Ep 75: Whoopi Goldberg, the Oppression Scale, and the Emotional Thermometer The Joyous Justice Podcast

In this edited version of a Facebook live that April recorded after Whoopi Goldberg’s comments and the controversy that followed, April digs deep into her analysis of the reactions many in the Jewish community expressed. Internalized terror and persisting unhealed trauma–elicited by the Holocaust and centuries of persecution–among white Ashkenazi Jews has caused an understandable misalignment between those folks’ emotional thermometer and the actual thread of danger on the oppression scale. Despite the elevated blood pressures the situation has caused, it seems clear to April that compassion (for ourselves and others!), healing, and solidarity across lines of difference will lead us toward the future we want. 
Trigger Warning: This episode is not for you in this moment if as a result of this controversy, you are feeling terror or are in a panic mode.
Check out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode:  https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-75
Watch the original conversation from “The View” that stirred this controversy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhITfM4bqO8
Watch the full, unedited Facebook Live video:  https://www.facebook.com/1706639/videos/4889145714509771/
Learn more about Brené Brown and her book “Braving the Wilderness”: https://brenebrown.com/book/braving-the-wilderness/
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Read more about Dr. Lewis Gordon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Gordon
Learn more about rapper Mos Def: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mos_Def
Listen to Aly Halpert’s song “Loosen Loosen”:  https://soundcloud.com/aly-halpert/loosen-loosen
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