WOF 166: Scapegoating on Social Media

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The recent confrontation between a grinning young high school student and a Native American elder has led to much anger and vitriol, especially on social media. But as Bishop Barron suggests, it also exemplified the "scapegoating mechanism" described by philosopher René Girard. How do we avoid this scapegoating? How can we bring more light to the online world? Bishop Barron has some advice. A listener asks whether our memories will transfer to Heaven.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the host and the content director
0:12.4	here at Word on Fire. Joining us back in Santa Barbara is the great Bishop Robert Barron.
0:17.8	Bishop Barron, good to talk with you.
0:19.6	Hey Brandon, always good to be with you.
0:21.8	Now I want to catch everyone up on a couple of exciting events here that we just had.
0:26.2	One of them I got to join you for was a visit to Seattle, Washington, where we stopped
0:30.6	by the headquarters of Amazon. Tell us what you were doing there and how it went.
0:35.5	I was there for a fishbowl, which is an interview about a book and you're on stage at the Amazon
0:41.6	headquarters with an interviewer. And about, I don't know, maybe 200 people in the room
0:46.5	and then it's broadcast around the Amazon world. And we have, I think, a video of it up
0:52.4	now on YouTube, right? Anyway, it was a chance to talk about my book, Arguing Religion.
0:57.9	And to be at one of the real centers of American culture right now at Amazon, I thought was
1:03.3	interesting. And Seattle is a cool study. I've been there many, many times, I like it a
1:07.6	lot. So I just enjoyed that whole experience.
1:10.2	Yeah, we'll be talking more about that event moving forward. And I think we're going to
1:14.2	take the audio of that Q&A fishbowl conversation and we'll use it as a future episode here
1:19.2	on the show.
1:20.2	Yeah, good.
1:21.2	I'll be back with you to video. It'll come to the podcast here pretty soon. Listen,
1:24.8	second thing I want to ask you about was something you just returned from a few minutes ago.
1:29.5	Oh, yeah.
1:30.5	You were at the poor clairs, uh, content there in California. Tell us why you were there
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