Malcolm Gladwell
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51 recordings
16 series
first heard Nov 2024
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Malcolm Gladwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was too dangerous to continue, but too dangerous to stop.
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And then comes the stone of rebellion, and that pit in your stomach becomes a molten mass.
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What was behind Jemmy's insurrection?
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They were headed south, which suggests that perhaps they were trying to reach Florida, then under Spanish control, where escaped slaves could find safe haven.
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But if that were the case, why did the slaves go on such a rampage?
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A more plausible explanation, and to the slave owners of the South, the more terrifying one, is that Jemmy and his followers who
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We're just out for blood.
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This is how the law professor Carl Bogus described it to me.
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This chapter is about the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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The sentence that squats at the very center of every discussion of the place of guns in American society.
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It's about how the conversation around the Second Amendment is every bit as dishonest as the conversation around assault rifles.
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And why is it dishonest?
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Because it pretends that we can talk about the meaning of the Second Amendment without regard to the motivations of the men who conceived of it.
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Back in the eighteenth century.
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As historian Peter Charles Hoffer has written.
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The master portrayed himself as the good father, the head of an extended household in which slaves were childlike laborers, women were submissive helpmeats, and servants were obedient and loyal.
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Masters could put on a stern face, like the biblical patriarchs, or act the loving and affectionate father.
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Hoffer is speaking of the psychology of the white men who grabbed their guns that Sunday morning and rode off to confront Jemmy's band.
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But it was all an act.
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He goes on.
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