• Will2Live [he/him]
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    HR training, they’re doing the diversity workshop, they’re reading white fragility

    Lol the chapos still have serious hangups about "idpol" don't they.

    They actually kind of are the class reductionists that people said they were

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      There's a difference between calling out a book like "White Fragility" for being useless HR pablum, and whining about "idpol." The problem with White Fragility is that it frames racism in modern America as the unfortunate aggregate of personal failings, instead of the deliberate product of systemic oppression. White Fragility offers the racial equivalent of suggesting we can stop global warming if we all buy a Prius. It puts the blame on the (not fully undeserving, but largely powerless) masses instead of the institutions of power which are responsible for the perpetuation and self-replication of racial inequality. That isn't reductionism. That is synthesis.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      did you listen to the episode about the book

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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        I did, the whole episode was the definition of overselling a point, it's a mediocre book that disillusioned libs will buy on amazon and then never read, but according to the chapos it's the gosh darn necronomicon that will herald the "Normalized Apocalypse"🙄

        Matt almost had a great take, but he ruined it by going full Amber

        • gayposter69420 [she/her,they/them]
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          What are you on about? They did an episode tearing apart a shitty book in a funny way for the listeners because THEY'RE AN ENTERTAINMENT PODCAST

          stop acting like Chapo is a fucking weekly Marxist publication, it is a show we listen to for fun

          • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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            Who the fuck said they weren't entertainment, the episode was boring af, you could tell they were personnel offended by some of the tepid observations made by the book, that shit ain't "FuNy" its lame

            Imagine getting paid 250,000 a year to review dumb liberal books from the amazon sociology section, what a racket lol

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              listen I’ll be brutally honest and invoke my hot girl rights

              I don’t really care what you have to say and neither does anyone who listens to the pod

              • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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                Its was literally the WHOLE EPISODE, didn't need to listen to a shitty 45 minute rant by Amber who hilariously enough kept undermining the overarching point the group was trying to make by arguing "actually racism is not that systemic, and we can solve it by being nice" lol

                Dogshit episode, easily the second worst of the year