SIO180: Liam Neeson and White Fragility
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
After a brief wade into the (I think mistaken) uproar over tax refunds not being as high as last year, I go on to tackle the story of an old white actor telling about the time he was George Zimmerman and then expecting it to be totally cool. And furthermore, how on Earth could ANYONE not accept his semi-pology? We must be living in the Salem Witch Trials era! In all seriousness though, I want to explore the issue and where I think people are going right, wrong, and possibly missing good points. I reference the excellent book White Fragility by Robin DeAngelo, which I highly recommend. Here is the Vox article I mention. Here's Trevor Noah's take. Liam Neeson's second interview.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to Serious and Quers only this is episode 180 I'm your host Thomas Smith |
| 0:34.8 | and I will be doing a complete 180 today there's my allotted dad joke for the day |
| 0:41.1 | yeah also sorry I have a cold I'm going to sound like crap blah blah blah blah |
| 0:45.2 | but lots to talk about today there's there's a few things that have really been bugging me there's this |
| 0:51.4 | Liam Neeson thing and of course as always as I say every time. |
| 0:56.4 | Yes, it is about Liam Neeson partially, but it's also about our society as a whole and it's the same with any of these me too conversations. |
| 1:05.3 | You know, the conversation blows up around the details |
| 1:09.1 | of whatever the particular situation is |
| 1:11.7 | or the particular bad apology or awful weird confession or whatever it is and in the end |
| 1:19.7 | it's still the same societal problems in my opinion and I think there are some things I have to say |
| 1:26.0 | about this one that I hope will be useful maybe maybe we'll add to the conversation in a good way |
| 1:31.6 | we'll see. |
| 1:32.9 | But then before that, I wanted to talk about something |
| 1:36.5 | that's, if anything, I guess it's kind of a point |
| 1:40.8 | toward the direction of conservative? |
| 1:43.9 | No, I won't say that. |
| 1:44.8 | I would say it's, I want to clarify something in the news |
| 1:48.6 | that it's a case of, I think the left is not being entirely accurate in what's happening. |
| 1:57.0 | So and that has to do with the tax return thing. |
| 1:59.5 | So I first started seeing this. |
| 2:02.0 | My wife shared with me, you you know and I saw it around on |
| 2:05.4 | Twitter and stuff people tweeting their tax refunds and and I should say at the |
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