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October 18, 2017EpisodesEliot Rodger, Geeks, Nerds, Racism, Sexismchampagnesharks

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Today we have Kom Kunyosying and Carter Soles on to discuss their 2012 article “Postmodern Geekdom as Simulated Ethnicity”. This article is very dense and has a lot of different ideas making up its thesis, so we didn’t feel we could contain the discussion within a single episode. Therefore it’s a two-part episode, with this being the first part. Both parts are free and not bonus premium episodes. Subscribers to Patreon will have access to a combined version of this episode with the full two hour interview as one file however.

Dr. Kom Kunyosying completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Oregon where he studied the overlap between iconic and ethnic representation in U.S. comics in relation to other visual and prose media. He has published essays on the rise of geek culture for Jump Cut (with Carter Soles) and on metonymy and ecology in Charles Burns’s Black Hole for Interdisciplinary Studies Literature Environment. His essay with Carter Soles, “The Walking Dead’s Hyperreal Hillbilly: Horror, Melodrama, and Backwoods White Protagonists,” is in the forthcoming anthology, “There’s Us and the Dead”: Identity Politics in The Walking Dead (McFarland). He teaches Writing and Literature at Nashua Community College. He can be contacted at kkunyosying@ccsnh.edu.

Dr. Carter Soles completed a Ph.D. at University of Oregon. Carter Soles is Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the English Department at The College at Brockport (SUNY). His research interests include geek studies, gender and identity studies, film authorship, and the comedy and horror genres. He has published articles on the queerness of the independent film Chuck&Buck (2000) for Jump Cut and on the figure of the hillbilly in 1970’s horror cinema for The Eco-Cinema Reader(Routledge, 2012). His profile can be found here: https://www.brockport.edu/academics/english/directory/soles_carter.html. He can be contacted on Twitter at https://twitter.com/cartersoles

Discussed in this Part 1 episode:

“Postmodern Geekdom as Simulated Ethnicity” by Kom Kunyosying and Carter Soles https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc54.2012/SolesKunyoGeedom/
Elliot Rodger’s identity issues as being both a White geek and an Asian geek: “Elliot Rodger’s Manifesto Shows Self-hate Fueled Anti-Asian Violence that Kicked off Isla Vista Rampage” http://aaldef.org/blog/elliot-rodgers-manifesto-shows-self-hate-fueled-anti-asian-violence-that-kicked-off-isla-vista-rampa.html.
Elliot Rodger’s racist antiblack motivations, “Elliot Rodger, Isla Vista Shooting Suspect, Posted Racist Messages on Misogynistic Website”: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2014/05/24/elliot-rodger-isla-vista-shooting-suspect-posted-racist-messages-misogynistic-website.
Elliot Rodger’s sexist motivations, “Elliot Rodger Left Behind Tons of Sexist, Racist YouTube Comments From Second Account” https://splinternews.com/elliot-rodger-left-behind-tons-of-sexist-racist-youtub-1793841790

Preview of CS 037: The Arrogance of Dismissal (10/18/2017)

October 18, 2017EpisodesDonald Trump, Heather Heyer, Pras, Racism, White Supremacychampagnesharks

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This is a solo episode where I discuss something called The Arrogance of Dismissal. I got the term from an interview DJ Vlad did with Pras, formerly of the Fugees. It’s a concept that describes why white people often fall prey to cultural phenomenons that are utterly predictable and avoidable, but keep making the same mistakes due to a blind spot in their analysis that comes from a cognitive bias created by white supremacy that keep them from learning from examples that involve nonwhite people

Discussed in this episode:

“How the Founder of the Fugees Became a Big-Time Political Donor Without Anyone Knowing” http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/03/pras_michel_funded_super_pac_black_men_vote_limited_liability_companies.html
Youtube interview: “Pras on Hillary Clinton Almost Interviewing with VladTV” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfIiC9S9eA
“White Families Are In Trouble Too” by Nicholas Eberstadt “http://www.aei.org/publication/white-families-are-in-trouble-too/“
“Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt: The Democrats lost the white working class. The Republicans exploited it. Can Clinton win it back?” by George Packer https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/31/hillary-clinton-and-the-populist-revolt
“From Charlottesville To Athens, People Around The World Mourn Heather Heyer” by Tasbeeh Herwees https://www.good.is/slideshows/tributes-to-heather-heyer-from-charlottesville-to-athens

