Your discussions on race in America are lacking crucial historical context that would be best expressed from someone whose views run counter to your own.
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Instead of inviting people on to merely echo, if not justify, your previous denials and diminishing of such a critical subject, how about conversing with some people who are actively working to eradicate racism?
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I would recommend Michelle Alexander, Dr. Cornel West and host of others with much more comprehensive understandings of the issue(s) than your previous guests have shown.
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But if you’d rather the Waking Up podcast just be an echo chamber with regard to race, then why not - just do what you mentioned at the beginning of episode 134 - avoid the issue of race entirely?
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@CornelWest, Michelle Alexander, or@esglaude. Harris and West...wouldn’t that be something to listen to
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I think he compared Ta-Nehishi Coates to the alt-right, so I have no clue what he would think of Cornel West, all I know is that he’d never have the balls to talk to him
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Legitimately enjoyed this conversation
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I have family from oak cliff. I have family from Compton. I been in environments where black people spend money on iPhones they can’t afford, cars they can’t make the payments on. I know black people who refuse to help their kids with homework because “that’s what school is for”
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FWIW, I come from a relatively poor (very white) rural community. I see the same things all the time. Like a lot of things that appear race - based on the surface, it seems like this might be more a function of class and class mobility.
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No one is saying they behave this way BECAUSE they are black. The point is that they behave this way and the black community likes to say that it’s all because of slavery and racism which is just not the case.
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Yeah I got your meaning. I wasn't arguing as much as relating.
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People are accusing Sam of confirmation bias when he agrees to openly debate Jordan Peterson in front of thousands of people. Sam and Jordan fundamentally disagree about religion. And he actually invited Coates to debate him in public at a live event
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if sam is so worried about the left, i dont understand his choice of guests. help?
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Sam is on the left. Given his notions of free will, he is incredibly compassionate to how social conditions lead people to act the way they do. He is inviting people like Coleman bc such conversations are not being had. People on the left know and read Coates like religious texts
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Sam is not on the left.
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where is he do you think?
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On the right but he doesn't want to admit it.
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