Classically Abby - July 06, 2021


Why The HATE Comments Don't Bother Me! 🤷 (and why you should be open about being conservative)


Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

196.67613

Word count

1,570

Sentence count

89

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Toxicity

3

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In this video, I talk about why you should be more open about your views and why it would be good to be more honest about them. I also talk about the benefits of being open about them and why they are better than hiding them.

Transcript

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Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 The reason I say this is because we live in the age of cancel culture.
00:00:04.080 Now, what does cancel culture do?
00:00:06.020 It tries to discover things about you, and surprise, you are now on the front page.
00:00:11.220 People have revealed the truth.
00:00:13.080 You can't be canceled in the same way if you are the one canceling yourself, basically.
00:00:24.000 Hello, Classic Crew, and welcome to today's video
00:00:27.060 where we're going to be talking about why your hate comments don't bother me.
00:00:31.940 A lot of the time people will ask me how I can manage to continue my channel
00:00:37.280 when I get so much hate in the comments.
00:00:39.540 And to be honest, the comments don't really bother me.
00:00:43.220 I don't really mind, and I want to explain why.
00:00:46.900 Why don't they matter to me?
00:00:48.920 I've actually got a few reasons, and I've got some reasons
00:00:51.760 why it would be good for you to be more open about your conservative views.
00:00:55.560 But before we get into today's video, make sure you're subscribed to my channel
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00:01:03.200 And make sure to head over to my Substack newsletter
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00:01:11.520 So now, let's get into today's video.
00:01:13.940 So being open about being conservative is not always the easiest thing
00:01:17.840 because people are not going to like that you have taken this stance.
00:01:22.100 But I think it's better for you to actually be open about your views.
00:01:27.360 Now, the reason I say this is because we live in the age of cancel culture.
00:01:31.500 Now, what does cancel culture do?
00:01:33.480 It tries to discover things about you, and surprise, you are now on the front page.
00:01:38.680 People have revealed the truth.
00:01:40.580 You can't be canceled in the same way if you are the one canceling yourself, basically.
00:01:46.320 If you are the one who puts out everything about you.
00:01:49.980 So if you are conservative, and if you're constantly trying to lie or hide about your views,
00:01:57.780 you know what's going to happen is that someone's going to find out at some point,
00:02:02.040 and then they're going to splash it across the news or just tell your office mates,
00:02:07.040 and you're going to get canceled.
00:02:08.920 But if you're the one who puts out the information willingly,
00:02:12.320 no one can cancel you because you already said it.
00:02:15.400 No one can surprise you.
00:02:16.800 And on top of that, it will make you happier when you've actually said what you believe,
00:02:22.920 because guess what?
00:02:23.900 You're going to find that there are other people who agree with you
00:02:27.020 who wouldn't necessarily have come and talked to you about it beforehand.
00:02:30.340 So all of a sudden, you've got another support system that can actually support you and your views.
00:02:37.000 Now, why shouldn't you hide your views?
00:02:39.360 Okay, well, here's why.
00:02:40.520 Because when you're quiet about your views for long enough,
00:02:43.880 and you're surrounded by people who disagree with you,
00:02:46.520 you're going to find that you're starting to agree with them.
00:02:49.640 If you're constantly playing the role of a leftist,
00:02:52.360 your brain can't mesh these two things.
00:02:55.280 It can't say, okay, well, she believes one thing when she's alone,
00:02:59.720 but she believes something entirely different when she's with the people she works with,
00:03:04.120 for example, or her friends.
00:03:05.940 You're going to end up being influenced by the people you're around,
00:03:09.360 and you're going to find that unless you're being incredibly diligent,
00:03:12.340 you're not going to be informing yourself on the reasons for why leftist ideology is a poison.
00:03:16.700 You're going to start seeing that you are falling into it because you're hearing it all the time.
00:03:22.860 And I know this from experience.
00:03:24.820 If you are open, and if you are honest about your views,
00:03:28.420 then you're going to have to challenge yourself
00:03:30.480 to be able to respond to those leftist ideologies and adverse positions
00:03:35.140 because you're going to have to defend them.
00:03:38.340 And that's a good thing.
00:03:39.720 But if you're constantly lying, you're constantly hiding,
00:03:42.540 you're constantly just nodding your head, which I've done,
00:03:46.240 you will find that you are influenced to change your mind,
00:03:50.380 not from a place of being convinced,
00:03:52.320 but from a place of having said yes too many times
00:03:56.140 and agreed too many times.
