"In every way shape and form the almighty dollar trumped the conscience of the be at what point do you say no we're not going to do business with this sort of thing?" he asks. "I'm so exhausted by listening to them I'm like um it seems well this is what happens everything gets co-opted critical race theory as everyone knows is just in some remote corner of legal college discussion nobody's teaching it in at elementary or middle school or high school levelYou get co-opted when you say black lives matter like please can we do that that gets co- exploited," says Van Voorst. 'It becomes impossible to say even anything uh without it being corrupted
Roxane Gay joins Kara as guest co-host! They discuss the growing threats of violence following the FBI’s search of Mar-A-Lago and Salman Rushdie's recovery after his on-stage attack. Also, Amazon turns surveillance into reality TV, and Al Franken endorses Liz Cheney. Friend of Pivot Ken Burns discusses his latest work, “The U.S. and the Holocaust.”
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“The U.S. and the Holocaust” premieres September 18th on PBS.
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