What is the purpose of an army？ Seems like a simple question
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Coach Linda Blade and Barbara Kay are the co-authors of a new book that Rebel News published today called Unsporting, about people who are born male, transition to be trans women, and then want to play women s sports. It's a powerful book. I hope you get it.
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Hello, my friends. Boy, what a show today. It is so jam-packed. I start off by comparing
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military recruitment ads, one from Russia, one from China, one from America. Boy, they're just
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incredible ads. But the heart of today's show is actually the guest interview. I interview
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a tag team, Coach Linda Blade and colonist Barbara Kay, who are the co-authors of a new
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book that Rebel News published today called Unsporting. It's about trans sports, about
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people who are born male, transition to be trans women, and then want to play women's sports.
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It's a very powerful book. I hope you get it. I hope you enjoy it. Before I get to today's podcast,
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let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus, which is the video version of this
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show. You're going to need it to really get the flavor of these military recruitment ads.
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And not only do you get a lot of value, you get a lot of stuff for it, but you support Rebel News,
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which is pretty important, I think. We don't take a dime from Trudeau, and we never will.
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Tonight, what's the purpose of a military? Seems like a pretty simple question. It's May 28th,
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Today, we launched a new book. It's our first book in a year since my bestseller, China Virus.
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China Virus is a provocative title, but the subtitle explains things, I think.
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How Justin Trudeau's pro-communist ideology is putting Canadians in danger.
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The book was well-received. Zoomed up the bestseller list. I just checked today. I hadn't looked in a while.
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And it's got an average of five stars in reader reviews. That feels good.
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And incredibly, it's still ranked number seven in Canadian political books, and I couldn't believe it.
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Another one of my books, called Trumping Trudeau, is actually number four. How did that happen?
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That book is, I don't know, that book's more than four years old now.
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Anyways, sorry to talk about myself. I hadn't checked those stats in a while, and I was pleasantly surprised.
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Anyways, the reason I mention them is because China Virus was banned.
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I don't know if you remember that, but Amazon refused to put it up for sale for two months.
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And then when they relented and finally put it up for sale for a few days, and it instantly zoomed to the bestseller,
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then I don't know what happened, the Chinese embassy or the World Health Organization,
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where someone complained because Amazon then took the book down,
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saying it contradicted official sources, but they wouldn't tell me what sources.
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And then, after a few days, they relented and unbanded and put it back up.
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Well, I have to tell you, the book we're launching today has an even greater likelihood of being censored than China Virus,
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because it is about the most censored subject in the world.
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Not Islam, not Trump, not the pandemic, but transgenderism.
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In particular, athletes who were born male, but then transition and call themselves trans women,
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and then go and crush it in women's sports like this.
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Open goal square, bang, that's two for Mouncey.
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Mouncey, at the foot of the pack, throws her on the boot.
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Yeah, how much fun is that for the other girls on the team?
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So, yeah, you say something like that, and you're canceled.
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I mean, anyone can be canceled for tangling with trans.
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Even J.K. Rowling, the most commercially successful author in a generation,
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she's the Harry Potter author, who, by the way, is very woke, and very feminist, and very pro-gay,
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but she dared to say girls and boys are different.
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Trying to find a publisher to publish a book like that.
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Unsporting is the name of the book, and we will interview the authors,
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Coach Linda Blade and our friend Barbara Kaye, in a moment.
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You can get the book at unsporting.com or on Amazon.
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If they haven't banned it yet, seriously, I think there is a real chance they're going to ban it,
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So, that feature interview is our big part of the show today,
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When politics and diplomacy fail, to do violence, I'm sorry about that.
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To be as harmful to the other side as possible.
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To finally break their will, but first by breaking a lot of their stuff.
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There are other values in society, especially a democracy like ours.
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There's fairness, inclusion, being nice, not being rude, smelling good.
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Let's call those politenesses or social graces, but those are not valuable in a military.
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Really, the only thing valuable in a military is winning.
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By being tougher, stronger, faster, smarter than the other guys.
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There's no affirmative action for short basketball players or fat marathon runners.
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I know that's not nice, but the job of the military is not to be nice.
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Can I show you a mash-up of two countries' military recruitment ads?
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This U.S. Army ad that I'm about to show you really is real.
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I thought it was a spoof, so I went to the official U.S. Army account, but no, it is real.
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It begins in California with a little girl raised by two moms.
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I like to think I've been defending freedom from an early age to marry my other mom.
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With such powerful role models, I finished high school at the top of my class.
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And after meeting with an Army recruiter, I found it.
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I'm U.S. Army Corporal Emma Malone-Lord, and I answered my call.
