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Thomas Huber is our favorite Huber brother—no offense to Alex. He needs little introduction, and is one of the most prolific climbers of the last 30 years thanks to a resume that includes establishing some of the best free climbs on El Capitan and across Europe, to winning the Piolet d'Or for his bold alpine ascents, to being a member of the beloved Stone Monkeys. His new book Freiheit, In the Mountains There is Freedom, is now available in English from DiAngelo. But first, yer hosts consider the question of giving and receiving encouragement while climbing. Why do we feel the need to yell, “You got it!” at people who clearly Do. Not. Have. It.? And is a little peace and silence too much to ask around here? Last but never least, our final bit is another awkward collision between climbing and mainstream media, as the news tries to capture the heroism of a dramatic, life-saving rescue. Show Notes Buy Thomas Huber's book Follow Thomas Huber on Instagram Read an excerpt from Huber's book on Evening Sends Follow Jordan Cannon Become a RunOut Rope Gun! Support our podcast and increase your RunOut runtime. Bonus episodes, AMA, and more will be available to our Rope Guns. Thank you for your support! http://patreon.com/runoutpodcast Contact us Send ideas, voicemail, feedback and more. andrew@runoutpodcast.com // chris@runoutpodcast.com

Despite being widely criticized, White Fragility has been hugely successful. The best-selling book, which fraught with mistaken assumptions and misguided directives, epitomizes a very flawed approach to antiracism.This episode is a clear, concise explainer of three major issues —  and these are critiques you'll want to hear. Related episodes:Everyone's Wrong About Racial Bias on Apple and SpotifyShould We Embrace Race or Move Past It? on Apple and SpotifyYou Need to Change How You Think About Whiteness on Apple & SpotifyTo support Marie and get exclusive resources, head to patreon.com/mariebeech. To learn more about Marie's DEI services, head to mariebeecham.com.

When it comes to DiAngelo's approach to antiracism, I have some weighty grievances. Concerns, if you will. Let's talk about them. Related episodes:Identity Politics... It's Complicated on Apple & SpotifyExposing the Lies That Make Us Fragile on Apple & SpotifyWhite Allies, You Need to Change How You Think About Whiteness on Apple & SpotifyReferenced:Nice Racism by Robin DiAngeloNew Yorker Interview, "Robin DiAngelo Wants White Progressives to Look Inward""The Fight To Redefine Racism" by Kelefa Sanneh"White fragility is real. But ‘White Fragility' is flawed." by Carlos Lozada"I'm A Black Professor. You Don't Need to Bring That Up." by Tyler Austin HarperTo support Marie and get exclusive resources, head to patreon.com/mariebeech. To learn more about Marie's DEI services, head to mariebeecham.com.

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(This is a rebroadcast of a paid podcast episode from March 19th last year, which I now have made accessible to all. Hope you'll enjoy!)When Douglas Murrays book The Strange Death of Europe came out in 2017 I started recommending it to basically everyone I knew. Some of them, quite a lot of them actually, came back to me and said that they now saw the world in a different light. But they were also so disconcerted that they sometimes asked me to present a solution, since I was guilty of leading them down this path. What is to be done, Ivar? So today I'm putting that question to the author himself. He's one of the foremost thinkers and writers of our time, and that's not an exaggeration. He followed up The Strange Death of Europe with The Madness of Crowds two years later, which focused less on migration and islam, and more on the cultural issues afflicting us, centered around identity politics. And last year he came out with The War on the West which is what we focus on in today's conversation. Why is the west waging a war on the west? Why are we so preoccupied with feeling guilty over things that we fail to notice our achievements? How did antiracism become so racist? When did much needed self-criticism morph into abject self-flagellation?Below you can read the transcript of interview with Douglas Murray, for those of you who prefer that over listening to podcasts.Welcome, Douglas Murray, to Rak höger!– Very good to be with you!It's an honor to have you on! One of the reasons I've been very keen on having you on is because your books really are some books I recommend as I said before in the monologue. The latest one is called The War on the West and it came out a year ago and it really ties into the book you wrote before which was The Madness of Crowds and it sort takes it a step further. What is the War on the West and why did you chose choose that title?– Well, in in a number of recent books, as you say, I've been sort of groping towards what's going on in our time. In The strange Death of Europe I addressed the question of immigration and integration in the West, in particular in Europe. And this is obviously a subject which Swedes know very well, the challenges around. One of the things that I recognized that comes from mass migration and the great changing of a society is the identity of society changes. You might like the direction of change, or you might dislike it but it's pretty hard to argue against the simple proposition that if the people in the society changes, the society changes. One of the ways in which our societies have changed has been that we've had to change our guiding ethos and in my last book The Madness of Crowds, I looked at one of the things that is a changing ethos which is the way in which the public religion of our time has come to do with identity and what has become known as identity politics, obsessions with LGBTQIA+ issues, obsessions with women and the place of women in society and obsession with race and other identity related issues. These have become the dominant issue in our in our societies. – I addressed that as I say in The Madness of Crowds but there was an element of it that I had not addressed and which I wanted to address and did in in my most recent book in The War on the West, which is that in order for this to happen, it appears you also have to wage war on what we had in our societies. So to wage war on everything in our past to effectively presume that everything that happened in the past was bad and must be lambasted and criticized. In America, and we're all downstream these days, like it or not from American culture, in America this focuses on the idea that America has an original sin which is the sin of slavery. I don't deny the evils of slavery but it's a very s trange way to talk about it because of course, if America has original sin, is it the only country that does? Do other countries have original sins? What's the original sin of Uganda for instance? We in Britain and in Europe have ended up imbibing our own version of this and it comes in the form of anti-colonialism. The idea that for instance colonization is the original sin of Europe. In an obsession with slavery and any benefits that our society has had from that and in a third thing as well which is racism. Look at our societies and look at them through the prism solely of racism. Again, racism is a part of our past but it isn't the sole lens to look at it through and yet that has become the case. – I say that this has become a form of western anti-westernism and that's really what I write about in The War on the West. There are different types of anti-westernism, there is arab anti-westernism, there is Chinese anti-westernism and these are very interesting and important subjects themselves but the most important and the most dominant form of anti-westernism in our time is I believe Western anti-westernism and that's really what I write about in this book. The West's hate for its own past.When you read your book, it seems like there is a profound lack of curiosity about the actual inheritance and history and the people whose ideas have dominated or influenced our cultures for such a long time, to understand them and put them in their in their proper historical context, to understand where we come from.– That's right.I've been talking a lot about Christianity in this podcast lately I've interviewed Tom Holland, Paul Kingsnorth, Per Ewert and David Thurfjell on the subject and so much of that knowledge about the Christian heritage for example, you can just brush it over. Now in school, it's just one religion out of many and why should we learn more about that than others the other great world religions? I'm not sure if you share the sentiment? My own perspective is that if you're going to criticize something you better learn a lot about it and then you take it apart.– Well, but why would you have to learn and anything if you thought you already knew everything? Um I mean that's what's really happening. If you believe that everything that's gone wrong in the world is our fault in the West, you don't need to educate yourself about the rest of the world and you don't really have to educate yourself about your own past because you've already got this monomaniacal view of it, this single lens through which you need to look at everything, believing that everything was bad and that's all you need to know. Whereas to be informed, you would need to at least know the pros and the cons, the upsides and the downsides, the virtues and the vices. For instance, if you were to be interested in the historic subject of slavery, you would need to know both the ways in which it was done, the people involved, including the African nations involved and you would also have to know that it was the West that actually abolished slavery and how that came about including the Christian religious impulse, the Christian campaigners who brought it to an end.Perhaps my listeners know about that part, but it's not well known. That's one of the things that people are not so curious about, why did the West abolish slavery and Britain in particular?– Yes, it's a very interesting subject. Slavery has been a consistent throughout human history, almost every civilization we know of engaged in some form of it, it was the norm. First of all, principally, I hate that it makes me sound jingoistic, but when the British abolished slavery in the Nineteenth century, it was largely done through a moral argument whose moral force became impossible to resist, and the moral forces came from a Christian idea of the sanctity of the individual and that this sanctity applied to everyone, that everyone was equal in the eyes of God and that man did not have the right to enslave his fellow man. The moral force of this argument made by people like Wilberforce and others, as I say became impossible to resist and became so impossible to resist that actually slavery fell apart within a number of decades. It didn't fall apart simply through natural causes or from the force of that argument. It also stopped because the British navy patrolled the high seas and forcibly stopped vessels transporting slaves, for instance to Brazil which tried to continue slaving until the 1880s. So it was not simply through a force of moral argument but the initial impetus to ban slavery, to ban it not just in the British empire as it then was but around the world, undoubtedly had a Christian fuel behind it. That's a very important thing to recognize. There's another one that perhaps is more complicated morally, which is the Christian realization that was at the root of a form of colonialism, certainly in the age of the explorers existed, when Columbus and others set out, Columbus in particular and accidentally discovered the new world. One of the interesting questions that arises is what the natives in these places were and if the West had approached them in the way that many people think, among other things no missionary would have set out. It was the inside of European explorers, that said these people are like us. That's obvious to us today but it wasn't obvious at the time. Many other civilizations would have taken a contrary view. But the moment that people realize these were people like us, people with immortal souls, to use the language of the time, then of course the missionaries set out. And the missionaries would not have set out if these were not recognized to be, as it were, equals.While Britain was fighting Napoleon, the British parliament passed the act of the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. The argument is that it was the “white savior complex” and all that, and that's part of it maybe, but it was also the case that it was at a great cost that the British Empire did it. They fought a lot of wars to abolish the slave trade. A friend of mine who has roots from Africa was talking about slavery and colonialism on a panel a few years back. He said “most of you guys who are here are white, so you have sort of inherited a sense of guilt for the slave trade but my family actually owned and sold slaves for centuries and we only stopped because the Britons abolished the slave trade. That's the reason we stopped, so I have an actual inherited guilt from my family. But since I am black, I have the upper hand towards you, even though most of you were potato farmers until recently”. But that kind of argument is too complex. It's interesting that you're actually not interested in how these quakers, other Christians and British politicians like Wilberforce argued – that there souls were worth the same – they were part of the common humanity. But like you say, there seems to be a western war against the West and it's hard to understand why.– I'd say that the why is partly because it's so simple. It's so straightforward. It's such a simple narrative. The reality is complex the reality for the real story you have to know more? It would be absurd to for instance, look at the history of Africa and look at it solely through the lens of racism and slavery. You could do that but if you did, I think people would recognize you had a certain animus against the peoples of that continent. I think it's the same with the anti-westernism. I think there's an animus against the West that is revealed in this, that you're obsessed with this aspect of our past suggests that you have a problem with the West as a whole, because you want to focus only on the bad. If you did that with anyone, I think people would question your motives they would say why? Why can't you understand us in the round? Another example of that animus is something you mentioned in passing there. Phrases like “white savior complex”. This is a lose-lose situation that's been deliberately set up by people who I believe are simply antagonistic towards the West and its history. The lose-lose situation is if you've done something bad, you're blamed and if you do something good, you're said to be for instance, a white savior. What way out is there in this? The answer is none, it's a trap – don't fall into it. Anyone talking in that kind of language is inviting you to fail.One hundred years ago, if you look demographics a much larger portion of the world's population was living in Europe, and what we define as the West was much more powerful in all measures. If the great powers of Europe decided something, the rest of the world had to obey or fight and probably lose. Now we're in a situation where that's not the case anymore, I would argue. The West has declined to a large degree. China is a rising power and we have challenges to western power throughout the world. Is this guilt felt by the West a backhanded way to keep our self-image as powerful? That everything is our fault?– That's part of it. I would argue that one of the virtues of what has become known as the West, is self-criticism. I think is a vital part of the West's success economic, military, social and much more, is the desire to improve, the desire to hear arguments against yourself in the hope of getting better. That's not by any means a universal virtue, there are many societies around the world who have not engaged in that kind of self-criticism. I think that has an effect on the society itself. However, the problem of self-criticism is that it itself can get into overreach. And it gets into overreach and moves from being a virtue into being a vice, when it moves from self-criticism to self-laceration and then to self-loathing. – Some of the questions that has occasionally come up since The War on the West came out, has been people who said to me “How can you tell when a society moves from self-criticism to self-laceration to self-destruction?” I said well, it's in the same way that we all can tell it in our own lives. We've all developed an ability to distinguish between critics who wish us well and critics who wish us ill. I think everyone listening has had the experience in their own lives of hearing from people who criticize them in order to help them and people who criticize people they dislike. If someone who I knew loved me gave me advice, I would listen. If it was somebody who I knew loathed me, I think I'd be less likely to. How can I tell the difference? It's not hard and I don't think it's that hard in a society either. If somebody starts talking about original sins of your society, of guilt that is ineradicable and solely yours, who speaks in terms of “white savior complexes” and much more, you're dealing with somebody who doesn't want to improve you. You're dealing with somebody who wants to end you, who loathes you, loathes your society. That is not a hard thing to identify. It's there in all the language that is being used and in the campaigns that are being fought.One of the most concerning things about especially the English-speaking countries is the woke takeover of institutions, such as universities, the media and elementary schools and even the business world. You talk about this in your book, the critical race theory and what it says. The most popular books on the subject are bestsellers and they're being recommended in bookstores even here in Sweden. Of course more widespread in the United States and probably in in the United Kingdom as well. How can theories that are so counter to what we who are a little bit older, grew up to believe was anti-racism – namely colorblindness – and now it's the opposite. And not just the opposite – there is no good way to be white for an author as Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi goes even further than she does. How has these extreme theories gotten such a hold of our societies?– One explanation is that we're living an age of over-correction and this is the most benevolent and interpretation that I can give. Over-correction is something I addressed in The Madness of Crowds in relation to social issues. Nobody can deny that historically women had fewer opportunities than men. That's something that almost everybody in our societies today wishes to rectify. But there is a group of people who do not want to settle on equality between the sexes but want to as it were make up for lost time by over-correcting and socking it to the men for a while. To say, well, women were prejudiced against in the past so let's be prejudiced against men for a time. Over-corrections like that seem to be pretty common in our societies in this century. Trying to make up for historic wrongs, perceived or actual, by overcorrecting in the present. The most striking version of this is the one that you just referred to. Again, nobody can deny that historically and to some extent today, that racism exists. It's one of I think a number of human evils which we should all be aware of and as I say try to resist. The settlement we had broadly come to, as you say when some of us were growing up was colorblindness as an aspiration, which is to get to the point as my friend Sam Harris has put it, that skin color would be as unimportant as hair color for instance.– Again, there seem to be people who wish to go through an over-correction. They wish to say because in white majority societies as ours in Europe, there has been prejudice against black people in the past, we must rectify that in the present not by equality but by socking it to the white people for a bit by being unpleasant to the white people for a time. This is I believe a completely suicidal route to go down for many reasons. One of which is that you are warring against the majority in your population, and I don't think that's ever a recipe for success. But nevertheless, it's the vengeful period that we are in, in which things are said about white people that wouldn't be tolerated if they were said about other people. You quoted the appalling Robin DiAngelo, she says as you say that there's no good way to be white. Just flip that around and imagine how abhorrent it would be and how appalled we would all be if Miss DiAngelo or anyone else said there's no good way of being black, or there's no good way of being Asian. It would be appalling. This would be identified quite rightly as racism. Well, it is and should be identified as racism in this case too. It's quite appalling the tone in which people like Kendi and DiAngelo and others are allowed to talk about whole races of people. I'm amazed they've got away with it but they certainly have so far and I want them not to. There's a book by a professor in America called Colorblind Racism that asserts that the very principle of colorblindness is itself racist. That again gets you into this lose-lose situation.I think that's brilliant, even trying to stop seeing race – that's also racism. There's no escape.– No escape. They've barred all of the exits while setting the house on fire. That's what these people have done and it's one of the things that I'm calling them out for in The War on the West, and what I want to identify for readers as a major challenge that we have to address.We have people like me who perhaps have an ideal of colorblindness and integration and then you look at what's going in the Swedish institutions. Here race is not as prevalent, but gender and sex and trans issues are. The mix is the same but it's just…– You have slightly different emphases.Yes, exactly. But then you start to think that “hm, if we are the only ones upholding the liberal principles of equal treatment, meritocracy, non-discrimination, and the other side are fighting tooth and nail to have their candidates on the board or their policies enacted, then we're going to lose.” I myself remember the first time I really reflected on me being white because for me, it was like an American phenomenon that you could see on television, and it was it was not that long ago. I think I was reading in the sociology class and somebody said it and I was like “Okay, so I'm not just an ethnic Swede, I'm white. Of course there's a biological core to some of these concepts but they are also socially constructed and then you start to identify with them and then they become a reality for people. That's something that has happened quite late in Sweden. I know Eric Kaufmann has written about this in Whiteshift and I've had him on. He said “If other groups are waging identity politics, the majority has a right to do it themselves”. What's your take on that?– My own view is that this way lies hell but it might be unavoidable if people keep going the way they're going. I don't want to identify by my skin color and I don't. If you were to say “Douglas, how do you think about yourself?” I would first of all say “I don't, very much. I don't sit around pondering.”That's refreshing!– I know, I don't sit around pondering myself. But if you say “Who are you?” or “How do you identify yourself?” I'd have an awful lot of things to say probably, starting with “I'm a writer”.  But I don't think that at any point, or at least it would be quite a long way down the list, would I say “I'm white”. I don't think it would actually be in my list particularly. I just don't like to think of myself in that way and I think most liberal minded people, for want of a better term, people in the West, also don't want to think in those terms. They don't want to be made to be white. It's reductive, it's got all sorts of implications. But if you push people endlessly, that might well be one of the places that they will go to. Eric Kaufman says it's a sort of legitimate understandable endpoint in this. I agree with the provision that I think that it's a very undesirable endpoint. I don't think the re-racialization of society is a desirable thing but it's certainly something that is going on. I don't want people to be pushed into identifying in this way. But I say at the end of The War on the West, I give an example of the options that are available and anyone who reads the conclusion to the book will see that. Rather stark way in which I lay this out.One of the things that's at the core of your three latest books that we're mainly talking about, is what is the West and why is it worth defending? The Strange Death of Europe is a very somber book in a lot of ways. It's in the title, that Europe is killing itself in a lot of ways. One of the main arguments that you have in the book is that Europe itself has lost faith in its beliefs, traditions, and legitimacy. That's also what you explore in The War on the West, how Europe is not even legitimate in many people's eyes. Why is it worth defending then?– My own belief is that it remains worth defending because it's still, by long way, the best of all available options. If you look at the alternative dominant systems in the twenty first century, I think all of them are infinitely less desirable than the systems that exist in what has become to be known as the West. I don't believe that for instance, the Chinese communist party's vision of the future is a desirable one, it's certainly not one I would want to live under. But it is an alternative scenario in which a degree of financial opportunity exists. a very minimal but a degree of it, and in which personal freedom is not regarded as being of any particular, significance. The things that we take for granted, like personal liberty, like human rights, and again, some people think this is a shocking thing to say but nevertheless it remains true: These are Western concepts, the Western constructs. And they are things that came from the West. People might wish to argue that or resile from even asserting that, but nevertheless it remains true. Anyone who actually cares about some of the subjects we've been discussing ought to reflect very seriously on whether or not they are in their critiques of our societies, not engaging in that fallacy. Immanuel Kant famously gives in the example of the dove that flies in free air that may mistake the resistance of the wind and think that in the absence of this wind, it would be able to fly faster when in actual fact, the wind is what keeps it up. – Another analogy would be the fish that believes it would swim faster if it weren't for the water. Perhaps there are a lot of people in our societies who are making this fundamental category error of thinking that if it weren't for the system that is around them. They would be going so much further and faster, and I think this is a delusion. There are certainly things that we can improve in our societies in the West, but the idea that the whole system itself needs replacing is a very serious mistake to make, because as I say the alternatives are highly undesirable.I know you were in a panel with Tom Holland and you spoke about the role of Christianity. And you were a friend of Christopher Hitchens and you've described yourself as a reformed Anglican turned atheist and but in that debate, you didn't sound triumphant so to speak. I know Tom Holland himself says that he sort of wished he could go the whole yard, but he recognizes the role Christianity has played in the West and I think this is a more and more common recognition by public intellectuals such as yourself, that maybe we've emphasized enlightenment, philosophy, liberalism and that part of our tradition too much and paid too little attention and given too little credit to Christianity. Now that our societies are more and more secular, or at least the majority populations are, then the question is: Is there a core missing here? Of what it means to be a Westerner?– Yes, I think there is and it's something we've seen in the last twenty years in particular. I think one of the results of 9/11 was a form of strident atheism that that found for instance, and I was a part of this, but found that one of the ways to criticize growing dominance of Islam in our societies, was to criticize religion as a whole. I think that's one of the things that went on in the 2000. Although in the case of Islam that remained difficult to do, in the case of Christianity, the atheists were pushing at a pretty open door. It was already fragile. I think that, without in any way speaking for my late friend, I think that one of the things that's happened in the last ten years, has been a greater reflection which you can see in the work of Tom Holland and others, a greater reflection on what you just laid out. Yes, part of our inheritance is enlightenment, part of it is reason, rationalism and the inheritance of ancient Greece and much more. But it is also the inheritance of Christianity. Twenty years ago, that seemed to be a slightly harder thing to assert than it is now. I think that the work of for instance Larry Siedentop, distinguished political philosopher who wrote a book some years ago called Inventing the Individual, without in any way being a dogmatic Christian himself, Larry Siedentop proves that concepts that we take for granted as the water we swim in, are to a great extent of Christian inheritance. People might like that or dislike it but it's the case whether you like it or not and we need to have a truthful understanding of ourselves and not one based on falsehoods that we just happen to enjoy.One argument that's been made is that what we call woke, which is a broad term but it's an umbrella term and it incorporates many of the things that we've been talking about, CRT, LGBTQ-issues, trans rights, diversity – it's also a view on power, who are the powerful, who are the powerless. But that is the god-shaped hole that's left behind by Christianity and woke moves in there and it gives you structure to the world, to your place in it. And it also has some of the concepts, like guilt, original. You could see these scenes from after George Floyd was killed by that policeman, you could see the scenes of white people washing the feet of black people. It was sort of a Christian tradition, but it also was not.– Well, here's the thing that's not. I agree with the observation, I regard a lot of these modern social movements as being forms of spilt Christianity or residue Christianity which the people engaging in it don't recognize and would be quite annoyed by if told this. Nevertheless, as you say very visible, recognizable aspects of Christianity are interwoven in this. But here's the difference and here's the fatally important difference: What is being offered at the moment is a form of secularized Christianity, without any ethic of redemption and that is dangerous. Very, very dangerous. The great brilliance of Christianity is the concept of redemption. The possibility of successfully atoning for sins. Take away the possibility of successful atonement, and all you have is a perpetual cycle of guilt and I believe that is what underlies a lot of the unhappiness in our societies today. Ok I'm told I'm evil, evil from birth. I'm told I'm guilty from Birth and I'm told that my very existence is some kind of insult or assault on the planet, that's part of the green movement, how my very being here is part of the problem and there's no way out other than to live a life of complete innocuousness or harmlessness. That was something that Jordan Peterson and I have discussed in the past and indeed I raised with Roger Scruton in what was sadly his last public appearance. Roger and I discussed this as well, this idea that harmlessness had become the great modern virtue that you were meant to slip into this world and slip out of it without having made any mark, certainly done no harm. This is a highly demoralizing stage of affairs to be in, but it is a dominant one that is being pushed on people. I don't like it at all, I want people to be extraordinary and successful and innovative and much more and I don't want us to live lives of thwartedness, of repression, of guilt without redemption. I think it's a hideous system.Sometimes there has been this criticism against Christianity, that it's too easy… – Well, they haven't tried it hard then.No, exactly and that you just go to confession in a Catholic…(this is my Swedish Lutheran upbringing here) You just go to confession…– Yeah, I was going to say that's recognizably protestant critique of Catholicism. But real forgiveness in the Christian sense is an awesome thing to behold when you really meet it. A few years ago, to cite a pertinent example, here was a white American youth who went into a black church and shot at congregants and killed a lot of them and it was a hideous crime of a kind that is uncommon, but happens.And his motive was to kill black people.– Yes. And some of the families of the people who were murdered said that they did not hate the killer, they forgave him. That's almost beyond my comprehension. I'm overwhelmed with admiration for anyone who could even aspire to such a state of grace actually took for want of a better term, perhaps there isn't a better term. So actual forgiveness, in the Christian sense, is an awesome thing to behold when it when it is actually exercised and should not be taken lightly.In this new woke religion, this is totally lacking. There is no way out so to speak. Your mere presence, if you have certain characteristics, being white or having a certain sexual orientation, destroys the fun for everyone.– That's also part of the victim hierarchy, the aspiration to victimhood which again I have very little sympathy with because I believe that our lives can be much better than simply trying to be victims. hat. It is one of the anomalies of the last generation, that we have moved the public ethic from an admiration for heroism into an admiration for suffering and what it means is a scramble to suffer or to claim suffering. Nobody actually wants to suffer but they want to claim to have suffered, and because to do so is to have the right to hold the microphone. But yes, what you describe correctly is a situation which we find ourselves in in Western societies, is what a chess playing friend of mine tells me in chess is known as “Zugzwang” which is when you have to move but every move will make your position worse. That's the position we find ourselves in and it's one I want to break and I'm very explicit about that. I believe that this system that we're describing, the anti-westernism and the wokeness and much more, it is a system that we should aspire to break in order that people can move on with their lives and move on to better things.I think that the conversations you've had with Jordan Peterson and Roger Scruton about being harmless, is certainly true about boys and men in our culture and you're very scared about masculinity and you're scared of men, and you have to keep them down. I would like to hear your thoughts about that and if there is a way out of it? And also, we're having a small MeToo-moment here where a politician has been accused by a member of his party for touching her thigh and not respecting her nine years ago. I suspect that he will be gone from the public eye and there's no way back for him. There's been a criminal charge now but I don't think it will pass the court law. So the first question is, is there a way out of pathologizing men and the second is what is the legacy of MeToo?– I address the overreach of MeToo, which I think was an overreach, an overcorrection. I address that in The Madness of Crowds. I believe you should not make all the interactions between men and women a sort of minefield that we've made them. Men can do terrible things to women, but they don't do it all the time and not everything is terrible. It should be possible for a man to make an advance from a woman and be rejected and for that to be the end of the matter. Again, there has to be a way to have a bad date for instance, men should not be in a society set up in such a position as they have the opportunity to make one move once on a woman and it has to be 100% successful and they have to hit the bull's-eye on the first throw, and this has to be the person they marry and so on. I'm afraid that everyone who knows the dating game knows that that's highly unlikely to happen. Mistakes are going to happen, and you have to have a reasonable view towards that, which includes forgiveness and moving on and much more That's quite different from when somebody behaves genuinely badly, but I believe all of this has been wrapped up in this into being the same thing and it's very dangerous because it makes relations between the sexes all but impossible and somebody who would like our species to continue I think that men and women have to be able to find a way to get on.I did the mistake of trying to ask two questions in one, but this ties into the first question I tried to ask. We also have a quiet new consent law in Sweden so you have to prove that you had consent instead of proving that you said no if there's a situation with an accusation of rape or something. You have to take a step back now as a man out of precautions, and as a young man because they are of course looking for a partner. What can be done about the situation for men right now because I think we have put them in quite of a bad situation and there are a lot of debates in Sweden about how first you ridicule men because they're too soft, I've certainly sometimes been guilty of that, and then you ridicule them or are angry with them when they try to be tougher and you ridicule men who are sensitive and vulnerable because they take too much space and attention from people who deserve it more, women. And then if they're too hard and don't show any feelings then they're toxic. So how can you solve this?– Exactly, it's not a good time to be young and heterosexual. I believe this this all has to be addressed and solved because otherwise…all of the stats, all the data shows that an increasing number of young men in particular are basically stepping out of the whole system. The evidence on the number of people who've had sex in the past year and so on, shows an increasing tendency towards young men basically stepping out of the system, thinking it's just all too difficult, too toxic and giving women a very wide berth. Again, I think this is a creation of a form of feminism which those people who created it will live to regret or the least the people who come after them will live to regret. It has to be solved.I just visited Åland which is an island between Sweden and Finland, thirty thousand people live there. I was giving a lecture with my college Anna-Karin Wyndhamn and we spoke about these issues. The same day we were there, they were debating to vote through a law that will have gender neutral pregnancies. So… why? Why is a tiny island in the north where many of the questions concern practical issues, dealing with this? All of a sudden, the most woke things are being debated in their parliament.– That's the story of our era and it has happened everywhere, and I don't care for the people who underestimate it, it seems to me that they haven't left the house very much in recent years. It's everywhere and it's a great waste of time and energy. My goodness, there are so many other things that are more important to be getting on with, so many bigger challenges that are literally on our doorsteps.Do you feel like you're wasting your time then, because you've written brilliant books, but they are about stupid people?– My hope is that I help to clear them out of the way, one of my self-appointed asks is to clear these people out of the way help my readers clear these people out of the way in order that people can get on to doing what they should be doing with their lives. And that's really what I want to do and if I have any success in my life, It'll be in in helping people to do that.Thank you Douglas Murray for being a part of Rak höger.– It's a great pleasure. Thank you.Inför varje podd…Tack för alla inspel inför den här podden. Som ni hör i avsnittet så är det till stor hjälp för mig att ta del av era tankar och frågor. Fortsätt gärna att skicka frågor och tankar till mig!Inför varje avsnitt av podden diskuterar jag ämnet med er och tar med era frågor till samtalet. Det ni behöver göra för att delta i samtalet är att ladda ned Substackappen och vara med i Rak högers chatt. Många är redan med, men jag hoppas givetvis på fler.För att gå med i chatten behöver du ladda ner Substackappen, som nu finns tillgänglig för både iOS och Android. Chattar skickas via appen, inte e-post, så slå på push-notiser så att du inte missar konversationen när den händer.Utgivaren ansvarar inte för kommentarsfältet. (Myndigheten för press, radio och tv (MPRT) vill att jag skriver ovanstående för att visa att det inte är jag, utan den som kommenterar, som ansvarar för innehållet i det som skrivs i kommentarsfältet.) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.enrakhoger.se/subscribe

