The Dark Underbelly of Equity Based Thinking

Also: What we learned from impeachment.

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The Dark Underbelly of Equity Based Thinking

On this week's edition of The Reason Roundtable, Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie shout about Trump's second acquittal, Biden's latest managerial pushes, and the CDC's flop of a school-reopening rollout.

Discussed in the show:

2:27 What did we learn from impeachment?
18:53 "Bidenomics."
42:02 School re-openings.
47:35 Weekly Listener Question: Should people be granted courtesies that they themselves are not willing to reciprocate?
50:50 Media recommendations for the week.

This week's links:

• "Journalists Worried About People Having Conversations on Clubhouse," by Liz Wolfe
• "GOP tries to weaponize pandemic-exhausted parents against Biden," by Christopher Cadelago and Natasha Korecki
• "Biden Is Still Separating Families at the Border. Where Is the Media Outrage?" by Billy Binion
• "Rep. Peter Meijer: Only GOP Freshman Who Voted To Impeach Trump Tells All," by Nick Gillespie (podcast)
• "CDC's New 'Reopening' Guidance Will Keep Schools Closed in the Fall," by Matt Welch
• "The Biden Team Wants to Transform the Economy. Really." by Noam Scheiber

Send your questions either by email to [e-mail] or by voicemail to 213-973-3017. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

Today's sponsors:

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Audio production by Ian Keyser.
Assistant production by Regan Taylor.
Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve.

What are we consuming this week?

Nick Gillespie

• "Fake Accounts" by Lauren Oyler

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Clubhouse

Peter Suderman

• Sleepless in Seattle

Matt Welch

• Over the Moon

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Comments

[Unicorn Abattoir]

"The Dark Underbelly of Equity Based Thinking"
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YOU KNEW THIS WAS COMING.

[JesseAz]

What?!?!? We are all shocked by the lack of information prior to the election on the plans. We never saw the word equity previously! Especially not from Democrats!

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

For you last few folks who spend any time thinking about this... it's not just they underbelly that's dark when it comes to Equity Based Thinking.

[Brett Bellmore]

Exactly what I was going to say. It's vantablack from end to end.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

If you learned anything from the most recent impeachment you have the IQ of a gnat

[Unicorn Abattoir]

What do you have against goats?

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Or gnats?

Time to call the optometrist.

[R Mac]

What do you have against ornithologists?

[JesseAz]

Rand Paul deserved to be tackled.

[BigGiveNotBigGov]

"What we learned from impeachment."

Trumpocrats, besides their simian feces flinging and smearing around the Capitol during Trump's Insurrection, are simian in their resemblance to the infamous Three Monkeys.

“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”
~ George Orwell

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

'If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’ - Orwell

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. - Orwell

[BigGiveNotBigGov]

Yes, and Gillespie's interview of Meijer is a better than expected after Amash's departure example of "to tell people what they do not want to hear."

https://reason.com/video/2021/02/13/gop-congressman-peter-meijer-on-why-he-voted-to-impeach-trump/

Amash not being on the Hill is a loss for liberty. Meijer is a better than expected consolation prize.

[JesseAz]

What liberty did Amash accomplish again? Grandstanding doesn't actually affect ones liberty.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

So what does your grandstanding accomplish that his didn't?

[Mother's Lament]

Ummm, Jesse wasn't grandstanding.

[Sarcaschmuck]

Great, now all the Trump cultists will show up and try to pretend that calling people shit smearing monkeys isn’t accurate. More posts for me to ignore!

[Mother's Lament]

"infamous Three Monkeys"

Literally known as the three wise monkeys in Japan and China and viewed as an illustration of wisdom and the embodiment of Taoist and Buddhist maxims; but nobody claimed our resident Wokites are educated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_wise_monkeys

Also, didn't it turn out that Schumer's aide had made up the bit about the smeared poo?

[Dan_In_Philly]

"...besides their simian feces flinging and smearing around the Capitol during..."

Please provide a link or cite that DOES NOT track this claim back to a "source" in Chuck Schumer's office.

Every cite that I found eventually tracks back to this claim coming from unnamed sources in Chuck Schumer's office.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

Suderman is also shocked that Biden turned out to be far left. Aparently he didn't read bidens website

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

That Green New Deal thingy was red meat for Bernie bros. And critical race theory is just that... a theory.

[Brett Bellmore]

Right, that's why one of his first moves out of the starting gate was canceling the Keystone pipeline. Because it was all talk.

[Mickey Rat]

Neither has Biden.

[BigGiveNotBigGov]

Other than the recent risk of alcohol poisoning from all of the good news, why every libertarian is not toasting each day that each government school is closed is perplexing in the extreme.

“Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power is based almost entirely on the school. Hence, they monopolize it more and more.”
~ Francisco Ferrer

[Spiritus Mundi]

If they were truely closed, they still wouldn't be taking my money.

[TJJ2000]

The Gov-Gun Power to Steal.

[Brett Bellmore]

We're not toasting it because they're still collecting the taxes, dude.

[Don't look at me!]

SleepyJoe sez when 50% of the schools are open 1 day a week, it’s mission accomplished!

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

We're gonna beat that Coronavirus and the way to do it is to give the schools the money they need to be safe and then to not open them.

[Cal Cetín]

"give the schools the money they need"

...and soon the Air Force will be holding bake sales to build bombers.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Good. The LBGTQ army can bake the cakes. haha

[Jason A]

Reason writers = useful idiots. Seriously fucktards, this was ALL on Joe Biden's campaign website. Instead of spending all your time on Twitter sucking up to far left communist, how about you actually do some fucking journalism. You're all pathetic.

Ken Shultz > all of you idiots.

[Commenter_XY]

I have to agree. Unreason writers were afflicted with TDS and this essentially stopped all 'reasoned' thinking in the copy room.

[perlhaqr]

Y'know, I really can't understand why the lefties got so bent out of shape over all those undocumented immigrants to the Capitol Building last month. I thought they liked that sort of thing.

[Gladiator Inflatables]

Such vertical thinking