Thomas Chatterton Williams
14 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 7 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 3, 2022 by Thomas Chatterton Williams · across every show →
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Mar 3, 2022 negative
Williams: Vague school concept bans set precedents that will backfire
“Once you get into the business of banning certain ideas on the basis of, you know, cause some of these laws are written in such a way that anything that makes someone feel uncomfortable, Something so vague, first of all, it can't really stand up in court, but …”
Mar 3, 2022 negative
Williams: Identifying by physical attributes over intellectual pursuits is harmful
“The idea that first and foremost, you identify yourself Through, through physical attributes as opposed to mental endeavors. I think that's very harmful. And also, you know, the notion that that you want to buck the system instead of learning how to operate wi…”
Mar 3, 2022 positive
Williams: Moderation Is Hard and Principled, Not Wishy-Washy
“It's actually, people think that being a moderate just means that like whatever people on the left or right think you just like are wishy-washy, but it's no, it's actually like very hard. You actually have to believe in compromise, believe in not getting all o…”
Mar 3, 2022 positive
Williams: Barack Obama's example transformed Black identity in America
“The image and the example of Barack Obama I do think transformed I don't think it's too much to say that it transformed, to an extent, blackness in America and made and normalized certain ideas and destigmatized other ideas in a way that was very liberating, f…”
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Williams: New anti-racists share the racial essentialism of racists
“You have the racists, but then you have the new anti-racists who share a lot of the same premises and presuppositions as the racists do, that the categories, everything is the thing that's most important about the individual, it's the thing that can never be f…”
Mar 3, 2022 positive
Williams: Universal Early Education and Daycare Are More Crucial Than Later Interventions
“Well, I think that, you know, everything comes back to the kind of education you're exposed to early on, and the kind of cultural capital that you're able to access, and by the time you're talking about high school or college, you're already very late, so I th…”
Mar 3, 2022 positive
Williams: Building New Cultural Institutions Is Less Expensive Than Philanthropists Think
“If you genuinely care about things like the debates we're having around CRT, or how do we make a multi-ethnic society work, or how do we improve you know, outcomes for kids, I think investing in new institutions Which probably actually is a lot less expensive …”
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Williams: Liberalism Is the Only System That Works
“It's the only system that really works. It's the system that's gotten us the kind of quality of life that We kind of take for granted to the point that we're experimenting with forms that have never worked in the past and won't work in the future. Liberalism m…”