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Jonathan’s book Reinventing Racism: Why “White Fragility” Is the Wrong Way to Think About Racial Inequality is forthcoming. To join the mailing list for preorders, write to dropusalineatteafortwo@gmail.com. Write to Jonathan and read his correspondence with Matt McManus: https://letter.wiki/JonathanChurch/conversations Jonathan’s 2019 Areo article “An Economy Theory of Whiteness” is here: https://areomagazine.com/2019/11/26/an-economic-theory-of-whiteness/ You can find more of Jonathan’s writing here: http://www.jonathandavidchurch.com/ Write to me here: https://letter.wiki/IonaItalia/conversations Further References Robin DiAngelo, Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (2016): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566247/white-fragility-by-robin-diangelo/ Glenn Loury, “How to Mend Affirmative Action” (1997): https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Glenn_Loury/louryhomepage/cvandbio/How%20to%20Mend%20Affirmative%20Action.pdf For more on the scholar John A. Powell, see: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/johnpowell Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” (1989) https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf Cheryl I. Harris, Whiteness as Property (1993): https://sph.umd.edu/sites/default/files/files/Harris_Whiteness%20as%20Property_106HarvLRev-1.pdf For more on the scholar Lawrence Blum, see: http://www.lawrenceblum.net/ Lawrence Blum, “White Privilege: A Mild Critique” (2008): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1477878508095586 For more on the Coase theorum: https://www.britannica.com/topic/environmental-economics/The-Coase-theorem Coleman Hughes, “The Racism Treadmill” (2018): https://quillette.com/2018/05/14/the-racism-treadmill/ Thomas Chatterton Williams, “The Nightmare from which Ta Nehisi-Coates Is Trying not to Awake” in Areo 2017: https://areomagazine.com/2017/10/17/the-nightmare-from-which-ta-nehisi-coates-is-trying-not-to-awake/ Eric Kaufmann, Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities (2018): https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/306/306352/whiteshift/9780141986630.html Razib Khan’s 2018 Areo article, “Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future”: https://areomagazine.com/2018/11/28/why-there-will-not-be-a-beige-future-skin-color-genetics-race-and-racism/ Timestamps 3:35 The central thesis of Robin DiAngelo’s book White Fragility 8:05 The Kafka trap 11:39 The reification of whiteness 17:40 The Implicit As sociation Test 31:23 The legacy of historical racism 32:20 Racism vs. racial inequality 34:52 Preferential vs. developmental affirmative action 39:00 African-Americans and the race burden 41:35 What is racism? 44:00 Majorities and minorities 46:32 Jonathan’s economic theory of racial injustice 1:09:36 Will pervasive societal racism always be with us?

In 1955, aliens from the planet Clarion contacted a Chicago housewife to warn her that the end of the world was imminent. Psychologist Leon Festinger saw this as a unique opportunity to test a new theory about human cognition. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll follow him inside a UFO religion as it approaches the apocalypse. We'll also try to determine when exactly LBJ became president and puzzle over some wet streets. Intro: There's a hexagon of cloud at Saturn's north pole. You're not as unpopular as you think you are. Sources for our feature on Leon Festinger: Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, When Prophecy Fails, 1956. Leon Festinger, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, 1957. Joel Cooper, Cognitive Dissonance: Fifty Years of a Classic Theory, 2007. Camille Morvan with Alexander J. O'Connor, An Analysis of Leon Festinger's A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, 2017. Leon Festinger, "Cognitive Dissonance," Scientific American 207:4 (October 1962), 93-106. Stanley Schachter, "Leon Festinger," Biographical Memoirs, Vol. 64, National Academy of Sciences, 1994. R.B. Zajonc, "Obituary: Leon Festinger (1919–1989)," American Psychologist 45:5 (1990), 661-662. Michael S. Gazzaniga, "Leon Festinger: Lunch With Leon," Perspectives on Psychological Science 1:1 (2006), 88-94. Elliot Aronson, "Leon Festinger and the Art of Audacity," Psychological Science 2:4 (July 1, 1991), 213-221. Serge Moscovici, "Obituary: Leon Festinger," European Journal of Social Psychology 19:4 (July 1989), 263-269. Dion Scott-Kakures, "Unsettling Questions: Cognitive Dissonance in Self-Deception," Social Theory and Practice 35:1 (January 2009), 73-106. Stephen Cox, "An Experiment in Apocalypse," Liberty 24:11 (December 2010) 17-22. Louisa C. Egan, Laurie R. Santos, and Paul Bloom, "The Origins of Cognitive Dissonance: Evidence From Children and Monkeys," Psychological Science 18:11 (November 2007), 978-983. Merton S. Krause, "An Analysis of Festinger's Cognitive Dissonance Theory," Philosophy of Science 39:1 (March 1972), 32-50. Charles G. Lord, "Was Cognitive Dissonance Theory a Mistake?" Psychological Inquiry 3:4 (1992), 339-342. Betty M. Bayer, "Wonder in a World of Struggle?" Subjectivity 23:1 (July 2008), 156-173. Chris Mooney, "The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science," Issues 95 (June 2011), 27-32. Chris Bader, "When Prophecy Passes Unnoticed: New Perspectives on Failed Prophecy," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 38:1 (March 1999), 119-131. Lorne L. Dawson, "When Prophecy Fails and Faith Persists: A Theoretical Overview," Nova Religio 3:1 (October 1999), 60-82. Jon R. Stone, "Prophecy and Dissonance: A Reassessment of Research Testing the Festinger Theory," Nova Religio 12:4 (May 2009), 