On this show we talk a lot about problems that need to be solved and not a lot about how to solve them, which is a criticism my mom brought up to me recently. So in this solo episode, Deondre' and I talk about some of the problems we have talked about on the show and whether the counterculture is overcorrecting for them.

For example, cancel culture is trying to solve the problem of harmful rhetoric, like when people are publicly racist, misogynist, ableist, homophobic, etc.

But then you quickly run into this problem: you can't shame the shameless. It's hard to cancel people like Trump or Tucker Carlson because they just don't care. And in fact your attempts may garner them even more publicity. But you CAN shame the people standing right next to you on the political spectrum, because they are more likely to actually care what you think.

On the flip side, let's take the example of racism. In America, it is no longer kosher to make explicitly racist laws like banning someone from coming in your restaurant based on their skin color. But because the racism has to be sneakier, like in Georgia's recently passed voter suppression law that makes it illegal to hand people water in line, perhaps that makes the racist outcomes that much harder to fight because you have to jump through a number of logical hoops to get to the racist part.

Links:

Explainer on the Lindsay Ellis controversy: https://www.distractify.com/p/why-is-lindsay-ellis-canceled#:~:text=Lindsay%20Ellis'%20%22cancellation%22%20started,series%20Avatar%3A%20The%20Last%20Airbender.&text=Critics%20of%20Lindsay%20also%20pointed,descent%20on%20its%20writing%20team.

Tiffany Haddish's book, "The Last Black Unicorn": https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-last-black-unicorn-tiffany-haddish/1126243717

Skateboarding documentary, "Minding the Gap": https://www.hulu.com/movie/minding-the-gap-efcd9be9-9541-46b4-abbc-dd8b0606b304?&cmp=10051&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=CM_SEM_Minding+the+Gap&utm_term=minding%20the%20gap%20documentary&gclid=CjwKCAjw-e2EBhAhEiwAJI5jg3O-cy_YAHWTHyxqJDqOZMy5ONfFAr8IzKe-NCdiN930RILRAf4rYRoCPX0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän.

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