Season 1, Episode 07: The Simpsons Did It
In this episode, we discuss topics ranging from White Liberalism and Oregon to The Simpsons and Avatar: The Last Airbender.
This episode is not sponsored.
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Justin (xe/xem) - https://www.justingrays.org/
Nat MN (they/them)
Sarah (she/her)
Content Warning - Mentions of:
Animal Injuries
Blood
Collapsed Lung
Medical Neglect
Medical Racism
Medical Sexism
Nazis/NeoNazis
Racism/Racial Slurs
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The episode of The Simpsons that Justin is referring to is “The Last Temptation of Homer” (Episode 90).
The original quote is “The East Coast is kind but not nice, the West Coast is nice but not kind,” Tweeted by Jordan Green. Upworthy has an excellent article about it.
Jacob Frey is the current Mayor of Minneapolis.
White Liberalism:
Martin Luther King and the ‘polite’ racism of white liberals - The Washington Post
10 Ways White Liberals Perpetuate Racism - HuffPost
White liberals: Don't put your feet up - The Chronicle
How The Politics Of White Liberals And White Conservatives Are Shaped By Whiteness - FiveThirtyEight
Oregon was started as a whites-only state:
Oregon was America’s first and only state to begin as 'whites-only' - The Washington Post
A racist history shows why Oregon is still so white - Oregon Public Broadcasting
Oregon once legally banned Black people. Has the state reconciled its racist past? - National Geographic
Oregon black exclusion laws - Wikipedia
The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America - The Atlantic
Minnesota man exposed as commander of Nazi-led unit dies - Associated Press
The Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Map.
Genie is actually a brand name for work lifts and platforms. The Genie brand is so common that in certain areas, it has become a generic trademark, much like Kleenex and these other brands.
https://q2qcomics.com/
This is NOT A HAMMER.
Croesus was King of Lydia, and was defeated by Cyrus the Great. The referenced Overly Sarcastic Productions Video.
A recent picture of Leonidas:
“She Blinded Me With Science” as performed by William Shatner on his album Seeking Major Tom.
“It Was A Very Good Year” as performed by William Shatner on his album The Transformed Man.
“It Was a Very Good Beer” as performed by Homer Simpson on the Episode “Duffless” (Episode 75). This scene also references A Clockwork Orange, and the song is also on the album Songs in the Key of Springfield.
The episode of The Simpsons that Justin is trying to think of is “Summer of 4 Ft. 2” (Episode 153), and the lake is Little Pwagmattasquarmsettport. Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual who was also openly bisexual.
“Das Bus” (episode 192) was the Lord of the Flies episode. The episode where Martin Prince says his delightful line is “The Haw-Hawed Couple” (Episode 386).
Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play is an American black comedy play written by Anne Washburn and featuring music by Michael Friedman.
The episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender is “The Great Divide” (Book 1, Chapter 11).
The Hello Future Me videos that Justin can’t explain:
It was Serena Williams who had the medical scare after giving birth:
What Serena Williams’s scary childbirth story says about medical treatment of black women - Vox
Beyoncé, Serena Williams open up about potentially fatal childbirths, a problem especially for black mothers - The Washington Post
Serena Williams Is Calling Out Racism in Health Care - Teen Vogue
The panel that Justin was on was 23 and Us: The Social Implications of DNA Testing. Justin was referring to the Star Trek episode “Space Seed” (TOS 1x24), where Ricardo Montalbán portrayed Khan Noonien Singh. What Justin said was:
“We were fortunate to stop Khan Noonien Singh back in 1996, and unfortunately we had to use all of our DY-100s, all one of them, to get him off the planet, and now we can’t go back into space.”
It was perhaps a little too esoteric.
Panels that Justin has been on about Blackface: https://www.justingrays.org/my-blog/tag/Blackface
For the general topic of Raceface: https://www.justingrays.org/my-blog/tag/Raceface
Cover Art by Michelle Chmura | Theme Music by Caleb Kelson | Edited by Rachel Hanson
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