Get Off My Lawn - Gavin McInnes - November 30, 2018


Get Off My Lawn Podcast #98 | Being permanently suspended from Twitter is good for your mental health


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On this episode of Thick & Thin I talk about what it's like to be a grown-up dad and how it's different than being a kid in a daycare center. I also talk about how a grown up dad would react to Michael Cohen s revelation that Trump was planning to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. And I talk a little bit about my own dad growing up in the 70s and early 80s and how he would have reacted to the news of the day. I also discuss the fact that a grownup dad would have no idea that his dad was gay. And finally, I give my thoughts on the Trump Tower conspiracy theory and why I think it's a good idea to have a statue of a woman in New York City that has a lot of statues of women in it. I don't know what else to say, it's just what you need to hear to get the full picture of what's going on in the world of the world's most powerful man in the real estate industry and why it's good to be an adult in the 21st century. Enjoy, and tweet me what you think! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - My dad would never have gone to a bar in his 20s or 30s. 4:30 - What would your dad do when he was a kid? 6:40 - What's the difference between a dad and a kid who grew up in a working class family? 8:15 - How a dad should be? 9:00 | My dad grew up? 11:20 - How gay is your dad? 12:30 | How gay? 15:00 16:20 | What would a dad do? 17:40 | What's a dad look like? 18:15 | When would your Dad come across an article like that? 19:40 22:30 21:00 Is your dad come across a piece of news article? 26:00 Can you believe this shit? 27:10 | What s going on here? 29:00 Are you gay? 32: What s your dad's reaction to this story? 32:00 What sis your dad s reaction to something? 33: What would you think of this? 35:00 Do you know how gay this whole thing is? 36:00 + 33:10 37:20 39:00

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00:00:01.000 Being permanently suspended from Twitter is good for your mental health.
00:00:06.000 One thing I've learned from it all is that I'm a 48 year old and I'm reading the musings and missives of children.
00:00:16.000 Like all these, you know, female comedy writers who got affirmative action to some job at SNL or something and you're reading their opinions of Trump.
00:00:25.000 That's not normal.
00:00:27.000 A dad, you think of your dad, right?
00:00:28.000 He'd be with people he worked with, he'd have lunch with a client or something, and then he'd go, maybe on the way home, he'd stop by the pub, if he had no men's clubs, and have a drink with maybe some blue-collar guys or guys that didn't exactly have his same job.
00:00:44.000 I'm talking about my dad, which, who was middle class, although he grew up working class.
00:00:49.000 So, the biggest variance you'd have wouldn't even be male-female.
00:00:52.000 It would be middle class, working class.
00:00:55.000 Like a working class guy might, on his way home, go to a pub and then there's some suit there and then they talk for a little bit.
00:01:02.000 So that was your range.
00:01:03.000 And same age.
00:01:04.000 It would be maybe 35.
00:01:06.000 You wouldn't really go by 35 if you were my age.
00:01:08.000 And you can go up, really, you can go up to infinity at my age, right?
00:01:11.000 I had beers with a 90 year old the other day.
00:01:15.000 And that's a normal, healthy range.
00:01:17.000 He wouldn't be sitting in a room of gaggling babysitters going, that's bullshit.
00:01:22.000 Or comedians, for that matter.
00:01:24.000 You know, these beta male drama club kids who grew up, you know, doing musicals.
00:01:33.000 Your dad would never talk to them.
00:01:35.000 But Twitter, that's the demographic.
00:01:37.000 And even the stories that they choose
00:01:40.000 Have this incredible bias.
00:01:42.000 And that's not normal for a dad.
00:01:45.000 So, I was basically hanging out at a daycare for the past, I don't know what it's been, six years?
00:01:50.000 And now that I'm... I'm out, I'm having more intellectual thoughts.
00:01:55.000 And more grown-up thoughts.
00:01:57.000 More thoughts that I was supposed to be having instead of going, no, that's wrong.
00:02:01.000 No, that's not true.
00:02:02.000 No, no.
00:02:02.000 No.
00:02:03.000 Oh, God.
00:02:04.000 No.
00:02:04.000 It was sort of like being a teacher in a special ed class.
00:02:07.000 Where you're just constantly...
00:02:09.000 Checking people's homework and noticing their mistakes.
00:02:13.000 For example, let me just scroll through it here.
00:02:16.000 I still have my friend's phone and I can go through it.
00:02:19.000 So, men are now marrying up.
00:02:20.000 New York Daily News.
00:02:24.000 The city has few statues of women.
00:02:26.000 Here comes Shirley Chisholm. 1.00
00:02:28.000 When would your dad come across an article like that?
00:02:31.000 And this is just the moments I'm going through.
00:02:33.000 New York Daily News.
00:02:34.000 Again, incredibly biased.
00:02:35.000 There's like four New York Daily News.
00:02:37.000 These are the popular articles.
00:02:38.000 New York Daily News, which is like the New York Post, but for lefties.
00:02:41.000 So basically for teachers, moms, teachers.
00:02:44.000 New York Daily News, New York Times, New York Post.
00:02:47.000 Oh, we got a Post.
00:02:48.000 And then back to New York Times.
00:02:51.000 And then the truth out.
00:02:52.000 Michael Cohen tears down Trump's tower of Russia lies.
00:03:01.000 Do you know how gay this whole thing is? 1.00
00:03:03.000 See, this is what a grown-up knows.
00:03:04.000 A grown-up dad, who's with his other dad friends, goes, can you believe this shit about Michael Cohen?
00:03:09.000 They think they've got a smoking gun here.
00:03:12.000 Let me just tell you youngsters what the Michael Cohen story is.
00:03:15.000 Trump was going to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
00:03:21.000 He builds them all over the world.
00:03:23.000 I just passed one the other day out in the burbs.
00:03:26.000 It's perfectly normal.
00:03:28.000 They're everywhere.
00:03:29.000 It's a very successful real estate mogul, which is why people elected him.
00:03:32.000 Any hizzles.
00:03:35.000 I think they sort of went, let's just forget it.
00:03:37.000 This is getting too complex.
00:03:38.000 The optics are weird.
00:03:39.000 Let's not, let's not build a thing here.
00:03:42.000 And Michael Cohen said, I think we can that around June 2016.
00:03:50.000 And then later they go, and the FBI does this all the time.
00:03:55.000 They ask you about sketchy details.
00:03:57.000 You get it wrong.
00:03:58.000 And then they go, you lied to us.
00:04:01.000 So they go, it was January.
00:04:04.000 You decided that they're abandoning the Trump Tower thing.
00:04:06.000 By the way, building a Trump Tower in Moscow is not remotely illegal.
00:04:09.000 Yeah, but there's so much money for Putin in it.
00:04:11.000 Yeah, Putin needs money.
00:04:14.000 If there's one thing Russian oligarchs need, it's another billion dollars.
00:04:18.000 So they come back and they go, um, no, it's January.
00:04:23.000 You said June.
00:04:24.000 Oh yeah, I did.
00:04:25.000 So you lied to us.
