Champagne Sharks

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This is a preview of a bonus premium episode. Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This will not only give you access to this current premium episode you’re previewing, but also all the back premium episodes you may have missed as well and all future bonus premium episodes. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champ…d1242690393?mt=2. Adam H. Johnson comes on the show today to discuss developments in media coverage of world events and historical events. Adam is a media analyst at Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (http://FAIR.org) and is the co-host of the podcast Citations Needed (https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded). Discussed in this episode: The opening scene from the Newsroom TV series where the main character gives an American exceptionalism speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTjMqda19wk "Van Jones Starts To Cry As He React To Trump's Message Blaming The Left" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmhE-fa-Xkk An article by Evgeny Morozov discussing solutionism, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/20/rise-of-data-death-of-politics-evgeny-morozov-algorithmic-regulation and Morozov's book on solutionism To Solve Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism http://amzn.to/2i8CdNZ Slavery by Another Name, the book http://amzn.to/2BDyoZp and the documentary http://amzn.to/2kgxkqa

Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks.  Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champ…d1242690393?mt=2. Joining us today is Jessa Crispin (https://twitter.com/thebookslut), author of Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto http://amzn.to/2hWkCsB. Her podcast Public Intellectual can be found here: http://www.jessacrispin.com/podcast/ Discussed in this episode: * "Lena Dunham Slammed on Social Media for Defending Girls Writer Accused of Rape" http://people.com/tv/lena-dunham-slammed-on-social-media-for-defending-girls-writer-accused-of-rape/ * "Lena Dunham receives backlash after defending ‘Girls’ writer accused of rape" http://www.nme.com/news/tv/lena-dunham-defends-girls-writer-accused-rape-backlash-murray-miller-aurora-perrineau-2160713 * Jessa writing on the Marlon James controversy she mentions in the episode, "On pandering … and exclusivity" https://www.mhpbooks.com/123500-2/ * The Man Question:  Visions of Subjectivity in Feminist Theory by Kathy Ferguson http://amzn.to/2iTQizn * "How to Know if Your Feminism is Intersectional" https://www.bustle.com/p/how-to-know-if-your-feminism-is-intersectional-53929 * "Filmmaker Xavier Burgin: How It Feels to Explain Nate Parker to White Hollywood" (the funny picture we mention is in this article) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/filmmaker-xavier-burgin-how-feels-explain-nate-parker-white-hollywood-952467 * Lauren Oyler's critique of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist "WITH AND AGAINST: BAD FEMINISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS" http://www.bookslut.com/features/2014_12_021016.php

This is a preview of a bonus premium episode. Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This will not only give you access to this current premium episode you’re previewing, but also all the back premium episodes you may have missed as well and all future bonus premium episodes. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champ…d1242690393?mt=2. Glenn Greenwald joins us to discuss his recent article about Donna Brazile and Wikileaks, "Four Viral Claims Spread by Journalists on Twitter in the Last Week Alone That Are False" https://theintercept.com/2017/11/05/four-viral-claims-spread-by-journalists-on-twitter-in-the-last-week-alone-that-are-false/

Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champ…d1242690393?mt=2. Today senior staff writer at Politico Michael Kruse (https://twitter.com/michaelkruse) joins us to discuss his recent article about Trump supporters in Johnstown, Pennsylvania both before and after the election, "Johnstown Never Believed Trump Would Help. They Still Love Him Anyway." https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/08/donald-trump-johnstown-pennsylvania-supporters-215800 Also discussed this episode: * "Clinton Campaign Staffers Accuse Brazile Of Buying Into ‘Russian Propaganda’" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/open-letter-attack-onbrazile_us_59fe9cd1e4b0c9652fffc493

