Juno News - November 24, 2022


WTF happened to hockey？


Episode Stats

Length

14 minutes

Words per Minute

190.05061

Word Count

2,729

Sentence Count

171

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.240 NHL, why don't you just try to play hockey and leave the politics up to politicians?
00:00:12.940 Welcome everyone to Ratioed. My name is Harrison Faulkner. I think it's time for all of us just to
00:00:18.700 give up on professional sports. As tough as that might be, as difficult as that might be for some
00:00:22.740 of us, I think the reality is professional sports as we know it, almost every single professional
00:00:27.920 sports organization, has been completely taken over by the woke lunatics, the gender ideologues,
00:00:33.640 and the critical race theorists. And one of the worst examples of this, for me at least, as a
00:00:37.720 Canadian, is the complete takeover of the NHL. The idea that we need to just fundamentally destroy
00:00:43.260 hockey as we know it, try and inject as much politics in it as we can, inject as much lefty
00:00:50.000 ideology as possible into the sport, so we water it down to a degree that it's basically unwatchable.
00:00:55.380 But the ads on the TV, the social media of the league, social media of the teams themselves,
00:01:00.380 and even going to the game, is so politically toxic, is so injected with politics, that it's
00:01:05.340 pretty much unrecognizable from what it once was. So the NHL, in their infinite woke wisdom,
00:01:10.340 in an attempt to try and spread the game of hockey to get more participation in the game,
00:01:14.140 have created the first transgender hockey league. And when one Twitter user dared to question the
00:01:20.220 unquestionable, had the nerve, had the gall to say, wait a minute, are we just watching men play
00:01:24.820 against women? And isn't that kind of unfair? Well, that was a big time no-no in the eyes of
00:01:29.900 the NHL, and in particular, probably in the eyes of the intern, the woke intern, who took over the
00:01:34.540 NHL Twitter account, because the NHL Twitter responded to this person on Twitter and said,
00:01:39.800 trans men are men, trans women are women, and non-binary identity is real. What? Drop a like
00:01:46.780 on the video, help us out by subscribing to the True North YouTube channel, and the comment question
00:01:50.440 for the episode is this. Are you still watching professional sports with all the woke ideology,
00:01:55.360 with all the politics being shoved down your throat? Are you still able to even watch a
00:01:59.380 professional sports game? And if you are, how do you manage to navigate it with all the crap going
00:02:04.340 on, with all the force-fed politics on the screen? Let me know in the comments what you guys think.
00:02:10.020 All right, let's get into it. On Tuesday, the NHL wanted to promote the creation of the first ever
00:02:15.180 transgender hockey league, because that's exactly what hockey needed, right? That was just,
00:02:19.320 that was the one thing the game was missing. That we needed more transgender athletes in the game.
00:02:23.200 The NHL is proud to support this past weekend's Team Trans Draft Tournament in Middleton, Wisconsin.
00:02:29.500 This was the first tournament comprising entirely of transgender and non-binary players,
00:02:34.320 with around 80 folks participating. Hashtag hockey is for everyone. Hashtag NHL pride.
00:02:40.480 And they've got this nice little collection of pictures here from the hockey players, but notice
00:02:45.940 no faces of the athletes. No faces of these transgender athletes, these brave transgender
00:02:50.620 athletes. I wonder why. And when the NHL posted this tweet, you can just imagine the reaction in
00:02:54.540 the comments. It was pretty ruthless. It was pretty brutal. It should have been expected by now. I mean,
00:02:58.720 it's not new. We haven't been, this isn't a brand new concept here. People clearly are not fully on
00:03:03.500 board with the idea that we're just going to have men play against women in professional sports.
00:03:07.540 And then one anonymous Twitter user who had the nerve, the gall to just write a very common sense reply,
00:03:12.440 which was an observation of what we're looking at here in the photos, which really is men playing
00:03:16.880 against women on the ice in a full contact sport. Nothing could be wrong with that, right? Anyway,
