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Episode 64: Calling Female Journalists Dumb Knocked-Up B*****s With Ugly Husbands, For Feminism May 15, 2021

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After a heated debate over Slack and hummus/Hamas, Jesse and Katie announce a repivoting of the podcast. Then they discuss a gas shortage that almost stranded Katie in an unmentionable hellhole and the careful, measured, polite reaction to a column by the incorrigible Liz Bruenig, who had the temerity to argue, grossly, that she loves her kids and is glad to be a mom.

Show notes/Links:

International Hamas day: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/1392901563207897101?s=20

On the pipeline hack: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/a-closer-look-at-the-darkside-ransomware-gang/

Subpar reporting on it: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1392108492773810176

Fact-checking the bag thing: https://nbc-2.com/news/2021/05/12/fact-check-viral-twitter-photo-of-plastic-bags-full-of-gas-was-taken-in-2019/

Bruenig's hate-crime of a column: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/motherhood-baby-bust-early-parenthood.html

Everyone is completely out of their goddamn minds:

https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/1391816713008607235

https://twitter.com/amandamarcotte/status/1391353803174199299

https://twitter.com/amandamarcotte/status/1391354461566685186

https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391382397585928192

https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391457783506259969

https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391459272261779458

https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391540579197235201

FdB is correct: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/all-this-s**t-is-high-school

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Episode 63: Jesse Makes A Friend, A Racist-Albeit-Dead Dog, A Basecamp Meltdown, And An Invitation For Chase Strangio May 06, 2021

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Jesse has a new best friend and wants to shout his name to the rooftops. Also, Jesse is not-mad-per-se-but-rather-disappointed at Chase Strangio and would like to talk to him on the pod. Then, the thick-cut tender medium-rare meat of the show: At the University of Washington, a controversy over racism. And at Basecamp, a… controversy over racism. Never let it be said that this show does not range widely.

Chase Strangi-No!: https://www.gq.com/story/chase-strangio-on-anti-trans-laws

Jesse Mad Online once again: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1390019758595117061

This cartoon is like something out of Der Stürmer: https://www.dailyuw.com/cartoons/article_dba3d6da-a640-11eb-a8bc-fb9f1a0fa058.html

As is this one: https://preview.redd.it/yvd4q5t2ozv61.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=a90dfd1f3c40f2ead992a6a457b65913ace3b830

The newspaper apologizes: https://www.dailyuw.com/opinion/article_fbe3722a-a901-11eb-9b60-bfd0ee0e37e4.html

(If you want to send the artist behind both cartoons a supportive note — and of course we will not be including this in the public version of the show notes — he is at elijahpasco@gmail.com, which we got via his website: https://elijahnpasco.com/contact-1)

The legend of Eggman7698: https://www.reddit.com/r/udub/comments/n5zavx/me_when_we_go_back_to_campus_next_fall_quarter/

Literary Editor Resigns After Bathing on Zoom in a Mesh Shirt: https://www.vulture.com/2021/04/joshua-wolf-shenk-resigns-after-bath-on-zoom-in-mesh-shirt.html

Basecamp: https://www.platformer.news/p/-how-basecamp-blew-up

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Episode 62: A Sad One May 01, 2021

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No show notes this week.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=sydney-altman&pid=198401366&fhid=5816

https://donate.adaa.org/give/322300/#!/donation/checkout

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=edith-singal-katz&pid=198433772

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Episode 61: The Literally Violent Inquisition Against Richard Dawkins And The Case Against Making Everything About Race All The Time Apr 25, 2021

Show notes

Richard Dawkins did an oppression with his tweets -- what should be done??? Also, new research suggests, shockingly, that making each and every issue about race 100% of the time might have some drawbacks. These issues and more, discussed thoroughly and vigorously.

