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1. Member
   ShellGamer

   Just came across this today, and wanted to let you know that at least one person at Ricochet appreciated your podcast. I’ll try to catch up to the next episode soon.

   I noticed no ads and no references to sponsors. How are you funded? I think this outreach is important, and would not want to see it lapse for want of funds.

   A couple of immediate reactions to the interviews:

   1.  The professor’s reference to “ontology” could have used some more explanation. I interpreted to mean that, in order to feel justified in enslaving and lynching people, you need to believe that those people are, at least, an inferior race if not subhuman. I doubt, however, that the men who shot Mr. Arbery had this view, which I find all the more frightening.
   2. Unless you agree with her, I would not have let your first speaker’s remarks about how the economic system is “designed” to exploit African-Americans go unchallenged. I suppose it’s understandable for someone who feels exploited or oppressed to attribute it to their race, sexual orientation or political affiliation. But it is the nature of economics to monetize personal interactions, and like a virus, the requisites of economic exchange don’t care who you are. I’m reminded of the old joke that “In capitalism, man exploits his fellow man, but in communism it is the other way around.” If you regard the need to provide value to receive value as exploitation, then all system are exploitative.

   Hope to hear lots more of your podcast and hope that other join in to.

2. Podcaster
   Shermichael Singleton

   ShellGamer (View Comment):

   Just came across this today, and wanted to let you know that at least one person at Ricochet appreciated your podcast. I’ll try to catch up to the next episode soon.

   I noticed no ads and no references to sponsors. How are you funded? I think this outreach is important, and would not want to see it lapse for want of funds.

   A couple of immediate reactions to the interviews:

   1. The professor’s reference to “ontology” could have used some more explanation. I interpreted to mean that, in order to feel justified in enslaving and lynching people, you need to believe that those people are, at least, an inferior race if not subhuman. I doubt, however, that the men who shot Mr. Arbery had this view, which I find all the more frightening.
   2. Unless you agree with her, I would not have let your first speaker’s remarks about how the economic system is “designed” to exploit African-Americans go unchallenged. I suppose it’s understandable for someone who feels exploited or oppressed to attribute it to their race, sexual orientation or political affiliation. But it is the nature of economics to monetize personal interactions, and like a virus, the requisites of economic exchange don’t care who you are. I’m reminded of the old joke that “In capitalism, man exploits his fellow man, but in communism it is the other way around.” If you regard the need to provide value to receive value as exploitation, then all system are exploitative.

   Hope to hear lots more of your podcast and hope that other join in to.

   Thank you for your thoughtful feedback and support, we definitely appreciate it and be sure to stick around for more. No ads yet, since we’re so new, but that’s something we’re working on. 

3. Member
   kylez

   Arbery’s death wasn’t a lynching though, by the normal definition of the term. I’m tired of its misuse as seemingly meaning “unjust death of a black person.”

4. Member
   colleenb

   Agree with @shellgamer that your podcast is important to listen to, especially in these times. I also am catching up after listening to the second two. I did not think that I got much out of the first professor. There was a lot of university word salad ladled into a short period. Enjoyed the lawyer as he had a good explanation of stand your ground and other laws that may come into play with this case. Please list the people you interview in your show notes (I think you’re doing that now) so that one can look at additional information about them. Thanks!