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We discussed the NY stripper strike, the new Five Pillars of Hip-Hop, the new Cultural Mulattoes, swirling, getting invited to "the cookout, Bob McNair's "inmates" comment to his football team, and recent developments with a branch of Black Lives Matter.

Show Notes

* "MTO BREAKING NEWS: New York City Strippers GO ON STRIKE . . . They’re Fighting For EQUAL TREATMENT . . . With The BARTENDERS!!! #StripperWars #StripperStrike" http://mtonews.com/41193-2-nyc-stripperstrike-wars/

* "NYC strippers are on strike and we should hear them out". This link includes DJ Kay Slay's strangely intense and involved rant weighing in on the subject https://kulturehub.com/nyc-strippers-strike-foh/

* The original 5 pillars of Hip-Hop https://thehiphopfundamentalist.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-pillars-of-hip-hop/

* "Make it Reign: How an Atlanta Strip Club Runs the Music Industry" https://www.gq.com/story/atlanta-strip-club-magic-city

* The Wikipedia entry for Cultural Mulatto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_mulatto

* The original 1989 essay about Cultural Mulattoes by Trey Ellis https://www.huffingtonpost.com/trey-ellis/whos-afraid-of-me_b_981005.html

* Summary of the Swirling "movement" http://www.phillytrib.com/lifestyles/swirling-a-way-of-life-for-some-black-women/article_d7795e83-91bc-576c-b963-96bbc745aec0.html

* "Get Invited to the Cookout" T-shirt and swag https://www.sunfrog.com/141542833-1094578405.html?45122 and a tweet showing the social media promotion for the same Swirlybae shirt https://twitter.com/newageiketurner/status/918663564088565760

* At the time of this episode's recording the full article wasn't online yet, but since then it has appeared in full so here it is: "Thank You God, for Black Thanksgiving: On learning how to be black, one family Thanksgiving in Atlanta at a time."https://www.bonappetit.com/story/rembert-browne-thanksgiving

* "Meet Your First Black Girlfriend" Youtube video by Akilah Hughes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDiU0aqqKp0 and Huffington Post's glowing account of it https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/first-black-girlfriend-akilah-hughes_n_4420134.html

* Article announcing the panel moderators for the Brown and Black Presidential Forum: "Fusion Announces Moderators Of ‘Brown & Black’ Presiden...

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We discuss Stranger Things 2, which oddly enough wasn't even what we originally planned to discuss.

 

Show Notes:

* An article by Henri de Corinth on Stranger Things and the current age of cynical nostalgia "The Age of Imitation: A Primer of New American Nostalgia, 2007-2017" https://henridecorinth.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/the-age-of-imitation-a-primer-of-new-american-nostalgia-2007-2017/

* Fake Controversy, Terrible Comedy by Eileen Jones https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/ghostbusters-paul-feig-feminism-mccarthy-murray/

* Ghostbusters and Guilt-vertising: Or How The “Right” Product Can Make You A Better Person by Josh Bray https://supernerdland.com/ghostbusters-guiltvertising/

* About the Ghostbusters manufactured gender war controversy 1: Why Being Honest about Ghostbusters is Important by Comic Book Girl 19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn_vAcFGTJU

* About the Ghostbusters manufactured gender war controversy 2: Ghostbusters Review by Red Letter Media http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag-ghostbusters-2016/

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Sorry, there's some static on my mic this episode. We discuss disinformation on social media and the dynamics of it.

Discussed in this episode:

* The Ludacris abs controversy: https://www.stereogum.com/1934421/ludacris-says-his-bad-cgi-abs-are-intentional/video/

* The concept of intermittent rewards (or random reinforcement) and how it related to social media platforms like Twitter https://blog.bufferapp.com/psychology-of-twitter

* The Daily Caller's misleading article about the Cornell Black Student Union scenario: "Black Student Group Complains Ivy League School Is Letting In Too Many African Students" http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/28/black-student-group-complains-ivy-league-school-is-letting-in-too-many-african-students/  The Atlanta Black Star article carelessly repeating Daily Caller's misleading slant: "Cornell University Black Student Group Complains of Too Many African, Caribbean Students" http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/10/02/cornell-university-black-student-group-complains-many-african-caribbean-students/

* The original Cornell Sun (student newspaper) article that the Daily Caller and Atlanta Black Star misrepresented:  http://cornellsun.com/2017/09/27/black-students-uniteds-demands-in-hand-cornell-president-faces-first-big-test/

* The Cornell BSU's original statement with the demands: https://www.scribd.com/document/360033913/Black-Students-United-at-Cornell-Demands-September-2017

* The Wall Street Journal's eventual article about it https://www.wsj.com/articles/cornells-black-student-disunion-1508364848

* Daniel Kaluuya's response to Samuel Jackson "Get Out Star Daniel Kaluuya Has an Eloquent Response to Samuel L. Jackson’s Criticism": https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/03/get-out-daniel-kaluuya-samuel-l-jackson-jordan-peele-black-actors

* NY Magazine article on Carol Dweck, "How Not to Talk to Your Kids" by Po Bronson: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/01/mindset-theory-a-popular-idea-in-education-may-be-trouble.html.