00:04:27.000 Uh, I mean, I guess technically, yeah.
00:04:30.000 Okay, then you're going to jail.
00:04:34.000 Everyone lies to Congress, to the FBI.
00:04:37.000 It's called making- and those are willful lies that everyone does.
00:04:41.000 There's been like six people in the past 60 years that have been prosecuted for this.
00:04:46.000 And it happens on a daily basis.
00:04:48.000 But the detail thing is a different story.
00:04:51.000 That's a-
00:04:52.000 A trick that lots of people do in Authority, and there's, who is this guy?
00:04:57.000 West Point?
00:04:58.000 I had him on my show.
00:05:00.000 Trent Cromartie, and he's the director of the Title IX Equity Project for SAVE, Stop Abusive and Violent Environments.
00:05:06.000 It's like a MEN2 kind of a thing.
00:05:10.000 Um, not that they get molested, but that they get falsely accused.
00:05:13.000 So, the way he got in trouble at West Point is he goes in there, and, uh, they investigate, they say, this woman says you sexually assaulted her, you were making out with her against her will, he goes, that's not true, I have evidence, blah, blah, blah.
00:05:23.000 We went to this bar on June 6th, and we were there with these people, and they saw me, and they saw us making out, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:05:28.000 I don't know the exact details on what his proof was, but he was exonerated.
00:05:31.000 Then he goes back the next day, and he goes, oh wait, sorry, I said June 6th, I meant June 10th.
00:05:36.000 June 10th.
00:05:38.000 And they go, oh, so you lied.
00:05:41.000 You lied to us.
00:05:43.000 Well, no, not really.
00:05:45.000 Well, you made a false statement about this sexual assault.
00:05:50.000 Uh, I guess, yeah, you're out.
00:05:52.000 He's done.
00:05:53.000 You're no longer at West Point.
00:05:56.000 So now he's touring with Betsy DeVos saying, uh, we need to fucking take it easy here.
00:06:01.000 So anyway, that's the same thing with Michael Cohen.
00:06:04.000 He got a date wrong.
00:06:05.000 And the left is just so excited about this scalp they got.
00:06:08.000 And you go, it's not a scalp, dudes.
00:06:11.000 And that level of news I shouldn't be exposed to.
00:06:14.000 I shouldn't be exposed to the New York Daily News.
00:06:17.000 I mean, oh my god, it's like 80% New York Daily News in the popular articles.
00:06:23.000 What the hay?
00:06:26.000 Maybe I was clicking the wrong button.
00:06:29.000 But then how world leaders met Saudi Crown Prince in the wake of Khashoggi killing.
00:06:33.000 I didn't want to get all newsy on this.
00:06:35.000 So let me go through the what's happening.
00:06:38.000 It's just boring news stories.
00:06:39.000 And then you go to stand up comedians, right?
00:06:45.000 Jerry Seinfeld clarifies his PC culture comments on Ricky Gervais.
00:06:49.000 Oh good, so he's backpedaling on saying that political correctness is a problem.
00:06:54.000 Gary Goleman is saying he's doing something.
00:06:56.000 We got some podcast announcements.
00:06:58.000 Oh, there's an actual joke.
00:07:02.000 Kumal Nanji, very legal and very cool.
00:07:05.000 I guess he's talking about the indictment there.
00:07:08.000 I don't know why he's talking about that.
00:07:09.000 That's not funny.
00:07:12.000 How long until someone runs on the platform of food stamps for all?
00:07:15.000 If healthcare is a right, is food a right?
00:07:17.000 That's Thomas Massey, he's a congressman.
00:07:20.000 So the comedians take, and this is exactly what I'm talking about, this was just random, I just pulled it up.
00:07:24.000 You got me, congressman.
00:07:25.000 I do in fact think that all Americans in the wealthiest nation on earth deserve to have food.
00:07:31.000 You have exposed the absurdity of the progressive platform, anti-starvation, brilliantly argued.
00:07:37.000 And that, of course, is a comedian named Ken Tremendous that I've never heard of, but he's got a blue checkmark and lots of followers.
00:07:45.000 Food is not a right, by the way.
00:07:49.000 We don't have... We don't have... I think people don't understand what rights are.
00:07:53.000 Free speech was a right in America.
00:07:56.000 That's been taken away.
00:07:57.000 And this sort of myth that everyone's starving... I met this guy
00:08:01.000 Uh, in Times Square, I was doing my MOS, and he's doing push-ups to stop bullying, and his contention is that, um, that kids in school bully because they're hungry, and if they had free lunch programs, or free breakfast programs, sometimes that's the only meal they get.
00:08:15.000 And I think, yeah, sometimes it is the only meal I get, because their mom is too lazy to make them breakfast.
00:08:21.000 I did an article about this on Tackymag.
00:08:23.000 Lunch is $1.78 a day.
00:08:23.000 Bums can squander up $10 a day.
00:08:24.000 Uh,
00:08:30.000 We got bigger problems than your hungry son.
00:08:33.000 We got your lazy mom. 1.00
00:08:39.000 What else do we got here?
00:08:40.000 Oh, this is always rough.
00:08:42.000 Actors and actresses.
00:08:43.000 Mark Ruffalo is one of the worst.
00:08:45.000 He was the guy who was waving the giant flag before the elections going, this is me saying goodbye to the patriarchy.
00:08:52.000 You've got to check out Mark Ruffalo's Twitter feed if you really want to punish yourself.
00:08:55.000 He has things like,
00:08:56.000 New York, let's work together and help.
00:08:59.000 I lost my backpack in a cab and I have no way of finding it.
00:09:04.000 It's blue and he has a picture of it from like the catalog.
00:09:07.000 He goes, let's work together, New York.
00:09:09.000 Yeah, New Yorkers, we can do this together.
00:09:12.000 Let's find Mark Ruffalo's backpack.
00:09:15.000 This is the guy that ended fracking in upstate New York, where I used to live near him.
00:09:20.000 And there's no money there.
00:09:22.000 There's no nothing.
00:09:23.000 And there hasn't been for a long time in that part of the Catskills.
00:09:26.000 When you go to dig a hole, like if I was going to plant a tree, I would sometimes not even bring a shovel.
00:09:31.000 It's so rocky there that I'd bring a pickaxe, lift the rocks out, and the little bit of dirt I'd have I could just pick up with my hands.
00:09:38.000 So, there's nothing but rock.
00:09:40.000 There's not really a lumber industry.
00:09:42.000 It's so impoverished up where he is that when a corrections officer walks into a restaurant, he's like a rapper.
00:09:49.000 Like, people wait on him hand and foot, and there's people being super polite, and, you know, he gets his food before everyone else, and... Because he's one of the only jobs there.
00:09:57.000 That's one of the only money sources.
00:09:58.000 They're the max of the area.
00:10:01.000 There's two jobs up there.
00:10:02.000 Crime and corrections officer.
00:10:04.000 And there's fucking opioids!
00:10:07.000 I saw a dead body on the side of the road.
