Christiana
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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What Now? with Trevor Noah · The Reality of Fiction with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 20 Mar 2025
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I come for it from a different perspective. I think I hate how in America it's like, you're right, you're left, you're right-leaning. Because I think people contain multiple ideological positions. On some issues, like right-wing leaning on what? There is no one.
You're a student.
So you encourage the discourse and the dialogue, but it has to be grounded in, I guess, intellectual curiosity. And it seems like from reading your essays and your work, a mutual respect. Because the affront to you is just like, don't be disrespectful, which is how I feel. Don't disrespect me or I'm going to leave.
He didn't fit anywhere, so he had to understand.
You know, Trevor's the king of that. Not the book, but remember at the show, the Daily Show, I think it was Jussie Smollett, this example always comes to mind. Jussie Smollett, the incident happened where he said he was assaulted by these Trump people. We're doing the meeting, we're watching the videos and, you know, people are like, oh, this is so outrageous, this is so sad.
Myself, who's like Trotsky on the far left... And another writer who I won't name, but it's pretty right wing. We both said there's something not right. And Trevor said, you see these two people? They never agree. And he's like, guys, let's pause. Trevor said, we're not going to, we're not going to cover this.
We're not going to go for like MAGA racists. And we had all the roles because it's like it's a big production to get all these clips. We had all the roles. People had the take. People had made jokes about how it was. And Trevor was like, let's take a beat. And this was like on the Monday or Tuesday. Wednesday, more's coming in. You know, people are saying justice for Jussie Smollett.
Like Kamala Harris, everyone's tweeting. Trevor's still like, let's take a beat. I think it wasn't until like Wednesday or Thursday it emerges that... You know, the story wasn't what he was professing it to be. And Trevor was like, okay, now we're ready. And I always think about that when a story breaks or there's some hot button issue.
Because I'm, listen, I'm always like, I'm quite fiery, as you may have gathered. I used to be of the view of like... This is my opinion. But Trevor's very good at, let's take a beat. Let's read more. I used to be frustrated because I'd be like, this happened to these people. They're dying. And Trevor said, well, people die every day.
We can't like, we have to have an informed response to what's happening.
But I think we're not disagreeing all the way. Are you talking about the reflexive urge to take a side? Yes. And you want people to take a beat?
But Chimam, I think you are overestimating people's ability to even know what the source should be. Like, I went to journalism school and sometimes... I've been tricked.
You know, sometimes it's just like... I think it was an AI thing. I was sent something recently and I was momentarily duped until I dug a bit deeper and I was like, oh, this is not true. This is manufactured. And I think we assume people to be a lot more literate than they are. And that's not coming from an arrogant place. We're just flooded with information.
And I tell you, I'm like, sometimes I get WhatsApp forwards from my auntie. I'm like, auntie, where did you, especially during COVID. Exactly. Chew ginger. I was like, but she was like, no, don't get the vaccine. Chew ginger and you'll be fine. Right. And to task that person with finding the truth.
A lot of people don't know where to start, especially where we are being flooded with misinformation. So I think Trevor's saying maybe we should have a bit more grace because not everyone is able to maneuver information.
To that point, though, I think there is no center right now. You know, when we're talking about the...
No, I think for most rational people, it doesn't. But we're in a heightened time where there is just like a lot of institutional distrust. I mean, my husband thinks I'm susceptible to cults. No, but I think everyone is. I think everyone is. Not just what the algorithm feeds you, but it's been a destabilizing few years. And I think everyone's asking themselves this question, what is true?
And what do I believe? What am I? And that's why we're, because of the fear, we're going to all these extremes. And for a lot of people, they're just like, the CDC did this one thing wrong. Forget the CDC. Do you know what I mean? Whether that's right or not, I can't really judge. But I think there's just so much mistrust.
You said it's the last frontier. Yeah.
I need to get into MMA I need to I want more hobbies is MMA a hobby?
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