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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

The Battle Over Critical Race Theory (feat. Kimberlé Crenshaw) - Beyond the Scenes

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, News, Daily News

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw and producer CJ Hunt join Roy Wood Jr. to break down what critical race theory actually is and discuss the threat posed by the blowback against it. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central!

0:02.7

BAM!

0:06.2

Hey, what's up? It's Roy Woodjigger. Up next is a special presentation of the daily show podcast

0:10.8

Beyond the Scenes, where we go a little deeper into segments that originally appeared on the show.

0:15.6

In this episode, I sit down with producer CJ Hunt and leading scholar Kimberly Crenshaw

0:21.1

to discuss Critical Race Theory, what it actually is, why it's important,

0:25.5

and how the right has turned it into a political weapon and boogie man. Here it is.

0:38.6

Welcome to Beyond the Scenes. Now, see, people always ask, but they say Roy,

0:44.4

what do you mean when you say the daily show Beyond the Scenes? All right, so like,

0:49.1

you ever had Thanksgiving dinner? That's the daily show. But then you know the

0:53.5

little scraps and a little turkey and a little bit of dressing. You take all that and you just

0:57.6

make a sandwich. You ever had like one of them sandwiches three days after Thanksgiving,

1:01.7

which is layers of stuff you had all weekend. That's what this podcast is. This is the turkey

1:08.1

and dressing macaroni greens, spinach and cornbread sandwich that gives you a deeper look

1:15.2

into what we do here on the show and how those segments are made and where we are now on those

1:21.0

issues. Today we're going to be, you know, we were normally pretty heavy on Beyond the Scenes.

1:25.9

But this time, this week, we're going with something a little lighter, something easier,

1:31.4

something easier to digest. Critical Race Theory, Road of Clip.

1:37.0

There's growing backlash tonight against what critics call the indoctrination of public school

1:41.5

students in an anti-white curriculum. It has to do with the teaching of what is called Critical

1:47.7

Race Theory. Critical Race Theory teaches people and our children to judge one another not based

1:53.9

on the content of their character, but solely on the color of their skin. It would have our children

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