On this weeks episode of I Said Yerrr! The gang is joined with sister podcast host FluffyNae of The FluffyLicia Podcast. Tune into this hilarious episode as they discuss topics such as Jonathan Majors and Good Morning America, Jay-Z and Diangelo, Noah Knigga, Gender Roles, Torrei Hart on tour with Katt Williams, Virgin or Freak? Sex on the first night, Lil Nas X and J Christ, The Lost Yerrr tracks and much much more! Enjoy!Watch on YouTube at “The Gemini Music Group”Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGeminiMusicgroupFollow us on Instagram @thegeminimusicgroup and Facebook "The Gemini Music GroupFollow FluffyNae on IG @fluffynaeIntro: Pitbull "It Takes 3"The Lost Yerrr TracksDatNiccaTrendz's Track: Big Moochie Grape "Fun ft Young DolphBoss Jay's Track: Snoop Dogg "Pump PumpAce Alpha's Track: Dreezy "Break The News"Outro: Propain Still Water

Are you an entrepreneur or business owner? Then this episode of HerCsuite® Radio is a must-listen for you. Join us as host Natalie Benamou sits down with Erica Allen, Managing Attorney at DiAngelo Law, to uncover the critical steps you need to take to protect your brand from intellectual property theft.In this episode, Erica brings her expertise in trademarks and intellectual property to the table, offering actionable advice on how to fortify your business. Learn the significance of aligning your business with its core values.Five Key Takeaways.Discover proactive measures for securing your venture against IP theft.Hear about insights into the trademark application process and understanding the difference between TM and R symbols.Learn strategies for a formidable IP portfolio that supports licensing and collaborations.Find out about the nuances of online retail and trademark classes for e-commerce entrepreneurs.Why owning a URL does not mean you own the name for your business.An Insider Look at TrademarksProtecting Your Business From IP Theft: Erica shares her journey from litigation to empowering businesses through proactive IP strategies.Key Considerations for Trademark Protection: Learn the true ownership and rights that come from trademark registration and how to leverage it as an asset.Understanding Online Retail and Trademark Documentation: Erica explains the international class system and the importance of documenting first public use.Favorite Quotes: "Trademark registration is the real way to secure your rights to a name. Owning a domain name or forming an LLC doesn't give you the protection that a registered trademark can."-Erica Allen"A common misconception is that having a URL means you have ownership rights, but the true power lies within a registered trademark, which is a form of protection and a valuable business asset."-Erica AllenDon't miss Erica's expert advice on navigating the complexities of trademark protection and how to ensure your business stands strong against potential threats. Tune in now to gain invaluable knowledge and tools that could save your brand from being compromised.About Erica AllenAbout Erica AllenCombination of legal nerd and creative entrepreneur, Erica merged her passion with her legal skillset to form DiAngelo Law in 2015, a virtual trademark law firm serving businesses around the world. It's Erica's goal to help bring visionary dreams to life by empowering others to start, protect and grow their businesses, while staying focused on their own zones of genius and aligned with their goals.Resources:Visit DiAngelo Law Erica Allen LinkedInFacebookInstagramErica Allen InstagramHerCsuite®HerCsuiteHerCsuite® EntrepreneurNatalie BenamouHerCsuite® LinkedInThank you Erica Allen for being a featured guest and for being a member of HerCsuite® Entrepreneur Mastermind! Special thanks to Lori Harris, HerCsuite® Entrepreneur Mastermind Chair!Remember to rate and review the episode on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with fellow entrepreneurs who could benefit from these insights. Shine on, and protect your brand's brilliance!

