Hello everyone and welcome to The Civic Podcast!

In this episode I will be going a bit through what is equality and what is equity. In addition, the manifestation of the idea it represents today in our current socio-political understanding through quotas.

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Hello everyone and welcome to The Civic Podcast!

In this episode I will be speaking a bit about identity, social constructions and other terms linked to that.

The problem with identitarianism, is when people think that the only thing that defines them are traits of which they had no say over. Different types of identitarianism can be healthy, but most of them have been proved to be nefarious towards society.

I hope you enjoy.

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In this episode I will be speaking about the recent outcome of the United States elections!

Many things have happened during the last few days, Biden has been appointed called as the 46th President-elect of the United States of America with Kamala Harris as his Vice-President. Donald Trump has continued with his claims of voter fraud, which do have to be looked into, as any person with a minimum sense of democracy would agree. Now to which extent that potential voter fraud could be the actual determinant when it comes to Biden winning the elections is not entirely clear to me.

There are also many things to take from these elections, specifically the massive change in the voter demographics regarding the minorities that have voted for Trump. Might it be that the identity politics angle is no longer convincing these groups? Lots of questions with not so many (clear) answers.

I hope you enjoy!

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Here is Part 2 of my conversation with Natalie Mlikota. The topic started shifting towards racial matters and policing, but the essence of the USA remained intact. I stand by my word that the specific movements in each country cannot be copied to another, something that has widely happened with the BLM movement for example.

Precision: When we were speaking about black citizens' rights in the U.S and the U.K, and where it cannot be compared it was through examples like voting rights in the latter were never racially biased by legislation, contrary to what we could see in the US throughout the 20th century ; they were gender/status biased however. The UK was also leading in some way black rights, a bit too late but there is a significant difference with the US. This is not to say that the U.K doesn't have its fair share of conversations to have regarding colonialism, and I'm not an expert either to speak freely about the matter at this point. Furthermore, I don't discard the possibility of having said something that isn't true or maybe half true, most likely caused by a lack of intense knowledge in the wide topic that is colonialism (mea culpa). However I will stand by my point that we cannot keep saying that our institutions and societal structures (currently) are systemically racist as a consequence of our past sins, or at least, not so easily.

I was also a bit reluctant to comment on everything or start a debate as I don't know the reality in the U.S as much, which I can also say for the U.K as a matter of fact. Nevertheless, it does seem important to hear these arguments from the other side of the pond and think about what has been said. Future episodes will include these matters with a little more fundament, so we can really lay out what the differences between the two continents are.

I hope you enjoy!

Hello everyone and welcome to The Civic Podcast!

In this episode I invited a friend of mine currently residing in New York. She identifies as a queer - jewish woman and is of argentinian origin.

I thought it might be relevant to get an external point of view when it comes to the issues the USA is facing, specifically in the middle of the elections. I didn't speak much about the matters at hand, as I don't have much information about the USA and the realities there, but I did put her knowledge and revendications to the test!

We don't agree on most things, but we do agree on enough to find a common ground of understanding.

I hope you enjoy this first part of the episode!

P.S. : I do apologise if there are some audio issues at the beginning, the connection became more stable throughout the course of the conversation.

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of The Civic Podcast.

This might be the most difficult topic up to date, in the aftermath of the horrific attacks perpetrated by islamic radicals in France. The conversation around islam needs to be had, and what are the right and wrong ways of interpreting the holy texts of the Quran.

I urge all muslim communities around the world to fight for what is right: freedom.

Hope you enjoy.

P.S.: A small correction regarding the numbers I about the ICM polls, 52% of British muslims disagree with the legalisation of homosexuality, not mentioning the moral aspect.

Hello everyone and welcome to the fourth episode of The Civic Podcast.

Here I will be speaking a bit about the paradox of meritocracy, its advantages but also its dark side. We tend to believe that a system purely based on merit would be the fairest system, but that not always might be the case. A moral and ethical reflexion should take place on the public sphere in order to answer these difficult questions. As a society we need to rethink our value structures and what could constitute someone's success in life.

I hope you enjoy.

Hello everyone and welcome to The Civic Podcast.

In this episode I will try to explain a bit the problems that we face today when it comes to understanding the misery that totalitarian regimes brought to our society, specifically Communism and Fascism. Where we have to draw the line on the political spectrum is not entirely clear nowadays, and if this line isn't drawn we could start shifting gradually towards the extremes we've so desperately tried to avoid during the past decades. I try to give my point of view in what I see today in society and how to interpret that, specifically when it comes to both these ideologies.

In addition I also give some details about "Episode 2 - Collectivism, Critical Race Theory, BLM and Privilege", where some things I explained might be misinterpreted in a negative manner. Then again, it is an extremely difficult topic possessing a vast amount of information to process and make sense of.

I hope you enjoy!

Hello everyone and welcome to the second episode of The Civic Podcast.

In this episode I will be speaking a bit about Collectivism, Critical Race Theory and Privelege. A lot of what is being spoken about today is interconnected in one way or another, therefore I try to bring a little context, facts and personal point of view to make sense of everything happening today. I might not be too precise with my ideas which can be misinterpreted and might not be 100% correct, I just hope that I'm opening your mind enough for you to go do your own research about these matters and take out your own conclusions.

Hope you enjoy!

Hello everyone.

This is my first podcast and through it I would like to give some insights about the kind of content that will be published on the channel. From a short presentation about myself to speak about society in its entirety and the problems we're facing today when it comes to discourse and public interaction.

I didn't want to go into too much detail with some of the topics, so I just scraped through some things that will later on be developed, whether it's from my point of view or with guests to discuss the issues at hand.

Furthermore, I would like to apologise if the quality isn't too great, I'm still trying to figure out how all the podcasting software works and the best microphone settings for a clear and clean voice.

I hope that you will all enjoy this first episode and that you will stick around to hear the next ones to come!