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This week on CounterSpin: There’s a vigorous public argument right now—mainly among Democrats, along with some IRBF’s, the Inexplicable Republican Best Friends to whom elite media offer op-ed space to offer assuredly good-faith counsel to Democrats — about “electability.” The upshot for many seems to be that to beat Trump, Democrats should run someone as much like him as possible, and must on no account run a “nontraditional” candidate, no matter how excited people are about them. It’s very “Fears Not Hopes” — and is it even true? A new data-driven study says no, actually; white men are not inherently more “electable” than women or people of color. We’ll talk about the Electability Myth with Brenda Choresi Carter, director of the Reflective Democracy Campaign.
Transcript: ‘White Men Have No Electability Advantage’
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Also on the show: As Trump amps up his racist attacks on congresswomen of color, some corporate media are still fairly contorting themselves to describe such attacks as racism-adjacent. Denaturing the word “racism” has a particular history in this country, worth knowing as you hear pundits talk about racially-charged this and -tinged that—as is the fact that, when it comes to media, the people who decide whether “racism” is the right word are the least likely to have experienced it. We’ll talk about the power of language and the language of power with Lawrence Glickman, American Studies professor at Cornell University and author of the recent Boston Review article, “The Racist Politics of the English Language.”
Transcript: ‘These Terms Have a History and a Power We Have to Acknowledge’
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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at the upcoming Democratic presidential debates.
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Listening to your show has convinced me that we need to repeal the 19th amendment.
Please fix the download for the Carter interview! The current (as of 0730 UTC M 22 Jul 2019) link=
http://www.fair.org/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin190719Carter.mp3
has been 404ing since Friday (19 Jul 2019), when I first tried to download this. Note the links to the other 2 pieces in this week’s show both worked for me, so I believe the problem is on your end. (That and the fact that I encounter this situation every month or 2, and it always gets fixed on your end … which IMHO points to an easily-fixed website-quality-maintenance problem, but that’s a separate discussion. Don’t get me wrong, youse have great content, and youse do great work, but that only makes it more annoying when the work is unavailable.)
Excellent as always. Thank you for doing this and helping us all make sense of the information and the ways it is being told.