Ep 759 ｜ Book-Banning Brigade Comes for Roald Dahl
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In this episode of Relatable, Allie and Bryn talk about Roald Dahl and what he meant to them growing up. They also react to some clips that have been circulating on social media and try to speak clarity into the chaos.
Transcript
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Roald Dahl's children's books are being edited to be less offensive.
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Makeup influencer Jeffree Star is being applauded by conservatives.
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And Don Lemon says Nikki Haley is past her prime at the ripe old age of 51.
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You know, because the president that we currently have is so vivacious and sharp.
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Also, wow, if you're watching this on YouTube, my hair is kind of wild today.
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So you probably can't really tell underneath the lights and the makeup,
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but it's like starting to like crack and peel and things like that.
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If you need to know more about my sunburn and my PSA about sunscreen,
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We're going to talk about some, I mean, fun things to talk about.
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They're a little bit more lighthearted, even though they are serious,
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because we're talking about our culture taking a free fall into utter stupidity.
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But it can be a little bit lighter, feel a little better to talk about these things
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rather than talk about things like nuclear war, right?
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So we're going to talk about some of these culture war issues
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and react to some clips that have been circulating on Twitter
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and just look at what in the world this says about our culture.
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And then, of course, try to speak clarity into the chaos.
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Okay, first, we're going to talk about this Roald Dahl story,
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which I just find his name to be really difficult to say for some reason.
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I think it's because of where the L's are located in his name.
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And even though I read his short stories growing up,
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I don't know if I've ever actually really said his name out loud.
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So I had to confirm how to say his name before I started this.
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I might just shorten it to RD or something like that,
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It's difficult to pronounce, especially for a children's author.
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You're probably familiar with some of his most popular works.
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James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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He wrote not just the book, but also the script.
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And then he wrote the script for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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I think I get that confused in my head with bed knobs and broomsticks.
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I can't really remember the plot of either of them, but I know that I watched them both
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So he's kind of known for dark comedy, unexpected endings.
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Like if you think about Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, like it's a little
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It's a little weird that the girl turns into a blueberry.
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It's a little sad that the one kid gets sucked up into the chocolate tube.
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And actually, that's why I didn't love watching the old Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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I remember thinking, like it's really sad that Grandpa Joe and the grandparents have
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And then, oh, all of a sudden you get a golden ticket and Grandpa Joe, he's no longer paralyzed.
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He can run around because he has the prospect of money.
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So there are all kinds of things like this in Roald Dahl's works that are a little bit
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depressing, like a little bit dark and yet clever and funny and creative.
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This was an animated movie that I did not want to watch growing up because it depressed me.
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Matilda, I did like Matilda, even though also depressing.
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I probably should not have watched this movie growing up.
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I wouldn't recommend allowing your kids to watch it.
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But the part where they make the fat kid, and actually that has something to do with
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what we're about to talk about, eat the whole chocolate cake in front of the entire student
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So anyway, those are the kind of themes that you see in Roald Dahl's book.
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So they're not without some, I guess, some controversy, at least as far as parents maybe
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not wanting to promote all of his books to their very young children because of some of
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But that's not why he is at the center of controversy in the education system today.
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The reason why his books are now being called to be removed or be sanitized and edited is
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They're being rewritten to remove language deemed offensive.
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Roald Dahl's children's books are being rewritten to remove language deemed offensive by the publisher
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Puffin Puffin Puffin has hired sensitivity readers.
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Imagine if you spent tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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You're in debt hundreds of thousands of dollars because you got your English degree at some
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liberal arts college only to become a sensitivity reader for Puffin.
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I'm so sorry to rewrite chunks of the author's text to make sure the books can continue to be
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enjoyed by all today, resulting in extensive changes across Dahl's work.
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Edits have been made to descriptions of characters' physical appearances.
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The word fat has been cut from every new edition of relevant books, while the word ugly has also
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Guys, these are objective descriptions of things.
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But, okay, what if you were writing a story about how bullying is bad?
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What if you were trying to write about an antagonist?
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And the antagonist is the one going around calling people fat and ugly.
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So this actually, I think, is going to confuse not just, you know, objective descriptors of what
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And some things, by the way, are objectively ugly.
