Episode 5 | All Things Re-Considered: Fat Acceptance & George Floyd

Fat identity/justice/liberation, intersectionality, saving public radio, interracial violence, George Floyd, Waukesha, Tony Timpa, Buffalo, data data data, qualified immunity and much more. Gina Gambony joins us for Morning Sedition and we hear from former NPR listeners about why they stopped listening.

This is our final episode of All Things Re-Considered for the season. We will release a conversation about what we learned next week. This is a great time to leave feedback about the show and suggest other topics for re-consideration (besides NPR)!

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Show Segments
0:00 Intro
1:20 "I Stopped Listening to NPR When..."
19:00 "Morning Sedition" | Gina Gambony
23:40 NPR Story 1: Fat Acceptance
56:00 NPR Story 2: George Floyd 2-Year Anniversary
1:12:30 End

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Topics Mentioned:

CPB Fact Sheet https://www.cpb.org/sites/default/files/CPB_Overview_Fact_Sheet_2021-01-11.pdf
The Danger of “Fat Acceptance” https://femsplainers.substack.com/p/the-danger-of-fat-acceptance
How Informed are Americans about Race and Policing?
https://www.skeptic.com/research-center/reports/Research-Report-CUPES-007.pdf
He died after a cop kneeled on his neck for 14 minutes https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/12/29/police-force-officers-killed-him-when-he-asked-help/9024452002/
DOJ: Criminal Victimization https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv19.pdf
FBI Crime Data Explorer https://crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov/pages/home
Black Homicide Victimization https://vpc.org/black-homicide-victimization-in-the-united-states-national/
The Real Crime Problem Doesn’t Make Much News https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-real-crime-problem-doesnt-make-much-news-1484093102
Who Suffers the Most From Crime Wave? https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/who-suffers-the-most-crime-wave
H.R.1280 - George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1280
Qualified Immunity https://supreme.findlaw.com/supreme-court-insights/pros-vs-cons-of-qualified-immunity--both-sides-of-debate.html
One NPR story about Bonobos https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/20/978868116/some-generous-apes-may-help-explain-the-evolution-of-human-kindness
Patterns of female coalition formation in wild bonobos https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347216301130
Primate hunting by bonobos https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(08)01117-2.pdf
Hippie apes make war as well as love, study finds https://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE49C66C20081013

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Creative Direction by Gina Gambony
Shot and Edited by Travis Brown (@The Signal Productions)
Motion Graphics by Gav Patel
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