00:10:10.000 And I said to a cop up there, we were talking about it, this is years and years ago when the opioid crisis was only beginning.
00:10:15.000 I said to a cop up there, what kind of fucking moron drags a body from his house to the side of the road?
00:10:21.000 And he goes, actually it's pretty effective.
00:10:25.000 You can avoid a lot of charges that way.
00:10:26.000 You can say that he fell and it's kind of a smart thing to do.
00:10:31.000 If you're looking to avoid some serious charges.
00:10:35.000 So that's the environment there.
00:10:37.000 And then Mark Ruffalo's takeaway is, we don't want to risk poisoning the water.
00:10:41.000 Even though 90% of our gas comes from fracking all over America.
00:10:47.000 But he's worried about his water supply.
00:10:49.000 So to make sure his water supply is 101% guaranteed, he punishes all these poor people in that area and says, no, you can't have an industry up here.
00:10:57.000 You can't have fracking.
00:10:58.000 Back to opioids, kids.
00:11:00.000 Anyway, that's Mark Ruffalo.
00:11:01.000 But so I'm just telling you how vapid Twitter is and what a waste of time I was.
00:11:08.000 It was in that poisonous hole.
00:11:10.000 And now that all the conservatives are gone and all the fun people like me and Milo, it is particularly egregious.
00:11:15.000 And there's all these rules out now, like you can't compliment Proud Boys, for example, or I think Milo, or that gets shut down.
00:11:23.000 So even if you say, I'm a liberal, but I don't know, they should get a break, you're shut down.
00:11:27.000 So now the echo chamber is quadruplified.
00:11:33.000 And you end up with a lot of weird anti-Semitism, like Laura Loomer yesterday.
00:11:37.000 She handcuffed herself to the front of the building and yes, it was bombastic and a little bit clumsy at times, but at least she's out there doing something.
00:11:48.000 What are you doing?
00:11:49.000 So much of Twitter is people literally sitting on their asses telling other people that they're a joke.
00:11:57.000 The more, the less you accomplish, the more you trivialize others' accomplishments.
00:12:04.000 And, through the silliness of it all, it was pretty effective.
00:12:08.000 She was the number one story on Twitter, and then the number two story on world Twitter.
00:12:11.000 So, number one story in America, in all of Twitter, on a platform she's banned on. 0.95
00:12:15.000 And her contention was, uh, this is kind of anti-Semitic, the way you let Hamas on, and you let, um, Farrakhan on, and you censor Jews when they seem a little grumpy about Islam.
00:12:31.000 And, um, boy, this app's getting real political.
00:12:35.000 And then, above her head, one of Sabo's guys built this big sign that said, that had her last two tweets, and it said, not banned for hate speech.
00:12:45.000 Banned for hate speech.
00:12:46.000 And the not banned, by the way, he cut off the top of his finger when he was putting this up, because they tried to open the door, and then he tried to shove the door, and then they slammed it shut, and his finger was in there.
00:12:55.000 So the tip of his finger is hanging by a thread.
00:12:56.000 He might lose it.
00:12:59.000 So anyway, he puts up this billboard, and it's two tweets, and the first tweet was Farrakhan, and it said, I'm not an anti-Semite, I'm an anti-termite.
00:13:08.000 Okay?
00:13:09.000 What do you want to do to termites?
00:13:10.000 What's the... When someone finds out that they have termites, what's the first thing they want to do?
00:13:15.000 They want to wipe them out.
00:13:17.000 And then we have...
00:13:20.000 Laura Loomer's last tweet, which was, isn't it ironic how the Twitter moment used to celebrate quote-unquote women LGBT and minorities is a picture of Ilan Omar?
00:13:31.000 Ilan is a pro-sharia.
00:13:33.000 Ilan is pro-Sharia.
00:13:33.000 Sorry.
00:13:34.000 Ilan is pro-female genital mutilation.
00:13:37.000 Under Sharia, homosexuals are oppressed and killed.
00:13:40.000 Women are abused and forced to wear the hijab.
00:13:43.000 Ilan is anti-Jewish.
00:13:45.000 So she said all that.
00:13:46.000 And you could argue, well, she's just pro-Sharia.
00:13:50.000 She never said she's anti-Jewish.
00:13:52.000 But Laura's contention would be, no, no.
00:13:54.000 Sharia itself is anti-Jewish.
00:13:55.000 It's so weird when you see these Muslims at women's marches with pro-choice signs. 1.00
00:14:00.000 You can't have a hijab on and be pro-choice. 1.00
00:14:03.000 That's not the religion.
00:14:12.000 That's not how it works.
00:14:14.000 You might as well be a Hasidic Jew and carrying a big sign that says, I like cheating on my wife. 1.00
00:14:21.000 That goes out of the religion's rules.
00:14:24.000 Isn't it amazing, by the way, that Ilhan Omar won, and she's the first Muslim in Congress or something, and they go, who'd she lose to?
00:14:33.000 Oh, another Muslim, Keith Ellison, who pictured himself carrying the Antifa handbook, smiling, and beat the crap, allegedly, out of his girlfriend. 0.94
00:14:45.000 But that didn't go anywhere, by the way, because he's DNC and it wasn't a juicy story.
00:14:49.000 That wouldn't make it to the Twitter moments.
00:14:52.000 But the only way that that woman was up against probably the worst candidate, you could have an anarchist wife-beater. 1.00
00:15:03.000 And I think she won because she's Somalian and they have, what, 80,000 Somalians in Michigan?
00:15:10.000 Anyway, so I thought that was an interesting juxtaposition.
00:15:13.000 And people can laugh at her, but it became the number one story in the country. 0.89
00:15:17.000 And then what she did that was smart is she sat down and did a very reasoned periscope.
00:15:22.000 And the laughs end.
00:15:23.000 And I realized, by the way, when I was looking at the laughs, I'm looking at a bunch of liberals and kids and babysitters and fucking children and comedy writers and stand-up comedians.
00:15:31.000 And I'm getting their take on anti-Semitism and the threat of Islam.
00:15:37.000 And they're all in LA.
00:15:38.000 They have no idea what's going on in the real world.
00:15:41.000 And I'm listening to their opinion.
00:15:44.000 And then you start reading, like, Dave Rubin's take on it, and Michelle Malkin, and people, you know, within my realm.
00:15:52.000 And I go, oh yeah, that's who I should be talking to.
00:15:55.000 Why am I fucking scratching my, ripping my hair out reading all these little children's views?
00:15:59.000 I should be reading adults who have been doing this for a long time.
00:16:03.000 Yeah, but that's a bubble too, Gav.
00:16:06.000 There's a difference between a bubble and not wasting your time with children.
00:16:11.000 Anyway, so actors and actresses, Mark Ruffalo.
00:16:15.000 So Mark Lamont Hill was talking about how awesome Palestine is and it's just a wonderful place.
00:16:20.000 You should go there and hang out for a week.
00:16:22.000 And while he was talking about the importance of Israel, he mentioned from sea to sea or something like that.
