go back and listen to two episodes
0:50.5	ago and all will be clear.
0:52.3	So I tweeted this because I do think that this is a problem.
0:55.2	Like there's an SEO problem with Substack because there's lots of good reporting and
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