Intersectionality’s Gridlock

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🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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What are the animating philosophies at the heart of the protests that have rocked American cities for the better part of a week? Where does the pursuit and equality before the law run up against vogue academic theories that buttress social justice activism and more closely resemble ethnic determinism and stereotyping? The COMMENTARY podcast discusses and debates. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily podcast today is Wednesday, June 30, 2020.
0:28.8	I'm John Pudhordz, the editor of commentary magazine, the 70-odd year-old monthly of intellectual analysis,
0:35.2	political, probity, and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective. We invite you to join us at
0:40.0	commentarymagazine.com. We'll give you a few free reads and ask you to subscribe. With me is always
0:44.5	senior editor, A Greenwald Hyade. Hi John. Senior writer, Christine Rosen, Hy Christine.
0:49.3	Hi John. And senior, excuse me, associate editor, Noah Rothman, Hi Noah. Hi John, I just got a
0:55.7	promotion. You did. Senior wise man. Senior wise man. Yes. You're a senior New Jersey correspondent.
1:04.0	Noah Rothman. Guys, I think I discovered the perfect tweet. I would love as I think I told you on
1:10.3	our on our group chat and I need to tell everybody else about the perfect tweet. The perfect tweet
1:19.0	by Mark D. Levine, member of the New York City Council, head of the health committee of the New
1:23.2	York City Council, who in February declared that everyone in the city should go to the Chinese
1:29.2	New Year celebration in order basically not only to have a good time, but to confront the fear
1:34.0	that was being manipulated by Donald Trump and having put the travel ban on China. And then as
1:40.7	the seriousness of the coronavirus became clear, suddenly flipped and became the most hawkish of all
1:48.4	hawks announcing among other things that we were preparing to bury bodies in Central Park.
1:56.8	We were actually going to there was going to be so many dead bodies from corona that there
2:02.2	were going to have to be makeshift graves dug in Central Park. It's literally what this guy said.
2:09.2	Okay. So and then of course last week, the protests begin after the killing of George Floyd. And
2:17.9	this morning, this guy who was basically saying things like we're never going to go back to normal.
2:23.6	We won't be doing anything until there's a vaccine. You should be prepared that no one will go back
2:27.9	to school in September. Everybody should not only wear a mask, but should basically cover themselves,
2:33.9	seal themselves with epoxy. Here was his tweet this morning. Let's be clear about something. If
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