Episode 19 - Election Special with Special Guests

Hello and welcome to Diversity Hire election headquarters in Brooklyn, NY—the bellwether district for media idiots.

Today Arjun and Kevin invited some special correspondents—Maya Binyam and Gaby Del Valle—to talk about exit polls, post-election narratives, and DATA. We also talked about the usual things: Why POC is a meaningless term, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and gossip. Enjoy this special episode! And thank you for listening.

• Arjun’s disclaimer (0:00)

• Kevin & Arjun reporting live from Brooklyn (1:57)

• Our chat with Maya Binyam (6:29)

• What Maya did on election night (6:50)

• On poll workers and hypocritical liberals (9:20)

• Kevin took the day off (15:00)

• Maya’s reactions to election narratives (17:42)

• Would Bernie have won? The answer may surprise you (19:43)

• Nicole Hannah Jones’ tweets about the monolithic synchronicity of racial groups (27:10)

  Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

  Again we see how expertise in race, racism, racial history is an essential but underdeveloped journalistic skill.That Latinos, Asian & white votes are split is NOT surprising. It is the uniformity of the Black vote that is exceptional & it stems from a singular racial experience.

• We try to figure out why Thomas Chatterton Williams is the way he is (33:35)

• Maya’s hopes and predictions (44:36)

• Our chat with Gaby Del Valle (48:34)

• What Gaby did on election night (48:58)

• Gaby voted in Florida (51:03)

• Gaby tries to explain Florida to us (52:09)

• Gaby' reacts to a dumb fucking tweet about “the Latino vote” (53:35)

  g a b y @gabydvj

  unfortunately i could write like 2k words based on this nonsense tweet alone but all i’m gonna say is that literally no one who voted, for trump or otherwise, can legally be deported. also those babies were central american

  

• Again, we talk about Nicole Hannah Jones’ tweets (58:56)

• Boomers don’t want to think too much about things (1:04:02)

• Gaby tries to explain the Latino vote in Florida (1:08:18)

• Why are Latinx countries flipping red? (1:11:39)

• Are conservatives a step ahead on class analysis? (1:16:30)

• How does Gaby feel? (1:18:34)

• What’s is currently at stake wrt new federal immigration laws? (1:20:34)

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