Juno News - November 24, 2022


WTF happened to hockey？


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The NHL created the first ever transgender hockey league, and then got hounded by a Twitter user who dared to question the premise that men should play against women in professional hockey. Why not just try to play hockey and leave the politics up to politicians?

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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 0.75
00:00:27.920 sports organization, has been completely taken over by the woke lunatics, the gender ideologues, 0.99
00:00:33.640 and the critical race theorists. And one of the worst examples of this, for me at least, as a 0.90
00:00:37.720 Canadian, is the complete takeover of the NHL. The idea that we need to just fundamentally destroy 0.57
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 1.00
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 0.99
00:02:04.340 on, with all the force-fed politics on the screen? Let me know in the comments what you guys think. 0.88
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, 0.89
00:02:19.320 that was the one thing the game was missing. That we needed more transgender athletes in the game. 1.00
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, 1.00
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. 0.96
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 0.88
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 1.00
00:04:33.380 the league or you are bigots at NHL. Exactly. Why aren't there any women playing in the NHL? 1.00
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 1.00
00:04:55.360 with a bunch of trans women, men, playing against women on the ice. Well, the reality is, guys, 0.63
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 0.95
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 0.98
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 1.00
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 1.00
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 0.99
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 0.99
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 0.92
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, 0.79
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. 0.98
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, 0.95
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.
00:13:52.460 Here we go.
00:14:02.080 Here we go.
00:14:03.140 Take care.
00:14:03.680 Here we go.
00:14:04.680 Here we go.
00:14:05.680 Bye-bye.
00:14:10.180 Bye.
00:14:14.840 Bye-bye.
00:14:21.320 Bye-bye.