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Blakely Thornton
Pop culture anthropologist, comedian, and host of the podcast Yestergays with Justin Sylvester, named to Out100's 2024 list of LGBTQ+ influencers.
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Jul 31, 2026
REPLAY: Asian+Black SINNERS deep dive, teaching Ryan Coogler about Mississippi Chinese, Need a Hot Pope, Immigrant farm-to-table, THE STUDIO on AppleTV - Blakely Thornton, Dolly Li (S2E23)
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20:41Blakely ThorntonGUEST
think Black people need to take back that and like pierce the veil on the fact that they were positioned in this thing to create everything from shopkeepers to the model minority myth.
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20:51Blakely ThorntonGUEST
A lot of people from other countries who had advanced degrees being like, well, they're thriving.
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20:57Blakely ThorntonGUEST
Yeah, they're thriving because you wanted them to, to create further animosity between us and them, but you're still going to mistreat them.
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21:03Blakely ThorntonGUEST
And it's like, well, you're Indian or Chinese, but you're a doctor, or you're a store owner, or you're a professional, where you're killing us for going to school.
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21:11Blakely ThorntonGUEST
So then we have an animosity towards them as well, but that's built by the power trying to keep themselves in the pole position.
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The Cult Has No Culture
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29:33Blakely ThorntonGUEST
Like, you cannot be willing to s- shit everyone down the river in honor of, like, more stuff, and I think that's what, like, the thesis is, is like, oh, in protection of my ability to gain more stuff, let's shit away human rights and female bodily autonomy and gay marriage [laughs] and abortion, all 'cause, 'cause what? 'Cause you want, like, the chance to maybe buy a boat one day that's 10 feet bigger? Newsflash, baby, you own nothing.
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29:59Blakely ThorntonGUEST
That's, that's why MAGA is so concerned with, like, owning the libs, 'cause you don't own anything else, baby, you rent.

Jennifer WelchHOST
So they wanna browbeat, you know, drag queens and trans kids, and Black gay men and gay people.