A quick announcement ... What led Yascha to write about identity ... An intellectual history of “identity synthesis” ... What's so bad about “strategic essentialism”? ... From postmodernism to post-civil rights ... The three key claims of identity synthesis ... What led up to the summer of 2020? ... The hermetically sealed ideology of Kendi and DiAngelo ... Yascha's defense of universalism ...

A quick announcement ... What led Yascha to write about identity ... An intellectual history of “identity synthesis” ... What's so bad about “strategic essentialism”? ... From postmodernism to post-civil rights ... The three key claims of identity synthesis ... What led up to the summer of 2020? ... The hermetically sealed ideology of Kendi and DiAngelo ... Yascha's defense of universalism ...

Last week I had the incredible opportunity to have a conversation with Dr. Robin DiAngelo who is the person who actually coined the phrase, white fragility. In this highlight episode, I drill down into the nuances of growing up in a country, where our racialized identities form a completely unconscious bias mechanism, that seeps unnoticed into our language, thoughts, and action.More about Dr DiAngelo:Dr. DiAngelo is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Education at the University of Washington. In addition, she holds two Honorary Doctorates. She is a two-time winner of the Student's Choice Award for Educator of the Year at the University of Washington's School of Social Work. She is the co-author of the award-winning textbook Is Everyone Really Equal?: Key concepts in Critical Social Justice Education. In 2011 she coined the term White Fragility in an academic article which has influenced the international dialogue on race. Her book, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism was released in June of 2018 and debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List, where it remained for over three years and has been translated into 12 languages. It has now been adapted for young adults. Her follow-up book, released in June of 2021, is: Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm. Her work or interviews have been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NPR, PBS, and The BBC, among many other forums. In addition to her academic work, Dr. DiAngelo has been a consultant, educator and facilitator for over 20 years on issues of racial and social justice

I had the rare opportunity to interview one of the foremost thought leaders in the equity and inclusion movement. Dr. Robin DiAngelo, (who coined the term "white fragility") shared some deep insights about the struggle for equity and some great tools for even the most daunted person to take the first step in owning their privilege and using that power to change the system from the inside. Don't miss it!More about Dr DiAngelo:Dr. DiAngelo is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Education at the University of Washington. In addition, she holds two Honorary Doctorates. She is a two-time winner of the Student's Choice Award for Educator of the Year at the University of Washington's School of Social Work. She is the co-author of the award-winning textbook Is Everyone Really Equal?: Key concepts in Critical Social Justice Education. In 2011 she coined the term White Fragility in an academic article which has influenced the international dialogue on race. Her book, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism was released in June of 2018 and debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List, where it remained for over three years and has been translated into 12 languages. It has now been adapted for young adults. Her follow-up book, released in June of 2021, is: Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm. Her work or interviews have been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NPR, PBS, and The BBC, among many other forums. In addition to her academic work, Dr. DiAngelo has been a consultant, educator and facilitator for over 20 years on issues of racial and social justiceRecommended reading and resources:Dr Robin DiAngelo - The Facilitator's Guide for White Affinity Groups: Strategies for Leading White People in an Anti-Racist PracticeCaprice Hollands - Inside out https://www.eddiemoorejr.com/

In a recent piece in The Atlantic, Tyler Austin Harper, a black professor from Bates College, argued that so-called “anti-racism” has gone too far.   In their righteous crusade against the bad color-blindness of policies such as race-neutral college admissions, these contemporary anti-racists have also jettisoned the kind of good color-blindness that holds that we are more than our race, and that we should conduct our social life according to that idealized principle. Rather than balance a critique of color-blind law and policy with a continuing embrace of interpersonal color-blindness as a social etiquette, contemporary anti-racists throw the baby out with the bathwater.   The term “anti-racist” came from a recent explosion of writing such as Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility and Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Anti-Racist, and it carries enormous ideological implications. According to Kendi, “One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an anti-racist. There is no in-between safe space of ‘not racist.'”  For figures like Kendi and DiAngelo, anti-racism isn't just the commitment to combat racism wherever we happen to see it, it's the commitment to see racism everywhere, entrenched in the heart of society and present in all its aspects.  Even more, to be “anti-racist” requires the adoption of a very narrow set of policy prescriptions, all of which come from an increasingly left side of the political world.   In this world, white people must move from a position of “neutrality” to actively “centering” race in all their discourse. Only then can “whiteness” and “implicit bias” be identified, admitted, and confessed. In practice, Harper warns, this only obliterates any distinctions between “structural” racism, a term referring to racial injustices embedded in wider society, and the interpersonal interactions with people of different races.   It tends to rest on a troubling, even racist subtext: that white and Black Americans are so radically different that interracial relationships require careful management, constant eggshell-walking, and even expert guidance from professional anti-racists. Rather than producing racial harmony, this new ethos frequently has the opposite effect, making white-Black interactions stressful, unpleasant, or, perhaps most often, simply weird.  This weirdness that Harper described is the fruit of Critical Race Theory, a wrong way to diagnose and respond to racism, because it makes racial injustice “a theory of everything.” Sixty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of a world in which his own children would “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” However, “anti-racism” reverses that, presuming to know one's character, a priori, based only on the color of skin.   Another important insight from Harper's article is that our racial dialogue has been shaped by the “triumph of the therapeutic,” which social critic Philip Rieff described as the “self, improved, (as) the ultimate concern of modern culture.” In a moment in which everything is about the self, Harper believes that racial dialogue is often not about making real progress, but making ourselves feel better through confession and activism.   Throughout the biblical narrative, people are described as having a common parentage and heritage as image bearers. The Apostle Paul told the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers in Athens that God, “made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth.” Those who are in Christ, no matter which tongue or tribe or nation or language they represent, are reconciled to their Creator and thus, to each other. Only Christianity can anchor this beautiful vision of the human condition on solid ground, and it has incredible implications for individuals and nations, for people and for social structures.  Harper rightly concludes that we must see each other, first and foremost, as people, a kind of colorblindness that will prove far more effective than performative racial confessions or racialized division. That, however, is only true if there is something universal to our identity, dignity, and value. If there is, it must be an intrinsic reality of the human person, given rather than acquired.   Only one vision of the human story, the biblical account of people and creation, offers anything like that.  This Breakpoint was co-authored by Kasey Leander. For more resources to live like a Christian in this cultural moment, go to breakpoint.org. 

Chapter 1 What's the White Fragility"White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" is a book written by Robin DiAngelo, an American academic, lecturer, and author. Published in 2018, the book explores the concept of white fragility, which refers to the discomfort and defensiveness many white people experience when discussing issues of race and racism. DiAngelo argues that white people often struggle to engage in meaningful discussions about race due to their socialization within a system of racial privilege. She contends that this fragility arises from a combination of factors, such as a lack of understanding of systemic racism, fear of being perceived as racist, and an emotional investment in maintaining racial innocence or superiority. The book discusses how white fragility manifests itself through behaviors like silence, denial, minimizing the experiences of people of color, and becoming defensive or angry when confronted with issues of race. DiAngelo emphasizes the importance of developing racial literacy and engaging in uncomfortable conversations about race to dismantle the structures of racism. "White Fragility" has sparked significant public discourse on the topic of white privilege and racism. Some praise it for offering insights into how white individuals can address their own biases and contribute to racial progress. Others critique it for oversimplifying complex issues or suggesting that all white people possess inherent racism. Ultimately, "White Fragility" aims to encourage white individuals to examine their own unconscious biases, challenge societal norms, and actively engage in dismantling racism.Chapter 2 Why is White Fragility Worth Read "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" is a book written by Robin DiAngelo, a sociologist and racial justice educator. The book explores the concept of white fragility, which refers to the defensive reactions displayed by some white individuals when confronted with issues of race and racism. The central argument of the book is that many white people struggle to engage in meaningful conversations about race due to their discomfort, defensiveness, and fear of being seen as racist. DiAngelo suggests that this fragility stems from socialization within a racially unequal society, where white people often benefit from privileges and are shielded from discussions about race. DiAngelo argues that this fragility leads to a pattern of avoiding or minimizing racial issues, denying personal complicity in racism, and resisting critical self-reflection. She emphasizes the importance of confronting these defensive responses in order to develop a more nuanced understanding of racism and to actively work toward racial justice. While this book has sparked both praise and criticism, it has undoubtedly influenced public discourse on race and racism. It encourages white individuals to examine how they contribute to systemic racism and offers suggestions on how to engage in productive conversations about race.Chapter 3 White Fragility ReviewThis article delves into the concept of White Fragility as outlined in the book "White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo. In this thought-provoking analysis, we explore the relevance and significance of white fragility within contemporary society. By examining the ways in which individuals react defensively to discussions about race, we uncover the deep-rooted biases and systemic structures that contribute to maintaining racial inequalities. Through a comprehensive exploration of DiAngelo's ideas, this article aims to shed light on the complexities surrounding...

After DiAngelo and Imani met, she actually asked him out... After their date, he's tried getting ahold of her and she's not responding. We're going to fin dout what happened!

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comDr. Tabia Lee is an educator and consultant. She was the faculty director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education at De Anza College until she was fired for her heterodox views on DEI. (Her GoFundMe is here.) She's also a cofounder of Free Black Thought.For two clips of our convo — on teaching kids as individuals, and the wrong way to ask for pronouns — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: Lee as a gifted-and-talented student; her mentoring kids as a kid; graduating high school in two years; critical thinking as a core value; intellectual humility and curiosity; Lee teaching public school in LA; California voters banning affirmative action in 1996; how teacher ideology clouds the classroom; humanism over identity politics; Lee as a pioneer of pronoun use in the early Internet; “inquiry-based” teaching and holistic instruction; the race of students being just one of many factors; not focusing on stereotypes; the moral certitude of DEI; the need for viewpoint diversity; the “neo-reconstructionism” of Kendi and DiAngelo; the dangers of teaching as activism; the abandonment of SAT and other standardized testing; the wasteful spending in public education; and the attacks that Lee faced as a heterodox DEI director.Browse the Dishcast archive for another conversation you might enjoy (the first 102 episodes are free in their entirety — subscribe to get everything else). Coming up: Erick Erickson on the showdown between Trump and DeSantis, Dave Weigel on all things politics, Jean Twenge on the key differences between the generations, and Matt Lewis on ruling-class elites. Send your guest recs and pod dissent to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

Dr. Robin DiAngelo is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Education at the University of Washington. In addition, she holds two Honorary Doctorates. She is a two-time winner of the Student's Choice Award for Educator of the Year at the University of Washington's School of Social Work. She is the co-author of the award-winning textbook: Is Everyone Really Equal: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education. In 2011 she coined the term White Fragility in an academic article which has influenced the international dialogue on race. Her book, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism was released in June of 2018 and debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List, where it remained for over three years and has been translated into 12 languages. It has now been adapted for young adults. Her follow-up book, released in June of 2021, is: Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm. Her latest book is The Facilitator's Guide for White Affinity Groups: Strategies For Leading White People in an Anti-Racist Practice. Her work or interviews have been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NPR, PBS, and The BBC, among many other forums. In addition to her academic work, Dr. DiAngelo has been a consultant, educator and facilitator for over 20 years on issues of racial and social justice.Support the show

Dr. Robin DiAngelo is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Education at the University of Washington. In addition, she holds two Honorary Doctorates. She is a two-time winner of the Student's Choice Award for Educator of the Year at the University of Washington's School of Social Work. She is the co-author of the award-winning textbook: Is Everyone Really Equal: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education. In 2011 she coined the term White Fragility in an academic article which has influenced the international dialogue on race. Her book, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism was released in June of 2018 and debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List, where it remained for over three years and has been translated into 12 languages. It has now been adapted for young adults. Her follow-up book, released in June of 2021, is: Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm. Her latest book is The Facilitator's Guide for White Affinity Groups: Strategies For Leading White People in an Anti-Racist Practice. Her work or interviews have been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NPR, PBS, and The BBC, among many other forums. In addition to her academic work, Dr. DiAngelo has been a consultant, educator and facilitator for over 20 years on issues of racial and social justice.Support the show

Hoy tenemos una edicion especial dedicada a todos esos grupos y solistas españoles que tanto nos hacen disfrutar .180 minutos con lo mejor de este mundo tan maravilloso del melodic rock. SI quieres en máxima calidad escribe a vigilanteaor@gmail.com 1. DRAMAH – VOLAR 2. BE FOR YOU – LOVE AND COMPASSION 3. 91 SUITE – STARTING ALL OVER 4. SANGRE AZUL – NO ERES NADIE 5. DANGER – ALONE 6. HACKERS – SI TE VAS 7. INDICCO – FEEL SO GOOD 8. SHADIZAR – A TU LADO 9. RAFA MARTIN – EL ODIO Y EL AMOR 10. JORDI CASTILLA & CARTA MAGNA – LA CALLE DE ATRÁS 11. GURU – STRAIGHT TO YOUR HEART 12. GOLDEN FARM – A CANT TELL YOU 13. NEXX – IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND 14. AVENIDA – ELLA DESEA 15. TOTEM – UNA ENTRE MIL 16. HEARTBANGER – THE LAST CHANCE TIME 17. ISAIAS – EL HILO INVISIBLE 18. HARDLEYWOOD – ATTRACTION 19. GABRIELLE DE VAL – FIGHT FOR LOVE 20. LA FASE – PIERDO EL CONTROL 21. HIROSHIMA – FOREVER 22. ATLAS – DEMASIADO BUENO PARA DURAR 23. DECIMA AVENIDA – LEAH 24. LA TRAMPA – LA CALLE DE LOS SUEÑOS ROTOS 25. EL NORTE – SUSANA 26. 3ZKS! – DESPEGAR 27. SECRET – SINCE I FELL FOR YOU 28. ASFALTO – DESAPARECIDO 29. AMBOAJE – RISE & FALL WITH YOU 30. ARGI – RUNAWAY LOVE 31. JUPITER – VOY A POR TI 32. AKABA MUSIC – GIVE IT UP 33. HARDREAMS – MY LAST DESIRE 34. STRANGERS – THE END 35. FAHRENHEIT 212 – DON´T GIVE IT UP 36. ALAIN CONCEPCION – IF I´M LOSING YOU 37. NIAGARA – YOU BELONG TO ME 38. HANDFUL OF RAIN – WITHOUT YOU 39. DIANGELO – WITHOUT YOU 40. UNRISE QUEEN – JUST A BELIEVER MAN

Chapters 6-11 with returning guest Ric! We push Lu off a roof! We revisit the Gray Sisters cause we gotta get back to Hogwar--I mean Camp! Mostly though, we break down Will and Nico's dynamic and make VERY DETAILED predictions for The Sun and the Star . You do not HAVE to have seen Frozen II in order to listen to this episode.... but maybe you do. Some further reading on Minstrelsy and American Cartoons: Vulture: How Today's Most Daring, Weird Cartoons Transform the Minstrel Aesthetic By Lauren Michele Jackson: https://www.vulture.com/2017/12/weird-cartoons-today-transform-minstrel-aesthetic.html NPR Code Switch: "From Blakface to Blackfishing" https://www.npr.org/transcripts/694149912 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON: patreon.com/seaweedbrain Follow our show on Instagram @SeaweedBrainPodcast, on Twitter @SeaweedBrainPod, on TikTok @EricaSeaweedBrain Merch here: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/seaweed-brain-podcast?ref_id=21682 Sponsorship: Today's episode is also brought to you by BetterHelp. Visit Betterhelp.com/seaweedbrain for 10% off your first month!

Programa #1125 | Nuevo Show ya disponible, y como siempre con la bandera del melódico en mano. Esta semana con nuevos y recién llegados de Devicious, Creye, Star Crystal o DiAngelo. Además, clásicos y noticias de Stage Dolls, Ya Ya, Thunder y tantos otros.Y claro, no ha podido faltar el inevitable tributo y recuerdo al maestro Ozzy.

Nueva charla con este artista de Barcelona , que actualmente esta con su proyecto DIANGELO que esta teniendo mucho éxito con su primera canción. Entra y conócelo mejor.

