Taylor Swift On ＂Stolen Land＂
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Summary
Taylor Swift opened her Toronto concert with a "Woke land acknowledgement" at which she told the audience that they were standing on land that was stolen from the Indigenous people that came before them. This is just one of many such things that are being done by the progressive left.
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Hi, it's John. Welcome to my basement, downstairs enjoying a cup of coffee, Sunday, November the 17th.
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And today I want to talk to you about Taylor Swift.
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Now, I can say that I've never really given much thought to Taylor Swift.
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The words Taylor Swift, up until this moment, have never passed my lips.
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I don't find her music very interesting, and I've heard quite a few of her songs.
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I don't find much pop music these days interesting at all.
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It's the same four chords over and over and over again.
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It is. It's not very complex. Nothing like what I listened to when I was younger.
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Now, you may say, if you're one of the kids, and your most little kids, who like Taylor Swift,
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you're old. You don't get Taylor Swift. No, I don't.
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My parents never got my music at all in the 70s and the 80s.
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But my parents didn't understand a good pop song in the 70s and 80s,
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because it didn't exist when they were younger.
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I know a good pop song. I don't think Taylor Swift is that good.
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Anyway, she's in Toronto for a series of concerts.
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They actually shut down the Gardner Expressway for her entourage the other day,
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no doubt pissing off the people who are caught in traffic congestion in Toronto,
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Now, the Gardner Expressway, if you don't know what it is, and I do, I've driven it many times,
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it's a divided highway that runs along Lake Ontario, where Toronto is located.
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So they shut down this One Direction, so the people have to avert their eyes from the great Taylor Swift,
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And according to Breitbart, she opened her Toronto concert with a woke land acknowledgement.
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That's telling people that the land they're standing on was stolen from the indigenous people that came before them.
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In fact, the other day, the Remembrance Day ceremony here in Calgary,
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our mayor, the piece-of-crap, disgraceful, vile Jody Gondek,
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started off a Remembrance Day ceremony, which is for honoring the war dead
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by telling the people who are there that they're on stolen land.
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This is a very regressive thing to do these days.
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It's starting to show up a lot more in the United States as well, and it's not very helpful.
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Now, if you read through this article, it mentions everything I've just told you in a lot more words,
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but it does say in here that many native activists, though, feel these notices are meaningless
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and actually contribute to less awareness, not more.
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I would say it makes people hostile to this type of thing.
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People don't like to be lectured to, and they don't like to be told they have to be guilty about something they didn't do.
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This connects with a lot of things going on in society today.
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You know, the diversity, equity, and inclusion thing is another thing.
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The more the left pushes diversity, equity, and inclusion,
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the less people actually think about those things,
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and the more hostile they become to those types of ideas.
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If you're telling people that they need to be guilty about racism,
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and people don't feel like they're being racist towards somebody,
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and people just treat people equally, people go by the golden rule,
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but you're telling them all the time they need to feel guilty,
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and they've committed some type of sin just for existing,
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they turn a blind eye to this stuff, and they become hostile towards it.
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And they may become hostile towards it to the point where they don't actually want to help people
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who may actually need help in some of these groups,
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like natives, indigenous people, or black people,
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or other people who are part of the minority in our society.
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Again, it's the regressive left that's interested in pushing this garbage on us.
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Well, if the land is stolen, and you feel so strongly about this,
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turn over the home you're in, and the piece of property it's on,
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and give it to some indigenous people, and that way you can feel better about it.
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Because this doesn't make people feel good about it at all.
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But then again, there's another moral to this story, okay?
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give me the children for four years, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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That's exactly the type of thing this is about.
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It's an indoctrination of the young so that they feel the same way when they get older.