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So not only does it confuse that, but it could actually confuse depictions of right and wrong
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Isn't that part of the journey of reading comprehension that kids are able to figure out,
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It's like they think that kids have no comprehension, that people have no comprehension or no discernment
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whatsoever to be able to pick up on, like, okay, what would be nice for me to say in a
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Like, they're just going to repeat and internalize everything they read.
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Look, there are plenty of books that I read that I'm sure weren't representative of me or
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were maybe insensitive to some things I believed.
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Heck, as like a conservative Christian, most of the things that we consume are insensitive
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Some of that stuff, I'll just choose not to read because I don't want to read it or not
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necessarily because I'm offended by it, but because it's not necessarily edifying.
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And then other things I will choose to read because it's a good book.
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Or I am just trying to expand and exercise my mind with the writing that I am reading
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And I'm not necessarily drawing a moral lesson from it or I'm not applying the morality and
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Like, if I read a book that said, you know, people that don't wear sunscreen are really freaking
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stupid and they should never be let outside again.
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But what if that's like a character in a book who's saying that and that is a part of the
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Am I supposed to say, you know what, sensitivity reader graduated from Columbia to do this job.
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Are these adjectives that we are not allowed to say anymore?
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Like, wasn't this part of Winston's job in 1984 to try to reconstruct the language, to
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try to minimize the language so you minimize people's understanding of reality and minimize
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the range of consciousness so people don't even have the words to describe the things
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I haven't even gotten through this article yet because I have so much to say.
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Okay, so the guy who was drinking the chocolate in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and gets
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sucked up the tube is now described as enormous because that's better.
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If you walk up to someone and you say, you know what?
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I know your whole life you have been called fat.
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In the Twits, Mrs. Twit is no longer ugly and beastly.
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Hundreds of changes were made to the original text and some passages not written by Dahl.
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Hundreds of changes were made to the original text.
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Some passages not written by Dahl have been added.
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But the Roald Dahl story company said, it's not unusual to review the language during a
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new print run and any changes were small and carefully considered.
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It's unusual to take out the word fat and the word ugly.
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Like, it's okay for those words to be included in things and for me to then have the opportunity
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to talk to my kids and to say, you know, that's not something that we call people.
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You know, that's, you know, an objective description or whatever it is.
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But you can have those conversations with your kids or you can choose to not have your kids
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But when we get in the business of editing books because they might be slightly offensive
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to one portion of the population, we saw this with Dr. Seuss a couple years ago.
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We saw Dr. Seuss being taken off the shelves in school libraries.
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We were told that Dr. Seuss could be offensive because some of his books perpetuate racial stereotypes
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about Japanese people, maybe about black people.
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People were saying that Cat in the Hat was actually like the main character was actually
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modeled after some stereotype of a black woman, which I don't think any toddler, any young
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person reading Cat in the Hat would ever deduce or ever think or ever apply to their perspective
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We are spiraling into ultra sensitivity to where I think, especially when it comes to Dr.
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I mean, Dr. Seuss, as a person, as an author, his works has probably done more to help kids
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learn how to read, not just read to themselves, but read out loud than any other author that
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And when we have the problem right now of a majority of fourth graders are reading at a
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kindergarten level or below, I don't think the biggest issue that we're facing is how
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Like, if this is a book that a young person wants to read and can read and is helping them
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and it happens to say fat in it, I would say that that calculation, like, it works out in
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Obviously, like, there are limits to what we want our kids to read.
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Absolutely, we want them to be imbibing things that are good and right and true.
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But I don't think that these adjectives qualify as something that's evil that our kids shouldn't
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Um, in The Witches, which is something that he wrote, a paragraph explaining that witches
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are bald beneath their wigs ends with the new line.
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There are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs, and there is certainly nothing
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In previous editions of James and the Giant Peach, the centipede sings, Ant Sponge was
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terrifically fat and tremendously fat flabby at that, and Ant Spiker was thin as a wire and
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Both verses have been removed, and in their place are these rhymes.
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Brute, well, I thought brute was male, um, and deserved to be squashed by the fruit.
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Ant Spiker was much of the same and deserves half the blame.
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If you wanted to add those to this story, but again, the reason that they're doing it,
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because it's wrong to call someone flabby, like, what if that's an important part of
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Also, I think physical descriptions, which it seems like they're removing or caveating all
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I think they're really important for kids' imagination.
