In this week's episode of Relatable, Allie talks about her favorite boy band, the Backstreet Boys, and the time her dad made her rip off her shirt at a concert. Also, Ron DeSantis is taking some special treatment away from Disney because of their response to the parental rights bill known by critics as the "Don't Say Gay" bill.
00:13:14.320Remember, progressivism really doesn't believe in human nature like that.
00:13:18.060They really believe that human beings are able to just kind of be molded as society and
00:13:25.000ideology and cultural and social trends see fit, whereas the mind sees fit.
00:13:30.040This is a long philosophical history going back hundreds of years.
00:13:34.460This idea that we really don't have any kind of fixed nature, that people can be changed and molded as those in charge want them to be changed and molded or as they declare themselves to be.
00:13:47.680And you should definitely read Love Thy Body by Nancy Piercy, who does a brilliant job of discussing all of this.
00:13:54.780So our differences, our disagreements about whether or not a man can become a woman, whether or not we should be talking to little kids about this stuff really goes back to Genesis 1, as all things do.
00:14:05.560Like, who do you believe is in charge?
00:14:13.640Until we understand the fundamentals of this and the fundamental disagreements between queer theory and critical theory and Christianity and Christian thought, like we're not going to be able to have real productive, substantive conversations about this.
00:14:32.160And that's part of the reason also why I just completely am against any form of conservatism that isn't conserving the basics of Genesis 1, that God made us male and female.
00:14:47.380That's what procreation should look like, because that is the basis for conservatism.
00:14:52.240If we're not conserving the most fundamental parts of human existence and the nucleus of society, which is the family, then we're not going to get all of these other parts of conservatism that we want.
00:15:04.360A lot of people disagree with that, but that's just the case.
00:15:07.720I mean, it'll take a few years just to prove us right.
00:15:10.820And actually, we are seeing it being proven right right now.
00:15:13.260We've abandoned all of those fundamentals, biblical fundamentals as a society, and now we are getting people who think that it's okay to talk to little kids about transitioning and being a different gender.
00:15:27.100As Libs of TikTok shows us on a daily basis, there are many teachers who are so brazen to talk about their predation and talking about these kinds of things on TikTok.
00:15:56.280And obviously, Disney World, with their wokeness and the ideology that they purport, and also their very troubling history of having employees that have been booked for child sexual predation, they are against this.
00:16:14.400And lots of Democrats and the White House have rallied alongside them.
00:16:19.580And Florida has said to loop all the way back.
00:16:21.980I know we kind of went on a detour to loop all the way back.
00:16:24.800Ron DeSantis has said, look, you're not going to get special privileges if you do this, if you push back against Floridians.
00:16:31.980And if you act that way, basically, if you threaten us, they threaten to leave.
00:16:35.900And they tried to basically wage war against this law in Ron DeSantis.
00:16:41.140And Ron DeSantis said, sorry, you're not going to get the special privileges that you have enjoyed for so long if you wage war against Floridians.
00:16:51.420As DeSantis wrote in a campaign fundraising email on Wednesday, if Disney wants to pick a fight, they chose the wrong guy.
00:16:57.800As governor, I was elected to put the people of Florida first, and I will not allow a woke corporation based in California to run our state.
00:17:06.360And so they're taking away some of the privileges that this district enjoyed.
00:17:13.360It was called or it is called the Reedy Creek Improvement District.
00:17:17.800And the control it gave Disney over 27,000 acres in Florida was a crucial element.
00:17:24.000This is according to the AP and the company's plans to build near Orlando in the 1960s.
00:17:28.680The company officials said they needed autonomy to plant a futuristic city along with the theme park.
00:19:44.280They don't need Ron DeSantis to set an example.
00:19:47.200Don't you see how the White House and Democrats already collude with big tech to push down the voices that they don't want heard?
00:19:53.380To try to stop the circulation of stories like the Hunter Biden laptop that they don't want circulating before an election.
00:19:59.680Don't you see how they already come together to try to de-platform narratives and people and voices and opinions and dissent that they don't like?
00:20:10.760I mean, they are already in bed with some of the biggest and most powerful corporations in the country to push the agenda that they want to push.
00:20:21.120When's the last time that you saw a progressive author or progressive voice get kicked off one of these major platforms because they said something that was, you know, legitimate, but just kind of unpopular outside of the mainstream?
00:20:35.540That happens all the time to conservatives.
00:20:38.500They're always threatened to get kicked off platforms because they say true things like a man can't become a woman.
00:20:43.440That doesn't happen on the other side.
00:20:45.260It doesn't matter how many false narratives Nicole Hannah-Jones or someone on the left pushes.
00:20:50.540It doesn't matter how often they say something that isn't true, like a man can become a woman.
