Support Out of Frame on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OutofFrameShow Watch our newest video, "Want to Make Things WORSE? Ban Your Enemies": https://youtu.be/6tVVzM5vmhs Check out our podcast, Out of Frame: Behind the Scenes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiS5rEmhnLwo1IG9bgr19Og SPOILERS AHEAD! Carnival Row on Amazon Prime might be one of the best shows you’ve probably never seen. The first season has been out for nearly a year, but its themes about identity-group tensions and an out-of-touch political class are more relevant than ever. Given everything that’s happening in America right now—especially as it’s an election year—it should be very clear just how vast the chasm of understanding is between our political leaders and the people who have to live with the results of their decisions. Flavor-of-the-day hot takes and partisan-fueled bickering might make good sound bites, but they fail to accomplish anything meaningful. Worse, they add fuel to the fiery divisiveness of our discourse that dominates our news, our social media, and even our real-life relationships. Carnival Row might be set in steampunk-Victorian fantasy world filled with non-human races and more than a little bit of magic, but the characters that inhabit it are dealing with issues that are remarkably similar to ours. Solving the problems facing both the characters in Carnival Row and us in real life won’t happen by granting the government more power over what is or is not allowed or just electing the “right people” to office. And it certainly isn’t seeing an individual as a member of an identity group instead of as a person. But what is the solution? ______________________________ CREDITS: Produced by Sean W. Malone Written by Jen Maffessanti & Sean W. Malone Edited by Paul Nelson Asst. Edited by Jason Reinhardt ______________________________ LINKS: --Name-Calling and Misconceptions-- https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-gop-coronavirus-fascism/ https://dailynexus.com/2016-05-24/feminism-is-cancer-banner-leads-to-heated-discussions/ https://qctimes.com/news/opinion/libertarian-splaining-to-the-poor/article_1fe2928d-3fa4-530d-bf16-1e60433588e6.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/donald-trump-is-destroying-my-marriage.html --Out of Touch Leaders and Wishful Thinking-- https://reason.com/2020/07/22/the-majority-of-americans-oppose-qualified-immunity-where-is-congress/ https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-06-28/congress-had-a-chance-to-pass-police-reform-both-parties-failed https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/02/trump-washington-walk-to-the-church-photo-op https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/the-embarrassment-of-democrats-wearing-kente-cloth-stoles https://nypost.com/2020/06/11/seattle-mayor-defen ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lND3L7lcgd0

Support Out of Frame on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OutofFrameShow Watch our newest video, "Hollywood Hates You (Unless You Agree With Them)": https://youtu.be/XMFvl5CbqYU Check out our podcast, Out of Frame: Behind the Scenes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiS5rEmhnLwo1IG9bgr19Og Magatte Wade, a Senegalese entrepreneur and one of the Forbes 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa, explains why the solution to poverty in Africa is to expand opportunities for entrepreneurship and trade. Magatte urges students to think with their heads as well as their hearts as she shares her personal experience with entrepreneurship and global development. The solution to poverty in Africa is not simply more foreign aid, which often hurts local African business owners, it is policy that makes doing business easier. This presentation was filmed in Austin, Texas at FEE’s 2015 Economics of Entrepreneurship high school seminar. Learn how you can attend a FEE program and meet speakers like Magatte Wade by visiting http://at.fee.org/seminars2016 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxL9qJ3RnEY