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References to female characters have disappeared.
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Uh, Miss Trunchbull in Matilda, once a most formidable female, is now, oh, okay, a most
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So now they're saying woman because, does it have to do with trans stuff?
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Because female, we have been told, indicates, like, your sex and indicates your actual chromosomes,
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but woman is someone who simply identifies as woman.
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I don't know if that's the motivation here, but it seems really silly.
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Gender neutral terms have been added in places where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's Oompa
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Just in case someone out there is reading, one little girl out there is reading, it's
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Well, now that little girl's mother can look at her earnestly in the eye and say, you can,
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baby, you can, the cloud men in James and the Giant Peach have become cloud people.
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See, now, now the little girl, little toddler girl, Abigail, she can look at her mom and
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say, but mom, I, I didn't know that I could be a cloud person.
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I thought only my brother Tom could be a cloud man.
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And now that there's cloud people, now, now I want to be a cloud person.
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She can say, yes, yes, you're absolutely right.
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Puffin enrolled and the Roald Dahl Story Company made the changes in conjunction with Inclusive
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Minds, which is an organization, um, that, uh, describes itself as a collective for people
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who are passionate about inclusion and accessibility in children's literature.
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Uh, Alexandra Strick, a co-founder of Inclusive Minds said they aim to ensure authentic representation
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by working closely with the book world and with those who have lived experience of any
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Look, not all books are going to represent you, are going to represent every facet of
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Books aren't necessarily so you can see yourself reflected at it.
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I'm not saying all forms of representation are bad.
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I'm not, I'm not saying that, but to write a book for the purpose of representation solely,
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I think that that actually is probably going to compromise your ability to just tell a good
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story and certainly going back retroactively editing stories to try to match all of our
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I remember I had a mom on and she was a mom whose speech went viral at the school board
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And, uh, she was talking about this terrible book that was being presented to her eighth
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And there were multiple, actually, there was one that described the different ways that
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this person wanted to commit suicide in very graphic terms.
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We're talking about her 13, 14 year old being told that he can read this book in eighth grade
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provided, provided for him by his public school.
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And then this is in a conservative area, by the way, in a conservative state.
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And then, um, middle schooler was also given by the English teacher, a book describing different,
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And the defense I've heard is the defensive representation.
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Oh, so they need to be re-traumatized by their assignments at school.
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Those things don't need to necessarily be represented to little kids.
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And most, and most kids, by the way, have not experienced those things.
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And so then we're planting those ideas in their head before they even have the frontal lobe,
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before they even have the capacity to really be able to comprehend them.
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And in a lot of cases, given those books by their teachers, or at least given access to
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those books in the libraries, those are far more offensive than anything that Roald Dahl has
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Anything Dr. Seuss has written far worse for their mind, for their development, for their
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self-esteem, for their view of others, their view of the world.
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That has a far worse effect on their behavior, their mentality, their psychology than any
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of these children's books that are now being censored by sensitivity readers and inclusive
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And yet those are the kinds of books that are actually being promoted in schools, even while
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Roald Dahl and while poor Dr. Seuss is being taken out and they're being chastised for not
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The Guardian also said, publisher of Roald Dahl books in French has no plans to rewrite.
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So this is apparently just for the English books.
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Antoine Chiron, he's a lawyer with ACBM, that's a Paris law firm that specializes in authors'
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rights, said it was not illegal in France to change a dead author's works, but it is dangerous
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If books are changed in this way, they are not the original works.
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I would be in favor of completely getting rid of the work rather than changing it if we
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Who decides what is now offensive or goes against current thinking?
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This seems to be an attack on artistic creation and freedom of expression.
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And now I don't think that getting rid of the work rather than changing it is any better.
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And actual, I mean, examples from history of communists, of fascists, totalitarians, burning
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Again, 1984, think about all of the dystopian novels that you can think of that were written
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All of them had to do with the controlling of language and the name of compassion, of
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course, and the name of order and the name of peace and the name of kindness.
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All of them had to do with attacking this kind of artistic expression.
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This is exactly the kind of route that Mao went down.
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And by the way, this is still what the CCP does to this day.
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The CCP has edited the Bible to take out anything that could be seen as offensive to communism.
