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Using clips from the YouTube channel Unpacked, the segment traces the historical relationship between Black and Jewish communities in America from the 18th century through the Civil Rights Movement. It covers the divide between Northern and Southern Jews during slavery, the involvement of Jewish activists as Freedom Riders, and the eventual tensions that arose as Jewish immigrants achieved greater class mobility than their Black peers.
Implicit bias testing, which measures reaction times to racial images, is criticized as a pseudo-scientific method to label individuals as racist. The HBO series *Watchmen* is cited for dramatizing these tests to "mainline" racial trauma and propaganda into the public consciousness. The hosts discuss rejecting such "trauma-based entertainment" despite its inclusion of historical events like the Tulsa Massacre.