72-90. Michael Barkun, "The Occultist and the Spaceman," in Cathy Gutierrez, Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling, 2015. Diana Tumminia, "How Prophecy Never Fails: Interpretive Reason in a Flying-Saucer Group," Sociology of Religion 59:2 (Summer 1998), 157-170. Robert W. Balch, Gwen Farnsworth, and Sue Wilkins, "When the Bombs Drop: Reactions to Disconfirmed Prophecy in a Millennial Sect," Sociological Perspectives 26:2 (April 1983), 137-158. Daniel Finkelstein, "Prosecutors Don't Know How Biased They Are," Times, Jan. 24, 2018, 27. Matthew Syed, "Trial and Error," New Statesman 144:5288 (Nov. 13-19, 2015), 28-31, 33. "Leon Festinger, 69, New School Professor," New York Times, Feb. 12, 1989. Adam Grant, "The Virtue of Contradicting Ourselves," New York Times, Nov. 14, 2015. Kristin Wong, "Why It's So Hard to Admit You're Wrong," New York Times, May 22, 2017. John Tierney, "Go Ahead, Rationalize. Monkeys Do It, Too," New York Times, Nov. 6, 2007. Listener mail: Simon Usborne, "The LBJ Missal: Why a Prayer Book Given to John F. Kennedy Was Used to Swear in the 36th US President," Independent, Nov. 16, 2013. "About the Constitution: Article II: Executive Branch," National Constitution Center (accessed Jan. 25, 2019). Scott Bomboy, "How JFK's Assassination Led to a Constitutional Amendment," Constitution Daily, Nov. 22, 2018. "Art & History: Vice President of the United States (President of the Senate)," United States Senate (accessed Jan. 25, 2019). "Art & History: John Tyler, Tenth Vice President (1841)," United States Senate (accessed Jan. 25, 2019). Wikipedia, "William Henry Harrison" (accessed Jan. 25, 2019). Wikipedia, "Presidency of John Tyler" (accessed Jan. 27, 2019). "John Tyler," whitehouse.gov (accessed Jan. 25, 2019). "Amendment XXV: Presidential Disability and Succession," National Constitution Center (accessed Jan. 25, 2019). This week's lateral thinking puzzle was devised by Greg. Here's a corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain, cofounders of Multicoin Capital, dive deeply into their sometimes controversial and unpopular opinions on how the crypto revolution will play out. They describe why they don't think the technology that a team develops early on will play nearly as big a role as some think, why there will be a spectrum of blockchains offering different features with different tradeoffs, and why they're bearish on stablecoins. They discuss why they disagree on whether or not the Lightning Network is revolutionary (and therefore why they disagree on whether Bitcoin is failing). Samani and Jain also explain how they decide whether or not to invest in a token, their strategies for trading and why they don't have to be invested in a project to help out. Multicoin: https://multicoin.capital/ Kyle Samani: @KyleSamani Tushar Jain: @TusharJain_ A blog post that came out after we recorded in which Kyle expands on his contention that technical features will matter less in the long-term success of a network than people think: https://multicoin.capital/2018/04/25/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/ Kyle's post on the outlook for coins for store of value, utility tokens and stablecoins: https://multicoin.capital/2018/03/15/paths-to-tens-of-trillions/ More Multicoin thinking around stablecoins: https://multicoin.capital/2018/01/17/an-overview-of-stablecoins/ Previous Unchained episode: Why It's So Hard to Keep Stablecoins Stable: http://unchainedpodcast.co/why-its-so-hard-to-keep-stablecoins-stable Thank you to our sponsors: Bitwise: https://www.bitwiseinvestments.com/unchained Keepkey: https://www.keepkey.com/ Preciate: https://preciate.org/recognize

*A WTD Classic Episode from the Vault. This conversation was originally recorded in May 2017, and released as a 2-part podcast. Given the popularity of and demand for this episode we wanted to release it as one whole podcast for more people to easily share and use as a resource. Have we got a treat for you this week! Ashley, Elijah, and Ryan talk with Dr. Robin DiAngelo, author of What Does It Mean to Be White and Is Everyone Really Equal, about prejudice, racism, discrimination, white fragility, and white privilege. Dr. DiAngelo received her PhD in Whiteness Studies from the University of Washington in 2004, and she's been wrestling with her own whiteness for even longer as a diversity trainer. — — — — — — — — — — —  Show Notes: Robin DiAngelo - https://robindiangelo.com Articles: 1. Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism - https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/white-fragility-why-its-so-hard-to-talk-to-white-people-about-racism-twlm/ 2. No, I Won’t Stop Saying White Supremacy - https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/no-i-wont-stop-saying-white-supremacy-wcz/ Books: 1. What Does It Mean To Be White - https://www.amazon.com/What-Does-Mean-White-Counterpoints/dp/1433131102/ 2. Is Everyone Really Equal? - https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Introduction-Concepts-Education-Multicultural/dp/080775269X/ Videos: 1. What Does It Mean to Be White In a Society That Proclaims Race Meaningless - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-pZH-S4jk 2. Understanding White Fragility with Dr. Robin DiAngelo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeGFk780bH0&t=17s 3. Why do White People Insist Race Doesn’t Matter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uviA_FGLcyE — — — — — — — — — — —  The WTD crew doesn’t have it all figured out but we’re trying to talk about and give voice to these conversations in public. So shout out to all of our listeners! We’re so fortunate that y’all take time out of your week to listen to us. Thank you for listening and please share us with your circles — birthday present, anniversary gift, or just a simple conversation starter…WTD is there for every occasion! Or if you wanna get at us (and we know you do) you got options: Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: twitter.com/wetalkdifferent Instagram: instagram.com/wetalkdifferent/ Website: wetalkdifferent.com You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher so you'll never miss an episode! Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners. iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wetalkdifferent/id1161601126 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/wetalkdifferent Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wetalkdifferent Also please join our Facebook group to discuss the episodes with the WTD team and other WTDers —  https://www.facebook.com/groups/wetalkdifferent/

Ashley, Elijah, and Ryan continue their conversation with Dr. Robin DiAngelo, author of What Does It Mean to Be White and Is Everyone Really Equal, about prejudice, racism, discrimination, white fragility, and white privilege. Dr. DiAngelo received her PhD in Whiteness Studies from University of Washington in 2004, and she's been wrestling with her own whiteness for even longer as a diversity trainer. — — — — — — — — — — —  Show Notes: Robin DiAngelo - https://robindiangelo.com Articles: 1. Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism - https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/white-fragility-why-its-so-hard-to-talk-to-white-people-about-racism-twlm/ 2. No, I Won’t Stop Saying White Supremacy - https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/no-i-wont-stop-saying-white-supremacy-wcz/ Books: 1. What Does It Mean To Be White - https://www.amazon.com/What-Does-Mean-White-Counterpoints/dp/1433131102/ 2. Is Everyone Really Equal? - https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Introduction-Concepts-Education-Multicultural/dp/080775269X/ Videos: 1. What Does It Mean to Be White In a Society That Proclaims Race Meaningless - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-pZH-S4jk 2. Understanding White Fragility with Dr. Robin DiAngelo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeGFk780bH0&t=17s 3. Why do White People Insist Race Doesn’t Matter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uviA_FGLcyE — — — — — — — — — — —  The WTD crew doesn’t have it all figured out but we’re trying to talk about and give voice to these conversations in public. So shout out to all of our listeners! We’re so fortunate that y’all take time out of your week to listen to us. Thank you for listening and please share us with your circles — birthday present, anniversary gift, or just a simple conversation starter…WTD is there for every occasion! If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher so you'll never miss an episode! Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners. iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wetalkdifferent/id1161601126 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-313380625 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wetalkdifferent Also please join our Facebook group to discuss the episodes with the WTD team and other WTDers —  https://www.facebook.com/groups/259510101160665/

Have we got a treat for you this week! Ashley, Elijah, and Ryan talk with Dr. Robin DiAngelo, author of What Does It Mean to Be White and Is Everyone Really Equal, about prejudice, racism, discrimination, white fragility, and white privilege. Dr. DiAngelo received her PhD in Whiteness Studies from University of Washington in 2004, and she's been wrestling with her own whiteness for even longer as a diversity trainer. — — — — — — — — — — —  Show Notes: Robin DiAngelo - https://robindiangelo.com Articles: 1. Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism - https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/white-fragility-why-its-so-hard-to-talk-to-white-people-about-racism-twlm/ 2. No, I Won’t Stop Saying White Supremacy - https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/no-i-wont-stop-saying-white-supremacy-wcz/ Books: 1. What Does It Mean To Be White - https://www.amazon.com/What-Does-Mean-White-Counterpoints/dp/1433131102/ 2. Is Everyone Really Equal? - https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Introduction-Concepts-Education-Multicultural/dp/080775269X/ Videos: 1. What Does It Mean to Be White In a Society That Proclaims Race Meaningless - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-pZH-S4jk 2. Understanding White Fragility with Dr. Robin DiAngelo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeGFk780bH0&t=17s 3. Why do White People Insist Race Doesn’t Matter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uviA_FGLcyE — — — — — — — — — — —  The WTD crew doesn’t have it all figured out but we’re trying to talk about and give voice to these conversations in public. So shout out to all of our listeners! We’re so fortunate that y’all take time out of your week to listen to us. Thank you for listening and please share us with your circles — birthday present, anniversary gift, or just a simple conversation starter…WTD is there for every occasion! If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher so you'll never miss an episode! Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners. iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wetalkdifferent/id1161601126 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-313380625 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wetalkdifferent Also please join our Facebook group to discuss the episodes with the WTD team and other WTDers —  https://www.facebook.com/groups/259510101160665/