Patrons Only: When Your Training's Shut Down / And It Causes A Frown / That's Damore
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In our first-ever Patrons-only episode, we break down an NBC News Article about the latest diversity brouhaha at Google, which leads into a broader discussion about what we expect of diversity programs, whether conservative complaints about the wackier ones have some merit, and the media's coverage of James Damore's memo (which argued, if memory serves, that female employees at Google should be kept in pens like livestock). Plus: What to do when your in-laws think you're hellbound, and a promising left-versus-right format for future eps.
Other lnks: Jesse's article on the IAT, Katie's article on Starbucks' implicit bias trainings, Jesse's newsletter about New York City's controversial Department of Education diversity trainings, Jesse's article about the Damore memo, and the Guardian article in which Cordelia Fine appears unconvinced of said memo's Hitlerianishnessitude.
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| 0:00.0 | What in the hell's diversity? |
| 0:02.0 | Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used |
| 0:09.0 | during the Civil War era. |
| 0:11.1 | Ron, I would be surprised if the affiliates were concerned about the lack of an old, old |
| 0:15.5 | wooden ship, but nice try. |
| 0:17.8 | Hello, welcome to the first ever Patrons-only episode of Blocked and Reported. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm Jesse Single. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm Katie Herzog. |
| 0:27.4 | And this is pretty crazy that we're doing this. |
| 0:30.4 | It's a little bit looser. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm actually drinking a beer. |
| 0:34.4 | Katie, yeah, before we started, Katie told me she was going to try smoking crack for |
| 0:37.8 | the first time. |
| 0:39.6 | Just, you know, just seem like today, seem like the time, right before the podcast. |
| 0:44.1 | So far so good. |
| 0:45.9 | You seem even more alert than usual. |
| 0:47.6 | I will say that. |
| 0:48.6 | You know what? |
| 0:49.6 | It's a little stronger than coffee. |
| 0:50.6 | I will say that. |
| 0:51.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.6 | So, yeah, thank you so much for subscribing. |
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