Will Racism Die When Today's Racists Die?

The Gist

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🗓️ 28 May 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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How much do Donald Sterling's attitudes toward race have to do with being an octogenarian? Today on The Gist, we examine the correlation between racial attitudes and age with Paul Taylor from the Pew Research Center. Then, TV critics Willa Paskin and Emily Nussbaum discuss the Mad Men midseason finale and how HBO's Silicon Valley has taken a turn for the worse. For the Spiel, Mike observes how the media have pulled us into the mind of a madman, again. Get The Gist by email as soon as it's available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Lionsgate Plus. The third season of the Lionsgate Plus
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0:14.4	Holt, as they hilariously attempt to make their marriage work after some seemingly insurmountable
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0:28.2	on Lionsgate Plus. The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:36.5	It's Wednesday May 28, 2014 from Slate It's the GIST, I'm Mike Pesca. You know what I love?
0:43.4	Ribbons on fans. In the stores, the fan stores. The ones where the fans have the ribbons on them
0:49.2	and the ribbons are blowing and that shows us the fans are on. See, it's working. With what other
0:55.2	products do we demand this degree of confirmation? But sure, I'll buy your bottled water,
1:00.8	but first I'd like to dribble some out on the sponge. See what it does to it. Or how can I trust
1:06.0	these mouse traps? It does lack a mouse carcass right on the inside. Well, let's not even be so
1:11.0	abstract. How about when they sell a space heater, let's at least get a sweaty guy sitting right
1:15.5	in front of it? I mean, a fan, that is a dollar and 53 cents of plastic and an 89 cent rotary
1:21.6	engine. I mean, that is some complex technology. I'm going to have to get too ribbon confirmation
1:26.9	before I could trust your fans to actually blow the air if not cool it. Coming up on the show,
1:31.8	a talk about TV. My spiel is about allowing the Santa Barbara shooter to drive our conversation,
1:37.6	even select the conversation. But first, racism in America. How does it die? Donald Sterling got
1:43.5	me thinking about it and I brought in a Pulster slash demographer to hash it out.
1:57.2	Today, Donald Sterling, the embattled owner of the LA Clippers vowed that he would fight the NBA's
2:01.7	efforts to compel him to sell the team. At issue, of course, are the racist opinions Sterling
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