TMBS 20 ReAir: The Anti-Essentialist Left w/Adolph Reed & Media Nerd Beatdown w/ Will Menaker
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Michael Brooks
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
TMBS 20 first aired on December 19th, 2017. Episode recap: Michael analyzes the victory of Cyril Ramaphosa in the ANC’s election in South Africa and the need for new struggle against neoliberalism across the globe.
We give a shout-out to The Great Lakes Commons Project whose work creating alternative currency has been successful at mobilizing people to defend the Great Lakes from environmental abuse.
Adolph L. Reed Jr. professor at the University of Pennsylvania joins us to talk about the anti-essentialist left position and his critique of contemporary intersectionality.
Will Menaker (@willmenaker) of Chapo Trap House (@chapotraphouse) is in studio to talk about the three biggest nerds in media Will Saletan, Ben Shapiro, and in the postgame David French.
TMBS re-aired episodes come out every Tuesday at 7PM EST here on your podcast app and on The Michael Brooks Show Channel. This program has been put together by The Michael Brooks Legacy Project. To learn more and rewatch the postgame content visit https://www.patreon.com/TMBS
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:20.0 | Music |
| 0:30.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Randolph will read the pledge. This is a pledge which says our job has just begun. |
| 0:43.0 | You pledge to return home to carry on the revolution. After Mr. Randolph has read the pledge, I will say, do you so pledge and you will say, I do pledge. |
| 0:58.0 | The pledge will you stand. The pledge will you stand. Standing before the Lincoln Memorial on the 28th of August, in the centennial year of emancipation, I affirm my complete personal commitment to the struggle for jobs and freedom for Americans. |
| 1:27.0 | To fulfill that commitment, I pledge that I will not relax until victory is won. I pledge that I will join and support all actions undertaken in good faith, in accord with the time honoured, democratic tradition of non-violent protest, |
| 1:55.0 | of peaceful assembly and petition and of redress through the courts and the legislative process. I pledge to carry the message of the march to my friends and neighbours, back home and arouse them to an equal commitment and equal effort. |
| 2:20.0 | I will march and I will write letters. I will demonstrate and I will vote. I will work to make sure that my voice and those of my brothers ring clear and determine from every corner of our land. |
| 2:40.0 | I pledge my heart and my mind and my body unequivocally and without regard to personal sacrifice to the achievement of social peace through social justice. |
| 3:01.0 | How do you pledge, I, I, I, I, I? |
| 3:31.0 | How do you pledge to carry the message of the march to my friends and neighbours, back home and support all actions taken from my friends and neighbours? |
| 4:01.0 | How's it going? |
| 4:03.0 | You got it on the first time. |
| 4:04.0 | That's time. |
| 4:05.0 | Well done. |
| 4:06.0 | Super producer David Slavik. |
| 4:07.0 | He is in the Twitter discordosphere, roaming the internet, chronicling the movements for |
| 4:14.2 | this guerrilla digital guerrilla insurgency on today's program, Edolf L. Reed, Jr. |
| 4:22.0 | Legendary, theoretician, activist, academic, professor of political science at the University |
| 4:27.6 | of Pennsylvania. |
| 4:28.6 | I'm talking about what is anti-essentialist left politics? |
| 4:34.3 | How does it move? |
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