Useful Idiots: Hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper With Omar Wasow
“So I can’t go to my dad’s funeral, but I can pull down a statue of George Washington?” claps back Matt.well-toned beachgoer manhandling a shark on the Delaware coastThis week’s guest is Omar Wasow, who provides a continuation of part of last week’s conversation with Cornel West. Wasow penned, and how those tactics can affect what he calls “agenda seeding.” Wasow defines this as the way in which protestors, or stigmatized minorities, can seed a media agenda that affects popular voting decisions.
Wasow responds to criticisms of his piece, and that he’s not focusing on systemic powers, and potentially putting too much responsibility on the protesters themselves. But he argues, “If you put too much weight on white supremacy it deprives activists, in this case black activists, of any agency. The structure is so powerful that there’s no capacity for there to be resistance. And I don’t think that actually reflects what we see on the ground.
The Princeton professor also argues that when civil rights movement turned more violent, it pushed the voting masses towards more law and order candidates. “You can actually cede the moral part of the argument for at least some of the outcomes, and say get it by that test, bu the any means necessary, by do the ends justify the means test, does this work? And in some really important ways, it moved the country towards repression, not towards civil rights,” says Wasow.
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