Transgender men are winning women’s sports events. Where are the feminists？
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Transgender men are bravely winning women s sports events. Where are the feminists? The Ezra LeVant Show is on October 17, 2019, and this is the Ezra Levenant Show, where he talks about it.
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Tonight, transgender men are bravely winning women's sports events.
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It's October 17th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it
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You know, we're in a brief moment in time, this generation,
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when women are treated equally before the law, equal to men.
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It's about to end, I think, as so many other great achievements of Western civilization are about to end.
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It's wonderful that you and I were able to witness them, to experience them, to live through them.
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Like living in Rome, I suppose, right before it was sacked by the Visigoths in the year 410.
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Like living in Constantinople before it fell to the Turks.
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It's sad, though, being at the end of an empire, knowing that the best times are behind us and we're descending.
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But at least we had the good fortune to taste it briefly.
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For millennia, the concept of women's equality was unthinkable.
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And in the course of human history, it's only been a blink of an eye that a woman could vote, for example.
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And, of course, that's still the case that women can't participate in many parts of the world,
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It's still just like the 7th century, women's rights-wise.
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Just a flicker in time, though, when measured against the centuries.
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Did you know it wasn't until 1967 that women were actually allowed to run?
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The first woman ever allowed to run in the Boston Marathon.
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I can't think of any good reason to let women, to not let women run.
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I mean, a woman running, there's thousands of people running.
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A woman running doesn't stop a man from running.
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Elite male athletes are generally faster than elite women athletes at running, anyways.
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There are other sports where women biologically are superior to men.
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But what's the problem with letting women run a marathon?
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So when a woman, that woman there, entered the race 50 years ago,
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and she obscured her identity at first, she sneaked in.
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They tried to grab her and stop her, take her off the court.
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Boston Marathon and women's sport in general has grown.
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It's been greater than ever in the history of people kind, as Justin Trudeau would say.
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I think we're about as close to the mythical Amazons in Wonder Woman as it could be.
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I mean, there's women's sports leagues of every sort.
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There's many women's sports in the Olympics, something unthinkable a few generations ago.
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There's girls' teams in schools and universities.
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And I see in hockey, in Canada all the time, great girl athletes want to and are allowed to play with boys.
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It's great learning team skills, working with others.
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It's good to give young women something else to focus on other than just boys.
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It's a different source of self-worth than just boys.
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And you could even say it's a form of art, especially the more feminine sports.
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But like gymnastics, it's really a women's thing.
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You might be thinking, what are you talking about here?
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I'm remembering that things don't last forever.
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Women are under attack most acutely these days by forces of medieval-style Sharia.
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A few weeks ago, we showed you how young women in Iran are being arrested for the crime of
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not wearing a hijab or doing some dancing alone in their rooms.
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But women are under attack in North America, too, by transgender men, as in men who say they
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want to be women, say they are women, and want to be called women's names and to look like women.
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We've talked about them a fair number of times before.
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In my view, it's extremely important not to be cruel to such people, how it's important
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We've taken you through this heartbreaking study.
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Study at the UCLA by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
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And it shows that about half of transgender people attempt to commit suicide.
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And the number who try and commit suicide actually go up with young men who take hormones to change
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their body or who have surgery to cut off their generals and other irreversible things.
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These people are obviously deeply troubled and indulging their demands that they think will
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I mean, just a few years ago, it was listed as a mental illness to want to cut off parts
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That is a sympathetic study by the Suicide Foundation.
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Up to 60% try and commit suicide depending on if they've had the surgery and the hormones.
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We've talked about being gentle and not being cruel.
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Now, I mentioned this, and I'm sorry for the lengthy introduction about the golden age
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in women's sport, however brief it has been in the history of time, because I see this
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story in the news, and I see others like it, but this one in the news, transgender Canadian
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woman sets off debate about winning Cycling World Championship.
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By the way, before I go further, I don't know if you can see the top of the page there,
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there's a banner ad at the top of the same CBC news page called 14 and Muslim.
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They're doing a documentary normalizing young Canadian girls going to Canadian schools still
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I tell you, women and girls, they're getting it from all directions, aren't they?