CS 036: Pumpkin Spice Supremacy feat. Torraine Walker (10/07/2017)

October 9, 2017EpisodesCam Newton, Erin Andrews, Jordan Rodrigue, Richard Sherman, Torraine Walkerchampagnesharks

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Today, prolific freelance writer Torraine Walker (https://twitter.com/torrainewalker) joins us to talk about the Cam Newton sexism controversy and how he managed to uncover racist tweets by the white feminist reporter at the heart of the controversy, and how the mainstream media and white feminists are choosing to only focus on Newton’s sexism while minimizing and ignoring the female reporter’s racism.

Discussed in this episode:

Torraine Walker’s website and clippings: http://www.torrainewalker.com/work.html
Cam Newton’s controversial comment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y66UzHEPq98
Apologies and explanations from Newton after the controversy (which conveniently enough omit the reporter in question’s own past racist comments): http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/us-sport/national-football-league/nfl-star-cam-newton-apologises-sexist-comments-female-reporter-jourdan-rodrigue-a7987766.html and http://nypost.com/2017/10/09/cam-newton-says-sexist-response-was-attempt-at-compliment/
“BREAKING: Sports Writer At The Center Of Cam Newton Controversy Caught Being Racist Online
Watch White feminism work”, including Torraine Walker’s involvement. https://blavity.com/breaking-sports-writer-at-the-center-of-cam-newton-controversy-caught-being-racist-online
Erin Andrews discussing the Richard Sherman controversy, “Erin Andrews’ Biggest Regret From That Infamous Richard Sherman Interview” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/19/erin-andrews-richard-sherman_n_5693021.html
I mention the concept of “TradWife” when discussing the concept of “racist love” or “sexist love”. Here is what a TradWife is: https://timeline.com/fascinating-womanhood-andelin-feminism-509dfe538de7
“The battle of the Swedish chocolate ball” (Negerbollar) https://watchingtheswedes.com/2014/05/12/the-battle-of-the-swedish-chocolate-ball/
“New Poll Finds That Hillary Supporters Are Pretty Racist Too” by Josh Voorhees http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/06/29/reuters_hillary_clinton_supporters_are_pretty_racist_too.html
The threads of woke black twitter people siding with white feminists over black men. Here: https://twitter.com/queersocialism/status/916051375137705984 and here: https://twitter.com/RyanTheHoly/status/916135121194975232
White feminist trying to minimize the racism and get it back “on topic” toward the sexist focus: https://twitter.com/kateefeldman/status/915993873385738241
Jordan Rodrigue’s fauxpology: https://twitter.com/JourdanRodrigue/status/915976275356999680

Preview of CS 035: The Woke In Review (10/07/2017)

October 9, 2017EpisodesCam Newton, Frank Chin, Joan Walsh, Karpman Drama Triangle, Zerlina Maxwellchampagnesharks

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Discussion of various topics in the news:

The white feminist sports reporter whose racist tweets were discovered while she was trying to drag a black man for sexism: https://blavity.com/breaking-sports-writer-at-the-center-of-cam-newton-controversy-caught-being-racist-online
The white feminist who tried to make everyone ignore another white feminist’s racism in favor of instead focusing on a black man’s sexism: https://twitter.com/kateefeldman/status/915993873385738241
Black women hopping into the suspected racist white feminist’s replies in order to solicit Black Girl Magic headpats from white liberals, here: https://twitter.com/goodearl/status/916391592105316352 and here: https://twitter.com/PoliticalXpat/status/916047938601799680
A summary of the Hugo Schwyzer debacle and the #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen hashtag: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/solidarityisforwhitewomen-hashtag-feminism
Neely Fuller on Premature Celebration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcCIXyoVUCI
“Trust Black Women” by Zerlina Maxwell http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a12662138/nasty-women-book-zerlina-maxwell-trust-black-women/
A thread of me showing the Joan Walsh thread: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/912429306533548032
The “Puve” tweet Mike mentions near the end: https://twitter.com/goodearl/status/916393124980805632
A thread I did where I discussed more nuanced formed of intersectional theory that don’t get promoted online in social media: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/915701704007528448
Frank Chin’s concept of “Racist Love” https://chintalks.blogspot.com/2008/08/racist-love.html
Two overviews of the Karpman Drama Triangle: “Karpman Drama Triangle” http://pastormattrichard.webs.com/4%20-%20The%20Karpman%20Drama%20Triangle.pdfand “The Three Faces of Victim – An Overview of the Drama Triangle” https://www.lynneforrest.com/articles/2008/06/the-faces-of-victim/