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And by the way, you have Americans here who think that the Bible as it is, is pro-communism.
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But at least the Chinese are actually, as atheists, more theologically knowledgeable to realize that the Bible as it is written is not pro-communism.
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It has to be extremely edited to seem that it is pro-communism.
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So anything about owning private property or seeming to support individual rights or liberty or things like that, the CCP has said,
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oh, no, that's not going to make it to the final version of the Bible that we let our people read.
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But I think we've learned through what we've seen through the efforts and big tech and corporations,
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how they try through their means to try to clamp down on speech, that it's still a First Amendment issue.
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There are other examples of the changes that they're making to Roald Dahl's books and Matilda and the witches.
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Again, just trying to make things more palatable for our sensitivities today.
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You can't, you know, obviously call people fat and things like that.
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There was one part in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, great flabby folds of fat bulged out from every part of his body.
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That's been changed to great folds bulge out from every part of his body.
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You can't say the word queer because queer means different things today.
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And again, I'm just looking at the different things.
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James and the Giant Peach taking out all references to fat.
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I mean, this kind of, it just, it just ruins, it ruins Roald Dahl because part of it was the shock factor.
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Part of it was how he described people and things, like how he described both beauty and ugliness.
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I mean, you see this kind of language from C.S. Lewis too, calling something as ghastly and grotesque and ugly.
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Especially when you're looking at the evil that the White Witch and all of her ghouls represent versus the kind of royal and beautiful and bright descriptions of Aslan and his army.
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I think like all of these things are really important for kids to understand as they're discerning light versus darkness.
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But when you exchange the God of Scripture for the God of self, feelings reign.
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Feelings are central to every decision that we make.
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Moral relativism, which is inevitable when you remove God as the foundation of morality,
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means that standards of right and wrong are constantly changing depending on the feelings of those who hold the most power.
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And today we've decided, ironically, that the quote unquote most marginalized people
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actually have the most power to tell us what words we can say and what stories we can read.
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By the way, if you have that kind of power, you're not actually marginalized.
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And so you just go along with the person who has the most political capital.
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You just go along with the person who is the loudest.
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The person whom you are told if you offend them in any way, that indicates that you are lacking empathy or morality.
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It actually shrinks our language, shrinks our imagination, shrinks our creativity.
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By the way, like we've been becoming more sensitive for the past, I don't know, 30 or so years.
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Do we have a kinder and less polarized America because of that?
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Has political correctness helped us come together?
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Like, have we become a nicer, more polite people?
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Have we of a country, as a country, become more empathetic because of the policing of our language?
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Because of removing words like that from books?
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I think our kids can be better equipped, better equipped than all of this.
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And like I said, just a reminder that these people aren't, they're not actually interested
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in like the well-being and the formation of your kids because they are pushing kids into books
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Born Ready, Gender Queer, all of these books that I listed in Florida, in Alabama, in Texas,
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I mean, these are books that have pornographic descriptions that are being in some cases presented
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to middle schoolers, probably in some cases elementary school schoolers in the name of
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representation, in the name of diversity, in the name of inclusion, in the name of education.
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And yet, like this is the kind of stuff that is actually going to damage the minds of kids.
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They don't need to see depictions of genitalia.
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They don't need to hear that they might be born in the wrong body.
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Like this has long-term damage on kids, not hearing words like flabby in the book Matilda.
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I mean, we've just gotten so crazy and so backwards.
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But again, this is what happens when you exchange the God of Scripture for the God of self.
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Romans 1 becomes, it manifests itself in stupidity like this.
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Foolish minds are darkened and they just make bad decisions.
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Okay, next thing I want to talk about, speaking of things that kids should not be presented
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and speaking of our culture going to a place of craziness, we now have a person by the name
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Jeffree Star, I actually don't know if this person, like how he quote unquote unidentifies.
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I don't know if he actually goes by like she, her pronouns or like calls himself a woman.
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I mean, I would have said that anyway because he is a man, but I just was curious.
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So he goes by he, his name is Jeffree Star and he is a makeup person.
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I think he has his own makeup line now, but he dresses as a woman.
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He dresses like totally femininely, but he doesn't make an effort besides that to look
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Like his body is very masculine, his face, his voice, very masculine, but everything else
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So I find him very frightening, like very dark and demonic seeming and very frightening
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He has millions and millions of followers and subscribers.