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Girls are being told to wear a hijab, not just by their Muslim imams, not just back in
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Pakistan, but now in Canada, in public schools, and now the secular state broadcasters making
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It's got to be tougher now than in a long time to be a girl.
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But back to the story of the day, to transgender sports, the sub-headline in the CBC story is
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critics accused Dr. Rachel McKinnon of cheating after taking gold in women's competition.
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A Canadian transgender athlete has become the first to ever win gold at the UCI Masters
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Dr. Rachel McKinnon from Victoria, BC, finished first in the women's 35 to 44 age bracket in
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But I'm sorry, biologically, that means scientifically, the science of life, you are still male.
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It is no different than telling Elizabeth Warren that she is not a Cherokee Indian, no matter
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She, this athlete, tweeted, first transgender woman world champion ever, with a photo of
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her on the podium flanked by second and third place finishers, Caroline Van Herakhuizen of
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the Netherlands and Jennifer Wagner of the U.S.
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The CBC is Justin Trudeau's state broadcaster, so they are exquisitely politically correct.
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And like I said before, it's a good idea to be polite, especially people who are obviously
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having a tough time in life, having some trouble with themselves.
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If a man said to me, if I met a man in person, he said he was a woman, and he called himself
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Rachel, and he took steps to appear that way, I might go out of politeness.
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Maybe it would be such a convincing presentation, like that old movie Tootsie, that it would be
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Here's a story we've shown you before about a 52-year-old man who says he's not just transgender.
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And he wears a soother and a dummy and has dolls.
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I don't have the imagination to go along with this one.
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There's a picture here, and I'm not trying to gross you out on anything, of, this is in
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My friend and our former reporter, Gavin McInnes, actually interviewed Stephanie, and Gavin
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tells me that the adoptive couple isn't really pretending to be a mummy and daddy.
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Gavin said that this Stephanie Walsh, Paul's his name, told him they sexually abuse him,
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as in they have sex with him while he's pretending to be a child.
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I'm sorry to tell you these things, and I hope you don't turn off the show.
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I won't talk any more about that, but my point is, I don't want anyone to harm Stephanie
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Walsh, Paul Walsh's real name, who actually has a wife that he left and seven kids that
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I don't want people to harm him, but isn't it clear that he's at least harming himself,
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and that by playing along with it, we are abetting that?
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Let me read one more line from this same Daily Mail story.
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That's a tabloid headquartered in the UK, but they did this story about this Canadian
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And they're really hammering this story up, right?
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After two suicide attempts and a bout of homelessness, she found hope in the transgender community
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Yeah, I don't think Paul has done his troubles, do you?
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I think he's just being taken advantage of by different people, personally, physically.
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Even this newspaper article reads more like a freak show than a news story, doesn't it?
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Now, this Dr. Rachel McKinnon in the CBC from this bicycling competition, he's obviously
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But he's obviously out to solve some problem in his mind, to find some emotional answer
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for himself by being a woman that he couldn't get by being a man.
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And it's obvious, at least in one part, for him.
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I'm not saying that's why he's gone transgender.
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I'm just saying that's an itch he likes to scratch.
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And of course, they call him Rachel, and they say her.
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And maybe if I met this person in real life, I would do the same thing out of deference
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Not wanting to hurt their feelings, being sensitive, being respectful.
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But in a news report, in a news medium, is that really the place for deference and euphemism?
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Or maybe it's a place for calm, neutral reportage of the facts.
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In an article in USA Today in January, McKinnon argued her competing is not a question of athletic
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Dr. Rachel McKinnon, we have to promote inclusive sport.
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But to actually compete against women in a women's league.
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Because it's going to drive out every single woman from sports.
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Every man who is not good enough to compete against men can now compete against women.
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We cannot have a woman legally recognized as a trans woman in society and not be recognized
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McKinnon was quoted as saying, focusing on performance advantage is largely irrelevant,
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We shouldn't be worried about trans people taking over the Olympics.
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We should be worried about their fairness in human rights instead.
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Not everyone has to play a role in your simulation.