What You Need to Know is the Chinese regime may be on the run. After years of their draconian ‘Covid Zero' policies that brought more terror to an already terrorized country, the AP says that China will no longer report asymptomatic Covid cases. States are starting to ban TikTok. China's multiple economic entanglements are being challenged. Do some of these changes spell trouble for China's power-hungry Communist regime?  Thomas J. Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, covers with us the 125 ways the Biden Administration and Congress have made it harder to produce Oil and Gas. Bottom line: Democrats are making energy more expensive to get and harder to produce. Find all his work at AmericanEnergyAlliance.org.  Daniel Greenfield, Fellow at the Freedom Center, and an investigative journalist, shares a recent column — The Ex-Nazi Corp Behind Anti-Racism is Buying Up Book Publishing.  Daniel explains in his article that “The German publisher behind Kendi, DiAngelo and Coates will control half the hardcover market.” Check out his website DanielGreenfield.org.  What You Need to Do is send me your book suggestions! As we go into the quieter season throughout the holidays, I'm going to be doing more reading. Send me your suggestions for books and authors and we'll get loaded up for another great year on the Pro America Report! Ed@phyllisschlafly.com or through our website. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What You Need to Know is the Narrative Machine is still dominating us! It's proving more powerful than we expected. TikTok was used in the 2022 midterm election to make users worry about the election. This just proves that the Narrative Machine: Big tech, Big media, and Big government are truly a threat to the republic! John Schlafly, co-author of the Schlafly Report along with his brother Andy Schlafly, Andy Schlafly, shares this weeks column — Trump Preempts Politicized Prosecutors. John also gives his takeaways from the November 8th midterm elections. You can read John's weekly column at PhyllisSchlafly.com.  Daniel Greenfield, Fellow at the Freedom Center, and an investigative journalist, shares a recent column — The Ex-Nazi Corp Behind Anti-Racism is Buying Up Book Publishing.  Daniel explains in his article that “The German publisher behind Kendi, DiAngelo and Coates will control half the hardcover market.” Check out his website DanielGreenfield.org.  Wrap up: Happy Birthday to the US Marine Corps!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Racism is all around. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds white people together. And if you try to deny it, it only makes it stronger. That's Robin DiAngelo's thesis, anyway, and she calls this dark force (and the book that made her famous) White Fragility. You know you've got white fragility if you refuse to accept the truth of white fragility. Also, all white people have it. So that's pretty straightforward at least. How do you fight the curse of whiteness? Well, it's a lifelong journey of 'Doing the Work', but one thing's for sure: it starts with reading books like White Fragility and attending seminars well... like hers. DiAngelo's been out of the discourse recently, as far as we can tell, busy beavering away on new books like Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm and dismantling white supremacy via corporate group therapy sessions. However, in our original show blurb, we promised to cover 'gurus from Jordan Peterson to Robin DiAngelo', so here we are. Now she's no longer this week's hot culture war topic that's getting people (...racists probably) all riled up, it's the perfect time to cross this particular Pokemon off our list. We listened to a lecture she gave in 2018, where she helpfully lays out the key aspects of her theory. There's so much in store for listeners this week. You'll be able to thrill to the anecdote of how DiAngelo herself was disgustingly racist to a colleague, be shocked as Chris once again references Northern Ireland's colourful history and tries to deflect his people's obvious guilt onto the English, be amazed as Matthew courageously confronts his settler-colonial privilege, and learn the real story of the first African American baseball player to cross the colour line (as told by DiAngelo). So join the intrepid duo as they embark on this neverending journey to interrogate their whiteness. And maybe - verrrry carefully - try to be just a little bit critical of DiAngelo's arguments without axiomatically proving themselves hopelessly racist. Listen in and judge for yourself! Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU (Robin DiAngelo's 2018 lecture on White Fragility at Seattle Central Library) https://philarchive.org/archive/BRIWP (Liam Bright's recent 'White Psychodrama' paper) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AWLcxTGZPA (Kanye 'Ye' West Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #332) https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/301-the-politics-of-unreality-ukraine-and-nuclear-risk (Sam Harris: The Politics of Unreality: Ukraine and Nuclear Risk: A Conversation with Timothy Snyder (#301))

To watch this episode and other past episodes, please visit Greg Ellis' YouTube channel.Join our Community: https://community.therespondent.com/ Listeners can find Coleman Hughes at his website: https://colemanhughes.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/coldxmanYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ColemanHughesOfficialColeman Hughes is a writer, podcaster and opinion columnist who specializes in issues related to race, public policy and applied ethics. Coleman's writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, Quillette, The City Journal and The Spectator. In this episode, Coleman and I chat about his music, his open letter to Ibram X. Kendi, Critical Race Theory, the Will Smith Oscar incident, and much more! “I grew up with my grandparents showing me the names of our ancestors that were left in the wills of slave masters because they were considered property. And so I felt I intuitively understood the depth and gravity and moral horror of American slavery. Yet, I never at any point felt that the white people around me were implicated in that crime indirectly or directly. I don't think that that's actually a difficult mental feat to separate those two attitudes. I think that people are being encouraged to connect them, so that if you say white people today don't have anything to do with slavery. You're heard to be saying slavery wasn't a huge deal. And, those are two separate things.” Top Takeaways:White Americans, broadly liberal, feel some level of guilt about slavery and the quality of life of black people in this country, and they believe the best way to help them is to buy into the concepts of anti-racism and the teachings of people like Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo.Critical Race Theory (CRT) is too complicated to be taught to children in school. What's being taught that's called CRTis a watered down version of it, that boils down to kids being made highly conscious of their racial and identities, injecting meaning into it, and labeling white kids as “guilty oppressors”.The best way to combat racism is to nurture and protect racial innocence.When people attack “whiteness” they do it under the guise that they are attacking a “power structure” and not “white people” per se, but if you were to attack “blackness” people in almost all cases would take that as an attack on black people.Show Notes: [0:00] Greg welcomes Coleman to the show [0:40] Juilliard, Music, and dropping out[3:00] Coleman's gap year after leaving Julliard[4:40] Coleman's music writing process [7:10] Which musicians have inspired Coleman?[9:00] Coleman's open letter to Ibram X. Kendi and his challenge to debate him (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMAYJUMpStY&ab_channel=ColemanHughes)[16:10] Robin DiAngelo, her book White Fragility, and “white women's tears”[21:10] Why does Coleman think DiAngelo's book has been so successful?[24:30] Intersectionality and Postmodernism [25:50] Critical Race Theory[33:00] “Whiteness” and collective guilt [38:40] People's fear of speaking out against the current “mainstream” opinion on race issues[40:00] Will Smith Oscar incident and his marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith (clips of the Red Table talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTe0_Z0vlc&ab_channel=CelebCrush) [46:30] Celebrity couple “arrangements”[50:50] Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial[1:00:40] Jussie Smollett[1:01:50] Where does Coleman find meaning?[1:02:40] What's the most meaningful moment of your life?[1:03:30] Where do you go to find peace?[1:04:20] What piece of advice would you give your 12 year old self?[1:04:40] If you could write your own epitaph, what would you want it to say?[1:05:00] If you had one wish, what would it be? [1:05:20] Greg wraps up the show

A candid book review of Robin DiAngelo's best-selling work, "White Fragility". Disclaimer: I am a white person. Worse still--a white man! And I'm not infrequently fragile. And yet, despite that, I'll review this hugely influential book critically and fairly. You'll hear DiAngelo's most salient points, and how they might be examined. If there's a book of which you'd like me to compose a review, email me at finneranswake@gmail.com.

She needs no introduction — but in magazine history, Tina Brown is rightly deemed a legend, reviving Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, before turning to the web and The Daily Beast (where I worked for her). Her new book is The Palace Papers. We talked journalism, life and royals.You can listen to the episode right away in the audio player embedded above, or right below it you can click “Listen in podcast app,” which will connect you to the Dishcast feed. For two clips of our convo — on Meghan Markle’s epic narcissism, and why women make the best monarchs — head over to our YouTube page. Having Tina on the pod was the perfect excuse to transcribe our popular episode with Michael Moynihan, who used to work for Tina at The Daily Beast — which also hosted the Dish for a few years. So we’re all old friends. From the Moynihan chat:Andrew: I was talking to Tina Brown about this not that long ago, with the great days of the big magazines in the '80s and '90s. Really, when you look back on that time, it was an incredible festival of decadence and clearly over the top before the fall.Michael: I love Tina. I did a thing — you can look this up — an interview with her, when her Vanity Fair Diaries came out, for The Fifth Column. Just Tina and I sat down and talked for an hour and a half, and it was one of the best things I think we’ve recorded, and got one of the best responses. Because people miss those stories.Perhaps Bill Kristol should check out the clip with Moynihan on how to change your mind on stuff you get wrong:A listener looks back to last week’s episode:Wonderful interview with Douglas Murray, with the two of you riffing off each other with brilliant dialogue. Very warm and affirming as well. I particularly enjoyed your discussion of the religious dimension as one aspect of our present dilemma. I know you would want to provide variety for the Dishcast, but please consider having him on again.Another fan:This was the most memorable episode in a long time (although they are all great). Of course, your dialogue was choir-preaching, and so I need to be careful in avoiding confirmation bias. That said, I found Murray’s elegant way of encapsulating the obvious — which I fail to express myself — truly invigorating. I rewound and listened to many parts several times over. I ordered his book today.Another listener dissents:I find the armchair psychoanalysis regarding ressentiment — as the organizing principle of what is happening in our culture today — to be one of the least compelling arguments made in the episode. Why not go ahead and attribute our perpetual unwillingness in the West to recognize what is great about it to Christianity’s concept of original sin? Or maybe read psychoanalytic literature on why an individual or group of people who are objectively improving might hold onto beliefs of the self or society as rotten? These seem just as likely as Nietzsche’s argument. Ultimately, what a person speculates to be the primary motivator of another person or group reveals a lot. Your speculation that it’s mostly ressentiment suggests you want or need to demonize the CRT crowd. This is tragic given that this is precisely what you and Douglas accuse the CRT crowd of doing. Another listener differs:I don’t agree with everything you and Douglas Murray write, but thank you for talking about the resentment and bitterness that’s driving politics and culture today. It’s gone completely insane. I used to work for a small talent agency, and during the pandemic I coached some actors over Zoom. During the George Floyd protests, one of my clients was up watching the news all night, not getting any sleep. I told her, look, you want to be informed and want to help. But you have to take care of yourself first or you’re no help to anyone. Go to bed and catch up on the news tomorrow. People criticized me for this kind of advice, saying I was privileged, that I just wanted to look away and not examine myself for my own inherent racism, etc. I couldn’t understand why people were being so unreasonable.I’m also a Mormon. After George Floyd was murdered, our ward started to discuss racism. Mormonism has a checkered past when it comes to things like Black men and the priesthood. Or even language in some of the scriptures. These are important conversations that our church needs to have. There were good things that happened, like Black people in the ward shared more about their experiences during meetings. But almost immediately it became weird. The women’s group did a lesson on Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility,” for example. We didn’t actually ever talk about the things I was hoping we’d talk about — how Brigham Young stopped Black men receiving the priesthood, for example. We were just told we all needed to acknowledge our white privilege and feel guilty about it. There was a part about redlining. There was no acknowledgment that some of the white people in this ward lived in low-income housing, basically had nothing, and had been stressed even further by the pandemic. It just felt unnecessarily divisive. I have no idea what the Asian members made of this talk, because it basically excluded them. There were so many holes in these theories, but I wasn’t brave enough to point them out.So it was a real relief to hear you and Murray talk about the way these ideas have infiltrated churches. The Mormon thing is typically like, “God wants you to be happy. Live this structured life, show compassion, work hard, love your family, and be happy.” But the DiAngelo ideas felt like, “you can’t even be saved, at least not if you’re white. Some people don’t deserve to be happy; they should only feel guilt.” It was easier to bring in a fad book and talk about property values than to talk about the awful passage in the Book of Mormon where it says dark-skinned people are cursed, but other people are “white and delightsome.” I felt like the second the door opened to have a serious conversation about the church and race, they immediately jumped the shark instead.From a fan of opera and ballet:Douglas Murray mentioned Jessye Norman and how her obituary was racialized. Well, in January of 1961, Leontyne Price made her Metropolitan Opera debut, and she and Franco Correlli received an ovation that was around 50 minutes long ... possibly the longest in Met history, or among two or three longest. There have been so many great black singers at the Met, such as Shirley Verrett, Kathleen Battle (who was loved by James Levine but whose voice I never liked), Eric Owens, Grace Bumbry, and many others. Here’s a snip of Price’s Met debut:Balanchine choreographed Agon (music by Stravinsky), arguably his greatest dance, for Diana Adams (white) and Arthur Mitchell (black) in 1957. They danced the pas de deux, which is an erotic tangle of bodies. Balanchine wanted the black/white tension. Here is a bit of it:And to my beloved Jessye Norman, whom I saw only once, here she is at her best:Another listener rolls out some poetry:I greatly enjoyed your conversation with Douglas Murray. He is fierce! Your mention of Clive James’s “The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered” reminded me of a similarly minded poem from Nina Puro. (I suspect one of them inspired the other.) I LONG TO HOLD THE POETRY EDITOR’S PENIS IN MY HANDand tell him personally,I’m sorry, but I’m goingto have to pass on this.Though your pieceheld my attention throughthe first few screenings,I don’t feel it is a good fitfor me at this time. Please know it receivedmy careful consideration.I thank you for allowingme to have a look,and I wish youthe very best of luckplacing it elsewhere.Shifting away from the Murray episode, here’s a followup from a intrepid Dishhead:I was excited to see my letter published on the violent toll homelessness takes on communities recently. I’ll be listening to the podcast with Maia Szalavitz soon, and I’ve got Johann’s book on harm reduction to read as well. (I loved the episode with Johann, bought his new book, loved it, and stopped being so online for about a week before backsliding ...)Shortly after I wrote that last letter to you, I realized that I wasn’t satisfied with just writing indignant letters about the bloody cost of complacency on homelessness. It’s really the story of Ahn Taylor — a sweet 94-year-old lady stabbed by a homeless man as she was walking in her neighborhood — that made me understand that complaining is not enough.So I’ve started a non-profit, Unsafe Streets, to take on this challenge. It’s sort of a “Take Back the Night”-style public safety crusade. It’s early days still, but we have a website, including pages for NYC and San Francisco, a Twitter feed, and a crowdfunding campaign. Next on my agenda is to create a page for Los Angeles, a detailed policy platform, and then to recruit a board and apply for 501c3 status.I’ve been keeping up with the Dish when I can (LOVING the conversation with Jonathan Haidt, and I HIGHLY recommend this complementary Rogan episode.) I’ve been busy with the kids and trying to get Unsafe Streets going in my free minutes.She follows up:I just listened to Maia’s episode, and I am pretty unsatisfied with her proposed solutions. Non-coercive acceptance and decriminalization is fine for people who are using drugs they bought with their own money in the privacy of their home. But public drug use, public intoxication, and the associated “quality of life” crimes (public defecation, indecency, etc.) make public spaces unsafe and uncomfortable for everyone else. Laws against these crimes should be enforced, which means arresting people and taking them to jail or some kind of treatment. Injecting fentanyl and passing out on the sidewalk is a very antisocial and harmful behavior, and should not be “decriminalized.”I agree with Maia that this is a complicated mix of addiction and severe mental illness. But I don’t think the cost of housing argument holds up. (A brief scan of the news will show you that there in fact ARE homeless encampments in West Virginia.) I think she was unfair in her characterization of Michael Shellenberger’s proposal, which includes tons of resources to expand access to and quality of treatment. Overall, Maia’s perspective is very focused on the benefit to the addict, but discounts the costs to the surrounding community. Thanks for keeping a focus on this subject!Another listener looks to a potential future guest:Hello! You invite your readers to submit guest ideas here. I submit Kevin D. Williamson — another nuanced “conservative,” Roman Catholic, Never Trumper, and admirer of Oakeshott. Oh, and he was fired after five minutes at The Atlantic for a previous statement about abortion.Thanks for the suggestion. Lastly, because we ran out of room this week in the main Dish for the new VFYW contest photo (otherwise the email version would get cut short), here ya go:Where do you think it’s located? Email your guess to contest@andrewsullivan.com. Please put the location — city and/or state first, then country — in subject line. Proximity counts if no one gets the exact spot. Bonus points for fun facts and stories. The winner gets the choice of a VFYW book or two annual Dish subscriptions. If you are not a subscriber, please indicate that status in your entry and we will give you a free month subscription if we select your entry for the contest results (example here if you’re new to the contest). Happy sleuthing! Get full access to The Weekly Dish at andrewsullivan.substack.com/subscribe

Pleeb interviewed Dr. Louis Dit-Sully, author of Transcending Racial Divisions: Will You Stand By Me?Buy her book here https://www.amazon.com/Transcending-Racial-Divisions-Will-Stand/dp/1789041317Pleeb is doing everything for free. If you're grateful and want to help out go sub to www.patreon.com/TheDangerousMaybe

