Jul 9, 2022 • 1HR 4M

Episode 122: Enjoy Your Death Trap, Ladies!

Plus: When they send you to a camp full of swastikas, it’s usually a bad sign…

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Journalists Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal scour the internet for its craziest, silliest, most sociopathic content, part of an obsessive and ill-conceived attempt to extract kernels of meaning and humanity from a landscape of endless raging dumpster fires.
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Katie gets deceived by the Daily Kos, a leftist coffee shop suffers an expected fate, and Jesse explains how Buddhists ruined summer camp for everyone.

Links:

Rebekah’s sneakily-worded post on the Daily Kos:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/2/2101940/-Rebekah-makes-national-headlines-in-Whistleblower-win-joins-Crist-Fried-in-Orlando-in-major-speech

Mina’s World shuts down:

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Libs of TikTok weighs in on the Mina’s Cafe situation:

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Queer-owned business shut down by employees for not being woke enough
Mina’s World, a cafe in Philadelphia that prided itself in being “Queer-owned,” has officially closed its doors after a woke employee revolt. The cafe was owned by Kate Egghart and Sonam Parikh, two queer activists who started Mina’s in an effort to create an inclusive coffee shop. However, th…
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9 months ago · 227 likes · 49 comments · Libs of TikTok

Doc Marie’s website (WARNING: pointless)

https://docmaries.com/

Hidden Villa:

https://www.hiddenvilla.org/about-us/

Hidden Villa’s Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/hiddenvilla

Hidden Villa’s swastika statement:

https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/letter-to-the-community-6-8-22-1654978228.pdf

How the world loved the swastika - until Hitler stole it:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591

Here, have some Jewish swastikas:

https://www.tod.org.il/en/blog-holocaust-day

The swastikas that started it all (note left-facing orientation):

The Palo Alto Online article explaining the situation:

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2022/06/13/hate-symbol-or-buddhist-emblem-hidden-villa-cancels-summer-camps-for-1000-kids-after-staffers-resign-over-swastika-tiles

Los Altos Town Crier article:

https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/updated-hidden-villa-cancels-all-camps-after-key-staff-quit-citing-structural-racism/article_a0c7129a-e788-11ec-a721-d3ca305b4938.html

“What a stupid f*cking way to have a really important conversation”:

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Bonus Interview: "What a stupid f*cking way to have a really important conversation": Reflections On A Yearlong White Fragility Training
Listen now (46 min) | If hearing Jesse and Katie dig around in the strange innards of "White Fragility" wasn't enough Robin DiAngelo for you, have we got the thing: an interview Katie conducted with a woman whose former c…
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Facebook comment highlights:

https://imgur.com/a/DzBvawm

The Tweet that broke the news to Twitter:

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BarbraLou @BarbraLou
@angrybklynmom A local, well-loved summer camp here on the SF area also canceled all sessions at the last minute due to ‘staffing issues’. They later explained the exact problem to parents in this illuminating email:
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6:00 PM ∙ Jun 29, 2022
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Noah Smith weighs in:

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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion
This is exactly the stuff Ryan Grim talked about in his Intercept article. It's killing progressive effectiveness along every possible dimension. And ironically, the anti-woke folks warned us and we did nothing.
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Wesley Yang @wesyang
Bizarre struggle sessions over esoteric transgressions of socjus dogma are no longer confined to progressive nonprofits and political campaigns, they are injuring the lives of children as institutions with long histories break from within https://t.co/p6NZieNhIj
6:04 AM ∙ Jul 1, 2022
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Wes Yang chimes in:

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Wesley Yang @wesyang
Bizarre struggle sessions over esoteric transgressions of socjus dogma are no longer confined to progressive nonprofits and political campaigns, they are injuring the lives of children as institutions with long histories break from within
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BarbraLou @BarbraLou
@angrybklynmom A local, well-loved summer camp here on the SF area also canceled all sessions at the last minute due to ‘staffing issues’. They later explained the exact problem to parents in this illuminating email: https://t.co/xBqDBNdsj2
10:06 AM ∙ Jun 30, 2022
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Ryan Grim’s take:

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim
Camp for 900 kids canceled because
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BarbraLou @BarbraLou
@angrybklynmom A local, well-loved summer camp here on the SF area also canceled all sessions at the last minute due to ‘staffing issues’. They later explained the exact problem to parents in this illuminating email: https://t.co/xBqDBNdsj2
11:46 AM ∙ Jun 30, 2022
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The title:

Image: Women dance together at WildRose, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. WildRose, which opened in 1984, is the only remaining lesbian bar in Seattle. (Genna Martin, seattlepi.com) (Photo by GENNA MARTIN/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)"

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