In this week’s Dissidents Podcast, Jennifer Richmond and Winkfield Twyman, Jr. talk about the meaning of life through the eyes of black sheep and non-conformists. Like Martin Buber in I and Thou, we find meaning in relationships. When we can see each other as they are, and make room for that, we end up expanding ourselves. Unlike social media that constrains us to a narrow lens that boxes us into collectivist and cynical ideologies, we find hope in the more expansive idea that “we are all just here to walk each other home”. We move beyond the shallowness of the many ways we, as a society, interact, honing an internal locus of control and seeking for depth in a search for “something more”.
Podcast Notes:
I and Thou, Martin Buber
How Social Justice Is Exploiting Us ft. Kimi Kaititi & Salomé Sibonex | HERD-LESS, Revolution of One
How Open-Minded People Think Differently | The Third Space, Black Sheep Podcast with Zander Keig
Joscha Bach, Ideology and Understanding Black Culture and Consciousness, Winkfield Twyman, Jr.
The Language of Klingons, Jennifer Richmond and Winkfield Twyman, Jr.
Redefining Racism: How Racism Became "Power + Prejudice", Jake Klein
The Black Sheep on Substack:
Join us TONIGHT for our October Liberalism in Practice Panel Discussion: Intolerance, Liberalism & Conservatism.
One "conservative" group recently put out a bizarre video that asks, “Is your favourite sandwich cookie company grooming children? What happened to the kid-friendly cookie we all used to know and love?” It goes on to warn, “Don’t let PFLAG and Oreo corrupt your children!” In a better world, the insinuation that Oreo’s association with the group Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) means that consumption of Oreos will turn kids gay or trans would be comical. Sadly, in the real world, this kind of conspiracist scaremongering is neither unusual nor inconsequential.
This panel discusses ascendant illiberalism, on the right, that mirrors that on the left. This panel reconciles the political philosophies of conservatism and liberalism, explains why LGBT people don't deserve the backlash currently being directed at them and makes the case for tolerance of these people being a defining aspect of our cultural identity, in the Anglosphere, as conservative liberals.
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