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The girls that you crushed in sports aren't part of your project.
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But there are women's sports leagues that have physical contact, whether it's wrestling
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or basketball and soccer, where there are often collisions.
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I mean, I mentioned hockey before, and you do see girls choosing to play with boys, but
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they're choosing to go into rougher leagues themselves.
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They're not going into easier leagues to rough up other people.
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And they still have helmets and body armor in hockey.
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This is just plain cheating to have a man compete against women.
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And it's odd when one man has gold and real girls are in second and third.
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But no one has the courage to say the emperor has no clothes here because you'll be called
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Obviously, you'll be violating his human rights.
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And obviously, you'll get a human rights investigation if you say this is wrong.
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Transgender woman files human rights complaint alleging discrimination at Salon.
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That guy there who couldn't even be bothered to shave for the picture.
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A transgender woman in Charlottetown has filed a complaint with the PEI Human Rights Commission
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alleging she was refused service at a local salon because of her transgender status.
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Transgender woman files human rights complaint against Windsor Spa.
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So what, like, you know, are you going to get a facial or something?
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The owner of, let me just read here, the owner of a local waxing spa, waxing spa, is
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mounting a public campaign to clear the name of his business after he was served a human
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rights complaint for denying service to a transgender woman.
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Jason Carruthers, the president of Mad Wax on Walker Road, said he was surprised at the
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legal move since he had explained to the complainant that the spa did not offer Brazilian wax services
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As in, a dude walks into a women's spa and says, can you wax my lady parts?
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Hey, you still going to tell Rachel McKinnon she's not a lady?
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A dude saying, wax my lady parts when he doesn't have lady parts.
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That's more invasive than a bike race, ain't it?
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Forcing the women around you to pretend that you are a woman and do things that they would
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Women change together in change rooms, in swimming pool change rooms.
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Whether there are some things that only women and girls do together, I suppose it is the
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And that's why getting into it is the ultimate proof that you really, truly are a real life
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This is about forcing other people to join you in your fantasy, to join you in your simulation.
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At least Stephanie Walsh found willing people to pretend with him, even though Gavin says
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But these folks want to force other people to go along with their delusion.
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And it's always women and girls who seem to pay the price, isn't it?
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I'm not sure if that's a wig, because when he competes, he competes with very short hair.
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PhD in philosophy, assistant professor at College of Charleston.
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Tweets are my own public intellectual, trans woman, queer chick, strident feminist, athlete,
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I suppose he's sort of an athlete, the kind who likes to compete against girls.
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But I think the rest of those words are not true.
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I don't think it's true that he's a strident feminist.
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In fact, I think he forces himself into women's areas, into women's sports, driving out women.
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He says, I'm an internationally recognized expert on the science and ethics of transgender inclusion in sport.
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But you're an expert in biology and ethics, sort of the same way that you're a woman, sort of the same way you're a championship cyclist.
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And I know you can get the CBC to go along with it, because they're a Trudeau state broadcaster.
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I know other people are afraid of human rights complaints, so they go along with it.
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I'm sorry, you can clearly see physiologically that's a dude.
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Men's legs are huge compared to women's legs, especially the quadriceps, that's the muscle
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But look at what he says as he boasts of beating those two girls, who are clearly girls.
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He says, look at some of these hashtags here, Rainbow Fox Racing, Rainbow Fox.
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Her thigh-ness, quad-ness, quadzilla, quad goals.
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If you were born a man, which Rachel was, you have male DNA, you've grown up as a boy and
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then a man, you have a man's body, including massive quadriceps and hamstrings.
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You're not a girl who worked on your legs in the gym every day, eight hours a day for
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Let's read some more of those Instagram tags there.
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I don't know if you can see that about halfway through the middle there.
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The silver medalist here should be the gold medalist.
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The bronze medalist should be the silver medalist.
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Sorry, dude, you can say it, but it ain't any truer than Elizabeth Warren saying she's Cherokee.
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A little further down, social change, social justice.
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There's no justice in you pushing out girls from a girls' cycling contest.
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I think it's a bit like the days of girls being run out of the Boston Marathon again.
