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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Politics, News

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🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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The Remnant’s wonky streak continues as David Bernstein, professor at Antonin Scalia Law School, joins the program to discuss his new book, Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America. Racial classifications are ubiquitous in American life, but David believes they are becoming increasingly arbitrary and incoherent. His solution is to abolish official racial classification altogether and replace it with a separation of race and state. But what would this look like in practice, and how did terms of racial classification originate in the first place?

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.2	Ladies and gentlemen
0:16.2	Can I please have your attention
0:27.5	Green to listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant podcast brought you by the dispatch and dispatch media
0:32.4	very excited about our guest today continuing a pretty good run of wonkery of late
0:40.1	Probably not going to get as weedy as we got with the federal trade commission, but we'll try
0:44.7	We have got a guest who I've been a fan of for a very long time
0:51.2	You probably know him if you were of a certain
0:54.6	If you if you made the poor decision of going to law school you probably know him from LeValip conspiracy
1:00.2	He's the a university professor and executive director of the Liberty and Law Center at
1:06.8	The Anson and Scalia law school at George Mason University and he's got a new
1:12.4	book out that I'm excited to talk about called classified the untold story of racial racial classification in America by David Bernstein
1:20.8	Professor Bernstein welcome to the remnant
1:22.8	Great to be here. Thanks Jonah
1:24.8	So David the the first question I always like to ask authors of a on a book tour is
1:33.2	What's your book about so what's your book about?
1:36.4	My book is about the modern system of racial classification in the United States
1:41.2	We all know that in our long said history of racism in the United States
1:45.4	We used to have categories in different parts of the country, especially in the south where
1:50.7	You would be classified based on what percentage of so-called Negro blood you had and to be considered
1:57.5	Negro versus white could be a quarter or an eighth or it could be a one-drop rule
2:02.4	And there are also different rules about
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