00:03:21.920 this Twitter user decides to write this very dangerous, very triggering, awful comment.
00:03:27.660 So, men playing on women's team? And the woke intern who took over the NHL Twitter account just
00:03:33.180 wasn't having any of this. He wasn't having any of the heresy coming from this anonymous Twitter
00:03:37.020 account. Someone who dared to question the gender ideology. That's a no-no in the eyes of the NHL.
00:03:41.900 And the NHL intern really just felt as though it was their duty. It was their responsibility to
00:03:46.400 put this heretic in his place. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary identity is
00:03:51.720 real, the NHL said. Sure enough, as you could have guessed, the NHL got absolutely hounded for this
00:03:58.120 reply. Got absolutely destroyed. So much so that they had to actually immediately lock the replies
00:04:02.680 on that comment and make sure no one else could comment under it. The ratio was so bad for the NHL
00:04:08.780 that they just couldn't handle. They just couldn't handle the fact that people were not on board with
00:04:13.740 their gender ideology. Matt Walsh responded,
00:04:16.460 The NHL becomes the latest organization to totally debase itself for the sake of pandering to people
00:04:20.880 who aren't their customers and never will be. Liva Fry wrote this,
00:04:24.600 Well, then it would appear the NHL is actively discriminating against trans men in the league.
00:04:28.380 There is literally not one trans man currently playing in the NHL. Make quotas for trans men in
00:04:33.380 the league or you are bigots at NHL. Exactly. Why aren't there any women playing in the NHL?
00:04:37.600 If, as the NHL says, trans men are men, then why don't we have any women playing in the NHL? If
00:04:43.820 they are men, after all, then they can surely play against the men. Why don't we see that?
00:04:47.140 Or better yet, why don't we have Alexander Ovechkin pumped full of estrogen and given a blonde wig?
00:04:51.800 I'm sure then it would be totally competitive, right? Women's hockey would be totally competitive
00:04:55.360 with a bunch of trans women, men, playing against women on the ice. Well, the reality is, guys,
00:05:01.100 hockey has actually been at the forefront of the woke ideology push into professional sports.
00:05:06.060 They have been doing this for a long time now. They're kind of veterans in the game
00:05:09.400 of gender ideology and critical race theory. They are pushing this stuff big time and they
00:05:14.260 have been doing it for, what has it been, almost three or four years now. Now, just to show you how
00:05:17.880 far and how fast the NHL has gone down the woke rabbit hole and how they're pretty much just
00:05:22.380 completely captured by gender ideology and critical race theory, the NHL hired a few years ago a vice
00:05:29.360 president of social impact, as though that's a real position. And just a few months ago, actually,
00:05:34.580 the NHL decided to track the race of their employees so they can judge the workforce of the
00:05:40.580 NHL on their skin color. Nothing at all wrong with that, right? Just look at this Associated Press
00:05:45.200 article. NHL, its workforce, 84% white, sets baseline to up diversity. Nothing like some
00:05:52.360 racial quotas, right? There's also a couple other interesting things in this diversity report
00:05:56.460 commissioned by the NHL. In it, they write this. To build a shared understanding of diversity and
00:06:01.980 inclusion, every full-time league office employee, from senior leadership to support roles, participated
00:06:07.940 in an immersive two-day inclusion learning experience that explored how bias, privilege,
00:06:13.280 and power operate in society. That'll really help out on the ice. Delivered by white men as full
00:06:19.580 diversity partners. The experience explained D&I as an essential part of leadership development and
00:06:24.880 pushed league employees to reassess thoughts, feelings, mindsets, behavior, and impact in their
00:06:30.700 personal and professional lives. That's right, to work in the NHL, you have to reassess your thoughts
00:06:35.100 and reassess your feelings. Additionally, the league engaged Jopwell with the intent of creating a more
00:06:40.260 diverse and inclusive workplace by expanding our talent pool through Jopwell's network of Black,