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But hey, at least this one vegan activist can feel good about himself.
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And I guess the girls, well, they can go back to what exactly?
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Is there anything that they can do just as girls without some angry man telling them what and how and whom?
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Well, as you know, here at The Rebel, we like to tell you stories from around the world.
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Because, of course, we're interested in the world.
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But also, if they provide us any warning or lessons to us here in North America.
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That's why we focus on Tommy Robinson in the United Kingdom.
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That's why we focus on Kiert Wilders in the Netherlands.
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But a very interesting case is that of Italy that, for the last half year, has been led by a populist, nationalist, democratic party that has run contrary to the European Union and the globalism that is promoted by Angela Merkel and others.
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And it's something I'd like to follow more in the months ahead.
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And joining us today to help us make sense of it is a freelance journalist I've started to follow on Twitter for her reports, Alessandra Bocci, who joins us via Skype from Milan, Italy.
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Alessandra, what a pleasure to have you on the show.
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You have done a lot of journalism about the migrant crisis, about how toppling Muammar Gaddafi has basically opened the floodgates of migrants across the Mediterranean.
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Before we talk about Italy, maybe you can give us a minute on that experience, because I think it informs Italy today, this experience of mass migration in little rickety rafts across the Mediterranean for the past couple of years.
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So I actually started working as a reporter on Libya from Tunisia.
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And really, since the overthrow of Gaddafi, the country Libya is just overrun by this anarchical state, really.
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And it's become a place where migrants just pass through and human traffickers can operate freely.
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And obviously, the closest country in Europe to Libya is Italy.
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And so Italy has really taken the burden of this migrant crisis for the past few years.
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So the crisis really began with the toppling of Gaddafi, which is something that France and the United Kingdom and the United States especially pushed for, and which Italy was actually opposed to because it had a good deal with Gaddafi at the time to really stop this migrant crisis from taking place.
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As you point out, they're passing through because it's really a failed state, a rogue state.
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Many of them are from Central and Southern Africa, aren't they?
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Yes, most of the migrants are actually from sub-Saharan Africa.
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And I have many Libyan sources who tell me that they're causing a lot of problems inside Libya as well, because now that the country doesn't have borders anymore, these sub-Saharan militias can come in Libya freely.
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And they're really clashing with the indigenous Libyans.
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So it's causing a lot of problems in Libya as well and in North Africa in general.
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And it's something the corporate media really doesn't cover, how the migrant crisis is affecting North African countries as well.
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Now, for years, and I think it would be years, this migrant wave was not resisted by international NGOs, the United Nations, the European Union.
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There were government-funded NGOs that would actually, I think it's fair to say, engage in human trafficking.
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They would, if not the actual ships paid for by NGOs, they would go out and rescue dilapidated dinghies and bring them back to the European side rather than return them to the African side.
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So these NGOs that operate in the Mediterranean, they actually pick up the migrants about, in some cases, 12 kilometers from Libya's shores.
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And they were caught colluding with the smugglers to bring these migrants into Europe.
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It's actually facilitating what is really a modern-day form of slave trade.
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And, yes, they've been caught doing this before.
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Now the problem has more or less been resolved since this new government in Italy and with the Interior Minister Salvini, who's taken a harsher stance, which has actually caused less death in the Mediterranean.
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Because, of course, the fewer boats leave the shores, the fewer migrants risk their lives.
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So it's actually been positive, not just for Europe and Italy in terms of security, but also for these migrants themselves.
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Now let's talk about that, because what we've been talking about the past few minutes was just to set the stage.
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I mean, a lot of Canadians know what happened in Libya, and, in fact, we had 400 Canadian troops, mainly in the Navy, and also the Air Force, helped depose Gaddafi.
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I think it was just Stephen Harper feeling compelled to support Barack Obama in whatever Obama's scheme was at the day.
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Tell me a little bit about this new political party.
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It's not a new party, but it's a new government, the Five Star and the League.
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You mentioned Matteo Salvini, the Interior Minister.
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Tell me a little bit about the government that has been running Italy since, is it June?