CS 034: Restaurant Chains and Slave Chains (09/24/2017)

September 28, 2017EpisodesColin Kaepernick, Donald Trump, Food, Police Brutality, Racismchampagnesharks

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The first half hour is us talking about chain restaurants like Cheesecake Factory for some reason, then the conversation turns to Colin Kaepernick and the #takeaknee controversy.

Two books that cover all the addictive engineering of food products by scientists and labs. The End of Overeating by David Kessler http://amzn.to/2wWJyK7 and Sugar Fat Salt by Michael Moss http://amzn.to/2yacoa9.
Related articles to the two books: “How The Food Industry Manipulates Taste Buds With ‘Salt Sugar Fat'” by Nell Boeschenstein from NPR http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/02/26/172969363/how-the-food-industry-manipulates-taste-buds-with-salt-sugar-fat, “You Really Can’t Eat Just One, and Here’s the Reason” by Scott Mowbray http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/books/salt-sugar-fat-by-michael-moss.html?mcubz=0, and ‘The End of Overeating’ by David Kessler (excerpt) http://onpoint.legacy.wbur.org/2009/07/02/the-end-of-overeating-excerpt.
My original twitter thread about #takeaknee https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/911696707611750400 and the followup twitter thread after Trump did what I predicted https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/912349207431974913.
40 Million Dollar Slaves by William C. Rhoden http://amzn.to/2xHrNNC
When Affirmative Action is White by Ira Katznelson http://amzn.to/2yHDNgF
The Black lesbian comic writer who went on Breakfast Club to discuss her comic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZjJb6xhgxE
Jason Black doing commentary on how bad the Breakfast Club interview went. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdGFnhcRzhk
“Folie A Deux: When Two People Go Insane Together” https://io9.gizmodo.com/5955095/folie-a-deux-when-two-people-go-insane-together

Preview of CS 033: Straight Black Men Are The White People of Black People

September 27, 2017EpisodesPatriarchy, Straight Black Men, Tommy Curry, Very Smart Bros, Yvette Carnellchampagnesharks

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We discuss the recent Very Smart Brothas “Straight Black Men are the White People of Black People”

Discussed in the episode:

Straight Black Men Are the White People of Black People by Damon Young http://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/straight-black-men-are-the-white-people-of-black-people-1814157214
“What Are The Drums Saying, Booker?” by Adolph Reed https://libcom.org/files/ReedWhatAreTheDrumsSayingBooker.pdf
“Black Like Mao” by Robin D.G. Kelley and Betsy Esch http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/vol1no4/vol1num4art1.pdf
Yvette Carnell’s definitive takedown of the Damon Young article: “Straight Black Men are the White Men of Black People ???? Really?!?! 9/20” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xc4K5UDDZs
My Twitter thread in response to this article: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/910261591219871749
“My Response To ‘Straight Black Men Are The White People of Black People’” by
Talitha V. Anyabwele http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-girl-responds-to-straight-black-men-are-the_us_59c630ede4b0f2df5e83ae88
“It’s Funny How 1 Title Can Fuck Up the Game: Thoughts on the Response to Damon’s Piece About Black Men” by Panama Jackson http://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/it-s-funny-how-1-title-can-fuck-up-the-game-thoughts-o-1818726125
White Gay Pay Wage Gap: “Unequal Pay: The Gay Wage Gap” by Joe Pinsker https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/gay-men-women-lesbian-earnings-wage-gap/396074/
Black Gay Pay Wage Gap: “Alarming Princeton Study Reveals Gay Black Men More Likely to Get Higher Salary Than a Straight Ones” by BRAINUSER1 http://www.eurweb.com/2015/03/alarming-princeton-study-reveals-gay-black-men-more-likely-to-get-higher-salary-than-a-straight-ones/
The thread listing so-called Black male privileges https://twitter.com/commandr_nchief/status/911217859858243584

CS 032: Blerds (09/17/2017)

September 20, 2017EpisodesBlerds, Cardi B, Comics, Michael Slager, Walking Deadchampagnesharks

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We open up discussing recent developments with the Michael Slager case, then we go into the topic of blerds (Black Nerds) in response to a question from a listener about why I always go in on them.

