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- Oct 4, 2016
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a ‘short” from a fantastic jon stewart podcast in which he interviews prof heather cox richardson.
cos the full interview goes for an hour, most won’t hear it all - although they should - the following metaphor hit the mark for me, the narrative by turning people against each other with lies, fear and misinformation
"the way i think about it is you have ten people in a room, eight of them just want to get by. they just want to put food on the table, have a good time, and have their friends and have a nice life. but there are two people who want to control everybody else, and the way that they get that power is to get six people to turn against the two at the bottom. and way that you do that is through the stories you tell, so if you can tell those people in the middle that those two people at the bottom, and you can pick them at random, because of the clothes they wear, or the colour of their eyes, or their skin or whatever, then you can get power from those other six. that would explain to me anyway why people of colour will turn against other groups of colour. or why white women will vote against their own interests because they are hearing stories that say you must turn against those two people at the bottom or we're going to turn against you. and why i do what i do is because i think the stories we tell about who we are and the communities we are are the way that you garner power.
the complete with historian prof cox Richardson >
cos the full interview goes for an hour, most won’t hear it all - although they should - the following metaphor hit the mark for me, the narrative by turning people against each other with lies, fear and misinformation
"the way i think about it is you have ten people in a room, eight of them just want to get by. they just want to put food on the table, have a good time, and have their friends and have a nice life. but there are two people who want to control everybody else, and the way that they get that power is to get six people to turn against the two at the bottom. and way that you do that is through the stories you tell, so if you can tell those people in the middle that those two people at the bottom, and you can pick them at random, because of the clothes they wear, or the colour of their eyes, or their skin or whatever, then you can get power from those other six. that would explain to me anyway why people of colour will turn against other groups of colour. or why white women will vote against their own interests because they are hearing stories that say you must turn against those two people at the bottom or we're going to turn against you. and why i do what i do is because i think the stories we tell about who we are and the communities we are are the way that you garner power.
the complete with historian prof cox Richardson >