00:16:30.000 And that is common vernacular that Palestinians use when they're talking about wiping out Israel. 0.96
00:16:39.000 They're not looking for a two-state solution.
00:16:41.000 They're looking for a wipeout.
00:16:43.000 So, Mark Ruffalo, like, why am I checking in on the guy who played the Hulk?
00:16:50.000 Criticizing the actions of Israel is not anti-Semitism.
00:16:53.000 Since one is advocating for human rights, a fireable offense, join us in standing in solidarity with Dr. Mark Lamont Hill.
00:17:05.000 And then we have Kathy Griffin, who assumes that Dr. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is frowning because she's in the same picture as Brett Kavanaugh. 0.93
00:17:16.000 No evidence of that whatsoever, but that's the way they rule.
00:17:21.000 And then we have Ron Howard taking a big break from holiday shopping.
00:17:25.000 You know what's funny?
00:17:25.000 I bumped into him once in Paris, and he was holiday shopping.
00:17:30.000 That guy does a lot of holiday shopping.
00:17:32.000 Okay, here's another thing celebrities do, and comedians, and all the babysitters I was talking about before.
00:17:37.000 Donald Trump will say something, and then they'll go, oh yeah, and you and your sick lifestyle will go to hell, and blah blah blah.
00:17:43.000 Like they're talking to him?
00:17:44.000 Like they're talking to the president?
00:17:46.000 He's not gonna respond, George Takei.
00:17:49.000 He just sees it as an announcement.
00:17:51.000 It's a town crier thing.
00:17:52.000 So Donald Trump goes, when will this illegal Joseph McCarthy-style witch hunt, one that has shattered so many innocent lives, ever end?
00:17:58.000 Or will it just go on forever?
00:17:59.000 After wasting more than 40 million, is that possible?
00:18:02.000 It has proven only one thing.
00:18:04.000 There was no collusion with Russia.
00:18:06.000 So ridiculous.
00:18:07.000 Then George Takai has to... George Takai, by the way, has 2.8 million followers.
00:18:12.000 Yes, it will end.
00:18:14.000 And badly for you, your son, your advisors, and your business.
00:18:19.000 The moral arc of the universe is long, but not as long as your sentences will be.
00:18:24.000 Like, why is that in my life?
00:18:26.000 And that, when you're on Twitter, you inevitably come across these.
00:18:30.000 And you just go... A normal dad would not say, what about the gay Japanese guy from Star Trek?
00:18:37.000 How does he feel about the Russia investigation and what it'll do to Trump?
00:18:42.000 He'd never fucking check in!
00:18:47.000 What are you doing on Twitter?
00:18:49.000 There's so many better places to get your news.
00:18:52.000 And by the way, speaking of bubbles, I cannot recommend the app News Voice enough.
00:18:57.000 It has the same sort of Twitter moments that Twitter has, right?
00:19:00.000 But you click on a story like Me Too has been misrepresented as a vindictive plot against men.
00:19:05.000 So you click on that and you go, that's BBC.
00:19:08.000 They're obviously left.
00:19:09.000 But then it says, it gives you another one.
00:19:11.000 Another category about that is Europe.
00:19:13.000 So that's probably a bad example.
00:19:17.000 Let me see, Trump.
00:19:18.000 Trump meets Z, right? 0.77
00:19:19.000 President Z. Um, no?
00:19:23.000 Maybe Putin at the G20 Summit?
00:19:24.000 So then we have, it has all the different links, and it says CBS News, and then below that it says Left.
00:19:33.000 And then there's another one from USA Today, and then the icon is center.
00:19:37.000 And then there's a mic drop.
00:19:38.000 Trump ditches headset after technical difficulties.
00:19:41.000 RT.
00:19:41.000 That logo is Russia.
00:19:43.000 So not only do they give you a bunch of different versions of the story, but they tell you left, Europe, center, Russia.
00:19:48.000 That's what a grown man should be doing.
00:19:51.000 Not tuning in on Jess Dweck and Jared Holt.
00:19:56.000 What does Jared Holt have to say?
00:19:58.000 Jesus Christ, these people, they're not even political beings. 0.68
00:20:04.000 You'll notice when you look at, you see some article about, you know, white nationalists taking over and you click on that guy's caveat, his canon, not caveat, his canon, and you just see like 500 articles, um, all about the exact same thing.
00:20:20.000 Sometimes they're all about the exact same person, but you think you just have your little niche and you just go to work.
00:20:26.000 You're almost like you make fun of the working class, but you're a factory worker.
00:20:29.000 You just keep churning out the same article again and again and again.
00:20:35.000 Anyway, um, so on a more intellectual and adult note, I thought I'd check in on academia.
00:20:43.000 And holy mothballs does my heart go out to young men and young women, sane young women, in college today.
00:20:53.000 Holy, like it was bad when I was there.
00:20:54.000 When I was there, our philosophy professor Marvin Glass was the head of the Canadian Communist Party, but um,
00:21:04.000 He also told us that it was okay to have an abortion up until a year after the baby's born.
00:21:10.000 Sounds good.
00:21:11.000 So, if your baby's 11 months old, just smash him in the head with a ball-peen hammer, and that's perfectly legit. 1.00
00:21:17.000 It's not a human.
00:21:18.000 Because, you see, a monkey, anything you say that you would define as human, like, oh, it can recognize people, it can love, it can do this, a monkey can do that up until around 11 months, 12 months, then the baby starts being better than a monkey.
00:21:32.000 Okay, now you're human.
00:21:33.000 But if a monkey can do all the same tricks as you, then you're not a human.
00:21:37.000 Wait, can't computers do all the same shit we can?
00:21:41.000 Doesn't, hasn't AI got to the point where it's basically as good as humans?
00:21:43.000 Does that mean we can all die now, according to the communists?
00:21:47.000 Another thing I remember he said was, um, he said, uh, we're, we're going to start this class.
00:21:55.000 It was feminist. 1.00
00:21:55.000 I took a lot of feminist classes in class, believe it or not, like the singer, the fucked up, but it wasn't because, um, I was interested in feminism. 1.00
00:22:03.000 It's cause it was the only thing that was sort of like controversial and interesting and they wanted to debate.
00:22:09.000 So I ended up there.
00:22:11.000 In women's studies.
00:22:13.000 But one of the women's studies classes, he said, all right, feminism is predicated on the assumption that women are systematically and seriously oppressed. 0.96
00:22:21.000 If you don't believe that, then you can't be in this class.
00:22:27.000 And, um...
00:22:29.000 I thought, I just accepted it back then.
00:22:31.000 To be in full disclosure, I was a total sycophant.
00:22:34.000 I worshipped the ground Marvin Glass walked on and I even had a picture of him in my wallet.
00:22:39.000 I was a radical anarchist communist when I was 18.
00:22:43.000 18 by the way.
00:22:44.000 I went to college early because I fast-tracked through high school because I hated high school so much I took summer courses.
00:22:51.000 I actually almost failed because I was too sycophantic and not giving him enough pushback.