* "Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset" by Derek Sivers: https://sivers.org/mindset

* Stereotype Threat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat

* Findings about white teachers and black students and how it correlates to Stereotype Threat and Dweck's research: "The Race Connection: Are Teachers More Effective With Students Who Share Their Ethnicity?" by Thomas Dee 

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Today we have Kom Kunyosying and Carter Soles on to discuss their 2012 article "Postmodern Geekdom as Simulated Ethnicity". This article is very dense and has a lot of different ideas making up its thesis, so we didn't feel we could contain the discussion within a single episode. Therefore it's a two-part episode, with this being the second part. Both parts are free and not bonus premium episodes.  Subscribers to Patreon will have access to a combined version of this episode with the full two hour interview as one file however.

Dr. Kom Kunyosying completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Oregon where he studied the overlap between iconic and ethnic representation in U.S. comics in relation to other visual and prose media. He has published essays on the rise of geek culture for Jump Cut (with Carter Soles) and on metonymy and ecology in Charles Burns’s Black Hole for Interdisciplinary Studies Literature Environment. His essay with Carter Soles, “The Walking Dead’s Hyperreal Hillbilly: Horror, Melodrama, and Backwoods White Protagonists,” is in the forthcoming anthology, "There's Us and the Dead": Identity Politics in The Walking Dead (McFarland). He teaches Writing and Literature at Nashua Community College. He can be contacted at [email protected].

Dr. Carter Soles completed a Ph.D. at University of Oregon. Carter Soles is Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the English Department at The College at Brockport (SUNY). His research interests include geek studies, gender and identity studies, film authorship, and the comedy and horror genres. He has published articles on the queerness of the independent film Chuck&Buck (2000) for Jump Cut and on the figure of the hillbilly in 1970's horror cinema for The Eco-Cinema Reader(Routledge, 2012). His profile can be found here: https://www.brockport.edu/academics/english/directory/soles_carter.html. He can be contacted on Twitter at https://twitter.com/cartersoles

Discussed in this Part 2 episode:

* "Postmodern Geekdom as Simulated Ethnicity" by Kom Kunyosying and Carter Soles https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc54.2012/SolesKunyoGeedom/

* Robert Crumb's "Whiteman" comic strip: http://img.eastfist.com/whitemanbyRCrumb.jpg

* Robert Crumb's "Whiteman Meets BigFoot" http://champagnesharks.blubrry.net/whiteman-meets-bigfoot/

* Frank Chin's concept of "Racist Love." https://chintalks.blogspot.com/2008/08/racist-love.html

* Contrast the scenes with Kyle the geek and Rhonda from Road Trip to Crumb's "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". As Kyle becomes increasingly uninhibited and less geeky, he at the same time is shown embracing stereotypical blackness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz3SOdEw0LY. This culminates with nerdy Kyle bedding a large, very sensual black woman, interestingly shown in animal print, as the final step in conquering his repression and reclaiming his manhood. Note the animal print the black woman is wearing (nature, animalistic).

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Today Michael Brooks joins us to discuss various topics recently in the notes, including the ongoing debate between Ta-Nehisi Coates and various figures on the left and identity issues vs. class issues in general.

Michael Brooks is host of The Michael Brooks Show https://www.patreon.com/TMBS, co-host of the Majority Report, co-host of 2 Dope Boys & a Podcast, his writing has appeared in Jacobin, Baffler, Open Democracy and the Washington Post. Follow him here https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooks

Discussed in this episode:

* My recent appearance on The Michael Brooks Show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1B5A4nV-rE

* "How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power by Thomas Chatterton Williams https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/ta-nehisi-coates-whiteness-power.html

* "Between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Us" by Douglas Williams https://thesouthlawn.org/2017/10/09/between-ta-nehisi-coates-and-us/

* Toxic Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro http://amzn.to/2yD97O6

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Today we have Kom Kunyosying and Carter Soles on to discuss their 2012 article "Postmodern Geekdom as Simulated Ethnicity". This article is very dense and has a lot of different ideas making up its thesis, so we didn't feel we could contain the discussion within a single episode. Therefore it's a two-part episode, with this being the first part. Both parts are free and not bonus premium episodes. Subscribers to Patreon will have access to a combined version of this episode with the full two hour interview as one file however.

