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Finally, the two-part conclusion to our six-part series! Part six is available now to Patrons only and will be made available to everyone else next week.
Thanks to everyone who participated in this very impromptu series on this topic.
For some of you, this will be like "Duh." But I'm discovering more and more how many people don't understand that Neoliberalism is a specific set of economic policies that are most promoted -- and promoted in their extreme form -- by Republicans.
If this is a review for you, then bare with me as I make this plain for some people.
Enough is enough. Time to move on from hoping to talk sense into a group that doesn't want any.
Long story short, we've got to work. We've got to organize more. We've got to get into position to actually effect change. Shouting at Democrats from the sidelines while Republicans are running up the score for neoliberalism is a failing strategy.
Let's talk about it.
We're seeing the worst in the treatment of women revived to help elevate Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court so that Bret Kavanaugh can enforce his will on the bodies of women by repealing Roe-v-Wade just as he allegedly forced his will on the body of the women who reported sexual assault.
I delayed part four so I could include voices of women. Even though I pointed out the male-dominated space, I would have been perpetuating the problem by not including the voices of women.
Once again, my homegirls came to the rescue. Wendi Muse shared this amazing podcast with me and I've chopped it to share with you. But be sure to listen to the entire podcast here:
https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/left-pocket-project-podcast-episode-4-no-girls-allowed-a-conversation-w-sansdn
Check out Wendi Muse on Twitter @MuseWendi, San on Twitter @Sansdn and the podcast on Twitter: @LeftPOC
Fair warning! The women use profanity much more than me. ROFL. But they use it so elegantly that you barely notice.
Part three in a four-part series on independent media and how it reflects mainstream media.
In this conversation, I speak with @MediaStudied again about the lanes that support the current power structure and why it has become increasingly necessary for media to cater to those lanes.
In the context of how people of color (Black people specifically) fit into these lanes, historically it has always been about how we can serve one of those lanes. The moment you challenge your lane, you're likely to get similar treatment as you would in any of the other lanes be it the Democratic establishment lane, the Republican establishment lane, or the "anti-establishment" establishment lane.
Which leads us to the question of access to platforms? Well, the answer is, so long as you say what they want to hear, you can access any of these three lanes. The moment you challenge it -- even the so-called anti-establishment lane -- you either lose access or that media company runs the risk of losing the demographic it serves.
All of this is applicable to politics and policy. All of this underscores the importance of identity.
Part two of an ongoing conversation. Today's podcast is a conversation I had with @QGotNoRings and @Deuce1042 about this independent media space.
This is part one of four podcasts based on two hours of conversations I had with @MediaStudied, @QGotNoRings, and @Deuce1042 (all on twitter) about how independent media both reflect the current power structure and, in its own way, is merely fulfilling a function of the current power structure.
We get into the weeds a bit, but it was an important conversation -- especially for me.
Watching the Dallas police smear a man who was killed while resting in his home is surreal. But they've done this so many times, the smearing of Black people killed by police has been perfected down to a science.
Today's bonus show I cover "Useless contrarianism" -- the performative art of grandstanding but doing nothing to help progressive goals.
Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk is a friend of mine and I respect his work. But a tweet he sent out -- though he certainly offered clarification -- gives us the opportunity to explore the idea that the culture war is a distraction or best understood as a tool used by oligarchs to keep us divided. I used to think this too until I thought this all the way through.
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