00:22:56.000 But I did in feminism, or at least I thought I did. 1.00
00:22:59.000 But why didn't I question that thing where he said, you have to recognize that women are systematically and seriously oppressed? 0.97
00:23:05.000 I'll recognize that in the East.
00:23:07.000 I'll recognize that in India.
00:23:09.000 I'll recognize that in, um, in Southeast Asia, but it's not a given.
00:23:15.000 And I remember someone had bigger balls than me and they brought that up and they said, I don't see evidence.
00:23:21.000 And then he got all pissed off and he maybe even kicked him out of the class.
00:23:24.000 I remember there was another time in class, he was talking about how porn is wrong, which I now agree with, but, um, he showed some to the class and it wasn't too graphic, but you could tell, you know, they're about to get down to it.
00:23:36.000 And some chick in the class,
00:23:39.000 This is how young you are when you're in college, how totally naive you are.
00:23:43.000 And this is why you shouldn't be on Twitter, because it's girls like this. 0.98
00:23:45.000 She said, I don't know if that's really the best example, like, maybe if they were good-looking, like, you had some, like, greasy faggot up there. 1.00
00:23:55.000 She called the guy a greasy faggot.
00:23:57.000 In class!
00:24:00.000 And so he lost it and everyone was mad.
00:24:03.000 And she goes, no, no, I didn't mean it like gay.
00:24:05.000 And, uh, she said, I meant it like, and he goes, Oh, what did you mean it like as a teacup?
00:24:12.000 I'll never forget that.
00:24:13.000 That was in 1988.
00:24:16.000 Which reminds me of something, by the way.
00:24:18.000 A little off topic here.
00:24:19.000 I was arguing with a friend about Lena Dunham.
00:24:24.000 Remember my Lena Dunham thing?
00:24:26.000 And I was saying, they talked about hipster racism.
00:24:31.000 And this woman's living in LA now. 1.00
00:24:36.000 16 candles.
00:24:38.000 And she goes, it was hipster racism.
00:24:44.000 And I go, what?
00:24:46.000 And she goes, yeah.
00:24:48.000 And she goes, look, Long Duck Dong in Sixteen Candles is a funny character, but it's not inclusive.
00:24:53.000 And I don't think you should do comedy like that.
00:24:56.000 And I go, Long Duck Dong?
00:24:58.000 Do you remember him?
00:24:58.000 He was the Chinese guy in the movie Sixteen Candles.
00:25:01.000 And I go, I don't really see him as racist.
00:25:02.000 He was a foreign exchange student.
00:25:04.000 Yes, he did Japanese, Chinese stereotypes, or actually just Japanese and Chinese combined.
00:25:10.000 I guess that's the racist part.
00:25:12.000 But, um, what was technically wrong with it?
00:25:14.000 And she goes, are you fucking serious?
00:25:17.000 Every time he appeared in the movie, there was a giant gong.
00:25:22.000 And I'm like, it is a comedy.
00:25:25.000 You know, I'm like, maybe I am nuts, but I think a lot of people just go, that's fucking evil.
00:25:32.000 Like, like blackface. 0.99
00:25:33.000 That's evil.
00:25:34.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:25:35.000 Dressing up in blackface, making fun of blacks is obviously wrong.
00:25:39.000 But there's a whole swath of European blackface, like Black Pete, or at Santa's Helper, or there was the minstrel show, the great black and white minstrel show that was on TV in Europe and Britain up until the 80s.
00:25:53.000 It was not sophisticated, but I don't think it was like, haha, these black people are losers. 1.00
00:26:00.000 So we're very unscientific about this.
00:26:01.000 Like, we just go Asian person, gong, boom. 0.72
00:26:04.000 But I could see Chinese people finding this funny. 1.00
00:26:10.000 Like, I mean, in China.
00:26:12.000 Not one's worse than this.
00:26:13.000 Let me see if I can play it for you.
00:26:26.000 So they're all staring at him.
00:26:27.000 He's being very Chinese. 0.75
00:26:31.000 I guess he's Japanese?
00:26:35.000 And then he laughs.
00:26:46.000 Is that derogatory?
00:26:48.000 I mean, he's staying at their house.
00:26:50.000 They're feeding him quiche.
00:26:52.000 And yeah, there's a there's a gong.
00:26:55.000 But what if it was like a cowboy?
00:26:58.000 A redneck. 0.91
00:26:58.000 And every time he walked in the room, it was like, down, down, down, down, down, down. 0.91
00:27:02.000 He's like, hey, everybody, what's going on?
00:27:04.000 And he was like the line dancing guy.
00:27:07.000 And they said, what the hell you got here?
00:27:08.000 Big pie with all kinds of yellow fixings in her? 1.00
00:27:11.000 And they go, it's called quiche.
00:27:13.000 Quiche?
00:27:13.000 That don't sound like man food.
00:27:15.000 Well, don't worry about being a man when you're hungry.
00:27:17.000 Eat up, homo. 1.00
00:27:19.000 And then everyone laughs together.
00:27:22.000 God, we're so worried about other people's feelings.
00:27:26.000 Half the time they're not even offended.
00:27:27.000 And how many times have you heard of that, by the way?
00:27:29.000 Like with HR complaints, where someone else complains on behalf of two people, and the two people didn't mind.
00:27:37.000 That happened to my dad once, where he was dancing with this friend of his, like a secretary, and he said, women love bald men! 0.89
00:27:43.000 It reminds them of a penis!
00:27:46.000 And the woman laughs, and then someone else files an HR complaint. 1.00
00:27:50.000 And the woman barely remembered the joke, and she goes, yeah, that sounds funny.
00:27:53.000 I probably laughed.
00:27:54.000 Did I laugh?
00:27:54.000 Yeah.
00:27:55.000 I don't care.
00:27:56.000 I'm not filing a complaint.
00:27:58.000 Okay, well, I'm filing it then.
00:28:00.000 I've heard of that more than once.
00:28:02.000 Where other people over here, a male and a female, having some fun banter, and they get in trouble, even though both of them are totally happy with this scenario.
00:28:11.000 You know, at Rebel I had no, there was no HR for the longest time, and it was men, free to prey on women with no recourse outside of the law.
00:28:22.000 And guess what we did?
00:28:24.000 We laughed our fucking balls off and made tons of really good jokes.
00:28:27.000 One of them I did, which is probably sexual harassment, I would undo my pants, my belt and everything, and then I would walk by and I would just drop them and go, oh god damn it, this belt!
00:28:37.000 And then awkwardly pull out my pants like I was super embarrassed.
00:28:40.000 That always got a laugh.
00:28:42.000 And it wasn't sexual, it's not like I pulled out my pants in front of an employee and went, you like that?
00:28:47.000 There's plenty more where that came from.
00:28:50.000 It's called Slapstick.
00:28:52.000 It's actually classic British slapstick.
00:28:55.000 Loosely based on the hit show Some Mothers Do Avem.
00:29:00.000 Um, yeah, when humans are left free to roam, it's not Lord of the Flies.
00:29:06.000 It's Lord of the Guys.
00:29:07.000 And the guys are down for some fun.
