David Josef Volodzko: The New Yorker Hiring Racists

0:00 – Intro: David Josef Volodzko of FIRE and The Radicalist
0:30 – Lou's time at FIRE and its expanded mission
2:39 – Toddlers, self-reliance, and kids' insults
8:42 – Testing New Yorker writers for racism
9:56 – Doreen St. Félix, Sydney Sweeney, and old tweets
12:19 – Power plus prejudice and the symmetry test
16:15 – Zadie Smith, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and mixed families
18:56 – Academic jargon as intellectual jiu-jitsu
24:29 – Is rape about power? Origins of the theory
26:35 – David Remnick's push for new voices
28:33 – Latinx and who actually uses it
31:09 – Third Way's list of words Democrats should drop
34:51 – Microaggressions and retired buzzwords
37:04 – Therapy terms meant as temporary crutches
39:18 – Social contagion in trans identity and autism
42:13 – Hyphenated Americans and wanting to be different
42:53 – Hunter Ash on detransitioning
45:27 – WPATH, Mia Hughes, and the data
46:30 – Alice Dreger and J. Michael Bailey
48:25 – UK rape gangs and victim blaming
51:01 – White supremacy as a force of nature
52:29 – How wokeness turns movements into conspiracies
54:50 – Rape gangs and honor punishments abroad
56:14 – Is America really a racist country?
58:01 – Defending criminals by race and Raja Jackson
1:02:33 – Tribal thinking and the victimhood mentality
1:05:51 – Mentoring kids in Big Brothers
1:08:52 – Preparing kids for a brutal world
1:12:48 – Ignored victims and silent moderates
1:15:23 – Doreen St. Félix's worst line and wrap-up