Jesse's Book "The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills": https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Show notes/links:

Richard Dawkins is no longer 1996 Humanist of the Year: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/20/richard-dawkins-loses-humanist-of-the-year-trans-comments

If you talk about transracialism, you're gonna have a bad time: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/transracialism-article-controversy.html

The Yalies' paper on racial messaging and progressive policies: https://osf.io/tdkf3/

Jesse's paid post on The Daily Beast's ridiculous coverage of the killing of Ma’khia Bryant: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-daily-beasts-coverage-of-the

Jesse's mad about this stuff on Twitter too: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1386347467491454985

Washington Post police shootings database: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

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Episode 60: Andrew Yang Hates Dogs Almost As Much As Lindsay Ellis Hates Asian Culture Apr 17, 2021

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After Katie provides an update about her elderly Trump-and-guns-loving neighbor, the hosts discuss a canine controversy Andrew Yang got himself into that features some of the very most annoying people on Twitter. Then they talk about Facebook's efforts to censor a news article about a Black Lives Matter cofounder's real estate holdings. The back half of the episode is dedicated to Lindsay Ellis's recent social-justice troubles, which, if you squint, are really stupid.

Show notes/Links:

The controversy that will forever haunt Yang: https://people.com/pets/andrew-yang-defends-giving-up-dog-after-backlash-national-pet-day-post/

NY Post article on Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ real estate purchases: https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/

Fox News on the censorship: https://www.foxnews.com/media/facebook-bans-sharing-new-york-post-report-blm-co-founder-home-purchases

Lindsay Ellis's cancel culture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7aWz8q_IM4

Ellis v. MovieBob -- lotsa gaslighting and such: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/lindsay-ellis-moviebob-snub

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Episode 60: Jesse's Leaving The Podcast Right This Instant, Puberty Blockers, And A Very Crazy, Very Expensive Campus Controversy Apr 08, 2021

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After Jesse makes a shocking announcement (he's leaving the podcast in pursuit of greater glory), the hosts talk about a spate of bad GOP bills seeking to ban puberty blockers and hormones for minors and how difficult it is to communicate accurate, honest information to the public about this subject. Then they discuss a story Jesse wrote for Reason about a particularly crazy campus blowup in which a bunch of innocent white people were traumatized (physically) by disagreement.

Jesse explaining why he is against these bills: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/why-the-hard-age-caps-on-youth-gender

Jesse annoyed at conservatives 180ing his work: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/conservatives-are-lying-about-what

Lupron: https://www.ktnv.com/news/investigations/more-women-come-forward-with-complaints-about-lupron-side-effects

Reason story: https://reason.com/2021/04/05/a-professor-pushed-back-against-white-fragility-training-the-college-investigated-her-for-9-months/

FIRE: http://thefire.org/

Jeffrey Sachs is good on campus free speech... https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs

...and was recently on The Fifth Column: https://shows.acast.com/wethefifth/episodes/229-w-jeffrey-sachs-how-to-be-a-dictator-anti-woke-hypocrisy

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BONUS: JFC I Guess We Are Talking More About Graham Linehan Innit Apr 08, 2021

Show notes

Soul too dead to provide any notes for this one tbh (plus we have notes for the episode we're discussing here).

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Episode 58: We Hope Buying Jesse's Book Provides An Opportunity For Introspection And Growth Apr 03, 2021

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After Katie opens up about a gruesome injury and Jesse tells a story about a listener's travails at an upscale New York City climbing gym, the hosts discuss Jesse's book, which is out on Tuesday. Specifically, they dig into Comprehensive Soldier Fitness, an anti-PTSD Army program that doesn't work, and the implicit association test, an anti-racism test that... doesn't work. Also, it turns out both hosts are kinda scared of bridges, which feels like something they should dig into at some later date.

Show notes/Links:

THE BOOK:
https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Jesse's AMA on the subreddit about the book:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/mhyflz/ask_me_anything_about_my_book_the_quick_fix_which/

Jesse's article on the implicit association test:
https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/psychologys-racism-measuring-tool-isnt-up-to-the-job.html

Jesse on the contact hypothesis:
https://www.thecut.com/2017/02/the-contact-hypothesis-offers-hope-for-the-world.html

The Robin DiAngelo episode:
https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/17

The Robin DiAngelo bonus episode, which is an interview between Katie and a survivor of one of these trainings:
https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/bonus2

Kelefa Sanneh on This American Life on diversity trainings:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/648/unteachable-moment

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Episode 57: There's No Accountability To Accountability Lists These Days (feat. Jonathan Chait) Mar 28, 2021

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Jesse and Katie talk about Jesse's inclusion on a very special list of very special bigots, Katie's addition to the ever-growing list of people who got Doyle'd, and an annoyingly one-sided front-page New York Times piece about online censorship. Then they throw to an interview Jesse did with Jon Chait, an excellent writer and thinker who had a big impact on Jesse's own work over the years.

