In this episode, we talk about the Sweet Baby Inc. scandal, the "gategate" controversy, and the Texas sex offender registry. We also talk about why we should stop labeling Black people as white and start counting them as black and Hispanic.
00:09:23.680And people are like, oh, you can't just flip the things.
00:09:27.020You can't be like, I had a nightmare that I was a black male gamer.
00:09:30.300And people are like, oh, you can't equivalent those two things.
00:09:33.840And it's like, you know, the problem with racism is that it dehumanizes groups of people.
00:09:40.320You are dehumanizing groups of people.
00:09:42.840And the fact that you feel safe dehumanizing a group of people shows you which group has power.
00:09:48.380Racism as a problem was never specific to black people.
00:09:54.020It's not like when we're like, oh, slavery was bad.
00:09:57.880We're like, yeah, but it would have been okay if it was white people.
00:10:00.480It is a group in power lording that power over a group without power and dehumanizing the group that has less power.
00:10:10.120And there is no better way to show which group has power than which group you're not allowed to criticize.
00:10:16.340This is just something that's transparently obvious.
00:10:19.480Through what they're doing, they are showing that that is their groups that have power over other groups.
00:10:26.200And I should note here, when I talk about black people, people are like, well, black people are disempowered.
00:10:31.760Well, they don't mean black people, black people.
00:10:35.220They don't mean diverse people, diverse people.
00:10:37.480They don't mean trans people, trans people.
00:10:40.020By that, what I mean is they mean black people only insofar as black people follow what they're doing.
00:10:45.660And this is why they like remove somebody's black card when somebody, when a black person is like, oh, I feel really uncomfortable with what you guys are doing.
00:10:52.700And they go, oh, well, then you're not officially black anymore.
00:11:19.080They are not about, when they say we're about protecting black people or trans people or women, they don't mean people with dark colored skin.
00:11:27.760They mean people who I agree with them.
00:11:30.580And this is how they've also transformed the word racism to no longer mean they're like, oh, you know, saying you have black friends doesn't mean you're not a racist.
00:11:41.800Like, if you don't see black people as different from white people, and you associate with black people as equals, then you are not a racist in any meaningful sense of the term racist.
00:11:53.120What they mean is they are trying to redefine racist as seeing race relations through a leftist ideology.
00:11:59.360And if you don't, then you are a racist.
00:12:01.680By far leftist, minority status is not conferred by literally being a minority.
00:12:08.440It is conferred by the way a person thinks and acts.
00:12:13.940And if you didn't happen to be lucky enough to be born a minority within a leftist community, well, that was the core innovation of all of these new genders and everything like that.
00:12:24.780You can just start identifying as non-binary or something, you know, as Simone and I have pointed out, by leftist terminology, because neither of us cares what our gender is at any sort of deep emotional level, we would be considered agender, which is a form of genderqueer, which is a form of trans.
00:12:38.580We would be considered trans within leftist ideology.
00:12:40.860They have broadened these minority definitions so much that anyone can fall under them so long as they ideologically identify as leftist.
00:12:50.300The same way that Simone and I couldn't claim any of the privileges that trans people get within leftist communities, because we don't hold the ideology of the leftist community.
00:12:59.940But if we wanted to, yeah, we if we wanted to completely submit ourselves to the far left cult, we could get those benefits.
00:13:08.120And you're like, no, no, no, leftists, they do really care about the plight of like brown and black people.
00:13:13.580And it's like, OK, well, what about what's going on in Darfur right now?
00:13:17.220You know, there's a genocide going on.
00:13:21.180Oh, you didn't even know about it, but you knew about the situation in Israel.
00:13:24.660Why do you know about the situation in Israel and not Darfur?
00:13:28.220Is it because in one case it allows them to exercise anti-Semitism and in the other case it doesn't?
00:13:34.940In the other case, it's black on black people and they just don't care about black on black violence in the same way they don't in the U.S.?
00:13:41.240What about what's going on in Haiti right now?
00:13:43.140If you did know about that, are leftists doing anything about it?
00:13:47.120No, they're sure putting up an awful big stink about what's going on in Israel.
