Ep29: Casteism - how does differentiating it from racism help to understand inequities‪?‬ The Modern White Man

In this minisode, Ken and Paul discuss how a caste system both intertwines with and differs from racism and how the distinction can help to understand inequities.

They discuss:
⁃ How racism becomes easily deniable by shape-shifting and manifesting itself in covert ways.
⁃ How a caste system does not allow us to ignore structure; caste is structure and ranking.
⁃ That casteism is the investment in keeping the hierarchy as it is.
⁃ The threat of “Oppression Olympics” and last place aversion.

Referenced in this episode: “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson https://www.isabelwilkerson.com/

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