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And this video I saw circulating and yes, some conservatives praising it because he has like
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And all that extra s**t that we added during the pandemic because everyone was so bored
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That's why the conservatives like me because I'm just real.
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But you need someone like me that looks like me to say it.
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Because if you say it, it turns into you're homophobic, you hate trans people, you hate gays.
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I mean, I don't need to look like Jeffree Star to say that.
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A lot of us have been saying that for a long time because we don't care if we get called
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Or that's what you call someone when you just don't, you don't know.
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You're like, someone's like, oh, you know, the CEO will be here soon.
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Like you ask that because you don't know if it's he or her.
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You don't look at someone who presents themselves to you and say, oh, I'm going to call you they
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That's not like a pronoun that you declare for yourself.
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And actually, it's very selfish to try to bend the laws of language in order to accommodate
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Like you're either male or female and you can't be they them.
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But do I think and I'm not saying that I've seen like a ton of people do this.
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I don't doubt that there are some conservatives who do.
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Conservatives get so excited when someone who is like on the left or is not just an out
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and out Christian Republican says something that we agree with.
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And I understand the excitement because it's like we get lambasted all day by all these celebrities
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and all of these mainstream sources that when someone says something that's just like a
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But look, this like this is still a person, a man who is very, very confused and very, very
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Now, maybe he's not confused about who he actually is.
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And I can like appreciate that, that he is apparently not trying to say, I don't know,
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But he obviously doesn't believe that a man is a man and a woman is a woman.
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He believes that there is a lot of gender bending that goes on there.
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So I'm not going to like applaud this as, wow, he is a beacon of common sense and clarity
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And I would just say that, yeah, of course, you can be a fan of someone who doesn't agree
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There are people that I like that I know I don't agree with on everything.
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But I just think that we should pump the brakes, slow our roll before conservatives are like,
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yay, Jeffree Star, conservative hero, our advocate for common sense and for clarity in
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He said something that people five years ago, the vast majority of people would have been
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I mean, so there's this meme that I've shared before.
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I actually edited it myself because when I shared it on Instagram, I don't even know
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It's like the gray guy and like the based chat over here.
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OK, the things that you think are radical that I think men are men and women are women
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from the point of conception, that genetics actually matter, that I'm not going to accept
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this idea that a man can become a woman and vice versa, that I believe that marriage between
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a man and a woman is sacred and has a special and irreplaceable place in any kind of strong
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The vast majority of people believe that 10 years ago, the things that you're calling
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bigoted and radical today, even the stuff on like social justice and things about like
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reparations and systemic racism, the things that I know about those things, not even believe
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know about those things based on the data that we have.
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Most people believed and knew those things 10 years ago and weren't even afraid to say
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There was a clip that was circulating recently that he was talking about, look, if you want
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to clean up your communities, if you want a better life, he's talking specifically to
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black people, which most people would not say this today.
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Most people on the right would not say this today just because of the absolute backlash
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He just was like, look, clean up your community, pull your pants up, like, you know, speak in
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a way that is like respectable and things like that.
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Today, you're told that there is no agency whatsoever in these minority communities and
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every single bad thing that comes upon them, the consequences or the trials and
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tribulations that they have, the disparities that exist there have nothing to do whatsoever
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with any kind of choice or any kind of behavior, any kind of it like any kind of morality or
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anything like that, that it all has to do with the system.
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It all has to do with racism and white supremacy in the system holding them down.
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And it's actually dangerous because you just perpetuate the cycles that in a lot of cases
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are keeping people in poverty, incarcerated and things like that.
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Ten years ago, people were bold enough to say the things that, you know, we knew are true.
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Now, today, most people won't say those things because it's, again, offensive.
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And it goes back to what we were saying when feelings rain, you are constantly changing
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the standards of morality to try to meet the people in power who are telling you what
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you have to believe to be considered empathetic or not.
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And speaking of Don Liman, who we've seen over the past few years, he is one of many people
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who was just completely broken by Donald Trump.
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But I mean, the country shifted way to the left.
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And after 2010 is when things really started to happen.
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But then 2014, 2015, 2016, things just accelerated so much.