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It's a really interesting question, and it's something that it's not really discussed,
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because it's a coalition between two very different parties who are united in this anti-establishment sentiment.
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So the Five Star Movement is really more anti-establishment from the left, and the League is more anti-establishment from the right.
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It's like having Jeremy Corbyn sort of have a coalition with Nigel Farage, you know?
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And it's very scary for the EU, because it has both those anti-establishment forces coming together.
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Well, that is fascinating, but obviously Matteo Salvini, and I've started to follow him on Twitter.
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Twitter allows me to translate his tweets, which are almost always in Italian.
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Now, traditionally, the left is for open borders and open migration.
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Are you saying that the left-wing part of this coalition is comfortable with Matteo Salvini's decision to close the ports, to enforce the borders?
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Is the left-wing part of the coalition comfortable with that?
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There have been some internal, let's say, there has been some opposition in some cases by some members.
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But the head of the Five Star Movement, Luigi Di Maio, has been very supportive of this policy.
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And he was the first one to actually call the NGO activities in the Mediterranean as a fraud and as a taxi service.
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So the Five Star Movement is a little complicated, because they have so many different people inside the movement.
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But in general, the leadership, yes, supports Matteo Salvini's stance on migration.
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He says things, I'm going to say in a Trump-like way, and I'm sure he would say he's different than Trump.
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Everyone likes to say they're different than Trump.
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And if a reporter puts something to him, do you mean to say, he doesn't back down, he doesn't blink.
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I saw him the other day saying, I'm for immigrants who integrate and are successful, but the rest are fake and they should go home.
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But that reminds me of something Trump would say when he says, I'm sorry, they've got to go back.
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Yes, in terms of personality, I would say that both of them present themselves as sort of these men of the people.
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You know, they're very close to regular people and their concerns right now.
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He communicates in a way that the average person can relate to.
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And in many ways, he's also kind of funny and amusing.
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And of course, Matteo Salvini supported Trump during the election.
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In some countries, in Canada, for example, our Conservative Party is terrified of any comparison with Trump
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and actually goes out of their way to disparage him.
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I want to talk about the news that caused me to reach out to you today.
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You mentioned Salvini closed the ports until he came along.
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And that caused some of the migrants to go further west to France.
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Now, tell me about the current quarrel with Emmanuel Macron.
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Macron has disparaged Salvini and Italy for closing the ports.
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But tell me what they've done in the last few days.
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So it all started actually before the summer when Emmanuel Macron called Italy's behavior in closing its ports disgusting.
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It wasn't actually Emmanuel Macron himself, but it was his spokesperson.
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And he himself criticized this government's position on immigration.
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But France itself has been very harsh towards migrants.
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In fact, in northern Italy, the French police invaded Italian territory to push back migrants who were trying to get into France.
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And there was one pregnant Nigerian woman who ended up giving birth in a hospital in Turin in Italy.
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So it's just a hypocrisy, which is very annoying for Italians, you know, to be lectured on welcoming all these immigrants when France itself and Emmanuel Macron himself has sanctioned very harsh behavior towards immigrants.
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Now, I understand that a group of police, French police, tried to drop off a truckload or a vehicle full of migrants.
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But in the last few days, the tensions actually got much worse because apparently the French police just dumped a truck of migrants in northern Italy in the woods.
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But obviously, it's a very, you know, very strange mistake to be making.
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And he said that it was an international embarrassment.
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And also, what are they doing with these migrants?
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They're just like leaving these people in the middle of nowhere, you know, unaccompanied.
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And no human rights organization has said anything.
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And Emmanuel Macron has still not said anything about this issue either.
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Now, I've seen, I follow Salvini, and you're right.
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Not only is he a very plain-spoken person, like Trump, but he's got a sense of humor.
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He also seems, on social media at least, to be making a network with other nationalist populists around Europe.
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If I recall, I saw him with Marine Le Pen of the Front National in France.
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And I see just this week, just this weekend, I think, the alternative for Deutschland, a similar party in Germany, had breakthroughs in elections in Bavaria.
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Is there an international nationalist populist movement in Europe?