As mothers, we have an important impact on shaping our children's beliefs, preferences, and ideas.  That means how we feel about others is often absorbed by them.  Most of us have an implicit bias that we don't even recognize.  This is the first part of a two-part interview with Rosemay Webster discussing how we can raise anti-racist kids.  The first essential part of raising anti-racist kids is becoming anti-racist yourself.  In this episode, we will break down the difference between racism and discrimination.  We'll discuss microaggressions and implicit bias.  We'll discuss privilege; what it is and how to spend it. In the next interview, we will build on these principles and discuss how to apply them to mothering and raising anti-racist children.  Resources Mentioned in the ShowPodcast:  Real Talk/Almost Docshttps://www.instagram.com/realtalkalmostdocs/Implicit Bias Testhttps://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.htmlMounk, Yascha.  (2022) “Yascha Mounk on the Future of Diverse Democracies”. The Lawfare Podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yascha-mounk-on-the-future-of-diverse-democracies/id498897343?i=1000558014962 DiAngelo, R. (2011). White Fragility. International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 3(3), 54-70.Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. New York, NY: One World, 2019Munger, K. Tweetment Effects on the Tweeted: Experimentally Reducing Racist Harassment. Polit Behav 39, 629–649 (2017). The First Name Basis Podcast with Jasmine Bradshawhttps://firstnamebasis.libsyn.com/anti-racism-where-do-i-start Free Coaching SessionSign-up for a free coaching session.ScheduleOne-Minute WisdomEach week I carefully craft a short perspective shift or tool that you can read in about a  minute.  You can sign up here.Follow me on Instagram: @theexpatmomcoach or on Facebook:  @theexpatmomcoach

  The creed of statism is: "Anything that's not under the control of the state is, by definition, out of control. As Spruce Fontaine explains, it's something to keep in mind when asked, are you sure you want a government cryptocurrency? Robin DiAngelo's book on white fragility is a marvelous example of what Kafka traps are and how they work. Julian Adorney does a terrific job of pointing out how DiAngelo's main premises are a clear departure from traditional scholarship. If you spend much time traveling by air, you may have wondered what, exactly, airlines owe their customers. Art Carden says, Delta doesn't owe me more legroom. His explanation is instructive. It's pretty stunning how seamlessly the public consciousness was shifted from obsession with a virus to obsession with Russian/Ukraine. If you don't wish to be swept up in the current hysteria, William Bernard Butler has some sound advice for critical thinking in trouble times. Sponsors: Dixie Chiropractic HSL Ammo Sewing & Quilting Center Monticello College Life Saving Food  The Heather Turner Team at Patriot Home Mortgage Govern Your Crypto

Notice how the term "misinformation" has become a central part of our lexicon. James Howard Kunstler has a marvelous breakdown of how you've been misinformed and the silver lining to the controversy. If you've been wondering if it's possible to really know what has been and what is going on in Ukraine, this article is one of the most impartial I've seen. It's from a retired Swiss military intelligence officer named Jacques Baud. A very worthwhile read. War propaganda seeks to frame things in black and white terms that rarely reflect reality. Sheldon Richman makes the case that there are plenty of shades of gray in the Russia/Ukraine war. The creed of statism is: "Anything that's not under the control of the state is, by definition, out of control. As Spruce Fontaine explains, it's something to keep in mind when asked, are you sure you want a government cryptocurrency? Robin DiAngelo's book on white fragility is a marvelous example of what Kafka traps are and how they work. Julian Adorney does a terrific job of pointing out how DiAngelo's main premises are a clear departure from traditional scholarship. If you spend much time traveling by air, you may have wondered what, exactly, airlines owe their customers. Art Carden says, Delta doesn't owe me more legroom. His explanation is instructive. It's pretty stunning how seamlessly the public consciousness was shifted from obsession with a virus to obsession with Russian/Ukraine. If you don't wish to be swept up in the current hysteria, William Bernard Butler has some sound advice for critical thinking in trouble times. Sponsors: Dixie Chiropractic HSL Ammo Sewing & Quilting Center Monticello College Life Saving Food The Heather Turner Team at Patriot Home Mortgage Govern Your Crypto --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

Ayisha Elliott is a mother, non-profit founder of Kids for the Culture, and the host of the multimedia podcast "Black Girl From Eugene." On her show and all over this episode, she dishes relentlessly thoughtful opinions and nuggets of knowledge on various issues of social importance.  We discuss the slap heard 'round the white world (0:44), understanding anti-blackness and policy (8:54), Oregon schools and teaching history (13:16), Demographics (whiteness) of Oregon (18:45), Fragility and Robbin' DiAngelo (21:34), lack of Black ownership and community in Eugene (23:56), strategies for writing your narrative (27:35), Black Girl from Eugene: the origin (33:18), separating professional and podcast vibes (37:43), entry point into her show (39:42), Ayisha's family's impact on Eugene (45:10), jazz music, Cardi B and Beyonce (52:23), greatness of Jay-Z and Rihanna (57:35), cognitive "genius" or maturity (1:00:54), who should be President? (1:04:04), Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (1:09:18), Broken: work culture and balance (1:13:10), and we end with a live performance of the unreleased song "Meal Prep" by Gradient. (1:20:19).  The discussion is on video at https://youtu.be/-1G0txJHkls.  Check out Ayisha's work: http://blackgirlfromeugene.org 

Zeke dives into the meaning behind "The Metamorph Show". Followed up by sharing his troubled past and his weekend twilight zone experience. "Where My Cousin At" with Diangelo, they discuss their run ins with being ghosted.

Join Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner for this book review and discussion with Dean Martell Teasley, College of Social Work. The book they will be reviewing is, Nice Racism: How progressive white people perpetuate racial harm by Dr. Robin DiAngelo for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This New York Times bestseller explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism. In DiAngelo's book, White Fragility, she explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of color. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over 25 years working as an anti-racist educator, she picks up where White Fragility left off and moves the conversation forward. Writing directly to white people as a white person, DiAngelo identifies many common white racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm. These patterns include: rushing to prove that we are “not racist” downplaying white advantage romanticizing Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color (BIPOC) pretending white segregation “just happens” expecting BIPOC people to teach us about racism carefulness and feeling immobilized by shame DiAngelo explains how spiritual white progressives seeking community by co-opting Indigenous and other groups' rituals create separation, not connection. She challenges the ideology of individualism and explains why it is OK to generalize about white people, and she demonstrates how white people who experience other oppressions still benefit from systemic racism. Writing candidly about her own missteps and struggles, she models a path forward, encouraging white readers to continually face their complicity and embrace courage, lifelong commitment, and accountability. Nice Racism is an essential work for any white person who recognizes the existence of systemic racism and white supremacy and wants to take steps to align their values with their actual practice. BIPOC readers may also find the “insiders” perspective useful for navigating whiteness. A digital copy of this book is available at the library for University of Utah students, faculty and staff. PANELISTS: Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Jefferson B. & Rita E. Fordham Presidential Dean and Professor of Law, The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Dean Martell L. Teasley, MSW, PhD, Professor The University of Utah, College of Social Work This episode was originally broadcast and recorded, January 20, 2022 ULaw, ULAW, Utah Law

Zeke talks about the debate on young boys having kitchen sets. Society sexualizing children. His cousin Diangelo gets on call for his question about what's the appropriate age to lose your virginity. And Zeke gets an accidental nude from Chance the Rapper in his group chat lol.

