Was the cruelty the point?
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.5 • 11.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 1:31.6 | one of our sharpest observers of race and American politics. |
| 1:36.2 | Surer recently released an anthology of his writings during the Trump era, |
| 1:40.0 | with his famous essay on Cruelty at the Center. |
| 1:43.1 | The pieces span almost the entirety of American history, |
| 1:47.2 | and they touch too many topics to summarize here. |
| 1:50.2 | But if there's a unifying question, it's this. |
| 1:53.5 | What role does Cruelty play in America? |
| 1:57.0 | His answer is complicated, but worth pondering. |
| 2:00.4 | For him, individual cruelty isn't really the problem. |
| 2:05.4 | Sure, people can be cruel, but people can be lots of things, |
| 2:09.5 | and a healthy society is more than capable of channeling our vices. |
| 2:14.9 | Surer's argument is that the structure of American politics itself is cruel. |
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