A Spotify-produced podcast featuring Black Lives Matter co-founder and “trained Marxist” Patrisse Cullors is calling for eliminating police and prisons, labeling America a “white supremacist” state, and contending that the drastically emotionally ill are in fact “shamans” and “spiritual guides.” It amounts to little more than BLM/Leftist propaganda.
Spotify introduced Abolition X, which “focuses on alternatives to police, jails, and punishment,” in February. And while the podcast is chock-full of anti-prison and anti-police unsupported claims, it “isn’t just about getting rid of police and prisons,” Spotify claimed in a press release. Certainly, hosts Vic Mensa, Indigo Mateo, and Richie Reseda– and their visitors– typically wade right into other subjects.
One episode, for instance, claims gender is merely “an expression.” “Gender is, like, swag, you know?” claims Reseda, a founded guilty felon who begged guilty to two heists in 2011. “For real, gender is literally a way of expressing one’s self. Like, that’s really all it is.”
An additional episode on mental health including Cullors urges audiences to microdose mushrooms, calls former Presdient Ronald Reagan “Satan,” and even tags schizophrenic and also bipolar individuals as “shamans” whom we “throw … away” because “they don’t serve capitalism.”
“I’m also a firm believer, especially with people who have severe mental illness, that many of those folks are, like, shamans, and are spiritual guides,” Cullors says. “And in this context of capitalism we throw them away. We don’t know what to do with them—they don’t serve capitalism.”
Spotify’s release of Abolition X came as the firm encountered public scrutiny surrounding its exclusive offer to host The Joe Rogan Experience. After Rogan posted an episode featuring virologist Robert Malone that examined Democratic policies on COVID-19, artists asked Spotify to eliminate their songs from the platform, prompting the firm to delete hundreds of podcast episodes for spreading virus “misinformation”.
When it comes to Abolition X, nonetheless, Spotify seems to have no trouble backing far-left plans that are exceptionally undesirable to both the American people as a whole as well as black Americans particularly. Simply 28 percent of black Americans support the movement to defund authorities, a 2021 USA Today poll found. Three out of four Americans, on the other hand, say the activity to defund police “is a factor that terrible criminal activity is increasing in the United States.”.
Spotify’s Abolition X isn’t merely of touch with the American public– the policies it advertises can lead to dreadful effects. According to a 2021 Manhattan Institute report, liberal “crime reduction” programs in Chicago did little to minimize weapon as well as gang murders. In Pittsburgh, physical violence actually went up after a similar program was presented. High authorities visibilities in areas, on the other hand, are shown to reduce criminal activity.
Spotify did not return a request for comment.
Discussions on gender and mental health and wellness apart, Abolition X’s bread, and butter, is composed of discussions centered on taking apart America’s authorities and jails. Mensa goes on to compete that those psychological health concerns exist as a byproduct of America’s status as an “uber-capitalist, white supremacist, violent-ass state.”.
Cullors’s musings on the podcast consist of comparable denunciations of capitalism. At one factor, the BLM co-founder argues that in a “capitalist world,” the “self does not exist for black women,” due to the fact that they “are at service to everybody.” Less than a year before she joined the podcast, Cullors acquired 4 high-end U.S. houses for $3.2 million. Simple weeks after the episode’s release, on the other hand, New York magazine disclosed that, under Cullors’s management, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation acquired a $6 million Southern California mansion in cash money using funds donated to the group. Cullors later surrendered from her function as executive supervisor of the structure in order to concentrate on a multi-year television agreement with Warner Bros.
