2020 election, Andrew Cuomo, Capitol, Capitol Riot, Donald Trump, Google, Matt Taibbi, Trump, Useful Idiots. Early life and education. Balance isn’t about giving credulous coverage or equal time … No, you may not touch my penis at this time!” – has a good shot of becoming standard at every transnational corporation, law firm, university, newsroom, etc. Matt Taibbi on Twitter: What people who call @ggreenwald right-wing are actually saying is that his views - opposition to monopoly, surveillance, and censorship, skepticism of secret police agencies, belief in journalistic fairness - are incompatible with … This notion that color-blindness is itself racist, one of the main themes of White Fragility, could have amazing consequences. Learn more. Color blindness was now promoted as the remedy for racism, with white people insisting that they didn’t see race or, if they did, that it had no meaning to them. At a time of catastrophe and national despair, when conservative nationalism is on the rise and violent confrontation on the streets is becoming commonplace, it’s extremely suspicious that the books politicians, the press, university administrators, and corporate consultants alike are asking us to read are urging us to put race even more at the center of our identities, and fetishize the unbridgeable nature of our differences. Robinson’s story moreover did not render “whites, white privilege, and racist institutions invisible.” It did the opposite. Robinson is often celebrated as the first African American to break the color line…, While Robinson was certainly an amazing baseball player, this story line depicts him as racially special, a black man who broke the color line himself. “People who go to college end up becoming racist lawyers and doctors. I’m surprised that number isn’t higher frankly. Useful Idiots is an informative and irreverent politics podcast with journalist Matt Taibbi and podcaster/writer Katie Halper. Damon also breaks down the recent events with Parler, and removing Trump from Twitter. Start with the headline: Supporting the 2020 U.S. Election.YouTube in its company blog can’t even say, “Banning Election Conspiracy Theories.” They have to employ the Orwellian language of politicians — Healthy Forests, Clear Skies, “Supported” Elections — because Google and YouTube are now political actors, who can’t speak plainly any more than a drunk can walk … It makes The Art of the Deal read like Anna Karenina. I guess the relationship between N* Jim and Huck Finn provides a more realistic way to bridge America's racial divides and "love each other".....You could at least suggested some Richard Wright or Toni Morrison. A bizarre echo of North Korea’s “three generations of punishment” doctrine could be seen in the boycotts of Holy Land grocery, a well-known hummus maker in Minneapolis. But this is such a dismissive slam of DiAngelo. In the latest socially distanced episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Andre Damon, writer and editor for World Socialist Web Site. The news comes in advance of Wednesday’s House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on “traditional media’s role in promoting disinformation and extremism.”. If your category is “white,” bad news: you have no identity apart from your participation in white supremacy (“Anti-blackness is foundational to our very identities… Whiteness has always been predicated on blackness”), which naturally means “a positive white identity is an impossible goal.”. No fear, Herman wrote: it’s never too late for kids like yours to educate themselves. Robinson uncovered a generation of job inflation for mediocre white ballplayers in a dramatic example of “privilege” that was keenly understood by baseball fans of all races fifty years before White Fragility. Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I -VT) attends the National Action Network's annual convention on April 5, 2019 in New York City. He reportedly was forced out of the Writer’s Union of Canada for the crime of “cultural appropriation,” and denounced as a racist by many, including a poet named Gwen Benaway. A Substack newsletter by Matt Taibbi. This is what DiAngelo's book describes: how people in power can stop defensively clinging to their power. Join Matt and Katie as they examine important stories that have slipped through the cracks … Andrew Cuomo’s tweet that the economy must reopen before the vaccine is disseminated en masse. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Want more Rolling Stone? White Fragility has a simple message: there is no such thing as a universal human experience, and we are defined not by our individual personalities or moral choices, but only by our racial category. After DiAngelo confesses her feelings of embarrassment, shame and guilt to the enlightened white cross-racial dynamics expert (everyone should have such a person on speed-dial), she approaches the offended web developer. Michael Korenberg, the chair of the board at the University of British Columbia, was forced to resign for liking tweets by Dinesh D’Souza and Donald Trump, which you might think is fine – but what about Latino electrical worker Emmanuel Cafferty, fired after a white activist took a photo of him making an OK symbol (it was described online as a “white power” sign)? The news comes in advance of Wednesday’s House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on “traditional media’s role in promoting disinformation and extremism.”