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Factually! with Adam Conover

Viral Justice with Ruha Benjamin

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

When the problems facing us are so massive and systemic, how can we ever hope to address them as individuals? This week’s guest, Ruha Benjamin, joins Adam to explain how small actions for justice can become contagious and create change on a larger scale. Pick up a copy of Ruha’s book at http://factuallypod.com/books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a headgun podcast.

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to Factually, I'm Adam Conover.

0:32.5

Thank you so much for joining me once again as I talk to an incredible expert about all the

0:36.8

amazing shit that they know that I don't know and that you might not know.

0:40.4

We're going to have an incredible time.

0:42.0

Before we jump into it, I want to thank everybody who supports this show on Patreon.

0:46.4

If you head to patreon.com, slash Adam Conover.

0:49.1

For just five bucks a month, you get every episode of the show, add free.

0:52.7

You can join our community discord.

0:54.2

We even do a live book club over Zoom.

0:56.8

It's so much fun.

0:57.9

Hope to see you there Patreon.com slash Adam Conover.

1:01.0

You'll support the show and I will thank you for it.

1:03.1

Now, this week on the show, we are talking about change as we often do on this program.

1:09.2

You know, the world is a fucking mess and we want to fix it and we are often baffled as to how.

1:14.3

It's a serious, important question because we're often presented with a really stupid and simple

1:20.8

recipe of ways to change the world that do not work.

1:23.7

We're often told in the media by commercials, by politicians that all we can do is vote,

1:29.1

donate money and buy the right things.

1:31.1

In other words, through individual action, we can change the world.

1:34.6

And I believe that that is bullshit because our biggest problems are systemic in nature.

1:40.0

They're systems that were designed to produce the outcome that they do.

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