When Social Control Masquerades as Social Justice

 

 

 

CHAPTERS

0:00 If the slavery abolitionists had been liberal “antiracists”

0:29 Introduction: thesis 2:04 Equality and the left

5:46 How the terms left and right became confused

10:41 Equity vs. equality: liberal vs. conservative takes

15:17 Liberal vs conservative methods of maintaining economic inequality

16:52 Lizard People: right wingers disguised as left wingers

17:59 The Class Filter: turning egalitarian ideas into hierarchical poop

22:47 Equity vs. Equality: definitions and lizard semantics

24:50 Equity for rich people vs normal people

25:47 Lizard words in the law

26:41 “Serious injury” to the landlord in the 1970s vs today

31:17 “Be Excellent to Eachother”: ambiguous worbs as a power grab

33:19 Lizard politicians left and right

35:20 “Antiracism” & “equity”: How to pretend to do social justice

36:23 Roots of racial and gender discrimination

37:07 Exploitation and racism in the United States

38:34 “Minimal Group” discrimination experiments

39:17 Racism and self-interest: the economics of “Dying of Whiteness”

41:21 Discrimination instincts in tribal vs civilization contexts

41:50 Racism in utopia vs. in capitalism

43:51 Chris Rock vs. Crack Rock: racism and economic inequality

46:55 The Brown Pill: eliminating racism but not economic inequality

49:32 Lizard morals: why rich people need poverty

51:40 Lizard social justice: Ibram X. Kendi’s “antiracism” and “equity”

53:26 If the Abolitionists had been “antiracists”

54:10 Benefits of “equity” for the ruling classes: PR and self-delusion

56:21 French colonialism and liberal identity politics

57:49 Robin DiAngelo trains people to be anti-black racists

59:57 Divide and conquer: why corporations love ineffective “antiracist” trainings

1:01:01 Lizard “equity” as a make work program for Harvard kids

1:02:12 “Antiracism” begets Afropessimism

1:02:38 Legitimating the ruling class: Gauls in the Senate

1:03:33 Obama protects racist banks and wipes out black wealth

1:05:02 Politics of representation in dictatorships (“communist,” fascist and corporate)

1:06:10 Ivy League admissions

1:08:52 The Matthew Effect: deindustrialization and black history

1:11:04 Warp drives for animal shelters

1:11:58 “Antiracism”: rich brown people as a stand-in for poor brown people

1:14:49 “Antiracism”: Asians are too boring

1:15:58 Rainbow race war for rich kids

1:17:08 Left proposals for college admissions