Qasim Rashid
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1,282 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 7 Aug
Qasim Rashid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And we talked about the class was called The Future of Equality.
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And the point he made was that every major movement in American history has been about expanding the definition of a human being, about expanding access, whether it was Dred Scott and we failed there, Plessy versus Ferguson, the civil rights cases, Korematsu.
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This question was, do these people also deserve equal justice and equal access?
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And by and large,
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while it's been a slow struggle, we've done a pretty good job of expanding access, right?
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I mean, even post civil rights movement, women finally got the right to have their own independent credit card and financial autonomy.
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And we, 1993 marital rape was finally criminalized.
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And so we've seen an expansion of autonomy and equal justice and equal access.
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And now I think we're starting to see a contraction.
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We're starting to see a restriction of basic access to education and equal rights.
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I mean, I don't know about you, Don, but maybe I don't want my kids learning about Harry Potter, right?
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And we saw that huge movement of we can't have Harry Potter because it's witchcraft and it'll turn people away from God.
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It's nonsensical, but that's unfortunately what direction we're heading in right now.
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And to be the activist for a moment, it's why we need folks to be really active and involved, especially on the local level, to stop these right-wing lunatics from taking over.
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Yeah, it's dangerous.
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It's dangerous.
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I'll tell you this, Don.
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My father recently passed a few months ago.
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He was an imam, an Islamic scholar.
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We grew up in a very observant Muslim household.
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