On this episode of the Far Too Good World podcast, we hear a lot about the culture these days, but what actually is culture made up of? And can ours be fixed? It’s mildly ironic that we all care about the Chinese spy balloon and other objects have been floating through American airspace since we seem to be ignoring the fact that we carry around similar surveillance technology in our pockets every day. And finally, in the wake of the Tyre Nicholas incident, I’ll explain how racializing tragedies like this minimizes the actual tragic nature of what happened.

Links:

Opinion: The police who killed Tyre Nichols were Black. But they might still have been driven by racism
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/27/opinions/tyre-nichols-memphis-police-department-jones/index.html

Tyre Nichols police report at odds with video of brutal traffic stop before his death
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tyre-nichols-police-report-odds-video-brutal-traffic-stop-death-rcna68661

Tyre Nichols: A detailed visual timeline of the investigation into his death | ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQePmQy3W8o

Tennessee Second Degree Murder Statute 
https://law.justia.com/codes/tennessee/2021/title-39/chapter-13/part-2/section-39-13-210/#:~:text=Second%20degree%20murder%20is%3A,death%20of%20the%20user%3B%20or

The Daily Wire: Chinese Spy Balloon Hovering Over United States: Report: https://www.dailywire.com/news/chinese-spy-balloon-hovering-over-united-states-report

The Hill: Texas governor unveils plan for statewide TikTok ban
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3845729-texas-governor-unveils-plan-for-statewide-tiktok-ban/