00:06:44.960 Latinx, and Native American professionals. It turns out that 83.6% of the NHL staff are white,
00:06:52.460 4.17% are Asian, 3.74% are black, 3.71% are Hispanic, 0.5% are indigenous, 1.8% are other,
00:07:02.120 and 2.4% prefer not to answer. What could the other be? Just generally, just trying to figure that out
00:07:07.020 exactly. What are the other? I think this goes without saying, actually, but none of this will
00:07:10.580 actually increase racial diversity in the game. Embracing woke ideology and falling down this
00:07:16.060 rabbit hole will not make more black kids, make more Hispanic kids, or make more indigenous kids
00:07:20.820 want to play the game. Focusing on the game and making the game better itself will obviously do
00:07:24.940 that. And if you want to look at women's hockey, women's hockey is more popular than ever, and it's
00:07:29.640 not because women are now coaching in the NHL. But wait, there's a better idea. Let's just bring
00:07:34.580 trans men to play in the women's hockey league. That's the best way to increase women's participation.
00:07:39.600 Not like anything could be wrong with having men play against women and dominating them on the
00:07:43.800 ice. Now, I've got to say, for me, the real downfall of hockey was when the woke CBC,
00:07:48.140 Justin Trudeau's propaganda outlet, working in tandem with Rogers, decided to fire Don Cherry,
00:07:53.420 the face of hockey, for generations in Canada. Now, did he use some colorful language? Sure.
00:07:58.280 Did he say anything wrong, however? Absolutely not. And also, is it really reason to fire the most
00:08:03.340 popular face in the game because of some politically incorrect comments that he made on TV?
00:08:08.580 From that point onwards, Hockey Night in Canada, the flagship program of the CBC,
00:08:14.560 the flagship program that has grown the game in this country and made it a serious force,
00:08:18.440 has been an absolute shell of itself, a complete woke disgrace to the institution that Hockey Night
00:08:23.740 in Canada once was. Aside from being sponsored by Huawei, the Chinese Communist Party-owned
00:08:28.920 telecoms company, woke Ron McClain, the embarrassing shell of the man he once was, has now decided,
00:08:34.440 in the wake of Don Cherry's firing, to embark on a years-long struggle session, to repent for his
00:08:41.020 sins of white privilege, to apologize on behalf of white Canada for racism, structural racism in
00:08:47.900 hockey, and then, of course, bootlick Justin Trudeau. Just to show you how long the NHL has been
00:08:52.840 embarking on this struggle session, this is from 2019, when woke Ron McClain apologizes on TV,
00:08:58.920 apologizes to the world for his white male privilege and racism in hockey, also while being
00:09:05.080 sponsored by Huawei.
00:09:06.460 And then I realized, there's your white male privilege. You know what, Ron? You don't have to
00:09:10.880 see that, because you don't need to see that. And you told me, Kwame, an amazing story about
00:09:15.360 when the kids throw back to Hockey Night in Canada, as a general rule, they're often all white,
00:09:20.500 and if they're not all white, the whites often have the speaking part, and it's the same with our
00:09:24.500 Rogers Hometown Hockey. We're so proud of being inclusive, but how many times do we get people of
00:09:30.140 color to pick the three stars? And it was just a real eye-opener that I don't recognize the
00:09:34.640 structural racism or sexism that's going on.
00:09:39.440 Now just listen to this clip of Ron McClain just fawning over Justin Trudeau. He can't control
00:09:44.760 himself. He just loves Justin Trudeau so much. Ron, take it easy on the bootlicking there, bud.
00:09:49.140 And you said, my father, he has friends in every country on the rim of the Oval of the Olympic
00:09:55.580 Stadium. That is unbelievable to me. And you gave the most beautiful homage to Papa. And what really
00:10:01.980 strikes me is that's 2000. Within eight years, you're a member of Parliament, and within a decade
00:10:06.600 and a half, you are Prime Minister of this great country. So you are cut from the same cloth.
00:10:11.040 Would you please welcome all students, the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada.
00:10:16.600 Mr. Trudeau, the floor is yours.
00:10:18.920 Remember this display in the wake of George Floyd's death?