00:29:10.000 I was talking about that on my show with Anthony, Anthony Cumia.
00:29:14.000 He said, he used to do CBS Radio, and he said there's all these sexual harassment allegations coming out 16 years later.
00:29:20.000 And he goes, I was there.
00:29:21.000 It was a fucking party.
00:29:24.000 And the worst thing that was happening to women back then is they were laughing so hard mascara was streaming down their face.
00:29:29.000 We were drinking in the day, we were doing stunts, we were renting big buses, going on parties, going out all night, doing coke.
00:29:37.000 He didn't say coke, but I assume if you're going out all night, you need some nose beers.
00:29:42.000 Or as they call it in Austin, space food.
00:29:44.000 Because it's a powder that after you eat, you're not hungry anymore.
00:29:47.000 Or snort.
00:29:50.000 Um, so yeah, all of this monitoring and this don't do this joke and get this person kicked off Twitter and it just, it makes everything less colorful, less fun.
00:30:04.000 And less intellectual.
00:30:05.000 So let's get intellectual here.
00:30:06.000 I checked in on academia.
00:30:09.000 And it reminded me of when I was in school, but in a totally different way.
00:30:13.000 When I was in school, my dad said he'd help me out, he'd pay half or something, which is stupid because it was only $3,000 a year in Canada, and I had a job, but I took the $1,500, and he said he'd pay half if I take math.
00:30:28.000 So I took Calculus and Algebra in college.
00:30:31.000 Dude, it's like being a professional boxer if you don't box.
00:30:36.000 You just sit up there and get battered with numbers.
00:30:38.000 And if you're not a math person, which I'm not, it's just hell on earth.
00:30:42.000 Like every sentence
00:30:45.000 It is a slog.
00:30:46.000 And I just have my hand up, my hand up, my hand up.
00:30:48.000 I don't get that.
00:30:49.000 What do you mean by that?
00:30:49.000 What do you mean by that?
00:30:50.000 Until the guy wanted to kill me.
00:30:52.000 And even then I get it like a 55.
00:30:54.000 University level, like second year algebra in college is grueling!
00:31:01.000 Sometimes our tests, our exams, would be one question.
00:31:04.000 Find 3x plus y squared split about the z-axis, the surface area.
00:31:08.000 And you're like, okay, come back in three hours when I've written 15 pages of this one question.
00:31:15.000 I don't even fucking know what calculus is.
00:31:18.000 And every time my dad visits, he tries to explain it to me, and I have no idea what he's talking about.
00:31:23.000 I know what algebra is.
00:31:25.000 Algebra is 3x plus 1 equals 13.
00:31:31.000 X must be 4.
00:31:33.000 It's a little placeholder while you figure out how you got there, and then you can go back and fill in the placeholder.
00:31:33.000 Got it.
00:31:38.000 Easy peas.
00:31:39.000 What the fuck is calculus, dad?
00:31:40.000 It's the rate of change.
00:31:42.000 What?
00:31:47.000 He was just down here visiting and the guy is just, he gets, like, it's like old men are like chicks in that you're drinking with them, everything's going fine, and then something sets them off and you just go, uh-oh, this isn't going well. 0.99
00:32:00.000 Like, we're in one bar and they're blaring really loud American Ninja, you know, the obstacle course, and there's a kid in it.
00:32:09.000 It's a kid's American Ninja, so it's for around 10-year-olds.
00:32:13.000 He goes, what the fuck is this?
00:32:15.000 Why is this on?
00:32:16.000 And I go, Dad, one of the girls in the thing is on the show. 1.00
00:32:21.000 So the whole family's here, like cousins, relatives, they're all here to celebrate, eat some fries, and watch their little girl do this super hard obstacle course.
00:32:29.000 Ugh! 0.97
00:32:30.000 I don't think children should be doing this kind of entertainment!
00:32:34.000 Well, it's not like a... We're not watching Nickelodeon.
00:32:38.000 She's not doing a little movie where she's being exploited. 1.00
00:32:41.000 It's just sports.
00:32:42.000 How is it different from my son's soccer or baseball?
00:32:46.000 Ugh.
00:32:47.000 And then he said his favorite new word.
00:32:49.000 Pathetic.
00:32:51.000 Pathetic.
00:32:52.000 And he goes, I'm beginning, and I'm like, can you fucking keep it down, please? 0.74
00:32:57.000 I'm beginning to think people are getting stupider.
00:33:00.000 Dude, it's not a bunch of fucking yokels who come and go, we want to watch a little kiddie show where they do an obstacle course.
00:33:08.000 What are you, you're fucking dumb if you think that.
00:33:11.000 It's families who want to see their daughter and celebrate and you're ruining it if you don't fucking keep it down.
00:33:18.000 And I'm trying to give him this look, because I don't want to yell, because that's just as bad.
00:33:22.000 But, you know, I'm in my neighborhood.
00:33:25.000 I'm going, just fucking keep it down, old man.
00:33:29.000 Our roles have reversed in the late age, where now I scold him when he's a bad boy and give him timeouts.
00:33:36.000 God, he would walk around the house nude sometimes, and I said, Dad, don't subject me to your naked body.
00:33:42.000 You're a hundred years old.
00:33:44.000 And he goes,
00:33:48.000 Constantly coughing.
00:33:50.000 He goes, you know, we were away at a hunting vacation, a hunting camp and I got up, you know, they were drinking till the late wee hours and I got up in the middle of the night and I was walking past everyone and you know I sleep in the nude.
00:34:06.000 75 year old body by the way.
00:34:07.000 The front looks like a naked lady. 1.00
00:34:10.000 There's no ass there, it's just like a hairless vagina. 1.00
00:34:12.000 And then there's age spots everywhere.
00:34:14.000 And the skin is just hanging.
00:34:17.000 The skin looks like someone's wearing a coat.
00:34:19.000 And he goes, um, they looked at me and said, oh look, it's a wine bag.
00:34:24.000 And it's still got the tap on the front.
00:34:32.000 But I guess it was good having him there, watching him play Sudoku for five hours and then watch really loud rebel videos that woke up the whole house.
00:34:43.000 I guess that was pleasant.
00:34:46.000 Anyway, sorry, I've been trying to get to this since the very beginning.
00:34:49.000 I was supposed to say, hey, Twitter was diluting my IQ, and now I'm smart again, and we're going to talk about academia.
00:34:57.000 Meanwhile, this podcast is almost over.
00:35:00.000 All right.
00:35:02.000 So there's this scandal going on with the NYU prof, and her name is Alvital Ronal.
00:35:08.000 And she was the mentor to this graduate student named Nimrod Reitman.
00:35:13.000 Nimrod, I think, is an Israeli name.
00:35:17.000 I think in the Quran, I think in the Torah, it's a cool guy, but sorry, I grew up in Canada.
00:35:23.000 Nimrod means dork to me. 0.91
00:35:25.000 Anyway, Evita Ronel, she is a feminist literary theorist who studied under Jacques Derrida.
00:35:33.000 I thought Jacques Derrida was from way long ago.
