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Mar 2024
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#763 - Coleman Hughes - Bringing An End ...

Chris Williamson
About this episode

Coleman Hughes is a writer, an author and a podcaster.

The state of race relations in America seemed to be improving for decades, then crashed and burned over the last 5 years. What's going on? Why is everyone so obsessed with race again and how can we move beyond race politics?

Expect to learn why anti-racism is just neo-racism, the difference between being colourblind and actually being racist, why your social class is more important than your ethnicity, whether MeToo hurt women more than helping them, if there is a realistic case for DEI, whether any race-based policies have ever worked and much more...

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