The Fifth Column

373 "Notes on White Privilege" w/ Adam Davidson and Thomas Chatterton Williams

Sep 17, 2022

01:26:25

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Adam Davidson

Thomas Chatterton Williams

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Is the Pendulum Swung in a Really Weird Direction?

02:47

I've Experienced That

01:22

Is It R That's Corner Stone?

01:39

The Ugliest Childhood I've Ever Heard Of

02:06

Introduction

2min

The Privileges of the White Dudes Aren't Enough

2min

The White Nationalists, the White Nationists

4min

I'm Going to Rape You, I'm Gonna Kill You, Yea, I Think Words Are Violents.

3min

I'm Glad You Also Didn't Threaten to Kill Me if I Didnt Take That In.

5min

I'm a Big Believer in Zero Privileges in Italics

4min

How to Quantify Privilege in a Person's Life

3min

The Ugliest Childhood I've Ever Heard Of

5min

What Is the Impact of the Fed Funds Rate?

2min

10.

How Do You Decide Whether You Are White or Jewish?

3min

11.

I'm an Askanazi Jew, and I've Been a Libertarian for a Long Time.

2min

12.

Is It Efficient to Invoke Race?

2min

13.

The New Paradine Is Not Just Wrong

4min

14.

Is There a Difference Between Blackness and Whiteness?

2min

15.

Are Africans Denied the Ability to Transmit Intergenerational Wealth?

5min

16.

Why Are Some Countries Doing Well and Some Aren't?

2min

17.

I've Been in a Room With a Lot of Powerful People, and It Seems to Be a Privileged Story, but It's Also a Standard Anti Privilege Story

5min

18.

Is There a Difference Between Blackness and Race?

2min

19.

Is It Real? And What Do You Do About It?

2min

20.

I've Been Astonished by the Number of Friends Who Have Become Affirmatively Black

5min

21.

Are You Trying to Get Away From Obesity?

4min

22.

How Do You Define Diversity in a Company?

5min

23.

I'm Not Sure I Can Differ Between Tokanism and Blackness, but I Don't Want to Be Hired

3min

24.

I've Been Hired for an Extraordinary Opportunity Because I Was Raced as a Black Person

3min

25.

We Need Novel Thinking U and New Solutions to Address Raceism

6min

Featuring:Thomas Chatterton Williams - Contributing Writer @ The Atlantic, Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow Hannah Arendt Center @ Bard College Adam Davidson - Co-Founder @ Planet Money, Contributing Writer @ The New Yorker*** “It amazes me that any straight, white dudes don't see the privilege we have. It's not subtle.” - Adam Davidson - via Twitter (8/20/22)Not a long tweet. And in the grand scheme of things, hardly an unusual opinion to encounter. Ordinarily, I fire off a reply —maybe there’s some pithy back and forth, but things more or less end up about where they began— until the next (pointless?) social media drama.But maybe we agree to talk instead? Probe a bit further. Perhaps even learn a few things in the process?

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