Discussed in this episode:

Recent Michael Slager developments http://www.postandcourier.com/news/as-michael-slager-sentencing-nears-demise-of-north-charleston-police/article_ca264d16-98b6-11e7-a700-f76ce6d98c30.html
Tariq Nasheed discussing the character Finn and how bad his character was in Star Wars: The Force Awakens http://ytcropper.com/cropped/t259c21e849e373
Twitter thread full of the type of black creator-owned comics full of black representation that your typical blerd will ignore: https://twitter.com/ChocCityComics/status/893929667257921536
The terrible T-Dog vs. Merle scene from Walking Dead, which was actually worse than I remembered. As the black thug gets beaten up by the white supremacist, the Asian guy and swarthy guy are looking on ineffectually and afraid and white women and a black women are also cowering, so basically everyone, including white women and men and women of color are all cowering before the white male supremacist until the other white alpha male comes in to take him down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpN3xl1pO3Q
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Updated and Expanded 5th http://amzn.to/2wFJVnG
“Humanity Not Included: DC’s Cyborg and the Mechanization of the Black Body” by sonofbaldwin https://themiddlespaces.com/2015/03/31/humanity-not-included/
A thread about GothamGirlBlue’s weird Hillary Clinton monarchy fantasy tweet: https://twitter.com/Bluepurplerain/status/909369406072827904
Luke Cage chasing down Dr. Doom for $200, “Where’s My Money, Honey?” http://www.cbr.com/i-love-ya-but-youre-strange-wheres-my-money-honey/
Thread by writer Myles Johnson about how a type of blerds, the Blavity Blacks (named after a website they tend to write for, Blavity.com) exoticize hood black people like Cardi B. in problematic ways, not too differently from how white people eroticize ratchet people: https://twitter.com/hausmuva/status/895502317931438080
A twitter thread doing exactly what Myles Johnson was bashing Blavity Blacks for doing with Cardi B. https://twitter.com/prezmomobologna/status/909061698191073280
Harmontown fans reacting, largely negatively, to GothamGirlBlue’s appearance on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Harmontown/comments/6opl7a/episode_252_epeephany/
Postmodern geekdom as simulated ethnicity https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc54.2012/SolesKunyoGeedom/
A video discussing a bunch of the problems with BBC’s Sherlock, including how he actually sucks at deduction as D. and I were trying to explain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoGBOs5ecM

Preview of CS 031: Black Immigrants And White Supremacy (09/17/2017)

September 20, 2017EpisodesBlack Immigrants, Kamala Harris, Reparations, Summerhill, Ta-Nehisi Coateschampagnesharks

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Today D. Mills (http://twitter.com/mdmills79) and Mike (http://twitter.com/blackexception1) join me to discuss a Black immigrant conservative’s response to Ta-Nehisi Coate’s book Between the World and Me that appeared on the website Commentary and go onto a tangent about the cafe Summerhill that was opened by a tone-deaf gentrifier in Crown Heights.