00:03:59.240 And that's not a positive thing.
00:04:00.880 So how does this come into the hate comments?
00:04:03.320 How does this come into why the comments don't bother me?
00:04:06.500 Well, if you have already said what you believe,
00:04:09.960 then whatever anyone says in the comments is not going to be a surprise.
00:04:13.980 It's going to be either true or false.
00:04:16.300 And if you can see what's true and what's false,
00:04:19.840 then you will not be hurt by the things that are false.
00:04:22.400 And the things that are true, you already put out there.
00:04:25.000 You are the one who said them.
00:04:26.720 So if somebody says something to me like, 0.97
00:04:28.400 you're a Nazi or you're a white supremacist, 0.72
00:04:31.300 I can look at that and say, well, that's just simply not true. 0.99
00:04:34.280 If I see something like, oh, you're a conservative,
00:04:37.520 so you must believe that women should be modest.
00:04:39.840 Well, that is true.
00:04:40.760 I think that women should be modest. 1.00
00:04:42.460 And I can pick those two things apart.
00:04:44.700 And if you want to say it in a mean way, okay,
00:04:47.060 but I can filter out how you said something and see what you said.
00:04:50.760 And if what you said is true, that's fine.
00:04:53.040 And if what you said is false, well, that's just not true.
00:04:55.520 So who cares?
00:04:56.640 The other part of this is that the people who leave mean comments
00:04:59.520 are too sad not to leave comments.
00:05:02.060 They've got enough time on their hands.
00:05:04.000 They have nothing better to do.
00:05:06.480 And you are someone that they actively choose to follow.
00:05:10.180 I have a few people who actively are subscribed to my notifications
00:05:14.740 and will be the first ones to comment on my videos.
00:05:17.540 And they are people who hate me.
00:05:20.400 Well, if you hate me, why are you subscribed
00:05:22.180 and have notifications on for my videos?
00:05:24.500 You can say mean things, sure,
00:05:26.060 but you're the one who's tuning in every time I put up a new video.
00:05:29.400 And when you have the facts to back up what you think
00:05:32.420 and what you believe and you're solid,
00:05:34.760 then it doesn't matter what anyone says
00:05:37.300 because you know what's right.
00:05:39.280 You know the truth.
00:05:40.500 You have done your research.
00:05:43.220 And that is going to make any bad comments, mean comments, just not matter.
00:05:48.920 And I think part of it is also that you don't have to give commenters the benefit of the doubt.
00:05:54.280 Commenters aren't trying to be nice to you
00:05:57.180 and then just accidentally being mean.
00:06:00.140 And they're not trying to say something true to you. 0.86
00:06:03.980 Commenters who say mean things, trolls,
00:06:07.160 they're just doing it to be mean.
00:06:09.040 And once you realize that that's their goal,
00:06:12.340 then you can have more of a thick skin.
00:06:14.140 And you don't have to be nice to them
00:06:16.160 because they're not trying to be nice to you.
00:06:18.440 Now, I'm not saying that you should get into a fight with them online.
00:06:20.720 I never respond to my mean commenters because there's no point.
00:06:23.840 But I mean, you in your mind don't have to say,
00:06:26.860 oh, well, maybe they're trying to be nice and they're saying something mean
00:06:30.500 or maybe they actually believe what they're saying.
00:06:32.940 They don't.
00:06:33.860 They don't believe that.
00:06:35.120 If they believed that, then they wouldn't be on your page.
00:06:37.400 They'd be doing something else with their lives.
00:06:39.280 So this is why the mean comments don't bother me.
00:06:41.340 For all of the reasons I just said,
00:06:43.260 that is why the mean comments don't bother me.
00:06:45.240 And that is why I think you should consider being more open
00:06:48.220 about your conservative views.
00:06:49.660 Now, if you had asked me this two years ago,
00:06:51.900 I would not necessarily have said this.
00:06:53.960 I think I said in a video a while back
00:06:56.000 that depending on the situation,
00:06:57.760 you shouldn't be open and honest.
00:06:59.920 And yes, it's very situational, right?
00:07:02.760 You don't want to, like, run into your office
00:07:04.980 where no one talks about politics
00:07:06.480 and start spewing your conservative views.
00:07:08.480 I mean, that's just inappropriate.
00:07:10.740 But there are times where it actually is appropriate
00:07:14.260 for you to be open and honest
00:07:15.860 because at the end of the day,
00:07:17.740 you're the one who has to live your life.
00:07:19.700 And if you're living your life in fear
00:07:21.800 and constantly trying to hide the truth about where you stand,
00:07:26.740 you're going to either be found out
00:07:28.460 or end up just flipping
00:07:29.980 because you've been agreeing with the other side so long in public.
00:07:33.980 So that is my video today.
00:07:35.760 I hope you guys enjoyed it.
00:07:37.040 I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments.
00:07:38.800 Thank you so much for watching
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00:07:54.780 Thank you so much for watching
00:07:55.760 and I'll see you guys in my next video.
00:07:58.000 Bye!
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