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Unmaking Asian Excepionalism / Gauitra Bahadur

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Gaiutra Bahadur on her Boston Review article, “Unmaking Asian Exceptionalism: On violence and the possibility of solitaries in America.” Chuck shares rotten history, and, in "Past Inside the Present," Seb looks at the history of the fairness doctrine.

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The Lord is

0:02.0

is with the the Lord is with the

0:06.0

blessed our power

0:08.0

and the water and the water

0:09.0

signature Major. This is hell. For over 30 years here in the United States

0:48.8

there have been open calls by Republicans to take back the country.

0:54.6

Originally they were only made by those in the far right

0:57.4

relics from the Nixon administration

0:59.4

that tried to conceal their racism.

1:02.3

Now those calls are being made by nearly every Republican,

1:06.0

and for a while there during a Republican presidency.

1:09.1

No longer embraced by only the fringe,

1:11.8

taking back the country seems to be at the heart of reactionary

1:15.4

politics in the United States today. From whom are they taking back the

1:20.0

country anyway when this is a country whose founding was based on taking the

1:24.4

country from someone else. Well they're taking it back from anyone who is not

1:29.4

white and does not have a Judeo-Christian identity apparently.

1:35.0

They target some merely because of their appearance and whatever hate that triggers in the racist and often violent mind.

1:41.0

Add on to the difference in appearance and non-Judio Christian religion being openly practiced

1:46.6

and that violent racist can become deadly.

1:50.4

In the late 1980s growing up in Jersey City, today's guest was a victim of such hatred as was the entire Asian community.

1:57.0

First and second generation immigrants and the children of immigrants derided for their success at achieving the American dream.

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