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CS 198: Scoring on Strawmen (08/19/2019) (Patreon)

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2019-08-23 01:09:54
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This episode has Kenny and T. cohosting with no guests. 

We discuss Nas and Will Smith's new financial literacy app for teens Step and how various wings of woke Twitter were bashing the app without even seeming to read what the app was even about. We also go into Nas's consistently incoherent fake-deep political philosophy over the years. We discuss NYC Black people's willingness to let Hispanics and others to use the word "nigga" and Bay Area Black people's willingness to let everyone use the word and how that differs from Black people from other regions.  We also discuss how socialists often put too much importance and emphasis on the socialism of the Black Panthers, especially when trying to use them as examples of eschewing identity politics.

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Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com).

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Sayyid Bernard

Does Kenny believe reparations for ADOS is more achievable than Medicare for All or a federal jobs program?

Bernard Scott
>>26082193

The real questions are: "why should we or anyone assume the reverse?" or "Why does it has to even be an either or scenario" . The universal programs are probably much more expensive, and are as politically difficult ( just because policies are relatively popular among the public, it doesn't mean passing it or anything close to an ideal version is even close to easy), given the realities of the legislative branches, which we have a lot of data on suggesting that it hardly responds to polls/popular opinion (especially when split), but is fairly responsive to monied interests which are deep in the pockets of both parties (especially when you talk healthcare related lobbies, which is the reason for resistance from Milquetoast Dems, which are the majority of the party). Anyone proposing such policies may as well roll reparations or some black specific policies in. All of it is virtually aiming the dart higher than it will be able to hit if derivative bills are passed. I think this question posed is the wrong way to think of it. People can and do say the exact same thing about those yet reparations/potential black specific policies receive additional scrutiny and dismissive attitudes in terms of feasibility and whether it ever deserves to be a part of the conversation when it comes to national politics. Just because it doesn't appear currently achievable does not mean it doesn't deserve advocacy (blacks do need to start advocating for specific policies that benefit themselves more). I mean, look how far the medicare for all conversation and popularity has come despite how "feasible" most think it is (or how feasible it actually is). It seems unfair, basically telling us "hey we can't talk about that now because it doesn't seem more feasible than this other thing that didn't seem achievable in the past and that our favorite presidential candidate is selling. You people need to just let that go and take what you can get". This sounds familiar: Like...how mostly white liberals are always told to settle for the centrist not advocating for those sweeping universal policies using the "it isn't achievable" cover. They don't seem very happy with this paradigm especially since 2016. Now folks are basically telling blacks something analogous (perhaps because it has been such a reliable voting bloc for Dems that folks think that anyone proposing key class-based social programs that will help some should be enough to secure that vote without receiving any further scrutiny from that group): "Don't be so pushy!". I just have a big problem with the framing/condescending nature of such a question and the generally dismissive tone with regards to reparations coming from the left. Whether or not Kenny thinks one or the other is more "achievable" does not matter. One is an actual debt and something the black community needs much more. Medicare for all will be more like a band-aid for that group. Maybe I should ask petty questions like: "Do you actually think it is more achievable to get medicare for all than reinstating all the tenets of Obamacare?"

Sayyid Bernard

Friends is way more bourgeois and WASPy than Seinfeld. At least the characters in Seinfeld were meant to be kinda dusty and putting their life together, the characters in Friends are straight up gentrifiers.