The Commentary article decrying Ta-Nehisi Coates by Jamaican immigrant Jason D. Hill, “An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates” https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/open-letter-ta-nehisi-coates/
Some background on Summerhill controversy: “Here’s That Press Release Summerhill Sent About Its Bullet Hole Wall, in Full” https://ny.eater.com/2017/7/24/16019934/summerhill-crown-heights-press-release-nyc
The Summerhill owner’s debacle at the Community Board meeting, including the infamous face palms we describe: “Crown Heights Bar Owner Refuses To Remove ‘Bullet Hole’ Wall: ‘I’m Sorry I Have A Sense Of Humor'” http://gothamist.com/2017/08/25/summerhill_meeting_crown_heights.php
An interview with Becca Brennan, owner of Summerhill, after the community board meeting, where she continues to be tone deaf: “https://theoutline.com/post/2197/a-conversation-with-brooklyn-s-most-controversial-restaurant-owner
“Hello, Fellow Kids.” https://media.giphy.com/media/ifxLK48cnyDDi/giphy.gif
Ta-Nehisi Coates addressing Black-on-Black Crime, “Black People Are Not Ignoring ‘Black on Black’ Crime” https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/08/black-people-are-not-ignoring-black-on-black-crime/378629/ and “The Myth of Black-on-Black Crime” https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/03/the-myth-of-black-on-black-crime/253829/
Kamala Harris’s aunt saying that all of Kamala’s positive traits came from growing up immersed in Indian culture: “My Niece, the U.S. Senator” http://www.rediff.com/news/special/my-niece-the-us-senator/20161111.htm
Other groups who have asked for and gotten reparations that Jason D. Hill conveniently ignores “Obama administration earmarks $12m for Holocaust survivors”: https://www.timesofisrael.com/obama-administration-earmarks-12m-for-holocaust-survivors/ and “U.S. Government To Pay $492 Million To 17 American Indian Tribes” https://www.timesofisrael.com/obama-administration-earmarks-12m-for-holocaust-survivors/
Yvette Carnell on which people, including which black people, actually get Affirmative Action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvz2z9OhPyg

Preview of CS029: Listener Questions (09/10/17)

September 13, 2017EpisodesBlack, Feminism, Issa Rae, Race, White Identificationchampagnesharks

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In this episode, I answer some listener questions. If you want to ask some questions of your own that may be answered on-air in the future, go to https://curiouscat.me/ChampagneSharks or write us at champagnesharks@gmail.com.

Topics include the role of white women in white supremacy and the concept of black people identifying with white values.

Discussed in this episode:

Women of the Klan by Kathleen Blee http://amzn.to/2eXfenw

Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement by Kathleen Blee http://amzn.to/2xzb9RB

White Women’s Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States by Louise Michele Newman http://amzn.to/2jsmWv1

‘When and Where I Enter’: The Racist Expectations of Whites-Only Feminism by Kirsten West Savali https://www.theroot.com/when-and-where-i-enter-the-racist-expectations-of-whit-1790855079

“Really? This Is How High Achievement is Greeted?” by Karin Chenowith http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Karin-Chenoweth/really-this-is-how-high-a_b_6910700.html

Example of Issa Rae’s relationship to “ratchetness” (would actual black people with a so-called “authentic” black experience even need to have ratchet defined? Who is this video for?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtJOaBer5kk

Black Mirror on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/70264888

CS 028: Coppin’ Pleas ft. Emmet Penney (09/06/2017)

September 7, 2017EpisodesDanny Fetonte, DSA, Emmet Penny, Politicschampagnesharks

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This episode we have Emmet Penney (https://twitter.com/ChknNugtDeepSt8) on to discuss his article on a recent controversy that happened with DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America, regarding the election of Danny Fetonte to the organization’s National Political Committee (NPC), which manages and directs the organization, Fetonte, a union organizer, was accused of covering up his involvement with organizing on behalf of police unions. Penney is the Membership Co-Chair for the Santa Fe DSA as well as one of the people who helped vote Fetonte in before discovering his involvement with police unions.

Emmet’s article “How the DSA Screwed Up with Danny Fetonte” can be found here:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/09/how-the-dsa-screwed-up-with-danny-fetonte.html

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Category Archives: Episodes

CS 038: Postmodern Geekdom as Simulated Ethnicity Pt. 1 with Kom Kunyosying and Carter Soles (10/16/2017)

Preview of CS 037: The Arrogance of Dismissal (10/18/2017)

CS 036: Pumpkin Spice Supremacy feat. Torraine Walker (10/07/2017)

Preview of CS 035: The Woke In Review (10/07/2017)

CS 034: Restaurant Chains and Slave Chains (09/24/2017)

Preview of CS 033: Straight Black Men Are The White People of Black People

CS 032: Blerds (09/17/2017)

Preview of CS 031: Black Immigrants And White Supremacy (09/17/2017)

Preview of CS029: Listener Questions (09/10/17)

CS 028: Coppin’ Pleas ft. Emmet Penney (09/06/2017)