Very Bad Philosophers

Jul 17

A rental-car bound Jonah invites his research assistant Nick Pompella onto the show from the reclusive Zoom cave in which Nick usually resides — or in this case, the dankness of Jonah’s basement as Nick housesits. Topping the docket today is a discussion of “whiteness,” along with verbal distress over how to pronounce “Parler” and the chilling acknowledgment that the government is the only entity that can legally kill you.

Show Notes:

-Barton Fink

-Page about “Whiteness” from the NMAAHC

-Pew data on church attendance by race/ethnicity

-Michael Burleigh’s The Third Reich

-Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order

-Slavoj Žižek

-David Skarbek on the Remnant

-The article Nick found about Slack channels as the new water coolers

-David French’s hosting of the Remnant earlier this week

-Wednesday’s G-File, written from Alaska

ROBERTJul 17

First, Nick is excellent and clearly has earned the right to be released from his cage! Great guest - give us more Nick!

So work ethic, punctuality, reliability are white people things? Hmmm, I'm a highly privileged white middle class homeowner- owned a house for 20+ years. Whenever I have a really difficult, physically demanding, and even dirty job to do around my I house I can't seem to find any white people to do it. But there are many legal immigrants around who are perfectly happy to do it - and they are always reliable, punctual, polite, and trustworthy. Never had a bad one.

I had my house reroofed last summer- I found a roofing company owned by a legal and fully licensed immigrant and they turned out to be the hardest working group of guys I've ever seen. The owner was onsite every day - on the roof working! I know white people who own roofing companies and I've never heard of them being on the roof.

I now generally bypass the white owned construction type companies and look for the licensed immigrant owned companies- simply because the quality of their work is better. Does that make me a racist? Reverse racist?

Whatever you want to call me, I'll keep hiring the people who do the best work and are more than happy to have the opportunity!

That's evidence enough for me that work ethic, punctuality, politeness, etc are a human things - at least for any human that wants to better their lives and provide for their families.