Hear Me Out: You Need To Care About Meghan Markle

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🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… royal pains. The British Royals are far from the imperial power they once were. Whether you love the institution, hate it, or simply don’t care, it’s hard to deny that it feels like an artifact of another time. Which is perhaps why Meghan Markle’s arrival on the scene – and subsequent departure, with Prince Harry at her side – threw so many people for a loop. Meghan continues to receive racist, sexist, and downright fabricated harassment from the public, and particularly the tabloids… and so do the people who defend her. Kristen Meinzer, culture critic and host of The Daily Fail, joins us again to explain why we need to care about Meghan — and defend her. If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: [email protected] Podcast production by Maura Currie You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hear Me Out.
0:04.0	I'm your host Celeste Headley.
0:06.1	The British Royal Family was once the center of the Western world, but even for us Americans,
0:12.6	you can't deny their influence and thorny legacy.
0:16.0	After all, we just celebrated the 4th of July.
0:18.9	Today, the royals are more of a sort of tax-funded Kardashian clan.
0:23.6	It's more about the drama for most of us than it is about any illusion of real governance.
0:29.7	The persistent royal drama of the moment is between Megan Markle, Prince Harry, and
0:34.7	their estranged family across the pond.
0:37.5	The tabloids remain vicious, and Megan is constantly receiving racist, sexist, and violent
0:44.9	threats.
0:45.9	So the question we pose today is, why should we care?
0:50.5	When we see racism and sexism in the world, why would we not speak up?
0:55.0	When we're confronted with it, why wouldn't we say something?
0:58.2	I think we all should do that for each other.
1:00.5	Kristen Mindert joins us to make the case for caring about and defending Megan Markle.
1:06.2	Stay with us.
1:09.9	And we're back on Hear Me Out, a podcast from Slight I'm Celeste Headley.
1:13.8	And look, on its face, today's topic might seem like an outlier.
1:18.9	We tend to talk about pretty consequential topics on this show, politics, identity, economics,
1:25.7	and parenthood.
1:27.1	Maybe you don't care about the royals.
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