SIO198: Why No One Is Racist
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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.... according to Republicans. Hey folks, sorry for the long hiatus. At the end of the episode, I talk about why I haven't been recording this show. But before that, I had a conversation with a family member that really made me think about Republicans and how they think about race. I sort of had an epiphany that I wanted to share. Here are a couple links I mention in the show: Sam Harris black friend audio; Philosophy Tube video.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only. Yes, this podcast still exists. I'm your |
| 0:35.1 | host Thomas Smith and sorry for the no notification kind of layoff. You know I |
| 0:42.1 | want to talk about well You know I want to talk about, well I think I want to talk about why I've been off, but I think it'd be better to leave it for later so that people could skip it. How about we just pretend we're doing an episode, |
| 0:57.0 | talk about what I'm here to talk about, and then if after that you want to stick around |
| 1:02.3 | and hear kind of personal update type stuff then you're |
| 1:06.2 | free to do it or you can just kind of end it there and that'll work out either way. |
| 1:11.2 | I think that'll be easier for you listeners. So what do I want to talk about today? |
| 1:17.2 | Well, as I'm sure you've seen from my click baby title, it's about racism and it's about the Republican ideology around that. |
| 1:25.0 | I recently had an experience, I don't want to, yeah, can't give anybody away. |
| 1:32.0 | I want to be anonymous, yeah, can't give anybody away. |
| 1:32.7 | I want to be anonymous and everything, but I recently had a conversation |
| 1:37.4 | with a family member and it was enlightening. |
| 1:41.8 | This is somebody who is actually not even particularly right wing. |
| 1:47.1 | I know they're not, I don't think they're into trouble. |
| 1:50.5 | They're not a MAGA person, they're not're not you know there's somebody who considers themselves to be |
| 1:56.0 | Center right I think still supports Republicans but not they're not a yeah a little bit used to from doing the show and from just being somebody who's not really afraid to talk about |
| 2:17.0 | contentious issues like religion and politics and all that but |
| 2:21.4 | when I had this conversation I kind of came to a realization about what we see every day. |
| 2:28.4 | So stepping back a second, we recently, within the last month I guess it was probably a week or two ago, we had this entire |
| 2:36.4 | Twitter thing with Donald Trump, tweeting some, what do you know? Co all women all women of color that they |
| 2:46.1 | should go back to where they came from despite the fact that they came from here |
| 2:50.9 | except for one of them who came over when I believe she was six or something but all of them are US citizens |
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