Blocked and Reported

This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss culture wars and school board elections, the cross-dressing mayor who was outed in Alabama, and Berkeley students on hunger strike for a very weird cause.

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This week on the Primo episode of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a recent article on the poster/writer Richard Hanania, aka Richard Hoste, and his racist past (and possibly racist present).

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This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss gentle parenting. Plus, Jesse finally realizes science is broken (again).

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse re-examines the case of the Citibike Karen who wasn’t. Or was she? Then, Katie tells Jesse about the outrage over two Lululemon employees who were unjustly fired for reporting thieves to the police. Or were they?

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NY Post: “NYC hospital ‘Karen’ paid for Citi Bike at center of viral fight with black man: lawyer”

NBC New York: “Bellevue Worker in Citi Bike Fight Video Has Receipts Showing She Rented It: Lawyer”

NewsOne: “Mother Of Teen In Citi Bike Video Speaks Out: ‘No One Bothered To Ask Him What Happened’”

The Guardian: “Billion-dollar Lululemon under fire for promoting 'resist capitalism' event”

National Review: “Lululemon Fires Atlanta Employees for Calling Police During Robbery”

Business Insider: “Ex-Lululemon staffers say they were fired for reporting robbery to police”

Sky New Australia: “'Absolute insanity’: Lululemon staff fired for calling cops to report robbery”

Free Beacon: “Lululemon Fires Two Employees Who Called Police on Masked Robbers”

11 Alive News: “Lululemon employees fired after robbery for breaking policy, they say”

Daily Mail: “Lululemon is slammed for FIRING staff who confronted masked thieves as they brazenly ransacked Georgia store and dashed out with armfuls of pricey yoga gear - because they 'broke employee policy'”

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In this week's episode, Jesse addresses an ugly rumor about him posted to Blocked and Reported's Apple Podcast review page. Then the hosts discuss Conor Friedersdorf's article in The Atlantic, "Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart," which centers around the accusation that it was racist for a white man to bounce his friend's black baby on his lap during a Zoom call (really!). In the episode's main segment, Katie unspurls the yearslong battle between Cliff Mass and seemingly every progressive in the Seattle metro area, which recently culminated in his media-gig firing after he made an..................... unfortunate comparison on his personal blog. Also: Jesse does a rim-rocking dunk, the hosts discuss a potential cargo-shorts-related spinoff podcast, racist babies are denounced, and Katie unspurls the story of how she was blacklisted from a Seattle radio station. Show notes/Links: The Atlantic: Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/meta-arguments-about-anti-racism/615424/ (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/meta-arguments-about-anti-racism/615424/) The Stranger: Cliff Mass Says Whatever He Wants (2011) - https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158 (https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158) KIRO: UW Prof. Cliff Mass called racist for opposing carbon tax initiative (2011) - https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158 (https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158) The Stranger: Cliff Mass's Responses to Women Scientists Make Seattle's Climate Change Discussions Toxic - https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158 (https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158) The Stranger: Cliff Mass Blames Liberals for the Lack of Progress on Climate Change - https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/10/06/25457183/cliff-mass-blames-liberals-for-the-lack-of-progress-on-climate-change (https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/10/06/25457183/cliff-mass-blames-liberals-for-the-lack-of-progress-on-climate-change) The Stranger: The Culture of Harassing and Demeaning Women Scientists - https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/11/17/25572044/the-culture-of-harassing-and-demeaning-women-scientists (https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/11/17/25572044/the-culture-of-harassing-and-demeaning-women-scientists) Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The University of Washington Should Not Censor Faculty Social Media - https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-university-of-washington-should-not.html (https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-university-of-washington-should-not.html) KNKX: KNKX Public Editor report: science, politics, and Weather with Cliff Mass - https://www.knkx.org/post/knkx-public-editor-report-science-politics-and-weather-cliff-mass (https://www.knkx.org/post/knkx-public-editor-report-science-politics-and-weather-cliff-mass) Cliff Mass Weather Blog: A City in Fear Can Be Restored - https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/seattle-city-in-fear-can-be-restored.html (https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/seattle-city-in-fear-can-be-restored.html) KNKX: KNKX to stop airing Weather with Cliff Mass, effective immediately - https://www.knkx.org/post/knkx-stop-airing-weather-cliff-mass-effective-immediately (https://www.knkx.org/post/knkx-stop-airing-weather-cliff-mass-effective-immediately) Cliff Mass Weather Blog: My Firing at KNKX - https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/my-firing-at-knkx.html (https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/my-firing-at-knkx.html) Petition trying to get Mass fired from his job as a professor - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WIZgiqt1wkyOdx369sSJeIPFoQ8Wr-RA3wKZzJ5uxHU/edit (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WIZgiqt1wkyOdx369sSJeIPFoQ8Wr-RA3wKZzJ5uxHU/edit)