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Did Bernie get screwed? Why school closures are a political disaster, and why Asians are the "convenient minority."

Forward

Humanity Forward Productions

Society & Culture

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Andrew talks about identity, the Democratic Party's undemocratic impulses, and why school reopening should be non-ideological. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/iDct5q4KG1M Follow Zach Graumann: https://twitter.com/zach_graumann Follow Andrew Yang: https://twitter.com/andrewyang | https://forwardparty.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's a fixation on trying to address the power differential and wouldn't be great if we got the first X of Y

0:07.6

Now that there are a lot of Americans who are kind of impatient with the first X of Y thing

0:13.0

Because it doesn't matter as much as we thought or hoped or whatever the hell

0:17.7

You know there were some people that thought Barack Obama president of the United States means we're not racist anymore

0:23.5

We're post-racial which by the way we're probably more racist now than we were

0:28.1

Backfire people could you know people were making the same argument about Hillary's like hey first we're in president

0:34.0

We like show that we will be over it and then you know like I don't think that would have fixed it

0:40.2

Magnific problems right imagining that that having an elected representative of a certain identity and by the way like I'm for people of

0:48.1

Different backgrounds being in like different seats. I mean, I think I think it's great

0:53.6

But but making that like the criteria

0:58.0

The criterion that you're using

1:01.0

Primarily is is not great and a lot of Americans can sense that the media in particular is gone overboard

1:09.1

with this and

1:11.1

One of the byproducts of this is that it has the potential to

1:17.1

Divide the country further where you have and I'm gonna use you as the proxy

1:21.1

You have like reasonable well-intended white people men and women who are generally aligned with a democratic party on some things

1:29.8

But feel driven out because there is this implicit like we don't care about you and your perspective because you are

1:36.6

The powerful and the power differential equation and all we're going to do is talk to people who are from an historically marginalized group

1:51.7

This week on forward did Bernie get a fair shake from the DNC in 2016?

2:07.6

Why parents are struggling with a democratic party?

2:11.3

What it's like being a white guy in

2:13.7

2022 in politics this week on forward

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