00:35:36.000 And now, she's a Jacques Derrida professor at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.
00:35:43.000 Can you imagine the kind of shit these people talk?
00:35:47.000 She also, by the way, back at NYU, she headed the Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies Program.
00:35:55.000 I mean, just reading these people's job doesn't make any sense.
00:35:59.000 What in the Sam Peckinpah hell is transdisciplinary studies?
00:36:04.000 Does that mean you take different types of trans classes, like trans math and trans English, and then you combine them all?
00:36:10.000 Isn't that intersectionality?
00:36:14.000 Alright, so, this woman, this lesbian, theorist, trans, whatever, was molesting her mentor, I mean her mentee, this gay dude, Nimrod. 0.86
00:36:26.000 And I think it took place at NYU and she'd be lying on her back and she'd grab his hands and put it on her breast.
00:36:31.000 She's 66 years old, he's in his 20s and gay. 0.99
00:36:34.000 Lady, what did you think was gonna go down? 1.00
00:36:37.000 They're not known for their overwhelming lust.
00:36:40.000 For their old female lesbian boss. 1.00
00:36:45.000 But, I'm reading into the scandal, right?
00:36:48.000 And then, uh, I find this... Everyone's defending her, of course.
00:36:53.000 And there's this feminist scholar, Judith Butler.
00:36:57.000 And so I look up Judas Butler.
00:36:59.000 I looked up all of these people and the more I would look at their work, the more I'd realize that they've just invented Klingon.
00:37:05.000 They've invented a kooky language.
00:37:08.000 They've invented a crazy language and they just teach it to kids and then kids go $200,000 in debt learning this crazy language.
00:37:17.000 It's not even English.
00:37:19.000 And they go into the real world and they say, Hi, I'm here to talk about the didactic hegemony of a homologous visaporation.
00:37:27.000 And their boss goes, You're not hired.
00:37:29.000 I'm sorry, this is only English speaking people.
00:37:32.000 And I don't, that sounded kind of English, but what was that?
00:37:36.000 Oh, that's Icelandic mixed with barf. 0.64
00:37:39.000 So
00:37:41.000 Here's a random example, and they all write like this.
00:37:43.000 All the people.
00:37:44.000 Fuck the scandal.
00:37:45.000 I don't really care about some lesbian grabbing a guy's hand and putting it on her tit. 1.00
00:37:48.000 Poor baby.
00:37:49.000 Get over it.
00:37:51.000 What I care about is the lack of sanity in academia.
00:37:57.000 And so, I just sort of threw a dart at these names, and I ended up focusing more on Judith Butler.
00:38:02.000 She's a Guggenheim Fellowship-winning professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at Berkeley.
00:38:07.000 She's admired as perhaps one of the smartest ten people on the planet!
00:38:13.000 Uh, Jesus Christ.
00:38:14.000 Okay.
00:38:15.000 Check out this sentence.
00:38:17.000 This is from a scholarly journal post she did in 1997.
00:38:20.000 It's called, Further Reflections on the Conversations of Our Time.
00:38:24.000 Oh, that sounds interesting.
00:38:25.000 That sounds easy to understand.
00:38:27.000 You ready for this one?
00:38:28.000 This is what I've been trying to get to the whole entire show.
00:38:32.000 The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and re-articulation brought the question of temporality.
00:38:49.000 into the thinking of structure and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural identities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
00:39:13.000 Any questions?
00:39:15.000 What?
00:39:15.000 I have one question.
00:39:16.000 What the fuck?
00:39:19.000 So I sat for about an hour trying to go through, because I had to look up almost every single word, for about an hour trying to figure out what the hell this lunatic was saying, and I think I kind of got
00:39:32.000 We're good.
00:39:50.000 And I bet if you did an essay with that, and you didn't have their same jargon, and you just said, uh, I think that black people are poor because of, uh, systemic racism.
00:39:58.000 I mean, that's me trying to be normal.
00:40:01.000 And, uh, I bet they'd go, you sound- you talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded. 1.00
00:40:05.000 You have to use my fancy words.
00:40:07.000 Okay.
00:40:08.000 Let's start with just the fir- by the way, that was all one sentence, that paragraph, with barely any commas, so I didn't really know when to stop.
00:40:16.000 The move from a structuralist
00:40:19.000 Now, I had to look that up.
00:40:20.000 Half of these words don't appear in the normal dictionary, so you have to look it up on Google.
00:40:23.000 Okay.
00:40:24.000 Structuralist just means... societal.
00:40:36.000 So, the move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations, what she means there is that basically, like, let's say New York.
00:40:46.000 Blacks are poor up in Harlem and the Upper West Side is rich because of structuralism, which means systemic racism, basically. 0.95
00:40:56.000 So, rich people stay rich, poor people stay poor.
00:41:00.000 And then she goes, in relatively homologous ways.
00:41:03.000 What?
00:41:03.000 Have you ever heard the word homologous before?
00:41:07.000 It doesn't mean anything.
00:41:08.000 I looked it up.
00:41:08.000 It means similar in position, structure, and evolutionary origin, but not necessarily in function.
00:41:13.000 And then she says, to a view of hegemony.
00:41:15.000 Hegemony means leadership, dominance, especially in one country or social group over there.
00:41:18.000 Okay, so this whole first part, the move from a structuralist account, capitals, understood social relations, to a view of hegemony, in which relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and re-articulation, all of that crap just means the rich stay rich and the poor get poor and it's structural.
00:41:35.000 It's not organic.
00:41:36.000 It's not cultural.
00:41:37.000 It's not, she's saying it's, it's not their fault.
00:41:41.000 Okay.
00:41:43.000 And then she goes, it brought the question of temporality.
00:41:46.000 That's the state of existing.
00:41:49.000 Even the definitions, I don't understand.
00:41:50.000 So temporality means the state of existing within or having some relationship with time.
00:41:55.000 Doesn't everyone have a relationship with time?
00:42:00.000 You're in a state where you're having a relationship with time.
00:42:04.000 Yes.
00:42:05.000 That's like that Johnny Rotten song we did with Afrika Bambaataa.
00:42:08.000 The Eve destruction is causing a sensation.
00:42:11.000 The human race is becoming a disgrace.
00:42:14.000 And then the chorus is like Afrika Bambaataa is playing the keyboards and it's like... And John Lydon's going, I'm in a time zone.
00:42:23.000 I'm in a time zone.
00:42:25.000 Of course you're in a fucking time zone, John.
00:42:29.000 You're in the state of existing within or having some relationship with time.
00:42:32.000 What?
00:42:33.000 You don't need a word for that.
00:42:38.000 Into the thinking of structure and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory.
00:42:44.000 I had to look him up.
00:42:45.000 He's apparently some Marxist professor from France that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one.
00:42:55.000 This is where I give up.
00:42:58.000 So I think all of this, up until structural totalities, means we're oppressing the poor in this horrible system.
00:43:06.000 And you've got a point with that, I guess, if that's what you're going for.
