(06-01-2020, 09:46 PM)Last42min Wrote: Yeah, but you can tell that isn't Rush's world. He wasn't able to answer basic questions or address issues that needed to be addressed. He didn't ask the right questions. I felt he was too busy "telling" and not doing enough asking.  There are many other people that I think could actually have a civil dialogue if they were willing to make Charlemagne address his own talking points.

Yeh, and its worse because Rush rarely has guests and takes few callers.  He's normally a monologue for 2 hours with a few calls sprinkled in.  Like i said, I don't think that it will change anyone's mind or reshape the world, I just thought it was kind of cool.  

It also doesn't help that for the most part this is will have been one of the few times that Charlemagne and the BC will have seriously heard the concept of white privilege, white supremacy, institutional racism challenged.  For the most part, when people of color bring those concepts up most people just shut up unless they are debating another POC.  In reality, I thought that it would have been a lot more contentious.  I thought for sure someone would call Rush a racist specifically but that didn't happen.  

I think that just the fact that they had the conversation had meaning.  The BC actually got some backlash on Social Media just for having the interview.  Those who believe in collectivism/social justice may never come to a complete understanding with those who view the world through the prism of individual liberty, but in order for us to be able to live together in the same country i think that we have to live in a world where we can have uncomfortable conversations without openly hating each other.

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