The Civil War is a turning point in American history, beautiful listener! Did it confer freedom to the enslaved? Eh, not so much. Did it unite a fractured America? Like, I guess. Did a bunch of proto-White draftees get citizenship and then never get their war pensions? Absolutely! Did this era of alleged freedom lead to generations of eugenics and immigration restriction? You betcha! It's chapter 14 of The History of White People!

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You can't spell "anthropologist" without (a)pologist! This week, our romp through the risible race science of yesteryear takes us into the realm of American anthropology! The Civil War may interrupt the sinister plans of slaveowners, but in the preceding years, the intellectuals who characterize the last gasp of old-world slavery make one final attempt to justify their own greatness. You can always tell when a social system is about to transform because there's a flurry of scholarship about how the old ways must never die! It's chapter 13 of The History of White People!

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Beautiful listener, it's an off-week and that means we're serving up a heaping helping of whatever the heck we feel like! And this week, it's the most significant topic of all: being wrong on the internet! Jodi gives Trinity a satellite-view of the trends of inaccurate thinking online which produce terrible people who say inaccurate things and still have the gall to call themselves a communist. Do you like analyzing internet babies? Are you upset by dogmatic and overintellectualized garbage? Do you remember a little bit about 2025 Twitter discourse? Because we got it all, baybeee!

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Listener, this is your host Trinity. I'm so happy to introduce you to this week's episode: The Ralph Waldo Emerson Spectacular! We're gonna have a grand old time learning about this, another historic devil and his devil pen-pals! Like Thomas Carlyle. But! And I am getting out in front of this. I am sorry for the following:

1.) Thomas Carlyle's actual slurs.

2.) The kink-shaming.

3.) The Amazing Atheist fetish content.

4.) It's chapters 10, 11, & 12 of The History of White People!

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Truly, the modern world is no different than the old world, friendos! We are told we're progressing toward justice in this miserable country, but the truth is that in every era the ruling class tried to convince us (and by "us" I mean literally whoever you are) that by stepping on the necks of Black and Indigenous people we will somehow wind our way to victory and progress. And yet, somehow, that rings so hollow. Are you sure you want to ally with the White American Imperial Project? It's currently the same as it ever was, but we don't have to put up with that! It's chapter 9 of The History of White People!

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Did you know that the specter of race war constantly haunts the minds of American Whites like a nightmare? That's at least what every European visitor had to say about this miserable country by the 1850's! The categories of slave and free, White and Black, good European and bad European, and so many more have, by the decades preceding the American Civil War, reached the end of their useful life. And yet, despite these ideas having reached peak senility, America persisted in its violence as European writers fawningly praised the freedom inherent in American blood and dismissed the other peoples of the continent as degenerate savages who don't have ideas in their damn head. Of course, Black writers of the day had much better ideas and the specter of you and me reading and understanding them haunts the minds of the American Whites like a nightmare. It's chapter 8 of The History of White People!

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Listener, it's time for a bonus episode! It's our new and emergent format, Same as It Ever Was!

This week Jodi takes the reins and tells us a tale of imperialist violence against the people of Iran. The United States is off to war once again, so we have to ask: where did this imperial monster, this cruel beast of blood and oil and steel come from? And why is this vile beast on fire and covered in excrement and stepping on rake after rake and insisting everything is going absolutely fine leave me alone??? It's the Iran Special Report! [News stinger.]

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We're knee-deep in Da Skull Measuring Zone this week, friendos! What happens when a network of writers and publishers promote the alleged German ideals of manhood and Imperial subjugation to the wider, English-speaking world? Let's just say you get an international conspiracy of calipers designed to measure the worth of every last human being to determine whether or not they fall inside the circle of genuine humanity. It's !@#$%^& on-sight if you're a Blumenbach-head. It's chapters 6 & 7 of The History of White People!

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