00:43:09.000 I think the idea of welfare encourages single moms, says, you don't need a dad, gets the dad out of the house. 1.00
00:43:14.000 Kids grow up without a dad.
00:43:15.000 There's a predilection for crime when you don't have fatherly discipline.
00:43:18.000 Then there's the jail.
00:43:18.000 Then you end up in jail.
00:43:20.000 And then because you're in jail, there's no more dads around.
00:43:22.000 And that even further propagates.
00:43:24.000 The idea of fatherlessness and it's this horrible cycle and the incarceration rate is a form of slavery.
00:43:31.000 I can get pretty left-wing with you on that one.
00:43:35.000 But then the last 800 words of the sentence take structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure.
00:43:47.000 What the fuck is a contingent possibility of structure?
00:43:52.000 Theoretical insights inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony.
00:43:58.000 Oh, I think I got this.
00:44:00.000 So we see all this around us, right?
00:44:02.000 With poor blacks in Harlem and rich whites in the Upper West Side. 0.96
00:44:07.000 And that renews this myth of hegemony where the rich people deserve to be rich and the poor people deserve to be poor.
00:44:16.000 And then I guess that is bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the re-articulation of power.
00:44:26.000 So, okay, I think I might have it.
00:44:30.000 We see this oppression.
00:44:32.000 We see the poor blacks in Harlem and the rich whites in the Upper West Side. 0.99
00:44:36.000 And someone says, we should re-articulate these strategies of power.
00:44:41.000 And we go, no, because look, they suck.
00:44:43.000 There's crime there.
00:44:44.000 They're inferior.
00:44:44.000 They're garbage.
00:44:46.000 And then she would go, no, that's the structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways.
00:44:55.000 Okay.
00:44:57.000 Judith Butler, whatever your name is.
00:45:01.000 Here's what you were trying to say.
00:45:04.000 The problem with inequality is we see it, we see these structures that repeat themselves.
00:45:09.000 I don't necessarily agree with this, by the way.
00:45:10.000 I think we live in the most pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps culture in the world.
00:45:15.000 And my dad's a great example of that.
00:45:16.000 He grew up with no fucking shoes.
00:45:21.000 And, uh, when you see this inequality, it ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy where people go, well, we can't put money or structure into the hood because they'll just waste it.
00:45:31.000 And we're better at this kind of thing.
00:45:32.000 It's actually an anti-communist thing.
00:45:37.000 In a way.
00:45:37.000 Because communists think they should control everything, and Marxists believe they should control everything.
00:45:42.000 They should dole out the money as they see fit, because they're smarter than everyone.
00:45:46.000 They're the intellectuals.
00:45:47.000 Marx is an intellectual.
00:45:49.000 Althusserian.
00:45:51.000 Professor Althusserian is an intellectual.
00:45:54.000 God.
00:45:55.000 Alright, here's one more.
00:45:56.000 Now this is a, um... This is a professor of English at the University of Chicago.
00:46:03.000 His name is Omi K. Baba.
00:46:05.000 This one is much easier to digest, but it is still fucking total and utter jargon and deserves an F. If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline,
00:46:21.000 Soon, the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudoscientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to normalize, italic formally, the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality.
00:46:46.000 Guess what that means?
00:46:48.000 It means I'm an asshole.
00:46:50.000 I don't fucking understand a word of what you just said.
00:46:54.000 The ruse of desire?
00:46:55.000 Desire's a ruse now?
00:46:58.000 Is this when you live in a relationship with time?
00:47:02.000 Like, this is fucking LSD Willy Wonka shit.
00:47:06.000 If you send your kids to that, it's child abuse.
00:47:10.000 Why would you send your kid to a school where everyone appears to be high on their mind on MDMA?
00:47:17.000 And this is how people talk on meth.
00:47:20.000 Hey man, you got the uses of discipline, student repetition, and guilt.
00:47:24.000 We have justifications, pseudo-scientific theories, superstitions, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as a desperate attempt to normalize, formerly the disturbance of discourse, of splitting that violates the rational and enlightened claims of the Annunciatory Modality.
00:47:35.000 I mean, I've seen, when they had that show, what was it called?
00:47:38.000 Intervention.
00:47:39.000 You'd see them on meth.
00:47:40.000 That really hot chick who looked Indian, Native American, had blonde hair and no eyebrows, remember her? 1.00
00:47:45.000 And she would say stuff like that.
00:47:46.000 She'd be doing math all day.
00:47:48.000 She said, but how can two negatives be a positive?
00:47:50.000 A negative and a positive end up being a negative.
00:47:52.000 Shouldn't two positives be a positive?
00:47:56.000 Oh, I finally got that off my chest.
00:47:59.000 But I had just, I am in awe of the quality of education.
00:48:02.000 And I think words like structuralism and all this, it's another example of
00:48:08.000 Political correctness and the far left, they don't really want truth.
00:48:12.000 They want to control your thoughts and tell you how to speak and make up their own fancy little fucking language.
00:48:17.000 I remember when my daughter was about six, there was this bratty kid whose parents were getting divorced and she called herself the Queen.
00:48:24.000 And, uh, everyone else that hung around them was the servants.
00:48:28.000 And they did whatever she wanted.
00:48:29.000 Her parents were getting divorced, by the way, and she was only three, so... That's how you make brats, folks. 1.00
00:48:35.000 And, uh, I didn't like that.
00:48:38.000 And I said, so are you a servant to my daughter?
00:48:40.000 She was maybe five or six.
00:48:41.000 And she goes, yeah, we're all servants.
00:48:42.000 She's the queen.
00:48:44.000 And I go, yeah, we're not doing that.
00:48:46.000 And, uh, I said, you tell her that McInnes's don't follow rules and you're nobody's servant.
00:48:52.000 She's like, she seemed kind of bummed.
00:48:54.000 And then about a week later, I was talking to one of her other friends and I said, and then did you, was, was my daughter there?
00:49:01.000 And they go, Oh no, she doesn't.
00:49:02.000 She's not allowed out because, uh, she said she's a McInnes and she's not a servant.
00:49:05.000 So now she's, she sits alone.
00:49:08.000 And I went, way to go, me.
00:49:11.000 Way to get involved in a child's life.
00:49:13.000 Maybe it was just a joke.
00:49:15.000 And there I was enforcing some dumb joke.
00:49:19.000 Oh, my heart sinks just thinking about it.
00:49:22.000 Meddling with your kid's lives.
00:49:23.000 And parents always want to do that, too.
00:49:25.000 Like, they find out there's a bully and they want to go contact the parent.
00:49:27.000 Dude, you're just gonna make it worse.
00:49:29.000 You have to train kids to handle their own problems.
00:49:33.000 I meddled and I fucked up.
00:49:34.000 But, it looks like school gets even worse when you get into your 20s.
00:49:41.000 Alright, that's all I gotta say.
00:49:43.000 I like you more than a friend and try quitting Twitter for just two days and tell me if you don't feel your IQ sore and your stress level plummet.
00:49:54.000 Bye.
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