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And should that be encouraging to other countries in Europe that now feel absolutely subordinated by the European Union, Angela Merkel, and globalist open borders types like that?
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Yes, I would say that the lines are being drawn right now because we've had, basically, all the countries had their major elections.
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And so you have Austria, which has turned populist.
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And then you have, of course, Hungary and Poland and the V4 countries.
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I'm not sure the United Kingdom, what position it has.
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It definitely showed some animosity towards the EU by voting for Brexit.
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But at the same time, it's unclear what the Conservative government with Theresa May is doing about it.
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But in terms of continental Europe, you have these populist countries.
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And then you have France and Germany, which are really the last pillars of, you know, liberalism.
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Or they represent the EU establishment against this populist uprising.
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One last question, and it goes to how far gone things are.
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Just demographically and the open borders and the slowness of the political system to respond,
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I don't know if it's possible for them to pull back from the open borders globalist direction they're on.
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If I recall, I think it was Salvini or someone in the coalition talked about deporting 500,000 illegal migrants.
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I don't even know if it's physically possible to do that, let alone legally possible.
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But that implies that there's a huge problem that they're trying to reverse.
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Is Matteo Salvini making real changes, or is he just giving rhetorical comfort to people who want to change?
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He is definitely making real changes, but it's very hard because he's just against this very strong current,
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which is, you know, the establishment, which has cracked down on him very hard,
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like they did in the United States with Donald Trump.
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So just in closing the country's ports, he faced so much backlash, and it was very hard for him to do that,
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So the next step, obviously, is the next promise he made was deporting those 500,000 migrants who are in the country illegally
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and who therefore should be deported if their asylum application doesn't count.
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It's just about less than 10% of asylum applications actually are valid.
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But the problem is that the backlash he's facing, but he's making a lot of progress, I would say.
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He passed recently a decree that ended or limited this humanitarian protection law that we had in the country,
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which really allowed anyone to come in and apply for asylum and really stay there indefinitely.
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And he's also passed some decrees in terms of what he perceives as a threat of Islam in the country.
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So the surveillance of mosques or the immediate expulsion of criminals or people who have a criminal record.
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Yeah, I saw him announcing that he had deported some imams.
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Listen, Alessandra, what a pleasure to catch up with you via Skype.
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I hope that we can talk to you again in the future.
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I'm fascinated by Italy, and it's been a crash course for me.
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I'll be honest, I never really paid close attention to its politics until this charismatic figure, Matteo Salvini, came along.
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He truly is as exciting for me as Trump is, and it gives me some hope for the continent.
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What should people in Canada and the United States keep an eye peeled for in Italy in the months ahead?
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Well, I think there's not much good reporting on Italy, but it's a very important country right now in Europe because it's really, you know, it's the first country in Western Europe to turn populist.
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And it's actually the first populist government in the Western world after Donald Trump.
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So a lot is happening, and it's definitely a country that isn't, that's underrated right now for maybe some reasons that have to do with an agenda in the corporate media.
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Well, thank you for helping us cover this important story.
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I am impressed with what I read from you on Twitter and journalism.
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And hopefully we can talk to you again. Great to see you today.
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All right. That's Alessandra Bocci, a journalist based in Milan, Italy.
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And hopefully we can talk with her in the months ahead to see how Italy progresses.
00:40:53.880
Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about Elizabeth Warren's DNA test, basically saying she's the whitest woman in America.
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Alan writes, well, I am as white as the freshly fallen snow, but I have been told that I have some Mohawk blood from the family sojourn in Ontario.
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What entitlements am I entitled to? Where do I sign up for it? Can I teach you Ryerson or U of T?
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You know, that's the trouble with a race-based society.
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And that's how, yesterday I said, deal with the devil, soul to soul.
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Elizabeth Warren is thinking, what have I gotten myself into?
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If she didn't lie to say she was aboriginal, she would not have gone on at Harvard.
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I mean, I hear she's smart, and let's just take that as accurate.
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You've got to be top 1% of 1% of 1% to be a law professor at Harvard.
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I mean, that's the smartest people in the country.
