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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom

into the real world.

Seven or eight years ago, it was late at night. I was driving home from the airport, just

trying to get home. And I got pulled over in rural Texas where I live. It was a weird experience. I get

pulled over. I get to the side of the road and the cop walks up. And as he walks up to my car, he sees me

immediately relaxes and then basically lets me go. And it wasn't because he recognized me or anything

like that. And I didn't quite understand why I'd been pulled over or why I was

let go. Until a few months later, I read an article that was about traffic stops here in Bastrop County,

where I live. And it turns out that our sheriff had been doing targeted traffic stops,

basically tick-tack violations, to try to catch Latino immigrants who were then detained

and eventually deported. And this was a major news story, and I didn't realize until I read it,

that I had been caught up in exactly that. Now, you might say that this is an example of what we call

privilege, right? I got off because I'm privileged and people who didn't get off were not

privileged. But I actually think, and I wrote a piece about this not long after the murder of George

Floyd and then of Ahmaud Arbery, that privilege is precisely the wrong way to think about this.

Because what I experienced was not privilege. What I experienced was my constitutional

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