How (Not) to Think About Race
The Good Fight
Yascha Mounk
4.7 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Born with 300 bones, 10,000 taste buds, and the ability to make you smile in an instant. |
| 0:08.0 | Babies development fascinates us. |
| 0:11.0 | That's why SMA nutrition has been pioneering baby nutrition research |
| 0:15.6 | for over 100 years. We believe that breast milk is best for babies and breastfeeding |
| 0:21.3 | should continue for as long as possible. |
| 0:23.8 | We also understand everyone's journey is different. |
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| 0:34.4 | SMA Nutrition, pioneering baby nutrition since 1919. |
| 0:40.0 | The reality is that it's always race and and acknowledging that reality and engaging with that complexity rather than allowing ourselves to slip into a sensibility where all privilege is derived in this fundamental hierarchical way and if you are in the intersectional sense like woman plus your sexuality is one thing plus your race is another thing then that gives us the sense of your |
| 1:05.7 | disadvantaged score and I just think that that is obviously fraught to go about |
| 1:10.7 | trying to understand the world in that way, you necessarily lose a lot of the |
| 1:15.2 | nuance that's really important. |
| 1:17.5 | And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. In about a month on September 26th, Germany will go to the polls and for the first time in nearly two decades Angela Merkel is not running to be |
| 1:38.1 | Chancellor of the country. |
| 1:41.4 | Now I think there are three things going on in these elections. One way, positive, two rather more concerning. Let me talk you through them quickly. |
| 1:52.0 | The good piece of news is that the far right |
| 1:54.4 | populists of the alternative for Germany |
| 1:57.2 | have stagnated. |
| 1:58.9 | They are likely to get around 10% of the vote, |
| 2:01.2 | which is too much for comfort but after winning a significant |
| 2:06.0 | amount of votes increasing the vote at every election since their founding |
| 2:10.5 | they are for the first time likely to decline slightly in popular support. |
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