00:13:51.340Why is what's going on in Israel important, but what's going on in Haiti isn't important and what's going on in Darfur isn't important?
00:13:57.580Because if they actually cared about black victims, all three incidents would be the same in their eyes.
00:14:09.240They care how they can use these tragedies to their political ends and to enforce their will on other groups.
00:14:16.400But I also think this is so indicative of what someone was highlighting to us at that conference we were speaking at the other weekend where they were like,
00:14:23.140I think you don't understand the sheer extent to which the people who work in marketing and who work at these big corporations are completely divorced from the reality of their actual consumers.
00:14:35.360Like, here's this woman who's like, oh, the concept of my primary consumer, the target audiences of the company that I work for, is disgusting to me.
00:15:05.600She knows that they don't like the ideas that she's inserting into games, but they need to do it to fix these people, is the way that she sees it.
00:15:31.620She has spoken on this before, and we know exactly why they're hiring her.
00:15:35.300She says what you need to do is if you are woke within a company, you know, we've described wokeness as like an infection.
00:15:40.460If you go to our video, you know, the anatomy of the urban monoculture.
00:15:43.140Is she calls for all the woke people in a company to, like, take the marketing department aside and tell them what's going to happen to them if they don't hire consultants like her.
00:15:52.980I.e., they will secretly flame the marketing department.
00:15:57.080Basically terrorize, threaten the marketing department.
00:15:59.360If you're a creative working in AAA, which I did for many, many years, put this stuff up to your higher-ups.
00:16:06.280And if they don't see the value in what you're asking for when you ask for consultants, when you ask for research, go have a coffee with your marketing team and just terrify them with the possibility of what's going to happen if they don't give you what you want.
00:16:18.800So, nice, nice marketing, nice online reputation you got there.
00:16:23.000It'd be a shame if something happened to you.
00:16:24.140And she means this on the personal level, not at the company, but, like, they will personally start attacking the marketing departments of these companies.
00:16:32.840And they've shown, and this is actually how this all blew up originally.
00:16:36.940I can't remember, these are the people who are supposed to be fighting for inclusivity.
00:16:40.400And she's saying things like, I hate men.
00:16:53.640And, again, if you wonder which group has power, if they're like, oh, it's okay to make fun of a group that's out of power.
00:17:00.860Definitionally, the group you can't make fun of is the group with power.
00:17:06.820Definitionally, the group you can make fun of without punishment is a group that is disempowered.
00:17:12.420I'm sorry, but gamers, the basement dwelling unemployed who have the most time to play games, are the most powerful people in the world, Malcolm, because 4chan runs everything.
00:18:05.080Somebody from this company found this group and decided they were going to try to get everyone on it who had this account on Steam shut down.
00:18:14.400Now, keep in mind, you know on Steam, like, I buy games on Steam.
00:18:17.380Like, they're basically saying we want to take away all the games from everybody who's involved in these communities.
00:18:23.600And they wanted to do it through using—
00:18:25.920It's like taking away your Amazon account, functionally.
00:18:29.360But much bigger than that, because you still own all the stuff you bought on Amazon.
00:20:02.340It's like, if it's what the customers want, then why are they saying threaten marketing departments with mass cancellation of people who don't even play video games?
00:20:10.960They know it's not what the customers want.
00:20:13.020That's why they're saying it's like eating your vegetables.
00:20:15.380Because they know it's not what the customers want.
00:21:46.280And it's something that you and I, you know, really feel is that what we should be fighting for is to give everyone a chance to voice their opinions.
00:21:51.800You know, that is what we want is an information-free economy.
00:22:44.200Well, and something you talked about that I thought was really interesting is the difference between marketing departments' demographics and society.
00:23:34.620I mean, like, I would say more conservative people in general don't choose to go to a university and do not choose to get marketing degrees.
00:24:10.400They were studying ideological conformity to the urban monoculture.
00:24:14.760They were studying what, you know, changed their relative status in that culture.
00:24:20.020Well, I feel like many people in marketing, especially those who study it,
00:24:24.720and so I think you're going to get this at larger organizations where people are being hired by HR professionals based on their credentials and not on outcomes.