#1396 The Platforms of Our Discontent (Social Media, Social Destruction)
Air Date: 2–5-2021
Today we take a look at the role that social media plays in the radicalization of discontented communities and engage in the debate over content moderation and de-platforming of individuals.
Read more#1318 Why We Cannot Have Nice Things (How Racism Hurts Everyone, Including White People) (Repost)
Air Date: 11–12-2019
Today we take a look at some of the ways that conservative policies, willed into existence almost exclusively by white people, measurably hurt people and shorten life expectancies, including those who most fervently support the self-destructive policies.
Read more#1395 The Arab Spring, Bin Laden Killed, Giffords Shot, Occupy Wall St. and Birtherism (A Look Back at 2011)
Air Date 1/31/2021
Today we take a look back at the year 2011 in our annual 10-years-past retrospective to see what we may learn. 2011 was an enormous year of news which included the death of Osama Bin Laden, the manufactured budget crisis in Wisconsin, the shooting of Gabby Giffords, Occupy Wall Street, the birth of Trump's Birtherism and much more.
Read more#1394 White Terrorism and Willful Ignorance
Air Date: 1–26-2021
Today we take a look at our long history of ignoring domestic, right-wing terrorism from the Oklahoma City bombing through to the predictable actions of militia groups in 2020 and beyond.
Read more#1261 Profitable Extremism (How Social Media Propagates Hate) (Repost)
Air Date: 4–2-2019
Today we take a look at the so-called "Algorithms of Oppression." Not that they're made to be that way on purpose but that it is a natural outcome of a profit-based system that incentivizes people to post the most click-baity content while the system learns the viewer's weaknesses to ruthlessly feed them whatever will keep them engaged.
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