00:10:31.980 Even in 1990, Don Cherry knew what was going to happen to hockey. He knew that it was going to become
00:10:41.840 some sad, embarrassing shell of itself. And he also knew how to handle the woke propagandists at
00:10:47.240 the CBC pretending to be journalists. Even in 1990, they were woke losers. Just watch this.
00:10:51.440 Are you a safety valve for people who are stewing about all kinds of stuff? Or are you dangerous?
00:10:58.860 I don't know whether I'm dangerous. I just say what I think. And it's the way I think.
00:11:04.160 You could say it's bigotry if you want. I don't think it is. I'm pro-Canadian. More so than I'm
00:11:11.100 anti-Soviet or anti-Sweet. I wish more Canadians were like me.
00:11:16.380 That really plays in the country these days. But where is it going to end? Where is it going to
00:11:21.560 end if we get into that kind of politics? Whether it's in sport, whether it's to do with jobs.
00:11:28.040 We let people come in and take our fish. And the people are starving down there.
00:11:32.580 The people come in and wreck everything on us. They come in and it wouldn't happen if I was in
00:11:37.560 Parliament. It's Thursday, so you know what that means. It's time for the Ratio of the Week Award,
00:11:41.040 the most coveted prize in Canadian journalism, the most coveted prize in Canadian politics as well.
00:11:45.740 And I think for the first time, we're giving it to a back-to-back winner. It's going to our
00:11:50.140 favorite news site on ratio. That being, of course, CTV News. CTV News, trying to connect with the youth,
00:11:56.000 trying to break into the new markets, have created their own Telegram channel. That's right. They're
00:11:59.840 on Telegram now. And they wanted to tell the world on Twitter that they're now on Telegram.
00:12:04.040 They wrote this. Follow at CTV News on Telegram for breaking news, headlines, and analysis.
00:12:09.160 That tweet got 201 comments to 24 likes. They couldn't even get over 30 likes for their plug of their
00:12:14.560 Telegram channel. Now, here's where it gets a little interesting, and here's where it gets a
00:12:17.540 little funny. CTV News, and along with their other friends in the legacy media, have been trying to
00:12:21.820 tell us that Telegram is where the far-right, where the conspiracy theorists share their awful,
00:12:26.720 racist conspiracy theories. Just check out this headline from CTV News back in 2021.
00:12:31.860 Far-right using COVID-19 theories to grow reach, study shows. The post is one that many white supremacists
00:12:38.360 and far-right extremists are using to expand their reach and recruit followers on the social media
00:12:42.900 platform, Telegram. Telegram, based in the United Arab Emirates, has many different kinds of users
00:12:47.420 around the world, but it has become a favorite tool of some on the far-right, in part because
00:12:51.800 the platform lacks the content moderation of Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms.
00:12:56.020 Like I said, the CTV News tweet couldn't even get more than 30 likes by the time of this recording.
00:13:01.440 And this comment from Palminder Singh got over 152 likes. That is worthy of the ratio of the week.
00:13:05.620 That is a good old smackdown on Twitter. Just the stuff you love to see, right?
00:13:10.660 All he had to write was no. And just like that, he ratios CTV News. Brilliant stuff.
00:13:16.380 This person writes, I'm old enough to remember when you warned Telegram was only for the far-right
00:13:20.140 extremists. My favorite response comes from this user here. Alternatively, you could just try
00:13:24.620 journalism. Exactly, CTV. Why don't you just try journalism? People might respect you for it.
00:13:30.200 And the same goes for the NHL, actually, while you're at it. If you're listening, NHL,
00:13:34.260 why don't you just try to play hockey and leave the politics up to politicians?
00:13:38.740 You might just find that social media users tend to appreciate that more than when you
00:13:44.620 try to inject your politics down everyone's throat.
00:13:47.080 All right, that's going to do it for us this week on the show. Thank you so much for tuning
00:13:49.960 in. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ration.
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00:14:03.140 Take care.
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00:14:05.680 Bye-bye.
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