Research shows hemp compounds prevent coronavirus from entering human cells   Oregon State University, January 11, 2022 Hemp compounds identified by Oregon State University research via a chemical screening technique invented at OSU show the ability to prevent the virus that causes COVID-19 from entering human cells. Van Breemen and collaborators, including scientists at Oregon Health & Science University, found that a pair of cannabinoid acids bind to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, blocking a critical step in the process the virus uses to infect people. The compounds are cannabigerolic acid, or CBGA, and cannabidiolic acid, CBDA, and the spike protein is the same drug target used in COVID-19 vaccines and antibody therapy. A drug target is any molecule critical to the process a disease follows, meaning its disruption can thwart infection or disease progression.   Tomato concentrate could help reduce chronic intestinal inflammation associated with HIV   University of California Los Angeles, January 11, 2021 New UCLA-led research in mice suggests that adding a certain type of tomato concentrate to the diet can reduce the intestinal inflammation that is associated with HIV. Left untreated, intestinal inflammation can accelerate arterial disease, which in turn can lead to heart attack and stroke. The findings provide clues to how the altered intestinal tract affects disease-causing inflammation in people with chronic HIV infection, suggesting that targeting the inflamed intestinal wall may be a novel way to prevent the systemic inflammation that persists even when antiviral therapy is effective in controlling a person's HIV.     Too much sitting could mean worse outcomes for cancer survivors   Cancer Care Alberta (Canada), January 11, 2022 A new study shows those who sit too much and are not physically active are much more likely to die early from cancer or any other cause than those who are more active. Data on cancer survivors who took part in the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2007 to 2014 showed that inactive survivors who reported sitting more than eight hours a day were at the highest risk of dying. "Cancer survivors who did not meet the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans [150 minutes per week of moderate-to-vigorous intensity leisure-time physical activity] and sit longer than eight hours per day had more than a fivefold increase in the risk of death from all causes—cancer and non-cancer," said lead researcher Lin Yang. The link was particularly troubling because the researchers found that as many as one-third of cancer survivors didn't exercise and sat more than six hours a day. Only about one-third got the recommended 150 hours of exercise a week, Yang said.     Running could improve brain function in people with Gulf War illness   Texas A&M University, January 10, 2022 It has now been three decades since 700,000 American troops responded to the invasion of Kuwait in the first Gulf War, and more than a third of those troops still suffer from the same condition: Gulf War Illness (GWI). Previously labeled Gulf War syndrome, GWI is characterized by persistent reduced cognitive function, memory problems, mood and sleep disturbances, chronic pain and fatigue. The exact cause of GWI is not known, though it is suggested that some combination of the prophylactic drug pyridostigmine bromide (PB), the mosquito repellant N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET), insecticide permethrin (PER), multiple pesticides, low doses of Sarin, and chronic war-related stress are to blame. Positive findings notwithstanding, the impracticalities of a drug that is not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) led Shetty to explore more accessible means. With perhaps the most simple of interventions that could be asked (certainly one familiar to our veterans), he found that running a few times each week could be powerful in the relief of GWI-related symptoms.     Why high-dose vitamin C kills cancer cells   Low levels of catalase enzyme make cancer cells vulnerable to high-dose vitamin C University of Iowa, January 9, 2022 Vitamin C has a patchy history as a cancer therapy, but researchers at the University of Iowa believe that is because it has often been used in a way that guarantees failure. Most vitamin C therapies involve taking the substance orally. However, the UI scientists have shown that giving vitamin C intravenously--and bypassing normal gut metabolism and excretion pathways--creates blood levels that are 100 - 500 times higher than levels seen with oral ingestion. It is this super-high concentration in the blood that is crucial to vitamin C's ability to attack cancer cells. Earlier work by UI redox biology expert Garry Buettner found that at these extremely high levels (in the millimolar range), vitamin C selectively kills cancer cells but not normal cells in the test tube and in mice. Physicians at UI Hospitals and Clinics are now testing the approach in clinical trials for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer that combine high-dose, intravenous vitamin C with standard chemotherapy or radiation. Earlier phase 1 trials indicated this treatment is safe and well-tolerated and hinted that the therapy improves patient outcomes. The current, larger trials aim to determine if the treatment improves survival. In a new study, published recently in the December issue of the journal Redox Biology, Buettner and his colleagues have homed in on the biological details of how high-dose vitamin C (also known as ascorbate) kills cancer cells.   People with early-onset Parkinson's disease may benefit from boosting niacin in diet   University of Leicester (UK), January 10, 2022 •    Team studied fruit flies with a mutation that mimics the human disease •    Niacin/Vitamin B3 is found in a variety of foods including meats and nuts •    Research suggests niacin boosts levels of NAD compound in body for energy generation and DNA repair, which is critical for keeping mitochondria in shape and Parkinson's at bay •    Drugs that block NAD-consuming DNA repair already exist to treat cancer - therefore these drugs could be repurposed to protect faulty mitochondria in Parkinson's disease "This study strengthens the therapeutic potential for Vitamin B3/niacin-based dietary interventions in the treatment of Parkinson's disease" - Dr Miguel Martins, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester People with certain forms of early-onset Parkinson's disease may benefit from boosting the amount of niacin in their diet, according to new research from the University of Leicester. Niacin, or Vitamin B3, is found in a variety of foods, including nuts and meat. The team from the MRC Toxicology Unit at the University of Leicester studied fruit flies with a mutation that mimics the human disease.     America's Crisis of Cultural Moral Panic   Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, January 12, 2022 It is one thing to show a man that he is in error and another to put him in touch with truth… No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience” – John Locke (Essays Concerning Human Understanding) Locke was not alone in questioning what we believe to be true knowledge, and pointing out the consequences of failing to discern falsehoods from reality. Locke was in excellent company.  Due to the scientific revolution, which inspired several generations of deep thinkers, naturalists and philosophers, including Rousseau, Kant, Spinoza, Darwin, Bacon and Voltaire, the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason has dominated the intellectual world of ideas for nearly two centuries. Locke's statements remain pertinent because today there is a new generation that has been indoctrinated by the shortcomings of scientific materialism. It was intended to bring forth a new purity, an idyllic perfectionism of thought and beliefs founded alone upon objective inquiry. But now this higher ideal has degenerated into a juvenile revolution fuelling identity politics, the cancel culture of wokeness, and a passionate micro-aggression that derives hedonist pleasure in ridicule and insult. One of its more lofty goals is to end free speech as we know it – except for those who are woke. Other goals are to institute a faux collectivism and to abolish meritocracy or social rewards earned through effort and achievement. For many years, important voices of critical thought – Noam Chomsky, Henry Giroux, Jordan Peterson, to name a few, have been warning us that this day was rapidly approaching. However, since there are no dynamic leaders in the youth's woke moment of Maoist-style cleansing and purging of wrong-views, wrong attitudes and wrong beliefs, most of us in the older generations wrongly assume it would be a passing phase. But it wasn't. In fact, the consequences of this unleashed furor, evidenced by an absence of self-reflection and critical thought, has been channeled into a mob rule of dissent and abuse.  In the virtual world gatherings of protest across social media, it is nearly unstoppable. No one is challenging them, neither the mainstream media nor the majority of academia. Rather, corporate leaders and persuasive forces within the ranks of liberal democratic institutions are coming to their aid. Therefore, it proceeds under the cover of a silent political power to sustain its energy. On the other hand, today's youth have every reason to feel disenchanted and to suffer rampant existential angst, the emptiness of not feeling a deeper sense of purpose and meaning in the world at large.  American neoliberalism's and our educational system's single-minded attention on science and technology -- which in themselves are amoral disciplines -- and rote memorization and testing has resulted in two decades of our youth becoming increasingly illiterate in the humanities, critical evaluation and reflective inquiry.  It is also the most irreligious generation in American history. Without the skills of introspective thought to develop a sense of genuine well-being and true happiness, or what Plato called eudomonia as opposed to hedonia, (the pursuit of temporary or transient pleasures), our nation has tossed its youth to the rabid dogs of the social Darwinian rat race for survival. Therefore, it is not surprising that suicides among today's teens and twenty-somethings have risen 47 percentduring the past two decades.  Sadly the casualty rate is higher after we consider there are 36 percent more people living in their 20s today than there were at the turn of the century. Thirty-two percent of youth through their 20s have clinical anxiety disorders, 1 in 9 suffer from depression and almost 14 percent have ADHD.  Although the medical community would like us to believe these are either inherited or biological conditions attributable to brain chemical imbalances, there is absolutely no scientific consensus proving there is a direct, observable causal relationship between brain function and mental states.  Certainly there are correlated relationships; but correlation is not causation.  The latter is solely a belief, an assumption, without any conclusive and confirming data. The causes are elsewhere and perhaps to be found in our dysfunctional society and the complete breakdown of traditional ethical structures and universal values. In 1972, South African sociologist Stanley Cohen proposed the Moral Panic Theory, an irrational widespread fear that threatens one's sense of values, safety and cohesion to one's “tribal” identity.  This moral panic, Cohen observes, is bolstered by the injustices of the ruling elite and its mouthpieces in the media. It also centers aroundthose who society marginalizes and is based upon “ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality and religion.” Ashley Grossman, writing for ThoughtCo, makes the point that those in power will ultimately most benefit from moral panics “since they lead to increased control of the population and the reinforcement of the authority of those in charge.” The panic aroused grassroots movements provides the government or state “to enact legislation and laws that would seem illegitimate without the perceived threat at the center of the moral panic.” The popular fear of the Covid-19 virus and the unvaccinated created by our federal health officials and their news media allies is another recent example of Moral Panic Theory. Unfortunately, most of the country has entered a Moral Panic phase: the vitriolic propaganda in both parties, the greed and opportunism of the oligarchic and corporate elite, QAnon and the Alt-Right, and the Woke-Left. Repeatedly woke students are demanding their schools and colleges make assurances that they are emotionally safe from ideas and philosophies that challenge their fragile comfort zones. Teachers and professors who challenge their students' illusions about knowledge and their fragile self-identity are being ostracized with calls for administrative dismissal. How many academicians are forced to remain silent to avoid the consequences of the new woke Inquisition? Such student actions are indicative of their weak sense of self-worth and existential angst; yet we must look at modern parental upbringing and our culture's leading elders, as noted by Jonathan Haidt, to diagnose the causal factors for this psychological catastrophe of two entire generations. Consequently, when collective panic reaches a threshold, Cohen's theory might explain the sudden eruption of irrational behavior entangled in the rise of a cancel culture built upon an intellectual anarchy that is frighteningly irrational. And it is equally endemic to the reactionary maleficence of white supremacists and militias. So when a new book emerges, White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo, and becomes the holy grail of woke truths, we are lectured that what will not be tolerated is any deviation or heresy its espoused twisted emerging social norm. The author's central theme is that if you have the misfortune of being born with the wrong genes into the wrong family a with the wrong skin color, you are a racist and will be such for the remainder of your days.  Hence every White person is condemned with a defective moniker blazed across the forehead. And since meritocracy likewise is damned, all achievements are reduced to an inherited privilege of having been born Caucasian.  Your attempt to defend yourself and profess your free speech is a testament of your heresy. No apology or act of humility can save you. It is a life sentence without parole for good behavior. White Fragility is already being taught in many schools, with the full cooperation of teacher unions and school administrators. Resistance will be a subversive act and an admission of your racism. It is critical to observe this may be heading towards a new paradigm of Orwellian social control. Yet there is barely a shred of credible scientific evidence to support DiAngelo's hypotheses.  It is a flawed opinion, and a dangerous one at that.  Worse, its long-reaching conclusions could advocate for a repressive regime of a future scientism dictatorship that Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell warned.  Russell noted that “collective passions” have a penchant to inflame “hatred and rivalry directed towards other groups.” He was acutely aware that “science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for the good life as the head.” And DiAngelo's screed falls into the dark abysmal waters of genetic determinism that gave rise to racist fascism. Russell further cautioned that this distorted over-reliance on faux science could be “a curse to mankind.” Perhaps, during its Icarus moment, wokeness will self-destruct under its own rashness and the internal fire of its undiscerning ardor.  What carnage it leaves in its wake remains to be seen. Yet there is nothing new or original in the cultural rebellion we are witnessing. This game has been played out before in previous acts that strived for an adolescent and unreachable social perfection.  It will have its blowback.  In his Principia Mathematica, Isaac Newton observed that for every action there is an equally opposing reaction. However, we have yet to witness how it will boomerang. But we will.  In the meantime, a new class of wannabe priests is emerging within the woke movement, a priesthood David Hume warned about in his Essays, Moral, Political and Literary, which will in turn be an adversary to liberty. Consider the backlash after Harpers magazine published a Letter on Justice and Open Debate to warn about “a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity.”  Signed by over 160 brilliant minds, academicians and authors – liberal and conservative -- including Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Haidt, Susannah Heschel, Steven Pinker, Gloria Steinem, etc, the letter gives a stark warning of the unwelcomed consequences of the new culture of censorship that the demonstration's leaders are ushering into the nation at large. The woke now demand retribution against its signers, in effect shutting down the nation's 200-plus years of free speech, the right to disagree and public discourse. Have those who are most rabidly eager to condemn and cancel the wide diversity of voices who disagree with their beliefs considered earlier precedents for their actions? It was the Spanish Inquisition.  In principle, how many today are in effect labeled heretics and “witches” because they have spoken publicly in favor of free speech and oppose censorship? May not the woke movement in turn become the harbinger of a new Inquisition, a new platform of economic and social persecution by the powerful and wealthy waiting in the corridors after the cult of woke loses its steam? The causal problems to our terrified culture is of course far deeper and has been identified and analyzed repeatedly in the writings of Chris Hedges and Henry Giroux.  Our nation thrives on victimizing others.  Now the once disenfranchised victims of the liberal woke generation, erupting from its simmering angst and meaninglessness, are determined to be the new victimizers. What is the end game when a populist uprising of disillusioned and psychologically traumatized youth at the mercy of capitalism's parasitical march to claim more victims gets the upper hand. The movement has now evolved beyond its original demands of racial justice for the Black and other minority communities who have been discriminated against by our institutions, particularly law enforcement and the private prison system. Now it is rapidly morphing into a massive autonomous cult of divisiveness and self-righteousness without a moral backbone that recognizes the essential values of forgiveness, reconciliation, and cooperative engagement for preserving a sane and productive culture that benefits all.     Insurance companies should ‘penalize' the unvaxxed, ethicist at New York University recommends   Professor Arthur Caplan said that people who have chosen not to get jabbed should pay higher insurance premiums and be barred from getting life insurance LifeSite News, Jan 6, 2022 An ethicist at New York University said that people who have not gotten jabbed should be punished by insurance companies. “By and large, if you're vaccinated and boosted, even if you get infected, you're going to be fine. You're going to be fine here. It's the unvaccinated who are going to be hurt, so why should anyone who is boosted bother at this point to do anything that makes the unvaccinated more safe?” CNN's John Berman asked Professor Arthur Caplan, the director of the medical ethics division at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Professor Caplan agreed that the unvaccinated should be shamed and treated poorly by society, though he said he hopes he can change their minds. “I'll condemn them. I'll shame them. I'll blame them,” Professor Caplan said. “We can penalize them more, say you will have to pay more on your hospital bill. You can't get life insurance, disability insurance at affordable rates if you aren't vaccinated.”     NO DEATHS FROM VITAMINS - Safety Confirmed by America's Largest Database   Orthomolecular News Service, January 7th 2022 The 38th annual report from the American Association of Poison Control Centers shows zero deaths from vitamins. It is interesting that it is so quietly placed way back there where nary a news reporter is likely to see it. The AAPCC reports zero deaths from multiple vitamins. And, there were no deaths whatsoever from vitamin A, niacin, pyridoxine (B-6) any other B-vitamin. There were no deaths from vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, or from any vitamin at all. On page 1477 there is an allegation of a single death attributed to an unspecified, unknown "Miscellaneous Vitamin." The obvious uncertainly of such a listing diminishes any claim of validity. There were no fatalities from amino acids, creatine, blue-green algae, glucosamine, or chondroitin. There were no deaths from any homeopathic remedy, Asian medicine, Hispanic medicine, or Ayurvedic medicine. None.   (NEXT)   40% of Israel could be infected with Covid-19 in current wave, says PM   France24, January 10, 2022 Israel could see up to nearly 40 percent of the population infected by coronavirus during the current wave, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday, as testing facilities nationwide buckled Data presented at the cabinet meeting indicates that here, in Israel, between two to four million citizens in total will be infected during this current wave. A country of just 9.4 million, Israel has seen infections nearly quadruple over the past week compared to the previous one. The health ministry reported 17,518 new infections on Saturday. Health ministry data showed that more than 4.3 million Israelis were fully vaccinated with three shots, while 204 people are hospitalised in serious condition as a result of Covid-19 illness on Sunday. More than 1.5 million Covid cases, including 8,269 deaths, have been officially recorded in Israel.   (NEXT)   4th COVID Booster Shot Could Cause ‘Immune System Fatigue,' Scientists Say   As Israel moves ahead with fourth COVID shot, scientists told the New York Times the additional booster may cause more harm than good. Childrens Health Defense, January 7, 2022 COVID-19 booster shots could do more harm than good, according to scientists interviewed late last month by The New York Times. The scientists warned “that too many shots might actually harm the body's ability to fight COVID” and “might cause a sort of immune system fatigue.” On Monday, Israeli authorities began offering anyone over age 60 a chance to get a fourth shot, or second booster of the COVID vaccine. But scientists told The Times, before Israel confirmed it would offer the fourth shot, the science is not yet settled on using an additional booster shot to combat the new Omicron variant. There is one official report of an Israeli dying from Omicron. However, according to The Times of Israel, it is unclear that Omicron caused the death of the individual — a man in his 60s hospitalized weeks earlier from a pre-existing condition. A new report from the UK Health Security Agency showed booster doses are less effective against Omicron than previous variants, and their effectiveness wears off in only 10 weeks. Professor Hagai Levine, an epidemiologist and chairman of Israel's Association of Public Health Physicians, told The New York Times there's no published scientific evidence a fourth shot is needed to prevent severe illness from Omicron. “Before giving a fourth shot, it is preferable to wait for the science,” Levine said.   (NEXT)   145-Country Study Shows Increase Of Transmission And Death After Introduction Of Covid Vaccines   Truth Press, January 11, 2022 Instead of bringing an end to this pandemic as promised, the widespread rollout of the experimental vaccines has actually caused a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases and deaths across the world, according to a recently published preprint study that looked at data from the 145 of the most vaccinated countries in the world. The 99-page study titled “Worldwide Bayesian Causal Impact Analysis of Vaccine Administration on Deaths and Cases Associated with COVID-19: A BigData Analysis of 145 Countries” found that in the US specifically, the jab has caused a whopping 38% more Covid cases per million – and an even more astonishing 31% increase in deaths per million. In total, researchers found that almost 90% (89.84%) of the 145 countries experienced this negative effect from the vaccines after they were made available. From the study: “Results indicate that the treatment (vaccine administration) has a strong and statistically significant propensity to causally increase the values in either y1 [variable chosen for deaths per million] or y2 [variable chosen for cases per million] over and above what would have been expected with no treatment. y1 showed an increase/decrease ratio of (+115/-13), which means 89.84% of statistically significant countries showed an increase in total deaths per million associated with COVID-19 due directly to the causal impact of treatment initiation [vaccines]. y2 showed an increase/decrease ratio of (+105/-16) which means 86.78% of statistically significant countries showed an increase in total cases per millionof COVID-19 due directly to the causal impact of treatment initiation.” Perhaps the most telling part of the study's results is that the countries which recorded the fewest Covid deaths in 2020 were the ones to experience the largest increases in cases and deaths once the vaccine was introduced, with some of them seeing increases as high as over a thousand percent. In the study's conclusion, researchers warned that the substantial increase in deaths and cases should be “highly worrisome” for the policymakers around the world who have been promoting the experimental vaccines as the “key to gain back our freedoms.”   (NEXT)   Covid Vaccine-Injuries: "An Avalanche", says Attorney Aaron Siri   In November 2021, attorney Aaron Siri explained to an expert panel at Congress that his firm was seeing "an avalanche of submissions" from people seeking help to sue after covid vaccine-injuries.         Here we are in early January 2022, and:        ~ The CDC's data released December 31, 2021 contains 1,017,001 covid vaccine-injury records.        ~ The WHO's global database (VigiAccess) has collected 2,933,902 covid vaccine-injury records.        Even young children are being vaccine-injured.       From CDC's own publication, MMWR Dec. 31, 2021:        ~ "5,277 VAERS reports received for children aged 5–11 years" [1,028 (19.5%) were excluded from this analysis]        ~ "Approximately 5.1% of parents reported that their child was unable to perform normal daily activities on the day after receipt of dose 1, and 7.4% after receipt of dose 2. Approximately 1% of parents reported seeking medical care in the week after vaccination"       ~ "Two reports of death during the analytic period [November 3 - December 19, 2021]

  https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-dr-sucharit-bhakdi-these-vaccines-are-killing-the-young-and-the-old-they-are-killing-our-children/5765866 Natural Herbal HPV "Cure" Discovered Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (India), January 5, 2022 Despite the widespread belief that HPV infection is a singularly lethal force against which we only have vaccination defend ourselves, both ancient herbal medicine and our body's inherent immune defenses have newly been confirmed to have significant power against it. A groundbreaking study published in the Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention reveals that vaccination and watchful waiting are not the only recourse against HPV infection. The study is believed to be the first of its kind to find an effective and safe therapeutic intervention for the clearance of established cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Moreover, the study confirmed that HPV infection is self-limiting and clears on its own in 73.3% of the untreated placebo group within 37 days. (NEXT) Proper exercise can reverse damage from heart aging University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, January 8, 2022 Exercise can reverse damage to sedentary, aging hearts and help prevent risk of future heart failure - if it's enough exercise, and if it's begun in time, according to a new study by cardiologists at UT Southwestern and Texas Health Resources. To reap the most benefit, the exercise regimen should begin by late middle age (before age 65), when the heart apparently retains some plasticity and ability to remodel itself. And the exercise needs to be performed four to five times a week. Two to three times a week was not enough, the researchers found in an earlier study. (NEXT) Aspartame Is Linked To Leukemia And Lymphoma In New Landmark Study On Humans Natural Health Federation, December 28, 2021 As few as one diet soda daily may increase the risk for leukemia in men and women, and for multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in men, according to new results from the longest-ever running study on aspartame as a carcinogen in humans. Importantly, this is the most comprehensive, long-term study ever completed on this topic, so it holds more weight than other past studies which appeared to show no risk. And disturbingly, it may also open the door for further similar findings on other cancers in future studies. (NEXT) Rhodiola defeats chronic fatigue in just one week Uppsala University (Sweden),  January 5, 2022 The ancient Vikings reportedly utilized it for its refreshing powers. The Sherpa mountain people relied on it to help them scale the heights of Mount Everest. Rhodiola rosea, an herb grown in Arctic areas of Asia and Eastern Europe, is relatively little known in modern times – but, it probably should be. Recent scientific studies have consistently shown that rhodiola causes significant improvement in fatigue symptoms – and starts working in less than a week. (NEXT) Trial affirms arginine benefit in erectile dysfunction Università Federico II di Napoli (Italy), January 3 2022. A trial reported  in the Journal of Endocrinological Investigation added evidence to a benefit for supplementation with the amino acid L-arginine among men with erectile dysfunction (ED). The findings suggest that L-arginine could serve as an alternative to PDE5 inhibitor drugs used to treat ED which are not always effective or can be associated with side effects. Fifty-one men received two grams L-arginine three times per day and 47 received a placebo for three months. (NEXT) Using smells to boost learning during sleep The authors confirm that the strategic use of aromas while learning and during sleep might improve exam performance — even outside of the laboratory University of Freiburg (Germany), December 24, 2021 In a nutshell, the recent study concludes that if we smell an aroma while we take on new knowledge and then sleep next to a source of that same odor, we will find it easier to recall the information at a later date. To investigate, the scientists recruited 54 students from sixth grade classes in Germany. They asked these participants to keep rose scented sticks next to them while they learned English vocabulary at home. A week after the students first encountered the vocabulary during a school class, they sat an exam. The scientists split half of the students into four experimental groups: Group 1: No exposure to any odor cues. Group 2: Exposure to rose scent while learning at home and during the vocabulary test. Group 3: Exposure to rose scent while learning at home and during each night before the test but not during the test. Group 4: Exposure to rose scent while learning at home, every night before the test, and during the test. (NEXT) (ARTICLE) Woke Culture's Reality Deficit Disorder Richard Gale & Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, January 7, 2022 If anti-racial wokeness is true, then the more deeply we probe and investigate it, the truer it should appear. This was one of William James' fundamental principles when he made efforts to turn the psychology of his day into a valid science. If James' methodology had not been obliterated by the rise of behaviorism in 1910, psychology would be completely different today. We might actually be treating and curing people of mental disorders without prescribing life-long medications. On the other hand, if DiAngelo's hypothesis is false, the more deeply one investigates, which includes introspection, the more false it will appear. That is where robust inquiry comes in: to determine what is simply true regardless of whatever your personal unsubstantiated and biased beliefs about it might be. What you believe has absolutely no impact upon whether something is true or not. This is also basic Buddhist epistemology that has been repeatedly replicated by contemplatives for several millennia. Neuroscience, including its gross failures and tendencies towards metaphysical realism, has more to tell us about the inherent dangers in White Fragility's doctrine. First, modern brain science has not produced an iota of evidence to confirm that the mind and consciousness are solely a product or output originating in neuron and synaptic activity. None. Contrary to the evidence, most neuroscientists and evolutionary biologists nevertheless embrace this opinion as a settled matter. But it is ridiculous to believe that evolution somehow dragged along our ancient single-celled ancestors until some point was reached when a conscious mind -- a “nothing” that is not observable, not measurable, not quantifiable, without atoms or photons, mass, electric charge or spin – mysteriously arose out of something, such as genes and biomolecular phenomena. Therefore cognitive scientists pretend to know something about the mind and consciousness when in fact they haven't a clue. Although DiAngelo is not stating that socialized racism among Whites is genetically determined, the trajectory of her argument has the potential to lead towards that conclusion. She does consider systemic White racism as being unconscious. Therefore she has moved her social theory into psychology. Since modern psychology today is becoming increasingly informed by the neurosciences, which in turn is being informed by evolutionary biology, it is only a small leap away to find her theory complementing genetic determinism as a means to explain Whiteness' conditioned racism. If her socialized determinism, and that of the neuroscience and evolutionary biology fields, are correct, then it would break the fundamental physical laws of energy conservation and causal efficacy. In effect, DiAngelo is saying White people have no choice. It's socialized chemistry or its socialized chemistry; either way its socialized chemistry.  In effect, DiAngelo is admitting that her own perceptions about reality are fundamentally flawed. Why is that? Dr. Donald Hoffman has been a professor of neuroscience at the University of California at Irvine for over three decades. He has an impeccable background having studied artificial intelligence at MIT. But unlike the vast majority of his colleagues, Hoffman broke ranks and passed beyond neuroscience's 19th century mechanistic base and dared to study modern quantum physics and relativity theory. Theoretical physics is almost anathema in human biological research and medicine, which is why these soft sciences have made so little progress to improve human health and well-being. Hoffman has performed hundreds of thousands of simulations comparing different species and their chances for survival based upon their ability to perceive and comprehend reality more accurately or not. His discoveries are startling and utterly revolutionary. Hoffman discovered, across the board, species that best perceive reality go extinct more rapidly than competing species that only perceive what is necessary for them to remain fit and survive. During an interview following a TED Talk, Hoffman stated, “according to evolution by natural selection,” – and here he is limiting himself solely to evolutionary biological theory and not the various competing theories about the nature of consciousness – “an organism that sees reality as it is will never be more fit than an organism of equal complexity that sees none of reality but is just tuned to fitness. Never.” In other words, evolution has nothing to do with perceiving reality more clearly, but only to be more fit in order to adapt, survive and procreate. And now physicists are even telling us that the primal cause behind all physical objects may be consciousness itself, which has no association whatsoever with natural selection. For example, Professor Edward Witten, regarded as “the world's smartest” physicist at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, has been compared to Newton and Einstein. Witten doesn't believe science will ever understand consciousness. “I think consciousness will remain a mystery,” Witten stated during a lecture, ”I have a much easier time imagining how we understand the Big Bang than I have imagining how we can understand consciousness.” Or we can listen to Stanford University theoretical physicist Andre Linde: “The current scientific model of the material world obeying laws of physics has been so successful that we forget our starting point as conscious observers, and conclude that matter is the only reality and that perceptions are only helpful for describing it. But in fact, we are substituting the reality of our experience of the universe with a conceptually contrived belief…” One may feel our critique is too abstract with little or no practical application; however to at least conceptually understand race in terms of our sensory perceptions can have enormous benefits to cut through and lessen the false semblances that arise from reality deficit disorder that winds up producing books such as White Fragility. Moreover, contrary to DiAngelo's arguments, British journalist Melanie Phillips offers a clearer understanding for why we should not rely upon the pundits of anti-racial wokeness to save us from ourselves. Despite disagreeing with Phillips on many of her other socio-political positions, she correctly identifies the fundamental flaws being voiced by arrested development wokeness across our campuses and within the corporate wing of the Democrat party. First, it is unable to establish a hierarchy of values and morals. For example, if one refuses to say that any lifestyle or culture is better than another, then it cannot be said that liberalism is better than conservatism or any other ideology.  Consequently, faux liberalism cannot legitimately defend the very principles upon which it defines itself: racial and gender equality, freedom of speech and religion, justice and tolerance, and class struggle.  It contradicts its own principles and follows DiAngelo's footsteps to remove the dignity of the individual, which in the past was at the heart of authentic liberalism and once served as its moral backbone. What we are witnessing therefore in Woke liberalism – and in DiAngelo's reinvention of racism -- is “the strong dominating the weak,” and this is an ill-liberal ideology that is already showing signs of having catastrophic consequences in classrooms and the workplace. Finally, if DiAngelo's theory is correct, then all Whites, without exception, in American history, were unconsciously transmuted into racists starting at the time of their birth. What is her proof? Is there any scientific evidence to support this outrageous claim? Did she consider the lack of sensitivity towards other peoples and races who were victims of racial identity and violence, such as the Jews who experienced genocide at hands of their Nazi overlords? And what would she say against those Whites who have fought against racism throughout the American experience, such as the Abolitionists in the US and UK who put their bodies at great risk?  In principle she is labeling them too as racist despite their fighting, protesting and even dying as committed anti-racists. Many Whites have embraced other races and cultures with open arms; however, DiAngelo wants us to believe this legacy was a sham, because in some strange voodoo way they were unconsciously racist. Is this not the height of hubris and arrogance?

