"It will not be an apocalypse it will be a slow dying of the embers, it will be heat death, until the last campfire blinks out, and the people around that campfire, they don’t think that they are at a campfire at the end of the world, they think it’s thursday, and they are at the corporate HR training, they’re doing the diversity workshop, they’re reading white fragility to each other around the campfire and they think it’s their job.
They don’t think it’s the nightmare apocalypse that everyone has always been waiting to happen, because we will normalise ourselves into annihilation, we will never turn away from self obliterating hostility to others. That will then inevitably destroy us."
There's a difference between calling out a book like "White Fragility" for being useless HR pablum, and whining about "idpol." The problem with White Fragility is that it frames racism in modern America as the unfortunate aggregate of personal failings, instead of the deliberate product of systemic oppression. White Fragility offers the racial equivalent of suggesting we can stop global warming if we all buy a Prius. It puts the blame on the (not fully undeserving, but largely powerless) masses instead of the institutions of power which are responsible for the perpetuation and self-replication of racial inequality. That isn't reductionism. That is synthesis.
I did, the whole episode was the definition of overselling a point, it's a mediocre book that disillusioned libs will buy on amazon and then never read, but according to the chapos it's the gosh darn necronomicon that will herald the "Normalized Apocalypse"🙄
Matt almost had a great take, but he ruined it by going full Amber
Who the fuck said they weren't entertainment, the episode was boring af, you could tell they were personnel offended by some of the tepid observations made by the book, that shit ain't "FuNy" its lame
Imagine getting paid 250,000 a year to review dumb liberal books from the amazon sociology section, what a racket lol
Its was literally the WHOLE EPISODE, didn't need to listen to a shitty 45 minute rant by Amber who hilariously enough kept undermining the overarching point the group was trying to make by arguing "actually racism is not that systemic, and we can solve it by being nice" lol
Dogshit episode, easily the second worst of the year
From one of Matt's latest Cush vlogs:
"It will not be an apocalypse it will be a slow dying of the embers, it will be heat death, until the last campfire blinks out, and the people around that campfire, they don’t think that they are at a campfire at the end of the world, they think it’s thursday, and they are at the corporate HR training, they’re doing the diversity workshop, they’re reading white fragility to each other around the campfire and they think it’s their job.
They don’t think it’s the nightmare apocalypse that everyone has always been waiting to happen, because we will normalise ourselves into annihilation, we will never turn away from self obliterating hostility to others. That will then inevitably destroy us."
Matt never disappoints.
Lol the chapos still have serious hangups about "idpol" don't they.
They actually kind of are the class reductionists that people said they were
There's a difference between calling out a book like "White Fragility" for being useless HR pablum, and whining about "idpol." The problem with White Fragility is that it frames racism in modern America as the unfortunate aggregate of personal failings, instead of the deliberate product of systemic oppression. White Fragility offers the racial equivalent of suggesting we can stop global warming if we all buy a Prius. It puts the blame on the (not fully undeserving, but largely powerless) masses instead of the institutions of power which are responsible for the perpetuation and self-replication of racial inequality. That isn't reductionism. That is synthesis.
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did you listen to the episode about the book
I did, the whole episode was the definition of overselling a point, it's a mediocre book that disillusioned libs will buy on amazon and then never read, but according to the chapos it's the gosh darn necronomicon that will herald the "Normalized Apocalypse"🙄
Matt almost had a great take, but he ruined it by going full Amber
What are you on about? They did an episode tearing apart a shitty book in a funny way for the listeners because THEY'RE AN ENTERTAINMENT PODCAST
stop acting like Chapo is a fucking weekly Marxist publication, it is a show we listen to for fun
Who the fuck said they weren't entertainment, the episode was boring af, you could tell they were personnel offended by some of the tepid observations made by the book, that shit ain't "FuNy" its lame
Imagine getting paid 250,000 a year to review dumb liberal books from the amazon sociology section, what a racket lol
listen I’ll be brutally honest and invoke my hot girl rights
I don’t really care what you have to say and neither does anyone who listens to the pod
Oh yeah, well my mom cares about what I have to say
also I'm gay
Sounded like your pretty standard end-of-episode literary evisceration to me
Its was literally the WHOLE EPISODE, didn't need to listen to a shitty 45 minute rant by Amber who hilariously enough kept undermining the overarching point the group was trying to make by arguing "actually racism is not that systemic, and we can solve it by being nice" lol
Dogshit episode, easily the second worst of the year
bad book and bad take