3497: Alive w/ Liz Scheier

[Keith]

The KATG Marathon show is live this weekend on YouTube! Meanwhile, author Liz Scheier is here to tell us an amazing story about her mentally ill mom, her imaginary dad, and family lies. The gang also discusses Keith being the best at pilates, 6 more weeks of winter, and Tom Brady’s retirement. Keith mourns the loss of Howard Hesseman as well as the new name for the Washington Redskins: The Washington Commanders. Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from The View for 2 weeks for not believing the Holocaust was about race, and the gang shares the secrets behind human egg donation.

Guest:
Liz Scheier



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[Svage]

Listening and holy shit. At 54 mins in when she mentions what her mother wanted her to do. Holy shit. I never have audible reactions other than laughter but goddam the gasp that came out of me.

[shoebootie]

Originally Posted by Svage

Listening and holy shit. At 54 mins in when she mentions what her mother wanted her to do. Holy shit. I never have audible reactions other than laughter but goddam the gasp that came out of me.

SAME. HOLY SHIT. DID NOT EXPECT THAT.

[shoebootie]

Wow wow wow, this is SUCH a great episode and so much to relate to.

"How do you tell your kids they might have half siblings out there"

Through ancestry and my own investigations, I found my deceased father's birth parents - his parents also being dead at this point. NO ONE in the birth mother's family knew at all that she had a secret first baby she gave up for adoption before having a child she raised. That man was very surprised when I contacted him "hey buddy I'm your niece, surprise!"

[Apia resurrected]

Well the Nazis called the jews the inferior race so it sounds like racism?

And haven't you seen the racist jokes about the appearance of Jews?
Hm.

[nordcharonmir]

Originally Posted by Apia resurrected

Well the Nazis called the jews the inferior race so it sounds like racism?

And haven't you seen the racist jokes about the appearance of Jews?
Hm.

Jews viewed as a separate race was WELL ESTABLISHED for centuries leading up to the final solution. Acting like racism wasn't part of the holocaust is some next level ignorance Whoopie GOLDBERG. Who thought the show that employs ignorant numb nuts to say controversial shiite for attention would result in lots of controversial attention after saying some ignorant shiite.

The real question that I think gets totally glazed over however is why were the Jews picked out? And why were the other groups ~40% (estimated at 4M of 10M) of those killed in the Nazi government killings killed. The coupling of those reasons with a distinct "them" that is phenotypic in nature allows for a genocidal effort instead of just a class extermination effort.

Please note on the phenotypic note the disproportionate targeting of Oriental Jews in the east such as Poland (Operation Reinhard source - Ordinary Men) vs ashkenazi jews and the middle ground of the distribution the sephardic jews. The stronger the phenotypic difference the stronger the targeting...thus a clear and distinct connection of racism.

So much of Hitler's antisemitic views were heavily shared in the region at the time and were substantially informed by US scholars at the time specifically theories coming out of UC Berkeley.

[thirteen]

Amazing guest!

[Apia resurrected]

The Nazis were so racist that the word race used to describe a person is highly offensive here.
If you say it in public, people would think you have also swastika tattoos on your chest.

[shoebootie]

I need to get this book immediately.

[SpareBen]

What a pleasant surprise. Feels like these (presumably) sponsored episodes are hit or miss and this one's a big hit.