SIO187: Voicemail! Anti-Vaxers, Christchurch, White Fragility, and Other Topics
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
It's time for a listener voicemail episode! We've got some really good topics/questions/critiques, so much so that I had to split this into a couple episodes. Topics include changing minds on things like anti-vax and white fragility, and how to be an atheist critical of Islam white not contributing to problematic anti-Muslim bigotry, and voting rights! Here's a good article on what changes anti-vaxxers' minds.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. I'm your host Thomas Smith Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 187. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm your host Thomas Smith and it is time for a voicemail episode. |
| 0:38.1 | I have to thank you guys so many good interesting voicemails. This or so much voicemail, I guess so much voicemail, either way. |
| 0:47.6 | Many amazing messages, critical messages, good questions, good points. It must have been, I don't know, a particularly contentious |
| 0:55.2 | month. I mean, we did have a lot of news this month, so either way, I'm very happy, very grateful, |
| 1:00.0 | thank you so much, keep them coming, But I'm gonna get right over to it |
| 1:03.2 | because we've got a lot of messages to get through, |
| 1:06.0 | a lot of different interesting areas |
| 1:07.8 | to take the show. |
| 1:08.8 | Here we go. |
| 1:09.6 | Hey Thomas, what's up? |
| 1:10.6 | My name is Mike, I'm a nurse over in Portland. Love your show. |
| 1:13.0 | I just want to respond to the comments about lowering the voting age. I'm completely in favor of this. I think it's a good idea, but I think a |
| 1:20.0 | difficulty is presenting this to people that are opposed to it is that most of the arguments I've heard in favor of it are challenging in the sense that they seem equally arbitrary. |
| 1:28.0 | Like if you pick 16 because people are not always responsible or informed, not 15 or why not 17 like if you're |
| 1:36.2 | going to change the status quo why the same would apply to being affected by laws |
| 1:40.6 | they can't vote for you know people are affected by laws they can't vote for. You know, people are affected by laws they can't vote for |
| 1:43.7 | from the minute they're born, even before they're born. |
| 1:46.7 | So it's a good argument to me who's on your side, |
| 1:49.9 | but I'm not trying to be convinced if I weren't on your side. I would just say, well, why 16 then? And if I was conservative, the obvious reaction would also be, and of course, you believe this is going to give you an advantage, so you're biased. Thank you. I love the show. Hey Mike, thank you for the call. Yeah, so again, I'm not like die hard in favor of this argument, but I just noticed the main reason I talked to because I noticed how funny it was that |
| 2:15.7 | Basically every counter argument I was hearing on Twitter was stuff that I could just turn right around to Trump supporters I think someone even said I forgot to include this one but someone was like |
| 2:25.2 | would you ever want to put your 16 year old self in charge of any aspect of your life |
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