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369. The Third Most Amazing Race (ft. Gaby Del Valle)


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Episode: 369. The Third Most Amazing Race (ft. Gaby Del Valle)
Pub date: 2024-09-25

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We are joined by Gaby Del Valle who has written a great—and distressingly relevant—essay for The Baffler, which reports on the “eugenic foundations of the war on woke.” We dig into the beliefs of innate biological hierarchy and genetic superiority that underpin so much of mainstream right-wing politics. Whether it’s the convergence of Christian nationalist and tech rationalists around issues like declining birth rates and embryo engineering, or its the resurgence of blood libel with JD Vance’s fascist fairy tale about Haitian migrants, or its the cultural war against woke universities and DEI committees—these various sects are all unified by their use of biological essentialism to justify social domination.
••• Live Free or DEI https://thebaffler.com/salvos/live-free-or-dei-del-valle
••• Follow Gaby: https://x.com/gabydvj
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