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And then the fact-checkers attacked, claiming that this video, it came from a far-right website or something.
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So why was the corporate media, the fact-checking leftist media, so upset with that?
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I mean, don't they support the fact that the U.S. Army is becoming more inclusive now?
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That they're putting tenderness and compassion ahead of killing?
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Listen, I like tenderness and compassion, but not when you're going up against, like, missiles.
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Have you ever watched a Chinese military recruitment ad?
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I mean, I'm about to show you Chinese propaganda now.
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All countries do propaganda, especially when you're recruiting for your military.
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I'm not converted to being a Chinese communist.
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I'm just saying, wow, I can see this work on an emotional level.
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This is inspiring, if you are a Chinese communist.
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I am of הצ� worried and didn't stand while giving him time.
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拿起钢枪,就要放下儿女秦城,穿上军装,就要舍弃舒适安逸,征战将长,男儿本色,从军报国,此生无悔。
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把整理设计酌上者, substitute平直至是什么时候能做真正 copperners可以做一点。
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Are you even allowed to say that words like that in Canada or the United States anymore?
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Let me show you a speech that Kamala Harris gave just, I think it was today, to the Naval Academy.
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Do you understand anything about what she's saying here?
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who will soon help convert solar and wind energy into power,
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convert solar and wind energy into combat power.
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And I am positive she will tell you a solar panel,
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I don't know what on earth she's talking about,
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which is the U.S. military is no longer about killing bad guys.
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It's no longer about beating Russians or Chinese.
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It's, I don't know, I don't know exactly what it's for.
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But I think the leftists inherently don't like the military,
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but for whatever remaining masculinity is there.
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You'll notice Kamala Harris said the typical Marine is a she.
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It's not statistically true, but, boy, she wants it to be.
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let alone their sympathy with Russia and China.
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Red Rebel News is publishing that book, Unsporting, co-authored by Linda Blade and Barbara Kay.
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Linda Blade in Edmonton and Barbara in Montreal.
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Well, yes, it is my first book other than the PhD thesis I wrote long ago and a little manual on coaching.
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I mean, you couldn't have picked a spicier topic.
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This subject, I want to let you know, this subject is the most censored subject in all of social media.
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More than critical comments about radical Islam, more than anything about Donald Trump, if you take on transgenderism in sport, your books will be banned, your accounts will be banned.
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And why would you be motivated to write a book about such a controversial subject?
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Maybe it has something to do with your history as a leader of women's sport.
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Well, yeah, I mean, I've been an athlete, I've been a coach, and now I'm president of Athletics Alberta, and I'm in charge of sport policy.
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I mean, we all know that there's a difference between males and females in sports.
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I can't really believe it's so controversial, actually.
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Well, I mean, it is extremely controversial, even calling men who transition into women, even calling them men, that's called misgendering now.
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And using the names their parents gave them, that's called dead naming now.
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Those are things, just misgendering a trans athlete is enough to get you banned, in trouble, I don't know, fired from your job sometimes.
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Ah, but there's the catch there, because even in Canada, when they introduced Bill C-16, they explicitly stated that there's a difference between biological sex and gender identity.
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And so I can always express my terms in biological terms, because that's recognized under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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I'm not misgendering because I'm not calling them like a man.
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I can recognize their right to do that in society.
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But in sport, we compete on the basis of biology.
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So for me, the gender identity, gender expression, it's just one of your identities, just like your religion, your politics.
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Well, J.K. Rowling, I think, took the same position you did, and she was practically fired by her own publisher.
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I promise you won't be fired by your publisher at Rebel News.
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Barbara Cain, you have been one of the bravest Canadian columnists.
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Very, very few columnists in Canada even dare talk about this.
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I find it remarkable that you're still allowed to talk about this subject in the National Post, and I give them credit for that.
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I think the first time we got together on this was when Linda published or wanted to publish an op-ed in the post-millennial.
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And I helped her sort of craft it to be a little more punchy and more in the op-ed style.
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And I was just so impressed with what she had to say.
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And at that time, Ezra, you and I had been chatting about some of your books and how well they're doing.
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And I kind of, I said, you know, I think this coach, Linda Blade, first of all, she was the only coach in Canada, still is, I think, who was speaking out on this topic.
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And I thought, it's one thing for a columnist like me, I write on a lot of topics, to speak out, I don't consider it courageous, I just think it's common sense.
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But for someone who is in the athletic world, for someone who is a stakeholder in the athletic world to speak out, it seems to be you need far more courage than I would need.
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And coach Linda Blade was doing it, unsupported by other coaches and other associations.
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She, you know, her Alberta Athletic Association supports her in it.