Dr. Kom Kunyosying completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Oregon where he studied the overlap between iconic and ethnic representation in U.S. comics in relation to other visual and prose media. He has published essays on the rise of geek culture for Jump Cut (with Carter Soles) and on metonymy and ecology in Charles Burns’s Black Hole for Interdisciplinary Studies Literature Environment. His essay with Carter Soles, “The Walking Dead’s Hyperreal Hillbilly: Horror, Melodrama, and Backwoods White Protagonists,” is in the forthcoming anthology, "There's Us and the Dead": Identity Politics in The Walking Dead (McFarland). He teaches Writing and Literature at Nashua Community College. He can be contacted at [email protected].

Dr. Carter Soles completed a Ph.D. at University of Oregon. Carter Soles is Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the English Department at The College at Brockport (SUNY). His research interests include geek studies, gender and identity studies, film authorship, and the comedy and horror genres. He has published articles on the queerness of the independent film Chuck&Buck (2000) for Jump Cut and on the figure of the hillbilly in 1970's horror cinema for The Eco-Cinema Reader(Routledge, 2012). His profile can be found here: https://www.brockport.edu/academics/english/directory/soles_carter.html. He can be contacted on Twitter at https://twitter.com/cartersoles

Discussed in this Part 1 episode:

* "Postmodern Geekdom as Simulated Ethnicity" by Kom Kunyosying and Carter Soles https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc54.2012/SolesKunyoGeedom/

* Elliot Rodger's identity issues as being both a White geek and an Asian geek: "Elliot Rodger's Manifesto Shows Self-hate Fueled Anti-Asian Violence that Kicked off Isla Vista Rampage" http://aaldef.org/blog/elliot-rodgers-manifesto-shows-self-hate-fueled-anti-asian-violence-that-kicked-off-isla-vista-rampa.html.

* Elliot Rodger's racist antiblack motivations, "Elliot Rodger, Isla Vista Shooting Suspect, Posted Racist Messages on Misogynistic Website": https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2014/05/24/elliot-rodger-isla-vista-shooting-suspect-posted-racist-messages-misogynistic-website.

* Elliot Rodger's sexist motivations, "Elliot Rodger Left Behind Tons of Sexist, Racist YouTube Comments From Second Account" https://splinternews.

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This is a solo episode where I discuss something called The Arrogance of Dismissal. I got the term from an interview DJ Vlad did with Pras, formerly of the Fugees. It's a concept that describes why white people often fall prey to cultural phenomenons that are utterly predictable and avoidable, but keep making the same mistakes due to a blind spot in their analysis that comes from a cognitive bias created by white supremacy that keep them from learning from examples that involve nonwhite people

Discussed in this episode:

* "How the Founder of the Fugees Became a Big-Time Political Donor Without Anyone Knowing" http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/03/pras_michel_funded_super_pac_black_men_vote_limited_liability_companies.html

* Youtube interview: "Pras on Hillary Clinton Almost Interviewing with VladTV" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfIiC9S9eA

* "White Families Are In Trouble Too" by Nicholas Eberstadt "http://www.aei.org/publication/white-families-are-in-trouble-too/"

* "Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt: The Democrats lost the white working class. The Republicans exploited it. Can Clinton win it back?" by George Packer https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/31/hillary-clinton-and-the-populist-revolt

* "From Charlottesville To Athens, People Around The World Mourn Heather Heyer" by Tasbeeh Herwees https://www.good.is/slideshows/tributes-to-heather-heyer-from-charlottesville-to-athens

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Today, prolific freelance writer Torraine Walker (https://twitter.com/torrainewalker) joins us to talk about the Cam Newton sexism controversy and how he managed to uncover racist tweets by the white feminist reporter at the heart of the controversy, and how the mainstream media and white feminists are choosing to only focus on Newton's sexism while minimizing and ignoring the female reporter's racism.