This is a preview of a bonus premium episode. Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This will not only give you access to this current premium episode you’re previewing, but also all the back premium episodes you may have missed as well and all future bonus premium episodes. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champ…d1242690393?mt=2. Today is another listener question day. Discussed in the episode: * The documentary "The Power Principle" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5If2YaLtX4 and the later documentary by the same people "Counter Intelligence" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8wQ9_fZ3Mc&list=PLXiMjzb_5K8MiuBz8Br4pcB9WQjDm0fo1 * My Paste article: "The Centrist Smear: The Five Steps Liberals Take to Undermine Leftist Critique" https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/08/the-centrist-smear-the-five-steps-liberals-take-to.html * My Intercept article: "The Mainstreaming of Colin Kaepernick's Protest Was It's Destruction" https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/colin-kaepernick-national-anthem-protest-trump-nfl/

Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champ…d1242690393?mt=2. Today we talk about the growing proliferation of murder-suicide meltdown, terrorists and MRA types among black male community. Also, what's up with Tyrese? Discussed in this episode: * Doug E.Fresh's attempt in 1992 to cash in on the Hammer trend. If you read the comments to the video, people are still mad about it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY36Iy1dt9g * An example of the modern trend of rappers excusing wearing dresses due to the idea money justifies it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EenB09LACZ0. Lord Jamar on VladTV discusses the wack stuff modern rappers will justify for attention and money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HS-xVOb_Tg * Akilah Hughes, who we discussed in episode 43, throws Donna Brazile, a fellow black liberal, under the bus for going agains the mainstream Dems, using the "cookout" language: https://twitter.com/AkilahObviously/status/926958581781614592. My thread on it: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/926981884298571777. * Tyrese's rambling crying rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YMEbCO23rw * "Tyrese Says Will and Jada-Pinkett Smith Gave Him $5 Million To Stay Off Social Media And Pay Legal Fees" https://www.bet.com/celebrities/news/2017/11/05/will-and-jada-pinkett-smith-tyrese.html

This is a preview of a bonus premium episode. Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This will not only give you access to this current premium episode you’re previewing, but also all the back premium episodes you may have missed as well and all future bonus premium episodes. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champ…d1242690393?mt=2. Today we discuss Antifa supersoldiers, are favorite leftist twitter hoaxes that the alt-right Infowars crowd has fallen for, and other conspiracy hoaxes the alt-right has believed or spread. Discussed in this episode: * The cushbomb thread about the RPG covered in dildos at the Den convention https://twitter.com/cushbomb/status/731639494617792512?lang=en * The infamous randygdub tweet about the absentee ballots being torn up at the Post Office https://twitter.com/randygdub/status/787902456768311296 * The fallout of the Post Office prank got so bad various governmental agencies had to eventually address it https://twitter.com/USPSHelp/status/788105012236816384 and it had to be debunked by Snopes https://www.snopes.com/postal-worker-caught-destroying-absentee-trump-ballots-in-major-swing-state/ * "La. Court Rules That Man Who Said ‘Give Me a Lawyer, Dog’ Wasn’t Asking for Counsel" http://www.theroot.com/la-court-rules-that-man-who-said-give-me-a-lawyer-dog-1820157543 * Gateway Pundit falling for the hoax http://archive.is/VSn0j. Newsweek reporting on right wingers falling for the hoax. http://www.newsweek.com/antifa-waging-civil-war-november-4-right-wing-conspiracy-theory-681219 and the fallout from when November 4 arrived and nothing happened http://www.newsweek.com/antifa-civil-war-november-4-really-just-few-protests-against-trump-702150. * Twitter user Krang T. Nelson discussing the hoax and the fallout. "Twitter Suspended Me for Trolling White Supremacists: I tweeted what was intended as satire of a festering right-wing panic over Antifa allegedly planning violence on November 4. It got weird from there."  https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evbpkn/twitter-suspended-me-for-trolling-white-supremacists?utm_campaign=sharebutton * Sagging pants meme with arrows pointed at the black men's butts https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/838115337354760197. Also the exaggerated sag in the racist memes that D. Mills discusses http://www.troll.me/images/sagging-pants/i-run-from-da-police-but-trips-on-p...

Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champ…d1242690393?mt=2. We discussed the NY stripper strike, the new Five Pillars of Hip-Hop, the new Cultural Mulattoes, swirling, getting invited to "the cookout, Bob McNair's "inmates" comment to his football team, and recent developments with a branch of Black Lives Matter. Show Notes * "MTO BREAKING NEWS: New York City Strippers GO ON STRIKE . . . They’re Fighting For EQUAL TREATMENT . . . With The BARTENDERS!!! #StripperWars #StripperStrike" http://mtonews.com/41193-2-nyc-stripperstrike-wars/ * "NYC strippers are on strike and we should hear them out". This link includes DJ Kay Slay's strangely intense and involved rant weighing in on the subject https://kulturehub.com/nyc-strippers-strike-foh/ * The original 5 pillars of Hip-Hop https://thehiphopfundamentalist.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-pillars-of-hip-hop/ * "Make it Reign: How an Atlanta Strip Club Runs the Music Industry" https://www.gq.com/story/atlanta-strip-club-magic-city * The Wikipedia entry for Cultural Mulatto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_mulatto * The original 1989 essay about Cultural Mulattoes by Trey Ellis https://www.huffingtonpost.com/trey-ellis/whos-afraid-of-me_b_981005.html * Summary of the Swirling "movement" http://www.phillytrib.com/lifestyles/swirling-a-way-of-life-for-some-black-women/article_d7795e83-91bc-576c-b963-96bbc745aec0.html * "Get Invited to the Cookout" T-shirt and swag https://www.sunfrog.com/141542833-1094578405.html?45122 and a tweet showing the social media promotion for the same Swirlybae shirt https://twitter.com/newageiketurner/status/918663564088565760 * At the time of this episode's recording the full article wasn't online yet, but since then it has appeared in full so here it is: "Thank You God, for Black Thanksgiving: On learning how to be black, one family Thanksgiving in Atlanta at a time."https://www.bonappetit.com/story/rembert-browne-thanksgiving * "Meet Your First Black Girlfriend" Youtube video by Akilah Hughes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDiU0aqqKp0 and Huffington Post's glowing account of it https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/first-black-girlfriend-akilah-hughes_n_4420134.html * Article announcing the panel moderators for the Brown and Black Presidential Forum: "Fusion Announces Moderators Of ‘Brown & Black’ Presiden...

This is a preview of a bonus premium episode. Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This will not only give you access to this current premium episode you’re previewing, but also all the back premium episodes you may have missed as well and all future bonus premium episodes. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champ…d1242690393?mt=2. We discuss Stranger Things 2, which oddly enough wasn't even what we originally planned to discuss.   Show Notes: * An article by Henri de Corinth on Stranger Things and the current age of cynical nostalgia "The Age of Imitation: A Primer of New American Nostalgia, 2007-2017" https://henridecorinth.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/the-age-of-imitation-a-primer-of-new-american-nostalgia-2007-2017/ * Fake Controversy, Terrible Comedy by Eileen Jones https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/ghostbusters-paul-feig-feminism-mccarthy-murray/ * Ghostbusters and Guilt-vertising: Or How The “Right” Product Can Make You A Better Person by Josh Bray https://supernerdland.com/ghostbusters-guiltvertising/ * About the Ghostbusters manufactured gender war controversy 1: Why Being Honest about Ghostbusters is Important by Comic Book Girl 19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn_vAcFGTJU * About the Ghostbusters manufactured gender war controversy 2: Ghostbusters Review by Red Letter Media http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag-ghostbusters-2016/

Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champagne-sharks/id1242690393?mt=2. Sorry, there's some static on my mic this episode. We discuss disinformation on social media and the dynamics of it. Discussed in this episode: * The Ludacris abs controversy: https://www.stereogum.com/1934421/ludacris-says-his-bad-cgi-abs-are-intentional/video/ * The concept of intermittent rewards (or random reinforcement) and how it related to social media platforms like Twitter https://blog.bufferapp.com/psychology-of-twitter * The Daily Caller's misleading article about the Cornell Black Student Union scenario: "Black Student Group Complains Ivy League School Is Letting In Too Many African Students" http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/28/black-student-group-complains-ivy-league-school-is-letting-in-too-many-african-students/  The Atlanta Black Star article carelessly repeating Daily Caller's misleading slant: "Cornell University Black Student Group Complains of Too Many African, Caribbean Students" http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/10/02/cornell-university-black-student-group-complains-many-african-caribbean-students/ * The original Cornell Sun (student newspaper) article that the Daily Caller and Atlanta Black Star misrepresented:  http://cornellsun.com/2017/09/27/black-students-uniteds-demands-in-hand-cornell-president-faces-first-big-test/ * The Cornell BSU's original statement with the demands: https://www.scribd.com/document/360033913/Black-Students-United-at-Cornell-Demands-September-2017 * The Wall Street Journal's eventual article about it https://www.wsj.com/articles/cornells-black-student-disunion-1508364848 * Daniel Kaluuya's response to Samuel Jackson "Get Out Star Daniel Kaluuya Has an Eloquent Response to Samuel L. Jackson’s Criticism": https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/03/get-out-daniel-kaluuya-samuel-l-jackson-jordan-peele-black-actors * NY Magazine article on Carol Dweck, "How Not to Talk to Your Kids" by Po Bronson: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/01/mindset-theory-a-popular-idea-in-education-may-be-trouble.html. * "Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset" by Derek Sivers: https://sivers.org/mindset * Stereotype Threat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat * Findings about white teachers and black students and how it correlates to Stereotype Threat and Dweck's research: "The Race Connection: Are Teachers More Effective With Students Who Share Their Ethnicity?" by Thomas Dee 

Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champagne-sharks/id1242690393?mt=2. 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 second 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 2 episode: * "Postmodern Geekdom as Simulated Ethnicity" by Kom Kunyosying and Carter Soles https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc54.2012/SolesKunyoGeedom/ * Robert Crumb's "Whiteman" comic strip: http://img.eastfist.com/whitemanbyRCrumb.jpg * Robert Crumb's "Whiteman Meets BigFoot" http://champagnesharks.blubrry.net/whiteman-meets-bigfoot/ * Frank Chin's concept of "Racist Love." https://chintalks.blogspot.com/2008/08/racist-love.html * Contrast the scenes with Kyle the geek and Rhonda from Road Trip to Crumb's "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". As Kyle becomes increasingly uninhibited and less geeky, he at the same time is shown embracing stereotypical blackness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz3SOdEw0LY. This culminates with nerdy Kyle bedding a large, very sensual black woman, interestingly shown in animal print, as the final step in conquering his repression and reclaiming his manhood. Note the animal print the black woman is wearing (nature, animalistic).

This is a preview of a bonus premium episode. Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This will not only give you access to this current premium episode you’re previewing, but also all the back premium episodes you may have missed as well and all future bonus premium episodes. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champ…d1242690393?mt=2. Today Michael Brooks joins us to discuss various topics recently in the notes, including the ongoing debate between Ta-Nehisi Coates and various figures on the left and identity issues vs. class issues in general. Michael Brooks is host of The Michael Brooks Show https://www.patreon.com/TMBS, co-host of the Majority Report, co-host of 2 Dope Boys & a Podcast, his writing has appeared in Jacobin, Baffler, Open Democracy and the Washington Post. Follow him here https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooks Discussed in this episode: * My recent appearance on The Michael Brooks Show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1B5A4nV-rE * "How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power by Thomas Chatterton Williams https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/ta-nehisi-coates-whiteness-power.html * "Between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Us" by Douglas Williams https://thesouthlawn.org/2017/10/09/between-ta-nehisi-coates-and-us/ * Toxic Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro http://amzn.to/2yD97O6

Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champagne-sharks/id1242690393?mt=2. 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.

This is a preview of a bonus premium episode. Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This will not only give you access to this current premium episode you're previewing, but also all the back premium episodes you may have missed as well and all future bonus premium episodes. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champ…d1242690393?mt=2. 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