Jesse on the disgraceful GLAAD clusterfuck: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/glaad-took-false-previously-disproven

Jon Chait - Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say: How the language police are perverting liberalism: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html

One of Chait's most recent Russia pieces: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ex-kgb-agent-trump-russian-asset-mueller-putin-kompromat-unger-book.html

NYT Mag on Robin DiAngelo: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/magazine/white-fragility-robin-diangelo.html

Chait on that piece and Robin DiAngelo: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/antiracism-training-white-fragility-robin-diangelo-ibram-kendi.html

Jesse on left-wing identitarianism: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/slate-pete-buttigieg-and-the-limited

Chait - An Elite Progressive LISTSERV Melts Down Over a Bogus Racism Charge: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/white-fragility-racism-racism-progressive-progressphiles-david-shor.html

Moral clarity: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/objectivity-black-journalists-coronavirus.html

The tweet that got Lee Fang in trouble: https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1268390704645943297

Chait v. Higgins: https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1329057894164279296

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Episode 56: Yes We Have Receipts But No You Cannot See Them Mar 20, 2021

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After reflecting on the podcast turning one whole year old next week, Jesse and Katie talk about the massive online uproar over his (and others') continuing presence on Substack, Katie's impressive Brianna-Wu-related fundraising, and the underappreciated connection between GamerGate and 4chan. Then the hosts discuss media coverage of the awful massage-parlor shootings in Atlanta, and particularly the rush to slot them into an oversimplified race narrative.

Please consider preordering Jesse's book The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills: https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Jon Kay's big Quillette piece on the rumors about Jesse:
https://quillette.com/2021/03/18/the-campaign-of-lies-against-journalist-jesse-singal-and-why-it-matters/

Ryan Broderick’s dishonest article about Substack: https://www.garbageday.email/p/starting-to-think-we-are-acting-like

An interview of Jesse's Ryan would have benefited from reading:
https://www.vulture.com/2016/05/against-me-laura-jane-grace-playing-north-carolina.html

Jude Doyle’s dishonest article about Substack: https://doyles.substack.com/p/in-queers-we-trust-all-others-pay

Jude Doyle’s dishonest article about leaving Substack:
https://doyles.substack.com/p/necessary-losses

Brianna Wu HAS RECEIPTS:
https://twitter.com/briannawu/status/1371452139856392196

Katie’s thread on Wu’s DMs about her and Jesse:
https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1371484911773700098

Wu’s threatening email to Jesse:
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1371470202030936067

Jesse’s story on the Kenneth Zucker clinic:
https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html

Herzog’s impressive fundraising efforts:
https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1372583800480301065

There appear to be myriad holes in Zoe Quinn’s story about Alec Holowka, who committed suicide after (but not necessarily as a result of) her accusations and his subsequent firing:
https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-zoe-quinns-allegations-are-falling-apart

Freddie deBoer’s apology:
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/statement

Freddie deBoer’s essay about people’s unwillingness to accept his apology:
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/since-you-asked

Melissa Jeltsen’s useful and nuanced thread on the massage-parlor shootings and the temptation of simple storytelling:

https://twitter.com/quasimado/status/1372536018721734662

Whiteness Doesn’t Cause Mass Shootings:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/11/whiteness-mass-shootings.html

Basic info on Robert Aaron Long:

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-massage-parlor-shootings-leave-8-dead-f3841a8e0215d3ab3d1f23d489b7af81

No, a police captain didn’t blame the shooting on a “bad day”:

https://reason.com/2021/03/19/aaron-robert-long-spa-killer-atlanta-jay-baker-cop-bad-day/

Everyone got the Pulse nightclub shooting wrong:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/5/17202026/pulse-shooting-lgbtq-trump-terror-hate

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