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  • Notes-Page 201

  • "We should be rethinking the image we conjure up when we think of a working-class person. Instead of a white man in a flat cap, it's a black woman pushing a pram. It's worth questioning exactly who wins from the suggestion that the only working-class people worth compassion are white, or that it's black and ethnic minority people who are hoarding scant resources at the expense of white working class people who are losing out"

  • "MP Liz Kendall explicitly let it be known that she was interested in supporting white working class children. Setting out her stall for the leadership bid in a meeting with journalists, she said she wanted Labour to "be doing the best for kids, particularly in white, working class communities. It wasn't just class discrimination that was holding back these kids...she seemed to suggest...it was their whiteness.

  • Page 205-" A 2014 report from market research company Ipsos MORI found that British people thought that foreign-born population of the country was 31% as opposed to the 13%. The same report found that the higher your income, the more likely you are to think immigrants are a drain on public services. Things have switched from berating working class people for daring to exist, to extending a hand of help to them as long as it's in opposition to those grasping ethnic minorities. Sticking "white" in front of the phrase working class is used to make assumptions about race, work and poverty"

  • Page 208-"When the trades union congress looked at data ..black employees were dealing with a growing pay gap in comparison to their white counter parts and that this pay gap actually widened with higher qualifications. Black people with education up to GCSE level were paid 11 per cent less. Black people with A-levels saw an average of 14% less pay and university educated black graduates saw a gap of, on average 23% less pay then their white peers

  • About Race With Reni Eddo Lodge/Renay Rich Podcast Notes/type writing


  • 1) Things can only get better (25:16)

  • 7:12-"I remember a celebratory, multi cultural progressive Britain, when Tony Blaire was elected everyone was celebrating...a lot of happiness in North London at the time. I suppose my question to you is, are you saying was Britain not as progressive as I thought?"

  • "It was potentially progressive"

  • 8:33-"To some extent they did...He said Britain cannot be a beacon of hope whilst we have no black judges, no black army officers"

  • 12:10-"We need to move into a positive forceful movement, instead of just saying "oh I'm a poor bastard...you are victimising me. Saying that all the time bores people, you've got to say- I can laugh, I can create, I can do drama, this is just as important as what you're saying on the news

  • 17:04-"A good joke is a good joke, a good story is a good story. Most audiences don't give a toss about who's telling it. What they're going to relate to is the truth of the emotion or the truth of the humour, because our humour was so truthful and it came from a really real place, people got that. And if they didn't know what "chuddy's" they could ask their asian friends. In fact that's what happened. We met so many young asians saying: "I used to be the butt of the joke, now we're making the jokes. Now my white friends are asking what the jokes mean, you don't know what that means to us."

  • 17:45-20 years later Britain is not the political post racial utopia the labour party promised. Culture took a nose dive too. What happened? Multi culture was the buzz word of the time...it was promoted positively "this is what makes us great".

  • 18:20-The mood changed after 9/11-before 9/11- there was riots in Bradford because far right groups were attacking muslims and muslims started to fight back. There was this narrative of "we have an enemy within"...crudely people blamed multi culturalism.

  • 19:13-"what he articulated... was multi culturalism caused separatism caused terrorism...how you get there god only knows. But it was an easy narrative...not that you have a society that doesn't allow people to integrate...but that it was our fault that we were living in these ghettos...nothing to do with poor housing...we were lead down a culdisack"

  • 20:59- "Here is where I think we are...we are sleep walking our way to segregation, we are becoming strangers to each other and we are leaving communities to be marooned outside the mainstream."


  • 2)White Season part 1 (25:16)

  • 16:55-Daniel Trilling-"One of the key moments in movement in the development of the white working class narrative was that the BBC did something called "the white season" in 2007 and 2008...it plays on... the guilt of white liberals who play in positions of power that they don't represent the people that they're supposed to be representing...when someone comes along and uses white working classist, there wear this badge of authenticity...so the white liberal...there is a place of panic..go along with everything as who am I to disagree?"

  • 18:21-"It's very fair to complain about the slurs of white trash and chav. But it certainly wasn't black people leading the charge of those slurs"

  • 21:17-Owen Jones-"What happened was because the working class had been air-bushed out of existence but what began to re-emerge in discourse and the media and new labour types and so called "white working class". It was this bizarre sense of "well here's this other minority in the multi-cultural framework...we're defining them by their ethnicity rather than by their class, problems and injustices that they have can be explained by race rather than by class. The reason this was allowed to happen was because there wasn't this sense of integrating class and race. The white working class in my opinion is a completely false construct because where are the most diverse communities?"

