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Hey team!

Here is the rough cut of the new video. As usual, the audio is crusty, the timing is rough, there are script revisions reflected in the slides that haven't been recorded yet, and there's at least one typo (points if you can find it).

Final audio is being recorded this afternoon and the finished vid should be public tomorrow. Enjoy!

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alt-right playbook: the death of a euphemism

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The Packbats

...pretty good reminder of exactly how bad it <em>is</em>.

KSCHatch

So good. And something I think about a lot as part of my practice in life—how much easier it is to do what we have always done. I remember when I learned about Milgram's obedience test. It did not surprise me that people just went along with it. Ignorance runs deep and the path of least resistance is, well, easy to take. If it was easy to love people, even the people we don't like, we wouldn't have the problems we have. Thank you for another excellent video. :)

Gwen Stearns

I guess the one semi-objection I have to this is that you don't really go into euphemism as a means to justify laws - you mostly describe it as a way to get votes. I might've been more explicit about how something like mass incarceration or redlining is truly done because it benefits rich business owners, one way or another, but justified through racist euphemisms about crime or drugs. Other than that, very good, this is a very insightful, well-researched series.

Michael Tardibuono

Thanks for responding! I l loved the video! Let me just clarify. The graph had just white votes on it as you said white men, and I felt that it was hard to know which group you were talking about, and kind of felt like you were just ignoring the fact that women exist. I would have preferred you said white people. I'm aware that white men slant much more towards republicans... I'm probably being overly critical.

John Vance

Wow, that's a stark take, but I can't argue with it. We'll never defeat it if we can't acknowledge just how bad it's gotten.

Crissa Kentavr

You use ‘deporting Mexicans’ when you probably mean ‘latino’.