102 - Potstirrer SCOOPS!: National Deflection

In this episode, Jaye focuses on a particular argument politicians and pundits make when countries reckon with past and present incidents of national shame, which is that other countries also have shameful incidents in their histories. Jaye discusses why - although the thought experiment is intriguing - the argument itself is deflection which silences the marginalized. She contends that confronting historical and current realities, no matter how difficult or contentious, have individual and collective benefit that are worth the discomfort. "What country has the LEAST BAD history?" J.J. McCullough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auFC_LfO5hQ&t=5s  Link in Bio: http://potstirrerpodcast.com/linkinbio/  Jaye Pool's Medium: http://medium.com/@marinabreeze  Website: PotstirrerPodcast.com Twitter: @potstirrercast Source Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PA4PgG9-eI  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKpZZCs-Y0k  https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/03/14/the-us-will-become-minority-white-in-2045-census-projects/  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/07/18/more-than-half-of-white-evangelicals-say-americas-declining-white-population-is-a-negative-thing/  https://www.prri.org/research/american-democracy-in-crisis-voters-midterms-trump-election-2018/  https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools  https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/  Music: Potstirrer Podcast Theme composed by Jon Biegen from Stranger Still http://strangerstillshow.com/ Crushin composed by Audionautix Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  Artist: http://audionautix.com/  Cages composed by Density & Time The Gentlemen composed by DivKid