ICYMI: How a Social Justice Instagram Weaponized Cancel Culture

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🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Instagram account No White Saviors presented itself as an organization that exposed missionaries, aide workers, and influencers who were actively harming the communities they were in, but the story is much darker and more confusing than that. On today’s show, Rachelle and Madison are joined once again by journalist Jessica Lucas to talk about her latest piece for Input magazine on the dubious nature and recent implosion of No White Saviors. This podcast is produced by Daniel Schroeder, Rachelle Hampton, and Madison Malone Kircher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.1	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.1	We were Liars.
0:26.1	New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:30.1	There was a lot of screen time, there was a lot of internet stalking and texting
0:36.1	random Uganda numbers that I've been given and hoping that
0:39.4	the right person was on the other end.
0:43.0	Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher.
0:44.8	And I'm Rachel Hamden and you're listening to I see Y YMI.
0:47.8	In case you missed it.
0:49.2	Slate podcast about internet culture.
0:51.3	Last week in an attempt to lift our own spirits, this was entirely selfish,
0:56.1	we published an episode that was only fun things from the internet. And after we put that
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