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Loretta Ross: Fighting Nazis Should Be Fun

Loretta Ross: Fighting Nazis Should Be Fun

FromAll Ears with Abigail Disney


Loretta Ross: Fighting Nazis Should Be Fun

FromAll Ears with Abigail Disney

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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Dec 17, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week on All Ears, Abby goes deep with professor and long time activist Loretta Ross. As an outspoken critic of cancel culture, Loretta’s sharp insights have made her class “White Supremacy in the Age of Donald Trump,” one of Smith College’s most popular. Loretta tells Abby that social media shaming is counterproductive to her long-sought goal of building a human rights movement; while it can be an important tool for holding the powerful accountable, more often than not “we're spending our best bullets on each other.”  And besides, Loretta reminds Abby, the revolution should be fun! Instead of calling people out, Loretta describes the practice of "calling in." "It's not that deep," she tells Abby, "It's a call out done with love and respect." In her efforts to build a movement for all people, Loretta is always looking for ways she can partner with others, even her ideological opposites. Loretta also tells her own story of sexual assault and sterilization at a young age, experiences which helped propel her into a lifetime of activism.EPISODE LINKSUp From Hatred (LA Times)What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In? (NY Times)Loretta Ross Keynote Address - Hampshire College Commencement 2018The Dalkon Shield Disaster (Washington Post)Reproductive Justice (SisterSong)LorettaRoss.comLoretta Ross on Twitter: @LorettaJRoss
Released:
Dec 17, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (53)

Abigail has a new documentary, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, in which she examines the inequality crisis through the lens of the company her grandfather helped found, The Walt Disney Company. In the film, she asks how it is possible that so many workers at Disneyland, aka “the happiest place on earth,” can’t afford life's basic necessities, even when they work full time. For the fourth season of All Ears, Abigail poses that question to people who are doing the most Disney thing of all–using their imaginations–in this case to rethink capitalism. She talks with business leaders, union organizers, and economists to learn how they would fix our broken economy.