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So she's in a position where she's not going to be fired because her people in Alberta have common sense.
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And I thought, man, I can't write this book because I don't have the authority or the credibility.
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But here's somebody who's not only a coach, but she's a former fantastic athlete who coaches high performance, Olympic level performance athletes herself, who is, has a PhD in biology, so knows what she's talking about as a scientist.
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And I thought, I can see that she's a quick study, because when we were working together on her op-ed, she learned in about 10 minutes.
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You know, it was, I didn't really have to help her very much.
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And I just said to you, Ezra, I said, I think I have somebody who should be writing a book on this very hot topic.
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And you kindly said, well, if you recommend her, go for it.
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So I said, Linda, you've got to write this book, and I'll be happy to help.
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Well, let me tell you, I have read this manuscript very carefully.
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In fact, I was a small part of the editing process.
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And so I wanted to know exactly what we were getting into, because we're not afraid of controversy at Rebel News, but I wanted to know the tone and the style.
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Let me just tell you what I like about the book.
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You know, there's no, there's no antipathy towards anyone with their own gender issues or identity.
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I, it was more scientific than I thought it would be.
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It was more facts, not just feelings than I thought it would be.
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I thought, well, this is an absolutely compelling case against allowing male to female trans in girls sports.
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But I didn't feel like I would, like at the end of it, like it was mean or an attack.
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You approached it with a certain kindness, Coach Blade.
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Tell me a little bit about your own interactions with trans athletes.
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But, you know, the fact remains that I really want everybody involved in sports.
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Our job is to try to help everybody in and have a good competitive experience.
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If we say there's one category that's restricted to this certain kind of person, and then other people can go into these other categories, that's not excluding anybody.
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That's just recognizing the level playing field.
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So I never felt like it was anything against anybody.
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It was simply to reassert the biology-based, sex-based boundaries.
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So, you know, I was really looking for a way that the politicians and the bureaucrats and sport, everybody, can get on the same page.
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We can recognize and honor and respect everybody's identity.
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The book is called Unsporting, How Transactivism and Science Denial Are Destroying Sport.
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Or we've set up a special website, Unsporting.com.
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Now, Barbara, I know that this topic has felled giants.
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Like, I'm talking about people at the highest heights of celebrity in the sports world, in the literary world.
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I mentioned J.K. Rowling, even Martina Navratilova.
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When I was reading this manuscript, I was in the back of my mind thinking, what would Amazon say?
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Not that we would, you know, cut things out or comply with them.
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I was just thinking, okay, is there going to be a fight?
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There's nothing in this book that's, quote, hateful.
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There's nothing in this book that's misinformation or disinformation.
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And I want to tell you that we are resolute here at Rebel News.
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My own book, China Virus, was censored for about a week by Amazon.
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I don't want this book banned, but I think it will be almost immediately pounced on by people who professionally take offense.
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Well, I think it's, I mean, considering what's happened to other books that have dealt with the whole trans issue at all,
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that's been our fear and almost an expectation, although I don't want to jinx it.
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And it would be a shame because, as you say, we're not angry at anybody.
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You know, we want everybody to live and let live is our motto.
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But, you know, you can't be both inclusive and exclusive at the same time.
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And in this particular, there's only a few realms in which the inclusivity of people who identify as the opposite sex
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becomes exclusionary of women if it's followed through on.
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I've written about male bodies in women's prisons.
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Or in women's private spaces where they fear for their own security and safety.
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Rugby, world rugby, finally put a stop to male players in the women's side because it was becoming a safety issue.
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And so you can't, when rights collide, and sometimes they do, I think you have to look at fairness and safety.
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And if you do, then you have to say, this is where the line is.
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It's not to say that men who identify as women can't compete.
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But the way to fix it is not to spoil it for women, but to make it appropriate for everybody.
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Linda, the idea of women in sport, it's a pretty recent idea, frankly.
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I mean, for the longest time, professional sports was just a male thing.
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I mean, it wasn't until less than a century ago that the Boston Marathon even allowed women to run.
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I mean, there's these iconic photos of police trying to grab a woman who's running the Boston Marathon and pull her out.
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So, I mean, we've lived through the golden age of women in sport.
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And it's almost the only age of women in sport.
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And we all see images of a trans, male to female trans athlete standing, hulking above two biological women or girls on a podium.
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But I know that the upcoming Olympics, there's going to be trans athletes there.
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When it's no longer just one unusual trans athlete who wins and then the girls who are in second and third.
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But when all three of the first, second and third gold, silver, bronze, podia have a trans athlete,
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I think then we'll realize that what we're actually doing is bringing to a close the golden age of women and girls in sport.