Discussed in this episode:

* Torraine Walker's website and clippings: http://www.torrainewalker.com/work.html

* Cam Newton's controversial comment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y66UzHEPq98

* Apologies and explanations from Newton after the controversy (which conveniently enough omit the reporter in question's own past racist comments): http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/us-sport/national-football-league/nfl-star-cam-newton-apologises-sexist-comments-female-reporter-jourdan-rodrigue-a7987766.html and http://nypost.com/2017/10/09/cam-newton-says-sexist-response-was-attempt-at-compliment/

* "BREAKING: Sports Writer At The Center Of Cam Newton Controversy Caught Being Racist Online

Watch White feminism work", including Torraine Walker's involvement. https://blavity.com/breaking-sports-writer-at-the-center-of-cam-newton-controversy-caught-being-racist-online

* Erin Andrews discussing the Richard Sherman controversy, "Erin Andrews’ Biggest Regret From That Infamous Richard Sherman Interview" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/19/erin-andrews-richard-sherman_n_5693021.html

* I mention the concept of "TradWife" when discussing the concept of "racist love" or "sexist love". Here is what a TradWife is: https://timeline.com/fascinating-womanhood-andelin-feminism-509dfe538de7

* "The battle of the Swedish chocolate ball" (Negerbollar) https://watchingtheswedes.com/2014/05/12/the-battle-of-the-swedish-chocolate-ball/

* "New Poll Finds That Hillary Supporters Are Pretty Racist Too" by Josh Voorhees http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/06/29/reuters_hillary_clinton_supporters_are_pretty_racist_too.html

* The threads of woke black twitter people siding with white feminists over black men. Here: https://twitter.com/queersocialism/status/916051375137705984 and here: https://twitter.com/RyanTheHoly/status/916135121194975232

* White feminist trying to minimize the racism and get it back "on topic" toward the sexist focus: https://twitter.

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Discussion of various topics in the news:

* The white feminist sports reporter whose racist tweets were discovered while she was trying to drag a black man for sexism: https://blavity.com/breaking-sports-writer-at-the-center-of-cam-newton-controversy-caught-being-racist-online

* The white feminist who tried to make everyone ignore another white feminist's racism in favor of instead focusing on a black man's sexism: https://twitter.com/kateefeldman/status/915993873385738241

* Black women hopping into the suspected racist white feminist's replies in order to solicit Black Girl Magic headpats from white liberals, here: https://twitter.com/goodearl/status/916391592105316352 and here: https://twitter.com/PoliticalXpat/status/916047938601799680

* A summary of the Hugo Schwyzer debacle and the #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen hashtag: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/solidarityisforwhitewomen-hashtag-feminism

* Neely Fuller on Premature Celebration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcCIXyoVUCI

* "Trust Black Women" by Zerlina Maxwell http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a12662138/nasty-women-book-zerlina-maxwell-trust-black-women/

* A thread of me showing the Joan Walsh thread: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/912429306533548032

* The "Puve" tweet Mike mentions near the end: https://twitter.com/goodearl/status/916393124980805632

* A thread I did where I discussed more nuanced formed of intersectional theory that don't get promoted online in social media: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/915701704007528448

* Frank Chin's concept of "Racist Love" https://chintalks.blogspot.com/2008/08/racist-love.html

* Two overviews of the Karpman Drama Triangle: "Karpman Drama Triangle" http://pastormattrichard....

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The first half hour is us talking about chain restaurants like Cheesecake Factory for some reason, then the conversation turns to Colin Kaepernick and the #takeaknee controversy.

* Two books that cover all the addictive engineering of food products by scientists and labs. The End of Overeating by David Kessler http://amzn.to/2wWJyK7 and Sugar Fat Salt by Michael Moss http://amzn.to/2yacoa9.

* Related articles to the two books: "How The Food Industry Manipulates Taste Buds With 'Salt Sugar Fat'" by Nell Boeschenstein from NPR http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/02/26/172969363/how-the-food-industry-manipulates-taste-buds-with-salt-sugar-fat, "You Really Can’t Eat Just One, and Here’s the Reason" by Scott Mowbray http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/books/salt-sugar-fat-by-michael-moss.html?mcubz=0, and 'The End of Overeating' by David Kessler (excerpt) http://onpoint.legacy.wbur.org/2009/07/02/the-end-of-overeating-excerpt.

* My original twitter thread about #takeaknee https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/911696707611750400 and the followup twitter thread after Trump did what I predicted https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/912349207431974913.

* 40 Million Dollar Slaves by William C. Rhoden http://amzn.to/2xHrNNC

* When Affirmative Action is White by Ira Katznelson http://amzn.to/2yHDNgF

* The Black lesbian comic writer who went on Breakfast Club to discuss her comic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZjJb6xhgxE

* Jason Black doing commentary on how bad the Breakfast Club interview went. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdGFnhcRzhk

* "Folie A Deux: When Two People Go Insane Together" https://io9.gizmodo.com/5955095/folie-a-deux-when-two-people-go-insane-together