Family detention is the new family separation

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Matt, Dara and Ezra talk about the Trump administration's use of family detention as an alternative to family separation. Then they turn to a white paper that looks at racial attitudes and white privilege. References and further reading: Tara Golshan's piece on the latest immigration bill Politico piece on the Senate efforts to fix family separation "Racial attitudes in response to thoughts of White privilege" white paper Kate Manne's piece on Bernie Sanders' white male problem mentioned by Matt Kate Manne's book "Down Girl" mentioned by Matt Professor Ashley Jardina's dissertation on white identity and American politics mentioned by Ezra Michael Tesler's book “Post-Racial or Most-Racial?" mentioned by Ezra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm the only person on the planet who doesn't mind my voice recording.
0:03.2	Oh my god, I can't stand it.
0:04.2	I can't stand to look at myself in images though, that's the thing.
0:07.1	Oh, I just have a wall of just pictures of mine now.
0:24.8	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Fox Media Podcast Network.
0:28.2	I'm Matthew Glacier here today with Ezra Klein, Derek Lynn, the Weeds.
0:32.7	The Weeds, it's awesome.
0:34.9	I know it's gotten way worse since Ezra came back, but you know, I've dropped the quality.
0:39.6	To be honest, I enjoy listening to a Lessons I Came Back because I already know what happened.
0:44.2	Yeah, it's very boring to listen to yourself on a podcast.
0:46.8	Yeah, and also it's extremely humiliating.
0:50.3	Hmm, brutal.
0:51.5	Okay, now let's be serious.
0:53.0	We got good white paper coming about white privilege.
0:56.8	White privilege and racism and racism.
0:58.9	Yes, they go hand in hand.
1:00.4	Weird interactions.
1:01.6	But first, we wanted to talk about the family separation drama we had over the past weekend,
1:08.1	protest nationwide against Trump family separation.
1:11.6	Policy, the news cycle has somewhat moved on, but it's somewhat still hung up on this.
1:17.3	Yeah, the news cycle has moved on.
1:19.0	The policy fight has moved on, but in a different way.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vox Media Podcast Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Vox Media Podcast Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.