00:20:56.000If you are Charlie Kirk or you are the Babylon Bee or you are Tucker Carlson or you are Megan Murphy or one of these people who have stated the truth about gender, like you're going to get your platform yanked away from you.
00:21:07.940Or maybe you're going to get shadow bans.
00:22:06.680And they reportedly decided not to help with the distribution of vaccines until after Biden took office.
00:22:15.160They had the capability of doing that when Trump was still in office.
00:22:18.540But then they decided not to help out until Biden was in office.
00:22:21.900I know there are lots of different thoughts about the vaccine, but they believed, obviously, that it was going to be this life-saving thing.
00:22:29.420And they decided it was more important to suspend this life-saving vaccine for political reasons because they didn't like Trump.
00:22:40.680Like, that is the government colluding with corporations to mistreat people, to discriminate against people.
00:22:48.980And conservatives should be against that.
00:22:53.860At one point, liberals were also against corporatism.
00:22:57.340They were against government power trying to take people's rights away.
00:23:02.660Not in the constitutional sense, because I understand the Constitution is limiting government power.
00:23:07.060But in the sense that rights actually can be restricted by major corporations insofar as they limit your ability to freely and significantly exercise those rights, especially when platforms like Twitter so dominate the conversation.
00:23:27.500And then they say, well, you know, just create a new platform.
00:23:55.580And I don't think most Republicans want that anymore.
00:23:57.880Look, the only way to battle woke capital is through things like this.
00:24:02.680And if Republicans are not going to do what they can with the power that they have when they have it to push back against these corporations that are basically throwing up a middle finger to the Americans that don't share their values, the many millions of Americans that don't share their values, then really what are Republicans good for?
00:24:20.560Gone are the days of Republicans just being the party of tax cuts and the party of deregulation.
00:26:29.460And then when you respond or when you say, hey, this person is doing this bad thing.
00:26:34.400This person is doing this mean or stupid or whatever thing.
00:26:37.500Then that person who first did the bad thing claims that they are a victim because someone talked about the fact that they are doing the bad thing.
00:26:46.620And that's kind of the role that the left plays.
00:27:26.620We cannot come to the table with neutrality.
00:27:29.260We have to come to the table saying, you know what?
00:27:31.440I don't like this curriculum that is in Florida schools or is in my schools.
00:27:36.120Here's the curriculum that I think that we should be teaching.
00:27:38.000I think our kids should be learning the classics.
00:27:40.160I think our kids should know about the Bible and learn about the Bible in schools.
00:27:44.220It doesn't mean that the teacher has to say, you know, this is a revelation from God.
00:27:49.800But they need to know the Bible because it is the most influential book in the entire history of the world and also happened to lay the foundation for Western civilization.
00:28:00.940I think that they should learn about the family.
00:28:03.760I think that they should learn, if they're going to learn this in an age-appropriate way, that being a boy is good, being a girl is good.
00:28:11.360Like, we need to not be afraid to push back with good ideas.
00:28:14.920I'm not talking about right-wing imperialism.
00:28:18.020I am talking about replacing the bad ideas of leftism with the good ideas of conservatism and not letting corporations or any institution get away with their bullying.
00:28:27.220Because when you call out the bully and you push back against the bully and they say, oh, you're the one that's bullying, you don't need to respond and say, oh, I'm so sorry, you're absolutely right.
00:28:36.680You need to do what Ron DeSantis does, and you just need to double down.
00:29:04.300That is some sort of crony capitalism.
00:29:07.040You could even say that's some sort of fascism if you wanted to go there.
00:29:11.020That is the government colluding with corporations and corporations getting so powerful that they actually impact your life to the point to where you can't fully exercise your rights as a parent or as a person.
00:45:21.740It helps them also in reporting things like sexual abuse and any kind of interaction with someone that they need to tell their parent about.
00:45:30.480They need to be able to describe that person accurately.
00:45:33.000They need to be able to know the difference between themselves and someone else.
00:45:36.180It's really important for kids to know this category and know how to speak and know how to describe things out in the world.
00:45:42.820And the mass confusion and delusion we are putting on kids in the name of inclusion and the name of empathy is going to be so destructive.
00:45:51.560So Christians, let's be clearer than ever.
00:45:54.240It goes all the way back to Genesis 1.
00:45:56.100If we can't affirm Genesis 1, there's no way we can affirm the rest of Scripture.
00:45:59.680And let us push back against bad, destructive ideas with good, whole, and healthy ideas.
00:46:07.100And thankfully, the counsel of God gives us those things.
00:46:10.620We don't have to wonder what wisdom is.
00:46:13.440And let us be completely unabashed in declaring those things and being a refuge of clarity and courage for the rest of the world who are victims of this kind of chaos and moral anarchy that we are seeing.
00:46:26.900All right, guys, that's it for this week.
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