. There is not a single baseball fan anywhere – literally not one, except perhaps Robin DiAngelo, I guess – who believes Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier because he “finally had what it took to play with whites.” Everyone familiar with this story understands that Robinson had to be exceptional, both as a player and as a human being, to confront the racist institution known as Major League Baseball. This is an important passage because rejection of King’s “dream” of racial harmony — not even as a description of the obviously flawed present, but as the aspirational goal of a better future — has become a central tenet of this brand of antiracist doctrine mainstream press outlets are rushing to embrace. “For the first time in the entire four years of Trump’s tenure, I’m worried on a very severe level,” says Matt. Please, I think I’ve screwed up the way my kids think about race. DiAngelo writes like a person who was put in timeout as a child for speaking clearly. Rather than address those potential issues, Democrats ran more or less entirely on Trump’s negatives. This is just "Let's get nasty about something naughty to get nasty about!" DiAngelo isn’t the first person to make a buck pushing tricked-up pseudo-intellectual horseshit as corporate wisdom, but she might be the first to do it selling Hitlerian race theory. Corporate America doubtless views the current protest movement as something that can be addressed as an H.R. Share on Facebook. He is currently a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. In a phenomenon that will be familiar to students of Russian history, accusers are beginning to appear alongside the accused. This is part of a larger piece that will be made available to subscribers later this week: A core principle of the academic movement that shot through elite schools in America since the early nineties was the view that individual rights, humanism, and the democratic process are all just stalking-horses for white supremacy. Click the link we sent to , or click here to log in. In despair, she writes, “I seek out a friend who is white and has a solid understanding of cross-racial dynamics.”. The movement that calls itself “antiracism” – I think it deserves that name a lot less than “pro-lifers” deserve theirs and am amazed journalists parrot it without question – is complete in its pessimism about race relations. For corporate America the calculation is simple. Matt Taibbi's Most Recent Stories. Where we reside on the spectrum of righteousness is, they say, almost entirely determined by birth, a view probably shared by a lot of 4chan readers. This dingbat racialist cult, which has no art, music, literature, and certainly no comedy, is the vision of “progress” institutional America has chosen to endorse in the Trump era. Hopefully that kid with the Black and Hispanic friends can be cured! It won’t hurt the business model of the news media, which for decades now has been monetizing division and has known how to profit from moral panics and witch hunts since before Fleet street discovered the Mod/Rocker wars. Have the people hyping this impressively crazy book actually read it? I'm unsubscribing from you after your last two posts. With a full commitment to the program of psychological ablutions outlined in the book, one may strive for a “less white identity,” but again, DiAngelo explicitly rejects the Kingian goal of just trying to love one another as impossible, for two people born with different skin colors. Taibbi was born in 1970 in New Brunswick, New Jersey to Mike Taibbi, an NBC television reporter, and his wife. “All he needed to do to be seen as a hero was not sound like an idiot and read updates,” says Katie. I wouldn't recommend it, but at least its a start. Damon gives the backstory about this practice, and what happened with his company the Wold Socialist Web Site. Rush Limbaugh, Who Should Have Stayed Jeff Christie A pioneer, and not in a good way. For DiAngelo to suggest history should re-cast Robinson as “the first black man whites allowed to play major league baseball” is grotesque and profoundly belittling. Using random quotes from DiAngelo for target practice. First on this week’s docket is a discussion of the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol. reduces everything, even the smallest and most innocent human interactions, to racial power contests. Bernie took off in presidential politics as a hard-charging crusader against a Wall Street-fattened political establishment, and exited four years later a self-flagellating, defeated old white man who seemed to regret not apologizing more for his third house. That this speech was held up as the framework