Podcast Summary

Podcast: Decisions, Decisions
Episode: Selective Ignorance: Ep. 41 | AI Vs Autonomy, Decade Old Tweets & Non-Apologies feat. Jason "Jah" Lee
Date: December 9, 2025
Hosts: Mandy B., Hip Hop Obama, Jason Rodriguez (Journalism Jason), Jason “Jah” Lee
Main Topics: AI & Autonomy (review of “Pluribus”), decade-old tweets and “cancel culture,” black Twitter culture, tipping and CP time, and the ethics of calling out ignorance in family politics.

Episode Overview

This episode of "Decisions, Decisions" kicks off the end-of-year wind-down with a tinfoil hat, candid, and hilarious roundtable. Mandy B. and the crew, including podcast OG Jason “Jah” Lee, examine key themes in Apple TV’s show "Pluribus" (AI, autonomy, happiness, and loss of individuality), rehash the ongoing “cancel culture” wars particularly around decade-old tweets, and reflect on community habits and hypocrisies (from tipping, to colorism, to being late). Along the way, they serve up personal stories, raunchy jokes, and key questions about modern society—highlighting how selective ignorance shapes culture, relationships, and ethics.

Key Discussion Points

1. Party Dynamics, Male Entitlement & Social Cues

[08:02 – 21:46]

• Story: Mandy shares an incident at a Prize Picks party where a male friend approaches and hugs her from behind while she’s talking to rapper Toosii.
  • This disrupts a potential professional conversation and exemplifies “territorial” male behavior.
• Panel's Take:
  • The group agrees that interrupting a woman’s conversation with a hug from behind is “ignorant as fuck” (Mandy, 15:48), especially from someone who isn’t even in a close relationship with her.
  • “You can’t hug a [woman] from the back unless you ate my ass.” – Mandy B. (17:59)
  • Social cues and boundaries are missing for some men; sometimes, “common sense ain’t so common” (Mandy, 22:13).
• Broader Point: Emotional and social intelligence, especially around women’s autonomy, is often sorely lacking—and sometimes feigned ignorance is just regular-ass entitlement.

2. Selective Ignorance in Race, Prejudice & Stereotypes

[27:04 – 34:48]

• Story: The panel discusses a viral video/skit where a woman asks a Mexican man about hot sauces, and he claps back with a stereotypical question about cornbread and watermelon to a black person, highlighting mutual bias.
• Debate:
  • Mandy highlights the “do unto others” hypocrisy: “We believe we get the pass to be completely ignorant with every other race in our biases and their stereotypes, but heaven forbid someone else... has the stereotype about us.” (31:44)
  • Panel exchanges stories of their own “selective ignorance”—from confusing Latinx foods to drawing lines between “prejudice” and “racism.”
  • The crew jokes about stereotypes but also reflects on mutual, casual racism bouncing around black Twitter and other online spaces.

3. Tinfoil Hats: Apple TV's “Pluribus”, AI, and Autonomy

[40:03 – 78:54]

• Show Recap:
  • "Pluribus" follows Carol, a lesbian romance novelist, and 10 other “immune” survivors in a world where an “alien virus” infects humans and puts them in a perfect state of happiness—a “hive mind” that erases individuality and all suffering.
• Key Themes & Debate:
  • Losing individuality for “net positive” happiness: Would you join the hive mind? (Mandy v. Hip Hop Obama)
    • “Would you miss the hard [parts in life]? I actually would miss the hard. I don’t want a gummy.” – Mandy B. (47:41)
    • “Would you miss suffering? I guess that’s my point. I wouldn’t miss suffering.” – Hip Hop Obama (47:45)
  • Contrast of suffering and happiness: Can happiness exist without struggle?
  • AI & Technology Parallels: Scene where Carol is distressed she can’t shop in a real grocery store anymore, paralleling real-life convenience vs. loss of “ordinary” humanity.
    • Mandy: “Apparently, going to a grocery store and walking down the aisles is a part of humanity, is a luxury, is a part of... being human.” (54:44)
  • Ethics of consent/autonomy when people “can’t say no” (e.g., sexual and social boundaries erased by the virus).
  • Capitalism v. socialism, hypocrisy, individualism:
    • “It reminds me of the hypocrisy and individualism... you want to stand for something, right? But as soon as it kind of impacts [you]... you benefit from it when it matters to you.” – Mandy B. (61:10)
• Notable Quotes:
  • “Carol is a miserable person. But she writes fantasy for other people to be happy. Yeah, she’s miserable.” – Hip Hop Obama (62:04)
  • “I’m worse than diabate. Baby, the way that we be outside season two...” – Mandy B., imagining herself in a no-consent world (74:37)
• Sociopolitical Parallels: Discussion of how society collectively accepts certain harms (e.g., alcohol DUIs, fast fashion, climate change) for the sake of individual happiness.
  • “Would you stop drinking today if you knew it could save 12 to 14,000 lives a year?” – Mandy B. (72:12)
  • “No.” – Hip Hop Obama (72:23)
• Philosophical Points:
  • Individual actions have ripple effects in society (“Out of many, one”).
  • How much harm are we willing to accept for convenience or happiness?

