"It's a classic Will-less episode that kind of goes all over the place as we review the speakers list for this week's RNC. We talk about like, cars and tort reform a bunch, as well as a rising star in Republican politics.
We'll be covering the RNC all week on Twitch from 9-11pm E.S.T. over on www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse"
I'm glad that Amber brought up Tariq's weird hotep shit and his grudge against interracial relationships (even if it's tangential), though it does make me wonder if they've ever talked about any of that with T from Champagne Sharks.
Yeah, it's strange that she doesn't know about hoteps. I'm a white midwesterner and even I know about hoteps. They need T to visit the show more often.
Well my point about T is that he spouts that shit all the time. Stopped following him on Twitter because he was retweeting Tariq.
Huh, I did not know that. The entire segment on the episode was very odd.
Yeah it was a weird tangent off a weird tangent. Talking about the speakers gets derailed to talk about this one political figure from Baltimore which gets derailed to talk about Tariq for 20 minutes. Some people shit on Will and I seriously dont get it considering he keeps the conversation focused.
After thinking about it a bit more, your comment put a few things into perspective for me about some of T's comments on Champagne Sharks. I've never heard him speak directly about Tariq but he's made some comments about feminists that seemed a bit... off. It's so hard to get a grip on what the hell is happening right now. I feel like I need three layers deep of "explainers" for everything.
Parsing stuff like this can be such a headache. Racism is often jacketed in concerns about violence against women, but at the same time misogyny is often jacketed in concerns about white feminism. It's difficult to gauge disingenuousness because even the person making the critique doesn't know when they have an unconscious bias. The Chapos do this sort of thing ALL the time, where they'll make a snide comment about toxic masculinity or BLM protests that is difficult to tell how much of it is being annoyed with liberal cooption or being reflexively opposed to social justice movements. I try to give the benefit of the doubt as much as I can, and I don't wanna commit libel and say that T has called black women bed wenches/removed or anything like that because I don't remember, but T can get waaaaay too concerned with how many black women thirst over someone like Chris Evans and go through Tweets looking for anything that can be pathologized as raceplay, and generally the exact same creepish behavior that Amber was talking about.
I think Will does a good job keeping them on track.