# Introduction As one of the shepherds I am burdened for the body, jealous for you against the world's attempts to make you miserable. Within the last ten years—which happen to overlap the years we've been busy cultivating a Trinitarian community of worshipping, maturing disciples who acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord over all the world—the accuser, the devil, the evil one, has been cultivating his offspring into an angry, envious, self-righteous mob. By God's grace, even in and through our liturgy of worship, we do not see the seeds of “woke” sprouting in our church. But, not only do I desire for you to be ready and protected in heart and mind if/when the woke attack, I honestly am doing everything I can to make each of you, and all of us together, a bigger target. We don't have the problem on the inside, but I pray that we would provoke those on the outside. Our pastors considered taking an entire Sunday seminar to talk about wokeness, though again, this is not an error that we see within the flock, so it didn't seem as pressing. But as we take time at the beginning of each year to refresh our understanding of Lord's Day worship, I can't help but think that God is using our liturgy to keep us from going woke. That it isn't critical is not a coincidence. Woke is an exhausting worldview that will get worse in our culture without a gospel revival. Maybe you've never heard the word “woke,” you certainly are dealing with expressions of it, through companies and colleges and Congress and commercials. I couldn't dream of providing an exhaustive explanation or exhaustive examples, let alone a prophetic vision of how much suffering we're in for. But again, I want you to understand how our liturgy of worship is a privilege, with a bunch of sub-privileges necessary attached, and how that privilege is exactly a provocation to many of our cultural neighbors, including, sadly, *many* professing Christians, pastors, and churches. I'm going to start with a part of the Sermon on the Mount, the judgy-pants, plank-in-the-eye part, then define what woke means and demonstrate how wokeness is anti-gospel, and then call all of us to embrace our privilege in worship, which includes confessing our sins and rejoicing in our God-given forgiveness and fellowship and fruit. # Planks and Pigs - Matthew 7:1-6 Maybe Matthew 7:1 is the most quoted verse in the Gospels next to John 3:16. It may also be a 7:1 misuse:use ratio, and that's by both those who profess to be Christians and those who *don't*. That's an important piece: men who don't believe the Bible, but who are familiar enough with it to borrow its morality, use the parts they want in their own defense. The men and women listening to Jesus were culturally saturated in categories close-ish to God's commandments. These Jews conversed in the vocabulary of righteousness, and, following in the path of their teachers, had more problems with *self*-righteousness than unambiguous unrighteousness. They loved to judge by surface standards, which Jesus confronted as missing the heart of the matter (think: anger, lust, loyalties, 5:21-48). Righteousness must exceed that of the Pharisees and scribes, who were precise and pretentious (5:20). Theirs was for show, so Jesus condemned “practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them” (6:1), whether that was in donating to charity (6:2-4), chanting on the street corners (6:5-14), or in gloomy-faced intermittent fasting (6:17-18). They wanted to be seen, they wanted the reward of a higher social score. At the same time, they were concerned about quality of life, about worldly status, about money and clothes and food (6:24-34). Their treasures showed where their hearts were (6:21). After all that Jesus said, “Judge not that you be not judged” (7:1). As the rest of the paragraph makes clear, this is not about covering your eyes and turning off your brain, but it's about knee-jerk, with emphasis on the jerk part, judgmentalism. It's about being quick to climb the ropes and jump off the highest one with a bionic (or, ironic) elbow of superiority. Verse 2 points out hyper-critical judgments are like a blind man throwing boomerangs; they come back *hard*. Verse 3 points out how ridiculous/laughable it often is: he's got a *log* in his eye. That is a funny picture. A “log” (ESV), or “plank” (NIV) or “beam” (KJV) is a big piece of heavy timber, the kind that holds up a roof, a rafter, that would certainly be bigger than a man's head. The analogy is hyperbole, and humorous. It's a joke. The plank-eyed man is somehow focused on another man with a speck or splinter in his eye. Verse 4 continues the joke, how can you even see around the log? It's funny, and it's hypocrisy. So it's not no judging (see verse 5), but rather it's no judging from self-righteousness. It's no judging others first. If there's self, it should be self-judging, and not second. The hypocrite doesn't get the joke; he *is* the joke. The very next verse may appear to change the subject, but verse 6 applies to the previous five. A self-righteous plank-eyed man, who doesn't see the irony of calling out others for sins he's living in, is a pig that will turn on you if you keep trying to help him see it. > Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pics, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. (verse 6) Just as Jesus is serious about self-righteous, judgy-pants hypocrites who can't recognize themselves, He is serious about others recognizing them and not giving them more material. “But,” sister sentimentalism says, “you're not Jesus. You can't call other people pigs. That's not loving.” And I might say, “Don't judge me.” Or, we could point out, you also aren't Jesus, so you don't get to say that He didn't know what He was doing when He preached this prohibition and acted like it was possible to understand and obey. Do you want to obey Jesus? Love your enemies (5:44), and, don't give pearls to pigs (7:6). Not either/or, but both-and. Don't keep giving holy, valuable wisdom and good news to haters. Don't worry about hurting their feelings. A man who is listening, sure, help him with his splinter, or his log. But a scoffer? Better watch out that he doesn't bite you. # The “Worship” of the Woke Like those in Jesus' day, and actually, even more so, since in our day we actually have Jesus' words, too, we live in a generation of men so familiar with biblical morality that they can't help but use the language to justify themselves and condemn others, mostly to avoid their own hellish guilt. There is nothing new, but at present it's popular again to practice (a kind of) righteousness before men to be seen, liked, and if you're lucky to not have your business burned down. It is full of irony, hypocrisy, wickedness, instability, danger, death, and misery. Unlike a number of labels, “woke” is a self-chosen identity. It's worn proudly, not like the stains smattered from a derogatory tomato. The term gained popularity in the 2010s, and started with concerns about racism, especially in the Black Lives Matter movement. Woke means to be “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice),” ([Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/woke-meaning-origin)), which is a definition like a trojan-horse with dyspepsia. It has crept into any discussion about every possible way a person could be *oppressed*. Karl Marx didn't coin the term “oppression,” but he did divide the world into two categories: the economic oppressors and the economically oppressed. Note: those are legit categories. Solomon wrote about men having power over other men to their *hurt* (Ecclesiastes 8:9). But seeing oppression is different than starting with the assumption that oppression must be found, so look harder. Seeing oppression is different than a worldview which says the oppressor/oppressed categories explain *every* relationship. Seeing oppression, even fighting it, is different than committing your life to becoming the (ironic) oppressor of oppressors. Woke is a worldview built on “righteous” resentment of privilege, on envy of another's good(s), and an attempt to find simple, usually surface causes to explain suffering under the sun. It is a worldview that *will* find faults; the cancel part of cancel culture is not merely a stage toward a Kumbaya hand-holding circle of peace. It is a worldview that demands obedience and sacrifice, namely to level/lower all the high persons. Of course this is impossible. First, this isn't how God made the world to be; He made hierarchies. Second, leveling is at best only seen at the exact moment the oppressed pass the oppressors on their way to the top. The “woke” are aware of and even *consumed by* these problems. The woke think everyone should be woke about the problems. If you aren't woke, then you are the problem. Denial of guilt *is* proof of guilt. What do you *do* to be woke? You must admit your “sin” of privilege, whether that's your white skin, that your parents didn't get divorced, that your gender is male, or that you have a job that pays the bills including your (exorbitant) taxes. You must confess whatever they say are your privileges as sin, feel bad about those privileges, and stop supporting the “system” that promotes some to privilege. Then you must demand that others do the same; you must make disciples (albeit twice the sons of hell, as the Pharisees did in Matthew 23:15). What do you *get* out of being woke? You get a sense of satisfaction stepping up to the moral high ground. Of course, you don't belong there, so any satisfaction is qualified and fleeting; your sense of self is Guilty As Charged. You do *not* get forgiveness; your sins are too great to be paid in this life, even though you must try. You do *not* get fruit, because if anything looked like profit that would be privilege which is wrong by definition. You do *not* get genuine fellowship either. At best you are co-belligerents, fighting the same oppressors, a temporary fellowship based on shared grievances. But there is no happy ending. There is no peace. There is no good news. It is *anti-gospel*. Woke is a worldview that comes from different worship. From _Faultlines_ by Voddie Bauchum > this new body of divinity comes complete with its own cosmology (CT/CRT/I); original sin (racism); law (antiracism); gospel (racial reconciliation); martyrs (Saints Trayvon, Mike, George, Breonna, etc.); priests (oppressed minorities); means of atonement (reparations); new birth (wokeness); liturgy (lament); canon (CSJ social science); theologians (DiAngelo, Kendi, Brown, Crenshaw, MacIntosh, etc.); and catechism (“say their names”). (Location 1185) Are there actual racists (those who hate those of other ethnicities)? Are there employers who exploit their employees? Are their political and bureaucratic tyrants? Are there sexual harassers and predators? YES. And these are not splinter size sins. It is also true that many of our Christian fathers did not ruthlessly and honestly confess their sins and turn from them. They covered their sins, they lied, they did what they said to their kids not to do. Of course this has consequences. But, destroying another's property/business/livelihood, physically attacking and beating another man to death, slandering and ruining reputations *in the name of what's right* is all plank-eyed false righteousness. Seeking to establish lower expectations for minority groups, refusing medical treatment to people with the majority skin color, expecting minimum wage laws to fix poverty, these and other examples are more *planks* in the eye. Those with planks are judging based on a wrong sense of self-righteousness, from arbitrary and volatile “laws,” and they are not appeased by Christians feeling bad for them. They are pigs who will turn back to attack you, and then return to wallow in their chaotic mire (2 Peter 2:22). It was the so-called righteous people who demanded the crucifixion, yet they were a crooked generation. # Our Worship Is Not Woke Is it a guarantee that we can always judge correctly who's a pig? No. Can we never know? Then how frustrating is Jesus' sermon? What helps us deal with any size wood in our eyes, and what helps us see clearly and get clean, is the good news of Jesus Christ. It is the gospel of God that brings us together every Lord's Day. We assemble before God, not a mob of men. We submit to an objective standard, not the traditions or feelings of men. We mourn our sins, according to what God calls sin, as we *come to the Savior*, who paid the cost for us, saves us from the due penalty, and by grace cleanses our consciences and gives us His own Spirit to sense the Father's love and peace with us (Romans 5:5). We are brought into fellowship. We are given *more* privilege, *more* blessing. God does not guilt-trip us, as if His goal was to load us up with heavy burdens and cast us into the sea. The Father is *generous*, gracious; His kindness leads to repentance. He gives us pearls of freedom, forgiveness, fellowship, fruitfulness, even fun. # Conclusion The “pearls” are unidentified in Matthew 7:6, but couldn't they include *identity* as His image-bearers (Call), *forgiveness* as His children (Confession), *food* and *light* from His Word (Consecration), *fellowship* at His table (Communion), and *favor* for our weekly work as His representatives (Commission)? He gives us the treasures of mercy, grace, salvation, freedom, hope, comfort, *gospel*. The Father is giving His children great blessing, to make others (such as the Jews, Romans 11:11) jealous. This is not necessarily worldly success, though it is not resistant to visible, tangible, generational fruitfulness on earth (like many of the Psalms and Deuteronomy describe). Blessings are seen in how you succeed, and how you suffer, how you rejoice and weep with others, when you win and when you worship, when you lose something you loved because it was right. When He gives and takes away, and you bless the name of the Lord, you are likewise blessed. To not want God's blessing in order to not be a target of the woke is to be lukewarm at best, which is the vomit-launching position (Revelation 3:16). It is even less safe to say that you know better than the Father how much of His favor you need. He gives you pearls, which makes you jealousable and which makes pig-plankers TURN their heads, either in humility to repent from their own sin, or in rage to attack. Rejoice in your privileges, including the privilege of worship, and be ready. ---------- ## Charge Brothers, do not hide your light under a bushel. Let the blessings of God on and around you shine brightly; put them on a stand in the center of the room. Remember that God has redeemed you from your sin, He is transforming you from one degree of glory to another, and no one gives privileges like He does. ## Benediction: > The LORD bless you and keep you; > the LORD make his face to shine > upon you and be gracious to you; > the LORD lift up his countenance > upon you and give you peace. > (Numbers 6:24–26, ESV)