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She got that job because of a set-aside, a racial set-aside.
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She would not be running for Senate without it.
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But the trouble is, when you start to quantify either benefits or punishments based on race,
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If you have one drop of—how did you know if someone was a slave?
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How did you know if someone had to be in the back of the bus or the front of the bus?
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How did the Nazis know who was too Jewish, just Jewish enough, or not enough Jew in them to be a—
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they came up with a concept in German, Mischling, which means mixling.
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So if you had one Jewish parent, you were too Jewish, you were sent off.
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If you had one Jewish grandparent, you were a mixling—I think they called it a mixling second degree.
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And they wouldn't kill you, but you certainly couldn't have a prestigious job.
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And then a mixling third degree, you wouldn't be in the SS or anything, but they just wouldn't mention it.
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And I know that's kind of—in the States, slavery.
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Have you ever heard of these bizarre words like quadroon and octoroon?
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And that's how they did it when you give and take rights based on race.
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How about we just judge people, as Martin Luther King said,
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by the content of their character, not the color of their skin?
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Let's not lose sight of the fact that in the middle of the circus that Warren tried to gain political advantage by playing the race card.
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She's no more Cherokee than I am, having been born in Eastern Europe.
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Yeah, and I say again, even this DNA test, and I tried to make this point clear yesterday.
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They compare your DNA against samples they have in their big database.
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But there are so few actual American Indian genetic samples that they have that I don't know if this came clear yesterday.
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This doctor, this genius doctor, Bustamante, he substituted Peruvian and Colombian DNA for Cherokee DNA.
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You can't just say, oh, well, they're all Hispanic.
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No, vanilla, if you actually look at it, it has specks of black in it.
00:45:01.260
Someone with the, I'm guessing this is not a real name.
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I'm guessing this ain't the name your mama gave you.
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Whitey McPrivilege writes, I would just like to take the opportunity to say it one more time that it's okay to be white.
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I think we gotta, I think what's so weird is that, I think, have you ever watched that movie Borat?
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Like I said, you're not supposed to laugh at them, but they were too funny.
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It, it's about this guy from, I don't know, Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan or something who comes
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to America and does absolutely crass and crude things and everyone in America sort of cringes
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Like, so he goes to a, um, you know, Borat's a character, you know, he goes to a dating
00:46:12.800
service and he says outrageous things and he goes, to me, Borat is a comedy but it's
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also proof of the American and Canadian nature that when someone comes over and they're rude
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They will just, like, it was, it showed how tolerant Americans were of some crazy guy from
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And my point is, white, liberal America, Canada is so tolerant, so bend over backwards for the
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other that the logical conclusion of that, of bending over backwards for the other, for
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the Borat's, is to hate yourself, I guess, to bend over backwards so far your spine shatters
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and you love the other so much you loathe yourself.
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I think it's perfectly fine and I think it's much healthier to love others without hating
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And you can love minorities and you can love new immigrants and you can help others and
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you can help the Borats of the world come to Canada and learn how we do things without
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I don't know if you, let me know what you think of my Borat analogy.
00:47:33.080
On my interview with Hillel Neuer about Canada's controversial funding of the UN Relief Works
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Agency, Ken writes, I'm a follower of UN Watch.
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He's based there in Geneva because that's where that whole human rights apparatus of
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But they have their human rights office in Geneva.
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And our friend Raheel Raza often goes there to speak truth to power also.
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So thank you for your compliments and hopefully we'll have him back on.
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Lots of talk about different identities, racial, gender, or the like.
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Imagine being a parent of a girl who trains and practices her whole life, has a real sisterhood
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with fellow girls where they value merit and hard work and teamwork and physical fitness
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And you go to a competition and some dude crushes you.
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I think there's a way to be respectful and kind to transgender folks without, I suppose,
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like in my Borat analogy, without hating yourself.
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I think the kind of radical feminist or whatever McKinnon said he was, that's just a lie.
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I think he's actually driving women out of sport and it troubles me.
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You can't even talk about them in most other media.
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You say the word transgender, they just say, no, cut off the mic in most media because they
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Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,