4. Decade-Old Tweets, Cancel Culture & Black Twitter

[84:48 – 114:41]

• Background: Mandy received an email with her decade-old tweets, mostly using the words “blacks” and “black women”—likely an attempt to “get her canceled.” She reads them on air and reacts.
• Rundown:
  • Reads and discusses tweets about colorism, black dating preferences, use of the N-word, tipping, and CP time.
  • Notable Tweets & Reactions:
    • “My preference in women isn’t black women...” – Mandy B. (87:52 tweet from 2013; doubles down, says preferences change)
    • “I’mma make it my goal in life to teach black people how to tip.” (99:00; doubles down given her service industry background)
    • “And still the first bitch here. Smh. Damn black people.” (105:47; CP time and lateness)
  • Meta-Analysis: The group parses how online culture (especially black Twitter) has evolved, how people weaponize old posts, and how apology demand culture works.
    • “This idea that we gonna hold people to the fire on tweets 10 years plus ago—shut the fuck up.” – Mandy B. (114:05)
    • “When a white person violates a black person's trust, there's only one way you can play that out... If Marjorie Taylor Greene can offer a better fake apology than you can, you look crazy.” – Hip Hop Obama (117:05)

5. Ignorance in Families, Social Media & Politics (Listener Letter)

[119:37 – 127:15]

• Listener Scenario: Someone corrects their aunt’s political misinformation (she posted a fake viral death meme) publicly on Facebook, aunt and family get offended.
• Debate:
  • Mandy: “Let the old people enjoy their memes, their AI, their fake name. Like, people right now are having a blast with seeing these things that they think are real.” (120:42)
  • Jason: “Your niece ain’t the only person that thought you was ignorant... We all have a group chat that we know somebody is posting something... it’s like, you know you’re going to post the dumb shit.” (123:32)
• Final Advice: Sometimes it’s better to let ignorance on Facebook ride than to call it out and create family drama.

Notable Quotes & Moments

• On social cues and entitlement:
  “You can’t hug a person from the back unless you ate my ass.” – Mandy B. (17:59)
• On automated society:
  “Apparently, going to a grocery store and walking down the aisles is a part of humanity, is a luxury, is a part of again, maybe remember when we talked about what things we would miss if the world changed?” – Mandy B. (54:44)
• On personal responsibility and hypocrisy:
  “It reminds me of the hypocrisy... you want to stand for something, right? But as soon as it kind of impacts... you benefit from it when it matters to you.” – Mandy B. (61:10)
• On Twitter culture:
  "This idea that we gonna hold people to the fire on tweets 10 years plus ago—shut the fuck up." – Mandy B. (114:05)
• On white people apologizing in Black spaces:
  “When a white person violates a black person's trust, there's only one way you can play that out... If Marjorie Taylor Greene can offer a better fake apology than you can, you look crazy.” – Hip Hop Obama (117:05)

Important Timestamps

• (08:02–21:46): Party story, male entitlement, social boundaries, “the Michael Rubin hug”
• (27:04–34:48): Bias, racial stereotypes, the hot sauce skit, mutual ignorance
• (40:03–78:54): Apple TV’s "Pluribus", debate on hive mind vs individuality, AI & happiness, philosophical discussion of suffering & convenience, technology parallels
• (84:48–114:41): Reading Mandy’s old tweets, cancel culture, double-down vs. apology, black Twitter’s hypocrisy, “celebs say the darnedest things”
• (119:37–127:15): Listener letter — “Was it ignorant to call out Auntie's fake political meme?”, family drama, Facebook misinformation

Tone & Style

• Consistently irreverent, hilarious, and explicit (“suck my dick from the back”), the hosts blend real social critique with raunchy humor and raw honesty—never shying away from the messy realities of being Black in America, or from dragging themselves and their own community.
• The entire cast leans into playful contradiction (“I know a kid made this t-shirt. This is Shein, bitch…”), and embodies the episode title: Selective Ignorance.

Recurring Themes

• Selective Ignorance: How everyone “chooses” what they want to notice, call out, accept, or ignore in themselves and others.
• Hypocrisy & Evolution: Owning past mistakes, growth and learning, and why society needs to allow for change.
• Modernity & Tech: Tech’s impact on humanity, consent, and community.
• Community Ethics: Discussing, defending, and critiquing Black folkways—tipping, CP time, colorism, “calling out” versus “canceling.”
• Personal Storytelling: Every topic is grounded in real life—from Mandy’s party antics to canceled tweets.

Conclusion

This episode delivers a riotous, nuanced, and unpretentious conversation around how we navigate personal, social, and systemic ignorance—choosing when to care and when to double down. Whether reflecting on the loss of humanity in an AI-driven future, the ethics of policing Black Twitter, or weighing the cost of happiness against communal suffering, the "Decisions, Decisions" crew keeps the dialogue messy, funny, and real.

Final words: “Selective Ignorance: where curiosity lives, controversy thrives, and conversations matter.” (128:21)