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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #28 - Big White Lies: The Impossible Promises of Supremacy

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Marx, Political, Feminism, Jacobin, Left, Hightower, Politics, Counterspin, News, News Commentary, Maddow, Hartmann, Democracynow, Antiracism, Marxism, Socialism, Capitalism, Ezra, Liberal, Intercepted, Hayes, Progressive, Intercept, Intersectionality, Wolff

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Air Date: 11-25-25

Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:

 

  • Ch. 1 - The extremists trying to create race-based neighborhoods all over the U.S.
  • Ch. 2 - What we can learn from Ireland's history of sectarian violence
  • Ch. 3 - How the Irish became white
  • Ch. 4 - An inconvenient truth from Frederick Douglas (and some modern, mild misreadings)
  • Ch. 5 - What you can do to fight back against white supremacists where you live
  • BACKSTAGE! Beyond the Algorithm (Members Only!): Why some marginalized people cozy up to power

 

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REFERENCES

Inside Return to the Land, a new group attempting to legalize segregation - SPLC

The reality of ethnic and sectarian divisions - Irish Post

Legacy of past hangs over anti-immigrant violence in Northern Ireland - Reuters

The Irish Had to Ask to Be White - Medium

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. - Elevate Society

The Destiny of Colored Americans - Teaching American History

"Missouri Is Next": Neo-Nazi Network Expanding Whites-Only Towns—Here's Where They're Looking - Kansas City Defender

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast, although today we're sharing a sample of this week's episode of our other show, solved.

0:12.0

Best of Left members get solved early, ad-free, and complete with a members-only backstage segment all via podcast.

0:19.7

But we're also putting the show out on the Best

0:22.0

of Left YouTube channel where we're attempting to find a new audience. Consider supporting us

0:26.6

directly by signing up for a membership or help us grow on YouTube by subscribing to the

0:31.3

Best of Left YouTube channel and catching every episode of Solved there. And now here's a few minutes

0:37.0

for free to wet your appetite, but just like Best of

0:40.0

Left, the real benefits kick in when you hear the whole show, which is greater than the

0:44.7

sum of its parts.

0:46.4

Now, here at Solved and Best of the Left, we believe in looking for ways to reduce suffering

0:52.1

and craft both policy and culture to increase human happiness and flourishing.

1:00.0

And today, I think I can speak for all of us when I say we're excited to share some ideas to reduce the suffering and increase the happiness of white supremacists.

1:09.6

Are we all?

1:11.0

Oh, boy.

1:12.3

What?

1:12.8

I knew you were going to do something like that.

1:16.4

Am I wrong, though?

1:17.8

I think, look, look, look.

1:20.0

White supremacists have some ideas of their own that they think would bring them happiness.

1:25.4

And we happen to believe that they're wrong about that. So they

1:29.0

might not like our ideas, but we are going to argue persuasively that we are right anyways and

1:35.3

that it would be to white sperm's own benefit to hear us out. That's what we're talking about.

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