  • 3)White Season part 2 (23:30)

  • 4)Political Blackness (29:50)

  • 5)Shout Out Miss Beep part 1(19:44)

  • 6)Shout Out Miss Beep part 2 (26:32)

  • 7)White Women Crying is Racist! (26:27)

  • 8) The Anti-Racist Renaissance (36:15)

  • 9)The Big Question (39:16)


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  • Page 14-Gaslighting is soul destroying

  • Page 18-Are you involved with a glamour gaslighter?

  • Page 14-The glamour gaslighter

  • Page 19-Believing the gaslighter's perception to maintain the bond

  • Page 21-Good guy, gaslighter, disrespectful, compliance, facade is on of the acquiescence

  • Page 24-Intimidator signs

  • Page 24-28-Why gaslighting is so common between a man and woman

  • Causes:

  • 1) Fast change of women's role during the 1940s

  • 2) Rampant individualism/feminist movement & the isolation that goes with it- the result and after effect being gaslighting due to confusion and insecurity of new fast change of roles

  • Page 25-"In the 1940s and our own era, women suddenly took on new power in their work lives & personal lives- a transformation in roles that both they and their men may have found threatening. Despite their newfound freedom to work, run for office, and generally participate in public life, many women still wanted some version of traditional relationship- a strong man on whom they could rely on guidance and support. And many men, on some level were threatened by women's new demands for an equal voice in both public and private realms. As a result, I think some men responded by trying to control the same strong, smart women to whom they were attracted. And some women responded by activley reprogramming themselves to lean on their men, not just for emotional support but for their very sense of self.- Who am I in the world?" A whole new generation of gaslighters and gaslightees had been created. Paradoxically too, the very feminist movement that gave women more options also helped create pressure on so many of us to be strong, successful and independent- the kind of women who would be theoretically immune to any form of abuse from men. As a result, women who are in gaslighting and other types of abusive relationships may feel doubly ashamed: first, for being in the bad relationship and second, for not living up to their self imposed standards of strength & independence. Ironically, women may use the very ideas intended to support them as a reason not to ask for help."

  • 3) The gaslight culture- gaslighting found in politics, advertising, found everywhere in systems not just intimate relationships

  • Page 22- The good guy/good guy listener gas-lighter needs to do nice things but not because he cares about you-he's just desperate to prove what a good guy he is

  • Page 39-Mythical other woman- you have to set limits

  • Page 35-"Why do we bend ourselves out of shape to fit a gaslighter's vision?" 2 reasons- 1) Fear of emotional apocalypse 2) The urge to merge

  • Page 10-3 stages to gaslighting: 1) Disbelief, 2) Defence 3) Depression

  • Page 29-Solution to gaslighting: Step 1: Understand you are a good, capable, loveable person who doesn't need an idealised partner to provide approval "you are entitled to love & a good life"



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  • Page 91-Overt sexism, overt racism over (in some areas of Britain) (though covert, micro-agressions, overt racism, sexism do still very much exist) but overt homophobia is more easily excused, in workplaces/schools-teachers not outwardly full of prejudice but discomfort shown

  • Page 78-Perceiving yourself as the threat

  • Page 112-Traumatised child/judgement/grandiosity/ black & white thinking

  • Page 122-Addicted to feeling bad

  • Page 110-Dissociating doesn't just block bad feelings it blocks good ones too

  • Page 76- Abuse-Macroform

  • Page 126- Gay panic at relationship/authentic selves

  • Page 109-Addictive behaviours assumed to be because of incest but most commonly due to chronic humiliation/emotional abuse- 15% perceive we are defective + have low self esteem

  • Page 77-Gay people likely to be hyper criticised/hyper vigilant

  • Page 269-"Pink Clouding"

  • Page 263-Codependents anonymous

  • Page 330-What's life about?

  • Page 46-Minority Panic-Hatred for activists

  • Page 49-Abandonment in friendships

  • Page 152-Self objectification tops/bottoms-app culture/herd mentality

  • Page 153-64/80% of BAME encountered racism on the gay scene

  • Page 259-Spirituality

  • Page 45-Michael Causer

  • Page 148-Negative Mirroring- "Human beings don't like others who display the things they don't like in themselves"

  • Page 281-Hating on other gays & pride

  • Page 283-David's recovery story

  • Page 270-HALT-hungry, angry, alone, tired

  • Page 32-Gay superiority/Drama therapists

  • Page 272-"Transcending meditation"

  • Page 299--Straight Ethan/homophobic bullying for wanting to be actor

  • Page 278-Trauma in the body

  • Page 308-Straight celebrities fighting for LGBT rights

  • Page 345-"Straightsplaining"- death of Trans man Brandon Jeena "F you transphobia" "F this cis whte b"




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