for American race relations for more than half a century precisely because people of all races understood King to be referring to a difficult and beautiful long-term goal worth pursuing is discounted, of course. “In July of 2017, we noticed that search traffic to the World Socialist Web Site had fallen by approximately 75 percent in the span of just a few months,” says Damon. matter, among other things by hiring thousands of DiAngelos to institute codes for the proper mode of Black-white workplace interaction. If you’re wondering what that might look like, here’s DiAngelo explaining how she handled the fallout from making a bad joke while she was “facilitating antiracism training” at the office of one of her clients. Taibbi’s new book, The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing (OR Books, $20) is described as “an almost true account.” Taibbi blurs the line between fact and fiction. What’s easier, giving up business models based on war, slave labor, and regulatory arbitrage, or benching Aunt Jemima? The subtext is that Robinson finally had what it took to play with whites, as if no black athlete before him was strong enough to compete at that level. © Copyright 2021 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. In a world where only a few ideas are considered important, redundancy is encouraged, e.g. What a bumper crop of Hate. The lexicon favored by intersectional theorists of this type is built around the same principles as Orwell’s Newspeak: it banishes ambiguity, nuance, and feeling and structures itself around sterile word pairs, like racist and antiracist, platform and deplatform, center and silence, that reduce all thinking to a series of binary choices. This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. DiAngelo’s writing style is pure pain. A day later, facing intense public pressure and threats of Senate inquiry, the company relented and said it would change its policy.Twitter’s legal chief, the New York Times said, was worried that the firm “could end up blocking content from journalists,” implying that it hadn’t already done just that.The company said it would henceforth allow similar content to be … Parents calling out their kids is also in vogue. For your security, we need to re-authenticate you. This sequence of events is ominous because a similar matched set of hearings and interrogations back in 2017 — when Senators like Mazie Hirono at a Judiciary Committee hearing demanded … We've seen so many Black people being brutalized recently and on the streets protesting for their rights, while people are sitting and arguing the merits of the latest "woke of the week" book. Except this isn’t a straightforward book about examining one’s own prejudices. The parent worried when one son was asked to fill out an application for a potential college roommate and expressed annoyance at having to specify race, because “I don’t care about race.”. My admiration for Taibbi’s big picture writing remains strong. In researching I Can’t Breathe, I met civil rights activists who recounted decades of struggle to remove race from the law. White Fragility is so milquetoast and merely scratches the surface of the structure of racism in our society. Last week, an Oregon County casually exempted “people of color who have heightened concerns about racial profiling” from a Covid-19 related mask order. I heard stories of lawyers who were physically threatened for years in places like rural Arkansas just for trying to end explicit hiring and housing discrimination and other remnants of Jim Crow. Clad in kente cloth scarves, the Democrats who crushed him will burn up CSPAN with homilies on privilege even as they reassure donors they’ll stay away from Medicare for All or the carried interest tax break. I subscribed to this site b/c I admire *Hate, Inc.*: that news media leverage hate to score readers is exactly right. Under pressure from people like this, companies might address long-overdue inequities in boardroom diversity. Plus, Andre Damon joins the hosts to discuss how censorship is bad for the left. Maybe because it fits. To help, she linked to a program of materials designed for just that purpose, a “Lesson Plan for Being An Ally,” that included a month of readings of… White Fragility. Imagine if instead, the story went something like this: “Jackie Robinson, the first black man whites allowed to play major-league baseball.”. The book’s most amazing passage concerns the story of Jackie Robinson: The story of Jackie Robinson is a classic example of how whiteness obscures racism by rendering whites, white privilege, and racist institutions invisible. He was mobbed on Twitter and then fired because he’d said something that appeared to be critical of riots and, by extension, could be seen as critical of Black Lives Matter protesters. Ironically, Donald Trump does something similar, only with words like “AMAZING!” and “SAD!” that are simultaneously more childish and livelier. Review: Hate Inc. Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi You've got the knee-jerk discomfort/embarrassment/shame part down pretty good, Matt, I think. Episodes feature on-the-road coverage of the 2020 campaign and exclusive interviews, with humor, commentary and dissection of the politics news of the week. By Matt Taibbi. In other cases, as in the instance of a gun-rights rally held at the Virginia State Capitol — many of whose attendees were apparently vocal opponents of Trump — livestream coverage by indy outlets like Jordan Chariton’s Status Coup was shut down, allegedly because it violated Google’s “firearms policy.”. If you've never seen a white person freak out when confronted with whatever demeaning/racist thing he or she said or did, then I think you're not paying attention. Clearly, a situation needing fixing! Our hosts are joined by Andre Damon, who brings a unique perspective on the power of big tech companies, specifically Google, in suppressing reporting in its search algorithm for what Google calls “algorithmic updates to surface more authoritative content.”. I’m surprised that number isn’t higher frankly. Matt Taibbi: False accusations of racism are destroying the media. Later, he published provocative pieces in Rolling Stone, including an obituary for Andrew Breitbart titled, “Death of a Douche.”. 2019: A Year the News Media Would Rather Forget Corrections went out of style, bombshells fizzled, and too much of what we watched and read felt like insider propaganda What they found was that “the algorithm should demote alternative viewpoints and promote what Google called ‘authoritative viewpoints.'”. October 14, ... Google, and Twitter – under pressure from the Senate ... Matthew C. Taibbi is an American author and journalist. Do you think racism is over now? Regular news and features by award-winning author and investigative reporter. According to Matt, the surname Taibbi is a Sicilian name of Lebanese origin, but his father Mike, who is of mixed Filipino and Native Hawaiian descent, was not born with the surname but rather, received it from his Sicilian-American adoptive parents. We’ve been in a trend where belief and trust in the news media has been on a downward planed trajectory for some time now. The parent asked if someone who didn’t care about race was “just as racist as someone who only has white friends” and asked if it was “too late” to do anything. She asks, “Would you be willing to grant me the opportunity to repair the racism I perpetrated toward you in that meeting?” At which point the web developer agrees, leading to a conversation establishing the parameters of problematic joke resolution. It doesn't address her argument; it's not clear whether or not Taibbi has actually read the DiAngelo's book. It takes a special kind of ignorant for an author to choose an example that illustrates the mathematical opposite of one’s intended point, but this isn’t uncommon in White Fragility, which may be the dumbest book ever written. Hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Andre Damon, writer and editor for World Socialist Web Site. I'm realizing that the grift never ends. The Grayzone's Aaron Maté, Matt Taibbi, and Katie Halper denies that Trump incited the mob, falsely suggests that Nancy Pelosi is to be blamed for the Capitol attack, and falsely claims she spurned security measures. On either side. Cancelations already are happening too fast to track. “When there is disequilibrium in the habitus — when social cues are unfamiliar and/or when they challenge our capital — we use strategies to regain our balance,” she says (“People taken out of their comfort zones find ways to deal,” according to Google Translate). A useful theory, if your business is selling teams of high-priced toxicity-hunters to corporations as next-generation versions of efficiency experts — in the fight against this disease, companies will need the help forever and ever. One of the central tenets of DiAngelo’s book (and others like it) is that racism cannot be eradicated and can only be managed through constant, “lifelong” vigilance, much like the battle with addiction. White Fragility is based upon the idea that human beings are incapable of judging each other by the content of their character, and if people of different races think they are getting along or even loving one another, they probably need immediate antiracism training. Taibbi: James Comey, the Would-Be J. Edgar Hoover The former FBI Director’s memoir obsesses about lies, sincerity and conscience – and offers few tangible answers The latter said Niedzviecki “doesn’t see the humanity of indigenous peoples.” Last week, Benaway herself was denounced on Twitter for failing to provide proof that she was Indigenous. Review: Griftopia–Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America. Matt Taibbi: 219: 786: Share . If not, what are your ideas for how to stop the people in power from continuing to edge out whomever they can, i.e. Writers like DiAngelo like to make ugly verbs out of ugly nouns and ugly nouns out of ugly verbs (there are countless permutations on centering and privileging alone).

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