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And I think Donald Trump being the polarizing figure that he is, and that's not me bashing
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Like that got things to a very crazy place on the left very quickly.
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But then he'll say things that are like, what are you talking about?
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So now he is, he's on this morning show and CNN.
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He used to have a nightly show that wasn't doing very well at all.
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Now he is a morning show host, but he is having a hard time adjusting.
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I don't know if you guys have seen these stories where apparently he just has bad behavior.
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He doesn't treat his co-workers well, especially apparently his female co-workers.
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The, the young one, she's like my age that is also the, oh, Caitlin Collins, his co-host
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Apparently it's reported that he was yelling at her, screaming at her because she accidentally
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interrupted him and something, which by the way, happens in cable news on accident all
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But he just thinks it seems like he is bigger and better than all of this because he used
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So he's having a hard time sharing the spotlight, but maybe it's because of what he thinks about
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women in general that is actually driving some of his bad behavior and his mistreatment
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So he is under fire for comments that he made about Nikki Haley.
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So this is according to AP News, Don Lemon to return to CNN undergo formal training.
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He was not let go, but he was told, hey, he can't host the show because of comments that
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he made on February 16th on CNN this morning when he, I'll just play you the clip, when
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When a woman is considered being in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.
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If you look it up, it'll, if you look, if you Google, when is a woman in her prime,
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So I think she has to be careful about saying that, you know, politicians aren't in their
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Are you talking about prime for like child appearing or are you talking about prime for
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And I'm just saying Nikki Haley should be careful about saying that politicians are not
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in their prime and they need to be in their prime when they serve because she wouldn't
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be in her prime according to Google or whatever it is.
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OK, OK, so people think it's weird because he was like a woman is not in her prime and
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A woman is not in her prime when she's past her 40s.
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I guess Nikki Haley is probably in her 50s or something like that, which is like, I mean,
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she could be the, you know, the young daughter of our the current president of the United
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States, who is only 18 years younger than Jimmy Carter, who is almost 100 and is in hospice
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He's only 18 years older, 18 years older than the president of the United States.
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So, like, I don't think that anyone on the left can say that a reason that they shouldn't
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vote for that we shouldn't have a president like Nikki Haley is age.
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Now, past prime, if you were talking about childbearing, sure.
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If Don Lemon, like if you are concerned about Nikki Haley's fertility, thank you so much for
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I'm sure she I mean, I'm sure she just really appreciates that because, you know, she was
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So I'm sure she takes kindly to looking out for her fertility and whether or not she can
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But if you're talking about prime in any other way, I'm just wondering where is the like,
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So if I Google, I don't use Google, but I'll use Google for the sake of argument.
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When is a woman in her prime to do anything publicly?
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Well, primewomen.com says, bottom line, as far as having wisdom and verve and the experience
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used both wisely, most women are in their prime after the age of 50.
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Now, the Healthy Journal says a woman's prime is between the ages of 28 and 45.
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But again, it says it's for this is for child raising and child bearing.
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OK, so again, I guess I'm just confused about if Don Lemon is talking about Nikki Haley's
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ability to have kids or if I don't know, he's talking about her ability to run for president
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I mean, we have an octogenarian right now in the White House right now, right now.
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Now, maybe there are a million other reasons that you don't want to vote for Nikki Haley.
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But I don't think her age is something that disqualifies her.
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It was just such like a silly, silly thing to say.
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Now, Nikki Haley said, I wasn't asking for a mental competency test for a sexist male
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I was asking for transparency for mental competency test for elected officials who make tough decisions
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Now, if it were me, I would not use the word sexist.
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You're playing leftist language games like I understand why you want to do this.
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But if you're running for president, don't even don't even give it.
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Don't even give them anything like that, because it's just don't even use sexist or racist or
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anything like that, because you are just playing their game.
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I mean, he's he's not he's he's not a wise person.
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I remember I was watching one day and he said the word disrespectful and he literally said
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So this is someone who doesn't know the disrespectful is a word.
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OK, that's what I would have said if I were Nikki Haley.
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I have a very fun interview that is coming up that will be conducted soon.
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It's going to be a surprise and you're going to be so excited and happy about this interview.
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Oh, one last thing I want to say is tomorrow, Thursday, February 23rd.
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