  Richard Gale & Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, January 7, 2022 During the past two years, the rise in wokeness and its cancel culture has shocked the sensibilities and moral fabric of the nation. It has fuelled divisions between races, class and economic status, levels of education and political allegiances. However, the anger that wokeness has carried into civil discourse is a symptom of a much deeper causal factor buried in the national psyche; that is, America's pervasive “reality deficit disorder (RDD).” This is a condition that has proliferated across the American landscape since the Age of Enlightenment and the 19th century's advent of scientific materialism as a secular religion.  The proponents of modern behaviorism and the neurosciences are likewise saturated with RDD. The Woke self-congratulating experts and false prophets are its public face.  These are plastic liberal intellectuals who have found reinforced their sense of self-righteousness by spreading the post-modern gospel of Robin DiAngelo's 2018 bestseller White Fragility. Despite the widespread adulation DiAngelo has received from liberal educators, the mega-corporate elite, and the left media, she has managed to jockey herself away from the deep scrutiny her writings and lectures deserve.  An exception is Jonathan Church, author of Reinventing Racism, who brilliantly exposes DiAngelo's flaws and deconstructs her façade of her impartial objectivity.  Church takes a more philosophical offensive to shed light on DiAngelo's implicit biases and contradictions that in turn distort the very ideas she attempts to proselytize. While we agree wholeheartedly with Church's polemic, we would take a more cognitive approach and state that DiAngelo's racial theories of irredeemable Whiteness as an inherent social construct have no basis in reality whatsoever. White Fragility reads like a tantrum by an author with a third-rate intellect who is deeply confused about her own gender and racial identity. “All white people,” DiAngelo wants us to believe, “are invested in and collude with racism.” If you were born White then racism is built into your socialized development and behavior regardless whether your family background is exemplary of racial justice or not. There can be no escape from this curse, DiAngelo suggests, no redemption or purification by fire regardless of how much penitence, public service or charity you perform for the greater good. We wonder whether she would include the indigenous blond hair, blue-eyed Finno-Ugric peoples inhabiting the northern forests and tundra of Scandinavia and Russia's Kola Peninsula as being socially structured and therefore colluding in the world's racism. The author reminds us of someone who has read every published book about chocolate and thus feels qualified to write one of her own despite never having tasted chocolate. Philosophy and postmodern sociology in general, notably the modern philosophies of science and mind, often suffer from this mental affliction. They write books about other philosophers' books who in turn wrote books about their predecessors' scribbling. Right-wing critics of wokeness and certain factions within postmodern Critical Race Theory likewise indulge in a similar cognitive hallucination built upon feeble-minded pre-Galilean superstitions. Their perceptions about themselves and the world, their righteous anger and biases, are similar to dreamscapes, phantoms they have conjured and which can have dire long-term consequences to the welfare of innocent victims prejudiced and canceled by their vitriol and condemnation. There have always been conflicting ideologies, cherished beliefs and inflamed emotions towards racial discrepancies, social order and justice or how the nation should be governed. But today these cognitive afflictions, masquerading as passions and righteous causes have disintegrated into tribalism. This is now fomenting new class and racial distinctions and struggles as well as media turf wars. No one can accurately predict where this collective reality deficit disorder will lead ultimately but it certainly won't contribute to a positive advancement of human well-being. It repeats the old adage of garbage in, garbage out. “The greatest need of our time,” the Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in his Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, “is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning we cannot begin to see. Unless we see we cannot think.”  Merton believed that this “purification must begin with the mass media.”  We would suggest it also begins with our educational institutions. Teachers who embrace White Fragility's social folly and logical fallacies need to introspectively gaze and observe the destructive ataxia nesting in their own minds.  If anyone wonders why the nation is so angry, screaming and protesting, one reason is because the failed neoliberal experiment, the culture of political nepotism, a captured and biased media, and a thoroughly corrupt judiciary have created this horror show. And DiAngelo seemingly wants to gather tinder to keep racial conflagrations burning. "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous," Martin Luther King lamented, "than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." It is our deep ignorance about not first knowing ourselves and appreciating our intrinsic interconnections with each other and the environment that perpetuates the suffering around us. These deeper existential relationships can potentially outsmart and surpass the benefits Critical Race Theory has to offer. Underlying any social structure is to be found cognitive causal relationships. This includes our attachments to whatever accomplishments and failures we experience in our lives through racial identity, which may lead to a reality deficit with all of its superiority complexes, apathy and depression. First, there is sufficient empirical science to reach a consensus that we are a culture that has become habituated to mistaking its unfounded perceptions about itself and the world as reality-based. This applies to our cognitive conceptions of Whiteness, Blackness, Yellowness, etc. Church makes this clear; DiAngelo's use of the term Whiteness is “nebulous” and “vague.”  He points out that her logic falls into a Kafka Trap, referring to Kafka's novel The Trial when an unassuming man is dragged into court and accused for an unspecified crime; subsequently his unwavering denial is itself interpreted as absolute proof that the accusation is true. “Yes, all white people are complicit with racism,” writes DiAngelo, “People will insist that they are not racist… This is the kind of evidence that many white people used to exempt themselves from that system. It is not possible to be exempt from it.” Consequently, for DiAngelo, Whites can only speak about their “whiteness” in terms of how it reinforces an implicit racism within the social system. But from a neuro-scientific perspective, all colored racisms are skewed perceptions of reality. For example, when we gaze into a deep azure sky we immediately assume there is physical blue over our heads. However, there are no blue-colored photons reaching our retinas. Rather, our brains receive the emitted photons and through a complex channeling of information from the eye to the visual cortex. The brain then Photoshops the color azure and projects it through our glance into the empty space of the sky. The same is true whether we gaze at a verdant forest canopy, a fiery sunset, the fluorescent, shimmering hues of a fanning peacock's feathers or observing an African, Asian or European person crossing the street. There is nothing mysterious behind this; it is visual brain science 101. No neuroscientist questions this visual phenomenon.  We reify the sensory stimuli the brain receives from the objective world and then grasp and cling to these as being factually real. Theoretically race may be understood as only a conventional or relative appearance arising to our mental perceptions. No absolute objective claims can be made about it; therefore, there cannot be any absolute analyses or one-size-fits-all solutions for confronting racism either. In striking contrast to White Fragility's cognitive deficiencies, we may consider an argument posed by the great Jewish German existentialist Martin Buber. Buber speaks of an I-You relationship when we engage with another person as another subject instead of as an object. There's a subject there, and that subject is every bit as real as the subject over here. For example, as much as I might care about my own well-being, then so does another person. To transcend White Fragility's divisions and its many shortcomings, which relate to others as I-Its -- as mere objects -- we simply need to be aware of Buber's advice, and become fully engaged with that reality. Buber highlights this as a profoundly existential problem in modern society. It is debilitating.  It is dehumanizing, although for DiAngelo and the cancel culture preserving racial I-It relationships is not only valid but essential. When we regard others simply in terms of whether the color of their skin is appealing or unappealing, pleasant or unpleasant, superior or inferior, and so forth we are bifurcating impressions that have no substance in reality. We are simply treating other sentient beings as if they have no more sentience, no more subjectivity, no more presence from their own side than a robot or computer. But that seems fine for DiAngelo and her tragic dehumanizing dogma. If DiAngelo were unintelligent or had severe brain damage, we might understand and would certainly sympathize. But she -- and we would argue many of those who would carry White Fragility's banner into school classrooms -- are likely very educated people. That is the calamity and the clear evidence for the deep-seated spiritual impoverishment when a person is viewed as nothing more than the race of their physical bodies. If anti-racial wokeness is true, then the more deeply we probe and investigate it, the truer it should appear. This was one of William James' fundamental principles when he made efforts to turn the psychology of his day into a valid science. If James' methodology had not been obliterated by the rise of behaviorism in 1910, psychology would be completely different today. We might actually be treating and curing people of mental disorders without prescribing life-long medications. On the other hand, if DiAngelo's hypothesis is false, the more deeply one investigates, which includes introspection, the more false it will appear. That is where robust inquiry comes in: to determine what is simply true regardless of whatever your personal unsubstantiated and biased beliefs about it might be. What you believe has absolutely no impact upon whether something is true or not. This is also basic Buddhist epistemology that has been repeatedly replicated by contemplatives for several millennia. Neuroscience, including its gross failures and tendencies towards metaphysical realism, has more to tell us about the inherent dangers in White Fragility's doctrine. First, modern brain science has not produced an iota of evidence to confirm that the mind and consciousness are solely a product or output originating in neuron and synaptic activity. None. Contrary to the evidence, most neuroscientists and evolutionary biologists nevertheless embrace this opinion as a settled matter. But it is ridiculous to believe that evolution somehow dragged along our ancient single-celled ancestors until some point was reached when a conscious mind -- a “nothing” that is not observable, not measurable, not quantifiable, without atoms or photons, mass, electric charge or spin – mysteriously arose out of something, such as genes and biomolecular phenomena. Therefore cognitive scientists pretend to know something about the mind and consciousness when in fact they haven't a clue. Although DiAngelo is not stating that socialized racism among Whites is genetically determined, the trajectory of her argument has the potential to lead towards that conclusion. She does consider systemic White racism as being unconscious. Therefore she has moved her social theory into psychology. Since modern psychology today is becoming increasingly informed by the neurosciences, which in turn is being informed by evolutionary biology, it is only a small leap away to find her theory complementing genetic determinism as a means to explain Whiteness' conditioned racism. If her socialized determinism, and that of the neuroscience and evolutionary biology fields, are correct, then it would break the fundamental physical laws of energy conservation and causal efficacy. In effect, DiAngelo is saying White people have no choice. It's socialized chemistry or its socialized chemistry; either way its socialized chemistry.  In effect, DiAngelo is admitting that her own perceptions about reality are fundamentally flawed. Why is that? Dr. Donald Hoffman has been a professor of neuroscience at the University of California at Irvine for over three decades. He has an impeccable background having studied artificial intelligence at MIT. But unlike the vast majority of his colleagues, Hoffman broke ranks and passed beyond neuroscience's 19th century mechanistic base and dared to study modern quantum physics and relativity theory. Theoretical physics is almost anathema in human biological research and medicine, which is why these soft sciences have made so little progress to improve human health and well-being. Hoffman has performed hundreds of thousands of simulations comparing different species and their chances for survival based upon their ability to perceive and comprehend reality more accurately or not. His discoveries are startling and utterly revolutionary. Hoffman discovered, across the board, species that best perceive reality go extinct more rapidly than competing species that only perceive what is necessary for them to remain fit and survive. During an interview following a TED Talk, Hoffman stated, “according to evolution by natural selection,” – and here he is limiting himself solely to evolutionary biological theory and not the various competing theories about the nature of consciousness – “an organism that sees reality as it is will never be more fit than an organism of equal complexity that sees none of reality but is just tuned to fitness. Never.” In other words, evolution has nothing to do with perceiving reality more clearly, but only to be more fit in order to adapt, survive and procreate. And now physicists are even telling us that the primal cause behind all physical objects may be consciousness itself, which has no association whatsoever with natural selection. For example, Professor Edward Witten, regarded as “the world's smartest” physicist at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, has been compared to Newton and Einstein. Witten doesn't believe science will ever understand consciousness. “I think consciousness will remain a mystery,” Witten stated during a lecture, ”I have a much easier time imagining how we understand the Big Bang than I have imagining how we can understand consciousness.” Or we can listen to Stanford University theoretical physicist Andre Linde: “The current scientific model of the material world obeying laws of physics has been so successful that we forget our starting point as conscious observers, and conclude that matter is the only reality and that perceptions are only helpful for describing it. But in fact, we are substituting the reality of our experience of the universe with a conceptually contrived belief…” One may feel our critique is too abstract with little or no practical application; however to at least conceptually understand race in terms of our sensory perceptions can have enormous benefits to cut through and lessen the false semblances that arise from reality deficit disorder that winds up producing books such as White Fragility. Moreover, contrary to DiAngelo's arguments, British journalist Melanie Phillips offers a clearer understanding for why we should not rely upon the pundits of anti-racial wokeness to save us from ourselves. Despite disagreeing with Phillips on many of her other socio-political positions, she correctly identifies the fundamental flaws being voiced by arrested development wokeness across our campuses and within the corporate wing of the Democrat party. First, it is unable to establish a hierarchy of values and morals. For example, if one refuses to say that any lifestyle or culture is better than another, then it cannot be said that liberalism is better than conservatism or any other ideology.  Consequently, faux liberalism cannot legitimately defend the very principles upon which it defines itself: racial and gender equality, freedom of speech and religion, justice and tolerance, and class struggle.  It contradicts its own principles and follows DiAngelo's footsteps to remove the dignity of the individual, which in the past was at the heart of authentic liberalism and once served as its moral backbone. What we are witnessing therefore in Woke liberalism – and in DiAngelo's reinvention of racism -- is “the strong dominating the weak,” and this is an ill-liberal ideology that is already showing signs of having catastrophic consequences in classrooms and the workplace. Finally, if DiAngelo's theory is correct, then all Whites, without exception, in American history, were unconsciously transmuted into racists starting at the time of their birth. What is her proof? Is there any scientific evidence to support this outrageous claim? Did she consider the lack of sensitivity towards other peoples and races who were victims of racial identity and violence, such as the Jews who experienced genocide at hands of their Nazi overlords? And what would she say against those Whites who have fought against racism throughout the American experience, such as the Abolitionists in the US and UK who put their bodies at great risk?  In principle she is labeling them too as racist despite their fighting, protesting and even dying as committed anti-racists. Many Whites have embraced other races and cultures with open arms; however, DiAngelo wants us to believe this legacy was a sham, because in some strange voodoo way they were unconsciously racist. Is this not the height of hubris and arrogance?

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After practicing law at a small firm and spending tireless days in and out of courtrooms, fighting battles that could have and should have been prevented, she founded DiAngelo Law. It took some time to find a way to merge my passion for entrepreneurship and personal growth with my skill set as a lawyer, but once she moved to the Channel District in the heart of Tampa, FL, she became immersed in the flourishing startup ecosystem and my calling was clear. That's why Erica began using my legal knowledge and skillset to focus on protecting business owners, avoiding costly legal battles, laying foundations for growth, and being an advocate to all kinds of entrepreneurs who are focusing on their passions and on the advancement of innovation.

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In this episode Barry Farah breaks down Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility. DiAngelo insists that if you are born white you are racist. Barry Farah details DiAngelo's line of thought and its fallacy.

In this episode, Eli tells the story of a recent personal encounter he had with antisemitism and the intersectional bigotry that followed from it before he and Jeff discuss the meaning of patriotism. They then wade into the contemporary culture wars on race using Ross Douthat's recent OpEds in the New York Times as an access point to the controversies and dig a little deeper into the work of Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi. Jeff levels a withering critique against DiAngelo's concept of white fragility which to Eli's ears sound an awful lot like the tenets of Nonviolent Communication. They then discuss Kendi's insistence that there is no middle ground between racism and antiracism.Show Notes:To read Ross Douthat's June 26th OpEd, click/tap here. To read Ross Douthat's July 3rd OpEd, click/tap here.

For the past few years, I haven't had a classroom. However, I have been able to guest teach lessons with students. This is challenging because I don't get the luxury of multiple opportunities to build teacher-student relationships. I have to earn a little trust within 30 seconds of meeting them. This episode is about five ways to earn students' trust and letting them know they belong in our classrooms. We'll focus on the use of excerpts from four major young-adult novels to help us with these conversations in the classrooms and talk about how they can inform conversations with our faculty. Transcript here Works Cited Acevedo, Elizabeth. With the Fire on High. HarperTeen, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019. DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Beacon Press, 2018. Jewell, Tiffany, and Aurélia Durand. This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake up, Take Action, and Do the Work. Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2020. Mafi, Tahereh. A Very Large Expanse of Sea. Harpercollins, 2018. Sánchez, Erika L. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. Alfred A. Knopf, an Imprint of Random House Children's Books, 2017. Thomas, Angie. On the Come Up. HarperCollins Publisher, 2019. ------------------ More Connections and Resources! About Me: https://bit.ly/meetjoshflores Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Getting-LIT-113893257018002 Podcast on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/gettinglit Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3zTDPiJ1iN1HSqTu35YyxY Podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-lit/id1511111916 Podcast on Google Play: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xNDRjYzY5Yy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Teachers-Pay-Teachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Margined Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjoshflores --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gettinglit/support

Chris Watkin is a lecturer in Philosophy and French Studies at Monash University. He is joined by Mikey Lynch, Campus Director of the University Fellowship of Christians at the University of Tasmania, and Rob Smith who is a lecturer of Theology, Ethics and Music Ministry at SMBC. All three spend their days in the epicentre of progressive though; the Academy. They discuss how Christians should think about movements such as cultural Marxism, cancel culture and critical theory. Resources mentioned: Tim Keller's critique: https://quarterly.gospelinlife.com/a-biblical-critique-of-secular-justice-and-critical-theory) Neil Shenvi's review of Sensoy and DiAngelo's book (Is Everyone Really Equal?): (https://shenviapologetics.com/quotes-from-sensoy-and-diangelos-is-everyone-really-equal) More thoughts from Chris Watkin can be found at: thinkingthroughthebible.com or on Twitter @thinking_bible.

This is a longtime favorite of mine and, despite the tragic circumstances, I am glad to see more people finally interested in studying this work. Especially teachers! The excerpts I'll discuss and I feel are especially applicable to educators are taken from pages 7-9, 30-31, 56-57, 102-105. I'll include pics from my presentation slides about this work and the YAL novels that I felt paired nicely with the previously listed excerpts on my social medias: Twitter: @mrjoshflores Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Getting-LIT-113893257018002/ DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Beacon Press, 2018 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gettinglit/support