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And as a dad, I should tell you, that's an absolutely terrible thing to have sports cut off for women and girls going forward.
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I think that's really where we are right now if this continues.
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We have had a wonderful century of women in sport.
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And it's taken a long time for all of us to climb up.
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You know, for example, when the Olympics first started, maybe they had one or two sports where women could compete in.
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And then by 1928, you know, women, the track and field started up.
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And then by 1984, finally, they let women do the marathon.
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And so we've been slowly accumulating events to reach parity.
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So whatever events the men do, the women have their version of it.
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And so the minute we get to, it's just ironic that the minute that we get to the point in history where we finally reach parity,
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where the same number of athletes, same number of events and sports for men and women,
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all of a sudden, the International Olympic Committee changes the rule and allows male bodies to self-identify into women's sports.
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It's going to ruin a lot of grassroots sports because a lot of our, you know, for boys and girls,
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a lot of our volunteers are parents and women and people who might feel uncomfortable or feel like they're going to be charged with hate
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if they don't go down some path they don't agree with.
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And I think this is very disruptive to the world of sport.
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And I just really worry, especially for young girls, because females really benefit.
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I mean, all kinds of data out there to show that if a girl, high school girls are involved in sport,
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they have higher grades, they're less likely to get pregnant.
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And then once they do graduate, most of the CEOs, like females who get to the CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies,
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It's very important for the self-confidence and understanding how to even lose properly as a woman.
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It's about learning how to compete in the economy, in your job, in your life,
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and to stand up and take responsibility for yourself, and that knowing that when you do that,
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the playing field will be level and fair, but you have to do your part to fight hard.
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But if we take that lesson away from young girls, we don't have those opportunities anymore.
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And I think not only will sport suffer, I think the broader society will suffer,
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I feel we won't have the kind of female leaders and women leaders that we want.
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And it's not only sports that does it, but sports is a way to get those skills and achieve that kind of confidence
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so that women, we can have strong families, we can all move forward.
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And I think it's just a pity and a shame that we're throwing all this away for some nonsense.
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And what you have to have when you have a scheme for developing a rule system, first comes safety, second comes fairness,
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And it has to be like that because we just cannot afford to be, like, even in contact sports,
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having all kinds of injuries with women running into a, you know, 220-pound male.
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Well, and we know this because in other sports, we separate people by weight class.
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I mean, you don't have a super heavyweight boxer picking on a featherweight boxer.
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You could call that inclusion, but it's not entertainment, and it's not fair, and it's not fun for anyone.
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For more than a generation now, political shorthand has said, you've got to win the soccer moms.
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That's a phrase that politicians use for moms who are involved in the community and are out in, you know,
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take their sons or daughters out for sports, and you've got to reach them in a way that's a little bit different than, let's say, their husbands.
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They might care more about, worry about their kids getting involved with drugs, as opposed to maybe the husband might be more concerned about taxes.
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Soccer moms, soccer moms, soccer moms, the gender gap.
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You know, it's shorthand for things like neighborhood crime and needles in parks and schools.
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My point is, for a generation, politicians have at least said they care about soccer moms and what they think.
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And I'm literally thinking about a mom in soccer, which isn't particularly a high-contact sport, although it can be.
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You know, any other sports moms, hockey moms even.
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And this seems like an absolute political attack on mama bears who care about their kids and their community.
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And so my question to you, Barbara, is where are the opportunistic, pragmatic politicians on the left or the right in the liberals or the conservatives or the new Democrats or the Democrats or the Republicans saying, I'm not even getting into the wokeism here.
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I just want to, I just know that 90% of normal, you know, soccer moms are sympathetic to people with different identity issues, but they don't want their daughter smashed in a rugby match with a 220-pound guy.
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I think that when you speak to people and you talk about inclusion, in abstract, if you're talking about the theory or the abstract idea, oh, yes, everybody should be included.
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It's when you start getting down to the nitty-gritty, so then you're fine with, you know, your 13-year-old daughter playing hockey against a 13- or 14-year-old male who's gone through or who's going through puberty and packing on muscle and bone and speed and power.
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Oh, well, you know, I think when it comes down to your own daughter, you recognize immediately.
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And if you see it actually happening in front of you, you have to, I guess you have to have a bit of an imagination.
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I can vividly imagine how awful it would be to having learned to sport a girl as good at what she does and then to be intimidated on the ice or on the field by having a soccer ball, say, slammed into her at twice the speed that any girl can kick it at.
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And that puts you off your game and it puts you off your confidence.
