The war on bad statues

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 7.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Jane, Dara, and Matt on Confederate Memorials, Woodrow Wilson, and the battle for historical memory. Resources: "Woodrow Wilson was extremely racist — even by the standards of his time" by Dylan Matthews, Vox "Inside the growing movement to ditch Columbus Day and celebrate Native Americans instead" by Victoria M. Massie, Vox "The battle over Confederate statues, explained" by German Lopez, Vox White paper Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.2	Sometimes, people are just tearing down stuff because it seems cool to tear down stuff.
0:58.1	There wasn't like a history PhD.
1:00.6	There have been like, okay, everybody.
1:02.8	Yes, still, let's use S Grant.
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1:07.4	But he owned a slip.
1:09.4	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
1:26.1	I'm Matthew Glacias here with Jane Kostin and Darra Lind.
1:29.9	We wanted to talk about some of the raging controversies over names and symbolism and
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