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And it may mean that next year, you know what, I don't think I want to go out for soccer anymore because you already know there's going to be one or maybe two people on the opposing team that you're afraid of, that you're literally, you know, afraid to come into contact with.
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So, uh, as a mom, as a grandmom, I mean, I have a 15 year old granddaughter who's a very serious hockey player and she's terrific as a girl.
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She's a great female hockey player, but now she's 16.
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She couldn't compete against a 16 year old boy hockey player.
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There's just, you know, when she was nine, she was playing against boys and she, but the minute that puberty starts, the girls have to be on their own team and the boys have to be, that's just the way it is.
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And everybody understands the, the, the, the level of, of, um, uh, speed and size and weight and everything else goes up.
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So an aggression on the boys side, it's just, it's a different sport.
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It's a different sport and, uh, pragmatic people, people who are realists, they understand that.
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Uh, so, uh, yeah, I think you're a hundred percent right.
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It's not even sport to see a six foot something guy crush a petite girl.
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And, uh, that's why I think the title of the book, Unsporting is so spot on.
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Well, listen, it's such a pleasure to talk with you two.
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I didn't actually think I would, that's some arrogance on my part, but it was also ignorance.
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I just didn't know all the science and all the history and all the politics and the statistics in here.
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Uh, I really feel like I benefited from this book.
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I promise you that we will lean into the hurricane.
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If one comes, we will not allow this book to be deplatformed.
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but we learned a few things from when China virus was deplatformed.
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And I can promise you too, that God forbid this book is deplatformed in its first distribution mode.
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And I don't want to get into that because God willing, it'll, it'll proceed.
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I would like to speak to the viewers directly and say this.
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You should read it because it's an excellent book.
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It's timely, uh, you're going to learn things you didn't know.
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I, I, I felt like I knew this issue before I learned so much in it, but I think it is absolutely
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I'd even call it a sort of patriotic duty that if coach blade and Barbara Kay write this book
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and we publish it, we've got to support this because they are showing tremendous courage.
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Tell me another Canadian author or even an American author that's written a book like this.
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So we have to show the world that just because the woke karate don't want this book published,
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don't want it read, doesn't mean we're going to comply.
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So if you go to unsporting.com, you can learn a little more about the book, see a little book
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And I hope you do, because if we can get this book to be number one on the amazon.ca list,
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Not only that will be a wonderful signal to Linda and Barbara about how the book is being
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received by viewers, but it'll be a signal to the rest of the cowardly class that they
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In fact, if they show a bit of courage and a bit of intellectual honesty, they might actually
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be rewarded by the public and by book viewers and book readers and book buyers.
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Linda and Barbara, great to talk with you today.
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And I hope you have great success with it and we'll do our best.
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Just great to be with you and thank you for your tremendous support.
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I don't think we could have gotten published by anybody else in Canada.
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Well, I have to say, just as a final thing, what a great pleasure it was to work with Linda.
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I don't think we ever had a tense moment between us.
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Uh, we're both, uh, you know, it was about the book, not about ego, not about, you know,
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uh, so it was just, uh, from beginning to end, it was my COVID project and, uh, made the time
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And I loved every minute of, uh, made a new friend, a great friend.
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And it is my goal that tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of Canadians
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I think the facts in it will change hearts and minds.
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It'll give people ammunition and arguments to fight back, and maybe we'll help move the
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So the book again is called Unsporting, How Transactivism and Science Denial are Destroying
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Bruce writes, fact checkers only became a thing when the truth started getting out.
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Yeah, I think it, it became a thing when leftist media or corporate media or establishment media
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started trying to disparage and discredit their own competitors.
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So often fact checks are for rival journalists, not even politicians.
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Tame thing writes, fact checkers to keep the facts in check, not check for what's factual.
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If there's a fact that's wrong, I think that's actually pretty important.
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But I'd say 95% of what calls itself a fact check these days is actually an opinion check.
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Mark writes, I like what the guest said at the end.
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Yeah, once upon a time, these tech companies, when they were just testing the limits, what
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Like they would start with the, they would be so careful, so cautious, and only take on
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I hope you have a chance to pick up our book, unsporting.com.
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I learned a lot from it, which I didn't honestly expect.
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I thought it was very well briefed in trans politics.
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At least by the standards of this book, I learned a lot.
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Linda Blade is a bit of an expert, and I enjoyed that part of it, but also get it because
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I think Rebel News is the only place in Canada that would publish a book like this.
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So I want to show the rest of the world that it's okay, that in fact, you might even have
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a bestseller on your hands if you take a stand on something.
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So it's morally important to me that this book do well and be seen to do well.
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I want it to go up the bestseller charts so we can say to the world, look, if you actually
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,